From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Apr 1 11:54:12 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:54:12 +0200 Subject: Appel: Treebanks (ATALA Workshop, Paris; 2d call) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:55:18 +0100 From: abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr (Anne Abeille) Message-Id: X-Url: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/appel-corpus-arbores.html ATALA Workshop Call for papers Treebanks Paris, Jussieu, June 18-19th 1999 For the ATALA workshop on Treebanks (syntactically annotated corpora), we solicit 40 min talks (including questions) on building and using such corpora. Relevant topics include : Building syntactically annotated corpora (SAC): - methodology - cost - selection of material - annotation tools - annotation standards - annotation formats - validation of annotations Using syntactically annotated corpora (SAC): - interrogation tools - knowledge extraction (lexicons, grammars, others) - evaluation of NLP tools Both written and speech corpora can be considered. Comparison with results obtained with tagged corpora (annotated for morpho-syntax only) are also welcome. Program committee Anne Abeille, U. Paris 7 (chair) Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneve) Roberto Basili (U. Tor Vergata, Roma) Philippe Blache (LPL, Aix en Provence) John Carroll (U. Sussex) Benoit Habert (ENS Fontenay) Eva Hajicova (U. Charles, Prague) Hans Uszkoreit (U Sarrebrucken) Eric Wehrli (LATL, Geneve) Annie Zaenen (Xerox RC) Invited Speaker : Geoffrey Sampson (U. Sussex) Submission : Send, preferably by email, an abstract of 5 pages maximum before April 15th 1999 to : Anne Abeille, Universite Paris 7 UFRL, Case 7003 2 place Jussieu 75005 Paris France abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 1 14:37:30 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 15:37:30 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 4 (other) Offers Message-ID: _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Claudia Morettini Subject: OSU tenure-track faculty position in computational linguistics 2/ From y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk Tue Mar 23 09:55:40 1999 Subject: EPSRC studentship in NLP/CL available now at Sheffield 3/ From: kwhitman at lhs.com Subject: Multi-Lingual Computational Ling in Burlington, Mass. 4/ From: hgregg at sssolutions.com (Heather Gregg) Subject: German or Spanish Computational Ling in Seattle, Washington _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Claudia Morettini Subject: OSU tenure-track faculty position in computational linguistics The Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University seeks candidates for a tenure-track faculty position in computational linguistics, rank open, to start no later than Autumn 2000. The person filling the position will be expected to be active in research and publication, to meet standard departmental teaching requirements, and to perform service duties as required by the department, college, and university. Candidates are sought whose research includes computational implementation and has relevance to empirical and theoretical linguistic issues. Only applications received before May 10, 1999 can be assured of full consideration. Dossiers consisting of a letter of interest, current curriculum vitae and the names of three references should be sent to: Computational Linguistics Search Committee Department of Linguistics The Ohio State University 222 Oxley Hall 1712 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1298 For additional information, contact Professor Carl Pollard at: pollard at ling.ohio-state.edu; (614)292-7590. The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified women, minorities, Vietnam-era veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. _______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk Tue Mar 23 09:55:40 1999 Subject: EPSRC studentship in NLP/CL available now at Sheffield EPSRC Studentship: Natural Language Processing Usual apologies if you get this more than once from different sources. Applications are invited for a UK EPSRC quota award research studentship leading to a Ph. D. available immediately. The award can be held full-time over 3 years or part-time over a five year period. The research studentship can be held in any area of language processing or computational linguistics that falls within the general remit of EPSRC funding and is related or complementary to our current research activities. The Department holds EPSRC research grants in the areas of text reuse and architectures for natural language processing, and has recently completed a project in grammar induction. We have related interests, supported by EU and industrial grants in: Multi-media and Multilingual Information Extraction, Lexicons and lexical tuning, Belief and knowledge structures, Categorial grammars and parsing, Hypertext generation, Argument structure and Machine learning of dialogue structures to model conversation. Applicants should have a class I or II:1 Honours degree, or a II:II class Honours degree plus a Masters degree or relevant research experience. Full studentships including a basic maintenance award currently of �8,060 pa are available to applicants with 3 years qualifying residence in the UK (excluding full-time education). Candidates may also wish to consult our NLP Web site (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/), and the EPSRC studentship handbook online (http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/EPSRCWEB/MAIN/TRAINING/INFOSTU/INTRO/INTRO.asp/Main.htm) which gives full details of eligibility conditions and maintenance allowances. Applications should include a CV, an outline of your relevant training and experience, and a brief statement of the research areas that interest you, plus the names and addresses of two academic referees. Applications and requests for further information should be sent to Professor Yorick Wilks (yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk) and requests for forms to apply officially should go to him and to k.barker at dcs.shef.ac.uk. _______________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: kwhitman at lhs.com Subject: Multi-Lingual Computational Ling in Burlington, Mass. Acoustic Modeling Engineer - French The engineer will work in the domain of acoustic-phonetic modeling for the international versions of the L&H Voice Xpress dictation product line. He/she will be part of a language development team for French Language in Burlington, MA. As part of this team, he/she will be responsible for building acoustic-phonetic models, combining and tuning of the building blocks that make up a dictation system, based on tools and procedures created in other groups. He or she will work closely together with acoustic data collection people and with language model engineers and will report to the modeling team leader for French. In-depth knowledge of current ASR techniques and literature, with direct experience with acoustic modeling. Experience with speech recognition algorithm development in the context of a state-of-the-art ASR system. Ability to design and run ASR experiments Knowledge of C, C++, shell, Perl and UNIX Experience with working on large software projects. MS or Phd in electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics or related field. ******************** Senior Engineer Language Modeling Develop the statistical language models for various international versions of the L&H Voice Xpress dictation product line. He/she will be part of a language development team for US Spanish, US English, Canadian French, and other languages in Burlington. As part of this team, he/she will be responsible for the development statistical language models. he/she will work closely together with text corpus collection people and with acoustic phonetic model engineers and will report to the modeling team leader for these languages. Contact Info Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products kwhitman at lhs.com _______________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: hgregg at sssolutions.com (Heather Gregg) Subject: German or Spanish Computational Ling in Seattle, Washington Seattle Is the Place For You! Seeking Two Computational Linguists for an exciting client! Language proficiency sought in German or Spanish. You will be enhancing & extending a computational grammar & text critiquing system, in accordance with overall architecture of the Company's Natural Language Understanding system. Initial emphasis is on understanding the component for the text critiquing system, followed by the component for syntactic analysis. You will also be testing the syntactic analysis & text critiques. Required qualifications should include experience in linguistic research and software development- product focus. Familiarity with Natural Language Processing; a flexible approach to linguistic theory. An advanced degree in linguistics, computer science or a closely related discipline. Native proficiency in German or Spanish required; practical experience with NLP implementation issues is highly desired. An advanced degree in linguistics or a closely related discipline is preferred. Please email resume and contact information to sssolutions at sssolutions.com. Please visit Software Staffing Solution's website at http://www.sssolutions.com From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 1 14:37:27 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 15:37:27 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Sabine Reich Subject: Job posting 2/ From: "Jean Caelen" Subject: Un poste de prof et un poste de MCF a Grenoble 3/ From: Sandypac30 at aol.com Subject: Software Engineer in Speech Technology; Silicon Valley, CA 4/ From: Sandypac30 at aol.com Subject: Software Engineer in Speech Modeling and Synthesis _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Sabine Reich Subject: Job posting Corpus Linguistics -- Short-term Posting The Department of English Linguistics at the Technical University of Chemnitz is looking for one or two graduate research assistants to help put the Handbook for the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern Tracts on to the World Wide Web. The contract will offer 20 hours of work per week for six months, starting as soon as possible, and in any case before 1st September, 1999. Payment would be on the scale BAT IIa (Ost), with a minimum of 25,200 DM p.a. There would be opportunities to supplement the basic salary through teaching assignments. The post would suit a recent graduate looking for a short-term posting before making the next career move or a researcher on a sabbatical year. The successful candidate will need an understanding of corpus linguistics, and knowledge of and interest in historical linguistics, as well as experience in preparing material for web-pages. S/he should be a fluent speaker of English, and good competence in German would be an advantage. The Department provides a lively working environment. Alongside the normal teaching activities there is a wide range of projects, involving corpora, language varieties, computer-assisted language learning and the use of modern multimedia techniques. As well as digitizing and editing the Lampeter Corpus, members of the Department have also been responsible for the East African section of the International Corpus of English. The English Linguistics Department is contributing a research project on 'Learner Behaviour in the Internet Grammar' to a large-scale University programme on 'Multimedia in Everyday Life', funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, Germany's principal research funding body. The city of Chemnitz is in the middle of an energetic programme of rebuilding and renovation. In the inner suburbs the largest concentration of Jugendstil houses anywhere in Western Europe is being restored to its former elegance. Ample accomodation is available in the neighbourhood of the Humanities Faculty, a little south of the city centre. There is good public transport, and Chemnitz is only about an hour's train-ride from both Dresden and Leipzig. The surrounding countryside is pleasantly wooded and peppered with splendid castles, and in the Erzgebirge to the South there is a wealth of dramatic scenery and wild-life, as well as villages that still retain many of their ancient traditions. Interested candidates should send or e-mail a CV and letter of application, by 31st April 1999, to: Professor Dr. Josef Schmied Technische Universitaet Chemnitz English linguistics 09107 Chemnitz Germany e-mail: josef.schmied at phil.tu-chemnitz.de http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/linguist/ _______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: "Jean Caelen" Subject: Un poste de prof et un poste de MCF a Grenoble Le poste de MCF est a l'ISTG de Grenoble... "Communication Personne/Systeme, multimedia" n�1363 Section du CNU 27 eme Profil R�seaux, Multim�dia, Applications (ISTG) Laboratoire d'affectation : CLIPS - IMAG PROFIL RECHERCHE : Profil Recherche La recherche s'effectuera au laboratoire CLIPS de l'IMAG (Communication Langagi�re Interaction Personne-Syst�me). Ce laboratoire conduit des recherches fondamentales et appliqu�es dans les diff�rents domaines de la communication homme-machine et entretient de multiples relations pluridisciplinaires. Le candidat retenu participera aux travaux du laboratoire sur le dialogue oral homme-machine dans le contexte des nouveaux services de t�l�communication. Ce profil n�cessite des comp�tences en traitement de la parole (reconnaissance automatique) en compr�hension de la parole spontan�e (traitement syntaxico-semantique et pragmatique des �nonc�s) et dans la mod�lisation de l'utilisateur (aspects cognitifs). Le profil comporte aussi une ouverture vers des secteurs d'application typiques des t�l�communications comme, par exemple, les interfaces de communication multimodales, la communication multilingue ou la recherche d'informations sur le r�seau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ L�IUT1 de Grenoble proc�de au recrutement d�un professeur des universit�s en 61e section-G�nie Informatique pour son d�partement SRC � L�Isle d�Abeau Enseignement Ce Professeur d�Universit� sera affect� au d�partement Services et R�seaux de Communication d�localis� � L�Isle d�Abeau (85 Km de Grenoble-35 Km de Lyon). Ce d�partement a �t� cr�� en septembre 1996 et s�appr�te � sortir sa deuxi�me promotion. Actuellement le nombre d��tudiants est de 104 et l��quipe p�dagogique compte huit enseignants titulaires, un ing�nieur syst�mes, un technicien et 20 vacataires enseignants ou professionnels. Le site est connect� � RENATER. En ce qui concerne le service d�enseignement, il participera � l�enseignement : - de l�Informatique ( langages HTML, Java Script, Java,�.), - du d�veloppement d�applications en r�seaux (couches hautes). Actuellement ces enseignements ( cours, TD, TP ) sont mont�s et fonctionnent soit avec du personnel titulaire, soit du personnel vacataire. En ce qui concerne les responsabilit�s p�dagogiques, il devra assumer la charge de chef du d�partement. A ce titre, il assumera la responsabilit� de la formation � la sp�cialit� SRC � l�IUT1 de Grenoble, de la gestion du d�partement dont celle de l��quipe p�dagogique. En outre, il sera amen�, � court et moyen termes, � mettre en place et d�velopper la formation continue et la formation par alternance. Recherche Les activit�s de recherche s�effectueront � Grenoble dans le laboratoire CLIPS Communication Langagi�re et Interaction Personne-Syst�me ) de l�IMAG sur le th�me de l�analyse et de la g�n�ration d�images et/ou de parole. Un int�r�t tout particulier est donn� � l�exercice de ces recherches dans le contexte des processus d�interaction : interaction multim�dia, communication homme-homme m�diatis�, dialogue homme-machine sont des exemples des principaux domaines d�int�r�t du laboratoire concernant ce poste. Les deux �quipes plus particuli�rement concern�es dans le laboratoire CLIPS sont : - le groupe GEOD ( synth�se et reconnaissance de parole, analyse de dialogue ) - le groupe MRIN ( indexation et recherche d�informations multim�dia ) . Informations prendre contact avec : l�Administration : Service du Personnel (IUT1) t�l : 04 76 82 53 14 l�Enseignement : Jean MICHOULIER ( SRC) t�l : 04 76 82 53 60 et 04 74 18 19 92 E-mail : Jean.Michoulier at ujf-Grenoble.fr la Recherche: Jean CAELEN ( CLIPS) t�l : 04 76 51 46 27 et 04 76 51 42 34 E-mail : Jean.Caelen at imag.fr -------------------------------------------------------------- Jean Caelen Laboratoire CLIPS-IMAG (Equipe GEOD) Domaine universitaire, BP 53 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 -------------------------------------------------------------- Tel : +33 (0)4 76 51 46 27 Fax : +33 (0)4 76 63 55 52 E-mail : Jean.Caelen at imag.fr URL : http://www-clips.imag.fr/ -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Sandypac30 at aol.com Subject: Software Engineer in Speech Technology; Silicon Valley, CA SOFTWARE ENGINEER-SPEECH RECOGNITION Location: Silicon Valley, CA For a complete listing of our current career opportunities, please visit our Web Page at http://www.pacific.com Career opportunity for a proven Software Engineer in speech technology to focus on dialog and grammar development. Will design the dialogue required to build speech recognition systems for telephone services (e.g., booking airline tickets). Will determine exactly what the system should say at each point, and what the possible responses may be from the caller. The critical skills required include: spoken user interface design any kind of computer-human interface background linguistics and cognitive science background IVR background (designing and building touch tone systems) Please respond directly to Arnold Garlick, President, Pacific Search Consultants, 2377 S. El Camino Real Suite 201, San Clemente, CA 92672 Email: arnold at pacific.com (ASCII Files or MS Word compatible documents ONLY PLEASE, NO Postscript files, PLEASE) Fax: (949) 366-9200. Please refer to Position #2487 _______________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Sandypac30 at aol.com Subject: Software Engineer in Speech Modeling and Synthesis SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER Location: Washington DC For a complete listing of our current career opportunities, please visit our Web Page at http://www.pacific.com Significant career opportunity for a qualified software engineer to help develop innovative speech modeling and synthesis techniques for application in voice-interactive products and services. Main group objectives: Work with a team of engineers and scientists to develop and implement techniques for automatically generating natural sounding voice messages in multiple languages. Techniques employed will include TTS and hybrid synthesis. Key Responsibilities: Assist with the general development and enhancement of existing voice output systems. Develop corpus-based approaches to modeling speaker-specific duration and intonation characteristics. Develop objective and subjective methods for evaluating speech synthesis quality. Establish guidelines and automatic procedures to facilitate the design and recording of message components to be used in hybrid synthesis systems. Other Duties: Develop software modules in both the UNIX and NT environments to implement systems in support of the synthesis project aims. Communicate with prospects and customers to better understand their specific voice output requirements, and translate these requirements into development plans. Occassional work on recognition, interactive dialog related systems work. Qualifications: Essential: Masters degree or equivalent level of knowledge in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering. Willingness to relocate to the Washington, DC area. Desirable: PhD in one of these areas. Experience Required: Essential: 2 years in speech analysis and/or synthesis; 3 years programming in C or C++ Desirable: 5+ years in speech analysis/synthesis with an emphasis on prosody analysis/synthesis in multiple European languages. Specialist Training Required: Essential: Experience in speech synthesis. Desirable: Statistical pattern recognition, ToBI or other standard prosody labeling method. Automatic POS tagging techniques. DSP. Acoustic Phonetics. Particular Skills Required: Essential: Fluent programming in C and/or C++. Technical report writing. Fluent in English. Desirable: Good verbal communication. Working knowledge of Tcl/Tk, Perl, Java. Fluency in multiple European languages. Type of Person Required: Essential: Creative thinker and doer capable of independent, focused R&D aimed at specific project objectives. Must communicate effectively with co-workers to establish goals, approaches, and to track progress. Must be flexible and willing to apply a theoretical background to solving practical problems. Desirable: Capable of assuming a leadership role as the company grows. Please respond directly to Arnold Garlick, President, Pacific Search Consultants, 2377 S. El Camino Real Suite 201, San Clemente, CA 92672 Email: arnold at pacific.com (ASCII Files or MS Word compatible documents ONLY PLEASE, NO Postscript files, PLEASE) Fax: (949) 366-9200. Please refer to Position #2443 From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Apr 2 08:36:09 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:36:09 +0200 Subject: R: Conjugueur ? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 09:20:57 +0200 From: Piet Mertens Message-Id: <2.2.32.19990402072057.00914c3c at onyx.arts.kuleuven.ac.be> X-url: http://bach.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/~piet/morlex Pour un autre conjugueur / lemmatiseur / base de données lexicale pour le français, voir: http://bach.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/~piet/morlex - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Piet Mertens Department of Linguistics - K.U.Leuven Postbus 33 B-3000 Leuven (Belgium) tel: +32..16..32.47.63 or 32.47.73 fax: +32..16..32.47.67 Piet.Mertens at arts.kuleuven.ac.be http://bach.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/~piet From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Apr 2 13:42:50 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:42:50 +0200 Subject: R: Conjugueur ? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:52:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gregory Grefenstette Message-Id: <199904020952.LAA25722 at bellecombe.grenoble.xrce.xerox.com> X-url: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/research/mltt/Tools/morph.html X-url: http://www.inxight.com/Inxight_Corporate_Web_Site/Products___Support/LinguistX__153_/ Xerox offers morphological analysis for French Dutch English German Spanish Portuguese Italian Danish Norwegian Swedish Hungarian Arabic and Finnish on its research Web site: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/research/mltt/Tools/morph.html These and other European languages and Japanese analysers are commercially available from Inxight: http://www.inxight.com/Inxight_Corporate_Web_Site/Products___Support/LinguistX__153_/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Gregory Grefenstette Principal Scientist, Xerox Research Centre Europe 6 chemin de Maupertuis, 38240 Meylan, France Gregory.Grefenstette at xrce.xerox.com Phone : (33) 4 76 61 50 82 fax : (33) 4 76 61 50 99 Inside France: 04-76-61-50-82 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Apr 6 15:52:42 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:52:42 +0100 Subject: Appel: CII'99 Message-ID: From: Malek Boualem CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Computer Science (CII'99 : Conf�rence Internationale en Informatique) November 22-23, 1999, Annaba, Algeria Organized by Department of Computer Science - University of Annaba - Algeria http ://www.multimania.com/cii99/cii99.htm http://www.cerist.dz/manifpub/ email : ainfo at ist.cerist.dz The International Conference on Computer Science will be held in 1999 at the Department of computer science, Annaba, Algeria. The Purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry. The Conference provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on computer science. The conference will feature contributed papers , tutorials and Posters concerned with theory, practice and applications The topics will include, the following areas : � Software Engineering � Artificial Intelligence � Computer Human Interaction � Natural Language Processing � Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) � Pattern Recognition � Modeling, Scheduling Submission of Papers : We solicit new research and ?real experience? papers in any of the technical areas listed above. Manuscripts must be in English, or French double-spaced, 12 point font, and must not exceed 16 pages. The first page of the manuscript should include the article title, authors' name(s), affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the principal author. The second page should begin with the article title, a brief abstract, keywords and the text. Papers will be peer-reviewed. The submission process of papers will be handled electronically. Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send three copies and one copy in 3?1/2 disk of their contribution to the Program Chair before May 31, 1999 at the following address. (Please e-mail the Program Chair to inform him that your paper has been mailed and you will present the paper if the paper is accepted.): Mohamed Tayeb Laskri , Program Chair Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science , University of Annaba B.P. 12 , Annaba 23000, Algeria. Telephone and Fax : (213) 8 87 28 12, (213) 8 87 27 56 E-mail: laskri at yahoo.com, laskri at ist.cerist.dz Final version of selected papers will be published in the scientific and technologic revue in a special number � Synth�se ISSN 111-4924� Submission of Tutorials: We invite you to submit proposals for technical tutorials. A proposal should include the title, instructor's name, topics covered, length of the tutorial, equipment needed, and instructor's biography and qualifications. It should also indicate the objectives and the time allocation for major course topics. Important Deadlines : Papers and Tutorials Due : May 31, 1999 Notification of Acceptance : September 4, 1999 Final text : October 2, 1999 For more information, please contact : CII?99, Department of Computer Science - University of Annaba, B.P.12 Annaba 23000 Algeria. Telephone and Fax : (213) 8 87 27 56, (213) 8 87 28 12 Email: {ainfo, cii99}@ist.cerist.dz Web Site for current information about the cii?99 Go to http://www.cerist.dz/manifpub/ http ://www.multimania.com/cii99/cii99.htm Program Committee chairman : Med Tayeb Laskri Permanent Secretary : Djamel Essolh Amrane Organization chairman : Tahar Bensebaa International Program Committee : M.Ahmed-Nacer (University of Algiers, Algeria) E.Aimeur (University of Montreal, Canada) A.Aissani (University of Blida, Algeria) D.Aissani (University of Bejaia, Algeria) A.Ait-Aoudia (I.N.I., Algiers, Algeria) Y.Amghar (INSA, Lyon, France) M.Amjad (Philadelphia University, Aman, Jordan) A.Attoui (LLP/CESALP, University of Savoie, France) M.Babes (University of Annaba, Algeria) N.Badache (University of Algiers, Algeria) M.Badri (Universiy of Quebec, Canada) M.C.Batouche (University of Constantine, Algeria) M.Bedda (University of Annaba, Algeria) N.Belkhiter (Laval University, Canada) S.Benbernou (University of Oran, Algeria) M.S.Bendelloul (University of Annaba, Algeria) B.Bendjillali (University of Oran, Algeria) A.Benhamadou (University of Sfax, Tunisia) S.A.Benjelloun (ITS, Rabat, Morocco) T.Bensebaa (University of Annaba, Algeria) M.Bettaz (University of Constantine, Algeria) E.Bianco (University of Aix-Marseille II, France) M.Boualem (LPL, University of Aix-Marseille, France) M.Boufaida (University of Constantine, Algeria) Z.Boufaida (University of Constantine, Algeria) A.Boukaram (University of Setif, Algeria) M.Chaib-Draa (University of Quebec, Canada) N.Djeddi (University of Biskra, Algeria) N.Doghmane (University of Annaba, Algerie) H.Drias (University of Algiers, Algeria) H.Hadjami ben ghezala (Ensi, Tunis, Tunisia) A.Henni (I.N.I., Algiers, Algeria) A.Hocine (University of Peau , France) S.Ghoul (Philadelphia University, Aman, Jordan) T.Khammaci (University of Nantes, France) M.K.Kholladi (University of Constantine, Algeria) J.M.Knippel (University of Provence, France) M.Lalam (University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) Med Tayeb Laskri (University of Annaba, Algeria) Z.Maamar (University of Quebec, Canada) M.Maouche (University of Constantine, Algeria) M.Masud (Philadelphia University, Aman, Jordan) M.Mezghiche (University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) A.Mokhtari-Aissani (University of Algiers, Algerie) C.Oussalah (University of Nimes, France) G.Perennou (University of Toulouse, France) I.Rassoul (University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) D.Rebaine (Universit� of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) Z.Sahnoun (University of Constantine, Algeria) M.Sellami (University of Annaba, Algeria) M.Si-Mohammed (University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) S.Slaoui (University of Rabat, Morocco) Y.Slimani (University of Tunis, Tunisia) N.Vigouroux (University of Toulouse, France) N.Vincent (University of Tours, France) R.Zajac (New Mexico State University, USA) Z.Zemirli (I.N.I., Algiers, Algeria) A.Ziou (University of Scherbrook, Canada) Malek BOUALEM ----------------------------------------------------------- New Mexico State University, CRL, Dept 3CRL Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA Tel Office: (1) 505-646-5711 Fax: (1) 505-646-6218 E-mail : malek at crl.nmsu.edu http://crl.nmsu.edu/Staff.pages/Technical/malek.htm ----------------------------------------------------------- From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Apr 6 15:52:47 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:52:47 +0100 Subject: Appel: DET2000 Message-ID: From: Pierre-Yves Foucou **** APPEL A COMMUNICATION | PRIMERA CIRCULAR | CALL FOR PAPERS *** Colloque D�termination et Formalisation La question des d�terminants en vue du traitement automatique des langues naturelles BELLA TERRA (Barcelone) 25 et 26 f�vrier 2000 Groupe de Linguistique Appliquee aux Langues Romanes Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Centre Lucien Tesniere Universite de Franche-Comte http://www-lli.univ-paris13.fr/DET2000/ _________________________________________________________________ APPEL A COMMUNICATION DETERMINATION ET FORMALISATION La question des determinants en vue du traitement automatique des langues naturelles BELLA TERRA (Barcelone) 25 et 26 f�vrier 2000 Theme du Colloque La plupart des linguistes s'accordent sur la notion de determination bien que la question de son universalite ou non reste ouverte. L'identification des determinants n'est pas un reel probleme. Ainsi, pour le domaine du traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN), leur reconnaissance automatique ne pose pas de difficultes majeures.En revanche, la generation et la traduction automatique de ces unites linguistiques restent problematiques. La modelisation des systemes de determinants relatifs � un ensemble de langues donnees reste donc � faire. Partant de ce constat, nous invitons tous les chercheurs qui travaillent sur la necessite d'une formalisation de la determination � presenter leur travail. Le theme du colloque concerne non seulement des specialistes du TALN mais aussi tous les chercheurs soucieux de la formalisation du langage. Comite Scientifique ANSCOMBRE, Jean-Claude, CNRS - EHESS BLANCO, Xavier, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona BUVET, Pierre-Andr�, Universite de Franche-Comte CARDEY, Sylviane, Universite de Franche-Comte GROSS, Gaston, Universite Paris XIII GROSS, Maurice, Universite Paris VII GUENTHNER, Franz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen MURILLO, Julio, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona KLEIBER, Georges, Universite de Strasbourg II Dates importantes � 15 JUIN 1999 : Soumission sous forme de resume (500 mots maximum). � 15 JUILLET 1999 : Acceptation des communications. � 15 OCTOBRE 1999 : Envoi des articles. � 15 DECEMBRE 1999 : Acceptation des articles. � 25-26 FEVRIER 2000 : Colloque Determination et Formalisation Modalites de soumission Les contributions peuvent etre redigees en fran�ais, espagnol ou anglais. Les resumes et les articles peuvent etre envoyes soit par courrier electronique soit par voie postale (disquette : texte au format RTF) aux coordonnees ci-dessous : Les articles devraient paraitre dans un supplement de Linguisticae Investigationes DET2000 Colloque Determination et Formalisation Departamento de Filologia Francesa y Romanica Facultad de Letras UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) ESPANA Tel: +34 93 581 14 10 Fax: +34 93 581 31 71 E-mail: Xavier.Blanco at uab.es ou DET2000 Colloque Determination et Formalisation Centre Lucien Tesniere Faculte LSH 30 rue Megevand 25030 Besan�on Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 94 Fax: + 33 (0)3 81 66 53 00 E-Mail: pierre-andre.buvet at univ-fcomte.fr ou pab at lli.univ-paris13.fr Criteres d'acceptation Les propositions seront �valu�es par au moins deux lecteurs en fonction des crit�res suivants : � adequation au theme du colloque � importance de la contribution par rapport � l'etat de l'art ou aux applications � originalite de l'approche adoptee � qualite scientifique et technique � qualite de la redaction Comite d'organisation BLANCO, Xavier, UAB (co-president) BUVET, Pierre-Andre, UFC (co-president) BAQUE, Lorraine, UAB CARDEY, Sylviane, UFC CATALA, Dolors, UAB GAUCHOLA, Roser, UAB GAVRIILIDOU, Zoe, UDT INFANTE, Antonio, UAB MURILLO, Julio, UAB _________________________________________________________________ PRIMERA CIRCULAR Grupo de Linguistica Aplicada a las Lenguas Romanicas Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona Centre Lucien Tesniere Universit� de Franche-Comte DETERMINACION Y FORMALIZACION La cuestion de los determinantes con vistas al procesamiento automatico del lenguaje natural BELLATERRA (Barcelona), 25 y 26 de febrero del 2000 Tematica del Congreso Parece existir un consenso entre la mayoria de los linguistas sobre la nocion de determinante. Tanto es asi, que la identificacion de los determinantes no plantea mayores problemas. En procesamiento del lenguaje natural (PLN), el reconocimiento automatico de estas unidades puede considerarse resuelto. En cambio, su generacion y su traduccion automatica plantean aun importantes dificultades. La modelizacion de los sistemas de determinantes, para un conjunto de lenguas dadas, esta aun por hacer. Esta situacion puede deberse a las deficiencias de las modelizaciones del sistema de la determinaci�n, cuya universalidad o no puede considerarse una cuestion abierta. A partir de estas constataciones, deseariamos invitar a los investigadores que trabajen sobre la formalizacion de la determinacion a presentar sus trabajos. El tema del congreso no se limita al procesamiento automatico del lenguaje, sino que abarca todo tipo de investigaciones en torno a la formalizacion del lenguaje. Comite Cientifico ANSCOMBRE, Jean-Claude, CNRS - EHESS BLANCO, Xavier, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona BUVET, Pierre-Andre, Universite de Franche-Comte CARDEY, Sylviane, Universite de Franche-Comte GROSS, Gaston, Universite Paris XIII GROSS, Maurice, Universite Paris VII GUENTHNER, Franz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen MURILLO, Julio, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona KLEIBER, Georges, Universite de Strasbourg II Calendario � 15 DE JUNIO DE 1999: Limite para la presentacion de resumenes (max. 500 palabras). � 15 DE JULIO DE 1999: Notificaci�n de la aceptacion de las comunicaciones. � 15 DE OCTUBRE DE 1999: Limite para la presentacion de los articulos. � 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1999: Notificacion de la aceptacion de los articulos. � 25-26 DE FEBRERO DEL 2000: Congreso "Determinacion y Formalizacion" Modalidades de presentacion de trabajos Las contribuciones pueden redactarse en frances, espanol o ingles. Los resumenes y los arti�culos pueden enviarse por correo electronico o por correo ordinario (disquete: texto RTF) a las direcciones abajo indicadas. Se estudia la posibilidad de una publicaci�n como suplemento de Lingvistic� Investigationes. Congreso Determinacion y Formalizacion Departamento de Filolog�a Francesa y Rom�nica Facultad de Letras UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) ESPANA Tel: (93) 581 14 10 Fax: (93) 581 31 71 E-mail: Xavier.Blanco at uab.es Congreso Determination et Formalisation Centre Lucien Tesniere Facult� LSH 30, rue Megevand 25030 Besan�on - Cedex FRANCE Tel: (33) 03 81 66 53 94 Fax: (33) 03 81 66 53 00 E-mail: pierre-andre.buvet at univ-fcomte o pab at lli.univ-paris13.fr Criterios de aceptacion Las proposiciones seran evaluadas por un minimo de dos lectores en funcion de los siguientes criterios: � adecuacion al tema del coloquio; � importancia de la contribuci�n respecto al estado de la cuestion o a las aplicaciones; � originalidad del enfoque adoptado; � calidad cient�fica y tecnica; � calidad de la redaccion. Comite de Organizacion BLANCO, Xavier, UAB (copresidente) BUVET, Pierre-Andre, UFC (copresidente) BAQUE, Lorraine, UAB CARDEY, Sylviane, UFC CATALA, Dolors, UAB GAUCHOLA, Roser, UAB GAVRIILIDOU, Zoe, UDT INFANTE, Antonio, UAB MURILLO, Julio, UAB _________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS Groupe de Linguistique Appliquee aux Langues Romanes Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Centre Lucien Tesniere Universit� de Franche-Comt�, France DETERMINATION AND FORMALISATION The question of determiners in natural language processing BELLA TERRA (Barcelona) 25 and 26 February 2000 Conference Theme The majority of linguists are in agreement as far as the notion of determination even though its universality or not remains an open question. Identifying determiners is not a significant problem and in natural language processing (NLP) their automatic recognition does not pose a major difficulty. However, automatic generation and translation of these linguistic units remains a problem. As a result, modelling systems of determiners relative to a set of languages has yet to be done. Starting from this observation, researchers working on formalising determination are invited to present their findings. The conference theme concerns not only those working in NLP but also all who are interested in language formalisation. Scientific Committee ANSCOMBRE, Jean-Claude, CNRS - EHESS BLANCO, Xavier, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona BUVET, Pierre-Andre, Universite de Franche-Comte CARDEY, Sylviane, Universite de Franche-Comte GROSS, Gaston, Universite Paris XIII GROSS, Maurice, Universite Paris VII GUENTHNER, Franz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen MURILLO, Julio, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona KLEIBER, Georges, Universite de Strasbourg II Important dates � 15 JUNE 1999 : Abstract submission deadline (500 words maximum). � 15 JULY 1999 : Acceptance of propositions. � 15 OCTOBRE 1999 : Paper submission deadline. � 15 DECEMBRE 1999 : Acceptance of papers. � 25-26 FEVBRUARY 2000 : Conference "Determination et Formalisation" How to submit Contributions can be written in French, Spanish or English. Abstracts and papers ought to be submitted by email by means of an attached file, or by post using a diskette (RTF format in both cases). See below for the addresses. The papers should appear in a supplement to Linguisticae Investigationes. Colloque Determination et Formalisation Departamento de Filologia Francesa y Romanica Facultad de Letras UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) ESPANA Tel: +34 93 581 14 10 Fax: +34 93 581 31 71 E-mail: Xavier.Blanco at uab.es or Colloque Determination et Formalisation Centre Lucien Tesniere Faculte LSH 30 rue Megevand, 25030 Besan�on Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 94 Fax: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 00 E-Mail: pierre-andre.buvet at univ-fcomte.fr or pab at lli.univ-paris13.fr Acceptance criteria Propositions will be evaluated by at least two referees according to the following criteria: � relevance to the conference theme � the contribution's importance in connection with the state of the art or its applicability � originality � scientific et technical quality � presentation quality Organising Committee BLANCO, Xavier, UAB (co-president) BUVET, Pierre-Andre, UFC (co-president) BAQUE, Lorraine, UAB CARDEY, Sylviane, UFC CATALA, Dolors, UAB GAUCHOLA, Roser, UAB GAVRIILIDOU, Zoe, UDT INFANTE, Antonio, UAB MURILLO, Julio, UAB _________________________________________________________________ -- Pierre-Yves FOUCOU LLI Paris XIII 01 49 40 38 67 foucou at lli.univ-paris13.fr http://www-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Mon Apr 12 15:48:34 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:48:34 +0200 Subject: Q: Human Language Groups (+R:) Message-ID: ================================================================ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 21:56:37 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN Message-Id: <199904022246.VAA21739 at -f> X-url: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html This request was just posted on another list. I am forwarding it to several pertinent lists. Please reply directly to the requester Harold VADNEY at Thanks, Jeff Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:56:51 -0500 Reply-To: bmtconsult at att.net From: "HAROLD W. VADNEY" Organization: Albany TransComm International a division of BioMediTech Associates & Consultants Subject: HELP: Human Language Groups Dear Collegues: Can anyone provide a website URL that will give information on conventional grouping systems for human languages. Actually, I am looking for a source that will help to classify languages by complexity and by linguistic group. Any help will be much appreciated! Harold ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Européenne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ================================================================ From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) The Ethnologue Language Family Index at SIL provides a tree of language families: http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/families/ Pierre Zweigenbaum. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre Zweigenbaum | Téléphone : +33 (0)1 45 83 67 28 DIAM - SIM/AP-HP | Télécopie : +33 (0)1 45 86 80 68 / 1 45 86 56 85 91, bd de l'Hôpital | Courriel : pz at biomath.jussieu.fr F-75634 Paris Cedex 13 | Toile : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/~pz/ FRANCE | Bureau : 119 c ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Département Intelligence Artificielle et Médecine (DIAM) : Service d'Informatique Médicale, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris Département de Biomathématiques, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, Univ. Paris 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Apr 13 11:53:06 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:53:06 +0200 Subject: Q: Controlled languages (+R:) Message-ID: ================================================================ 1/Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:57:05 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: Q: Definitions of controlled languages ================================================================ 2/Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 21:06:30 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: Q: Percentages - Controlled Language documents/presentations ================================================================ 3/Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:28:11 +0200 From: Pim van der Eijk Subject: Re: definitions of controlled languages ================================================================ ================================================================ 1/Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:57:05 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN Message-Id: <4.0.1.19990406202255.00fe4a10 at 192.168.1.1> I am particularly interested in compiling a list of definitions of the terms "Controlled Language" and "Sub-language". Since there are potentially different interpretations of these terms, I invite replies from people of different fields of interest. I would appreciate your replies on how you would define these terms. Please send replies to me directly at A summary of responses will be posted later. Thanks in advance. Jeff Allen ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Européenne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ================================================================ 2/Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 21:06:30 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN Message-Id: <4.0.1.19990406201502.00fec100 at 192.168.1.1> This is a short survey: I would like to know in which languages different articles, papers, theses, dissertations, have been written/presented on the subject of Controlled Languages / Sublanguages. Please provide the following general information in replies: 1. language name(s) in which the information on Controlled Languages / Sublanguages has been conveyed; 2. the _approximate_ percentage of documents/presentations on Controlled Languages/Sublanguages that you have read/ heard in this/(each of these) language(s); 3. please differentiate between documents/presentations that are publicly accessible (published, available on the Internet) and those that are not (e.g., internal company documents, company meetings). No details are necessary, just approximate percentages. For example: Publicly available: Language X: 50% Language Y: 20% Language Z: 30% Not publicly available: Language X: 75% Language Y: 25% If you wish to indicate the _approximate_ number of reports/papers/presentation per public and non-public categories, it would be greatly appreciated but is not necessary. Please send replies to me directly at Many thanks in advance. Jeff Allen ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Européenne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ================================================================ 3/Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:28:11 +0200 From: Pim van der Eijk Subject: Re: definitions of controlled languages Message-Id: Colleagues and I have used the distinctions "natural" versus "artificial", and "descriptive" versus "prescriptive" to differentiate sublanguage from controlled language (see e.g. our CLAW 96 paper). There is an extensive literature (mostly from the 80s, but still very useful today) on sublanguages that discuss methods to perform sublanguage analysis. You can apply these and other (e.g. terminology, corpus studies) methods to a particular set of documents, e.g. the technical documentation of a particular company. You may then find (in lexicon analysis) that in a particular domain a concept is expressed using words A and B, and that word C is used to express two distinct concepts, which are unambiguously expressed using words D or E. Separately from this, an analysis of that company's business needs may show that the existing sublanguage practice needs to be changed, for instance to accomodate quality requirements of their customers (such as improving consistency or reducing ambiguity), to improve reusability of documentation modules, or because the company wants to use an MT system that has limitations that need to be worked around. In a controlled language, you want to translate these requirements into explicit guidelines that authors and editors can take into account. For instance, you may propose that authors should always use "B" and no longer use "A", or that "D" or "E" should be used instead of "C". Some of these guidelines can be stated explicitly and formally, so that they can be machine-checked. A problem with many controlled language specifications is that although they are defined rather formally, they are defined in reference to a sublanguage or to general language which itself is not described formally (or is too vast to describe). Note that this refers to the use of "controlled language" in technical documentation applications as a kind of "controlled sublanguages". There is a (very different) use of controlled language for formal specification, command and control applications etc. These controlled languages are very different because there is no existing sublanguage and because they can be very different syntactically from standard language. ================================================================ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 14 09:39:56 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:39:56 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers Message-ID: _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Etienne Grandjean Subject: Universite de Caen 2/ From: Tracy McConnell Subject: Natual Language AI Cognition Specialist sought... 3/ From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Research Fellow at ITRI, Brighton 4/ From: Ernst Buchberger Subject: NLP/ Speech Processing; Research position in Vienna 5/ From: "Kim Moore" Subject: Voice User Interface Software Development Manager _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Etienne Grandjean Subject: Universite de Caen Emploi MC n�0977 vacant 01.09.1999 Section CNU: 27�me, Informatique Localisation: UFR des Langues Vivantes Etrang�res, Dpt LEA (Langues Etrangeres Applique�s) Profil du poste Enseignement: Informatique de l'entreprise Le ma�tre de conf�rences recrut� fera tout son enseignement et prendra des responsabilit�s dans la fili�re LEA (DEUG, licence-ma�trise et �ventuellement DESS). L'enseignement de l'informatique dans cette fili�re est destin� � des "litt�raires" (�tudiants en langues �trang�res) et a pour objectif de les pr�parer au monde de l'entreprise. De ce fait, les trois premi�res ann�es sont essentiellement consacr�es � l'apprentissage des outils de bureautique classiques (traitement de texte Word, tableurs Excel, systt�mes de gestion de bases de donn�es Acess, internet) en TD avec enseignement des fondements th�oriques en cours. Des compl�ments sont donn�s aussi en syst�mes d'exploitation, programmation, conception de bases de donn�es, structuration de documents. Recherche (Lab. GREYC, CNRS UPRESA 6072): Le ma�tre de conf�rences recrut� devra avoir un profil correspondant � l'une des deux �quipes Algorithmique et/ou Intelligence Artificielle (nouvellement nomm�e I3) du laboratoire GREYC: voir URL http://www.info.unicaen.fr/greyc/ . Il renforcera l'un des trois th�mes de l'�quipe Algorithmique 1) Mod�les de calcul et complexit�. 2) Algorithmes combinatoires. 3) Algorithmique et s�curit� de l'information, ou encore l'un des trois th�mes principaux de l'�quipe I3: 1) Le langage et les langues. 2) Le document �lectronique. 3) Interaction. Contacts: Etienne GRANDJEAN, Pr�sident de la Commission de sp�cialistes 27�me section tel 02 31 56 73 34, email: Etienne.Grandjean at info.unicaen.fr Enseignement: Annette GOIZET, Directrice du Dpt Langues Etrang�res Appliqu�es, tel 02 31 56 57 69 St�phane FERRARI, responsable des modules d'informatique, Dpt LEA, email: St�phane.Ferrari at info.unicaen.frAnnette GOIZET, Directrice du Dpt Langues Etrang�res Appliqu�es, tel 02 31 56 57 69 Recherche (Lab. GREYC): Claude CARLET et Brigitte VALLEE, responsables de l'Equipe "Algorithmique", Patrice ENJALBERT et Khaldoun ZREIK responsables de l'Equipe I3 (ex Intelligence Artificielle), email: {Claude.Carlet, Brigitte.Vall�e, Patrice.Enjalbert, Khaldoun.Zreik}@info.unicaen.fr _______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Tracy McConnell Subject: Natual Language AI Cognition Specialist sought... http://www.COREintellect.com is seeking a AI / Cognition Specialist to lead the Natural Language development in an intellegent Web Product. This development endeavor will involve Knowledge Acquisition, Symantec Analysis and Relevance determination. Candidates must have Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related discipline; Experience with C++, Java, or OO Development and published in related topics an advantage. apply to mailto:jobs at COREintellect.com _______________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Research Fellow at ITRI, Brighton Apologies for duplicates ******************************************* JOB ADVERTISEMENT Research Fellow (Computational Linguistics) ITRI University of Brighton UK ******************************************* This post offers an opportunity to undertake leading-edge research in word sense disambiguation and computational lexicography at ITRI, an internationally recognised centre of excellence in computational linguistics. Working primarily on WASPS, a project to develop a lexicographer's workstation, you will need an open-minded, analytical and collaborative approach to research, extensive knowledge of natural language processing, good programming skills and a proven research and publication record. In return we offer excellent research facilities and place great emphasis on research career management and development. The post is fixed-term for 3 years. WASPS is an EPSRC funded project, under the direction of Dr. Roger Evans, Dr. Adam Kilgarriff and Sue Atkins. It will explore the synergy between the lexicographer's task of identifying and describing word senses, and the computational task of word sense disambiguation (WSD). On the one side, lexicographers are asking for natural language processing (NLP) software to pre-process and organise corpus data. On the other, NLP needs formal, explicit descriptions of word behaviour, particularly for WSD. The challenge now is to design an environment in which the human lexicographer's perception and the power of the WSD algorithms are successfully brought together. The research fellow will have primary responsibility for producing a semi-automatic lexicographer's workstation, as specified in the WASPS grant proposal. This will include developing and implementing a language which can be used both by humans for specifying and editing word sense descriptions, and by a WSD algorithm for disambiguation. It will also include implementing one or more state-of-the-art WSD algorithms. Salary: up to GBP 24,002 Term: 3 years fixed term Further details, including application form in Word http://www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/ Postscript version of application form http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/posts/appform.ps ITRI web pages: http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk Queries: Adam.Kilgarriff at itri.bton.ac.uk Ref number: IR4012 Closing date: 30th April 1999 _______________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Ernst Buchberger Subject: NLP/ Speech Processing; Research position in Vienna JOB OPPORTUNITY Research position in Natural Language Processing / Speech processing at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI), Vienna, Austria OeFAI offers a research position within its Natural Language Processing Group. We are looking for a participant in a basic research project in the area of speech synthesis that aims at the investigation of segmental durations in German. The project is funded by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) and will be headed by Ao.Prof.Harald Trost. A speech corpus of "Austrian German" is constructed and subsequently analyzed using machine learning techniques in order to derive models of durational variation. From a theoretical point of view the project aims for a better understanding of the quantitative effects of the multiple factors influencing duration in speech. From a practical point of view the results will be used in order to improve the naturalness of prosody in a speech synthesis program. Candidates are to deal with one or more of the following tasks: - development of procedures and tools for supporting the (semi automatic) labeling and representation of the corpus - adaption and application of machine learning techniques - integration of resulting models to an existing speech synthesizer She/he has finished her/his diploma or an equivalent degree in - computational linguistics, or - phonetics, or - digital signal processing, or - computer science plus a background in linguistics. She/he has programming experience, preferably in C and/or C++. A good command of English and/or German is expected. The project started in December 98, with a duration of 2.5 years. We would like to fill the position as soon as possible. Continued employment after the end of the project is possible. The candidate is encouraged to realize her/his Ph.D. within the project. The yearly gross salary will be about ATS 260.000,- according to FWF regulation. More information about the OeFAI and its Natural Language Processing group can be found at http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nlu/ Inquiries and applications (including a short CV and list of publications) should be sent by mail or email to: Harald Trost OeFAI Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Wien, Austria Tel.: +43 1 535 32 810 Fax: +43 1 532 06 52 Email: harald at ai.univie.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ernst Buchberger, Dept. of Med.Cybernetics & Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, Freyung 6, A-1010 Vienna, Austria and Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna +43-1-53532810 (tel), +43-1-5320652 (fax), ernst at ai.univie.ac.at _______________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: "Kim Moore" Subject: Voice User Interface Software Development Manager General Magic is developing Portico, a powerful, Internet-based application that will allow people to easily communicate with others and to obtain and act on important information. As an Internet application, Portico will allow users to access their important information using standard web browsers. General Magic is also developing a highly evolved voice user interface (VUI) to allow users to access their information using natural language. This means users will have continuity in accessing their important information whether through data or telephone devices. Currently we are seeking a VUI Software Development Manager Description: Manage a team of developers responsible for VUI applications layered on top of diverse network-based services. Direct and participate in software development for VUI services provided by General Magic, including Portico. Must be technically strong in at least one of: voice user interface, telephony, distributed computing. Must be able to synthesize input from various sources and provide articulate technical leadership. Experience managing commercial software development is required. Working knowledge of modern software development methods is a must. Must have experience in a management position, delivering complex product(s) on a demanding schedule. At least 5 years experience in C++, OOA and OOD. UNIX and NT experience is a plus, as is Internet experience. Experience integrating speech recognition and synthesis in a high-volume telephony environment is preferred. Finite State Machine experience is a plus. To apply, e-mail your resume to: kmoore at genmagic.com kmoore at garlic.com From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 14 09:40:00 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:40:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Language Technologies Message-ID: From: Spela Vintar LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES - MULTILINGUAL ASPECTS CALL FOR PAPERS (http://www2.arnes.si/~svinta/workshop.htm) Workshop in the framework of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the SOCIETAS LINGUISTICA EUROPAEA, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 8-11 July, 1999 This workshop is intended for linguists, computational linguists, translators and other experts who are actively involved or interested in the field of language technologies. We especially wish to focus on multilingual technologies, which are gaining relevance for the Slovenian community in view of the accession to the multilingual Europe. Presentations are invited addressing or related to the following topics: * corpora - mono- or multilingual corpora; approaches to the compilation and exploitation of corpora; * tools for corpus querying and processing; * mono- or multilingual lexicons and dictionaries; * terminology management; building and using terminological databases; * technologies for translation and interpreting; * software localization; * the internet and language technologies; * other technologies aimed at supporting intercultural communication and providing language resources and tools. Extended abstracts not exceeding 2 pages should be submitted by e-mail to ulj.ff-opt at guest.arnes.si or by regular mail to the following address: LT Workshop Oddelek za prevajanje in tolma�enje Filozofska fakulteta Askerceva 2 1000 Ljubljana Fax: (061) 221-310 Submission deadline: Application and abstract submission: 15 April, 1999 Author notification: 15 May, 1999 Participation Anyone intending to participate should register for the Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting at the conference address below: SLE Conference Department of Translation and Interpreting Faculty of Arts Askerceva 2 1000 Ljubljana Fax: (061) 221-310 E-mail: ulj.ff-opt at guest.arnes.si Additional information on the SLE conference can be found at the conference web page http://www2.arnes.si/~svinta/circular.htm. Organising Committee: dr. Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute mag. Vojko Gorjanc, Faculty of Arts Spela Vintar, Faculty of Arts From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 14 09:40:03 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:40:03 +0100 Subject: Appel: ISMT&CLIP Message-ID: From: ren at its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp Please accept our apologies if you receive this more than once. ---------------------------------------------------------------- International Symposium on Machine Translation & Computer Language Information Processing (ISMT&CLIP) Beijing, China, June 26-28, 1999 Call for Papers You are invited to participate in the International Symposium on Machine Translation & Computer Language Information Processing (ISMT&CLIP), which will be held on June 26-28, 1999 at Beijing, China. ISMT&CLIP is a international symposium on machine translation and computer language information processing. The symposium will provide a forum for the researchers, developers and participates to exchange their ideas and discuss the future direction of machine translation and computer language information processing. Sponsored by Natural Language Processing Scientific Committee (NLPSC) of Chinese Information Association of China (CIAC) Undertaken by Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of Chinese Academy of Sciences Supported by Chinese National Natural Science Found Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of Chinese Academy of Sciences Topics Suggested topics include (but not limited to): Machine Translation Grammar Machine Translation System Design and Practical Technology On-line Machine Translation Machine Translation Evaluation Multi-Language Knowledge Base Corpus and Processing Natural Language Processing Dictionary Regimentation and Language Engineering Information Retrieval & Information Extraction Natural Language Understanding Speech Recognition & Synthesis Intelligent Input Methodologies Pattern Recognition and Handwriting Recognition Network Information Processing and Communication Artificial Intelligent Technologies Application Computer-aided Instruction Natural Language Human-machine Interface Information for Authors Original unpublished papers of no more then six pages of A4 by laser printer are invited. The paper can be written in English or Chinese. All the papers must include following parts: title (subtitle), author information (address, postcode, author name, email), abstract, keywords, text and reference. The telephone number, fax number and detail address for contact if needed. Important Dates April 15, 1999 Paper of camera ready manuscript submission due May 15, 1999 Notification of acceptance Contact Zhou Xiaojun Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of Chinese Academy of Sciences Kequn Building (West), No.30, Xueyuan Rd., Haidian District, Beijing, P.R China 100083 Tel: (010) 62333652-207 Fax: (010) 62312212 Email$B#:(Bxiaojunzhou at yahoo.com Authors also can contact with Co-Chair of the Program Committee of the ISMT & CLIP: Prof.& Dr. Fuji Ren Faculty of Information Sciences Hiroshima City University 3-4-1, Ozuka-Higasi, Asa-Minami-Ku Hiroshima, 731-3194, Japan Tel:+81-82-830-1584 Fax:+81-82-830-1584 or +81-82-830-1792 Email:ren at its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------ Fuji Ren Faculty of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University 3-4-1,Ozuka-Higashi,Asa-Minami-Ku,Hiroshima,731-3194,Japan Tel&Fax:+81-82-830-1584 Email:ren at its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp http://www.nlp.its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/~ren From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 14 09:40:05 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:40:05 +0100 Subject: Appel: Machine Translation Message-ID: From: "Inter Group Corp." ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The goal of this workshop is to explore the role of MT in the context of CLIR. Undoubtedly searching, extracting and summarising information from the Web is a major challenge demanding multilingual solutions. Despite the fact that currently much textual WWW information is in English, the situation is radically changing. In addition, there is an increased amount of users who would prefer to use sites and/or query in their native language. There are different strategies for CLIR involving document translation, query translation, use of dictionaries. The adoption of a strategy depends on the user profile, the level of user interaction intended in the search process, the targeted use of the documents retrieved and the availability of linguistic resources, among others. We invite papers on topics which link advances in Machine Translation or related technologies to CLIR. Are existing MT solutions sufficient for the information access demands of today? What type of MT linguistic analysis would be useful for CLIR? How can we identify the proper translations of query terms? How can we improve on existing techniques to improve precision and recall? A non-exhaustive list, which should serve as a starting point, follows: * Issues in query translation and query expansion * Alignment techniques for dictionary building * Level and type of linguistic MT analysis for CLIR (shallow, chunking, ...) * Type of multilingual resources (corpora, dictionaries, terminologies) used in CLIR * Role of terminology and ontologies in CLIR * Translation Memories in CLIR * Translation of index terms and descriptors * CLIR involving Asian languages (problems and challenges) Participation and Submission of Papers Participation is limited to 30 persons. Participants will be selected by the organizing committee, based on submitted papers. Participants will be expected to contribute to the workshop by either presenting a talk or taking part in the discussions. Researchers interested in participating in the workshop are invited to submit long abstracts (up to three pages) on the listed research topics. Submissions may be sent by e-mail (PostScript files) or as hardcopies (in triplicate) to the workshop organiser. In the case where you use non-Roman fonts, hardcopies are preferred. The submissions will be reviewed and the accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Participants selected for giving a talk, will have to submit a full paper (up to 8 pages) for the workshop proceedings. For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Organiser. Important Dates Abstracts due by: May 31, 1999. Notification of acceptance: June 30, 1999. Camera-ready version of Final Paper due: August 2, 1999. Main MT Summit: September 13-17, 1999. Date of the Workshop: September 17,1999 Organising Committee * Sophia Ananiadou, European Media Lab, Germany * Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI, France * Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT Cyberspace Labs, Japan * Mun Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore * Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea * Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Workshop Organiser Please send abstracts / papers to: Sophia Ananiadou European Media Lab (EML) Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 D-69118 Heidelberg Germany Fax: +49-6221-533-298 Email: Sophia.Ananiadou at eml.villa-bosch.org /e ************************************************ Secretariat of Organizing Committee, MT Summit VII c/o Inter Group Corp. Akasaka Dai-ichi Bldg., 4-9-17, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8486, Japan TEL:+81-3-3479-5311 FAX:+81-3-3423-1601 E-mai: secret-4 at tokyo.intergroup.co.jp ************************************************ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 14 09:40:14 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:40:14 +0100 Subject: Conf: ACFAS Message-ID: From: Yves MARCOUX APPEL � PARTICIPATION COLLOQUE CR�ATION, DIFFUSION ET UTILISATION DU SAVOIR � L'�RE DES R�SEAUX 13 et 14 mai 1999, Universit� d'Ottawa 67e congr�s de l'Acfas =========================================================================== Pour demeurer comp�titif ou simplement survivre dans le contexte des march�s mondiaux, tout groupe, organisation, collectivit�, et m�me soci�t�, doit apprendre � g�rer son savoir collectif. Traiter les donn�es et l'information ne suffit plus. Venez entendre ce que d'�minents penseurs, chercheurs et praticiens de la gestion du savoir ont � dire sur les bouleversements qu'entra�ne l'�mergence des r�seaux globaux dans les fa�ons de cr�er, de diffuser et d'utiliser le savoir. CONF�RENCIERS (liste partielle): - Zoumana BAMBA, Association des universit�s africaines (Ghana) - Elisabeth DAVENPORT, Business School, Napier University (�cosse) - Antoine DEL BUSSO, Directeur g�n�ral, Fides - Jean-Claude GU�DON, Universit� de Montr�al - Mich�le HUDON, EBSI, Universit� de Montr�al - Pierre L�VY, Universit� du Qu�bec � Trois-Rivi�res Pour participer au colloque, il suffit de vous inscrire au congr�s de l'Acfas (tarif r�duit avant le 16 avril). * PROGRAMME COMPLET DU COLLOQUE: http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~marcoux/acfas1999/programme.htm * INSCRIPTION: http://www.acfas.ca/congres/insc.html =========================================================================== ---------------------- Yves MARCOUX, Ph.D., ift.a., professeur agrege ------------------------------- - EBSI, Universite de Montreal --------------------------- http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~marcoux/ -- Yves.MARCOUX at UMontreal.CA ---- (514) 343-7750 / FAX (514) 343-5753 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 15 15:53:16 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:53:16 +0100 Subject: Appel: Evolang Message-ID: From: Conference Evolang ( Apologies for multiple copies ) [First announcement] Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS [deadline: November 8, 1999] =============== ================================================= conference: T H E E V O L U T I O N O F L A N G U A G E ================================================= Paris April 3-6, 2000 Ecole Nationale Sup�rieure des T�l�communications Paris - France http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University), Dr. Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Professor Jim Hurford (Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh), Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of East London), Professor Luc Steels (Sony CSL and Vrije Universiteit Brussel). LOCAL ORGANISATION: Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST), Laleh Ghadakpour (CREA), Fr�d�ric Kaplan (Sony CSL), Luc Steels (Sony CSL), Fran�ois Yvon (ENST). This will be 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. Provisional PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: ------------------------------- Jean Aitchison (Worcester College), Robert C. Berwick (M.I.T.), Derek Bickerton (Univ. Hawa�), Melissa Bowerman* (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory), Ren� Carr� (ENST), Bernard Comrie (University of Southern California), Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST), Jean-Marie Hombert* (MSH Rh�ne-Alpes), James R. Hurford (University of Edinburgh), Judy Kegl* (University of Southern Maine), Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh), Chris Knight (University of East London), Andr� Langaney (Mus�e de l'Homme), Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington), Michael Studdert-Kenedy* (Haskins Laboratories), Luc Steels (Sony CSL & Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Bernard Victorri (ENS Ulm). * [to be confirmed] Submission Instructions ======================= Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or short papers (from 1 to 4 pages, max. 2000 words). Submitted papers will be refereed and selected for oral presentation (25/30 min) on the basis of quality and relevance to the Conference topics. Accepted abstracts and papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings and will be made accessible through the web. Copies of the proceedings will be available at the Conference. Authors of accepted contributions will be asked to submit full length papers for a volume to be published after the Conference by an international publisher. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically (MS Word preferred, but most formats will be recognised). Please email your submission to evolang at infres.enst.fr Don't forget to include the submission form in your message. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The deadline for submission is November 8th, 1999. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If you cannot send your submission through email, please send four copies (and the submission form) to: J-L Dessalles ENST / Dep. InfRes 46 rue Barrault F-75013 Paris - France If you are planning to submit a paper or abstract, or if you simply plan to attend the Conference, please send a mail to evolang at infres.enst.fr You will be kept informed through e-mail of further useful information. Submission Form ========================================================================== [ The first author should fill in the submission form and e-mail it to evolang at infres.enst.fr ] Last NAME : First Name : Laboratory : Organization/Affiliation : Street Address : City : Postal code: State/Province : Country : E-mail address for correspondence : Fax : Paper title : ========================================================================== Conference web site: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ Call for papers: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/cfp.html EMAIL: evolang at infres.enst.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 15 15:53:20 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:53:20 +0100 Subject: Appel: SPECOM special issue Message-ID: From: Steven Bird (Our apologies for duplicate postings) ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT Special Issue of Speech Communication on Speech Annotation and Corpus Tools www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/specom.html In recent years there has been an explosion of activity in the area of annotated linguistic databases. A wide variety of formats and tools have been developed; for an extensive set of web pointers, see [www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation]. Hundreds of annotated speech corpora have been published, and such corpora are finding uses in a rapidly expanding set of disciplines. In the majority of cases, annotated corpora and associated software have been created without reference to other efforts in the area, leading to a proliferation of incompatible tools and formats despite the common conceptual core. There is a clear need for the dissemination of existing work and open discussion of the issues it raises, ultimately leading to consensus about formats and the creation of general purpose tools. Speech Communication [www.elsevier.com/locate/specom] will sponsor a special issue on speech annotation and tools for developing and interrogating speech corpora, to be edited by Steven Bird and Jonathan Harrington. Information about deadlines will be circulated once it is available. In the meantime, please visit the page for the special issue: www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/specom.html Please bookmark this page and/or sign up for the mailing list to be sure of receiving subsequent announcements. Steven & Jonathan. -- Dr Jonathan Harrington Director, Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9850 8740 Fax: +61 2 9850 9199 jmh at srsuna.shlrc.mq.edu.au www.ling.mq.edu.au/dbase/person.phtml?oid=19084 Dr Steven Bird Assoc Director, LDC; Adj Assoc Prof, CIS & Linguistics Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania 3615 Market St, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2608 Tel: +1 215 573-3352 Fax: +1 215 573-2175 Steven.Bird at ldc.upenn.edu www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 15 15:53:35 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:53:35 +0100 Subject: Conf: The Future of CL ... Message-ID: From: David Pearce *************************************************** The Future of Computational Logic in Language and Speech Technology **************************************************** A Compulog Net/Elsnet Joint Strategic Planning Workshop Saarbruecken, April 30, 1999 Workshop Homepage: http://www.compulog.org/workshops/cl-nlp1999/ Venue: DFKI and the Dept of Computational Linguistics at the University of Saarland, Saarbr�cken, Germany Building 36 (Computer Science), 4th floor Natural language and speech technology is a major growth area of IT. The accessibility of more reliable speech-related software has made a series of exciting applications, such as speech-guided computer use, into attainable goals. The advent of the world-wide web, while providing many new functionalities, has highlighted the need to attack problems such as concept extraction and semantic-based search that were not seen as being so crucial in the past. Computational Logic provides some of the most promising instruments for achieving these new goals as well as for tackling more traditional problems of language and speech processing. The purpose of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers from the Compulog Net and ELSNET communities to discuss a strategy for the future of computational logic within language and speech technology. This will involve identifying a succession of R&D goals, from short to long term, that would strengthen and further the contributions in this area. It is also hoped that the workshop will provide materials for the 'Technological Roadmaps' which each network is currently preparing for its own field. Though Roadmaps may be conceived differently by different networks, broadly speaking they aim to identify, for the medium-term future, new potential areas of industrial exploitation of the technology (or new possibilities within existing application areas); and they try to indicate which kinds of scientific advances and technological innovations will be need to ensure that this potential can be realised. Experts from various subareas of language and speech technology will present their views on the most promising lines of inquiry over the next 5-to-10 years in language and speech processing, and how the area of computational logic might contribute to this endeavour. A wide range of issues will be addressed. The workshop will comprise a series of 30-minute presentations as well as 10-minute panel contributions. Organising Committee Ewan Klein David Pearce Manfred Pinkal Patrick Blackburn Registration: please use web form. Registration Fee: 60 DM, includes lunch Enquiries to: Compulog.Net at compulog.org Tel: +49 681 302 5322 ------------------------------------------------------------ David Pearce Compulog Net DFKI GmbH Postfach 15 11 50 D-66041 Saarbruecken Tel +49 681 302 5322 or 5276 Fax +49 681 302 2235 Tel (mobile) +49 171 536 8366 http://www.compulog.org/staff/DavidPearce.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 15 15:53:47 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:53:47 +0100 Subject: Conf: HMC (Postponement) Message-ID: From: y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Yorick Wilks) Dear Colleagues: I very much regret to announce the postponement of the third Bellagio workshop until 11-13 July 2000. It has been an unfortunate side effect of the recent problems at the European Commission. We annnounced the meeting with distinguished speakers and the plan was to fund them from an EC grant. Suddenly, our proposal along with the others that had received was returned to wait for a new RFP in the summer--too late for us, alas! We felt it would not be right to go ahead this year after withdrwing the invitations to the speakers, so we will postpone till next year, hopefully with the same speakers and sponsors and EC backing. www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 15 15:54:35 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:54:35 +0100 Subject: Appel: DCAGRS'99 Message-ID: From: reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Bernd Reichel) Dear Colleague, Upon several requests we have extended the deadline for submissions to the Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" in Magdeburg (Germany), July 20-23, 1999, to April 29, 1999. We send you in the enclosure the complete Call for Papers with the new deadline for submissions. The Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" starts five days after ICALP '99 ends in Prague (appr. 300 km from Magdeburg) and one day after WIA '99 ends in Potsdam (100 km east of Magdeburg). Magdeburg, which was founded 1200 years ago, is the capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and is situated appr. 120 km west of Berlin on the banks of the river Elbe. Magdeburg is the site of the oldest German Gothic cathedral, is the start and end point of the "Romanesque Road" (taking you to many Romanesque buildings and being one of the historic main attractions of Saxony-Anhalt), is famous for its parks and gardens and is the host of the German Federal Garden Show '99 (which is part of the social program of the workshop). We invite you to participate in and to contribute to the workshop. Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg) Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% C A L L F O R P A P E R S Workshop DESCRIPTIONAL COMPLEXITY OF AUTOMATA, GRAMMARS AND RELATED STRUCTURES July 20-23, 1999, Magdeburg, Germany The Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" is being organized by the IFIP Working Group 1.2 Descriptional Complexity and the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg and will take place in Magdeburg which is the 1200 years old capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Magdeburg is located 130 km west of Berlin and will be the site of the German Garden Show 1999. The aim of the workshop is to present, partly through invited lectures, the state of the art and trends in the field and to provide a forum for the exchange of new results. Program Committee: ****************** N. Blum (Bonn), J. Dassow (Magdeburg, co-chair), J. Goldstine (University Park), Gh. Paun (Bucharest), J. Seiferas (Rochester), D. Wotschke (Frankfurt, co-chair) Invited Speakers: ***************** J. Gruska (Brno) A. Kelemenova (Opava) H. Leung (Las Cruces) J. Shallit (Waterloo) S. Yu (London, Canada) and E. Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest) K. Hashiguchi (Okayama) H. Petersen (Stuttgart) Submissions: ************ Authors are invited to submit a draft paper of up to 10 pages in English. (If appropriate, proofs should be attached as a full paper.) Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be sent as postscript files to: dcagrs at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Submissions by mail (four copies) should be sent to: Juergen Dassow Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg Fakultaet fuer Informatik Postfach 41 20 D-39016 Magdeburg Accepted papers will be published in special issues of "Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics". Preproceedings will be distributed at the conference. Important Dates: **************** Deadline for submission: April 29, 1999 Acceptance notification: May 31, 1999 Preliminary paper for the preproceedings: June 30, 1999 Symposium: July 20-23, 1999 Final Version: October 30, 1999 Further Information: ******************** http://ozelot.psc.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de:8000/ifip-wg1.2/dcagrs Registration Fee: ***************** The registration fee (incl. Preproceedings and Conference Dinner) will be approximately DM 140,- (EUR 70,-). From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 16 11:14:19 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:14:19 +0100 Subject: Appel: 3rd Tbilisi Symposium Message-ID: From: ingrid at wins.uva.nl (Ingrid van Loon) * Apologies for multiple copies* The Third International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation Batumi, Georgia September 12-16, 1999 Second Announcement and Call for Papers In 1999, the Tbilisi International Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, will be held in the Black Sea coast resort Batumi from 12th to 16th of September. The Symposium is organized by the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech (Tbilisi State University), in conjunction with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam. The 1999 meeting is the third installment of a series of biannual Symposia. The first meeting was held in the Georgian mountain resort Gudauri and the second took place in the capital of Georgia Tbilisi. The Third Symposium is dedicated to the memory of the prominent Georgian logician Shalva Pkhakadze. THEMES The Symposium welcomes papers on current research in all aspects of Linguistics, Logic and Computation, including but not limited to: Natural language semantics/pragmatics Algebraic and relational semantics Natural language processing Logic in AI and natural language Natural language and logic programming Automated reasoning Natural language and databases Information retrieval from text Natural language and internet Constructive logic and modal systems In line with the main trend in this field we strongly encourage the submission of papers concerning applications of logic to computation and the application of logic and computation to language description and modelling. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Abstracts of papers submitted for presentation should not exceed 2 000 words. The abstracts should include, on the first page: title, author's name, affiliation, complete mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail address, an abstract of 200 words maximum, and up to five key- words. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (ASCII, LaTeX, or PostScript) to the following e-mail addresses: dekker at philo.uva.nl The collection volume of the short versions (Theses) will be available during the Symposium. The Proceedings with full size (8-12 pages) papers are planned immediately after the Symposium. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 1, 1999 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 1999 Symposium: September 12-16, 1999 TUTORIALS In parallel with the Symposium three tutorials are given by outstanding scholars for students and post-graduates. These tutorials are explicitly meant to address interdisciplinary issues in the fields of logic and language, algebraic logic, and computation and morphology. RELATED EVENTS The Symposium will be immediately preceded by the Conference on Logical Programming and Automatic Reasoning (LPAR) which will be held in Tbilisi from 6th to 10th of September 1999. Some of its participants plan to be present on the both forums. The web site of LPAR is http://www.csd.uu.se/~voronkov/lpar99.html INVITED SPEAKERS J. van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) G. Gottlob (Vienna University of Technology) J. D. McCawley (University of Chicago) I. Hodkinson (Imperial College, London) I. Melchuk (University of Montreal) V. Pratt (Stanford University) A. Zaenen (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble); to be confirmed LECTURERS FOR TUTORIALS W. Blok (University of Illinois at Chicago); to be confirmed L. Karttunen (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble); to be confirmed D. Westerstahl (G�teborg University); to be confirmed SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE chair D. de Jongh (University of Amsterdam) Th. Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi State University) A. Voronkov (Uppsala University) members A. Anisimov (Kiev State University) Ju. Apresjan (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) J. van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) W. Blok (University of Illinois at Chicago) N. Chanishvili (Tbilisi State University) R. Cooper (G�teborg University) Ju. Ershov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk) J. Ginzburg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) R. Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington) E. Hajicova (Charles University, Prague) L. Jablonskij (Moscow State University) Z. Khasidashvili (Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva) V. Matrosov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk) H. Ono (JAIST, Ishikawa) B. Partee (University of Massachusetts) G. Sambin (University of Padua) E. Vallduvi (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) C. Vogel (Trinity College, Dublin) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE general I. van Loon (University of Amsterdam, Chair) P. Dekker (University of Amsterdam) G. Erbach (Universit�t des Saarlandes, Saarbr�cken) V. Finn (Institute for Scientific & Technical Information, Moscow) G. Gaprindashvili (University of Minnesota) T. Kutsia (Institute of Symbolic Computation, University of Linz) D. Pearce (GmbH, Saarbr�cken) E. Tavadze-Melini (Royal Technical High School, Stockholm) local T. Khurodze (pro-rector of the Tbilisi State University, Chair) J. Antidze, R. Asatiani, M. Abashidze, G.Bezhanishvili, R. Grigolia, E. Soselia, L. Chkaidze, G. Chikoidze, L. Godabrelidze, N. Javashvili, L. Lortkipanidze, M. Tandashvili (all Georgian Academy of Sciences) Kh. Rukhaia, K. Phkhakadze, N. Shengelaia (Tbilisi State University) D. Baladze, M. Putkaradze, N. Soselia (Batumi University) FINANCES The participant's fee is 200 EURO. This fee is not obligatory for participants from Central and Ceastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. The costs for accommodation, including three meals a day, are 40 EURO per day. Prices for accommodation may fluctuate in the future. TRAVEL Batumi can be reached in two ways: By plane to Tbilisi and then by bus (6 hours) or by train (1 night) to Batumi; a special bus trip is planned, which includes a visit to Zestafoni, the place of birth of the prominent Georgian logician Shalva Phakadze to the memory of whom the Symposium is dedicated. By plane via Trabzon, a Turkish city close to the Georgian frontier, and then a 3 hours trip by a comfortable bus, which leaves each half hour for Batumi. A third possibility, by direct flight from Moscow to Batumi, is being investigated. A visa can be obtained at the airport. LOCATION Georgia is an ancient country situated between Black and Kaspian Seas, Caucasus Mountains and Turkey. This is the country of the Golden Fleece, myth of Argonauts, Jason and Medea, Promethee, chained to the Caucasus Mountains. Georgia is famous for its high quality wines, exquisite cuisine and cordial hospitality. The Symposium will be hosted by the Tbilisi State University, the chief centre of education in the country which has several outstanding scholars in science, art and politics among its graduates. The conference's venue---Batumi University---is the main educational centre of the region. The Symposium will be held in Chakvi, a sea resort near Batumi, which is the main city of Georgian subtropical region Adjara. Batumi is encircled by the Black Sea resorts: Makhindjauri, the Green Cape, Tsikhisdziri, aand Kobuleti. The environment of the city abounds with citric and tea plantations, magnolia, palm, eucalyptus and bay tree groves. Near the Green Cape the famous Botanical Garden is situated. The climate is mild, seawater warm, the bathing season lasts from May to October. INFORMATION Information on registration and accommodation will appear in future announcements. For more information you may take a look at: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Batumi/ or contact: George Chikoidze Dept. of Language Modelling Inst. of Control Systems Georgian Academy of Sciences 34, K. Gamsakhurdia 380060 Tbilisi Georgia phone: +995 32 382136 fax: +995 32 942391 chiko at contsys.acnet.ge or Ingrid van Loon Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 1018 TV Amsterdam, he Netherlands Tel: +31 (20) 5256051 Fax: +31 (20) 5255206 ingrid at wins.uva.nl From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 16 11:14:24 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:14:24 +0100 Subject: Appel: MT Summit VII Message-ID: From: MT Dear Sir/ Madam, The seventh Machine Translation Summit will be held at Kent Ridge Digital Labs on the campus of National University of Singapore from 13 to 17 September 1999. We look forward to the participation of those who are interested in any aspect of machine translation. We are pleased to inform you of the 2nd Call for Papers and the Call for Paper Supplement,Call for Paper Supplement-2, which are additional informations of the 2nd Call for Papers. Because of the nature of MT Summit as a forum of MT researchers, users, industrialists and funding agencies, we welcome papers, not only on technical/theoretical issues of MT, but also on [1] users' experiences [2] innovative uses of MT in commercial products [3] evaluation of actual MT systems [4] proposal of practical uses of MT systems like controlled languages [5] users' interactions, etc. It would be of great help if you could kindly inform to relevant institutions and individuals who may be interested in submitting papers to the conference. Also, for further information of the MT Summit VII, please see Web-site: http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html We hope to see you soon at the Summit. Hozumi Tanaka Chairman Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation ===================================================================== MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII "MT in the Great Translation Era" September 13-17, 1999, Singapore 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== MT Summit VII solicits submissions of research papers, system presentations, and user reports in the broad field of machine translation and natural language processing. Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP.) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline Please see the "Paper Submission" section below for the details. MT Summit VII will also have many invited presentations by researchers, users and policy makers from all parts of the world. Featured Speakers: Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University Please see the "Invited Speakers" section below for the details. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Further Information: Please visit our Web-site for up-to-date MT SUMMIT VII information: http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99 or http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html By e-mail, please contact the AAMT secretariat: aamt0002 at infotokyo.ne.jp ===================================================================== The seventh Machine Translation Summit, organized by the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), will be held at Kent Ridge Digital Labs on the campus of National University of Singapore from 13 to 17 September 1999. Meetings of the MT Summit have been held once every two years since 1987 under the auspices of AAMT, EAMT (European Association for Machine Translation) and AMTA (Association for Machine Translation in the Americas). MT Summit VII, which is the last conference of the 20th century in the premier series of conferences on machine translation, will provide a forum for discussing the prospect of MT and related areas in the coming century. MT Summit VII will feature an expanded program including research papers, reports on users' experiences, discussions of policy issues, invited talks, panels, exhibitions, tutorials, and workshops. AAMT invites all who are interested in any aspect of machine translation - researchers, developers, providers, users, and watchers - to participate in the conference. The schedule of MT Summit VII is outlined as follows: Monday, 13 September: Tutorials Reception Tuesday, 14 September: Main conference Exhibition Wednesday, 15 September: Main conference Exhibition Banquet Thursday, 16 September: Main conference Exhibition Friday, 17 September: Workshops ----------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission MT Summit VII seeks original papers in all aspects of machine translation. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: - Methodologies for MT (rule-based, knowledge-based, analogy-based, statistics-based, etc.) - Practical MT systems (MT for professional translation, MT for the Internet, MT for localization, etc.) - Translation aids (translation memory, terminology databases, etc.) - Speech and dialogue translation - Natural language analysis and generation techniques - Dictionaries and lexicons for MT systems - Text corpora for MT and knowledge extraction from corpora - Human factors in MT and user interfaces - Evaluation techniques - Standards in text and lexicon encoding for MT - Cross-lingual information retrieval - MT and related technologies (information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, etc.) There will be three categories of papers: (1) Research papers: Submissions are invited for reports of significant research results in any aspect of machine translation and related areas. Such reports should include a substantial evaluative component. Papers should be in English, not longer than 5,000 words. (2) System presentations with demos: Submissions are invited for reports on the design, implementation, operation and evaluation of operational and prototype systems. Reports should be in English, not longer than 2,000 words. (3) User studies: Submissions are invited for reports on users' experiences with applying MT to some task, evaluation of MT systems, analysis of MT markets, etc. Reports should be in English, not longer than 5,000 words. All types of papers should be submitted to the address below and must be received by the indicated date. Papers should include a cover page with the following information: - paper title, - author(s)' name(s), affiliation(s), address(es), and e-mail address(es), - 200 word abstract, - for research papers: up to 5 keywords, - for system presentations with demos: the word "System presentation with demo", and the hardware, software and network requirement for the demonstration, - for user studies: the word "User study". Please mail 4 hardcopies of the paper to: MT Summit VII Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT) 3F, Shiba-Koen Sanada Bldg. 3-5-12 Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan In addition, please submit an ASCII version of the cover page electronically to: aamt0001 at infotokyo.ne.jp Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP.) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline ----------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers In addition to submitted paper sessions, the conference program will include a keynote speech, invited talks, regional reports, special sessions on selected topics, and panel discussions. Following is a list of invited speakers. Opening session: Representative of Singapore Government Representative of MITI of Japanese Government Keynote speech: Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (President, International Association for Machine Translation) Invited talks: Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University, USA Prof. Kay, who has been a leading scientist in computational linguistics and machine translation, will present a technological perspective of MT. Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv, Belgium Dr. Lernout, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the field of speech and language, will present an industrial prospect of MT and related technologies. Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Prof. Nishigaki, who is an interdisciplinary researcher in computer science and sociology, will give an enlightening talk on social implications of MT. Special talk (at Banquet): Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan Prof. Nagao, President of Kyoto University and the founding Presidents of IAMT (The International Association for Machine Translation) and AAMT, who is a pioneer of MT as well as a wide areas of AI, will give a talk at the Banquet which will take place on September 15th, 1999. Survey reports on MT in each area: - Asia Hemant Darbari, Center for Developemnt of Advanced Computing, India Aiping Fu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Hirosato Nomura, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Seyoung Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea - Europe Rose Lockwood, Equipe Consortium Ltd., UK - North America Elliott Macklovitch, Universite de Montreal, Canada Special sessions: ( *) Coordinator) "Controlled Language" Hiroyuki Kaji,*) Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Uus Knops, LANT nv, Belgium Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA "Localization" Virginia Cha,*) Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Michael Anobile, Localisation Industry Standard Association, Switzerland Stanley Park, International Transformational Information Corp., Korea "MT and Speech" Key-Sun Choi,*) Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Korea Terminology Research Center for Language and Knowledge Engineering, Korea Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories and SONY Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan Gianni Lazzari, Instituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia, Italy "Multilingual Information Access" Vilas Wuwongse,*) Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Thomas Baker, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Sung H. Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea "MT from the Research Perspective" Dominique Estival,*) University of Melbourne, Australia (TBA) (TBA) "Views from Users" Hirosato Nomura,*) Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (TBA) (TBA) "MT for the Next Century" Jun-ichi Tsujii,*) University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University, UK (TBA) From MT users (TBA) From MT users Panels: ( *) Moderator) "International Cooperation - From Funding Agencies' Point of View" Antonio Sanfilippo,*) European Commission, Luxembourg Roberto Cencioni, European Commission, Luxembourg (TBC) Lianzhong He, Development and Planning Commission of China, China (TBC) Akira Kubota, MITI, Japan Ronald Larsen, DARPA, USA Gary Strong, NSF, USA "MT Evaluation" Margaret King,*) University of Geneva, Switzerland Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong John White, Litton PRC, USA Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Closing session: John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibition Many commercial and research systems, including a speech translation system by C-STAR Consortium (ATR, CMU, etc.), will be demonstrated in exhibit booths throughout the conference. About 30 booths will be prepared for exhibitors. Spaces will be allocated to applicants on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to exhibit, please contact the Exhibition Coordinator Vicky (e-mail: vicky at krdl.org.sg). ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Singapore Singapore is a vibrant, sophisticated city state of 3 million people offering the best of modern facilities and comforts while retaining her heritage and culture. A progressive, cosmopolitan city, Singapore has the world's best airport - Changi International Airport - and lies at the crossroads of Asia. Known for her food and shopping, Singapore is a thriving nucleus for tourism, trade and finance. The climate in Singapore is tropical all year round with high humidity and temperatures varying between 23 degrees Celsius (74 F) in the evening to 32 degrees Celsius (90 F) during the day. Showers are sporadic and heavy but also brief and refreshing. Light summer clothing may be worn throughout the day. About the Venue Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) is a national applied research & development organization established in January 1998 through the merger of former national IT institutes - the Information Technology Institute (ITI) and the Institute of Systems Science (ISS). With a diverse team of more than 400 research scientists, KRDL's aim is to be the premier research and development organization in Asia-Pacific for information and networking technologies. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Organization Organizing Committee Honorary Chair: Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan Chair: Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Vice Chairs$B!'(J Hwee Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Executive Committee Chair: Hirokazu Amemiya, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Vice Chair: Hideki Morimoto, Fujitsu Ltd., Japan Local Organizing Committee Chair: Hwee Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Secretary: Victorine Chen-Toh, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Program Committee Chair: Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Vice Chair: Loong Cheong Tong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Members: Virginia Cha, Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan ZhaoXiong Chen, Kezhi Co., China Key-Sun Choi, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia Zhendong Dong, Chinese Information Processing Society, China Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne, Australia Changning Huang, Tsinghua University, China Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories and SONY Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan Etsuo Ito, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Hiroyuki Kaji, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Kunio Matsui, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Se Young Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Wanchai Rivepiboon, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Trihono Sastrohartono, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, Indonesia Youlwon Seong, Language and Computer, Ltd., Korea Satoshi Shirai, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Japan Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Chew Lim Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia International Advisors: Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Software, Inc., USA Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK Antonio Sanfilippo, European Commission, Luxembourg ===================================================================== ================================================================= MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII "MT in the Great Translation Era" September 13-17, 1999, Singapore CALL FOR PAPER Supplement ================================================================= == Notice! ==== Notice! ==== Notice! ==== Notice! ==== Notice! == The e-mail address for paper submission has changed. aamt0001 at infotokyo.or.jp (before 31 March) aamt0001 at infotokyo.ne.jp (after 1 April) Also the address of the AAMT secretariat has changed. aamt0002 at infotokyo.or.jp (before 31 March) aamt0002 at infotokyo.ne.jp (after 1 April) Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline You can find more information on Paper Submission at http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99-e.html . ================================================================== This supplement gives you information on a post-conference Workshop, and a Thematic Session in the conference. A renewed list of invited speakers is also attached. [1] Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval The goal of this workshop is to explore the role of MT in the context of CLIR. We invite papers on topics which link advances in Machine Translation or related technologies to CLIR. Organizing Committee Sophia Ananiadou, European Media Laboratory, Germany Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT, Japan Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI, France Mun Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Laboratories, Singapore Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Important Dates: May 31, 1999 Paper submission deadline June 30, 1999 Notifications August 2, 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline September 17, 1999 Workshop Submissions should be sent to: Sophia Ananiadou European Media Lab (EML) Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 D-69118 Heidelberg Germany Tel: +49-6221-533-218 Fax: +49-6221-533-298 Email: Sophia.Ananiadou at eml.org Further information on the workshop: http://www.villa-bosch.de/eml/englisch/workshops/clir.html MT Summit VII can accommodate another one or two Workshop on the 17th of September. If you would like to organize one, you are welcome to contact Local Organizing Chair at hweeboon at krdl.org.sg . [2] A Thematic Session Proposed: "Language Resources" Drs. Khalid Choukri and Jeff Allen (ELRA: European Language Resources Association) invite the submission of papers on "language resources", which will constitute a thematic session of MT Summit. Please see their announcement at http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/mts99.html for further information. If you submit a paper for this session, please note it by referring to the "Thematic Session on Language Resources" in the cover page of your paper. MT Summit VII also welcomes new suggestions on thematic sessions relevant to machine translation. Suggestions should be sent to the Program Committee at MT-SUMMIT-99-Sessions at mlist.ccm.cl.nec.co.jp . [3] Keynote Speech Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan The president of IAMT (The International Association for Machine Translation) as well as the president of AAMT (The Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation) [4] Featured Speakers Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University, USA Prof. Kay, who has been a leading scientist in computational linguistics and machine translation, will present a technological perspective of MT. Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv, Belgium Dr. Lernout, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the field of speech and language, will present an industrial prospect of MT and related technologies. Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Prof. Nishigaki, who is an interdisciplinary researcher in computer science and sociology, will give an enlightening talk on social implications of MT. Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan Prof. Nagao, President of Kyoto University and the founding Presidents of IAMT (The International Association for Machine Translation) and AAMT, who is a pioneer of MT as well as a wide areas of AI, will give a talk at the Banquet which will take place on September 15th, 1999. [5] Invited Speakers of Special Sessions and Panelists (* means new additions to our distinguished speakers from the 2nd CFP) - Funding Agencies and Governments: Representative of Singapore Government Antonio Sanfilippo, European Commission, Luxembourg Roberto Cencioni, European Commission, Luxembourg (TBC) Lianzhong He, Development and Planning Commission of China, China (TBC) MITI, Japan Ronald Larsen, DARPA, USA Gary Strong, NSF, USA - Users: Michael Anobile, Localisation Industry Standard Association, Switzerland * Alan Barrett, Lotus Development, Ireland * Marjorie Leon, Pan American Health Organization, USA Rose Lockwood, Equipe Consortium Ltd., UK Stanley Park, International Transformational Information Corp., Korea John White, Litton PRC, USA # Additional speakers from MT users will be announced. - Industries: Virginia Cha, Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Dominique Estival, Syrinx Speech Systems, Australia Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories and SONY Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan * Pierre Isabelle, Xerox, France Hiroyuki Kaji, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Uus Knops, LANT nv, Belgium Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan - Research and Development [Asia and Pacific Regions] Thomas Baker, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Hemant Darbari, Center for Developemnt of Advanced Computing, India Aiping Fu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Hwee Boon Low , Kent Ridge Digital Laboratories, Singapore Sung H. Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Se-Young Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea [North/South America] Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Elliott Macklovitch, Universite de Montreal, Canada Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA [Europe] * (TBC) Christian Boitet, Universite' Joseph Fourier, France John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK Margaret King, University of Geneva, Switzerland Gianni Lazzari, Instituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia, Italy Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University, UK - Session Coordinators Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Key-Sun Choi, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Korea Terminology Research Center for Language and Knowledge Engineering, Korea Hirosato Nomura, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand ================================================================= ================================================================== MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII "MT in the Great Translation Era" September 13-17, 1999, Singapore CALL FOR PAPER Supplement-2 ================================================================== This supplement provides informtion on a new thematic session proposed, together with reminder of important information on MT Summit VII. [1] A Thematic Session Proposed: "Integration of Multilingual Human Language Technology into Workflows" Dr. Joerg Schuetz (IAI: The Institute of Applied Information Sciences) invites the submission of papers related to multilingual human language technology and its integration into workflows. Please see the announcement at http://www.iai.uni-sb.de/events/mts99-js.html for further information. If you submit a paper for this session, please note it by referring to the "Thematic Session on Multilingual HLT" in the cover page of your paper. [2] Information on MT Summit VII Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline 14-16 September 1999 Conference at Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore E-mail address for submitting an ASCII version of the cover page of your paper: aamt0001 at infotokyo.ne.jp (NOTE THAT THIS HAS CHANGED SINCE CFP-1) Further information on MT Summit VII: http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99-e.html (NOTE THAT THIS HAS CHANGED SINCE CFP-1) Further information on Thematic Session on Language Resources: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/mts99.html Further information on Thematic Session on Integration of Multilingual HLT into Workflows: http://www.iai.uni-sb.de/events/mts99-js.html MT Summit Secretariat at aamt0002 at infotokyo.ne.jp (NOTE THAT THIS HAS CHANGED SINCE CFP-2) [3] Information on Post Conference Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval Important Dates: 31 May 1999 Deadline of Abstract Submission 17 September 1999 Workshop at Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Further information on the workshop: http://www.villa-bosch.de/eml/englisch/workshops/clir.html [4] Topics of MT Summit MT Summit, as a forum for exchanging ideas and experience of MT users, vendors, researchers, and funding policy makers, solicits papers, not only on - technical/theoretical issues of MT, but also on - users' experiences, - innovative uses of commercial MT systems - evaluation of actual MT systems - proposal of practical uses of MT systems like controlled languages - proposal of new applications/products of multilingual NLP, etc. We also provide a unique opportunity for venders and developers of MT/NLP application systems to show their latest products to wide audiences. If you would like to exhibit, please contact the Exhibition Coordinator Victorine Chen-Toh at vicky at krdl.org.sg . ************************************************ Secretariat of Organizing Committee, MT Summit VII c/o Inter Group Corp. Akasaka Dai-ichi Bldg., 4-9-17, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8486, Japan TEL:+81-3-3479-5311 FAX:+81-3-3423-1601 E-mai: secret-4 at tokyo.intergroup.co.jp ************************************************ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 16 11:14:30 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:14:30 +0100 Subject: Job: 1 Offer Message-ID: From: Camilla Schwind ******************************************** * Poste de ma�tre de conf�rences * * � l'universit� de la M�diterran�e * ******************************************** Un poste de ma�tre de conf�rences, section 27, est mis au concours � l'universit� de la M�diterran�e. Voici quelques informations sur ce poste et les personnes � contacter. 1) Enseignement Le poste est affect� au d�partement d'informatique de la Facult� des Sciences de Luminy. Le candidat retenu devra effectuer son service statutaire dans ce cadre et sera appel� � intervenir DEUG MIAS, licence et ma�trise d'informatique. Une exp�rience de l'enseignement dans les domaines suivants est souhait�e : * algorithmique et programmation (Pascal, C, C++, Java) ; * r�seaux (th�orie et pratique) * bases de donn�es (Utilisation de Access et Oracle) Contact : Christian Aperghis (christian.aperghis at lim.univ-mrs.fr). 2) Recherche : La (le) ma�tre de conf�rences recrut� devra s'int�grer dans l'�quipe "Repr�sentation et traitement logiques des connaissances" (RTLC) du laboratoire d'informatique de Marseille (LIM). Contact : Camilla Schwind (schwind at lim.univ-mrs.fr) Les recherches effectu�es dans cette �quipe s'organisent autour de trois th�mes: * "Logique et inf�rences" Contact : Camilla Schwind (schwind at lim.univ-mrs.fr) * "Traitement automatique des langues". Contact : Paul Sabatier: (Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr) * "Bases de donn�es". Contact : Rosine Cicchetti (cicchetti at lim.univ-mrs.fr) Camilla Schwind **** **** **** **** Laboratoire d'informatique **** **** ***** ***** de Marseille LIM-CNRS **** **** ****** ****** Facult� des Siences de Luminy **** **** ******* ******* Universit� de la Mediterran�e **** **** **** **** **** **** 163 Avenue de Luminy Case 901 **** **** **** ****** **** 13288 Marseille, C�dex 9 FRANCE **** **** **** **** **** Tel. +33 4 91 82 91 95 ************* **** **** ** **** Fax +33 4 91 82 92 75 ************* **** **** **** e-mail: schwind at lim.univ-mrs.fr home page: http://www.lim.univ-mrs.fr/~schwind From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 16 11:14:32 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:14:32 +0100 Subject: Projet: CoNLL (EACL Workshop) Message-ID: From: "Osborne M." Dear corpora list reader, This is for people interested in (shallow) parsing and machine learning: The organizers of the EACL workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-99, Bergen, Norway, 12th June 1999) invite you to take part in a shared task: recognising arbitrary noun phrases in free text annotated with part-of-speech tags. Details of the task can be found at: http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll99/npb/ Participants in the shared task will be given the opportunity to present their results in a short talk (10 minutes) at the CoNLL-99 workshop. They can present their intention to make such a presentation by sending a short abstract (maximum 15 lines) to erikt at uia.ua.ac.be on or before the 2nd June 1999. The abstracts and the results will be presented on the CoNLL-99 website (http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll99/) after the workshop. Miles Osborne Erik Tjong Kim Sang From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 16 11:14:35 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:14:35 +0100 Subject: Publications: 2 announcements Message-ID: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Michel AURNAGUE Subject: Cahiers de Grammaire no 23 2/ From: Widad MUSTAFA Subject: Actes des colloques ISKO 1997 et 1998 ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Michel AURNAGUE Subject: Cahiers de Grammaire no 23 LES CAHIERS DE GRAMMAIRE NO 23 The issue 23 of "Les Cahiers de Grammaire" has been just published. CONTENTS -------- Xavier BLANCO & Carmen BONELL Vers une structuration syntactico-semantique de la terminologie medicale : applications a la traduction espagnol-fran�ais Francis CORNISH Les "chaines topicales" : leur role dans la gestion et la structuration du discours Michelle LECOLLE Noms collectifs et meronymie Uwe REYLE A note on enumerations and the semantics of "puis" and "alors" Marie-Noelle ROUBAUD Constructions en "c'est" : les pseudo-clivees Jacques VERGNE Entre arbre de dependance et ordre lineaire, les deux processus de transformation : linearisation, puis reconstruction de l'arbre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are interested in ordering this issue of "Les Cahiers de Grammaire" (or previous issues) you can contact Mme Laurence Lamy (address : ERSS-UMR 5610 du CNRS, Maison de la Recherche, Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 5 allees Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse Cedex, tel : (33) (0)5 61 50 36 02, fax : (33) (0)5 61 50 46 77, email : lamy at cict.fr). The price of each issue includind postage is 90ff. Moreover (bank or post office) cheques as well as other administrative payments (order forms, etc) have to be made out to : C.E.C. 13, rue Pierre de Coubertin 31520 Ramonville St-Agne. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cahiers de Grammaire no 22 (dec.97) : Francois DELL & Mohamed ELMEDLAOUI : La syllabation et les geminees dans la poesie berbere du Maroc (dialecte chleuh); Elsa GOMEZ-IMBERT : Structure prosodique et processus segmentaux en barasana (langue TUKANO orientale d'Amazonie colombienne); Robert HE : Vers une nouvelle vue d'ensemble des aspects en francais; Francoise KERLEROUX : L'apocope et les deverbaux; Pollet SAMVELIAN & Annie MEUNIER : La postposition "ra" en persan. Ses liens avec la determination et sa fonction discursive Cahiers de Grammaire no 21 (dec. 96) : Michel AURNAGUE : "Petit dictionnaire raisonne des Noms de Localisation Interne du Basque"; Denis LE PESANT : "Vocabulaire des predicats de grandeurs et des noms d'unites de mesure"; Chistian MOLINIER : "Constructions en "C'EST": une classification g�n�rale"; Laure SARDA : "Elements pour une typologie des verbes de deplacement transitifs directs du fran�ais"; Daniele VAN DE VELDE : "DES et DU comme clitiques et ce qui s'ensuit"; Co VET : Analyse syntaxique de quelques emplois du subjonctif dans les completives Cahiers de Grammaire no 20 (dec. 95) : Benoit HABERT, Philippe BARBAUD, Fernande DUPUIS & Christian JACQUEMIN : "Simplifier des arbres d'analyse pour degager les comportements syntactico-semantiques des formes d'un corpus"; Anne LE DRAOULEC : "Presupposition et subordination temporelle. Le cas de "avant que""; Francoise LEVRIER : "Les phrases de structure "N0 etre en X" : problemes de nominalisation et variantes aspectuelles"; Michele NOAILLY & Inge BARTNING : "Pourquoi -esque ?"; Thierry POIBEAU & Denis MAUREL : ""A la fin de" preposition ou determinant complexe dans les adverbiaux de temps ?"; Anda-Irina RADULESCU : "Les verbes prolatifs - Une sous-classe des verbes medians"; Claude VANDELOISE : "De la matiere a l'espace : la preposition "dans"" Cahiers de Grammaire no 19 (dec. 1994) : Co VET : "Petite grammaire de l'Aktionsart et de l'aspect"; Danielle LEEMAN : ""Dans" et les noms animes"; Estelle MOLINE : "Elements pour la description syntaxico-semantique des phrases de forme "(ne...pas) (encore) p que (deja) (ne...pas) q""; Pascal AMSILI : "Representation en DRT de quelques proprietes aspectuelles du terme "ne...plus""; Michelle NOAILLY : "Adjectif adverbal et transitivite"; Thierry ETCHEGOYHEN : "Constraints on relative clauses"; Danielle CORBIN & Marc PLENAT : "Reponse a Michel ROCHE : Nouvelle note sur l'haplologie dans les mots construits"; Michel CAMPRUBI : "Compte-rendu de : Francis TOLLIS, "La parole et le sens -Le guillaumisme et l'approche contemporaine du langage"" Cahiers de grammaire no 18 (dec. 1993) : N. ASHER & A. LASCARIDES : "Intentions and information in discourse"; B.N. GRUNIG : "Charges memorielles et predictions syntaxiques"; C. MOLINIER : "Les expressions "sans N" du francais"; M. ROCHE : "Trois notules sur l'haplologie des mots construits"; E. SPANG-HANSSEN : "Geometrie et fonctionnalite dans la description des adjectifs de dimension" ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Widad MUSTAFA Subject: Actes des colloques ISKO 1997 et 1998 Organisation des connaisances en vue de leur int�gration dans les syst�mes de repr�sentation et de recherche d'information, Actes des Premi�res Journ�es du chapitre fran�ais de l'ISKO Jacques Maniez et Widad Mustafa el Hadi (Eds) Edition du Conseil Scientifique de l'Universit� Charles De Gaulle Lille 3 Collection UL3: Travaux & Recherches ---------------------------------------------------- Adressez votre commande � UNIVERSITE CHARLES-DE-GAULLE - LILLE 3 (Service Commun de Composition) B.P.149. 59653 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ CEDEX.FRANCE ( : 03.20.41.64.67 - T�l�copie : 03.20.41.61.91) E-mail : wallaeys at univ-lille3.fr Je d�sire recevoir ............ exemplaire(s) de l'ouvrage suivant : Please send me ......... copies of the following : Organisation des connaissances en vue de leur int�gration dans les syst�mes de repr�sentation et de recherche d'information Actes des Premi�res Journ�es du Chapitre Fran�ais de l'ISKO, Universit� Charles De Gaulle Lille 3, 16-17 octobre 1997 au prix de 170 FF. (frais de port en sus : France 24,00 FF. �tranger : 16,20 FF.) Je vous r�gle ci-joint par (Please find enclosed my remittance) : o ch�que � l'ordre de l'Agent Comptable de Lille III (bank cheque to Agent Comptable de Lille III) o virement � notre compte (Bank transfer to), T.G. Nord. T.P. Lille. cpte 10071-59000-00003003896-86 o virement � notre C.C.P. Lille (Giro account to C.C.P.Lille) cpte 20041-01005-0571098D026-50 Nom (Surname) Pr�nom (First Name) Organisme (Company). Adresse (Adress). Date, Signature, ------------------------------------------------------------ Structures and Relations in Knowledge Organization Proceedings 5th Int. ISKO Conference Lille, August 25-29 1998 Widad Mustafa el Hadi, Jacques Maniez and Steven A. 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Lille (Giro account to C.C.P.Lille) cpte 20041-01005-0571098D026-50 Nom (Surname) Pr�nom (First Name) Organisme (Company). Adresse (Adress). Date, Signature, -------------------------------------------------------------------- Widad MUSTAFA ELHADI UFR IDIST Universite Charles De Gaulle Lille 3 BP 149 59653 Villeneuve D'Ascq France TEL 33 (0) 3 20 41 64 08 FAX 33 (0) 3 20 41 63 79 e-mail mustafa at univ-lille3.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 19 11:20:21 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:20:21 +0100 Subject: Appel: GLDV'99 Message-ID: From: Bernhard Schroeder GLDV '99 o============================================o | | | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | | | o============================================o "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis" The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GLDV) will take place in July 8-10, 1999. Main topic: "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis". The meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S Papers can be offered for plenary sessions as well as sessions of the Special Interest Groups (Arbeitskreise) of GLDV. Papers that are NOT related to the main topic (e.g. Computational Linguistics, Language Technology, Linguistic Data Processing, etc.). are ALSO welcome! Extended abstracts must be sent in by April 30 via mail to titus at em.uni-frankfurt.de * Size: 2-3 pages (2000 words maximum); * Format: RTF, HTML, ASCII. The program committee will decide about acceptance of the papers on May 28, 1999. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For details go to: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/gldv99e.htm P.O. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 19 11:20:26 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:20:26 +0100 Subject: Appel: TSI (2nd appel) Message-ID: Daniel Kayser, Bernard Levrat ========================================================= Revue Technique et Science Informatiques Deuxieme appel a propositions d'articles sur le theme Traitement automatique des langues naturelles ATTENTION : Report de la date limite de soumission au 31 mai 1999 Coordonnateurs : Daniel Kayser (LIPN, CNRS et Universite de Paris-Nord), Bernard Levrat (LERIA, Universite d'Angers) Comite de lecture : Laurence Danlos (TALANA, Universite Paris 7), Benoit Habert (CNRS, ENS Fontenay St-Cloud), Bernard Normier (ERLI-France), Philippe Blache (CNRS, Universite d'Aix-Marseille), Christian Boitet (CLIPS-IMAG, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble), Jean-Marie Pierrel (LORIA, CNRS, Universite de Nancy 1), Gerard Sabah (LIMSI, CNRS), Jacques Vergne (GREY, CNRS, Universite de Caen). Les travaux et recherches relatifs au traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN) connaissent un fort developpement actuellement, en particulier en raison des grands volumes de textes auxquels les utilisateurs ont desormais acces. C'est le cas dans des domaines tels que la recherche documentaire qui tend a s'enrichir de techniques issues du TALN pour accroitre son efficacite, ou la terminologie, domaine dans lequel l'acquisition et la reconnaissance automatiques de termes permettent, par exemple, la prise en compte et la gestion de lexiques evolutifs dans des domaines specialises. Le developpement de ces travaux explique aussi en partie le regain d'interet que connaissent actuellement des travaux plus theoriques en semantique lexicale ou en modelisation linguistique. Ce numero thematique de TSI vise a donner une image des recherches menees actuellement en TALN dans les pays francophones. Il peut s'agir de la presentation d'applications illustrant les retombees de recherches plus fondamentales ou de la proposition de modeles pour le TALN qui apportent une contribution au developpement d'autres disciplines comme la logique, la linguistique, la psychologie cognitive, la psycholinguistique, ou les sciences cognitives, ou bien contribuent au developpement de l'informatique dans des domaines comme la representation des connaissances, ou bien encore correspondent a l'adaptation de techniques issues de l'informatique pour des problemes specifiquement poses par le TALN. Parmi les themes de cet appel a contribution pour ce numero, citons : l'analyse syntaxique de grande couverture, les etiqueteurs, l'analyse semantique, et d'une facon plus generale la semantique des langues naturelles, la pragmatique, la terminologie, les systemes de dialogue cooperatif, les techniques de resume, les applications industrielles du TALN, etc. Mode d'evaluation : Les articles seront relus par quatre lecteurs : 2 membres du comite de redaction de TSI et deux specialistes du domaine. Les soumissions seront evaluees selon les criteres suivants : originalite de la demarche, qualite de la contribution scientifique, validation des solutions proposees sur des textes reels ou leur mise en perspective pour une telle validation, la lisibilite par des informaticiens non specialistes du TALN, . Les articles, d'une vingtaine de pages au format des articles Hermes (cf. Consignes aux auteurs dans le no 1 de chaque volume de TSI ou sur le web : http://www.editions-hermes.fr), devront parvenir avant le 31 MAI 1999, en six exemplaires, a la Redaction de TSI - 8, quai du Marche-Neuf 75004 Paris. L'annonce d'une intention de soumission sera la bienvenue (email : tsi at lip6.fr). ____________________________________________________________ Pr. Bernard Levrat LERIA, U.F.R. Sciences 2, Bd. Lavoisier 49045 Angers Cedex 01 tel. (33) 2 41 73 54 65 fax. (33) 2 41 73 50 73 e-mail: Bernard.Levrat at univ-angers.fr ____________________________________________________________ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 19 11:20:29 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:20:29 +0100 Subject: Conf: Formal approaches ... Message-ID: From: Dinko Georgiev Dear Colleagues, There is recent information about the 3rd CONFERENCE on FORMAL APPROACHES to SOUTH SLAVIC and BALKAN LANGUAGES, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, September 24 - 26, 1999 Please, visit our conference site: http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3 Best regards, Iliyana Krapova (on behalf of the Organizing Committee) From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 19 11:20:28 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:20:28 +0100 Subject: Conf: AIMDM'99 Message-ID: From: "Steve Rees" ------------------------------------------------ AIMDM'99 TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------- As you might have already heard this years joint meeting of the societies of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME) and the European Society of Medical Decision Meking (ESMDM), entitled AIMDM'99, will take place in Aalborg, Denmark, 20th-24th June 1999. AIMDM'99 icludes a day of tutorials and workshops which have now been finalised. These will take place on Sunday 20th June at Hotel Hvide Hus,Vesterbro 2, 9000-Aalborg. Tutorials will be run in parallel and last for a half a day, with morning tutorials taking place from 9 am to 12:30 pm and afternoon tutorials from 1:30 pm to 5pm. Workshops will also be run in parallel, each workshop lasting the whole day. Registration for a single tutorial costs 400 DKK. Registration for a workshop costs 500 DKK for AIMDM'99 participants or 750 DKK otherwise. Registration for a workshop includes lunch. Please note that tutorials are only open to those registering for the main AIMDM'99 conference. Registration for AIMDM'99 (excluding tutorials and workshops) costs 2550 before May 15th and 3000 DKK after, or for students 1400 DKK before May 15th or 1800 DKK after. Details of the tutorials and workshops are now given, followed by a registration form. Please send your completed form to: AIMDM99 Aalborg Turist og Kongres Bureau A/S �ster�gade 8, Postbox 1862 DK-9100 Aalborg, Denmark For further details of other activities occurring as part of the AIMDM`99 conference please visit our web site at: http://www.miba.auc.dk/AIMDM99/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION Audience: Researchers and software developers who are interested in improving the quality of documents and other written materials produced by software systems. Description: Many medical IT systems need to produce documents or other types of written texts, such as discharge reports, letters to patients, and explanations of expert-system reasoning. The quality and readability of such texts is not always as high as it could be, unfortunately. This tutorial will discuss some of the linguistic problems that computer-generated texts can suffer from, such as poor rhetorical structure, inappropriate anaphors, false implicatures, and grammatical mistakes. Natural-language generation (NLG) technology is introduced, and it is discussed how it can be used to automatically produce texts which satisfy linguistic constraints and hence do not suffer from these problems. The tutorial will be illustrated with examples from NLG systems developed at Aberdeen and elsewhere. Attendees do not need any background in linguistics or natural-language processing, but they should be familiar with basic AI concepts. I hope that even people who do not intend to use NLG technology will still benefit from the tutorial, by becoming more aware of potential linguistic problems in computer-generated texts and how they can be resolved. Tutorial Presenter Ehud Reiter Dept of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK. Phone +44-1224-273443, Fax +44-1224-273422, email: ereiter at csd.abdn.ac.uk 2) THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDICAL DECISION MAKING This course is intended for clinicians, and others who wish to gain insight into the psychological factors influencing their decision making under uncertainty. The aim of this tutorial is to increase understanding of the psychological processes involved in medical decision making. This knowledge is useful in trying to improve decision making. Additionally it is a fruitful area for research. The course assumes the attendee has only a basic knowledge of the subject matter. The clinician's reasoning is a partial cause of non-optimal medical decisions. The cognitive psychology of judgment and decision making offers explanations of how some of these reasoning errors are made. The course will review the basic nature of expert medical reasoning, to discover possibilities for capitalizing on its strengths and supporting its weaknesses. The participant will learn why the human cognitive system, with its large memory, limited attention span, and powerful pattern recognition ability, seems destined to operate by automatic "scripted" response rather than thoughtful deliberation. We will demonstrate the implications of clinicians' cognitive processes for two basic activities of rational decision making: diagnosis and choosing a course of action. Clinicians' reasoning strategies, motivations, habits, and cognitive limitations can lead them to make errors of diagnosis, and define the methods they can use to seek and use information more rationally. Clinicians' strategies for predicting what will happen can lead to misjudgments of probability, and their methods of evaluating things can lead to misjudgments of treatment consequences. Understanding the psychological processes involved will suggest methods for helping clinicians reason better about the probabilities of outcomes and about their own or their patients' preferences. Tutorial presenters Robert M. Hamm Clinical Decision Making Program, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 900 NE 10th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, U.S.A. Telephone: 405/271-8000 ext 3-2302, Fax: 405/271-2784, e-mail:robert-hamm at ouhsc.edu Clare Harries Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, U.K.Telephone: +44 171 504 5389, Fax: +44 171 436 4276, e-mail: clare.harries at ucl.ac.uk Jack Dowie, PhD Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K. Telephone: +44 171 254 7576, Fax: +44 171 254 7576, e-mail: j.a.dowie at open.ac.uk 3) DATA MINING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS IN MEDICINE With the widespread use of medical information systems that include databases which have recently featured explosive growth in their sizes, physicians and medical researchers are faced with a problem of making use of the stored data. The traditional manual data analysis has become insufficient, and methods for efficient computer-assisted analysis indispensable, in particular those of data mining and other related techniques of knowledge discovery in databases and intelligent data analysis. This tutorial will address current techniques and applications of data mining in medicine. We will provide an overview of data mining methods, including symbolic data mining (mining of decision rules, association rules, decision trees, inductive logic programming, hierarchical concept discovery, etc.) and subsymbolic data mining (instance based learning, neural nets, Naive Bayesian classifier, etc). Specific evaluation techniques and statistical criteria suited for medical applications will be discussed. Selected data preprocessing and data visualization methods will also be presented. The participants of tutorial will get familiar with * fundamental concepts data mining and knowledge discovery in data bases * an overview of data mining methods, * specific data mining methods, including decision trees and rules, association rules, and naive Bayesian classifier * metrics that can be used to assess the quality and interestingness of discovered relationships * how intelligent data analysis is different from common statistical approaches and how it can complement it * what features should be supported by a particular data mining tool to be useful for medical data analysis * how to successfully integrate data mining techniques within existing medical information system Intended audience: This tutorial will be of interest to clinicians, medical researchers, information technology professionals, information systems developers and managers, data analysts and institutional decision makers, and anyone else interested in applying modern data analysis methods to extract useful knowledge from medical data bases. Tutorial presenters Blaz Zupan (1,2) and Nada Lavrac (2) (1) University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences Trzaska 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. phone: +386 61 177 3380, fax: +386 61 125 1038 e-mail: blaz.zupan at fri.uni-lj.si (2) J. Stefan Institute, Department of Intelligent Systems Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. phone: +386 61 177 3272, fax: +386 61 125 1038. e-mail: nada.lavrac at ijs.si 4) HOW TO BUILD A CAUSAL PROBABILISTIC NETWORK A Causal Probabilistic Network, also called Bayesian network is a flexible and efficient framework for reasoning under uncertainty, and it has established itself as a practical method for knowledge representation and inference in a number of medical areas. The framework consists of a structural part, where the domain in question is modelled through a directed acyclic graph, and a quantitative part, where the impact between nodes in the graph are represented as conditional probabilities. This tutorial will through examples give an informal introduction to theory and use of CPNs in connection with decision theory. The participants will obtain hands-on experience with the construction of a small CPN, including the acquisition of structure and conditional probabilities. Tutorial presenters Finn V. Jensen Dept. of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7, DK-9000 Aalborg �st, Denmark. Phone: +4596358903, email: fvj at cs.auc.dk Steen Andreassen Dept. of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7D, DK-9000 Aalborg �st, Denmark. Phone: +4596358812, Fax: +4598154008, email: sa at miba.auc.dk 5) FOUNDATIONS OF PREFERENCE THEORY AND QUALITY OF LIFE ADJUSTMENT. The methods of preference assessment and quality of life adjustment are widely applied in the medical decision making and cost-effectiveness literature. Yet, the theory and assumptions that underlie the use of these methods are poorly understood. The objectives of this short course are to provide experienced practioners with a quick and accessible introduction to the underpinnings of utility theory, with an emphasis on the relevance, power, and limitations of these assumptions in health and medical contexts. Topics to be covered will include: the theory of choice and preference; traditional models of individual decision making under uncertainty, including the von-Neumann - Morgenstern expected utility framework; the additional assumptions that support the use of multi-attribute utility functions and quality-adjusted life-years; and the difficulties encountered when the theory is extended beyond the individual to represent choice at the societal level. Tutorial presenter Jospeh S. Pliskin, Ph.D. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and Department of Health Policy and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,Beer-Sheva, Israel. P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel.Tel: 972-7-6472219,Fax: 972-7-6472958 email: jpliskin at bgumail.bgu.ac.il 6) HOW TO READ (AND MAYBE PERFORM) A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (METAANALYSIS) Physicians are committed to manage their patients according to the best available evidence. Systematic reviews are about asking the relevant questions; obtaining the published material (all of it); and extracting the evidence. In the tutorial we will address the following questions: 1. Why do we need systematic reviews? 2. How to put the questions? 3. How to formulate a relevant protocol? 4. How to collect the pertinent studies? 5. How to evaluate the methodological soundness of the studies? Does it matter? 6. How to obtain data from the studies and how to combine it? 7. How to explore heterogeneity and why is it so important? 8. How to check for biases? 9. How to present results? 10. Does metaanalysis work? Tutorial presenters Karla Soares Weiser, Leonard Leibovici Department of Medicine E, Beilinson Hospital, Petah-tiqva 49100, Israel; Tel 972 3 9376501; fax 972 3 9376505; e-mail leibovic at post.tau.ac.il ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMDM99 - Workshops ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) COMPUTERS IN ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE The care of critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and during Anaesthesia is becoming increasingly complex. Clinicians are required to rapidly interpret and respond to a large number of clinical parameters, selecting appropriate treatment for the patient among many different options. New measurement technology has increased the demand for improved information management, as has the need to monitor and assess the quality of care provided. This workshop presents "State of the art" applications of information technology for clinicians, researchers and industry working in Anaesthesia and Intensive care. � Topics of particular interest include those related to supporting clinical decision making, including � Decision support systems: clinical guidelines and protocols; model based advisory systems; monitoring and intelligent alarming; and the application of Artificial Intelligence methodology in Anaesthesia and Intensive care. � Computer systems for control and assessment of quality of care. � Information management: visualization and interpretation of clinical data; planning and scheduling of critical care resources. In addition Patient Data Management systems will be presented by representatives from industry. Scientific committee: Silvia Miksch (Chair) (A), Steen Andreassen (DK), Michel Dojat (F), Jim Hunter (UK), Christian Popow (A), Steve Rees (DK), Per Thorgaard (DK). 2) PROGNOSTIC MODELS IN MEDICINE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION ANALYTIC APPROACHES. Prognostic models are increasingly used in medicine to predict the natural course of disease, or the expected outcome after treatment. Prognosis forms an integral part of systems for treatment selection and treatment planning. In evaluating quality of care, prognostic models are used for predicting outcome, such as mortality, which is compared with the actual measured outcome. Furthermore, prognostic models may play an important role in guiding diagnostic problem solving, e.g. by only requesting information concerning tests, of which the outcome affects knowledge of the prognosis. In recent years several methods and techniques from the fields of artificial intelligence, decision theory and statistics have been introduced into models of the medical management of patients (diagnosis, treatment, follow-up); in some of these models, assessment of the expected prognosis constitutes an integral part. Typically, recent prognostic methods rely on explicit (patho)physiological models, which may be combined with traditional models of life expectancy. Examples of such domain models are causal disease models, and physiological models of regulatory mechanisms in the human body. Such model-based approaches have the potential to facilitate the development of actual systems, because the medical domain models can be (partially) obtained from the medical literature. Various methods have been suggested for the representations of such domain models ranging from quantitative and probabilistic approaches to symbolic and qualitative ones. Semantic concepts such as time, e.g. for modelling the progressive changes of regulatory mechanisms, have formed an important and challenging modelling issue. Moreover, automatic learning techniques of such models have been proposed. When model construction is hard, less explicit domain models have been studied such as the use of case-based and neural network representations and their combination with more explicit domain models. In medical decision analysis, where the theories of probability and utility are combined, various representations and techniques are suggested such as decision trees, regression models, and representations in which advantage is taken from the Markov assumption (such as in Markov decision problems). This workshop aims at bringing together various theoretical and practical approaches to computational prognosis that comprise the state of the art in this field. This workshop is a follow up on the initiative started with the successful invited session on "Intelligent Prognostic Methods in Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Planning" in 1998 during the conference "Computational Engineering in Systems Applications 1998" (cesa'98) (http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~lucas/ipm-cesa98.html) which has resulted in a special issue on prognosis of the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Scientific committee: Ameen Abu-Hanna (Co-Chair) (H), Peter Lucas (Co-Chair) (H), S. Andreassen (DK), P.M.M. Bossuyt (H), J. Fox (UK), J.D.F. Habbema (H), P. Haddawy (USA), P. Hammond (UK), E. Keravnou (Cyprus), N. Lavrac (Slovenia), J. van der Lei (H), L. Ohno-Machado (USA), M. Ramoni (UK), M. Stefanelli (I), Th.Wetter (D), J.Wyatt (UK) ----------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM ----------------------------------------------------- Kindly complete in capitals and mail to: Aalborg Tourist and Convention Bureau, AIMDM'99, P.O. Box 1862, DK-9100 Aalborg, Denmark. Family name....................................................... Firstname......................................................... Organisation...................................................... Address........................................................... City...............................State.......................... Country.........................Zip Code.......................... Telephone.....................Fax................................. E-Mail............................................................ _________________________________________ Please tick here if you have already registered for AIMDM'99 and wish to extend your registration to include tutorials or a workshop ................. CONFERENCE FEES Fees are in Danish Kroner (DKK). Before May 15th 99 2550 ................. After May 15th 99 3000 ................. Student before May 15th 99 1400 ................. Student after May 15th 99 1800 ................. Please tick selected tutorials or workshop Tutorials 1)NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION ......................................... 2)THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDICAL DECISION MAKING ............................................... 3) DATA MINING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS IN MEDICINE ...................................... 4)HOW TO BUILD A CAUSAL PROBABILISTIC NETWORK ........................................ 5) FOUNDATIONS OF PREFERENCE THEORY AND QUALITY OF LIFE ADJUSTMENT..................... 6) HOW TO READ (AND MAYBE PERFORM) A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (METAANALYSIS) ...................................... Workshops 1) COMPUTERS IN ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE ........................................... 2) PROGNOSTIC MODELS IN MEDICINE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION ANALYTIC APPROACHES........................................... TUTORIAL FEES One Tutorial 400 DKK .............. Two Tutorials 800 DKK .............. WORKSHOP FEES Workshop only 750 ................. Workshop for AIMDM'99 participants 500 ................. SOCIAL EVENTS Conference dinner 300 ................. Midsummer eve 180 ................. Guided Tour of Aalborg 50 ................. Total of registration fees (DKK) ................. ________________________________________________________________ PAYMENT Payment of the registration fees (conference, social events and workshop) should be made in Danish Kroner net of all bank charges and commissions. Please make sure that your name, address and "AIMDM'99" are clearly written on all forms of payment and transfer documents. Payment of registration fees can be made by: Bankers' cheque issued in Danish Kroner and drawn on a Danish bank. (Danish participants may pay by ordinary cheque) Bank or giro transfer to Aalborg Tourist and Convention Bureau's account no: 639.5171 in BG Bank, Girostroeget 1, DK-0800 Hoje Taastrup, Denmark. Bank sorting code: 1199. SWIFT: BIK UD KKK. Credit card. We accept the following cards, please tick _ Eurocard _ JCB _ Visa _ Access _ Mastercard _ Diners _ American Express Card no ...............................Date of expiry................. Card holder........................................................... Signature............................................................. ______________________________________________________________________ ACCOMMODATION Date of arrival |__ _|__ _|__ _|, Departure |__ _|__ _|__ _| Number of Nights __ single _ double _ (please tick) Hotel Hvide Hus _ 625 _ 750 (conference venue) Hotel Chagall _ 600 _ 730 (8 min walk) Hotel Aalborg Soemandshjem _ 415 _ 550 (15 min walk) The deadline for hotel bookings is Friday, May 14th, 1999. After this date accommodation cannot be guaranteed. Payment for accommodation should be made directly to the hotel on departure. No deposit is required but participants will be liable in case of no-show without prior cancellation. ____________________________________ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 21 17:36:56 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:36:56 +0100 Subject: Appel: ICSP'99 Message-ID: From: Jeff ALLEN Please note: summary proposals for papers, posters, tutorials and special sessions for the conference below are due Friday, 30 April 1999. ----- 1999 International Conference on Speech Processing August 18-20, 1999, Seoul, Korea EXTENDED FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ================================== The 1999 International Conference on Speech Processing (ICSP'99) is the sixteenth in a series of annual conferences organized by the Acoustic Society of Korea in cooperation with the IEEE Korea Council. It will be held on Seoul, Korea, August 18-20, 1999. It will include oral presentations and poster sessions on all aspects of the fields of speech processing including natural language processing, evaluation, analysis, synthesis, recognition, communication coding, enhancement, and identification processing. Plenary sessions, invited talks, and tutorials on specific advanced topics will also be included in the program. Oral presentations and poster sessions will be treated equally in terms of review process. Topics for the regular sessions include, but are not limited to: 1. Speech Production Modeling 2. Speech Analysis 3. Speech Coding 4. Speech Recognition 5. Speech Synthesis 6. Speaker Recognition 7. Speech Enhancement 8. Speech Communication Techniques 9. Speech Perception 10. Psychoacoustics 11. Phonetics and Phonology 12. Experimental Phonetics 13. Natural Language Processing 14. Speech Signal Processing Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of a summary, not more than 3 pages, double-spaced and typed on standard A4 paper. The title page should include author(s), name(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone, FAX, and e-mail. Authors should indicate one or two of the above categories that best describe the topic of the paper as well as their preference (if any) regarding oral or poster sessions. The program committee will make every effort to satisfy these preferences. Proposals for tutorials and special sessions should be submitted to the corresponding chairs by April 30, 1999. Papers should be submitted to: ICSP'99 Technical Program Chair The Acoustical Society of Korea, Room #304 635-4 Yucksam-Dong, Kangnam-Ku, Seoul, 135-703, Korea Tel: +82-2-556-3513, Fax: +82-2-569-9717 E-mail: mjbae at saint.soongsil.ac.kr Home page: http://assp.soongsil.ac.kr/icsp99.html ============================================== E-mail or Home-page submissions are strongly encouraged, postal mail and Fax submissions are accepted. Authors Schedule ----------------- Submission of summary: April 30, 1999 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 1999 Camera-ready papers: June 19, 1999 In addition to the technical program, a great social program will be offered to the participants and their companies. --- Please see the ISCP99 website for details on the organizing and program committees. This information has been deleted in the present message in order to keep this announcement under the maximum allowed for most mailing lists. ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europ�enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 21 17:36:58 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:36:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: Euralex Message-ID: From: Anja Hofmann EURALEX 2000 The ninth EURALEX International Congress will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, from 8 - 12 August, 2000. The Congress organizers are * Vincent Docherty (Langenscheidt Publishers, M�nchen) * Ulrich Heid(Universit�t Stuttgart, Institut f�r maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung) * Egbert Lehmann (Universit�t Stuttgart, Institut f�r Informatik - Intelligente Systeme). * Christian Rohrer (Universit�t Stuttgart, Institut f�r maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung) * Leo Wanner (Universit�t Stuttgart, Institut f�r Informatik - Intelligente Systeme). Contact address Congress Organizers EURALEX 2000 Dr. Ulrich Heid Universit�t Stuttgart Institut f�r maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS-CL Azenbergstrasse 12 D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany Fax: +49 711 121 1366 E-mail: elx2000 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de Web site: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex The information at this location will be kept up to date. The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers, scholars, and all others interested in dictionaries of all types. The programme will include plenary lectures, parallel sessions on the topics listed below, software demonstrations, a presidential debate, pre-congress tutorials and specialized workshops, a book and software exhibition, and social events for participants and their guests. Topics Papers, posters, and demonstrations are invited on all topics of lexicography, including, but not limited to, the following fields which are the main focus of the congress: 1. Computational lexicography and lexicology (N.B.: This is different from, e.g. COLING or ACL, in the sense that EURALEX invites papers on lexicographically relevant computational work, rather than any or all computational linguistic topics relating to the lexicon.) 2. Lexical Combinatorics 3. Historical and Scholarly Lexicography 4. Bilingual Lexicography 5. The Dictionary-Making Process 6. Lexicography for Specialized Languages - Terminology and Terminography 7. Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects 8. Other topics The ninth congress will differ slightly from previous EURALEX congresses in that we particularly welcome papers on certain sub-topics of the above, to fit in with special sessions: * Topic (1-A): Corpus lexicographic tools in industry and research (needs, functions, architectures ...) * Topic (1-B): Creating (sizeable) dictionaries for Natural Language Processing (procedures, information types, use of published dictionaries, projects ...) * Topic (3-A): The creation of historical dictionaries (theoretical and practical problems, workflows, ongoing projects ...) * Topic (4-A): User aspects of bilingual dictionaries (market studies, user behaviour, concepts and information programs for new bilingual dictionaries, bilingual learners' dictionaries) * Topic (5-A): Teaching dictionary making and lexicography (course material, topics/theories and working methodology taught, experience from recent courses in industry and academia...) * Topic (7-A): Internet Lexicography (concepts and design of dictionaries for the internet, quality control for lexicographical products on the internet, advantages and limitations of the new medium with respect to `traditional dictionaries') The main topic indications are not meant to exclude any lexicographic topic: papers relevant to the congress but not fitting any of the categories 1-7 will be reviewed nonetheless and considered for presentation. Individual presentations should be timed for 30 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion period. There are no restrictions on the language of the presentation, but unfortunately it is not possible to offer interpretation. Software Demonstrations: We are particularly interested in well-prepared software demonstrations, presentations of electronic dictionaries, corpora, tools, etc. Those demonstrations accepted will be presented in a 20 minute time slot at the congress (possibly twice). Technical facilities will be available. Submissions Submissions may be of one of the following two types: Contributed Papers and Software Demonstrations. All submissions (of both types) will be reviewed by two or three members of the referees' panel; the programme will be selected by the programme committee. Submissions proposing software demonstrations should include a description of the functions, underlying approach and implementation of the software, possibly an indication of a URL, and hardware/software requirements. Authors should send five hardcopies of a preliminary version of their contribution to the congress organizers before October 15th, 1999. Fax and e-mail submission may be used in addition, but the hardcopy submission in five copies is mandatory. Format: Contributed Papers: 6 to 8 pages, double-spaced; Software Demonstrations: 4 pages, double-spaced; Front page: * Title of the paper or software demonstration; * Name(s), affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s); * Abstract (10-15 lines); * in the top right corner: indication of the topic category (use 1, 1-A, 1-B, etc.; if your paper does not fit in with any of the main categories, please use category 8); Authors whose submissions are accepted will receive a style guide for the preparation of the (electronic) final version of the paper, to be published in the Proceedings immediately before the congress. Contributed Papers will be allowed c. 10 pages: papers relating to Software Demonstrations c. 5 pages, in a separate section. Important Dates * 15 October 1999: Deadline for receipt of preliminary versions of papers by congress organizers * 15 February 2000: Dispatch of notifications of acceptance/rejection * 15 April 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers for inclusion in the Proceedings Programme Committee: Frantisek Cerm�k (CZ), Vincent Docherty (D), Thierry Fontenelle (L), Ulrich Heid (D), and Rosamund Moon (GB). Reviewers will include the above, the members of the EURALEX Executive Board, and additional experts. Pre-EURALEX tutorials: There will be two pre-EURALEX tutorials. Details will be announced later. Exhibitions: A book and software exhibition will be organized in the coffee break area of the congress site. Walk-up-and-use software demonstrations (without presentation, not included in the Proceedings) may be given there. Registration: The registration fee will probably be in the range of 240 - 310 Euros; an early subscription bonus, as well as a reduction for EURALEX members, will be offered. A late fee will apply. Accommodation: Block reservations in hotels of different categories will be made, within walking distance from the congress venue or within 15 minutes tram/bus ride. Student dormitory places or equivalent low-budget accommodation will be provided as well. Details will be announced later. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM FOR EURALEX 2000 To receive the second circular in August 1999, please complete and return this form (or a copy or printout from the EURALEX web site) as soon as possible, and before 18 July 1999, to: Congress Organizers EURALEX 2000 Dr. Ulrich Heid Universit�t Stuttgart Institut f�r maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS-CL Azenbergstrasse 12 D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany Fax: +49 711 121 1366 e-mail: elx2000 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de NAME .............................................................. INSTITUTION ....................................................... ................................................................... DEPARTMENT......................................................... ................................................................... STREET............................................................. ZIP/POSTCODE....................................................... CITY............................................................... COUNTRY ........................................................... FAX ........................................................... TELEPHONE ......................................................... E-MAIL ............................................................ PLEASE TICK ONE OF THE FOLLOWING [ ] I wish to present a paper at the Congress [ ] I wish to present a software demonstration at the Congress [ ] I do not intend to present a paper/demonstration at the Congress ACCOMMODATION PREFERENCES (Price range) [ ] c. 70 - 80 Euros [ ] c. 50 - 70 Euros [ ] Youth hostel [ ] Student dormitory - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 21 17:37:06 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:37:06 +0100 Subject: Appel: Recherche d'Information et Fouille de Textes Message-ID: From: Christian Jacquemin APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS Journ�e Apprentissage Statistique et Symbolique ----------------------------------------------- pour la Recherche d'Information et la Fouille de Textes ------------------------------------------------------- 18 juin 1999, Paris, Ecole Polytechnique Cette journ�e s'adresse aux diff�rentes communaut�s int�ress�es par le traitement d'informations textuelles. Son but est de fournir un forum d'�change et de d�couverte, sur les techniques d'apprentissage num�riques ou symboliques exploit�es pour l'acc�s � l'information (information retrieval) et la fouille de donn�es textuelles (text-mining). La journ�e sera organis�e en deux temps, une demi-journ�e de synth�se qui retracera les principaux courants en Apprentissage pour la Recherche d'Information et en Fouille de Textes. En particulier, on verra comment ces travaux s'enracinent dans les statistiques textuelles et la lexicom�trie, disciplines d�j� anciennes et bien d�velopp�es en France. On pr�sentera �galement comment les techniques d'Apprentissage ont retrouv� un regain d'int�r�t ces derni�res ann�es pour le traitement de l'information textuelle avec les mod�les stochastiques de la langue, les r�seaux connexionnistes, les m�thodes de classification automatique, la combinaison de classifieurs, les mod�les probabiliste de recherche d'information et de d�tection automatique de th�mes, la linguistique de corpus, l'acquisition de connaissances, l'apprentissage inductif, l'apprentissage ou l'ajustement automatique de grammaire, etc. La deuxi�me demi-journ�e sera ouverte � des pr�sentations de travaux proposant de nouvelles perspectives d'int�gration et d'interaction entre Apprentissage et Recherche d'Information ou Fouille de Textes. Les contributions porteront sur l'application de m�thodes fondamentales de l'apprentissage telles que : o mod�les statistiques, o programmation logique inductive, o inf�rence grammaticale, o mod�les de langage, o mod�les connexionnistes,etc. � des domaines tels que : o classification de documents, o r�sum� automatique, o �tiquetage syntaxique, s�mantique, o d�tection et suivi de th�mes, o segmentation th�matique, o acquisition de connaissances � partir de textes, o indexation de documents, o segmentation en phrases, en mots, o extraction d'information, etc. INSTRUCTION AUX AUTEURS / les auteurs sont invit�s � soumettre des communications en fran�ais ou en anglais, de 5 pages maximum en simple interligne. La premi�re page doit contenir le titre, le nom et l'affiliation des auteurs, un r�sum� de 10 lignes. Le texte doit �tre �crit en times 12 ou �quivalent. Les papiers sont soumis par voie �lectronique � l'adresse : Patrick.Gallinari at lip6.fr Attention, tous les papiers doivent �tre au format pdf ou postcript ou RTF word. INSCRIPTION AUX JOURNEES L'inscription est gratuite, mais imp�rative, elle doit parvenir avant le 2 juin. Pour cela, envoyer un e-mail avec comme sujet inscription, en indiquant vos nom, pr�nom, adresse, e-mail, � l'adresse indiqu�e ci dessus. Une programme plus complet sera envoy� ult�rieurement. DATES IMPORTANTES 21 mai 1999, date limite de r�ception des papiers 31 mai 1999, notification d'acceptation 18 juin 1999, la journ�e La journ�e est organis�e dans le cadre du GDR I3, elle est accueillie par la plateforme de conf�rences AFIA'99 : http://www.afia.polytechnique/plate-forme/ Le groupe de travail A3CTE (GDR I3 - AFIA) s'associe a cette manifestation Organisateurs : --------------- Patrick Gallinari (LIP6) Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI) Claire Nedellec (LRI) Renseignements : Patrick.Gallinari at lip6.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 21 17:37:21 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:37:21 +0100 Subject: Conf: EACL'99 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen EACL '99 9th Conf. of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Bergen, June 8-12, 1999 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. Programme overview: ----------------------------------------------------------- June 7 Pre-conference excursion to the fjords June 8 Tutorials June 9-11 Main sessions, student sessions, posters&demos Invited speakers Bruce Croft & Wolfgang Wahlster Exhibit & Job Fair Social programme (reception & banquet) June 12 Workshops ----------------------------------------------------------- Please consult the website for the full programme, venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 Welcome to Bergen ! Henry Thompson & Alex Lascarides, Programme Chairs Koenraad de Smedt, Chair of the Local Organization Committee Sponsors: LINGSOFT, University of Bergen (Humanities Faculty), Bergen University Fund, Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and Church affairs ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EACL'99 TUTORIALS PROGRAMME The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. There will be two tutorial sessions on June 8th, 1999, with two tutorials each. TIME TABLE 8:30 Registration 9:30 Start Morning Session (1 and 3 below) 11:00 Break 11:30 Morning Session continued 13:00 Lunch 14.00 Start Afternoon Session (2 and 4 below) 15:30 Break 16.00 Afternoon Session continued 17:30 End of Sessions 1. Practical Text Mining Lecturer: Ronen Feldman 2. Natural Language Learning with the Maximum Entropy Framework Lecturer: Adwait Ratnaparkhi 3. Building Natural Language Generation Systems Lecturers: Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter 4. Lexicography for Computationalists Lecturers: Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell The URL for the tutorials programme (with abstracts and further information) is http://ilk.kub.nl/~walter/eacl/prog.html The URL for the EACL'99 homepage is http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 -- Walter Daelemans From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 21 17:37:24 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:37:24 +0100 Subject: Conf: LFG'99 Message-ID: From: Tracy Holloway King LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR ANNUAL MEETING LFG99 19-21 July, 1999 Manchester University URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Html/LFG/default.html Enquiries: LFG99 at man.ac.uk NOTE: details concerning registration and accomodation will be available shortly. MONDAY JULY 19 9.00-9.45 Peter AUSTIN Argument Coding and Clause Linkage in Australian Aboriginal Languages 9.45-10.30 Farrell ACKERMAN and John MOORE Telic Object as a Proto-Patient Property of Lexical Predicates 10.30-11.15 Anna SIEWIERSKA Reduced Pronominals and Argument Prominence 11.15-11.45 BREAK 11.45-12.30 Yukiko MORIMOTO Information Packaging and Argument Reversal: An Optimality Theoretic Account of English Locative Inversion 12.30-1.15 Lunella MEREU On the Grammatical Realization of Discourse Functions in Somali 1.15-2.45 LUNCH 2.45-4.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 1 Organizer: Victoria ROSEN 4.15-4.45 BREAK 4.45-6.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 2 TUESDAY JULY 20 9.00-9.45 Tara MOHANAN and KP MOHANAN Two Forms of BE in Malayalam 9.45-10.30 Devyani SHARMA Nominal Clitics and Constructive Morphology in Hindi 10.30-11.00 BREAK 11.00-11.45 Jonas KUHN Towards a Simple Architecture for the Structure-function Mapping 11.45-12.30 Josef VAN GENABITH and Andy WAY Semi-Automatic Generation of F-Structures from Treebanks 12.30-2.00 LUNCH 2.00-3.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American Languages - part 1 Organizer: George Aaron Broadwell 3.30-4.00 BREAK 4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American Languages - part 2 5.30-6.30 BUSINESS MEETING WEDNESDAY JULY 21 9.00-9.45 Kersti BORJARS, Erika CHISARIK, and John PAYNE On the Justification for Functional Categories in LFG 9.45-10.30 Christoph SCHWARZE Inflectional Classes in Lexical Functional Morphology -- Latin -sk- and its Evolution 10.30-11.00 BREAK 11.00-11.45 Kenji YOKOTA Light Verb Constructions in Japanese and Functional Uncertainty 11.45-12.30 Nikolas GISBORNE English Light Verbs and the (Non)necessity of Argument Structure 12.30-2.00 LUNCH 2.00-2.45 Judith BERMAN Does German Satisfy the Subject Condition? 2.45-3.30 Hanjung LEE The Domain of Grammatical Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar 3.30-4.00 BREAK 4.00-4.45 John FRY Resource-logical Event Semantics for LFG 4.45-5.30 Anette FRANK Towards Optimal Linking 5.30-6.00 CLOSING REMARKS ALTERNATES Tibor LACZKO The Anatomy of a Jolly-JokER -- A Comprehensive Analysis of a Multi-Functional Deverbal Morpheme in Hungarian Louisa SADLER Non-Distributive Features and Coordination in Welsh From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 22 13:11:24 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:11:24 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLULP'99 Message-ID: From: Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr (Paul Sabatier) Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming (NLULP'99) December 3-4, 1999 Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA NLULP'99 is co-located with the Sixteenth International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'99) NLULP'99 CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** WORKSHOP CHAIRS Sandiway Fong & Paul Sabatier PROGRAM COMMITTEE Harvey Abramson (STMS, Portland) Sandiway Fong (NEC Research Institute, Princeton) Claire Gardent (Univ. des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken) Jose Gabriel Lopes (New University of Lisbon) Gerald Penn (Univ. of Tuebingen) Monique Rolbert (LIM, Marseille) Paul Sabatier (LIM, CNRS, Marseille) Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse) Shuly Wintner (IRCS, Univ. of Pennsylvania) TOPICS OF INTEREST Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Logic Programming pertaining to Computational Linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following: - syntax - parsing - semantics - generation - phonetics - language understanding - phonology - speech analysis/synthesis - morphology - computational lexicons - discourse - electronic dictionaries - pragmatics - terminology - formalisms - text database and retrieval - quantitative/qualitative linguistics - machine translation - mathematical linguistics - machine aids for translation - contrastive linguistics - natural language interface - cognitive linguistics - dialogue systems - large text corpora - computer assisted language learning - text processing - multimedia systems - hardware/software for NLP REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Papers should be written in English, and describe original work. They should emphasize completed work rather than proposed work. The state of completion of reported results should be clearly indicated. SUBMISSION FORMAT Submissions should be no longer than 15 pages (A4 format, 11pt), including abstract, keywords and references. All contributions are to be made electronically as uncompressed mime-encoded PostScript attachments. Please send your submission to both of the co-chairs: Sandiway Fong : sandiway at research.nj.nec.com Paul Sabatier : Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr PROCEEDINGS On-Line Proceedings of NLULP'99 will be available on the Web from November 15, 1999. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: June 30, 1999 Acceptance notification: September 13, 1999 Final version of papers: October 11, 1999 On-Line Proceedings: November 15, 1999 Workshop dates: December 3-4, 1999 LINKS NLULP'99 http://www.lim.univ-mrs.fr/NLULP99 ICLP'99 http://www.CS.NMSU.Edu/~complog/conferences/iclp99 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 22 14:32:56 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:32:56 +0100 Subject: Appel: IWPT'99 Message-ID: From: Harry Bunt [Apologies for multiple copies] C a l l f o r P a p e r s IWPT'99 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 20-22 December, 1999 Trento, Italy ~~~~ The ITC-IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research) in Trento, in the North of Italy, will host the 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'99) from 20 to 22 December, 1999. IWPT'99 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; and Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997. More information will soon be available on the IWPT'99 home page: at ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Yannick Lallement Subject: Novator Systems 2/ From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Job at ITRI: Closing date next week 3/ From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: JOB: poste disponible a ELDA / position available at ELDA ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Yannick Lallement Subject: Novator Systems Novator Systems (http://www.novator.com) is looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding. Novator is a web company based in Toronto, that specializes in electronic retail. One of the areas in which we have developed software is in automatically responding to customer inquiries over the web, using artificial intelligence techniques. We are currently beta-testing version 1 of our software on one of our customer's sites (http://www.ftd.com) - we can automatically respond to about 55% of the comments we receive with about 2.3% false positives. Our next phase of R&D requires strong Natural Language Understanding skills. We are looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding for this next phase. Please send applications to intelliserve at novator.com. ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Job at ITRI NB Closing date **next Fri** 30 April ===================================== Apologies for duplicates ******************************************* JOB ADVERTISEMENT Research Fellow (Computational Linguistics) ITRI University of Brighton UK ******************************************* This post offers an opportunity to undertake leading-edge research in word sense disambiguation and computational lexicography at ITRI, an internationally recognised centre of excellence in computational linguistics. Working primarily on WASPS, a project to develop a lexicographer's workstation, you will need an open-minded, analytical and collaborative approach to research, extensive knowledge of natural language processing, good programming skills and a proven research and publication record. In return we offer excellent research facilities and place great emphasis on research career management and development. The post is fixed-term for 3 years. WASPS is an EPSRC funded project, under the direction of Dr. Roger Evans, Dr. Adam Kilgarriff and Sue Atkins. It will explore the synergy between the lexicographer's task of identifying and describing word senses, and the computational task of word sense disambiguation (WSD). On the one side, lexicographers are asking for natural language processing (NLP) software to pre-process and organise corpus data. On the other, NLP needs formal, explicit descriptions of word behaviour, particularly for WSD. The challenge now is to design an environment in which the human lexicographer's perception and the power of the WSD algorithms are successfully brought together. The research fellow will have primary responsibility for producing a semi-automatic lexicographer's workstation, as specified in the WASPS grant proposal. This will include developing and implementing a language which can be used both by humans for specifying and editing word sense descriptions, and by a WSD algorithm for disambiguation. It will also include implementing one or more state-of-the-art WSD algorithms. Salary: up to GBP 24,002 Term: 3 years fixed term Further details, including application form in Word http://www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/ Postscript version of application form http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/posts/appform.ps ITRI web pages: http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk Queries: Adam.Kilgarriff at itri.bton.ac.uk Ref number: IR4012 Closing date: 30th April 1999 ______________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: JOB: poste disponible a ELDA / position available at ELDA ELDA vient d'annoncer la disponibilite d'un poste d'Ingenieur d'etudes. L'annonce se trouve sur notre site Web : http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/job.html Responsable: Khalid Choukri (choukri at elda.fr). ELDA has just announced an open position for a Research/Technical Engineer. Details can be found at : http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/fr/job.html Contact person: Khalid Choukri (choukri at elda.fr). ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europ�enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 26 13:02:57 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:02:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: ICoS-1 Message-ID: From: mdr at wins.uva.nl (Maarten de Rijke) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS First workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-1 Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Amsterdam, August 15, 1999 (Submission deadline: June 1, 1999) ABOUT ICoS Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. In addition, a wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics for natural language. Indeed, computational semantics has reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks --- and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously. The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1) intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in order to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural language semantics. SUBMISSIONS We invite two kinds of submissions: research papers on inference methods in computational semantics as well as their applications; and system descriptions. Research papers can be up to 10 A4 size pages (formatted using the standard LaTeX2e options 11pt and a4paper), and system descriptions can be up to 4 A4 size pages (again, formatted using 11pt, a4paper as options). System descriptions should focus on actual implementations, explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. Every system description should be accompanied by a system demo at ICoS-1. The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript format. Submissions should be sent to icos1 at wins.uva.nl. DATES * Submission deadline: June 1, 1999 * Notification date: July 1, 1999 * Final versions due: July 21, 1999 * Workshop: August 15, 1999 PROGRAM The following people will give invited presentations: * Johan Bos (Saarbruecken) Automated Reasoning for Natural Language Semantics * Steve Pulman (SRI) Title to be announced * Matthew Stone (Rutgers) Towards a computational account of knowledge, action and instructions The program committee for ICoS-1 consists of the following people: James Allen Michael Kohlhase Patrick Blackburn Alex Lascarides Denys Duchier Christof Monz Jan van Eijck Reinhard Muskens Claire Gardent Maarten de Rijke Jacques Jayez Henk Zeevat LOCATION ICoS-1 will be held at the University of Amsterdam during the 11th European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99), which will be held in Utrecht, approximately 30 km from Amsterdam. FURTHER INFORMATION Detailed information about the program, and about registration and accommodation will be made available at a later stage. For further information, please contact the local organizers at icos1 at wins.uva.nl or visit the ICoS-1 home page: http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 26 13:03:00 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:03:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics Message-ID: From: rapp at usun1.fask.uni-mainz.de (Reinhard Rapp) Please circulate! We apologize for any cross-postings. ____________________________________________ | | | 34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS | | | | 34. LINGUISTISCHES KOLLOQUIUM | | | | 34e COLLOQUE LINGUISTIQUE | | | | September 7-10, 1999 | | | | University of Mainz, Germany | |____________________________________________| | | | SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS | |____________________________________________| ____________________________________________ | | | NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW | | | | Additional Tutorial - Sydney M. Lamb: | | "The Neurocognitive Basis of Language" | | | | Travel Support for Scientists from | | Eastern Europe | |____________________________________________| We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitaet Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim, from September 7 to September 10, 1999. The motto of this year's conference will be "Linguistics on the Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the tradition of the colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the choice of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and French. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes which includes 10 minutes of discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 1999. A volume of abstracts will be available at the conference. The proceedings with the full papers will be published after the conference with Peter Lang-Verlag. In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will be supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises three hours and is intended to give a concise introduction to a specific field for audiences with a different focus of research. We are particularly happy to offer you a bus excursion to the old city of Heidelberg with a guided tour through the castle on Thursday, September 9. On the way, we will stop in Speyer, whose Cathedral (Kaiserdom) is part of the UNESCO's world cultural heritage. Please do not hesitate to bring this announcement to the attention of interested colleagues. More information can be found on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ Prof. Dr. Dieter Huber Dr. Reinhard Rapp IMPORTANT DATES May 31, 1999 - Submission of abstracts (confirmation within two weeks) - Conference registration (reduced rate) - Registration for tutorials & excursion - Hotel reservation Nov. 30, 1999 - Submission of full papers for the proceedings PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ----------------------------------------------------------- | Morning | Afternoon | Evening ---------------+-------------+--------------+-------------- Tue, Sept. 7 | Tutorials | Tutorials | Germersheim | | | Guided Tour ---------------+-------------+--------------+-------------- Wed, Sept. 8 | Opening & | Papers | Reception | Papers | | (Town Hall) ---------------+-------------+----------------------------- Thu, Sept. 9 | Papers | Excursion to Heidelberg | | and Speyer ---------------+------------------------------------------- Fri, Sept. 10 | Papers & | (Departure) | Conference End | ----------------------------------------------------------- The presentations will be organized in parallel sections. TUTORIALS ----------------------------------------------------------- Time | Tutorial | Language -------------+--------------------------------+------------ 9.00-12.30 | Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural | English | Language Parsing, Part 1 | | | 9.00-12.30 | Christian Otto: Sprachtech- | German | nologie fuer das Internet | -------------+--------------------------------+------------ 14.00-17.30 | Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural | English | Language Parsing, Part 2 | | | 14.00-17.30 | Prof. Uta Seewald-Heeg: | German | Maschinelle Uebersetzung | | | 14.00-17.30 | Prof. Sydney M. Lamb: The Neu- | English | rocognitive Basis of Language | ----------------------------------------------------------- The Tutorials take place during the first full day of the confe- rence (Sept. 7, 1999). Therefore, the official opening is on the second day. For each tutorial, a description can be found at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ CONFERENCE SITE The Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FASK) of the University of Mainz is located in Germersheim in the south- west of Germany on the Rhine between the cities of Mannheim and Karlsruhe. It can easily be reached by car, train, and airplane. With its 2500 students, more than 1000 of whom coming from 70 different foreign countries, the faculty is known as one of the world's largest institutions dedicated to the training and edu- cation of translators and interpreters. Within walking distance from the faculty, six hotels and the student's residence are available with single rooms priced between 30 and 90 DM per night. Meals are provided by the university canteen, the cafe- teria, and by a number of restaurants (with lunch specials). The main attractions in and around Germersheim are its fortress, the German Wine Road, the Palatinate Forest with Hambach Castle, Speyer, Heidelberg, the Castle Park in Schwetzingen and the Old Abbey in Maulbronn. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dr. Susanne Beckmann, University of Muenster Dr. Abraham P. ten Cate, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Dr. Tadeusz Danilewicz, Gdansk University Prof. Dr. K. Dorfmueller-Karpusa, Univ. of Thessaloniki Dieter W. Halwachs, University of Graz Prof. Dr. Mikhail Kotin, State University Moscow Prof. Dr. Wim Klooster, University of Amsterdam Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kuerschner, University of Osnabrueck Dr. Reinhard Rapp, University of Mainz (Conference Chair) Prof. Dr. Hans Otto Spillmann, University of Kassel Prof. Dr. Kazimierz A. Sroka, Gdansk University Dr. Juerg Straessler, University of Bern Prof. Dr. Zygmunt Vetulani, University of Poznan Dr. Ingo Warnke, University of Kassel Prof. Dr. Richard J. Watts, University of Bern Prof. Dr. Heinrich Weber, University of Tuebingen Prof. Dr. Lew Zybatow, University of Bielefeld CONFERENCE FEE The conference fee is 100 DM for early registration (120 DM after May 31, 1999). This sum includes the registration fee and will, among other things, cover pre-conference materials, tea and coffee, the guided tour through Germersheim on Tuesday and the reception on Wednesday. It will not, however, cover meals, accomodation, proceedings, the excursion to Heidelberg (30 DM), and the tutorials (20 DM per tutorial, written documentation included). Accepted currencies are DM and Euro (exchange rate: 1 Euro = 2 DM). REGISTRATION Please find registration information on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ TRAVEL SUPPORT For a limited number of scientists from Eastern Europe - subject to confirmation from our sponsors - there will be partial travel support available. Several conditions and restrictions apply. The deadline for applications is May 31, 1999. Please send requests to the address given below. CONFERENCE ADDRESS Please send all correspondence to the following address: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ c/o Dr. Reinhard Rapp rapp at usun2.fask.uni-mainz.de Universitaet Mainz, FASK Phone: (+49) 7274 / 508-457 D-76711 Germersheim Fax: (+49) 7274 / 508-429 Germany From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 26 13:03:21 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:03:21 +0100 Subject: Livre: Natural Language Information Retrieval Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 7 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V�ronis Natural Language Information Retrieval edited by Tomek Strzalkowski The last decade has been one of dramatic progress in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This hitherto largely academic discipline has found itself at the center of an information revolution ushered in by the Internet age, as demand for human-computer communication and information access has exploded. Emerging applications in computer-assisted information production and dissemination, automated understanding of news, understanding of spoken language, and processing of foreign languages have given impetus to research that has resulted in a new generation of robust tools, systems, and commercial products. This volume focuses on the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Information Retrieval, the technology that grew out of library research to become our best hope in dealing with today's information overload. The book gives a broad overview of the work being done at the junction of these two important fields, and suggests directions for future explorations. It is organized into two loosely structured parts. The first part, consisting of Chapters 1 through 7, discusses research systems and evaluations that represent major avenues where the impact of NLP technologies in information retrieval is being explored. The second part (Chapters 8 through 14) describes specific implementations and prototypes of information systems where NLP techniques are used or proposed to assist in accurate retrieval, text categorization, question answering, and in organizing the results for the user. Audience: This book will be a valuable reference to researchers and practitioners in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Computational Linguistics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3 April 1999, 384 pp. NLG 240.00 / USD 144.00 / GBP 84.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents and Contributors Preface. Contributing Authors. 1. What is the Role of NLP in Text Retrieval? K.S. Jones. 2. NLP for Term Variant Extraction: Synergy Between Morphology, Lexicon, and Syntax; C. Jacquemin, E. Tzoukermann. 3. Combining Corpus Linguistics and Human Memory Models for Automatic Term Association; G. Ruge. 4. Using NLP or NLP Resources for Information Retrieval Tasks; A.F. Smeaton. 5. Evaluating Natural Language Processing Techniques in Information Retrieval; T. Strzalkowski, et al. 6. Stylistic Experiments in Information Retrieval; J. Karlgren. 7. Extraction-Based Text Categorization: Generating Domain-Specific Role Relationships Automatically; E. Riloff, J. Lorenzen. 8. Lasie Jumps the Gat; Y. Wilks, R. Gaizauskas. 9. Phrasal Terms in Real-World IR Applications; J. Zhou. 10. Name Recognition and Retrieval Performance; P. Thompson, C. Dozier. 11. Collage: An NLP Toolset to Support Boolean Retrieval; J. Cowie. 12. Document Classification and Routing; L. Guthrie, et al. 13. Murax: Finding and Organizing Answers from Text Search; J. Kupiec. 14. The Use of Categories and Clusters for Organizing Retrieval Results; M. Hearst. Index. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 28 17:17:32 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:32 +0100 Subject: Appel: JADT-2000 Message-ID: From: JADT 2000 =========================================================================== JADT 2000 WEB SITE : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000 ENGLISH VERSION BELOW (look for "ENGLISH VERSION HERE") =========================================================================== J A D T 2 0 0 0 5e Journ�es Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Donn�es Textuelles 9-11 Mars 2000 �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne Lausanne, Suisse --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr�s Barcelone (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), et Nice (1998), les 5e Journ�es Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Donn�es Textuelles auront lieu � Lausanne (Suisse) du 9 au 11 mars 2000. Cette manifestation, qui gagne en importance � chaque �dition, est ouverte aux chercheurs du vaste domaine d'�tudes qui, centr� sur la statistique textuelle, s'�tend de la lexicographie � l'analyse du discours politique, de la recherche documentaire � la recherche en marketing, de la linguistique computationnelle � la sociolinguistique, du traitement informatique des donn�es � l'analyse de contenu. Apr�s le succ�s des pr�c�dentes occurrences, JADT 2000 fournira de nouveau un forum de discussion convivial comprenant � la fois des pr�sentations techniques, des conf�rences invit�es et des tables rondes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 10 Septembre 1999 Notification aux auteurs : 15 Octobre 1999 Version finale : 10 D�cembre 1999 Conf�rence : 9-11 Mars 2000 --------------------------------------------------------------------- TH�MES Les th�mes de la conf�rence concernent l'utilisation des outils et mod�les de la statistique aux domaines suivants : * Analyse exploratoire de donn�es textuelles * Analyse du discours * Traitement automatique du langage * Analyse statistique de r�ponses � des questions ouvertes * Analyse bibliom�trique et statistique textuelle * Stylom�trie * Dictionnaires de fr�quences * Lemmatisation * Corpus de textes et repr�sentations textuelles * Classification de textes * Recherche documentaire * Hypertexte * Logiciels pour l'analyse lexicale et textuelle --------------------------------------------------------------------- LANGUES AUTORIS�ES POUR LES PR�SENTATIONS Les pr�sentations pourront se faire dans l'une des langues suivantes : Fran�ais, Anglais, Allemand, Italien, Espagnol Toutes les communications devront cependant comporter un r�sum� (�crit et oral) en anglais. Comme lors des colloques pr�c�dent, aucune traduction simultan�e n'est pr�vue. --------------------------------------------------------------------- MODALIT�S DE SOUMISSION Les articles soumis � cette conf�rence devront d�crire un travail original et novateur ayant fait l'objet d'une �valuation. Toutes les contributions devront contenir un �tat de l'art et/ou des r�f�rences � des travaux ant�rieurs pertinents. Si le travail pr�sent� n'a pas fait l'objet d'une �valuation, les auteurs devront le justifier. Les auteurs sont convi�s � inclure dans leurs papiers des propositions, discussions, argumentations sur l'ad�quation de leur travail avec les th�mes de la conf�rence. Les participants souhaitant soumettre un papier ou un poster doivent envoyer au comit� (adresse ci-dessous) avant le 10 Septembre 1999, les �l�ments suivants : * Noms, affiliations et adresses compl�tes (+fax, email) des auteurs * Titre * Mots cl�s * Un r�sum� en anglais (300 mots maximum) * Version abr�g�e (3 pages minimum, 4 pages maximum) de la contribution pr�sentant les grandes lignes du travail, les probl�mes trait�s et les r�sultats obtenus * R�f�rences bibliographiques Les notifications d'acceptation seront envoy�es aux auteurs le 15 Octobre 1999. La version finale de la contribution (8 pages max.) devra �tre r�dig�e selon les r�gles de formatage qui seront pr�cis�es ult�rieurement et devra parvenir au comit� (adresse ci-dessous) au plus tard le 10 D�cembre 1999. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PR�SENTATIONS ORALES La dur�e de chacune des pr�sentations orales ne devra pas d�passer 20 minutes. Il sera possible d'utiliser une tablette de r�troprojection pour pr�senter les bases de donn�es et les logiciels "en direct". Une connexion Internet pourra �tre fournie aux orateurs qui le d�sirent. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ACTES La totalit� des contributions sera rassembl�e et �dit�e sous la forme d'actes qui seront distribu�s � tous les participants au d�but de la conf�rence. --------------------------------------------------------------------- COMIT� DE PROGRAMME Monica B�cue Univ. Polytechnic of Catalunya Sergio Bolasco Univ. de Rome 'La Sapienza' �tienne Brunet Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis Annibale Elia Univ. de Salerno Dominique Labb� Univ. de Grenoble Ludovic Lebart CNRS, ENST Paris Alain Lelu Univ. Paris 8 Sylvie Mellet CNRS, Nice Charles Muller Univ. de Strasbourg Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Max Reinert CNRS Toulouse Jacques Rouault CRISS Grenoble Andr� Salem Univ. Paris 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- COMIT� D'ORGANISATION Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Jean-C�dric Chappelier EPF Lausanne --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT / ADRESSE JADT 2000 Martin Rajman EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse T�l : +41 21 693 27 35 Fax : +41 21 693 52 25 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch Web : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000 =========================================================================== BULLETIN DE PR�-INSCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bulletin de pr�-inscription � envoyer � JADT 2000 Martin RAJMAN EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse avant le 10 septembre 1999. L'inscription d�finitive aura lieu � r�ception du payement (dont les modalit�s seront pr�cis�es ult�rieurement) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOM : PRENOM : INSTITUTION : ADRESSE : TELEPHONE : FAX : EMAIL : PARTICIPATION / SOUMISSION : [ ] PRESENTATION ORALE [ ] POSTER [ ] PAS DE PRESENTATION DEMONSTRATION : [ ] OUI [ ] NON LANGUE POUR LA PRESENTATION : [ ] FRANCAIS [ ] ANGLAIS [ ] ALLEMAND [ ] ITALIEN [ ] ESPAGNOL INSCRIPTION : [ ] ETUDIANT [ ] REDUIT [ ] NORMAL Tarif Etudiant : 150 CHF (env. 93 Euros), Fournir une pi�ce justificative Tarif R�duit : 300 CHF (env. 186 Euros), Inscription AVANT LE 10 DECEMBRE Tarif Normal : 375 CHF (env. 233 Euros), Inscription APRES le 10 decembre MODE DE PAYEMENT ENVISAGE : [ ] VIREMENT BANCAIRE [ ] CARTE VISA [ ] CARTE EUROCARD =========================================================================== ENGLISH VERSION HERE =========================================================================== J A D T 2 0 0 0 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 9-11, 2000 �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland --------------------------------------------------------------------- Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), and Nice (1998), the 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data will be held in Lausanne, on March 9-11, 2000. This biennial conference, which has constantly been gaining in importance since its first occurrence, is open to all scholars 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. After the success of the previous meetings, the three-day conference in Switzerland will continue to provide a workshop-style forum through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: September 10th, 1999 Notification: October 15th, 1999 Camera ready papers: December 10th, 1999 Conference: March 9-11, 2000 --------------------------------------------------------------------- THEMES OF INTEREST The themes of interest of the conference concern the application of statistical models and tools in the following domains: * Exploratory Textual Data Analysis * Discourse Analysis * Computational Linguistics * Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions * Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis * Stylometry * Frequency Dictionaries * Lemmatization * Text Corpora and Text Encoding * Textual Classification * Information Retrieval * Hypertext * Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis --------------------------------------------------------------------- LANGUAGES FOR THE PRESENTATIONS Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract. As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage the authors to include in their papers proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme of the conference. Participants wishing to submit a paper or present a poster should send to the program committee (address below) a short version for review by September 10th, 1999, giving the following information: * Name of author; * Affiliation; * Full postal address with fax and/or e-mail * Title of the proposed paper with keywords; * An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) * A short version (3 pages min./4 pages max.) of the paper emphasizing the purpose of the paper, the problem addressed and the results obtained; * Bibliographical references. Notification of acceptance will be send to the authors by October 15, 1999. Final camera-ready papers should conform to the format that will be provided to the authors and reach the committee (address below) no later than December 10, 1999. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESENTATIONS Paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes each. An overhead projector will be available for the display of data-bases and/or software directly from the computer screen. Connection to Internet will be supplied for speakers on request. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS All accepted the papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the participants at the start of the conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Monica B�cue Univ. Polytechnic of Catalunya Sergio Bolasco Univ. de Rome 'La Sapienza' �tienne Brunet Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis Annibale Elia Univ. de Salerno Dominique Labb� Univ. de Grenoble Ludovic Lebart CNRS, ENST Paris Alain Lelu Univ. Paris 8 Sylvie Mellet CNRS, Nice Charles Muller Univ. de Strasbourg Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Max Reinert CNRS Toulouse Jacques Rouault CRISS Grenoble Andr� Salem Univ. Paris 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Jean-C�dric Chappelier EPF Lausanne --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT / ADDRESS JADT 2000 Martin Rajman EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse T�l : +41 21 693 27 35 Fax : +41 21 693 52 25 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch Web : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000 =========================================================================== PRE REGISTRATION FORM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This pre-registration form should be returned to JADT 2000 Martin RAJMAN EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse before September 10th, 1999. Registration will be effective on receipt of payment (Details for payment will be provided later on). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SURNAME : FIRST NAME : AFFILIATION : ADDRESS : PHONE : FAX : EMAIL : PARTICIPATION / SUBMISSION : [ ] PAPER [ ] POSTER [ ] NO PRESENTATION DEMONSTRATION : [ ] YES [ ] NO LANGUAGE FOR PRESENTATION : [ ] ENGLISH [ ] FRENCH [ ] GERMAN [ ] ITALIAN [ ] SPANISH REGISTRATION : [ ] STUDENT [ ] EARLY [ ] NORMAL Student : 150 CHF (approx. 93 Euros), copy of the student card Early : 300 CHF (approx. 186 Euros), BEFORE DECEMBER 10TH Normal : 375 CHF (approx. 233 Euros), after December 10th PAYMENT: [ ] BANK TRANSFER [ ] VISA [ ] EUROCARD =========================================================================== =========================================================================== From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 28 17:17:34 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:34 +0100 Subject: Appel: GLDV'99 Message-ID: From: Bernhard Schroeder o============================================o | | | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | | | o============================================o "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis" The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GLDV) will take place in July 8-10, 1999. Main topic: "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis". The meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S Papers can be offered for plenary sessions as well as sessions of the Special Interest Groups (Arbeitskreise) of GLDV. Papers that are NOT related to the main topic (e.g. Computational Linguistics, Language Technology, Linguistic Data Processing, etc.). are ALSO welcome! Extended abstracts must be sent in by April 30 via mail to titus at em.uni-frankfurt.de * Size: 2-3 pages (2000 words maximum); * Format: RTF, HTML, ASCII. The program committee will decide about acceptance of the papers on May 28, 1999. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For details go to: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/gldv99e.htm P.O. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 28 17:17:24 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:24 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers Message-ID: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Douglas Kendall (Volt Computer)" Subject: Job opportunities for Linguists 2/ From: Yannick Lallement Subject: Natural Language Understanding ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Douglas Kendall (Volt Computer)" Subject: Job opportunities for Linguists To Whom It May Concern, I have quite a few opportunities available at Redmond Washington's largest Software manufacture, for Linguist Majors in French, German, English, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese. If there are any graduates or graduating students who are interested in an opportunity at Microsoft, please have them contact me by phone or email. We are looking for Linguistic specialists. Thank you very much for your assistance and if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me anytime. Thank you Doug Kendall Volt Services Group v-dougke at microsoft.com (425) 702-9000 1(800)253-9605 ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Yannick Lallement Subject: Natural Language Understanding Novator Systems (http://www.novator.com) is looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding. Novator is a web company based in Toronto, that specializes in electronic retail. One of the areas in which we have developed software is in automatically responding to customer inquiries over the web, using artificial intelligence techniques. We are currently beta-testing version 1 of our software on one of our customer's sites (http://www.ftd.com) - we can automatically respond to about 55% of the comments we receive with about 2.3% false positives. Our next phase of R&D requires strong Natural Language Understanding skills. We are looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding for this next phase. Please send applications to intelliserve at novator.com. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 28 17:17:37 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:37 +0100 Subject: Conf: ACL'99 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen ACL '99 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA June 20-26, 1999 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99 The ACL '99 conference this year will offer a larger and more diversified program than ever before. Below is a Program Overview. Detailed information and the entire registration brochure may be found at the website above. The registration brochure has also been sent to all ACL members in hardcopy on 19th April, 1999. If you would like an emailed version of the VERY LONG brochure, please contact Priscilla Rasmussen at acl at aclweb.org. We also plan to have the online registration working (hopefully) by the end of April. ----------------------------------------------------------- 19 June Registration and Tutorial Reception 20 June Tutorials--3 morning and 3 afternoon 21-22 June Workshops--4 1-day and 2 2-day workshops 23-26 June Technical, Thematic, and Student Sessions (23rd and 26th Technical, 24th and 25th Thematic and Student sessions); Invited Speakers: Marti Hearst, Sadaoki Furui, and George Miller. ACL Business Meeting and Student Member Lunch Meeting. Social program (Opening Reception, 22nd June, and Banquet, 23rd June) ----------------------------------------------------------- Please consult the website for the full program, venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation: We hope to see you there! Robert Dale and Kenneth Church, Program Chairs Bonnie Dorr, Local Arrangements Chair From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 28 17:17:40 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:40 +0100 Subject: Revue: Computer and the Humanities Message-ID: From: "Nancy M. Ide" *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Nancy Ide and Dan Greenstein, Editors-in-Chief Volume 33 Nos. 1-2 1999 ***************************************************** * * * SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE * * * * TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE * * * ***************************************************** Table of Contents ----------------- ELLI MYLONAS, ALLEN RENEAR The Text Encoding Initiative at 10: Not Just an Interchange Format Anymore, But a New Research Community pp. 1-9 STEVEN DEROSE XML and the TEI pp. 11-30 LAURENT ROMARY, PATRICE BONHOMME, FLORENCE BRUNESEAUX, JEAN-MARIE PIERREL Silfide: A System for Open Access and Distributed Delivery of TEI Encoded Documents pp. 31-38 LOU BURNARD, MICHAEL POPHAM Putting Our Headers together: A Report on the TEI Header Meeting 12 September 1997 pp. 39-47 DAVID J. BIRNBAUM, MAVIS COURNANE, PETER FLYNN Using the TEI Writing System Declaration (WSD) pp. 49-57 CHRISTOPHER WELTY, NANCY IDE Using the Right Tools: Enhancing Retrieval from Marked-up Documents pp. 59-84 GARY F. SIMONS Using Architectural Forms to Map TEI Data into an Object-Oriented Database pp. 85-101 DAVID SMITH Textual Variation and Version Control in the TEI pp. 103-112 SYD BAUMAN, TERRY CATAPANO TEI and the Encoding of the Physical Structure of Books pp. 113-127 PHILIP RESNIK, MARI BROMAN OLSEN, MONA DIAB The Bible as a Parallel Corpus: Annotating the Book of 2000 Tongues pp. 129-153 DOMINIQUE ESTIVAL, NICK NICHOLAS TEI Encoding and Syntactic Tagging of an Old French Text pp. 155-174 JANET ERICKSON, MATTHEW STOEFFLER An SGML/HTML Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library pp. 175-184 D. WALKER Taking Snapshots of the Web with a TEI Camera pp. 185-192 A. MORRISON Delivering Electronic Texts Over the Web: The Current and Planned Practices of the Oxford Text Archive pp. 193-198 JON BOSAK XML Ubiquity and the Scholarly Community pp. 199-206 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities Editors-in-Chief: Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College, UK For subscriptions or information, consult the journal's WWW home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/ Or contact: Vanessa Nijweide Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: Vanessa.Nijweide at wkap.nl Members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an individual subscription. For information about ACH and a membership application, consult http://www.ach.org/, or send email to chuck_bush at byu.edu. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:14:57 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:14:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: CLIN'99 Message-ID: From: Paola Monachesi [Apologies if you receive this message more than once] ********************************************************************* CLIN 99 First Announcement Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Tenth CLIN Meeting Friday, 10 December, 1999 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Utrecht University We are happy to announce the tenth CLIN meeting, which will be hosted by the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS at Utrecht University. The meeting will take place in Utrecht, at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. The languages of the conference will be Dutch and English. The local organiser of this year's meeting is Paola Monachesi. Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of computational linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, machine translation, computational lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, information retrieval, knowledge representation, corpus-oriented methods, etc.). Authors should submit an abstract in English or Dutch to the local organiser (preferably by e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should contain: - a title - your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address - a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines) You can send your abstract to: clin99 at let.uu.nl or, if email is not possible, to: CLIN 99 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Utrecht University Trans 10 3512JK Utrecht The Netherlands Deadline for submission is 1 October 1999. Notification of acceptance (by e-mail): 15 October 1999. A volume with proceedings of the Ninth CLIN meeting (held 11 December 1998, in Leuven) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN 99 before CLIN 2000. Papers for these proceedings will have to be written in English; they will be reviewed by a committee to be appointed in due time. This and future information about CLIN 99 will be made available via the CLIN home page: http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/clin.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:15:05 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:15:05 +0100 Subject: Conf: NLDB'99 Message-ID: From: "Christian Winkler" We apologize if you receive this mail more than once! --- **** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***** NLDB'99 4th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language and Information Systems Klagenfurt, Austria, June 17-19, 1999 For details please have a look at http://www.ifit.uni-klu.ac.at/Conferences/NLDB99/ ** Conference Aims and Scope ** Natural language processing and linguistic theory are of increasing importance in the field of information and communication systems design. The integration of information systems, natural language processing and linguistic theory has been a long term goal. The convergence of research in these two technologies is mainly due to the progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage and handling of semantically enriched electronic dictionaries. Most aspects of the life cycle of an information system may be improved by using natural language techniques: information system design (requirements analysis, specification, validation, conflict resolution), database query languages and consulting programs that use new software engineering research allowing natural program specifications. NLDB conferences are aimed to bring together researchers and industrials which are interested in the applications of natural language in the field of database and information systems . The NLDB'99 contributions are a balanced mix of full paper reports and extended abstracts from research and application giving a broad insight into the state of the art concerning problems and solutions within the context of natural language processing and information systems. -------------- Conference Chair: Prof. Dr. Heinrich C. Mayr Program Chair: Dr. Guenther Fliedl Program Committee: - A.T. Berztiss, Pittsburg University, US - Mokrane Bouzeghob, University of Versailles, France - Hans Burg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands - Peter Chen, Lousiana State University, LA, US - Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Udo Hahn, University Freiburg, Germany - Willi Mayerthaler, University of Klagenfurt, Austria - Elisabeth Metais, University of Versailles, France - Erich Ortner, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany - Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands - Stefano Spaccapietra, Ecole Politechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland - Bernhard Thalheim, Technical University Cottbus, Germany - Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria - Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia ** Preliminary Program ** Keynote Speech: Nicola Guarino AI & Robotics Group Ladseb - CNR, Padova; Italy Full Papers: Linguistically based Conceptual Modeling of Business Communication A.A.G. Steuten, R.P. van de Riet, J.L.G. Dietz Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Technische Universiteit Delft; Netherlands Occurance-type-based Determination of the Functionality of a Workflow Management Application F.R. Lehmann Technical Univ. Darmstadt; Germany Graphical NL Versus Symbolic Notation in Object and Process Modeling A. Galatescu Research Institute for Informatics Bucharest; Romania Natural Language Database Query System B. Bouchou, D. Maurel Universite Francois Rabelais de Tours; France Text Parsing Medical Reports in MedSynDiKATe U. Hahn, M. Romacker, St. Schulz Freiburg University; Germany An Adaptive Natural Language Interface Architecture to Access FAQ Knowledge Bases W. Winiwarter University of Vienna; Austria On the Use of Natural Language Concepts for the Conceptual Modeling of Interaction in Information Systems J. Lewerenz Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus; Germany Metaphor Development for Internet Sites B. Thalheim, A. Duesterhoeft Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus; Germany A Uniform semantical Linkage Model for Dependency Structures and Domain Ontologies M. Romacker, U. Hahn Freiburg University; Germany Extended Abstracts: The two functionalities of the SAREL System N. Castell, A. Hernandez Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Spain Experiences with Domain-Based Parsing for Natural Language Requirements V. Gervasi, V. Ambriola Dipartimento di Informatica; Italy Language and Information Systems - research at Tilburg University Hans Weigand Tilburg University; Netherlands The NL-OOPS Project: Object Oriented Modeling using the Natural Language Processing System LOLITA L. Mich, R. Garigliano University of Trento; Italy, University of Durham; UK Object-Oriented Analysis: getting Help from Robust Computational Linguistic Tools S. Delisle, K. Barker, I. Biskri Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivie; Canada The NIBA project: linguistically based requierements engineering G. Fliedl, Ch. Kop, H.C. Mayr, W. Mayerthaler, Ch. Winkler Klagenfurt University; Austria Analogy + Tables = Conjugation Yves Lepage ATR Interpreting Telecom. Res. Labs.; Japan Structured Language Modeling for Speech Recognition C. Chelba, F. Jelinek The John Hopkins University; USA Task-Based Metrics for Machine Translation Evaluation J.S. White Litton PRC; UK Large-Scale Collocation Data and their Application to NLP - First Trial for Word Processor Technology M. Yasutake Fukuoka University; Japan Development of Speech Control System for intelligent Robot F.G. Dinenberg, D. Y. Levin, I.G. Popov, Y.A. Zagorulko, M.A. Zhigalov A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatic Systems; Russia Word Sense Disambiguation for Understanding-Based Information Retrieval Younk-Suk Lee, J. Goldberg, C. Weinstein MIT Lincoln Laboratory; USA Identifying and Extracting Relations in Textmetaphor Development for Internet Sites R.J. Byrd, Y. Ravin T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM; USA On the Scalability of the Answer Extraction System 'ExtrAns' D. Molla-Aliod, M. Hess University of Zurich; Switzerland HALPIN: A Multimodal and conversational application in natural language for information seeking on the World Wide Web J. Rouillard, J. Caelen Laboratoire IMAG-CLIPS; France Cinema Paradise Multimedia Information Retrieval System M. Jun, Seong-Joon Yoo, Kyung Taek Chong, Dong See Choi, Myung-Gil Jang, Soo-Jun Park, Hyunjin Kim Natural Language Access to Software Applications P. Schmidt, A. Theofilidis, M. Marimon, J. Forster, P. Phelan, H. Schulz University of Mainz, University of Saarbruecken Germany; Anite Systems; Luxembourg Multi-agent system for natural language processing: studying the subject through the NALAMAS project V.L. Strube de Lima PUCRS - Faculdade de Informatica; Brazil Tamic-P: A system for NL access to social insurance databases J. Matiasek, A. Klein, H. Trost Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence; Austria Word Taxanomy for On-line Visual Asset Managment and Mining O.R. Zaiane, E. Hagen, J. Han Simon Fraser University; Canada The Prolex Database: Toponyms and Gentiles for NLP O. Piton Univiersite; Paris 1; France Multimodal Natural Language Interface to Information Systems L. Ahrenberg, N. Dahlbaeck, A. Flycht-Eriksson, A. Joensson, P. Qvarfordt, L. Santamarta, L. Stroemboeck Linkoeping University; Sweden Application-oriented Report Generation H. Horacek, St. Busemann DFKI GmbH Saarbruecken; Germany A Knowledge Managment Prototype M.S. Neff, J.W. Cooper T. J. Watson Research Center IBM; USA Automatic Indexing Thesaurus Intended for Recognition of Lexical Cohesion in Texts N.V. Loukachevitch, A.D. Salii, V.B. Dobrov Moscow State University; Russia Programming Language Evolution M. J. O'Brien, M. Bagiokou School of Computer Science and Information Technology; UK From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:15:06 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:15:06 +0100 Subject: Conf: Eurocall'99 Message-ID: From: "Eurocall'99" Please accept our apologies in case of multiple receptions of this mail. Veuillez accepter nos excuses en cas de receptions multiples de ce courrier. Version francaise : voir plus bas. *************************************************** EUROCALL'99 (http://eurocall99.univ-fcomte.fr) Besancon, France September 15 - 18 Septembre 1999 *************************************************** UPDATE OF THE EUROCALL'99 WEBSITE Programmes, registration and accomodation forms EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FEES : registration before MAY 31ST 1999 The yearly conference of the European association EUROCALL (http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/eurocall.htm) will be held in Besancon from Wednesday 15th to Saturday 18th September 1999. This conference is a unique opportunity to encourage and disseminate state of the art research and applications for the use of computer mediated environments for language learning. In addition of information about organization and location of the conference, you will find the following one on the recently upgraded website: - The conference planning - The conference programme - The workshops and seminars description - The keynotes description - The demo-fair stands and the hiring form - The registration forms - The accomodation forms - The registration for the several proposed tours --------------------------------------------------- MISE A JOUR DU SITE INTERNET D'EUROCALL'99 Programmes, formulaires d'inscription et de reservation TARIF REDUIT : inscription avant le 31 MAI 1999 L'association europeenne EUROCALL (European association for Computer Assisted Language Learning) (http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/eurocall.htm) tiendra son congres annuel du mercredi 15 au samedi 18 septembre 1999 pour la premiere fois en France. Ce congres fait, chaque annee, le point sur les recherches et les applications dans le domaine des environnements informatiques d'aide a l'apprentissage des langues. En plus des informations concernant l'organisation et la localisation du congres, vous trouverez, sur le site Internet dernierement mis � jour, les informations suivantes : - Le planning du congres - Le programme previsionnel avec les statistiques - Le descriptif des ateliers et seminaires du pre-congres - Le descriptif des conferences invitees - Le descriptif des stands d'exposition ainsi que le formulaire de location et de reservation - Les formulaires d'inscription au congres comprenant les tarifs - Les formulaires de reservation hoteliere - Les formulaires d'inscription aux differentes excursions proposees ----------------------- End - Fin ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Eurocall'99, septembre/September 1999, Besancon, France Conference europeenne sur les systemes d'information et de communication pour l'aide a l'apprentissage des langues. European conference on Computer Assisted Language Learning Toile/Web : http://eurocall99.univ-fcomte.fr Mel/Email : eurocall99 at lib.univ-fcomte.fr Telecopie : 03 81 66 64 50 / Fax: 33 3 81 66 64 50 -------------------------------------------------------------- From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:15:09 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:15:09 +0100 Subject: Ecole: Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation Summer School Message-ID: From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" SOCRATES Intensive Programme in CORPUS LINGUISTICS and DIGITISATION University of Glasgow, Scotland June 21 - July 2 1999 10 ECTS available An EU-funded two-week summer school in Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation will be held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland from 21 June to 2 July 1999. 10 ECTS credits are available on successful completion of the course which is open to students attending universities in countries participating in the SOCRATES scheme. The teaching staff is drawn from the particpating institutions; the Universities of Bergen, Cork, Glasgow, Joensuu, Nijmegen and Roma. Students will follow a common track in the first week, before following a track in either Corpus Linguistics or Digitisation in the second week. The course will cover the following areas: Corpus Linguistics: * Introduction to Corpus Linguistics * Building a Corpus * Text from the Internet, copyright * TEI for corpus linguistics * Tagging and Parsing * Parallel and Specialised Corpora * Quantitative methods and Tools Digitisation: * Introduction to Digitisation * Technical considerations, TEI, OCR, etc * Textual material * Spoken material * Images * Standards, platforms and conversions Students will also complete a project based on the materials covered in the course. The course itself is completely funded by the SOCRATES scheme, however, students are asked to find their own travel, accommodation and subsistence funding. For more information, see the web site at http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/SocIP/ or contact Fiona Tweedie (fiona at stats.gla.ac.uk). From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:15:12 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:15:12 +0100 Subject: Livre: Beyond Grammar Message-ID: From: L W M Bod NEW IN PAPERBACK! (March 1999) BEYOND GRAMMAR - An Experience-Based Theory of Language Rens Bod CSLI Publications / Cambridge University Press, xiv+168 pp. Paperback ISBN 1-57586-150-x $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 1-57586-151-8 $59.95 >From the Blurb: During the last few years, a new approach to linguistic analysis has started to emerge. This approach, which has come to be known under various labels such as "data-oriented parsing", "corpus-based interpretation" and "treebank grammar", assumes that human language comprehension and production works with representations of concrete past language experiences rather than with abstract linguistic rules. It operates by decomposing the given representations into fragments and recomposing those pieces to analyze (infinitely many) new utterances. This book shows how this general approach can apply to various kinds of linguistic representations. Experiments with this approach suggest that the productive units of natural language cannot be defined by a minimal set of rules, but need to be defined by a large, redundant set of previously experienced structures. Bod argues that this outcome has important consequences for linguistic theory, leading to an entirely new view of the nature of linguistic competence. "Beyond Grammar should be read by all theoretical linguists who feel intrigued or threatened by the renaissance of statistical natural language processing. Bod argues for the provocative thesis that knowledge of language should be understood not as a grammar, but as a 'statistical ensemble of language experiences that changes slightly every time a new utterance is perceived or produced'. By building a conceptual theory that integrates formal language theory with statistical linguistics, he also shows why the coming statistical revolution need not put theoretical linguists out of business. This is a beautifully written, important, and accessible work." -Joan Bresnan Stanford University "Bod develops a theory of human language based on linguistic experience. Instead of rules or principles, previously derived chunks of representations constitute the knowledge base for language use. With empirical rigor and compelling argumentation the author develops the theoretical foundations for his data-oriented approach and extends it to semantics and the processing of spoken dialogue. All computational linguists with a sincere interest in corpus-based methods should definitely read this well-written book. Theoretical linguists and psycholinguists will find it illuminating and thought-provoking." -Hans Uszkoreit DFKI Saarbruecken & Saarland University From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:15:16 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:15:16 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLI Message-ID: From: Bernhard Schroeder SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES DIALOGUE AND PARTNER MODELING Workshop at the Fachtagung fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Bonn 13.9.-14.9.1999 URL: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/NDS99 Overview * The Theme of the Workshop * Abstract Submission * Important Dates * Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Theme of the Workshop Natural language interfaces allow users to interact verbally with dialogue systems. Users can ask a question via keyboard or microphone and receive an answer in spoken or in written form. Such interfaces have been around for a while; the challenge right now is to make them as robust and efficient as possible without limiting syntax and vocabulary more than necessary. How can new approaches to dialogue and partner modelling help to reach this goal? To what extent can results from underspecification theory, dynamic semantics, rhethorical structure theory or centering theory be useful? We are especially interested in approaches which have already been integrated into existing system and whose implementation has been evaluated. The workshop is intended as an oppertunity for a lively dialogue between linguists and computer scientists, between theory and practice. For this reason, *presentations are limited to 15 minutes, followed by 15 minutes discussion *a final discussion of about one and a half hours is planned. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract Submission Participants who would like to give a talk are asked to submit an extended abstract of max. 2 pages per e-mail to the organizers Bernhard Schroeder (b.schroeder at uni-bonn.de) und Maria Wolters (wolters at ikp.uni-bonn.de) in .ps or .pdf format. Each received abstract is acknowledged. The languages of the workshop are English and German. Authors are notified of acceptance on 31 May. From mid June on, all extended abstracts will be accessible from this web page. We will also create a mailing list for participants and other interested researchers. We plan to publish the proceedings of this workshop as a book. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule 15.5.1999: deadline for receipt of extended abstracts 31.5.1999: notification of acceptance 14.6.1999: deadline for revised extended abstracts 13./14.9.1999: Workshop in Bonn ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Committee Organizing Committee Bernhard Schroeder, Maria Wolters Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik Universitaet Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Tel.: +49 228 735621 (Schroeder); +49 228 733081 (Wolters) Fax: +49 228 735639 e-mail: b.schroeder at uni-bonn.de; wolters at ikp.uni-bonn.de Programme Committee * Elisabeth Andre, Saarbruecken * Harry Bunt, Tilburg * Paul Dekker, Amsterdam * Roland Hausser, Erlangen * Janet Hitzeman, Edinburgh * Winfried Lenders, Bonn * Paul McKevitt, Aalborg From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Apr 30 15:56:41 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:56:41 +0100 Subject: Q: Biblio interface LN Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:03:05 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgVklEQUw=?