13.855, Calls: Computational Ling, Natural Lang Processing
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Subject: 13.855, Calls: Computational Ling, Natural Lang Processing
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:49:02 -0800
From: "Deborah Coughlin" <deborahc at microsoft.com>
Subject: AMTA-2002 ***Updated submission guidelines*** - Call for Papers
2)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:22:53 -0500
From: Anna-Maria Di Sciullo <di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca>
Subject: call for papers
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:49:02 -0800
From: "Deborah Coughlin" <deborahc at microsoft.com>
Subject: AMTA-2002 ***Updated submission guidelines*** - Call for Papers
--- CALL FOR PAPERS ---
The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
*** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES HAVE CHANGED ***
*** SEE UPDATED GUIDELINES BELOW ***
AMTA-2002 Conference
Location: Tiburon, California
Dates: October 8-12, 2002
The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) is
pleased to announce its fifth biennial conference, planned for October
8-12, 2002, in Tiburon (near San Francisco), California.
CONFERENCE THEME: From Research to Real Users
Ever since the showdown between Empiricists and Rationalists a decade
ago at TMI-92, MT researchers have hotly pursued promising paradigms
for MT, including data-driven approaches (e.g., statistical,
example-based) and hybrids that integrate these with more traditional
rule-based components.
During the same period, commercial MT systems with standard transfer
architectures have evolved along a parallel and almost unrelated
track, increasing their coverage (primarily through manual update of
their lexicons, we assume) and achieving much broader acceptance and
usage, principally through the medium of the Internet. Web page
translators have become commonplace; a number of online translation
services have appeared, including in their offerings both raw and
post-edited MT; and large corporations have been turning increasingly
to MT to address the exigencies of global communication. Still, the
output of the transfer-based systems employed in this expansion
represents but a small drop in the ever-growing translation
marketplace bucket.
Now, 10 years later, we wonder if this mounting variety of MT users is
any better off, and if the promise of the research technologies is
being realized to any measurable degree. In this regard, we pose the
following questions:
Why aren't any current commercially available MT systems primarily
data-driven?
Do any commercially available systems integrate (or plan to integrate)
data-driven components?
Do data-driven systems have significant performance or quality issues?
Can such systems really provide better quality to users, or is their
main advantage one of fast, facilitated customization?
If any new MT technology could provide such benefits (somewhat higher
quality, or facilitated customization), would that be the key to more
widespread use of MT, or are there yet other more relevant unresolved
issues, such as system integration?
If better quality, customization, or system integration aren't the
answer, then what is it that users really need from MT in order for it
to be more useful to them?
We solicit participation on these and other topics related to the
research, development, and use of MT in the form of original papers,
demonstrations, workshops, tutorials, and panels. We invite all who
are interested in MT to participate, including developers,
researchers, end users, professional translators, managers, and
marketing experts. We especially invite users to share their
experiences, developers to describe their novel systems, managers and
marketers to talk about what is happening in the marketplace,
researchers to detail new capabilities or methods, and visionaries to
describe the future as they see it. We also welcome and encourage
participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations, AAMT in Asia
and EAMT in Europe.
INVITED SPEAKERS
We are pleased to announce that invited speakers for the conference
will include Yorick Wilks and Ken Church, both notable participants at
TMI-92, and Jaap van der Meer, former president of ALPNET. We
anticipate that the speakers will provide a sharp and stimulating
focus on the theme of the conference.
Further details regarding the conference, including a call for
Tutorial and Workshop proposals, may be found on the AMTA Web site at:
http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2002/
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Elliott Macklovitch, General Chair
Stephen D. Richardson, Program Chair
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Local Arrangements Chair
Bob Frederking, Workshops and Tutorials
Laurie Gerber, Exhibits Coordinator
*** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES HAVE CHANGED***
*** UPDATED GUIDELINES ARE PROVIDED BELOW ***
PAPER AND SYSTEM DESCRIPTION/DEMONSTRATION SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES
We are pleased to announce that the AMTA-2002 conference proceedings
will be published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
series by Springer-Verlag. (LNCS/LNAI series home page is located at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html)
It is therefore recommended that initial submissions to AMTA-2002
adhere as closely as possible to the formatting guidelines for authors
located at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html These
guidelines will need to be strictly adhered to for the final versions
of submissions that are accepted for publication in the
proceedings.
All submissions should be in English, and it is recommended that they
be prepared using Latex2e or Microsoft Word, per instructions at the
authors' web site given above (see site for details on using other
text processing systems). Once prepared, they should be submitted
electronically for review in one of the following three formats:
PDF (recommended)
PostScript
Microsoft Word
All submissions will be received and processed using the Conference
Management Toolkit (CMT), located at:
http://cmt.research.microsoft.com/AMTA2002.
Authors should follow the instructions at the CMT web site to
register, enter information about themselves and their paper, and
upload a copy of their paper in one of the acceptable formats by the
submission deadline.
Any questions regarding submissions or the use of this web site should
be directed in email to:
AMTA2002 at microsoft.com.
Important SUBMISSION DEADLINES are as follows:
Submissions uploaded at CMT web site: April 15, 2002 (Monday)
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2002 (Friday)
Final versions of papers due: July 15, 2002 (Monday)
At the CMT web site, authors will be asked to designate their
submissions for one of the three conference tracks listed
below. Again, initial submissions are expected to adhere as closely as
possible to the guidelines found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Information regarding
submission length and additional requirements is also provided below.
Conference tracks:
1. Theoretical papers: Unpublished papers describing original work on
all aspects of Machine Translation. Preference will be given to
papers that include concrete results and that address the theme of
moving MT research technology (including, but not limited to,
data-driven systems or components) into real use. Papers may not be
longer than 10 pages.
2. User studies: Studies of users' experiences with implementing MT or
testing its applicability to some task. Of particular interest are
experiences deploying new or advanced MT technology in a production
context. Users, managers, and sales/marketing professionals are
especially welcome to submit. Studies may not be longer than 8 pages.
3. System descriptions with optional system demonstrations: Approx. 25
minutes will be allocated per system description/demo. Descriptions
may not be longer than 4 pages. The goal of system descriptions is to
educate participants about the features and functionality of current
and emerging MT systems. Sales presentations are not appropriate. The
following additional information should be provided in each system
description;
- name and contact information of system builder
- system category (research, pre-market prototype, or
commercially available)
- system characteristics (e.g., languages, domains,
integration/networking features)
If a system demonstration is included, please provide the following
information:
- hardware platform and operating system
- name and contact information of system operations specialist
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:22:53 -0500
From: Anna-Maria Di Sciullo <di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca>
Subject: call for papers
Call for papers for
The Second Conference of the Federation on Natural Language Processing
Language, Brain and Computation
which will be held at the University of Venice, October 3-5, 2002.
Description :
Restrictions observed in a great variety of languages on the
composition, displacement and dependencies of linguistic elements
indicate that Universal Grammar includes abstract relations whose
investigation is crucial to the formulation of a fine grained
explanatory theory of human mind/brain. The investigation of natural
language configurations contributes to our understanding of what is
common to all languages, but not immediately accessible to human
perception, the abstract relations inherent to Universal
Grammar/Language Faculty. With configurations as part of the presumed
Universal Grammar vocabulary, a number of phenomena can be analyzed
from a new perspective. Notwithstanding the progress achieved,
questions still remain with respect to the definition of
grammar-specific relations, their role in the derivations, and their
legibility at the interfaces with the external systems,
conceptual-intentional and sensori-motor.
The conference also aims to contribute to our understanding of the
external systems. They can be seen as universal systems allowing for
an optimal legibility of interface representations. We might think
that, interacting with Universal Grammar, the Universal Parser
incrementally recovers natural language configurations. From this
viewpoint, questions arise with respect to the relative autonomy of
the grammar and the parser, as well as the nature of the interaction
of the external systems with the interface representations. The
importance of configurational relations in computational linguistics
has already been established, given the central role played by
asymmetric c-command in principle-based parsing (generate and filter
type) based on GB Theory. It might be the case that a computational
model based on the generation and recovery of more basic relations
(check and generate type), based on Minimalism, will constitute
another step ahead in the field.
The conference will bring together linguists, psycholinguists and
computational scientists who addressed these issues in order to
explore the formalization and the interaction of the grammar with the
external systems.
Call for papers :
Abstracts are invited for thirty-minute talks (twenty minutes for
presentation plus ten minutes for discussion). A limited number of
oral presentations will be selected. In addition, abstracts can be
sent for the poster session.
Please Submit:
an one-page abstract, 11 pt. single-line spacing, to :
Language, Brain, and Computation Conference Committee
Departement de linguistique
Universite du Quebec - Montreal
Case Postale 8888, Succursale
Centre-Ville
Montreal, Qc, H3C 3P8
Canada
Specify oral presentation, poster or demo
Send abstracts by FAX to: +514-987-0377
or (preferably) by e-mail to: di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca
Electronic submissions are encouraged; abstracts should be attached in
plain text format or as Word files.
Submit a camera-ready full paper no longer than 15 pages using 11pt
fonts and single-line spacing throughout, with the title of the paper,
the name(s)of the author(s), affiliation(s), postal address, and
e-mail address for correspondence on a separate page. Accepted papers
will be published in a collection of papers.
DEADLINE
All submissions must be received by May 15, 2002.
