From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Oct  6 11:34:51 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:34:51 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
Message-ID: <WED.6.OCT.1999.123451.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Dimitar Deliyski" <deliyski at vocalpoint.com>
   Subject:  Speech Recognition & NLP Research Positions at Vocal Point,
		Inc., San Francisco

2/ From:  "Noord G.J.M. van" <vannoord at let.rug.nl>
   Subject:  Post-doc and Ph.D. positions: computational linguistics Groningen

3/ From:  Doris Ecker <doris at slt.sel.sony.com>
   Subject:  Part-time research assistant in computational linguistics

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Dimitar Deliyski" <deliyski at vocalpoint.com>
   Subject:  Speech Recognition & NLP Research Positions at Vocal Point,
		Inc., San Francisco

Vocal Point, Inc. is seeking Research Scientists to work in our speech
recognition group, which is developing world-class, noise-robust speech
recognizers based on innovative technologies. Currently several research
positions in speech recognition, natural language processing and digital
signal processing welcome applicants. Successful candidates will develop
novel speech recognition algorithms both for government contracts and
commercial products. The duties of the positions include applied research
and collaboration with product development engineers.

A degree (preferably Ph.D.) in speech recognition, applied math, DSP, and
natural language processing or a related field is required. The ideal
candidate would also possess experience in applying speech recognition or
natural language processing techniques and programming skills in C/C++, Java
and/or Perl. Knowledge of noise-reduction techniques and discrete-time
filtering and experience in writing proposals and working on government
contracts is a plus.

 Employment at Vocal Point offers active participation in the decision
making process of a young company targeted for growth. Located in the heart
of downtown San Francisco, we offer an excellent salary/benefits package and
equity-based ownership.

For consideration, please send your resume, cover letter and salary
requirements to resumes at vocalpoint.com, position #3002W. We prefer email
(text only, please), although fax and regular mail are also acceptable. We
cannot provide information over the telephone, so please rely on email to
track the status of your application.

Dr. Dimitar Deliyski
deliyski at vocalpoint.com
Vocal Point, Inc.
450 Geary St. Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94102
Fax: (415) 563-5063
www.vocalpoint.com


_______________________________________________________________________________


2/ From:  "Noord G.J.M. van" <vannoord at let.rug.nl>
   Subject:  Post-doc and Ph.D. positions: computational linguistics Groningen

Research opportunities


                           Algorithms for
                        Linguistic Processing


Algorithms for Linguistic Processing is a five year PIONIER research
project in the area of computational linguistics. The project focuses
on problems of ambiguity and processing efficiency by investigating
grammar approximation and grammar specialization techniques. The
project is located at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and
starts at the end of 1999. It is funded by NWO (Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research).

The project description is available on line at:

                    http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/alp/

Within the next few months, we will be looking to fill two 3-year post-doc
positions and several 4-year Ph.D. positions:

   * 1 post-doc and 1 ph-d Lexically Sensitive Disambiguation techniques
   * 1 ph-d Empirical Aspects of Finite State Language Processing
   * 1 post-doc Formal Aspects of Finite State Language Processing
   * 1 ph-d Grammar Development for Dutch
   * 1 ph-d Linguistic Search Tool for Bare Text Corpora

Further information is available from:

Gertjan van Noord,  vannoord at let.rug.nl
Alfa-Informatica,   University of Groningen
PO Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, Netherlands

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Doris Ecker <doris at slt.sel.sony.com>
   Subject:  Part-time research assistant in computational linguistics

Part-time research assistant in computational linguistics

The Spoken Language Technology Group of Sony's Research Labs in San
Jose, CA is looking for a temporary part-time research assistant to
work with an international team on a research and development project
in spoken language translation.

Job description
Within the framework of a project on bi-directional English-Japanese
spoken language translation, the research assistant will mainly work
on the creation, improvement, maintenance and extension of English
corpora and lexica. He or she will also assist researchers in
performing linguistic analysis, evaluations, the creation of written
documentation and related tasks.

Job requirements
Native speaker of American English. Excellent written and spoken
communication skills. Open-mindedness, creativity and flexibility.
Thorough and reliable working style. Keen interest in multi-cultural
and multi-linguistic issues. Basic computer skills. Job experience in
linguistics, database creation and management, intercultural
communications or other relevant fields. Flexible working hours would
be a plus.

Please send your resume and a cover letter as well as any questions to:

Doris Ecker
doris at slt.sel.sony.com
fax: 408-955-6848
Sony US Research Laboratories
3300 Zanker Rd.; M/S SJ 1B5
San Jose, CA 95134-1901


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Oct  6 11:39:06 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:39:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: Coling-2000
Message-ID: <WED.6.OCT.1999.123906.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Hans Uszkoreit <uszkoreit at dfki.de



      The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

                               COLING 2000

               will be organised under the auspices of the
      International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) in

  Saarbruecken (conference), Luxembourg (workshops) & Nancy (tutorials)

                       Tutorials: 29/30 July, 2000
                   Conference: 31 July - 4 August, 2000
               Post-Conference Workshops: 5/6 August, 2000


                              CALL FOR PAPERS

 COLING 2000 will provide the foremost opportunity at the beginning of
 the new millenium to exchange original research papers on a very broad
 range of topics in computational linguistics. Accordingly, the program
 committee now solicits suitable hitherto unpublished contributions of
 high quality on every aspect of the field.

 In line with the practice established in previous COLING conferences,
 authors will be asked to place their submission in one of two
 categories:

    * Regular papers, of not more than seven pages, presenting results of
      original completed research, and
    * Project notes, of five pages or less, describing ongoing research
      or demonstrating a system.

 All papers should describe original work, completed or in progress,
 rather than merely planned, and clearly indicate the current state of
 advancement of the work. No previously published papers should be
 submitted. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed
 provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification page.

 METHOD OF SUBMISSION

    * The first step in submitting a paper to COLING 2000 is to complete
      a Paper Submission Form. Authors can update the information in the
      form right up to the deadline for submissions (15th January, 2000).
    * The layout and format of papers is described here.
    * The program committee encourages electronic submission of papers,
    * But hard copy is also acceptable.

 Camera Ready Copy

 DEADLINES

      Deadline for submission: 15th January, 2000.

      Notification to authors: 18th March, 2000.

      Arrival in Saarbr�cken of final camera-ready copy : 24th June,
      2000.


                   COLING 2000 Homepage: www.coling.org

             Call for Papers with all forms and instructions:
                         www.coling.org/call.html

                                 Contacts

      Organization Chair             Program Chair
      Hans Uszkoreit                 Martin Kay
      DFKI Language Technology Lab   Xerox Palo Alto Research
      Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3           Center
      66123 Saarbruecken             3333 Coyote Hill road
      Germany                        Palo Alto, CA 94304
                                     USA
      uszkoreit at dfki.de
                                     kay at parc.xerox.com


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Oct  6 11:39:15 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:39:15 +0100
Subject: Appel: Hybrid Approaches to MT
Message-ID: <WED.6.OCT.1999.123915.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  oliver at rockey.iis.sinica.edu.tw



====================================================================
               CALL for CONTRIBUTIONS to

            "Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation"

            IAI Working-Paper to be published on the Web
====================================================================


               - Please distribute this Call
               - Please contribute to the Collection


In order to offer a general overview over a current topic in Machine
Translation, IAI, the Institute of Applied Information Sciences,
Saarbruecken, Germany intends to compile a collection of research papers
related to the subject:

            "Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation"

The collection will be published in the form of an IAI Working-paper
to be made available as HTML-document on the web.  We invite papers on
all aspects of the linking of empirical methods (e.g. TMs, SBMT, EBMT,
CBMT) and analytical methods (RBMT) for MT, including but not restricted
to system descriptions, system evaluation, theoretical and historical
considerations with respect to hybrid MT as well as extended summaries
of Master Thesis or PhD Thesis.  Contributions which have been published
earlier are equally welcome, authors however should indicate when and
where this or a similar paper has been published, in order to keep track
of historical dimensions related to the topic.

Contribution which are not written in English should have an extended
abstract in English.

Contributions should be in HTML. All sections and subsections should
be contained in one file. All kinds of graphics should be contained in
separated encapsulated postscript files (EPS).  Use the available tools
to convert word or latex documents into HTML documents. Parts of the
document for which no automatic conversion is possible can be treated
as picture. Contributions should arrive at oliver at hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw
or carl at iai.uni-sb.de before 11.11.99.

Papers will be checked as to whether they actually refer to the topic of
hybrid MT. If modifications of the original submission become necessary
for whatever reason, they should arrive before 6.12.99. By the end of
this year, the collection should be available on the web.

If you have any further questions please contact:

Oliver Streiter                     Michael Carl
Academia Sinica                     IAI
Institute of Linguistics            Institute of Applied Information
Sciences
Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 115         Saarbruecken, Germany
oliver at hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw         carl at iai.uni-sb.de


--
  For MT-List info, see http://www.eamt.org/mt-list.html


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Oct  6 11:39:26 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:39:26 +0100
Subject: Conf: ICLP'99
Message-ID: <WED.6.OCT.1999.123926.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Publicity for ICLP 99 <iclp99pub at cs.nmsu.edu>


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!			  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION                       !!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!         16th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING       !!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!                 LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO, USA                      !!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!                     NOV. 29 -- DEC. 4                            !!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!               http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~iclp99                     !!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

		Contents: 1. Message from the General Chair
			  2. Conference Program
			  3. Registration Information
			  4. Hotel Information
			  5. Sight-seeing trip to
				White Sands National Monument

	    MESSAGE FROM THE ICLP'99 GENERAL CHAIR

	  Escape the Northern winter, come to ICLP'99!

I would like to personally invite you to attend the
16th International Conference on Logic Programming, in
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.  There are several reasons
why you should attend ICLP'99, some of which I would like
to point out to you:

     1. The program chair, Danny De Schreye, and the program
	committee have assembled an excellent program that
	contains papers on diverse topics, ranging from theory to
	applications. Listening to these papers will give
	you a chance to come abreast with state-of-the-art
	research in Logic Programming. We in the logic programming
	community believe that logic programming is an important
	area of research within Computer Science; attending the
	16th ICLP'99 will give you the opportunity to meet the
	dynamic researchers who are active in Logic Programming
	as well as the chance to appreciate the potential and
	versatility of the Logic Programming paradigm. There are
	several satellite workshops that will also interest you.

     2. Special discount rates have been negotiated with the
	hotels. You can stay for as little as $25 per night
	in one of the (quite decent) conference hotels, provided
	you pair up with someone. A message area has been provided
	at the ICLP web-site where you can communicate with others
	to find a room-mate. The registration fee has been kept to
	the minimum possible. Just registering for ICLP
	allows you to attend any one of the 7 ICLP'99 satellite
	workshop that, for the first time, are being held concurrently
	with the main program thanks to Danny's vision.
	Special student registration rate has been provided, which
	includes the conference proceedings as well as the Banquet.
	A few student scholarships are also available. Preference
	will be give to those students who are presenting a paper
	at ICLP or an ICLP-related event. Contact Prof. Veronical
	Dahl for details (veronica at cs.sfu.ca).
	

     3. The conference will be held in Las Cruces, a small desert
	town in southern New Mexico; famous for its red and green
	Chiles, hot New Mexican food, and its old western traditions.
	Las Cruces and its surrounding areas have numerous tourist
	attractions, most of which are listed on the ICLP'99
	web-site. Possible 1/2, 1, 2 or 3 day trips are also
	shown. I hope that you will have the time to visit some
	of these attractions during your stay. The weather
	in Las Cruces during the winter is quite mild. If you live
	in the Northern latitudes, ICLP'99 gives a chance to escape
	the winter in your homeland, at least for a few days.

     4.	ICLP'99 is being colocated with the 5th International
	Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic
	Reasoning (located in El Paso, just 40 miles away)
	as well as the 1999 Workshop on Natural Language
	Understanding and Logic Programming (located in Las
	Cruces). Special discounts are available if you
	attend any one of these events together with ICLP'99.

     5.	A sightseeing trip is planned to the world renowned
	White Sands National Monument on Friday, Dec. 3rd.
	(visit the ICLP'99 web-site for more details).

			Gopal Gupta
			ICLP'99 General Chair


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Monday Nov. 29:

Main Program:
    9.00 h:  Conference Opening.
    9.10 h:  Invited talk 1: Fernando Pereira:
		Declarative Programming for a Messy World

   10.10 h:  Break

   10.30 h:  Session 1: Knowledge representation:

		Disjunctive Logic Programs with Inheritance,
                 	 F. Buccafurri, W. Faber, N. Leone.
		Event, Property and Hierarchy in Order-Sorted Logic,
               	  	K. Kaneiwa, S. Tojo.
		Temporal Probabilistic Logic Programs,
               	  	A. Dekhtyar, M.I. Dekhtyar, V.S. Subrahmanian.
		An Optimized Prolog Encoding of Typed Feature Structures,
                  	G. Penn

   12.30 h:  Lunch

   14.00 h:  Session 2: Environments:

		A Generic Approach to Monitor Program Executions,
                  	E. Jahier, M. Ducasse.
		Generating Deductive Database Explanations,
                  	S. Mallet, M. Ducasse.

   15.00 h:  Break

   15.30 h:  Session 3: Theory:

		Computing Large and Small Stable Models
                  	M. Truszczynski.
		Algebra of Logic Programming,
                  	S. Seres, M. Spivey, C.A.R. Hoare
		Semantic Definitions for Normal Open Programs,
                 	F. Orejas, E. Pino.
		Declarative Priority In A Concurrent Logic Language ON,
                  	K. Hirata, K. Yamazaki.

Workshops:
   10.30 h: Workshop on Logic Programming Environments
		(interrupted for Session 2)


Tuesday Nov. 30:

Main Program:

    9.00 h:  Invited talk 2: Bernhard Thalheim:
		Logics and Database Modeling.

   10.00 h:  Break

   10.30 h:  Session 4: Constraints:

		Revising Hull and Box Consistency,
                  	F. Benhamou, F. Goualard, L. Granvilliers, J.-F. Puget.
		CLAIRE : Combining Sets, Search and Rules to Better Express Algorithms,
                  	Y. Caseau, F.-X. Josset, F. Laburthe.
		Herbrand Constraint Solving in HAL
                  	B. Demoen, M. Garcia de la Banda, W. Harvey, K. Marriott, P. Stuckey.
		Comparing Trailing and Copying for Constraint Programming,
                  	C. Schulte

   12.30 h:  Lunch

   14.00 h:  Invited talk 3: Ken Bowen:
		Adventures in the Prolog Trade.

   14.40 h:  Break


   15.00 h:  Session 5: Implementation:

		Stack-Splitting: a Simple Technique for Implementing
		Or-Parallelism and And-parallelism on Distributed Machines,
                  	G. Gupta, E. Pontelli.
		Mutable terms in a Tabled Logic Programming System,
                  	B. Cui, D. S. Warren.
		Concurrency in Prolog Using Threads and a Shared Database,
                  	M. Carro, M. Hermenegildo.

   17.00 h:  Prolog Competition.

Workshops:
   10.30 h:  Workshop on Logical Inference with Artificial Neural Networks.
   10.30 h:  Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic.



Wednesday Dec. 1:

Main Program:

    9.00 h:  Session 6: Termination analysis:

		Proving Termination of Input-Consuming Logic Programs,
                  	J.-G. Smaus.
		Bounded Nondeterminism of Logic Programs,
                  	D. Pedreschi, S. Ruggieri.
		Termination Analysis for Abductive General Logic Programs,
                  	S. Verbaeten.

   10.30 h:  Break

   11.00 h:  Session 7: Higher-order:

		The Relative Complement Problem For Higher-Order Patterns,
                  	A. Momigliano, F. Pfenning.
		Extensionality of Simply Typed Logic Programs,
                  	M. Bezem.
		Lightweight Lemmas in Lambda Prolog,
                  	A. W. Appel, A. P. Felty.

   12.30 h:  Lunch

   14.30 h:  Session 8: Nonmonotonic Reasoning:

                Well-Founded Abduction via Tabled Dual Programs,
                  	J. Alferes, L.M. Pereira, T. Swift,
                Optimization of Disjunctive Queries,
                  	S. Greco.
                Well-Founded Semantics by Transformation: The Non-Ground Case,
                 	U. Zukowski, B. Freitag.
                Monotonicity in Rule Based Update,
                  	Y. Zhang.

   16.30 h:  Break

   17.00 h:  Invited talk 4: Vladimir Lifschitz:
		Answer Set Planning.

   19.00 h:  Conference Dinner. Banquet Speaker: Frank Harary

Workshops:

    9.00 h:  Workshop on Parallelism and Implementation Technology for
		(Constraint) Logic Programming Languages.
   11.00 h:  Workshop on Verification in Logic Programs.


Thursday Dec. 2:

    9.00 h:  Tutorial 1: Peter Van Roy:
		Logic and Constraint Programming with Mozart.

   10.00 h:  Break

   10.30 h:  (Regular) Posters (and Demonstrations) Session.

   12.30 h:  Lunch

   14.00 h:  Tutorial 2: Manuel Hermenegildo:
		Program Analysis, Debugging, and Optimization with the
                	CIAO System Preprocessor.

   15.00 h:  Break

   15.30 h:  Session 9: Analysis and Transformation:

		Transforming Inductive Definitions,
                  	A. Pettorossi, M. Proietti.
		Binding-Time Analysis for Mercury,
                  	W. Vanhoof, M. Bruynooghe.

   16.45 h:  Meeting of the Association of Logic Programming.


Workshops:
   10.30 h:  Workshop on Distributed and Internet Programming with Logic and
		Constraint Languages.
   El Paso:  International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic
		Reasoning begins (Dec.2- Dec 4)


Friday Dec. 3:

    9.00 h:  Tutorial 3: Ken Kahn:
		From Prolog and Zelda to ToonTalk.

   10.00 h:  Break

   10.30 h:  Session 10: Constraint applications:
		Solving TSP with Time Windows with Constraints,
                  	F. Focacci, A. Lodi, M. Milano.
		Finding Fair Allocations for the Coalition Problem with Constraints,
                  	E. Tick, M. J. Maher, R. H.C. Yap.
		Constraint-based Round Robin Tournament Planning,
                  	M. Henz.

   12.00 h:  Lunch

   01.30 h:  Session 11:Extensions:

		Logic Programming with Requests,
                  	S. Etalle, F. van Raamsdonk.
		ACI1 Constraints,
                 	A. Dovier, C. Piazza, E. Pontelli, G. Rossi.
		Declarative Pruning in a Functional Query Language.
                 	M. Osorio, B. Jayaraman, J.C. Nieves.

   15.00 h:  Closing.

   15:15 h:  Departure for a tour of White Sands National Monument
		(a small fee may have to be paid for the tour)


Workshops:
   10.30 h:  Workshop on Optimisation and Implementation of Declarative
		Programming Languages.
   Co-located:  International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and
		Logic Programming. (Dec. 3 - 4)

Special event:
   10.30 h:  Open poster session.


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Register electronically through the ICLP'99 web-site

		http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~iclp99
                                                                                                					      Non-ALP Members     ALP Members
Non Students (Before October 30)

Attending ICLP and Workshops 			   $400 	      $375
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR      $275               $250
Attending NLULP only                               $100               $80
Attending NLULP (in addition to ICLP)              $50                $40
Attending one ICLP Workshop                        $50                $40

Students (Before October 30):
Attending ICLP and Workshops                       $225               $200
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR      $200               $175
Attending NLULP (only)                             $100               $80
Attending NLULP (in addition to ICLP)              $50                $40
Attending one ICLP Workshop                        $50                $40

Non Students (After October 30):
Attending ICLP and Workshops                       $450               $425
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR      $325               $300
Attending NLULP (only)                             $150               $130
Attending NLULP (with ICLP)                        $75                $65
Attending one ICLP Workshop                        $75                $65

Students:
Attending ICLP and Workshops                       $275               $250
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR      $250               $225
Attending NLULP (only)                             $150               $130
Attending NLULP (in addition to ICLP)              $75                $65
Attending one ICLP Workshop                        $75                $65

If you are paying by credit card, please add 4% to your total (for the
fee that the bank charges for processing credit cards).

The full conference registration entitles you to attend ICLP sessions and
activities as well as all workshops being held with ICLP except NLULP.
However, you will be given the proceedings of only one workshop of your
choice. Extra proceedings of the other workshops can be bought for $15 each.
For non-ALP members the registration fee also includes free 1 year membership to
Association for Logic Programming. The registration fee includes all
coffee-breaks  on all days, the ICLP'99 proceedings and the banquet
(lunches are not included).

**
For those attending LPNMR in El Paso there is a special reduced registration
rate. However, you will get this rate only if you register separately with
LPNMR and pay their registration fee as well. The reduced registration rate
includes the Banquet and the proceedings, and entitles you to attend
ICLP'99 sessions and workshops on Monday (Nov 29), Tuesday (Nov 30)
and Wednesday (Dec 1).

Student registration rates include proceedings  of ICLP as well as the banquet.


CANCELLATION:

If you cancel before October 30th, you will be refunded 100% of your fee minus
$50 processing fee. If you cancel after October 30th, you'll get 75% of your
money back. However, a minimum of $50 will be charged as processing fee.


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Sleep Inn: 5 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single or Double $47 per night

Comfort Suites: 5 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single or Double $59 per night

Holiday Inn: 25 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single $52; Double $57

Las Cruces Hilton: 1 hour walking from Conference Site: Single $60; Double $70

Days Inn: 30 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single $41; Double $46

Sleep Inn and Comfort Suites are conference recommended hotels. For making your
hotel reservation visit the ICLP'99 web site:

			http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~iclp99.


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Oct  6 11:39:28 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:39:28 +0100
Subject: Divers: Parsers
Message-ID: <WED.6.OCT.1999.123928.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <bralich at hawaii.edu>


Karen Smith, an employee here at Ergo, has put together a very nice
web based guided tour of the parsers of the world which makes it easy
to find and try all the different parsers of the world.  It is also a very
convenient way to compare parsers and make notes about their
various strong and weak points.  The site also contains a section
with sample sentences chosen from the domain of practical
applications and a set of standards for evaluating parsers.  Both
are available at http://www.ergo-ling.com.  The parser tour is under
the heading "Parsers of the World" and the sample sentences and
standards are under "Parsing Contest".

I highly recomend this site for anyone with an interest in NLP.

Phil Bralich


Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822

Tel: (808)539-3920
Fax: (808)539-3924
bralich at hawaii.edu
http://www.ergo-ling.com


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct  8 12:30:05 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:30:05 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le pluriel
Message-ID: <FRI.8.OCT.1999.133005.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 06:44:08 +0200
From: Michel Eytan <eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Message-Id: <v03130301b42325dabed6 at DialupEudora>


Ma (tres modeste) contribution:
1. Hans Kamp & Uwe Reyle: From Discourse to Logic, vol II (Kluwer,
Dordrecht) 1993
2. Bob Carpenter, Type-Logical Semantics (MIT Press, Cambridge MA) 1997

A Tchao

--
Michel Eytan                             eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
  L'erreur est humaine, mais foutre le vrai b*** exige un ordinateur


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct  8 12:35:09 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:35:09 +0100
Subject: R: Initiation a la linguistique
Message-ID: <FRI.8.OCT.1999.133509.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 12:16:02 +0100
From: fuchs at canoe.ens.fr (Catherine Fuchs)
Message-Id: <199910081017.MAA08737 at canoe.ens.fr>


Lire l'ouvrage : Les linguistiques contemporaines, par C. Fuchs et P. Le
Goffic, Hachette

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

CATHERINE FUCHS
DIRECTEUR DE RECHERCHE AU CNRS
EQUIPE "LANGUES, TEXTES, MODELES"
(EP 2050 du CNRS)
ENS
1 RUE MAURICE ARNOUX
92120 MONTROUGE
FRANCE

tªl : 01 42 53 75 87
fax : 01 42 53 75 86
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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Sat Oct  9 22:40:37 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 23:40:37 +0100
Subject: Livre: Simultaneous Interpretation
Message-ID: <SAT.9.OCT.1999.234037.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 10:55:46
From: robset at easynet.fr
Message-Id: <3.0.2.16.19991009105546.673718b0 at pop.easynet.fr>


Chers Collegues,
Peut-etre cet ouvrage interessera-t-il  les abonnes a la liste. Il presente
un modele de traitement du
langage fondee sur l'IS (analyse des processus  syntaxiques (parsing,
typologie contrastive),  logiques et pragmatiques, notamment la
construction des contextes).
__________________________________________________________________________
Message:

New Book Information  (resume francais suit)

Simultaneous Interpretation : A Cognitive-Pragmatic Analysis
Robin Setton

Benjamins Translation Library, 28
1999. Hb xvi, 384 pp. + index 90 272 1631 2 NLG 158.00
www.benjamins. com

Simultaneous interpretation is among the most complex of human
cognitive/linguistic activities. This study, which will interest
practitioners and trainers as well as linguists, draws more on
linguistics-based theories of cognition in communication (cognitive
semantics and pragmatics) than on the traditional information-processing
approaches of cognitive psychology, and shows SI to be a valuable source of
data on language and cognition. Starting from semantic representations of
input and output in samples of professional SI from Chinese and German into
English, the analysis explains the classic phenomena—anticipation,
restoration of the implicit-explicit balance, and communicative
re-packaging (`re-ostension') of the discourse—in terms of an intermediate
cognitive model in working memory, allowing a more unitary view of resource
management in the SI task.  Relevance-theoretic analysis of the input
discourse reveals rich pragmatic information guiding the construction of
the appropriate contexts and the speaker's underlying intentionalities.
The course of meaning assembly is reconstructed in annotated synchronised
transcripts.

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L'interprétation simultanée compte parmi les activités
cognitives/linguistiques les plus complexes. La présente étude, qui
s'adresse aussi bien aux interprètes et aux formateurs qu'aux linguistes,
s'inspire davantage des théories de la cognition dans la communication
issues de la linguistique (sémantique et pragmatique cognitives) que des
modèles classiques, de type traitement de l'information, favorisés par la
psychologie cognitive. Elle révèle l'IS comme étant une source précieuse de
données sur le langage et la cognition.

Partant d'une confrontation de représentations sémantiques (`mises à plat'
syntaxiques et lexicales) des productions de l'orateur et de l'interprète
dans deux corpus d'IS professionnelle (chinois-anglais et
allemand-anglais), l'analyse cherche à expliquer les phénomènes classiques
de la traduction orale--rétablissement de l'équilibre implicite-explicite,
`anticipation' du sense de l'orateur, et `réemballage' communicatif
(`ré-ostension' pour paraphraser la théorie de la pertinence)--par la
constitution et la gestion dynamique en mémoire de travail d'un modèle
cognitif intermédiare, ce qui autorise une vue plus unitaire de la gestion
des ressources mentales nécessaires à cette tâche. Un langage de la pensée
enrichi figurant des concepts mais aussi des fonctions communicatives,
indexés à des réalisations dans les langues actives de travail, est
présentée comme le support hypothétique de ces représentations
intermédiaires. En effet, l'analyse pertinentiste du discours d'arrivée
fait apparaître une grande richesse d'informations pragmatiques pouvant
guider la construction de contextes appropriés et l'appréhension des
intentionnalités sous-jacentes de l'orateur. L'assemblée progressive du
sens par l'interprète est reconstruite sous forme de transcriptions
synchronisées annotées (en annexe).

Benjamins Translation Library, 28
1999. Hb xvi, 384 pp. + index 90 272 1631 2 NLG 158.00

Order through:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsteldijk 44 - P.O. Box 75577 - 1070 Amsterdam - Holland
tel +31 20 6738156 - Fax +31 20 6739773
or at www.benjamins. com


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 08:56:08 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:56:08 +0100
Subject: Job: 1 offer
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.095608.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: jeudi 7 octobre 1999 02:58
From: Bradley Music <brmusic at microsoft.com> by way of Fiammetta NAMER <Fiammetta.NAMER at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr>


French Computational Linguist
Natural Language Group
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA   USA

The French computational linguist will join our team within the Natural
Language Group at corporate headquarters in Redmond, WA.  This team works on
enhancing & extending a computational grammar & text critiquing (grammar
checking) system for French, in accordance with the overall architecture of
the Microsoft Natural Language Understanding system.  Initial emphasis is on
understanding the component for the text critiquing system, followed by the
component for syntactic analysis. S/he will also be testing the syntactic
analysis & text critiques.

The technology developed in this team will ship in the next version of
Microsoft Office, and will be used by millions of people!  Customer focus
and concern for the user experience are top priorities.

Qualifications should include experience in linguistic research and software
development, a product focus, familiarity with natural language processing,
a flexible approach to linguistic theory, and an advanced degree in
linguistics, computer science or a related discipline. Native proficiency in
French is required; practical experience with NLP implementation issues is
highly desired.


To apply for this position, please submit your CV/resume online to
NLJOBS at microsoft.com <mailto:NLJOBS at microsoft.com>.  For faster processing,
reference code brm0001.


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 09:39:56 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:39:56 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLIS 2000
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.103956.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:25:31 +0200
From: Werner Winiwarter <ww at ifs.univie.ac.at>
Message-Id: <38019EFB.C97CAB7D at ifs.univie.ac.at>
X-url: http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis2000.html


                              Call for Papers
                       2nd International Workshop on
                  Natural Language and Information Systems
                                 NLIS 2000
               http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis2000.html

                          in conjunction with the
 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
                                 DEXA 2000
        to be held in Greenwich, United Kingdom, September 4-8, 2000

    Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press

THEME

The Second International Workshop on Natural Language and Information
Systems will take place on the eve of a new millenium which will bring
unimaginable changes and new challenges. Human Language Technology (HLT)
has reached a level of maturity that makes it feasible to solve many of
the urgent needs of the coming information age. By learning from past
failures and successes we are now ready to apply the new technology to
real-life applications. Multilinguality, mobile speech access to the
web, and automatic knowledge extraction from documents are just a few
examples that show the importance of HLT as a key technology for the new
millenium.

The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers
from
both natural language processing and information systems with the aim of
encouraging the exchange of ideas and experience between these two
communities. It will provide an international forum for the presentation
of an overview of the most recent trends in these two active research
fields, and a common
starting-point to tackle the most acute problems of information
processing.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

   * Natural language interfaces
   * Multimodal interfaces
   * Adaptive interfaces
   * HLT for information system design
   * HLT for conceptual modeling
   * HLT for requirements engineering
   * HLT for information retrieval and filtering
   * HLT for the WWW
   * Terminology and ontologies
   * Lexical resources and corpora
   * Multilinguality
   * Computer-assisted language learning
   * Machine translation
   * Word sense disambiguation
   * Document categorization
   * Information extraction
   * Text summarization
   * Natural language learning
   * Natural language generation
   * Evaluation of natural language systems

IMPORTANT DATES

   * Submission deadline: 24 January 2000
   * Notification of acceptance: 10 April 2000
   * Camera-ready copies: 1 May 2000

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing
original,
previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully
evaluated
based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the
program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2000 workshops. All submitted
papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by
IEEE Computer Society Press and MUST NOT be longer than FIVE pages. The
author guidelines can be found at
http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/format.html. If you use LaTeX, an
example document can be found at
http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.tex and the corresponding output at
http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.ps.

Electronic Submission

Please submit your paper electronically to our FTP site. Please prepare
your paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding, condensing,
or
encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Do not use
bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it. Guidelines
for
generating and submitting PostScript files are available from
http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm.

File Naming Conventions for Electronic Submissions

Please save your file using your name, i.e. John Smith's file would be
john_smith.ps. If you are submitting two or more files, please number
them:
john_smith1.ps, john_smith2.ps, etc.

Transferring Files to the FTP Site

When transferring files to the FTP site, if you have a choice between
ASCII
and binary modes, use binary. Although ASCII mode works well most of the
time, binary mode incurs fewer problems.

     Our FTP site:                   ftp.ifs.univie.ac.at
     Log on as:                      anonymous
     Place files in subdirectory:    incoming/nlis2000

Notification

When you have put your file(s) in the FTP subdirectory, please send an
email to winiwarter at acm.org with the following information: Your name,
phone, fax, URL (your Web address, if you have one), your email address,
the title of your paper, and the filename(s) you used. (Do NOT send a
copy
of your postscript file via email.)

