6.0394 Report on Workshop on Compound Nouns Available (1/57)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 8 Dec 1992 19:23:47 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0394. Tuesday, 8 Dec 1992.

Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 10:18:53 +0100
From: ide@grtc.cnrs-mrs.fr (Nancy Ide)
Subject: Workshop on Compound Nouns



Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 21:14:34 +0100
From: prof17@naiut.dnet.circe.fr (JACQUEMIN Christian)

The followig report is available (in French) :

****************************************************************************
* WORKSHOP ON COMPOUND NOUNS *
* Linguistic and Computational Approaches *
* *
* Friday the 26th of JUNE 1992 in Fontenay aux Roses FRANCE *
****************************************************************************

CONTENTS :
1 Compound Nouns (CN) processing : a survey

2 Linguistic study of CN :
Description
- CN with a particular structure
- Lexicography and CN
- CN : morphology and morpho-syntax
Variations
- syntax : between frozen expressions and free structures
- semantics : between metaphors and compositionality
- semiotics : between description and naming
- categorisation, taxonomy and cognitive relevance
- CN ind sublanguages or in semantic domains

3 Processing CN
Retrieval
- electronic dictionaries for CN
- lexical analysis for CN : spelling variations, inflected forms
Parsing
- CN and syntactic formalisms
- CN and parsing tools
Variations
- NP analysis and CN transformations
- contribution of CN study to NLP (translation, thesaurus design,
automatic indexing, spelling checkers, NL interfaces ...)

4 BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
230 references about CN

Only hard copies (25 pages) are available.
Price : 30 FF, postage included.

*****************************************************************************
Address : Christian JACQUEMIN * E-mail : JACMIN@NAIUT.DNET.CIRCE.FR
IRIN / LIANA *
3, rue du Marechal Joffre * Phone : (33) 40 30 60 52
F-44041 NANTES Cedex 01 * (33) 49 61 49 85
FRANCE * Fax : (33) 40 30 60 53
*****************************************************************************