From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:59:34 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:34 +0100
Subject: Conf: EMNLP/VLC-99
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135934.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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



           Joint SIGDAT Conference on
 EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
                    and
              VERY LARGE CORPORA


               June 21-22, 1999
           University of Maryland
            College Park, MD, USA

          Immediately preceding ACL-99


Preregistration deadline:  May 31, 1999


Full 2-day program is available on line:

   http://www.ee.ust.hk/~pascale/emnlpwvlc99.html

with ACL-99 and registration information available at:

   http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99/


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:59:22 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: IV PROPOR
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135922.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Tony Berber Sardinha" <tony4 at uol.com.br>


Announcing

IV PROPOR: COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING OF WRITTEN AND SPOKEN PORTUGUESE

20-21 September 1999, Evora, Portugal

*  Importante dates:
15 June: deadline for submission of papers and software demonstrations
30 July: notification of acceptance
1 July: deadline for submission of final version of papers

* Submissions
Texts must be written in Portuguese, formatted for A4 paper, double-spaced,
12 point font, 15 pages maximum. Include on first page: title, author's
full name, institution, address, and abstract. Remaining pages should not
make direct reference to the authors. Texts may be submitted by email.

* Address for submissions

Send 4 hard copies or email paper to:

Jos� Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Departamento de Inform�tica, FCT/UNL
Quinta da Torre
2825-114 Caparica
Portugal
E-mail: gpl at di.fct.unl.pt

-------------------------------
Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
tony4 at uol.com.br
http://sites.uol.com.br/tony4/homepage.html
http://homepages.infoseek.com/~corpuslinguistics/homepage.html
-------------------------------


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:59:15 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:15 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLE Special Issue
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135915.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at adler.ims.uni-stuttgart.de>



                             CALL FOR PAPERS


                      Natural Language Engineering

                             Special Issue on

     Best Practice in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Engineering



NLE SPECIAL ISSUE AS A DISC INITIATIVE

A special issue on Best Practice in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
Engineering will be published by the journal of Natural Language
Engineering (NLE; Cambridge University Press) in the beginning of
2000. This issue is an initiative of the European Esprit project DISC
(June 1997-December 1999), formally called "DISC Spoken Language
Dialogue Systems and Components. Best practice in development and
evaluation". The main goal of DISC is to identify current practice in
the development and evaluation of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
(SLDSs) and their components, in order to come to a definition of best
practice. DISC intends to contribute to the establishment of dialogue
engineering guidelines to be used by different target groups, among
others developers, deployers and customers.


BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES

The interest in SLDSs has increased enormously over the last few
years: at present there is a large number of systems available many of
them for commercial use; the number is growing rapidly and so is the
variety of functionalities and domains of application. These
developments have led to a situation in which there is a great need,
shared by developers, deployers and customers alike, for effective
guidelines, which will enable them to make well-formed design and
implementation decisions, in accordance with broad consensus of what
must be 'best practice' in this particular engineering domain.

The purpose of this special issue is to bring together leading views on
what might be considered to be best practice in the development and
evaluation of SLDSs. We are aware that this is a delicate notion - what
constitutes best practice depends on the kinds and complexity of tasks
the SLDSs are to perform (e.g., with increasing task complexity, the
need for improved dialogue control requires more sophisticated control
of input speech and input language processing) and on a number of
other constraints on SLDS development, having to do with resources
available for system development, the constraints imposed by the
different groups involved (e.g., developers' constraints, customer
preferences and user group defined constraints), etc. So, we would
like to take as a starting point a definition of best practice relative
to factual constraints imposed on SLDS development.


THEME

In agreement with the main goal of DISC, the general theme for the
special issue is what could be taken as best practice in SLDS
engineering, given the availability of different technological options
with their inherent merits and limitations which are subject to
different constraints on system (component) realization.

We are interested in new, high quality papers which address, along the
lines of the objectives above, one or more of the following issues:

(i)  best practice in the development and evaluation of SLDSs as a
     whole or

(ii) best practice in the development and evaluation of one or more of
     the following system aspects, as well as of the interaction between
     them:

     -  speech recognition
     -  speech synthesis
     -  natural language understanding and generation
     -  dialogue management
     -  human factors
     -  system integration

All papers should fall within the scope of NLE, as described in the
instructions for contributors to the journal. This mainly implies that
the research views, comparative discussions, etc. described in the
papers must have a clear potential for practical application, in this
particular case meaning that they contribute to guidelines for SLDSs
best practice  (see also the NLE web page, the reference of which is
given below).


SUBMISSIONS

Submissions to the special issue should be in line with the NLE style
sheet, which is obtainable via the NLE web page. The length of a paper
should be 10-12 journal pages. Electronic submissions should be sent
as a postscript file by e-mail to the co-ordinating special issue
editor. Alternatively, 6 hardcopies can be sent to the editorial
address given below. The deadline for submission is September 1, 1999.

Authors are asked to e-mail a short statement of their intention to
submit a paper to the co-ordinating special issue editor before
July 15, 1999.


REVIEW PROCEDURE

All papers, both those submitted by members of DISC and from outside
the project, will be double reviewed and triple reviewed if necessary.


The review committee consists of seven members of the DISC consortium,
one member of the DISC Advisory Panel, three members of the NLE
editorial board and a group of ten external referees. In case of a
very large number of submissions the review committee will be extended
accordingly.

-  DISC referees:

   Niels Ole Bernsen (Odense University, Denmark)
   Laila Dybkjaer (Odense University, Denmark)
   Lori Lamel (CNRS-LIMSI, France)
   Patrick Paroubeck (CNRS-LIMSI, France)
   Inger Karlsson (KTH Stockholm, Sweden)
   Simon Thornton (Vocalis Ltd, Cambridge, UK)
   Paul Heisterkamp (DaimlerChrysler Research Center Ulm, Germany)

-  DISC Advisory Panel:

   Susann Luperfoy (IET, USA)

-  NLE referees:

   Peter Bosch (IBM Scientific Centre Heidelberg, Germany)
   Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, USA)
   Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)

-  External referees:

   James Allen (University of Rochester, USA)
   Robin Cooper (University of Goeteborg, Sweden)
   James Glass (MIT, USA)
   Julia Hirschberg (ATT Labs Research, USA)
   Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California, USA)
   Stephen Isard (University of Edinburgh, UK)
   Lauri Karttunen (Rank Xerox Research, France)
   Karen Sparck Jones (Cambridge University, UK)
   David Traum (University of Maryland, USA)
   Marilyn Walker (ATT Labs Research, USA)


IMPORTANT DATES

-  Intention to Submit Due Date: 15 July, 1999

-  Paper Due Date: September 1, 1999

-  Revision Due Date: December 15, 1999

-  Acceptance Date: January 2000

-  Publication Date: February/March 2000


SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS

The special issue editors are the IMS group participating in the DISC
project:

Jan van Kuppevelt (co-ordinating editor)   kuppevelt at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Ulrich Heid	                           heid at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Hans Kamp	                           kamp at ims.uni-stuttgart.de

Editorial Address:

NLE Special Issue
c/o Jan van Kuppevelt
Institute for Computational Linguistics (IMS)
Azenbergstrasse 12
D-70174 Stuttgart
Germany

Tel.:  +49 711 1211357 or 6574548
Fax:   +49 711 1211366


FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for Special Issue:
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/NLE_special_issue/    (under construction)

Web site for NLE: http://www.cup.org/journals/jnlscat/nle/nle.html

Web site for DISC: http://www.elsnet.org/disc/


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:59:08 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: Corpora and NLP (ACIDCA)
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135908.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

Please post : apologies for multiple copies.


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


               "Corpora and Natural Language Processing"

                        ACIDCA'2000 session

                Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000


                            Organised by:

                   University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)

            Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)


                            Sponsored by:

                              IEEE SMC

				co-sponsored by:

                                TSS

                            Supported by:

               Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific

                   Research and Technology (SERST)


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





General

-------


The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in

a number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for

the design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications
but

also for their evaluation.


"Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part

of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational

Intelligence for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and

Industrial Systems (ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000,

visit
<underline><color><param>0000,0000,fefe</param>http://www.chez.com/acidca2000)</color></underline>
. The session

"Corpora and NLP" will be organised as a workshop with its own

Proceedings and Programme Committee.


The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken

corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP.



Main Topics

-----------


We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following

topics:


* Lexicography

* Lexical knowledge acquisition

* Part of Speech Tagging

* Unknown word guessing

* Term recognition

* Morphological Analysis

* Robust Parsing

* Word Sense Disambiguation

* Anaphora Resolution

* Discourse segmentation

* Machine Translation

* Agreement Error Correction

* Spelling and Grammar Correction

* Information Extraction

* Automatic Abstracting

* Text Categorisation

* Speech processing

* Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications

* Corpus annotation

* Evaluation


Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus

processing techniques are welcome.



Honorary Chairs

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


Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific

                    and Technological Research


Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)


Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley



General Chairs

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


Adel Alimi,

National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)


Lamia Belguith Hadrich,

LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science

and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)


Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,

LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science

and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)



Programme Committee

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


Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair


Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom)

Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)

Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)

Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville)

Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)

Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis)

Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris)

Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon)

Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen)

Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble)

Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg)

Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York)

Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)

Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis)

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)

Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal)

Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh)

Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris)

Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)

Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona)

Mike Rosner (University of Malta)

Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille)

Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen)

Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)

Keh-Yih Su  (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei)

Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)

Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill)

Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki)



Local Organising Committee

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



Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs

H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax),

Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax),

Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes),

Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax),

Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax),

Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax),

Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis),

Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)


International Organising Committee

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


Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray

(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs

Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan),

Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),

Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany),

Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany),

Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France),

Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University),

Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA)

Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA)

Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France)

Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)

Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)

Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain)



Submission Guidelines

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


Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be

written in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures,

tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature

title, author's name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by

keywords and an abstract.


Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following

address :


ACIDCA'2000  (Corpora & NLP Session)

Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe,

BP 120, 3049 Sfax

Tunisia


In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of

keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk and

copied to  l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn


The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme

Committee.


Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce the

camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings.



Schedule

--------


Paper Submission Due: 1 October 1999

Notification of Acceptance : 10 December 1999

Camera-ready Paper Due : 10 January 1999

"Corpora and NLP" Session : 22-24 March 2000



Further information

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


Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants

to attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as

the exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call

for Papers.


There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials

will be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are

finalised.


ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories:

Best Paper, Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper.


The social programme will be announced in the second call for papers.



For any Information

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


Please contact :


Lamia Belguith

e-mail: l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn

Fax: (216) 4 296 229


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:59:11 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:11 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135911.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Enrico Franconi <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>



[An HTML version of the Call for Proposals  will be available via the
 FoLLI  page  <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2000/esslli-2000.html>.
 Usual apologies apply if you receive multiple copies of this message]

   Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                               ESSLLI-2000
              August 6-18, 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain

                           CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and
Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation.
Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops
cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic,
Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language,
Language and Logic.  Previous summer schools have been highly
successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere.
The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for
discussion for students and researchers interested in the
interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information.  ESSLLI-2000
is organised under the auspices of the European Association for Logic,
Language and Information (FoLLI).

The ESSLLI-2000 Programme Committee invites proposals for foundational,
introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 12th
annual Summer School on a wide range of topics in the following fields:

  Logic                Language                Computation
  Language and Logic   Logic and Computation   Language and Computation

In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student Session. A
Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed separately.

The Programme Committee welcomes proposals in all of the above areas.


PROPOSAL SUBMISSION:
All proposals (subject: ESSLLI-2000) should be submitted by electronic
mail to the program chair, Enrico Franconi at <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>,
in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible, but no later than July 4,
1999.  Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision
no later than September 15, 1999.  Proposers should follow the
guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that
deviate substantially will not be considered.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:
Anyone interested in lecturing or organising a workshop during
ESSLLI-2000, please read the following information carefully.


FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming
any background knowledge.  The number of foundational courses will be
4-6.

Foundational courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist
of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

 Timetable for Foundational Course Proposal Submission

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities
of the Summer School.  They are intended to equip students and young
researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and
techniques, and to allow experienced researchers from other fields to
acquire the key competences of neighbouring disciplines, thus
encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research
community.  The introductory courses in the three basic disciplines
should provide introductions to the field for non-specialists (an
introductory course on logic, for instance, should address linguists and
computer scientists, not logicians).  Introductory courses in the
interdisciplinary fields, on the other hand, can build on knowledge of
the respective fields (an introductory course in computational
linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics
of linguistics and computation).

Introductory courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist
of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the
course as compared to standard texts in the area.  For ease of reference
a list of standard texts will be made available electronically.

 Timetable for Introductory Course Proposal Submission

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of
advanced Masters or PhD students.  Proposals for advanced courses should
specify the prerequisites in some detail.

Advanced courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist of
five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

  Timetable for Advanced Course Proposal Submissions

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced
Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work.
A workshop has a theme.  At most one organiser is paid.  The organisers
should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general
introduction in the first session.  They are also responsible for the
programme of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers.

Each workshop organiser will be responsible for producing a Call for
Papers for the workshop by November 15, 1999.  The call must make it
clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community. It
should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the
Summer School.

A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop) or ten
sessions (a two-week workshop).  Sessions are normally 90 min.

  Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers
    Dec  1, 1999: Send out Call for Papers
    Mar 15, 2000: Deadline for Papers (suggested)
    May  1, 2000: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested)
    May 15, 2000: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Programme
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of ws notes
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for Final Workshop Programme


FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS:
Please submit your proposal in the following format:

Name:         ---  Name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.

Address:      ---  Contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.
                   Where possible, please include phone and fax
                   numbers.

Title:        ---  Title of proposed course/workshop.

Type:         ---  State whether this is a workshop, an foundational
                   course, an introductory course, or an advanced
                   course.

Section:      ---  Which of the  six sections (Language, Logic,
                   Computation, Logic & Computation, Language
                   & Computation or Language & Logic) does the
                   proposal belong to? Please just name one.

Description:  ---  A description of the proposed contents.
                   Not more than 150 words.

External      ---  State whether (and if so: how) you will be able to
funding:           find external funding to subsidise your travel and
                   accommodation expenses.

Further       ---  Any further information that is required by the
particulars:       above guidelines should be included here.


FINANCIAL ASPECTS:
Prospective lecturers and workshop organisers should be aware that all
teaching and organising at the summer schools is done on a voluntary
basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible.
Lecturers and organisers are not paid for their contribution, but are
reimbursed for travel and accommodation.  In case of two lecturers, a
lump sum is paid to cover travel expenses.  The splitting of the sum is
up to the lecturers.  (However, please note that the organisers
appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers/organisers find
alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.)

Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School;
however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced rate to
be determined by the Organising Committee.

Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the
world are welcomed, the Summer School can only afford to reimburse
travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe to Birmingham.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  Enrico Franconi (chair)
  Attn: ESSLLI-2000
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Manchester
  Oxford Rd.
  Manchester M13 9PL, UK
  Tel: +44 (161) 275 6170
  Fax: +44 (161) 275 6204
  Email: franconi at cs.man.ac.uk

    Mary Dalrymple (Language)
     Matthias Baaz (Logic)
       Nada Lavrac (Computation and Logic)
       Mark Hepple (Language and Computation)
        Achim Jung (Computation)
  Reinhard Muskens (Logic and Language)


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
  Achim Jung (chair)
  Email: A.Jung at cs.bham.ac.uk


FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
To obtain further information, please visit the web site for
ESSLLI-2000 <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2000/esslli-2000.html>.


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:50:40 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:50:40 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 7 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135040.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Mark Lewellen" <mlewellen at apptek.com>
   Subject: Computational Linguist

2/ From: pvanmeurs at tegic.com
   Subject: Job announcement Computational Linguist

3/ From: Sandra Kuebler <kuebler at kamke.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Job Opening: Corpus Linguist

4/ From: Therese Labelle-Audy <therese.labelle-audy at UMontreal.CA>
   Subject: full-time professor - EBSI/Universite de Montreal

5/ From:  Jodi Scheffler <jodisch at microsoft.com>
   Subject:  NL Program Manager @ Microsoft/ Redmond, WA  USA

6/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk
   Subject: 3year PhD grants Leeds Uni

7/ From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject: Studentship at Wolverhampton: multilingual anaphora resolution
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Mark Lewellen" <mlewellen at apptek.com>
   Subject: Computational Linguist

Career Opportunity for a Computational Linguist:

L&H - AppTek, located in McLean, VA., (near Washington DC)
seeks a computational linguist.  Relevant backgrounds include,
but are not restricted to the following:

* Text-to-Speech
* Approximate / fuzzy string matching techniques
* Statistical / probabilistic NLP approaches
* Information retrieval

Requirements:

* Ph.D. or A.B.D. in Computational Linguistics or related field
   (M.S. considered)
* Work experience involving computer programming
* Expertise in at least one language in addition to English
* U.S. citizenship

Pay: commensurate with your experience.

Send your CV by one of the following methods:

* e-mail:	mlewellen at apptek.com
* fax:	703-734-5703  attn: Dr. Mark Lewellen
* mail:	Dr. Mark Lewellen
		L&H-AppTek
		1420 Beverly Rd. #350
		McLean, VA 22101

Please find us at the ACL conference, to be held at the University
of Maryland, June 23-26.

_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: pvanmeurs at tegic.com
   Subject: Job announcement Computational Linguist



Tegic Communications (http://www.tegic.com) is looking for a computational
linguist.

Description:

	The computational linguist will be responsible for research and development
to support Tegic's text input system in a variety of languages  If you are
interested in working in the fast paced, exciting area of research and
development of commercial software at the "cutting edge" of technology, then
this is a job which will provide you with such opportunities. Tegic offers
many additional benefits, including health insurance, dental, 401K plan, and
(privately held) stock options.

Required:

     Degree in computational linguistics with emphasis on lexicography,
knowledge extraction, morphological analysis and Statistical language
analysis
     Experience with development of (commercial) software products
     Experience with research in computational linguistics
     Strong programming skills (preferably C/C++)

Desired:

     Familiarity with a large number of languages (preferably Eastern
European/Semitic/Asian)
     Familiarity with the analysis of large corpora
     5+ years of experience in the field of computational linguistics
     Active participation in the community of computational linguistics
     Familiarity with C/C++, Perl, Windows NT operating system, compression
algorithms helpful

Company Background:

	Tegic Communications (http:/www.tegic.com) is a fast growing company which
offers very competitive salaries.

	Tegic Communications, has developed software which allows users to enter
text on wireless devices such as wireless phones or pagers in a fast and
efficient manner.  We have been very successful in securing licenses with
most of the major cell phone manufacturers and many of the smaller
companies.

	Unlike the "multi-tap' method in which the user has to tap the "2-ABC"-key
three times to get a "c" for instance, the user can just hit the "2-ABC" key
once. The software will determine which word the user is likely to be
typing. In order for this to work in a variety of languages we require an
understanding of how people actually use the language.
	For this we have developed an extensive suite of tools to analyze large
amounts of text corpora. The contributions a computational linguist could
make here are numerous. We are dealing with issues of corpus selection,
corpus classification, performance analysis, morphological analysis and
generation, word compounding, syntactical analysis, text segmentation and
many more. We are offering an opportunity for the computational linguist to
do research in many areas. We are looking for someone who has research
experience as well as the ability to identify areas of improvement for our
products and deliver a solution, all in a timely manner.
	We have developed our technology for a dozen languages as well as Chinese
(stroke and phonetic based) and Japanese. Each language has its own
challenges and we are expanding quickly into many additional languages.
	We are also looking into expanding into new technologies to broaden our
product base. This will require identification of and research into many new
opportunities, research for which we need the contributions of a skilled
computational linguist.

	If you have any additional questions please contact me via e-mail.

Pim van Meurs
Manager Computational Linguistics
Linguistic Research and Development Group
Tegic Communications
2001 Western Ave Suite 210
Seattle WA 98121
(206) 343-7001	Phone
(206) 343-7004	Fax
pvanmeurs at tegic.com
http://www.tegic.com

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Sandra Kuebler <kuebler at kamke.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Job Opening: Corpus Linguist


JOB OPENING:  SYNTACTIC ANNOTATION OF TEXT CORPORA
                       UNIVERSITY OF TUEBINGEN
                      DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
                DIVISION OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

The Division of Computational Linguistics in the Dept. of Linguistics
at the University of Tuebingen, Germany has received external funding
for a three-year project (April 1999 - December 2001) in Corpus
Linguistics and Corpus Annotation.  The project will be carried out in
collaboration with the Institut fuer deutsche Sprache (IDS) in
Mannheim and the Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS) at
the University of Stuttgart.

The main goal of the research at Tuebingen is the automatic annotation
of text corpora for German at the level of morpho-syntactic annotation
and partial syntactic annotation.

Candidates for the position should have sound knowledge of German
grammar and should be familiar with the theory and implementation of
finite-state automata, finite-state transducers and robust parsing
techniques.  Programming experience in C or C++ is highly desirable.

The successful candidate would be expected to take up the position as
soon as possible.  The position is at the rank of "Wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter" (M.A. degree or Ph.D. degree required).  The salary is on
the German payscale of BAT IIa; minimum of 70 000 DM per year.

Applications should include CV and an outline of research experience
and interests.  Names and addresses of references would be helpful.
Applications should be sent by mail or email to the address below.

Erhard W. Hinrichs und Sandra Kuebler
Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Abt. Computerlinguistik
Eberhard-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstr. 113
D-72074 Tuebingen
Germany

email: eh at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

Applications received by July 5th, 1999 will receive full
consideration.

In case of equal qualifications, preference will be given to persons
with disabilities.

The University of Tuebingen strives to increase the representation of
female scientists. Women are, therefore, especially encouraged to
apply.

_______________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: Therese Labelle-Audy <therese.labelle-audy at UMontreal.CA>
   Subject: full-time professor - EBSI/Universite de Montreal


This message has been crossposted to several mailing lists. Please
excuse any duplication and any inconveniences caused by it.

For release

Full-time professor
L'Ecole de biblioth�conomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) de
la Faculte des arts et des sciences de l'Universite de Montreal is
seeking a full-time professor (at the assistant level) in the area of
electronic information management.

Description
The successful candidate will teach at the graduate level (master and
Ph.D. programs) and conduct research in electronic information
management more specifically in the areas of natural language
processing, text analysis and structured documents (SGML, XML). He or
she will supervise master's and doctoral research and may also teach at
the undergraduate level.

Qualifications
Ph.D. (completed or nearing completion) in information science,
computational linguistics, computer science or in a related discipline.
Aptitude for teaching and research. Excellent knowledge of French.

Salary
Based on the Universite de Montr�al collective agreement.

Starting date
January 1st, 2000

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, with names, addresses and
phone numbers and three referees letters, before June 30, 1999 to:
Dr Gilles Deschatelets, Directeur
Ecole de biblioth�conomie et des sciences de l'information
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville
Montreal (Qu�bec) H3C 3J7
CANADA

In concordance with the requirements of Immigration Canada, priority
will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
The Universite de Montreal is committed to an employment equity program
which includes special measures to ensure diversity among its faculty
and staff.
All teaching activities at the Universite de Montreal are conducted in
French.

For more information on EBSI, please consult our Web site:
http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/EBSI
_______________________

Message transmis sans accents. Ce message a �t� envoye a plusieurs
listes de diffusion, veuillez excuser les inconvenients qui en
r�sultent.

Pour afficher
professeure ou professeur a plein temps
L'Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) de
la Faculte des arts et des sciences de l'Universite de Montr�al est a la
recherche d'une professeure ou d'un professeur adjoint a plein temps
dans le domaine de la gestion de l'information electronique.

fonctions
Enseignement aux 2e et 3e cycles et recherche en gestion de
l�information electronique, plus specifiquement, dans le domaine du
traitement automatique des langues naturelles et de l�analyse des
donnees textuelles et des documents structures (SGML, XML). La personne
choisie sera appelee a encadrer et a superviser des recherches
doctorales et �ventuellement, a enseigner au 1er cycle.

exigences
Doctorat (Ph.D.) complete ou sur le point d'etre obtenu en sciences de
l'information, en linguistique informatique, en informatique ou dans une
discipline pertinente. Aptitudes a l'enseignement et a la recherche.
Excellente connaissance du francais.

traitement
Selon la convention collective en vigueur.

date d'entree en fonction
Le 1er janvier 2000.

Les personnes int�ress�es doivent faire parvenir leur curriculum vitae
accompagne de trois lettres de reference, au plus tard le 30 juin 1999 �
:
M. Gilles Deschatelets, Directeur
Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l'information
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville
Montreal (Qu�bec) H3C 3J7
Canada

Conformement aux exigences prescrites en matiere d'immigration au
Canada, cet avis s'adresse en priorite aux citoyens canadiens et aux
residents permanents du Canada.

L'Universite de Montreal souscrit � un programme d'acces a l'egalite en
emploi pour les femmes et aux principes d�equite en matiere d�emploi.