Hard Copy Paper Submissions

If, for some reason, you cannot place an electronic copy of your paper
on
our ftp site, ONLY THEN you may submit it as four hard copies to the
following address:

     Prof. Werner Winiwarter
     Institute of Applied Computer Science & Information Systems
     University of Vienna
     Liebiggasse 4/3
     A-1010 Wien
     AUSTRIA

Electronic Abstracts

Please send also an electronic copy of your abstract, in ASCII format
and
including the paper title, keywords, author names, addresses, and
affiliations, to winiwarter at acm.org.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

   * Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria
   * Robert Dale, Language Technology Pty Ltd and Macquarie University,
     Australia
   * Tsunenori Mine, Kyushu University, Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

   * Masatoshi Arikawa, Hiroshima City University, Japan
   * Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
   * Antje Düsterhöft, Rostock University, Germany
   * Günther Fliedl, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Nicola Guarino, LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy
   * Benoit Habert, UMR8503 et ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, France
   * Udo Hahn, Freiburg University, Germany
   * Zoubida Kedad, PRISM Laboratory, France
   * Christian Kop, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Yves Lepage, ATR-ITL, Japan
   * Jana Lewerenz, Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus, Germany
   * Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
   * Willi Mayerthaler, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Dieter Merkl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   * Elisabeth Metais, PRISM Laboratory, France
   * Diego Molla, University of Zurich, Switzerland
   * John Nerbonne, University of Groningen, Netherlands
   * Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
   * Maria Orlowska, The University of Queensland, Australia
   * Mike P. Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands
   * Jon Patrick, University of Sydney, Australia
   * David Powers, The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia
   * Hong Liang Qiao, University of Sydney, Australia
   * Peter Sandrini, University of Innsbruck, Austria
   * Bruno Schienmann, SIZ Bonn, Germany
   * Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
   * Kosho Shudo, Fukuoka University, Japan
   * Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
   * Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus,
     Germany
   * Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands
   * Christian Winkler, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Kazumasa Yokota, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan
   * Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia

For any further questions or inquiries please contact:

     Prof. Werner Winiwarter
     Institute of Applied Computer Science & Information Systems
     University of Vienna
     Liebiggasse 4/3, A-1010 Wien, AUSTRIA
     Email: winiwarter at acm.org
     Phone: +43-1-4277-38434
     Fax: +43-1-4277-38449


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 09:41:27 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:41:27 +0100
Subject: Soft: Ergo Linguistics Last Chance for Free Software
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.104127.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 14:05:26 -1000
From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <bralich at hawaii.edu>
Message-Id: <4.1.19991008135626.00a45e40 at pop-server.hawaii.edu>
X-url: http://www.ergo-ling.com


As of next week all of Ergo Linguistics Tools including the newest "Roswell
Teaches
English"  will change from free software to paid software.  Those of you
would like to
work with these tools for free should download them before October 15th.
You can
get to the site at http://www.ergo-ling.com.

These software products will be kept on the ergo server but will be
distributed and
advertised more widely and will no longer be offered for free.  We are
making this
last time free offer for researchers and students of NLP and theoretical
linguistics.

All programs are written in C++ have programmer SDK's available upon request
are Windows 95/98/NT compatible.


The programs include:

MemoMaster -- An add on for speech recognition products that significantly
increases
the navigation and control abilities of those products as well as adding more
sophisticated messaging and reminders and notes.

BracketDoctor -- A program for linguists which provides tree diagrams and
labelled
bracketings for sentences in the Penn Treebank II style.  Great for
students who
would like to include computer generated trees in their papers using this
standardized
framework.

ChatterBox -- A product that provides sophisticated question and answer
abilities
that are easily added to animations (e.g Microsoft Agents) and are useful for
educational and entertainment programs.

Roswell Teaches English  -- A stand alone product to help students of English
as a Second Language practice their English using natural language questions
and responses.  Includes a manual and textbook.


Phil Bralich



Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822

Tel: (808)539-3920
Fax: (808)539-3924
bralich at hawaii.edu
http://www.ergo-ling.com


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 09:43:35 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:43:35 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le pluriel
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.104335.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:36:22 +0200
From: Thierry Poibeau <Thierry.Poibeau at lcr.thomson-csf.com>
Message-ID: <38019376.A6CFF9BD at lcr.thomson-csf.com>


Références sur le pluriel (et par extension, le duel et le collectif) en
indo-européen (linguistique diachronique essentiellement) :

Il y a un ensemble d'articles parus dans une revue confidentielle (ho
lukhnos (dite la loupiotte), revue d'une association hellénique de la
fac de Montpellier, je crois) sur le sujet :

J-V Vernhes, "singulier et pluriel, collectif et singulatif",
Connaissance hellénique, 13 et 19 (oct 82 et avril 84, je ne l'ai pas
sous la main, il me semble que c'était un article intéressant quoiqu'un
peu spéculatif sur certains points de reconstruction indo-européenne).

P Georgelin, "Contribution à l'étude du collectif", Connaissance
hellénique, 54 et 55, 1993.


- en indo-européen, sur les origines des marques de nombres, leur
évolution, etc. il y a les classiques qui traitent de l'indo-européen en
général, comme (cités par Georgelin) :

A Meillet, Introduction à l'étude comparée des langues indo-européennes,
(chap 4 notamment), Champion, Paris.
O. Jespersen, Nature, évolution et origine du langage, I, chap 4, Payot,
Paris.
...

Pour des données plus récentes (données du hittite en particulier, où on
voit apparaître des marques de pluriel encore fragmentaires) :

A Martinet, Des steppes aux océans, Payot, Paris.

Tous ces livres, généraux, renvoient à des références particulières, par
langue notamment (par ex., pour le grec, Meillet, Aperçu d'une histoire
de la langue grecque, Klincksieck, ch 6, passim, pluriel et duel chez
Homère, p 287-288 sur la disparition du duel dans la koine, etc ->
Chantraine, Morphologie historique, Klincksieck, et Grammaire homérique,
Klincksieck aussi etc).

- le breton possède des traits intéressants (morphème de pluriel
différent suivant le sémantisme du nom concerné (humain ou non par ex.),
survivance du duel, présence importante du collectif (gwez désigne un
esnemble d'arbres, il faut ajouter le suffixe -enn pour obtenir le
singulatif, soit un arbre particulier), double pluriel...)

R Hemon, Yezhadur berr ar brezhoneg, Al Liamm, Breizh (trad. (brève)
grammaire bretonne, al Liamm).

F. Kervella, Yezhadur bras ar brezhoneg, Al Liamm, Breizh (désolé, pas
de traduction. Il faut donc apprendre le breton pour en savoir plus !
:-)

Thierry


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 09:49:07 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:49:07 +0100
Subject: These: Linguistics PhD Program at Stanford Univ.
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.104907.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:21:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gina Wein <wein at csli.stanford.edu>
Message-Id: <199910072121.OAA03281 at Turing.Stanford.EDU>
X-url: http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/)


PLEASE POST OR DISTRIBUTE TO INTERESTED PARTIES.
************************************************************************
* Opportunities for PhD Study in the Stanford Linguistics Department *
************************************************************************

************************************************************************
A Note from the Chair:
************************************************************************

Dear prospective graduate student,

It's my pleasure, as chair of Stanford's Department of Linguistics, to
invite you to apply for graduate study in our PhD program. We have one
of the broadest and most exciting programs available anywhere,
covering almost every imaginable area of specialization, as you can
see from the research areas listed in the descriptions below. This
year we are delighted also to welcome two new faculty members to the
department - Beth Levin and, jointly with Computer Science, Chris Manning -
who will particularly enhance our programs in Semantics and Computational
Linguistics.

We provide accepted PhD students with a comprehensive funding package,
so they can concentrate on linguistics, not on making ends meet.
Furthermore, our students are able to get involved in a wide
range of research projects both in the university and in local
industry. By the time our PhD students graduate, they typically have
an impressive list of publications and conference presentations, and
we have an outstanding track record of post-PhD placement. Finally,
Stanford is one of the most beautiful campus locations you could wish
for. I urge you to check out our Web page
(http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/) and to contact us as soon as
possible for more information about programs and admission. We look
forward to hearing from you.

                                             Stanley Peters

************************************************************************
Application Deadline for 2000-01:  January 3, 2000
************************************************************************

Financial aid packages are available on a competitive basis (to
international as well as US students). Stanford University is
committed to policies of non-discrimination and to creating
opportunities for historically underrepresented groups. For
applications and catalogs, please contact the Admissions Office
directly:

Graduate Admissions Office      Telephone:(+1) 650-723-4291
Stanford University             Email: ck.gaa at forsythe.stanford.edu
Stanford, CA  94305-3005  U.S.A.

You can request forms (or actually apply) on-line -- see our Web
pages. You can also get information from us directly by emailing
ling-admissions at csli.stanford.edu or by writing to: Department of
Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2150  U.S.A.

************************************************************************
Faculty:
************************************************************************

DAVID BEAVER. Semantics, logic, pragmatics, computational linguistics.
JOAN W. BRESNAN. Syntactic theory and typology, grammar architectures,
              Bantu and Australian morphosyntax.
EVE V. CLARK. Language acquisition, psycholinguistics, semantic and
              pragmatic issues in the lexicon.
PENELOPE ECKERT. Sociolinguistic variation and change, language,
              gender, and identity.
EDWARD FLEMMING. Phonetics, phonology.
SHIRLEY BRICE HEATH. Literacy, language planning, sociolinguistics,
              ethnography of communication.
PHILIP HUBBARD. TESOL, computer-assisted language learning, linguistic
              theory and language teaching.
MARTIN KAY. Computational Linguistics, especially machine translation.
PAUL KIPARSKY. Phonology, historical linguistics, morphology, lexical
              organization.
WILLIAM R. LEBEN. Phonology, African linguistics, tone and intonation.
BETH LEVIN. Lexical semantics, syntax, morphology, typology.
CHRISTOPHER MANNING. Statistical natural language processing, syntactic
              theory, typology.
BEVERLEY J. MCCHESNEY. TESOL.
STANLEY PETERS. Semantics, computational linguistics, mathematical
              linguistics.
JOHN R. RICKFORD. Sociolinguistics, variation and change, style,
              pidgins and creoles, AAVE.
IVAN A. SAG. Syntax, semantics, and their interface; language
              processing (human and computer).
PETER SELLS. Syntax, morphology, Optimality Theory, Japanese and
              Korean grammar, Swedish grammar.
ELIZABETH TRAUGOTT. Historical semantics/pragmatics, grammaticalization,
              discourse analysis.
THOMAS WASOW. Psycholinguistics, syntactic theory, philosophy of
              linguistics.
ARNOLD M. ZWICKY. Syntax, morphology, phonology, interfaces.

************************************************************************
Consulting faculty:
************************************************************************

JARED BERNSTEIN (Ordinate Corporation). Speech recognition and
              synthesis, industrial phonetics, language testing.
CLEO CONDORAVDI (Teknowledge Corporation). Semantics, syntax-semantics
              interface, knowledge representation.
MARY DALRYMPLE (Xerox PARC). Syntactic theory, semantics, computational
              linguistics.
JERRY R. HOBBS (SRI International). Computational linguistics,
              discourse analysis.
RONALD M. KAPLAN (Xerox PARC). Computational linguistics, morphology,
              syntax.
CHARLOTTE LINDE (IRL). Discourse analysis, narrative.
GEOFFREY NUNBERG (Xerox PARC). Pragmatics, lexical semantics, language
              policy.
HINRICH SCHUETZE (Xerox PARC). Statistical natural language processing,
              information retrieval.

************************************************************************
Other Stanford Faculty and Researchers:
************************************************************************
Anthropology: JAMES A. FOX, MIYAKO INOUE; Asian Languages: YOSHIKO
MATSUMOTO, CHAO FEN SUN; Computer Science: TERRY WINOGRAD; CSLI: ANN
COPESTAKE, DAN FLICKINGER, ED ZALTA; Education: JOHN BAUGH, KENJI
HAKUTA, AMADO PADILLA, GUADALUPE VALDES; German Studies: ORRIN
W. ROBINSON; Language Center: ELIZABETH BERNHARDT; Philosophy: JOHAN
VAN BENTHEM, MARK CRIMMINS, JOHN ETCHEMENDY, JULIUS MORAVCSIK, JOHN
PERRY, KENNETH TAYLOR; Psychology: HERBERT H. CLARK, ANNE FERNALD,
ZENZI GRIFFIN, ELLEN MARKMAN, JOSH TENENBAUM; Slavic Languages and
Literatures: RICHARD D. SCHUPBACH; Spanish & Portuguese: MARY
L. PRATT, GUADALUPE VALDES.


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 15:31:10 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:31:10 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC-2000
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.163110.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:47:40 +0200
From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>
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[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]
Please note that the submission deadline is soon approaching.


           ***** REMINDER:  CALL FOR PAPERS *******

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

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

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

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


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


  CONFERENCE AIMS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


  CONFERENCE TOPICS

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

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

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

  II. Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation:

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

  III. General issues:

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


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

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

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


  IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

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

  CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

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


  For general information about the conference, please contact:

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


  For general information about ELRA, please contact:

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


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Tue Oct 12 09:13:49 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:13:49 +0100
Subject: Appel: EURALEX 2000
Message-ID: <TUE.12.OCT.1999.101349.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:15:17 +0200
From: Anja Hofmann <hofmanaa at IMS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE>
Message-ID:  <3801AAA4.CBC3CA1F at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
X-url: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex/


For information:
The deadline for submission has been extended:
Deadline is:  9th November 1999 (9-11-99)


                     EURALEX 2000: Call for participation



The ninth EURALEX International Congress will be held in Stuttgart,
Germany, from 8 - 12 August, 2000.


The Congress organizers are
      Vincent Docherty (Langenscheidt Publishers, München)
      Ulrich Heid(Universität Stuttgart, Institut für maschinelle
      Sprachverarbeitung)
      Egbert Lehmann (Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Informatik -
      Intelligente Systeme).
      Christian Rohrer (Universität Stuttgart, Institut für maschinelle
      Sprachverarbeitung)
      Leo Wanner (Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Informatik -
      Intelligente Systeme).



Contact address

Congress Organizers EURALEX 2000
Dr. Ulrich Heid
Universität Stuttgart
Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS-CL
Azenbergstrasse 12
D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany

Fax: +49 711 121 1366
E-mail: elx2000 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Web site: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex
The information at this location will be kept up to date.



The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers,
publishers, researchers, scholars, and all others interested in
dictionaries of all types. The programme will include plenary
lectures, parallel sessions on the topics listed below, software
demonstrations, a presidential debate, pre-congress tutorials and
specialized workshops, a book and software exhibition, and social
events for participants and their guests.



Topics

Papers, posters, and demonstrations are invited on all topics of
lexicography, including, but not limited to, the following fields
which are the main focus of the congress:

    1.Computational lexicography and lexicology (N.B.: This is different

      from, e.g. COLING or ACL, in the sense that EURALEX invites
      papers on lexicographically relevant computational work, rather
      than any or all computational linguistic topics relating to the
      lexicon.)
    2.Lexical Combinatorics
    3.Historical and Scholarly Lexicography
    4.Bilingual Lexicography
    5.The Dictionary-Making Process
    6.Lexicography for Specialized Languages - Terminology and
      Terminography
    7.Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects
    8.Other topics

The ninth congress will differ slightly from previous EURALEX
congresses in that we particularly welcome papers on certain
sub-topics of the above, to fit in with special sessions:



      Topic (1-A): Corpus lexicographic tools in industry and research
                   (needs, functions, architectures ...)
      Topic (1-B): Creating (sizeable) dictionaries for Natural Language

                   Processing (procedures, information types, use of
published
                   dictionaries, projects ...)
      Topic (3-A): The creation of historical dictionaries (theoretical
                   and practical problems, workflows, ongoing projects
...)
      Topic (4-A): User aspects of bilingual dictionaries (market
                   studies, user behaviour, concepts and information
programs for new
                   bilingual dictionaries, bilingual learners'
dictionaries)
      Topic (5-A): Teaching dictionary making and lexicography (course
                   material, topics/theories and working methodology
taught,
                   experience from recent courses in industry and
academia...)
      Topic (7-A): Internet Lexicography (concepts and design of
                   dictionaries for the internet, quality control for
lexicographical
                   products on the internet, advantages and
                   limitations of the  new medium with
                   respect to `traditional dictionaries')

The main topic indications are not meant to exclude any lexicographic
topic: papers relevant to the congress but not fitting any of the
categories 1-7 will be reviewed nonetheless and considered for
presentation.

Individual presentations should be timed for 30 minutes, followed by a
10 minute discussion period. There are no restrictions on the language
of the presentation, but unfortunately it is not possible to offer
interpretation.

Software Demonstrations: We are particularly interested in
well-prepared software demonstrations, presentations of electronic
dictionaries, corpora, tools, etc. Those demonstrations accepted will
be presented in a 20 minute time slot at the congress (possibly
twice). Technical facilities will be available.



Submissions

Submissions may be of one of the following two types: Contributed Papers

and Software Demonstrations.

All submissions (of both types) will be reviewed by two or three
members of the referees' panel; the programme will be selected by the
programme committee. Submissions proposing software demonstrations
should include a description of the functions, underlying approach and
implementation of the software, possibly an indication of a URL, and
hardware/software requirements.

Authors should send five hardcopies of a preliminary version of their
contribution to the congress organizers before November 9th, 1999. Fax
and e-mail submission may be used in addition, but the hardcopy
submission in five copies is mandatory.



Format:
Contributed Papers: 6 to 8 pages, double-spaced;
Software Demonstrations: 4 pages, double-spaced;
Front page:

      Title of the paper or software demonstration;
      Name(s), affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s);
      Abstract (10-15 lines);
      in the top right corner: indication of the topic category (use 1,
      1-A, 1-B, etc.; if your paper does not fit in with any of the main

      categories, please use category 8);

Authors whose submissions are accepted will receive a style guide for
the preparation of the (electronic) final version of the paper, to be
published in the Proceedings immediately before the congress.
Contributed Papers will be allowed c. 10 pages: papers relating to
Software Demonstrations c. 5 pages, in a separate section.



Important Dates

      9 November 1999:  Deadline for receipt of preliminary versions of
                        papers by congress organizers
      15 February 2000: Dispatch of notifications of
acceptance/rejection
      15 April 2000:    Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers for
                        inclusion in the Proceedings

Programme Committee: Frantisek Cermák (CZ), Vincent Docherty (D),
Thierry Fontenelle (L), Ulrich Heid (D), and Rosamund Moon (GB).
Reviewers will include the above, the members of the EURALEX Executive
Board, and additional experts.

Pre-EURALEX tutorials: There will be two pre-EURALEX tutorials.
Details will be announced later.

Exhibitions: A book and software exhibition will be organized in the
coffee break area of the congress site. Walk-up-and-use software
demonstrations (without presentation, not included in the Proceedings)
may be given there.

Registration: The registration fee will probably be in the range of
240 - 310 Euros; an early subscription bonus, as well as a reduction
for EURALEX members, will be offered. A late fee will apply.

Accommodation: Block reservations in hotels of different categories
will be made, within walking distance from the congress venue or
within 15 minutes tram/bus ride. Student dormitory places or
equivalent low-budget accommodation will be provided as well. Details
will be announced later.


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PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM FOR EURALEX 2000

If you fill this in and send it back, you will soon reveive the second
circular, with more ample information about the conference.



Congress Organizers EURALEX 2000
Dr. Ulrich Heid
Universität Stuttgart
Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS-CL
Azenbergstrasse 12
D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany

Fax: +49 711 121 1366
e-mail: elx2000 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de

NAME ..............................................................
INSTITUTION .......................................................
...................................................................
DEPARTMENT.........................................................
...................................................................
STREET.............................................................
ZIP/POSTCODE.......................................................
CITY...............................................................
COUNTRY ...........................................................
FAX ...........................................................
TELEPHONE .........................................................
E-MAIL ............................................................

PLEASE TICK ONE OF THE FOLLOWING
[ ] I wish to present a paper at the Congress
[ ] I wish to present a software demonstration at the Congress
[ ] I do not intend to present a paper/demonstration at the Congress

ACCOMMODATION PREFERENCES (Price range)
[ ] c. 70 - 80 Euros
[ ] c. 50 - 70 Euros
[ ] Youth hostel
[ ] Student dormitory

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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Tue Oct 12 14:45:05 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:45:05 +0100
Subject: Appel: ECAI 2000, Tutorial Proposals
Message-ID: <TUE.12.OCT.1999.154505.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:21:49 +0200
From: Hans-Juergen Buerckert <hjb at dfki.de>
Message-Id: <380335E9.52B83D3B at dfki.de>
X-url: http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/


[We apologize for multiple copies]
CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS -- Deadline 1 Nov 1999

The ECAI-2000 Organising Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be
held in conjunction with the conference. The tutorials will be held on
21-22 August 2000, immediately prior to the start of the main conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
 1 Nov 1999     Deadline for proposals
 1 Dec 1999     Notification of acceptance
15 Dec 1999     Deadline for tutorial summaries
 7 Jan 2000     Publication of ECAI-2000 tutorial programme
 1 May 2000     Camera-ready tutorial notes
21-22 Aug 2000  Tutorials at ECAI-2000

We invite proposals for four-hour tutorials on topics relating to
theoretical and applied AI. The aim is to offer conference delegates
both tutorials on up-to-date AI technologies, and case study tutorials
on the application of the AI technologies to real-world problems.

For further details please visit ECAI2000 Homepage

http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/

--
Dr. Hans-Jürgen Bürckert
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

Phone/Fax: +49.681.302-5321 / -2235
Mobile: +49.171.717-2065
Email: hjb at dfki.de
http://www.dfki.de/~hjb/


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 07:58:02 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:58:02 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 7 Offers
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.095802.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

____________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Hull, Richard" <richard_hull at merck.com>
   Subject:  NLP-Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey

2/ From:  "Karin Verspoor" <karin at intelligenesis.net>
   Subject:  NLP-Intelligenesis Corporation, NYC

3/ From: "shail.patel" <Shail.Patel at unilever.com>
   Subject: Unilever Research: Industrial Job Opportunities in  text ...

4/ From: Claude Kirchner <Claude.Kirchner at loria.fr>
   Subject: doctoral research position

5/ From:  Hamish Cunningham <hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
   Subject:  NLP - Researcher/U of Sheffield, UK

6/ From:  Eric Schnepp <ericsch at microsoft.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling - Program Manager Position at Microsoft

7/ From:  Bart Hollebrandse <bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl>
   Subject:  Prosody - Post Doc researcher, Utrecht University
____________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Hull, Richard" <richard_hull at merck.com>
   Subject:  NLP-Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey

Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey, a world leader in
pharmaceutical
research, is seeking a creative individual with excellent interpersonal
skills to
become a member of their Molecular Systems Group.  The successful candidate
should
have a strong background in text processing in a UNIX environment -
information
extraction from natural language experience would be preferred.  Proven
programming
skills in C, C++, and/or Perl are essential.

Responsibilities include the development and/or support of web-based search
tools,
document repositories, chemical name recognizers, chemical knowledge bases,
and
ancillary text processing utilities.  Some background in chemistry, biology,
or
scientific programming would be an asset, but is not mandatory.  Candidates
should
have a B.S. or M.S. degree in computer science or equivalent.

Merck Research Laboratories are located approximately 25 miles from New York
City.
Our salaries, benefits and growth potential are excellent.  Applicants
should send
their CV (including names and addresses of three potential references) to:

Dr. Richard D. Hull
Merck & Co., Inc.
Box 2000, RY50SW-100
Rahway, NJ 07065-0900

Electronic resumes may be sent to richard_hull at merck.com

____________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  "Karin Verspoor" <karin at intelligenesis.net>
   Subject:  NLP-Intelligenesis Corporation, NYC

Post Date: October 6, 1999

Intelligenesis offers the Internet economy a new breed of business
intelligence, using breakthrough AI technology that understands
concepts in text. We don't just provide information for our clients:
we tell them what it means for them and their business goals. The AI
system that powers our applications, WebMind(TM), is based on a
revolutionary mathematical model of the mind that integrates a variety
of formerly disparate AI disciplines.

Founded in 1997, Intelligenesis is based in New York City. We have
positioned ourselves at the leading edge of the information
economy. We take our business very seriously, but like to have fun
doing it. If you want to be inspired by your work, aren't afraid of
tight deadlines, and can keep the greater goal in sight while tending
to the daily details, then we should talk.

The Natural Language group at Intelligenesis is currently seeking two
creative individuals for immediate employment in our New York office.
Both positions will involve developing natural language processing
modules, designing, documenting, and coding Java language code in a
team coding environment.

NL Position 1, Senior Natural Language Engineer

Requirements:
- Advanced degree in computational linguistics or a related field
- Experience with NL query processing and automatic recognition of the
semantics of queries
- Java or C++ programming skills

Additional desirable skills:
- familarity with database querying
- information retrieval experience
- statistical NLP experience
- knowledge of machine learning techniques
- text mining experience


NL Position 2, Junior Software Engineer

Requirements:
- a BS (in CS or a related field) or extensive industry experience.
- strong Java and XML skills
- familiarity with regular expressions and other text processing
methodologies
- JDBC/ODBC database integration experience

Addtional desirable skills:
- linguistics background
- natural language system experience
- machine learning experience
- statistics background

Interested applicants should send a cover letter indicating the
position for which they would like to be considered, resume (plain
text only, please) and any salary expectations to Dr. Karin Verspoor,
karin at intelligenesis.net or fax to 1-212-324-3001. No phone calls
please.

____________________________________________________________________

3/ From: "shail.patel" <Shail.Patel at unilever.com>
   Subject: Unilever Research: Industrial Job Opportunities in  text
        analysis/computational linguistics and optimisation/evolutionary


Dear All,

The Adaptive Computation Unit at Unilever Research, Wirral UK, is involved
in
industrial applications of leading edge technologies. We are currently
recruiting two scientists, in optimisation/evolutionary systems and text
analysis/computational linguistics. The text of our 'advert' is below, I
would
be very grateful if you would pass this on to anyone who you think may be
interested.

We are also highly like to have a position for an EU Marie Curie post-doc
one
of this areas, which would be open to members of the EU and other associated
countries [Switz, Israel etc] who are not resident in the UK.

Kind Regards
Shail Patel

- apologies if you have received this twice!

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

At Unilever it is our ability to recognise and cater for the diverse yet
subtle
needs of a global marketplace, that differentiates us from the competition.
Totally committed to scientific exploration and discovery, we invest £550
million in pioneering new research so our products remain the preferred
choice,
150 million times a day.

Adaptive Computation techniques play a key role in the development of a wide
spectrum of our product and manufacturing applications for such leading
foods,
home and personal care products as Impulse, Organics, Persil, Flora and
Wall's
Ice Cream. This is why we have have recently established a Centre of
Excellence
in Port Sunlight that is committed to this area and to developing and
maintaining links with leading academics.

Here you will discover exciting opportunities for talented individuals who
will
relish the challenge of developing leading-edge solutions to complex
industrial
problems. A combination of world-class research and an understanding of how
technology may be applied in practice will enable you to extend both your
technological capabilities and application areas.

Flexible, self-motivated and a strong team player with a broad scientific
interest, you will need a high level of numeracy and the ability to work to
tight deadlines. Your good first degree with a strong mathematical component
should be supported by a PhD/MSc and/or industrial experience. We are
looking
for one or two specialists in the following areas:

*) Evolutionary systems; Multi-criteria optimisation; Adaptive Agents;
Complex
Adaptive Systems
*) Statistical Text Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Natural Language
Engineering

As a world-leading organisation we can offer an atractive salary and
benefits
package, and excellent career opportunities.

Make a noticeable difference to your career by writing with full CV quoting
re
1253/SP to Vanessa Gilroy, TMP Response Management, 32 Aybrook St, London,
W1M
3JL or email you details to: response at tmp.co.uk

Contact Shail.Patel at unilever.com for further information

Closing date for applications is Nov 12 1999



____________________________________________________________________

4/ From: Claude Kirchner <Claude.Kirchner at loria.fr>
   Subject: doctoral research position


The Protheo project of LORIA in Nancy is seeking applications for a
doctoral research position starting in November or December 1999.

The positions are funded by the Centre Charles Hermite
(http://www.loria.fr/CCH/) for a period of 3 years as part of a
multidisciplinary project bringing together computer scientists,
mathematicians and physicists.

The researcher will be concerned with the further development,
foundation and application of the ELAN system (http://www.loria.fr/ELAN).
(S)He will contribute to the development of a computational model
based on concurrent rewriting and integrating the notion of rewriting
strategies.

We are looking for talented, highly motivated, ambitious, and fast
learning individuals with expertise in relevant areas, good
theoretical background, and a desire to make ideas work in practice.

A Master or a (french) DEA in Computer Science is required.

More information about Nancy and the Protheo project can be found in
the Web at http://www.loria.fr/equipe/protheo.html/

If you are interested, please contact as soon as possible Claude
Kirchner at the address below. In any case, applications including a
full cv and motivations (e-mail is fine) should be addressed, before
October 18, to:

                Claude Kirchner

                LORIA & INRIA
                Campus scientifique
                615, rue du Jardin Botanique
                BP 101
                54602 Villers-les-Nancy CEDEX
                FRANCE

                Tel:       (33) (0) 3 83 59 30 11
                Secretary: (33) (0) 3 83 59 30 54 (Christelle Bergeret)
                Fax inria: (33) (0) 3 83 27 83 19
                E-mail:    Claude.Kirchner at loria.fr
                Web:       http://www.loria.fr/~ckirchne/


____________________________________________________________________


5/ From:  Hamish Cunningham <hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
   Subject:  NLP - Researcher/U of Sheffield, UK

Three posts are available in Language Engineering at the
University of Sheffield. Informal enquiries may
be made in reply to this mail, or see contact details below.

Hamish Cunningham
Fellow in Computer Science, University of Sheffield
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/


Research posts in Natural Language Engineering

Three researchers are required for a period of 2 years (in the first
instance) to work in the Natural Language Processing Group
(http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/nlp.html) of the
Department of Computer Science (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/), at the
University of Sheffield (http://www.shef.ac.uk/).

Two positions involve working on Information
Extraction (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/extraction/)
(IE) and on the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE -
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/gate/),
which is a domain-specific software architecture for research and
development in Human Language Technologies. A main area of research
in this project will be the adaptivity of IE systems to new genres
and domains. The third post involves computational linguistics or
statistical expertise to work on an EPSRC-funded project on the
reuse of texts.

The successful candidates will preferably be competent programmers,
probably with a sound knowledge of Natural Language Processing theory
and practice, and/or statistical methods. Knowledge of some of the
following will also be an advantage:

  statistical language processing;
  Information Extraction research;
  programming in Java;
  database programming, especially using JDBC (or ODBC);
  foreign languages, and the Unicode standard;
  corpus processing.

The appointments will be made on the RA1A or RA1B scales.

Further details of how to apply may be obtained from:

The Personnel Department,
Firth Court,
Western Bank,
Sheffield
S10 2TN.
Phone: +44 (0)114 222 1631

Informal enquiries may be made to Yorick Wilks, Hamish Cunningham
or Rob Gaizauskas, phone +44 (0)114 222 1804/1981/1827.

____________________________________________________________________


6/ From:  Eric Schnepp <ericsch at microsoft.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling - Program Manager Position at Microsoft

Join Microsoft's Natural Language Group (NLG) to drive the integration
of our natural language technology into Microsoft products.  Your
primary responsibilities will include working with our development
team and MS research to integrate innovations into our natural
language processing engine.  This includes gathering and influencing
requirements, developing clear and complete specifications, developing
project schedules, and working with contingent staff, developers,
testers, and our engine architecture team to ensure optimal
integration.  The candidate must have experience in computational
linguistics, leading projects to successful completion, and have the
ability to work independently as well as in a team. Excellent
communication skills and the ability to follow through on commitments
are required.  Desired qualifications include 4 years of program
management experience and a background in language generation and/or
machine translation.  A BA/BS degree or higher in Computer Science,
Computational Linguistics, or related technical equivalent required.

Please send your CV in ASCII text or as a Word attachment to
nljobs at microsoft.com


____________________________________________________________________

7/ From:  Bart Hollebrandse <bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl>
   Subject:  Prosody - Post Doc researcher, Utrecht University


The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS is a research institute of
the Faculty of Arts of Utrecht University. About a hundred people are
involved of which 12 full professors, 8 postdoc researchers and about
30 graduate students.

The goal of UiL OTS is to develop scientific expertise in the area of
language, speech and their use. It participates in the Netherlands
Graduate School of Linguistics LOT and in the Graduate school of Logic
OzsL. The research of UiL OTS comprises the following six areas: (i)
Syntax and Semantics, (ii) Morphology & Phonology, (iii) Computational
Linguistics & Logic, (iv) Phonetics, (v) Language Development, en (vi)
Language Use. The research programme of UiL OTS brings together
research from different strands of linguistics and related disciplines
such as logic, computer science, cognitive sciences, teaching, and
social sciences. Specific domains of interdisciplinary co-operation
are: Natural Language Processing, 1st and 2nd Language Acquisition,
Language Teaching, Text linguistics and Conversation-analysis and
Language- and Speech technology. The research policy of UiL OTS is
focused on making full use of the added value of this concentration of
research and strengthen the national and international position of the
institute.

UiL OTS searches an ambitious and enthusiastic candidate for

1 Post Doc researcher

Start: to be negociated.  Duration: 2 years.

The envisaged project deals with the role of prosody in language
processing, specifically interactions between intonation and syntactic
phenomena such as extraposition and heavy-NP-shift. A project proposal
is available on request or can be downloaded from our internet-site
( http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl ).

Given the complexities involved in dealing with the relation between
the grammatical components, and the relation between the grammar and
the production system, the candidate should bring a solid background
in linguistics and/or phonetics, and a demonstrated expertise in
experimental techniques (that is, designing, conducting, and
statistically interpreting experiments).

We offer a stimulating and innovative research environment with many
international contacts, a program which offers possibilities for
collaboration with specialists in a broad area of linguistics, good
experimental facilities, etc. Salary indication max. Dfl. 7618,= per
month (gross). Further information can be obtained by sending an
e-mail with specific questions to uil-ots at let.uu.nl (subject: postdoc
Prosody) or by phone +31-30-2536006. Applications may be sent before
October 28 to the Faculteit Letteren, Universiteit Utrecht,
Vacancynumber 68926 t.a.v. de heer A.A. van Fulpen,
personeelsconsulent, Kromme Nieuwegracht 46, 3512 HJ
Utrecht. Notification of application should be sent by E-mail before
October 21 to uil-ots at let.uu.nl. Applications should be accompanied by
a curriculum vitae, two references, and a list of publications.


Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS
UiL OTS

voice: #31 (0)30-2536006
fax: #31 (0)30-2536000
postal address:
Trans 10, 3512 JK,
Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 08:04:20 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:04:20 +0200
Subject: Appel: NLP+IA 2000/TAL+AI 2000
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.100420.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Chadia Moghrabi <moghrac at Umoncton.ca>



THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS DECEMBER 6, 1999 ***NOT 2000***
Our apologies for multiple postings.
                            CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITS
                       Appel aux communications & expositions

                            INTERNATIONAL CONFERE
                                      ON
             NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
                   SPECIAL ACCENT ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
                          NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000

                              MARCH 24-27, 2000
                         Mariott Hotel,  HURGHADA, EGYPT

                           Conference internationale
                   sur le traitement automatique des langues et
                         ses applications industrielles
                               24-27 mars, 2000
                      Attention speciale portee au domaine medical
           24-27 mars, 2000
          Hotel Mariott, Hurghada, Egypte



TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Université de Moncton is organising its
third international conference on NLP and industrial applications. This
year a special attention is given to medical applications.

Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing,
including, but not limited to:.
- natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken
  and  hand-written language,
- natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial
  applications
- machine translation, computer aided translation, translation  aids,
- syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology,
- dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources
- multimodality
- multilinguality
- CALL
- NLP industrial applications
- papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and
  practice of NLP in general and particularly in a medical domain.

Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their papers not
exceeding 1000 words (exclusive of references) either in English or in
French, the two official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be
published in the language of the submitted texts.


SUBMISSION:

1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title,
the authors' names, affiliations, addresses, a five (5) keyword list
specifying the subject area, a five (5) line summary, and the name and
address of the contact person.

         TITLE/ Titre:
         AUTHORS / Auteurs
         KEYWORDS/ Mots clefs:
         SUMMARY/ Resume:
         CONTACT PERSON/ Personne contact:

2) Submissions should not exceed 1000 words in length excluding references
(12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2.5 cm) all around; if using A4
please keep top margin at 2.5 cm and text within 19cm x 25.5 cm).

3) The identification page and the actual text should be submitted in 4
HARD COPIES to

 NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000
 Pr. Chadia Moghrabi
 Universite' de Moncton,
 Faculté des sciences,
 Departement d'informatique
 Moncton, NB, Canada, E1A 3E9

 Phone: 1 (506) 858-4521
 Fax:  1 (506) 858-4541
 E-mail: gretal at info.umoncton.ca

4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text.


REFEREEING:

All submissionss shall be refereed by three members of the Program
committee.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France)
Sadek Eid (U. de Moncton, U. Cairo, Egypt)
Ruddy Lelouche (U. Laval, Canada)
Chadia Moghrabi (U. de Moncton, Canada)

 More to be confirmed...


DEADLINES:

Submissions are due on  December 6, 1999.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by  January 21, 2000.
Camera-ready copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of
March, 2000 along with registration fees.

Authors are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in
the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the
single word INTENTION in the subject line.


EXHIBITS:
Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration can send a
brief electronic description along with a specification of physical
requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs,
etc.) to gretal at info.umoncton.ca with the single word EXHIBIT in the
subject line.


OTHER ACTIVITIES:

Hurgada is a beautiful sea resort with coral beaches ideal for diving and
snorkelling.  A travel agency will be handling any sightseeing in
Hurghada, Cairo, or other Egyptian tourist activities. It would be the year
2000
and what a historic place to be visiting.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

The conference is organised by GRETAL, the NLP study group at Universite'
de Moncton in co-operation with the American University of Cairo. The
members of the organising committee are:

Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair,
                 Universite' de Moncton
Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, Conference co-chair,
           University of Cairo
Luc LeBlanc, Computer Science student & research assistant at Gretal,
             Universite' de Moncton
More to come...


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 08:04:30 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:04:30 +0200
Subject: Appel: QUALICO-2000
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.100430.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Harald Baayen <baayen at mpi.nl>




             ***************************
                     QUALICO-2000
              ***************************

          Fourth International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics

       24 - 26 August, 2000
      Prague, Czech Republic


                            FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


The International Quantitative Linguistics Association invites the
submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished
research on all aspects of Quantitative Linguistics, including, but
not limited to, the following.

1. Observations and descriptions of all aspects of language and text
   phenomena, including the areas of psycholinguistics,
   sociolinguistics, dialectology, pragmatics etc. as far as they use
   quantitative mathematical methods (probability theory, stochastic
   processes, statistics, differential and difference equations, fuzzy
   logic and set theory, function theory etc.), on all levels of
   linguistic analysis.

2. Applications of methods, models, or findings from quantitative
   linguistics to problems of natural language processing, machine
   translation, language teaching, documentation and information
   retrieval.

3. Methodological problems of linguistic measurement, model
   construction, sampling and test theory.

4. Epistemological issues such as explanation of language and text
   phenomena, contributions to theory construction, system theory,
   philosophy of science.

Reports on ongoing projects are also welcome as far as they concern
any of the topics mentioned above.


REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Papers should be sent for a 20 minute presentation (plus 10 minutes
discussion) on the above-mentioned topics, preferably in English
(German and French will be also accepted). Submissions should be
between 1000-1500 words and should begin with the title, author(s),
addresses (including e-mail if possible), affiliation and a
specification of the topic area.

Authors should send proposals for papers in camera-ready form (ASCII,
postscript, or RTF format) to the following e-mail address:

qualico at mpi.nl

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2000.
Note of acceptance: 15 March 2000.


For further information about the abstract submission please contact

 Lanneke van Dreumel
 Interfaculty Research Unit for Language and Speech
 Wundtlaan 1
 PB 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen
 The Netherlands

 Phone : +31 - (0)24 - 3615751
        Fax   : +31 - (0)24 - 3521213
        E-mail: qualico at mpi.nl

For further information about the conference contact the local
organizer:

 Jan Kralik and Ludmilla Uhlirova
        E-mail: KRALIK at Galaxie.ujc.cas.cz


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 08:05:14 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:05:14 +0200
Subject: Appel: Evolang
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.100514.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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




( Apologies for multiple copies )

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


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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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

Sponsored by
  - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
  - Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
  - Fondation Louis Leprince-Ringuet
  - Groupe des Ecoles de Télécommunications
  - CNRS
  - France Telecom CNET


Some of the issues that will be discussed are:

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

 . origin of phonetic abilities

 . origin of syntax

 . origin of symbolic representation semantic abilities

 . evolutionary significance of language, compatibility with natural
selection

 . language and the origin of culture

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

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


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

 . evolution of phonetic systems

 . evolution of the lexicon

 . evolution of grammar structures



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

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

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

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

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

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

 evolang at infres.enst.fr

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


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

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



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

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


Last NAME :

First Name :

Laboratory :

Organization/Affiliation :

Street Address :

City :

Postal code:

State/Province :

Country :

E-mail address for correspondence :

Fax :

Paper title :



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

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


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 08:05:21 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:05:21 +0200
Subject: Ecole: Syllabe
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.100521.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jean-Pierre Angoujard <jean-pierre.angoujard at humana.univ-nantes.fr>


[English version below]


SEMINAIRE:

ANALYSE DECLARATIVE DE LA SYLLABE

UNIVERSITE DE NANTES
2-24 mars 2000

Organisateur: Jean-Pierre ANGOUJARD (professeur à l'Université de
Nantes)
              Equipe "Acoustique, Acquisition et Interprétation"
(AAI-JE2220)
(en collaboration avec John REIGHARD, professeur à l'Université de
Montréal)

OBJECTIFS

Ce séminaire semi-intensif (24h) n'a pas pour but premier d'offrir une
initiation à la Phonologie Déclarative. Il s'adresse a priori aux
chercheurs, enseignants et étudiants de 3ème cycle qui ont déjà une
connaissance raisonnable de l'approche déclarative (Bird, 1990, 1995;
Angoujard, 1997b).

Il s'agira de mesurer et de discuter les apports de la Phonologie
Déclarative à l'analyse des structures syllabiques dans les langues du
monde. L'objet "syllabe" est déjà, en soi, tout un programme (Angoujard,

1997a). Plusieurs travaux en cours, notamment à Nantes et à Montréal,
ont
pour ambition de mettre en place une conception strictement déclarative
de
cet objet.

Nous chercherons, au cours de ce séminaire, à confronter les différentes

perspectives et à progresser vers une meilleure compréhension des
contraintes, tant universelles (principes) que spécifiques (paramètres),

qui gouvernent l'organisation syllabique.

ORGANISATION

Ce séminaire aura lieu à raison de 2 fois 3 heures hebdomadaires (les
jeudi
et vendredi de 14h à 17h) durant 4 semaines (du 2 au 24 mars 2000). Il
se
tiendra à l'Université de Nantes (Faculté des Lettres et Sciences
Humaines,
bâtiment Censive, salle 4046).

La participation à ce séminaire est gratuite (les déplacements et les
frais
de séjours sont à la charge des participants).Ce séminaire est ouvert,
en
priorité, aux chercheurs, enseignants et étudiants de 3ème cycle des
universités de Nantes et de Montréal. Il est également ouvert, sur
demande
adressée à l'organisateur, à toute autre personne intéressée par le
sujet
retenu. Tout participant qui souhaiterait animer une séance (ou partie
de
séance) de ce séminaire est priée d'en avertir l'organisateur avant le
31
décembre 1999.

Adresse :       Jean-Pierre Angoujard
                Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines
                Chemin de la Censive du Tertre
                BP 81227
                44312 NANTES CEDEX 3 ñ France
e-mail : jean-pierre.angoujard at humana.univ-nantes.fr

PROGRAMME (provisoire, partiel et non ordonné)

Le "modèle rythmique" : une analyse déclarative par "principes et
paramètres"
de la syllabe (J.P. Angoujard)
La syllabe en français, quelles spécificités?
Le langage Prolog et l'analyse déclarative (J. Reighard)
Longueur vocalique et diphtongaison dans le français de Montréal (A.
Thériault)
Glides et structure syllabique en français (D. Pourin)
L'approche déclarative: quelles conséquences pour l'acquisition (S.
Wauquier-Gravelines)

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

SEMINAR
DECLARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SYLLABLE

UNIVERSITE DE NANTES
2-24 March 2000

Organised by Jean-Pierre Angoujard (Professor, Universite de Nantes),
        "Acoustics, acquisition and Interpretation" Team, (AAI-JE2220)
        In collaboration with John Reighard (Professor, Universite de
Montreal)

GOALS
        This semi-intensive seminar (24 hours) is aimed at researcher,
professor or graduate student, already familiar with Declarative
Phonology
(DP) (Bird, 1990, 1995; Angoujard, 1997b). It will be an occasion for
the
participants to discuss and measure the impact of DP on the analysis of
the
syllabic structure in the world languages. The object "syllable" is in
itself a program (Angoujard 1997a). Many research projects are held
around
the world (in Montreal and Nantes to name a few) in order to give to
this
object a strictly declarative conception.
        During this seminar, different perspectives will be confronted
in
order to progress towards a better understanding of the constraints,
universal (principle) and specific (parameters), governing the syllable.

ORGANISATION

This seminar will be held twice a week (Thursday and Friday from 2pm to
4pm) for 4 consecutive weeks (2-24 March 2000) at Universite de Nantes
(Faculte des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, batiment Censive, salle
4046).

There will be no charge to this seminar (transportation and
accommodation
are to the responsibility of the participant). This seminar is mainly
addressed to researchers, professors and graduate students of Universite
de
Nantes and Universite de Montreal. It is also open to any other
interested
person (a request must be addressed to the organiser). Any one
interested
in directing a session (or part of a session) should get in touch with
the
organiser before December 31 1999

Address :       Jean-Pierre Angoujard
                Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines
                Chemin de la Censive du Tertre
                BP 81227
                44312 NANTES CEDEX 3 ñ France
e-mail : jean-pierre.angoujard at humana.univ-nantes.fr

PROGRAM (partial)

"Rhythmic model" : a "principle and parameter" declarative analysis of
the
syllable (Jean-Pierre Angoujard)
The syllable in French, what specificity?
Prolog language and declarative analysis (John Reighard)
Vowel length and diphtongisation in Montreal French (Alain Theriault)
Glide and syllabic structure in French (Delphine Pourin)
Declarative approach: consequences for acquisition (Sophie
Wauquier-Gravelines)

Angoujard, Jean-Pierre (1997a), Théorie de la syllabe. Rythme et
qualité,
CNRS-Éditions
Angoujard, Jean-Pierre (1997b), La phonologie déclarative, Langages 125,

Nouvelles phonologies, pp. 35-54.
Bird, Steven (1990), Constraint Based Phonology. Ph.D. Dissertation,
University of Edinburg
Bird, Steven (1995), Computational Phonology, A constraint-based
approach,
Cambridge University Press


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 08:06:06 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:06:06 +0200
Subject: Conf: NLPNN'99
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.100606.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: nlprs 99 <nlprs99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr>




           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
        NLPNN'99: NLP and NEURAL NET Workshop
              A Pre-Workshop of NLPRS'99
            Date: 5/Nov/1999
  Http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/nlprs99



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

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


======================================================================
NLPNN'99 Program

November 5 1999

13:00-13:30
(1)Automated Language Processing with Neural Networks: the ALPINE
   Partial Parser [Caroline Lyon]

13:30-13:45
(2)Connectionist Learning Applied to a Brazilian Portuguese Grammar
   Checking [Andreia Gentil Bonfante and Dra. Maria das Gracas Volpe
   Nunes]

13:45-14:00
(3)Syntactic Analysis using Heterogeneous Neural Networks [B. K. Murthy]

14:00-14:30
(4)Performance of Structural Generalization in Connectionist Japanese
   Complex Sentence Parser [Minoru Motoki and Yoshio Shimazu]

14:30-14:45
(5)Simplifying and Employment of Feature-Uniform Based HPSG Grammatical
   Theory [Xie Jinbao and Qian Wenbo]

14:45-15:00
(6)A Receptive Field Neural Network which Learns to Describe Facial
   Expressions [James M. Hogan, Michael Norris, and Joachim Diederich]

15:00-15:15
(7)Multifeature-Based Approach to Automatic Error Detection and
   Correction of Chinese Text [Lei Zhang, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang,
   and Haihua Pan]

15:15-15:30
Coffee Break

15:30-16:00
(8)Name Searching with Artificial Neural Networks [Mark Lewellen]

16:00-16:30
(9)Thai Text-Dependent Speaker Identification by ANN with Two
   Differences Time Normalization Techniques [Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Sutat
   Sae-tang, and Chularat Tanprasert]

16:30-17:00
(10)Part of Speech Tagging with Mixed Approaches of Neural Networks and
    Transformation Rules [Qing Ma, Masaki Murata, Masao Utiyama,
    Kiyotaka Uchimoto, and Hitoshi Isahara]

17:00-17:15
(11)Massively Parallel POS Tagging Using Min-Max Modular Neural Network
    [Bao-Liang Lu, Qing Ma, Michinori Ichikawa, and Hitoshi Isahara]

17:15-17:45
(12)Sparsely-Connected Recurrent Neural Networks for Natural Language
    Learning [Claire D'Este, Michael Towsey, and Joachim Diederich]

17:45-18:00
(13)Natural Language Processing with Recurrent Neural Networks as
    Finite-State Automata with External Parallel-Access Memory [Roman
    Pozarlik]

18:00-18:15
(14)Evolution of Symbolisation: A Connectionist Exploration [Ronan
    G. Reilly]


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 15 10:23:30 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:23:30 +0100
Subject: Q: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <FRI.15.OCT.1999.112330.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:06:22 +0200
From: "Adnane ZRIBI" <adn at gnet.tn>
Message-Id: <01bf166e$d2dbd860$230101c1 at adn.GNet.tn>


Question:
Recherche référence bibliographique sur le thème "résumé automatique"
Merci d'avance
Chiraz Zribi


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 15 14:29:48 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:29:48 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <FRI.15.OCT.1999.152948.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

    ________________________________________________________________
    1/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:28:58 +0200
    From: Thierry Poibeau <Thierry.Poibeau at lcr.thomson-csf.com>

    2/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:59:24 +0200
    From: Bernard Normier <Bernard.Normier at lexiquest.fr>

    3/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:13:57 +0200 (MET DST)
    From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr>
    ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________
1/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:28:58 +0200
From: Thierry Poibeau <Thierry.Poibeau at lcr.thomson-csf.com>
Message-ID: <38071E0A.EFB9C3A0 at lcr.thomson-csf.com>


Quelques références jusqu'en 1995 (et aucune en hittite)...
Thierry

[Alterman & Bookman 1990]
Alterman Richard et Bookman Lawrence (1990), "Some computational
experiments in summerization", Discourse Processing, n°13.

[Ben Hamadou & al. 1995]
Ben Hamadou Abdelmajid, Ben Mefteh Emma et Jaoua Maher (1995), "Une
méthode d'extraction des idées clés d'un document en vue de le résumer",
IA'95-Génie Linguistique 95 (Montpellier).

[Berri Jawad  & al. 1994]
Berri Jawad, Desclés Jean-Pierre, Jackiewicz Agata, Malrieu Denise et
Minel Jean-Luc (1994), "Le résumé automatique par exploration
contextuelle", Rapport interne du CAMS n°95/1 (recueil des
communications du CAMS effectuées aux Rencontres Cognisciences Est, le
25 nov. 1994 à Nancy).

[Berri Jawad  & al. 1995a]
Berri Jawad, Le Roux Dominique, Malrieu Denise et Minel Jean-Luc (1995),
"SERAPHIN : système pour l'extraction automatique d'énoncés importants",
IA'95-Génie Linguistique 95 (Montpellier), repris dans les Actes du
congrès sur les sytèmes d'information élaborée  1995 (Ile rousse).

[Berri Jawad  & al. 1995b]
Berri Jawad, Le Roux Dominique, Malrieu Denise et Minel Jean-Luc (1995),
"SERAPHIN : main sentences automatic extraction automatic system",
Second language engineering convention (Londres).

[de Beugny d'Hagerue Hervé 1995]
de Beugny d'Hagerue Hervé (1995), De l'extraction automatique au résumé
automatique, Rapport de DEA, IFSIC-Université de Rennes I.

[Endres-Niggebauer Brigitte & al. 1995]
Endres-Niggebauer Brigitte, Maier Elisabeth et Sigel Alexander (1995),
"How to implement a naturalistic model of abstracting: four core working
steps of an expert abstractor", Information processing and management
(Elsevier Science), vol.31, n°5.

[Grize 1992]
Grize J.B. (1992), "Résumer, mais pour qui ?", in Le Résumé de texte,
Klincksieck, Paris.

[Kittredge  & Polguère 1991]
Kittredge R. et Polguère A. (1991), "Generating extended bilingual texts
from application knowledge bases", International Workshop on Fundamental
Research for the Future Generation of Natural Language Processing
(Kyoto).

[Lehmam 1995]
Lehmam Abderrafih (1995), Le résumé automatique de textes scientifiques
et techniques : aspects linguistiques et computationnels. Réalisation
d'un prototype procédant par extraction de phrases du texte source : le
système de Résumé Automatique par Fragments Indicateurs RAFI, thèse de
l'Université Nancy 2.

[Lenhert 1982]
Lenhert G. Wendy (1982), "Plot units: a narrative summarization
strategy", in Strategies for natural language processing, Wendy Lenhert
& Martin Ringle (eds.), Hillsdale (New York).

[Le Roux  & al. 1993]
Le Roux Dominique et Monteil Marie-Gaëlle (1993), "Perspective
d'automatisation de l'activité résumante : présentation du projet
SERAPHIN", Rapports internes EDF  HN-52/93/024 et HN-46/93/064.

[Le Roux  & al. 1994]
Le Roux Dominique, Minel Jean-Luc et Berri Jawad (1994), "SERAPHIN
project: the industrial approach", Rapport interne EDF  HN-52/94/045.

[Malrieu 1994]
Malrieu Denise (1994), "Extraction d'énoncés importants dans les textes
de recherche empirique", Rapport interne du CAMS n°95/1 (recueil des
communications du CAMS effectuées aux Rencontres Cognisciences Est, le
25 nov. 1994 à Nancy).

[Masson  1993]
Masson Nicolas (1993), Etude et réalisation d'un module de résumé
automatique de textes s'intégrant dans un système général de
compréhension des langues, Rapport de DEA, Université d'Orsay.

[Masson  1995]
Masson Nicolas (1995), "An automatic method for document structuring",
ACM-SIGIR 95 (Seattle).

[Reimer & Hahn 1987]
Reimer Ulrich et Hahn Udo, "Text condensation as knowledge base
abstraction",  4th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications,
San Diego (Californie).

[Renouf 1995]
Renouf Antoinette et Collier Alex (1995), "A system of automatic textual
abridgement", IA'95-Génie Linguistique 95 (Montpellier).

[Riloff 1993]
Riloff Ellen (1993), "A corpus-based approach to domain-specific text
summarization: a proposal", in Summarizing text for intelligent
communication, Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer, Jerry Hobbs, Karen Sparck
Jones (ed.), Rapport du séminaire de Dagstuhl.

[Sébillot 1995]
Sébillot Pascale (1995), "From automatic extraction to automatic
abstract", in Actes de CLIN-95, Anvers (Belgique).

________________________________________________________________
2/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:59:24 +0200
From: Bernard Normier <Bernard.Normier at lexiquest.fr>
Message-ID: <D46E9A0E0D3FD111BC4200609750221C7ECFD8 at anona>


Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization
Workshop ACL 11 July 1997

________________________________________________________________
3/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:13:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr>
Message-Id: <v0310280ab42cf02265a3@[129.88.32.65]>


Dans un premier temps, consulter les références des articles sur le sujet
dans TALN-99, -98, -97 et dans LTT-97 (Tunis).
CB

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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 15 14:36:18 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:36:18 +0100
Subject: Q: Bibliographie sur la correction grammaticale
Message-ID: <FRI.15.OCT.1999.153618.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:17:41 +0200
From: "Adnane ZRIBI" <adn at gnet.tn>
Message-Id: <01bf16ee$498f0340$230101c1 at adn.GNet.tn>


Question:
 Recherche référence bibliographique sur le thème "correction automatique
des erreurs grammaticales "
pour les langues suivantes : français, anglais et arabe
 Merci d'avance


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct 18 11:59:01 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:59:01 +0200
Subject: Appel: ANLP-NAACL
Message-ID: <MON.18.OCT.1999.135901.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: maybury at mitre.org (Dr. Mark T. Maybury)

[Appologies if you receive this message multiple times]


                             ***  NEW WEB SITE  ****

                        http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000

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

                                 CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished
contributions to computational linguistics are solicited. (See the
separate Call for Student Papers to be announced soon for requirements
for submissions to the student sessions.) Submissions are due by 17
November 1999. See submission details at
http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for Tutorial Proposal Submissions     October 28, 1999
Deadline for Workshop Submissions              November 1, 1999
Deadline for Paper Submissions                 November 17, 1999


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct 18 11:59:09 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:59:09 +0200
Subject: Appel: IWPT 2000
Message-ID: <MON.18.OCT.1999.135909.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


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

              F i n a l   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.


    !~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!
    !  IWPT 2000 will feature the following invited speakers:  !
    !                                                          !
    !               ERIC BRILL (Microsoft Research)            !
    !    MARTIN KAY (Stanford University and Xerox Research)   !
    !             GIORGIO SATTA (University of Padua)          !
    !                                                          !
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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 chair 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 the URL:
 http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/carroll/iwpt2000-submit.html
or on the SIGPARSE home page:
 http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/


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
AIIA, 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 lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct 18 11:59:05 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:59:05 +0200
Subject: Appel:  LFG-2000
Message-ID: <MON.18.OCT.1999.135905.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Rachel Nordlinger <r.nordlinger at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>


      FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
    LFG2000

  2000 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL
     GRAMMAR CONFERENCE


                       19 July - 20 July 2000

        The University of California at Berkeley
        as part of the BERKELEY FORMAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE 2000
            URL: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000/

     Submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2000
         Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee
         (see addresses below)


The 5th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
held as a part of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000 at the
University of California, Berkeley from July 19-23 2000.  The Berkeley
event will consist of LFG2000 (July 19-20), HPSG2000 (July 22-23) and
a common day of workshops between them (July 21), entitled Lexical and
Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based Grammar.  This event
will offer a rare opportunity for interaction among researchers of the
two frameworks.

LFG2000 welcomes work both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and typological, formal, and computational
work within the 'spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language
employing a parallel, constraint-based framework.  The conference aims
to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested
in nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the
interaction of constraints from multiple levels, including category
information, grammatical relations, and semantic information.  Further
information about the syntactic theory LFG can be obtained from:

        http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/



SUBMISSIONS

The conference will primarily involve 30-minute talks, and possibly a
workshop.  Talks will focus on results from completed as well as
ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods,
ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or
computational.  Presentations should describe original, unpublished
work.

Abstracts and papers must be received by February 15, 1999, and should
be submitted to the program committee chairs at the address given
below. For further information or offers of organisational help,
contact the local organisers at the address below.



WORKSHOPS

Workshops are a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that
can be expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the
broader audience. Participants to workshops are usually
invited. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among
participants and participants should refer to each others approaches.

Past LFG Conferences have included two or three workshops.  Since
LFG2000 is shorter than usual, and there is a common day of workshops
between LFG2000 and HPSG2000 on July 21, we may not have any workshops
specific to LFG2000.  However, at this point in time, we welcome
suggestions for workshops from potential organisers or people with
certain interests.  Suggestions for workshops specific to LFG2000
should be sent to the program committee:
r.nordlinger at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au and manning at csli.stanford.edu.
Suggestions for workshops for the common day on Lexical and
Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based Grammar should be sent
to the local organizers at bfg2000 at linguistics.berkeley.edu.


TIMETABLE

 Deadline for receipt of submissions:              15 February 1999

 Acceptances sent out:                                     31 March 1999

 Conference:                                                   19 July - 20
July 1999



SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

People may submit either abstracts or full length papers for
refereeing. The advantages of full paper submission are that it allows
better assessment of your work and that (at least for some people)
accepted refereed full papers count as a higher status publication.

Full length papers. Papers should be no more than 15 pages, including
figures and references, in 11 or 12pt type, on A4/US Letter paper. The
printed text area must not exceed 165x230mm (6.5x9 inches), and should
be centred horizontally and vertically on the page.  Omit name and
affiliation, and obvious self reference from the version for
review. Papers should include a roughly 100-200 word abstract at the
beginning.

Abstracts. Abstracts should be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and
include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self
reference. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related
structures, and references.

Papers/abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail (or by
both means as a safety measure). Email submission is preferred.

Regular Mail
Include:
- Five copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with the paper title, name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, and
whether the author(s) are students.

Email.

Include the paper title, name(s) of the author(s), address, phone/fax
number, email address, and whether the author(s) are students in the
body of your email message.  Include or preferably attach your paper
as either a plain ASCII text, PDF, HTML, or postscript file.
Postscript files require special care to avoid problems: make sure the
system is set to include all fonts or at least all but the standard
13; if using a recent version of Word, make sure you click the printer
Properties button and then the Postscript tab, and there choose
Optimize for Portability; on all platforms make sure the system is not
asking for a particular paper size or other device-specific
configuration.  It is your responsibility to send us a file that us
and our reviewers can print.  You can often test this by trying to
look at the file in a previewer.

All papers/abstracts will be reviewed by at least two people.
Papers will appear in the proceedings which will be published online
by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed
volume published by CSLI Publications.

ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Send paper/abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee Chairs:
                 Chris Manning <manning at csli.stanford.edu>
                 Rachel Nordlinger <r.nordlinger at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>

Mail:
                               LFG2000
                               c/- Chris Manning
                               Linguistics Department
                               Stanford University
                               Stanford, CA 94305-2150
                               USA


Contact the local conference organisers at: bfg2000 at linguistics.berkeley.edu


ALL OTHER INFORMATION including accommodation and registration details
will be included in a subsequent call for papers.  Following recent LFG
tradition, it is our hope that there will be an outdoorsy social event
prior to the beginning of LFG2000 --- watch this space for further
information.


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

Dr. Rachel Nordlinger
Dept. of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
AUSTRALIA
ph. +61-(0)3-9344-4215, fax. +61-(0)3-9344-8990


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct 18 11:59:15 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:59:15 +0200
Subject: Soft: CORDIAL 6 Universites
Message-ID: <MON.18.OCT.1999.135915.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Dominique LAURENT" <dlaurent at synapse-fr.com>


CORDIAL 6 Universités

SYNAPSE Développement a le plaisir d'annoncer la sortie de CORDIAL6
Universités. Cette nouvelle version offre une plate-forme de travail très
complète pour le traitement du langage naturel :
· Étiqueteur morpho-syntaxique avec lemmatiseur, fournissant le lemme, le
type grammatical, le nombre d'ambiguïtés, le numéro de proposition, le
groupe grammatical d'appartenance, la fonction grammaticale du groupe, etc.
L'ensemble des paramètres proposés peuvent être sauvegardés ou non, le
codage est compatible avec celui défini lors du projet GRACE.
· Extraction de phrases de corpus.
· Analyse logique visualisable avec désambiguïsation sémantique.
· Correction orthographique et syntaxique.
· Occurrences orthographiques et grammaticales.
· Recherche de mots-clés, de syntagmes-clés, de phrases-clés, de
concepts-clés.
· Statistiques extrêmement complètes (plus de 60 variables).
· Comparaison avec 2000 ouvrages (dont les 2/3 ont parus ces 50 dernières
années), etc.

 En étiquetage grammatical, les performances mesurées sur deux fichiers
témoins du corpus Multext sont les suivantes :
JOC051 99,58% correctement étiquetés (résolution des ambiguïtés
grammaticales)
JOC081 99,61% correctement étiquetés (résolution des ambiguïtés
grammaticales)
 Les problèmes résiduels concernent certains mots à la fois noms et
adjectifs et certains mots outils ("que", "comme"...).
 D'une façon générale, les performances ont été très nettement améliorées
dans cette version 6 de Cordial, du fait de l'introduction de près d'un
million d'informations sémantiques et de la désambiguïsation sémantique
effectuée (avec un taux de réussite d'environ 80% à ce jour).

Plate-formes acceptées : Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4. Occupation
disque : 35 Mo. Mémoire nécessaire : 16 Mo minimum. Lecteur de CD
obligatoire.

Tarifs : Nous proposons Cordial 6 Universités au prix de 690F TTTC (572,14F
HT). A partir de 3 postes, le tarif par poste est de 345 F TTC (286,07F HT)


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 18 13:12:09 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 14:12:09 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <MON.18.OCT.1999.141209.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:16:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev at cs.columbia.edu>
Message-Id: <199910151516.LAA05187 at diamond.cs.columbia.edu>
X-url: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/summarization/


Vous pouvez en trouver une a:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/summarization/


Dragomir

--
Dragomir R. Radev                     http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev
Natural Language Processing Group     Columbia University CS Department
Home: 212-749-9770                   Office: 914-784-7899, 212-939-7121


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 22 17:11:50 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 18:11:50 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur la correction grammaticale
Message-ID: <FRI.22.OCT.1999.181150.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:52:08 +0200
From: Thierry Poibeau <Thierry.Poibeau at lcr.thomson-csf.com>
Message-ID: <380B5038.12132803 at lcr.thomson-csf.com>


Il y a des choses chez Microsoft (he oui), sur la page du groupe qui
s'intéresse au TALN (http://research.microsoft.com). Pour la correction
non automatique des erreurs grammaticales et autres, il reste
l'irremplacable Grevisse :) !

Thierry (documentaliste amateur)


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 22 17:12:57 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 18:12:57 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <FRI.22.OCT.1999.181257.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:52:08 +0200
From: Thierry Poibeau <Thierry.Poibeau at lcr.thomson-csf.com>
Message-ID: <380B5038.12132803 at lcr.thomson-csf.com>


Une des biblios les plus complètes sur le sujet se trouve dans le
support du Tutoriel sur le résumé de textes qui a été donné à IJCAI'99
par Inderjeet Mani et Udo Hahn (une quinzaine de page de biblio à jour).

Inderjeet est aussi l'éditeur d'un livre sur la question, chez MIT
Press.


Thierry (documentaliste amateur)


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 25 16:31:40 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 17:31:40 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <MON.25.OCT.1999.173140.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 07:41:56 +0100
From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <4.1.19991024073512.00963220 at pop-plovdiv.eunet.bg>


Could I share with the members of the LN list the following information.
Inderjeet Mani is writing a book on text summarisation. Part of the
book will be a substantial survey of the current state of art of text
summarisation and will feature an extensive list of references.

The book will appear within John Benjamin's NLP series and is expected
to come out by the end of 2000.

Watch out for it!

Ruslan


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Tue Oct 26 14:36:18 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:36:18 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.153618.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:47:07 -0200
From: "Tony Berber Sardinha" <tony4 at uol.com.br>
Message-ID: <004201bf1f3a$eaae02e0$a399d3c8 at computer>
X-url: http://sites.uol.com.br/tony4/homepage.html


Hi Ruslan and list members

The book has already come out, and I´ve just gotten my copy by
mail!

Details:

Mani, Iderjeet and Maybury, Mark T (1999) Advances in automatic
text summarization. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-13359-8

cheers
tony.
-------------------------------------
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 lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 26 13:48:57 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:48:57 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 8 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.154857.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Valerie Maes" <Valerie.Maes at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Computers & Ling-Language Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie
            Speech Products

2/ From:  Robert Dale <rdale at ics.mq.edu.au>
   Subject:  NLP-Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney,
        Australia

3/ From:  Pam Stopek <pstopek at doubleclick.net>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Content Classification Specialist/ New York  USA

4/ From:  "Lauren Marcus" <lmarcus at naturalquestion.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: Washington DC

5/ From:  "Valerie Maes" <Valerie.Maes at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Researchers: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products

6/ From:  "Stephen Kelly" <skelly at tmpw.co.uk>
   Subject:  Unilever Research

7/ From:  Geoffrey Sampson <geoffs at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
   Subject:  Comp Ling/Grammar-annotation: half-time researcher/England

8/ From:  y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Yorick Wilks)
   Subject:  NLP - Four research positions, University of Sheffield

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Valerie Maes" <Valerie.Maes at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Computers & Ling-Language Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie
            Speech Products


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 is
located in Ieper, Belgium.

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

LANGUAGE SPECIALIST DANISH & LANGUAGE SPECIALIST SWEDISH

for the Corporate R&D Division.

Duties:

These  persons will work on the development of Danish / Swedish speech
synthesis
systems.  They will work in a language development group and report to the
group
or project manager.

Required skills:

-    university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent
-    (near) native in the subject language
-    knowledge of phonetics
-    interest in other languages and their linguistic aspects
-    at least a basic experience with and interest in computers
-    good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following
areas
are considered an asset:
     - (near) native English
     - speech processing, esp. text-to-speech synthesis
     - phonetics
     - computer linguistics
     - natural language processing (NLP)
     - spoken dialog systems
     - computer technology
     - standard software packages
     - 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 application
and
 detailed resume to:

Job-Announce at lhs.be
Attn. Mrs. Valerie Maes
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Flanders Language Valley, 50
B-8900 Ieper (BELGIUM)

To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage
http://www.lhs.com


____________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  Robert Dale <rdale at ics.mq.edu.au>
   Subject:  NLP-Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney,
        Australia

[This job posting can also be found at
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/position/99-ad.htm, which is where you'll find
the summary app form mentioned below.  Enquiries can be directed as
outlined below, or you can send informal queries to me at
Robert.Dale at mq.edu.au]
- -----

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
Division of Information and Communication Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Natural Language Processing)
Full-time (continuing) Ref. 9956

The Department of Computing seeks an outstanding applicants for a position
at the Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level.

Applicants should have a PhD in Computing or a related field, an
established research record or evidence of outstanding research potential,
and the interest and ability to teach mainstream undergraduate computing.
For appointment at the Senior Lecturer level applicants must have
significant university teaching experience and an international research
reputation.

For the continuing positions we seek applicants who will strengthen our
established research profile in Natural Language Processing. Outstanding
applicants from other areas will also be considered and are encouraged to
apply.

The fixed-term positions are open to applicants from any research area in
modern computing. Applicants from industry are also encouraged to apply.

Enquiries about the position should be directed to Assoc Professor Michael
Johnson, Head of Department of Computing, on (02) 9850 9514 or e-mail
mike at ics.mq.edu.au

The positions are available on a full-time basis from February 2000, and
will be subject to the satisfactory completion of a probationary period.

Salary range:
Level B (Lecturer) $49,495 to $58,776 per annum, plus superannuation.
Level C (Senior Lecturer) $60,631 to $69,912 per annum plus superannuation.

Applications including Academic Staff Summary Application Form, together
with a full curriculum vitae and quoting the reference number, visa status,
and the names and addresses of three referees (including e-mail address)
should be forwarded to the Recruitment Manager, Personnel Office, Macquarie
University, NSW 2109 by 12 November 1999. Applications will not be
acknowledged unless specifically requested.


____________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Pam Stopek <pstopek at doubleclick.net>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Content Classification Specialist/ New York  USA


Rank of Job: ---
Areas Required: Content Classification Specialist
Other Desired Areas: ---
University or Organization: DoubleClick,Inc
Department: DATA
State or Province: New York
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: ---
Contact: Pam Stopek pstopek at doubleclick.net

Address for Applications:
please email to pstopek at doubleclick.net
New York
NY 10016
USA

DOUBLECLICK, INC (NYC)  http://www.doubleclick.net
Content Classification Specialist

Job Description:
Join the development team working on cutting edge Internet products.
Work with Engineers and Media Programmers to define and classify
Internet subject matter and marketing segments.  Group and classify
marketing and web advertising data in order to identify relevant
marketing segments.  Analyze clickstream behavior to determine its
relevance as it relates to identified market segments.

Qualifications:
Experience in market research and/or computational linguistics with a
concentration of media and marketing segmentation.  Individuals with
literary or other publications editing, or in library cataloging
settings will be considered if they have additional experience in data
and statistical analysis at some level.  A successful candidate must
have the ability to work independently and work well with people.
Although other jobs ask for "self-starters" and "independent thinkers"
this one truly requires these skills.

Please email resume to pstopek at doubleclick.net
____________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  "Lauren Marcus" <lmarcus at naturalquestion.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: Washington DC


As a dynamic start-up developing natural language-based software, nQuest
seeks an experienced Linguist/Lexicographer to join a growing team of
individuals expanding the company's on-line lexicon.  Qualified candidates
must have experience in computational linguistics or lexicography, as well
as with on-line lexical resources.  A strong background in syntax and
semantics is a must.

Experience in both project and people management is also essential, as the
position requires the ability to help structure a rapidly developing
database.  Strong organizational and administrative skills play key roles,
along with dedication to and interest in learning new information and
skills, and willingness to consider innovative approaches.

nQuest is located in Washington, DC and offers a casual, yet challenging
environment for motivated candidates.  Competitive salary, full benefits and
generous stock options granted.  Visit our Web site at
www.naturalquestion.com.  Please send cover letter and resume to
jobs at naturalquestion.com.

____________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  "Valerie Maes" <Valerie.Maes at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Researchers: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products


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.

Within the context of its partnership with INTEL, L&H is looking for:

RESEARCHERS

for the Technology & Solutions Division

Duties:

These people will be integrated into an existing R&D team composed of L&H
experts in two fields:

- UI, which covers Natural Language Dialogues, NLP, NLU, ...(This is
essentially linguistic techniques, not involving speech in a first
stage)

- Back-End, which is essentially Content Management technologies
(concept nets, domain structures, indexing, search engines, ...)  They
will interact with the Engineering Team and with the clients (in a
first phase) in order to analyze the requirements for improved
(user-friendly) UI and structured back-end and prepare generic modules
to be later adapted by the Engineering Team to specific clients.

These R&D people will report to the CTO or to the R&D manager.

Required skills:

- University degree in computational linguistics, linguistics or
  computer science
- 5 years' minimum experience in R&D in NLP, NLU or Dialogue
  technologies (proven track records)
- Interest in building generic modules for either the UI or the
  Back-End
- Two of the people shall be native or near French fluency in writing,
  reading and speaking
- Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
- Fluent in English, with good oral and written communication skills
- Willing to travel for short periods

Desired skills:

- Willingness to be part of the creation of the seeds of next
  generation Man-Machine Interface Modules
- Ability and desire to work in a start-up company atmosphere
- Team spirit
- Good social and communicative skills
- The candidate works rigorously, and within schedules

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

Job-Announce at lhs.be
Attn. Mrs. Valerie Maes
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Flanders Language Valley, 50
B-8900 Ieper (BELGIUM)

To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage
http://www.lhs.com

____________________________________________________________________________

6/ From:  "Stephen Kelly" <skelly at tmpw.co.uk>
   Subject:  Unilever Research

Adaptive Computation Scientists

Wirral, NW England

At Unilever it is our ability to recognise and cater for the diverse yet
 subtle needs of a global marketplace, that differentiates us from the
 competition. Totally committed to scientific exploration and discovery, we
 invest £550 million in pioneering new research to ensure that our products
 remain the preferred choice, 150 million times a day.

Adaptive Computation techniques play a key role in the development of a wide
 spectrum of our product and manufacturing applications for leading foods,
 home and personal care products including Impulse, Organics, Persil, Flora
 and Wall's Ice Cream. This is why we have recently established a Centre of
 Excellence in Port Sunlight that is committed to this area and to
developing
 and maintaining links with leading academics.

Here you will discover exciting opportunities for talented individuals who
 will relish the challenge of developing leading-edge solutions to complex
 industrial problems. A combination of world-class research and an
 understanding of how technology may be applied in practice will enable you
 to extend both your technological capabilities and application areas.

Flexible, self motivated and a strong team player with a broad scientific
 interest, you will need a high level of numeracy and the ability to work to
 tight deadlines. Your good first Degree encompassing a strong mathematical
 component should be supported by a PhD, MSc or industrial experience.

We are looking for one or two specialists in one or two of the following
areas:

*) Evolutionary systems; Multi-criteria optimisation; Adaptive Agents;
 Complex Adaptive Systems
*) Statistical Text Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Natural Language
 Engineering

As a world-leading organisation we can offer an attractive salary and
 benefits package and excellent career opportunities.

For informal enquiries contact: Shail.Patel at unilever.com

Make a noticeable difference to your career by writing with full a CV
quoting
 ref 1253/EL to Vanessa Gilroy, TMP Response Management, 32 Aybrook Street,
 London W1M 3JL, England. Or e-mail your details to: response at tmpw.co.uk

Closing date 12th November 1999.

For more information about Unilever Research and Unilever, visit our
 Internet Web Site at http://research.unilever.com
____________________________________________________________________________

7/ From:  Geoffrey Sampson <geoffs at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
   Subject:  Comp Ling/Grammar-annotation: half-time researcher/England


University of Sussex

School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences

There will be a vacancy for a half-time researcher to work
from January 2000 on Prof. G.R. Sampson's grammar-annotation
project, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council.
The main duties of the post will be to apply a detailed grammar-annotation
scheme, defined in Prof. Sampson's book <italics>English for the
Computer<end
italics> (O.U.P., 1995), to samples of written English, and to use
various software systems to process the annotations.

Qualifications sought are interest in fine details of the English language,
familiarity with traditional grammatical terminology, some computing
experience (preferably Unix-based), and willingness to work in
a painstaking style.  Since the new phase of research
has special relevance to young people's development of writing skills,
ability to cultivate contacts with the English-teaching profession at
secondary-school level would also be an advantage.  Working hours
flexible by negotiation.

The appointment will be on the RA1A scale, with starting salary pro rata
to a full-time rate of GBP 18,185 per annum, and will last for up to
three years.

To discuss this vacancy informally, e-mail Prof. Sampson at
geoffs at cogs.susx.ac.uk.  Further information
is available on Prof. Sampson's website at http://www.grs.u-net.com/
(see particularly the "LUCY" page).

Applications, including c.v. and names of two references, should be
sent by 24 November 1999 to Prof. G.R. Sampson,
School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences,
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, England.

____________________________________________________________________________

8/ From:  y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Yorick Wilks)
   Subject:  NLP - Four research positions, University of Sheffield


Four researchers are required for a period of 2 years (in the first
instance) to work in the Natural Language Processing Group of the
Department of Computer Science, at the University of Sheffield.

Two positions involve working on Information Extraction (IE) and on
the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE), which is a
domain-specific software architecture for research and development in
Human Language Technologies. The area of research in this project
(MUSE) will be the adaptivity of IE systems to new genres and
domains. The third post involves computational linguistics or
statistical expertise to work on an EPSRC-funded project (METER) on
the reuse of texts and its detection.  The fourth post involves
adapting IE work within a new EPSRC-funded project on the contents of
crime scenes (jointly with the University of Surrey).  The successful
candidates will preferably be competent programmers, probably with a
sound knowledge of Natural Language Processing theory and practice, or
statistical methods. Knowledge of some of the following will also be
an advantage:

*statistical language processing;
*Information Extraction research;
*user interface programming in Java;
*database programming, especially using JDBC (or ODBC);
*foreign languages, and the Unicode standard;
*corpus processing.

The NLP research group's work can be viewed at
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/
The appointments will be made on the RA1A or RA1B scales.

Further details of how to apply from (quoting reference R1842):
The Personnel Department,
Firth Court,
Western Bank,
Sheffield
S10 2TN.
Phone: +44 (0)114 222 1631
Informal enquiries may be made to Yorick Wilks (yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk)


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 26 13:49:10 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:49:10 +0200
Subject: Appel: TAG+5
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.154910.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Lionel Clement <lionel.clement at linguist.jussieu.fr>


*********************************************************************
                      ____  __   __    _    ___
                     (_  _)(  ) / _) _( )_ | __)
                       ||  /__\( (/\(_   _)|__ \
                      (__)(_)(_)\__/  (_)  (___/

                                TAG+5
                        International Workshop
          on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms
                          May 25 - 27, 2000
                        Jussieu, Paris, France

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


                        FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


(version française infra)

   The fifth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related
frameworks (hence the + after TAG) will be held at the University of
Paris 7, from May 25 to May 27 2000, sponsored by ATALA (Association
pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues).

   Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992),
Univ. Paris 7 (1994) and UPenn (1998).

   Original submissions on all aspects of TAGs (linguistic,
mathematical, computational, and applicational) are invited, as well
as those relating TAGs to other frameworks, lexicalized (dependency
grammars, categorial grammars...), tree-based (DTG, TFG, GB...) or
feature-based (LFG, HPSG...).

   As in the past, there will be some invited talks on other grammar
formalisms which have interesting relationships to TAGs.


ABSTRACTS:

   You can submit papers for three kinds of presentations: long talks
(25 minutes + 5 min for discussion), short talks (10 min + 5) and/or
tool demonstrations.

   Please note that an author (or a given set of co-authors) should
not submit more than one paper.

   Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the
author's name, nor any self-reference.
   Abstracts should be no longer than 4 pages. 2 hardcopies should be
sent by surface mail to:

   TAG+5
   UFRL, Université Paris 7
   TALaNa, case 7003
   2, place Jussieu
   F-75251 Paris cedex 05

   A separate identification page (with the following information :
title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, email
address, fax and telephone number) should also be included. Please
also indicate if you submitted your abstract to other conferences.
   Also a postcript file should be sent to tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr.
Please indicate "tag+5 submission" in the subject field.

Important : all postcript files MUST be in an A4 format
   Proceedings including extended versions of accepted abstracts will
be available at the workshop.

Languages of the workshop: English and French

   If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend,
we would appreciate if you could send a message. If you would like
to present a demo, please let us know as soon as possible, including
information about required hardware and software.

DATES:

   Deadline for submissions:                    January 22
   Notification of acceptance:                  March 3
   Deadline for camera-ready extended abstract: April 15
   Workshop Dates:                              May 25 to May 27


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

      PREMIER APPEL À COMMUNICATION

   La cinquième conférence sur les grammaires d'arbres adjoints (TAG) et
autres formalismes proches (d'où le +) aura lieu à l'Université Paris
7 du 25 au 27 mai 2000 sous l'égide de l'ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues).

   Les conférences précédentes se sont tenus à Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn
(1992), Univ. Paris 7 (1994) et UPenn (1998).

   Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes ayant
trait aux grammaires d'arbres adjoints (linguistique, mathématique,
informatique et applications) aussi bien que sur leur relations avec
d'autres théories linguistiques (grammaires de dépendance, grammaires
catégorielles, DTG, TFG, GB, LFG, HPSG, etc.).

   Comme par le passé, les conférenciers invités présenteront des
travaux sur d'autres formalismes dont la relation avec TAG semble
intéressante.


MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION

   Trois types de communications seront proposés : longues (25min. +
5min.de questions), courtes (10min. + 5min.de questions) et
démonstrations sur machine.

   Notez que chaque auteur et groupe d'auteurs ne doivent soumettre
qu'un seul résumé.

   Les résumés anonymes de 4 pages au maximum seront envoyés en deux
exemplaires par la poste avant le 22 janvier 2000 à l'adresse suivante :

   TAG+5
   UFRL, Université Paris 7
   TALaNa, case 7003
   2, place Jussieu
   F-75251 Paris cedex 05

   Une page d'identification séparée (contenant le titre de la
communication, le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale et
électronique, le numéro de téléphone et de fax de l'auteur) devra être
jointe. Merci de préciser si le résumé a été soumis à une autre
conférence.

   Le résumé doit également être envoyé par courrier électronique au
format postscript à l'adresse suivante : tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr avec
"tag+5 submission" comme objet.
Important : Tous les fichiers postscript doivent être au
format A4.

   Les actes de la conférence contiendront es versions complètes des
résumés acceptés.

Les langues de la conférence sont l'anglais et le français.

  Les participants qui ne soumettent pas de papier sont également
invités à nous contacter avant la conférence. Pour les démonstrations
sur machine, nous devrons connaître au plus tôt les besoins de chacun
en logiciel et matériel.

CALENDRIER

   Date limite de soumission : 22 janvier 2000
   Notification aux auteurs :  3 mars 2000
   Version finale :            15 avril 2000
   Conférence :                25-27 mai 2000


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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
COMITÉ DE PROGRAMME

   Anne Abeille (University Paris 7 and IUF)
   Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Research, Bell Labs)
   Tilman Becker (DFKI, Saarbrücken)
   Tonia Bleam (Upenn, Philadelphia)
   Pierre Boullier (Inria, Rocquencourt)
   Marie-Hélène Candito (Paris 7 and LexiQuest)
   John Carroll (Univ. Sussex)
   Eric de la Clergerie (Inria, Rocquencourt)
   Laurence Danlos (Paris 7 and Loria, Nancy)
   Christy Doran (ITRI, Brighton)
   Christophe Fouquere (Univ. Paris-Nord, Villetaneuse)
   Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
   Ariane Halber (ENST Paris - Nuance)
   Beth Ann Hockey (SRI Cambridge)
   Aravind Joshi (UPenn, Philadelphia)
   Sylvain Kahane (Paris 7 and Paris 10))
   Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbrücken)
   Gertjan Van Noord (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
   Martha Palmer (UPenn, Philadelphia)
   Owen Rambow (AT&T Research)
   Christian Rétoré (Inria, Rennes)
   James Rogers (Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando)
   Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padova)
   Mark Steedman (Univ. of Edinbourg)
   K. Vijayashanker (Univ. of Delaware)
   Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)
   David Weir (Univ. of Sussex, Brighton)

CONTACT ADDRESS
ADRESSE

   TAG+5
   UFRL, Université Paris 7
   TALaNa, case 7003
   2, place Jussieu
   F-75251 Paris cedex 05

   phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70
   fax:   +33 1 44 27 79 19
   email: Alexandra.Kinyon at linguist.jussieu.fr
   web:   http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/~alex/TAGPLUS/

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
COMITÉ LOCAL D'ORGANISATION

   Anne Abeille (Paris 7)
   Marie-Hélène Candito (Paris 7 and Lexiquest)
   Lionel Clement (Paris 7)
   Kim Gerdes (Paris 7)
   Alexandra Kinyon (Paris 7 and U. Penn)
   Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbrücken)


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 26 13:49:24 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:49:24 +0200
Subject: Appel: Morphologie constructionnelle et TAL (Journee ATALA)
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.154924.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Nabil Hathout <Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr>



[English version below]
=====================================================================

     Journée de l'ATALA

   Morphologie constructionnelle et TAL

         Paris, Pitié-Salpétrière
        25 mars 2000


APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
----------------------

La morphologie flexionnelle est généralement bien prise en compte par
les systèmes de TAL grâce aux conjugateurs, aux lemmatiseurs...  Ce
n'est, en revanche, pas le cas de la morphologie constructionnelle
(i.e. dérivationnelle).  Cette journée doit permettre de faire le
point sur la place de la morphologie constructionnelle dans les
systèmes de TAL, mais aussi de présenter les ressources, les
techniques et les outils de morphologie constructionnelle utilisés en
TAL ou qui lui sont destinés.  Les sous-thèmes envisagés pour
cette journée incluent (liste non exhaustive) :

- la construction de bases de données morphologiques ;
- le contenu des bases de données morphologiques ;
- l'extraction de connaissances morphologiques de corpus (textes,
  dictionnaires, thésaurus...) ;
- l'utilisation des connaissances morphologiques dans les systèmes de
  TAL ;
- la comparaison des gains en fonction des techniques utilisées
  (ex. bases de données vs extraction à partir de corpus) ;
- la place des connaissances linguistiques dans les analyseurs
  morphologiques ;
- le traitement des allomorphies.


COMMUNICATIONS
--------------

Les propositions de communication seront selectionnées sur la base
d'un résumé de 1 page à transmettre par courrier électronique
(préféré) ou postale à l'adresse suivante :

mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr

Nabil Hathout
CNRS - ERSS & INaLF
Université Toulouse II Le Mirail
Maison de la Recherche
5, allées Antonio Machado
F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1


CALENDRIER
----------

Date limite de réception des résumés : 7 février 2000
Notifications aux auteurs : 28 février 2000


ORGANISATEURS
-------------

Georgette Dal
UMR 8528 « SILEX », CNRS & Université de Lille 3
B.P. 149
F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex
mailto:dal at univ-lille3.fr

Nabil Hathout
CNRS - ERSS & INaLF
Université Toulouse II Le Mirail
Maison de la Recherche
5, allées Antonio Machado
F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1
mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr

Fiammetta Namer
Landisco - Université Nancy 2
B.P. 3397
54015 Nancy cedex
mailto:Fiammetta.Namer at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr

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

       ATALA Workshop

    Constructional Morphology and NLP

         Paris, Pitié-Salpétrière
        25 mars 2000


CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
----------------------

Flexional morphology is generally correctly treated in NLP systems
which may embed conjugater, lemmatizers, etc.  In contrast, the
treatment of constructional (ie. derivational) morphology in these
systems is far less common.  This workshop is concerned with the place
of constructional morphology in NLP : it aims at presenting
constructional morphology resources, techniques and tools in use or
designed for NLP.  We expect submissions covering (but not limited to)
the following topics:

* construction of morphological databases
* content of morphological databases
* morphological knowledge extraction from corpora (texts, MRD,
  thesauri...)
* use of morphological knowledge in NLP systems
* comparison of the improvements given by different techniques
  (eg. databases vs. extraction for the corpus)
* place of linguistic knowledge in the morphological analyzers
* treatment of allomorphy


COMMUNICATIONS
--------------

The proposals for a communication will be selected on the basis of a 1 page
abstract. Abstracts will be sent by e-mail (preferably) or surface mail at:

mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr

Nabil Hathout
CNRS - ERSS & INaLF
Université Toulouse II Le Mirail
Maison de la Recherche
5, allées Antonio Machado
F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1


DATES
-----

Deadline: February 7th, 2000
Notifications:  February 28th, 2000

CHAIR
-----

Georgette Dal
UMR 8528 « SILEX », CNRS & Université de Lille 3
B.P. 149
F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex
mailto:dal at univ-lille3.fr

Nabil Hathout
CNRS - ERSS & INaLF
Université Toulouse II Le Mirail
Maison de la Recherche
5, allées Antonio Machado
F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1
mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr

Fiammetta Namer
Landisco - Université Nancy 2
3, Place Godefroy de Bouillon
B.P. 3397
54015 Nancy cedex
mailto:Fiammetta.Namer at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 26 13:49:28 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:49:28 +0200
Subject: Appel: Journee I3 + ATALA, Outils pour le TAL
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.154928.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at biomath.jussieu.fr>


  Journée du GdR I3, sous-thème Langue,
      organisée en association avec
       l'Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues

   OUTILS POUR LE TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES
   Appel à communications

   lundi 29 novembre 1999
     Paris, C.H.U. Pitié-Salpêtrière

       http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/appel-outils.html

       Journée organisée par Gérard Sabah et Pierre Zweigenbaum


THÈMES
======

De nombreux outils pour le traitement automatique des langues sont
mis au point dans les équipes universitaires et dans les entreprises. Un
fait notable ces dernières années est que de plus en plus d'outils sont
effectivement utilisables -- et pour certains d'entre eux utilisés --
par d'autres que leurs concepteurs : étiqueteurs, systèmes
d'exploration de corpus, extracteurs de termes parmi d'autres
exemples sont des logiciels que l'on peut se procurer si l'on sait où
s'adresser.

Le GdR Information - Interaction - Intelligence (I3, sous-thème
Langue), en association avec l'ATALA, organise une journée sur ce
thème le lundi 29 novembre 1999. L'objectif de cette journée est de
présenter un panorama de ces outils pour le TAL : quels outils sont
effectivement disponibles, quelles sont leurs caractéristiques, dans
quelles conditions peut-on les utiliser. Elle s'adresse d'une part aux
utilisateurs potentiels de ces outils : chercheurs ou ingénieurs en TAL,
linguistes, informaticiens d'autres disciplines, qui n'ont pas
nécessairement connaissance de l'éventail des outils existants et de la
façon de les obtenir. Elle s'adresse d'autre part aux concepteurs
d'outils qui désirent les voir utilisés par le plus grand nombre et
appliqués à des données variées.

L'accent sera mis sur les logiciels disponibles et utilisables. Il s'agit,
pour caricaturer, de ceux qui ont dépassé le stade du prototype de
laboratoire (construction exploratoire qui ne fonctionne que sur un
seul jeu de données, sur la machine de l'auteur, et que seul l'auteur
peut faire tourner).

Sont exclus également du champ de cet appel les ressources
linguistiques, comme les corpus, lexiques et grammaires, cette journée
se concentrant sur les logiciels.

En revanche, tous les champs du TAL sont concernés, des étiqueteurs
aux analyseurs en passant par la gestion de lexique et le traitement de
corpus.

APPEL À PRÉSENTATIONS
=====================

Nous souhaitons accueillir des communications courtes (15 minutes
questions comprises), en français ou en anglais, présentant de tels
outils. En particulier, seront abordés les points suivants :

  -  Caractéristiques de l'outil
  -  Disponibilité effective
  -  Conditions d'utilisation

Lors de la journée du 29 novembre, un vidéoprojecteur sera à la
disposition des orateurs. Les présentations pourront donc comporter
une brève séquence de démonstration.

Des communications affichées (posters) sont également attendues, et
seront présentées lors d'une session spécifique.

CONSTITUTION D'UN RÉPERTOIRE EN LIGNE DES OUTILS
================================================

À l'occasion de cette journée, l'ATALA lance la constitution sur son
site Web d'un répertoire en ligne d'outils pour le TAL.

  -  Une fiche sera publiée dans ce répertoire pour chaque outil
     faisant l'objet d'une proposition de présentation à la journée.

  -  Ce répertoire a vocation à évoluer indépendamment et après la
     tenue de la journée du 29 novembre : en particulier, même si
     vous ne désirez pas participer à cette journée, vous pouvez
     proposer une fiche sur un outil pour publication dans ce
     répertoire.

MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION
=======================

Les propositions de présentation à la journée et les propositions de
fiches d'outils se font par voie électronique, en remplissant le
formulaire disponible à l'adresse :

     http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/outil/
     lien [Utiliser un formulaire pour ajouter une description d'outil]

Ce formulaire recueille les principales caractéristiques d'un outil. Il
comprend plusieurs zones de texte libre qui permettent de résumer des
points supplémentaires. Sa vocation est de constituer un point
d'entrée ; il est utile de fournir, lorsque c'est possible, des adresses de
pages Web où le lecteur pourra trouver davantage d'informations.

Les propositions de présentation à la journée seront examinées par un
Comité scientifique. Outre la prise en compte du critère
d'utilisabilité, le comité fera en sorte autant que possible que les
différents types d'outils existants soient représentés.

DATES IMPORTANTES
=================

  - 8 novembre : date limite de proposition d'une présentation (fiche en
ligne)
  - 15 novembre : annonce du programme de la journée
  - 29 novembre : journée Outils pour le TAL
  - en continu, avant et après le 29 novembre : proposition de fiches
    sur des outils pour publication dans le répertoire en ligne

COMITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE
===================

     Gérard Sabah (LIMSI, Orsay) et Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM, Paris)
     (présidents)

     Philippe Blache (LPL, Aix-en-Provence)
     Didier Bourigault (ERSS, Toulouse)
     Farid Cerbah (Dassault)
     Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)
     Stéphane Chaudiron (MENRT, Paris)
     José Coch (Lexiquest, Paris)
     Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI, Orsay)
     Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, Orsay)
     Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy)
     Paul Sabatier (LIM, Marseille)
     Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse)
     Jacques Vergne (GREYC, Caen)
     Jean Véronis (Institut de Phonétique, Aix-en-Provence)
     Jérôme Vinesse (CNET, Lannion)

SOUTIENS FINANCIERS
===================

Cette journée est soutenue par le GdR I3, sous-thème Langue.

Cette journée, ainsi que le site Web de l'ATALA, sont soutenus par le
Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et de la
Technologie (contrat TISTIL).

De ce fait, et en fonction du nombre de participants provinciaux, une
partie des frais de transport des orateurs sera éventuellement prise en
charge.



    L'entrée à la journée sera libre.


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 26 13:49:36 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:49:36 +0200
Subject: Conf: NLULP'99
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.154936.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


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

                     December 3-4, 1999
                 Las Cruces, New Mexico (USA)


Program, Abstracts of selected papers, Talk, Registration and Accomodation,
etc.

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


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 29 23:52:55 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:52:55 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <SAT.30.OCT.1999.005255.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:46:09 +0100
From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <4.1.19991026134021.00c245a0 at mail.wlv.ac.uk>


Hi Tony,

I was referring to another (future) book and not to the
one (recently published) which is edited by Mani and Maybury.
The one I meant is being written at the
moment - it is a monograph and
not a collection of papers.

I used my position as editor of John Benjamin's
NLP series to disclose some 'inside information' (:-)

regards
Ruslan


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 29 23:55:34 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:55:34 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le pluriel
Message-ID: <SAT.30.OCT.1999.005534.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:54:17 +0200
From: Michel Eytan <eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Message-Id: <v03130300b43b616a3086 at DialupEudora>


Bonjour,

voici un additif a la liste bibliographique sur le pluriel:

J.T. L\onning, Plurals and collectivity, in Handbook of Logic and Language,
ed. J. van Benthem & A. ter Meulen, Elsevier, Amsterdam 1997 (pp1009-1054)

--
Michel Eytan                                     eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
                               Je dis ce que je pense et pense ce que je dis


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Oct  6 11:34:51 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:34:51 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
Message-ID: <WED.6.OCT.1999.123451.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Dimitar Deliyski" <deliyski at vocalpoint.com>
   Subject:  Speech Recognition & NLP Research Positions at Vocal Point,
		Inc., San Francisco

2/ From:  "Noord G.J.M. van" <vannoord at let.rug.nl>
   Subject:  Post-doc and Ph.D. positions: computational linguistics Groningen

3/ From:  Doris Ecker <doris at slt.sel.sony.com>
   Subject:  Part-time research assistant in computational linguistics

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Dimitar Deliyski" <deliyski at vocalpoint.com>
   Subject:  Speech Recognition & NLP Research Positions at Vocal Point,
		Inc., San Francisco

Vocal Point, Inc. is seeking Research Scientists to work in our speech
recognition group, which is developing world-class, noise-robust speech
recognizers based on innovative technologies. Currently several research
positions in speech recognition, natural language processing and digital
signal processing welcome applicants. Successful candidates will develop
novel speech recognition algorithms both for government contracts and
commercial products. The duties of the positions include applied research
and collaboration with product development engineers.

A degree (preferably Ph.D.) in speech recognition, applied math, DSP, and
natural language processing or a related field is required. The ideal
candidate would also possess experience in applying speech recognition or
natural language processing techniques and programming skills in C/C++, Java
and/or Perl. Knowledge of noise-reduction techniques and discrete-time
filtering and experience in writing proposals and working on government
contracts is a plus.

 Employment at Vocal Point offers active participation in the decision
making process of a young company targeted for growth. Located in the heart
of downtown San Francisco, we offer an excellent salary/benefits package and
equity-based ownership.

For consideration, please send your resume, cover letter and salary
requirements to resumes at vocalpoint.com, position #3002W. We prefer email
(text only, please), although fax and regular mail are also acceptable. We
cannot provide information over the telephone, so please rely on email to
track the status of your application.

