From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 10 14:59:43 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:59:43 +0200 Subject: Job: 1 Offer Message-ID: From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk ACADEMIC VACANCIES at LEEDS UNIVERSITY, Leeds, Yorkshire, England The corpus-based computational linguistics group (Eric Atwell, Rens Bod, Peter Howarth, Clive Souter) particularly welcome applicants with research interests in corpus-based computational linguistics... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England LECTURESHIP (with possibility of appointment at SL/Reader level) CLOSING DATE 9.11.99 The person appointed to this PERMANENT post will be required to undertake leading-edge research and teaching of the highest standard within our broadly based degree programmes. Preference will be given to candidates who strengthen our existing activities. The School is active in and encourages multidisciplinary activities; applications are welcome from candidates who have an interest in multidisciplinary informatics. Salary will be on the Lecturer A/B scales (currently £17,238 to £30,065) or at Senior Lecturer or Reader level (currently £17,238 to £30,065). Informal enquiries to Professor Tony Cohn (tel: 0113-233-5482; fax: 0113-233-5468; e-mail: agc at scs.leeds.ac.uk) More details: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancies/lecturer_oct_99.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- School of Education, University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England LECTURER IN EDUCATION (TESOL) with a specialism in Teaching English to Young Learners CLOSING DATE 5.11.99 Available from 1st February 2000, for a fixed period of three years in the first instance, to contribute to the development of a BA Educational Studies (TESOL) programme for teachers of English in the Sultanate of Oman. You will have experience in teacher education and an established specialist research area with evidence of, or with the potential to produce, high-quality publications; applications are welcome from people at the early stages of an academic career wishing to develop a specialist research area. Salary will be on the Lecturer A/B scales (currently £17,238 to £30,065) Informal enquiries to Dr A. Deignan e-mail: TESOL at education.leeds.ac.uk More details: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/educa212.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- (NB I can tell you what a great place Leeds is to live in, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/intro/city.htm - BUT I can't tell you any more about these jobs - Human Resources have the job descriptions etc.) Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor, 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)113-2335430 FAX: (44)113-2335468 WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 10 14:59:47 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:59:47 +0200 Subject: Appel: TaLC2000 Message-ID: From: Georg Marko Call for Papers for TaLC 2000 Fourth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora English Department, University of Graz, Austria July 19-23, 2000 Large corpora of authentic language together with sophisticated concordancing software for analyses provide a new paradigm not only for linguistic research but also for many forms of language teaching. Teachers and students no longer have to rely on the intuitions of prescriptive theorists but with the help of corpora can inductively draw their own conclusions: a highly desirable goal in the age of "learner autonomy". This international conference will bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the use of corpus tools for such purposes as: * language teaching/language learning * language awareness raising * teaching languages for specific purposes * student-centered linguistic investigation * translation studies * teaching literature * cultural and historical studies Following the previous three highly successful TaLC conferences in Lancaster 1994 and 1996 and Oxford 1998, TaLC 2000 invites proposals for position papers, reports of work in progress, case-histories of successful corpus applications, and introductions to relevant new resources. In addition, we welcome proposals for introductory tutorials or workshops. Abstracts (500 words) should be submitted to arrive before 15 March 2000. Workshop Proposals should be submitted to arrive before 15 February 2000. All proposals will be reviewed. Authors of those accepted for inclusion will be notified by 15 April 2000. The programme will be finalised during May 2000. The official language of the conference is English. As the aim of TaLC2000 is communication between linguists from various cultural backgrounds, English seemed the best choice as lingua franca. Organising Committee Guy Aston (Bologna); Norbert Berger (Graz); Lou Burnard (Oxford HCU); Bernhard Kettemann (Graz); Tony McEnery (Lancaster); Barbara Seidlhofer (Vienna), Chistopher Tribble (Sri Lanka) Programme The conference will run from Thursday morning 20 July to Saturday night 22 July with a single strand of presentations and a poster session. There will be workshops and a book and software exhibit in parallel. Presentations include keynote speeches by: * Tim Johns (Birmingham, Opening keynote): "On Corpus-based learning" * Antoinette Renouf (Liverpool) * Christian Mair (Freiburg), "Empowering advanced learners and non-native speakers: The hidden surplus-value of corpora in continental English departments" * Tony McEnery (Lancaster) * Sylviane Granger (Louvain) * Mike Scott (Liverpool) * Lou Burnard (Oxford) * Guy Aston (Bologna) * Dieter Mindt (Berlin) Workshops include (preliminary): * Sylviane Granger: "Interlanguage/learner corpora and ELT" * Chris Tribble: "Negative keywords and small corpora" Venue TaLC 2000 will be held at Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, in the recently completed award-winning building of the faculties of law and economics (RESOWI Zentrum), which represents a modern counterpoint to the generally neo-classical style of the University, which was founded in 1585 and whose main buildings date back to the last century. The campus is situated near the charming Renaissance and Baroque city centre, nestling under the picturesque hill (Schlossberg) with its famous clock tower. Graz, though still a well kept secret among mass tourists, is attracting more and more attention, not least because of the presence of a thriving cultural scene in the summer months. All participants will be accommodated in modern fully-equipped study bedrooms within a few minutes' walk of the RESOWI Zentrum or in hotels in the city centre. The city centre is within walking distance and can also be reached by bus. How to get to Graz By air: Graz has an international airport with several daily connections to and from Frankfurt, Zurich and Vienna. There is an infrequent shuttle bus service to the railway station. But you can also take a taxi directly to your hotel (this will cost approx. £12). By train: There are many direct train services from all over Austria to Graz. If you arrive at Vienna International Airport, there is a regular shuttle bus service to the Südbahnhof (Southern Station). There is a regular direct service (every two hours) from there to Graz (travelling time approx. 2 1/2 hours). By road: Graz is ideally located at the hub of Central Europe's road network. Venice, Budapest and Munich are all about five hours' drive away. Graz can easily be reached by motorway from Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Villach, and Klagenfurt. Rates All-inclusive rates for participants will be approximately 300£/500$/6200ATS. These rates include conference fees, accommodation (four nights), meals, and outing. All-inclusive rates for accompanying persons will be approximately 130£/210$/2700ATS. Submit a Proposal Proposals for papers should include the following * Authors' full name and affiliation * Title of proposal * Contact details (Email, URL, phone, fax, postal address) * 500 word description of the proposed presentation Registration and further information Proposals and registrations (will be available soon) should be sent to the following address, or using the form at the conference web site below. The conference email address is mailto:talc2000 at gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at Further details will be available from the conference web site: http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/talc2000 Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Bernhard Kettemann Institut fuer Anglistik der Universitaet Graz A-8010 Graz, Heinrichstrasse 36, Austria Tel.: +43/316/380-2488, 2487, 2474 Fax: +43/316/380-9765 Email: mailto:bernhard.kettemann at kfunigraz.ac.at Useful links Steiermark http://www.Steiermark.com Graz http://www.graztourismus.at http://www.graz.at Graz University http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at GewiLab http://gewilab.kfunigraz.ac.at English Department http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/ed/ RESOWI Zentrum http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/8.11./plan.html Previous conference websites: TALC 94 http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc94.html TALC 96 http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc TALC 98 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98 ICAME http://www.hd.uib.no/icame.html UCREL http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 10 15:00:59 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:00:59 +0200 Subject: Soft: Syntax Student's Companion Message-ID: From: Aurélien MAX Logiciel libre éducatif en Java Le Syntax Student's Companion est un programme Java qui tourne en tant qu'applet ou application (peut être exécuté en ligne ou bien téléchargé). Ce programme est originellement destiné aux étudiants qui débutent en syntaxe et à leurs enseignants. Il permet l'édition visuelle d'arbre syntaxiques, à partir de catégories et d'un lexique définis dans une grammaire hors-contexte, qui est éditable depuis l'éditeur de grammaire du programme. L'étudiant peut également vérifier ses arbres avec la grammaire courante, et faire des exercices (analyse sans ambiguité, analyse avec ambiguite, transformation). Les ressources du programme sont encodées en XML, ce qui permet un ajout facile de nouveaux exercices. Les grammaires et les arbres peuvent quant à eux être directement sauvegardés depuis le programme lorsque le programme est exécuté en tant qu'application (i.e. pas depuis le site). Le site pour le projet est principalement en Anglais, mais le programme supporte des ressources de langues, et peut donc pour le moment être exécuté en Anglais ou en Français (toutes nouvelles soumissions sont les bienvenues). J'espère avoir prochainement le temps de traduire le manuel d'utilisation en Français. L'utilisation du programme appartient aux personnes qui le trouveront utile, ainsi toute ressource soumise sera ajouté au site pour pouvoir être ensuite accédée par d'autres personnes. Pour plus d'informations, http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~am350/welcome.html. Merci, bonne journée, Aurélien MAX --------------------------------------------------------- The Syntax Student's Compagnion homepage http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~am350/welcome.html MPhil student - University of Cambridge - am350 at cam.ac.uk From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 10 14:59:53 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:59:53 +0200 Subject: Appel: Extended Deadline RIAO2000 Message-ID: From: chibout at limsi.fr (Karim Chibout) ************** Apologies for Multiple Posting ********************** **************Please Distribute Widely***************** *************************************************************************** ******* EXTENDED DEADLINE RIAO'2000: CALL FOR PAPERS & APPLICATIONS ******* *************************************************************************** RIAO 2000 : Content-Based Multimedia Information Access College de France Paris, France April 12-14, 2000 Due to many requests, it has been decided to postpone the deadline for RIAO'2000 Paper Submissions to Monday, November 15 at latest. An Open Guichet is established for Application Demonstrations, which may be submitted after the first deadline of November 17. **************************************************************************** ********* ******** REVISED CALENDAR CALL FOR PAPERS: - EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: ******NOVEMBER 15, 1999******* - Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999 - Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: - First Application Deadline: November 17, 1999 - Close of the Open Guichet: January 21, 2000 - Final Program: January 25, 2000 - Conference: April 12-14, 2000 ************************************************************************* CONTACTS: RIAO2000 Email: riao2000 at limsi.fr RIAO 2000 Web site: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO **************************************** From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Nov 16 16:57:12 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:57:12 +0100 Subject: Q: Indexation de bases documentaires non structurees Message-ID: [Cette question relève surtout de la recherche d'information, mais les fonctionnalités d'indexation utilisant des outils de traitement automatique des langues peuvent être mieux connus du public de cette liste -- pz] Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:01:44 +0100 From: Marie-Helene Antoni Message-Id: <199911161457.PAA23198 at melusine.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr> Les outils de valorisation et d'exploitation de l'information se multiplient sans cesse, et la plupart se situent en aval de la constitution des fonds documentaires. D'autres outils permettent le constitution rapide de gros fonds documentaires, multi sources et multi formats. Comment se fait le lien entre les deux ? autrement dit, quels sont les outils permettant l'indexation de Bases documentaires non structurées? Quels outils, comparables à Altavista Discovery, Verity Search, travaillant sur des fichiers simplement enregistrés dans une arborescence, mettons sur un seul disque, sont aujourd'hui disponibles, et avec quelles fonctionnalités ? - indexation de tous types de formats (lesquels : textes, images, TTX, BD,...), - sensibilité ou pas au déplacement des fichiers, - mise à jour automatique incrémentale des index, - outils d'interrogation sur la base constituée : recherche sur chaîne de caractères, recherche booléenne, reformulation linguistique ... - outil d'exploitation de la réponse : traitement statistiques, linguistiques ? Y a-t-il des logiciels commerciaux, des logiciels libres (freeware), des versions beta ? qui tournent dans quels environnements et sur quels volumes etc ...? From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Nov 24 01:10:18 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 02:10:18 +0100 Subject: Journee: ATALA, Outils pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues Message-ID: From: Pierre Zweigenbaum X-url: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je-991129.html OUTILS POUR LE TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES Journée du GdR I3, sous-thème Langue, organisée en association avec l'ATALA par Gérard Sabah et Pierre Zweigenbaum lundi 29 novembre 1999 http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je-991129.html PROGRAMME Les outils présentés font l'objet d'une description dans le Répertoire d'outils pour le TAL inauguré à l'occasion de cette journée : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/outil/ 9h15 Présentation de la journée (Gérard Sabah, Pierre Zweigenbaum) 9h40 Présentation du projet SILFIDE (Laurent Romary) 10h10 Pause 10h30 Session 1 : ANALYSE SYNTAXIQUE Analyseur syntaxique du GREYC (et Extracteur de structure de documents), Jacques Vergne Incremental Finite State Parser (et Ginger), Xerox, Nuria GALIA PAVIA Analyseur LFG du LIMSI, Xavier Briffault INTEX (et GlossaNet), Cédrick Fairon FipsTag, Éric Wehrli 11h45 Discussion sur les questions d'évaluation et de comparaison de systèmes 12h30 [Déjeuner] 14h00 Session 2 : AFFICHES ET DISCUSSIONS Les affiches présenteront un bon nombre des autres outils qui font l'objet d'une fiche dans le Répertoire d'outils pour le TAL http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/outil/ La liste complète des affiches est disponible sur la page de la journée : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je-991129.html 15h15 Session 3 : EXTRACTION DE CONNAISSANCES LEXTER, Didier Bourigault ACABIT, Béatrice Daille SEEK, Christophe Jouis 16h00 [Pause] 16h20 Informations sur le réseau ELRA 16h50 Session 4 : FILTRAGE ET LEXIQUE ContextO, Jean-Luc Minel CORDIAL Universités, Synapse, Denise Malrieu Le Sémiographe, Memodata, Dominique Dutoit 17h35 Discussion finale et commentaires 18h30 [Fin de la journée] La page de la journée http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je-991129.html donne un accès direct à des fiches décrivant les outils présentés. CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière 91, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris salle 219, 2e étage Entrée libre From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Nov 29 08:40:09 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:40:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: Special Issue of CL: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution Message-ID: From: Ruslan Mitkov Call for Papers Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution Guest editors: Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena of active study in formal and computational linguistics alike. The correct interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for Natural Language Processing. After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many researchers in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has been reported. Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT and Centering have inspired new research on the computational treatment of anaphora. The drive towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has further stimulated interest, for alternative and/or data-enriched approaches. In addition, application-driven research in areas such as automatic abstracting and information extraction, has independently identified the importance of (and boosted the research in) anaphora and coreference resolution. Ellipsis resolution too, being of particular importance to a number of Natural Language Understanding applications such as dialogue and discourse processing, has received increasing attention. The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has been demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC coreference task projects and at a number of related fora (workshops, conferences, etc.). Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely, collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution. Topics The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel and challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution. The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited to: o new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms, o factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors, o techniques in ellipsis resolution, o use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution, o use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution, o applications of anaphora/coreference resolution, o applications of ellipsis resolution, o multilingual anaphora resolution, o evaluation issues, o use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis. In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related to the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as: o Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora resolution? o When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"? o What is the case for languages other than English? o What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential" factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical data can be brought to bear on this? o What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting the antecedent? o Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts? o Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora automatically? o Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for particular type(s) of input text? o Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic reconstruction? o Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided structure? Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora. Submissions and Reviewing The submission deadline is 1 April 2000. Authors can submit either electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style details, see http://www.aclweb.org/cl) to: Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk) School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and details of the author (following the format given at http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt) should be emailed to R.Mitkov. Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special issue. In addition to the guest editors, Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and Shalom Lappin (University of London), the editorial board includes the following members: Nicholas Asher (University of Texas), Amit Bagga (GE CRD), Claire Cardie (Cornell University), David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern), Eugene Charniak (Brown University), Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC), Dan Hardt (Villanova University), Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto), Jerry Hobbs (SRI International), Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania), Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe), Andrew Kehler (SRI International), Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University), Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh), Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille), Stuart Shieber (Harvard University), Candy Sidner (Lotus Research), Marilyn Walker (AT&T). From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Nov 29 08:40:23 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:40:23 +0100 Subject: Appel: ATALA Workshop Message-ID: From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) [Version francaise ci-apres] ATALA Workshop Representation and Treatment of Syntactic Ambiguity in Natural Language Processing ------------ Paris, Pitié-Salpétrière January 29, 2000 htpp://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/ATALA2000.html ------------ CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS There are several approaches making it possible to treat syntactic ambiguity: one can for example decide to apply disambiguation as soon as possible, in particular using statistical methods. One can on the contrary choose to delay to the maximum the disambiguation and to maintain the ambiguity, possibly until the end of the processing. These two approaches are not necessarily contradictory. However, the problem remains very difficult to solve and many of the methods proposed amount to little more than the traditional enumeration. Factorizing the information (for example in using parse forests) can from this point of view play a very significant role and even lead to effective solutions. The goal of this workshop is to propose an overview of the current techniquesfor the representation and the treatment of syntactic ambiguity in natural language processing. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- . Bernard Lang INRIA . David Weir Cognitive and Computing Science University of Sussex COMMUNICATIONS -------------- The proposals for a communication will be selected on the basis of a 1 page abstract. Abstracts will be sent by e-mail (preferably) or surface mail at: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Philippe Blache LPL - Université de Provence 29, Avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence France DATES ----- Deadline : December 1st, 1999 Notifications: December 20th, 1999 CHAIR ----- Philippe Blache Eric de la Clergerie CNRS/Université de Provence INRIA ____________________________________________________________________________ Journée de l'ATALA Représentation et traitement de l'ambiguité pour l'analyse syntaxique ------------ Paris, Pitié-Salpétrière 29 Janvier 2000 htpp://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/ATALA2000.html ------------ APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS Il existe plusieurs approches permettant de traiter l'ambiguité : on peut par exemple décider d'appliquer une désambiguisation au plus tôt, notamment à l'aide de méthodes statistiques ou heuristiques. On peut au contraire choisir de retarder au maximum la désambiguisation et de maintenir l'ambiguité, éventuellement jusqu'à la fin du traitement. Ces deux approches ne sont d'ailleurs pas forcément contradictoires. Cependant, le problème reste très difficile à résoudre et bien des méthodes proposées reviennent finalement a une énumeration classique. Dans cette perspective, le partage des informations à l'aide, par exemple, de forêts d'arbres peut jouer un rôle très important et conduire à des solutions efficaces. Le but de cette journée est de faire le point sur les techniques actuelles de représentation et de traitement de l'ambiguité pour l'analyse syntaxique ou pour des phases ultérieures, et ce pour différents formalismes grammaticaux (ou indépendamment d'eux). CONFERENCIERS INVITES --------------------- . Bernard Lang INRIA . David Weir Cognitive and Computing Science University of Sussex COMMUNICATIONS -------------- Les propositions de communication seront selectionnées sur la base d'un résumé de 1 page à transmettre par e-mail (de