coling acl 98 workshops cfps two coling acl 98 workshop calls papers computational treatment nominals usage wordnet natural language processing systems seperated call papers coling acl 98 workshop computational treatment nominals august 16 1998 universite de montreal montreal canada http www cs brandeis edu federica workshops coling call html workshop aims bringing together researchers interested study computational properties nominals noun phrases focus representational questions relate directly nlp requirements applications understanding properties nominal system extremely important since nouns nominalizations used extensively people systems searching communicating either telegraphic expressive language involves heavy use nominal forms number nlp applications ranging intelligent keyword search text summarization information extraction among others require way recognizing nominal forms also require least shallow understanding semantic information nouns carry therefore great interest consider impact representing semantic knowledge finer level granularity would towards enhancing system performance submissions invited one following topics representation nominals design noun ontologies use lexical semantics machine translation ambiguity polysemy vagueness underspecification semantics nominals identifying minimal requirements lexical representations representational issues acquisition knowledge corpora mrds syntactic morphological bootstrapping semantic boostrapping role prepositions arguments etc role representations interpretation nominals techniques recovering implicit information nominals interpretation generation nominals descriptions events abstract objects discourse recovering implicit semantic relations nominal compounds defining implicit semantic relations nominalizations forms derived organizing committee federica busa brandeis university inderjeet mani mitre corporation patrick saint dizier irit universite paul sabatier submission information papers invited address topics listed maximum length 8 pages singlespaced including figures references please use a4 us letter format set margins text lies within rectangle 6 5 x 9 inches 16 5 x 23 cm use classical fonts times roman computer modern 11 12 points text 14 16 points headings title latex users encouraged use style file provided colingacl 98 http colingacl 98 iro umontreal ca colaclsub sty authors send 5 copies either electronic postscript latex hardcopy format federica busa computer science department volen center complex systems brandeis university waltham massachusetts 02254 u federica cs brandeis edu criteria selection include clarity originality relevance significance results important deadlines deadline submission march 15th 1998 notification authors may 1st 1998 final versions due june 1 1998 program committee federica busa brandeis university jean mark gawron sri international bob ingria psyche systems corporation beth levin northwestern university inderjeet mani mitre corporation paul portner georgetown university james pustejovsky brandeis university patrick saint dizier irit universit c8 paul sabatier antonio sanfilippo sharp laboratories europe evelyne viegas crl new mexico state university piek vossen university amsterdam dr inderjeet mani phone 703883 6149 principal scientist fax 703883 1379 mitre corporation w640 11493 sunset hills road reston virginia 22090 due construction problems one large machines shut therefore change url workshop http www ai sri com harabagi colingacl 98 acl _ work acl _ work html sorry inconvenience sanda harabagiu call papers coling acl 98 workshop usage wordnet natural language processing systems august 16 1998 universite de montreal montreal canada lexicons indispensable resources almost every natural language project date wordnet 1 5 represents largest publicly available online lexical resource already used various applications human language technology systems performing word sense disambiguation information extraction retrieval prepositional attachment interpretation nominalizations textual summarization coreference resolution abductive reasoning conversational implicature recognition textual cohesion coherence intelligent internet searches digital libraries projects use wordnet workshop intends bring together researchers use wordnet different systems focus two particular issues customize knowledge derived wordnet various nlp applications b derive methods infer semantic information using wordnet contributions might address one following questions nlp applications wordnet valuable resource much effort involved integrate systems wordnet used build adhoc ontologies applications use wordnet derived ontologies wordnet used develop word sense disambiguation algorithm high performance extend wordnet identifying thematic roles resolving verb polysemy minimal customization implemented use wordnet largescale abductive reasoning system wordnet lexical knowledge base easily used adjust information extraction systems across domains lexicosemantic relations wordnet valid base developing extended coreference task information extraction possible methodologies wordnet mined find textual implied information degree plausibility returned information approaches using extensive linguistic knowledge wordnet derive discourse structure text knowledge source additional knowledge may used current performance boost provided wordnet systems using could systems perform without wordnet desirable features wordnet system would predicted performance increase _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ organizing committee workshop organized sanda harabagiu sri international joyce yue chai duke university _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ home page http www ai sri com harabagi link _ paper chpt acl _ work html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ requirements submission papers invited address topics listed maximum length 8 pages including figures references please use a4 us letter format set margins text lies within rectangle 6 5 x 9 inches 16 5 x 23 cm use classical fonts times roman computer modern 11 12 points text 14 16 points headings title latex users encouraged use style file provided acl http colingacl 98 iro umontreal ca colaclsub sty papers submitted either electronically postscript format hardcopies submissions sent sanda harabagiu sri international 333 ravenswood ave menlo park ca 94025 u ph 650 8593852 harabagi ai sri com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ timetable deadline electronic submissions march 10 1998 deadline hardcopy submissions march 13 arrival date notification acceptance may 1 1998 final manuscripts due june 12 1998 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ program committee alan biermann duke university joyce chai duke university martin chodorow new york university christiane fellbaum princeton university fernando gomez university central florida ken haase mit sanda harabagiu sri international marti hearst university california berkeley graeme hirst university toronto claudia leacock educational testing service mitch marcus university pennsylvania george miller princeton university dan moldovan southern methodist university hwee tou ng dso national laboratories singapore philip resnik university maryland yorick wilks university sheffield