Joachim Quantz (jjq@cs.tu-berlin.de)
Fri, 15 Dec 1995 18:00:18 +0100
CALL FOR PAPERS ECAI-96 WORKSHOP: CORPUS-ORIENTED SEMANTIC ANALYSIS (Budapest, 12 or 13 August 1996) In Computational Linguistics, the semantics of natural languages is usually investigated from a rather formal perspective. Though these studies have yielded a number of interesting results for several semantic phenomena, it is not clear whether such formal semantic theories can yet be used to automatically process real corpora. For one thing, it is often not clear whether solutions proposed for particular phenomena can be straightforwardly integrated to cope with sentences/utterances containing several phenomena. Moreover, semantic theories are often based on higher-order formal logics and do not explicitly address the problem of efficient implementations. Existing systems for processing large corpora, on the other hand, tend to more or less neglect semantic issues. At best, such systems use a thesaurus to overcome the most drastic shortcomings in simple keyword-based approaches (e.g. for automatic text retrieval). The workshop aims at gathering the various strands of works which claim to obtain reasonable semantic depth while remaining, at least in theory, tractable when dealing with realistic corpora. This is only possible when the corpora concern restricted semantic domains, and when the domain knowledge has been efficiently represented. The success criterion should be the ability to entertain "intelligent dialogues" about the content of the texts. We thus use the term 'semantics' in a rather broad sense, comprising aspects which are also addressed in message or content extraction. It is not necessary to have an implemented system, nor to be in the process of building one, to participate to the workshop. But parti- cipation will be limited to those who propose algorithmically effec- tive solutions that can be integrated in a dialogue architecture. We are also interested in the application of standard techniques in large-corpora processing to semantic phenomena. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: April 1, 1996 Notification of authors: May 7, 1996 Final versions due for: May 30, 1996 FTP versions available: June 10, 1996 Workshop: August 12 or 13, 1996 Submissions (about 8 pages long) should be sent to Joachim Quantz. Electronic submission (preferably postscript or self-contained LaTeX files) is strongly encouraged. NOTE: EVERYONE ATTENDING THE WORKSHOP WILL BE REQUIRED TO REGISTER FOR THE MAIN CONFERENCE. (http://wwwis.cs.utwente.nl:8080/mars/ECAI96.html) Anybody wishing to attend the workshop without presenting a paper should contact the organizers as early as possible, since attendance will, of necessity, be limited, ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Daniel Kayser Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord Universit'e de Paris-Nord Avenue Jean-Baptiste Cl'ement F-93430 Villetaneuse, France + 33 1 - 49 40 35 81 dk@ura1507.univ-paris13.fr Francois L'evy Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord Universit'e de Paris-Nord Avenue Jean-Baptiste Cl'ement F-93430 Villetaneuse, France + 33 1 - 49 40 36 17 fl@ura1507.univ-paris13.fr G"unter Neumann DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbr"ucken, Germany +49 681 302 52 83 neumann@dfki.uni-sb.de J. Joachim Quantz (primary contact) Technische Universit"at Berlin Projekt KIT-VM11, FR 5-12 Franklinstr. 28/29 D-10587 Berlin, Germany +49 30 314 254 94 jjq@cs.tu-berlin.de
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