11.61, Calls: Computational Semantics, General Linguistics

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Subject: 11.61, Calls: Computational Semantics, General Linguistics

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Date:  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:39:50 +0100 (MET)
From:  Johan Bos <bos at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE>
Subject:  Computational Semantics:INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS, Germany

2)
Date:  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:44:11 -0000
From:  "Wiebke Brockhaus" <mflstwb at fs1.art.man.ac.uk>
Subject:  General Linguistics:Toulouse 2000, France

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:39:50 +0100 (MET)
From:  Johan Bos <bos at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE>
Subject:  Computational Semantics:INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS, Germany

                       CALL FOR PAPERS

                      second workshop on

              INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
                            ICoS-2

               Dagstuhl, Germany, July 29-30, 2000

          http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~kohlhase/event/icos2/

              (Submission deadline: April 15, 2000)

ABOUT ICoS
- --------
Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model
builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely
and easily available. A wide variety of new tools (statistical and
probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are
likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics. Most
importantly of all, computational semantics seems to have reached the
stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its
most pressing tasks - and there's a lot of interesting new work which
takes inferential issues seriously.

The Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS) intends to
bring researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science,and Logics together, in
order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural
language semantics.

ICoS-1 took place in Amsterdam on August 15, 1999 with an attendence
of over 50 researchers. A selection of the papers presented at ICoS-1
will be published in the Journal of Language and Computation.

ICoS-2 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational
semantics.

DATES
- ---
People who would like to submit a paper, system descriptions or who
would like to attend the workshop should consider the following dates:

      Submission Deadline: April 15, 2000.
      Notification: June 1, 2000.
      Final Versions: July 10, 2000.
      ICoS-2: July 29-30, 2000.
      (COLING: July 31 - August 4, 2000)

LOCATION
- ------
ICoS-2 will be held the International Conference And Research Center
for Computer Science SCHLOSS DAGSTUHL. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated in
the Saarland (Germany), allowing participants to reach the COLING
conference in Saarbruecken conveniently. Transport from Dagstuhl to
Saarbruecken will be organized on sunday evening or monday morning.

PROGRAM
- -----
There will be three  invited presentations (to be announced later).
Information about contributed talks and demo's will be made available in
due course.

The program committee for ICoS-2 consists of the following people:

	Nicholas Asher
	Peter Baumgartner
	Johan Bos  (Chair)
	Dick Crouch
	Nissim Francez
	Udo Hahn
	Ewan Klein
	Michael Kohlhase  (Chair)
	Alex Lascarides
	Dale Miller
	Christof Monz
	Joachim Niehren
	Steve Pulman
	Allan Ramsay
	Maarten de Rijke
	Michael Schiehlen
	Matthew Stone

SUBMISSIONS
- ---------
We ask you to limit the final version of your research paper to 15
pages at most (11pt, a4paper, one column). System descriptions should
be no longer than 6 pages (11pt, a4paper, one column).  To yield a
uniform layout for the workshop proceedings, we encourage you to use
LaTeX and use \bibiographystyle{alpha} for citations.

Note that the final version is due July 10, 2000.
Submissions can be sent to icos2 at ags.uni-sb.de.

In addition to the workshop proceedings, we plan to publish a special
issue of the Journal of Language and Computation devoted to
ICoS-2. Shortly after the workshop, authors will be contacted by the
editors for special issue, inviting them to contribute; we may ask you
to incorporate comments/discussions/...  arising during ICoS-2 into
your paper. Details on the publication schedule for the special issue
as well as formatting instructions will be announced at the workshop.

FURTHER INFORMATION
- -----------------
If you have any questions, please contact the local organizers
Johan Bos and Michael Kohlhase via icos2 at ags.uni-sb.de.

For actual information concerning ICoS-2 please consult

    http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~kohlhase/event/icos2/

-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:44:11 -0000
From:  "Wiebke Brockhaus" <mflstwb at fs1.art.man.ac.uk>
Subject:  General Linguistics:Toulouse 2000, France

Toulouse 2000

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference 7-9 JULY 2000
Linguistics and the English Language/Linguistique et langue anglaise
Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail (France)

The Département d'Etudes du Monde Anglophone of the Université
de Toulouse-Le Mirail is organizing a conference on linguistics and
the English language from Friday morning  7th July to Sunday
afternoon 9th July 2000. This conference is organized in partnership
with the University of California at Santa Barbara and the North-West
Centre for Linguistics in Great Britain (see
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/german/nwcl/).

The main fields covered are phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, language and cognition, énonciation,
translation theory, corpus linguistics and stylistics.

Full papers will be allocated 45 minutes (paper 35 minutes, questions:
10 minutes). There will also be a poster session. Please specify
whether you are submitting a full paper or a paper for the poster
session. Given the number of proposals already accepted, we may
have to transfer full papers to poster papers with the contributors'
agreement.

Coordinators: Jacques Durand/Dennis Philps

Proposals in the form of a 1 page summary should be submitted by
email before 1 April 2000 to :

Jacques Durand at the following address : ling2000 at univ-tlse2.fr)
with copy to Dennis Philps (philps at univ-tlse2.fr)

Summary programme
Vendredi 7 juillet 2000
9h-9h45 Accueil des participants
9h45-10h15 Ouverture du colloque
10h15-10h30 Pause café
10h30-11h30 Conférence Plénière I  (Francis Katamba)
11h30-12h15 Ateliers

12h30-14h Repas

14h-14h45 Ateliers
14h45-15h30 Ateliers
15h30-16h00 Pause café
16h00-16h45 Ateliers
16h45-17h45 Conférence Plénière II (Lionel Guierre)

19h Cocktail

Samedi 8 juillet 2000
9h-9h45 Ateliers
9h45-10h30 Ateliers
10h30-11h30 Posters et pause café
11h30-12h30 Conférence plénière III (Peter Trudgill)

12h-30-14h Repas

14h-14h45 Ateliers
14h45-15h30 Ateliers
15h30-16h00 Pause café
16h00-16h45 Ateliers
16h45-17h45 Conférence Plénière IV (Henri Adamczewski)

17h45 Cocktail
20h Banquet

Dimanche 9 juillet 2000

9h30-10h15 Ateliers
10h15-11h Ateliers
11h-11h30 Pause café
11h30-12h30 Conférence Plénière V (R. Langacker)

The conference is organized in the form of a series of parallel papers.
Among the parallel sessions, the following four will play a central role :
Phonology (Brockhaus, Carr, Durand),
Morphology (Katamba),
Syntax/Semantics (Lapaire, Rotgé, Philps),
Syntax (Rowlett)

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