Computers and the Humanities
Special Issue on SENSEVAL

Adam Kilgarriff
29 Sept 1998, updated 6 July 1999

There will be a special issue of CHum (Computers and the Humanities) on SENSEVAL, edited by Martha Palmer and Adam Kilgarriff.

Page allocation and CHum house style

Maximum length for papers describing participating systems and their results is 6 pages. A page is a "CHum page", eg, a page according to the CHum style sheet. This can be accessed from the CHum home page. Please prepare papers according to this style sheet. Latex and other style files are available at this address.

Examples

As in the Herstmonceux "Advanced Papers", HECTOR lexical entries and a handful of corpus examples for a subsample of words will be provided in CHum. The idea is that you do not then need to take up your six pages with dictionary examples, but can refer to the ones provided. We are currently planning to include generous, onion, shake as in the Advanced Papers, so if you can find examples to illustrate what you wish to discuss from the data for these words, please do so. If you have strong feelings about us including some other word in the sample, do let us know and we'll consider it.

Official `results' paper and system reports

In order to promote consistency in reported results, and to reduce duplication of analyses between different centres and in different CHum papers, we shall be producing a series of drafts of the official results paper on the here. We ask all authors to read the paper prior to writing, and to use the official results wherever possible. If there is an analyses that you dispute, or that you think is missing and would contribute to our understanding, please get in touch.

Draft Table of Contents

Introduction and overview Adam Kilgarriff and Martha Palmer
Is Word Sense Tagging just one more task, or is it special? Yorick Wilks
The evaluation framework
Framework and results for English Adam Kilgarriff
Framework and results for FrenchFrédérique Segond
Framework and results for ItalianNicoletta Calzolari
Lexicographer's experience of tagging Ramesh Krishnamurthy and Diane Nicholls
English SENSEVAL Results Joseph Rosenzweig
Topical Papers
Computational criteria for consistent sense distinctionsMartha Palmer
Cross-lingual sense determination: Can it work?Nancy Ide
CommentaryPatrick Hanks
Participating systems for English, French, Italian(Ca 25 systems, 6 pages each)
Sample data for generous, onion, shake

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