From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:14:52 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:14:52 +0100 Subject: Appel: CIAA 2000 Message-ID: From: Denis.Maurel at ronsar.univ-tours.fr CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata CIAA 2000 (Formerly WIA) http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 July 24-26, 2000 University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada This conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures. Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. In addition, there is a growing number of software systems designed to manipulate automata, regular expressions, grammars, and related structures; examples include FLAP, FADELA, AMORE, FireLite, Automate, Turing's World, FinITE, INR, and Grail. The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving. In conjunction with this conference, there will be two other events at the University of Western Ontario. A one-day symposium entitled "Half Century of Automata Theory" (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~automata) will be held on July 26, 2000, and a workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars, and Related Structures" will be on July 27-29, 2000. SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE We solicit papers and demos on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are requested to submit an eletronic version (in postscript or latex form) or six hard copies of an extended abstract (arriving) by MARCH 16, 2000. An extended abstract should start with the title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and a one-paragraph summary of the results and ideas, to: CIAA2000 at csd.uwo.ca or CIAA 2000 Department of Computer Science University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 The extended abstract should provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance to the conference. The extended abstract should be at most ten (10) pages long using 11-point font with ample margins. We expect the proceedings to appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series after the conference. (See, e.g., LNCS 1260 and LNCS 1436 for the proceedings of the previous conferences.) We will distribute a preproceedings for participants at the conference. DEMOS We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to demonstrate their software should submit a two-page description to the preceding address by March 16, 2000, outlining the design of their system and their computing needs (if any). CIAA 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE (A Tentative list) J.-M. Champarnaud ((Rouen) M. Crochemore (Marne la Vallee) F. Gunthner (Ludwig Maximillian) H. Jurgensen (Potsdam) L. Karttunen (Xerox) D. Maurel (Tours) M. Mohri (AT&T) J.-E. Pin (Paris) K. Salomaa (Queen's) W. Thomas (Aachen) B. Watson (Pretoria) D. Wood (Hong Kong) S. Yu (chair) (Western Ontario) IMPORTANT DATES March 16, 2000 Submission deadline May 2, 2000 Acceptances and rejections sent out June 2, 2000 Submission deadline for preproceedings July 24-25, 2000 Conference dates Sept. 29, 2000 Submission deadline for SV-LNCS Tri-Event Organizing Committee: John Hart (hart at csd.uwo.ca) Helmut Jurgensen (helmut at csd.uwo.ca, co-chair) Lila Kari (lila at csd.uwo.ca) Kai Salomaa (ksalomaa at csd.uwo.ca) Stephen Watt (watt at csd.uwo.ca) Sheng Yu (syu at csd.uwo.ca, co-chair) RELATED WEBSITES Half Century of Automata Theory: "http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~automata" CIAA 2000: "http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000" WIA 99 : "http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wia99/" WIA 98 : "http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia98.html" -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:14:25 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:14:25 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers Message-ID: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Robert Dale" Subject: NLP:Postdoctoral Research Position at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 2/ From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Jobs for 1 Linguist and 2 ESL Curriculum Developers 3/ From: Ezra Black Subject: Computational linguist: at ATR, Nara JAPAN 4/ From: Deb Grier Subject: Conversa 5/ From: Fredrik Westerlund Subject: Lingsoft ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Robert Dale" Subject: NLP:Postdoctoral Research Position at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Macquarie University DIVISION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES Department of Computing Language Technology Group Research Fellow (Full-time, fixed-term) Ref. 18839 The Language Technology Group in Macquarie University's Department of Computing in Sydney, Australia, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work in the area of natural language generation. Applicants must have a PhD in an area closely related to natural language processing or have equivalent experience, and must have a strong publishing record and a demonstrated ability for independent research. Preference will be given to applicants who can demonstrate practical abilities in the construction of linguistic technologies. Some experience in building or using natural language generation tools or systems would be an advantage. All enquiries concerning your application and further information about the position should be referred to Associate Professor Robert Dale on (02) 9850 9528 or e-mail Robert.Dale at mq.edu.au This position is available immediately on a full-time (fixed-term) basis for a period of one year with the possibility of further appointment subject to funding and performance. Salary range: Level B (Lecturer) $49,495 to $58,776 per annum, plus superannuation. (Under review, under a new Enterprise Agreement expected to be made early in 2000.) Applications, including full curriculum vitae and quoting the reference number, visa status, and the names and addresses (including e-mail address) of three referees should be forwarded to the Recruitment Manager, Personnel Office, Macquarie University, NSW 2109 by 25 February 2000. Applications will not be acknowledged unless specifically requested. Equal Employment Opportunity and No Smoking in the Workplace are University Policies. ___________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Jobs for 1 Linguist and 2 ESL Curriculum Developers Ergo Linguistic Technologies currently has job openings for one linguist (full-time) and 2 full-time or 4 part-time (80 hours per week) ESL curriculum developers to work on Software and Internet ITS (Interactive Tutoring Systems) tools. To learn more about the company and the tools you will be working with go to http://www.ergo-ling.com. The Ergo working environment is comfortable and a little casual but it is working with state of the art NLP tools and software. Located at the Manoa Innovation center in Honolulu we are convenient to the University of Hawaii for those with on-going research interests. We also have a beautiful location as well as access to restaurants and shopping. We cannot pay a relocation allowance but the lifestyle in Hawaii is worth the effort to work here. Job descriptions follow: Linguist: Knowledge of Syntax and a knowledge of English Grammar required. Must also be proficient in standard software applications (Word Processors, Internet, Spread Sheets, etc.) Experience teaching ESL grammar classes a plus. Job will entail working with programmers and curriculum developers to improve lexicographical, syntactic, and standard grammar tools made from the Ergo parser. The main project is the development of interactive tutors which use a 3-D character to do interactive question and answer exchanges with users in the areas of ESL, Geography, and Biology. The use of in-house tools as well as standard software required. Temporary for now (six to twelve month project), perhaps long term. ESL Curriculum Developers: Experience teaching ESL and in Curriculum development. Must have a good eye for English grammar. The position entails designing and writing curriculum for Interactive tutors. Job will entail working with programmers and linguists to improve lexicographical, syntactic, and standard grammar tools made from the Ergo parser. The main project is the development of interactive tutors which use a 3-D character to do interactive question and answer exchanges with users in the area of ESL for a stand alone software product and for the Internet. Contact me by email or at the following numbers. Resumes may be sent by email, fax, or regular mail but all jobs start as soon as possible. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich at hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ___________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Ezra Black Subject: Computational linguist: at ATR, Nara JAPAN Mathematician (Probability) / Programmer Job Opportunity Statistical Natural Language Processing ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories Kyoto, Japan ATR in Kyoto, Japan is looking for a talented and experienced mathematician (good probability background) / computer scientist who is interested in coming to Japan and joining an exciting research project in statistical natural language processing. The overall goal of the project is speech-to-speech translation between Japanese and a variety of different languages, including English and French. The research group which the candidate would become part of has developed and is refining a natural language parsing system based on statistical machine learning algorithms. The job begins ideally in April/May, 2000 and lasts for 1-2 years. Later start dates are possible, though not a first choice. A qualified candidate must have the Ph.D. degree, preferably math, physics, computer science; with extensive programming experience and expertise in C++. Ability to innovate approaches to applied mathematical problems in the area of probability required. Experience with statistical modelling within general pattern recognition field also important. Familiarity with natural language field a plus but not absoutely necessary. Candidate should know UNIX well and in general be a highly expert programmer. This is not a job for those who are theoreticians only, but rather is for someone who is equally at home with issues of statistical modelling theory, experimental method, and detailed coding matters. Extremely stimulating research environment; candidate working directly with top researchers; opportunities for travel within Asia; salary can range from excellent to poor, depending on details of candidate's background. If interested, please send cv to: black at itl.atr.co.jp. Thank you. ___________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Deb Grier Subject: Conversa Conversa - Conversationalizing the Internet. Delivering solutions for interacting with computers, the Internet and communication devices by voice. Conversa brings the natural and universal interface of voice to PCs, PDAs, cellular phones and other electronic devices. By adding the human element to computing - and de-emphasizing typing, mouse clicking and touchtone dialing - we're making it easier for people to adopt conversational computing into their everyday lives. Our goal is to become the global standard for end-to-end solutions for internet/web based Conversational Computing(R). Visit our website at www.conversa.com! We're a pre-IPO start up in Redmond, Washington. We have an entrepreneurial, casual work environment where successes both great and small are celebrated, excellent benefits (including stock options), lots of parties, concierge service, fully paid health insurance for the entire family and we encourage innovation through outstanding reward programs. If this is your kind of company, we should talk. Please submit your resumes to: speechtechnologistscareers at conversa.com Speech Scientist The successful candidate will help improve and create core technical resources and algorithms in the areas of speech recognition and> text-to-speech (TTS). The candidate will help to develop and apply objective techniques to measure technology improvements under conditions that reflect Conversa's products and markets. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Work with existing text-to-speech or speech recognition algorithms to extend and improve them * Develop new algorithms for text-to-speech or speech recognition * Extend algorithms and supporting resources for new languages * Consult with developers on optimal application of the technology * Consult with marketing to access potential new applications * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * DSP, Statistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Search, algorithm design * Knowledge of signal analysis tools * C/C++, DSP programming, Windows, Unix * Knowledge of multiple languages beneficial Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field * At least 2 years experience with speech technology * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus Additional Information: * Able to work with limited supervision * Able to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, and marketers * Adaptable and Creative * Self-motivated * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Software Engineer-Prosody The successful candidate will assist in the creation of prosodic models for multiple languages used by Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech engine. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Create prosodic models for multiple languages to be used by the text-to-speech system * Extend prosody unit as necessary for specific languages * Perform and any other duties which may be assigned or necessary. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform * Thorough understanding of prosody and phonology * Additional knowledge of linguistics or natural language processing a strong plus * Knowledge of multiple languages a plus Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Linguistics * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus Additional Information: * Able to work with limited supervision * Strong problem-solving skills * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Software Engineer-Text Normalization The successful candidate will extend the text normalization component of Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech and speech recognition system, including adapting the text normalization unit to process new languages. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Extend the text normalization unit to more flexibly process written text * Specify text normalization rules for processing new languages * Create other text processing components as necessary for specific languages * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Familiarity with basics of compiler design * Knowledge of basics of phonology * Strong C programming skills on Windows platforms * Knowledge of multiple languages and their writing conventions a strong plus Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * B.S., M.S., or equivalent in Computer Science or related field * Previous experience with natural language processing a strong plus * Previous experience with speech applications a plus Additional Information: * Able to work with limited supervision * Strong problem-solving skills * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Software Engineer-Time Domain The successful candidate will create tools to analyze and manage recorded speech data. The candidate will create automated scripts for extracting data from large speech corpora and use digital signal processing techniques to adjust speech data. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Create tools for editing and managing large amounts of recorded speech data * Perform and any other duties which may be assigned or necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform * Strong understanding of DSP and signal analysis tools * Knowledge of acoustic phonetics or phonology a strong plus Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * B.S., M.S., or equivalent in Computer Science or related field * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus * Ability to measure, publicize and promote improvements within the company Additional Information: * Able to work with limited supervision * Strong problem-solving skills * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Speech Engineer-Lexicon The successful candidate will edit and enhance the lexical data files used by Conversa's proprietary speech engine for multiple languages. The candidate will also be responsible for part-of-speech training for different languages, and may assist with the training of other language components. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Verify and correct data in lexical data files for multiple languages * Write scripts for automating dictionary updates * Edit part-of-speech corpora to ensure the successful training of the part-of-speech tagger * Oversee part-of-speech training * Perform any other linguistic duties which may be assigned or necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Fluency in at least one major European or East Asian language. Fluency in two languages preferred. * Thorough knowledge of phonetics, phonology, or morphology. * Familiarity with at least one text editor, including use of macros. * Willingness to learn script programming. Previous experience with script writing a strong plus. * Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * M.A., Ph.D., or equivalent in Linguistics or a specific language. * Previous experience with computer lexical work a strong plus. * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus. Additional Information: * Able to work with limited supervision * Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously * Meticulous and detail-oriented * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Speech Engineer-Training The successful candidate will train Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech and speech recognition system from recorded speech corpora to accommodate new languages. Training will include the selection of an appropriate phoneme set, training of text-to-speech and speech recognition data files, and training of spelling-to-pronunciation rule set. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Establish an appropriate phone set for each new language * Design and conduct experiments to improve engine performance * Use in-house tools to train text-to-speech and speech recognition data files from recorded speech corpora * Use in-house tools to train spelling-to-pronunciation data files * Perform training of other data files as necessary * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Thorough knowledge of acoustic phonetics and phonology * Knowledge of multiple languages a strong plus * Familiarity with running programs in a Windows 98/NT environment Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications * M.A., Ph.D., or equivalent in Acoustic Phonetics, Phonology, or Morphology * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus Additional Information * Able to work with limited supervision * Strong problem-solving skills * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Software Engineer-Morphology The successful candidate will create a morphology engine for use in Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech and speech recognition engine. The candidate will also create data files for a variety of languages ranging from European to East Asian. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Create and test a language-independent morphology engine for predicting pronunciations and parts-of-speech of inflected words. * Train the morphology engine to accommodate multiple languages. * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Solid understanding of morphology * Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform * Familiarity with basics of linguistics * Experience with natural language processing a strong plus * Knowledge of multiple languages a plus Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus Additional Information * Able to work with limited supervision * Self-motivated * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Natural Language Processing Scientist The successful candidate will help improve and create core technical resources and algorithms in Natural Language Processing as needed in the development of Conversational Computing. The candidate will help create advances in language modeling, semantic processing, dialog modeling, and knowledge representation to improve and extend Conversa's products. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Work with existing algorithms to extend and improve them * Create next generation interfaces for conversation creation * Develop new algorithms for semantic processing and dialog modeling * Extend algorithms and supporting resources for new languages * Consult with developers on optimal application of the technology * Consult with marketing to access potential new applications Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * NLP, Statistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Search, algorithm design * Experience with automatic learning and syntactic tagging systems * Knowledge of existing NLP tools desired * C/C++, DSP programming, Windows, Unix * Knowledge of multiple languages beneficial Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications * Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related field * At least 2 years experience in Natural Language Processing * Previous experience with speech processing and applications a plus * Ability to measure, publicize and promote improvements within the company Additional Information * Able to work with limited supervision * Able to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, and marketers * Adaptable and Creative * Self-motivated * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington ___________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: Fredrik Westerlund Subject: Lingsoft Postes ouverts: 4 offres 1) Linguistes français La société Lingsoft, Inc. recherche un ou deux spécialistes en linguistique française dès que possible à ses localités situées à Helsinki. Nous cherchons des candidats ayant de solides connaissances linguistiques pour le développement d'un nombre d'outils. Les candidats devront avoir les compétences suivantes : français langue maternelle formation universitaire (préférable au moins de niveau de maîtrise) en linguistique ou en langue française ou connaissances correspondantes spécialisation dans une des domaines suivantes : lexicographie, morphologie, syntaxe, semantique, pragmatique experience rudimentaire d'informatique anglais courant Par ailleurs, les compétences suivantes sont préférables : expérience d'Unix connaissances d'autres langues expérience de traitement automatique des langues ou connaissances de linguistique computationelle (formation fournie en place) Il est préférable que les candidats viennent vivre à la région d'Helsinki, Finlande, sinon déjà domiciles de cette région. Les salaires sont compétitives, et la société peut initialement assister à la recherche de logement. Les candidats sont priés d'adresser leur application (par préférence en anglais) et un curriculum vitae détaillé à : Sjur N. Moshagen Linguistic Manager moshagen at lingsoft.fi Lingsoft, Inc. Tehtaankatu 27-29 D FIN-00150 Helsinki Finlande 2) Linguistes portugais La société Lingsoft, Inc. recherche un ou deux spécialistes en linguistique portugais dès que possible à ses localités situées à Helsinki. Nous cherchons des candidats ayant de solides connaissances linguistiques pour le développement d'un nombre d'outils. Les candidats devront avoir les compétences suivantes : portugais langue maternelle formation universitaire (préférable au moins de niveau de maîtrise) en linguistique ou en langue portugaise ou connaissances correspondantes spécialisation dans une des domaines suivantes : lexicographie, morphologie, syntaxe, semantique, pragmatique experience rudimentaire d'informatique anglais courant Par ailleurs, les compétences suivantes sont préférables : expérience d'Unix connaissances d'autres langues expérience de traitement automatique des langues ou connaissances de linguistique computationelle (formation fournie en place) Il est préférable que les candidats viennent vivre à la région d'Helsinki, Finlande, sinon déjà domiciles de cette région. Les salaires sont compétitives, et la société peut initialement assister à la recherche de logement. Les candidats sont priés d'adresser leur application (par préférence en anglais) et un curriculum vitae détaillé à : Sjur N. Moshagen Linguistic Manager moshagen at lingsoft.fi Lingsoft, Inc. Tehtaankatu 27-29 D FIN-00150 Helsinki Finlande 3) Linguiste d'afrikaans La société Lingsoft, Inc. recherche un spécialiste en linguistique afrikaans dès que possible à ses localités situées à Helsinki. Nous cherchons des candidats ayant de solides connaissances linguistiques pour le développement d'un nombre d'outils. Les candidats devront avoir les compétences suivantes : afrikaans langue maternelle formation universitaire (préférable au moins de niveau de maîtrise) en linguistique ou en langue afrikaans ou connaissances correspondantes spécialisation dans une des domaines suivantes : lexicographie, morphologie, syntaxe, semantique, pragmatique experience rudimentaire d'informatique anglais courant Par ailleurs, les compétences suivantes sont préférables : expérience d'Unix connaissances d'autres langues expérience de traitement automatique des langues ou connaissances de linguistique computationelle (formation fournie en place) Il est préférable que les candidats viennent vivre à la région d'Helsinki, Finlande, sinon déjà domiciles de cette région. Les salaires sont compétitives, et la société peut initialement assister à la recherche de logement. Les candidats sont priés d'adresser leur application (par préférence en anglais) et un curriculum vitae détaillé à : Sjur N. Moshagen Linguistic Manager moshagen at lingsoft.fi Lingsoft, Inc. Tehtaankatu 27-29 D FIN-00150 Helsinki Finlande 4) Linguiste catalan La société Lingsoft, Inc. recherche un spécialiste en linguistique catalan dès que possible à ses localités situées à Helsinki. Nous cherchons des candidats ayant de solides connaissances linguistiques pour le développement d'un nombre d'outils. Les candidats devront avoir les compétences suivantes : catalan langue maternelle formation universitaire (préférable au moins de niveau de maîtrise) en linguistique ou en langue catalane ou connaissances correspondantes spécialisation dans une des domaines suivantes : lexicographie, morphologie, syntaxe, semantique, pragmatique experience rudimentaire d'informatique anglais courant Par ailleurs, les compétences suivantes sont préférables : expérience d'Unix connaissances d'autres langues expérience de traitement automatique des langues ou connaissances de linguistique computationelle (formation fournie en place) Il est préférable que les candidats viennent vivre à la région d'Helsinki, Finlande, sinon déjà domiciles de cette région. Les salaires sont compétitives, et la société peut initialement assister à la recherche de logement. Les candidats sont priés d'adresser leur application (par préférence en anglais) et un curriculum vitae détaillé à : Sjur N. Moshagen Linguistic Manager moshagen at lingsoft.fi Lingsoft, Inc. Tehtaankatu 27-29 D FIN-00150 Helsinki Finlande -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:14:54 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:14:54 +0100 Subject: Appel: DCAGRS-2000 Message-ID: From: helmut at csd.uwo.ca Please forward this to whoever might be interested. Please excuse multiple mailings -- we are trying to review our mailing lists. Second Call: DCAGRS 2000 Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures Submissions concerning the descriptional complexity of automata, grammars and related structures are invited for a workshop to be held in London, Ontario, on 27--29 July, 2000. Papers on applications of such issues, for instance in the fields of software or hardware testing, systems modelling as well demonstrations of systems related to these issues are also welcome. A first workshop on these topics, DCAGRS99 was held in Magdeburg Germany in July, 1999. DCAGRS 2000 will be part of a three-conference event, held at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, in the week of July 24 to 29, 2000. -- CIAA 2000, the Conference on the Implementation and Application of Automata, held on 24--25 July. -- Half Century of Automata Theory, held on 26 July. -- DCAGRS 2000, held on 27--29 July. Currently, we are discussing to add an informal workshop on coding theory to be held on 31 July and 1 August. For more information about these events, see further below or visit any of the following www-sites: www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs/triconf.html and follow the links from there. The DCAGRS 2000 deadlines are as follows: -- 16 March 2000, submission of papers -- 15 April 2000, notification of authors -- 1 May 2000, submission of demo proposals -- 1 July 2000, submission of final copy for pre-proceedings -- 27--29 July 2000, workshop Details regarding the submission form and procedures are available on the www at www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs If you have difficulties accessing the www we can send you the information by email. In that case, please send your request to boldt at cs.uni-potsdam.de (Oliver Boldt) Web pages regarding DCAGRS 2000 will be available at www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs Also information regarding accomodation, tourist attractions, and travel will be provided there. Information on the Tri-conference week and related events will be available at www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs/triconf.html Both sites are accessible now; however, some information may only become available at a later date. Registration fees: We are still working on budget details. There will be the following options for partcipants: -- all three events -- CIAA and Half Century -- DCAGRS and Half Century -- Half Century The coding theory workshop -- if it materializes, is likely not to require a registration fee. DCAGRS is sponsored by the IFIP WG 1.2 Several people planning to attend have expressed the wish that we should plan an excursion to either the Stratford Festival or some of the beautiful natural sites in the area. To organize such a trip we shall need to know approximately what the number of particpants would be. Details will be made available on the WWW. Conference chair for DCAGRS 2000: Helmut Jurgensen Background regarding the tri-conference week: In 1965 a conference on "Systems and Computer Science" was held at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. The list of participants included Hartmanis, Brzozowski, McNaughton, Arbib, Elgot, Gorn, Robinson, Amarel, Mesarovic, Windeknecht. The conference was chaired by John Hart, the first chairman of the new Department of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario -- John Hart has agreed to be one of the tri-event organizers. At WIA98 in Rouen, the predecessor of CIAA, it was suggested to hold a conference on reminiscences and visions of people working in automaton theory. This idea was further discussed and then agreed upon at WIA99 in Potsdam at DCAGRS99 in Magdeburg. The following scientists will speak at the Half-Century conference: -- J. A. Brzozowski -- S. Greibach -- M. Harrison -- J. Hartmanis -- J. Hopcroft -- W. Kuich -- R. McNaughton -- M. Nivat -- M. Rabin -- G. Rosenberg -- A. Salomaa Registration for DCAGRS 2000 will include registration for the "Half Century of Automata Theory". DCAGRS was first held in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1999. CIAA used to be called WIA; WIA was first held London, Canada, in 1996 and 1997, in Rouen, France, in 1998 and in Potsdam, Germany, in 1999. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:14:56 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:14:56 +0100 Subject: Appel: 2ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshops Message-ID: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: Syntactic and Semantic Complexity 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: Automatic Summarization ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: Syntactic and Semantic Complexity Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in Natural Language Processing Systems Workshop to be held in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000 Date: Sunday, April 30 2000 Seattle, Washington. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the development of robust natural language processing systems. A common methodology used in building these systems has been to analyze a sample of the data available (either manually, or automatically for training statistical systems), build statistical/heuristical schemas based upon the analysis, and test the system on a blind sample of the data. Due to this commonly used paradigm, an important area of research that has not been given the attention it deserves is the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity faced by these systems in the tasks they perform. At the AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Question Answering Systems, the problem of semantic complexity, a topic of a 90 minutes panel, motivated a lot of interest and discussion. To continue the investigation of this important issue, in this workshop, we will address the question of complexity as it pertains to the syntax and semantics of natural language. In particular, the workshop will seek to address the following areas: 1) How can we model syntactic and semantic complexity for formal models of natural language? 2) How does complexity impact acquisition of semantic and conceptual information? 3) How does syntactic and semantic complexity impact document classification in information and text retrieval tasks? 4) How do statistical clustering approaches compare to knowledge-based approaches at partitioning and quantifying the semantic space in a document set? 5) Concerning NLP systems that are deployed in the field, how can we quantify the information extraction task and QA task in ways similar to what is currently done with IR tasks and algorithms? 6) How does the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity impact the evaluation of such systems? 7) Can syntactic and semantic complexity coupled with a history of the past performance of a system be used to predict future performance of the system on a different data set? The workshop invites short papers, full-length papers, proposals for panel discussions, and position statements that deal with any aspect of syntactic and/or semantic complexity of NLP systems. In particular, the workshop is interested in addressing the following topics: - estimation of the syntactic and semantic complexity of specific NLP tasks - semantic complexity and world knowledge - role of syntactic and semantic complexity in system design and testing - syntactic and semantic complexity and its role in the evaluation of NLP systems - use of syntactic and semantic complexity as a performance predictor - relationship between syntactic and semantic complexity FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions should consist of either a short paper (2000 words or less, including references), a position statement (2000 words or less, including references), or a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, the type of paper (short/position/full), the word count, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, and email. Proposals for panels should consist of a short (upto 500 words) description of the proposed panel along with the names of the proposed panelists. Papers and proposals for panel discussions may be submitted by submitting three hard copies or one soft copy (ASCII, or PS) to: Amit Bagga General Electric CRD Room K1-5C38B 1 Research Circle Niskayuna, NY 12309. USA phone: 1-518-387-7077 email: bagga at crd.ge.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 14 Notification of acceptance of panels : February 21 Notification of acceptance of papers : February 28 Camera ready papers due: March 13 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Co-Chairs: Amit Bagga General Electric Corporate Research and Development P.O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 bagga at crd.ge.com 518-387-7077 (voice) 518-387-6845 (fax) James Pustejovsky Computer Science Department and Volen Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254-9110 jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu 781-736-2709 (voice) 781-736-2741 (fax) Wlodek Zadrozny IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 30 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532 wlodz at us.ibm.com 914-784-7835 (voice) 914-784-7455 (fax) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Amit Bagga - GE CRD Branimir Boguraev - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center J-P Chanod - Xerox, Grenoble Shalom Lappin - Kings College, London Aravind Joshi - University of Pennsylvania Larry Moss - Indiana Rohit Parikh - CUNY Adam Pease - Teknowledge James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University Wlodek Zadrozny - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center ___________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop 2nd Call for Papers Second Call for Papers Workshop on Automatic Summarization (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000 sponsored by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) MITRE Corporation Sunday, April 30, 2000 Seattle, Washington, USA 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/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, and the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98. 