Dr. Dimitar Deliyski
deliyski at vocalpoint.com
Vocal Point, Inc.
450 Geary St. Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94102
Fax: (415) 563-5063
www.vocalpoint.com


_______________________________________________________________________________


2/ From:  "Noord G.J.M. van" <vannoord at let.rug.nl>
   Subject:  Post-doc and Ph.D. positions: computational linguistics Groningen

Research opportunities


                           Algorithms for
                        Linguistic Processing


Algorithms for Linguistic Processing is a five year PIONIER research
project in the area of computational linguistics. The project focuses
on problems of ambiguity and processing efficiency by investigating
grammar approximation and grammar specialization techniques. The
project is located at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and
starts at the end of 1999. It is funded by NWO (Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research).

The project description is available on line at:

                    http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/alp/

Within the next few months, we will be looking to fill two 3-year post-doc
positions and several 4-year Ph.D. positions:

   * 1 post-doc and 1 ph-d Lexically Sensitive Disambiguation techniques
   * 1 ph-d Empirical Aspects of Finite State Language Processing
   * 1 post-doc Formal Aspects of Finite State Language Processing
   * 1 ph-d Grammar Development for Dutch
   * 1 ph-d Linguistic Search Tool for Bare Text Corpora

Further information is available from:

Gertjan van Noord,  vannoord at let.rug.nl
Alfa-Informatica,   University of Groningen
PO Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, Netherlands

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Doris Ecker <doris at slt.sel.sony.com>
   Subject:  Part-time research assistant in computational linguistics

Part-time research assistant in computational linguistics

The Spoken Language Technology Group of Sony's Research Labs in San
Jose, CA is looking for a temporary part-time research assistant to
work with an international team on a research and development project
in spoken language translation.

Job description
Within the framework of a project on bi-directional English-Japanese
spoken language translation, the research assistant will mainly work
on the creation, improvement, maintenance and extension of English
corpora and lexica. He or she will also assist researchers in
performing linguistic analysis, evaluations, the creation of written
documentation and related tasks.

Job requirements
Native speaker of American English. Excellent written and spoken
communication skills. Open-mindedness, creativity and flexibility.
Thorough and reliable working style. Keen interest in multi-cultural
and multi-linguistic issues. Basic computer skills. Job experience in
linguistics, database creation and management, intercultural
communications or other relevant fields. Flexible working hours would
be a plus.

Please send your resume and a cover letter as well as any questions to:

Doris Ecker
doris at slt.sel.sony.com
fax: 408-955-6848
Sony US Research Laboratories
3300 Zanker Rd.; M/S SJ 1B5
San Jose, CA 95134-1901


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Oct  6 11:39:06 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:39:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: Coling-2000
Message-ID: <WED.6.OCT.1999.123906.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Hans Uszkoreit <uszkoreit at dfki.de



      The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

                               COLING 2000

               will be organised under the auspices of the
      International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) in

  Saarbruecken (conference), Luxembourg (workshops) & Nancy (tutorials)

                       Tutorials: 29/30 July, 2000
                   Conference: 31 July - 4 August, 2000
               Post-Conference Workshops: 5/6 August, 2000


                              CALL FOR PAPERS

 COLING 2000 will provide the foremost opportunity at the beginning of
 the new millenium to exchange original research papers on a very broad
 range of topics in computational linguistics. Accordingly, the program
 committee now solicits suitable hitherto unpublished contributions of
 high quality on every aspect of the field.

 In line with the practice established in previous COLING conferences,
 authors will be asked to place their submission in one of two
 categories:

    * Regular papers, of not more than seven pages, presenting results of
      original completed research, and
    * Project notes, of five pages or less, describing ongoing research
      or demonstrating a system.

 All papers should describe original work, completed or in progress,
 rather than merely planned, and clearly indicate the current state of
 advancement of the work. No previously published papers should be
 submitted. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed
 provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification page.

 METHOD OF SUBMISSION

    * The first step in submitting a paper to COLING 2000 is to complete
      a Paper Submission Form. Authors can update the information in the
      form right up to the deadline for submissions (15th January, 2000).
    * The layout and format of papers is described here.
    * The program committee encourages electronic submission of papers,
    * But hard copy is also acceptable.

 Camera Ready Copy

 DEADLINES

      Deadline for submission: 15th January, 2000.

      Notification to authors: 18th March, 2000.

      Arrival in Saarbr?cken of final camera-ready copy : 24th June,
      2000.


                   COLING 2000 Homepage: www.coling.org

             Call for Papers with all forms and instructions:
                         www.coling.org/call.html

                                 Contacts

      Organization Chair             Program Chair
      Hans Uszkoreit                 Martin Kay
      DFKI Language Technology Lab   Xerox Palo Alto Research
      Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3           Center
      66123 Saarbruecken             3333 Coyote Hill road
      Germany                        Palo Alto, CA 94304
                                     USA
      uszkoreit at dfki.de
                                     kay at parc.xerox.com


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Oct  6 11:39:15 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:39:15 +0100
Subject: Appel: Hybrid Approaches to MT
Message-ID: <WED.6.OCT.1999.123915.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  oliver at rockey.iis.sinica.edu.tw



====================================================================
               CALL for CONTRIBUTIONS to

            "Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation"

            IAI Working-Paper to be published on the Web
====================================================================


               - Please distribute this Call
               - Please contribute to the Collection


In order to offer a general overview over a current topic in Machine
Translation, IAI, the Institute of Applied Information Sciences,
Saarbruecken, Germany intends to compile a collection of research papers
related to the subject:

            "Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation"

The collection will be published in the form of an IAI Working-paper
to be made available as HTML-document on the web.  We invite papers on
all aspects of the linking of empirical methods (e.g. TMs, SBMT, EBMT,
CBMT) and analytical methods (RBMT) for MT, including but not restricted
to system descriptions, system evaluation, theoretical and historical
considerations with respect to hybrid MT as well as extended summaries
of Master Thesis or PhD Thesis.  Contributions which have been published
earlier are equally welcome, authors however should indicate when and
where this or a similar paper has been published, in order to keep track
of historical dimensions related to the topic.

Contribution which are not written in English should have an extended
abstract in English.

Contributions should be in HTML. All sections and subsections should
be contained in one file. All kinds of graphics should be contained in
separated encapsulated postscript files (EPS).  Use the available tools
to convert word or latex documents into HTML documents. Parts of the
document for which no automatic conversion is possible can be treated
as picture. Contributions should arrive at oliver at hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw
or carl at iai.uni-sb.de before 11.11.99.

Papers will be checked as to whether they actually refer to the topic of
hybrid MT. If modifications of the original submission become necessary
for whatever reason, they should arrive before 6.12.99. By the end of
this year, the collection should be available on the web.

If you have any further questions please contact:

Oliver Streiter                     Michael Carl
Academia Sinica                     IAI
Institute of Linguistics            Institute of Applied Information
Sciences
Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 115         Saarbruecken, Germany
oliver at hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw         carl at iai.uni-sb.de


--
  For MT-List info, see http://www.eamt.org/mt-list.html


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Oct  6 11:39:26 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:39:26 +0100
Subject: Conf: ICLP'99
Message-ID: <WED.6.OCT.1999.123926.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Publicity for ICLP 99 <iclp99pub at cs.nmsu.edu>


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!			  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION                       !!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!         16th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING       !!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!                 LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO, USA                      !!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!                     NOV. 29 -- DEC. 4                            !!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!               http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~iclp99                     !!!!!!!
!!!!!                                                                  !!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

		Contents: 1. Message from the General Chair
			  2. Conference Program
			  3. Registration Information
			  4. Hotel Information
			  5. Sight-seeing trip to
				White Sands National Monument

	    MESSAGE FROM THE ICLP'99 GENERAL CHAIR

	  Escape the Northern winter, come to ICLP'99!

I would like to personally invite you to attend the
16th International Conference on Logic Programming, in
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.  There are several reasons
why you should attend ICLP'99, some of which I would like
to point out to you:

     1. The program chair, Danny De Schreye, and the program
	committee have assembled an excellent program that
	contains papers on diverse topics, ranging from theory to
	applications. Listening to these papers will give
	you a chance to come abreast with state-of-the-art
	research in Logic Programming. We in the logic programming
	community believe that logic programming is an important
	area of research within Computer Science; attending the
	16th ICLP'99 will give you the opportunity to meet the
	dynamic researchers who are active in Logic Programming
	as well as the chance to appreciate the potential and
	versatility of the Logic Programming paradigm. There are
	several satellite workshops that will also interest you.

     2. Special discount rates have been negotiated with the
	hotels. You can stay for as little as $25 per night
	in one of the (quite decent) conference hotels, provided
	you pair up with someone. A message area has been provided
	at the ICLP web-site where you can communicate with others
	to find a room-mate. The registration fee has been kept to
	the minimum possible. Just registering for ICLP
	allows you to attend any one of the 7 ICLP'99 satellite
	workshop that, for the first time, are being held concurrently
	with the main program thanks to Danny's vision.
	Special student registration rate has been provided, which
	includes the conference proceedings as well as the Banquet.
	A few student scholarships are also available. Preference
	will be give to those students who are presenting a paper
	at ICLP or an ICLP-related event. Contact Prof. Veronical
	Dahl for details (veronica at cs.sfu.ca).
	

     3. The conference will be held in Las Cruces, a small desert
	town in southern New Mexico; famous for its red and green
	Chiles, hot New Mexican food, and its old western traditions.
	Las Cruces and its surrounding areas have numerous tourist
	attractions, most of which are listed on the ICLP'99
	web-site. Possible 1/2, 1, 2 or 3 day trips are also
	shown. I hope that you will have the time to visit some
	of these attractions during your stay. The weather
	in Las Cruces during the winter is quite mild. If you live
	in the Northern latitudes, ICLP'99 gives a chance to escape
	the winter in your homeland, at least for a few days.

     4.	ICLP'99 is being colocated with the 5th International
	Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic
	Reasoning (located in El Paso, just 40 miles away)
	as well as the 1999 Workshop on Natural Language
	Understanding and Logic Programming (located in Las
	Cruces). Special discounts are available if you
	attend any one of these events together with ICLP'99.

     5.	A sightseeing trip is planned to the world renowned
	White Sands National Monument on Friday, Dec. 3rd.
	(visit the ICLP'99 web-site for more details).

			Gopal Gupta
			ICLP'99 General Chair


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Monday Nov. 29:

Main Program:
    9.00 h:  Conference Opening.
    9.10 h:  Invited talk 1: Fernando Pereira:
		Declarative Programming for a Messy World

   10.10 h:  Break

   10.30 h:  Session 1: Knowledge representation:

		Disjunctive Logic Programs with Inheritance,
                 	 F. Buccafurri, W. Faber, N. Leone.
		Event, Property and Hierarchy in Order-Sorted Logic,
               	  	K. Kaneiwa, S. Tojo.
		Temporal Probabilistic Logic Programs,
               	  	A. Dekhtyar, M.I. Dekhtyar, V.S. Subrahmanian.
		An Optimized Prolog Encoding of Typed Feature Structures,
                  	G. Penn

   12.30 h:  Lunch

   14.00 h:  Session 2: Environments:

		A Generic Approach to Monitor Program Executions,
                  	E. Jahier, M. Ducasse.
		Generating Deductive Database Explanations,
                  	S. Mallet, M. Ducasse.

   15.00 h:  Break

   15.30 h:  Session 3: Theory:

		Computing Large and Small Stable Models
                  	M. Truszczynski.
		Algebra of Logic Programming,
                  	S. Seres, M. Spivey, C.A.R. Hoare
		Semantic Definitions for Normal Open Programs,
                 	F. Orejas, E. Pino.
		Declarative Priority In A Concurrent Logic Language ON,
                  	K. Hirata, K. Yamazaki.

Workshops:
   10.30 h: Workshop on Logic Programming Environments
		(interrupted for Session 2)


Tuesday Nov. 30:

Main Program:

    9.00 h:  Invited talk 2: Bernhard Thalheim:
		Logics and Database Modeling.

   10.00 h:  Break

   10.30 h:  Session 4: Constraints:

		Revising Hull and Box Consistency,
                  	F. Benhamou, F. Goualard, L. Granvilliers, J.-F. Puget.
		CLAIRE : Combining Sets, Search and Rules to Better Express Algorithms,
                  	Y. Caseau, F.-X. Josset, F. Laburthe.
		Herbrand Constraint Solving in HAL
                  	B. Demoen, M. Garcia de la Banda, W. Harvey, K. Marriott, P. Stuckey.
		Comparing Trailing and Copying for Constraint Programming,
                  	C. Schulte

   12.30 h:  Lunch

   14.00 h:  Invited talk 3: Ken Bowen:
		Adventures in the Prolog Trade.

   14.40 h:  Break


   15.00 h:  Session 5: Implementation:

		Stack-Splitting: a Simple Technique for Implementing
		Or-Parallelism and And-parallelism on Distributed Machines,
                  	G. Gupta, E. Pontelli.
		Mutable terms in a Tabled Logic Programming System,
                  	B. Cui, D. S. Warren.
		Concurrency in Prolog Using Threads and a Shared Database,
                  	M. Carro, M. Hermenegildo.

   17.00 h:  Prolog Competition.

Workshops:
   10.30 h:  Workshop on Logical Inference with Artificial Neural Networks.
   10.30 h:  Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic.



Wednesday Dec. 1:

Main Program:

    9.00 h:  Session 6: Termination analysis:

		Proving Termination of Input-Consuming Logic Programs,
                  	J.-G. Smaus.
		Bounded Nondeterminism of Logic Programs,
                  	D. Pedreschi, S. Ruggieri.
		Termination Analysis for Abductive General Logic Programs,
                  	S. Verbaeten.

   10.30 h:  Break

   11.00 h:  Session 7: Higher-order:

		The Relative Complement Problem For Higher-Order Patterns,
                  	A. Momigliano, F. Pfenning.
		Extensionality of Simply Typed Logic Programs,
                  	M. Bezem.
		Lightweight Lemmas in Lambda Prolog,
                  	A. W. Appel, A. P. Felty.

   12.30 h:  Lunch

   14.30 h:  Session 8: Nonmonotonic Reasoning:

                Well-Founded Abduction via Tabled Dual Programs,
                  	J. Alferes, L.M. Pereira, T. Swift,
                Optimization of Disjunctive Queries,
                  	S. Greco.
                Well-Founded Semantics by Transformation: The Non-Ground Case,
                 	U. Zukowski, B. Freitag.
                Monotonicity in Rule Based Update,
                  	Y. Zhang.

   16.30 h:  Break

   17.00 h:  Invited talk 4: Vladimir Lifschitz:
		Answer Set Planning.

   19.00 h:  Conference Dinner. Banquet Speaker: Frank Harary

Workshops:

    9.00 h:  Workshop on Parallelism and Implementation Technology for
		(Constraint) Logic Programming Languages.
   11.00 h:  Workshop on Verification in Logic Programs.


Thursday Dec. 2:

    9.00 h:  Tutorial 1: Peter Van Roy:
		Logic and Constraint Programming with Mozart.

   10.00 h:  Break

   10.30 h:  (Regular) Posters (and Demonstrations) Session.

   12.30 h:  Lunch

   14.00 h:  Tutorial 2: Manuel Hermenegildo:
		Program Analysis, Debugging, and Optimization with the
                	CIAO System Preprocessor.

   15.00 h:  Break

   15.30 h:  Session 9: Analysis and Transformation:

		Transforming Inductive Definitions,
                  	A. Pettorossi, M. Proietti.
		Binding-Time Analysis for Mercury,
                  	W. Vanhoof, M. Bruynooghe.

   16.45 h:  Meeting of the Association of Logic Programming.


Workshops:
   10.30 h:  Workshop on Distributed and Internet Programming with Logic and
		Constraint Languages.
   El Paso:  International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic
		Reasoning begins (Dec.2- Dec 4)


Friday Dec. 3:

    9.00 h:  Tutorial 3: Ken Kahn:
		From Prolog and Zelda to ToonTalk.

   10.00 h:  Break

   10.30 h:  Session 10: Constraint applications:
		Solving TSP with Time Windows with Constraints,
                  	F. Focacci, A. Lodi, M. Milano.
		Finding Fair Allocations for the Coalition Problem with Constraints,
                  	E. Tick, M. J. Maher, R. H.C. Yap.
		Constraint-based Round Robin Tournament Planning,
                  	M. Henz.

   12.00 h:  Lunch

   01.30 h:  Session 11:Extensions:

		Logic Programming with Requests,
                  	S. Etalle, F. van Raamsdonk.
		ACI1 Constraints,
                 	A. Dovier, C. Piazza, E. Pontelli, G. Rossi.
		Declarative Pruning in a Functional Query Language.
                 	M. Osorio, B. Jayaraman, J.C. Nieves.

   15.00 h:  Closing.

   15:15 h:  Departure for a tour of White Sands National Monument
		(a small fee may have to be paid for the tour)


Workshops:
   10.30 h:  Workshop on Optimisation and Implementation of Declarative
		Programming Languages.
   Co-located:  International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and
		Logic Programming. (Dec. 3 - 4)

Special event:
   10.30 h:  Open poster session.


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Register electronically through the ICLP'99 web-site

		http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~iclp99
                                                                                                					      Non-ALP Members     ALP Members
Non Students (Before October 30)

Attending ICLP and Workshops 			   $400 	      $375
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR      $275               $250
Attending NLULP only                               $100               $80
Attending NLULP (in addition to ICLP)              $50                $40
Attending one ICLP Workshop                        $50                $40

Students (Before October 30):
Attending ICLP and Workshops                       $225               $200
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR      $200               $175
Attending NLULP (only)                             $100               $80
Attending NLULP (in addition to ICLP)              $50                $40
Attending one ICLP Workshop                        $50                $40

Non Students (After October 30):
Attending ICLP and Workshops                       $450               $425
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR      $325               $300
Attending NLULP (only)                             $150               $130
Attending NLULP (with ICLP)                        $75                $65
Attending one ICLP Workshop                        $75                $65

Students:
Attending ICLP and Workshops                       $275               $250
Attending ICLP and also registering for LPNMR      $250               $225
Attending NLULP (only)                             $150               $130
Attending NLULP (in addition to ICLP)              $75                $65
Attending one ICLP Workshop                        $75                $65

If you are paying by credit card, please add 4% to your total (for the
fee that the bank charges for processing credit cards).

The full conference registration entitles you to attend ICLP sessions and
activities as well as all workshops being held with ICLP except NLULP.
However, you will be given the proceedings of only one workshop of your
choice. Extra proceedings of the other workshops can be bought for $15 each.
For non-ALP members the registration fee also includes free 1 year membership to
Association for Logic Programming. The registration fee includes all
coffee-breaks  on all days, the ICLP'99 proceedings and the banquet
(lunches are not included).

**
For those attending LPNMR in El Paso there is a special reduced registration
rate. However, you will get this rate only if you register separately with
LPNMR and pay their registration fee as well. The reduced registration rate
includes the Banquet and the proceedings, and entitles you to attend
ICLP'99 sessions and workshops on Monday (Nov 29), Tuesday (Nov 30)
and Wednesday (Dec 1).

Student registration rates include proceedings  of ICLP as well as the banquet.


CANCELLATION:

If you cancel before October 30th, you will be refunded 100% of your fee minus
$50 processing fee. If you cancel after October 30th, you'll get 75% of your
money back. However, a minimum of $50 will be charged as processing fee.


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Sleep Inn: 5 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single or Double $47 per night

Comfort Suites: 5 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single or Double $59 per night

Holiday Inn: 25 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single $52; Double $57

Las Cruces Hilton: 1 hour walking from Conference Site: Single $60; Double $70

Days Inn: 30 minutes walking from Conference Site: Single $41; Double $46

Sleep Inn and Comfort Suites are conference recommended hotels. For making your
hotel reservation visit the ICLP'99 web site:

			http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~iclp99.


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Oct  6 11:39:28 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:39:28 +0100
Subject: Divers: Parsers
Message-ID: <WED.6.OCT.1999.123928.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <bralich at hawaii.edu>


Karen Smith, an employee here at Ergo, has put together a very nice
web based guided tour of the parsers of the world which makes it easy
to find and try all the different parsers of the world.  It is also a very
convenient way to compare parsers and make notes about their
various strong and weak points.  The site also contains a section
with sample sentences chosen from the domain of practical
applications and a set of standards for evaluating parsers.  Both
are available at http://www.ergo-ling.com.  The parser tour is under
the heading "Parsers of the World" and the sample sentences and
standards are under "Parsing Contest".

I highly recomend this site for anyone with an interest in NLP.

Phil Bralich


Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822

Tel: (808)539-3920
Fax: (808)539-3924
bralich at hawaii.edu
http://www.ergo-ling.com


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct  8 12:30:05 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:30:05 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le pluriel
Message-ID: <FRI.8.OCT.1999.133005.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 06:44:08 +0200
From: Michel Eytan <eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Message-Id: <v03130301b42325dabed6 at DialupEudora>


Ma (tres modeste) contribution:
1. Hans Kamp & Uwe Reyle: From Discourse to Logic, vol II (Kluwer,
Dordrecht) 1993
2. Bob Carpenter, Type-Logical Semantics (MIT Press, Cambridge MA) 1997

A Tchao

--
Michel Eytan                             eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
  L'erreur est humaine, mais foutre le vrai b*** exige un ordinateur


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct  8 12:35:09 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:35:09 +0100
Subject: R: Initiation a la linguistique
Message-ID: <FRI.8.OCT.1999.133509.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 12:16:02 +0100
From: fuchs at canoe.ens.fr (Catherine Fuchs)
Message-Id: <199910081017.MAA08737 at canoe.ens.fr>


Lire l'ouvrage : Les linguistiques contemporaines, par C. Fuchs et P. Le
Goffic, Hachette

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

CATHERINE FUCHS
DIRECTEUR DE RECHERCHE AU CNRS
EQUIPE "LANGUES, TEXTES, MODELES"
(EP 2050 du CNRS)
ENS
1 RUE MAURICE ARNOUX
92120 MONTROUGE
FRANCE

t?l : 01 42 53 75 87
fax : 01 42 53 75 86
e-mail : Catherine.Fuchs at ens.fr

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


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Sat Oct  9 22:40:37 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 23:40:37 +0100
Subject: Livre: Simultaneous Interpretation
Message-ID: <SAT.9.OCT.1999.234037.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 10:55:46
From: robset at easynet.fr
Message-Id: <3.0.2.16.19991009105546.673718b0 at pop.easynet.fr>


Chers Collegues,
Peut-etre cet ouvrage interessera-t-il  les abonnes a la liste. Il presente
un modele de traitement du
langage fondee sur l'IS (analyse des processus  syntaxiques (parsing,
typologie contrastive),  logiques et pragmatiques, notamment la
construction des contextes).
__________________________________________________________________________
Message:

New Book Information  (resume francais suit)

Simultaneous Interpretation : A Cognitive-Pragmatic Analysis
Robin Setton

Benjamins Translation Library, 28
1999. Hb xvi, 384 pp. + index 90 272 1631 2 NLG 158.00
www.benjamins. com

Simultaneous interpretation is among the most complex of human
cognitive/linguistic activities. This study, which will interest
practitioners and trainers as well as linguists, draws more on
linguistics-based theories of cognition in communication (cognitive
semantics and pragmatics) than on the traditional information-processing
approaches of cognitive psychology, and shows SI to be a valuable source of
data on language and cognition. Starting from semantic representations of
input and output in samples of professional SI from Chinese and German into
English, the analysis explains the classic phenomena?anticipation,
restoration of the implicit-explicit balance, and communicative
re-packaging (`re-ostension') of the discourse?in terms of an intermediate
cognitive model in working memory, allowing a more unitary view of resource
management in the SI task.  Relevance-theoretic analysis of the input
discourse reveals rich pragmatic information guiding the construction of
the appropriate contexts and the speaker's underlying intentionalities.
The course of meaning assembly is reconstructed in annotated synchronised
transcripts.

Order through:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsteldijk 44 - P.O. Box 75577 - 1070 Amsterdam - Holland
tel +31 20 6738156 - Fax +31 20 6739773
or at www.benjamins. com

L'interpr?tation simultan?e compte parmi les activit?s
cognitives/linguistiques les plus complexes. La pr?sente ?tude, qui
s'adresse aussi bien aux interpr?tes et aux formateurs qu'aux linguistes,
s'inspire davantage des th?ories de la cognition dans la communication
issues de la linguistique (s?mantique et pragmatique cognitives) que des
mod?les classiques, de type traitement de l'information, favoris?s par la
psychologie cognitive. Elle r?v?le l'IS comme ?tant une source pr?cieuse de
donn?es sur le langage et la cognition.

Partant d'une confrontation de repr?sentations s?mantiques (`mises ? plat'
syntaxiques et lexicales) des productions de l'orateur et de l'interpr?te
dans deux corpus d'IS professionnelle (chinois-anglais et
allemand-anglais), l'analyse cherche ? expliquer les ph?nom?nes classiques
de la traduction orale--r?tablissement de l'?quilibre implicite-explicite,
`anticipation' du sense de l'orateur, et `r?emballage' communicatif
(`r?-ostension' pour paraphraser la th?orie de la pertinence)--par la
constitution et la gestion dynamique en m?moire de travail d'un mod?le
cognitif interm?diare, ce qui autorise une vue plus unitaire de la gestion
des ressources mentales n?cessaires ? cette t?che. Un langage de la pens?e
enrichi figurant des concepts mais aussi des fonctions communicatives,
index?s ? des r?alisations dans les langues actives de travail, est
pr?sent?e comme le support hypoth?tique de ces repr?sentations
interm?diaires. En effet, l'analyse pertinentiste du discours d'arriv?e
fait appara?tre une grande richesse d'informations pragmatiques pouvant
guider la construction de contextes appropri?s et l'appr?hension des
intentionnalit?s sous-jacentes de l'orateur. L'assembl?e progressive du
sens par l'interpr?te est reconstruite sous forme de transcriptions
synchronis?es annot?es (en annexe).

Benjamins Translation Library, 28
1999. Hb xvi, 384 pp. + index 90 272 1631 2 NLG 158.00

Order through:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsteldijk 44 - P.O. Box 75577 - 1070 Amsterdam - Holland
tel +31 20 6738156 - Fax +31 20 6739773
or at www.benjamins. com


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 08:56:08 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:56:08 +0100
Subject: Job: 1 offer
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.095608.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: jeudi 7 octobre 1999 02:58
From: Bradley Music <brmusic at microsoft.com> by way of Fiammetta NAMER <Fiammetta.NAMER at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr>


French Computational Linguist
Natural Language Group
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA   USA

The French computational linguist will join our team within the Natural
Language Group at corporate headquarters in Redmond, WA.  This team works on
enhancing & extending a computational grammar & text critiquing (grammar
checking) system for French, in accordance with the overall architecture of
the Microsoft Natural Language Understanding system.  Initial emphasis is on
understanding the component for the text critiquing system, followed by the
component for syntactic analysis. S/he will also be testing the syntactic
analysis & text critiques.

The technology developed in this team will ship in the next version of
Microsoft Office, and will be used by millions of people!  Customer focus
and concern for the user experience are top priorities.

Qualifications should include experience in linguistic research and software
development, a product focus, familiarity with natural language processing,
a flexible approach to linguistic theory, and an advanced degree in
linguistics, computer science or a related discipline. Native proficiency in
French is required; practical experience with NLP implementation issues is
highly desired.


To apply for this position, please submit your CV/resume online to
NLJOBS at microsoft.com <mailto:NLJOBS at microsoft.com>.  For faster processing,
reference code brm0001.


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 09:39:56 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:39:56 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLIS 2000
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.103956.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:25:31 +0200
From: Werner Winiwarter <ww at ifs.univie.ac.at>
Message-Id: <38019EFB.C97CAB7D at ifs.univie.ac.at>
X-url: http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis2000.html


                              Call for Papers
                       2nd International Workshop on
                  Natural Language and Information Systems
                                 NLIS 2000
               http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis2000.html

                          in conjunction with the
 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
                                 DEXA 2000
        to be held in Greenwich, United Kingdom, September 4-8, 2000

    Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press

THEME

The Second International Workshop on Natural Language and Information
Systems will take place on the eve of a new millenium which will bring
unimaginable changes and new challenges. Human Language Technology (HLT)
has reached a level of maturity that makes it feasible to solve many of
the urgent needs of the coming information age. By learning from past
failures and successes we are now ready to apply the new technology to
real-life applications. Multilinguality, mobile speech access to the
web, and automatic knowledge extraction from documents are just a few
examples that show the importance of HLT as a key technology for the new
millenium.

The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers
from
both natural language processing and information systems with the aim of
encouraging the exchange of ideas and experience between these two
communities. It will provide an international forum for the presentation
of an overview of the most recent trends in these two active research
fields, and a common
starting-point to tackle the most acute problems of information
processing.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

   * Natural language interfaces
   * Multimodal interfaces
   * Adaptive interfaces
   * HLT for information system design
   * HLT for conceptual modeling
   * HLT for requirements engineering
   * HLT for information retrieval and filtering
   * HLT for the WWW
   * Terminology and ontologies
   * Lexical resources and corpora
   * Multilinguality
   * Computer-assisted language learning
   * Machine translation
   * Word sense disambiguation
   * Document categorization
   * Information extraction
   * Text summarization
   * Natural language learning
   * Natural language generation
   * Evaluation of natural language systems

IMPORTANT DATES

   * Submission deadline: 24 January 2000
   * Notification of acceptance: 10 April 2000
   * Camera-ready copies: 1 May 2000

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing
original,
previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully
evaluated
based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the
program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2000 workshops. All submitted
papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by
IEEE Computer Society Press and MUST NOT be longer than FIVE pages. The
author guidelines can be found at
http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/format.html. If you use LaTeX, an
example document can be found at
http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.tex and the corresponding output at
http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.ps.

Electronic Submission

Please submit your paper electronically to our FTP site. Please prepare
your paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding, condensing,
or
encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Do not use
bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it. Guidelines
for
generating and submitting PostScript files are available from
http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm.

File Naming Conventions for Electronic Submissions

Please save your file using your name, i.e. John Smith's file would be
john_smith.ps. If you are submitting two or more files, please number
them:
john_smith1.ps, john_smith2.ps, etc.

Transferring Files to the FTP Site

When transferring files to the FTP site, if you have a choice between
ASCII
and binary modes, use binary. Although ASCII mode works well most of the
time, binary mode incurs fewer problems.

     Our FTP site:                   ftp.ifs.univie.ac.at
     Log on as:                      anonymous
     Place files in subdirectory:    incoming/nlis2000

Notification

When you have put your file(s) in the FTP subdirectory, please send an
email to winiwarter at acm.org with the following information: Your name,
phone, fax, URL (your Web address, if you have one), your email address,
the title of your paper, and the filename(s) you used. (Do NOT send a
copy
of your postscript file via email.)

Hard Copy Paper Submissions

If, for some reason, you cannot place an electronic copy of your paper
on
our ftp site, ONLY THEN you may submit it as four hard copies to the
following address:

     Prof. Werner Winiwarter
     Institute of Applied Computer Science & Information Systems
     University of Vienna
     Liebiggasse 4/3
     A-1010 Wien
     AUSTRIA

Electronic Abstracts

Please send also an electronic copy of your abstract, in ASCII format
and
including the paper title, keywords, author names, addresses, and
affiliations, to winiwarter at acm.org.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

   * Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria
   * Robert Dale, Language Technology Pty Ltd and Macquarie University,
     Australia
   * Tsunenori Mine, Kyushu University, Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

   * Masatoshi Arikawa, Hiroshima City University, Japan
   * Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
   * Antje D?sterh?ft, Rostock University, Germany
   * G?nther Fliedl, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Nicola Guarino, LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy
   * Benoit Habert, UMR8503 et ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, France
   * Udo Hahn, Freiburg University, Germany
   * Zoubida Kedad, PRISM Laboratory, France
   * Christian Kop, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Yves Lepage, ATR-ITL, Japan
   * Jana Lewerenz, Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus, Germany
   * Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
   * Willi Mayerthaler, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Dieter Merkl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   * Elisabeth Metais, PRISM Laboratory, France
   * Diego Molla, University of Zurich, Switzerland
   * John Nerbonne, University of Groningen, Netherlands
   * Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
   * Maria Orlowska, The University of Queensland, Australia
   * Mike P. Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands
   * Jon Patrick, University of Sydney, Australia
   * David Powers, The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia
   * Hong Liang Qiao, University of Sydney, Australia
   * Peter Sandrini, University of Innsbruck, Austria
   * Bruno Schienmann, SIZ Bonn, Germany
   * Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
   * Kosho Shudo, Fukuoka University, Japan
   * Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
   * Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus,
     Germany
   * Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands
   * Christian Winkler, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
   * Kazumasa Yokota, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan
   * Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia

For any further questions or inquiries please contact:

     Prof. Werner Winiwarter
     Institute of Applied Computer Science & Information Systems
     University of Vienna
     Liebiggasse 4/3, A-1010 Wien, AUSTRIA
     Email: winiwarter at acm.org
     Phone: +43-1-4277-38434
     Fax: +43-1-4277-38449


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 09:41:27 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:41:27 +0100
Subject: Soft: Ergo Linguistics Last Chance for Free Software
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.104127.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 14:05:26 -1000
From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <bralich at hawaii.edu>
Message-Id: <4.1.19991008135626.00a45e40 at pop-server.hawaii.edu>
X-url: http://www.ergo-ling.com


As of next week all of Ergo Linguistics Tools including the newest "Roswell
Teaches
English"  will change from free software to paid software.  Those of you
would like to
work with these tools for free should download them before October 15th.
You can
get to the site at http://www.ergo-ling.com.

