A SIGLEX-endorsed COLING workshop
Michael Zock (Limsi, CNRS) & Patrick St. Dizier (Irit, CNRS)
Sunday 29th August 2004
A dictionary is a vital component of any natural language processing system. Its modern, digital form has considerable potential, especially if it is extended and built in a way compatible with the needs and habits of the average language user. There are many ways to make an electronic dictionary useful for people in their daily tasks of processing language. One could assist
As one can see, there are numerous ways to enhance dictionaries. While the new hardware offers many, sometimes surprising opportunities for novel uses, seizing them requires some rethinking. This is the goal of this one-day workshop.
In particular, we’d like to discuss interesting extensions and enhancements of electronic dictionaries. For example, one could consider merging different, thesaurus-like dictionaries and see what kind of conceptual and navigational aids might be added to support the language user: what are his needs, what information is he looking for? Actually, a focus shift might be necessary to move from the data (content and size of the dictionary) to their organisation and access. As, what is a huge dictionary good for, if one cannot find the word one is looking for?
The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers involved in the building of electronic dictionaries to discuss modifications of existing resources in line with the users’ needs (i.e. how to capitalize on the advantages of the digital form). Given the breadth of the questions, we welcomed reports on work from many perspectives, including, but not limited, to linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics, language learning, and ergonomics. We requested that each contribution addresses computational aspects.
8:45-9:00 Welcome to participants (introduction) | |||||
9:00-12:00 Long papers | |||||
09:00 | J. Breen | Multiple Indexing in an Electronic Kanji Dictionary | |||
09:30 | G. Huet | Design of a Lexical Database for Sanskrit | |||
10:00 | V. Pekar | Linguistic Preprocessing for Distributional Classification of Words | |||
10:30 | L. Romary, S. Salmon-Alt & G. Francopoulo | Standards going concrete : from LMF to Morphalou | |||
11:00-11:30 coffee break | |||||
11:30 | M. Zock & S. Bilac | Word Lookup on the Basis of Associations : from an Idea to a Roadmap | |||
12:00-12:50 short poster presentation (5 minutes each) | |||||
12:00 | I. A. Bolshakov & A. Gelbukh | A Very Large Dictionary with Paradigmatic, Syntagmatic, and Paronymic Links between Entries | |||
12:05 | Elzbieta Dura | Concordance of Snippet | |||
12:10 | V. Keselj, T. Keselj & L. Zlatic | R{j}ecnik.com : English-Serbo-Croatian Electronic Dictionary | |||
12:15 | M. Maxwell & W. Poser | Morphological Interfaces to Dictionaries | |||
12:20 | J. McCracken | Rebuilding the Oxford Dictionary of English as a Semantic Network | |||
12:25 | C. Mota, P. Carvalho & E. Ranchhod | Multiword Lexical Acquisition and Dictionary Formalization | |||
12:30 | T. O'Hara & J. Wiebe | Empirical Acquisition of Differentiating Relations from Definitions | |||
12:35 | V. Reuer | Language Resources for a Network-based Dictionary | |||
12:40 | S. Schulte im Walde | Identification, Quantitative Description, and Preliminary Distributional Analysis of German Particle Verbs | |||
12:45 | S. Sheremetyeva | Application Adaptive Electronic Dictionary with Intelligent Interface | |||
13:00-14:00 lunch | |||||
14:00-15:30 Project notes (20 minutes each) | |||||
14:00 | U. Apel and J. Quint | Building a Graphetic Dictionary for Japanese kanji-Character Look-up Based on Brush Strokes or Stroke Groups, and the Display of Kanji as Path Data | |||
14:20 | P. Bernard, J. Dendien & J.M. Pierrel | A Computerized Dictionary : Le Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé (TLFi) | |||
14:40 | B. Jacquemin | Dictionaries Merger for Text Expansion in Question Answering | |||
15:00 | G. Neumann, C. Fellbaum, A. Geyken, A. Herold, C. Hümmer, F. Körner. U. Kramer, K. Krell, A., Sokirko, D. Stantcheva & E. Stathi | A Corpus-based Lexical Resource of German Idioms | |||
15:30-16:00 coffee break | |||||
16:00-17:00 poster session | |||||
17:00-17:45 wrap up discussion | |||||
18:00 End of the workshop |
* Antonietta Alonge (University of Perugia, Italy)
* Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France)
* Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
* Christiane Fellbaum (University of Princeton, USA)
* Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)
* Mathieu Mangeot-Nagata (NII, Tokyo)
* Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, USA)
* Alain Polguère (OLST, University of Montreal, Canada)
* James Pustejovsky (University of Brandeis, USA)
* Gilles Sérasset (GETA, Grenoble, France)
* Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
* Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
* Dan Tufis (RACAI, Bucharest, Roumania)
* Jean Véronis (University of Aix en Provence, France)
* Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft, The Netherlands)
* Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Michael Zock (Limsi-CNRS, France)
For any queries please contact Michael Zock: zock@limsi.fr