From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Thu Jul  1 23:01:55 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:01:55 +0100
Subject: Q: Ressources Linguistiques en Vietnamien
Message-ID: <FRI.2.JUL.1999.000155.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 20:53:39 +0200
From: Patrice Bonhomme <Patrice.Bonhomme at loria.fr>
Message-Id: <199907011853.UAA22170 at chimay.loria.fr>
X-url: http://www.loria.fr/~bonhomme


Bonjour,

Afin de préparer une thèse dont le sujet porte sur l'alignement multilingue
Français/Vietnamien, nous essayons de faire un recensement des ressources
linguistiques textuelles pour le Vietnamien existant sous format électronique :

 - Lexique morpho-syntaxique et/ou dictionnaire
 - Corpus de textes vietnamiens avec si possible leur équivalent en Français

Merci pour toutes informations,

Pat.

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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Jul  5 07:07:56 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:07:56 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <MON.5.JUL.1999.080756.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: MARTEAU Pierre-Francois <marteau at bertin.fr>
   Subject: Proposition d'embauche / Job opportunity

2/ From:  "Jan van Sas" <Jan.van.Sas at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Several job openings at Sail Labs Belgium

3/ From: Malek Boualem <malek at crl.nmsu.edu>
   Subject: Proposition sujet these Parole + taln

4/ From:  Stephen Potter <Stephen.Potter at entropic.co.uk>
   Subject:  NLP/Dialog software engineer
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: MARTEAU Pierre-Francois <marteau at bertin.fr>
   Subject: Proposition d'embauche / Job opportunity


Proposition de poste en linguistique computationnelle

La societe Bertin Technologies, situee a Plaisir (78), France (pres de
Paris) recherche un informaticien specialise dans le traitement
automatique de la langue. Le profil recherche comprend, mais n'est pas
limite a :

* approches statistiques / probabilistes et symboliques du TALN
* Recherche documentaire
* Gestion de bases de donnees textuelles
* Reseaux Internet et Intranet

Requis :

* Doctorat en linguistique computationnelle ou dans un domaine lie
* Experience de programmation, Internet et Intranet, developpement
  de systemes d'information
* Expertise dans le traitement d'au moins une langue en plus du
  francais
* Citoyen francais

Salaire : selon experience

Envoyez votre CV par un des moyens suivant :

* e-mail:       znaty at bertin.fr
* fax:  33 1 34 81 87 43        attn: Elie Znaty
* mail: Elie Znaty
        Bertin Technologies
        59, rue pierre Curie, BP3
        78 373 Plaisir cedex


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Career Opportunity for a Computational Linguist:

Bertin technologies, located in Plaisir (78), France, (near Paris) seeks a
computational linguist.  Relevant backgrounds include, but are not
restricted to the following:

* Statistical / probabilistic and symbolic NLP approaches
* Information retrieval
* Textual Data Base management
* Internet and intranet networking

Requirements:

* Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or related field
* Work experience involving computer programming, Internet and Intranet
  information systems developement
* Expertise in at least one language in addition to French
* French citizenship

Pay: commensurate with experience.

Send your CV by one of the following methods:

* e-mail:       znaty at bertin.fr
* fax:  33 1 34 81 87 43        attn: Elie Znaty
* mail: Elie Znaty
        Bertin Technologies
        59, rue pierre Curie, BP3
        78 373 Plaisir cedex

_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  "Jan van Sas" <Jan.van.Sas at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Several job openings at Sail Labs Belgium



SAIL LABS
Speech, Artificial Intelligence, and Language
- Innovation in Understanding -

Sail Labs is responsible for long-term research and development of natural
language technologies and solutions in Speech, Artificial Intelligence, and
Translation Technology for Lernout & Hauspie.
Sail Labs is a Lernout & Hauspie spin-off. Its team has a +10-year track record
in R&D of linguistic technology applications.
Sail Labs has offices in Antwerp, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, and Vienna.

The Sail Labs office in Antwerp, Belgium is expanding its activities rapidly and
 is looking for:

LINGUISTS AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS
Job responsibilities: You design, develop, and test linguistic models and rules
for a variety of technologies and applications.
Requirements: You have a university degree in Linguistics and experience working
 with computers. An additional degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer
Science, or experience in software development are a definite plus.

EXPERTS - RESEARCHERS
Job responsibilities: You contribute to all development requiring expertise in
one or more of the following fields:
. semantics and ontologies
. machine learning and expert systems
. statistics
. Japanese linguistics
Requirements: You have a university degree in Computer Science or Linguistics,
with relevant postgraduate R&D experience.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS
Job responsibilities: You design and implement solutions, interfaces,
components, and supporting tools. You solve highly complex problems where data
analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of many factors.
Requirements: You have a degree in Computer Science and several years of
development experience in C++. You have strong OO and logic skills. You have a
thorough knowledge of the Win32 or Unix development environment. Experience with
 Java, JavaScript, CGI, and Client/Server are a plus.

QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEERS
Job responsibilities: You develop and execute quality assurance procedures, and
assist developers in applying them.
Requirements: You have a degree in Computer Science and/or a proven track record
 in quality assurance.

NETWORK AND SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Job responsibilities: You manage, upgrade, maintain, and support the desktops
and network infrastructure (hardware and software) for the entire site.
Requirements: You have a degree in Computer Science and/or a proven track record
 in system administration.

Sail Labs requires effective communicatino skills in spoken and written English
for all positions.
Sail Labs Belgium offers a very competitive salary and benefits package, a great
 working environment, and the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of the
language industry.

If this appeals to you, please send/fax/e-mail your CV to:

Ilse Verbruggen
Sail Labs Belgium
Coveliersstraat 15
B-2600 Antwerpen, Belgium
Tel: +32-3-287.64.50
Fax: +32-3-287.64.88
E-mail: ilse.verbruggen at lhs.be (soon also: ilse.verbruggen at saillabs.be)

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Malek Boualem <malek at crl.nmsu.edu>
   Subject: Proposition sujet these Parole + taln


Domaine : "Informatique"

                     Date de depot : Des maintenant
                     Date Limite de reponse : Septembre 99
                     Type de poste :  THESE
                     Duree : 3 ans
                     Remuneration : ~ 12000 F brut/mois
                     Lieu de travail : CNET Lannion
                     Cabinet de recrutement : non

                     Personne a contacter : Thierry MOUDENC

                       Poste exerce par la personne a contacter :
Ing�nieur
de Recherche
                       Adresse :        France T�l�com  CNET/DIH/DIPS
                                2 Avenue Pierre MARZIN
                                22 307 LANNION CEDEX
                       Tel : 02 96 05 16 59
                       e-mail :  thierry.moudenc at cnet.francetelecom.fr

                     Description :

Dans le cadre de ces activit�s de recherches en Synth�se de Parole �
partir
du Texte et en Traitement Automatique de la Langue Naturelle, le CNET
(Centre National d'Etudes des T�l�communications) propose une bourse de
th�se sur le sujet suivant :


SUJET DE THESE :
La qualit� d'un syst�me de synth�se automatique de la parole � partir du

texte est naturellement conditionn�e par l'aptitude du syst�me �
produire
une forme vocalis�e du texte d'entr�e compr�hensible par un �tre humain.
Les
progr�s r�alis�s au cours de ces derni�res ann�es font que les syst�mes
actuels (du niveau de l'�tat de l'art) permettent de produire un signal
acoustique de bonne qualit�. On entend par cela une qualit� jug�e
suffisante
pour que la technologie soit d�ploy�e � grande �chelle dans un cadre de
d�veloppement de services. Les progr�s potentiels restent cependant
vastes
et un effort doit en particulier �tre r�alis� concernant l'analyse du
texte
d'entr�e.
On peut distinguer 3 grandes classes de probl�mes sous-jacents �
l'analyse
du texte d'entr�e :
        - l'analyse lexicale, incluant la r�solution de sigles,
d'abr�viations, ...
        - l'analyse grammaticale, avec l'utilisation concurrente de
grammaires
          sp�cifiques,
        - l'analyse s�mantique, qui doit permettre de lever les
ambigu�t�s
r�siduelles en
          se basant sur le sens port� par le texte.
Le sujet de th�se propos� porte sur l'utilisation int�gr�e de ces
diff�rentes classes d'analyse dans le but de produire, � partir du texte

d'entr�e, la forme de surface la mieux adapt�e � la probl�matique
sous-jacente � l'utilisation d'un syst�me de synth�se de parole. On se
concentrera en particulier sur l'apport potentiel que peut repr�senter
une
analyse th�matique, vue ici comme une forme fl�chie d'analyse s�mantique

bas�e sur une classification en th�mes des mots du lexique. Diff�rentes
approches d'int�gration devront �tre �tudi�es et un formalisme global
devra
�tre d�fini. La validation des travaux sera envisag�e dans le contexte
applicatif de la lecture vocale de messages �lectroniques.

MOTS CLES :
Synth�se de Parole,
TALN,
Apprentissage automatique


_______________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Stephen Potter <Stephen.Potter at entropic.co.uk>
   Subject:  NLP/Dialog software engineer


NLP/Dialog software engineer
http://www.entropic.com

Entropic Ltd is seeking software engineers to work on the development
of spoken dialogue tools and systems. The position will involve
rendering web-based dialogs using speech recognition and synthesis
technology to produce natural human-computer interactions. Successful
applicants will develop web browsing techniques to handle dialogs
specified on Internet pages and contribute to the design and
implementation of voice mark-up languages.

Candidates should have a good honours degree or equivalent in a
relevant subject, good communication skills and a confirmed interest
in speech recognition, NLP or Internet applications. Experience of
system software development, preferably using C/C++, internet
protocols and scripting using Javascript or Tcl are all desirable.

The post will be based in Cambridge, UK. Company benefits include an
employee share option scheme, permanent health insurance, private
medical insurance, pension plan and life insurance.

Interested candidates should send CV and application letter to:

Helen Alvey
Entropic Ltd
Compass House
80-82 Newmarket Road
Cambridge, CB5 8DZ
alvey at entropic.co.uk
Fax: 01223 324560


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Jul  5 07:07:59 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:07:59 +0100
Subject: Appel: Journal TAL
Message-ID: <MON.5.JUL.1999.080759.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Christian Jacquemin <jacquemin at limsi.fr>


Journal T.A.L.: Call for Submissions

         Information Retrieval-oriented Natural Language Processing

                   Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999

           Issue coordinated by Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI, Orsay)

           http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-ri.en.html

Theme
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Because  of  the recent  growth  of  electronic data  available through  the
Internet  or  digital  libraries,  information  access has  become  a  major
scientific  issue.  Evaluation  conferences  in information  retrieval  have
promoted the development of search engines and indexing techniques over very
large text databases.

In such  a favorable context, several  factors have promoted the convergence
of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR):

   * New NLP techniques have been designed. They allow for efficient
     processing of large-scale textual data from various sources.
   * Fine NLP techniques for automatic indexing and document handling have
     lead to precision and recall rates higher than traditional text
     simplification techniques.
   * Evaluation conferences such as TREC (IR) or MUC (Information
     Extraction) have promoted interdisciplinary projects with researchers
     from NLP and IR, leading to fruitful interdisciplinary cooperations.
   * The emergence of new paradigms in NLP has raised new scientific issues
     and offered new experimental fields in Computational Linguistics.

Topics of interest (this list is not restrictive)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The topics of interest include:

   * morphological analysis, rule- or dictionary-based stemming,
   * robust and partial parsing for IR,
   * large-scale semantic disambiguation for IR,
   * automatic acquisition of semantic knowledge, automatic thesaurus
     construction for IR,
   * computer-aided construction of large-scale linguistic resources for IR,
   * recycling of IR data, such as thesauri, for IR-oriented NLP,
   * automatic indexing or abstracting,
   * automatic classification and routing, document categorization,
   * integration of linguistic components in IR-oriented NLP applications,
   * specification and evaluation of IR-oriented NLP systems,
   * computational terminology as a means for building resources for
     IR-oriented NLP.

Papers may focus on other topics in NLP provided that they address issues on
their  application to  IR (wrt  to automatic indexing,  text simplification,
query/document   pairing,    query   expansion,    text   segmentation   and
classification, etc).

Format
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Papers  (30 pages  max,  Helvetica 12)  are accepted  in RTF  or Latex  + ps
formats. Latex style is can be downloaded from
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/tal.html.

Submissions formats  are available in  the issues of the  T.A.L. journal and
will be sent to the contributors upon request to Christian Jacquemin.

Language
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Submissions can be written in French or in English.

Submission of articles
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Papers are preferably submitted electronically:

     jacquemin at limsi.fr

or through hard copies at:

     Christian Jacquemin,
     LIMSI-CNRS,
     BP 133,
     91403 ORSAY,
     FRANCE

Submission deadlines
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The  submission  deadline is  November 1st, 1999 . If  you plan to  submit a
paper, please contact Christian Jacquemin before September 1st, 1999.

The  articles will be  reviewed by a  member of  the editorial board  and an
external reviewer specialized in IR-oriented NLP. Decisions of the editorial
board and  referees' reports will be  transmitted to the authors  before the
end of 1999.

The  final versions  of the accepted  papers will  be required for  February
15th, 2000 for a publication in summer 2000.

The Journal T.A.L.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

T.A.L. is the journal of the French association for Computational Linguistic
ATALA :  (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/ ).  Two issues  are published
every  year on various  topics in  Natural Language Processing.  The Journal
T.A.L. is distributed by the French publisher Klincksieck.

Editorial Board
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Editors:                       A. Abeill� (Universit� Paris 7)
                                Ph. Blache (LPL, CNRS)
                                B. Habert (ENS Fontenay-Saint Cloud)
 Members of the Editorial       J. Anis (Universit� Paris 10)
 Board:                         Ph. Blache (LPL, CNRS)
                                D. Cl�ment (Bergische Universit�t
                                Wuppertal)
                                A. Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail)
                                Ch. Dalessandro (LIMSI, Paris)
                                M. El-Beze (Universit� d'Avignon)
                                C. Gardent (Universit�t des Saarlandes)
                                Ch. Jacquemin (IRIN, Nantes)
                                J-L. Lebrave (CNRS, ITEM)
                                B. Victorri (ELSAP, Caen)
                                E. Tzoukermann (Bell Labs)
                                P. Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6)
 Scientific Committee:          M. Borillo (CNRS, P. Sabatier, Toulouse)
                                R. Carr� (ENST, Paris)
                                J-P. Descl�s (Universit� Paris IV)
                                C. Fuchs (CNRS, ENS Paris)
                                M. Gross (LADL, Paris 7)
                                F. Rastier (Paris 4)
                                W. von Hahn (Univ Hambourg)
                                Y. Wilks (Sheffield Univ)
                                A. Zaenen (Xerox Grenoble)
 Secretary:                     Jeanine Mary (UFRL Paris 7)

--
Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403 ORSAY, FRANCE
tel +33 (0)1 69 85 80 22 / fax -- 80 88    mailto:jacquemin at limsi.fr
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/jacquemi/  ftp://ftp.limsi.fr/pub/jacquemi/


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Jul  5 07:08:03 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:08:03 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLP for Biology
Message-ID: <MON.5.JUL.1999.080803.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: tatsu at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp



With Apologies for possible multiple deliveries of this message.

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

                    A call for paper in

             NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR BIOLOGY

                A special session within the
          Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2000
                    January 5-9, 2000
                    Honolulu, Hawaii

             http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/
         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/cfp-nlp.html

A large part of the information required for biology research can only be
found in free-text form, as in MEDLINE abstracts, or in comment fields
of relevant reports, as in GenBank feature table annotations. Such
information is important for many types of analysis, such as
classification of proteins into functional groups, discovery of new
functional relationships, maintaining information of material and
methods, increasing the precision and relevance of hits returned by
information retrieval systems, and so on.

However, information in free-text form or in comment fields is very
difficult for use by automated system. For example, annotation of
biological function of different proteins is a time-consuming process
currently performed by human experts because genome analysis tools
encounter great difficulty in performing this task. The ability to extract
information directly from MEDLINE abstracts and other sources can
directly help in such a task.

This special session provides an international forum for researchers
from the fields of natural language processing (NLP), information
extraction, and bioinformatics to present and exchange ideas and
results on this exciting emerging subject. We welcome technical papers
covering algorithms, techniques, and applications. We particularly
encourage submissions describing systems that

 - use NLP means to extract keywords, gene names, protein names,
   biological materials and methods, protein interactions, functions,
   etc.

 - demonstrate novel natural language-based applications in biology

Also, NLP technologies sometimes contribute to analyzing genomic
sequences. Their grammar-class varies from regular to context
sensitive (or even higher) according to how precise we define their
structure. Which classes and parsing technologies are appropriate for
searching functional sites or genes is still an open question. Thus we
also welcome original papers describing how NLP techniques have
brought break-throughs in genomic sequence analysis.

Session co-chairs

 - Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, University of Tokyo, Japan
 - Limsoon Wong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore

Submission information:

  Submissions are due     12 July 1999
  Decisions are announced 27 August 1999
  Camera ready copy due   22 September 1999

All papers must be submitted to altman at smi.stanford.edu in electronic
format. The file formats we accept are: postscript (*.ps), adobe acrobat
(*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be
named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.ps,
altman.pdf, or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX
or LATEX files will be rejected without review.

Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter
must state the following:

 - The email address of the corresponding author
 - The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract
 - The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is
   not currently under consideration elsewhere.
 - All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper.

Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication
format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at
ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb. If figures can not be easily
resized and placed precisely in the text, then it should be clear that
with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would be
within the page limit. Color pictures can be printed at the expense of
the authors. The fee is $500 per page of color pictures, payable at the
time of camera ready submission.

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Tatsuhiko TSUNODA, Ph.D.
Human Genome Center,
Institute of Medical Science,
University of Tokyo
4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku,
Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
TEL: +81-3-5449-5614
FAX: +81-3-5449-5434
WWW: http://www.hgc.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tatsu
E-mail: tatsu at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Jul  5 07:08:04 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:08:04 +0100
Subject: Conf: ICoS-1
Message-ID: <MON.5.JUL.1999.080804.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Christof Monz <christof at wins.uva.nl>



                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                       First workshop on

              INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
                            ICoS-1

                http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/


          Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
                    Amsterdam, August 15, 1999

          (Early registration deadline: August 1, 1999)


Endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics.


