From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jul  6 15:07:32 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:07:32 +0200
Subject: Jobs : 7 Offers
Message-ID: <THU.6.JUL.2000.170732.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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1/ From: E S Atwell <eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk>
   Object : EPSRC - ADVANCED & SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS (fwd)

2/ From: "Pierre Vesoul" <pvesoul at mail.inforama.fr>
   Objet : Offres d'emploi

3/ From:  Kamil Golebiowski <kamil at interprice.com>
   Subject:  5 Positions at Interprice GmbH, Berlin Germany

4/ From: "Mcenery, Tony" <eiaamme at exchange.lancs.ac.uk>
   Object : Lectureship

5/ From:  Christian Meyer <c.meyer at vista.de>
   Subject:  Computer ling & related/general database technology: project

6/ From: E S Atwell <eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk>
   Subject: EU Funding for Experienced Researchers (fwd)

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1/ From: E S Atwell <eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk>
   Object : EPSRC - ADVANCED & SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS (fwd)



British EPSRC ADVANCED AND SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

The UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) offers
over 40 Advanced and Senior Fellowships to allow outstanding researchers
up to 5 years full-time research; open to tenured/non tenured candidates
whose research falls within the scope of the EPSRC (for example,
Corpus-based research in speech and language technology).
There are no nationality eligibility criteria, but you must have a host
organisation in the UK; for example, we at Leeds University host an
Advanced Fellow originally from the Netherlands, Rens Bod (and we will be
happy to host further Advanced/Senior Fellows).

The closing date for completed applications for EPSRC's Advanced and Senior
Research Fellowships is 8 September 2000.

Further information, including a set of Frequently Asked Questions and the
application form, is available on the EPSRC website at:

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/fellow

--
Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
TEL: (44)113-2335430  FAX: (44)113-2335468
WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/eric  EMAIL: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk


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2/ From: "Pierre Vesoul" <pvesoul at mail.inforama.fr>
   Objet : Offres d'emploi


Directeur général aujourd'hui d'Alogic, une start-up Internet dédiée aux
applications TALN, je souhaite passer le plus rapidement possible une offre
pour trois emplois dans la liste LN dont voici les éléments :

La société

Alogic est une start-up issue d'un essaimage du groupe Inforama organisé
par son fondateur Robert Guillaumot en vue de recueillir et de préserver
les acquis de recherche et développement en informatique linguistique et
documentaire accumulés au fil des années par Inforama.

Robert Guillaumot est l'initiateur du mouvement de l'intelligence
économique en France. Il a été administrateur du Syntec-Informatique de
1972 à 1999 et vice-président de l'organisation mondiale du logiciel (WITSA
1995-2000).

La technologie d'Alogic est basée sur une approche sémantique qui est à la
base du moteur et de l'API Alnoemic.
Alnoemic est intégré à deux autres produits d'Alogic :
Aperto Libro, un système complet de collecte et de recherche d'information
intégrable à des Intranet ou des sites Web.
Albot un robot de recherche et d'indexation sémantique d'information sur le
Web.
Profils recherchés

Alogic recherche pour son centre de développement de Sophia Antipolis les
profils suivants :

Poste 1 : Directeur technique - CTO

Statut : Cadre
Type de contrat : CDI  Temps plein
Date de prise de fonctions souhaitée : dès que possible

Description des fonctions :
Coordonner les développements d'une équipe de linguistes, d'ingénieurs et
de développeurs
Coordonner et planifier le développement d'outils linguistiques
Gérer les LANs de la société (Sophia Antipolis et Paris) (systèmes et
réseaux)
Gérer l'hébergement d'applications de nos clients et le serveur Web de la
société (relation avec l'hébergeur, évolution de l'architecture système et
réseau)
Orienter les choix de la société en terme de technologies logicielles
Maintenir et améliorer les outils de la société
Imaginer et coordonner le développement d'applications innovantes utilisant
des technologies de TALN.
Contribuer aux démarches de communication de la société et à l'activité de
veille technologique de la société
Profil de candidature :
Bac +5 minimum, Informatique, 28 - 35 ans
Expérience de gestion de projets dans un contexte "technologies avancées"
(idéalement en TALN) au sein d'une société de services ou d'une start-up
spécialisée dans le traitement de la langue et/ou les technologies Internet
en France ou à l'étranger
Goût du challenge (contexte start-up)
Forte compétences de développement en C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, ASP, PHP,
SQL (Oracle, MySQL)
Maîtrise de Windows NT et d'Unix dont Linux
Connaissance pratique d'un ou plusieurs environnement de développement Web
et/ou e-commerce.
un background dans le domaine du TALN et des techniques de l'intelligence
artificielle serait un plus
une expérience des techniques d'indexation et des moteurs de recherche sur
Internet serait également appréciée
bonne maîtrise de l'anglais (le candidat peut être anglophone si à
l'inverse il maîtrise correctement le français)
Autonomie et leadership technique
Capacité de communication et de coordination
Poste 2 : Ingénieur Senior en Traitement du Langage Naturel

Statut : Cadre
Type de contrat : CDI  Temps plein
Date de prise de fonctions souhaitée : dès que possible

Description des fonctions :
Travailler dans une équipe avec des linguistes, des ingénieurs et
développeurs
Réaliser des outils linguistiques
Orienter les choix technologiques de la société (en terme de développements
et d'intégration d'outils tiers)
Réaliser des expressions de besoins auprès de notre clientèle et en assurer
le suivi (rédaction de cahier des charges, calendrier , etc.)
Réaliser des lexiques sémantiques en fonction des besoins exprimés par
notre clientèle
Maintenir et améliorer notre moteur danalyse sémantique
Imaginer et réaliser des applications innovantes utilisant des technologies
TALN.
Contribuer aux démarches de communication de la société et aux relations
avec des partenaires dans le monde du TALN
Profil de candidature :
Bac +5 minimum, Linguistique / Informatique / IA, 28 - 35 ans
Expérience dans une société ou un laboratoire spécialisé dans le traitement
de la langue en France ou à l'étranger
Goût du challenge (contexte start-up)
Parfaitement bilingue anglais / français, autre langues bienvenues
(Espagnol, Portugais, Allemand en particulier)
Familier  de l'informatique et des nouvelles technologies (technologies
Internet en particulier)
Capacité à travailler seul (autonomie) et en équipe (capacité de
communication et de coordination)
Poste 3 : Ingénieur de développement

Statut : Cadre
Type de contrat : CDI  Temps plein
Date de prise de fonctions souhaitée : dès que possible

Description des fonctions :
développer des outils linguistiques
participer à la gestion de l'hébergement d'applications de nos clients et
du serveur Web de la société (relation avec l'hébergeur, évolution de
l'architecture système et réseau)
Contribuer aux choix de la société en terme de technologies logicielles
Maintenir et améliorer les outils de la société
Développer des applications innovantes utilisant des technologies de TALN.
Profil de candidature :
Bac +5 minimum, Informatique, 24 - 26 ans
Goût du challenge (contexte start-up)
Compétences de développement en C, C++, SQL (de préférence Oracle, MySQL)
Compétences de développement Java, HTML, XML, ASP seraient appréciées
un background dans le domaine du TALN et des techniques de l'intelligence
artificielle serait un plus
une expérience des techniques d'indexation et des moteurs de recherche sur
Internet serait également appréciée
bonne maîtrise de l'anglais
Autonomie
Capacité de communication et de coordination
Contact

Pierre Vesoul
ALOGIC SA
9, rue Saint Florentin
75008 Paris
Tel : 01 44 50 16 27 / 01 44 50 16 20 (standard)
Fax :01 44 50 10 79
Portable : 06 11 28 20 03
Email : pvesoul at inforama.fr <mailto:pvesoul at inforama.fr>


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3/ From:  Kamil Golebiowski <kamil at interprice.com>

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Subject:  Speech Recognition: Interprice GmbH, Berlin Germany


Rank of Job: x
Areas Required: Speech recognition
Other Desired Areas: x
University or Organization: Interprice GmbH
Department:
State or Province: Berlin
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski kamil at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
Berlin
Berlin 10553
Germany

You will be developing a speech front end for our NL user interface.

Your profile

   -  a degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or a related area
   -  ideally a PhD in speech recognition
   -  very good knowledge of statistics
   -  expertise in speech processing algorithms, ideally 3+ years
      of professional experience in this area
   -  familiarity with the commercial speech recognition products
   -  very good programming skills (C/C++)


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Subject:  Knowledge Representation: Interprice GmbH, Berlin Germany


Rank of Job: x
Areas Required: Knowledge representation
Other Desired Areas: x
University or Organization: Interprice GmbH
Department:
State or Province: Berlin
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski kamil at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
Berlin
Berlin 10553
Germany

Your task will be to design, develop and maintain an ontology of
products, adapt it to new domains and feed it with knowledge available
on the Internet.  You will closely collaborate with the NLP team on
the one side and database specialists on the other.

You have a degree in AI, computer science or a related area.

Your skills include:

        * profound expertise in knowledge representation

        * familiarity with different kinds of knowledge representation
          languages; ability to assess their value for our project

        * experience in the automatic or semi-automatic acquisition of
          domain knowledge

        * programming skills in Java would be an asset


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------
Subject:  Comp Semantics/Information Extraction: Interprice GmbH, Berlin
Germany


Rank of Job: x
Areas Required: Computational semantics/information extraction
Other Desired Areas: x
University or Organization: Interprice GmbH
Department:
State or Province: Berlin
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski kamil at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
Berlin
Berlin 10553
Germany

You will work on the robust representation of the semantics of user
queries in arbitrary domains. You will closely co-operate with a
knowledge representation expert responsible for domain modelling.

Your profile:

        * a degree in computational linguistics or computer science,

        * familiarity with the main meaning representation methods
          (templates, logical representation languages, semantic networks)

        * experience in information extraction, anaphora resolution and
          related areas,

        * good programming skills in Java or C++.


-------------------------------- Message 4 -------------------------------
Subject:  Statistical NLP/Machine Learning/Corpus-Based Methods:
         Interprice GmbH, Berlin Germany


Rank of Job: x
Areas Required: Statistical NLP, machine learning, corpus-based methods
Other Desired Areas: x
University or Organization: Interprice GmbH
Department:
State or Province: Berlin
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski kamil at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
Berlin
Berlin 10553
Germany

Your possible work areas with our company include:

        + statistical parsing

        + statistical models for the construction of meaning representations

        + automatic acquisition of domain knowledge/ontology

        + text mining/product name recognition

Your profile:

        * expertise in at least one of the above areas

        * good knowledge of statistical and symbolic machine learning
methods

        * degree in computer science/applied mathematics/computational
          linguistics or a related area

        * good programming skills (C/C++)


-------------------------------- Message 5 -------------------------------
Subject:  Corpora/Annotation: Interprice GmbH, Berlin Germany


Rank of Job: x
Areas Required: Corpora, annotation
Other Desired Areas: x
University or Organization: Interprice GmbH
Department:
State or Province: Berlin
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski kamil at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
Berlin
Berlin 10553
Germany

Your task will be the acquisition, construction and preparation of
training corpora for statistical NLP algorithms. You will work for and
report to a statistical NLP expert responsible for the implementation
of training/processing algorithms.

Your profile:

        * a degree in (computational) linguistics

        * experience in the annotation/preparation/processing of
          corpora (PoS corpora, treebanks etc.)

        * familiarity with (main stream) statistical NLP methods
          (e.g., POS tagging)

        * strong programming skills in Perl or script languages

        * good command of German and English

        * programming skills in C/C++/Java would be an asset


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4/ From: "Mcenery, Tony" <eiaamme at exchange.lancs.ac.uk>
   Object : Lectureship



Dear All,

below an ad for a lectureship. Sorry if any of you receive this more than
once.

Best,

Tony

Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University

Lecturer in Computational Corpus Linguistics

?17,238 - ?22,579 (pay award pending)

This three-year post, available from 1st September 2000, offers the
opportunity
to join a priority research area in a friendly and forward looking
department
currently rated RAE 4.

You should be willing to take a leading role in UCREL, a cross-disciplinary
University Research Centre in corpus linguistics shared with the Department
of
Computing. You will be keen to attract new funded research projects to the
Department and be able to contribute to our on-going research programmes.
You
should be able to teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

You should have, or be near the completion of, a PhD degree.

Informal enquiries to: Dr Tony McEnery (a.mcenery at lancaster.ac.uk)

For application details see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/personnel/jobs/ or
apply to Personnel Services, quoting reference A370 on 01524 846549
(answerphone), email: personnel at lancaster.ac.uk.
Closing date: 21 July 2000

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5/ From:  Christian Meyer <c.meyer at vista.de>
   Subject:  Computer ling & related/general database technology: project
   manager, vista* new media GmbH, NRW Germany


Rank of Job: project manager
Areas Required: computer linguistics and related /general database
technology
Other Desired Areas: web standards
University or Organization: vista* new media GmbH
Department: R&D/SystemIntegration
State or Province: NRW
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: as soon as possible
Contact: Christian Meyer c.meyer at vista.de

Address for Applications:
Im Mediapark 5
Cologne
NRW 50670
Germany

vista* new media GmbH is a full service provider in the area of new
media. At the Internet World Fair 2000 in Berlin, vista* introduced its
web-based virtual character system for online-shops. vista* is looking
for a person to manage the activities of enhancing the dialogue features
of virtual characters and the integration into a database system.
You have a strong expertise in database technology and computer
linguistics. Optionally, you are familiar with web standards.

___________________________________________________________________________

6/ From: E S Atwell <eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk>
   Subject: EU Funding for Experienced Researchers (fwd)

This memo from Leeds University European Office may be of wider interest
to researchers in industry and universities across Europe:

---------- Forwarded message ----------

> Dear Colleague
>
> As well as awarding fellowships to young researchers, the EU-funded Marie
> Curie scheme also funds two types of fellowships for
> **experienced researchers**.  This experienced researcher scheme
> is very much undersubscribed and the success rate is well in
> excess of 50%, so if you are planning a period of study leave in
> another European country in the near future the scheme is worth
> considering.
>
> Two strands are available:
>
> ********Industry/Academia Scheme
>
> This scheme allows university researchers to undertake research within a
> company; the scheme is also available to individuals working in
> industry who wish to spend time in a university.
>
> *********Less Favoured Regions Scheme
>
> This scheme encourages mobility between less favoured regions
> (see list at www.cordis.lu/improving) and other parts of the EU and
> Associated states.  The scheme funds stays at Universities in less
> favoured regions by researchers from other parts of Europe and vice
> versa.
>
> In the case of both schemes the following applies:
>
> - researcher must have 10 postdoc or 14 postgraduate years of
> experience and must have been working at their home institution
> for at least the last five years
>
> - the stay can be for between 3 and 12 months (short visits are
> allowable as long as they add up to a total of at least three months)
>
> - the applicant must be an EU citizen (or member of an associated
> state) and be proposing to undertake research in an eligible
> country *other than their own* , and must have agreement of proposed
> host
>
> - funding covers salary costs plus bench fees
>
> The next deadline for this scheme is 13 September 2000
>
> Further information available from the LeedsU European Office www site
>
> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/external-affairs/european/restrict/fellows.htm
>
> or http://www.mariecurie.org/
>


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jul  6 15:08:10 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:08:10 +0200
Subject: Appel: EKAW'2000 workshop ontologies and texts
Message-ID: <THU.6.JUL.2000.170810.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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



        _______________________________________

    CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION


    !!!!!!!! EXTENDED DEADLINE !!!!!!