These software products will be kept on the ergo server but will be
distributed and
advertised more widely and will no longer be offered for free.  We are
making this
last time free offer for researchers and students of NLP and theoretical
linguistics.

All programs are written in C++ have programmer SDK's available upon request
are Windows 95/98/NT compatible.


The programs include:

MemoMaster -- An add on for speech recognition products that significantly
increases
the navigation and control abilities of those products as well as adding more
sophisticated messaging and reminders and notes.

BracketDoctor -- A program for linguists which provides tree diagrams and
labelled
bracketings for sentences in the Penn Treebank II style.  Great for
students who
would like to include computer generated trees in their papers using this
standardized
framework.

ChatterBox -- A product that provides sophisticated question and answer
abilities
that are easily added to animations (e.g Microsoft Agents) and are useful for
educational and entertainment programs.

Roswell Teaches English  -- A stand alone product to help students of English
as a Second Language practice their English using natural language questions
and responses.  Includes a manual and textbook.


Phil Bralich



Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822

Tel: (808)539-3920
Fax: (808)539-3924
bralich at hawaii.edu
http://www.ergo-ling.com


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 09:43:35 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:43:35 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le pluriel
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.104335.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:36:22 +0200
From: Thierry Poibeau <Thierry.Poibeau at lcr.thomson-csf.com>
Message-ID: <38019376.A6CFF9BD at lcr.thomson-csf.com>


R?f?rences sur le pluriel (et par extension, le duel et le collectif) en
indo-europ?en (linguistique diachronique essentiellement) :

Il y a un ensemble d'articles parus dans une revue confidentielle (ho
lukhnos (dite la loupiotte), revue d'une association hell?nique de la
fac de Montpellier, je crois) sur le sujet :

J-V Vernhes, "singulier et pluriel, collectif et singulatif",
Connaissance hell?nique, 13 et 19 (oct 82 et avril 84, je ne l'ai pas
sous la main, il me semble que c'?tait un article int?ressant quoiqu'un
peu sp?culatif sur certains points de reconstruction indo-europ?enne).

P Georgelin, "Contribution ? l'?tude du collectif", Connaissance
hell?nique, 54 et 55, 1993.


- en indo-europ?en, sur les origines des marques de nombres, leur
?volution, etc. il y a les classiques qui traitent de l'indo-europ?en en
g?n?ral, comme (cit?s par Georgelin) :

A Meillet, Introduction ? l'?tude compar?e des langues indo-europ?ennes,
(chap 4 notamment), Champion, Paris.
O. Jespersen, Nature, ?volution et origine du langage, I, chap 4, Payot,
Paris.
...

Pour des donn?es plus r?centes (donn?es du hittite en particulier, o? on
voit appara?tre des marques de pluriel encore fragmentaires) :

A Martinet, Des steppes aux oc?ans, Payot, Paris.

Tous ces livres, g?n?raux, renvoient ? des r?f?rences particuli?res, par
langue notamment (par ex., pour le grec, Meillet, Aper?u d'une histoire
de la langue grecque, Klincksieck, ch 6, passim, pluriel et duel chez
Hom?re, p 287-288 sur la disparition du duel dans la koine, etc ->
Chantraine, Morphologie historique, Klincksieck, et Grammaire hom?rique,
Klincksieck aussi etc).

- le breton poss?de des traits int?ressants (morph?me de pluriel
diff?rent suivant le s?mantisme du nom concern? (humain ou non par ex.),
survivance du duel, pr?sence importante du collectif (gwez d?signe un
esnemble d'arbres, il faut ajouter le suffixe -enn pour obtenir le
singulatif, soit un arbre particulier), double pluriel...)

R Hemon, Yezhadur berr ar brezhoneg, Al Liamm, Breizh (trad. (br?ve)
grammaire bretonne, al Liamm).

F. Kervella, Yezhadur bras ar brezhoneg, Al Liamm, Breizh (d?sol?, pas
de traduction. Il faut donc apprendre le breton pour en savoir plus !
:-)

Thierry


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 09:49:07 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:49:07 +0100
Subject: These: Linguistics PhD Program at Stanford Univ.
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.104907.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:21:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gina Wein <wein at csli.stanford.edu>
Message-Id: <199910072121.OAA03281 at Turing.Stanford.EDU>
X-url: http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/)


PLEASE POST OR DISTRIBUTE TO INTERESTED PARTIES.
************************************************************************
* Opportunities for PhD Study in the Stanford Linguistics Department *
************************************************************************

************************************************************************
A Note from the Chair:
************************************************************************

Dear prospective graduate student,

It's my pleasure, as chair of Stanford's Department of Linguistics, to
invite you to apply for graduate study in our PhD program. We have one
of the broadest and most exciting programs available anywhere,
covering almost every imaginable area of specialization, as you can
see from the research areas listed in the descriptions below. This
year we are delighted also to welcome two new faculty members to the
department - Beth Levin and, jointly with Computer Science, Chris Manning -
who will particularly enhance our programs in Semantics and Computational
Linguistics.

We provide accepted PhD students with a comprehensive funding package,
so they can concentrate on linguistics, not on making ends meet.
Furthermore, our students are able to get involved in a wide
range of research projects both in the university and in local
industry. By the time our PhD students graduate, they typically have
an impressive list of publications and conference presentations, and
we have an outstanding track record of post-PhD placement. Finally,
Stanford is one of the most beautiful campus locations you could wish
for. I urge you to check out our Web page
(http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/) and to contact us as soon as
possible for more information about programs and admission. We look
forward to hearing from you.

                                             Stanley Peters

************************************************************************
Application Deadline for 2000-01:  January 3, 2000
************************************************************************

Financial aid packages are available on a competitive basis (to
international as well as US students). Stanford University is
committed to policies of non-discrimination and to creating
opportunities for historically underrepresented groups. For
applications and catalogs, please contact the Admissions Office
directly:

Graduate Admissions Office      Telephone:(+1) 650-723-4291
Stanford University             Email: ck.gaa at forsythe.stanford.edu
Stanford, CA  94305-3005  U.S.A.

You can request forms (or actually apply) on-line -- see our Web
pages. You can also get information from us directly by emailing
ling-admissions at csli.stanford.edu or by writing to: Department of
Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2150  U.S.A.

************************************************************************
Faculty:
************************************************************************

DAVID BEAVER. Semantics, logic, pragmatics, computational linguistics.
JOAN W. BRESNAN. Syntactic theory and typology, grammar architectures,
              Bantu and Australian morphosyntax.
EVE V. CLARK. Language acquisition, psycholinguistics, semantic and
              pragmatic issues in the lexicon.
PENELOPE ECKERT. Sociolinguistic variation and change, language,
              gender, and identity.
EDWARD FLEMMING. Phonetics, phonology.
SHIRLEY BRICE HEATH. Literacy, language planning, sociolinguistics,
              ethnography of communication.
PHILIP HUBBARD. TESOL, computer-assisted language learning, linguistic
              theory and language teaching.
MARTIN KAY. Computational Linguistics, especially machine translation.
PAUL KIPARSKY. Phonology, historical linguistics, morphology, lexical
              organization.
WILLIAM R. LEBEN. Phonology, African linguistics, tone and intonation.
BETH LEVIN. Lexical semantics, syntax, morphology, typology.
CHRISTOPHER MANNING. Statistical natural language processing, syntactic
              theory, typology.
BEVERLEY J. MCCHESNEY. TESOL.
STANLEY PETERS. Semantics, computational linguistics, mathematical
              linguistics.
JOHN R. RICKFORD. Sociolinguistics, variation and change, style,
              pidgins and creoles, AAVE.
IVAN A. SAG. Syntax, semantics, and their interface; language
              processing (human and computer).
PETER SELLS. Syntax, morphology, Optimality Theory, Japanese and
              Korean grammar, Swedish grammar.
ELIZABETH TRAUGOTT. Historical semantics/pragmatics, grammaticalization,
              discourse analysis.
THOMAS WASOW. Psycholinguistics, syntactic theory, philosophy of
              linguistics.
ARNOLD M. ZWICKY. Syntax, morphology, phonology, interfaces.

************************************************************************
Consulting faculty:
************************************************************************

JARED BERNSTEIN (Ordinate Corporation). Speech recognition and
              synthesis, industrial phonetics, language testing.
CLEO CONDORAVDI (Teknowledge Corporation). Semantics, syntax-semantics
              interface, knowledge representation.
MARY DALRYMPLE (Xerox PARC). Syntactic theory, semantics, computational
              linguistics.
JERRY R. HOBBS (SRI International). Computational linguistics,
              discourse analysis.
RONALD M. KAPLAN (Xerox PARC). Computational linguistics, morphology,
              syntax.
CHARLOTTE LINDE (IRL). Discourse analysis, narrative.
GEOFFREY NUNBERG (Xerox PARC). Pragmatics, lexical semantics, language
              policy.
HINRICH SCHUETZE (Xerox PARC). Statistical natural language processing,
              information retrieval.

************************************************************************
Other Stanford Faculty and Researchers:
************************************************************************
Anthropology: JAMES A. FOX, MIYAKO INOUE; Asian Languages: YOSHIKO
MATSUMOTO, CHAO FEN SUN; Computer Science: TERRY WINOGRAD; CSLI: ANN
COPESTAKE, DAN FLICKINGER, ED ZALTA; Education: JOHN BAUGH, KENJI
HAKUTA, AMADO PADILLA, GUADALUPE VALDES; German Studies: ORRIN
W. ROBINSON; Language Center: ELIZABETH BERNHARDT; Philosophy: JOHAN
VAN BENTHEM, MARK CRIMMINS, JOHN ETCHEMENDY, JULIUS MORAVCSIK, JOHN
PERRY, KENNETH TAYLOR; Psychology: HERBERT H. CLARK, ANNE FERNALD,
ZENZI GRIFFIN, ELLEN MARKMAN, JOSH TENENBAUM; Slavic Languages and
Literatures: RICHARD D. SCHUPBACH; Spanish & Portuguese: MARY
L. PRATT, GUADALUPE VALDES.


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 11 15:31:10 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:31:10 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC-2000
Message-ID: <MON.11.OCT.1999.163110.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:47:40 +0200
From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>
Message-Id: <199910111407.QAA20237 at CarlCox.iway.fr>
X-url: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html


[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]
Please note that the submission deadline is soon approaching.


           ***** REMINDER:  CALL FOR PAPERS *******

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

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

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

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


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


  CONFERENCE AIMS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


  CONFERENCE TOPICS

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

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

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

  II. Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation:

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

  III. General issues:

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


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

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

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


  IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

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

  CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

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


  For general information about the conference, please contact:

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


  For general information about ELRA, please contact:

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


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Tue Oct 12 09:13:49 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:13:49 +0100
Subject: Appel: EURALEX 2000
Message-ID: <TUE.12.OCT.1999.101349.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:15:17 +0200
From: Anja Hofmann <hofmanaa at IMS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE>
Message-ID:  <3801AAA4.CBC3CA1F at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
X-url: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex/


For information:
The deadline for submission has been extended:
Deadline is:  9th November 1999 (9-11-99)


                     EURALEX 2000: Call for participation



The ninth EURALEX International Congress will be held in Stuttgart,
Germany, from 8 - 12 August, 2000.


The Congress organizers are
      Vincent Docherty (Langenscheidt Publishers, M?nchen)
      Ulrich Heid(Universit?t Stuttgart, Institut f?r maschinelle
      Sprachverarbeitung)
      Egbert Lehmann (Universit?t Stuttgart, Institut f?r Informatik -
      Intelligente Systeme).
      Christian Rohrer (Universit?t Stuttgart, Institut f?r maschinelle
      Sprachverarbeitung)
      Leo Wanner (Universit?t Stuttgart, Institut f?r Informatik -
      Intelligente Systeme).



Contact address

Congress Organizers EURALEX 2000
Dr. Ulrich Heid
Universit?t Stuttgart
Institut f?r maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS-CL
Azenbergstrasse 12
D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany

Fax: +49 711 121 1366
E-mail: elx2000 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Web site: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex
The information at this location will be kept up to date.



The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers,
publishers, researchers, scholars, and all others interested in
dictionaries of all types. The programme will include plenary
lectures, parallel sessions on the topics listed below, software
demonstrations, a presidential debate, pre-congress tutorials and
specialized workshops, a book and software exhibition, and social
events for participants and their guests.



Topics

Papers, posters, and demonstrations are invited on all topics of
lexicography, including, but not limited to, the following fields
which are the main focus of the congress:

    1.Computational lexicography and lexicology (N.B.: This is different

      from, e.g. COLING or ACL, in the sense that EURALEX invites
      papers on lexicographically relevant computational work, rather
      than any or all computational linguistic topics relating to the
      lexicon.)
    2.Lexical Combinatorics
    3.Historical and Scholarly Lexicography
    4.Bilingual Lexicography
    5.The Dictionary-Making Process
    6.Lexicography for Specialized Languages - Terminology and
      Terminography
    7.Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects
    8.Other topics

The ninth congress will differ slightly from previous EURALEX
congresses in that we particularly welcome papers on certain
sub-topics of the above, to fit in with special sessions:



      Topic (1-A): Corpus lexicographic tools in industry and research
                   (needs, functions, architectures ...)
      Topic (1-B): Creating (sizeable) dictionaries for Natural Language

                   Processing (procedures, information types, use of
published
                   dictionaries, projects ...)
      Topic (3-A): The creation of historical dictionaries (theoretical
                   and practical problems, workflows, ongoing projects
...)
      Topic (4-A): User aspects of bilingual dictionaries (market
                   studies, user behaviour, concepts and information
programs for new
                   bilingual dictionaries, bilingual learners'
dictionaries)
      Topic (5-A): Teaching dictionary making and lexicography (course
                   material, topics/theories and working methodology
taught,
                   experience from recent courses in industry and
academia...)
      Topic (7-A): Internet Lexicography (concepts and design of
                   dictionaries for the internet, quality control for
lexicographical
                   products on the internet, advantages and
                   limitations of the  new medium with
                   respect to `traditional dictionaries')

The main topic indications are not meant to exclude any lexicographic
topic: papers relevant to the congress but not fitting any of the
categories 1-7 will be reviewed nonetheless and considered for
presentation.

Individual presentations should be timed for 30 minutes, followed by a
10 minute discussion period. There are no restrictions on the language
of the presentation, but unfortunately it is not possible to offer
interpretation.

Software Demonstrations: We are particularly interested in
well-prepared software demonstrations, presentations of electronic
dictionaries, corpora, tools, etc. Those demonstrations accepted will
be presented in a 20 minute time slot at the congress (possibly
twice). Technical facilities will be available.



Submissions

Submissions may be of one of the following two types: Contributed Papers

and Software Demonstrations.

All submissions (of both types) will be reviewed by two or three
members of the referees' panel; the programme will be selected by the
programme committee. Submissions proposing software demonstrations
should include a description of the functions, underlying approach and
implementation of the software, possibly an indication of a URL, and
hardware/software requirements.

Authors should send five hardcopies of a preliminary version of their
contribution to the congress organizers before November 9th, 1999. Fax
and e-mail submission may be used in addition, but the hardcopy
submission in five copies is mandatory.



Format:
Contributed Papers: 6 to 8 pages, double-spaced;
Software Demonstrations: 4 pages, double-spaced;
Front page:

      Title of the paper or software demonstration;
      Name(s), affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s);
      Abstract (10-15 lines);
      in the top right corner: indication of the topic category (use 1,
      1-A, 1-B, etc.; if your paper does not fit in with any of the main

      categories, please use category 8);

Authors whose submissions are accepted will receive a style guide for
the preparation of the (electronic) final version of the paper, to be
published in the Proceedings immediately before the congress.
Contributed Papers will be allowed c. 10 pages: papers relating to
Software Demonstrations c. 5 pages, in a separate section.



Important Dates

      9 November 1999:  Deadline for receipt of preliminary versions of
                        papers by congress organizers
      15 February 2000: Dispatch of notifications of
acceptance/rejection
      15 April 2000:    Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers for
                        inclusion in the Proceedings

Programme Committee: Frantisek Cerm?k (CZ), Vincent Docherty (D),
Thierry Fontenelle (L), Ulrich Heid (D), and Rosamund Moon (GB).
Reviewers will include the above, the members of the EURALEX Executive
Board, and additional experts.

Pre-EURALEX tutorials: There will be two pre-EURALEX tutorials.
Details will be announced later.

Exhibitions: A book and software exhibition will be organized in the
coffee break area of the congress site. Walk-up-and-use software
demonstrations (without presentation, not included in the Proceedings)
may be given there.

Registration: The registration fee will probably be in the range of
240 - 310 Euros; an early subscription bonus, as well as a reduction
for EURALEX members, will be offered. A late fee will apply.

Accommodation: Block reservations in hotels of different categories
will be made, within walking distance from the congress venue or
within 15 minutes tram/bus ride. Student dormitory places or
equivalent low-budget accommodation will be provided as well. Details
will be announced later.


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

PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM FOR EURALEX 2000

If you fill this in and send it back, you will soon reveive the second
circular, with more ample information about the conference.



Congress Organizers EURALEX 2000
Dr. Ulrich Heid
Universit?t Stuttgart
Institut f?r maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS-CL
Azenbergstrasse 12
D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany

Fax: +49 711 121 1366
e-mail: elx2000 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de

NAME ..............................................................
INSTITUTION .......................................................
...................................................................
DEPARTMENT.........................................................
...................................................................
STREET.............................................................
ZIP/POSTCODE.......................................................
CITY...............................................................
COUNTRY ...........................................................
FAX ...........................................................
TELEPHONE .........................................................
E-MAIL ............................................................

PLEASE TICK ONE OF THE FOLLOWING
[ ] I wish to present a paper at the Congress
[ ] I wish to present a software demonstration at the Congress
[ ] I do not intend to present a paper/demonstration at the Congress

ACCOMMODATION PREFERENCES (Price range)
[ ] c. 70 - 80 Euros
[ ] c. 50 - 70 Euros
[ ] Youth hostel
[ ] Student dormitory

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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Tue Oct 12 14:45:05 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:45:05 +0100
Subject: Appel: ECAI 2000, Tutorial Proposals
Message-ID: <TUE.12.OCT.1999.154505.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:21:49 +0200
From: Hans-Juergen Buerckert <hjb at dfki.de>
Message-Id: <380335E9.52B83D3B at dfki.de>
X-url: http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/


[We apologize for multiple copies]
CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS -- Deadline 1 Nov 1999

The ECAI-2000 Organising Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be
held in conjunction with the conference. The tutorials will be held on
21-22 August 2000, immediately prior to the start of the main conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
 1 Nov 1999     Deadline for proposals
 1 Dec 1999     Notification of acceptance
15 Dec 1999     Deadline for tutorial summaries
 7 Jan 2000     Publication of ECAI-2000 tutorial programme
 1 May 2000     Camera-ready tutorial notes
21-22 Aug 2000  Tutorials at ECAI-2000

We invite proposals for four-hour tutorials on topics relating to
theoretical and applied AI. The aim is to offer conference delegates
both tutorials on up-to-date AI technologies, and case study tutorials
on the application of the AI technologies to real-world problems.

For further details please visit ECAI2000 Homepage

http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/

--
Dr. Hans-J?rgen B?rckert
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbr?cken, Germany

Phone/Fax: +49.681.302-5321 / -2235
Mobile: +49.171.717-2065
Email: hjb at dfki.de
http://www.dfki.de/~hjb/


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 07:58:02 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:58:02 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 7 Offers
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.095802.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

____________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Hull, Richard" <richard_hull at merck.com>
   Subject:  NLP-Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey

2/ From:  "Karin Verspoor" <karin at intelligenesis.net>
   Subject:  NLP-Intelligenesis Corporation, NYC

3/ From: "shail.patel" <Shail.Patel at unilever.com>
   Subject: Unilever Research: Industrial Job Opportunities in  text ...

4/ From: Claude Kirchner <Claude.Kirchner at loria.fr>
   Subject: doctoral research position

5/ From:  Hamish Cunningham <hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
   Subject:  NLP - Researcher/U of Sheffield, UK

6/ From:  Eric Schnepp <ericsch at microsoft.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling - Program Manager Position at Microsoft

7/ From:  Bart Hollebrandse <bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl>
   Subject:  Prosody - Post Doc researcher, Utrecht University
____________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Hull, Richard" <richard_hull at merck.com>
   Subject:  NLP-Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey

Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey, a world leader in
pharmaceutical
research, is seeking a creative individual with excellent interpersonal
skills to
become a member of their Molecular Systems Group.  The successful candidate
should
have a strong background in text processing in a UNIX environment -
information
extraction from natural language experience would be preferred.  Proven
programming
skills in C, C++, and/or Perl are essential.

Responsibilities include the development and/or support of web-based search
tools,
document repositories, chemical name recognizers, chemical knowledge bases,
and
ancillary text processing utilities.  Some background in chemistry, biology,
or
scientific programming would be an asset, but is not mandatory.  Candidates
should
have a B.S. or M.S. degree in computer science or equivalent.

Merck Research Laboratories are located approximately 25 miles from New York
City.
Our salaries, benefits and growth potential are excellent.  Applicants
should send
their CV (including names and addresses of three potential references) to:

Dr. Richard D. Hull
Merck & Co., Inc.
Box 2000, RY50SW-100
Rahway, NJ 07065-0900

Electronic resumes may be sent to richard_hull at merck.com

____________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  "Karin Verspoor" <karin at intelligenesis.net>
   Subject:  NLP-Intelligenesis Corporation, NYC

Post Date: October 6, 1999

Intelligenesis offers the Internet economy a new breed of business
intelligence, using breakthrough AI technology that understands
concepts in text. We don't just provide information for our clients:
we tell them what it means for them and their business goals. The AI
system that powers our applications, WebMind(TM), is based on a
revolutionary mathematical model of the mind that integrates a variety
of formerly disparate AI disciplines.

Founded in 1997, Intelligenesis is based in New York City. We have
positioned ourselves at the leading edge of the information
economy. We take our business very seriously, but like to have fun
doing it. If you want to be inspired by your work, aren't afraid of
tight deadlines, and can keep the greater goal in sight while tending
to the daily details, then we should talk.

The Natural Language group at Intelligenesis is currently seeking two
creative individuals for immediate employment in our New York office.
Both positions will involve developing natural language processing
modules, designing, documenting, and coding Java language code in a
team coding environment.

NL Position 1, Senior Natural Language Engineer

Requirements:
- Advanced degree in computational linguistics or a related field
- Experience with NL query processing and automatic recognition of the
semantics of queries
- Java or C++ programming skills

Additional desirable skills:
- familarity with database querying
- information retrieval experience
- statistical NLP experience
- knowledge of machine learning techniques
- text mining experience


NL Position 2, Junior Software Engineer

Requirements:
- a BS (in CS or a related field) or extensive industry experience.
- strong Java and XML skills
- familiarity with regular expressions and other text processing
methodologies
- JDBC/ODBC database integration experience

Addtional desirable skills:
- linguistics background
- natural language system experience
- machine learning experience
- statistics background

Interested applicants should send a cover letter indicating the
position for which they would like to be considered, resume (plain
text only, please) and any salary expectations to Dr. Karin Verspoor,
karin at intelligenesis.net or fax to 1-212-324-3001. No phone calls
please.

____________________________________________________________________

3/ From: "shail.patel" <Shail.Patel at unilever.com>
   Subject: Unilever Research: Industrial Job Opportunities in  text
        analysis/computational linguistics and optimisation/evolutionary


Dear All,

The Adaptive Computation Unit at Unilever Research, Wirral UK, is involved
in
industrial applications of leading edge technologies. We are currently
recruiting two scientists, in optimisation/evolutionary systems and text
analysis/computational linguistics. The text of our 'advert' is below, I
would
be very grateful if you would pass this on to anyone who you think may be
interested.

We are also highly like to have a position for an EU Marie Curie post-doc
one
of this areas, which would be open to members of the EU and other associated
countries [Switz, Israel etc] who are not resident in the UK.

Kind Regards
Shail Patel

- apologies if you have received this twice!

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

At Unilever it is our ability to recognise and cater for the diverse yet
subtle
needs of a global marketplace, that differentiates us from the competition.
Totally committed to scientific exploration and discovery, we invest ?550
million in pioneering new research so our products remain the preferred
choice,
150 million times a day.

Adaptive Computation techniques play a key role in the development of a wide
spectrum of our product and manufacturing applications for such leading
foods,
home and personal care products as Impulse, Organics, Persil, Flora and
Wall's
Ice Cream. This is why we have have recently established a Centre of
Excellence
in Port Sunlight that is committed to this area and to developing and
maintaining links with leading academics.

Here you will discover exciting opportunities for talented individuals who
will
relish the challenge of developing leading-edge solutions to complex
industrial
problems. A combination of world-class research and an understanding of how
technology may be applied in practice will enable you to extend both your
technological capabilities and application areas.

Flexible, self-motivated and a strong team player with a broad scientific
interest, you will need a high level of numeracy and the ability to work to
tight deadlines. Your good first degree with a strong mathematical component
should be supported by a PhD/MSc and/or industrial experience. We are
looking
for one or two specialists in the following areas:

*) Evolutionary systems; Multi-criteria optimisation; Adaptive Agents;
Complex
Adaptive Systems
*) Statistical Text Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Natural Language
Engineering

As a world-leading organisation we can offer an atractive salary and
benefits
package, and excellent career opportunities.

Make a noticeable difference to your career by writing with full CV quoting
re
1253/SP to Vanessa Gilroy, TMP Response Management, 32 Aybrook St, London,
W1M
3JL or email you details to: response at tmp.co.uk

Contact Shail.Patel at unilever.com for further information

Closing date for applications is Nov 12 1999



____________________________________________________________________

4/ From: Claude Kirchner <Claude.Kirchner at loria.fr>
   Subject: doctoral research position


The Protheo project of LORIA in Nancy is seeking applications for a
doctoral research position starting in November or December 1999.

The positions are funded by the Centre Charles Hermite
(http://www.loria.fr/CCH/) for a period of 3 years as part of a
multidisciplinary project bringing together computer scientists,
mathematicians and physicists.

The researcher will be concerned with the further development,
foundation and application of the ELAN system (http://www.loria.fr/ELAN).
(S)He will contribute to the development of a computational model
based on concurrent rewriting and integrating the notion of rewriting
strategies.

We are looking for talented, highly motivated, ambitious, and fast
learning individuals with expertise in relevant areas, good
theoretical background, and a desire to make ideas work in practice.

A Master or a (french) DEA in Computer Science is required.

More information about Nancy and the Protheo project can be found in
the Web at http://www.loria.fr/equipe/protheo.html/

If you are interested, please contact as soon as possible Claude
Kirchner at the address below. In any case, applications including a
full cv and motivations (e-mail is fine) should be addressed, before
October 18, to:

                Claude Kirchner

                LORIA & INRIA
                Campus scientifique
                615, rue du Jardin Botanique
                BP 101
                54602 Villers-les-Nancy CEDEX
                FRANCE

                Tel:       (33) (0) 3 83 59 30 11
                Secretary: (33) (0) 3 83 59 30 54 (Christelle Bergeret)
                Fax inria: (33) (0) 3 83 27 83 19
                E-mail:    Claude.Kirchner at loria.fr
                Web:       http://www.loria.fr/~ckirchne/


____________________________________________________________________


5/ From:  Hamish Cunningham <hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
   Subject:  NLP - Researcher/U of Sheffield, UK

Three posts are available in Language Engineering at the
University of Sheffield. Informal enquiries may
be made in reply to this mail, or see contact details below.

Hamish Cunningham
Fellow in Computer Science, University of Sheffield
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/


Research posts in Natural Language Engineering

Three researchers are required for a period of 2 years (in the first
instance) to work in the Natural Language Processing Group
(http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/nlp.html) of the
Department of Computer Science (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/), at the
University of Sheffield (http://www.shef.ac.uk/).

Two positions involve working on Information
Extraction (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/extraction/)
(IE) and on the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE -
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/gate/),
which is a domain-specific software architecture for research and
development in Human Language Technologies. A main area of research
in this project will be the adaptivity of IE systems to new genres
and domains. The third post involves computational linguistics or
statistical expertise to work on an EPSRC-funded project on the
reuse of texts.

The successful candidates will preferably be competent programmers,
probably with a sound knowledge of Natural Language Processing theory
and practice, and/or statistical methods. Knowledge of some of the
following will also be an advantage:

  statistical language processing;
  Information Extraction research;
  programming in Java;
  database programming, especially using JDBC (or ODBC);
  foreign languages, and the Unicode standard;
  corpus processing.

The appointments will be made on the RA1A or RA1B scales.

Further details of how to apply may be obtained from:

The Personnel Department,
Firth Court,
Western Bank,
Sheffield
S10 2TN.
Phone: +44 (0)114 222 1631

Informal enquiries may be made to Yorick Wilks, Hamish Cunningham
or Rob Gaizauskas, phone +44 (0)114 222 1804/1981/1827.

____________________________________________________________________


6/ From:  Eric Schnepp <ericsch at microsoft.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling - Program Manager Position at Microsoft

Join Microsoft's Natural Language Group (NLG) to drive the integration
of our natural language technology into Microsoft products.  Your
primary responsibilities will include working with our development
team and MS research to integrate innovations into our natural
language processing engine.  This includes gathering and influencing
requirements, developing clear and complete specifications, developing
project schedules, and working with contingent staff, developers,
testers, and our engine architecture team to ensure optimal
integration.  The candidate must have experience in computational
linguistics, leading projects to successful completion, and have the
ability to work independently as well as in a team. Excellent
communication skills and the ability to follow through on commitments
are required.  Desired qualifications include 4 years of program
management experience and a background in language generation and/or
machine translation.  A BA/BS degree or higher in Computer Science,
Computational Linguistics, or related technical equivalent required.

Please send your CV in ASCII text or as a Word attachment to
nljobs at microsoft.com


____________________________________________________________________

7/ From:  Bart Hollebrandse <bart.hollebrandse at let.uu.nl>
   Subject:  Prosody - Post Doc researcher, Utrecht University


The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS is a research institute of
the Faculty of Arts of Utrecht University. About a hundred people are
involved of which 12 full professors, 8 postdoc researchers and about
30 graduate students.

The goal of UiL OTS is to develop scientific expertise in the area of
language, speech and their use. It participates in the Netherlands
Graduate School of Linguistics LOT and in the Graduate school of Logic
OzsL. The research of UiL OTS comprises the following six areas: (i)
Syntax and Semantics, (ii) Morphology & Phonology, (iii) Computational
Linguistics & Logic, (iv) Phonetics, (v) Language Development, en (vi)
Language Use. The research programme of UiL OTS brings together
research from different strands of linguistics and related disciplines
such as logic, computer science, cognitive sciences, teaching, and
social sciences. Specific domains of interdisciplinary co-operation
are: Natural Language Processing, 1st and 2nd Language Acquisition,
Language Teaching, Text linguistics and Conversation-analysis and
Language- and Speech technology. The research policy of UiL OTS is
focused on making full use of the added value of this concentration of
research and strengthen the national and international position of the
institute.

UiL OTS searches an ambitious and enthusiastic candidate for

1 Post Doc researcher

Start: to be negociated.  Duration: 2 years.

The envisaged project deals with the role of prosody in language
processing, specifically interactions between intonation and syntactic
phenomena such as extraposition and heavy-NP-shift. A project proposal
is available on request or can be downloaded from our internet-site
( http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl ).

Given the complexities involved in dealing with the relation between
the grammatical components, and the relation between the grammar and
the production system, the candidate should bring a solid background
in linguistics and/or phonetics, and a demonstrated expertise in
experimental techniques (that is, designing, conducting, and
statistically interpreting experiments).

We offer a stimulating and innovative research environment with many
international contacts, a program which offers possibilities for
collaboration with specialists in a broad area of linguistics, good
experimental facilities, etc. Salary indication max. Dfl. 7618,= per
month (gross). Further information can be obtained by sending an
e-mail with specific questions to uil-ots at let.uu.nl (subject: postdoc
Prosody) or by phone +31-30-2536006. Applications may be sent before
October 28 to the Faculteit Letteren, Universiteit Utrecht,
Vacancynumber 68926 t.a.v. de heer A.A. van Fulpen,
personeelsconsulent, Kromme Nieuwegracht 46, 3512 HJ
Utrecht. Notification of application should be sent by E-mail before
October 21 to uil-ots at let.uu.nl. Applications should be accompanied by
a curriculum vitae, two references, and a list of publications.


Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS
UiL OTS

voice: #31 (0)30-2536006
fax: #31 (0)30-2536000
postal address:
Trans 10, 3512 JK,
Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 08:04:20 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:04:20 +0200
Subject: Appel: NLP+IA 2000/TAL+AI 2000
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.100420.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Chadia Moghrabi <moghrac at Umoncton.ca>



THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS DECEMBER 6, 1999 ***NOT 2000***
Our apologies for multiple postings.
                            CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITS
                       Appel aux communications & expositions

                            INTERNATIONAL CONFERE
                                      ON
             NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
                   SPECIAL ACCENT ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
                          NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000

                              MARCH 24-27, 2000
                         Mariott Hotel,  HURGHADA, EGYPT

                           Conference internationale
                   sur le traitement automatique des langues et
                         ses applications industrielles
                               24-27 mars, 2000
                      Attention speciale portee au domaine medical
           24-27 mars, 2000
          Hotel Mariott, Hurghada, Egypte



TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The NLP Study Group (GRETAL) at l'Universit? de Moncton is organising its
third international conference on NLP and industrial applications. This
year a special attention is given to medical applications.

Papers are invited on all aspects of natural language processing,
including, but not limited to:.
- natural language understanding and generation of textual, spoken
  and  hand-written language,
- natural language interfaces to databases, expert systems, or industrial
  applications
- machine translation, computer aided translation, translation  aids,
- syntax, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, morphology,
- dictionaries, corpora, & other language resources
- multimodality
- multilinguality
- CALL
- NLP industrial applications
- papers of every kind that can help bridge the gap between the theory and
  practice of NLP in general and particularly in a medical domain.

Authors are invited to submit preliminary versions of their papers not
exceeding 1000 words (exclusive of references) either in English or in
French, the two official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be
published in the language of the submitted texts.


SUBMISSION:

1) The first page should be an identification page containing the title,
the authors' names, affiliations, addresses, a five (5) keyword list
specifying the subject area, a five (5) line summary, and the name and
address of the contact person.

         TITLE/ Titre:
         AUTHORS / Auteurs
         KEYWORDS/ Mots clefs:
         SUMMARY/ Resume:
         CONTACT PERSON/ Personne contact:

2) Submissions should not exceed 1000 words in length excluding references
(12 pt, times roman, 1 inch margins (2.5 cm) all around; if using A4
please keep top margin at 2.5 cm and text within 19cm x 25.5 cm).

3) The identification page and the actual text should be submitted in 4
HARD COPIES to

 NLP+IA 2000 / TAL+AI 2000
 Pr. Chadia Moghrabi
 Universite' de Moncton,
 Facult? des sciences,
 Departement d'informatique
 Moncton, NB, Canada, E1A 3E9

 Phone: 1 (506) 858-4521
 Fax:  1 (506) 858-4541
 E-mail: gretal at info.umoncton.ca

4) The identification page should also be e-mailed in plain text.


REFEREEING:

All submissionss shall be refereed by three members of the Program
committee.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France)
Sadek Eid (U. de Moncton, U. Cairo, Egypt)
Ruddy Lelouche (U. Laval, Canada)
Chadia Moghrabi (U. de Moncton, Canada)

 More to be confirmed...


DEADLINES:

Submissions are due on  December 6, 1999.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by  January 21, 2000.
Camera-ready copies of final full papers must be received by the 1st of
March, 2000 along with registration fees.

Authors are also requested to indicate their intention to participate in
the conference as soon as possible to the same e-mail address with the
single word INTENTION in the subject line.


EXHIBITS:
Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration can send a
brief electronic description along with a specification of physical
requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs,
etc.) to gretal at info.umoncton.ca with the single word EXHIBIT in the
subject line.


OTHER ACTIVITIES:

Hurgada is a beautiful sea resort with coral beaches ideal for diving and
snorkelling.  A travel agency will be handling any sightseeing in
Hurghada, Cairo, or other Egyptian tourist activities. It would be the year
2000
and what a historic place to be visiting.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

The conference is organised by GRETAL, the NLP study group at Universite'
de Moncton in co-operation with the American University of Cairo. The
members of the organising committee are:

Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Conference chair,
                 Universite' de Moncton
Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, Conference co-chair,
           University of Cairo
Luc LeBlanc, Computer Science student & research assistant at Gretal,
             Universite' de Moncton
More to come...


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 08:04:30 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:04:30 +0200
Subject: Appel: QUALICO-2000
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.100430.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Harald Baayen <baayen at mpi.nl>




             ***************************
                     QUALICO-2000
              ***************************

          Fourth International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics

       24 - 26 August, 2000
      Prague, Czech Republic


                            FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


The International Quantitative Linguistics Association invites the
submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished
research on all aspects of Quantitative Linguistics, including, but
not limited to, the following.

1. Observations and descriptions of all aspects of language and text
   phenomena, including the areas of psycholinguistics,
   sociolinguistics, dialectology, pragmatics etc. as far as they use
   quantitative mathematical methods (probability theory, stochastic
   processes, statistics, differential and difference equations, fuzzy
   logic and set theory, function theory etc.), on all levels of
   linguistic analysis.

2. Applications of methods, models, or findings from quantitative
   linguistics to problems of natural language processing, machine
   translation, language teaching, documentation and information
   retrieval.

3. Methodological problems of linguistic measurement, model
   construction, sampling and test theory.

4. Epistemological issues such as explanation of language and text
   phenomena, contributions to theory construction, system theory,
   philosophy of science.

Reports on ongoing projects are also welcome as far as they concern
any of the topics mentioned above.


REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Papers should be sent for a 20 minute presentation (plus 10 minutes
discussion) on the above-mentioned topics, preferably in English
(German and French will be also accepted). Submissions should be
between 1000-1500 words and should begin with the title, author(s),
addresses (including e-mail if possible), affiliation and a
specification of the topic area.

Authors should send proposals for papers in camera-ready form (ASCII,
postscript, or RTF format) to the following e-mail address:

qualico at mpi.nl

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2000.
Note of acceptance: 15 March 2000.


For further information about the abstract submission please contact

 Lanneke van Dreumel
 Interfaculty Research Unit for Language and Speech
 Wundtlaan 1
 PB 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen
 The Netherlands

 Phone : +31 - (0)24 - 3615751
        Fax   : +31 - (0)24 - 3521213
        E-mail: qualico at mpi.nl

For further information about the conference contact the local
organizer:

 Jan Kralik and Ludmilla Uhlirova
        E-mail: KRALIK at Galaxie.ujc.cas.cz


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 08:05:14 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:05:14 +0200
Subject: Appel: Evolang
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.100514.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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




( Apologies for multiple copies )

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


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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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

Sponsored by
  - Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des T?l?communications
  - Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
  - Fondation Louis Leprince-Ringuet
  - Groupe des Ecoles de T?l?communications
  - CNRS
  - France Telecom CNET


Some of the issues that will be discussed are:

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

 . origin of phonetic abilities

 . origin of syntax

 . origin of symbolic representation semantic abilities

 . evolutionary significance of language, compatibility with natural
selection

 . language and the origin of culture

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

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


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

 . evolution of phonetic systems

 . evolution of the lexicon

 . evolution of grammar structures



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

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

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

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

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

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

 evolang at infres.enst.fr

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


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

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



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

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


Last NAME :

First Name :

Laboratory :

Organization/Affiliation :

Street Address :

City :

Postal code:

State/Province :

Country :

E-mail address for correspondence :

Fax :

Paper title :



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

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


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 08:05:21 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:05:21 +0200
Subject: Ecole: Syllabe
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.100521.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jean-Pierre Angoujard <jean-pierre.angoujard at humana.univ-nantes.fr>


[English version below]


SEMINAIRE:

ANALYSE DECLARATIVE DE LA SYLLABE

UNIVERSITE DE NANTES
2-24 mars 2000

Organisateur: Jean-Pierre ANGOUJARD (professeur ? l'Universit? de
Nantes)
              Equipe "Acoustique, Acquisition et Interpr?tation"
(AAI-JE2220)
(en collaboration avec John REIGHARD, professeur ? l'Universit? de
Montr?al)

OBJECTIFS

Ce s?minaire semi-intensif (24h) n'a pas pour but premier d'offrir une
initiation ? la Phonologie D?clarative. Il s'adresse a priori aux
chercheurs, enseignants et ?tudiants de 3?me cycle qui ont d?j? une
connaissance raisonnable de l'approche d?clarative (Bird, 1990, 1995;
Angoujard, 1997b).

Il s'agira de mesurer et de discuter les apports de la Phonologie
D?clarative ? l'analyse des structures syllabiques dans les langues du
monde. L'objet "syllabe" est d?j?, en soi, tout un programme (Angoujard,

1997a). Plusieurs travaux en cours, notamment ? Nantes et ? Montr?al,
ont
pour ambition de mettre en place une conception strictement d?clarative
de
cet objet.

Nous chercherons, au cours de ce s?minaire, ? confronter les diff?rentes

perspectives et ? progresser vers une meilleure compr?hension des
contraintes, tant universelles (principes) que sp?cifiques (param?tres),

qui gouvernent l'organisation syllabique.

ORGANISATION

Ce s?minaire aura lieu ? raison de 2 fois 3 heures hebdomadaires (les
jeudi
et vendredi de 14h ? 17h) durant 4 semaines (du 2 au 24 mars 2000). Il
se
tiendra ? l'Universit? de Nantes (Facult? des Lettres et Sciences
Humaines,
b?timent Censive, salle 4046).

La participation ? ce s?minaire est gratuite (les d?placements et les
frais
de s?jours sont ? la charge des participants).Ce s?minaire est ouvert,
en
priorit?, aux chercheurs, enseignants et ?tudiants de 3?me cycle des
universit?s de Nantes et de Montr?al. Il est ?galement ouvert, sur
demande
adress?e ? l'organisateur, ? toute autre personne int?ress?e par le
sujet
retenu. Tout participant qui souhaiterait animer une s?ance (ou partie
de
s?ance) de ce s?minaire est pri?e d'en avertir l'organisateur avant le
31
d?cembre 1999.

Adresse :       Jean-Pierre Angoujard
                Facult? des Lettres et Sciences Humaines
                Chemin de la Censive du Tertre
                BP 81227
                44312 NANTES CEDEX 3 ? France
e-mail : jean-pierre.angoujard at humana.univ-nantes.fr

PROGRAMME (provisoire, partiel et non ordonn?)

Le "mod?le rythmique" : une analyse d?clarative par "principes et
param?tres"
de la syllabe (J.P. Angoujard)
La syllabe en fran?ais, quelles sp?cificit?s?
Le langage Prolog et l'analyse d?clarative (J. Reighard)
Longueur vocalique et diphtongaison dans le fran?ais de Montr?al (A.
Th?riault)
Glides et structure syllabique en fran?ais (D. Pourin)
L'approche d?clarative: quelles cons?quences pour l'acquisition (S.
Wauquier-Gravelines)

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

SEMINAR
DECLARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SYLLABLE

UNIVERSITE DE NANTES
2-24 March 2000

Organised by Jean-Pierre Angoujard (Professor, Universite de Nantes),
        "Acoustics, acquisition and Interpretation" Team, (AAI-JE2220)
        In collaboration with John Reighard (Professor, Universite de
Montreal)

GOALS
        This semi-intensive seminar (24 hours) is aimed at researcher,
professor or graduate student, already familiar with Declarative
Phonology
(DP) (Bird, 1990, 1995; Angoujard, 1997b). It will be an occasion for
the
participants to discuss and measure the impact of DP on the analysis of
the
syllabic structure in the world languages. The object "syllable" is in
itself a program (Angoujard 1997a). Many research projects are held
around
the world (in Montreal and Nantes to name a few) in order to give to
this
object a strictly declarative conception.
        During this seminar, different perspectives will be confronted
in
order to progress towards a better understanding of the constraints,
universal (principle) and specific (parameters), governing the syllable.

ORGANISATION

This seminar will be held twice a week (Thursday and Friday from 2pm to
4pm) for 4 consecutive weeks (2-24 March 2000) at Universite de Nantes
(Faculte des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, batiment Censive, salle
4046).

There will be no charge to this seminar (transportation and
accommodation
are to the responsibility of the participant). This seminar is mainly
addressed to researchers, professors and graduate students of Universite
de
Nantes and Universite de Montreal. It is also open to any other
interested
person (a request must be addressed to the organiser). Any one
interested
in directing a session (or part of a session) should get in touch with
the
organiser before December 31 1999

Address :       Jean-Pierre Angoujard
                Facult? des Lettres et Sciences Humaines
                Chemin de la Censive du Tertre
                BP 81227
                44312 NANTES CEDEX 3 ? France
e-mail : jean-pierre.angoujard at humana.univ-nantes.fr

PROGRAM (partial)

"Rhythmic model" : a "principle and parameter" declarative analysis of
the
syllable (Jean-Pierre Angoujard)
The syllable in French, what specificity?
Prolog language and declarative analysis (John Reighard)
Vowel length and diphtongisation in Montreal French (Alain Theriault)
Glide and syllabic structure in French (Delphine Pourin)
Declarative approach: consequences for acquisition (Sophie
Wauquier-Gravelines)

Angoujard, Jean-Pierre (1997a), Th?orie de la syllabe. Rythme et
qualit?,
CNRS-?ditions
Angoujard, Jean-Pierre (1997b), La phonologie d?clarative, Langages 125,

Nouvelles phonologies, pp. 35-54.
Bird, Steven (1990), Constraint Based Phonology. Ph.D. Dissertation,
University of Edinburg
Bird, Steven (1995), Computational Phonology, A constraint-based
approach,
Cambridge University Press


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 14 08:06:06 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:06:06 +0200
Subject: Conf: NLPNN'99
Message-ID: <THU.14.OCT.1999.100606.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: nlprs 99 <nlprs99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr>




           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
        NLPNN'99: NLP and NEURAL NET Workshop
              A Pre-Workshop of NLPRS'99
            Date: 5/Nov/1999
  Http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/nlprs99



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

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


======================================================================
NLPNN'99 Program

November 5 1999

13:00-13:30
(1)Automated Language Processing with Neural Networks: the ALPINE
   Partial Parser [Caroline Lyon]

13:30-13:45
(2)Connectionist Learning Applied to a Brazilian Portuguese Grammar
   Checking [Andreia Gentil Bonfante and Dra. Maria das Gracas Volpe
   Nunes]

13:45-14:00
(3)Syntactic Analysis using Heterogeneous Neural Networks [B. K. Murthy]

14:00-14:30
(4)Performance of Structural Generalization in Connectionist Japanese
   Complex Sentence Parser [Minoru Motoki and Yoshio Shimazu]

14:30-14:45
(5)Simplifying and Employment of Feature-Uniform Based HPSG Grammatical
   Theory [Xie Jinbao and Qian Wenbo]

14:45-15:00
(6)A Receptive Field Neural Network which Learns to Describe Facial
   Expressions [James M. Hogan, Michael Norris, and Joachim Diederich]

15:00-15:15
(7)Multifeature-Based Approach to Automatic Error Detection and
   Correction of Chinese Text [Lei Zhang, Ming Zhou, Changning Huang,
   and Haihua Pan]

15:15-15:30
Coffee Break

15:30-16:00
(8)Name Searching with Artificial Neural Networks [Mark Lewellen]

16:00-16:30
(9)Thai Text-Dependent Speaker Identification by ANN with Two
   Differences Time Normalization Techniques [Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Sutat
   Sae-tang, and Chularat Tanprasert]

16:30-17:00
(10)Part of Speech Tagging with Mixed Approaches of Neural Networks and
    Transformation Rules [Qing Ma, Masaki Murata, Masao Utiyama,
    Kiyotaka Uchimoto, and Hitoshi Isahara]

17:00-17:15
(11)Massively Parallel POS Tagging Using Min-Max Modular Neural Network
    [Bao-Liang Lu, Qing Ma, Michinori Ichikawa, and Hitoshi Isahara]

17:15-17:45
(12)Sparsely-Connected Recurrent Neural Networks for Natural Language
    Learning [Claire D'Este, Michael Towsey, and Joachim Diederich]

17:45-18:00
(13)Natural Language Processing with Recurrent Neural Networks as
    Finite-State Automata with External Parallel-Access Memory [Roman
    Pozarlik]

18:00-18:15
(14)Evolution of Symbolisation: A Connectionist Exploration [Ronan
    G. Reilly]


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 15 10:23:30 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:23:30 +0100
Subject: Q: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <FRI.15.OCT.1999.112330.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:06:22 +0200
From: "Adnane ZRIBI" <adn at gnet.tn>
Message-Id: <01bf166e$d2dbd860$230101c1 at adn.GNet.tn>


Question:
Recherche r?f?rence bibliographique sur le th?me "r?sum? automatique"
Merci d'avance
Chiraz Zribi


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 15 14:29:48 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:29:48 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <FRI.15.OCT.1999.152948.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

    ________________________________________________________________
    1/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:28:58 +0200
    From: Thierry Poibeau <Thierry.Poibeau at lcr.thomson-csf.com>

    2/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:59:24 +0200
    From: Bernard Normier <Bernard.Normier at lexiquest.fr>

    3/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:13:57 +0200 (MET DST)
    From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr>
    ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________
1/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:28:58 +0200
From: Thierry Poibeau <Thierry.Poibeau at lcr.thomson-csf.com>
Message-ID: <38071E0A.EFB9C3A0 at lcr.thomson-csf.com>


Quelques r?f?rences jusqu'en 1995 (et aucune en hittite)...
Thierry

[Alterman & Bookman 1990]
Alterman Richard et Bookman Lawrence (1990), "Some computational
experiments in summerization", Discourse Processing, n?13.

[Ben Hamadou & al. 1995]
Ben Hamadou Abdelmajid, Ben Mefteh Emma et Jaoua Maher (1995), "Une
m?thode d'extraction des id?es cl?s d'un document en vue de le r?sumer",
IA'95-G?nie Linguistique 95 (Montpellier).

[Berri Jawad  & al. 1994]
Berri Jawad, Descl?s Jean-Pierre, Jackiewicz Agata, Malrieu Denise et
Minel Jean-Luc (1994), "Le r?sum? automatique par exploration
contextuelle", Rapport interne du CAMS n?95/1 (recueil des
communications du CAMS effectu?es aux Rencontres Cognisciences Est, le
25 nov. 1994 ? Nancy).

[Berri Jawad  & al. 1995a]
Berri Jawad, Le Roux Dominique, Malrieu Denise et Minel Jean-Luc (1995),
"SERAPHIN : syst?me pour l'extraction automatique d'?nonc?s importants",
IA'95-G?nie Linguistique 95 (Montpellier), repris dans les Actes du
congr?s sur les syt?mes d'information ?labor?e  1995 (Ile rousse).

[Berri Jawad  & al. 1995b]
Berri Jawad, Le Roux Dominique, Malrieu Denise et Minel Jean-Luc (1995),
"SERAPHIN : main sentences automatic extraction automatic system",
Second language engineering convention (Londres).

[de Beugny d'Hagerue Herv? 1995]
de Beugny d'Hagerue Herv? (1995), De l'extraction automatique au r?sum?
automatique, Rapport de DEA, IFSIC-Universit? de Rennes I.

[Endres-Niggebauer Brigitte & al. 1995]
Endres-Niggebauer Brigitte, Maier Elisabeth et Sigel Alexander (1995),
"How to implement a naturalistic model of abstracting: four core working
steps of an expert abstractor", Information processing and management
(Elsevier Science), vol.31, n?5.

[Grize 1992]
Grize J.B. (1992), "R?sumer, mais pour qui ?", in Le R?sum? de texte,
Klincksieck, Paris.

[Kittredge  & Polgu?re 1991]
Kittredge R. et Polgu?re A. (1991), "Generating extended bilingual texts
from application knowledge bases", International Workshop on Fundamental
Research for the Future Generation of Natural Language Processing
(Kyoto).

[Lehmam 1995]
Lehmam Abderrafih (1995), Le r?sum? automatique de textes scientifiques
et techniques : aspects linguistiques et computationnels. R?alisation
d'un prototype proc?dant par extraction de phrases du texte source : le
syst?me de R?sum? Automatique par Fragments Indicateurs RAFI, th?se de
l'Universit? Nancy 2.

[Lenhert 1982]
Lenhert G. Wendy (1982), "Plot units: a narrative summarization
strategy", in Strategies for natural language processing, Wendy Lenhert
& Martin Ringle (eds.), Hillsdale (New York).

[Le Roux  & al. 1993]
Le Roux Dominique et Monteil Marie-Ga?lle (1993), "Perspective
d'automatisation de l'activit? r?sumante : pr?sentation du projet
SERAPHIN", Rapports internes EDF  HN-52/93/024 et HN-46/93/064.

[Le Roux  & al. 1994]
Le Roux Dominique, Minel Jean-Luc et Berri Jawad (1994), "SERAPHIN
project: the industrial approach", Rapport interne EDF  HN-52/94/045.

[Malrieu 1994]
Malrieu Denise (1994), "Extraction d'?nonc?s importants dans les textes
de recherche empirique", Rapport interne du CAMS n?95/1 (recueil des
communications du CAMS effectu?es aux Rencontres Cognisciences Est, le
25 nov. 1994 ? Nancy).

[Masson  1993]
Masson Nicolas (1993), Etude et r?alisation d'un module de r?sum?
automatique de textes s'int?grant dans un syst?me g?n?ral de
compr?hension des langues, Rapport de DEA, Universit? d'Orsay.

[Masson  1995]
Masson Nicolas (1995), "An automatic method for document structuring",
ACM-SIGIR 95 (Seattle).

[Reimer & Hahn 1987]
Reimer Ulrich et Hahn Udo, "Text condensation as knowledge base
abstraction",  4th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications,
San Diego (Californie).

[Renouf 1995]
Renouf Antoinette et Collier Alex (1995), "A system of automatic textual
abridgement", IA'95-G?nie Linguistique 95 (Montpellier).

[Riloff 1993]
Riloff Ellen (1993), "A corpus-based approach to domain-specific text
summarization: a proposal", in Summarizing text for intelligent
communication, Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer, Jerry Hobbs, Karen Sparck
Jones (ed.), Rapport du s?minaire de Dagstuhl.

[S?billot 1995]
S?billot Pascale (1995), "From automatic extraction to automatic
abstract", in Actes de CLIN-95, Anvers (Belgique).

________________________________________________________________
2/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:59:24 +0200
From: Bernard Normier <Bernard.Normier at lexiquest.fr>
Message-ID: <D46E9A0E0D3FD111BC4200609750221C7ECFD8 at anona>


Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization
Workshop ACL 11 July 1997

________________________________________________________________
3/Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:13:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr>
Message-Id: <v0310280ab42cf02265a3@[129.88.32.65]>


Dans un premier temps, consulter les r?f?rences des articles sur le sujet
dans TALN-99, -98, -97 et dans LTT-97 (Tunis).
CB

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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 15 14:36:18 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:36:18 +0100
Subject: Q: Bibliographie sur la correction grammaticale
Message-ID: <FRI.15.OCT.1999.153618.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:17:41 +0200
From: "Adnane ZRIBI" <adn at gnet.tn>
Message-Id: <01bf16ee$498f0340$230101c1 at adn.GNet.tn>


Question:
 Recherche r?f?rence bibliographique sur le th?me "correction automatique
des erreurs grammaticales "
pour les langues suivantes : fran?ais, anglais et arabe
 Merci d'avance


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct 18 11:59:01 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:59:01 +0200
Subject: Appel: ANLP-NAACL
Message-ID: <MON.18.OCT.1999.135901.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: maybury at mitre.org (Dr. Mark T. Maybury)

[Appologies if you receive this message multiple times]


                             ***  NEW WEB SITE  ****

                        http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000

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

                                 CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished
contributions to computational linguistics are solicited. (See the
separate Call for Student Papers to be announced soon for requirements
for submissions to the student sessions.) Submissions are due by 17
November 1999. See submission details at
http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for Tutorial Proposal Submissions     October 28, 1999
Deadline for Workshop Submissions              November 1, 1999
Deadline for Paper Submissions                 November 17, 1999


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct 18 11:59:09 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:59:09 +0200
Subject: Appel: IWPT 2000
Message-ID: <MON.18.OCT.1999.135909.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


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

              F i n a l   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.


    !~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!
    !  IWPT 2000 will feature the following invited speakers:  !
    !                                                          !
    !               ERIC BRILL (Microsoft Research)            !
    !    MARTIN KAY (Stanford University and Xerox Research)   !
    !             GIORGIO SATTA (University of Padua)          !
    !                                                          !
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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 chair 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 the URL:
 http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/carroll/iwpt2000-submit.html
or on the SIGPARSE home page:
 http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/


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
AIIA, 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 lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct 18 11:59:05 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:59:05 +0200
Subject: Appel:  LFG-2000
Message-ID: <MON.18.OCT.1999.135905.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Rachel Nordlinger <r.nordlinger at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>


      FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
    LFG2000

  2000 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL
     GRAMMAR CONFERENCE


                       19 July - 20 July 2000

        The University of California at Berkeley
        as part of the BERKELEY FORMAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE 2000
            URL: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000/

     Submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2000
         Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee
         (see addresses below)


The 5th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
held as a part of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000 at the
University of California, Berkeley from July 19-23 2000.  The Berkeley
event will consist of LFG2000 (July 19-20), HPSG2000 (July 22-23) and
a common day of workshops between them (July 21), entitled Lexical and
Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based Grammar.  This event
will offer a rare opportunity for interaction among researchers of the
two frameworks.

LFG2000 welcomes work both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and typological, formal, and computational
work within the 'spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language
employing a parallel, constraint-based framework.  The conference aims
to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested
in nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the
interaction of constraints from multiple levels, including category
information, grammatical relations, and semantic information.  Further
information about the syntactic theory LFG can be obtained from:

        http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/



SUBMISSIONS

The conference will primarily involve 30-minute talks, and possibly a
workshop.  Talks will focus on results from completed as well as
ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods,
ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or
computational.  Presentations should describe original, unpublished
work.

Abstracts and papers must be received by February 15, 1999, and should
be submitted to the program committee chairs at the address given
below. For further information or offers of organisational help,
contact the local organisers at the address below.



WORKSHOPS

Workshops are a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that
can be expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the
broader audience. Participants to workshops are usually
invited. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among
participants and participants should refer to each others approaches.

Past LFG Conferences have included two or three workshops.  Since
LFG2000 is shorter than usual, and there is a common day of workshops
between LFG2000 and HPSG2000 on July 21, we may not have any workshops
specific to LFG2000.  However, at this point in time, we welcome
suggestions for workshops from potential organisers or people with
certain interests.  Suggestions for workshops specific to LFG2000
should be sent to the program committee:
r.nordlinger at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au and manning at csli.stanford.edu.
Suggestions for workshops for the common day on Lexical and
Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based Grammar should be sent
to the local organizers at bfg2000 at linguistics.berkeley.edu.


TIMETABLE

 Deadline for receipt of submissions:              15 February 1999

 Acceptances sent out:                                     31 March 1999

 Conference:                                                   19 July - 20
July 1999



SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

People may submit either abstracts or full length papers for
refereeing. The advantages of full paper submission are that it allows
better assessment of your work and that (at least for some people)
accepted refereed full papers count as a higher status publication.

Full length papers. Papers should be no more than 15 pages, including
figures and references, in 11 or 12pt type, on A4/US Letter paper. The
printed text area must not exceed 165x230mm (6.5x9 inches), and should
be centred horizontally and vertically on the page.  Omit name and
affiliation, and obvious self reference from the version for
review. Papers should include a roughly 100-200 word abstract at the
beginning.

Abstracts. Abstracts should be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and
include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self
reference. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related
structures, and references.

Papers/abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail (or by
both means as a safety measure). Email submission is preferred.

Regular Mail
Include:
- Five copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with the paper title, name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, and
whether the author(s) are students.

Email.

Include the paper title, name(s) of the author(s), address, phone/fax
number, email address, and whether the author(s) are students in the
body of your email message.  Include or preferably attach your paper
as either a plain ASCII text, PDF, HTML, or postscript file.
Postscript files require special care to avoid problems: make sure the
system is set to include all fonts or at least all but the standard
13; if using a recent version of Word, make sure you click the printer
Properties button and then the Postscript tab, and there choose
Optimize for Portability; on all platforms make sure the system is not
asking for a particular paper size or other device-specific
configuration.  It is your responsibility to send us a file that us
and our reviewers can print.  You can often test this by trying to
look at the file in a previewer.

All papers/abstracts will be reviewed by at least two people.
Papers will appear in the proceedings which will be published online
by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed
volume published by CSLI Publications.

ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Send paper/abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee Chairs:
                 Chris Manning <manning at csli.stanford.edu>
                 Rachel Nordlinger <r.nordlinger at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>

Mail:
                               LFG2000
                               c/- Chris Manning
                               Linguistics Department
                               Stanford University
                               Stanford, CA 94305-2150
                               USA


Contact the local conference organisers at: bfg2000 at linguistics.berkeley.edu


ALL OTHER INFORMATION including accommodation and registration details
will be included in a subsequent call for papers.  Following recent LFG
tradition, it is our hope that there will be an outdoorsy social event
prior to the beginning of LFG2000 --- watch this space for further
information.


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

Dr. Rachel Nordlinger
Dept. of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
AUSTRALIA
ph. +61-(0)3-9344-4215, fax. +61-(0)3-9344-8990


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct 18 11:59:15 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:59:15 +0200
Subject: Soft: CORDIAL 6 Universites
Message-ID: <MON.18.OCT.1999.135915.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Dominique LAURENT" <dlaurent at synapse-fr.com>


CORDIAL 6 Universit?s

SYNAPSE D?veloppement a le plaisir d'annoncer la sortie de CORDIAL6
Universit?s. Cette nouvelle version offre une plate-forme de travail tr?s
compl?te pour le traitement du langage naturel :
? ?tiqueteur morpho-syntaxique avec lemmatiseur, fournissant le lemme, le
type grammatical, le nombre d'ambigu?t?s, le num?ro de proposition, le
groupe grammatical d'appartenance, la fonction grammaticale du groupe, etc.
L'ensemble des param?tres propos?s peuvent ?tre sauvegard?s ou non, le
codage est compatible avec celui d?fini lors du projet GRACE.
? Extraction de phrases de corpus.
? Analyse logique visualisable avec d?sambigu?sation s?mantique.
? Correction orthographique et syntaxique.
? Occurrences orthographiques et grammaticales.
? Recherche de mots-cl?s, de syntagmes-cl?s, de phrases-cl?s, de
concepts-cl?s.
? Statistiques extr?mement compl?tes (plus de 60 variables).
? Comparaison avec 2000 ouvrages (dont les 2/3 ont parus ces 50 derni?res
ann?es), etc.

 En ?tiquetage grammatical, les performances mesur?es sur deux fichiers
t?moins du corpus Multext sont les suivantes :
JOC051 99,58% correctement ?tiquet?s (r?solution des ambigu?t?s
grammaticales)
JOC081 99,61% correctement ?tiquet?s (r?solution des ambigu?t?s
grammaticales)
 Les probl?mes r?siduels concernent certains mots ? la fois noms et
adjectifs et certains mots outils ("que", "comme"...).
 D'une fa?on g?n?rale, les performances ont ?t? tr?s nettement am?lior?es
dans cette version 6 de Cordial, du fait de l'introduction de pr?s d'un
million d'informations s?mantiques et de la d?sambigu?sation s?mantique
effectu?e (avec un taux de r?ussite d'environ 80% ? ce jour).

Plate-formes accept?es : Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4. Occupation
disque : 35 Mo. M?moire n?cessaire : 16 Mo minimum. Lecteur de CD
obligatoire.

Tarifs : Nous proposons Cordial 6 Universit?s au prix de 690F TTTC (572,14F
HT). A partir de 3 postes, le tarif par poste est de 345 F TTC (286,07F HT)


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 18 13:12:09 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 14:12:09 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <MON.18.OCT.1999.141209.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:16:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev at cs.columbia.edu>
Message-Id: <199910151516.LAA05187 at diamond.cs.columbia.edu>
X-url: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/summarization/


Vous pouvez en trouver une a:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/summarization/


Dragomir

--
Dragomir R. Radev                     http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev
Natural Language Processing Group     Columbia University CS Department
Home: 212-749-9770                   Office: 914-784-7899, 212-939-7121


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 22 17:11:50 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 18:11:50 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur la correction grammaticale
Message-ID: <FRI.22.OCT.1999.181150.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:52:08 +0200
From: Thierry Poibeau <Thierry.Poibeau at lcr.thomson-csf.com>
Message-ID: <380B5038.12132803 at lcr.thomson-csf.com>


Il y a des choses chez Microsoft (he oui), sur la page du groupe qui
s'int?resse au TALN (http://research.microsoft.com). Pour la correction
non automatique des erreurs grammaticales et autres, il reste
l'irremplacable Grevisse :) !

