[Corpora-List] Second-CFP: Cross modular approaches to ellipsis: ESSLLI workshop

From: Spenader J.K. (j.k.spenader@let.rug.nl)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2005 - 11:24:06 MET

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    Second Call for Papers
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    Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis
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     Workshop August 8-12, and organized as part of the 17th European Summer
    School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) August 8-19, 2005,
    Edinburgh, Scotland

    Workshop Organizers:
     Jennifer Spenader (j.spenader(a)gmail.com)
     Petra Hendriks (p.hendriks(a)let.rug.nl)
     
    Workshop Purpose

    The area of ellipsis resolution and generation has long been neglected in work
    on natural language processing, and there are few examples of systems or
    computational algorithms. However, the misuse or non-use of ellipsis in
    highly preferred contexts can make a dialogue difficult to understand similar
    to the way inappropriate referential expressions can impede comprehension.
    This workshop will provide a forum for researchers to present data that give
    insights into the nature and function of ellipsis from a discourse
    perspective as well as present methods to deal with ellipsis in NLP
    applications.

     Additionally, we encourage discussion about how information from several
    knowledge sources (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, world knowledge) can be
    used to resolve and generate elliptical expressions, emphasizing approaches
    that draw on empirical results or have been tested in actual implementations.
     
     More specifically, we encourage contributions related to :
     
    * implemented ellipsis resolution algorithms that incorporate information from
    more than one linguistic module
     
    * appropriate generation of ellipsis
     
    * studies of ellipsis in dialogue and the relation of ellipsis to discourse
    structure
     
    * formalized treatments of ellipsis that incorporate semantic, pragmatic and
    discourse structural information
     
    * corpus studies of ellipitical phenomena
     
    * elicitation tasks that give insights into interpretation or generation of
    elliptical phenomena
     

    Submission details:
    Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract. Submissions should not
    exceed 6 pages. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS, ASCII text.
    Please send your submission by email to j.spenader(a)gmail.com by the
    deadline listed below. As reviewing will be blind, please refrain from
    including identifying information on submitted abstracts. Instead the
    accompanying email should contain contact information about the author(s).
    The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's Program Committee and
    additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop
    proceedings published by ESSLLI. The final versions will be done and latex
    and more information will be given later to accepted authors.

    Workshop format:

     The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It
    will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in
    the first or second week (not yet determined) of ESSLLI. There will be two
    slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the
    workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic.

    Invited speakers

     Dan Hardt (Copenhagen Business School)
     Gerhard Jaeger (University of Bielefield)
     

    Important Dates

     Submissions: March 9, 2005
     Notification: April 18, 2005
     Preliminary programme: April 23, 2005
     ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2005
     Final papers for proceedings: May 18, 2005
     Final programme: June 22, 2005
     Workshop dates: August 8-12, 2005
     

    Program Committee

     Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)
     Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen)
     Oesten Dahl (Stockholm University)
     Dan Hardt (Copenhagen Business School)
     Jack Hoeksema (University of Groningen)
    John Hoeks (University of Groningen)
    Gerhard Jaeger (University of Bielefield)
    Jason Merchant (University of Chicago)
     Mariet Theune (University of Twente)
     

    Local Arrangements:

     All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to
    register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will
    correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. Moreover,
    a number of additional fee waiver grants will be made available by the OC on
    a competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for
    those. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation.
    Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the
    local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant.

    Further information:

    About the workshop: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~spenader/Ellipsis_Workshop.html
    About ESSLLI: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05



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