From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May  2 17:44:35 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:44:35 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAY.2000.194435.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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1/ From: Alain Couillault <Alain.Couillault at lexiquest.fr>
   Object : Annonces de postes

2/ From: "Rachel Gawron" <gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu>
   Subject: post

3/ From:  Helge Dyvik <helge.dyvik at lili.uib.no>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: Associate prof., U of Bergen

4/ From:  Karin Verspoor <karin at intelligenesis.net>
   Subject:  Computational Linguist: Senior Natural Language Engineer at
            Intelligenesis Corporation, New York USA

5/ From:  away at compapp.dcu.ie (Andy Way CA)
   Subject:  NLP/Computational Linguistics: Senior
            Lecturer/Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer, Dublin City University
___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Alain Couillault <Alain.Couillault at lexiquest.fr>
   Object : Annonces de postes


 
LexiQuest (anciennement Erli) , société française spécialisée dans les
produits TALN pour la recherche documentaire et les applications dans le
domaine du Knowledge Management, du text mining et de l'internet, recherche
de nouveaux collaborateurs pour rejoindre son département Recherche &
Développement.
 
LexiQuest compte une centaine de collaborateurs en Europe et aux Etats-Unis
et développe des produits en 5 langues. Pour ces deux postes, à pourvoir à
Paris et ou New-York, l'anglais est indispensable. La connaissance d'au
moins une autre langue est souhaitée :
 
1. un/une responsable Produit : il/elle aura pour mission, notamment,
d'assurer le contrôle de qualité, le packaging et le suivi de la vie des
produits en coordination avec les équipes de développement, de marketing, de
vente et avant-vente de la société.
 
Linguiste ou spécialiste GED ou internet, disposant d'une expérience
similaire ou de chef de projet d'au moins 5 ans. Anglais indispensable.
 
2. un/une ingénieur qualité : il/elle aura pour mission de définir les
méthodes et d'effectuer les tests de qualité linguistique pour les produits
développés par la société LexiQuest.
Titulaire d'un maîtrise en TALN ou dans un domaine connexe, il/elle possède
des compétences élémentaires des langages ou utilitaires tels que Perl, awk,
Grep, Java...
 
Pour ces deux postes, contactez :
Alain Couillault
alain.couillault at lexiquest.fr

                    LexiQuest S.A.
                    Le Méliès
                    261, rue de Paris
                    F - 93556 Montreuil cedex

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: "Rachel Gawron" <gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu>
   Subject: post


Senior Faculty Position:  Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins
University

The Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University is accepting
applications from scientists with a demonstrated commitment to the field of
cognitive science and a record of major scholarly contributions to the
cognitive science of language.  The candidate must conduct computational
research informed by generative linguistics, addressing problems in human
language processing and/or acquisition.  It is also desirable for the
candidate to hold broad interests in formal approaches to cognitive science,
and to conduct experimental research in psycholinguistics and/or
neurolinguistics.  We seek to make a tenured appointment at the rank of Full
Professor, but untenured appointments at the Associate or Assistant
Professor level will also be considered.  The position will commence on or
after January 1, 2001.  Please send a CV and representative
reprints/preprints to:  Search Committee, Department of Cognitive Science,
Krieger Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685.  Review of
applications will begin immediately, and continue until the position is
filled.  The Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative
Action employer.  Women and members of underrepresented minorities are
especially encouraged to apply.


___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Helge Dyvik <helge.dyvik at lili.uib.no>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: Associate prof., U of Bergen


   Preliminary job announcement at University of Bergen,
   ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

The University of Bergen will in May 2000 officially announce a
position in Computational Linguistics.  Since the deadline may be
short, this preliminary announcement gives candidates some more time
for preparing an application.

The vacancy concerns a newly created position as associate professor
at the Section for Linguistic Studies.  This tenure track position
offers possibilities for achieving full professorship.

Candidates for the position are expected to have an excellent record
of research and teaching in Computational Linguistics.  The successful
candidate will get important academic responsibilities in teaching,
research and research management.

The Section for Linguistic Studies currently has 7 permanent academic
staff, including 5 professors, and 7 temporary academic staff.  The
Section offers full study programmes in General Linguistics and in
Computational Linguistics and shorter programmes in Language
Technology and in Japanese.

The Section for Linguistic Studies aims at a high teaching and
research standard and cooperates with other institutions in local,
national and international projects.

Bergen is located in Western Norway and has a population of 220000.
The historical city is situated right at the sea and is surrounded by
seven mountains.

The Norwegian government has recently initiated strong support for
language technology initiatives.

The web page for announcements concerning the position is:
   http://www.hf.uib.no/i/LiLi/SLF/stilling/
An official job description and application procedures will be posted
on that URL in May.

-
Prof. Koenraad de Smedt    mailto:desmedt at uib.no
Universitetet i Bergen    tel: +47 5558-2052
http://fasting.hf.uib.no/~desmedt  fax: +47 5558-9354
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Helge J. Jakhelln Dyvik
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Section for Linguistic Studies
University of Bergen        Phone:    +47 55582261
Sydnesplass 7               Fax:      +47 55589354
N-5007 Bergen, Norway              E-mail: helge.dyvik at lili.uib.no
http://www.hf.uib.no/i/LiLi/SLF/Dyvik/Dyvik.html
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4/ From:  Karin Verspoor <karin at intelligenesis.net>
   Subject:  Computational Linguist: Senior Natural Language Engineer at
            Intelligenesis Corporation, New York USA


Rank of Job: Senior Natural Language Engineer
Areas Required: Computational Linguist
Other Desired Areas: Java, OO design
University or Organization: Intelligenesis Corporation
Department: Natural Language Engineering group
State or Province: New York
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: April 28, 2000 or until position is filled
Contact: Karin Verspoor karin at intelligenesis.net

Address for Applications:
50 Broadway
New York
NY 10004
USA

Intelligenesis, a development stage company with offices in New York
City, Silicon Valley, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, is pioneering a
new breed of business intelligence for the Internet economy that the
Wall Street Journal heralded as &#8220;a revolution in computing.&#8221;
To learn more about us, please visit our website at:
http://www.intelligenesis.net

Description:
The Natural Language group at Intelligenesis is currently seeking a
creative individual for immediate employment in our New York office.
The position will involve developing natural language processing modules
integrated with our artificial intelligence architecture, including
designing, documenting, coding, and performing intelligence evaluations
of Java language code in a team environment.


Background Requirements:
- advanced degree in Computational Linguistics or related discipline
- Experience with NL query processing and automatic recognition of the
        semantics of queries
- information retrieval and/or information extraction experience
- Java or C++ programming skills, and object oriented design experience

Additional desirable skills:
- familarity with database querying
- statistical NLP and robust processing experience
- knowledge of machine learning techniques
- text mining experience

Location Requirements: This position will be based in New York City, and
requires travel to the New York office a minimum of two days/week.

Compensation includes salary commensurate with experience and subsidized
health benefits.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume (in
Microsoft Word or text format), including salary history and
availability to karin at intelligenesis.net, or fax to 1-212-324-3001
(attention: Karin Verspoor). Please be sure to put the name of the job
you are applying for in the subject area of your email, or on the cover
page of your fax. No phone calls please.

I will be available from April 29 - May 4 at the NAACL conference in
Seattle, and am interested in conducting interviews of qualified
candidates there.  Please let me know in advance if you would like to
schedule a time to meet to speak about the company and your background,
or look for me there.

Dr. Karin Verspoor
Director, Natural Language Engineering
Intelligenesis Corp.
karin at intelligenesis.net
fax (212) 324 3001

___________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  away at compapp.dcu.ie (Andy Way CA)
   Subject:  NLP/Computational Linguistics: Senior
            Lecturer/Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer, Dublin City University


The School of Computer Applications at Dublin City University, Ireland
seeks to fill vacancies at Senior Lecturer, Lecturer and Assistant
Lecturer level in the following areas:

   - NLP / Computational Linguistics

   - Computing (Business, Architecture, Graphics, Hardware,
     Quantitative Methods, Cryptography, Information Systems,
     Multimedia, Security, Parallel Computation, Software
     Engineering and Computing and Education)

Candidates should be well qualified academically, have an active
research commitment and the ability to communicate ideas clearly.

We are seeking qualified personnel in a number of areas including
NLP/computational linguistics. In this area we are particularly
interested in candidates with expertise in

   - Speech Processing
   - Statistical Approaches to NLP
   - Information Extraction
   - Corpus Processing

Strong candidates with expertise in other areas of NLP are also
encouraged to apply.

The School of Computer Applications has excellent facilities for
teaching and research. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate
degrees in computing and computational linguistics.

Salary scales are currently set at £ 35,815 - £ 47,207 p.a. for
Senior Lecturer, £ 26,100 - £ 42,838 p.a. for Lecturer and £
20,175 - £ 25,236 p.a. for Assistant Lecturer positions.

Application forms may be obtained from:

   The Personnel Office,
   Dublin City University,
   Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
   Tel: +353-(0)1-7045939
   Fax: +353-(0)1-7045500

Closing date for receipt of completed applications: 5th May, 2000.