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. ANLP/NAACL'2000 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem. 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. Multilingual Text Summarization 2. Generation for Summarization 3. Topic Identification for Summarization 4. Multidocument Summarization 5. Evaluation and Test/Training Corpora 6. Integration with web and IR access II. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2000 Notification of acceptance for papers: March 1, 2000 Camera ready papers due: March 13, 2000 Workshop date: April 30, 2000 III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style (http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000/latex/index.html) 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). 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 "ANLP-NAACL2000 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: "ANLP-NAACL2000 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. IV. Organizing Committee: Udo Hahn University of Freiburg hahn at coling.uni-freiburg.de Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl at isi.edu Inderjeet Mani MITRE imani at mitre.org Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor radev at umich.edu V. Program Committee: Elisabeth Andre DFKI GmbH Branimir Boguraev IBM Research Chris Buckley SabIR Research Michael Elhadad Ben Gurion University Takahiro Fukushima Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute Hongyan Jing Columbia University Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology Mark Maybury MITRE Vibhu Mittal Just Research Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam University Akitoshi Okumura NEC Chris Paice Lancaster University Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge Tomek Strzalkowski GE CRD Simone Teufel University of Edinburgh Benjamin Tsou City University of Hong Kong -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:14:59 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:14:59 +0100 Subject: Appel. LREC Workshop Message-ID: From: Effie Ananiadou Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000) Athens, Greece Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation Integration of domain specific knowledge sources in NLP applications Saturday 3rd June 2000, 09.00-13.30 FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.salford.ac.uk/isrc/ananiadou/lrec.html Workshop Description (summary) ============================== Access to good quality domain specific knowledge is indispensable to improve various types of NLP applications such as information extraction, information retrieval, automatic summarisation etc. The aims of the workshop are: - to discuss general methodologies to integrate existing resources developed for non-NLP purposes into general linguistic resources; - to provide an inter-disciplinary forum in which researchers from the areas of ontology, terminology, data bases, lexical linguistic resources, exchange their views and experience of using, re-using and converting existing resources as linguistic resources for NLP applications. Key Topics (indicative list) ============================= -How much lexical tuning is required when we use domain specific thesauri and ontologies? - Differences between domain specific resources (conceptual) and linguistic (semantic) resources. - Is there a difference except for specificity and limitation? - The role of a common top level ontology which can be used to integrate domain specific knowledge sources into general linguistic resources. -Organisation of ontological structures. Are semantic relations such as hyponymy, meronymy etc. sufficient for domain specific ontologies and applications? - The impact of NLP and terminology gathering on the building of scientific databases. How we can convert knowledge in existing databases into linguistic resources. Important dates =============== Extended abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2000 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2000 Camera ready papers due: May 1, 2000 Workshop date: 3rd June 2000 Organisers =========== Sophia Ananiadou Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences University of Salford Newton Building, Salford M5 4WT United Kingdom and Junichi Tsujii Department of Information Science University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 Japan Programme committee ==================== Sophia Ananiadou, University of Salford, UK Eduard Hovy,Information Sciences Institute, USC, US Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, Italy Piek Vossen, Sail-Labs, Belgium Antonio Sanfilippo, European Commission, DG XIII Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan Submissions ============= Paper submissions should consist of an extended abstract (1500 words). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author, including email, phone and fax. The authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their papers (ps or rtf). Send your electronic submission to Sophia Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk). FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.salford.ac.uk/isrc/ananiadou/lrec.html -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:15:58 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:15:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Machine Learning for Information Extraction Message-ID: From: Thierry Poibeau Workshop on Machine Learning for Information Extraction (Call for submission) ===================================================================== Monday 21 August 2000 For workshop information, see: http://ecate.itc.it:1025/cirave/ecai-workshop.html For ECAI information, see: http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/ to be held in conjunction with the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), BERLIN, HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY Fabio Ciravegna (contact) ITC-irst Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Roberto Basili Universitity of Roma Tor Vergata, Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield The exponential increase in the quantity of textual information held in digital archives has fuelled growing interest in computer-assisted techniques for information extraction from text (IE). IE systems, as understood by the applied natural language processing community, identify predetermined relevant information in text documents from some specific domain. Once extracted, the information can be used for a number of purposes: database population, text indexing, information highlighting, and so on. While significant progress in constructing such systems has been made, stimulated in particular by the DARPA Message Understanding Conferences, by general agreement the main barriers to wider use and commercialisation of IE are the difficulties in adapting systems to new applications and domains. Porting IE systems is generally both difficult and expensive, given the current technology, since changes generally need to be carried out manually by highly skilled experts. Moreover some sources (e.g. Web pages) may change very rapidly in both format and content. Tracking all the changes and continuously re-adapting IE systems is very expensive or even unfeasible if done manually. To address these difficulties there has been increasing interest in applying machine learning (ML) techniques to Information Extraction from text. Tasks to which ML has been applied include template design, template filling, named entity recognition and resource compilation (e.g. lexicons, knowledge structures, grammars). The kind of sources analysed range from structured texts (e.g. Web pages) to semi-structured texts (e.g. rental ads) to free texts (e.g. newspaper articles). ML techniques which have been used range from symbolic (e.g. inductive logic programming, transformation-based learning, etc.) to numerical methods (e.g. naive-Bayes, maximum entropy, etc.).However, the current situation is characterized by isolated experiments in which individual ML techniques are applied to specific IE tasks. What is lacking is a unifying view of the issue of adopting ML techniques for IE. The proposed workshop aims to establish a forum for discussing current and future trends of the application of ML to IE, with a specific focus on the identification of a unifying view of the issue. The workshop has the following goals: * to bring together communities of researchers that address the ML for IE problem from different perspectives (e.g., natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, information integration); * to deepen the European IE community's understanding of the state of the art; * to identify further IE-related problems for which ML techniques might be appropriate. Particularly welcomed are contributions concerning: * descriptions of techniques adaptable for different languages, tasks and/or text typologies; * proposals of unifying views on the current or future application of ML to IE. In the interest of promoting as much discussion as possible, the number of paper presentations will be limited in favour of panels and posters. A final panel will discuss the research agenda for the coming years. Attendance will be limited to 30 participants Formatting Guidelines Follow the formatting guidelines for ECAI papers . Important dates Submission deadline: 12 March 2000 Notification of acceptance: 7 May 2000 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due: 7 June 2000 For any information please contact Fabio Ciravegna (cirave at irst.itc.it) -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Feb 9 11:06:23 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:06:23 +0100 Subject: Appel: LT and Grammar Implementation (ESSLLI Workshop) Message-ID: From: Detmar Meurers ESSLLI'2000 Workshop on LINGUISTIC THEORY AND GRAMMAR IMPLEMENTATION August 14 - 18, 2000 A workshop held as part of the Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2000 August 6-18, 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ** ORGANIZERS: Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers (Universitaet Tuebingen) Shuly Wintner (University of Pennsylvania) DESCRIPTION: Partially in response to data-oriented methods, grammar-based approaches to Natural Language Processing in recent years have made significant advances in terms of linguistic coverage, wealth of analysis, efficiency of processing and grammar engineering techniques. The workshop is intended as a forum for this ongoing work in declarative, constraint- and resource-based approaches, informed by linguistic theory. It will cover various aspects of the computational implementation of grammars based on linguistic knowledge, and in particular address: - grammar coverage as a major emphasis in practical projects - efficiency of processing (e.g., grammar compilation techniques, abstract machine implementations) - implementations of novel grammar architectures and mechanisms (e.g., glue languages, defaults, optimality-theoretic constraint ranking, underspecification) - hybrid architectures combining shallow parsing and deep analysis (e.g., finite state pre-processors for deep analysis) - grammar development tools (e.g., test methodology, profiling, visualization tools, grammar debugging and validation) - modularity in grammar design (e.g., definition of modules in grammars, separate and incremental compilation of grammars, architectures for grammar organization) - mathematical, logical and computational aspects of linguistic formalisms (e.g., semantics of linguistic formalisms, adaptation of techniques from programming languages to linguistic formalisms) SUBMISSION: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are invited to submit a paper. Electronic submissions are highly encouraged (preferably as plain ASCII or Postscript). Submissions should not exceed 10 (A4 or letter) pages, typeset in 10-12 points, with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins. Submitted papers should be anonymous and be accompanied by an e-mail listing the following details: - Title - Authors' names and affiliation - Address - E-mail addresses All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee. The accepted papers will be made available in a summer school reader. If sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, we intend to publish them in an edited volume. Submissions should be sent before March 15, 2000 to one of the following two organizers: Detmar Meurers Shuly Wintner Universitaet Tuebingen Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft University of Pennsylvania Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A D-72074 Tuebingen Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 Germany USA dm at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de shuly at linc.cis.upenn.edu If electronic submission is impossible, please send four copies of the paper to one of these two organizers. Informal enquiries by e-mail to the organizers are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES: Mar 15, 2000: Deadline for submissions Apr 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance May 15, 2000: Final version due Aug 14, 2000: Start of workshop FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI'2000 please visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/ 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 Feb 9 11:08:52 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:52 +0100 Subject: Conf: Multimedia/MultiModal LRs (LREC workshop) Message-ID: From: Jeff ALLEN ---------------------------------------------------------------- First EAGLE/ISLE Workshop on Meta-descriptions and Annotation Schemas for Multimodal/Multimedia Language Resources LREC 2000 pre-conference workshop, Athens, Greece, 29/30 May 2000 Human languages - signed and spoken - can be documented with the sounds the speakers produce, the gestures they make and the meanings perceived by an annotating observer. This information can be described as an annotated multi-media language resource. Ideally, such resources should be structured in a consistent and standardised way, so that the data collected can easily be accessed, exchanged and assembled into coherent and remotely accessible archives. The workshop forms part of an EC/NSF funded initiative to generate suitable standards and guidelines, and will address current trends and discuss structures which could simplify the creation and use of annotated multimodal/multimedia resources. See http://www.mpi.nl/world/ISLE/ISLE-01.html for complete information. Contact: Peter Wittenburg Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics peter.wittenburg at mpi.nl ----------------------------------- ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.elda.fr/ *** See the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2000 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html *** 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 Feb 9 11:08:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: Coling Tutorial Proposal Message-ID: From: Michelle Carnell COLING 2000 *** REMINDER *** DEADLINE for TUTORIAL proposals: 15 February 2000 The Coling 2000 Tutorial Programmme Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for Coling 2000, which is to be held in Nancy, Saarbruecken and Luxembourg, July 29-August 6th 2000. The tutorials will be held in Nancy, July 29th-30th, immediately preceding the main conference. Bus facilities will be provided to go to Saarbruecken on Sunday 30th July. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its core content can be covered in a three hours tutorial slot (including a 30 minute break). 6-hour tutorial slots may be possible as well. It is hoped that it will be possible to accomodate a large number of high quality proposals for tutorials. However, proposers are encouraged to submit as early as possible to ensure that appropriate arrangements can be made to accomodate all accepted tutorial sessions. Electronic submission would be greatly appreciated. ---> For details, please refer to (http://www.coling.org/tutorials.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Computational Linguistics Homepage: (http://www.coling.org) COLING 2000 will take place in three countries in the heart of Europe. - Nancy (Tutorials 29/30 July, 2000) - Saarbrücken (Conference 31 July - 4 August, 2000) - Luxembourg (Workshops 5/6 August 2000) Transportation between the three almost neighbouring sites will be provided. COLING 2000 will be the ideal place to - present your latest results at the conference and workshops - demo your systems to colleagues - study new trends and techniques in the tutorials - exhibit your language technologies for the 21st century - hire needed specialists before somebody else does 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 Feb 9 11:08:55 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:55 +0100 Subject: Conf: JADT-2000 Message-ID: From: JADT 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JADT 2000 CONFERENCE PROGRAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please find hereafter the program of the 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2000), that will take place in Lausanne from Thursday March 9 to Saturday March 11, 2000. Resgistration can be done either on-line at: http://liawww.epfl.ch/~jadt2000/gb/inscription.html or by contacting the organizing committee at: JADT 2000 c/o Martin Rajman EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse Tél : +41 21 693 27 35 Fax : +41 21 693 52 25 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch Web : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday March 9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9h00 Registration ("la Coupole") ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h00 Welcome M. Rajman (President of the Organization Committee) - C. Malaguerra (Director of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office) (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h30 Invited R.H. Baayen (University of Nijmegen & Max Planck Talk Institute for Psycholinguistics) (amphi. Word Frequency Distributions CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h15 Coffee Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h30 L. Lebart Plenary Panorama de l'ADT à la veille du 3ième millénaire --------- session ---------------------------------------------------- 12h00 (amphi CO2) D. Labbé Analyse des données textuelles et statistique lexicale ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12h30 Lunch (restaurant Le Copernic) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Retrieval Political Discourse (I) (I) (room CO 123) (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14h30 J. Savoy & J. Picard P. Marchand Recherche documentaire "Je n'accuse pas, je pose sur le Web: Les des questions !"- Analyse hyperliens sont-ils des interventions des vraiment utiles ? journalistes durant des campagnes électorales --------- Parallel ---------------------------------------------------- 14h50 sessions P. Bouillon, R. Baud, G. D. Labbé & D. Monière (amphi. Robert & P. Ruch La connexion intertextuelle CO2 and Indexing by statistical - Application au discours room CO tagging gouvernemental québécois --------- 123) ---------------------------------------------------- 15h10 R. Schneider & I. Renz S. Carbone The Relevance of Le parole e le armi Frequency Lists for Error Correction and Robust Lemmatization ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15h30 M. Kerbaol & J.Y. J.-C. Deroubaix & C. Gobin Bansard Le roi règne, il ne gouverne Sélection de la pas. Il s'adresse au peuple bibliographie des belge. maladies rares par la technique du Vocabulaire Commun Minimum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15h50 Coffee Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16h00 Poster and Sofware Demos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Language Statistical Methods (I) Processing for TDA (I) (room CO 123) (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17h00 A. Dister B.K. Tsou, T.B.Y. Lai, Réflexions sur S.W.K. Chan, L.Y.L. Cheung, l'homographie et la K.T. Ko & G.K.K. Chan désambiguïsation des Statistically-based Model formes les plus for Computer-Aided fréquentes Transcription Application ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17h20 A. Mari & P. F. J. Tweedie & R.H. Baayen Parallel Saint-Dizier Mixture models for word sessions Nature et formation de frequency distributions (amphi. classes sémantiques de CO2 and verbes pour l'extraction room CO de connaissances dans 123) des textes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17h40 J. Ellman & J. Tait F. Bavaud On the Generality of An Information Theoretical Thesaurally derived approach to Factor Analysis Lexical Links ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18h00 N. V. Loukachevitch & A. Tuzzi & F. J. Tweedie B.V. Dobrov The Best of Both Worlds: Thesaurus as a Tool for Combining MOCAR and MCDISP Automatic Detection of Lexical Cohesion in Texts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday March 10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Methods, Tools and Surveys and Stylometry and Software (I) Open-ended Literary Texts (amphi. CO2) Questions (I) (room CO 123) (room CO 124) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9h00 S. Bolasco S. Macchia & M. I. Moreno-Torres TALTAC: un D'Orazio Una medida environnement pour Analysis of cuatitativa de la l'exploitation de textual data for diversidad ressources integrating an estilística: statistiques et automated coding Applicación al linguistiques dans environment análisis de l'analyse system and textos españoles textuelle. Un building a exemple system to d'application au monitor the discours politique quality of its results ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9h20 A. Xanthos M. Fraire E. Evrard Entropizer 1.1 : Analisi dei Dati L'hexamètre de un outil a Tre-vie delle Claudien Parallel informatique pour Risposte a sessions l'analyse Domande Aperte e (amphi. séquentielle Indicatori CO2, Empirici -------- room CO ----------------------------------------------------- 9h40 123 J.-M. M. Bécue-Bertaut M. Kastberg and room Torres-Moreno, P. & J. Pagès Sjöblom & E. CO 124) Velásquez-Morales Analyse Brunet & J.-G. Meunier factorielle La thématique - Classphères: un multiple Essai de repérage réseau incrémental intra-tableaux. automatique dans pour Application à l'oeuvre d'un l'apprentissage l'analyse écrivain non supervisé simultanée de appliqué à la plusieurs classification de questions textes ouvertes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h00 M. Brugidou, C. F. della Ratta & S. Piron Escoffier, H. A. Morrone La diversité Folch, S. Lahlou, Du texte aux générique D. Le Roux, P. variables : les a-t-elle Morin-Andreani & contribution de caractérisé une G. Piat l'analyse période de la Les facteurs de textuelle des littérature belge choix et questions ? d'utilisation de ouvertes à logiciels l'analyse d'Analyse de traditionnelle Données Textuelles des données ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h20 Coffee Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h45 Invited C. Baudelot (ENS, Paris) Talk Faut-il travailler pour être heureux ? (amphi CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h30 Demos (room CO 122) & Posters (couloirs CO) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12h30 Lunch (restaurant Le Copernic) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Language Statistical Methods (II) Processing for TDA (II) (room CO 123) (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14h00 B. Habert, G. Illouz, P. N. Turenne Lafon, S. Fleury, H. Term clusters evaluation by Folch, S. Heiden & S. Montecarlo sampling Prévost Profilage de textes: cadre de travail et expérience ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14h20 Parallel M. Zimina Y. Cottavoz & M. Moine sessions Alignement de textes Comparaison de corpus de (amphi. bilingues par tailles différentes : CO2 and classification ascendante l'apport de techniques room CO hiérarchique d'échantillonnage --------- 123) ------------------------------------------------------- 14h40 S. Vietri & A. Elia R. Basili, A. Moschitti & M. Electronic Dictionaries T. Pazienza and Linguistic Analysis of Robust inference method for Italian Large Corpora profile-based Text Classification ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15h00 C. Fairon & B. Courtois D. Forest & J.-G. Meunier Les corpus dynamiques et La Classification GlossaNet - Extension de mathématique des textes: un la couverture lexicale des outil d'assistance à la dictionnaires lecture et à l'analyse de électroniques anglais textes philosophiques ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15h20 Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15h30 C. Jacquemin Plenary Quelques exemples d'application du traitement sessions automatique des langues en accès à l'information -------- (amphi. ------------------------------------------------------ 15h55 CO2) V. Beaudouin, S. Fleury & J. Velkovska Étude des échanges électroniques sur Internet et Intranet : forums et courriers électroniques ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16h20 Coffee Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Language Statistical Discourse Processing for TDA Methods (III) Analysis (III) (room CO 123) (room CO 124) (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16h45 W. Martinez R. Aragüès P. Maire, S. Mise en évidence Peleato, J.-C. Menguy, J. de rapports Chappelier & M. Baffie, P. synonymiques par Rajman Clément, C. Cote, la méthode des Using G. Strauch & cooccurrences Information J.-P. Auray Extraction to La visite Classify médicale entre Newspapers savoir et usages Advertisements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17h05 Parallel P. Sébillot, P. A. Lelu & M. M.C. Noël-Jorand, sessions Bouillon, V. Hallab M. Reinert, S. (amphi. Claveau, C. Fabre, Consultation Giudicelli & D. CO2, L. Jacqmin & J. "floue" de Dassa room CO Nicolas grandes listes Discourse 123 Apprentissage en de formes Analysis in and room corpus de couples lexicales Phychosis: CO 124) nom-verbe pour la simples et Characteristics construction d'un composées: un of Hebephrenic lexique génératif outil Subject's Speech préparatoire pour l'analyse de grands corpus textuels ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17h25 G. Dias, S. L. Remaki & J.G. N. Baccala Nora & Guilloré & J.G. Meunier M. de la Cruz Pereira Lopes Un modèle HMM Le importancia de Extraction pour la la estadística automatique détection des textual aplicada d'associations mots composés al estudio de las textuelles à dans un corpus concepciones de partir de corpora textuel enseñanza non traités ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday March 11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Statistical Political Retrieval (II) Methods (IV) Discourse (II) (amphi. CO2) (room CO 123) (room CO 124) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9h00 A. Morin, M. G. Cucumel, J. R. Alvarez, M. Kerbaol & J.Y. Beauchemin & V. Bécue & J.J. Bansard Gendreau Lanero Etude des résumés Analyse de Vocabulary en français des stratégies Diversity and its rapports de argumentatives Variability: a recherche d'un dans le cadre Tool for the institut méthodologique de Analysis of d'informatique la cooccurrence Discoursive Parallel publiés de 1989 à étendue Strategies - sessions 1998 Application to (amphi. the Investiture CO2, Speeches of the room CO Spanish Democraty ---------- 123 ------------------------------------------------------- 9h20 and room K. Lespinasse, B. S. Balbi & G. M. Brugidou & D. CO 124) Habert & B. Giordano Labbé Bachimont Un'analisi dei Le vocabulaire Le péritexte, un dati testuali con syndical français sésame pour les informazioni à la lumière de données esterne: le l'analyse des audiovisuelles ? definizioni di données L'analyse "qualità" textuelles et de exploratoire d'un la statistique corpus hétérogène lexicale de notices documentaires interprétant des documents audiovisuels ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9h40 Coffee Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Language Methods, Tools and Stylometry and Processing for Software (II) Literary Texts TDA (IV) (room CO 123) (II) (amphi. CO2) (room CO 124) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h00 P.A. Fortier M. Reinert D. Renard Le Codage des La tresse du sens Les parties du données et la méthode discours chez les textuelles "Alceste". personnages du Application aux Satiricon "Rêveries du promeneur solitaire" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h20 Parallel C. Cieri P. Ph. Mohler & C. F. Dupuis, S. sessions Multiple Zuell Heiden & S. (amphi. Annotations of Observe! A Prévost CO2, Reusable Data Popperian Critique Catégorisation room CO Resources: of Automatic d'un corpus 123 Corpora for Topic Content Analysis hétérogène de and room Detection and français médiéval CO 124) Tracking ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h40 L. Ruiz Miyares D. Peyrat-Guillard M.-H. Antoni & Etiquetación Une application de M.-L. Demonet automática en la statistique Adaptation d'un corpus textuales textuelle à la lemmatiseur au cubanos. Primeros gestion des corpus resultados ressources rabelaisien : humaines: naissance Appréhender le d'Humanistica concept d'implication au travail de façon alternative ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h00 Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h15 Plenary A. Salem session JADT 2000 Synthesis (amphi CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h45 Panel Discussion (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12h15 Closing Session (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12h30 end ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Program Committee Monica Bécue Univ. Polytechnic of Catalunya Sergio Bolasco Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza' Étienne Brunet Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis Yadolah Dodge Univ. of Neuchâtel Annibale Elia Univ. of Salerno Benoit Habert ENS Fontenay/Saint Cloud Rémi Jolivet Univ. of Lausanne Dominique Labbé Univ. of Grenoble Ludovic Lebart CNRS, ENST Paris Alain Lelu Univ. Paris 8 Sylvie Mellet CNRS, Nice Charles Muller Univ. of Strasbourg Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Max Reinert CNRS Toulouse Jacques Rouault CRISTAL Grenoble 3 André Salem Univ. Paris 3 Organization Committee Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Jean-Cédric Chappelier EPF Lausanne Marie Decrauzat EPF Lausanne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- For JADT 2000 Organization Committee, J-C Chappelier 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 Feb 9 11:08:26 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:26 +0100 Subject: Appel: TSD-2000 Message-ID: From: "Robert Batusek" *************************************************** TSD 2000 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************** Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2000) Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 September 2000 TSD Series TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and text/topic summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jelinek Frederick, USA (general chair) Hermansky Hynek, USA (executive chair) Baudoin Genevieve, France Cermak Frantisek, Czech Republic Ferencz Attila, Romania Hajicova Eva, Czech Republic Hanks Patrick, GB Kilgariff Adam, GB Kopecek Ivan, Czech Republic Kucera Pavel, Czech Republic Matousek Vaclav, Czech Republic Moon Rosamund, GB Noeth Elmar, Germany Pala Karel, Czech Republic Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia Petkevic Vladimir, Czech Republic Psutka Josef, Czech Rep. Schukat-Talamazzini E.G., Germany Skrelin Pavel, Russia Vintsiuk Taras, Ukraine Wilks Yorick, GB ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Bartek Ludek, Batusek Robert, Gaura Pavel, Horak Ales, Komarkova Dana (secretary), Kopecek Ivan (co-chair),=20 Matousek Vaclav, Nygryn Pavel, Pala Karel (co-chair), Sedlacek Radek, Smrz Pavel, Sojka Petr, Staudek Jan, Veber Marek, Zackova Eva, Zizka Jan FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP TSD 2000 is an international workshop with a limited number of participants and priority given to the active participants. The workshop program will include oral presentations and=20 a poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time=20 for discussions of the issues raised. The program will=20 also involve short communications, reports about ongoing=20 projects and industrial presentations. The latter types=20 of contributions will not appear in the proceedings=20 and the deadline for their submission will be announced later. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. TSD 2000 is supported by International Speech Communication=20 Association (ISCA). The organizing committee is applying for a grant from the European Committee (High Level Scientific=20 Conference). If the application is successful the organizing committee would subsidize young researchers and participants=20 from East Europe significantly. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors should submit extended abstracts not exceeding 1000 words by March 10, 2000 to the e-mail address: tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz Submission must also include the author(s) name, affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Acceptance of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers have to follow the Springer-Verlag instructions for the authors for Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The instructions can be found at the www address:=20 http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html IMPORTANT DATES Preliminary registration and deadline for submission of extended abstracts: March 10, 2000 Notification of acceptance sent to the authors: April 30, 2000 Final papers (camera ready) and registration: May 30, 2000 Workshop date: September 13-16, 2000 The contributions to the workshop will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the workshop. The proceedings of the last TSD workshop were published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and we anticipate the same format for TSD 2000. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the workshop is English. CONFERENCE FEE The conference fee is $150. The fee includes one copy of the Proceedings, refreshments, social events and trip. The organizing committee will provide discounts and grants for the participants from the East European countries. ACCOMODATION The organizing committee will arrange an accommodation in a student dormitories in a walking distance from the place of the Conference=20 at a reasonable price. For the participants who prefer to=20 be accommodated in a hotel it is possible to reserve a room.=20 The actual list of available hotels and prices will be accessible=20 at the workshop website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to: Dana Komarkova TSD 2000 c/o Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanick=E1 68a CZ-602 00 Brno Czech Republic telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359 fax: ++420 5 41 212 568 e-mail: tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ VENUE The conference will take place at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, Brno, Czech Republic. Brno is the capital of the region named Moravia, which is placed in the south-east part of the Czech Republic, and the second largest town in the Czech Republic (with population about half a million). It had been the King's town since 1347 and with its six Universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct trains or buses from=20 Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, some nearby places may also be of interest.=20 The local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Bishops Church of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, famous villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe and other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the greatest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - the town on the list of UNESCO and many others are all within an easy reach. ------=_NextPart_000_0087_01BF6CD8.F1AE4910 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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 TSD= 2000 -=20 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR=20 PAPERS
***************************************************
 
Third International Workshop on = TEXT, SPEECH=20 and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2000)
Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 September=20 2000
 

TSD Series
 
TSD series evolved as a prime = forum for=20 interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language=20 processing
from the former East Block countries and their Western=20 colleagues.
Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published
by = Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence=20 series).
 

TOPICS
 
Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop = will=20 include
(but are not limited to):
text corpora and=20 tagging;
transcription problems in spoken corpora;
sense=20 disambiguation;
links between text and speech oriented = systems;
parsing=20 issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts;
multi-lingual = issues,=20 especially multi-lingual dialogue systems;
information retrieval and=20 text/topic summarization;
speech modeling;
speech = segmentation;
speech=20 recognition;
text-to-speech synthesis;
dialogue = systems;
development of=20 dialogue strategies;
prosody in dialogues;
user = modeling;
knowledge=20 representation in relation to dialogue systems;
assistive = technologies based=20 on speech and dialogue;
applied systems and software.
 
Papers on processing of languages = other than=20 English
are strongly encouraged.
 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 
Jelinek Frederick, USA (general=20 chair)
Hermansky Hynek, USA (executive chair)
Baudoin Genevieve,=20 France
Cermak Frantisek, Czech Republic
Ferencz Attila,=20 Romania
Hajicova Eva, Czech Republic
Hanks Patrick, = GB
Kilgariff Adam,=20 GB
Kopecek Ivan, Czech Republic
Kucera Pavel, Czech = Republic
Matousek=20 Vaclav, Czech Republic
Moon Rosamund, GB
Noeth Elmar, = Germany
Pala=20 Karel, Czech Republic
Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia
Petkevic Vladimir, = Czech=20 Republic
Psutka Josef, Czech Rep.
Schukat-Talamazzini E.G.,=20 Germany
Skrelin Pavel, Russia
Vintsiuk Taras, Ukraine
Wilks = Yorick,=20 GB
 

ORGANIZING = COMMITTEE
 
Bartek Ludek, Batusek Robert, = Gaura Pavel,=20 Horak Ales,
Komarkova Dana (secretary), Kopecek Ivan (co-chair), =
Matousek=20 Vaclav, Nygryn Pavel, Pala Karel (co-chair),
Sedlacek Radek, Smrz = Pavel,=20 Sojka Petr, Staudek Jan,
Veber Marek, Zackova Eva, Zizka = Jan
 

FORMAT OF THE = WORKSHOP
 
TSD 2000 is an international = workshop with a=20 limited number
of participants and priority given to the active=20 participants.
The workshop program will include oral presentations = and
a=20 poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time
for discussions = of the=20 issues raised. The program will
also involve short communications, = reports=20 about ongoing
projects and industrial presentations. The latter = types
of=20 contributions will not appear in the proceedings
and the deadline = for their=20 submission will be announced
later. Social events including a trip in = the=20 vicinity
of Brno will allow for additional informal=20 interactions.
 
TSD 2000 is supported by = International Speech=20 Communication
Association (ISCA). The organizing committee is=20 applying
for a grant from the European Committee (High Level = Scientific=20
Conference). If the application is successful the = organizing
committee=20 would subsidize young researchers and participants
from East Europe=20 significantly.
 

SUBMISSION OF = PAPERS
 
Authors should submit extended = abstracts not=20 exceeding 1000 words
by March 10, 2000 to the e-mail = address:
 
tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz
 
Submission must also include the = author(s)=20 name, affiliation,
address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail = address.=20 Acceptance
of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers=20 have
to follow the Springer-Verlag instructions for the = authors
for=20 Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The instructions
can be = found at=20 the www address:
 
http://www.springe= r.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
 

IMPORTANT DATES
 
Preliminary registration and = deadline for=20 submission of extended
abstracts:
March 10, 2000
 
Notification of acceptance sent to = the=20 authors:
April 30, 2000
 
Final papers (camera ready) and=20 registration:
May 30, 2000
 
Workshop date:
September 13-16, = 2000
 
The contributions to the workshop = will be=20 published in
proceedings that will be made available to participants=20 at
the time of the workshop. The proceedings of the last = TSD
workshop were=20 published by Springer-Verlag in the series
Lecture Notes in = Artificial=20 Intelligence and we anticipate
the same format for TSD = 2000.
 

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
 
The official language of the = workshop is=20 English.
 

CONFERENCE FEE
 
The conference fee is $150. The = fee includes=20 one copy of
the Proceedings, refreshments, social events and = trip.
The=20 organizing committee will provide discounts and grants
for the = participants=20 from the East European countries.
 

ACCOMODATION
The organizing = committee=20 will arrange an accommodation in a student
dormitories in a walking = distance=20 from the place of the Conference
at a reasonable price. For the = participants=20 who prefer to
be accommodated in a hotel it is possible to reserve a = room.=20
The actual list of available hotels and prices will be accessible =
at the=20 workshop website.
 
ADDRESS
 
All correspondence regarding the = workshop=20 should be addressed to:
 
Dana Komarkova
TSD 2000 c/o = Faculty of=20 Informatics
Masaryk University
Botanick=E1 68a
CZ-602 00 = Brno
Czech=20 Republic
telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359
fax: ++420 5 41 212 = 568
e-mail:=20 tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz
The = official TSD=20 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/
 

VENUE
 
The conference will take place at = the Faculty=20 of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, Brno, Czech=20 Republic.
 
Brno is the capital of the region = named=20 Moravia, which is
placed in the south-east part of the Czech = Republic, and=20 the
second largest town in the Czech Republic (with = population
about half=20 a million). It had been the King's town since 1347
and with its six=20 Universities it forms a cultural center
of the region.
 
Brno can be reached easily by = direct trains or=20 buses from
Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
 
For the participants with some = extra time,=20 some nearby
places may also be of interest.
 
The local ones include:
Brno = Castle now=20 called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, Old and New
City Halls, the Augustine = Monastery with St. Thomas Church
and crypt of Moravian Margraves, = Church of=20 St. James, Bishops
Church of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian = Monastery in=20 Kralovo Pole,
famous villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der = Rohe
and=20 other important buildings of between-war Czech = architecture.
 
For those willing to venture out = of=20 Brno,
Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, = battlefield
of=20 Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and
Austrian = Franz -=20 battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov
(Austerlitz), Pernstejn = Castle,=20 Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau,
Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice = Chateau,=20 Mikulov with one of the greatest
Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, = Telc -=20 the town on the list of
UNESCO and many others are all within an easy = reach.
------=_NextPart_000_0087_01BF6CD8.F1AE4910-- 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 Feb 9 11:08:22 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:22 +0100 Subject: Ecole: LANGUAGE ENGINEERING Message-ID: From: Kemal Oflazer PLEASE POST OR DISTRIBUTE NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES July 3 - 14, 2000 BILKENT UNIVERSITY ANKARA, TURKEY Co-directors: Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University), Sergei Nirenburg (New Mexico State University), Oleg Kapanadze (Tbilisi State University). We are pleased to announce that the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES will be held on the campus of Bilkent University in Turkey, July 3rd through July 14th, 2000. The ASI program will comprise the following courses on the state-of-the-art in various aspects of language engineering. Currently, the following courses are planned: _ Introduction to languages and language engineering, Nicholas Ostler (Linguacubun, UK) Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Text processing ecology, Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Computational tools and resources, Remi Zajac (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Computational morphology and finite state methods, Ken Beesley (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) _ Statistical methods and corpus linguistics, Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) _ Lexical acquisition, Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA) Sergei Nirenburg(Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Grammar and grammar writing, Svetlana Sheremetyeva (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Machine translation, Harold Somers (UMIST, UK) _ Information extraction, Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Information retrieval. Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) The ASI will feature a number of participant workshops. These workshops will provide a forum for participants to present their work on language engineering and receive feedback from colleagues. Applicants are strongly suggested to submit an abstract of their presentation in their application. Abstracts will be selected for presentation in the workshops after a review process. Full versions of these presentations will be expected to be submitted before the ASI starts. The ASI will also feature discussion panel which will enable participants to discuss specific issues in language engineering with experts in the field. The ASI will admit a limited number of qualified participants from NATO countries (1) Partner countries (2), and Mediterranean dialogue countries (3). Depending on the specific circumstances, funding for living and lodging expenses of such participants will be available. Participants from commercial/industrial institutions and from other countries may attend provided they cover their registration, travel and living expenses. Please inquire with natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr for the details of such participation. Since there are a limited number of participant slots, admission to the ASI will be strictly on a competitive basis taking into account the participants' background, their potential contribution and the benefit they may draw from the meeting. Information regarding the ASI (including detailed program, course abstracts, travel information etc.) will, in time, be available on the World Wide Web at http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/ASI/ and on mirror sites (soon to be) listed there. We acknowledge the additional support provided by Bilkent University, Computing Research Lab, NMSU, and EACL- European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. APPLICATIONS TO THE ASI Please fill out the application form below (or available from the Web site above) and send by electronic mail to natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Application by fax or mail will only be considered in exceptional circumstances. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2000. Applicants will be notified of the results of their application by April 17, 2000. Applicants are expected to secure financial support for travel to/from Ankara, Turkey, from outside sources. Support for living and lodging expenses during the ASI will be available to qualified applicants on a case by case basis. -------- (1) NATO Countries: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and USA. (2) Partner Countries eligible for support: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzistan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tadjikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (*), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. ((*) Turkey recognizes the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name.) (3) Mediterranean Dialogue Countries eligible for support: Egypt, Israel. --------- Kemal Oflazer e-mail: ko at cs.bilkent.edu.tr http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~ko/ko.html Bilkent University tel: (90-312) 266-4133 (Sec) Dept. of Computer Engineering 290-1258 (Office) Bilkent, ANKARA, 06533 TURKEY (90-532) 447-8978 (Mobile) fax: (90-312) 266-4126 NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES July 3 - July 14, 2000 Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey APPLICATION FORM Please use as much space as necessary. Send completed form by electronic mail to natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Do not send a hardcopy by mail or fax. Please take as much space as you feel is necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NAME OF THE APPLICANT: STREET ADDRESS: CITY/STATE/COUNTRY: CITIZENSHIP: E-MAIL: WEB URL: TELEPHONE: FAX: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND BACKGROUND Please summarize your educational and work background and experience especially pointing out experience and publications (if any) relevant to language engineering. 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 Thu Feb 10 14:58:11 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:58:11 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie Subject: Candidatures INRIA en Linguistique Informatique 2/ From: Olivier Laurens Subject: Job : 2 grammairien(ne)s informatiques (Français, Anglais) 3/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Compu Linguist (German) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, 4/ From: Jonathan Stebner Subject: NLP: Multiple positions at Orion.com, WA US _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie Subject: Candidatures INRIA en Linguistique Informatique L'INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) ouvre sur concours des postes de Chargé de Recherche (CR2) et de Directeur de Recherche (DR2). Les candidatures extérieures sont encouragées. Les critères de sélection incluent l'excellence scientifique, l'adéquation à la politique scientifique de l'INRIA, et, de préférence, la bonne intégration dans une équipe existante de l'INRIA. Sur le site de Rocquencourt (en région parisienne), l'équipe ATOLL (ATelier d'Outils Logiciels pour le Langage naturel) est, comme son nom le suggère, impliquée dans le domaine de la Linguistique Informatique. Si vous pensez que vos compétences et centres d'intérêt sont susceptibles de compléter utilement notre équipe, vous pouvez me contacter, Eric de la Clergerie avec copie à Bernard Lang Eric de la Clergerie Page WEB ATOLL: http://atol.inria.fr/ Page WEB INRIA: http://www.inria.fr/ Page WEB INRIA Rocquencourt: http://www.inria.fr/Unites/ROCQUENCOURT-fra.html Page WEB Candidatures: http://www.inria.fr/Trav/Concours2000/conc2000a-fra.html -------- Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr Projet Atoll - INRIA Rocquencourt WWW Home Page: http://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger _______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Olivier Laurens Subject: Job : 2 grammairien(ne)s informatiques (Français, Anglais) Start-up spécialisée dans le développement de logiciels de gestion du savoir, nous recrutons actuellement 2 linguistes - informaticien(ne)s. De formation supérieure en linguistique et en TALN, vous participerez aux aspects linguistiques de l'élaboration d'un moteur de recherche documentaire basé sur une nouvelle technologie de modélisation du sens. Votre tâche principale sera le développement et la maintenance de grammaires formelles. De plus, vous serez appelé à contribuer à la mise au point des spécifications linguistiques (morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique), à la spécification d'outils de développement, au développement et à la mise en oeuvre des systèmes de TALN. Vous serez aussi appelé à participer aux aspects recherche du projet. Vous travaillerez au sein d'une équipe jeune et dynamique dans un environnement de travail convivial. Le premier poste à pourvoir s'adresse à un spécialiste du FRANÇAIS, le second de l'ANGLAIS. La connaissance d'une seconde ou troisième langue est un plus. Les compétences suivantes sont particulièrement appréciées : * formation solide en linguistique et en grammaire * bonne connaissance d'au moins un formalisme grammatical majeur (TAG, UCG, HPSG, GPSG, ALEP, ...) * expérience de développement de grammaires formelles et lexiques computationnels * maîtrise d'outils informatiques de manipulation de données (awk, perl, grep, base de données, tableur, ...), ou désir d'apprendre * expérience de travail sur corpus (et des outils associés) Les candidats, quelle que soit leur nationalité, doivent avoir le droit de travailler en France. Les postes à pourvoir sont en CDI. La rémunération est fonction des compétences et de l'expérience. Lieu de travail : Paris/RP Les candidatures sont acceptées par email ou courrier postal (envoyer CV + disponibilité + références). Les postes sont à pourvoir dès que possible. COORDONNEES POSTALES : SA UNLOST 6 rue Lacépède 75005 Paris EMAIL : linguist at unlost.com _______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Compu Linguist (German) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Belgium Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by voice in any language with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer, business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation. As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty nations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With over 1,750 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $211.6 million in 1998. For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): ****************************************** Language Specialist German Speech and Language Technology ****************************************** Function: * You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech, Artificial Intelligence and Language. * In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and language study in view of technology development and assessment of third party providers of data and/or technology. * You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets, creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion, prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of documentation. * Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical documentation. * Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge. * You will report to the group or project manager. Profile: * university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent; * (near) native German speaker with a conversational level of English; * solid grounding in linguistic theory; * good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas is mandatory: speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, programming, * ability to work in a team and independently; * IT literate; * perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * good social and communicative abilities; ********************************************************** If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill the required profile, we have to meet each other. Please send your application letter and detailed resume to: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products Personnel Department Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont Flanders Language Valley 50 B-8900 Ieper BELGIUM Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89 To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage: http://www.lhsl.com _______________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Jonathan Stebner Subject: NLP: Multiple positions at Orion.com, WA US Rank of Job: Areas Required: Speech and Natural Voice Recognition Software Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: Orion.com Department: Technical Recruiting State or Province: WA Country: US Final Date of Application: Open Contact: Jonathan Stebner jstebner at orion.com Address for Applications: 10900 NE 4th 23rd Floor Bellevue WA 98056 US Natural Language Processing Scientists (5 positions) The successful candidate will help improve and create core technical resources and algorithms in Natural Language Processing as needed in the development of Conversational Computing. The candidate will help create advances in language modeling, semantic processing, dialog modeling, and knowledge representation to improve and extend products. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES · Work with existing algorithms to extend and improve them · Create next generation interfaces for conversation creation · Develop new algorithms for semantic processing and dialog modeling · Extend algorithms and supporting resources for new languages · Consult with developers on optimal application of the technology · Consult with marketing to access potential new applications KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES: · NLP, Statistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Search, algorithm design · Experience with automatic learning and syntactic tagging systems · Knowledge of existing NLP tools desired · C/C++, DSP programming, Windows, Unix · Knowledge of multiple languages beneficial EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, TRAINING and/or MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS · Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related field · At least 2 years experience in Natural Language Processing · Previous experience with speech processing and applications a plus · Ability to measure, publicize and promote improvements within the company ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (travel requirements, physical requirements, etc) · Able to work with limited supervision · Able to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, and marketers · Adaptable and Creative · Self-motivated · Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington 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 Thu Feb 10 15:03:18 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:03:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: ANLP/NAACL2000 2nd Workshop Call for Papers Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen Second Call for Papers Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems Thursday, May 4th, 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA (post-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) Reading Comprehension tests, such as the one below, are designed to help evaluate a reader's understanding of a text passage. How Maple Syrup is Made Maple syrup comes from sugar maple trees. At one time, maple syrup was used to make sugar. This is why the tree is called a "sugar" maple tree. Sugar maple trees make sap. Farmers collect the sap. The best time to collect sap is in February and March. The nights must be cold and the days warm. The farmer drills a few small holes in each tree. He puts a spout in each hole. Then he hangs a bucket on the end of each spout. The bucket has a cover to keep rain and snow out. The sap drips into the bucket. About 10 gallons of sap come from each hole. 1. Who collects maple sap? (Farmers) 2. What does the farmer hang from a spout? (A bucket) 3. When is sap collected? (February and March) 4. Where does the maple sap come from? (Sugar maple trees) 5. Why is the bucket covered? (to keep rain and snow out) Such tests exist in many languages, have human performance benchmarks associated with them, and come in a variety of types (short-answer, multiple choice) and levels of difficulty. In addition, they are generally written to make each story and set of questions self-contained, in order to require as little outside knowledge as possible to answer the questions. The focus of the proposed workshop will be to explore the following questions: - Can such exams be used to evaluate computer-based language understanding effectively and efficiently? - Would they provide an impetus and test bed for interesting and useful research? - Are they too hard for current technology? - Or are they too easy, such that simple hacks can score high, although there is clearly no understanding involved? The most direct method of exploring these questions is to choose a set of tests and build a system that takes these tests. Some preliminary results indicate that such tests are tractable, but not trivial and that linguistic processing is helpful (Hirschman, et al. ACL-99). A test set, evaluation routines, prototype system, and documentation are available upon request to light at mitre.org. We hope that a number of submissions will present results based on actual reading comprehension systems. In addition, we encourage submissions that report on other kinds of tests or similar tests in other languages, or that address our list of questions by other means. Note that submissions are encouraged that describe work in progress with preliminary empirical results. Invited speaker: Karen Kukich (Educational Testing Service) "NLP Tools for Identifying Reading Comprehension Skills" Format for Submission Authors are asked to submit previously unpublished papers only; a workshop proceedings will be published. Our target submission length is 2000 words but both shorter and longer submissions will also be considered. Electronic submission of postscript will be accepted. Hard copy submissions should include 4 copies of the paper. Since the papers will be reviewed anonymously, please do not place the author name on the paper. Instead include a separate title page with title, abstract, author, and e-mail address. Unless requested otherwise, notification of acceptance will be sent electronically to the first author. Parallel submission is unproblematic; however if your paper is accepted to this workshop and you decide to present it here, we will ask you to withdraw it from any other events. Important Dates Deadline for submission: February 11th, 2000 Notification of authors: March 1st, 2000 Final versions due: March 10th, 2000 Address for Submission and Further Information Marc Light The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Rd. M/S K329 Bedford, MA 01730 USA Phone: 1-781-271-5579 light at mitre.org (The mailing list, read-comp at linus.mitre.org, has been set up to discuss reading comprehension tests as evaluation for computer-based language understanding systems. It is open subscription and unmoderated. To subscribe, send email to majordomo at linus.mitre.org with 'subscribe read-comp' in the body.) Program Committee: Eric Brill Eugene Charniak Mary Harper Marc Light (chair) Ellen Riloff Ellen Voorhees 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 Thu Feb 10 14:59:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:59:08 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN-2000 Message-ID: From: TALN2000 ********************************************************************** * ##### ### ### ### * * ##### ## # # # # # # # # # # # * * # # # # ## # # # # # # # # * * # # # # # # # ##### # # # # # # * * # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # * * # # # # # ## # # # # # # # * * # # # ###### # # ####### ### ### ### * * * * * * TALN 2000 * * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * * * École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne * * du 16 au 18 octobre 2000 * * * * http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ * * * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2000 Notification aux auteurs : 23 juin 2000 Version finale (prêt-à-clicher): 4 août 2000 Conférence : 16-18 octobre 2000 Conjointement organisée par l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne et l'Université de Genève, la septième édition de la conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2000) se tiendra, du 16 au 18 octobre 2000, à l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Suisse. La conférence comprendra des communications scientifiques, des conférences invitées, des séances de démonstration ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conférence sont le français et l'anglais. TALN 2000 est organisée sous l'égide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement à la conférence pour jeunes chercheurs RECITAL 2000 (appel à communications a paraître séparement). THÈMES Les communications, d'une durée de trente minutes, questions comprises, pourront porter sur tous les thèmes habituels du TALN, incluant, de façon non limitative: lexique morphologie syntaxe sémantique pragmatique discours analyse génération résumé dialogue traduction automatique approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques TALN 2000 souhaite également accueillir des travaux de domaines proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un rôle important, dans la mesure où l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : traitement de la parole (prosodie, linguistique, pragmatique) traitement de l'écrit aspects cognitifs terminologie, acquisition de connaissances à partir de textes extraction d'information recherche documentaire linguistique de corpus linguistique mathématique utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modélisation linguistique enseignement assisté, enseignement des langues. Sont aussi attendus des travaux sur des applications du TALN, implémentées et évaluées, faisant ressortir leurs aspects scientifiques et les enseignements tirés. Des démonstrations de systèmes pourront être proposées, indépendamment ou en complément d'articles scientifiques. L'emploi du temps de la conférence comprendra une session pour ces démonstrations. Le comité de programme sélectionnera parmi les communications acceptées deux articles pour publication (dans une version étendue) dans la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.). Ces articles seront considérés par la revue comme "acceptés sous réserve de modification", la modification étant la mise au format de la revue. CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications antérieures. Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine. Seront considérées en particulier : - l'importance et l'originalité de la contribution, - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique, - la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine, - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale, - l'organisation et la clarté de la présentation, - l'adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence. Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de la conférence. MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION Les articles soumis ne devront pas dépasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ 3000 mots, figures, exemples et références compris. Les propositions de démonstrations ne devront pas dépasser 3 pages. Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word seront disponibles sur le site web de la conférence (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/). Les articles devront parvenir au comité d'organisation avant le 21 avril 2000, sous forme électronique, à l'adresse suivante : taln2000 at latl.unige.ch En cas d'impossibilité d'envoi par courrier électronique, une soumission "papier" pourra être admise. 3 exemplaires papier de la contribution devront être envoyés à l'adresse suivante: Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 Dépt. de linguistique - LATL Université de Genève 2, rue de Candolle CH-1211 Genève 4 Suisse Format pour les soumissions : Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission sous la forme d'un document attaché à un courrier électronique ayant pour titre "TALN submission" et contenant le titre de la communication, le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale, l'adresse électronique, le numéro de téléphone et le fax de l'auteur principal. Les soumissions devront être anonymes et ne devront donc comporter aucun nom d'auteur ni auto-citation. L'un des formats suivants devra IMPÉRATIVEMENT être employé: - source LaTeX auto-suffisant (les styles non standards ou différents de ceux fournis pour TALN 2000 devront être inclus dans le fichier source) ET PostScript - RTF (Word) ET PostScript ou PDF Les versions PostScript devront être au format A4 et non Lettre US. INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES Les informations pratiques seront précisées ultérieurement, notamment sur le site web de la conférence (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (voir version française au dessus) CALL FOR PAPERS TALN 2000 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland 16-18 October 2000 CALENDAR submission deadline : April 21st, 2000 notification to authors : June 23th, 2000 final version due (camera-ready): August 4th, 2000 conference: 16-18 October, 2000 Jointly organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) and the University of Geneva the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2000) will be held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, (Lausanne, Switzerland), on October 16-18, 2000. The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are French and English. TALN 2000 is organised in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2000 (a separate call for papers will follow). TOPICS Papers are invited for 30-minutes talks (including questions) 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 mathematical linguistics TALN 2000 also welcomes contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasise 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 2000, also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasising 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 program of the conference. The program committee will select 2 papers among the accepted papers for publication (in an extended version) in the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (t.a.l.). For the journal, these papers will have the status "accepted, subject to modifications", the modifications being the formatting according to the style of the journal. SELECTION 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 - soundness of the scientific and technical content - comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work - clarity - relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12 (approx. 3000 words), single spaced, including figures, examples and references. The maximum length for demo proposals is 3 pages. A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be available on the web site of the conference (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000). Electronic submissions must reach the organising committee before April 21st, 2000 to the latest, at the following address: taln2000 at latl.unige.ch If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organising committee before April 21st 2000, at the following address: Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 Dépt. de linguistique - LATL Université de Genève 2, rue de Candolle CH-1211 Genève 4 Suisse File format for electronic submissions: Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail, with the subject field "TALN submission" and containing the following information: submission title, first author's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, phone and fax number. The submissions are ANONYMOUS, and should therefore not include the author's name, or any self-reference. One of the following formats MUST be used: - self-contained LaTeX source (including non standard styles) AND PostScript version. - RTF (Word) document AND PostScript or PDF version. All the PostScript versions must be for A4 paper and not US letter. PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS: Practical information will be detailed shortly on the conference WEB page site (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMITÉ D'ORGANISATION/ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Eric Wehrli (Président/President) Martin Rajman Cristian Ciressan Jean-Cédric Chappelier Marie Decrauzat Paola Merlo Christopher Laenzlinger ********************************************************************** * Contact: * * * * Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 * * Dépt. de linguistique - LATL * * Université de Genève * * 2, rue de Candolle * * CH-1211 Genève 4 * * Switzerland * * * * Tel: +41-22-705.73.63 * * Fax: +41-22-705.79.31 * * email: taln2000 at latl.unige.ch * * * * http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ * ********************************************************************** -- Pour le comité d'organisation de TALN 2000, For the organisation committee of TALN 2000, Cristian Ciressan 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 Thu Feb 10 15:05:58 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:05:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: ICCI-2000 Message-ID: From: almulla at sci.kuniv.edu.kw (Almulla M) The 10th International Conference on Computing and Information ICCI '2000, Kuwait, November 18-21, 2000 http://mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~icci2000 http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icci-00/ Second Call For Papers ====================== Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ICCI2000 will provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present new results in research, development, and applications in computing and information. Since 1989, ICCI conferences have attracted participants from over 40 different countries. ICCI '2000 will consist of five streams ranging from theoretical computer science to applied software systems. It will provide a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization and interdisciplinary information exchange. Stream A: Theory. Theory of Data and Logic. Information and Coding Theory. Algorithms. Theory of Computation. Chair: Monty Newborn, newborn at opus.cs.mcgill.ca Stream B: Distribution and Parallelism. Distributed Computing and Communications. Concurrency and Parallelism. Cluster Computing. Chair: Albert Zomaya, zomaya at ee.uwa.edu.au Stream C: Systems and Development. Database Systems. Software Engineering and CASE Methodologies. Expert Systems. Chair: Hans Loeper, Loeper at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw Stream D: Data and Knowledge Engineering. AI Methodologies. User Interfaces. Data Mining. Approximate Reasoning. Chair: Susan Craw, smc at scms.rgu.ac.uk Stream E: Networking and Internet. Information Exploration on the World Wide Web. Mobile Computing. Chair: Richard Lai, lai at cs.latrobe.edu.au Papers for any of the above streams are welcome. All submissions should be limited to a maximum of 5,000 words (approximately 15 A4 pages), and will be reviewed on the basis of technical correctness, quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Furthermore, a selected number of the accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the following journals: * Journal of Computing and Information * Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal All paper submissions (by e-mail or in hardcopy) should be sent to the Program Committee Chair at the following address. Xindong Wu (xwu at kais.mines.edu) Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois Street Golden, Colorado 80401, USA Phone: +1-303-273-3874 Fax: +1-303-273-3875 Important Dates March 1, 2000 Paper submissions. May 1, 2000 Acceptance notices. July 1, 2000 Final camera-readies. November 18-21, 2000 Conference. Organization General Chair: Waldemar W. Koczkodaj, Laurentian University, Canada. E-mail: icci at nickel.laurentian.ca; URL: http://www.cs.laurentian.ca/faculty/wkoczkodaj.html Organizing Committee Chair: Mohammed Almulla, Kuwait University, Kuwait. E-mail: almulla at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw; URL: http://www.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~almulla/ Program Committee Chair: Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA. E-mail: xwu at kais.mines.edu; URL: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/ General inquiries should be sent to the Organizing Committee Chair at Mohammed Almulla Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Kuwait University P.O.Box 5969 Safat, 13060, Kuwait Telephone: (965) 481-1188 Ext. 5303 or 5624 Fax: (965) 481-7201 E-mail: almulla at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Thu Feb 10 15:06:04 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:06:04 +0100 Subject: Conf: RIAO'2000 Advance Program Message-ID: From: "Karim Chibout" [Version francaise en fin de message] ****We apologize if you receive multiple copies**** ****PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY**** _______________ RIAO 2000 6th Conference on "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access" College de France Paris, France April 12-14, 2000 _______________ Advance Program _______________ Organized by: Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D., France) & Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA) Under the sponsorship of : the European Commission, the French Ministry of Education, Research and Technology, the DGA, the CEA, ELRA and ELSNET With the collaboration of: AII, ASIS, ESCA and AUF/Francil _______________ For the detailed Advance Program, please visit our Web site: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO ______________ The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access". The conference scope will range from the traditional processing of text documents to the rapidly growing field of automatic indexing and retrieval of images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of audio-visual and multimedia information on various distribution venues, including the Net. The conference is of interest for several scientific communities, including Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Spoken Language Processing, Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve as a forum for cross-discipline initiatives and innovative applications. RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific progress, demonstrations of prototypes resulting from this research as well as the most innovative products now appearing on the market. The RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur = Computer- Assisted Information Retrieval) International Conference is held every 3 years. Sites for the conference have been Grenoble, France (1985), M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. USA (1988), Barcelona, Spain (1991), Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA (1994) and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1997). The Conference Advance Program is highlighted by contributions of authors from 26 countries. The program includes 2 invited speakers, 3 panel sessions, 3 plenary sessions, 8 poster sessions and 16 oral sessions. Among all sessions are 146 papers (73 oral and 73 poster presentations), providing a unique opportunity to present and discuss in depth the state-of-the-art in this rapidly growing scientific and technological field. There will also be many innovative application demonstrations presented by companies from different countries. The application committee has already selected 19 of them covering various applications such as crosslingual English-Arabic Internet search, recognition of printed and handwritten texts, television archives retrieval, sign language indexing, machine translation, etc. The RIAO 2000 Conference Advance Program includes sessions on the following topics: *Plenary sessions: - Content-Based Information Access: from Text to Speech, Image and Multimodality - The Web and the Electronic Book - Radio & TV Broadcast Retrieval * Oral and Poster sessions: Document Processing: - Navigation, User Adaptation & Document Creation - Combining Image & Language Information Retrieval: - Internet & Cross-Language Information Retrieval - Information Retrieval Systems & Techniques - Interactive & Multimedia Information Retrieval - Information Retrieval Methods - Classification & Clustering - Filtering, NLP & Text Retrieval - Information Visualization Spoken Language and Audio Processing: - Speech and Information Retrieval - Speech & Multimedia Processing Techniques - Musical Information Processing Natural Language Processing: - Multilingual Document Handling & Machine Translation - Terminology - NLP Techniques for Document Processing - NLP Methods Image processing: - Scanned Document Analysis - Image & Video Processing Techniques - Image Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval - Video Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval - System Architecture, Usage and Applications - Evaluation and Best Practice * Panel sessions: - Multilingual Information Access - Information Retrieval Evaluation Worldwide - Usage of Information Retrieval Systems For more information on the program, conference location and registration, please visit our Web site : http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO or contact us at: - For all scientific and technical matters: riao2000 at limsi.fr - For all organizational and practical matters: cidcol at club-internet.fr _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ ***Nous nous excusons si vous recevez plusieurs copies de cette annonce*** ***A distribuer largement SVP*** _______________ RIAO 2000 6ème conférence sur " Accès à l'information multimédia par le contenu " Collège de France Paris, France 12-14 Avril 2000 _______________ Programme prévisionnel _______________ Organisée par: Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D., France) & Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA) Avec le soutien de la Commission Européenne, du Ministère de l'Education Nationale, de la Recherche et de la Technologie, de la DGA, du CEA, d'ELRA et d'ELSNET en collaboration avec AII, ASIS, ESCA et Francil (AUF) Pour consulter le programme prévisionnel complet, consultez notre site Toile : http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO Le thème de RIAO 2000 porte sur l' "Accès à l'information multimédia par le contenu". La conférence étendra le paradigme classique de traitement de documents textuels au champ grandissant de l'indexation et de la recherche de documents sonores et vidéos, et plus généralement à tous les traitements de documents multimédias sur tous supports, y compris la toile électronique. Cette conférence s'adresse donc à différentes communautés scientifiques incluant la recherche d'informations, le traitement du langage parlé et écrit, la vision par ordinateur, la communication humain-machine, la gestion électronique de documents, les bibliothèques digitales, et servira de forum visant à favoriser les synergies et les points de convergences entre elles, et à susciter des futures applications innovantes. RIAO 2000 présentera les avancées scientifiques récentes, les prototypes résultant de ces recherches, tout comme les produits les plus innovants apparaissant à présent sur le marché. La conférence internationale RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistée par Ordinateur) est organisée tous les trois ans. Après Grenoble, France (1985), MIT Cambridge MA. USA (1988), Barcelone, Espagne (1991), New York, NY, USA (1994) et Mc Gill, Montréal, Québec, Canada (1997), Paris accueillera la prochaine édition de RIAO au printemps 2000. La conférence présentera des communications d'auteurs provenant de 26 pays. Le programme inclut deux communications invitées, trois tables rondes, trois sessions plénières, 8 sessions de posters et 16 sessions orales. L'ensemble des sessions comprend 146 communications (73 orales et 73 sous forme de posters), et constituera une occasion unique de présenter et de discuter l'état de l'art dans ce domaine scientifique et technologique en pleine évolution. Il y aura aussi de nombreuses applications innovantes présentées par des sociétés de différents pays. Le comité d'application a déjà sélectionné 19 d'entre elles concernant des applications aussi diverses que l'interrogation en arabe du web anglophone, la reconnaissance de caractères imprimés et manuscrits, la recherche dans des archives video, l'indexation du langage des signes, la traduction automatique, etc. Le programme de RIAO 2000 comporte des sessions qui portent sur les thèmes suivants: Sessions plénières: - Recherche par le contenu : du texte à la parole, à l'image et à la multimodalité - La Toile et le Livre Electronique - Recherche d'informations radio et télédiffusées Sessions orales et posters: Gestion de documents : - Navigation, adaptation à l'utilisateur et création de documents - Combinaison de l'image et du langage Recherche d'informations: - Internet et la recherche d'information translingue - Systèmes et techniques de recherche d'information - Recherche d'information interactive et multimedia - Méthodes de recherche d'information - Classement et classification - Filtrage, traitement du langage naturel et recherche textuelle - Visualisation de l'information Traitement du langage parlé et de l'audio : - Parole et recherche d'information - Techniques de traitement de la parole et du multimédia - Traitement de l'information musicale Traitement du langage naturel : - Gestion des documents multilingues et traduction automatique - Terminologie - Traitement du langage naturel appliqué au traitement des documents - Méthodes de traitement du langage naturel Traitement d'informations visuelles : - Analyse de documents scannérisés - Techniques de traitement des images et de la video - Indexation, recherche et visualisation de videos - Indexation, recherche et visualisation d'images - Architecture des systèmes, usage et applications - Evaluation et bonnes pratiques: Sessions de tables-rondes: - Accès à l'information translingue - Evaluation des systèmes de recherche d'information dans le monde - Usage des systèmes de recherche d'information Pour plus d'information sur le programme, le lieu de la conférence et les formalités d'inscription, visitez notre site Toile : http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO Ou contactez nous par mél: - Pour les questions scientifiques ou techniques à riao2000 at limsi.fr - Pour les questions pratiques et d'organisation à cidcol at club-internet.fr ------------------------------------- Joseph MARIANI LIMSI-CNRS BP 133 91403 Orsay Cedex (France) Tél.: (33/0) 1 69 85 80 85 Fax: (33/0) 1 69 85 80 88 Email: mariani at limsi.fr Web: http://www.limsi.fr/ **************************************** Karim Chibout LIMSI-CNRS B.P. 133 91403 Orsay Cedex FRANCE telephone: (+33/0) 1.69.85.80.66 telecopie: (+33/0) 1.69.85.80.88 courriel: chibout at limsi.fr http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/chibout/ ******************************************** 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 Thu Feb 3 15:14:52 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:14:52 +0100 Subject: Appel: CIAA 2000 Message-ID: From: Denis.Maurel at ronsar.univ-tours.fr CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata CIAA 2000 (Formerly WIA) http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 July 24-26, 2000 University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada This conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures. Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. In addition, there is a growing number of software systems designed to manipulate automata, regular expressions, grammars, and related structures; examples include FLAP, FADELA, AMORE, FireLite, Automate, Turing's World, FinITE, INR, and Grail. The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving. In conjunction with this conference, there will be two other events at the University of Western Ontario. A one-day symposium entitled "Half Century of Automata Theory" (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~automata) will be held on July 26, 2000, and a workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars, and Related Structures" will be on July 27-29, 2000. SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE We solicit papers and demos on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are requested to submit an eletronic version (in postscript or latex form) or six hard copies of an extended abstract (arriving) by MARCH 16, 2000. An extended abstract should start with the title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and a one-paragraph summary of the results and ideas, to: CIAA2000 at csd.uwo.ca or CIAA 2000 Department of Computer Science University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 The extended abstract should provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance to the conference. The extended abstract should be at most ten (10) pages long using 11-point font with ample margins. We expect the proceedings to appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series after the conference. (See, e.g., LNCS 1260 and LNCS 1436 for the proceedings of the previous conferences.) We will distribute a preproceedings for participants at the conference. DEMOS We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to demonstrate their software should submit a two-page description to the preceding address by March 16, 2000, outlining the design of their system and their computing needs (if any). CIAA 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE (A Tentative list) J.-M. Champarnaud ((Rouen) M. Crochemore (Marne la Vallee) F. Gunthner (Ludwig Maximillian) H. Jurgensen (Potsdam) L. Karttunen (Xerox) D. Maurel (Tours) M. Mohri (AT&T) J.-E. Pin (Paris) K. Salomaa (Queen's) W. Thomas (Aachen) B. Watson (Pretoria) D. Wood (Hong Kong) S. Yu (chair) (Western Ontario) IMPORTANT DATES March 16, 2000 Submission deadline May 2, 2000 Acceptances and rejections sent out June 2, 2000 Submission deadline for preproceedings July 24-25, 2000 Conference dates Sept. 29, 2000 Submission deadline for SV-LNCS Tri-Event Organizing Committee: John Hart (hart at csd.uwo.ca) Helmut Jurgensen (helmut at csd.uwo.ca, co-chair) Lila Kari (lila at csd.uwo.ca) Kai Salomaa (ksalomaa at csd.uwo.ca) Stephen Watt (watt at csd.uwo.ca) Sheng Yu (syu at csd.uwo.ca, co-chair) RELATED WEBSITES Half Century of Automata Theory: "http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~automata" CIAA 2000: "http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000" WIA 99 : "http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wia99/" WIA 98 : "http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia98.html" -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:14:25 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:14:25 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers Message-ID: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Robert Dale" Subject: NLP:Postdoctoral Research Position at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 2/ From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Jobs for 1 Linguist and 2 ESL Curriculum Developers 3/ From: Ezra Black Subject: Computational linguist: at ATR, Nara JAPAN 4/ From: Deb Grier Subject: Conversa 5/ From: Fredrik Westerlund Subject: Lingsoft ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Robert Dale" Subject: NLP:Postdoctoral Research Position at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Macquarie University DIVISION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES Department of Computing Language Technology Group Research Fellow (Full-time, fixed-term) Ref. 18839 The Language Technology Group in Macquarie University's Department of Computing in Sydney, Australia, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work in the area of natural language generation. Applicants must have a PhD in an area closely related to natural language processing or have equivalent experience, and must have a strong publishing record and a demonstrated ability for independent research. Preference will be given to applicants who can demonstrate practical abilities in the construction of linguistic technologies. Some experience in building or using natural language generation tools or systems would be an advantage. All enquiries concerning your application and further information about the position should be referred to Associate Professor Robert Dale on (02) 9850 9528 or e-mail Robert.Dale at mq.edu.au This position is available immediately on a full-time (fixed-term) basis for a period of one year with the possibility of further appointment subject to funding and performance. Salary range: Level B (Lecturer) $49,495 to $58,776 per annum, plus superannuation. (Under review, under a new Enterprise Agreement expected to be made early in 2000.) Applications, including full curriculum vitae and quoting the reference number, visa status, and the names and addresses (including e-mail address) of three referees should be forwarded to the Recruitment Manager, Personnel Office, Macquarie University, NSW 2109 by 25 February 2000. Applications will not be acknowledged unless specifically requested. Equal Employment Opportunity and No Smoking in the Workplace are University Policies. ___________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Jobs for 1 Linguist and 2 ESL Curriculum Developers Ergo Linguistic Technologies currently has job openings for one linguist (full-time) and 2 full-time or 4 part-time (80 hours per week) ESL curriculum developers to work on Software and Internet ITS (Interactive Tutoring Systems) tools. To learn more about the company and the tools you will be working with go to http://www.ergo-ling.com. The Ergo working environment is comfortable and a little casual but it is working with state of the art NLP tools and software. Located at the Manoa Innovation center in Honolulu we are convenient to the University of Hawaii for those with on-going research interests. We also have a beautiful location as well as access to restaurants and shopping. We cannot pay a relocation allowance but the lifestyle in Hawaii is worth the effort to work here. Job descriptions follow: Linguist: Knowledge of Syntax and a knowledge of English Grammar required. Must also be proficient in standard software applications (Word Processors, Internet, Spread Sheets, etc.) Experience teaching ESL grammar classes a plus. Job will entail working with programmers and curriculum developers to improve lexicographical, syntactic, and standard grammar tools made from the Ergo parser. The main project is the development of interactive tutors which use a 3-D character to do interactive question and answer exchanges with users in the areas of ESL, Geography, and Biology. The use of in-house tools as well as standard software required. Temporary for now (six to twelve month project), perhaps long term. ESL Curriculum Developers: Experience teaching ESL and in Curriculum development. Must have a good eye for English grammar. The position entails designing and writing curriculum for Interactive tutors. Job will entail working with programmers and linguists to improve lexicographical, syntactic, and standard grammar tools made from the Ergo parser. The main project is the development of interactive tutors which use a 3-D character to do interactive question and answer exchanges with users in the area of ESL for a stand alone software product and for the Internet. Contact me by email or at the following numbers. Resumes may be sent by email, fax, or regular mail but all jobs start as soon as possible. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich at hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ___________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Ezra Black Subject: Computational linguist: at ATR, Nara JAPAN Mathematician (Probability) / Programmer Job Opportunity Statistical Natural Language Processing ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories Kyoto, Japan ATR in Kyoto, Japan is looking for a talented and experienced mathematician (good probability background) / computer scientist who is interested in coming to Japan and joining an exciting research project in statistical natural language processing. The overall goal of the project is speech-to-speech translation between Japanese and a variety of different languages, including English and French. The research group which the candidate would become part of has developed and is refining a natural language parsing system based on statistical machine learning algorithms. The job begins ideally in April/May, 2000 and lasts for 1-2 years. Later start dates are possible, though not a first choice. A qualified candidate must have the Ph.D. degree, preferably math, physics, computer science; with extensive programming experience and expertise in C++. Ability to innovate approaches to applied mathematical problems in the area of probability required. Experience with statistical modelling within general pattern recognition field also important. Familiarity with natural language field a plus but not absoutely necessary. Candidate should know UNIX well and in general be a highly expert programmer. This is not a job for those who are theoreticians only, but rather is for someone who is equally at home with issues of statistical modelling theory, experimental method, and detailed coding matters. Extremely stimulating research environment; candidate working directly with top researchers; opportunities for travel within Asia; salary can range from excellent to poor, depending on details of candidate's background. If interested, please send cv to: black at itl.atr.co.jp. Thank you. ___________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Deb Grier Subject: Conversa Conversa - Conversationalizing the Internet. Delivering solutions for interacting with computers, the Internet and communication devices by voice. Conversa brings the natural and universal interface of voice to PCs, PDAs, cellular phones and other electronic devices. By adding the human element to computing - and de-emphasizing typing, mouse clicking and touchtone dialing - we're making it easier for people to adopt conversational computing into their everyday lives. Our goal is to become the global standard for end-to-end solutions for internet/web based Conversational Computing(R). Visit our website at www.conversa.com! We're a pre-IPO start up in Redmond, Washington. We have an entrepreneurial, casual work environment where successes both great and small are celebrated, excellent benefits (including stock options), lots of parties, concierge service, fully paid health insurance for the entire family and we encourage innovation through outstanding reward programs. If this is your kind of company, we should talk. Please submit your resumes to: speechtechnologistscareers at conversa.com Speech Scientist The successful candidate will help improve and create core technical resources and algorithms in the areas of speech recognition and> text-to-speech (TTS). The candidate will help to develop and apply objective techniques to measure technology improvements under conditions that reflect Conversa's products and markets. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Work with existing text-to-speech or speech recognition algorithms to extend and improve them * Develop new algorithms for text-to-speech or speech recognition * Extend algorithms and supporting resources for new languages * Consult with developers on optimal application of the technology * Consult with marketing to access potential new applications * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * DSP, Statistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Search, algorithm design * Knowledge of signal analysis tools * C/C++, DSP programming, Windows, Unix * Knowledge of multiple languages beneficial Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field * At least 2 years experience with speech technology * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus Additional Information: * Able to work with limited supervision * Able to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, and marketers * Adaptable and Creative * Self-motivated * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Software Engineer-Prosody The successful candidate will assist in the creation of prosodic models for multiple languages used by Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech engine. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Create prosodic models for multiple languages to be used by the text-to-speech system * Extend prosody unit as necessary for specific languages * Perform and any other duties which may be assigned or necessary. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform * Thorough understanding of prosody and phonology * Additional knowledge of linguistics or natural language processing a strong plus * Knowledge of multiple languages a plus Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Linguistics * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus Additional Information: * Able to work with limited supervision * Strong problem-solving skills * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Software Engineer-Text Normalization The successful candidate will extend the text normalization component of Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech and speech recognition system, including adapting the text normalization unit to process new languages. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Extend the text normalization unit to more flexibly process written text * Specify text normalization rules for processing new languages * Create other text processing components as necessary for specific languages * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Familiarity with basics of compiler design * Knowledge of basics of phonology * Strong C programming skills on Windows platforms * Knowledge of multiple languages and their writing conventions a strong plus Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * B.S., M.S., or equivalent in Computer Science or related field * Previous experience with natural language processing a strong plus * Previous experience with speech applications a plus Additional Information: * Able to work with limited supervision * Strong problem-solving skills * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Software Engineer-Time Domain The successful candidate will create tools to analyze and manage recorded speech data. The candidate will create automated scripts for extracting data from large speech corpora and use digital signal processing techniques to adjust speech data. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Create tools for editing and managing large amounts of recorded speech data * Perform and any other duties which may be assigned or necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform * Strong understanding of DSP and signal analysis tools * Knowledge of acoustic phonetics or phonology a strong plus Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * B.S., M.S., or equivalent in Computer Science or related field * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus * Ability to measure, publicize and promote improvements within the company Additional Information: * Able to work with limited supervision * Strong problem-solving skills * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Speech Engineer-Lexicon The successful candidate will edit and enhance the lexical data files used by Conversa's proprietary speech engine for multiple languages. The candidate will also be responsible for part-of-speech training for different languages, and may assist with the training of other language components. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Verify and correct data in lexical data files for multiple languages * Write scripts for automating dictionary updates * Edit part-of-speech corpora to ensure the successful training of the part-of-speech tagger * Oversee part-of-speech training * Perform any other linguistic duties which may be assigned or necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Fluency in at least one major European or East Asian language. Fluency in two languages preferred. * Thorough knowledge of phonetics, phonology, or morphology. * Familiarity with at least one text editor, including use of macros. * Willingness to learn script programming. Previous experience with script writing a strong plus. * Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * M.A., Ph.D., or equivalent in Linguistics or a specific language. * Previous experience with computer lexical work a strong plus. * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus. Additional Information: * Able to work with limited supervision * Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously * Meticulous and detail-oriented * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Speech Engineer-Training The successful candidate will train Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech and speech recognition system from recorded speech corpora to accommodate new languages. Training will include the selection of an appropriate phoneme set, training of text-to-speech and speech recognition data files, and training of spelling-to-pronunciation rule set. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Establish an appropriate phone set for each new language * Design and conduct experiments to improve engine performance * Use in-house tools to train text-to-speech and speech recognition data files from recorded speech corpora * Use in-house tools to train spelling-to-pronunciation data files * Perform training of other data files as necessary * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Thorough knowledge of acoustic phonetics and phonology * Knowledge of multiple languages a strong plus * Familiarity with running programs in a Windows 98/NT environment Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications * M.A., Ph.D., or equivalent in Acoustic Phonetics, Phonology, or Morphology * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus Additional Information * Able to work with limited supervision * Strong problem-solving skills * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Software Engineer-Morphology The successful candidate will create a morphology engine for use in Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech and speech recognition engine. The candidate will also create data files for a variety of languages ranging from European to East Asian. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Create and test a language-independent morphology engine for predicting pronunciations and parts-of-speech of inflected words. * Train the morphology engine to accommodate multiple languages. * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Solid understanding of morphology * Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform * Familiarity with basics of linguistics * Experience with natural language processing a strong plus * Knowledge of multiple languages a plus Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: * M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus Additional Information * Able to work with limited supervision * Self-motivated * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington Natural Language Processing Scientist The successful candidate will help improve and create core technical resources and algorithms in Natural Language Processing as needed in the development of Conversational Computing. The candidate will help create advances in language modeling, semantic processing, dialog modeling, and knowledge representation to improve and extend Conversa's products. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: * Work with existing algorithms to extend and improve them * Create next generation interfaces for conversation creation * Develop new algorithms for semantic processing and dialog modeling * Extend algorithms and supporting resources for new languages * Consult with developers on optimal application of the technology * Consult with marketing to access potential new applications Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * NLP, Statistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Search, algorithm design * Experience with automatic learning and syntactic tagging systems * Knowledge of existing NLP tools desired * C/C++, DSP programming, Windows, Unix * Knowledge of multiple languages beneficial Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications * Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related field * At least 2 years experience in Natural Language Processing * Previous experience with speech processing and applications a plus * Ability to measure, publicize and promote improvements within the company Additional Information * Able to work with limited supervision * Able to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, and marketers * Adaptable and Creative * Self-motivated * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington ___________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: Fredrik Westerlund Subject: Lingsoft Postes ouverts: 4 offres 1) Linguistes fran?ais La soci?t? Lingsoft, Inc. recherche un ou deux sp?cialistes en linguistique fran?aise d?s que possible ? ses localit?s situ?es ? Helsinki. Nous cherchons des candidats ayant de solides connaissances linguistiques pour le d?veloppement d'un nombre d'outils. Les candidats devront avoir les comp?tences suivantes : fran?ais langue maternelle formation universitaire (pr?f?rable au moins de niveau de ma?trise) en linguistique ou en langue fran?aise ou connaissances correspondantes sp?cialisation dans une des domaines suivantes : lexicographie, morphologie, syntaxe, semantique, pragmatique experience rudimentaire d'informatique anglais courant Par ailleurs, les comp?tences suivantes sont pr?f?rables : exp?rience d'Unix connaissances d'autres langues exp?rience de traitement automatique des langues ou connaissances de linguistique computationelle (formation fournie en place) Il est pr?f?rable que les candidats viennent vivre ? la r?gion d'Helsinki, Finlande, sinon d?j? domiciles de cette r?gion. Les salaires sont comp?titives, et la soci?t? peut initialement assister ? la recherche de logement. Les candidats sont pri?s d'adresser leur application (par pr?f?rence en anglais) et un curriculum vitae d?taill? ? : Sjur N. Moshagen Linguistic Manager moshagen at lingsoft.fi Lingsoft, Inc. Tehtaankatu 27-29 D FIN-00150 Helsinki Finlande 2) Linguistes portugais La soci?t? Lingsoft, Inc. recherche un ou deux sp?cialistes en linguistique portugais d?s que possible ? ses localit?s situ?es ? Helsinki. Nous cherchons des candidats ayant de solides connaissances linguistiques pour le d?veloppement d'un nombre d'outils. Les candidats devront avoir les comp?tences suivantes : portugais langue maternelle formation universitaire (pr?f?rable au moins de niveau de ma?trise) en linguistique ou en langue portugaise ou connaissances correspondantes sp?cialisation dans une des domaines suivantes : lexicographie, morphologie, syntaxe, semantique, pragmatique experience rudimentaire d'informatique anglais courant Par ailleurs, les comp?tences suivantes sont pr?f?rables : exp?rience d'Unix connaissances d'autres langues exp?rience de traitement automatique des langues ou connaissances de linguistique computationelle (formation fournie en place) Il est pr?f?rable que les candidats viennent vivre ? la r?gion d'Helsinki, Finlande, sinon d?j? domiciles de cette r?gion. Les salaires sont comp?titives, et la soci?t? peut initialement assister ? la recherche de logement. Les candidats sont pri?s d'adresser leur application (par pr?f?rence en anglais) et un curriculum vitae d?taill? ? : Sjur N. Moshagen Linguistic Manager moshagen at lingsoft.fi Lingsoft, Inc. Tehtaankatu 27-29 D FIN-00150 Helsinki Finlande 3) Linguiste d'afrikaans La soci?t? Lingsoft, Inc. recherche un sp?cialiste en linguistique afrikaans d?s que possible ? ses localit?s situ?es ? Helsinki. Nous cherchons des candidats ayant de solides connaissances linguistiques pour le d?veloppement d'un nombre d'outils. Les candidats devront avoir les comp?tences suivantes : afrikaans langue maternelle formation universitaire (pr?f?rable au moins de niveau de ma?trise) en linguistique ou en langue afrikaans ou connaissances correspondantes sp?cialisation dans une des domaines suivantes : lexicographie, morphologie, syntaxe, semantique, pragmatique experience rudimentaire d'informatique anglais courant Par ailleurs, les comp?tences suivantes sont pr?f?rables : exp?rience d'Unix connaissances d'autres langues exp?rience de traitement automatique des langues ou connaissances de linguistique computationelle (formation fournie en place) Il est pr?f?rable que les candidats viennent vivre ? la r?gion d'Helsinki, Finlande, sinon d?j? domiciles de cette r?gion. Les salaires sont comp?titives, et la soci?t? peut initialement assister ? la recherche de logement. Les candidats sont pri?s d'adresser leur application (par pr?f?rence en anglais) et un curriculum vitae d?taill? ? : Sjur N. Moshagen Linguistic Manager moshagen at lingsoft.fi Lingsoft, Inc. Tehtaankatu 27-29 D FIN-00150 Helsinki Finlande 4) Linguiste catalan La soci?t? Lingsoft, Inc. recherche un sp?cialiste en linguistique catalan d?s que possible ? ses localit?s situ?es ? Helsinki. Nous cherchons des candidats ayant de solides connaissances linguistiques pour le d?veloppement d'un nombre d'outils. Les candidats devront avoir les comp?tences suivantes : catalan langue maternelle formation universitaire (pr?f?rable au moins de niveau de ma?trise) en linguistique ou en langue catalane ou connaissances correspondantes sp?cialisation dans une des domaines suivantes : lexicographie, morphologie, syntaxe, semantique, pragmatique experience rudimentaire d'informatique anglais courant Par ailleurs, les comp?tences suivantes sont pr?f?rables : exp?rience d'Unix connaissances d'autres langues exp?rience de traitement automatique des langues ou connaissances de linguistique computationelle (formation fournie en place) Il est pr?f?rable que les candidats viennent vivre ? la r?gion d'Helsinki, Finlande, sinon d?j? domiciles de cette r?gion. Les salaires sont comp?titives, et la soci?t? peut initialement assister ? la recherche de logement. Les candidats sont pri?s d'adresser leur application (par pr?f?rence en anglais) et un curriculum vitae d?taill? ? : Sjur N. Moshagen Linguistic Manager moshagen at lingsoft.fi Lingsoft, Inc. Tehtaankatu 27-29 D FIN-00150 Helsinki Finlande -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:14:54 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:14:54 +0100 Subject: Appel: DCAGRS-2000 Message-ID: From: helmut at csd.uwo.ca Please forward this to whoever might be interested. Please excuse multiple mailings -- we are trying to review our mailing lists. Second Call: DCAGRS 2000 Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures Submissions concerning the descriptional complexity of automata, grammars and related structures are invited for a workshop to be held in London, Ontario, on 27--29 July, 2000. Papers on applications of such issues, for instance in the fields of software or hardware testing, systems modelling as well demonstrations of systems related to these issues are also welcome. A first workshop on these topics, DCAGRS99 was held in Magdeburg Germany in July, 1999. DCAGRS 2000 will be part of a three-conference event, held at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, in the week of July 24 to 29, 2000. -- CIAA 2000, the Conference on the Implementation and Application of Automata, held on 24--25 July. -- Half Century of Automata Theory, held on 26 July. -- DCAGRS 2000, held on 27--29 July. Currently, we are discussing to add an informal workshop on coding theory to be held on 31 July and 1 August. For more information about these events, see further below or visit any of the following www-sites: www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs/triconf.html and follow the links from there. The DCAGRS 2000 deadlines are as follows: -- 16 March 2000, submission of papers -- 15 April 2000, notification of authors -- 1 May 2000, submission of demo proposals -- 1 July 2000, submission of final copy for pre-proceedings -- 27--29 July 2000, workshop Details regarding the submission form and procedures are available on the www at www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs If you have difficulties accessing the www we can send you the information by email. In that case, please send your request to boldt at cs.uni-potsdam.de (Oliver Boldt) Web pages regarding DCAGRS 2000 will be available at www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs Also information regarding accomodation, tourist attractions, and travel will be provided there. Information on the Tri-conference week and related events will be available at www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs/triconf.html Both sites are accessible now; however, some information may only become available at a later date. Registration fees: We are still working on budget details. There will be the following options for partcipants: -- all three events -- CIAA and Half Century -- DCAGRS and Half Century -- Half Century The coding theory workshop -- if it materializes, is likely not to require a registration fee. DCAGRS is sponsored by the IFIP WG 1.2 Several people planning to attend have expressed the wish that we should plan an excursion to either the Stratford Festival or some of the beautiful natural sites in the area. To organize such a trip we shall need to know approximately what the number of particpants would be. Details will be made available on the WWW. Conference chair for DCAGRS 2000: Helmut Jurgensen Background regarding the tri-conference week: In 1965 a conference on "Systems and Computer Science" was held at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. The list of participants included Hartmanis, Brzozowski, McNaughton, Arbib, Elgot, Gorn, Robinson, Amarel, Mesarovic, Windeknecht. The conference was chaired by John Hart, the first chairman of the new Department of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario -- John Hart has agreed to be one of the tri-event organizers. At WIA98 in Rouen, the predecessor of CIAA, it was suggested to hold a conference on reminiscences and visions of people working in automaton theory. This idea was further discussed and then agreed upon at WIA99 in Potsdam at DCAGRS99 in Magdeburg. The following scientists will speak at the Half-Century conference: -- J. A. Brzozowski -- S. Greibach -- M. Harrison -- J. Hartmanis -- J. Hopcroft -- W. Kuich -- R. McNaughton -- M. Nivat -- M. Rabin -- G. Rosenberg -- A. Salomaa Registration for DCAGRS 2000 will include registration for the "Half Century of Automata Theory". DCAGRS was first held in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1999. CIAA used to be called WIA; WIA was first held London, Canada, in 1996 and 1997, in Rouen, France, in 1998 and in Potsdam, Germany, in 1999. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:14:56 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:14:56 +0100 Subject: Appel: 2ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshops Message-ID: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: Syntactic and Semantic Complexity 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: Automatic Summarization ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: Syntactic and Semantic Complexity Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in Natural Language Processing Systems Workshop to be held in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000 Date: Sunday, April 30 2000 Seattle, Washington. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the development of robust natural language processing systems. A common methodology used in building these systems has been to analyze a sample of the data available (either manually, or automatically for training statistical systems), build statistical/heuristical schemas based upon the analysis, and test the system on a blind sample of the data. Due to this commonly used paradigm, an important area of research that has not been given the attention it deserves is the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity faced by these systems in the tasks they perform. At the AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Question Answering Systems, the problem of semantic complexity, a topic of a 90 minutes panel, motivated a lot of interest and discussion. To continue the investigation of this important issue, in this workshop, we will address the question of complexity as it pertains to the syntax and semantics of natural language. In particular, the workshop will seek to address the following areas: 1) How can we model syntactic and semantic complexity for formal models of natural language? 2) How does complexity impact acquisition of semantic and conceptual information? 3) How does syntactic and semantic complexity impact document classification in information and text retrieval tasks? 4) How do statistical clustering approaches compare to knowledge-based approaches at partitioning and quantifying the semantic space in a document set? 5) Concerning NLP systems that are deployed in the field, how can we quantify the information extraction task and QA task in ways similar to what is currently done with IR tasks and algorithms? 6) How does the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity impact the evaluation of such systems? 7) Can syntactic and semantic complexity coupled with a history of the past performance of a system be used to predict future performance of the system on a different data set? The workshop invites short papers, full-length papers, proposals for panel discussions, and position statements that deal with any aspect of syntactic and/or semantic complexity of NLP systems. In particular, the workshop is interested in addressing the following topics: - estimation of the syntactic and semantic complexity of specific NLP tasks - semantic complexity and world knowledge - role of syntactic and semantic complexity in system design and testing - syntactic and semantic complexity and its role in the evaluation of NLP systems - use of syntactic and semantic complexity as a performance predictor - relationship between syntactic and semantic complexity FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions should consist of either a short paper (2000 words or less, including references), a position statement (2000 words or less, including references), or a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, the type of paper (short/position/full), the word count, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, and email. Proposals for panels should consist of a short (upto 500 words) description of the proposed panel along with the names of the proposed panelists. Papers and proposals for panel discussions may be submitted by submitting three hard copies or one soft copy (ASCII, or PS) to: Amit Bagga General Electric CRD Room K1-5C38B 1 Research Circle Niskayuna, NY 12309. USA phone: 1-518-387-7077 email: bagga at crd.ge.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 14 Notification of acceptance of panels : February 21 Notification of acceptance of papers : February 28 Camera ready papers due: March 13 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Co-Chairs: Amit Bagga General Electric Corporate Research and Development P.O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 bagga at crd.ge.com 518-387-7077 (voice) 518-387-6845 (fax) James Pustejovsky Computer Science Department and Volen Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254-9110 jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu 781-736-2709 (voice) 781-736-2741 (fax) Wlodek Zadrozny IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 30 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532 wlodz at us.ibm.com 914-784-7835 (voice) 914-784-7455 (fax) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Amit Bagga - GE CRD Branimir Boguraev - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center J-P Chanod - Xerox, Grenoble Shalom Lappin - Kings College, London Aravind Joshi - University of Pennsylvania Larry Moss - Indiana Rohit Parikh - CUNY Adam Pease - Teknowledge James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University Wlodek Zadrozny - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center ___________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop 2nd Call for Papers Second Call for Papers Workshop on Automatic Summarization (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000 sponsored by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) MITRE Corporation Sunday, April 30, 2000 Seattle, Washington, USA 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/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, and the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98. 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. ANLP/NAACL'2000 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem. 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. Multilingual Text Summarization 2. Generation for Summarization 3. Topic Identification for Summarization 4. Multidocument Summarization 5. Evaluation and Test/Training Corpora 6. Integration with web and IR access II. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2000 Notification of acceptance for papers: March 1, 2000 Camera ready papers due: March 13, 2000 Workshop date: April 30, 2000 III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style (http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000/latex/index.html) 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). 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 "ANLP-NAACL2000 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: "ANLP-NAACL2000 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. IV. Organizing Committee: Udo Hahn University of Freiburg hahn at coling.uni-freiburg.de Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl at isi.edu Inderjeet Mani MITRE imani at mitre.org Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor radev at umich.edu V. Program Committee: Elisabeth Andre DFKI GmbH Branimir Boguraev IBM Research Chris Buckley SabIR Research Michael Elhadad Ben Gurion University Takahiro Fukushima Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute Hongyan Jing Columbia University Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology Mark Maybury MITRE Vibhu Mittal Just Research Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam University Akitoshi Okumura NEC Chris Paice Lancaster University Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge Tomek Strzalkowski GE CRD Simone Teufel University of Edinburgh Benjamin Tsou City University of Hong Kong -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:14:59 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:14:59 +0100 Subject: Appel. LREC Workshop Message-ID: From: Effie Ananiadou Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000) Athens, Greece Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation Integration of domain specific knowledge sources in NLP applications Saturday 3rd June 2000, 09.00-13.30 FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.salford.ac.uk/isrc/ananiadou/lrec.html Workshop Description (summary) ============================== Access to good quality domain specific knowledge is indispensable to improve various types of NLP applications such as information extraction, information retrieval, automatic summarisation etc. The aims of the workshop are: - to discuss general methodologies to integrate existing resources developed for non-NLP purposes into general linguistic resources; - to provide an inter-disciplinary forum in which researchers from the areas of ontology, terminology, data bases, lexical linguistic resources, exchange their views and experience of using, re-using and converting existing resources as linguistic resources for NLP applications. Key Topics (indicative list) ============================= -How much lexical tuning is required when we use domain specific thesauri and ontologies? - Differences between domain specific resources (conceptual) and linguistic (semantic) resources. - Is there a difference except for specificity and limitation? - The role of a common top level ontology which can be used to integrate domain specific knowledge sources into general linguistic resources. -Organisation of ontological structures. Are semantic relations such as hyponymy, meronymy etc. sufficient for domain specific ontologies and applications? - The impact of NLP and terminology gathering on the building of scientific databases. How we can convert knowledge in existing databases into linguistic resources. Important dates =============== Extended abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2000 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2000 Camera ready papers due: May 1, 2000 Workshop date: 3rd June 2000 Organisers =========== Sophia Ananiadou Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences University of Salford Newton Building, Salford M5 4WT United Kingdom and Junichi Tsujii Department of Information Science University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 Japan Programme committee ==================== Sophia Ananiadou, University of Salford, UK Eduard Hovy,Information Sciences Institute, USC, US Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, Italy Piek Vossen, Sail-Labs, Belgium Antonio Sanfilippo, European Commission, DG XIII Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan Submissions ============= Paper submissions should consist of an extended abstract (1500 words). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author, including email, phone and fax. The authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their papers (ps or rtf). Send your electronic submission to Sophia Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk). FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.salford.ac.uk/isrc/ananiadou/lrec.html -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Feb 3 15:15:58 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:15:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Machine Learning for Information Extraction Message-ID: From: Thierry Poibeau Workshop on Machine Learning for Information Extraction (Call for submission) ===================================================================== Monday 21 August 2000 For workshop information, see: http://ecate.itc.it:1025/cirave/ecai-workshop.html For ECAI information, see: http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/ to be held in conjunction with the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), BERLIN, HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY Fabio Ciravegna (contact) ITC-irst Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Roberto Basili Universitity of Roma Tor Vergata, Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield The exponential increase in the quantity of textual information held in digital archives has fuelled growing interest in computer-assisted techniques for information extraction from text (IE). IE systems, as understood by the applied natural language processing community, identify predetermined relevant information in text documents from some specific domain. Once extracted, the information can be used for a number of purposes: database population, text indexing, information highlighting, and so on. While significant progress in constructing such systems has been made, stimulated in particular by the DARPA Message Understanding Conferences, by general agreement the main barriers to wider use and commercialisation of IE are the difficulties in adapting systems to new applications and domains. Porting IE systems is generally both difficult and expensive, given the current technology, since changes generally need to be carried out manually by highly skilled experts. Moreover some sources (e.g. Web pages) may change very rapidly in both format and content. Tracking all the changes and continuously re-adapting IE systems is very expensive or even unfeasible if done manually. To address these difficulties there has been increasing interest in applying machine learning (ML) techniques to Information Extraction from text. Tasks to which ML has been applied include template design, template filling, named entity recognition and resource compilation (e.g. lexicons, knowledge structures, grammars). The kind of sources analysed range from structured texts (e.g. Web pages) to semi-structured texts (e.g. rental ads) to free texts (e.g. newspaper articles). ML techniques which have been used range from symbolic (e.g. inductive logic programming, transformation-based learning, etc.) to numerical methods (e.g. naive-Bayes, maximum entropy, etc.).However, the current situation is characterized by isolated experiments in which individual ML techniques are applied to specific IE tasks. What is lacking is a unifying view of the issue of adopting ML techniques for IE. The proposed workshop aims to establish a forum for discussing current and future trends of the application of ML to IE, with a specific focus on the identification of a unifying view of the issue. The workshop has the following goals: * to bring together communities of researchers that address the ML for IE problem from different perspectives (e.g., natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, information integration); * to deepen the European IE community's understanding of the state of the art; * to identify further IE-related problems for which ML techniques might be appropriate. Particularly welcomed are contributions concerning: * descriptions of techniques adaptable for different languages, tasks and/or text typologies; * proposals of unifying views on the current or future application of ML to IE. In the interest of promoting as much discussion as possible, the number of paper presentations will be limited in favour of panels and posters. A final panel will discuss the research agenda for the coming years. Attendance will be limited to 30 participants Formatting Guidelines Follow the formatting guidelines for ECAI papers . Important dates Submission deadline: 12 March 2000 Notification of acceptance: 7 May 2000 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due: 7 June 2000 For any information please contact Fabio Ciravegna (cirave at irst.itc.it) -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: message.footer URL: From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Feb 9 11:06:23 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:06:23 +0100 Subject: Appel: LT and Grammar Implementation (ESSLLI Workshop) Message-ID: From: Detmar Meurers ESSLLI'2000 Workshop on LINGUISTIC THEORY AND GRAMMAR IMPLEMENTATION August 14 - 18, 2000 A workshop held as part of the Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2000 August 6-18, 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ** ORGANIZERS: Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers (Universitaet Tuebingen) Shuly Wintner (University of Pennsylvania) DESCRIPTION: Partially in response to data-oriented methods, grammar-based approaches to Natural Language Processing in recent years have made significant advances in terms of linguistic coverage, wealth of analysis, efficiency of processing and grammar engineering techniques. The workshop is intended as a forum for this ongoing work in declarative, constraint- and resource-based approaches, informed by linguistic theory. It will cover various aspects of the computational implementation of grammars based on linguistic knowledge, and in particular address: - grammar coverage as a major emphasis in practical projects - efficiency of processing (e.g., grammar compilation techniques, abstract machine implementations) - implementations of novel grammar architectures and mechanisms (e.g., glue languages, defaults, optimality-theoretic constraint ranking, underspecification) - hybrid architectures combining shallow parsing and deep analysis (e.g., finite state pre-processors for deep analysis) - grammar development tools (e.g., test methodology, profiling, visualization tools, grammar debugging and validation) - modularity in grammar design (e.g., definition of modules in grammars, separate and incremental compilation of grammars, architectures for grammar organization) - mathematical, logical and computational aspects of linguistic formalisms (e.g., semantics of linguistic formalisms, adaptation of techniques from programming languages to linguistic formalisms) SUBMISSION: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are invited to submit a paper. Electronic submissions are highly encouraged (preferably as plain ASCII or Postscript). Submissions should not exceed 10 (A4 or letter) pages, typeset in 10-12 points, with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins. Submitted papers should be anonymous and be accompanied by an e-mail listing the following details: - Title - Authors' names and affiliation - Address - E-mail addresses All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee. The accepted papers will be made available in a summer school reader. If sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, we intend to publish them in an edited volume. Submissions should be sent before March 15, 2000 to one of the following two organizers: Detmar Meurers Shuly Wintner Universitaet Tuebingen Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft University of Pennsylvania Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A D-72074 Tuebingen Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 Germany USA dm at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de shuly at linc.cis.upenn.edu If electronic submission is impossible, please send four copies of the paper to one of these two organizers. Informal enquiries by e-mail to the organizers are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES: Mar 15, 2000: Deadline for submissions Apr 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance May 15, 2000: Final version due Aug 14, 2000: Start of workshop FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI'2000 please visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/ 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 Feb 9 11:08:52 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:52 +0100 Subject: Conf: Multimedia/MultiModal LRs (LREC workshop) Message-ID: From: Jeff ALLEN ---------------------------------------------------------------- First EAGLE/ISLE Workshop on Meta-descriptions and Annotation Schemas for Multimodal/Multimedia Language Resources LREC 2000 pre-conference workshop, Athens, Greece, 29/30 May 2000 Human languages - signed and spoken - can be documented with the sounds the speakers produce, the gestures they make and the meanings perceived by an annotating observer. This information can be described as an annotated multi-media language resource. Ideally, such resources should be structured in a consistent and standardised way, so that the data collected can easily be accessed, exchanged and assembled into coherent and remotely accessible archives. The workshop forms part of an EC/NSF funded initiative to generate suitable standards and guidelines, and will address current trends and discuss structures which could simplify the creation and use of annotated multimodal/multimedia resources. See http://www.mpi.nl/world/ISLE/ISLE-01.html for complete information. Contact: Peter Wittenburg Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics peter.wittenburg at mpi.nl ----------------------------------- ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.elda.fr/ *** See the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2000 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html *** 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 Feb 9 11:08:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: Coling Tutorial Proposal Message-ID: From: Michelle Carnell COLING 2000 *** REMINDER *** DEADLINE for TUTORIAL proposals: 15 February 2000 The Coling 2000 Tutorial Programmme Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for Coling 2000, which is to be held in Nancy, Saarbruecken and Luxembourg, July 29-August 6th 2000. The tutorials will be held in Nancy, July 29th-30th, immediately preceding the main conference. Bus facilities will be provided to go to Saarbruecken on Sunday 30th July. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its core content can be covered in a three hours tutorial slot (including a 30 minute break). 6-hour tutorial slots may be possible as well. It is hoped that it will be possible to accomodate a large number of high quality proposals for tutorials. However, proposers are encouraged to submit as early as possible to ensure that appropriate arrangements can be made to accomodate all accepted tutorial sessions. Electronic submission would be greatly appreciated. ---> For details, please refer to (http://www.coling.org/tutorials.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Computational Linguistics Homepage: (http://www.coling.org) COLING 2000 will take place in three countries in the heart of Europe. - Nancy (Tutorials 29/30 July, 2000) - Saarbr?cken (Conference 31 July - 4 August, 2000) - Luxembourg (Workshops 5/6 August 2000) Transportation between the three almost neighbouring sites will be provided. COLING 2000 will be the ideal place to - present your latest results at the conference and workshops - demo your systems to colleagues - study new trends and techniques in the tutorials - exhibit your language technologies for the 21st century - hire needed specialists before somebody else does 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 Feb 9 11:08:55 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:55 +0100 Subject: Conf: JADT-2000 Message-ID: From: JADT 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JADT 2000 CONFERENCE PROGRAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please find hereafter the program of the 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2000), that will take place in Lausanne from Thursday March 9 to Saturday March 11, 2000. Resgistration can be done either on-line at: http://liawww.epfl.ch/~jadt2000/gb/inscription.html or by contacting the organizing committee at: JADT 2000 c/o Martin Rajman EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse T?l : +41 21 693 27 35 Fax : +41 21 693 52 25 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch Web : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday March 9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9h00 Registration ("la Coupole") ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h00 Welcome M. Rajman (President of the Organization Committee) - C. Malaguerra (Director of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office) (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h30 Invited R.H. Baayen (University of Nijmegen & Max Planck Talk Institute for Psycholinguistics) (amphi. Word Frequency Distributions CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h15 Coffee Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h30 L. Lebart Plenary Panorama de l'ADT ? la veille du 3i?me mill?naire --------- session ---------------------------------------------------- 12h00 (amphi CO2) D. Labb? Analyse des donn?es textuelles et statistique lexicale ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12h30 Lunch (restaurant Le Copernic) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Retrieval Political Discourse (I) (I) (room CO 123) (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14h30 J. Savoy & J. Picard P. Marchand Recherche documentaire "Je n'accuse pas, je pose sur le Web: Les des questions !"- Analyse hyperliens sont-ils des interventions des vraiment utiles ? journalistes durant des campagnes ?lectorales --------- Parallel ---------------------------------------------------- 14h50 sessions P. Bouillon, R. Baud, G. D. Labb? & D. Moni?re (amphi. Robert & P. Ruch La connexion intertextuelle CO2 and Indexing by statistical - Application au discours room CO tagging gouvernemental qu?b?cois --------- 123) ---------------------------------------------------- 15h10 R. Schneider & I. Renz S. Carbone The Relevance of Le parole e le armi Frequency Lists for Error Correction and Robust Lemmatization ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15h30 M. Kerbaol & J.Y. J.-C. Deroubaix & C. Gobin Bansard Le roi r?gne, il ne gouverne S?lection de la pas. Il s'adresse au peuple bibliographie des belge. maladies rares par la technique du Vocabulaire Commun Minimum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15h50 Coffee Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16h00 Poster and Sofware Demos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Language Statistical Methods (I) Processing for TDA (I) (room CO 123) (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17h00 A. Dister B.K. Tsou, T.B.Y. Lai, R?flexions sur S.W.K. Chan, L.Y.L. Cheung, l'homographie et la K.T. Ko & G.K.K. Chan d?sambigu?sation des Statistically-based Model formes les plus for Computer-Aided fr?quentes Transcription Application ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17h20 A. Mari & P. F. J. Tweedie & R.H. Baayen Parallel Saint-Dizier Mixture models for word sessions Nature et formation de frequency distributions (amphi. classes s?mantiques de CO2 and verbes pour l'extraction room CO de connaissances dans 123) des textes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17h40 J. Ellman & J. Tait F. Bavaud On the Generality of An Information Theoretical Thesaurally derived approach to Factor Analysis Lexical Links ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18h00 N. V. Loukachevitch & A. Tuzzi & F. J. Tweedie B.V. Dobrov The Best of Both Worlds: Thesaurus as a Tool for Combining MOCAR and MCDISP Automatic Detection of Lexical Cohesion in Texts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday March 10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Methods, Tools and Surveys and Stylometry and Software (I) Open-ended Literary Texts (amphi. CO2) Questions (I) (room CO 123) (room CO 124) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9h00 S. Bolasco S. Macchia & M. I. Moreno-Torres TALTAC: un D'Orazio Una medida environnement pour Analysis of cuatitativa de la l'exploitation de textual data for diversidad ressources integrating an estil?stica: statistiques et automated coding Applicaci?n al linguistiques dans environment an?lisis de l'analyse system and textos espa?oles textuelle. Un building a exemple system to d'application au monitor the discours politique quality of its results ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9h20 A. Xanthos M. Fraire E. Evrard Entropizer 1.1 : Analisi dei Dati L'hexam?tre de un outil a Tre-vie delle Claudien Parallel informatique pour Risposte a sessions l'analyse Domande Aperte e (amphi. s?quentielle Indicatori CO2, Empirici -------- room CO ----------------------------------------------------- 9h40 123 J.-M. M. B?cue-Bertaut M. Kastberg and room Torres-Moreno, P. & J. Pag?s Sj?blom & E. CO 124) Vel?squez-Morales Analyse Brunet & J.-G. Meunier factorielle La th?matique - Classph?res: un multiple Essai de rep?rage r?seau incr?mental intra-tableaux. automatique dans pour Application ? l'oeuvre d'un l'apprentissage l'analyse ?crivain non supervis? simultan?e de appliqu? ? la plusieurs classification de questions textes ouvertes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h00 M. Brugidou, C. F. della Ratta & S. Piron Escoffier, H. A. Morrone La diversit? Folch, S. Lahlou, Du texte aux g?n?rique D. Le Roux, P. variables : les a-t-elle Morin-Andreani & contribution de caract?ris? une G. Piat l'analyse p?riode de la Les facteurs de textuelle des litt?rature belge choix et questions ? d'utilisation de ouvertes ? logiciels l'analyse d'Analyse de traditionnelle Donn?es Textuelles des donn?es ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h20 Coffee Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h45 Invited C. Baudelot (ENS, Paris) Talk Faut-il travailler pour ?tre heureux ? (amphi CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h30 Demos (room CO 122) & Posters (couloirs CO) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12h30 Lunch (restaurant Le Copernic) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Language Statistical Methods (II) Processing for TDA (II) (room CO 123) (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14h00 B. Habert, G. Illouz, P. N. Turenne Lafon, S. Fleury, H. Term clusters evaluation by Folch, S. Heiden & S. Montecarlo sampling Pr?vost Profilage de textes: cadre de travail et exp?rience ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14h20 Parallel M. Zimina Y. Cottavoz & M. Moine sessions Alignement de textes Comparaison de corpus de (amphi. bilingues par tailles diff?rentes : CO2 and classification ascendante l'apport de techniques room CO hi?rarchique d'?chantillonnage --------- 123) ------------------------------------------------------- 14h40 S. Vietri & A. Elia R. Basili, A. Moschitti & M. Electronic Dictionaries T. Pazienza and Linguistic Analysis of Robust inference method for Italian Large Corpora profile-based Text Classification ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15h00 C. Fairon & B. Courtois D. Forest & J.-G. Meunier Les corpus dynamiques et La Classification GlossaNet - Extension de math?matique des textes: un la couverture lexicale des outil d'assistance ? la dictionnaires lecture et ? l'analyse de ?lectroniques anglais textes philosophiques ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15h20 Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 15h30 C. Jacquemin Plenary Quelques exemples d'application du traitement sessions automatique des langues en acc?s ? l'information -------- (amphi. ------------------------------------------------------ 15h55 CO2) V. Beaudouin, S. Fleury & J. Velkovska ?tude des ?changes ?lectroniques sur Internet et Intranet : forums et courriers ?lectroniques ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16h20 Coffee Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Language Statistical Discourse Processing for TDA Methods (III) Analysis (III) (room CO 123) (room CO 124) (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16h45 W. Martinez R. Arag??s P. Maire, S. Mise en ?vidence Peleato, J.-C. Menguy, J. de rapports Chappelier & M. Baffie, P. synonymiques par Rajman Cl?ment, C. Cote, la m?thode des Using G. Strauch & cooccurrences Information J.-P. Auray Extraction to La visite Classify m?dicale entre Newspapers savoir et usages Advertisements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17h05 Parallel P. S?billot, P. A. Lelu & M. M.C. No?l-Jorand, sessions Bouillon, V. Hallab M. Reinert, S. (amphi. Claveau, C. Fabre, Consultation Giudicelli & D. CO2, L. Jacqmin & J. "floue" de Dassa room CO Nicolas grandes listes Discourse 123 Apprentissage en de formes Analysis in and room corpus de couples lexicales Phychosis: CO 124) nom-verbe pour la simples et Characteristics construction d'un compos?es: un of Hebephrenic lexique g?n?ratif outil Subject's Speech pr?paratoire pour l'analyse de grands corpus textuels ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17h25 G. Dias, S. L. Remaki & J.G. N. Baccala Nora & Guillor? & J.G. Meunier M. de la Cruz Pereira Lopes Un mod?le HMM Le importancia de Extraction pour la la estad?stica automatique d?tection des textual aplicada d'associations mots compos?s al estudio de las textuelles ? dans un corpus concepciones de partir de corpora textuel ense?anza non trait?s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday March 11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Statistical Political Retrieval (II) Methods (IV) Discourse (II) (amphi. CO2) (room CO 123) (room CO 124) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9h00 A. Morin, M. G. Cucumel, J. R. Alvarez, M. Kerbaol & J.Y. Beauchemin & V. B?cue & J.J. Bansard Gendreau Lanero Etude des r?sum?s Analyse de Vocabulary en fran?ais des strat?gies Diversity and its rapports de argumentatives Variability: a recherche d'un dans le cadre Tool for the institut m?thodologique de Analysis of d'informatique la cooccurrence Discoursive Parallel publi?s de 1989 ? ?tendue Strategies - sessions 1998 Application to (amphi. the Investiture CO2, Speeches of the room CO Spanish Democraty ---------- 123 ------------------------------------------------------- 9h20 and room K. Lespinasse, B. S. Balbi & G. M. Brugidou & D. CO 124) Habert & B. Giordano Labb? Bachimont Un'analisi dei Le vocabulaire Le p?ritexte, un dati testuali con syndical fran?ais s?same pour les informazioni ? la lumi?re de donn?es esterne: le l'analyse des audiovisuelles ? definizioni di donn?es L'analyse "qualit?" textuelles et de exploratoire d'un la statistique corpus h?t?rog?ne lexicale de notices documentaires interpr?tant des documents audiovisuels ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9h40 Coffee Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Language Methods, Tools and Stylometry and Processing for Software (II) Literary Texts TDA (IV) (room CO 123) (II) (amphi. CO2) (room CO 124) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h00 P.A. Fortier M. Reinert D. Renard Le Codage des La tresse du sens Les parties du donn?es et la m?thode discours chez les textuelles "Alceste". personnages du Application aux Satiricon "R?veries du promeneur solitaire" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h20 Parallel C. Cieri P. Ph. Mohler & C. F. Dupuis, S. sessions Multiple Zuell Heiden & S. (amphi. Annotations of Observe! A Pr?vost CO2, Reusable Data Popperian Critique Cat?gorisation room CO Resources: of Automatic d'un corpus 123 Corpora for Topic Content Analysis h?t?rog?ne de and room Detection and fran?ais m?di?val CO 124) Tracking ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10h40 L. Ruiz Miyares D. Peyrat-Guillard M.-H. Antoni & Etiquetaci?n Une application de M.-L. Demonet autom?tica en la statistique Adaptation d'un corpus textuales textuelle ? la lemmatiseur au cubanos. Primeros gestion des corpus resultados ressources rabelaisien : humaines: naissance Appr?hender le d'Humanistica concept d'implication au travail de fa?on alternative ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h00 Break ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h15 Plenary A. Salem session JADT 2000 Synthesis (amphi CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11h45 Panel Discussion (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12h15 Closing Session (amphi. CO2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12h30 end ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Program Committee Monica B?cue Univ. Polytechnic of Catalunya Sergio Bolasco Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza' ?tienne Brunet Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis Yadolah Dodge Univ. of Neuch?tel Annibale Elia Univ. of Salerno Benoit Habert ENS Fontenay/Saint Cloud R?mi Jolivet Univ. of Lausanne Dominique Labb? Univ. of Grenoble Ludovic Lebart CNRS, ENST Paris Alain Lelu Univ. Paris 8 Sylvie Mellet CNRS, Nice Charles Muller Univ. of Strasbourg Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Max Reinert CNRS Toulouse Jacques Rouault CRISTAL Grenoble 3 Andr? Salem Univ. Paris 3 Organization Committee Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Jean-C?dric Chappelier EPF Lausanne Marie Decrauzat EPF Lausanne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- For JADT 2000 Organization Committee, J-C Chappelier 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 Feb 9 11:08:26 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:26 +0100 Subject: Appel: TSD-2000 Message-ID: From: "Robert Batusek" *************************************************** TSD 2000 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************** Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2000) Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 September 2000 TSD Series TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and text/topic summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jelinek Frederick, USA (general chair) Hermansky Hynek, USA (executive chair) Baudoin Genevieve, France Cermak Frantisek, Czech Republic Ferencz Attila, Romania Hajicova Eva, Czech Republic Hanks Patrick, GB Kilgariff Adam, GB Kopecek Ivan, Czech Republic Kucera Pavel, Czech Republic Matousek Vaclav, Czech Republic Moon Rosamund, GB Noeth Elmar, Germany Pala Karel, Czech Republic Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia Petkevic Vladimir, Czech Republic Psutka Josef, Czech Rep. Schukat-Talamazzini E.G., Germany Skrelin Pavel, Russia Vintsiuk Taras, Ukraine Wilks Yorick, GB ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Bartek Ludek, Batusek Robert, Gaura Pavel, Horak Ales, Komarkova Dana (secretary), Kopecek Ivan (co-chair),=20 Matousek Vaclav, Nygryn Pavel, Pala Karel (co-chair), Sedlacek Radek, Smrz Pavel, Sojka Petr, Staudek Jan, Veber Marek, Zackova Eva, Zizka Jan FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP TSD 2000 is an international workshop with a limited number of participants and priority given to the active participants. The workshop program will include oral presentations and=20 a poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time=20 for discussions of the issues raised. The program will=20 also involve short communications, reports about ongoing=20 projects and industrial presentations. The latter types=20 of contributions will not appear in the proceedings=20 and the deadline for their submission will be announced later. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. TSD 2000 is supported by International Speech Communication=20 Association (ISCA). The organizing committee is applying for a grant from the European Committee (High Level Scientific=20 Conference). If the application is successful the organizing committee would subsidize young researchers and participants=20 from East Europe significantly. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors should submit extended abstracts not exceeding 1000 words by March 10, 2000 to the e-mail address: tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz Submission must also include the author(s) name, affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Acceptance of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers have to follow the Springer-Verlag instructions for the authors for Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The instructions can be found at the www address:=20 http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html IMPORTANT DATES Preliminary registration and deadline for submission of extended abstracts: March 10, 2000 Notification of acceptance sent to the authors: April 30, 2000 Final papers (camera ready) and registration: May 30, 2000 Workshop date: September 13-16, 2000 The contributions to the workshop will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the workshop. The proceedings of the last TSD workshop were published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and we anticipate the same format for TSD 2000. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the workshop is English. CONFERENCE FEE The conference fee is $150. The fee includes one copy of the Proceedings, refreshments, social events and trip. The organizing committee will provide discounts and grants for the participants from the East European countries. ACCOMODATION The organizing committee will arrange an accommodation in a student dormitories in a walking distance from the place of the Conference=20 at a reasonable price. For the participants who prefer to=20 be accommodated in a hotel it is possible to reserve a room.=20 The actual list of available hotels and prices will be accessible=20 at the workshop website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to: Dana Komarkova TSD 2000 c/o Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanick=E1 68a CZ-602 00 Brno Czech Republic telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359 fax: ++420 5 41 212 568 e-mail: tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ VENUE The conference will take place at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, Brno, Czech Republic. Brno is the capital of the region named Moravia, which is placed in the south-east part of the Czech Republic, and the second largest town in the Czech Republic (with population about half a million). It had been the King's town since 1347 and with its six Universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct trains or buses from=20 Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). For the participants with some extra time, some nearby places may also be of interest.=20 The local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Bishops Church of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, famous villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe and other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the greatest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - the town on the list of UNESCO and many others are all within an easy reach. ------=_NextPart_000_0087_01BF6CD8.F1AE4910 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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 TSD= 2000 -=20 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR=20 PAPERS
***************************************************
 
Third International Workshop on = TEXT, SPEECH=20 and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2000)
Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 September=20 2000
 

TSD Series
 
TSD series evolved as a prime = forum for=20 interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language=20 processing
from the former East Block countries and their Western=20 colleagues.
Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published
by = Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence=20 series).
 

TOPICS
 
Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop = will=20 include
(but are not limited to):
text corpora and=20 tagging;
transcription problems in spoken corpora;
sense=20 disambiguation;
links between text and speech oriented = systems;
parsing=20 issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts;
multi-lingual = issues,=20 especially multi-lingual dialogue systems;
information retrieval and=20 text/topic summarization;
speech modeling;
speech = segmentation;
speech=20 recognition;
text-to-speech synthesis;
dialogue = systems;
development of=20 dialogue strategies;
prosody in dialogues;
user = modeling;
knowledge=20 representation in relation to dialogue systems;
assistive = technologies based=20 on speech and dialogue;
applied systems and software.
 
Papers on processing of languages = other than=20 English
are strongly encouraged.
 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 
Jelinek Frederick, USA (general=20 chair)
Hermansky Hynek, USA (executive chair)
Baudoin Genevieve,=20 France
Cermak Frantisek, Czech Republic
Ferencz Attila,=20 Romania
Hajicova Eva, Czech Republic
Hanks Patrick, = GB
Kilgariff Adam,=20 GB
Kopecek Ivan, Czech Republic
Kucera Pavel, Czech = Republic
Matousek=20 Vaclav, Czech Republic
Moon Rosamund, GB
Noeth Elmar, = Germany
Pala=20 Karel, Czech Republic
Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia
Petkevic Vladimir, = Czech=20 Republic
Psutka Josef, Czech Rep.
Schukat-Talamazzini E.G.,=20 Germany
Skrelin Pavel, Russia
Vintsiuk Taras, Ukraine
Wilks = Yorick,=20 GB
 

ORGANIZING = COMMITTEE
 
Bartek Ludek, Batusek Robert, = Gaura Pavel,=20 Horak Ales,
Komarkova Dana (secretary), Kopecek Ivan (co-chair), =
Matousek=20 Vaclav, Nygryn Pavel, Pala Karel (co-chair),
Sedlacek Radek, Smrz = Pavel,=20 Sojka Petr, Staudek Jan,
Veber Marek, Zackova Eva, Zizka = Jan
 

FORMAT OF THE = WORKSHOP
 
TSD 2000 is an international = workshop with a=20 limited number
of participants and priority given to the active=20 participants.
The workshop program will include oral presentations = and
a=20 poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time
for discussions = of the=20 issues raised. The program will
also involve short communications, = reports=20 about ongoing
projects and industrial presentations. The latter = types
of=20 contributions will not appear in the proceedings
and the deadline = for their=20 submission will be announced
later. Social events including a trip in = the=20 vicinity
of Brno will allow for additional informal=20 interactions.
 
TSD 2000 is supported by = International Speech=20 Communication
Association (ISCA). The organizing committee is=20 applying
for a grant from the European Committee (High Level = Scientific=20
Conference). If the application is successful the = organizing
committee=20 would subsidize young researchers and participants
from East Europe=20 significantly.
 

SUBMISSION OF = PAPERS
 
Authors should submit extended = abstracts not=20 exceeding 1000 words
by March 10, 2000 to the e-mail = address:
 
tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz
 
Submission must also include the = author(s)=20 name, affiliation,
address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail = address.=20 Acceptance
of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers=20 have
to follow the Springer-Verlag instructions for the = authors
for=20 Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The instructions
can be = found at=20 the www address:
 
http://www.springe= r.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
 

IMPORTANT DATES
 
Preliminary registration and = deadline for=20 submission of extended
abstracts:
March 10, 2000
 
Notification of acceptance sent to = the=20 authors:
April 30, 2000
 
Final papers (camera ready) and=20 registration:
May 30, 2000
 
Workshop date:
September 13-16, = 2000
 
The contributions to the workshop = will be=20 published in
proceedings that will be made available to participants=20 at
the time of the workshop. The proceedings of the last = TSD
workshop were=20 published by Springer-Verlag in the series
Lecture Notes in = Artificial=20 Intelligence and we anticipate
the same format for TSD = 2000.
 

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
 
The official language of the = workshop is=20 English.
 

CONFERENCE FEE
 
The conference fee is $150. The = fee includes=20 one copy of
the Proceedings, refreshments, social events and = trip.
The=20 organizing committee will provide discounts and grants
for the = participants=20 from the East European countries.
 

ACCOMODATION
The organizing = committee=20 will arrange an accommodation in a student
dormitories in a walking = distance=20 from the place of the Conference
at a reasonable price. For the = participants=20 who prefer to
be accommodated in a hotel it is possible to reserve a = room.=20
The actual list of available hotels and prices will be accessible =
at the=20 workshop website.
 
ADDRESS
 
All correspondence regarding the = workshop=20 should be addressed to:
 
Dana Komarkova
TSD 2000 c/o = Faculty of=20 Informatics
Masaryk University
Botanick=E1 68a
CZ-602 00 = Brno
Czech=20 Republic
telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359
fax: ++420 5 41 212 = 568
e-mail:=20 tsd2000 at fi.muni.cz
The = official TSD=20 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/
 

VENUE
 
The conference will take place at = the Faculty=20 of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, Brno, Czech=20 Republic.
 
Brno is the capital of the region = named=20 Moravia, which is
placed in the south-east part of the Czech = Republic, and=20 the
second largest town in the Czech Republic (with = population
about half=20 a million). It had been the King's town since 1347
and with its six=20 Universities it forms a cultural center
of the region.
 
Brno can be reached easily by = direct trains or=20 buses from
Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
 
For the participants with some = extra time,=20 some nearby
places may also be of interest.
 
The local ones include:
Brno = Castle now=20 called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, Old and New
City Halls, the Augustine = Monastery with St. Thomas Church
and crypt of Moravian Margraves, = Church of=20 St. James, Bishops
Church of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian = Monastery in=20 Kralovo Pole,
famous villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der = Rohe
and=20 other important buildings of between-war Czech = architecture.
 
For those willing to venture out = of=20 Brno,
Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, = battlefield
of=20 Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and
Austrian = Franz -=20 battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov
(Austerlitz), Pernstejn = Castle,=20 Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau,
Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice = Chateau,=20 Mikulov with one of the greatest
Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, = Telc -=20 the town on the list of
UNESCO and many others are all within an easy = reach.
------=_NextPart_000_0087_01BF6CD8.F1AE4910-- 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 Feb 9 11:08:22 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:22 +0100 Subject: Ecole: LANGUAGE ENGINEERING Message-ID: From: Kemal Oflazer PLEASE POST OR DISTRIBUTE NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES July 3 - 14, 2000 BILKENT UNIVERSITY ANKARA, TURKEY Co-directors: Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University), Sergei Nirenburg (New Mexico State University), Oleg Kapanadze (Tbilisi State University). We are pleased to announce that the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES will be held on the campus of Bilkent University in Turkey, July 3rd through July 14th, 2000. The ASI program will comprise the following courses on the state-of-the-art in various aspects of language engineering. Currently, the following courses are planned: _ Introduction to languages and language engineering, Nicholas Ostler (Linguacubun, UK) Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Text processing ecology, Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Computational tools and resources, Remi Zajac (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Computational morphology and finite state methods, Ken Beesley (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) _ Statistical methods and corpus linguistics, Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) _ Lexical acquisition, Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA) Sergei Nirenburg(Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Grammar and grammar writing, Svetlana Sheremetyeva (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Machine translation, Harold Somers (UMIST, UK) _ Information extraction, Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) _ Information retrieval. Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) The ASI will feature a number of participant workshops. These workshops will provide a forum for participants to present their work on language engineering and receive feedback from colleagues. Applicants are strongly suggested to submit an abstract of their presentation in their application. Abstracts will be selected for presentation in the workshops after a review process. Full versions of these presentations will be expected to be submitted before the ASI starts. The ASI will also feature discussion panel which will enable participants to discuss specific issues in language engineering with experts in the field. The ASI will admit a limited number of qualified participants from NATO countries (1) Partner countries (2), and Mediterranean dialogue countries (3). Depending on the specific circumstances, funding for living and lodging expenses of such participants will be available. Participants from commercial/industrial institutions and from other countries may attend provided they cover their registration, travel and living expenses. Please inquire with natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr for the details of such participation. Since there are a limited number of participant slots, admission to the ASI will be strictly on a competitive basis taking into account the participants' background, their potential contribution and the benefit they may draw from the meeting. Information regarding the ASI (including detailed program, course abstracts, travel information etc.) will, in time, be available on the World Wide Web at http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/ASI/ and on mirror sites (soon to be) listed there. We acknowledge the additional support provided by Bilkent University, Computing Research Lab, NMSU, and EACL- European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. APPLICATIONS TO THE ASI Please fill out the application form below (or available from the Web site above) and send by electronic mail to natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Application by fax or mail will only be considered in exceptional circumstances. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2000. Applicants will be notified of the results of their application by April 17, 2000. Applicants are expected to secure financial support for travel to/from Ankara, Turkey, from outside sources. Support for living and lodging expenses during the ASI will be available to qualified applicants on a case by case basis. -------- (1) NATO Countries: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and USA. (2) Partner Countries eligible for support: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzistan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tadjikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (*), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. ((*) Turkey recognizes the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name.) (3) Mediterranean Dialogue Countries eligible for support: Egypt, Israel. --------- Kemal Oflazer e-mail: ko at cs.bilkent.edu.tr http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~ko/ko.html Bilkent University tel: (90-312) 266-4133 (Sec) Dept. of Computer Engineering 290-1258 (Office) Bilkent, ANKARA, 06533 TURKEY (90-532) 447-8978 (Mobile) fax: (90-312) 266-4126 NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES July 3 - July 14, 2000 Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey APPLICATION FORM Please use as much space as necessary. Send completed form by electronic mail to natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Do not send a hardcopy by mail or fax. Please take as much space as you feel is necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NAME OF THE APPLICANT: STREET ADDRESS: CITY/STATE/COUNTRY: CITIZENSHIP: E-MAIL: WEB URL: TELEPHONE: FAX: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND BACKGROUND Please summarize your educational and work background and experience especially pointing out experience and publications (if any) relevant to language engineering. 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 Thu Feb 10 14:58:11 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:58:11 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie Subject: Candidatures INRIA en Linguistique Informatique 2/ From: Olivier Laurens Subject: Job : 2 grammairien(ne)s informatiques (Fran?ais, Anglais) 3/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Compu Linguist (German) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, 4/ From: Jonathan Stebner Subject: NLP: Multiple positions at Orion.com, WA US _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie Subject: Candidatures INRIA en Linguistique Informatique L'INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) ouvre sur concours des postes de Charg? de Recherche (CR2) et de Directeur de Recherche (DR2). Les candidatures ext?rieures sont encourag?es. Les crit?res de s?lection incluent l'excellence scientifique, l'ad?quation ? la politique scientifique de l'INRIA, et, de pr?f?rence, la bonne int?gration dans une ?quipe existante de l'INRIA. Sur le site de Rocquencourt (en r?gion parisienne), l'?quipe ATOLL (ATelier d'Outils Logiciels pour le Langage naturel) est, comme son nom le sugg?re, impliqu?e dans le domaine de la Linguistique Informatique. Si vous pensez que vos comp?tences et centres d'int?r?t sont susceptibles de compl?ter utilement notre ?quipe, vous pouvez me contacter, Eric de la Clergerie avec copie ? Bernard Lang Eric de la Clergerie Page WEB ATOLL: http://atol.inria.fr/ Page WEB INRIA: http://www.inria.fr/ Page WEB INRIA Rocquencourt: http://www.inria.fr/Unites/ROCQUENCOURT-fra.html Page WEB Candidatures: http://www.inria.fr/Trav/Concours2000/conc2000a-fra.html -------- Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr Projet Atoll - INRIA Rocquencourt WWW Home Page: http://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger _______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Olivier Laurens Subject: Job : 2 grammairien(ne)s informatiques (Fran?ais, Anglais) Start-up sp?cialis?e dans le d?veloppement de logiciels de gestion du savoir, nous recrutons actuellement 2 linguistes - informaticien(ne)s. De formation sup?rieure en linguistique et en TALN, vous participerez aux aspects linguistiques de l'?laboration d'un moteur de recherche documentaire bas? sur une nouvelle technologie de mod?lisation du sens. Votre t?che principale sera le d?veloppement et la maintenance de grammaires formelles. De plus, vous serez appel? ? contribuer ? la mise au point des sp?cifications linguistiques (morphologie, syntaxe, s?mantique), ? la sp?cification d'outils de d?veloppement, au d?veloppement et ? la mise en oeuvre des syst?mes de TALN. Vous serez aussi appel? ? participer aux aspects recherche du projet. Vous travaillerez au sein d'une ?quipe jeune et dynamique dans un environnement de travail convivial. Le premier poste ? pourvoir s'adresse ? un sp?cialiste du FRAN?AIS, le second de l'ANGLAIS. La connaissance d'une seconde ou troisi?me langue est un plus. Les comp?tences suivantes sont particuli?rement appr?ci?es : * formation solide en linguistique et en grammaire * bonne connaissance d'au moins un formalisme grammatical majeur (TAG, UCG, HPSG, GPSG, ALEP, ...) * exp?rience de d?veloppement de grammaires formelles et lexiques computationnels * ma?trise d'outils informatiques de manipulation de donn?es (awk, perl, grep, base de donn?es, tableur, ...), ou d?sir d'apprendre * exp?rience de travail sur corpus (et des outils associ?s) Les candidats, quelle que soit leur nationalit?, doivent avoir le droit de travailler en France. Les postes ? pourvoir sont en CDI. La r?mun?ration est fonction des comp?tences et de l'exp?rience. Lieu de travail : Paris/RP Les candidatures sont accept?es par email ou courrier postal (envoyer CV + disponibilit? + r?f?rences). Les postes sont ? pourvoir d?s que possible. COORDONNEES POSTALES : SA UNLOST 6 rue Lac?p?de 75005 Paris EMAIL : linguist at unlost.com _______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: "Pierre Eggermont" Subject: Compu Linguist (German) at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Belgium Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the world's leading provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses and individuals worldwide. It is our mission to break down language barriers through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by voice in any language with the machines that empower them. Founded in 1987 L&H has revolutionized the development and application of advanced speech and language technologies. The company delivers the broadest array of consumer, business, and industry offerings in automatic dictation, translation, sound compression, voice synthesis, and industrial documentation. As a NASDAQ and EASDAQ quoted company and headquartered in Ieper (Belgium), L&H maintains offices in more than forty nations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, and South America. With over 1,750 employees - mainly linguists, scientists and engineers - we generated an annual revenue of $211.6 million in 1998. For the development of language and speech technology, L&H currently has an opening in its International Headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) for a (m/f): ****************************************** Language Specialist German Speech and Language Technology ****************************************** Function: * You will work within a multi-disciplinary team of linguists, engineers and programmers on the development of software systems in the field of Speech, Artificial Intelligence and Language. * In the startup phase, your tasks will typically include: basic phonetic and language study in view of technology development and assessment of third party providers of data and/or technology. * You will be involved in all aspects of the development life cycle and focus on system specification and design, implementation of linguistic rule sets, creation of acoustic and lexical databases, grapheme to phoneme conversion, prosodic analysis, software testing and quality control, preparation of documentation. * Training is given both on-the-job and through lectures and technical documentation. * Dedicated development environments are provided which allow language specialists to focus on their content: formalizing linguistic knowledge. * You will report to the group or project manager. Profile: * university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent; * (near) native German speaker with a conversational level of English; * solid grounding in linguistic theory; * good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas is mandatory: speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, programming, * ability to work in a team and independently; * IT literate; * perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness; * good social and communicative abilities; ********************************************************** If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to fulfill the required profile, we have to meet each other. Please send your application letter and detailed resume to: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products Personnel Department Mailto:job-announce at lhs.be attn. Mr. Pierre Eggermont Flanders Language Valley 50 B-8900 Ieper BELGIUM Fax: int+ 32 (0)57.20.84.89 To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage: http://www.lhsl.com _______________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Jonathan Stebner Subject: NLP: Multiple positions at Orion.com, WA US Rank of Job: Areas Required: Speech and Natural Voice Recognition Software Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: Orion.com Department: Technical Recruiting State or Province: WA Country: US Final Date of Application: Open Contact: Jonathan Stebner jstebner at orion.com Address for Applications: 10900 NE 4th 23rd Floor Bellevue WA 98056 US Natural Language Processing Scientists (5 positions) The successful candidate will help improve and create core technical resources and algorithms in Natural Language Processing as needed in the development of Conversational Computing. The candidate will help create advances in language modeling, semantic processing, dialog modeling, and knowledge representation to improve and extend products. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES ? Work with existing algorithms to extend and improve them ? Create next generation interfaces for conversation creation ? Develop new algorithms for semantic processing and dialog modeling ? Extend algorithms and supporting resources for new languages ? Consult with developers on optimal application of the technology ? Consult with marketing to access potential new applications KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES: ? NLP, Statistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Search, algorithm design ? Experience with automatic learning and syntactic tagging systems ? Knowledge of existing NLP tools desired ? C/C++, DSP programming, Windows, Unix ? Knowledge of multiple languages beneficial EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, TRAINING and/or MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS ? Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related field ? At least 2 years experience in Natural Language Processing ? Previous experience with speech processing and applications a plus ? Ability to measure, publicize and promote improvements within the company ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (travel requirements, physical requirements, etc) ? Able to work with limited supervision ? Able to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, and marketers ? Adaptable and Creative ? Self-motivated ? Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington 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 Thu Feb 10 15:03:18 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:03:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: ANLP/NAACL2000 2nd Workshop Call for Papers Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen Second Call for Papers Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems Thursday, May 4th, 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA (post-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) Reading Comprehension tests, such as the one below, are designed to help evaluate a reader's understanding of a text passage. How Maple Syrup is Made Maple syrup comes from sugar maple trees. At one time, maple syrup was used to make sugar. This is why the tree is called a "sugar" maple tree. Sugar maple trees make sap. Farmers collect the sap. The best time to collect sap is in February and March. The nights must be cold and the days warm. The farmer drills a few small holes in each tree. He puts a spout in each hole. Then he hangs a bucket on the end of each spout. The bucket has a cover to keep rain and snow out. The sap drips into the bucket. About 10 gallons of sap come from each hole. 1. Who collects maple sap? (Farmers) 2. What does the farmer hang from a spout? (A bucket) 3. When is sap collected? (February and March) 4. Where does the maple sap come from? (Sugar maple trees) 5. Why is the bucket covered? (to keep rain and snow out) Such tests exist in many languages, have human performance benchmarks associated with them, and come in a variety of types (short-answer, multiple choice) and levels of difficulty. In addition, they are generally written to make each story and set of questions self-contained, in order to require as little outside knowledge as possible to answer the questions. The focus of the proposed workshop will be to explore the following questions: - Can such exams be used to evaluate computer-based language understanding effectively and efficiently? - Would they provide an impetus and test bed for interesting and useful research? - Are they too hard for current technology? - Or are they too easy, such that simple hacks can score high, although there is clearly no understanding involved? The most direct method of exploring these questions is to choose a set of tests and build a system that takes these tests. Some preliminary results indicate that such tests are tractable, but not trivial and that linguistic processing is helpful (Hirschman, et al. ACL-99). A test set, evaluation routines, prototype system, and documentation are available upon request to light at mitre.org. We hope that a number of submissions will present results based on actual reading comprehension systems. In addition, we encourage submissions that report on other kinds of tests or similar tests in other languages, or that address our list of questions by other means. Note that submissions are encouraged that describe work in progress with preliminary empirical results. Invited speaker: Karen Kukich (Educational Testing Service) "NLP Tools for Identifying Reading Comprehension Skills" Format for Submission Authors are asked to submit previously unpublished papers only; a workshop proceedings will be published. Our target submission length is 2000 words but both shorter and longer submissions will also be considered. Electronic submission of postscript will be accepted. Hard copy submissions should include 4 copies of the paper. Since the papers will be reviewed anonymously, please do not place the author name on the paper. Instead include a separate title page with title, abstract, author, and e-mail address. Unless requested otherwise, notification of acceptance will be sent electronically to the first author. Parallel submission is unproblematic; however if your paper is accepted to this workshop and you decide to present it here, we will ask you to withdraw it from any other events. Important Dates Deadline for submission: February 11th, 2000 Notification of authors: March 1st, 2000 Final versions due: March 10th, 2000 Address for Submission and Further Information Marc Light The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Rd. M/S K329 Bedford, MA 01730 USA Phone: 1-781-271-5579 light at mitre.org (The mailing list, read-comp at linus.mitre.org, has been set up to discuss reading comprehension tests as evaluation for computer-based language understanding systems. It is open subscription and unmoderated. To subscribe, send email to majordomo at linus.mitre.org with 'subscribe read-comp' in the body.) Program Committee: Eric Brill Eugene Charniak Mary Harper Marc Light (chair) Ellen Riloff Ellen Voorhees 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 Thu Feb 10 14:59:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:59:08 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN-2000 Message-ID: From: TALN2000 ********************************************************************** * ##### ### ### ### * * ##### ## # # # # # # # # # # # * * # # # # ## # # # # # # # # * * # # # # # # # ##### # # # # # # * * # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # * * # # # # # ## # # # # # # # * * # # # ###### # # ####### ### ### ### * * * * * * TALN 2000 * * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * * * ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne * * du 16 au 18 octobre 2000 * * * * http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ * * * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2000 Notification aux auteurs : 23 juin 2000 Version finale (pr?t-?-clicher): 4 ao?t 2000 Conf?rence : 16-18 octobre 2000 Conjointement organis?e par l'?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne et l'Universit? de Gen?ve, la septi?me ?dition de la conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2000) se tiendra, du 16 au 18 octobre 2000, ? l'?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Suisse. La conf?rence comprendra des communications scientifiques, des conf?rences invit?es, des s?ances de d?monstration ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conf?rence sont le fran?ais et l'anglais. TALN 2000 est organis?e sous l'?gide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement ? la conf?rence pour jeunes chercheurs RECITAL 2000 (appel ? communications a para?tre s?parement). TH?MES Les communications, d'une dur?e de trente minutes, questions comprises, pourront porter sur tous les th?mes habituels du TALN, incluant, de fa?on non limitative: lexique morphologie syntaxe s?mantique pragmatique discours analyse g?n?ration r?sum? dialogue traduction automatique approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques TALN 2000 souhaite ?galement accueillir des travaux de domaines proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un r?le important, dans la mesure o? l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : traitement de la parole (prosodie, linguistique, pragmatique) traitement de l'?crit aspects cognitifs terminologie, acquisition de connaissances ? partir de textes extraction d'information recherche documentaire linguistique de corpus linguistique math?matique utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la mod?lisation linguistique enseignement assist?, enseignement des langues. Sont aussi attendus des travaux sur des applications du TALN, impl?ment?es et ?valu?es, faisant ressortir leurs aspects scientifiques et les enseignements tir?s. Des d?monstrations de syst?mes pourront ?tre propos?es, ind?pendamment ou en compl?ment d'articles scientifiques. L'emploi du temps de la conf?rence comprendra une session pour ces d?monstrations. Le comit? de programme s?lectionnera parmi les communications accept?es deux articles pour publication (dans une version ?tendue) dans la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.). Ces articles seront consid?r?s par la revue comme "accept?s sous r?serve de modification", la modification ?tant la mise au format de la revue. CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications ant?rieures. Les soumissions seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du domaine. Seront consid?r?es en particulier : - l'importance et l'originalit? de la contribution, - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique, - la discussion critique des r?sultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine, - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale, - l'organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation, - l'ad?quation aux th?mes de la conf?rence. Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la conf?rence. MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION Les articles soumis ne devront pas d?passer 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ 3000 mots, figures, exemples et r?f?rences compris. Les propositions de d?monstrations ne devront pas d?passer 3 pages. Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word seront disponibles sur le site web de la conf?rence (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/). Les articles devront parvenir au comit? d'organisation avant le 21 avril 2000, sous forme ?lectronique, ? l'adresse suivante : taln2000 at latl.unige.ch En cas d'impossibilit? d'envoi par courrier ?lectronique, une soumission "papier" pourra ?tre admise. 3 exemplaires papier de la contribution devront ?tre envoy?s ? l'adresse suivante: Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 D?pt. de linguistique - LATL Universit? de Gen?ve 2, rue de Candolle CH-1211 Gen?ve 4 Suisse Format pour les soumissions : Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission sous la forme d'un document attach? ? un courrier ?lectronique ayant pour titre "TALN submission" et contenant le titre de la communication, le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale, l'adresse ?lectronique, le num?ro de t?l?phone et le fax de l'auteur principal. Les soumissions devront ?tre anonymes et ne devront donc comporter aucun nom d'auteur ni auto-citation. L'un des formats suivants devra IMP?RATIVEMENT ?tre employ?: - source LaTeX auto-suffisant (les styles non standards ou diff?rents de ceux fournis pour TALN 2000 devront ?tre inclus dans le fichier source) ET PostScript - RTF (Word) ET PostScript ou PDF Les versions PostScript devront ?tre au format A4 et non Lettre US. INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES Les informations pratiques seront pr?cis?es ult?rieurement, notamment sur le site web de la conf?rence (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (voir version fran?aise au dessus) CALL FOR PAPERS TALN 2000 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland 16-18 October 2000 CALENDAR submission deadline : April 21st, 2000 notification to authors : June 23th, 2000 final version due (camera-ready): August 4th, 2000 conference: 16-18 October, 2000 Jointly organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) and the University of Geneva the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2000) will be held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, (Lausanne, Switzerland), on October 16-18, 2000. The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are French and English. TALN 2000 is organised in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2000 (a separate call for papers will follow). TOPICS Papers are invited for 30-minutes talks (including questions) 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 mathematical linguistics TALN 2000 also welcomes contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasise 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 2000, also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasising 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 program of the conference. The program committee will select 2 papers among the accepted papers for publication (in an extended version) in the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (t.a.l.). For the journal, these papers will have the status "accepted, subject to modifications", the modifications being the formatting according to the style of the journal. SELECTION 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 - soundness of the scientific and technical content - comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work - clarity - relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12 (approx. 3000 words), single spaced, including figures, examples and references. The maximum length for demo proposals is 3 pages. A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be available on the web site of the conference (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000). Electronic submissions must reach the organising committee before April 21st, 2000 to the latest, at the following address: taln2000 at latl.unige.ch If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organising committee before April 21st 2000, at the following address: Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 D?pt. de linguistique - LATL Universit? de Gen?ve 2, rue de Candolle CH-1211 Gen?ve 4 Suisse File format for electronic submissions: Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail, with the subject field "TALN submission" and containing the following information: submission title, first author's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, phone and fax number. The submissions are ANONYMOUS, and should therefore not include the author's name, or any self-reference. One of the following formats MUST be used: - self-contained LaTeX source (including non standard styles) AND PostScript version. - RTF (Word) document AND PostScript or PDF version. All the PostScript versions must be for A4 paper and not US letter. PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS: Practical information will be detailed shortly on the conference WEB page site (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMIT? D'ORGANISATION/ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Eric Wehrli (Pr?sident/President) Martin Rajman Cristian Ciressan Jean-C?dric Chappelier Marie Decrauzat Paola Merlo Christopher Laenzlinger ********************************************************************** * Contact: * * * * Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 * * D?pt. de linguistique - LATL * * Universit? de Gen?ve * * 2, rue de Candolle * * CH-1211 Gen?ve 4 * * Switzerland * * * * Tel: +41-22-705.73.63 * * Fax: +41-22-705.79.31 * * email: taln2000 at latl.unige.ch * * * * http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ * ********************************************************************** -- Pour le comit? d'organisation de TALN 2000, For the organisation committee of TALN 2000, Cristian Ciressan 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 Thu Feb 10 15:05:58 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:05:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: ICCI-2000 Message-ID: From: almulla at sci.kuniv.edu.kw (Almulla M) The 10th International Conference on Computing and Information ICCI '2000, Kuwait, November 18-21, 2000 http://mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~icci2000 http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icci-00/ Second Call For Papers ====================== Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ICCI2000 will provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present new results in research, development, and applications in computing and information. Since 1989, ICCI conferences have attracted participants from over 40 different countries. ICCI '2000 will consist of five streams ranging from theoretical computer science to applied software systems. It will provide a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization and interdisciplinary information exchange. Stream A: Theory. Theory of Data and Logic. Information and Coding Theory. Algorithms. Theory of Computation. Chair: Monty Newborn, newborn at opus.cs.mcgill.ca Stream B: Distribution and Parallelism. Distributed Computing and Communications. Concurrency and Parallelism. Cluster Computing. Chair: Albert Zomaya, zomaya at ee.uwa.edu.au Stream C: Systems and Development. Database Systems. Software Engineering and CASE Methodologies. Expert Systems. Chair: Hans Loeper, Loeper at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw Stream D: Data and Knowledge Engineering. AI Methodologies. User Interfaces. Data Mining. Approximate Reasoning. Chair: Susan Craw, smc at scms.rgu.ac.uk Stream E: Networking and Internet. Information Exploration on the World Wide Web. Mobile Computing. Chair: Richard Lai, lai at cs.latrobe.edu.au Papers for any of the above streams are welcome. All submissions should be limited to a maximum of 5,000 words (approximately 15 A4 pages), and will be reviewed on the basis of technical correctness, quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Furthermore, a selected number of the accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the following journals: * Journal of Computing and Information * Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal All paper submissions (by e-mail or in hardcopy) should be sent to the Program Committee Chair at the following address. Xindong Wu (xwu at kais.mines.edu) Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois Street Golden, Colorado 80401, USA Phone: +1-303-273-3874 Fax: +1-303-273-3875 Important Dates March 1, 2000 Paper submissions. May 1, 2000 Acceptance notices. July 1, 2000 Final camera-readies. November 18-21, 2000 Conference. Organization General Chair: Waldemar W. Koczkodaj, Laurentian University, Canada. E-mail: icci at nickel.laurentian.ca; URL: http://www.cs.laurentian.ca/faculty/wkoczkodaj.html Organizing Committee Chair: Mohammed Almulla, Kuwait University, Kuwait. E-mail: almulla at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw; URL: http://www.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~almulla/ Program Committee Chair: Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA. E-mail: xwu at kais.mines.edu; URL: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/ General inquiries should be sent to the Organizing Committee Chair at Mohammed Almulla Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Kuwait University P.O.Box 5969 Safat, 13060, Kuwait Telephone: (965) 481-1188 Ext. 5303 or 5624 Fax: (965) 481-7201 E-mail: almulla at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Thu Feb 10 15:06:04 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:06:04 +0100 Subject: Conf: RIAO'2000 Advance Program Message-ID: From: "Karim Chibout" [Version francaise en fin de message] ****We apologize if you receive multiple copies**** ****PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY**** _______________ RIAO 2000 6th Conference on "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access" College de France Paris, France April 12-14, 2000 _______________ Advance Program _______________ Organized by: Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D., France) & Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA) Under the sponsorship of : the European Commission, the French Ministry of Education, Research and Technology, the DGA, the CEA, ELRA and ELSNET With the collaboration of: AII, ASIS, ESCA and AUF/Francil _______________ For the detailed Advance Program, please visit our Web site: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO ______________ The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access". The conference scope will range from the traditional processing of text documents to the rapidly growing field of automatic indexing and retrieval of images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of audio-visual and multimedia information on various distribution venues, including the Net. The conference is of interest for several scientific communities, including Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Spoken Language Processing, Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve as a forum for cross-discipline initiatives and innovative applications. RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific progress, demonstrations of prototypes resulting from this research as well as the most innovative products now appearing on the market. The RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur = Computer- Assisted Information Retrieval) International Conference is held every 3 years. Sites for the conference have been Grenoble, France (1985), M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. USA (1988), Barcelona, Spain (1991), Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA (1994) and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1997). The Conference Advance Program is highlighted by contributions of authors from 26 countries. The program includes 2 invited speakers, 3 panel sessions, 3 plenary sessions, 8 poster sessions and 16 oral sessions. Among all sessions are 146 papers (73 oral and 73 poster presentations), providing a unique opportunity to present and discuss in depth the state-of-the-art in this rapidly growing scientific and technological field. There will also be many innovative application demonstrations presented by companies from different countries. The application committee has already selected 19 of them covering various applications such as crosslingual English-Arabic Internet search, recognition of printed and handwritten texts, television archives retrieval, sign language indexing, machine translation, etc. The RIAO 2000 Conference Advance Program includes sessions on the following topics: *Plenary sessions: - Content-Based Information Access: from Text to Speech, Image and Multimodality - The Web and the Electronic Book - Radio & TV Broadcast Retrieval * Oral and Poster sessions: Document Processing: - Navigation, User Adaptation & Document Creation - Combining Image & Language Information Retrieval: - Internet & Cross-Language Information Retrieval - Information Retrieval Systems & Techniques - Interactive & Multimedia Information Retrieval - Information Retrieval Methods - Classification & Clustering - Filtering, NLP & Text Retrieval - Information Visualization Spoken Language and Audio Processing: - Speech and Information Retrieval - Speech & Multimedia Processing Techniques - Musical Information Processing Natural Language Processing: - Multilingual Document Handling & Machine Translation - Terminology - NLP Techniques for Document Processing - NLP Methods Image processing: - Scanned Document Analysis - Image & Video Processing Techniques - Image Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval - Video Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval - System Architecture, Usage and Applications - Evaluation and Best Practice * Panel sessions: - Multilingual Information Access - Information Retrieval Evaluation Worldwide - Usage of Information Retrieval Systems For more information on the program, conference location and registration, please visit our Web site : http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO or contact us at: - For all scientific and technical matters: riao2000 at limsi.fr - For all organizational and practical matters: cidcol at club-internet.fr _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ ***Nous nous excusons si vous recevez plusieurs copies de cette annonce*** ***A distribuer largement SVP*** _______________ RIAO 2000 6?me conf?rence sur " Acc?s ? l'information multim?dia par le contenu " Coll?ge de France Paris, France 12-14 Avril 2000 _______________ Programme pr?visionnel _______________ Organis?e par: Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D., France) & Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA) Avec le soutien de la Commission Europ?enne, du Minist?re de l'Education Nationale, de la Recherche et de la Technologie, de la DGA, du CEA, d'ELRA et d'ELSNET en collaboration avec AII, ASIS, ESCA et Francil (AUF) Pour consulter le programme pr?visionnel complet, consultez notre site Toile : http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO Le th?me de RIAO 2000 porte sur l' "Acc?s ? l'information multim?dia par le contenu". La conf?rence ?tendra le paradigme classique de traitement de documents textuels au champ grandissant de l'indexation et de la recherche de documents sonores et vid?os, et plus g?n?ralement ? tous les traitements de documents multim?dias sur tous supports, y compris la toile ?lectronique. Cette conf?rence s'adresse donc ? diff?rentes communaut?s scientifiques incluant la recherche d'informations, le traitement du langage parl? et ?crit, la vision par ordinateur, la communication humain-machine, la gestion ?lectronique de documents, les biblioth?ques digitales, et servira de forum visant ? favoriser les synergies et les points de convergences entre elles, et ? susciter des futures applications innovantes. RIAO 2000 pr?sentera les avanc?es scientifiques r?centes, les prototypes r?sultant de ces recherches, tout comme les produits les plus innovants apparaissant ? pr?sent sur le march?. La conf?rence internationale RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assist?e par Ordinateur) est organis?e tous les trois ans. Apr?s Grenoble, France (1985), MIT Cambridge MA. USA (1988), Barcelone, Espagne (1991), New York, NY, USA (1994) et Mc Gill, Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada (1997), Paris accueillera la prochaine ?dition de RIAO au printemps 2000. La conf?rence pr?sentera des communications d'auteurs provenant de 26 pays. Le programme inclut deux communications invit?es, trois tables rondes, trois sessions pl?ni?res, 8 sessions de posters et 16 sessions orales. L'ensemble des sessions comprend 146 communications (73 orales et 73 sous forme de posters), et constituera une occasion unique de pr?senter et de discuter l'?tat de l'art dans ce domaine scientifique et technologique en pleine ?volution. Il y aura aussi de nombreuses applications innovantes pr?sent?es par des soci?t?s de diff?rents pays. Le comit? d'application a d?j? s?lectionn? 19 d'entre elles concernant des applications aussi diverses que l'interrogation en arabe du web anglophone, la reconnaissance de caract?res imprim?s et manuscrits, la recherche dans des archives video, l'indexation du langage des signes, la traduction automatique, etc. Le programme de RIAO 2000 comporte des sessions qui portent sur les th?mes suivants: Sessions pl?ni?res: - Recherche par le contenu : du texte ? la parole, ? l'image et ? la multimodalit? - La Toile et le Livre Electronique - Recherche d'informations radio et t?l?diffus?es Sessions orales et posters: Gestion de documents : - Navigation, adaptation ? l'utilisateur et cr?ation de documents - Combinaison de l'image et du langage Recherche d'informations: - Internet et la recherche d'information translingue - Syst?mes et techniques de recherche d'information - Recherche d'information interactive et multimedia - M?thodes de recherche d'information - Classement et classification - Filtrage, traitement du langage naturel et recherche textuelle - Visualisation de l'information Traitement du langage parl? et de l'audio : - Parole et recherche d'information - Techniques de traitement de la parole et du multim?dia - Traitement de l'information musicale Traitement du langage naturel : - Gestion des documents multilingues et traduction automatique - Terminologie - Traitement du langage naturel appliqu? au traitement des documents - M?thodes de traitement du langage naturel Traitement d'informations visuelles : - Analyse de documents scann?ris?s - Techniques de traitement des images et de la video - Indexation, recherche et visualisation de videos - Indexation, recherche et visualisation d'images - Architecture des syst?mes, usage et applications - Evaluation et bonnes pratiques: Sessions de tables-rondes: - Acc?s ? l'information translingue - Evaluation des syst?mes de recherche d'information dans le monde - Usage des syst?mes de recherche d'information Pour plus d'information sur le programme, le lieu de la conf?rence et les formalit?s d'inscription, visitez notre site Toile : http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO Ou contactez nous par m?l: - Pour les questions scientifiques ou techniques ? riao2000 at limsi.fr - Pour les questions pratiques et d'organisation ? cidcol at club-internet.fr ------------------------------------- Joseph MARIANI LIMSI-CNRS BP 133 91403 Orsay Cedex (France) T?l.: (33/0) 1 69 85 80 85 Fax: (33/0) 1 69 85 80 88 Email: mariani at limsi.fr Web: http://www.limsi.fr/ **************************************** Karim Chibout LIMSI-CNRS B.P. 133 91403 Orsay Cedex FRANCE telephone: (+33/0) 1.69.85.80.66 telecopie: (+33/0) 1.69.85.80.88 courriel: chibout at limsi.fr http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/chibout/ ******************************************** 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/