11.99, Calls: Tabulation/Comp Ling, Natural Lang Processing

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Subject: 11.99, Calls: Tabulation/Comp Ling, Natural Lang Processing

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Date:  Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:11:21 +0100
From:  "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es>
Subject:  TAPD2000, 2nd Workshop on Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction

2)
Date:  Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:32:52 +0100
From:  "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es>
Subject:  SEPLN 2000, XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural   Language Processing

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

Date:  Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:11:21 +0100
From:  "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es>
Subject:  TAPD2000, 2nd Workshop on Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction



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                              TAPD2000
        2nd Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction'
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                            September 2000
                             Vigo, Spain

                  Sponsored by University of Vigo

             WEB page: http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/


Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France) next TAPD event will be held in
Vigo (Spain), in September, 2000.

MOTIVATIONS:

Tabulation techniques are becoming a common way to deal with highly
redundant computations occurring, for instance, in Natural Language
Processing, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, or Abstract
Interpretation, and related to phenomena such as ambiguity,
non-determinism or domain ordering.

Different approaches, including for example Chart Parsing, Magic-Set
rewriting, Memoization, and Dynamic Programming, have been proposed
whose key idea is to keep traces of computations to achieve
computation sharing and loop detection. In addition, tabulation also
offers more flexibility to investigate new parsing or proof strategies
and to represent ambiguity by shared structures (Shared Proof or Parse
Forest).

The first objective of this workshop is to compare and discuss these
different approaches. The second objective is to present tabulation
and tabular systems to potential users in different application
areas. One major area of application is Natural Language Processing,
where tabulation has been known for a long time (CKY, Earley, chart
parsing). However, sophisticated tabulation techniques are required
for the more and more complex grammatical formalisms now used in NLP
(unification, constraints, structural complexity). Contributions in
other areas, such as picture parsing, genome analysis, or complete
deduction techniques, are also encouraged.

TOPICS (not exclusive):

 -- Tabulation Techniques:
    Chart Parsing, Tabling, Memoization, Dynamic Programming,
    Magic Set, Generic Fix-Point Algorithms
 -- Applications:
    Parsing, Generation, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases,
    Abstract Interpretation, Deduction in Knowledge Bases, Theorem Proving
 -- Static Analysis:
    Improving tabular evaluation
 -- Parsing or resolution strategies.
 -- Efficiency issues:
    Dealing with large tables (structure sharing, term indexing),
    Execution models, Exploiting the domain ordering (subsumption).
 -- Shared structures (parse or proof forest):
    Formal analysis, representation and processing.

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for
individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as
group discussions.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors are invited to submit before April 28 a 4-page position
paper or abstract concerning a theoretical contribution or a system to
be presented. Due to tight time constraints, submission and reviewing
will be handled exclusively electronically (LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or
ascii format). Submission should include the title, authors' names,
affiliations, addresses, and e-mail.

The submissions must be sent to David S. Warren (warren at cs.sunysb.edu) in
gziped encoded postscript.

SCHEDULE (tentative dates):

    Submission of contributions:            April 28, 2000
    Notification of acceptance:             June 1,   2000
    Final versions due:                     June 30,  2000

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:

  Davic S. Warren        -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  Francois Bry           -- Univ. Munich,                  Germany
  Eric de la Clergerie   -- INRIA,                         France
  Veronica Dahl          -- Univ. Simon Fraser,            Canada
  Manuel Hermenegildo    -- Univ. Polit. Madrid,           Spain
  Baudouin Le Charlier   -- Univ. Namur,                   Belgium
  Mark Jan Nederhof      -- Univ. Groningen,               NL
  Luis M. Pereira        -- Univ. Nova de Lisboa,          Portugal
  Martin Rajman          -- EPFL,                          Switzerland
  Domenico Sacca         -- Univ. della Calabria,          Italy
  Kostis Sagonas         -- Univ. Uppsala,                 Sweden
  David Shasha           -- Univ. New York,                US
  Terrance Swift         -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US
  Manuel Vilares         -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain
  David Weir             -- Univ. Sussex,                  UK

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR:

  Manuel Vilares         -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

  Miguel A. Alonso       -- Univ. Coruna,                  Spain
  Eric de la Clergerie   -- INRIA,                         France
  David Cabrero          -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain
  Victor M. Darriba      -- Univ. Coruna,                  Spain
  David Olivieri         -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain
  Francisco J. Ribadas   -- Univ. Coruna,                  Spain
  Leandro Rodriguez      -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain

ORGANISATION:

The organisation of the workshop is still subject to modification.
Up-to-date information will be provided on request and be available at

               http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/

For any information related to the organisation, please contact:

   E-mail: tapd-secret at ei.uvigo.es


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

Date:  Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:32:52 +0100
From:  "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es>
Subject:  SEPLN 2000, XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural   Language Processing


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                              SEPLN 2000
XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
- --------------------------------------------------------------------

                            September 2000
                             Vigo, Spain

                  Sponsored by Universidade de Vigo

           WEB Page: http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/



Following SEPLN'99 in Lleida (Spain), the next SEPLN event will be held in
Vigo (Spain), in September, 2000.

