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From: unido!uunet!flash.bellcore.com!walker (Donald E Walker)
To: mod-ki@unido.uucp
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 14:45:58 EST
Subject: IJCAI-89 Workshop on Lexical Acquisition

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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
           First International Workshop on Lexical Acquisition
                               IJCAI-89
                            21 August 1989
                           Detroit, Michigan

                             Organized by
               Roy Byrd - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
                Nicoletta Calzolari - University of Pisa
      Paul Jacobs - General Electric Research and Development Center
                James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University
      Uri Zernik - General Electric Research and Development Center

This is a call for papers for a one-day workshop on Lexical  Acquisition
to be held at IJCAI-89. We will accommodate 30 participants, 15 of  whom
will be invited to give talks. Position papers  will  be  collected  and
published in an edited volume.

For Natural Language systems to become more  robust  they  require  huge
lexicons, providing both syntax and semantics. Existing on-line lexicons
are small in size and cannot satisfy all  the  requirements  of  diverse
Natural  Language  systems.  Lexical   acquisition   and   computational
lexicology  have  emerged  as  major  research  areas  addressing  these
problems. We will investigate in the workshop the following issues:

* What are the  uses  of  lexicons?  (e.g.,  parsing,  text  processing,
  generation, translation)
* What should be the contents of a  lexicon  (e.g.,  syntax,  semantics,
  morphology), and how should these components be integrated? phonology,
  etc.
* How is  a  lexicon  organized?  (e.g.,  hierarchy,  subcategorization,
  indexing)
* What are possible acquisition resources? (e.g., text, corpus, context,
  machine-readable dictionaries)
* How can a lexicon be used? (e.g., customizing a lexicon to a domain by
  learning)
* What are the necessary utilities? (e.g., tool kits  for  computational
  lexicography)

To  participate,  please  submit  a  3-page  position  paper  (4 copies)
by May 15 highlighting:

   (a) the specific problem addressed;
   (b) the approach;
   (c) the application;
   (d) references to more detailed publications.

ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION:
Dr. Uri Zernik
General Electric - Research and Development Center
PO Box 8
Schenectady, NY 12301

For further details, please call or email:
(518) 387-5370
zernik@crd.ge.com
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