lexical semantics context corpus inference discourse esslli98 workshop lexical semantics context corpus inference discourse august 17 21 1998 workshop held part 10th european summer school logic language information esslli98 august 17 28 1998 saarbruecken germany second call papers organizers johan bos saarbruecken paul buitelaar brandeis university workshop aims bringing together research two complementary fields semantic analysis still far apart order achieve broad deep understanding given text document system needs advanced acquisition corpus specific lexical semantic knowledge powerful inference mechanisms utilize knowledge discourse analysis given still relatively limited results within areas little impetus combine corpus based extraction lexical semantic knowledge recently become feasible task growing availibility online text documents robust corpus processing technologies broad coverage partof speech tagging shallow parsing readily available statistical methods various approaches discourse analysis originating diverse fields formal semantics psychology ai process converging unified approach analysis representation cohesive structure natural language documents intersection two fields lies application lexical semantic knowledge problems discourse analysis anaphora resolution discourse segmentation fact benefit mutual knowledge discourse structure helpful lexical knowledge extraction well summary large scale domain specific lexical semantic knowledge acquisition assist analyzing discourse structures turn assist acquiring even accurate lexical semantic representations relevant terms domain information obtain information please visit workshop home page http www cs brandeis edu paulb esslli98 html