We are pleased to announce the following ACL sponsored workshop.
NAACL 2001 Workshop
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg
3 or 4 June 2001
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- Adapting Lexical Resources -
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http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~marks/wshop
Lexical resources have become important basic tools within NLP and
related fields. The range of resources available to the researcher is
diverse and vast - from simple word lists to complex MRDs and
thesauruses. The resources contain a whole range of different types of
linguistic information presented in different formats and at varying
levels of granularity. Also, much information is left implicit in the
description, e.g. the definition of lexical entries.
The majority of resources used by NLP researchers were not intended
for computational uses. For instance, WordNet was an experiment in
modelling the mental lexicon and MRDs are a by-product of the
dictionary publishing industry. The reasons for using these resources
are simple: they are available (and in the case of WordNet, free). The
cost of lexicon building is high and few research sites have the
resources or inclination to carry out what Johnston called the
"mindless drudgery" of manual lexicography.
The alternative is to adapt existing resources to particular
computational tasks. This workshop is concerned with automatic methods
for carrying out this process. We are particularly interested in
papers related to the following topics:
- adapting resources to by making them reflect the lexical
coverage within a particular domain
- adapting resources for particular applications
(e.g. information extraction, machine translation, question
answering, information retrieval)
- augmenting the information in a resource
(e.g. adding extra word senses, enriching the information
associated with the existing entries)
- improving the consistency or quality of resources by e.g.
merging resources, homogenizing lexical descriptions,
making implicit lexical knowledge explicit and clustering
word senses
- combining the information in more than one resource e.g. by
producing a mapping between their senses
The overall aim of this workshop is to build up a picture of the current
state-of-the-art techniques for automatically modifying lexicons. This
picture will allow the NLP community to make more effective and
efficient use of the lexical resources currently available.
Important Dates
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26 January 2001 Deadline for submission of papers
16 February Notification of acceptance
1 March Camera-ready copies due
3 or 4 June Workshop
Submissions
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We invite contributions of original research related to any of the
topics of the workshop. Paper submissions should be no longer than
3000 words (including references) and should use the appropriate ACL
latex style or Microsoft Word style. You can download the appropriate style
or template files using the following links:
Latex
style sheet file
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl2001sub.sty
bibliography file
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/acl.bst
sample latex file
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/samplesub.tex
sample bibliography file
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/samplesub.bib
Microsoft Word Template file
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl-2001-sub.dot
Preferred submission format is as an electronic file sent to
wim@dcs.shef.ac.uk by the 26th of January. Alternatively, three
hardcopies may be sent to the following address to arrive by the same
date:
Wim Peters,
Room G36b,
Department of Computer Science,
Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street,
University of Sheffield,
Sheffield S1 4DP
United Kingdom
Workshop Organisers
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Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University
Programme Committee
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(confirmed so far)
Robert Krovetz, NEC
Wim Peters, Sheffield University
Mark Stevenson, Sheffield University
Piek Vossen, Sail Labs
Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University
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