From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Dec 7 11:03:41 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:03:41 +0100 Subject: Q: Regles morphologiques Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 12:13:59 BST From: "Kevin McTait" Message-Id: <57312073343 at fs1.ccl.umist.ac.uk> Bonjour a tous/toutes, Je cherche une description morphologique pour le francais (a deux niveaux) que peut s'utiliser avec PC KIMMO. Meme une description tres breve faciliterait mes recherches. Merci en avance! Kevin ------- Kevin McTait Dept Language Engineering UMIST Manchester 0161 200 3078 ------------------- From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Dec 7 11:04:38 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:04:38 +0100 Subject: Bibliographie traduction automatique Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:09:18 +0100 From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DSM/LAN Message-ID: <26F7C2E07274D311A6D80060080C3EEE08A836 at L-MHS5> La référence dans le domaine sont les deux livres de John Hutchins [WJHutchins at compuserve.com] - John Hutchins, "Machine translation: past, present, future" publié en 1986. - John Hutchins & Harold Somers, "An introduction to machine translation", publié en 1992. Malheureuresement, ils ne sont plus édités et ils faudra chercher des exemplaires de 2e main. Mais John Hutchins prépare une édition "Compendium of translation software" qui sera prête en Janvier 2000. Par ailleurs, une nouvelle et très riche mailing list de l'European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) vient de démarrer et vous y trouverez sans doute des réponses à vos questions: mt-list at eamt.org Enfin, je vous conseille aussi de prendre contact avec Mr Christian Boitet, responsable du Groupe d'Etude sur la Traduction Automatique (GETA) à l'UJF à Grenoble. Malek Boualem CNET From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Sat Dec 11 09:03:52 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:03:52 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 8 Offers Message-ID: __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Barbara.Flammang" Subject: Comp Ling: 3 lang specialists at Systran Luxemburg 2/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Czech/ Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H), Belgium 3/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Project Manager/Turkish at L&H/ Ieper, Belgium 4/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling:Project Manager at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H), Belgium 5/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling:Language Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products,Belgium 6/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Language Specialist/ Bahassa - Ieper, Belgium 7/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Project Manager/Vietnamese - Ieper, Belgium 8/ From: "Fons Maes" Subject: Comp Ling/Discourse: Lecturer/ Tilburg University, The Netherlands __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Barbara.Flammang" Subject: Comp Ling: 3 lang specialists at Systran Luxemburg Systran Luxembourg S.A., a company based in Luxemburg and developing the Systran Machine Translation system, has an immediate opening for 3 language specialists to join its development team in Luxembourg on a full-time basis: 1. Greek-English language specialist This person will work on the development of the Greek-to-English translation system, and particularly on the English target language. This includes the coding of words and expressions in electronic dictionaries and the maintenance and creation of linguistic programs. Profile : - native English - excellent knowledge of (modern) Greek - university degree in philology, linguistics, languages, computational linguistics or equivalent - good knowledge/experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset : * human translation * programming * programming language : C * natural language processing * Greek linguistics * Ancient Greek * computational linguistics * languages other than English and Greek * ability to work in a team and independently 2. Portuguese-English language specialist This person will work on the development of the Portuguese-to-English translation system, and particularly on the English target language. This includes the coding of words and expressions in electronic dictionaries and the maintenance and creation of linguistic programs. Profile : - native English - excellent knowledge of Portuguese - university degree in philology, linguistics, languages, computational linguistics or equivalent - good knowledge/experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset : * human translation * programming * programming language : C * natural language processing * Romance philology * computational linguistics * languages other than English and Portuguese, preferably Spanish * ability to work in a team and independently 3. French-Portuguese language specialist This person will work on the development of the French-to-Portuguese translation system, and particularly on the Portuguese target language. This includes the coding of words and expressions in electronic dictionaries and the maintenance and creation of linguistic programms. Profile : - native Portuguese - excellent knowledge of French and good knowledge of English - university degree in philology, linguistics, languages, computational linguistics or equivalent - good knowledge/experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset : * human translation * programming * programming language : C * natural language processing * Romance philology * computational linguistics * ability to work in a team and independently If you are interested in one of these job opportunities and you believe to fulfil the required profile, please E-mail your CV, including full details of education, qualifications and previous experience to : Pierre.Thillen at Systran.lu Alternatively, please send a paper copy to : Mr. Pierre Thillen Systran Luxembourg 12, rue de Vianden L - 2680 Luxembourg __________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Czech/ Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H), Belgium Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by voice in any language with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer, business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation. As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty nations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With over 1,750 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $211.6 million in 1998. For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): ******************************************* Language Specialist Czech Speech and Language Technology ******************************************* Function: * You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech, Artificial Intelligence and Language. * In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and language study in view of technology development and assessment of third party providers of data and/or technology. * You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets, creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion, prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of documentation. * Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical documentation. * Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge. * You will report to the group or project manager. Profile: * University degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent; * (near) native Czech speaker with a conversational level of English; * Solid grounding in linguistic theory; * Good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas: speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, programming, other languages; * Ability to work in a team and independently; * IT literate; * Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * Good social and communicative abilities; * Willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time. ********************************************************** If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfil the required profile, we have to meet each other. Please send your application letter and detailed resume to: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products Personnel Department Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont Flanders Language Valley 50 B-8900 Ieper BELGIUM Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89 To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage: http://www.lhsl.com __________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Project Manager/Turkish at L&H/ Ieper, Belgium [...] ****************************************************************** Project Manager Development Turkish Language & Speech Technology ****************************************************************** Function: * You will manage and coordinate software development projects in the area of language and speech processing technology and systems for Turkish. * You will coordinate the start-up of the Turkish language development team, including a.o. recruitment and logistics. * You will supervise, coach and motivate a team of linguists and engineers based both in Ieper and Turkey * You will streamline the gathering of corpora and acoustic data, the development of an L&H specific grammars and lexicons for Turkish and the translation of the linguistic data to software based on L&H technology. * You will ensure that the quality and timing standards set out by L&H are reached. * You will actively participate in the technical aspects of the project. * You will maintain good contacts with the different departments within L&H and relevant Turkish institutes, organizations, etc. . Profile: * Relevant university degree preferably in computer science or (computational) linguistics; * Experience in management of development projects, preferably in the field of natural language and/or speech processing; * Near-native or native speaker of Turkish and a conversational level of English; * Good knowledge of and experience in at least two of the following areas: speech processing, phonetics, lexicography, computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), programming, (e.g. C, C++, script languages,), other languages; * Ability to work in a team and independently; * Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * Good social and communicative abilities; * Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit; * Willingness to travel for limited periods of time. [...] __________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling:Project Manager at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H), Belgium [...] For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): *************************************************************** Project Manager Development Urdu Language & Speech Technology *************************************************************** Function: * You will manage and coordinate software development projects in the area of language and speech processing technology and systems for Urdu. * You will coordinate the start-up of the Urdu language development team, including a.o. recruitment and logistics. * You will supervise, coach and motivate a team of linguists and engineers based in Ieper, Singapore and Pakistan * You will streamline the gathering of corpora and acoustic data, the development of an L&H specific grammars and lexicons for Urdu and the translation of the linguistic data to software based on L&H technology. * You will ensure that the quality and timing standards set out by L&H are reached. * You will actively participate in the technical aspects of the project. * You will maintain good contacts with the different departments within L&H and relevant Pakistani, Indian and Singaporean institutes, organizations, etc. . Profile: * Relevant university degree preferably in computer science or (computational) linguistics; * Experience in management of development projects, preferably in the field of natural language and/or speech processing; * Near-native or native speaker of Urdu and a conversational level of English; * Good knowledge of and experience in at least two of the following areas: speech processing, phonetics, lexicography, computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), programming, (e.g. C, C++, script languages,?), other languages; * Ability to work in a team and independently; * Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * Good social and communicative abilities; * Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit; * Willingness to travel for limited periods of time. [...] __________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling:Language Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products,Belgium [...] For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): ******************************************* Language Specialist Belarussian Speech and Language Technology ******************************************* Function: * You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech, Artificial Intelligence and Language. * In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and language study in view of technology development and assessment of third party providers of data and/or technology. * You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets, creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion, prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of documentation. * Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical documentation. * Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge. * You will report to the group or project manager. Profile: * University degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent; * (near) native Belarussian speaker with a conversational level of English; * Solid grounding in linguistic theory; * Good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas: speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, programming, other languages; * Ability to work in a team and independently; * IT literate; * Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * Good social and communicative abilities; * Willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time. [...] __________________________________________________________________________ 6/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Language Specialist/ Bahassa - Ieper, Belgium [...] For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): ********************************************* Language Specialist Bahassa Speech and Language Technology ********************************************* Function: * You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech, Artificial Intelligence and Language. * In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and language study in view of technology development and assessment of third party providers of data and/or technology. * You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets, creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion, prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of documentation. * Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical documentation. * Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge. * You will report to the group or project manager. Profile: * university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent; * (near) native Bahassa speaker with a conversational level of English; * solid grounding in linguistic theory; * good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas: speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, programming, other languages; * ability to work in a team and independently; * IT literate; * perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * good social and communicative abilities; * willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time. [...] __________________________________________________________________________ 7/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Project Manager/Vietnamese - Ieper, Belgium Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world?s leading provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by voice?in any language?with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer, business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation. As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty nations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With over 1,750 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $211.6 million in 1998. For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): ************************************************************************ Project Manager Development Vietnamese Language & Speech Technology ************************************************************************ Function: * You will manage and coordinate software development projects in the area of language and speech processing technology and systems for Vietnamese. * You will coordinate the start-up of the Vietnamese language development team, including a.o. recruitment and logistics. * You will supervise, coach and motivate a team of linguists and engineers based both in Ieper, Singapore and Vietnam. * You will streamline the gathering of corpora and acoustic data, the development of an L&H specific grammars and lexicons for Vietnamese and the translation of the linguistic data to software based on L&H technology. * You will ensure that the quality and timing standards set out by L&H are reached. * You will actively participate in the technical aspects of the project. * You will maintain good contacts with the different departments within L&H and relevant Singaporean and Vietnamese institutes, organizations, etc. . Profile: * relevant university degree preferably in computer science or (computational) linguistics; * experience in management of development projects, preferably in the field of natural language and/or speech processing; * near-native or native speaker of Vietnamese and a conversational level of English; * good knowledge of and experience in at least two of the following areas: speech processing, phonetics, lexicography, computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), programming, (e.g. C, C++, script languages,?), other languages; * ability to work in a team and independently; * perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * good social and communicative abilities; * self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit; * willingness to travel for limited periods of time. ********************************************************** If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfil the required profile, we have to meet each other. Please send your application letter and detailed resume to: /--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------\ | Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products | | Personnel Department | | | | Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be | | | | attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont | | Flanders Language Valley 50 | | B-8900 Ieper | | BELGIUM | | Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89 | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------/ To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage: http://www.lhsl.com __________________________________________________________________________ 8/ From: "Fons Maes" Subject: Comp Ling/Discourse: Lecturer/ Tilburg University, The Netherlands Tilburg (The Netherlands) Tilburg University Faculty of Arts Programme `Professional Communication and New Digital Media' LECTURER The Faculty of Arts at Tilburg University offers a new master's programme "Professional Communication and New Digital Media" starting September 1, 2000. In relation with this programme, the faculty now has a vacancy for: LECTURER IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION AND NEW DIGITAL MEDIA (full-time) Candidates must be able to make a contribution to: - the development of teaching materials and courses in the fields of digital business communication and new media technology (for a draft of the programme see: http://let.kub.nl/bdm ); - developing and implementing computer-based facilities for teaching and instruction; - setting up and carrying out (contract) research in the field of professional communication and new digital media. Candidates must meet the following requirements: - a master's degree in one of the subdisciplines of linguistics (e.g., language and information science, discourse studies, alpha informatics, communication studies); - strong affinity with, and familiarity with, recent developments in the field of digital media, either technically (design, techniques, implementation) or organizationally (management, making and implementing media policies in organizations); - broad deployability in instructional and organizational tasks; - demonstrable didactic qualities. Further particulars: - The faculty has a strong preference for a candidate with a PhD and with research experience in a subject relevant to the new programme. - In principle, the contract will be for a four-year period. The availability of a tenure position will depend on the evaluation of the new programme that will then take place. - Formally, employment will be either at the Department of Language and Information Science or at that of Discourse Studies, depending on the research affinity. Salary Pay classification is according to level of experience and expertise, with a maximum of Dfl. 8,429.- per month (salary scale 12). Information More information about the vacancy can be obtained from Prof. H. Bunt (harry.bunt at kub.nl) or Dr. A. Maes (maes at kub.nl). Applications Please send - before 15 December 1999 - your application or E- mail, with curriculum vitae or link to your website to: Dr. A. Maes Arts Faculty Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg maes at kub.nl Fons Maes Discourse Studies Group Tilburg University POBox 90153 5000 LE Tilburg phone ** 31 13 466 2058 fax ** 31 13 466 3110 http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/maes/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Sat Dec 11 09:04:00 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:04:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: Coling-2000 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen COLING 2000 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (http://www.coling.org) COLING 2000 will take place in three countries in the heart of Europe - Nancy (Tutorials 29/30 July, 2000) - Saarbrücken (Conference 31 July - 4 August, 2000) - Luxembourg (Workshops 5/6 August 2000) Transportation between the three almost neighboring sites will be provided. COLING 2000 will be the ideal place to - present your latest results at the conference and workshops - demo your systems to colleagues - study new trends and techniques in the tutorials - exhibit your language technologies for the 21st century - hire needed specialists before somebody else does Check out the calls for - papers (http://www.coling.org/call.html) - workshop proposals (http://www.coling.org/workshops.html) - tutorial proposals (http://www.coling.org/tutorials.html) - demos/exhibits (http://www.coling.org/exhibition.html) At the conference, we will provide space for announcing job openings, as well as a sign-up desk and rooms for job interviews Check out our low conference fees: (http://www.coling.org/reg.html). To increase student participation, we have decided on very favorable conference fees for bona fide students. Students who would still not be able to attend for financial reasons, please contact us at: org at coling.org If you live and work in an economically disadvantaged country and have no possibility of obtainimg funding or if you are experiencing special personal hardships, we will try to help. All this information and more at: http://www.coling.org From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Sat Dec 11 09:04:16 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:04:16 +0100 Subject: Appel: ISMIS'2000 Message-ID: From: Gian Piero Zarri Call for Papers TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ISMIS'2000) Hilton at University Place, Charlotte, NC, USA, October 11-14, 2000 SPONSORS: School of IT at UNC-Charlotte and others PURPOSE OF THE SYMPOSIUM: This Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Information Retrieval, Intelligent Information Systems, Knowledge Representation and Integration, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Logic for Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing. In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome, global change, manufacturing, health care, etc. SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda U., Japan) and Zbigniew W. Ras (UNC-Charlotte) PROGRAM COMMITTEE A. Biermann, P. Bosc, J. Calmet, S. Carberry, J. Carbonell, N. Cercone, B. Croft, J. Debenham, S.M. Deen, K. DeJong, R. Demolombe, B. Desai, T. Elomaa, F. Esposito, A. Giordana, M. Hadzikadic, D. Hislop, K. Hori, W. Kloesgen, Y. Kodratoff, J. Komorowski, J. Koronacki, D. Maluf, D. Malerba, R.L. de Mantaras, S. Matwin, R. Meersman, Z. Michalewicz, R. Michalski, R. Mizoguchi, M. Mukaidono, L. De Raedt, V. Raghavan, E. Rosenthal, L. Saitta, S. Sewihy, A. Skowron, V.S. Subrahmanian, S. Tsumoto, T. Yamaguchi, W. Zadrozny, G.P. Zarri, M. Zemankova, N. Zhong, J.M. Zytkow PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit four copies of their manuscript in LNCS/LNAI Style (maximum 10 pages) to: PAPERS FROM JAPAN/ASIA/AUSTRALIA ALL OTHER PAPERS Setsuo Ohsuga Zbigniew W. Ras 27-39 Kakinoki-dai Univ. of North Carolina Aoba-ku, Yokohama-shi Dept. of Comp. Science 227-0048, Japan 9201 University City Blvd. mail: ohsuga at ohsuga.info.waseda.ac.jp Charlotte, N.C. 28223 or ohsuga at fd.catv.ne.jp mail: ras at uncc.edu phone: +81 45 972 8692 phone: 704-547-3516 IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: March 1, 2000 Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2000 Final Paper: June 30, 2000 PUBLICATION Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI and will be available at the symposium. For more information about ISMIS'00 please visit our WWW site at http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~ras/call00.html From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Sat Dec 11 09:04:20 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:04:20 +0100 Subject: Appel: Impacts in NLG Message-ID: From: Stephan Busemann WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Impacts in Natural Language Generation NLG Between Technology and Applications July 24-28, 2000 Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany - immediately preceding COLING 2000 - Homepage: http://impacts.dfki.de The tension between theoretical work and its implementation has often been considered fruitful. In the field of Natural Language Generation, it is now complemented by another tension, the one between technologies and applications: "I have invented a new technique for NLG!" - "What is its impact on applications?" "I have built a new NLG application!" - "What is its impact on the technology?" Much of NLG technology is based on a theoretical understanding of the process of language generation, whereas the applications strongly rely on practical requirements. There are not many theoretically well-motivated technologies that can straightforwardly be employed within specific applications. For this workshop, we adopt a broad notion of application by including pieces of software containing NLG technology that currently are used by others in order to solve real-world tasks. Some NLG application developers find it preferable to not reuse existing technology. This is often due to the lack of solutions for the knowledge bottleneck and for the input formation bottleneck: NLG technology lacks the power of dealing with external conceptual lexical knowledge bases, and it also lacks standards of representing inputs at a suitable specificity. The "IMPACTS" workshop aims at studying, discussing, and clarifying the relationships between NLG technologies and applications. The workshop addresses - researchers and developers in NLG, - current and potential users of NLG applications, - providers of large conceptual lexicons usable by NLG, and - developers of systems that deal with the input specificity problem. We invite original and unpublished contributions from all areas of NL generation, either from the technological side or from the applications point of view. They must state clearly how they relate to the respective counterpart, hence addressing one of the above questions. "IMPACTS" will take place from July 24-28, 2000 at International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl. It immediately precedes the events of COLING 2000 taking place in Luxembourg, Saarbrücken, and Nancy. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated in the Saarland, allowing participants to reach the COLING tutorials on July 29 conveniently. Dates: 24.-28. July 2000: Workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl 15. June 2000: Camera-ready copies 20. May 2000: Notification of acceptance 01. April 2000: Deadline for submissions Programme Committee John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Stephan Busemann, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Robert Dale, Microsoft Research Institute, Macquarie University, Australia Laurence Danlos, LORIA, France Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Richard Kittredge, CoGenTex Inc., USA Inderjeet Mani, Mitre Corporation, USA David D. McDonald, Gensym Corporation, USA Cecile Paris, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia Owen Rambow, AT&T, USA Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK Donia Scott, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK More information can be found at the Workshop homepage, which is located at http://impacts.dfki.de and which will be extended during the next months. -- Dr. Stephan Busemann, DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken phone: (+49 681) 302-5286, fax: (+49 681) 302-5338 web: http://www.dfki.de/~busemann From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Sat Dec 11 09:04:22 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:04:22 +0100 Subject: Appel: Automatic Summarization Message-ID: From: "Chin-Yew Lin" Call for Papers Workshop on Automatic Summarization (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000 sponsored by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) MITRE Corporation Sunday, April 30, 2000 Seattle, Washington, USA I. OVERVIEW The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field.  Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL in 97, and the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98. All of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before. ANLP/NAACL'2000 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem. The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers addressing (but not limited to): Summarization Methods: use of linguistic representations, statistical models, NL generation for summarization, production of abstracts and extracts, multi-document summarization, narrative techniques in summarization, multilingual summarization, text compaction, multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio), use of information extraction, studies and modeling of human summarizers, improving summary coherence, concept fusion, use of thesauri and ontologies, trainable summarizers, applications of machine learning, knowledge-rich methods. Summarization Resources: development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers, annotation standards, shared summarization tools, document segmentation, topic detection, and clustering related to summarization Evaluation Methods: intrinsic and extrinsic measures, on-line and off-line evaluations, standards for evaluation, task-based evaluation scenarios, user studies, inter-judge agreement Workshop Themes: 1. Multilingual Text Summarization 2. Generation for Summarization 3. Topic Identification for Summarization 4. Multidocument Summarization 5. Evaluation and Test/Training Corpora 6. Integration with web and IR access II. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2000 Notification of acceptance for papers: March 1, 2000 Camera ready papers due: March 13, 2000 Workshop date: April 30, 2000 III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style (http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000/latex/index.html) or Microsoft Word style WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Please send submission questions to cyl at isi.edu Submission Procedure: Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word form of your submission to: cyl at isi.edu. The Subject line should be "ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line: "ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. IV. Organizing Committee: Udo Hahn University of Freiburg hahn at coling.uni-freiburg.de Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl at isi.edu Inderjeet Mani MITRE imani at mitre.org Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor radev at umich.edu V. Program Committee: Elisabeth Andre DFKI GmbH Branimir Boguraev IBM Research Chris Buckley SabIR Research Michael Elhadad Ben Gurion University Takahiro Fukushima Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute Hongyan Jing Columbia University Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology Mark Maybury MITRE Vibhu Mittal Just Research Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam University Akitoshi Okumura NEC Chris Paice Lancaster University Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge Tomek Strzalkowski GE CRD Simone Teufel University of Edinburgh Benjamin Tsou City University of Hong Kong -------------------------------------------- Chin-Yew Lin, Ph.D. Research Scientist Email: cyl at isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695, USA Tel: 310-448-8711 Fax: 310-822-0751 From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 13 17:19:57 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:19:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: SPIRE'2000 Message-ID: From : Mark Sanderson CALL FOR PAPERS SPIRE'2000 - String Processing and Information REtrieval September 22 - 24, 2000 A Coruña, Spain Sponsored by CYTED-AMYRI Research Project WHAT IS SPIRE'2000? SPIRE'2000 is a Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval which is in its seventh edition. The first four editions focused primarily on string processing and originated in South America, and were called WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing). They were held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1993), Valparaíso, Chile (1995 and 1997), and Recife, Brazil (1996). Starting in 1998, at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the focus of the workshop was broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to its increasing relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing. SPIRE'99, at Cancun, Mexico, has continued this trend including also the area of DNA computing and, as a result, there was several papers and three invited talks on this topic. For SPIRE'2000 we expect to have contributions from several related communities. The SPIRE'2000 symposium aims at facilitating the potential benefits of cross-fertilization between different fields. As such, it offers a singular opportunity for researchers interested in working with problems related to these areas. As in the past, the proceedings of SPIRE'2000 will be published by IEEE CS Press. TOPICS SPIRE'2000 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, DNA computing, and related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern matching, text compression, text mining, voice or natural language processing, and automata based string processing. * Information Retrieval (IR): IR modeling, indexing, ranking and filtering, interface design, visualization, cross-lingual IR systems, multimedia IR, digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, and Web related applications. * Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and applications in molecular biology, information encoding for DNA computing, evolution and phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and protein structure prediction. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: April 20th, 2000 Authors notification: May 31th, 2000 Camera ready: June 26th, 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Partial list) James Allan, Univ. of Massachussets, USA Martyn Amos, Liverpool, UK Alberto Apostolico, Purdue Univ. (USA) & Univ. of Padova (Italy) Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Univ. de Chile, Chile Nieves R. Brisaboa, Univ. de A Coruña, Spain Fabio Crestani, ISCI, Berkeley, USA Maxime Crochemore, Gaspard-Monge Institute, University of Marne-la-Vallée, France Pablo de la Fuente, Univ. de Valladolid, Spain, (Chair) Max Garzon, Univ. of Memphis, USA Natasha Jonoska, Univ. of South Florida, USA Lila Kari, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada John D. Kececioglu, University of Georgia, USA Ruy Milidiu, PUC-Rio, Brazil Giri Narasimhan, Univ. of Memphis, USA Gonzalo Navarro, Univ. de Chile, Chile Arlindo Oliveira, IST/INESC, Portugal Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, UFMG, Brazil Wojtek Rytter, Liverpool University and Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University Marie-France Sagot, Pasteur Inst., France Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, Great Britain Jorma Tarhio, Univ. of Joensuu, Finland Uzi Vishkin, Univ. of Maryland, USA Nivio Ziviani, UFMG, Brazil Justin Zobel, RMIT, Australia INVITED SPEAKERS (Partial list) Uzi Vishkin, Univ. of Maryland, USA SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors are requested to: - prepare an extended abstract or full draft paper of at most 15 pages in standard 11pt Latex article style or equivalent. - send the paper in standard postscript via e-mail (see address below) no later than April 20th, 2000 to the chair of the Program Committee as well as a message containing the paper title, the names of all authors, an indication of the author to be contacted, and the affiliation of such author (including full address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address). E-mail: spire2000 at infor.uva.es - use the standard IEEE CS format for the final version of accepted papers, which will have to be sent via ftp to the publisher either as postscript or PDF. SYMPOSIUM SITE The symposium will take place in A Coruña (Spain). A Coruña, a beautiful city placed in the north coast of the Iberian Peninsula with more than 250.000 inhabitants, is one of Europe's main ports. It is the capital of the most western located province in Spain and belongs to a wide touristic area called "Rias Altas". In A Coruña you can climb the Tower of Hercules, the oldest light house still working in the world. Close to A Coruña you can visit one of the main Christian Santuaries, Santiago de Compostela. The remains of St James the Apostle, kept in the Cathedral and venerated for centuries by thousands of pilgrims has converted the city into one of the capitals of Christendom. LOCAL ORGANIZATION The local organization committee is chaired by Nieves R. Brisaboa from Univ. of A Coruña, Spain. For any questions about local matters please send e-mail to spire00 at udc.es. WEB HOMEPAGE http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/spire2000/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Mark Sanderson, Room 303 Tel : +44 (0) 114 22 22648 Department of Information Studies Fax : +44 (0) 114 27 80300 University of Sheffield, Western Bank mailto:m.sanderson at shef.ac.uk Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Good judgement comes from experience but experience comes from bad judgement From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 13 17:20:02 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:20:02 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2000 Call for Theme Proposals Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen ACL-2000 CALL FOR THEME PROPOSALS ACL-00 Conference: The 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Hong Kong October 3--6, 2000 The Association for Computational Linguistics would like to encourage the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics. To broaden both the thematic coverage and geographical origin of submissions, we are continuing the special theme sessions format introduced in the 1999 ACL conference. Some proportion of the conference will be given over to special sessions, somewhat like a special issue of a journal, organized around themes proposed by members of the NLP community. The aim is to incorporate some of the intensity and excitement of the traditional pre/post-conference workshops, without replacing those workshops---we expect, as has become traditional, that there will also be a set of workshops that will remain separate from the main meeting. This call invites proposals for thematic sessions in accordance with the considerations below; a final Call For Papers, that includes the list of selected themes will be sent out in mid-January. What is a Thematic Session? We are soliciting proposals for themes that will provide a sufficient number of quality papers to form one or two sessions (3-4 papers per session) in the main conference. Proposers of accepted themes, who will become the chairs of those sessions, will have similar responsibilities to those of workshop organizers in terms of arranging reviewing and the delivery of camera ready copy. However, the papers will be scheduled as part of the main sessions and will be published as part of the main conference proceedings. The quality of theme papers is expected to be equal to that of the papers in the general sessions of the conference. In terms of subject area coverage, we expect thematic sessions will be closer to workshop topic areas in focus. Format of Theme Proposals The theme proposals should be approximately two pages in length and should be divided into the following headings. Chair Details: Name, address, email, telephone number, fax Theme Title: List of Topics: This should include some keywords describing the topics to be covered by the theme. This information will be used primarily to check for overlap with other proposed themes. Summary: A brief description of the proposed subject area, and summary of why the inclusion of the proposed theme would meet the aims of theme sessions. Viability of Theme: Given the number of papers that can populate one or two sessions at the conference and the typical ACL acceptance rates, to be viable a theme should receive 10--30 submissions. In this section, proposers of the theme should provide evidence that sufficient number of submissions can be expected. Such evidence for the viability of the theme might include the citation of workshops, symposia, special journal issues etc. in the theme topic. In situations of emerging fields, such evidence may not be available. In lieu of such evidence, proposers might provide evidence for an existing community interested in the topic by providing a list of people who have indicated interest in the theme. Of course, proposers can offer other types of evidence to show that a sufficient number of submissions can be expected. Proposed Review Committee: Each paper submitted should be reviewed by at least three people. As part of the proposal, proposers should suggest a potential review committee who are likely to serve on the committee if the proposal is accepted. The list would also demonstrate the spread of interest in the area in the community, encouraging both international participation and the participation of a broad range of researchers, including both senior members of the community and graduate students. Theme proposals should be submitted to the email address provided below. Proposers of themes are encouraged to indicate their plans in advance of the submission date by sending email to this address. Informal enquiries as to what might work as a theme can also be directed to this address. Possible themes might be topics like: NLP and Information Retrieval (or topics that include a community in the periphery of language technology); Methods for Asian Language Processing; Computational Linguistic Issues in Alternate/Augmentative Communication; Spoken Dialog Systems; Multi-lingual Language Processing. These examples are provided only as indications of the variety of topic areas that will be considered. A list of theme topics included in the ACL 1999 conference can be found by following appropriate links from http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99/. Important Dates This call issued: December 3, 1999 Theme submissions deadline: January 7, 2000 Notification of selected themes: January 17, 2000 Call for papers: January 20, 2000 Paper submissions deadline: March 31, 2000 (approx. date) Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2000 (approx. date) General Submission Questions Co-chairs for the ACL-99 program are Chang-Ning Huang and K. Vijay-Shanker. All queries regarding the program should be sent to acl2k at cis.udel.edu; this forwards to both co-chairs. Submission Format Theme proposals should ideally submitted in ascii by email to acl2k at cis.udel.edu with the subject: "ACL99 THEME PROPOSAL". PostScript, PDF and Word files will be accepted if they print on the first try. Hardcopy proposals should be faxed or mailed to both of the chairs, clearly labeled "ACL99 THEME PROPOSAL". Proposals should be received by 5pm GMT on January 7, 2000. Chang-Ning Huang (Co-Chair) K. Vijay-Shanker (Co-Chair) Microsoft Research, China Dept. of Computer Science 5F, Beijing Sigma Center University of Delaware No.49, Zhichun Road Newark, DE 19716, USA Beijing 100080, P.R.C cnhuang at microsoft.com vijay at cis.udel.edu Tel: (86-10)6261-7711 -5760 Tel: +1 302 831 1952 Fax: (86-10)8809-7305 Fax: +1 302 831 8458 Hitoshi Iida (General Chair) Aravind K. Joshi (Honorary Chair) Speech and Language Information Department of Computer and Processing Lab Information Sciences SONY Computer Science Labs, Inc. University of Pennsylvania Tokyo 141-0022, Japan Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA iida at csl.sony.co.jp joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu Tel: +81 3 5448 4380 Tel: +1 215 898 0359 Fax: +81 3 5447 1942 Fax: +1 215 573 9247 From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 13 17:20:07 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:20:07 +0100 Subject: Conf: IWPT 2000 Message-ID: From: Alberto Lavelli C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n IWPT 2000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000.html Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 23-25 February, 2000 Trento, Italy ~~~~ ********************************************************************* * INVITED SPEAKERS * * * * Eric Brill (Microsoft Research - NLP group) * * Automatic Grammar Induction: Combining, Reducing * * and Doing Nothing * * * * Martin Kay (Xerox PARC) * * Guides and Oracles for Linear-Time Parsing * * * * Giorgio Satta (University of Padua) * * Parsing Techniques for Lexicalized Context-Free * * Grammar Models * ********************************************************************* IWPT 2000 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; and Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997. REGISTRATION INFORMATION ********* Conference fees --------------- Regular: 200 EURO (before 31 Jan 2000) 300 EURO (after 31 Jan 2000) Student: 70 EURO (before 31 Jan 2000) 120 EURO (after 31 Jan 2000) The conference fee includes a copy of the proceedings, lunch tickets and coffee breaks. To register, use the registration form available on the IWPT 2000 web pages at the URL http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000/registration.html and send it to the IWPT 2000 secretariat (whose address is on the web page above) by fax or regular mail. FURTHER INFORMATION Further details about the workshop (accommodation, tourist information, etc) can be found on the web pages of IWPT 2000 at the URL http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000.html. The list of accepted papers is available at the URL http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000/accepted.html. For questions about the workshop programme email iwpt2000 at cogs.susx.ac.uk; for questions about the local arrangements email iwpt2000 at itc.it. From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 13 17:20:13 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:20:13 +0100 Subject: Conf: RJC - IHM Message-ID: From: "Jérôme Goulian" ********************************** Toutes nos excuses en cas d'envois multiples ********************************** APPEL à PARTICIPATION RJC-IHM 2000 1ères Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Interaction Homme-Machine 3-5 Mai 2000 Ile de Berder, Golfe du Morbihan http://www-iupva.univ-ubs.fr/public/IUP/recherche/RJCIHM Le laboratoire VALORIA (UBS) organise, sous le patronage scientifique de l'Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine (AFIHM), les 1ères Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en IHM, les 3, 4, 5 Mai 2000 sur l'île de Berder (Golfe du Morbihan). L’objectif de cette manifestation est triple : - faciliter l'intégration des jeunes chercheurs au sein de la communauté francophone en IHM par des échanges scientifiques, ouverts à tous, autour de communications affichées, - aider les jeunes chercheurs dans leurs recherches par des rencontres avec des chercheurs confirmés invités à ces journées, - mettre en avant des recherches innovantes et de qualité sous la forme de communications orales. Programme Les rencontres se dérouleront sur 2 journées et demie, du 3 au 5 mai 2000. Elles se composeront de sessions orales et affichées pouvant donner lieu à des démonstrations. La liste non définitive des communications annoncées est disponible sur le site WWW des RJC-IHM : http://www-iupva.univ-ubs.fr/public/IUP/recherche/RJCIHM Deux tutoriels seront présentés, en séance plénière, par des chercheurs confirmés invités aux journées. Une demi-journée de détente et d'échanges informels sera également organisée durant les rencontres. Thèmes Ces journées concerneront tous les aspects pluridisciplinaires de l'Interaction Homme-Machine. Les thèmes abordés seront (sans exclusive) : - Théories et modèles des IHM - Analyse et conception des IHM - Ergonomie des IHM - Environnements et outils pour l'IHM - Interaction multimédia et multimodale - Interaction 3D, vocale, gestuelle et textuelle - Réalité augmentée et réalité virtuelle - Dispositifs et techniques d'interaction - Collecticiels - Interfaces intelligentes - IHM pour systèmes critiques et embarqués - Interaction sur la Toile - Interaction pour tous - IHM et sciences cognitives Comité Scientifique Nadine Vigouroux (IRIT, Toulouse) Présidente R. Bastide (LIHS, Toulouse) T. Baudel (ILOG, Paris) M. Beaudoin-Lafon (U. d’Aarhus, Danemark) Y. Bellik (LIMSI, Orsay) S. Chatty (CENA, Toulouse) J. Coutaz (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble) A. Derycke (TRIGONE, Lille) C. Faure (ENST, Paris) J-D. Fekete (École des Mines, Nantes) M. Hascöet-Zizi (LRI, Orsay) F. Jambon (LISI/ENSMA, Poitiers) L. Julia (SRI, CA, USA) L. Karsenty (IRIT, Toulouse) W. Mackay (U. d’Aarhus, Danemark) P. Milgram (U. de Toronto, Canada) L. Nigay (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble) P. Plenacoste (TRIGONE, Lille) F. Poirier (VALORIA,Vannes) D. Salber (Georgia Tech., USA) D. Scapin (INRIA, Roquencourt) J-C. Spérandio (Paris V) F. Tarpin-Bernard (ICTT, Lyon) P. Trigano (UTC, Compiègne) J. Vanderdonckt (Stanford U., USA) Comité d'organisation J.-Y. Antoine (Président) J. Goulian, J.-F. Kamp, G. Koscielny, P.-F. Marteau, B. Le Pévédic, S. Letellier, G. Ménier, P. Nicolas, F. Poirier, S. Sire. Parrainage scientifique AFIHM UBS GDR PRC I3 Hébergement L'hébergement et la restauration se feront sur les lieux même des rencontres, au centre de vacances LVT de l'île de Berder. Les participants seront logés dans les chambres doubles, d'où ils jouiront d'une vue imprenable sur le Golfe du Morbihan. L'île de Berder, d’une superficie de 24 ha, est réservée à l'usage exclusif des résidents du centre. Elle n'est reliée au continent qu'à marée basse. Un passeur sera cependant à la disposition des participants à toute heure de la journée. Les participants qui désireraient séjourner plus longuement sur l'île auront la possibilité d'anticiper ou de prolonger individuellement leur séjour en prenant contact avec le centre qui leur réserve un certain nombre de places à cet effet. Inscriptions Les frais d'inscriptions avant le 24/01/2000 sont de 1600 F (1500F pour les membres de l'AFIHM). Après le 24/01/2000, les frais d'inscriptions sont de 2000F. Ils couvrent l'ensemble des frais d'hébergement et de restauration pour la durée des rencontres, les actes des journées ainsi que les différentes activités organisées dans le cadre de cette manifestation. Clôture des inscriptions au tarif normal : 24 Janvier 2000 C.F. bulletin d’inscription joint ou disponible sur le site web des rencontres. 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Le laboratoire VALORIA (UBS) organise, sous le patronage scientifique de l'Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine (AFIHM), les 1ères Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en IHM, les 3, 4, 5 Mai 2000 sur l'île de Berder (Golfe du Morbihan).

L’objectif de cette manifestation est triple :
- faciliter l'intégration des jeunes chercheurs au sein de la communauté francophone en IHM par des échanges scientifiques, ouverts à tous, autour de communications affichées,
- aider les jeunes chercheurs dans leurs recherches par des rencontres avec des chercheurs confirmés invités à ces journées,
- mettre en avant des recherches innovantes et de qualité sous la forme de communications orales.

Programme
Les rencontres se dérouleront sur 2 journées et demie, du 3 au 5 mai 2000. Elles se composeront de sessions orales et affichées pouvant donner lieu à des démonstrations.

La liste non définitive des communications annoncées est disponible sur le site WWW des RJC-IHM :
http://www-i upva.univ -ubs.fr/public/IUP/recherche/RJCIHM

Deux tutoriels seront présentés, en séance plénière, par des chercheurs confirmés invités aux journées. Une demi-journée de détente et d'échanges informels sera également organisée durant les rencontres.

Thèmes
Ces journées concerneront tous les aspects pluridisciplinaires de l'Interaction Homme-Machine.
Les thèmes abordés seront  (sans exclusive) :
- Théories et modèles des IHM
- Analyse et conception des IHM
- Ergonomie des IHM
- Environnements et outils pour l'IHM
- Interaction multimédia et multimodale
- Interaction 3D, vocale, gestuelle et textuelle
- Réalité augmentée et réalité virtuelle
- Dispositifs et techniques d'interaction
- Collecticiels
- Interfaces intelligentes
- IHM pour systèmes critiques et embarqués
- Interaction sur la Toile
- Interaction pour tous
- IHM et sciences cognitives

Comité Scientifique
Nadine Vigouroux (IRIT, Toulouse) Présidente
R. Bastide  (LIHS, Toulouse)
T. Baudel  (ILOG, Paris)
M. Beaudoin-Lafon (U. d’Aarhus, Danemark)
Y. Bellik  (LIMSI, Orsay)
S. Chatty  (CENA, Toulouse)
J. Coutaz  (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble)
A. Derycke  (TRIGONE, Lille)
C. Faure  (ENST, Paris)
J-D. Fekete  (École des Mines, Nantes)
M. Hascöet-Zizi (LRI, Orsay)
F. Jambon  (LISI/ENSMA, Poitiers)
L. Julia  (SRI, CA, USA)
L. Karsenty  (IRIT, Toulouse)
W. Mackay  (U. d’Aarhus, Danemark)
P. Milgram  (U. de Toronto, Canada)
L. Nigay  (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble)
P. Plenacoste  (TRIGONE, Lille)
F. Poirier  (VALORIA,Vannes)
D. Salber  (Georgia Tech., USA)
D. Scapin  (INRIA, Roquencourt)
J-C. Spérandio  (Paris V)
F. Tarpin-Bernard (ICTT, Lyon)
P. Trigano  (UTC, Compiègne)
J. Vanderdonckt  (Stanford U., USA)

Comité d'organisation
J.-Y. Antoine (Président) J. Goulian, J.-F. Kamp, G. Koscielny, P.-F. Marteau, B. Le Pévédic, S. Letellier, G. Ménier, P. Nicolas, F. Poirier, S. Sire.

Parrainage scientifique
 
AFIHM
UBS
GDR PRC I3

Hébergement
L'hébergement et la restauration se feront sur les lieux même des rencontres, au centre de vacances LVT de l'île de Berder. Les participants seront logés dans les chambres doubles, d'où ils jouiront d'une vue imprenable sur le Golfe du Morbihan.
L'île de Berder, d’une superficie de 24 ha, est réservée à l'usage exclusif des résidents du centre. Elle n'est reliée au continent qu'à marée basse. Un passeur sera cependant à la disposition des participants à toute heure de la journée. Les participants qui désireraient séjourner plus longuement sur l'île auront la possibilité d'anticiper ou de prolonger individuellement leur séjour en prenant contact avec le centre qui leur réserve un certain nombre de places à cet effet.

Inscriptions
Les frais d'inscriptions avant le 24/01/2000 sont de 1600 F (1500F pour les membres de l'AFIHM). Après le 24/01/2000, les frais d'inscriptions sont de 2000F. Ils couvrent l'ensemble des frais d'hébergement et de restauration pour la durée des rencontres, les actes des journées ainsi que les différentes activités organisées dans le cadre de cette manifestation.

Clôture des inscriptions au tarif normal : 24 Janvier 2000
C.F. bulletin d’inscription joint ou disponible sur le site web des rencontres.
 

Contact
Pour tout renseignement, consulter le serveur WWW des rencontres :
http://www-i upva.univ -ubs.fr/public/IUP/recherche/RJCIHM
ou contacter le comité d'organisation :

Jean-Yves Antoine
VALORIA, IUP Vannes, Rue Y. Mainguy,
56000 Vannes
Email : Jean-Yves.Antoine at univ-ubs.fr
Tél : 02 97 68 32 10
Secrétariat des RJC-IHM
Sylviane Boisadan
VALORIA, IUP Vannes, Rue Y. Mainguy, 56000 Vannes
Email : Sylviane.Boisadan at univ-ubs.fr
Tél : 02 97 68 32 28
 
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RJC-IHM 2000
BULLETIN D'INSCRIPTION

Pour vous inscrire à RJC-IHM 2000, vous devez envoyer par courrier postal AVANT le 24 janvier 2000, le présent formulaire rempli et accompagné de votre paiement à :
Agent Comptable Université Bretagne-Sud  / RJC- IHM
12, avenue St Symphorien BP 573 - 56017 Vannes Cedex

MODE DE PAIEMENT
( ) Par chèque à l'ordre de "Agent Comptable UBS"
( ) Par virement sur le compte de l'Agent Comptable UBS
( ) Par mandat administratif
Coordonnées bancaires de l'Agent Comptable de l’UBS:
Banque : Trésorerie Générale Vannes
Titulaire : UBS (SIRET:195 617 188 00014)
Domiciliation : TPVANNES
Compte no : 10071-56000-00003001833-59

VOS COORDONNEES
Nom   Prénom .
Organisation  ..
Adresse  ..
Code postal Ville Pays .
E-mail  .. ..
Tél .   Fax ...

MONTANT DES INSCRIPTIONS  .
Avant le 24 /01/2000 ( ) Adhérent AFIHM   : 1500 F
( ) Non  adhérent AFIHM : 1600 F
Après le 24/01/ 2000 ( ) Tout le monde : 2000 F

L'inscription aux rencontres comprend : la pension complète (déjeuners du 3 et du 5 mai inclus), le transport gare de Vannes/île de Berder (aller-retour), les actes, les pauses et l'activité de détente d'une demi-journée.

ACTIVITES - Choisir entre l'une ou l'autre activité
( ) Sortie en kayak de mer ou vieux gréement
( ) Sortie touristique (visite d'un site mégalithique).
 
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  --------------85E5E90B2A7931EB22AA889A-- --------------7386EAE8D813AB1A108A6967-- From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:04 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:04 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Rachel Gawron" Subject: Post 2/ From: "Ingrid Meyer" Subject: poste 3/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Job: Catalan - English, Barcelona 4/ From: Paul Allopenna Subject: Comp Ling: Technical Staff at Simpli.com, Providence, RI, USA ____________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Rachel Gawron" Subject: Post POSTDOCTORAL TRAINEESHIPS AT JOHNS HOPKINS: Integrating Formal and Empirical Methods in the Cognitive Science of Language The Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University is offering Postdoctoral Traineeships in a problem-centered language research program encompassing psycholinguistics, theoretical linguistics, cognitive neuropsychology (especially neuroimaging and cognitive neuropsychology of language), language acquisition, and computational linguistics. Ideal trainees will have previous experience in one or more of these disciplines and will possess strong motivation for training in the other areas. Trainees must be able to work independently, demonstrating high levels of initiative. Applicants are required to submit a brief (approx. 3-page) proposal, indicating (1) what courses or other academic resources they wish to take advantage of in order to augment their doctoral education; (2) how they expect to contribute to the training environment; (3) what research activities they are interested in pursuing during their post-doctoral appointment; and (4) how their proposed research fits in with existing research in Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins. Applicants are referred to our website (www.cogsci.jhu.edu) for further information on the training program. The interactive training environment for these positions includes the facilities of the Cognitive Science Department and other related units at Johns Hopkins, including the Center for Language and Speech Processing, the Psychology and Neurology Departments and the Mind/Brain Institute, along with access to a research-dedicated fMRI facility providing extensive technical support (the Kirby Center). The Traineeships are part of the department's NSF-supported Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program in the Cognitive Science of Language, and are also supported through a group NSF Learning and Intelligent Systems (LIS) grant on Optimization in Language and Language Learning. Traineeships will begin on September 1; awards are for a period of one year and may be renewable. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the US. The deadline for applications is January 31, 1999, but applications will be accepted after that time until the positions are filled. Please send CV, proposal, and three letters of reference to: IGERT Postdoctoral Traineeships, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685. The Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. ____________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: "Ingrid Meyer" Subject: poste UNIVERSIT=C9 D'OTTAWA/UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA POSTE DE PROFESSEUR EN TRADUCTION Facult=E9 des arts : =C9cole de traduction et d'interpr=E9tation (=C9TI) L'=C9TI sollicite des candidatures =E0 un poste de professeur adjoint = =E0 temps plein menant =E0 la permanence. 1. Domaine : Traduction. Un int=E9r=EAt particulier pour l'un des = domaines suivants est souhaitable : informatique et traduction, = traduction technique, traduction espagnole, interpr=E9tation 2. T=E2ches :Enseignement aux trois cycles, en anglais ou en fran=E7ais, = selon les besoins de l'=C9TI (l'=C9TI offre des cours de traduction en = anglais, en fran=E7ais et en espagnol). Recherche. Responsabilit=E9s = administratives. 3. Crit=E8res d'admissibilit=E9 : Doctorat et publications. = L'exp=E9rience de l'enseignement universitaire constitue un atout. Une = exp=E9rience professionnelle est =E9galement souhaitable. 4. Salaire : Selon la convention collective. DATE DE CL=D4TURE : le 15 janvier 2000. ENTR=C9E EN FONCTION : le 1er juillet 2000. Pri=E8re d'adresser la lettre de candidature, un curriculum vitae = complet et =E0 jour, un exemplaire des principales publications et le = nom de trois r=E9pondants =E0 : Madame Genevi=E8ve Mareschal, = Directrice, =C9cole de traduction et d'interpr=E9tation, Universit=E9 = d'Ottawa, C.P. 450, Succ. A, OTTAWA (Ontario), Canada K1N 6N5. Conform=E9ment aux exigences prescrites en mati=E8re d'immigration au = Canada, cette annonce s'adresse aux citoyens canadiens et aux = r=E9sidents permanents. L'Universit=E9 a une politique d'=E9quit=E9 en = mati=E8re d'emploi et encourage fortement les hommes =E0 pr=E9senter = leur candidature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TEACHING POSITION IN TRANSLATION Faculty of Arts: School of Translation and Interpretation (STI) The STI invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position, with = the rank of Assistant Professor. 1. Field. Translation. Special interest in one or more of the following = areas is desirable: computers and translation, technical translation, = Spanish translation, interpretation. 2. Tasks. The successful applicant will be required to teach at both = graduate and undergraduate levels in French or in English, according to = the needs of the School (the School teaches English, French and Spanish = translation). The applicant will be expected to carry out research and = participate in administrative duties. 3. Minimum qualifications. Doctorate and publications. Experience in = university teaching is a definite advantage. Professional experience = would also be desirable. 4. Salary. In accordance with the collective agreement. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: January 15, 2000 STARTING DATE: July 1, 2000 Letters of application, accompanied by a detailed and up-to-date = curriculum vitae, copies of principal publications and the names of = three referees, should be sent to: Dr. Genevi=E8ve Mareschal, Director, = School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa, Box 450, = Station A, Ottawa ON, K1N 6N5 In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement = is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. The University = of Ottawa has an Employment Equity Program and strongly encourages = applications from men. ____________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Job: Catalan - English, Barcelona I have been asked to pass this on - For further information, please contact morales at incyta.es or juan at incyta.es Job Offer We urgently need to employ a Computational Linguist, who is also a native speaker of English. The work involves participating in a project team on a Catalan - English project, and in particular working with the English side of the project. The candidate should: havea certain degree of knowledge of formal linguistics and (if possible) of Computational linguistics. havenative competence in English. The work will be carried out in Barcelona (Cornella district) and will last until August or September 2000. Salary according to the profile and experience of the candidate. ____________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Paul Allopenna Subject: Comp Ling: Technical Staff at Simpli.com, Providence, RI, USA Rank of Job: member of technical staff Areas Required: Statistical Language Processing Other Desired Areas: Internet Search University or Organization: Simpli.com Department: State or Province: RI Country: USA Final Date of Application: open Contact: Paul Allopenna pallopenna at simpli.com Address for Applications: 203 Sout Main St. Providence RI 02903 USA We are seeking a Ph.D. level computational linguist with a strong background in both Computer Science and Computational Linguistics, with experience in statistical language processing. We are an internet start-up company working on web search enhancement. Experience with large linguistic databases or corpora would be helpful. We are located in Providence RI, and attractive city conveniently close to both Boston and New York. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please contact Paul Allopenna for more information at: (401) 621-3200 x45, or pallopenna at simpli.com. From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:19 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:19 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL 2000 - Preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: From : Priscilla Rasmussen ACL 2000 Preliminary Call For Papers 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3--6 October, 2000 Hong Kong 1. Paper Sessions 1.1 Topics of Interest As was the case with last year's ACL conference, the technical sessions of the conference will be of two kinds. There will be General Sessions as well as a number of special Thematic Sessions organized around themes proposed by members of the computational linguistics community. The Thematic Sessions will run as parallel sessions, resulting in smaller and more focussed audiences. When you submit a paper to the conference, you will need to consider whether you want to present the paper in the General Sessions or in one of the Thematic Sessions, which will be listed in the final call for papers (due to come out around January 20, 2000). The conference will also feature a student workshop, tutorials, workshops, and demos. Separate calls for these will be issued shortly. For the General Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems. 1.2 Requirements Requirements are the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions; a separate Call for Student Workshop papers will provide the information on requirements for papers submitted to the Student Sessions. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this immediately after the title material on the first page. 1.3 Submission and Reviewing Procedure The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions. Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers for review, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). The submission procedure will be the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions. Electronic submissions can not be accepted. Further details on the submission procedure will be provided in the final call for papers (due to come out around January 20th, 2000). See the separate Call for Student Workshop Papers for information on submission details for papers submitted to the Student Workshop. Reviewing of papers submitted to the General Sessions will, as in previous years, be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a team of reviewers. Reviewing of papers for the Thematic Sessions will be managed by the chairs of the Thematic Sessions, with the assistance of teams of reviewers; final decisions on the technical program content (both General Sessions and Thematic Sessions) will be made by the Program Committee. Note that reviewing of papers will be blind. 1.4 Schedule Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000. Electronic submissions will not be accepted. Late submissions (those arriving on or after April 8th) will be returned. Acknowledgements will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on June 15, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. 2. Venue and Local Organization The conference will be held in Hong Kong from October 3rd through 6th, 2000. The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by Dekai Wu; the local arrangements information will be posted soon. 3. Timetable The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic sessions: see the separate Calls for Student Workshop Papers, Tutorial Proposals and Workshops for the timetable associated with those elements of the conference. Preliminary Call issued: December 15, 1999 Final Call for Papers issued: January 20, 2000 Paper submissions deadline: April 7, 2000 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2000 ACL 2000 Conference: October 3--6, 2000 All queries regarding the General Sessions and Thematic sessions of ACL-2000 should be sent to acl2k at cis.udel.edu; this forwards to both PC co-chairs. Chang-Ning Huang (PC Co-Chair) K. Vijay-Shanker (PC Co-Chair) Microsoft Research, China Dept. of Computer Science 5F, Beijing Sigma Center University of Delaware No.49, Zhichun Road Newark, DE 19716, USA Beijing 100080, P.R.C cnhuang at microsoft.com vijay at cis.udel.edu Tel: (86-10)6261-7711 -5760 Tel: +1 302 831 1952 Fax: (86-10)8809-7305 Fax: +1 302 831 8458 Hitoshi Iida (General Chair) Aravind K. Joshi (Honorary Chair) Speech and Language Information Department of Computer and Processing Lab Information Sciences SONY Computer Science Labs, Inc. University of Pennsylvania Tokyo 141-0022, Japan Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA iida at csl.sony.co.jp joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu Tel: +81 3 5448 4380 Tel: +1 215 898 0359 Fax: +81 3 5447 1942 Fax: +1 215 573 9247 From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:41 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:41 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLP 2000/Greece Message-ID: From: "Aristides Th. Vagelatos" ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing NLP 2000: Filling the gap between theory and practice URL: http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000 2, 3 & 4 June 2000, Conference and Cultural Center University of Patras - Greece ORGANIZED BY: - Computer Technology Institute of Patras - University of Patras Computer Engineering Department (Database Laboratory) Philology Department (Linguistics Section) - University of Athens Informatics Department - University of the Aegean Information & Communication Systems Department 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 Specific themes of the conference include: Linguistic Models in NLP Language Engineering Techniques and Applications INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS Authors are required to submit an abstract (maximum of 2000 words, including references) in hard copy or electronic PostScript form to the NLP2000 conference secretariat by January 6, 2000: NLP2000 Conference Secretariat Attn: Mrs. Penelope Kontodimou P.O. Box 1421 University of Patras GR - 26 500 Patras - Greece Email: pinelop at cti.gr Tel: (+3061) 960.383 Fax: (+3061) 997.783 All accepted papers (maximum of 12 single-spaced pages) will be published in the conference proceedings; published by Springer Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES 20 January 2000, Abstract submission (Extended Deadline) 30 January 2000, Selection of submitted abstracts 5 February 2000, Acceptance Notification 15 March 2000, Deadline for final camera-ready manuscripts. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Committee Chair: Christodoulakis Dimitris (University of Patras), Greece E-mail: dxri at cti.gr Members: Ananiadou Sophia (Salford University), UK Anastassiadi-Simeonidi Anna (University of Thessaloniki), Greece Babiniotis George, (University of Athens), Greece Berwick Bob (MIT), USA Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Centre Europe), France Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Universite du Quebec a Montreal), Canada Filokyprou George (University of Athens), Greece Gafos Diamantis (University of New York), USA 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 Ligozat Gerard (Universite Paris-Sud), France Malagardi Ioanna, (General Secretariat for R&T), Greece Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland Morin Jean-Yves (University of Montreal), Canada Petrits Angelique (Commission of the European Union), Belgium, Ralli Angela (University of Patras), Greece Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA Stamison-Atmatzidi Matina, (University of Patras), 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 INVITED TALKS We are pleased to announce that the Scientific Program will include invited talks by the following guest speakers: Invited speakers: Berwick Bob (MIT), USA Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Center Europe), France Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Universite du Quebec a Montreal), Canada Ligozat Gerard (Universite Paris-Sud), France Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland Morin Jean Yves (University of Montreal), Canada Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA Theologitis Dimitris (Comm. of the European Union), Lux. Wehrli Eric (University of Geneva), Switzerland Wilks Yorik (University of Sheffield), England - ----------------------------- New tel. numbers: ITY - Patras 061 221834, 625148 Fax: 061 221826 From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:46 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:46 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journal TAL (Special Issue Speech Synthesis) Message-ID: From : Evelyne Tzoukermann [French version below] **********APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES************* TAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS --------------------------------------------- JOURNAL TAL - CALL FOR PAPER. A special issue (volume 42:1 to appear in 2001, with audio CD) of the French journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (TAL) will be devoted to "Text-to-Speech Synthesis". The call for paper (english) can be found at: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-synt.en.html The call for paper (French) can be found at: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-synt.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appel a communication pour la revue T.A.L. ----------------------------------------- Un numero (parution prevue en 2001) de la revue "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (T.A.L) sera consacre au theme de la "SYNTHESE DE LA PAROLE". Ce numero sera accompagne d'un disque compact audio. Le texte de l'appel se trouve en francais a l'addresse: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-synt.html Le texte de l'appel se trouve en anglais a l'adresse: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-synt.en.html From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:51 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:51 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLDB'2000 Message-ID: From: Odile.Piton at univ-paris1.fr (Odile Piton) C A L L F O R P A P E R S (deadline March 12th,2000) N L D B ' 2 0 0 0 5th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems Versailles (France), June 28-30, 2000 http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/dataware/confs/nldb00/ Since 1995 the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researchers, industrial and potential users interested in various applications of NATURAL LANGUAGE in the DATABASE and information systems field. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for a long time. Nowadays, this is an accessible convergent point on which a lot of researchers are focusing, mainly due to the large progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage of real semantic electronic dictionaries. Each aspect of an information system life cycle may be improved by natural language techniques: database design (specification, validation, conflict resolution), database query languages and application programming that use new software engineering research (e.g. natural language program specifications). As information systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems. SETTING: Versailles is an historical city famous for its palace and gardens. Half an hour separates Versailles from Paris which is one of the most charming cities in the world. MAJOR TOPICS OF INTEREST : * Natural Language for WEB Databases Semantic information retrieval Semi-structured models and associated languages * Natural Language Resources for Integration in Multi-Sources Systems Linguistic aspects of view integration Linguistic aspects of data warehouse Natural language queries to multi-databases systems Data integration and data cleaning * Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling Requirement engineering Analysis of natural language descriptions Verification, consistency checking Paraphrasing Dynamic modeling * Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying Natural languages interfaces for database querying Verification of database queries by paraphrasing Semantic analysis for information retrieval * Hypertext and Hyperbases Hypertext as a navigation tool Generating hypertext from data sources * Large-Scale Online Linguistic Resources Question-answer corpora Electronic dictionaries Ontologies * Natural Language for Reuse Application dictionaries Reusable components in database design * Textual Databases Indexing Retrieval * Multilingual Issues Machine translation Multilingual information systems SUPPORTING EVENTS: The organizers would like to provide for opportunities to disseminate work in a variety of ways. Those interested in preparing tutorials or panel discussions are invited to contact the program chair. Demonstrations of prototypes or tools are also welcome. Previous conferences have been held in Versailles (France), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Vancouver (Canada) and Klagenfurt (Austria), and have attracted researchers from all the continents. In addition to a conference proceedings, selected papers have in the past been submitted for review and publication in special editions of the Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering. CONFERENCE CHAIR : Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Université de Versailles, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE chair: Elisabeth Metais, Université de Versailles, France Alfs T. Berztiss, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France Hans Burg, Ordina Alignment Consulting, The Netherlands Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Université de Cergy, France Günther Fliedl, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Nicola Guarino, CNR, Padova, Italy Jon Atle Gulla, Borvegian Institute of Technology, Norway Udo Hahn, Freiburg University, Germany Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France Christian Kop, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University, Canada Henrich Mayr, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Odile Piton, Université de Paris 1, France Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ans Steuten, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Veda Storey, Rochester University, Canada Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Christian Winkler, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE chair: Zoubida Kedad, Université de Versailles, France Chantal Ducoin, Université de Versailles, France Paul Schmidt, IAI, Germany INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: To contribute, please submit 4 copies of a paper which does not exceed 5000 words, including a short abstract, to the program committee chair : Elisabeth Metais laboratoire PRiSM 45 avenue des Etats-Unis F-78035 Versailles France Elisabeth.Metais at prism.uvsq.fr phone: +33 (0) 1 39 25 40 53 fax: +33 (0) 1 39 25 40 57 IMPORTANT DATES : PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 12th, 2000 Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2000 Camera-ready paper: May 8th, 2000 Odile PITON ---> ---> ---> attention nouvelle numerotation à compter du 17 decembre tel au labo :01 44 07 83 05 fax du labo : 01 44 07 83 01 From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:54 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:54 +0100 Subject: Appel: TAG+5 Message-ID: From: Lionel Clement ********************************************************************* ____ __ __ _ ___ (_ _)( ) / _) _( )_ | __) || /__\( (/\(_ _)|__ \ (__)(_)(_)\__/ (_) (___/ TAG+5 International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms May 25 - 27, 2000 Jussieu, Paris, France ********************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (version française infra) The fifth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks (hence the + after TAG) will be held at the University of Paris 7, from May 25 to May 27 2000, sponsored by ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues). Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992), Univ. Paris 7 (1994) and UPenn (1998). Original submissions on all aspects of TAGs (linguistic, mathematical, computational, and applicational) are invited, as well as those relating TAGs to other frameworks, lexicalized (dependency grammars, categorial grammars...), tree-based (DTG, TFG, GB...) or feature-based (LFG, HPSG...). As in the past, there will be some invited talks on other grammar formalisms which have interesting relationships to TAGs. ABSTRACTS: You can submit papers for three kinds of presentations: long talks (25 minutes + 5 min for discussion), short talks (10 min + 5) and/or tool demonstrations. Please note that an author (or a given set of co-authors) should not submit more than one paper. Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the author's name, nor any self-reference. Abstracts should be no longer than 4 pages. 2 hardcopies should be sent by surface mail to: TAG+5 UFRL, Université Paris 7 TALaNa, case 7003 2, place Jussieu F-75251 Paris cedex 05 A separate identification page (with the following information : title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, email address, fax and telephone number) should also be included. Please also indicate if you submitted your abstract to other conferences. Also a postcript file should be sent to tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr. Please indicate "tag+5 submission" in the subject field. Important : all postcript files MUST be in an A4 format Proceedings including extended versions of accepted abstracts will be available at the workshop. Languages of the workshop: English and French If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend, we would appreciate if you could send a message. If you would like to present a demo, please let us know as soon as possible, including information about required hardware and software. DATES: Deadline for submissions: January 22 Notification of acceptance: March 3 Deadline for camera-ready extended abstract: April 15 Workshop Dates: May 25 to May 27 ********************************************************************* DEUXIÈME APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS La cinquième conférence sur les grammaires d'arbres adjoints (TAG) et autres formalismes proches (d'où le +) aura lieu à l'Université Paris 7 du 25 au 27 mai 2000 sous l'égide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues). Les conférences précédentes se sont tenus à Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992), Univ. Paris 7 (1994) et UPenn (1998). Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes ayant trait aux grammaires d'arbres adjoints (linguistique, mathématique, informatique et applications) aussi bien que sur leur relations avec d'autres théories linguistiques (grammaires de dépendance, grammaires catégorielles, DTG, TFG, GB, LFG, HPSG, etc.). Comme par le passé, les conférenciers invités présenteront des travaux sur d'autres formalismes dont la relation avec TAG semble intéressante. MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION Trois types de communications seront proposés : longues (25min. + 5min.de questions), courtes (10min. + 5min.de questions) et démonstrations sur machine. Notez que chaque auteur et groupe d'auteurs ne doivent soumettre qu'un seul résumé. Les résumés anonymes de 4 pages au maximum seront envoyés en deux exemplaires par la poste avant le 22 janvier 2000 à l'adresse suivante : TAG+5 UFRL, Université Paris 7 TALaNa, case 7003 2, place Jussieu F-75251 Paris cedex 05 Une page d'identification séparée (contenant le titre de la communication, le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale et électronique, le numéro de téléphone et de fax de l'auteur) devra être jointe. Merci de préciser si le résumé a été soumis à une autre conférence. Le résumé doit également être envoyé par courrier électronique au format postscript à l'adresse suivante : tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr avec "tag+5 submission" comme objet. Important : Tous les fichiers postscript doivent être au format A4. Les actes de la conférence contiendront les versions complètes des résumés acceptés. Les langues de la conférence sont l'anglais et le français. Les participants qui ne soumettent pas de papier sont également invités à nous contacter avant la conférence. Pour les démonstrations sur machine, nous devrons connaître au plus tôt les besoins de chacun en logiciel et matériel. CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 22 janvier 2000 Notification aux auteurs : 3 mars 2000 Version finale : 15 avril 2000 Conférence : 25-27 mai 2000 ********************************************************************* PROGRAM COMMITTEE COMITÉ DE PROGRAMME Anne Abeillé (Univ. Paris 7 and IUF) Bangalore Srinivas (AT&T Research, Bell Labs) Tilman Becker (DFKI, Saarbrücken) Tonia Bleam (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Pierre Boullier (Inria, Rocquencourt) Marie-Hélène Candito (LexiQuest and Univ. Paris 7) John Carroll (Univ. of Sussex) Eric de la Clergerie (Inria, Rocquencourt) Laurence Danlos (Paris 7 and Loria, Nancy) Christy Doran (ITRI, Brighton) Christophe Fouqueré (Univ. Paris-Nord, Villetaneuse) Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore) Ariane Halber (ENST Paris - Nuance) Beth Ann Hockey (SRI Cambridge) Aravind Joshi (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Sylvain Kahane (Paris 7 and Paris 10) Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbrücken) Gertjan Van Noord (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Martha Palmer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Owen Rambow (AT&T Research) Christian Rétoré (Inria, Rennes) James Rogers (Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padova) Mark Steedman (Univ. of Edinbourg) K. Vijay-Shanker (Univ. of Delaware) Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh) David Weir (Univ. of Sussex, Brighton) CONTACT ADDRESS ADRESSE TAG+5 UFRL, Université Paris 7 TALaNa, case 7003 2, place Jussieu F-75251 Paris cedex 05 phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70 fax: +33 1 44 27 79 19 email: tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr web: http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/~alex/TAGPLUS/ LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE COMITÉ LOCAL D'ORGANISATION Anne Abeillé (Paris 7) Nicolas Barrier (Paris 7) Sébastien Barrier (Paris 7) Marie-Hélène Candito (Paris 7 and Lexiquest) Lionel Clément (Paris 7) Kim Gerdes (Paris 7) Alexandra Kinyon (Paris 7 and Univ. of Pennsylvania) Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbrücken) From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 22 12:53:34 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:53:34 +0100 Subject: Appel: ECAI-2000 Message-ID: From: "ECAI 2000 Publicity [Markus Hannebauer]" [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies of this call.] ------------------ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------- ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems Berlin, Humboldt University August 20-25, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by German Informatics Society (GI) and European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Hosted by Humboldt University Berlin In this special turn of the century we invite you to celebrate ECAI 2000 in Berlin. In the tradition of previous ECAIs the conference will bring together researchers and developers from academy and industry in order to present the state of the art in AI both in research and in applications. The technical program will have a scientific track (paper presentations, invited talks, panel discussions), workshops, and tutorials. Since the year 2000 is a special year, we will make ECAI 2000 a very special conference. Among the programs thought to realize this purpose is an exhibition concept that reflects AI's history, its gaining grounds in the 20th century and its progress paths envisioned into the 21st century. Furthermore, we plan to have a rather unusual sidetrack meant to attract layman such that ECAI 2000 becomes an event in Berlin and not only one of diverse scientific congresses hardly noticed by the public. In so far, we aim at presenting AI on ECAI 2000 in a very broad scope in order to show its relation to other classical and advanced IT-topics (e. g. databases, distributed computing, robotics, operations re- search, artificial life, neuro sciences, virtual reality, and multimedia). For the first time, ECAI comprises the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems sub-conference (PAIS 2000). The purpose of this event is to provide a forum for industry practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of selected intelligent systems techniques and share experience on the application, deve- lopment and deployment of intelligent systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real applications using intelligent systems technology and the ideal place to meet with those working to make successful applications. On behalf of the conference officials Kurt Sundermeyer DaimlerChrysler AG Local Chair ECAI 2000 "At the change of ages we will make ECAI 2000 in Berlin a special conference" FURTHER GENERAL INFORMATION http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de -------------------------------- ECAI 2000 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------- The ECAI 2000 Program Committee invites submission of papers for the technical program of the 14th biennial European Confe- rence on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2000). IMPORTANT DATES 2 Feb 2000 Deadline for paper summaries 4 Feb 2000 Deadline for papers 28 Apr 2000 Notification of acceptance 29 May 2000 Camera-ready copies of papers 23-25 Aug 2000 Technical program at ECAI 2000 Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to: Abduction AI and Creativity Adaptive Systems Affective Computation Art and Music Automated Reasoning Autonomous Agents Bayesian Learning Belief Revision Case-Based Reasoning Causal Reasoning Cognitive Modelling Cognitive Robotics Conceptual Graphs Constraint Programming Constraint Satisfaction Constraint-Based Reasoning Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Deduction Description Logics Diagnosis Distributed AI Genetic Algorithms Human Language Technology Inductive Logic Programming Information Retrieval and Presentation Intelligent User Interfaces Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Representation Lifelike and Believable Characters Logic Programming Machine Learning Meta-Heuristics for AI Model-Based Reasoning Multi-Agent Systems Natural Language Processing Neural Networks Nonmonotonic Reasoning Ontologies Perception Philosophical Foundations Planning Probabilistic Networks Qualitative Reasoning Reactive Control Real-time Systems Reasoning about Actions and Change Reinforcement Learning Resource-Bounded Reasoning Reuse of Knowledge Robotics Scheduling Search Signal Understanding Spatial Reasoning Speech Processing Temporal Reasoning Text Mining Theorem Proving Uncertainty in AI User Modeling Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems Virtual and Augmented Reality Vision FORMATTING GUIDELINES It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without re- view. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Latex style files to support formatting of submissions will be available. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting require- ments specified in the ECAI 2000 style guide (not available yet). Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the procee- dings. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary of their paper by 2 February 2000. The strongly preferred submission method is to use the web-based summary sub- mission form. Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique trak- king number that should be marked on the full paper submission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including the title, authors, contact address and abstract for the paper (maximum 200 words), plus keywords drawn from the above list (plus other keywords if appropriate) to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair (by email or postal mail). The summary information and the tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. (Authors not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the tracking number). Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or elec- tronic submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Pa- pers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. Address for submission Werner Horn ECAI 2000 Program Chair Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Vienna Austria Email: ecai2000 at ai.univie.ac.at Tel: +43-1-4277-63114 Fax: +43-1-4277-9631 Summary form http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/summary.html (not available yet) Multiple submissions policy ECAI 2000 will not accept any paper which at the time of sub- mission is under review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialized meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that the paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal. REVIEW PROCEDURE All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI 2000 Program Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI 2000 Program Chair. The ECAI 2000 Program Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soudness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of sub- mitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 28 April 2000. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing camera- ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2000 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 29 May 2000. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. ECAI 2000 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by Humboldt Uni- versity Berlin on behalf of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). -------------------------------- PAIS 2000 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------- ECAI is pleased to announce its Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2000) sub-conference. The PAIS 2000 Program Committee invites authors to submit application papers. IMPORTANT DATES 2 Feb 2000 Deadline for PAIS paper summaries 4 Feb 2000 Deadline for papers 28 Apr 2000 Notification of acceptance 29 May 2000 Camera-ready copies of papers 23-25 Aug 2000 PAIS 2000 This event, associated with ECAI 2000 is created to specifi- cally highlight significant successful applications of Intelli- gent Systems (IS) technology. The purpose of the event is to pro- vide a forum for industry practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of selected IS techniques and share experience on the applicability, development and deployment of intelligent systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real application using Intelligent Systems technology and the ideal place to meet with those working to make successful IS-based applications. The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems event will present papers describing successful applications of Intelligent Systems. Papers are selected to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of value to other developers. Submitted papers should make these points clear. Papers should contain sections covering the following information: Descriptive Title and Abstract: These should convey clearly and simply what the application is and its operational status. Do use a title that makes it clear to a reader what the application is. Don't use a clever, nor an obscure title. Problem description: This should describe the problem that the application solves, stating the objectives of the application and explaining why an Intelligent Systems solution was required. If other solutions were tried and failed, briefly outline these so- lutions with reasons for failure. Application description: This should describe the solution to the problem, with technical details on design and implementation. It should describe any methodological approach used, detail the key IS techniques used and if appropriate show how they were in- tegrated with conventional techniques. If commercial tools were used they should be identified and reasons for their selection given. Application building: This should describe the size and skill make-up of the project team, how long is took to build and the costs involved. How it was/will be installed and introduced to the users, with details of any training required. Describe any plans for maintenance, in particular how the knowledge is expec- ted to change over time, and any features to aid the updating of knowledge, etc. Application benefits: Were potential benefits identified before building the application and have these been realised or are likely to be realised? Has the application been in use and, if so, how often has it been used and by how many users? What fur- ther long term benefits are expected? What future plans have been made for its enhancement and use? For PAIS 2000, a paper is acceptable even if it describes a system which has not yet been installed, PROVIDED the application is original AND the paper discusses the aspects and issues that would help someone thinking of implementing a similar system in their own organisation. It must concisely describe and scope the problem tackled, saying why it is hard, and why IS techniques are needed. It should also make clear the status of the system, and should discuss such things as the project duration and effort, how the project was justified and the expected benefits estima- ted, any problems encountered, the performance of the final system and the reactions of users. The review procedure is diffe- rent and separate from the ECAI technical conference. Papers will be evaluated by experienced application developers, based on the above criterion. Accepted papers will be published in the ECAI proceedings. FORMATTING GUIDELINES It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final ca- mera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pa- ges in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without re- view. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Latex style files to support formatting of submissions will be available. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting require- ments specified in the ECAI-2000 Style Guide. Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary of their paper by 2 February 2000. The strongly preferred submission method is to use the web-based PAIS summary submission form. Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper sub- mission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including the title, authors, contact address and abstract for the paper (maximum 200 words), plus a set of indicative keywords to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair (by email or postal mail). The summary information and the tracking number should also be inclu- ded with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. (Authors not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the trak- king number). Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or elec- tronic submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Pa- pers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. Address for submission Werner Horn PAIS 2000 Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Vienna Austria Email: pais2000 at ai.univie.ac.at Tel: +43-1-4277-63114 Fax: +43-1-4277-9631 Summary form http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/pais-summary.html (not available yet) REVIEW PROCEDURE All submissions will be subject to review by a team of expe- rienced application developers in the PAIS 2000 Program Committee under the chairmanship of the PAIS 2000 Program Chair, Rob Milne. The PAIS 2000 Program Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Noti- fication of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 28 April 2000. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Accepted PAIS 2000 papers will appear in a special section of the ECAI conference proceedings and will be published and distri- buted by IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2000 for- matting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The dead- line for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 29 May 2000. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. PAIS 2000 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by Humboldt Uni- versity on behalf of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ECAI 2000 Publicity Office | | | | c/o Markus Hannebauer eMail: hannebau at first.gmd.de | | GMD FIRST phone: +49-30-6392 1866 | | Kekulestr. 7 fax: +49-30-6392 1805 | | 12489 Berlin | | GERMANY | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 22 12:53:47 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:53:47 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC Workshop Message-ID: From: "Nancy M. Ide" +**+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+**+ Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000) Athens, Greece Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation Data Architectures and Software Support for Large Corpora: Towards an American National Corpus Monday, May 29, 2000 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/anc/lrec.html *+**+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+** Description ----------- Several software systems for linguistic annotation, search, and retrieval of large corpora have been developed within the natural language processing community over the past several years, including LT-XML (Edinburgh), GATE (Sheffield), IMS Corpus Workbench (Stuttgart), Alembic Workbench (Mitre), MATE (Edinburgh/Odense/Stuttgart), Silfide (Loria/CNRS), SARA (BNC), and several others. Related to and in support of this development, there have also been efforts to develop standards for encoding and various kinds of linguistic annotation, as well as data architectures (e.g., TIPSTER, TalkBank) etc. Still other developments, such as the introduction of XML and the powerful XSL transformation language and work on semi-structured data (e.g., the work of the Lore group at Stanford), have also impacted the ways in which corpora and other linguistic resources can be represented, stored, and accessed. Approaches to the fundamental design of the formats, data, and tools are varied among current systems for the annotation and exploitation of linguistic corpora. A primary reason for this diversity is that most developers of formats and systems are concerned with only one aspect of the creation/annotation/exploitation process. However, in order to work effectively to develop commonality, the phases of the process must be considered as a whole. This demands bringing together researchers and developers from a variety of domains in text, speech, video, etc., many of whom have previously had little or no contact with one another. This workshop is intended to bring these groups together to look broadly at the technical issues that bear on the development of software systems for the annotation and exploitation of linguistic resources. The goal is to lay the groundwork for the definition of a data and system architecture to support corpus annotation and exploitation that can be widely adopted within the community. Among the issues to be addressed are: o layered data architectures o system architectures for distributed databases o support for plurality of annotation schemes o impact and use of XML/XSL o support for multimedia, including speech and video o tools for creation, annotation, query and access of corpora o mechanisms for linkage of annotation and primary data o applicability of semi-structured data models, search and query systems, etc. o evaluation/validation of systems and annotations The motivation for this workshop is the American National Corpus (ANC) effort, which should begin corpus creation within the year. We anticipate that the ANC will provide a significant resource for natural language processing, and we therefore seek to identify state-of-the-art methods for its creation, annotation, and exploitation. Also, as a national and freely available resource, the data and system architecture of the ANC is likely to become a de facto standard. We therefore hope to draw together leading researchers and developers to establish a basis for the design of a system to support the creation and use of the ANC. A "Birds of a Feather" session for those interested in the ANC project will be held immediately following the workshop. Submission information ---------------------- Submissions should address one or more of the listed topics. Descriptions of planned or existing systems is acceptable, but they should be situated in the larger context of the issues the workshop addresses e.g., outline of the strengths and/or weaknesses of the system and/or data formats, comparison with alternative approaches, etc. A 3000-4500 word abstract in English should be submitted by e-mail to Nancy Ide (ide at cs.vassar.edu) in plain ASCII text format and with the subject line "LREC WORKSHOP SUBMISSION : ". Each submission should include title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. February 15, 2000 : Submissions due March 15, 2000 : Results transmitted to authors April 15, 2000 : Final Papers due May 29, 2000 : Workshop Organizing Committee -------------------- Nancy Ide (contact) Department of Computer Science Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA Tel : +1 914 437 5988 Fax : +1 914 437 7498 Email : ide at vassar.edu Laurent Romary LORIA/CNRS Campus Scientifique - BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-lhs-Nancy FRANCE Tel : +33 (0)3 83 59 30 00 Fax : +33 (0)3 83 27 83 19 Email : romary at loria.fr Henry S. Thompson Human Communication Research Centre 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW SCOTLAND Tel : +44 (131) 650 4440 Fax : +44 (131) 650 4587 Email : ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Program Committee ----------------- Steven Bird, Linguistic Data Consortium Patrice Bonhomme, LORIA/CNRS Roy Byrd, IBM Corporation Jean Carletta, HCRC Edinburgh Ulrich Heid, IMS Stuttgart Hamish Cunningham, Sheffield David Day, Mitre Corporation Robert Gaizauskas, Sheffield Ralph Grishman, New York University Nancy Ide, Vassar College (Chair) Masato Ishizaki, JAIST Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado at Boulder Tony McEnery, Lancaster David McKelvie, HCRC Edinburgh Laurent Romary, LORIA/CNRS Gary Simons, Summer Institute of Linguistics Henry Thompson, HCRC Edinburgh Yorick Wilks, Sheffield Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 22 12:53:55 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:53:55 +0100 Subject: Appel: ANLP/NAACL 2000 Workshop Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in Natural Language Processing Systems WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the development of robust natural language processing systems. A common methodology used in building these systems has been to analyze a sample of the data available (either manually, or automatically for training statistical systems), build statistical/heuristical schemas based upon the analysis, and test the system on a blind sample of the data. Due to this commonly used paradigm, an important area of research that has not been given the attention it deserves is the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity faced by these systems in the tasks they perform. At the AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Question Answering Systems, the problem of semantic complexity, a topic of a 90 minutes panel, motivated a lot of interest and discussion. To continue the investigation of this important issue, in this workshop, we will address the question of complexity as it pertains to the syntax and semantics of natural language. In particular, the workshop will seek to address the following areas: 1) How can we model syntactic and semantic complexity for formal models of natural language? 2) How does complexity impact acquisition of semantic and conceptual information? 3) How does syntactic and semantic complexity impact document classification in information and text retrieval tasks? 4) How do statistical clustering approaches compare to knowledge-based approaches at partitioning and quantifying the semantic space in a document set? 5) Concerning NLP systems that are deployed in the field, how can we quantify the information extraction task and QA task in ways similar to what is currently done with IR tasks and algorithms? 6) How does the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity impact the evaluation of such systems? 7) Can syntactic and semantic complexity coupled with a history of the past performance of a system be used to predict future performance of the system on a different data set? The workshop invites short papers, full-length papers, proposals for panel discussions, and position statements that deal with any aspect of syntactic and/or semantic complexity of NLP systems. In particular, the workshop is interested in addressing the following topics: - estimation of the syntactic and semantic complexity of specific NLP tasks - semantic complexity and world knowledge - role of syntactic and semantic complexity in system design and testing - syntactic and semantic complexity and its role in the evaluation of NLP systems - use of syntactic and semantic complexity as a performance predictor - relationship between syntactic and semantic complexity FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions should consist of either a short paper (2000 words or less, including references), a position statement (2000 words or less, including references), or a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, the type of paper (short/position/full), the word count, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, and email. Proposals for panels should consist of a short (upto 500 words) description of the proposed panel along with the names of the proposed panelists. Papers and proposals for panel discussions may be submitted by submitting three hard copies or one soft copy (ASCII, or PS) to: Amit Bagga General Electric CRD Room K1-5C38B 1 Research Circle Niskayuna, NY 12309. USA phone: 1-518-387-7077 email: bagga at crd.ge.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 7 Notification of acceptance of panels : February 21 Notification of acceptance of papers : February 28 Camera ready papers due: March 13 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Co-Chairs: Amit Bagga General Electric Corporate Research and Development P.O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 bagga at crd.ge.com 518-387-7077 (voice) 518-387-6845 (fax) James Pustejovsky Computer Science Department and Volen Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254-9110 jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu 781-736-2709 (voice) 781-736-2741 (fax) Wlodek Zadrozny IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 30 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532 wlodz at us.ibm.com 914-784-7835 (voice) 914-784-7455 (fax) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Amit Bagga - GE CRD Branimir Boguraev - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center J-P Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble) Shalom Lappin (Kings College, London); Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) Larry Moss (Indiana) Rohit Parikh (CUNY), Adam Pease (Teknowledge) James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University Wlodek Zadrozny - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 22 12:53:57 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:53:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: Morphology (ATALA workshop) Message-ID: From: Nabil Hathout Si vous envisagez de proposer une communication, merci de nous en informer par courrier electronique (mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr). If you intend to submit a communication, could you please inform us by mail (mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr). Thank you. [English version below] ===================================================================== Journée de l'ATALA Morphologie constructionnelle et TAL Paris, Pitié-Salpétrière 25 mars 2000 APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS ---------------------- La morphologie flexionnelle est généralement bien prise en compte par les systèmes de TAL grâce aux conjugateurs, aux lemmatiseurs... Ce n'est, en revanche, pas le cas de la morphologie constructionnelle (i.e. dérivationnelle). Cette journée doit permettre de faire le point sur la place de la morphologie constructionnelle dans les systèmes de TAL, mais aussi de présenter les ressources, les techniques et les outils de morphologie constructionnelle utilisés en TAL ou qui lui sont destinés. Les sous-thèmes envisagés pour cette journée incluent (liste non exhaustive) : - la construction de bases de données morphologiques ; - le contenu des bases de données morphologiques ; - l'extraction de connaissances morphologiques de corpus (textes, dictionnaires, thésaurus...) ; - l'utilisation des connaissances morphologiques dans les systèmes de TAL ; - la comparaison des gains en fonction des techniques utilisées (ex. bases de données vs extraction à partir de corpus) ; - la place des connaissances linguistiques dans les analyseurs morphologiques ; - le traitement des allomorphies. COMMUNICATIONS -------------- Les propositions de communication seront selectionnées sur la base d'un résumé de 1 page à transmettre par courrier électronique (préféré) ou postale à l'adresse suivante : mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr Nabil Hathout CNRS - ERSS & INaLF Université Toulouse II Le Mirail Maison de la Recherche 5, allées Antonio Machado F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1 CALENDRIER ---------- Date limite de réception des résumés : 7 février 2000 Notifications aux auteurs : 28 février 2000 ORGANISATEURS ------------- Georgette Dal UMR 8528 « SILEX », CNRS & Université de Lille 3 B.P. 149 F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex mailto:dal at univ-lille3.fr Nabil Hathout CNRS - ERSS & INaLF Université Toulouse II Le Mirail Maison de la Recherche 5, allées Antonio Machado F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1 mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr Fiammetta Namer Landisco - Université Nancy 2 B.P. 3397 54015 Nancy cedex mailto:Fiammetta.Namer at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr ===================================================================== ATALA Workshop Constructional Morphology and NLP Paris, Pitié-Salpétrière 25 mars 2000 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ---------------------- Inflexion morphology is generally correctly treated in NLP systems which may embed conjugater, lemmatizers, etc. In contrast, the treatment of constructional (ie. derivation) morphology in these systems is far less common. This workshop is concerned with the place of constructional morphology in NLP : it aims at presenting constructional morphology resources, techniques and tools in use or designed for NLP. We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following topics: * construction of morphological databases * content of morphological databases * morphological knowledge extraction from corpora (texts, MRD, thesauri...) * use of morphological knowledge in NLP systems * comparison of the improvements given by different techniques (eg. databases vs. extraction for the corpus) * place of linguistic knowledge in the morphological analyzers * treatment of allomorphy COMMUNICATIONS -------------- The proposals for a communication will be selected on the basis of a 1 page abstract. Abstracts will be sent by e-mail (preferably) or surface mail at: mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr Nabil Hathout CNRS - ERSS & INaLF Université Toulouse II Le Mirail Maison de la Recherche 5, allées Antonio Machado F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1 DATES ----- Deadline: February 7th, 2000 Notifications: February 28th, 2000 CHAIR ----- Georgette Dal UMR 8528 « SILEX », CNRS & Université de Lille 3 B.P. 149 F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex mailto:dal at univ-lille3.fr Nabil Hathout CNRS - ERSS & INaLF Université Toulouse II Le Mirail Maison de la Recherche 5, allées Antonio Machado F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1 mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr Fiammetta Namer Landisco - Université Nancy 2 3, Place Godefroy de Bouillon B.P. 3397 54015 Nancy cedex mailto:Fiammetta.Namer at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 22 12:53:59 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:53:59 +0100 Subject: Soft: CreoleScan(tm) Message-ID: From: MIT2USA at aol.com French version: INFO: technologies pour le créole haïtien La société Mason Integrated Technologies, Ltd. 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Box 181015 Boston, MA 02118 USA (617) 247-8885 (office & answering machine) (617) 262-8923 (FAX) MIT2USA at aol.com (e-mail) Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd Home Page: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html Orthographically Converted HC Texts Download Site: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2haiti/Index4.html Meet Marilyn Mason: http://hometown.aol.com/marilinc/Index3.html Seychelles Invited Seminar Pictures Page: http://hometown.aol.com/marilinc/Index1.html From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Dec 23 16:04:20 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:04:20 +0100 Subject: Appel: JEP'2000 Message-ID: From: Gerard Bailly Chers collegues, Vous etes comme nous tres sollicites en cette veille de millenaire par divers evenements qui veulent marquer ce passage. Les 23mes Journees d'Etude sur la Parole seront ainsi a la fois l'un des importants rendez-vous de la communauté francophone travaillant sur la communication parlee et les technologies vocales, et un pas supplementaire vers plus de convivialite et d'echanges. En effet, tous les participants travailleront, prendront leur repas et seront heberges du 18 au 23 Juin 2000 dans un cadre unique et convivial: le centre Paul Langevin a Aussois en Maurienne. Nous esperons, grace a vous, relever le defi d'organiser une conference avec un format de seminaire. Attelez-vous donc des a present a vos pupitres! Nous attendons vos soumissions d'articles complets jusqu'au 7 fevrier 2000! Bon travail! En attendant le plaisir de vous rencontrer dans nos alpes, nous vous souhaitons de bonnes fetes, et vous prsentons nos voeux les plus sinceres pour l'an 2000 Cordialement, Gerard Bailly & Pierre Badin PS: bulletins d'inscription et formats de texte ainsi que tout ce que voulez savoir sur les JEP'2000 sans avoir a le demander sont sur http://www.icp.inpg.fr/jep2000 ____________________________________________________________ Gerard Bailly (bailly at icp.inpg.fr) Institut de la Communication Parlee, URA CNRS 368 INPG/Universite Stendhal 46, av. Felix Viallet. 38031 GRENOBLE CEDEX. FRANCE Tel: 4 76 57 47 11 Fax: 4 76 57 47 10 >>From France: prefixed by 0 >>From elsewhere : prefixed by 33 ____________________________________________________________ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Dec 23 16:04:13 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:04:13 +0100 Subject: Appel: Information Extraction (LREC Workshop) Message-ID: From: jock at ccl.umist.ac.uk Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000) Athens, Greece Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation INFORMATION EXTRACTION MEETS CORPUS LINGUISTICS Tuesday, 30th May 2000, 09.00 - 13.30 FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/iemcorp.html Workshop description (summary) ============================== This workshop seeks to explore how Information Extraction and Corpus Linguistics can each benefit from the techniques of the other. The goals of information extraction and of corpus linguistics have thus far had little in common. However, both are concerned with processing large bodies of text. It is timely to explore how one can contribute to the other. Key topics (indicative list) ============================ * How much can IE help corpus linguistics? * How much can corpus linguistics help IE? * What techniques are shared? What techniques from one field can be turned to use in the other? * Is IE-type partial annotation in corpus linguistics useful? * How feasible is it to offer different customised views over large-scale corpora with IE techniques? * What needs to be done in standardising IE annotations to enable reuse by corpus linguists? * How can corpus evidence help to guide IE systems? Important dates =============== Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 22nd January 2000 Notification of acceptance: 25th February 2000 Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: 9th April 2000 Workshop: 30th May 2000 Organising Committee ==================== John McNaught (UMIST, UK) Bill Black (UMIST, UK) Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Italy) Luca Gilardoni (Quinary SpA, Italy) Tony McEnery (University of Lancaster, UK) Contact person for the workshop =============================== John McNaught Department of Language Engineering UMIST PO Box 88 Sackville Street Manchester M60 1QD UK E-mail: jock at ccl.umist.ac.uk Tel: +44.161.200.3100 Fax: +44.161.200.3099 Submissions =========== An 800 word abstract in English should be submitted by e-mail to McNaught (jock at ccl.umist.ac.uk), in plain ASCII text format. Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/iemcorp.html From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Dec 7 11:03:41 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:03:41 +0100 Subject: Q: Regles morphologiques Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 12:13:59 BST From: "Kevin McTait" Message-Id: <57312073343 at fs1.ccl.umist.ac.uk> Bonjour a tous/toutes, Je cherche une description morphologique pour le francais (a deux niveaux) que peut s'utiliser avec PC KIMMO. Meme une description tres breve faciliterait mes recherches. Merci en avance! Kevin ------- Kevin McTait Dept Language Engineering UMIST Manchester 0161 200 3078 ------------------- From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Dec 7 11:04:38 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 12:04:38 +0100 Subject: Bibliographie traduction automatique Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:09:18 +0100 From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DSM/LAN Message-ID: <26F7C2E07274D311A6D80060080C3EEE08A836 at L-MHS5> La r?f?rence dans le domaine sont les deux livres de John Hutchins [WJHutchins at compuserve.com] - John Hutchins, "Machine translation: past, present, future" publi? en 1986. - John Hutchins & Harold Somers, "An introduction to machine translation", publi? en 1992. Malheureuresement, ils ne sont plus ?dit?s et ils faudra chercher des exemplaires de 2e main. Mais John Hutchins pr?pare une ?dition "Compendium of translation software" qui sera pr?te en Janvier 2000. Par ailleurs, une nouvelle et tr?s riche mailing list de l'European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) vient de d?marrer et vous y trouverez sans doute des r?ponses ? vos questions: mt-list at eamt.org Enfin, je vous conseille aussi de prendre contact avec Mr Christian Boitet, responsable du Groupe d'Etude sur la Traduction Automatique (GETA) ? l'UJF ? Grenoble. Malek Boualem CNET From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Sat Dec 11 09:03:52 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:03:52 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 8 Offers Message-ID: __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Barbara.Flammang" Subject: Comp Ling: 3 lang specialists at Systran Luxemburg 2/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Czech/ Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H), Belgium 3/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Project Manager/Turkish at L&H/ Ieper, Belgium 4/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling:Project Manager at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H), Belgium 5/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling:Language Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products,Belgium 6/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Language Specialist/ Bahassa - Ieper, Belgium 7/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Project Manager/Vietnamese - Ieper, Belgium 8/ From: "Fons Maes" Subject: Comp Ling/Discourse: Lecturer/ Tilburg University, The Netherlands __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Barbara.Flammang" Subject: Comp Ling: 3 lang specialists at Systran Luxemburg Systran Luxembourg S.A., a company based in Luxemburg and developing the Systran Machine Translation system, has an immediate opening for 3 language specialists to join its development team in Luxembourg on a full-time basis: 1. Greek-English language specialist This person will work on the development of the Greek-to-English translation system, and particularly on the English target language. This includes the coding of words and expressions in electronic dictionaries and the maintenance and creation of linguistic programs. Profile : - native English - excellent knowledge of (modern) Greek - university degree in philology, linguistics, languages, computational linguistics or equivalent - good knowledge/experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset : * human translation * programming * programming language : C * natural language processing * Greek linguistics * Ancient Greek * computational linguistics * languages other than English and Greek * ability to work in a team and independently 2. Portuguese-English language specialist This person will work on the development of the Portuguese-to-English translation system, and particularly on the English target language. This includes the coding of words and expressions in electronic dictionaries and the maintenance and creation of linguistic programs. Profile : - native English - excellent knowledge of Portuguese - university degree in philology, linguistics, languages, computational linguistics or equivalent - good knowledge/experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset : * human translation * programming * programming language : C * natural language processing * Romance philology * computational linguistics * languages other than English and Portuguese, preferably Spanish * ability to work in a team and independently 3. French-Portuguese language specialist This person will work on the development of the French-to-Portuguese translation system, and particularly on the Portuguese target language. This includes the coding of words and expressions in electronic dictionaries and the maintenance and creation of linguistic programms. Profile : - native Portuguese - excellent knowledge of French and good knowledge of English - university degree in philology, linguistics, languages, computational linguistics or equivalent - good knowledge/experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset : * human translation * programming * programming language : C * natural language processing * Romance philology * computational linguistics * ability to work in a team and independently If you are interested in one of these job opportunities and you believe to fulfil the required profile, please E-mail your CV, including full details of education, qualifications and previous experience to : Pierre.Thillen at Systran.lu Alternatively, please send a paper copy to : Mr. Pierre Thillen Systran Luxembourg 12, rue de Vianden L - 2680 Luxembourg __________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Czech/ Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H), Belgium Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by voice in any language with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer, business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation. As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty nations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With over 1,750 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $211.6 million in 1998. For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): ******************************************* Language Specialist Czech Speech and Language Technology ******************************************* Function: * You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech, Artificial Intelligence and Language. * In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and language study in view of technology development and assessment of third party providers of data and/or technology. * You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets, creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion, prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of documentation. * Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical documentation. * Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge. * You will report to the group or project manager. Profile: * University degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent; * (near) native Czech speaker with a conversational level of English; * Solid grounding in linguistic theory; * Good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas: speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, programming, other languages; * Ability to work in a team and independently; * IT literate; * Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * Good social and communicative abilities; * Willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time. ********************************************************** If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfil the required profile, we have to meet each other. Please send your application letter and detailed resume to: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products Personnel Department Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont Flanders Language Valley 50 B-8900 Ieper BELGIUM Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89 To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage: http://www.lhsl.com __________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Project Manager/Turkish at L&H/ Ieper, Belgium [...] ****************************************************************** Project Manager Development Turkish Language & Speech Technology ****************************************************************** Function: * You will manage and coordinate software development projects in the area of language and speech processing technology and systems for Turkish. * You will coordinate the start-up of the Turkish language development team, including a.o. recruitment and logistics. * You will supervise, coach and motivate a team of linguists and engineers based both in Ieper and Turkey * You will streamline the gathering of corpora and acoustic data, the development of an L&H specific grammars and lexicons for Turkish and the translation of the linguistic data to software based on L&H technology. * You will ensure that the quality and timing standards set out by L&H are reached. * You will actively participate in the technical aspects of the project. * You will maintain good contacts with the different departments within L&H and relevant Turkish institutes, organizations, etc. . Profile: * Relevant university degree preferably in computer science or (computational) linguistics; * Experience in management of development projects, preferably in the field of natural language and/or speech processing; * Near-native or native speaker of Turkish and a conversational level of English; * Good knowledge of and experience in at least two of the following areas: speech processing, phonetics, lexicography, computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), programming, (e.g. C, C++, script languages,), other languages; * Ability to work in a team and independently; * Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * Good social and communicative abilities; * Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit; * Willingness to travel for limited periods of time. [...] __________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling:Project Manager at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H), Belgium [...] For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): *************************************************************** Project Manager Development Urdu Language & Speech Technology *************************************************************** Function: * You will manage and coordinate software development projects in the area of language and speech processing technology and systems for Urdu. * You will coordinate the start-up of the Urdu language development team, including a.o. recruitment and logistics. * You will supervise, coach and motivate a team of linguists and engineers based in Ieper, Singapore and Pakistan * You will streamline the gathering of corpora and acoustic data, the development of an L&H specific grammars and lexicons for Urdu and the translation of the linguistic data to software based on L&H technology. * You will ensure that the quality and timing standards set out by L&H are reached. * You will actively participate in the technical aspects of the project. * You will maintain good contacts with the different departments within L&H and relevant Pakistani, Indian and Singaporean institutes, organizations, etc. . Profile: * Relevant university degree preferably in computer science or (computational) linguistics; * Experience in management of development projects, preferably in the field of natural language and/or speech processing; * Near-native or native speaker of Urdu and a conversational level of English; * Good knowledge of and experience in at least two of the following areas: speech processing, phonetics, lexicography, computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), programming, (e.g. C, C++, script languages,?), other languages; * Ability to work in a team and independently; * Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * Good social and communicative abilities; * Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit; * Willingness to travel for limited periods of time. [...] __________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling:Language Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products,Belgium [...] For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): ******************************************* Language Specialist Belarussian Speech and Language Technology ******************************************* Function: * You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech, Artificial Intelligence and Language. * In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and language study in view of technology development and assessment of third party providers of data and/or technology. * You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets, creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion, prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of documentation. * Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical documentation. * Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge. * You will report to the group or project manager. Profile: * University degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent; * (near) native Belarussian speaker with a conversational level of English; * Solid grounding in linguistic theory; * Good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas: speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, programming, other languages; * Ability to work in a team and independently; * IT literate; * Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * Good social and communicative abilities; * Willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time. [...] __________________________________________________________________________ 6/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Language Specialist/ Bahassa - Ieper, Belgium [...] For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): ********************************************* Language Specialist Bahassa Speech and Language Technology ********************************************* Function: * You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech, Artificial Intelligence and Language. * In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and language study in view of technology development and assessment of third party providers of data and/or technology. * You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets, creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion, prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of documentation. * Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical documentation. * Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge. * You will report to the group or project manager. Profile: * university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent; * (near) native Bahassa speaker with a conversational level of English; * solid grounding in linguistic theory; * good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas: speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, programming, other languages; * ability to work in a team and independently; * IT literate; * perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * good social and communicative abilities; * willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time. [...] __________________________________________________________________________ 7/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Comp Ling: Project Manager/Vietnamese - Ieper, Belgium Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world?s leading provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by voice?in any language?with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer, business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation. As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty nations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With over 1,750 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $211.6 million in 1998. For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): ************************************************************************ Project Manager Development Vietnamese Language & Speech Technology ************************************************************************ Function: * You will manage and coordinate software development projects in the area of language and speech processing technology and systems for Vietnamese. * You will coordinate the start-up of the Vietnamese language development team, including a.o. recruitment and logistics. * You will supervise, coach and motivate a team of linguists and engineers based both in Ieper, Singapore and Vietnam. * You will streamline the gathering of corpora and acoustic data, the development of an L&H specific grammars and lexicons for Vietnamese and the translation of the linguistic data to software based on L&H technology. * You will ensure that the quality and timing standards set out by L&H are reached. * You will actively participate in the technical aspects of the project. * You will maintain good contacts with the different departments within L&H and relevant Singaporean and Vietnamese institutes, organizations, etc. . Profile: * relevant university degree preferably in computer science or (computational) linguistics; * experience in management of development projects, preferably in the field of natural language and/or speech processing; * near-native or native speaker of Vietnamese and a conversational level of English; * good knowledge of and experience in at least two of the following areas: speech processing, phonetics, lexicography, computational linguistics, natural language processing (NLP), programming, (e.g. C, C++, script languages,?), other languages; * ability to work in a team and independently; * perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * good social and communicative abilities; * self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit; * willingness to travel for limited periods of time. ********************************************************** If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfil the required profile, we have to meet each other. Please send your application letter and detailed resume to: /--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------\ | Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products | | Personnel Department | | | | Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be | | | | attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont | | Flanders Language Valley 50 | | B-8900 Ieper | | BELGIUM | | Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89 | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------/ To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage: http://www.lhsl.com __________________________________________________________________________ 8/ From: "Fons Maes" Subject: Comp Ling/Discourse: Lecturer/ Tilburg University, The Netherlands Tilburg (The Netherlands) Tilburg University Faculty of Arts Programme `Professional Communication and New Digital Media' LECTURER The Faculty of Arts at Tilburg University offers a new master's programme "Professional Communication and New Digital Media" starting September 1, 2000. In relation with this programme, the faculty now has a vacancy for: LECTURER IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION AND NEW DIGITAL MEDIA (full-time) Candidates must be able to make a contribution to: - the development of teaching materials and courses in the fields of digital business communication and new media technology (for a draft of the programme see: http://let.kub.nl/bdm ); - developing and implementing computer-based facilities for teaching and instruction; - setting up and carrying out (contract) research in the field of professional communication and new digital media. Candidates must meet the following requirements: - a master's degree in one of the subdisciplines of linguistics (e.g., language and information science, discourse studies, alpha informatics, communication studies); - strong affinity with, and familiarity with, recent developments in the field of digital media, either technically (design, techniques, implementation) or organizationally (management, making and implementing media policies in organizations); - broad deployability in instructional and organizational tasks; - demonstrable didactic qualities. Further particulars: - The faculty has a strong preference for a candidate with a PhD and with research experience in a subject relevant to the new programme. - In principle, the contract will be for a four-year period. The availability of a tenure position will depend on the evaluation of the new programme that will then take place. - Formally, employment will be either at the Department of Language and Information Science or at that of Discourse Studies, depending on the research affinity. Salary Pay classification is according to level of experience and expertise, with a maximum of Dfl. 8,429.- per month (salary scale 12). Information More information about the vacancy can be obtained from Prof. H. Bunt (harry.bunt at kub.nl) or Dr. A. Maes (maes at kub.nl). Applications Please send - before 15 December 1999 - your application or E- mail, with curriculum vitae or link to your website to: Dr. A. Maes Arts Faculty Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg maes at kub.nl Fons Maes Discourse Studies Group Tilburg University POBox 90153 5000 LE Tilburg phone ** 31 13 466 2058 fax ** 31 13 466 3110 http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/maes/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Sat Dec 11 09:04:00 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:04:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: Coling-2000 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen COLING 2000 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (http://www.coling.org) COLING 2000 will take place in three countries in the heart of Europe - Nancy (Tutorials 29/30 July, 2000) - Saarbr?cken (Conference 31 July - 4 August, 2000) - Luxembourg (Workshops 5/6 August 2000) Transportation between the three almost neighboring sites will be provided. COLING 2000 will be the ideal place to - present your latest results at the conference and workshops - demo your systems to colleagues - study new trends and techniques in the tutorials - exhibit your language technologies for the 21st century - hire needed specialists before somebody else does Check out the calls for - papers (http://www.coling.org/call.html) - workshop proposals (http://www.coling.org/workshops.html) - tutorial proposals (http://www.coling.org/tutorials.html) - demos/exhibits (http://www.coling.org/exhibition.html) At the conference, we will provide space for announcing job openings, as well as a sign-up desk and rooms for job interviews Check out our low conference fees: (http://www.coling.org/reg.html). To increase student participation, we have decided on very favorable conference fees for bona fide students. Students who would still not be able to attend for financial reasons, please contact us at: org at coling.org If you live and work in an economically disadvantaged country and have no possibility of obtainimg funding or if you are experiencing special personal hardships, we will try to help. All this information and more at: http://www.coling.org From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Sat Dec 11 09:04:16 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:04:16 +0100 Subject: Appel: ISMIS'2000 Message-ID: From: Gian Piero Zarri Call for Papers TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ISMIS'2000) Hilton at University Place, Charlotte, NC, USA, October 11-14, 2000 SPONSORS: School of IT at UNC-Charlotte and others PURPOSE OF THE SYMPOSIUM: This Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Information Retrieval, Intelligent Information Systems, Knowledge Representation and Integration, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Logic for Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing. In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome, global change, manufacturing, health care, etc. SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda U., Japan) and Zbigniew W. Ras (UNC-Charlotte) PROGRAM COMMITTEE A. Biermann, P. Bosc, J. Calmet, S. Carberry, J. Carbonell, N. Cercone, B. Croft, J. Debenham, S.M. Deen, K. DeJong, R. Demolombe, B. Desai, T. Elomaa, F. Esposito, A. Giordana, M. Hadzikadic, D. Hislop, K. Hori, W. Kloesgen, Y. Kodratoff, J. Komorowski, J. Koronacki, D. Maluf, D. Malerba, R.L. de Mantaras, S. Matwin, R. Meersman, Z. Michalewicz, R. Michalski, R. Mizoguchi, M. Mukaidono, L. De Raedt, V. Raghavan, E. Rosenthal, L. Saitta, S. Sewihy, A. Skowron, V.S. Subrahmanian, S. Tsumoto, T. Yamaguchi, W. Zadrozny, G.P. Zarri, M. Zemankova, N. Zhong, J.M. Zytkow PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit four copies of their manuscript in LNCS/LNAI Style (maximum 10 pages) to: PAPERS FROM JAPAN/ASIA/AUSTRALIA ALL OTHER PAPERS Setsuo Ohsuga Zbigniew W. Ras 27-39 Kakinoki-dai Univ. of North Carolina Aoba-ku, Yokohama-shi Dept. of Comp. Science 227-0048, Japan 9201 University City Blvd. mail: ohsuga at ohsuga.info.waseda.ac.jp Charlotte, N.C. 28223 or ohsuga at fd.catv.ne.jp mail: ras at uncc.edu phone: +81 45 972 8692 phone: 704-547-3516 IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: March 1, 2000 Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2000 Final Paper: June 30, 2000 PUBLICATION Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI and will be available at the symposium. For more information about ISMIS'00 please visit our WWW site at http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~ras/call00.html From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Sat Dec 11 09:04:20 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:04:20 +0100 Subject: Appel: Impacts in NLG Message-ID: From: Stephan Busemann WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Impacts in Natural Language Generation NLG Between Technology and Applications July 24-28, 2000 Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany - immediately preceding COLING 2000 - Homepage: http://impacts.dfki.de The tension between theoretical work and its implementation has often been considered fruitful. In the field of Natural Language Generation, it is now complemented by another tension, the one between technologies and applications: "I have invented a new technique for NLG!" - "What is its impact on applications?" "I have built a new NLG application!" - "What is its impact on the technology?" Much of NLG technology is based on a theoretical understanding of the process of language generation, whereas the applications strongly rely on practical requirements. There are not many theoretically well-motivated technologies that can straightforwardly be employed within specific applications. For this workshop, we adopt a broad notion of application by including pieces of software containing NLG technology that currently are used by others in order to solve real-world tasks. Some NLG application developers find it preferable to not reuse existing technology. This is often due to the lack of solutions for the knowledge bottleneck and for the input formation bottleneck: NLG technology lacks the power of dealing with external conceptual lexical knowledge bases, and it also lacks standards of representing inputs at a suitable specificity. The "IMPACTS" workshop aims at studying, discussing, and clarifying the relationships between NLG technologies and applications. The workshop addresses - researchers and developers in NLG, - current and potential users of NLG applications, - providers of large conceptual lexicons usable by NLG, and - developers of systems that deal with the input specificity problem. We invite original and unpublished contributions from all areas of NL generation, either from the technological side or from the applications point of view. They must state clearly how they relate to the respective counterpart, hence addressing one of the above questions. "IMPACTS" will take place from July 24-28, 2000 at International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl. It immediately precedes the events of COLING 2000 taking place in Luxembourg, Saarbr?cken, and Nancy. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated in the Saarland, allowing participants to reach the COLING tutorials on July 29 conveniently. Dates: 24.-28. July 2000: Workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl 15. June 2000: Camera-ready copies 20. May 2000: Notification of acceptance 01. April 2000: Deadline for submissions Programme Committee John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbr?cken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Stephan Busemann, DFKI Saarbr?cken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Robert Dale, Microsoft Research Institute, Macquarie University, Australia Laurence Danlos, LORIA, France Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Richard Kittredge, CoGenTex Inc., USA Inderjeet Mani, Mitre Corporation, USA David D. McDonald, Gensym Corporation, USA Cecile Paris, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia Owen Rambow, AT&T, USA Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK Donia Scott, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK More information can be found at the Workshop homepage, which is located at http://impacts.dfki.de and which will be extended during the next months. -- Dr. Stephan Busemann, DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken phone: (+49 681) 302-5286, fax: (+49 681) 302-5338 web: http://www.dfki.de/~busemann From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Sat Dec 11 09:04:22 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 10:04:22 +0100 Subject: Appel: Automatic Summarization Message-ID: From: "Chin-Yew Lin" Call for Papers Workshop on Automatic Summarization (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000 sponsored by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) MITRE Corporation Sunday, April 30, 2000 Seattle, Washington, USA I. OVERVIEW The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field.? Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL in 97, and the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98. All of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before. ANLP/NAACL'2000 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem. The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers addressing (but not limited to): Summarization Methods: use of linguistic representations, statistical models, NL generation for summarization, production of abstracts and extracts, multi-document summarization, narrative techniques in summarization, multilingual summarization, text compaction, multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio), use of information extraction, studies and modeling of human summarizers, improving summary coherence, concept fusion, use of thesauri and ontologies, trainable summarizers, applications of machine learning, knowledge-rich methods. Summarization Resources: development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers, annotation standards, shared summarization tools, document segmentation, topic detection, and clustering related to summarization Evaluation Methods: intrinsic and extrinsic measures, on-line and off-line evaluations, standards for evaluation, task-based evaluation scenarios, user studies, inter-judge agreement Workshop Themes: 1. Multilingual Text Summarization 2. Generation for Summarization 3. Topic Identification for Summarization 4. Multidocument Summarization 5. Evaluation and Test/Training Corpora 6. Integration with web and IR access II. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2000 Notification of acceptance for papers: March 1, 2000 Camera ready papers due: March 13, 2000 Workshop date: April 30, 2000 III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style (http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000/latex/index.html) or Microsoft Word style WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Please send submission questions to cyl at isi.edu Submission Procedure: Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word form of your submission to: cyl at isi.edu. The Subject line should be "ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line: "ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. IV. Organizing Committee: Udo Hahn University of Freiburg hahn at coling.uni-freiburg.de Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl at isi.edu Inderjeet Mani MITRE imani at mitre.org Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor radev at umich.edu V. Program Committee: Elisabeth Andre DFKI GmbH Branimir Boguraev IBM Research Chris Buckley SabIR Research Michael Elhadad Ben Gurion University Takahiro Fukushima Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute Hongyan Jing Columbia University Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology Mark Maybury MITRE Vibhu Mittal Just Research Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam University Akitoshi Okumura NEC Chris Paice Lancaster University Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge Tomek Strzalkowski GE CRD Simone Teufel University of Edinburgh Benjamin Tsou City University of Hong Kong -------------------------------------------- Chin-Yew Lin, Ph.D. Research Scientist Email: cyl at isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695, USA Tel: 310-448-8711 Fax: 310-822-0751 From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 13 17:19:57 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:19:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: SPIRE'2000 Message-ID: From?: Mark Sanderson CALL FOR PAPERS SPIRE'2000 - String Processing and Information REtrieval September 22 - 24, 2000 A Coru?a, Spain Sponsored by CYTED-AMYRI Research Project WHAT IS SPIRE'2000? SPIRE'2000 is a Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval which is in its seventh edition. The first four editions focused primarily on string processing and originated in South America, and were called WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing). They were held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1993), Valpara?so, Chile (1995 and 1997), and Recife, Brazil (1996). Starting in 1998, at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the focus of the workshop was broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to its increasing relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing. SPIRE'99, at Cancun, Mexico, has continued this trend including also the area of DNA computing and, as a result, there was several papers and three invited talks on this topic. For SPIRE'2000 we expect to have contributions from several related communities. The SPIRE'2000 symposium aims at facilitating the potential benefits of cross-fertilization between different fields. As such, it offers a singular opportunity for researchers interested in working with problems related to these areas. As in the past, the proceedings of SPIRE'2000 will be published by IEEE CS Press. TOPICS SPIRE'2000 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, DNA computing, and related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern matching, text compression, text mining, voice or natural language processing, and automata based string processing. * Information Retrieval (IR): IR modeling, indexing, ranking and filtering, interface design, visualization, cross-lingual IR systems, multimedia IR, digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, and Web related applications. * Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and applications in molecular biology, information encoding for DNA computing, evolution and phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and protein structure prediction. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: April 20th, 2000 Authors notification: May 31th, 2000 Camera ready: June 26th, 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Partial list) James Allan, Univ. of Massachussets, USA Martyn Amos, Liverpool, UK Alberto Apostolico, Purdue Univ. (USA) & Univ. of Padova (Italy) Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Univ. de Chile, Chile Nieves R. Brisaboa, Univ. de A Coru?a, Spain Fabio Crestani, ISCI, Berkeley, USA Maxime Crochemore, Gaspard-Monge Institute, University of Marne-la-Vall?e, France Pablo de la Fuente, Univ. de Valladolid, Spain, (Chair) Max Garzon, Univ. of Memphis, USA Natasha Jonoska, Univ. of South Florida, USA Lila Kari, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada John D. Kececioglu, University of Georgia, USA Ruy Milidiu, PUC-Rio, Brazil Giri Narasimhan, Univ. of Memphis, USA Gonzalo Navarro, Univ. de Chile, Chile Arlindo Oliveira, IST/INESC, Portugal Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, UFMG, Brazil Wojtek Rytter, Liverpool University and Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University Marie-France Sagot, Pasteur Inst., France Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, Great Britain Jorma Tarhio, Univ. of Joensuu, Finland Uzi Vishkin, Univ. of Maryland, USA Nivio Ziviani, UFMG, Brazil Justin Zobel, RMIT, Australia INVITED SPEAKERS (Partial list) Uzi Vishkin, Univ. of Maryland, USA SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors are requested to: - prepare an extended abstract or full draft paper of at most 15 pages in standard 11pt Latex article style or equivalent. - send the paper in standard postscript via e-mail (see address below) no later than April 20th, 2000 to the chair of the Program Committee as well as a message containing the paper title, the names of all authors, an indication of the author to be contacted, and the affiliation of such author (including full address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address). E-mail: spire2000 at infor.uva.es - use the standard IEEE CS format for the final version of accepted papers, which will have to be sent via ftp to the publisher either as postscript or PDF. SYMPOSIUM SITE The symposium will take place in A Coru?a (Spain). A Coru?a, a beautiful city placed in the north coast of the Iberian Peninsula with more than 250.000 inhabitants, is one of Europe's main ports. It is the capital of the most western located province in Spain and belongs to a wide touristic area called "Rias Altas". In A Coru?a you can climb the Tower of Hercules, the oldest light house still working in the world. Close to A Coru?a you can visit one of the main Christian Santuaries, Santiago de Compostela. The remains of St James the Apostle, kept in the Cathedral and venerated for centuries by thousands of pilgrims has converted the city into one of the capitals of Christendom. LOCAL ORGANIZATION The local organization committee is chaired by Nieves R. Brisaboa from Univ. of A Coru?a, Spain. For any questions about local matters please send e-mail to spire00 at udc.es. WEB HOMEPAGE http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/spire2000/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Mark Sanderson, Room 303 Tel : +44 (0) 114 22 22648 Department of Information Studies Fax : +44 (0) 114 27 80300 University of Sheffield, Western Bank mailto:m.sanderson at shef.ac.uk Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Good judgement comes from experience but experience comes from bad judgement From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 13 17:20:02 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:20:02 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2000 Call for Theme Proposals Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen ACL-2000 CALL FOR THEME PROPOSALS ACL-00 Conference: The 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Hong Kong October 3--6, 2000 The Association for Computational Linguistics would like to encourage the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics. To broaden both the thematic coverage and geographical origin of submissions, we are continuing the special theme sessions format introduced in the 1999 ACL conference. Some proportion of the conference will be given over to special sessions, somewhat like a special issue of a journal, organized around themes proposed by members of the NLP community. The aim is to incorporate some of the intensity and excitement of the traditional pre/post-conference workshops, without replacing those workshops---we expect, as has become traditional, that there will also be a set of workshops that will remain separate from the main meeting. This call invites proposals for thematic sessions in accordance with the considerations below; a final Call For Papers, that includes the list of selected themes will be sent out in mid-January. What is a Thematic Session? We are soliciting proposals for themes that will provide a sufficient number of quality papers to form one or two sessions (3-4 papers per session) in the main conference. Proposers of accepted themes, who will become the chairs of those sessions, will have similar responsibilities to those of workshop organizers in terms of arranging reviewing and the delivery of camera ready copy. However, the papers will be scheduled as part of the main sessions and will be published as part of the main conference proceedings. The quality of theme papers is expected to be equal to that of the papers in the general sessions of the conference. In terms of subject area coverage, we expect thematic sessions will be closer to workshop topic areas in focus. Format of Theme Proposals The theme proposals should be approximately two pages in length and should be divided into the following headings. Chair Details: Name, address, email, telephone number, fax Theme Title: List of Topics: This should include some keywords describing the topics to be covered by the theme. This information will be used primarily to check for overlap with other proposed themes. Summary: A brief description of the proposed subject area, and summary of why the inclusion of the proposed theme would meet the aims of theme sessions. Viability of Theme: Given the number of papers that can populate one or two sessions at the conference and the typical ACL acceptance rates, to be viable a theme should receive 10--30 submissions. In this section, proposers of the theme should provide evidence that sufficient number of submissions can be expected. Such evidence for the viability of the theme might include the citation of workshops, symposia, special journal issues etc. in the theme topic. In situations of emerging fields, such evidence may not be available. In lieu of such evidence, proposers might provide evidence for an existing community interested in the topic by providing a list of people who have indicated interest in the theme. Of course, proposers can offer other types of evidence to show that a sufficient number of submissions can be expected. Proposed Review Committee: Each paper submitted should be reviewed by at least three people. As part of the proposal, proposers should suggest a potential review committee who are likely to serve on the committee if the proposal is accepted. The list would also demonstrate the spread of interest in the area in the community, encouraging both international participation and the participation of a broad range of researchers, including both senior members of the community and graduate students. Theme proposals should be submitted to the email address provided below. Proposers of themes are encouraged to indicate their plans in advance of the submission date by sending email to this address. Informal enquiries as to what might work as a theme can also be directed to this address. Possible themes might be topics like: NLP and Information Retrieval (or topics that include a community in the periphery of language technology); Methods for Asian Language Processing; Computational Linguistic Issues in Alternate/Augmentative Communication; Spoken Dialog Systems; Multi-lingual Language Processing. These examples are provided only as indications of the variety of topic areas that will be considered. A list of theme topics included in the ACL 1999 conference can be found by following appropriate links from http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99/. Important Dates This call issued: December 3, 1999 Theme submissions deadline: January 7, 2000 Notification of selected themes: January 17, 2000 Call for papers: January 20, 2000 Paper submissions deadline: March 31, 2000 (approx. date) Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2000 (approx. date) General Submission Questions Co-chairs for the ACL-99 program are Chang-Ning Huang and K. Vijay-Shanker. All queries regarding the program should be sent to acl2k at cis.udel.edu; this forwards to both co-chairs. Submission Format Theme proposals should ideally submitted in ascii by email to acl2k at cis.udel.edu with the subject: "ACL99 THEME PROPOSAL". PostScript, PDF and Word files will be accepted if they print on the first try. Hardcopy proposals should be faxed or mailed to both of the chairs, clearly labeled "ACL99 THEME PROPOSAL". Proposals should be received by 5pm GMT on January 7, 2000. Chang-Ning Huang (Co-Chair) K. Vijay-Shanker (Co-Chair) Microsoft Research, China Dept. of Computer Science 5F, Beijing Sigma Center University of Delaware No.49, Zhichun Road Newark, DE 19716, USA Beijing 100080, P.R.C cnhuang at microsoft.com vijay at cis.udel.edu Tel: (86-10)6261-7711 -5760 Tel: +1 302 831 1952 Fax: (86-10)8809-7305 Fax: +1 302 831 8458 Hitoshi Iida (General Chair) Aravind K. Joshi (Honorary Chair) Speech and Language Information Department of Computer and Processing Lab Information Sciences SONY Computer Science Labs, Inc. University of Pennsylvania Tokyo 141-0022, Japan Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA iida at csl.sony.co.jp joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu Tel: +81 3 5448 4380 Tel: +1 215 898 0359 Fax: +81 3 5447 1942 Fax: +1 215 573 9247 From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 13 17:20:07 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:20:07 +0100 Subject: Conf: IWPT 2000 Message-ID: From: Alberto Lavelli C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n IWPT 2000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000.html Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 23-25 February, 2000 Trento, Italy ~~~~ ********************************************************************* * INVITED SPEAKERS * * * * Eric Brill (Microsoft Research - NLP group) * * Automatic Grammar Induction: Combining, Reducing * * and Doing Nothing * * * * Martin Kay (Xerox PARC) * * Guides and Oracles for Linear-Time Parsing * * * * Giorgio Satta (University of Padua) * * Parsing Techniques for Lexicalized Context-Free * * Grammar Models * ********************************************************************* IWPT 2000 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; and Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997. REGISTRATION INFORMATION ********* Conference fees --------------- Regular: 200 EURO (before 31 Jan 2000) 300 EURO (after 31 Jan 2000) Student: 70 EURO (before 31 Jan 2000) 120 EURO (after 31 Jan 2000) The conference fee includes a copy of the proceedings, lunch tickets and coffee breaks. To register, use the registration form available on the IWPT 2000 web pages at the URL http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000/registration.html and send it to the IWPT 2000 secretariat (whose address is on the web page above) by fax or regular mail. FURTHER INFORMATION Further details about the workshop (accommodation, tourist information, etc) can be found on the web pages of IWPT 2000 at the URL http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000.html. The list of accepted papers is available at the URL http://ecate.itc.it:1025/iwpt2000/accepted.html. For questions about the workshop programme email iwpt2000 at cogs.susx.ac.uk; for questions about the local arrangements email iwpt2000 at itc.it. From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 13 17:20:13 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:20:13 +0100 Subject: Conf: RJC - IHM Message-ID: From: "J?r?me Goulian" ********************************** Toutes nos excuses en cas d'envois multiples ********************************** APPEL ? PARTICIPATION RJC-IHM 2000 1?res Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Interaction Homme-Machine 3-5 Mai 2000 Ile de Berder, Golfe du Morbihan http://www-iupva.univ-ubs.fr/public/IUP/recherche/RJCIHM Le laboratoire VALORIA (UBS) organise, sous le patronage scientifique de l'Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine (AFIHM), les 1?res Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en IHM, les 3, 4, 5 Mai 2000 sur l'?le de Berder (Golfe du Morbihan). L?objectif de cette manifestation est triple : - faciliter l'int?gration des jeunes chercheurs au sein de la communaut? francophone en IHM par des ?changes scientifiques, ouverts ? tous, autour de communications affich?es, - aider les jeunes chercheurs dans leurs recherches par des rencontres avec des chercheurs confirm?s invit?s ? ces journ?es, - mettre en avant des recherches innovantes et de qualit? sous la forme de communications orales. Programme Les rencontres se d?rouleront sur 2 journ?es et demie, du 3 au 5 mai 2000. Elles se composeront de sessions orales et affich?es pouvant donner lieu ? des d?monstrations. La liste non d?finitive des communications annonc?es est disponible sur le site WWW des RJC-IHM : http://www-iupva.univ-ubs.fr/public/IUP/recherche/RJCIHM Deux tutoriels seront pr?sent?s, en s?ance pl?ni?re, par des chercheurs confirm?s invit?s aux journ?es. Une demi-journ?e de d?tente et d'?changes informels sera ?galement organis?e durant les rencontres. Th?mes Ces journ?es concerneront tous les aspects pluridisciplinaires de l'Interaction Homme-Machine. Les th?mes abord?s seront (sans exclusive) : - Th?ories et mod?les des IHM - Analyse et conception des IHM - Ergonomie des IHM - Environnements et outils pour l'IHM - Interaction multim?dia et multimodale - Interaction 3D, vocale, gestuelle et textuelle - R?alit? augment?e et r?alit? virtuelle - Dispositifs et techniques d'interaction - Collecticiels - Interfaces intelligentes - IHM pour syst?mes critiques et embarqu?s - Interaction sur la Toile - Interaction pour tous - IHM et sciences cognitives Comit? Scientifique Nadine Vigouroux (IRIT, Toulouse) Pr?sidente R. Bastide (LIHS, Toulouse) T. Baudel (ILOG, Paris) M. Beaudoin-Lafon (U. d?Aarhus, Danemark) Y. Bellik (LIMSI, Orsay) S. Chatty (CENA, Toulouse) J. Coutaz (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble) A. Derycke (TRIGONE, Lille) C. Faure (ENST, Paris) J-D. Fekete (?cole des Mines, Nantes) M. Hasc?et-Zizi (LRI, Orsay) F. Jambon (LISI/ENSMA, Poitiers) L. Julia (SRI, CA, USA) L. Karsenty (IRIT, Toulouse) W. Mackay (U. d?Aarhus, Danemark) P. Milgram (U. de Toronto, Canada) L. Nigay (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble) P. Plenacoste (TRIGONE, Lille) F. Poirier (VALORIA,Vannes) D. Salber (Georgia Tech., USA) D. Scapin (INRIA, Roquencourt) J-C. Sp?randio (Paris V) F. Tarpin-Bernard (ICTT, Lyon) P. Trigano (UTC, Compi?gne) J. Vanderdonckt (Stanford U., USA) Comit? d'organisation J.-Y. Antoine (Pr?sident) J. Goulian, J.-F. Kamp, G. Koscielny, P.-F. Marteau, B. Le P?v?dic, S. Letellier, G. M?nier, P. Nicolas, F. Poirier, S. Sire. Parrainage scientifique AFIHM UBS GDR PRC I3 H?bergement L'h?bergement et la restauration se feront sur les lieux m?me des rencontres, au centre de vacances LVT de l'?le de Berder. Les participants seront log?s dans les chambres doubles, d'o? ils jouiront d'une vue imprenable sur le Golfe du Morbihan. L'?le de Berder, d?une superficie de 24 ha, est r?serv?e ? l'usage exclusif des r?sidents du centre. Elle n'est reli?e au continent qu'? mar?e basse. Un passeur sera cependant ? la disposition des participants ? toute heure de la journ?e. Les participants qui d?sireraient s?journer plus longuement sur l'?le auront la possibilit? d'anticiper ou de prolonger individuellement leur s?jour en prenant contact avec le centre qui leur r?serve un certain nombre de places ? cet effet. Inscriptions Les frais d'inscriptions avant le 24/01/2000 sont de 1600 F (1500F pour les membres de l'AFIHM). Apr?s le 24/01/2000, les frais d'inscriptions sont de 2000F. Ils couvrent l'ensemble des frais d'h?bergement et de restauration pour la dur?e des rencontres, les actes des journ?es ainsi que les diff?rentes activit?s organis?es dans le cadre de cette manifestation. Cl?ture des inscriptions au tarif normal : 24 Janvier 2000 C.F. bulletin d?inscription joint ou disponible sur le site web des rencontres. Contact Pour tout renseignement, consulter le serveur WWW des rencontres : http://www-iupva.univ-ubs.fr/public/IUP/recherche/RJCIHM ou contacter le comit? d'organisation : Jean-Yves Antoine VALORIA, IUP Vannes, Rue Y. Mainguy, 56000 Vannes Email : Jean-Yves.Antoine at univ-ubs.fr T?l : 02 97 68 32 10 Secr?tariat des RJC-IHM Sylviane Boisadan VALORIA, IUP Vannes, Rue Y. Mainguy, 56000 Vannes Email : Sylviane.Boisadan at univ-ubs.fr T?l : 02 97 68 32 28 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- RJC-IHM 2000 BULLETIN D'INSCRIPTION Pour vous inscrire ? RJC-IHM 2000, vous devez envoyer par courrier postal AVANT le 24 janvier 2000, le pr?sent formulaire rempli et accompagn? de votre paiement ? : Agent Comptable Universit? Bretagne-Sud / RJC- IHM 12, avenue St Symphorien BP 573 - 56017 Vannes Cedex MODE DE PAIEMENT ( ) Par ch?que ? l'ordre de "Agent Comptable UBS" ( ) Par virement sur le compte de l'Agent Comptable UBS ( ) Par mandat administratif Coordonn?es bancaires de l'Agent Comptable de l?UBS: Banque : Tr?sorerie G?n?rale Vannes Titulaire : UBS (SIRET:195 617 188 00014) Domiciliation : TPVANNES Compte no : 10071-56000-00003001833-59 VOS COORDONNEES Nom Pr?nom . Organisation .. Adresse .. Code postal Ville Pays . E-mail .. .. T?l . Fax ... MONTANT DES INSCRIPTIONS . Avant le 24 /01/2000 ( ) Adh?rent AFIHM : 1500 F ( ) Non adh?rent AFIHM : 1600 F Apr?s le 24/01/ 2000 ( ) Tout le monde : 2000 F L'inscription aux rencontres comprend : la pension compl?te (d?jeuners du 3 et du 5 mai inclus), le transport gare de Vannes/?le de Berder (aller-retour), les actes, les pauses et l'activit? de d?tente d'une demi-journ?e. ACTIVITES - Choisir entre l'une ou l'autre activit? 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Le laboratoire VALORIA (UBS) organise, sous le patronage scientifique de l'Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine (AFIHM), les 1ères Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en IHM, les 3, 4, 5 Mai 2000 sur l'île de Berder (Golfe du Morbihan).

L?objectif de cette manifestation est triple :
- faciliter l'intégration des jeunes chercheurs au sein de la communauté francophone en IHM par des échanges scientifiques, ouverts à tous, autour de communications affichées,
- aider les jeunes chercheurs dans leurs recherches par des rencontres avec des chercheurs confirmés invités à ces journées,
- mettre en avant des recherches innovantes et de qualité sous la forme de communications orales.

Programme
Les rencontres se dérouleront sur 2 journées et demie, du 3 au 5 mai 2000. Elles se composeront de sessions orales et affichées pouvant donner lieu à des démonstrations.

La liste non définitive des communications annoncées est disponible sur le site WWW des RJC-IHM :
http://www-i upva.univ -ubs.fr/public/IUP/recherche/RJCIHM

Deux tutoriels seront présentés, en séance plénière, par des chercheurs confirmés invités aux journées. Une demi-journée de détente et d'échanges informels sera également organisée durant les rencontres.

Thèmes
Ces journées concerneront tous les aspects pluridisciplinaires de l'Interaction Homme-Machine.
Les thèmes abordés seront  (sans exclusive) :
- Théories et modèles des IHM
- Analyse et conception des IHM
- Ergonomie des IHM
- Environnements et outils pour l'IHM
- Interaction multimédia et multimodale
- Interaction 3D, vocale, gestuelle et textuelle
- Réalité augmentée et réalité virtuelle
- Dispositifs et techniques d'interaction
- Collecticiels
- Interfaces intelligentes
- IHM pour systèmes critiques et embarqués
- Interaction sur la Toile
- Interaction pour tous
- IHM et sciences cognitives

Comité Scientifique
Nadine Vigouroux (IRIT, Toulouse) Présidente
R. Bastide  (LIHS, Toulouse)
T. Baudel  (ILOG, Paris)
M. Beaudoin-Lafon (U. d?Aarhus, Danemark)
Y. Bellik  (LIMSI, Orsay)
S. Chatty  (CENA, Toulouse)
J. Coutaz  (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble)
A. Derycke  (TRIGONE, Lille)
C. Faure  (ENST, Paris)
J-D. Fekete  (École des Mines, Nantes)
M. Hascöet-Zizi (LRI, Orsay)
F. Jambon  (LISI/ENSMA, Poitiers)
L. Julia  (SRI, CA, USA)
L. Karsenty  (IRIT, Toulouse)
W. Mackay  (U. d?Aarhus, Danemark)
P. Milgram  (U. de Toronto, Canada)
L. Nigay  (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble)
P. Plenacoste  (TRIGONE, Lille)
F. Poirier  (VALORIA,Vannes)
D. Salber  (Georgia Tech., USA)
D. Scapin  (INRIA, Roquencourt)
J-C. Spérandio  (Paris V)
F. Tarpin-Bernard (ICTT, Lyon)
P. Trigano  (UTC, Compiègne)
J. Vanderdonckt  (Stanford U., USA)

Comité d'organisation
J.-Y. Antoine (Président) J. Goulian, J.-F. Kamp, G. Koscielny, P.-F. Marteau, B. Le Pévédic, S. Letellier, G. Ménier, P. Nicolas, F. Poirier, S. Sire.

Parrainage scientifique
 
AFIHM
UBS
GDR PRC I3

Hébergement
L'hébergement et la restauration se feront sur les lieux même des rencontres, au centre de vacances LVT de l'île de Berder. Les participants seront logés dans les chambres doubles, d'où ils jouiront d'une vue imprenable sur le Golfe du Morbihan.
L'île de Berder, d?une superficie de 24 ha, est réservée à l'usage exclusif des résidents du centre. Elle n'est reliée au continent qu'à marée basse. Un passeur sera cependant à la disposition des participants à toute heure de la journée. Les participants qui désireraient séjourner plus longuement sur l'île auront la possibilité d'anticiper ou de prolonger individuellement leur séjour en prenant contact avec le centre qui leur réserve un certain nombre de places à cet effet.

Inscriptions
Les frais d'inscriptions avant le 24/01/2000 sont de 1600 F (1500F pour les membres de l'AFIHM). Après le 24/01/2000, les frais d'inscriptions sont de 2000F. Ils couvrent l'ensemble des frais d'hébergement et de restauration pour la durée des rencontres, les actes des journées ainsi que les différentes activités organisées dans le cadre de cette manifestation.

Clôture des inscriptions au tarif normal : 24 Janvier 2000
C.F. bulletin d?inscription joint ou disponible sur le site web des rencontres.
 

Contact
Pour tout renseignement, consulter le serveur WWW des rencontres :
http://www-i upva.univ -ubs.fr/public/IUP/recherche/RJCIHM
ou contacter le comité d'organisation :

Jean-Yves Antoine
VALORIA, IUP Vannes, Rue Y. Mainguy,
56000 Vannes
Email : Jean-Yves.Antoine at univ-ubs.fr
Tél : 02 97 68 32 10
Secrétariat des RJC-IHM
Sylviane Boisadan
VALORIA, IUP Vannes, Rue Y. Mainguy, 56000 Vannes
Email : Sylviane.Boisadan at univ-ubs.fr
Tél : 02 97 68 32 28
 
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RJC-IHM 2000
BULLETIN D'INSCRIPTION

Pour vous inscrire à RJC-IHM 2000, vous devez envoyer par courrier postal AVANT le 24 janvier 2000, le présent formulaire rempli et accompagné de votre paiement à :
Agent Comptable Université Bretagne-Sud  / RJC- IHM
12, avenue St Symphorien BP 573 - 56017 Vannes Cedex

MODE DE PAIEMENT
( ) Par chèque à l'ordre de "Agent Comptable UBS"
( ) Par virement sur le compte de l'Agent Comptable UBS
( ) Par mandat administratif
Coordonnées bancaires de l'Agent Comptable de l?UBS:
Banque : Trésorerie Générale Vannes
Titulaire : UBS (SIRET:195 617 188 00014)
Domiciliation : TPVANNES
Compte no : 10071-56000-00003001833-59

VOS COORDONNEES
Nom   Prénom .
Organisation  ..
Adresse  ..
Code postal Ville Pays .
E-mail  .. ..
Tél .   Fax ...

MONTANT DES INSCRIPTIONS  .
Avant le 24 /01/2000 ( ) Adhérent AFIHM   : 1500 F
( ) Non  adhérent AFIHM : 1600 F
Après le 24/01/ 2000 ( ) Tout le monde : 2000 F

L'inscription aux rencontres comprend : la pension complète (déjeuners du 3 et du 5 mai inclus), le transport gare de Vannes/île de Berder (aller-retour), les actes, les pauses et l'activité de détente d'une demi-journée.

