SECOND WORKSHOP ON INTERLINGUAS: CALL FOR PAPERS

        FROM TEXT TO REPRESENTATION: SECOND WORKSHOP ON INTERLINGUAS

        Tuesday, October 27, 1998 (preceding the AMTA 98 conference)
            Sheraton Bucks County Hotel, Langhorne, Pennsylvania


[http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/FWOI/SecondWorkshop/index.html]

The focus of this workshop will be a multi-lingual text and the task
of representing aspects of that text using an Interlingual
Representation (IL). The format is meant to encourage concrete
discussion on how ILs handle particular challenges, including, but not
limited to, representation of:

basic predicate/argument structure
noun phrases/referents
proper nouns
prepositional meaning
non-literal language
temporal relations
textual organization
lexical divergences
syntactic divergences

Submitters are invited to select some aspect or section of the text,
in a single language, or a language pair/set, and submit a
short position paper, describing the IL representation for that
aspect. 

In addition to providing concrete IL representations and terms
(ontological entities/atoms), submitters are encouraged to focus also
on the reasons why one would choose to define these particular terms,
and the justification for defining in a particular way the relations,
slots, and fillers of the term.

Papers should define the aspect to be discussed, identify instances in
the text, provide a representation for these instances, and categorize
the instances according to the treatment proposed.  The papers will be
collected and published as the proceedings of the workshop. 

Submission of end-to-end output of an IL system (including and
identifying relevant hand-crafted elements) is especially encouraged.
Submissions could also propose theoretical justification for a
particular framework, in particular how the building blocks of the
system work in handling an aspect of the text.

The workshop itself will consist of panels organized around
the representational aspects selected by the participants. The panel
presentations will be supplemented by periods for general discussion
and other activities.

Ideally, the result of the workshop will be

- in some cases, a consistent set of IL expressions for the various
  problematic issues raised by the text and

- in other cases, a clearer delineation of
  (1) how the various problematic issues in the text are treated in
      different ILs and 
  (2) the fundamental differences in approach that motivate these
      different IL treatments. 

A final product of the workshop will be an outline of the issues
discussed in determining whether combined IL approaches are possible
and/or desirable.  These results will provide a basis for further
workshops.

The multi-lingual text will be available at
http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/FWOI/SecondWorkshop/text.html in
glossed English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, German, Russian,
Persian, Italian, Catalan, Vietnamese, Malay, Greek, Bulgarian, Tamil,
and Portuguese versions, as they become available.

Notice of interest in participation:  July 10, 1998 
      (to shelmrei@crl.nmsu.edu)
      (Please identify specifically what aspect of IL representation
      you intend to address)
Position paper submission:            August 10, 1998
Notifications:                        September 10, 1998
Final copies of papers:               October 10, 1998
Workshop:                             October 27, 1998

Submission may be in printed or electronic form (LaTex, FrameMaker),
but should follow ACL style sheet (available at
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html). 

Submissions should be sent to:

Stephen Helmreich
Computing Research Laboratory
New Mexico State University
PO Box 30001/3CRL
Las Cruces, NM 88003 (USA)
phone: (505) 646-2141
fax: (505) 646-6218
e-mail: shelmrei@crl.nmsu.edu

The registration fee for the conference is $50.  Non-presenters will
be accepted on a first-come, first served basis. 

A copy of the registration form is available at:
http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/FWOI/SecondWorkshop/registration.html