Fifth International Workshop on Computational Semantics

From 15-17 January 2003 Tilburg University hosted the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-5). The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers interested in any aspect of the computation of meaning in natural language.

Topics

Topics of interest for the workshop were computational aspects of formal semantic theories and theoretical issues in building natural language understanding systems. Papers were invited in areas which included, but were not limited to, the following:

construction and use of natural language semantic representations
knowledge representation and reasoning in meaning computation
learning lexical semantics from corpora
meaning representation in multimodal interaction
the semantic web, ontologies and natural language semantics
meaning in multimedia objects
the computational semantics-pragmatics interface
modelling and using context for semantic interpretation
computational semantics of speech acts
logic and use of underspecified representations of meaning
monotonicity and shallow reasoning in interpretation
dynamic interpretation in text, speech and dialogue
inductive logic programming and computational semantics
semantic aspects of language generation
shallow processing and formal semantics

Invited speakers

Pat Hayes
Adam Kilgarriff
Michiel van Lambalgen
Matthew Stone

Program committee

Patrick Blackburn	Jerry Hobbs	Steve Pulman
Johan Bos	Daniel Kayser	James Pustejovsky
Harry Bunt (chair)	Paul Mc Kevitt	Allan Ramsay
Nicoletta Calzolari	Adam Kilgarriff	Laurent Romary
Robin Cooper	Emiel Krahmer	Patrick Saint Dizier
Kees van Deemter	Alex Lascarides	Mark Steedman
Jan van Eijck	Reinhard Muskens	Enric Vallduvi
Frank van Harmelen	Martha Palmer	Bonnie Webber
Pat Hayes	Manfred Pinkal

Organizing committee

Harry Bunt
Yann Girard
Emiel Krahmer
Roser Morante
Reinhard Muskens
Ielka van der Sluis
Elias Thijsse

Proceedings

Accepted papers were published in the proceedings, which were available at the time of the conference. We also aim at publishing a selection of the accepted papers in book form.

A selection of papers from IWCS-2 has been published as Computing Meaning, Vol. 1, Harry Bunt and Reinhard Muskens, editors, Kluwer 1999, while papers from IWCS-3 have been published as Computing Meaning, Vol. 2, Harry Bunt, Reinhard Muskens and Elias Thijsse, editors, Kluwer 2001.

Important dates

1 Oct 2002	Submission of full papers
1 Nov 2002	Notification of acceptance
1 Nov 2002	Submission of poster abstracts
1 Dec 2002	Final papers due
15 Nov 2002	Notification of poster acceptance
15 Dec 2002	Deadline for early registration
15-17 Jan 2003	Workshop

Venue

IWCS-5 was held in Room YZ 1, Building Y ('Montesquieu Building') of Tilburg University. See the Campus Map.

Special Event

On Tuesday January 14, the day before the start of IWCS-5, the first meeting took place of the SIGSEM Working Group on Multimodal Meaning Representation. All IWCS-5 participants were invited to attend this meeting. More information about the meeting is available on the SIGSEM wg website.

Contact information

Anne Adriaensen
Department of Linguistics, Tilburg University
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Fax: +31-13-4663110
Phone: +31-13-4663060

IWCS-5 is sponsored by Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and Gianotten Bookshop.

IWCS is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics and by SIGLEX, the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon.