From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jan  5 10:01:13 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:01:13 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <WED.5.JAN.2000.110113.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: MIT2USA at aol.com
   Subject: MIT2

2/ From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DSM/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: PostDoc CNET (informatique et linguistique)

3/ From:  Federica Busa <fede at lexeme.com>
   Subject:  Computational Lexicographer for Lexem Inc., Cambridge, Mass.

4/ From:  Stanley Peters <peters at CSLI.Stanford.EDU>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Postdoc Research Position at Stanford U.

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: MIT2USA at aol.com
   Subject: MIT2


Jobs at Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)

Mason Integrated Technologies, Ltd. (MIT2), a leader
in document imaging, language engineering, software
development, and language consulting services, is
expecting to expand rapidly and is seeking highly
qualified individuals to join this small, dynamic team.

Having successfully created the Haitian Creole version
of the CreoleScan(tm) OCR and the CreoleConvert(tm)
orthography conversion software, development will
soon be underway for versions of CreoleScan(tm) and
CreoleConvert(tm) in the Martinican, Guadeloupean,
Reunionese, Mauritian, Seychellois, St. Lucian and
Dominican French-lexicon creoles. Additional language
technology products are also planned for near-future
production.

For the development, marketing and implementation
of its language technology solutions, MIT2 is currently
considering applications for the following types of
positions:

* Computational Linguist
* Language Specialists
* Project Manager
* Marketing/Sales Specialist


The job profiles and application procedures are described at:
http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/JobOpps.html


To learn more about MIT2, its products and services,
visit our other Web site pages:

MIT2 Home Page:
http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html

MIT2 Products and Services:
http://hometown.aol.com/mit2haiti/Index4.html


Please address all inquiries and applications to:

VP of Development
Mason Integrated Technologies, Ltd
P.O. Box 181015
Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA
Tel: (+1) 617-247-8885
Fax: (+1) 617-262-8923
E-mail: mit2usa at aol.com

*******
Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd
P.O. Box 181015
Boston, MA  02118  USA
(617) 247-8885 (office & answering machine)
(617) 262-8923 (FAX)
MariLinc at aol.com (e-mail)
Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd Home Page:
   http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html
Orthographically Converted HC Texts Download Site:
   http://hometown.aol.com/mit2haiti/Index4.html
Meet Marilyn Mason:
   http://hometown.aol.com/marilinc/Index3.html
Seychelles Invited Seminar Pictures Page:
   http://hometown.aol.com/marilinc/Index1.html


___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DSM/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: PostDoc CNET (informatique et linguistique)

Recrutement d'un PostDoc pour l'intégration d'outils linguistiques sur le
web.

L'unité de R&D "langues naturelles" du CNET (Centre National d'Études des
Télécommunications de France Telecom), centre de Lannion - France,
souhaite recruter un PostDoc spécialiste en informatique et en linguistique
pour
une période de 12 mois, dès que possible, et idéalement avant Mars 2000.

Le candidat travaillera dans le cadre d'un projet européen sur le thème
des sites web multilingues. Le travail envisagé consiste à participer à la
réalisation d'un démonstrateur de site web intégrant un certain nombre
d'outils d'analyse de documents textuels fondés sur des traitements
linguistiques
pour l'analyse et l'exploitation du contenu des sites dans un contexte
multilingue
(résumé automatique, traduction automatique, recherche d'information, etc.).

Nous souhaitons recruter un candidat ayant de solides connaissances et une
expérience en développement d'outils linguistiques et ayant des
connaissances
sur les problèmes du multilinguisme. Par ailleurs, le candidat devra avoir
des
compétences en:
- Intégration d'applications sur le web,
- Unix, C++, Java, HTML.
- Langues : français et anglais (autres souhaitées: néerlandais, italien,
portugais).

Les candidats sont priés d'adresser un curriculum vitae détaillé à:
Malek Boualem
France Telecom - CNET/DSM/GRI
2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France
Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 - Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.12.59
Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr
ou
Jérôme Vinesse, responsable de l'équipe Langues Naturelles
Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.38.92 - Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.12.59
Email: jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr

___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Federica Busa <fede at lexeme.com>
   Subject:  Computational Lexicographer for Lexem Inc., Cambridge, Mass.


Lexeme Inc., a fast growing natural language company, located
in Cambridge, Massachusetts,  is seeking to hire computational
lexicographers to join its development group.

You will be assisting in the development of the knowledge
resources, working within a multidisciplinary team of linguists,
engineers and programmers.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Analyze text corpora in different linguistic domains;

* Assist in developing and extending lexical databases;

* Contribute to the creation of automatic tools for
  lexicographic projects;

* Assist in testing and evaluating the contribution of the
  knowledge resources to the overall system.

We are looking for people who enjoy working within a team in
a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate must be able to
play an active role in the group by combining independent and
creative thinking with specific project needs and deadlines.
The minimal requirement is a university degree with a background
in linguistics or lexicography or at least a very good knowledge
of basic grammatical concepts. Lexeme will provide training on
the job as well as through lectures and technical documentation.

Programming experience is not required but it is a plus.

Competitive salary.

Submit resumes electronically to:

   fede at lexeme.com

or by mail to:

   Federica Busa
   Lexeme, Inc.
   56 JFK St.
   Cambridge, MA 01238


___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Stanley Peters <peters at CSLI.Stanford.EDU>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Postdoc Research Position at Stanford U.

      POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

    Center for the Study of Language and Information
    Stanford University

The project on Interactive Communication with Intelligent Autonomous
Systems under the direction of Stanley Peters is looking for a
postdoctoral researcher.  Applicants should have background and
interests in two or more of the following areas:

  - design and implementation of real-time computational systems
  - spoken human language theory and technology
  - behavioral analysis of communication among cooperating agents

The ideal candidate will have credentials in system building and in
natural language, as well as a lively interest in agent communication.
The appointment is initially for one year with a potential renewal for
following years.  Salary is negotiable and commensurate with
experience.

The project is working in collaboration with the WITAS project at
Linköping University to develop a communications interface between
humans and an intelligent autonomous aerial vehicle.  For more
information on the WITAS project, see the following URL.
http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/witas/info/

Please direct inquiries and applications to

  Stanley Peters
  Stanford University
  CSLI
  220 Panama St.
  Stanford, CA 94305-4115

  peters at csli.stanford.edu

Stanford University is committed to equal opportunity through
affirmative action in employment and we are especially eager to
identify minority persons and women with appropriate qualifications.


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jan  5 10:01:24 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:01:24 +0100
Subject: Appel: SIGIR
Message-ID: <WED.5.JAN.2000.110124.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Bob Krovetz <krovetz at research.nj.nec.com>



         SIGIR 2000: Information Retrieval in Context

         TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR
            CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
                   IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

                        July 24-28 2000
                   Department of Informatics
  Athens University of Economics and Business Athens, Greece

                        CALL FOR PAPERS
           For details see: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr


SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of
new research results and the demonstration of new  systems and
techniques in  the broad field of information  retrieval (IR).
The  Conference and Program Chairs  invite all those concerned
with issues of IR  to submit original  research contributions,
posters,  and proposals  for  tutorials,  workshops,  and
demonstrations  of  systems,  for  presentation at SIGIR 2000.
All contributions should be submitted to the appropriate Chair,
as indicated  below (see the  Conference  web site for further
details: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr).

TOPICS
Information  Retrieval  is contextual. IR functionalities form
part  of  increasingly  complex  information systems serving a
great  variety  of information tasks and behaviors. SIGIR 2000
seeks  original  research  contributions in the broad field of
information  storage  and retrieval, covering the handling  of
all types of information, user behavior in information systems,
and theories, models, and implementations of IR systems. Topics
relevant to SIGIR include but are not limited to:

* IR Theory, including logical, statistical and interactive IR
  models, data fusion.
* Experimentation: test collections, interactive IR experiments,
  evaluation measures, experimental design, testing methodology,
  scalability.
* Natural  Language  Processing:  word  sense  disambiguation,
  discourse analysis, summarization for the purposes of IR, use
  of linguistic resources for IR.
* Contextual  IR:  multi-media  IR,  cross-lingual IR systems,
  speech retrieval,  dialogue  management, (non)feature-based
  indexing, information seeking and task embedded IR.
* Interface  issues:  user  &  use  modeling,  human-computer
  interaction, search strategies.
* Filtering, Extraction, Routing, and Text Classification.
* Systems and Implementation Issues: integration with database
  systems,  networked  systems  and  the internet, compression,
  efficient query evaluation.
* Applications: electronic publishing,  digital libraries, text
  mining, WWW-related issues, semistructured document retrieval.

SIGIR 2000 IMPORTANT DATES:
==========================

* January 21: Original research paper submissions due. See the
  Submission Instructions Section below for details.

* February 11: Proposals  for  tutorials,  workshops,  posters,
  panels and demonstrations due. See the Submission Instructions
  Section below for details.

* April 1: Notification of acceptance of all submissions.

* May 1: Final camera-ready copy of all submissions due.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
=======================

RESEARCH PAPERS

Research papers must consist of original contributions (that is,
not previously published and not currently being considered for
publication elsewhere) and must contain a clear statement of the
problem addressed and the context in which it arises. Papers must
also contain appropriate references to prior work and must indicate
what contribution the work makes to the primary field of Information
Retrieval. Researchers relatively new to the field of IR should
get examples from, e.g., previous SIGIR conferences, the ACM
Transaction on Information Systems (TOIS), the Journal of the
American Society for Information Science (JASIS), etc.

Papers (5 copies) should be submitted in English to the Program
Co-Chair responsible for the geographic region of the first author.
Papers should contain at most 5000 words. There are no formatting
requirements for submissions, but do not use font sizes smaller
than 10 point. The final version of the paper will have to fit
within 8 double-column pages, including all figures and bibliography,
so plan accordingly. Papers that are clearly longer than the limit
of 5,000 words will be rejected immediately.

The first page must contain the title of the paper, an abstract
of not more than 150 words, and up to 6 keywords taken from the
list at the end of this Call for Submissions. No page in the paper,
including the first page, should indicate the author(s) or their
affiliation(s). The purpose of omitting author names and affiliations
is to facilitate blind reviewing. Therefore, authors should make an
attempt to disguise who they are if possible, by omitting
acknowledgements in the submitted version of the paper, and by
refraining from phrases such as
  "In our earlier work [cite author-name] ..."
Authors should cite their work when required but attempt not to
make it obvious that the cited work is their own, if possible.

Please indicate if the paper is to be considered for the Best
Student Paper Award. This Award requires that the first and primary
author be a fulltime student at time of submission, that he or she
is responsible for much of the work, and that he or she will present
the paper should it be accepted.

In addition, authors must provide a separate cover page with the
title, the author name(s), the author affiliation(s), the same
list of keywords as on the first page, plus complete contact
information (mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) for the
author to whom correspondence should be sent. All correspondence
with the authors will be through email. The information on this
cover page must also be sent by email to the respective regional
Program Co-Chair. Submissions must arrive before 21 January 2000.

Authors in the Americas should mail 5 hardcopies of the submission
and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Nicholas Belkin
  School of Communication, Information & Library Studies,
  Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street,
  New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071, USA
  Email: nick at belkin.rutgers.edu
  Phone: +1-732-932-8585
  Fax: +1-732-932-6916

Authors in Europe and Africa should mail 5 hardcopies of the
submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Peter Ingwersen
  Royal School of LIS,
  Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
  Email: pi at db.dk
  Phone: +45-32-58-60-66
  Fax: +45-32-84-02-01

Authors in Asia, Australia and the Pacific should mail 5 hardcopies
of the submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Mun-Kew Leong
  (Attn: SIGIR Submission),
  Kent Ridge Digital Labs,
  21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
  Email: mkleong at krdl.org.sg
  Phone: +65-874-7864
  Fax: +65-774-4998


TUTORIALS

SIGIR 2000 will begin with a full day of tutorials, each of which
should cover a single topic in detail. Proposals are solicited for
tutorials of either a half day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day
(6 hours plus breaks).  Submissions should be made to the Tutorials
Chair and should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract.
The cover sheet should specify:
     1.the length of the tutorial.
     2.the intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced).
     3.complete contact information for the contact person and other
       presenters.
     4.brief biographies (max. 2 paragraphs) of the presenters.
The extended abstract should be 3 to 5 pages, and should include an
outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the course
objectives and course materials.

Tutorial proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Alan Smeaton (Email: asmeaton at compapp.dcu.ie)

WORKSHOPS

Proposals are solicited from individuals and groups for one-day
workshops to be held on the fifth day of the conference. Submissions
(up to 1,000 words) should include the theme and goal of the workshop,
planned activities, maximum number of participants, the selection
process for participants, and a list of potential participants.
Include a CV for each organizer describing relevant qualifications
and experience. After the workshop, organizers are to provide an
article for the SIGIR Forum which summarizes the workshop.

Workshop proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Bob Krovetz (Email: krovetz at research.nj.nec.com)

PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

Proposals for panel sessions should be sent to the Panels Chair by
prospective moderators.  Panels should address issues of interest
to the general information retrieval community, and should be designed
to stimulate lively debate between panelists and audience. Panel
proposals (2-3 pages) must include:
     1.complete contact information for the moderator.
     2.the rationale for addressing this topic as a panel.
     3.the names and affiliations of the panel members.
     4.a description of how the panel will be structured, with
       emphasis on how general participation will be encouraged.
Abstracts of panel presentations will appear in the proceedings.

Demonstrations offer first-hand experience with Information
Retrieval systems, whether advanced operational systems or research
prototypes. The demonstration proposal should indicate how the
demonstration illustrates new ideas, should provide the technical
specifications of the system and should include references to other
literature. The hardware, software, and network requirements should be
indicated in a separate cover letter. A one-page abstract describing
each demonstration accepted will be published in the proceedings.

Panel and Demonstration proposals must be sent via email by
11 February 2000 to:
  James Allan (Email: allan at cs.umass.edu)

POSTERS

SIGIR 2000 poster presentations offer researchers an opportunity to
present late-breaking results, significant work in progress,
or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical
format. Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings.
Three copies of an extended abstract (roughly 3-4 pages) should be
submitted to the Posters Chair. The abstract should emphasize the
research problem and the methods being used, and be headed only
by the title of the poster. In addition, a separate cover page
is required containing the title of the poster, along with
the name and affiliation of the author(s), and complete contact
information for the author to whom correspondence should be sent.

Poster proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Amit Singhal (Email: singhal at research.att.com)


AWARDS

During the conference the following awards will be given:

*  The Gerard Salton award
*  Best scientific paper award
*  Best paper presentation award
*  Best student paper award (first author should be student)

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
=======================

Conference Chair:
Emmanuel Yannakoudakis
Athens University of Economics and Business,
Department of Informatics,
76 Patission Street, Athens 104 34, Greece (eyan at aueb.gr),
Phone: +30-1-8214145,  Fax. : +30-1-8203356

Programme Chairs:
* For The Americas: Nicholas Belkin
  Professor and Director of the Ph.D.Program,
  School of Communication, Information & Library Studies,
  Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick NJ
  08901-1071, USA (nick at belkin.rutgers.edu)
  Phone: +1-732-932-8585, Fax: +1-732-932-6916

* For Europe and Africa: Peter Ingwersen
  Royal School of LIS, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S,
  Denmark, (pi at db.dk)
  Phone: +45-32-58-60-66, Fax: +45-32-84-02-01

* For Asia, Australia and the Pacific: Mun-Kew Leong
  (Attn: SIGIR Submission), Kent Ridge Digital Labs,
  21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
  (mkleong at krdl.org.sg)
  Phone: +65-874-7864, Fax: +65-774-4998

Tutorials Chair: Alan Smeaton
School of Computer Applications, Dublin City
University Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
(asmeaton at compapp.dcu.ie)
Phone: +353-1-7045262, Fax: +353-1-7045442

Workshops Chair: Bob Krovetz
NEC Research Institute,
4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
(krovetz at research.nj.nec.com)
Phone: +1-609-951-2773, Fax: +1-609-951-2483

Panels and Demonstrations Chair: James Allan
Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA
(allan at cs.umass.edu)
Phone: +1-413-545-3240, Fax: +1-413-545-1789

Posters Chair: Amit Singhal
AT&T Labs-Research, Rm A-281, Shannon Laboratory,
180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932, USA
(singhal at research.att.com)
Phone: +1-973-360-8335, Fax: +1-973-360-8970

Publicity Chair: Anestis Konstantinidis
(mvazirg at aueb.gr)

Treasurer: Elias Lypitakis
(eal at aueb.gr)

Awards Chair: Efthimis Efthimiadis
School of Library & Information Science, University of Washington
Box 352930, Seattle, WA 98195-2930, USA
(efthimis at u.washington.edu)
Phone: +1-206-616-6077, Fax: +1-206-616-3152


REVIEWING PROCESS:
The  SIGIR  2000  Programme  Committee  is  organized with an
International  Programme  Committee (IPC) and three  Regional
Programme  Committees (RPC). Both the  IPC and  the RPCs  are
designed to reflect the broadening topic areas of IR research.
The reviewing process for SIGIR 2000 will  be  in  two stages.
There will first be initial reviews by at least three members
of the RPCs for each submission. For each paper, an IPC member
will be responsible for producing a review and recommendation
integrating the three initial reviews. All submissions will be
refereed "blind",  that is,  without  identification  of their
authors.  For  further information  on the  requirements  for
submission of contributions, and evaluation criteria, see the
Conference web site: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Jun Adachi, NACSIS, Japan
Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile
Marcia Bates, UCLA, USA
Jamie Callan, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA
Norbert Fuhr, University Dortmund, Germany
Donna Harman, NIST, USA
William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA
Kalervo Jarvelin, University Tampere, Finland
David Lewis, AT&T Labs, USA
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, USA
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,USA
Mark Maybury, MITRE, USA
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea
Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Steve Robertson, Microsoft Research, UK
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Karen Sparck Jones, University of Cambridge, UK
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Ellen Voorhees, NIST, USA
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Peter Willett, University of Sheffield, UK
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China


COOPERATING ORGANISATIONS:
ACM SIGIR, BCS IRSG, Greek Computer Society, others requested.


SIGIR 2000 PAPER SUBMISSION KEYWORD CHOICES - GROUPED ROUGHLY BY TOPIC
(submissions should include up to 6 keywords on both the first page
and the cover page)

IR theory and models (general), statistical/probabilistic models,
logic-based models, term expansion/thesauri, relevance feedback
algorithms/evaluation, text clustering, filtering/routing, passage
retrieval, retrieval using document structure, structured queries,
change in queries over time, evaluation (general), test collections,
testing methodology, scalability of evaluation, information brokers,
distributed collections, merging search results/information synthesis,
systems and implementation (general), architectures for IR systems,
architectures for WWW search, scalability of IR systems, efficiency
indexing for IR systems, efficient query evaluation , compression and
other optimizations for IR, integration with database systems ,
information access in digital libraries, natural language processing for
IR (general), stemming/morphological analysis, tokenization/parsing,
thesaurus construction , phrase detection and use, word sense
disambiguation and IR, text segmentation, discourse analysis and IR,
summarization/abstracting and IR, question answering, translation,
cross-lingual indexing/retrieval, information seeking behavior
(general), individual differences in information-seeking,
field/empirical studies of the information seeking process, theoretical
discussion of the information seeking process, embedding search within
larger tasks , user studies (general), comparing interfaces for
information access, methodology for evaluating interactive IR, user
interface (UI) design for IR (general), information visualization for IR
(general), UIs/visualization for collection overviews and topic spaces,
UIs/visualization for categories/subject codes, UIs/visualization for
query generation and specification, UIs/visualization organizing and
displaying retrieval results, UIs/visualization for source selection,
UIs/visualization for hypertext search and navigation, integrating
navigation and search, animation and IR interfaces, structuring
information to aid search and navigation, structuring information for
different user populations, navigation versus ad hoc search, monitoring
user behavior to improve search, automated presentation of information,
adaptive IR interfaces, adaptive ranking algorithms , cognitive models
and IR, user models and information access, information seeking
dialogues , sensemaking, collaboration and IR, collaboritive filtering,
social techniques for organization and search, reading/annotating and
IR, knowledge-based systems and IR, semantic nets/conceptual graphs and
IR, case-based reasoning and IR, machine learning and IR, text
categorization, planning and IR, IR agents (general), architectures for
IR agents, IR and avatars, (semi) automated search assistants, MMIR
(general), content-based indexing/retrieval (general), image
indexing/retrieval, text image indexing/retrieval, OCR/degraded images
indexing/retrieval, video indexing/retrieval, speech indexing/retrieval,
general audio indexing/retrieval, metadata for retrieval of non-text
information, efficient search over non-textual information, query
languages for non-textual information, results analysis and presentation
for MMIR, evaluation theory and methodology for MMIR, test collection
development for MMIR , application areas (general), biomedical
informatics, legal informatics, entertainment and IR, education and IR,
exploiting hyperlink structure, event detection and tracking, text data
mining, search and ecommerce, search and mobile systems, IR interaction
with the physical world,


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jan  5 10:01:31 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:01:31 +0100
Subject: Ecole:  ELSNET Summer School
Message-ID: <WED.5.JAN.2000.110131.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Mariken Broekhoven <elsnet at let.uu.nl>



*******************First Announcement***************************

8th European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication

     "Text and Speech Triggered Information Access (TeSTIA)"

             Chios Island, Greece, 15-30 July 2000

The 2000 ELSNET Summer School will be organized by the Institute
for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) in Athens, Greece.
The event will be sponsored by ELSNET, IHP and ILSP, and receive
further support from ISCA and EACL.

Years of speech and billions of characters are stored in various
media including the Internet. How can we ever find useful
information in such vast archives? Automatic procedures that can
recognize speech accurately and linguistic tools that automatically
take out essential information components may do the job. The 2000
Summer School will present the current state of the art. For details
of the programme, which will consist of plenary sessions, parallel
courses and workshops, please check the summer school homepage:

  http://www.ilsp.gr/testia/testia2000.html





Mariken Broekhoven
ELSNET Assistant Coordinator


European Network in Language and Speech
____________________________________________________________
email:   elsnet at let.uu.nl
mail :   Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS,
         Trans 10, 3512 JK, Utrecht, The Netherlands
tel  :   +31 30 253 6039
fax  :   +31 30 253 6000
www  :   http://www.elsnet.org


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jan  5 10:01:40 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:01:40 +0100
Subject: Appel: SCI'2000
Message-ID: <WED.5.JAN.2000.110140.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Nagib Callaos <sci2000 at iiisconferences.org>


CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 4TH WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON
SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS
SCI'2000

July, 23-26, 2000

Orlando, Florida(USA)
Sheraton World

http://www.iiis.org/isas/


Honorary Presidents: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and George Klir
Program Committee Chair: William Lesso
General Chair: Nagib Callaos
Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez


MAJOR THEMES

* Information Systems Development
* Information Systems Management
* Management Information Systems
* Virtual Engineering
* Mobile/Wireless Computing
* Communication Systems and Networks
* Emergent Computation
* Image,Acoustic,Speech and Signal Processing
* Computing Techniques
* Human Information Systems
* Education and Information Systems
* Control Systems
* Economic and Financial Systems
* SCI in Biology and Medicine
* SCI in Psychology, Cognition and Spirituality
* Conceptual Infrastructure of SCI
* Natural Resources
* Human Resources
* Globalization, Development and Emerging Economies
* SCI in Art

ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC CO-SPONSORS

· WOSC: World Organization on Systemics and Cybernetics (France)
· The Centre for Systems Studies (UK)
· Systems Society of Poland
· Society Applied Systems Research (Canada)
· Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society
· Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela)
· Polish System Society (Poland)
· Italian Society of Systemics
· ISSS: International Society for the Systems Sciences (USA)
· ISI: The International Systems Institute (USA)
· IFSR: International Federation of Systems Research (Austria/USA)
· IEEE / Latinamerica
· Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics and
Cybersemiotics (Denmark)
· CUST, Engineer Science Institute of the Blaise Pascal University (France)
· Concurrency and Architecture Group, the Telematics Engineering
Departament of
  The Univesity of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria, Spain.

ORGANIZED BY THE IIIS

The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION

Those interested in participating in the:
· Organization of Invited Session(s)
· Organization of a Focus Symposium
· Reviewing Process
· Conference Promotion
· Recommending Scholars/Researchers for Active Participation and/or for
Papers Submissions.
· Proposing Organizations/Institutes/Universities as Academic/Scientific
Co-sponsors.
Please contact the General Chair Professor Nagib Callaos:
ncallaos at callaos.com
                                                          ncallaos at aol.com
                                                          ncallaos at aol.com

nacallao at telcel.net.ve

PARTICIPANTS

Participation of both researchers and practitioners is strongly encouraged.
Papers may be
submitted on: research in science and engineering, case studies drawn on
professional
practice and consulting, and position papers based on large and rich
experience gained
through executive/managerial practices and decision-making. For this
reason, the
Program Committee is conformed according to the criteria given above.

TYPES OF SUBMISSION ACCEPTED

 1.Papers
   * Research
   * Review
   * Position
   * Report
 2.Panel Presentation, Workshop and/or Round Table Proposals
 3.New Topics and Invited Sessions Proposal(which should include a minimum
of 5 papers)
 4.Focus Sympsia(which should include a minimum of 15 papers)

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND PAPER DRAFTS SUBMISSION FORM

Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent according the following
format:

1. Major theme of the paper, according the major themes given above.
2. Paper title.
3. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words and/or paper drafts of 2000 to
5000 words, in English.
4. Author or co-authors with names, addresses, telephone number, fax number
and e-mail address.

Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent via Internet, as
attachments to e-mails addressed
to nacallao at telcel.net.ve  and SCI2000 at aol.com.  Exceptionally, three
copies of extended abstracts or paper drafts
might be sent to the following postal mail address and/or faxed to the
following numbers:

IIIS
SCI '2000
7525 Karlov Avenue
Skokie, Illinois 60076

Fax Numbers:

1-407-8566274 (Orlando, USA)
58-2-9621519 (Caracas, Venezuela)

DEADLINES

February 2, 2000   Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words)or paper
                    draft(2000-2500 words)
March 15, 2000   Acceptance notifications
April 20, 2000      Submission of camera/ready papers: hard copies and
electronic versions

PAPERS REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION

Submitted papers will be refereed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed
six single-
spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic
proceedings. The
full paper should be sent via Internet and by means of diskette and
photoready
hard copies of artwork, not later than April 20, 2000.

Best papers will be selected for awards and recommended for journal
publications.

Multiple author books will be published by iiis, based on best-invited
sessions, best focus
symposia or best mini-conferences.

INVITED SESSIONS

To organize an invited session for SCI'2000, the following steps are
suggested:

1) Identify a special topic is in the scope of SCI'2000. You may contact the
General chair,the Program Chair or other program committee members, on the
suitability of the topic, if
it is not included in the Conference Program.
2) Contact the General Chair for the invited session acceptation
3) Contact researchers or practitioners in your field to see if they can
contribute a paper to your proposed session and attend SCI'2000.
4) Collect the extended abstracts or the paper drafts from each perspective
invitee.
5) Write a summary (1-2 page) on the session's significance and coherence of
the invited/selected papers.

Mail the invited session proposal including a summary and a copy of all
abstracts before,
February 29,2000 to Professor Nagib Callaos, the General Chair.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Integrated by (210) prestigious scholars/researchers from 54 countries.
Details can be found in the conference web (http://www.iiis.org/isas/) page
or asking for a detailed Call For Papers, via e-mail.

CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fees will be $330 before April 20, 2000 and $380 after April
20, 2000.This fee will include:

* A CD-ROM version of the Proccedings
* One volumen of the hard copy version of the Conference Proceeding.
  (Other volumes will be available with a 30% of discount for participants)
* Coffee breaks
* Welcome Reception

CONFERENCE CONTACTS

Prof. Nagib Callaos (General Chair)
E -mails: ncallaos@ usb.ve(Academic)
          ncallaos@ aol.com(Personal)
          ncallaos@ Callaos.com(Business)
          ncallaos@ IIIS.com(IIIS)

USA Phone: +1
USA Fax: +1 (407) 856-6274
Venezuela Tel/Fax (office): +58 (2) 962-1519
Venezuela Tel/Fax (home): +58 (2) 963-8852

Conference Secretariat
scio98 at cantv.net


Other contacts and More details can be found at the
Conference web page (http://www.iiis.org/isas/). Answers to
specific questions can be requested also by e-mail.


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jan 13 12:27:53 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:27:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: FOUR ANLP/NAACL-2000 Workshop
Message-ID: <THU.13.JAN.2000.132753.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


The following four Calls for Papers for workshops associated with the
ACL-sponsored ANLP/NAACL-2000 Conference are included below, separated
by dash lines:

1)Workshop on Conversational Systems
  May 4, 2000, following ANLP/NAACL 2000

2)EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP II
  Thursday, May 4, 2000

3)Workshop on Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual
  Approaches to NLP
  Sunday, April 30, 2000

4)Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for
  Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems
  Thursday, May 4th, 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA


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    Call for Papers
   Workshop on Conversational Systems
        May 4, 2000, following ANLP/NAACL 2000

The purpose of this workshop is to focus the discourse and dialogue
community on best practices as well as theory of conversational
systems, both speech based and text based.  The workshop will also
bring together creators of working conversational systems to discuss their
efforts, both successes and limitations.

In this workshop we encourage papers on either theoretical or applied
research with a focus on results in working systems.  We also welcome
papers on working systems that provide a critical appraisal of their
capabilities as well as their limitations; we encourage such papers to
provide the criteria of critique that the authors feel are most
relevant to their work.  This workshop will consider in particular:

- How can systems be designed so that it is easier to build
applications in new domains?
- What significant features of dialogue are beyond current working
systems?  What proposals show the most promise for capturing these
features?
- What knowledge does a system need to represent about a domain, tasks
and discourse to support intelligent conversational interaction?
- What can be learned from data and what should be learned from data?
Can robust systems be built for domains where there is not a large amount
of data available?
- What is the role of natural language generation in conversational systems?
- What aspects of discourse prosody are now feasible in conversational
systems?
- What aspects of nonverbal behavior are now feasible -- and worthwhile
implementing -- in conversational systems?
- How can the real-world performance of conversational systems be measured
and anticipated? How can the performance of different systems be compared?

In addition to the presentation of papers and the discussions that
will result from them, we plan demonstration sessions and a panel
session. The demonstration sessions will be open to anyone who wishes
to bring their conversational systems for demonstration to other
members of the workshop.  Presenters are asked to submit a paper that
is specifically directed at a demonstration of their current systems.
These papers should cover the following topics as well as others the
presenters think are relevant:

-a short system description,
-an example dialogue or dialogues, as space permits,
-discussion of the most important contribution of the work,
-discussion of the most significant limitation of the work.

These papers will be included in the workshop proceedings.

In the panel session we plan to bring together a set of experts to
compare various approaches (including frame-based, finite-state,
plan-based and statistical and logical reasoning-based) to dialogue in
working conversational systems.

A website which will provide additional information on the workshop as
it becomes available is located at:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/traum/ConvSys/.

I. 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:                            May 4, 2000

II. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

Submissions must use the ACL latex style or ACL Microsoft Word style,
both of which can be found at
http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/cfp_submission.html. Paper
submissions should consist of a full paper of 8 pages (including
references). Please send submission questions to Alex
Rudnicky,air at cs.cmu.edu, before, not after, January 31, 2000.

Submission Procedure:

Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript or
MS Word form of your submission to: Alex Rudnicky, air at cs.cmu.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.

The Organizing Committee for this workshop includes:

Candy Sidner, Lotus (Chair)
James Allen, Univ. of Rochester
Harald Aust, Philips Corp.
Phil Cohen, Oregon Graduate Institute
Justine Cassell, Media Lab, MIT
Laila Dybkjaer, University of Southern Denmark
X.D. Huang, Microsoft
Masato Ishizaki, Japan Adv. Institute of Science and Technology
Candace Kamm, AT&T
Lin-Shan Lee, Taiwan University
Susann Luperfoy, Akamai Technologies
Patti Price, SRI International
Owen Rambow, AT&T
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI Saarbruecken
Alex Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University
Stephanie Seneff, MIT
Dave Stallard, BBN/GTE
David Traum, University of Maryland
Marilyn Walker, AT&T
Wayne Ward, Univ of Colorado, Boulder

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             EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS
                         WORKSHOP II
           held in conjunction with NAACL/ANLP2000

                   Thursday, May 4, 2000
                  Seattle, Washington, USA


         Embedded MT Systems homepage for this workshop
          http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems


WHAT IS AN "EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT) SYSTEM"?

An "embedded MT system" is a computational system with one
or more MT engines among its components.  These systems
accept multilingual, multimodal inputs and create various outputs
that enable the users to access the original information in their
own language.  An MT component embedded in an end-to-end system
allows users to perform their specific tasks on foreign language
input that they previously only had been able to perform in
their native language. To date, these tasks have included
summarization, content extraction, filtering and document
retrieval.

BACKGROUND

The first workshop on Embedded MT Systems was held in conjunction
with the biennial meeting of the Association for Machine Translation
in the Americas (AMTA), in October, 1998, in Langhorne, PA.  The
Embedded MT Systems Workshop II is a response to the growing
community commitment to translingual information research,
e.g., the DARPA TIDES initiative.  By holding the workshop at
the combined NAACL and ANLP conferences this year, there will be
an opportunity for a multi-disciplinary mix of researchers and
to attend, contribute and benefit from the workshop.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The strengths and weaknesses of machine translation engines
have become better understood and accepted. There has been a marked
increase in the development of a range of computer systems containing
an MT component. This workshop will focus on the system designs, the
associated information access tasks of such end-to-end systems,
and the measures of system effectiveness.

Of particular interest are systems that accept one or another of
various types of input including hard-copy pages, online text
files, and speech (natural or transcribed).  These inputs
present real-world, noisy data that challenge MT engine capabilities.
We would like to know the degradation in performance that
these challenges present and the compensation strategies that
system developers have tested or used.  We also seek
submissions describing possible channel-specific feedback
processes from other system components that help correct the
noisy input.

Papers describing multiple MT engines and algorithms for selecting
among their outputs are encouraged.  It would be interesting
to hear how these complex MT components have been integrated into
specific applications.  For example, do certain MT engines produce
results better suited for summarization, retrieval, or online
foreign language tutoring?

The field of MT evaluation currently lacks an adequate methodology.
There are no widely used standards and few statisticians have been
called upon to assess the metrics that have been proposed. We will
look for submissions that include measures for the individual system
components and end-to-end system evaluation.  Also of interest are
measures that evaluate user performance on specific tasks.

We expect that the range of papers from both the first and this
second workshop will provide sufficient material for us to pursue
a special journal issue dedicated to Embedded MT Systems.

IMPORTANT DATES

Intent to submit: Friday, Feb. 11, 2000
Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000
Notification of acceptance of papers: Friday, March 3, 2000
Camera-ready papers due: Monday, March 13, 2000

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Electronic submission of Intent to Submit should have the
following subject line:
   "NAACL-ANLP2000 WORKSHOP - Intent to submit"
Body of message should include Identification Page information:
   - title of submission
   - names of all authors
   - primary author name and email address, phone and fax
   - presentation type preference
       (select one or more per system: demo, poster, or paper)
   - keywords

Authors may submit short papers, full-length papers, poster
presentations and/or demos.

For electronic submission, include the Identification
Page Information (see above) as a separate page from the paper
itself. Reviewing will be blind. No author information should be
included with the main body of the paper.  Full paper submissions
may be up to 5000 words in length, including references.
Submissions for poster presentations and short papers may be up
to 2000 words in length, including references.

Demo presentations are encouraged in conjunction with papers
or posters.  For demo-only presentations, submissions up to
two pages long should describe the system design and
capabilities with respect to (ii) above:
an end-to-end process flow covering the system
input, any pre-MT processing, the MT component itself, any
post-MT processing, and the system output.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style.
Both are available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page:
    http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/

Please send submissions and questions to: voss at arl.mil
Notification of receipt will be sent to the primary author.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Carol Van Ess-Dykema, US Dept. of Defense
Clare R. Voss, US Army Research Lab
Florence Reeder, MITRE Corp.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Gary Coen, Boeing Phantom Works
Bob Frederking, LTI, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN
Inge Gorm Hansen and Henrik Selsoe Sorenson, Copenhagen Business School
Lori Levin, LTI, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Bill Ogden, CRL, NMSU
Kathi Taylor, Georgetown U.

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       CALL FOR PAPERS

      Workshop on Applied Interlinguas:
    Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP
  (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000)

           Sunday, April 30, 2000
          Seattle, Washington, USA


The organizing committee wishes to invite submissions to the Workshop
on the Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP which
will be held on Sunday, April 30, 2000, in conjunction with the
ANLP-NAACL2000.

Interlingual approaches to NLP have been developed within the field of
Machine Translation. The central goal is to analyze natural language
expressions in terms of a representation language that will capture
those aspects of a communication which permit the generation of an
equivalent expression in some other language (that is, a
representation of the communicative intent of the utterance). An
interlingual representation of some utterance should ideally represent
what was said by whom and to whom and relevant information about
where, when, why and how it was said.  The representations are usually
very rich and extremely knowledge intensive. Many aspects of such
representation systems are unknown or underdeveloped.

Often, though not invariably, the lexicon of an IL representation will
be drawn from the names of nodes in an Ontology, representing classes,
events, or concepts. The syntax of the IL prescribes how these nodes
are combined into an utterance representation. An IL-based approach to
Machine Translation then specifies how a source language sentence can
be analyzed into an IL representation and how this representation can
then generate a natural language output.

This workshop will focus on these latter two aspects of the IL
approach: the syntax of the IL and the techniques used to analyze and
generate natural language. The uses of an Ontology outside of
Knowledge-based Machine Translated is a related, but slightly
different subject.

To date, such approaches have been essentially theoretical (although a
number of limited applications exist).  One of the criticisms of such
approaches is that they are impractical -- requiring too much
hand-coding or too deep a knowledge-representation to be
useful. However, several examples of IL specifications are available.
For example, there is

the Text Meaning Representation of the Mikrokosmos Knowledge-based
Machine Translation system at the Computing Research Laboratory
(http://crl.nmsu.edu/Research/Projects/mikro/index.html).

the IL used in ISI's GAZELLE MT project
(http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/interlingua.html)

IL representations of a Spanish text produced by the KANT system at
the Language Technologies Institute
(http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/IRW/)
(http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant)

IL representation developed for a speech-to-speech system dealing with
travel planning by the Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced
Research (C-STAR)
(http://www.c-star.org)

Interlingual approaches offer powerful semantics-based and
pragmatics-based solutions to any number of NLP problems
(disambiguation, reference resolution, interpretation of figurative
speech to name a few). This workshop will focus on methods for making
interlingual approaches tractable within specific, well-defined tasks
not only for machine translation but for a range of NLP applications.

The goal of the workshop is to stimulate interest in more cognitive
research in NLP while focusing such work on near term, practical
applications. Papers are invited on:

 - methods for developing (or extending) underlying knowledge sources,
 - techniques for processing in the face of knowledge-poor sources or
   gaps in knowledge sources,
 - interlingual approaches to particular NLP tasks (reference
   resolution, disambiguation, interpretation of ellipsis, etc.),
 - interlingual approaches to different NLP applications
   (MT--including speech-to-speech translation, Information
   Extraction, Summarization, NL generation, Intelligent Tutoring
   Systems, etc.).

Since there is limited work on the application of IL approaches to NLP
currently, concept design papers are encouraged. Preference will be
given to actual research projects focusing on actual processing
problems and exploiting extant sources, but any contribution should
clearly focus on one of the topics above.

The workshop will consist of 6 30-minute presentations, each followed
by a half-hour discussion, beginning with two informal 6-minute
critical responses from reviewers followed by a short rebuttal by the
author and open discussion. Ideally, the critical responses will also
be available by the March 1 acceptance date, but in no case later
than March 31. All critiques and rebuttals received by March 13 will
be included in the proceedings. The remainder will be made available
at the workshop itself.

The Journal of Machine Translation will consider the results of the
workshop for publication in a special issue in 2001. In addition, the
contributions will be published as an NAACL workshop proceedings.

The program committee (and initial discussants) includes:

Bonnie Dorr  UMIACS-UMd
David Farwell  CRL-NMSU
Stephen Helmreich CRL-NMSU
Eduard Hovy  ISI-USC
Kevin Knight  ISI-USC
Lori Levin  LTI-CMU
Teruko Mitamura  LTI-CMU
Keith Miller  MITRE
Sergei Nirenburg CRL-NMSU
Mari Olsen  Microsoft
Boyan Onyshkeyvch DOD
Florence Reeder  MITRE
Harry Somers  UMIST
Yorick Wilks  USheffield

The workshop is sponsored in part by the Special Interest Group on
Interlinguas of the Association for Machine Translation in the
Americas. For further information about this series of workshops see:
http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/FWOI/index.html.

Dates

Submission of papers:   February 4, 2000
Notification of acceptance:  March 1, 2000
Submission of Final Copies:  March 13, 2000
Critiques of Accepted Papers:  March 31, 2000
Author's Rebuttals:   April 21, 2000
Workshop:    April 30, 2000

The dates related to the preparation of a special issue of the Journal
of Machine Translation will be made public at the workshop.

Paper Requirements

Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style (both
available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page --
http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/). Paper submissions
should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including
references). Please send papers and submission questions to
shelmrei at crl.nmsu.edu.

Cost

There will be a registration fee of $50.00 per person. A banquet for
the participants and guests will be organized separately for Sunday
evening.

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         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 Analyzing TOEFL Reading Comprehension Passages and
Items"

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


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jan 13 12:27:58 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:27:58 +0100
Subject: Appel: Symposium on Social Communication
Message-ID: <THU.13.JAN.2000.132758.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu


SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
On its 30th Anniversary

SANTIAGO DE CUBA
JANUARY 23-26, 2001

The Center of Applied Linguistics of the
Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of
Science, Technology and the Environment, is
pleased to announce on the occasion of its
30 Anniversary, the Seventh International
Symposium on Social Communication. The event
will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 23rd
through the 26th, 2001. This interdisciplinary
event will focus on social communication processes
from the points of view of Applied Linguistics,
Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Voice
Processing, Mass Media, and Ethnology and Folklore.

The Symposium will be also sponsored by:

=2E. University of Oriente, Cuba

=2E. Higher Institute for Medical Sciences,
  Santiago de Cuba

=2E. Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais',
  Santiago de Cuba

=2E. Information for Development Agency,
  Cuba

=2E. University of Twente, The Netherlands

=2E. National Council of Scientific Research,
   Italy

=2E. University of Leon, Spain

=2E. University of Malaga, Spain

=2E. University of Granada, Spain

=2E. Humboldt University, Germany

Authors will be allowed to present
only one paper pertaining to the
following disciplines:

1. Applied Linguistics:
- Spanish and foreign language teaching

- Spanish as a second language

- Phonetics and Phonology

- Lexicology and Lexicography

- Morphology and Syntax

- Sociolinguistics

- Psycholinguistics

- Textual Linguistics and
  Pragmalinguistics

- Terminology

- Translations

2. Computational Linguistics:

- Software related to linguistic research

- Automated grammatical tagging of texts

- Automated dictionaries

- Software related to the teaching of mother
  tongues and foreign languages

- Related issues

3. Voice Processing:

- Research related to Cry Analysis

- Applications of analysis, synthesis
  and voice-recognition

- Artificial intelligence and voice
  processing

4. Medical specialties related to speech
and voice and with Social Communication
in general:

- Logopedy and Phoniatry

- Neurology

- Otorhinolaringology

- Stomatology

- Child Psychiatry

- Pediatrics

- Cronobiology

5. Mass Media:

- Linguistic research related to the
  speech of journalists, actors and
  radio and television announcers.

- Textual Analysis of radio and
  television programs, and of print
  and electronic media articles

6. Ethnology and Folklore:

- Research related to Social Communication

Activities that will take place within
the event are:

- Pre-Symposium seminars

- Discussion of papers in commissions

- Master conferences

- Workshops

- Posters

PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS

The Symposium will be preceded by two
seminars that will be taught by prestigious
specialists to be announced. The seminars
will take place Monday, January 22nd of 2001
and will focus on the following subjects:

- Spanish as a second language

- Latest trends in Computational Linguistics

Participants should say in advance what
pre-symposium seminars they want to take
part in. An additional fee of 20.00 USD
will be charged for each seminar.

Participation certificates will be available.

WORKSHOP

A workshop entitled 'Applied Linguistics
in the Spanish-speaking World' will be
held on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary
of the Center of Applied Linguistics.

MASTER LECTURES
=09
During the symposium four master lectures
will be delivered by:

- Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt, Professor
  and Researcher, Twente University,
  Enschede, Holland.

- Dr. Hiroto Ueda, Professor and
  Researcher, Department of Spanish,
 Tokyo University, Japan.

- Dr. Mercedes Cathcart Roca, Professor
  and Researcher, Faculty of Humanities,
  University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba,
  Cuba.

- Dr. Manuel Vilares Ferro, Professor
  and Researcher, Vigo University, Spain.

ABSTRACTS

The deadline of submission of paper
abstracts is July 1st, 2000. They
should not exceed 250 words. Notification
of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's
Scientific Committee will be sent before
July 30th, 2000.

PAPERS

To enable the Organizing Committee
to include the Proceedings as part
of the Symposium's documentation, accepted
papers must be sent before September 1st, 2000,
with the following requirements:

1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages
including graphics, footnotes and
bibliography.

2. It should be written using Word 6.0
or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the
Symposium's Executive Secretary either
via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing
a 3=BD-inch diskette.

3. Each page must be written in an A4
(mail type) format with left, right,
top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm.=20

4. The paper must be written in one
of the event's official languages:
Spanish, English or French.

Instructions for paper submission:

1. Write down the authors' names,
one under the other, at the left
top of the first page, all in Arial
bold capital letters, 10 points (Word 6.0
or 7.0). Under the authors' names should
appear in bold (only initials capital
letters) the institution, city, country
and e-mail address if available.

2. In a separate line, at the center,
the title of the paper must be written
in Arial bold, Italics, 11 points size
letters.

3. The text will follow -not in bold-
with the same Arial letter, 10 points
size and leaving one space between lines.

4. Paragraphs will have no indentation.
Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3
points.

5. Section titles will be written in
Arial bold, and sub-sections titles
will be written in Arial Italic.

6. Footnotes will appear at the end
of each page in Arial 9 points size
letters.

Presentation time will be 15 minutes
and 5 minutes for discussion.

Authors must advise in advance if
they will need a tape recorder,
video set, computer or other kind
of equipment for presentation.

POSTERS

Posters should be 1 meter wide and
1.2 meter high. Authors will be
responsible of displaying them in
the morning of the presentation.
Abstract submission should include
the word POSTERS. For proceedings,
follow instructions above. Notice:
unlike full papers, posters will
not exceed 3 pages.

All mail or inquiries should be
addressed to:

Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Secretaria Ejecutiva
Comite Organizador
VII Simposio Internacional
de Comunicacion Social
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre
Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400
Telephones: (53-226) 42760 or
(53-226) 41081
Fax: (53-226) 41579
E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu
http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES:
Spanish, English and French

REGISTRATION FEE

Speakers  and  Delegates=09160.00 USD
Companions=09=09=0980.00 USD

Payment must be in cash during
registration and it covers a copy
of the Proceedings, all other
documentation related to the event,
speaker's certificate, welcome
cocktail, concert and tours.
Companions will have access
to all of the above, except
copies of the proceedings.

ACCOMODATION

The Organizing Committee guarantees
accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star
hotels with preferential prices for
participants in the event.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

- Abstract Submission deadline:
  July 1st, 2000

- Notification on paper's approval
  by Scientific Committee:
  by July 30, 2000

- Delivery of papers either by
  e-mail or by mail using 3=BD-inch
  diskette:
  September 1st, 2000

- Pre-Symposium seminars:
  January 22nd, 2001

- 7th International Symposium
  on Social Communication:
  January 23rd through 26th, 2001

OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST

Santiago de Cuba, located at some
900 kms from Havana, is Cuba's second
largest city. Its economic, cultural
and social importance in Cuban history
is unquestionable. Santiago is also the
capital of the province with the same name.
Surrounded by the green mountains of the
Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea,
Santiago is unique in its geography and
beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make
the city one of the most important tourist
attractions on the entire island. The
Organizing Committee, in coordination
with the city's tourist agencies will
offer visiting delegates a host of options
allowing participants to enjoy the city's
beauty and charm.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

President of Honor:
Dr. Rosa Elena Simeon Negrin
Minister of Science, Technology
and the Environment
Republic of Cuba

Aida Almaguer Furnaguera=20
Representative of the Ministry
of Science, Technology and the
Environment
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Gerardo Garcia Cabrera
President of Information
for Development Agency
Ministry of Science,
Technology and the Environment
Havana
Cuba

Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez
Member of the Academy
of Science of Cuba
Center of Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Director of Center of
Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Eloina Miyares Bermudez=20
Executive Secretary of the
Seventh International
Symposium on Social Communication
Center of Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Marcos Cortina V.
Rector University of Oriente
Ministry of Higher Education
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Nayra Pujals
Rector Higher Institute
for Medical Sciences
Ministry of Public Health
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Cesar Torres
Rector Pedagogical University
'Frank Pais'
Ministry of Education
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Anton Nijholt
Professor and Researcher
Twente University
Enschede, Holland

Kathleen Wermke
Professor and Researcher
Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany

Renate Siegmund
Professor and Researcher
Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany

Mercedes Cathcart Roca
Professor and Researcher
Faculty of Humanities
University of Oriente
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Daniela Ratti
Researcher
National Council of
Scientific Research
Genoa, Italy

Lucia Marconi
Researcher
National Council of
Scientific Research
Genoa, Italy

Claudia Rolando
Researcher
National Council of
Scientific Research
Genoa, Italy

Jose Ramon Morala Rodriguez
Professor and Researcher
University of Leon
Spain

Gloria Corpas Pastor
Professor and Researcher
University of Malaga
Spain

Daniel Madrid
Vicedean of International
Relations
Faculty of Education
University of Granada
Spain

Ercilia Estrada Estrada
Scientific Council
Center of Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Nancy Alamo Suarez
Researcher
Center of Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Humberto Oca=F1a Dayar
Professor and Researcher
Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais'
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Miladys Diodene Adame
Ministry of Education
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

REGISTRATION FORM

Mr./Ms. ___________________

Organization: _____________

Title: ____________________

Business address: ______________

City: _______ Telefax: _________

Phone: ___________

E-Mail:_________________________

Home address: __________________

City: ________ Telephone: ______

I wish to participate in
Pre-Symposium seminars (optional)

___Spanish as a second language

___Latest trends in Computational
Linguistics
=20
Paper title: _________________

Date: ________________

Signature: ___________


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jan 13 12:27:44 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:27:44 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 6 Offers
Message-ID: <THU.13.JAN.2000.132744.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Ling:Project Manager at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium

2/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  NLP Grammar Developer at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium

3/ From:  Zeeshan Khan <zeeshan at bcl-computers.com>
   Subject:  NLP at BCL Computers, Santa Clara,CA,USA

4/ From:  Pianesi Fabio <pianesi at irst.itc.it>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Programmer at ITC-Irst,Italy

5/ From:  "Sylvia Joos" <Sylvia.Joos at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Portuguese Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium

6/ From: Florence Gaunet <gaunet at limsi.fr>
   Subject: Proposition de stage

___________________________________________________________________________


1/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Ling:Project Manager at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the worlds 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):


          *************************************************************
          Project Manager Taiwanese
          Development  Speech and Language Technology
          *************************************************************

Function:

* You will manage and coordinate software development projects in the area
of
language and speech processing technology and systems for Taiwanese.
* You will coordinate the start-up of the Taiwanese language development
team,
including a.o. recruitment and logistics.
* You will supervise, coach and motivate a team of linguists and engineers
based
 both in Ieper, Taiwan and Singapore.
* You will streamline the gathering of corpora and acoustic data, the
development of an L&H specific grammars and lexicons for Taiwanese and the
translation of the linguistic data to software based on L&H technology.
* You will ensure that the quality and timing standards set out by L&H are
reached.
* You will actively participate in the technical aspects of the project.
* You will maintain good contacts with the different departments within L&H
and
relevant Taiwanese and Singaporean institutes, organizations, etc. .


Profile:

* relevant university degree preferably in computer science or
(computational)
linguistics;
* experience in management of development projects, preferably in the field
of
natural language and/or speech processing;
* near-native or native speaker of Taiwanese and a conversational level of
English;
* good knowledge of and experience in at least two of the following areas:
speech processing, phonetics, lexicography, computational linguistics,
natural
language processing (NLP), programming, (e.g. C, C++, script languages,?),
other
 languages;
* ability to work in a team and independently;
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
* good social and communicative abilities;
* self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit;
* willingness to travel for limited periods of time.



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

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

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  NLP Grammar Developer at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the worlds 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 offices in Brussels (Belgium) for a (m/f):


          ******************************************
          NLP GRAMMAR DEVELOPER
          Speech and Language Technology
          ******************************************

General Description:
* Localization of the Voice Xpress natural language grammars to voice
control
Windows applications to German, Dutch and UK English, but with the focus on
German.
* Development of new grammars for specific applications in the target
languages.
 This includes domain analysis, design, implementation, testing and
usability
evaluations.

Duties:
Responsibility - Percent of Work  Time:
* Natural language Grammar localization - 80%
* Natural Language Grammar Development - 20%

Required Skills:
* Linguistic education, preferably a university degree in the target
language,
or a (additional) degree in computer linguistics or artificial intelligence
* Excellence in the grammar of the target languages and its practical usage
(preferably native speaker of one of them)
* Good command of English
* The candidate has sense for methodology and self organization, works
rigorously
* Working knowledge of the following software required: Microsoft Windows,
Microsoft Office
* Good communication skills

Desired Skills:
* Experience with context free grammars and their application in Natural
Language Processing
* Experience with Rule Based systems
* The candidate is a team player but can also work also independently
* programming experience with Visual Basic and/or scripting languages
* Willing to travel for short periods

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

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. Ms. Valerie Maes
     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


___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Zeeshan Khan <zeeshan at bcl-computers.com>
   Subject:  NLP at BCL Computers, Santa Clara,CA,USA


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: NLP, Semantic Domain Modelling
Other Desired Areas: Knowledge-Base Construction
University or Organization: BCL Computers
Department: HCI Products
State or Province: CA
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: 7/1/2000
Contact: Zeeshan Khan zeeshan at bcl-computers.com

Address for Applications:
990 Linden Dr, Suite 203
Santa Clara
CA 95118
USA

BCL is looking for people with experience in computational linguistics
and linguistics to work on an exciting, cutting-edge project funded by
the Advanced Technology Program (ATP)  of the Department of Commerce.
The work involves developing and implementing linguistic models for
spoken and written language for internet and handheld platforms.

A short summary of the project and BCL is given below:
- -------------------------------------------------------------------

BCL COMPUTERS TO DEVELOP SPOKEN
LANGUAGE CODE GENERATING SOFTWARE FOR ATP

October 7, 1999.

 BCL Computers, a leader in document management technology, is pleased
to announce being awarded an ATP contract to develop a code generating
software "toolkit" that will allow programmers to rapidly develop
spoken-language input interfaces for new and existing applications
without a detailed knowledge of linguistic theory.

Speech-based input systems are becoming ever more desirable with the
advent of handheld computers. Spoken language provides a natural and
convenient method of communicating with the computer, but a
spoken-language user interface (SLUI) for an application program is
difficult to create.

Natural-language processing is far more complex than GUI programming.
Automatic speech recognition systems exist to take spoken words and
translate them into symbols, but to build a true SLUI the programmer
needs to understand concepts in human linguistics, syntactic parsing
and human discourse theory to effectively translate a natural language
sentence into input for an application program.

BCL Computers proposes a SLUI Toolkit that will allow programmers to
rapidly develop spoken-language input for new and existing applications
without a detailed knowledge of linguistic theory. The programmer will
specify a sample set of input sentences for each task, the Toolkit will
analyze them and generate a front-end application which is fine-tuned
for understanding relevant Naturally Spoken command sentences.

Natural-language processing is a notoriously difficult field, and
developing a SLUI Toolkit powerful and general enough to be useful to
programmers working in a wide variety of application areas will
require BCL to overcome a number of technical challenges, ranging from
 algorithms to deal with ambiguity in natural language to designing
effective "wrappers" to interface with the target application programs.

The resulting SLUI also must be compact and efficient enough to work
well within the resources of a handheld computer. A SLUI toolkit will
transform and expand the uses of handheld computers in much the same
way that the Graphical User Interface transformed the world of desktop
computers.

About BCL Computers

BCL Computers is a leader in human computer interaction technology.
Formalized in 1994, the company has been developing numerous solutions
addressing document understanding technology to aid repurposing of PDF
with both custom and shrink-wrapped solutions. With the intent of
simplifying the workflow, BCL has also developed technology that makes
web-publishing an easy task for both novices and experts. The
development
of the SLUI toolkit takes BCL into the Natural Language aspect of human

computer interaction where computers begin to understand written and
spoken input. The company's repertoire of products includes a fax
solution that enables immediately and automatic delivery of incoming
faxes to users via email.

About ATP

The ATP is a unique partnership between government and private
industry to accelerate the development of high-risk technologies
that promise significant commercial payoffs and widespread benefits
for the economy. The ATP encourages a change in how industry
approaches R&D, providing a mechanism for industry to extend its
technological reach and push out the envelope of what can be attempted.

http://www.atp.nist.gov

___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Pianesi Fabio <pianesi at irst.itc.it>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Programmer at ITC-Irst,Italy

The Cognitive   and  Communication  Technologies  (CCT)   division  at
ITC-Irst  (www.itc.it/enITCirst/)  has   the following   openings  for
temporary positions (2 years, renewable) starting as soon as possible:

- one  computer scientist to  collaborate in  the EC  funded  projects
Renaissance  (V  Framework).   The  ideal candidate  should  have good
programming  skills. Experience   in dialogue  systems and/or planning
techniques, and a good working knowledge of English are a plus.

-  one computer scientist  with  experience in speech analysis  and/or
synthesis   to  cooperate   in  the  EC    funded   project M-PIRO  (V
Framework). Native knowledge  of  Italian and good programming  skills
are required.  A working knowledge of English is a plus.

- one computer scientist/computational linguist  to collaborate in the
information   extraction activity of   CTT. The ideal candidate should
have   good programming skills.   Experience  in  NLP techniques   (in
particular,  finite state parsing)  and  a  good working knowledge  of
English are a plus.

In addition to this, the candidates will  be willing to integrate in a
dynamic research group committed to international excellence.

To apply, please send a CV plus list of publications to:

Fabio Pianesi
Vice-head of the CCT Division
IRST
38050 Povo (Tn)
Italy
email: pianesi at itc.it

Applications via e-mail are welcome.

About CCT.

The  Cognitive and Communication Technologies  division at IRST is one
of the  leading  European  research groups in  areas   such as Natural
Language Processing, Human-Computer  Interaction and Dialogue Systems,
Multi-modality,  Natural Language   Generation,  and  Production   and
Maintenance   of Linguistic   Resources.  Committed to  both base  and
applied     research, CCT has  consolidated   links  and pursues joint
research efforts with  many of the  main research centres all over the
world. As part of ITC-Irst, CCT is a member of the European Network of
Excellence in Natural Language and Speech (ELSNET).


___________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  "Sylvia Joos" <Sylvia.Joos at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Portuguese Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium


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

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

          Brazilian Portuguese Language Specialist
                    and
          European Portuguese Language Specialist
                for the Corporate R&D Division
                located in Ieper (Belgium)

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

Profile:
· university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent
· (near-)native Brazilian Portuguese or European Portuguese
· knowledge of phonetics
· interest in other languages and their linguistic aspects
· at least a basic experience with and interest in computers
· good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas
are
considered an asset:
- near-native command of English
- speech processing, esp. text-to-speech synthesis
 - computer linguistics
 - natural language processing (NLP)
 - spoken dialog systems
 - computer technology
 - standard software packages
 - programming
 - other languages than the target language
· ability to work in a team and independently
· perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
· good social and communicative abilities
· willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time

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

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

To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage

http://www.lhs.com

You may also want to send an e-mail to <mailto:job-announce at lhs.be> to
obtain a
list of all current job openings at L&H.

___________________________________________________________________________

6/ From: Florence Gaunet <gaunet at limsi.fr>
   Subject: Proposition de stage


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

Objet : Proposition de stage




PRESENTATION DU STAGE

Les possibilités pour les personnes aveugles de se déplacer de façon
autonome en environnement urbain inconnu sont très réduites. Quelques
installations sont en place mais elles couvrent une très petite partie
de l’espace de déplacement. Plutôt que d’aménager une ville, une
solution est l’utilisation d’un système d’aide à la navigation pédestre
portatif.
Dans le cadre d’un stage de DEA , nous proposons à un étudiant de
réaliser les travaux préliminaires à la mise en œuvre de ce type de
système.
Un système d’aide à la navigation est composé d’un système de base de
données géographiques, de fonctionnalités de calcul d’itinéraires, d’un
système de localisation, et de mécanismes d’interactions avec
l’utilisateur.
Les mécanismes d’interactions avec l’utilisateur aveugle ne peuvent
évidemment pas utiliser d’affichages graphiques (e.g. cartes –par
ailleurs le braille n’est maîtrisé que par un faible pourcentage de la
population aveugle-), l’utilisateur ne peut pas vérifier sa position en
faisant usage d’indices visuels (noms de rues, bâtiments
), les mains
sont occupées par les dispositifs de localisation proximale (canne ou
chien), et l’audition, facteur essentiel de repérage, doit être
préservée pour la perception des bruits extérieurs.
On saisit alors toute l’importance d’un système de localisation fiable
et précis, de mécanismes d’interfaces utilisant les modalités
disponibles, et de dispositifs permettant un accès distal aux repères.
Le but de ce stage est de développer :
-Un système de localisation adapté aux besoins du piéton aveugle.
L’utilisation du GPS, du GPS différentiel, mais aussi de systèmes
supplémentaires (compas, podomètres, accéléromètres
) et leur couplage
avec le SIG disponible au LIMSI et les base BDTOPO et GEOROUTE de l’IGN
seront étudiés.
-Des interfaces multimodales (en entrée et en sortie) adaptées aux
besoins du piéton aveugle. Ces interfaces comprendront :
           Un système de reconnaissance vocale pour une interaction en
entrée de type commande
           Un système de synthèse vocale destiné à fournir verbalement
les instructions de déplacement et les noms des repères
           Un système manuel d’interaction en entrée (clavier dédié,
pavé de touches spécialisées
)
L’ensemble de ces dispositifs devra être intégré dans un système de
dialogue multimodal permettant le guidage de la personne non voyante le
long d’un itinéraire urbain complexe.
Ce travail se fera en collaboration étroite avec les membres du projet
chargés des études comportementales, et devra faire l’objet d’une
évaluation finale sur le terrain avec des personnes aveugles.
Le stage est rémunéré.

PREREQUIS

Programmation C, C++, Smalltalk, (CORBA pourra être utilisé) sur PC,
autonomie, volonté de réaliser un système opérationnel, capacités de
travail en équipe en milieu pluridisciplinaire.

PERSONNES A CONTACTER

Yacine Bellik (01 69 85 81 10), bellik at limsi.fr
Xavier Briffault (01 69 85 80 05), briffault at limsi.fr

LIEU DU STAGE

LIMSI (Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de
l'Ingénieur), Bat. 508, 91400 Orsay.



----------------------------------------------
Florence Gaunet

Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique
et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
LIMSI-CNRS
BP 133
91403 Orsay

gaunet at limsi.fr


Tel: (33) 1 69 85 80 14
Fax: (33) 1 69 85 80 88
----------------------------------------------


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jan 13 12:28:02 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:28:02 +0100
Subject: Conf: DET-2000
Message-ID: <THU.13.JAN.2000.132802.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Pierre-Yves Foucou <foucou at lli.univ-paris13.fr>


                            APPEL A PARTICIPATION
                     Colloque Détermination et Formalisation
          La question des déterminants en vue du traitement automatique
                            des langues naturelles

                  Bellaterra (Barcelone) 25 et 26 février 2000

         Groupe de Linguistique Appliquée aux Langues Romanes (Université
Autonome de Barcelone)
              Centre Lucien Tesnière (Université de Franche-Comté)


Programme provisoire via
  http://www-lli.univ-paris13.fr/DET2000/ProgrammeProvisoire.html


Thème du Colloque

La plupart des linguistes s'accordent sur la notion de détermination
bien que la question de son universalité ou non reste
ouverte. L'identification des déterminants n'est pas un réel
problème. Ainsi, pour le domaine du traitement automatique des langues
naturelles (TALN), leur reconnaissance automatique ne pose pas de
difficultés majeures. En revanche, la génération et la traduction
automatique de ces unités linguistiques restent problématiques.  La
modélisation des systèmes de déterminants relatifs à un ensemble de
langues données reste donc à faire.

Le thème du colloque concerne non seulement des spécialistes du TALN
mais aussi tous les chercheurs soucieux de la formalisation du
langage.


Comité Scientifique

ANSCOMBRE, Jean-Claude, CNRS -EHESS
BLANCO, Xavier, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
BUVET, Pierre-André, Université de Franche-Comté
CARDEY, Sylviane, Université de Franche-Comté
GROSS, Gaston, Université Paris XIII
GROSS, Maurice, Université Paris VII
GUENTHNER, Franz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
MURILLO, Julio, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
KLEIBER, Georges, Université de Strasbourg II


Adresse

DET2000 Colloque Détermination et Formalisation
Departamento de Filología Francesa y Románica
Facultad de Letras
UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
ESPAÑA
Tel: (34) 93 581 14 10
Fax: (34)93 581 31 71
E-mail: Xavier.Blanco at uab.es

ou

DET2000 Colloque Détermination et Formalisation
Centre Lucien Tesnière
Faculté LSH
30 rue Mégevand 25030 Besançon Cedex
FRANCE
Tel: (33) 03 81 66 53 94
Fax: (33) 03 81 66 53 00
E-Mail: Pierre-André Buvet (pab at lli.univ-paris13.fr)


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 18 13:33:11 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:33:11 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 6 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JAN.2000.143311.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Brian <briand at baldwinstaffing.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Chinese/ Baldwin Staffing Group, Alberta Canada

2/ From: Dale Gerdemann <dg at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Tuebingen

3/ From:  Bente Maegaard <bente at cst.ku.dk>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Software/ Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen

4/ From:  "Dan Flickinger" <dan.flickinger at yy.com>
   Subject:  Computational Ling/NLP: YY Software Inc./ Palo Alto, CA  USA

5/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Linguist Hungarian at L&H:Ieper (Belgium)

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Brian <briand at baldwinstaffing.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Chinese/ Baldwin Staffing Group, Alberta Canada


Areas Required: Information Technology
Other Desired Areas: Linguistics
University or Organization: Baldwin Staffing Group
Department: IT
State or Province: Alberta
Country: Canada
Contact: Brian  briand at baldwinstaffing.com

Address for Applications:
550 17th Ave. S.W.
Calgary
Alberta T2K 1M9
Canada

The client, an international software company with an office in Calgary,
has an immediate requirement for a:

CHINESE COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST

The individual will have native level Chinese fluency and an advanced
degree in computational linguistics.  An ability to work and communicate
in English is required and work experience in an area of computational
linguistics is an asset, as is knowledge of other languages.

The successful candidate will be required to create, expand and maintain
the linguistics database, perform linguistic analysis and implement and
evaluate results, in addition to other linguistics duties.

Salary is negotiable, depending on experience, in the C$60-80,000 range.


Please forward your resume as soon as possible to
briand at baldwinstaffing.com.
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Dale Gerdemann <dg at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Tuebingen


   Position Announcement

University of Tuebingen
Dept. of Linguistics
Division of Computational Linguistics


The Division of Computational Linguistics in the Dept. of Linguistics
at the University of Tuebingen, Germany is seeking applications for a
postdoctoral (or predoctoral) position to work in the area of
automated language learning. Applicants who have developed
relevant computational tools (such as finite-state utilities, pattern
matching, statistical language modelling, etc) are encouraged to
apply. The position is expected to last until the end of March 2002
(pending forthcoming approval).

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

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

The European Commission has imposed firm funding restrictions on TMR
postdoctoral positions:

   The postdoc must be 35 or younger and a European citizen, and must
   "cross a border" to accept the position.  This last point means:
   must not have worked more than 18 of the last 24 months in the
   country in which they accept the position.  They further may not be
   a citizen of the country in which they accept the award. Details of
   the TMR program may be found at:

        http://www.cordis.lu/tmr/

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


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

Applicants should contact Dale Gerdemann before Feb 15, 2000.

____________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Bente Maegaard <bente at cst.ku.dk>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Software/ Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Software development for NLP
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Center for Sprogteknologi
Department:
State or Province: Copenhagen
Country: Denmark
Final Date of Application: 12 noon 20th January 2000
Contact: Bente Maegaard bente at cst.ku.dk

Address for Applications:
Njalsgade 80
Copenhagen
 DK 2300 S
Denmark

Center for Sprogteknologi (Centre for Language Technology) in
Copenhagen, Denmark has 1-2 openings for computer scientists/software
developers to commence as soon as possible.

Center for Sprogteknologi is a public research institution under the
Danish Ministry of Research, which carries out research, development
and consulting in the field of language technology. The centre is very
internationally oriented, cooperating with partners all over Europe.
It is a dynamic and expanding workplace which at the moment employs
around 20 people with linguistic and/or computational backgrounds.

Currently there are a number of software development tasks in the
Centre's projects within machine translation and information
retrieval.  The work covers all stages of the development process:
i.e. analysis, specification, programming and testing.  The centre has
the following hardware platforms: HP-UX, Solaris, NT and Windows95/98

Qualifications and experience:

MSc in Computer Science or equivalent qualifications and experience.

The ideal candidate will have programming experience in C, C++ and
Prolog; a thorough knowledge of UNIX; and experience in the field of
Natural Language Processing.

Salary and Conditions:

Salary is according to the national agreement with the relevant trade
union.  In addition the salary system allows for individual bonuses.

To Apply:

Applications including documentation of qualifications and previous
experience should be marked "Application" and sent to:

Center for sprogteknologi,
Njalsgade 80,
2300 Copenhagen S,
Denmark.
Email: cst at cst.ku.dk

to arrive no later than  12 noon on 20th January 2000

For further information contact Bente Maegaard, Director,
(bente at cst.ku.dk) or Claus Polvsen, Senior Consultant,
(claus at cst.ku.dk) or by phone on (+45) 35 32 90 90

____________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  "Dan Flickinger" <dan.flickinger at yy.com>
   Subject:  Computational Ling/NLP: YY Software Inc./ Palo Alto, CA  USA

Job Announcement
Computational linguist for NLP

YY Software Inc., located in Palo Alto, CA, seeks computational linguists to
work full-time on NLP applications and development tools, with expertise in
one or more of the following:

- Syntactic analysis in a lexicalist framework such as Head-driven Phrase
Structure Grammar or Lexical Functional Grammar, with initial focus on
English.
- Semi-automated acquisition techniques for lexicon and grammar.
- Robust processing of natural text style used in email, including ellipsis,
abbreviations, errors.
- Lexical semantics.
- Knowledge representation for NLP.

Required qualifications:

- Ph.D. or five years' experience in computational linguistics or related
field.
- Immediate availability

Preferred qualifications:

- Programming experience in C++, Java
- Creativity in problem-solving
- U.S. citizenship or work permit


Compensation

- Commensurate with experience, competitive with Silicon Valley start-ups.
- No relocation reimbursement

Send your CV via any of the following:

- email: jobs at yy.com
- fax:  650 617-6101
- mail:  Laura Bergerol
  YY Software
  301 Town and Country Village
  Palo Alto, CA  94301

Company profile

YY Software is a rapidly growing company founded in 1993 to produce robust
commercial applications of high precision natural language processing
technology for the Internet. We have decades of experience in large-scale
software application development, with expertise in commercial databases,
knowledge representation, and linguistics.  Our current product focus is on
the Email Specialist, which enables client companies to provide highly
accurate automated responses to email from customers.  Visit our web site at
www.yy.com.

____________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Linguist Hungarian at L&H:Ieper (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 Hungarian
          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 Hungarian 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:
speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational
linguistics, programming, other languages;
* ability to work in a team and independently;
* IT literate;
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
* good social and communicative abilities;
* willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time.


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

If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to 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

____________________________________________________________________________


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 18 13:36:41 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:36:41 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLP 2000 + Workshop
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JAN.2000.143641.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

__________________________________________________________________________
1/ From: "Pinelopi Kontodimou" <pinelop at cti.gr>
   Subject: NLP 2000 Extended deadline

2/ From: Effie Ananiadou <effie at ccl.umist.ac.uk>
   Subject: COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY FOR MEDICAL ANDBIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
__________________________________________________________________________
1/ From: "Pinelopi Kontodimou" <pinelop at cti.gr>
   Subject: NLP 2000 Extended deadline


Patras (Greece)
2-4 June 2000
NLP 2000: 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing
CALL FOR PAPERS
Extended Deadline: 20 January 2000
http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000


__________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Effie Ananiadou <effie at ccl.umist.ac.uk>
   Subject: COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY FOR MEDICAL ANDBIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS



Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing

                     http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000/

                     Patras, Greece

       Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation


COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY FOR MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

                      Sunday, 4th June 2000

 FULL DETAILS at: http://www.salford.ac.uk/isrc/ananiadou/nlp2000.html

Workshop Description
======================

The workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers from
interdisciplinary areas, such as computational linguistics, computer
science,
terminology, medical informatics and bioinformatics.
Scientific knowledge in medicine and  in molecular biology is contained in
ever
increasing collections of documents as well as scientific databases.
Researchers in medicine and
biology would therefore benefit from textual tools to facilitate the
discovery and identification of important and relevant concepts.

Topics
========
The topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

1. Use of NLP in medical and biological terminology
(term extraction, automatic indexing, automatic classification, automatic
dataset creation and maintenance etc.)
2. Use of existing scientific thesauri and databases as terminological
resources
for sublanguage applications.
3. Thesaurus & ontology construction and maintenance from domain specific
texts
4. Integration of scientific databases and linguistic resources
5. Terminology based Information Extraction

 Organisers
 ==============
 Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK)
                            Department of Computer Science, School of
                            Sciences,
                            University of Salford, Newton Building
                            Salford M5 4WT

 Diana Maynard  (Sheffield University, UK)
                     Department of Computer Science,
                     Regents Court, 211 Portobello Street
                     University of Sheffield Sheffield S1 4DP

 Scientific Committee
 ======================

* Erich Bornberg-Bauer (Manchester University, UK & EML, Germany)
* Gerhard Budin  (University of Vienna,Austria)
* Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
* Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse, France)
* Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI, France)
* John Mantas (University of Athens, Greece)
* Ioanna Malagardi (General Secretariat for Research & Technology, Greece)
* Patrick Ruch   (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland)
* Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM-SIM/DSI, France)


 Format of Submissions
 ========================

 Paper submissions should consist of an extended abstract (2000 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.
The authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their papers
(ps
or doc). Electronic submissions should be sent to Sophia Ananiadou
(S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk).
 The official language of the Conference is English.

Contact person for the workshop
==================================
 Sophia Ananiadou

 Email: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk
 Fax: +44-161-295-5559

 Important Deadlines
 ====================
 Extended Abstract Submission deadline: March 15, 2000
 Notification Date: April 10, 2000
 Camera ready copy due: May 10, 2000
 Workshop date: June 4, 2000


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 18 13:36:44 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:36:44 +0100
Subject: Appel: ECAI'2000 - Ontology Learning Workshop
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JAN.2000.143644.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Alexander Maedche <ama at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>



*********************************************************************
***********   Call for Papers: Ontology Learning   ******************
********************   ECAI-2000 Workshop  **************************
*********************************************************************
********************   August 22, 2000     **************************
*********************************************************************

Comprehensive information to be found at
                        http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de


Workshop Summary

 Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise
 basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. In recent years,
 we have seen a surge of interest that deals with the discovery and
 automatic creation of complex, multirelational knowledge structures.
 For example, the natural language community tries to acquire word
 semantics from natural language texts, database researchers tackle
 the problem of schema induction and integration, and people building
 intelligent information agents research the learning of complex
 structures from semi-structured input (HTML, XML). All the while,
 efforts in the machine learning community pursue the induction of
 more concise and more expressive knowledge structures
 (e.g., relational learning) in general.

 For the workshop we intend to gather a diverse range of participants
 interested in the learning of ontologies. In particular, we are
 also interested in the maintenance (revision, incrementality) and
 integration (from various sources) aspects of learning ontologies.
 We want to further, or even establish, the exchange of ideas between
 these communities --- and maybe even others that we have not thought
 of. Hence, we solicit papers that present innovative approaches to
 ontology learning that are to be discussed in the workshop, system
 demonstrations and applications or position statements.


Important Dates

 Deadline for paper submission 1 April 2000
 Notification of acceptance    1 May 2000
 Deadline final contributions  1 June 2000


Submission Information

 We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics
 related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in
 participating should submit either a technical paper (less than
 5000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing
 new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel
 discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for
 ontology learning. Submit before April 1, 2000 in electronic form
 (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf to:

     ama at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

or send three hard copies of your submission to:

"Ontology Learning"
Steffen Staab and Alexander Maedche
Institute AIFB,
Karlsruhe University,
D-76128 Karlsruhe,
Germany

Organizing Committee

 Steffen Staab (Contact),
     AIFB, Karlsruhe University,
     76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
     email: sst at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
     phone: +49-721-608 4751
     fax: +49-721-693 717
 Alexander Maedche, AIFB, Karlsruhe University
 Claire Nedellec, Inference and Machine Learning Group,
                  LRI, Université Paris Sud
 Peter Wiemer-Hastings, Division of Informatics,
                        University of Edinburgh

Program Committee
 Illarramendi Echave Arantxa, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
 Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
 Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, Padova, Italy
 Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
 Udo Hahn, CLIF, University of Freiburg, Germany
 Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK
 Paul Johannson, University of Stockholm, Sweden
 Jörg-Uwe Kietz, Swiss Life, Zurich, Switzerland
 Yves Kodratoff, LRI, France
 Christine Parent, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
 Marie-Christine Rousset, LRI, France
 Rudi Studer, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany


--
Alexander Maedche
University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB,
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel.: +49-(0)721-608 6558, Fax.: +49-(0)721-608 6580
e-mail: maedche at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
www: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ama


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 18 13:36:47 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:36:47 +0100
Subject: Ecole: LE for lesser studied languages
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JAN.2000.143647.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Kemal Oflazer <ko at cs.bilkent.edu.tr>


                         Please Post or Distribute

                            PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT


                        NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE
                                       ON
                 LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER STUDIED LANGUAGES

                               July 3-July 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 courses on all aspects of
language engineering, participant workshops and discussion panels.
Currently, the following courses are planned:

_ Introduction to languages and language engineering,
_ Text processing ecology,
_ Computational tools and resources,
_ Computational morphology and finite state methods,
_ Statistical methods and corpus linguistics,
_ Lexical acquisition,
_ Grammar and grammar writing,
_ Machine translation,
_ Information extraction,
_ Information retrieval.

Participant workshops will provide a forum for participants to present
their work on language engineering and receive feedback from
colleagues.  Discussion panels will enable participants to discuss
specific issues 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
room and board 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.

Since there are a limited number of participant slots, admission to
the ASI will be strictly on a competitive basis taking into account
the participant's background, their potential contribution and the
benefit they may draw from the meeting.


Detailed information about the course schedule, lecturers and the
application procedure  will be announced shortly.  This information
will also be available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.nlp.bilkent.edu.tr/ASI/index.html and on mirror sites to be
announced.

We acknowledge the additional support provided by Bilkent University,
Computing Research Lab, NMSU, and EACL- European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics.


(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.


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 18 13:37:00 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:37:00 +0100
Subject: Appel: SIGIR 2000
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JAN.2000.143700.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Bob Krovetz <krovetz at research.nj.nec.com>


         SIGIR 2000: Information Retrieval in Context

         TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR
            CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
                   IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

                        July 24-28 2000
                   Department of Informatics
  Athens University of Economics and Business Athens, Greece

                        CALL FOR PAPERS
           For details see: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr


SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of
new research results and the demonstration of new  systems and
techniques in  the broad field of information  retrieval (IR).
The  Conference and Program Chairs  invite all those concerned
with issues of IR  to submit original  research contributions,
posters,  and proposals  for  tutorials,  workshops,  and
demonstrations  of  systems,  for  presentation at SIGIR 2000.
All contributions should be submitted to the appropriate Chair,
as indicated  below ( see the  Conference  web site for further
details: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr ).

TOPICS
Information  Retrieval  is contextual. IR functionalities form
part  of  increasingly  complex  information systems serving a
great  variety  of information tasks and behaviors. SIGIR 2000
seeks  original  research  contributions in the broad field of
information  storage  and retrieval, covering the handling  of
all types of information, user behavior in information systems,
and theories, models, and implementations of IR systems. Topics
relevant to SIGIR include but are not limited to:

* IR Theory, including logical, statistical and interactive IR
  models, data fusion.
* Experimentation: test collections, interactive IR experiments,
  evaluation measures, experimental design, testing methodology,
  scalability.
* Natural  Language  Processing:  word  sense  disambiguation,
  discourse analysis, summarization for the purposes of IR, use
  of linguistic resources for IR.
* Contextual  IR:  multi-media  IR,  cross-lingual IR systems,
  speech retrieval,  dialogue  management, (non)feature-based
  indexing, information seeking and task embedded IR.
* Interface  issues:  user  &  use  modeling,  human-computer
  interaction, search strategies.
* Filtering, Extraction, Routing, and Text Classification.
* Systems and Implementation Issues: integration with database
  systems,  networked  systems  and  the internet, compression,
  efficient query evaluation.
* Applications: electronic publishing,  digital libraries, text
  mining, WWW-related issues, semistructured document retrieval.

SIGIR 2000 IMPORTANT DATES:
==========================

* January 21: Original research paper submissions due. See the
  Submission Instructions Section below for details.

* February 11: Proposals  for  tutorials,  workshops,  posters,
  panels and demonstrations due. See the Submission Instructions
  Section below for details.

* April 1: Notification of acceptance of all submissions.

* May 1: Final camera-ready copy of all submissions due.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
=======================

RESEARCH PAPERS

Research papers must consist of original contributions (that is,
not previously published and not currently being considered for
publication elsewhere) and must contain a clear statement of the
problem addressed and the context in which it arises. Papers must
also contain appropriate references to prior work and must indicate
what contribution the work makes to the primary field of Information
Retrieval. Researchers relatively new to the field of IR should
get examples from, e.g., previous SIGIR conferences, the ACM
Transaction on Information Systems (TOIS), the Journal of the
American Society for Information Science (JASIS), etc.

Papers (5 copies) should be submitted in English to the Program
Co-Chair responsible for the geographic region of the first author.
Papers should contain at most 5000 words. There are no formatting
requirements for submissions, but do not use font sizes smaller
than 10 point. The final version of the paper will have to fit
within 8 double-column pages, including all figures and bibliography,
so plan accordingly. Papers that are clearly longer than the limit
of 5,000 words will be rejected immediately.

The first page must contain the title of the paper, an abstract
of not more than 150 words, and up to 6 keywords taken from the
list at the end of this Call for Submissions. No page in the paper,
including the first page, should indicate the author(s) or their
affiliation(s). The purpose of omitting author names and affiliations
is to facilitate blind reviewing. Therefore, authors should make an
attempt to disguise who they are if possible, by omitting
acknowledgements in the submitted version of the paper, and by
refraining from phrases such as
  "In our earlier work [cite author-name] ..."
Authors should cite their work when required but attempt not to
make it obvious that the cited work is their own, if possible.

Please indicate if the paper is to be considered for the Best
Student Paper Award. This Award requires that the first and primary
author be a fulltime student at time of submission, that he or she
is responsible for much of the work, and that he or she will present
the paper should it be accepted.

In addition, authors must provide a separate cover page with the
title, the author name(s), the author affiliation(s), the same
list of keywords as on the first page, plus complete contact
information (mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) for the
author to whom correspondence should be sent. All correspondence
with the authors will be through email. The information on this
cover page must also be sent by email to the respective regional
Program Co-Chair. Submissions must arrive before 21 January 2000.

Authors in the Americas should mail 5 hardcopies of the submission
and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Nicholas Belkin
  School of Communication, Information & Library Studies,
  Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street,
  New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071, USA
  Email: nick at belkin.rutgers.edu
  Phone: +1-732-932-8585
  Fax: +1-732-932-6916

Authors in Europe and Africa should mail 5 hardcopies of the
submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Peter Ingwersen
  Royal School of LIS,
  Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
  Email: pi at db.dk
  Phone: +45-32-58-60-66
  Fax: +45-32-84-02-01

Authors in Asia, Australia and the Pacific should mail 5 hardcopies
of the submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Mun-Kew Leong
  (Attn: SIGIR Submission),
  Kent Ridge Digital Labs,
  21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
  Email: mkleong at krdl.org.sg
  Phone: +65-874-7864
  Fax: +65-774-4998


TUTORIALS

SIGIR 2000 will begin with a full day of tutorials, each of which
should cover a single topic in detail. Proposals are solicited for
tutorials of either a half day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day
(6 hours plus breaks).  Submissions should be made to the Tutorials
Chair and should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract.
The cover sheet should specify:
     1.the length of the tutorial.
     2.the intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced).
     3.complete contact information for the contact person and other
       presenters.
     4.brief biographies (max. 2 paragraphs) of the presenters.
The extended abstract should be 3 to 5 pages, and should include an
outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the course
objectives and course materials.

Tutorial proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Alan Smeaton (Email: asmeaton at compapp.dcu.ie)

WORKSHOPS

Proposals are solicited from individuals and groups for one-day
workshops to be held on the fifth day of the conference. Submissions
(up to 1,000 words) should include the theme and goal of the workshop,
planned activities, maximum number of participants, the selection
process for participants, and a list of potential participants.
Include a CV for each organizer describing relevant qualifications
and experience. After the workshop, organizers are to provide an
article for the SIGIR Forum which summarizes the workshop.

Workshop proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Bob Krovetz (Email: krovetz at research.nj.nec.com)

PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

Proposals for panel sessions should be sent to the Panels Chair by
prospective moderators.  Panels should address issues of interest
to the general information retrieval community, and should be designed
to stimulate lively debate between panelists and audience. Panel
proposals (2-3 pages) must include:
     1.complete contact information for the moderator.
     2.the rationale for addressing this topic as a panel.
     3.the names and affiliations of the panel members.
     4.a description of how the panel will be structured, with
       emphasis on how general participation will be encouraged.
Abstracts of panel presentations will appear in the proceedings.

Demonstrations offer first-hand experience with Information
Retrieval systems, whether advanced operational systems or research
prototypes. The demonstration proposal should indicate how the
demonstration illustrates new ideas, should provide the technical
specifications of the system and should include references to other
literature. The hardware, software, and network requirements should be
indicated in a separate cover letter. A one-page abstract describing
each demonstration accepted will be published in the proceedings.

Panel and Demonstration proposals must be sent via email by
11 February 2000 to:
  James Allan (Email: allan at cs.umass.edu)

POSTERS

SIGIR 2000 poster presentations offer researchers an opportunity to
present late-breaking results, significant work in progress,
or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical
format. Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings.
Three copies of an extended abstract (roughly 3-4 pages) should be
submitted to the Posters Chair. The abstract should emphasize the
research problem and the methods being used, and be headed only
by the title of the poster. In addition, a separate cover page
is required containing the title of the poster, along with
the name and affiliation of the author(s), and complete contact
information for the author to whom correspondence should be sent.

Poster proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Amit Singhal (Email: singhal at research.att.com)


AWARDS

During the conference the following awards will be given:

*  The Gerard Salton award
*  Best scientific paper award
*  Best paper presentation award
*  Best student paper award (first author should be student)

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
=======================

Conference Chair:
Emmanuel Yannakoudakis
Athens University of Economics and Business,
Department of Informatics,
76 Patission Street, Athens 104 34, Greece (eyan at aueb.gr),
Phone: +30-1-8214145,  Fax. : +30-1-8203356

Programme Chairs:
* For The Americas: Nicholas Belkin
  Professor and Director of the Ph.D.Program,
  School of Communication, Information & Library Studies,
  Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick NJ
  08901-1071, USA (nick at belkin.rutgers.edu)
  Phone: +1-732-932-8585, Fax: +1-732-932-6916

* For Europe and Africa: Peter Ingwersen
  Royal School of LIS, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S,
  Denmark, (pi at db.dk)
  Phone: +45-32-58-60-66, Fax: +45-32-84-02-01

* For Asia, Australia and the Pacific: Mun-Kew Leong
  (Attn: SIGIR Submission), Kent Ridge Digital Labs,
  21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
  (mkleong at krdl.org.sg)
  Phone: +65-874-7864, Fax: +65-774-4998

Tutorials Chair: Alan Smeaton
School of Computer Applications, Dublin City
University Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
(asmeaton at compapp.dcu.ie)
Phone: +353-1-7045262, Fax: +353-1-7045442

Workshops Chair: Bob Krovetz
NEC Research Institute,
4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
(krovetz at research.nj.nec.com)
Phone: +1-609-951-2773, Fax: +1-609-951-2483

Panels and Demonstrations Chair: James Allan
Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA
(allan at cs.umass.edu)
Phone: +1-413-545-3240, Fax: +1-413-545-1789

Posters Chair: Amit Singhal
AT&T Labs-Research, Rm A-281, Shannon Laboratory,
180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932, USA
(singhal at research.att.com)
Phone: +1-973-360-8335, Fax: +1-973-360-8970

Publicity Chair: Anestis Konstantinidis
(mvazirg at aueb.gr)

Treasurer: Elias Lypitakis
(eal at aueb.gr)

Awards Chair: Efthimis Efthimiadis
School of Library & Information Science, University of Washington
Box 352930, Seattle, WA 98195-2930, USA
(efthimis at u.washington.edu)
Phone: +1-206-616-6077, Fax: +1-206-616-3152


REVIEWING PROCESS:
The  SIGIR  2000  Programme  Committee  is  organized with an
International  Programme  Committee (IPC) and three  Regional
Programme  Committees (RPC). Both the  IPC and  the RPCs  are
designed to reflect the broadening topic areas of IR research.
The reviewing process for SIGIR 2000 will  be  in  two stages.
There will first be initial reviews by at least three members
of the RPCs for each submission. For each paper, an IPC member
will be responsible for producing a review and recommendation
integrating the three initial reviews. All submissions will be
refereed "blind",  that is,  without  identification  of their
authors.  For  further information  on the  requirements  for
submission of contributions, and evaluation criteria, see the
Conference web site: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Jun Adachi, NACSIS, Japan
Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile
Marcia Bates, UCLA, USA
Jamie Callan, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA
Norbert Fuhr, University Dortmund, Germany
Donna Harman, NIST, USA
William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA
Kalervo Jarvelin, University Tampere, Finland
David Lewis, AT&T Labs, USA
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, USA
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,USA
Mark Maybury, MITRE, USA
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea
Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Steve Robertson, Microsoft Research, UK
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Karen Sparck Jones, University of Cambridge, UK
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Ellen Voorhees, NIST, USA
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Peter Willett, University of Sheffield, UK
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China


COOPERATING ORGANISATIONS:
ACM SIGIR, BCS IRSG, Greek Computer Society, others requested.


SIGIR 2000 PAPER SUBMISSION KEYWORD CHOICES - GROUPED ROUGHLY BY TOPIC
(submissions should include up to 6 keywords on both the first page
and the cover page)

IR theory and models (general), statistical/probabilistic models,
logic-based models, term expansion/thesauri, relevance feedback
algorithms/evaluation, text clustering, filtering/routing, passage
retrieval, retrieval using document structure, structured queries,
change in queries over time, evaluation (general), test collections,
testing methodology, scalability of evaluation, information brokers,
distributed collections, merging search results/information synthesis,
systems and implementation (general), architectures for IR systems,
architectures for WWW search, scalability of IR systems, efficiency
indexing for IR systems, efficient query evaluation , compression and
other optimizations for IR, integration with database systems ,
information access in digital libraries, natural language processing for
IR (general), stemming/morphological analysis, tokenization/parsing,
thesaurus construction , phrase detection and use, word sense
disambiguation and IR, text segmentation, discourse analysis and IR,
summarization/abstracting and IR, question answering, translation,
cross-lingual indexing/retrieval, information seeking behavior
(general), individual differences in information-seeking,
field/empirical studies of the information seeking process, theoretical
discussion of the information seeking process, embedding search within
larger tasks , user studies (general), comparing interfaces for
information access, methodology for evaluating interactive IR, user
interface (UI) design for IR (general), information visualization for IR
(general), UIs/visualization for collection overviews and topic spaces,
UIs/visualization for categories/subject codes, UIs/visualization for
query generation and specification, UIs/visualization organizing and
displaying retrieval results, UIs/visualization for source selection,
UIs/visualization for hypertext search and navigation, integrating
navigation and search, animation and IR interfaces, structuring
information to aid search and navigation, structuring information for
different user populations, navigation versus ad hoc search, monitoring
user behavior to improve search, automated presentation of information,
adaptive IR interfaces, adaptive ranking algorithms , cognitive models
and IR, user models and information access, information seeking
dialogues , sensemaking, collaboration and IR, collaboritive filtering,
social techniques for organization and search, reading/annotating and
IR, knowledge-based systems and IR, semantic nets/conceptual graphs and
IR, case-based reasoning and IR, machine learning and IR, text
categorization, planning and IR, IR agents (general), architectures for
IR agents, IR and avatars, (semi) automated search assistants, MMIR
(general), content-based indexing/retrieval (general), image
indexing/retrieval, text image indexing/retrieval, OCR/degraded images
indexing/retrieval, video indexing/retrieval, speech indexing/retrieval,
general audio indexing/retrieval, metadata for retrieval of non-text
information, efficient search over non-textual information, query
languages for non-textual information, results analysis and presentation
for MMIR, evaluation theory and methodology for MMIR, test collection
development for MMIR , application areas (general), biomedical
informatics, legal informatics, entertainment and IR, education and IR,
exploiting hyperlink structure, event detection and tracking, text data
mining, search and ecommerce, search and mobile systems, IR interaction
with the physical world.


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jan 21 18:24:34 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:34 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI-2000 (Student Session)
Message-ID: <FRI.21.JAN.2000.192434.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Catherine Piliere <Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr>




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--- Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science ---

                --- We apologize for multiple copies ---

            --- Please circulate and post among students ---

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


                       SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                    ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION

            August 6-18 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain

               Submission Deadline : March 15th, 2000


           http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/ESSLLI-2000.html

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

We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 12th European
Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2000) organized
by the University of Birmingham and located at the same University in
August 2000 (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli). We will welcome
submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session
and for appearance in the proceedings.

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PURPOSE

This fifth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the other editions,
an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their
own WORK IN PROGRESS and get feedback from senior researchers and
fellow-students. It is desired that papers presenting creative and
innovative ideas will be submitted. The ESSLLI-2000 Student Session
encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates -
before completion of the Master Thesis as well as postgraduates - before
completion of the PhD degree. Papers co-authored by non-students will not be
accepted. The ESSLLI Student Session consists of paper presentations
and has its own timeslot in the summerschool's schedule: 60 minutes
every day for two weeks, provided that a sufficient number of good
quality papers is accepted. Each presentation will last 30 minutes
(including 10 minutes of discussion). The accepted papers will be
published in the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session proceedings, which will be
made available during ESSLLI-2000.

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KLUWER BEST PAPER AWARD

As in previous editions of ESSLLI, the best paper will be selected by
the program committee and will be offered a prize by Kluwer Academic
Publishers. The prize of 1000 Dfl consists of a free choice of Kluwer
books to be displayed during the school.

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REQUIREMENTS

The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work,
completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity and
promise. No previously published papers should be submitted.
Papers will cover topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic,
Language, Computation, Logic & Language, Logic & Computation,
Language & Computation).

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FORMAT OF SUBMISSION

Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by
the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages of length exclusive of references
and send a separate identification page (see below). Note that the
length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since
reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author
names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity (e.g., " We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ")
should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like " Smith
(1991) previously showed...".

For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification
page should be sent SEPARATELY, using the following format:

Title: <title>

Author: <firstname lastname of the first author>
Address: <address of the first author>
..
Author: <firstname lastname of the last author>
Address: <address of the last author>

Short summary (5 lines): <summary>

Subject area (one of): Logic | Language | Computation | Logic and
Language | Logic and Computation | Language and Computation.


The submission of the extended abstract should be in one of the
following formats:

1) SELF-CONTAINED LATEX SOURCE (the most encouraged): The LaTeX source
should use the standard article document-class, with A4 paper size and
12pt font size. The source should not refer to any other external files
or styles, except for the standard styles for LaTeX2e. The bibliography
for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file: the
actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX
source file.

2) POSTSCRIPT: PostScript submissions must use a standard font and A4 (8
1/4 " x 11 3/4 ") size pages. Please avoid the default letter page size
if submitting from outside Europe.

3) ASCII text.

Submissions outside the specified length and formatting requirements
will be subject to rejection without review.

The extended abstract and separate identification page must be sent
by e-mail to:

Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr by March 15, 2000.

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ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION

In order to present a paper at ESSLLI-2000 Student Session, at least one
student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant
at  ESSLLI-2000. Nevertheless, the authors of accepted papers will be
eligible for reduced registration fees.
For all information, please consult the ESSLLI-2000 web site:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli.
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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2000.
Authors notifications: May 14, 2000.
Final version due: June 11, 2000.
ESSLLI-2000 Student Session: August 6-18, 2000.

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Catherine Pilière (chair), LORIA - University Henri Poincaré, Nancy,
France;

Manuel Bodirsky, Programming Systems Lab, University of Saarbrücken,
Germany;
Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi, IMAG, Grenoble, France;
Paola Maneggia, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham,
Great Britain;
Vincenzo Pallotta, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne,
Switzerland;
Sylvain Pogodalla, Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France;
Kristina Striegnitz, Computational Linguistics, University of Saarbrücken,
Germany.

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For any specific question concerning ESSLLI-2000 Student Session,
please, do not hesitate to contact the chair:

Catherine Pilière

LORIA
Campus Scientifique
BP 239
54 506 VANDOEUVRE-LES-NANCY Cedex France

Tel. +33 (0)3 83 59 20 22

E-mail Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr

http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jan 21 18:24:38 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:38 +0100
Subject: Appel: ECAI 2000 and PAIS 2000
Message-ID: <FRI.21.JAN.2000.192438.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "ECAI 2000 Publicity [Markus Hannebauer]" <hannebau at first.gmd.de>


[Please accept our apologies for multiple copies of this reminder.]

------------------  FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS  ------------------------

                     ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000
      14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
        Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems

                 Berlin, Humboldt University
                      August 20-25, 2000

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

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

---------------
IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

    2    Feb  2000       Deadline for paper summaries
    4    Feb  2000       Deadline for papers
   28    Apr  2000       Notification of acceptance
   29    May  2000       Camera-ready copies of papers
   23-25 Aug  2000       Technical program at ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000



-------------------------------
ECAI 2000 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
-------------------------------

    The ECAI 2000 Program Committee invites  submission  of  papers
  for the technical program of the 14th  biennial  European  Confe-
  rence on Artificial  Intelligence  (ECAI 2000).  Submissions  are
  invited on substantial, original and previously  unpublished  re-
  search in all fields  of  Artificial  Intelligence.


  FORMATTING GUIDELINES

    It is highly recommended  to  submit  papers  using  the  final
  camera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not  exceed  five
  pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of  unformatted  papers
  are limited to 6000 words including footnotes,  figure  captions,
  tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page  of  figures
  will be counted as 600 words.  (Please note that for some  papers
  five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000  words
  in practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without re-
  view.  Authors  submitting unformatted papers must include a word
  count on their paper. Latex style files to support formatting  of
  submissions will be available.  Final versions of accepted papers
  will be required to conform strictly to the  formatting  require-
  ments specified in the ECAI 2000 style guide (see ECAI homepage).
  Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in  the  procee-
  dings.


  SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

    Submission is a two-stage process.  Authors are asked to submit
  a brief summary of their paper by 2 February 2000.  The  strongly
  preferred submission method is to use the web-based summary  sub-
  mission form. Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique trak-
  king number that should be marked on the full  paper  submission.
  Authors without access to the web should send a summary including
  the title, authors, contact address and abstract  for  the  paper
  (maximum 200 words), plus keywords  drawn  from  the  above  list
  (plus other keywords if appropriate)  to  the  ECAI 2000  Program
  Chair (by email or postal mail).  The summary information and the
  tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on
  a separate sheet of paper. (Authors not able to use the web-based
  submission form may omit the tracking number).

    Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or elec-
  tronic submissions will not be accepted.  Six copies of the paper
  (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal  mail
  or courier service to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair at the  address
  below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Pa-
  pers received after this date will not be reviewed.

    Notification of receipt of full papers will be  mailed  to  the
  corresponding author soon after receipt.


  Address for submission

    Werner Horn
    ECAI 2000 Program Chair
    Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI)
    Schottengasse 3
    A-1010 Vienna
    Austria

    Email: ecai2000 at ai.univie.ac.at
    Tel:   +43-1-4277-63114
    Fax:   +43-1-4277-9631


  Style guide and summary form

    http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/style.html
    http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/summary.html


  Multiple submissions policy

    ECAI 2000 will not accept any paper which at the time  of  sub-
  mission is under review for, or has  already  been  published  or
  accepted for publication in  a  journal  or  another  conference.
  Authors are also expected not to submit  their  papers  elsewhere
  during the  review  period.  These  restrictions  apply  only  to
  journals  and  conferences  and  not  to   workshops  or  similar
  specialized meetings  with  limited  audiences.  The  title  page
  should include a statement that the paper is not under review  or
  accepted for publication in another conference or journal.


  REVIEW PROCEDURE

    All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by  the
  ECAI  2000  Program  Committee  under  the  chairmanship  of  the
  ECAI 2000 Program Chair.  The  ECAI 2000  Program Chair has final
  authority over the review process and all decisions  relating  to
  acceptance of papers.  Review  criteria  include  originality  of
  ideas, technical soudness, significance of results,  and  quality
  of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of  sub-
  mitted papers will be  mailed  to  the  corresponding  author  by
  28 April 2000.


  CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

    The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by
  IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing  camera-
  ready copies of papers, conforming to the  ECAI  2000  formatting
  guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings.  The  deadline  for
  receipt of the camera-ready copy is 29 May  2000.  Note  that  at
  least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
  conference to present the paper.

    ECAI 2000 is organised by the German Informatics  Society  (GI)
  and the European Coordinating Committee for  Artificial  Intelli-
  gence (ECCAI) and hosted by Humboldt University Berlin.



-------------------------------
PAIS 2000 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
-------------------------------

    ECAI is pleased to announce  its  Prestigious  Applications  of
  Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2000)  sub-conference.  The  PAIS  2000
  Program Committee invites authors to submit application papers.

    This event,  associated  with  ECAI 2000 is created to specifi-
  cally highlight significant successful applications  of  Intelli-
  gent Systems (IS) technology. The purpose of the event is to pro-
  vide a forum for industry practitioners to learn about the  power
  and applicability of selected IS techniques and share  experience
  on the applicability, development and deployment  of  intelligent
  systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in  Europe
  of real application using Intelligent Systems technology and  the
  ideal place  to  meet  with  those  working  to  make  successful
  IS-based applications.

    The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems event  will
  present papers describing successful applications of  Intelligent
  Systems.  Papers are selected  to  highlight  critical  areas  of
  success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons  of
  value to other developers. Submitted  papers  should  make  these
  points  clear.  Papers  should  contain  sections  covering   the
  following information:

    Descriptive Title and Abstract: These should convey clearly and
  simply what the application is and its operational status. Do use
  a title that makes it clear to a reader what the application  is.
  Don't use a clever, nor an obscure title.

    Problem description: This should describe the problem that  the
  application solves, stating the objectives of the application and
  explaining why an Intelligent Systems solution was  required.  If
  other solutions were tried and failed, briefly outline these  so-
  lutions with reasons for failure.

    Application description: This should describe the  solution  to
  the problem, with technical details on design and implementation.
  It should describe any methodological approach used,  detail  the
  key IS techniques used and if appropriate show how they were  in-
  tegrated with conventional techniques.  If commercial tools  were
  used they should be identified and reasons  for  their  selection
  given.

    Application building: This should describe the size  and  skill
  make-up of the project team, how long is took to  build  and  the
  costs involved. How it was/will be installed  and  introduced  to
  the users, with details of any training  required.  Describe  any
  plans for maintenance, in particular how the knowledge is  expec-
  ted to change over time, and any features to aid the updating  of
  knowledge, etc.

    Application benefits: Were potential benefits identified before
  building the application and have  these  been  realised  or  are
  likely to be realised? Has the application been in  use  and,  if
  so, how often has it been used and by how many users?  What  fur-
  ther long term benefits are expected? What future plans have been
  made for its enhancement and use?

    For PAIS 2000, a paper is acceptable even  if  it  describes  a
  system which has not yet been installed, PROVIDED the application
  is original AND the paper discusses the aspects and  issues  that
  would help someone thinking of implementing a similar  system  in
  their own organisation. It must concisely describe and scope  the
  problem tackled, saying why it is hard, and why IS techniques are
  needed. It should also make clear the status of the  system,  and
  should discuss such things as the project  duration  and  effort,
  how the project was justified and the expected  benefits  estima-
  ted, any problems  encountered,  the  performance  of  the  final
  system and the reactions of users. The review procedure is diffe-
  rent and separate from the ECAI technical conference. Papers will
  be evaluated by experienced application developers, based on  the
  above criterion. Accepted papers will be published  in  the  ECAI
  proceedings.


  FORMATTING GUIDELINES

    It is highly recommended to submit papers using the  final  ca-
  mera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pa-
  ges in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are
  limited to  6000  words  including  footnotes,  figure  captions,
  tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page  of  figures
  will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for  some  papers
  five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000  words
  in practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without re-
  view. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include  a  word
  count on their paper. Latex style files to support formatting  of
  submissions will be available. Final versions of accepted  papers
  will be required to conform strictly to the  formatting  require-
  ments specified in the ECAI 2000 style guide (see ECAI homepage).
  Each accepted paper will be allocated  five  pages  in  the  pro-
  ceedings.


  SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

    Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to  submit
  a brief summary of their paper by 2 February 2000.  The  strongly
  preferred submission method is to use the web-based PAIS  summary
  submission form. Submitted summaries will be  assigned  a  unique
  tracking number that should be marked  on  the  full  paper  sub-
  mission. Authors without access to the web should send a  summary
  including the title, authors, contact address  and  abstract  for
  the paper (maximum 200 words),  plus a set of indicative keywords
  to  the  ECAI 2000 Program Chair  (by email or postal mail).  The
  summary information and the tracking number should also be inclu-
  ded with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. (Authors
  not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the  trak-
  king number).

    Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or elec-
  tronic submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the  paper
  (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal  mail
  or courier service to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair at the  address
  below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Pa-
  pers received after this date will not be reviewed.  Notification
  of receipt of full papers will be  mailed  to  the  corresponding
  author soon after receipt.


  Address for submission

    Werner Horn
    PAIS 2000
    Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI)
    Schottengasse 3
    A-1010 Vienna
    Austria

    Email: pais2000 at ai.univie.ac.at
    Tel:   +43-1-4277-63114
    Fax:   +43-1-4277-9631


  Style guide and summary form

    http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/style.html
    http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/pais-summary.html


  REVIEW PROCEDURE

    All submissions will be subject to review by a  team  of  expe-
  rienced application developers in the PAIS 2000 Program Committee
  under the chairmanship of the PAIS 2000 Program Chair, Rob Milne.
  The PAIS 2000 Program Chair has final authority over  the  review
  process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Noti-
  fication of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers  will  be
  mailed to the corresponding author by 28 April 2000.


  CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

    Accepted PAIS 2000 papers will appear in a special  section  of
  the ECAI conference proceedings and will be published and distri-
  buted by IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing
  camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the  ECAI 2000  for-
  matting guidelines,  for inclusion in the proceedings.  The dead-
  line for receipt of the camera-ready copy  is  29 May 2000.  Note
  that at least one author of each accepted paper  is  required  to
  attend the conference to present the paper.

    PAIS 2000 is organised by the German Informatics  Society  (GI)
  and the European Coordinating Committee for  Artificial  Intelli-
  gence (ECCAI) and hosted by Humboldt University Berlin.


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jan 21 18:24:47 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:47 +0100
Subject: Appel: TAPD2000
Message-ID: <FRI.21.JAN.2000.192447.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es>


           [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies]

======================================================================
                           CALL FOR PAPERS
----------------------------------------------------------------------
                              TAPD2000
        2nd Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction'
----------------------------------------------------------------------

                            September 2000
                             Vigo, Spain

                  Sponsored by University of Vigo

             WEB page: http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/


Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France) next TAPD event will be held in
Vigo (Spain), in September, 2000.

MOTIVATIONS:

Tabulation techniques are becoming a common way to deal with highly
redundant computations occurring, for instance, in Natural Language
Processing, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, or Abstract
Interpretation, and related to phenomena such as ambiguity,
non-determinism or domain ordering.

Different approaches, including for example Chart Parsing, Magic-Set
rewriting, Memoization, and Dynamic Programming, have been proposed
whose key idea is to keep traces of computations to achieve
computation sharing and loop detection. In addition, tabulation also
offers more flexibility to investigate new parsing or proof strategies
and to represent ambiguity by shared structures (Shared Proof or Parse
Forest).

The first objective of this workshop is to compare and discuss these
different approaches. The second objective is to present tabulation
and tabular systems to potential users in different application
areas. One major area of application is Natural Language Processing,
where tabulation has been known for a long time (CKY, Earley, chart
parsing). However, sophisticated tabulation techniques are required
for the more and more complex grammatical formalisms now used in NLP
(unification, constraints, structural complexity). Contributions in
other areas, such as picture parsing, genome analysis, or complete
deduction techniques, are also encouraged.

TOPICS (not exclusive):

 -- Tabulation Techniques:
    Chart Parsing, Tabling, Memoization, Dynamic Programming,
    Magic Set, Generic Fix-Point Algorithms
 -- Applications:
    Parsing, Generation, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases,
    Abstract Interpretation, Deduction in Knowledge Bases, Theorem Proving
 -- Static Analysis:
    Improving tabular evaluation
 -- Parsing or resolution strategies.
 -- Efficiency issues:
    Dealing with large tables (structure sharing, term indexing),
    Execution models, Exploiting the domain ordering (subsumption).
 -- Shared structures (parse or proof forest):
    Formal analysis, representation and processing.

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for
individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as
group discussions.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors are invited to submit before April 28 a 4-page position
paper or abstract concerning a theoretical contribution or a system to
be presented. Due to tight time constraints, submission and reviewing
will be handled exclusively electronically (LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or
ascii format). Submission should include the title, authors' names,
affiliations, addresses, and e-mail.

The submissions must be sent to David S. Warren (warren at cs.sunysb.edu) in
gziped encoded postscript.

SCHEDULE (tentative dates):

    Submission of contributions:            April 28, 2000
    Notification of acceptance:             June 1,   2000
    Final versions due:                     June 30,  2000

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:

  Davic S. Warren        -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  Francois Bry           -- Univ. Munich,                  Germany
  Eric de la Clergerie   -- INRIA,                         France
  Veronica Dahl          -- Univ. Simon Fraser,            Canada
  Manuel Hermenegildo    -- Univ. Polit. Madrid,           Spain
  Baudouin Le Charlier   -- Univ. Namur,                   Belgium
  Mark Jan Nederhof      -- Univ. Groningen,               NL
  Luis M. Pereira        -- Univ. Nova de Lisboa,          Portugal
  Martin Rajman          -- EPFL,                          Switzerland
  Domenico Sacca         -- Univ. della Calabria,          Italy
  Kostis Sagonas         -- Univ. Uppsala,                 Sweden
  David Shasha           -- Univ. New York,                US
  Terrance Swift         -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US
  Manuel Vilares         -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain
  David Weir             -- Univ. Sussex,                  UK

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR:

  Manuel Vilares         -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

  Miguel A. Alonso       -- Univ. Coruna,                  Spain
  Eric de la Clergerie   -- INRIA,                         France
  David Cabrero          -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain
  Victor M. Darriba      -- Univ. Coruna,                  Spain
  David Olivieri         -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain
  Francisco J. Ribadas   -- Univ. Coruna,                  Spain
  Leandro Rodriguez      -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain

ORGANISATION:

The organisation of the workshop is still subject to modification.
Up-to-date information will be provided on request and be available at

               http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/

For any information related to the organisation, please contact:

   E-mail: tapd-secret at ei.uvigo.es


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jan 21 18:24:56 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:56 +0100
Subject: Appel: SEPLN 2000
Message-ID: <FRI.21.JAN.2000.192456.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es>




           [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies]

======================================================================
                           CALL FOR PAPERS
----------------------------------------------------------------------
                              SEPLN 2000
XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
----------------------------------------------------------------------

                            September 2000
                             Vigo, Spain

                  Sponsored by Universidade de Vigo

           WEB Page: http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/



Following SEPLN'99 in Lleida (Spain), the next SEPLN event will be held in
Vigo (Spain), in September, 2000.

MOTIVATIONS

The motivation for this Conference is to provide researchers in the field of
Natural Language Processing a chance to present their recent work, to share
their experimental results, and to discuss a range of problems which must be
treated.  Moreover, for researchers not directly involved within the field
of natural language processing, presentations shall offer the opportunity
to realize the active state of the art research, together with present
applications and possibilities offered by this field.  Thus, an important
objective of this Conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and
opinions
for future  basic research directions and to compare these ideas with the
actual needs of the society.


AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Linguistic, mathematic and psicolinguistic models of languages.
2. Corpus linguistics
3. Information extraction and retrieval
4. Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis
5. Computational lexicography
6. Monolingual and multilingual textual generation
7. Automatic translation
8. Speech synthesis and recognition
9. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse


PROJECTS AND DEMOS

The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of
projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral
presentations, some session may be reserved to this purpose.

For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information
must be included:
- Project title
- Funding institution
- Participant groups in the project
- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the director of the
  project.
- Abstract (2 pages maximum).
- If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be
included,
  as indicated below.

For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory:

- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.
- Abstract (2 pages maximum).
- Time estimation for the whole presentation.

This information must be received by June 4, 2000.


CONFERENCE FORMAT

The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for
individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as
project an demos presentations and group discussions.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Authors are invited to submit a paper, before April 14, concerning a
theoretical contribution or a system to be presented. Submission and
paper reviews shall be handled exclusively electronically (PostScript or
PDF format).  Submission should include the title, authors' names,
affiliations, addresses, and e-mail.

The submissions must adhere to certain rules:

- They must include an abstract (150 word maximum).
- The proposed area of interest must be included.
- Maximum length is 3500 words, abstract included.
- Accepted papers must follow format rules that will be given in the
  conference web page
  (http://coleweb.ei.uvigo.es/sepln2000/).

Submissions must be sent to sepln-submit at ei.uvigo.es


SCHEDULE (tentative)

- XVI SEPLN Conference: September 2000
- Submission of contributions: April 14, 2000
- Notification of acceptance: may 26, 2000
- Final versions due: June 30,2000
- Projects and demos submission: June 4, 2000
- Early registration: before July 14, 2000
- Late registration: after July 14, 2000


COMMITTEES

Program committee:

Joseba Abaitua                  Univ. de Deusto
Miguel A. Alonso Pardo          Univ. de A Coruña
Margarita Alonso Ramos          Univ. de A Coruña
Xabier Artola                   Univ. del País Vasco
Toni Badia                      Univ. Pompeu Fabra
Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez     Univ. Europea de Madrid
Ines Diz                        Centro Ramón Piñeiro
Carmen García Mateo             Univ. de Vigo
José Mª García-Miguel Gallego   Univ. de Vigo
Javier Gómez Guinovart          Univ. de Vigo
Jorge Graña Gil                 Univ. de A Coruña
Joaquim Llisterri               Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona
Manuel Palomar Sanz             Univ. de Alicante
M. Antonia Martí Antonín        Univ. de Barcelona
Lydia Moreno Boronat            Univ. Politécnica de Valencia
Guillermo Rojo Sanchez          Univ. de Santiago de Compostela
María Felisa Verdejo Maillo     UNED
Manuel Vilares Ferro            Univ de Vigo

Organizing Committee:

David Cabrero Souto             Univ. de Vigo
Víctor Darriba Bilbao           Univ. de A Coruña
Javier Gómez Guinovart          Univ. de Vigo
David Olivieri                  Univ. de Vigo
Javier Pérez Guerra             Univ. de Vigo
Francisco José Ribadas Pena     Univ. de A Coruña
Leandro Rodríguez Liñares       Univ. de Vigo


ORGANISATION

The organization of the workshop is still subject to modification.
Up-to-date information will be provided on request and be available at

                 http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/

For any information related to the organization, please contact:
   sepln-secret at ei.uvigo.es


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jan 21 18:24:53 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: TAG+5 (Extended deadline)
Message-ID: <FRI.21.JAN.2000.192453.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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

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                      (__)(_)(_)\__/  (_)  (___/

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

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


                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                EXTENDED DEADLINE : January 31th 2000


(version française infra)


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

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

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

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


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

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

   Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the
author's name, nor any self-reference.
   Abstracts should be no longer than 4 pages. 2 hardcopies should be
sent by surface mail to:
   TAG+5
   UFRL, Université Paris 7
   TALaNa, case 7003
   2, place Jussieu
   F-75251 Paris cedex 05
   A separate identification page (with the following information :
title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, email
address, fax and telephone number) should also be included. Please
also indicate if you submitted your abstract to other conferences.
   Also a postcript file should be sent to tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr.
Please indicate "tag+5 submission" in the subject field.

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

Languages of the workshop: English and French

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

DATES:

   Extended deadline for submissions:           January 31
   Notification of acceptance:                  March 3
   Deadline for camera-ready extended abstract: April 15
   Workshop Dates:                              May 25 to May 27


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                    APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
     DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION ETENDUE AU 31 Janvier 2000

   La cinquième conférence sur les grammaires d'arbres adjoints (TAG) et

autres formalismes proches (d'où le +) aura lieu à l'Université Paris
7 du 25 au 27 mai 2000 sous l'égide de l'ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues).

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

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

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


MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION

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

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

   Les résumés anonymes de 4 pages au maximum seront envoyés en deux
exemplaires par la poste avant le 31 janvier 2000 à l'adresse suivante :

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

   Une page d'identification séparée (contenant le titre de la
communication, le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale et
électronique, le numéro de téléphone et de fax de l'auteur) devra être
jointe. Merci de préciser si le résumé a été soumis à une autre
conférence.
   Le résumé doit également être envoyé par courrier électronique au
format postscript à l'adresse suivante : tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr avec
"tag+5 submission" comme objet.
Important : Tous les fichiers postscript doivent être au
format A4.

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

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

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

CALENDRIER

   Nouvelle date limite de soumission : 31 janvier 2000
   Notification aux auteurs :           3 mars 2000
   Version finale :                     15 avril 2000
   Conférence :                         25-27 mai 2000


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

CONTACT ADDRESS
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   phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70
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   email: tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr
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LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
COMITÉ LOCAL D'ORGANISATION
   Anne Abeillé (Paris 7)
   Nicolas Barrier (Paris 7)
   Sébastien Barrier (Paris 7)
   Marie-Hélène Candito (Paris 7 and Lexiquest)
   Lionel Clément (Paris 7)
   Kim Gerdes (Paris 7)
   Alexandra Kinyon (Paris 7 and Univ. of Pennsylvania)
   Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbrücken)


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 25 11:42:16 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:42:16 +0100
Subject: Appel: ACL-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JAN.2000.124216.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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




                      ACL 2000 Call For Papers

             38th Annual Meeting of the Association for
                    Computational Linguistics
                      3--6 October, 2000
                           Hong Kong

 The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of
 papers for its 38th Annual Meeting. As was the case with last year's ACL
 conference, the technical  sessions of the conference will be of two kinds.
 There will be  General Sessions as well as a number of special Thematic
 Sessions organized around themes proposed by members of the computational
 linguistics community.

 For the General Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original,
 and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics,
 including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics,
 syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology;
 interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic,
 mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented
 information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based
 language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and
 translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
 approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in
 multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems;
 tools and resources; and evaluation of systems.

 Papers submitted to the Thematic Sessions are more narrowly targeted at
 specific topics. The list of Thematic Sessions is as follows:

        T1: NLP and Open-Domain Question Answering from Text
        T2: Machine Learning and Statistical NLP for Dialogue
        T3: Text Summarization
        T4: Theoretical and Technical Approaches for Asian Language
            Processing -- Similarities and Differences among Languages

 Further information on the individual themes and topics appropriate to each
 can be obtained from the  ACL-2000 conference website
 (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/).

 Requirements

 Requirements are the same regardless of whether you are submitting
 a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions; a separate
 Call for Student Workshop papers will provide the information on
 requirements for the Student Workshop submissions. Papers
 should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work
 rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state
 of completion of the reported results.  Wherever appropriate, concrete
 evaluation results should be included.  A paper accepted for
 presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been
 presented at any other meeting with publicly available published
 proceedings.  Papers that are being submitted to other conferences
 must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.)

 Reviewing

 The reviewing of the papers submitted to the General Sessions and
 the  Thematic Sessions will be blind. Reviewing of papers submitted
 to the General Sessions will be managed by an international Conference
 Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have
 the assistance of a team of reviewers. Reviewing of papers for the
 Thematic Sessions will be managed by the chairs of the Thematic Sessions,
 with the assistance of teams of reviewers. Final decisions on the technical
 program (both General Sessions and Thematic Sessions) will be made by
 the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by
 at least three reviewers.

 Submission Procedure

 The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether you are
 submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions.
 Papers may not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references).
 Papers outside the specified length are subject to be rejected without
 review.

 We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word
Style
 files tailored for this year's conference. These will be available from the
 ACL-2000 Conference Website (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). These style
 files include a place for the paper ID code (see below) and word count
 and allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication.
 A description of the format will also be available in case you are
 unable to use these style files directly. If you are unable to access
 this webpage, please send email to acl2k at cis.udel.edu.

 The reviewing of papers submitted to the  General Session or the Thematic
 Sessions will be blind. Hence the title page and paper should not include
 the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that
 reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991)
...")
 should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
 showed (Smith, 1991) ...".

 You must first register your submission. This can be done by filling out
 an electronic form that will be accessible from the conference webpage
 http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/ after February 15, 2000. The form requires
 a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a
 preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will
 return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your
submission.
 Also, please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the
 program committee co-chairs. If you have any difficulty using the
 electronic registration form, please send email to acl2k at cis.udel.edu with
 all of the title page information (see below) plus the authors' names and
 affiliations.

 As reviewing will be blind, a separate title page and identification page
 will be required. The title page should include the following information:

        Title:
        Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration)
        Topic Area: one or two general topic areas
        Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
        Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one)
        Word Count, excluding title page and references:
        Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
        Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

 T1, T2, T3, and T4 correspond to the four Theme Sessions and G corresponds
 to the General Session. A paper can be submitted to at most one session.

 The identification page should contain all of the information in the title
 page, but in addition must include the authors' names, affiliations, and
 email addresses. The format for the identification page should be as
follows:

        Title:
        Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration)
        Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
        Topic Area: one or two general topic areas
        Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
        Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one)
        Word Count, excluding title page and references:
        Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
        Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)


 Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000. Late submissions
 (those arriving on or after April 8th) will be  rejected without review.
 The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other
 mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page
 if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following
 address:

        ACL-2000 Submission
        c/o K. Vijay-Shanker
        103 Smith Hall
        Department of Computer and Information Sciences
        University of Delaware
        Newark, DE 19716
        USA

 Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In
 addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of
 papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic
 version of the paper (without the identification page) to
 acl-routing at cis.udel.edu. Please include the paper ID code in the subject
 line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and
 plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The
 electronic version should also be received by April 7, 2000.
 Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist
 the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this
 supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy
 submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic
version,
 please send mail to the pc co-chairs at acl2k at cis.udel.edu.

 Acknowledgment of receipt of the hardcopy submission will be emailed soon
 after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by
email)
 around June 15, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of
 the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their
acceptance
 notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright
 release statement along with the final camera-ready papers.

 The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic
 sessions.

      Paper registration deadline:                 March 31, 2000
      Paper submissions deadline:                  April 7, 2000
      Notification of acceptance:                  June 15, 2000
      ACL 2000 Conference:                         October 3--6, 2000


Submission Questions

 Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should
 contact the program committee co-chairs sufficiently ahead of the
 submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made.
 All queries regarding the General Sessions and Thematic sessions
 of ACL-2000 should be sent to acl2k at cis.udel.edu; this forwards to
 both PC co-chairs.



   Changning Huang (PC Co-Chair)           K. Vijay-Shanker (PC Co-Chair)

   Microsoft Research, China             CIS Department
   5F, Beijing Sigma Center                 University of Delaware
   No.49, Zhichun Road                      Newark, DE 19716, USA
   Beijing 100080, P.R.C

   cnhuang at microsoft.com                    vijay at cis.udel.edu
   Tel: +86 10 6261-7711 -5760              Tel: +1 302 831 1952
   Fax: +86 10 8809-7305                    Fax: +1 302 831 8458



   Hitoshi Iida (General Chair)             Aravind K. Joshi (Honorary
Chair)

   Speech and Language Information          Department of Computer and
          Processing Lab                          Information Sciences
   SONY Computer Science Labs, Inc.         University of Pennsylvania
   Tokyo 141-0022, Japan                    Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

   iida at csl.sony.co.jp                      joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu
   Tel: +81 3 5448 4380                     Tel: +1 215 898 0359
   Fax: +81 3 5447 1942                     Fax: +1 215 573 9247


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 25 11:42:21 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:42:21 +0100
Subject: Appel: HPSG-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JAN.2000.124221.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Dan Flickinger <danf at csli.Stanford.EDU>



     SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

          HPSG-2000
     7th International Conference on
   Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
    University of California, Berkeley

       22-23 July 2000

The 7th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure
Grammar will be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 22-23, 2000, as part
of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000 at the University of
California, Berkeley, The event will consist of LFG2000 (July 19-20),
HPSG-2000 (July 22-23), and a common day of workshops on July 21,
entitled "Lexical and Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based
Grammar", offering a valuable opportunity for interaction among
researchers of these two frameworks.

Abstracts for HPSG-2000 are solicited for 20-minute presentations
(followed by 10 minutes of discussion) which address linguistic,
foundational, or computational issues relating to the framework of
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.  Authors are particularly
encouraged to submit papers which will be accessible to researchers
and students working in both HPSG and LFG.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

  We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 20-minute papers, to consist
  of two parts

  1) a separate information page in plain text format, containing
     - author name(s)
     - affiliation(s)
     - e-mail and postal address(es)
     - title of paper

  2) an extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including all
     figures and references.  Abstracts may be either in plain ASCII or in
     (unix-compatible encoded) PostScript, PDF, or DVI format.

  Abstracts should be sent to

 hpsg2000 at csli.stanford.edu

  All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers,
  so authors are asked to avoid self-references in the abstracts.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE

        15 February 2000

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

        31 March 2000

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Dan Flickinger, chair  Detmar Meurers
Gosse Bouma   Chris Manning
Georgia Green   Paola Monachesi
Takao Gunji   Tsuneko Nakazawa
Tibor Kiss   Louisa Sadler
Dimitra Kolliakou  Ivan Sag
Rob Malouf   Stephen Wechsler

PUBLICATION

  Pending final approval by the publisher, a selected number of papers will
be
  published as a volume in the CSLI series "Studies in Constraint-Based
  Lexicalism".  There will be a separate round of submission and reviewing
for
  this volume after the conference.

FURTHER INFORMATION

  Web site for HPSG-2000:

 http://hpsg.stanford.edu/hpsg2000.html

  For further information, email

 hpsg2000 at csli.stanford.edu


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 25 11:42:26 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:42:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: XLDB (LREC Workshop)
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JAN.2000.124226.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>

----------------------------------------------------------------
                    2nd Call for Papers

              XLDB - 1st. Int'l Workshop on
         Very Large Telephone Speech Databases

         a satellite event to LREC 2000 in Athens

                      May 29th, 2000
                  supported by ELRA and ISCA

          http://www.speechdat.org/XLDB/XLDB.html

In recent years, several very large telephone speech databases have
become available to the SLP community. It is now time to critically
assess the quality and utility of these databases, both for Speech
Technology and Speech Research.

The XL-DB workshop thus focuses on three aspects:

       * Collection, Annotation and Access
       * Research and Gaining new Knowledge
       * Application and Service Development

Contributions to these areas are highly welcome. The web-site
features a registration form for the XLDB-mailing list. Take
advantage of this mailing list to receive the most up-to-date
information on this workshop!

Important Dates

Abstracts due: 28.Jan.2000, Notification of acceptance: 18.Feb.2000

Note that all contributions must be made electronically, either by
e-mail or via the submission form on the XLDB web-site.

------------------------------------------------------------
Christoph Draxler
Department of Phonetics and Speech Communication
Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich    Tel: +49 +89 28669968
Schellingstr. 3                        Fax: +49 +89 280 0362
D 80799 Munich      e-mail: draxler at phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
------------------------------------------------------------


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 25 11:42:28 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:42:28 +0100
Subject: Conf: BFG2000 (Workshop proposal)
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JAN.2000.124228.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  bfg2000 at faust.berkeley.edu (Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference)


    SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

       LEXICAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL EXPLANATIONS IN
        CONSTRAINT-BASED GRAMMARS

        21 July 2000

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

  Proposal  submission receipt deadline:
      15 February 2000
  Submissions should be sent to the electronic address listed below


PURPOSE

"Lexical and Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based Grammars"
is the theme of a number of common workshops to be held as a part of
the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000 at the University of
California, Berkeley from July 19-23 2000.  The Berkeley event will
also consist of:

 LFG2000, July 19-20,
 URL: http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2000/

 HPSG-2000, July 22-23,
 URL: http://hpsg.stanford.edu/hpsg2000

We welcome submissions of proposals for workshops that are of common
interest to the LFG, HPSG, and Construction Grammar communities and
are likely to further interactions between the three. Workhops talks
should be on a coherent topic that can be expected to generate
opposing views and discussion with the broader audience. Workshop
papers should be distributed in advance among participants and
participants should refer to each other's approaches. Each workshop
can accommodate introductory remarks framing the issues and three to
four 30-minute talks.

Proposals should contain:

1. Title of the proposed workshop.
2. Short statement explaining its relevance to the LFG and HPSG
   conferences.
3. List of preliminary participants to be invited,
   OR:
   statement of intent to organize such a workshop with
   a preliminary CFP.

(Potential workshop organizers should note that the conference cannot
provide any financial support to workshop participants.)


TIMETABLE

 Deadline for receipt of workshop proposals: 15 February 2000

 Acceptances sent out:    31 March 2000

 Conference:     21 July 2000


ORGANIZERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Send workshop proposals to the local conference organizers

1. either electronically (preferred, ASCII only):

 bfg2000 at linguistics.berkeley.edu

2. or via snail mail:

 BFG2000-WS
 c/o Andreas Kathol
 Department of Linguistics
 1203 Dwinelle Hall
 UC Berkeley
 Berkeley, CA 94720
 USA


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 25 11:45:46 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:45:46 +0100
Subject: Publications: 3 annoucements
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JAN.2000.124546.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  kap-listman at wkap.nl
   Subject:  New Issue: Journal of Logic Language and Information. Vol. 9,
            Issue 2

2/ From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
   Subject: Journal publication: Computers and the Humanities 33:3 (1999)

3/ From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
   Subject: Journal: Computers and the Humanities 33:4 (1999)

_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  kap-listman at wkap.nl
   Subject:  New Issue: Journal of Logic Language and Information. Vol. 9,
            Issue 2


Kluwer ALERT, Kluwer Academic Publishers' free notification service.

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

Journal of Logic Language and Information

ISSN 0925-8531

http://www.wkap.nl/issuetoc.htm/0925-8531+9+2+2000

Vol. 9, Issue 2, April 2000.

TITLE: Editorial: Is JoLLI a Journal for Linguists?
AUTHOR(S): Elisabet Engdahl
KEYWORD(S): dynamic semantics, finite variable hierarchy, games, model
theory.
PAGE(S): 141-143

TITLE: Variables as Stacks
AUTHOR(S): C.F.M. Vermeulen
KEYWORD(S): dynamic semantics, finite variable hierarchy, games, model
theory.
PAGE(S): 145-169

TITLE: Vector Space Semantics: A Model-Theoretic Analysis of
Locative Prepositions
AUTHOR(S): Joost Zwarts, Yoad Winter
KEYWORD(S): generalized quantifier, locative, monotonicity, natural
language, preposition, semantics, vector.
PAGE(S): 171-213

TITLE: Display Calculi for Logics with Relative Accessibility
Relations
AUTHOR(S): Stephane Demri, Rajeev Gore
KEYWORD(S): display logic, knowledge logic.
PAGE(S): 215-238

TITLE: Refined Epistemic Entrenchment
AUTHOR(S): Thomas Andreas Meyer, Willem Adrian Labuschagne,
Johannes Heidema
KEYWORD(S): belief contraction, belief revision, epistemic entrenchment,
power orders, theory change.
PAGE(S): 239-261

TITLE: Exploring Logical Dynamics, Johan van Benthem
AUTHOR(S): Lawrence S. Moss
KEYWORD(S): dynamic semantics, finite variable hierarchy, games, model
theory.
PAGE(S): 263-265

TITLE: Handbook of Logic and Language, Johan van Benthem  and
Alice ter Meulen, eds.
AUTHOR(S): Natasha Kurtonina
PAGE(S): 265-271

TITLE: Displaying Modal Logic, Heinrich Wansing
AUTHOR(S): Rajeev Gore
KEYWORD(S): dynamic semantics, finite variable hierarchy, games, model
theory.
PAGE(S): 271-274

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2/ From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
   Subject: Journal publication: Computers and the Humanities 33:3 (1999)


***********************************************************************
JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED
***********************************************************************

                   COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
                       Volume 33 No. 3 1999

                         Table of Contents
                         -----------------


FEATURE ARTICLES
----------------

   Elementary Dependency Trees for Identifying Corpus-Specific
   Semantic Classes
       B. Habert, C. Fabre
       pp. 207-219

   Contrast and Change in the Idiolects of Ben Jonson
   Characters
       Hugh Craig
       pp. 221-240


NOTES AND DISCUSSION
--------------------

   The User-Oriented Bengali Easy Orthography
       S.M. Babulanam, K.F. Beena
       pp. 241-245

   Annotating The Satanic Verses: An Example of Internet
   Research and Publication
       Paul Brians
       pp. 247-264

   Text Indexation with INTEX
       Max Silberztein
       pp. 265-280


BOOK REVIEWS
------------

   Colorado Castellary, Arturo, Hipercultura Visual El reto
   hipermedia en el arte y la educacisn
       Antonio Cortijo Ocaqa
       pp. 281-282

   Irizarry, Estelle, Informatica y literatura. Analisis de
   Textos hispanicos
       Antonio Cortijo Ocaqa
       pp. 282-283

   Michael R. Brent, Computational Approaches to Language
   Acquisition
       Dominique Estival
       pp. 284-287

   Branimir Boguraev and James Pustejovsky, Corpus
   Processing for Lexical Acquisition
       Dominique Estival
       pp. 287-290


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      The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the
      Humanities

Editor-in-Chief:
      Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA


For subscriptions or information, consult the journal's WWW home page:

                    http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/

Or contact:

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_________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
   Subject: Journal: Computers and the Humanities 33:4 (1999)


***********************************************************************
JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED
***********************************************************************

                    COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
                       Volume 33 No. 4 1999


                           SPECIAL ISSUE

                                 on

                           DIGITAL IMAGES




                         Table of Contents
                         -----------------


   Introduction to Special Topic Issue of Computers and the
   Humanities: "Digital Images"
       A.A. Goodrum, B.C. O'Connor, J.M. Turner
       pp. 291-292

   Access to Pictorial Material: A Review of Current Research
   and Future Prospects
       Corinne Jvrgensen
       pp. 293-318

   Managing Full-indexed Audiovisual Documents: A New
   Perspective for the Humanities
       Gwendal Auffret, Yannick Prii
       pp. 319-344

   No Longer a Shot in the Dark: Engineering a Robust
   Environment for Film Study
       Bertrand Augst, Brian C. O'Connor
       pp. 345-363

   The Emergence of a Digital Cinema
       Roger B. Wyatt
       pp. 365-381

   Six Ways from Sunday: Approaches to Indexing Digital Text
   Images
       Scott J. Van Jacob
       pp. 383-407

   Attitudes of the Canadian Research Community toward
   Creating and Accessing Digitized Facsimile Collections of
   Historical Documents
       B. Burningham
       pp. 409-419

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      The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the
      Humanities

Editor-in-Chief:
      Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA


For subscriptions or information, consult the journal's WWW home page:

                    http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/

Or contact:

      Vanessa Nijweide
      Kluwer Academic Publishers
      Spuiboulevard 50
      P.O. Box 17
      3300 AA Dordrecht
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      Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54
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receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an
individual subscription. For information about ACH and a membership
application, consult http://www.ach.org/, or send email to
chuck_bush at byu.edu.


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jan  5 10:01:13 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:01:13 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <WED.5.JAN.2000.110113.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

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   Subject: PostDoc CNET (informatique et linguistique)

3/ From:  Federica Busa <fede at lexeme.com>
   Subject:  Computational Lexicographer for Lexem Inc., Cambridge, Mass.

4/ From:  Stanley Peters <peters at CSLI.Stanford.EDU>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Postdoc Research Position at Stanford U.

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: MIT2USA at aol.com
   Subject: MIT2


Jobs at Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)

Mason Integrated Technologies, Ltd. (MIT2), a leader
in document imaging, language engineering, software
development, and language consulting services, is
expecting to expand rapidly and is seeking highly
qualified individuals to join this small, dynamic team.

Having successfully created the Haitian Creole version
of the CreoleScan(tm) OCR and the CreoleConvert(tm)
orthography conversion software, development will
soon be underway for versions of CreoleScan(tm) and
CreoleConvert(tm) in the Martinican, Guadeloupean,
Reunionese, Mauritian, Seychellois, St. Lucian and
Dominican French-lexicon creoles. Additional language
technology products are also planned for near-future
production.

For the development, marketing and implementation
of its language technology solutions, MIT2 is currently
considering applications for the following types of
positions:

* Computational Linguist
* Language Specialists
* Project Manager
* Marketing/Sales Specialist


The job profiles and application procedures are described at:
http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/JobOpps.html


To learn more about MIT2, its products and services,
visit our other Web site pages:

MIT2 Home Page:
http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html

MIT2 Products and Services:
http://hometown.aol.com/mit2haiti/Index4.html


Please address all inquiries and applications to:

VP of Development
Mason Integrated Technologies, Ltd
P.O. Box 181015
Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA
Tel: (+1) 617-247-8885
Fax: (+1) 617-262-8923
E-mail: mit2usa at aol.com

*******
Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd
P.O. Box 181015
Boston, MA  02118  USA
(617) 247-8885 (office & answering machine)
(617) 262-8923 (FAX)
MariLinc at aol.com (e-mail)
Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd Home Page:
   http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html
Orthographically Converted HC Texts Download Site:
   http://hometown.aol.com/mit2haiti/Index4.html
Meet Marilyn Mason:
   http://hometown.aol.com/marilinc/Index3.html
Seychelles Invited Seminar Pictures Page:
   http://hometown.aol.com/marilinc/Index1.html


___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DSM/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: PostDoc CNET (informatique et linguistique)

Recrutement d'un PostDoc pour l'int?gration d'outils linguistiques sur le
web.

L'unit? de R&D "langues naturelles" du CNET (Centre National d'?tudes des
T?l?communications de France Telecom), centre de Lannion - France,
souhaite recruter un PostDoc sp?cialiste en informatique et en linguistique
pour
une p?riode de 12 mois, d?s que possible, et id?alement avant Mars 2000.

Le candidat travaillera dans le cadre d'un projet europ?en sur le th?me
des sites web multilingues. Le travail envisag? consiste ? participer ? la
r?alisation d'un d?monstrateur de site web int?grant un certain nombre
d'outils d'analyse de documents textuels fond?s sur des traitements
linguistiques
pour l'analyse et l'exploitation du contenu des sites dans un contexte
multilingue
(r?sum? automatique, traduction automatique, recherche d'information, etc.).

Nous souhaitons recruter un candidat ayant de solides connaissances et une
exp?rience en d?veloppement d'outils linguistiques et ayant des
connaissances
sur les probl?mes du multilinguisme. Par ailleurs, le candidat devra avoir
des
comp?tences en:
- Int?gration d'applications sur le web,
- Unix, C++, Java, HTML.
- Langues : fran?ais et anglais (autres souhait?es: n?erlandais, italien,
portugais).

Les candidats sont pri?s d'adresser un curriculum vitae d?taill? ?:
Malek Boualem
France Telecom - CNET/DSM/GRI
2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France
Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 - Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.12.59
Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr
ou
J?r?me Vinesse, responsable de l'?quipe Langues Naturelles
Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.38.92 - Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.12.59
Email: jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr

___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Federica Busa <fede at lexeme.com>
   Subject:  Computational Lexicographer for Lexem Inc., Cambridge, Mass.


Lexeme Inc., a fast growing natural language company, located
in Cambridge, Massachusetts,  is seeking to hire computational
lexicographers to join its development group.

You will be assisting in the development of the knowledge
resources, working within a multidisciplinary team of linguists,
engineers and programmers.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Analyze text corpora in different linguistic domains;

* Assist in developing and extending lexical databases;

* Contribute to the creation of automatic tools for
  lexicographic projects;

* Assist in testing and evaluating the contribution of the
  knowledge resources to the overall system.

We are looking for people who enjoy working within a team in
a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate must be able to
play an active role in the group by combining independent and
creative thinking with specific project needs and deadlines.
The minimal requirement is a university degree with a background
in linguistics or lexicography or at least a very good knowledge
of basic grammatical concepts. Lexeme will provide training on
the job as well as through lectures and technical documentation.

Programming experience is not required but it is a plus.

Competitive salary.

Submit resumes electronically to:

   fede at lexeme.com

or by mail to:

   Federica Busa
   Lexeme, Inc.
   56 JFK St.
   Cambridge, MA 01238


___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Stanley Peters <peters at CSLI.Stanford.EDU>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Postdoc Research Position at Stanford U.

      POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

    Center for the Study of Language and Information
    Stanford University

The project on Interactive Communication with Intelligent Autonomous
Systems under the direction of Stanley Peters is looking for a
postdoctoral researcher.  Applicants should have background and
interests in two or more of the following areas:

  - design and implementation of real-time computational systems
  - spoken human language theory and technology
  - behavioral analysis of communication among cooperating agents

The ideal candidate will have credentials in system building and in
natural language, as well as a lively interest in agent communication.
The appointment is initially for one year with a potential renewal for
following years.  Salary is negotiable and commensurate with
experience.

The project is working in collaboration with the WITAS project at
Link?ping University to develop a communications interface between
humans and an intelligent autonomous aerial vehicle.  For more
information on the WITAS project, see the following URL.
http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/witas/info/

Please direct inquiries and applications to

  Stanley Peters
  Stanford University
  CSLI
  220 Panama St.
  Stanford, CA 94305-4115

  peters at csli.stanford.edu

Stanford University is committed to equal opportunity through
affirmative action in employment and we are especially eager to
identify minority persons and women with appropriate qualifications.


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jan  5 10:01:24 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:01:24 +0100
Subject: Appel: SIGIR
Message-ID: <WED.5.JAN.2000.110124.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Bob Krovetz <krovetz at research.nj.nec.com>



         SIGIR 2000: Information Retrieval in Context

         TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR
            CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
                   IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

                        July 24-28 2000
                   Department of Informatics
  Athens University of Economics and Business Athens, Greece

                        CALL FOR PAPERS
           For details see: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr


SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of
new research results and the demonstration of new  systems and
techniques in  the broad field of information  retrieval (IR).
The  Conference and Program Chairs  invite all those concerned
with issues of IR  to submit original  research contributions,
posters,  and proposals  for  tutorials,  workshops,  and
demonstrations  of  systems,  for  presentation at SIGIR 2000.
All contributions should be submitted to the appropriate Chair,
as indicated  below (see the  Conference  web site for further
details: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr).

TOPICS
Information  Retrieval  is contextual. IR functionalities form
part  of  increasingly  complex  information systems serving a
great  variety  of information tasks and behaviors. SIGIR 2000
seeks  original  research  contributions in the broad field of
information  storage  and retrieval, covering the handling  of
all types of information, user behavior in information systems,
and theories, models, and implementations of IR systems. Topics
relevant to SIGIR include but are not limited to:

* IR Theory, including logical, statistical and interactive IR
  models, data fusion.
* Experimentation: test collections, interactive IR experiments,
  evaluation measures, experimental design, testing methodology,
  scalability.
* Natural  Language  Processing:  word  sense  disambiguation,
  discourse analysis, summarization for the purposes of IR, use
  of linguistic resources for IR.
* Contextual  IR:  multi-media  IR,  cross-lingual IR systems,
  speech retrieval,  dialogue  management, (non)feature-based
  indexing, information seeking and task embedded IR.
* Interface  issues:  user  &  use  modeling,  human-computer
  interaction, search strategies.
* Filtering, Extraction, Routing, and Text Classification.
* Systems and Implementation Issues: integration with database
  systems,  networked  systems  and  the internet, compression,
  efficient query evaluation.
* Applications: electronic publishing,  digital libraries, text
  mining, WWW-related issues, semistructured document retrieval.

SIGIR 2000 IMPORTANT DATES:
==========================

* January 21: Original research paper submissions due. See the
  Submission Instructions Section below for details.

* February 11: Proposals  for  tutorials,  workshops,  posters,
  panels and demonstrations due. See the Submission Instructions
  Section below for details.

* April 1: Notification of acceptance of all submissions.

* May 1: Final camera-ready copy of all submissions due.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
=======================

RESEARCH PAPERS

Research papers must consist of original contributions (that is,
not previously published and not currently being considered for
publication elsewhere) and must contain a clear statement of the
problem addressed and the context in which it arises. Papers must
also contain appropriate references to prior work and must indicate
what contribution the work makes to the primary field of Information
Retrieval. Researchers relatively new to the field of IR should
get examples from, e.g., previous SIGIR conferences, the ACM
Transaction on Information Systems (TOIS), the Journal of the
American Society for Information Science (JASIS), etc.

Papers (5 copies) should be submitted in English to the Program
Co-Chair responsible for the geographic region of the first author.
Papers should contain at most 5000 words. There are no formatting
requirements for submissions, but do not use font sizes smaller
than 10 point. The final version of the paper will have to fit
within 8 double-column pages, including all figures and bibliography,
so plan accordingly. Papers that are clearly longer than the limit
of 5,000 words will be rejected immediately.

The first page must contain the title of the paper, an abstract
of not more than 150 words, and up to 6 keywords taken from the
list at the end of this Call for Submissions. No page in the paper,
including the first page, should indicate the author(s) or their
affiliation(s). The purpose of omitting author names and affiliations
is to facilitate blind reviewing. Therefore, authors should make an
attempt to disguise who they are if possible, by omitting
acknowledgements in the submitted version of the paper, and by
refraining from phrases such as
  "In our earlier work [cite author-name] ..."
Authors should cite their work when required but attempt not to
make it obvious that the cited work is their own, if possible.

Please indicate if the paper is to be considered for the Best
Student Paper Award. This Award requires that the first and primary
author be a fulltime student at time of submission, that he or she
is responsible for much of the work, and that he or she will present
the paper should it be accepted.

In addition, authors must provide a separate cover page with the
title, the author name(s), the author affiliation(s), the same
list of keywords as on the first page, plus complete contact
information (mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) for the
author to whom correspondence should be sent. All correspondence
with the authors will be through email. The information on this
cover page must also be sent by email to the respective regional
Program Co-Chair. Submissions must arrive before 21 January 2000.

Authors in the Americas should mail 5 hardcopies of the submission
and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Nicholas Belkin
  School of Communication, Information & Library Studies,
  Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street,
  New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071, USA
  Email: nick at belkin.rutgers.edu
  Phone: +1-732-932-8585
  Fax: +1-732-932-6916

Authors in Europe and Africa should mail 5 hardcopies of the
submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Peter Ingwersen
  Royal School of LIS,
  Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
  Email: pi at db.dk
  Phone: +45-32-58-60-66
  Fax: +45-32-84-02-01

Authors in Asia, Australia and the Pacific should mail 5 hardcopies
of the submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Mun-Kew Leong
  (Attn: SIGIR Submission),
  Kent Ridge Digital Labs,
  21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
  Email: mkleong at krdl.org.sg
  Phone: +65-874-7864
  Fax: +65-774-4998


TUTORIALS

SIGIR 2000 will begin with a full day of tutorials, each of which
should cover a single topic in detail. Proposals are solicited for
tutorials of either a half day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day
(6 hours plus breaks).  Submissions should be made to the Tutorials
Chair and should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract.
The cover sheet should specify:
     1.the length of the tutorial.
     2.the intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced).
     3.complete contact information for the contact person and other
       presenters.
     4.brief biographies (max. 2 paragraphs) of the presenters.
The extended abstract should be 3 to 5 pages, and should include an
outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the course
objectives and course materials.

Tutorial proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Alan Smeaton (Email: asmeaton at compapp.dcu.ie)

WORKSHOPS

Proposals are solicited from individuals and groups for one-day
workshops to be held on the fifth day of the conference. Submissions
(up to 1,000 words) should include the theme and goal of the workshop,
planned activities, maximum number of participants, the selection
process for participants, and a list of potential participants.
Include a CV for each organizer describing relevant qualifications
and experience. After the workshop, organizers are to provide an
article for the SIGIR Forum which summarizes the workshop.

Workshop proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Bob Krovetz (Email: krovetz at research.nj.nec.com)

PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

Proposals for panel sessions should be sent to the Panels Chair by
prospective moderators.  Panels should address issues of interest
to the general information retrieval community, and should be designed
to stimulate lively debate between panelists and audience. Panel
proposals (2-3 pages) must include:
     1.complete contact information for the moderator.
     2.the rationale for addressing this topic as a panel.
     3.the names and affiliations of the panel members.
     4.a description of how the panel will be structured, with
       emphasis on how general participation will be encouraged.
Abstracts of panel presentations will appear in the proceedings.

Demonstrations offer first-hand experience with Information
Retrieval systems, whether advanced operational systems or research
prototypes. The demonstration proposal should indicate how the
demonstration illustrates new ideas, should provide the technical
specifications of the system and should include references to other
literature. The hardware, software, and network requirements should be
indicated in a separate cover letter. A one-page abstract describing
each demonstration accepted will be published in the proceedings.

Panel and Demonstration proposals must be sent via email by
11 February 2000 to:
  James Allan (Email: allan at cs.umass.edu)

POSTERS

SIGIR 2000 poster presentations offer researchers an opportunity to
present late-breaking results, significant work in progress,
or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical
format. Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings.
Three copies of an extended abstract (roughly 3-4 pages) should be
submitted to the Posters Chair. The abstract should emphasize the
research problem and the methods being used, and be headed only
by the title of the poster. In addition, a separate cover page
is required containing the title of the poster, along with
the name and affiliation of the author(s), and complete contact
information for the author to whom correspondence should be sent.

Poster proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Amit Singhal (Email: singhal at research.att.com)


AWARDS

During the conference the following awards will be given:

*  The Gerard Salton award
*  Best scientific paper award
*  Best paper presentation award
*  Best student paper award (first author should be student)

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
=======================

Conference Chair:
Emmanuel Yannakoudakis
Athens University of Economics and Business,
Department of Informatics,
76 Patission Street, Athens 104 34, Greece (eyan at aueb.gr),
Phone: +30-1-8214145,  Fax. : +30-1-8203356

Programme Chairs:
* For The Americas: Nicholas Belkin
  Professor and Director of the Ph.D.Program,
  School of Communication, Information & Library Studies,
  Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick NJ
  08901-1071, USA (nick at belkin.rutgers.edu)
  Phone: +1-732-932-8585, Fax: +1-732-932-6916

* For Europe and Africa: Peter Ingwersen
  Royal School of LIS, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S,
  Denmark, (pi at db.dk)
  Phone: +45-32-58-60-66, Fax: +45-32-84-02-01

* For Asia, Australia and the Pacific: Mun-Kew Leong
  (Attn: SIGIR Submission), Kent Ridge Digital Labs,
  21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
  (mkleong at krdl.org.sg)
  Phone: +65-874-7864, Fax: +65-774-4998

Tutorials Chair: Alan Smeaton
School of Computer Applications, Dublin City
University Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
(asmeaton at compapp.dcu.ie)
Phone: +353-1-7045262, Fax: +353-1-7045442

Workshops Chair: Bob Krovetz
NEC Research Institute,
4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
(krovetz at research.nj.nec.com)
Phone: +1-609-951-2773, Fax: +1-609-951-2483

Panels and Demonstrations Chair: James Allan
Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA
(allan at cs.umass.edu)
Phone: +1-413-545-3240, Fax: +1-413-545-1789

Posters Chair: Amit Singhal
AT&T Labs-Research, Rm A-281, Shannon Laboratory,
180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932, USA
(singhal at research.att.com)
Phone: +1-973-360-8335, Fax: +1-973-360-8970

Publicity Chair: Anestis Konstantinidis
(mvazirg at aueb.gr)

Treasurer: Elias Lypitakis
(eal at aueb.gr)

Awards Chair: Efthimis Efthimiadis
School of Library & Information Science, University of Washington
Box 352930, Seattle, WA 98195-2930, USA
(efthimis at u.washington.edu)
Phone: +1-206-616-6077, Fax: +1-206-616-3152


REVIEWING PROCESS:
The  SIGIR  2000  Programme  Committee  is  organized with an
International  Programme  Committee (IPC) and three  Regional
Programme  Committees (RPC). Both the  IPC and  the RPCs  are
designed to reflect the broadening topic areas of IR research.
The reviewing process for SIGIR 2000 will  be  in  two stages.
There will first be initial reviews by at least three members
of the RPCs for each submission. For each paper, an IPC member
will be responsible for producing a review and recommendation
integrating the three initial reviews. All submissions will be
refereed "blind",  that is,  without  identification  of their
authors.  For  further information  on the  requirements  for
submission of contributions, and evaluation criteria, see the
Conference web site: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Jun Adachi, NACSIS, Japan
Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile
Marcia Bates, UCLA, USA
Jamie Callan, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA
Norbert Fuhr, University Dortmund, Germany
Donna Harman, NIST, USA
William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA
Kalervo Jarvelin, University Tampere, Finland
David Lewis, AT&T Labs, USA
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, USA
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,USA
Mark Maybury, MITRE, USA
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea
Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Steve Robertson, Microsoft Research, UK
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Karen Sparck Jones, University of Cambridge, UK
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Ellen Voorhees, NIST, USA
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Peter Willett, University of Sheffield, UK
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China


COOPERATING ORGANISATIONS:
ACM SIGIR, BCS IRSG, Greek Computer Society, others requested.


SIGIR 2000 PAPER SUBMISSION KEYWORD CHOICES - GROUPED ROUGHLY BY TOPIC
(submissions should include up to 6 keywords on both the first page
and the cover page)

IR theory and models (general), statistical/probabilistic models,
logic-based models, term expansion/thesauri, relevance feedback
algorithms/evaluation, text clustering, filtering/routing, passage
retrieval, retrieval using document structure, structured queries,
change in queries over time, evaluation (general), test collections,
testing methodology, scalability of evaluation, information brokers,
distributed collections, merging search results/information synthesis,
systems and implementation (general), architectures for IR systems,
architectures for WWW search, scalability of IR systems, efficiency
indexing for IR systems, efficient query evaluation , compression and
other optimizations for IR, integration with database systems ,
information access in digital libraries, natural language processing for
IR (general), stemming/morphological analysis, tokenization/parsing,
thesaurus construction , phrase detection and use, word sense
disambiguation and IR, text segmentation, discourse analysis and IR,
summarization/abstracting and IR, question answering, translation,
cross-lingual indexing/retrieval, information seeking behavior
(general), individual differences in information-seeking,
field/empirical studies of the information seeking process, theoretical
discussion of the information seeking process, embedding search within
larger tasks , user studies (general), comparing interfaces for
information access, methodology for evaluating interactive IR, user
interface (UI) design for IR (general), information visualization for IR
(general), UIs/visualization for collection overviews and topic spaces,
UIs/visualization for categories/subject codes, UIs/visualization for
query generation and specification, UIs/visualization organizing and
displaying retrieval results, UIs/visualization for source selection,
UIs/visualization for hypertext search and navigation, integrating
navigation and search, animation and IR interfaces, structuring
information to aid search and navigation, structuring information for
different user populations, navigation versus ad hoc search, monitoring
user behavior to improve search, automated presentation of information,
adaptive IR interfaces, adaptive ranking algorithms , cognitive models
and IR, user models and information access, information seeking
dialogues , sensemaking, collaboration and IR, collaboritive filtering,
social techniques for organization and search, reading/annotating and
IR, knowledge-based systems and IR, semantic nets/conceptual graphs and
IR, case-based reasoning and IR, machine learning and IR, text
categorization, planning and IR, IR agents (general), architectures for
IR agents, IR and avatars, (semi) automated search assistants, MMIR
(general), content-based indexing/retrieval (general), image
indexing/retrieval, text image indexing/retrieval, OCR/degraded images
indexing/retrieval, video indexing/retrieval, speech indexing/retrieval,
general audio indexing/retrieval, metadata for retrieval of non-text
information, efficient search over non-textual information, query
languages for non-textual information, results analysis and presentation
for MMIR, evaluation theory and methodology for MMIR, test collection
development for MMIR , application areas (general), biomedical
informatics, legal informatics, entertainment and IR, education and IR,
exploiting hyperlink structure, event detection and tracking, text data
mining, search and ecommerce, search and mobile systems, IR interaction
with the physical world,


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jan  5 10:01:31 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:01:31 +0100
Subject: Ecole:  ELSNET Summer School
Message-ID: <WED.5.JAN.2000.110131.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Mariken Broekhoven <elsnet at let.uu.nl>



*******************First Announcement***************************

8th European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication

     "Text and Speech Triggered Information Access (TeSTIA)"

             Chios Island, Greece, 15-30 July 2000

The 2000 ELSNET Summer School will be organized by the Institute
for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) in Athens, Greece.
The event will be sponsored by ELSNET, IHP and ILSP, and receive
further support from ISCA and EACL.

Years of speech and billions of characters are stored in various
media including the Internet. How can we ever find useful
information in such vast archives? Automatic procedures that can
recognize speech accurately and linguistic tools that automatically
take out essential information components may do the job. The 2000
Summer School will present the current state of the art. For details
of the programme, which will consist of plenary sessions, parallel
courses and workshops, please check the summer school homepage:

  http://www.ilsp.gr/testia/testia2000.html





Mariken Broekhoven
ELSNET Assistant Coordinator


European Network in Language and Speech
____________________________________________________________
email:   elsnet at let.uu.nl
mail :   Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS,
         Trans 10, 3512 JK, Utrecht, The Netherlands
tel  :   +31 30 253 6039
fax  :   +31 30 253 6000
www  :   http://www.elsnet.org


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Jan  5 10:01:40 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:01:40 +0100
Subject: Appel: SCI'2000
Message-ID: <WED.5.JAN.2000.110140.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Nagib Callaos <sci2000 at iiisconferences.org>


CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 4TH WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON
SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS
SCI'2000

July, 23-26, 2000

Orlando, Florida(USA)
Sheraton World

http://www.iiis.org/isas/


Honorary Presidents: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and George Klir
Program Committee Chair: William Lesso
General Chair: Nagib Callaos
Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez


MAJOR THEMES

* Information Systems Development
* Information Systems Management
* Management Information Systems
* Virtual Engineering
* Mobile/Wireless Computing
* Communication Systems and Networks
* Emergent Computation
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ACTIVE PARTICIPATION

Those interested in participating in the:
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                                                          ncallaos at aol.com
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PARTICIPANTS

Participation of both researchers and practitioners is strongly encouraged.
Papers may be
submitted on: research in science and engineering, case studies drawn on
professional
practice and consulting, and position papers based on large and rich
experience gained
through executive/managerial practices and decision-making. For this
reason, the
Program Committee is conformed according to the criteria given above.

TYPES OF SUBMISSION ACCEPTED

 1.Papers
   * Research
   * Review
   * Position
   * Report
 2.Panel Presentation, Workshop and/or Round Table Proposals
 3.New Topics and Invited Sessions Proposal(which should include a minimum
of 5 papers)
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EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND PAPER DRAFTS SUBMISSION FORM

Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent according the following
format:

1. Major theme of the paper, according the major themes given above.
2. Paper title.
3. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words and/or paper drafts of 2000 to
5000 words, in English.
4. Author or co-authors with names, addresses, telephone number, fax number
and e-mail address.

Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent via Internet, as
attachments to e-mails addressed
to nacallao at telcel.net.ve  and SCI2000 at aol.com.  Exceptionally, three
copies of extended abstracts or paper drafts
might be sent to the following postal mail address and/or faxed to the
following numbers:

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                    draft(2000-2500 words)
March 15, 2000   Acceptance notifications
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electronic versions

PAPERS REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION

Submitted papers will be refereed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed
six single-
spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic
proceedings. The
full paper should be sent via Internet and by means of diskette and
photoready
hard copies of artwork, not later than April 20, 2000.

Best papers will be selected for awards and recommended for journal
publications.

Multiple author books will be published by iiis, based on best-invited
sessions, best focus
symposia or best mini-conferences.

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To organize an invited session for SCI'2000, the following steps are
suggested:

1) Identify a special topic is in the scope of SCI'2000. You may contact the
General chair,the Program Chair or other program committee members, on the
suitability of the topic, if
it is not included in the Conference Program.
2) Contact the General Chair for the invited session acceptation
3) Contact researchers or practitioners in your field to see if they can
contribute a paper to your proposed session and attend SCI'2000.
4) Collect the extended abstracts or the paper drafts from each perspective
invitee.
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the invited/selected papers.

Mail the invited session proposal including a summary and a copy of all
abstracts before,
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Integrated by (210) prestigious scholars/researchers from 54 countries.
Details can be found in the conference web (http://www.iiis.org/isas/) page
or asking for a detailed Call For Papers, via e-mail.

CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fees will be $330 before April 20, 2000 and $380 after April
20, 2000.This fee will include:

* A CD-ROM version of the Proccedings
* One volumen of the hard copy version of the Conference Proceeding.
  (Other volumes will be available with a 30% of discount for participants)
* Coffee breaks
* Welcome Reception

CONFERENCE CONTACTS

Prof. Nagib Callaos (General Chair)
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Other contacts and More details can be found at the
Conference web page (http://www.iiis.org/isas/). Answers to
specific questions can be requested also by e-mail.


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jan 13 12:27:53 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:27:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: FOUR ANLP/NAACL-2000 Workshop
Message-ID: <THU.13.JAN.2000.132753.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


The following four Calls for Papers for workshops associated with the
ACL-sponsored ANLP/NAACL-2000 Conference are included below, separated
by dash lines:

1)Workshop on Conversational Systems
  May 4, 2000, following ANLP/NAACL 2000

2)EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP II
  Thursday, May 4, 2000

3)Workshop on Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual
  Approaches to NLP
  Sunday, April 30, 2000

4)Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for
  Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems
  Thursday, May 4th, 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA


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    Call for Papers
   Workshop on Conversational Systems
        May 4, 2000, following ANLP/NAACL 2000

The purpose of this workshop is to focus the discourse and dialogue
community on best practices as well as theory of conversational
systems, both speech based and text based.  The workshop will also
bring together creators of working conversational systems to discuss their
efforts, both successes and limitations.

In this workshop we encourage papers on either theoretical or applied
research with a focus on results in working systems.  We also welcome
papers on working systems that provide a critical appraisal of their
capabilities as well as their limitations; we encourage such papers to
provide the criteria of critique that the authors feel are most
relevant to their work.  This workshop will consider in particular:

- How can systems be designed so that it is easier to build
applications in new domains?
- What significant features of dialogue are beyond current working
systems?  What proposals show the most promise for capturing these
features?
- What knowledge does a system need to represent about a domain, tasks
and discourse to support intelligent conversational interaction?
- What can be learned from data and what should be learned from data?
Can robust systems be built for domains where there is not a large amount
of data available?
- What is the role of natural language generation in conversational systems?
- What aspects of discourse prosody are now feasible in conversational
systems?
- What aspects of nonverbal behavior are now feasible -- and worthwhile
implementing -- in conversational systems?
- How can the real-world performance of conversational systems be measured
and anticipated? How can the performance of different systems be compared?

In addition to the presentation of papers and the discussions that
will result from them, we plan demonstration sessions and a panel
session. The demonstration sessions will be open to anyone who wishes
to bring their conversational systems for demonstration to other
members of the workshop.  Presenters are asked to submit a paper that
is specifically directed at a demonstration of their current systems.
These papers should cover the following topics as well as others the
presenters think are relevant:

-a short system description,
-an example dialogue or dialogues, as space permits,
-discussion of the most important contribution of the work,
-discussion of the most significant limitation of the work.

These papers will be included in the workshop proceedings.

In the panel session we plan to bring together a set of experts to
compare various approaches (including frame-based, finite-state,
plan-based and statistical and logical reasoning-based) to dialogue in
working conversational systems.

A website which will provide additional information on the workshop as
it becomes available is located at:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/traum/ConvSys/.

I. 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:                            May 4, 2000

II. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

Submissions must use the ACL latex style or ACL Microsoft Word style,
both of which can be found at
http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/cfp_submission.html. Paper
submissions should consist of a full paper of 8 pages (including
references). Please send submission questions to Alex
Rudnicky,air at cs.cmu.edu, before, not after, January 31, 2000.

Submission Procedure:

Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript or
MS Word form of your submission to: Alex Rudnicky, air at cs.cmu.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.

The Organizing Committee for this workshop includes:

Candy Sidner, Lotus (Chair)
James Allen, Univ. of Rochester
Harald Aust, Philips Corp.
Phil Cohen, Oregon Graduate Institute
Justine Cassell, Media Lab, MIT
Laila Dybkjaer, University of Southern Denmark
X.D. Huang, Microsoft
Masato Ishizaki, Japan Adv. Institute of Science and Technology
Candace Kamm, AT&T
Lin-Shan Lee, Taiwan University
Susann Luperfoy, Akamai Technologies
Patti Price, SRI International
Owen Rambow, AT&T
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI Saarbruecken
Alex Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University
Stephanie Seneff, MIT
Dave Stallard, BBN/GTE
David Traum, University of Maryland
Marilyn Walker, AT&T
Wayne Ward, Univ of Colorado, Boulder

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    ******************  CALL FOR PAPERS  ***************************

             EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS
                         WORKSHOP II
           held in conjunction with NAACL/ANLP2000

                   Thursday, May 4, 2000
                  Seattle, Washington, USA


         Embedded MT Systems homepage for this workshop
          http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems


WHAT IS AN "EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT) SYSTEM"?

An "embedded MT system" is a computational system with one
or more MT engines among its components.  These systems
accept multilingual, multimodal inputs and create various outputs
that enable the users to access the original information in their
own language.  An MT component embedded in an end-to-end system
allows users to perform their specific tasks on foreign language
input that they previously only had been able to perform in
their native language. To date, these tasks have included
summarization, content extraction, filtering and document
retrieval.

BACKGROUND

The first workshop on Embedded MT Systems was held in conjunction
with the biennial meeting of the Association for Machine Translation
in the Americas (AMTA), in October, 1998, in Langhorne, PA.  The
Embedded MT Systems Workshop II is a response to the growing
community commitment to translingual information research,
e.g., the DARPA TIDES initiative.  By holding the workshop at
the combined NAACL and ANLP conferences this year, there will be
an opportunity for a multi-disciplinary mix of researchers and
to attend, contribute and benefit from the workshop.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The strengths and weaknesses of machine translation engines
have become better understood and accepted. There has been a marked
increase in the development of a range of computer systems containing
an MT component. This workshop will focus on the system designs, the
associated information access tasks of such end-to-end systems,
and the measures of system effectiveness.

Of particular interest are systems that accept one or another of
various types of input including hard-copy pages, online text
files, and speech (natural or transcribed).  These inputs
present real-world, noisy data that challenge MT engine capabilities.
We would like to know the degradation in performance that
these challenges present and the compensation strategies that
system developers have tested or used.  We also seek
submissions describing possible channel-specific feedback
processes from other system components that help correct the
noisy input.

Papers describing multiple MT engines and algorithms for selecting
among their outputs are encouraged.  It would be interesting
to hear how these complex MT components have been integrated into
specific applications.  For example, do certain MT engines produce
results better suited for summarization, retrieval, or online
foreign language tutoring?

The field of MT evaluation currently lacks an adequate methodology.
There are no widely used standards and few statisticians have been
called upon to assess the metrics that have been proposed. We will
look for submissions that include measures for the individual system
components and end-to-end system evaluation.  Also of interest are
measures that evaluate user performance on specific tasks.

We expect that the range of papers from both the first and this
second workshop will provide sufficient material for us to pursue
a special journal issue dedicated to Embedded MT Systems.

IMPORTANT DATES

Intent to submit: Friday, Feb. 11, 2000
Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000
Notification of acceptance of papers: Friday, March 3, 2000
Camera-ready papers due: Monday, March 13, 2000

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Electronic submission of Intent to Submit should have the
following subject line:
   "NAACL-ANLP2000 WORKSHOP - Intent to submit"
Body of message should include Identification Page information:
   - title of submission
   - names of all authors
   - primary author name and email address, phone and fax
   - presentation type preference
       (select one or more per system: demo, poster, or paper)
   - keywords

Authors may submit short papers, full-length papers, poster
presentations and/or demos.

For electronic submission, include the Identification
Page Information (see above) as a separate page from the paper
itself. Reviewing will be blind. No author information should be
included with the main body of the paper.  Full paper submissions
may be up to 5000 words in length, including references.
Submissions for poster presentations and short papers may be up
to 2000 words in length, including references.

Demo presentations are encouraged in conjunction with papers
or posters.  For demo-only presentations, submissions up to
two pages long should describe the system design and
capabilities with respect to (ii) above:
an end-to-end process flow covering the system
input, any pre-MT processing, the MT component itself, any
post-MT processing, and the system output.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION

Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style.
Both are available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page:
    http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/

Please send submissions and questions to: voss at arl.mil
Notification of receipt will be sent to the primary author.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Carol Van Ess-Dykema, US Dept. of Defense
Clare R. Voss, US Army Research Lab
Florence Reeder, MITRE Corp.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Gary Coen, Boeing Phantom Works
Bob Frederking, LTI, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN
Inge Gorm Hansen and Henrik Selsoe Sorenson, Copenhagen Business School
Lori Levin, LTI, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Bill Ogden, CRL, NMSU
Kathi Taylor, Georgetown U.

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       CALL FOR PAPERS

      Workshop on Applied Interlinguas:
    Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP
  (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000)

           Sunday, April 30, 2000
          Seattle, Washington, USA


The organizing committee wishes to invite submissions to the Workshop
on the Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP which
will be held on Sunday, April 30, 2000, in conjunction with the
ANLP-NAACL2000.

Interlingual approaches to NLP have been developed within the field of
Machine Translation. The central goal is to analyze natural language
expressions in terms of a representation language that will capture
those aspects of a communication which permit the generation of an
equivalent expression in some other language (that is, a
representation of the communicative intent of the utterance). An
interlingual representation of some utterance should ideally represent
what was said by whom and to whom and relevant information about
where, when, why and how it was said.  The representations are usually
very rich and extremely knowledge intensive. Many aspects of such
representation systems are unknown or underdeveloped.

Often, though not invariably, the lexicon of an IL representation will
be drawn from the names of nodes in an Ontology, representing classes,
events, or concepts. The syntax of the IL prescribes how these nodes
are combined into an utterance representation. An IL-based approach to
Machine Translation then specifies how a source language sentence can
be analyzed into an IL representation and how this representation can
then generate a natural language output.

This workshop will focus on these latter two aspects of the IL
approach: the syntax of the IL and the techniques used to analyze and
generate natural language. The uses of an Ontology outside of
Knowledge-based Machine Translated is a related, but slightly
different subject.

To date, such approaches have been essentially theoretical (although a
number of limited applications exist).  One of the criticisms of such
approaches is that they are impractical -- requiring too much
hand-coding or too deep a knowledge-representation to be
useful. However, several examples of IL specifications are available.
For example, there is

the Text Meaning Representation of the Mikrokosmos Knowledge-based
Machine Translation system at the Computing Research Laboratory
(http://crl.nmsu.edu/Research/Projects/mikro/index.html).

the IL used in ISI's GAZELLE MT project
(http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/interlingua.html)

IL representations of a Spanish text produced by the KANT system at
the Language Technologies Institute
(http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/IRW/)
(http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant)

IL representation developed for a speech-to-speech system dealing with
travel planning by the Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced
Research (C-STAR)
(http://www.c-star.org)

Interlingual approaches offer powerful semantics-based and
pragmatics-based solutions to any number of NLP problems
(disambiguation, reference resolution, interpretation of figurative
speech to name a few). This workshop will focus on methods for making
interlingual approaches tractable within specific, well-defined tasks
not only for machine translation but for a range of NLP applications.

The goal of the workshop is to stimulate interest in more cognitive
research in NLP while focusing such work on near term, practical
applications. Papers are invited on:

 - methods for developing (or extending) underlying knowledge sources,
 - techniques for processing in the face of knowledge-poor sources or
   gaps in knowledge sources,
 - interlingual approaches to particular NLP tasks (reference
   resolution, disambiguation, interpretation of ellipsis, etc.),
 - interlingual approaches to different NLP applications
   (MT--including speech-to-speech translation, Information
   Extraction, Summarization, NL generation, Intelligent Tutoring
   Systems, etc.).

Since there is limited work on the application of IL approaches to NLP
currently, concept design papers are encouraged. Preference will be
given to actual research projects focusing on actual processing
problems and exploiting extant sources, but any contribution should
clearly focus on one of the topics above.

The workshop will consist of 6 30-minute presentations, each followed
by a half-hour discussion, beginning with two informal 6-minute
critical responses from reviewers followed by a short rebuttal by the
author and open discussion. Ideally, the critical responses will also
be available by the March 1 acceptance date, but in no case later
than March 31. All critiques and rebuttals received by March 13 will
be included in the proceedings. The remainder will be made available
at the workshop itself.

The Journal of Machine Translation will consider the results of the
workshop for publication in a special issue in 2001. In addition, the
contributions will be published as an NAACL workshop proceedings.

The program committee (and initial discussants) includes:

Bonnie Dorr  UMIACS-UMd
David Farwell  CRL-NMSU
Stephen Helmreich CRL-NMSU
Eduard Hovy  ISI-USC
Kevin Knight  ISI-USC
Lori Levin  LTI-CMU
Teruko Mitamura  LTI-CMU
Keith Miller  MITRE
Sergei Nirenburg CRL-NMSU
Mari Olsen  Microsoft
Boyan Onyshkeyvch DOD
Florence Reeder  MITRE
Harry Somers  UMIST
Yorick Wilks  USheffield

The workshop is sponsored in part by the Special Interest Group on
Interlinguas of the Association for Machine Translation in the
Americas. For further information about this series of workshops see:
http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/FWOI/index.html.

Dates

Submission of papers:   February 4, 2000
Notification of acceptance:  March 1, 2000
Submission of Final Copies:  March 13, 2000
Critiques of Accepted Papers:  March 31, 2000
Author's Rebuttals:   April 21, 2000
Workshop:    April 30, 2000

The dates related to the preparation of a special issue of the Journal
of Machine Translation will be made public at the workshop.

Paper Requirements

Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style (both
available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page --
http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/). Paper submissions
should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including
references). Please send papers and submission questions to
shelmrei at crl.nmsu.edu.

Cost

There will be a registration fee of $50.00 per person. A banquet for
the participants and guests will be organized separately for Sunday
evening.

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         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 Analyzing TOEFL Reading Comprehension Passages and
Items"

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


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jan 13 12:27:58 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:27:58 +0100
Subject: Appel: Symposium on Social Communication
Message-ID: <THU.13.JAN.2000.132758.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu


SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
On its 30th Anniversary

SANTIAGO DE CUBA
JANUARY 23-26, 2001

The Center of Applied Linguistics of the
Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of
Science, Technology and the Environment, is
pleased to announce on the occasion of its
30 Anniversary, the Seventh International
Symposium on Social Communication. The event
will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 23rd
through the 26th, 2001. This interdisciplinary
event will focus on social communication processes
from the points of view of Applied Linguistics,
Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Voice
Processing, Mass Media, and Ethnology and Folklore.

The Symposium will be also sponsored by:

=2E. University of Oriente, Cuba

=2E. Higher Institute for Medical Sciences,
  Santiago de Cuba

=2E. Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais',
  Santiago de Cuba

=2E. Information for Development Agency,
  Cuba

=2E. University of Twente, The Netherlands

=2E. National Council of Scientific Research,
   Italy

=2E. University of Leon, Spain

=2E. University of Malaga, Spain

=2E. University of Granada, Spain

=2E. Humboldt University, Germany

Authors will be allowed to present
only one paper pertaining to the
following disciplines:

1. Applied Linguistics:
- Spanish and foreign language teaching

- Spanish as a second language

- Phonetics and Phonology

- Lexicology and Lexicography

- Morphology and Syntax

- Sociolinguistics

- Psycholinguistics

- Textual Linguistics and
  Pragmalinguistics

- Terminology

- Translations

2. Computational Linguistics:

- Software related to linguistic research

- Automated grammatical tagging of texts

- Automated dictionaries

- Software related to the teaching of mother
  tongues and foreign languages

- Related issues

3. Voice Processing:

- Research related to Cry Analysis

- Applications of analysis, synthesis
  and voice-recognition

- Artificial intelligence and voice
  processing

4. Medical specialties related to speech
and voice and with Social Communication
in general:

- Logopedy and Phoniatry

- Neurology

- Otorhinolaringology

- Stomatology

- Child Psychiatry

- Pediatrics

- Cronobiology

5. Mass Media:

- Linguistic research related to the
  speech of journalists, actors and
  radio and television announcers.

- Textual Analysis of radio and
  television programs, and of print
  and electronic media articles

6. Ethnology and Folklore:

- Research related to Social Communication

Activities that will take place within
the event are:

- Pre-Symposium seminars

- Discussion of papers in commissions

- Master conferences

- Workshops

- Posters

PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS

The Symposium will be preceded by two
seminars that will be taught by prestigious
specialists to be announced. The seminars
will take place Monday, January 22nd of 2001
and will focus on the following subjects:

- Spanish as a second language

- Latest trends in Computational Linguistics

Participants should say in advance what
pre-symposium seminars they want to take
part in. An additional fee of 20.00 USD
will be charged for each seminar.

Participation certificates will be available.

WORKSHOP

A workshop entitled 'Applied Linguistics
in the Spanish-speaking World' will be
held on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary
of the Center of Applied Linguistics.

MASTER LECTURES
=09
During the symposium four master lectures
will be delivered by:

- Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt, Professor
  and Researcher, Twente University,
  Enschede, Holland.

- Dr. Hiroto Ueda, Professor and
  Researcher, Department of Spanish,
 Tokyo University, Japan.

- Dr. Mercedes Cathcart Roca, Professor
  and Researcher, Faculty of Humanities,
  University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba,
  Cuba.

- Dr. Manuel Vilares Ferro, Professor
  and Researcher, Vigo University, Spain.

ABSTRACTS

The deadline of submission of paper
abstracts is July 1st, 2000. They
should not exceed 250 words. Notification
of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's
Scientific Committee will be sent before
July 30th, 2000.

PAPERS

To enable the Organizing Committee
to include the Proceedings as part
of the Symposium's documentation, accepted
papers must be sent before September 1st, 2000,
with the following requirements:

1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages
including graphics, footnotes and
bibliography.

2. It should be written using Word 6.0
or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the
Symposium's Executive Secretary either
via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing
a 3=BD-inch diskette.

3. Each page must be written in an A4
(mail type) format with left, right,
top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm.=20

4. The paper must be written in one
of the event's official languages:
Spanish, English or French.

Instructions for paper submission:

1. Write down the authors' names,
one under the other, at the left
top of the first page, all in Arial
bold capital letters, 10 points (Word 6.0
or 7.0). Under the authors' names should
appear in bold (only initials capital
letters) the institution, city, country
and e-mail address if available.

2. In a separate line, at the center,
the title of the paper must be written
in Arial bold, Italics, 11 points size
letters.

3. The text will follow -not in bold-
with the same Arial letter, 10 points
size and leaving one space between lines.

4. Paragraphs will have no indentation.
Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3
points.

5. Section titles will be written in
Arial bold, and sub-sections titles
will be written in Arial Italic.

6. Footnotes will appear at the end
of each page in Arial 9 points size
letters.

Presentation time will be 15 minutes
and 5 minutes for discussion.

Authors must advise in advance if
they will need a tape recorder,
video set, computer or other kind
of equipment for presentation.

POSTERS

Posters should be 1 meter wide and
1.2 meter high. Authors will be
responsible of displaying them in
the morning of the presentation.
Abstract submission should include
the word POSTERS. For proceedings,
follow instructions above. Notice:
unlike full papers, posters will
not exceed 3 pages.

All mail or inquiries should be
addressed to:

Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Secretaria Ejecutiva
Comite Organizador
VII Simposio Internacional
de Comunicacion Social
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre
Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400
Telephones: (53-226) 42760 or
(53-226) 41081
Fax: (53-226) 41579
E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu
http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES:
Spanish, English and French

REGISTRATION FEE

Speakers  and  Delegates=09160.00 USD
Companions=09=09=0980.00 USD

Payment must be in cash during
registration and it covers a copy
of the Proceedings, all other
documentation related to the event,
speaker's certificate, welcome
cocktail, concert and tours.
Companions will have access
to all of the above, except
copies of the proceedings.

ACCOMODATION

The Organizing Committee guarantees
accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star
hotels with preferential prices for
participants in the event.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

- Abstract Submission deadline:
  July 1st, 2000

- Notification on paper's approval
  by Scientific Committee:
  by July 30, 2000

- Delivery of papers either by
  e-mail or by mail using 3=BD-inch
  diskette:
  September 1st, 2000

- Pre-Symposium seminars:
  January 22nd, 2001

- 7th International Symposium
  on Social Communication:
  January 23rd through 26th, 2001

OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST

Santiago de Cuba, located at some
900 kms from Havana, is Cuba's second
largest city. Its economic, cultural
and social importance in Cuban history
is unquestionable. Santiago is also the
capital of the province with the same name.
Surrounded by the green mountains of the
Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea,
Santiago is unique in its geography and
beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make
the city one of the most important tourist
attractions on the entire island. The
Organizing Committee, in coordination
with the city's tourist agencies will
offer visiting delegates a host of options
allowing participants to enjoy the city's
beauty and charm.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

President of Honor:
Dr. Rosa Elena Simeon Negrin
Minister of Science, Technology
and the Environment
Republic of Cuba

Aida Almaguer Furnaguera=20
Representative of the Ministry
of Science, Technology and the
Environment
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Gerardo Garcia Cabrera
President of Information
for Development Agency
Ministry of Science,
Technology and the Environment
Havana
Cuba

Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez
Member of the Academy
of Science of Cuba
Center of Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Director of Center of
Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Eloina Miyares Bermudez=20
Executive Secretary of the
Seventh International
Symposium on Social Communication
Center of Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Marcos Cortina V.
Rector University of Oriente
Ministry of Higher Education
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Nayra Pujals
Rector Higher Institute
for Medical Sciences
Ministry of Public Health
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Cesar Torres
Rector Pedagogical University
'Frank Pais'
Ministry of Education
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Anton Nijholt
Professor and Researcher
Twente University
Enschede, Holland

Kathleen Wermke
Professor and Researcher
Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany

Renate Siegmund
Professor and Researcher
Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany

Mercedes Cathcart Roca
Professor and Researcher
Faculty of Humanities
University of Oriente
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Daniela Ratti
Researcher
National Council of
Scientific Research
Genoa, Italy

Lucia Marconi
Researcher
National Council of
Scientific Research
Genoa, Italy

Claudia Rolando
Researcher
National Council of
Scientific Research
Genoa, Italy

Jose Ramon Morala Rodriguez
Professor and Researcher
University of Leon
Spain

Gloria Corpas Pastor
Professor and Researcher
University of Malaga
Spain

Daniel Madrid
Vicedean of International
Relations
Faculty of Education
University of Granada
Spain

Ercilia Estrada Estrada
Scientific Council
Center of Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Nancy Alamo Suarez
Researcher
Center of Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Humberto Oca=F1a Dayar
Professor and Researcher
Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais'
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Miladys Diodene Adame
Ministry of Education
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

REGISTRATION FORM

Mr./Ms. ___________________

Organization: _____________

Title: ____________________

Business address: ______________

City: _______ Telefax: _________

Phone: ___________

E-Mail:_________________________

Home address: __________________

City: ________ Telephone: ______

I wish to participate in
Pre-Symposium seminars (optional)

___Spanish as a second language

___Latest trends in Computational
Linguistics
=20
Paper title: _________________

Date: ________________

Signature: ___________


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jan 13 12:27:44 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:27:44 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 6 Offers
Message-ID: <THU.13.JAN.2000.132744.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Ling:Project Manager at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium

2/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  NLP Grammar Developer at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium

3/ From:  Zeeshan Khan <zeeshan at bcl-computers.com>
   Subject:  NLP at BCL Computers, Santa Clara,CA,USA

4/ From:  Pianesi Fabio <pianesi at irst.itc.it>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Programmer at ITC-Irst,Italy

5/ From:  "Sylvia Joos" <Sylvia.Joos at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Portuguese Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium

6/ From: Florence Gaunet <gaunet at limsi.fr>
   Subject: Proposition de stage

___________________________________________________________________________


1/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Ling:Project Manager at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the worlds 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):


          *************************************************************
          Project Manager Taiwanese
          Development  Speech and Language Technology
          *************************************************************

Function:

* You will manage and coordinate software development projects in the area
of
language and speech processing technology and systems for Taiwanese.
* You will coordinate the start-up of the Taiwanese language development
team,
including a.o. recruitment and logistics.
* You will supervise, coach and motivate a team of linguists and engineers
based
 both in Ieper, Taiwan and Singapore.
* You will streamline the gathering of corpora and acoustic data, the
development of an L&H specific grammars and lexicons for Taiwanese and the
translation of the linguistic data to software based on L&H technology.
* You will ensure that the quality and timing standards set out by L&H are
reached.
* You will actively participate in the technical aspects of the project.
* You will maintain good contacts with the different departments within L&H
and
relevant Taiwanese and Singaporean institutes, organizations, etc. .


Profile:

* relevant university degree preferably in computer science or
(computational)
linguistics;
* experience in management of development projects, preferably in the field
of
natural language and/or speech processing;
* near-native or native speaker of Taiwanese and a conversational level of
English;
* good knowledge of and experience in at least two of the following areas:
speech processing, phonetics, lexicography, computational linguistics,
natural
language processing (NLP), programming, (e.g. C, C++, script languages,?),
other
 languages;
* ability to work in a team and independently;
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
* good social and communicative abilities;
* self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit;
* willingness to travel for limited periods of time.



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

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

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  NLP Grammar Developer at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) is the worlds 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 offices in Brussels (Belgium) for a (m/f):


          ******************************************
          NLP GRAMMAR DEVELOPER
          Speech and Language Technology
          ******************************************

General Description:
* Localization of the Voice Xpress natural language grammars to voice
control
Windows applications to German, Dutch and UK English, but with the focus on
German.
* Development of new grammars for specific applications in the target
languages.
 This includes domain analysis, design, implementation, testing and
usability
evaluations.

Duties:
Responsibility - Percent of Work  Time:
* Natural language Grammar localization - 80%
* Natural Language Grammar Development - 20%

Required Skills:
* Linguistic education, preferably a university degree in the target
language,
or a (additional) degree in computer linguistics or artificial intelligence
* Excellence in the grammar of the target languages and its practical usage
(preferably native speaker of one of them)
* Good command of English
* The candidate has sense for methodology and self organization, works
rigorously
* Working knowledge of the following software required: Microsoft Windows,
Microsoft Office
* Good communication skills

Desired Skills:
* Experience with context free grammars and their application in Natural
Language Processing
* Experience with Rule Based systems
* The candidate is a team player but can also work also independently
* programming experience with Visual Basic and/or scripting languages
* Willing to travel for short periods

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

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. Ms. Valerie Maes
     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


___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Zeeshan Khan <zeeshan at bcl-computers.com>
   Subject:  NLP at BCL Computers, Santa Clara,CA,USA


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: NLP, Semantic Domain Modelling
Other Desired Areas: Knowledge-Base Construction
University or Organization: BCL Computers
Department: HCI Products
State or Province: CA
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: 7/1/2000
Contact: Zeeshan Khan zeeshan at bcl-computers.com

Address for Applications:
990 Linden Dr, Suite 203
Santa Clara
CA 95118
USA

BCL is looking for people with experience in computational linguistics
and linguistics to work on an exciting, cutting-edge project funded by
the Advanced Technology Program (ATP)  of the Department of Commerce.
The work involves developing and implementing linguistic models for
spoken and written language for internet and handheld platforms.

A short summary of the project and BCL is given below:
- -------------------------------------------------------------------

BCL COMPUTERS TO DEVELOP SPOKEN
LANGUAGE CODE GENERATING SOFTWARE FOR ATP

October 7, 1999.

 BCL Computers, a leader in document management technology, is pleased
to announce being awarded an ATP contract to develop a code generating
software "toolkit" that will allow programmers to rapidly develop
spoken-language input interfaces for new and existing applications
without a detailed knowledge of linguistic theory.

Speech-based input systems are becoming ever more desirable with the
advent of handheld computers. Spoken language provides a natural and
convenient method of communicating with the computer, but a
spoken-language user interface (SLUI) for an application program is
difficult to create.

Natural-language processing is far more complex than GUI programming.
Automatic speech recognition systems exist to take spoken words and
translate them into symbols, but to build a true SLUI the programmer
needs to understand concepts in human linguistics, syntactic parsing
and human discourse theory to effectively translate a natural language
sentence into input for an application program.

BCL Computers proposes a SLUI Toolkit that will allow programmers to
rapidly develop spoken-language input for new and existing applications
without a detailed knowledge of linguistic theory. The programmer will
specify a sample set of input sentences for each task, the Toolkit will
analyze them and generate a front-end application which is fine-tuned
for understanding relevant Naturally Spoken command sentences.

Natural-language processing is a notoriously difficult field, and
developing a SLUI Toolkit powerful and general enough to be useful to
programmers working in a wide variety of application areas will
require BCL to overcome a number of technical challenges, ranging from
 algorithms to deal with ambiguity in natural language to designing
effective "wrappers" to interface with the target application programs.

The resulting SLUI also must be compact and efficient enough to work
well within the resources of a handheld computer. A SLUI toolkit will
transform and expand the uses of handheld computers in much the same
way that the Graphical User Interface transformed the world of desktop
computers.

About BCL Computers

BCL Computers is a leader in human computer interaction technology.
Formalized in 1994, the company has been developing numerous solutions
addressing document understanding technology to aid repurposing of PDF
with both custom and shrink-wrapped solutions. With the intent of
simplifying the workflow, BCL has also developed technology that makes
web-publishing an easy task for both novices and experts. The
development
of the SLUI toolkit takes BCL into the Natural Language aspect of human

computer interaction where computers begin to understand written and
spoken input. The company's repertoire of products includes a fax
solution that enables immediately and automatic delivery of incoming
faxes to users via email.

About ATP

The ATP is a unique partnership between government and private
industry to accelerate the development of high-risk technologies
that promise significant commercial payoffs and widespread benefits
for the economy. The ATP encourages a change in how industry
approaches R&D, providing a mechanism for industry to extend its
technological reach and push out the envelope of what can be attempted.

http://www.atp.nist.gov

___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Pianesi Fabio <pianesi at irst.itc.it>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Programmer at ITC-Irst,Italy

The Cognitive   and  Communication  Technologies  (CCT)   division  at
ITC-Irst  (www.itc.it/enITCirst/)  has   the following   openings  for
temporary positions (2 years, renewable) starting as soon as possible:

- one  computer scientist to  collaborate in  the EC  funded  projects
Renaissance  (V  Framework).   The  ideal candidate  should  have good
programming  skills. Experience   in dialogue  systems and/or planning
techniques, and a good working knowledge of English are a plus.

-  one computer scientist  with  experience in speech analysis  and/or
synthesis   to  cooperate   in  the  EC    funded   project M-PIRO  (V
Framework). Native knowledge  of  Italian and good programming  skills
are required.  A working knowledge of English is a plus.

- one computer scientist/computational linguist  to collaborate in the
information   extraction activity of   CTT. The ideal candidate should
have   good programming skills.   Experience  in  NLP techniques   (in
particular,  finite state parsing)  and  a  good working knowledge  of
English are a plus.

In addition to this, the candidates will  be willing to integrate in a
dynamic research group committed to international excellence.

To apply, please send a CV plus list of publications to:

Fabio Pianesi
Vice-head of the CCT Division
IRST
38050 Povo (Tn)
Italy
email: pianesi at itc.it

Applications via e-mail are welcome.

About CCT.

The  Cognitive and Communication Technologies  division at IRST is one
of the  leading  European  research groups in  areas   such as Natural
Language Processing, Human-Computer  Interaction and Dialogue Systems,
Multi-modality,  Natural Language   Generation,  and  Production   and
Maintenance   of Linguistic   Resources.  Committed to  both base  and
applied     research, CCT has  consolidated   links  and pursues joint
research efforts with  many of the  main research centres all over the
world. As part of ITC-Irst, CCT is a member of the European Network of
Excellence in Natural Language and Speech (ELSNET).


___________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  "Sylvia Joos" <Sylvia.Joos at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Portuguese Specialist at Lernout & Hauspie Speech
            Products,Belgium


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

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

          Brazilian Portuguese Language Specialist
                    and
          European Portuguese Language Specialist
                for the Corporate R&D Division
                located in Ieper (Belgium)

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

Profile:
? university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent
? (near-)native Brazilian Portuguese or European Portuguese
? knowledge of phonetics
? interest in other languages and their linguistic aspects
? at least a basic experience with and interest in computers
? good knowledge of and/or experience in one or more of the following areas
are
considered an asset:
- near-native command of English
- speech processing, esp. text-to-speech synthesis
 - computer linguistics
 - natural language processing (NLP)
 - spoken dialog systems
 - computer technology
 - standard software packages
 - programming
 - other languages than the target language
? ability to work in a team and independently
? perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
? good social and communicative abilities
? willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time

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

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

To learn more about Lernout & Hauspie and its products, visit our homepage

http://www.lhs.com

You may also want to send an e-mail to <mailto:job-announce at lhs.be> to
obtain a
list of all current job openings at L&H.

___________________________________________________________________________

6/ From: Florence Gaunet <gaunet at limsi.fr>
   Subject: Proposition de stage


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

Objet : Proposition de stage




PRESENTATION DU STAGE

Les possibilit?s pour les personnes aveugles de se d?placer de fa?on
autonome en environnement urbain inconnu sont tr?s r?duites. Quelques
installations sont en place mais elles couvrent une tr?s petite partie
de l?espace de d?placement. Plut?t que d?am?nager une ville, une
solution est l?utilisation d?un syst?me d?aide ? la navigation p?destre
portatif.
Dans le cadre d?un stage de DEA , nous proposons ? un ?tudiant de
r?aliser les travaux pr?liminaires ? la mise en ?uvre de ce type de
syst?me.
Un syst?me d?aide ? la navigation est compos? d?un syst?me de base de
donn?es g?ographiques, de fonctionnalit?s de calcul d?itin?raires, d?un
syst?me de localisation, et de m?canismes d?interactions avec
l?utilisateur.
Les m?canismes d?interactions avec l?utilisateur aveugle ne peuvent
?videmment pas utiliser d?affichages graphiques (e.g. cartes ?par
ailleurs le braille n?est ma?tris? que par un faible pourcentage de la
population aveugle-), l?utilisateur ne peut pas v?rifier sa position en
faisant usage d?indices visuels (noms de rues, b?timents
), les mains
sont occup?es par les dispositifs de localisation proximale (canne ou
chien), et l?audition, facteur essentiel de rep?rage, doit ?tre
pr?serv?e pour la perception des bruits ext?rieurs.
On saisit alors toute l?importance d?un syst?me de localisation fiable
et pr?cis, de m?canismes d?interfaces utilisant les modalit?s
disponibles, et de dispositifs permettant un acc?s distal aux rep?res.
Le but de ce stage est de d?velopper :
-Un syst?me de localisation adapt? aux besoins du pi?ton aveugle.
L?utilisation du GPS, du GPS diff?rentiel, mais aussi de syst?mes
suppl?mentaires (compas, podom?tres, acc?l?rom?tres
) et leur couplage
avec le SIG disponible au LIMSI et les base BDTOPO et GEOROUTE de l?IGN
seront ?tudi?s.
-Des interfaces multimodales (en entr?e et en sortie) adapt?es aux
besoins du pi?ton aveugle. Ces interfaces comprendront :
           Un syst?me de reconnaissance vocale pour une interaction en
entr?e de type commande
           Un syst?me de synth?se vocale destin? ? fournir verbalement
les instructions de d?placement et les noms des rep?res
           Un syst?me manuel d?interaction en entr?e (clavier d?di?,
pav? de touches sp?cialis?es
)
L?ensemble de ces dispositifs devra ?tre int?gr? dans un syst?me de
dialogue multimodal permettant le guidage de la personne non voyante le
long d?un itin?raire urbain complexe.
Ce travail se fera en collaboration ?troite avec les membres du projet
charg?s des ?tudes comportementales, et devra faire l?objet d?une
?valuation finale sur le terrain avec des personnes aveugles.
Le stage est r?mun?r?.

PREREQUIS

Programmation C, C++, Smalltalk, (CORBA pourra ?tre utilis?) sur PC,
autonomie, volont? de r?aliser un syst?me op?rationnel, capacit?s de
travail en ?quipe en milieu pluridisciplinaire.

PERSONNES A CONTACTER

Yacine Bellik (01 69 85 81 10), bellik at limsi.fr
Xavier Briffault (01 69 85 80 05), briffault at limsi.fr

LIEU DU STAGE

LIMSI (Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la M?canique et les Sciences de
l'Ing?nieur), Bat. 508, 91400 Orsay.



----------------------------------------------
Florence Gaunet

Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la M?canique
et les Sciences de l'Ing?nieur
LIMSI-CNRS
BP 133
91403 Orsay

gaunet at limsi.fr


Tel: (33) 1 69 85 80 14
Fax: (33) 1 69 85 80 88
----------------------------------------------


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jan 13 12:28:02 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:28:02 +0100
Subject: Conf: DET-2000
Message-ID: <THU.13.JAN.2000.132802.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Pierre-Yves Foucou <foucou at lli.univ-paris13.fr>


                            APPEL A PARTICIPATION
                     Colloque D?termination et Formalisation
          La question des d?terminants en vue du traitement automatique
                            des langues naturelles

                  Bellaterra (Barcelone) 25 et 26 f?vrier 2000

         Groupe de Linguistique Appliqu?e aux Langues Romanes (Universit?
Autonome de Barcelone)
              Centre Lucien Tesni?re (Universit? de Franche-Comt?)


Programme provisoire via
  http://www-lli.univ-paris13.fr/DET2000/ProgrammeProvisoire.html


Th?me du Colloque

La plupart des linguistes s'accordent sur la notion de d?termination
bien que la question de son universalit? ou non reste
ouverte. L'identification des d?terminants n'est pas un r?el
probl?me. Ainsi, pour le domaine du traitement automatique des langues
naturelles (TALN), leur reconnaissance automatique ne pose pas de
difficult?s majeures. En revanche, la g?n?ration et la traduction
automatique de ces unit?s linguistiques restent probl?matiques.  La
mod?lisation des syst?mes de d?terminants relatifs ? un ensemble de
langues donn?es reste donc ? faire.

Le th?me du colloque concerne non seulement des sp?cialistes du TALN
mais aussi tous les chercheurs soucieux de la formalisation du
langage.


Comit? Scientifique

ANSCOMBRE, Jean-Claude, CNRS -EHESS
BLANCO, Xavier, Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona
BUVET, Pierre-Andr?, Universit? de Franche-Comt?
CARDEY, Sylviane, Universit? de Franche-Comt?
GROSS, Gaston, Universit? Paris XIII
GROSS, Maurice, Universit? Paris VII
GUENTHNER, Franz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen
MURILLO, Julio, Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona
KLEIBER, Georges, Universit? de Strasbourg II


Adresse

DET2000 Colloque D?termination et Formalisation
Departamento de Filolog?a Francesa y Rom?nica
Facultad de Letras
UNIVERSIDAD AUT?NOMA DE BARCELONA
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
ESPA?A
Tel: (34) 93 581 14 10
Fax: (34)93 581 31 71
E-mail: Xavier.Blanco at uab.es

ou

DET2000 Colloque D?termination et Formalisation
Centre Lucien Tesni?re
Facult? LSH
30 rue M?gevand 25030 Besan?on Cedex
FRANCE
Tel: (33) 03 81 66 53 94
Fax: (33) 03 81 66 53 00
E-Mail: Pierre-Andr? Buvet (pab at lli.univ-paris13.fr)


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 18 13:33:11 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:33:11 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 6 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JAN.2000.143311.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Brian <briand at baldwinstaffing.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Chinese/ Baldwin Staffing Group, Alberta Canada

2/ From: Dale Gerdemann <dg at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Tuebingen

3/ From:  Bente Maegaard <bente at cst.ku.dk>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Software/ Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen

4/ From:  "Dan Flickinger" <dan.flickinger at yy.com>
   Subject:  Computational Ling/NLP: YY Software Inc./ Palo Alto, CA  USA

5/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Linguist Hungarian at L&H:Ieper (Belgium)

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Brian <briand at baldwinstaffing.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Chinese/ Baldwin Staffing Group, Alberta Canada


Areas Required: Information Technology
Other Desired Areas: Linguistics
University or Organization: Baldwin Staffing Group
Department: IT
State or Province: Alberta
Country: Canada
Contact: Brian  briand at baldwinstaffing.com

Address for Applications:
550 17th Ave. S.W.
Calgary
Alberta T2K 1M9
Canada

The client, an international software company with an office in Calgary,
has an immediate requirement for a:

CHINESE COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST

The individual will have native level Chinese fluency and an advanced
degree in computational linguistics.  An ability to work and communicate
in English is required and work experience in an area of computational
linguistics is an asset, as is knowledge of other languages.

The successful candidate will be required to create, expand and maintain
the linguistics database, perform linguistic analysis and implement and
evaluate results, in addition to other linguistics duties.

Salary is negotiable, depending on experience, in the C$60-80,000 range.


Please forward your resume as soon as possible to
briand at baldwinstaffing.com.
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Dale Gerdemann <dg at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
   Subject: Tuebingen


   Position Announcement

University of Tuebingen
Dept. of Linguistics
Division of Computational Linguistics


The Division of Computational Linguistics in the Dept. of Linguistics
at the University of Tuebingen, Germany is seeking applications for a
postdoctoral (or predoctoral) position to work in the area of
automated language learning. Applicants who have developed
relevant computational tools (such as finite-state utilities, pattern
matching, statistical language modelling, etc) are encouraged to
apply. The position is expected to last until the end of March 2002
(pending forthcoming approval).

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

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

The European Commission has imposed firm funding restrictions on TMR
postdoctoral positions:

   The postdoc must be 35 or younger and a European citizen, and must
   "cross a border" to accept the position.  This last point means:
   must not have worked more than 18 of the last 24 months in the
   country in which they accept the position.  They further may not be
   a citizen of the country in which they accept the award. Details of
   the TMR program may be found at:

        http://www.cordis.lu/tmr/

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


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

Applicants should contact Dale Gerdemann before Feb 15, 2000.

____________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Bente Maegaard <bente at cst.ku.dk>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Software/ Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Software development for NLP
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Center for Sprogteknologi
Department:
State or Province: Copenhagen
Country: Denmark
Final Date of Application: 12 noon 20th January 2000
Contact: Bente Maegaard bente at cst.ku.dk

Address for Applications:
Njalsgade 80
Copenhagen
 DK 2300 S
Denmark

Center for Sprogteknologi (Centre for Language Technology) in
Copenhagen, Denmark has 1-2 openings for computer scientists/software
developers to commence as soon as possible.

Center for Sprogteknologi is a public research institution under the
Danish Ministry of Research, which carries out research, development
and consulting in the field of language technology. The centre is very
internationally oriented, cooperating with partners all over Europe.
It is a dynamic and expanding workplace which at the moment employs
around 20 people with linguistic and/or computational backgrounds.

Currently there are a number of software development tasks in the
Centre's projects within machine translation and information
retrieval.  The work covers all stages of the development process:
i.e. analysis, specification, programming and testing.  The centre has
the following hardware platforms: HP-UX, Solaris, NT and Windows95/98

Qualifications and experience:

MSc in Computer Science or equivalent qualifications and experience.

The ideal candidate will have programming experience in C, C++ and
Prolog; a thorough knowledge of UNIX; and experience in the field of
Natural Language Processing.

Salary and Conditions:

Salary is according to the national agreement with the relevant trade
union.  In addition the salary system allows for individual bonuses.

To Apply:

Applications including documentation of qualifications and previous
experience should be marked "Application" and sent to:

Center for sprogteknologi,
Njalsgade 80,
2300 Copenhagen S,
Denmark.
Email: cst at cst.ku.dk

to arrive no later than  12 noon on 20th January 2000

For further information contact Bente Maegaard, Director,
(bente at cst.ku.dk) or Claus Polvsen, Senior Consultant,
(claus at cst.ku.dk) or by phone on (+45) 35 32 90 90

____________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  "Dan Flickinger" <dan.flickinger at yy.com>
   Subject:  Computational Ling/NLP: YY Software Inc./ Palo Alto, CA  USA

Job Announcement
Computational linguist for NLP

YY Software Inc., located in Palo Alto, CA, seeks computational linguists to
work full-time on NLP applications and development tools, with expertise in
one or more of the following:

- Syntactic analysis in a lexicalist framework such as Head-driven Phrase
Structure Grammar or Lexical Functional Grammar, with initial focus on
English.
- Semi-automated acquisition techniques for lexicon and grammar.
- Robust processing of natural text style used in email, including ellipsis,
abbreviations, errors.
- Lexical semantics.
- Knowledge representation for NLP.

Required qualifications:

- Ph.D. or five years' experience in computational linguistics or related
field.
- Immediate availability

Preferred qualifications:

- Programming experience in C++, Java
- Creativity in problem-solving
- U.S. citizenship or work permit


Compensation

- Commensurate with experience, competitive with Silicon Valley start-ups.
- No relocation reimbursement

Send your CV via any of the following:

- email: jobs at yy.com
- fax:  650 617-6101
- mail:  Laura Bergerol
  YY Software
  301 Town and Country Village
  Palo Alto, CA  94301

Company profile

YY Software is a rapidly growing company founded in 1993 to produce robust
commercial applications of high precision natural language processing
technology for the Internet. We have decades of experience in large-scale
software application development, with expertise in commercial databases,
knowledge representation, and linguistics.  Our current product focus is on
the Email Specialist, which enables client companies to provide highly
accurate automated responses to email from customers.  Visit our web site at
www.yy.com.

____________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  "Pierre Eggermont" <Pierre.Eggermont at lhs.be>
   Subject:  Comp Linguist Hungarian at L&H:Ieper (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 Hungarian
          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 Hungarian 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:
speech processing, natural language processing (NLP), computational
linguistics, programming, other languages;
* ability to work in a team and independently;
* IT literate;
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness;
* good social and communicative abilities;
* willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time.


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

If you are interested in this job opportunity and you believe to 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

____________________________________________________________________________


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 18 13:36:41 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:36:41 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLP 2000 + Workshop
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JAN.2000.143641.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

__________________________________________________________________________
1/ From: "Pinelopi Kontodimou" <pinelop at cti.gr>
   Subject: NLP 2000 Extended deadline

2/ From: Effie Ananiadou <effie at ccl.umist.ac.uk>
   Subject: COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY FOR MEDICAL ANDBIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
__________________________________________________________________________
1/ From: "Pinelopi Kontodimou" <pinelop at cti.gr>
   Subject: NLP 2000 Extended deadline


Patras (Greece)
2-4 June 2000
NLP 2000: 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing
CALL FOR PAPERS
Extended Deadline: 20 January 2000
http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000


__________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Effie Ananiadou <effie at ccl.umist.ac.uk>
   Subject: COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY FOR MEDICAL ANDBIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS



Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing

                     http://www.cti.gr/nlp2000/

                     Patras, Greece

       Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation


COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY FOR MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

                      Sunday, 4th June 2000

 FULL DETAILS at: http://www.salford.ac.uk/isrc/ananiadou/nlp2000.html

Workshop Description
======================

The workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers from
interdisciplinary areas, such as computational linguistics, computer
science,
terminology, medical informatics and bioinformatics.
Scientific knowledge in medicine and  in molecular biology is contained in
ever
increasing collections of documents as well as scientific databases.
Researchers in medicine and
biology would therefore benefit from textual tools to facilitate the
discovery and identification of important and relevant concepts.

Topics
========
The topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

1. Use of NLP in medical and biological terminology
(term extraction, automatic indexing, automatic classification, automatic
dataset creation and maintenance etc.)
2. Use of existing scientific thesauri and databases as terminological
resources
for sublanguage applications.
3. Thesaurus & ontology construction and maintenance from domain specific
texts
4. Integration of scientific databases and linguistic resources
5. Terminology based Information Extraction

 Organisers
 ==============
 Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK)
                            Department of Computer Science, School of
                            Sciences,
                            University of Salford, Newton Building
                            Salford M5 4WT

 Diana Maynard  (Sheffield University, UK)
                     Department of Computer Science,
                     Regents Court, 211 Portobello Street
                     University of Sheffield Sheffield S1 4DP

 Scientific Committee
 ======================

* Erich Bornberg-Bauer (Manchester University, UK & EML, Germany)
* Gerhard Budin  (University of Vienna,Austria)
* Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
* Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse, France)
* Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI, France)
* John Mantas (University of Athens, Greece)
* Ioanna Malagardi (General Secretariat for Research & Technology, Greece)
* Patrick Ruch   (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland)
* Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM-SIM/DSI, France)


 Format of Submissions
 ========================

 Paper submissions should consist of an extended abstract (2000 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.
The authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their papers
(ps
or doc). Electronic submissions should be sent to Sophia Ananiadou
(S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk).
 The official language of the Conference is English.

Contact person for the workshop
==================================
 Sophia Ananiadou

 Email: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk
 Fax: +44-161-295-5559

 Important Deadlines
 ====================
 Extended Abstract Submission deadline: March 15, 2000
 Notification Date: April 10, 2000
 Camera ready copy due: May 10, 2000
 Workshop date: June 4, 2000


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 18 13:36:44 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:36:44 +0100
Subject: Appel: ECAI'2000 - Ontology Learning Workshop
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JAN.2000.143644.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Alexander Maedche <ama at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>



*********************************************************************
***********   Call for Papers: Ontology Learning   ******************
********************   ECAI-2000 Workshop  **************************
*********************************************************************
********************   August 22, 2000     **************************
*********************************************************************

Comprehensive information to be found at
                        http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de


Workshop Summary

 Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise
 basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. In recent years,
 we have seen a surge of interest that deals with the discovery and
 automatic creation of complex, multirelational knowledge structures.
 For example, the natural language community tries to acquire word
 semantics from natural language texts, database researchers tackle
 the problem of schema induction and integration, and people building
 intelligent information agents research the learning of complex
 structures from semi-structured input (HTML, XML). All the while,
 efforts in the machine learning community pursue the induction of
 more concise and more expressive knowledge structures
 (e.g., relational learning) in general.

 For the workshop we intend to gather a diverse range of participants
 interested in the learning of ontologies. In particular, we are
 also interested in the maintenance (revision, incrementality) and
 integration (from various sources) aspects of learning ontologies.
 We want to further, or even establish, the exchange of ideas between
 these communities --- and maybe even others that we have not thought
 of. Hence, we solicit papers that present innovative approaches to
 ontology learning that are to be discussed in the workshop, system
 demonstrations and applications or position statements.


Important Dates

 Deadline for paper submission 1 April 2000
 Notification of acceptance    1 May 2000
 Deadline final contributions  1 June 2000


Submission Information

 We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics
 related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in
 participating should submit either a technical paper (less than
 5000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing
 new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel
 discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for
 ontology learning. Submit before April 1, 2000 in electronic form
 (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf to:

     ama at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

or send three hard copies of your submission to:

"Ontology Learning"
Steffen Staab and Alexander Maedche
Institute AIFB,
Karlsruhe University,
D-76128 Karlsruhe,
Germany

Organizing Committee

 Steffen Staab (Contact),
     AIFB, Karlsruhe University,
     76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
     email: sst at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
     phone: +49-721-608 4751
     fax: +49-721-693 717
 Alexander Maedche, AIFB, Karlsruhe University
 Claire Nedellec, Inference and Machine Learning Group,
                  LRI, Universit? Paris Sud
 Peter Wiemer-Hastings, Division of Informatics,
                        University of Edinburgh

Program Committee
 Illarramendi Echave Arantxa, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
 Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
 Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, Padova, Italy
 Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
 Udo Hahn, CLIF, University of Freiburg, Germany
 Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK
 Paul Johannson, University of Stockholm, Sweden
 J?rg-Uwe Kietz, Swiss Life, Zurich, Switzerland
 Yves Kodratoff, LRI, France
 Christine Parent, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
 Marie-Christine Rousset, LRI, France
 Rudi Studer, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany


--
Alexander Maedche
University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB,
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel.: +49-(0)721-608 6558, Fax.: +49-(0)721-608 6580
e-mail: maedche at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
www: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ama


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 18 13:36:47 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:36:47 +0100
Subject: Ecole: LE for lesser studied languages
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JAN.2000.143647.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Kemal Oflazer <ko at cs.bilkent.edu.tr>


                         Please Post or Distribute

                            PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT


                        NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE
                                       ON
                 LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER STUDIED LANGUAGES

                               July 3-July 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 courses on all aspects of
language engineering, participant workshops and discussion panels.
Currently, the following courses are planned:

_ Introduction to languages and language engineering,
_ Text processing ecology,
_ Computational tools and resources,
_ Computational morphology and finite state methods,
_ Statistical methods and corpus linguistics,
_ Lexical acquisition,
_ Grammar and grammar writing,
_ Machine translation,
_ Information extraction,
_ Information retrieval.

Participant workshops will provide a forum for participants to present
their work on language engineering and receive feedback from
colleagues.  Discussion panels will enable participants to discuss
specific issues 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
room and board 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.

Since there are a limited number of participant slots, admission to
the ASI will be strictly on a competitive basis taking into account
the participant's background, their potential contribution and the
benefit they may draw from the meeting.


Detailed information about the course schedule, lecturers and the
application procedure  will be announced shortly.  This information
will also be available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.nlp.bilkent.edu.tr/ASI/index.html and on mirror sites to be
announced.

We acknowledge the additional support provided by Bilkent University,
Computing Research Lab, NMSU, and EACL- European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics.


(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.


--
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 18 13:37:00 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:37:00 +0100
Subject: Appel: SIGIR 2000
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JAN.2000.143700.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Bob Krovetz <krovetz at research.nj.nec.com>


         SIGIR 2000: Information Retrieval in Context

         TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR
            CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
                   IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

                        July 24-28 2000
                   Department of Informatics
  Athens University of Economics and Business Athens, Greece

                        CALL FOR PAPERS
           For details see: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr


SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of
new research results and the demonstration of new  systems and
techniques in  the broad field of information  retrieval (IR).
The  Conference and Program Chairs  invite all those concerned
with issues of IR  to submit original  research contributions,
posters,  and proposals  for  tutorials,  workshops,  and
demonstrations  of  systems,  for  presentation at SIGIR 2000.
All contributions should be submitted to the appropriate Chair,
as indicated  below ( see the  Conference  web site for further
details: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr ).

TOPICS
Information  Retrieval  is contextual. IR functionalities form
part  of  increasingly  complex  information systems serving a
great  variety  of information tasks and behaviors. SIGIR 2000
seeks  original  research  contributions in the broad field of
information  storage  and retrieval, covering the handling  of
all types of information, user behavior in information systems,
and theories, models, and implementations of IR systems. Topics
relevant to SIGIR include but are not limited to:

* IR Theory, including logical, statistical and interactive IR
  models, data fusion.
* Experimentation: test collections, interactive IR experiments,
  evaluation measures, experimental design, testing methodology,
  scalability.
* Natural  Language  Processing:  word  sense  disambiguation,
  discourse analysis, summarization for the purposes of IR, use
  of linguistic resources for IR.
* Contextual  IR:  multi-media  IR,  cross-lingual IR systems,
  speech retrieval,  dialogue  management, (non)feature-based
  indexing, information seeking and task embedded IR.
* Interface  issues:  user  &  use  modeling,  human-computer
  interaction, search strategies.
* Filtering, Extraction, Routing, and Text Classification.
* Systems and Implementation Issues: integration with database
  systems,  networked  systems  and  the internet, compression,
  efficient query evaluation.
* Applications: electronic publishing,  digital libraries, text
  mining, WWW-related issues, semistructured document retrieval.

SIGIR 2000 IMPORTANT DATES:
==========================

* January 21: Original research paper submissions due. See the
  Submission Instructions Section below for details.

* February 11: Proposals  for  tutorials,  workshops,  posters,
  panels and demonstrations due. See the Submission Instructions
  Section below for details.

* April 1: Notification of acceptance of all submissions.

* May 1: Final camera-ready copy of all submissions due.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
=======================

RESEARCH PAPERS

Research papers must consist of original contributions (that is,
not previously published and not currently being considered for
publication elsewhere) and must contain a clear statement of the
problem addressed and the context in which it arises. Papers must
also contain appropriate references to prior work and must indicate
what contribution the work makes to the primary field of Information
Retrieval. Researchers relatively new to the field of IR should
get examples from, e.g., previous SIGIR conferences, the ACM
Transaction on Information Systems (TOIS), the Journal of the
American Society for Information Science (JASIS), etc.

Papers (5 copies) should be submitted in English to the Program
Co-Chair responsible for the geographic region of the first author.
Papers should contain at most 5000 words. There are no formatting
requirements for submissions, but do not use font sizes smaller
than 10 point. The final version of the paper will have to fit
within 8 double-column pages, including all figures and bibliography,
so plan accordingly. Papers that are clearly longer than the limit
of 5,000 words will be rejected immediately.

The first page must contain the title of the paper, an abstract
of not more than 150 words, and up to 6 keywords taken from the
list at the end of this Call for Submissions. No page in the paper,
including the first page, should indicate the author(s) or their
affiliation(s). The purpose of omitting author names and affiliations
is to facilitate blind reviewing. Therefore, authors should make an
attempt to disguise who they are if possible, by omitting
acknowledgements in the submitted version of the paper, and by
refraining from phrases such as
  "In our earlier work [cite author-name] ..."
Authors should cite their work when required but attempt not to
make it obvious that the cited work is their own, if possible.

Please indicate if the paper is to be considered for the Best
Student Paper Award. This Award requires that the first and primary
author be a fulltime student at time of submission, that he or she
is responsible for much of the work, and that he or she will present
the paper should it be accepted.

In addition, authors must provide a separate cover page with the
title, the author name(s), the author affiliation(s), the same
list of keywords as on the first page, plus complete contact
information (mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) for the
author to whom correspondence should be sent. All correspondence
with the authors will be through email. The information on this
cover page must also be sent by email to the respective regional
Program Co-Chair. Submissions must arrive before 21 January 2000.

Authors in the Americas should mail 5 hardcopies of the submission
and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Nicholas Belkin
  School of Communication, Information & Library Studies,
  Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street,
  New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071, USA
  Email: nick at belkin.rutgers.edu
  Phone: +1-732-932-8585
  Fax: +1-732-932-6916

Authors in Europe and Africa should mail 5 hardcopies of the
submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Peter Ingwersen
  Royal School of LIS,
  Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
  Email: pi at db.dk
  Phone: +45-32-58-60-66
  Fax: +45-32-84-02-01

Authors in Asia, Australia and the Pacific should mail 5 hardcopies
of the submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to:
  Mun-Kew Leong
  (Attn: SIGIR Submission),
  Kent Ridge Digital Labs,
  21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
  Email: mkleong at krdl.org.sg
  Phone: +65-874-7864
  Fax: +65-774-4998


TUTORIALS

SIGIR 2000 will begin with a full day of tutorials, each of which
should cover a single topic in detail. Proposals are solicited for
tutorials of either a half day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day
(6 hours plus breaks).  Submissions should be made to the Tutorials
Chair and should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract.
The cover sheet should specify:
     1.the length of the tutorial.
     2.the intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced).
     3.complete contact information for the contact person and other
       presenters.
     4.brief biographies (max. 2 paragraphs) of the presenters.
The extended abstract should be 3 to 5 pages, and should include an
outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the course
objectives and course materials.

Tutorial proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Alan Smeaton (Email: asmeaton at compapp.dcu.ie)

WORKSHOPS

Proposals are solicited from individuals and groups for one-day
workshops to be held on the fifth day of the conference. Submissions
(up to 1,000 words) should include the theme and goal of the workshop,
planned activities, maximum number of participants, the selection
process for participants, and a list of potential participants.
Include a CV for each organizer describing relevant qualifications
and experience. After the workshop, organizers are to provide an
article for the SIGIR Forum which summarizes the workshop.

Workshop proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Bob Krovetz (Email: krovetz at research.nj.nec.com)

PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

Proposals for panel sessions should be sent to the Panels Chair by
prospective moderators.  Panels should address issues of interest
to the general information retrieval community, and should be designed
to stimulate lively debate between panelists and audience. Panel
proposals (2-3 pages) must include:
     1.complete contact information for the moderator.
     2.the rationale for addressing this topic as a panel.
     3.the names and affiliations of the panel members.
     4.a description of how the panel will be structured, with
       emphasis on how general participation will be encouraged.
Abstracts of panel presentations will appear in the proceedings.

Demonstrations offer first-hand experience with Information
Retrieval systems, whether advanced operational systems or research
prototypes. The demonstration proposal should indicate how the
demonstration illustrates new ideas, should provide the technical
specifications of the system and should include references to other
literature. The hardware, software, and network requirements should be
indicated in a separate cover letter. A one-page abstract describing
each demonstration accepted will be published in the proceedings.

Panel and Demonstration proposals must be sent via email by
11 February 2000 to:
  James Allan (Email: allan at cs.umass.edu)

POSTERS

SIGIR 2000 poster presentations offer researchers an opportunity to
present late-breaking results, significant work in progress,
or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical
format. Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings.
Three copies of an extended abstract (roughly 3-4 pages) should be
submitted to the Posters Chair. The abstract should emphasize the
research problem and the methods being used, and be headed only
by the title of the poster. In addition, a separate cover page
is required containing the title of the poster, along with
the name and affiliation of the author(s), and complete contact
information for the author to whom correspondence should be sent.

Poster proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to:
  Amit Singhal (Email: singhal at research.att.com)


AWARDS

During the conference the following awards will be given:

*  The Gerard Salton award
*  Best scientific paper award
*  Best paper presentation award
*  Best student paper award (first author should be student)

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
=======================

Conference Chair:
Emmanuel Yannakoudakis
Athens University of Economics and Business,
Department of Informatics,
76 Patission Street, Athens 104 34, Greece (eyan at aueb.gr),
Phone: +30-1-8214145,  Fax. : +30-1-8203356

Programme Chairs:
* For The Americas: Nicholas Belkin
  Professor and Director of the Ph.D.Program,
  School of Communication, Information & Library Studies,
  Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick NJ
  08901-1071, USA (nick at belkin.rutgers.edu)
  Phone: +1-732-932-8585, Fax: +1-732-932-6916

* For Europe and Africa: Peter Ingwersen
  Royal School of LIS, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S,
  Denmark, (pi at db.dk)
  Phone: +45-32-58-60-66, Fax: +45-32-84-02-01

* For Asia, Australia and the Pacific: Mun-Kew Leong
  (Attn: SIGIR Submission), Kent Ridge Digital Labs,
  21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
  (mkleong at krdl.org.sg)
  Phone: +65-874-7864, Fax: +65-774-4998

Tutorials Chair: Alan Smeaton
School of Computer Applications, Dublin City
University Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
(asmeaton at compapp.dcu.ie)
Phone: +353-1-7045262, Fax: +353-1-7045442

Workshops Chair: Bob Krovetz
NEC Research Institute,
4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
(krovetz at research.nj.nec.com)
Phone: +1-609-951-2773, Fax: +1-609-951-2483

Panels and Demonstrations Chair: James Allan
Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA
(allan at cs.umass.edu)
Phone: +1-413-545-3240, Fax: +1-413-545-1789

Posters Chair: Amit Singhal
AT&T Labs-Research, Rm A-281, Shannon Laboratory,
180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932, USA
(singhal at research.att.com)
Phone: +1-973-360-8335, Fax: +1-973-360-8970

Publicity Chair: Anestis Konstantinidis
(mvazirg at aueb.gr)

Treasurer: Elias Lypitakis
(eal at aueb.gr)

Awards Chair: Efthimis Efthimiadis
School of Library & Information Science, University of Washington
Box 352930, Seattle, WA 98195-2930, USA
(efthimis at u.washington.edu)
Phone: +1-206-616-6077, Fax: +1-206-616-3152


REVIEWING PROCESS:
The  SIGIR  2000  Programme  Committee  is  organized with an
International  Programme  Committee (IPC) and three  Regional
Programme  Committees (RPC). Both the  IPC and  the RPCs  are
designed to reflect the broadening topic areas of IR research.
The reviewing process for SIGIR 2000 will  be  in  two stages.
There will first be initial reviews by at least three members
of the RPCs for each submission. For each paper, an IPC member
will be responsible for producing a review and recommendation
integrating the three initial reviews. All submissions will be
refereed "blind",  that is,  without  identification  of their
authors.  For  further information  on the  requirements  for
submission of contributions, and evaluation criteria, see the
Conference web site: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Jun Adachi, NACSIS, Japan
Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile
Marcia Bates, UCLA, USA
Jamie Callan, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA
Norbert Fuhr, University Dortmund, Germany
Donna Harman, NIST, USA
William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA
Kalervo Jarvelin, University Tampere, Finland
David Lewis, AT&T Labs, USA
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, USA
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,USA
Mark Maybury, MITRE, USA
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea
Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Steve Robertson, Microsoft Research, UK
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Karen Sparck Jones, University of Cambridge, UK
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Ellen Voorhees, NIST, USA
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Peter Willett, University of Sheffield, UK
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China


COOPERATING ORGANISATIONS:
ACM SIGIR, BCS IRSG, Greek Computer Society, others requested.


SIGIR 2000 PAPER SUBMISSION KEYWORD CHOICES - GROUPED ROUGHLY BY TOPIC
(submissions should include up to 6 keywords on both the first page
and the cover page)

IR theory and models (general), statistical/probabilistic models,
logic-based models, term expansion/thesauri, relevance feedback
algorithms/evaluation, text clustering, filtering/routing, passage
retrieval, retrieval using document structure, structured queries,
change in queries over time, evaluation (general), test collections,
testing methodology, scalability of evaluation, information brokers,
distributed collections, merging search results/information synthesis,
systems and implementation (general), architectures for IR systems,
architectures for WWW search, scalability of IR systems, efficiency
indexing for IR systems, efficient query evaluation , compression and
other optimizations for IR, integration with database systems ,
information access in digital libraries, natural language processing for
IR (general), stemming/morphological analysis, tokenization/parsing,
thesaurus construction , phrase detection and use, word sense
disambiguation and IR, text segmentation, discourse analysis and IR,
summarization/abstracting and IR, question answering, translation,
cross-lingual indexing/retrieval, information seeking behavior
(general), individual differences in information-seeking,
field/empirical studies of the information seeking process, theoretical
discussion of the information seeking process, embedding search within
larger tasks , user studies (general), comparing interfaces for
information access, methodology for evaluating interactive IR, user
interface (UI) design for IR (general), information visualization for IR
(general), UIs/visualization for collection overviews and topic spaces,
UIs/visualization for categories/subject codes, UIs/visualization for
query generation and specification, UIs/visualization organizing and
displaying retrieval results, UIs/visualization for source selection,
UIs/visualization for hypertext search and navigation, integrating
navigation and search, animation and IR interfaces, structuring
information to aid search and navigation, structuring information for
different user populations, navigation versus ad hoc search, monitoring
user behavior to improve search, automated presentation of information,
adaptive IR interfaces, adaptive ranking algorithms , cognitive models
and IR, user models and information access, information seeking
dialogues , sensemaking, collaboration and IR, collaboritive filtering,
social techniques for organization and search, reading/annotating and
IR, knowledge-based systems and IR, semantic nets/conceptual graphs and
IR, case-based reasoning and IR, machine learning and IR, text
categorization, planning and IR, IR agents (general), architectures for
IR agents, IR and avatars, (semi) automated search assistants, MMIR
(general), content-based indexing/retrieval (general), image
indexing/retrieval, text image indexing/retrieval, OCR/degraded images
indexing/retrieval, video indexing/retrieval, speech indexing/retrieval,
general audio indexing/retrieval, metadata for retrieval of non-text
information, efficient search over non-textual information, query
languages for non-textual information, results analysis and presentation
for MMIR, evaluation theory and methodology for MMIR, test collection
development for MMIR , application areas (general), biomedical
informatics, legal informatics, entertainment and IR, education and IR,
exploiting hyperlink structure, event detection and tracking, text data
mining, search and ecommerce, search and mobile systems, IR interaction
with the physical world.


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jan 21 18:24:34 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:34 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI-2000 (Student Session)
Message-ID: <FRI.21.JAN.2000.192434.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Catherine Piliere <Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr>




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

--- Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science ---

                --- We apologize for multiple copies ---

            --- Please circulate and post among students ---

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


                       SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                    ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION

            August 6-18 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain

               Submission Deadline : March 15th, 2000


           http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/ESSLLI-2000.html

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

We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 12th European
Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2000) organized
by the University of Birmingham and located at the same University in
August 2000 (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli). We will welcome
submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session
and for appearance in the proceedings.

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PURPOSE

This fifth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the other editions,
an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their
own WORK IN PROGRESS and get feedback from senior researchers and
fellow-students. It is desired that papers presenting creative and
innovative ideas will be submitted. The ESSLLI-2000 Student Session
encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates -
before completion of the Master Thesis as well as postgraduates - before
completion of the PhD degree. Papers co-authored by non-students will not be
accepted. The ESSLLI Student Session consists of paper presentations
and has its own timeslot in the summerschool's schedule: 60 minutes
every day for two weeks, provided that a sufficient number of good
quality papers is accepted. Each presentation will last 30 minutes
(including 10 minutes of discussion). The accepted papers will be
published in the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session proceedings, which will be
made available during ESSLLI-2000.

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KLUWER BEST PAPER AWARD

As in previous editions of ESSLLI, the best paper will be selected by
the program committee and will be offered a prize by Kluwer Academic
Publishers. The prize of 1000 Dfl consists of a free choice of Kluwer
books to be displayed during the school.

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REQUIREMENTS

The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work,
completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity and
promise. No previously published papers should be submitted.
Papers will cover topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic,
Language, Computation, Logic & Language, Logic & Computation,
Language & Computation).

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FORMAT OF SUBMISSION

Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by
the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages of length exclusive of references
and send a separate identification page (see below). Note that the
length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since
reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author
names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity (e.g., " We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ")
should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like " Smith
(1991) previously showed...".

For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification
page should be sent SEPARATELY, using the following format:

Title: <title>

Author: <firstname lastname of the first author>
Address: <address of the first author>
..
Author: <firstname lastname of the last author>
Address: <address of the last author>

Short summary (5 lines): <summary>

Subject area (one of): Logic | Language | Computation | Logic and
Language | Logic and Computation | Language and Computation.


The submission of the extended abstract should be in one of the
following formats:

1) SELF-CONTAINED LATEX SOURCE (the most encouraged): The LaTeX source
should use the standard article document-class, with A4 paper size and
12pt font size. The source should not refer to any other external files
or styles, except for the standard styles for LaTeX2e. The bibliography
for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file: the
actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX
source file.

2) POSTSCRIPT: PostScript submissions must use a standard font and A4 (8
1/4 " x 11 3/4 ") size pages. Please avoid the default letter page size
if submitting from outside Europe.

3) ASCII text.

Submissions outside the specified length and formatting requirements
will be subject to rejection without review.

The extended abstract and separate identification page must be sent
by e-mail to:

Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr by March 15, 2000.

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ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION

In order to present a paper at ESSLLI-2000 Student Session, at least one
student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant
at  ESSLLI-2000. Nevertheless, the authors of accepted papers will be
eligible for reduced registration fees.
For all information, please consult the ESSLLI-2000 web site:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli.
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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2000.
Authors notifications: May 14, 2000.
Final version due: June 11, 2000.
ESSLLI-2000 Student Session: August 6-18, 2000.

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Catherine Pili?re (chair), LORIA - University Henri Poincar?, Nancy,
France;

Manuel Bodirsky, Programming Systems Lab, University of Saarbr?cken,
Germany;
Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi, IMAG, Grenoble, France;
Paola Maneggia, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham,
Great Britain;
Vincenzo Pallotta, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne,
Switzerland;
Sylvain Pogodalla, Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France;
Kristina Striegnitz, Computational Linguistics, University of Saarbr?cken,
Germany.

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For any specific question concerning ESSLLI-2000 Student Session,
please, do not hesitate to contact the chair:

Catherine Pili?re

LORIA
Campus Scientifique
BP 239
54 506 VANDOEUVRE-LES-NANCY Cedex France

Tel. +33 (0)3 83 59 20 22

E-mail Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr

http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jan 21 18:24:38 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:38 +0100
Subject: Appel: ECAI 2000 and PAIS 2000
Message-ID: <FRI.21.JAN.2000.192438.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "ECAI 2000 Publicity [Markus Hannebauer]" <hannebau at first.gmd.de>


[Please accept our apologies for multiple copies of this reminder.]

------------------  FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS  ------------------------

                     ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000
      14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
        Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems

                 Berlin, Humboldt University
                      August 20-25, 2000

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

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

---------------
IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

    2    Feb  2000       Deadline for paper summaries
    4    Feb  2000       Deadline for papers
   28    Apr  2000       Notification of acceptance
   29    May  2000       Camera-ready copies of papers
   23-25 Aug  2000       Technical program at ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000



-------------------------------
ECAI 2000 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
-------------------------------

    The ECAI 2000 Program Committee invites  submission  of  papers
  for the technical program of the 14th  biennial  European  Confe-
  rence on Artificial  Intelligence  (ECAI 2000).  Submissions  are
  invited on substantial, original and previously  unpublished  re-
  search in all fields  of  Artificial  Intelligence.


  FORMATTING GUIDELINES

    It is highly recommended  to  submit  papers  using  the  final
  camera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not  exceed  five
  pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of  unformatted  papers
  are limited to 6000 words including footnotes,  figure  captions,
  tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page  of  figures
  will be counted as 600 words.  (Please note that for some  papers
  five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000  words
  in practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without re-
  view.  Authors  submitting unformatted papers must include a word
  count on their paper. Latex style files to support formatting  of
  submissions will be available.  Final versions of accepted papers
  will be required to conform strictly to the  formatting  require-
  ments specified in the ECAI 2000 style guide (see ECAI homepage).
  Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in  the  procee-
  dings.


  SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

    Submission is a two-stage process.  Authors are asked to submit
  a brief summary of their paper by 2 February 2000.  The  strongly
  preferred submission method is to use the web-based summary  sub-
  mission form. Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique trak-
  king number that should be marked on the full  paper  submission.
  Authors without access to the web should send a summary including
  the title, authors, contact address and abstract  for  the  paper
  (maximum 200 words), plus keywords  drawn  from  the  above  list
  (plus other keywords if appropriate)  to  the  ECAI 2000  Program
  Chair (by email or postal mail).  The summary information and the
  tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on
  a separate sheet of paper. (Authors not able to use the web-based
  submission form may omit the tracking number).

    Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or elec-
  tronic submissions will not be accepted.  Six copies of the paper
  (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal  mail
  or courier service to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair at the  address
  below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Pa-
  pers received after this date will not be reviewed.

    Notification of receipt of full papers will be  mailed  to  the
  corresponding author soon after receipt.


  Address for submission

    Werner Horn
    ECAI 2000 Program Chair
    Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (?FAI)
    Schottengasse 3
    A-1010 Vienna
    Austria

    Email: ecai2000 at ai.univie.ac.at
    Tel:   +43-1-4277-63114
    Fax:   +43-1-4277-9631


  Style guide and summary form

    http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/style.html
    http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/summary.html


  Multiple submissions policy

    ECAI 2000 will not accept any paper which at the time  of  sub-
  mission is under review for, or has  already  been  published  or
  accepted for publication in  a  journal  or  another  conference.
  Authors are also expected not to submit  their  papers  elsewhere
  during the  review  period.  These  restrictions  apply  only  to
  journals  and  conferences  and  not  to   workshops  or  similar
  specialized meetings  with  limited  audiences.  The  title  page
  should include a statement that the paper is not under review  or
  accepted for publication in another conference or journal.


  REVIEW PROCEDURE

    All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by  the
  ECAI  2000  Program  Committee  under  the  chairmanship  of  the
  ECAI 2000 Program Chair.  The  ECAI 2000  Program Chair has final
  authority over the review process and all decisions  relating  to
  acceptance of papers.  Review  criteria  include  originality  of
  ideas, technical soudness, significance of results,  and  quality
  of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of  sub-
  mitted papers will be  mailed  to  the  corresponding  author  by
  28 April 2000.


  CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

    The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by
  IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing  camera-
  ready copies of papers, conforming to the  ECAI  2000  formatting
  guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings.  The  deadline  for
  receipt of the camera-ready copy is 29 May  2000.  Note  that  at
  least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
  conference to present the paper.

    ECAI 2000 is organised by the German Informatics  Society  (GI)
  and the European Coordinating Committee for  Artificial  Intelli-
  gence (ECCAI) and hosted by Humboldt University Berlin.



-------------------------------
PAIS 2000 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
-------------------------------

    ECAI is pleased to announce  its  Prestigious  Applications  of
  Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2000)  sub-conference.  The  PAIS  2000
  Program Committee invites authors to submit application papers.

    This event,  associated  with  ECAI 2000 is created to specifi-
  cally highlight significant successful applications  of  Intelli-
  gent Systems (IS) technology. The purpose of the event is to pro-
  vide a forum for industry practitioners to learn about the  power
  and applicability of selected IS techniques and share  experience
  on the applicability, development and deployment  of  intelligent
  systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in  Europe
  of real application using Intelligent Systems technology and  the
  ideal place  to  meet  with  those  working  to  make  successful
  IS-based applications.

    The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems event  will
  present papers describing successful applications of  Intelligent
  Systems.  Papers are selected  to  highlight  critical  areas  of
  success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons  of
  value to other developers. Submitted  papers  should  make  these
  points  clear.  Papers  should  contain  sections  covering   the
  following information:

    Descriptive Title and Abstract: These should convey clearly and
  simply what the application is and its operational status. Do use
  a title that makes it clear to a reader what the application  is.
  Don't use a clever, nor an obscure title.

    Problem description: This should describe the problem that  the
  application solves, stating the objectives of the application and
  explaining why an Intelligent Systems solution was  required.  If
  other solutions were tried and failed, briefly outline these  so-
  lutions with reasons for failure.

    Application description: This should describe the  solution  to
  the problem, with technical details on design and implementation.
  It should describe any methodological approach used,  detail  the
  key IS techniques used and if appropriate show how they were  in-
  tegrated with conventional techniques.  If commercial tools  were
  used they should be identified and reasons  for  their  selection
  given.

    Application building: This should describe the size  and  skill
  make-up of the project team, how long is took to  build  and  the
  costs involved. How it was/will be installed  and  introduced  to
  the users, with details of any training  required.  Describe  any
  plans for maintenance, in particular how the knowledge is  expec-
  ted to change over time, and any features to aid the updating  of
  knowledge, etc.

    Application benefits: Were potential benefits identified before
  building the application and have  these  been  realised  or  are
  likely to be realised? Has the application been in  use  and,  if
  so, how often has it been used and by how many users?  What  fur-
  ther long term benefits are expected? What future plans have been
  made for its enhancement and use?

    For PAIS 2000, a paper is acceptable even  if  it  describes  a
  system which has not yet been installed, PROVIDED the application
  is original AND the paper discusses the aspects and  issues  that
  would help someone thinking of implementing a similar  system  in
  their own organisation. It must concisely describe and scope  the
  problem tackled, saying why it is hard, and why IS techniques are
  needed. It should also make clear the status of the  system,  and
  should discuss such things as the project  duration  and  effort,
  how the project was justified and the expected  benefits  estima-
  ted, any problems  encountered,  the  performance  of  the  final
  system and the reactions of users. The review procedure is diffe-
  rent and separate from the ECAI technical conference. Papers will
  be evaluated by experienced application developers, based on  the
  above criterion. Accepted papers will be published  in  the  ECAI
  proceedings.


  FORMATTING GUIDELINES

    It is highly recommended to submit papers using the  final  ca-
  mera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pa-
  ges in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are
  limited to  6000  words  including  footnotes,  figure  captions,
  tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page  of  figures
  will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for  some  papers
  five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000  words
  in practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without re-
  view. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include  a  word
  count on their paper. Latex style files to support formatting  of
  submissions will be available. Final versions of accepted  papers
  will be required to conform strictly to the  formatting  require-
  ments specified in the ECAI 2000 style guide (see ECAI homepage).
  Each accepted paper will be allocated  five  pages  in  the  pro-
  ceedings.


  SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

    Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to  submit
  a brief summary of their paper by 2 February 2000.  The  strongly
  preferred submission method is to use the web-based PAIS  summary
  submission form. Submitted summaries will be  assigned  a  unique
  tracking number that should be marked  on  the  full  paper  sub-
  mission. Authors without access to the web should send a  summary
  including the title, authors, contact address  and  abstract  for
  the paper (maximum 200 words),  plus a set of indicative keywords
  to  the  ECAI 2000 Program Chair  (by email or postal mail).  The
  summary information and the tracking number should also be inclu-
  ded with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. (Authors
  not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the  trak-
  king number).

    Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or elec-
  tronic submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the  paper
  (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal  mail
  or courier service to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair at the  address
  below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Pa-
  pers received after this date will not be reviewed.  Notification
  of receipt of full papers will be  mailed  to  the  corresponding
  author soon after receipt.


  Address for submission

    Werner Horn
    PAIS 2000
    Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (?FAI)
    Schottengasse 3
    A-1010 Vienna
    Austria

    Email: pais2000 at ai.univie.ac.at
    Tel:   +43-1-4277-63114
    Fax:   +43-1-4277-9631


  Style guide and summary form

    http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/style.html
    http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/pais-summary.html


  REVIEW PROCEDURE

    All submissions will be subject to review by a  team  of  expe-
  rienced application developers in the PAIS 2000 Program Committee
  under the chairmanship of the PAIS 2000 Program Chair, Rob Milne.
  The PAIS 2000 Program Chair has final authority over  the  review
  process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Noti-
  fication of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers  will  be
  mailed to the corresponding author by 28 April 2000.


  CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

    Accepted PAIS 2000 papers will appear in a special  section  of
  the ECAI conference proceedings and will be published and distri-
  buted by IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing
  camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the  ECAI 2000  for-
  matting guidelines,  for inclusion in the proceedings.  The dead-
  line for receipt of the camera-ready copy  is  29 May 2000.  Note
  that at least one author of each accepted paper  is  required  to
  attend the conference to present the paper.

    PAIS 2000 is organised by the German Informatics  Society  (GI)
  and the European Coordinating Committee for  Artificial  Intelli-
  gence (ECCAI) and hosted by Humboldt University Berlin.


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jan 21 18:24:47 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:47 +0100
Subject: Appel: TAPD2000
Message-ID: <FRI.21.JAN.2000.192447.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es>


           [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies]

======================================================================
                           CALL FOR PAPERS
----------------------------------------------------------------------
                              TAPD2000
        2nd Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction'
----------------------------------------------------------------------

                            September 2000
                             Vigo, Spain

                  Sponsored by University of Vigo

             WEB page: http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/


Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France) next TAPD event will be held in
Vigo (Spain), in September, 2000.

MOTIVATIONS:

Tabulation techniques are becoming a common way to deal with highly
redundant computations occurring, for instance, in Natural Language
Processing, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, or Abstract
Interpretation, and related to phenomena such as ambiguity,
non-determinism or domain ordering.

Different approaches, including for example Chart Parsing, Magic-Set
rewriting, Memoization, and Dynamic Programming, have been proposed
whose key idea is to keep traces of computations to achieve
computation sharing and loop detection. In addition, tabulation also
offers more flexibility to investigate new parsing or proof strategies
and to represent ambiguity by shared structures (Shared Proof or Parse
Forest).

The first objective of this workshop is to compare and discuss these
different approaches. The second objective is to present tabulation
and tabular systems to potential users in different application
areas. One major area of application is Natural Language Processing,
where tabulation has been known for a long time (CKY, Earley, chart
parsing). However, sophisticated tabulation techniques are required
for the more and more complex grammatical formalisms now used in NLP
(unification, constraints, structural complexity). Contributions in
other areas, such as picture parsing, genome analysis, or complete
deduction techniques, are also encouraged.

TOPICS (not exclusive):

 -- Tabulation Techniques:
    Chart Parsing, Tabling, Memoization, Dynamic Programming,
    Magic Set, Generic Fix-Point Algorithms
 -- Applications:
    Parsing, Generation, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases,
    Abstract Interpretation, Deduction in Knowledge Bases, Theorem Proving
 -- Static Analysis:
    Improving tabular evaluation
 -- Parsing or resolution strategies.
 -- Efficiency issues:
    Dealing with large tables (structure sharing, term indexing),
    Execution models, Exploiting the domain ordering (subsumption).
 -- Shared structures (parse or proof forest):
    Formal analysis, representation and processing.

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for
individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as
group discussions.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors are invited to submit before April 28 a 4-page position
paper or abstract concerning a theoretical contribution or a system to
be presented. Due to tight time constraints, submission and reviewing
will be handled exclusively electronically (LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or
ascii format). Submission should include the title, authors' names,
affiliations, addresses, and e-mail.

The submissions must be sent to David S. Warren (warren at cs.sunysb.edu) in
gziped encoded postscript.

SCHEDULE (tentative dates):

    Submission of contributions:            April 28, 2000
    Notification of acceptance:             June 1,   2000
    Final versions due:                     June 30,  2000

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:

  Davic S. Warren        -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  Francois Bry           -- Univ. Munich,                  Germany
  Eric de la Clergerie   -- INRIA,                         France
  Veronica Dahl          -- Univ. Simon Fraser,            Canada
  Manuel Hermenegildo    -- Univ. Polit. Madrid,           Spain
  Baudouin Le Charlier   -- Univ. Namur,                   Belgium
  Mark Jan Nederhof      -- Univ. Groningen,               NL
  Luis M. Pereira        -- Univ. Nova de Lisboa,          Portugal
  Martin Rajman          -- EPFL,                          Switzerland
  Domenico Sacca         -- Univ. della Calabria,          Italy
  Kostis Sagonas         -- Univ. Uppsala,                 Sweden
  David Shasha           -- Univ. New York,                US
  Terrance Swift         -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US
  Manuel Vilares         -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain
  David Weir             -- Univ. Sussex,                  UK

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR:

  Manuel Vilares         -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

  Miguel A. Alonso       -- Univ. Coruna,                  Spain
  Eric de la Clergerie   -- INRIA,                         France
  David Cabrero          -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain
  Victor M. Darriba      -- Univ. Coruna,                  Spain
  David Olivieri         -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain
  Francisco J. Ribadas   -- Univ. Coruna,                  Spain
  Leandro Rodriguez      -- Univ. Vigo,                    Spain

ORGANISATION:

The organisation of the workshop is still subject to modification.
Up-to-date information will be provided on request and be available at

               http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/

For any information related to the organisation, please contact:

   E-mail: tapd-secret at ei.uvigo.es


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jan 21 18:24:56 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:56 +0100
Subject: Appel: SEPLN 2000
Message-ID: <FRI.21.JAN.2000.192456.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es>




           [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies]

======================================================================
                           CALL FOR PAPERS
----------------------------------------------------------------------
                              SEPLN 2000
XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
----------------------------------------------------------------------

                            September 2000
                             Vigo, Spain

                  Sponsored by Universidade de Vigo

           WEB Page: http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/



Following SEPLN'99 in Lleida (Spain), the next SEPLN event will be held in
Vigo (Spain), in September, 2000.

MOTIVATIONS

The motivation for this Conference is to provide researchers in the field of
Natural Language Processing a chance to present their recent work, to share
their experimental results, and to discuss a range of problems which must be
treated.  Moreover, for researchers not directly involved within the field
of natural language processing, presentations shall offer the opportunity
to realize the active state of the art research, together with present
applications and possibilities offered by this field.  Thus, an important
objective of this Conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and
opinions
for future  basic research directions and to compare these ideas with the
actual needs of the society.


AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Linguistic, mathematic and psicolinguistic models of languages.
2. Corpus linguistics
3. Information extraction and retrieval
4. Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis
5. Computational lexicography
6. Monolingual and multilingual textual generation
7. Automatic translation
8. Speech synthesis and recognition
9. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse


PROJECTS AND DEMOS

The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of
projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral
presentations, some session may be reserved to this purpose.

For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information
must be included:
- Project title
- Funding institution
- Participant groups in the project
- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the director of the
  project.
- Abstract (2 pages maximum).
- If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be
included,
  as indicated below.

For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory:

- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.
- Abstract (2 pages maximum).
- Time estimation for the whole presentation.

This information must be received by June 4, 2000.


CONFERENCE FORMAT

The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for
individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as
project an demos presentations and group discussions.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Authors are invited to submit a paper, before April 14, concerning a
theoretical contribution or a system to be presented. Submission and
paper reviews shall be handled exclusively electronically (PostScript or
PDF format).  Submission should include the title, authors' names,
affiliations, addresses, and e-mail.

The submissions must adhere to certain rules:

- They must include an abstract (150 word maximum).
- The proposed area of interest must be included.
- Maximum length is 3500 words, abstract included.
- Accepted papers must follow format rules that will be given in the
  conference web page
  (http://coleweb.ei.uvigo.es/sepln2000/).

Submissions must be sent to sepln-submit at ei.uvigo.es


SCHEDULE (tentative)

- XVI SEPLN Conference: September 2000
- Submission of contributions: April 14, 2000
- Notification of acceptance: may 26, 2000
- Final versions due: June 30,2000
- Projects and demos submission: June 4, 2000
- Early registration: before July 14, 2000
- Late registration: after July 14, 2000


COMMITTEES

Program committee:

Joseba Abaitua                  Univ. de Deusto
Miguel A. Alonso Pardo          Univ. de A Coru?a
Margarita Alonso Ramos          Univ. de A Coru?a
Xabier Artola                   Univ. del Pa?s Vasco
Toni Badia                      Univ. Pompeu Fabra
Manuel de Buenaga Rodr?guez     Univ. Europea de Madrid
Ines Diz                        Centro Ram?n Pi?eiro
Carmen Garc?a Mateo             Univ. de Vigo
Jos? M? Garc?a-Miguel Gallego   Univ. de Vigo
Javier G?mez Guinovart          Univ. de Vigo
Jorge Gra?a Gil                 Univ. de A Coru?a
Joaquim Llisterri               Univ. Aut?noma de Barcelona
Manuel Palomar Sanz             Univ. de Alicante
M. Antonia Mart? Anton?n        Univ. de Barcelona
Lydia Moreno Boronat            Univ. Polit?cnica de Valencia
Guillermo Rojo Sanchez          Univ. de Santiago de Compostela
Mar?a Felisa Verdejo Maillo     UNED
Manuel Vilares Ferro            Univ de Vigo

Organizing Committee:

David Cabrero Souto             Univ. de Vigo
V?ctor Darriba Bilbao           Univ. de A Coru?a
Javier G?mez Guinovart          Univ. de Vigo
David Olivieri                  Univ. de Vigo
Javier P?rez Guerra             Univ. de Vigo
Francisco Jos? Ribadas Pena     Univ. de A Coru?a
Leandro Rodr?guez Li?ares       Univ. de Vigo


ORGANISATION

The organization of the workshop is still subject to modification.
Up-to-date information will be provided on request and be available at

                 http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/

For any information related to the organization, please contact:
   sepln-secret at ei.uvigo.es


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Jan 21 18:24:53 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:24:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: TAG+5 (Extended deadline)
Message-ID: <FRI.21.JAN.2000.192453.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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

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

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


                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                EXTENDED DEADLINE : January 31th 2000


(version fran?aise infra)


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

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

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

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


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

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

   Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the
author's name, nor any self-reference.
   Abstracts should be no longer than 4 pages. 2 hardcopies should be
sent by surface mail to:
   TAG+5
   UFRL, Universit? Paris 7
   TALaNa, case 7003
   2, place Jussieu
   F-75251 Paris cedex 05
   A separate identification page (with the following information :
title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, email
address, fax and telephone number) should also be included. Please
also indicate if you submitted your abstract to other conferences.
   Also a postcript file should be sent to tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr.
Please indicate "tag+5 submission" in the subject field.

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

Languages of the workshop: English and French

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

DATES:

   Extended deadline for submissions:           January 31
   Notification of acceptance:                  March 3
   Deadline for camera-ready extended abstract: April 15
   Workshop Dates:                              May 25 to May 27


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

                    APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS
     DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION ETENDUE AU 31 Janvier 2000

   La cinqui?me conf?rence sur les grammaires d'arbres adjoints (TAG) et

autres formalismes proches (d'o? le +) aura lieu ? l'Universit? Paris
7 du 25 au 27 mai 2000 sous l'?gide de l'ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues).

   Les conf?rences pr?c?dentes se sont tenus ? Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn
(1992), Univ. Paris 7 (1994) et UPenn (1998).

   Les communications pourront porter sur tous les th?mes ayant
trait aux grammaires d'arbres adjoints (linguistique, math?matique,
informatique et applications) aussi bien que sur leur relations avec
d'autres th?ories linguistiques (grammaires de d?pendance, grammaires
cat?gorielles, DTG, TFG, GB, LFG, HPSG, etc.).

   Comme par le pass?, les conf?renciers invit?s pr?senteront des
travaux sur d'autres formalismes dont la relation avec TAG semble
int?ressante.


MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION

   Trois types de communications seront propos?s : longues (25min. +
5min.de questions), courtes (10min. + 5min.de questions) et
d?monstrations sur machine.

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

   Les r?sum?s anonymes de 4 pages au maximum seront envoy?s en deux
exemplaires par la poste avant le 31 janvier 2000 ? l'adresse suivante :

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

   Une page d'identification s?par?e (contenant le titre de la
communication, le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale et
?lectronique, le num?ro de t?l?phone et de fax de l'auteur) devra ?tre
jointe. Merci de pr?ciser si le r?sum? a ?t? soumis ? une autre
conf?rence.
   Le r?sum? doit ?galement ?tre envoy? par courrier ?lectronique au
format postscript ? l'adresse suivante : tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr avec
"tag+5 submission" comme objet.
Important : Tous les fichiers postscript doivent ?tre au
format A4.

   Les actes de la conf?rence contiendront les versions compl?tes des
r?sum?s accept?s.

Les langues de la conf?rence sont l'anglais et le fran?ais.

  Les participants qui ne soumettent pas de papier sont ?galement
invit?s ? nous contacter avant la conf?rence. Pour les d?monstrations
sur machine, nous devrons conna?tre au plus t?t les besoins de chacun
en logiciel et mat?riel.

CALENDRIER

   Nouvelle date limite de soumission : 31 janvier 2000
   Notification aux auteurs :           3 mars 2000
   Version finale :                     15 avril 2000
   Conf?rence :                         25-27 mai 2000


*********************************************************************
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
COMIT? DE PROGRAMME
   Anne Abeill? (Univ. Paris 7 and IUF)
   Bangalore Srinivas (AT&T Research, Bell Labs)
   Tilman Becker (DFKI, Saarbr?cken)
   Tonia Bleam (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
   Pierre Boullier (Inria, Rocquencourt)
   Marie-H?l?ne Candito (LexiQuest and Univ. Paris 7)
   John Carroll (Univ. of Sussex)
   Eric de la Clergerie (Inria, Rocquencourt)
   Laurence Danlos (Paris 7 and Loria, Nancy)
   Christy Doran (ITRI, Brighton)
   Christophe Fouquer? (Univ. Paris-Nord, Villetaneuse)
   Robert Frank (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore)
   Ariane Halber (ENST Paris - Nuance)
   Beth Ann Hockey (RIACS, California)
   Aravind Joshi (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
   Sylvain Kahane (Paris 7 and Paris 10)
   Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbr?cken)
   Gertjan Van Noord (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
   Martha Palmer (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
   Owen Rambow (AT&T Research)
   Christian R?tor? (IRISA/INRIA, Rennes)
   James Rogers (Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando)
   Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padova)
   Mark Steedman (Univ. of Edinbourg)
   K. Vijay-Shanker (Univ. of Delaware)
   Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh)
   David Weir (Univ. of Sussex, Brighton)

CONTACT ADDRESS
ADRESSE

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

   phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70
   fax:   +33 1 44 27 79 19
   email: tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr
   web:   http://tagplus.linguist.jussieu.fr/

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
COMIT? LOCAL D'ORGANISATION
   Anne Abeill? (Paris 7)
   Nicolas Barrier (Paris 7)
   S?bastien Barrier (Paris 7)
   Marie-H?l?ne Candito (Paris 7 and Lexiquest)
   Lionel Cl?ment (Paris 7)
   Kim Gerdes (Paris 7)
   Alexandra Kinyon (Paris 7 and Univ. of Pennsylvania)
   Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbr?cken)


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 25 11:42:16 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:42:16 +0100
Subject: Appel: ACL-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JAN.2000.124216.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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




                      ACL 2000 Call For Papers

             38th Annual Meeting of the Association for
                    Computational Linguistics
                      3--6 October, 2000
                           Hong Kong

 The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of
 papers for its 38th Annual Meeting. As was the case with last year's ACL
 conference, the technical  sessions of the conference will be of two kinds.
 There will be  General Sessions as well as a number of special Thematic
 Sessions organized around themes proposed by members of the computational
 linguistics community.

 For the General Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original,
 and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics,
 including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics,
 syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology;
 interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic,
 mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented
 information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based
 language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and
 translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
 approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in
 multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems;
 tools and resources; and evaluation of systems.

 Papers submitted to the Thematic Sessions are more narrowly targeted at
 specific topics. The list of Thematic Sessions is as follows:

        T1: NLP and Open-Domain Question Answering from Text
        T2: Machine Learning and Statistical NLP for Dialogue
        T3: Text Summarization
        T4: Theoretical and Technical Approaches for Asian Language
            Processing -- Similarities and Differences among Languages

 Further information on the individual themes and topics appropriate to each
 can be obtained from the  ACL-2000 conference website
 (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/).

 Requirements

 Requirements are the same regardless of whether you are submitting
 a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions; a separate
 Call for Student Workshop papers will provide the information on
 requirements for the Student Workshop submissions. Papers
 should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work
 rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state
 of completion of the reported results.  Wherever appropriate, concrete
 evaluation results should be included.  A paper accepted for
 presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been
 presented at any other meeting with publicly available published
 proceedings.  Papers that are being submitted to other conferences
 must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.)

 Reviewing

 The reviewing of the papers submitted to the General Sessions and
 the  Thematic Sessions will be blind. Reviewing of papers submitted
 to the General Sessions will be managed by an international Conference
 Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have
 the assistance of a team of reviewers. Reviewing of papers for the
 Thematic Sessions will be managed by the chairs of the Thematic Sessions,
 with the assistance of teams of reviewers. Final decisions on the technical
 program (both General Sessions and Thematic Sessions) will be made by
 the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by
 at least three reviewers.

 Submission Procedure

 The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether you are
 submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions.
 Papers may not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references).
 Papers outside the specified length are subject to be rejected without
 review.

 We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word
Style
 files tailored for this year's conference. These will be available from the
 ACL-2000 Conference Website (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). These style
 files include a place for the paper ID code (see below) and word count
 and allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication.
 A description of the format will also be available in case you are
 unable to use these style files directly. If you are unable to access
 this webpage, please send email to acl2k at cis.udel.edu.

 The reviewing of papers submitted to the  General Session or the Thematic
 Sessions will be blind. Hence the title page and paper should not include
 the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that
 reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991)
...")
 should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
 showed (Smith, 1991) ...".

 You must first register your submission. This can be done by filling out
 an electronic form that will be accessible from the conference webpage
 http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/ after February 15, 2000. The form requires
 a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a
 preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will
 return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your
submission.
 Also, please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the
 program committee co-chairs. If you have any difficulty using the
 electronic registration form, please send email to acl2k at cis.udel.edu with
 all of the title page information (see below) plus the authors' names and
 affiliations.

 As reviewing will be blind, a separate title page and identification page
 will be required. The title page should include the following information:

        Title:
        Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration)
        Topic Area: one or two general topic areas
        Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
        Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one)
        Word Count, excluding title page and references:
        Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
        Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

 T1, T2, T3, and T4 correspond to the four Theme Sessions and G corresponds
 to the General Session. A paper can be submitted to at most one session.

 The identification page should contain all of the information in the title
 page, but in addition must include the authors' names, affiliations, and
 email addresses. The format for the identification page should be as
follows:

        Title:
        Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration)
        Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
        Topic Area: one or two general topic areas
        Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
        Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one)
        Word Count, excluding title page and references:
        Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
        Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)


 Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000. Late submissions
 (those arriving on or after April 8th) will be  rejected without review.
 The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other
 mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page
 if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following
 address:

        ACL-2000 Submission
        c/o K. Vijay-Shanker
        103 Smith Hall
        Department of Computer and Information Sciences
        University of Delaware
        Newark, DE 19716
        USA

 Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In
 addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of
 papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic
 version of the paper (without the identification page) to
 acl-routing at cis.udel.edu. Please include the paper ID code in the subject
 line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and
 plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The
 electronic version should also be received by April 7, 2000.
 Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist
 the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this
 supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy
 submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic
version,
 please send mail to the pc co-chairs at acl2k at cis.udel.edu.

 Acknowledgment of receipt of the hardcopy submission will be emailed soon
 after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by
email)
 around June 15, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of
 the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their
acceptance
 notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright
 release statement along with the final camera-ready papers.

 The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic
 sessions.

      Paper registration deadline:                 March 31, 2000
      Paper submissions deadline:                  April 7, 2000
      Notification of acceptance:                  June 15, 2000
      ACL 2000 Conference:                         October 3--6, 2000


Submission Questions

 Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should
 contact the program committee co-chairs sufficiently ahead of the
 submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made.
 All queries regarding the General Sessions and Thematic sessions
 of ACL-2000 should be sent to acl2k at cis.udel.edu; this forwards to
 both PC co-chairs.



   Changning Huang (PC Co-Chair)           K. Vijay-Shanker (PC Co-Chair)

   Microsoft Research, China             CIS Department
   5F, Beijing Sigma Center                 University of Delaware
   No.49, Zhichun Road                      Newark, DE 19716, USA
   Beijing 100080, P.R.C

   cnhuang at microsoft.com                    vijay at cis.udel.edu
   Tel: +86 10 6261-7711 -5760              Tel: +1 302 831 1952
   Fax: +86 10 8809-7305                    Fax: +1 302 831 8458



   Hitoshi Iida (General Chair)             Aravind K. Joshi (Honorary
Chair)

   Speech and Language Information          Department of Computer and
          Processing Lab                          Information Sciences
   SONY Computer Science Labs, Inc.         University of Pennsylvania
   Tokyo 141-0022, Japan                    Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

   iida at csl.sony.co.jp                      joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu
   Tel: +81 3 5448 4380                     Tel: +1 215 898 0359
   Fax: +81 3 5447 1942                     Fax: +1 215 573 9247


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 25 11:42:21 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:42:21 +0100
Subject: Appel: HPSG-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JAN.2000.124221.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Dan Flickinger <danf at csli.Stanford.EDU>



     SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

          HPSG-2000
     7th International Conference on
   Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
    University of California, Berkeley

       22-23 July 2000

The 7th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure
Grammar will be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 22-23, 2000, as part
of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000 at the University of
California, Berkeley, The event will consist of LFG2000 (July 19-20),
HPSG-2000 (July 22-23), and a common day of workshops on July 21,
entitled "Lexical and Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based
Grammar", offering a valuable opportunity for interaction among
researchers of these two frameworks.

Abstracts for HPSG-2000 are solicited for 20-minute presentations
(followed by 10 minutes of discussion) which address linguistic,
foundational, or computational issues relating to the framework of
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.  Authors are particularly
encouraged to submit papers which will be accessible to researchers
and students working in both HPSG and LFG.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

  We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 20-minute papers, to consist
  of two parts

  1) a separate information page in plain text format, containing
     - author name(s)
     - affiliation(s)
     - e-mail and postal address(es)
     - title of paper

  2) an extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including all
     figures and references.  Abstracts may be either in plain ASCII or in
     (unix-compatible encoded) PostScript, PDF, or DVI format.

  Abstracts should be sent to

 hpsg2000 at csli.stanford.edu

  All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers,
  so authors are asked to avoid self-references in the abstracts.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE

        15 February 2000

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

        31 March 2000

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Dan Flickinger, chair  Detmar Meurers
Gosse Bouma   Chris Manning
Georgia Green   Paola Monachesi
Takao Gunji   Tsuneko Nakazawa
Tibor Kiss   Louisa Sadler
Dimitra Kolliakou  Ivan Sag
Rob Malouf   Stephen Wechsler

PUBLICATION

  Pending final approval by the publisher, a selected number of papers will
be
  published as a volume in the CSLI series "Studies in Constraint-Based
  Lexicalism".  There will be a separate round of submission and reviewing
for
  this volume after the conference.

FURTHER INFORMATION

  Web site for HPSG-2000:

 http://hpsg.stanford.edu/hpsg2000.html

  For further information, email

 hpsg2000 at csli.stanford.edu


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 25 11:42:26 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:42:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: XLDB (LREC Workshop)
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JAN.2000.124226.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr>

----------------------------------------------------------------
                    2nd Call for Papers

              XLDB - 1st. Int'l Workshop on
         Very Large Telephone Speech Databases

         a satellite event to LREC 2000 in Athens

                      May 29th, 2000
                  supported by ELRA and ISCA

          http://www.speechdat.org/XLDB/XLDB.html

In recent years, several very large telephone speech databases have
become available to the SLP community. It is now time to critically
assess the quality and utility of these databases, both for Speech
Technology and Speech Research.

The XL-DB workshop thus focuses on three aspects:

       * Collection, Annotation and Access
       * Research and Gaining new Knowledge
       * Application and Service Development

Contributions to these areas are highly welcome. The web-site
features a registration form for the XLDB-mailing list. Take
advantage of this mailing list to receive the most up-to-date
information on this workshop!

Important Dates

Abstracts due: 28.Jan.2000, Notification of acceptance: 18.Feb.2000

Note that all contributions must be made electronically, either by
e-mail or via the submission form on the XLDB web-site.

------------------------------------------------------------
Christoph Draxler
Department of Phonetics and Speech Communication
Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich    Tel: +49 +89 28669968
Schellingstr. 3                        Fax: +49 +89 280 0362
D 80799 Munich      e-mail: draxler at phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
------------------------------------------------------------


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 25 11:42:28 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:42:28 +0100
Subject: Conf: BFG2000 (Workshop proposal)
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JAN.2000.124228.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  bfg2000 at faust.berkeley.edu (Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference)


    SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

       LEXICAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL EXPLANATIONS IN
        CONSTRAINT-BASED GRAMMARS

        21 July 2000

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

  Proposal  submission receipt deadline:
      15 February 2000
  Submissions should be sent to the electronic address listed below


PURPOSE

"Lexical and Constructional Explanations in Constraint-Based Grammars"
is the theme of a number of common workshops to be held as a part of
the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000 at the University of
California, Berkeley from July 19-23 2000.  The Berkeley event will
also consist of:

 LFG2000, July 19-20,
 URL: http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2000/

 HPSG-2000, July 22-23,
 URL: http://hpsg.stanford.edu/hpsg2000

We welcome submissions of proposals for workshops that are of common
interest to the LFG, HPSG, and Construction Grammar communities and
are likely to further interactions between the three. Workhops talks
should be on a coherent topic that can be expected to generate
opposing views and discussion with the broader audience. Workshop
papers should be distributed in advance among participants and
participants should refer to each other's approaches. Each workshop
can accommodate introductory remarks framing the issues and three to
four 30-minute talks.

Proposals should contain:

1. Title of the proposed workshop.
2. Short statement explaining its relevance to the LFG and HPSG
   conferences.
3. List of preliminary participants to be invited,
   OR:
   statement of intent to organize such a workshop with
   a preliminary CFP.

(Potential workshop organizers should note that the conference cannot
provide any financial support to workshop participants.)


TIMETABLE

 Deadline for receipt of workshop proposals: 15 February 2000

 Acceptances sent out:    31 March 2000

 Conference:     21 July 2000


ORGANIZERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Send workshop proposals to the local conference organizers

1. either electronically (preferred, ASCII only):

 bfg2000 at linguistics.berkeley.edu

2. or via snail mail:

 BFG2000-WS
 c/o Andreas Kathol
 Department of Linguistics
 1203 Dwinelle Hall
 UC Berkeley
 Berkeley, CA 94720
 USA


From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jan 25 11:45:46 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:45:46 +0100
Subject: Publications: 3 annoucements
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JAN.2000.124546.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  kap-listman at wkap.nl
   Subject:  New Issue: Journal of Logic Language and Information. Vol. 9,
            Issue 2

2/ From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
   Subject: Journal publication: Computers and the Humanities 33:3 (1999)

3/ From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
   Subject: Journal: Computers and the Humanities 33:4 (1999)

_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  kap-listman at wkap.nl
   Subject:  New Issue: Journal of Logic Language and Information. Vol. 9,
            Issue 2


Kluwer ALERT, Kluwer Academic Publishers' free notification service.

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Journal of Logic Language and Information

ISSN 0925-8531

http://www.wkap.nl/issuetoc.htm/0925-8531+9+2+2000

Vol. 9, Issue 2, April 2000.

TITLE: Editorial: Is JoLLI a Journal for Linguists?
AUTHOR(S): Elisabet Engdahl
KEYWORD(S): dynamic semantics, finite variable hierarchy, games, model
theory.
PAGE(S): 141-143

TITLE: Variables as Stacks
AUTHOR(S): C.F.M. Vermeulen
KEYWORD(S): dynamic semantics, finite variable hierarchy, games, model
theory.
PAGE(S): 145-169

TITLE: Vector Space Semantics: A Model-Theoretic Analysis of
Locative Prepositions
AUTHOR(S): Joost Zwarts, Yoad Winter
KEYWORD(S): generalized quantifier, locative, monotonicity, natural
language, preposition, semantics, vector.
PAGE(S): 171-213

TITLE: Display Calculi for Logics with Relative Accessibility
Relations
AUTHOR(S): Stephane Demri, Rajeev Gore
KEYWORD(S): display logic, knowledge logic.
PAGE(S): 215-238

TITLE: Refined Epistemic Entrenchment
AUTHOR(S): Thomas Andreas Meyer, Willem Adrian Labuschagne,
Johannes Heidema
KEYWORD(S): belief contraction, belief revision, epistemic entrenchment,
power orders, theory change.
PAGE(S): 239-261

TITLE: Exploring Logical Dynamics, Johan van Benthem
AUTHOR(S): Lawrence S. Moss
KEYWORD(S): dynamic semantics, finite variable hierarchy, games, model
theory.
PAGE(S): 263-265

TITLE: Handbook of Logic and Language, Johan van Benthem  and
Alice ter Meulen, eds.
AUTHOR(S): Natasha Kurtonina
PAGE(S): 265-271

TITLE: Displaying Modal Logic, Heinrich Wansing
AUTHOR(S): Rajeev Gore
KEYWORD(S): dynamic semantics, finite variable hierarchy, games, model
theory.
PAGE(S): 271-274

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2/ From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
   Subject: Journal publication: Computers and the Humanities 33:3 (1999)


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JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED
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                   COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
                       Volume 33 No. 3 1999

                         Table of Contents
                         -----------------


FEATURE ARTICLES
----------------

   Elementary Dependency Trees for Identifying Corpus-Specific
   Semantic Classes
       B. Habert, C. Fabre
       pp. 207-219

   Contrast and Change in the Idiolects of Ben Jonson
   Characters
       Hugh Craig
       pp. 221-240


NOTES AND DISCUSSION
--------------------

   The User-Oriented Bengali Easy Orthography
       S.M. Babulanam, K.F. Beena
       pp. 241-245

   Annotating The Satanic Verses: An Example of Internet
   Research and Publication
       Paul Brians
       pp. 247-264

   Text Indexation with INTEX
       Max Silberztein
       pp. 265-280


BOOK REVIEWS
------------

   Colorado Castellary, Arturo, Hipercultura Visual El reto
   hipermedia en el arte y la educacisn
       Antonio Cortijo Ocaqa
       pp. 281-282

   Irizarry, Estelle, Informatica y literatura. Analisis de
   Textos hispanicos
       Antonio Cortijo Ocaqa
       pp. 282-283

   Michael R. Brent, Computational Approaches to Language
   Acquisition
       Dominique Estival
       pp. 284-287

   Branimir Boguraev and James Pustejovsky, Corpus
   Processing for Lexical Acquisition
       Dominique Estival
       pp. 287-290


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      Humanities

Editor-in-Chief:
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3/ From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
   Subject: Journal: Computers and the Humanities 33:4 (1999)


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                    COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
                       Volume 33 No. 4 1999


                           SPECIAL ISSUE

                                 on

                           DIGITAL IMAGES




                         Table of Contents
                         -----------------


   Introduction to Special Topic Issue of Computers and the
   Humanities: "Digital Images"
       A.A. Goodrum, B.C. O'Connor, J.M. Turner
       pp. 291-292

   Access to Pictorial Material: A Review of Current Research
   and Future Prospects
       Corinne Jvrgensen
       pp. 293-318

   Managing Full-indexed Audiovisual Documents: A New
   Perspective for the Humanities
       Gwendal Auffret, Yannick Prii
       pp. 319-344

   No Longer a Shot in the Dark: Engineering a Robust
   Environment for Film Study
       Bertrand Augst, Brian C. O'Connor
       pp. 345-363

   The Emergence of a Digital Cinema
       Roger B. Wyatt
       pp. 365-381

   Six Ways from Sunday: Approaches to Indexing Digital Text
   Images
       Scott J. Van Jacob
       pp. 383-407

   Attitudes of the Canadian Research Community toward
   Creating and Accessing Digitized Facsimile Collections of
   Historical Documents
       B. Burningham
       pp. 409-419

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      Humanities

Editor-in-Chief:
      Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA


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