      Paper submissions : July, 14th

        _______________________________________

Ontologies and texts
Workshop during the EKAW'2000 conference
Juan-Les-Pins (France), October 2nd 2000
http://www.irit.fr/wsontologies2000

Ontology design remains a difficult and challenging problem. Most of the
current research studies and papers focus on the technical problems
raised by the representation and structuring of knowledge in the
ontology. Many works are also devoted to the problem of formalization
and reusability of ontologies. More recently, new interests bore on the
influence of the target application on the task of designing an
ontology.

In this workshop, we concentrate on ontology design considered as a
process stemming from knowledge sources to a structured conceptual
model. Among all knowledge sources (human experts, existing ontologies
and texts), we pay special interest to texts (technical documentation,
interview transcripts, handbooks and so on).

We claim that texts are an important source of knowledge for any kind of
application, in particular because most of the texts contain shared
and stabilized knowledge among a community of specialists. Moreover, NLP
tools are mature enough to be
worth being integrated in knowledge engineering methods. Available
linguistics results (principles and techniques) are also relevant for
building semantic networks and ontologies from texts. In spite of
such potential values, knowledge acquisition from texts for ontology
design is hardly studied. We assert that
text analysis could significantly improve the efficiency of the process
of ontology building, as well as the quality and the relevance of the
resulting ontologies.

We wish to stress that knowledge engineering is ready to face a major
evolution by integrating texts as knowledge sources and mainly by giving
a new status to concepts and linguistic data. Our aim is to discuss
these assertions within the community as long as several teams have been
experiencing practical work in ontology design and theoritical
reflexions on the topic for many years.

Technical and theoretical issues to be discussed at the workshop
include, but are not limited to:

Texts as knowledge sources

 - What kind of knowledge can be acquired from which class of texts ?
shared and stabilized domain knowledge versus individual know-how
 - Complementarity of analysing texts, interviewing domain experts and
reusing existing ontologies
 - The expert's role in a text centered view : from experts' knowledge
elicitation to model validation by domain specialists.
 - Typology of data that can be acquired from these knowledge sources,
their status and role in a domain model or an ontology.

Linguistic resources for ontology design

 - Mixing textual or linguistic information and conceptual information in

ontologies : should a conceptual model always include a linguistic
dimension ?
 - Connections between texts and conceptual models, texts and ontologies
 - The nature of the term-concept relation ; justifications of a concept
definition.
 - The status of linguistics in knowledge engineering.
 - What kind of linguistics is needed ? Conceptual semantics vs. textual
semantics.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools

 - What kinds of NLP tools can prove useful ?
 - How much should they be adapted to match the needs of knowledge
acquisition and ontology design ? How is the use of these tools
influenced by the target application ?
 - How to define and select the data they should apply on ?
 - How to combine their use with the purpose of conceptual modelling and
ontology design ?
 - Role and limitations of general lexical resources (like WordNet) vs.
specific terminological resources (like Terminological Knowledge Bases,
thesaurus and so on)

Call for papers
---------------
Papers should be no longer than 2500 words. They can either report
research works, practical experiments or discuss more theoretical
questions. Papers will be published in paper-back proceedings
distributed to the workshop participants and available on-line after
September, 21st. Modifications of accepted papers will
not be required.
Please use the same format as the one suggested for the conference.

Send papers by email (html AND ps files) to Brigitte BIEBOW
and Sylvie SZULMAN (Brigitte.Biebow at lipn.univ-paris13.fr,
(Sylvie.Szulman at lipn.univ-paris13.fr) before July 14th

Participation conditions
-------------------------
Anyone wishing to take part in this workshop should send
a one page abstract about its motivations to attend the workshop
and/or its recent works related to the workshop topic.
This page should also contain a question-issue to be debated
during the workshop.
Send your text to Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (aussenac at irit.fr)
before September 18th.

Calendar
-------------
Paper submissions : July, 14th
Acceptance information : September, 7th
Motivation texts : Sept, 18th
Final paper : Sept, 21st

Scientific Organisation
--------------------------------
This workshop is promoted by the French working group on Terminology and
Artificial Intelligence (TIA) (web site
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA)
to which the chairwomen belong. Most of the issues mentionned as topics
reflect the group scientific debates and orientations.

Workshop chairs :

Sylvie SZULMAN (LIPN,  Paris)
Brigitte BIEBOW (LIPN, Paris)
Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse)

Local organisation
--------------------------
Rose DIENG (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
Olivier CORBY (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
http://sophia.inria.fr/EKAW2000

Program Committee
-----------------------------
Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse,  F)
Roberto BASILI (University Tor Vergata, Roma,I)
Richard BENJAMINS (Univ. Amsterdam, NL)
Brigitte BIEBOW (LIPN, Paris, F)
Rose DIENG (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, F)
Dieter FENSEL (Vrije Universiteit, NL)
Asuncion GOMEZ PEREZ (UPM, Madrid, S)
Gregory GREFENSTETTE (Xerox Research Center Europe, Meylan, F)
Nicola GUARINO (Italian National Research Council, I)
Udo HAHN (Frieburg University, G)
Adeline NAZARENKO (LIPN, Paris, F)
François ROUSSELOT (LIIA, Strasbourg, F)
Sylvie SZULMAN (LIPN - CNRS, Paris)
Michael USCHOLD (Boeing, USA)
Gertjan Van HEIJST (Kenniscentrum CIBIT, Utrecht, NL)
Bernard VICTORRI (ENS, Paris, F)

Registration information
----------------------------------
Registration information will be available on the EKAW web site
(http://sophia.inria.fr/EKAW2000)

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jul  6 15:08:51 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:08:51 +0200
Subject: Appel: GL2001
Message-ID: <THU.6.JUL.2000.170851.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Pierrette Bouillon <Pierrette.Bouillon at issco.unige.ch>


First Call for Papers GL2001

1st International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon

Organizers:
Pierrette Bouillon (ISSCO/TIM, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Kyoko Kanzaki (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)

Date:
April 27-29

Location:
University of Geneva,
Geneva,
Switzerland

Topic:
The aim of this workshop is to bring together diverse
contributions in philosophy, linguistics, computer science and
lexicography to explore the lexicon from the point of view of
generativity. The discussions will be centered, but are not limited
to, the newly emerging view of Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovky,
1995).

- Philosophical Foundations of a Generative Approach
- Representation of Word Meaning
- Generative Lexicon Theory
- Analysis of Linguistic Phenomena
- Building Lexical Resources
- Exploiting Lexical Resources in NLP Applications
- Lexical Rules
- Framework for Lexical Semantics
- Critical Perspectives

The conference will be held over a period of two and a half days. Long
(45 min) and short (20 min) presentations are
foreseen.  Invited speakers include James Pustejovsky, Brandeis
University.

Submission procedure: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at
most 7 single-column pages (including references) using a 12' body
font size together with a separate page specifying the author's name,
affiliation, address, e-mail address, tittle and type of paper (long
or short). The papers should be submitted electronically (in
postscript, rtf or pdf format) to both:
pierrette.bouillon at issco.unige.ch and kanzaki at crl.go.jp.

Language: All the papers must be submitted and presented in
English. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the
workshop.

Important dates:
Paper due: October 16th, 2000
Acceptance/rejection notice: December 20th, 2000
Final version due: February 15th, 2001
Conference: April 27-29, 2001

Workshop Chairs:
Pierrette Bouillon
Kyoko Kanzaki

Program Committee:
Susan Armstrong (ISSCO/TIM, Geneva)
Federica Busa  (Lexeme, Inc, Boston)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa)
Ann Copestake (Center for the Study of Language and Information, Standford)
Laurence Danlos (University of Paris VII, Paris)
Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)
Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)
Jacques Jayez (EHESS-CELITH, Paris)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston)
Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse)
Pascale Sebillot (Irisa, Rennes)
Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Seattle)
(others to be confirmed)

For any information, please contact:

Pierrette Bouillon
ISSCO/TIM
40, bvd du Pont-d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)
email : Pierrette.Bouillon at issco.unige.ch
Tel: +41/22/705 86 79
Fax: +41/22/705 86 89
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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:09:59 +0200
Subject: Appel: CLIN2000
Message-ID: <THU.6.JUL.2000.170959.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jorn Veenstra <jorn.veenstra at kub.nl>


Call for Papers

                              CLIN 2000
                        Eleventh CLIN Meeting
            (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands)
 Held in conjunction with BNAIC 2000, The Belgian-Dutch AI Conference
                     (http://ilk.kub.nl/bnaic00/)

                       Friday, 3 November, 2000
                      Computational Linguistics
                          Tilburg University

We are happy to announce the eleventh CLIN meeting, which will be
hosted by department of Computational Linguistics at Tilburg
University. The languages of the conference will be Dutch and English.

Keynote Lecture:

Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
"Very Large Lexicons"

Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of
computational linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, machine translation, computational
lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, information
retrieval, information extraction, text mining, knowledge
representation, corpus-oriented methods, etc.).

Authors should submit an abstract in English or Dutch (preferably by
e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should contain:

- a title
- your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address
- a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines)

You can send your abstract to:   clin2000 at kub.nl

or, if email is not possible, to:

CLIN
2000

Computational Linguistics
Tilburg University
PO box 90153
5000 LE  Tilburg
The Netherlands

Deadline for submission:     1 September 2000.
Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2000.

The local organisation committee of this year's meeting consists of
Walter Daelemans, Khalil Sima'an, Jorn Veenstra, and Jakub Zavrel.

A volume with proceedings of the tenth CLIN meeting (held 10 December
1999, in Utrecht) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend
to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN 2000 before CLIN
2001. Papers for these proceedings will have to be written in English;
they will be reviewed by a committee to be appointed in due time.

This and future information about CLIN will be made available via
the CLIN home page:
http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/clin.html
or the CLIN2000 home page:
http://ilk.kub.nl/clin2000






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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:10:02 +0200
Subject: Projets: SENSEVAL-2
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From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>


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         SENSEVAL-2
    CALL FOR INTEREST IN PARTICIPATION

We are considering running SENSEVAL exercises in at least the
following languages:

   * French
   * English
   * Italian
   * Japanese
   * Spanish
   * Danish
   * German
   * Estonian
   * Swedish
   * Korean
   * Chinese

>>From this call, we hope to gauge the level of interest in each of
these exercises.

If you are interested in submitting a sense disambiguation system to
SENSEVAL-2, please send email to senseval-coord at sharp.co.uk and say
which language(s) you are interested in.  Expressing your interest now
is NOT binding; it is just to help us in allocating our resources.

Please get back to us by July 10, 2000.

The SENSEVAL web site is:
  http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/senseval/
where you can find the SENSEVAL-2 schedule:
  http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/senseval/SENSEVAL2/schedule.txt

Thank you,
Phil Edmonds & Adam Kilgarriff
SENSEVAL-2 Coordinators

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 18 13:51:17 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:51:17 +0200
Subject: Appel: WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JUL.2000.155117.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>

                       ************************
                          ACL 2000 Workshop
                       ************************

                   WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY

   Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group for the Lexicon (SIGLEX)

                   October 2000 (following ACL'2000)
            Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

           http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/siglex00.html

With an increasingly global economy and the explosive growth of the
"World" in "World Wide Web", the computational linguistics community
is faced as never before with the challenges and opportunities of
multi-linguality. At the same time, the community has returned with
renewed enthusiasm to problems of word meaning, especially the
delineation and discrimination of word senses.  An intimate
relationship between the two issues is becoming apparent -- for
example, in the consideration of translation equivalence in parallel
corpora, the construction of multilingual ontologies, and the
examination of senses in relation to specific natural language
applications such as machine translation, information retrieval,
summarization, etc. The issue of multi-lingual approaches to sense
distinctions was also a central topic of discussion at the first
SENSEVAL conference in 1998, and is one of the areas to be covered at
SENSEVAL-2 (to be held in Spring 2001).

This workshop is intended to address problems of word sense
disambiguation and delineation of appropriate sense distinctions, with
specific emphasis on approaches that involve more than one language
and the ways in which observations about cross-linguistic equivalence
affect our consideration of sense divisions in the individual
languages. More generally, we seek to foster discussion and exchanges
of insight in any area of computational linguistics where a
non-monolingual approach to word sense issues is being taken.

Some example topics include

  o multi-lingual sense inventories and systems, e.g. EuroWordNet,
    MikroKosmos
  o use of parallel corpora in investigating word sense issues
  o word senses and cross-language information retrieval
  o word senses and machine translation
  o comparative lexical semantics

We will also consider submission on issues in mono-lingual lexical
semantics relevant to sense distinctions, but priority will be given
to papers addressing multi-lingual approaches.




Where and when
===============

The workshop will be held for a full day on either October 7 or 8,
following the main ACL conference October 3-6.  The venue will be
the same as for ACL 2000.

Submissions
===========

Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Papers may
not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references).
They must be received by July 31, 2000, in hard copy (4 copies)
OR postscript OR rtf format.  Electronic submissions should be sent to
siglex-ws at cs.vassar.edu. Hard copies should be mailed to:

SIGLEX Workshop Submission
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0250
USA


Important Dates
===============

Submission (of full-length paper)              August 10
Acceptance notice                              August 31
Camera-ready paper due                      September 15
Workshop date                             October 7 or 8


Organizers
==========

Nancy Ide, Vassar College
Charles Fillmore, UC Berkeley and ICSI
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 18 13:50:44 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:50:44 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JUL.2000.155044.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

__________________________________________________________

1/ From: danlos at linguist.jussieu.fr (Laurence Danlos)
   Subject: MC, Linguistique Informatique, Paris 7

2/ From:  Jeffrey P.Kaplan <jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Assist Prof. at San Diego State University,

3/ From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: Job offer in Text-To-Speech synthesis
__________________________________________________________


1/ From: danlos at linguist.jussieu.fr (Laurence Danlos)
   Subject: MC, Linguistique Informatique, Paris 7


Poste de Maître de Conférences à l'Université Paris 7

Profil : Linguistique Informatique

Le candidat assurera principalement des enseignements en Licence et
Maîtrise de Linguistique et Informatique ainsi que DESS de Traitement
automatique des langues (TAL). Les matières enseignées seront soit en
informatique soit en TAL, avec un accent particulier sur la recherche
d'information, les méthodes statistiques et les corpus.

Le candidat devra avoir une double  formation en Linguistique et
Informatique  et devra avoir une bonne expérience dans le domaine des
applications du TAL.

Le poste est à pourvoir au 1er Septembre 2001.
Pour les candidats au recrutement, ATTENTION  à la procédure de
qualification : consulter rapidement le site http://www.education.gouv.fr
pour avoir tous les détails et les dates limites  (vers Décembre 2000).

Pour tout renseignement complémentaire, adressez-vous à
Pascal.Amsili at linguist.jussieu.fr ou Laurence.Danlos at linguist.jussieu.fr

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2/ From:  Jeffrey P.Kaplan <jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Assist Prof. at San Diego State University,
             California USA


Rank of Job: assistant prof.
Areas Required: computational linguistics
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: San Diego State University
Department: Linguistics & Oriental Languages
State or Province: CA
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: none
Contact: Jeffrey P. Kaplan jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu

Address for Applications:
Ling. Dept., San Diego State U.
San Diego
CA 92182-7727
USA

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

Subject to funding, the Linguistics and Oriental Languages Department of
San Diego State University invites applications for a tenure-track
faculty position in computational linguistics at the assistant professor
level.

Required:

Ph.D. in linguistics or related field; record of research or practice
in computational linguistics; interest and ability in helping develop
a newly launched computational linguistics program within a
linguistics department and in participating in a linguistics
curriculum.

The successful candidate will have strength in one or more of
the following areas:

speech and computational phonetics; statistical NLP; automatic
learning; computational modeling of language processing or language
learning; dialogue; generation; parsing; grammar formalisms.

Send applications to include cover letter, CV, transcripts, at least
three letters of recommendation, and sample publications to:
 Dr. Jeff Kaplan, Search Committee Chair,
 Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages,
        San Diego State University,
 San Diego, CA 92182-7727
    (phone: 619-594-5879).

The department will begin reviewing applications on September 15, 2000
and continue until the position is filled.

SDSU is an Affirmative-Action/Equal Opportunity/Title IX employer and
does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion,
national origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age, or
disability. Women, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities are
encouraged to apply.

__________________________________________________________

3/ From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: Job offer in Text-To-Speech synthesis


The Speech Synthesis team in France Telecom Research & Development
Center is looking for a one year full-time Research Engineer position,
beginning as soon as possible.
The job profile is described below :

Research and Development Engineer in charge of automatic prosodic
processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis.

Main missions :
· Contribute to the development of algorithmic solutions for automatic
prosody learning.
· Integrate improvements in the FTR&D Text-to-Speech system.

Main activities :
· Develop new prosodic modules for Text-to-Speech synthesis software.
· Interact with the group to specify and to develop new linguistic
modules for the FTR&D Text-to-Speech synthesis software
· Participate to the customisation of the system.
· Contribute in the survey on existing speech synthesis products and
services.

Qualifications required :
· Programming experience using C/C++
· Interest in computational linguistic
· Strong background in automatic speech processing
· Near-native in French

Location of Job
France Telecom R&D, Lannion (North Brittany) France

Contact :
Stéphanie de TOURNEMIRE,  tel:+33 2 96 05 31 36
stephanie.detournemire at rd.francetelecom.fr
Thierry MOUDENC,  tel: + 33 2 96 05 16 59
thierry.moudenc at rd.francetelecom.f





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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 18 13:53:34 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:53:34 +0200
Subject: Conf: Coling
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From: Michelle Carnell <Michelle.Carnell at dfki.de>

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COLING 2000 in EUROPE

http://www.coling.org

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION  *** REMINDER ***

It is my privilege to invite you to participate in the 18th
International Conference on Computational Linguistics.  COLING takes
place every two years under the auspices of the International Committee
on Computational Linguistices (ICCL). The conference attracts scientists
and engineers throughout the world to an exchange of original scientific
ideas, research methods and results in the field of computational
linguistics.

For the first time the biennial International Conference on
Computational Linguists will be hosted by more than one country. It will
take place in three cities in three neighbouring countries in the heart
of Europe: Saarbrücken, Luxembourg and Nancy. COLING 2000 is supported
by the Charta of the SaarLorLux Universities, especially by the Centre
Universitaire in Luxembourg, the Université Nancy II, and the
Universität des Saarlandes.

The conference, tutorial and workshops will take place as follows:
- Tutorials: Nancy (29/30 July, 2000)
- Main Conference: Saarbrücken (30 July - 4 August, 2000)
- Workshops: Luxembourg (5/6 August, 2000)

Bus transportation between the conference venues will be available.

The conference, tutorial and workshop language will be English.

COLING 2000 will be the ideal place to:

-  learn about the latest developments in the field
-  see demos of new research systems and products
-  study new trends and techniques in the tutorials
-  exhibit your language technologies for the 21st century
-  hire needed specialists before somebody else does

Keynote lectures will be presented by:

-  Angela Friederici, Max Planck Institute of  Cognitive Neuroscience,
Leipzig, Germany
-  Fernando Pereira, WhizBang! Labs, USA

In addition, please check out:

-  the conference programme ( http://www.coling.org/programme.html )
-  the workshop programme ( http://www.coling.org/workshops.html )
-  the tutorial programme ( http://www.coling.org/tutorials.html )

At the conference, we will provide space for announcing job openings, as
well as a sign-up desk and rooms for job interviews.

Check out our low conference fees: http://www.coling.org/reg.html .

To increase student participation, we have decided on very favourable
conference fees for bona fide students. Students who would still not be
able to attend for financial reasons, please contact us at:
org at coling.org. If you live and work in an economically disadvantaged
country and have no possibility of obtaining funding or if you are
experiencing special personal hardships, we will try to help.

Upon registering, we also offer assistance for accommodation.
Furthermore, we will also arrange for inexpensive student accommodation.

We believe you will also like our cultural program; the highlights will
be an all-day excursion to Strasbourg, France, and the conference
banquet.

I hope to see you all in Nancy, Saarbrücken and Luxembourg

Hans Uszkoreit

Chair of Organization Committee

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 18 13:52:53 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:52:53 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI-2001
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JUL.2000.155253.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Marcus Kracht <kracht at math.fu-berlin.de>


 [An HTML version of the Call for Proposals  will be available via the
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                         THIRD AND LAST CALL FOR PROPOSALS
    ---------------------------------

                           !! DEADLINE: July 23, 2000 !!


   Thirteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                               ESSLLI-2001
              August 13-24, 2001, Helsinki, Finland

                           CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and
Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation.
Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops
cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic,
Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language,
Language and Logic.  Previous summer schools have been highly successful,
attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has
developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for
students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of
Logic, Language and Information.  ESSLLI-2001 is organised under the
auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information
(FoLLI).

The ESSLLI-2001 Programme Committee invites proposals for foundational,
introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 13th
annual Summer School on a wide range of topics in the following fields:

  Logic                Language                Computation
  Language and Logic   Logic and Computation   Language and Computation

In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student Session. A
Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed separately.

The Programme Committee welcomes proposals in all of the above areas.


PROPOSAL SUBMISSION:
All proposals (subject: ESSLLI-2001) should be submitted by electronic
mail to the program chair, Marcus Kracht at <kracht at math.fu-berlin.de>,
in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible, but no later than July 23,
2000.  Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision
no later than September 15, 1999.  Proposers should follow the
guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that
deviate substantially will not be considered.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:
Anyone interested in lecturing or organising a workshop during
ESSLLI-2001, please read the following information carefully.


FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming
any background knowledge.  The number of foundational courses will be
4-6. They are intended for people from other disciplines to get a feel
for the problems and techniques of the area. Ideally, they should
allow experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key
competences of neighbouring disciplines, thus encouraging the
development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Unlike
the introductory courses they may presuppose some experience with
scientific methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on
the issues that are germane to the area of the course.

Foundational courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers. They consist
of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

 Timetable for Foundational Course Proposal Submission

    Jul  23, 2000: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep  15, 2000: Notification
    Nov  15, 2000: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                    information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun   1, 2001: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities
of the Summer School.  They are intended to equip students and young
researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and
techniques, The introductory courses in the three basic disciplines
should provide introductions to the field for non-specialists (an
introductory course on logic, for instance, should address linguists and
computer scientists, not logicians). Introductory courses in the
interdisciplinary fields, on the other hand, can build on knowledge of
the respective fields (an introductory course in computational
linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the
basics of linguistics and computation).

Introductory courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They consist
of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week
course), each session lasting 90 minutes.

Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the
course as compared to standard texts in the area.  For ease of reference
a list of standard texts will be made available electronically.

 Timetable for Introductory Course Proposal Submission

    Jul 23, 2000: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 2000: Notification
    Nov 15, 2000: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2001: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material

ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of
advanced Masters or PhD students.  Proposals for advanced courses should
specify the prerequisites in some detail.

Advanced courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist of
five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course),
each session lasting 90 minutes.

  Timetable for Advanced Course Proposal Submissions

    Jul 23, 2000: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 2000: Notification
    Nov 15, 2000: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2001: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced
Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work.
A workshop has a theme. At most one organiser is paid.  The organisers
should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general
introduction in the first session.  They are also responsible for the
programme of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers.

Each workshop organiser will be responsible for producing a Call for
Papers for the workshop by November 15, 2000.  The call must make it
clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community.
It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for
the Summer School.

A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop) or ten
sessions (a two-week workshop).  Sessions are normally 90 min.

  Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions

    Jul 23, 2000: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 2000: Notification
    Nov 15, 2000: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers
    Dec  1, 2000: Send out Call for Papers
    Mar 15, 2001: Deadline for Papers (suggested)
    May  1, 2001: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested)
    May 15, 2001: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Programme
    Jun  1, 2001: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of
   Workshop notes
    Jun  1, 2001: Deadline for Final Workshop Programme


FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS:
Please submit your proposal in the following format:

Name:         ---  Name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.

Address:      ---  Contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.
                   Where possible, please include phone and fax
                   numbers.

Title:        ---  Title of proposed course/workshop.

Type:         ---  State whether this is a workshop, an foundational
                   course, an introductory course, or an advanced
                   course.

Section:      ---  Which of the  six sections (Language, Logic,
                   Computation, Logic & Computation, Language
                   & Computation or Language & Logic) does the
                   proposal belong to? Please just name one.

Description:  ---  A description of the proposed contents.
                   Not more than 150 words.

External      ---  State whether (and if so: how) you will be able to
funding:           find external funding to subsidise your travel and
                   accommodation expenses.

Further       ---  Any further information that is required by the
particulars:       above guidelines should be included here.


FINANCIAL ASPECTS:
Prospective lecturers and workshop organisers should be aware that all
teaching and organising at the summer schools is done on a voluntary
basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible.
Lecturers and organisers are not paid for their contribution, but are
reimbursed for travel and accommodation. In case of two lecturers, a
lump sum is paid to cover travel expenses. The splitting of the sum
is up to the lecturers.  (However, please note that the organisers
appreciate if, whenever possible, lecturers/organisers find
alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.)

Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School;
however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced
rate to be determined by the Organising Committee.

Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the
world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general guarantee only
to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe
to Helsinki. Exceptions will be made depending on the financial
situation.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  Marcus Kracht (chair)
  Attn: ESSLLI-2001
  II. Mathematisches Institut
  FU Berlin
  Arnimallee 3
  D - 14195 Berlin
  Germany
  Tel: +49 (30) 838 75445
  Fax: +49 (30) 838 75404
  Email: kracht at math.fu-berlin.de

       Bonnie Webber (Language)
      Jouko V��n�nen (Logic)
  Steffen H�lldobler (Computation and Logic)
      Claire Gardent (Language and Computation)
     Claude Kirchner (Computation)
    Michael Moortgat (Logic and Language)


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
     Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
  Email: pietarin at cc.helsinki.fi


FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
To obtain further information, please visit the web site for
ESSLLI-2001 <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2001/esslli-2001.html>.
For this year's summer school see the web site for
ESSLLI-2000 <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2000/esslli-2000.html>.





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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 18 13:53:37 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:53:37 +0200
Subject: Publication: C&H Special Issue on SENSEVAL
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JUL.2000.155337.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>


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JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED
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                   COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
                 Volume 34, Issue 1/2, April 2000


                        SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE
                                 on
           THE SENSEVAL WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION EXERCISE


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

Introduction to the Special Issue on SENSEVAL
     A. Kilgarriff, M. Palmer

Framework and Results for English SENSEVAL
     A. Kilgarriff, J. Rosenzweig

Framework and Results for French
     Frederique Segond

Senseval/Romanseval: The Framework for Italian
     Nicoletta Calzolari, Ornella Corazzari

Tagger Evaluation Given Hierarchical Tag Sets
     I. Dan Melamed, Philip Resnik

Peeling an Onion: The Lexicographer s Experience of Manual
Sense-Tagging
     Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Diane Nicholls

Lexicography and Disambiguation: The Size of the Problem
     Rosamund Moon

Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Lexical Knowledge Methods for
Word Sense Disambiguation
     E. Agirre, G. Rigau, L. Padro, J. Atserias

Word Sense Disambiguation Using Automatically Acquired Verbal
Preferences
     John Carroll, Diana McCarthy

A Topical/Local Classifier for Word Sense Identification
      Martin Chodorow, Claudia Leacock, George A. Miller

GINGER II: An Example-Driven Word Sense Disambiguator
      Luca Dini, Vittorio Di Tomaso, Frederique Segond

Word Sense Disambiguation by Information Filtering and Extraction
      Jeremy Ellman, Ian Klincke, John Tait

Large Scale WSD Using Learning Applied to SENSEVAL
      Paul Hawkins, David Nettleton

Word Sense Disambiguation Using the Classification Information Model
      Ho Lee, Hae-Chang Rim, Hungyun Seo

Word Sense Disambiguation with a Similarity-Smoothed Case Library
      Dekang Lin

Senseval: The CL Research Experience
      Kenneth C. Litkowski

Selecting Decomposable Models for Word-Sense Disambiguation:
The Grling-Sdm System
      Tom O Hara, Janyce Wiebe, Rebecca Bruce

Simple Word Sense Discrimination
      Keith Suderman

Memory-Based Word Sense Disambiguation
      Jorn Veenstra, Antal van den Bosch, Sabine Buchholz, Walter
      Daelemans, Jakub Zavrel

Hierarchical Decision Lists for Word Sense Disambiguation
      David Yarowsky

Using Semantic Classification Trees for WSD
      C. de Loupy, M. El-Beze, P.-F. Marteau

Dictionary-Driven Semantic Look-up
      Frederique Segond, Elisabeth Aimelet, Veronika Lux, Corinne Jean

ROMANSEVAL: Results for Italian by SENSE
      Stefano Federici, Simonetta Montemagni, Vito Pirrelli

Do Word Meanings Exist?
      Patrick Hanks

Consistent Criteria for Sense Distinctions
      Martha Palmer

Cross-Lingual Sense Determination: Can It Work?
      Nancy Ide

Is Word Sense Disambiguation Just One More NLP Task?
      Yorick Wilks


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 25 15:21:12 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:21:12 +0200
Subject: Appel:  ASIALEX 2001
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JUL.2000.172112.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: <jtsohn at sentence.yonsei.ac.kr>


The 2001 Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX)
Biennial Conference
August 8-10, 2001
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea


CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
AND
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX) was inaugurated at the
Dictionaries in Asia conference at Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology in 1997. Its first biennial conference was hosted at Guangdong
University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, in 1999, by the first Asialex
president and president of the university, Professor Huang Jianhua, and was
attended by two hundred scholars from Asia and Europe. The current
president, Professor Sangsup Lee, chairs the organizing committee of the
second biennial conference, due on 8-10 August 2001, at the Center for
Linguistic Informatics Research at Yonsei University, which he directs.