Pour en connaitre plus sur l'EBSI, vous pouvez consulter sa page web :
http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/EBSI/


--
Th�r�se Labelle-Audy
therese.labelle-audy at umontreal.ca
Secr�taire de direction - EBSI
Universit� de Montr�al
t�l�phone : 343-7400 ou 343-6111 p. 5103
t�l�copieur : 343-5753


_______________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  Jodi Scheffler <jodisch at microsoft.com>
   Subject:  NL Program Manager @ Microsoft/ Redmond, WA  USA


GROUP PROGRAM MANAGER



The Natural Language Group (NLG) is Microsoft's central organization for
development of advanced linguistic technology. This strategic and growing
group critical for making software easier for customers to use and central
to Microsoft's future. The features ship in all of Microsoft's key
applications and systems products, including Office, Windows and several
consumer apps. Enabling computers to understand natural language is a
difficult, fascinating, and critical task. Microsoft has amassed some of the
top linguists in the world and we are in the business of developing and
shipping high quality linguistic features such as grammars, and search
engines and eventually machine translation. The GPM position is responsible
for driving planning, design, schedules and integration of the NL features.
The ideal leader will coordinate with NLG's development and test
organizations, research, and the various client management teams. This
person will be responsible for driving and evangelizing smart design
strategies and influencing technical directions. Because of the technical
challenges associated with this position, the ideal candidate will have
broad experience in shipping technical products. Qualifications include a
minimum of 7 years program management experience including leadership and
management experience. Prior GPM experience preferred and bi-lingual and/or
linguistic skills are a plus. Software engineering background and strong
communication skills required. A BA/BS degree in Computer Science preferred.


Please send resume to SSolar at Microsoft.com

_______________________________________________________________________________

6/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk
   Subject: 3year PhD grants Leeds Uni


Please pass this on to local newsgroups for Undergrads/Masters students:

3-Year PhD Studentships at Leeds University, Yorkshire, England

The School of Computer Studies, Leeds University, has several 3-year
PhD studentships available, to include fees (UK or International as
appropriate) and living costs at standard (EPSRC) rates.
Applicants with interests related to current research topics are
particularly welcome, including:
Corpus-based Natural Language Processing
Data Oriented Parsing and its applications
Natural Language Learning
NLL applied to SETI: the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Automatic Indexing for Intelligent Document Retrieval
Speech and Language Technology for English Language Teaching

Candidates should have (or expect) a good Bachelors/Masters degree in
Computing, Linguistics, Mathematics or a related subject.
If interested, please contact Eric Atwell (eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk)
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, preferrably by June 10th 1999 -
please email summary of academic career including (expected) grades.

For more details, see:
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk  - School of Computer Studies
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/intro/ - about Leeds
http://www.accessnv.com/nids/JElliott_essay.shtml - NLL applied to SETI
http://www.worldoflanguage.com/atwell-1.htm - SALT applied to language teaching


Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, SOCRATES Coordinator,
 and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)
 School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
 EMAIL: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk  TEL: (44)113-2335761  FAX: (44)113-2335468
 WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html

_______________________________________________________________________________

7/ From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject: Studentship at Wolverhampton: multilingual anaphora resolution


RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP
(Current value of bursary � 6,500)

The University of Wolverhampton, School of Languages and European
Studies invites applications for a research studentship in
Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate will work on
a multilingual anaphora resolution project. We are looking for
candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics or
Computer Science, with excellent programming skills and some
experience in Natural Language Processing. Overseas candidates must
have a good command of English. All applicants must have
knowledge of a language other than English.

The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship
in September 1999.

For further information about the project, please contact
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk.

Formal applications must be made to:

The Research Support Unit
University of Wolverhampton
Dudley Campus
Castle View
Dudley
DY1 3HR

and must include a completed application form (to be requested from
Mrs. Lesley Barlow - tel. 01902 323317, Email L.Barlow at wlv.ac.uk),
a CV and a covering letter in which the candidates explain why they
apply for the studentship and give details of their research
interests/experience, background, programming skills and language
competence. (Please quote the reference number of the studentship
RS247).

Please note that the closing date for applications is 14 June 1999.


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Jun  4 09:18:43 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:18:43 +0100
Subject: Q: Journaux sur CD-ROM
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.101843.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:29:08 +0200
From: Nabil hathout <Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <37578044.2B065FE9 at univ-tlse2.fr>

Bonjour,
Je recherche des corpus de textes journalistiques en français, de
quotidiens, hebdomadaires ou mensuels, nationaux ou régionaux, diffusés
sur CD-ROM. On trouve assez facilement "Le Monde", "Le Monde
Diplomatique", "Le Soir" et "L'Express". En connaissez-vous d'autres ?
D'avance merci,
--Nabil Hathout


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun  4 14:23:23 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:23:23 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.152323.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Dale Gerdemann <dg at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Position Announcement

2/ From:  "Dr. Paul Roochnik" <paul at apptek.com>
   Subject:  Job: Computational Linguist
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Dale Gerdemann <dg at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Position Announcement



			Position Announcement

University of Tuebingen
Dept. of Linguistics
Division of Computational Linguistics


The Division of Computational Linguistics in the Dept. of Linguistics
at the University of Tuebingen, Germany is seeking applications for a
postdoctoral position (possibly extendable to pre-doctoral candidates)
to work in the area of automated language acquisition. Special
consideration will be given to applicants whose research involves
combining statistically-based and corpus-based methods with feature
structure-based grammars. Applicants working in other areas of
computational language learning are also encouraged to apply. The
position is to last until 4/2001.

This position is sponsored by the European Commision: Training and
Mobility of Researchers (TMR) and is part of the project
``Extending Computational Grammars by Learning'', coordinated by
Prof. John Nerbonne at the University of Groningen. The successful
candidate will be expected to interact with the postdoctoral researchers
at the other participating sites: University of Groningen, SRI
Cambridge, University of Antwerp, Trinity College Dublin, ISSCO Geneva and
Rank Xerox Grenoble. For details of the project see:

http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/lcg/

  The European Commision imposed funding restrictions on TMR
  postdoctoral positions: The postdoc must be 35 or
  younger and a European citizen, and must "cross a border" to accept
  the position.  This last point means: must not have worked more than
  18 of the last 24 months in the country in which they accept the
  position.  They further may not be a citizen of the country in which
  they accept the award. The salary is based on the Marie Curie Rates,
  for which see:

        http://www.cordis.lu/tmr/src/quest&an.htm#q14

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, statement of research
interests, up to three representative publications, and the names and
addresses (electronic and mail) of three references (whom we will
contact for letters, as needed), to:


Dr. Dale Gerdemann                       dg at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
Dept. of Linguistics                     Tel: +49 7071-29-74967
Section for Computational Linguistics     Fax: +49 7071-550520
University of Tuebingen
Kl. Wilhelmstr. 113
D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany

Applications should be submitted before June 30, 1999. Those
applicants who will be attending the EACL conference in Bergen may
meet with Dale Gerdemann there to discuss the project.

_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  "Dr. Paul Roochnik" <paul at apptek.com>
   Subject:  Job: Computational Linguist

Career Opportunity for a Computational Linguist:

L&H - AppTek, located in McLean, VA., (near Washington, DC) seeks a
computational linguist.  Relevant backgrounds include, but are not
restricted to the following:

* Text-to-Speech
* Approximate / fuzzy string matching techniques
* Statistical / probabilistic NLP approaches
* Information retrieval

Requirements:

* Ph.D. or A.B.D. in Computational Linguistics or related field (M.S.
  considered)
* Work experience involving computer programming
* Expertise in at least one language in addition to English
* U.S. citizenship

Pay: commensurate with your experience.

Send your CV by one of the following methods:

* e-mail:	mlewellen at apptek.com
* fax:		703-734-5703  attn: Dr. Mark Lewellen
* mail:		Dr. Mark Lewellen
		L&H-AppTek
		1420 Beverly Rd. #350
		McLean, VA 22101

Please find us at the ACL conference, to be held at the University of
Maryland, June 23-26.
----


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun  4 14:23:25 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:23:25 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLULP'99
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.152325.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr (Paul Sabatier)



                               2nd  CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                        Deadline for submissions: June 30, 1999

Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic
Programming
                                        (NLULP'99)

                                http://www.lim.univ-mrs.fr/NLULP99


DATES
-----
December 3-4, 1999

LOCATION
--------
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
NLULP'99 is co-located with the Sixteenth International Conference on Logic
Programming (ICLP'99)

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
---------------
Sandiway Fong  &  Paul Sabatier

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------
Harvey Abramson (STMS, Portland)
Sandiway Fong (NEC Research Institute, Princeton)
Claire Gardent (Univ. of the Saarland, Saarbruecken)
Jose Gabriel Lopes (New University of Lisbon)
Gerald Penn (SFB 340, Univ. of Tuebingen)
Monique Rolbert (LIM, Marseille)
Paul Sabatier (LIM, CNRS, Marseille)
Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse)
Shuly Wintner (IRCS, Univ. of Pennsylvania)

TOPICS OF INTEREST
------------------
Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on
all aspects of the intersection of Natural Language Understanding with
Logic Programming and (Logic) Constraint Programming.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION
---------------------------
Papers should be written in English, and describe original work. They
should emphasize completed work rather than proposed work. The state of
completion of reported results should be clearly indicated.

SUBMISSION FORMAT
-----------------
Submissions should be no longer than 15 pages (A4 format, 11pt), including
abstract, keywords and references. All contributions are to be made
electronically as uncompressed mime-encoded PostScript attachments. Please
send your submission to both of the co-chairs:

    Sandiway Fong : sandiway at research.nj.nec.com
    Paul Sabatier : Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr

PROCEEDINGS
-----------
On-Line Proceedings of NLULP'99 will be available on the Web from November
15, 1999.

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 1999
Acceptance notification:  September 13, 1999
Final version of papers:  October 11, 1999
On-Line Proceedings:      November 15, 1999
Workshop dates:           December 3-4, 1999


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


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun  4 14:23:33 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:23:33 +0100
Subject: Conf: TKE'99
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.152333.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Peter Sandrini" <Peter.Sandrini at uibk.ac.at>


Dear Sir/Madam,

the 5th International Conference on 'Terminology and Knowledge
Engineering TKE'99' will take place in about three months in
Innsbruck, Austria (August 23-27, 1999). We would like to inform you
that registration is open (deadline for cheaper registration is June,
30).

Registration:
PCO-Tyrol Congress
Rennweg 3, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone +43 512 575600
Fax   +43 512 575607
email: tyrol.congress at tirol.com

The conference is subdivided into 8 sections with about 80 speakers.
Main topics are Philosophy of Science and Terminology Studies,
Knowledge Resource Management and all aspects of interdisciplinary
research regarding knowledge engineering, information & documentation,
classification theory, hyper- and multimedia applications,
computerised terminography, specialized translation and
culture-related aspects of the multilingual information society.

You will find the detailed congress programme at
   http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html

Pre-conference workshops will be organized on Monday August 23 and
Tuesday August 24 with congress registration in the morning. The
workshops offer an application-oriented approach to key issues. The
main conference with two and three parallel sections begins on
Wednesday August 25 and closes on Friday August 27.

Venue of TKE'99:
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
http://www.uibk.ac.at

Organiser:
Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW)
Fischnalerstr. 4, A-6020 Innsbruck
http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at

The exhibition in the lobby of the conference rooms provides an
opportunity for vendors or developers of software systems and
publishing houses to show their products to a specific world-wide
audience. Please contact the exhibition organiser (deadline is June
30, 199): TermNet Simmeringer Hauptstr. 24 A-1110 Vienna, Austria
Phone +43 1 740 40 280 Fax   +43 1 740 40 281 email termnet at termnet.at

Looking forward to an interesting and stimulating conference

Yours sincerely

Peter Sandrini
(for the organising committee)


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun  4 14:23:37 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:23:37 +0100
Subject: Conf: Ijcai Workshop
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.152337.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jan Alexandersson <janal at serv-204.dfki.uni-sb.de>


Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.

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



		   Call for PARTICIPATION

	           IJCAI-99 Workshop NLP-2

	KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

		    Endorsed by SIGDIAL


The deadline for registration of participation is now on friday the 28:th of
May. (OBSERVE: this is done via E-mail to janal at dfki.de -- not only to the
main conference)

Please visit http://www.ida.liu.se/~nlplab/ijcai-ws.html for preliminary
program (coming up soon)


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun  4 14:23:35 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:23:35 +0100
Subject: Conf: Treebank workshop
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.152335.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr (Anne Abeille)


Treebanks workshop
Journee(s) Atala sur les corpus annotes pour la syntaxe

 Universite Paris 7
2 place jussieu Paris 5e
metro jussieu
amphi 34B (bottom of tower 34)

friday /vendredi 18 june/juin
9h30 welcome/ accueil
10h Geoffrey Sampson (U Sussex) Invited speaker
Susanne , Christine (and other saints): 20 years of corpus annotation
10h45 break/ pause
11h00 S Wallis (U London) Completing parsed corpora
11h40 J Carrol, G Minnen, T Briscoe (U Sussex, Cambidge)
       Corpus annotation for parser evaluation
12h20 lunch/dejeuner

14h20 A Bemova, J Hajic,  B Hladka, J Panenova (Prague) Syntactic tagging
of the  The Prague dependency Treebank
15h00 A. Bohmova, E Hajicova (Prague) How much of the underlying syntactic
structure can be tagged automatically ?
15h45 break/ pause
16h00 R Delmonte, E Pianta (U Venezia) TAG disambiguation in Italian
16h20 A Moreno, S Lopez (U Madrid) Developing a Spanish treebank
17h00 V Rocio et al (U Lisboa) A partially syntactically annotated corpus
por medieval portuguese

20h30 dinner

saturday / samedi 19 juin
10h00 T Brants et al (Sarrebruck) Syntactic annotation of a German
newspaper corpus
10h40  A Bredenkamp et al (Sarrebruck) Annotation of error types for German
corpus
11h20 break/pause
11h30   K-J Chen et al (Taiwan) The CKIP chinese treebank
12h10 lunch/ dejeuner

14h00 M Marciniak et al (Varsaw) Construction of an HPSG treebank for Polish
14h40 L Sadler et al (U Essex) Deriving an LFG grammar from treebanks
15h20  break/ pause
15h30 R Bod (U Leeds) Extracting stochastic grammars from treebanks
16h10 end

16h30 general meeting of  the ATALA

Organised as part of the ATALA conferences /
organise sous les auspices de l'Atala avec l'aide de Paris 7
Inscription gratuite /registration: free
Membership of Atala required / il est recommande d'adherer a l'Atala
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA

Organisation
Chair
A Abeille (Paris 7)

Program committee /
Comite de programme
A Abeille (Paris 7)
S Armstrong (Geneve)
R Basili (Roma)
P Blache (Aix)
J Carroll (Brighton)
B Habert (Fontenay)
E Hajicova (Prague)
E Wehrli (Geneve)
A Zaenen (Grenoble)

Proceedings / Actes
 L Roussarie (Talana Paris 7)

inquiries / questions
abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jun 10 08:49:10 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:49:10 +0100
Subject: Conf: DCAGRS'99
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.094910.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Bernd Reichel)


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


                                   Workshop


                         DESCRIPTIONAL COMPLEXITY

                 OF AUTOMATA, GRAMMARS AND RELATED STRUCTURES


                          July 20-23, 1999, Magdeburg

                            CALL for Participation


The WORKSHOP on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related
Structures" starts five days after ICALP '99 ends in Prague (appr. 300 km
from Magdeburg) and one day after WIA '99 ends in Potsdam (100 km east of
Magdeburg).

MAGDEBURG, which was founded 1200 years ago, is the capital of the German
state of Saxony-Anhalt and is situated appr. 120 km west of Berlin on the
banks of the river Elbe. Magdeburg is the site of the oldest German Gothic
cathedral, is the start and end point of the "Romanesque Road" (taking you
to many Romanesque buildings and being one of the historic main attractions
of Saxony-Anhalt), is famous for its parks and gardens and is the host of
the German Federal Garden Show '99 (which is part of the social program of
the workshop).


The PROGRAM of the Workshop consists of

    5 one-hour lectures
          by J. Gruska, A. Kelemenova, H. Leung, J. Shallit and S. Yu
    3 forty-five-minutes lectures
          by E. Csuhaj-Varju, K. Hashiguchi and H. Petersen
    13 submissions
          selected by the Program Committee.

The complete programm and further information can be seen at

     http://fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs/


The REGISTRATION FORM is included as an attachment. Please send it to

  Juergen Dassow
  Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg
  Fakultaet fuer Informatik
  Postfach 41 20
  D-39016 Magdeburg
  email: dcagrs at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de


The REGISTRATION FEE is

    140.- DM  if your registration form arrives before 1 July 1999
    160.- DM  if your registration form arrives after  1 July 1999
     50.- DM  for accompanying persons

and has to be paid at the registration office during the conference.

The workshop will take place on the campus of the Otto-von-Guericke
University of Magdeburg in Building 03, Room 308.
The Registration Office will be in front of the conference room.


The Organizing Committee has reserved a small number of ACCOMODATIONS in
the

   Hotel "Sleep and Go"   79.- DM per night and room
                          (Breakfast 7.- DM in addition)
                          10 minutes walk to the workshop site

   Bildungshotel  75.- DM per night and single room (including breakfast)
                  95.- DM per night and double room (including breakfast)
                  20 minutes walk to the workshop site

These rooms will be distributed following the queue principle:
   First come, first served.

Further hotels can be seen at the homepage of the workshop
   http://fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs/

We would like to invite you to participate in the workshop.

Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt)

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                        REGISTRATION FORM

Name:
Surname:

Address:

e-mail:

Accompanying persons:

Date of arrival:
Date of departure:

Hotelreservation: Hotel "Sleep and Go"        |   |

                  Bildungshotel single room   |   |
                  Bildungshotel double room   |   |  sharing with ......

(mark your wish by a cross between the lines;
note that the organizers were able to reserve only a small number of rooms;
thus it might be possible that we will not be able to serve you)

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jun 10 08:49:12 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:49:12 +0100
Subject: Ecole: Eurolan
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.094912.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Amalia Todirascu <amalia at thor.infoiasi.ro>



Take the registration NOW!
7 more days for early registration!

*****************************
The 4th EUROLAN Summer School
on Human Language Technology

"Lexical Semantics and Multilinguality"

and the related events:

"Workshop On Procedures In Discourse Interpretation"
"Exploring US-Romanian Potential Collaboration In Language Technology"

19-31 July 1999
Iasi - Romania

Early registration deadline: 14 June
Late registration deadline: 12 July

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

Consult the EUROLAN'99 pages:

http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan99/
http://bach.u-strasbg.fr/LIIA/todirascu/eurolan/index.html
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/eurolan/


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jun 10 08:49:13 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:49:13 +0100
Subject: Book: Syntactic Theory
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.094913.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: CSLI Publications <pubs at csli.Stanford.EDU>



CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of "Syntactic
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"Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction" is unlike any other introductory
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This "elegant" textbook focuses on the development of precisely formulated
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begins by exploring the inadequacy of context-free phrase structure
grammars, motivating the introduction of feature structures, types, and
type constraints as ways of expressing linguistic generalizations. Step by
step, the student is led to discover a grammar that covers the core areas
of English syntax that have been central to syntactic theory in the last
quarter century, including: complementation, control, 'raising'
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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Jun 11 22:22:52 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:22:52 +0100
Subject: Q: Correcteurs orthographiques et grammaticaux
Message-ID: <FRI.11.JUN.1999.232252.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:05:12 +0200
From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990610090512.007c69d0 at up.univ-mrs.fr>


Chers amis,

Dominique Laurent, de la société Synapse (développeur du correcteur
Cordial, maintenant intégré à MS Office 98) me fait parvenir la dépêche de
l'AFP ci-dessous. Il semblerait que certains journaux dont le Figaro se
soient fait largement l'écho de cette prise de position et soient tombés à
bras raccourcis sur les correcteurs. Quelqu'un en sait-il plus? Que faut-il
penser de tout cela? Bien sûr, la correction grammaticale n'est pas tout à
fait au point, mais elle progresse, et on pourait assassiner de la sorte à
peu près toutes les technologies du langage et de la parole dans leur état
actuel, et ainsi tuer les recherches dans l'oeuf... Outre l'aspect assez
dictateur du dernier paragraphe, auquel je suis particulièrement
allergique, il me semble que l'Académie n'ait pas été vraiment scientifique
dans sa méthode: le logiciel testé semble être relativement ancien, le fait
que les nouveaux correcteurs attirent désormais l'attention du rédacteur
par des questions ("ex: vérifiez l'accord entre x et y") au lieu de
proposer des corrections péremptoires n'est pas pris en compte, etc. Et
puis les correcteurs sont-ils faits pour corriger des textes littéraires,
surtout remontant au XVIe siècle? Enfin, tout ceci ne peut que créer un
amalgame dans l'esprit du public : s'il est vrai que les correcteurs
grammaticaux demandent encore du travail, il me semble que les correcteurs
orthographiques sont d'une utilité quotidienne pour la détection des fautes
de frappe et des fautes "d'usage" (combien de p à "développer"?) que nous
faisons tous.

Bref, il me semble que l'Académie prend une position manquant de nuances,
dangereuse pour notre discipline. Devons-nous répondre?

Jean Véronis
Professeur de Linguistique et Informatique
Université de Provence

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L'Académie française met en garde contre des logiciels de correction

   PARIS, 21 mai (AFP) - L'Académie française met "très gravement" en garde
contre les logiciels dits de "correction grammaticale" qui équipent la
grande majorité des ordinateurs du commerce.
   "Ces logiciels ne sont pas au point et leurs analyses prétendument
grammaticales sont le contraire de fiables", dit-elle dans un communiqué.
Cette mise en garde a été adopté à l'unanimité par l'Académie dans sa séance
de jeudi.
   L'Académie, qui a soumis à cette correction informatique des textes de
grands écrivains, échelonnés sur quatre siècles, déplore que "la machine
confonde régulièrement le pronom personnel indéfini "on" et le pluriel du
verbe avoir "ont".
   "La machine aligne le genre des articles ou des adjectifs sur le
substantif le plus proche : +resterai-je seul rue de Cheverus?+ (François
Mauriac). Remarque de l'ordinateur : "il faut écrire "seule" pour accorder
avec le féminin de rue", ajoute l'Académie.
   Dès que des auteurs - dont Victor Hugo et Paul Valéry - écrivent : "il
poursuivit", "j'entendis", "il suivit", "les noirceurs qui précédèrent",
"ces pensées s'enchaînèrent", "ils ont uniformément droit à cette réprimande
: éviter le passé simple", poursuit-elle.
   "Pour quelle raison l'informatique prétend-elle bannir un temps verbal si
nécessaire à toute narration et d'un emploi si constant dans toutes les
langues européennes?", s'interroge l'Académie. "Là, le coupable est le
spécialiste qui a nourri le logiciel" et qui "obéit à un préjugé",
précise-t-elle.
   "Si les moyens juridiques d'interdiction n'existent pas, ou pas encore,
l'Académie préconise que les autorités compétentes proscrivent l'usage de
tels logiciels dans les administrations, organismes publics et
établissements d'enseignement", conclut-elle.


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Jun 14 17:39:08 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:39:08 +0100
Subject: R: Correcteurs orthographiques et grammaticaux
Message-ID: <MON.14.JUN.1999.183908.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

[Courrier nombreux sur ce sujet brûlant -- pz]

    ________________________________________________________________
    1/Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 09:25:34 +0100
    From: Pierre Lebeux <Pierre.Lebeux at univ-rennes1.fr>
    ________________________________________________________________
    2/Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 17:31:22 +0200 (MET DST)
    From: Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr (Paul Sabatier)
    ________________________________________________________________
    3/Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:55:54 +0900
    From: Emmanuel Planas <planas at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>
    ________________________________________________________________
    4/Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:16:52 +0200
    From: Damien Genthial <Damien.Genthial at imag.fr>
    ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________
1/Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 09:25:34 +0100
From: Pierre Lebeux <Pierre.Lebeux at univ-rennes1.fr>
Message-Id: <v03020900b387c8619343F@[192.134.129.124]>

Bonjour

 Oui il faut surement repondre  ..."les académiciens sont des
[censuré -- pz :-}]" : la grande majorité des grands auteurs n'ont
jamais été academiciens soit par conviction soit parce qu ils etaient
trop en avance sur leur temps ...

plb

________________________________________________________________
2/Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 17:31:22 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr (Paul Sabatier)
Message-Id: <v01510101b38844b0b8cd@[139.124.5.96]>


Marseille, Samedi 12 juin 1999

Bonjour,

Une de fois de plus, nos chers académiciens débarquent. J'avais
complètement oublié qu'ils existaient. Heureusement qu'il y a encore des
gens comme cela pour nous dire que les correcteurs ne marchent pas très
bien.

