lexical semantics systems date changes change date extended deadline wlss98 ii workshop lexical semantics systems pisa 6 7 april 1998 scuola normale superiore organized celi ilc itcirst scuola normale superiore support university pisa xerox research centre europe http celi sns wlss98 invited speakers provisional list gennaro chierchia university milan christiane fellbaum princeton university ewan klein university edimburgh hinrich schuetze rank xerox call papers wlss98 organized centro per l elaborazione del linguaggio ed informazione celi istituto di linguistica computazionale ilc istituto per la ricerca scientifica e tecnologia itcirst scuola normale superiore pisa take place pisa 6 7 april 1998 instead 1920 march announced previous messages wlss workshops aim bringing together italian international scholars active theoretical applicative domains research lexical semantics goals providing overview state art exchanging information ongoing planned activities bridging gap enhance tradeoff theoretical models lexical knowledge applications nlp systems goals justified increasingly central position lexical knowledge particular lexical semantics assuming within general architecture cognitive systems dynamic module interact nonlinguistic sources knowledge component playing major role interfacing syntax semantics fact lexical resources tagged corpora computational dictionaries machine readable dictionaries wordnets among crucial aspects practical nlp systems issues concerning structure representation development acquisition lexical knowledge thus uttermost importance building nlp systems lexical systems also play crucial role design construction multilingual systems key feature least applications designed operate distributed non centralized environment world wide web second edition wlss focus portability reusability lexical systems issue word sense disambiguation semantic tagging also encourage submission papers concerning general issues linguistic lexical semantics interaction computational lexicography abstracts invited 30 minute talks follows non exhaustive list topics could addressed lexical resources semantic tagging word sense disambiguation use lexicons thesauruses improve information retrieval extraction techniques automatic acquisition management lexical resources reusability tuning existing lexical resources novel tasks trade offs generic domain specific lexical resources multilingual lexical resources description evaluation existing tools systems evaluation different representation formats issues computational lexical semantics computational lexicography issues design construction use lexical resources architecture cognitive plausible lexicon lexical representation interface syntactic processes change extended deadline submissions change electronic submissions accepted abstracts exceed 2 pages length postscript ascii format sent following address wlss98 celi sns separate information sent including title talk author name address affiliation submissions must limited maximum one individual one joint abstract per author deadline 20 january 1998 program committee intends publish selection papers presented conference change important dates change submission abstracts 20 january 1998 notification acceptance 28 february 1998 conference 6 7 april 1998 program committee pier marco bertinetto scuola normale superiore nicoletta calzolari ilc luca dini celi vittorio di tomaso celi alessandro lenci scuola normale superiore bernardo magnini irst fabio pianesi irst frederique segond xrce antonio zampolli ilc contact persons every information please contact conference secretariat vittorio di tomaso celi ditomaso sns alessandro lenci scuola normale superiore lenci alphalinguistica sns scuola normale superiore laboratorio di linguistica piazza dei cavalieri 7 56126 pisa italy tel 39 50 509219 fax 39 50 563513 information workshop copy call papers available web following address http celi sns wlss98