The general theme of the ASIALEX 2001 Conference is "Asian Bilingualism and
the Dictionary." These subjects have special aspects in the Asian context
which have not received sufficient consideration so far and whose
significance is
growing very fast in this age of accelerated cross-cultural, informatic
contact between the peoples of Asia and the rest of the world. Other topics
related to the dictionary are also welcome. Following is a list of major
topics suggested by the organizing committee:

  1. Corpus Linguistics, Lexicology, Lexicography
  2. Computational Lexicography
  3. Lexicographical Processes and Methods
  4. Language Education and Dictionary
  5. Terminography
  6. Lexicographical Problems in Asian Bilingualism

Renowned scholars and lexicographers will speak at plenary sessions. The
languages used will be Korean and English.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
======================

Authors should first summit abstracts of papers for reviewing.
The submitted abstract should include:

  - title
  - author(s) name(s)
  - affiliation(s)
  - complete mailing addresses
  - e-mail address for correspondence
  - abstract in English (300-500 words)

E-mail submission is also acceptable. The e-mail submission should be in
such popular formats as ASCII plain text, PDF, PostScript, MS Word, RTF.

All submissions (hardcopy and electronic) and questions regarding
submissions should be sent to:

  ASIALEX 2001 Submissions
  Center for Linguistic Informatics Research
  Yonsei University
  Seoul 120-749 Korea
  e-mail: asialex at lex.yonsei.ac.kr

Notification of receipt will be e-mailed shortly after receipt.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The layout
details for camera-ready paper soon will be announced through the
conference web site (http://asialex.yonsei.ac.kr), which is still under
construction.


DEADLINES
==========

  - Abstract submission: October 31, 2000.
  - Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2000.
  - Final camera-ready copies: April 30, 2001.


CONTACTS
=========

All inquiries concerning the conference should be made to the following
address.

  Dr Jitae Sohn
  Center for Linguistic Informatics Research
  (Lexicographical Center)
  Yonsei University
  Seoul 120-749 Korea

  E-mail: asialex at lex.yonsei.ac.kr
  Phone: +82-2-361-3511, 4197 (+82-2-2123-3511, 4197 after September 1,
2000)
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 25 15:21:20 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:21:20 +0200
Subject: Conf: Fifth TELRI Seminar
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JUL.2000.172120.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Milena Slavcheva <slavchev at mx300e.ids-mannheim.de>


Fifth TELRI Seminar
Corpus Linguistics: How to Extract Meaning from Corpora
22-24 September 2000
Ljubljana, Slovenia

The preliminary programme and regularly updated information about the
seminar can be obtained from:
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 25 15:21:24 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:21:24 +0200
Subject: Conf: DCAGRS
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JUL.2000.172124.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Helmut Jurgensen <helmut at csd.uwo.ca>


LAST NOTIFICATION:

DCAGRS (Decsriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related
Systems) will be held in London, Canada, from July 27 to July 29.

For the programme please visit www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs

DCAGRS is part of a triconference event Half Century of Automaton Theory.
For information  about this unique set of conferences visit
     www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs/triconf.html


The event includes CIAA, the succeessor conference to WIA, on the
implementation
and application of automata and a special day with pioneers of theoretical
computer science.

Travel information and touristic information is available at these
sites as well.


Right after the conferences there will be a workshop on codes on
July 31 and August 1. Information about this workshop will be mailed
separately.

Helmut Jurgensen

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 25 15:21:17 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:21:17 +0200
Subject: Conf: LLL-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JUL.2000.172117.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Claire Nedellec <Claire.Nedellec at lri.fr>


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                           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


          2nd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP

                  13 - 14 September 2000, Lisbon - Portugal

                    Co-located with ICGI and CoNLL


                    http://www.lri.fr/~cn/LLL-2000/

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         EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE 31th of July 2000

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The goal of  this workshop is to bring  together researchers from many
subfields of AI  who are working on machine  learning from text, while
emphasizing the logic-based learning techniques and algorithms.

LLL-2000 is co-organized with the  International Conference  on Grammar
Inference (ICGI, http://vinci.inesc.pt/icgi-2000/) and the Conference
on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL, http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2000/).

Programme
---------

The  programme includes  joint  sessions with  CoNLL  and ICGI,  paper
presentations and invited talks.

Invited speakers:

- Dan Roth (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

- Jörg-Uwe Kietz (Rentenanstalt / Swiss Life, Zürich)


The  papers  selected  for  presentation  will  appear  in  the  joint
CoNLL-LLL proceedings published by Omni Press.

The preliminary programme can be found at
http://www.lri.fr/~cn/LLL-2000/programme.html


Programme chair
-------------

  Claire Nédellec
  LLL workshop
  LRI, Bat 490                           e-mail: cn at lri.fr
  Université Paris-Sud                   Tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 66 26
  F-91405 Orsay                          Fax: +33 (0)1 69 15 65 86
  FRANCE


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See  http://www.lri.fr/~cn/LLL-2000  for  more information  about  the
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 25 15:21:22 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:21:22 +0200
Subject: Conf: ECAI-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JUL.2000.172122.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


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


--------------  FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION  ---------------------

                     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

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         LATE REGISTRATION DEADLINE 1st of August 2000

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Organized by
German Informatics Society (GI) and
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)

Hosted by
Humboldt University Berlin


    In this special turn of the century we invite you to  celebrate
  ECAI 2000 in Berlin.  Being  the  fourteenth in a very successful
  series  of  European  Conferences  on   Artificial  Intelligence,
  ECAI 2000  will  offer a unique opportunity to bring industry and
  academics together to explore the  full  spectrum  of  Artificial
  Intelligence,  from theory and  methodology to its application in
  commercial systems.

    Respond to the call of the German Informatics Society (GI)  and
  the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial  Intelligence,
  the world's largest umbrella organization for AI,  and meet well-
  known AI experts at Humboldt University Berlin, a University that
  can proudly look back on almost 200 years  of  tradition  and  29
  associated Nobel prize winners.

    Since the year 2000 is a special year, we will make ECAI 2000 a
  very special conference.  ECAI 2000 gathered 443 submissions from
  which, however, only 139 have  been  accepted  for  presentation.
  Although the majority of papers comes from  Europe,  there  is  a
  significant number of papers  from  Australia,  Asia,  and  North
  America,  leading  to  a  total  of  42  contributing  countries.
  Furthermore,  ECAI  2000  comprises  six  invited  talks plus one
  public talk given by distinguished scientists, master-class  lec-
  tures in 10 tutorials and serious discussions of hot new research
  topics in 29 workshops.

    The real success of Artificial Intelligence will be measured by
  the applications that use the technology rather than the  techno-
  logy itself.  For the first time,  ECAI comprises the Prestigious
  Applications of Intelligent Systems  sub-conference  (PAIS 2000),
  which is the first major  European  showcase of beneficial  solu-
  tions for industry and commerce based on AI technologies.

    ECAI and PAIS are accompanied by an exhibition concept that re-
  flects AI's history, its gaining grounds in the 20th century  and
  its progress paths envisioned into the 21st century. We also plan
  to have a rather unusual sidetrack meant  to  attract layman such
  that ECAI 2000  becomes an event in Berlin and not  only  one  of
  diverse scientific congresses hardly noticed by the public. In so
  far,  we aim at presenting  AI on ECAI 2000 in a very broad scope
  in order to show its relation to  other  classical  and  advanced
  IT topics.

    In the following we will present a short glance at the  program
  of ECAI 2000. We will also provide some information on  registra-
  tion deadlines and fees.  More  detailed information is available
  on the conference home page at

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    Do not miss this opportunity.  Register  now  and  be cordially
  welcome at ECAI 2000 in Berlin!


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

    1    Aug  2000       Late Registration Deadline
   20-25 Aug  2000       ECAI/PAIS 2000


-------------
INVITED TALKS
-------------

  Piero P. Bonissone
    General Electric, USA
    Corporate Research and Development

    "Hybrid Soft Computing: Where are we going?"


  Patrick Doherty
    Linkoeping University, Sweden
    Artificial Intelligence and
    Integrated Computer Systems Division

    "A Bird's-Eye View of the
     WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project"


  Daniele Nardi
    Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
    Artificial Intelligence Research Group

    "Artificial Intelligence in RoboCup"


  Bernhard Nebel
    Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
    Artificial Intelligence Research Group

    "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning -
     The Theoretical Side of AI"


  Luc Steels
    Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France
    and
    Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
    Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

    "The Emergence of Grammar in
     Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents"


  Mark Wallace
    Imperial College, UK
    ICL and IC-Parc

    "Constraint Programming -
     Applications, Algorithms, Languages"


-----------
PUBLIC TALK
-----------

  H. Van Dyke Parunak
    Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, USA
    Center for Electronic Commerce

    "Assembling Artificial Societies:
     Missing Pieces and Left-Over Parts"


---------
TUTORIALS
---------

  T1: Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence: An Introduction
    M. Dorigo
    http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo

  T2: Stochastic Search Algorithms
    H. H. Hoos, T. Stuetzle
    http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-stoch

  T3: AI Techniques for Knowledge Management
    S. Decker, S. Staab
    http://kmtutorial.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

  T4: Solving and Programming with Soft Constraints:
    Theory and Implementation
    F. Rossi, P. Codognet
    http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/ecai2000-tut.html

  T5: Empirical Methods for Computer Science
    P. Cohen, I. Gent, T. Walsh

  T6: Knowledge Markup Techniques
    H. Boley, S. Decker, M. Sintek
    http://www.SemanticWeb.org/knowmarktutorial

  T7: Applying Automatic Text Generation
    M. Stede, L. Wanner
    http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~stede/ecaitutorial.html

  T8: Rational Action in Autonomous Agents
    S. Parsons, M. Wooldridge

  T9: Seeking Information: Methods from Information Retrieval and
    Artificial Intelligence
    D. Fensel, M. Lalmas
    http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/ECAI.html

  T10: Neural Networks and Structured Knowledge
    F. Kurfess
    http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/franz


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WORKSHOPS
---------

  W1: 14th Workshop on Planning and Configuration (PuK 2000)
    http://www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~sauer/puk2000/index.html

  W2: Configuration
    http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/pdmg/ECAI2000WS

  W4: Cognitive Robotics
    http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/LuFG/cogrob2000

  W5: Current Issues in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
    http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~hans/spacetime

  W6: Local Search for Planning & Scheduling
    http://www.ai-center.com/events/ecai-2000-ws

  W7: 2nd ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and
      Artificial Intelligence (BESAI 2000)
    http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/besai/besai2000.html

  W8: Scientific Reasoning in AI and Philosophy of Science
    http://www.compulog.org/workshops/ecai

  W9: Application of Ontologies and Problem Solving Methods
    http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/index.html

  W10: Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 00)
    http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00

  W11: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory
    http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2000-OM/call.html

  W13: Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios in Logistics
    http://www.tzi.de/ecai00-mas

  W15: Foundations of Connectionist-Symbolic Integration:
       Representation, Paradigms, and Algorithms
    http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/ECAI2000

  W16: Machine Learning for Information Extraction
    http://ecate.itc.it:1024/cirave/ecai-workshop.html

  W18: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB-2000)
    http://www-lti.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/KRDB2000

  W19: Applied Semiotics: Control Problems (ASC2000)
    http://www.iitp.ru/asc2000

  W20: Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging
Market
    http://www.uni-bremen.de/~sppraum/sr00.htm

  W21: Workshop on Bayesian and Causal Networks: From Inference to Data
Mining
    http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/CaNew2000.html

  W22: Computational Dialectics:
       Models of Argumentation, Negotiation and Decision Making
    http://www.philos.rug.nl/~gerard/cd2000

  W23: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000)
    http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000

  W24: Ontology Learning
    http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

  W25: Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints
    http://www.iiia.csic.es/ecai2000

  W26: Analysis and Modelling of Collaborative Learning Interactions
    http://collide.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/ecai-2000

  W27: Machine Learning in Computer Vision (MLCV)
    http://www.di.uniba.it/~malerba/ws-ecai2000

  W28: Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations
    http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jonker/masho-ecai2000

  W29: Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems
    http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html

  W30: Flexible Strategies for Maintaining Knowledge Containers
    http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/mkc-ws

  W31: Knowledge-Based Systems for Model-Based Engineering
    http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/ecai2000-kbsmbe

  W32: Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2000)
    http://www.eml.org/aims2000

  W34: Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence
    http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-empai


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REGISTRATION
------------

    The details given here are for your information  only.  To  re-
  gister for ECAI 2000,  its tutorials  and workshops and to book a
  hotel please use the forms provided on our home page.

    Prices are given in Euro (EUR) and Deutsche Mark (DM).  To  re-
  ceive the reduced fee as a member of an ECCAI member  society  or
  being a member of GI, please provide evidence of membership (e.g.
  membership card) and send  it  together  with  your  registration
  form. If you are a student, please provide proof on your status.

  ECAI 2000 CONFERENCE (PAIS 2000 included)

                      Late                  On-Site
                      (until August 1st)    (after August 1st)
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  Member              EUR 410 / DM 801.89   EUR 480 / DM 938.08

  Non-Member          EUR 510 / DM 997.47   EUR 570 / DM 1114.82

  Student/Member      EUR 145 / DM 283.06   EUR 190 / DM 371.61

  Student/Non-Member  EUR 155 / DM 303.15   EUR 200 / DM 391.17


  TUTORIALS (each)
                      Late                  On-Site
                      (until August 1st)    (after August 1st)
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  Member              EUR 220 / DM 430.28   EUR 260 / DM 508.52

  Non-Member          EUR 270 / DM 528.07   EUR 310 / DM 606.31

  Student/Member      EUR 110 / DM 215.14   EUR 140 / DM 273.82

  Student/Non-Member  EUR 120 / DM 234.70   EUR 150 / DM 293.37


  WORKSHOPS (each)

  There is a flat fee for each workshop:  EUR 50 / DM 97.79

  Workshop participants must register for the main ECAI conference.
  No extra charge for late/on-site workshop registrations.


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jul  6 15:07:32 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:07:32 +0200
Subject: Jobs : 7 Offers
Message-ID: <THU.6.JUL.2000.170732.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: E S Atwell <eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk>
   Object?: EPSRC - ADVANCED & SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS (fwd)

2/ From: "Pierre Vesoul" <pvesoul at mail.inforama.fr>
   Objet?: Offres d'emploi

3/ From:  Kamil Golebiowski <kamil at interprice.com>
   Subject:  5 Positions at Interprice GmbH, Berlin Germany

4/ From: "Mcenery, Tony" <eiaamme at exchange.lancs.ac.uk>
   Object?: Lectureship

5/ From:  Christian Meyer <c.meyer at vista.de>
   Subject:  Computer ling & related/general database technology: project

6/ From: E S Atwell <eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk>
   Subject: EU Funding for Experienced Researchers (fwd)

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: E S Atwell <eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk>
   Object?: EPSRC - ADVANCED & SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS (fwd)



British EPSRC ADVANCED AND SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

The UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) offers
over 40 Advanced and Senior Fellowships to allow outstanding researchers
up to 5 years full-time research; open to tenured/non tenured candidates
whose research falls within the scope of the EPSRC (for example,
Corpus-based research in speech and language technology).
There are no nationality eligibility criteria, but you must have a host
organisation in the UK; for example, we at Leeds University host an
Advanced Fellow originally from the Netherlands, Rens Bod (and we will be
happy to host further Advanced/Senior Fellows).

The closing date for completed applications for EPSRC's Advanced and Senior
Research Fellowships is 8 September 2000.

Further information, including a set of Frequently Asked Questions and the
application form, is available on the EPSRC website at:

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/fellow

--
Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
TEL: (44)113-2335430  FAX: (44)113-2335468
WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/eric  EMAIL: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk


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2/ From: "Pierre Vesoul" <pvesoul at mail.inforama.fr>
   Objet?: Offres d'emploi


Directeur g?n?ral aujourd'hui d'Alogic, une start-up Internet d?di?e aux
applications TALN, je souhaite passer le plus rapidement possible une offre
pour trois emplois dans la liste LN dont voici les ?l?ments :

La soci?t?

Alogic est une start-up issue d'un essaimage du groupe Inforama organis?
par son fondateur Robert Guillaumot en vue de recueillir et de pr?server
les acquis de recherche et d?veloppement en informatique linguistique et
documentaire accumul?s au fil des ann?es par Inforama.

Robert Guillaumot est l'initiateur du mouvement de l'intelligence
?conomique en France. Il a ?t? administrateur du Syntec-Informatique de
1972 ? 1999 et vice-pr?sident de l'organisation mondiale du logiciel (WITSA
1995-2000).

La technologie d'Alogic est bas?e sur une approche s?mantique qui est ? la
base du moteur et de l'API Alnoemic.
Alnoemic est int?gr? ? deux autres produits d'Alogic :
Aperto Libro, un syst?me complet de collecte et de recherche d'information
int?grable ? des Intranet ou des sites Web.
Albot un robot de recherche et d'indexation s?mantique d'information sur le
Web.
Profils recherch?s

Alogic recherche pour son centre de d?veloppement de Sophia Antipolis les
profils suivants :

Poste 1 : Directeur technique - CTO

Statut : Cadre
Type de contrat : CDI  Temps plein
Date de prise de fonctions souhait?e : d?s que possible

Description des fonctions :
Coordonner les d?veloppements d'une ?quipe de linguistes, d'ing?nieurs et
de d?veloppeurs
Coordonner et planifier le d?veloppement d'outils linguistiques
G?rer les LANs de la soci?t? (Sophia Antipolis et Paris) (syst?mes et
r?seaux)
G?rer l'h?bergement d'applications de nos clients et le serveur Web de la
soci?t? (relation avec l'h?bergeur, ?volution de l'architecture syst?me et
r?seau)
Orienter les choix de la soci?t? en terme de technologies logicielles
Maintenir et am?liorer les outils de la soci?t?
Imaginer et coordonner le d?veloppement d'applications innovantes utilisant
des technologies de TALN.
Contribuer aux d?marches de communication de la soci?t? et ? l'activit? de
veille technologique de la soci?t?
Profil de candidature :
Bac +5 minimum, Informatique, 28 - 35 ans
Exp?rience de gestion de projets dans un contexte "technologies avanc?es"
(id?alement en TALN) au sein d'une soci?t? de services ou d'une start-up
sp?cialis?e dans le traitement de la langue et/ou les technologies Internet
en France ou ? l'?tranger
Go?t du challenge (contexte start-up)
Forte comp?tences de d?veloppement en C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, ASP, PHP,
SQL (Oracle, MySQL)
Ma?trise de Windows NT et d'Unix dont Linux
Connaissance pratique d'un ou plusieurs environnement de d?veloppement Web
et/ou e-commerce.
un background dans le domaine du TALN et des techniques de l'intelligence
artificielle serait un plus
une exp?rience des techniques d'indexation et des moteurs de recherche sur
Internet serait ?galement appr?ci?e
bonne ma?trise de l'anglais (le candidat peut ?tre anglophone si ?
l'inverse il ma?trise correctement le fran?ais)
Autonomie et leadership technique
Capacit? de communication et de coordination
Poste 2 : Ing?nieur Senior en Traitement du Langage Naturel

Statut : Cadre
Type de contrat : CDI  Temps plein
Date de prise de fonctions souhait?e : d?s que possible

Description des fonctions :
Travailler dans une ?quipe avec des linguistes, des ing?nieurs et
d?veloppeurs
R?aliser des outils linguistiques
Orienter les choix technologiques de la soci?t? (en terme de d?veloppements
et d'int?gration d'outils tiers)
R?aliser des expressions de besoins aupr?s de notre client?le et en assurer
le suivi (r?daction de cahier des charges, calendrier , etc.)
R?aliser des lexiques s?mantiques en fonction des besoins exprim?s par
notre client?le
Maintenir et am?liorer notre moteur danalyse s?mantique
Imaginer et r?aliser des applications innovantes utilisant des technologies
TALN.
Contribuer aux d?marches de communication de la soci?t? et aux relations
avec des partenaires dans le monde du TALN
Profil de candidature :
Bac +5 minimum, Linguistique / Informatique / IA, 28 - 35 ans
Exp?rience dans une soci?t? ou un laboratoire sp?cialis? dans le traitement
de la langue en France ou ? l'?tranger
Go?t du challenge (contexte start-up)
Parfaitement bilingue anglais / fran?ais, autre langues bienvenues
(Espagnol, Portugais, Allemand en particulier)
Familier  de l'informatique et des nouvelles technologies (technologies
Internet en particulier)
Capacit? ? travailler seul (autonomie) et en ?quipe (capacit? de
communication et de coordination)
Poste 3 : Ing?nieur de d?veloppement

Statut : Cadre
Type de contrat : CDI  Temps plein
Date de prise de fonctions souhait?e : d?s que possible

Description des fonctions :
d?velopper des outils linguistiques
participer ? la gestion de l'h?bergement d'applications de nos clients et
du serveur Web de la soci?t? (relation avec l'h?bergeur, ?volution de
l'architecture syst?me et r?seau)
Contribuer aux choix de la soci?t? en terme de technologies logicielles
Maintenir et am?liorer les outils de la soci?t?
D?velopper des applications innovantes utilisant des technologies de TALN.
Profil de candidature :
Bac +5 minimum, Informatique, 24 - 26 ans
Go?t du challenge (contexte start-up)
Comp?tences de d?veloppement en C, C++, SQL (de pr?f?rence Oracle, MySQL)
Comp?tences de d?veloppement Java, HTML, XML, ASP seraient appr?ci?es
un background dans le domaine du TALN et des techniques de l'intelligence
artificielle serait un plus
une exp?rience des techniques d'indexation et des moteurs de recherche sur
Internet serait ?galement appr?ci?e
bonne ma?trise de l'anglais
Autonomie
Capacit? de communication et de coordination
Contact

Pierre Vesoul
ALOGIC SA
9, rue Saint Florentin
75008 Paris
Tel : 01 44 50 16 27 / 01 44 50 16 20 (standard)
Fax :01 44 50 10 79
Portable : 06 11 28 20 03
Email : pvesoul at inforama.fr <mailto:pvesoul at inforama.fr>


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3/ From:  Kamil Golebiowski <kamil at interprice.com>

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Subject:  Speech Recognition: Interprice GmbH, Berlin Germany


Rank of Job: x
Areas Required: Speech recognition
Other Desired Areas: x
University or Organization: Interprice GmbH
Department:
State or Province: Berlin
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski kamil at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
Berlin
Berlin 10553
Germany

You will be developing a speech front end for our NL user interface.

Your profile

   -  a degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or a related area
   -  ideally a PhD in speech recognition
   -  very good knowledge of statistics
   -  expertise in speech processing algorithms, ideally 3+ years
      of professional experience in this area
   -  familiarity with the commercial speech recognition products
   -  very good programming skills (C/C++)


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Subject:  Knowledge Representation: Interprice GmbH, Berlin Germany


Rank of Job: x
Areas Required: Knowledge representation
Other Desired Areas: x
University or Organization: Interprice GmbH
Department:
State or Province: Berlin
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski kamil at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
Berlin
Berlin 10553
Germany

Your task will be to design, develop and maintain an ontology of
products, adapt it to new domains and feed it with knowledge available
on the Internet.  You will closely collaborate with the NLP team on
the one side and database specialists on the other.

You have a degree in AI, computer science or a related area.

Your skills include:

        * profound expertise in knowledge representation

        * familiarity with different kinds of knowledge representation
          languages; ability to assess their value for our project

        * experience in the automatic or semi-automatic acquisition of
          domain knowledge

        * programming skills in Java would be an asset


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------
Subject:  Comp Semantics/Information Extraction: Interprice GmbH, Berlin
Germany


Rank of Job: x
Areas Required: Computational semantics/information extraction
Other Desired Areas: x
University or Organization: Interprice GmbH
Department:
State or Province: Berlin
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski kamil at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
Berlin
Berlin 10553
Germany

You will work on the robust representation of the semantics of user
queries in arbitrary domains. You will closely co-operate with a
knowledge representation expert responsible for domain modelling.

Your profile:

        * a degree in computational linguistics or computer science,

        * familiarity with the main meaning representation methods
          (templates, logical representation languages, semantic networks)

        * experience in information extraction, anaphora resolution and
          related areas,

        * good programming skills in Java or C++.


-------------------------------- Message 4 -------------------------------
Subject:  Statistical NLP/Machine Learning/Corpus-Based Methods:
         Interprice GmbH, Berlin Germany


Rank of Job: x
Areas Required: Statistical NLP, machine learning, corpus-based methods
Other Desired Areas: x
University or Organization: Interprice GmbH
Department:
State or Province: Berlin
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski kamil at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
Berlin
Berlin 10553
Germany

Your possible work areas with our company include:

        + statistical parsing

        + statistical models for the construction of meaning representations

        + automatic acquisition of domain knowledge/ontology

        + text mining/product name recognition

Your profile:

        * expertise in at least one of the above areas

        * good knowledge of statistical and symbolic machine learning
methods

        * degree in computer science/applied mathematics/computational
          linguistics or a related area

        * good programming skills (C/C++)


-------------------------------- Message 5 -------------------------------
Subject:  Corpora/Annotation: Interprice GmbH, Berlin Germany


Rank of Job: x
Areas Required: Corpora, annotation
Other Desired Areas: x
University or Organization: Interprice GmbH
Department:
State or Province: Berlin
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski kamil at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
Berlin
Berlin 10553
Germany

Your task will be the acquisition, construction and preparation of
training corpora for statistical NLP algorithms. You will work for and
report to a statistical NLP expert responsible for the implementation
of training/processing algorithms.

Your profile:

        * a degree in (computational) linguistics

        * experience in the annotation/preparation/processing of
          corpora (PoS corpora, treebanks etc.)

        * familiarity with (main stream) statistical NLP methods
          (e.g., POS tagging)

        * strong programming skills in Perl or script languages

        * good command of German and English

        * programming skills in C/C++/Java would be an asset


___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: "Mcenery, Tony" <eiaamme at exchange.lancs.ac.uk>
   Object?: Lectureship



Dear All,

below an ad for a lectureship. Sorry if any of you receive this more than
once.

Best,

Tony

Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University

Lecturer in Computational Corpus Linguistics

?17,238 - ?22,579 (pay award pending)

This three-year post, available from 1st September 2000, offers the
opportunity
to join a priority research area in a friendly and forward looking
department
currently rated RAE 4.

You should be willing to take a leading role in UCREL, a cross-disciplinary
University Research Centre in corpus linguistics shared with the Department
of
Computing. You will be keen to attract new funded research projects to the
Department and be able to contribute to our on-going research programmes.
You
should be able to teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

You should have, or be near the completion of, a PhD degree.

Informal enquiries to: Dr Tony McEnery (a.mcenery at lancaster.ac.uk)

For application details see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/personnel/jobs/ or
apply to Personnel Services, quoting reference A370 on 01524 846549
(answerphone), email: personnel at lancaster.ac.uk.
Closing date: 21 July 2000

___________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  Christian Meyer <c.meyer at vista.de>
   Subject:  Computer ling & related/general database technology: project
   manager, vista* new media GmbH, NRW Germany


Rank of Job: project manager
Areas Required: computer linguistics and related /general database
technology
Other Desired Areas: web standards
University or Organization: vista* new media GmbH
Department: R&D/SystemIntegration
State or Province: NRW
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: as soon as possible
Contact: Christian Meyer c.meyer at vista.de

Address for Applications:
Im Mediapark 5
Cologne
NRW 50670
Germany

vista* new media GmbH is a full service provider in the area of new
media. At the Internet World Fair 2000 in Berlin, vista* introduced its
web-based virtual character system for online-shops. vista* is looking
for a person to manage the activities of enhancing the dialogue features
of virtual characters and the integration into a database system.
You have a strong expertise in database technology and computer
linguistics. Optionally, you are familiar with web standards.

___________________________________________________________________________

6/ From: E S Atwell <eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk>
   Subject: EU Funding for Experienced Researchers (fwd)

This memo from Leeds University European Office may be of wider interest
to researchers in industry and universities across Europe:

---------- Forwarded message ----------

> Dear Colleague
>
> As well as awarding fellowships to young researchers, the EU-funded Marie
> Curie scheme also funds two types of fellowships for
> **experienced researchers**.  This experienced researcher scheme
> is very much undersubscribed and the success rate is well in
> excess of 50%, so if you are planning a period of study leave in
> another European country in the near future the scheme is worth
> considering.
>
> Two strands are available:
>
> ********Industry/Academia Scheme
>
> This scheme allows university researchers to undertake research within a
> company; the scheme is also available to individuals working in
> industry who wish to spend time in a university.
>
> *********Less Favoured Regions Scheme
>
> This scheme encourages mobility between less favoured regions
> (see list at www.cordis.lu/improving) and other parts of the EU and
> Associated states.  The scheme funds stays at Universities in less
> favoured regions by researchers from other parts of Europe and vice
> versa.
>
> In the case of both schemes the following applies:
>
> - researcher must have 10 postdoc or 14 postgraduate years of
> experience and must have been working at their home institution
> for at least the last five years
>
> - the stay can be for between 3 and 12 months (short visits are
> allowable as long as they add up to a total of at least three months)
>
> - the applicant must be an EU citizen (or member of an associated
> state) and be proposing to undertake research in an eligible
> country *other than their own* , and must have agreement of proposed
> host
>
> - funding covers salary costs plus bench fees
>
> The next deadline for this scheme is 13 September 2000
>
> Further information available from the LeedsU European Office www site
>
> http://www.leeds.ac.uk/external-affairs/european/restrict/fellows.htm
>
> or http://www.mariecurie.org/
>


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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:08:10 +0200
Subject: Appel: EKAW'2000 workshop ontologies and texts
Message-ID: <THU.6.JUL.2000.170810.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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



        _______________________________________

    CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION


    !!!!!!!! EXTENDED DEADLINE !!!!!!

