From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug  2 10:15:48 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:15:48 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLP-2000
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.111548.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Dimitris N. Christodoulakis" <dxri at cti.gr>



		PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
 ==============================================================================

	 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing

	     NLP 2000:  Filling the gap between theory and practice

			Samos, Greece, 1-4 June 2000

		       URL: http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000
 	

ORGANIZED BY:
-------------
 �  Computer Technology Institute of Patras
 �  University of Patras
    - Computer Engineering Dept. (Database Laboratory)
    - Philology Dept. (Linguistics Section)
 �  University of Athens
    - Informatics Dept.
 �  University of  the Aegean
    - Information & Communication Systems Dept.

OBJECTIVES                                                                      ----------
We feel that this is the most opportune time for a critical view of the
achievements both in theory and in practice, and for developing bridges in
order to build emerging advanced systems and services that will provide the
breadth of information envisaged. The aim is to fill the gap between theory
and practice so that developments and needs in theory to take advantage and
give insights for new developments in technological methods and applications,
and visa-versa. The goal is to bring together people that will attest to
the progress of the field and disseminate it to a wider audience.

The conference will provide a forum to bring together researchers from the
fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated translation,
information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest in computational
aspects of terminology processing: acquisition, extraction, indexing,
machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary construction, etc. We also
hope that researchers in all areas of NLP will participate, to discuss ways
in which their own work could contribute, even if they are not currently
working on these applications.

Specific themes of the conference include :

	- Linguistic Models in NLP
	- Language Engineering Techniques and Applications


INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
-----------------------
All abstracts (not more than 2000 words, including references) must be
submitted in hard copy or electronic PostScript form to:

	Mrs. Xara Diamantopoulou
	University of Patras
	Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics
	Database Laboratory
	GR - 26 500 Patras - Greece
	Email: xdiam at cti.gr
	Tel: (+3061) 960.382
	Fax: (+3061) 997.783

PROCEEDINGS
-----------
Proceedings will be published by an international Publishing Company (approval
pending).

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
	. 15 December 1999, Abstract submission
	. 30 January 2000, Selection of submitted abstracts
	. 5 February 2000, Acceptance Notification
	. 1 April 2000, Deadline for final camera-ready manuscripts

INVITED TALKS
-------------
We are pleased to announce that the Scientific Program will include invited
talks by the following guest speakers:

	. Berwick Bob (MIT), USA
	. Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France
	. Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Center Europe), France
	. Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Universit� du Qu�bec a Montr�al), Canada
	. Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland
	. Morin Jean Yves (University of Montreal), Canada
	. Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA
	. Theologitis Dimitris (Commission of the European Union), Luxemburg
	. Wehrli Eric (University of Geneva), Switzerland
	. Wilks Yorik (University of Sheffield), England

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------

Program Committee Chair:

	. Christodoulakis Dimitris (University of Patras), Greece

Members:

	. Berwick Bob (MIT), USA
	. Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France
	. Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Centre Europe), France
	. Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Universit� du Qu�bec a Montreal), Canada
	. Filokyprou George (University of Athens), Greece
	. Galiotou Eleni (Technological Educational Institute of Athens), Greece
	. Grigoriadou Maria (University of Athens), Greece
	. Iordanidou Anna (University of Patras), Greece
	. Kokkinakis George (University of Patras), Greece
	. Kontos John (Athens University of Economics and Business), Greece
	. Koster Kees (University of Nijmegen), The Netherlands
	. Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland
	. Morin Jean-Yves (University of Montreal), Canada
	. Ralli Angela (University of Patras), Greece
	. Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA
	. Simeonidi-Annastasiadi Anna (University of Thessaloniki), Greece
	. Theologitis Dimitris (Commission of the European Union), Luxemburg
	. Tsalidis Christos (Computer Technology Institute), Greece
	. Vouros George (University of the Aegean), Greece
	. Wehrli Eric (University of Geneva), Switzerland
	. Wilks Yorik (University of Sheffield), England

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
---------------------

	. Diamantopoulou Xara, (CTI), Greece
	. Gakis Panagiotis, (CTI), Greece
	. Karassimos Thanassis (University of Patras), Greece
	. Kourakos Evangelos
	. Malagardi Ioanna (General Secretariat for Research and Technology)
	. Manousopoulou Natassa
	. Markopoulos George
	. Orphanos Giorgos (CTI), Greece
	. Papakitsos Vagelis (University of Athens), Greece
	. Sgarbas Kyriakos (University of Patras), Greece


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug  2 10:16:00 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:16:00 +0100
Subject: Soft: Epos
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.111600.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Petr Horak <horak at ure.cas.cz>


Epos speech system announcement.

Apologies if you receive this repeatedly through multiple forums.

We would like to announce Epos, a language independent
TTS system primarily designed to serve as a research tool.
Epos is available for download under the
General Public License at
http://epos.ure.cas.cz/
including documentation and the full source code.

The present version includes configuration files
for Czech and Slovak languages only, but we are planning to
support some other languages in a medium-distant
future using the MBROLA speech synthesizer,
and we shall be glad to provide the necessary
support for preparing a rule-driven configuration
for other languages, or a speech segment inventory
compatible with one of our synthesizers.

In theory, Epos can be compiled using any C++ compiler
(e.g. a reasonably recent version of GNU C++, MS Visual C++,
Watcom C++, or Borland C++ Builder), and should run on most
UNIX-like operating systems and Windows NT (the NT port
is somewhat less stable due to still inadequate testing).
Epos speaks using the /dev/dsp device on UNIX platforms, and
it generates Microsoft RIFF wave files (.wav) under Windows NT.
Its hardware requirements are modest.

You can send any additional questions or bug reports to the
Epos developer mailing list:  epos at braille.mff.cuni.cz
or have a look at the documentation at
http://epos.ure.cas.cz/epos.html

The Epos team


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug  2 10:16:01 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:16:01 +0100
Subject: Conf: MT Summit
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.111601.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>

Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this message.  I am forwarding this
reminder to several lists and people who might not yet have received it.

Best,

Jeff

---------------------------------------------------------------------
From:  Hozumi Tanaka
          Chairman, Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation

---------------------------------------------------------------------

               MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII
              "MT in the Great Translation Era"

              September 13-17, 1999, Singapore

                 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW !

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.  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
  Tuesday, 14 September:    Main conference  Exhibition  Reception
  Wednesday, 15 September:  Main conference  Exhibition  Banquet
  Thursday, 16 September:   Main conference  Exhibition
  Friday, 17 September:     Workshop

To register, please get "registration form" from
           http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99/register.htm
and send it to the secretariat of MT Summit whose address is on the
top of the form.

Please consult the website for further information:

  full program for the main conference, and workshop,
           http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html

  venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation,
           http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99/

  By e-mail, please contact:
                  secret-4 at tokyo.intergroup.co.jp (Japan)
                   vicky at krdl.org.sg (Singapore)

                       We hope to see you there!

             Hozumi Tanaka,   President of AAMT
             Jun'ichi Tsujii, Chair of Program Committee
             Low Hwee Boon,   Chair of Local Organization Committee

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************************************************
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
************************************************





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Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)  &
European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA)
(Agence Europe'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 Aug  2 10:16:54 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:16:54 +0100
Subject: Appel: Generation, Systematicity, ...
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.111654.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Erradi Mohammed <erradi at iera.um5souissi.ac.ma>


International Colloquium :
Generation, Systematicity of Language and Automatic Translation

Rabat, November 15-17, 1999



Generation plays an important role in the formation of language
expressions, in the activation of their productivity, and in their use
to name new notions or concepts. While these expressions are derived
from a limited alphabet expressing unlimited meanings, the composition
of the elements of this alphabet, their fusion, and the recursive
composition of the derived entities lead to the generation of new
expressions. This allows for more and even unlimited possibilities of
forms of expressions. The significance could firstly be seen as a
limited alphabet regarding the conceptual/intentional stratum. However,
the mechanism of generation allows the transformation of this limited
system into an unlimited product.

This approach, which is based on the shift from the limited to the
unlimited, has important consequences in determining the systematicity
of language, its acquisition, its adequate processing, and the
development of appropriate tools to illustrate its memorization, and
what is stored as associations of sounds and meanings (in relation to
the general or specialized language).

It also enables us to measure similarities and differences between
languages in a comparative multilingual framework. Computational
generation is then an active mechanism of the language, which reflects
its life and dynamism. It also allows to test its systematic reality,
and to measure the deviation of its genius from its reality, riddled
with mistakes, exceptions, and incoherence, as well as to identify the
degree of arbitrariness in the association between meaning and form,
generating words, synonyms, antonyms, and other association forms due to
a limited vocabulary, but not limited meanings. It is indeed a matter of
compressed structures that acquire their meaning only in a computational
and compositional system. Finally, generation is also a mechanism
permitting the passage from one language to another according to certain
parametric values. This is then a new way to treat multilingualism
(namely translation).

In fact, at the time of the revolution of technologie and the
spectacular and permanent development of information, the transfer of
knowledge requires, more than ever before, resorting to automatic (or
computer assisted) translation. In an environment dominated by Internet
and glorbalisation, automatic and computer assisted translation becomes
an unavoidable resource to cope wiith the flow of information and insure
time and cost savings.

Different aspects of the problem will be addressed in this colloquium
through the following topics:

Morphological generation
Generation in syntax
Semantic generation
Terminological generation
Multilingualism, automatic translation and comparative generation
Language learning and generation
Structure of electronic dictionary and automatic translation
Contribution of linguists in the development an automatic translation
system
Automatic translation : state of arts in Arabic  countries

Although The colloquium will focus mainly on the Arabic language, it
will be also interested in result studies and available tools for other
languages.

An exhibition of automatic softwares related to generation (including
those related to automatic translation) will be set up with the
participation of concerned researchers and societies.

Presentations will be given in Arabic, French, or English.

The colloquium will take place from 16 to 18 June 1999. Participants are
requested to send abstracts in 3 copies to the address below before 15
September 1999, and the full texts before 10 October 1999.


Address:
The organizing committee of the colloquium on generation
The Institute of Study and Research on Arabization
Allal El-Fassi Avenue
B.P. 6216
Rabat-Institutes, Morocco.
Tel :  (212) (7)   77.30.12
Fax : (212) (7)  77.20.65
e-mail: erradi at iera.um5souissi.ac.ma

BULLETIN DE PARTICIPATION

Nom et Prenom:
Institut ou organisme:
Fonction:
Adresse:
Fax:
T�l�phone:
e-mail:

Titre de la contribution:


Signature:
Date:


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug 16 07:30:30 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:30:30 +0100
Subject: Job: 1 Offer
Message-ID: <MON.16.AUG.1999.083030.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Malek Boualem <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr>


Sony`s advanced European Research and Development Centre based
in the beautiful city of Stuttgart in Southern Germany hosts a
high calibre international team of engineering experts. We are expanding one
of our teams and seek R&D engineers with university level
education.

        You should have previous experience in:

                         * speech recognition
                         * speech understanding
                         * spoken or multimodel dialog
                         * artificial intelligence and machine learning

You need to have C/C++, Java programming experience and good
English language capabilities.

We offer a competitive salary and a position within the crew who
is creating Sony products for the next century. Please send your
application in English to:

        Ms. Roswitha Kalkhoff

        SONY INTERNATIONAL (EUROPE) GMBH
        HUMAN RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL
        STUTTGARTER STR. 106,
        D-70736 FELLBACH
        GERMANY

        or e-mail to: kalkhof at sony.de
        or fax to: ++49-711-5858-194


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug 16 07:30:34 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:30:34 +0100
Subject: Appel: ALLC/ACH'00
Message-ID: <MON.16.AUG.1999.083034.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>




                            *******************
                              ALLC / ACH 2000
                            *******************

                           University of Glasgow
                              Glasgow G12 8QQ
                               Scotland / UK
                            21 - 25 July, 2000



                          FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


           ALLC/ACH 2000 invites submissions of between 1000 and 1500
           words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly
           defined as the point of intersection between computing
           methodologies and problems in humanities research and
           teaching, encompassing both traditional and new, and
           discipline-specific and inter-disciplinary, approaches.

           Appropriate discipline areas include, but are not limited
           to, languages and literature, history, philosophy, music,
           art, film studies, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology,
           creative writing, and cultural studies. We particularly
           encourage submissions from non-text-based areas and from
           library science, both of which have been under-represented
           in the past.

           Other areas of interest include the creation and use of
           digital resources (what has been characterised as
           'extending the scale and breadth of scholarly evidence')
           and the application to humanities data of techniques
           developed in such fields as information science and the
           physical sciences and engineering (including neural
           networks and image processing).

           We are interested in receiving
               - technical proposals that focus on new computational
                 tools and approaches to research in humanities disciplines;
               - proposals that focus on traditional applications of
                 computing in humanities disciplines, including (but
                 not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text
                 corpora, computational lexicography, statistical
                 models, and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other
                 forms of text analysis;
               - proposals which present and discuss applications of
                 computing methodologies and tools to audio and visual materials;
               - proposals that focus on significant issues of
                 creation, representation, discovery, delivery,
                 management and preservation of digital and other
                 resources relevant to the humanities;
               - proposals that present and evaluate the use of
                 computers in humanities teaching;
               - proposals dealing with the role of humanities
                 computing in undergraduate and graduate
                 teaching and institutional support for humanities
                 computing.

           PhD students are encouraged to submit proposals. Those
           describing finished research may be submitted as
           papers. Ongoing dissertation research may be submitted as
           poster proposals. See below for details.

           Those interested in seeing the type of paper the committee
           is looking for can consult the abstracts of
           papers at previous conferences:

                 University of Bergen, Norway
                 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
                 Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary
                 University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

           Students and young scholars should also read the note on
           bursaries later in this document.

           Papers may be given in English, French, and German, but to
           facilitate the reviewing process we ask that proposals for
           papers in a language other than English are submitted with
           an English translation.

           The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is
           15 NOVEMBER 1999. The deadline for submissions of
           poster/demo proposals is 15 JANUARY 2000.

     FORMAT OF PROPOSALS
           Proposals may be of four types: papers, posters, software
           demonstrations, and sessions. The type of
           submission should be specified in the header of the
           proposal.

     PAPERS
           Proposals for papers (1000-1500 words) should describe
           completed research which has given rise to
           substantial results. Individual papers will be allocated 30
           minutes for presentation, including questions.

           Proposals should describe original work. Those that
           concentrate on the development of new computing
           methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are
           applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and
           should include some critical assessment of the application
           of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that
           concentrate on a particular application in the humanities
           should cite traditional as well as computer-based
           approaches to the problem and should include some critical
           assessment of the computing methodologies used. All
           proposals should include conclusions and references to
           important sources. Those describing the creation or use of
           digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as
           possible.

     POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
           Poster presentations and software and project
           demonstrations (either stand-alone or in conjunction
           with poster presentations) are designed to give researchers
           an opportunity to present late-breaking
           results, significant work in progress, well-defined
           problems, or research that is best communicated in
           conversational mode.

           By definition, poster presentations are less formal and
           more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters
           have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with
           attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those
           most deeply interested in the same topic. Each presenter is
           provided with about 2 square metres of board space to
           display their work. They may also provide handouts with
           examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain
           on display throughout the conference, but a block of time
           separate from paper sessions will be assigned when
           presenters should be prepared to explain their work and
           answer questions. Specific times will also be assigned for
           software or project demonstrations.

           The format for proposals for posters and software
           demonstrations are the same as those for regular
           papers.

           Proposals for software or project demonstrations should
           indicate the type of hardware that would be
           required if the proposal is accepted.

     SESSIONS
           Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either:
           ((a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a
           500-word statement describing the session
           topic, include abstracts of 1000-1500 words for each paper,
           and indicate that each author is willing to
           participate in the session; or
           (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer
           should submit an abstract of 1000-1500 words
           describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the
           names of all the speakers, and an indication
           that each speaker is willing to participate in the
           session.

           The deadline for session proposals is the same as for
           proposals for papers.

     FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS
           All submissions must be sent electronically. Please pay
           particular attention to the format given below.
           Submissions which do not conform to this format will be
           returned to the authors for reformatting, or may
           not be considered if they arrive very close to the
           deadline.

           All submissions should begin with the following
           information:

           TYPE OF PROPOSAL:
                 paper, poster, session or software demonstration.
           TITLE: title of paper or session
           KEYWORDS:
                 three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents
                 of the paper or session

           If submitting a session proposal, give the following
           information for each paper:
           TITLE: title of paper
           KEYWORDS:
                 three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents
                 of the paper AUTHOR: name of first
                 author
           AFFILIATION:
                 of first author
           E-MAIL:
                 of first author

           If submitting a paper proposal, give the following
           information:

           AUTHOR:
                 name of first author
           AFFILIATION:
                 of first author
           E-MAIL:
                 of first author

           AUTHOR:
                 name of second author (repeat these three headings as
                 necessary)
           AFFILIATION:
                 of second author
           E-MAIL:
                 of second author

           CONTACT ADDRESS:
                 full postal address of first author or contact person
                 for session proposals
           FAX NUMBER:
                 of first author
           PHONE NUMBER:
                 of first author

           Proposals should take the form of ASCII or ISO-8859/1
           files. Where necessary, a header should indicate the
           combinations of ASCII characters used to represent
           characters outside the ASCII or ISO 8859/1 range. Notes, if
           needed, should take the form of endnotes rather than
           footnotes.

           Submissions should be entered into the online
           (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/proposal_form.html)
           form or emailed to allcach2k at arts.gla.ac.uk with the
           subject line "<Author's surname> Submission for ALLCACH2k".

           Those who submit abstracts containing graphics and tables
           are asked to fax a copy of the abstract in
           addition to the one sent electronically. Faxes should be
           sent to: +44 141 330 4537. The cover page
           should reproduce the header from the electronic
           submission.

     EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY
           Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a
           slide projector, a data projector which will
           display Macintosh, DOS/Windows, and video (but not
           simultaneously), an Internet connected computer
           which will run Macintosh OS programs or DOS/Windows
           programs, and a VHS (PAL) videocassette
           recorder. NTSC format may be available; if you anticipate
           needing NTSC, please note this information in
           your proposal.

           Requests for other presentation equipment will be
           considered by the local organizers; requests for
           special equipment should be directed to the local
           organizers no later than January 31, 2000.

     DEADLINES
           November 15, 1999: Submission of proposals for papers and
           sessions, posters and software
           demonstrations.
           February 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance.

     PUBLICATION
           A book of abstracts will be provided to all conference
           participants. In addition, abstracts will be
           published on the conference web page. An announcement in
           regard to publication of full papers will be
           made in due course.

     INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
           Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who
           will make recommendations to the Program
           Committee comprising:

            Paul Fortier, University of Manitoba (Chair) Fortier at cc.umanitoba.ca
            John Dawson Cambridge University JLD1 at cam.ac.uk
            Laszlo Hunyadi, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, hunyadi at llab2.arts.klte.hu
            Elisabeth Burr, University of Duisburg, he229bu at unidui.uni-duisburg.de
            Julia Flanders, Brown University, julia_flanders at brown.edu
            Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Kentucky, (email
               address awaits confirmation)
            Willard McCarty, King's College, London, willard.mccarty at kcl.ac.uk
            Nancy Ide, Vassar College ide at cs.vassar.edu


     LOCAL ORGANIZERS
           Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow
           j.anderson at arts.gla.ac.uk
           Fiona Tweedie, University of Glasgow
           f.tweedie at stats.gla.ac.uk
           The remaining local organising committe members are listed
           here.

     BURSARIES
           As part of its commitment to promote the development and
           application of appropriate computing in
           humanities scholarship, the Association for Literary and
           Linguistic Computing will award up to five
           bursaries of up to 500 GB pounds each to students and young
           scholars who have papers accepted for
           presentation at the conference. Applicants must be members
           of ALLC. The ALLC will make the awards
           after the Program Committee have decided which proposals
           are to be accepted. Recipients will be
           notified as soon as possible thereafter. A participant in a
           multi-author paper is eligible for an award, but
           it must be clear that s/he is contributing substantially to
           the paper. Applications must be made to the
           conference organizer. The deadline for receipt of
           applications is the same as for submission of papers,
           i.e. November 15, 1999. Full details of the bursary scheme,
           and an on-line application form will be
           available from the conference web page.

     LOCATION
           Information on the University of Glasgow, on travel,
           accommodation (in nearby student residences from
           #21 to #30, and in hotels at a range of prices) and the
           social programme can all be found linked to the
           main conference web page

     FURTHER INFORMATION
           It is expected that the conference fee will be on the order
           of 150 GBP for members. This will include the
           printed abstracts, morning and afternoon refreshment
           breaks, and lunch.

           There will be a varied programme of social events,
           including tours to nearby lochs and mountains, a
           visit to a whisky distillery, tutored whisky tasting, and a
           ceilidh with traditional Scottish music and
           dancing.

           Queries concerning the goals of the conference or the
           format or content of papers should be addressed
           to:
           Jean Anderson,
           ALLC / ACH 2000,
           University of Glasgow,
           6 University Gardens,
           Glasgow G12 8QH, UK.
           Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4980
           email allcach2k at arts.gla.ac.uk


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug 16 07:31:51 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:31:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: RIAO-2000
Message-ID: <MON.16.AUG.1999.083151.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Nicolas Masson <masson at limsi.fr>


			
				RIAO 2000

		Content-Based Multimedia Information Access

				College de France

				Paris, France

				April 12-14, 2000


			Preliminary Announcement

			_______________

Organized by:

Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire
(C.I.D., France)
&
Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA)


With the collaboration of AII, ASIS, ELRA, Elsnet, ESCA, Francil
(preliminary list)
_______________


Introduction

The RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur =
Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval)
International Conference is held every 3 years. Sites for the conference
have been Grenoble (1985), Boston
(1988), Barcelona (1991), New York (1994) and Montreal (1997). Paris will
host the next RIAO conference in
Spring 2000. The conference is organized by the Centre de Hautes Etudes
Internationales d'Informatique
Documentaire (C.I.D.) and the Center for the Advanced Study of Information
Systems (C.A.S.I.S.).

The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information
Access". The conference scope will
range from the traditional processing of text documents to the rapidly
growing field of automatic indexing and
retrieval of images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of
audio-visual and multimedia information
on various supports, including the net. The conference is of interest for
several scientific communities, including
Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing,  Spoken Language
Processing, Computer Vision, Human-
Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve
as a forum for synergetic initiatives
and forward-looking applications.

The Scientific Committee will select the papers and the Application
Committee will select the innovative
applications and products to be presented at the conference. In order to
support the multi-disciplinary goals of
the conference, these international committees include representatives of
different scientific communities.

RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific research advances, demonstrations
of prototypes resulting from this
research as well as the most innovative products now appearing on the
market. A worldwide Call for Papers is
addressed to researchers engaged in academic or industrial research. The
associated Call for Applications is
addressed to companies and public organizations developing or marketing
hardware or software related to the
conference topics.


RIAO 2000 Conference Topics:
Under the theme "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access", the
following topics are among those
included for the Communications and for Innovative Application Demonstrations:

Document processing:
	Hypertextual and Hypermedia documents
	Human-Computer Interaction for document handling
	Textual and voice-based annotation creation and retrieval
	Digital libraries
	AI techniques for document generation and consultation
	Multimodal and transmodal human-machine communication

Information Retrieval:
	Information retrieval systems and methods
	Document search over the internet
	Text Mining
	Information and document routing/profiling/alerting
	Document classification

Spoken Language Processing:
	Voice-based document segmentation and transcription
	Voice-based document indexing and retrieval
	Identification of language of speaker
	Speaker recognition
	Audio Mining
	Non-verbal sound processing (music, noise...)

Natural Language Processing:
	Information extraction
	NLP techniques for document processing
	Terminology extraction and analysis
	Automatic thesaurus construction
	Multilingual and crosslingual document handling
	Machine translation of documents
	Automatic summarization
	Identification of language of text

Image processing:
	Automatic indexing and retrieval of visual documents
	Computer graphics for document generation and consultation
	Segmentation and indexing of visual data
	Face, gaze and expression recognition
	Character recognition in visual documents
	Image Mining
	Video indexing and retrieval

System architecture:
	Multi-agent architecture, search agents
	Intelligent agents, Androids and Avatars

Usage and best practice:
	Socio-economics of information retrieval
	Quantitative, qualitative and comparative evaluation
	Coding standards and Quality of Services
	Security and privacy
	Cognitive aspects, Human Factors and Ergonomics
	Legal aspects of multimedia document handling
	Multimedia and multimodal resources

Applications:

	Computer-aided information access for the handicapped
	Multimedia systems for medical applications
	Image Guided Surgery and Augmented Reality
	Medical documents archiving and retrieval
	Transmodal information access systems
	Telephone-based, nomad and in-vehicle systems
	Intelligent systems for call-center reporting
	Customized customer support (Aerospace product manuals...)
	Strategic and technology watch & Business Intelligence
	Real-Time information access for financial markets
	Information access for decision aid systems
	Multimodal Geographical Information Systems
	Television and Radio Broadcast Archiving and Browsing...



Call for Papers



The papers will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee.


RIAO 2000 International Scientific Committee :

Co-Chairs : Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) and Donna Harman (NIST, USA)

Jean-Claude Bassano (University of Orleans, France)
Alain Berthoz (LPPA, College de France, France)
Patrick Bouthemy (IRISA/INRIA, France)
George Carayannis (ILSP, Greece)
Francine Chen (Xerox, USA)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusets, USA)
Franciska de Jong (University of Twente,The Netherlands)
Susan Dumais (Microsoft, USA)
David Evans (CMU and Claritech, USA)
Christian Fluhr (CEA, France)
Hiroya Fujisaki (Science University of Tokyo, Japan)
Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Edouard Geoffrois (DGA/CTA, France)
Jean-Paul Haton (LORIA, France)
Alex Hauptman (CMU, USA)
Ulrich Heid (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Roland Hjerppe (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Mun Kew Leong ( Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore)
Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA)
Wessel Kraaij (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)
Francis Kubala (BBN, USA)
Gianni Lazzari (IRST, Italy)
Alain Leger (CNET- France Telecom, France)
R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Richard Marcus (MIT, USA)
Mark Maybury (MITRE, USA)
Frank Nack (GMD IPSI, Germany)
Klaus Netter (DFKI, Germany)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
Douglas Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
Dragutin Petkovic (IBM, USA)
Georges Quenot (CLIPS, France)
K. J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland, USA)
Ze'ev Rivlin (Natural Speech Communication, Israel)
Arnold Smeulders (ISIS, UvA, The Netherlands)
Karen Sparck Jones (University of Cambridge, UK)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Lucent technologies, USA)
Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia)
Phil Woodland (CUED, UK)



Call for Applications



Tools and products related to the conference topics are sought for
demonstration at special conference sessions.
Applications and products will be selected by the International Application
Committee, on the basis of their
innovation, utility, and present and future marketability.


RIAO 2000 International Application Committee :

Chair: Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox, France) and Pascal Faudemay (LIP6,
France)

Marie-Francoise Clergeau (College de France, France)
Daniel Confland (Jouve, France)
Max Copperman (Kanisa, USA)
Giorgio Dimino (RAI, Italy)
Michael Horowitz (Claritech, USA)
Hitoshi Iida (Sony Speech & Language Laboratory, Japan)
Hans-Joachim Novak (IBM, Germany)
Norbert Paquel (Canope, France)
Sylvie Regnier-Prost (Aerospatiale-Matra, France)
Remi Ronfard (INA, France)
Antonio Sanfilippo (EC, Luxembourg)
Laurent Schmitt (INIST-CNRS, France)
Vera Semenova (Sciper/Analit, Russia)
Joop Van Gent (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)




The RIAO 2000 Conference is organized by:

Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaires (C.I.D.)

36 bis rue Ballu
75009 Paris France
Tel: (33 / 0) 1 42 85 04 75
Fax: (33 / 0) 1 48 78 49 61 or 1 45 26 84 45

and

Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S.)

Co / C. Constantin
575 Madison Avenue
25th floor
New York N.Y. 10022 USA

Contacts:

Email: riao2000 at limsi.fr

Web: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO


Organizing and Coordinating Committee:

Agnes Beriot (CID, France)
Peter Brodnitz (CASIS, USA)
Jean-Louis Darc (France-Pologne, France)
Jean-Jacques Guilbart (College de France, France)
Nicolas Masson (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Jean Perriere (CID, France)
Sharyn Rozart (CASIS, USA)
Anne Tabutiaux (Recherche et Diffusion Scientifique, France)
Tony Venables (ECAS, Belgium)


Calendar:

? Preliminary announcement: July 1999
? Call for Papers & Demonstrations: September 15, 1999
? Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999
? Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999
? Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000
? Final Program: January 25, 2000
? Conference: April 12-14, 2000



If you're interested in participating in the conference, or if you intend
to submit a paper, a prototype or an
application demo, or if you wish to know more about the conference when the
information will be available,
please fill in the Attendance Intention Form below, and send it to
"riao2000 at limsi.fr" ASAP.


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Name :

Position:

Organization:

Mail address:



Telephone:

Fax:

EMAIL:

Web site:


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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 27 11:08:36 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:08:36 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.120836.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

________________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Yannick Lallement <yannick at NOVATOR.COM>
   Subject:  Natural Language Understanding - Novator Systems in Toronto

2/ From: "Antoinette Renouf" <ant at rdues.liv.ac.uk>
   Subject: vacancy

3/ From:  "Baldwin Staffing Group Ltd." <baldwin11 at home.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics/Management Position

4/ From: Kent Clizbe <kent at gatesource.com>
   Subject: Computational Linguists

________________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Yannick Lallement <yannick at NOVATOR.COM>
   Subject:  Natural Language Understanding - Novator Systems in Toronto

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: "Antoinette Renouf" <ant at rdues.liv.ac.uk>
   Subject: vacancy


              ** APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATE POSTING **

                  THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
          Research and Development Unit for English Studies

               Post of Research Assistant/Associate

                Job Reference Number: A/RDUES/RA

A vacancy has arisen in the Unit for a graduate in computer science
with a good understanding of the nature of the English language, or a
graduate in computational linguistics.

The starting date will be as soon as possible and will run for twelve
months, and there might be an opportunity for extension of contract on
further projects.

The post relates primarily to the main Unit activity for that period,
an EPSRC-funded research project known as APRIL, concerned with the
development of an automated system of classification for the rare,
newly-occurring words in journalistic text.  There will also be some
involvement with other aspects of Unit work as required.

The Research Assistant/Associate will work under the supervision of
the Research Fellow responsible for the computing tasks in the Unit,
reporting also to the Director of the Unit.

The salary will be in the range �16,286 - �21,597.

Skills Required for the APRIL Project:

- at least one year's full-time (or equivalent) experience of
  programming in C in a Unix environment is essential
- experience in programming in PERL is desirable
- familiarity with Unix tools, such as  awk , is also desirable

Duties Associated with the APRIL Project:

- familiarisation with Unit computing resources and software
- development of project software
- attendance and presentation at conferences as required

Other Duties within the Unit will include:

- familiarisation with Unit approach to large-scale text handling
  and corpus creation
- revision and improvement of existing text manipulation software
- some systems administration tasks
- occasional provision of data for people outside the Unit

Further particulars and details of the application procedure may be
requested from the Director of Personnel, The University of Liverpool,
Liverpool L69 3BX:

Telephone: +44 (0)151 794 2210 (24-hour answerphone)
Email:     jobs at liv.ac.uk
www:       http://www.liv.ac.uk (jobs)

The closing date for applications is Sept. 15th, 1999.

The University of Liverpool is committed to Equal Opportunities.



________________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  "Baldwin Staffing Group Ltd." <baldwin11 at home.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics/Management Position

To whom it may concern, I am assisting a client in locating a Director
of Linguistics.  The position will be located in either Calgary,
Alberta, Canada or Beijing, China.  The individual will head a
multi-location linguistics staff involved in world-wide language
applications for consumer information appliances.  An advanced degree in
computational linguistics or closely related field is required as well
as 5-7 years experience managing and directing linguistics staff and
contractors working in 25 languages.  The salary will be $80,000+ and is
available immediately.  Should you be interested, please email a resume
to my attention as soon as possible.  There is no charge to you, the
candidate for this service.  Thank you.

Sincerely,
Brian de Vries
Executive Search Division
Baldwin Staffing Group, Calgary


________________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: Kent Clizbe <kent at gatesource.com>
   Subject: Computational Linguists


Hello all,

I'm a staffing consultant.  My background as an MA/Linguistics has
led me to specialize in Ontologists, Natural Language Processing
Specialists, Computational Linguists, and other related fields.

I currently have positions available with dynamic start-up
companies, pre-IPO, with stock options and great work conditions.
These companies are in Washington DC, Bay Area of California, and
Denver.

There are opportunities for Senior-level Ontologists (PhD in CS or
Linguisitics), and junior level (grad degree with experience
building ontologies), as well as Natural Language Processing
specialists, and Computational Linguists/Programmers.

I'm pasting in a few of the current job openings below.  If you know of
anyone who would be appropriate for these positions, please have them
contact me immediately.  Also, please pass these opportunities on to
others.

Thanks very much.

Kent Clizbe
kent at gatesource.com
703-222-6627


Position Title:  Senior  Ontologist (one vacancy)
Location:  California

Responsibilities:
* Provide leadership and direction to corporate knowledge
representation

effort.
* Organize and manage an on-going large-scale biological knowledge
representation production effort.
* Coordinate the efforts of team-members involved in ontology
building.
* Coordinate efforts of subject matter expert transfer of
knowledge to
the representation team.

Required Competencies:
* Experience building ontologies.
* Experience managing staff in knowledge representation projects
* Experience working with subject matter experts
* Ability to complete projects on time and within budget

Desired Competencies:
* Knowledge of Biological issues and vocabulary
* Experience in genetic and protein-related research

Required Educational Background:
* Graduate level degree in a field related to Ontology:
Linguistics,
* Computational Linguistics, Computer Science

Desired Educational Background:
PhD in Computational Linguistics with in-depth research in
Ontologies

Salary:  $90k-130k


*****************************

Position Title:   Ontologist (four vacancies)
Location:  California

Reports to:  Senior Ontologist

Responsibilities:  Build ontologies in a team of knowledge
representation experts.  Gather, analyze and categorize biological
knowledge from diverse sources.   Work with subject matter experts
to
accurately present knowledge.

Required Competencies:
* Experience building ontologies, or in electronic publishing
mark-up
languages, or related categorizing specialties.
* Experience in commercial world.

Desired Competencies:
* Knowledge of Biological issues and vocabulary
* Experience in genetic and protein-related research
* Data modeling experience in bio-technology

Required Educational Background:
Degree in a field related to Biology or Medicine

Desired Educational Background:
PhD in Biology with research in computational data modeling.

Salary:  $60k-80k

*********************++++++++++++++++++++++**************************+++++++++++++++++++

Position Title:   Natural Language Processing Specialist (one vacancy)
Location: California

Reports to:  Senior Ontologist

Responsibilities:  Knowledge extraction from medical/biomedical text
corpus in support of knowledge representation product.

Required Educational Background:
MS in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics

Salary:  $80k-100k


*********************++++++++++++++++++++++**************************+++++++++++++++++++

Position:  Computational Linguist/Natural Language Processing Programmer

Location:  Washington DC

Our client applies the most advanced techniques in computational
linguistics to the problems of communicating information over the
web.
Our client�s founder has been in charge of technology
for two previous startups, both of which were sold to larger
corporations. One of these was acquired for $38 million when only 8
months old.  Financial backing for our client comes from a group of
extremely
successful high-tech executives, who have been collectively
responsible for the creation of billions of dollars of value through
companies they have founded, funded, and managed.

My client is an Internet software start-up developing natural-
language-understanding
applications. They offer interesting and challenging work in a casual
environment in Washington
DC.

We are looking for five Computational Linguists for permanent
positions starting immediately. Our ideal candidate would have a
background combining some
computational linguistics research with experience developing commercial

software.

Required:
Very strong C++ skills and experience with industrial-strength NT or
UNIX server
applications.

Other
Desirable skills/experience include:

- C++ STL
- COM, ATL
- CORBA
- C++/Java integration
- multithreaded programming
- information retrieval/search
- web-based distributed apps
- WordNet applications

Strong written English skills are essential; knowledge of other
languages is a big plus.

*****************++++++++++++++++++++******************++++++++++++++++**********




POSITION: SR. APPLICATIONS ENGINEER

Location:  Washington DC

DEPARTMENT: INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS

JOB DESCRIPTION:

     This position is a member of a group that is developing an
enterprise-level document management
     application within the Intelligence Community.  Responsibilities
include configuration and  customization of electronic document
management COTS products, user
interface design and  development (web and client/server), workflow
analysis and
engineering, and programming in 4GL  languages.   The work typically
involves use of  APIs to accomplish
integration with COTS products,
 and requires familiarity with RDBMS concepts and SQL.

EDUCATION:

     BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
Subject-matter expertise with the US
     Intelligence or DoD Communities a plus.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

     A minimum of three years hands-on experience in Visual Basic
applications development and
     programming.
     A minimum of two years hands-on experience with web-related
technologies and web content delivery.
     Knowledge of SQL and database concepts.
     Familiarity with web site authoring tools, web browsers and their
unique limitations, as well as
     programmatic methods for client/server interaction with data
repositories.
     A team player with effective communications skills.

DESIRED SKILLS:

     Familiarity with structured markup languages, such as SGML and XML.

     Familiarity with integration of the web with content management,
conversion, and search and retrieval
     tools.
     Experience with Intelligence Community activities and technical
solutions ( i.e. Intelink, intelligence
     gathering, analysis, and dissemination.)
     Experience in any of the following products or languages:
          Documentum EDMS / DocPage Builder
          Oracle RDBMS
          Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server
          Adobe Acrobat Plug-ins
          MS Office development and integration
          HTML and VB User Interface Development
          Java, Java script


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 27 11:09:12 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:09:12 +0100
Subject: Appel: ANLP/NAACL 2000
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.120912.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>




                    Language Technology Joint Conference
                     Applied Natural Language Processing
                                   and the
                        North American Chapter of the
                  Association for Computational Linguistics
          General Conference Chair:  Marie Meteer, BBN Technologies

                              CALL FOR PAPERS

  Contents: 1. Overview
            2. ANLP Call for Papers
            3. NAACL Call for Papers
            4. Format for Submissions
            5. Deadlines

  1.  Overview

  The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to
  announce that the 2000 Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
  conference and the first conference of the new North American
  Chapter of the ACL (NAACL) will be held jointly 29 April to 3 May
  2000 in Seattle, Washington.

  The joint conferences will offer a unique opportunity to bring
  industry and researchers together to explore the full spectrum of
  computational linguistics and natural language processing, from
  theory and methodology to their application in commercial software.

  For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished
  contributions to computational linguistics are solicited. (See the
  separate Call for Student Papers to be announced soon for requirements
  for submissions to the student sessions.) Submissions are due by 17
  November 1999. See submission details below.