ABOUT ICoS
Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model
builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely
and easily available.  In addition, a wide variety of new tools
(statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine
learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in
computational semantics for natural language.  Indeed, computational
semantics has reached the stage where the exploration and development
of inference is one of its most pressing tasks --- and there's a lot
of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously.

The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1)
intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational
Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in
order to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural
language semantics.

PROGRAM
The following people will give invited presentations:

  * Johan Bos (Saarbruecken)
    Automated Reasoning for Natural Language Semantics

  * Steve Pulman (Cambridge and SRI International)
    Bidirectional Contextual Resolution

  * Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
    Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and
    Instructions

In addition, 7 research papers and some implementations will be
presented

  * P. Baumgartner and M. Kuehn
    Abducing Coreference by Model Construction

  * G. Bierner and B. Webber
    Inference through Alternative-Set Semantics

  * M. Gabsdil and K. Striegnitz
    Classifying Scope Ambiguities (System Description)

  * C. Gardent and K. Konrad
    Definites and the Proper Treatment of Rabbits

  * A. Holt, E. Klein and C. Grover
    Natural Language for Hardware Verification: Semantic
    Interpretation and Model Checking (System Description)

  * J. Jaspars
    Structural Logics for Reasoning with Underspecified
    Representations

  * A. Kaplan
    Reason Maintenance in a Hybrid Reasoning System

  * B. Ludwig
    An Inference-Based Approach to the Interpretation of Discourse

  * A. Ramsay and H. Seville
    Models and Discourse Models

The program committee for ICoS-1 consists of the following people:

   James Allen                     Alex Lascarides
   Patrick Blackburn               Christof Monz
   Denys Duchier                   Reinhard Muskens
   Jan van Eijck                   Manfred Pinkal
   Claire Gardent                  Maarten de Rijke
   Jacques Jayez                   Len Schubert
   Aravind Joshi                   Henk Zeevat
   Michael Kohlhase

LOCATION
ICoS-1 will be held at the Institute for Logic, Language and
Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam during the 11th European
Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99), which
will be held in Utrecht, approximately 30 km from Amsterdam.  More
information on the ILLC including instructions how to get there can be
found at http://www.illc.uva.nl/ContactsandLinks/

REGISTRATION
Until August 1, the registration fee for ICoS-1 is 50 Dutch
guilders. After August 1, the fee is 100 Dutch guilders. The
registration fee includes the conference package and lunch.

To register, please go to:

  http://www.illc.uva.nl/~christof/ICoS-1/registration.html

or fill out the form attached to this message and send it to

  icos1 at wins.uva.nl


As it is very hard to get accommodation in Amsterdam during the
summer, it is imperative that you start looking for accommodation
now. If you are attending ESSLLI'99, you can take the train to
Amsterdam which takes approximately 30 minutes. More information on
finding accommodation in Amsterdam will be made available on the
ICoS-1 home page.

FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact the local organizers at
icos1 at wins.uva.nl or visit the ICoS-1 home page:
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/


*****************************************************************
                      ICoS-1 Registration Form
*****************************************************************


First name:

Last name:

Email:

Phone:

Fax:

Preferred address:







Special requests:







I will join the conference dinner:

  [ ] yes
  [ ] no

The registration fee will be collected on the spot at ICoS-1.
We kindly ask you to pay in cash.



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--

Christof Monz  | A: ILLC Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam,  The
Netherlands | R: 326 (3rd floor) | P: +31 20 525 6095 | F: +31 20 525 5101
E: christof at wins.uva.nl | W: www.illc.uva.nl/~christof


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul  7 09:53:20 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:53:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: TAL (Noms Propres)
Message-ID: <WED.7.JUL.1999.105320.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Denis Maurel <maurel at univ-tours.fr>

Call for Papers: English version, see below



Appel a publication :
*********************

		Le traitement automatique des Noms propres

				Revue TAL
			      numero 2000-3

		Editeurs : Denis Maurel et Franz Guenthner

L'Association pour le Traitement automatique des langues (l'Atala) a
organise le samedi 29 mai 1999 une journee d'etudes consacree au Traitement
automatique des Noms propres sous toutes ses formes. Cette journee a donne
lieu a de tres interessantes communications et sera suivie d'une
publication dans la revue TAL, numero 2000-3.

Cependant, cette publication ne reprendra pas systematiquement les
communications de la journee, mais fait l'objet d'un nouvel appel. Nous
invitons donc toute personne travaillant sur le sujet des noms propres,
dans une optique d'application au TAL, a nous envoyer une proposition de
publication. Celles-ci seront examinees par le comite de lecture habituel
de la revue et par nous-meme.

Nous souhaitons donc recevoir des propositions de communication sur le
sujet incluant, de maniere non limitative :

* La constitution de dictionnaires electroniques de noms propres

* Le traitement automatique de la morphologie des noms propres

* La reconnaissance et l'etiquetage automatique des noms propres dans un texte

* Les aspects computationnels de la syntaxe, de la semantique ou de la
pragmatique des noms propres

* L'analyse linguistique des noms propres (ou l'apports des travaux en TAL
sur ce point � une analyse linguistique des noms propres)

* La recherche et l'extraction automatique d'informations a l'aide des noms
propres

* etc.

FORMAT
------
Le format des communications doit etre celui de la revue, disponible a la
fin d'un numero ou a :

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/normes.html

Les articles soumis n'exc�deront pas 30 pages en double interligne avec la
police Helvetica 12. Ils seront accept�s dans un des formats suivants :
RTF ou LaTeX + postscript. La feuille de style LaTeX est accessible �
l'adresse suivante :

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/tal.html

Les textes sont a envoyer, par courrier electronique, pour la fin octobre,
a Denis Maurel (mailto: maurel at univ-tours.fr).

CALENDRIER
-----------
Date limite de soumission : 1er novembre 1999
Notification aux auteurs : janvier 1999
Version finale : 1er mai 2000

COMITE DE REDACTION
-------------------
Redacteurs en chef :		A. Abeille (Universite Paris 7)
				Ph. Blache (LPL, CNRS)
				B. Habert (ENS Fontenay-Saint
Cloud) Autres
membres du Comite de  		J. Anis (Universite Paris 10)
redaction :			D. Clement (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
				A. Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail)
				Ch. Dalessandro (LIMSI, Paris)
				M. El-Beze (Universit� d'Avignon)
				C. Gardent (Universitaet des Saarlandes)
				Ch. Jacquemin (IRIN, Nantes)
				J-L. Lebrave (CNRS, ITEM)
				B. Victorri (ELSAP, Caen)
				E. Tzoukermann (Bell Labs)
				P. Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6)

Comite scientifique :     	M. Borillo (CNRS, P. Sabatier, Toulouse)
				R. Carre (ENST, Paris)
				J-P. Descles (Universit� Paris IV)
				C. Fuchs (CNRS, ENS Paris)
				M. Gross (LADL, Paris 7)
				F. Rastier (Paris 4)
				W. von Hahn (Univ Hambourg)
				Y. Wilks (Sheffield Univ)
				A. Zaenen (Xerox Grenoble)

Secretaire de r�daction :       Jeanine Mary (UFRL Paris 7)

Denis Maurel
LI/E3i, Universite de Tours

Franz Guenthner
CIS, Universite de Munich

________________________________________________________________________________

Call for papers
***************

		Journal TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues)

	  Special issue on proper nouns in natural language processing

		Editors : Denis Maurel and Franz Guenthner


The Association pour le traitement automatique des langues (Atala)
(Association for language processing) organized a meeting on the treatment
of all forms of proper nouns in language processing on Saturday 29th May
1999.

Some papers from presentations given at the meeting will be published in the
journal TAL issue 2000-3. In addition, we would like to invite papers from
other researchers working on any aspect of the automated treatment of proper
nouns. Contribution are invited on the topics below as well as on other
related subjects:

* The construction of electronic dictionaries of proper names

* The morphological analysis of proper names

* The recognition and tagging of proper names in texts

* Computational aspect of the syntax, semantics or pragmatics of proper names

* Linguistic analysis of proper nouns

* Applications of the treatment of proper names to information retrieval,
information extraction, text mining

* etc.

FORMAT
------
The paper should be formatted following the journal guidelines. These are
spelled out at the end of a volume or at:

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/normes.html

Papers can be submitted in English and French. They not exceed 30 pages in
double interline in Helvetica 12. We accept RTF or LaTeX + postscript. The
latex style is avalaible at:

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/tal.html

Please send your text, by electronic mail, for the end of October to Denis
Maurel (mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr).

CALENDAR
--------
Submission deadline :   November 1st 1999
Notification to authors : Jannuary 1999
Final version due : May, 1st 2000

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
-------------------
Chief editors:			A. Abeille (Universite Paris 7)
				Ph. Blache (LPL, CNRS)
				B. Habert (ENS Fontenay-Saint Cloud)
Autres
members of Editorial       	J. Anis (Universite Paris 10)
Committee:     			D. Clement (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
                              	A. Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail)
				Ch. Dalessandro (LIMSI, Paris)
				M. El-Beze (Universit� d'Avignon)
				C. Gardent (Universitaet des Saarlandes)
				Ch. Jacquemin (IRIN, Nantes)
				J-L. Lebrave (CNRS, ITEM)
				B. Victorri (ELSAP, Caen)
				E. Tzoukermann (Bell Labs)
				P. Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6)
Scientific Committee:           M. Borillo (CNRS, P. Sabatier, Toulouse)
		                R. Carre (ENST, Paris)
				J-P. Descles (Universit� Paris IV)
				C. Fuchs (CNRS, ENS Paris)
				M. Gross (LADL, Paris 7)
				F. Rastier (Paris 4)
				W. von Hahn (Univ Hambourg)
				Y. Wilks (Sheffield Univ)
				A. Zaenen (Xerox Grenoble)
Sub-Editor:       		Jeanine Mary (UFRL Paris 7)



Denis Maurel
LI/E3i, Universite de Tours

Franz Guenthner
CIS, Universite de Munich



____________________________________
Denis Maurel
LI/E3i - Universite Francois Rabelais
64 avenue Jean-Portalis
37200 Tours
France
Tel. (33) 02.47.36.14.35
Telc. (33) 02.47.36.14.22
mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr
http://www.li.univ-tours.fr


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul  7 09:53:21 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:53:21 +0100
Subject: Appel: Evolang
Message-ID: <WED.7.JUL.1999.105321.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Conference Evolang <evolang at inf.enst.fr>




( Apologies for multiple copies )

CALL FOR PAPERS     [deadline: November 8, 1999]
===============


            =================================================
conference: T H E   E V O L U T I O N   O F   L A N G U A G E
            =================================================
            Paris April 3-6, 2000
            Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
            Paris - France
            http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/


ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University),
Dr. Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Professor Jim Hurford
(Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh),
Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of
East London), Professor Luc Steels (Sony CSL and Vrije
Universiteit Brussel).

LOCAL ORGANISATION: Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST), Laleh Ghadakpour (CREA),
Frederic Kaplan (Sony CSL), Luc Steels (Sony CSL),  Francois Yvon (ENST).


	This will be the third conference in a series concerned with the
	evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines,
	we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their
	perspectives with those of modern Darwinism.

	The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists,
	anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists,
	neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with
	the question of the origin and evolution of language.


CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
---------------------------

Frans B. M. de Waal (Emory University), Bernd Heine (Universitat zu Koln),
Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis University), Paul A. Mellars (University of
Cambridge), Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Georgia State University),
Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
--------------------

Jean Aitchison (Worcester College), Robert C. Berwick (M.I.T.),
Derek Bickerton (Univ. Hawai), Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory), Rene Carre (ENST), Bernard Comrie (University
of Southern California), Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST), Jean-Marie Hombert
(MSH Rhone-Alpes), James R. Hurford (University of Edinburgh), Michel Imbert
(Universite de Toulouse), Judy Kegl (University of Southern Maine),
Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh), Chris Knight (University of
East London), Andre Langaney (Musee de l'Homme), Frederick J. Newmeyer
(University of Washington), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Laboratories),
Luc Steels (Sony CSL & Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Bernard Victorri (Ecole
Normale Superieure, Paris).


Some of the issues that will be discussed are:

 origin of language
  ----------------

 . origin of phonetic abilities

 . origin of syntax

 . origin of symbolic representation semantic abilities

 . evolutionary significance of language, compatibility with natural selection

 . language and the origin of culture

 . chronology of the spread of mankind, and its relationship to language

 . the continuity/discontinuity of the language faculty with nonhuman
   communication systems.


 dynamics of language evolution
  ----------------------------

 . evolution of phonetic systems

 . evolution of the lexicon

 . evolution of grammar structures



Submission Instructions
=======================
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or short papers
(from 1 to 4 pages, max. 2000 words).
Submitted papers will be refereed and selected for oral presentation
(25/30 min) on the basis of quality and relevance to the Conference topics.

Accepted abstracts and papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings
and will be made accessible through the web. Copies of the proceedings
will be available at the Conference. Authors of accepted contributions
will be asked to submit full length papers for a volume to be published after
the Conference by an international publisher.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The deadline for submission is November 8th, 1999.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically
(MS Word preferred, but most formats will be recognised).

Please email your submission to evolang at infres.enst.fr
Don't forget to include the submission form (see below) in your message.

If you are planning to submit a paper or abstract, or if you simply
plan to attend the Conference, please send a mail to

	evolang at infres.enst.fr

You will be kept informed through e-mail of further useful information.


If you cannot send your submission through email, please send four copies
(and the submission form) to:

	J-L Dessalles
	ENST / Dep. InfRes
	46 rue Barrault
	F-75013 Paris - France



Submission Form
===============

[ The first author should fill in the submission form and e-mail
  it to evolang at infres.enst.fr ]


Last NAME :

First Name :

Laboratory :

Organization/Affiliation :

Street Address :

City :

Postal code:

State/Province :

Country :

E-mail address for correspondence :

Fax :

Paper title :



 ==========================================================================

Conference web site: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/
Call for papers:     http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/cfp.html
EMAIL: evolang at infres.enst.fr


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Thu Jul  8 15:33:44 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:33:44 +0100
Subject: Q: POS / Parse Annotation of the Hansards
Message-ID: <THU.8.JUL.1999.163344.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:10:12 -0400
From: "Keith J. Miller" <keith at mitre.org>
Message-Id: <003601bec8c5$7bfe52d0$3c681d80 at keith-nt.mitre.org>


I'm using the Hansard corpus (parallel French - English parliamentary
proceedings) for dissertation research on Machine Translation of
prepositions. I need both English and French data marked up with POS
and syntactic parse information.  My primary concern is PP
attachment, specifically with respect to distinguishing between
verbal complement PPs and adjunct PPs.

Can anyone recommend a POS tagger or parser for either language
or a source for marked up versions of the Hansards?

Please reply to me directly; I will summarize. Thank you, and I
hope everyone is enjoying their summer (or winter, as the case may be).


						-----  Keith J. Miller
						millerk at gusun.georgetown.edu
						Georgetown University
						Linguistics Department
						Computational Linguistics


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul 28 08:35:10 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:35:10 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <WED.28.JUL.1999.093510.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

________________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Malek Boualem <malek at crl.nmsu.edu
   Subject:  Job (assist. prof.) at Univ. Bielefeld

2/ From: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DSM/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr
   Subject: Job in CNET

3/ From: "Claudia Pateras" <pateras at nortelnetworks.com
   Subject: Jobs in Montreal: NLP and Discourse Management

4/ From: "Malek Boualem" <malekboualem at hotmail.com
   Subject: Job reconnaissance parole IBM Paris
________________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Malek Boualem <malek at crl.nmsu.edu
   Subject:  Job (assist. prof.) at Univ. Bielefeld


Applications are invited by 31 August 1999 for the following position in
my section, comparable with lecturer or assistant professor, with competence
in computational methods in linguistics and in phonetics. A doctorate is
usually required.

Informal enquiries are welcome; please mail them to me:
          gibbon at spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de
For the address to which applications should be addressed, see the
official German text, which is included below and is also at:
          http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Jobs/

I would be grateful if you would circulate this to interested young
linguists, computational linguistics, and phoneticians.

Best wishes,

  Dafydd Gibbon

----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Dafydd Gibbon                   gibbon at spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de
 Fakult"at f"ur Linguistik       http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/
  und Literaturwissenschaft      Phone: +49.521.106.3510/09
 Universit"at Bielefeld          Fax:   +49.521.106.6008/2996
 P 100131, D-33501 Bielefeld     Room:  C6-138
----------------------------------------------------------------------

An der Universit�t Bielefeld, Fakult�t f�r Linguistik und
Literaturwissenschaft, ist eine

                C1-Stelle f�r Anglistik/Linguistik

zu besetzen.

Von Bewerbern/Bewerberinnen wird erwartet, da� sie sich in Forschung und
Lehre in den anglistischen und linguistischen Studieng�ngen engagieren,
da� sie entsprechend dem Profil der Bielefelder Anglistik/Linguistik an
der Entwicklung und Anwendung computerbasierter und multimedialer Methoden
f�r Lehre und Forschung mitarbeiten, sich an der Betreuung des
Phonetiklabors, an internationalen Austauschprogrammen und an der Einwerbung
von Drittmittelprojekten aktiv beteiligen. Weitere Informationen �ber das
Arbeitsumfeld stehen unter folgenden Internet-Adressen zur Verf�gung:

      http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/ (CLSL group)
      http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/BEST/ (English Studies group)

Einstellungsvoraussetzung f�r eine C1-Stelle ist die Promotion. Bei
entsprechender Bewerberlage ist die Umwandlung in eine
BATIIa-Doktorandenstelle
nicht ausgeschlossen.

Die Bewerbung geeigneter Schwerbehinderter ist erw�nscht.

Die Universit�t will eine Erh�hung des Frauenanteils dort erreichen,
wo Frauen unterrepr�sentiert sind, und fordert deshalb besonders Frauen
auf, sich zu bewerben. Bei gleicher Eignung, Bef�higung und fachlicher
Leistung werden Frauen bevorzugt eingestellt, sofern nicht in der Person eines
Mitbewerbers liegende Gr�nde �berwiegen.