Notification of acceptance will be e-mailed in mid-June.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 15, 2002: deadline for abstracts
June 15, 2002: notification of acceptance
October 3-5, 2002: Conference
December 15, 2002: camera-ready full paper
Organizers :
Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Universite du Quebec - Montreal
and
Rodolpho Delmonte
Universite di Venezia
Sponsors:
The Federation on Natural Language Processing
Valorisation-Recherche Quebec
The Natural Language Processing Project
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
The Asymmetry Project: www.asymmetryproject.uqam.ca
and
L' Associazione Italiana di Intelligenza Artificiale
La Societe di Scienze Cognitive
L' Istituto di Scienze Cognitive del CNR Roma
Appel de communications en vue de la deuxième conférence sur
le traitement des langues naturelles
Langues naturelles, Système Cognitif et Traitement Computationnel
qui se tiendra à l'Université de Venise du 3 au 5 octobre 2002.
DESCRIPTION :
Les restrictions observées dans une grande variété de langues sur la
composition, le mouvement et l'interprétation des éléments linguistiques
indiquent que la Grammaire Universelle contient des relations
configurationnelles dont l'investigation est cruciale à la formulation
d'une théorie explicative de l'esprit/du cerveau humain. L'étude des
configurations propres aux langues naturelles contribue à notre
compréhension de ce qui est commun à toutes les langues, mais pas
immédiatement disponible à la perception humaine, les relations abstraites
inhérentes de la Grammaire Universelle/de la Faculté du Langage. Si les
relations configurationnelles font partie du vocabulaire présumé de la
Grammaire Universelle, plusieurs phénomènes peuvent être analysés dans une
nouvelle perspective. Malgré le progrès obtenu, il reste des questions
quant à la définition des relations propres à la grammaire, leurs rôle dans
les dérivations, et leur visibilité aux interfaces de la grammaire et des
systèmes externes, conceptuel-intentionel et sensori-moteur.
Cette conférence a aussi pour but de contribuer à notre compréhension des
systèmes externes. Ceux-ci peuvent être vus comme des systèmes universaux
permettant une lisibilité optimale des représentations d'interface. Nous
pouvons penser qu'en interaction avec la Grammaire Universelle, l'Analyseur
Universel reconnaît les configurations propres aux langues naturelles de
manière incrémentielle. Dans cette perspective, des questions ressortent
quant à l'autonomie relative de la grammaire et de l'analyseur, et sur la
nature de l'interaction des systèmes externes et des représentations
d'interfaces. L'importance des relations configurationnelles dans la
linguistique computationnelle est déjà établie, étant donné le rôle central
joué par la c-commande asymétrique dans le parsage basé sur des principes
GB (de type générer et filtrer). Il est probable qu'un modèle
computationnel basé sur la génération et la reconnaissance d'un plus grand
nombre de relations élémentaires, basé sur les principes du Minimalisme (de
type vérifier et générer) constituera un avancement dans le domaine.
Cette conférence permettra de rassembler des linguistes, des
psycholinguistes et des informaticiens qui ont considéré ces problèmes en
vue d'explorer la formalisation et l'interaction de la grammaire et des
systèmes externes.
Appel de communications : Langues naturelles, système cognitif et
traitement computationnel
Les intéressés sont invités à envoyer un résumé pour une
communication de trente minutes (vingt minutes de communication et dix
minutes de discussion). Un nombre limité de présentations orales seront
sélectionnées.Les résumés peuvent aussi être envoyés pour une séance
d'affiches.
Soumettre S.V.P.:
un résumé d'une page, 11pt. simple
interligne au :
Comité de sélection de la conférence
Language, Brain and Computation
Département de linguistique
Université du Québec à Montréal
Case Postale 8888, Succursale
Centre-Ville
Montréal, Qc, H3C 3P8
Canada
Spécifier communication orale, affiche
ou démonstration
Les résumés sont à envoyer en fichier
joint en format texte ou en fichier
Word par Télécopieur: +514- 987-0377
ou par courriel à:
di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca
Soumettre la version finale de
l'article de maximum 15 pages utilisant des caractères de
11pts et simple interligne, et une page séparée contenant le titre
du travail, le nom de l'auteur, l'université, l'adresse
postale, l'adresse électronique. Les communications acceptées
seront publiées dans une collection sur le
domaine.
DATES IMPORTANTES
15 mai 2002: date limite de réception
des résumés.
15 juin 2002: notification
d'acceptation des résumés.
3-5 octobre 2002: conférence.
15 décembre 2002: la version finale de
l'article.
Organisateurs :
Anna Maria Di
Sciullo
Université du Québec à Montréal
et
Rodolpho Delmonte
Università di Venezia
Commanditaires : La Fédération sur le traitement des langues naturelles
Valorisation-Recherche Québec
Le projet sur le traitement des langues naturelles
Le Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada
Le projet sur l'asymétrie des langues
www.asymmetryproject.uqam.ca
et
L' Associazione Italiana di Intelligenza Artificiale
La Società di Scienze Cognitive
L' Istituto di Scienze Cognitive del CNR
Roma
Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Director
Asymmetry Project
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