Subject: ACL/EACL-97 CFP: Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources for NLP Applications
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 97 15:52:16 EST
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
To: rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu

           Call for ACL/EACL Workshop Submissions/Participation

Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources
                           for NLP Applications

         Organized under the auspices of the Language Engineering section

      of the European Commission, Directorale General XIII Luxembourg,

                   by three recently launched projects:

            EuroWordNet(LE2 4003), Sparkle (LE1 2111) and Ecran

                              Madrid, July 12th 1997

                    (in conjunction with ACL-97/EACL-97)

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Workshop Information

   * What the Workshop is About
   * Submission Details
   * Workshop Participation
   * Important Dates
   * Organizing Committee
   * Program Committee

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What the Workshop is About

In the past years the development of high-quality and overall language
resources has been the focus of many research groups. More recently also
the corpus-based extraction of such resources has gained a wider interest.
EuroWordNet, Sparkle and Ecran try to package some of this know-how and
expertise into state- of-the-art tools and resources that can directly be
applied in NLP-based services. In the EuroWordNet project a multilingual
database is developed with wordnets for four European Languages linked to
the existing Princeton WordNet (version 1.5). Such a database can be used
in multilingual retrieval applications but it can also be seen as a
starting point for automatic-translation aids, inferencing systems, and
information extraction systems. Sparkle and Ecran both address the creation
of language resources and technologies for real-world NLP applications in
parallel. This objective is carried out through the development of software
tools in the areas of shallow parsing and lexical acquisition. These tools
are used to induce linguistic knowledge from text corpora and are
progressively enriched by the information acquired.

In all three projects the current limits of Linguistic Technology are being
explored for their practical benefits. Whereas EuroWordNet aims at the
broadening and extension of the Princeton WordNet to a generic multilingual
resource which is the first in its kind, Sparkle and Ecran aim at the
dynamic anchoring of resources and information to the data and corpora that
are of a user=92s interest. The availability of these resources and tools is
essential for the new generation of applications and products dealing with
information in electronic form. The projects have finished their
specification phase and are in the process of generating the results. In
this workshop we want to discuss the scope and formats of semantic
resources and information acquisition tools with scholars in the field and
researchers from commercial R&D departments who have experience in
developing and using them. We therefore specifically welcome papers on the
following topics:

  1. compatibility and standards of multilingual semantic resources and
     lexical acquisition tools.
  2. the validation of multilingual semantic resources and lexical
     acquisition tools.
  3. performances of semantic resources and lexical acquisition tools in
     NLP tasks.
  4. partial or phrasal parsing of text.
  5. linking text with lexical databases: sense-differentiation,
     sense-tagging and sense-disambiguation tasks, domain-differentiation
     of text and lexical resources.

The workshop will be a full-day event that provides a forum for individual
presentations (about 30 minutes each) and discussions. At the end of day
there will be room for demos.

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SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Full papers should be submitted in electronic format: either RTF or
postscript. Papers should not exceed 8 pages or 4000 words. The deadline
for submission is the 17th of March. The formatting should be as follows:

Subject: EWN/SPARKLE/ECRAN 97-WORKSHOP Submission
--text follows this line--
title: [title of submission]
authors: [authors as they appear on the title page]
word count: [n]
email: [email address of author to whom correspondence should be directed]
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[Body of submission]

Submissions should be sent to:

Piek Vossen
Computer Centrum Letteren
University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 134
1012 VB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 525 4669
Fax: +31 20 525 4429
Email: Piek.Vossen@let.uva.nl.
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WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION:

The number of participants is limited and is restricted on a first come
basis.. As the workshop takes place in conjunction with the ACL/EACL-97
conference, presenters and participants of the workshop are obliged to
register for the main conference as well. Conference registration details
can be obtained via WWW from the ACL/EACL-97 home page
http://horacio.ieec.uned.es:80/cl97/

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Important Dates:

17th of March 1997:
     Deadline for receipt of submissions
4th of April 1997:
     Notification of acceptance/rejection
1st of May 1997:
     Final versions due for proceedings
12th July 1997:
     1-Day Workshop

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

   * Piek Vossen, The Netherlands, email: Piek.Vossen@let.uva.nl
   * Cintha Harjadi, The Netherlands, email: Cintha.Harjadi@let.uva.nl
   * Horacio Rodriquez, Spain, email: Horacio@lsi.upc.es

PROGAM COMMITTEE:

   * Piek Vossen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
   * Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto Linguistics del Computazionella del CNR,
     Italy, glottolo@vm.cnuce.cnr.it
   * Antonio Sanfilippo, Sharp Laboratories, UK,
     Antonio.Sanfilippo@sharp.co.uk
   * Geert Adriaens, Novell Linguistic Development, Belgium,
     Geert_Adriaens@novell.com
   * Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK, yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk