11.626, Calls: Corpora and NLP, Evolution of Language
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:28:36 +0100
From: Lamia Hadrich Belguith <l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn>
Subject: "Corpora and NLP" SESSION/ACIDCA'2000 International Conference
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:23:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad at coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Evolution of Language Conference Paris 2-6 April
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:28:36 +0100
From: Lamia Hadrich Belguith <l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn>
Subject: "Corpora and NLP" SESSION/ACIDCA'2000 International Conference
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
"Corpora and NLP" SESSION of
ACIDCA'2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
http://www.chez.com/acidca2000
Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000
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Organised by:
University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)
Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)
Supported by:
Minstry of Higher Education
Ministry of Tourism, Leisure and Handicrafts
Ministry of Communications
State Secretary of Scientific Research and Technology
Sfax Ville and Monastir Ville
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
European Language Resources Assocition
Sponsored by :
Groupe Affes
POULINA
IDERYET
Mac UNIVERS
POINT/POINT
IMPRIMERIE RELIURE D'ART
OMEGA
ACADEMIC PRESS
Session Program:
Wednesday 22, March 2000
9:00 am - 9:30 am, Opening
9:30 am - 10:30 am, Plenary Lecture 1
"From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words From
Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions",
by L.A. Zadeh (USA)
10:30 am - 12:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
12:30 am - 2:30 pm, Lunch
2:30 - 3:30 pm, Session NLP-1 : Morphosyntactic Analysis
Chairs: Pieter Seuren (The Netherlands), Lamia H. Belguith (Tunisia)
1. "Morphosyntactic Specifiers to be Associated to Arabic Lexical
Entries-Methodological and Theoretical Aspects", by Joseph Dichy
(France)
2. "An Efficient Arabic Morphological Analysis Technique
for Information Retrieval Systems", by Imed A. Al sughaiyer
and Ibrahim A. Al kharashi (Saudi Arabia )
3. "Chunking, marking and searching a morphosyntactically
annotated corpus for French", by Lionel Clément and Alexandra Kinyon
(France)
3:30 - 4:00 pm, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
4:00 - 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP- KL1 :
"Handling texts and corpuses in Ariane-G5, a complete environment
for multilingual MT", by Christian Boitet (France).
Chairs: Ruslan Mitkov (UK) and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia)
5:00 - 6:00 pm, Session NLP-2 : Exploitation of Corpora
1. "Exploring Annotated Arabic Corpora, Preliminary Results",
by Mark Van Mol (Belgium)
2. "On the Complexity of Queries for Structurally Annotated
Linguistic Data", by Laura Kallmeyer (Germany)
3. "How to Improve Descriptive Texts Generation thanks to Corpus
Analyses", by Laurence Balicco and Stéphanie Pouchot (France)
6:00 - 7:00 pm, Free Activity
7:00 pm, Monastir City Reception
Thursday 23, March 2000
8:00 - 9:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP- KL2 :
"Automatic Extraction of information from textual data", by J.-P.
Descles (France)
9:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-3-A: Text analysis and syntax
Chairs: Jean-Guy Meunier (Canada) and Seham El Kareh (Egypt)
1. "Text Analysis as a Prerequisite for building Adequate
Text Knowledge Bases", by Udo Hahn and Martin Romacker (Germany)
2. "Basic Structures of Modern Standard Arabic Syntax in
terms of Functions and Categories", by Everhard Ditters (The
Netherlands)
3. "Towards a more Efficient Linguistic Recovery of
Handwriting Recognition", by Chafik Aloulou,
Lamia Hadrich Belguith and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia)
9:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-3-B: Anaphora resolution
Chairs: Dan Tufis (Romania) & Key-Sun Choi (Korea)
1. "Dialogue Structure as a Preference in Anaphora Resolution
Systems", by Patricio Martinez-Barco (Spain).
2. "Semantic Compatibility Techniques for Anaphora Resolution",
by Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Jesus Peral and Armando Suarez (Spain)
3. ""VASISTH" an Anaphora Resolution System for Indian Languages",
by Sobha L, B. N. Patnaik (India)
10:00 - 10:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
10:30 - 11:30 am, Session NLP-4-A (enlver la lettre "A"):
Term extraction and automatic abstracting
Chairs: Udo Hahn (Germany), Maria Teresa Pazienza (Italy)
1. "Automatic Text Extraction Based on Classification of
Extract's Population", by Maher Jaoua and
Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia)
2. "A Hybrid Technique for Automatic Term Extraction",
by Byron Georgantopoulos and Stelios Piperidis (Greece)
3. "An extraction method for text summarisation",
by Guillermo Moncecchi and Juan José Prada (Uruguay).
