CALL FOR PAPERS TALN'99 (http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99) (Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel) July 12-17 1999 Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, Corsica Workshop on "The Description of Adjectives for Natural Language Processing" Adjectives constitute a challenging issue for NLP applications. From a syntactic viewpoint, they can be predicative or attributive. From a semantic viewpoint, their sense can vary depending on the context in which they appear. For instance, "difficult" does not have the same meaning in the phrases "a difficult book," "a difficult child" and "a difficult exam." In French "vieux" does not have the same meaning in the phrases "un homme vieux" (an old/aged man) and "un vieux maire" (a mayor of long standing, not necessarily old). No NLP system can ignore adjectives: in order to correctly analyze, generate, translate natural languages or index a text, the system must understand (or at the least, simulate) the meaning of the adjective. In this workshop we hope to bring together linguists and computational linguists to discuss theoretical and applied research on the treatment of adjectives in the various fields of NLP. We encourage submissions on the following list of topics (by no means exhaustive): - lexical semantics of adjectives - types of treatments: enumerative, generative, contextual - analysis, generation, translation and indexing of adjectives - compositional semantics of adjectives - semi-compositional semantics of adjectives (collocations in Adj-Noun constructions) ORGANIZERS: Pierrette Bouillon and Evelyne Viegas PROGRAM COMMITTEE: P. Bouillon (ISSCO, Universite de Geneve) L. Danlos (TALANA, Universite de Paris VII) M. Dymetman (Xerox, Grenoble) D. Estival (Universite de Melbourne) S. Nirenburg (CRL, New Mexico State University) J. Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) G. Russell (Rali, Universite de Montreal) P. Sbillot (IRISA, Rennes) F. Segond (Xerox, Grenoble) A. Tutin (IMAG, Grenoble) E. Tzoukermann (ATT Bell Labs) E. Viegas (CRL, New Mexico State University) ORGANIZATION: We will have 12 presentations, 30 minutes each, conducted over the four days of TALN'99. IMPORTANT DATES: April 1: Submission deadline May 1: Notification May 15: Final version SUBMISSION FORMAT: Submission (in English or French) must follow TALN'99 specifications. Papers should be no longer than 10 pages, Times 12, single space (about 3000 words), including figures, examples and references. The submission must follow the LaTeX style available on the web site of the main conference (http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99). Send an electronic version of your submission (self-contained LaTeX AND postcript) to the organizers by April 1. The final version will be published in the workshop proceedings. CONTACTS: Pierrette Bouillon ISSCO/ETI (Universite de Geneve) 54 route des ACACIAS 1227 Geneve Suisse Tel: 33 22 705 71 12 Fax: 33 22 300 10 86 Email: Pierrette.Bouillon@issco.unige.ch or Evelyne Viegas New Mexico State University Computing Research Laboratory New Science Hall Rm 286 Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA Tel: 505 646 5757 Fax: 505 646 6218 Email: viegas@crl.nmsu.edu For more information on TALN'99, please visit: http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99