Bewerbungen mit den �blichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Schriftenverzeichnis,
Verzeichnis der Lehrveranstaltungen, Kopien akademischer Zeugnisse) werden bis
zum 31. August 1999 an den Dekan der Fakult�t f�r Linguistik und
Literaturwissenschaft, Universit�t Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, D-33501
Bielefeld, erbeten.


________________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DSM/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr
   Subject: Job in CNET


The "natural language processing" R&D unit of CNET (France Telecom research
center) proposes in Lannion (Brittany, France) a position of research
engineer in natural language processing. Good skills in computer science and
linguistics.

More informations and application:
Jerome Vinesse
tel (+33) 2.96.05.38.92
fax (+33) 2.96.05.32.86
jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr

French version :
L'unit� de R&D langue naturelle du CNET (Centre de recherche de France
T�l�com) propose � Lannion (C�tes d'Armor, Bretagne, France) un poste
d'ing�nieur de recherche en traitement automatique du langage naturel, �
dur�e ind�termin�e. Niveau bac+5, bonnes connaissances en informatique et en
linguistique.


________________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: "Claudia Pateras" <pateras at nortelnetworks.com
   Subject: Jobs in Montreal: NLP and Discourse Management

Title: Research Assistant / PostDoc / Contractual

Functions: In the context of research in the area of automatic speech
recognition, a multi-disciplinary team, including researchers from
Nortel Networks, seeks a person to design software as part of a project
for natural language understanding and natural dialogue systems.  This
researcher will program algorithms to achieve accurate communication
with natural voice dialogues, and participate in the team's efforts to
render telephone dialogue systems more efficient.

Requirements: Have a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or
computer science. Graduate study in these or related fields, as well
as a solid mathematical background and a knowledge of the technical
aspects of speech communication, will be viewed favorably. At least one
year's experience in scientific programming in C or C++ in a Unix
environment
is needed. Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence techniques and/or
experience
with Lisp or Prolog will be considered strong assets.

Place of work: INRS-Telecommunications, 16 Place du Commerce, Nuns'
Island, Quebec H3E 1H6

Interested persons are asked to contact:

Claudia Pateras
phone: (514) 761-8869
email: pateras at nortelnetworks.com

________________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: "Malek Boualem" <malekboualem at hotmail.com
   Subject: Job reconnaissance parole IBM Paris


INGENIEUR (reconnaissance de la parole)
Jeune ing�nieur d�butant ou avec 1 � 2 ann�es d'exp�rience.
BAC+5, de formation grandes �coles (T�l�com, Centrale, Sup�lec,
Eur�com...) ou universitaire.
Souhaitant s'int�grer � une petite �quipe pour participer aux travaux
d'�tude et de d�veloppement en reconnaissance de la parole, t�l�phonie,
et traitement du langage naturel en fran�ais.
Bon niveau d'anglais requis.

Contrat � dur�e ind�termin�e. Ce poste est bas� � Paris.

Envoyer candidatures �    crepy at fr.ibm.com

Hubert Cr�py - IBM France - Speech Reco Project Leader
68-76 Quai de la Rap�e  F- 75012 Paris (FRANCE)
email: crepy at fr.ibm.com
T�l: +33 (0)1 40 01 57 51
Fax:+33 (0)1 40 01 61 94
____________________________________________________________


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul 28 08:35:26 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:35:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: Speech Communication
Message-ID: <WED.28.JUL.1999.093526.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>



                  *** SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT ***



                      SPEECH COMMUNICATION

                        CALL FOR PAPERS


       Special Issue on SPEECH ANNOTATION AND CORPUS TOOLS
        [http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/specom.html]

               Submission Deadline: 30 August 1999


     Guest editors: Steven Bird and Jonathan Harrington


Aims and Scope of Speech Communication (from the journal homepage)

Speech Communication is an interdisciplinary journal whose primary
objective is to fulfil the need for the rapid dissemination and
thorough discussion of basic and applied research results. In order to
establish frameworks to inter-relate results from the various areas of
the field, emphasis will be placed on viewpoints and topics of a
transdisciplinary nature. ...  The journal's primary objectives are:
to present a forum for the advancement of human and human-machine
speech communication science; to stimulate cross-fertilization between
different fields of this domain; to contribute towards the rapid and
wide diffusion of scientifically sound contributions in this domain.
General information about Speech Communication, the official journal
of the European Speech Communication Association, can be found at
[www.elsevier.com/locate/specom].


Scope of the Special Issue

Submissions are invited for a special issue of Speech Communication on
Speech Annotation and Corpus Tools.  The aim of the special issue is
to make speech scientists aware of recent developments in the
representation and management of annotated speech corpora,
i.e. collections of speech signal data with time-aligned
transcriptions.  (Signal data may be audio or physiological, natural
or artificial, in basic or derived form.)  The primary focus is the
structure of annotations and of annotated corpora, as used within and
across a wide range of disciplines concerned with spoken human
communication.

Annotated speech corpora have been a critical component of research in
the speech sciences for some years.  Today, these corpora are being
created and deployed for a rapidly expanding set of languages,
disciplines and technologies.  A wealth of formats and tools have
sprung up around this enterprise, a diversity which at once
facilitates and frustrates progress.  The linguistic annotation page
[www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/] has drawn attention to the scale of
ongoing activity, to the existence of diverse approaches to similar
problems and of similar approaches to diverse problems.  Despite the
explicit formats and well-documented user interfaces, insights about
the structure of the annotations themselves are often buried in coding
manuals and internal data structures.  There is a pressing need for
papers which document the corpora and tools, which identify notational
and functional equivalences among different approaches, and which
report on new approaches to core representational problems.

The special issue will consider papers which address theoretical and
practical issues concerning the representation of annotations, the
structure of annotated corpora, and the design, analysis and
implementation of tools for creating, browsing, searching,
manipulating and transforming annotations and annotated corpora.
In each case, the description of annotation structures or
tools should be accessible to readers outside the particular community
in which the system originated.

A broad sampling of relevant issues is given below:

+ representational issues:
  - sequence, overlap, hierarchy
  - simultaneous cross-cutting hierarchies
  - the nature of labels
  - pointers and cross-references
  - temporal structure, instants and periods
  - atemporal information (e.g. demographic data)

+ relationships between annotations and signals:
  - multiple independent annotations of a single signal
  - single annotations which reference multiple signals
  - annotations which reference other annotations

+ database issues:
  - structuring annotations, signals and atemporal data into a corpus
  - indexing for efficient access of large corpora
  - high and low level query languages, cross-level query
  - validation, update, provenance
  - data transformation and integration
  - file formats, storage, transfer; the place of XML

+ implementation issues:
  - design philosophies and functionalities for annotation toolkits
  - approaches to creation, browsing, navigation, display
  - reusability, interoperability, platform independence
  - integration with independent tools (e.g. statistical analysis)
  - techniques for working with multiple corpus formats

+ wider issues:
  - methodologies for research and development involving annotated corpora
  - the cycle of refining annotations and refining theoretical models
  - the role of annotated corpora in evaluating theories and systems
  - necessary steps towards general purpose tools and formats


Important Dates

* 400 Word Abstracts: any time in May-July
* Advance Notification: Monday August 16th, 1999
* Submission Deadline: Monday August 30th, 1999
* Acceptance Decision: late October, 1999
* Final Version Due: late January, 2000
* Publication Date: mid 2000


Advance Notifications

1. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 400 word abstract of
their paper so that the editors can comment on its suitability for the
special issue.  These abstracts should be formatted as ASCII text and
submitted by email to both editors.

2. To facilitate a rapid review process, authors are required to give
notification of their submission two weeks in advance of the
submission deadline.  Notification should consist of the title and (a
draft of) the final abstract, formatted as ASCII and emailed to both
editors.


Submissions

All submissions must consist of original unpublished work that is not
being submitted for publication elsewhere.  Papers should be
approximately 30 pages double spaced.  Electronic submission is
encouraged.  Details about preparation of electronic and paper
submissions, and any updates to the CFP, will be posted on the web at
[http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/specom.html].  Please register at
this site to receive email notification of any subsequent
announcements concerning the special issue.


--
Dr Jonathan Harrington
Director, Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre,
Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
Tel: +61 2 9850-8740  Fax: +61 2 9850-9199
jmh at srsuna.shlrc.mq.edu.au
http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/dbase/person.phtml?oid=19084

Dr Steven Bird
Associate Director, Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania, 3615 Market St, Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2608, USA
Tel: +1 215 573-3352  Fax: +1 215 573-2175
sb at ldc.upenn.edu
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul 28 08:35:28 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:35:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: CLAW 2000
Message-ID: <WED.28.JUL.1999.093528.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>


** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS **

CLAW 2000: 3rd International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications

Location: Westin Hotel in Seattle, Washington, USA
Dates: 29-30 April 2000


CONTEXT

The 3rd International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications (CLAW)
is planned to be held 29-30 April 2000 as a 2-day pre-conference Workshop
in conjunction with the ANLP (Applied Natural Language Processing)/NACLA
(North American Computational Linguistics Association) in Seattle,
Washington, USA at the Westin Hotel.

For the full version of the call for papers, as well as for on-going and
updated information on CLAW2000, please consult the workshop website:
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000

For information on the past two CLAWs see:

CLAW96   http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/CLAW/programme.html
CLAW98   http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/CLAW98/


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Of interest are submissions on all topics relating to the design,
implementation and application of controlled languages, including but not
limited to: human communication protocols; controlled text authoring;
conformance checking systems; controlled language authoring aids; machine
translation; memory-based translation authoring and translation; issues in
Controlled Language design; industrial experience and evolving
requirements; quality and usability evaluations of controlled language.

On the research front, we are grappling with issues like standardization,
design, and evaluation of controlled language systems. On implementation
issues, we are particularly interested in studies regarding author
productivity and document usability. The workshop will give equal emphasis
to the academic, corporate and industrial perspectives, while bringing
together researchers, developers, users, and potential users of controlled
language systems from around the world.


WORKSHOP FORMAT

The two-day workshop will feature invited speakers, paper presentations,
poster sessions, panel discussions, and system demonstrations. More
information regarding the workshop format and content can be found at the
workshop web site: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000


WORKSHOP TIMETABLE

*       30 November 1999: Submission Deadline of demo proposals and full
version of Papers/Posters/Panel sessions (note: notification of receipt of
submission will be sent out within 1 week).
*       Conference Registration deadline: (see ANLP site)
http://home1.gte.net/rwojcik/ANLP2000.html
*       20 January 2000: Notification of acceptance for
papers/posters/panel/demos
*       1 March 2000: Final Camera-Ready copy due
*       29-30 April 2000: Conference Dates


SUBMISSION DETAILS

All relevant submission information is available at:
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000


GENERAL INQUIRIES:

Please contact:  Jeff Allen
e-mail:  postediting at hotmail.com


WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

Geert Adriaens (Lernout & Hauspie ; University of Leuven, Belgium)
Jeff Allen (European Language resources Distribution Agency)
Kurt Godden (General Motors Corporation)
Teruko Mitamura (Carnegie Mellon University)
Eric Nyberg (Carnegie Mellon University)
Rick Wojcik (Boeing)
Remi Zajac (New Mexico State University)





=================================================
Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)  &
European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA)
(Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques)
55, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013   Paris   FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30
mailto:jeff at elda.fr
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul 28 08:35:29 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:35:29 +0100
Subject: Conf: ICoS
Message-ID: <WED.28.JUL.1999.093529.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Christof Monz <christof at wins.uva.nl>


                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                       First workshop on

              INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
                            ICoS-1

                http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/


          Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
                    Amsterdam, August 15, 1999

          (Early registration deadline: August 1, 1999)


Endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics.


ABOUT ICoS
Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model
builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely
and easily available.  In addition, a wide variety of new tools
(statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine
learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in
computational semantics for natural language.  Indeed, computational
semantics has reached the stage where the exploration and development
of inference is one of its most pressing tasks --- and there's a lot
of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously.

The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1)
intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational
Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in
order to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural
language semantics.

PROGRAM
The following people will give invited presentations:

  * Johan Bos (Saarbruecken)
    Automated Reasoning for Natural Language Semantics

  * Steve Pulman (Cambridge and SRI International)
    Bidirectional Contextual Resolution

  * Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
    Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and
    Instructions

In addition, research papers and some implementations will be
presented

  * P. Baumgartner and M. Kuehn
    Abducing Coreference by Model Construction

  * G. Bierner and B. Webber
    Inference through Alternative-Set Semantics

  * M. Gabsdil and K. Striegnitz
    Classifying Scope Ambiguities (System Description)

  * C. Gardent and K. Konrad
    Definites and the Proper Treatment of Rabbits

  * A. Holt, E. Klein and C. Grover
    Natural Language for Hardware Verification: Semantic
    Interpretation and Model Checking (System Description)

  * J. Jaspars
    Structural Logics for Reasoning with Underspecified
    Representations

  * A. Kaplan
    Reason Maintenance in a Hybrid Reasoning System

  * B. Ludwig
    An Inference-Based Approach to the Interpretation of Discourse

  * R. Otero and O. Trinidad
    Action Formalisms in Language Understanding

  * A. Ramsay and H. Seville
    Models and Discourse Models

The program committee for ICoS-1 consists of the following people:

   James Allen                     Alex Lascarides
   Patrick Blackburn               Christof Monz
   Denys Duchier                   Reinhard Muskens
   Jan van Eijck                   Manfred Pinkal
   Claire Gardent                  Maarten de Rijke
   Jacques Jayez                   Len Schubert
   Aravind Joshi                   Henk Zeevat
   Michael Kohlhase

LOCATION
ICoS-1 will be held at the Institute for Logic, Language and
Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam during the 11th European
Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99), which
will be held in Utrecht, approximately 30 km from Amsterdam.  More
information on the ILLC including instructions how to get there can be
found at http://www.illc.uva.nl/ContactsandLinks/

REGISTRATION
Until August 1, the registration fee for ICoS-1 is 50 Dutch
guilders. After August 1, the fee is 100 Dutch guilders. The
registration fee includes the conference package and lunch.

To register, please go to:

  http://www.illc.uva.nl/~christof/ICoS-1/registration.html

or fill out the form attached to this message and send it to

  icos1 at wins.uva.nl


As it is very hard to get accommodation in Amsterdam during the
summer, it is imperative that you start looking for accommodation
now. If you are attending ESSLLI'99, you can take the train to
Amsterdam which takes approximately 30 minutes. More information on
finding accommodation in Amsterdam will be made available on the
ICoS-1 home page.

FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact the local organizers at
icos1 at wins.uva.nl or visit the ICoS-1 home page:
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/


*****************************************************************
                      ICoS-1 Registration Form
*****************************************************************


First name:

Last name:

Email:

Phone:

Fax:

Preferred address:







Special requests:







I will join the conference dinner:

  [ ] yes
  [ ] no

The registration fee will be collected on the spot at ICoS-1.
We kindly ask you to pay in cash.



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







--

Christof Monz  | A: ILLC Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam,  The
Netherlands | R: 326 (3rd floor) | P: +31 20 525 6095 | F: +31 20 525 5101
E: christof at wins.uva.nl | W: www.illc.uva.nl/~christof


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jul 30 09:05:14 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:05:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: JADT-2000
Message-ID: <FRI.30.JUL.1999.100514.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: JADT 2000 <jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch>

 ===========================================================================

                             J A D T   2 0 0 0


  5e Journ�es Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Donn�es Textuelles

                               9-11 Mars 2000

                  �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne

                              Lausanne, Suisse

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

Apr�s Barcelone (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), et Nice (1998), les
5e  Journ�es Internationales d'Analyse  Statistique  des  Donn�es Textuelles
auront lieu  � Lausanne (Suisse) du 9  au 11 mars 2000. Cette manifestation,
qui  gagne en  importance �  chaque �dition, est  ouverte aux  chercheurs du
vaste domaine d'�tudes qui, centr� sur  la statistique textuelle, s'�tend de
la    lexicographie  � l'analyse  du  discours   politique,  de la recherche
documentaire  �    la    recherche  en   marketing,    de  la   linguistique
computationnelle  � la  sociolinguistique,  du traitement   informatique des
donn�es   �   l'analyse de   contenu.     Apr�s  le  succ�s  des pr�c�dentes
occurrences, JADT 2000 fournira de nouveau un  forum de discussion convivial
comprenant � la fois des pr�sentations  techniques, des conf�rences invit�es
et des tables rondes.

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

CALENDRIER

               Date limite de soumission : 10 Septembre 1999
                Notification aux auteurs : 15 Octobre 1999
                          Version finale : 10 D�cembre 1999
                              Conf�rence : 9-11 Mars 2000

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

TH�MES

Les th�mes  de la conf�rence concernent l'application  des outils et mod�les
de la statistique aux domaines suivants :

   * Analyse exploratoire de donn�es textuelles
   * Analyse du discours
   * Traitement automatique du langage
   * Analyse statistique de r�ponses � des questions ouvertes
   * Analyse bibliom�trique et statistique textuelle
   * Stylom�trie
   * Dictionnaires de fr�quences
   * Lemmatisation
   * Corpus de textes et repr�sentations textuelles
   * Classification de textes
   * Recherche documentaire
   * Hypertexte
   * Logiciels pour l'analyse lexicale et textuelle

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

COMIT� DE PROGRAMME

 Monica B�cue     Univ. Polytechnique de Catalogne
 Sergio Bolasco   Univ. de Rome 'La Sapienza'
 �tienne Brunet   Univ. de Nice/Sophia-Antipolis
 Yadolah Dodge    Univ. de Neuch�tel
 Annibale Elia    Univ. de Salerno
 Benoit Habert    ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud
 R�mi Jolivet     Univ. de Lausanne
 Dominique Labb�  Univ. de Grenoble
 Ludovic Lebart   CNRS, ENST Paris
 Alain Lelu       Univ. Paris 8
 Sylvie Mellet    CNRS, Nice
 Charles Muller   Univ. de Strasbourg
 Martin Rajman    EPF Lausanne
 Max Reinert      CNRS Toulouse
 Jacques Rouault  CRISTAL Grenoble 3
 Andr� Salem      Univ. Paris 3

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COMIT� D'ORGANISATION

 Martin Rajman           EPF Lausanne
 Marie Decrauzat         EPF Lausanne
 Jean-C�dric Chappelier  EPF Lausanne

Cette conf�rence  est   organis�e    par   le   Laboratoire   d'Intelligence
Artificielle de  l'EPFL (Lausanne, Suisse)  avec  le soutient  de  EuroStat,
Quantos et la Soci�t� Fran�aise de Statistique.