préférence) ou courrier à l'adresse suivante : pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Philippe Blache LPL - Université de Provence 29, Avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence France CALENDRIER ---------- Date limite de réception des résumés : 1er Décembre 1999 Notifications aux auteurs : 20 Décembre 1999 ORGANISATEURS ------------- Philippe Blache Eric de la Clergerie LPL - CNRS INRIA From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Nov 29 08:40:26 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:40:26 +0100 Subject: Appel: AFLA 2000 Message-ID: From: afla at ccr.jussieu.fr (Association Française de Linguistique appliquée) AFLA 2000 / Call for Papers The French Association for Applied Linguistics (AFLA) will be organising its 3rd International Congress on Applied Linguistics from the 6th to the 12th July 2000. This event will take place in Paris on the Jussieu campus. The Congress will be consist of two parts: 1 - A scientific conference, from Thursday 6th July in the morning to the beginning of the afternoon of Saturday 8th July. 2 - A summer school, from Monday 10th July in the morning to the beginning of the afternoon of Wednesday 12th July. THE SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE This will be centred on two themes: a - the automatic processing of language seen not from the strictly technical aspect but as the drive behind new methodologies and tendencies of research. Various fields with linguistic applications will be covered. b - language disfunctions and learning difficulties of language and languages. The two themes will be covered in parallel. The conference will consist of: - plenary sessions given by recognised specialists - 30 oral communications (30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions) which will be selected by an international scientific committee composed of: Anne Abeille (Talana, Universite Paris 7) Christian Boitet (GRETA, Grenoble) Lou Burnard (Universite d'Oxford, Grande-Bretagne) Laurence Danlos (Talana, Universite Paris 7) Christian Delcourt (Universite de Liege, Belgique) Thierry Fontenelle (Luxembourg, EURALEX, Ass. Europeenne de Lexicologie) Franz Guenthner (CIS, Munich, Allemagne) Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS) Jean-Luc Nespoulous (Laboratoire Jacques-Lordat, Toulouse-Le Mirail) Colette Noyau (Universite Paris 10) Maria Teresa Rijo da Fonseca Lino (Universite Nouvelle de Lisbonne, Portugal) Suzanne Schlyter (Universite de Lund, Suède) Bernd Spillner (Universite de Duisburg, Allemagne, Ass. Allemande de Ling.Appliquee) Ross Steele (Universite de Sydney, Australie, Ass. Australienne de Ling. Appliquee) Philippe Thoiron (CRTT, Universite Lumière-Lyon 2) Jacqueline Vaissiere (ILPGA, Universite Paris 3) Dieter Wolff (Universite de Wuppertal, Allemagne, Ass. Allemande de Ling.Appliquee) The CALL FOR PAPERS on subjects related to the two above themes is now open. One page abstracts are requested . The interline must be set to 1.5, Times 10 character size. The title, name(s) of author(s), the institutional address of the first author and his/her e-mail address should be included on a separate sheet. Deadline for proposals: 7th February 2000 Proposals must be sent to : AFLA Tour Centrale, 9eme etage / Case 7003 2, place Jussieu 75251 Paris CEDEX 05. E-mail address : afla2000 at linguist.jussieu.fr Organising Committee : Helene Huot, Universite Paris 7 (Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 78 55, Fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 79 19 (put name), e-mail adress : helene.huot at linguist.jussieu.fr Pierre Arnaud, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2 (fax : +33 (0)4 72 80 94 52 (put name), e-mail adress : pierre.arnaud at univ-lyon2.fr Geoffrey Williams, Marie-Eve Perrot, Oderic Delefosse, Jeannette Ambrose. AFLA 2000 / APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS L'Association Francaise de Linguistique Appliquee (AFLA) organise ses 3emes Rencontres Internationales de Linguistique Appliquee a Paris, sur le campus Jussieu, entre le 6 et le 12 juillet 2000. Ces Rencontres sont constituees de 2 parties : 1 - un colloque scientifique, du jeudi 6 juillet matin au samedi 8 juillet debut d'apres-midi, 2 - une école d'ete, du lundi 10 juillet matin au mercredi 12 juillet debut d'apres-midi. LE COLLOQUE SCIENTIFIQUE Il sera centre sur deux themes : a - le traitement automatique des langues, vu non pas sous son aspect strictement technique, mais en tant que moteur de nouvelles methodologies et/ou orientations de recherche, dans des domaines divers mais relevant des applications de la linguistique ; b - les dysfonctionnements langagiers et les difficultes d'apprentissage de la langue et des langues. Sur chacun de ces themes, qui seront traites pour partie en parallele, le colloque sera constitue - de conferences plenieres, confiees à des specialistes reconnus - d'une trentaine de communications orales (de 30 minutes + 10 minutes pour discussion), qui seront selectionnees par un comite scientifique international, actuellement constitue de : Anne Abeille (Talana, Universite Paris 7) Christian Boitet (GRETA, Grenoble) Lou Burnard (Universite d'Oxford, Grande-Bretagne) Laurence Danlos (Talana, Universite Paris 7) Christian Delcourt (Universite de Liege, Belgique) Thierry Fontenelle (Luxembourg, EURALEX, Ass. Europeenne de Lexicologie) Franz Guenthner (CIS, Munich, Allemagne) Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS) Jean-Luc Nespoulous (Laboratoire Jacques-Lordat, Toulouse-Le Mirail) Colette Noyau (Universite Paris 10) Maria Teresa Rijo da Fonseca Lino (Universite Nouvelle de Lisbonne, Portugal) Suzanne Schlyter (Universite de Lund, Suède) Bernd Spillner (Universite de Duisburg, Allemagne, Ass. Allemande de Ling.Appliquee) Ross Steele (Universite de Sydney, Australie, Ass. Australienne de Ling. Appliquee) Philippe Thoiron (CRTT, Universite Lumière-Lyon 2) Jacqueline Vaissiere (ILPGA, Universite Paris 3) Dieter Wolff (Universite de Wuppertal, Allemagne, Ass. Allemande de Ling.Appliquee) Nous invitons des maintenant tous ceux qui le souhaitent a faire parvenir des PROPOSITIONS DE COMMUNICATIONS en relation avec l'un des themes ci-dessus, en respectant les normes suivantes : - Resume d'une page maximum en 5 exemplaires, avec espacement de 1,5 lignes, si possible en caracteres Times 10. - sur une page separee, le titre de la communication, le nom du ou des auteur(s), l'adresse institutionnelle du premier auteur, son adresse electronique. Date-limite pour les propositions de communication : le 7 fevrier 2000. Adresse pour l'envoi des propositions : AFLA Tour Centrale, 9eme etage / Case 7003 2, place Jussieu Universite Paris 7-Denis Diderot 75251 Paris CEDEX 05. E-mail address : afla2000 at linguist.jussieu.fr Le COMITE D'ORGANISATION : Helene Huot, Universite Paris 7 (Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 78 55, Fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 79 19 (mettre le nom), e-mail adress : helene.huot at linguist.jussieu.fr Pierre Arnaud, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2 (fax : +33 (0)4 72 80 94 52 (mettre le nom), e-mail adress : pierre.arnaud at univ-lyon2.fr Geoffrey Williams, Marie-Eve Perrot, Oderic Delefosse, Jeannette Ambrose. From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Nov 29 08:40:28 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:40:28 +0100 Subject: Appel: Linguistic Exploration Workshop Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen LINGUISTIC EXPLORATION New Methods for Creating, Exploring and Disseminating Linguistic Field Data Thursday 6 January 2000, 9am-6pm Held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Palmer House Hilton, Chicago The new NSF TalkBank Project [www.talkbank.org] is sponsoring a workshop on computational support for linguistic fieldwork. The workshop will bring together linguists and computational linguists committed to empirical research on large datasets, through the combination of traditional field methods and new technologies for exploring and visualizing complex datasets. The languages under study may range from the undescribed to the well-studied, and the fieldworker may operate in a village or a laboratory. The focus is the exploratory mode of research, where elicitation, analysis and hypothesis-testing form a tight loop. The workshop will contribute to the evaluation and evolution of methodologies that integrate traditional practices with new technologies, leading to increased accessibility, accountability, and stability of empirical linguistic research. Full details, including the provisional program, are available at [http://www.talkbank.org/exploration.html]. From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 10 14:59:43 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:59:43 +0200 Subject: Job: 1 Offer Message-ID: From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk ACADEMIC VACANCIES at LEEDS UNIVERSITY, Leeds, Yorkshire, England The corpus-based computational linguistics group (Eric Atwell, Rens Bod, Peter Howarth, Clive Souter) particularly welcome applicants with research interests in corpus-based computational linguistics... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England LECTURESHIP (with possibility of appointment at SL/Reader level) CLOSING DATE 9.11.99 The person appointed to this PERMANENT post will be required to undertake leading-edge research and teaching of the highest standard within our broadly based degree programmes. Preference will be given to candidates who strengthen our existing activities. The School is active in and encourages multidisciplinary activities; applications are welcome from candidates who have an interest in multidisciplinary informatics. Salary will be on the Lecturer A/B scales (currently ?17,238 to ?30,065) or at Senior Lecturer or Reader level (currently ?17,238 to ?30,065). Informal enquiries to Professor Tony Cohn (tel: 0113-233-5482; fax: 0113-233-5468; e-mail: agc at scs.leeds.ac.uk) More details: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancies/lecturer_oct_99.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- School of Education, University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England LECTURER IN EDUCATION (TESOL) with a specialism in Teaching English to Young Learners CLOSING DATE 5.11.99 Available from 1st February 2000, for a fixed period of three years in the first instance, to contribute to the development of a BA Educational Studies (TESOL) programme for teachers of English in the Sultanate of Oman. You will have experience in teacher education and an established specialist research area with evidence of, or with the potential to produce, high-quality publications; applications are welcome from people at the early stages of an academic career wishing to develop a specialist research area. Salary will be on the Lecturer A/B scales (currently ?17,238 to ?30,065) Informal enquiries to Dr A. Deignan e-mail: TESOL at education.leeds.ac.uk More details: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/educa212.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- (NB I can tell you what a great place Leeds is to live in, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/intro/city.htm - BUT I can't tell you any more about these jobs - Human Resources have the job descriptions etc.) Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor, 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)113-2335430 FAX: (44)113-2335468 WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 10 14:59:47 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:59:47 +0200 Subject: Appel: TaLC2000 Message-ID: From: Georg Marko Call for Papers for TaLC 2000 Fourth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora English Department, University of Graz, Austria July 19-23, 2000 Large corpora of authentic language together with sophisticated concordancing software for analyses provide a new paradigm not only for linguistic research but also for many forms of language teaching. Teachers and students no longer have to rely on the intuitions of prescriptive theorists but with the help of corpora can inductively draw their own conclusions: a highly desirable goal in the age of "learner autonomy". This international conference will bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the use of corpus tools for such purposes as: * language teaching/language learning * language awareness raising * teaching languages for specific purposes * student-centered linguistic investigation * translation studies * teaching literature * cultural and historical studies Following the previous three highly successful TaLC conferences in Lancaster 1994 and 1996 and Oxford 1998, TaLC 2000 invites proposals for position papers, reports of work in progress, case-histories of successful corpus applications, and introductions to relevant new resources. In addition, we welcome proposals for introductory tutorials or workshops. Abstracts (500 words) should be submitted to arrive before 15 March 2000. Workshop Proposals should be submitted to arrive before 15 February 2000. All proposals will be reviewed. Authors of those accepted for inclusion will be notified by 15 April 2000. The programme will be finalised during May 2000. The official language of the conference is English. As the aim of TaLC2000 is communication between linguists from various cultural backgrounds, English seemed the best choice as lingua franca. Organising Committee Guy Aston (Bologna); Norbert Berger (Graz); Lou Burnard (Oxford HCU); Bernhard Kettemann (Graz); Tony McEnery (Lancaster); Barbara Seidlhofer (Vienna), Chistopher Tribble (Sri Lanka) Programme The conference will run from Thursday morning 20 July to Saturday night 22 July with a single strand of presentations and a poster session. There will be workshops and a book and software exhibit in parallel. Presentations include keynote speeches by: * Tim Johns (Birmingham, Opening keynote): "On Corpus-based learning" * Antoinette Renouf (Liverpool) * Christian Mair (Freiburg), "Empowering advanced learners and non-native speakers: The hidden surplus-value of corpora in continental English departments" * Tony McEnery (Lancaster) * Sylviane Granger (Louvain) * Mike Scott (Liverpool) * Lou Burnard (Oxford) * Guy Aston (Bologna) * Dieter Mindt (Berlin) Workshops include (preliminary): * Sylviane Granger: "Interlanguage/learner corpora and ELT" * Chris Tribble: "Negative keywords and small corpora" Venue TaLC 2000 will be held at Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, in the recently completed award-winning building of the faculties of law and economics (RESOWI Zentrum), which represents a modern counterpoint to the generally neo-classical style of the University, which was founded in 1585 and whose main buildings date back to the last century. The campus is situated near the charming Renaissance and Baroque city centre, nestling under the picturesque hill (Schlossberg) with its famous clock tower. Graz, though still a well kept secret among mass tourists, is attracting more and more attention, not least because of the presence of a thriving cultural scene in the summer months. All participants will be accommodated in modern fully-equipped study bedrooms within a few minutes' walk of the RESOWI Zentrum or in hotels in the city centre. The city centre is within walking distance and can also be reached by bus. How to get to Graz By air: Graz has an international airport with several daily connections to and from Frankfurt, Zurich and Vienna. There is an infrequent shuttle bus service to the railway station. But you can also take a taxi directly to your hotel (this will cost approx. ?12). By train: There are many direct train services from all over Austria to Graz. If you arrive at Vienna International Airport, there is a regular shuttle bus service to the S?dbahnhof (Southern Station). There is a regular direct service (every two hours) from there to Graz (travelling time approx. 2 1/2 hours). By road: Graz is ideally located at the hub of Central Europe's road network. Venice, Budapest and Munich are all about five hours' drive away. Graz can easily be reached by motorway from Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Villach, and Klagenfurt. Rates All-inclusive rates for participants will be approximately 300?/500$/6200ATS. These rates include conference fees, accommodation (four nights), meals, and outing. All-inclusive rates for accompanying persons will be approximately 130?