Si j'avais à les rassurer, je leur dirais simplement que le mot
"correcteur" est mal choisi. Et je les inviterais à trouver une meilleure
dénomination.

J'en profite aussi pour faire deux propositions :

 - Si vous cherchez un nom pour le correcteur que vous êtes entrain de
développer, je vous propose de l'appeler : "L'académicien".

 - Je propose aussi de maintenir l'existence de l'Académie jusqu'à ce que
les correcteurs aient 100 % de réussite. (Il faut rassurer nos académiciens
sur le devenir de leurs fonctions).

Enfin, le concours est ouvert :

 - Afin de nous rappeler qu'ils existent, quel sera le prochain sujet
d'intervention médiatique de nos académiciens  ?

Bien cordialement,


Paul Sabatier

________________________________________________________________
3/Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:55:54 +0900
From: Emmanuel Planas <planas at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>
Message-Id: <3764531A.877C780C at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>


Bonjour,

Voici quelques e'le'ments de re'flexion:

Il me semble qu'une telle e'valuation n'a de valeur que dans la limite de son
protocole.
Il est certes clair que les correcteurs grammaticaux ne posse`dent pas
l'ensemble des connaissances ne'cessaires a` la correction des textes de notre
litte'rature classique. Quel e'crivain cependant, quel professeur de franc,ais
ira s'amuser a passer un correcteur orthographique sur du Mauriac ?
Voyons, il faut rester lucide: les correcteurs orthographiques / grammaticaux
ont pour but principal d'aider ces stakanovistes du vingtie`me sie`cle que sont
les re'dacteurs de documents techniques, administratifs ou commerciaux, a` qui
l'on ne peut demander de connai^tre par coeur le Bescherelle ou le Grevisse, ou
de passer plus qu'un certain temps par page. Pour ce type d'utilisateurs, de
tels correcteurs sont certainement utiles.
Je veux apporter ici le te'moignage d'utilisation de ces correcteurs dans
l'industrie de la langue. Dans les socie'te's de traduction, ceux-ci sont
utilise's quotidiennement: il est extre^mement rare qu'un  traducteur
(spe'cialiste, qui traduit vers SA langue maternelle) ne trouve pas de fautes
(typographiques ou orthographiques) dans son ouvrage. La seule chose dont se
plaignent vraiment ces socie'te's est le fait que ces corrections ne puissent en
ge'ne'ral pas se faire par lots: un seul fichier a` la fois peut e^tre
traite'....
L'autre aspect de ce proble`me est bien une question de mobilisation de
l'opinion publique, et de nos de'cideurs en particulier: a` par Synapse
(Toulouse), d'ou` proviennent les correcteurs orthographiques du marche' ? He
bien, il faut faire appel a` nos cousins canadiens (Machina Sapiens Le
Correcteur, ..) ..ou...a l'Oncle Sam (Correcteur integre' de Microsoft Word).
Comment la France pourrait-elle rester pre'sente ne serait-ce que par sa langue,
si notre vitrine institutionnelle saborde l'industrie et la recherche
linguistiques par de telles affirmations .....

Emmanuel Planas.

--
Dr Emmanuel Planas
Multilingual Machine Translation Group, Intelligent Media Project
NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratory
2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan
Tel: +81 (0)774-93-5327
Fax: +81 (0)774-93-5345
Email: planas at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp

________________________________________________________________
4/Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:16:52 +0200
From: Damien Genthial <Damien.Genthial at imag.fr>
Message-Id: <v04020a00b38a67f82a77@[172.26.7.19]>


Chers collègues,

A propos de la dépêche de l'AFP sur la position de l'Académie Française
vis-à-vis des correcteurs grammaticaux :

Je crois que nous devons en effet répondre car la position de l'Académie
Française sur ce sujet me paraît très très réductrice et assez indigne
d'une institution dont la rigueur scientifique devrait être irréprochable,
surtout pour donner des conclusions aussi tranchées. Or il n'est fait
aucune mention du nombre de correcteurs testés (tous ne donnent pas le même
résultat ?), ni de leur nom.

Et même si je suis assez d'accord avec certaines conclusions (pourquoi ne
pourrait-on pas employer le passé simple ?), je crois qu'il ne faut pas
laisser sans réponse un communiqué aussi péremptoire. Pour être efficace,
je pense que la réponse devrait être relayée par nos associations (ATALA,
SPECIF ?, autre ?). On peut faire une simple lettre ou monter un dossier
scientifique plus complet avec comparaison commenté des différents
correcteurs et de leurs objectifs, mais c'est pas mal de boulot.

Qu'en dites-vous ?

Cordialement,
Damien Genthial.
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TRILAN/CLIPS/IMAG,   (mardis et jeudis) | IUT de Valence     (les autres jours)
Tél : 04 76 51 49 15                    | Tél : 04 75 41 88 00


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jun 23 09:08:37 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:08:37 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 7 offers
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.100837.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Lars Borin <Lars.Borin at ling.uu.se>
   Subject:  Lecturer in Computational Linguistics

2/ From: Tony Rose <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
   Subject: [E-Job] Information Retrieval Researcher

3/ From:  pierre.thillen at systran.lu
   Subject:  Computational Ling: System Admin at Systran Luxembourg SA

4/ From:  "Brona Collins" <Brona.Collins at lhs.be>
   Subject:  German Computational Ling at Lernout & Hauspie (Belgium)

5/ From:  teruko+ at cs.cmu.edu
   Subject:  German Machine TranslationT Developer at Carnegie Mellon

6/ From:  "Jeffrey P. Kaplan" <jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu>
   Subject:  Computational Ling; Tenure-track at San Diego State

7/ From:  Ernst Buchberger <ernst at ai.univie.ac.at>
   Subject:  Human Language Technology
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Lars Borin <Lars.Borin at ling.uu.se>
   Subject:  Lecturer in Computational Linguistics


Job announcement
Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Dept. of Linguistics, Uppsala
University, Sweden
Ref.no. 2930/99

Duration: 1st September 1999 - 31st July 2001

Description: Teaching and course development in Computational
Linguistics on the four-year Master's program in Language Engineering
(http://stp.ling.uu.se), particularly in the areas of Formal and
Computational Grammar (morphology, syntax, and parsing), and
Computational Lexicography.

The applicant should have experience of research and teaching in the areas
mentioned, as well as course administration and course development.

Applications (in two identical sets) should contain
- CV, incl. certified photocopies of relevant documents
- a brief account of scientific and pedagogical achievments
- publication list
- publications

For further information, contact Professor Anna Sagvall Hein:
anna at ling.uu.se or Director of Studies Lars Borin:
Lars.Borin at ling.uu.se

The application should be addressed to Uppsala University and sent to the
address:
Uppsala University, The Registrar, Box 256, SE - 751 05, Uppsala, SWEDEN,
fax no +46 18 471 2000. If the application is sent by fax, the originals
must be submitted by regular mail as soon as possible.

The deadline for applications is 28th June 1999.


About the Department of Linguistics and the Language Engineering program

There are several completed and ongoing research projects in Computational
Linguistics/ Language Engineering at the department, e.g.:
- A controlled-language/computer-aided translation project in cooperation
with Swedish truck manufacturer Scania.;
- SCARRIE, an EU project aiming at the development of Scandinavian
proof-reading tools for newspapers and publishing houses, in our case a
grammar checker for Swedish newspaper text;
- PLUG and ETAP, two projects where the extraction of linguistic
information from parallel translation corpora is investigated

There is also research going on in the areas of machine learning of natural
language, computational grammatical and semantic formalisms, and computer
aids for the learning of computational and general linguistics.

Since 1994, we offer a four-year Master's program in Language Engineering,
where we accept 20 students per year. There are two and a half years of
common courses, in formal linguistics, mathematics, computer programming
(Prolog, web programming and Unix shellscripts), and CL/LE. After this, the
students specialise into areas such as machine translation, language
revision tools, CALL, speech technology, or computational tools for
language engineering.


_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________2/ From: Tony Rose <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
   Subject: [E-Job] Information Retrieval Researcher


2/ From: Tony Rose <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
   Subject: [E-Job] Information Retrieval Researcher


Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) has two positions for top quality
researchers in its Core Technology Division. Applications from
experienced researchers or recent PhDs/exceptional graduates are
invited for the following roles:


1. Senior Information Retrieval Researcher
------------------------------------------
Job Specification:
 - to perform research & development on advanced information
   retrieval, multimedia, natural language processing &
   user interface technology.
	
 - to initiate and develop first class research projects in
   multimedia information retrieval.
	
Requirements:
 - first class academic background: PhD (or equivalent research
   experience) in information retrieval, natural language processing
   or closely related discipline

 - track record of proven initiative in starting and developing
   new research projects

 - the ability to work with product development groups for
   technology transfer

 - excellent software engineering skills in a variety of
   languages including C/C++

Desirable:
 - experience of working in industry

 - strong publication record

 - expertise in the areas of:
 	* speech recognition
 	* multimedia
	* HCI


2. Information Retrieval Researcher
-----------------------------------
Job Specification:
 - to perform research & development on advanced information
   retrieval, multimedia, natural language processing &
   user interface technology.	

 - to develop and maintain prototypes, demonstrators, tools
   and product-level software in advanced information retrieval,
   natural language processing and user interface technologies.

Requirements:
 - first class academic background: honours degree in computer
   science or related discipline with strong computational component

 - excellent software engineering skills in a variety of
   languages including C/C++ and ideally Java

 - willingness and enthusiasm to implement and evaluate new
   research ideas

 - ability to pick up new skills and ideas rapidly

Desirable:
 - higher degree in a relevant discipline

 - experience of working on commercial software projects

 - expertise in the areas of:
 	* information retrieval
 	* natural language processing
 	* user interfaces
 	* databases
 	* C++ standard template library


Canon has over 75,000 employees worldwide. Since its foundation, Canon
has moved forward towards its objective of being the manufacturer of
the best products in the world. While pursuing the pinnacle of quality,
we have taken the lead in developing electronic and automation
technologies to enhance the ease of use of our products. One key to
Canon's success has been the spirit of meeting new technological
challenges and at CRE you will have the opportunity to play a
significant part in this. We offer an excellent working environment
and a competitive salary and benefits package.

For further details on CRE and these job opportunities, please consult
our web pages at:

    http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr TG Rose (tgr at cre.canon.co.uk).
To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter to arrive by
Monday 12 July to:

    Paula Mason (recruitment)
    Canon Research Centre Europe Limited
    1 Occam Court
    Surrey Research Park
    Guildford
    GU2 5YJ
    United Kingdom

    fax:   +44 (0) 1483 448845
    email: sljobs at cre.canon.co.uk

Because of British law, preference will be given to applicants who
already have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  pierre.thillen at systran.lu
   Subject:  Computational Ling: System Admin at Systran Luxembourg SA


SYSTRAN LUXEMBOURG SA , an MT company based in Luxembourg at

          12, rue de Vianden
           L - 2680 Luxembourg

involved in the development of the SYSTRAN machine translation system has
an immediate opening for


          1) one full-time  system administrator

Function:
Responsible for system administration and development (UNIX, C)
and network supervision (Internet, Intranet)

Profile:
University-level qualification in computer science
Knowledge of C programming language and the UNIX development environment
(make, CVS)
Knowledge of Perl would be a plus
Good knowledge of English


          1) one full-time linguist

Function:
This person will be responsible for the maintenance and development of the
German-French language pair

Profile:
University degree in linguistics or languages
Native French speaker
Excellent knowledge of German

The following  would be considered advantageous:
Knowledge of English
Experience in human translation
Experience in programming, preferably C
Experience in natural language processing
Knowledge of German linguistics


If you are interested in either of these job opportunities and you
feel you meet the requirements, please send your CV to the above
address or e-mail it to info at systran.org


_______________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  "Brona Collins" <Brona.Collins at lhs.be>
   Subject:  German Computational Ling at Lernout & Hauspie (Belgium)

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is a global leader in advanced
speech and language solutions for computers, cars, telecommunications,
embedded products, consumer goods and the internet. The company makes
the speech user interface (SUI), the keystone of simple, convenient
interaction between humans and technology, and uses advanced
translation technology to break down cultural barriers. The L&H team
is 1700 people in 25 countries. The headquarters are located in Ieper,
Belgium.

For the development of German language and speech technology, Lernout
& Hauspie is currently looking for a

                           Language Specialist German
                         for the Corporate R&D Division
                           located in Ieper (Belgium)

Function:
This  person  will  work  on  the development of systems in the field of
natural language processing, speech recognition and speech synthesis.
He/she will work in a language development group and report to the group or
project manager.

Profile:
*    university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent
*    (near-)native German
*    interest in other languages and their linguistic aspects
*    good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:
     - speech processing, esp. text-to-speech synthesis
     - phonetics
     - computer linguistics
     - natural language processing (NLP)
     - spoken dialog systems
     - computer technology
     - programming
     - other languages than the target language
*    ability to work in a team and independently
*    perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
*    good social and communicative abilities
*    willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time

If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to
fulfil the required profile, we have to meet each other.  Please send
your hardcopy application and detailed resume to:

               Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
               Personnel Department
               Attn. Mrs. Ann De Somere
               Flanders Language Valley 50
               B-8900 Ieper
               BELGIUM

To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our
homepage  http://www.lhs.com .  You may also want to send an e-mail
to <job-announce at lhs.be>


_______________________________________________________________________________


5/ From:  teruko+ at cs.cmu.edu
   Subject:  German Machine TranslationT Developer at Carnegie Mellon


US-PA-Pittsburgh Software Developer, Machine Translation (German), CMU

The KANT project at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie
Mellon University, is seeking a talented and energetic individual for
the position of Research Programmer.

KANT is a large-scale software system for technical document
translation. The chosen applicant will be responsible for the
following tasks:

 * Work with project leaders to define workplan and schedule for
   German module development, deployment and maintenance

 * Supervise and participate in the development and maintenance of each
   knowledge source for German (lexicon, grammar, interpretation
   rules, etc.)

 * Integrate German knowledge sources into run-time delivery modules

 * Participate actively in testing and quality assurance

 * Maintain a responsive and professional relationship with customer
   personnel

The successful applicant will have the following qualifications:

 * Native fluency in German

 * Good communication skills in English

 * A degree in Computer/Information Science (or related field), or
   equivalent experience

 * Software development experience in the Unix environment

 * Some coursework in linguistics or computational linguistics

 * Experience communicating and working productively within a
   development group

Occasional Travel Required

Starting Salary Negotiable

For more information on KANT project: http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant/

Contact:	Teruko Mitamura			Phone: (412) 268-6596
		Language Technologies Institute	Fax:   (412) 268-6298
		Carnegie Mellon University	EMail: teruko+ at cs.cmu.edu
		Pittsburgh, PA 15213
		USA

Candidates should send a letter of application, a current resume,
letters of reference, and representative samples of their
work. Resumes, cover letters, etc. may be submitted via EMail in
ASCII, Microsoft Word, or Postscript form. Resumes may also be
submitted by fax or regular mail, but EMail is preferred. Letters of
recommendation must be faxed or mailed directly from the
recommender. Code samples may be submitted via EMail attachments or
via web pointers.


_______________________________________________________________________________

6/ From:  "Jeffrey P. Kaplan" <jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu>
   Subject:  Computational Ling; Tenure-track at San Diego State


LINGUISTICS & ORIENTAL LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

Subject to funding, the Linguistics and Oriental Languages Department
of San Diego State University invites applications for a tenure-track
faculty position in computational linguistics.  Rank open. Required:
Ph.D. in linguistics or related field; record of research or practice
in computational linguistics; interest and ability in building a new
computational linguistics program within a linguistics department,
beginning with development of and teaching a new course in Introduction
to Computational Linguistics and other new courses such as Natural
Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Machine Translation,
Information Retrieval, and Speech Recognition; interest and ability in
teaching non-computational linguistics courses including introduction
to linguistics and advanced courses in at least one of the following
areas: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, morphology,
phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics.


Send applications to include cover letter, CV, at least three letters
of recommendation, and sample publications to:

Dr. Jeff Kaplan,
Search Committee Chair,
Dept of Linguistics and Oriental Languages
San Diego State University,
San Diego, CA 92182-7727
Phone: 619-594-5879

The department will begin reviewing applications on September 15, 1999
and continue until the position is filled.


SDSU is an Affirmative-Action/Equal Opportunity/Title IX employer and
does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion,
national origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age, or
disability.  Women, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities
are encouraged to apply.

_______________________________________________________________________________

7/ From:  Ernst Buchberger <ernst at ai.univie.ac.at>
   Subject:  Human Language Technology

JOB OPPORTUNITY
        3 Research positions in Human Language Technology
 at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI),
                        Vienna, Austria

We offer 3 positions in OeFAI's Natural Language Processing Group. The
successful applicants will participate in the basic research projects
described below which are funded by the Austrian Science Foundation
(FWF).
The projects are headed by Ao.Prof.Harald Trost.

Positions are open for candidates having a degree in computational
linguistics, or digital signal processing, or computer science plus a
background in linguistics.  All positions are to be filled as soon as
possible.

The yearly gross salary for these positions will be ATS 260.000 for
candidates without PhD and ATS 360.000 for PostDocs before taxes
according to FWF regulations. PhD students are encouraged to realize
their
PhD within the project.

A good command of English and/or German is expected. For non EU citizens
a residence permit is required.

OeFAI is the leading Austrian research institute in the field of
Natural Language Processing. It is situated in the center of Vienna.
Apart from excellent research facilities, Vienna offers many
possibilities
for all kinds of sports and cultural activities.

More information about the OeFAI and its Natural Language Processing
group can be found at http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nlu/
Inquiries and applications (including a short CV and list of
publications) should be sent by mail or email to:

Harald Trost
OeFAI
Schottengasse 3
A-1010 Wien, Austria
Tel.: +43 1 4277-63121
Fax:  +43 1 5336112-77
Email: harald at ai.univie.ac.at
A copy of applications by email should be sent to ernst at ai.univie.ac.at
as well.
________________________________________________________________________

Position 1 (Junior Researcher/PhD Student or Postdoc):

The candidate should have strong interest in corpus-based linguistics
and parsing. The candidate will be affilitated to a project that aims
at investigation and exploitation of lexicalization phenomena in
parsing. Lexical information shall be used in stochastic parsing to
increase accuracy and to gain processing efficiency.

She/he has a degree in
- computational linguistics or
- computer science or a comparable study,
  with a background in linguistics.

She/he has experience in
- corpus-based linguistics and/or
- (shallow) parsing and
- basic statistics or information theory.

She/he has good programming experience, preferably in C and/or C++.

The candidate will join an ongoing project which runs till the end of
2001. Continued employment after the end of the project is
possible.
_______________________________________________________________________


Position 2 (Junior Researcher/PhD Student or Postdoc)

The candidate will participate in a project in the area of
multimodal interfaces that investigates the role of speech
in multimodal interaction with texts, in particular web-based news
texts.
During the course of the project, a corpus will be
collected and evaluated. Work on the actual system will include
development of the language processing and web tools
as well as usability testing.

The candidate has a degree in
- computer science,
  preferably with a background in multimedia presentation, or
- computational linguistics,
  preferably with knowledge in dialogue processing, or
- linguistics, with a strong background in
  empirical analysis of spoken utterances,
  and programming experience.

The candidate will join a project that starts in July 1999 and runs
until
2002. Continued employment after the end of the project is possible.
______________________________________________________________________


Position 3 (Junior Researcher/PhD Student or Postdoc)

The candidate will participate in a project in the area of speech
synthesis
that aims at the investigation of segmental durations in German.

A speech corpus of "Austrian German" is constructed and subsequently
analyzed using machine learning techniques in order to derive models
of durational variation. From a theoretical point of view the project
aims for a better understanding of the quantitative effects of the
multiple factors influencing duration in speech. From a practical
point of view the results will be used in order to improve the
naturalness of prosody in a speech synthesis program.

Candidates are to deal with one or more of the following tasks:
- development of procedures and tools for supporting the
  (semi automatic) labeling and representation of the corpus
- adaption and application of machine learning techniques
- integration of resulting models to an existing speech synthesizer

She/he has a degree in
- computational linguistics, or
- phonetics, or
- digital signal processing, or
- computer science plus a background in linguistics.

She/he has programming experience, preferably in C and/or C++.

The candidate will join an ongoing project which runs till the end of
2001. Continued employment after the end of the project is possible.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ernst Buchberger, Dept. of Med.Cybernetics & Artificial Intelligence,
University of Vienna,     Freyung 6,          A-1010 Vienna,  Austria
and Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,   Vienna
+43-1-4277-63117 (tel), +43-1-4277-9631 (fax),  ernst at ai.univie.ac.at


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jun 23 09:11:59 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:11:59 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 2 studentships
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.101159.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: John A Barnden <J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk>
   Subject: PhD Studentship in: computation and metaphor

2/ From: Richard Evans <in6087 at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject: Research Studentship at Wolverhampton: multilingual
	    anaphora resolution
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: John A Barnden <J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk>
   Subject: PhD Studentship in: computation and metaphor



((Sorry if you receive this more than once))


                       School of Computer Science
                      The University of Birmingham
                             United Kingdom

                          RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP
                        funded by an EPSRC Grant

                           for PhD studies in
                      Computational Linguistics on
                       METAPHOR AND RELATED ISSUES

             (the related issues include parsing, corpus studies,
              handling of other types of non-literal language,
                uncertain reasoning, and belief reasoning)


NOTE: There are funding restrictions concerning non-UK students.
      Please see below.



Under a recently awarded research grant from the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK (EPSRC), we seek a suitably
qualified and motivated research student. The student would start as
soon as possible after mid-September 1999, but qualifications,
background, goals and enthusiasm for the area of the grant are more
important than timing constraints, within reason. The student would be
supervised by Prof. John Barnden (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab). The
selected student would work in close interaction with a Research
Fellow, Mark Lee (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl), as well as with John
Barnden.

The project is centred on the further development of an already
implemented approach to the handling of metaphorical utterances and the
complex uncertain reasoning they entail, and on new research ramifying
from that approach.

We seek students willing to engage in research of the following
illustrative types: further development and expansion of the implemented
reasoning system and its principles; research directed at producing a
natural language front-end or back-end to work with the reasoning
system; machine translation of metaphorical language; research on other
non-literal phenomena such as metonymy, especially with regard to their
relationships to metaphor; corpus-based and/or lexicon-based analysis of
metaphorical and other non-literal phenomena in real discourse;
corpus-based processing of metaphor etc; use of large-scale lexicons or
ontologies in metaphor processing; uncertain reasoning techniques that
may be appropriate to metaphor processing; belief reasoning issues
related to metaphor; mathematical complexity analyses of algorithms of
interest in the grant; development of formalizations of our approaches;
metaphor in forensic linguistics; metaphor in education; metaphor in HCI.

That is not an exhaustive (albeit exhausting!) list.  We believe that a
prime qualification of research students is that they should be
self-motivated, and we welcome further topic suggestions that are
sufficiently well connected to the research planned under the grant.  In
particular, we would welcome suggestions for inter-disciplinary studies:
for instance, ones that test the existing approach by means of
psychological experiment, or that strengthen links with related work in
cognitive linguistics. However, such interdisciplinary research would
have to involve substantial computational elements (whether practical or
theoretical) in order to lead to a successful PhD dissertation in our
School.

Naturally, we strongly prefer candidates with backgrounds in Computer
Science, Artificial Intelligence or Computational Linguistics. However,
other candidates are encouraged to apply if they are interested. Such a
candidate, if selected, might be required to undertake additional study in
those areas.

The School of Computer Science has research strengths in the fields of
Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science, Theoretical Computer
Science and Software Engineering.  The School's other research in
Natural Language Processing has involved work in the subareas of speech
acts, story understanding, speech synthesis and recognition, sign
language morphology and unification grammar parsers.  Research in the
School on non-linguistic AI topics related to our grant includes work on
automated reasoning, uncertain reasoning, diagrammatic reasoning,
intelligent agent architectures and emotions.

The School has a flourishing research culture in which there is frequent
interaction between people working in different areas, and between our
AI/Cognitive-Science researchers and researchers in other Schools.
There are exciting possibilities for interaction with the following
parts of our University among others:

  CORPUS RESEARCH GROUP (http://www.clg.bham.ac.uk/)
  COBUILD(http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/)
  FORENSIC LINGUISTICS GROUP (http://www-clg.bham.ac.uk/forensic/)
  EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP
      (http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/sharplem/manage.htm#lab)
  METAPHOR researchers in the Department of English, School of Education, and
  elsewhere.



Applications and Further Information
------------------------------------

There is no closing date for applications, but early applications are
advisable.  Applicants must have or be about to gain at least an upper
second class honours degree, or an overseas equivalent, in a suitable
area (see above).

NOTE FOR NON-UK STUDENTS: The EPSRC will pay tuition fees but NOT
maintenance costs for students coming from outiside the UK. Also,
students are required to have a "relevant connection" to the European
Union -- please see

   http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/Documents/Guides/Students/Annex1.htm



The School's research student prospectus, application form, and
instructions on how to apply are available from:

     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/studentinfo/form_mailer.html

Applicants, especially from outside the UK, should also carefully study
relevant portions of

     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pjh/prospectus/funding/research.html


To find out more about the research activities of the School see:

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/system/auto-gen/staff.html
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/research.html


If you have an adiministrative question which is not answered in the
documents cited above, please email admissions at cs.bham.ac.uk.

For questions about the nature of the EPSRC grant research and other
academic matters, please email John Barnden (J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk).


The University and City
-----------------------

The University of Birmingham is a major civic university founded in 1900
with about 18,000 students of whom about 25% are postgraduates.  It is
both research-led and research-leading.

The university is located on a pleasant and spacious campus, in a leafy
area a few miles south of the recently redeveloped City Centre and yet
only a short drive away from beautiful countryside. The campus has a
small railway station adjacent to it, connecting to the city centre and
to towns south of Birmingham. The city is well placed for access to all
parts of the UK, and is two hours by rail from London.  It has an
international airport.

The city boasts excellent programmes of classical music, ballet and
theatre. Also, Stratford-upon-Avon with its world-renowned theatrical
productions is only a 40-minute drive from the campus.  The University
also offers high-quality artistic, theatrical and musical venues.

The university's Central Information Service manages a web page
providing information about the university and the city
(http://www.bham.ac.uk).

_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Richard Evans <in6087 at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject: Research Studentship at Wolverhampton: multilingual
	    anaphora resolution



RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP
(Current value of bursary �6,500)

The University of Wolverhampton, School of Languages and European
Studies invites applications for a research studentship in
Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate will work on
a multilingual anaphora resolution project. We are looking for
candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics or
Computer Science, with excellent programming skills and some
experience in Natural Language Processing. Overseas candidates must
have a good command of English. All applicants must have
knowledge of a language other than English.

The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship
in September 1999.

For further information about the project, please contact
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk.

Formal applications must be made to:

The Research Support Unit
University of Wolverhampton
Dudley Campus
Castle View
Dudley
DY1 3HR
Email L.Barlow at wlv.ac.u

and must include a completed application form
( http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/Res17.doc ),  a CV and
a  covering letter in which the candidates explain why they
apply for the studentship and give details of their research
interests/experience, background, programming skills and language
competence. (Please quote the reference number of the studentship
RS247).

Extended closing date for applications: 28 June 1999.


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jun 23 09:13:17 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:13:17 +0100
Subject: Appel: IWPT-2000
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.101317.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Harry.Bunt at kub.nl (Harry Bunt)



In view of the closeness of the original dates (December 20-22, 1999) to
the millenium change, which may cause inconveniencies, the dates of IWPT'99
have changed to February 23-25, 2000. IWPT'99 thus becomes IWPT 2000.
Below is the updated Call for papers, with revised time table.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

                  C a l l   f o r   P a p e r s

                            IWPT 2000

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

                     Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE

                        23-25 February, 2000
                          Trento, Italy
                              ~~~~


The ITC-IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research)
in Trento, in the North of Italy, will host the 6th International
Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2000) from 23 to 25 February,
2000.

IWPT 2000 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing
technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on
Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989.
The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed
by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and
Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
in 1995; and Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997.

More information can be found on the IWPT 2000 home page at:

        < http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >


Topics of interest for IWPT 2000
--------------------------------
Theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural
language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences,
speech input, multi-dimensional (pictorial) language, and parsing issues
arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Both grammar-based and
statistical approaches are welcome.


Submitting Papers
-----------------
Prospective authors are invited to send full papers to the IWPT 2000
programme chairman John Carroll. Papers must be in the format given
at the IWPT 2000 home pages (see below). Papers should not exceed 12
pages. Submission is electronically, in postscript form.
Send papers to:

                 iwpt2000 at cogs.susx.ac.uk

All submitted papers will be reviewed by the programme committee.

Deadline for paper submission	: November 5, 1999
Notification of acceptance	: December 3, 1999
Final papers due		: January  7, 2000

In addition to the papers that will be accepted for full length
presentation, papers may be accepted for poster presentations
(two pages in the proceedings).


Instruction for authors
-----------------------
Instructions for authors can be found at URL:
< http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >
or can be obtained from the programme chairman.


Programme Committee
-------------------
Robert Berwick (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Bob Carpenter (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA)
John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) (chair)
Ken Church (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA)
Mark Johnson (Brown University, Providence, USA)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Ronald Kaplan (Xerox, Palo Alto, USA)
Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto, USA)
Bernard Lang (INRIA, Paris, France)
Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands)
Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Grenoble, France)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento, Italy)
Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Masaru Tomita (Stanford University, USA)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, Newark, USA)
David Weir (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Mats Wiren (Telia Research, Stockholm, Sweden)


Organization
------------
General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Programme Chair: John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK)
Local Arrangements Chair: Alberto Lavelli (IRST, Trento, Italy)


Sponsors
---------
SIGPARSE, Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for
          Computational Linguistics
AI*IA, Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence


Further information
-------------------
Information about IWPT 2000 can be found at the URL:

      < http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >

At this site you can also obtain information about previous IWPTs,
proceedings and SIGPARSE related activities.



--
------------------------------------------------------
 Harry C. Bunt
 Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
 Dean, Faculty of Arts
 Tilburg University
 P.O. Box 90153
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
                     2568 (Dean's office)
                     2653 (office, room B 310)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
 Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
-----------------------------------------------------------


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jun 23 09:14:46 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:14:46 +0100
Subject: Ecole: SCIE'99
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.101446.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: SCIE99 <scie99 at info.uniroma2.it>



********************** **********************  **********************
Apologies if you get this call more than once via mailing lists
*********************** ********************** **********************

FINAL CALL

Call for Participation School on Information Extraction SCIE99
Frascati(Rome), June 28, July 3, 1999  http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it/

*******

IMPORTANT NEWS

EXTENDED registration deadline: June 28

*******
The Artificial Intelligence group of the Department of Computer Science,
Systems and Production of the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), in
cooperation with the Italian Association of Artifical Intelligence (AI*IA),
is pleased to announce the second Second edition of the School on
Information Extraction (SCIE99), to be held in Frascati (Roma), Italy, from
June 28 to July 3, 1999 . The school provides a forum for researchers and
practitioners with different background and expertise, to discuss ideas and
describe experiences in defining and implementing IE systems.  To maximize
interaction among SCIE-99 participants, the attendance will be limited to
80 persons.

CONTENTS
The school is organized as a set of lectures held by internationally renown
experts from the different disciplines concerning IE themes. These lectures
are explicitly meant to address interdisciplinary issues and will introduce
common goals, needs and problems of the different approaches. Demo sessions
on current IE technologies and systems will be also held at the school.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Jean Pierre CHANOD (XEROX Research Centre Europe, FR)  "Natural Language
Processing and Digital Libraries"
Veronica DAHL (Simon Fraser Univ. CA)  "From Speech to Knowledge"
Maria Teresa PAZIENZA (Univ. Rome Tor Vergata, IT)  "Engineering IE
systems: an Object Oriented approach"
Harold SOMERS (UMIST, UK)  "Knowledge extraction from bilingual corpora"
John SOWA (Westchester Polytechnic Univ. USA)  "Relating Templates to
Language and Logic"
Marc VILAIN (The MITRE Corporation, MA, USA)  "Inferential Information
Extraction"
Ellen VOORHEES (NIST, MD, USA)  "Natural Language Processing and
Information Retrieval"
Yorick WILKS (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)  "Can we make Information Extraction
more adaptive?"
The speakers contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

SCHOOL VENUE
The school will be hosted by the European Space Agency at ESRIN
establishment. Thanks to this hospitality, we hope to reach a friendly
atmosphere as in the past edition of the school, which enabled fruitful
exchanges of ideas among participants.
The School will be held in the pleasant atmosphere of the historic city of
Frascati (near Rome, Italy)
____________________________________________________________________________
__
Any information for SCIE-99 participation (registration fees,
accommodation, lectures, demos, ...) may be found at the school web page

http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it
____________________________________________________________________________
__
SCIE-99 Program Commettee:
* Luigia Carlucci Aiello (Univ. of Roma La Sapienza)
* Elisa Bertino (Univ. of Milano)

* Maria Teresa Pazienza (Univ. of Roma, Tor Vergata) (chair)
* Domenico Sacca' (Univ. of Calabria)
* Lorenza Saitta (Univ. of Torino)
SCIE-99 Organizing Committee:
- R. Basili (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) (chair)
- C. Cardani (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
- M. Di Nanni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
- M. Vindigni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
- F. Zanzotto (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
School e-mail: scie99 at info.uniroma2.it
--------------------------------------------------
For more information contact:
prof. Maria Teresa Pazienza
Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production
University of Roma, Tor Vergata
Via di Tor Vergata  00133 ROMA (ITALY)
tel: +39 06 72597378 (office);
fax +39 06 72597460;
e_mail: pazienza at info.uniroma2.it
--------------------------------------------------

SCIE99
Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Management
University of Roma Tor Vergata
Via di Tor Vergata
00133 Roma (ITALY)
Phone: +39 06 72597378
FAX: +39 06 72597460
Web site:http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it
e-mail: scie99 at info.uniroma2.it


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jun 23 09:15:56 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:15:56 +0100
Subject: Divers: English 2000
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.101556.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk


The British Council's "English 2000" futurologist project has commissioned
a report on the potential impact of Speech And Language Technology (SALT)
on English Language Teaching (ELT).  A *DRAFT* of this report is at
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/nlp/papers/atwell99draft.doc

This report is inevitably constrained by my limited knowledge of SALT and ELT.
The report is due to be launched next month, for distribution to the ELT
industry worldwide.  If you know of relevant products, case studies, etc
which you think should be mentioned, please let me have details (including
URLs and/or publication references) as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance for any useful contributions,

Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, SOCRATES Coordinator,
 and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)
 School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
 EMAIL: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk  TEL: (44)113-2335761  FAX: (44)113-2335468
 WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html














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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun 25 15:21:20 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:21:20 +0100
Subject: Job: 1 Offer
Message-ID: <FRI.25.JUN.1999.162120.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: John Bateman <bateman at uni-bremen.de>


WITH APOLOGIES FOR POSSIBLE MULTIPLE DELIVERIES
=============================================



Researcher/Communicator: Genre and Layout in Multimodal Documents

We are seeking a Researcher/Communicator to join our team on the
ESRC-funded
project Genre and Multimodality (GeM): a computer model of genre in
document
layout. The post will be based at the University of Stirling, but the
project is a collaboration with John Bateman (University of Bremen) and
Patrick Allen (University of East London). The post is fixed-term for 24
months, to begin as soon as possible. Salary will be within Grade 1A of
the
Research and Analogous staff salary structure (�15735 to �23631) p.a.

The project aims to capture in a computer model the knowledge that
experts
draw upon in designing and laying out pages or runs of pages. The genre
of a
page �?whether it's an encyclopaedia entry, a set of instructions, or a
Web
page, for example �?plays a central role in determining what graphical
devices are chosen and how they will be employed in illustrated
documents.
The project is intended to model exactly what this role is, and how the
different purposes of the document are expressed through graphical
resources. The resulting model will allow alternative and novel layout
genres to be explored through automatic generation.

We need a lively, practical, expert communicator with initiative and
team
spirit who can entertain ideas from publishing design, psychology,
artificial intelligence, art history, linguistics, and pretty much
anywhere
else, and who can use and develop happy working relationships outside
academia. The successful candidate will work with layout professionals
and
with a corpus of sample layouts to synthesise expertise in document
design,
drawing both on their own experience of layout and on the expertise of
publishing professionals whose involvement the postholder in particular
will
co-ordinate. The postholder will be someone who's constantly in dialogue
with the research team and the user groups to ensure that the project
results are based in the real-world constraints of commercial document
production. The second key role of the postholder will be to design and
implement a Web presence for the project that dynamically reflects the
state
of our knowledge about layout, and for this reason you will need, or be
able
to acquire very quickly, skills with modern web-based tools, and a
knowledge
of HTML, XML, Java and emerging standards in document layout. The post
will
also involve:

                �       collecting and scanning an appropriate corpus
                        of illustrated documents
                �       developing an annotation system for marking
                        up layout characteristics and applying it to
                        the corpus
                �       comparative analysis of documents to work
                        out how they differ, and relating differences to
                        a model of genre
                �       discussing results and eliciting expert
knowledge
                        from user groups of publishers and other
                        layout experts
                �       drafting reports and papers, and presenting and
                        publicising our results

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr. Judy Delin, the project
co-ordinator (01786 467974, email j.l.delin at stir.ac.uk). Further
particulars
are available from the Personnel Office, University of Stirling,
Stirling,
FK9 4LA, tel: (01786) 467028, fax (01786) 466155 or email
personnel at stir.ac.uk. Closing date for applications: 19 July 1999.






Dr Judy Delin
Department of English Studies
and
Centre for Research in Communication and Language
University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Phone: +44 1786 467974
Fax: +44 1786 466201 (F)
Email: j.l.delin at stir.ac.uk


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun 25 15:21:24 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:21:24 +0100
Subject: Ecole: ESSLLI'99
Message-ID: <FRI.25.JUN.1999.162124.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: ESSLLI 1999 <esslli99 at let.uu.nl>


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    ESSLLI'99--Call for Participation--Web Update

    From August 9-20, the 11th European Summer School in Logic,
    Language and Information is being held at Utrecht University.
    The summer school offers an intensive two-week programme with
    courses (introductory to advanced), workshops, a student session,
    and plenary evening lectures. The ESSLLI'99 faculty consists
    of 80 top researchers in the field. In addition to the scientific
    programme, recruitment activities are being organized by the
    ESSLLI industrial sponsors. There is also a social programme.

    Detailed information is available via the ESSLLI'99 web site at

    http://esslli.let.uu.nl

    The web site has just been updated with full programme details
    (including the workshops and the student session). On the
    ESSLLI'99 web site, you can register on-line, and arrange
    local accommodation.

    The registration fee is 450 NLG (Dutch Guilders) for students,
    700 NLG for academic participants and 1200 NLG for industrial
    participants. Accommodation in the comfortable student residence
    halls is 410 NLG for two weeks. See the web page for other
    options. Do not hesitate to register NOW, if you want to be
    sure of a place to stay!

    We hope to see you in Utrecht this Summer!

    Contact address:

        ESSLLI'99
        Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
        Trans 10
        3512 JK Utrecht
        The Netherlands
        e-mail: esslli99 at let.uu.nl
        tel: +31-30-2536183
        fax: +31-30-2536000


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun 25 15:21:26 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:21:26 +0100
Subject: Livre: Text Summarization
Message-ID: <FRI.25.JUN.1999.162126.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jud Wolfskill <wolfskil at MIT.EDU>



The following is a book which readers of this list might find of
interest.  For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MANDHF99


Advances in Automatic Text Summarization<bold>

</bold>edited by Inderjeet Mani and Mark T. Maybury


With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web and electronic information
services, information is becoming available on-line at an incredible
rate. One result is the oft-decried information overload. No one has
time to read everything, yet we often have to make critical decisions
based on what we are able to assimilate. The technology of automatic
text summarization is becoming indispensable for dealing with this
problem. Text summarization is the process of distilling the most
important information from a source to produce an abridged version for
a particular user or task.


Until now there has been no state-of-the-art collection of the most
important writings in automatic text summarization. This book presents
the key developments in the field in an integrated framework and
suggests future research areas. The book is organized into six
sections: Classical Approaches, Corpus-Based Approaches, Exploiting
Discourse Structure, Knowledge-Rich Approaches, Evaluation Methods, and
New Summarization Problem Areas.


Contributors<underline>

</underline>D. A. Adams, C. Aone, R. Barzilay, E. Bloedorn, B.
Boguraev, R. Brandow, C. Buckley, F. Chen, M. J. Chrzanowski, H. P.
Edmundson, M. Elhadad, T. Firmin, R. P. Futrelle, J. Gorlinsky, U.
Hahn, E. Hovy, D. Jang, K. Sparck Jones, G. M. Kasper, C. Kennedy, K.
Kukich, J. Kupiec, B. Larsen, W. G. Lehnert, C. Lin, H. P. Luhn, I.
Mani, D. Marcu, M. Maybury, K. McKeown, A. Merlino, M. Mitra, K. Mitze,
M. Moens, A. H. Morris, S. H. Myaeng, M. E. Okurowski, J. Pedersen, J.
J. Pollock, D. R. Radev, G. J. Rath, L. F. Rau, U. Reimer, A. Resnick,
J. Robin, G. Salton, T. R. Savage, A. Singhal, G. Stein, T.
Strzalkowski, S. Teufel, J. Wang, B. Wise, A. Zamora.


8 1/2 x 11, 416 pp., 150 illus., cloth 0-262-13359-8


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     |       Jud Wolfskill

 |||||||     Associate Publicist                 Phone:  (617)
253-2079

 |||||||     MIT Press                           Fax:  (617) 253-1709

 |||||||     Five Cambridge Center               E-mail:
wolfskil at mit.edu

      |      Cambridge, MA  02142-1493
http://mitpress.mit.edu


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun 29 09:02:13 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:02:13 +0100
Subject: Conf: MOL6
Message-ID: <TUE.29.JUN.1999.100213.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jennifer MacDougall <jmacdoug at central.cis.upenn.edu>


Please post and distribute.
[Apologies for multiple copies]



           Sixth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL6)
                        July 23-25, 1999
                  University of Central Florida
                         Orlando, Florida


For more information, including information on how to register
and all aspects of local arrangements, please visit the MOL6 local
arrangements website at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~jrogers/MOL6/mol6local.html.


THURSDAY 7/22

 6:00 pm   Opening Reception, Harley Hotel


FRIDAY 7/23

 9:00- 9:30 Generative Capacity of Multi-modal Categorial Grammars
		Gerhard Jager, Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

 9:30-10:00 Some remarks on the geometry of grammar
		Marc Dymetman, Xerox Research Center

10:00-10:30 Partial Proof-Nets and minimalist representations
	         Alain Lecomte, LORIA, Nancy, France

10:30-11:00 AM Break


11:00-11:30 A cubic Time Extension of Context-Free Grammars
		 Pierre Boullier, INRIA, France

11:30-12:00 Context Free Recognition with Weighted Automata
		 Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs

12:00-12:30 Modularized Context-Free Grammars
	         Shuly Wintner, Institute for Research in
                 Cognitive Science (IRCS), U. Penn

12:30- 2:00 LUNCH Break


 2:00- 2:30 Relaxing Underspecified Semantic Representations for
            Reinterpretation
		 Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, Kristina Striegnitz
		 Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany

 2:30- 3:00 On Conditional Information in Feature-Based Theories
		 Rainer Osswald, University of Hagen, Germany

 3:00- 3:30 A Quasi-Ring Construction for Compiling Attributed
	    Type Signatures
		 Gerald Penn, Universitat Tubingen

 3:30- 4:00 PM Break

 4:00- 4:30 Taming Complexity: Constraint-Based Dependency Parsing
		Denys Duchier, Univeristy of the Saarland

 4:30- 5:00 Tabulation of Automata for Mildly Context-Sensitive Languages
		 Miguel A. Pardo, David Cabrero Souto
                 (Universidad de La Coruna, Spain) Eric de la
                 Clergerie (INRIA, France)

 5:00- 5:30 Models of tabulation for TAG parsing
                 Mark-Jan Nederhof, Saarbrucken, Germany

 5:30- 7:30 Educational Session
	     Co-Chairs: Robin Clark, UPENN and Larry Moss, Indiana University
		
SATURDAY 7/24


 9:00- 9:30 Variables, interpretations and Quine-like combinators
		 Robin Clark, Dept. of Linguistics, U. Penn. and
                 Natasha Kurtonina, IRCS

 9:30-10:00 The Algebraic Semantics of Questions
		 Rani Nelken and Nissim Francez, Dept. of Computer Science,
                 The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

10:00-10:30 A note on a certain class of quantifier denotations in
	    natural language
		 Robin Clark, Dept. of Linguistics, U. Penn. and
                 Tom Morton, Computer Science, U. Penn.

10:30-11:00 AM Break

11:00-11:30 Generalized Tree Adjoining Grammar
		 James Rogers, School of Computer Science, University
                 of Central Florida

11:30-12:00 C-Command and Extraction in Tree Adjoining Grammar
		 Robert Frank (Dept. of Cognitive Science, Johns
                 Hopkins) Seth Kulick (IRCS), K. Vijay-Shanker
                 (U. Delaware)

12:00-12:30 Exploring the Underspecified World of Lexicalized
	    Tree Adjoining Grammars
		 K. Vijay-Shanker (U. Del), David Weir (Univ. of
                 Sussex)

12:30- 2:00 LUNCH Break

 2:00- 2:30 Context-sensitive node admissibility revisited
		Dick Oehrle, Department of Linguistics and
                Cognitive Science program, University of Arizona

 2:30- 3:00 Synchronous Parallelism Between Different Grammar Formalisms
		Mark Dras, Dept. of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia

 3:00- 3:30 A Dynamic Event Semantics for the Analysis of Verbs and
	    Voice-Affixes in Tagalog
	        Ralf Naumann, Anja Latrouite, Seminar fur
                Algemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

 3:30- 4:00 PM Break


 4:00- 4:30 Regular Description of Cross-Serial Dependencies
		Hans-Peter Kolb, Uwe Moennich, and Frank Morawietz
		
 4:30- 5:00 Propositional Tense Logic for Trees
		Adi Palm, Dept. of General Linguistics, Univ. of Passau

 5:00- 5:30 The Horn Subset of systemic networks
		Jo Calder, HCRC, University of Edinburgh

 7:00 pm    Banquet Dinner and Business Meeting, Harley Hotel

SUNDAY 7/25

 9:30-10:00 Contextual Automata
		 Carlos Martin-Vide, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
                 and Language Engineering, Spain

10:00-10:30 A Polynomial Parser for Contextual Grammars
		 Karin Harbusch, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

10:30-11:00 Combing Contextual Grammars and Tree Adjoining Grammars
		 Martin Kappes, Fachbereich Informatik, Johann
                 Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Germany

11:00-11:30 AM Break

11:30-12:00 Zipf's law outside the middle range
		 Andras Kornai, PPD Informatics/Belmont Research

12:00-12:30 Language learning via Martingales
		 Charles Yang, AI Lab MIT and Sam Gutmann,
                 Dept. of Mathematics, Northeastern Univ.

12:30- 1:00 A Local Maxima method and a Fair Dispersion Normalization for
            extracting multi-word units from corpora
		 Jaoquim Ferreira de Silva and Gabriel Pereira
                 Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun 29 09:02:14 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:02:14 +0100
Subject: Conf: TKE'99
Message-ID: <TUE.29.JUN.1999.100214.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Peter Sandrini" <Peter.Sandrini at uibk.ac.at>


Dear Sir/Madam,

registration for the 5th International Conference on 'Terminology
and Knowledge Engineering TKE'99' which will take place in about two
months in Innsbruck, Austria (August 23-27, 1999) is open.

We would like to inform you that the deadline for cheaper
registration is about to end on June, 30. If you would like to come
to TKE'99 please take advantage of reduced registration fees
and send in your registration
(http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html#Registration) today!

Registration:
PCO-Tyrol Congress
Rennweg 3, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone +43 512 575600
Fax   +43 512 575607
email: tyrol.congress at tirol.com

The conference is subdivided into 8 sections with about 80 speakers.
Main topics are Philosophy of Science and Terminology Studies,
Knowledge Resource Management and all aspects of interdisciplinary
research regarding knowledge engineering, information & documentation,
classification theory, hyper- and multimedia applications,
computerised terminography, specialized translation and
culture-related aspects of the multilingual information society.

You will find the detailed congress programme at

   http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html

Pre-conference workshops will be organized on Monday August 23 and
Tuesday August 24 with congress registration in the morning. The
workshops offer an application-oriented approach to key issues. The
main conference with two and three parallel sections begins on
Wednesday August 25 and closes on Friday August 27.