  The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language
  processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and
  standardization; tools, techniques, and resources contributing to the
  development of complete end-to-end applications of NLP; evaluation of
  system performance and related issues. In particular, submissions should
  be directed to one of the following subject areas:

     * Monolingual text processing systems
     * Multilingual text processing systems
     * Spoken language and multimodal systems
     * Integrated NLP systems
     * Tools and resources for developing NLP systems
     * Evaluation of performance of complete NLP systems

  The NAACL program committee invites papers on methodology, approaches,
  algorithms, models, analyses and experiments in computational
  linguistics. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main
  areas:

     * Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
     * Semantics and the Lexicon
     * Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology
     * Generation and Summarization
     * Spoken Language
     * Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing
     * Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction
     * Multilingual Natural Language Processing

  There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and
  ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP,
  authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the
  methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a
  particular problem.

  A paper accepted for presentation at either meeting must not be or have
  been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings.
  A paper may not be submitted to both NAACL 2000 and ANLP 2000, but may be
  submitted to other conferences provided that, if accepted, it is
  withdrawn from all but one. Submission to other conferences should be
  indicated on the paper.

  Papers will not be exchanged between the two program committees. However,
  in the final program, papers may be grouped or juxtaposed in related
  sessions to highlight similarities and downplay artificial distinctions.

  We also appreciate that it can be advantageous to view the same work from
  both a theoretical/methodological perspective and an applied perspective;
  we welcome paired submissions to NAACL and ANLP, though each submission
  needs to make a significant contribution on its own.

  Please acknowledge the related submissions and include their abstracts
  with your submission, though decisions will be made independently and
  acceptance of one does not guarantee acceptance of the other.

  Original papers that do not easily fall within one of the suggested areas
  are also invited. The submission should be directed to the chair of the
  respective program committee, with the topic area slot in the submission
  template empty.


  2.  ANLP Call for Papers

                             ANLP Call for Papers
            Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference
                           29 April to 3 May 2000
                             Seattle, Washington
   Program Committee Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University

  The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language
  processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and
  standardization; tools and resources contributing to the development of
  complete end applications of NLP; evaluation of system performance and
  related issues.

  In particular, submissions should be directed to one of the following
  subject areas:

  Monolingual Text Processing Systems.
  Area Chair: Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento Italy
  Systems devoted to information retrieval, text data mining, information
  extraction, text summarization and related applications.

  Multilingual Text Processing Systems.
  Area Chair: Richard Kittredge, University of Montreal, Canada
  Systems devoted to machine translation, human-aided machine translation,
  machine-aided human translation, cross-lingual information retrieval,
  multi-document multilingual information extraction and summarization,
  text data mining and related applications.

  Spoken Language and Multimodal Systems.
  Area Chair: Susann Luperfoy, IET Inc. and Georgetown University, USA
  Text and dialog processing on telephony, workstation, and PDA platforms.

  Integrated NLP Systems.
  Area Chair: Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information
  Sciences Institute, USA
  Combinations of multiple NLP applications; multimodal and multimedia
  systems; adaptation and standardization of existing NLP systems, embedded
  NLP systems and integration of legacy systems.

  Tools and Resources for Developing NLP Systems.
  Area Chair: Lynn Carlson, Department of Defense, USA
  Development and content of descriptive resources, such as grammars and
  lexicons of particular languages or sets of languages, ontologies,
  processed corpora and others; the acquisition and quick ramp-up tools for
  NLP systems; and methodologies for development and knowledge acquisition
  for NLP systems and environments and tools for training developers of NLP
  systems.

  Evaluation of Performance of Complete NLP Systems.
  Area Chair: John White, Lytton/PRC, USA
  Methodologies, case studies and tools.

  3.  NAACL Call for Papers


                            NAACL Call for Papers
     1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for
                          Computational Linguistics
                           29 April to 3 May 2000
                             Seattle, Washington
     Program Committee Chair: Janyce Wiebe, New Mexico State University

  For the general sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original,
  and unpublished research contributions on all aspects of computational
  linguistics methodology, enabling technologies, approaches, algorithms,
  models, analyses, and experiments. See the separate Call for Student
  Papers (to be announced) for requirements for submissions to the student
  sessions. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main
  areas, as follows.

  Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics.
  Area Chair: Diane Litman, AT&T Research.
  Empirical and knowledge-based approaches to discourse and dialogue;
  Dialogue management in spoken dialogue systems; Discourse segmentation;
  Anaphora resolution; Discourse parsing; Narrative understanding; Design,
  evaluation, and use of discourse annotation schemes; Topic detection and
  tracking; Intentional and relational discourse analysis; Robust discourse
  processing; Methods for evaluating dialogue/discourse systems and their
  components; Integration with other levels of linguistic processing.

  Semantics and the Lexicon.
  Area Chair: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto.
  Semantic formalisms; Ontologies; Word-sense disambiguation; Event
  recognition and categorization; Logics for natural language; Extracting
  information from on-line dictionaries; Refining sense inventories;
  Computational lexicography; Lexical resource development.

  Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology.
  Area Chair: Michael Collins, AT&T Research.
  Grammar formalisms; Theoretical and empirical studies of parsing
  algorithms; Finite-state methods; Representation of syntactic,
  morphological, and phonological aspects of the lexicon; Robust and
  shallow parsing; Syntax annotation schemes; Grammar induction; Formal
  properties of symbolic and weighted/stochastic grammars.

  Generation and Summarization.
  Area Chair: Nancy Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
  Strategic generation for text and dialogue (text planning, argumentation
  strategies, etc.); Tactical generation (sentence aggregation, lexical
  choice, etc.); Multimodal and multimedia generation; Knowledge
  acquisition and resources for generation and summarization;
  User-customized generation and summarization; Evaluation methodologies
  for generation and summarization; Application of generation, information
  extraction, and information retrieval techniques to summarization.

  Spoken Language.
  Area Chair: Andreas Stolcke, SRI International.
  Language modeling; Prosody; Speech annotation; Speech synthesis; Modeling
  of spontaneous speech phenomena (disfluencies, discourse markers, etc.);
  Comparative analyses of spoken and written language; Robust NLP for
  speech recognition output; Higher-level knowledge sources (e.g.,
  dialogue) for speech recognition; Automatic segmentation of speech into
  sentences, topics, discourse units, etc.; Integration of speech with
  other modalities such as text and gesture; Methods for speech-to-speech
  translation.

  Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing.
  Area Chair: Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba.
  Annotation, including automatic and semi-automatic methods, mapping
  between schemes, analyzing and improving agreement, minimizing costs;
  Induction of patterns and structures such as selectional frames and
  concept hierarchies; Extraction of terms and collocations; Text mining
  and knowledge discovery from text; Distributional similarity; Learning
  applied to NLP, including bootstrapping, smoothing, and multi-strategy
  learning.

  Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction.
  Area Chair: Philip Resnik, University of Maryland.
  Computational psycholinguistics; Models of human sentence processing,
  language understanding, language generation, and language acquisition;
  Use of natural language in human-computer interaction; Evaluation of
  interfaces that use natural language (including multimodal and multimedia
  interfaces), by field studies, laboratory experimentation, or analytical
  methods.

  Multilingual Natural Language Processing.
  Area Chair: Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute.
  Methods addressing the research challenges of multilingual environments,
  including cross-language divergences, producing fluent text, and dealing
  with non-literal translation equivalents; Methods for machine translation
  (direct, transfer, example-based, knowledge-based, interlingual,
  statistical, etc.); Design of interlinguas; Multilingual lexicons;
  Lexical acquisition for machine translation and cross-language
  information retrieval; Machine-assisted translation; Multilingual
  generation; Alignment of multilingual texts; Methods for exploiting
  parallel or comparable corpora for natural language processing tasks.
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Authors will be asked to identify the area or areas to which their
  submission corresponds. Relevant papers not fitting precisely into any of
  these areas are also welcome. All papers will be reviewed by at least
  three experts.

  There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and
  ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP,
  authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the
  methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a
  particular problem.


  4.  Format for Submissions

  Submissions must use the ACL latex style aclsub.sty or Microsoft Word
  style ACL-submission.doc (both available from the conference web page)
  and may be no more than 3,200 words in total length, exclusive of title
  page and references. If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly,
  a description of the required format will be available on the
  conference web page. If you cannot access the conference web page,
  send email to anlp-naacl2000 at bbn.com with subject SUBSTYLE.

  Reviewing will be blind. Thus, separate identification and title pages
  are required.

  The identification page should include the following. It should be sent
  in a separate e-mail message from the body of the paper itself.

     * Title
     * Paper ID Code: see below
     * Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses
     * Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission
     * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
     * Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP)
     * Word Count, excluding title page and references
     * Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list
     * Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary

  The title page should include:

     * Title
     * Paper ID Code: see below
     * Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission
     * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
     * Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP)
     * Word Count, excluding title page and references
     * Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list
     * Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary

  Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted from the paper itself.
  Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We
  previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... ") should be avoided. Instead, use
  citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)....".

  Papers that do not conform to these requirements are subject to being
  rejected without review.


  SUBMISSION QUESTIONS

  NAACL submission questions should be sent to:
  naacl2000-program at nmsu.edu

  Program Chair, NAACL 2000
  Computing Research Laboratory
  BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL
  Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

  ANLP submission questions should be sent to:
  anlp2000-program at nmsu.edu

  Program Chair, ANLP 2000
  Computing Research Laboratory
  BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL
  Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

  The calls for papers, style files, and information about tutorials,
  workshops, and the student session will be available on the conference
  web site. The conference web site will be reachable from the ACL Home
  Page, www.aclweb.org, in the near future.

  SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

  1) Submission notification: You must submit a notification of submission
  by filling out a form on the conference web page at least one week before
  the submission deadline. This will return to you an email with an ID
  number that should be included on the identification page, the title page
  and the header of every page of the paper. Also, please use it on all
  correspondence with the program committee chair. The form will be
  available on the web after October 1.

  2) Electronic submission: send the postscript or MS Word form of your
  submission to: naacl2000-program at nmsu.edu or anlp2000-program at nmsu.edu

  The Subject line should contain conference.submission_id.format, e.g.,
  "naacl.100.ps" or "anlp.100.pdf" or "naacl.100.doc".

  Please submit the identification page in a separate email.

  Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be
  e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt.

  In extreme cases, an author unable to comply with the above submission
  procedure should contact the program chair sufficiently before the
  submission deadline so alternative arrangements can be made.



  5.  Deadlines

   Submission notification
   deadline:                         10-Nov-99
   Paper submission deadline:        17-Nov-99
   Notification of acceptance for
   papers:                           01-Feb-00
   Camera ready papers due:          12-Mar-00
   Regular sessions begin:           01-May-00
  A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final
  version.


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 27 11:09:14 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:09:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: CLIN'99
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.120914.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Paola Monachesi <Paola.Monachesi at let.uu.nl>




    [Apologies if you receive this message more than once]

*********************************************************************

                 CLIN 99 Second 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 languages of the conference will be Dutch and
English.

The invited speaker will be Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania).

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 Aug 27 11:10:14 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:10:14 +0100
Subject: Appel : NLPRS'99 Workshop
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.121014.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Isahara Hitoshi <isahara at crl.go.jp>


Dear Colleagues,

Attached is the call for papers for the NLPRS'99 workshop of Natural
Language Processing and Neural Networks. Please help us to distribute
this to people who will be interested in.


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			Call for Papers	

			NLPRS'99 Workshop
	Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks
		Beijing, China, November 5, 1999

                 http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs99/

The artificial neural networks (ANN) began to be an attract approach to
natural language processing (NLP) since several works on parsing were
done using ANN techniques in 1985. Since then, with the boom of NLP
research based on very large corpora, the ANN, as a powerful parallel
and distributed learning/processing machine, attract a more great deal
of attention from both the ANN and NLP researchers and have been
successfully used in many areas of NLP.

This workshop will provide a forum for researchers in both the areas of
ANN and NLP who are interested in advancing the state in developing NLP
techniques by using ANN approach.

Submissions are invited on all NLP topics in the context of using ANN
techniques.

The workshop review and acceptance will be based on a two-page extended
summary (2000 words or less). The summary must be accompanied by paper
title and author information including full names, affiliations of all
authors and the postal mailing address and email of the corresponding
author.

Submit by email to qma at crl.go.jp

IMPORTANT DATES

Summary submission deadline:    September 15
Notification of acceptance:     September 30
Camera ready papers due: 	October 15

Inquiries concerning the workshop can be sent to one of the organisers
either by email to qma at crl.go.jp or by post to the following address:

Dr. Qing Ma
Intelligent Processing Section
Kansai Advanced Research Center
Communications Research Laborotory
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
588-2, Iwaoka, Nishi-ku, Kobe, 651-2401, Japan
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Dr. Hitoshi Isahara
Dr. Qing Ma
Intelligent Processing Section
Kansai Advanced Research Center
Communications Research Laborotory
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
588-2, Iwaoka, Nishi-ku, Kobe, 651-2401, Japan


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug  2 10:15:48 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:15:48 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLP-2000
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.111548.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Dimitris N. Christodoulakis" <dxri at cti.gr>



		PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
 ==============================================================================

	 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing

	     NLP 2000:  Filling the gap between theory and practice

			Samos, Greece, 1-4 June 2000

		       URL: http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000
 	

ORGANIZED BY:
-------------
 ?  Computer Technology Institute of Patras
 ?  University of Patras
    - Computer Engineering Dept. (Database Laboratory)
    - Philology Dept. (Linguistics Section)
 ?  University of Athens
    - Informatics Dept.
 ?  University of  the Aegean
    - Information & Communication Systems Dept.

OBJECTIVES                                                                      ----------
We feel that this is the most opportune time for a critical view of the
achievements both in theory and in practice, and for developing bridges in
order to build emerging advanced systems and services that will provide the
breadth of information envisaged. The aim is to fill the gap between theory
and practice so that developments and needs in theory to take advantage and
give insights for new developments in technological methods and applications,
and visa-versa. The goal is to bring together people that will attest to
the progress of the field and disseminate it to a wider audience.

The conference will provide a forum to bring together researchers from the
fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated translation,
information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest in computational
aspects of terminology processing: acquisition, extraction, indexing,
machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary construction, etc. We also
hope that researchers in all areas of NLP will participate, to discuss ways
in which their own work could contribute, even if they are not currently
working on these applications.

Specific themes of the conference include :

	- Linguistic Models in NLP
	- Language Engineering Techniques and Applications


INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
-----------------------
All abstracts (not more than 2000 words, including references) must be
submitted in hard copy or electronic PostScript form to:

	Mrs. Xara Diamantopoulou
	University of Patras
	Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics
	Database Laboratory
	GR - 26 500 Patras - Greece
	Email: xdiam at cti.gr
	Tel: (+3061) 960.382
	Fax: (+3061) 997.783

PROCEEDINGS
-----------
Proceedings will be published by an international Publishing Company (approval
pending).

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
	. 15 December 1999, Abstract submission
	. 30 January 2000, Selection of submitted abstracts
	. 5 February 2000, Acceptance Notification
	. 1 April 2000, Deadline for final camera-ready manuscripts

INVITED TALKS
-------------
We are pleased to announce that the Scientific Program will include invited
talks by the following guest speakers:

	. Berwick Bob (MIT), USA
	. Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France
	. Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Center Europe), France
	. Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Universit? du Qu?bec a Montr?al), Canada
	. Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland
	. Morin Jean Yves (University of Montreal), Canada
	. Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA
	. Theologitis Dimitris (Commission of the European Union), Luxemburg
	. Wehrli Eric (University of Geneva), Switzerland
	. Wilks Yorik (University of Sheffield), England

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------

Program Committee Chair:

	. Christodoulakis Dimitris (University of Patras), Greece

Members:

	. Berwick Bob (MIT), USA
	. Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France
	. Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Centre Europe), France
	. Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Universit? du Qu?bec a Montreal), Canada
	. Filokyprou George (University of Athens), Greece
	. Galiotou Eleni (Technological Educational Institute of Athens), Greece
	. Grigoriadou Maria (University of Athens), Greece
	. Iordanidou Anna (University of Patras), Greece
	. Kokkinakis George (University of Patras), Greece
	. Kontos John (Athens University of Economics and Business), Greece
	. Koster Kees (University of Nijmegen), The Netherlands
	. Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland
	. Morin Jean-Yves (University of Montreal), Canada
	. Ralli Angela (University of Patras), Greece
	. Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA
	. Simeonidi-Annastasiadi Anna (University of Thessaloniki), Greece
	. Theologitis Dimitris (Commission of the European Union), Luxemburg
	. Tsalidis Christos (Computer Technology Institute), Greece
	. Vouros George (University of the Aegean), Greece
	. Wehrli Eric (University of Geneva), Switzerland
	. Wilks Yorik (University of Sheffield), England

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
---------------------

	. Diamantopoulou Xara, (CTI), Greece
	. Gakis Panagiotis, (CTI), Greece
	. Karassimos Thanassis (University of Patras), Greece
	. Kourakos Evangelos
	. Malagardi Ioanna (General Secretariat for Research and Technology)
	. Manousopoulou Natassa
	. Markopoulos George
	. Orphanos Giorgos (CTI), Greece
	. Papakitsos Vagelis (University of Athens), Greece
	. Sgarbas Kyriakos (University of Patras), Greece


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug  2 10:16:00 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:16:00 +0100
Subject: Soft: Epos
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.111600.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Petr Horak <horak at ure.cas.cz>


Epos speech system announcement.

Apologies if you receive this repeatedly through multiple forums.

We would like to announce Epos, a language independent
TTS system primarily designed to serve as a research tool.
Epos is available for download under the
General Public License at
http://epos.ure.cas.cz/
including documentation and the full source code.

The present version includes configuration files
for Czech and Slovak languages only, but we are planning to
support some other languages in a medium-distant
future using the MBROLA speech synthesizer,
and we shall be glad to provide the necessary
support for preparing a rule-driven configuration
for other languages, or a speech segment inventory
compatible with one of our synthesizers.

In theory, Epos can be compiled using any C++ compiler
(e.g. a reasonably recent version of GNU C++, MS Visual C++,
Watcom C++, or Borland C++ Builder), and should run on most
UNIX-like operating systems and Windows NT (the NT port
is somewhat less stable due to still inadequate testing).
Epos speaks using the /dev/dsp device on UNIX platforms, and
it generates Microsoft RIFF wave files (.wav) under Windows NT.
Its hardware requirements are modest.

You can send any additional questions or bug reports to the
Epos developer mailing list:  epos at braille.mff.cuni.cz
or have a look at the documentation at
http://epos.ure.cas.cz/epos.html

The Epos team


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug  2 10:16:01 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:16:01 +0100
Subject: Conf: MT Summit
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.111601.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>

Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this message.  I am forwarding this
reminder to several lists and people who might not yet have received it.

Best,

Jeff

---------------------------------------------------------------------
From:  Hozumi Tanaka
          Chairman, Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation

---------------------------------------------------------------------

               MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII
              "MT in the Great Translation Era"

              September 13-17, 1999, Singapore

                 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW !

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.  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
  Tuesday, 14 September:    Main conference  Exhibition  Reception
  Wednesday, 15 September:  Main conference  Exhibition  Banquet
  Thursday, 16 September:   Main conference  Exhibition
  Friday, 17 September:     Workshop

To register, please get "registration form" from
           http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99/register.htm
and send it to the secretariat of MT Summit whose address is on the
top of the form.

Please consult the website for further information:

  full program for the main conference, and workshop,
           http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html

  venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation,
           http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99/

  By e-mail, please contact:
                  secret-4 at tokyo.intergroup.co.jp (Japan)
                   vicky at krdl.org.sg (Singapore)

                       We hope to see you there!

             Hozumi Tanaka,   President of AAMT
             Jun'ichi Tsujii, Chair of Program Committee
             Low Hwee Boon,   Chair of Local Organization Committee

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************************************************
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
************************************************





=================================================
Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)  &
European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA)
(Agence Europe'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 Aug  2 10:16:54 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:16:54 +0100
Subject: Appel: Generation, Systematicity, ...
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.111654.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Erradi Mohammed <erradi at iera.um5souissi.ac.ma>


International Colloquium :
Generation, Systematicity of Language and Automatic Translation

Rabat, November 15-17, 1999



Generation plays an important role in the formation of language
expressions, in the activation of their productivity, and in their use
to name new notions or concepts. While these expressions are derived
from a limited alphabet expressing unlimited meanings, the composition
of the elements of this alphabet, their fusion, and the recursive
composition of the derived entities lead to the generation of new
expressions. This allows for more and even unlimited possibilities of
forms of expressions. The significance could firstly be seen as a
limited alphabet regarding the conceptual/intentional stratum. However,
the mechanism of generation allows the transformation of this limited
system into an unlimited product.

This approach, which is based on the shift from the limited to the
unlimited, has important consequences in determining the systematicity
of language, its acquisition, its adequate processing, and the
development of appropriate tools to illustrate its memorization, and
what is stored as associations of sounds and meanings (in relation to
the general or specialized language).

It also enables us to measure similarities and differences between
languages in a comparative multilingual framework. Computational
generation is then an active mechanism of the language, which reflects
its life and dynamism. It also allows to test its systematic reality,
and to measure the deviation of its genius from its reality, riddled
with mistakes, exceptions, and incoherence, as well as to identify the
degree of arbitrariness in the association between meaning and form,
generating words, synonyms, antonyms, and other association forms due to
a limited vocabulary, but not limited meanings. It is indeed a matter of
compressed structures that acquire their meaning only in a computational
and compositional system. Finally, generation is also a mechanism
permitting the passage from one language to another according to certain
parametric values. This is then a new way to treat multilingualism
(namely translation).

In fact, at the time of the revolution of technologie and the
spectacular and permanent development of information, the transfer of
knowledge requires, more than ever before, resorting to automatic (or
computer assisted) translation. In an environment dominated by Internet
and glorbalisation, automatic and computer assisted translation becomes
an unavoidable resource to cope wiith the flow of information and insure
time and cost savings.

Different aspects of the problem will be addressed in this colloquium
through the following topics:

Morphological generation
Generation in syntax
Semantic generation
Terminological generation
Multilingualism, automatic translation and comparative generation
Language learning and generation
Structure of electronic dictionary and automatic translation
Contribution of linguists in the development an automatic translation
system
Automatic translation : state of arts in Arabic  countries

Although The colloquium will focus mainly on the Arabic language, it
will be also interested in result studies and available tools for other
languages.

An exhibition of automatic softwares related to generation (including
those related to automatic translation) will be set up with the
participation of concerned researchers and societies.

Presentations will be given in Arabic, French, or English.

The colloquium will take place from 16 to 18 June 1999. Participants are
requested to send abstracts in 3 copies to the address below before 15
September 1999, and the full texts before 10 October 1999.


Address:
The organizing committee of the colloquium on generation
The Institute of Study and Research on Arabization
Allal El-Fassi Avenue
B.P. 6216
Rabat-Institutes, Morocco.
Tel :  (212) (7)   77.30.12
Fax : (212) (7)  77.20.65
e-mail: erradi at iera.um5souissi.ac.ma

BULLETIN DE PARTICIPATION

Nom et Prenom:
Institut ou organisme:
Fonction:
Adresse:
Fax:
T?l?phone:
e-mail:

Titre de la contribution:


Signature:
Date:


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug 16 07:30:30 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:30:30 +0100
Subject: Job: 1 Offer
Message-ID: <MON.16.AUG.1999.083030.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Malek Boualem <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr>


Sony`s advanced European Research and Development Centre based
in the beautiful city of Stuttgart in Southern Germany hosts a
high calibre international team of engineering experts. We are expanding one
of our teams and seek R&D engineers with university level
education.

        You should have previous experience in:

                         * speech recognition
                         * speech understanding
                         * spoken or multimodel dialog
                         * artificial intelligence and machine learning

You need to have C/C++, Java programming experience and good
English language capabilities.

We offer a competitive salary and a position within the crew who
is creating Sony products for the next century. Please send your
application in English to:

        Ms. Roswitha Kalkhoff

        SONY INTERNATIONAL (EUROPE) GMBH
        HUMAN RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL
        STUTTGARTER STR. 106,
        D-70736 FELLBACH
        GERMANY

        or e-mail to: kalkhof at sony.de
        or fax to: ++49-711-5858-194


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug 16 07:30:34 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:30:34 +0100
Subject: Appel: ALLC/ACH'00
Message-ID: <MON.16.AUG.1999.083034.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>




                            *******************
                              ALLC / ACH 2000
                            *******************

                           University of Glasgow
                              Glasgow G12 8QQ
                               Scotland / UK
                            21 - 25 July, 2000



                          FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


           ALLC/ACH 2000 invites submissions of between 1000 and 1500
           words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly
           defined as the point of intersection between computing
           methodologies and problems in humanities research and
           teaching, encompassing both traditional and new, and
           discipline-specific and inter-disciplinary, approaches.

           Appropriate discipline areas include, but are not limited
           to, languages and literature, history, philosophy, music,
           art, film studies, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology,
           creative writing, and cultural studies. We particularly
           encourage submissions from non-text-based areas and from
           library science, both of which have been under-represented
           in the past.

           Other areas of interest include the creation and use of
           digital resources (what has been characterised as
           'extending the scale and breadth of scholarly evidence')
           and the application to humanities data of techniques
           developed in such fields as information science and the
           physical sciences and engineering (including neural
           networks and image processing).

           We are interested in receiving
               - technical proposals that focus on new computational
                 tools and approaches to research in humanities disciplines;
               - proposals that focus on traditional applications of
                 computing in humanities disciplines, including (but
                 not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text
                 corpora, computational lexicography, statistical
                 models, and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other
                 forms of text analysis;
               - proposals which present and discuss applications of
                 computing methodologies and tools to audio and visual materials;
               - proposals that focus on significant issues of
                 creation, representation, discovery, delivery,
                 management and preservation of digital and other
                 resources relevant to the humanities;
               - proposals that present and evaluate the use of
                 computers in humanities teaching;
               - proposals dealing with the role of humanities
                 computing in undergraduate and graduate
                 teaching and institutional support for humanities
                 computing.