Full job descriptions, facilities, information on courses and further
information on the School of Computer Applications are available at
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie , or by contacting the Head of Computer
Applications, Prof. Alan Smeaton: asmeaton at compapp.dcu.ie.  For
information on the computational linguistics programme please contact
Dr. Josef van Genabith: josef at compapp.dcu.ie



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May  2 17:48:12 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:48:12 +0200
Subject: Appel: AIMSA
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAY.2000.194812.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "ITS" <its at IRO.UMontreal.CA>

The Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
              Methodology, Systems, Applications
                       AIMSA 2000
        September 20-23, 2000     Varna,  Bulgaria
             http://www.iinf.bas.bg/AIMSA2000
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                   CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
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Important Dates
------------------------
Submission deadline:                May 6, 2000
Notification of acceptance:        June 3, 2000
Deadline for final papers:        June 19, 2000
Conference:               September 20-23, 2000
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The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the
presentation of AI research and development since 1984. The conference,
which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in
Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal
forum for international scientific exchange between Central/ Eastern
Europe and the rest   of   the world. AIMSA 2000 is sponsored by
ECCAI, European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.

Topics
----------
The Ninth Edition of AIMSA is focussed on Web processing, in particular:
Knowledge construction from the Web, Agents and communication languages,
Web-based documents and interfaces, Distance learning and electronic
commerce.

The conjectures to be debated at the AIMSA 2000 Conference are two:
* For each of the problems that Web processing poses in order to be
effective, some AI Method, System or Application may be used.
* The availability of the Web offers challenging opportunities to
developments in Artificial Intelligence.

The AIMSA'2000 topics of interest also include: Knowledge
Representation, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Based Systems, Machine
Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Reasoning Systems,
Distributed AI, Robotics, Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations, AI
Applications. This is not an exhaustive list, and papers from other AI
areas are also encouraged.

Programme Committee Chair
---------------------------------------
Stefano A. Cerri
Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de
Montpellier (LIRMM)
161, Rue Ada; 34392 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
E-mail: cerri at lirmm.fr
Voice: +33 (0) 467 41 86 62


Programme Committee
-------------------------------

Gennady Agre(Bulgaria)             Igor Kononenko(Slovenia)
Galia Angelova(Bulgaria)           Philippe Laublet(France)
Giuseppe Attardi(Italy)            Vincenzo Loia(Italy)
Ivan Bratko(Slovenia)              Stefan Trausan Matu(Romania)
Joost Breuker(The Netherlands)     Alessandro Micarelli(Italy)
John Campbell(United Kingdom)      Marc Nanard(France)
Cristina Conati(Canada)            Pavol Navrat(Slovakia)
Stefano A. Cerri(France)           Tim O'Shea(United Kingdom)
Christo Dichev(Bulgaria)           Julian Padget(United Kingdom)
Danail Dochev(Bulgaria)            Maria Teresa Pazienza(Italy)
Claude Frasson(Canada)             Rachel Pinkilton(United Kingdom)
Guy Gouarderes(France)             Allan Ramsay(United Kingdom)
Daniele Herin(France)              Jean Sallantin(France)
Philippe Jorrand(France)           Oliviero Stock(Italy)
Vladimir Khoroshevsky(Russia)      Paolo Traverso(Italy)
Alfred Kobsa(Germany)              Gerhard Weber(Germany)

Programme Committee Secretariat
-----------------------------------------------
Corine ZICLER
Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de
Montpellier (LIRMM)
161, rue Ada; 34392 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
E-mail: Corine.Zicler at lirmm.fr
Voice:  +33 (0) 467 41 85 03
Fax:    +33 (0) 467 41 85 00

Submissions
-----------------
Submissions should describe original research. Papers should be
submitted electronically to aimsa2000 at lml.bas.bg as an attached PDF or
compressed postscript file. Papers should be written in English and
should be no more than 10 pages in LNCS/LNAI format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/autors.html - which is the format
required for the final camera ready copy).  The body of message must
include: name(s) of the author(s), title of the paper, a set of
keywords, name, address, fax number and e-mail address of the contact
person. The Proceedings of AIMSA 2000 will be published by Springer in
the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series and will be
available at the conference.

Author Registration Policy
-----------------------------------
In order for an accepted paper to appear in the proceedings, at least
one of the authors must register for the conference by the deadline for
the camera-ready copy (19th June, 2000).

Selection of Papers
--------------------------
Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee.  Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of
ideas, clarity and significance of results, quality of presentation.

The program committee will select one paper of high quality among the
accepted papers.  The author(s) will receive the best paper award during
the conference.

Language
--------------
The official language of the conference is English.

Conference Location
------------------------------
AIMSA 2000 will be held at the oldest Bulgarian Black see resort - St.
Constantine. It is located in a beautiful natural park with a wonderful
combination of see coast, woods and hot mineral springs. The resort is
only 8 km from the town of Varna. Varna has an international and
domestic airport with flights to and from Sofia (the capital city of
Bulgaria). There are also direct flights connecting the major European
cities with Sofia and Varna. AIMSA'2000 will take place in the
International home of scientists "F. Joliot-Curie" standing in the
middle of the resort.


Organization
------------------
* Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association
* Institute of Information Technologies
* Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians
with the support of the Bulgarian Society for Cognitive Science and of
the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition.

 Local Organization Chair
----------------------------------
Danail Dochev
Institute of Information Technologies
Acad. G. Bonchev 29A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail:  dochev at iinf.bas.bg
Voice: (+ 359 2) 70 75 86
Fax:    (+ 359 2) 72 04 97


Registration
---------------
Please fill in and return this form by e-mail or surface mail to:

Danail Dochev - AIMSA 2000,
Institute for Information Technologies
Bl. 29A, Acad. G. Bonchev St.
1113 SOFIA - BULGARIA
E-mail: dochev at iinf.bas.bg
Phone: (359) (2) 707 586
Fax: (+359) (2) 720 497


 AIMSA 2000 REGISTRATION FORM
-----------------------------------

Surname:                          First Name:

Title:

Affiliation:

Correspondence Address:



Phone:                            Fax:

E-mail:

Date:                             Signature:


           Registration Fee  (in EURO)
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[   ]  180   (19 June 2000) Authors of accepted papers

         Early (1 August, 2000) Onsite
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[   ]   200     [   ] 250       ECCAI member
[   ]   230     [   ] 270       non member
[   ]   100     [   ] 150       student

* ECCAI members and full time students are required to enclose a
copy of a certificate.

The registration fee for AIMSA 2000 includes admission to the technical
sessions, a copy of the AIMSA 2000 proceedings, the welcome reception
and the conference diner.

Payment may be made by bank transfer to BULBANK Ltd, Kaloyan Branch,
Sofia 1000, Bulgaria, account No 340 004 3018
Institute of Information Technologies-BAS.
Bank code: 621 75 395. SWIFT CODE: BFTBBGSF.

Please make sure that banking fees will not be deduced from the amount
sent.

All money transfers must be free of charge for the recipient.

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May  2 17:48:16 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:48:16 +0200
Subject: Appel: ECAI 2000 WS on Balancing Reactivity (Extended deadline)
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAY.2000.194816.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Markus Hannebauer <hannebau at first.gmd.de>
Organization: GMD FIRST
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[Please apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.]

  Because of several requests and temporal overlaps with other impor-
tant events like IEEE Robotics and Automation we have set a

              NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: 10th of MAY 2000


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                 Final Call for Papers/Participation

 BALANCING REACTIVITY AND SOCIAL DELIBERATION IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

                         A Workshop at the
   14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2000)

            http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html

                  Berlin, Germany, August 22nd, 2000
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Important Dates
---------------

  Deadline for submission:             May 10th, 2000
  Notification:                        June 1st, 2000
  Deadline for camera-ready papers:   June 10th, 2000
  Workshop:                         August 22nd, 2000


Scope
-----

  Today's envisioned  applications of  intelligent systems in general
  and  multi-agent  systems  in particular confront  researchers  and
  developers with the difficulty of finding the right balance between
  reactive and socially deliberative behavior.  Reactive  systems are
  capable of adapting  very quickly to  unforeseen changes in the en-
  vironment and are hence said to  be  more robust and efficient.  On
  the other hand, they usually lack the necessary overview to produce
  behavior that can  compete with the results of  in-depth  reasoning
  techniques.  In  contrary  to  that,  socially deliberative systems
  allow  for  exploiting  environmental information and  coordination
  mechanisms to build up  through-thought  individual and even  team-
  oriented  strategies.  Though  their  problem-solving  results  are
  usually much better than in reactive systems,  deliberative systems
  are much more susceptible to  dynamic  environments  and often lack
  the potential for real-time computation.

  This workshop focuses on theoretical,  technical and practical work
  on balancing between these two extremes in the context of  collabo-
  rative work in multi-agent  systems.  Contributions from Artificial
  Intelligence as well as Robotics are welcome.

  Theoretical and technical topics of  interest include,  but are not
  restricted to:

    - Extension of reactive systems by cooperation

    - Teaching deliberative systems reactivity and real-time

    - Efficient coordination, cooperation and organization approaches

    - Anytime approaches and algorithms

    - Design and evaluation of hybrid multi-level agent architectures

    - Short-term, medium-term and long-term intentionality

    - Enriching group behavior by environmental,  opponent and social
      models

    - Individual and social adaptivity

  To keep the workshop focussed, we encourage practical contributions
  to be directed at:

    - Multi-agent problem solving (planning, scheduling, control ...)