Venue of TKE'99:
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
http://www.uibk.ac.at

Organiser:
Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW)
Fischnalerstr. 4, A-6020 Innsbruck
http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at

The exhibition in the lobby of the conference rooms provides an
opportunity for vendors or developers of software systems and
publishing houses to show their products to a specific world-wide
audience.
Please contact the exhibition organiser (deadline is
also June 30, 1999): TermNet Simmeringer Hauptstr. 24 A-1110 Vienna,
Austria Phone +43 1 740 40 280 Fax   +43 1 740 40 281 email
termnet at termnet.at
or fill out the online form at
http://www.termnet.at/tke99_regform.htm

Looking forward to an interesting and stimulating conference

Yours sincerely

Peter Sandrini
(for the organising committee)


-----------------------------------
see also:
Terminology Summer School August 5 - 8, 1999, Krems (Austria)
http://www.termnet.at/frm_tss99.htm

Training of Terminology Consultants, August 09-11, 1999, Krems
http://www.termnet.at/frm_tsc99.htm
-----------------------------------


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:59:34 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:34 +0100
Subject: Conf: EMNLP/VLC-99
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135934.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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



           Joint SIGDAT Conference on
 EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
                    and
              VERY LARGE CORPORA


               June 21-22, 1999
           University of Maryland
            College Park, MD, USA

          Immediately preceding ACL-99


Preregistration deadline:  May 31, 1999


Full 2-day program is available on line:

   http://www.ee.ust.hk/~pascale/emnlpwvlc99.html

with ACL-99 and registration information available at:

   http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99/


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:59:22 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: IV PROPOR
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135922.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Tony Berber Sardinha" <tony4 at uol.com.br>


Announcing

IV PROPOR: COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING OF WRITTEN AND SPOKEN PORTUGUESE

20-21 September 1999, Evora, Portugal

*  Importante dates:
15 June: deadline for submission of papers and software demonstrations
30 July: notification of acceptance
1 July: deadline for submission of final version of papers

* Submissions
Texts must be written in Portuguese, formatted for A4 paper, double-spaced,
12 point font, 15 pages maximum. Include on first page: title, author's
full name, institution, address, and abstract. Remaining pages should not
make direct reference to the authors. Texts may be submitted by email.

* Address for submissions

Send 4 hard copies or email paper to:

Jos? Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Departamento de Inform?tica, FCT/UNL
Quinta da Torre
2825-114 Caparica
Portugal
E-mail: gpl at di.fct.unl.pt

-------------------------------
Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
tony4 at uol.com.br
http://sites.uol.com.br/tony4/homepage.html
http://homepages.infoseek.com/~corpuslinguistics/homepage.html
-------------------------------


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:59:15 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:15 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLE Special Issue
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135915.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at adler.ims.uni-stuttgart.de>



                             CALL FOR PAPERS


                      Natural Language Engineering

                             Special Issue on

     Best Practice in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Engineering



NLE SPECIAL ISSUE AS A DISC INITIATIVE

A special issue on Best Practice in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
Engineering will be published by the journal of Natural Language
Engineering (NLE; Cambridge University Press) in the beginning of
2000. This issue is an initiative of the European Esprit project DISC
(June 1997-December 1999), formally called "DISC Spoken Language
Dialogue Systems and Components. Best practice in development and
evaluation". The main goal of DISC is to identify current practice in
the development and evaluation of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
(SLDSs) and their components, in order to come to a definition of best
practice. DISC intends to contribute to the establishment of dialogue
engineering guidelines to be used by different target groups, among
others developers, deployers and customers.


BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES

The interest in SLDSs has increased enormously over the last few
years: at present there is a large number of systems available many of
them for commercial use; the number is growing rapidly and so is the
variety of functionalities and domains of application. These
developments have led to a situation in which there is a great need,
shared by developers, deployers and customers alike, for effective
guidelines, which will enable them to make well-formed design and
implementation decisions, in accordance with broad consensus of what
must be 'best practice' in this particular engineering domain.

The purpose of this special issue is to bring together leading views on
what might be considered to be best practice in the development and
evaluation of SLDSs. We are aware that this is a delicate notion - what
constitutes best practice depends on the kinds and complexity of tasks
the SLDSs are to perform (e.g., with increasing task complexity, the
need for improved dialogue control requires more sophisticated control
of input speech and input language processing) and on a number of
other constraints on SLDS development, having to do with resources
available for system development, the constraints imposed by the
different groups involved (e.g., developers' constraints, customer
preferences and user group defined constraints), etc. So, we would
like to take as a starting point a definition of best practice relative
to factual constraints imposed on SLDS development.


THEME

In agreement with the main goal of DISC, the general theme for the
special issue is what could be taken as best practice in SLDS
engineering, given the availability of different technological options
with their inherent merits and limitations which are subject to
different constraints on system (component) realization.

We are interested in new, high quality papers which address, along the
lines of the objectives above, one or more of the following issues:

(i)  best practice in the development and evaluation of SLDSs as a
     whole or

(ii) best practice in the development and evaluation of one or more of
     the following system aspects, as well as of the interaction between
     them:

     -  speech recognition
     -  speech synthesis
     -  natural language understanding and generation
     -  dialogue management
     -  human factors
     -  system integration

All papers should fall within the scope of NLE, as described in the
instructions for contributors to the journal. This mainly implies that
the research views, comparative discussions, etc. described in the
papers must have a clear potential for practical application, in this
particular case meaning that they contribute to guidelines for SLDSs
best practice  (see also the NLE web page, the reference of which is
given below).


SUBMISSIONS

Submissions to the special issue should be in line with the NLE style
sheet, which is obtainable via the NLE web page. The length of a paper
should be 10-12 journal pages. Electronic submissions should be sent
as a postscript file by e-mail to the co-ordinating special issue
editor. Alternatively, 6 hardcopies can be sent to the editorial
address given below. The deadline for submission is September 1, 1999.

Authors are asked to e-mail a short statement of their intention to
submit a paper to the co-ordinating special issue editor before
July 15, 1999.


REVIEW PROCEDURE

All papers, both those submitted by members of DISC and from outside
the project, will be double reviewed and triple reviewed if necessary.


The review committee consists of seven members of the DISC consortium,
one member of the DISC Advisory Panel, three members of the NLE
editorial board and a group of ten external referees. In case of a
very large number of submissions the review committee will be extended
accordingly.

-  DISC referees:

   Niels Ole Bernsen (Odense University, Denmark)
   Laila Dybkjaer (Odense University, Denmark)
   Lori Lamel (CNRS-LIMSI, France)
   Patrick Paroubeck (CNRS-LIMSI, France)
   Inger Karlsson (KTH Stockholm, Sweden)
   Simon Thornton (Vocalis Ltd, Cambridge, UK)
   Paul Heisterkamp (DaimlerChrysler Research Center Ulm, Germany)

-  DISC Advisory Panel:

   Susann Luperfoy (IET, USA)

-  NLE referees:

   Peter Bosch (IBM Scientific Centre Heidelberg, Germany)
   Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, USA)
   Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)

-  External referees:

   James Allen (University of Rochester, USA)
   Robin Cooper (University of Goeteborg, Sweden)
   James Glass (MIT, USA)
   Julia Hirschberg (ATT Labs Research, USA)
   Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California, USA)
   Stephen Isard (University of Edinburgh, UK)
   Lauri Karttunen (Rank Xerox Research, France)
   Karen Sparck Jones (Cambridge University, UK)
   David Traum (University of Maryland, USA)
   Marilyn Walker (ATT Labs Research, USA)


IMPORTANT DATES

-  Intention to Submit Due Date: 15 July, 1999

-  Paper Due Date: September 1, 1999

-  Revision Due Date: December 15, 1999

-  Acceptance Date: January 2000

-  Publication Date: February/March 2000


SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS

The special issue editors are the IMS group participating in the DISC
project:

Jan van Kuppevelt (co-ordinating editor)   kuppevelt at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Ulrich Heid	                           heid at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Hans Kamp	                           kamp at ims.uni-stuttgart.de

Editorial Address:

NLE Special Issue
c/o Jan van Kuppevelt
Institute for Computational Linguistics (IMS)
Azenbergstrasse 12
D-70174 Stuttgart
Germany

Tel.:  +49 711 1211357 or 6574548
Fax:   +49 711 1211366


FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for Special Issue:
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/NLE_special_issue/    (under construction)

Web site for NLE: http://www.cup.org/journals/jnlscat/nle/nle.html

Web site for DISC: http://www.elsnet.org/disc/


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:59:08 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: Corpora and NLP (ACIDCA)
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135908.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

Please post : apologies for multiple copies.


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


               "Corpora and Natural Language Processing"

                        ACIDCA'2000 session

                Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000


                            Organised by:

                   University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)

            Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)


                            Sponsored by:

                              IEEE SMC

				co-sponsored by:

                                TSS

                            Supported by:

               Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific

                   Research and Technology (SERST)


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





General

-------


The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in

a number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for

the design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications
but

also for their evaluation.


"Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part

of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational

Intelligence for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and

Industrial Systems (ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000,

visit
<underline><color><param>0000,0000,fefe</param>http://www.chez.com/acidca2000)</color></underline>
. The session

"Corpora and NLP" will be organised as a workshop with its own

Proceedings and Programme Committee.


The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken

corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP.



Main Topics

-----------


We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following

topics:


* Lexicography

* Lexical knowledge acquisition

* Part of Speech Tagging

* Unknown word guessing

* Term recognition

* Morphological Analysis

* Robust Parsing

* Word Sense Disambiguation

* Anaphora Resolution

* Discourse segmentation

* Machine Translation

* Agreement Error Correction

* Spelling and Grammar Correction

* Information Extraction

* Automatic Abstracting

* Text Categorisation

* Speech processing

* Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications

* Corpus annotation

* Evaluation


Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus

processing techniques are welcome.



Honorary Chairs

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


Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific

                    and Technological Research


Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)


Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley



General Chairs

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


Adel Alimi,

National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)


Lamia Belguith Hadrich,

LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science

and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)


Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,

LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science

and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)



Programme Committee

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


Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair


Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom)

Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)

Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)

Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville)

Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)

Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis)

Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris)

Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon)

Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen)

Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble)

Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg)

Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York)

Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)

Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis)

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)

Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal)

Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh)

Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris)

Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)

Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona)

Mike Rosner (University of Malta)

Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille)

Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen)

Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)

Keh-Yih Su  (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei)

Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)

Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill)

Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki)



Local Organising Committee

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



Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs

H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax),

Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax),

Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes),

Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax),

Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax),

Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax),

Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis),

Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)


International Organising Committee

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


Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray

(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs

Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan),

Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),

Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany),

Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany),

Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France),

Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University),

Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA)

Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA)

Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France)

Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)

Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)

Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain)



Submission Guidelines

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


Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be

written in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures,

tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature

title, author's name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by

keywords and an abstract.


Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following

address :


ACIDCA'2000  (Corpora & NLP Session)

Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe,

BP 120, 3049 Sfax

Tunisia


In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of

keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk and

copied to  l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn


The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme

Committee.


Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce the

camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings.



Schedule

--------


Paper Submission Due: 1 October 1999

Notification of Acceptance : 10 December 1999

Camera-ready Paper Due : 10 January 1999

"Corpora and NLP" Session : 22-24 March 2000



Further information

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


Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants

to attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as

the exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call

for Papers.


There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials

will be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are

finalised.


ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories:

Best Paper, Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper.


The social programme will be announced in the second call for papers.



For any Information

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


Please contact :


Lamia Belguith

e-mail: l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn

Fax: (216) 4 296 229


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:59:11 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:11 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135911.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Enrico Franconi <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>



[An HTML version of the Call for Proposals  will be available via the
 FoLLI  page  <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2000/esslli-2000.html>.
 Usual apologies apply if you receive multiple copies of this message]

   Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                               ESSLLI-2000
              August 6-18, 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain

                           CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and
Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation.
Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops
cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic,
Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language,
Language and Logic.  Previous summer schools have been highly
successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere.
The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for
discussion for students and researchers interested in the
interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information.  ESSLLI-2000
is organised under the auspices of the European Association for Logic,
Language and Information (FoLLI).

The ESSLLI-2000 Programme Committee invites proposals for foundational,
introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 12th
annual Summer School on a wide range of topics in the following fields:

  Logic                Language                Computation
  Language and Logic   Logic and Computation   Language and Computation

In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student Session. A
Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed separately.

The Programme Committee welcomes proposals in all of the above areas.


PROPOSAL SUBMISSION:
All proposals (subject: ESSLLI-2000) should be submitted by electronic
mail to the program chair, Enrico Franconi at <franconi at cs.man.ac.uk>,
in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible, but no later than July 4,
1999.  Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision
no later than September 15, 1999.  Proposers should follow the
guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that
deviate substantially will not be considered.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:
Anyone interested in lecturing or organising a workshop during
ESSLLI-2000, please read the following information carefully.


FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming
any background knowledge.  The number of foundational courses will be
4-6.

Foundational courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist
of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

 Timetable for Foundational Course Proposal Submission

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities
of the Summer School.  They are intended to equip students and young
researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and
techniques, and to allow experienced researchers from other fields to
acquire the key competences of neighbouring disciplines, thus
encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research
community.  The introductory courses in the three basic disciplines
should provide introductions to the field for non-specialists (an
introductory course on logic, for instance, should address linguists and
computer scientists, not logicians).  Introductory courses in the
interdisciplinary fields, on the other hand, can build on knowledge of
the respective fields (an introductory course in computational
linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics
of linguistics and computation).

Introductory courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist
of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the
course as compared to standard texts in the area.  For ease of reference
a list of standard texts will be made available electronically.

 Timetable for Introductory Course Proposal Submission

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of
advanced Masters or PhD students.  Proposals for advanced courses should
specify the prerequisites in some detail.

Advanced courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist of
five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

  Timetable for Advanced Course Proposal Submissions

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced
Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work.
A workshop has a theme.  At most one organiser is paid.  The organisers
should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general
introduction in the first session.  They are also responsible for the
programme of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers.

Each workshop organiser will be responsible for producing a Call for
Papers for the workshop by November 15, 1999.  The call must make it
clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community. It
should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the
Summer School.

A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop) or ten
sessions (a two-week workshop).  Sessions are normally 90 min.

  Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions

    Jul  4, 1999: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 1999: Notification
    Nov 15, 1999: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers
    Dec  1, 1999: Send out Call for Papers
    Mar 15, 2000: Deadline for Papers (suggested)
    May  1, 2000: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested)
    May 15, 2000: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Programme
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of ws notes
    Jun  1, 2000: Deadline for Final Workshop Programme


FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS:
Please submit your proposal in the following format:

Name:         ---  Name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.

Address:      ---  Contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.
                   Where possible, please include phone and fax
                   numbers.

Title:        ---  Title of proposed course/workshop.

Type:         ---  State whether this is a workshop, an foundational
                   course, an introductory course, or an advanced
                   course.

Section:      ---  Which of the  six sections (Language, Logic,
                   Computation, Logic & Computation, Language
                   & Computation or Language & Logic) does the
                   proposal belong to? Please just name one.

Description:  ---  A description of the proposed contents.
                   Not more than 150 words.

External      ---  State whether (and if so: how) you will be able to
funding:           find external funding to subsidise your travel and
                   accommodation expenses.

Further       ---  Any further information that is required by the
particulars:       above guidelines should be included here.


FINANCIAL ASPECTS:
Prospective lecturers and workshop organisers should be aware that all
teaching and organising at the summer schools is done on a voluntary
basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible.
Lecturers and organisers are not paid for their contribution, but are
reimbursed for travel and accommodation.  In case of two lecturers, a
lump sum is paid to cover travel expenses.  The splitting of the sum is
up to the lecturers.  (However, please note that the organisers
appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers/organisers find
alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.)

Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School;
however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced rate to
be determined by the Organising Committee.

Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the
world are welcomed, the Summer School can only afford to reimburse
travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe to Birmingham.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  Enrico Franconi (chair)
  Attn: ESSLLI-2000
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Manchester
  Oxford Rd.
  Manchester M13 9PL, UK
  Tel: +44 (161) 275 6170
  Fax: +44 (161) 275 6204
  Email: franconi at cs.man.ac.uk

    Mary Dalrymple (Language)
     Matthias Baaz (Logic)
       Nada Lavrac (Computation and Logic)
       Mark Hepple (Language and Computation)
        Achim Jung (Computation)
  Reinhard Muskens (Logic and Language)


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
  Achim Jung (chair)
  Email: A.Jung at cs.bham.ac.uk


FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
To obtain further information, please visit the web site for
ESSLLI-2000 <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2000/esslli-2000.html>.


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun  1 12:50:40 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:50:40 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 7 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.135040.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Mark Lewellen" <mlewellen at apptek.com>
   Subject: Computational Linguist

2/ From: pvanmeurs at tegic.com
   Subject: Job announcement Computational Linguist

3/ From: Sandra Kuebler <kuebler at kamke.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Job Opening: Corpus Linguist

4/ From: Therese Labelle-Audy <therese.labelle-audy at UMontreal.CA>
   Subject: full-time professor - EBSI/Universite de Montreal

5/ From:  Jodi Scheffler <jodisch at microsoft.com>
   Subject:  NL Program Manager @ Microsoft/ Redmond, WA  USA

6/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk
   Subject: 3year PhD grants Leeds Uni

7/ From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject: Studentship at Wolverhampton: multilingual anaphora resolution
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Mark Lewellen" <mlewellen at apptek.com>
   Subject: Computational Linguist

Career Opportunity for a Computational Linguist:

L&H - AppTek, located in McLean, VA., (near Washington DC)
seeks a computational linguist.  Relevant backgrounds include,
but are not restricted to the following:

* Text-to-Speech
* Approximate / fuzzy string matching techniques
* Statistical / probabilistic NLP approaches
* Information retrieval

Requirements:

* Ph.D. or A.B.D. in Computational Linguistics or related field
   (M.S. considered)
* Work experience involving computer programming
* Expertise in at least one language in addition to English
* U.S. citizenship

Pay: commensurate with your experience.

Send your CV by one of the following methods:

* e-mail:	mlewellen at apptek.com
* fax:	703-734-5703  attn: Dr. Mark Lewellen
* mail:	Dr. Mark Lewellen
		L&H-AppTek
		1420 Beverly Rd. #350
		McLean, VA 22101

Please find us at the ACL conference, to be held at the University
of Maryland, June 23-26.

_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: pvanmeurs at tegic.com
   Subject: Job announcement Computational Linguist



Tegic Communications (http://www.tegic.com) is looking for a computational
linguist.

Description:

	The computational linguist will be responsible for research and development
to support Tegic's text input system in a variety of languages  If you are
interested in working in the fast paced, exciting area of research and
development of commercial software at the "cutting edge" of technology, then
this is a job which will provide you with such opportunities. Tegic offers
many additional benefits, including health insurance, dental, 401K plan, and
(privately held) stock options.

Required:

     Degree in computational linguistics with emphasis on lexicography,
knowledge extraction, morphological analysis and Statistical language
analysis
     Experience with development of (commercial) software products
     Experience with research in computational linguistics
     Strong programming skills (preferably C/C++)

Desired:

     Familiarity with a large number of languages (preferably Eastern
European/Semitic/Asian)
     Familiarity with the analysis of large corpora
     5+ years of experience in the field of computational linguistics
     Active participation in the community of computational linguistics
     Familiarity with C/C++, Perl, Windows NT operating system, compression
algorithms helpful

Company Background:

	Tegic Communications (http:/www.tegic.com) is a fast growing company which
offers very competitive salaries.

	Tegic Communications, has developed software which allows users to enter
text on wireless devices such as wireless phones or pagers in a fast and
efficient manner.  We have been very successful in securing licenses with
most of the major cell phone manufacturers and many of the smaller
companies.

	Unlike the "multi-tap' method in which the user has to tap the "2-ABC"-key
three times to get a "c" for instance, the user can just hit the "2-ABC" key
once. The software will determine which word the user is likely to be
typing. In order for this to work in a variety of languages we require an
understanding of how people actually use the language.
	For this we have developed an extensive suite of tools to analyze large
amounts of text corpora. The contributions a computational linguist could
make here are numerous. We are dealing with issues of corpus selection,
corpus classification, performance analysis, morphological analysis and
generation, word compounding, syntactical analysis, text segmentation and
many more. We are offering an opportunity for the computational linguist to
do research in many areas. We are looking for someone who has research
experience as well as the ability to identify areas of improvement for our
products and deliver a solution, all in a timely manner.
	We have developed our technology for a dozen languages as well as Chinese
(stroke and phonetic based) and Japanese. Each language has its own
challenges and we are expanding quickly into many additional languages.
	We are also looking into expanding into new technologies to broaden our
product base. This will require identification of and research into many new
opportunities, research for which we need the contributions of a skilled
computational linguist.

	If you have any additional questions please contact me via e-mail.

Pim van Meurs
Manager Computational Linguistics
Linguistic Research and Development Group
Tegic Communications
2001 Western Ave Suite 210
Seattle WA 98121
(206) 343-7001	Phone
(206) 343-7004	Fax
pvanmeurs at tegic.com
http://www.tegic.com

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Sandra Kuebler <kuebler at kamke.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Job Opening: Corpus Linguist


JOB OPENING:  SYNTACTIC ANNOTATION OF TEXT CORPORA
                       UNIVERSITY OF TUEBINGEN
                      DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
                DIVISION OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

The Division of Computational Linguistics in the Dept. of Linguistics
at the University of Tuebingen, Germany has received external funding
for a three-year project (April 1999 - December 2001) in Corpus
Linguistics and Corpus Annotation.  The project will be carried out in
collaboration with the Institut fuer deutsche Sprache (IDS) in
Mannheim and the Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS) at
the University of Stuttgart.

The main goal of the research at Tuebingen is the automatic annotation
of text corpora for German at the level of morpho-syntactic annotation
and partial syntactic annotation.

Candidates for the position should have sound knowledge of German
grammar and should be familiar with the theory and implementation of
finite-state automata, finite-state transducers and robust parsing
techniques.  Programming experience in C or C++ is highly desirable.

The successful candidate would be expected to take up the position as
soon as possible.  The position is at the rank of "Wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter" (M.A. degree or Ph.D. degree required).  The salary is on
the German payscale of BAT IIa; minimum of 70 000 DM per year.

Applications should include CV and an outline of research experience
and interests.  Names and addresses of references would be helpful.
Applications should be sent by mail or email to the address below.

Erhard W. Hinrichs und Sandra Kuebler
Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Abt. Computerlinguistik
Eberhard-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstr. 113
D-72074 Tuebingen
Germany

email: eh at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

Applications received by July 5th, 1999 will receive full
consideration.

In case of equal qualifications, preference will be given to persons
with disabilities.

The University of Tuebingen strives to increase the representation of
female scientists. Women are, therefore, especially encouraged to
apply.

_______________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: Therese Labelle-Audy <therese.labelle-audy at UMontreal.CA>
   Subject: full-time professor - EBSI/Universite de Montreal


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For release

Full-time professor
L'Ecole de biblioth?conomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) de
la Faculte des arts et des sciences de l'Universite de Montreal is
seeking a full-time professor (at the assistant level) in the area of
electronic information management.

Description
The successful candidate will teach at the graduate level (master and
Ph.D. programs) and conduct research in electronic information
management more specifically in the areas of natural language
processing, text analysis and structured documents (SGML, XML). He or
she will supervise master's and doctoral research and may also teach at
the undergraduate level.

Qualifications
Ph.D. (completed or nearing completion) in information science,
computational linguistics, computer science or in a related discipline.
Aptitude for teaching and research. Excellent knowledge of French.

Salary
Based on the Universite de Montr?al collective agreement.

Starting date
January 1st, 2000

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, with names, addresses and
phone numbers and three referees letters, before June 30, 1999 to:
Dr Gilles Deschatelets, Directeur
Ecole de biblioth?conomie et des sciences de l'information
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville
Montreal (Qu?bec) H3C 3J7
CANADA

In concordance with the requirements of Immigration Canada, priority
will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
The Universite de Montreal is committed to an employment equity program
which includes special measures to ensure diversity among its faculty
and staff.
All teaching activities at the Universite de Montreal are conducted in
French.

For more information on EBSI, please consult our Web site:
http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/EBSI
_______________________

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Pour afficher
professeure ou professeur a plein temps
L'Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) de
la Faculte des arts et des sciences de l'Universite de Montr?al est a la
recherche d'une professeure ou d'un professeur adjoint a plein temps
dans le domaine de la gestion de l'information electronique.

fonctions
Enseignement aux 2e et 3e cycles et recherche en gestion de
l?information electronique, plus specifiquement, dans le domaine du
traitement automatique des langues naturelles et de l?analyse des
donnees textuelles et des documents structures (SGML, XML). La personne
choisie sera appelee a encadrer et a superviser des recherches
doctorales et ?ventuellement, a enseigner au 1er cycle.

exigences
Doctorat (Ph.D.) complete ou sur le point d'etre obtenu en sciences de
l'information, en linguistique informatique, en informatique ou dans une
discipline pertinente. Aptitudes a l'enseignement et a la recherche.
Excellente connaissance du francais.

traitement
Selon la convention collective en vigueur.

date d'entree en fonction
Le 1er janvier 2000.

Les personnes int?ress?es doivent faire parvenir leur curriculum vitae
accompagne de trois lettres de reference, au plus tard le 30 juin 1999 ?
:
M. Gilles Deschatelets, Directeur
Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l'information
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville
Montreal (Qu?bec) H3C 3J7
Canada

Conformement aux exigences prescrites en matiere d'immigration au
Canada, cet avis s'adresse en priorite aux citoyens canadiens et aux
residents permanents du Canada.

