9.984, Calls: Multi-lingual Info Retrieval, Diagrams

Tue Jun 30 12:11:01 UTC 1998

LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-984. Tue Jun 30 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.984, Calls: Multi-lingual Info Retrieval, Diagrams

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Date:  Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:21:12 -0400
From:  "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Subject:  COLING/ACL workshop on Multi-lingual Information Retrieval

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Date:  Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:25:55 +0100
From:  Peter Cheng <peter.cheng at nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject:  Thinking with Diagrams 1998

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Date:  Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:21:12 -0400
From:  "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Subject:  COLING/ACL workshop on Multi-lingual Information Retrieval

                        Coling-ACL '98 Workshop

                   Multilingual Information Management:
                   Current Levels and Future Abilities

                           August 16, 1998
                       Universiti de Montrial
                           Montrial/Canada

The Coling/ACL workshop on Multilingual Information Management is a
follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in conjunction with the
First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in
Granada, Spain (May 1998), at which an international panel of invited
experts considered these questions in an attempt to identify the most
effective future directions of computational linguistics
research--especially in the context of the need to handle
multi-lingual and multi-modal information. The follow-on workshop is
intended to open the discussion to the computational linguistics
community as a whole.

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The development of natural language applications which handle
multi-lingual and multi-modal information is the next major challenge
facing the field of computational linguistics. Over the past 50 years,
a variety of language-related capabilities has been developed in areas
such as machine translation, information retrieval, and speech
recognition, together with core capabilities such as information
extraction, summarization, parsing, generation, multimedia planning
and integration, statistics-based methods, ontologies, lexicon
construction and lexical representations, and grammar. The next few
years will require the extension of these technologies to encompass
multi-lingual and multi-modal information.

Extending current technologies will require integration of the various
capabilities into multi-functional natural language systems. However,
there is today no clear vision of how these technologies could or
should be assembled into a coherent framework. What would be involved
in connecting a speech recognition system to an information retrieval
engine, and then using machine translation and summarization software
to process the retrieved text? How can traditional parsing and
generation be enhanced with statistical techniques? What would be the
effect of carefully crafted lexicons on traditional information
retrieval?

The workshop will be organized as a series of panels reporting on the
outcome of discussions in the Granada workshop (a report summarizing
the discussions at Granada will be available before the Coling-ACL
workshop). Ample time for discussion will be included. The discussion
will focus on the following fundamental questions:

    1.What is the current level of capability in each of the major
      areas of the field dealing with language and related media of
      human communication?
    2.How can (some of) these functions be integrated in the near
      future, and what kind of systems will result?
    3.What are the major considerations for extending these functions
      to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information,
      particularly in integrated systems of the type envisioned in (2)?

In particular, we will consider these questions in relation to the
following areas:

 o multi-lingual resources (lexicons, ontologies, corpora, etc.)
 o information retrieval, especially cross-lingual and cross-modal
 o machine translation
 o automated (cross-lingual) summarization and information extraction
 o multimedia communication, in conjunction with text
 o evaluation and assessment techniques for each of these areas
 o methods and techniques (both statistics-based and
   linguistics-based)
 o parsing, generation, information acquisition, etc.
 o speech recognition and synthesis
 o language and speaker identification and speech translation

Program Committee

       Khalid Choukri, European Languages Resource Association
       Charles Fillmore, University of California Berkeley, USA
       Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
       Ulrich Heid, University of Stuttgart, Germany
       Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, USA
       Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
       Mun Kew Leong, National University of Singapore
       Joseph Mariani, LIMSI/CNRS, France
       Mark Maybury, The Mitre Corporation, USA
       Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, USA
       Akitoshi Okumura, NEC, Japan
       Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania, USA
       James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA
       Peter Schaueble, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
       Oliviero Stock, IRST, Italy
       Felisa Verdejo, UNED, Spain
       Piek Vossen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
       Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI, Germany
       Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy

Organizers

Bob Frederking
Center for Machine Translation
Carnegie-Mellon University
Schenley Park
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Tel: (+1 412) 268-6656
Fax: (+1 412) 268-6298
Email: ref at nl.cs.cmu.edu

Eduard Hovy
Information Sciences Institute
of the University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
Tel: (+1 310) 822-1511
Fax: (+1 310) 823-6714
Email: hovy at isi.edu

Nancy Ide
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA
Tel: (+1 914) 437 5988
Fax: (+1 914) 437 7498
E-mail: ide at cs.vassar.edu

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Date:  Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:25:55 +0100
From:  Peter Cheng <peter.cheng at nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject:  Thinking with Diagrams 1998

TwD98

Thinking with Diagrams: Is there a Science of Diagrams?

Workshop call for participation
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
22-23 August 1998

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 22nd July 1998

Diagrams  are essential in most fields of human activity.
There  is substantial interest in diagrams and their  use
in  many  academic disciplines for the potential benefits
they may confer on a wide range of tasks. Are we now in a
position  to  claim that we have a science  of  diagrams?
That is, a science which takes the nature of diagrams and
their use as the central phenomena of interest. A science
which  is  attempting to understand how  diagrams  differ
from other representational systems and trying to develop
principles   for   the  design  of  effective   graphical
representations. A science which considers  how  diagrams
communicate  information and how they are used  to  solve
problems.  If  we  have  a  science  of  diagrams  it  is
certainly    constituted   from   multiple   disciplines,
including:   cognitive  science,  psychology,  artificial
intelligence, logic, mathematics, and others.

If  there  is  a  science of diagrams,  then  like  other
sciences,  there  is  an  applications  or  "engineering"
discipline    that   exists   alongside   the    science.
Applications  and  engineering  provide  tests   of   the
theories  and  principles discovered by the  science  and
extend  the  scope  of the phenomena  to  be  studied  by
generating new uses of diagrams, new media for presenting
diagrams,  or novel classes of diagram. This applications
and  engineering  side of the science  of  diagrams  also
comprises  multiple  disciplines,  including:  education,
architecture,   computer  science,  mathematics,   human-
computer  interaction,  knowledge  acquisition,   graphic
design,  engineering,  history  of  science,  statistics,
medicine, biology, and others.

The  theme  of  TwD98  will be - Is there  a  Science  of
Diagrams?  By providing a forum for the presentation  and
discussion  of quality research on diagrams  and  diagram
use,  we  not only try to answer this question, but  more
importantly  attempt  draw together  the  many  different
approaches, theories and results that we have in the many
diverse disciplines that are concerned with diagrams. The
question  provides  a  vehicle on  which  to  attempt  to
integrate  what  is currently a disparate and  disordered
set  of  activities  into a more  rational  and  coherent
programme  of research. Is there any common core  to  the
activities which provides a basis for the claim that  the
TwD community could constitute a science?

More  information and the workshop registration form  can
be found at the Thinking with Diagrams home page:

http://www.aber.ac.uk/~plo/TwD98

or contact:

Patrick Olivier (plo at aber.ac.uk)
Thinking with Diagrams (TwD98)
Department of Computer Science
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Ceredigion, UK SY23 3DB
Tel: +44 1970 622424 / Fax: +44 1970 622455

The  TwD98 programme will include: (i) technical sessions
for  the  presentations of papers; (ii) invited talks  on
issues relevant to the TwD community as a whole; (iii)  a
panel session on the theme of TwD98.

Invited Presentations:

1.  Arthur I Miller
    University College London
    "Visual Representations of Nature"

2.  Aaron Sloman
    University of Birmingham
    "Diagrams in the mind?"

3.  Clive Richards,
    School of  Art  and Design, Coventry University
    "Diagrammatics"