      Real-world problems  often require  distributed solving strate-
      gies,  because of  natural distribution,  social competence and
      efficiency matters. Multi-agent approaches to such problems are
      said to be more robust than monolithic systems, but usually en-
      tail worse solutions. How can this be overcome by better balan-
      cing between reactive and deliberative behavior?

    - RoboCup

      RoboCup has proven to be a  great and challenging  benchmarking
      scenario both  to  Robotics  and  Artificial  Intelligence.  In
      RoboCup reactivity and real-time are a must, but social delibe-
      ration gets more and more important to match  the world's  lea-
      ding teams.  Hence, there is much research work to be done con-
      sidering the topics of this workshop.

      IMPORTANT:  Papers that focus on RoboCup-specific topics should
      make clear how the work could be applied to  other  domains  as
      well. We encourage you to pick at least one specific domain and
      argue that such is the case.


Submissions
-----------

  Participation in the workshop will be restricted to 30 persons.  We
  encourage active participation by inviting only  people  with  sub-
  mitted papers or with a single-page statement of interest,  reflec-
  ting the authors' concrete relation to the  field  and  topic.  All
  workshop participants must register for ECAI 2000.

  Informal pre-proceedings of the workshop will be published  in time
  to be available at the workshop.  Additionally, Springer-Verlag has
  committed to publish an edited version of the workshop  proceedings
  in its well-known Lecture Notes on Artificial  Intelligence  series
  (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).  Authors of selected
  papers will be asked to extend their articles for inclusion in this
  LNAI volume.

  Papers should be formatted according to the LNAI  style  guide  for
  authors  (refer  to  http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
  and should not exceed 12 pages.

  Papers should be submitted as Postscript-files and  additionally as
  pure Tex- and Eps-files via eMail to the contact person  named  be-
  low. Alternatively, send four copies of  your  paper  via  ordinary
  mail to the address of the contact person. Electronic submission is
  strongly preferred.

  Deadline for submission:               May 10th, 2000
  Notification:                          June 1st, 2000
  Deadline for camera-ready papers:     June 10th, 2000
  Workshop:                           August 22nd, 2000


Organizing committee
--------------------

  Markus Hannebauer (contact person)
    Planning and Optimization Laboratory
    Research Institute for Computer Architecture
      and Software Technology (FIRST)
    GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology

    Kekulestrasse 7, 12489 Berlin, Germany

    Tel.:  +49-30-6392 1866
    Fax.:  +49-30-6392 1805
    eMail: hannebau at first.gmd.de
    WWW:   www.first.gmd.de/~hannebau

  Jan Wendler
    Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    Department of Computer Science
    Humboldt University Berlin

    Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin, Germany

    Tel.:  +49-30-2093 3170
    Fax.:  +49-30-2093 3168
    eMail: wendler at informatik.hu-berlin.de
    WWW:   www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~wendler

  Enrico Pagello
    Department of Electronics and Informatics
    Faculty of Engineering
    University of Padua

    Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padova, Italy

    Tel.:  +39-049-827 7687
    Fax.:  +39-049-827 7699
    eMail: epv at dei.unipd.it
    WWW:   www.dei.unipd.it


Program committee
-----------------

  Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan
  Ansgar Bredenfeld, GMD AiS, Germany
  Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
  Silvia Coradeschi, Oerebro University, Sweden
  Klaus Dorer, Freiburg University, Germany
  Peter Jarvis, SRI International, USA
  Christoph Jung, infor AG, Germany
  Gal Kaminka, University of Southern California, USA
  Joerg P. Mueller, Siemens AG, Germany
  Itsuki Noda, Stanford University, USA
  Daniel Polani, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
  Martin Riedmiller, Karlsruhe University, Germany
  Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland
  Josep Lluis de la Rosa, University of Girona, Spain
  Peter Stone, AT&T Laboratories Research, USA
  Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA


Additional information
----------------------

  ECAI 2000 homepage
  http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de

  Workshop homepage
  http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May  2 17:48:21 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:48:21 +0200
Subject: Conf: le Japonais 2000
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAY.2000.194821.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Wlodarczyk Andre <wlod at ext.jussieu.fr>




                     < Le JAPONAIS 2000 >
                    Séminaire international
          sur la langue japonaise en théorie et en pratique

organisé par l'UMR "Civilisation Japonaise", unité mixte du CNRS (Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique) et de l'EPHE (Ecole Pratique des
Hautes Etudes)

Le titre de la prochaine conférence est:

" An Attempt of building a formal grammar of Japanese in JSPS project "
(Une Tentative de construction d'une grammaire formelle du japonais dans le
projet de la Société Japonaise pour la Promotion de la Science)

Cette conférence sera donnée en anglais par le professeur:

                      Jun-ichi TSUJII
   (Université de Tokyo, Département des sciences de l'information)

                  Vendredi 5 mai 2000 à 16h30

                  CNRS c/o College de France
                   Instituts d'Extreme-Orient
                    Hautes Etudes Japonaises
                    52, rue Cardinal Lemoine
                         75231 PARIS 05
                     Metro: Cardinal Lemoine


Après la conférence, un pot amical sera servi.

Description générale du séminaire:
---------------------------------
Pour répondre à la demande croissante de connaissance du japonais une série
de conférences sera donnée par des spécialistes invités à l'UMR
"Civilisation Japonaise" dans le cadre d'un séminaire international durant
l'année 2000.

Faisant appel aux meilleurs spécialistes de l'Europe et du Japon, ce
séminaire se veut incitatif et a pour but d'encourager et de dynamiser les
potentiels de recherche en établissant des bases nouvelles pour développer
les méthodes d'enseignement et les outils utilisant le japonais. Les thèmes
principaux sont aussi bien la langue japonaise elle-même (son histoire et
sa structure, les dictionnaires électroniques, les techniques de traduction
automatique) que les problèmes linguistiques et sociaux (le comportement
verbal, la mise en réseau et les autres aspects de l'informatisation de la
société japonaise).

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Le séminaire est organisé grâce aux subventions accordées par la Fondation
du Japon et la Fondation Tanaka (Fondation pour l'Etude de la Langue et de
la Civilisation Japonaises).
--------------------------------------------------------------------

André Wlodarczyk
CNRS - UMR "Civilisation Japonaise"
c/o College de France
Instituts d'Extreme-Orient
52, rue Cardinal Lemoine
75231 PARIS 05
01 44 27 18 24 Fax: 01 44 27 18 23
mailto:wlod at ext.jussieu.fr
http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/stendhal/people/AWlodarczyk/



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May  2 17:48:19 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:48:19 +0200
Subject: Conf: TAG+5
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAY.2000.194819.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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

Apologies for multiple copies

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

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

Call for participation

The fifth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks
(TAG+5) will be held at the University of Paris 7 , from Thursday May
25 to Saturday May 27 2000, sponsored by ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues) and by Paris 7, IUF, Sinequa,
Lexiquest and Inria.

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

Participants are invited to register online before May 15th at
http://tagplus.linguist.jussieu.fr Precise schedule (including for
demos), directions and information regarding accommodation can be
found online as well.

REGISTRATION FEES : (including the proceedings as well as a banquet on
Friday evening)

Students (Atala members) : 500 frs
Student (non members) :    650 frs
Regular ATALA members :    700 frs
Non members :              900 frs

INVITED SPEAKERS
John Carroll : "Engineering parsers and generators
for large lexicalised grammars"

Mark Steedman : "The syntactic Process"