MOTIVATIONS

The motivation for this Conference is to provide researchers in the field of
Natural Language Processing a chance to present their recent work, to share
their experimental results, and to discuss a range of problems which must be
treated.  Moreover, for researchers not directly involved within the field
of natural language processing, presentations shall offer the opportunity
to realize the active state of the art research, together with present
applications and possibilities offered by this field.  Thus, an important
objective of this Conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and opinions
for future  basic research directions and to compare these ideas with the
actual needs of the society.


AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Linguistic, mathematic and psicolinguistic models of languages.
2. Corpus linguistics
3. Information extraction and retrieval
4. Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis
5. Computational lexicography
6. Monolingual and multilingual textual generation
7. Automatic translation
8. Speech synthesis and recognition
9. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse


PROJECTS AND DEMOS

The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of
projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral
presentations, some session may be reserved to this purpose.

For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information
must be included:
- Project title
- Funding institution
- Participant groups in the project
- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the director of the
  project.
- Abstract (2 pages maximum).
- If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be included,
  as indicated below.

For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory:

- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.
- Abstract (2 pages maximum).
- Time estimation for the whole presentation.

This information must be received by June 4, 2000.


CONFERENCE FORMAT

The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for
individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as
project an demos presentations and group discussions.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Authors are invited to submit a paper, before April 14, concerning a
theoretical contribution or a system to be presented. Submission and
paper reviews shall be handled exclusively electronically (PostScript or
PDF format).  Submission should include the title, authors' names,
affiliations, addresses, and e-mail.

The submissions must adhere to certain rules:

- They must include an abstract (150 word maximum).
- The proposed area of interest must be included.
- Maximum length is 3500 words, abstract included.
- Accepted papers must follow format rules that will be given in the
  conference web page
  (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/).

Submissions must be sent to sepln-submit at ei.uvigo.es


SCHEDULE (tentative)

- XVI SEPLN Conference: September 2000
- Submission of contributions: April 14, 2000
- Notification of acceptance: may 26, 2000
- Final versions due: June 30,2000
- Projects and demos submission: June 4, 2000
- Early registration: before July 14, 2000
- Late registration: after July 14, 2000


COMMITTEES

Program committee:

Joseba Abaitua                  Univ. de Deusto
Miguel A. Alonso Pardo          Univ. de A Coruña
Margarita Alonso Ramos          Univ. de A Coruña
Xabier Artola                   Univ. del País Vasco
Toni Badia                      Univ. Pompeu Fabra
Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez     Univ. Europea de Madrid
Ines Diz                        Centro Ramón Piñeiro
Carmen García Mateo             Univ. de Vigo
José Mª García-Miguel Gallego   Univ. de Vigo
Javier Gómez Guinovart          Univ. de Vigo
Jorge Graña Gil                 Univ. de A Coruña
Joaquim Llisterri               Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona
Manuel Palomar Sanz             Univ. de Alicante
M. Antonia Martí Antonín        Univ. de Barcelona
Lydia Moreno Boronat            Univ. Politécnica de Valencia
Guillermo Rojo Sanchez          Univ. de Santiago de Compostela
María Felisa Verdejo Maillo     UNED
Manuel Vilares Ferro            Univ de Vigo

Organizing Committee:

David Cabrero Souto             Univ. de Vigo
Víctor Darriba Bilbao           Univ. de A Coruña
Javier Gómez Guinovart          Univ. de Vigo
David Olivieri                  Univ. de Vigo
Javier Pérez Guerra             Univ. de Vigo
Francisco José Ribadas Pena     Univ. de A Coruña
Leandro Rodríguez Liñares       Univ. de Vigo


ORGANISATION

The organization of the workshop is still subject to modification.
Up-to-date information will be provided on request and be available at

                 http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/

For any information related to the organization, please contact:
   sepln-secret at ei.uvigo.es

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