/210$/2700ATS. Submit a Proposal Proposals for papers should include the following * Authors' full name and affiliation * Title of proposal * Contact details (Email, URL, phone, fax, postal address) * 500 word description of the proposed presentation Registration and further information Proposals and registrations (will be available soon) should be sent to the following address, or using the form at the conference web site below. The conference email address is mailto:talc2000 at gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at Further details will be available from the conference web site: http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/talc2000 Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Bernhard Kettemann Institut fuer Anglistik der Universitaet Graz A-8010 Graz, Heinrichstrasse 36, Austria Tel.: +43/316/380-2488, 2487, 2474 Fax: +43/316/380-9765 Email: mailto:bernhard.kettemann at kfunigraz.ac.at Useful links Steiermark http://www.Steiermark.com Graz http://www.graztourismus.at http://www.graz.at Graz University http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at GewiLab http://gewilab.kfunigraz.ac.at English Department http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/ed/ RESOWI Zentrum http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/8.11./plan.html Previous conference websites: TALC 94 http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc94.html TALC 96 http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/talc TALC 98 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98 ICAME http://www.hd.uib.no/icame.html UCREL http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 10 15:00:59 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:00:59 +0200 Subject: Soft: Syntax Student's Companion Message-ID: From: Aur?lien MAX Logiciel libre ?ducatif en Java Le Syntax Student's Companion est un programme Java qui tourne en tant qu'applet ou application (peut ?tre ex?cut? en ligne ou bien t?l?charg?). Ce programme est originellement destin? aux ?tudiants qui d?butent en syntaxe et ? leurs enseignants. Il permet l'?dition visuelle d'arbre syntaxiques, ? partir de cat?gories et d'un lexique d?finis dans une grammaire hors-contexte, qui est ?ditable depuis l'?diteur de grammaire du programme. L'?tudiant peut ?galement v?rifier ses arbres avec la grammaire courante, et faire des exercices (analyse sans ambiguit?, analyse avec ambiguite, transformation). Les ressources du programme sont encod?es en XML, ce qui permet un ajout facile de nouveaux exercices. Les grammaires et les arbres peuvent quant ? eux ?tre directement sauvegard?s depuis le programme lorsque le programme est ex?cut? en tant qu'application (i.e. pas depuis le site). Le site pour le projet est principalement en Anglais, mais le programme supporte des ressources de langues, et peut donc pour le moment ?tre ex?cut? en Anglais ou en Fran?ais (toutes nouvelles soumissions sont les bienvenues). J'esp?re avoir prochainement le temps de traduire le manuel d'utilisation en Fran?ais. L'utilisation du programme appartient aux personnes qui le trouveront utile, ainsi toute ressource soumise sera ajout? au site pour pouvoir ?tre ensuite acc?d?e par d'autres personnes. Pour plus d'informations, http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~am350/welcome.html. Merci, bonne journ?e, Aur?lien MAX --------------------------------------------------------- The Syntax Student's Compagnion homepage http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~am350/welcome.html MPhil student - University of Cambridge - am350 at cam.ac.uk From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 10 14:59:53 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:59:53 +0200 Subject: Appel: Extended Deadline RIAO2000 Message-ID: From: chibout at limsi.fr (Karim Chibout) ************** Apologies for Multiple Posting ********************** **************Please Distribute Widely***************** *************************************************************************** ******* EXTENDED DEADLINE RIAO'2000: CALL FOR PAPERS & APPLICATIONS ******* *************************************************************************** RIAO 2000 : Content-Based Multimedia Information Access College de France Paris, France April 12-14, 2000 Due to many requests, it has been decided to postpone the deadline for RIAO'2000 Paper Submissions to Monday, November 15 at latest. An Open Guichet is established for Application Demonstrations, which may be submitted after the first deadline of November 17. **************************************************************************** ********* ******** REVISED CALENDAR CALL FOR PAPERS: - EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: ******NOVEMBER 15, 1999******* - Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999 - Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: - First Application Deadline: November 17, 1999 - Close of the Open Guichet: January 21, 2000 - Final Program: January 25, 2000 - Conference: April 12-14, 2000 ************************************************************************* CONTACTS: RIAO2000 Email: riao2000 at limsi.fr RIAO 2000 Web site: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO **************************************** From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Nov 16 16:57:12 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:57:12 +0100 Subject: Q: Indexation de bases documentaires non structurees Message-ID: [Cette question rel?ve surtout de la recherche d'information, mais les fonctionnalit?s d'indexation utilisant des outils de traitement automatique des langues peuvent ?tre mieux connus du public de cette liste -- pz] Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:01:44 +0100 From: Marie-Helene Antoni Message-Id: <199911161457.PAA23198 at melusine.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr> Les outils de valorisation et d'exploitation de l'information se multiplient sans cesse, et la plupart se situent en aval de la constitution des fonds documentaires. D'autres outils permettent le constitution rapide de gros fonds documentaires, multi sources et multi formats. Comment se fait le lien entre les deux ? autrement dit, quels sont les outils permettant l'indexation de Bases documentaires non structur?es? Quels outils, comparables ? Altavista Discovery, Verity Search, travaillant sur des fichiers simplement enregistr?s dans une arborescence, mettons sur un seul disque, sont aujourd'hui disponibles, et avec quelles fonctionnalit?s ? - indexation de tous types de formats (lesquels : textes, images, TTX, BD,...), - sensibilit? ou pas au d?placement des fichiers, - mise ? jour automatique incr?mentale des index, - outils d'interrogation sur la base constitu?e : recherche sur cha?ne de caract?res, recherche bool?enne, reformulation linguistique ... - outil d'exploitation de la r?ponse : traitement statistiques, linguistiques ? Y a-t-il des logiciels commerciaux, des logiciels libres (freeware), des versions beta ? qui tournent dans quels environnements et sur quels volumes etc ...? From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Nov 24 01:10:18 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 02:10:18 +0100 Subject: Journee: ATALA, Outils pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues Message-ID: From: Pierre Zweigenbaum X-url: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je-991129.html OUTILS POUR LE TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES Journ?e du GdR I3, sous-th?me Langue, organis?e en association avec l'ATALA par G?rard Sabah et Pierre Zweigenbaum lundi 29 novembre 1999 http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je-991129.html PROGRAMME Les outils pr?sent?s font l'objet d'une description dans le R?pertoire d'outils pour le TAL inaugur? ? l'occasion de cette journ?e : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/outil/ 9h15 Pr?sentation de la journ?e (G?rard Sabah, Pierre Zweigenbaum) 9h40 Pr?sentation du projet SILFIDE (Laurent Romary) 10h10 Pause 10h30 Session 1 : ANALYSE SYNTAXIQUE Analyseur syntaxique du GREYC (et Extracteur de structure de documents), Jacques Vergne Incremental Finite State Parser (et Ginger), Xerox, Nuria GALIA PAVIA Analyseur LFG du LIMSI, Xavier Briffault INTEX (et GlossaNet), C?drick Fairon FipsTag, ?ric Wehrli 11h45 Discussion sur les questions d'?valuation et de comparaison de syst?mes 12h30 [D?jeuner] 14h00 Session 2 : AFFICHES ET DISCUSSIONS Les affiches pr?senteront un bon nombre des autres outils qui font l'objet d'une fiche dans le R?pertoire d'outils pour le TAL http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/outil/ La liste compl?te des affiches est disponible sur la page de la journ?e : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je-991129.html 15h15 Session 3 : EXTRACTION DE CONNAISSANCES LEXTER, Didier Bourigault ACABIT, B?atrice Daille SEEK, Christophe Jouis 16h00 [Pause] 16h20 Informations sur le r?seau ELRA 16h50 Session 4 : FILTRAGE ET LEXIQUE ContextO, Jean-Luc Minel CORDIAL Universit?s, Synapse, Denise Malrieu Le S?miographe, Memodata, Dominique Dutoit 17h35 Discussion finale et commentaires 18h30 [Fin de la journ?e] La page de la journ?e http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je-991129.html donne un acc?s direct ? des fiches d?crivant les outils pr?sent?s. CHU Piti?