L'Universite de Montreal souscrit ? un programme d'acces a l'egalite en
emploi pour les femmes et aux principes d?equite en matiere d?emploi.

Pour en connaitre plus sur l'EBSI, vous pouvez consulter sa page web :
http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/EBSI/


--
Th?r?se Labelle-Audy
therese.labelle-audy at umontreal.ca
Secr?taire de direction - EBSI
Universit? de Montr?al
t?l?phone : 343-7400 ou 343-6111 p. 5103
t?l?copieur : 343-5753


_______________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  Jodi Scheffler <jodisch at microsoft.com>
   Subject:  NL Program Manager @ Microsoft/ Redmond, WA  USA


GROUP PROGRAM MANAGER



The Natural Language Group (NLG) is Microsoft's central organization for
development of advanced linguistic technology. This strategic and growing
group critical for making software easier for customers to use and central
to Microsoft's future. The features ship in all of Microsoft's key
applications and systems products, including Office, Windows and several
consumer apps. Enabling computers to understand natural language is a
difficult, fascinating, and critical task. Microsoft has amassed some of the
top linguists in the world and we are in the business of developing and
shipping high quality linguistic features such as grammars, and search
engines and eventually machine translation. The GPM position is responsible
for driving planning, design, schedules and integration of the NL features.
The ideal leader will coordinate with NLG's development and test
organizations, research, and the various client management teams. This
person will be responsible for driving and evangelizing smart design
strategies and influencing technical directions. Because of the technical
challenges associated with this position, the ideal candidate will have
broad experience in shipping technical products. Qualifications include a
minimum of 7 years program management experience including leadership and
management experience. Prior GPM experience preferred and bi-lingual and/or
linguistic skills are a plus. Software engineering background and strong
communication skills required. A BA/BS degree in Computer Science preferred.


Please send resume to SSolar at Microsoft.com

_______________________________________________________________________________

6/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk
   Subject: 3year PhD grants Leeds Uni


Please pass this on to local newsgroups for Undergrads/Masters students:

3-Year PhD Studentships at Leeds University, Yorkshire, England

The School of Computer Studies, Leeds University, has several 3-year
PhD studentships available, to include fees (UK or International as
appropriate) and living costs at standard (EPSRC) rates.
Applicants with interests related to current research topics are
particularly welcome, including:
Corpus-based Natural Language Processing
Data Oriented Parsing and its applications
Natural Language Learning
NLL applied to SETI: the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Automatic Indexing for Intelligent Document Retrieval
Speech and Language Technology for English Language Teaching

Candidates should have (or expect) a good Bachelors/Masters degree in
Computing, Linguistics, Mathematics or a related subject.
If interested, please contact Eric Atwell (eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk)
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, preferrably by June 10th 1999 -
please email summary of academic career including (expected) grades.

For more details, see:
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk  - School of Computer Studies
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/intro/ - about Leeds
http://www.accessnv.com/nids/JElliott_essay.shtml - NLL applied to SETI
http://www.worldoflanguage.com/atwell-1.htm - SALT applied to language teaching


Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, SOCRATES Coordinator,
 and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)
 School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
 EMAIL: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk  TEL: (44)113-2335761  FAX: (44)113-2335468
 WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html

_______________________________________________________________________________

7/ From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject: Studentship at Wolverhampton: multilingual anaphora resolution


RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP
(Current value of bursary ? 6,500)

The University of Wolverhampton, School of Languages and European
Studies invites applications for a research studentship in
Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate will work on
a multilingual anaphora resolution project. We are looking for
candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics or
Computer Science, with excellent programming skills and some
experience in Natural Language Processing. Overseas candidates must
have a good command of English. All applicants must have
knowledge of a language other than English.

The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship
in September 1999.

For further information about the project, please contact
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk.

Formal applications must be made to:

The Research Support Unit
University of Wolverhampton
Dudley Campus
Castle View
Dudley
DY1 3HR

and must include a completed application form (to be requested from
Mrs. Lesley Barlow - tel. 01902 323317, Email L.Barlow at wlv.ac.uk),
a CV and a covering letter in which the candidates explain why they
apply for the studentship and give details of their research
interests/experience, background, programming skills and language
competence. (Please quote the reference number of the studentship
RS247).

Please note that the closing date for applications is 14 June 1999.


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Jun  4 09:18:43 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:18:43 +0100
Subject: Q: Journaux sur CD-ROM
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.101843.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:29:08 +0200
From: Nabil hathout <Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <37578044.2B065FE9 at univ-tlse2.fr>

Bonjour,
Je recherche des corpus de textes journalistiques en fran?ais, de
quotidiens, hebdomadaires ou mensuels, nationaux ou r?gionaux, diffus?s
sur CD-ROM. On trouve assez facilement "Le Monde", "Le Monde
Diplomatique", "Le Soir" et "L'Express". En connaissez-vous d'autres ?
D'avance merci,
--Nabil Hathout


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun  4 14:23:23 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:23:23 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.152323.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Dale Gerdemann <dg at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Position Announcement

2/ From:  "Dr. Paul Roochnik" <paul at apptek.com>
   Subject:  Job: Computational Linguist
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Dale Gerdemann <dg at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Position Announcement



			Position Announcement

University of Tuebingen
Dept. of Linguistics
Division of Computational Linguistics


The Division of Computational Linguistics in the Dept. of Linguistics
at the University of Tuebingen, Germany is seeking applications for a
postdoctoral position (possibly extendable to pre-doctoral candidates)
to work in the area of automated language acquisition. Special
consideration will be given to applicants whose research involves
combining statistically-based and corpus-based methods with feature
structure-based grammars. Applicants working in other areas of
computational language learning are also encouraged to apply. The
position is to last until 4/2001.

This position is sponsored by the European Commision: Training and
Mobility of Researchers (TMR) and is part of the project
``Extending Computational Grammars by Learning'', coordinated by
Prof. John Nerbonne at the University of Groningen. The successful
candidate will be expected to interact with the postdoctoral researchers
at the other participating sites: University of Groningen, SRI
Cambridge, University of Antwerp, Trinity College Dublin, ISSCO Geneva and
Rank Xerox Grenoble. For details of the project see:

http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/lcg/

  The European Commision imposed funding restrictions on TMR
  postdoctoral positions: The postdoc must be 35 or
  younger and a European citizen, and must "cross a border" to accept
  the position.  This last point means: must not have worked more than
  18 of the last 24 months in the country in which they accept the
  position.  They further may not be a citizen of the country in which
  they accept the award. The salary is based on the Marie Curie Rates,
  for which see:

        http://www.cordis.lu/tmr/src/quest&an.htm#q14

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, statement of research
interests, up to three representative publications, and the names and
addresses (electronic and mail) of three references (whom we will
contact for letters, as needed), to:


Dr. Dale Gerdemann                       dg at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
Dept. of Linguistics                     Tel: +49 7071-29-74967
Section for Computational Linguistics     Fax: +49 7071-550520
University of Tuebingen
Kl. Wilhelmstr. 113
D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany

Applications should be submitted before June 30, 1999. Those
applicants who will be attending the EACL conference in Bergen may
meet with Dale Gerdemann there to discuss the project.

_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  "Dr. Paul Roochnik" <paul at apptek.com>
   Subject:  Job: Computational Linguist

Career Opportunity for a Computational Linguist:

L&H - AppTek, located in McLean, VA., (near Washington, DC) seeks a
computational linguist.  Relevant backgrounds include, but are not
restricted to the following:

* Text-to-Speech
* Approximate / fuzzy string matching techniques
* Statistical / probabilistic NLP approaches
* Information retrieval

Requirements:

* Ph.D. or A.B.D. in Computational Linguistics or related field (M.S.
  considered)
* Work experience involving computer programming
* Expertise in at least one language in addition to English
* U.S. citizenship

Pay: commensurate with your experience.

Send your CV by one of the following methods:

* e-mail:	mlewellen at apptek.com
* fax:		703-734-5703  attn: Dr. Mark Lewellen
* mail:		Dr. Mark Lewellen
		L&H-AppTek
		1420 Beverly Rd. #350
		McLean, VA 22101

Please find us at the ACL conference, to be held at the University of
Maryland, June 23-26.
----


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun  4 14:23:25 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:23:25 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLULP'99
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.152325.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr (Paul Sabatier)



                               2nd  CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                        Deadline for submissions: June 30, 1999

Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic
Programming
                                        (NLULP'99)

                                http://www.lim.univ-mrs.fr/NLULP99


DATES
-----
December 3-4, 1999

LOCATION
--------
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
NLULP'99 is co-located with the Sixteenth International Conference on Logic
Programming (ICLP'99)

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
---------------
Sandiway Fong  &  Paul Sabatier

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------
Harvey Abramson (STMS, Portland)
Sandiway Fong (NEC Research Institute, Princeton)
Claire Gardent (Univ. of the Saarland, Saarbruecken)
Jose Gabriel Lopes (New University of Lisbon)
Gerald Penn (SFB 340, Univ. of Tuebingen)
Monique Rolbert (LIM, Marseille)
Paul Sabatier (LIM, CNRS, Marseille)
Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse)
Shuly Wintner (IRCS, Univ. of Pennsylvania)

TOPICS OF INTEREST
------------------
Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on
all aspects of the intersection of Natural Language Understanding with
Logic Programming and (Logic) Constraint Programming.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION
---------------------------
Papers should be written in English, and describe original work. They
should emphasize completed work rather than proposed work. The state of
completion of reported results should be clearly indicated.

SUBMISSION FORMAT
-----------------
Submissions should be no longer than 15 pages (A4 format, 11pt), including
abstract, keywords and references. All contributions are to be made
electronically as uncompressed mime-encoded PostScript attachments. Please
send your submission to both of the co-chairs:

    Sandiway Fong : sandiway at research.nj.nec.com
    Paul Sabatier : Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr

PROCEEDINGS
-----------
On-Line Proceedings of NLULP'99 will be available on the Web from November
15, 1999.

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 1999
Acceptance notification:  September 13, 1999
Final version of papers:  October 11, 1999
On-Line Proceedings:      November 15, 1999
Workshop dates:           December 3-4, 1999


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


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun  4 14:23:33 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:23:33 +0100
Subject: Conf: TKE'99
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.152333.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Peter Sandrini" <Peter.Sandrini at uibk.ac.at>


Dear Sir/Madam,

the 5th International Conference on 'Terminology and Knowledge
Engineering TKE'99' will take place in about three months in
Innsbruck, Austria (August 23-27, 1999). We would like to inform you
that registration is open (deadline for cheaper registration is June,
30).

Registration:
PCO-Tyrol Congress
Rennweg 3, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone +43 512 575600
Fax   +43 512 575607
email: tyrol.congress at tirol.com

The conference is subdivided into 8 sections with about 80 speakers.
Main topics are Philosophy of Science and Terminology Studies,
Knowledge Resource Management and all aspects of interdisciplinary
research regarding knowledge engineering, information & documentation,
classification theory, hyper- and multimedia applications,
computerised terminography, specialized translation and
culture-related aspects of the multilingual information society.

You will find the detailed congress programme at
   http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html

Pre-conference workshops will be organized on Monday August 23 and
Tuesday August 24 with congress registration in the morning. The
workshops offer an application-oriented approach to key issues. The
main conference with two and three parallel sections begins on
Wednesday August 25 and closes on Friday August 27.

Venue of TKE'99:
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
http://www.uibk.ac.at

Organiser:
Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW)
Fischnalerstr. 4, A-6020 Innsbruck
http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at

The exhibition in the lobby of the conference rooms provides an
opportunity for vendors or developers of software systems and
publishing houses to show their products to a specific world-wide
audience. Please contact the exhibition organiser (deadline is June
30, 199): TermNet Simmeringer Hauptstr. 24 A-1110 Vienna, Austria
Phone +43 1 740 40 280 Fax   +43 1 740 40 281 email termnet at termnet.at

Looking forward to an interesting and stimulating conference

Yours sincerely

Peter Sandrini
(for the organising committee)


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun  4 14:23:37 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:23:37 +0100
Subject: Conf: Ijcai Workshop
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.152337.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jan Alexandersson <janal at serv-204.dfki.uni-sb.de>


Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.

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



		   Call for PARTICIPATION

	           IJCAI-99 Workshop NLP-2

	KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

		    Endorsed by SIGDIAL


The deadline for registration of participation is now on friday the 28:th of
May. (OBSERVE: this is done via E-mail to janal at dfki.de -- not only to the
main conference)

Please visit http://www.ida.liu.se/~nlplab/ijcai-ws.html for preliminary
program (coming up soon)


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun  4 14:23:35 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:23:35 +0100
Subject: Conf: Treebank workshop
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.152335.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr (Anne Abeille)


Treebanks workshop
Journee(s) Atala sur les corpus annotes pour la syntaxe

 Universite Paris 7
2 place jussieu Paris 5e
metro jussieu
amphi 34B (bottom of tower 34)

friday /vendredi 18 june/juin
9h30 welcome/ accueil
10h Geoffrey Sampson (U Sussex) Invited speaker
Susanne , Christine (and other saints): 20 years of corpus annotation
10h45 break/ pause
11h00 S Wallis (U London) Completing parsed corpora
11h40 J Carrol, G Minnen, T Briscoe (U Sussex, Cambidge)
       Corpus annotation for parser evaluation
12h20 lunch/dejeuner

14h20 A Bemova, J Hajic,  B Hladka, J Panenova (Prague) Syntactic tagging
of the  The Prague dependency Treebank
15h00 A. Bohmova, E Hajicova (Prague) How much of the underlying syntactic
structure can be tagged automatically ?
15h45 break/ pause
16h00 R Delmonte, E Pianta (U Venezia) TAG disambiguation in Italian
16h20 A Moreno, S Lopez (U Madrid) Developing a Spanish treebank
17h00 V Rocio et al (U Lisboa) A partially syntactically annotated corpus
por medieval portuguese

20h30 dinner

saturday / samedi 19 juin
10h00 T Brants et al (Sarrebruck) Syntactic annotation of a German
newspaper corpus
10h40  A Bredenkamp et al (Sarrebruck) Annotation of error types for German
corpus
11h20 break/pause
11h30   K-J Chen et al (Taiwan) The CKIP chinese treebank
12h10 lunch/ dejeuner

14h00 M Marciniak et al (Varsaw) Construction of an HPSG treebank for Polish
14h40 L Sadler et al (U Essex) Deriving an LFG grammar from treebanks
15h20  break/ pause
15h30 R Bod (U Leeds) Extracting stochastic grammars from treebanks
16h10 end

16h30 general meeting of  the ATALA

Organised as part of the ATALA conferences /
organise sous les auspices de l'Atala avec l'aide de Paris 7
Inscription gratuite /registration: free
Membership of Atala required / il est recommande d'adherer a l'Atala
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA

Organisation
Chair
A Abeille (Paris 7)

Program committee /
Comite de programme
A Abeille (Paris 7)
S Armstrong (Geneve)
R Basili (Roma)
P Blache (Aix)
J Carroll (Brighton)
B Habert (Fontenay)
E Hajicova (Prague)
E Wehrli (Geneve)
A Zaenen (Grenoble)

Proceedings / Actes
 L Roussarie (Talana Paris 7)

inquiries / questions
abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jun 10 08:49:10 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:49:10 +0100
Subject: Conf: DCAGRS'99
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.094910.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Bernd Reichel)


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


                                   Workshop


                         DESCRIPTIONAL COMPLEXITY

                 OF AUTOMATA, GRAMMARS AND RELATED STRUCTURES


                          July 20-23, 1999, Magdeburg

                            CALL for Participation


The WORKSHOP on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related
Structures" starts five days after ICALP '99 ends in Prague (appr. 300 km
from Magdeburg) and one day after WIA '99 ends in Potsdam (100 km east of
Magdeburg).

MAGDEBURG, which was founded 1200 years ago, is the capital of the German
state of Saxony-Anhalt and is situated appr. 120 km west of Berlin on the
banks of the river Elbe. Magdeburg is the site of the oldest German Gothic
cathedral, is the start and end point of the "Romanesque Road" (taking you
to many Romanesque buildings and being one of the historic main attractions
of Saxony-Anhalt), is famous for its parks and gardens and is the host of
the German Federal Garden Show '99 (which is part of the social program of
the workshop).


The PROGRAM of the Workshop consists of

    5 one-hour lectures
          by J. Gruska, A. Kelemenova, H. Leung, J. Shallit and S. Yu
    3 forty-five-minutes lectures
          by E. Csuhaj-Varju, K. Hashiguchi and H. Petersen
    13 submissions
          selected by the Program Committee.

The complete programm and further information can be seen at

     http://fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs/


The REGISTRATION FORM is included as an attachment. Please send it to

  Juergen Dassow
  Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg
  Fakultaet fuer Informatik
  Postfach 41 20
  D-39016 Magdeburg
  email: dcagrs at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de


The REGISTRATION FEE is

    140.- DM  if your registration form arrives before 1 July 1999
    160.- DM  if your registration form arrives after  1 July 1999
     50.- DM  for accompanying persons

and has to be paid at the registration office during the conference.

The workshop will take place on the campus of the Otto-von-Guericke
University of Magdeburg in Building 03, Room 308.
The Registration Office will be in front of the conference room.


The Organizing Committee has reserved a small number of ACCOMODATIONS in
the

   Hotel "Sleep and Go"   79.- DM per night and room
                          (Breakfast 7.- DM in addition)
                          10 minutes walk to the workshop site

   Bildungshotel  75.- DM per night and single room (including breakfast)
                  95.- DM per night and double room (including breakfast)
                  20 minutes walk to the workshop site

These rooms will be distributed following the queue principle:
   First come, first served.

Further hotels can be seen at the homepage of the workshop
   http://fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs/

We would like to invite you to participate in the workshop.

Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt)

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

                        REGISTRATION FORM

Name:
Surname:

Address:

e-mail:

Accompanying persons:

Date of arrival:
Date of departure:

Hotelreservation: Hotel "Sleep and Go"        |   |

                  Bildungshotel single room   |   |
                  Bildungshotel double room   |   |  sharing with ......

(mark your wish by a cross between the lines;
note that the organizers were able to reserve only a small number of rooms;
thus it might be possible that we will not be able to serve you)

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jun 10 08:49:12 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:49:12 +0100
Subject: Ecole: Eurolan
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.094912.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Amalia Todirascu <amalia at thor.infoiasi.ro>



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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jun 10 08:49:13 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:49:13 +0100
Subject: Book: Syntactic Theory
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.094913.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: CSLI Publications <pubs at csli.Stanford.EDU>



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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Jun 11 22:22:52 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:22:52 +0100
Subject: Q: Correcteurs orthographiques et grammaticaux
Message-ID: <FRI.11.JUN.1999.232252.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:05:12 +0200
From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990610090512.007c69d0 at up.univ-mrs.fr>


Chers amis,

Dominique Laurent, de la soci?t? Synapse (d?veloppeur du correcteur
Cordial, maintenant int?gr? ? MS Office 98) me fait parvenir la d?p?che de
l'AFP ci-dessous. Il semblerait que certains journaux dont le Figaro se
soient fait largement l'?cho de cette prise de position et soient tomb?s ?
bras raccourcis sur les correcteurs. Quelqu'un en sait-il plus? Que faut-il
penser de tout cela? Bien s?r, la correction grammaticale n'est pas tout ?
fait au point, mais elle progresse, et on pourait assassiner de la sorte ?
peu pr?s toutes les technologies du langage et de la parole dans leur ?tat
actuel, et ainsi tuer les recherches dans l'oeuf... Outre l'aspect assez
dictateur du dernier paragraphe, auquel je suis particuli?rement
allergique, il me semble que l'Acad?mie n'ait pas ?t? vraiment scientifique
dans sa m?thode: le logiciel test? semble ?tre relativement ancien, le fait
que les nouveaux correcteurs attirent d?sormais l'attention du r?dacteur
par des questions ("ex: v?rifiez l'accord entre x et y") au lieu de
proposer des corrections p?remptoires n'est pas pris en compte, etc. Et
puis les correcteurs sont-ils faits pour corriger des textes litt?raires,
surtout remontant au XVIe si?cle? Enfin, tout ceci ne peut que cr?er un
amalgame dans l'esprit du public : s'il est vrai que les correcteurs
grammaticaux demandent encore du travail, il me semble que les correcteurs
orthographiques sont d'une utilit? quotidienne pour la d?tection des fautes
de frappe et des fautes "d'usage" (combien de p ? "d?velopper"?) que nous
faisons tous.

Bref, il me semble que l'Acad?mie prend une position manquant de nuances,
dangereuse pour notre discipline. Devons-nous r?pondre?

Jean V?ronis
Professeur de Linguistique et Informatique
Universit? de Provence

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L'Acad?mie fran?aise met en garde contre des logiciels de correction

   PARIS, 21 mai (AFP) - L'Acad?mie fran?aise met "tr?s gravement" en garde
contre les logiciels dits de "correction grammaticale" qui ?quipent la
grande majorit? des ordinateurs du commerce.
   "Ces logiciels ne sont pas au point et leurs analyses pr?tendument
grammaticales sont le contraire de fiables", dit-elle dans un communiqu?.
Cette mise en garde a ?t? adopt? ? l'unanimit? par l'Acad?mie dans sa s?ance
de jeudi.
   L'Acad?mie, qui a soumis ? cette correction informatique des textes de
grands ?crivains, ?chelonn?s sur quatre si?cles, d?plore que "la machine
confonde r?guli?rement le pronom personnel ind?fini "on" et le pluriel du
verbe avoir "ont".
   "La machine aligne le genre des articles ou des adjectifs sur le
substantif le plus proche : +resterai-je seul rue de Cheverus?+ (Fran?ois
Mauriac). Remarque de l'ordinateur : "il faut ?crire "seule" pour accorder
avec le f?minin de rue", ajoute l'Acad?mie.
   D?s que des auteurs - dont Victor Hugo et Paul Val?ry - ?crivent : "il
poursuivit", "j'entendis", "il suivit", "les noirceurs qui pr?c?d?rent",
"ces pens?es s'encha?n?rent", "ils ont uniform?ment droit ? cette r?primande
: ?viter le pass? simple", poursuit-elle.
   "Pour quelle raison l'informatique pr?tend-elle bannir un temps verbal si
n?cessaire ? toute narration et d'un emploi si constant dans toutes les
langues europ?ennes?", s'interroge l'Acad?mie. "L?, le coupable est le
sp?cialiste qui a nourri le logiciel" et qui "ob?it ? un pr?jug?",
pr?cise-t-elle.
   "Si les moyens juridiques d'interdiction n'existent pas, ou pas encore,
l'Acad?mie pr?conise que les autorit?s comp?tentes proscrivent l'usage de
tels logiciels dans les administrations, organismes publics et
?tablissements d'enseignement", conclut-elle.


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Jun 14 17:39:08 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:39:08 +0100
Subject: R: Correcteurs orthographiques et grammaticaux
Message-ID: <MON.14.JUN.1999.183908.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

[Courrier nombreux sur ce sujet br?lant -- pz]

    ________________________________________________________________
    1/Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 09:25:34 +0100
    From: Pierre Lebeux <Pierre.Lebeux at univ-rennes1.fr>
    ________________________________________________________________
    2/Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 17:31:22 +0200 (MET DST)
    From: Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr (Paul Sabatier)
    ________________________________________________________________
    3/Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:55:54 +0900
    From: Emmanuel Planas <planas at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>
    ________________________________________________________________
    4/Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:16:52 +0200
    From: Damien Genthial <Damien.Genthial at imag.fr>
    ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________
1/Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 09:25:34 +0100
From: Pierre Lebeux <Pierre.Lebeux at univ-rennes1.fr>
Message-Id: <v03020900b387c8619343F@[192.134.129.124]>

Bonjour

 Oui il faut surement repondre  ..."les acad?miciens sont des
[censur? -- pz :-}]" : la grande majorit? des grands auteurs n'ont
jamais ?t? academiciens soit par conviction soit parce qu ils etaient
trop en avance sur leur temps ...

plb

________________________________________________________________
2/Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 17:31:22 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Paul.Sabatier at lim.univ-mrs.fr (Paul Sabatier)
Message-Id: <v01510101b38844b0b8cd@[139.124.5.96]>


Marseille, Samedi 12 juin 1999

Bonjour,

Une de fois de plus, nos chers acad?miciens d?barquent. J'avais
compl?tement oubli? qu'ils existaient. Heureusement qu'il y a encore des
gens comme cela pour nous dire que les correcteurs ne marchent pas tr?s
bien.

Si j'avais ? les rassurer, je leur dirais simplement que le mot
"correcteur" est mal choisi. Et je les inviterais ? trouver une meilleure
d?nomination.

J'en profite aussi pour faire deux propositions :

 - Si vous cherchez un nom pour le correcteur que vous ?tes entrain de
d?velopper, je vous propose de l'appeler : "L'acad?micien".