PRESENTATIONS
A comparision of the XTAG and CLE Grammars :
    Beth Ann Hockey, Manny Rayner,  Frankie James
A corpus-based evaluation of syntactic locality in TAGs
    Fei Xia, Tonia Bleam
A faster parsing alogorithm for lexicalized tree-adjoigning grammars
    Giorgio Satta
A logical approach of structure sharing in TAGs
    Adi Palm
A new description of extractions in TAG
    Sylvain Kahane, Marie-Hélène Candito, Yannick de Kercadio
A redefinition of embedded push-down automata
      Miguel A. Alonso, Eric de la Clergerie, Manuel Vilares
Adapting HPSG-to-TAG compilation to wide-coverage grammars
     Tilman Becker, Patrice Lopez
Bidirectional parsing of TAG without heads
    Victor J. Diaz, Miguel A. Alonso, Vicente Carrillo
Building a class-based verb lexicon using  TAGs
    Karin Kipper, Hoa Trang Dang, William  Schuler, Martha Palmer
CDL-TAGs : a grammar formalism for flexible and efficient syntactic
generation
    Kilger, Poller
Comparing and integrating tree adjoigning  grammars
    Fei Xia, Martha Palmer
Complexity of linear order computation in  performance grammar, TAG and
HPSG
    Karin Harbusch, Gerard Kempen
Contextual tree adjoigning grammars
      Martin Kappes
Customizing the XTAG system for efficient grammar development for
Korean
    Juntae Yoon, Chung-hye Han, Nari Kim, Meesook Kim
Derivational minimalism in two regular and  logical steps
    Jens Michaelis, Uwe Mönnich, Franz  Morawietz
Deriving polarity effects
    Raffaella Bernardie
Economy in TAG
    Robert Frank
Elementary trees for syntactic and statistical  disambiguation
    Rodolfo Delmonte, Luminita Chiran, Ciprian Bacalu
Engineering a wide-coverage lexicalized grammar
    John Carroll, Nicolas Nicolov, Olga  Shaumyan, Martine Smets, David
Weir
Even better than supertags : introducing  hypertags !
    Alexandra Kinyon
Extending linear indexed grammars
    Christian Wartena
>>From intuitionistic proof nets to iteration grammars
    Guy Perrier
How problematic are clitics for S-TAG translation
    Mark Dras, Tonia Bleam
How to solve some failure of LTAGs
    Sylvain Kahane
Lexicalized grammars and the description of motion events
    Matthew Stone, Tonia Bleam, Christine Doran, Martha Palmer
Lexik : a maintenance tool for FTAG
    Nicolas Barrier, Sébastien Barrier, Alexandra Kinyon
LFG-DOT : a probalistic, constraint-based model for machine translation
    Andy Way
LTAG Workbench : a general framework for LTAG
    Patrice Lopez
Practical aspects in compiling tabular TAG parsers
    Eric de la Clergerie
Practical Experiments in parsing using tree adjoigning grammars
    Anoop Sarkar
Predicative LTAG grammars
    Patrice Lopez, David Roussel
Punctuation in a lexicalized grammar
    Christine Doran
Relationship between strong and weak generative powers
    Aravind K. Joshi
Reliability in example based parsing
    Olivier Streiter
Reuse of plan-based knowledge sources in a uniform TAG-based generation
system
    Karin Harbush, Jens Woch
Scrambling in German and the non-locality of local TDGs
    Laura Kallmeyer
Some remarks on an extension of synchronous  TAG
     David Chiang, William Schuler, Mark Dras
The current status of FTAG
    Anne Abeillé, Marie-Hélène Candito, Alexandra Kinyon
The Sino-Korean light verb construction and lexical argument structure
    Chung-hye Han, Owen Ranbow
Un outil pour calculer des arbres de dépendance à partir d'arbres de
dérivation
    Lionel Clément
Using TAGs, a tree model, and a language model for generation
    Srinivas Bangalore, Owen Rambow

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

CONTACT

TAG+5
UFRL, Université Paris 7
TALaNa, case 7003
2, place Jussieu
F-75251 Paris cedex 05
phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70
fax:   +33 1 44 27 79 19
email: tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr
web:   http://tagplus.linguist.jussieu.fr/

LOCATION
amphi 24 , RDC parvis jussieu
Université Paris 7
2, place jussieu, Paris 5e
metro jussieu (ligne 7)


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu May 11 17:30:21 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:30:21 +0200
Subject: Job: 6 Offers
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAY.2000.193021.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jose Coch <Jose.Coch at lexiquest.fr>
   Subject: proposition de poste

2/ From: "Soclangue" <soclangue at mail.ru>
   Subject: Demande de soutien

3/ From:  Amy WEINBERG <weinberg at umiacs.umd.edu>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Postdoc Researcher at U of Maryland,

4/ From: Philippe Monnier <monnier at inf.enst.fr>
   Subject: Job

5/ From: malika <yakoubi at promoselect.com>
   Subject: Offre d'emploi

6/ From:  John Nerbonne <nerbonne at let.rug.nl>
   Subject:  XML, Corpus Annotation: temp. part-time lecturer at University
___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jose Coch <Jose.Coch at lexiquest.fr>
   Subject: proposition de poste


LexiQuest, société française spécialisée dans les produits TALN pour
la recherche documentaire et les applications d'ingénierie multilingue
dans le domaine de l'internet, recherche de nouveaux collaborateurs
pour rejoindre son département Recherche & Développement. LexiQuest
compte une centaine de collaborateurs en Europe et aux Etats-Unis et
développe des produits en 5 langues.

R&D/EA/1. un/une linguiste informaticien/ne

Titulaire d'un DEA en TALN ou équivalent, disposant d'une expérience
similaire d'au moins 3 ans. L'anglais est indispensable.
La connaissance d'au moins une autre langue est souhaitée.
Une expérience en résumé automatique et/ou en extraction d'information
 sera particulièrement appréciée.

Ce poste est à pourvoir à Paris.

Pour ce poste, contactez :

_________________________________________________

José Coch, LexiQuest
Le Méliès / 261, rue de Paris
F-93556 Montreuil Cedex / FRANCE
Tel: (33)-1-49 93 39 38 / Fax: (33)-1-49 93 39 39
E-mail: jose.coch at lexiquest.fr
_________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: "Soclangue" <soclangue at mail.ru>
   Subject: Demande de soutien



Minsk, Belarus.


Bonjour,

Nous vous envoyons ce mel pour vous mettre au courant qu'une societe
pour la diffusion de la langue et de la culture francaises au Belarus
est en train d'etre creee.
Le Belarus est une des republiques de l'ex-Union Sovietique dont la
population est environ 10 millions d'habitants.

Notre decision de creer cette societe est basee sur des statistiques
alarmantes : le nombre de gens qui etudient le francais diminue tres
vite. C'est la suite directe de la diminution du nombre des
specialistes dans ce domaine. En plus, les jeunes diplomes ne sont pas
interesses a travailler comme professeurs de francais a cause des
salaires bas. Tout cela nous fait croire que cette situation va
s'aggraver encore.

Donc, ayant etudie toutes ces difficultes nous avons decide de creer
une societe dont le but essentiel est la diffusion de la langue et de
la culture francaises au Belarus. Notre activite sera dirigee vers la
motivation des gens a etudier le francais, la civilisation des pays
francophones et leurs histoires. Il existe plusieurs moyens pour
atteindre ce but : ouverture des classes specialisees francaises dans
les ecoles secondaires, contacts directs entre les etudiants et les
eleves francais et belarussiens ; organisation des seminaires et des
conferences avec la participation des specialistes francais,
distribution au Belarus des cassettes video avec des filmes et des
emissions francais, des journaux et des revues ; creation d'un site
web contenant les nouvelles de la vie culturelle, scientifique et
industrielle de la France et des autres pays francophones, etc.

Nous avons decide de nous adresser a vous pour demander votre soutient
de notre activite, car celle-ci est impossible sans l'aide de nos
partenaires francais que nous cherchons. Notre equipe est constituee
par dix jeunes diplomes ayant une experience dans le domaine de la
linguistique (et en particulier, de la langue francaise), ainsi que
dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies. Nous avons une certaine
experience dans l'interpretariat, dans l'enseignement et
l'informatique.

Il est a noter que notre societe n'est encore creee du point de vue
officiel. Et sa creation peut prendre du temps (4-5 mois), car nous
avons a parcourir un nombre enorme d'institutions et accomplir
beaucoup de formalites. Mais formellement notre societe existe deja et
maintenant notre activite est dirigee vers la recherche des
partenaires francais, car si notre travail n'est pas soutenu par des
etablissements francais, celui-la n'aura pas de sens. Un point est sur
: on ne peut pas etudier une langue etrangere sans avoir de la
pratique dans le domaine de la communication directe avec ceux pour
qui cette langue est natale. Mais la plupart des professeurs de
francais dans notre pays n'ont pas de possibilite reguliere de la
communication avec les Francais.

Nous nous attendons a votre comprehension et a votre soutient de
l'activite de notre future societe, car la possibilite de la creer
depend de vous et de votre desir de participer a la diffusion de la
langue et de la culture francaises a l'etranger.

Dans l'attente de votre reponse, recevez, s'il vous plait, l'assurance
de nos sentiments tres distingues.

Societe linguistique,
Minsk, Belarus.
soclangue at mail.ru

---------------
___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Amy WEINBERG <weinberg at umiacs.umd.edu>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Postdoc Researcher at U of Maryland,
            College Park

---------------------------------------------------------------
         Postdoctoral Researcher
   University of Maryland, College Park
    Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)
---------------------------------------------------------------

The Computational Linguistics group at the University of Maryland
seeks an energetic, highly motivated individual for a postdoctoral
position.  We are a strongly interdisciplinary group, with faculty
members from three departments (computer science, linguistics, and
information studies) that work closely together with a team of about
15 research scientists, postdoctoral researchers and graduate
students.  We seek candidates who are comfortable with statistical and
corpus-based natural language processing, knowledge based techniques
(particularly those involving ontologies and lexicons), and/or the
design of information retrieval systems.  Of particular interest are
candidates with interest and expertise in cross-language information
retrieval, machine translation, broad-coverage parsing, use of
comparable and parallel corpora, and development of large-scale
lexicons.  Strong programming skills are essential.

Our team will be well represented at the NAACL conference in Seattle
this week.  You can speak with us there, or get in touch with us after
the conference by sending mail (with a resume) to Edna Walker
<edna at cs.umd.edu>.