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LANGUES AUTORIS�ES POUR LES PR�SENTATIONS

Les pr�sentations pourront se faire dans l'une des langues suivantes :

               Fran�ais, Anglais, Allemand, Italien, Espagnol

Toutes les  communications devront cependant comporter  un r�sum�  (�crit et
oral) en anglais.

Comme lors des   pr�c�dents  colloques, aucune  traduction  simultan�e n'est
pr�vue.

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

MODALIT�S DE SOUMISSION

Les articles soumis  � cette conf�rence devront  d�crire un travail original
et novateur  ayant fait l'objet  d'une �valuation.  Toutes les contributions
devront  contenir  un �tat de  l'art   et/ou des   r�f�rences � des  travaux
ant�rieurs pertinents.  Si le travail   pr�sent� n'a pas fait  l'objet d'une
�valuation, les auteurs devront le  justifier.  Les  auteurs sont convi�s  �
inclure dans leurs papiers des propositions, discussions, argumentations sur
l'ad�quation de leur travail avec les th�mes de la conf�rence.

Les participants souhaitant soumettre un papier ou un poster doivent envoyer
au comit�  (adresse  ci-dessous) avant le  10 Septembre  1999, les  �l�ments
suivants :

   * Noms, affiliations et adresses compl�tes (+fax, email) des auteurs
   * Titre
   * Mots cl�s
   * Un r�sum� en anglais (300 mots maximum)
   * Version abr�g�e (3  pages minimum, 4 pages  maximum) de la contribution
     pr�sentant les grandes lignes du travail, les  probl�mes trait�s et les
     r�sultats obtenus
   * R�f�rences bibliographiques

Les notifications d'acceptation  seront  envoy�es aux auteurs le  15 Octobre
1999.

La version finale de la contribution (8 pages max.) devra �tre r�dig�e selon
les r�gles de  formatage    qui seront pr�cis�es ult�rieurement    et  devra
parvenir au comit� (adresse ci-dessous) au plus tard le 10 D�cembre 1999.

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

PR�SENTATIONS ORALES

La   dur�e de chacune   des   pr�sentations orales ne   devra  pas  d�passer
20 minutes.

Il sera possible  d'utiliser une tablette  de r�troprojection pour pr�senter
les bases  de donn�es et  les logiciels "en  direct". Une connexion Internet
pourra �tre fournie aux orateurs qui le d�sirent.

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

ACTES

La   totalit� des contributions   sera rassembl�e  et  �dit�e  sous la forme
d'actes qui   seront distribu�s  �  tous  les participants  au  d�but  de la
conf�rence.

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

HEBERGEMENT

La gestion des h�bergements est prise en  compte par l'office de tourisme de
la  ville de Lausanne, � contacter  directement sous r�f�rence ORG/JADT 2000
� :
Office du tourisme -- Case postale 49 -- CH-1000 Lausanne 6 (Suisse)
T�l : + 41 21 613.73.21
Fax : + 41 21 616.86.47
Email : wandfluh at lausanne-tourisme.ch}
Web : http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/

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

CONTACT / ADRESSE

JADT 2000
Martin Rajman
EPFL
DI-LIA
IN (Ecublens)
CH-1015 Lausanne
Suisse

 T�l :  +41 21 693 27 35
 Fax :  +41 21 693 52 25
 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch
 Web :  http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000

 ===========================================================================

BULLETIN DE PR�-INSCRIPTION

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

Bulletin de pr�-inscription � envoyer �

	 JADT 2000
	 Martin RAJMAN
	 EPFL
	 DI-LIA
	 IN (Ecublens)
	 CH-1015 Lausanne
	 Suisse

L'inscription d�finitive aura lieu � r�ception du payement (dont les
modalit�s sont pr�cis�es ci-dessous)

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

NOM         :
PRENOM      :
INSTITUTION :
ADRESSE     :


TELEPHONE   :
FAX         :
EMAIL       :

ADRESSE DE FACTURATION (si diff�rente de la pr�c�dente) :



PARTICIPATION / SOUMISSION :
	[ ] PRESENTATION ORALE      [ ] POSTER        [ ] PAS DE PRESENTATION

DEMONSTRATION :
	      [ ] OUI		[ ] NON

LANGUE POUR LA PRESENTATION :
  [ ] FRANCAIS    [ ] ANGLAIS    [ ] ALLEMAND    [ ] ITALIEN    [ ] ESPAGNOL

INSCRIPTION :
	      [ ] ETUDIANT 	[ ] REDUIT     [ ] NORMAL
   Tarif Etudiant : 150 CHF (env.  93 Euros), Fournir une pi�ce justificative
   Tarif R�duit   : 300 CHF (env. 186 Euros), Inscription AVANT LE 10 DECEMBRE
   Tarif Normal   : 375 CHF (env. 233 Euros), Inscription APRES le 10 decembre

MODE DE PAYEMENT ENVISAGE :
     [ ] VIREMENT BANCAIRE
         au compte num�ro 0243/270'685.01X de la banque
	 UBS Lausanne - EPFL - Ecublens - CH-1015 Lausanne
	 adresse swift UBSWCHGG10A

     [ ] CARTE VISA          [ ] CARTE EUROCARD/MASTERCARD
     Num�ro :
     Expire le :
     Nom sur la carte :
     Date et Signature :


Les  frais d'inscription comprennent  :  l'inscription � la conf�rence,  les
pauses caf� et (sauf pour les �tudiants) les repas de midi et les actes.

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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jul 30 09:05:17 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:05:17 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC-2000
Message-ID: <FRI.30.JUL.1999.100517.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>


[Sorry if you receive multiple copies]


***** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS *******

  The European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute
  for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and
  the National Technical University of Athens, Greece are pleased to
  announce:

  The 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
  (LREC2000)

  (The detailed announcement is available on the web at:
   http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html)

  Location: Athens, Greece
  Dates:   31 May - 2 June 2000


  The Second International Conference on Language Resources and
  Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organised in cooperation
  with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA,
  ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA,
  EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with major
  national and international organisations, including the European
  Commission - DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 HTRDP Project (China),
  the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the ICSP
  Permanent Committee (Korea), The Natural Language Technical
  committee of JEIDA (Japan),  and the Japanese Project for
  International Coordination in Corpora, Assessment and Labelling.
  Cooperation and support from other institutions is currently being
  sought.


  CONFERENCE AIMS

  In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character
  of human language technologies (HLT) and their relevance to all
  the fields of Information Society Technologies (IST) has been
  widely recognised.

  Two issues are currently considered to be particularly relevant:
   1) the availability of language resources and
   2) the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and
       products.
  Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing
  these issues through international cooperation.

  The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language
  data and descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically
  for building and evaluating natural language and speech algorithms
  or systems, for software localisation industries and language
  services, for language enabled information and communication
  services, for electronic commerce, electronic publishing, language
  studies, subject-area specialists and end users.

  Examples of language resources are written and spoken corpora,
  computational lexica, grammars, terminology databases, and
  basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection,
  management, customisation and use of these and other resources.

  The relevance of evaluation for Language Engineering is increasingly
  recognised. This involves assessment of the state of the art for a
  given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a
  programme, comparing different approaches to a given problem and
  choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks,
  assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application,
  product benchmarking, and assessment of user satisfaction.

  Language engineering and R&D in language technologies have
  made important advances in the recent past in various aspects of
  both written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation
  paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international
  programmes, including the US ARPA HLT programme, the EU LE
  programme Francophone Aupelf-Uref programme and others, and in the
  localisation industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial
  unresolved basic research problems.

  The aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the state of
  the art, to discuss problems and opportunities, and to exchange
  information regarding ongoing and planned activities, language
  resources and their applications.  We also intend to discuss
  evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, and
  explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international
  cooperation in the areas mentioned above.


  CONFERENCE TOPICS

  The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics
  which could be addressed by papers submitted to LREC2000:

  I. Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages
    Resources (LR) (theoretical & best practice):

   * Guidelines, standards, specifications, and models for LR
   * Organisational issues in the construction, distribution, and
      use of LR
   * Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation,
     annotation, management, access, distribution, and use of LR
   * Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access, and
     use of LR
   * Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR
   * Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge
     (e.g. terms, lexical information, language modelling) from LR
   * Monolingual and multilingual LR
   * Multimodal and multimedia LR
   * LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia
     cultural industry
   * Industrial production and use of LR
   * Integration of various modalities in LR (spoken, visual, gestual,
      textual)
   * Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (language
     technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic
     commerce, etc.)
   * Industrial LR requirements and the community's response
   * Analysis of user needs for LR
   * Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing
   * Economics of LR
   * Customisation and use of LR
   * Research issues relevant for LR

  II. Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation:

   * Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR
   * Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for
     benchmarking and evaluation
   * Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval,
     terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment,
     machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing,
     semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding,
     summarisation, localisation, etc.)
   * Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition
     and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis,
     speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc.)
   * Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line
     and off-line machine and hand-written character recognition, etc.)
   * Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems
   * Evaluation of multimodal systems
   * Qualitative and perceptive evaluation
   * Evaluation of products and applications
   * Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems
   * Situated evaluation of applications
   * Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
   * From evaluation to standardisation of LR
   * Research issues relevant to evaluation

  III. General issues:

   * National and international activities and projects
   * LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia
     cultural industry
   * Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national
     and international policies
   * Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international
     cooperation


  The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, presentations of
  accepted papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations and panels.

  Pre-Conference Workshops will be organized on the 29th and 30th of
  May and post-Conference Workshops on the 3rd and 4th of June 2000.

  Please consult the conference Web site
  (http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html) for complete
  information about submission guidelines, contact people, submission
  dates, various conference committees and members, and other
  general information.


  IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

  * 20 NOVEMBER 1999:
    Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos,
    panels and workshops
  * 10 DECEMBER 1999:
    Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals
  * 2 FEBRUARY 2000:
    Notification of acceptance of papers, posters, referenced demos
  * 2 APRIL 2000:
    Final version of the articles for the proceedings
  * 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000:
    Conference

  CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

  Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy
  George Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing,
    Athens, Greece
  Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France
  Harald H�ge, Siemens, Munich, Germany
  Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
  Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (Conference chair)


  For general information about the conference, please contact:

  LREC Secretariat: Ms. Despina Scutari
  Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
  6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str.
  15125 Marousi, Athens, GREECE
  Tel: +301 6800959 ; Fax: +301 6854270
  e-mail:  LREC2000 at ilsp.gr
  LREC2000 website:
  http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html


  For general information about ELRA, please contact:

  Khalid CHOUKRI
  55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin
  75013 Paris  FRANCE
  Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
  e-mail: choukri at elda.fr
  http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html






=================================================
Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)  &
European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA)
(Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques)
55, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013   Paris   FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30
mailto:jeff at elda.fr
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jul 30 09:05:18 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:05:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: RIAO-2000
Message-ID: <FRI.30.JUL.1999.100518.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: masson at limsi.fr (Nicolas Masson)

This message is posted to several lists. We apologize if you receive multiple
copies.


				RIAO 2000

		Content-Based Multimedia Information Access

				Paris, France

				April 2000


			Preliminary Announcement

				__________
			
Organized by:

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


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


Introduction

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Applications:

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



Call for Papers



The papers will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee.


RIAO 2000 International Scientific Committee (preliminary list, as of July 15,
1999) :

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

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



Call for Applications



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


RIAO 2000 International Application Committee (preliminary list, as of July 15,
1999) :

Chair: Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox, France)

Marie-Francoise Clergeau (College de France, France)
Daniel Confland (Jouve, France)
Max Copperman (Kanisa, USA)
Giorgio Dimino (RAI, Italy)
Pascal Faudemay (LIP6, France)
Michael Horowitz (Claritech, USA)
Hitoshi Iida (Sony Speech & Language Laboratory, Japan)
Hans-Joachim Novak (IBM, Germany)
Norbert Paquel (Canope, France)
Sylvie Regnier-Prost (Aerospatiale-Matra, France)
Remi Ronfard (INA, France)
Antonio Sanfilippo (EC, Luxembourg)
Laurent Schmitt (INIST-CNRS, France)
Vera Semenova (Sciper/Analit, Russia)
Joop Van Gent (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)




The RIAO 2000 Conference is organized by:

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

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

and

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

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

Contacts:

Email: riao2000 at limsi.fr

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


Organizing and Coordinating Committee:

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


Calendar:

* Preliminary announcement: July 1999
* Call for Papers & Demonstrations: September 15, 1999
* Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999
* Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999
* Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000
* Final Program: January 25, 2000
* Conference: April 2000 (exact final dates to be announced)



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


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Position:

Organization:

Mail address:



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EMAIL:

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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jul 30 09:05:20 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:05:20 +0100
Subject: Projet: Evaluation (AUF)
Message-ID: <FRI.30.JUL.1999.100520.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Christophe Jouis <jouis at univ-lille3.fr>


____________________________
N'HESITEZ PAS A REDIFFUSER CE MESSAGE-------------------------------------

ARC A3 : Evaluation des syst�mes de construction de terminologie et de
relations s�mantiques entre
termes

***** Appel � participation *********

L'ARC A3 est une Action de Recherche Concert�e financ�e par l'AUF
(Association des Universites Francophones,
ex -Aupelf-Uref). Ce projet cherche � "promouvoir l'�laboration de corpus
et de proc�dures d'�valuation
concernant le fran�ais, pour permettre � la recherche de progresser et au
domaine de se doter d'instruments
de mesure rendant possible une comparaison objective des diff�rentes
approches". D'autre part il vise
� favoriser le d�veloppement des syst�mes et permettre une meilleure
visibilit� de l'offre.
La premi�re phase de ce projet (1995-1998) a permis de constituer une
premi�re s�rie de corpus, d'�tablir
des protocoles de tests et d'effectuer une premi�re campagne de tests.

Le pr�sent appel � participation pour le second cycle du projet ARC A3
(1999-2000) s'adresse � des
�quipes de recherche et � des industriels (qu'ils soient francophones ou
non), disposant de syst�me(s)
de construction de terminologie et/ou  de relations s�mantiques entre
termes traitant au moins le fran�ais.
Les 8 syst�mes qui ont �t� test�s lors de la premi�re phase ont
difff�rentes fonctionnalit�s et fournissent
diff�rentes sorties :
termes (ordonn�s), r�seaux grammaticaux, classes de termes, graphes
s�mantiques... L'�valuation a �t�
essentiellement qualitative,  et a �t�  effectu�e par les experts sur la
base de l'analyse de
l'utilisabilit� de l'information procur�e par le syst�me.

Nous avons distingu� 3 cat�gories non disjointes de syst�mes :
1. Syst�mes d'extraction de candidats-termes : ils se fondent sur une
analyse syntaxique et statistique ;
2. Syst�mes " classifieurs ", c'est-�-dire construisant des classes de
termes qui co-occurrent de mani�re
   r�guli�re dans les textes. Ces syst�mes se fondent soit sur une analyse
syntaxique et statistique soit
   sur des approches num�riques pures ;
3. Syst�mes d'extraction de relations s�mantiques. Ces syst�mes utilisent
une approche statistique ou une
   approche linguistique par exploration contextuelle.

Les terminologies ont ete �valu�es suivant deux objectifs :
1. indexation ;
2. couverture du domaine.

DEROULEMENT DU SECOND CYCLE (1999-2000)

Aucun financement n'est pr�vu pour cette participation, mais le
b�n�fice pour ces �quipes de recherche et industriels sera multiple :
* disposer, dans le cadre du projet, d'un ensemble de corpus de documents,
de questions d'utilisateurs
  et
  de r�ponses "justes",
* b�n�ficier d'une structure d'�change et de r�flexion gr�ce � la
participation de concepteurs et
  d'utilisateurs de syst�mes,
* la possibilit� d'int�gration de syst�mes, tirant avantage de la nature
compl�mentaire des r�sultats
  issus des diff�rents syst�mes,
* b�n�ficier de la visibilit� induite par la participation au projet.

Le corpus est propos� par l'INRA (Institut National de Recherche en
Agronomie). Il est constitu�
d'articles dans le domaine des biotechnologies. Plusieurs "sp�cialistes" de
l'INRA (documentalistes,
indexeurs, terminologues travaillant dans le domaine) sont prets � �valuer
les resultats.

Calendrier :

--Septembre 99
S�lection et notification des candidats externes
Premier corpus d�entra�nement sur le corpus de l�INRA et un autre corpus
�ventuellement
--Octobre 99 : corpus �tiquet� (avec le logiciel SYLEX d'INGENIA)
--Janvier 2000
Premi�re session r�elle sur le corpus de l�INRA et un autre corpus
�ventuellement
--Avril 2000
R�union de mise au point : analyse des r�sultats, raffinement des mesures
Publication des r�sultats en ��interne��
Mise en place d�finitive de la m�thodologie
-- Septembre 2000
Deuxi�me session r�elle et d�finitive sur le corpus de l��INRA et un autre
corpus �ventuellement
-- D�cembre 2000 : publication des r�sultats en vue des JST (Journees
Scientifiques et Techniques,
colloque organis� par le r�seau FRANCIL et l'AUF).

---------------
Pour tout compl�ment d'information, vous pouvez nous contacter � l'adresse
�lectronique suivante :
jouis at univ-lille3.fr.

(Christophe Jouis
 IDIST
 Equipe organisatrice ARC A3
 Universite CHARLES-DE-GAULLE - Lille 3
 BP 149
 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq FRANCE)


Pour signaler votre intention de participer, envoyez un message au plus
tard le 15 septembre 1999 �
jouis at univ-lille3.fr contenant les informations suivantes :

-Personne � contacter : ....................................
-Nom de l'organisme : .....................................
-Nom du syst�me propos� : .................................
-Cat�gorie du syst�me (extracteurs de terme, classifieur, extracteur de
relations semantiques).
-Description des fonctionnalit�s du syst�me (20 lignes).