 - Je propose aussi de maintenir l'existence de l'Acad?mie jusqu'? ce que
les correcteurs aient 100 % de r?ussite. (Il faut rassurer nos acad?miciens
sur le devenir de leurs fonctions).

Enfin, le concours est ouvert :

 - Afin de nous rappeler qu'ils existent, quel sera le prochain sujet
d'intervention m?diatique de nos acad?miciens  ?

Bien cordialement,


Paul Sabatier

________________________________________________________________
3/Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:55:54 +0900
From: Emmanuel Planas <planas at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>
Message-Id: <3764531A.877C780C at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp>


Bonjour,

Voici quelques e'le'ments de re'flexion:

Il me semble qu'une telle e'valuation n'a de valeur que dans la limite de son
protocole.
Il est certes clair que les correcteurs grammaticaux ne posse`dent pas
l'ensemble des connaissances ne'cessaires a` la correction des textes de notre
litte'rature classique. Quel e'crivain cependant, quel professeur de franc,ais
ira s'amuser a passer un correcteur orthographique sur du Mauriac ?
Voyons, il faut rester lucide: les correcteurs orthographiques / grammaticaux
ont pour but principal d'aider ces stakanovistes du vingtie`me sie`cle que sont
les re'dacteurs de documents techniques, administratifs ou commerciaux, a` qui
l'on ne peut demander de connai^tre par coeur le Bescherelle ou le Grevisse, ou
de passer plus qu'un certain temps par page. Pour ce type d'utilisateurs, de
tels correcteurs sont certainement utiles.
Je veux apporter ici le te'moignage d'utilisation de ces correcteurs dans
l'industrie de la langue. Dans les socie'te's de traduction, ceux-ci sont
utilise's quotidiennement: il est extre^mement rare qu'un  traducteur
(spe'cialiste, qui traduit vers SA langue maternelle) ne trouve pas de fautes
(typographiques ou orthographiques) dans son ouvrage. La seule chose dont se
plaignent vraiment ces socie'te's est le fait que ces corrections ne puissent en
ge'ne'ral pas se faire par lots: un seul fichier a` la fois peut e^tre
traite'....
L'autre aspect de ce proble`me est bien une question de mobilisation de
l'opinion publique, et de nos de'cideurs en particulier: a` par Synapse
(Toulouse), d'ou` proviennent les correcteurs orthographiques du marche' ? He
bien, il faut faire appel a` nos cousins canadiens (Machina Sapiens Le
Correcteur, ..) ..ou...a l'Oncle Sam (Correcteur integre' de Microsoft Word).
Comment la France pourrait-elle rester pre'sente ne serait-ce que par sa langue,
si notre vitrine institutionnelle saborde l'industrie et la recherche
linguistiques par de telles affirmations .....

Emmanuel Planas.

--
Dr Emmanuel Planas
Multilingual Machine Translation Group, Intelligent Media Project
NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratory
2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan
Tel: +81 (0)774-93-5327
Fax: +81 (0)774-93-5345
Email: planas at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp

________________________________________________________________
4/Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:16:52 +0200
From: Damien Genthial <Damien.Genthial at imag.fr>
Message-Id: <v04020a00b38a67f82a77@[172.26.7.19]>


Chers coll?gues,

A propos de la d?p?che de l'AFP sur la position de l'Acad?mie Fran?aise
vis-?-vis des correcteurs grammaticaux :

Je crois que nous devons en effet r?pondre car la position de l'Acad?mie
Fran?aise sur ce sujet me para?t tr?s tr?s r?ductrice et assez indigne
d'une institution dont la rigueur scientifique devrait ?tre irr?prochable,
surtout pour donner des conclusions aussi tranch?es. Or il n'est fait
aucune mention du nombre de correcteurs test?s (tous ne donnent pas le m?me
r?sultat ?), ni de leur nom.

Et m?me si je suis assez d'accord avec certaines conclusions (pourquoi ne
pourrait-on pas employer le pass? simple ?), je crois qu'il ne faut pas
laisser sans r?ponse un communiqu? aussi p?remptoire. Pour ?tre efficace,
je pense que la r?ponse devrait ?tre relay?e par nos associations (ATALA,
SPECIF ?, autre ?). On peut faire une simple lettre ou monter un dossier
scientifique plus complet avec comparaison comment? des diff?rents
correcteurs et de leurs objectifs, mais c'est pas mal de boulot.

Qu'en dites-vous ?

Cordialement,
Damien Genthial.
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T?l : 04 76 51 49 15                    | T?l : 04 75 41 88 00


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jun 23 09:08:37 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:08:37 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 7 offers
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.100837.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Lars Borin <Lars.Borin at ling.uu.se>
   Subject:  Lecturer in Computational Linguistics

2/ From: Tony Rose <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
   Subject: [E-Job] Information Retrieval Researcher

3/ From:  pierre.thillen at systran.lu
   Subject:  Computational Ling: System Admin at Systran Luxembourg SA

4/ From:  "Brona Collins" <Brona.Collins at lhs.be>
   Subject:  German Computational Ling at Lernout & Hauspie (Belgium)

5/ From:  teruko+ at cs.cmu.edu
   Subject:  German Machine TranslationT Developer at Carnegie Mellon

6/ From:  "Jeffrey P. Kaplan" <jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu>
   Subject:  Computational Ling; Tenure-track at San Diego State

7/ From:  Ernst Buchberger <ernst at ai.univie.ac.at>
   Subject:  Human Language Technology
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Lars Borin <Lars.Borin at ling.uu.se>
   Subject:  Lecturer in Computational Linguistics


Job announcement
Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Dept. of Linguistics, Uppsala
University, Sweden
Ref.no. 2930/99

Duration: 1st September 1999 - 31st July 2001

Description: Teaching and course development in Computational
Linguistics on the four-year Master's program in Language Engineering
(http://stp.ling.uu.se), particularly in the areas of Formal and
Computational Grammar (morphology, syntax, and parsing), and
Computational Lexicography.

The applicant should have experience of research and teaching in the areas
mentioned, as well as course administration and course development.

Applications (in two identical sets) should contain
- CV, incl. certified photocopies of relevant documents
- a brief account of scientific and pedagogical achievments
- publication list
- publications

For further information, contact Professor Anna Sagvall Hein:
anna at ling.uu.se or Director of Studies Lars Borin:
Lars.Borin at ling.uu.se

The application should be addressed to Uppsala University and sent to the
address:
Uppsala University, The Registrar, Box 256, SE - 751 05, Uppsala, SWEDEN,
fax no +46 18 471 2000. If the application is sent by fax, the originals
must be submitted by regular mail as soon as possible.

The deadline for applications is 28th June 1999.


About the Department of Linguistics and the Language Engineering program

There are several completed and ongoing research projects in Computational
Linguistics/ Language Engineering at the department, e.g.:
- A controlled-language/computer-aided translation project in cooperation
with Swedish truck manufacturer Scania.;
- SCARRIE, an EU project aiming at the development of Scandinavian
proof-reading tools for newspapers and publishing houses, in our case a
grammar checker for Swedish newspaper text;
- PLUG and ETAP, two projects where the extraction of linguistic
information from parallel translation corpora is investigated

There is also research going on in the areas of machine learning of natural
language, computational grammatical and semantic formalisms, and computer
aids for the learning of computational and general linguistics.

Since 1994, we offer a four-year Master's program in Language Engineering,
where we accept 20 students per year. There are two and a half years of
common courses, in formal linguistics, mathematics, computer programming
(Prolog, web programming and Unix shellscripts), and CL/LE. After this, the
students specialise into areas such as machine translation, language
revision tools, CALL, speech technology, or computational tools for
language engineering.


_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________2/ From: Tony Rose <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
   Subject: [E-Job] Information Retrieval Researcher


2/ From: Tony Rose <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
   Subject: [E-Job] Information Retrieval Researcher


Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) has two positions for top quality
researchers in its Core Technology Division. Applications from
experienced researchers or recent PhDs/exceptional graduates are
invited for the following roles:


1. Senior Information Retrieval Researcher
------------------------------------------
Job Specification:
 - to perform research & development on advanced information
   retrieval, multimedia, natural language processing &
   user interface technology.
	
 - to initiate and develop first class research projects in
   multimedia information retrieval.
	
Requirements:
 - first class academic background: PhD (or equivalent research
   experience) in information retrieval, natural language processing
   or closely related discipline

 - track record of proven initiative in starting and developing
   new research projects

 - the ability to work with product development groups for
   technology transfer

 - excellent software engineering skills in a variety of
   languages including C/C++

Desirable:
 - experience of working in industry

 - strong publication record

 - expertise in the areas of:
 	* speech recognition
 	* multimedia
	* HCI


2. Information Retrieval Researcher
-----------------------------------
Job Specification:
 - to perform research & development on advanced information
   retrieval, multimedia, natural language processing &
   user interface technology.	

 - to develop and maintain prototypes, demonstrators, tools
   and product-level software in advanced information retrieval,
   natural language processing and user interface technologies.

Requirements:
 - first class academic background: honours degree in computer
   science or related discipline with strong computational component

 - excellent software engineering skills in a variety of
   languages including C/C++ and ideally Java

 - willingness and enthusiasm to implement and evaluate new
   research ideas

 - ability to pick up new skills and ideas rapidly

Desirable:
 - higher degree in a relevant discipline

 - experience of working on commercial software projects

 - expertise in the areas of:
 	* information retrieval
 	* natural language processing
 	* user interfaces
 	* databases
 	* C++ standard template library


Canon has over 75,000 employees worldwide. Since its foundation, Canon
has moved forward towards its objective of being the manufacturer of
the best products in the world. While pursuing the pinnacle of quality,
we have taken the lead in developing electronic and automation
technologies to enhance the ease of use of our products. One key to
Canon's success has been the spirit of meeting new technological
challenges and at CRE you will have the opportunity to play a
significant part in this. We offer an excellent working environment
and a competitive salary and benefits package.

For further details on CRE and these job opportunities, please consult
our web pages at:

    http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr TG Rose (tgr at cre.canon.co.uk).
To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter to arrive by
Monday 12 July to:

    Paula Mason (recruitment)
    Canon Research Centre Europe Limited
    1 Occam Court
    Surrey Research Park
    Guildford
    GU2 5YJ
    United Kingdom

    fax:   +44 (0) 1483 448845
    email: sljobs at cre.canon.co.uk

Because of British law, preference will be given to applicants who
already have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  pierre.thillen at systran.lu
   Subject:  Computational Ling: System Admin at Systran Luxembourg SA


SYSTRAN LUXEMBOURG SA , an MT company based in Luxembourg at

          12, rue de Vianden
           L - 2680 Luxembourg

involved in the development of the SYSTRAN machine translation system has
an immediate opening for


          1) one full-time  system administrator

Function:
Responsible for system administration and development (UNIX, C)
and network supervision (Internet, Intranet)

Profile:
University-level qualification in computer science
Knowledge of C programming language and the UNIX development environment
(make, CVS)
Knowledge of Perl would be a plus
Good knowledge of English


          1) one full-time linguist

Function:
This person will be responsible for the maintenance and development of the
German-French language pair

Profile:
University degree in linguistics or languages
Native French speaker
Excellent knowledge of German

The following  would be considered advantageous:
Knowledge of English
Experience in human translation
Experience in programming, preferably C
Experience in natural language processing
Knowledge of German linguistics


If you are interested in either of these job opportunities and you
feel you meet the requirements, please send your CV to the above
address or e-mail it to info at systran.org


_______________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  "Brona Collins" <Brona.Collins at lhs.be>
   Subject:  German Computational Ling at Lernout & Hauspie (Belgium)

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is a global leader in advanced
speech and language solutions for computers, cars, telecommunications,
embedded products, consumer goods and the internet. The company makes
the speech user interface (SUI), the keystone of simple, convenient
interaction between humans and technology, and uses advanced
translation technology to break down cultural barriers. The L&H team
is 1700 people in 25 countries. The headquarters are located in Ieper,
Belgium.

For the development of German language and speech technology, Lernout
& Hauspie is currently looking for a

                           Language Specialist German
                         for the Corporate R&D Division
                           located in Ieper (Belgium)

Function:
This  person  will  work  on  the development of systems in the field of
natural language processing, speech recognition and speech synthesis.
He/she will work in a language development group and report to the group or
project manager.

Profile:
*    university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent
*    (near-)native German
*    interest in other languages and their linguistic aspects
*    good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:
     - speech processing, esp. text-to-speech synthesis
     - phonetics
     - computer linguistics
     - natural language processing (NLP)
     - spoken dialog systems
     - computer technology
     - programming
     - other languages than the target language
*    ability to work in a team and independently
*    perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
*    good social and communicative abilities
*    willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time

If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to
fulfil the required profile, we have to meet each other.  Please send
your hardcopy application and detailed resume to:

               Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
               Personnel Department
               Attn. Mrs. Ann De Somere
               Flanders Language Valley 50
               B-8900 Ieper
               BELGIUM

To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our
homepage  http://www.lhs.com .  You may also want to send an e-mail
to <job-announce at lhs.be>


_______________________________________________________________________________


5/ From:  teruko+ at cs.cmu.edu
   Subject:  German Machine TranslationT Developer at Carnegie Mellon


US-PA-Pittsburgh Software Developer, Machine Translation (German), CMU

The KANT project at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie
Mellon University, is seeking a talented and energetic individual for
the position of Research Programmer.

KANT is a large-scale software system for technical document
translation. The chosen applicant will be responsible for the
following tasks:

 * Work with project leaders to define workplan and schedule for
   German module development, deployment and maintenance

 * Supervise and participate in the development and maintenance of each
   knowledge source for German (lexicon, grammar, interpretation
   rules, etc.)

 * Integrate German knowledge sources into run-time delivery modules

 * Participate actively in testing and quality assurance

 * Maintain a responsive and professional relationship with customer
   personnel

The successful applicant will have the following qualifications:

 * Native fluency in German

 * Good communication skills in English

 * A degree in Computer/Information Science (or related field), or
   equivalent experience

 * Software development experience in the Unix environment

 * Some coursework in linguistics or computational linguistics

 * Experience communicating and working productively within a
   development group

Occasional Travel Required

Starting Salary Negotiable

For more information on KANT project: http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant/

Contact:	Teruko Mitamura			Phone: (412) 268-6596
		Language Technologies Institute	Fax:   (412) 268-6298
		Carnegie Mellon University	EMail: teruko+ at cs.cmu.edu
		Pittsburgh, PA 15213
		USA

Candidates should send a letter of application, a current resume,
letters of reference, and representative samples of their
work. Resumes, cover letters, etc. may be submitted via EMail in
ASCII, Microsoft Word, or Postscript form. Resumes may also be
submitted by fax or regular mail, but EMail is preferred. Letters of
recommendation must be faxed or mailed directly from the
recommender. Code samples may be submitted via EMail attachments or
via web pointers.


_______________________________________________________________________________

6/ From:  "Jeffrey P. Kaplan" <jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu>
   Subject:  Computational Ling; Tenure-track at San Diego State


LINGUISTICS & ORIENTAL LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

Subject to funding, the Linguistics and Oriental Languages Department
of San Diego State University invites applications for a tenure-track
faculty position in computational linguistics.  Rank open. Required:
Ph.D. in linguistics or related field; record of research or practice
in computational linguistics; interest and ability in building a new
computational linguistics program within a linguistics department,
beginning with development of and teaching a new course in Introduction
to Computational Linguistics and other new courses such as Natural
Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Machine Translation,
Information Retrieval, and Speech Recognition; interest and ability in
teaching non-computational linguistics courses including introduction
to linguistics and advanced courses in at least one of the following
areas: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, morphology,
phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics.


Send applications to include cover letter, CV, at least three letters
of recommendation, and sample publications to:

Dr. Jeff Kaplan,
Search Committee Chair,
Dept of Linguistics and Oriental Languages
San Diego State University,
San Diego, CA 92182-7727
Phone: 619-594-5879

The department will begin reviewing applications on September 15, 1999
and continue until the position is filled.


SDSU is an Affirmative-Action/Equal Opportunity/Title IX employer and
does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion,
national origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age, or
disability.  Women, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities
are encouraged to apply.

_______________________________________________________________________________

7/ From:  Ernst Buchberger <ernst at ai.univie.ac.at>
   Subject:  Human Language Technology

JOB OPPORTUNITY
        3 Research positions in Human Language Technology
 at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI),
                        Vienna, Austria

We offer 3 positions in OeFAI's Natural Language Processing Group. The
successful applicants will participate in the basic research projects
described below which are funded by the Austrian Science Foundation
(FWF).
The projects are headed by Ao.Prof.Harald Trost.

Positions are open for candidates having a degree in computational
linguistics, or digital signal processing, or computer science plus a
background in linguistics.  All positions are to be filled as soon as
possible.

The yearly gross salary for these positions will be ATS 260.000 for
candidates without PhD and ATS 360.000 for PostDocs before taxes
according to FWF regulations. PhD students are encouraged to realize
their
PhD within the project.

A good command of English and/or German is expected. For non EU citizens
a residence permit is required.

OeFAI is the leading Austrian research institute in the field of
Natural Language Processing. It is situated in the center of Vienna.
Apart from excellent research facilities, Vienna offers many
possibilities
for all kinds of sports and cultural activities.

More information about the OeFAI and its Natural Language Processing
group can be found at http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nlu/
Inquiries and applications (including a short CV and list of
publications) should be sent by mail or email to:

Harald Trost
OeFAI
Schottengasse 3
A-1010 Wien, Austria
Tel.: +43 1 4277-63121
Fax:  +43 1 5336112-77
Email: harald at ai.univie.ac.at
A copy of applications by email should be sent to ernst at ai.univie.ac.at
as well.
________________________________________________________________________

Position 1 (Junior Researcher/PhD Student or Postdoc):

The candidate should have strong interest in corpus-based linguistics
and parsing. The candidate will be affilitated to a project that aims
at investigation and exploitation of lexicalization phenomena in
parsing. Lexical information shall be used in stochastic parsing to
increase accuracy and to gain processing efficiency.

She/he has a degree in
- computational linguistics or
- computer science or a comparable study,
  with a background in linguistics.

She/he has experience in
- corpus-based linguistics and/or
- (shallow) parsing and
- basic statistics or information theory.

She/he has good programming experience, preferably in C and/or C++.

The candidate will join an ongoing project which runs till the end of
2001. Continued employment after the end of the project is
possible.
_______________________________________________________________________


Position 2 (Junior Researcher/PhD Student or Postdoc)

The candidate will participate in a project in the area of
multimodal interfaces that investigates the role of speech
in multimodal interaction with texts, in particular web-based news
texts.
During the course of the project, a corpus will be
collected and evaluated. Work on the actual system will include
development of the language processing and web tools
as well as usability testing.

The candidate has a degree in
- computer science,
  preferably with a background in multimedia presentation, or
- computational linguistics,
  preferably with knowledge in dialogue processing, or
- linguistics, with a strong background in
  empirical analysis of spoken utterances,
  and programming experience.

The candidate will join a project that starts in July 1999 and runs
until
2002. Continued employment after the end of the project is possible.
______________________________________________________________________


Position 3 (Junior Researcher/PhD Student or Postdoc)

The candidate will participate in a project in the area of speech
synthesis
that aims at the investigation of segmental durations in German.

A speech corpus of "Austrian German" is constructed and subsequently
analyzed using machine learning techniques in order to derive models
of durational variation. From a theoretical point of view the project
aims for a better understanding of the quantitative effects of the
multiple factors influencing duration in speech. From a practical
point of view the results will be used in order to improve the
naturalness of prosody in a speech synthesis program.

Candidates are to deal with one or more of the following tasks:
- development of procedures and tools for supporting the
  (semi automatic) labeling and representation of the corpus
- adaption and application of machine learning techniques
- integration of resulting models to an existing speech synthesizer

She/he has a degree in
- computational linguistics, or
- phonetics, or
- digital signal processing, or
- computer science plus a background in linguistics.

She/he has programming experience, preferably in C and/or C++.

The candidate will join an ongoing project which runs till the end of
2001. Continued employment after the end of the project is possible.

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ernst Buchberger, Dept. of Med.Cybernetics & Artificial Intelligence,
University of Vienna,     Freyung 6,          A-1010 Vienna,  Austria
and Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,   Vienna
+43-1-4277-63117 (tel), +43-1-4277-9631 (fax),  ernst at ai.univie.ac.at


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jun 23 09:11:59 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:11:59 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 2 studentships
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.101159.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: John A Barnden <J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk>
   Subject: PhD Studentship in: computation and metaphor

2/ From: Richard Evans <in6087 at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject: Research Studentship at Wolverhampton: multilingual
	    anaphora resolution
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: John A Barnden <J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk>
   Subject: PhD Studentship in: computation and metaphor



((Sorry if you receive this more than once))


                       School of Computer Science
                      The University of Birmingham
                             United Kingdom

                          RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP
                        funded by an EPSRC Grant

                           for PhD studies in
                      Computational Linguistics on
                       METAPHOR AND RELATED ISSUES

             (the related issues include parsing, corpus studies,
              handling of other types of non-literal language,
                uncertain reasoning, and belief reasoning)


NOTE: There are funding restrictions concerning non-UK students.
      Please see below.



Under a recently awarded research grant from the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK (EPSRC), we seek a suitably
qualified and motivated research student. The student would start as
soon as possible after mid-September 1999, but qualifications,
background, goals and enthusiasm for the area of the grant are more
important than timing constraints, within reason. The student would be
supervised by Prof. John Barnden (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab). The
selected student would work in close interaction with a Research
Fellow, Mark Lee (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl), as well as with John
Barnden.

The project is centred on the further development of an already
implemented approach to the handling of metaphorical utterances and the
complex uncertain reasoning they entail, and on new research ramifying
from that approach.

We seek students willing to engage in research of the following
illustrative types: further development and expansion of the implemented
reasoning system and its principles; research directed at producing a
natural language front-end or back-end to work with the reasoning
system; machine translation of metaphorical language; research on other
non-literal phenomena such as metonymy, especially with regard to their
relationships to metaphor; corpus-based and/or lexicon-based analysis of
metaphorical and other non-literal phenomena in real discourse;
corpus-based processing of metaphor etc; use of large-scale lexicons or
ontologies in metaphor processing; uncertain reasoning techniques that
may be appropriate to metaphor processing; belief reasoning issues
related to metaphor; mathematical complexity analyses of algorithms of
interest in the grant; development of formalizations of our approaches;
metaphor in forensic linguistics; metaphor in education; metaphor in HCI.

That is not an exhaustive (albeit exhausting!) list.  We believe that a
prime qualification of research students is that they should be
self-motivated, and we welcome further topic suggestions that are
sufficiently well connected to the research planned under the grant.  In
particular, we would welcome suggestions for inter-disciplinary studies:
for instance, ones that test the existing approach by means of
psychological experiment, or that strengthen links with related work in
cognitive linguistics. However, such interdisciplinary research would
have to involve substantial computational elements (whether practical or
theoretical) in order to lead to a successful PhD dissertation in our
School.

Naturally, we strongly prefer candidates with backgrounds in Computer
Science, Artificial Intelligence or Computational Linguistics. However,
other candidates are encouraged to apply if they are interested. Such a
candidate, if selected, might be required to undertake additional study in
those areas.

The School of Computer Science has research strengths in the fields of
Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science, Theoretical Computer
Science and Software Engineering.  The School's other research in
Natural Language Processing has involved work in the subareas of speech
acts, story understanding, speech synthesis and recognition, sign
language morphology and unification grammar parsers.  Research in the
School on non-linguistic AI topics related to our grant includes work on
automated reasoning, uncertain reasoning, diagrammatic reasoning,
intelligent agent architectures and emotions.

The School has a flourishing research culture in which there is frequent
interaction between people working in different areas, and between our
AI/Cognitive-Science researchers and researchers in other Schools.
There are exciting possibilities for interaction with the following
parts of our University among others:

  CORPUS RESEARCH GROUP (http://www.clg.bham.ac.uk/)
  COBUILD(http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/)
  FORENSIC LINGUISTICS GROUP (http://www-clg.bham.ac.uk/forensic/)
  EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP
      (http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/sharplem/manage.htm#lab)
  METAPHOR researchers in the Department of English, School of Education, and
  elsewhere.



Applications and Further Information
------------------------------------

There is no closing date for applications, but early applications are
advisable.  Applicants must have or be about to gain at least an upper
second class honours degree, or an overseas equivalent, in a suitable
area (see above).

NOTE FOR NON-UK STUDENTS: The EPSRC will pay tuition fees but NOT
maintenance costs for students coming from outiside the UK. Also,
students are required to have a "relevant connection" to the European
Union -- please see

   http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/Documents/Guides/Students/Annex1.htm



The School's research student prospectus, application form, and
instructions on how to apply are available from:

     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/studentinfo/form_mailer.html

Applicants, especially from outside the UK, should also carefully study
relevant portions of

     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pjh/prospectus/funding/research.html


To find out more about the research activities of the School see:

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/system/auto-gen/staff.html
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/research.html


If you have an adiministrative question which is not answered in the
documents cited above, please email admissions at cs.bham.ac.uk.