11:30 am - 12:30 am, Plenary Lecture 2
"Categorial and Mathematical classification in Natural
Language Processing", by J.G. Meunier (Canada)
12:30 am - 2:30 pm, Lunch
2:30 - 3:30 pm, Session NLP-5 : Tagging
Chairs: Joseph Dichy (France), Hanene Ben Abdallah (Tunisia)
1. "Evaluating POS tagging under sub-optimal conditions. Or: Does
meticulousness pay ?", by Sandra Kübler and Andreas Wagner (Germany)
2. "An Arabic Interactive Multi-feature POS Tagger", by Seham El-Kareh
and Sameh Al Ansary (Egypt)
3. "High Accuracy Tagging with Large Tagsets", by Dan Tufis (Romania)
3:30 - 4:00 pm, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
4:00 - 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP-KL3:
"An Extended Boolean Algebra for PPC3", by Pieter A.M Seuren (The
Netherlands)
Chairs: Christian Boitet (France), Jean-Pierre Descles (France)
5:00 - 6:20 pm, Session NLP-6 : Text segmentation and Lexis
1. "A hybrid method for clause splitting in unrestricted English texts",
by Costantin
Orasan (UK)
2. "Sub-Technical Lexis in English : A Case Study Using Corpus
Linguistics", by M. Bahloul and G. Greenall (USA)
3. "Normalisation of Association Measures for Multiword Lexical Unit
Extraction", by Gaël Dias, José Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Portugal) and
Sylvie Guilloré (France).
4. "Word Alignment for Different Language Family Based on Linguistic
Knowledge", by Jin-Xia Huang (China) and Key-Sun Choi (Korea)
6:20 - 8:00 pm, Free Activity
8:00 pm, Conference Dinner
Friday 24, March 2000
8:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-7 : NLP Tools
Chairs: Everhard Ditters (The Netherlands), Fumiyo Fukumoto (Japan)
1. "IBI: A NLP Approach to Question Answering Systems",
by Jose L. Vicedo and Antonio Ferrandez (Spain)
2. "Automatic Annotation of HTML Documents to Improve the Web
Research Pertinence", Omar Mazhoud and Lamia Hadrich Belguith (Tunisia)
3. "Correlating Newswire Articles with TV News Story using
Features of TV News", by Yoshimi Suzuki and Yoshihiro Sekiguchi (Japan)
4. "Softening Fuzzy Knowledge Representation Tool with the
Learning of New Words in Natural Language ", by Mohamed-Nazih Omri
(Tunisia)
5. "A Logic Programming Approach to Word Expert Engineering", by
Torbjörn
Lager (Sweden)
10:00 - 10:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
10:30 - 11:30 am, Session NLP-8 :
Chairs: Ruslan Mitkov (UK), Belguith lamia(Tunisia)
1. "Resolving Overt Pronouns in Japanese using Hierarchical
VP Structures" by Fumiyo Fukumoto, Hiroyasu Yamada (Japan) and Ruslan
Mitkov (UK)
2. "Identification and Classification of Italian Complex
Proper Names", by Maria Teresa Pazienza and Michele Vindigni (Italy)
3. "Definite Description Resolution in Spanish" by Rafael Munoz and
Antonio Ferrandez (Spain)
11:30 - 12:30 am, Round Table & Closing
12:30 am- 2:30 pm, Lunch
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Honorary Chairs
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Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT)-Tunisia
Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley
General Chairs
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Adel Alimi,
National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)
Lamia Belguith Hadrich,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)
Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)
Programme Committee
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Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair
Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom)
Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)
Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, Paris)
Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis)
Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris)
Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon)
Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen)
Fumiyo Fukumoto (University of Yamanashi)
Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble)
Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York)
Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal)
Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh)
Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris)
Manolo Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain)
Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma, Tor Vergata)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille)
Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei)
Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)
Agnes Tutin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill)
Jacques Virbel (IRIT, France)
Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki)
Additional Reviewers
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Amit Bagga (USA)
Costantin Orasan (UK)
Catalina Barbu (UK)
Hanene Ben Abdallah (Tunisia)
Kalina Bontcheva (UK)
Lamia Labed (Tunisia)
Richard Evans (UK)
Rim Faiz (Tunisia)
Wahiba ben Abdessalem (Tunisia)
Ahmed Hadj Kacem (Tunisia)
Local Organising Committee
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Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs
H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax),
Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax),
Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes),
Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax),
Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax),
Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax),
Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis),
Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)
Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)
International Organising Committee
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Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray
(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs
Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan),
Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),
Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France),
Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University),
Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA)
Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA)
Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France)
Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain)
For any Information
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Please contact :
Lamia Belguith
e-mail: l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn
Mobile : (216) 9 411 060
Fax : (216) 4 279 139
Web site of the conference : http://www.chez.com/acidca2000
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:23:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad at coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Evolution of Language Conference Paris 2-6 April
****** Evolution of Language Conference ******
Paris, 3-6 April
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
This is the third conference in a series concerned with the
evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we
seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives
with those of modern Darwinism.
The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists,
anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists,
neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with the
question of the origin and evolution of language.
All useful information (scientific programme, registration information)
can be found at the following address:
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang
Scientific programme:
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/program.html
Registration information:
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/registration.html
You may send a message to:
evolang-registration at cwtfrance.com
or write to
Wagonlit Evenements, 16, Rue Ballu - 75009 Paris, France
We invite you to consider sending your registration before March 15 to
benefit from reduced rates (155 Euros, instead of 230 Euros after this
date). The number of available places is limited, and priority will be
given to early registrations.
