walter@kub.nl (Walter Daelemans) (10/17/89)
FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INHERITANCE IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Institute for Language Technology and AI
Tilburg University
The Netherlands
Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 August, 1990 (Between ECAI and COLING)
Organized by
Walter Daelemans (Institute for Language Technology and AI,
Tilburg University)
Gerald Gazdar (School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences,
University of Sussex)
Program Committee:
Jo Calder, University of Edinburgh
Walter Daelemans, Tilburg University
Koenraad De Smedt, University of Nijmegen
Roger Evans, University of Sussex
Gerald Gazdar, University of Sussex
Keynote Speaker:
Richmond H. Thomason, University of Pittsburgh
Description: Structure sharing by inheritance in frame-based and
object-oriented programming languages has been used for the
representation of linguistic knowledge since the mid seventies. At
first for the representation of semantic and world knowledge, later
also for the representation of other types of linguistic knowledge.
Capturing the meaning of the non-monotonic and default reasoning that
is promoted by inheritance has been the subject of various extensions
of logic. Recently, some linguistic theories have incorporated a form
of inheritance explicitly into their theoretical framework (e.g. Word
Grammar and HPSG). The aim of the workshop is to bring together
linguists, AI-researchers and logicians interested in the application
of the concept of inheritance to natural language processing.
Topics:
Some of the topics that will be discussed (confined to a linguistic
context) are the following:
- Applications of inheritance to linguistic description.
- The theoretical linguistic status of different types of inheritance
(single, multiple, class inheritance, delegation).
- Semantics of inheritance systems.
- Symbolic and subsymbolic (connectionist, genetic search) approaches
to the learning of inheritance hierarchies.
Format:
To encourage interaction, the workshop will be limited to about 30
people, the majority of which will present a paper on their work.
Attendance is by invitation. Please submit 5 hardcopies of an extended
abstract to Walter Daelemans, describing work to be presented at the
workshop.
Deadlines: March 31, 1990: Extended abstracts due
May 31, 1990: Notification of acceptance
For more information, please contact:
Walter Daelemans
ITK, Tilburg University Email: walter@kub.nl
P.O. Box 90153 ...!hp4nl!kubix!walter
NL-5000 LE Tilburg Telephone: +31 13 663070
The Netherlands Fax: +31 13 663019
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