= Message-Id: <008a01be8fed$82183c00$28d730c1 at dr.education.fr> Bonjour la liste, J'étudie actuellement la faisabilité d'un système qui nécessiterait une interface en language naturel. Le scope des questions est très centré sur le sujet traité. Nous acceptons même l'idée d'imposer de petites questions simples. 1 seul verbe, pas de subordonnée relative... Et même peut-être d'imposer une liste de verbes acceptés. Je suis informaticien, masi mes connaissances en language naturel se limite à HAL de 2001. Est-ce que c'est aujoiurd'hui possible? Par où faut-il commencer pour se documenter ? PS: Nous travaillerons en java D'avance je vous remercie. Frédéric From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Apr 1 11:54:12 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:54:12 +0200 Subject: Appel: Treebanks (ATALA Workshop, Paris; 2d call) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:55:18 +0100 From: abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr (Anne Abeille) Message-Id: X-Url: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/appel-corpus-arbores.html ATALA Workshop Call for papers Treebanks Paris, Jussieu, June 18-19th 1999 For the ATALA workshop on Treebanks (syntactically annotated corpora), we solicit 40 min talks (including questions) on building and using such corpora. Relevant topics include : Building syntactically annotated corpora (SAC): - methodology - cost - selection of material - annotation tools - annotation standards - annotation formats - validation of annotations Using syntactically annotated corpora (SAC): - interrogation tools - knowledge extraction (lexicons, grammars, others) - evaluation of NLP tools Both written and speech corpora can be considered. Comparison with results obtained with tagged corpora (annotated for morpho-syntax only) are also welcome. Program committee Anne Abeille, U. Paris 7 (chair) Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneve) Roberto Basili (U. Tor Vergata, Roma) Philippe Blache (LPL, Aix en Provence) John Carroll (U. Sussex) Benoit Habert (ENS Fontenay) Eva Hajicova (U. Charles, Prague) Hans Uszkoreit (U Sarrebrucken) Eric Wehrli (LATL, Geneve) Annie Zaenen (Xerox RC) Invited Speaker : Geoffrey Sampson (U. Sussex) Submission : Send, preferably by email, an abstract of 5 pages maximum before April 15th 1999 to : Anne Abeille, Universite Paris 7 UFRL, Case 7003 2 place Jussieu 75005 Paris France abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 1 14:37:30 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 15:37:30 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 4 (other) Offers Message-ID: _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Claudia Morettini Subject: OSU tenure-track faculty position in computational linguistics 2/ From y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk Tue Mar 23 09:55:40 1999 Subject: EPSRC studentship in NLP/CL available now at Sheffield 3/ From: kwhitman at lhs.com Subject: Multi-Lingual Computational Ling in Burlington, Mass. 4/ From: hgregg at sssolutions.com (Heather Gregg) Subject: German or Spanish Computational Ling in Seattle, Washington _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Claudia Morettini Subject: OSU tenure-track faculty position in computational linguistics The Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University seeks candidates for a tenure-track faculty position in computational linguistics, rank open, to start no later than Autumn 2000. The person filling the position will be expected to be active in research and publication, to meet standard departmental teaching requirements, and to perform service duties as required by the department, college, and university. Candidates are sought whose research includes computational implementation and has relevance to empirical and theoretical linguistic issues. Only applications received before May 10, 1999 can be assured of full consideration. Dossiers consisting of a letter of interest, current curriculum vitae and the names of three references should be sent to: Computational Linguistics Search Committee Department of Linguistics The Ohio State University 222 Oxley Hall 1712 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1298 For additional information, contact Professor Carl Pollard at: pollard at ling.ohio-state.edu; (614)292-7590. The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified women, minorities, Vietnam-era veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. _______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk Tue Mar 23 09:55:40 1999 Subject: EPSRC studentship in NLP/CL available now at Sheffield EPSRC Studentship: Natural Language Processing Usual apologies if you get this more than once from different sources. Applications are invited for a UK EPSRC quota award research studentship leading to a Ph. D. available immediately. The award can be held full-time over 3 years or part-time over a five year period. The research studentship can be held in any area of language processing or computational linguistics that falls within the general remit of EPSRC funding and is related or complementary to our current research activities. The Department holds EPSRC research grants in the areas of text reuse and architectures for natural language processing, and has recently completed a project in grammar induction. We have related interests, supported by EU and industrial grants in: Multi-media and Multilingual Information Extraction, Lexicons and lexical tuning, Belief and knowledge structures, Categorial grammars and parsing, Hypertext generation, Argument structure and Machine learning of dialogue structures to model conversation. Applicants should have a class I or II:1 Honours degree, or a II:II class Honours degree plus a Masters degree or relevant research experience. Full studentships including a basic maintenance award currently of ?8,060 pa are available to applicants with 3 years qualifying residence in the UK (excluding full-time education). Candidates may also wish to consult our NLP Web site (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/), and the EPSRC studentship handbook online (http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/EPSRCWEB/MAIN/TRAINING/INFOSTU/INTRO/INTRO.asp/Main.htm) which gives full details of eligibility conditions and maintenance allowances. Applications should include a CV, an outline of your relevant training and experience, and a brief statement of the research areas that interest you, plus the names and addresses of two academic referees. Applications and requests for further information should be sent to Professor Yorick Wilks (yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk) and requests for forms to apply officially should go to him and to k.barker at dcs.shef.ac.uk. _______________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: kwhitman at lhs.com Subject: Multi-Lingual Computational Ling in Burlington, Mass. Acoustic Modeling Engineer - French The engineer will work in the domain of acoustic-phonetic modeling for the international versions of the L&H Voice Xpress dictation product line. He/she will be part of a language development team for French Language in Burlington, MA. As part of this team, he/she will be responsible for building acoustic-phonetic models, combining and tuning of the building blocks that make up a dictation system, based on tools and procedures created in other groups. He or she will work closely together with acoustic data collection people and with language model engineers and will report to the modeling team leader for French. In-depth knowledge of current ASR techniques and literature, with direct experience with acoustic modeling. Experience with speech recognition algorithm development in the context of a state-of-the-art ASR system. Ability to design and run ASR experiments Knowledge of C, C++, shell, Perl and UNIX Experience with working on large software projects. MS or Phd in electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics or related field. ******************** Senior Engineer Language Modeling Develop the statistical language models for various international versions of the L&H Voice Xpress dictation product line. He/she will be part of a language development team for US Spanish, US English, Canadian French, and other languages in Burlington. As part of this team, he/she will be responsible for the development statistical language models. he/she will work closely together with text corpus collection people and with acoustic phonetic model engineers and will report to the modeling team leader for these languages. Contact Info Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products kwhitman at lhs.com _______________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: hgregg at sssolutions.com (Heather Gregg) Subject: German or Spanish Computational Ling in Seattle, Washington Seattle Is the Place For You! Seeking Two Computational Linguists for an exciting client! Language proficiency sought in German or Spanish. You will be enhancing & extending a computational grammar & text critiquing system, in accordance with overall architecture of the Company's Natural Language Understanding system. Initial emphasis is on understanding the component for the text critiquing system, followed by the component for syntactic analysis. You will also be testing the syntactic analysis & text critiques. Required qualifications should include experience in linguistic research and software development- product focus. Familiarity with Natural Language Processing; a flexible approach to linguistic theory. An advanced degree in linguistics, computer science or a closely related discipline. Native proficiency in German or Spanish required; practical experience with NLP implementation issues is highly desired. An advanced degree in linguistics or a closely related discipline is preferred. Please email resume and contact information to sssolutions at sssolutions.com. Please visit Software Staffing Solution's website at http://www.sssolutions.com From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 1 14:37:27 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 15:37:27 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Sabine Reich Subject: Job posting 2/ From: "Jean Caelen" Subject: Un poste de prof et un poste de MCF a Grenoble 3/ From: Sandypac30 at aol.com Subject: Software Engineer in Speech Technology; Silicon Valley, CA 4/ From: Sandypac30 at aol.com Subject: Software Engineer in Speech Modeling and Synthesis _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Sabine Reich Subject: Job posting Corpus Linguistics -- Short-term Posting The Department of English Linguistics at the Technical University of Chemnitz is looking for one or two graduate research assistants to help put the Handbook for the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern Tracts on to the World Wide Web. The contract will offer 20 hours of work per week for six months, starting as soon as possible, and in any case before 1st September, 1999. Payment would be on the scale BAT IIa (Ost), with a minimum of 25,200 DM p.a. There would be opportunities to supplement the basic salary through teaching assignments. The post would suit a recent graduate looking for a short-term posting before making the next career move or a researcher on a sabbatical year. The successful candidate will need an understanding of corpus linguistics, and knowledge of and interest in historical linguistics, as well as experience in preparing material for web-pages. S/he should be a fluent speaker of English, and good competence in German would be an advantage. The Department provides a lively working environment. Alongside the normal teaching activities there is a wide range of projects, involving corpora, language varieties, computer-assisted language learning and the use of modern multimedia techniques. As well as digitizing and editing the Lampeter Corpus, members of the Department have also been responsible for the East African section of the International Corpus of English. The English Linguistics Department is contributing a research project on 'Learner Behaviour in the Internet Grammar' to a large-scale University programme on 'Multimedia in Everyday Life', funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, Germany's principal research funding body. The city of Chemnitz is in the middle of an energetic programme of rebuilding and renovation. In the inner suburbs the largest concentration of Jugendstil houses anywhere in Western Europe is being restored to its former elegance. Ample accomodation is available in the neighbourhood of the Humanities Faculty, a little south of the city centre. There is good public transport, and Chemnitz is only about an hour's train-ride from both Dresden and Leipzig. The surrounding countryside is pleasantly wooded and peppered with splendid castles, and in the Erzgebirge to the South there is a wealth of dramatic scenery and wild-life, as well as villages that still retain many of their ancient traditions. Interested candidates should send or e-mail a CV and letter of application, by 31st April 1999, to: Professor Dr. Josef Schmied Technische Universitaet Chemnitz English linguistics 09107 Chemnitz Germany e-mail: josef.schmied at phil.tu-chemnitz.de http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/linguist/ _______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: "Jean Caelen" Subject: Un poste de prof et un poste de MCF a Grenoble Le poste de MCF est a l'ISTG de Grenoble... "Communication Personne/Systeme, multimedia" n?1363 Section du CNU 27 eme Profil R?seaux, Multim?dia, Applications (ISTG) Laboratoire d'affectation : CLIPS - IMAG PROFIL RECHERCHE : Profil Recherche La recherche s'effectuera au laboratoire CLIPS de l'IMAG (Communication Langagi?re Interaction Personne-Syst?me). Ce laboratoire conduit des recherches fondamentales et appliqu?es dans les diff?rents domaines de la communication homme-machine et entretient de multiples relations pluridisciplinaires. Le candidat retenu participera aux travaux du laboratoire sur le dialogue oral homme-machine dans le contexte des nouveaux services de t?l?communication. Ce profil n?cessite des comp?tences en traitement de la parole (reconnaissance automatique) en compr?hension de la parole spontan?e (traitement syntaxico-semantique et pragmatique des ?nonc?s) et dans la mod?lisation de l'utilisateur (aspects cognitifs). Le profil comporte aussi une ouverture vers des secteurs d'application typiques des t?l?communications comme, par exemple, les interfaces de communication multimodales, la communication multilingue ou la recherche d'informations sur le r?seau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ L?IUT1 de Grenoble proc?de au recrutement d?un professeur des universit?s en 61e section-G?nie Informatique pour son d?partement SRC ? L?Isle d?Abeau Enseignement Ce Professeur d?Universit? sera affect? au d?partement Services et R?seaux de Communication d?localis? ? L?Isle d?Abeau (85 Km de Grenoble-35 Km de Lyon). Ce d?partement a ?t? cr?? en septembre 1996 et s?appr?te ? sortir sa deuxi?me promotion. Actuellement le nombre d??tudiants est de 104 et l??quipe p?dagogique compte huit enseignants titulaires, un ing?nieur syst?mes, un technicien et 20 vacataires enseignants ou professionnels. Le site est connect? ? RENATER. En ce qui concerne le service d?enseignement, il participera ? l?enseignement : - de l?Informatique ( langages HTML, Java Script, Java,?.), - du d?veloppement d?applications en r?seaux (couches hautes). Actuellement ces enseignements ( cours, TD, TP ) sont mont?s et fonctionnent soit avec du personnel titulaire, soit du personnel vacataire. En ce qui concerne les responsabilit?s p?dagogiques, il devra assumer la charge de chef du d?partement. A ce titre, il assumera la responsabilit? de la formation ? la sp?cialit? SRC ? l?IUT1 de Grenoble, de la gestion du d?partement dont celle de l??quipe p?dagogique. En outre, il sera amen?, ? court et moyen termes, ? mettre en place et d?velopper la formation continue et la formation par alternance. Recherche Les activit?s de recherche s?effectueront ? Grenoble dans le laboratoire CLIPS Communication Langagi?re et Interaction Personne-Syst?me ) de l?IMAG sur le th?me de l?analyse et de la g?n?ration d?images et/ou de parole. Un int?r?t tout particulier est donn? ? l?exercice de ces recherches dans le contexte des processus d?interaction : interaction multim?dia, communication homme-homme m?diatis?, dialogue homme-machine sont des exemples des principaux domaines d?int?r?t du laboratoire concernant ce poste. Les deux ?quipes plus particuli?rement concern?es dans le laboratoire CLIPS sont : - le groupe GEOD ( synth?se et reconnaissance de parole, analyse de dialogue ) - le groupe MRIN ( indexation et recherche d?informations multim?dia ) . Informations prendre contact avec : l?Administration : Service du Personnel (IUT1) t?l : 04 76 82 53 14 l?Enseignement : Jean MICHOULIER ( SRC) t?l : 04 76 82 53 60 et 04 74 18 19 92 E-mail : Jean.Michoulier at ujf-Grenoble.fr la Recherche: Jean CAELEN ( CLIPS) t?l : 04 76 51 46 27 et 04 76 51 42 34 E-mail : Jean.Caelen at imag.fr -------------------------------------------------------------- Jean Caelen Laboratoire CLIPS-IMAG (Equipe GEOD) Domaine universitaire, BP 53 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 -------------------------------------------------------------- Tel : +33 (0)4 76 51 46 27 Fax : +33 (0)4 76 63 55 52 E-mail : Jean.Caelen at imag.fr URL : http://www-clips.imag.fr/ -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Sandypac30 at aol.com Subject: Software Engineer in Speech Technology; Silicon Valley, CA SOFTWARE ENGINEER-SPEECH RECOGNITION Location: Silicon Valley, CA For a complete listing of our current career opportunities, please visit our Web Page at http://www.pacific.com Career opportunity for a proven Software Engineer in speech technology to focus on dialog and grammar development. Will design the dialogue required to build speech recognition systems for telephone services (e.g., booking airline tickets). Will determine exactly what the system should say at each point, and what the possible responses may be from the caller. The critical skills required include: spoken user interface design any kind of computer-human interface background linguistics and cognitive science background IVR background (designing and building touch tone systems) Please respond directly to Arnold Garlick, President, Pacific Search Consultants, 2377 S. El Camino Real Suite 201, San Clemente, CA 92672 Email: arnold at pacific.com (ASCII Files or MS Word compatible documents ONLY PLEASE, NO Postscript files, PLEASE) Fax: (949) 366-9200. Please refer to Position #2487 _______________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Sandypac30 at aol.com Subject: Software Engineer in Speech Modeling and Synthesis SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER Location: Washington DC For a complete listing of our current career opportunities, please visit our Web Page at http://www.pacific.com Significant career opportunity for a qualified software engineer to help develop innovative speech modeling and synthesis techniques for application in voice-interactive products and services. Main group objectives: Work with a team of engineers and scientists to develop and implement techniques for automatically generating natural sounding voice messages in multiple languages. Techniques employed will include TTS and hybrid synthesis. Key Responsibilities: Assist with the general development and enhancement of existing voice output systems. Develop corpus-based approaches to modeling speaker-specific duration and intonation characteristics. Develop objective and subjective methods for evaluating speech synthesis quality. Establish guidelines and automatic procedures to facilitate the design and recording of message components to be used in hybrid synthesis systems. Other Duties: Develop software modules in both the UNIX and NT environments to implement systems in support of the synthesis project aims. Communicate with prospects and customers to better understand their specific voice output requirements, and translate these requirements into development plans. Occassional work on recognition, interactive dialog related systems work. Qualifications: Essential: Masters degree or equivalent level of knowledge in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering. Willingness to relocate to the Washington, DC area. Desirable: PhD in one of these areas. Experience Required: Essential: 2 years in speech analysis and/or synthesis; 3 years programming in C or C++ Desirable: 5+ years in speech analysis/synthesis with an emphasis on prosody analysis/synthesis in multiple European languages. Specialist Training Required: Essential: Experience in speech synthesis. Desirable: Statistical pattern recognition, ToBI or other standard prosody labeling method. Automatic POS tagging techniques. DSP. Acoustic Phonetics. Particular Skills Required: Essential: Fluent programming in C and/or C++. Technical report writing. Fluent in English. Desirable: Good verbal communication. Working knowledge of Tcl/Tk, Perl, Java. Fluency in multiple European languages. Type of Person Required: Essential: Creative thinker and doer capable of independent, focused R&D aimed at specific project objectives. Must communicate effectively with co-workers to establish goals, approaches, and to track progress. Must be flexible and willing to apply a theoretical background to solving practical problems. Desirable: Capable of assuming a leadership role as the company grows. Please respond directly to Arnold Garlick, President, Pacific Search Consultants, 2377 S. El Camino Real Suite 201, San Clemente, CA 92672 Email: arnold at pacific.com (ASCII Files or MS Word compatible documents ONLY PLEASE, NO Postscript files, PLEASE) Fax: (949) 366-9200. Please refer to Position #2443 From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Apr 2 08:36:09 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:36:09 +0200 Subject: R: Conjugueur ? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 09:20:57 +0200 From: Piet Mertens Message-Id: <2.2.32.19990402072057.00914c3c at onyx.arts.kuleuven.ac.be> X-url: http://bach.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/~piet/morlex Pour un autre conjugueur / lemmatiseur / base de donn?es lexicale pour le fran?ais, voir: http://bach.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/~piet/morlex - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Piet Mertens Department of Linguistics - K.U.Leuven Postbus 33 B-3000 Leuven (Belgium) tel: +32..16..32.47.63 or 32.47.73 fax: +32..16..32.47.67 Piet.Mertens at arts.kuleuven.ac.be http://bach.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/~piet From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Apr 2 13:42:50 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 15:42:50 +0200 Subject: R: Conjugueur ? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:52:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gregory Grefenstette Message-Id: <199904020952.LAA25722 at bellecombe.grenoble.xrce.xerox.com> X-url: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/research/mltt/Tools/morph.html X-url: http://www.inxight.com/Inxight_Corporate_Web_Site/Products___Support/LinguistX__153_/ Xerox offers morphological analysis for French Dutch English German Spanish Portuguese Italian Danish Norwegian Swedish Hungarian Arabic and Finnish on its research Web site: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/research/mltt/Tools/morph.html These and other European languages and Japanese analysers are commercially available from Inxight: http://www.inxight.com/Inxight_Corporate_Web_Site/Products___Support/LinguistX__153_/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Gregory Grefenstette Principal Scientist, Xerox Research Centre Europe 6 chemin de Maupertuis, 38240 Meylan, France Gregory.Grefenstette at xrce.xerox.com Phone : (33) 4 76 61 50 82 fax : (33) 4 76 61 50 99 Inside France: 04-76-61-50-82 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Apr 6 15:52:42 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:52:42 +0100 Subject: Appel: CII'99 Message-ID: From: Malek Boualem CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Computer Science (CII'99 : Conf?rence Internationale en Informatique) November 22-23, 1999, Annaba, Algeria Organized by Department of Computer Science - University of Annaba - Algeria http ://www.multimania.com/cii99/cii99.htm http://www.cerist.dz/manifpub/ email : ainfo at ist.cerist.dz The International Conference on Computer Science will be held in 1999 at the Department of computer science, Annaba, Algeria. The Purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry. The Conference provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on computer science. The conference will feature contributed papers , tutorials and Posters concerned with theory, practice and applications The topics will include, the following areas : ? Software Engineering ? Artificial Intelligence ? Computer Human Interaction ? Natural Language Processing ? Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) ? Pattern Recognition ? Modeling, Scheduling Submission of Papers : We solicit new research and ?real experience? papers in any of the technical areas listed above. Manuscripts must be in English, or French double-spaced, 12 point font, and must not exceed 16 pages. The first page of the manuscript should include the article title, authors' name(s), affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the principal author. The second page should begin with the article title, a brief abstract, keywords and the text. Papers will be peer-reviewed. The submission process of papers will be handled electronically. Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send three copies and one copy in 3?1/2 disk of their contribution to the Program Chair before May 31, 1999 at the following address. (Please e-mail the Program Chair to inform him that your paper has been mailed and you will present the paper if the paper is accepted.): Mohamed Tayeb Laskri , Program Chair Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science , University of Annaba B.P. 12 , Annaba 23000, Algeria. Telephone and Fax : (213) 8 87 28 12, (213) 8 87 27 56 E-mail: laskri at yahoo.com, laskri at ist.cerist.dz Final version of selected papers will be published in the scientific and technologic revue in a special number ? Synth?se ISSN 111-4924? Submission of Tutorials: We invite you to submit proposals for technical tutorials. A proposal should include the title, instructor's name, topics covered, length of the tutorial, equipment needed, and instructor's biography and qualifications. It should also indicate the objectives and the time allocation for major course topics. Important Deadlines : Papers and Tutorials Due : May 31, 1999 Notification of Acceptance : September 4, 1999 Final text : October 2, 1999 For more information, please contact : CII?99, Department of Computer Science - University of Annaba, B.P.12 Annaba 23000 Algeria. Telephone and Fax : (213) 8 87 27 56, (213) 8 87 28 12 Email: {ainfo, cii99}@ist.cerist.dz Web Site for current information about the cii?99 Go to http://www.cerist.dz/manifpub/ http ://www.multimania.com/cii99/cii99.htm Program Committee chairman : Med Tayeb Laskri Permanent Secretary : Djamel Essolh Amrane Organization chairman : Tahar Bensebaa International Program Committee : M.Ahmed-Nacer (University of Algiers, Algeria) E.Aimeur (University of Montreal, Canada) A.Aissani (University of Blida, Algeria) D.Aissani (University of Bejaia, Algeria) A.Ait-Aoudia (I.N.I., Algiers, Algeria) Y.Amghar (INSA, Lyon, France) M.Amjad (Philadelphia University, Aman, Jordan) A.Attoui (LLP/CESALP, University of Savoie, France) M.Babes (University of Annaba, Algeria) N.Badache (University of Algiers, Algeria) M.Badri (Universiy of Quebec, Canada) M.C.Batouche (University of Constantine, Algeria) M.Bedda (University of Annaba, Algeria) N.Belkhiter (Laval University, Canada) S.Benbernou (University of Oran, Algeria) M.S.Bendelloul (University of Annaba, Algeria) B.Bendjillali (University of Oran, Algeria) A.Benhamadou (University of Sfax, Tunisia) S.A.Benjelloun (ITS, Rabat, Morocco) T.Bensebaa (University of Annaba, Algeria) M.Bettaz (University of Constantine, Algeria) E.Bianco (University of Aix-Marseille II, France) M.Boualem (LPL, University of Aix-Marseille, France) M.Boufaida (University of Constantine, Algeria) Z.Boufaida (University of Constantine, Algeria) A.Boukaram (University of Setif, Algeria) M.Chaib-Draa (University of Quebec, Canada) N.Djeddi (University of Biskra, Algeria) N.Doghmane (University of Annaba, Algerie) H.Drias (University of Algiers, Algeria) H.Hadjami ben ghezala (Ensi, Tunis, Tunisia) A.Henni (I.N.I., Algiers, Algeria) A.Hocine (University of Peau , France) S.Ghoul (Philadelphia University, Aman, Jordan) T.Khammaci (University of Nantes, France) M.K.Kholladi (University of Constantine, Algeria) J.M.Knippel (University of Provence, France) M.Lalam (University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) Med Tayeb Laskri (University of Annaba, Algeria) Z.Maamar (University of Quebec, Canada) M.Maouche (University of Constantine, Algeria) M.Masud (Philadelphia University, Aman, Jordan) M.Mezghiche (University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) A.Mokhtari-Aissani (University of Algiers, Algerie) C.Oussalah (University of Nimes, France) G.Perennou (University of Toulouse, France) I.Rassoul (University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) D.Rebaine (Universit? of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) Z.Sahnoun (University of Constantine, Algeria) M.Sellami (University of Annaba, Algeria) M.Si-Mohammed (University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) S.Slaoui (University of Rabat, Morocco) Y.Slimani (University of Tunis, Tunisia) N.Vigouroux (University of Toulouse, France) N.Vincent (University of Tours, France) R.Zajac (New Mexico State University, USA) Z.Zemirli (I.N.I., Algiers, Algeria) A.Ziou (University of Scherbrook, Canada) Malek BOUALEM ----------------------------------------------------------- New Mexico State University, CRL, Dept 3CRL Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA Tel Office: (1) 505-646-5711 Fax: (1) 505-646-6218 E-mail : malek at crl.nmsu.edu http://crl.nmsu.edu/Staff.pages/Technical/malek.htm ----------------------------------------------------------- From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Apr 6 15:52:47 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:52:47 +0100 Subject: Appel: DET2000 Message-ID: From: Pierre-Yves Foucou **** APPEL A COMMUNICATION | PRIMERA CIRCULAR | CALL FOR PAPERS *** Colloque D?termination et Formalisation La question des d?terminants en vue du traitement automatique des langues naturelles BELLA TERRA (Barcelone) 25 et 26 f?vrier 2000 Groupe de Linguistique Appliquee aux Langues Romanes Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Centre Lucien Tesniere Universite de Franche-Comte http://www-lli.univ-paris13.fr/DET2000/ _________________________________________________________________ APPEL A COMMUNICATION DETERMINATION ET FORMALISATION La question des determinants en vue du traitement automatique des langues naturelles BELLA TERRA (Barcelone) 25 et 26 f?vrier 2000 Theme du Colloque La plupart des linguistes s'accordent sur la notion de determination bien que la question de son universalite ou non reste ouverte. L'identification des determinants n'est pas un reel probleme. Ainsi, pour le domaine du traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN), leur reconnaissance automatique ne pose pas de difficultes majeures.En revanche, la generation et la traduction automatique de ces unites linguistiques restent problematiques. La modelisation des systemes de determinants relatifs ? un ensemble de langues donnees reste donc ? faire. Partant de ce constat, nous invitons tous les chercheurs qui travaillent sur la necessite d'une formalisation de la determination ? presenter leur travail. Le theme du colloque concerne non seulement des specialistes du TALN mais aussi tous les chercheurs soucieux de la formalisation du langage. Comite Scientifique ANSCOMBRE, Jean-Claude, CNRS - EHESS BLANCO, Xavier, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona BUVET, Pierre-Andr?, Universite de Franche-Comte CARDEY, Sylviane, Universite de Franche-Comte GROSS, Gaston, Universite Paris XIII GROSS, Maurice, Universite Paris VII GUENTHNER, Franz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen MURILLO, Julio, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona KLEIBER, Georges, Universite de Strasbourg II Dates importantes ? 15 JUIN 1999 : Soumission sous forme de resume (500 mots maximum). ? 15 JUILLET 1999 : Acceptation des communications. ? 15 OCTOBRE 1999 : Envoi des articles. ? 15 DECEMBRE 1999 : Acceptation des articles. ? 25-26 FEVRIER 2000 : Colloque Determination et Formalisation Modalites de soumission Les contributions peuvent etre redigees en fran?ais, espagnol ou anglais. Les resumes et les articles peuvent etre envoyes soit par courrier electronique soit par voie postale (disquette : texte au format RTF) aux coordonnees ci-dessous : Les articles devraient paraitre dans un supplement de Linguisticae Investigationes DET2000 Colloque Determination et Formalisation Departamento de Filologia Francesa y Romanica Facultad de Letras UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) ESPANA Tel: +34 93 581 14 10 Fax: +34 93 581 31 71 E-mail: Xavier.Blanco at uab.es ou DET2000 Colloque Determination et Formalisation Centre Lucien Tesniere Faculte LSH 30 rue Megevand 25030 Besan?on Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 94 Fax: + 33 (0)3 81 66 53 00 E-Mail: pierre-andre.buvet at univ-fcomte.fr ou pab at lli.univ-paris13.fr Criteres d'acceptation Les propositions seront ?valu?es par au moins deux lecteurs en fonction des crit?res suivants : ? adequation au theme du colloque ? importance de la contribution par rapport ? l'etat de l'art ou aux applications ? originalite de l'approche adoptee ? qualite scientifique et technique ? qualite de la redaction Comite d'organisation BLANCO, Xavier, UAB (co-president) BUVET, Pierre-Andre, UFC (co-president) BAQUE, Lorraine, UAB CARDEY, Sylviane, UFC CATALA, Dolors, UAB GAUCHOLA, Roser, UAB GAVRIILIDOU, Zoe, UDT INFANTE, Antonio, UAB MURILLO, Julio, UAB _________________________________________________________________ PRIMERA CIRCULAR Grupo de Linguistica Aplicada a las Lenguas Romanicas Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona Centre Lucien Tesniere Universit? de Franche-Comte DETERMINACION Y FORMALIZACION La cuestion de los determinantes con vistas al procesamiento automatico del lenguaje natural BELLATERRA (Barcelona), 25 y 26 de febrero del 2000 Tematica del Congreso Parece existir un consenso entre la mayoria de los linguistas sobre la nocion de determinante. Tanto es asi, que la identificacion de los determinantes no plantea mayores problemas. En procesamiento del lenguaje natural (PLN), el reconocimiento automatico de estas unidades puede considerarse resuelto. En cambio, su generacion y su traduccion automatica plantean aun importantes dificultades. La modelizacion de los sistemas de determinantes, para un conjunto de lenguas dadas, esta aun por hacer. Esta situacion puede deberse a las deficiencias de las modelizaciones del sistema de la determinaci?n, cuya universalidad o no puede considerarse una cuestion abierta. A partir de estas constataciones, deseariamos invitar a los investigadores que trabajen sobre la formalizacion de la determinacion a presentar sus trabajos. El tema del congreso no se limita al procesamiento automatico del lenguaje, sino que abarca todo tipo de investigaciones en torno a la formalizacion del lenguaje. Comite Cientifico ANSCOMBRE, Jean-Claude, CNRS - EHESS BLANCO, Xavier, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona BUVET, Pierre-Andre, Universite de Franche-Comte CARDEY, Sylviane, Universite de Franche-Comte GROSS, Gaston, Universite Paris XIII GROSS, Maurice, Universite Paris VII GUENTHNER, Franz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen MURILLO, Julio, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona KLEIBER, Georges, Universite de Strasbourg II Calendario ? 15 DE JUNIO DE 1999: Limite para la presentacion de resumenes (max. 500 palabras). ? 15 DE JULIO DE 1999: Notificaci?n de la aceptacion de las comunicaciones. ? 15 DE OCTUBRE DE 1999: Limite para la presentacion de los articulos. ? 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1999: Notificacion de la aceptacion de los articulos. ? 25-26 DE FEBRERO DEL 2000: Congreso "Determinacion y Formalizacion" Modalidades de presentacion de trabajos Las contribuciones pueden redactarse en frances, espanol o ingles. Los resumenes y los arti?culos pueden enviarse por correo electronico o por correo ordinario (disquete: texto RTF) a las direcciones abajo indicadas. Se estudia la posibilidad de una publicaci?n como suplemento de Lingvistic? Investigationes. Congreso Determinacion y Formalizacion Departamento de Filolog?a Francesa y Rom?nica Facultad de Letras UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) ESPANA Tel: (93) 581 14 10 Fax: (93) 581 31 71 E-mail: Xavier.Blanco at uab.es Congreso Determination et Formalisation Centre Lucien Tesniere Facult? LSH 30, rue Megevand 25030 Besan?on - Cedex FRANCE Tel: (33) 03 81 66 53 94 Fax: (33) 03 81 66 53 00 E-mail: pierre-andre.buvet at univ-fcomte o pab at lli.univ-paris13.fr Criterios de aceptacion Las proposiciones seran evaluadas por un minimo de dos lectores en funcion de los siguientes criterios: ? adecuacion al tema del coloquio; ? importancia de la contribuci?n respecto al estado de la cuestion o a las aplicaciones; ? originalidad del enfoque adoptado; ? calidad cient?fica y tecnica; ? calidad de la redaccion. Comite de Organizacion BLANCO, Xavier, UAB (copresidente) BUVET, Pierre-Andre, UFC (copresidente) BAQUE, Lorraine, UAB CARDEY, Sylviane, UFC CATALA, Dolors, UAB GAUCHOLA, Roser, UAB GAVRIILIDOU, Zoe, UDT INFANTE, Antonio, UAB MURILLO, Julio, UAB _________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS Groupe de Linguistique Appliquee aux Langues Romanes Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Centre Lucien Tesniere Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France DETERMINATION AND FORMALISATION The question of determiners in natural language processing BELLA TERRA (Barcelona) 25 and 26 February 2000 Conference Theme The majority of linguists are in agreement as far as the notion of determination even though its universality or not remains an open question. Identifying determiners is not a significant problem and in natural language processing (NLP) their automatic recognition does not pose a major difficulty. However, automatic generation and translation of these linguistic units remains a problem. As a result, modelling systems of determiners relative to a set of languages has yet to be done. Starting from this observation, researchers working on formalising determination are invited to present their findings. The conference theme concerns not only those working in NLP but also all who are interested in language formalisation. Scientific Committee ANSCOMBRE, Jean-Claude, CNRS - EHESS BLANCO, Xavier, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona BUVET, Pierre-Andre, Universite de Franche-Comte CARDEY, Sylviane, Universite de Franche-Comte GROSS, Gaston, Universite Paris XIII GROSS, Maurice, Universite Paris VII GUENTHNER, Franz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen MURILLO, Julio, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona KLEIBER, Georges, Universite de Strasbourg II Important dates ? 15 JUNE 1999 : Abstract submission deadline (500 words maximum). ? 15 JULY 1999 : Acceptance of propositions. ? 15 OCTOBRE 1999 : Paper submission deadline. ? 15 DECEMBRE 1999 : Acceptance of papers. ? 25-26 FEVBRUARY 2000 : Conference "Determination et Formalisation" How to submit Contributions can be written in French, Spanish or English. Abstracts and papers ought to be submitted by email by means of an attached file, or by post using a diskette (RTF format in both cases). See below for the addresses. The papers should appear in a supplement to Linguisticae Investigationes. Colloque Determination et Formalisation Departamento de Filologia Francesa y Romanica Facultad de Letras UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) ESPANA Tel: +34 93 581 14 10 Fax: +34 93 581 31 71 E-mail: Xavier.Blanco at uab.es or Colloque Determination et Formalisation Centre Lucien Tesniere Faculte LSH 30 rue Megevand, 25030 Besan?on Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 94 Fax: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 00 E-Mail: pierre-andre.buvet at univ-fcomte.fr or pab at lli.univ-paris13.fr Acceptance criteria Propositions will be evaluated by at least two referees according to the following criteria: ? relevance to the conference theme ? the contribution's importance in connection with the state of the art or its applicability ? originality ? scientific et technical quality ? presentation quality Organising Committee BLANCO, Xavier, UAB (co-president) BUVET, Pierre-Andre, UFC (co-president) BAQUE, Lorraine, UAB CARDEY, Sylviane, UFC CATALA, Dolors, UAB GAUCHOLA, Roser, UAB GAVRIILIDOU, Zoe, UDT INFANTE, Antonio, UAB MURILLO, Julio, UAB _________________________________________________________________ -- Pierre-Yves FOUCOU LLI Paris XIII 01 49 40 38 67 foucou at lli.univ-paris13.fr http://www-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Mon Apr 12 15:48:34 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:48:34 +0200 Subject: Q: Human Language Groups (+R:) Message-ID: ================================================================ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 21:56:37 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN Message-Id: <199904022246.VAA21739 at -f> X-url: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html This request was just posted on another list. I am forwarding it to several pertinent lists. Please reply directly to the requester Harold VADNEY at Thanks, Jeff Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:56:51 -0500 Reply-To: bmtconsult at att.net From: "HAROLD W. VADNEY" Organization: Albany TransComm International a division of BioMediTech Associates & Consultants Subject: HELP: Human Language Groups Dear Collegues: Can anyone provide a website URL that will give information on conventional grouping systems for human languages. Actually, I am looking for a source that will help to classify languages by complexity and by linguistic group. Any help will be much appreciated! Harold ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europ?enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ================================================================ From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) The Ethnologue Language Family Index at SIL provides a tree of language families: http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/families/ Pierre Zweigenbaum. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre Zweigenbaum | T?l?phone : +33 (0)1 45 83 67 28 DIAM - SIM/AP-HP | T?l?copie : +33 (0)1 45 86 80 68 / 1 45 86 56 85 91, bd de l'H?pital | Courriel : pz at biomath.jussieu.fr F-75634 Paris Cedex 13 | Toile : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/~pz/ FRANCE | Bureau : 119 c ------------------------------------------------------------------------- D?partement Intelligence Artificielle et M?decine (DIAM) : Service d'Informatique M?dicale, Assistance Publique - H?pitaux de Paris D?partement de Biomath?matiques, CHU Piti?-Salp?tri?re, Univ. Paris 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Apr 13 11:53:06 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:53:06 +0200 Subject: Q: Controlled languages (+R:) Message-ID: ================================================================ 1/Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:57:05 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: Q: Definitions of controlled languages ================================================================ 2/Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 21:06:30 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: Q: Percentages - Controlled Language documents/presentations ================================================================ 3/Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:28:11 +0200 From: Pim van der Eijk Subject: Re: definitions of controlled languages ================================================================ ================================================================ 1/Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:57:05 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN Message-Id: <4.0.1.19990406202255.00fe4a10 at 192.168.1.1> I am particularly interested in compiling a list of definitions of the terms "Controlled Language" and "Sub-language". Since there are potentially different interpretations of these terms, I invite replies from people of different fields of interest. I would appreciate your replies on how you would define these terms. Please send replies to me directly at A summary of responses will be posted later. Thanks in advance. Jeff Allen ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europ?enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ================================================================ 2/Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 21:06:30 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN Message-Id: <4.0.1.19990406201502.00fec100 at 192.168.1.1> This is a short survey: I would like to know in which languages different articles, papers, theses, dissertations, have been written/presented on the subject of Controlled Languages / Sublanguages. Please provide the following general information in replies: 1. language name(s) in which the information on Controlled Languages / Sublanguages has been conveyed; 2. the _approximate_ percentage of documents/presentations on Controlled Languages/Sublanguages that you have read/ heard in this/(each of these) language(s); 3. please differentiate between documents/presentations that are publicly accessible (published, available on the Internet) and those that are not (e.g., internal company documents, company meetings). No details are necessary, just approximate percentages. For example: Publicly available: Language X: 50% Language Y: 20% Language Z: 30% Not publicly available: Language X: 75% Language Y: 25% If you wish to indicate the _approximate_ number of reports/papers/presentation per public and non-public categories, it would be greatly appreciated but is not necessary. Please send replies to me directly at Many thanks in advance. Jeff Allen ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europ?enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ================================================================ 3/Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:28:11 +0200 From: Pim van der Eijk Subject: Re: definitions of controlled languages Message-Id: Colleagues and I have used the distinctions "natural" versus "artificial", and "descriptive" versus "prescriptive" to differentiate sublanguage from controlled language (see e.g. our CLAW 96 paper). There is an extensive literature (mostly from the 80s, but still very useful today) on sublanguages that discuss methods to perform sublanguage analysis. You can apply these and other (e.g. terminology, corpus studies) methods to a particular set of documents, e.g. the technical documentation of a particular company. You may then find (in lexicon analysis) that in a particular domain a concept is expressed using words A and B, and that word C is used to express two distinct concepts, which are unambiguously expressed using words D or E. Separately from this, an analysis of that company's business needs may show that the existing sublanguage practice needs to be changed, for instance to accomodate quality requirements of their customers (such as improving consistency or reducing ambiguity), to improve reusability of documentation modules, or because the company wants to use an MT system that has limitations that need to be worked around. In a controlled language, you want to translate these requirements into explicit guidelines that authors and editors can take into account. For instance, you may propose that authors should always use "B" and no longer use "A", or that "D" or "E" should be used instead of "C". Some of these guidelines can be stated explicitly and formally, so that they can be machine-checked. A problem with many controlled language specifications is that although they are defined rather formally, they are defined in reference to a sublanguage or to general language which itself is not described formally (or is too vast to describe). Note that this refers to the use of "controlled language" in technical documentation applications as a kind of "controlled sublanguages". There is a (very different) use of controlled language for formal specification, command and control applications etc. These controlled languages are very different because there is no existing sublanguage and because they can be very different syntactically from standard language. ================================================================ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 14 09:39:56 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:39:56 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers Message-ID: _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Etienne Grandjean Subject: Universite de Caen 2/ From: Tracy McConnell Subject: Natual Language AI Cognition Specialist sought... 3/ From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Research Fellow at ITRI, Brighton 4/ From: Ernst Buchberger Subject: NLP/ Speech Processing; Research position in Vienna 5/ From: "Kim Moore" Subject: Voice User Interface Software Development Manager _______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Etienne Grandjean Subject: Universite de Caen Emploi MC n?0977 vacant 01.09.1999 Section CNU: 27?me, Informatique Localisation: UFR des Langues Vivantes Etrang?res, Dpt LEA (Langues Etrangeres Applique?s) Profil du poste Enseignement: Informatique de l'entreprise Le ma?tre de conf?rences recrut? fera tout son enseignement et prendra des responsabilit?s dans la fili?re LEA (DEUG, licence-ma?trise et ?ventuellement DESS). L'enseignement de l'informatique dans cette fili?re est destin? ? des "litt?raires" (?tudiants en langues ?trang?res) et a pour objectif de les pr?parer au monde de l'entreprise. De ce fait, les trois premi?res ann?es sont essentiellement consacr?es ? l'apprentissage des outils de bureautique classiques (traitement de texte Word, tableurs Excel, systt?mes de gestion de bases de donn?es Acess, internet) en TD avec enseignement des fondements th?oriques en cours. Des compl?ments sont donn?s aussi en syst?mes d'exploitation, programmation, conception de bases de donn?es, structuration de documents. Recherche (Lab. GREYC, CNRS UPRESA 6072): Le ma?tre de conf?rences recrut? devra avoir un profil correspondant ? l'une des deux ?quipes Algorithmique et/ou Intelligence Artificielle (nouvellement nomm?e I3) du laboratoire GREYC: voir URL http://www.info.unicaen.fr/greyc/ . Il renforcera l'un des trois th?mes de l'?quipe Algorithmique 1) Mod?les de calcul et complexit?. 2) Algorithmes combinatoires. 3) Algorithmique et s?curit? de l'information, ou encore l'un des trois th?mes principaux de l'?quipe I3: 1) Le langage et les langues. 2) Le document ?lectronique. 3) Interaction. Contacts: Etienne GRANDJEAN, Pr?sident de la Commission de sp?cialistes 27?me section tel 02 31 56 73 34, email: Etienne.Grandjean at info.unicaen.fr Enseignement: Annette GOIZET, Directrice du Dpt Langues Etrang?res Appliqu?es, tel 02 31 56 57 69 St?phane FERRARI, responsable des modules d'informatique, Dpt LEA, email: St?phane.Ferrari at info.unicaen.frAnnette GOIZET, Directrice du Dpt Langues Etrang?res Appliqu?es, tel 02 31 56 57 69 Recherche (Lab. GREYC): Claude CARLET et Brigitte VALLEE, responsables de l'Equipe "Algorithmique", Patrice ENJALBERT et Khaldoun ZREIK responsables de l'Equipe I3 (ex Intelligence Artificielle), email: {Claude.Carlet, Brigitte.Vall?e, Patrice.Enjalbert, Khaldoun.Zreik}@info.unicaen.fr _______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Tracy McConnell Subject: Natual Language AI Cognition Specialist sought... http://www.COREintellect.com is seeking a AI / Cognition Specialist to lead the Natural Language development in an intellegent Web Product. This development endeavor will involve Knowledge Acquisition, Symantec Analysis and Relevance determination. Candidates must have Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related discipline; Experience with C++, Java, or OO Development and published in related topics an advantage. apply to mailto:jobs at COREintellect.com _______________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Research Fellow at ITRI, Brighton Apologies for duplicates ******************************************* JOB ADVERTISEMENT Research Fellow (Computational Linguistics) ITRI University of Brighton UK ******************************************* This post offers an opportunity to undertake leading-edge research in word sense disambiguation and computational lexicography at ITRI, an internationally recognised centre of excellence in computational linguistics. Working primarily on WASPS, a project to develop a lexicographer's workstation, you will need an open-minded, analytical and collaborative approach to research, extensive knowledge of natural language processing, good programming skills and a proven research and publication record. In return we offer excellent research facilities and place great emphasis on research career management and development. The post is fixed-term for 3 years. WASPS is an EPSRC funded project, under the direction of Dr. Roger Evans, Dr. Adam Kilgarriff and Sue Atkins. It will explore the synergy between the lexicographer's task of identifying and describing word senses, and the computational task of word sense disambiguation (WSD). On the one side, lexicographers are asking for natural language processing (NLP) software to pre-process and organise corpus data. On the other, NLP needs formal, explicit descriptions of word behaviour, particularly for WSD. The challenge now is to design an environment in which the human lexicographer's perception and the power of the WSD algorithms are successfully brought together. The research fellow will have primary responsibility for producing a semi-automatic lexicographer's workstation, as specified in the WASPS grant proposal. This will include developing and implementing a language which can be used both by humans for specifying and editing word sense descriptions, and by a WSD algorithm for disambiguation. It will also include implementing one or more state-of-the-art WSD algorithms. Salary: up to GBP 24,002 Term: 3 years fixed term Further details, including application form in Word http://www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/ Postscript version of application form http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/posts/appform.ps ITRI web pages: http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk Queries: Adam.Kilgarriff at itri.bton.ac.uk Ref number: IR4012 Closing date: 30th April 1999 _______________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Ernst Buchberger Subject: NLP/ Speech Processing; Research position in Vienna JOB OPPORTUNITY Research position in Natural Language Processing / Speech processing at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI), Vienna, Austria OeFAI offers a research position within its Natural Language Processing Group. We are looking for a participant in a basic research project in the area of speech synthesis that aims at the investigation of segmental durations in German. The project is funded by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) and will be headed by Ao.Prof.Harald Trost. A speech corpus of "Austrian German" is constructed and subsequently analyzed using machine learning techniques in order to derive models of durational variation. From a theoretical point of view the project aims for a better understanding of the quantitative effects of the multiple factors influencing duration in speech. From a practical point of view the results will be used in order to improve the naturalness of prosody in a speech synthesis program. Candidates are to deal with one or more of the following tasks: - development of procedures and tools for supporting the (semi automatic) labeling and representation of the corpus - adaption and application of machine learning techniques - integration of resulting models to an existing speech synthesizer She/he has finished her/his diploma or an equivalent degree in - computational linguistics, or - phonetics, or - digital signal processing, or - computer science plus a background in linguistics. She/he has programming experience, preferably in C and/or C++. A good command of English and/or German is expected. The project started in December 98, with a duration of 2.5 years. We would like to fill the position as soon as possible. Continued employment after the end of the project is possible. The candidate is encouraged to realize her/his Ph.D. within the project. The yearly gross salary will be about ATS 260.000,- according to FWF regulation. More information about the OeFAI and its Natural Language Processing group can be found at http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nlu/ Inquiries and applications (including a short CV and list of publications) should be sent by mail or email to: Harald Trost OeFAI Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Wien, Austria Tel.: +43 1 535 32 810 Fax: +43 1 532 06 52 Email: harald at ai.univie.