For more information about Computational Linguistics at Maryland, you
can take a look at the Web pages of some of our people:

  Bonnie Dorr      http://umiacs.umd.edu/~bonnie
  Tapas Kanungo    http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~kanungo
  Gina-Anne Levow  http://umiacs.umd.edu/~gina
  Douglas Oard     http://glue.umd.edu/~oard
  Philip Resnik    http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik
  Amy Weinberg     http://umiacs.umd.edu/~weinberg

See you in Seattle!


___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: Philippe Monnier <monnier at inf.enst.fr>
   Subject: Job


Dear listers,

Please find this job announce.

Philippe Monnier.

____________________________________


Job offer : Research Manager

As part of an ANVAR (French's agency for promote Innovative Technologies)
supported technological innovation project, STARTEM corporation, which is
specialised in international information processing and multimedia
management is looking for a research and development manager. The
successful applicant will have to work in a multidisciplinary environment,
dealing with information technology, linguistics and ergonomics, to design
an information processing network including NTIC (New Technology of
Information and Communication). He will work within a transversal team
whose aim is to improve the companyís productivity.

As part of the information processing network, he will :

participate in the company's technological choices and follow through the
device's implementation.
coordinate the integration of the multilingual NLP modules (text
categorisation, information extraction, automated text generation).
direct the drawing up of a list of selling points relating to technological
choices intended institutions potentially interested in the project.
coordinate the collaboration with research laboratories and supervise the
trainees or the PhDs working on the project.


Required profile :

Education background : experimented PhD or engineer (4/7 years)
 Domain of competences : Computer science, NLP, linguistics.
Substential knowledge of Information Technology is essential : Java, Perl,
C++, XML/SGML,
Working background preferable
Fluent English required,
Should be a plus : EU project experience, project management skills.

Application procedure :

Please send your rÈsumÈ with a cover letter, explaining why you are
interested in the job, to Marion Denneulin
E-mail : mdenneulin at cmc.fr /mdenneulin at startem.net
STARTEM
60 rue de Ponthieu
75008 Paris


____________________________________________


mailto:phmonnier at cmc.fr * Philippe Monnier * mailto:monnier at inf.enst.fr
http://www.cmc.fr * STARTEM Dir. Rech. 60, rue de Ponthieu 75008 Paris
France
http://www.inf.enst.fr * ENST Infres 46 rue Barrault 75634 Paris cedex 13
* STARTEM Tel. (33)156432405 Fax ~2425 * ENST Tel. (33)145817588 Fax ~3119

___________________________________________________________________________

5/ From: malika <yakoubi at promoselect.com>
   Subject: Offre d'emploi



Guides Online, start-up occupant une position centrale dans le domaine du
commerce électronique, spécialisée dans la réalisation et l'édition de
guides de sources d'information en ligne (Internet, Minitel), recherche pour
son site www.promoselect.com


un(e) Chargé(e) de l'indexation de sites marchands ayant de l'expérience
dans la création de thésaurus (arborescence).
La mission : Il s'agit d'affecter à chaque site marchand (environ 300 au
total) la liste des produits qu'il commercialise, ces produits étant
rattachés au thésaurus.

Le poste est basé à Angers. Tous les frais seront pris en charge par la
société.

CDD de 1 mois, pouvant déboucher sur un CDI. Poste à pourvoir très
rapidement.

Merci d'adresser un CV à l'attention de Malika Yakoubi
par fax au 01 55 43 36 01 ou
par email : yakoubi at promoselect.com


___________________________________________________________________________

6/ From:  John Nerbonne <nerbonne at let.rug.nl>
   Subject:  XML, Corpus Annotation: temp. part-time lecturer at University
         of Groningen, Groningen  The Netherlands


Rank of Job: temp. part-time lecturer
Areas Required: XML, Corpus Annotation
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: University of Groningen
Department: Comp.Linguistics
State or Province: Groningen
Country: The Netherlands
Final Date of Application: 24 May 2000
Contact: John Nerbonne nerbonne at let.rug.nl

Address for Applications:
Personeel, Alfa-faculteiten, P.O.Box 716
Groningen
Groningen  9700 AS
The Netherlands

Groningen (The Netherlands)
University of Groningen,
Computational Linguistics Dept.
9 months, 50%

At the department of Computational Linguistics there is a teaching and
project vacancy of 0.5 fte. The department employs about 20 persons.
The lecturer will work under supervision of prof.dr.ir. J.Nerbonne.

The task
  - desigining and teaching course on XML-programming, and
  - installing networked corpus annotation tools

Your profile
  - university degree in relevant area or several years of experience
  - computational skills, esp. web-related programming (XML)
  - teaching skills
  - enthusiasm

The university of Groningen offers a gross salary of maximum
1478 Euro per month, depending on experience and education.
The appointment is for 9 months, 0.5 fte.

The faculty aims at increasing the number of women employees.


Information

More information about the appointment can be obtained by
prof.dr.ir. J. Nerbonne, phone +31 50 363 5815/ 363 5858) or
email: J.Nerbonne at let.rug.nl

Please send your application, together with a curriculum vitae
before May 24 to

Personeel en Organisatie Alfa-faculteiten
Postbus 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu May 11 17:35:25 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:35:25 +0200
Subject: Conf: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAY.2000.193525.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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



     CONFERENCE PROGRAM

         HPSG-2000
     7th International Conference on
   Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
    Berkeley, California

      22-23 July 2000

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

Invited speakers for HPSG-2000 are John Hawkins (University of
Southern California), and Donna Gerdts and Thomas Hukari (Simon Fraser
University and the University of Victoria).  The conference will also
feature an invited tutorial on Norwegian, identifying challenges that
the grammar poses for HPSG, presented by Lars Johnsen and Torbjorn
Nordgard (University of Bergen & the Norwegian University of Science
and Technology).

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Saturday, 22 July 2000
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 9:00 'Tough' complementation and the extraclausal propagation of argument
      descriptions
      Robert D. Levine, Ohio State University

 9:30 The syntax and semantics of Left-node Raising in Japanese
      Shuichi Yatabe, University of Tokyo

10:00 The Was-w construction in German: A case study in type-coercion
      Erhard W. Hinrichs & Tsuneko Nakazawa,
      Eberhard-Karls-Universititaet Tuebingen & University of Tokyo

10:30 Break

10:45 Invited talk:  Adjacency to heads in performance and grammars
      John Hawkins, University of Southern California

11:45 Experience-based HPSG
      Emily Bender and Susanne Z. Riehemann, Stanford University

12:15 Lunch

 1:45 ARG-ST on phrases headed by semantically vacuous words: Evidence from
      Polish
      Adam Przepiorkowski, Ohio State U. & Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw

 2:15 Agreement and missing NPs in Welsh
      Robert D. Borsley, University of Essex

 2:45 Arguments, grammatical relations, and diathetic paradigm
      Tania Avgustinova, Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Saarland Univ.

 3:15 Break

 3:30 The morphosyntax of Tongan 2P pronouns
      Michael Dukes, University of Canterbury & Stanford University

 4:00 On the placement and morphology of Udi subject agreement
      Berthold Crysmann, DFKI GmbH & Computational Linguistics, Saarland
Univ.

 4:30 Hebrew relative clauses in HPSG
      Nathan Vaillette, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University

 5:00 Break

 5:15 The rest of the binding theory
      Karin Golde, YY Software Corporation, Mountain View, Calif.

 5:45 Anaphors aren't exempt in German: A slightly more configurational
binding
      theory
      Tibor Kiss, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum

 6:15 Business meeting

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Sunday, 23 July 2000
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 9:00 The key to lexical semantics
      Jean-Pierre Koenig & Tony Davis, SUNY Buffalo & AnswerLogic, Inc.

 9:30 An approach to polarity sensitivity and negative concord by lexical
      underspecification
      Judith Tonhauser, Institute for Comp. Linguistics, Univ. of Stuttgart

10:00 Linking oblique complements
      Valia Kordoni, University of Tuebingen

10:30 Break

10:45 Invited talk:  Halkomelem valence morphology:  A multi-level argument
      structure analysis
      Donna Gerdts & Thomas Hukari, Simon Fraser University & Univ. of
Victoria

11:45 French reportive 'comme' clauses: A case of parenthetical adjunction
      Marianne Desmets & Laurent Roussarie,
      University Paris X - Nanterre & University Paris 7 - Jussieu

12:15 Lunch

 1:45 Rules and exceptions in the English auxiliary system
      Ivan A. Sag, Stanford University

 2:15 Directional serial verb constructions in Thai
      Nuttanart Muansuwan, SUNY Buffalo & U. of Technology, Thonburi,
Thailand

 2:45 Switch-reference in Zuni
      Dave McKercher, Stanford University

 3:15 Break

 3:30 Tutorial on Norwegian grammar: Challenges for HPSG
      Lars Johnsen & Torbjorn Nordgard
      University of Bergen & the Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology

 4:15 Varieties of ESSE in Romance languages
      Anne Abeille & Daniele Godard, University Paris 7

 4:45 The passive as a lexical rule
      Stefan Mueller, DFKI GmbH, Saarbruecken

 5:15 Break

 5:30 Minor prepositions in Dutch
      Frank Van Eynde, Center for Computational Linguistics, Univ. of Leuven

 6:00 A constraint-based and head-driven analysis of multiple nominative
      constructions
      Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul

 6:30 Conference ends

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu May 11 17:35:22 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:35:22 +0200
Subject: Conf: (Preferably) non-lexical semantics
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAY.2000.193522.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Richard Zuber <rz at ccr.jussieu.fr>



                    (Preferably) non-lexical semantics

The conference will take place from 30 to 31 May at the University of Paris
7, 2 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris (Metro: Jussieu) , Conference Room
"Bernard Grossetete" of the  LPNHE at ground level of Tour 33.

Registration fee: 150 FF


                                Program

Tuesdsay, May 30

9.30-10.00:
Ph. Schlenker (Paris): Towards a Null Theory of Conditionals
10.00-10.30:
C. Condoravdi (Stanford): Tensless Modals for the Past
10.30-11.00:
O. Matushansky (MIT): When Seeming is Being: adjectival
movement in nominal quasi-copula
11.00-11.30
Break
11.30-12.00:
M. Egg (Saarbrücken) Against punctuality
12.00-12.30:
Folli, R. (Oxford): Constructing Telicity in English and Italian
12.30-14.30:
Break
14.30-15.00:
G. Storto, G (UCLA): Indefinite possessives and (non)-specificity
15.00-15.30
E. Endrey-Walder: Specificity and Comparison Classes
15.30-16.00
M. Lujan (Texas): The Semantics of Determiners as Modified Pronouns
16.00-16.30:  Break
16.30-17.00
L. M. Tovena (Lille): Distributional restrictions on negative determiners
17.00-17.30
N. Moreno-Quiben  and I. Perez Jimenez (Madrid) Presuppositional
Interpretation of Bare Plurals in Spanish
17.30-18.00
I. Gomez Txurruka (San Sebastian) and A. Alves (Asores): Interaction of
Same in Anaphoric Temporal Adverbials with Discourse Structure

Wenesday, May 31

9.00-10.00: Invited speaker: D. Westerstahl (Gothenburg):
"The role of compositionality in semantics: some recent issues"
10.00-10.20: Break
10.20-10.50: R. Zuber (Paris):
Intercategorial entailment and semantic relations between non-declaratives
10.50-11.20:
F. Gayral, D. Kayser and F. Levy (Paris 13): Comprendre le pluriel
11.20-11.40 Break
11.40-12.10
R. Naumann and A. Latrouite (Duesseldorf): Semantic Parallels in the
Lexicon and the Dynamic Structure of Verbs
12.10-12.40
J. Jayez (Paris) and L. Tovena (Lille). Free Choiceness as Non-Locality
Specification
12.40-14.00: Break
14.00-14-30:
Mayumi, M. (Tokyo, Waseda): The Function of the Sentence-Initial Noun
Phrases and the Meaning of Intransitive Verbs
14.30-15.00:
I. Gomez Txurruka (San Sebastian): The semantics of "and" in a Formal
Theory of Discourse
15.00-15.30:
S. Kennelly (Utrecht): 'Intermediate' Readings from Extended Predicate
Domains
15.30-16:
Break
16.00-16.30:
F. Hamm (Tuebingen) and M. Lambalgen (Amsterdam):
Nominalisation, the progressive and event calculus
16.30-17.00
F. Moltmann (London): Events as Derived Objects
17.00-17.30
M. Kracht: Compositionality meets Morphology


Alternates:
Sauerland, U. (Tuebingen): Donkey Anaphora and Choice Functions

M. Damova and S. Bergler (Montreal): Semantic Representation and
Construction of the Cross-categorial Language Phenomenon Aspect



You can find  accommodation and registration information on our website:

http://www.llf.cnrs.fr

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu May 11 17:35:27 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:35:27 +0200
Subject: Conf: INLG
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAY.2000.193527.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Svetlana Sheremetyeva <lana at crl.nmsu.edu




                           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                           Analysis for Generation

                                 a Workshop

                             in conjunction with

                   The International Conference on Natural
                  Language Generation INLG'2000 (June 13-14)


                      June 12, 2000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel

1. The reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time.

The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the field of
NLG with the emphasis on the development of independent NLG
applications rather than generation modules of MT systems. While it
seems natural to consider problems of analysis and generation as two
sides of a coin in such NLP applications as MT, researchers working on
"pure" generation systems sometimes treat problems arising at every
stage of generation--content specification, sentence planning, and
surface realization--as independent. Time may be ripe for examining
the mutual utility of analysis and generation in greater detail. The
impetus is, as can be expected, the goal of minimizing system-building
efforts in language engineering.

 2.  A brief technical description of the issues the workshop will address.

 The workshop proposes to address:

*  issues connected to the needs of analysis in generation systems
   as well as

*  issues of interrelation between generation and analysis from the
standpoint
   of reusability and adaptability of analysis techniques and tools for
   generation.

*  issues of reusability of analysis knowledge and methodology of its
   acquisition for generation.

Analysis as part of generation. A wide range of complex problems which
are considered to be specific for generation--content specification,
planning, and grammaticalization--may lead one to believe that
generation is completely independent of analysis. Most generators
tacitly assume that an intermediate system module can use the output
of the preceding module as its input without any processing (that is,
analysis) of this output. This is not, however, the case in practice.

A modicum of analysis is, in fact, an essential part of every
generation system.  The input to generation systems such as raw data
in tables, lists, diagrams, elements of various databases or even text
snippets that are fed into the system directly by a user still must
first be somehow processed, that is, analyzed. The analysis is needed
to provide both the necessary content and, often, format for the
content specification (see, for example, Dale 1995, Robin 1994, Kukich
1988, McKeown et al. 1994, Bateman and Teich 1995). This problem
becomes especially important in those applications (including
multilingual ones) in which at least some input to generation is in
textual form (e.g., Sheremetyeva and Nirenburg 1996).  Many NLG
systems often use a variety of analysis techniques. The question
arises whether it is possible to develop criteria to better choose and
integrate analysis techniques which could be efficiently applied at
different stages of generation.

Reusability and adaptability of analysis techniques and tools for
generation. While it is not uncommon to believe that generation and
analysis are not reversible, a number of contributions over the years
have discussed reversibility of analysis and generation resources,
especially the grammars. Appelt 1987, Barnett and Mani 1990 and van
Noord 1993, among others, demonstrate how the use of reversible
grammars may lead to efficient and flexible natural language parsing
and generation systems. It is worth discussing constraints on
reversibility.

Reusability of analysis knowledge and methodology of its acquisition
for generation. Generation and analysis are closely related in that
both processes use many similar resources, and often it is less
expensive to reorganize an existing "analysis" resource (e.g., an
analysis lexicon) than to acquire one for generation from
scratch. (Allgayer et al. 1989, Viegas and Beale 1996, Sheremetyeva
and Nirenburg 1999a, 1999b). It is worth discussing how to establish
whether a resource built for analysis can be used for generation and
at what price.


 THE PROGRAM:
June,12, 00

13.00 - 13.15      S. Sheremetyeva. Introduction

13.15-13.50        H. Manuelian. Reusability of Mental Representation Theory
                   in Automatic Generation: Generating Expressions Referring
                   to Objects  with G-TAG and RMs

13.50-14.25        D. Lonsdale. Leveraging Analysis Operators in Incremental
                   Generation

14.25-15.00        S. Busemann. Interfacing Constraint-Based Grammars and
                   Generation Algorithms

15.00-15.20        Break

15.20-17.00        Panel :  R. Kempson, S. Nirenburg, M.Zock,
S.Sheremetyeva.


PLEASE FIND DETAILS ABOUT REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION at the main
conference homepage at http://www.cs.bgu.il/~nlg2000


 Organizing Committee

 Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Chair and contact person
 Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA
 lana at crl.nmsu.edu

 Sergei Nirenburg
 Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA
 sergei at crl.nmsu.edu

 Richard Kittredge
 Department of Linguistics and Translation, University of Montreal
 kittredge at IRO.UMontreal.CA

 Anna Sagvall Hein
 Department of linguistics, Uppsala University
 Anna at ling.uu.se

 Evelyne Viegas
 Microsoft Corporation
 evelynev at microsoft.com

 Michael Zock
 Language & Cognition LIMSI - CNRS
 zock at limsi.fr

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu May 11 17:35:30 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:35:30 +0200
Subject: Projet: Appel d'offre DRT
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAY.2000.193530.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: stephane chaudiron <stephane.chaudiron at technologie.gouv.fr>


"Le ministère de la recherche (direction de la technologie) lance un appel
à propositions dans le domaine des outils de veille stratégique
automatisée. Le texte de l'appel ainsi que le formulaire de réponse se
trouvent sur le site du ministère à l'adresse suivante
http://www.recherche.gouv.fr/technologie/

La date de clôture de l'appel est le 20 juin 2000, 17 heures (cachet de la
poste faisant foi)."


Stéphane Chaudiron


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:14:39 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:14:39 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.111439.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Hawkes, Carol" <CHawkes at ets.org>
   Subject : Applications Systems Program

2/ From:  David Israel <israel at ai.sri.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling (Grammar Writing) at SRI International, California

3/ From: Jean-Marie PIERREL <Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr>
   Subject: Job au LORIA

4/ From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subjet : Post-doc au CNET en TALN pour l'arabe
___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Hawkes, Carol" <CHawkes at ets.org>
   Subject : Applications Systems Program





J O B  O P E N I N G

Applications System Programmer

ETS Technologies
(A for-profit subsidiary of Educational Testing Service)


ETS is the nation's leading educational assessment organization and a leader
in educational research.  We develop and administer achievement,
occupational and admission tests for clients in education, government and
business.  We have recently announced the creation of a new for-profit
subsidiary - ETS Technologies.  This new business venture will develop new
applications of emerging technologies to support on-line learning through
several product lines, the first of which is Natural Language Processing.


POSITION SUMMARY:
Manages the development, installation, maintenance, and documentation of
computer programs for scientific and/or business applications.  Executes
day-to-day development activities to meet user specifications, including
systems design, coding, testing, debugging, implementation, and
documentation.


CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Design, develop, and implement text analysis and statistical
applications for research and production
*
* Design, evaluate, and modify procedures to solve complex computing
problems in natural language processing (statistical and/or
knowledge-based), taking into consideration computer equipment capacity,
operating time, and format of results
*
* Maintain full technical knowledge of all phases of systems analysis
and programming
*
* Prepare detailed specifications from which programs will be written
*
* Consult with applications users to collect and analyze applications
systems software needs
*
* Write documentation, evaluate reports and operating procedures, and
maintain quality assurance
*
* Recommend and develop cost estimates and present proposals for
acquisition of new hardware/software required to support applications under
development


KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITY:
* Detail-oriented, a self-starter, and possessing strong
organizational and follow-up skills
*
* Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

* Ability to multi-task, plan and initiate action, and establish and
meet deadlines

* Ability to develop solid understanding of research and/or business
functions of the application



RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:
* Master's degree in Computer Science with a minimum of 2-5 years of
diverse programming experience
*
* Knowledge of C++, C, and PERL
*
* Concentrated experience in Natural Language Processing (especially
with very large corpora) and web-based application development is desirable


ETS Technologies offers a competitive salary and benefits package and an
ideal environment for professional growth and development.  Please send two
copies of your resume along with a cover letter stating the position title
and salary requirements to:

  C. Hawkes
  Educational Testing Service
  Rosedale Road, Mail Stop 52-D
  Princeton, NJ  08541
  Fax: 609-497-6022
  Or email to: chawkes at ets.org


We are dedicated to Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action in the Workplace.


___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  David Israel <israel at ai.sri.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling (Grammar Writing) at SRI International, California
USA


Rank of Job: open
Areas Required: grammar writing
Other Desired Areas: computational linguistics
University or Organization: SRI International
Department: Information&Computer Sciences Div.
State or Province: CA
Country: U.S.A.
Final Date of Application: open
Contact: David Israel israel at ai.sri.com

Address for Applications:
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park
CA 94025
U.S.A.

SRI is launching a new company, focused on bringing to market a
variety of Web-targeted Natural Language applications developed or
under development at SRI.  The aim is to be the place to go for sites
that want to provide NL access.

The company, so new it doesn't have a name we can make public yet,
will be offering Silicon Valley-competitive compensation packages.
And you will be working with very very good people, with really
innovative technologies, on challenging problems.

I happen to think this is an extremely exciting opportunity (but of
course I am prejudiced.)

If you want to find out more, contact me at israel at ai.sri.com or James
Arnold (arnold at mt.scri.com)

___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Jean-Marie PIERREL <Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr>
   Subject: Job au LORIA


Stabilisation et extensions d'un analyseur syntaxique TAG

Equipe "Langue et Dialogue", LORIA, Nancy

Durée du contrat d'accueil : 12 mois
Organisme gestionnaire : INRIA

L'objectif de ce travail consiste à définir et stabiliser un analyseur
syntaxique à base de TAG (Tree Adjoint Grammar) qui permette d'effectuer
des analyses locales. En d'autres termes, la rencontre d'un échec local ne
devra pas entraîner l'abandon total de l'analyse de la phrase. Le processus
d'analyse à base de TAG lexicalisés, s'appuyant sur un ancrage sur les
mots, permet de développer de telles analyses partielles qui peuvent
correspondre à des syntagmes présents sur l'énoncé à analyser. Cette
propriété rend l'analyseur intéressant : pour les systèmes de dialogue
oral, où l'analyse syntaxique coopère avec d'autres sources de
connaissances dans le but de comprendre un énoncé, mais aussi pour les
systèmes d'extraction d'information à partir de texte en langue naturelle.

Ce travail s'intégrera dans l'équipe "Langue et Dialogue" du LORIA et
consistera, à partir des résultats de la thèse de Patrice Lopez qui a
développé un prototype d'analyseur TAG ayant déjà de telles propriétés, à
définir un outil robuste facile à maintenir et utilisable dans divers
contextes d'analyse de la langue. Pour ce faire on veillera à ce que cet
analyseur corresponde à un serveur d'analyse syntaxique auquel se
connectent des clients divers (de visualisation, d'annotation, de calcul de
la forme logique de la phrase, etc.).

Profil recherché :

Niveau ingénieur avec une bonne maîtrise de la programmation et si possible
une connaissance de JAVA, Corba, XML.

Pour en savoir plus ou pour postuler : Référence de l'offre : NA-09

 Bertrand Gaiffe : Bertrand.Gaiffe at loria.fr, Tél : 03 83 59 20 34
 ou Jean-Marie Pierrel : Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr, Tél : 03 83 59 20 01

envoyez une lettre de motivation par courrier électronique avec pour objet,
la référence ci-dessus et votre CV en pièce jointe à : Bertrand Gaiffe et
Jean-Marie Pierrel

===========================================
Jean-Marie Pierrel, Professeur UHP-Nancy 1
Equipe "Langue et Dialogue"
LORIA UMR 7503 (Universités, CNRS, INRIA)
Campus Scientifique
B.P. 239
F-54 506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy
Tel : (33) (0)3 83 59 20 01
Fax : (33) (0)3 83 41 30 79
email : Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr
==============================================

___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subjet : Post-doc au CNET en TALN pour l'arabe


Post-doc au CNET en TALN pour l'arabe.
Merci de retransmettre à des candidats éventuels.

Le centre de recherche France Telecom R&D (unité Langues Naturelles)
à Lannion (France), recrute un post-doc sur le thème de la constitution
de ressources linguistiques pour le traitement automatique de la langue
arabe.
- Profil requis:
  * Doctorat en linguistique sur le traitement de la langue arabe.
  * Connaissances: lexique, morphologie et syntaxe de l'arabe.
- Durée du post-doc : 1 an  (début dès que possible).

Contact: (envoyer CV détaillé):
Malek Boualem
France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI
2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France
Tel: 02.96.05.29.83
Fax: 02.96.05.32.86
Email: malek.boualem at francetelecom.fr

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:14:59 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:14:59 +0200
Subject: Appel: LLL-2000  - extended deadline
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.111459.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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De : Claire Nedellec <Claire.Nedellec at lri.fr>
À : corpora at hd.uib.no
Objet : Corpora: LLL-2000 CFP - extended deadline
Date : Lun 15 mai 2000 11:46



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                           CALL FOR PAPERS


          2nd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP

                  13th - 14th September 2000, Lisbon - Portugal

                    Co-located with ICGI and CoNLL


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

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As a  result of several requests,  the deadline for  the submission of
research papers for the 2nd  workshop on Learning Language in Logic to
be  held in  Lisbon, September  13-14th,  2000 has  been  extended to
Monday, May 22, 2000.

Revised Calendar
----------------

  Submission of papers by *** May, 22, 2000 ***
  Acceptance notices mailed by June, 19, 2000
  Final, camera-ready papers due by July, 14, 2000


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:23:14 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:23:14 +0200
Subject: Appel: ORAGE-01
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.112314.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "regina" <regina at lpl.univ-aix.fr>

(english version first -- la version francaise se trouve plus loin)

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

Dear colleagues,

please find below the first call for ORAGE 2001 :


*********************
        ORAGE 2001
  ORAlity and GEstuality
*********************

Aix-en-Provence (France)
June 18 - 22, 2001
International conference
Languages : French, English


ORAGE 2001 is in straight line with the ORAGE' 98 conference - ORAlité et
GEstualité - Communication Multimodale, Interaction, Santi S., Guaïtella I.,
Cavé C., Konopczynski G. (eds), 1998, l'Harmattan, Paris. Its objective is
to promote the importance of a multimodal approach in the study of
communication. The major theme of this meeting is the use of voice and
gestures in the management of interactive time and space. The emergence of
this set of topics and the increasing research in gestural and vocal studies
led to the foundation of the GeVoix association which is co-organizing this
conference with the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (CNRS ESA 6057) at the
Université de Provence.