For questions about the nature of the EPSRC grant research and other
academic matters, please email John Barnden (J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk).


The University and City
-----------------------

The University of Birmingham is a major civic university founded in 1900
with about 18,000 students of whom about 25% are postgraduates.  It is
both research-led and research-leading.

The university is located on a pleasant and spacious campus, in a leafy
area a few miles south of the recently redeveloped City Centre and yet
only a short drive away from beautiful countryside. The campus has a
small railway station adjacent to it, connecting to the city centre and
to towns south of Birmingham. The city is well placed for access to all
parts of the UK, and is two hours by rail from London.  It has an
international airport.

The city boasts excellent programmes of classical music, ballet and
theatre. Also, Stratford-upon-Avon with its world-renowned theatrical
productions is only a 40-minute drive from the campus.  The University
also offers high-quality artistic, theatrical and musical venues.

The university's Central Information Service manages a web page
providing information about the university and the city
(http://www.bham.ac.uk).

_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Richard Evans <in6087 at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject: Research Studentship at Wolverhampton: multilingual
	    anaphora resolution



RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP
(Current value of bursary ?6,500)

The University of Wolverhampton, School of Languages and European
Studies invites applications for a research studentship in
Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate will work on
a multilingual anaphora resolution project. We are looking for
candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics or
Computer Science, with excellent programming skills and some
experience in Natural Language Processing. Overseas candidates must
have a good command of English. All applicants must have
knowledge of a language other than English.

The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship
in September 1999.

For further information about the project, please contact
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk.

Formal applications must be made to:

The Research Support Unit
University of Wolverhampton
Dudley Campus
Castle View
Dudley
DY1 3HR
Email L.Barlow at wlv.ac.u

and must include a completed application form
( http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/Res17.doc ),  a CV and
a  covering letter in which the candidates explain why they
apply for the studentship and give details of their research
interests/experience, background, programming skills and language
competence. (Please quote the reference number of the studentship
RS247).

Extended closing date for applications: 28 June 1999.


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jun 23 09:13:17 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:13:17 +0100
Subject: Appel: IWPT-2000
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.101317.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Harry.Bunt at kub.nl (Harry Bunt)



In view of the closeness of the original dates (December 20-22, 1999) to
the millenium change, which may cause inconveniencies, the dates of IWPT'99
have changed to February 23-25, 2000. IWPT'99 thus becomes IWPT 2000.
Below is the updated Call for papers, with revised time table.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

                  C a l l   f o r   P a p e r s

                            IWPT 2000

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

                     Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE

                        23-25 February, 2000
                          Trento, Italy
                              ~~~~


The ITC-IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research)
in Trento, in the North of Italy, will host the 6th International
Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2000) from 23 to 25 February,
2000.

IWPT 2000 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing
technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on
Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989.
The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed
by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and
Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
in 1995; and Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997.

More information can be found on the IWPT 2000 home page at:

        < http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >


Topics of interest for IWPT 2000
--------------------------------
Theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural
language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences,
speech input, multi-dimensional (pictorial) language, and parsing issues
arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Both grammar-based and
statistical approaches are welcome.


Submitting Papers
-----------------
Prospective authors are invited to send full papers to the IWPT 2000
programme chairman John Carroll. Papers must be in the format given
at the IWPT 2000 home pages (see below). Papers should not exceed 12
pages. Submission is electronically, in postscript form.
Send papers to:

                 iwpt2000 at cogs.susx.ac.uk

All submitted papers will be reviewed by the programme committee.

Deadline for paper submission	: November 5, 1999
Notification of acceptance	: December 3, 1999
Final papers due		: January  7, 2000

In addition to the papers that will be accepted for full length
presentation, papers may be accepted for poster presentations
(two pages in the proceedings).


Instruction for authors
-----------------------
Instructions for authors can be found at URL:
< http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >
or can be obtained from the programme chairman.


Programme Committee
-------------------
Robert Berwick (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Bob Carpenter (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA)
John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) (chair)
Ken Church (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA)
Mark Johnson (Brown University, Providence, USA)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Ronald Kaplan (Xerox, Palo Alto, USA)
Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto, USA)
Bernard Lang (INRIA, Paris, France)
Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands)
Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Grenoble, France)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento, Italy)
Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Masaru Tomita (Stanford University, USA)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, Newark, USA)
David Weir (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Mats Wiren (Telia Research, Stockholm, Sweden)


Organization
------------
General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Programme Chair: John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK)
Local Arrangements Chair: Alberto Lavelli (IRST, Trento, Italy)


Sponsors
---------
SIGPARSE, Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for
          Computational Linguistics
AI*IA, Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence


Further information
-------------------
Information about IWPT 2000 can be found at the URL:

      < http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >

At this site you can also obtain information about previous IWPTs,
proceedings and SIGPARSE related activities.



--
------------------------------------------------------
 Harry C. Bunt
 Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
 Dean, Faculty of Arts
 Tilburg University
 P.O. Box 90153
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
                     2568 (Dean's office)
                     2653 (office, room B 310)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
 Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
-----------------------------------------------------------


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jun 23 09:14:46 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:14:46 +0100
Subject: Ecole: SCIE'99
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.101446.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: SCIE99 <scie99 at info.uniroma2.it>



********************** **********************  **********************
Apologies if you get this call more than once via mailing lists
*********************** ********************** **********************

FINAL CALL

Call for Participation School on Information Extraction SCIE99
Frascati(Rome), June 28, July 3, 1999  http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it/

*******

IMPORTANT NEWS

EXTENDED registration deadline: June 28

*******
The Artificial Intelligence group of the Department of Computer Science,
Systems and Production of the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), in
cooperation with the Italian Association of Artifical Intelligence (AI*IA),
is pleased to announce the second Second edition of the School on
Information Extraction (SCIE99), to be held in Frascati (Roma), Italy, from
June 28 to July 3, 1999 . The school provides a forum for researchers and
practitioners with different background and expertise, to discuss ideas and
describe experiences in defining and implementing IE systems.  To maximize
interaction among SCIE-99 participants, the attendance will be limited to
80 persons.

CONTENTS
The school is organized as a set of lectures held by internationally renown
experts from the different disciplines concerning IE themes. These lectures
are explicitly meant to address interdisciplinary issues and will introduce
common goals, needs and problems of the different approaches. Demo sessions
on current IE technologies and systems will be also held at the school.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Jean Pierre CHANOD (XEROX Research Centre Europe, FR)  "Natural Language
Processing and Digital Libraries"
Veronica DAHL (Simon Fraser Univ. CA)  "From Speech to Knowledge"
Maria Teresa PAZIENZA (Univ. Rome Tor Vergata, IT)  "Engineering IE
systems: an Object Oriented approach"
Harold SOMERS (UMIST, UK)  "Knowledge extraction from bilingual corpora"
John SOWA (Westchester Polytechnic Univ. USA)  "Relating Templates to
Language and Logic"
Marc VILAIN (The MITRE Corporation, MA, USA)  "Inferential Information
Extraction"
Ellen VOORHEES (NIST, MD, USA)  "Natural Language Processing and
Information Retrieval"
Yorick WILKS (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)  "Can we make Information Extraction
more adaptive?"
The speakers contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

SCHOOL VENUE
The school will be hosted by the European Space Agency at ESRIN
establishment. Thanks to this hospitality, we hope to reach a friendly
atmosphere as in the past edition of the school, which enabled fruitful
exchanges of ideas among participants.
The School will be held in the pleasant atmosphere of the historic city of
Frascati (near Rome, Italy)
____________________________________________________________________________
__
Any information for SCIE-99 participation (registration fees,
accommodation, lectures, demos, ...) may be found at the school web page

http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it
____________________________________________________________________________
__
SCIE-99 Program Commettee:
* Luigia Carlucci Aiello (Univ. of Roma La Sapienza)
* Elisa Bertino (Univ. of Milano)

* Maria Teresa Pazienza (Univ. of Roma, Tor Vergata) (chair)
* Domenico Sacca' (Univ. of Calabria)
* Lorenza Saitta (Univ. of Torino)
SCIE-99 Organizing Committee:
- R. Basili (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) (chair)
- C. Cardani (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
- M. Di Nanni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
- M. Vindigni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
- F. Zanzotto (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
School e-mail: scie99 at info.uniroma2.it
--------------------------------------------------
For more information contact:
prof. Maria Teresa Pazienza
Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production
University of Roma, Tor Vergata
Via di Tor Vergata  00133 ROMA (ITALY)
tel: +39 06 72597378 (office);
fax +39 06 72597460;
e_mail: pazienza at info.uniroma2.it
--------------------------------------------------

SCIE99
Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Management
University of Roma Tor Vergata
Via di Tor Vergata
00133 Roma (ITALY)
Phone: +39 06 72597378
FAX: +39 06 72597460
Web site:http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it
e-mail: scie99 at info.uniroma2.it


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jun 23 09:15:56 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:15:56 +0100
Subject: Divers: English 2000
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.101556.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk


The British Council's "English 2000" futurologist project has commissioned
a report on the potential impact of Speech And Language Technology (SALT)
on English Language Teaching (ELT).  A *DRAFT* of this report is at
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/nlp/papers/atwell99draft.doc

This report is inevitably constrained by my limited knowledge of SALT and ELT.
The report is due to be launched next month, for distribution to the ELT
industry worldwide.  If you know of relevant products, case studies, etc
which you think should be mentioned, please let me have details (including
URLs and/or publication references) as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance for any useful contributions,

Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, SOCRATES Coordinator,
 and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)
 School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
 EMAIL: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk  TEL: (44)113-2335761  FAX: (44)113-2335468
 WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html














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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun 25 15:21:20 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:21:20 +0100
Subject: Job: 1 Offer
Message-ID: <FRI.25.JUN.1999.162120.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: John Bateman <bateman at uni-bremen.de>


WITH APOLOGIES FOR POSSIBLE MULTIPLE DELIVERIES
=============================================



Researcher/Communicator: Genre and Layout in Multimodal Documents

We are seeking a Researcher/Communicator to join our team on the
ESRC-funded
project Genre and Multimodality (GeM): a computer model of genre in
document
layout. The post will be based at the University of Stirling, but the
project is a collaboration with John Bateman (University of Bremen) and
Patrick Allen (University of East London). The post is fixed-term for 24
months, to begin as soon as possible. Salary will be within Grade 1A of
the
Research and Analogous staff salary structure (?15735 to ?23631) p.a.

The project aims to capture in a computer model the knowledge that
experts
draw upon in designing and laying out pages or runs of pages. The genre
of a
page ??whether it's an encyclopaedia entry, a set of instructions, or a
Web
page, for example ??plays a central role in determining what graphical
devices are chosen and how they will be employed in illustrated
documents.
The project is intended to model exactly what this role is, and how the
different purposes of the document are expressed through graphical
resources. The resulting model will allow alternative and novel layout
genres to be explored through automatic generation.

We need a lively, practical, expert communicator with initiative and
team
spirit who can entertain ideas from publishing design, psychology,
artificial intelligence, art history, linguistics, and pretty much
anywhere
else, and who can use and develop happy working relationships outside
academia. The successful candidate will work with layout professionals
and
with a corpus of sample layouts to synthesise expertise in document
design,
drawing both on their own experience of layout and on the expertise of
publishing professionals whose involvement the postholder in particular
will
co-ordinate. The postholder will be someone who's constantly in dialogue
with the research team and the user groups to ensure that the project
results are based in the real-world constraints of commercial document
production. The second key role of the postholder will be to design and
implement a Web presence for the project that dynamically reflects the
state
of our knowledge about layout, and for this reason you will need, or be
able
to acquire very quickly, skills with modern web-based tools, and a
knowledge
of HTML, XML, Java and emerging standards in document layout. The post
will
also involve:

                ?       collecting and scanning an appropriate corpus
                        of illustrated documents
                ?       developing an annotation system for marking
                        up layout characteristics and applying it to
                        the corpus
                ?       comparative analysis of documents to work
                        out how they differ, and relating differences to
                        a model of genre
                ?       discussing results and eliciting expert
knowledge
                        from user groups of publishers and other
                        layout experts
                ?       drafting reports and papers, and presenting and
                        publicising our results

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr. Judy Delin, the project
co-ordinator (01786 467974, email j.l.delin at stir.ac.uk). Further
particulars
are available from the Personnel Office, University of Stirling,
Stirling,
FK9 4LA, tel: (01786) 467028, fax (01786) 466155 or email
personnel at stir.ac.uk. Closing date for applications: 19 July 1999.






Dr Judy Delin
Department of English Studies
and
Centre for Research in Communication and Language
University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Phone: +44 1786 467974
Fax: +44 1786 466201 (F)
Email: j.l.delin at stir.ac.uk


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun 25 15:21:24 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:21:24 +0100
Subject: Ecole: ESSLLI'99
Message-ID: <FRI.25.JUN.1999.162124.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: ESSLLI 1999 <esslli99 at let.uu.nl>


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    ESSLLI'99--Call for Participation--Web Update

    From August 9-20, the 11th European Summer School in Logic,
    Language and Information is being held at Utrecht University.
    The summer school offers an intensive two-week programme with
    courses (introductory to advanced), workshops, a student session,
    and plenary evening lectures. The ESSLLI'99 faculty consists
    of 80 top researchers in the field. In addition to the scientific
    programme, recruitment activities are being organized by the
    ESSLLI industrial sponsors. There is also a social programme.

    Detailed information is available via the ESSLLI'99 web site at

    http://esslli.let.uu.nl

    The web site has just been updated with full programme details
    (including the workshops and the student session). On the
    ESSLLI'99 web site, you can register on-line, and arrange
    local accommodation.

    The registration fee is 450 NLG (Dutch Guilders) for students,
    700 NLG for academic participants and 1200 NLG for industrial
    participants. Accommodation in the comfortable student residence
    halls is 410 NLG for two weeks. See the web page for other
    options. Do not hesitate to register NOW, if you want to be
    sure of a place to stay!

    We hope to see you in Utrecht this Summer!

    Contact address:

        ESSLLI'99
        Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
        Trans 10
        3512 JK Utrecht
        The Netherlands
        e-mail: esslli99 at let.uu.nl
        tel: +31-30-2536183
        fax: +31-30-2536000


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jun 25 15:21:26 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:21:26 +0100
Subject: Livre: Text Summarization
Message-ID: <FRI.25.JUN.1999.162126.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jud Wolfskill <wolfskil at MIT.EDU>



The following is a book which readers of this list might find of
interest.  For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MANDHF99


Advances in Automatic Text Summarization<bold>

</bold>edited by Inderjeet Mani and Mark T. Maybury


With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web and electronic information
services, information is becoming available on-line at an incredible
rate. One result is the oft-decried information overload. No one has
time to read everything, yet we often have to make critical decisions
based on what we are able to assimilate. The technology of automatic
text summarization is becoming indispensable for dealing with this
problem. Text summarization is the process of distilling the most
important information from a source to produce an abridged version for
a particular user or task.


Until now there has been no state-of-the-art collection of the most
important writings in automatic text summarization. This book presents
the key developments in the field in an integrated framework and
suggests future research areas. The book is organized into six
sections: Classical Approaches, Corpus-Based Approaches, Exploiting
Discourse Structure, Knowledge-Rich Approaches, Evaluation Methods, and
New Summarization Problem Areas.


Contributors<underline>

</underline>D. A. Adams, C. Aone, R. Barzilay, E. Bloedorn, B.
Boguraev, R. Brandow, C. Buckley, F. Chen, M. J. Chrzanowski, H. P.
Edmundson, M. Elhadad, T. Firmin, R. P. Futrelle, J. Gorlinsky, U.
Hahn, E. Hovy, D. Jang, K. Sparck Jones, G. M. Kasper, C. Kennedy, K.
Kukich, J. Kupiec, B. Larsen, W. G. Lehnert, C. Lin, H. P. Luhn, I.
Mani, D. Marcu, M. Maybury, K. McKeown, A. Merlino, M. Mitra, K. Mitze,
M. Moens, A. H. Morris, S. H. Myaeng, M. E. Okurowski, J. Pedersen, J.
J. Pollock, D. R. Radev, G. J. Rath, L. F. Rau, U. Reimer, A. Resnick,
J. Robin, G. Salton, T. R. Savage, A. Singhal, G. Stein, T.
Strzalkowski, S. Teufel, J. Wang, B. Wise, A. Zamora.


8 1/2 x 11, 416 pp., 150 illus., cloth 0-262-13359-8


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     |       Jud Wolfskill

 |||||||     Associate Publicist                 Phone:  (617)
253-2079

 |||||||     MIT Press                           Fax:  (617) 253-1709

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wolfskil at mit.edu

      |      Cambridge, MA  02142-1493
http://mitpress.mit.edu


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun 29 09:02:13 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:02:13 +0100
Subject: Conf: MOL6
Message-ID: <TUE.29.JUN.1999.100213.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jennifer MacDougall <jmacdoug at central.cis.upenn.edu>


Please post and distribute.
[Apologies for multiple copies]



           Sixth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL6)
                        July 23-25, 1999
                  University of Central Florida
                         Orlando, Florida


For more information, including information on how to register
and all aspects of local arrangements, please visit the MOL6 local
arrangements website at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~jrogers/MOL6/mol6local.html.


THURSDAY 7/22

 6:00 pm   Opening Reception, Harley Hotel


FRIDAY 7/23

 9:00- 9:30 Generative Capacity of Multi-modal Categorial Grammars
		Gerhard Jager, Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

 9:30-10:00 Some remarks on the geometry of grammar
		Marc Dymetman, Xerox Research Center

10:00-10:30 Partial Proof-Nets and minimalist representations
	         Alain Lecomte, LORIA, Nancy, France

10:30-11:00 AM Break


11:00-11:30 A cubic Time Extension of Context-Free Grammars
		 Pierre Boullier, INRIA, France

11:30-12:00 Context Free Recognition with Weighted Automata
		 Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs

12:00-12:30 Modularized Context-Free Grammars
	         Shuly Wintner, Institute for Research in
                 Cognitive Science (IRCS), U. Penn

12:30- 2:00 LUNCH Break


 2:00- 2:30 Relaxing Underspecified Semantic Representations for
            Reinterpretation
		 Alexander Koller, Joachim Niehren, Kristina Striegnitz
		 Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany

 2:30- 3:00 On Conditional Information in Feature-Based Theories
		 Rainer Osswald, University of Hagen, Germany

 3:00- 3:30 A Quasi-Ring Construction for Compiling Attributed
	    Type Signatures
		 Gerald Penn, Universitat Tubingen

 3:30- 4:00 PM Break

 4:00- 4:30 Taming Complexity: Constraint-Based Dependency Parsing
		Denys Duchier, Univeristy of the Saarland

 4:30- 5:00 Tabulation of Automata for Mildly Context-Sensitive Languages
		 Miguel A. Pardo, David Cabrero Souto
                 (Universidad de La Coruna, Spain) Eric de la
                 Clergerie (INRIA, France)

 5:00- 5:30 Models of tabulation for TAG parsing
                 Mark-Jan Nederhof, Saarbrucken, Germany

 5:30- 7:30 Educational Session
	     Co-Chairs: Robin Clark, UPENN and Larry Moss, Indiana University
		
SATURDAY 7/24


 9:00- 9:30 Variables, interpretations and Quine-like combinators
		 Robin Clark, Dept. of Linguistics, U. Penn. and
                 Natasha Kurtonina, IRCS

 9:30-10:00 The Algebraic Semantics of Questions
		 Rani Nelken and Nissim Francez, Dept. of Computer Science,
                 The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

10:00-10:30 A note on a certain class of quantifier denotations in
	    natural language
		 Robin Clark, Dept. of Linguistics, U. Penn. and
                 Tom Morton, Computer Science, U. Penn.

10:30-11:00 AM Break

11:00-11:30 Generalized Tree Adjoining Grammar
		 James Rogers, School of Computer Science, University
                 of Central Florida

11:30-12:00 C-Command and Extraction in Tree Adjoining Grammar
		 Robert Frank (Dept. of Cognitive Science, Johns
                 Hopkins) Seth Kulick (IRCS), K. Vijay-Shanker
                 (U. Delaware)

12:00-12:30 Exploring the Underspecified World of Lexicalized
	    Tree Adjoining Grammars
		 K. Vijay-Shanker (U. Del), David Weir (Univ. of
                 Sussex)

12:30- 2:00 LUNCH Break

 2:00- 2:30 Context-sensitive node admissibility revisited
		Dick Oehrle, Department of Linguistics and
                Cognitive Science program, University of Arizona

 2:30- 3:00 Synchronous Parallelism Between Different Grammar Formalisms
		Mark Dras, Dept. of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia

 3:00- 3:30 A Dynamic Event Semantics for the Analysis of Verbs and
	    Voice-Affixes in Tagalog
	        Ralf Naumann, Anja Latrouite, Seminar fur
                Algemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

 3:30- 4:00 PM Break


 4:00- 4:30 Regular Description of Cross-Serial Dependencies
		Hans-Peter Kolb, Uwe Moennich, and Frank Morawietz
		
 4:30- 5:00 Propositional Tense Logic for Trees
		Adi Palm, Dept. of General Linguistics, Univ. of Passau

 5:00- 5:30 The Horn Subset of systemic networks
		Jo Calder, HCRC, University of Edinburgh

 7:00 pm    Banquet Dinner and Business Meeting, Harley Hotel

SUNDAY 7/25

 9:30-10:00 Contextual Automata
		 Carlos Martin-Vide, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
                 and Language Engineering, Spain

10:00-10:30 A Polynomial Parser for Contextual Grammars
		 Karin Harbusch, Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

10:30-11:00 Combing Contextual Grammars and Tree Adjoining Grammars
		 Martin Kappes, Fachbereich Informatik, Johann
                 Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Germany

11:00-11:30 AM Break

11:30-12:00 Zipf's law outside the middle range
		 Andras Kornai, PPD Informatics/Belmont Research

12:00-12:30 Language learning via Martingales
		 Charles Yang, AI Lab MIT and Sam Gutmann,
                 Dept. of Mathematics, Northeastern Univ.

12:30- 1:00 A Local Maxima method and a Fair Dispersion Normalization for
            extracting multi-word units from corpora
		 Jaoquim Ferreira de Silva and Gabriel Pereira
                 Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jun 29 09:02:14 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:02:14 +0100
Subject: Conf: TKE'99
Message-ID: <TUE.29.JUN.1999.100214.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Peter Sandrini" <Peter.Sandrini at uibk.ac.at>


Dear Sir/Madam,

registration for the 5th International Conference on 'Terminology
and Knowledge Engineering TKE'99' which will take place in about two
months in Innsbruck, Austria (August 23-27, 1999) is open.

We would like to inform you that the deadline for cheaper
registration is about to end on June, 30. If you would like to come
to TKE'99 please take advantage of reduced registration fees
and send in your registration
(http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html#Registration) today!

Registration:
PCO-Tyrol Congress
Rennweg 3, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone +43 512 575600
Fax   +43 512 575607
email: tyrol.congress at tirol.com

The conference is subdivided into 8 sections with about 80 speakers.
Main topics are Philosophy of Science and Terminology Studies,
Knowledge Resource Management and all aspects of interdisciplinary
research regarding knowledge engineering, information & documentation,
classification theory, hyper- and multimedia applications,
computerised terminography, specialized translation and
culture-related aspects of the multilingual information society.

You will find the detailed congress programme at

   http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html

Pre-conference workshops will be organized on Monday August 23 and
Tuesday August 24 with congress registration in the morning. The
workshops offer an application-oriented approach to key issues. The
main conference with two and three parallel sections begins on
Wednesday August 25 and closes on Friday August 27.

Venue of TKE'99:
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
http://www.uibk.ac.at

Organiser:
Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW)
Fischnalerstr. 4, A-6020 Innsbruck
http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at

The exhibition in the lobby of the conference rooms provides an
opportunity for vendors or developers of software systems and
publishing houses to show their products to a specific world-wide
audience.
Please contact the exhibition organiser (deadline is
also June 30, 1999): TermNet Simmeringer Hauptstr. 24 A-1110 Vienna,
Austria Phone +43 1 740 40 280 Fax   +43 1 740 40 281 email
termnet at termnet.at
or fill out the online form at
http://www.termnet.at/tke99_regform.htm

Looking forward to an interesting and stimulating conference

Yours sincerely

Peter Sandrini
(for the organising committee)


-----------------------------------
see also:
Terminology Summer School August 5 - 8, 1999, Krems (Austria)
http://www.termnet.at/frm_tss99.htm

Training of Terminology Consultants, August 09-11, 1999, Krems
http://www.termnet.at/frm_tsc99.htm
-----------------------------------