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ernst Buchberger, Dept. of Med.Cybernetics & Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, Freyung 6, A-1010 Vienna, Austria and Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna +43-1-53532810 (tel), +43-1-5320652 (fax), ernst at ai.univie.ac.at _______________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: "Kim Moore" Subject: Voice User Interface Software Development Manager General Magic is developing Portico, a powerful, Internet-based application that will allow people to easily communicate with others and to obtain and act on important information. As an Internet application, Portico will allow users to access their important information using standard web browsers. General Magic is also developing a highly evolved voice user interface (VUI) to allow users to access their information using natural language. This means users will have continuity in accessing their important information whether through data or telephone devices. Currently we are seeking a VUI Software Development Manager Description: Manage a team of developers responsible for VUI applications layered on top of diverse network-based services. Direct and participate in software development for VUI services provided by General Magic, including Portico. Must be technically strong in at least one of: voice user interface, telephony, distributed computing. Must be able to synthesize input from various sources and provide articulate technical leadership. Experience managing commercial software development is required. Working knowledge of modern software development methods is a must. Must have experience in a management position, delivering complex product(s) on a demanding schedule. At least 5 years experience in C++, OOA and OOD. UNIX and NT experience is a plus, as is Internet experience. Experience integrating speech recognition and synthesis in a high-volume telephony environment is preferred. Finite State Machine experience is a plus. To apply, e-mail your resume to: kmoore at genmagic.com kmoore at garlic.com From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 14 09:40:00 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:40:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Language Technologies Message-ID: From: Spela Vintar LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES - MULTILINGUAL ASPECTS CALL FOR PAPERS (http://www2.arnes.si/~svinta/workshop.htm) Workshop in the framework of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the SOCIETAS LINGUISTICA EUROPAEA, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 8-11 July, 1999 This workshop is intended for linguists, computational linguists, translators and other experts who are actively involved or interested in the field of language technologies. We especially wish to focus on multilingual technologies, which are gaining relevance for the Slovenian community in view of the accession to the multilingual Europe. Presentations are invited addressing or related to the following topics: * corpora - mono- or multilingual corpora; approaches to the compilation and exploitation of corpora; * tools for corpus querying and processing; * mono- or multilingual lexicons and dictionaries; * terminology management; building and using terminological databases; * technologies for translation and interpreting; * software localization; * the internet and language technologies; * other technologies aimed at supporting intercultural communication and providing language resources and tools. Extended abstracts not exceeding 2 pages should be submitted by e-mail to ulj.ff-opt at guest.arnes.si or by regular mail to the following address: LT Workshop Oddelek za prevajanje in tolma?enje Filozofska fakulteta Askerceva 2 1000 Ljubljana Fax: (061) 221-310 Submission deadline: Application and abstract submission: 15 April, 1999 Author notification: 15 May, 1999 Participation Anyone intending to participate should register for the Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting at the conference address below: SLE Conference Department of Translation and Interpreting Faculty of Arts Askerceva 2 1000 Ljubljana Fax: (061) 221-310 E-mail: ulj.ff-opt at guest.arnes.si Additional information on the SLE conference can be found at the conference web page http://www2.arnes.si/~svinta/circular.htm. Organising Committee: dr. Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute mag. Vojko Gorjanc, Faculty of Arts Spela Vintar, Faculty of Arts From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 14 09:40:03 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:40:03 +0100 Subject: Appel: ISMT&CLIP Message-ID: From: ren at its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp Please accept our apologies if you receive this more than once. ---------------------------------------------------------------- International Symposium on Machine Translation & Computer Language Information Processing (ISMT&CLIP) Beijing, China, June 26-28, 1999 Call for Papers You are invited to participate in the International Symposium on Machine Translation & Computer Language Information Processing (ISMT&CLIP), which will be held on June 26-28, 1999 at Beijing, China. ISMT&CLIP is a international symposium on machine translation and computer language information processing. The symposium will provide a forum for the researchers, developers and participates to exchange their ideas and discuss the future direction of machine translation and computer language information processing. Sponsored by Natural Language Processing Scientific Committee (NLPSC) of Chinese Information Association of China (CIAC) Undertaken by Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of Chinese Academy of Sciences Supported by Chinese National Natural Science Found Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of Chinese Academy of Sciences Topics Suggested topics include (but not limited to): Machine Translation Grammar Machine Translation System Design and Practical Technology On-line Machine Translation Machine Translation Evaluation Multi-Language Knowledge Base Corpus and Processing Natural Language Processing Dictionary Regimentation and Language Engineering Information Retrieval & Information Extraction Natural Language Understanding Speech Recognition & Synthesis Intelligent Input Methodologies Pattern Recognition and Handwriting Recognition Network Information Processing and Communication Artificial Intelligent Technologies Application Computer-aided Instruction Natural Language Human-machine Interface Information for Authors Original unpublished papers of no more then six pages of A4 by laser printer are invited. The paper can be written in English or Chinese. All the papers must include following parts: title (subtitle), author information (address, postcode, author name, email), abstract, keywords, text and reference. The telephone number, fax number and detail address for contact if needed. Important Dates April 15, 1999 Paper of camera ready manuscript submission due May 15, 1999 Notification of acceptance Contact Zhou Xiaojun Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of Chinese Academy of Sciences Kequn Building (West), No.30, Xueyuan Rd., Haidian District, Beijing, P.R China 100083 Tel: (010) 62333652-207 Fax: (010) 62312212 Email$B#:(Bxiaojunzhou at yahoo.com Authors also can contact with Co-Chair of the Program Committee of the ISMT & CLIP: Prof.& Dr. Fuji Ren Faculty of Information Sciences Hiroshima City University 3-4-1, Ozuka-Higasi, Asa-Minami-Ku Hiroshima, 731-3194, Japan Tel:+81-82-830-1584 Fax:+81-82-830-1584 or +81-82-830-1792 Email:ren at its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------ Fuji Ren Faculty of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University 3-4-1,Ozuka-Higashi,Asa-Minami-Ku,Hiroshima,731-3194,Japan Tel&Fax:+81-82-830-1584 Email:ren at its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp http://www.nlp.its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/~ren From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 14 09:40:05 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:40:05 +0100 Subject: Appel: Machine Translation Message-ID: From: "Inter Group Corp." ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The goal of this workshop is to explore the role of MT in the context of CLIR. Undoubtedly searching, extracting and summarising information from the Web is a major challenge demanding multilingual solutions. Despite the fact that currently much textual WWW information is in English, the situation is radically changing. In addition, there is an increased amount of users who would prefer to use sites and/or query in their native language. There are different strategies for CLIR involving document translation, query translation, use of dictionaries. The adoption of a strategy depends on the user profile, the level of user interaction intended in the search process, the targeted use of the documents retrieved and the availability of linguistic resources, among others. We invite papers on topics which link advances in Machine Translation or related technologies to CLIR. Are existing MT solutions sufficient for the information access demands of today? What type of MT linguistic analysis would be useful for CLIR? How can we identify the proper translations of query terms? How can we improve on existing techniques to improve precision and recall? A non-exhaustive list, which should serve as a starting point, follows: * Issues in query translation and query expansion * Alignment techniques for dictionary building * Level and type of linguistic MT analysis for CLIR (shallow, chunking, ...) * Type of multilingual resources (corpora, dictionaries, terminologies) used in CLIR * Role of terminology and ontologies in CLIR * Translation Memories in CLIR * Translation of index terms and descriptors * CLIR involving Asian languages (problems and challenges) Participation and Submission of Papers Participation is limited to 30 persons. Participants will be selected by the organizing committee, based on submitted papers. Participants will be expected to contribute to the workshop by either presenting a talk or taking part in the discussions. Researchers interested in participating in the workshop are invited to submit long abstracts (up to three pages) on the listed research topics. Submissions may be sent by e-mail (PostScript files) or as hardcopies (in triplicate) to the workshop organiser. In the case where you use non-Roman fonts, hardcopies are preferred. The submissions will be reviewed and the accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Participants selected for giving a talk, will have to submit a full paper (up to 8 pages) for the workshop proceedings. For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Organiser. Important Dates Abstracts due by: May 31, 1999. Notification of acceptance: June 30, 1999. Camera-ready version of Final Paper due: August 2, 1999. Main MT Summit: September 13-17, 1999. Date of the Workshop: September 17,1999 Organising Committee * Sophia Ananiadou, European Media Lab, Germany * Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI, France * Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT Cyberspace Labs, Japan * Mun Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore * Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea * Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Workshop Organiser Please send abstracts / papers to: Sophia Ananiadou European Media Lab (EML) Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 D-69118 Heidelberg Germany Fax: +49-6221-533-298 Email: Sophia.Ananiadou at eml.villa-bosch.org /e ************************************************ Secretariat of Organizing Committee, MT Summit VII c/o Inter Group Corp. Akasaka Dai-ichi Bldg., 4-9-17, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8486, Japan TEL:+81-3-3479-5311 FAX:+81-3-3423-1601 E-mai: secret-4 at tokyo.intergroup.co.jp ************************************************ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 14 09:40:14 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:40:14 +0100 Subject: Conf: ACFAS Message-ID: From: Yves MARCOUX APPEL ? PARTICIPATION COLLOQUE CR?ATION, DIFFUSION ET UTILISATION DU SAVOIR ? L'?RE DES R?SEAUX 13 et 14 mai 1999, Universit? d'Ottawa 67e congr?s de l'Acfas =========================================================================== Pour demeurer comp?titif ou simplement survivre dans le contexte des march?s mondiaux, tout groupe, organisation, collectivit?, et m?me soci?t?, doit apprendre ? g?rer son savoir collectif. Traiter les donn?es et l'information ne suffit plus. Venez entendre ce que d'?minents penseurs, chercheurs et praticiens de la gestion du savoir ont ? dire sur les bouleversements qu'entra?ne l'?mergence des r?seaux globaux dans les fa?ons de cr?er, de diffuser et d'utiliser le savoir. CONF?RENCIERS (liste partielle): - Zoumana BAMBA, Association des universit?s africaines (Ghana) - Elisabeth DAVENPORT, Business School, Napier University (?cosse) - Antoine DEL BUSSO, Directeur g?n?ral, Fides - Jean-Claude GU?DON, Universit? de Montr?al - Mich?le HUDON, EBSI, Universit? de Montr?al - Pierre L?VY, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res Pour participer au colloque, il suffit de vous inscrire au congr?s de l'Acfas (tarif r?duit avant le 16 avril). * PROGRAMME COMPLET DU COLLOQUE: http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~marcoux/acfas1999/programme.htm * INSCRIPTION: http://www.acfas.ca/congres/insc.html =========================================================================== ---------------------- Yves MARCOUX, Ph.D., ift.a., professeur agrege ------------------------------- - EBSI, Universite de Montreal --------------------------- http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~marcoux/ -- Yves.MARCOUX at UMontreal.CA ---- (514) 343-7750 / FAX (514) 343-5753 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 15 15:53:16 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:53:16 +0100 Subject: Appel: Evolang Message-ID: From: Conference Evolang ( Apologies for multiple copies ) [First announcement] Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS [deadline: November 8, 1999] =============== ================================================= conference: T H E E V O L U T I O N O F L A N G U A G E ================================================= Paris April 3-6, 2000 Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des T?l?communications Paris - France http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University), Dr. Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Professor Jim Hurford (Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh), Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of East London), Professor Luc Steels (Sony CSL and Vrije Universiteit Brussel). LOCAL ORGANISATION: Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST), Laleh Ghadakpour (CREA), Fr?d?ric Kaplan (Sony CSL), Luc Steels (Sony CSL), Fran?ois Yvon (ENST). This will be 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. Provisional PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: ------------------------------- Jean Aitchison (Worcester College), Robert C. Berwick (M.I.T.), Derek Bickerton (Univ. Hawa?), Melissa Bowerman* (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory), Ren? Carr? (ENST), Bernard Comrie (University of Southern California), Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST), Jean-Marie Hombert* (MSH Rh?ne-Alpes), James R. Hurford (University of Edinburgh), Judy Kegl* (University of Southern Maine), Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh), Chris Knight (University of East London), Andr? Langaney (Mus?e de l'Homme), Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington), Michael Studdert-Kenedy* (Haskins Laboratories), Luc Steels (Sony CSL & Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Bernard Victorri (ENS Ulm). * [to be confirmed] Submission Instructions ======================= Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or short papers (from 1 to 4 pages, max. 2000 words). Submitted papers will be refereed and selected for oral presentation (25/30 min) on the basis of quality and relevance to the Conference topics. Accepted abstracts and papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings and will be made accessible through the web. Copies of the proceedings will be available at the Conference. Authors of accepted contributions will be asked to submit full length papers for a volume to be published after the Conference by an international publisher. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically (MS Word preferred, but most formats will be recognised). Please email your submission to evolang at infres.enst.fr Don't forget to include the submission form in your message. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The deadline for submission is November 8th, 1999. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If you cannot send your submission through email, please send four copies (and the submission form) to: J-L Dessalles ENST / Dep. InfRes 46 rue Barrault F-75013 Paris - France If you are planning to submit a paper or abstract, or if you simply plan to attend the Conference, please send a mail to evolang at infres.enst.fr You will be kept informed through e-mail of further useful information. Submission Form ========================================================================== [ The first author should fill in the submission form and e-mail it to evolang at infres.enst.fr ] Last NAME : First Name : Laboratory : Organization/Affiliation : Street Address : City : Postal code: State/Province : Country : E-mail address for correspondence : Fax : Paper title : ========================================================================== Conference web site: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ Call for papers: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/cfp.html EMAIL: evolang at infres.enst.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 15 15:53:20 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:53:20 +0100 Subject: Appel: SPECOM special issue Message-ID: From: Steven Bird (Our apologies for duplicate postings) ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT Special Issue of Speech Communication on Speech Annotation and Corpus Tools www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/specom.html In recent years there has been an explosion of activity in the area of annotated linguistic databases. A wide variety of formats and tools have been developed; for an extensive set of web pointers, see [www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation]. Hundreds of annotated speech corpora have been published, and such corpora are finding uses in a rapidly expanding set of disciplines. In the majority of cases, annotated corpora and associated software have been created without reference to other efforts in the area, leading to a proliferation of incompatible tools and formats despite the common conceptual core. There is a clear need for the dissemination of existing work and open discussion of the issues it raises, ultimately leading to consensus about formats and the creation of general purpose tools. Speech Communication [www.elsevier.com/locate/specom] will sponsor a special issue on speech annotation and tools for developing and interrogating speech corpora, to be edited by Steven Bird and Jonathan Harrington. Information about deadlines will be circulated once it is available. In the meantime, please visit the page for the special issue: www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/specom.html Please bookmark this page and/or sign up for the mailing list to be sure of receiving subsequent announcements. Steven & Jonathan. -- Dr Jonathan Harrington Director, Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9850 8740 Fax: +61 2 9850 9199 jmh at srsuna.shlrc.mq.edu.au www.ling.mq.edu.au/dbase/person.phtml?oid=19084 Dr Steven Bird Assoc Director, LDC; Adj Assoc Prof, CIS & Linguistics Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania 3615 Market St, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2608 Tel: +1 215 573-3352 Fax: +1 215 573-2175 Steven.Bird at ldc.upenn.edu www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 15 15:53:35 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:53:35 +0100 Subject: Conf: The Future of CL ... Message-ID: From: David Pearce *************************************************** The Future of Computational Logic in Language and Speech Technology **************************************************** A Compulog Net/Elsnet Joint Strategic Planning Workshop Saarbruecken, April 30, 1999 Workshop Homepage: http://www.compulog.org/workshops/cl-nlp1999/ Venue: DFKI and the Dept of Computational Linguistics at the University of Saarland, Saarbr?cken, Germany Building 36 (Computer Science), 4th floor Natural language and speech technology is a major growth area of IT. The accessibility of more reliable speech-related software has made a series of exciting applications, such as speech-guided computer use, into attainable goals. The advent of the world-wide web, while providing many new functionalities, has highlighted the need to attack problems such as concept extraction and semantic-based search that were not seen as being so crucial in the past. Computational Logic provides some of the most promising instruments for achieving these new goals as well as for tackling more traditional problems of language and speech processing. The purpose of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers from the Compulog Net and ELSNET communities to discuss a strategy for the future of computational logic within language and speech technology. This will involve identifying a succession of R&D goals, from short to long term, that would strengthen and further the contributions in this area. It is also hoped that the workshop will provide materials for the 'Technological Roadmaps' which each network is currently preparing for its own field. Though Roadmaps may be conceived differently by different networks, broadly speaking they aim to identify, for the medium-term future, new potential areas of industrial exploitation of the technology (or new possibilities within existing application areas); and they try to indicate which kinds of scientific advances and technological innovations will be need to ensure that this potential can be realised. Experts from various subareas of language and speech technology will present their views on the most promising lines of inquiry over the next 5-to-10 years in language and speech processing, and how the area of computational logic might contribute to this endeavour. A wide range of issues will be addressed. The workshop will comprise a series of 30-minute presentations as well as 10-minute panel contributions. Organising Committee Ewan Klein David Pearce Manfred Pinkal Patrick Blackburn Registration: please use web form. Registration Fee: 60 DM, includes lunch Enquiries to: Compulog.Net at compulog.org Tel: +49 681 302 5322 ------------------------------------------------------------ David Pearce Compulog Net DFKI GmbH Postfach 15 11 50 D-66041 Saarbruecken Tel +49 681 302 5322 or 5276 Fax +49 681 302 2235 Tel (mobile) +49 171 536 8366 http://www.compulog.org/staff/DavidPearce.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 15 15:53:47 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:53:47 +0100 Subject: Conf: HMC (Postponement) Message-ID: From: y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Yorick Wilks) Dear Colleagues: I very much regret to announce the postponement of the third Bellagio workshop until 11-13 July 2000. It has been an unfortunate side effect of the recent problems at the European Commission. We annnounced the meeting with distinguished speakers and the plan was to fund them from an EC grant. Suddenly, our proposal along with the others that had received was returned to wait for a new RFP in the summer--too late for us, alas! We felt it would not be right to go ahead this year after withdrwing the invitations to the speakers, so we will postpone till next year, hopefully with the same speakers and sponsors and EC backing. www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 15 15:54:35 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:54:35 +0100 Subject: Appel: DCAGRS'99 Message-ID: From: reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Bernd Reichel) Dear Colleague, Upon several requests we have extended the deadline for submissions to the Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" in Magdeburg (Germany), July 20-23, 1999, to April 29, 1999. We send you in the enclosure the complete Call for Papers with the new deadline for submissions. The Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" starts five days after ICALP '99 ends in Prague (appr. 300 km from Magdeburg) and one day after WIA '99 ends in Potsdam (100 km east of Magdeburg). Magdeburg, which was founded 1200 years ago, is the capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and is situated appr. 120 km west of Berlin on the banks of the river Elbe. Magdeburg is the site of the oldest German Gothic cathedral, is the start and end point of the "Romanesque Road" (taking you to many Romanesque buildings and being one of the historic main attractions of Saxony-Anhalt), is famous for its parks and gardens and is the host of the German Federal Garden Show '99 (which is part of the social program of the workshop). We invite you to participate in and to contribute to the workshop. Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg) Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% C A L L F O R P A P E R S Workshop DESCRIPTIONAL COMPLEXITY OF AUTOMATA, GRAMMARS AND RELATED STRUCTURES July 20-23, 1999, Magdeburg, Germany The Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" is being organized by the IFIP Working Group 1.2 Descriptional Complexity and the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg and will take place in Magdeburg which is the 1200 years old capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Magdeburg is located 130 km west of Berlin and will be the site of the German Garden Show 1999. The aim of the workshop is to present, partly through invited lectures, the state of the art and trends in the field and to provide a forum for the exchange of new results. Program Committee: ****************** N. Blum (Bonn), J. Dassow (Magdeburg, co-chair), J. Goldstine (University Park), Gh. Paun (Bucharest), J. Seiferas (Rochester), D. Wotschke (Frankfurt, co-chair) Invited Speakers: ***************** J. Gruska (Brno) A. Kelemenova (Opava) H. Leung (Las Cruces) J. Shallit (Waterloo) S. Yu (London, Canada) and E. Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest) K. Hashiguchi (Okayama) H. Petersen (Stuttgart) Submissions: ************ Authors are invited to submit a draft paper of up to 10 pages in English. (If appropriate, proofs should be attached as a full paper.) Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be sent as postscript files to: dcagrs at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Submissions by mail (four copies) should be sent to: Juergen Dassow Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg Fakultaet fuer Informatik Postfach 41 20 D-39016 Magdeburg Accepted papers will be published in special issues of "Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics". Preproceedings will be distributed at the conference. Important Dates: **************** Deadline for submission: April 29, 1999 Acceptance notification: May 31, 1999 Preliminary paper for the preproceedings: June 30, 1999 Symposium: July 20-23, 1999 Final Version: October 30, 1999 Further Information: ******************** http://ozelot.psc.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de:8000/ifip-wg1.2/dcagrs Registration Fee: ***************** The registration fee (incl. Preproceedings and Conference Dinner) will be approximately DM 140,- (EUR 70,-). From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 16 11:14:19 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:14:19 +0100 Subject: Appel: 3rd Tbilisi Symposium Message-ID: From: ingrid at wins.uva.nl (Ingrid van Loon) * Apologies for multiple copies* The Third International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation Batumi, Georgia September 12-16, 1999 Second Announcement and Call for Papers In 1999, the Tbilisi International Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, will be held in the Black Sea coast resort Batumi from 12th to 16th of September. The Symposium is organized by the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech (Tbilisi State University), in conjunction with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam. The 1999 meeting is the third installment of a series of biannual Symposia. The first meeting was held in the Georgian mountain resort Gudauri and the second took place in the capital of Georgia Tbilisi. The Third Symposium is dedicated to the memory of the prominent Georgian logician Shalva Pkhakadze. THEMES The Symposium welcomes papers on current research in all aspects of Linguistics, Logic and Computation, including but not limited to: Natural language semantics/pragmatics Algebraic and relational semantics Natural language processing Logic in AI and natural language Natural language and logic programming Automated reasoning Natural language and databases Information retrieval from text Natural language and internet Constructive logic and modal systems In line with the main trend in this field we strongly encourage the submission of papers concerning applications of logic to computation and the application of logic and computation to language description and modelling. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Abstracts of papers submitted for presentation should not exceed 2 000 words. The abstracts should include, on the first page: title, author's name, affiliation, complete mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail address, an abstract of 200 words maximum, and up to five key- words. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (ASCII, LaTeX, or PostScript) to the following e-mail addresses: dekker at philo.uva.nl The collection volume of the short versions (Theses) will be available during the Symposium. The Proceedings with full size (8-12 pages) papers are planned immediately after the Symposium. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 1, 1999 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 1999 Symposium: September 12-16, 1999 TUTORIALS In parallel with the Symposium three tutorials are given by outstanding scholars for students and post-graduates. These tutorials are explicitly meant to address interdisciplinary issues in the fields of logic and language, algebraic logic, and computation and morphology. RELATED EVENTS The Symposium will be immediately preceded by the Conference on Logical Programming and Automatic Reasoning (LPAR) which will be held in Tbilisi from 6th to 10th of September 1999. Some of its participants plan to be present on the both forums. The web site of LPAR is http://www.csd.uu.se/~voronkov/lpar99.html INVITED SPEAKERS J. van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) G. Gottlob (Vienna University of Technology) J. D. McCawley (University of Chicago) I. Hodkinson (Imperial College, London) I. Melchuk (University of Montreal) V. Pratt (Stanford University) A. Zaenen (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble); to be confirmed LECTURERS FOR TUTORIALS W. Blok (University of Illinois at Chicago); to be confirmed L. Karttunen (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble); to be confirmed D. Westerstahl (G?teborg University); to be confirmed SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE chair D. de Jongh (University of Amsterdam) Th. Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi State University) A. Voronkov (Uppsala University) members A. Anisimov (Kiev State University) Ju. Apresjan (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) J. van Benthem (University of Amsterdam) W. Blok (University of Illinois at Chicago) N. Chanishvili (Tbilisi State University) R. Cooper (G?teborg University) Ju. Ershov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk) J. Ginzburg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) R. Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington) E. Hajicova (Charles University, Prague) L. Jablonskij (Moscow State University) Z. Khasidashvili (Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva) V. Matrosov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk) H. Ono (JAIST, Ishikawa) B. Partee (University of Massachusetts) G. Sambin (University of Padua) E. Vallduvi (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) C. Vogel (Trinity College, Dublin) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE general I. van Loon (University of Amsterdam, Chair) P. Dekker (University of Amsterdam) G. Erbach (Universit?t des Saarlandes, Saarbr?cken) V. Finn (Institute for Scientific & Technical Information, Moscow) G. Gaprindashvili (University of Minnesota) T. Kutsia (Institute of Symbolic Computation, University of Linz) D. Pearce (GmbH, Saarbr?cken) E. Tavadze-Melini (Royal Technical High School, Stockholm) local T. Khurodze (pro-rector of the Tbilisi State University, Chair) J. Antidze, R. Asatiani, M. Abashidze, G.Bezhanishvili, R. Grigolia, E. Soselia, L. Chkaidze, G. Chikoidze, L. Godabrelidze, N. Javashvili, L. Lortkipanidze, M. Tandashvili (all Georgian Academy of Sciences) Kh. Rukhaia, K. Phkhakadze, N. Shengelaia (Tbilisi State University) D. Baladze, M. Putkaradze, N. Soselia (Batumi University) FINANCES The participant's fee is 200 EURO. This fee is not obligatory for participants from Central and Ceastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. The costs for accommodation, including three meals a day, are 40 EURO per day. Prices for accommodation may fluctuate in the future. TRAVEL Batumi can be reached in two ways: By plane to Tbilisi and then by bus (6 hours) or by train (1 night) to Batumi; a special bus trip is planned, which includes a visit to Zestafoni, the place of birth of the prominent Georgian logician Shalva Phakadze to the memory of whom the Symposium is dedicated. By plane via Trabzon, a Turkish city close to the Georgian frontier, and then a 3 hours trip by a comfortable bus, which leaves each half hour for Batumi. A third possibility, by direct flight from Moscow to Batumi, is being investigated. A visa can be obtained at the airport. LOCATION Georgia is an ancient country situated between Black and Kaspian Seas, Caucasus Mountains and Turkey. This is the country of the Golden Fleece, myth of Argonauts, Jason and Medea, Promethee, chained to the Caucasus Mountains. Georgia is famous for its high quality wines, exquisite cuisine and cordial hospitality. The Symposium will be hosted by the Tbilisi State University, the chief centre of education in the country which has several outstanding scholars in science, art and politics among its graduates. The conference's venue---Batumi University---is the main educational centre of the region. The Symposium will be held in Chakvi, a sea resort near Batumi, which is the main city of Georgian subtropical region Adjara. Batumi is encircled by the Black Sea resorts: Makhindjauri, the Green Cape, Tsikhisdziri, aand Kobuleti. The environment of the city abounds with citric and tea plantations, magnolia, palm, eucalyptus and bay tree groves. Near the Green Cape the famous Botanical Garden is situated. The climate is mild, seawater warm, the bathing season lasts from May to October. INFORMATION Information on registration and accommodation will appear in future announcements. For more information you may take a look at: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Batumi/ or contact: George Chikoidze Dept. of Language Modelling Inst. of Control Systems Georgian Academy of Sciences 34, K. Gamsakhurdia 380060 Tbilisi Georgia phone: +995 32 382136 fax: +995 32 942391 chiko at contsys.acnet.ge or Ingrid van Loon Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 1018 TV Amsterdam, he Netherlands Tel: +31 (20) 5256051 Fax: +31 (20) 5255206 ingrid at wins.uva.nl From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 16 11:14:24 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:14:24 +0100 Subject: Appel: MT Summit VII Message-ID: From: MT Dear Sir/ Madam, The seventh Machine Translation Summit will be held at Kent Ridge Digital Labs on the campus of National University of Singapore from 13 to 17 September 1999. We look forward to the participation of those who are interested in any aspect of machine translation. We are pleased to inform you of the 2nd Call for Papers and the Call for Paper Supplement,Call for Paper Supplement-2, which are additional informations of the 2nd Call for Papers. Because of the nature of MT Summit as a forum of MT researchers, users, industrialists and funding agencies, we welcome papers, not only on technical/theoretical issues of MT, but also on [1] users' experiences [2] innovative uses of MT in commercial products [3] evaluation of actual MT systems [4] proposal of practical uses of MT systems like controlled languages [5] users' interactions, etc. It would be of great help if you could kindly inform to relevant institutions and individuals who may be interested in submitting papers to the conference. Also, for further information of the MT Summit VII, please see Web-site: http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html We hope to see you soon at the Summit. Hozumi Tanaka Chairman Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation ===================================================================== MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII "MT in the Great Translation Era" September 13-17, 1999, Singapore 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== MT Summit VII solicits submissions of research papers, system presentations, and user reports in the broad field of machine translation and natural language processing. Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP.) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline Please see the "Paper Submission" section below for the details. MT Summit VII will also have many invited presentations by researchers, users and policy makers from all parts of the world. Featured Speakers: Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University Please see the "Invited Speakers" section below for the details. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Further Information: Please visit our Web-site for up-to-date MT SUMMIT VII information: http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99 or http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html By e-mail, please contact the AAMT secretariat: aamt0002 at infotokyo.ne.jp ===================================================================== The seventh Machine Translation Summit, organized by the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), will be held at Kent Ridge Digital Labs on the campus of National University of Singapore from 13 to 17 September 1999. Meetings of the MT Summit have been held once every two years since 1987 under the auspices of AAMT, EAMT (European Association for Machine Translation) and AMTA (Association for Machine Translation in the Americas). MT Summit VII, which is the last conference of the 20th century in the premier series of conferences on machine translation, will provide a forum for discussing the prospect of MT and related areas in the coming century. MT Summit VII will feature an expanded program including research papers, reports on users' experiences, discussions of policy issues, invited talks, panels, exhibitions, tutorials, and workshops. AAMT invites all who are interested in any aspect of machine translation - researchers, developers, providers, users, and watchers - to participate in the conference. The schedule of MT Summit VII is outlined as follows: Monday, 13 September: Tutorials Reception Tuesday, 14 September: Main conference Exhibition Wednesday, 15 September: Main conference Exhibition Banquet Thursday, 16 September: Main conference Exhibition Friday, 17 September: Workshops ----------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission MT Summit VII seeks original papers in all aspects of machine translation. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: - Methodologies for MT (rule-based, knowledge-based, analogy-based, statistics-based, etc.) - Practical MT systems (MT for professional translation, MT for the Internet, MT for localization, etc.) - Translation aids (translation memory, terminology databases, etc.) - Speech and dialogue translation - Natural language analysis and generation techniques - Dictionaries and lexicons for MT systems - Text corpora for MT and knowledge extraction from corpora - Human factors in MT and user interfaces - Evaluation techniques - Standards in text and lexicon encoding for MT - Cross-lingual information retrieval - MT and related technologies (information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, etc.) There will be three categories of papers: (1) Research papers: Submissions are invited for reports of significant research results in any aspect of machine translation and related areas. Such reports should include a substantial evaluative component. Papers should be in English, not longer than 5,000 words. (2) System presentations with demos: Submissions are invited for reports on the design, implementation, operation and evaluation of operational and prototype systems. Reports should be in English, not longer than 2,000 words. (3) User studies: Submissions are invited for reports on users' experiences with applying MT to some task, evaluation of MT systems, analysis of MT markets, etc. Reports should be in English, not longer than 5,000 words. All types of papers should be submitted to the address below and must be received by the indicated date. Papers should include a cover page with the following information: - paper title, - author(s)' name(s), affiliation(s), address(es), and e-mail address(es), - 200 word abstract, - for research papers: up to 5 keywords, - for system presentations with demos: the word "System presentation with demo", and the hardware, software and network requirement for the demonstration, - for user studies: the word "User study". Please mail 4 hardcopies of the paper to: MT Summit VII Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT) 3F, Shiba-Koen Sanada Bldg. 3-5-12 Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan In addition, please submit an ASCII version of the cover page electronically to: aamt0001 at infotokyo.ne.jp Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP.) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline ----------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers In addition to submitted paper sessions, the conference program will include a keynote speech, invited talks, regional reports, special sessions on selected topics, and panel discussions. Following is a list of invited speakers. Opening session: Representative of Singapore Government Representative of MITI of Japanese Government Keynote speech: Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (President, International Association for Machine Translation) Invited talks: Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University, USA Prof. Kay, who has been a leading scientist in computational linguistics and machine translation, will present a technological perspective of MT. Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv, Belgium Dr. Lernout, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the field of speech and language, will present an industrial prospect of MT and related technologies. Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Prof. Nishigaki, who is an interdisciplinary researcher in computer science and sociology, will give an enlightening talk on social implications of MT. Special talk (at Banquet): Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan Prof. Nagao, President of Kyoto University and the founding Presidents of IAMT (The International Association for Machine Translation) and AAMT, who is a pioneer of MT as well as a wide areas of AI, will give a talk at the Banquet which will take place on September 15th, 1999. Survey reports on MT in each area: - Asia Hemant Darbari, Center for Developemnt of Advanced Computing, India Aiping Fu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Hirosato Nomura, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Seyoung Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea - Europe Rose Lockwood, Equipe Consortium Ltd., UK - North America Elliott Macklovitch, Universite de Montreal, Canada Special sessions: ( *) Coordinator) "Controlled Language" Hiroyuki Kaji,*) Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Uus Knops, LANT nv, Belgium Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA "Localization" Virginia Cha,*) Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Michael Anobile, Localisation Industry Standard Association, Switzerland Stanley Park, International Transformational Information Corp., Korea "MT and Speech" Key-Sun Choi,*) Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Korea Terminology Research Center for Language and Knowledge Engineering, Korea Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories and SONY Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan Gianni Lazzari, Instituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia, Italy "Multilingual Information Access" Vilas Wuwongse,*) Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Thomas Baker, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Sung H. Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea "MT from the Research Perspective" Dominique Estival,*) University of Melbourne, Australia (TBA) (TBA) "Views from Users" Hirosato Nomura,*) Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (TBA) (TBA) "MT for the Next Century" Jun-ichi Tsujii,*) University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University, UK (TBA) From MT users (TBA) From MT users Panels: ( *) Moderator) "International Cooperation - From Funding Agencies' Point of View" Antonio Sanfilippo,*) European Commission, Luxembourg Roberto Cencioni, European Commission, Luxembourg (TBC) Lianzhong He, Development and Planning Commission of China, China (TBC) Akira Kubota, MITI, Japan Ronald Larsen, DARPA, USA Gary Strong, NSF, USA "MT Evaluation" Margaret King,*) University of Geneva, Switzerland Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong John White, Litton PRC, USA Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Closing session: John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibition Many commercial and research systems, including a speech translation system by C-STAR Consortium (ATR, CMU, etc.), will be demonstrated in exhibit booths throughout the conference. About 30 booths will be prepared for exhibitors. Spaces will be allocated to applicants on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to exhibit, please contact the Exhibition Coordinator Vicky (e-mail: vicky at krdl.org.sg). ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Singapore Singapore is a vibrant, sophisticated city state of 3 million people offering the best of modern facilities and comforts while retaining her heritage and culture. A progressive, cosmopolitan city, Singapore has the world's best airport - Changi International Airport - and lies at the crossroads of Asia. Known for her food and shopping, Singapore is a thriving nucleus for tourism, trade and finance. The climate in Singapore is tropical all year round with high humidity and temperatures varying between 23 degrees Celsius (74 F) in the evening to 32 degrees Celsius (90 F) during the day. Showers are sporadic and heavy but also brief and refreshing. Light summer clothing may be worn throughout the day. About the Venue Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) is a national applied research & development organization established in January 1998 through the merger of former national IT institutes - the Information Technology Institute (ITI) and the Institute of Systems Science (ISS). With a diverse team of more than 400 research scientists, KRDL's aim is to be the premier research and development organization in Asia-Pacific for information and networking technologies. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Organization Organizing Committee Honorary Chair: Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan Chair: Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Vice Chairs$B!'(J Hwee Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Executive Committee Chair: Hirokazu Amemiya, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Vice Chair: Hideki Morimoto, Fujitsu Ltd., Japan Local Organizing Committee Chair: Hwee Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Secretary: Victorine Chen-Toh, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Program Committee Chair: Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Vice Chair: Loong Cheong Tong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Members: Virginia Cha, Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan ZhaoXiong Chen, Kezhi Co., China Key-Sun Choi, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia Zhendong Dong, Chinese Information Processing Society, China Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne, Australia Changning Huang, Tsinghua University, China Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories and SONY Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan Etsuo Ito, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Hiroyuki Kaji, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Kunio Matsui, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Se Young Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Wanchai Rivepiboon, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Trihono Sastrohartono, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, Indonesia Youlwon Seong, Language and Computer, Ltd., Korea Satoshi Shirai, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Japan Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Chew Lim Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia International Advisors: Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Software, Inc., USA Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK Antonio Sanfilippo, European Commission, Luxembourg ===================================================================== ================================================================= MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII "MT in the Great Translation Era" September 13-17, 1999, Singapore CALL FOR PAPER Supplement ================================================================= == Notice! ==== Notice! ==== Notice! ==== Notice! ==== Notice! == The e-mail address for paper submission has changed. aamt0001 at infotokyo.or.jp (before 31 March) aamt0001 at infotokyo.ne.jp (after 1 April) Also the address of the AAMT secretariat has changed. aamt0002 at infotokyo.or.jp (before 31 March) aamt0002 at infotokyo.ne.jp (after 1 April) Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline You can find more information on Paper Submission at http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99-e.html . ================================================================== This supplement gives you information on a post-conference Workshop, and a Thematic Session in the conference. A renewed list of invited speakers is also attached. [1] Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval The goal of this workshop is to explore the role of MT in the context of CLIR. We invite papers on topics which link advances in Machine Translation or related technologies to CLIR. Organizing Committee Sophia Ananiadou, European Media Laboratory, Germany Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT, Japan Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI, France Mun Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Laboratories, Singapore Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Important Dates: May 31, 1999 Paper submission deadline June 30, 1999 Notifications August 2, 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline September 17, 1999 Workshop Submissions should be sent to: Sophia Ananiadou European Media Lab (EML) Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 D-69118 Heidelberg Germany Tel: +49-6221-533-218 Fax: +49-6221-533-298 Email: Sophia.Ananiadou at eml.org Further information on the workshop: http://www.villa-bosch.de/eml/englisch/workshops/clir.html MT Summit VII can accommodate another one or two Workshop on the 17th of September. If you would like to organize one, you are welcome to contact Local Organizing Chair at hweeboon at krdl.org.sg . [2] A Thematic Session Proposed: "Language Resources" Drs. Khalid Choukri and Jeff Allen (ELRA: European Language Resources Association) invite the submission of papers on "language resources", which will constitute a thematic session of MT Summit. Please see their announcement at http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/mts99.html for further information. If you submit a paper for this session, please note it by referring to the "Thematic Session on Language Resources" in the cover page of your paper. MT Summit VII also welcomes new suggestions on thematic sessions relevant to machine translation. Suggestions should be sent to the Program Committee at MT-SUMMIT-99-Sessions at mlist.ccm.cl.nec.co.jp . [3] Keynote Speech Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan The president of IAMT (The International Association for Machine Translation) as well as the president of AAMT (The Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation) [4] Featured Speakers Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University, USA Prof. Kay, who has been a leading scientist in computational linguistics and machine translation, will present a technological perspective of MT. Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv, Belgium Dr. Lernout, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the field of speech and language, will present an industrial prospect of MT and related technologies. Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Prof. Nishigaki, who is an interdisciplinary researcher in computer science and sociology, will give an enlightening talk on social implications of MT. Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan Prof. Nagao, President of Kyoto University and the founding Presidents of IAMT (The International Association for Machine Translation) and AAMT, who is a pioneer of MT as well as a wide areas of AI, will give a talk at the Banquet which will take place on September 15th, 1999. [5] Invited Speakers of Special Sessions and Panelists (* means new additions to our distinguished speakers from the 2nd CFP) - Funding Agencies and Governments: Representative of Singapore Government Antonio Sanfilippo, European Commission, Luxembourg Roberto Cencioni, European Commission, Luxembourg (TBC) Lianzhong He, Development and Planning Commission of China, China (TBC) MITI, Japan Ronald Larsen, DARPA, USA Gary Strong, NSF, USA - Users: Michael Anobile, Localisation Industry Standard Association, Switzerland * Alan Barrett, Lotus Development, Ireland * Marjorie Leon, Pan American Health Organization, USA Rose Lockwood, Equipe Consortium Ltd., UK Stanley Park, International Transformational Information Corp., Korea John White, Litton PRC, USA # Additional speakers from MT users will be announced. - Industries: Virginia Cha, Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Dominique Estival, Syrinx Speech Systems, Australia Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories and SONY Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan * Pierre Isabelle, Xerox, France Hiroyuki Kaji, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Uus Knops, LANT nv, Belgium Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan - Research and Development [Asia and Pacific Regions] Thomas Baker, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Hemant Darbari, Center for Developemnt of Advanced Computing, India Aiping Fu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Hwee Boon Low , Kent Ridge Digital Laboratories, Singapore Sung H. Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Se-Young Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea [North/South America] Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Elliott Macklovitch, Universite de Montreal, Canada Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA [Europe] * (TBC) Christian Boitet, Universite' Joseph Fourier, France John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK Margaret King, University of Geneva, Switzerland Gianni Lazzari, Instituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia, Italy Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University, UK - Session Coordinators Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Key-Sun Choi, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Korea Terminology Research Center for Language and Knowledge Engineering, Korea Hirosato Nomura, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand ================================================================= ================================================================== MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII "MT in the Great Translation Era" September 13-17, 1999, Singapore CALL FOR PAPER Supplement-2 ================================================================== This supplement provides informtion on a new thematic session proposed, together with reminder of important information on MT Summit VII. [1] A Thematic Session Proposed: "Integration of Multilingual Human Language Technology into Workflows" Dr. Joerg Schuetz (IAI: The Institute of Applied Information Sciences) invites the submission of papers related to multilingual human language technology and its integration into workflows. Please see the announcement at http://www.iai.uni-sb.de/events/mts99-js.html for further information. If you submit a paper for this session, please note it by referring to the "Thematic Session on Multilingual HLT" in the cover page of your paper. [2] Information on MT Summit VII Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline 14-16 September 1999 Conference at Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore E-mail address for submitting an ASCII version of the cover page of your paper: aamt0001 at infotokyo.ne.jp (NOTE THAT THIS HAS CHANGED SINCE CFP-1) Further information on MT Summit VII: http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99-e.html (NOTE THAT THIS HAS CHANGED SINCE CFP-1) Further information on Thematic Session on Language Resources: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/mts99.html Further information on Thematic Session on Integration of Multilingual HLT into Workflows: http://www.iai.uni-sb.de/events/mts99-js.html MT Summit Secretariat at aamt0002 at infotokyo.ne.jp (NOTE THAT THIS HAS CHANGED SINCE CFP-2) [3] Information on Post Conference Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval Important Dates: 31 May 1999 Deadline of Abstract Submission 17 September 1999 Workshop at Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Further information on the workshop: http://www.villa-bosch.de/eml/englisch/workshops/clir.html [4] Topics of MT Summit MT Summit, as a forum for exchanging ideas and experience of MT users, vendors, researchers, and funding policy makers, solicits papers, not only on - technical/theoretical issues of MT, but also on - users' experiences, - innovative uses of commercial MT systems - evaluation of actual MT systems - proposal of practical uses of MT systems like controlled languages - proposal of new applications/products of multilingual NLP, etc. We also provide a unique opportunity for venders and developers of MT/NLP application systems to show their latest products to wide audiences. If you would like to exhibit, please contact the Exhibition Coordinator Victorine Chen-Toh at vicky at krdl.org.sg . ************************************************ Secretariat of Organizing Committee, MT Summit VII c/o Inter Group Corp. Akasaka Dai-ichi Bldg., 4-9-17, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8486, Japan TEL:+81-3-3479-5311 FAX:+81-3-3423-1601 E-mai: secret-4 at tokyo.intergroup.co.jp ************************************************ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 16 11:14:30 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:14:30 +0100 Subject: Job: 1 Offer Message-ID: From: Camilla Schwind ******************************************** * Poste de ma?tre de conf?rences * * ? l'universit? de la M?diterran?e * ******************************************** Un poste de ma?tre de conf?rences, section 27, est mis au concours ? l'universit? de la M?diterran?e. Voici quelques informations sur ce poste et les personnes ? contacter. 1) Enseignement Le poste est affect? au d?partement d'informatique de la Facult? des Sciences de Luminy. Le candidat retenu devra effectuer son service statutaire dans ce cadre et sera appel? ? intervenir DEUG MIAS, licence et ma?trise d'informatique. Une exp?rience de l'enseignement dans les domaines suivants est souhait?e : * algorithmique et programmation (Pascal, C, C++, Java) ; * r?seaux (th?orie et pratique) * bases de donn?es (Utilisation de Access et Oracle) Contact : Christian Aperghis (christian.aperghis at lim.univ-mrs.fr). 