WLSS98 (wlss98@alphalinguistica.sns.it)
Wed, 5 Nov 1997 09:36:02 GMT
------------------------------------------------------------- WLSS98 II WORKSHOP ON LEXICAL SEMANTIC SYSTEMS Pisa, 19-20 March 1998 Scuola Normale Superiore ------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by CELI, ILC, ITC-IRST and Scuola Normale Superiore With the support of University of Pisa and Xerox Research Centre Europe ----------------------------- http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98 ---------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS (provisional list) Gennaro Chierchia (University of Milan) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University) Ewan Klein (University of Edimburgh) Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbrucken) ----------------------------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS WLSS98 is organized by Centro per l'Elaborazione del Linguaggio ed Informazione (CELI), Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC), Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia (ITC-IRST) and Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), and will take place in Pisa on the 19-20 March 1998. WLSS workshops aim at bringing together Italian and international scholars, active in both theoretical and applicative domains of research in lexical semantics, with the goals of: - providing an overview of the state of the art and exchanging information on ongoing and planned activities; - bridging the gap and enhance the trade-off between theoretical models of lexical knowledge and applications in NLP systems. These goals are justified: - by the increasingly central position that lexical knowledge, and in particular lexical semantics, is assuming within the general architecture of cognitive systems, both as a dynamic module which interact with other non-linguistic sources of knowledge, and as a component playing a major role in interfacing syntax and semantics; - by the fact that lexical resources (such as tagged corpora, computational dictionaries, Machine Readable Dictionaries, WordNets) are among the most crucial aspects of practical NLP systems. Issues concerning the structure, the representation, the development, and the acquisition of lexical knowledge are thus of the uttermost importance when building NLP systems. Lexical systems also play a crucial role in the design and construction of multilingual systems, a key feature at least for applications designed to operate in a distributed, non- centralized environment such as the World Wide Web. This second edition of WLSS will focus on the portability and reusability of lexical systems, and on the issue of word sense disambiguation and semantic tagging. We also encourage the submission of papers concerning more general issues about linguistic lexical semantics and its interaction with computational lexicography. Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks. Here follows a non- exhaustive list of topics which could be addressed: * Lexical resources for semantic tagging and word sense disambiguation. * Use of lexicons and thesauruses to improve information retrieval / extraction techniques. * Automatic acquisition and management of lexical resources. * Reusability and tuning of existing lexical resources for novel tasks. * Trade offs between generic and domain specific lexical resources. * Multilingual lexical resources. * Description and evaluation of existing tools and systems. * Evaluation of different representation formats. * Issues in computational lexical semantics and computational lexicography. * Issues in the design, construction and use of lexical resources. * Architecture for a cognitive plausible lexicon * Lexical representation and the interface with syntactic processes SUBMISSIONS Only electronic submissions are accepted. Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages in length, in Postscript or ASCII format, and should be sent to the following address: wlss98@celi.sns.it. Separate information should be sent, including the title of the talk, author's name, address and affiliation. Submissions must be limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. The deadline is December 15. The Program Committee intends to publish a selection of the papers presented at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of abstracts: 15 December 1997 Notification of acceptance: 31 January 1998 Conference: 19-20 March 1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pier Marco Bertinetto (Scuola Normale Superiore) Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC) Luca Dini(CELI) Vittorio Di Tomaso (CELI) Alessandro Lenci (Scuola Normale Superiore) Bernardo Magnini (IRST) Fabio Pianesi (IRST) Frederique Segond (XRCE) Antonio Zampolli (ILC) CONTACT PERSONS For every further information please contact the conference secretariat: Vittorio Di Tomaso CELI ditomaso@sns.it Alessandro Lenci Scuola Normale Superiore lenci@alphalinguistica.sns.it Scuola Normale Superiore Laboratorio di linguistica Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 56126 PISA (Italy) Tel. +39 50 509219 Fax: +39 50 563513 More information on the Workshop and a copy of this call for papers is available on the Web at the following address: http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98
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