      Paper submissions : July, 14th

        _______________________________________

Ontologies and texts
Workshop during the EKAW'2000 conference
Juan-Les-Pins (France), October 2nd 2000
http://www.irit.fr/wsontologies2000

Ontology design remains a difficult and challenging problem. Most of the
current research studies and papers focus on the technical problems
raised by the representation and structuring of knowledge in the
ontology. Many works are also devoted to the problem of formalization
and reusability of ontologies. More recently, new interests bore on the
influence of the target application on the task of designing an
ontology.

In this workshop, we concentrate on ontology design considered as a
process stemming from knowledge sources to a structured conceptual
model. Among all knowledge sources (human experts, existing ontologies
and texts), we pay special interest to texts (technical documentation,
interview transcripts, handbooks and so on).

We claim that texts are an important source of knowledge for any kind of
application, in particular because most of the texts contain shared
and stabilized knowledge among a community of specialists. Moreover, NLP
tools are mature enough to be
worth being integrated in knowledge engineering methods. Available
linguistics results (principles and techniques) are also relevant for
building semantic networks and ontologies from texts. In spite of
such potential values, knowledge acquisition from texts for ontology
design is hardly studied. We assert that
text analysis could significantly improve the efficiency of the process
of ontology building, as well as the quality and the relevance of the
resulting ontologies.

We wish to stress that knowledge engineering is ready to face a major
evolution by integrating texts as knowledge sources and mainly by giving
a new status to concepts and linguistic data. Our aim is to discuss
these assertions within the community as long as several teams have been
experiencing practical work in ontology design and theoritical
reflexions on the topic for many years.

Technical and theoretical issues to be discussed at the workshop
include, but are not limited to:

Texts as knowledge sources

 - What kind of knowledge can be acquired from which class of texts ?
shared and stabilized domain knowledge versus individual know-how
 - Complementarity of analysing texts, interviewing domain experts and
reusing existing ontologies
 - The expert's role in a text centered view : from experts' knowledge
elicitation to model validation by domain specialists.
 - Typology of data that can be acquired from these knowledge sources,
their status and role in a domain model or an ontology.

Linguistic resources for ontology design

 - Mixing textual or linguistic information and conceptual information in

ontologies : should a conceptual model always include a linguistic
dimension ?
 - Connections between texts and conceptual models, texts and ontologies
 - The nature of the term-concept relation ; justifications of a concept
definition.
 - The status of linguistics in knowledge engineering.
 - What kind of linguistics is needed ? Conceptual semantics vs. textual
semantics.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools

 - What kinds of NLP tools can prove useful ?
 - How much should they be adapted to match the needs of knowledge
acquisition and ontology design ? How is the use of these tools
influenced by the target application ?
 - How to define and select the data they should apply on ?
 - How to combine their use with the purpose of conceptual modelling and
ontology design ?
 - Role and limitations of general lexical resources (like WordNet) vs.
specific terminological resources (like Terminological Knowledge Bases,
thesaurus and so on)

Call for papers
---------------
Papers should be no longer than 2500 words. They can either report
research works, practical experiments or discuss more theoretical
questions. Papers will be published in paper-back proceedings
distributed to the workshop participants and available on-line after
September, 21st. Modifications of accepted papers will
not be required.
Please use the same format as the one suggested for the conference.

Send papers by email (html AND ps files) to Brigitte BIEBOW
and Sylvie SZULMAN (Brigitte.Biebow at lipn.univ-paris13.fr,
(Sylvie.Szulman at lipn.univ-paris13.fr) before July 14th

Participation conditions
-------------------------
Anyone wishing to take part in this workshop should send
a one page abstract about its motivations to attend the workshop
and/or its recent works related to the workshop topic.
This page should also contain a question-issue to be debated
during the workshop.
Send your text to Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (aussenac at irit.fr)
before September 18th.

Calendar
-------------
Paper submissions : July, 14th
Acceptance information : September, 7th
Motivation texts : Sept, 18th
Final paper : Sept, 21st

Scientific Organisation
--------------------------------
This workshop is promoted by the French working group on Terminology and
Artificial Intelligence (TIA) (web site
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA)
to which the chairwomen belong. Most of the issues mentionned as topics
reflect the group scientific debates and orientations.

Workshop chairs :

Sylvie SZULMAN (LIPN,  Paris)
Brigitte BIEBOW (LIPN, Paris)
Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse)

Local organisation
--------------------------
Rose DIENG (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
Olivier CORBY (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
http://sophia.inria.fr/EKAW2000

Program Committee
-----------------------------
Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse,  F)
Roberto BASILI (University Tor Vergata, Roma,I)
Richard BENJAMINS (Univ. Amsterdam, NL)
Brigitte BIEBOW (LIPN, Paris, F)
Rose DIENG (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, F)
Dieter FENSEL (Vrije Universiteit, NL)
Asuncion GOMEZ PEREZ (UPM, Madrid, S)
Gregory GREFENSTETTE (Xerox Research Center Europe, Meylan, F)
Nicola GUARINO (Italian National Research Council, I)
Udo HAHN (Frieburg University, G)
Adeline NAZARENKO (LIPN, Paris, F)
Fran?ois ROUSSELOT (LIIA, Strasbourg, F)
Sylvie SZULMAN (LIPN - CNRS, Paris)
Michael USCHOLD (Boeing, USA)
Gertjan Van HEIJST (Kenniscentrum CIBIT, Utrecht, NL)
Bernard VICTORRI (ENS, Paris, F)

Registration information
----------------------------------
Registration information will be available on the EKAW web site
(http://sophia.inria.fr/EKAW2000)

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Jul  6 15:08:51 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:08:51 +0200
Subject: Appel: GL2001
Message-ID: <THU.6.JUL.2000.170851.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Pierrette Bouillon <Pierrette.Bouillon at issco.unige.ch>


First Call for Papers GL2001

1st International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon

Organizers:
Pierrette Bouillon (ISSCO/TIM, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Kyoko Kanzaki (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)

Date:
April 27-29

Location:
University of Geneva,
Geneva,
Switzerland

Topic:
The aim of this workshop is to bring together diverse
contributions in philosophy, linguistics, computer science and
lexicography to explore the lexicon from the point of view of
generativity. The discussions will be centered, but are not limited
to, the newly emerging view of Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovky,
1995).

- Philosophical Foundations of a Generative Approach
- Representation of Word Meaning
- Generative Lexicon Theory
- Analysis of Linguistic Phenomena
- Building Lexical Resources
- Exploiting Lexical Resources in NLP Applications
- Lexical Rules
- Framework for Lexical Semantics
- Critical Perspectives

The conference will be held over a period of two and a half days. Long
(45 min) and short (20 min) presentations are
foreseen.  Invited speakers include James Pustejovsky, Brandeis
University.

Submission procedure: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at
most 7 single-column pages (including references) using a 12' body
font size together with a separate page specifying the author's name,
affiliation, address, e-mail address, tittle and type of paper (long
or short). The papers should be submitted electronically (in
postscript, rtf or pdf format) to both:
pierrette.bouillon at issco.unige.ch and kanzaki at crl.go.jp.

Language: All the papers must be submitted and presented in
English. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the
workshop.

Important dates:
Paper due: October 16th, 2000
Acceptance/rejection notice: December 20th, 2000
Final version due: February 15th, 2001
Conference: April 27-29, 2001

Workshop Chairs:
Pierrette Bouillon
Kyoko Kanzaki

Program Committee:
Susan Armstrong (ISSCO/TIM, Geneva)
Federica Busa  (Lexeme, Inc, Boston)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa)
Ann Copestake (Center for the Study of Language and Information, Standford)
Laurence Danlos (University of Paris VII, Paris)
Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)
Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)
Jacques Jayez (EHESS-CELITH, Paris)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston)
Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse)
Pascale Sebillot (Irisa, Rennes)
Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Seattle)
(others to be confirmed)

For any information, please contact:

Pierrette Bouillon
ISSCO/TIM
40, bvd du Pont-d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)
email : Pierrette.Bouillon at issco.unige.ch
Tel: +41/22/705 86 79
Fax: +41/22/705 86 89
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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:09:59 +0200
Subject: Appel: CLIN2000
Message-ID: <THU.6.JUL.2000.170959.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jorn Veenstra <jorn.veenstra at kub.nl>


Call for Papers

                              CLIN 2000
                        Eleventh CLIN Meeting
            (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands)
 Held in conjunction with BNAIC 2000, The Belgian-Dutch AI Conference
                     (http://ilk.kub.nl/bnaic00/)

                       Friday, 3 November, 2000
                      Computational Linguistics
                          Tilburg University

We are happy to announce the eleventh CLIN meeting, which will be
hosted by department of Computational Linguistics at Tilburg
University. The languages of the conference will be Dutch and English.

Keynote Lecture:

Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
"Very Large Lexicons"

Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of
computational linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, machine translation, computational
lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, information
retrieval, information extraction, text mining, knowledge
representation, corpus-oriented methods, etc.).

Authors should submit an abstract in English or Dutch (preferably by
e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should contain:

- a title
- your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address
- a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines)

You can send your abstract to:   clin2000 at kub.nl

or, if email is not possible, to:

CLIN
2000

Computational Linguistics
Tilburg University
PO box 90153
5000 LE  Tilburg
The Netherlands

Deadline for submission:     1 September 2000.
Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2000.

The local organisation committee of this year's meeting consists of
Walter Daelemans, Khalil Sima'an, Jorn Veenstra, and Jakub Zavrel.

A volume with proceedings of the tenth CLIN meeting (held 10 December
1999, in Utrecht) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend
to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN 2000 before CLIN
2001. Papers for these proceedings will have to be written in English;
they will be reviewed by a committee to be appointed in due time.

This and future information about CLIN will be made available via
the CLIN home page:
http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/clin.html
or the CLIN2000 home page:
http://ilk.kub.nl/clin2000






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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:10:02 +0200
Subject: Projets: SENSEVAL-2
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From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>


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         SENSEVAL-2
    CALL FOR INTEREST IN PARTICIPATION

We are considering running SENSEVAL exercises in at least the
following languages:

   * French
   * English
   * Italian
   * Japanese
   * Spanish
   * Danish
   * German
   * Estonian
   * Swedish
   * Korean
   * Chinese

>>From this call, we hope to gauge the level of interest in each of
these exercises.

If you are interested in submitting a sense disambiguation system to
SENSEVAL-2, please send email to senseval-coord at sharp.co.uk and say
which language(s) you are interested in.  Expressing your interest now
is NOT binding; it is just to help us in allocating our resources.

Please get back to us by July 10, 2000.

The SENSEVAL web site is:
  http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/senseval/
where you can find the SENSEVAL-2 schedule:
  http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/senseval/SENSEVAL2/schedule.txt

Thank you,
Phil Edmonds & Adam Kilgarriff
SENSEVAL-2 Coordinators

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 18 13:51:17 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:51:17 +0200
Subject: Appel: WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JUL.2000.155117.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>

                       ************************
                          ACL 2000 Workshop
                       ************************

                   WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY

   Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group for the Lexicon (SIGLEX)

                   October 2000 (following ACL'2000)
            Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

           http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/siglex00.html

With an increasingly global economy and the explosive growth of the
"World" in "World Wide Web", the computational linguistics community
is faced as never before with the challenges and opportunities of
multi-linguality. At the same time, the community has returned with
renewed enthusiasm to problems of word meaning, especially the
delineation and discrimination of word senses.  An intimate
relationship between the two issues is becoming apparent -- for
example, in the consideration of translation equivalence in parallel
corpora, the construction of multilingual ontologies, and the
examination of senses in relation to specific natural language
applications such as machine translation, information retrieval,
summarization, etc. The issue of multi-lingual approaches to sense
distinctions was also a central topic of discussion at the first
SENSEVAL conference in 1998, and is one of the areas to be covered at
SENSEVAL-2 (to be held in Spring 2001).

This workshop is intended to address problems of word sense
disambiguation and delineation of appropriate sense distinctions, with
specific emphasis on approaches that involve more than one language
and the ways in which observations about cross-linguistic equivalence
affect our consideration of sense divisions in the individual
languages. More generally, we seek to foster discussion and exchanges
of insight in any area of computational linguistics where a
non-monolingual approach to word sense issues is being taken.

Some example topics include

  o multi-lingual sense inventories and systems, e.g. EuroWordNet,
    MikroKosmos
  o use of parallel corpora in investigating word sense issues
  o word senses and cross-language information retrieval
  o word senses and machine translation
  o comparative lexical semantics

We will also consider submission on issues in mono-lingual lexical
semantics relevant to sense distinctions, but priority will be given
to papers addressing multi-lingual approaches.




Where and when
===============

The workshop will be held for a full day on either October 7 or 8,
following the main ACL conference October 3-6.  The venue will be
the same as for ACL 2000.

Submissions
===========

Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Papers may
not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references).
They must be received by July 31, 2000, in hard copy (4 copies)
OR postscript OR rtf format.  Electronic submissions should be sent to
siglex-ws at cs.vassar.edu. Hard copies should be mailed to:

SIGLEX Workshop Submission
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0250
USA


Important Dates
===============

Submission (of full-length paper)              August 10
Acceptance notice                              August 31
Camera-ready paper due                      September 15
Workshop date                             October 7 or 8


Organizers
==========

Nancy Ide, Vassar College
Charles Fillmore, UC Berkeley and ICSI
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University


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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:50:44 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JUL.2000.155044.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

__________________________________________________________

1/ From: danlos at linguist.jussieu.fr (Laurence Danlos)
   Subject: MC, Linguistique Informatique, Paris 7

2/ From:  Jeffrey P.Kaplan <jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Assist Prof. at San Diego State University,

3/ From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: Job offer in Text-To-Speech synthesis
__________________________________________________________


1/ From: danlos at linguist.jussieu.fr (Laurence Danlos)
   Subject: MC, Linguistique Informatique, Paris 7


Poste de Ma?tre de Conf?rences ? l'Universit? Paris 7

Profil : Linguistique Informatique

Le candidat assurera principalement des enseignements en Licence et
Ma?trise de Linguistique et Informatique ainsi que DESS de Traitement
automatique des langues (TAL). Les mati?res enseign?es seront soit en
informatique soit en TAL, avec un accent particulier sur la recherche
d'information, les m?thodes statistiques et les corpus.

Le candidat devra avoir une double  formation en Linguistique et
Informatique  et devra avoir une bonne exp?rience dans le domaine des
applications du TAL.

Le poste est ? pourvoir au 1er Septembre 2001.
Pour les candidats au recrutement, ATTENTION  ? la proc?dure de
qualification : consulter rapidement le site http://www.education.gouv.fr
pour avoir tous les d?tails et les dates limites  (vers D?cembre 2000).

Pour tout renseignement compl?mentaire, adressez-vous ?
Pascal.Amsili at linguist.jussieu.fr ou Laurence.Danlos at linguist.jussieu.fr

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2/ From:  Jeffrey P.Kaplan <jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu>
   Subject:  Comp Ling: Assist Prof. at San Diego State University,
             California USA


Rank of Job: assistant prof.
Areas Required: computational linguistics
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: San Diego State University
Department: Linguistics & Oriental Languages
State or Province: CA
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: none
Contact: Jeffrey P. Kaplan jkaplan at mail.sdsu.edu

Address for Applications:
Ling. Dept., San Diego State U.
San Diego
CA 92182-7727
USA

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

Subject to funding, the Linguistics and Oriental Languages Department of
San Diego State University invites applications for a tenure-track
faculty position in computational linguistics at the assistant professor
level.

Required:

Ph.D. in linguistics or related field; record of research or practice
in computational linguistics; interest and ability in helping develop
a newly launched computational linguistics program within a
linguistics department and in participating in a linguistics
curriculum.

The successful candidate will have strength in one or more of
the following areas:

speech and computational phonetics; statistical NLP; automatic
learning; computational modeling of language processing or language
learning; dialogue; generation; parsing; grammar formalisms.

Send applications to include cover letter, CV, transcripts, at least
three letters of recommendation, and sample publications to:
 Dr. Jeff Kaplan, Search Committee Chair,
 Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages,
        San Diego State University,
 San Diego, CA 92182-7727
    (phone: 619-594-5879).

The department will begin reviewing applications on September 15, 2000
and continue until the position is filled.

SDSU is an Affirmative-Action/Equal Opportunity/Title IX employer and
does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion,
national origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age, or
disability. Women, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities are
encouraged to apply.

__________________________________________________________

3/ From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: Job offer in Text-To-Speech synthesis


The Speech Synthesis team in France Telecom Research & Development
Center is looking for a one year full-time Research Engineer position,
beginning as soon as possible.
The job profile is described below :

Research and Development Engineer in charge of automatic prosodic
processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis.

Main missions :
? Contribute to the development of algorithmic solutions for automatic
prosody learning.
? Integrate improvements in the FTR&D Text-to-Speech system.

Main activities :
? Develop new prosodic modules for Text-to-Speech synthesis software.
? Interact with the group to specify and to develop new linguistic
modules for the FTR&D Text-to-Speech synthesis software
? Participate to the customisation of the system.
? Contribute in the survey on existing speech synthesis products and
services.

Qualifications required :
? Programming experience using C/C++
? Interest in computational linguistic
? Strong background in automatic speech processing
? Near-native in French

Location of Job
France Telecom R&D, Lannion (North Brittany) France

Contact :
St?phanie de TOURNEMIRE,  tel:+33 2 96 05 31 36
stephanie.detournemire at rd.francetelecom.fr
Thierry MOUDENC,  tel: + 33 2 96 05 16 59
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 18 13:53:34 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:53:34 +0200
Subject: Conf: Coling
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From: Michelle Carnell <Michelle.Carnell at dfki.de>

please post!!!---please post!!!---please post!!!---please post!!!

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COLING 2000 in EUROPE

http://www.coling.org

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION  *** REMINDER ***

It is my privilege to invite you to participate in the 18th
International Conference on Computational Linguistics.  COLING takes
place every two years under the auspices of the International Committee
on Computational Linguistices (ICCL). The conference attracts scientists
and engineers throughout the world to an exchange of original scientific
ideas, research methods and results in the field of computational
linguistics.

For the first time the biennial International Conference on
Computational Linguists will be hosted by more than one country. It will
take place in three cities in three neighbouring countries in the heart
of Europe: Saarbr?cken, Luxembourg and Nancy. COLING 2000 is supported
by the Charta of the SaarLorLux Universities, especially by the Centre
Universitaire in Luxembourg, the Universit? Nancy II, and the
Universit?t des Saarlandes.

The conference, tutorial and workshops will take place as follows:
- Tutorials: Nancy (29/30 July, 2000)
- Main Conference: Saarbr?cken (30 July - 4 August, 2000)
- Workshops: Luxembourg (5/6 August, 2000)

Bus transportation between the conference venues will be available.

The conference, tutorial and workshop language will be English.

COLING 2000 will be the ideal place to:

-  learn about the latest developments in the field
-  see demos of new research systems and products
-  study new trends and techniques in the tutorials
-  exhibit your language technologies for the 21st century
-  hire needed specialists before somebody else does

Keynote lectures will be presented by:

-  Angela Friederici, Max Planck Institute of  Cognitive Neuroscience,
Leipzig, Germany
-  Fernando Pereira, WhizBang! Labs, USA

In addition, please check out:

-  the conference programme ( http://www.coling.org/programme.html )
-  the workshop programme ( http://www.coling.org/workshops.html )
-  the tutorial programme ( http://www.coling.org/tutorials.html )

At the conference, we will provide space for announcing job openings, as
well as a sign-up desk and rooms for job interviews.

Check out our low conference fees: http://www.coling.org/reg.html .

To increase student participation, we have decided on very favourable
conference fees for bona fide students. Students who would still not be
able to attend for financial reasons, please contact us at:
org at coling.org. If you live and work in an economically disadvantaged
country and have no possibility of obtaining funding or if you are
experiencing special personal hardships, we will try to help.

Upon registering, we also offer assistance for accommodation.
Furthermore, we will also arrange for inexpensive student accommodation.

We believe you will also like our cultural program; the highlights will
be an all-day excursion to Strasbourg, France, and the conference
banquet.

I hope to see you all in Nancy, Saarbr?cken and Luxembourg

Hans Uszkoreit

Chair of Organization Committee

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 18 13:52:53 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:52:53 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI-2001
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From: Marcus Kracht <kracht at math.fu-berlin.de>


 [An HTML version of the Call for Proposals  will be available via the
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 Usual apologies apply if you receive multiple copies of this message.]


                         THIRD AND LAST CALL FOR PROPOSALS
    ---------------------------------

                           !! DEADLINE: July 23, 2000 !!


   Thirteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                               ESSLLI-2001
              August 13-24, 2001, Helsinki, Finland

                           CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and
Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation.
Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops
cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic,
Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language,
Language and Logic.  Previous summer schools have been highly successful,
attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has
developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for
students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of
Logic, Language and Information.  ESSLLI-2001 is organised under the
auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information
(FoLLI).

The ESSLLI-2001 Programme Committee invites proposals for foundational,
introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 13th
annual Summer School on a wide range of topics in the following fields:

  Logic                Language                Computation
  Language and Logic   Logic and Computation   Language and Computation

In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student Session. A
Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed separately.

The Programme Committee welcomes proposals in all of the above areas.


PROPOSAL SUBMISSION:
All proposals (subject: ESSLLI-2001) should be submitted by electronic
mail to the program chair, Marcus Kracht at <kracht at math.fu-berlin.de>,
in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible, but no later than July 23,
2000.  Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision
no later than September 15, 1999.  Proposers should follow the
guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that
deviate substantially will not be considered.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:
Anyone interested in lecturing or organising a workshop during
ESSLLI-2001, please read the following information carefully.


FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming
any background knowledge.  The number of foundational courses will be
4-6. They are intended for people from other disciplines to get a feel
for the problems and techniques of the area. Ideally, they should
allow experienced researchers from other fields to acquire the key
competences of neighbouring disciplines, thus encouraging the
development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Unlike
the introductory courses they may presuppose some experience with
scientific methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on
the issues that are germane to the area of the course.

Foundational courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers. They consist
of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course)
each session lasts 90 minutes.

 Timetable for Foundational Course Proposal Submission

    Jul  23, 2000: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep  15, 2000: Notification
    Nov  15, 2000: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                    information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun   1, 2001: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities
of the Summer School.  They are intended to equip students and young
researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and
techniques, The introductory courses in the three basic disciplines
should provide introductions to the field for non-specialists (an
introductory course on logic, for instance, should address linguists and
computer scientists, not logicians). Introductory courses in the
interdisciplinary fields, on the other hand, can build on knowledge of
the respective fields (an introductory course in computational
linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the
basics of linguistics and computation).

Introductory courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They consist
of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week
course), each session lasting 90 minutes.

Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the
course as compared to standard texts in the area.  For ease of reference
a list of standard texts will be made available electronically.

 Timetable for Introductory Course Proposal Submission

    Jul 23, 2000: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 2000: Notification
    Nov 15, 2000: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2001: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material

ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of
advanced Masters or PhD students.  Proposals for advanced courses should
specify the prerequisites in some detail.

Advanced courses are taught by 1 or max.  2 lecturers.  They consist of
five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course),
each session lasting 90 minutes.

  Timetable for Advanced Course Proposal Submissions

    Jul 23, 2000: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 2000: Notification
    Nov 15, 2000: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
                  information, course description and prerequisites
    Jun  1, 2001: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material


WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced
Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work.
A workshop has a theme. At most one organiser is paid.  The organisers
should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general
introduction in the first session.  They are also responsible for the
programme of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers.

Each workshop organiser will be responsible for producing a Call for
Papers for the workshop by November 15, 2000.  The call must make it
clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community.
It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for
the Summer School.

A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop) or ten
sessions (a two-week workshop).  Sessions are normally 90 min.

  Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions

    Jul 23, 2000: Proposal Submission Deadline
    Sep 15, 2000: Notification
    Nov 15, 2000: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers
    Dec  1, 2000: Send out Call for Papers
    Mar 15, 2001: Deadline for Papers (suggested)
    May  1, 2001: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested)
    May 15, 2001: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Programme
    Jun  1, 2001: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of
   Workshop notes
    Jun  1, 2001: Deadline for Final Workshop Programme


FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS:
Please submit your proposal in the following format:

Name:         ---  Name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.

Address:      ---  Contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.
                   Where possible, please include phone and fax
                   numbers.

Title:        ---  Title of proposed course/workshop.

Type:         ---  State whether this is a workshop, an foundational
                   course, an introductory course, or an advanced
                   course.

Section:      ---  Which of the  six sections (Language, Logic,
                   Computation, Logic & Computation, Language
                   & Computation or Language & Logic) does the
                   proposal belong to? Please just name one.

Description:  ---  A description of the proposed contents.
                   Not more than 150 words.

External      ---  State whether (and if so: how) you will be able to
funding:           find external funding to subsidise your travel and
                   accommodation expenses.

Further       ---  Any further information that is required by the
particulars:       above guidelines should be included here.


FINANCIAL ASPECTS:
Prospective lecturers and workshop organisers should be aware that all
teaching and organising at the summer schools is done on a voluntary
basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible.
Lecturers and organisers are not paid for their contribution, but are
reimbursed for travel and accommodation. In case of two lecturers, a
lump sum is paid to cover travel expenses. The splitting of the sum
is up to the lecturers.  (However, please note that the organisers
appreciate if, whenever possible, lecturers/organisers find
alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.)

Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School;
however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced
rate to be determined by the Organising Committee.

Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the
world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general guarantee only
to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe
to Helsinki. Exceptions will be made depending on the financial
situation.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  Marcus Kracht (chair)
  Attn: ESSLLI-2001
  II. Mathematisches Institut
  FU Berlin
  Arnimallee 3
  D - 14195 Berlin
  Germany
  Tel: +49 (30) 838 75445
  Fax: +49 (30) 838 75404
  Email: kracht at math.fu-berlin.de

       Bonnie Webber (Language)
      Jouko V??n?nen (Logic)
  Steffen H?lldobler (Computation and Logic)
      Claire Gardent (Language and Computation)
     Claude Kirchner (Computation)
    Michael Moortgat (Logic and Language)


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
     Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
  Email: pietarin at cc.helsinki.fi


FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
To obtain further information, please visit the web site for
ESSLLI-2001 <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2001/esslli-2001.html>.
For this year's summer school see the web site for
ESSLLI-2000 <http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2000/esslli-2000.html>.





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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 18 13:53:37 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:53:37 +0200
Subject: Publication: C&H Special Issue on SENSEVAL
Message-ID: <TUE.18.JUL.2000.155337.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>


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                   COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
                 Volume 34, Issue 1/2, April 2000


                        SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE
                                 on
           THE SENSEVAL WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION EXERCISE


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

Introduction to the Special Issue on SENSEVAL
     A. Kilgarriff, M. Palmer

Framework and Results for English SENSEVAL
     A. Kilgarriff, J. Rosenzweig

Framework and Results for French
     Frederique Segond

Senseval/Romanseval: The Framework for Italian
     Nicoletta Calzolari, Ornella Corazzari

Tagger Evaluation Given Hierarchical Tag Sets
     I. Dan Melamed, Philip Resnik

Peeling an Onion: The Lexicographer s Experience of Manual
Sense-Tagging
     Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Diane Nicholls

Lexicography and Disambiguation: The Size of the Problem
     Rosamund Moon

Combining Supervised and Unsupervised Lexical Knowledge Methods for
Word Sense Disambiguation
     E. Agirre, G. Rigau, L. Padro, J. Atserias

Word Sense Disambiguation Using Automatically Acquired Verbal
Preferences
     John Carroll, Diana McCarthy

A Topical/Local Classifier for Word Sense Identification
      Martin Chodorow, Claudia Leacock, George A. Miller

GINGER II: An Example-Driven Word Sense Disambiguator
      Luca Dini, Vittorio Di Tomaso, Frederique Segond

Word Sense Disambiguation by Information Filtering and Extraction
      Jeremy Ellman, Ian Klincke, John Tait

Large Scale WSD Using Learning Applied to SENSEVAL
      Paul Hawkins, David Nettleton

Word Sense Disambiguation Using the Classification Information Model
      Ho Lee, Hae-Chang Rim, Hungyun Seo

Word Sense Disambiguation with a Similarity-Smoothed Case Library
      Dekang Lin

Senseval: The CL Research Experience
      Kenneth C. Litkowski

Selecting Decomposable Models for Word-Sense Disambiguation:
The Grling-Sdm System
      Tom O Hara, Janyce Wiebe, Rebecca Bruce

Simple Word Sense Discrimination
      Keith Suderman

Memory-Based Word Sense Disambiguation
      Jorn Veenstra, Antal van den Bosch, Sabine Buchholz, Walter
      Daelemans, Jakub Zavrel

Hierarchical Decision Lists for Word Sense Disambiguation
      David Yarowsky

Using Semantic Classification Trees for WSD
      C. de Loupy, M. El-Beze, P.-F. Marteau

Dictionary-Driven Semantic Look-up
      Frederique Segond, Elisabeth Aimelet, Veronika Lux, Corinne Jean

ROMANSEVAL: Results for Italian by SENSE
      Stefano Federici, Simonetta Montemagni, Vito Pirrelli

Do Word Meanings Exist?
      Patrick Hanks

Consistent Criteria for Sense Distinctions
      Martha Palmer

Cross-Lingual Sense Determination: Can It Work?
      Nancy Ide

Is Word Sense Disambiguation Just One More NLP Task?
      Yorick Wilks


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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:21:12 +0200
Subject: Appel:  ASIALEX 2001
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JUL.2000.172112.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: <jtsohn at sentence.yonsei.ac.kr>


The 2001 Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX)
Biennial Conference
August 8-10, 2001
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea


CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
AND
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX) was inaugurated at the
Dictionaries in Asia conference at Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology in 1997. Its first biennial conference was hosted at Guangdong
University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, in 1999, by the first Asialex
president and president of the university, Professor Huang Jianhua, and was
attended by two hundred scholars from Asia and Europe. The current
president, Professor Sangsup Lee, chairs the organizing committee of the
second biennial conference, due on 8-10 August 2001, at the Center for
Linguistic Informatics Research at Yonsei University, which he directs.

