ATALA Workshop

            Representation and Treatment of Syntactic Ambiguity in
                        Natural Language Processing

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                        Paris, Piti-Salptrire
                             January 29, 2000

                   http://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/ATALA2000.html

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                           CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

There are several approaches making it possible to treat syntactic ambiguity:
one can for example decide to apply disambiguation as soon as possible, in
particular using statistical methods. One can on the contrary choose to delay
to the maximum the disambiguation and to maintain the ambiguity, possibly
until the end of the processing. These two approaches are not necessarily
contradictory. However, the problem remains very difficult to solve and many
of the methods proposed amount to little more than the traditional
enumeration.

Factorizing the information (for example in using parse forests) can from
this point of view play a very significant role and even lead to effective
solutions.

The goal of this workshop is to propose an overview of the current techniques
for the representation and the treatment of syntactic ambiguity in natural
language processing.

INVITED SPEAKERS
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        . Bernard Lang                  
                INRIA

        . David Weir
                Cognitive and Computing Science
                University of Sussex

COMMUNICATIONS
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The proposals for a communication will be selected on the basis of a 1 page
abstract.

Abstracts will be sent by e-mail (preferably) or surface mail at:

                pb@lpl.univ-aix.fr

                Philippe Blache
                LPL - Universit de Provence
                29, Avenue Robert Schuman
                13621  Aix-en-Provence
                France

DATES
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        Deadline :      December 1st, 1999
        Notifications:  December 20th, 1999


CHAIR
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        Philippe Blache                 Eric de la Clergerie
        CNRS/Universit de Provence      INRIA