[Corpora-List] Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes

From: Sabine Schulte im Walde (Schulte@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE)
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    Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation
                   of Verb Features and Verb Classes

                      February 28 - March 1, 2005

            Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics
                Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

            http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/Verb-Workshop-05/

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    Workshop Description

    Verbs and their features have always received wide attention in
    various disciplines concerned with linguistic research, since their
    contribution is essential to the structure and the interpretation of
    language. In recent years, the availability of new lexical resources
    and increasingly large corpora, the application of empirical methods
    and statistical algorithms and the development of technical devices
    such as eye-trackers and magnetic resonance imaging has led to
    advances in several linguistic areas. This interdisciplinary workshop
    brings together researchers from linguistic domains such as
    lexicography, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and
    neuroscience, in order to discuss their perspectives on verb senses,
    verb features and verb classes.

    The aim of this workshop is to contribute to an exchange of new ideas
    and methods. The focus of the workshop is on the identification and
    representation of verb features at the syntax-semantic interface and
    verb classes as generalisations and organisational means for
    verbs. The workshop addresses questions such as (but not restricted
    to):
    - how human beings describe and classify verbs,
    - which verb features are universal vs. language-specific,
    - which verb features are relevant to distinguish verb senses,
    - how we can obtain verb features and verb classes automatically,
    - which kinds of verb features and verb classes are useful for NLP
      applications,
    - which kinds of features and classes are useful for capturing human
      processing generalisations,
    - how verbs are represented in the brain.

    Workshop Chairs

    Katrin Erk (Computational Linguistics, Saarland University)
    Alissa Melinger (Psycholinguistics, Saarland University)
    Sabine Schulte im Walde (Computational Linguistics, Saarland University)

    Invited Speakers

    Christiane Fellbaum (Department of Psychology, Princeton University)
    Jean-Pierre Koenig (Linguistics Department, University of Buffalo)
    Paola Merlo (Département de Linguistique, Université de Genève)

    Program Committee

    Miriam Butt (Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz)
    Sonja Eisenbeiß (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
    Charles Fillmore (Linguistics Department, University of California at Berkeley)
    Adam Kilgarriff (Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton)
    Anna Korhonen (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)
    Ken McRae (Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ohio)
    Martha Palmer (Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania)
    Manfred Pinkal (Computational Linguistics, Saarland University)
    Suzanne Stevenson (Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto)
    Gabriella Vigliocco (Department of Psychology, University College London)

    Submission

    We invite submissions of papers on the area of interest. Papers could
    be original completed work, work in progress, or position papers.

    Submissions must conform to the workshop template specifications,
    which are available at
       http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/Verb-Workshop-05/submission.html
    and must not exceed 6 pages.

    Submissions should be emailed to
       verb-workshop-05@coli.uni-sb.de
    in PDF, Postscript or Word format. The deadline for submissions is
    October 15, 2004.

    Important Dates

    Paper submission deadline: October 15, 2004
    Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2004
    Registration deadline: January 15, 2005
    Camera ready papers due: January 31, 2005
    Workshop dates: February 28 - March 1, 2005



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