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Thu Jul  1 23:01:55 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:01:55 +0100
Subject: Q: Ressources Linguistiques en Vietnamien
Message-ID: <FRI.2.JUL.1999.000155.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 20:53:39 +0200
From: Patrice Bonhomme <Patrice.Bonhomme at loria.fr>
Message-Id: <199907011853.UAA22170 at chimay.loria.fr>
X-url: http://www.loria.fr/~bonhomme


Bonjour,

Afin de pr?parer une th?se dont le sujet porte sur l'alignement multilingue
Fran?ais/Vietnamien, nous essayons de faire un recensement des ressources
linguistiques textuelles pour le Vietnamien existant sous format ?lectronique :

 - Lexique morpho-syntaxique et/ou dictionnaire
 - Corpus de textes vietnamiens avec si possible leur ?quivalent en Fran?ais

Merci pour toutes informations,

Pat.

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  bonhomme at loria.fr               |      Office : B.228
  http://www.loria.fr/~bonhomme   |      Phone  : 03 83 59 30 52
  --------------------------------------------------------------
   * Serveur Silfide  : http://www.loria.fr/projets/Silfide
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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Jul  5 07:07:56 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:07:56 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <MON.5.JUL.1999.080756.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: MARTEAU Pierre-Francois <marteau at bertin.fr>
   Subject: Proposition d'embauche / Job opportunity

2/ From:  "Jan van Sas" <Jan.van.Sas at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Several job openings at Sail Labs Belgium

3/ From: Malek Boualem <malek at crl.nmsu.edu>
   Subject: Proposition sujet these Parole + taln

4/ From:  Stephen Potter <Stephen.Potter at entropic.co.uk>
   Subject:  NLP/Dialog software engineer
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: MARTEAU Pierre-Francois <marteau at bertin.fr>
   Subject: Proposition d'embauche / Job opportunity


Proposition de poste en linguistique computationnelle

La societe Bertin Technologies, situee a Plaisir (78), France (pres de
Paris) recherche un informaticien specialise dans le traitement
automatique de la langue. Le profil recherche comprend, mais n'est pas
limite a :

* approches statistiques / probabilistes et symboliques du TALN
* Recherche documentaire
* Gestion de bases de donnees textuelles
* Reseaux Internet et Intranet

Requis :

* Doctorat en linguistique computationnelle ou dans un domaine lie
* Experience de programmation, Internet et Intranet, developpement
  de systemes d'information
* Expertise dans le traitement d'au moins une langue en plus du
  francais
* Citoyen francais

Salaire : selon experience

Envoyez votre CV par un des moyens suivant :

* e-mail:       znaty at bertin.fr
* fax:  33 1 34 81 87 43        attn: Elie Znaty
* mail: Elie Znaty
        Bertin Technologies
        59, rue pierre Curie, BP3
        78 373 Plaisir cedex


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Career Opportunity for a Computational Linguist:

Bertin technologies, located in Plaisir (78), France, (near Paris) seeks a
computational linguist.  Relevant backgrounds include, but are not
restricted to the following:

* Statistical / probabilistic and symbolic NLP approaches
* Information retrieval
* Textual Data Base management
* Internet and intranet networking

Requirements:

* Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or related field
* Work experience involving computer programming, Internet and Intranet
  information systems developement
* Expertise in at least one language in addition to French
* French citizenship

Pay: commensurate with experience.

Send your CV by one of the following methods:

* e-mail:       znaty at bertin.fr
* fax:  33 1 34 81 87 43        attn: Elie Znaty
* mail: Elie Znaty
        Bertin Technologies
        59, rue pierre Curie, BP3
        78 373 Plaisir cedex

_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  "Jan van Sas" <Jan.van.Sas at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Several job openings at Sail Labs Belgium



SAIL LABS
Speech, Artificial Intelligence, and Language
- Innovation in Understanding -

Sail Labs is responsible for long-term research and development of natural
language technologies and solutions in Speech, Artificial Intelligence, and
Translation Technology for Lernout & Hauspie.
Sail Labs is a Lernout & Hauspie spin-off. Its team has a +10-year track record
in R&D of linguistic technology applications.
Sail Labs has offices in Antwerp, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, and Vienna.

The Sail Labs office in Antwerp, Belgium is expanding its activities rapidly and
 is looking for:

LINGUISTS AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS
Job responsibilities: You design, develop, and test linguistic models and rules
for a variety of technologies and applications.
Requirements: You have a university degree in Linguistics and experience working
 with computers. An additional degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer
Science, or experience in software development are a definite plus.

EXPERTS - RESEARCHERS
Job responsibilities: You contribute to all development requiring expertise in
one or more of the following fields:
. semantics and ontologies
. machine learning and expert systems
. statistics
. Japanese linguistics
Requirements: You have a university degree in Computer Science or Linguistics,
with relevant postgraduate R&D experience.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS
Job responsibilities: You design and implement solutions, interfaces,
components, and supporting tools. You solve highly complex problems where data
analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of many factors.
Requirements: You have a degree in Computer Science and several years of
development experience in C++. You have strong OO and logic skills. You have a
thorough knowledge of the Win32 or Unix development environment. Experience with
 Java, JavaScript, CGI, and Client/Server are a plus.

QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEERS
Job responsibilities: You develop and execute quality assurance procedures, and
assist developers in applying them.
Requirements: You have a degree in Computer Science and/or a proven track record
 in quality assurance.

NETWORK AND SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Job responsibilities: You manage, upgrade, maintain, and support the desktops
and network infrastructure (hardware and software) for the entire site.
Requirements: You have a degree in Computer Science and/or a proven track record
 in system administration.

Sail Labs requires effective communicatino skills in spoken and written English
for all positions.
Sail Labs Belgium offers a very competitive salary and benefits package, a great
 working environment, and the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of the
language industry.

If this appeals to you, please send/fax/e-mail your CV to:

Ilse Verbruggen
Sail Labs Belgium
Coveliersstraat 15
B-2600 Antwerpen, Belgium
Tel: +32-3-287.64.50
Fax: +32-3-287.64.88
E-mail: ilse.verbruggen at lhs.be (soon also: ilse.verbruggen at saillabs.be)

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Malek Boualem <malek at crl.nmsu.edu>
   Subject: Proposition sujet these Parole + taln


Domaine : "Informatique"

                     Date de depot : Des maintenant
                     Date Limite de reponse : Septembre 99
                     Type de poste :  THESE
                     Duree : 3 ans
                     Remuneration : ~ 12000 F brut/mois
                     Lieu de travail : CNET Lannion
                     Cabinet de recrutement : non

                     Personne a contacter : Thierry MOUDENC

                       Poste exerce par la personne a contacter :
Ing?nieur
de Recherche
                       Adresse :        France T?l?com  CNET/DIH/DIPS
                                2 Avenue Pierre MARZIN
                                22 307 LANNION CEDEX
                       Tel : 02 96 05 16 59
                       e-mail :  thierry.moudenc at cnet.francetelecom.fr

                     Description :

Dans le cadre de ces activit?s de recherches en Synth?se de Parole ?
partir
du Texte et en Traitement Automatique de la Langue Naturelle, le CNET
(Centre National d'Etudes des T?l?communications) propose une bourse de
th?se sur le sujet suivant :


SUJET DE THESE :
La qualit? d'un syst?me de synth?se automatique de la parole ? partir du

texte est naturellement conditionn?e par l'aptitude du syst?me ?
produire
une forme vocalis?e du texte d'entr?e compr?hensible par un ?tre humain.
Les
progr?s r?alis?s au cours de ces derni?res ann?es font que les syst?mes
actuels (du niveau de l'?tat de l'art) permettent de produire un signal
acoustique de bonne qualit?. On entend par cela une qualit? jug?e
suffisante
pour que la technologie soit d?ploy?e ? grande ?chelle dans un cadre de
d?veloppement de services. Les progr?s potentiels restent cependant
vastes
et un effort doit en particulier ?tre r?alis? concernant l'analyse du
texte
d'entr?e.
On peut distinguer 3 grandes classes de probl?mes sous-jacents ?
l'analyse
du texte d'entr?e :
        - l'analyse lexicale, incluant la r?solution de sigles,
d'abr?viations, ...
        - l'analyse grammaticale, avec l'utilisation concurrente de
grammaires
          sp?cifiques,
        - l'analyse s?mantique, qui doit permettre de lever les
ambigu?t?s
r?siduelles en
          se basant sur le sens port? par le texte.
Le sujet de th?se propos? porte sur l'utilisation int?gr?e de ces
diff?rentes classes d'analyse dans le but de produire, ? partir du texte

d'entr?e, la forme de surface la mieux adapt?e ? la probl?matique
sous-jacente ? l'utilisation d'un syst?me de synth?se de parole. On se
concentrera en particulier sur l'apport potentiel que peut repr?senter
une
analyse th?matique, vue ici comme une forme fl?chie d'analyse s?mantique

bas?e sur une classification en th?mes des mots du lexique. Diff?rentes
approches d'int?gration devront ?tre ?tudi?es et un formalisme global
devra
?tre d?fini. La validation des travaux sera envisag?e dans le contexte
applicatif de la lecture vocale de messages ?lectroniques.

MOTS CLES :
Synth?se de Parole,
TALN,
Apprentissage automatique


_______________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Stephen Potter <Stephen.Potter at entropic.co.uk>
   Subject:  NLP/Dialog software engineer


NLP/Dialog software engineer
http://www.entropic.com

Entropic Ltd is seeking software engineers to work on the development
of spoken dialogue tools and systems. The position will involve
rendering web-based dialogs using speech recognition and synthesis
technology to produce natural human-computer interactions. Successful
applicants will develop web browsing techniques to handle dialogs
specified on Internet pages and contribute to the design and
implementation of voice mark-up languages.

Candidates should have a good honours degree or equivalent in a
relevant subject, good communication skills and a confirmed interest
in speech recognition, NLP or Internet applications. Experience of
system software development, preferably using C/C++, internet
protocols and scripting using Javascript or Tcl are all desirable.

The post will be based in Cambridge, UK. Company benefits include an
employee share option scheme, permanent health insurance, private
medical insurance, pension plan and life insurance.

Interested candidates should send CV and application letter to:

Helen Alvey
Entropic Ltd
Compass House
80-82 Newmarket Road
Cambridge, CB5 8DZ
alvey at entropic.co.uk
Fax: 01223 324560


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Jul  5 07:07:59 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:07:59 +0100
Subject: Appel: Journal TAL
Message-ID: <MON.5.JUL.1999.080759.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Christian Jacquemin <jacquemin at limsi.fr>


Journal T.A.L.: Call for Submissions

         Information Retrieval-oriented Natural Language Processing

                   Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999

           Issue coordinated by Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI, Orsay)

           http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-ri.en.html

Theme
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Because  of  the recent  growth  of  electronic data  available through  the
Internet  or  digital  libraries,  information  access has  become  a  major
scientific  issue.  Evaluation  conferences  in information  retrieval  have
promoted the development of search engines and indexing techniques over very
large text databases.

In such  a favorable context, several  factors have promoted the convergence
of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR):

   * New NLP techniques have been designed. They allow for efficient
     processing of large-scale textual data from various sources.
   * Fine NLP techniques for automatic indexing and document handling have
     lead to precision and recall rates higher than traditional text
     simplification techniques.
   * Evaluation conferences such as TREC (IR) or MUC (Information
     Extraction) have promoted interdisciplinary projects with researchers
     from NLP and IR, leading to fruitful interdisciplinary cooperations.
   * The emergence of new paradigms in NLP has raised new scientific issues
     and offered new experimental fields in Computational Linguistics.

Topics of interest (this list is not restrictive)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The topics of interest include:

   * morphological analysis, rule- or dictionary-based stemming,
   * robust and partial parsing for IR,
   * large-scale semantic disambiguation for IR,
   * automatic acquisition of semantic knowledge, automatic thesaurus
     construction for IR,
   * computer-aided construction of large-scale linguistic resources for IR,
   * recycling of IR data, such as thesauri, for IR-oriented NLP,
   * automatic indexing or abstracting,
   * automatic classification and routing, document categorization,
   * integration of linguistic components in IR-oriented NLP applications,
   * specification and evaluation of IR-oriented NLP systems,
   * computational terminology as a means for building resources for
     IR-oriented NLP.

Papers may focus on other topics in NLP provided that they address issues on
their  application to  IR (wrt  to automatic indexing,  text simplification,
query/document   pairing,    query   expansion,    text   segmentation   and
classification, etc).

Format
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Papers  (30 pages  max,  Helvetica 12)  are accepted  in RTF  or Latex  + ps
formats. Latex style is can be downloaded from
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/tal.html.

Submissions formats  are available in  the issues of the  T.A.L. journal and
will be sent to the contributors upon request to Christian Jacquemin.

Language
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Submissions can be written in French or in English.

Submission of articles
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Papers are preferably submitted electronically:

     jacquemin at limsi.fr

or through hard copies at:

     Christian Jacquemin,
     LIMSI-CNRS,
     BP 133,
     91403 ORSAY,
     FRANCE

Submission deadlines
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The  submission  deadline is  November 1st, 1999 . If  you plan to  submit a
paper, please contact Christian Jacquemin before September 1st, 1999.

The  articles will be  reviewed by a  member of  the editorial board  and an
external reviewer specialized in IR-oriented NLP. Decisions of the editorial
board and  referees' reports will be  transmitted to the authors  before the
end of 1999.

The  final versions  of the accepted  papers will  be required for  February
15th, 2000 for a publication in summer 2000.

The Journal T.A.L.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

T.A.L. is the journal of the French association for Computational Linguistic
ATALA :  (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/ ).  Two issues  are published
every  year on various  topics in  Natural Language Processing.  The Journal
T.A.L. is distributed by the French publisher Klincksieck.

Editorial Board
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Editors:                       A. Abeill? (Universit? Paris 7)
                                Ph. Blache (LPL, CNRS)
                                B. Habert (ENS Fontenay-Saint Cloud)
 Members of the Editorial       J. Anis (Universit? Paris 10)
 Board:                         Ph. Blache (LPL, CNRS)
                                D. Cl?ment (Bergische Universit?t
                                Wuppertal)
                                A. Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail)
                                Ch. Dalessandro (LIMSI, Paris)
                                M. El-Beze (Universit? d'Avignon)
                                C. Gardent (Universit?t des Saarlandes)
                                Ch. Jacquemin (IRIN, Nantes)
                                J-L. Lebrave (CNRS, ITEM)
                                B. Victorri (ELSAP, Caen)
                                E. Tzoukermann (Bell Labs)
                                P. Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6)
 Scientific Committee:          M. Borillo (CNRS, P. Sabatier, Toulouse)
                                R. Carr? (ENST, Paris)
                                J-P. Descl?s (Universit? Paris IV)
                                C. Fuchs (CNRS, ENS Paris)
                                M. Gross (LADL, Paris 7)
                                F. Rastier (Paris 4)
                                W. von Hahn (Univ Hambourg)
                                Y. Wilks (Sheffield Univ)
                                A. Zaenen (Xerox Grenoble)
 Secretary:                     Jeanine Mary (UFRL Paris 7)

--
Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403 ORSAY, FRANCE
tel +33 (0)1 69 85 80 22 / fax -- 80 88    mailto:jacquemin at limsi.fr
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/jacquemi/  ftp://ftp.limsi.fr/pub/jacquemi/


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Jul  5 07:08:03 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:08:03 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLP for Biology
Message-ID: <MON.5.JUL.1999.080803.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: tatsu at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp



With Apologies for possible multiple deliveries of this message.

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

                    A call for paper in

             NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR BIOLOGY

                A special session within the
          Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2000
                    January 5-9, 2000
                    Honolulu, Hawaii

             http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/
         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/cfp-nlp.html

A large part of the information required for biology research can only be
found in free-text form, as in MEDLINE abstracts, or in comment fields
of relevant reports, as in GenBank feature table annotations. Such
information is important for many types of analysis, such as
classification of proteins into functional groups, discovery of new
functional relationships, maintaining information of material and
methods, increasing the precision and relevance of hits returned by
information retrieval systems, and so on.

However, information in free-text form or in comment fields is very
difficult for use by automated system. For example, annotation of
biological function of different proteins is a time-consuming process
currently performed by human experts because genome analysis tools
encounter great difficulty in performing this task. The ability to extract
information directly from MEDLINE abstracts and other sources can
directly help in such a task.

This special session provides an international forum for researchers
from the fields of natural language processing (NLP), information
extraction, and bioinformatics to present and exchange ideas and
results on this exciting emerging subject. We welcome technical papers
covering algorithms, techniques, and applications. We particularly
encourage submissions describing systems that

 - use NLP means to extract keywords, gene names, protein names,
   biological materials and methods, protein interactions, functions,
   etc.

 - demonstrate novel natural language-based applications in biology

Also, NLP technologies sometimes contribute to analyzing genomic
sequences. Their grammar-class varies from regular to context
sensitive (or even higher) according to how precise we define their
structure. Which classes and parsing technologies are appropriate for
searching functional sites or genes is still an open question. Thus we
also welcome original papers describing how NLP techniques have
brought break-throughs in genomic sequence analysis.

Session co-chairs

 - Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, University of Tokyo, Japan
 - Limsoon Wong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore

Submission information:

  Submissions are due     12 July 1999
  Decisions are announced 27 August 1999
  Camera ready copy due   22 September 1999

All papers must be submitted to altman at smi.stanford.edu in electronic
format. The file formats we accept are: postscript (*.ps), adobe acrobat
(*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be
named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.ps,
altman.pdf, or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX
or LATEX files will be rejected without review.

Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter
must state the following:

 - The email address of the corresponding author
 - The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract
 - The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is
   not currently under consideration elsewhere.
 - All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper.

Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication
format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at
ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb. If figures can not be easily
resized and placed precisely in the text, then it should be clear that
with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would be
within the page limit. Color pictures can be printed at the expense of
the authors. The fee is $500 per page of color pictures, payable at the
time of camera ready submission.

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

Tatsuhiko TSUNODA, Ph.D.
Human Genome Center,
Institute of Medical Science,
University of Tokyo
4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku,
Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
TEL: +81-3-5449-5614
FAX: +81-3-5449-5434
WWW: http://www.hgc.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tatsu
E-mail: tatsu at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Jul  5 07:08:04 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:08:04 +0100
Subject: Conf: ICoS-1
Message-ID: <MON.5.JUL.1999.080804.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Christof Monz <christof at wins.uva.nl>



                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                       First workshop on

              INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
                            ICoS-1

                http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/


          Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
                    Amsterdam, August 15, 1999

          (Early registration deadline: August 1, 1999)


Endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics.


