7.713, Calls: Information Retrieval, Computational Processing

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-713. Mon May 20 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  152
 
Subject: 7.713, Calls: Information Retrieval, Computational Processing
 
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Date:  Fri, 17 May 1996 11:55:40 +0200
From:  Gregory.Grefenstette at Grenoble.RXRC.Xerox.com (Gregory Grefenstette)
Subject:  Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop
 
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Date:  Fri, 17 May 1996 14:48:27 +0300
From:  laura at lserver.cits.br (Laura Sanchez Garcia)
Subject:  SECOND WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING
 
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Date:  Fri, 17 May 1996 11:55:40 +0200
From:  Gregory.Grefenstette at Grenoble.RXRC.Xerox.com (Gregory Grefenstette)
Subject:  Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop
 
 
2nd Call for Participation
SIGIR'96 Workshop on
Cross-Linguistic Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop
 
August 22, 1996
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland
 
Workshop Description
 
As more and more information sources are becoming available
on the Web, the portion of internationally available
non-English text is slowing growing, and surely the numbers
of non-English speaking users is growing much faster. The
problem of accessing unrestricted information with queries
expressed in a language different from the source language
of the documents will become more widespread. This workshop
aims to bring together researchers working on this problem
of cross-linguistic multilingual information retrieval.
 
 
We invite papers describing implementations of
cross-linguistic retrieval; use of bilingual dictionaries,
of parallel corpora, or of non-parallel comparable bilingual
corpora applied to the retrieval problem; or providing
answers to any of the following questions: Does automatic
translation solve the problem?  Are word-to-word
correspondances sufficient? How should ambiguity in
translation be dealt with?  What kind of user interaction
can help resolve ambiguities? How can test collections be
built for multilingual information retrieval? How can
retrieved documents in different languages be scored and
ranked in a comparable fashion? What unique features are
required by multilingual user interfaces?  What can be
learned from four decades of machine translation for the
cross-linguistic retrieval problem?
 
Workshop format
 
A limited number of papers will be accepted for
presentation.  Accepted papers will be alloted a 20-30
minute presentation followed by 20-30 minutes of questions
and discussion.
 
Submission requirements
 
Extended abstracts (max 5 pages) in plain ascii should be
e-mailed to
 
    grefen at xerox.fr
 
Final version: For the final version to be distributed to
workshop participants, a camera-ready uuencoded postscript
file will be necessary.
 
Dates:
 
Submission Deadline: June 7, 1996
Notification Date: July 1, 1996
Full paper due: July 22, 1996
Workshop date: Aug 22, 1996
 
 
Organizing Committee
 
 
Chair:  Gregory Grefenstette
        Rank Xerox Research Centre
 
Members:
 
       Paraic Sheridan
       Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
 
       Alan Smeaton
       Dublin City University
 
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Date:  Fri, 17 May 1996 14:48:27 +0300
From:  laura at lserver.cits.br (Laura Sanchez Garcia)
Subject:  SECOND WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING
 
			SBIA'96
 
	SECOND WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING
                OF WRITTEN AND SPOKEN PORTUGUESE
 
                    Second Call for Papers
 
The Second Workshop on Computational Processing of Written
and Spoken Portuguese will be held in Curitiba, Brazil, on
the 22nd October, 1996.  The workshop will be held in
conjunction with SBIA'96 (Brazilian Symposium of Artificial
Intelligence), taking place at the same venue from October
23 to 25.
 
The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for NLP
researchers working on the Portuguese language to
disseminate their current work, exchange ideas and explore
possibilities for collaboration and sharing of resources.
	
 
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General Information and Deadlines: http://www.cits.br/pcp
 
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