2) Recherche : La (le) ma?tre de conf?rences recrut? devra s'int?grer dans l'?quipe "Repr?sentation et traitement logiques des connaissances" (RTLC) du laboratoire d'informatique de Marseille (LIM). Contact : Camilla Schwind (schwind at lim.univ-mrs.fr) Les recherches effectu?es dans cette ?quipe s'organisent autour de trois th?mes: * "Logique et inf?rences" Contact : Camilla Schwind (schwind at lim.univ-mrs.fr) * "Traitement automatique des langues". Contact : Paul Sabatier: (Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr) * "Bases de donn?es". Contact : Rosine Cicchetti (cicchetti at lim.univ-mrs.fr) Camilla Schwind **** **** **** **** Laboratoire d'informatique **** **** ***** ***** de Marseille LIM-CNRS **** **** ****** ****** Facult? des Siences de Luminy **** **** ******* ******* Universit? de la Mediterran?e **** **** **** **** **** **** 163 Avenue de Luminy Case 901 **** **** **** ****** **** 13288 Marseille, C?dex 9 FRANCE **** **** **** **** **** Tel. +33 4 91 82 91 95 ************* **** **** ** **** Fax +33 4 91 82 92 75 ************* **** **** **** e-mail: schwind at lim.univ-mrs.fr home page: http://www.lim.univ-mrs.fr/~schwind From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 16 11:14:32 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:14:32 +0100 Subject: Projet: CoNLL (EACL Workshop) Message-ID: From: "Osborne M." Dear corpora list reader, This is for people interested in (shallow) parsing and machine learning: The organizers of the EACL workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-99, Bergen, Norway, 12th June 1999) invite you to take part in a shared task: recognising arbitrary noun phrases in free text annotated with part-of-speech tags. Details of the task can be found at: http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll99/npb/ Participants in the shared task will be given the opportunity to present their results in a short talk (10 minutes) at the CoNLL-99 workshop. They can present their intention to make such a presentation by sending a short abstract (maximum 15 lines) to erikt at uia.ua.ac.be on or before the 2nd June 1999. The abstracts and the results will be presented on the CoNLL-99 website (http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll99/) after the workshop. Miles Osborne Erik Tjong Kim Sang From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 16 11:14:35 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:14:35 +0100 Subject: Publications: 2 announcements Message-ID: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Michel AURNAGUE Subject: Cahiers de Grammaire no 23 2/ From: Widad MUSTAFA Subject: Actes des colloques ISKO 1997 et 1998 ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Michel AURNAGUE Subject: Cahiers de Grammaire no 23 LES CAHIERS DE GRAMMAIRE NO 23 The issue 23 of "Les Cahiers de Grammaire" has been just published. CONTENTS -------- Xavier BLANCO & Carmen BONELL Vers une structuration syntactico-semantique de la terminologie medicale : applications a la traduction espagnol-fran?ais Francis CORNISH Les "chaines topicales" : leur role dans la gestion et la structuration du discours Michelle LECOLLE Noms collectifs et meronymie Uwe REYLE A note on enumerations and the semantics of "puis" and "alors" Marie-Noelle ROUBAUD Constructions en "c'est" : les pseudo-clivees Jacques VERGNE Entre arbre de dependance et ordre lineaire, les deux processus de transformation : linearisation, puis reconstruction de l'arbre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are interested in ordering this issue of "Les Cahiers de Grammaire" (or previous issues) you can contact Mme Laurence Lamy (address : ERSS-UMR 5610 du CNRS, Maison de la Recherche, Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 5 allees Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse Cedex, tel : (33) (0)5 61 50 36 02, fax : (33) (0)5 61 50 46 77, email : lamy at cict.fr). The price of each issue includind postage is 90ff. Moreover (bank or post office) cheques as well as other administrative payments (order forms, etc) have to be made out to : C.E.C. 13, rue Pierre de Coubertin 31520 Ramonville St-Agne. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cahiers de Grammaire no 22 (dec.97) : Francois DELL & Mohamed ELMEDLAOUI : La syllabation et les geminees dans la poesie berbere du Maroc (dialecte chleuh); Elsa GOMEZ-IMBERT : Structure prosodique et processus segmentaux en barasana (langue TUKANO orientale d'Amazonie colombienne); Robert HE : Vers une nouvelle vue d'ensemble des aspects en francais; Francoise KERLEROUX : L'apocope et les deverbaux; Pollet SAMVELIAN & Annie MEUNIER : La postposition "ra" en persan. Ses liens avec la determination et sa fonction discursive Cahiers de Grammaire no 21 (dec. 96) : Michel AURNAGUE : "Petit dictionnaire raisonne des Noms de Localisation Interne du Basque"; Denis LE PESANT : "Vocabulaire des predicats de grandeurs et des noms d'unites de mesure"; Chistian MOLINIER : "Constructions en "C'EST": une classification g?n?rale"; Laure SARDA : "Elements pour une typologie des verbes de deplacement transitifs directs du fran?ais"; Daniele VAN DE VELDE : "DES et DU comme clitiques et ce qui s'ensuit"; Co VET : Analyse syntaxique de quelques emplois du subjonctif dans les completives Cahiers de Grammaire no 20 (dec. 95) : Benoit HABERT, Philippe BARBAUD, Fernande DUPUIS & Christian JACQUEMIN : "Simplifier des arbres d'analyse pour degager les comportements syntactico-semantiques des formes d'un corpus"; Anne LE DRAOULEC : "Presupposition et subordination temporelle. Le cas de "avant que""; Francoise LEVRIER : "Les phrases de structure "N0 etre en X" : problemes de nominalisation et variantes aspectuelles"; Michele NOAILLY & Inge BARTNING : "Pourquoi -esque ?"; Thierry POIBEAU & Denis MAUREL : ""A la fin de" preposition ou determinant complexe dans les adverbiaux de temps ?"; Anda-Irina RADULESCU : "Les verbes prolatifs - Une sous-classe des verbes medians"; Claude VANDELOISE : "De la matiere a l'espace : la preposition "dans"" Cahiers de Grammaire no 19 (dec. 1994) : Co VET : "Petite grammaire de l'Aktionsart et de l'aspect"; Danielle LEEMAN : ""Dans" et les noms animes"; Estelle MOLINE : "Elements pour la description syntaxico-semantique des phrases de forme "(ne...pas) (encore) p que (deja) (ne...pas) q""; Pascal AMSILI : "Representation en DRT de quelques proprietes aspectuelles du terme "ne...plus""; Michelle NOAILLY : "Adjectif adverbal et transitivite"; Thierry ETCHEGOYHEN : "Constraints on relative clauses"; Danielle CORBIN & Marc PLENAT : "Reponse a Michel ROCHE : Nouvelle note sur l'haplologie dans les mots construits"; Michel CAMPRUBI : "Compte-rendu de : Francis TOLLIS, "La parole et le sens -Le guillaumisme et l'approche contemporaine du langage"" Cahiers de grammaire no 18 (dec. 1993) : N. ASHER & A. LASCARIDES : "Intentions and information in discourse"; B.N. GRUNIG : "Charges memorielles et predictions syntaxiques"; C. MOLINIER : "Les expressions "sans N" du francais"; M. ROCHE : "Trois notules sur l'haplologie des mots construits"; E. SPANG-HANSSEN : "Geometrie et fonctionnalite dans la description des adjectifs de dimension" ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Widad MUSTAFA Subject: Actes des colloques ISKO 1997 et 1998 Organisation des connaisances en vue de leur int?gration dans les syst?mes de repr?sentation et de recherche d'information, Actes des Premi?res Journ?es du chapitre fran?ais de l'ISKO Jacques Maniez et Widad Mustafa el Hadi (Eds) Edition du Conseil Scientifique de l'Universit? Charles De Gaulle Lille 3 Collection UL3: Travaux & Recherches ---------------------------------------------------- Adressez votre commande ? 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Lille (Giro account to C.C.P.Lille) cpte 20041-01005-0571098D026-50 Nom (Surname) Pr?nom (First Name) Organisme (Company). Adresse (Adress). Date, Signature, -------------------------------------------------------------------- Widad MUSTAFA ELHADI UFR IDIST Universite Charles De Gaulle Lille 3 BP 149 59653 Villeneuve D'Ascq France TEL 33 (0) 3 20 41 64 08 FAX 33 (0) 3 20 41 63 79 e-mail mustafa at univ-lille3.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 19 11:20:21 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:20:21 +0100 Subject: Appel: GLDV'99 Message-ID: From: Bernhard Schroeder GLDV '99 o============================================o | | | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | | | o============================================o "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis" The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GLDV) will take place in July 8-10, 1999. Main topic: "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis". The meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S Papers can be offered for plenary sessions as well as sessions of the Special Interest Groups (Arbeitskreise) of GLDV. Papers that are NOT related to the main topic (e.g. Computational Linguistics, Language Technology, Linguistic Data Processing, etc.). are ALSO welcome! Extended abstracts must be sent in by April 30 via mail to titus at em.uni-frankfurt.de * Size: 2-3 pages (2000 words maximum); * Format: RTF, HTML, ASCII. The program committee will decide about acceptance of the papers on May 28, 1999. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For details go to: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/gldv99e.htm P.O. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 19 11:20:26 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:20:26 +0100 Subject: Appel: TSI (2nd appel) Message-ID: Daniel Kayser, Bernard Levrat ========================================================= Revue Technique et Science Informatiques Deuxieme appel a propositions d'articles sur le theme Traitement automatique des langues naturelles ATTENTION : Report de la date limite de soumission au 31 mai 1999 Coordonnateurs : Daniel Kayser (LIPN, CNRS et Universite de Paris-Nord), Bernard Levrat (LERIA, Universite d'Angers) Comite de lecture : Laurence Danlos (TALANA, Universite Paris 7), Benoit Habert (CNRS, ENS Fontenay St-Cloud), Bernard Normier (ERLI-France), Philippe Blache (CNRS, Universite d'Aix-Marseille), Christian Boitet (CLIPS-IMAG, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble), Jean-Marie Pierrel (LORIA, CNRS, Universite de Nancy 1), Gerard Sabah (LIMSI, CNRS), Jacques Vergne (GREY, CNRS, Universite de Caen). Les travaux et recherches relatifs au traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN) connaissent un fort developpement actuellement, en particulier en raison des grands volumes de textes auxquels les utilisateurs ont desormais acces. C'est le cas dans des domaines tels que la recherche documentaire qui tend a s'enrichir de techniques issues du TALN pour accroitre son efficacite, ou la terminologie, domaine dans lequel l'acquisition et la reconnaissance automatiques de termes permettent, par exemple, la prise en compte et la gestion de lexiques evolutifs dans des domaines specialises. Le developpement de ces travaux explique aussi en partie le regain d'interet que connaissent actuellement des travaux plus theoriques en semantique lexicale ou en modelisation linguistique. Ce numero thematique de TSI vise a donner une image des recherches menees actuellement en TALN dans les pays francophones. Il peut s'agir de la presentation d'applications illustrant les retombees de recherches plus fondamentales ou de la proposition de modeles pour le TALN qui apportent une contribution au developpement d'autres disciplines comme la logique, la linguistique, la psychologie cognitive, la psycholinguistique, ou les sciences cognitives, ou bien contribuent au developpement de l'informatique dans des domaines comme la representation des connaissances, ou bien encore correspondent a l'adaptation de techniques issues de l'informatique pour des problemes specifiquement poses par le TALN. Parmi les themes de cet appel a contribution pour ce numero, citons : l'analyse syntaxique de grande couverture, les etiqueteurs, l'analyse semantique, et d'une facon plus generale la semantique des langues naturelles, la pragmatique, la terminologie, les systemes de dialogue cooperatif, les techniques de resume, les applications industrielles du TALN, etc. Mode d'evaluation : Les articles seront relus par quatre lecteurs : 2 membres du comite de redaction de TSI et deux specialistes du domaine. Les soumissions seront evaluees selon les criteres suivants : originalite de la demarche, qualite de la contribution scientifique, validation des solutions proposees sur des textes reels ou leur mise en perspective pour une telle validation, la lisibilite par des informaticiens non specialistes du TALN, . Les articles, d'une vingtaine de pages au format des articles Hermes (cf. Consignes aux auteurs dans le no 1 de chaque volume de TSI ou sur le web : http://www.editions-hermes.fr), devront parvenir avant le 31 MAI 1999, en six exemplaires, a la Redaction de TSI - 8, quai du Marche-Neuf 75004 Paris. L'annonce d'une intention de soumission sera la bienvenue (email : tsi at lip6.fr). ____________________________________________________________ Pr. Bernard Levrat LERIA, U.F.R. Sciences 2, Bd. Lavoisier 49045 Angers Cedex 01 tel. (33) 2 41 73 54 65 fax. (33) 2 41 73 50 73 e-mail: Bernard.Levrat at univ-angers.fr ____________________________________________________________ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 19 11:20:29 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:20:29 +0100 Subject: Conf: Formal approaches ... Message-ID: From: Dinko Georgiev Dear Colleagues, There is recent information about the 3rd CONFERENCE on FORMAL APPROACHES to SOUTH SLAVIC and BALKAN LANGUAGES, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, September 24 - 26, 1999 Please, visit our conference site: http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3 Best regards, Iliyana Krapova (on behalf of the Organizing Committee) From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 19 11:20:28 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:20:28 +0100 Subject: Conf: AIMDM'99 Message-ID: From: "Steve Rees" ------------------------------------------------ AIMDM'99 TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------- As you might have already heard this years joint meeting of the societies of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME) and the European Society of Medical Decision Meking (ESMDM), entitled AIMDM'99, will take place in Aalborg, Denmark, 20th-24th June 1999. AIMDM'99 icludes a day of tutorials and workshops which have now been finalised. These will take place on Sunday 20th June at Hotel Hvide Hus,Vesterbro 2, 9000-Aalborg. Tutorials will be run in parallel and last for a half a day, with morning tutorials taking place from 9 am to 12:30 pm and afternoon tutorials from 1:30 pm to 5pm. Workshops will also be run in parallel, each workshop lasting the whole day. Registration for a single tutorial costs 400 DKK. Registration for a workshop costs 500 DKK for AIMDM'99 participants or 750 DKK otherwise. Registration for a workshop includes lunch. Please note that tutorials are only open to those registering for the main AIMDM'99 conference. Registration for AIMDM'99 (excluding tutorials and workshops) costs 2550 before May 15th and 3000 DKK after, or for students 1400 DKK before May 15th or 1800 DKK after. Details of the tutorials and workshops are now given, followed by a registration form. Please send your completed form to: AIMDM99 Aalborg Turist og Kongres Bureau A/S ?ster?gade 8, Postbox 1862 DK-9100 Aalborg, Denmark For further details of other activities occurring as part of the AIMDM`99 conference please visit our web site at: http://www.miba.auc.dk/AIMDM99/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION Audience: Researchers and software developers who are interested in improving the quality of documents and other written materials produced by software systems. Description: Many medical IT systems need to produce documents or other types of written texts, such as discharge reports, letters to patients, and explanations of expert-system reasoning. The quality and readability of such texts is not always as high as it could be, unfortunately. This tutorial will discuss some of the linguistic problems that computer-generated texts can suffer from, such as poor rhetorical structure, inappropriate anaphors, false implicatures, and grammatical mistakes. Natural-language generation (NLG) technology is introduced, and it is discussed how it can be used to automatically produce texts which satisfy linguistic constraints and hence do not suffer from these problems. The tutorial will be illustrated with examples from NLG systems developed at Aberdeen and elsewhere. Attendees do not need any background in linguistics or natural-language processing, but they should be familiar with basic AI concepts. I hope that even people who do not intend to use NLG technology will still benefit from the tutorial, by becoming more aware of potential linguistic problems in computer-generated texts and how they can be resolved. Tutorial Presenter Ehud Reiter Dept of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK. Phone +44-1224-273443, Fax +44-1224-273422, email: ereiter at csd.abdn.ac.uk 2) THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDICAL DECISION MAKING This course is intended for clinicians, and others who wish to gain insight into the psychological factors influencing their decision making under uncertainty. The aim of this tutorial is to increase understanding of the psychological processes involved in medical decision making. This knowledge is useful in trying to improve decision making. Additionally it is a fruitful area for research. The course assumes the attendee has only a basic knowledge of the subject matter. The clinician's reasoning is a partial cause of non-optimal medical decisions. The cognitive psychology of judgment and decision making offers explanations of how some of these reasoning errors are made. The course will review the basic nature of expert medical reasoning, to discover possibilities for capitalizing on its strengths and supporting its weaknesses. The participant will learn why the human cognitive system, with its large memory, limited attention span, and powerful pattern recognition ability, seems destined to operate by automatic "scripted" response rather than thoughtful deliberation. We will demonstrate the implications of clinicians' cognitive processes for two basic activities of rational decision making: diagnosis and choosing a course of action. Clinicians' reasoning strategies, motivations, habits, and cognitive limitations can lead them to make errors of diagnosis, and define the methods they can use to seek and use information more rationally. Clinicians' strategies for predicting what will happen can lead to misjudgments of probability, and their methods of evaluating things can lead to misjudgments of treatment consequences. Understanding the psychological processes involved will suggest methods for helping clinicians reason better about the probabilities of outcomes and about their own or their patients' preferences. Tutorial presenters Robert M. Hamm Clinical Decision Making Program, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 900 NE 10th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, U.S.A. Telephone: 405/271-8000 ext 3-2302, Fax: 405/271-2784, e-mail:robert-hamm at ouhsc.edu Clare Harries Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, U.K.Telephone: +44 171 504 5389, Fax: +44 171 436 4276, e-mail: clare.harries at ucl.ac.uk Jack Dowie, PhD Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K. Telephone: +44 171 254 7576, Fax: +44 171 254 7576, e-mail: j.a.dowie at open.ac.uk 3) DATA MINING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS IN MEDICINE With the widespread use of medical information systems that include databases which have recently featured explosive growth in their sizes, physicians and medical researchers are faced with a problem of making use of the stored data. The traditional manual data analysis has become insufficient, and methods for efficient computer-assisted analysis indispensable, in particular those of data mining and other related techniques of knowledge discovery in databases and intelligent data analysis. This tutorial will address current techniques and applications of data mining in medicine. We will provide an overview of data mining methods, including symbolic data mining (mining of decision rules, association rules, decision trees, inductive logic programming, hierarchical concept discovery, etc.) and subsymbolic data mining (instance based learning, neural nets, Naive Bayesian classifier, etc). Specific evaluation techniques and statistical criteria suited for medical applications will be discussed. Selected data preprocessing and data visualization methods will also be presented. The participants of tutorial will get familiar with * fundamental concepts data mining and knowledge discovery in data bases * an overview of data mining methods, * specific data mining methods, including decision trees and rules, association rules, and naive Bayesian classifier * metrics that can be used to assess the quality and interestingness of discovered relationships * how intelligent data analysis is different from common statistical approaches and how it can complement it * what features should be supported by a particular data mining tool to be useful for medical data analysis * how to successfully integrate data mining techniques within existing medical information system Intended audience: This tutorial will be of interest to clinicians, medical researchers, information technology professionals, information systems developers and managers, data analysts and institutional decision makers, and anyone else interested in applying modern data analysis methods to extract useful knowledge from medical data bases. Tutorial presenters Blaz Zupan (1,2) and Nada Lavrac (2) (1) University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences Trzaska 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. phone: +386 61 177 3380, fax: +386 61 125 1038 e-mail: blaz.zupan at fri.uni-lj.si (2) J. Stefan Institute, Department of Intelligent Systems Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. phone: +386 61 177 3272, fax: +386 61 125 1038. e-mail: nada.lavrac at ijs.si 4) HOW TO BUILD A CAUSAL PROBABILISTIC NETWORK A Causal Probabilistic Network, also called Bayesian network is a flexible and efficient framework for reasoning under uncertainty, and it has established itself as a practical method for knowledge representation and inference in a number of medical areas. The framework consists of a structural part, where the domain in question is modelled through a directed acyclic graph, and a quantitative part, where the impact between nodes in the graph are represented as conditional probabilities. This tutorial will through examples give an informal introduction to theory and use of CPNs in connection with decision theory. The participants will obtain hands-on experience with the construction of a small CPN, including the acquisition of structure and conditional probabilities. Tutorial presenters Finn V. Jensen Dept. of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7, DK-9000 Aalborg ?st, Denmark. Phone: +4596358903, email: fvj at cs.auc.dk Steen Andreassen Dept. of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7D, DK-9000 Aalborg ?st, Denmark. Phone: +4596358812, Fax: +4598154008, email: sa at miba.auc.dk 5) FOUNDATIONS OF PREFERENCE THEORY AND QUALITY OF LIFE ADJUSTMENT. The methods of preference assessment and quality of life adjustment are widely applied in the medical decision making and cost-effectiveness literature. Yet, the theory and assumptions that underlie the use of these methods are poorly understood. The objectives of this short course are to provide experienced practioners with a quick and accessible introduction to the underpinnings of utility theory, with an emphasis on the relevance, power, and limitations of these assumptions in health and medical contexts. Topics to be covered will include: the theory of choice and preference; traditional models of individual decision making under uncertainty, including the von-Neumann - Morgenstern expected utility framework; the additional assumptions that support the use of multi-attribute utility functions and quality-adjusted life-years; and the difficulties encountered when the theory is extended beyond the individual to represent choice at the societal level. Tutorial presenter Jospeh S. Pliskin, Ph.D. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and Department of Health Policy and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,Beer-Sheva, Israel. P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel.Tel: 972-7-6472219,Fax: 972-7-6472958 email: jpliskin at bgumail.bgu.ac.il 6) HOW TO READ (AND MAYBE PERFORM) A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (METAANALYSIS) Physicians are committed to manage their patients according to the best available evidence. Systematic reviews are about asking the relevant questions; obtaining the published material (all of it); and extracting the evidence. In the tutorial we will address the following questions: 1. Why do we need systematic reviews? 2. How to put the questions? 3. How to formulate a relevant protocol? 4. How to collect the pertinent studies? 5. How to evaluate the methodological soundness of the studies? Does it matter? 6. How to obtain data from the studies and how to combine it? 7. How to explore heterogeneity and why is it so important? 8. How to check for biases? 9. How to present results? 10. Does metaanalysis work? Tutorial presenters Karla Soares Weiser, Leonard Leibovici Department of Medicine E, Beilinson Hospital, Petah-tiqva 49100, Israel; Tel 972 3 9376501; fax 972 3 9376505; e-mail leibovic at post.tau.ac.il ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMDM99 - Workshops ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) COMPUTERS IN ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE The care of critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and during Anaesthesia is becoming increasingly complex. Clinicians are required to rapidly interpret and respond to a large number of clinical parameters, selecting appropriate treatment for the patient among many different options. New measurement technology has increased the demand for improved information management, as has the need to monitor and assess the quality of care provided. This workshop presents "State of the art" applications of information technology for clinicians, researchers and industry working in Anaesthesia and Intensive care. ? Topics of particular interest include those related to supporting clinical decision making, including ? Decision support systems: clinical guidelines and protocols; model based advisory systems; monitoring and intelligent alarming; and the application of Artificial Intelligence methodology in Anaesthesia and Intensive care. ? Computer systems for control and assessment of quality of care. ? Information management: visualization and interpretation of clinical data; planning and scheduling of critical care resources. In addition Patient Data Management systems will be presented by representatives from industry. Scientific committee: Silvia Miksch (Chair) (A), Steen Andreassen (DK), Michel Dojat (F), Jim Hunter (UK), Christian Popow (A), Steve Rees (DK), Per Thorgaard (DK). 2) PROGNOSTIC MODELS IN MEDICINE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION ANALYTIC APPROACHES. Prognostic models are increasingly used in medicine to predict the natural course of disease, or the expected outcome after treatment. Prognosis forms an integral part of systems for treatment selection and treatment planning. In evaluating quality of care, prognostic models are used for predicting outcome, such as mortality, which is compared with the actual measured outcome. Furthermore, prognostic models may play an important role in guiding diagnostic problem solving, e.g. by only requesting information concerning tests, of which the outcome affects knowledge of the prognosis. In recent years several methods and techniques from the fields of artificial intelligence, decision theory and statistics have been introduced into models of the medical management of patients (diagnosis, treatment, follow-up); in some of these models, assessment of the expected prognosis constitutes an integral part. Typically, recent prognostic methods rely on explicit (patho)physiological models, which may be combined with traditional models of life expectancy. Examples of such domain models are causal disease models, and physiological models of regulatory mechanisms in the human body. Such model-based approaches have the potential to facilitate the development of actual systems, because the medical domain models can be (partially) obtained from the medical literature. Various methods have been suggested for the representations of such domain models ranging from quantitative and probabilistic approaches to symbolic and qualitative ones. Semantic concepts such as time, e.g. for modelling the progressive changes of regulatory mechanisms, have formed an important and challenging modelling issue. Moreover, automatic learning techniques of such models have been proposed. When model construction is hard, less explicit domain models have been studied such as the use of case-based and neural network representations and their combination with more explicit domain models. In medical decision analysis, where the theories of probability and utility are combined, various representations and techniques are suggested such as decision trees, regression models, and representations in which advantage is taken from the Markov assumption (such as in Markov decision problems). This workshop aims at bringing together various theoretical and practical approaches to computational prognosis that comprise the state of the art in this field. This workshop is a follow up on the initiative started with the successful invited session on "Intelligent Prognostic Methods in Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Planning" in 1998 during the conference "Computational Engineering in Systems Applications 1998" (cesa'98) (http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~lucas/ipm-cesa98.html) which has resulted in a special issue on prognosis of the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Scientific committee: Ameen Abu-Hanna (Co-Chair) (H), Peter Lucas (Co-Chair) (H), S. Andreassen (DK), P.M.M. Bossuyt (H), J. Fox (UK), J.D.F. Habbema (H), P. Haddawy (USA), P. Hammond (UK), E. Keravnou (Cyprus), N. Lavrac (Slovenia), J. van der Lei (H), L. Ohno-Machado (USA), M. Ramoni (UK), M. Stefanelli (I), Th.Wetter (D), J.Wyatt (UK) ----------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM ----------------------------------------------------- Kindly complete in capitals and mail to: Aalborg Tourist and Convention Bureau, AIMDM'99, P.O. Box 1862, DK-9100 Aalborg, Denmark. Family name....................................................... Firstname......................................................... Organisation...................................................... Address........................................................... City...............................State.......................... Country.........................Zip Code.......................... Telephone.....................Fax................................. E-Mail............................................................ _________________________________________ Please tick here if you have already registered for AIMDM'99 and wish to extend your registration to include tutorials or a workshop ................. CONFERENCE FEES Fees are in Danish Kroner (DKK). Before May 15th 99 2550 ................. After May 15th 99 3000 ................. Student before May 15th 99 1400 ................. Student after May 15th 99 1800 ................. Please tick selected tutorials or workshop Tutorials 1)NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION ......................................... 2)THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDICAL DECISION MAKING ............................................... 3) DATA MINING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS IN MEDICINE ...................................... 4)HOW TO BUILD A CAUSAL PROBABILISTIC NETWORK ........................................ 5) FOUNDATIONS OF PREFERENCE THEORY AND QUALITY OF LIFE ADJUSTMENT..................... 6) HOW TO READ (AND MAYBE PERFORM) A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (METAANALYSIS) ...................................... Workshops 1) COMPUTERS IN ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE ........................................... 2) PROGNOSTIC MODELS IN MEDICINE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION ANALYTIC APPROACHES........................................... TUTORIAL FEES One Tutorial 400 DKK .............. Two Tutorials 800 DKK .............. WORKSHOP FEES Workshop only 750 ................. Workshop for AIMDM'99 participants 500 ................. SOCIAL EVENTS Conference dinner 300 ................. Midsummer eve 180 ................. Guided Tour of Aalborg 50 ................. Total of registration fees (DKK) ................. ________________________________________________________________ PAYMENT Payment of the registration fees (conference, social events and workshop) should be made in Danish Kroner net of all bank charges and commissions. Please make sure that your name, address and "AIMDM'99" are clearly written on all forms of payment and transfer documents. Payment of registration fees can be made by: Bankers' cheque issued in Danish Kroner and drawn on a Danish bank. (Danish participants may pay by ordinary cheque) Bank or giro transfer to Aalborg Tourist and Convention Bureau's account no: 639.5171 in BG Bank, Girostroeget 1, DK-0800 Hoje Taastrup, Denmark. Bank sorting code: 1199. SWIFT: BIK UD KKK. Credit card. We accept the following cards, please tick _ Eurocard _ JCB _ Visa _ Access _ Mastercard _ Diners _ American Express Card no ...............................Date of expiry................. Card holder........................................................... Signature............................................................. ______________________________________________________________________ ACCOMMODATION Date of arrival |__ _|__ _|__ _|, Departure |__ _|__ _|__ _| Number of Nights __ single _ double _ (please tick) Hotel Hvide Hus _ 625 _ 750 (conference venue) Hotel Chagall _ 600 _ 730 (8 min walk) Hotel Aalborg Soemandshjem _ 415 _ 550 (15 min walk) The deadline for hotel bookings is Friday, May 14th, 1999. After this date accommodation cannot be guaranteed. Payment for accommodation should be made directly to the hotel on departure. No deposit is required but participants will be liable in case of no-show without prior cancellation. ____________________________________ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 21 17:36:56 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:36:56 +0100 Subject: Appel: ICSP'99 Message-ID: From: Jeff ALLEN Please note: summary proposals for papers, posters, tutorials and special sessions for the conference below are due Friday, 30 April 1999. ----- 1999 International Conference on Speech Processing August 18-20, 1999, Seoul, Korea EXTENDED FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ================================== The 1999 International Conference on Speech Processing (ICSP'99) is the sixteenth in a series of annual conferences organized by the Acoustic Society of Korea in cooperation with the IEEE Korea Council. It will be held on Seoul, Korea, August 18-20, 1999. It will include oral presentations and poster sessions on all aspects of the fields of speech processing including natural language processing, evaluation, analysis, synthesis, recognition, communication coding, enhancement, and identification processing. Plenary sessions, invited talks, and tutorials on specific advanced topics will also be included in the program. Oral presentations and poster sessions will be treated equally in terms of review process. Topics for the regular sessions include, but are not limited to: 1. Speech Production Modeling 2. Speech Analysis 3. Speech Coding 4. Speech Recognition 5. Speech Synthesis 6. Speaker Recognition 7. Speech Enhancement 8. Speech Communication Techniques 9. Speech Perception 10. Psychoacoustics 11. Phonetics and Phonology 12. Experimental Phonetics 13. Natural Language Processing 14. Speech Signal Processing Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of a summary, not more than 3 pages, double-spaced and typed on standard A4 paper. The title page should include author(s), name(s), affiliation, mailing address, telephone, FAX, and e-mail. Authors should indicate one or two of the above categories that best describe the topic of the paper as well as their preference (if any) regarding oral or poster sessions. The program committee will make every effort to satisfy these preferences. Proposals for tutorials and special sessions should be submitted to the corresponding chairs by April 30, 1999. Papers should be submitted to: ICSP'99 Technical Program Chair The Acoustical Society of Korea, Room #304 635-4 Yucksam-Dong, Kangnam-Ku, Seoul, 135-703, Korea Tel: +82-2-556-3513, Fax: +82-2-569-9717 E-mail: mjbae at saint.soongsil.ac.kr Home page: http://assp.soongsil.ac.kr/icsp99.html ============================================== E-mail or Home-page submissions are strongly encouraged, postal mail and Fax submissions are accepted. Authors Schedule ----------------- Submission of summary: April 30, 1999 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 1999 Camera-ready papers: June 19, 1999 In addition to the technical program, a great social program will be offered to the participants and their companies. --- Please see the ISCP99 website for details on the organizing and program committees. This information has been deleted in the present message in order to keep this announcement under the maximum allowed for most mailing lists. ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europ?enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 21 17:36:58 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:36:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: Euralex Message-ID: From: Anja Hofmann EURALEX 2000 The ninth EURALEX International Congress will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, from 8 - 12 August, 2000. The Congress organizers are * Vincent Docherty (Langenscheidt Publishers, M?nchen) * Ulrich Heid(Universit?t Stuttgart, Institut f?r maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung) * Egbert Lehmann (Universit?t Stuttgart, Institut f?r Informatik - Intelligente Systeme). * Christian Rohrer (Universit?t Stuttgart, Institut f?r maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung) * Leo Wanner (Universit?t Stuttgart, Institut f?r Informatik - Intelligente Systeme). Contact address Congress Organizers EURALEX 2000 Dr. Ulrich Heid Universit?t Stuttgart Institut f?r maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS-CL Azenbergstrasse 12 D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany Fax: +49 711 121 1366 E-mail: elx2000 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de Web site: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex The information at this location will be kept up to date. The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers, scholars, and all others interested in dictionaries of all types. The programme will include plenary lectures, parallel sessions on the topics listed below, software demonstrations, a presidential debate, pre-congress tutorials and specialized workshops, a book and software exhibition, and social events for participants and their guests. Topics Papers, posters, and demonstrations are invited on all topics of lexicography, including, but not limited to, the following fields which are the main focus of the congress: 1. Computational lexicography and lexicology (N.B.: This is different from, e.g. COLING or ACL, in the sense that EURALEX invites papers on lexicographically relevant computational work, rather than any or all computational linguistic topics relating to the lexicon.) 2. Lexical Combinatorics 3. Historical and Scholarly Lexicography 4. Bilingual Lexicography 5. The Dictionary-Making Process 6. Lexicography for Specialized Languages - Terminology and Terminography 7. Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects 8. Other topics The ninth congress will differ slightly from previous EURALEX congresses in that we particularly welcome papers on certain sub-topics of the above, to fit in with special sessions: * Topic (1-A): Corpus lexicographic tools in industry and research (needs, functions, architectures ...) * Topic (1-B): Creating (sizeable) dictionaries for Natural Language Processing (procedures, information types, use of published dictionaries, projects ...) * Topic (3-A): The creation of historical dictionaries (theoretical and practical problems, workflows, ongoing projects ...) * Topic (4-A): User aspects of bilingual dictionaries (market studies, user behaviour, concepts and information programs for new bilingual dictionaries, bilingual learners' dictionaries) * Topic (5-A): Teaching dictionary making and lexicography (course material, topics/theories and working methodology taught, experience from recent courses in industry and academia...) * Topic (7-A): Internet Lexicography (concepts and design of dictionaries for the internet, quality control for lexicographical products on the internet, advantages and limitations of the new medium with respect to `traditional dictionaries') The main topic indications are not meant to exclude any lexicographic topic: papers relevant to the congress but not fitting any of the categories 1-7 will be reviewed nonetheless and considered for presentation. Individual presentations should be timed for 30 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion period. There are no restrictions on the language of the presentation, but unfortunately it is not possible to offer interpretation. Software Demonstrations: We are particularly interested in well-prepared software demonstrations, presentations of electronic dictionaries, corpora, tools, etc. Those demonstrations accepted will be presented in a 20 minute time slot at the congress (possibly twice). Technical facilities will be available. Submissions Submissions may be of one of the following two types: Contributed Papers and Software Demonstrations. All submissions (of both types) will be reviewed by two or three members of the referees' panel; the programme will be selected by the programme committee. Submissions proposing software demonstrations should include a description of the functions, underlying approach and implementation of the software, possibly an indication of a URL, and hardware/software requirements. Authors should send five hardcopies of a preliminary version of their contribution to the congress organizers before October 15th, 1999. Fax and e-mail submission may be used in addition, but the hardcopy submission in five copies is mandatory. Format: Contributed Papers: 6 to 8 pages, double-spaced; Software Demonstrations: 4 pages, double-spaced; Front page: * Title of the paper or software demonstration; * Name(s), affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s); * Abstract (10-15 lines); * in the top right corner: indication of the topic category (use 1, 1-A, 1-B, etc.; if your paper does not fit in with any of the main categories, please use category 8); Authors whose submissions are accepted will receive a style guide for the preparation of the (electronic) final version of the paper, to be published in the Proceedings immediately before the congress. Contributed Papers will be allowed c. 10 pages: papers relating to Software Demonstrations c. 5 pages, in a separate section. Important Dates * 15 October 1999: Deadline for receipt of preliminary versions of papers by congress organizers * 15 February 2000: Dispatch of notifications of acceptance/rejection * 15 April 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers for inclusion in the Proceedings Programme Committee: Frantisek Cerm?k (CZ), Vincent Docherty (D), Thierry Fontenelle (L), Ulrich Heid (D), and Rosamund Moon (GB). Reviewers will include the above, the members of the EURALEX Executive Board, and additional experts. Pre-EURALEX tutorials: There will be two pre-EURALEX tutorials. Details will be announced later. Exhibitions: A book and software exhibition will be organized in the coffee break area of the congress site. Walk-up-and-use software demonstrations (without presentation, not included in the Proceedings) may be given there. Registration: The registration fee will probably be in the range of 240 - 310 Euros; an early subscription bonus, as well as a reduction for EURALEX members, will be offered. A late fee will apply. Accommodation: Block reservations in hotels of different categories will be made, within walking distance from the congress venue or within 15 minutes tram/bus ride. Student dormitory places or equivalent low-budget accommodation will be provided as well. Details will be announced later. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM FOR EURALEX 2000 To receive the second circular in August 1999, please complete and return this form (or a copy or printout from the EURALEX web site) as soon as possible, and before 18 July 1999, to: Congress Organizers EURALEX 2000 Dr. Ulrich Heid Universit?t Stuttgart Institut f?r maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS-CL Azenbergstrasse 12 D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany Fax: +49 711 121 1366 e-mail: elx2000 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de NAME .............................................................. INSTITUTION ....................................................... ................................................................... DEPARTMENT......................................................... ................................................................... STREET............................................................. ZIP/POSTCODE....................................................... CITY............................................................... COUNTRY ........................................................... FAX ........................................................... TELEPHONE ......................................................... E-MAIL ............................................................ PLEASE TICK ONE OF THE FOLLOWING [ ] I wish to present a paper at the Congress [ ] I wish to present a software demonstration at the Congress [ ] I do not intend to present a paper/demonstration at the Congress ACCOMMODATION PREFERENCES (Price range) [ ] c. 70 - 80 Euros [ ] c. 50 - 70 Euros [ ] Youth hostel [ ] Student dormitory - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 21 17:37:06 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:37:06 +0100 Subject: Appel: Recherche d'Information et Fouille de Textes Message-ID: From: Christian Jacquemin APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS Journ?e Apprentissage Statistique et Symbolique ----------------------------------------------- pour la Recherche d'Information et la Fouille de Textes ------------------------------------------------------- 18 juin 1999, Paris, Ecole Polytechnique Cette journ?e s'adresse aux diff?rentes communaut?s int?ress?es par le traitement d'informations textuelles. Son but est de fournir un forum d'?change et de d?couverte, sur les techniques d'apprentissage num?riques ou symboliques exploit?es pour l'acc?s ? l'information (information retrieval) et la fouille de donn?es textuelles (text-mining). La journ?e sera organis?e en deux temps, une demi-journ?e de synth?se qui retracera les principaux courants en Apprentissage pour la Recherche d'Information et en Fouille de Textes. En particulier, on verra comment ces travaux s'enracinent dans les statistiques textuelles et la lexicom?trie, disciplines d?j? anciennes et bien d?velopp?es en France. On pr?sentera ?galement comment les techniques d'Apprentissage ont retrouv? un regain d'int?r?t ces derni?res ann?es pour le traitement de l'information textuelle avec les mod?les stochastiques de la langue, les r?seaux connexionnistes, les m?thodes de classification automatique, la combinaison de classifieurs, les mod?les probabiliste de recherche d'information et de d?tection automatique de th?mes, la linguistique de corpus, l'acquisition de connaissances, l'apprentissage inductif, l'apprentissage ou l'ajustement automatique de grammaire, etc. La deuxi?me demi-journ?e sera ouverte ? des pr?sentations de travaux proposant de nouvelles perspectives d'int?gration et d'interaction entre Apprentissage et Recherche d'Information ou Fouille de Textes. Les contributions porteront sur l'application de m?thodes fondamentales de l'apprentissage telles que : o mod?les statistiques, o programmation logique inductive, o inf?rence grammaticale, o mod?les de langage, o mod?les connexionnistes,etc. ? des domaines tels que : o classification de documents, o r?sum? automatique, o ?tiquetage syntaxique, s?mantique, o d?tection et suivi de th?mes, o segmentation th?matique, o acquisition de connaissances ? partir de textes, o indexation de documents, o segmentation en phrases, en mots, o extraction d'information, etc. INSTRUCTION AUX AUTEURS / les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des communications en fran?ais ou en anglais, de 5 pages maximum en simple interligne. La premi?re page doit contenir le titre, le nom et l'affiliation des auteurs, un r?sum? de 10 lignes. Le texte doit ?tre ?crit en times 12 ou ?quivalent. Les papiers sont soumis par voie ?lectronique ? l'adresse : Patrick.Gallinari at lip6.fr Attention, tous les papiers doivent ?tre au format pdf ou postcript ou RTF word. INSCRIPTION AUX JOURNEES L'inscription est gratuite, mais imp?rative, elle doit parvenir avant le 2 juin. Pour cela, envoyer un e-mail avec comme sujet inscription, en indiquant vos nom, pr?nom, adresse, e-mail, ? l'adresse indiqu?e ci dessus. Une programme plus complet sera envoy? ult?rieurement. DATES IMPORTANTES 21 mai 1999, date limite de r?ception des papiers 31 mai 1999, notification d'acceptation 18 juin 1999, la journ?e La journ?e est organis?e dans le cadre du GDR I3, elle est accueillie par la plateforme de conf?rences AFIA'99 : http://www.afia.polytechnique/plate-forme/ Le groupe de travail A3CTE (GDR I3 - AFIA) s'associe a cette manifestation Organisateurs : --------------- Patrick Gallinari (LIP6) Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI) Claire Nedellec (LRI) Renseignements : Patrick.Gallinari at lip6.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 21 17:37:21 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:37:21 +0100 Subject: Conf: EACL'99 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen EACL '99 9th Conf. of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Bergen, June 8-12, 1999 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. Programme overview: ----------------------------------------------------------- June 7 Pre-conference excursion to the fjords June 8 Tutorials June 9-11 Main sessions, student sessions, posters&demos Invited speakers Bruce Croft & Wolfgang Wahlster Exhibit & Job Fair Social programme (reception & banquet) June 12 Workshops ----------------------------------------------------------- Please consult the website for the full programme, venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 Welcome to Bergen ! Henry Thompson & Alex Lascarides, Programme Chairs Koenraad de Smedt, Chair of the Local Organization Committee Sponsors: LINGSOFT, University of Bergen (Humanities Faculty), Bergen University Fund, Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and Church affairs ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EACL'99 TUTORIALS PROGRAMME The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. There will be two tutorial sessions on June 8th, 1999, with two tutorials each. TIME TABLE 8:30 Registration 9:30 Start Morning Session (1 and 3 below) 11:00 Break 11:30 Morning Session continued 13:00 Lunch 14.00 Start Afternoon Session (2 and 4 below) 15:30 Break 16.00 Afternoon Session continued 17:30 End of Sessions 1. Practical Text Mining Lecturer: Ronen Feldman 2. Natural Language Learning with the Maximum Entropy Framework Lecturer: Adwait Ratnaparkhi 3. Building Natural Language Generation Systems Lecturers: Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter 4. Lexicography for Computationalists Lecturers: Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell The URL for the tutorials programme (with abstracts and further information) is http://ilk.kub.nl/~walter/eacl/prog.html The URL for the EACL'99 homepage is http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 -- Walter Daelemans From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 21 17:37:24 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:37:24 +0100 Subject: Conf: LFG'99 Message-ID: From: Tracy Holloway King LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR ANNUAL MEETING LFG99 19-21 July, 1999 Manchester University URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Html/LFG/default.html Enquiries: LFG99 at man.ac.uk NOTE: details concerning registration and accomodation will be available shortly. MONDAY JULY 19 9.00-9.45 Peter AUSTIN Argument Coding and Clause Linkage in Australian Aboriginal Languages 9.45-10.30 Farrell ACKERMAN and John MOORE Telic Object as a Proto-Patient Property of Lexical Predicates 10.30-11.15 Anna SIEWIERSKA Reduced Pronominals and Argument Prominence 11.15-11.45 BREAK 11.45-12.30 Yukiko MORIMOTO Information Packaging and Argument Reversal: An Optimality Theoretic Account of English Locative Inversion 12.30-1.15 Lunella MEREU On the Grammatical Realization of Discourse Functions in Somali 1.15-2.45 LUNCH 2.45-4.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 1 Organizer: Victoria ROSEN 4.15-4.45 BREAK 4.45-6.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 2 TUESDAY JULY 20 9.00-9.45 Tara MOHANAN and KP MOHANAN Two Forms of BE in Malayalam 9.45-10.30 Devyani SHARMA Nominal Clitics and Constructive Morphology in Hindi 10.30-11.00 BREAK 11.00-11.45 Jonas KUHN Towards a Simple Architecture for the Structure-function Mapping 11.45-12.30 Josef VAN GENABITH and Andy WAY Semi-Automatic Generation of F-Structures from Treebanks 12.30-2.00 LUNCH 2.00-3.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American Languages - part 1 Organizer: George Aaron Broadwell 3.30-4.00 BREAK 4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American Languages - part 2 5.30-6.30 BUSINESS MEETING WEDNESDAY JULY 21 9.00-9.45 Kersti BORJARS, Erika CHISARIK, and John PAYNE On the Justification for Functional Categories in LFG 9.45-10.30 Christoph SCHWARZE Inflectional Classes in Lexical Functional Morphology -- Latin -sk- and its Evolution 10.30-11.00 BREAK 11.00-11.45 Kenji YOKOTA Light Verb Constructions in Japanese and Functional Uncertainty 11.45-12.30 Nikolas GISBORNE English Light Verbs and the (Non)necessity of Argument Structure 12.30-2.00 LUNCH 2.00-2.45 Judith BERMAN Does German Satisfy the Subject Condition? 2.45-3.30 Hanjung LEE The Domain of Grammatical Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar 3.30-4.00 BREAK 4.00-4.45 John FRY Resource-logical Event Semantics for LFG 4.45-5.30 Anette FRANK Towards Optimal Linking 5.30-6.00 CLOSING REMARKS ALTERNATES Tibor LACZKO The Anatomy of a Jolly-JokER -- A Comprehensive Analysis of a Multi-Functional Deverbal Morpheme in Hungarian Louisa SADLER Non-Distributive Features and Coordination in Welsh From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 22 13:11:24 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:11:24 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLULP'99 Message-ID: From: Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr (Paul Sabatier) Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming (NLULP'99) December 3-4, 1999 Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA NLULP'99 is co-located with the Sixteenth International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'99) NLULP'99 CALL FOR PAPERS ************************** WORKSHOP CHAIRS Sandiway Fong & Paul Sabatier PROGRAM COMMITTEE Harvey Abramson (STMS, Portland) Sandiway Fong (NEC Research Institute, Princeton) Claire Gardent (Univ. des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken) Jose Gabriel Lopes (New University of Lisbon) Gerald Penn (Univ. of Tuebingen) Monique Rolbert (LIM, Marseille) Paul Sabatier (LIM, CNRS, Marseille) Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse) Shuly Wintner (IRCS, Univ. of Pennsylvania) TOPICS OF INTEREST Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Logic Programming pertaining to Computational Linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following: - syntax - parsing - semantics - generation - phonetics - language understanding - phonology - speech analysis/synthesis - morphology - computational lexicons - discourse - electronic dictionaries - pragmatics - terminology - formalisms - text database and retrieval - quantitative/qualitative linguistics - machine translation - mathematical linguistics - machine aids for translation - contrastive linguistics - natural language interface - cognitive linguistics - dialogue systems - large text corpora - computer assisted language learning - text processing - multimedia systems - hardware/software for NLP REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Papers should be written in English, and describe original work. They should emphasize completed work rather than proposed work. The state of completion of reported results should be clearly indicated. SUBMISSION FORMAT Submissions should be no longer than 15 pages (A4 format, 11pt), including abstract, keywords and references. All contributions are to be made electronically as uncompressed mime-encoded PostScript attachments. Please send your submission to both of the co-chairs: Sandiway Fong : sandiway at research.nj.nec.com Paul Sabatier : Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr PROCEEDINGS On-Line Proceedings of NLULP'99 will be available on the Web from November 15, 1999. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: June 30, 1999 Acceptance notification: September 13, 1999 Final version of papers: October 11, 1999 On-Line Proceedings: November 15, 1999 Workshop dates: December 3-4, 1999 LINKS NLULP'99 http://www.lim.univ-mrs.fr/NLULP99 ICLP'99 http://www.CS.NMSU.Edu/~complog/conferences/iclp99 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Apr 22 14:32:56 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:32:56 +0100 Subject: Appel: IWPT'99 Message-ID: From: Harry Bunt [Apologies for multiple copies] C a l l f o r P a p e r s IWPT'99 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 20-22 December, 1999 Trento, Italy ~~~~ The ITC-IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research) in Trento, in the North of Italy, will host the 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'99) from 20 to 22 December, 1999. IWPT'99 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; and Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997. More information will soon be available on the IWPT'99 home page: at ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Yannick Lallement Subject: Novator Systems 2/ From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Job at ITRI: Closing date next week 3/ From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: JOB: poste disponible a ELDA / position available at ELDA ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Yannick Lallement Subject: Novator Systems Novator Systems (http://www.novator.com) is looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding. Novator is a web company based in Toronto, that specializes in electronic retail. One of the areas in which we have developed software is in automatically responding to customer inquiries over the web, using artificial intelligence techniques. We are currently beta-testing version 1 of our software on one of our customer's sites (http://www.ftd.com) - we can automatically respond to about 55% of the comments we receive with about 2.3% false positives. Our next phase of R&D requires strong Natural Language Understanding skills. We are looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding for this next phase. Please send applications to intelliserve at novator.com. ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Adam Kilgarriff Subject: Job at ITRI NB Closing date **next Fri** 30 April ===================================== Apologies for duplicates ******************************************* JOB ADVERTISEMENT Research Fellow (Computational Linguistics) ITRI University of Brighton UK ******************************************* This post offers an opportunity to undertake leading-edge research in word sense disambiguation and computational lexicography at ITRI, an internationally recognised centre of excellence in computational linguistics. Working primarily on WASPS, a project to develop a lexicographer's workstation, you will need an open-minded, analytical and collaborative approach to research, extensive knowledge of natural language processing, good programming skills and a proven research and publication record. In return we offer excellent research facilities and place great emphasis on research career management and development. The post is fixed-term for 3 years. WASPS is an EPSRC funded project, under the direction of Dr. Roger Evans, Dr. Adam Kilgarriff and Sue Atkins. It will explore the synergy between the lexicographer's task of identifying and describing word senses, and the computational task of word sense disambiguation (WSD). On the one side, lexicographers are asking for natural language processing (NLP) software to pre-process and organise corpus data. On the other, NLP needs formal, explicit descriptions of word behaviour, particularly for WSD. The challenge now is to design an environment in which the human lexicographer's perception and the power of the WSD algorithms are successfully brought together. The research fellow will have primary responsibility for producing a semi-automatic lexicographer's workstation, as specified in the WASPS grant proposal. This will include developing and implementing a language which can be used both by humans for specifying and editing word sense descriptions, and by a WSD algorithm for disambiguation. It will also include implementing one or more state-of-the-art WSD algorithms. Salary: up to GBP 24,002 Term: 3 years fixed term Further details, including application form in Word http://www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/ Postscript version of application form http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/posts/appform.ps ITRI web pages: http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk Queries: Adam.Kilgarriff at itri.bton.ac.uk Ref number: IR4012 Closing date: 30th April 1999 ______________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: JOB: poste disponible a ELDA / position available at ELDA ELDA vient d'annoncer la disponibilite d'un poste d'Ingenieur d'etudes. L'annonce se trouve sur notre site Web : http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/job.html Responsable: Khalid Choukri (choukri at elda.fr). ELDA has just announced an open position for a Research/Technical Engineer. Details can be found at : http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/fr/job.html Contact person: Khalid Choukri (choukri at elda.fr). ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europ?enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 26 13:02:57 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:02:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: ICoS-1 Message-ID: From: mdr at wins.uva.nl (Maarten de Rijke) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS First workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-1 Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Amsterdam, August 15, 1999 (Submission deadline: June 1, 1999) ABOUT ICoS Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. In addition, a wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics for natural language. Indeed, computational semantics has reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks --- and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously. The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1) intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in order to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural language semantics. SUBMISSIONS We invite two kinds of submissions: research papers on inference methods in computational semantics as well as their applications; and system descriptions. Research papers can be up to 10 A4 size pages (formatted using the standard LaTeX2e options 11pt and a4paper), and system descriptions can be up to 4 A4 size pages (again, formatted using 11pt, a4paper as options). System descriptions should focus on actual implementations, explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. Every system description should be accompanied by a system demo at ICoS-1. The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript format. Submissions should be sent to icos1 at wins.uva.nl. DATES * Submission deadline: June 1, 1999 * Notification date: July 1, 1999 * Final versions due: July 21, 1999 * Workshop: August 15, 1999 PROGRAM The following people will give invited presentations: * Johan Bos (Saarbruecken) Automated Reasoning for Natural Language Semantics * Steve Pulman (SRI) Title to be announced * Matthew Stone (Rutgers) Towards a computational account of knowledge, action and instructions The program committee for ICoS-1 consists of the following people: James Allen Michael Kohlhase Patrick Blackburn Alex Lascarides Denys Duchier Christof Monz Jan van Eijck Reinhard Muskens Claire Gardent Maarten de Rijke Jacques Jayez Henk Zeevat LOCATION ICoS-1 will be held at the University of Amsterdam during the 11th European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99), which will be held in Utrecht, approximately 30 km from Amsterdam. FURTHER INFORMATION Detailed information about the program, and about registration and accommodation will be made available at a later stage. For further information, please contact the local organizers at icos1 at wins.uva.nl or visit the ICoS-1 home page: http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 26 13:03:00 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:03:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics Message-ID: From: rapp at usun1.fask.uni-mainz.de (Reinhard Rapp) Please circulate! We apologize for any cross-postings. ____________________________________________ | | | 34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS | | | | 34. LINGUISTISCHES KOLLOQUIUM | | | | 34e COLLOQUE LINGUISTIQUE | | | | September 7-10, 1999 | | | | University of Mainz, Germany | |____________________________________________| | | | SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS | |____________________________________________| ____________________________________________ | | | NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW | | | | Additional Tutorial - Sydney M. Lamb: | | "The Neurocognitive Basis of Language" | | | | Travel Support for Scientists from | | Eastern Europe | |____________________________________________| We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitaet Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim, from September 7 to September 10, 1999. The motto of this year's conference will be "Linguistics on the Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the tradition of the colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the choice of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and French. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes which includes 10 minutes of discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 1999. A volume of abstracts will be available at the conference. The proceedings with the full papers will be published after the conference with Peter Lang-Verlag. In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will be supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises three hours and is intended to give a concise introduction to a specific field for audiences with a different focus of research. We are particularly happy to offer you a bus excursion to the old city of Heidelberg with a guided tour through the castle on Thursday, September 9. On the way, we will stop in Speyer, whose Cathedral (Kaiserdom) is part of the UNESCO's world cultural heritage. Please do not hesitate to bring this announcement to the attention of interested colleagues. More information can be found on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ Prof. Dr. Dieter Huber Dr. Reinhard Rapp IMPORTANT DATES May 31, 1999 - Submission of abstracts (confirmation within two weeks) - Conference registration (reduced rate) - Registration for tutorials & excursion - Hotel reservation Nov. 30, 1999 - Submission of full papers for the proceedings PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ----------------------------------------------------------- | Morning | Afternoon | Evening ---------------+-------------+--------------+-------------- Tue, Sept. 7 | Tutorials | Tutorials | Germersheim | | | Guided Tour ---------------+-------------+--------------+-------------- Wed, Sept. 8 | Opening & | Papers | Reception | Papers | | (Town Hall) ---------------+-------------+----------------------------- Thu, Sept. 9 | Papers | Excursion to Heidelberg | | and Speyer ---------------+------------------------------------------- Fri, Sept. 10 | Papers & | (Departure) | Conference End | ----------------------------------------------------------- The presentations will be organized in parallel sections. TUTORIALS ----------------------------------------------------------- Time | Tutorial | Language -------------+--------------------------------+------------ 9.00-12.30 | Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural | English | Language Parsing, Part 1 | | | 9.00-12.30 | Christian Otto: Sprachtech- | German | nologie fuer das Internet | -------------+--------------------------------+------------ 14.00-17.30 | Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural | English | Language Parsing, Part 2 | | | 14.00-17.30 | Prof. Uta Seewald-Heeg: | German | Maschinelle Uebersetzung | | | 14.00-17.30 | Prof. Sydney M. Lamb: The Neu- | English | rocognitive Basis of Language | ----------------------------------------------------------- The Tutorials take place during the first full day of the confe- rence (Sept. 7, 1999). Therefore, the official opening is on the second day. For each tutorial, a description can be found at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ CONFERENCE SITE The Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FASK) of the University of Mainz is located in Germersheim in the south- west of Germany on the Rhine between the cities of Mannheim and Karlsruhe. It can easily be reached by car, train, and airplane. With its 2500 students, more than 1000 of whom coming from 70 different foreign countries, the faculty is known as one of the world's largest institutions dedicated to the training and edu- cation of translators and interpreters. Within walking distance from the faculty, six hotels and the student's residence are available with single rooms priced between 30 and 90 DM per night. Meals are provided by the university canteen, the cafe- teria, and by a number of restaurants (with lunch specials). The main attractions in and around Germersheim are its fortress, the German Wine Road, the Palatinate Forest with Hambach Castle, Speyer, Heidelberg, the Castle Park in Schwetzingen and the Old Abbey in Maulbronn. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dr. Susanne Beckmann, University of Muenster Dr. Abraham P. ten Cate, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Dr. Tadeusz Danilewicz, Gdansk University Prof. Dr. K. Dorfmueller-Karpusa, Univ. of Thessaloniki Dieter W. Halwachs, University of Graz Prof. Dr. Mikhail Kotin, State University Moscow Prof. Dr. Wim Klooster, University of Amsterdam Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kuerschner, University of Osnabrueck Dr. Reinhard Rapp, University of Mainz (Conference Chair) Prof. Dr. Hans Otto Spillmann, University of Kassel Prof. Dr. Kazimierz A. Sroka, Gdansk University Dr. Juerg Straessler, University of Bern Prof. Dr. Zygmunt Vetulani, University of Poznan Dr. Ingo Warnke, University of Kassel Prof. Dr. Richard J. Watts, University of Bern Prof. Dr. Heinrich Weber, University of Tuebingen Prof. Dr. Lew Zybatow, University of Bielefeld CONFERENCE FEE The conference fee is 100 DM for early registration (120 DM after May 31, 1999). This sum includes the registration fee and will, among other things, cover pre-conference materials, tea and coffee, the guided tour through Germersheim on Tuesday and the reception on Wednesday. It will not, however, cover meals, accomodation, proceedings, the excursion to Heidelberg (30 DM), and the tutorials (20 DM per tutorial, written documentation included). Accepted currencies are DM and Euro (exchange rate: 1 Euro = 2 DM). REGISTRATION Please find registration information on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ TRAVEL SUPPORT For a limited number of scientists from Eastern Europe - subject to confirmation from our sponsors - there will be partial travel support available. Several conditions and restrictions apply. The deadline for applications is May 31, 1999. Please send requests to the address given below. CONFERENCE ADDRESS Please send all correspondence to the following address: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ c/o Dr. Reinhard Rapp rapp at usun2.fask.uni-mainz.de Universitaet Mainz, FASK Phone: (+49) 7274 / 508-457 D-76711 Germersheim Fax: (+49) 7274 / 508-429 Germany From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Apr 26 13:03:21 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:03:21 +0100 Subject: Livre: Natural Language Information Retrieval Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 7 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis Natural Language Information Retrieval edited by Tomek Strzalkowski The last decade has been one of dramatic progress in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This hitherto largely academic discipline has found itself at the center of an information revolution ushered in by the Internet age, as demand for human-computer communication and information access has exploded. Emerging applications in computer-assisted information production and dissemination, automated understanding of news, understanding of spoken language, and processing of foreign languages have given impetus to research that has resulted in a new generation of robust tools, systems, and commercial products. This volume focuses on the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Information Retrieval, the technology that grew out of library research to become our best hope in dealing with today's information overload. The book gives a broad overview of the work being done at the junction of these two important fields, and suggests directions for future explorations. It is organized into two loosely structured parts. The first part, consisting of Chapters 1 through 7, discusses research systems and evaluations that represent major avenues where the impact of NLP technologies in information retrieval is being explored. The second part (Chapters 8 through 14) describes specific implementations and prototypes of information systems where NLP techniques are used or proposed to assist in accurate retrieval, text categorization, question answering, and in organizing the results for the user. Audience: This book will be a valuable reference to researchers and practitioners in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Computational Linguistics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3 April 1999, 384 pp. NLG 240.00 / USD 144.00 / GBP 84.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents and Contributors Preface. Contributing Authors. 1. What is the Role of NLP in Text Retrieval? K.S. Jones. 2. NLP for Term Variant Extraction: Synergy Between Morphology, Lexicon, and Syntax; C. Jacquemin, E. Tzoukermann. 3. Combining Corpus Linguistics and Human Memory Models for Automatic Term Association; G. Ruge. 4. Using NLP or NLP Resources for Information Retrieval Tasks; A.F. Smeaton. 5. Evaluating Natural Language Processing Techniques in Information Retrieval; T. Strzalkowski, et al. 6. Stylistic Experiments in Information Retrieval; J. Karlgren. 7. Extraction-Based Text Categorization: Generating Domain-Specific Role Relationships Automatically; E. Riloff, J. Lorenzen. 8. Lasie Jumps the Gat; Y. Wilks, R. Gaizauskas. 9. Phrasal Terms in Real-World IR Applications; J. Zhou. 10. Name Recognition and Retrieval Performance; P. Thompson, C. Dozier. 11. Collage: An NLP Toolset to Support Boolean Retrieval; J. Cowie. 12. Document Classification and Routing; L. Guthrie, et al. 13. Murax: Finding and Organizing Answers from Text Search; J. Kupiec. 14. The Use of Categories and Clusters for Organizing Retrieval Results; M. Hearst. Index. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 28 17:17:32 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:32 +0100 Subject: Appel: JADT-2000 Message-ID: From: JADT 2000 =========================================================================== JADT 2000 WEB SITE : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000 ENGLISH VERSION BELOW (look for "ENGLISH VERSION HERE") =========================================================================== J A D T 2 0 0 0 5e Journ?es Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Donn?es Textuelles 9-11 Mars 2000 ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne Lausanne, Suisse --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apr?s Barcelone (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), et Nice (1998), les 5e Journ?es Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Donn?es Textuelles auront lieu ? Lausanne (Suisse) du 9 au 11 mars 2000. Cette manifestation, qui gagne en importance ? chaque ?dition, est ouverte aux chercheurs du vaste domaine d'?tudes qui, centr? sur la statistique textuelle, s'?tend de la lexicographie ? l'analyse du discours politique, de la recherche documentaire ? la recherche en marketing, de la linguistique computationnelle ? la sociolinguistique, du traitement informatique des donn?es ? l'analyse de contenu. Apr?s le succ?s des pr?c?dentes occurrences, JADT 2000 fournira de nouveau un forum de discussion convivial comprenant ? la fois des pr?sentations techniques, des conf?rences invit?es et des tables rondes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 10 Septembre 1999 Notification aux auteurs : 15 Octobre 1999 Version finale : 10 D?cembre 1999 Conf?rence : 9-11 Mars 2000 --------------------------------------------------------------------- TH?MES Les th?mes de la conf?rence concernent l'utilisation des outils et mod?les de la statistique aux domaines suivants : * Analyse exploratoire de donn?es textuelles * Analyse du discours * Traitement automatique du langage * Analyse statistique de r?ponses ? des questions ouvertes * Analyse bibliom?trique et statistique textuelle * Stylom?trie * Dictionnaires de fr?quences * Lemmatisation * Corpus de textes et repr?sentations textuelles * Classification de textes * Recherche documentaire * Hypertexte * Logiciels pour l'analyse lexicale et textuelle --------------------------------------------------------------------- LANGUES AUTORIS?ES POUR LES PR?SENTATIONS Les pr?sentations pourront se faire dans l'une des langues suivantes : Fran?ais, Anglais, Allemand, Italien, Espagnol Toutes les communications devront cependant comporter un r?sum? (?crit et oral) en anglais. Comme lors des colloques pr?c?dent, aucune traduction simultan?e n'est pr?vue. --------------------------------------------------------------------- MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION Les articles soumis ? cette conf?rence devront d?crire un travail original et novateur ayant fait l'objet d'une ?valuation. Toutes les contributions devront contenir un ?tat de l'art et/ou des r?f?rences ? des travaux ant?rieurs pertinents. Si le travail pr?sent? n'a pas fait l'objet d'une ?valuation, les auteurs devront le justifier. Les auteurs sont convi?s ? inclure dans leurs papiers des propositions, discussions, argumentations sur l'ad?quation de leur travail avec les th?mes de la conf?rence. Les participants souhaitant soumettre un papier ou un poster doivent envoyer au comit? (adresse ci-dessous) avant le 10 Septembre 1999, les ?l?ments suivants : * Noms, affiliations et adresses compl?tes (+fax, email) des auteurs * Titre * Mots cl?s * Un r?sum? en anglais (300 mots maximum) * Version abr?g?e (3 pages minimum, 4 pages maximum) de la contribution pr?sentant les grandes lignes du travail, les probl?mes trait?s et les r?sultats obtenus * R?f?rences bibliographiques Les notifications d'acceptation seront envoy?es aux auteurs le 15 Octobre 1999. La version finale de la contribution (8 pages max.) devra ?tre r?dig?e selon les r?gles de formatage qui seront pr?cis?es ult?rieurement et devra parvenir au comit? (adresse ci-dessous) au plus tard le 10 D?cembre 1999. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PR?SENTATIONS ORALES La dur?e de chacune des pr?sentations orales ne devra pas d?passer 20 minutes. Il sera possible d'utiliser une tablette de r?troprojection pour pr?senter les bases de donn?es et les logiciels "en direct". Une connexion Internet pourra ?tre fournie aux orateurs qui le d?sirent. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ACTES La totalit? des contributions sera rassembl?e et ?dit?e sous la forme d'actes qui seront distribu?s ? tous les participants au d?but de la conf?rence. --------------------------------------------------------------------- COMIT? DE PROGRAMME Monica B?cue Univ. Polytechnic of Catalunya Sergio Bolasco Univ. de Rome 'La Sapienza' ?tienne Brunet Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis Annibale Elia Univ. de Salerno Dominique Labb? Univ. de Grenoble Ludovic Lebart CNRS, ENST Paris Alain Lelu Univ. Paris 8 Sylvie Mellet CNRS, Nice Charles Muller Univ. de Strasbourg Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Max Reinert CNRS Toulouse Jacques Rouault CRISS Grenoble Andr? Salem Univ. Paris 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- COMIT? D'ORGANISATION Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Jean-C?dric Chappelier EPF Lausanne --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT / ADRESSE JADT 2000 Martin Rajman EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse T?l : +41 21 693 27 35 Fax : +41 21 693 52 25 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch Web : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000 =========================================================================== BULLETIN DE PR?-INSCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bulletin de pr?-inscription ? envoyer ? JADT 2000 Martin RAJMAN EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse avant le 10 septembre 1999. L'inscription d?finitive aura lieu ? r?ception du payement (dont les modalit?s seront pr?cis?es ult?rieurement) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOM : PRENOM : INSTITUTION : ADRESSE : TELEPHONE : FAX : EMAIL : PARTICIPATION / SOUMISSION : [ ] PRESENTATION ORALE [ ] POSTER [ ] PAS DE PRESENTATION DEMONSTRATION : [ ] OUI [ ] NON LANGUE POUR LA PRESENTATION : [ ] FRANCAIS [ ] ANGLAIS [ ] ALLEMAND [ ] ITALIEN [ ] ESPAGNOL INSCRIPTION : [ ] ETUDIANT [ ] REDUIT [ ] NORMAL Tarif Etudiant : 150 CHF (env. 93 Euros), Fournir une pi?ce justificative Tarif R?duit : 300 CHF (env. 186 Euros), Inscription AVANT LE 10 DECEMBRE Tarif Normal : 375 CHF (env. 233 Euros), Inscription APRES le 10 decembre MODE DE PAYEMENT ENVISAGE : [ ] VIREMENT BANCAIRE [ ] CARTE VISA [ ] CARTE EUROCARD =========================================================================== ENGLISH VERSION HERE =========================================================================== J A D T 2 0 0 0 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 9-11, 2000 ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland --------------------------------------------------------------------- Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), and Nice (1998), the 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data will be held in Lausanne, on March 9-11, 2000. This biennial conference, which has constantly been gaining in importance since its first occurrence, is open to all scholars 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. After the success of the previous meetings, the three-day conference in Switzerland will continue to provide a workshop-style forum through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: September 10th, 1999 Notification: October 15th, 1999 Camera ready papers: December 10th, 1999 Conference: March 9-11, 2000 --------------------------------------------------------------------- THEMES OF INTEREST The themes of interest of the conference concern the application of statistical models and tools in the following domains: * Exploratory Textual Data Analysis * Discourse Analysis * Computational Linguistics * Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions * Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis * Stylometry * Frequency Dictionaries * Lemmatization * Text Corpora and Text Encoding * Textual Classification * Information Retrieval * Hypertext * Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis --------------------------------------------------------------------- LANGUAGES FOR THE PRESENTATIONS Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract. As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage the authors to include in their papers proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme of the conference. Participants wishing to submit a paper or present a poster should send to the program committee (address below) a short version for review by September 10th, 1999, giving the following information: * Name of author; * Affiliation; * Full postal address with fax and/or e-mail * Title of the proposed paper with keywords; * An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) * A short version (3 pages min./4 pages max.) of the paper emphasizing the purpose of the paper, the problem addressed and the results obtained; * Bibliographical references. Notification of acceptance will be send to the authors by October 15, 1999. Final camera-ready papers should conform to the format that will be provided to the authors and reach the committee (address below) no later than December 10, 1999. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESENTATIONS Paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes each. An overhead projector will be available for the display of data-bases and/or software directly from the computer screen. Connection to Internet will be supplied for speakers on request. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS All accepted the papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the participants at the start of the conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Monica B?cue Univ. Polytechnic of Catalunya Sergio Bolasco Univ. de Rome 'La Sapienza' ?tienne Brunet Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis Annibale Elia Univ. de Salerno Dominique Labb? Univ. de Grenoble Ludovic Lebart CNRS, ENST Paris Alain Lelu Univ. Paris 8 Sylvie Mellet CNRS, Nice Charles Muller Univ. de Strasbourg Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Max Reinert CNRS Toulouse Jacques Rouault CRISS Grenoble Andr? Salem Univ. Paris 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Jean-C?dric Chappelier EPF Lausanne --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT / ADDRESS JADT 2000 Martin Rajman EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse T?l : +41 21 693 27 35 Fax : +41 21 693 52 25 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch Web : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000 =========================================================================== PRE REGISTRATION FORM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This pre-registration form should be returned to JADT 2000 Martin RAJMAN EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse before September 10th, 1999. Registration will be effective on receipt of payment (Details for payment will be provided later on). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SURNAME : FIRST NAME : AFFILIATION : ADDRESS : PHONE : FAX : EMAIL : PARTICIPATION / SUBMISSION : [ ] PAPER [ ] POSTER [ ] NO PRESENTATION DEMONSTRATION : [ ] YES [ ] NO LANGUAGE FOR PRESENTATION : [ ] ENGLISH [ ] FRENCH [ ] GERMAN [ ] ITALIAN [ ] SPANISH REGISTRATION : [ ] STUDENT [ ] EARLY [ ] NORMAL Student : 150 CHF (approx. 93 Euros), copy of the student card Early : 300 CHF (approx. 186 Euros), BEFORE DECEMBER 10TH Normal : 375 CHF (approx. 233 Euros), after December 10th PAYMENT: [ ] BANK TRANSFER [ ] VISA [ ] EUROCARD =========================================================================== =========================================================================== From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 28 17:17:34 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:34 +0100 Subject: Appel: GLDV'99 Message-ID: From: Bernhard Schroeder o============================================o | | | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | | | o============================================o "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis" The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GLDV) will take place in July 8-10, 1999. Main topic: "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis". The meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S Papers can be offered for plenary sessions as well as sessions of the Special Interest Groups (Arbeitskreise) of GLDV. Papers that are NOT related to the main topic (e.g. Computational Linguistics, Language Technology, Linguistic Data Processing, etc.). are ALSO welcome! Extended abstracts must be sent in by April 30 via mail to titus at em.uni-frankfurt.de * Size: 2-3 pages (2000 words maximum); * Format: RTF, HTML, ASCII. The program committee will decide about acceptance of the papers on May 28, 1999. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For details go to: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/gldv99e.htm P.O. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 28 17:17:24 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:24 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers Message-ID: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Douglas Kendall (Volt Computer)" Subject: Job opportunities for Linguists 2/ From: Yannick Lallement Subject: Natural Language Understanding ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Douglas Kendall (Volt Computer)" Subject: Job opportunities for Linguists To Whom It May Concern, I have quite a few opportunities available at Redmond Washington's largest Software manufacture, for Linguist Majors in French, German, English, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese. If there are any graduates or graduating students who are interested in an opportunity at Microsoft, please have them contact me by phone or email. We are looking for Linguistic specialists. Thank you very much for your assistance and if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me anytime. Thank you Doug Kendall Volt Services Group v-dougke at microsoft.com (425) 702-9000 1(800)253-9605 ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Yannick Lallement Subject: Natural Language Understanding Novator Systems (http://www.novator.com) is looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding. Novator is a web company based in Toronto, that specializes in electronic retail. One of the areas in which we have developed software is in automatically responding to customer inquiries over the web, using artificial intelligence techniques. We are currently beta-testing version 1 of our software on one of our customer's sites (http://www.ftd.com) - we can automatically respond to about 55% of the comments we receive with about 2.3% false positives. Our next phase of R&D requires strong Natural Language Understanding skills. We are looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding for this next phase. Please send applications to intelliserve at novator.com. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 28 17:17:37 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:37 +0100 Subject: Conf: ACL'99 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen ACL '99 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA June 20-26, 1999 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99 The ACL '99 conference this year will offer a larger and more diversified program than ever before. Below is a Program Overview. Detailed information and the entire registration brochure may be found at the website above. The registration brochure has also been sent to all ACL members in hardcopy on 19th April, 1999. If you would like an emailed version of the VERY LONG brochure, please contact Priscilla Rasmussen at acl at aclweb.org. We also plan to have the online registration working (hopefully) by the end of April. ----------------------------------------------------------- 19 June Registration and Tutorial Reception 20 June Tutorials--3 morning and 3 afternoon 21-22 June Workshops--4 1-day and 2 2-day workshops 23-26 June Technical, Thematic, and Student Sessions (23rd and 26th Technical, 24th and 25th Thematic and Student sessions); Invited Speakers: Marti Hearst, Sadaoki Furui, and George Miller. ACL Business Meeting and Student Member Lunch Meeting. Social program (Opening Reception, 22nd June, and Banquet, 23rd June) ----------------------------------------------------------- Please consult the website for the full program, venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation: We hope to see you there! Robert Dale and Kenneth Church, Program Chairs Bonnie Dorr, Local Arrangements Chair From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Apr 28 17:17:40 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:40 +0100 Subject: Revue: Computer and the Humanities Message-ID: From: "Nancy M. Ide" *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Nancy Ide and Dan Greenstein, Editors-in-Chief Volume 33 Nos. 1-2 1999 ***************************************************** * * * SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE * * * * TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE * * * ***************************************************** Table of Contents ----------------- ELLI MYLONAS, ALLEN RENEAR The Text Encoding Initiative at 10: Not Just an Interchange Format Anymore, But a New Research Community pp. 1-9 STEVEN DEROSE XML and the TEI pp. 11-30 LAURENT ROMARY, PATRICE BONHOMME, FLORENCE BRUNESEAUX, JEAN-MARIE PIERREL Silfide: A System for Open Access and Distributed Delivery of TEI Encoded Documents pp. 31-38 LOU BURNARD, MICHAEL POPHAM Putting Our Headers together: A Report on the TEI Header Meeting 12 September 1997 pp. 39-47 DAVID J. BIRNBAUM, MAVIS COURNANE, PETER FLYNN Using the TEI Writing System Declaration (WSD) pp. 49-57 CHRISTOPHER WELTY, NANCY IDE Using the Right Tools: Enhancing Retrieval from Marked-up Documents pp. 59-84 GARY F. SIMONS Using Architectural Forms to Map TEI Data into an Object-Oriented Database pp. 85-101 DAVID SMITH Textual Variation and Version Control in the TEI pp. 103-112 SYD BAUMAN, TERRY CATAPANO TEI and the Encoding of the Physical Structure of Books pp. 113-127 PHILIP RESNIK, MARI BROMAN OLSEN, MONA DIAB The Bible as a Parallel Corpus: Annotating the Book of 2000 Tongues pp. 129-153 DOMINIQUE ESTIVAL, NICK NICHOLAS TEI Encoding and Syntactic Tagging of an Old French Text pp. 155-174 JANET ERICKSON, MATTHEW STOEFFLER An SGML/HTML Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library pp. 175-184 D. WALKER Taking Snapshots of the Web with a TEI Camera pp. 185-192 A. MORRISON Delivering Electronic Texts Over the Web: The Current and Planned Practices of the Oxford Text Archive pp. 193-198 JON BOSAK XML Ubiquity and the Scholarly Community pp. 199-206 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities Editors-in-Chief: Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College, UK For subscriptions or information, consult the journal's WWW home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/ Or contact: Vanessa Nijweide Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: Vanessa.Nijweide at wkap.nl Members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an individual subscription. For information about ACH and a membership application, consult http://www.ach.org/, or send email to chuck_bush at byu.edu. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:14:57 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:14:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: CLIN'99 Message-ID: From: Paola Monachesi [Apologies if you receive this message more than once] ********************************************************************* CLIN 99 First Announcement Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Tenth CLIN Meeting Friday, 10 December, 1999 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Utrecht University We are happy to announce the tenth CLIN meeting, which will be hosted by the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS at Utrecht University. The meeting will take place in Utrecht, at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. The languages of the conference will be Dutch and English. The local organiser of this year's meeting is Paola Monachesi. Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of computational linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, machine translation, computational lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, information retrieval, knowledge representation, corpus-oriented methods, etc.). Authors should submit an abstract in English or Dutch to the local organiser (preferably by e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should contain: - a title - your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address - a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines) You can send your abstract to: clin99 at let.uu.nl or, if email is not possible, to: CLIN 99 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Utrecht University Trans 10 3512JK Utrecht The Netherlands Deadline for submission is 1 October 1999. Notification of acceptance (by e-mail): 15 October 1999. A volume with proceedings of the Ninth CLIN meeting (held 11 December 1998, in Leuven) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN 99 before CLIN 2000. Papers for these proceedings will have to be written in English; they will be reviewed by a committee to be appointed in due time. This and future information about CLIN 99 will be made available via the CLIN home page: http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/clin.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:15:05 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:15:05 +0100 Subject: Conf: NLDB'99 Message-ID: From: "Christian Winkler" We apologize if you receive this mail more than once! --- **** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***** NLDB'99 4th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language and Information Systems Klagenfurt, Austria, June 17-19, 1999 For details please have a look at http://www.ifit.uni-klu.ac.at/Conferences/NLDB99/ ** Conference Aims and Scope ** Natural language processing and linguistic theory are of increasing importance in the field of information and communication systems design. The integration of information systems, natural language processing and linguistic theory has been a long term goal. The convergence of research in these two technologies is mainly due to the progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage and handling of semantically enriched electronic dictionaries. Most aspects of the life cycle of an information system may be improved by using natural language techniques: information system design (requirements analysis, specification, validation, conflict resolution), database query languages and consulting programs that use new software engineering research allowing natural program specifications. NLDB conferences are aimed to bring together researchers and industrials which are interested in the applications of natural language in the field of database and information systems . The NLDB'99 contributions are a balanced mix of full paper reports and extended abstracts from research and application giving a broad insight into the state of the art concerning problems and solutions within the context of natural language processing and information systems. -------------- Conference Chair: Prof. Dr. Heinrich C. Mayr Program Chair: Dr. Guenther Fliedl Program Committee: - A.T. Berztiss, Pittsburg University, US - Mokrane Bouzeghob, University of Versailles, France - Hans Burg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands - Peter Chen, Lousiana State University, LA, US - Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Udo Hahn, University Freiburg, Germany - Willi Mayerthaler, University of Klagenfurt, Austria - Elisabeth Metais, University of Versailles, France - Erich Ortner, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany - Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands - Stefano Spaccapietra, Ecole Politechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland - Bernhard Thalheim, Technical University Cottbus, Germany - Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria - Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia ** Preliminary Program ** Keynote Speech: Nicola Guarino AI & Robotics Group Ladseb - CNR, Padova; Italy Full Papers: Linguistically based Conceptual Modeling of Business Communication A.A.G. Steuten, R.P. van de Riet, J.L.G. Dietz Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Technische Universiteit Delft; Netherlands Occurance-type-based Determination of the Functionality of a Workflow Management Application F.R. Lehmann Technical Univ. Darmstadt; Germany Graphical NL Versus Symbolic Notation in Object and Process Modeling A. Galatescu Research Institute for Informatics Bucharest; Romania Natural Language Database Query System B. Bouchou, D. Maurel Universite Francois Rabelais de Tours; France Text Parsing Medical Reports in MedSynDiKATe U. Hahn, M. Romacker, St. Schulz Freiburg University; Germany An Adaptive Natural Language Interface Architecture to Access FAQ Knowledge Bases W. Winiwarter University of Vienna; Austria On the Use of Natural Language Concepts for the Conceptual Modeling of Interaction in Information Systems J. Lewerenz Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus; Germany Metaphor Development for Internet Sites B. Thalheim, A. Duesterhoeft Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus; Germany A Uniform semantical Linkage Model for Dependency Structures and Domain Ontologies M. Romacker, U. Hahn Freiburg University; Germany Extended Abstracts: The two functionalities of the SAREL System N. Castell, A. Hernandez Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Spain Experiences with Domain-Based Parsing for Natural Language Requirements V. Gervasi, V. Ambriola Dipartimento di Informatica; Italy Language and Information Systems - research at Tilburg University Hans Weigand Tilburg University; Netherlands The NL-OOPS Project: Object Oriented Modeling using the Natural Language Processing System LOLITA L. Mich, R. Garigliano University of Trento; Italy, University of Durham; UK Object-Oriented Analysis: getting Help from Robust Computational Linguistic Tools S. Delisle, K. Barker, I. Biskri Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivie; Canada The NIBA project: linguistically based requierements engineering G. Fliedl, Ch. Kop, H.C. Mayr, W. Mayerthaler, Ch. Winkler Klagenfurt University; Austria Analogy + Tables = Conjugation Yves Lepage ATR Interpreting Telecom. Res. Labs.; Japan Structured Language Modeling for Speech Recognition C. Chelba, F. Jelinek The John Hopkins University; USA Task-Based Metrics for Machine Translation Evaluation J.S. White Litton PRC; UK Large-Scale Collocation Data and their Application to NLP - First Trial for Word Processor Technology M. Yasutake Fukuoka University; Japan Development of Speech Control System for intelligent Robot F.G. Dinenberg, D. Y. Levin, I.G. Popov, Y.A. Zagorulko, M.A. Zhigalov A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatic Systems; Russia Word Sense Disambiguation for Understanding-Based Information Retrieval Younk-Suk Lee, J. Goldberg, C. Weinstein MIT Lincoln Laboratory; USA Identifying and Extracting Relations in Textmetaphor Development for Internet Sites R.J. Byrd, Y. Ravin T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM; USA On the Scalability of the Answer Extraction System 'ExtrAns' D. Molla-Aliod, M. Hess University of Zurich; Switzerland HALPIN: A Multimodal and conversational application in natural language for information seeking on the World Wide Web J. Rouillard, J. Caelen Laboratoire IMAG-CLIPS; France Cinema Paradise Multimedia Information Retrieval System M. Jun, Seong-Joon Yoo, Kyung Taek Chong, Dong See Choi, Myung-Gil Jang, Soo-Jun Park, Hyunjin Kim Natural Language Access to Software Applications P. Schmidt, A. Theofilidis, M. Marimon, J. Forster, P. Phelan, H. Schulz University of Mainz, University of Saarbruecken Germany; Anite Systems; Luxembourg Multi-agent system for natural language processing: studying the subject through the NALAMAS project V.L. Strube de Lima PUCRS - Faculdade de Informatica; Brazil Tamic-P: A system for NL access to social insurance databases J. Matiasek, A. Klein, H. Trost Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence; Austria Word Taxanomy for On-line Visual Asset Managment and Mining O.R. Zaiane, E. Hagen, J. Han Simon Fraser University; Canada The Prolex Database: Toponyms and Gentiles for NLP O. Piton Univiersite; Paris 1; France Multimodal Natural Language Interface to Information Systems L. Ahrenberg, N. Dahlbaeck, A. Flycht-Eriksson, A. Joensson, P. Qvarfordt, L. Santamarta, L. Stroemboeck Linkoeping University; Sweden Application-oriented Report Generation H. Horacek, St. Busemann DFKI GmbH Saarbruecken; Germany A Knowledge Managment Prototype M.S. Neff, J.W. Cooper T. J. Watson Research Center IBM; USA Automatic Indexing Thesaurus Intended for Recognition of Lexical Cohesion in Texts N.V. Loukachevitch, A.D. Salii, V.B. Dobrov Moscow State University; Russia Programming Language Evolution M. J. O'Brien, M. Bagiokou School of Computer Science and Information Technology; UK From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:15:06 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:15:06 +0100 Subject: Conf: Eurocall'99 Message-ID: From: "Eurocall'99" Please accept our apologies in case of multiple receptions of this mail. Veuillez accepter nos excuses en cas de receptions multiples de ce courrier. Version francaise : voir plus bas. *************************************************** EUROCALL'99 (http://eurocall99.univ-fcomte.fr) Besancon, France September 15 - 18 Septembre 1999 *************************************************** UPDATE OF THE EUROCALL'99 WEBSITE Programmes, registration and accomodation forms EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FEES : registration before MAY 31ST 1999 The yearly conference of the European association EUROCALL (http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/eurocall.htm) will be held in Besancon from Wednesday 15th to Saturday 18th September 1999. This conference is a unique opportunity to encourage and disseminate state of the art research and applications for the use of computer mediated environments for language learning. In addition of information about organization and location of the conference, you will find the following one on the recently upgraded website: - The conference planning - The conference programme - The workshops and seminars description - The keynotes description - The demo-fair stands and the hiring form - The registration forms - The accomodation forms - The registration for the several proposed tours --------------------------------------------------- MISE A JOUR DU SITE INTERNET D'EUROCALL'99 Programmes, formulaires d'inscription et de reservation TARIF REDUIT : inscription avant le 31 MAI 1999 L'association europeenne EUROCALL (European association for Computer Assisted Language Learning) (http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/eurocall.htm) tiendra son congres annuel du mercredi 15 au samedi 18 septembre 1999 pour la premiere fois en France. Ce congres fait, chaque annee, le point sur les recherches et les applications dans le domaine des environnements informatiques d'aide a l'apprentissage des langues. En plus des informations concernant l'organisation et la localisation du congres, vous trouverez, sur le site Internet dernierement mis ? jour, les informations suivantes : - Le planning du congres - Le programme previsionnel avec les statistiques - Le descriptif des ateliers et seminaires du pre-congres - Le descriptif des conferences invitees - Le descriptif des stands d'exposition ainsi que le formulaire de location et de reservation - Les formulaires d'inscription au congres comprenant les tarifs - Les formulaires de reservation hoteliere - Les formulaires d'inscription aux differentes excursions proposees ----------------------- End - Fin ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Eurocall'99, septembre/September 1999, Besancon, France Conference europeenne sur les systemes d'information et de communication pour l'aide a l'apprentissage des langues. European conference on Computer Assisted Language Learning Toile/Web : http://eurocall99.univ-fcomte.fr Mel/Email : eurocall99 at lib.univ-fcomte.fr Telecopie : 03 81 66 64 50 / Fax: 33 3 81 66 64 50 -------------------------------------------------------------- From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:15:09 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:15:09 +0100 Subject: Ecole: Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation Summer School Message-ID: From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" SOCRATES Intensive Programme in CORPUS LINGUISTICS and DIGITISATION University of Glasgow, Scotland June 21 - July 2 1999 10 ECTS available An EU-funded two-week summer school in Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation will be held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland from 21 June to 2 July 1999. 10 ECTS credits are available on successful completion of the course which is open to students attending universities in countries participating in the SOCRATES scheme. The teaching staff is drawn from the particpating institutions; the Universities of Bergen, Cork, Glasgow, Joensuu, Nijmegen and Roma. Students will follow a common track in the first week, before following a track in either Corpus Linguistics or Digitisation in the second week. The course will cover the following areas: Corpus Linguistics: * Introduction to Corpus Linguistics * Building a Corpus * Text from the Internet, copyright * TEI for corpus linguistics * Tagging and Parsing * Parallel and Specialised Corpora * Quantitative methods and Tools Digitisation: * Introduction to Digitisation * Technical considerations, TEI, OCR, etc * Textual material * Spoken material * Images * Standards, platforms and conversions Students will also complete a project based on the materials covered in the course. The course itself is completely funded by the SOCRATES scheme, however, students are asked to find their own travel, accommodation and subsistence funding. For more information, see the web site at http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/SocIP/ or contact Fiona Tweedie (fiona at stats.gla.ac.uk). From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:15:12 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:15:12 +0100 Subject: Livre: Beyond Grammar Message-ID: From: L W M Bod NEW IN PAPERBACK! (March 1999) BEYOND GRAMMAR - An Experience-Based Theory of Language Rens Bod CSLI Publications / Cambridge University Press, xiv+168 pp. Paperback ISBN 1-57586-150-x $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 1-57586-151-8 $59.95 >From the Blurb: During the last few years, a new approach to linguistic analysis has started to emerge. This approach, which has come to be known under various labels such as "data-oriented parsing", "corpus-based interpretation" and "treebank grammar", assumes that human language comprehension and production works with representations of concrete past language experiences rather than with abstract linguistic rules. It operates by decomposing the given representations into fragments and recomposing those pieces to analyze (infinitely many) new utterances. This book shows how this general approach can apply to various kinds of linguistic representations. Experiments with this approach suggest that the productive units of natural language cannot be defined by a minimal set of rules, but need to be defined by a large, redundant set of previously experienced structures. Bod argues that this outcome has important consequences for linguistic theory, leading to an entirely new view of the nature of linguistic competence. "Beyond Grammar should be read by all theoretical linguists who feel intrigued or threatened by the renaissance of statistical natural language processing. Bod argues for the provocative thesis that knowledge of language should be understood not as a grammar, but as a 'statistical ensemble of language experiences that changes slightly every time a new utterance is perceived or produced'. By building a conceptual theory that integrates formal language theory with statistical linguistics, he also shows why the coming statistical revolution need not put theoretical linguists out of business. This is a beautifully written, important, and accessible work." -Joan Bresnan Stanford University "Bod develops a theory of human language based on linguistic experience. Instead of rules or principles, previously derived chunks of representations constitute the knowledge base for language use. With empirical rigor and compelling argumentation the author develops the theoretical foundations for his data-oriented approach and extends it to semantics and the processing of spoken dialogue. All computational linguists with a sincere interest in corpus-based methods should definitely read this well-written book. Theoretical linguists and psycholinguists will find it illuminating and thought-provoking." -Hans Uszkoreit DFKI Saarbruecken & Saarland University From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Apr 30 15:15:16 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:15:16 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLI Message-ID: From: Bernhard Schroeder SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES DIALOGUE AND PARTNER MODELING Workshop at the Fachtagung fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Bonn 13.9.-14.9.1999 URL: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/NDS99 Overview * The Theme of the Workshop * Abstract Submission * Important Dates * Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Theme of the Workshop Natural language interfaces allow users to interact verbally with dialogue systems. Users can ask a question via keyboard or microphone and receive an answer in spoken or in written form. Such interfaces have been around for a while; the challenge right now is to make them as robust and efficient as possible without limiting syntax and vocabulary more than necessary. How can new approaches to dialogue and partner modelling help to reach this goal? To what extent can results from underspecification theory, dynamic semantics, rhethorical structure theory or centering theory be useful? We are especially interested in approaches which have already been integrated into existing system and whose implementation has been evaluated. The workshop is intended as an oppertunity for a lively dialogue between linguists and computer scientists, between theory and practice. For this reason, *presentations are limited to 15 minutes, followed by 15 minutes discussion *a final discussion of about one and a half hours is planned. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract Submission Participants who would like to give a talk are asked to submit an extended abstract of max. 2 pages per e-mail to the organizers Bernhard Schroeder (b.schroeder at uni-bonn.de) und Maria Wolters (wolters at ikp.uni-bonn.de) in .ps or .pdf format. Each received abstract is acknowledged. The languages of the workshop are English and German. Authors are notified of acceptance on 31 May. From mid June on, all extended abstracts will be accessible from this web page. We will also create a mailing list for participants and other interested researchers. We plan to publish the proceedings of this workshop as a book. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule 15.5.1999: deadline for receipt of extended abstracts 31.5.1999: notification of acceptance 14.6.1999: deadline for revised extended abstracts 13./14.9.1999: Workshop in Bonn ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Committee Organizing Committee Bernhard Schroeder, Maria Wolters Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik Universitaet Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Tel.: +49 228 735621 (Schroeder); +49 228 733081 (Wolters) Fax: +49 228 735639 e-mail: b.schroeder at uni-bonn.de; wolters at ikp.uni-bonn.de Programme Committee * Elisabeth Andre, Saarbruecken * Harry Bunt, Tilburg * Paul Dekker, Amsterdam * Roland Hausser, Erlangen * Janet Hitzeman, Edinburgh * Winfried Lenders, Bonn * Paul McKevitt, Aalborg From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Apr 30 15:56:41 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:56:41 +0100 Subject: Q: Biblio interface LN Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:03:05 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgVklEQUw=?= Message-Id: <008a01be8fed$82183c00$28d730c1 at dr.education.fr> Bonjour la liste, J'?tudie actuellement la faisabilit? d'un syst?me qui n?cessiterait une interface en language naturel. Le scope des questions est tr?s centr? sur le sujet trait?. Nous acceptons m?me l'id?e d'imposer de petites questions simples. 1 seul verbe, pas de subordonn?e relative... Et m?me peut-?tre d'imposer une liste de verbes accept?s. Je suis informaticien, masi mes connaissances en language naturel se limite ? HAL de 2001. Est-ce que c'est aujoiurd'hui possible? Par o? faut-il commencer pour se documenter ? PS: Nous travaillerons en java D'avance je vous remercie. Fr?d?ric