Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND MULTIMEDIA DICTIONARIES 22-23 September 2000 Patras, Greece Organized by WCL, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Patras, Greece. Supported by ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and ELSNET (European Network in Language and Speech) AIMS The aim of this workshop is to present the state of the art in corpus based monolingual and multilingual lexicography (corpora creation, methods and tools for lexical knowledge extraction, knowledge representation, etc.) and the integration of various modalities (textual, spoken, visual) in electronic dictionaries. In particular the workshop aims at the presentation of current work and results of national and international projects related to the workshop's subject. The scientific program will include several invited lectures as well as submitted paper presentations. Submitted papers will be published in a volume of Proceedings available at the workshop. TOPICS Electronic corpora for lexicography Methods and tools for corpus based lexicography Acquisition and reusability of lexicography resources Annotation of lexicography resources Evaluation and validation of lexicography resources Lexical knowledge representation Treatment of morphology and polysemy Recognition of lexical units in text Monolingual and multilingual lexicography Integration of various modalities in electronic dictionaries Multimedia information retrieval Speech synthesis/recognition for multimedia dictionaries Encyclopedic dictionaries Specialized dictionaries (language teaching, NLP-applications, etc) Internet based dictionaries Other subjects related to the workshop VENUE The workshop will be held at the conference center of the University of Patras, Greece. Patras is located on the west coast of Greece, 200 km from Athens. It is the principal seaport linking the country with Italy and the commercial and cultural center of Western Greece. Apart from its beautiful landscape, Patras is close to the famous archeological sites of Olympia, Delphi and Corinth. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Anastassiadi-Simeonidi Anna (University of Thessaloniki) Caragiannis George (Technical University of Athens) Christodoulakis Dimitris (University of Patras) Dermatas Evangelos (University of Patras) Fakotakis Nikos (University of Patras) Faloutsos Cristos (Carnegie Mellon University) Gibbon Dafydd (Universit"at Bielefeld) Kalamboukis Theodore(Athens University of Economics and Business) King Philip (University of Birmingham) Kokkinakis George (University of Patras) Kontos John (Athens University of Economics and Business) Potapova Rodmonga (Moscow State Linguistic University) Spyropoulos Konstantinos (Research Centre "Democritos" Athens) Tsoutsoura Maria (Ionian University) Veronis Jean (Universite de Provence) Zampolli Antonio (University of Pisa) INVITED SPEAKERS Cristos Faloutsos, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University. "Multimedia Information Retrieval" Dafydd Gibbon Fakulta t fur Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universitat Bielefeld. "Progress in Computational Lexicography" Jean Veronis, Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Science Humaines, Universite de Provence "Building dictionaries from knowledge bases" Antonio Zampolli Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa. "Electronic corpora for lexicography" SUBMISSIONS OF ABSTRACTS Abstracts of original not elsewhere published papers may be submitted either by post (three copies) or preferably by e-mail in ASCII format only. Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. They should not exceed two A4 pages (including figures and references). All abstracts will be refereed by the Scientific Committee. Submission of an abstract implies a commitment to present the paper if accepted. All submissions should begin with the following information: Title: title of paper Author(s): names of author(s) Affiliation: of author(s) Contact address: full postal address E-mail: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) Fax number: of main author Phone number: of main author Electronic submissions should be sent to: dermatas@george.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr with the subject line " Submission for COMLEX2000" Submissions by post should be addressed to: George Kokkinakis, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras 26500, Patras, Greece IMPORTANT DATES Submission of abstracts: June 15, 2000 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2000 Camera-ready paper due: August 1, 2000 Advance registration: July 10, 2000 Late registration: September 1, 2000 Workshop: September 22, 2000 LANGUAGE The official language of the workshop will be English. ACCOMMODATION Several hotels are situated on the beach of Rion near the venue. Accommodation service will be provided. REGISTRATION FEES Registration fees will be around 50000 Dra (150 EURO) with special prices for students and a 10% early registration discount. Fees include welcome reception, two meals, banquet, and coffee breaks. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE George Kokkinakis (chair), WCL, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras. Nikos Fakotakis (vice chair), WCL, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras. Evangelos Dermatas (secretary), WCL, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras.