From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 6 16:42:09 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:42:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN 2001 Message-ID: From: Maurel Denis ********************************************************************** * * TALN 2001 * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * Universite de Tours * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ * mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** TALN 2001 : PREMIER APPEL A COMMUNICATION ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- TALN 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001, organise par le LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Tours) et l'axe LTI (Langues et Technologies de l'information). La conference TALN 2001 comprendra des communications scientifiques, des conferenciers invites, des seances de demonstration et posters, ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. TALN 2001 est organisee sous l'egide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement a la conference pour jeunes chercheurs RECITAL 2001 (appel a communications a paraitre separement). ********** THEMES ********** Les communications pourront porter sur tous les themes habituels du TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative: lexique morphologie syntaxe semantique pragmatique discours analyse generation resume dialogue traduction automatique approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques TALN 2001 souhaite egalement accueillir des travaux de domaines proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, dans la mesure ou l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : traitement de la parole (prosodie, linguistique, pragmatique) traitement de l'ecrit aspects cognitifs terminologie acquisition de connaissances a partir de textes extraction d'information recherche documentaire linguistique de corpus linguistique mathematique utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modelisation linguistique enseignement assiste, enseignement des langues. Sont aussi attendus des travaux sur des applications du TALN, implementees et evaluees, faisant ressortir leurs aspects scientifiques et les enseignements tires. Des demonstrations de systemes pourront etre proposees, independamment ou en complement d'articles scientifiques. L'emploi du temps de la conference comprendra une session pour ces demonstrations. ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril 2001 Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ********** Les articles soumis seront rediges en francais (ou en anglais par les non-francophones). Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples et references compris. Les soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 fevrier 2001, sous forme electronique, a mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr. En cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission "papier" pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre envoyes a l'adresse suivante: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS ********** Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission par courrier electronique sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps ou pdf au format A4 et non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la soumission et les noms des auteurs. Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont disponibles sur le site de la conference: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** CRITERES DE SELECTION ********** Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications anterieures. Les soumissions seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. Seront considerees en particulier : L'importance et l'originalite de la contribution, La correction du contenu scientifique et technique, La discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine, La situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale, L'organisation et la clarte de la presentation, L'adequation aux themes de la conference. Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la conference. ********** DEMONSTRATIONS ET POSTERS ********** Une ou deux seances specifiques seront prevues pour des demonstrations (presentations logicielles) et des posters (85 x 120 cm). Les propositions de demonstration ou de poster suivent les memes regles que les soumissions de communication mais ne devront pas depasser 4 pages. ********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES ********** Les presentations orales dureront 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de questions. Il sera possible d'utiliser un retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur. ********** ACTES ********** Les actes de la conference seront distribues a tous les participants. Le Comite de redaction de la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.) sélectionnera deux articles pour publication. ********************************************************************** * * ENGLISH VERSION * ********************************************************************** ********** TALN 2001 : FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- TALN 2001 will be held at Tours on July, 2 - 5 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and Information Technologies). The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are French and English. TALN 2001 is organized in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2001 (a separate call for papers will follow). ********** TOPICS ********** Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): lexicon morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse parsing generation abstraction/summarisation dialogue translation logical, symbolical and statistical approaches TALN 2001 also invites contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasize their NLP dimension : speech processing text processing cognition terminology knowledge acquisition information retrieval documentary research corpus-based linguistics mathematical linguistics management and acquisition of linguistic resources computer assisted learning NLP tools for linguistic modelization TALN 2001 also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasizing the scientific aspects and conclusions drawn. Software demonstrations can be proposed, either independently or in connection with a paper proposal. Specific sessions for the demos will be scheduled in the conference. ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Notification to authors: 4/27/2001 Final version due (camera-ready): 5/11/2001 Conference : 7/2-5/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced, including figures, examples and references. Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr. If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, at the following address: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS ********** Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail(ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing the following informations: submission title and author's names. The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference web site: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ . ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria : Importance and originality of the paper Accuracy of the scientific and technical content Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work Layout and clarity of the paper Relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. ********** DEMOS AND POSTERS ********** One or two specific sessions for the demos and the posters (85 x 120 cm) will be scheduled in the conference. The demo or poster submissions accord to the same rules of paper submission, BUT they should not exceed 4 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. 10 minutes will be left for questions. It will be possible to use a overhead projector or a video-projector. ********** PROCEEDINGS ********** The conference proceedings will be given to all participants. The editorial staff of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.) will select two papers for publication. ********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME ********** ********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********** (le comite de programme sera entoure d'un large comite de lecture) (the program committee will be supervised by a broad reviewing committee) Pascal Amsili, TALaNa Frederic Bechet, LIA Philippe Blache, LPL Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO Beatrice Daille, IRIN Laurence Danlos, LORIA/TALaNa Claire Gardent, LORIA Eric Laporte, CERIL Denis Maurel, LI (president) Piet Mertens, CCL Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA Martin Rajman, EPFL Owen Rambow, ATT Labs-Research Jacques Siroux, IRISA LLI/CORDIAL Jean Veronis, LPL Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM ********** COMITE D'ORGANISATION ********** ********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********** Claire Agafonov, LTI Beatrice Bouchou, LI Alain Cambourian, LTI Alain Delplanque, LTI Nathalie Friburger, LI Nathalie Garric, LTI Paul Gaudin, LTI Manuel Gonzales de Avila, Ciremia Thierry Grass, LTI Denis Maurel, LI (president) Nathalie Rossi, LTI Mohamed Slimane, LI Nicole Vincent, LI ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 6 16:42:15 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:42:15 +0100 Subject: Appel: LACL 2000 Message-ID: From: "Catherine Piliere" ***************************************************************** --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate --- ***************************************************************** Second Call for Papers LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic, France Submission Deadline: January 29, 2001 http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ***************************************************************** ---------------------------- HISTORY ---------------------------- The LACL series of conferences aims at providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal and logical aspects of computational linguistics. It started as a workshop held in Nancy (France), in 1995. Due to its success, it was turned, the next year, into a international conference. LACL'96 and '97 have both been held in Nancy (France). LACL'98 has been held in Grenoble (France). Selected papers from LACL'95 appear in a special issue of Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7(4), 1998. The proceedings of LACL'96 and 97 appear as volumes 1328 and 1582 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The proceedings of LACL'98 are in press with the same series. ----------------------------- SCOPE ----------------------------- Typical topics include, but are not limited to: Categorial grammars, Categorial type logics, Compositionality, Discourse representation theory, Dynamics, Feature Logics, Formal language theory, Game-theoretical semantics, Grammatical inference, Learning theory, Linear logical frameworks, Minimalism, Modal logics, Montague semantics, Parsing as deduction, Proof- theoretic approaches, Situation semantics and situation theory, Type-theoretic approaches. ----------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------- Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 15 standard A4 or US quarto pages. The paper should allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the work. In particular, references and comparisons with related work should be included. Submission of material already published or submitted to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Electronic submission is highly recommended. A postscript version of the paper should be sent as an e-mail to: morrill at lsi.upc.es to arrive by January 29, 2001. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file In addition, a separate e-mail containing the title of the paper, authors' names and addresses, and a short abstract in plain ASCII format should be sent to the same e-mail address. If electronic submission is not possible, authors may submit four hard copies of the paper by post to the following address: LACL 2001 (Attention: G. Morrill) UPC, Departament de LSI Campus Nord - Modul C6 Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 E-08034 Barcelona - Espanya ------------------------------ URL ----------------------------- http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------- Deadline for Submissions: January 29, 2001 Notification to Authors: March 26, 2001 Final Versions due: April 20, 2001 ---------------------- CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ------------------ The accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in AI. This will be available at the time of the conference. ------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- W. Buszkowski (Poznan) R. Crouch, (Palo Alto) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) M. Dymetman (Grenoble) C. Gardent (Saarbrucken) P. de Groote (Nancy), co-chair M. Kanazawa (Tokyo) G. Morrill (Barcelona), co-chair R. Muskens (Tilburg) F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh) B. Rounds, (Ann Arbor) E. Stabler (Los Angeles) ----------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------- B. Daille (Nantes) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) A. Foret (Rennes) E. Lebret (Rennes) C. Piliere (Nancy), publicity chair C. Retore (Rennes), chair P. Sebillot (Rennes) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 6 16:42:22 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:42:22 +0100 Subject: Appel: RECITAL'2001 Message-ID: From: "friburger" *********************************************************************** * =20 * Recital 2001 =20 * -------------------- =20 * Rencontre des etudiants chercheurs en informatique = =20 * pour le traitement automatique =20 * des langues =20 * =20 * =20 * Universite de Tours =20 * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 =20 * =20 * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ =20 * mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.fr =20 ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** Recital 2001 : PREMIER APPEL A COMMUNICATION ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Recital 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 en = parallele avec la conference TALN 2001 (appel a communications a = paraitre separement). La conference Recital 2001 comprendra des communications scientifiques, = des conferenciers invites, des seances de demonstration et posters, = ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. Ces deux conferences sont organisees sous l'egide de l'ATALA = (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues).=20 ********** THEMES ********** Les communications pourront porter sur tous les themes habituels du = TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative:=20 Analyse et comprehension de textes=20 Generation d'enonces en langues naturelles=20 Traduction automatique=20 Production de resumes=20 Dialogue homme-machine=20 Recital 2001 souhaite egalement accueillir des travaux de domaines = proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, dans la mesure ou = l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : Ressources linguistiques (lexiques, dictionnaires electroniques, = corpus, etc.)=20 Semantique lexicale (polysemie, categorisation, etc.)=20 Semantique du temps et de l'espace (representation et raisonnement)=20 Logique (argumentation, modelisation des intentions et des croyances, = etc.)=20 Architectures dediees au TAL (syst=E8mes multi-agents, reseaux = neuromimetiques)=20 Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de = connaissances (a partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine)=20 Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole=20 =20 ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril 2001 Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ********** Les articles soumis seront rediges en francais (ou en anglais par les = non-francophones). Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, = figures, exemples et references compris. Les soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 = fevrier 2001, sous forme electronique, a = mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.fr. En cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission = "papier" pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre = envoyes a l'adresse suivante: Recital 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS ********** Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission par courrier electronique = sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps ou pdf au format A4 et = non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la soumission et les = noms des auteurs.=20 Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont disponibles sur le site de = la conference: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** CRITERES DE SELECTION ********** Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, = n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications anterieures. Les soumissions = seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. Seront = considerees en particulier : l'importance et l'originalite de la contribution,=20 la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,=20 la discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux = autres travaux du domaine,=20 la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche = internationale,=20 l'organisation et la clarte de la presentation,=20 l'adequation aux themes de la conference.=20 =20 Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la = conference. ********** POSTERS ********** Une ou deux seances specifiques seront prevues pour des posters (85 x = 120 cm). Les propositions de poster suivent les memes regles que les soumissions = de communication mais ne devront pas depasser 4 pages.=20 ********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES ********** Les presentations orales dureront 15 minutes et seront suivies de 5 = minutes de questions. Il sera possible d'utiliser un retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur.=20 ********** ACTES ********** Les actes des conferences seront distribues a tous les participants. **************************************************************** English version=20 **************************************************************** ********** Recital 2001 : : FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ************ ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE : FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Recital 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - 5 July 2001, organized by the LI = (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and = Information Technologies).=20 The official conference languages are French and English.=20 The young researcher conference Recital 2001 will be held jointly with = the conference TALN 2001.=20 TALN 2001 is organized in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le = Traitement Automatique des LAngues). ********** TOPICS ********** Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): Analysis and comprehension of texts Text generation in natural languages Automatic translation Production of summaries Talk human-machine Recital 2001 also invites contributions in the following fields too: Linguistic resources (lexics, electronic dictionaries, corpora, etc.) Lexical Semantics (categorisation, etc.) Time and space Semantics (representation and reasoning) Logic (argumentation, modelisation of intention, etc.)=20 NLP Dedicated architectures (multi-agents systems, neuromimetic = networks) =20 Acquisition and automatic learning of resources or knowledge (from = corpora, or human/machine interaction) Relations between NLP and talk recognition=20 =20 ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Notification to authors: 4/27/2001 Final version due (camera-ready): 5/11/2001 Conference : 7/2-5/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced, = including figures, examples and references. Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before = 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours. If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard copies of the paper = must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, at the following = address: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS ********** Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail(ps = or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing the = following information: submission title and author's names. The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference website: = http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. = Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain. = Decisions will be based on the following criteria : Importance and originality of the paper Accuracy of the scientific and technical content Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work Layout and clarity of the paper Relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. ********** POSTERS ********** One or two specific sessions for the posters (85 x 120 cm) will be = scheduled in the conference. The poster submissions accord to the same rules of paper submission, BUT = they should not exceed 4 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Papers should be of 15 minutes duration. 5 minutes will be left for = questions. 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********** THEMES = **********
 
Les communications pourront porter sur = tous les=20 themes habituels du TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative:
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Generation d'enonces en langues naturelles=20
Traduction automatique
Production de resumes
Dialogue = homme-machine=20
 
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 =20 Architectures dediees au TAL (syst=E8mes multi-agents, reseaux = neuromimetiques)=20
  Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de=20 connaissances (a partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine)=20
  Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole=20
 
********** CALENDRIER **********
 
----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : = VENDREDI 23=20 FEVRIER 2001 <----
Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril=20 2001
Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai = 2001
Conference :=20 du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001
 
********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION=20 **********
 
Les articles soumis seront rediges en = francais (ou=20 en anglais par les non-francophones).
Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 = pages en=20 Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples et references = compris.
Les=20 soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 = fevrier 2001,=20 sous forme electronique, a mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.f= r.
En=20 cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission = "papier"=20 pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre envoyes = a=20 l'adresse suivante:
  Recital 2001
  LI (Laboratoire=20 d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours)
  E3i, 64, avenue Jean=20 Portalis
  37200 Tours
  France
 
********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS=20 **********
 
Les auteurs devront envoyer leur = soumission par=20 courrier electronique sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps = ou pdf au=20 format A4 et non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la = soumission et=20 les noms des auteurs.
Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont=20 disponibles sur le site de la conference: http://www.li.univ= -tours.fr/taln-recital-2001.
 
********** CRITERES DE SELECTION=20 **********
 
Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre = des travaux de=20 recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications = anterieures. Les=20 soumissions seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. = Seront=20 considerees en particulier :
l'importance et l'originalite de la=20 contribution,
la correction du contenu scientifique et technique, =
la=20 discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres = travaux=20 du domaine,
la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la = recherche=20 internationale,
l'organisation et la clarte de la presentation,=20
l'adequation aux themes de la conference.
 
Les articles = selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la = conference.
 
********** POSTERS = **********
 
Une ou deux seances specifiques seront = prevues pour=20 des posters (85 x 120 cm).
Les propositions de poster suivent les = memes=20 regles que les soumissions de communication mais ne devront pas depasser = 4=20 pages.
 
********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES=20 **********
 
Les presentations orales dureront 15 = minutes et=20 seront suivies de 5 minutes de questions.
Il sera possible d'utiliser = un=20 retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur.
 
********** ACTES = **********
 
Les actes des conferences seront = distribues a tous=20 les participants.
 
****************************************************************=
        =20 English version=20
****************************************************************
*= *********=20 Recital 2001  : : FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS  = ************
 
---->      = SUBMISSION=20 DEADLINE : FRIDAY, 2/23/2001       =20 <----
 
Recital 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - = 5 July=20 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and = LTI=20 (Language and Information Technologies).
 
The official conference languages are = French and=20 English.
 
The young researcher conference Recital = 2001 will=20 be held jointly with the conference TALN 2001.
TALN 2001 is = organized in=20 collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des = LAngues).
 
********** TOPICS **********
Papers = are invited=20 in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to):
  Analysis = and=20 comprehension of texts
  Text generation in natural = languages
 =20 Automatic translation
  Production of summaries
  Talk=20 human-machine
 
Recital 2001 also invites contributions = in the=20 following fields too:
  Linguistic resources (lexics, electronic = dictionaries, corpora, etc.)
  Lexical Semantics  = (categorisation,=20 etc.)
  Time and space Semantics (representation and=20 reasoning)
  Logic (argumentation, modelisation of intention, = etc.)=20
  NLP Dedicated architectures (multi-agents systems, = neuromimetic=20 networks)      
  Acquisition and = automatic learning of resources or knowledge (from corpora, or = human/machine=20 interaction)
  Relations between NLP and talk recognition=20
 
********** CALENDAR **********
 
----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, = 2/23/2001=20 <----
Notification to authors: 4/27/2001
Final version due=20 (camera-ready): 5/11/2001
Conference : 7/2-5/2001
 
********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE=20 **********
 
The maximum length for papers is 10 = pages, in Times=20 12, single spaced, including figures, examples and = references.
 
Electronic submissions must reach the = organizing=20 committee before 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.=
 
If electronic submission is not = possible, 3 hard=20 copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee before = 2/23/2001, at the=20 following address:
  TALN 2001
  LI (Laboratoire = d'Informatique=20 de l'Universite de Tours)
  E3i, 64, avenue Jean = Portalis
 =20 37200 Tours
  France
 
********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS=20 **********
 
Authors should send their submission as = a file=20 attached to an e-mail(ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter = format),=20 containing the following information: submission title and author's=20 names.
The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference = website:=20 http://www.li.univ= -tours.fr/taln-recital-2001.
 
********** SELECTION CRITERIA=20 **********
 
Authors are invited to submit original, = previously=20 unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists = of the=20 domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria = :
Importance and=20 originality of the paper
Accuracy of the scientific and technical=20 content
Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant = work
Layout=20 and clarity of the paper
Relevance to the topics of the=20 conference
 
Accepted papers will be published in = the=20 proceedings of the conference.
 
********** POSTERS = **********
 
One or two specific sessions for the = posters (85 x=20 120 cm) will be scheduled in the conference.
The poster submissions = accord to=20 the same rules of paper submission, BUT they should not exceed 4=20 pages.
 
********** TALKS = **********
 
Papers should be of 15 minutes = duration. 5 minutes=20 will be left for questions.
It will be possible to use a overhead = projector=20 or a video-projector.
 

********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME=20 **********
**********  PROGRAM COMMITTEE  = **********
 
Pascal Amsili, TALaNa
Pierre Beust, = GREYC
Philippe Blache, LPL
Beatrice Bouchou, LI = (president)
Jean=20 Caelen, CLIPS
Cecile Fabre, ERSS
Cedric Fairon, NYU, Department of = Linguistics
Bertrand Gaiffe, LORIA
Damien Genthial, = CLIPS
Gabriel=20 Illouz, LIMSI
Denis Maurel, LI
Philippe Muller, IRIT
Anne = Nicolle,=20 GREYC
Martin Rajman, EPFL
Laurent Romary, LORIA
Jose Rouillard, = CLIPS
Azim Roussanaly, LORIA
Jacques Siroux, IRISA = LLI/CORDIAL
Jacques=20 Vergne, GREYC
Jean Veronis, LPL
Michael Zock, LIMSI
 

********** COMITE D'ORGANISATION=20 **********
********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE  = **********
 
Claire Agafonov, LTI
Beatrice = Bouchou, LI=20 (president)
Alain Cambourian, LTI
Alain Delplanque, = LTI
Nathalie=20 Friburger, LI (president)
Nathalie Garric, LTI
Paul Gaudin, = LTI
Manuel=20 Gonzales de Avila, Ciremia
Thierry Grass, LTI
Denis Maurel, LI=20
Nathalie Rossi, LTI
Mohamed Slimane, LI
Nicole Vincent,=20 LI
 
 
------=_NextPart_000_009D_01C05BA3.2E8FB260-- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 6 16:42:27 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:42:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: Semantic Web Workshop 2001 Message-ID: From: Steffen Staab ********************************************************************* Call for Papers Semantic Web WWW-10 Workshop May 1, 2001 Hongkong ********************************************************************* Comprehensive information to be found at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Workshop Outline The "Semantic Web", a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, is used to denote the next evolution step of the Web. Associating meaning with content or establishing a layer of machine understandable data would allow automated agents, sophisticated search engines and interoperable services, will enable higher degree of automation and more intelligent applications. The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to allow machines the sharing and exploitation of knowledge in the Web way, i.e. without central authority, with few basic rules, in a scalable, adaptable, extensible manner. With RDF as the basic platform for the Semantic Web, a multitude of tools, methods and systems have just appeared on the horizon. The goal of the workshop is to share experiences about these systems, exchange ideas about improvements of existing tools and creation of new systems, principles and applications. Also an important goal is to develop a cooperation model among Semantic Web developers, and to develop a common vision about the future developments. Relevant workshop topics include (non-exhaustive list): · Language and Representation issues · Semantic Web infrastructure and architectures · Metadata and conceptual models for annotating content, resources, and portals · Automatic annotation/tagging/metadata creation and recommendation · Tools, systems and methodologies for Semantic Web · Application of semantic web technology · Migrating information to semantic formats & Information Filtering · Trust in the Semantic Web · Query languages for the Semantic Web · Information correlation, integration, mediation and brokering on the Web · Resource discovery · Distributed inference services · Semantic Web mining Important Dates Deadline for paper submission 1 Jan 2001 Notification of acceptance 1 Feb 2001 Deadline final contributions 1 Apr 2001 All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. In addition, a few selected best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the ETAI Semantic Web Journal (http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/). Submission Information We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper or a position paper addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for the semantic web. Submit by e-mail before January 1, 2001 following the format instructions at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de to staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Organizing Committee Stefan Decker, Database Group, Stanford University Database Group, Stanford University Gates Hall 4A, Room 425 Stanford, CA 94305-9040, USA email: stefan at db.stanford.edu phone: +1 650-723-1422 fax: +1 650-725-2588 http://www-db.stanford.edu/~stefan/ Dieter Fensel, VU Amsterdam Division of Mathematics & Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, NL The Netherlands Email: dieter at cs.vu.nl http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dieter Amit Sheth, Univ. of Georgia Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, Computer Sc., 415 GSRC, University of Georgia, Athens GA 30602-7404 USA Also, Taalee Inc. Email: amit at cs.uga.edu http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu, http://www.taalee.com Steffen Staab (Contact), AIFB, Karlsruhe University, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Also, Ontoprise GmbH email: staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de,staab at ontoprise.de phone: +49-721-608 4751 fax: +49-721-693 717 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst Programm Committee Dan Brickley, Univ. of Bristol (UK) Vassilis Christophides, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Peter Eklund, Griffith University (Australia) Jim Hendler, Univ. of Maryland (USA) Rick Hull, Bell Labs, Lucent Tech. (USA) Manolis Koubarakis, Techn. Univ. of Crete (Greece) Ora Lassila, Nokia Fred Lochovsky, HKUST (Hong Kong) Alain Michard, INRIA (France) John Mylopoulos, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) Claire Nedellec, LRI (France) Deborah McGuinness, Stanford Univ. (USA) Dimitris Plexousakis, Univ. of Crete (Greece) Louiqa Raschid, Univ. of Maryland (USA) Marie-Christine Rousset, Univ. of ORSAY (France) Guus Schreiber, VU Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tarcisio de Souza Lima, Federal Univ. of Juiz de Fora (Brazil) Katia Sycara, CMU (USA) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 6 16:42:30 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:42:30 +0100 Subject: Conf: IWCS-4 Message-ID: From: Harry Bunt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P R O G R A M a n d C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ---------------------------------------------------------------------- III WW WW CCCCCC SSSSSSSSSS III WW WW CCC SSSS III WW WW WW CCC SSS 44 III WW WWWW WW CCC SSSSSSS 44 44 III WW WW WW WW CCC SSSSS === 44 44 III WW WW WW WW CCC SSS 44444444 III WWWW WWWW CCC SSSS 44 III WW WW CCCCCCC SSSSSSSSS 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS 10-12 January 2001 Tilburg, The Netherlands ********* The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at Tilburg University will host the Third Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), that will take place from 10 -12 January 2001. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of meaning in natural language or in language-based multimedia objects. ************************************** * INVITED SPEAKERS: * * * * James Allen (U. Rochester) * * Jan van Eijck (U. Utrecht) * * Alex Lascarides (U. Edinburgh) * ************************************** The workshop focuses on the study of computational aspects of semantic theories, on theoretical issues in the development of natural language understanding systems, and on tools, methodologies, and techniques for computer interpretation of natural language. Some of the topics that figure prominently in the workshop program are: * working with underspecified representations of meaning * modelling and using context in interpretation * the relations between semantics and pragmatics * dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue * interpretation and games * incrementality and monotonicity in the computation of meaning * computational lexical semantics * speech acts and interpretation * semantics and pragmatics in language generation * computational aspects of meaning in discourse discourse * knowledge representation and reasoning in interpretation. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME ********************* Wednesday, January 10 --------------------- James Allen: invited talk Jonathan Ginzburg, Howard Gregory and Shalom Lappin: SHARDS: Fragment resolution in dialogue Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Bonnie Webber: Concession, implicature, and alternative sets Rodger Kibble: Inducing rhetorical structure via nested update semantics short presentations: Roland Hausser, Elena Karagjasova, Ruth Kempson, Jan van Kuppevelt, Birte Loenneker, Jon Patrick Emiel Krahmer and Mark Swerts: Meaning and intonation: the cases of contrastive accent and met-linguistic negation Alistair Butler: Sentences with exhaustification Robert van Rooy: The pragmatics of mention-some readings of questions Patrick Saint-Dizier and Gloria Vazquez: A compositional framework for prepositions Nicolas Denand: Answering the question Where? - some experimental results Andrea Zielinski: A treatment of scope in MT Thursday, January 11 -------------------- Jan van Eijck: Context semantics for NL Michel Gagnon, Elena Godoy and Rogerio de Oliveira: An implementation of DRT for a compositional Interpretation of the Portuguese progressive form Helen Seville and Allan Ramsay: Capturing sense in intensional contexts Massimo Poesio and Uwe Reyle: Underspecification in anaphoric reference Diego Molla: Ontologically promiscuous flat logical forms for NLP short presentations: Pascal Boldini, David McDonald, Gregers Koch, Isabelle Debourges/S.Guillore/C.Vrain, Allan Ramsay & Helen Seville, Serge Sharoff & Lena Sokolova Dick Crouch, Anette Frank and Josef van Genabith: Linear logic based transfer and structural misalignment Theo Janssen: On the interpretation of IF logic Rene Ahn: Observable types: a computational approach to meaning Norihiro Ogata: A type theory for typing, meta-typing, and ontological information in discourse ACL SIGSEM business meeting Friday, January 12 ------------------ Alex Lascarides: Why dynamic semantics needs discourse structure (invited talk) Kees van Deemter: Generating referring expressions: beyond the incremental algorithm Claire Gardent and Katarina Striegnitz: Generating indirect anaphora Frank van Eynde: Rules or constraints for modeling tense Sven Verdoolaege, Marc Denecker, Ness Schelkens, Danny De Schreye and Frank van Eynde: Abductive reasoning with temporal information George Demetriou and Eric Atwell: A domain-independent semantic tagger for the study of meaning associations in English text Closing at lunchtime GENERAL INFORMATION ********* Information about hotels, about how to travel to Tilburg and the conference site, etc. can be found at the IWCS-4 web pages; see http://pi0239.kub.nl/~sigsem/iwcs4.html For any questions about the program contact Harry Bunt at kub.nl; for all other matters contact the conference secretariat: Carol Mcgregor Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands phone: +31 13 466 83 81 fax: +31 13 466 31 10 email: C.J.McGregor at kub.nl ____________________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION INFORMATION ********* To register, either use the registration possibilities at the IWCS-4 web pages or fill out the registration form below and return it to the conference scretary Ms Carol McGregor at C.J.McGregor at kub.nl (or by fax or by traditional mail; see addresses below). ____________________________________________________________________________ IWCS-4 REGISTRATION FORM Name: ________________________________________ Institute: ________________________________________ Department: ________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Telephone: ________________________________________ Fax: ________________________________________ Email: ________________________________________ Registration fee is 295 Dutch guilders (approx. 120 US$, or 135 Euros) when registering before December 21. For registration after December 21 the participation fee is NLG 325. The fee includes * Participation in 2.5 days program * 1 copy of proceedings * 2 x lunch * 8 x coffee/tea * Reception For undergraduate students a reduced fee is offered which only includes participation and proceedings. Method of Calculate any transfer charges, as we must receive the payment: full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees will have to be paid on arrival at the workshop. On your payment, please indicate your name, and mention code 8270.W 367, IWCS 4, Tilburg University, Faculty of Arts. () Via bank transfer: In Dutch guilders to bank account 45 50 46 042. ABN AMRO Bank, Heuvelring 88, P.O.Box 8, NL-5000 AA, Tilburg, The Netherlands or to Postbank account 23 86 602 (only within the Netherlands). () By credit card: Company: Visa/MasterCard/American Express Number: ________________________________ Expiration date: ____________________________ (If you prefer not to use email to transfer this information, please send us a fax.) HOTEL INFORMATION A number of rooms have been reserved at the following hotels. (Note: the city center is 5-10 minutes walking from the central railway station. All hotels are at approximately the same distance from the conference venue.) If you wish, we can make reservations for you Lodging () Hotel Mercure (city center) Heuvelpoort 300 NL-5038 DT Tilburg phone: +31-13-535 46 75 fax: +31-13-535 58 75 NLG 192,50 per night, inc. breakfast. () Hotel Lindeboom (city center) Heuvelring 126 NL-5038 CL Tilburg phone: +31-13-535 13 55 fax: +31-13-536 10 85 NLG 150,- per night, inc. breakfast. () Hotel Central (city center) ALREADY BOOKED FULL Spoorlaan 422 NL-5038 CG Tilburg phone: +31-13-543 62 34 fax: +31-13-544 11 01 NLG 85,- per night, inc. breakfast. Please make reservations in the hotel I checked above, number of persons: __ date of arrival: January __ date of departure: January __ . () Do not make any hotel reservations for me Send this form to: Carol McGregor Tilburg University Faculty of Arts P.O.Box 90153 NL-5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands C.J.McGregor at kub.nl ____________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------ Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:08:30 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:08:30 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Michael Strube Subject: Job at EML 2/ From: Jean-Cedric Chappelier Subject: opening position for a graduate research assistant in applied math/computer science, Lausanne (Switzerland) 3/ From: Fabio Rinaldi Subject: Comp Ling, Web Tutoring at U of Zurich, Switzerland __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Michael Strube Subject: Job at EML The European Media Laboratory in Heidelberg (Germany) is seeking several researchers to work in the areas of information retrieval, information extraction, domain ontology building, and human computer interfaces. In particular, we are looking for a researcher for the "Personal Memory" project in the research areas - computational linguistics, dialogue systems and artificial intelligence - wearable computing, mobile information systems and intelligent user interfaces The candidate should have a degree in computer science, computational linguistics or a related subject, and ideally some years of professional experience in research projects. We expect both the willingness to work across different disciplines and an interest in research topics with a relation to practice. The projects are realized in cooperation with national and international partners from research as well as industry. Interested persons should send resumes to: c/o Baerbel Mack European Media Laboratory GmbH Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 69118 Heidelberg GERMANY (Baerbel.Mack at eml.villa-bosch.de) -- Dr. Michael Strube Email: Michael.Strube at eml.villa-bosch.de European Media Laboratory GmbH WWW: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~strube Villa Bosch http://www.eml.org Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 Phone: +49-6221-533-243 69118 Heidelberg Fax: +49-6221-533-298 GERMANY __________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Jean-Cedric Chappelier Subject: opening position for a graduate research assistant in applied math/computer science, Lausanne (Switzerland) L'Université de Lausanne (Faculté des Lettres) et l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle) cherchent à engager conjointement un(e) assistant(e) de recherche travaillant en tant qu'assistant(e) diplômé(e) sous la supervision des deux institutions. Dans le cadre d'un projet de collaboration UNIL-EPFL, le candidat ou la candidate, titulaire d'une licence ou d'un diplôme de second cycle universitaire en Informatique, Mathématiques appliquées, Physique ou Linguistique computationnelle (ou d'un domaine apparenté) sera chargé(e) de réaliser un système de classification et visualisation automatiques de données textuelles, impliquant des techniques de traitement automatique du langage, recherche documentaire, analyse des données et méthodes numériques. L'engagement initial concerne un poste à temps complet pour une durée de 12 mois. Une bonne capacité de programmation et une aisance en mathématiques appliquées sont indispensables. Des compétences en analyse de données, recherche documentaire et conception d'interfaces constituent un atout certain. Début d'engagement : janvier 2001 ou a convenir Les offres ou demandes d'information sont à adresser à ------------------------------------------------------- Martin Rajman Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL IN Ecublens CH-1015 LAUSANNE, Switzerland e-mail: martin.rajman at epfl.ch ------------------------------------------------------- ou à ------------------------------------------------------- Francois Bavaud Professeur associe Section d'informatique et de methodes mathematiques Faculte des Lettres, Universite de Lausanne CH - 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny Francois.Bavaud at imaa.unil.ch ------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Human Science Department of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) are opening a joint position of : GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT to work within an UNIL-EPFL collaboration project under the auspices of both institutions. The successful candidate will be in charge of the design of a prototype system for automated classification and visualization of textual data, integrating advanced Natural Language Processing techniques, Information Retrieval, Textual Data Analysis and Numerical Approaches. A Masters degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Computational Linguistics (or related domains) is required. The ideal candidate should have good programming skills as well as a good experience in applied mathematics. Additional competence in NLP, IR, Data Analysis and Interface Design would be a plus. The initial appointment will be for the period of a year. Starting date: January 2001 or as soon as possible. Contact address for application : ------------------------------------------------------- Martin Rajman Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL IN Ecublens CH-1015 LAUSANNE, Switzerland e-mail: martin.rajman at epfl.ch ------------------------------------------------------- ou à ------------------------------------------------------- Francois Bavaud Professeur associe Section d'informatique et de methodes mathematiques Faculte des Lettres, Universite de Lausanne CH - 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny Francois.Bavaud at imaa.unil.ch ------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Fabio Rinaldi Subject: Comp Ling, Web Tutoring at U of Zurich, Switzerland TWO POSITIONS in COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (OPEN IMMEDIATELY) and ONE POSITION in WEB BASED TUTORING SYSTEMS (BEGINNING JANUARY 2001) ======================================================================= The Department of Information Technology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland is soliciting applications for two full-time positions in Computational Linguistics and one full-time position in Web based tutoring systems, in two different projects, at the level of RESEARCH SCIENTIST 1. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST (WebExtrAns Project) QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates for this position must have a Diploma/Masters degree in Computational Linguistics, or in a related area (computer science, linguistics) with a minor in Computational Linguistics, in-depth programming skills in Prolog, a good command of English, and acquaintance with grammar formalisms. Knowledge of script programming languages (e.g. Perl), markup-languages (SGML/XML), and methods for automated terminology extraction would be an additional asset. A working knowledge of German is desired. DUTIES: Development of an Answer Extraction system for the Aircraft Maintenance Manual of the Airbus 320, based on an existing Answer Extraction system. See http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/CL/CLpublications.html for more information on Answer Extraction, and http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/CL/webextrans for a demo. DURATION: One year, to be extended, open immediately. 2. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST (Web-CL-Tutor Project) QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates for this position must have a Diploma/Masters degree in Computational Linguistics, or in a related area (computer science, linguistics) with a minor in Computational Linguistics, in-depth knowledge of Computational Linguistics, knowledge of Web based training and tutoring methods, and a keen interest in didactic questions. Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Java) and of markup-languages (SGML/XML) would be an additional asset. Very good knowledge of German is mandatory. DUTIES: Development of the contents of a Web based two-semester course in Computational Linguistics, in German. An existing interactive text should be re-structured according to the principles of Problem Based Learning, and appropriate demos, exercises and (on-line) tests should be designed and integrated with the text. DURATION: Two years, to be extended, open January 2001. 3. COMPUTER SCIENTIST (Web-CL-Tutor Project) QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates for this position must have a Diploma/Masters degree in Computer Science, or in a related area (computational linguistics, linguistics) with a minor in computer science, in-depth knowledge of Web programming (Java, Perl) and of markup-languages (SGML/XML/HTML), knowledge of PDF/Acrobat, and experience in running mid-size SW development projects. Knowledge of Web based training and tutoring methods, of other programming languages (e.g. Prolog), and interest in didactic questions would be additional assets. Some knowledge of German is desirable. DUTIES: Implementation of a Web based two-semester course in Computational Linguistics. An existing interactive text, interactive demos, exercises and on-line tests must be integrated within a Web based class management system. The sources will be written in, or converted into, a (non-proprietary) XML-based format, from which the (proprietary) format of the specific class management system will be generated. DURATION: Two years, to be extended, open January 2001. SALARY: For all positions, approx. 60,000 Swiss Francs p.a. (depending on qualifications). SITE: The Department of Information Technology has 8 full-time faculty and approx. 80 staff, from a variety of nations. Detailed information on the Department of Information Technology can be found at http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/. The University of Zurich is the largest University in Switzerland, with approximately 20,000 full-time students (see http://www.unizh.ch/). Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland, with a rich cultural and scientific life. It is also one of the main touristic attractions in Switzerland (http://www.zurichtourism.ch/index_e.html). APPLICATIONS: Qualified applicants should send (by e-mail or in hard copy) a detailed curriculum vitae, a one-page statement of their research interests, a list of publications, and the names of three references with mail/email addresses and telephone/fax numbers to: Professor Michael Hess University of Zurich Department of Computer Science Computational Linguistics Group Winterthurerstr. 190 CH-8057 Zurich Switzerland Email: hess at ifi.unizh.ch Tel.: +41 1 635 43 77 Fax: +41 1 635 68 09 from where further information can be obtained. DEADLINE: Applicants will be considered on a continuing basis, beginning immediately, until the position is filled. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:09:01 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:09:01 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2001 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen ACL-2001 Final Call For Papers 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 6 - 11 July, 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html General Conference Chair: Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) Program Co-Chairs: Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padua, Italy) Local Organization Chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse, France) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 39th Annual Meeting, which this year is jointly hosted with the European Chapter. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Requirements ------------ Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.) Reviewing --------- The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by the international Conference Program Committee consisting of the following nine Area Chairs, each assisted by a team of reviewers. Jennifer Chu-Carroll (Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, USA) Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research, USA) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Adam Kilgarriff (ITRI, University of Brighton, UK) Lillian Lee (Cornell University, USA) Adwait Ratnaparkhi (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen, UK) James Rogers (Earlham College, USA) David Weir (University of Sussex, UK) Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Format ----------------- Papers must be submitted in hard copy. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. They are available from the ACL-2001 program committee Web-site at http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. As reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page will be required. The identification page should include the paper title, the paper ID code generated upon paper registration (see below), authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area, and a short summary (up to 5 lines). The identification page should also specify whether the paper is under consideration for other conferences. The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. Submission Procedure -------------------- 1) Submission notification: You must first register your submission by January 26, 2001. This can be done by filling out an electronic form directly at http://www.dfki.de/cgi-bin/acl2001/submission.cgi or via http://acl2001.dfki.de/. The form requires a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission. Please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the program committee co-chairs. Do not re-submit your paper if you have already received an ID! If you want to change any information in your submission notification, please mail the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de and include your paper ID in the subject of the mail. If you have any difficulty using the electronic registration form, please send email to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de with all of the title page information plus the authors' names and affiliations. 2) Paper submission: Submissions must be received by February 2, 2001. Late submissions (those arriving after February 2) will be returned without review. The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following address: ACL-2001 Submission Norbert Reithinger DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic version of the paper (without the identification page) to acl2001-submissions at dfki.de. Please include the paper ID in the subject line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The electronic version should also be received by February 2nd, 2001. Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version, please send mail to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de. Acknowledgment of hardcopy submission will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on or after April, 12th. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright release statement along with the final camera-ready papers. Deadlines --------- Paper registration deadline: January 26th, 2001 Paper submissions deadline: February 2nd, 2001 Notification of acceptance: April 12th, 2001 Camera ready papers due: May 12th, 2001 ACL 2001 Conference: July 6th-11th, 2001 Submission Questions -------------------- Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program committee co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de sufficiently ahead of the submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made. Mentoring Service ----------------- ACL 2001 is organizing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is not the language of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL meetings. They may also have some trouble with the style of the presentation of the material that is expected for ACL. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors will be identified by Aravind Joshi, who has agreed to organize this service for ACL 2001. An author who would like to take advantage of this service must send a draft of his/her paper to Aravind K. Joshi Room 555 Moore Department of Computer and Information Science 200 South 33rd Street University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6389 USA fax: +1 215 898 0587 The author must send one (1) copy of the paper (hard copy by regular mail, courier service, or fax) by no later than December 20, 2000. The author should try to make the draft as complete as possible in order to get the best advice. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to each paper and the mentor will get back to the author at least two weeks before the deadline for the submission to ACL 2001 program committee. Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to improve their papers. If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send a message to Aravind Joshi (joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu). ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:10:39 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:10:39 +0100 Subject: Appel: CIDE 2001 Message-ID: From: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------- CIDE 2001 4th International Conference on The Electronic Document Toulouse-France 24-26 October 2001 Organised by the Toulouse Research Institute for Computer Science IRIT/ CNRS - INP - UPS ----------------------------- Contact Address and on line Information ----------------------------- Conférence CIDE 2001 IRIT UPS - 118, route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex cide2001 at irit.fr http://www.irit.fr/CIDE2001 The site will be regularly updated to keep you informed about the various stages and developments before the conference. ----------------------------- Objectives and Themes ----------------------------- Since its creation (1998 in Rabat,1999 in Damas, 2000 in Lyon) CIDE has been interested in the problems related to the creation and use of electronic documents, which are seen and have developed as a specific means in the various communication processes. As in previous years, the objective of CIDE 2001 is to carry on and go into in more depth, the interdisciplinary approach, so that beyond the confrontation of various disciplinary points of view over the object-document, a possible cooperation, with a cognitive orientation, becomes apparent. Therefore, the leading theme for CIDE 2001 will be cognitive methods, approaches and techniques. Indeed, if we consider that the subject of cognition sciences is the study of the human mind's relations with the world and with other minds (him/herself included) it would appear that the electronic document - place, medium and/or even object of communication - seems to offer cognitive science an excellent testbed for the observation of the different processes of which these documents are the object, and the specificities opened up by the digital mode. The cognitive approach lends itself particularly well to the analysis of the different processes which bring the object-document into play, such as perception, memory, comprehension, reading strategies, retrieval information, production, editing, conversion, translation, archiving, distribution, revision, annotation and summary. The themes developed at CIDE 2001 will deal with these various activities and will be organized around the following topics: - analysis and generation of objects that make up a document (text, links, graphics, maps); - generation and conversion of models; - modeling and representation of textual or non-textual phenomena; - technical and scientific documentation, procedural and instructional orders text; - documentary memory; - dynamics and life span of documents in an information system; - reading, memory and comprehension strategies; - formatting and visual structures; - retrieval, access and information extraction strategies; - multi-modal access; - data mining; - linguistic processing and multilingualism; - modeling of the activities of the different agents involved in text production and of their cooperation (author, editor, reader, annotator, compositor). We would like to achieve one of CIDE's principal objectives, which is to create a meeting place, for researchers in the various disciplines (computing, linguistics, psychology, ergonomics) and users of documentary engineering. The main themes of CIDE 2001 will, we hope, favour such a meeting, in particular in relation to the development of NTIC (New technologies of Information and Communication). ----------------------------- Important dates ----------------------------- Submission of Proposals 20 April 2001 Notification of Speakers retained 20 May 2001 Submission of final papers 20 June 2001 ----------------------------- Guidelines for submission of proposals ----------------------------- The official language of the conference is French. Papers can be submitted in English or in French and should be between 3000 and 5000 words (6-10 pages) long. All retained papers will be published in the proceedings. Proposals should be sent as 3 paper copies to the following address: Conférence CIDE 2001 IRIT UPS - 118, route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex And by E-mail to cide2001 at irit.fr With each copy, please enclose a page containing the title of the paper, the authors (the first name being the contact person), full contact numbers and addresses and a summary of about 300 words. Publication instructions for the final copy will be available on the conference website: http://www.irit.fr/CIDE2001 ----------------------------- During the conference... ----------------------------- In association with the GRCE (Research Group on Written Communication) special invited papers presentations will be organised; the objective of this being to offer participants an in depth discussion or a synthesis of certain aspects of the document problem. A young researchers session will also be organised. ----------------------------- Programme committee ----------------------------- Cochairs: Mustapha Mojahid and Jacques Virbel, IRIT, Toulouse Jacques André, IRISA, Rennes, France Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Toulouse, France Thierry Baccino, LPEQ, Nice, France Jean-Paul Barthes, UTC, Compiègne, France Abdel Belaid, LORIA, Nancy, France Flavio Bortolozzi, PUC, Curitiba, Brésil Cherif Branki, IISG, Paisley, U.K Jean Caelen, CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France Bernadette, DORIZZI, INT, Evry, France Jean-Marie Cellier, LTC, Toulouse, France Jacques Ducloy, LORIA, Nancy, France Gérard Dupoirier, XEROX, France Patrice Enjalbert, GREYC, Caen, France Hélène Eyrolle, LTC, Toulouse, France Claudie Faure, ENST, Paris, France Mauro Gaïo, GREYC, Caen, France Joël Gardes, France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France Michel Gilloux, SRTP, Nantes, France Mohamed Hassoun, ENSSIB, Lyon, France Laurent Heurley, ECCHAT, Amiens, France Rolf Ingold, UI, Fribourg, Suisse Jacques Labiche, PSI, Rouen, France Yves Lecourtier, PSI, Rouen, France Laurence Likforman, ENST, Paris, France Jean-Luc Nespoulous, Jacques-Lordat, Toulouse, France Anne Nicolle, GREYC, Caen, France Thierry Paquet, PSI, Rouen, France Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley, ERSS, Toulouse, France Jean-Pierre Raysz, JOUVE, Mayenne, France Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, CERISS, Toulouse, France Eric Trupin, PSI, Rouen, France Christine Vanoirbeek, EPFL, Lausanne, Suisse Bernard Victorri, Lattice-CNRS, Paris, France Nadine Vigouroux, IRIT, Toulouse, France Nicole Vincent, E3i, Tours, France Jean Vivier, MRSH, Caen, France Khaldoun Zreik, GREYC, Caen, France ----------------------------- Organisation committee ----------------------------- Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Toulouse Mauro Gaïo, GREYC, Caen Joël Gardes, France Telecom R&D, Lannion Christophe Luc, IRIT, Toulouse Mustapha Mojahid, IRIT, Toulouse Patrice Terrier, LTC, Toulouse Christine Vanoirbeek, EPFL, Lausanne Nadine Vigouroux, IRIT, Toulouse Coordination : Colette Ravinet, Service communication, IRIT, Toulouse ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:10:45 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:10:45 +0100 Subject: Appel: MFI'01 Message-ID: From: Chaib ------------------------------------------- Toulouse (France) 21-23 mai 2001 MFI'01 Modèles formels pour l'INTERACTION Appel à Communication Date de soumission: 17 Décembre 2000 http://damas.ift.ulaval.ca/conferences/mfi01 ------------------------------------------- -- ************************************** Brahim Chaib-draa, ing., Ph.D. Professeur Département Informatique, Pav. PLT, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, PQ, Canada, G1K 7P4 Fax: (418) 656-2324 ************************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:10:54 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:10:54 +0100 Subject: Conf: ATALA Workshop on collocation Message-ID: From: "Geoffrey Williams" --------------------------------------------------------------- ATALA Workshop. Saturday 13th January 2001 COLLOCATION in NLP organised by Béatrice Daille Beatrice.Daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr and Geoffrey Williams Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr Will take place at CHU Pitié - 91 bd de l'Hôpital - 75013 Paris Amphitheatre D ---------------------------------------------------------------- Entrance free Applications for membership of ATALA is welcomed http://www.atala.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9h30 Béatrice Daille, IRIN, Université de Nantes Geoffrey Williams, Université de Bretagne-Sud Introduction 10h00 Leo Wagner, Université de Stuttgart Sur l'identification des collocations en corpus: une approche sémantique 10h45-11h Pause 11h00 Sylvain Kahane,LaTTiCe/TALaNa, Université Paris 7 Alain Polguère, OLST, Université de Montréal Un langage formel d'encodage des fonctions lexicales et son application à la modélisation des collocations 11h45 Marie-Claude L'Homme, Département de linguistique et de traduction, Université de Montréal Combinaison lexicales spécialisées. Regroupement des mots clés par classes conceptuelles 12h30-14H30 Lunch 14h30 Petra Ludewig, Institut fur Semantische Informationsverarbeitung, Université d'Osnabruck Logo Tax - franchir le fossé entre dictionnaire et texte - 15h15 Olivier Ferret et Brigitte Grau, LIMSI-CNRS Structuration thématique d'un réseau de collocations 16h-16H15 Pause 16h15 Isabelle Debourges, LIFO, Université d'Orléans Cartographie de Textes : Une nouvelle approche pour l'exploration de grands corpora 17h End of Workshop ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:11:06 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:11:06 +0100 Subject: Publication: TAL (Dependency Grammars) Message-ID: From: "Philippe Blache" +-----------------------------------------------+ I Revue T.A.L. I I (Le traitement automatique des langues) I I I I http://www.atala.org/tal/tal.html I +-----------------------------------------------+ "Les Grammaires de Dépendance" Vol. 41, Num. 1, Novembre 2000 -------------- Sommaire Richard HUDSON Discontinuity Eva HAJICOVÁ Dependency-Based underlying- structure tagging of a very large czech corpus Alexander DIKOVSKY, Larissa MODINA Dependencies on the other side of the curtain Ingo SCHRÖDER, Wolfgang MENZEL, Kilian FOTH, Michael SCHULZ Modeling Dependency grammar with restricted constraints Diego MOLLÁ, Gerold SCHNEIDER, Rolf SCHWITTER, Michael HESS Answer extraction using a dependancy grammar in extrans Vincenzo LOMBARDO, Leonardo LESMO A formal theory of dependency syntax with empty units Sylvain KAHANE Extractions dans une grammaire de dépendance lexicalisée à bulle Norbert BRÖKER Unordered and non-projective dependency Grammars Tomás HOLAN, Vladislav KUBON, Karel OLIVA, Martin PLATEK On complexity of worder order -------------- Tous les adhérents de l'ATALA reçoivent gratuitement la revue T.A.L. Pour devenir adhérent : http://www.atala.org/adhesion.html Vous pouvez acheter le numéro auprès de Hermès Sciences : hermes at iway.fr http://www.editions-hermes.fr/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:34:10 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:34:10 +0100 Subject: ATALA: Mot du prsident Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis Bonjour à tous, Je me permets de vous adresser ce petit message pour présenter les excuses de l'ATALA pour le retard qui a affecté cette année la publication de la revue T.A.L. Elle n'est pas morte, bien au contraire ! Vous avez certainement vu sur cette liste l'annonce faite par Philippe Blache du premier numéro de l'année, sur les grammaires de dépendances (coordonné par Sylvain Kahane). Certains d'entre vous ont peut-être déjà reçu ce numéro superbe, et ils auront remarqué que la présentation a changé. En effet, je suis heureux de vous annoncer plusieurs nouvelles excellentes. D'une part, T.A.L. est désormais publié par Hermès, éditeur qui a déjà tout un "bouquet" de revues dans des domaines voisins (comme Intelligence Artificielle ou Document Numérique), ce qui est très profitable pour la visibilité et la diffusion de notre revue. Ceci explique notre retard : il a fallu trouver un éditeur, négocier un contrat, etc. D'autre part, T.A.L. passe de deux à trois numéros annuels, et ce dès cette année. Nous espérons que ceci fera pardonner le retard... Enfin, la revue a deux nouveaux rédacteurs-en-chef : se joignent désormais à Philippe Blache, qui continue d'assurer cette fonction, nos collègues Christophe D'Alessandro et Claire Gardent. Les deux numéros suivants vont paraître très prochainement et vous seront envoyés aussitôt. L'année 2000 comportera donc : * Vol. 41:1 Grammaires de dépendance (dir. Sylvain Kahane) * Vol. 41:2 Traitement Automatique des Langues pour la Recherche d'Information (dir. Christian Jacquemin) * Vol. 41:3 Le traitement automatique des Noms propres (dir. Denis Maurel et Franz Guenthner) J'en profite pour glisser un petit mot de rappel pour nos adhérents qui auraient oublié de règler leur cotisation 2000 : ne ratez pas l'occasion de recevoir ces trois excellents numéros pour le modeste prix de l'adhésion (200 F ou 150F pour les étudiants). Quant aux lecteurs de la liste qui ne sont pas encore adhérents de l'ATALA, je ne peux que les inciter à rejoindre l'association ! En envoyant rapidement votre bulletin d'adhésion accompagné d'un chèque, numéro de carte de crédit ou bon de commande administratif, vous recevrez d'un coup tous les numéros 2000. Votre adhésion est importante. Elle permet à l'ATALA de vivre et de se développer, pour continuer à vous offrir des services de plus en plus efficaces : la revue, qui augmente son rythme, la conférence TALN, qui se développe chaque année (TALN'2000 a été tout particulièrement réussie), les listes LN et LN-FR, le site Web, les journées d'étude... Depuis 40 ans l'ATALA est à la pointe du traitement automatique des langues, soutenez-la ! Merci à tous, et bonnes fêtes de fin d'année. Jean Véronis, Président de l'ATALA http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/ Site Atala: http://www.atala.org/ =========================================================================== ======= Formulaire d'inscription à l'ATALA A renvoyer par poste à ATALA 45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris, FRANCE ou par courrier électroniqueà: GasigliaN at aol.com Année d'adhésion: 2000 Avec réception gratuite des trois numéros de T.A.L.: * Vol. 41:1 Grammaires de dépendance (dir. Sylvain Kahane) * Vol. 41:2 Traitement Automatique des Langues pour la Recherche d'Information (dir. Christian Jacquemin) * Vol. 41:3 Le traitement automatique des Noms propres (dir. 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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Confirmed so far) Martin Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY) Ken Haase (MIT) Sanda Harabagiu (SMU) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Claudia Leacock (ETS Technologies) Steven Maiorano (AAT) Rada Mihalcea (SMU) Dan Moldovan (SMU) German Rigau (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Maria Tereza Pazienza (Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) Paola Velardi (Universita degli Studi di Roma, "La Sapienza") Ellen Voorhees (NIST) Organizers: Dan Moldovan (SMU) Sanda Harabagiu (SMU) II. OVERVIEW WordNet has become a valuable resource in the human language technology and artificial intelligence. It has been used so far in Word Sense Disambiguation, Generation, Information Retrieval, Question Answering, Summarization, Reference Resolution and other aspects of NLP. The success of many NLP applications depends on the availability of linguistic information that defines word senses and typical relations between concepts. Many modern, advanced NLP applications combine the information encoded in WordNet with statistical data, brought forward by the analysis of large text collections, complementing the knowledge encoded in WordNet with empirical data. Due to its vast coverage of English words, WordNet provides with general lexico-semantic information on which open-domain text processing is based. Furthermore, the development of WordNets in several other languages extends this capability to trans-lingual applications, enabling text mining across languages. For example, in Europe, WordNet is being used to develop a multilingual database for several European languages (the EuroWordNet project). Recently, several extensions of the WordNet lexical database have been initiated, in the United States and abroad, with the goal of providing the NLP community with additional knowledge that models pragmatic information not always present in the texts but required by document processing. The workshop provides a forum for presentations and discussions of the latest WordNet extensions and their impact on various applications. The workshop will also foster discussions that reveal to the NLP community current and future requirements of linguistic resources and ways of embedding them in WordNet. Since to date, WordNet has been incorporated in several other linguistic and general knowledge bases (e.g. FrameNet and CYK) presentations of the interactions of WordNet with other resources as well as their applications are sought. This Workshop is three years after the first WordNet Workshop in 1998, time in which many WordNet developments and applications occurred. The target audience consists of researches currently engaged in developing WordNet extensions, researchers interested in lexical resources, those who use or plan to use WordNet, and research policy makers. The interest in WordNet and its applications is worldwide. III. CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that describe unpublished research results in any area of extensions and applications of WordNet. Topics include but are not limited to: * WordNet usage in NLP and AI * WordNet extensions * Integration of WordNet with other lexico-semantic resources * Corpus-based acquisition of WordNet-like knowledge * Mining common-sense knowledge from WordNet and other resources * Multilingua WordNets and applications * WordNet granularity and synset merging IV. PAPER SUBMISSION IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2001 Notification of acceptance: February 16, 2001 Camera ready due: March 2, 2001 Workshop date: June 3 or 4, 2001 WHERE and HOW Submissions must use the NAACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (6 pages or less). Electronic submission only. Please send the pdf or postscript file of your paper to: moldovan at seas.smu.edu. Because the review will be blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. A separate identification page must be sent by email including title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. Please address any questions to moldovan at seas.smu.edu One can download the appropriate style or template files using the following links: NAACL style file http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/naacl2001sub.sty NAACL bibliography style file http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/acl.bst Latex sample file http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/samplesub.tex Microsoft Word Template file http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/naacl-2001-sub.dot _____________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 CFP for Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001 Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001 (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with NAACL2001) Sunday, June 3, 2001 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA sponsored by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) MITRE Corporation Organizing Committee: Jade Goldstein Carnegie Mellon University jade+ at cs.cmu.edu Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl at isi.edu Workshop Website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-naacl2001 (for the latest update) I. OVERVIEW The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL, ANLP/NAACL, ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field. Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL in 97, the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98, and ANLP/NAACL in 2000. All of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before. NAACL'2001 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem. II. CALL FOR PAPERS The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers addressing (but not limited to): Summarization Methods: use of linguistic representations, statistical models, NL generation for summarization, production of abstracts and extracts, multi-document summarization, narrative techniques in summarization, multilingual summarization, text compaction, multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio), use of information extraction, studies and modeling of human summarizers, improving summary coherence, concept fusion, use of thesauri and ontologies, trainable summarizers, applications of machine learning, knowledge-rich methods. Summarization Resources: development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers, annotation standards, shared summarization tools, document segmentation, topic detection, and clustering related to summarization. Evaluation Methods: intrinsic and extrinsic measures, on-line and off-line evaluations, standards for evaluation, task-based evaluation scenarios, user studies, inter-judge agreement. Workshop Themes: 1. Summarization Applications 2. Multidocument Summarization 3. Multilingual Text Summarization 4. Evaluation and Text/Training Corpora 5. Generation for Summarization 6. Topic Identification for Summarization 7. Integration with Web and IR Access III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). SUBMISSION QUESTIONS Please send submission questions to cyl at isi.edu SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word form of your submission to: cyl at isi.edu. The Subject line should be "NAACL2001 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line: "NAACL2001 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. DEADLINES (Tentative) Paper submission deadline: January 19, 2001 Notification of acceptance for papers: February 16, 2001 Camera ready papers due: March 2, 2001 Workshop date: June 3, 2001 _____________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adapting Lexical Resources CFP We are pleased to announce the following ACL sponsored workshop. NAACL 2001 Workshop Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg 3 or 4 June 2001 ------------------------------ - Adapting Lexical Resources - ------------------------------ http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~marks/wshop Lexical resources have become important basic tools within NLP and related fields. The range of resources available to the researcher is diverse and vast - from simple word lists to complex MRDs and thesauruses. The resources contain a whole range of different types of linguistic information presented in different formats and at varying levels of granularity. Also, much information is left implicit in the description, e.g. the definition of lexical entries. The majority of resources used by NLP researchers were not intended for computational uses. For instance, WordNet was an experiment in modelling the mental lexicon and MRDs are a by-product of the dictionary publishing industry. The reasons for using these resources are simple: they are available (and in the case of WordNet, free). The cost of lexicon building is high and few research sites have the resources or inclination to carry out what Johnston called the "mindless drudgery" of manual lexicography. The alternative is to adapt existing resources to particular computational tasks. This workshop is concerned with automatic methods for carrying out this process. We are particularly interested in papers related to the following topics: - adapting resources to by making them reflect the lexical coverage within a particular domain - adapting resources for particular applications (e.g. information extraction, machine translation, question answering, information retrieval) - augmenting the information in a resource (e.g. adding extra word senses, enriching the information associated with the existing entries) - improving the consistency or quality of resources by e.g. merging resources, homogenizing lexical descriptions, making implicit lexical knowledge explicit and clustering word senses - combining the information in more than one resource e.g. by producing a mapping between their senses The overall aim of this workshop is to build up a picture of the current state-of-the-art techniques for automatically modifying lexicons. This picture will allow the NLP community to make more effective and efficient use of the lexical resources currently available. Important Dates --------------- 26 January 2001 Deadline for submission of papers 16 February Notification of acceptance 1 March Camera-ready copies due 3 or 4 June Workshop Submissions ----------- We invite contributions of original research related to any of the topics of the workshop. Paper submissions should be no longer than 3000 words (including references) and should use the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following links: Latex style sheet file http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl2001sub.sty bibliography file http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/acl.bst sample latex file http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/samplesub.tex sample bibliography file http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/samplesub.bib Microsoft Word Template file http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl-2001-sub.dot Preferred submission format is as an electronic file sent to wim at dcs.shef.ac.uk by the 26th of January. Alternatively, three hardcopies may be sent to the following address to arrive by the same date: Wim Peters, Room G36b, Department of Computer Science, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DP United Kingdom Workshop Organisers ------------------- Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University Programme Committee ------------------- (confirmed so far) Robert Krovetz, NEC Wim Peters, Sheffield University Mark Stevenson, Sheffield University Piek Vossen, Sail Labs Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University _____________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems CFP Preliminary Call for Papers NAACL 2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems co-chairs: Cindi Thompson and Eric Horvitz The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers investigating the application of learning and adaptation to dialogue systems, both speech and text based. In this workshop we encourage papers on either theoretical or applied research in adaptation for dialogue, that includes learning procedures as well as decision making methods aimed at dynamically reconfiguring dialogue behavior based on the context. We would also like to explore techniques that allow a dialogue system to learn with experience or from data sets gathered from empirical studies. We welcome submissions from researchers supplementing the traditional development of dialogue systems with techniques from machine learning, statistical NLP, and decision theory. We solicit papers from a number of research areas, including: -Use of machine learning techniques at all levels of dialogue, from speech recognition to generation; from dialogue strategy to user modeling -Adapting to the user as a dialogue progresses -Dialogue as decision making under uncertainty -User and user group modeling -Use of corpora in developing components of dialogue systems, including issues in annotation -Evaluation of adaptive dialogue systems -Comparison of different techniques in applying adaptive techniques to dialogue We also hope to include a session for the demonstration of working systems, as time permits. The demonstration sessions will be open to anyone who wishes to bring their adaptive conversational systems for demonstration to other members of the workshop. Presenters are asked to submit a paper that is specifically directed at a demonstration of their current systems. A web site that will provide additional information on the workshop as it becomes available is located at: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~cindi/AdaptDial.html For more information: Please direct questions to Eric Horvitz (horvitz at microsoft.com) or Cindi Thompson (cindi at cs.utah.edu). ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:34:55 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:34:55 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2000 Final Call for Proposals Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen Final Call For ACL-2001 Workshop Proposals Workshop Chair: Rebecca Bruce (Univ. of North Carolina at Asheville) The ACL/EACL'01 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at ACL/EACL'01. ACL/EACL'01 will be held in Toulouse, France, July 6-11, 2001 with workshops being held July 6-7, 2001. ACL/EACL'01 workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within computational linguistics. Often, workshops concentrate on specific topics of technical interest (e.g., parsing technologies), particular areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP applied to IR), or community-wide issues that deserve attention (e.g., standardization of resources and tools). We welcome proposals on any topic that is of interest to the ACL community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of new techniques or applications. Proposals Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain the following information: - A title and brief description of the workshop topic. - A budget proposal. - The target audience and projected number of participants along with support for the projected count. Supporting evidence could include a list of potential submitters, a list of conferences that contained papers on the proposed topic, the number of new companies focused on this topic, or recent funding initiatives that address this topic. - Resource needs such as room size and number of days. Include any special requirements for technical support (computer infrastructure, etc.). - The name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of each chair. In addition, indicate the chairs' background in the workshop area. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible but no later than JANUARY 12, 2001. The subject line should be: "ACL/EACL'01 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL". Please e-mail proposals and any inquiries to: aclworkshops at cs.unca.edu Timetable of Important Dates: Proposals due: Jan. 12, 2001 Notification of acceptance: Jan. 19, 2001 Deadline for receipt of workshop call for papers and other publicity material: Feb. 19, 2001 Suggested deadline for workshop paper submissions: April 6, 2001 Suggested deadline for notification of workshop paper acceptance: April 27, 2001 Suggested deadline for camera-ready workshop papers: May 16, 2001 Deadline for receipt of camera-ready workshop proceedings: May 25, 2001 Workshop Date: July 6-7, 2001 Additional Information For additional information, see the web site for the conference: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html which will provide additional details as they become available. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:35:31 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:35:31 +0100 Subject: Conf: Call for ACL-2003 Site Proposals Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen CALL for Bids to Host ACL 2003 The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the 41st Annual Meeting of the ACL (ACL'03). International ACL conferences are usually held at the end of July. In keeping with the ACL policy of rotating conference venues, we seek proposals from Asia. The proposal submission process is in two stages. First, draft proposals are sought from prospective proposers. Based on the evaluation of the draft proposals, selected proposers will be invited to submit full proposals. The intent of a request for draft proposals is to minimize the labor and costs associated with the production of full proposals. Bids for Local Arrangements Chair can include suggestions for General Chair, which must be someone other than the Local Arrangements Chair but could be at the same institution. The General Chair will be responsible for overseeing operations of the conference, including working with the Executives of the ACL and the NAACL and collaborating with the Local Arrangements Chair to develop the budget and registration materials; working with the Program and Local Arrangements Chairs to develop the schedule and program; working with the ACL Executive Board to appoint supporting chairs to obtain outside funding, publicize the conference, and organize workshops, tutorials, student events, and demonstrations (none of these supporting nominations need to be included in the proposal); and coordinating the activities of the various chairs and their committees. The Local Arrangements Chair will be responsible for the activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, housing, on-site registration, participant e-mail access, security for equipment, the reception, the banquet, and working with the General Chair, the ACL, and the NAACL to develop the budget and registration materials. The ACL Executive Board will select the Program Committee Chair, who will be responsible for the processes of soliciting, receiving, and reviewing submissions; selecting the papers to be presented at the conference; notifying authors of acceptance or rejection; and developing the conference program. Draft proposals are due on 15 April 2001. Draft proposals are evaluated competitively by the ACL Executive Committee. Selected proposers will be informed electronically before 15 May 2001. Full proposals are due on 15 June 2001. Draft proposals should include: - - Location (accessibility, conference venue, hotels, student dorms) - - Local CL Community - - Proposed Date - - Meeting Space (space for plenary sessions, tutorials, workshops, posters, exhibits, demos and small meetings) - - A/V equipment - - Food/Entertainment/Banquet/Receptions - - Local Arrangements (chairs, committee, volunteer labor, registration handling) - - Sponsorships - - Budget estimates Proposals will be evaluated in relation to a number of site selection criteria (unordered): - - Experience of Local Arrangement team. - - Local CL community support. - - Local government and industry support. - - Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site. - - Appropriateness of proposed dates. - - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - - Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of price categories and close to the conference facilities. - - Adequacy of budget projections and expected surplus. - - Balance with regard to the geographical distribution of previous conferences. Draft proposals should be sent electronically to the ACL Vice-President, with a copy to the executive committee's area coordinator for 2001. Prof. John Nerbonne Prof. Junichi TSUJII Alfa Informatica, P.O. Box 716 Department of Information Science University of Groningen Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033 JAPAN Tel. +31 (0)50 363 58 15 +81 (0)3-5841-4098 Fax 363 68 55 5802-8872 Email: nerbonne at let.rug.nl tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp http://www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ Submission Dates: Draft proposals are due on 15 April 2001; Full proposals are due on 15 June 2001. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:38:48 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:38:48 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: ___________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Andrew W. Cole" Subject: Programmer Job at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) 2/ From: Tim V.Sibley Subject: Comp Linguists at StreamSage, DC, USA 3/ From: CEUSTERS Werner Subject: (Comp) Linguists at Language & Computing nv, Oost-Vlaanderen, ___________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Andrew W. Cole" Subject: Programmer Job at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) Programmers and Their Ilk, As the manager of LDC publications I am looking to hire an experienced programmer to develop systems for the production of large linguistic data sets. The majority of the work is performed in PERL on Unix systems although there is some work supporting Windows and MacIntosh systems. Any familiarity with C, C++, Python, and SGML/HTML/XML is a 'good thing' and not to be scoffed at. Although this is obviously an excellent position for anyone interested in computation, linguistics, audio and/or video, there are also opportunities within the purview of publications in database organization, archival research, cgi-bin systems design, and library science. Not that you asked, but if you're not familiar with the the LDC, we are the major provider of research data to the linguistic research community and benefit from the largesse of many researchers and grantors. We are a part of the University of Pennsylvania and located at 3616 Market in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. If you think you might be interested in this position, please check out the official job listing on the UPenn web at http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/record_view.asp?id=00116720 or email me directly at mailto://andrew.cole at ldc.upenn.edu. Thanks, Andy -- Andrew W. Cole Publications Manager Linguistic Data Consortium University of Pennsylvania 3615 Market Suite 200 Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104-2608 215.573.1274 215.573.2175 (fax) andrew.cole at ldc.upenn.edu http://www.ldc.upenn.edu ___________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Tim V.Sibley Subject: Comp Linguists at StreamSage, DC, USA Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational Linguists Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: StreamSage Department: Speech Interpretation Laboratory State or Province: DC Country: USA Final Date of Application: as soon as possible Contact: Tim V. Sibley tim.sibley at streamsage.com Address for Applications: 1202 Delafield Pl. NW Washington DC 20011 US StreamSage believes that our recent advancements, along with several technological developments of the last few years, have for the first time made possible the development of an intelligent system to bring true interactivity to both streaming, digital media and television. Such a system has the potential to completely revolutionize the delivery of media - a proposition that has, not surprisingly, attracted the attention of major on-line and off-line media companies alike. StreamSage is now recruiting for new positions within this exciting effort. Research positions are available immediately (starting date flexible). Research focuses on time-based modeling of spoken language for the purpose of automated digital media manipulation via intelligent, adaptive algorithms, neural networks, rule-based frameworks, and large-ontology interpretation. Candidates should have a strong background in a variety of computational linguistics techniques. A sufficiently independent spirit is necessary for use within a startup that develops state-of-the-art technology. Familiarity with Java is a plus. Proficient knowledge of the English language is required. Compensation is competitive, with full benefits and attractive incentive package. Please send resume, 2 recommendations, and representative publications to the address listed below, or inquire with any questions or comments. E-mail inquiries and applications are encouraged. Tim V. Sibley tim.sibley at streamsage.com StreamSage, Inc. 1900 M St. NW Suite 810 Washington, DC 20036 phone: 202.833.8050 fax: 360.838.7203 ___________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: CEUSTERS Werner Subject: (Comp) Linguists at Language & Computing nv, Oost-Vlaanderen, Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational linguist Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: Language & Computing nv Department: R&D State or Province: Oost-Vlaanderen Country: Belgium Final Date of Application: 02-02-2001 Contact: CEUSTERS Werner werner at landc.be Address for Applications: Hazenakkerstraat 20A Zonnegem Oost-Vlaanderen B-9520 Belgium Language & Computing nv (http://www.landc.be), active in multi-lingual medical natural language understanding, has the following 2 positions available: Job 1: Computational Linguist/Programmer We require a computational linguist with experience in Semantic Analysis, to support the task of automatic syntactic/semantic analysis using a wide-coverage grammar. The applicant should also have experience in most of the following areas: * Experienced in either functional formalisms (e.g., Systemic Functional Linguistics) or dependency formalisms. * Knowledge of Flemish (or other germanic languages) is a plus, but not necessary. * Experience with descriptive logics (KL-ONE, etc.) for semantic analysis. * Some programming experience is necessary, and experience with any of C, C++, Lisp, or Java is an advantage (or a willingness to learn). We are seeking candidates at the post-doctoral level, preferably with project experience. Those without doctorate but with strong project experience will also be considered. Renumeration will be in line with experience. Job 2: Linguist/Computational Linguist We require a computational linguist (or computer-able linguist) to aid in the development of a wide-coverage dependency grammar of Flemish. Experience of either Systemic-Functional grammars, dependency grammars, or lexicalised approaches (e.g., LTAGS, LFG) will be an advantage. Some ability with Flemish is also preferred. Applicants should have an undergraduate degree majoring in Linguistics, or equivalent experience. Doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers are also welcome to apply. Renumeration will be in line with experience. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:42:07 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:42:07 +0100 Subject: Livre: Prosody Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 14 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis PROSODY: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT Studies Presented to Gösta Bruce edited by Merle Horne Dept. of Linguistics and Phonetics Lund University, Sweden The study of prosody is perhaps the area of speech research which has undergone the most noticeable development during the past ten to fifteen years. This book contains contributions by 15 internationally recognized experts (including M. Beckman, N. Campbell, C. Gussenhoven, J. Hirschberg, D. Hirst, D.R. Ladd, M. Ostendorf, J. Pierrehumbert, E. Selkirk, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, and J. Terken) in different areas of prosody which provide readers with the most current and comprehensive picture of the major areas of research within the field. The contributions not only provide a survey of major developments in prosody during the past 1520 years, but also present ongoing work as well as point to areas where future research is needed. The chapters deal with a wide range of topics including the representation of tones and intonation, evidence for and constraints on prosodic phrasing, prosodic boundary detection, articulatory dynamics of stress, timing in speech, and prosodic correlates of speaking style, as well as the perception of prosodic prominence. The book offers investigators in all areas of speech communication (phonetics, phonology, speech technology) with a comprehensive and coherent presentation of contemporary prosodic research. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8 August 2000, 364 pp. NLG 290.00 / USD 153.00 / GBP 95.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Introduction; M. Horne. 1. Tonal Elements and Their Alignment; J. Pierrehumbert. 2. Bruce, Pierrehumbert, and the Elements of Intonational Phonology; D. Robert Ladd. 3. Levels of Representation and Levels of Analysis for the Description of Intonation Systems; D. Hirst, et al. 4. The Perception of Prosodic Prominence; J. Terken, D. Hermes. 5. The Lexical Tone Contrast of Roermond Dutch in Optimality Theory; C. Gussenhoven. 6. Modeling the Articulatory Dynamics of two Levels of Stress Contrast; M.E. Beckman, K.B. Cohen. 7. Phrase-Level Phonology in Speech Production Planning: Evidence for the Role of Prosodic Structure; S. Shattuck-Hufnagel. 8. The Interaction of Constraints on Prosodic Phrasing; E. Selkirk. 9. Prosodic Boundary Detection; M. Ostendorf. 10. Timing in Speech: A Multi-Level Process; N. Campbell. 11. A Corpus-Based Approach to the Study of Speaking Style; J. Hirschberg. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Volume 5: Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997 Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998 Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999 Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999 Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging Hans van Halteren (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999 Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons Viegas, E. (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999 Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999 Volume 12: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing Frank van Eynde & Dafydd Gibbon (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X, April 2000. Volume 13: Parallel text processing: Alignment and use of translation corpora Jean Véronis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1, August 2000. Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 6 16:42:09 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:42:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN 2001 Message-ID: From: Maurel Denis ********************************************************************** * * TALN 2001 * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * Universite de Tours * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ * mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** TALN 2001 : PREMIER APPEL A COMMUNICATION ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- TALN 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001, organise par le LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universit? de Tours) et l'axe LTI (Langues et Technologies de l'information). La conference TALN 2001 comprendra des communications scientifiques, des conferenciers invites, des seances de demonstration et posters, ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. TALN 2001 est organisee sous l'egide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement a la conference pour jeunes chercheurs RECITAL 2001 (appel a communications a paraitre separement). ********** THEMES ********** Les communications pourront porter sur tous les themes habituels du TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative: lexique morphologie syntaxe semantique pragmatique discours analyse generation resume dialogue traduction automatique approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques TALN 2001 souhaite egalement accueillir des travaux de domaines proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, dans la mesure ou l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : traitement de la parole (prosodie, linguistique, pragmatique) traitement de l'ecrit aspects cognitifs terminologie acquisition de connaissances a partir de textes extraction d'information recherche documentaire linguistique de corpus linguistique mathematique utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modelisation linguistique enseignement assiste, enseignement des langues. Sont aussi attendus des travaux sur des applications du TALN, implementees et evaluees, faisant ressortir leurs aspects scientifiques et les enseignements tires. Des demonstrations de systemes pourront etre proposees, independamment ou en complement d'articles scientifiques. L'emploi du temps de la conference comprendra une session pour ces demonstrations. ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril 2001 Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ********** Les articles soumis seront rediges en francais (ou en anglais par les non-francophones). Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples et references compris. Les soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 fevrier 2001, sous forme electronique, a mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr. En cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission "papier" pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre envoyes a l'adresse suivante: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS ********** Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission par courrier electronique sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps ou pdf au format A4 et non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la soumission et les noms des auteurs. Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont disponibles sur le site de la conference: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** CRITERES DE SELECTION ********** Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications anterieures. Les soumissions seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. Seront considerees en particulier : L'importance et l'originalite de la contribution, La correction du contenu scientifique et technique, La discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine, La situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale, L'organisation et la clarte de la presentation, L'adequation aux themes de la conference. Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la conference. ********** DEMONSTRATIONS ET POSTERS ********** Une ou deux seances specifiques seront prevues pour des demonstrations (presentations logicielles) et des posters (85 x 120 cm). Les propositions de demonstration ou de poster suivent les memes regles que les soumissions de communication mais ne devront pas depasser 4 pages. ********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES ********** Les presentations orales dureront 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de questions. Il sera possible d'utiliser un retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur. ********** ACTES ********** Les actes de la conference seront distribues a tous les participants. Le Comite de redaction de la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.) s?lectionnera deux articles pour publication. ********************************************************************** * * ENGLISH VERSION * ********************************************************************** ********** TALN 2001 : FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- TALN 2001 will be held at Tours on July, 2 - 5 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and Information Technologies). The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are French and English. TALN 2001 is organized in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2001 (a separate call for papers will follow). ********** TOPICS ********** Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): lexicon morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse parsing generation abstraction/summarisation dialogue translation logical, symbolical and statistical approaches TALN 2001 also invites contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasize their NLP dimension : speech processing text processing cognition terminology knowledge acquisition information retrieval documentary research corpus-based linguistics mathematical linguistics management and acquisition of linguistic resources computer assisted learning NLP tools for linguistic modelization TALN 2001 also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasizing the scientific aspects and conclusions drawn. Software demonstrations can be proposed, either independently or in connection with a paper proposal. Specific sessions for the demos will be scheduled in the conference. ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Notification to authors: 4/27/2001 Final version due (camera-ready): 5/11/2001 Conference : 7/2-5/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced, including figures, examples and references. Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr. If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, at the following address: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS ********** Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail(ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing the following informations: submission title and author's names. The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference web site: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ . ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria : Importance and originality of the paper Accuracy of the scientific and technical content Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work Layout and clarity of the paper Relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. ********** DEMOS AND POSTERS ********** One or two specific sessions for the demos and the posters (85 x 120 cm) will be scheduled in the conference. The demo or poster submissions accord to the same rules of paper submission, BUT they should not exceed 4 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. 10 minutes will be left for questions. It will be possible to use a overhead projector or a video-projector. ********** PROCEEDINGS ********** The conference proceedings will be given to all participants. The editorial staff of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.) will select two papers for publication. ********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME ********** ********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********** (le comite de programme sera entoure d'un large comite de lecture) (the program committee will be supervised by a broad reviewing committee) Pascal Amsili, TALaNa Frederic Bechet, LIA Philippe Blache, LPL Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO Beatrice Daille, IRIN Laurence Danlos, LORIA/TALaNa Claire Gardent, LORIA Eric Laporte, CERIL Denis Maurel, LI (president) Piet Mertens, CCL Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA Martin Rajman, EPFL Owen Rambow, ATT Labs-Research Jacques Siroux, IRISA LLI/CORDIAL Jean Veronis, LPL Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM ********** COMITE D'ORGANISATION ********** ********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********** Claire Agafonov, LTI Beatrice Bouchou, LI Alain Cambourian, LTI Alain Delplanque, LTI Nathalie Friburger, LI Nathalie Garric, LTI Paul Gaudin, LTI Manuel Gonzales de Avila, Ciremia Thierry Grass, LTI Denis Maurel, LI (president) Nathalie Rossi, LTI Mohamed Slimane, LI Nicole Vincent, LI ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 6 16:42:15 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:42:15 +0100 Subject: Appel: LACL 2000 Message-ID: From: "Catherine Piliere" ***************************************************************** --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate --- ***************************************************************** Second Call for Papers LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic, France Submission Deadline: January 29, 2001 http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ***************************************************************** ---------------------------- HISTORY ---------------------------- The LACL series of conferences aims at providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal and logical aspects of computational linguistics. It started as a workshop held in Nancy (France), in 1995. Due to its success, it was turned, the next year, into a international conference. LACL'96 and '97 have both been held in Nancy (France). LACL'98 has been held in Grenoble (France). Selected papers from LACL'95 appear in a special issue of Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7(4), 1998. The proceedings of LACL'96 and 97 appear as volumes 1328 and 1582 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The proceedings of LACL'98 are in press with the same series. ----------------------------- SCOPE ----------------------------- Typical topics include, but are not limited to: Categorial grammars, Categorial type logics, Compositionality, Discourse representation theory, Dynamics, Feature Logics, Formal language theory, Game-theoretical semantics, Grammatical inference, Learning theory, Linear logical frameworks, Minimalism, Modal logics, Montague semantics, Parsing as deduction, Proof- theoretic approaches, Situation semantics and situation theory, Type-theoretic approaches. ----------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------- Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 15 standard A4 or US quarto pages. The paper should allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the work. In particular, references and comparisons with related work should be included. Submission of material already published or submitted to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Electronic submission is highly recommended. A postscript version of the paper should be sent as an e-mail to: morrill at lsi.upc.es to arrive by January 29, 2001. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file In addition, a separate e-mail containing the title of the paper, authors' names and addresses, and a short abstract in plain ASCII format should be sent to the same e-mail address. If electronic submission is not possible, authors may submit four hard copies of the paper by post to the following address: LACL 2001 (Attention: G. Morrill) UPC, Departament de LSI Campus Nord - Modul C6 Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 E-08034 Barcelona - Espanya ------------------------------ URL ----------------------------- http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------- Deadline for Submissions: January 29, 2001 Notification to Authors: March 26, 2001 Final Versions due: April 20, 2001 ---------------------- CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ------------------ The accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in AI. This will be available at the time of the conference. ------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- W. Buszkowski (Poznan) R. Crouch, (Palo Alto) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) M. Dymetman (Grenoble) C. Gardent (Saarbrucken) P. de Groote (Nancy), co-chair M. Kanazawa (Tokyo) G. Morrill (Barcelona), co-chair R. Muskens (Tilburg) F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh) B. Rounds, (Ann Arbor) E. Stabler (Los Angeles) ----------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------- B. Daille (Nantes) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) A. Foret (Rennes) E. Lebret (Rennes) C. Piliere (Nancy), publicity chair C. Retore (Rennes), chair P. Sebillot (Rennes) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 6 16:42:22 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:42:22 +0100 Subject: Appel: RECITAL'2001 Message-ID: From: "friburger" *********************************************************************** * =20 * Recital 2001 =20 * -------------------- =20 * Rencontre des etudiants chercheurs en informatique = =20 * pour le traitement automatique =20 * des langues =20 * =20 * =20 * Universite de Tours =20 * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 =20 * =20 * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ =20 * mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.fr =20 ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** Recital 2001 : PREMIER APPEL A COMMUNICATION ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Recital 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 en = parallele avec la conference TALN 2001 (appel a communications a = paraitre separement). La conference Recital 2001 comprendra des communications scientifiques, = des conferenciers invites, des seances de demonstration et posters, = ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. Ces deux conferences sont organisees sous l'egide de l'ATALA = (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues).=20 ********** THEMES ********** Les communications pourront porter sur tous les themes habituels du = TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative:=20 Analyse et comprehension de textes=20 Generation d'enonces en langues naturelles=20 Traduction automatique=20 Production de resumes=20 Dialogue homme-machine=20 Recital 2001 souhaite egalement accueillir des travaux de domaines = proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, dans la mesure ou = l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : Ressources linguistiques (lexiques, dictionnaires electroniques, = corpus, etc.)=20 Semantique lexicale (polysemie, categorisation, etc.)=20 Semantique du temps et de l'espace (representation et raisonnement)=20 Logique (argumentation, modelisation des intentions et des croyances, = etc.)=20 Architectures dediees au TAL (syst=E8mes multi-agents, reseaux = neuromimetiques)=20 Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de = connaissances (a partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine)=20 Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole=20 =20 ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril 2001 Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ********** Les articles soumis seront rediges en francais (ou en anglais par les = non-francophones). Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, = figures, exemples et references compris. Les soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 = fevrier 2001, sous forme electronique, a = mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.fr. En cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission = "papier" pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre = envoyes a l'adresse suivante: Recital 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS ********** Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission par courrier electronique = sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps ou pdf au format A4 et = non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la soumission et les = noms des auteurs.=20 Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont disponibles sur le site de = la conference: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** CRITERES DE SELECTION ********** Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, = n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications anterieures. Les soumissions = seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. Seront = considerees en particulier : l'importance et l'originalite de la contribution,=20 la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,=20 la discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux = autres travaux du domaine,=20 la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche = internationale,=20 l'organisation et la clarte de la presentation,=20 l'adequation aux themes de la conference.=20 =20 Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la = conference. ********** POSTERS ********** Une ou deux seances specifiques seront prevues pour des posters (85 x = 120 cm). Les propositions de poster suivent les memes regles que les soumissions = de communication mais ne devront pas depasser 4 pages.=20 ********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES ********** Les presentations orales dureront 15 minutes et seront suivies de 5 = minutes de questions. Il sera possible d'utiliser un retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur.=20 ********** ACTES ********** Les actes des conferences seront distribues a tous les participants. **************************************************************** English version=20 **************************************************************** ********** Recital 2001 : : FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ************ ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE : FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Recital 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - 5 July 2001, organized by the LI = (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and = Information Technologies).=20 The official conference languages are French and English.=20 The young researcher conference Recital 2001 will be held jointly with = the conference TALN 2001.=20 TALN 2001 is organized in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le = Traitement Automatique des LAngues). ********** TOPICS ********** Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): Analysis and comprehension of texts Text generation in natural languages Automatic translation Production of summaries Talk human-machine Recital 2001 also invites contributions in the following fields too: Linguistic resources (lexics, electronic dictionaries, corpora, etc.) Lexical Semantics (categorisation, etc.) Time and space Semantics (representation and reasoning) Logic (argumentation, modelisation of intention, etc.)=20 NLP Dedicated architectures (multi-agents systems, neuromimetic = networks) =20 Acquisition and automatic learning of resources or knowledge (from = corpora, or human/machine interaction) Relations between NLP and talk recognition=20 =20 ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Notification to authors: 4/27/2001 Final version due (camera-ready): 5/11/2001 Conference : 7/2-5/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced, = including figures, examples and references. Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before = 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours. If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard copies of the paper = must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, at the following = address: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS ********** Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail(ps = or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing the = following information: submission title and author's names. The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference website: = http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. = Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain. = Decisions will be based on the following criteria : Importance and originality of the paper Accuracy of the scientific and technical content Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work Layout and clarity of the paper Relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. ********** POSTERS ********** One or two specific sessions for the posters (85 x 120 cm) will be = scheduled in the conference. The poster submissions accord to the same rules of paper submission, BUT = they should not exceed 4 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Papers should be of 15 minutes duration. 5 minutes will be left for = questions. 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Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 = pages en=20 Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples et references = compris.
Les=20 soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 = fevrier 2001,=20 sous forme electronique, a mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.f= r.
En=20 cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission = "papier"=20 pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre envoyes = a=20 l'adresse suivante:
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Les auteurs devront envoyer leur = soumission par=20 courrier electronique sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps = ou pdf au=20 format A4 et non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la = soumission et=20 les noms des auteurs.
Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont=20 disponibles sur le site de la conference: http://www.li.univ= -tours.fr/taln-recital-2001.
 
********** CRITERES DE SELECTION=20 **********
 
Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre = des travaux de=20 recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications = anterieures. Les=20 soumissions seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. = Seront=20 considerees en particulier :
l'importance et l'originalite de la=20 contribution,
la correction du contenu scientifique et technique, =
la=20 discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres = travaux=20 du domaine,
la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la = recherche=20 internationale,
l'organisation et la clarte de la presentation,=20
l'adequation aux themes de la conference.
 
Les articles = selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la = conference.
 
********** POSTERS = **********
 
Une ou deux seances specifiques seront = prevues pour=20 des posters (85 x 120 cm).
Les propositions de poster suivent les = memes=20 regles que les soumissions de communication mais ne devront pas depasser = 4=20 pages.
 
********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES=20 **********
 
Les presentations orales dureront 15 = minutes et=20 seront suivies de 5 minutes de questions.
Il sera possible d'utiliser = un=20 retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur.
 
********** ACTES = **********
 
Les actes des conferences seront = distribues a tous=20 les participants.
 
****************************************************************=
        =20 English version=20
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*= *********=20 Recital 2001  : : FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS  = ************
 
---->      = SUBMISSION=20 DEADLINE : FRIDAY, 2/23/2001       =20 <----
 
Recital 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - = 5 July=20 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and = LTI=20 (Language and Information Technologies).
 
The official conference languages are = French and=20 English.
 
The young researcher conference Recital = 2001 will=20 be held jointly with the conference TALN 2001.
TALN 2001 is = organized in=20 collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des = LAngues).
 
********** TOPICS **********
Papers = are invited=20 in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to):
  Analysis = and=20 comprehension of texts
  Text generation in natural = languages
 =20 Automatic translation
  Production of summaries
  Talk=20 human-machine
 
Recital 2001 also invites contributions = in the=20 following fields too:
  Linguistic resources (lexics, electronic = dictionaries, corpora, etc.)
  Lexical Semantics  = (categorisation,=20 etc.)
  Time and space Semantics (representation and=20 reasoning)
  Logic (argumentation, modelisation of intention, = etc.)=20
  NLP Dedicated architectures (multi-agents systems, = neuromimetic=20 networks)      
  Acquisition and = automatic learning of resources or knowledge (from corpora, or = human/machine=20 interaction)
  Relations between NLP and talk recognition=20
 
********** CALENDAR **********
 
----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, = 2/23/2001=20 <----
Notification to authors: 4/27/2001
Final version due=20 (camera-ready): 5/11/2001
Conference : 7/2-5/2001
 
********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE=20 **********
 
The maximum length for papers is 10 = pages, in Times=20 12, single spaced, including figures, examples and = references.
 
Electronic submissions must reach the = organizing=20 committee before 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.=
 
If electronic submission is not = possible, 3 hard=20 copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee before = 2/23/2001, at the=20 following address:
  TALN 2001
  LI (Laboratoire = d'Informatique=20 de l'Universite de Tours)
  E3i, 64, avenue Jean = Portalis
 =20 37200 Tours
  France
 
********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS=20 **********
 
Authors should send their submission as = a file=20 attached to an e-mail(ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter = format),=20 containing the following information: submission title and author's=20 names.
The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference = website:=20 http://www.li.univ= -tours.fr/taln-recital-2001.
 
********** SELECTION CRITERIA=20 **********
 
Authors are invited to submit original, = previously=20 unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists = of the=20 domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria = :
Importance and=20 originality of the paper
Accuracy of the scientific and technical=20 content
Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant = work
Layout=20 and clarity of the paper
Relevance to the topics of the=20 conference
 
Accepted papers will be published in = the=20 proceedings of the conference.
 
********** POSTERS = **********
 
One or two specific sessions for the = posters (85 x=20 120 cm) will be scheduled in the conference.
The poster submissions = accord to=20 the same rules of paper submission, BUT they should not exceed 4=20 pages.
 
********** TALKS = **********
 
Papers should be of 15 minutes = duration. 5 minutes=20 will be left for questions.
It will be possible to use a overhead = projector=20 or a video-projector.
 

********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME=20 **********
**********  PROGRAM COMMITTEE  = **********
 
Pascal Amsili, TALaNa
Pierre Beust, = GREYC
Philippe Blache, LPL
Beatrice Bouchou, LI = (president)
Jean=20 Caelen, CLIPS
Cecile Fabre, ERSS
Cedric Fairon, NYU, Department of = Linguistics
Bertrand Gaiffe, LORIA
Damien Genthial, = CLIPS
Gabriel=20 Illouz, LIMSI
Denis Maurel, LI
Philippe Muller, IRIT
Anne = Nicolle,=20 GREYC
Martin Rajman, EPFL
Laurent Romary, LORIA
Jose Rouillard, = CLIPS
Azim Roussanaly, LORIA
Jacques Siroux, IRISA = LLI/CORDIAL
Jacques=20 Vergne, GREYC
Jean Veronis, LPL
Michael Zock, LIMSI
 

********** COMITE D'ORGANISATION=20 **********
********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE  = **********
 
Claire Agafonov, LTI
Beatrice = Bouchou, LI=20 (president)
Alain Cambourian, LTI
Alain Delplanque, = LTI
Nathalie=20 Friburger, LI (president)
Nathalie Garric, LTI
Paul Gaudin, = LTI
Manuel=20 Gonzales de Avila, Ciremia
Thierry Grass, LTI
Denis Maurel, LI=20
Nathalie Rossi, LTI
Mohamed Slimane, LI
Nicole Vincent,=20 LI
 
 
------=_NextPart_000_009D_01C05BA3.2E8FB260-- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 6 16:42:27 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:42:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: Semantic Web Workshop 2001 Message-ID: From: Steffen Staab ********************************************************************* Call for Papers Semantic Web WWW-10 Workshop May 1, 2001 Hongkong ********************************************************************* Comprehensive information to be found at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Workshop Outline The "Semantic Web", a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, is used to denote the next evolution step of the Web. Associating meaning with content or establishing a layer of machine understandable data would allow automated agents, sophisticated search engines and interoperable services, will enable higher degree of automation and more intelligent applications. The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to allow machines the sharing and exploitation of knowledge in the Web way, i.e. without central authority, with few basic rules, in a scalable, adaptable, extensible manner. With RDF as the basic platform for the Semantic Web, a multitude of tools, methods and systems have just appeared on the horizon. The goal of the workshop is to share experiences about these systems, exchange ideas about improvements of existing tools and creation of new systems, principles and applications. Also an important goal is to develop a cooperation model among Semantic Web developers, and to develop a common vision about the future developments. Relevant workshop topics include (non-exhaustive list): ? Language and Representation issues ? Semantic Web infrastructure and architectures ? Metadata and conceptual models for annotating content, resources, and portals ? Automatic annotation/tagging/metadata creation and recommendation ? Tools, systems and methodologies for Semantic Web ? Application of semantic web technology ? Migrating information to semantic formats & Information Filtering ? Trust in the Semantic Web ? Query languages for the Semantic Web ? Information correlation, integration, mediation and brokering on the Web ? Resource discovery ? Distributed inference services ? Semantic Web mining Important Dates Deadline for paper submission 1 Jan 2001 Notification of acceptance 1 Feb 2001 Deadline final contributions 1 Apr 2001 All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. In addition, a few selected best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the ETAI Semantic Web Journal (http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/). Submission Information We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper or a position paper addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for the semantic web. Submit by e-mail before January 1, 2001 following the format instructions at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de to staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Organizing Committee Stefan Decker, Database Group, Stanford University Database Group, Stanford University Gates Hall 4A, Room 425 Stanford, CA 94305-9040, USA email: stefan at db.stanford.edu phone: +1 650-723-1422 fax: +1 650-725-2588 http://www-db.stanford.edu/~stefan/ Dieter Fensel, VU Amsterdam Division of Mathematics & Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, NL The Netherlands Email: dieter at cs.vu.nl http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dieter Amit Sheth, Univ. of Georgia Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, Computer Sc., 415 GSRC, University of Georgia, Athens GA 30602-7404 USA Also, Taalee Inc. Email: amit at cs.uga.edu http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu, http://www.taalee.com Steffen Staab (Contact), AIFB, Karlsruhe University, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Also, Ontoprise GmbH email: staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de,staab at ontoprise.de phone: +49-721-608 4751 fax: +49-721-693 717 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst Programm Committee Dan Brickley, Univ. of Bristol (UK) Vassilis Christophides, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Peter Eklund, Griffith University (Australia) Jim Hendler, Univ. of Maryland (USA) Rick Hull, Bell Labs, Lucent Tech. (USA) Manolis Koubarakis, Techn. Univ. of Crete (Greece) Ora Lassila, Nokia Fred Lochovsky, HKUST (Hong Kong) Alain Michard, INRIA (France) John Mylopoulos, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) Claire Nedellec, LRI (France) Deborah McGuinness, Stanford Univ. (USA) Dimitris Plexousakis, Univ. of Crete (Greece) Louiqa Raschid, Univ. of Maryland (USA) Marie-Christine Rousset, Univ. of ORSAY (France) Guus Schreiber, VU Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tarcisio de Souza Lima, Federal Univ. of Juiz de Fora (Brazil) Katia Sycara, CMU (USA) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 6 16:42:30 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:42:30 +0100 Subject: Conf: IWCS-4 Message-ID: From: Harry Bunt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P R O G R A M a n d C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ---------------------------------------------------------------------- III WW WW CCCCCC SSSSSSSSSS III WW WW CCC SSSS III WW WW WW CCC SSS 44 III WW WWWW WW CCC SSSSSSS 44 44 III WW WW WW WW CCC SSSSS === 44 44 III WW WW WW WW CCC SSS 44444444 III WWWW WWWW CCC SSSS 44 III WW WW CCCCCCC SSSSSSSSS 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS 10-12 January 2001 Tilburg, The Netherlands ********* The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at Tilburg University will host the Third Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), that will take place from 10 -12 January 2001. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of meaning in natural language or in language-based multimedia objects. ************************************** * INVITED SPEAKERS: * * * * James Allen (U. Rochester) * * Jan van Eijck (U. Utrecht) * * Alex Lascarides (U. Edinburgh) * ************************************** The workshop focuses on the study of computational aspects of semantic theories, on theoretical issues in the development of natural language understanding systems, and on tools, methodologies, and techniques for computer interpretation of natural language. Some of the topics that figure prominently in the workshop program are: * working with underspecified representations of meaning * modelling and using context in interpretation * the relations between semantics and pragmatics * dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue * interpretation and games * incrementality and monotonicity in the computation of meaning * computational lexical semantics * speech acts and interpretation * semantics and pragmatics in language generation * computational aspects of meaning in discourse discourse * knowledge representation and reasoning in interpretation. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME ********************* Wednesday, January 10 --------------------- James Allen: invited talk Jonathan Ginzburg, Howard Gregory and Shalom Lappin: SHARDS: Fragment resolution in dialogue Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Bonnie Webber: Concession, implicature, and alternative sets Rodger Kibble: Inducing rhetorical structure via nested update semantics short presentations: Roland Hausser, Elena Karagjasova, Ruth Kempson, Jan van Kuppevelt, Birte Loenneker, Jon Patrick Emiel Krahmer and Mark Swerts: Meaning and intonation: the cases of contrastive accent and met-linguistic negation Alistair Butler: Sentences with exhaustification Robert van Rooy: The pragmatics of mention-some readings of questions Patrick Saint-Dizier and Gloria Vazquez: A compositional framework for prepositions Nicolas Denand: Answering the question Where? - some experimental results Andrea Zielinski: A treatment of scope in MT Thursday, January 11 -------------------- Jan van Eijck: Context semantics for NL Michel Gagnon, Elena Godoy and Rogerio de Oliveira: An implementation of DRT for a compositional Interpretation of the Portuguese progressive form Helen Seville and Allan Ramsay: Capturing sense in intensional contexts Massimo Poesio and Uwe Reyle: Underspecification in anaphoric reference Diego Molla: Ontologically promiscuous flat logical forms for NLP short presentations: Pascal Boldini, David McDonald, Gregers Koch, Isabelle Debourges/S.Guillore/C.Vrain, Allan Ramsay & Helen Seville, Serge Sharoff & Lena Sokolova Dick Crouch, Anette Frank and Josef van Genabith: Linear logic based transfer and structural misalignment Theo Janssen: On the interpretation of IF logic Rene Ahn: Observable types: a computational approach to meaning Norihiro Ogata: A type theory for typing, meta-typing, and ontological information in discourse ACL SIGSEM business meeting Friday, January 12 ------------------ Alex Lascarides: Why dynamic semantics needs discourse structure (invited talk) Kees van Deemter: Generating referring expressions: beyond the incremental algorithm Claire Gardent and Katarina Striegnitz: Generating indirect anaphora Frank van Eynde: Rules or constraints for modeling tense Sven Verdoolaege, Marc Denecker, Ness Schelkens, Danny De Schreye and Frank van Eynde: Abductive reasoning with temporal information George Demetriou and Eric Atwell: A domain-independent semantic tagger for the study of meaning associations in English text Closing at lunchtime GENERAL INFORMATION ********* Information about hotels, about how to travel to Tilburg and the conference site, etc. can be found at the IWCS-4 web pages; see http://pi0239.kub.nl/~sigsem/iwcs4.html For any questions about the program contact Harry Bunt at kub.nl; for all other matters contact the conference secretariat: Carol Mcgregor Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands phone: +31 13 466 83 81 fax: +31 13 466 31 10 email: C.J.McGregor at kub.nl ____________________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION INFORMATION ********* To register, either use the registration possibilities at the IWCS-4 web pages or fill out the registration form below and return it to the conference scretary Ms Carol McGregor at C.J.McGregor at kub.nl (or by fax or by traditional mail; see addresses below). ____________________________________________________________________________ IWCS-4 REGISTRATION FORM Name: ________________________________________ Institute: ________________________________________ Department: ________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Telephone: ________________________________________ Fax: ________________________________________ Email: ________________________________________ Registration fee is 295 Dutch guilders (approx. 120 US$, or 135 Euros) when registering before December 21. For registration after December 21 the participation fee is NLG 325. The fee includes * Participation in 2.5 days program * 1 copy of proceedings * 2 x lunch * 8 x coffee/tea * Reception For undergraduate students a reduced fee is offered which only includes participation and proceedings. Method of Calculate any transfer charges, as we must receive the payment: full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees will have to be paid on arrival at the workshop. On your payment, please indicate your name, and mention code 8270.W 367, IWCS 4, Tilburg University, Faculty of Arts. () Via bank transfer: In Dutch guilders to bank account 45 50 46 042. ABN AMRO Bank, Heuvelring 88, P.O.Box 8, NL-5000 AA, Tilburg, The Netherlands or to Postbank account 23 86 602 (only within the Netherlands). () By credit card: Company: Visa/MasterCard/American Express Number: ________________________________ Expiration date: ____________________________ (If you prefer not to use email to transfer this information, please send us a fax.) HOTEL INFORMATION A number of rooms have been reserved at the following hotels. (Note: the city center is 5-10 minutes walking from the central railway station. All hotels are at approximately the same distance from the conference venue.) If you wish, we can make reservations for you Lodging () Hotel Mercure (city center) Heuvelpoort 300 NL-5038 DT Tilburg phone: +31-13-535 46 75 fax: +31-13-535 58 75 NLG 192,50 per night, inc. breakfast. () Hotel Lindeboom (city center) Heuvelring 126 NL-5038 CL Tilburg phone: +31-13-535 13 55 fax: +31-13-536 10 85 NLG 150,- per night, inc. breakfast. () Hotel Central (city center) ALREADY BOOKED FULL Spoorlaan 422 NL-5038 CG Tilburg phone: +31-13-543 62 34 fax: +31-13-544 11 01 NLG 85,- per night, inc. breakfast. Please make reservations in the hotel I checked above, number of persons: __ date of arrival: January __ date of departure: January __ . () Do not make any hotel reservations for me Send this form to: Carol McGregor Tilburg University Faculty of Arts P.O.Box 90153 NL-5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands C.J.McGregor at kub.nl ____________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------ Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:08:30 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:08:30 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Michael Strube Subject: Job at EML 2/ From: Jean-Cedric Chappelier Subject: opening position for a graduate research assistant in applied math/computer science, Lausanne (Switzerland) 3/ From: Fabio Rinaldi Subject: Comp Ling, Web Tutoring at U of Zurich, Switzerland __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Michael Strube Subject: Job at EML The European Media Laboratory in Heidelberg (Germany) is seeking several researchers to work in the areas of information retrieval, information extraction, domain ontology building, and human computer interfaces. In particular, we are looking for a researcher for the "Personal Memory" project in the research areas - computational linguistics, dialogue systems and artificial intelligence - wearable computing, mobile information systems and intelligent user interfaces The candidate should have a degree in computer science, computational linguistics or a related subject, and ideally some years of professional experience in research projects. We expect both the willingness to work across different disciplines and an interest in research topics with a relation to practice. The projects are realized in cooperation with national and international partners from research as well as industry. Interested persons should send resumes to: c/o Baerbel Mack European Media Laboratory GmbH Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 69118 Heidelberg GERMANY (Baerbel.Mack at eml.villa-bosch.de) -- Dr. Michael Strube Email: Michael.Strube at eml.villa-bosch.de European Media Laboratory GmbH WWW: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~strube Villa Bosch http://www.eml.org Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 Phone: +49-6221-533-243 69118 Heidelberg Fax: +49-6221-533-298 GERMANY __________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Jean-Cedric Chappelier Subject: opening position for a graduate research assistant in applied math/computer science, Lausanne (Switzerland) L'Universit? de Lausanne (Facult? des Lettres) et l'Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle) cherchent ? engager conjointement un(e) assistant(e) de recherche travaillant en tant qu'assistant(e) dipl?m?(e) sous la supervision des deux institutions. Dans le cadre d'un projet de collaboration UNIL-EPFL, le candidat ou la candidate, titulaire d'une licence ou d'un dipl?me de second cycle universitaire en Informatique, Math?matiques appliqu?es, Physique ou Linguistique computationnelle (ou d'un domaine apparent?) sera charg?(e) de r?aliser un syst?me de classification et visualisation automatiques de donn?es textuelles, impliquant des techniques de traitement automatique du langage, recherche documentaire, analyse des donn?es et m?thodes num?riques. L'engagement initial concerne un poste ? temps complet pour une dur?e de 12 mois. Une bonne capacit? de programmation et une aisance en math?matiques appliqu?es sont indispensables. Des comp?tences en analyse de donn?es, recherche documentaire et conception d'interfaces constituent un atout certain. D?but d'engagement : janvier 2001 ou a convenir Les offres ou demandes d'information sont ? adresser ? ------------------------------------------------------- Martin Rajman Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL IN Ecublens CH-1015 LAUSANNE, Switzerland e-mail: martin.rajman at epfl.ch ------------------------------------------------------- ou ? ------------------------------------------------------- Francois Bavaud Professeur associe Section d'informatique et de methodes mathematiques Faculte des Lettres, Universite de Lausanne CH - 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny Francois.Bavaud at imaa.unil.ch ------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Human Science Department of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) are opening a joint position of : GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT to work within an UNIL-EPFL collaboration project under the auspices of both institutions. The successful candidate will be in charge of the design of a prototype system for automated classification and visualization of textual data, integrating advanced Natural Language Processing techniques, Information Retrieval, Textual Data Analysis and Numerical Approaches. A Masters degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Computational Linguistics (or related domains) is required. The ideal candidate should have good programming skills as well as a good experience in applied mathematics. Additional competence in NLP, IR, Data Analysis and Interface Design would be a plus. The initial appointment will be for the period of a year. Starting date: January 2001 or as soon as possible. Contact address for application : ------------------------------------------------------- Martin Rajman Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL IN Ecublens CH-1015 LAUSANNE, Switzerland e-mail: martin.rajman at epfl.ch ------------------------------------------------------- ou ? ------------------------------------------------------- Francois Bavaud Professeur associe Section d'informatique et de methodes mathematiques Faculte des Lettres, Universite de Lausanne CH - 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny Francois.Bavaud at imaa.unil.ch ------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Fabio Rinaldi Subject: Comp Ling, Web Tutoring at U of Zurich, Switzerland TWO POSITIONS in COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (OPEN IMMEDIATELY) and ONE POSITION in WEB BASED TUTORING SYSTEMS (BEGINNING JANUARY 2001) ======================================================================= The Department of Information Technology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland is soliciting applications for two full-time positions in Computational Linguistics and one full-time position in Web based tutoring systems, in two different projects, at the level of RESEARCH SCIENTIST 1. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST (WebExtrAns Project) QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates for this position must have a Diploma/Masters degree in Computational Linguistics, or in a related area (computer science, linguistics) with a minor in Computational Linguistics, in-depth programming skills in Prolog, a good command of English, and acquaintance with grammar formalisms. Knowledge of script programming languages (e.g. Perl), markup-languages (SGML/XML), and methods for automated terminology extraction would be an additional asset. A working knowledge of German is desired. DUTIES: Development of an Answer Extraction system for the Aircraft Maintenance Manual of the Airbus 320, based on an existing Answer Extraction system. See http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/CL/CLpublications.html for more information on Answer Extraction, and http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/CL/webextrans for a demo. DURATION: One year, to be extended, open immediately. 2. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST (Web-CL-Tutor Project) QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates for this position must have a Diploma/Masters degree in Computational Linguistics, or in a related area (computer science, linguistics) with a minor in Computational Linguistics, in-depth knowledge of Computational Linguistics, knowledge of Web based training and tutoring methods, and a keen interest in didactic questions. Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Java) and of markup-languages (SGML/XML) would be an additional asset. Very good knowledge of German is mandatory. DUTIES: Development of the contents of a Web based two-semester course in Computational Linguistics, in German. An existing interactive text should be re-structured according to the principles of Problem Based Learning, and appropriate demos, exercises and (on-line) tests should be designed and integrated with the text. DURATION: Two years, to be extended, open January 2001. 3. COMPUTER SCIENTIST (Web-CL-Tutor Project) QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates for this position must have a Diploma/Masters degree in Computer Science, or in a related area (computational linguistics, linguistics) with a minor in computer science, in-depth knowledge of Web programming (Java, Perl) and of markup-languages (SGML/XML/HTML), knowledge of PDF/Acrobat, and experience in running mid-size SW development projects. Knowledge of Web based training and tutoring methods, of other programming languages (e.g. Prolog), and interest in didactic questions would be additional assets. Some knowledge of German is desirable. DUTIES: Implementation of a Web based two-semester course in Computational Linguistics. An existing interactive text, interactive demos, exercises and on-line tests must be integrated within a Web based class management system. The sources will be written in, or converted into, a (non-proprietary) XML-based format, from which the (proprietary) format of the specific class management system will be generated. DURATION: Two years, to be extended, open January 2001. SALARY: For all positions, approx. 60,000 Swiss Francs p.a. (depending on qualifications). SITE: The Department of Information Technology has 8 full-time faculty and approx. 80 staff, from a variety of nations. Detailed information on the Department of Information Technology can be found at http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/. The University of Zurich is the largest University in Switzerland, with approximately 20,000 full-time students (see http://www.unizh.ch/). Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland, with a rich cultural and scientific life. It is also one of the main touristic attractions in Switzerland (http://www.zurichtourism.ch/index_e.html). APPLICATIONS: Qualified applicants should send (by e-mail or in hard copy) a detailed curriculum vitae, a one-page statement of their research interests, a list of publications, and the names of three references with mail/email addresses and telephone/fax numbers to: Professor Michael Hess University of Zurich Department of Computer Science Computational Linguistics Group Winterthurerstr. 190 CH-8057 Zurich Switzerland Email: hess at ifi.unizh.ch Tel.: +41 1 635 43 77 Fax: +41 1 635 68 09 from where further information can be obtained. DEADLINE: Applicants will be considered on a continuing basis, beginning immediately, until the position is filled. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:09:01 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:09:01 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2001 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen ACL-2001 Final Call For Papers 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 6 - 11 July, 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html General Conference Chair: Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) Program Co-Chairs: Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padua, Italy) Local Organization Chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse, France) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 39th Annual Meeting, which this year is jointly hosted with the European Chapter. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Requirements ------------ Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.) Reviewing --------- The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by the international Conference Program Committee consisting of the following nine Area Chairs, each assisted by a team of reviewers. Jennifer Chu-Carroll (Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, USA) Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research, USA) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Adam Kilgarriff (ITRI, University of Brighton, UK) Lillian Lee (Cornell University, USA) Adwait Ratnaparkhi (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen, UK) James Rogers (Earlham College, USA) David Weir (University of Sussex, UK) Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Format ----------------- Papers must be submitted in hard copy. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. They are available from the ACL-2001 program committee Web-site at http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. As reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page will be required. The identification page should include the paper title, the paper ID code generated upon paper registration (see below), authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area, and a short summary (up to 5 lines). The identification page should also specify whether the paper is under consideration for other conferences. The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. Submission Procedure -------------------- 1) Submission notification: You must first register your submission by January 26, 2001. This can be done by filling out an electronic form directly at http://www.dfki.de/cgi-bin/acl2001/submission.cgi or via http://acl2001.dfki.de/. The form requires a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission. Please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the program committee co-chairs. Do not re-submit your paper if you have already received an ID! If you want to change any information in your submission notification, please mail the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de and include your paper ID in the subject of the mail. If you have any difficulty using the electronic registration form, please send email to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de with all of the title page information plus the authors' names and affiliations. 2) Paper submission: Submissions must be received by February 2, 2001. Late submissions (those arriving after February 2) will be returned without review. The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following address: ACL-2001 Submission Norbert Reithinger DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic version of the paper (without the identification page) to acl2001-submissions at dfki.de. Please include the paper ID in the subject line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The electronic version should also be received by February 2nd, 2001. Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version, please send mail to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de. Acknowledgment of hardcopy submission will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on or after April, 12th. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright release statement along with the final camera-ready papers. Deadlines --------- Paper registration deadline: January 26th, 2001 Paper submissions deadline: February 2nd, 2001 Notification of acceptance: April 12th, 2001 Camera ready papers due: May 12th, 2001 ACL 2001 Conference: July 6th-11th, 2001 Submission Questions -------------------- Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program committee co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de sufficiently ahead of the submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made. Mentoring Service ----------------- ACL 2001 is organizing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is not the language of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL meetings. They may also have some trouble with the style of the presentation of the material that is expected for ACL. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors will be identified by Aravind Joshi, who has agreed to organize this service for ACL 2001. An author who would like to take advantage of this service must send a draft of his/her paper to Aravind K. Joshi Room 555 Moore Department of Computer and Information Science 200 South 33rd Street University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6389 USA fax: +1 215 898 0587 The author must send one (1) copy of the paper (hard copy by regular mail, courier service, or fax) by no later than December 20, 2000. The author should try to make the draft as complete as possible in order to get the best advice. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to each paper and the mentor will get back to the author at least two weeks before the deadline for the submission to ACL 2001 program committee. Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to improve their papers. If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send a message to Aravind Joshi (joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu). ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:10:39 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:10:39 +0100 Subject: Appel: CIDE 2001 Message-ID: From: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles ----------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------- CIDE 2001 4th International Conference on The Electronic Document Toulouse-France 24-26 October 2001 Organised by the Toulouse Research Institute for Computer Science IRIT/ CNRS - INP - UPS ----------------------------- Contact Address and on line Information ----------------------------- Conf?rence CIDE 2001 IRIT UPS - 118, route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex cide2001 at irit.fr http://www.irit.fr/CIDE2001 The site will be regularly updated to keep you informed about the various stages and developments before the conference. ----------------------------- Objectives and Themes ----------------------------- Since its creation (1998 in Rabat,1999 in Damas, 2000 in Lyon) CIDE has been interested in the problems related to the creation and use of electronic documents, which are seen and have developed as a specific means in the various communication processes. As in previous years, the objective of CIDE 2001 is to carry on and go into in more depth, the interdisciplinary approach, so that beyond the confrontation of various disciplinary points of view over the object-document, a possible cooperation, with a cognitive orientation, becomes apparent. Therefore, the leading theme for CIDE 2001 will be cognitive methods, approaches and techniques. Indeed, if we consider that the subject of cognition sciences is the study of the human mind's relations with the world and with other minds (him/herself included) it would appear that the electronic document - place, medium and/or even object of communication - seems to offer cognitive science an excellent testbed for the observation of the different processes of which these documents are the object, and the specificities opened up by the digital mode. The cognitive approach lends itself particularly well to the analysis of the different processes which bring the object-document into play, such as perception, memory, comprehension, reading strategies, retrieval information, production, editing, conversion, translation, archiving, distribution, revision, annotation and summary. The themes developed at CIDE 2001 will deal with these various activities and will be organized around the following topics: - analysis and generation of objects that make up a document (text, links, graphics, maps); - generation and conversion of models; - modeling and representation of textual or non-textual phenomena; - technical and scientific documentation, procedural and instructional orders text; - documentary memory; - dynamics and life span of documents in an information system; - reading, memory and comprehension strategies; - formatting and visual structures; - retrieval, access and information extraction strategies; - multi-modal access; - data mining; - linguistic processing and multilingualism; - modeling of the activities of the different agents involved in text production and of their cooperation (author, editor, reader, annotator, compositor). We would like to achieve one of CIDE's principal objectives, which is to create a meeting place, for researchers in the various disciplines (computing, linguistics, psychology, ergonomics) and users of documentary engineering. The main themes of CIDE 2001 will, we hope, favour such a meeting, in particular in relation to the development of NTIC (New technologies of Information and Communication). ----------------------------- Important dates ----------------------------- Submission of Proposals 20 April 2001 Notification of Speakers retained 20 May 2001 Submission of final papers 20 June 2001 ----------------------------- Guidelines for submission of proposals ----------------------------- The official language of the conference is French. Papers can be submitted in English or in French and should be between 3000 and 5000 words (6-10 pages) long. All retained papers will be published in the proceedings. Proposals should be sent as 3 paper copies to the following address: Conf?rence CIDE 2001 IRIT UPS - 118, route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex And by E-mail to cide2001 at irit.fr With each copy, please enclose a page containing the title of the paper, the authors (the first name being the contact person), full contact numbers and addresses and a summary of about 300 words. Publication instructions for the final copy will be available on the conference website: http://www.irit.fr/CIDE2001 ----------------------------- During the conference... ----------------------------- In association with the GRCE (Research Group on Written Communication) special invited papers presentations will be organised; the objective of this being to offer participants an in depth discussion or a synthesis of certain aspects of the document problem. A young researchers session will also be organised. ----------------------------- Programme committee ----------------------------- Cochairs: Mustapha Mojahid and Jacques Virbel, IRIT, Toulouse Jacques Andr?, IRISA, Rennes, France Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Toulouse, France Thierry Baccino, LPEQ, Nice, France Jean-Paul Barthes, UTC, Compi?gne, France Abdel Belaid, LORIA, Nancy, France Flavio Bortolozzi, PUC, Curitiba, Br?sil Cherif Branki, IISG, Paisley, U.K Jean Caelen, CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France Bernadette, DORIZZI, INT, Evry, France Jean-Marie Cellier, LTC, Toulouse, France Jacques Ducloy, LORIA, Nancy, France G?rard Dupoirier, XEROX, France Patrice Enjalbert, GREYC, Caen, France H?l?ne Eyrolle, LTC, Toulouse, France Claudie Faure, ENST, Paris, France Mauro Ga?o, GREYC, Caen, France Jo?l Gardes, France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France Michel Gilloux, SRTP, Nantes, France Mohamed Hassoun, ENSSIB, Lyon, France Laurent Heurley, ECCHAT, Amiens, France Rolf Ingold, UI, Fribourg, Suisse Jacques Labiche, PSI, Rouen, France Yves Lecourtier, PSI, Rouen, France Laurence Likforman, ENST, Paris, France Jean-Luc Nespoulous, Jacques-Lordat, Toulouse, France Anne Nicolle, GREYC, Caen, France Thierry Paquet, PSI, Rouen, France Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley, ERSS, Toulouse, France Jean-Pierre Raysz, JOUVE, Mayenne, France Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, CERISS, Toulouse, France Eric Trupin, PSI, Rouen, France Christine Vanoirbeek, EPFL, Lausanne, Suisse Bernard Victorri, Lattice-CNRS, Paris, France Nadine Vigouroux, IRIT, Toulouse, France Nicole Vincent, E3i, Tours, France Jean Vivier, MRSH, Caen, France Khaldoun Zreik, GREYC, Caen, France ----------------------------- Organisation committee ----------------------------- Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Toulouse Mauro Ga?o, GREYC, Caen Jo?l Gardes, France Telecom R&D, Lannion Christophe Luc, IRIT, Toulouse Mustapha Mojahid, IRIT, Toulouse Patrice Terrier, LTC, Toulouse Christine Vanoirbeek, EPFL, Lausanne Nadine Vigouroux, IRIT, Toulouse Coordination : Colette Ravinet, Service communication, IRIT, Toulouse ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:10:45 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:10:45 +0100 Subject: Appel: MFI'01 Message-ID: From: Chaib ------------------------------------------- Toulouse (France) 21-23 mai 2001 MFI'01 Mod?les formels pour l'INTERACTION Appel ? Communication Date de soumission: 17 D?cembre 2000 http://damas.ift.ulaval.ca/conferences/mfi01 ------------------------------------------- -- ************************************** Brahim Chaib-draa, ing., Ph.D. Professeur D?partement Informatique, Pav. PLT, Universit? Laval, Ste-Foy, PQ, Canada, G1K 7P4 Fax: (418) 656-2324 ************************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:10:54 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:10:54 +0100 Subject: Conf: ATALA Workshop on collocation Message-ID: From: "Geoffrey Williams" --------------------------------------------------------------- ATALA Workshop. Saturday 13th January 2001 COLLOCATION in NLP organised by B?atrice Daille Beatrice.Daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr and Geoffrey Williams Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr Will take place at CHU Piti? - 91 bd de l'H?pital - 75013 Paris Amphitheatre D ---------------------------------------------------------------- Entrance free Applications for membership of ATALA is welcomed http://www.atala.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9h30 B?atrice Daille, IRIN, Universit? de Nantes Geoffrey Williams, Universit? de Bretagne-Sud Introduction 10h00 Leo Wagner, Universit? de Stuttgart Sur l'identification des collocations en corpus: une approche s?mantique 10h45-11h Pause 11h00 Sylvain Kahane,LaTTiCe/TALaNa, Universit? Paris 7 Alain Polgu?re, OLST, Universit? de Montr?al Un langage formel d'encodage des fonctions lexicales et son application ? la mod?lisation des collocations 11h45 Marie-Claude L'Homme, D?partement de linguistique et de traduction, Universit? de Montr?al Combinaison lexicales sp?cialis?es. Regroupement des mots cl?s par classes conceptuelles 12h30-14H30 Lunch 14h30 Petra Ludewig, Institut fur Semantische Informationsverarbeitung, Universit? d'Osnabruck Logo Tax - franchir le foss? entre dictionnaire et texte - 15h15 Olivier Ferret et Brigitte Grau, LIMSI-CNRS Structuration th?matique d'un r?seau de collocations 16h-16H15 Pause 16h15 Isabelle Debourges, LIFO, Universit? d'Orl?ans Cartographie de Textes : Une nouvelle approche pour l'exploration de grands corpora 17h End of Workshop ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Dec 11 18:11:06 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:11:06 +0100 Subject: Publication: TAL (Dependency Grammars) Message-ID: From: "Philippe Blache" +-----------------------------------------------+ I Revue T.A.L. I I (Le traitement automatique des langues) I I I I http://www.atala.org/tal/tal.html I +-----------------------------------------------+ "Les Grammaires de D?pendance" Vol. 41, Num. 1, Novembre 2000 -------------- Sommaire Richard HUDSON Discontinuity Eva HAJICOV? Dependency-Based underlying- structure tagging of a very large czech corpus Alexander DIKOVSKY, Larissa MODINA Dependencies on the other side of the curtain Ingo SCHR?DER, Wolfgang MENZEL, Kilian FOTH, Michael SCHULZ Modeling Dependency grammar with restricted constraints Diego MOLL?, Gerold SCHNEIDER, Rolf SCHWITTER, Michael HESS Answer extraction using a dependancy grammar in extrans Vincenzo LOMBARDO, Leonardo LESMO A formal theory of dependency syntax with empty units Sylvain KAHANE Extractions dans une grammaire de d?pendance lexicalis?e ? bulle Norbert BR?KER Unordered and non-projective dependency Grammars Tom?s HOLAN, Vladislav KUBON, Karel OLIVA, Martin PLATEK On complexity of worder order -------------- Tous les adh?rents de l'ATALA re?oivent gratuitement la revue T.A.L. Pour devenir adh?rent : http://www.atala.org/adhesion.html Vous pouvez acheter le num?ro aupr?s de Herm?s Sciences : hermes at iway.fr http://www.editions-hermes.fr/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:34:10 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:34:10 +0100 Subject: ATALA: Mot du prsident Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis Bonjour ? tous, Je me permets de vous adresser ce petit message pour pr?senter les excuses de l'ATALA pour le retard qui a affect? cette ann?e la publication de la revue T.A.L. Elle n'est pas morte, bien au contraire ! Vous avez certainement vu sur cette liste l'annonce faite par Philippe Blache du premier num?ro de l'ann?e, sur les grammaires de d?pendances (coordonn? par Sylvain Kahane). Certains d'entre vous ont peut-?tre d?j? re?u ce num?ro superbe, et ils auront remarqu? que la pr?sentation a chang?. En effet, je suis heureux de vous annoncer plusieurs nouvelles excellentes. D'une part, T.A.L. est d?sormais publi? par Herm?s, ?diteur qui a d?j? tout un "bouquet" de revues dans des domaines voisins (comme Intelligence Artificielle ou Document Num?rique), ce qui est tr?s profitable pour la visibilit? et la diffusion de notre revue. Ceci explique notre retard : il a fallu trouver un ?diteur, n?gocier un contrat, etc. D'autre part, T.A.L. passe de deux ? trois num?ros annuels, et ce d?s cette ann?e. Nous esp?rons que ceci fera pardonner le retard... Enfin, la revue a deux nouveaux r?dacteurs-en-chef : se joignent d?sormais ? Philippe Blache, qui continue d'assurer cette fonction, nos coll?gues Christophe D'Alessandro et Claire Gardent. Les deux num?ros suivants vont para?tre tr?s prochainement et vous seront envoy?s aussit?t. L'ann?e 2000 comportera donc : * Vol. 41:1 Grammaires de d?pendance (dir. Sylvain Kahane) * Vol. 41:2 Traitement Automatique des Langues pour la Recherche d'Information (dir. Christian Jacquemin) * Vol. 41:3 Le traitement automatique des Noms propres (dir. Denis Maurel et Franz Guenthner) J'en profite pour glisser un petit mot de rappel pour nos adh?rents qui auraient oubli? de r?gler leur cotisation 2000 : ne ratez pas l'occasion de recevoir ces trois excellents num?ros pour le modeste prix de l'adh?sion (200 F ou 150F pour les ?tudiants). Quant aux lecteurs de la liste qui ne sont pas encore adh?rents de l'ATALA, je ne peux que les inciter ? rejoindre l'association ! En envoyant rapidement votre bulletin d'adh?sion accompagn? d'un ch?que, num?ro de carte de cr?dit ou bon de commande administratif, vous recevrez d'un coup tous les num?ros 2000. Votre adh?sion est importante. Elle permet ? l'ATALA de vivre et de se d?velopper, pour continuer ? vous offrir des services de plus en plus efficaces : la revue, qui augmente son rythme, la conf?rence TALN, qui se d?veloppe chaque ann?e (TALN'2000 a ?t? tout particuli?rement r?ussie), les listes LN et LN-FR, le site Web, les journ?es d'?tude... Depuis 40 ans l'ATALA est ? la pointe du traitement automatique des langues, soutenez-la ! Merci ? tous, et bonnes f?tes de fin d'ann?e. Jean V?ronis, Pr?sident de l'ATALA http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/ Site Atala: http://www.atala.org/ =========================================================================== ======= Formulaire d'inscription ? l'ATALA A renvoyer par poste ? 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RIP : 46 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:34:13 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:34:13 +0100 Subject: Appel: 4 NAACL-2001 Workshops Message-ID: _____________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 CFP for Workshop on WordNet-Extensions and NLP Applications 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 CFP for Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001 3/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adapting Lexical Resources CFP 4/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems CFP _____________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 CFP for Workshop on WordNet-Extensions and NLP Applications NAACL 2001 Workshop on WordNet - Extensions and NLP Applications June 3 or 4, 2001 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop I. PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Confirmed so far) Martin Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY) Ken Haase (MIT) Sanda Harabagiu (SMU) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Claudia Leacock (ETS Technologies) Steven Maiorano (AAT) Rada Mihalcea (SMU) Dan Moldovan (SMU) German Rigau (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Maria Tereza Pazienza (Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) Paola Velardi (Universita degli Studi di Roma, "La Sapienza") Ellen Voorhees (NIST) Organizers: Dan Moldovan (SMU) Sanda Harabagiu (SMU) II. OVERVIEW WordNet has become a valuable resource in the human language technology and artificial intelligence. It has been used so far in Word Sense Disambiguation, Generation, Information Retrieval, Question Answering, Summarization, Reference Resolution and other aspects of NLP. The success of many NLP applications depends on the availability of linguistic information that defines word senses and typical relations between concepts. Many modern, advanced NLP applications combine the information encoded in WordNet with statistical data, brought forward by the analysis of large text collections, complementing the knowledge encoded in WordNet with empirical data. Due to its vast coverage of English words, WordNet provides with general lexico-semantic information on which open-domain text processing is based. Furthermore, the development of WordNets in several other languages extends this capability to trans-lingual applications, enabling text mining across languages. For example, in Europe, WordNet is being used to develop a multilingual database for several European languages (the EuroWordNet project). Recently, several extensions of the WordNet lexical database have been initiated, in the United States and abroad, with the goal of providing the NLP community with additional knowledge that models pragmatic information not always present in the texts but required by document processing. The workshop provides a forum for presentations and discussions of the latest WordNet extensions and their impact on various applications. The workshop will also foster discussions that reveal to the NLP community current and future requirements of linguistic resources and ways of embedding them in WordNet. Since to date, WordNet has been incorporated in several other linguistic and general knowledge bases (e.g. FrameNet and CYK) presentations of the interactions of WordNet with other resources as well as their applications are sought. This Workshop is three years after the first WordNet Workshop in 1998, time in which many WordNet developments and applications occurred. The target audience consists of researches currently engaged in developing WordNet extensions, researchers interested in lexical resources, those who use or plan to use WordNet, and research policy makers. The interest in WordNet and its applications is worldwide. III. CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that describe unpublished research results in any area of extensions and applications of WordNet. Topics include but are not limited to: * WordNet usage in NLP and AI * WordNet extensions * Integration of WordNet with other lexico-semantic resources * Corpus-based acquisition of WordNet-like knowledge * Mining common-sense knowledge from WordNet and other resources * Multilingua WordNets and applications * WordNet granularity and synset merging IV. PAPER SUBMISSION IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2001 Notification of acceptance: February 16, 2001 Camera ready due: March 2, 2001 Workshop date: June 3 or 4, 2001 WHERE and HOW Submissions must use the NAACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (6 pages or less). Electronic submission only. Please send the pdf or postscript file of your paper to: moldovan at seas.smu.edu. Because the review will be blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. A separate identification page must be sent by email including title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. Please address any questions to moldovan at seas.smu.edu One can download the appropriate style or template files using the following links: NAACL style file http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/naacl2001sub.sty NAACL bibliography style file http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/acl.bst Latex sample file http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/samplesub.tex Microsoft Word Template file http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/naacl-2001-sub.dot _____________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 CFP for Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001 Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001 (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with NAACL2001) Sunday, June 3, 2001 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA sponsored by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) MITRE Corporation Organizing Committee: Jade Goldstein Carnegie Mellon University jade+ at cs.cmu.edu Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl at isi.edu Workshop Website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-naacl2001 (for the latest update) I. OVERVIEW The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL, ANLP/NAACL, ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field. Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL in 97, the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98, and ANLP/NAACL in 2000. All of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before. NAACL'2001 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem. II. CALL FOR PAPERS The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers addressing (but not limited to): Summarization Methods: use of linguistic representations, statistical models, NL generation for summarization, production of abstracts and extracts, multi-document summarization, narrative techniques in summarization, multilingual summarization, text compaction, multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio), use of information extraction, studies and modeling of human summarizers, improving summary coherence, concept fusion, use of thesauri and ontologies, trainable summarizers, applications of machine learning, knowledge-rich methods. Summarization Resources: development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers, annotation standards, shared summarization tools, document segmentation, topic detection, and clustering related to summarization. Evaluation Methods: intrinsic and extrinsic measures, on-line and off-line evaluations, standards for evaluation, task-based evaluation scenarios, user studies, inter-judge agreement. Workshop Themes: 1. Summarization Applications 2. Multidocument Summarization 3. Multilingual Text Summarization 4. Evaluation and Text/Training Corpora 5. Generation for Summarization 6. Topic Identification for Summarization 7. Integration with Web and IR Access III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). SUBMISSION QUESTIONS Please send submission questions to cyl at isi.edu SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word form of your submission to: cyl at isi.edu. The Subject line should be "NAACL2001 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line: "NAACL2001 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. DEADLINES (Tentative) Paper submission deadline: January 19, 2001 Notification of acceptance for papers: February 16, 2001 Camera ready papers due: March 2, 2001 Workshop date: June 3, 2001 _____________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adapting Lexical Resources CFP We are pleased to announce the following ACL sponsored workshop. NAACL 2001 Workshop Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg 3 or 4 June 2001 ------------------------------ - Adapting Lexical Resources - ------------------------------ http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~marks/wshop Lexical resources have become important basic tools within NLP and related fields. The range of resources available to the researcher is diverse and vast - from simple word lists to complex MRDs and thesauruses. The resources contain a whole range of different types of linguistic information presented in different formats and at varying levels of granularity. Also, much information is left implicit in the description, e.g. the definition of lexical entries. The majority of resources used by NLP researchers were not intended for computational uses. For instance, WordNet was an experiment in modelling the mental lexicon and MRDs are a by-product of the dictionary publishing industry. The reasons for using these resources are simple: they are available (and in the case of WordNet, free). The cost of lexicon building is high and few research sites have the resources or inclination to carry out what Johnston called the "mindless drudgery" of manual lexicography. The alternative is to adapt existing resources to particular computational tasks. This workshop is concerned with automatic methods for carrying out this process. We are particularly interested in papers related to the following topics: - adapting resources to by making them reflect the lexical coverage within a particular domain - adapting resources for particular applications (e.g. information extraction, machine translation, question answering, information retrieval) - augmenting the information in a resource (e.g. adding extra word senses, enriching the information associated with the existing entries) - improving the consistency or quality of resources by e.g. merging resources, homogenizing lexical descriptions, making implicit lexical knowledge explicit and clustering word senses - combining the information in more than one resource e.g. by producing a mapping between their senses The overall aim of this workshop is to build up a picture of the current state-of-the-art techniques for automatically modifying lexicons. This picture will allow the NLP community to make more effective and efficient use of the lexical resources currently available. Important Dates --------------- 26 January 2001 Deadline for submission of papers 16 February Notification of acceptance 1 March Camera-ready copies due 3 or 4 June Workshop Submissions ----------- We invite contributions of original research related to any of the topics of the workshop. Paper submissions should be no longer than 3000 words (including references) and should use the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following links: Latex style sheet file http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl2001sub.sty bibliography file http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/acl.bst sample latex file http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/samplesub.tex sample bibliography file http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/samplesub.bib Microsoft Word Template file http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl-2001-sub.dot Preferred submission format is as an electronic file sent to wim at dcs.shef.ac.uk by the 26th of January. Alternatively, three hardcopies may be sent to the following address to arrive by the same date: Wim Peters, Room G36b, Department of Computer Science, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DP United Kingdom Workshop Organisers ------------------- Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University Programme Committee ------------------- (confirmed so far) Robert Krovetz, NEC Wim Peters, Sheffield University Mark Stevenson, Sheffield University Piek Vossen, Sail Labs Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University _____________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems CFP Preliminary Call for Papers NAACL 2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems co-chairs: Cindi Thompson and Eric Horvitz The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers investigating the application of learning and adaptation to dialogue systems, both speech and text based. In this workshop we encourage papers on either theoretical or applied research in adaptation for dialogue, that includes learning procedures as well as decision making methods aimed at dynamically reconfiguring dialogue behavior based on the context. We would also like to explore techniques that allow a dialogue system to learn with experience or from data sets gathered from empirical studies. We welcome submissions from researchers supplementing the traditional development of dialogue systems with techniques from machine learning, statistical NLP, and decision theory. We solicit papers from a number of research areas, including: -Use of machine learning techniques at all levels of dialogue, from speech recognition to generation; from dialogue strategy to user modeling -Adapting to the user as a dialogue progresses -Dialogue as decision making under uncertainty -User and user group modeling -Use of corpora in developing components of dialogue systems, including issues in annotation -Evaluation of adaptive dialogue systems -Comparison of different techniques in applying adaptive techniques to dialogue We also hope to include a session for the demonstration of working systems, as time permits. The demonstration sessions will be open to anyone who wishes to bring their adaptive conversational systems for demonstration to other members of the workshop. Presenters are asked to submit a paper that is specifically directed at a demonstration of their current systems. A web site that will provide additional information on the workshop as it becomes available is located at: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~cindi/AdaptDial.html For more information: Please direct questions to Eric Horvitz (horvitz at microsoft.com) or Cindi Thompson (cindi at cs.utah.edu). ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:34:55 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:34:55 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2000 Final Call for Proposals Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen Final Call For ACL-2001 Workshop Proposals Workshop Chair: Rebecca Bruce (Univ. of North Carolina at Asheville) The ACL/EACL'01 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at ACL/EACL'01. ACL/EACL'01 will be held in Toulouse, France, July 6-11, 2001 with workshops being held July 6-7, 2001. ACL/EACL'01 workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within computational linguistics. Often, workshops concentrate on specific topics of technical interest (e.g., parsing technologies), particular areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP applied to IR), or community-wide issues that deserve attention (e.g., standardization of resources and tools). We welcome proposals on any topic that is of interest to the ACL community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of new techniques or applications. Proposals Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain the following information: - A title and brief description of the workshop topic. - A budget proposal. - The target audience and projected number of participants along with support for the projected count. Supporting evidence could include a list of potential submitters, a list of conferences that contained papers on the proposed topic, the number of new companies focused on this topic, or recent funding initiatives that address this topic. - Resource needs such as room size and number of days. Include any special requirements for technical support (computer infrastructure, etc.). - The name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of each chair. In addition, indicate the chairs' background in the workshop area. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible but no later than JANUARY 12, 2001. The subject line should be: "ACL/EACL'01 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL". Please e-mail proposals and any inquiries to: aclworkshops at cs.unca.edu Timetable of Important Dates: Proposals due: Jan. 12, 2001 Notification of acceptance: Jan. 19, 2001 Deadline for receipt of workshop call for papers and other publicity material: Feb. 19, 2001 Suggested deadline for workshop paper submissions: April 6, 2001 Suggested deadline for notification of workshop paper acceptance: April 27, 2001 Suggested deadline for camera-ready workshop papers: May 16, 2001 Deadline for receipt of camera-ready workshop proceedings: May 25, 2001 Workshop Date: July 6-7, 2001 Additional Information For additional information, see the web site for the conference: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html which will provide additional details as they become available. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:35:31 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:35:31 +0100 Subject: Conf: Call for ACL-2003 Site Proposals Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen CALL for Bids to Host ACL 2003 The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) hereby invites proposals to host the 41st Annual Meeting of the ACL (ACL'03). International ACL conferences are usually held at the end of July. In keeping with the ACL policy of rotating conference venues, we seek proposals from Asia. The proposal submission process is in two stages. First, draft proposals are sought from prospective proposers. Based on the evaluation of the draft proposals, selected proposers will be invited to submit full proposals. The intent of a request for draft proposals is to minimize the labor and costs associated with the production of full proposals. Bids for Local Arrangements Chair can include suggestions for General Chair, which must be someone other than the Local Arrangements Chair but could be at the same institution. The General Chair will be responsible for overseeing operations of the conference, including working with the Executives of the ACL and the NAACL and collaborating with the Local Arrangements Chair to develop the budget and registration materials; working with the Program and Local Arrangements Chairs to develop the schedule and program; working with the ACL Executive Board to appoint supporting chairs to obtain outside funding, publicize the conference, and organize workshops, tutorials, student events, and demonstrations (none of these supporting nominations need to be included in the proposal); and coordinating the activities of the various chairs and their committees. The Local Arrangements Chair will be responsible for the activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, housing, on-site registration, participant e-mail access, security for equipment, the reception, the banquet, and working with the General Chair, the ACL, and the NAACL to develop the budget and registration materials. The ACL Executive Board will select the Program Committee Chair, who will be responsible for the processes of soliciting, receiving, and reviewing submissions; selecting the papers to be presented at the conference; notifying authors of acceptance or rejection; and developing the conference program. Draft proposals are due on 15 April 2001. Draft proposals are evaluated competitively by the ACL Executive Committee. Selected proposers will be informed electronically before 15 May 2001. Full proposals are due on 15 June 2001. Draft proposals should include: - - Location (accessibility, conference venue, hotels, student dorms) - - Local CL Community - - Proposed Date - - Meeting Space (space for plenary sessions, tutorials, workshops, posters, exhibits, demos and small meetings) - - A/V equipment - - Food/Entertainment/Banquet/Receptions - - Local Arrangements (chairs, committee, volunteer labor, registration handling) - - Sponsorships - - Budget estimates Proposals will be evaluated in relation to a number of site selection criteria (unordered): - - Experience of Local Arrangement team. - - Local CL community support. - - Local government and industry support. - - Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site. - - Appropriateness of proposed dates. - - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - - Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of price categories and close to the conference facilities. - - Adequacy of budget projections and expected surplus. - - Balance with regard to the geographical distribution of previous conferences. Draft proposals should be sent electronically to the ACL Vice-President, with a copy to the executive committee's area coordinator for 2001. Prof. John Nerbonne Prof. Junichi TSUJII Alfa Informatica, P.O. Box 716 Department of Information Science University of Groningen Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033 JAPAN Tel. +31 (0)50 363 58 15 +81 (0)3-5841-4098 Fax 363 68 55 5802-8872 Email: nerbonne at let.rug.nl tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp http://www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ Submission Dates: Draft proposals are due on 15 April 2001; Full proposals are due on 15 June 2001. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:38:48 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:38:48 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: ___________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Andrew W. Cole" Subject: Programmer Job at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) 2/ From: Tim V.Sibley Subject: Comp Linguists at StreamSage, DC, USA 3/ From: CEUSTERS Werner Subject: (Comp) Linguists at Language & Computing nv, Oost-Vlaanderen, ___________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Andrew W. Cole" Subject: Programmer Job at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) Programmers and Their Ilk, As the manager of LDC publications I am looking to hire an experienced programmer to develop systems for the production of large linguistic data sets. The majority of the work is performed in PERL on Unix systems although there is some work supporting Windows and MacIntosh systems. Any familiarity with C, C++, Python, and SGML/HTML/XML is a 'good thing' and not to be scoffed at. Although this is obviously an excellent position for anyone interested in computation, linguistics, audio and/or video, there are also opportunities within the purview of publications in database organization, archival research, cgi-bin systems design, and library science. Not that you asked, but if you're not familiar with the the LDC, we are the major provider of research data to the linguistic research community and benefit from the largesse of many researchers and grantors. We are a part of the University of Pennsylvania and located at 3616 Market in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. If you think you might be interested in this position, please check out the official job listing on the UPenn web at http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/record_view.asp?id=00116720 or email me directly at mailto://andrew.cole at ldc.upenn.edu. Thanks, Andy -- Andrew W. Cole Publications Manager Linguistic Data Consortium University of Pennsylvania 3615 Market Suite 200 Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104-2608 215.573.1274 215.573.2175 (fax) andrew.cole at ldc.upenn.edu http://www.ldc.upenn.edu ___________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Tim V.Sibley Subject: Comp Linguists at StreamSage, DC, USA Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational Linguists Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: StreamSage Department: Speech Interpretation Laboratory State or Province: DC Country: USA Final Date of Application: as soon as possible Contact: Tim V. Sibley tim.sibley at streamsage.com Address for Applications: 1202 Delafield Pl. NW Washington DC 20011 US StreamSage believes that our recent advancements, along with several technological developments of the last few years, have for the first time made possible the development of an intelligent system to bring true interactivity to both streaming, digital media and television. Such a system has the potential to completely revolutionize the delivery of media - a proposition that has, not surprisingly, attracted the attention of major on-line and off-line media companies alike. StreamSage is now recruiting for new positions within this exciting effort. Research positions are available immediately (starting date flexible). Research focuses on time-based modeling of spoken language for the purpose of automated digital media manipulation via intelligent, adaptive algorithms, neural networks, rule-based frameworks, and large-ontology interpretation. Candidates should have a strong background in a variety of computational linguistics techniques. A sufficiently independent spirit is necessary for use within a startup that develops state-of-the-art technology. Familiarity with Java is a plus. Proficient knowledge of the English language is required. Compensation is competitive, with full benefits and attractive incentive package. Please send resume, 2 recommendations, and representative publications to the address listed below, or inquire with any questions or comments. E-mail inquiries and applications are encouraged. Tim V. Sibley tim.sibley at streamsage.com StreamSage, Inc. 1900 M St. NW Suite 810 Washington, DC 20036 phone: 202.833.8050 fax: 360.838.7203 ___________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: CEUSTERS Werner Subject: (Comp) Linguists at Language & Computing nv, Oost-Vlaanderen, Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational linguist Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: Language & Computing nv Department: R&D State or Province: Oost-Vlaanderen Country: Belgium Final Date of Application: 02-02-2001 Contact: CEUSTERS Werner werner at landc.be Address for Applications: Hazenakkerstraat 20A Zonnegem Oost-Vlaanderen B-9520 Belgium Language & Computing nv (http://www.landc.be), active in multi-lingual medical natural language understanding, has the following 2 positions available: Job 1: Computational Linguist/Programmer We require a computational linguist with experience in Semantic Analysis, to support the task of automatic syntactic/semantic analysis using a wide-coverage grammar. The applicant should also have experience in most of the following areas: * Experienced in either functional formalisms (e.g., Systemic Functional Linguistics) or dependency formalisms. * Knowledge of Flemish (or other germanic languages) is a plus, but not necessary. * Experience with descriptive logics (KL-ONE, etc.) for semantic analysis. * Some programming experience is necessary, and experience with any of C, C++, Lisp, or Java is an advantage (or a willingness to learn). We are seeking candidates at the post-doctoral level, preferably with project experience. Those without doctorate but with strong project experience will also be considered. Renumeration will be in line with experience. Job 2: Linguist/Computational Linguist We require a computational linguist (or computer-able linguist) to aid in the development of a wide-coverage dependency grammar of Flemish. Experience of either Systemic-Functional grammars, dependency grammars, or lexicalised approaches (e.g., LTAGS, LFG) will be an advantage. Some ability with Flemish is also preferred. Applicants should have an undergraduate degree majoring in Linguistics, or equivalent experience. Doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers are also welcome to apply. Renumeration will be in line with experience. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Dec 20 15:42:07 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:42:07 +0100 Subject: Livre: Prosody Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 14 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis PROSODY: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT Studies Presented to G?sta Bruce edited by Merle Horne Dept. of Linguistics and Phonetics Lund University, Sweden The study of prosody is perhaps the area of speech research which has undergone the most noticeable development during the past ten to fifteen years. This book contains contributions by 15 internationally recognized experts (including M. Beckman, N. Campbell, C. Gussenhoven, J. Hirschberg, D. Hirst, D.R. Ladd, M. Ostendorf, J. Pierrehumbert, E. Selkirk, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, and J. Terken) in different areas of prosody which provide readers with the most current and comprehensive picture of the major areas of research within the field. The contributions not only provide a survey of major developments in prosody during the past 1520 years, but also present ongoing work as well as point to areas where future research is needed. The chapters deal with a wide range of topics including the representation of tones and intonation, evidence for and constraints on prosodic phrasing, prosodic boundary detection, articulatory dynamics of stress, timing in speech, and prosodic correlates of speaking style, as well as the perception of prosodic prominence. The book offers investigators in all areas of speech communication (phonetics, phonology, speech technology) with a comprehensive and coherent presentation of contemporary prosodic research. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8 August 2000, 364 pp. NLG 290.00 / USD 153.00 / GBP 95.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS Introduction; M. Horne. 1. Tonal Elements and Their Alignment; J. Pierrehumbert. 2. Bruce, Pierrehumbert, and the Elements of Intonational Phonology; D. Robert Ladd. 3. Levels of Representation and Levels of Analysis for the Description of Intonation Systems; D. Hirst, et al. 4. The Perception of Prosodic Prominence; J. Terken, D. Hermes. 5. The Lexical Tone Contrast of Roermond Dutch in Optimality Theory; C. Gussenhoven. 6. Modeling the Articulatory Dynamics of two Levels of Stress Contrast; M.E. Beckman, K.B. Cohen. 7. Phrase-Level Phonology in Speech Production Planning: Evidence for the Role of Prosodic Structure; S. Shattuck-Hufnagel. 8. The Interaction of Constraints on Prosodic Phrasing; E. Selkirk. 9. Prosodic Boundary Detection; M. Ostendorf. 10. Timing in Speech: A Multi-Level Process; N. Campbell. 11. A Corpus-Based Approach to the Study of Speaking Style; J. Hirschberg. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, Andr? Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Volume 5: Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997 Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998 Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999 Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999 Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging Hans van Halteren (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999 Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons Viegas, E. (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999 Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999 Volume 12: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing Frank van Eynde & Dafydd Gibbon (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X, April 2000. Volume 13: Parallel text processing: Alignment and use of translation corpora Jean V?ronis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1, August 2000. Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/