zernik@leonis.steinmetz (Uri Zernik) (04/08/89)
The First International Lexical Acquisition Workshop IJCAI-89 Detroit, August 21, 1989 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, 16 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 will require huge lexicons, providing both syntax and semantics. Existing on-line lexicons cannot satisfy all the requirements of diverse natural language systems. Therefore, lexical acquisition and computational lexicology have emerged as major research areas addressing these problems. Thus, the following issues will investigated at the workshop: o What are the uses of lexicons? (i.e., parsing, text processing, generation, translation) o What should be the contents of a lexicon (i.e., syntax, semantics, morphology), and how should these components be integrated? o How is a lexicon organized? (i.e., hierarchy, subcategorization, indexing) o What are the possible acquisition resources? (i.e., text, corpus, context, machine-readable dictionaries) o How can a lexicon be used? (i.e., customizing a lexicon to a domain by learning) o What are the necessary utilities? (i.e., tool kits for computational lexicology) 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 (please call or e-mail for further detail): Dr. Uri Zernik General Electric - Research and Development Center PO Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 E-mail: zernik@crd.ge.com Tel: (518) 387-5370