Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 527.
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: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (22)
Subject: Oxford seminars on humanities computing
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (30)
Subject: Workshop at ESSLLI 2001
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:11:41 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Oxford seminars on humanities computing
>> From: Frances Condron
>> <frances.condron@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
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Winter Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit
10th - 12th January 2001
Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/winter/
Booking deadline: 11th December 2000
Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit is pleased to announce three
seminars on humanities computing, to be held in Oxford from the 10th to
12th January 2001. They are updated repeats from the summer seminars
series that ran in July 2000. The three seminars are:
10th January: Putting your database on the Web
11th January: Creating and documenting digital texts
12th January: Working with XML
The seminar website at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/winter/ includes full
details of the topics to be covered on each day. Each seminar will
give you the opportunity to consult with experts about your research
projects, and will also combine practical hands-on sessions with
formal presentations. All teaching will be carried out by members of
the Humanities Computing Unit and Oxford University Computing Services.
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:12:18 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Workshop at ESSLLI 2001
>> From: Alessandro Lenci <lenci@ilc.pi.cnr.it>
SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND CATEGORISATION
Workshop at ESSLLI XIII (Helsinki)
Helsinki, August 13th - 17th 2001
http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/~esslli
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The sheer amount of knowledge necessary to shed light on the way word
meanings mutually relate in context or distribute in lexico-semantic
classes appears to exceed the limits of human conscious awareness and
descriptive capability. Particularly at this level of linguistic
analysis, then, we seem to be in need of automatic ways of filtering,
structuring and classifying semantic evidence through inspection of a
large number of word uses in context. Totally or partially unsupervised
inductive methods of knowledge acquisition from corpus data are credited
with being able to provide such ways. Yet, it remains to be seen how
acquired information can best be represented in current formal models
for knowledge representation, for it to be made available to mainstream
NLP applications.
There are reasons to believe that this integration will require much
more than a simple extension of off-the-shelf machine learning
technology. At the same time, any major breakthrough in this area is
bound to have significant repercussions on the way word meanings and
lexico-semantic classes in general are formally represented and used for
applications. With these purposes in mind, the workshop intends to focus
on the issue of interaction between techniques for inducing semantic
information from corpus data and formal methods of linguistic knowledge
representation. In particular, we encourage in-depth analysis of
underlying assumptions of the proposed techniques and methods and
discussion of possible relevant connections with cognitive,
linguistic,logical and philosophical issues.
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