walker@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Donald E Walker) (03/31/89)
Status: RO
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
First International Workshop on Lexical Acquisition
IJCAI-89
21 August 1989
Detroit, Michigan
Organized by
Roy Byrd - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Nicoletta Calzolari - University of Pisa
Paul Jacobs - General Electric Research and Development Center
James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University
Uri Zernik - General Electric Research and Development Center
This is a call for papers for a one-day workshop on Lexical
Acquisition to be held at IJCAI-89. We will accommodate 30
participants, 15 of whom will be invited to give talks. Position
papers will be collected and published in an edited volume.
For Natural Language systems to become more robust they require
huge lexicons, providing both syntax and semantics. Existing
on-line lexicons are small in size and cannot satisfy all the
requirements of diverse Natural Language systems. Lexical acquisition
and computational lexicology have emerged as major research areas
addressing these problems. We will investigate in the workshop
the following issues:
* What are the uses of lexicons? (e.g., parsing, text processing, generation,
translation)
* What should be the contents of a lexicon (e.g., syntax, semantics,
morphology), and how should these components be integrated?
phonology, etc.
* How is a lexicon organized? (e.g., hierarchy, subcategorization, indexing)
* What are possible acquisition resources? (e.g., text, corpus, context,
machine-readable dictionaries)
* How can a lexicon be used? (e.g., customizing a lexicon to a domain by
learning)
* What are the necessary utilities? (e.g., tool kits for computational
lexicography)
To participate, please submit a 3-page position paper (4 copies)
by May 15 highlighting: (a) the specific problem addressed;
(b) the approach; (c) the application; (d) references to more detailed
publications.
ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION:
Dr. Uri Zernik
General Electric - Research and Development Center
PO Box 8
Schenectady, NY 12301
For further details, please call or email:
(518) 387-5370
zernik@crd.ge.com