Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 502.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: "Ross Scaife" <scaife@pop.uky.edu> (52)
Subject: Open content encyclopedia
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (113)
Subject: Reminder: Computational Linguistics Special Issue
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:09:50 +0000
From: "Ross Scaife" <scaife@pop.uky.edu>
Subject: Open content encyclopedia
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:15:38 -0800
From: Larry Sanger <lsanger@nupedia.com>
Larry Sanger
Editor-in-Chief, Nupedia
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Open content encyclopedia calls for submissions about classics
A major new encyclopedia project, Nupedia.com, requests expert
help in constructing an "open content" encyclopedia, planned to
become the largest general encyclopedia in history. The project
has significant financial support, and its leaders and owners
are committed to a years-long, intensive effort -- to founding
an open, public institution.
If you are an expert in any subject, your participation in the
project will be welcome. We are in need of well-qualified
writers, editors, and peer reviewers, and will be doing searches
for subject area editors. Moreover, if you are a good writer
and researcher, you may be interested in contributing short
biographies, descriptions of cities, and other brief entries.
What does it mean to say the encyclopedia is "open content"?
This means that anyone can use content taken from Nupedia
articles for almost any purpose, both for-profit or non-profit,
so long as Nupedia is credited as the source and so long as the
distributor of the information does not attempt to restrict
others from distributing the same information. Nupedia will be
"open content" in the same way that Linux and the Open Directory
Project (dmoz.com) are "open source." As has been the case with
those projects, we plan to attract a huge body of talented
contributors.
Since making our initial press release earlier this month, over 800
people from around the world have signed up as Nupedia members,
including some very highly-qualified people (including Ph.D.'s
in very many relevant subject areas).
Because Nupedia will be open content, it will be in a
freely-distributable public resource created by an international
public effort. It is not an exaggeration to say that your
contributions would help to provide an international public a
free education. We believe Nupedia is, thus, a project worthy
of your attention.
If you want to join us or stay apprised of the progress of
Nupedia, please take a minute to go to the Nupedia website at
http://www.nupedia.com/ and become a member. (Becoming a member
is quick, easy, and free.)
Thank you very much for your attention.
Larry Sanger, Ph.D. expected May 2000 Philosophy, Ohio State
Editor-in-Chief, Nupedia.com
San Diego, California
P.S. If you wish to help promote this project -- something we
would greatly appreciate -- please do forward this announcement
to any *appropriate* forums and to colleagues you think may be
interested (including your local/departmental mailing lists and
newsgroups). Or, if you would rather that Nupedia make the
announcement on a forum you frequent, please just give us a
pointer to the forum and we can take it from there.
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:10:50 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Reminder: Computational Linguistics Special Issue
>> From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk>
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution
Guest editors: Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin
Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena
of active study in formal and computational linguistics alike. The
correct interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the
understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for Natural
Language Processing.
After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence
in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many
researchers in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has
been reported. Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT
and Centering have inspired new research on the computational treatment
of anaphora. The drive towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has
further stimulated interest, for alternative and/or data-enriched
approaches. In addition, application-driven research in areas such as
automatic abstracting and information extraction, has independently
identified the importance of (and boosted the research in) anaphora and
coreference resolution. Ellipsis resolution too, being of particular
importance to a number of Natural Language Understanding applications
such as dialogue and discourse processing, has received increasing
attention. The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has
been demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC
coreference task projects and at a number of related fora (workshops,
conferences, etc.).
Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this
special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely,
collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution.
Topics
The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel
and challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution.
The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited
to:
o new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms,
o factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors,
o techniques in ellipsis resolution,
o use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution,
o use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution,
o applications of anaphora/coreference resolution,
o applications of ellipsis resolution,
o multilingual anaphora resolution,
o evaluation issues,
o use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis.
In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related
to the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as:
o Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora
resolution?
o When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit
"constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"?
o What is the case for languages other than English?
o What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential"
factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical
data can be brought to bear on this?
o What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple
factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting
the antecedent?
o Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts?
o Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora
automatically?
o Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements
from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises
might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would
awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for
particular type(s) of input text?
o Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic
reconstruction?
o Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of
the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided
structure?
Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both
theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should
construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora.
Submissions and Reviewing
The submission deadline is 1 April 2000. Authors can submit either
electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style
details, see http://www.aclweb.org/cl) to:
Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk)
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and
details of the author (following the format given at
http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt) should be emailed to R.Mitkov.
Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor
of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special
issue. In addition to the guest editors,
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton),
Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and
Shalom Lappin (University of London),
the guest editorial board includes the following members:
Nicholas Asher (University of Texas),
Amit Bagga (GE CRD),
Claire Cardie (Cornell University),
David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern),
Eugene Charniak (Brown University),
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp),
Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC),
Dan Hardt (Villanova University),
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto),
Jerry Hobbs (SRI International),
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania),
Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe),
Andrew Kehler (SRI International),
Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University),
Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh),
Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille),
Stuart Shieber (Harvard University),
Candy Sidner (Lotus Research),
Marilyn Walker (AT&T).
This call for paper is also available at
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/text.html
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