Description

While there has been much effort on the resolution and generation of
anaphoric expressions, there are few systems or computational algorithms
for the resolution or generation of ellipsis. The misuse or non-use of
ellipsis in highly preferred contexts impedes understanding just as
incorrect referential expressions can make a dialogue difficult to
interpret.

We aim to stimulate discussion about how information from several
knowledge sources can be used to resolve and generate elliptical
expressions, emphasizing approaches that draw on empirical results and
actual implementations or formalizations of approaches.

We will encourage contributions related to :

-implemented ellipsis resolution algorithms that incorporate information
from more than one linguistic module

-appropriate generation of ellipsis

-studies of ellipsis in dialogue and the relation of ellipsis to
discourse
structure

-formalized treatments of ellipsis that incorporate semantic, pragmatic
and discourse structural information

-corpus studies of ellipitical phenomena

-elicitation tasks that give insights into interpretation or generation
of
elliptical phenomena