12.1098, Calls: Textual Data, Natural Language Generation
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Subject: 12.1098, Calls: Textual Data, Natural Language Generation
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:59:35 +0200
From: Pascale Sébillot<Pascale.Sebillot at irisa.fr>
Subject: Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2002)
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:17:27 -0400
From: "Nicolas Nicolov" <nicolas at us.ibm.com>
Subject: Natural Language Generation (ACL NLG)
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:59:35 +0200
From: Pascale Sébillot<Pascale.Sebillot at irisa.fr>
Subject: Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2002)
CALL FOR PAPERS - JADT 2002 - March 13-15, 2002
6th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data
March 13-15, 2002
Palais du Grand Large
St-Malo / France
The International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data
provides a workshop-style forum to all scholars, statisticians, computer
scientists, linguists..., working in the vast field of textual data
analysis ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political
discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from
computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of
data to content analysis. Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier
(1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998) and Lausanne (2000), the 6th
International Conference will be held in Saint-Malo, France on march
13-15 2002.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2001
Notification: October 30, 2001
Camera ready papers: December 15, 2001
Conference: March 13-15, 2002
Website: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt
e-mail address: jadt2002 at irisa.fr
Submission:
Submissions should be limited to original work. All papers should
include background survey and/or reference to previous works.
Participants wishing to submit a paper should send to the organization
committee (via email jadt2002 at irisa.fr) a first version of their paper
for review by September 1, 2001, giving the following information:
- Name, affiliation and full postal address (fax and/or e-mail) of authors
- Title of the proposed paper with keywords
- A first version of the paper (12 pages max.) emphasizing the purpose
of the paper
- An abstract in the paper language
- An abstract in English (maximum 300 words)
- Bibliographical references
Topics:
Topics of interest of the conference concern the application of
statistical models and tools in the following domains:
- Exploratory Textual Data Analysis
- Textual Statistics
- Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions
- Natural Language Processing
- Stylometry
- Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis
- Textual Classification
- Text Corpora and Text Encoding
- Frequency Dictionaries
- Lemmatization, automatic categorization
- Information Retrieval
- Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis
Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors on October 30,
2001.
Final versions (camera-ready papers) should conform to the format that
will be provided to the authors (12 pages max.) and reach the committee
no later than December 15, 2001.
Accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the
participants at the start of the conference.
Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of
these languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian
All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract.
As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided.
Program Committee:
Ramon Alvarez, Univ. of Leon, Spain
Harald Baayen, Univ. of Nimègue, The Netherlands
Monica Bécue, Polyt. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain
Sergio Bolasco, Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy
Étienne Brunet, Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Annibale Elia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy
Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, France
Dominique Labbé, Univ. of Grenoble, France
Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST Paris, France (Président)
Alain Lelu Univ. of Franche Comté, France
Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, France
Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, France
Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. of Versailles SQY, France
André Salem, Univ. Paris 3, France
Pascale Sébillot, IRISA, France
Fiona Tweedie, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
Organization Committee:
Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr
Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr
Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr
organized by IRISA/INRIA Rennes
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:17:27 -0400
From: "Nicolas Nicolov" <nicolas at us.ibm.com>
Subject: Natural Language Generation (ACL NLG)
ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop
8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
6-7 July 2001
Toulouse, France
http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html
Sponsored by IBM, Endorsed by SIGGEN
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Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful
texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic
representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned
for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or
multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications,
and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the
automated production of language is associated with a large number of
highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses
a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include
content selection, text organization, the production of referring
expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well
as coordination with other media.
This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural
language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have
been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and
Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which
facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The
workshop will focus on the following topics:
* Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization)
There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between
application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG.
Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic
preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in
contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been
tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint
propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical
techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential
and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue.
Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a
more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale
applications such as summarization and machine translation.
* Differences in information organization between source and
presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these)
Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some
knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from
language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong
similarities in building the target representations: In the
overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements
in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and
embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often,
this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases
prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface
structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of
this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying
commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques.
Accepted papers on these and related topics will be scheduled for
presentation. The majority of the time will be devoted to
discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the
number of participants. We are considering organizing a panel. For the
focus topics above, we will contact a number of competent researchers
to address the topic from a specific perspective according to their
experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to prepare material
concrete examples for discussions.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland
Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
John Bateman Univ. of Bremen
Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi
Robert Dale Macquarie University
Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7
Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble
Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ.
Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki
Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex
Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California
Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh
Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico
Owen Rambow AT&T Research
Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen
Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin
Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS
SUBMISSIONS (papers, posters, demos)
Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to
the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers
should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column
format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/
We also invite poster and demo submissions (free format, up to 6 page, PDF).
The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the
following information (ASCII text):
# TITLE: <title of the paper>
# AUTHORS: <list of authors>
# EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence>
# KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...>
# TYPE: <paper> / <poster> / <demo>
# ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper>
Send your submission to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions *** 22 April 2001 ***
Notification of acceptance 6 May 2001
Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001
Registration deadline as ACL
Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001
REGISTRATION
The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The
registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop
proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and
indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop.
People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send
a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate,
work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for
discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the
organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly
interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should
be sent to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>.
MORE INFORMATION
Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop:
http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html
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