ABOUT ICoS
Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model
builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely
and easily available.  In addition, a wide variety of new tools
(statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine
learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in
computational semantics for natural language.  Indeed, computational
semantics has reached the stage where the exploration and development
of inference is one of its most pressing tasks --- and there's a lot
of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously.

The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1)
intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational
Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in
order to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural
language semantics.

PROGRAM
The following people will give invited presentations:

  * Johan Bos (Saarbruecken)
    Automated Reasoning for Natural Language Semantics

  * Steve Pulman (Cambridge and SRI International)
    Bidirectional Contextual Resolution

  * Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
    Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and
    Instructions

In addition, 7 research papers and some implementations will be
presented

  * P. Baumgartner and M. Kuehn
    Abducing Coreference by Model Construction

  * G. Bierner and B. Webber
    Inference through Alternative-Set Semantics

  * M. Gabsdil and K. Striegnitz
    Classifying Scope Ambiguities (System Description)

  * C. Gardent and K. Konrad
    Definites and the Proper Treatment of Rabbits

  * A. Holt, E. Klein and C. Grover
    Natural Language for Hardware Verification: Semantic
    Interpretation and Model Checking (System Description)

  * J. Jaspars
    Structural Logics for Reasoning with Underspecified
    Representations

  * A. Kaplan
    Reason Maintenance in a Hybrid Reasoning System

  * B. Ludwig
    An Inference-Based Approach to the Interpretation of Discourse

  * A. Ramsay and H. Seville
    Models and Discourse Models

The program committee for ICoS-1 consists of the following people:

   James Allen                     Alex Lascarides
   Patrick Blackburn               Christof Monz
   Denys Duchier                   Reinhard Muskens
   Jan van Eijck                   Manfred Pinkal
   Claire Gardent                  Maarten de Rijke
   Jacques Jayez                   Len Schubert
   Aravind Joshi                   Henk Zeevat
   Michael Kohlhase

LOCATION
ICoS-1 will be held at the Institute for Logic, Language and
Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam during the 11th European
Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99), which
will be held in Utrecht, approximately 30 km from Amsterdam.  More
information on the ILLC including instructions how to get there can be
found at http://www.illc.uva.nl/ContactsandLinks/

REGISTRATION
Until August 1, the registration fee for ICoS-1 is 50 Dutch
guilders. After August 1, the fee is 100 Dutch guilders. The
registration fee includes the conference package and lunch.

To register, please go to:

  http://www.illc.uva.nl/~christof/ICoS-1/registration.html

or fill out the form attached to this message and send it to

  icos1 at wins.uva.nl


As it is very hard to get accommodation in Amsterdam during the
summer, it is imperative that you start looking for accommodation
now. If you are attending ESSLLI'99, you can take the train to
Amsterdam which takes approximately 30 minutes. More information on
finding accommodation in Amsterdam will be made available on the
ICoS-1 home page.

FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact the local organizers at
icos1 at wins.uva.nl or visit the ICoS-1 home page:
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/


*****************************************************************
                      ICoS-1 Registration Form
*****************************************************************


First name:

Last name:

Email:

Phone:

Fax:

Preferred address:







Special requests:







I will join the conference dinner:

  [ ] yes
  [ ] no

The registration fee will be collected on the spot at ICoS-1.
We kindly ask you to pay in cash.



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



--

Christof Monz  | A: ILLC Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam,  The
Netherlands | R: 326 (3rd floor) | P: +31 20 525 6095 | F: +31 20 525 5101
E: christof at wins.uva.nl | W: www.illc.uva.nl/~christof


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul  7 09:53:20 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:53:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: TAL (Noms Propres)
Message-ID: <WED.7.JUL.1999.105320.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Denis Maurel <maurel at univ-tours.fr>

Call for Papers: English version, see below



Appel a publication :
*********************

		Le traitement automatique des Noms propres

				Revue TAL
			      numero 2000-3

		Editeurs : Denis Maurel et Franz Guenthner

L'Association pour le Traitement automatique des langues (l'Atala) a
organise le samedi 29 mai 1999 une journee d'etudes consacree au Traitement
automatique des Noms propres sous toutes ses formes. Cette journee a donne
lieu a de tres interessantes communications et sera suivie d'une
publication dans la revue TAL, numero 2000-3.

Cependant, cette publication ne reprendra pas systematiquement les
communications de la journee, mais fait l'objet d'un nouvel appel. Nous
invitons donc toute personne travaillant sur le sujet des noms propres,
dans une optique d'application au TAL, a nous envoyer une proposition de
publication. Celles-ci seront examinees par le comite de lecture habituel
de la revue et par nous-meme.

Nous souhaitons donc recevoir des propositions de communication sur le
sujet incluant, de maniere non limitative :

* La constitution de dictionnaires electroniques de noms propres

* Le traitement automatique de la morphologie des noms propres

* La reconnaissance et l'etiquetage automatique des noms propres dans un texte

* Les aspects computationnels de la syntaxe, de la semantique ou de la
pragmatique des noms propres

* L'analyse linguistique des noms propres (ou l'apports des travaux en TAL
sur ce point ? une analyse linguistique des noms propres)

* La recherche et l'extraction automatique d'informations a l'aide des noms
propres

* etc.

FORMAT
------
Le format des communications doit etre celui de la revue, disponible a la
fin d'un numero ou a :

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/normes.html

Les articles soumis n'exc?deront pas 30 pages en double interligne avec la
police Helvetica 12. Ils seront accept?s dans un des formats suivants :
RTF ou LaTeX + postscript. La feuille de style LaTeX est accessible ?
l'adresse suivante :

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/tal.html

Les textes sont a envoyer, par courrier electronique, pour la fin octobre,
a Denis Maurel (mailto: maurel at univ-tours.fr).

CALENDRIER
-----------
Date limite de soumission : 1er novembre 1999
Notification aux auteurs : janvier 1999
Version finale : 1er mai 2000

COMITE DE REDACTION
-------------------
Redacteurs en chef :		A. Abeille (Universite Paris 7)
				Ph. Blache (LPL, CNRS)
				B. Habert (ENS Fontenay-Saint
Cloud) Autres
membres du Comite de  		J. Anis (Universite Paris 10)
redaction :			D. Clement (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
				A. Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail)
				Ch. Dalessandro (LIMSI, Paris)
				M. El-Beze (Universit? d'Avignon)
				C. Gardent (Universitaet des Saarlandes)
				Ch. Jacquemin (IRIN, Nantes)
				J-L. Lebrave (CNRS, ITEM)
				B. Victorri (ELSAP, Caen)
				E. Tzoukermann (Bell Labs)
				P. Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6)

Comite scientifique :     	M. Borillo (CNRS, P. Sabatier, Toulouse)
				R. Carre (ENST, Paris)
				J-P. Descles (Universit? Paris IV)
				C. Fuchs (CNRS, ENS Paris)
				M. Gross (LADL, Paris 7)
				F. Rastier (Paris 4)
				W. von Hahn (Univ Hambourg)
				Y. Wilks (Sheffield Univ)
				A. Zaenen (Xerox Grenoble)

Secretaire de r?daction :       Jeanine Mary (UFRL Paris 7)

Denis Maurel
LI/E3i, Universite de Tours

Franz Guenthner
CIS, Universite de Munich

________________________________________________________________________________

Call for papers
***************

		Journal TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues)

	  Special issue on proper nouns in natural language processing

		Editors : Denis Maurel and Franz Guenthner


The Association pour le traitement automatique des langues (Atala)
(Association for language processing) organized a meeting on the treatment
of all forms of proper nouns in language processing on Saturday 29th May
1999.

Some papers from presentations given at the meeting will be published in the
journal TAL issue 2000-3. In addition, we would like to invite papers from
other researchers working on any aspect of the automated treatment of proper
nouns. Contribution are invited on the topics below as well as on other
related subjects:

* The construction of electronic dictionaries of proper names

* The morphological analysis of proper names

* The recognition and tagging of proper names in texts

* Computational aspect of the syntax, semantics or pragmatics of proper names

* Linguistic analysis of proper nouns

* Applications of the treatment of proper names to information retrieval,
information extraction, text mining

* etc.

FORMAT
------
The paper should be formatted following the journal guidelines. These are
spelled out at the end of a volume or at:

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/normes.html

Papers can be submitted in English and French. They not exceed 30 pages in
double interline in Helvetica 12. We accept RTF or LaTeX + postscript. The
latex style is avalaible at:

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/tal.html

Please send your text, by electronic mail, for the end of October to Denis
Maurel (mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr).

CALENDAR
--------
Submission deadline :   November 1st 1999
Notification to authors : Jannuary 1999
Final version due : May, 1st 2000

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
-------------------
Chief editors:			A. Abeille (Universite Paris 7)
				Ph. Blache (LPL, CNRS)
				B. Habert (ENS Fontenay-Saint Cloud)
Autres
members of Editorial       	J. Anis (Universite Paris 10)
Committee:     			D. Clement (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
                              	A. Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail)
				Ch. Dalessandro (LIMSI, Paris)
				M. El-Beze (Universit? d'Avignon)
				C. Gardent (Universitaet des Saarlandes)
				Ch. Jacquemin (IRIN, Nantes)
				J-L. Lebrave (CNRS, ITEM)
				B. Victorri (ELSAP, Caen)
				E. Tzoukermann (Bell Labs)
				P. Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6)
Scientific Committee:           M. Borillo (CNRS, P. Sabatier, Toulouse)
		                R. Carre (ENST, Paris)
				J-P. Descles (Universit? Paris IV)
				C. Fuchs (CNRS, ENS Paris)
				M. Gross (LADL, Paris 7)
				F. Rastier (Paris 4)
				W. von Hahn (Univ Hambourg)
				Y. Wilks (Sheffield Univ)
				A. Zaenen (Xerox Grenoble)
Sub-Editor:       		Jeanine Mary (UFRL Paris 7)



Denis Maurel
LI/E3i, Universite de Tours

Franz Guenthner
CIS, Universite de Munich



____________________________________
Denis Maurel
LI/E3i - Universite Francois Rabelais
64 avenue Jean-Portalis
37200 Tours
France
Tel. (33) 02.47.36.14.35
Telc. (33) 02.47.36.14.22
mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr
http://www.li.univ-tours.fr


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul  7 09:53:21 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:53:21 +0100
Subject: Appel: Evolang
Message-ID: <WED.7.JUL.1999.105321.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Conference Evolang <evolang at inf.enst.fr>




( Apologies for multiple copies )

CALL FOR PAPERS     [deadline: November 8, 1999]
===============


            =================================================
conference: T H E   E V O L U T I O N   O F   L A N G U A G E
            =================================================
            Paris April 3-6, 2000
            Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
            Paris - France
            http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/


ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University),
Dr. Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Professor Jim Hurford
(Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh),
Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of
East London), Professor Luc Steels (Sony CSL and Vrije
Universiteit Brussel).

LOCAL ORGANISATION: Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST), Laleh Ghadakpour (CREA),
Frederic Kaplan (Sony CSL), Luc Steels (Sony CSL),  Francois Yvon (ENST).


	This will be the third conference in a series concerned with the
	evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines,
	we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their
	perspectives with those of modern Darwinism.

	The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists,
	anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists,
	neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with
	the question of the origin and evolution of language.


CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
---------------------------

Frans B. M. de Waal (Emory University), Bernd Heine (Universitat zu Koln),
Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis University), Paul A. Mellars (University of
Cambridge), Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Georgia State University),
Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
--------------------

Jean Aitchison (Worcester College), Robert C. Berwick (M.I.T.),
Derek Bickerton (Univ. Hawai), Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory), Rene Carre (ENST), Bernard Comrie (University
of Southern California), Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST), Jean-Marie Hombert
(MSH Rhone-Alpes), James R. Hurford (University of Edinburgh), Michel Imbert
(Universite de Toulouse), Judy Kegl (University of Southern Maine),
Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh), Chris Knight (University of
East London), Andre Langaney (Musee de l'Homme), Frederick J. Newmeyer
(University of Washington), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Laboratories),
Luc Steels (Sony CSL & Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Bernard Victorri (Ecole
Normale Superieure, Paris).


Some of the issues that will be discussed are:

 origin of language
  ----------------

 . origin of phonetic abilities

 . origin of syntax

 . origin of symbolic representation semantic abilities

 . evolutionary significance of language, compatibility with natural selection

 . language and the origin of culture

 . chronology of the spread of mankind, and its relationship to language

 . the continuity/discontinuity of the language faculty with nonhuman
   communication systems.


 dynamics of language evolution
  ----------------------------

 . evolution of phonetic systems

 . evolution of the lexicon

 . evolution of grammar structures



Submission Instructions
=======================
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or short papers
(from 1 to 4 pages, max. 2000 words).
Submitted papers will be refereed and selected for oral presentation
(25/30 min) on the basis of quality and relevance to the Conference topics.

Accepted abstracts and papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings
and will be made accessible through the web. Copies of the proceedings
will be available at the Conference. Authors of accepted contributions
will be asked to submit full length papers for a volume to be published after
the Conference by an international publisher.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The deadline for submission is November 8th, 1999.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically
(MS Word preferred, but most formats will be recognised).

Please email your submission to evolang at infres.enst.fr
Don't forget to include the submission form (see below) in your message.

If you are planning to submit a paper or abstract, or if you simply
plan to attend the Conference, please send a mail to

	evolang at infres.enst.fr

You will be kept informed through e-mail of further useful information.


If you cannot send your submission through email, please send four copies
(and the submission form) to:

	J-L Dessalles
	ENST / Dep. InfRes
	46 rue Barrault
	F-75013 Paris - France



Submission Form
===============

[ The first author should fill in the submission form and e-mail
  it to evolang at infres.enst.fr ]


Last NAME :

First Name :

Laboratory :

Organization/Affiliation :

Street Address :

City :

Postal code:

State/Province :

Country :

E-mail address for correspondence :

Fax :

Paper title :



 ==========================================================================

Conference web site: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/
Call for papers:     http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/cfp.html
EMAIL: evolang at infres.enst.fr


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Thu Jul  8 15:33:44 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:33:44 +0100
Subject: Q: POS / Parse Annotation of the Hansards
Message-ID: <THU.8.JUL.1999.163344.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:10:12 -0400
From: "Keith J. Miller" <keith at mitre.org>
Message-Id: <003601bec8c5$7bfe52d0$3c681d80 at keith-nt.mitre.org>


I'm using the Hansard corpus (parallel French - English parliamentary
proceedings) for dissertation research on Machine Translation of
prepositions. I need both English and French data marked up with POS
and syntactic parse information.  My primary concern is PP
attachment, specifically with respect to distinguishing between
verbal complement PPs and adjunct PPs.

Can anyone recommend a POS tagger or parser for either language
or a source for marked up versions of the Hansards?

Please reply to me directly; I will summarize. Thank you, and I
hope everyone is enjoying their summer (or winter, as the case may be).


						-----  Keith J. Miller
						millerk at gusun.georgetown.edu
						Georgetown University
						Linguistics Department
						Computational Linguistics


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul 28 08:35:10 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:35:10 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <WED.28.JUL.1999.093510.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

________________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Malek Boualem <malek at crl.nmsu.edu
   Subject:  Job (assist. prof.) at Univ. Bielefeld

2/ From: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DSM/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr
   Subject: Job in CNET

3/ From: "Claudia Pateras" <pateras at nortelnetworks.com
   Subject: Jobs in Montreal: NLP and Discourse Management

4/ From: "Malek Boualem" <malekboualem at hotmail.com
   Subject: Job reconnaissance parole IBM Paris
________________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Malek Boualem <malek at crl.nmsu.edu
   Subject:  Job (assist. prof.) at Univ. Bielefeld


Applications are invited by 31 August 1999 for the following position in
my section, comparable with lecturer or assistant professor, with competence
in computational methods in linguistics and in phonetics. A doctorate is
usually required.

Informal enquiries are welcome; please mail them to me:
          gibbon at spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de
For the address to which applications should be addressed, see the
official German text, which is included below and is also at:
          http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/Jobs/

I would be grateful if you would circulate this to interested young
linguists, computational linguistics, and phoneticians.

Best wishes,

  Dafydd Gibbon

----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Dafydd Gibbon                   gibbon at spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de
 Fakult"at f"ur Linguistik       http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/
  und Literaturwissenschaft      Phone: +49.521.106.3510/09
 Universit"at Bielefeld          Fax:   +49.521.106.6008/2996
 P 100131, D-33501 Bielefeld     Room:  C6-138
----------------------------------------------------------------------

An der Universit?t Bielefeld, Fakult?t f?r Linguistik und
Literaturwissenschaft, ist eine

                C1-Stelle f?r Anglistik/Linguistik

zu besetzen.

Von Bewerbern/Bewerberinnen wird erwartet, da? sie sich in Forschung und
Lehre in den anglistischen und linguistischen Studieng?ngen engagieren,
da? sie entsprechend dem Profil der Bielefelder Anglistik/Linguistik an
der Entwicklung und Anwendung computerbasierter und multimedialer Methoden
f?r Lehre und Forschung mitarbeiten, sich an der Betreuung des
Phonetiklabors, an internationalen Austauschprogrammen und an der Einwerbung
von Drittmittelprojekten aktiv beteiligen. Weitere Informationen ?ber das
Arbeitsumfeld stehen unter folgenden Internet-Adressen zur Verf?gung:

      http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/ (CLSL group)
      http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/BEST/ (English Studies group)

Einstellungsvoraussetzung f?r eine C1-Stelle ist die Promotion. Bei
entsprechender Bewerberlage ist die Umwandlung in eine
BATIIa-Doktorandenstelle
nicht ausgeschlossen.

Die Bewerbung geeigneter Schwerbehinderter ist erw?nscht.

Die Universit?t will eine Erh?hung des Frauenanteils dort erreichen,
wo Frauen unterrepr?sentiert sind, und fordert deshalb besonders Frauen
auf, sich zu bewerben. Bei gleicher Eignung, Bef?higung und fachlicher
Leistung werden Frauen bevorzugt eingestellt, sofern nicht in der Person eines
Mitbewerbers liegende Gr?nde ?berwiegen.