Jean-Louis Dessalles
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Conference : The Evolution of Language
April 3rd - 6th , 2000
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
Paris - France
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang
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The 4 target article whose abstracts appear below have recently
appeared in PSYCOLOQUY, a refereed online journal of Open Peer
Commentary sponsored by the American Psychological Association.
OPEN PEER COMMENTARY on these target article is now invited.
Qualified professional biobehavioural, neural or cognitive
scientists should consult PSYCOLOQUY's Websites or send email
(below) for Instructions if not familiar with format or acceptance
criteria for commentaries (all submissions are refereed).
To submit articles or to seek information:
EMAIL: psyc at pucc.princeton.edu
URLs: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc
1.
Place, Ullin T. (2000) The Role of the gand in the Evolution of
Language. Psycoloquy: 11(007) Language Gesture (1)
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.007
THE ROLE OF THE HAND IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
Target Article on Language Origins
Ullin T. Place
School of Philosophy
University of Leeds
School of Psychology
University of Wales,
Bangor, Wales
UK
ABSTRACT: This target article has four sections. Section I sets
out four principles which should guide any attempt to reconstruct
the evolution of an existing biological characteristic. Section II
sets out thirteen principles specific to a reconstruction of the
evolution of language. Section III sets out eleven pieces of
evidence for the view that vocal language must have been preceded
by an earlier language of gesture. Based on those principles and
evidence, Section IV sets out seven proposed stages in the process
whereby language evolved: (1) the use of mimed movement to indicate
an action to be performed, (2) the development of referential
pointing which, when combined with mimed movement, leads to a
language of gesture, (3) the development of vocalisation, initially
as a way of imitating the calls of animals, (4) counting on the
fingers leading into (5) the development of symbolic as distinct
from iconic representation, (6) the introduction of the practice of
question and answer, and (7) the emergence of syntax as a way of
disambiguating utterances that can otherwise be disambiguated only
by gesture.
2.
Crow, Timothy J. (2000) Did Homo Sapiens Speciate on the y
Chromosome?. Psycoloquy: 11(001) Language sex Chromosomes (1)
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?11.001
DID HOMO SAPIENS SPECIATE ON THE Y CHROMOSOME?
Target Article on Language-Sex-Chromosomes
Timothy J. Crow
POWIC
University of Oxford
Department of Psychiatry
Warneford Hospital
Oxford OX3 7JX
United Kingdom
tim.crow at psychiatry.oxford.ac.uk
ABSTRACT: It is hypothesised that the critical change (a
"saltation") in the transition from a precursor hominid to modern
Homo sapiens occurred in a gene for cerebral lateralisation located
on the Y chromosome in a block of sequences that had earlier
transposed from the X. Sexual selection acting upon an X-Y
homologous gene to determine the relative rates of development of
the hemispheres across the antero-posterior axis ("cerebral
torque") allowed language to evolve as a species-specific mate
recognition system. Human evolution may exemplify a general role
for sex chromosomal change in speciation events in sexually
reproducing organisms.
3.
Burling, Robbins (1999) The Cognitive Prerequisites for Language.
Psycoloquy: 10(032) Language Prerequisites (1)
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.032
THE COGNITIVE PREREQUISITES FOR LANGUAGE
Target Article on Language-Prerequisites
Robbins Burling
Department of Anthropology
1020 LSA Building
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109 USA
rburling at umich.edu
ABSTRACT: The first use of words by our early ancestors probably
depended on four cognitive capacities: A rich conceptual
understanding of the world around us; the ability to use and
understand motivated signs, both icons and indices; the ability to
imitate; the ability to infer the referential intentions of others.
The latter three capacities are rare or absent in nonprimate
mammals, but incipient in apes and well developed in modern humans.
Before early humans could have begun to use words these capacities
would have needed further development than is found in modern apes.
It is not clear why selection favoured these skills more strongly
in our ancestors than in the ancestors of apes.
4.
Bichakjian, Bernard H. (1999) Language Evolution and the Complexity
Criterion. Psycoloquy: 10(033) Language Complexity (1)
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.033
LANGUAGE EVOLUTION AND THE COMPLEXITY CRITERION
Target Article on Language-Complexity
Bernard H. Bichakjian
Department of French
University of Nijmegen,
The Netherlands
Bichakjian at let.kun.nl
http://welcome.to/bichakjian
ABSTRACT: Though it is increasingly accepted in the behavioral
sciences, the evolutionary approach is still meeting resistance in
linguistics. Linguists generally cling to the idea that alternative
linguistic features are simply gratuitous variants of one another,
while the advocates of innate grammars, who make room for evolution
as a biological process, exclude the evolution of languages. The
rationale given is that today's languages are all complex systems.
This argument is based on the failure to distinguish between
complexities of form and function. The proper analysis reveals
instead that linguistic features have consistently decreased their
material complexity, while increasing their functionality. A
systematic historical survey will show instead that languages have
evolved and linguistic features have developed along a Darwinian
line.
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