Hosted at FBK, Trento, Italy
We are pleased to announce the Joint Symposium on Semantic Processing, which will be held at FBK, in Trento, Italy, on 20-22 November 2013 for two and a half days.
This symposium aims at bringing together researchers from different strands of semantic processing research, with a focus on two aspects. The first is the textual inference paradigm, proposed as a unifying generic framework capturing major semantic processing needs in different application areas. Textual entailment research has yielded so far a range of inference algorithms, which were mostly developed within individual "in-house" systems. The symposium aims at addressing current bottlenecks by discussing future research directions and perspectives for consolidation and unification of textual inference technology. The second aspect concerns linguistic structures, as identified by empirical work within corpus linguistics, whose benefit for Computational Linguistics has not yet been fully realized. We are interested in corpus investigation methods which identify the properties of natural anguages that can be efficiently computed and used to improve the actual state of the art on NLP tasks involving meaning. The workshop aims at contributing to the common ground needed to create language models that allow the computational linguistic community to take the next step forward in developing natural language applications that process semantic knowledge successfully.
During the symposium two tutorials will be given, on Textual Entailment and Corpus Pattern respectively. These tutorials are intend for a large audience, their motivation come from the fact that the new techniques of semantic analysis, which are well founded into corpus investigation, are best understood in a "hands-on" manner.
Our goal is to make the symposium a stimulating and intriguing forum for mutual update and discussion of these research directions in semantic processing, and we hope to attract a substantial number of involved senior and junior researchers worldwide.
We are fortunate to have the participation of people whose research shaped the actual state of the art of language understanding from a computational perspective and not only.
Keynote Speakers and Panelists
Program Committee
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