Thierry (documentaliste amateur)


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 22 17:12:57 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 18:12:57 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <FRI.22.OCT.1999.181257.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:52:08 +0200
From: Thierry Poibeau <Thierry.Poibeau at lcr.thomson-csf.com>
Message-ID: <380B5038.12132803 at lcr.thomson-csf.com>


Une des biblios les plus compl?tes sur le sujet se trouve dans le
support du Tutoriel sur le r?sum? de textes qui a ?t? donn? ? IJCAI'99
par Inderjeet Mani et Udo Hahn (une quinzaine de page de biblio ? jour).

Inderjeet est aussi l'?diteur d'un livre sur la question, chez MIT
Press.


Thierry (documentaliste amateur)


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon Oct 25 16:31:40 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 17:31:40 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <MON.25.OCT.1999.173140.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 07:41:56 +0100
From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <4.1.19991024073512.00963220 at pop-plovdiv.eunet.bg>


Could I share with the members of the LN list the following information.
Inderjeet Mani is writing a book on text summarisation. Part of the
book will be a substantial survey of the current state of art of text
summarisation and will feature an extensive list of references.

The book will appear within John Benjamin's NLP series and is expected
to come out by the end of 2000.

Watch out for it!

Ruslan


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Tue Oct 26 14:36:18 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:36:18 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.153618.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:47:07 -0200
From: "Tony Berber Sardinha" <tony4 at uol.com.br>
Message-ID: <004201bf1f3a$eaae02e0$a399d3c8 at computer>
X-url: http://sites.uol.com.br/tony4/homepage.html


Hi Ruslan and list members

The book has already come out, and I?ve just gotten my copy by
mail!

Details:

Mani, Iderjeet and Maybury, Mark T (1999) Advances in automatic
text summarization. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-13359-8

cheers
tony.
-------------------------------------
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 lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 26 13:48:57 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:48:57 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 8 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.154857.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Valerie Maes" <Valerie.Maes at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Computers & Ling-Language Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie
            Speech Products

2/ From:  Robert Dale <rdale at ics.mq.edu.au>
   Subject:  NLP-Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney,
        Australia

3/ From:  Pam Stopek <pstopek at doubleclick.net>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Content Classification Specialist/ New York  USA

4/ From:  "Lauren Marcus" <lmarcus at naturalquestion.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: Washington DC

5/ From:  "Valerie Maes" <Valerie.Maes at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Researchers: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products

6/ From:  "Stephen Kelly" <skelly at tmpw.co.uk>
   Subject:  Unilever Research

7/ From:  Geoffrey Sampson <geoffs at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
   Subject:  Comp Ling/Grammar-annotation: half-time researcher/England

8/ From:  y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Yorick Wilks)
   Subject:  NLP - Four research positions, University of Sheffield

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Valerie Maes" <Valerie.Maes at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Computers & Ling-Language Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie
            Speech Products


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 is
located in Ieper, Belgium.

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

LANGUAGE SPECIALIST DANISH & LANGUAGE SPECIALIST SWEDISH

for the Corporate R&D Division.

Duties:

These  persons will work on the development of Danish / Swedish speech
synthesis
systems.  They will work in a language development group and report to the
group
or project manager.

Required skills:

-    university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent
-    (near) native in the subject language
-    knowledge of phonetics
-    interest in other languages and their linguistic aspects
-    at least a basic experience with and interest in computers
-    good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following
areas
are considered an asset:
     - (near) native English
     - speech processing, esp. text-to-speech synthesis
     - phonetics
     - computer linguistics
     - natural language processing (NLP)
     - spoken dialog systems
     - computer technology
     - standard software packages
     - 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 application
and
 detailed resume to:

Job-Announce at lhs.be
Attn. Mrs. Valerie Maes
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Flanders Language Valley, 50
B-8900 Ieper (BELGIUM)

To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage
http://www.lhs.com


____________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  Robert Dale <rdale at ics.mq.edu.au>
   Subject:  NLP-Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney,
        Australia

[This job posting can also be found at
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/position/99-ad.htm, which is where you'll find
the summary app form mentioned below.  Enquiries can be directed as
outlined below, or you can send informal queries to me at
Robert.Dale at mq.edu.au]
- -----

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
Division of Information and Communication Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Natural Language Processing)
Full-time (continuing) Ref. 9956

The Department of Computing seeks an outstanding applicants for a position
at the Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level.

Applicants should have a PhD in Computing or a related field, an
established research record or evidence of outstanding research potential,
and the interest and ability to teach mainstream undergraduate computing.
For appointment at the Senior Lecturer level applicants must have
significant university teaching experience and an international research
reputation.

For the continuing positions we seek applicants who will strengthen our
established research profile in Natural Language Processing. Outstanding
applicants from other areas will also be considered and are encouraged to
apply.

The fixed-term positions are open to applicants from any research area in
modern computing. Applicants from industry are also encouraged to apply.

Enquiries about the position should be directed to Assoc Professor Michael
Johnson, Head of Department of Computing, on (02) 9850 9514 or e-mail
mike at ics.mq.edu.au

The positions are available on a full-time basis from February 2000, and
will be subject to the satisfactory completion of a probationary period.

Salary range:
Level B (Lecturer) $49,495 to $58,776 per annum, plus superannuation.
Level C (Senior Lecturer) $60,631 to $69,912 per annum plus superannuation.

Applications including Academic Staff Summary Application Form, together
with a full curriculum vitae and quoting the reference number, visa status,
and the names and addresses of three referees (including e-mail address)
should be forwarded to the Recruitment Manager, Personnel Office, Macquarie
University, NSW 2109 by 12 November 1999. Applications will not be
acknowledged unless specifically requested.


____________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Pam Stopek <pstopek at doubleclick.net>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Content Classification Specialist/ New York  USA


Rank of Job: ---
Areas Required: Content Classification Specialist
Other Desired Areas: ---
University or Organization: DoubleClick,Inc
Department: DATA
State or Province: New York
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: ---
Contact: Pam Stopek pstopek at doubleclick.net

Address for Applications:
please email to pstopek at doubleclick.net
New York
NY 10016
USA

DOUBLECLICK, INC (NYC)  http://www.doubleclick.net
Content Classification Specialist

Job Description:
Join the development team working on cutting edge Internet products.
Work with Engineers and Media Programmers to define and classify
Internet subject matter and marketing segments.  Group and classify
marketing and web advertising data in order to identify relevant
marketing segments.  Analyze clickstream behavior to determine its
relevance as it relates to identified market segments.

Qualifications:
Experience in market research and/or computational linguistics with a
concentration of media and marketing segmentation.  Individuals with
literary or other publications editing, or in library cataloging
settings will be considered if they have additional experience in data
and statistical analysis at some level.  A successful candidate must
have the ability to work independently and work well with people.
Although other jobs ask for "self-starters" and "independent thinkers"
this one truly requires these skills.

Please email resume to pstopek at doubleclick.net
____________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  "Lauren Marcus" <lmarcus at naturalquestion.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: Washington DC


As a dynamic start-up developing natural language-based software, nQuest
seeks an experienced Linguist/Lexicographer to join a growing team of
individuals expanding the company's on-line lexicon.  Qualified candidates
must have experience in computational linguistics or lexicography, as well
as with on-line lexical resources.  A strong background in syntax and
semantics is a must.

Experience in both project and people management is also essential, as the
position requires the ability to help structure a rapidly developing
database.  Strong organizational and administrative skills play key roles,
along with dedication to and interest in learning new information and
skills, and willingness to consider innovative approaches.

nQuest is located in Washington, DC and offers a casual, yet challenging
environment for motivated candidates.  Competitive salary, full benefits and
generous stock options granted.  Visit our Web site at
www.naturalquestion.com.  Please send cover letter and resume to
jobs at naturalquestion.com.

____________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  "Valerie Maes" <Valerie.Maes at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Researchers: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products


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.

Within the context of its partnership with INTEL, L&H is looking for:

RESEARCHERS

for the Technology & Solutions Division

Duties:

These people will be integrated into an existing R&D team composed of L&H
experts in two fields:

- UI, which covers Natural Language Dialogues, NLP, NLU, ...(This is
essentially linguistic techniques, not involving speech in a first
stage)

- Back-End, which is essentially Content Management technologies
(concept nets, domain structures, indexing, search engines, ...)  They
will interact with the Engineering Team and with the clients (in a
first phase) in order to analyze the requirements for improved
(user-friendly) UI and structured back-end and prepare generic modules
to be later adapted by the Engineering Team to specific clients.

These R&D people will report to the CTO or to the R&D manager.

Required skills:

- University degree in computational linguistics, linguistics or
  computer science
- 5 years' minimum experience in R&D in NLP, NLU or Dialogue
  technologies (proven track records)
- Interest in building generic modules for either the UI or the
  Back-End
- Two of the people shall be native or near French fluency in writing,
  reading and speaking
- Perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
- Fluent in English, with good oral and written communication skills
- Willing to travel for short periods

Desired skills:

- Willingness to be part of the creation of the seeds of next
  generation Man-Machine Interface Modules
- Ability and desire to work in a start-up company atmosphere
- Team spirit
- Good social and communicative skills
- The candidate works rigorously, and within schedules

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

Job-Announce at lhs.be
Attn. Mrs. Valerie Maes
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Flanders Language Valley, 50
B-8900 Ieper (BELGIUM)

To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage
http://www.lhs.com

____________________________________________________________________________

6/ From:  "Stephen Kelly" <skelly at tmpw.co.uk>
   Subject:  Unilever Research

Adaptive Computation Scientists

Wirral, NW England

At Unilever it is our ability to recognise and cater for the diverse yet
 subtle needs of a global marketplace, that differentiates us from the
 competition. Totally committed to scientific exploration and discovery, we
 invest ?550 million in pioneering new research to ensure that our products
 remain the preferred choice, 150 million times a day.

Adaptive Computation techniques play a key role in the development of a wide
 spectrum of our product and manufacturing applications for leading foods,
 home and personal care products including Impulse, Organics, Persil, Flora
 and Wall's Ice Cream. This is why we have recently established a Centre of
 Excellence in Port Sunlight that is committed to this area and to
developing
 and maintaining links with leading academics.

Here you will discover exciting opportunities for talented individuals who
 will relish the challenge of developing leading-edge solutions to complex
 industrial problems. A combination of world-class research and an
 understanding of how technology may be applied in practice will enable you
 to extend both your technological capabilities and application areas.

Flexible, self motivated and a strong team player with a broad scientific
 interest, you will need a high level of numeracy and the ability to work to
 tight deadlines. Your good first Degree encompassing a strong mathematical
 component should be supported by a PhD, MSc or industrial experience.

We are looking for one or two specialists in one or two of the following
areas:

*) Evolutionary systems; Multi-criteria optimisation; Adaptive Agents;
 Complex Adaptive Systems
*) Statistical Text Analysis; Computational Linguistics; Natural Language
 Engineering

As a world-leading organisation we can offer an attractive salary and
 benefits package and excellent career opportunities.

For informal enquiries contact: Shail.Patel at unilever.com

Make a noticeable difference to your career by writing with full a CV
quoting
 ref 1253/EL to Vanessa Gilroy, TMP Response Management, 32 Aybrook Street,
 London W1M 3JL, England. Or e-mail your details to: response at tmpw.co.uk

Closing date 12th November 1999.

For more information about Unilever Research and Unilever, visit our
 Internet Web Site at http://research.unilever.com
____________________________________________________________________________

7/ From:  Geoffrey Sampson <geoffs at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
   Subject:  Comp Ling/Grammar-annotation: half-time researcher/England


University of Sussex

School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences

There will be a vacancy for a half-time researcher to work
from January 2000 on Prof. G.R. Sampson's grammar-annotation
project, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council.
The main duties of the post will be to apply a detailed grammar-annotation
scheme, defined in Prof. Sampson's book <italics>English for the
Computer<end
italics> (O.U.P., 1995), to samples of written English, and to use
various software systems to process the annotations.

Qualifications sought are interest in fine details of the English language,
familiarity with traditional grammatical terminology, some computing
experience (preferably Unix-based), and willingness to work in
a painstaking style.  Since the new phase of research
has special relevance to young people's development of writing skills,
ability to cultivate contacts with the English-teaching profession at
secondary-school level would also be an advantage.  Working hours
flexible by negotiation.

The appointment will be on the RA1A scale, with starting salary pro rata
to a full-time rate of GBP 18,185 per annum, and will last for up to
three years.

To discuss this vacancy informally, e-mail Prof. Sampson at
geoffs at cogs.susx.ac.uk.  Further information
is available on Prof. Sampson's website at http://www.grs.u-net.com/
(see particularly the "LUCY" page).

Applications, including c.v. and names of two references, should be
sent by 24 November 1999 to Prof. G.R. Sampson,
School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences,
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, England.

____________________________________________________________________________

8/ From:  y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Yorick Wilks)
   Subject:  NLP - Four research positions, University of Sheffield


Four researchers are required for a period of 2 years (in the first
instance) to work in the Natural Language Processing Group of the
Department of Computer Science, at the University of Sheffield.

Two positions involve working on Information Extraction (IE) and on
the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE), which is a
domain-specific software architecture for research and development in
Human Language Technologies. The area of research in this project
(MUSE) will be the adaptivity of IE systems to new genres and
domains. The third post involves computational linguistics or
statistical expertise to work on an EPSRC-funded project (METER) on
the reuse of texts and its detection.  The fourth post involves
adapting IE work within a new EPSRC-funded project on the contents of
crime scenes (jointly with the University of Surrey).  The successful
candidates will preferably be competent programmers, probably with a
sound knowledge of Natural Language Processing theory and practice, or
statistical methods. Knowledge of some of the following will also be
an advantage:

*statistical language processing;
*Information Extraction research;
*user interface programming in Java;
*database programming, especially using JDBC (or ODBC);
*foreign languages, and the Unicode standard;
*corpus processing.

The NLP research group's work can be viewed at
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/
The appointments will be made on the RA1A or RA1B scales.

Further details of how to apply from (quoting reference R1842):
The Personnel Department,
Firth Court,
Western Bank,
Sheffield
S10 2TN.
Phone: +44 (0)114 222 1631
Informal enquiries may be made to Yorick Wilks (yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk)


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 26 13:49:10 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:49:10 +0200
Subject: Appel: TAG+5
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.154910.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Lionel Clement <lionel.clement at linguist.jussieu.fr>


*********************************************************************
                      ____  __   __    _    ___
                     (_  _)(  ) / _) _( )_ | __)
                       ||  /__\( (/\(_   _)|__ \
                      (__)(_)(_)\__/  (_)  (___/

                                TAG+5
                        International Workshop
          on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms
                          May 25 - 27, 2000
                        Jussieu, Paris, France

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


                        FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


(version fran?aise infra)

   The fifth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related
frameworks (hence the + after TAG) will be held at the University of
Paris 7, from May 25 to May 27 2000, sponsored by ATALA (Association
pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues).

   Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992),
Univ. Paris 7 (1994) and UPenn (1998).

   Original submissions on all aspects of TAGs (linguistic,
mathematical, computational, and applicational) are invited, as well
as those relating TAGs to other frameworks, lexicalized (dependency
grammars, categorial grammars...), tree-based (DTG, TFG, GB...) or
feature-based (LFG, HPSG...).

   As in the past, there will be some invited talks on other grammar
formalisms which have interesting relationships to TAGs.


ABSTRACTS:

   You can submit papers for three kinds of presentations: long talks
(25 minutes + 5 min for discussion), short talks (10 min + 5) and/or
tool demonstrations.

   Please note that an author (or a given set of co-authors) should
not submit more than one paper.

   Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the
author's name, nor any self-reference.
   Abstracts should be no longer than 4 pages. 2 hardcopies should be
sent by surface mail to:

   TAG+5
   UFRL, Universit? Paris 7
   TALaNa, case 7003
   2, place Jussieu
   F-75251 Paris cedex 05

   A separate identification page (with the following information :
title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, email
address, fax and telephone number) should also be included. Please
also indicate if you submitted your abstract to other conferences.
   Also a postcript file should be sent to tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr.
Please indicate "tag+5 submission" in the subject field.

Important : all postcript files MUST be in an A4 format
   Proceedings including extended versions of accepted abstracts will
be available at the workshop.

Languages of the workshop: English and French

   If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend,
we would appreciate if you could send a message. If you would like
to present a demo, please let us know as soon as possible, including
information about required hardware and software.

DATES:

   Deadline for submissions:                    January 22
   Notification of acceptance:                  March 3
   Deadline for camera-ready extended abstract: April 15
   Workshop Dates:                              May 25 to May 27


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

      PREMIER APPEL ? COMMUNICATION

   La cinqui?me conf?rence sur les grammaires d'arbres adjoints (TAG) et
autres formalismes proches (d'o? le +) aura lieu ? l'Universit? Paris
7 du 25 au 27 mai 2000 sous l'?gide de l'ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues).

   Les conf?rences pr?c?dentes se sont tenus ? Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn
(1992), Univ. Paris 7 (1994) et UPenn (1998).

   Les communications pourront porter sur tous les th?mes ayant
trait aux grammaires d'arbres adjoints (linguistique, math?matique,
informatique et applications) aussi bien que sur leur relations avec
d'autres th?ories linguistiques (grammaires de d?pendance, grammaires
cat?gorielles, DTG, TFG, GB, LFG, HPSG, etc.).

   Comme par le pass?, les conf?renciers invit?s pr?senteront des
travaux sur d'autres formalismes dont la relation avec TAG semble
int?ressante.


MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION

   Trois types de communications seront propos?s : longues (25min. +
5min.de questions), courtes (10min. + 5min.de questions) et
d?monstrations sur machine.

   Notez que chaque auteur et groupe d'auteurs ne doivent soumettre
qu'un seul r?sum?.

   Les r?sum?s anonymes de 4 pages au maximum seront envoy?s en deux
exemplaires par la poste avant le 22 janvier 2000 ? l'adresse suivante :

   TAG+5
   UFRL, Universit? Paris 7
   TALaNa, case 7003
   2, place Jussieu
   F-75251 Paris cedex 05

   Une page d'identification s?par?e (contenant le titre de la
communication, le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale et
?lectronique, le num?ro de t?l?phone et de fax de l'auteur) devra ?tre
jointe. Merci de pr?ciser si le r?sum? a ?t? soumis ? une autre
conf?rence.

   Le r?sum? doit ?galement ?tre envoy? par courrier ?lectronique au
format postscript ? l'adresse suivante : tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr avec
"tag+5 submission" comme objet.
Important : Tous les fichiers postscript doivent ?tre au
format A4.

   Les actes de la conf?rence contiendront es versions compl?tes des
r?sum?s accept?s.

Les langues de la conf?rence sont l'anglais et le fran?ais.

  Les participants qui ne soumettent pas de papier sont ?galement
invit?s ? nous contacter avant la conf?rence. Pour les d?monstrations
sur machine, nous devrons conna?tre au plus t?t les besoins de chacun
en logiciel et mat?riel.

CALENDRIER

   Date limite de soumission : 22 janvier 2000
   Notification aux auteurs :  3 mars 2000
   Version finale :            15 avril 2000
   Conf?rence :                25-27 mai 2000


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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
COMIT? DE PROGRAMME

   Anne Abeille (University Paris 7 and IUF)
   Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Research, Bell Labs)
   Tilman Becker (DFKI, Saarbr?cken)
   Tonia Bleam (Upenn, Philadelphia)
   Pierre Boullier (Inria, Rocquencourt)
   Marie-H?l?ne Candito (Paris 7 and LexiQuest)
   John Carroll (Univ. Sussex)
   Eric de la Clergerie (Inria, Rocquencourt)
   Laurence Danlos (Paris 7 and Loria, Nancy)
   Christy Doran (ITRI, Brighton)
   Christophe Fouquere (Univ. Paris-Nord, Villetaneuse)
   Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
   Ariane Halber (ENST Paris - Nuance)
   Beth Ann Hockey (SRI Cambridge)
   Aravind Joshi (UPenn, Philadelphia)
   Sylvain Kahane (Paris 7 and Paris 10))
   Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbr?cken)
   Gertjan Van Noord (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
   Martha Palmer (UPenn, Philadelphia)
   Owen Rambow (AT&T Research)
   Christian R?tor? (Inria, Rennes)
   James Rogers (Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando)
   Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padova)
   Mark Steedman (Univ. of Edinbourg)
   K. Vijayashanker (Univ. of Delaware)
   Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)
   David Weir (Univ. of Sussex, Brighton)

CONTACT ADDRESS
ADRESSE

   TAG+5
   UFRL, Universit? Paris 7
   TALaNa, case 7003
   2, place Jussieu
   F-75251 Paris cedex 05

   phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70
   fax:   +33 1 44 27 79 19
   email: Alexandra.Kinyon at linguist.jussieu.fr
   web:   http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/~alex/TAGPLUS/

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
COMIT? LOCAL D'ORGANISATION

   Anne Abeille (Paris 7)
   Marie-H?l?ne Candito (Paris 7 and Lexiquest)
   Lionel Clement (Paris 7)
   Kim Gerdes (Paris 7)
   Alexandra Kinyon (Paris 7 and U. Penn)
   Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbr?cken)


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 26 13:49:24 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:49:24 +0200
Subject: Appel: Morphologie constructionnelle et TAL (Journee ATALA)
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.154924.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Nabil Hathout <Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr>



[English version below]
=====================================================================

     Journ?e de l'ATALA

   Morphologie constructionnelle et TAL

         Paris, Piti?-Salp?tri?re
        25 mars 2000


APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS
----------------------

La morphologie flexionnelle est g?n?ralement bien prise en compte par
les syst?mes de TAL gr?ce aux conjugateurs, aux lemmatiseurs...  Ce
n'est, en revanche, pas le cas de la morphologie constructionnelle
(i.e. d?rivationnelle).  Cette journ?e doit permettre de faire le
point sur la place de la morphologie constructionnelle dans les
syst?mes de TAL, mais aussi de pr?senter les ressources, les
techniques et les outils de morphologie constructionnelle utilis?s en
TAL ou qui lui sont destin?s.  Les sous-th?mes envisag?s pour
cette journ?e incluent (liste non exhaustive) :

- la construction de bases de donn?es morphologiques ;
- le contenu des bases de donn?es morphologiques ;
- l'extraction de connaissances morphologiques de corpus (textes,
  dictionnaires, th?saurus...) ;
- l'utilisation des connaissances morphologiques dans les syst?mes de
  TAL ;
- la comparaison des gains en fonction des techniques utilis?es
  (ex. bases de donn?es vs extraction ? partir de corpus) ;
- la place des connaissances linguistiques dans les analyseurs
  morphologiques ;
- le traitement des allomorphies.


COMMUNICATIONS
--------------

Les propositions de communication seront selectionn?es sur la base
d'un r?sum? de 1 page ? transmettre par courrier ?lectronique
(pr?f?r?) ou postale ? l'adresse suivante :

mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr

Nabil Hathout
CNRS - ERSS & INaLF
Universit? Toulouse II Le Mirail
Maison de la Recherche
5, all?es Antonio Machado
F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1


CALENDRIER
----------

Date limite de r?ception des r?sum?s : 7 f?vrier 2000
Notifications aux auteurs : 28 f?vrier 2000


ORGANISATEURS
-------------

Georgette Dal
UMR 8528 ? SILEX ?, CNRS & Universit? de Lille 3
B.P. 149
F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex
mailto:dal at univ-lille3.fr

Nabil Hathout
CNRS - ERSS & INaLF
Universit? Toulouse II Le Mirail
Maison de la Recherche
5, all?es Antonio Machado
F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1
mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr

Fiammetta Namer
Landisco - Universit? Nancy 2
B.P. 3397
54015 Nancy cedex
mailto:Fiammetta.Namer at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr

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

       ATALA Workshop

    Constructional Morphology and NLP

         Paris, Piti?-Salp?tri?re
        25 mars 2000


CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
----------------------

Flexional morphology is generally correctly treated in NLP systems
which may embed conjugater, lemmatizers, etc.  In contrast, the
treatment of constructional (ie. derivational) morphology in these
systems is far less common.  This workshop is concerned with the place
of constructional morphology in NLP : it aims at presenting
constructional morphology resources, techniques and tools in use or
designed for NLP.  We expect submissions covering (but not limited to)
the following topics:

* construction of morphological databases
* content of morphological databases
* morphological knowledge extraction from corpora (texts, MRD,
  thesauri...)
* use of morphological knowledge in NLP systems
* comparison of the improvements given by different techniques
  (eg. databases vs. extraction for the corpus)
* place of linguistic knowledge in the morphological analyzers
* treatment of allomorphy


COMMUNICATIONS
--------------

The proposals for a communication will be selected on the basis of a 1 page
abstract. Abstracts will be sent by e-mail (preferably) or surface mail at:

mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr

Nabil Hathout
CNRS - ERSS & INaLF
Universit? Toulouse II Le Mirail
Maison de la Recherche
5, all?es Antonio Machado
F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1


DATES
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Deadline: February 7th, 2000
Notifications:  February 28th, 2000

CHAIR
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Georgette Dal
UMR 8528 ? SILEX ?, CNRS & Universit? de Lille 3
B.P. 149
F-59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex
mailto:dal at univ-lille3.fr

Nabil Hathout
CNRS - ERSS & INaLF
Universit? Toulouse II Le Mirail
Maison de la Recherche
5, all?es Antonio Machado
F-31058 Toulouse cedex 1
mailto:Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr

Fiammetta Namer
Landisco - Universit? Nancy 2
3, Place Godefroy de Bouillon
B.P. 3397
54015 Nancy cedex
mailto:Fiammetta.Namer at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 26 13:49:28 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:49:28 +0200
Subject: Appel: Journee I3 + ATALA, Outils pour le TAL
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.154928.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at biomath.jussieu.fr>


  Journ?e du GdR I3, sous-th?me Langue,
      organis?e en association avec
       l'Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues

   OUTILS POUR LE TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES
   Appel ? communications

   lundi 29 novembre 1999
     Paris, C.H.U. Piti?-Salp?tri?re

       http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/appel-outils.html

       Journ?e organis?e par G?rard Sabah et Pierre Zweigenbaum


TH?MES
======

De nombreux outils pour le traitement automatique des langues sont
mis au point dans les ?quipes universitaires et dans les entreprises. Un
fait notable ces derni?res ann?es est que de plus en plus d'outils sont
effectivement utilisables -- et pour certains d'entre eux utilis?s --
par d'autres que leurs concepteurs : ?tiqueteurs, syst?mes
d'exploration de corpus, extracteurs de termes parmi d'autres
exemples sont des logiciels que l'on peut se procurer si l'on sait o?
s'adresser.

Le GdR Information - Interaction - Intelligence (I3, sous-th?me
Langue), en association avec l'ATALA, organise une journ?e sur ce
th?me le lundi 29 novembre 1999. L'objectif de cette journ?e est de
pr?senter un panorama de ces outils pour le TAL : quels outils sont
effectivement disponibles, quelles sont leurs caract?ristiques, dans
quelles conditions peut-on les utiliser. Elle s'adresse d'une part aux
utilisateurs potentiels de ces outils : chercheurs ou ing?nieurs en TAL,
linguistes, informaticiens d'autres disciplines, qui n'ont pas
n?cessairement connaissance de l'?ventail des outils existants et de la
fa?on de les obtenir. Elle s'adresse d'autre part aux concepteurs
d'outils qui d?sirent les voir utilis?s par le plus grand nombre et
appliqu?s ? des donn?es vari?es.

L'accent sera mis sur les logiciels disponibles et utilisables. Il s'agit,
pour caricaturer, de ceux qui ont d?pass? le stade du prototype de
laboratoire (construction exploratoire qui ne fonctionne que sur un
seul jeu de donn?es, sur la machine de l'auteur, et que seul l'auteur
peut faire tourner).

Sont exclus ?galement du champ de cet appel les ressources
linguistiques, comme les corpus, lexiques et grammaires, cette journ?e
se concentrant sur les logiciels.

En revanche, tous les champs du TAL sont concern?s, des ?tiqueteurs
aux analyseurs en passant par la gestion de lexique et le traitement de
corpus.

APPEL ? PR?SENTATIONS
=====================

Nous souhaitons accueillir des communications courtes (15 minutes
questions comprises), en fran?ais ou en anglais, pr?sentant de tels
outils. En particulier, seront abord?s les points suivants :

  -  Caract?ristiques de l'outil
  -  Disponibilit? effective
  -  Conditions d'utilisation

Lors de la journ?e du 29 novembre, un vid?oprojecteur sera ? la
disposition des orateurs. Les pr?sentations pourront donc comporter
une br?ve s?quence de d?monstration.

Des communications affich?es (posters) sont ?galement attendues, et
seront pr?sent?es lors d'une session sp?cifique.

CONSTITUTION D'UN R?PERTOIRE EN LIGNE DES OUTILS
================================================

? l'occasion de cette journ?e, l'ATALA lance la constitution sur son
site Web d'un r?pertoire en ligne d'outils pour le TAL.

  -  Une fiche sera publi?e dans ce r?pertoire pour chaque outil
     faisant l'objet d'une proposition de pr?sentation ? la journ?e.

  -  Ce r?pertoire a vocation ? ?voluer ind?pendamment et apr?s la
     tenue de la journ?e du 29 novembre : en particulier, m?me si
     vous ne d?sirez pas participer ? cette journ?e, vous pouvez
     proposer une fiche sur un outil pour publication dans ce
     r?pertoire.

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION
=======================

Les propositions de pr?sentation ? la journ?e et les propositions de
fiches d'outils se font par voie ?lectronique, en remplissant le
formulaire disponible ? l'adresse :

     http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/outil/
     lien [Utiliser un formulaire pour ajouter une description d'outil]

Ce formulaire recueille les principales caract?ristiques d'un outil. Il
comprend plusieurs zones de texte libre qui permettent de r?sumer des
points suppl?mentaires. Sa vocation est de constituer un point
d'entr?e ; il est utile de fournir, lorsque c'est possible, des adresses de
pages Web o? le lecteur pourra trouver davantage d'informations.

Les propositions de pr?sentation ? la journ?e seront examin?es par un
Comit? scientifique. Outre la prise en compte du crit?re
d'utilisabilit?, le comit? fera en sorte autant que possible que les
diff?rents types d'outils existants soient repr?sent?s.

DATES IMPORTANTES
=================

  - 8 novembre : date limite de proposition d'une pr?sentation (fiche en
ligne)
  - 15 novembre : annonce du programme de la journ?e
  - 29 novembre : journ?e Outils pour le TAL
  - en continu, avant et apr?s le 29 novembre : proposition de fiches
    sur des outils pour publication dans le r?pertoire en ligne

COMIT? SCIENTIFIQUE
===================

     G?rard Sabah (LIMSI, Orsay) et Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM, Paris)
     (pr?sidents)

     Philippe Blache (LPL, Aix-en-Provence)
     Didier Bourigault (ERSS, Toulouse)
     Farid Cerbah (Dassault)
     Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)
     St?phane Chaudiron (MENRT, Paris)
     Jos? Coch (Lexiquest, Paris)
     Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI, Orsay)
     Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, Orsay)
     Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy)
     Paul Sabatier (LIM, Marseille)
     Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse)
     Jacques Vergne (GREYC, Caen)
     Jean V?ronis (Institut de Phon?tique, Aix-en-Provence)
     J?r?me Vinesse (CNET, Lannion)

SOUTIENS FINANCIERS
===================

Cette journ?e est soutenue par le GdR I3, sous-th?me Langue.

Cette journ?e, ainsi que le site Web de l'ATALA, sont soutenus par le
Minist?re de l'Enseignement Sup?rieur, de la Recherche et de la
Technologie (contrat TISTIL).

De ce fait, et en fonction du nombre de participants provinciaux, une
partie des frais de transport des orateurs sera ?ventuellement prise en
charge.



    L'entr?e ? la journ?e sera libre.


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 26 13:49:36 1999
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:49:36 +0200
Subject: Conf: NLULP'99
Message-ID: <TUE.26.OCT.1999.154936.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


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

                     December 3-4, 1999
                 Las Cruces, New Mexico (USA)


Program, Abstracts of selected papers, Talk, Registration and Accomodation,
etc.

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


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 29 23:52:55 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:52:55 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le resume automatique
Message-ID: <SAT.30.OCT.1999.005255.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:46:09 +0100
From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <4.1.19991026134021.00c245a0 at mail.wlv.ac.uk>


Hi Tony,

I was referring to another (future) book and not to the
one (recently published) which is edited by Mani and Maybury.
The one I meant is being written at the
moment - it is a monograph and
not a collection of papers.

I used my position as editor of John Benjamin's
NLP series to disclose some 'inside information' (:-)

regards
Ruslan


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Oct 29 23:55:34 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:55:34 +0100
Subject: R: Bibliographie sur le pluriel
Message-ID: <SAT.30.OCT.1999.005534.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:54:17 +0200
From: Michel Eytan <eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Message-Id: <v03130300b43b616a3086 at DialupEudora>


Bonjour,

voici un additif a la liste bibliographique sur le pluriel:

J.T. L\onning, Plurals and collectivity, in Handbook of Logic and Language,
ed. J. van Benthem & A. ter Meulen, Elsevier, Amsterdam 1997 (pp1009-1054)

--
Michel Eytan                                     eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
                               Je dis ce que je pense et pense ce que je dis