Bewerbungen mit den ?blichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Schriftenverzeichnis,
Verzeichnis der Lehrveranstaltungen, Kopien akademischer Zeugnisse) werden bis
zum 31. August 1999 an den Dekan der Fakult?t f?r Linguistik und
Literaturwissenschaft, Universit?t Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, D-33501
Bielefeld, erbeten.


________________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DSM/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr
   Subject: Job in CNET


The "natural language processing" R&D unit of CNET (France Telecom research
center) proposes in Lannion (Brittany, France) a position of research
engineer in natural language processing. Good skills in computer science and
linguistics.

More informations and application:
Jerome Vinesse
tel (+33) 2.96.05.38.92
fax (+33) 2.96.05.32.86
jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr

French version :
L'unit? de R&D langue naturelle du CNET (Centre de recherche de France
T?l?com) propose ? Lannion (C?tes d'Armor, Bretagne, France) un poste
d'ing?nieur de recherche en traitement automatique du langage naturel, ?
dur?e ind?termin?e. Niveau bac+5, bonnes connaissances en informatique et en
linguistique.


________________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: "Claudia Pateras" <pateras at nortelnetworks.com
   Subject: Jobs in Montreal: NLP and Discourse Management

Title: Research Assistant / PostDoc / Contractual

Functions: In the context of research in the area of automatic speech
recognition, a multi-disciplinary team, including researchers from
Nortel Networks, seeks a person to design software as part of a project
for natural language understanding and natural dialogue systems.  This
researcher will program algorithms to achieve accurate communication
with natural voice dialogues, and participate in the team's efforts to
render telephone dialogue systems more efficient.

Requirements: Have a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or
computer science. Graduate study in these or related fields, as well
as a solid mathematical background and a knowledge of the technical
aspects of speech communication, will be viewed favorably. At least one
year's experience in scientific programming in C or C++ in a Unix
environment
is needed. Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence techniques and/or
experience
with Lisp or Prolog will be considered strong assets.

Place of work: INRS-Telecommunications, 16 Place du Commerce, Nuns'
Island, Quebec H3E 1H6

Interested persons are asked to contact:

Claudia Pateras
phone: (514) 761-8869
email: pateras at nortelnetworks.com

________________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: "Malek Boualem" <malekboualem at hotmail.com
   Subject: Job reconnaissance parole IBM Paris


INGENIEUR (reconnaissance de la parole)
Jeune ing?nieur d?butant ou avec 1 ? 2 ann?es d'exp?rience.
BAC+5, de formation grandes ?coles (T?l?com, Centrale, Sup?lec,
Eur?com...) ou universitaire.
Souhaitant s'int?grer ? une petite ?quipe pour participer aux travaux
d'?tude et de d?veloppement en reconnaissance de la parole, t?l?phonie,
et traitement du langage naturel en fran?ais.
Bon niveau d'anglais requis.

Contrat ? dur?e ind?termin?e. Ce poste est bas? ? Paris.

Envoyer candidatures ?    crepy at fr.ibm.com

Hubert Cr?py - IBM France - Speech Reco Project Leader
68-76 Quai de la Rap?e  F- 75012 Paris (FRANCE)
email: crepy at fr.ibm.com
T?l: +33 (0)1 40 01 57 51
Fax:+33 (0)1 40 01 61 94
____________________________________________________________


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul 28 08:35:26 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:35:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: Speech Communication
Message-ID: <WED.28.JUL.1999.093526.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>



                  *** SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT ***



                      SPEECH COMMUNICATION

                        CALL FOR PAPERS


       Special Issue on SPEECH ANNOTATION AND CORPUS TOOLS
        [http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/specom.html]

               Submission Deadline: 30 August 1999


     Guest editors: Steven Bird and Jonathan Harrington


Aims and Scope of Speech Communication (from the journal homepage)

Speech Communication is an interdisciplinary journal whose primary
objective is to fulfil the need for the rapid dissemination and
thorough discussion of basic and applied research results. In order to
establish frameworks to inter-relate results from the various areas of
the field, emphasis will be placed on viewpoints and topics of a
transdisciplinary nature. ...  The journal's primary objectives are:
to present a forum for the advancement of human and human-machine
speech communication science; to stimulate cross-fertilization between
different fields of this domain; to contribute towards the rapid and
wide diffusion of scientifically sound contributions in this domain.
General information about Speech Communication, the official journal
of the European Speech Communication Association, can be found at
[www.elsevier.com/locate/specom].


Scope of the Special Issue

Submissions are invited for a special issue of Speech Communication on
Speech Annotation and Corpus Tools.  The aim of the special issue is
to make speech scientists aware of recent developments in the
representation and management of annotated speech corpora,
i.e. collections of speech signal data with time-aligned
transcriptions.  (Signal data may be audio or physiological, natural
or artificial, in basic or derived form.)  The primary focus is the
structure of annotations and of annotated corpora, as used within and
across a wide range of disciplines concerned with spoken human
communication.

Annotated speech corpora have been a critical component of research in
the speech sciences for some years.  Today, these corpora are being
created and deployed for a rapidly expanding set of languages,
disciplines and technologies.  A wealth of formats and tools have
sprung up around this enterprise, a diversity which at once
facilitates and frustrates progress.  The linguistic annotation page
[www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/] has drawn attention to the scale of
ongoing activity, to the existence of diverse approaches to similar
problems and of similar approaches to diverse problems.  Despite the
explicit formats and well-documented user interfaces, insights about
the structure of the annotations themselves are often buried in coding
manuals and internal data structures.  There is a pressing need for
papers which document the corpora and tools, which identify notational
and functional equivalences among different approaches, and which
report on new approaches to core representational problems.

The special issue will consider papers which address theoretical and
practical issues concerning the representation of annotations, the
structure of annotated corpora, and the design, analysis and
implementation of tools for creating, browsing, searching,
manipulating and transforming annotations and annotated corpora.
In each case, the description of annotation structures or
tools should be accessible to readers outside the particular community
in which the system originated.

A broad sampling of relevant issues is given below:

+ representational issues:
  - sequence, overlap, hierarchy
  - simultaneous cross-cutting hierarchies
  - the nature of labels
  - pointers and cross-references
  - temporal structure, instants and periods
  - atemporal information (e.g. demographic data)

+ relationships between annotations and signals:
  - multiple independent annotations of a single signal
  - single annotations which reference multiple signals
  - annotations which reference other annotations

+ database issues:
  - structuring annotations, signals and atemporal data into a corpus
  - indexing for efficient access of large corpora
  - high and low level query languages, cross-level query
  - validation, update, provenance
  - data transformation and integration
  - file formats, storage, transfer; the place of XML

+ implementation issues:
  - design philosophies and functionalities for annotation toolkits
  - approaches to creation, browsing, navigation, display
  - reusability, interoperability, platform independence
  - integration with independent tools (e.g. statistical analysis)
  - techniques for working with multiple corpus formats

+ wider issues:
  - methodologies for research and development involving annotated corpora
  - the cycle of refining annotations and refining theoretical models
  - the role of annotated corpora in evaluating theories and systems
  - necessary steps towards general purpose tools and formats


Important Dates

* 400 Word Abstracts: any time in May-July
* Advance Notification: Monday August 16th, 1999
* Submission Deadline: Monday August 30th, 1999
* Acceptance Decision: late October, 1999
* Final Version Due: late January, 2000
* Publication Date: mid 2000


Advance Notifications

1. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 400 word abstract of
their paper so that the editors can comment on its suitability for the
special issue.  These abstracts should be formatted as ASCII text and
submitted by email to both editors.

2. To facilitate a rapid review process, authors are required to give
notification of their submission two weeks in advance of the
submission deadline.  Notification should consist of the title and (a
draft of) the final abstract, formatted as ASCII and emailed to both
editors.


Submissions

All submissions must consist of original unpublished work that is not
being submitted for publication elsewhere.  Papers should be
approximately 30 pages double spaced.  Electronic submission is
encouraged.  Details about preparation of electronic and paper
submissions, and any updates to the CFP, will be posted on the web at
[http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/specom.html].  Please register at
this site to receive email notification of any subsequent
announcements concerning the special issue.


--
Dr Jonathan Harrington
Director, Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre,
Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
Tel: +61 2 9850-8740  Fax: +61 2 9850-9199
jmh at srsuna.shlrc.mq.edu.au
http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/dbase/person.phtml?oid=19084

Dr Steven Bird
Associate Director, Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania, 3615 Market St, Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2608, USA
Tel: +1 215 573-3352  Fax: +1 215 573-2175
sb at ldc.upenn.edu
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul 28 08:35:28 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:35:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: CLAW 2000
Message-ID: <WED.28.JUL.1999.093528.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>


** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS **

CLAW 2000: 3rd International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications

Location: Westin Hotel in Seattle, Washington, USA
Dates: 29-30 April 2000


CONTEXT

The 3rd International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications (CLAW)
is planned to be held 29-30 April 2000 as a 2-day pre-conference Workshop
in conjunction with the ANLP (Applied Natural Language Processing)/NACLA
(North American Computational Linguistics Association) in Seattle,
Washington, USA at the Westin Hotel.

For the full version of the call for papers, as well as for on-going and
updated information on CLAW2000, please consult the workshop website:
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000

For information on the past two CLAWs see:

CLAW96   http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/CLAW/programme.html
CLAW98   http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/CLAW98/


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Of interest are submissions on all topics relating to the design,
implementation and application of controlled languages, including but not
limited to: human communication protocols; controlled text authoring;
conformance checking systems; controlled language authoring aids; machine
translation; memory-based translation authoring and translation; issues in
Controlled Language design; industrial experience and evolving
requirements; quality and usability evaluations of controlled language.

On the research front, we are grappling with issues like standardization,
design, and evaluation of controlled language systems. On implementation
issues, we are particularly interested in studies regarding author
productivity and document usability. The workshop will give equal emphasis
to the academic, corporate and industrial perspectives, while bringing
together researchers, developers, users, and potential users of controlled
language systems from around the world.


WORKSHOP FORMAT

The two-day workshop will feature invited speakers, paper presentations,
poster sessions, panel discussions, and system demonstrations. More
information regarding the workshop format and content can be found at the
workshop web site: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000


WORKSHOP TIMETABLE

*       30 November 1999: Submission Deadline of demo proposals and full
version of Papers/Posters/Panel sessions (note: notification of receipt of
submission will be sent out within 1 week).
*       Conference Registration deadline: (see ANLP site)
http://home1.gte.net/rwojcik/ANLP2000.html
*       20 January 2000: Notification of acceptance for
papers/posters/panel/demos
*       1 March 2000: Final Camera-Ready copy due
*       29-30 April 2000: Conference Dates


SUBMISSION DETAILS

All relevant submission information is available at:
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000


GENERAL INQUIRIES:

Please contact:  Jeff Allen
e-mail:  postediting at hotmail.com


WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

Geert Adriaens (Lernout & Hauspie ; University of Leuven, Belgium)
Jeff Allen (European Language resources Distribution Agency)
Kurt Godden (General Motors Corporation)
Teruko Mitamura (Carnegie Mellon University)
Eric Nyberg (Carnegie Mellon University)
Rick Wojcik (Boeing)
Remi Zajac (New Mexico State University)





=================================================
Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)  &
European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA)
(Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques)
55, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013   Paris   FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30
mailto:jeff at elda.fr
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jul 28 08:35:29 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:35:29 +0100
Subject: Conf: ICoS
Message-ID: <WED.28.JUL.1999.093529.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Christof Monz <christof at wins.uva.nl>


                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                       First workshop on

              INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
                            ICoS-1

                http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/


          Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
                    Amsterdam, August 15, 1999

          (Early registration deadline: August 1, 1999)


Endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics.


ABOUT ICoS
Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model
builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely
and easily available.  In addition, a wide variety of new tools
(statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine
learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in
computational semantics for natural language.  Indeed, computational
semantics has reached the stage where the exploration and development
of inference is one of its most pressing tasks --- and there's a lot
of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously.

The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1)
intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational
Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in
order to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural
language semantics.

PROGRAM
The following people will give invited presentations:

  * Johan Bos (Saarbruecken)
    Automated Reasoning for Natural Language Semantics

  * Steve Pulman (Cambridge and SRI International)
    Bidirectional Contextual Resolution

  * Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
    Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and
    Instructions

In addition, research papers and some implementations will be
presented

  * P. Baumgartner and M. Kuehn
    Abducing Coreference by Model Construction

  * G. Bierner and B. Webber
    Inference through Alternative-Set Semantics

  * M. Gabsdil and K. Striegnitz
    Classifying Scope Ambiguities (System Description)

  * C. Gardent and K. Konrad
    Definites and the Proper Treatment of Rabbits

  * A. Holt, E. Klein and C. Grover
    Natural Language for Hardware Verification: Semantic
    Interpretation and Model Checking (System Description)

  * J. Jaspars
    Structural Logics for Reasoning with Underspecified
    Representations

  * A. Kaplan
    Reason Maintenance in a Hybrid Reasoning System

  * B. Ludwig
    An Inference-Based Approach to the Interpretation of Discourse

  * R. Otero and O. Trinidad
    Action Formalisms in Language Understanding

  * A. Ramsay and H. Seville
    Models and Discourse Models

The program committee for ICoS-1 consists of the following people:

   James Allen                     Alex Lascarides
   Patrick Blackburn               Christof Monz
   Denys Duchier                   Reinhard Muskens
   Jan van Eijck                   Manfred Pinkal
   Claire Gardent                  Maarten de Rijke
   Jacques Jayez                   Len Schubert
   Aravind Joshi                   Henk Zeevat
   Michael Kohlhase

LOCATION
ICoS-1 will be held at the Institute for Logic, Language and
Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam during the 11th European
Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99), which
will be held in Utrecht, approximately 30 km from Amsterdam.  More
information on the ILLC including instructions how to get there can be
found at http://www.illc.uva.nl/ContactsandLinks/

REGISTRATION
Until August 1, the registration fee for ICoS-1 is 50 Dutch
guilders. After August 1, the fee is 100 Dutch guilders. The
registration fee includes the conference package and lunch.

To register, please go to:

  http://www.illc.uva.nl/~christof/ICoS-1/registration.html

or fill out the form attached to this message and send it to

  icos1 at wins.uva.nl


As it is very hard to get accommodation in Amsterdam during the
summer, it is imperative that you start looking for accommodation
now. If you are attending ESSLLI'99, you can take the train to
Amsterdam which takes approximately 30 minutes. More information on
finding accommodation in Amsterdam will be made available on the
ICoS-1 home page.

FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact the local organizers at
icos1 at wins.uva.nl or visit the ICoS-1 home page:
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/


*****************************************************************
                      ICoS-1 Registration Form
*****************************************************************


First name:

Last name:

Email:

Phone:

Fax:

Preferred address:







Special requests:







I will join the conference dinner:

  [ ] yes
  [ ] no

The registration fee will be collected on the spot at ICoS-1.
We kindly ask you to pay in cash.



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







--

Christof Monz  | A: ILLC Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam,  The
Netherlands | R: 326 (3rd floor) | P: +31 20 525 6095 | F: +31 20 525 5101
E: christof at wins.uva.nl | W: www.illc.uva.nl/~christof


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jul 30 09:05:14 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:05:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: JADT-2000
Message-ID: <FRI.30.JUL.1999.100514.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: JADT 2000 <jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch>

 ===========================================================================

                             J A D T   2 0 0 0


  5e Journ?es Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Donn?es Textuelles

                               9-11 Mars 2000

                  ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne

                              Lausanne, Suisse

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

Apr?s Barcelone (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), et Nice (1998), les
5e  Journ?es Internationales d'Analyse  Statistique  des  Donn?es Textuelles
auront lieu  ? Lausanne (Suisse) du 9  au 11 mars 2000. Cette manifestation,
qui  gagne en  importance ?  chaque ?dition, est  ouverte aux  chercheurs du
vaste domaine d'?tudes qui, centr? sur  la statistique textuelle, s'?tend de
la    lexicographie  ? l'analyse  du  discours   politique,  de la recherche
documentaire  ?    la    recherche  en   marketing,    de  la   linguistique
computationnelle  ? la  sociolinguistique,  du traitement   informatique des
donn?es   ?   l'analyse de   contenu.     Apr?s  le  succ?s  des pr?c?dentes
occurrences, JADT 2000 fournira de nouveau un  forum de discussion convivial
comprenant ? la fois des pr?sentations  techniques, des conf?rences invit?es
et des tables rondes.

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

CALENDRIER

               Date limite de soumission : 10 Septembre 1999
                Notification aux auteurs : 15 Octobre 1999
                          Version finale : 10 D?cembre 1999
                              Conf?rence : 9-11 Mars 2000

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

TH?MES

Les th?mes  de la conf?rence concernent l'application  des outils et mod?les
de la statistique aux domaines suivants :

   * Analyse exploratoire de donn?es textuelles
   * Analyse du discours
   * Traitement automatique du langage
   * Analyse statistique de r?ponses ? des questions ouvertes
   * Analyse bibliom?trique et statistique textuelle
   * Stylom?trie
   * Dictionnaires de fr?quences
   * Lemmatisation
   * Corpus de textes et repr?sentations textuelles
   * Classification de textes
   * Recherche documentaire
   * Hypertexte
   * Logiciels pour l'analyse lexicale et textuelle

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COMIT? DE PROGRAMME

 Monica B?cue     Univ. Polytechnique de Catalogne
 Sergio Bolasco   Univ. de Rome 'La Sapienza'
 ?tienne Brunet   Univ. de Nice/Sophia-Antipolis
 Yadolah Dodge    Univ. de Neuch?tel
 Annibale Elia    Univ. de Salerno
 Benoit Habert    ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud
 R?mi Jolivet     Univ. de Lausanne
 Dominique Labb?  Univ. de Grenoble
 Ludovic Lebart   CNRS, ENST Paris
 Alain Lelu       Univ. Paris 8
 Sylvie Mellet    CNRS, Nice
 Charles Muller   Univ. de Strasbourg
 Martin Rajman    EPF Lausanne
 Max Reinert      CNRS Toulouse
 Jacques Rouault  CRISTAL Grenoble 3
 Andr? Salem      Univ. Paris 3

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COMIT? D'ORGANISATION

 Martin Rajman           EPF Lausanne
 Marie Decrauzat         EPF Lausanne
 Jean-C?dric Chappelier  EPF Lausanne

Cette conf?rence  est   organis?e    par   le   Laboratoire   d'Intelligence
Artificielle de  l'EPFL (Lausanne, Suisse)  avec  le soutient  de  EuroStat,
Quantos et la Soci?t? Fran?aise de Statistique.

