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EACL 2006 Workshop
Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions
3 April, 2006
Trento, Italy
REGISTRATION
Information on registration can be found at:
http://eacl06.itc.it/registration.htm
BACKGROUND
Prepositions have received a considerable amount of attention in recent
years, due to their importance in computational tasks. For instance, in
NLP, PP attachment ambiguities have attracted a lot of attention, and
different machine learning techniques have been employed with varying
degrees of success. Researchers from various perspectives have also
looked at spatial or temporal aspects of prepositions, and their
cross-linguistic differences, monolingual and cross-linguistic contrasts
or the role of prepositions in syntactic alternations. Moreover, in
languages like English and German, phrasal verbs have also been the
subject of considerable effort, ranging from techniques for their
automatic extraction from corpora, to methods for the determination of
their semantics. In other languages, like Romance languages or Hindi,
the focus has been either on the incorporation of the preposition or its
inclusion in the prepositional phrase. All these configurations are of
much interest semantically as well as syntactically.
PROGRAM
08.55 - 09.00 Opening
09.00 - 09.30 Spatial Prepositions in Context: The Semantics of
'near' in the Presence of Distractor Objects
Fintan J. Costello and John D. Kelleher
09.30 - 10.00 Polish Equivalents of Spatial 'at'
Iwona Knas
10.00 - 10.20 A Quantitative Approach to Preposition-Pronoun Contraction
in Polish
Beata Trawinski
10.20 - 10.40 Marked Adpositions
Sander Lestrade
10.40 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30 Semantic Interpretation of Prepositions for NLP
Applications
Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig and Rainer Osswald
11.30 - 12.00 Coverage and Inheritance in The Preposition Project
Kenneth C. Litkowski and Orin Hargraves
12.00 - 12.20 An Ontology Based View on Prepositional Senses
Tine Lassen
12.20 - 12.40 A Conceptual Analysis of the Notion of Instrumentality via
a Multilingual Analysis
Asanee Kawtrakul, Mukda Suktarachan, Bali
Ranaivo-Malancon, Pek Kuan, Achla Raina, Sudeshna Sarkar,
Alda Mari, Sina Zarriess, Elixabete Murguia, Patrick
Saint-Dizier
12.40 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Panel discussion:
Prepositions and Multiword Expression Compositionality
Panelists:
Sabine Schulte im Walde (Saarland University):
The Syntax-Semantics Interface for German Particle Verbs
Valia Kordoni (Saarland University):
PPs as Verbal Arguments: From a Computational Semantics
Perspective
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne):
Representing and Modelling the Lexical Semantics of
English Verb Particle Constructions
15.00 - 15.30 German Particle Verbs and Pleonastic Prepositions
Ines Rehbein
15.30 - 16.00 Automatic Identification of English Verb Particle
Constructions using Linguistic Features
Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin
16.00 - 16.20 Coffee break
16.20 - 16.50 On the Prepositions which Introduce an Adjunct of Duration
Frank Van Eynde
16.50 - 17.20 How Bad is the Problem of PP-Attachment? A Comparison of
English, German and Swedish
Martin Volk
17.20 - 17.40 Handling of Prepositions in English to Bengali Machine
Translation
Sudip Kumar Naskar and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
17.40 - 18.10 Closing Remarks and Business Meeting
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Boban Arsenijevic (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
Doug Arnold (University of Essex, UK)
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
John Beavers (Stanford University, USA)
Bob Borsley (University of Essex, UK)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, UK)
Markus Egg (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany)
Julia Hockenmaier (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Tracy Holloway King (PARC, USA)
Valia Kordoni (Saarland University, Germany)
Ken Litkowski (CL Research, USA)
Alda Mari (CNRS / ENST Infres, France)
Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford, UK)
Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, France)
Beata Trawinski (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Jesse Tseng (Loria, France)
Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University and DFKI)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Martin Volk (Stockholms Universitet, Sweden)
Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Boban Arsenijevic (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Beata Trawinski (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
FURTHER INFORMATION
Workshop web page:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/eacl2006/
Conference web page
http://eacl06.itc.it/
EACL 2006 Workshops site
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/
CONTACT INFORMATION
prep-eacl2006@unimelb.edu.au
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