Corpora: SIGLEX Workshop on Word Senses and MultiLinguality: Program

From: Nancy M. Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 18:09:30 MET DST

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                          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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