The general theme of the ASIALEX 2001 Conference is "Asian Bilingualism and
the Dictionary." These subjects have special aspects in the Asian context
which have not received sufficient consideration so far and whose
significance is
growing very fast in this age of accelerated cross-cultural, informatic
contact between the peoples of Asia and the rest of the world. Other topics
related to the dictionary are also welcome. Following is a list of major
topics suggested by the organizing committee:

  1. Corpus Linguistics, Lexicology, Lexicography
  2. Computational Lexicography
  3. Lexicographical Processes and Methods
  4. Language Education and Dictionary
  5. Terminography
  6. Lexicographical Problems in Asian Bilingualism

Renowned scholars and lexicographers will speak at plenary sessions. The
languages used will be Korean and English.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
======================

Authors should first summit abstracts of papers for reviewing.
The submitted abstract should include:

  - title
  - author(s) name(s)
  - affiliation(s)
  - complete mailing addresses
  - e-mail address for correspondence
  - abstract in English (300-500 words)

E-mail submission is also acceptable. The e-mail submission should be in
such popular formats as ASCII plain text, PDF, PostScript, MS Word, RTF.

All submissions (hardcopy and electronic) and questions regarding
submissions should be sent to:

  ASIALEX 2001 Submissions
  Center for Linguistic Informatics Research
  Yonsei University
  Seoul 120-749 Korea
  e-mail: asialex at lex.yonsei.ac.kr

Notification of receipt will be e-mailed shortly after receipt.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The layout
details for camera-ready paper soon will be announced through the
conference web site (http://asialex.yonsei.ac.kr), which is still under
construction.


DEADLINES
==========

  - Abstract submission: October 31, 2000.
  - Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2000.
  - Final camera-ready copies: April 30, 2001.


CONTACTS
=========

All inquiries concerning the conference should be made to the following
address.

  Dr Jitae Sohn
  Center for Linguistic Informatics Research
  (Lexicographical Center)
  Yonsei University
  Seoul 120-749 Korea

  E-mail: asialex at lex.yonsei.ac.kr
  Phone: +82-2-361-3511, 4197 (+82-2-2123-3511, 4197 after September 1,
2000)
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 25 15:21:20 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:21:20 +0200
Subject: Conf: Fifth TELRI Seminar
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JUL.2000.172120.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Milena Slavcheva <slavchev at mx300e.ids-mannheim.de>


Fifth TELRI Seminar
Corpus Linguistics: How to Extract Meaning from Corpora
22-24 September 2000
Ljubljana, Slovenia

The preliminary programme and regularly updated information about the
seminar can be obtained from:
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 25 15:21:24 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:21:24 +0200
Subject: Conf: DCAGRS
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JUL.2000.172124.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Helmut Jurgensen <helmut at csd.uwo.ca>


LAST NOTIFICATION:

DCAGRS (Decsriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related
Systems) will be held in London, Canada, from July 27 to July 29.

For the programme please visit www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs

DCAGRS is part of a triconference event Half Century of Automaton Theory.
For information  about this unique set of conferences visit
     www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs/triconf.html


The event includes CIAA, the succeessor conference to WIA, on the
implementation
and application of automata and a special day with pioneers of theoretical
computer science.

Travel information and touristic information is available at these
sites as well.


Right after the conferences there will be a workshop on codes on
July 31 and August 1. Information about this workshop will be mailed
separately.

Helmut Jurgensen

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 25 15:21:17 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:21:17 +0200
Subject: Conf: LLL-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JUL.2000.172117.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Claire Nedellec <Claire.Nedellec at lri.fr>


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                           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


          2nd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP

                  13 - 14 September 2000, Lisbon - Portugal

                    Co-located with ICGI and CoNLL


                    http://www.lri.fr/~cn/LLL-2000/

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         EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE 31th of July 2000

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The goal of  this workshop is to bring  together researchers from many
subfields of AI  who are working on machine  learning from text, while
emphasizing the logic-based learning techniques and algorithms.

LLL-2000 is co-organized with the  International Conference  on Grammar
Inference (ICGI, http://vinci.inesc.pt/icgi-2000/) and the Conference
on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL, http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2000/).

Programme
---------

The  programme includes  joint  sessions with  CoNLL  and ICGI,  paper
presentations and invited talks.

Invited speakers:

- Dan Roth (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

- J?rg-Uwe Kietz (Rentenanstalt / Swiss Life, Z?rich)


The  papers  selected  for  presentation  will  appear  in  the  joint
CoNLL-LLL proceedings published by Omni Press.

The preliminary programme can be found at
http://www.lri.fr/~cn/LLL-2000/programme.html


Programme chair
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  Claire N?dellec
  LLL workshop
  LRI, Bat 490                           e-mail: cn at lri.fr
  Universit? Paris-Sud                   Tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 66 26
  F-91405 Orsay                          Fax: +33 (0)1 69 15 65 86
  FRANCE


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Jul 25 15:21:22 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:21:22 +0200
Subject: Conf: ECAI-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.25.JUL.2000.172122.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


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


--------------  FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION  ---------------------

                     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

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         LATE REGISTRATION DEADLINE 1st of August 2000

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Organized by
German Informatics Society (GI) and
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)

Hosted by
Humboldt University Berlin


    In this special turn of the century we invite you to  celebrate
  ECAI 2000 in Berlin.  Being  the  fourteenth in a very successful
  series  of  European  Conferences  on   Artificial  Intelligence,
  ECAI 2000  will  offer a unique opportunity to bring industry and
  academics together to explore the  full  spectrum  of  Artificial
  Intelligence,  from theory and  methodology to its application in
  commercial systems.

    Respond to the call of the German Informatics Society (GI)  and
  the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial  Intelligence,
  the world's largest umbrella organization for AI,  and meet well-
  known AI experts at Humboldt University Berlin, a University that
  can proudly look back on almost 200 years  of  tradition  and  29
  associated Nobel prize winners.

    Since the year 2000 is a special year, we will make ECAI 2000 a
  very special conference.  ECAI 2000 gathered 443 submissions from
  which, however, only 139 have  been  accepted  for  presentation.
  Although the majority of papers comes from  Europe,  there  is  a
  significant number of papers  from  Australia,  Asia,  and  North
  America,  leading  to  a  total  of  42  contributing  countries.
  Furthermore,  ECAI  2000  comprises  six  invited  talks plus one
  public talk given by distinguished scientists, master-class  lec-
  tures in 10 tutorials and serious discussions of hot new research
  topics in 29 workshops.

    The real success of Artificial Intelligence will be measured by
  the applications that use the technology rather than the  techno-
  logy itself.  For the first time,  ECAI comprises the Prestigious
  Applications of Intelligent Systems  sub-conference  (PAIS 2000),
  which is the first major  European  showcase of beneficial  solu-
  tions for industry and commerce based on AI technologies.

    ECAI and PAIS are accompanied by an exhibition concept that re-
  flects AI's history, its gaining grounds in the 20th century  and
  its progress paths envisioned into the 21st century. We also plan
  to have a rather unusual sidetrack meant  to  attract layman such
  that ECAI 2000  becomes an event in Berlin and not  only  one  of
  diverse scientific congresses hardly noticed by the public. In so
  far,  we aim at presenting  AI on ECAI 2000 in a very broad scope
  in order to show its relation to  other  classical  and  advanced
  IT topics.

    In the following we will present a short glance at the  program
  of ECAI 2000. We will also provide some information on  registra-
  tion deadlines and fees.  More  detailed information is available
  on the conference home page at

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    Do not miss this opportunity.  Register  now  and  be cordially
  welcome at ECAI 2000 in Berlin!


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

    1    Aug  2000       Late Registration Deadline
   20-25 Aug  2000       ECAI/PAIS 2000


-------------
INVITED TALKS
-------------

  Piero P. Bonissone
    General Electric, USA
    Corporate Research and Development

    "Hybrid Soft Computing: Where are we going?"


  Patrick Doherty
    Linkoeping University, Sweden
    Artificial Intelligence and
    Integrated Computer Systems Division

    "A Bird's-Eye View of the
     WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project"


  Daniele Nardi
    Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
    Artificial Intelligence Research Group

    "Artificial Intelligence in RoboCup"


  Bernhard Nebel
    Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
    Artificial Intelligence Research Group

    "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning -
     The Theoretical Side of AI"


  Luc Steels
    Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France
    and
    Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
    Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

    "The Emergence of Grammar in
     Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents"


  Mark Wallace
    Imperial College, UK
    ICL and IC-Parc

    "Constraint Programming -
     Applications, Algorithms, Languages"


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PUBLIC TALK
-----------

  H. Van Dyke Parunak
    Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, USA
    Center for Electronic Commerce

    "Assembling Artificial Societies:
     Missing Pieces and Left-Over Parts"


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TUTORIALS
---------

  T1: Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence: An Introduction
    M. Dorigo
    http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo

  T2: Stochastic Search Algorithms
    H. H. Hoos, T. Stuetzle
    http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-stoch

  T3: AI Techniques for Knowledge Management
    S. Decker, S. Staab
    http://kmtutorial.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

  T4: Solving and Programming with Soft Constraints:
    Theory and Implementation
    F. Rossi, P. Codognet
    http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/ecai2000-tut.html

  T5: Empirical Methods for Computer Science
    P. Cohen, I. Gent, T. Walsh

  T6: Knowledge Markup Techniques
    H. Boley, S. Decker, M. Sintek
    http://www.SemanticWeb.org/knowmarktutorial

  T7: Applying Automatic Text Generation
    M. Stede, L. Wanner
    http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~stede/ecaitutorial.html

  T8: Rational Action in Autonomous Agents
    S. Parsons, M. Wooldridge

  T9: Seeking Information: Methods from Information Retrieval and
    Artificial Intelligence
    D. Fensel, M. Lalmas
    http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/ECAI.html

  T10: Neural Networks and Structured Knowledge
    F. Kurfess
    http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/franz


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WORKSHOPS
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  W1: 14th Workshop on Planning and Configuration (PuK 2000)
    http://www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~sauer/puk2000/index.html

  W2: Configuration
    http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/pdmg/ECAI2000WS

  W4: Cognitive Robotics
    http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/LuFG/cogrob2000

  W5: Current Issues in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
    http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~hans/spacetime

  W6: Local Search for Planning & Scheduling
    http://www.ai-center.com/events/ecai-2000-ws

  W7: 2nd ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and
      Artificial Intelligence (BESAI 2000)
    http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/besai/besai2000.html

  W8: Scientific Reasoning in AI and Philosophy of Science
    http://www.compulog.org/workshops/ecai

  W9: Application of Ontologies and Problem Solving Methods
    http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/index.html

  W10: Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 00)
    http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00

  W11: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory
    http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2000-OM/call.html

  W13: Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios in Logistics
    http://www.tzi.de/ecai00-mas

  W15: Foundations of Connectionist-Symbolic Integration:
       Representation, Paradigms, and Algorithms
    http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/ECAI2000

  W16: Machine Learning for Information Extraction
    http://ecate.itc.it:1024/cirave/ecai-workshop.html

  W18: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB-2000)
    http://www-lti.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/KRDB2000

  W19: Applied Semiotics: Control Problems (ASC2000)
    http://www.iitp.ru/asc2000

  W20: Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging
Market
    http://www.uni-bremen.de/~sppraum/sr00.htm

  W21: Workshop on Bayesian and Causal Networks: From Inference to Data
Mining
    http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/CaNew2000.html

  W22: Computational Dialectics:
       Models of Argumentation, Negotiation and Decision Making
    http://www.philos.rug.nl/~gerard/cd2000

  W23: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000)
    http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000

  W24: Ontology Learning
    http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

  W25: Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints
    http://www.iiia.csic.es/ecai2000

  W26: Analysis and Modelling of Collaborative Learning Interactions
    http://collide.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/ecai-2000

  W27: Machine Learning in Computer Vision (MLCV)
    http://www.di.uniba.it/~malerba/ws-ecai2000

  W28: Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations
    http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jonker/masho-ecai2000

  W29: Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems
    http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html

  W30: Flexible Strategies for Maintaining Knowledge Containers
    http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/mkc-ws

  W31: Knowledge-Based Systems for Model-Based Engineering
    http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/ecai2000-kbsmbe

  W32: Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2000)
    http://www.eml.org/aims2000

  W34: Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence
    http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-empai


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REGISTRATION
------------

    The details given here are for your information  only.  To  re-
  gister for ECAI 2000,  its tutorials  and workshops and to book a
  hotel please use the forms provided on our home page.

    Prices are given in Euro (EUR) and Deutsche Mark (DM).  To  re-
  ceive the reduced fee as a member of an ECCAI member  society  or
  being a member of GI, please provide evidence of membership (e.g.
  membership card) and send  it  together  with  your  registration
  form. If you are a student, please provide proof on your status.

  ECAI 2000 CONFERENCE (PAIS 2000 included)

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  Non-Member          EUR 510 / DM 997.47   EUR 570 / DM 1114.82

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                      (until August 1st)    (after August 1st)
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  Member              EUR 220 / DM 430.28   EUR 260 / DM 508.52

  Non-Member          EUR 270 / DM 528.07   EUR 310 / DM 606.31

  Student/Member      EUR 110 / DM 215.14   EUR 140 / DM 273.82

  Student/Non-Member  EUR 120 / DM 234.70   EUR 150 / DM 293.37


  WORKSHOPS (each)

  There is a flat fee for each workshop:  EUR 50 / DM 97.79

  Workshop participants must register for the main ECAI conference.
  No extra charge for late/on-site workshop registrations.


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