-Salp?tri?re 91, boulevard de l'H?pital, 75013 Paris salle 219, 2e ?tage Entr?e libre From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Nov 29 08:40:09 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:40:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: Special Issue of CL: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution Message-ID: From: Ruslan Mitkov Call for Papers Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution Guest editors: Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena of active study in formal and computational linguistics alike. The correct interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for Natural Language Processing. After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many researchers in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has been reported. Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT and Centering have inspired new research on the computational treatment of anaphora. The drive towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has further stimulated interest, for alternative and/or data-enriched approaches. In addition, application-driven research in areas such as automatic abstracting and information extraction, has independently identified the importance of (and boosted the research in) anaphora and coreference resolution. Ellipsis resolution too, being of particular importance to a number of Natural Language Understanding applications such as dialogue and discourse processing, has received increasing attention. The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has been demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC coreference task projects and at a number of related fora (workshops, conferences, etc.). Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely, collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution. Topics The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel and challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution. The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited to: o new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms, o factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors, o techniques in ellipsis resolution, o use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution, o use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution, o applications of anaphora/coreference resolution, o applications of ellipsis resolution, o multilingual anaphora resolution, o evaluation issues, o use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis. In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related to the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as: o Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora resolution? o When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"? o What is the case for languages other than English? o What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential" factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical data can be brought to bear on this? o What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting the antecedent? o Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts? o Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora automatically? o Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for particular type(s) of input text? o Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic reconstruction? o Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided structure? Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora. Submissions and Reviewing The submission deadline is 1 April 2000. Authors can submit either electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style details, see http://www.aclweb.org/cl) to: Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk) School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and details of the author (following the format given at http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt) should be emailed to R.Mitkov. Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special issue. In addition to the guest editors, Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and Shalom Lappin (University of London), the editorial board includes the following members: Nicholas Asher (University of Texas), Amit Bagga (GE CRD), Claire Cardie (Cornell University), David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern), Eugene Charniak (Brown University), Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC), Dan Hardt (Villanova University), Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto), Jerry Hobbs (SRI International), Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania), Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe), Andrew Kehler (SRI International), Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University), Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh), Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille), Stuart Shieber (Harvard University), Candy Sidner (Lotus Research), Marilyn Walker (AT&T). From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Nov 29 08:40:23 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:40:23 +0100 Subject: Appel: ATALA Workshop Message-ID: From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) [Version francaise ci-apres] ATALA Workshop Representation and Treatment of Syntactic Ambiguity in Natural Language Processing ------------ Paris, Piti?-Salp?tri?re January 29, 2000 htpp://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/ATALA2000.html ------------ CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS There are several approaches making it possible to treat syntactic ambiguity: one can for example decide to apply disambiguation as soon as possible, in particular using statistical methods. One can on the contrary choose to delay to the maximum the disambiguation and to maintain the ambiguity, possibly until the end of the processing. These two approaches are not necessarily contradictory. However, the problem remains very difficult to solve and many of the methods proposed amount to little more than the traditional enumeration. Factorizing the information (for example in using parse forests) can from this point of view play a very significant role and even lead to effective solutions. The goal of this workshop is to propose an overview of the current techniquesfor the representation and the treatment of syntactic ambiguity in natural language processing. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- . Bernard Lang INRIA . David Weir Cognitive and Computing Science University of Sussex COMMUNICATIONS -------------- The proposals for a communication will be selected on the basis of a 1 page abstract. Abstracts will be sent by e-mail (preferably) or surface mail at: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Philippe Blache LPL - Universit? de Provence 29, Avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence France DATES ----- Deadline : December 1st, 1999 Notifications: December 20th, 1999 CHAIR ----- Philippe Blache Eric de la Clergerie CNRS/Universit? de Provence INRIA ____________________________________________________________________________ Journ?e de l'ATALA Repr?sentation et traitement de l'ambiguit? pour l'analyse syntaxique ------------ Paris, Piti?-Salp?tri?re 29 Janvier 2000 htpp://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/ATALA2000.html ------------ APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS Il existe plusieurs approches permettant de traiter l'ambiguit? : on peut par exemple d?cider d'appliquer une d?sambiguisation au plus t?t, notamment ? l'aide de m?thodes statistiques ou heuristiques. On peut au contraire choisir de retarder au maximum la d?sambiguisation et de maintenir l'ambiguit?, ?ventuellement jusqu'? la fin du traitement. Ces deux approches ne sont d'ailleurs pas forc?ment contradictoires. Cependant, le probl?me reste tr?s difficile ? r?soudre et bien des m?thodes propos?es reviennent finalement a une ?numeration classique. Dans cette perspective, le partage des informations ? l'aide, par exemple, de for?ts d'arbres peut jouer un r?le tr?s important et conduire ? des solutions efficaces. Le but de cette journ?e est de faire le point sur les techniques actuelles de repr?sentation et de traitement de l'ambiguit? pour l'analyse syntaxique ou pour des phases ult?rieures, et ce pour diff?rents formalismes grammaticaux (ou ind?pendamment d'eux). CONFERENCIERS INVITES --------------------- . Bernard Lang INRIA . David Weir Cognitive and Computing Science University of Sussex COMMUNICATIONS -------------- Les propositions de communication seront selectionn?es sur la base d'un r?sum? de 1 page ? transmettre par e-mail (de pr?f?rence) ou courrier ? l'adresse