Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 213.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 06:57:51 +0100
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: SIGLEX Workshop on Word Senses and MultiLinguality
ACL 2000 Workshop
WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY
Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group for the Lexicon (SIGLEX)
9:00-12:00 AM, October 7, 2000
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/siglex00.html
With an increasingly global economy and the explosive growth of the
"World" in "World Wide Web", the computational linguistics community
is faced as never before with the challenges and opportunities of
multi-linguality. At the same time, the community has returned with
renewed enthusiasm to problems of word meaning, especially the
delineation and discrimination of word senses. An intimate
relationship between the two issues is becoming apparent -- for
example, in the consideration of translation equivalence in parallel
corpora, the construction of multilingual ontologies, and the
examination of senses in relation to specific natural language
applications such as machine translation, information retrieval,
summarization, etc. The issue of multi-lingual approaches to sense
distinctions was also a central topic of discussion at the first
SENSEVAL conference in 1998, and is one of the areas to be covered at
SENSEVAL-2 (to be held in Spring 2001).
This workshop will address problems of word sense disambiguation and
delineation of appropriate sense distinctions, with specific emphasis
on approaches that involve more than one language and the ways in
which observations about cross-linguistic equivalence affect our
consideration of sense divisions in the individual languages. More
generally, we seek to foster discussion and exchanges of insight in
any area of computational linguistics where a non-monolingual approach
to word sense issues is being taken.
Provisional Program
9:00-9:15 OPENING AND OVERVIEW
9:15-9:45 An Unsupervised Method for Multilingual Word Sense Tagging
Using Parallel Corpora
Mona Diab, University of Maryland , USA
9:45-10:15 Sense Clusters for Information Retrieval: Evidence from
SemCor and the EuroWordNet InterLingual Index
Irina Chugar, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo, UNED, Spain
10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:00 Chinese-Japanese Cross Language Information Retrieval:
A Han Character Based Approach
Maruf Hasan, Yuji Matsumoto, NARA Inst., Japan
11:00-11:30 Experiments in Word Domain Disambiguation for Parallel
Texts
Bernardo Magnini, Carlo Strapparava, IRST, Italy
11:30-12:00 DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY
12:00-12:15 SIGLEX Business Meeting
Workshop Organizers
Nancy Ide, Charles Fillmore, Philip Resnik, David Yarowsky
Program Committee
Helge Dyvik, University of Bergen
Nancy Ide, Vassar College
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University
Charles Fillmore, UC Berkeley and ICSI
Adam Kilgarriff, ITRI, University of Brighton
Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Corporation
David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University
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