ACTIVITES - Choisir entre l'une ou l'autre activité
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  --------------85E5E90B2A7931EB22AA889A-- --------------7386EAE8D813AB1A108A6967-- From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:04 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:04 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Rachel Gawron" Subject: Post 2/ From: "Ingrid Meyer" Subject: poste 3/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Job: Catalan - English, Barcelona 4/ From: Paul Allopenna Subject: Comp Ling: Technical Staff at Simpli.com, Providence, RI, USA ____________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Rachel Gawron" Subject: Post POSTDOCTORAL TRAINEESHIPS AT JOHNS HOPKINS: Integrating Formal and Empirical Methods in the Cognitive Science of Language The Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University is offering Postdoctoral Traineeships in a problem-centered language research program encompassing psycholinguistics, theoretical linguistics, cognitive neuropsychology (especially neuroimaging and cognitive neuropsychology of language), language acquisition, and computational linguistics. 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The University = of Ottawa has an Employment Equity Program and strongly encourages = applications from men. ____________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Job: Catalan - English, Barcelona I have been asked to pass this on - For further information, please contact morales at incyta.es or juan at incyta.es Job Offer We urgently need to employ a Computational Linguist, who is also a native speaker of English. The work involves participating in a project team on a Catalan - English project, and in particular working with the English side of the project. The candidate should: havea certain degree of knowledge of formal linguistics and (if possible) of Computational linguistics. havenative competence in English. The work will be carried out in Barcelona (Cornella district) and will last until August or September 2000. Salary according to the profile and experience of the candidate. ____________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Paul Allopenna Subject: Comp Ling: Technical Staff at Simpli.com, Providence, RI, USA Rank of Job: member of technical staff Areas Required: Statistical Language Processing Other Desired Areas: Internet Search University or Organization: Simpli.com Department: State or Province: RI Country: USA Final Date of Application: open Contact: Paul Allopenna pallopenna at simpli.com Address for Applications: 203 Sout Main St. Providence RI 02903 USA We are seeking a Ph.D. level computational linguist with a strong background in both Computer Science and Computational Linguistics, with experience in statistical language processing. We are an internet start-up company working on web search enhancement. Experience with large linguistic databases or corpora would be helpful. We are located in Providence RI, and attractive city conveniently close to both Boston and New York. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please contact Paul Allopenna for more information at: (401) 621-3200 x45, or pallopenna at simpli.com. From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:19 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:19 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL 2000 - Preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: From?: Priscilla Rasmussen ACL 2000 Preliminary Call For Papers 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3--6 October, 2000 Hong Kong 1. Paper Sessions 1.1 Topics of Interest As was the case with last year's ACL conference, the technical sessions of the conference will be of two kinds. There will be General Sessions as well as a number of special Thematic Sessions organized around themes proposed by members of the computational linguistics community. The Thematic Sessions will run as parallel sessions, resulting in smaller and more focussed audiences. When you submit a paper to the conference, you will need to consider whether you want to present the paper in the General Sessions or in one of the Thematic Sessions, which will be listed in the final call for papers (due to come out around January 20, 2000). The conference will also feature a student workshop, tutorials, workshops, and demos. Separate calls for these will be issued shortly. For the General Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems. 1.2 Requirements Requirements are the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions; a separate Call for Student Workshop papers will provide the information on requirements for papers submitted to the Student Sessions. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this immediately after the title material on the first page. 1.3 Submission and Reviewing Procedure The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions. Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers for review, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). The submission procedure will be the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions. Electronic submissions can not be accepted. Further details on the submission procedure will be provided in the final call for papers (due to come out around January 20th, 2000). See the separate Call for Student Workshop Papers for information on submission details for papers submitted to the Student Workshop. Reviewing of papers submitted to the General Sessions will, as in previous years, be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a team of reviewers. Reviewing of papers for the Thematic Sessions will be managed by the chairs of the Thematic Sessions, with the assistance of teams of reviewers; final decisions on the technical program content (both General Sessions and Thematic Sessions) will be made by the Program Committee. Note that reviewing of papers will be blind. 1.4 Schedule Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000. Electronic submissions will not be accepted. Late submissions (those arriving on or after April 8th) will be returned. Acknowledgements will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on June 15, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. 2. Venue and Local Organization The conference will be held in Hong Kong from October 3rd through 6th, 2000. The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by Dekai Wu; the local arrangements information will be posted soon. 3. Timetable The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic sessions: see the separate Calls for Student Workshop Papers, Tutorial Proposals and Workshops for the timetable associated with those elements of the conference. Preliminary Call issued: December 15, 1999 Final Call for Papers issued: January 20, 2000 Paper submissions deadline: April 7, 2000 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2000 ACL 2000 Conference: October 3--6, 2000 All queries regarding the General Sessions and Thematic sessions of ACL-2000 should be sent to acl2k at cis.udel.edu; this forwards to both PC co-chairs. Chang-Ning Huang (PC Co-Chair) K. Vijay-Shanker (PC Co-Chair) Microsoft Research, China Dept. of Computer Science 5F, Beijing Sigma Center University of Delaware No.49, Zhichun Road Newark, DE 19716, USA Beijing 100080, P.R.C cnhuang at microsoft.com vijay at cis.udel.edu Tel: (86-10)6261-7711 -5760 Tel: +1 302 831 1952 Fax: (86-10)8809-7305 Fax: +1 302 831 8458 Hitoshi Iida (General Chair) Aravind K. Joshi (Honorary Chair) Speech and Language Information Department of Computer and Processing Lab Information Sciences SONY Computer Science Labs, Inc. University of Pennsylvania Tokyo 141-0022, Japan Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA iida at csl.sony.co.jp joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu Tel: +81 3 5448 4380 Tel: +1 215 898 0359 Fax: +81 3 5447 1942 Fax: +1 215 573 9247 From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:41 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:41 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLP 2000/Greece Message-ID: From: "Aristides Th. Vagelatos" ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing NLP 2000: Filling the gap between theory and practice URL: http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000 2, 3 & 4 June 2000, Conference and Cultural Center University of Patras - Greece ORGANIZED BY: - Computer Technology Institute of Patras - University of Patras Computer Engineering Department (Database Laboratory) Philology Department (Linguistics Section) - University of Athens Informatics Department - University of the Aegean Information & Communication Systems Department 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 Specific themes of the conference include: Linguistic Models in NLP Language Engineering Techniques and Applications INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS Authors are required to submit an abstract (maximum of 2000 words, including references) in hard copy or electronic PostScript form to the NLP2000 conference secretariat by January 6, 2000: NLP2000 Conference Secretariat Attn: Mrs. Penelope Kontodimou P.O. Box 1421 University of Patras GR - 26 500 Patras - Greece Email: pinelop at cti.gr Tel: (+3061) 960.383 Fax: (+3061) 997.783 All accepted papers (maximum of 12 single-spaced pages) will be published in the conference proceedings; published by Springer Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES 20 January 2000, Abstract submission (Extended Deadline) 30 January 2000, Selection of submitted abstracts 5 February 2000, Acceptance Notification 15 March 2000, Deadline for final camera-ready manuscripts. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Committee Chair: Christodoulakis Dimitris (University of Patras), Greece E-mail: dxri at cti.gr Members: Ananiadou Sophia (Salford University), UK Anastassiadi-Simeonidi Anna (University of Thessaloniki), Greece Babiniotis George, (University of Athens), Greece Berwick Bob (MIT), USA Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Centre Europe), France Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Universite du Quebec a Montreal), Canada Filokyprou George (University of Athens), Greece Gafos Diamantis (University of New York), USA 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 Ligozat Gerard (Universite Paris-Sud), France Malagardi Ioanna, (General Secretariat for R&T), Greece Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland Morin Jean-Yves (University of Montreal), Canada Petrits Angelique (Commission of the European Union), Belgium, Ralli Angela (University of Patras), Greece Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA Stamison-Atmatzidi Matina, (University of Patras), 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 INVITED TALKS We are pleased to announce that the Scientific Program will include invited talks by the following guest speakers: Invited speakers: Berwick Bob (MIT), USA Blache Philippe (Universite Aix-en-Provence), France Chanod Jean-Pierre (Xerox Research Center Europe), France Di Sciullo Anna-Maria (Universite du Quebec a Montreal), Canada Ligozat Gerard (Universite Paris-Sud), France Moens Marc (University of Edinburgh), Scotland Morin Jean Yves (University of Montreal), Canada Sag Ivan (Stanford University), USA Theologitis Dimitris (Comm. of the European Union), Lux. Wehrli Eric (University of Geneva), Switzerland Wilks Yorik (University of Sheffield), England - ----------------------------- New tel. numbers: ITY - Patras 061 221834, 625148 Fax: 061 221826 From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:46 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:46 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journal TAL (Special Issue Speech Synthesis) Message-ID: From?: Evelyne Tzoukermann [French version below] **********APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES************* TAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS --------------------------------------------- JOURNAL TAL - CALL FOR PAPER. A special issue (volume 42:1 to appear in 2001, with audio CD) of the French journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (TAL) will be devoted to "Text-to-Speech Synthesis". The call for paper (english) can be found at: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-synt.en.html The call for paper (French) can be found at: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-synt.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appel a communication pour la revue T.A.L. ----------------------------------------- Un numero (parution prevue en 2001) de la revue "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (T.A.L) sera consacre au theme de la "SYNTHESE DE LA PAROLE". Ce numero sera accompagne d'un disque compact audio. Le texte de l'appel se trouve en francais a l'addresse: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-synt.html Le texte de l'appel se trouve en anglais a l'adresse: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-synt.en.html From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:51 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:51 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLDB'2000 Message-ID: From: Odile.Piton at univ-paris1.fr (Odile Piton) C A L L F O R P A P E R S (deadline March 12th,2000) N L D B ' 2 0 0 0 5th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems Versailles (France), June 28-30, 2000 http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/dataware/confs/nldb00/ Since 1995 the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researchers, industrial and potential users interested in various applications of NATURAL LANGUAGE in the DATABASE and information systems field. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for a long time. Nowadays, this is an accessible convergent point on which a lot of researchers are focusing, mainly due to the large progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage of real semantic electronic dictionaries. Each aspect of an information system life cycle may be improved by natural language techniques: database design (specification, validation, conflict resolution), database query languages and application programming that use new software engineering research (e.g. natural language program specifications). As information systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems. SETTING: Versailles is an historical city famous for its palace and gardens. Half an hour separates Versailles from Paris which is one of the most charming cities in the world. MAJOR TOPICS OF INTEREST : * Natural Language for WEB Databases Semantic information retrieval Semi-structured models and associated languages * Natural Language Resources for Integration in Multi-Sources Systems Linguistic aspects of view integration Linguistic aspects of data warehouse Natural language queries to multi-databases systems Data integration and data cleaning * Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling Requirement engineering Analysis of natural language descriptions Verification, consistency checking Paraphrasing Dynamic modeling * Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying Natural languages interfaces for database querying Verification of database queries by paraphrasing Semantic analysis for information retrieval * Hypertext and Hyperbases Hypertext as a navigation tool Generating hypertext from data sources * Large-Scale Online Linguistic Resources Question-answer corpora Electronic dictionaries Ontologies * Natural Language for Reuse Application dictionaries Reusable components in database design * Textual Databases Indexing Retrieval * Multilingual Issues Machine translation Multilingual information systems SUPPORTING EVENTS: The organizers would like to provide for opportunities to disseminate work in a variety of ways. Those interested in preparing tutorials or panel discussions are invited to contact the program chair. Demonstrations of prototypes or tools are also welcome. Previous conferences have been held in Versailles (France), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Vancouver (Canada) and Klagenfurt (Austria), and have attracted researchers from all the continents. In addition to a conference proceedings, selected papers have in the past been submitted for review and publication in special editions of the Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering. CONFERENCE CHAIR : Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Universit? de Versailles, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE chair: Elisabeth Metais, Universit? de Versailles, France Alfs T. Berztiss, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Universit? de Versailles, France Hans Burg, Ordina Alignment Consulting, The Netherlands Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Universit? de Cergy, France G?nther Fliedl, Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Nicola Guarino, CNR, Padova, Italy Jon Atle Gulla, Borvegian Institute of Technology, Norway Udo Hahn, Freiburg University, Germany Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Universit? de Versailles, France Christian Kop, Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University, Canada Henrich Mayr, Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Odile Piton, Universit? de Paris 1, France Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ans Steuten, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Veda Storey, Rochester University, Canada Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Christian Winkler, Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE chair: Zoubida Kedad, Universit? de Versailles, France Chantal Ducoin, Universit? de Versailles, France Paul Schmidt, IAI, Germany INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: To contribute, please submit 4 copies of a paper which does not exceed 5000 words, including a short abstract, to the program committee chair : Elisabeth Metais laboratoire PRiSM 45 avenue des Etats-Unis F-78035 Versailles France Elisabeth.Metais at prism.uvsq.fr phone: +33 (0) 1 39 25 40 53 fax: +33 (0) 1 39 25 40 57 IMPORTANT DATES : PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 12th, 2000 Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2000 Camera-ready paper: May 8th, 2000 Odile PITON ---> ---> ---> attention nouvelle numerotation ? compter du 17 decembre tel au labo :01 44 07 83 05 fax du labo : 01 44 07 83 01 From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Dec 21 11:11:54 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:11:54 +0100 Subject: Appel: TAG+5 Message-ID: From: Lionel Clement ********************************************************************* ____ __ __ _ ___ (_ _)( ) / _) _( )_ | __) || /__\( (/\(_ _)|__ \ (__)(_)(_)\__/ (_) (___/ TAG+5 International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms May 25 - 27, 2000 Jussieu, Paris, France ********************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (version fran?aise infra) The fifth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks (hence the + after TAG) will be held at the University of Paris 7, from May 25 to May 27 2000, sponsored by ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues). Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992), Univ. Paris 7 (1994) and UPenn (1998). Original submissions on all aspects of TAGs (linguistic, mathematical, computational, and applicational) are invited, as well as those relating TAGs to other frameworks, lexicalized (dependency grammars, categorial grammars...), tree-based (DTG, TFG, GB...) or feature-based (LFG, HPSG...). As in the past, there will be some invited talks on other grammar formalisms which have interesting relationships to TAGs. ABSTRACTS: You can submit papers for three kinds of presentations: long talks (25 minutes + 5 min for discussion), short talks (10 min + 5) and/or tool demonstrations. Please note that an author (or a given set of co-authors) should not submit more than one paper. Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the author's name, nor any self-reference. Abstracts should be no longer than 4 pages. 2 hardcopies should be sent by surface mail to: TAG+5 UFRL, Universit? Paris 7 TALaNa, case 7003 2, place Jussieu F-75251 Paris cedex 05 A separate identification page (with the following information : title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, email address, fax and telephone number) should also be included. Please also indicate if you submitted your abstract to other conferences. Also a postcript file should be sent to tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr. Please indicate "tag+5 submission" in the subject field. Important : all postcript files MUST be in an A4 format Proceedings including extended versions of accepted abstracts will be available at the workshop. Languages of the workshop: English and French If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend, we would appreciate if you could send a message. If you would like to present a demo, please let us know as soon as possible, including information about required hardware and software. DATES: Deadline for submissions: January 22 Notification of acceptance: March 3 Deadline for camera-ready extended abstract: April 15 Workshop Dates: May 25 to May 27 ********************************************************************* DEUXI?ME APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS La cinqui?me conf?rence sur les grammaires d'arbres adjoints (TAG) et autres formalismes proches (d'o? le +) aura lieu ? l'Universit? Paris 7 du 25 au 27 mai 2000 sous l'?gide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues). Les conf?rences pr?c?dentes se sont tenus ? Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992), Univ. Paris 7 (1994) et UPenn (1998). Les communications pourront porter sur tous les th?mes ayant trait aux grammaires d'arbres adjoints (linguistique, math?matique, informatique et applications) aussi bien que sur leur relations avec d'autres th?ories linguistiques (grammaires de d?pendance, grammaires cat?gorielles, DTG, TFG, GB, LFG, HPSG, etc.). Comme par le pass?, les conf?renciers invit?s pr?senteront des travaux sur d'autres formalismes dont la relation avec TAG semble int?ressante. MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION Trois types de communications seront propos?s : longues (25min. + 5min.de questions), courtes (10min. + 5min.de questions) et d?monstrations sur machine. Notez que chaque auteur et groupe d'auteurs ne doivent soumettre qu'un seul r?sum?. Les r?sum?s anonymes de 4 pages au maximum seront envoy?s en deux exemplaires par la poste avant le 22 janvier 2000 ? l'adresse suivante : TAG+5 UFRL, Universit? Paris 7 TALaNa, case 7003 2, place Jussieu F-75251 Paris cedex 05 Une page d'identification s?par?e (contenant le titre de la communication, le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale et ?lectronique, le num?ro de t?l?phone et de fax de l'auteur) devra ?tre jointe. Merci de pr?ciser si le r?sum? a ?t? soumis ? une autre conf?rence. Le r?sum? doit ?galement ?tre envoy? par courrier ?lectronique au format postscript ? l'adresse suivante : tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr avec "tag+5 submission" comme objet. Important : Tous les fichiers postscript doivent ?tre au format A4. Les actes de la conf?rence contiendront les versions compl?tes des r?sum?s accept?s. Les langues de la conf?rence sont l'anglais et le fran?ais. Les participants qui ne soumettent pas de papier sont ?galement invit?s ? nous contacter avant la conf?rence. Pour les d?monstrations sur machine, nous devrons conna?tre au plus t?t les besoins de chacun en logiciel et mat?riel. CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 22 janvier 2000 Notification aux auteurs : 3 mars 2000 Version finale : 15 avril 2000 Conf?rence : 25-27 mai 2000 ********************************************************************* PROGRAM COMMITTEE COMIT? DE PROGRAMME Anne Abeill? (Univ. Paris 7 and IUF) Bangalore Srinivas (AT&T Research, Bell Labs) Tilman Becker (DFKI, Saarbr?cken) Tonia Bleam (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Pierre Boullier (Inria, Rocquencourt) Marie-H?l?ne Candito (LexiQuest and Univ. Paris 7) John Carroll (Univ. of Sussex) Eric de la Clergerie (Inria, Rocquencourt) Laurence Danlos (Paris 7 and Loria, Nancy) Christy Doran (ITRI, Brighton) Christophe Fouquer? (Univ. Paris-Nord, Villetaneuse) Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore) Ariane Halber (ENST Paris - Nuance) Beth Ann Hockey (SRI Cambridge) Aravind Joshi (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Sylvain Kahane (Paris 7 and Paris 10) Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbr?cken) Gertjan Van Noord (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Martha Palmer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Owen Rambow (AT&T Research) Christian R?tor? (Inria, Rennes) James Rogers (Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padova) Mark Steedman (Univ. of Edinbourg) K. Vijay-Shanker (Univ. of Delaware) Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh) David Weir (Univ. of Sussex, Brighton) CONTACT ADDRESS ADRESSE TAG+5 UFRL, Universit? Paris 7 TALaNa, case 7003 2, place Jussieu F-75251 Paris cedex 05 phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70 fax: +33 1 44 27 79 19 email: tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr web: http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/~alex/TAGPLUS/ LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE COMIT? LOCAL D'ORGANISATION Anne Abeill? (Paris 7) Nicolas Barrier (Paris 7) S?bastien Barrier (Paris 7) Marie-H?l?ne Candito (Paris 7 and Lexiquest) Lionel Cl?ment (Paris 7) Kim Gerdes (Paris 7) Alexandra Kinyon (Paris 7 and Univ. of Pennsylvania) Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbr?cken) From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 22 12:53:34 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:53:34 +0100 Subject: Appel: ECAI-2000 Message-ID: From: "ECAI 2000 Publicity [Markus Hannebauer]" [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies of this call.] ------------------ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------- ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems Berlin, Humboldt University August 20-25, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by German Informatics Society (GI) and European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Hosted by Humboldt University Berlin In this special turn of the century we invite you to celebrate ECAI 2000 in Berlin. In the tradition of previous ECAIs the conference will bring together researchers and developers from academy and industry in order to present the state of the art in AI both in research and in applications. The technical program will have a scientific track (paper presentations, invited talks, panel discussions), workshops, and tutorials. Since the year 2000 is a special year, we will make ECAI 2000 a very special conference. Among the programs thought to realize this purpose is an exhibition concept that reflects AI's history, its gaining grounds in the 20th century and its progress paths envisioned into the 21st century. Furthermore, we plan to have a rather unusual sidetrack meant to attract layman such that ECAI 2000 becomes an event in Berlin and not only one of diverse scientific congresses hardly noticed by the public. In so far, we aim at presenting AI on ECAI 2000 in a very broad scope in order to show its relation to other classical and advanced IT-topics (e. g. databases, distributed computing, robotics, operations re- search, artificial life, neuro sciences, virtual reality, and multimedia). For the first time, ECAI comprises the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems sub-conference (PAIS 2000). The purpose of this event is to provide a forum for industry practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of selected intelligent systems techniques and share experience on the application, deve- lopment and deployment of intelligent systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real applications using intelligent systems technology and the ideal place to meet with those working to make successful applications. On behalf of the conference officials Kurt Sundermeyer DaimlerChrysler AG Local Chair ECAI 2000 "At the change of ages we will make ECAI 2000 in Berlin a special conference" FURTHER GENERAL INFORMATION http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de -------------------------------- ECAI 2000 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------- The ECAI 2000 Program Committee invites submission of papers for the technical program of the 14th biennial European Confe- rence on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2000). IMPORTANT DATES 2 Feb 2000 Deadline for paper summaries 4 Feb 2000 Deadline for papers 28 Apr 2000 Notification of acceptance 29 May 2000 Camera-ready copies of papers 23-25 Aug 2000 Technical program at ECAI 2000 Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to: Abduction AI and Creativity Adaptive Systems Affective Computation Art and Music Automated Reasoning Autonomous Agents Bayesian Learning Belief Revision Case-Based Reasoning Causal Reasoning Cognitive Modelling Cognitive Robotics Conceptual Graphs Constraint Programming Constraint Satisfaction Constraint-Based Reasoning Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Deduction Description Logics Diagnosis Distributed AI Genetic Algorithms Human Language Technology Inductive Logic Programming Information Retrieval and Presentation Intelligent User Interfaces Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Representation Lifelike and Believable Characters Logic Programming Machine Learning Meta-Heuristics for AI Model-Based Reasoning Multi-Agent Systems Natural Language Processing Neural Networks Nonmonotonic Reasoning Ontologies Perception Philosophical Foundations Planning Probabilistic Networks Qualitative Reasoning Reactive Control Real-time Systems Reasoning about Actions and Change Reinforcement Learning Resource-Bounded Reasoning Reuse of Knowledge Robotics Scheduling Search Signal Understanding Spatial Reasoning Speech Processing Temporal Reasoning Text Mining Theorem Proving Uncertainty in AI User Modeling Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems Virtual and Augmented Reality Vision FORMATTING GUIDELINES It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without re- view. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Latex style files to support formatting of submissions will be available. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting require- ments specified in the ECAI 2000 style guide (not available yet). Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the procee- dings. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary of their paper by 2 February 2000. The strongly preferred submission method is to use the web-based summary sub- mission form. Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique trak- king number that should be marked on the full paper submission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including the title, authors, contact address and abstract for the paper (maximum 200 words), plus keywords drawn from the above list (plus other keywords if appropriate) to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair (by email or postal mail). The summary information and the tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. (Authors not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the tracking number). Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or elec- tronic submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Pa- pers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. Address for submission Werner Horn ECAI 2000 Program Chair Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (?FAI) Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Vienna Austria Email: ecai2000 at ai.univie.ac.at Tel: +43-1-4277-63114 Fax: +43-1-4277-9631 Summary form http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/summary.html (not available yet) Multiple submissions policy ECAI 2000 will not accept any paper which at the time of sub- mission is under review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialized meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that the paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal. REVIEW PROCEDURE All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI 2000 Program Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI 2000 Program Chair. The ECAI 2000 Program Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soudness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of sub- mitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 28 April 2000. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing camera- ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2000 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 29 May 2000. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. ECAI 2000 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by Humboldt Uni- versity Berlin on behalf of Gesellschaft f?r Informatik (GI). -------------------------------- PAIS 2000 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------- ECAI is pleased to announce its Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2000) sub-conference. The PAIS 2000 Program Committee invites authors to submit application papers. IMPORTANT DATES 2 Feb 2000 Deadline for PAIS paper summaries 4 Feb 2000 Deadline for papers 28 Apr 2000 Notification of acceptance 29 May 2000 Camera-ready copies of papers 23-25 Aug 2000 PAIS 2000 This event, associated with ECAI 2000 is created to specifi- cally highlight significant successful applications of Intelli- gent Systems (IS) technology. The purpose of the event is to pro- vide a forum for industry practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of selected IS techniques and share experience on the applicability, development and deployment of intelligent systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real application using Intelligent Systems technology and the ideal place to meet with those working to make successful IS-based applications. The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems event will present papers describing successful applications of Intelligent Systems. Papers are selected to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of value to other developers. Submitted papers should make these points clear. Papers should contain sections covering the following information: Descriptive Title and Abstract: These should convey clearly and simply what the application is and its operational status. Do use a title that makes it clear to a reader what the application is. Don't use a clever, nor an obscure title. Problem description: This should describe the problem that the application solves, stating the objectives of the application and explaining why an Intelligent Systems solution was required. If other solutions were tried and failed, briefly outline these so- lutions with reasons for failure. Application description: This should describe the solution to the problem, with technical details on design and implementation. It should describe any methodological approach used, detail the key IS techniques used and if appropriate show how they were in- tegrated with conventional techniques. If commercial tools were used they should be identified and reasons for their selection given. Application building: This should describe the size and skill make-up of the project team, how long is took to build and the costs involved. How it was/will be installed and introduced to the users, with details of any training required. Describe any plans for maintenance, in particular how the knowledge is expec- ted to change over time, and any features to aid the updating of knowledge, etc. Application benefits: Were potential benefits identified before building the application and have these been realised or are likely to be realised? Has the application been in use and, if so, how often has it been used and by how many users? What fur- ther long term benefits are expected? What future plans have been made for its enhancement and use? For PAIS 2000, a paper is acceptable even if it describes a system which has not yet been installed, PROVIDED the application is original AND the paper discusses the aspects and issues that would help someone thinking of implementing a similar system in their own organisation. It must concisely describe and scope the problem tackled, saying why it is hard, and why IS techniques are needed. It should also make clear the status of the system, and should discuss such things as the project duration and effort, how the project was justified and the expected benefits estima- ted, any problems encountered, the performance of the final system and the reactions of users. The review procedure is diffe- rent and separate from the ECAI technical conference. Papers will be evaluated by experienced application developers, based on the above criterion. Accepted papers will be published in the ECAI proceedings. FORMATTING GUIDELINES It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final ca- mera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pa- ges in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without re- view. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Latex style files to support formatting of submissions will be available. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting require- ments specified in the ECAI-2000 Style Guide. Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary of their paper by 2 February 2000. The strongly preferred submission method is to use the web-based PAIS summary submission form. Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper sub- mission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including the title, authors, contact address and abstract for the paper (maximum 200 words), plus a set of indicative keywords to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair (by email or postal mail). The summary information and the tracking number should also be inclu- ded with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. (Authors not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the trak- king number). Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or elec- tronic submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Pa- pers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. Address for submission Werner Horn PAIS 2000 Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (?FAI) Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Vienna Austria Email: pais2000 at ai.univie.ac.at Tel: +43-1-4277-63114 Fax: +43-1-4277-9631 Summary form http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/pais-summary.html (not available yet) REVIEW PROCEDURE All submissions will be subject to review by a team of expe- rienced application developers in the PAIS 2000 Program Committee under the chairmanship of the PAIS 2000 Program Chair, Rob Milne. The PAIS 2000 Program Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Noti- fication of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 28 April 2000. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Accepted PAIS 2000 papers will appear in a special section of the ECAI conference proceedings and will be published and distri- buted by IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2000 for- matting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The dead- line for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 29 May 2000. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. PAIS 2000 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by Humboldt Uni- versity on behalf of Gesellschaft f?r Informatik (GI). -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ECAI 2000 Publicity Office | | | | c/o Markus Hannebauer eMail: hannebau at first.gmd.de | | GMD FIRST phone: +49-30-6392 1866 | | Kekulestr. 7 fax: +49-30-6392 1805 | | 12489 Berlin | | GERMANY | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 22 12:53:47 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:53:47 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC Workshop Message-ID: From: "Nancy M. Ide" +**+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+**+ Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000) Athens, Greece Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation Data Architectures and Software Support for Large Corpora: Towards an American National Corpus Monday, May 29, 2000 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/anc/lrec.html *+**+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+** Description ----------- Several software systems for linguistic annotation, search, and retrieval of large corpora have been developed within the natural language processing community over the past several years, including LT-XML (Edinburgh), GATE (Sheffield), IMS Corpus Workbench (Stuttgart), Alembic Workbench (Mitre), MATE (Edinburgh/Odense/Stuttgart), Silfide (Loria/CNRS), SARA (BNC), and several others. Related to and in support of this development, there have also been efforts to develop standards for encoding and various kinds of linguistic annotation, as well as data architectures (e.g., TIPSTER, TalkBank) etc. Still other developments, such as the introduction of XML and the powerful XSL transformation language and work on semi-structured data (e.g., the work of the Lore group at Stanford), have also impacted the ways in which corpora and other linguistic resources can be represented, stored, and accessed. Approaches to the fundamental design of the formats, data, and tools are varied among current systems for the annotation and exploitation of linguistic corpora. A primary reason for this diversity is that most developers of formats and systems are concerned with only one aspect of the creation/annotation/exploitation process. However, in order to work effectively to develop commonality, the phases of the process must be considered as a whole. This demands bringing together researchers and developers from a variety of domains in text, speech, video, etc., many of whom have previously had little or no contact with one another. This workshop is intended to bring these groups together to look broadly at the technical issues that bear on the development of software systems for the annotation and exploitation of linguistic resources. The goal is to lay the groundwork for the definition of a data and system architecture to support corpus annotation and exploitation that can be widely adopted within the community. Among the issues to be addressed are: o layered data architectures o system architectures for distributed databases o support for plurality of annotation schemes o impact and use of XML/XSL o support for multimedia, including speech and video o tools for creation, annotation, query and access of corpora o mechanisms for linkage of annotation and primary data o applicability of semi-structured data models, search and query systems, etc. o evaluation/validation of systems and annotations The motivation for this workshop is the American National Corpus (ANC) effort, which should begin corpus creation within the year. We anticipate that the ANC will provide a significant resource for natural language processing, and we therefore seek to identify state-of-the-art methods for its creation, annotation, and exploitation. Also, as a national and freely available resource, the data and system architecture of the ANC is likely to become a de facto standard. We therefore hope to draw together leading researchers and developers to establish a basis for the design of a system to support the creation and use of the ANC. A "Birds of a Feather" session for those interested in the ANC project will be held immediately following the workshop. Submission information ---------------------- Submissions should address one or more of the listed topics. Descriptions of planned or existing systems is acceptable, but they should be situated in the larger context of the issues the workshop addresses e.g., outline of the strengths and/or weaknesses of the system and/or data formats, comparison with alternative approaches, etc. A 3000-4500 word abstract in English should be submitted by e-mail to Nancy Ide (ide at cs.vassar.edu) in plain ASCII text format and with the subject line "LREC WORKSHOP SUBMISSION : ". Each submission should include title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. February 15, 2000 : Submissions due March 15, 2000 : Results transmitted to authors April 15, 2000 : Final Papers due May 29, 2000 : Workshop Organizing Committee -------------------- Nancy Ide (contact) Department of Computer Science Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA Tel : +1 914 437 5988 Fax : +1 914 437 7498 Email : ide at vassar.edu Laurent Romary LORIA/CNRS Campus Scientifique - BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-lhs-Nancy FRANCE Tel : +33 (0)3 83 59 30 00 Fax : +33 (0)3 83 27 83 19 Email : romary at loria.fr Henry S. Thompson Human Communication Research Centre 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW SCOTLAND Tel : +44 (131) 650 4440 Fax : +44 (131) 650 4587 Email : ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Program Committee ----------------- Steven Bird, Linguistic Data Consortium Patrice Bonhomme, LORIA/CNRS Roy Byrd, IBM Corporation Jean Carletta, HCRC Edinburgh Ulrich Heid, IMS Stuttgart Hamish Cunningham, Sheffield David Day, Mitre Corporation Robert Gaizauskas, Sheffield Ralph Grishman, New York University Nancy Ide, Vassar College (Chair) Masato Ishizaki, JAIST Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado at Boulder Tony McEnery, Lancaster David McKelvie, HCRC Edinburgh Laurent Romary, LORIA/CNRS Gary Simons, Summer Institute of Linguistics Henry Thompson, HCRC Edinburgh Yorick Wilks, Sheffield Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 22 12:53:55 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:53:55 +0100 Subject: Appel: ANLP/NAACL 2000 Workshop Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in Natural Language Processing Systems WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the development of robust natural language processing systems. A common methodology used in building these systems has been to analyze a sample of the data available (either manually, or automatically for training statistical systems), build statistical/heuristical schemas based upon the analysis, and test the system on a blind sample of the data. Due to this commonly used paradigm, an important area of research that has not been given the attention it deserves is the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity faced by these systems in the tasks they perform. At the AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Question Answering Systems, the problem of semantic complexity, a topic of a 90 minutes panel, motivated a lot of interest and discussion. To continue the investigation of this important issue, in this workshop, we will address the question of complexity as it pertains to the syntax and semantics of natural language. In particular, the workshop will seek to address the following areas: 1) How can we model syntactic and semantic complexity for formal models of natural language? 2) How does complexity impact acquisition of semantic and conceptual information? 3) How does syntactic and semantic complexity impact document classification in information and text retrieval tasks? 4) How do statistical clustering approaches compare to knowledge-based approaches at partitioning and quantifying the semantic space in a document set? 5) Concerning NLP systems that are deployed in the field, how can we quantify the information extraction task and QA task in ways similar to what is currently done with IR tasks and algorithms? 6) How does the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity impact the evaluation of such systems? 7) Can syntactic and semantic complexity coupled with a history of the past performance of a system be used to predict future performance of the system on a different data set? The workshop invites short papers, full-length papers, proposals for panel discussions, and position statements that deal with any aspect of syntactic and/or semantic complexity of NLP systems. In particular, the workshop is interested in addressing the following topics: - estimation of the syntactic and semantic complexity of specific NLP tasks - semantic complexity and world knowledge - role of syntactic and semantic complexity in system design and testing - syntactic and semantic complexity and its role in the evaluation of NLP systems - use of syntactic and semantic complexity as a performance predictor - relationship between syntactic and semantic complexity FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions should consist of either a short paper (2000 words or less, including references), a position statement (2000 words or less, including references), or a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, the type of paper (short/position/full), the word count, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, and email. Proposals for panels should consist of a short (upto 500 words) description of the proposed panel along with the names of the proposed panelists. Papers and proposals for panel discussions may be submitted by submitting three hard copies or one soft copy (ASCII, or PS) to: Amit Bagga General Electric CRD Room K1-5C38B 1 Research Circle Niskayuna, NY 12309. USA phone: 1-518-387-7077 email: bagga at crd.ge.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 7 Notification of acceptance of panels : February 21 Notification of acceptance of papers : February 28 Camera ready papers due: March 13 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Co-Chairs: Amit Bagga General Electric Corporate Research and Development P.O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 bagga at crd.ge.com 518-387-7077 (voice) 518-387-6845 (fax) James Pustejovsky Computer Science Department and Volen Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254-9110 jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu 781-736-2709 (voice) 781-736-2741 (fax) Wlodek Zadrozny IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 30 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532 wlodz at us.ibm.com 914-784-7835 (voice) 914-784-7455 (fax) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Amit Bagga - GE CRD Branimir Boguraev - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center J-P Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble) Shalom Lappin (Kings College, London); Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) Larry Moss (Indiana) Rohit Parikh (CUNY), Adam Pease (Teknowledge) James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University Wlodek Zadrozny - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 22 12:53:57 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:53:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: Morphology (ATALA workshop) Message-ID: From: Nabil Hathout Si vous envisagez de proposer une communication, merci de nous en informer par courrier electronique (mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr). If you intend to submit a communication, could you please inform us by mail (mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr). Thank you. [English version below] ===================================================================== Journ?e de l'ATALA Morphologie constructionnelle et TAL Paris, Piti?-Salp?tri?re 25 mars 2000 APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS ---------------------- La morphologie flexionnelle est g?n?ralement bien prise en compte par les syst?mes de TAL gr?ce aux conjugateurs, aux lemmatiseurs... Ce n'est, en revanche, pas le cas de la morphologie constructionnelle (i.e. d?rivationnelle). Cette journ?e doit permettre de faire le point sur la place de la morphologie constructionnelle dans les syst?mes de TAL, mais aussi de pr?senter les ressources, les techniques et les outils de morphologie constructionnelle utilis?s en TAL ou qui lui sont destin?s. Les sous-th?mes envisag?s pour cette journ?e incluent (liste non exhaustive) : - la construction de bases de donn?es morphologiques ; - le contenu des bases de donn?es morphologiques ; - l'extraction de connaissances morphologiques de corpus (textes, dictionnaires, th?saurus...) ; - l'utilisation des connaissances morphologiques dans les syst?mes de TAL ; - la comparaison des gains en fonction des techniques utilis?es (ex. bases de donn?es vs extraction ? partir de corpus) ; - la place des connaissances linguistiques dans les analyseurs morphologiques ; - le traitement des allomorphies. COMMUNICATIONS -------------- Les propositions de communication seront selectionn?es sur la base d'un r?sum? de 1 page ? transmettre par courrier ?lectronique (pr?f?r?) ou postale ? l'adresse suivante : mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr Nabil Hathout CNRS - ERSS & INaLF Universit? Toulouse II Le Mirail Maison de la Recherche 5, all?es Antonio Machado F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1 CALENDRIER ---------- Date limite de r?ception des r?sum?s : 7 f?vrier 2000 Notifications aux auteurs : 28 f?vrier 2000 ORGANISATEURS ------------- Georgette Dal UMR 8528 ? SILEX ?, CNRS & Universit? de Lille 3 B.P. 149 F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex mailto:dal at univ-lille3.fr Nabil Hathout CNRS - ERSS & INaLF Universit? Toulouse II Le Mirail Maison de la Recherche 5, all?es Antonio Machado F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1 mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr Fiammetta Namer Landisco - Universit? Nancy 2 B.P. 3397 54015 Nancy cedex mailto:Fiammetta.Namer at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr ===================================================================== ATALA Workshop Constructional Morphology and NLP Paris, Piti?-Salp?tri?re 25 mars 2000 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ---------------------- Inflexion morphology is generally correctly treated in NLP systems which may embed conjugater, lemmatizers, etc. In contrast, the treatment of constructional (ie. derivation) morphology in these systems is far less common. This workshop is concerned with the place of constructional morphology in NLP : it aims at presenting constructional morphology resources, techniques and tools in use or designed for NLP. We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following topics: * construction of morphological databases * content of morphological databases * morphological knowledge extraction from corpora (texts, MRD, thesauri...) * use of morphological knowledge in NLP systems * comparison of the improvements given by different techniques (eg. databases vs. extraction for the corpus) * place of linguistic knowledge in the morphological analyzers * treatment of allomorphy COMMUNICATIONS -------------- The proposals for a communication will be selected on the basis of a 1 page abstract. Abstracts will be sent by e-mail (preferably) or surface mail at: mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr Nabil Hathout CNRS - ERSS & INaLF Universit? Toulouse II Le Mirail Maison de la Recherche 5, all?es Antonio Machado F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1 DATES ----- Deadline: February 7th, 2000 Notifications: February 28th, 2000 CHAIR ----- Georgette Dal UMR 8528 ? SILEX ?, CNRS & Universit? de Lille 3 B.P. 149 F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex mailto:dal at univ-lille3.fr Nabil Hathout CNRS - ERSS & INaLF Universit? Toulouse II Le Mirail Maison de la Recherche 5, all?es Antonio Machado F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1 mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr Fiammetta Namer Landisco - Universit? Nancy 2 3, Place Godefroy de Bouillon B.P. 3397 54015 Nancy cedex mailto:Fiammetta.Namer at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 22 12:53:59 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:53:59 +0100 Subject: Soft: CreoleScan(tm) Message-ID: From: MIT2USA at aol.com French version: INFO: technologies pour le cr?ole ha?tien La soci?t? Mason Integrated Technologies, Ltd. (MIT2), une PME sp?cialis?e dans le d?veloppement d'outils linguistiques et dans la prestation de services pour le traitement du langage naturel et de la publication assist?e par ordinateur, vient d'annoncer l'ach?vement de la version de CreoleScan(tm) pour le cr?ole ha?tien. CreoleScan(tm), un logiciel de reconnaissance de caract?res, en combinaison avec le convertisseur d'orthographe CreoleConvert(tm) de MIT2, apporte des technologies innovatrices ? tous ceux qui travaillent sur des textes r?dig?s en cr?ole ha?tien. Des versions de CreoleScan(tm) et de CreoleConvert(tm) sont pr?vues ? para?tre prochainement pour les cr?oles seychellois, r?unionnais, mauricien, guadeloup?en, martiniquais, ste. lucien et dominicain. Les ?diteurs, les syst?mes et organismes d'?ducation, les projets de scolarisation et alphab?tisation, les organismes gouvernementaux, les ?quipes de r?daction et/ou de traduction, entre autres, pourront b?n?ficier de cette gamme de produits sous la forme d'un contrat de prestation de services. Pour obtenir des renseignements suppl?mentaires, veuillez s'il vous pla?t contacter: Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd, P.O. Box 181015, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 Etats-Unis, T?l: (+1) 617-247-8885, T?l?copie: (+1) 617-262-8923, Courriel: mit2usa at aol.com, Internet: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html English version: INFO: new Haitian Creole language technologies Mason Integrated Technologies, Ltd. (MIT2), a software developer and service provider specialized in language processing solutions for Creole languages, has announced the successful completion of the Haitian Creole version of CreoleScan(tm) that is an optical character recognition (OCR) software package. This software, used in combination with the CreoleConvert(tm) orthography conversion software also created by MIT2, is a language technology solution for anyone working with Haitian Creole texts. The versions of CreoleScan(tm) and CreoleConvert(tm) for the Martinican, Guadeloupean, Reunionese, Mauritian, Seychellois, St. Lucian and Dominican French-lexicon creoles are currently under development. These products will soon be made available to publishers, universities, schools and education systems, bilingual education projects, government agencies, and translators as part of a comprehensive service contract package. For more information, please contact: Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd, P.O. Box 181015, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA, Tel: (+1) 617-247-8885, Fax: (+1) 617-262-8923, E-mail: mit2usa at aol.com, Web: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html ******* Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd P.O. Box 181015 Boston, MA 02118 USA (617) 247-8885 (office & answering machine) (617) 262-8923 (FAX) MIT2USA at aol.com (e-mail) Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd Home Page: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html Orthographically Converted HC Texts Download Site: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2haiti/Index4.html Meet Marilyn Mason: http://hometown.aol.com/marilinc/Index3.html Seychelles Invited Seminar Pictures Page: http://hometown.aol.com/marilinc/Index1.html From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Dec 23 16:04:20 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:04:20 +0100 Subject: Appel: JEP'2000 Message-ID: From: Gerard Bailly Chers collegues, Vous etes comme nous tres sollicites en cette veille de millenaire par divers evenements qui veulent marquer ce passage. Les 23mes Journees d'Etude sur la Parole seront ainsi a la fois l'un des importants rendez-vous de la communaut? francophone travaillant sur la communication parlee et les technologies vocales, et un pas supplementaire vers plus de convivialite et d'echanges. En effet, tous les participants travailleront, prendront leur repas et seront heberges du 18 au 23 Juin 2000 dans un cadre unique et convivial: le centre Paul Langevin a Aussois en Maurienne. Nous esperons, grace a vous, relever le defi d'organiser une conference avec un format de seminaire. Attelez-vous donc des a present a vos pupitres! Nous attendons vos soumissions d'articles complets jusqu'au 7 fevrier 2000! Bon travail! En attendant le plaisir de vous rencontrer dans nos alpes, nous vous souhaitons de bonnes fetes, et vous prsentons nos voeux les plus sinceres pour l'an 2000 Cordialement, Gerard Bailly & Pierre Badin PS: bulletins d'inscription et formats de texte ainsi que tout ce que voulez savoir sur les JEP'2000 sans avoir a le demander sont sur http://www.icp.inpg.fr/jep2000 ____________________________________________________________ Gerard Bailly (bailly at icp.inpg.fr) Institut de la Communication Parlee, URA CNRS 368 INPG/Universite Stendhal 46, av. Felix Viallet. 38031 GRENOBLE CEDEX. FRANCE Tel: 4 76 57 47 11 Fax: 4 76 57 47 10 >>From France: prefixed by 0 >>From elsewhere : prefixed by 33 ____________________________________________________________ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Dec 23 16:04:13 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:04:13 +0100 Subject: Appel: Information Extraction (LREC Workshop) Message-ID: From: jock at ccl.umist.ac.uk Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000) Athens, Greece Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation INFORMATION EXTRACTION MEETS CORPUS LINGUISTICS Tuesday, 30th May 2000, 09.00 - 13.30 FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/iemcorp.html Workshop description (summary) ============================== This workshop seeks to explore how Information Extraction and Corpus Linguistics can each benefit from the techniques of the other. The goals of information extraction and of corpus linguistics have thus far had little in common. However, both are concerned with processing large bodies of text. It is timely to explore how one can contribute to the other. Key topics (indicative list) ============================ * How much can IE help corpus linguistics? * How much can corpus linguistics help IE? * What techniques are shared? What techniques from one field can be turned to use in the other? * Is IE-type partial annotation in corpus linguistics useful? * How feasible is it to offer different customised views over large-scale corpora with IE techniques? * What needs to be done in standardising IE annotations to enable reuse by corpus linguists? * How can corpus evidence help to guide IE systems? Important dates =============== Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 22nd January 2000 Notification of acceptance: 25th February 2000 Final version of paper for workshop proceedings: 9th April 2000 Workshop: 30th May 2000 Organising Committee ==================== John McNaught (UMIST, UK) Bill Black (UMIST, UK) Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Italy) Luca Gilardoni (Quinary SpA, Italy) Tony McEnery (University of Lancaster, UK) Contact person for the workshop =============================== John McNaught Department of Language Engineering UMIST PO Box 88 Sackville Street Manchester M60 1QD UK E-mail: jock at ccl.umist.ac.uk Tel: +44.161.200.3100 Fax: +44.161.200.3099 Submissions =========== An 800 word abstract in English should be submitted by e-mail to McNaught (jock at ccl.umist.ac.uk), in plain ASCII text format. Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/iemcorp.html