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                        CALL for PAPERS

                        WORKSHOP on
        "THEORETICAL BASES FOR SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS IN NLP :
The expression of time, space and movement in lexicon, discourse and dialogue"
in conjunction with the TALN'99 conference on Natural Language Processing

                Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese (Corsica)
                        12-16 July 1999

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TOPICS
This workshop aims at presenting and discussing current theoretic
approaches to semantics and pragmatics stemming from the formal semantics
tradition. In order to prompt in-depth discussions between participants,
the debate will focus on the analysis of time, space and motion in
language. Besides their general importance, it is expected that these
topics reveal how tightly grammatical semantics, lexical semantics,
discourse semantics and discourse and dialogue pragmatics are intertwined.
Papers discussing the role of semantics and pragmatics in NLP and the
significance of the formal approaches presented as theoretical bases for
NLP in the future are especially welcome.

The workshop will deal, amongst others, with the following topics:
- semantics and pragmatics of discourse and dialogue
- anaphora (cross sentential and cross speakers)
- beliefs and intentions
- discourse and dialogue structure (especially spatiotemporal structure)
- lexicon of space and time
- world knowledge and bridging
- ontology of time and space for lexicon and world knowledge


THE WORKSHOP
The workshop will be held during the TALN'99 conference at Cargese in
Corsica. It will consist of four 1h30 sessions over four days (July 12th,
13th, 15th and 16th). There will be 2 invited lectures and about 10 talks
of 30 minutes (including discussion) selected by the program committee.
Proceedings will be available at the workshop.

ORGANIZERS & CONTACT PERSONS
Myriam BRAS (IRIT-Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Laure VIEU (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse)
email : bras@irit.fr, vieu@irit.fr
address : IRIT, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 4
tel : +33 5 61 55 60 91   fax : +33 5 61 55 83 25

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Myriam Bras, IRIT & Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Laure Vieu, IRIT & CNRS, Toulouse, France
Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Michel Aurnague, ERSS, Toulouse, France
Mario Borillo, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Joan Busquets, ERSS & Universite de Bordeaux, France
Jacques Moeschler, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
Uwe Reyle, IMS & Universite de Stuttgart, Germany
Co Vet, University of Groningen, Holland

SUBMISSIONS
Researchers in the area are encouraged to submit a twelve-page paper.
(Participation on later submission of a short position paper will also be
possible).
As we do not have much time, only electronical submission will be proposed
at: bras@irit.fr, vieu@irit.fr
DEADLINE : MARCH, 12 1999.

SUBMISSION FORMAT
- self-contained LaTeX source AND DVI files
     OR
- MSWord source AND RTF files AND confirmation by fax: +33 5 61 25 83 55
Authors are requested to use the TALN'99 styles, see:
http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/styles/
(Note that these styles have been designed for the main conference and
therefore the information regarding length, deadline and submission doesn't
matching that of the workshop)

WORKSHOP LANGUAGE
official languages for communications are French and English

SCHEDULE
March 12, 99: Deadline for submissions
April 28, 99: Notification of acceptance
May 12, 99: Deadline for final copy
July 12, 99: Workshop

REGISTRATION
Workshop contributors are required to register for TALN99, without any
additional fees.

INFORMATION
For further information on TALN'99, please visit the TALN99 web site at
http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/