lexical semantic tagging lexical semantic tagging special issue journal natural language engineering guest editors marc light martha palmer call papers note deadline submissions november 1st 1998 computing semantic representations crucial many applications natural language processing currently semantic lexicons sets semantic composition rules handcrafted designers nlp system difficulty building handcrafted semantic knowledge bases limited field nlp applications contained within welldefined subdomains likely escape limitation come use automated semiautomated methods lexical acquisition however field yet develop clear consensus computational lexicon could provide springboard methods one controversial areas polysemy constitutes clear separation senses word computationally characterized distinguished answer question critical breaking bottleneck broad coverage semantic representation computation first step towards finding answer lies acquiring annotated corpora facilitate use empirical methods topic special issue tagging word tokens corpora lexical semantic information concrete example tagging would specifying sense ambiguous word like em bank used particular sentence corpus lexical semantic tagging critical extending reliable coreference information extraction tasks widening scope responses information retrieval queries robust dialogue understanding machine translation machine translation particular often necessary disambiguate polysemous source word order translate correctly since target language may distinct lexical items different senses solicit articles either discuss characteristics information tagged human tagging handtagging performed maximize accuracy articles concentrate specification task also deal issues providing sufficient quantities accurate diverse handtagged data automatic approaches ii discuss attempts develop automated methods operation performance articles describe actual running systems design implementation particularly interested discussions lexical semantic tagging methods part actual applications format interest providing coverage considering papers somewhat shorter traditional journal papers would allow us accept maximum 9 articles given average length 10 pages schedule november 1st 1998 submission deadline february 15th 1999 notification acceptance please send submissions martha palmer institute research cognitive science 400a 3401 walnut street 6228 university pennsylvania philadlephia pa 19104 telephone 215 8980361 fax 215 5739247 email mpalmer cis upenn edu