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LANGUES AUTORIS?ES POUR LES PR?SENTATIONS

Les pr?sentations pourront se faire dans l'une des langues suivantes :

               Fran?ais, Anglais, Allemand, Italien, Espagnol

Toutes les  communications devront cependant comporter  un r?sum?  (?crit et
oral) en anglais.

Comme lors des   pr?c?dents  colloques, aucune  traduction  simultan?e n'est
pr?vue.

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MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION

Les articles soumis  ? cette conf?rence devront  d?crire un travail original
et novateur  ayant fait l'objet  d'une ?valuation.  Toutes les contributions
devront  contenir  un ?tat de  l'art   et/ou des   r?f?rences ? des  travaux
ant?rieurs pertinents.  Si le travail   pr?sent? n'a pas fait  l'objet d'une
?valuation, les auteurs devront le  justifier.  Les  auteurs sont convi?s  ?
inclure dans leurs papiers des propositions, discussions, argumentations sur
l'ad?quation de leur travail avec les th?mes de la conf?rence.

Les participants souhaitant soumettre un papier ou un poster doivent envoyer
au comit?  (adresse  ci-dessous) avant le  10 Septembre  1999, les  ?l?ments
suivants :

   * Noms, affiliations et adresses compl?tes (+fax, email) des auteurs
   * Titre
   * Mots cl?s
   * Un r?sum? en anglais (300 mots maximum)
   * Version abr?g?e (3  pages minimum, 4 pages  maximum) de la contribution
     pr?sentant les grandes lignes du travail, les  probl?mes trait?s et les
     r?sultats obtenus
   * R?f?rences bibliographiques

Les notifications d'acceptation  seront  envoy?es aux auteurs le  15 Octobre
1999.

La version finale de la contribution (8 pages max.) devra ?tre r?dig?e selon
les r?gles de  formatage    qui seront pr?cis?es ult?rieurement    et  devra
parvenir au comit? (adresse ci-dessous) au plus tard le 10 D?cembre 1999.

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PR?SENTATIONS ORALES

La   dur?e de chacune   des   pr?sentations orales ne   devra  pas  d?passer
20 minutes.

Il sera possible  d'utiliser une tablette  de r?troprojection pour pr?senter
les bases  de donn?es et  les logiciels "en  direct". Une connexion Internet
pourra ?tre fournie aux orateurs qui le d?sirent.

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ACTES

La   totalit? des contributions   sera rassembl?e  et  ?dit?e  sous la forme
d'actes qui   seront distribu?s  ?  tous  les participants  au  d?but  de la
conf?rence.

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HEBERGEMENT

La gestion des h?bergements est prise en  compte par l'office de tourisme de
la  ville de Lausanne, ? contacter  directement sous r?f?rence ORG/JADT 2000
? :
Office du tourisme -- Case postale 49 -- CH-1000 Lausanne 6 (Suisse)
T?l : + 41 21 613.73.21
Fax : + 41 21 616.86.47
Email : wandfluh at lausanne-tourisme.ch}
Web : http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/

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CONTACT / ADRESSE

JADT 2000
Martin Rajman
EPFL
DI-LIA
IN (Ecublens)
CH-1015 Lausanne
Suisse

 T?l :  +41 21 693 27 35
 Fax :  +41 21 693 52 25
 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch
 Web :  http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000

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BULLETIN DE PR?-INSCRIPTION

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Bulletin de pr?-inscription ? envoyer ?

	 JADT 2000
	 Martin RAJMAN
	 EPFL
	 DI-LIA
	 IN (Ecublens)
	 CH-1015 Lausanne
	 Suisse

L'inscription d?finitive aura lieu ? r?ception du payement (dont les
modalit?s sont pr?cis?es ci-dessous)

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NOM         :
PRENOM      :
INSTITUTION :
ADRESSE     :


TELEPHONE   :
FAX         :
EMAIL       :

ADRESSE DE FACTURATION (si diff?rente de la pr?c?dente) :



PARTICIPATION / SOUMISSION :
	[ ] PRESENTATION ORALE      [ ] POSTER        [ ] PAS DE PRESENTATION

DEMONSTRATION :
	      [ ] OUI		[ ] NON

LANGUE POUR LA PRESENTATION :
  [ ] FRANCAIS    [ ] ANGLAIS    [ ] ALLEMAND    [ ] ITALIEN    [ ] ESPAGNOL

INSCRIPTION :
	      [ ] ETUDIANT 	[ ] REDUIT     [ ] NORMAL
   Tarif Etudiant : 150 CHF (env.  93 Euros), Fournir une pi?ce justificative
   Tarif R?duit   : 300 CHF (env. 186 Euros), Inscription AVANT LE 10 DECEMBRE
   Tarif Normal   : 375 CHF (env. 233 Euros), Inscription APRES le 10 decembre

MODE DE PAYEMENT ENVISAGE :
     [ ] VIREMENT BANCAIRE
         au compte num?ro 0243/270'685.01X de la banque
	 UBS Lausanne - EPFL - Ecublens - CH-1015 Lausanne
	 adresse swift UBSWCHGG10A

     [ ] CARTE VISA          [ ] CARTE EUROCARD/MASTERCARD
     Num?ro :
     Expire le :
     Nom sur la carte :
     Date et Signature :


Les  frais d'inscription comprennent  :  l'inscription ? la conf?rence,  les
pauses caf? et (sauf pour les ?tudiants) les repas de midi et les actes.

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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jul 30 09:05:17 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:05:17 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC-2000
Message-ID: <FRI.30.JUL.1999.100517.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>


[Sorry if you receive multiple copies]


***** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS *******

  The European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute
  for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and
  the National Technical University of Athens, Greece are pleased to
  announce:

  The 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
  (LREC2000)

  (The detailed announcement is available on the web at:
   http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html)

  Location: Athens, Greece
  Dates:   31 May - 2 June 2000


  The Second International Conference on Language Resources and
  Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organised in cooperation
  with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA,
  ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA,
  EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with major
  national and international organisations, including the European
  Commission - DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 HTRDP Project (China),
  the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the ICSP
  Permanent Committee (Korea), The Natural Language Technical
  committee of JEIDA (Japan),  and the Japanese Project for
  International Coordination in Corpora, Assessment and Labelling.
  Cooperation and support from other institutions is currently being
  sought.


  CONFERENCE AIMS

  In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character
  of human language technologies (HLT) and their relevance to all
  the fields of Information Society Technologies (IST) has been
  widely recognised.

  Two issues are currently considered to be particularly relevant:
   1) the availability of language resources and
   2) the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and
       products.
  Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing
  these issues through international cooperation.

  The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language
  data and descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically
  for building and evaluating natural language and speech algorithms
  or systems, for software localisation industries and language
  services, for language enabled information and communication
  services, for electronic commerce, electronic publishing, language
  studies, subject-area specialists and end users.

  Examples of language resources are written and spoken corpora,
  computational lexica, grammars, terminology databases, and
  basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection,
  management, customisation and use of these and other resources.

  The relevance of evaluation for Language Engineering is increasingly
  recognised. This involves assessment of the state of the art for a
  given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a
  programme, comparing different approaches to a given problem and
  choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks,
  assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application,
  product benchmarking, and assessment of user satisfaction.

  Language engineering and R&D in language technologies have
  made important advances in the recent past in various aspects of
  both written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation
  paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international
  programmes, including the US ARPA HLT programme, the EU LE
  programme Francophone Aupelf-Uref programme and others, and in the
  localisation industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial
  unresolved basic research problems.

  The aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the state of
  the art, to discuss problems and opportunities, and to exchange
  information regarding ongoing and planned activities, language
  resources and their applications.  We also intend to discuss
  evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, and
  explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international
  cooperation in the areas mentioned above.


  CONFERENCE TOPICS

  The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics
  which could be addressed by papers submitted to LREC2000:

  I. Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages
    Resources (LR) (theoretical & best practice):

   * Guidelines, standards, specifications, and models for LR
   * Organisational issues in the construction, distribution, and
      use of LR
   * Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation,
     annotation, management, access, distribution, and use of LR
   * Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access, and
     use of LR
   * Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR
   * Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge
     (e.g. terms, lexical information, language modelling) from LR
   * Monolingual and multilingual LR
   * Multimodal and multimedia LR
   * LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia
     cultural industry
   * Industrial production and use of LR
   * Integration of various modalities in LR (spoken, visual, gestual,
      textual)
   * Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (language
     technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic
     commerce, etc.)
   * Industrial LR requirements and the community's response
   * Analysis of user needs for LR
   * Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing
   * Economics of LR
   * Customisation and use of LR
   * Research issues relevant for LR

  II. Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation:

   * Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR
   * Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for
     benchmarking and evaluation
   * Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval,
     terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment,
     machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing,
     semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding,
     summarisation, localisation, etc.)
   * Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition
     and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis,
     speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc.)
   * Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line
     and off-line machine and hand-written character recognition, etc.)
   * Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems
   * Evaluation of multimodal systems
   * Qualitative and perceptive evaluation
   * Evaluation of products and applications
   * Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems
   * Situated evaluation of applications
   * Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
   * From evaluation to standardisation of LR
   * Research issues relevant to evaluation

  III. General issues:

   * National and international activities and projects
   * LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia
     cultural industry
   * Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national
     and international policies
   * Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international
     cooperation


  The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, presentations of
  accepted papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations and panels.

  Pre-Conference Workshops will be organized on the 29th and 30th of
  May and post-Conference Workshops on the 3rd and 4th of June 2000.

  Please consult the conference Web site
  (http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html) for complete
  information about submission guidelines, contact people, submission
  dates, various conference committees and members, and other
  general information.


  IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

  * 20 NOVEMBER 1999:
    Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos,
    panels and workshops
  * 10 DECEMBER 1999:
    Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals
  * 2 FEBRUARY 2000:
    Notification of acceptance of papers, posters, referenced demos
  * 2 APRIL 2000:
    Final version of the articles for the proceedings
  * 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000:
    Conference

  CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

  Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy
  George Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing,
    Athens, Greece
  Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France
  Harald H?ge, Siemens, Munich, Germany
  Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
  Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (Conference chair)


  For general information about the conference, please contact:

  LREC Secretariat: Ms. Despina Scutari
  Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
  6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str.
  15125 Marousi, Athens, GREECE
  Tel: +301 6800959 ; Fax: +301 6854270
  e-mail:  LREC2000 at ilsp.gr
  LREC2000 website:
  http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html


  For general information about ELRA, please contact:

  Khalid CHOUKRI
  55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin
  75013 Paris  FRANCE
  Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
  e-mail: choukri at elda.fr
  http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html






=================================================
Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)  &
European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA)
(Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques)
55, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013   Paris   FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30
mailto:jeff at elda.fr
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jul 30 09:05:18 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:05:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: RIAO-2000
Message-ID: <FRI.30.JUL.1999.100518.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: masson at limsi.fr (Nicolas Masson)

This message is posted to several lists. We apologize if you receive multiple
copies.


				RIAO 2000

		Content-Based Multimedia Information Access

				Paris, France

				April 2000


			Preliminary Announcement

				__________
			
Organized by:

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


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


Introduction

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Applications:

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



Call for Papers



The papers will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee.


RIAO 2000 International Scientific Committee (preliminary list, as of July 15,
1999) :

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

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



Call for Applications



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


RIAO 2000 International Application Committee (preliminary list, as of July 15,
1999) :

Chair: Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox, France)

Marie-Francoise Clergeau (College de France, France)
Daniel Confland (Jouve, France)
Max Copperman (Kanisa, USA)
Giorgio Dimino (RAI, Italy)
Pascal Faudemay (LIP6, France)
Michael Horowitz (Claritech, USA)
Hitoshi Iida (Sony Speech & Language Laboratory, Japan)
Hans-Joachim Novak (IBM, Germany)
Norbert Paquel (Canope, France)
Sylvie Regnier-Prost (Aerospatiale-Matra, France)
Remi Ronfard (INA, France)
Antonio Sanfilippo (EC, Luxembourg)
Laurent Schmitt (INIST-CNRS, France)
Vera Semenova (Sciper/Analit, Russia)
Joop Van Gent (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)




The RIAO 2000 Conference is organized by:

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

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

and

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

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

Contacts:

Email: riao2000 at limsi.fr

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


Organizing and Coordinating Committee:

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


Calendar:

* Preliminary announcement: July 1999
* Call for Papers & Demonstrations: September 15, 1999
* Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999
* Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999
* Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000
* Final Program: January 25, 2000
* Conference: April 2000 (exact final dates to be announced)



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


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Position:

Organization:

Mail address:



Telephone:

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EMAIL:

Web site:


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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jul 30 09:05:20 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:05:20 +0100
Subject: Projet: Evaluation (AUF)
Message-ID: <FRI.30.JUL.1999.100520.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Christophe Jouis <jouis at univ-lille3.fr>


____________________________
N'HESITEZ PAS A REDIFFUSER CE MESSAGE-------------------------------------

ARC A3 : Evaluation des syst?mes de construction de terminologie et de
relations s?mantiques entre
termes

***** Appel ? participation *********

L'ARC A3 est une Action de Recherche Concert?e financ?e par l'AUF
(Association des Universites Francophones,
ex -Aupelf-Uref). Ce projet cherche ? "promouvoir l'?laboration de corpus
et de proc?dures d'?valuation
concernant le fran?ais, pour permettre ? la recherche de progresser et au
domaine de se doter d'instruments
de mesure rendant possible une comparaison objective des diff?rentes
approches". D'autre part il vise
? favoriser le d?veloppement des syst?mes et permettre une meilleure
visibilit? de l'offre.
La premi?re phase de ce projet (1995-1998) a permis de constituer une
premi?re s?rie de corpus, d'?tablir
des protocoles de tests et d'effectuer une premi?re campagne de tests.

Le pr?sent appel ? participation pour le second cycle du projet ARC A3
(1999-2000) s'adresse ? des
?quipes de recherche et ? des industriels (qu'ils soient francophones ou
non), disposant de syst?me(s)
de construction de terminologie et/ou  de relations s?mantiques entre
termes traitant au moins le fran?ais.
Les 8 syst?mes qui ont ?t? test?s lors de la premi?re phase ont
difff?rentes fonctionnalit?s et fournissent
diff?rentes sorties :
termes (ordonn?s), r?seaux grammaticaux, classes de termes, graphes
s?mantiques... L'?valuation a ?t?
essentiellement qualitative,  et a ?t?  effectu?e par les experts sur la
base de l'analyse de
l'utilisabilit? de l'information procur?e par le syst?me.

Nous avons distingu? 3 cat?gories non disjointes de syst?mes :
1. Syst?mes d'extraction de candidats-termes : ils se fondent sur une
analyse syntaxique et statistique ;
2. Syst?mes " classifieurs ", c'est-?-dire construisant des classes de
termes qui co-occurrent de mani?re
   r?guli?re dans les textes. Ces syst?mes se fondent soit sur une analyse
syntaxique et statistique soit
   sur des approches num?riques pures ;
3. Syst?mes d'extraction de relations s?mantiques. Ces syst?mes utilisent
une approche statistique ou une
   approche linguistique par exploration contextuelle.

Les terminologies ont ete ?valu?es suivant deux objectifs :
1. indexation ;
2. couverture du domaine.

DEROULEMENT DU SECOND CYCLE (1999-2000)

Aucun financement n'est pr?vu pour cette participation, mais le
b?n?fice pour ces ?quipes de recherche et industriels sera multiple :
* disposer, dans le cadre du projet, d'un ensemble de corpus de documents,
de questions d'utilisateurs
  et
  de r?ponses "justes",
* b?n?ficier d'une structure d'?change et de r?flexion gr?ce ? la
participation de concepteurs et
  d'utilisateurs de syst?mes,
* la possibilit? d'int?gration de syst?mes, tirant avantage de la nature
compl?mentaire des r?sultats
  issus des diff?rents syst?mes,
* b?n?ficier de la visibilit? induite par la participation au projet.

Le corpus est propos? par l'INRA (Institut National de Recherche en
Agronomie). Il est constitu?
d'articles dans le domaine des biotechnologies. Plusieurs "sp?cialistes" de
l'INRA (documentalistes,
indexeurs, terminologues travaillant dans le domaine) sont prets ? ?valuer
les resultats.

Calendrier :

--Septembre 99
S?lection et notification des candidats externes
Premier corpus d?entra?nement sur le corpus de l?INRA et un autre corpus
?ventuellement
--Octobre 99 : corpus ?tiquet? (avec le logiciel SYLEX d'INGENIA)
--Janvier 2000
Premi?re session r?elle sur le corpus de l?INRA et un autre corpus
?ventuellement
--Avril 2000
R?union de mise au point : analyse des r?sultats, raffinement des mesures
Publication des r?sultats en ??interne??
Mise en place d?finitive de la m?thodologie
-- Septembre 2000
Deuxi?me session r?elle et d?finitive sur le corpus de l??INRA et un autre
corpus ?ventuellement
-- D?cembre 2000 : publication des r?sultats en vue des JST (Journees
Scientifiques et Techniques,
colloque organis? par le r?seau FRANCIL et l'AUF).

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Pour tout compl?ment d'information, vous pouvez nous contacter ? l'adresse
?lectronique suivante :
jouis at univ-lille3.fr.

(Christophe Jouis
 IDIST
 Equipe organisatrice ARC A3
 Universite CHARLES-DE-GAULLE - Lille 3
 BP 149
 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq FRANCE)


Pour signaler votre intention de participer, envoyez un message au plus
tard le 15 septembre 1999 ?
jouis at univ-lille3.fr contenant les informations suivantes :

-Personne ? contacter : ....................................
-Nom de l'organisme : .....................................
-Nom du syst?me propos? : .................................
-Cat?gorie du syst?me (extracteurs de terme, classifieur, extracteur de
relations semantiques).
-Description des fonctionnalit?s du syst?me (20 lignes).