11.679, Calls: NLG systems/INLG, Terminology Resources/LREC

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Subject: 11.679, Calls: NLG systems/INLG, Terminology Resources/LREC

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1)
Date:  Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:24:42 +0100
From:  ralf.klabunde at t-online.de (Ralf Klabunde)
Subject:  Cognitive modeling/NLG systems (INLG'2000)

2)
Date:  Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:56:55 +0900
From:  KORTERM <korterm at korterm.kaist.ac.kr>
Subject:  Terminology Resources and Computation, Due: 31/March/2000

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

Date:  Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:24:42 +0100
From:  ralf.klabunde at t-online.de (Ralf Klabunde)
Subject:  Cognitive modeling/NLG systems (INLG'2000)



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Attention: workshop DEADLINE EXTENDED


           C A L L     F O R     P A P E R S


Why care for cognitive modeling when building NLG systems ?

	Workshop to be held in conjunction with INLG 2000
      International Conference on Natural Language Generation

 Workshop home page: http://pc03.idf.uni-heidelberg.de/~ralf/wkshop


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Natural Language Generation (NLG) exists now for many years as a subdiscipline
of computational linguistics. Many systems have been built with different
goals and from different perspectives. While some approaches are strongly
driven by engineering concerns, others are more concerned with insights in
human language production.

By organizing this workshop we pursue three goals:

(a) to show that cognitive and engineering approaches, rather then being
    mutually exclusive, are highly complementary;
(b) to identify some of the loci where the human factor should be taken into
    account;
(c) to discuss then what methods could be used in order to enhance current
    systems or architectures by means of cognitive models of human language
    generation.

While there is no doubt that cognitive modeling is useful for testing
theories of human behavior, it is probably also quite useful in
cognitive engineering, that is, as a complementary methodology for
building systems. If the engineering point of view is overemphasised,
designers will be more concerned with the machine than with their
final users: people. In order to build truly user-friendly
NL-generators, i.e. systems which adapt themselves to users rather
than the other way around, we need a deeper understanding of the
knowledge and the processes that people use when producing
language. These kinds of insights can profitably be used when building
systems, especially if they are meant to be used by people.

At present, we observe a strong tendency towards an engineering
approach. While many researchers in the field have based their systems
on empirical research, their approach still remains more motivated by
engineering considerations (efficiency) then by psycho-linguistic
factors (the problems people face).  Yet we do believe, that
integrating the human factor into the engineering approach would
greatly enhance the overall quality (adequacy, flexibility, scope) of
the existing systems.

To approach these goals, the workshop invites full papers that deal with
any aspect of the following topics:

-       ARCHITECTURE (flexibility, decomposition and control of the process)
-       CONTENT DETERMINATION / CONCEPTUALIZATION
-       NATURE OF THE INPUT (proximity to language)
-       OUTLINE PLANNING
-       NP-GENERATION (the problem of reference)
-       LEXICAL ACCESS

For more information on the workshop and its topics have a look at the
workshop homepage.


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Gerard Kempen, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
kempen at rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl

Ralf Klabunde, University of Heidelberg, Germany (Chair)
klabunde at novell1.gs.uni-heidelberg.de

Koenraad de Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway
deSmedt at hf.uib.no	

Michael Zock, LIMSI - CNRS, France
zock at limsi.fr


FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
Paper submissions should consist of full papers (maximum of 10 pages
including references, 12pt font size). Each submission should include
a separate title page providing the following information: the title,
a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full
address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including
phone, fax, and email.  Electronic submissions should be sent to Ralf
Klabunde until April 6. We strongly advise standard html, but
PostScript or PDF form is also possible.

Ralf Klabunde
University of Heidelberg
Center for Computational Linguistics
Karlstr. 2
69117 Heidelberg, Germany

klabunde at novell1.gs.uni-heidelberg.de


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline:		April 6            
Notification of acceptance:		April 14
Final paper to workshop coordinator:    May   2         
Workshop:				June 12
INLG 2000:				June13 - June 16






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

Date:  Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:56:55 +0900
From:  KORTERM <korterm at korterm.kaist.ac.kr>
Subject:  Terminology Resources and Computation, Due: 31/March/2000


* The terminology resources and computation workshop's due date is 31/March. *

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       " Terminology Resources and Computation "

             Held in conjunction with the
2nd Int'l Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
                     (LREC 2000)

                     Athens, Greece
                    29th May 2000
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                -- Call for Papers --

          Paper submission due: March 31, 2000
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


In the knowledge society in 21st century, knowledge and information
have to be utilized by every person.
Terminology has to be one of language resources and their
application is extended from the language engineering application
like information retrieval, machine translation, to the
multi-lingual marketing of enterprise and the education in each
country. Terminology in each domain is growing up every day.
Information and Knowledge management needs the precise conceptual
definition of terminology and harmonization. The technical
processes for terminology study are as follows:

 - To extract terms and additional data from the real usage of
   corpus automatically or semi-automatically,
 - To consistently define while harmonization with already existing
   terms,
 - To test in applications like information retrieval, machine
   translation, and language service,
 - To unify, standardize or harmonize by investigating the major
   usage of terms and social norms,
 - To synchronize by multi-lingual terminology database alignment,
 - To study how to distribute the multi-lingual terminology most
   efficiently,
 - To customize for each application and for each user,
 - To collaborate with terminology organizations at regional and
   international levels.

Papers are solicited in the area of the terminology study, the
current state-of-art in terminology databank, computational method
of terminology extraction, application of terminology, thesaurus,
ontology, and languages in special domain, etc.


## Method of submission ##

Papers should not contain more than 2000 words. The title page must
contain the title of the paper, author information (Full name,
Full address, Telephone number, Fax number, E-mail), paper length
in words, and up to 5 keywords paired with English and your mother
language. The main pages should not contain the author information.

The authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their
papers (ps, rtf, or pdf) or three hard copies.

The final version should not be longer than 4,000 words.
Instructions for formatting and presentation of the final version
will be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance.

Electronic submissions should be made to
      wtrc at korterm.kaist.ac.kr

Three hard copies of paper must be sent directly to the following
address:

   Prof. Key-Sun Choi (WTRC2000 Submission)
   Divsion of Computer Science
   Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
   KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
   373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu Taejon 305-701 Korea
   TEL +82-42-869-3565
   FAX +82-42-867-3565


## Important dates ##

      Paper submission due: 31/Mar/2000

      Acceptance notice: 15/Apr/2000

      Camera-ready copy: 1/May/2000



## Program committee ##

 . Christian Galinski, InfoTerm, Vienna, Austria (Chair)
 . Key-Sun Choi, Korterm, KAIST, Taejon, Korea (Associate-Chair)
 . Qing Fang, CNIS (China National Institute of Standardization),
   Beijing, China
 . Yuzuru Fujiwara, Japan Terminology Association,Tokyo, Japan
 . Kaguera Kyo, NACSIS, Tokyo, Japan
 . Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
 . Hava?rd Hjulstad, RTT (Nowegian Council for Technical
   Terminology), Oslo, Norway
 . Klaus-Dirk Schmitz, University of Applied Sciences Cologne,
   Koeln, Germany
 . Takehiro Sioda, NHK, Tokyo, Japan
 . Sue-Ellen Wright, Kent State University, Ohio, USA





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