           PhD students are encouraged to submit proposals. Those
           describing finished research may be submitted as
           papers. Ongoing dissertation research may be submitted as
           poster proposals. See below for details.

           Those interested in seeing the type of paper the committee
           is looking for can consult the abstracts of
           papers at previous conferences:

                 University of Bergen, Norway
                 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
                 Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary
                 University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

           Students and young scholars should also read the note on
           bursaries later in this document.

           Papers may be given in English, French, and German, but to
           facilitate the reviewing process we ask that proposals for
           papers in a language other than English are submitted with
           an English translation.

           The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is
           15 NOVEMBER 1999. The deadline for submissions of
           poster/demo proposals is 15 JANUARY 2000.

     FORMAT OF PROPOSALS
           Proposals may be of four types: papers, posters, software
           demonstrations, and sessions. The type of
           submission should be specified in the header of the
           proposal.

     PAPERS
           Proposals for papers (1000-1500 words) should describe
           completed research which has given rise to
           substantial results. Individual papers will be allocated 30
           minutes for presentation, including questions.

           Proposals should describe original work. Those that
           concentrate on the development of new computing
           methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are
           applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and
           should include some critical assessment of the application
           of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that
           concentrate on a particular application in the humanities
           should cite traditional as well as computer-based
           approaches to the problem and should include some critical
           assessment of the computing methodologies used. All
           proposals should include conclusions and references to
           important sources. Those describing the creation or use of
           digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as
           possible.

     POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
           Poster presentations and software and project
           demonstrations (either stand-alone or in conjunction
           with poster presentations) are designed to give researchers
           an opportunity to present late-breaking
           results, significant work in progress, well-defined
           problems, or research that is best communicated in
           conversational mode.

           By definition, poster presentations are less formal and
           more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters
           have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with
           attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those
           most deeply interested in the same topic. Each presenter is
           provided with about 2 square metres of board space to
           display their work. They may also provide handouts with
           examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain
           on display throughout the conference, but a block of time
           separate from paper sessions will be assigned when
           presenters should be prepared to explain their work and
           answer questions. Specific times will also be assigned for
           software or project demonstrations.

           The format for proposals for posters and software
           demonstrations are the same as those for regular
           papers.

           Proposals for software or project demonstrations should
           indicate the type of hardware that would be
           required if the proposal is accepted.

     SESSIONS
           Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either:
           ((a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a
           500-word statement describing the session
           topic, include abstracts of 1000-1500 words for each paper,
           and indicate that each author is willing to
           participate in the session; or
           (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer
           should submit an abstract of 1000-1500 words
           describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the
           names of all the speakers, and an indication
           that each speaker is willing to participate in the
           session.

           The deadline for session proposals is the same as for
           proposals for papers.

     FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS
           All submissions must be sent electronically. Please pay
           particular attention to the format given below.
           Submissions which do not conform to this format will be
           returned to the authors for reformatting, or may
           not be considered if they arrive very close to the
           deadline.

           All submissions should begin with the following
           information:

           TYPE OF PROPOSAL:
                 paper, poster, session or software demonstration.
           TITLE: title of paper or session
           KEYWORDS:
                 three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents
                 of the paper or session

           If submitting a session proposal, give the following
           information for each paper:
           TITLE: title of paper
           KEYWORDS:
                 three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents
                 of the paper AUTHOR: name of first
                 author
           AFFILIATION:
                 of first author
           E-MAIL:
                 of first author

           If submitting a paper proposal, give the following
           information:

           AUTHOR:
                 name of first author
           AFFILIATION:
                 of first author
           E-MAIL:
                 of first author

           AUTHOR:
                 name of second author (repeat these three headings as
                 necessary)
           AFFILIATION:
                 of second author
           E-MAIL:
                 of second author

           CONTACT ADDRESS:
                 full postal address of first author or contact person
                 for session proposals
           FAX NUMBER:
                 of first author
           PHONE NUMBER:
                 of first author

           Proposals should take the form of ASCII or ISO-8859/1
           files. Where necessary, a header should indicate the
           combinations of ASCII characters used to represent
           characters outside the ASCII or ISO 8859/1 range. Notes, if
           needed, should take the form of endnotes rather than
           footnotes.

           Submissions should be entered into the online
           (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/proposal_form.html)
           form or emailed to allcach2k at arts.gla.ac.uk with the
           subject line "<Author's surname> Submission for ALLCACH2k".

           Those who submit abstracts containing graphics and tables
           are asked to fax a copy of the abstract in
           addition to the one sent electronically. Faxes should be
           sent to: +44 141 330 4537. The cover page
           should reproduce the header from the electronic
           submission.

     EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY
           Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a
           slide projector, a data projector which will
           display Macintosh, DOS/Windows, and video (but not
           simultaneously), an Internet connected computer
           which will run Macintosh OS programs or DOS/Windows
           programs, and a VHS (PAL) videocassette
           recorder. NTSC format may be available; if you anticipate
           needing NTSC, please note this information in
           your proposal.

           Requests for other presentation equipment will be
           considered by the local organizers; requests for
           special equipment should be directed to the local
           organizers no later than January 31, 2000.

     DEADLINES
           November 15, 1999: Submission of proposals for papers and
           sessions, posters and software
           demonstrations.
           February 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance.

     PUBLICATION
           A book of abstracts will be provided to all conference
           participants. In addition, abstracts will be
           published on the conference web page. An announcement in
           regard to publication of full papers will be
           made in due course.

     INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
           Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who
           will make recommendations to the Program
           Committee comprising:

            Paul Fortier, University of Manitoba (Chair) Fortier at cc.umanitoba.ca
            John Dawson Cambridge University JLD1 at cam.ac.uk
            Laszlo Hunyadi, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, hunyadi at llab2.arts.klte.hu
            Elisabeth Burr, University of Duisburg, he229bu at unidui.uni-duisburg.de
            Julia Flanders, Brown University, julia_flanders at brown.edu
            Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Kentucky, (email
               address awaits confirmation)
            Willard McCarty, King's College, London, willard.mccarty at kcl.ac.uk
            Nancy Ide, Vassar College ide at cs.vassar.edu


     LOCAL ORGANIZERS
           Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow
           j.anderson at arts.gla.ac.uk
           Fiona Tweedie, University of Glasgow
           f.tweedie at stats.gla.ac.uk
           The remaining local organising committe members are listed
           here.

     BURSARIES
           As part of its commitment to promote the development and
           application of appropriate computing in
           humanities scholarship, the Association for Literary and
           Linguistic Computing will award up to five
           bursaries of up to 500 GB pounds each to students and young
           scholars who have papers accepted for
           presentation at the conference. Applicants must be members
           of ALLC. The ALLC will make the awards
           after the Program Committee have decided which proposals
           are to be accepted. Recipients will be
           notified as soon as possible thereafter. A participant in a
           multi-author paper is eligible for an award, but
           it must be clear that s/he is contributing substantially to
           the paper. Applications must be made to the
           conference organizer. The deadline for receipt of
           applications is the same as for submission of papers,
           i.e. November 15, 1999. Full details of the bursary scheme,
           and an on-line application form will be
           available from the conference web page.

     LOCATION
           Information on the University of Glasgow, on travel,
           accommodation (in nearby student residences from
           #21 to #30, and in hotels at a range of prices) and the
           social programme can all be found linked to the
           main conference web page

     FURTHER INFORMATION
           It is expected that the conference fee will be on the order
           of 150 GBP for members. This will include the
           printed abstracts, morning and afternoon refreshment
           breaks, and lunch.

           There will be a varied programme of social events,
           including tours to nearby lochs and mountains, a
           visit to a whisky distillery, tutored whisky tasting, and a
           ceilidh with traditional Scottish music and
           dancing.

           Queries concerning the goals of the conference or the
           format or content of papers should be addressed
           to:
           Jean Anderson,
           ALLC / ACH 2000,
           University of Glasgow,
           6 University Gardens,
           Glasgow G12 8QH, UK.
           Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4980
           email allcach2k at arts.gla.ac.uk


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Aug 16 07:31:51 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:31:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: RIAO-2000
Message-ID: <MON.16.AUG.1999.083151.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Nicolas Masson <masson at limsi.fr>


			
				RIAO 2000

		Content-Based Multimedia Information Access

				College de France

				Paris, France

				April 12-14, 2000


			Preliminary Announcement

			_______________

Organized by:

Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire
(C.I.D., France)
&
Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA)


With the collaboration of AII, ASIS, ELRA, Elsnet, ESCA, Francil
(preliminary list)
_______________


Introduction

The RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur =
Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval)
International Conference is held every 3 years. Sites for the conference
have been Grenoble (1985), Boston
(1988), Barcelona (1991), New York (1994) and Montreal (1997). Paris will
host the next RIAO conference in
Spring 2000. The conference is organized by the Centre de Hautes Etudes
Internationales d'Informatique
Documentaire (C.I.D.) and the Center for the Advanced Study of Information
Systems (C.A.S.I.S.).

The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information
Access". The conference scope will
range from the traditional processing of text documents to the rapidly
growing field of automatic indexing and
retrieval of images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of
audio-visual and multimedia information
on various supports, including the net. The conference is of interest for
several scientific communities, including
Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing,  Spoken Language
Processing, Computer Vision, Human-
Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve
as a forum for synergetic initiatives
and forward-looking applications.

The Scientific Committee will select the papers and the Application
Committee will select the innovative
applications and products to be presented at the conference. In order to
support the multi-disciplinary goals of
the conference, these international committees include representatives of
different scientific communities.

RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific research advances, demonstrations
of prototypes resulting from this
research as well as the most innovative products now appearing on the
market. A worldwide Call for Papers is
addressed to researchers engaged in academic or industrial research. The
associated Call for Applications is
addressed to companies and public organizations developing or marketing
hardware or software related to the
conference topics.


RIAO 2000 Conference Topics:
Under the theme "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access", the
following topics are among those
included for the Communications and for Innovative Application Demonstrations:

Document processing:
	Hypertextual and Hypermedia documents
	Human-Computer Interaction for document handling
	Textual and voice-based annotation creation and retrieval
	Digital libraries
	AI techniques for document generation and consultation
	Multimodal and transmodal human-machine communication

Information Retrieval:
	Information retrieval systems and methods
	Document search over the internet
	Text Mining
	Information and document routing/profiling/alerting
	Document classification

Spoken Language Processing:
	Voice-based document segmentation and transcription
	Voice-based document indexing and retrieval
	Identification of language of speaker
	Speaker recognition
	Audio Mining
	Non-verbal sound processing (music, noise...)

Natural Language Processing:
	Information extraction
	NLP techniques for document processing
	Terminology extraction and analysis
	Automatic thesaurus construction
	Multilingual and crosslingual document handling
	Machine translation of documents
	Automatic summarization
	Identification of language of text

Image processing:
	Automatic indexing and retrieval of visual documents
	Computer graphics for document generation and consultation
	Segmentation and indexing of visual data
	Face, gaze and expression recognition
	Character recognition in visual documents
	Image Mining
	Video indexing and retrieval

System architecture:
	Multi-agent architecture, search agents
	Intelligent agents, Androids and Avatars

Usage and best practice:
	Socio-economics of information retrieval
	Quantitative, qualitative and comparative evaluation
	Coding standards and Quality of Services
	Security and privacy
	Cognitive aspects, Human Factors and Ergonomics
	Legal aspects of multimedia document handling
	Multimedia and multimodal resources

Applications:

	Computer-aided information access for the handicapped
	Multimedia systems for medical applications
	Image Guided Surgery and Augmented Reality
	Medical documents archiving and retrieval
	Transmodal information access systems
	Telephone-based, nomad and in-vehicle systems
	Intelligent systems for call-center reporting
	Customized customer support (Aerospace product manuals...)
	Strategic and technology watch & Business Intelligence
	Real-Time information access for financial markets
	Information access for decision aid systems
	Multimodal Geographical Information Systems
	Television and Radio Broadcast Archiving and Browsing...



Call for Papers



The papers will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee.


RIAO 2000 International Scientific Committee :

Co-Chairs : Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) and Donna Harman (NIST, USA)

Jean-Claude Bassano (University of Orleans, France)
Alain Berthoz (LPPA, College de France, France)
Patrick Bouthemy (IRISA/INRIA, France)
George Carayannis (ILSP, Greece)
Francine Chen (Xerox, USA)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusets, USA)
Franciska de Jong (University of Twente,The Netherlands)
Susan Dumais (Microsoft, USA)
David Evans (CMU and Claritech, USA)
Christian Fluhr (CEA, France)
Hiroya Fujisaki (Science University of Tokyo, Japan)
Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Edouard Geoffrois (DGA/CTA, France)
Jean-Paul Haton (LORIA, France)
Alex Hauptman (CMU, USA)
Ulrich Heid (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Roland Hjerppe (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Mun Kew Leong ( Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore)
Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA)
Wessel Kraaij (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)
Francis Kubala (BBN, USA)
Gianni Lazzari (IRST, Italy)
Alain Leger (CNET- France Telecom, France)
R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Richard Marcus (MIT, USA)
Mark Maybury (MITRE, USA)
Frank Nack (GMD IPSI, Germany)
Klaus Netter (DFKI, Germany)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
Douglas Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
Dragutin Petkovic (IBM, USA)
Georges Quenot (CLIPS, France)
K. J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland, USA)
Ze'ev Rivlin (Natural Speech Communication, Israel)
Arnold Smeulders (ISIS, UvA, The Netherlands)
Karen Sparck Jones (University of Cambridge, UK)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Lucent technologies, USA)
Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia)
Phil Woodland (CUED, UK)



Call for Applications



Tools and products related to the conference topics are sought for
demonstration at special conference sessions.
Applications and products will be selected by the International Application
Committee, on the basis of their
innovation, utility, and present and future marketability.


RIAO 2000 International Application Committee :

Chair: Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox, France) and Pascal Faudemay (LIP6,
France)

Marie-Francoise Clergeau (College de France, France)
Daniel Confland (Jouve, France)
Max Copperman (Kanisa, USA)
Giorgio Dimino (RAI, Italy)
Michael Horowitz (Claritech, USA)
Hitoshi Iida (Sony Speech & Language Laboratory, Japan)
Hans-Joachim Novak (IBM, Germany)
Norbert Paquel (Canope, France)
Sylvie Regnier-Prost (Aerospatiale-Matra, France)
Remi Ronfard (INA, France)
Antonio Sanfilippo (EC, Luxembourg)
Laurent Schmitt (INIST-CNRS, France)
Vera Semenova (Sciper/Analit, Russia)
Joop Van Gent (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)




The RIAO 2000 Conference is organized by:

Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaires (C.I.D.)

36 bis rue Ballu
75009 Paris France
Tel: (33 / 0) 1 42 85 04 75
Fax: (33 / 0) 1 48 78 49 61 or 1 45 26 84 45

and

Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S.)

Co / C. Constantin
575 Madison Avenue
25th floor
New York N.Y. 10022 USA

Contacts:

Email: riao2000 at limsi.fr

Web: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO


Organizing and Coordinating Committee:

Agnes Beriot (CID, France)
Peter Brodnitz (CASIS, USA)
Jean-Louis Darc (France-Pologne, France)
Jean-Jacques Guilbart (College de France, France)
Nicolas Masson (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Jean Perriere (CID, France)
Sharyn Rozart (CASIS, USA)
Anne Tabutiaux (Recherche et Diffusion Scientifique, France)
Tony Venables (ECAS, Belgium)


Calendar:

? Preliminary announcement: July 1999
? Call for Papers & Demonstrations: September 15, 1999
? Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999
? Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999
? Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000
? Final Program: January 25, 2000
? Conference: April 12-14, 2000



If you're interested in participating in the conference, or if you intend
to submit a paper, a prototype or an
application demo, or if you wish to know more about the conference when the
information will be available,
please fill in the Attendance Intention Form below, and send it to
"riao2000 at limsi.fr" ASAP.


-----------------------------------------------------------------
Attendance Intention Form:

Name :

Position:

Organization:

Mail address:



Telephone:

Fax:

EMAIL:

Web site:


I wish to participate in the RIAO 2000 Conference:

I wish to submit a paper (topic):

I wish to submit a prototype demo (topic):

I wish to submit an innovative product or application demo (topic):

I would like to have more information about RIAO 2000, when it will be
available:


Please, email this Attendance Intention Form to "riao2000 at limsi.fr" ASAP.
-----------------------------------------------------------------


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 27 11:08:36 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:08:36 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.120836.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

________________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Yannick Lallement <yannick at NOVATOR.COM>
   Subject:  Natural Language Understanding - Novator Systems in Toronto

2/ From: "Antoinette Renouf" <ant at rdues.liv.ac.uk>
   Subject: vacancy

3/ From:  "Baldwin Staffing Group Ltd." <baldwin11 at home.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics/Management Position

4/ From: Kent Clizbe <kent at gatesource.com>
   Subject: Computational Linguists

________________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Yannick Lallement <yannick at NOVATOR.COM>
   Subject:  Natural Language Understanding - Novator Systems in Toronto

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: "Antoinette Renouf" <ant at rdues.liv.ac.uk>
   Subject: vacancy


              ** APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATE POSTING **

                  THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
          Research and Development Unit for English Studies

               Post of Research Assistant/Associate

                Job Reference Number: A/RDUES/RA

A vacancy has arisen in the Unit for a graduate in computer science
with a good understanding of the nature of the English language, or a
graduate in computational linguistics.

The starting date will be as soon as possible and will run for twelve
months, and there might be an opportunity for extension of contract on
further projects.

The post relates primarily to the main Unit activity for that period,
an EPSRC-funded research project known as APRIL, concerned with the
development of an automated system of classification for the rare,
newly-occurring words in journalistic text.  There will also be some
involvement with other aspects of Unit work as required.

The Research Assistant/Associate will work under the supervision of
the Research Fellow responsible for the computing tasks in the Unit,
reporting also to the Director of the Unit.

The salary will be in the range ?16,286 - ?21,597.

Skills Required for the APRIL Project:

- at least one year's full-time (or equivalent) experience of
  programming in C in a Unix environment is essential
- experience in programming in PERL is desirable
- familiarity with Unix tools, such as  awk , is also desirable

Duties Associated with the APRIL Project:

- familiarisation with Unit computing resources and software
- development of project software
- attendance and presentation at conferences as required

Other Duties within the Unit will include:

- familiarisation with Unit approach to large-scale text handling
  and corpus creation
- revision and improvement of existing text manipulation software
- some systems administration tasks
- occasional provision of data for people outside the Unit

Further particulars and details of the application procedure may be
requested from the Director of Personnel, The University of Liverpool,
Liverpool L69 3BX:

Telephone: +44 (0)151 794 2210 (24-hour answerphone)
Email:     jobs at liv.ac.uk
www:       http://www.liv.ac.uk (jobs)

The closing date for applications is Sept. 15th, 1999.

The University of Liverpool is committed to Equal Opportunities.



________________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  "Baldwin Staffing Group Ltd." <baldwin11 at home.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics/Management Position

To whom it may concern, I am assisting a client in locating a Director
of Linguistics.  The position will be located in either Calgary,
Alberta, Canada or Beijing, China.  The individual will head a
multi-location linguistics staff involved in world-wide language
applications for consumer information appliances.  An advanced degree in
computational linguistics or closely related field is required as well
as 5-7 years experience managing and directing linguistics staff and
contractors working in 25 languages.  The salary will be $80,000+ and is
available immediately.  Should you be interested, please email a resume
to my attention as soon as possible.  There is no charge to you, the
candidate for this service.  Thank you.

Sincerely,
Brian de Vries
Executive Search Division
Baldwin Staffing Group, Calgary


________________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: Kent Clizbe <kent at gatesource.com>
   Subject: Computational Linguists


Hello all,

I'm a staffing consultant.  My background as an MA/Linguistics has
led me to specialize in Ontologists, Natural Language Processing
Specialists, Computational Linguists, and other related fields.

I currently have positions available with dynamic start-up
companies, pre-IPO, with stock options and great work conditions.
These companies are in Washington DC, Bay Area of California, and
Denver.

There are opportunities for Senior-level Ontologists (PhD in CS or
Linguisitics), and junior level (grad degree with experience
building ontologies), as well as Natural Language Processing
specialists, and Computational Linguists/Programmers.

I'm pasting in a few of the current job openings below.  If you know of
anyone who would be appropriate for these positions, please have them
contact me immediately.  Also, please pass these opportunities on to
others.

Thanks very much.

Kent Clizbe
kent at gatesource.com
703-222-6627


Position Title:  Senior  Ontologist (one vacancy)
Location:  California

Responsibilities:
* Provide leadership and direction to corporate knowledge
representation

effort.
* Organize and manage an on-going large-scale biological knowledge
representation production effort.
* Coordinate the efforts of team-members involved in ontology
building.
* Coordinate efforts of subject matter expert transfer of
knowledge to
the representation team.

Required Competencies:
* Experience building ontologies.
* Experience managing staff in knowledge representation projects
* Experience working with subject matter experts
* Ability to complete projects on time and within budget

Desired Competencies:
* Knowledge of Biological issues and vocabulary
* Experience in genetic and protein-related research

Required Educational Background:
* Graduate level degree in a field related to Ontology:
Linguistics,
* Computational Linguistics, Computer Science

Desired Educational Background:
PhD in Computational Linguistics with in-depth research in
Ontologies

Salary:  $90k-130k


*****************************

Position Title:   Ontologist (four vacancies)
Location:  California

Reports to:  Senior Ontologist

Responsibilities:  Build ontologies in a team of knowledge
representation experts.  Gather, analyze and categorize biological
knowledge from diverse sources.   Work with subject matter experts
to
accurately present knowledge.

Required Competencies:
* Experience building ontologies, or in electronic publishing
mark-up
languages, or related categorizing specialties.
* Experience in commercial world.

Desired Competencies:
* Knowledge of Biological issues and vocabulary
* Experience in genetic and protein-related research
* Data modeling experience in bio-technology

Required Educational Background:
Degree in a field related to Biology or Medicine

Desired Educational Background:
PhD in Biology with research in computational data modeling.

Salary:  $60k-80k

*********************++++++++++++++++++++++**************************+++++++++++++++++++

Position Title:   Natural Language Processing Specialist (one vacancy)
Location: California

Reports to:  Senior Ontologist

Responsibilities:  Knowledge extraction from medical/biomedical text
corpus in support of knowledge representation product.

Required Educational Background:
MS in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics

Salary:  $80k-100k


*********************++++++++++++++++++++++**************************+++++++++++++++++++

Position:  Computational Linguist/Natural Language Processing Programmer

Location:  Washington DC

Our client applies the most advanced techniques in computational
linguistics to the problems of communicating information over the
web.
Our client?s founder has been in charge of technology
for two previous startups, both of which were sold to larger
corporations. One of these was acquired for $38 million when only 8
months old.  Financial backing for our client comes from a group of
extremely
successful high-tech executives, who have been collectively
responsible for the creation of billions of dollars of value through
companies they have founded, funded, and managed.

My client is an Internet software start-up developing natural-
language-understanding
applications. They offer interesting and challenging work in a casual
environment in Washington
DC.

We are looking for five Computational Linguists for permanent
positions starting immediately. Our ideal candidate would have a
background combining some
computational linguistics research with experience developing commercial

software.

Required:
Very strong C++ skills and experience with industrial-strength NT or
UNIX server
applications.

Other
Desirable skills/experience include:

- C++ STL
- COM, ATL
- CORBA
- C++/Java integration
- multithreaded programming
- information retrieval/search
- web-based distributed apps
- WordNet applications

Strong written English skills are essential; knowledge of other
languages is a big plus.

*****************++++++++++++++++++++******************++++++++++++++++**********




POSITION: SR. APPLICATIONS ENGINEER

Location:  Washington DC

DEPARTMENT: INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS

JOB DESCRIPTION:

     This position is a member of a group that is developing an
enterprise-level document management
     application within the Intelligence Community.  Responsibilities
include configuration and  customization of electronic document
management COTS products, user
interface design and  development (web and client/server), workflow
analysis and
engineering, and programming in 4GL  languages.   The work typically
involves use of  APIs to accomplish
integration with COTS products,
 and requires familiarity with RDBMS concepts and SQL.

EDUCATION:

     BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
Subject-matter expertise with the US
     Intelligence or DoD Communities a plus.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

     A minimum of three years hands-on experience in Visual Basic
applications development and
     programming.
     A minimum of two years hands-on experience with web-related
technologies and web content delivery.
     Knowledge of SQL and database concepts.
     Familiarity with web site authoring tools, web browsers and their
unique limitations, as well as
     programmatic methods for client/server interaction with data
repositories.
     A team player with effective communications skills.

DESIRED SKILLS:

     Familiarity with structured markup languages, such as SGML and XML.

     Familiarity with integration of the web with content management,
conversion, and search and retrieval
     tools.
     Experience with Intelligence Community activities and technical
solutions ( i.e. Intelink, intelligence
     gathering, analysis, and dissemination.)
     Experience in any of the following products or languages:
          Documentum EDMS / DocPage Builder
          Oracle RDBMS
          Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server
          Adobe Acrobat Plug-ins
          MS Office development and integration
          HTML and VB User Interface Development
          Java, Java script


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 27 11:09:12 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:09:12 +0100
Subject: Appel: ANLP/NAACL 2000
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.120912.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>




                    Language Technology Joint Conference
                     Applied Natural Language Processing
                                   and the
                        North American Chapter of the
                  Association for Computational Linguistics
          General Conference Chair:  Marie Meteer, BBN Technologies

                              CALL FOR PAPERS

  Contents: 1. Overview
            2. ANLP Call for Papers
            3. NAACL Call for Papers
            4. Format for Submissions
            5. Deadlines

  1.  Overview

  The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to
  announce that the 2000 Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
  conference and the first conference of the new North American
  Chapter of the ACL (NAACL) will be held jointly 29 April to 3 May
  2000 in Seattle, Washington.

  The joint conferences will offer a unique opportunity to bring
  industry and researchers together to explore the full spectrum of
  computational linguistics and natural language processing, from
  theory and methodology to their application in commercial software.