suivante : pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Philippe Blache LPL - Universit? de Provence 29, Avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence France CALENDRIER ---------- Date limite de r?ception des r?sum?s : 1er D?cembre 1999 Notifications aux auteurs : 20 D?cembre 1999 ORGANISATEURS ------------- Philippe Blache Eric de la Clergerie LPL - CNRS INRIA From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Nov 29 08:40:26 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:40:26 +0100 Subject: Appel: AFLA 2000 Message-ID: From: afla at ccr.jussieu.fr (Association Fran?aise de Linguistique appliqu?e) AFLA 2000 / Call for Papers The French Association for Applied Linguistics (AFLA) will be organising its 3rd International Congress on Applied Linguistics from the 6th to the 12th July 2000. This event will take place in Paris on the Jussieu campus. The Congress will be consist of two parts: 1 - A scientific conference, from Thursday 6th July in the morning to the beginning of the afternoon of Saturday 8th July. 2 - A summer school, from Monday 10th July in the morning to the beginning of the afternoon of Wednesday 12th July. THE SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE This will be centred on two themes: a - the automatic processing of language seen not from the strictly technical aspect but as the drive behind new methodologies and tendencies of research. Various fields with linguistic applications will be covered. b - language disfunctions and learning difficulties of language and languages. The two themes will be covered in parallel. The conference will consist of: - plenary sessions given by recognised specialists - 30 oral communications (30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions) which will be selected by an international scientific committee composed of: Anne Abeille (Talana, Universite Paris 7) Christian Boitet (GRETA, Grenoble) Lou Burnard (Universite d'Oxford, Grande-Bretagne) Laurence Danlos (Talana, Universite Paris 7) Christian Delcourt (Universite de Liege, Belgique) Thierry Fontenelle (Luxembourg, EURALEX, Ass. Europeenne de Lexicologie) Franz Guenthner (CIS, Munich, Allemagne) Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS) Jean-Luc Nespoulous (Laboratoire Jacques-Lordat, Toulouse-Le Mirail) Colette Noyau (Universite Paris 10) Maria Teresa Rijo da Fonseca Lino (Universite Nouvelle de Lisbonne, Portugal) Suzanne Schlyter (Universite de Lund, Su?de) Bernd Spillner (Universite de Duisburg, Allemagne, Ass. Allemande de Ling.Appliquee) Ross Steele (Universite de Sydney, Australie, Ass. Australienne de Ling. Appliquee) Philippe Thoiron (CRTT, Universite Lumi?re-Lyon 2) Jacqueline Vaissiere (ILPGA, Universite Paris 3) Dieter Wolff (Universite de Wuppertal, Allemagne, Ass. Allemande de Ling.Appliquee) The CALL FOR PAPERS on subjects related to the two above themes is now open. One page abstracts are requested . The interline must be set to 1.5, Times 10 character size. The title, name(s) of author(s), the institutional address of the first author and his/her e-mail address should be included on a separate sheet. Deadline for proposals: 7th February 2000 Proposals must be sent to : AFLA Tour Centrale, 9eme etage / Case 7003 2, place Jussieu 75251 Paris CEDEX 05. E-mail address : afla2000 at linguist.jussieu.fr Organising Committee : Helene Huot, Universite Paris 7 (Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 78 55, Fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 79 19 (put name), e-mail adress : helene.huot at linguist.jussieu.fr Pierre Arnaud, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2 (fax : +33 (0)4 72 80 94 52 (put name), e-mail adress : pierre.arnaud at univ-lyon2.fr Geoffrey Williams, Marie-Eve Perrot, Oderic Delefosse, Jeannette Ambrose. AFLA 2000 / APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS L'Association Francaise de Linguistique Appliquee (AFLA) organise ses 3emes Rencontres Internationales de Linguistique Appliquee a Paris, sur le campus Jussieu, entre le 6 et le 12 juillet 2000. Ces Rencontres sont constituees de 2 parties : 1 - un colloque scientifique, du jeudi 6 juillet matin au samedi 8 juillet debut d'apres-midi, 2 - une ?cole d'ete, du lundi 10 juillet matin au mercredi 12 juillet debut d'apres-midi. LE COLLOQUE SCIENTIFIQUE Il sera centre sur deux themes : a - le traitement automatique des langues, vu non pas sous son aspect strictement technique, mais en tant que moteur de nouvelles methodologies et/ou orientations de recherche, dans des domaines divers mais relevant des applications de la linguistique ; b - les dysfonctionnements langagiers et les difficultes d'apprentissage de la langue et des langues. Sur chacun de ces themes, qui seront traites pour partie en parallele, le colloque sera constitue - de conferences plenieres, confiees ? des specialistes reconnus - d'une trentaine de communications orales (de 30 minutes + 10 minutes pour discussion), qui seront selectionnees par un comite scientifique international, actuellement constitue de : Anne Abeille (Talana, Universite Paris 7) Christian Boitet (GRETA, Grenoble) Lou Burnard (Universite d'Oxford, Grande-Bretagne) Laurence Danlos (Talana, Universite Paris 7) Christian Delcourt (Universite de Liege, Belgique) Thierry Fontenelle (Luxembourg, EURALEX, Ass. Europeenne de Lexicologie) Franz Guenthner (CIS, Munich, Allemagne) Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS) Jean-Luc Nespoulous (Laboratoire Jacques-Lordat, Toulouse-Le Mirail) Colette Noyau (Universite Paris 10) Maria Teresa Rijo da Fonseca Lino (Universite Nouvelle de Lisbonne, Portugal) Suzanne Schlyter (Universite de Lund, Su?de) Bernd Spillner (Universite de Duisburg, Allemagne, Ass. Allemande de Ling.Appliquee) Ross Steele (Universite de Sydney, Australie, Ass. Australienne de Ling. Appliquee) Philippe Thoiron (CRTT, Universite Lumi?re-Lyon 2) Jacqueline Vaissiere (ILPGA, Universite Paris 3) Dieter Wolff (Universite de Wuppertal, Allemagne, Ass. Allemande de Ling.Appliquee) Nous invitons des maintenant tous ceux qui le souhaitent a faire parvenir des PROPOSITIONS DE COMMUNICATIONS en relation avec l'un des themes ci-dessus, en respectant les normes suivantes : - Resume d'une page maximum en 5 exemplaires, avec espacement de 1,5 lignes, si possible en caracteres Times 10. - sur une page separee, le titre de la communication, le nom du ou des auteur(s), l'adresse institutionnelle du premier auteur, son adresse electronique. Date-limite pour les propositions de communication : le 7 fevrier 2000. Adresse pour l'envoi des propositions : AFLA Tour Centrale, 9eme etage / Case 7003 2, place Jussieu Universite Paris 7-Denis Diderot 75251 Paris CEDEX 05. E-mail address : afla2000 at linguist.jussieu.fr Le COMITE D'ORGANISATION : Helene Huot, Universite Paris 7 (Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 78 55, Fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 79 19 (mettre le nom), e-mail adress : helene.huot at linguist.jussieu.fr Pierre Arnaud, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2 (fax : +33 (0)4 72 80 94 52 (mettre le nom), e-mail adress : pierre.arnaud at univ-lyon2.fr Geoffrey Williams, Marie-Eve Perrot, Oderic Delefosse, Jeannette Ambrose. From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Nov 29 08:40:28 1999 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:40:28 +0100 Subject: Appel: Linguistic Exploration Workshop Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen LINGUISTIC EXPLORATION New Methods for Creating, Exploring and Disseminating Linguistic Field Data Thursday 6 January 2000, 9am-6pm Held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Palmer House Hilton, Chicago The new NSF TalkBank Project [www.talkbank.org] is sponsoring a workshop on computational support for linguistic fieldwork. The workshop will bring together linguists and computational linguists committed to empirical research on large datasets, through the combination of traditional field methods and new technologies for exploring and visualizing complex datasets. The languages under study may range from the undescribed to the well-studied, and the fieldworker may operate in a village or a laboratory. The focus is the exploratory mode of research, where elicitation, analysis and hypothesis-testing form a tight loop. The workshop will contribute to the evaluation and evolution of methodologies that integrate traditional practices with new technologies, leading to increased accessibility, accountability, and stability of empirical linguistic research. Full details, including the provisional program, are available at [http://www.talkbank.org/exploration.html].