  For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished
  contributions to computational linguistics are solicited. (See the
  separate Call for Student Papers to be announced soon for requirements
  for submissions to the student sessions.) Submissions are due by 17
  November 1999. See submission details below.

  The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language
  processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and
  standardization; tools, techniques, and resources contributing to the
  development of complete end-to-end applications of NLP; evaluation of
  system performance and related issues. In particular, submissions should
  be directed to one of the following subject areas:

     * Monolingual text processing systems
     * Multilingual text processing systems
     * Spoken language and multimodal systems
     * Integrated NLP systems
     * Tools and resources for developing NLP systems
     * Evaluation of performance of complete NLP systems

  The NAACL program committee invites papers on methodology, approaches,
  algorithms, models, analyses and experiments in computational
  linguistics. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main
  areas:

     * Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
     * Semantics and the Lexicon
     * Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology
     * Generation and Summarization
     * Spoken Language
     * Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing
     * Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction
     * Multilingual Natural Language Processing

  There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and
  ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP,
  authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the
  methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a
  particular problem.

  A paper accepted for presentation at either meeting must not be or have
  been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings.
  A paper may not be submitted to both NAACL 2000 and ANLP 2000, but may be
  submitted to other conferences provided that, if accepted, it is
  withdrawn from all but one. Submission to other conferences should be
  indicated on the paper.

  Papers will not be exchanged between the two program committees. However,
  in the final program, papers may be grouped or juxtaposed in related
  sessions to highlight similarities and downplay artificial distinctions.

  We also appreciate that it can be advantageous to view the same work from
  both a theoretical/methodological perspective and an applied perspective;
  we welcome paired submissions to NAACL and ANLP, though each submission
  needs to make a significant contribution on its own.

  Please acknowledge the related submissions and include their abstracts
  with your submission, though decisions will be made independently and
  acceptance of one does not guarantee acceptance of the other.

  Original papers that do not easily fall within one of the suggested areas
  are also invited. The submission should be directed to the chair of the
  respective program committee, with the topic area slot in the submission
  template empty.


  2.  ANLP Call for Papers

                             ANLP Call for Papers
            Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference
                           29 April to 3 May 2000
                             Seattle, Washington
   Program Committee Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University

  The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language
  processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and
  standardization; tools and resources contributing to the development of
  complete end applications of NLP; evaluation of system performance and
  related issues.

  In particular, submissions should be directed to one of the following
  subject areas:

  Monolingual Text Processing Systems.
  Area Chair: Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento Italy
  Systems devoted to information retrieval, text data mining, information
  extraction, text summarization and related applications.

  Multilingual Text Processing Systems.
  Area Chair: Richard Kittredge, University of Montreal, Canada
  Systems devoted to machine translation, human-aided machine translation,
  machine-aided human translation, cross-lingual information retrieval,
  multi-document multilingual information extraction and summarization,
  text data mining and related applications.

  Spoken Language and Multimodal Systems.
  Area Chair: Susann Luperfoy, IET Inc. and Georgetown University, USA
  Text and dialog processing on telephony, workstation, and PDA platforms.

  Integrated NLP Systems.
  Area Chair: Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information
  Sciences Institute, USA
  Combinations of multiple NLP applications; multimodal and multimedia
  systems; adaptation and standardization of existing NLP systems, embedded
  NLP systems and integration of legacy systems.

  Tools and Resources for Developing NLP Systems.
  Area Chair: Lynn Carlson, Department of Defense, USA
  Development and content of descriptive resources, such as grammars and
  lexicons of particular languages or sets of languages, ontologies,
  processed corpora and others; the acquisition and quick ramp-up tools for
  NLP systems; and methodologies for development and knowledge acquisition
  for NLP systems and environments and tools for training developers of NLP
  systems.

  Evaluation of Performance of Complete NLP Systems.
  Area Chair: John White, Lytton/PRC, USA
  Methodologies, case studies and tools.

  3.  NAACL Call for Papers


                            NAACL Call for Papers
     1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for
                          Computational Linguistics
                           29 April to 3 May 2000
                             Seattle, Washington
     Program Committee Chair: Janyce Wiebe, New Mexico State University

  For the general sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original,
  and unpublished research contributions on all aspects of computational
  linguistics methodology, enabling technologies, approaches, algorithms,
  models, analyses, and experiments. See the separate Call for Student
  Papers (to be announced) for requirements for submissions to the student
  sessions. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main
  areas, as follows.

  Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics.
  Area Chair: Diane Litman, AT&T Research.
  Empirical and knowledge-based approaches to discourse and dialogue;
  Dialogue management in spoken dialogue systems; Discourse segmentation;
  Anaphora resolution; Discourse parsing; Narrative understanding; Design,
  evaluation, and use of discourse annotation schemes; Topic detection and
  tracking; Intentional and relational discourse analysis; Robust discourse
  processing; Methods for evaluating dialogue/discourse systems and their
  components; Integration with other levels of linguistic processing.

  Semantics and the Lexicon.
  Area Chair: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto.
  Semantic formalisms; Ontologies; Word-sense disambiguation; Event
  recognition and categorization; Logics for natural language; Extracting
  information from on-line dictionaries; Refining sense inventories;
  Computational lexicography; Lexical resource development.

  Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology.
  Area Chair: Michael Collins, AT&T Research.
  Grammar formalisms; Theoretical and empirical studies of parsing
  algorithms; Finite-state methods; Representation of syntactic,
  morphological, and phonological aspects of the lexicon; Robust and
  shallow parsing; Syntax annotation schemes; Grammar induction; Formal
  properties of symbolic and weighted/stochastic grammars.

  Generation and Summarization.
  Area Chair: Nancy Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
  Strategic generation for text and dialogue (text planning, argumentation
  strategies, etc.); Tactical generation (sentence aggregation, lexical
  choice, etc.); Multimodal and multimedia generation; Knowledge
  acquisition and resources for generation and summarization;
  User-customized generation and summarization; Evaluation methodologies
  for generation and summarization; Application of generation, information
  extraction, and information retrieval techniques to summarization.

  Spoken Language.
  Area Chair: Andreas Stolcke, SRI International.
  Language modeling; Prosody; Speech annotation; Speech synthesis; Modeling
  of spontaneous speech phenomena (disfluencies, discourse markers, etc.);
  Comparative analyses of spoken and written language; Robust NLP for
  speech recognition output; Higher-level knowledge sources (e.g.,
  dialogue) for speech recognition; Automatic segmentation of speech into
  sentences, topics, discourse units, etc.; Integration of speech with
  other modalities such as text and gesture; Methods for speech-to-speech
  translation.

  Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing.
  Area Chair: Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba.
  Annotation, including automatic and semi-automatic methods, mapping
  between schemes, analyzing and improving agreement, minimizing costs;
  Induction of patterns and structures such as selectional frames and
  concept hierarchies; Extraction of terms and collocations; Text mining
  and knowledge discovery from text; Distributional similarity; Learning
  applied to NLP, including bootstrapping, smoothing, and multi-strategy
  learning.

  Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction.
  Area Chair: Philip Resnik, University of Maryland.
  Computational psycholinguistics; Models of human sentence processing,
  language understanding, language generation, and language acquisition;
  Use of natural language in human-computer interaction; Evaluation of
  interfaces that use natural language (including multimodal and multimedia
  interfaces), by field studies, laboratory experimentation, or analytical
  methods.

  Multilingual Natural Language Processing.
  Area Chair: Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute.
  Methods addressing the research challenges of multilingual environments,
  including cross-language divergences, producing fluent text, and dealing
  with non-literal translation equivalents; Methods for machine translation
  (direct, transfer, example-based, knowledge-based, interlingual,
  statistical, etc.); Design of interlinguas; Multilingual lexicons;
  Lexical acquisition for machine translation and cross-language
  information retrieval; Machine-assisted translation; Multilingual
  generation; Alignment of multilingual texts; Methods for exploiting
  parallel or comparable corpora for natural language processing tasks.
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Authors will be asked to identify the area or areas to which their
  submission corresponds. Relevant papers not fitting precisely into any of
  these areas are also welcome. All papers will be reviewed by at least
  three experts.

  There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and
  ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP,
  authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the
  methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a
  particular problem.


  4.  Format for Submissions

  Submissions must use the ACL latex style aclsub.sty or Microsoft Word
  style ACL-submission.doc (both available from the conference web page)
  and may be no more than 3,200 words in total length, exclusive of title
  page and references. If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly,
  a description of the required format will be available on the
  conference web page. If you cannot access the conference web page,
  send email to anlp-naacl2000 at bbn.com with subject SUBSTYLE.

  Reviewing will be blind. Thus, separate identification and title pages
  are required.

  The identification page should include the following. It should be sent
  in a separate e-mail message from the body of the paper itself.

     * Title
     * Paper ID Code: see below
     * Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses
     * Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission
     * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
     * Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP)
     * Word Count, excluding title page and references
     * Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list
     * Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary

  The title page should include:

     * Title
     * Paper ID Code: see below
     * Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission
     * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
     * Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP)
     * Word Count, excluding title page and references
     * Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list
     * Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary

  Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted from the paper itself.
  Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We
  previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... ") should be avoided. Instead, use
  citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)....".

  Papers that do not conform to these requirements are subject to being
  rejected without review.


  SUBMISSION QUESTIONS

  NAACL submission questions should be sent to:
  naacl2000-program at nmsu.edu

  Program Chair, NAACL 2000
  Computing Research Laboratory
  BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL
  Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

  ANLP submission questions should be sent to:
  anlp2000-program at nmsu.edu

  Program Chair, ANLP 2000
  Computing Research Laboratory
  BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL
  Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

  The calls for papers, style files, and information about tutorials,
  workshops, and the student session will be available on the conference
  web site. The conference web site will be reachable from the ACL Home
  Page, www.aclweb.org, in the near future.

  SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

  1) Submission notification: You must submit a notification of submission
  by filling out a form on the conference web page at least one week before
  the submission deadline. This will return to you an email with an ID
  number that should be included on the identification page, the title page
  and the header of every page of the paper. Also, please use it on all
  correspondence with the program committee chair. The form will be
  available on the web after October 1.

  2) Electronic submission: send the postscript or MS Word form of your
  submission to: naacl2000-program at nmsu.edu or anlp2000-program at nmsu.edu

  The Subject line should contain conference.submission_id.format, e.g.,
  "naacl.100.ps" or "anlp.100.pdf" or "naacl.100.doc".

  Please submit the identification page in a separate email.

  Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be
  e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt.

  In extreme cases, an author unable to comply with the above submission
  procedure should contact the program chair sufficiently before the
  submission deadline so alternative arrangements can be made.



  5.  Deadlines

   Submission notification
   deadline:                         10-Nov-99
   Paper submission deadline:        17-Nov-99
   Notification of acceptance for
   papers:                           01-Feb-00
   Camera ready papers due:          12-Mar-00
   Regular sessions begin:           01-May-00
  A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final
  version.


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 27 11:09:14 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:09:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: CLIN'99
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.120914.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Paola Monachesi <Paola.Monachesi at let.uu.nl>




    [Apologies if you receive this message more than once]

*********************************************************************

                 CLIN 99 Second 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 languages of the conference will be Dutch and
English.

The invited speaker will be Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania).

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 Aug 27 11:10:14 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:10:14 +0100
Subject: Appel : NLPRS'99 Workshop
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.121014.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Isahara Hitoshi <isahara at crl.go.jp>


Dear Colleagues,

Attached is the call for papers for the NLPRS'99 workshop of Natural
Language Processing and Neural Networks. Please help us to distribute
this to people who will be interested in.


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			Call for Papers	

			NLPRS'99 Workshop
	Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks
		Beijing, China, November 5, 1999

                 http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs99/

The artificial neural networks (ANN) began to be an attract approach to
natural language processing (NLP) since several works on parsing were
done using ANN techniques in 1985. Since then, with the boom of NLP
research based on very large corpora, the ANN, as a powerful parallel
and distributed learning/processing machine, attract a more great deal
of attention from both the ANN and NLP researchers and have been
successfully used in many areas of NLP.

This workshop will provide a forum for researchers in both the areas of
ANN and NLP who are interested in advancing the state in developing NLP
techniques by using ANN approach.

Submissions are invited on all NLP topics in the context of using ANN
techniques.

The workshop review and acceptance will be based on a two-page extended
summary (2000 words or less). The summary must be accompanied by paper
title and author information including full names, affiliations of all
authors and the postal mailing address and email of the corresponding
author.

Submit by email to qma at crl.go.jp

IMPORTANT DATES

Summary submission deadline:    September 15
Notification of acceptance:     September 30
Camera ready papers due: 	October 15

Inquiries concerning the workshop can be sent to one of the organisers
either by email to qma at crl.go.jp or by post to the following address:

Dr. Qing Ma
Intelligent Processing Section
Kansai Advanced Research Center
Communications Research Laborotory
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
588-2, Iwaoka, Nishi-ku, Kobe, 651-2401, Japan
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Dr. Hitoshi Isahara
Dr. Qing Ma
Intelligent Processing Section
Kansai Advanced Research Center
Communications Research Laborotory
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
588-2, Iwaoka, Nishi-ku, Kobe, 651-2401, Japan