*** Topics ***

- ethology of human communication
- animal and cross-species communication
- communicative gestures
- voice (prosody...)
- relationship between gestures and voice, bimodality
- multimodality and mental representations
- production and perception of voice and gesture
- semiotic models for voice and gesture analysis
- universals and cultural variations
- social contexts and interaction
- pathological contexts
- developmental approaches
- expression of emotions
- methodology, instrumentation and technology in voice and gesture analysis


*** Scientific Committee ***

R. Allott
D. Autesserre
R. Bertrand
C. Cavé
C. Cuxac
B. Cyrulnik
M. Faraco
P. Feyereisen
A. Giacomi
I. Guaïtella
U. Hadar
J.M. Hombert
R. Jarvella
A. Kendon
D.R. Ladd
J. Laver
C. Maury-Rouan
M. Magnusson
D. Massaro
D. McNeill
J. Montredon
J. Ohala
I. Poggi
M. Rossi
S. Santi
T.A. Sebeok
J. Vauclair


*** Organizing Committee ***

President : I. Guaïtella
General secretary : S. Santi

D. Autesserre
O. Bagou
M. Baudoin
R. Bertrand
J. Boyer
C. Cavé
R. Cruz
M.-H. Faivre
M. Faraco
T. Kida
B. Lagrue
A. Lejeune
C. Maury-Rouan
C. Paboudjian
C. Portes


*** Deadlines ***

June 1, 2000 : Submission of the intent to participate. Please include
provisional title. Important Notice ! A provisional proposal with title is
mandatory !
September 15, 2000 : Deadline for the submission of abstracts (must not
exceed one page).
December 1, 2000 : Reception of notification of approval of abstracts
March 1, 2001 : Submission of papers (in English or French)


*** Contact ***

Colloque ORAGE 2001
Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Université de Provence
29, av. R. Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence  Cedex 1
France

phone : +33  (0)4 42 95 36 37
fax : +33 (0)4 42 59 50 96 (specify "colloque ORAGE 2001")
e-mail : orage2001 at lpl.univ-aix.fr
internet : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~gevoix/ORAGE2001


*** Registration Fees ***

Before December 31, 2000 :
Registration : 1000 FF (153 Euros)
Students : 500 FF (77 Euros)
Registration  (GeVoix members) : 700 FF (107 Euros)
Students (GeVoix  members) : 200 FF (31 Euros)

After December 31, 2000 :
Registration : 1300 FF (199 Euros)
Students : 600 FF (92 Euros)
Registration  (GeVoix members) : 1000 FF (153 Euros)
Students (GeVoix  members): 300 FF (46 Euros)
[1 Euro = 6,55957 FF]

Caution : Student fees do not include proceedings. A limited number of
proceedings will be available for purchase on site. They will also be found
in bookstores after the conference.


-------------------
Annonce en français
-------------------

Chers collègues, veuillez trouver ci-dessous le premier appel à
participation à ORAGE 2001 :


*******************
       ORAGE 2001
   ORAlité et GEstualité
*******************

Aix-en-Provence (France)
18 au 22 juin 2001
Colloque international
Langues : français, anglais


Faisant suite au colloque "Orage'98. ORAlité et GEstualité : communication
multimodale, interaction" (Santi S., Guaïtella I. , Cavé C., Konopczynski G.
(eds), 1998, L'Harmattan, Paris), ORAGE 2001 est organisé afin de promouvoir
les recherches sur la multimodalité dans la communication. L'objet de cette
rencontre est l'étude des gestes et de la voix dans l'interaction, ces
modalités permettant aux individus de gérer l'espace et le temps
interactifs. L'émergence de cette thématique et le développement des travaux
sur le "gestuo-vocal" ont donné lieu à la création de l'association GeVoix
qui
est co-organisatrice de ce colloque, en compagnie du Laboratoire Parole et
Langage (CNRS ESA 6057) de l'Université de Provence.


*** Thèmes ***

- approche éthologique de la communication humaine
- communication animale et inter-espèces
- gestes à fonction communicative
- vocalité (prosodie...)
- gestuo-vocal, bimodalité, intermodalité
- multimodalité et représentations mentales
- production et perception gestuelles et vocales
- modèles sémiotiques pour l'analyse gestuo-vocale
- universaux et variations culturelles
- environnements sociaux et interaction
- contextes pathologiques
- approches développementales
- expression des émotions
- méthodologie, instrumentation et traitement automatique du geste et/ou de
la voix


*** Comité Scientifique ***

R. Allott
D. Autesserre
R. Bertrand
C. Cavé
C. Cuxac
B. Cyrulnik
M. Faraco
P. Feyereisen
A. Giacomi
I. Guaïtella
U. Hadar
J.M. Hombert
R. Jarvella
A. Kendon
D.R. Ladd
J. Laver
C. Maury-Rouan
M. Magnusson
D. Massaro
D. McNeill
J. Montredon
J. Ohala
I. Poggi
M. Rossi
S. Santi
T.A. Sebeok
J. Vauclair


*** Comité d'Organisation ***

I. Guaïtella : présidence
S. Santi : secrétariat général
D. Autesserre
O. Bagou
M. Baudoin
R. Bertrand
J. Boyer
C. Cavé
R. Cruz
M.-H. Faivre
M. Faraco
T. Kida
B. Lagrue
A. Lejeune
C. Maury-Rouan
C. Paboudjian
C. Portes


*** Calendrier ***

1er juin 2000 : envoi de l'intention de participation avec le titre
provisoire. Attention ! l'envoi de cette intention de participation est
obligatoire !
15 septembre 2000 : envoi du résumé de la communication (1 page maximum)
1er décembre 2000 : réception de la notification d'acceptation de la
communication
1er mars 2001 : envoi du texte définitif (en français ou en anglais).


*** Contact ***

Colloque ORAGE 2001
Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Université de Provence
29, av. R. Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence  Cedex 1
France

tél :  +33 (0)4 42 95 36 37
fax : +33 (0)4 42 59 50 96 (préciser colloque ORAGE 2001)
e-mail : orage2001 at lpl.univ-aix.fr
internet : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~gevoix/ORAGE2001


*** Tarifs ***

Jusqu'au 31 décembre 2000 :
Inscription : 1000 FF (153 Euros)
Etudiants : 500 FF (77 Euros)
Inscription pour les adhérents Gevoix : 700 FF (107 Euros)
Etudiants adhérents Gevoix : 200 FF (31 Euros)

Après le 31 décembre 2000 :
Inscription : 1300 FF (199 Euros)
Etudiants : 600 FF (92 Euros)
Inscription pour les adhérents Gevoix : 1000 FF (153 Euros)
Etudiants adhérents Gevoix : 300 FF (46 Euros)
[1 Euro = 6,55957 FF]

Attention : le tarif étudiant ne donne pas droit aux actes, ceux-ci pourront
être achetés lors du colloque (dans la limite des stocks disponibles), ou en
librairie après le colloque.

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:22:07 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:22:07 +0200
Subject: MT 2000 Conference
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.112207.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Roger Harris" <rwsh at dircon.co.uk>


British Computer Society
Natural Language Translation Specialist Group
URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm


****************************
EXTENDED DEADLINE 19 June 2000
*****************************


INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MT AND MULTILINGUAL NLP

MT 2000:
MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS
IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Exeter, United Kingdom
20-22 November 2000


The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG) of the
British Computer Society (BCS) and the University of Exeter announce
an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter (UK)
on 20-22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful
conference "Machine Translation: 10 Years On" held in 1994 in Cranfield.

Against the backdrop of increasingly multilingual society, MT2000 will
look at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of
the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only
recent machine translation research and products, but latest
multilingual developments in general. The organisers aim to attract a
wide range of contributions from researchers, users, educationalists
and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering.

The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will
be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection
of papers will be published in book form soon after the conference.
There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity to hold poster
sessions.


* Topics

We invite papers covering multilingual aspects of any NLP
task/application. We encourage the representation of a broad
range of areas; the following list of possible topics is not
exhaustive and is intended to indicate areas of probable interest.


Machine translation (developments, techniques, applications)
Translation aids
Controlled Languages
Computer-assisted language learning
Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation)
Evaluation
Part-of-speech tagging
Parsing
Information retrieval
Information extraction
Automatic abstracting
Word-sense disambiguation
Lexical knowledge acquisition
Anaphora resolution
Text categorisation
Dialogues systems
Web-based NLP applications
NL generation
Speech processing
Translation studies
Terminology
Lexicography
Syntax
Semantics
Discourse
Pragmatics


* Invited speakers

Martin Kay (Xerox Parc)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)


* Programme Committee

Mona Baker (UMIST, Manchester)
Christian Boitet (Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble)
Francis Bond (NTT, Kyoto)
Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice)
Laurie Gerber (Systran Software Inc.)
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble)
Changning Huang (Microsoft, China)
John Hutchins (University of Anglia)
Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Labs)
Gareth Jones (University of Exeter)
Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton)
Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal)
Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht)
Tara O'Leary (TRADOS Ireland)
Derek Lewis (University of Exeter), Co-Chair
Gabriel Lopez (New Lisbon University)
Bente Maegard (Center of Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chris Manning (Stanford University)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Co-Chair
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)
Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante)
Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge)
Lucia Rino (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University Barcelona)
Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon)
Arturo Trujillo (Vocalis plc, Cambridge)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Agnes Tutin (Stendahl University Grenoble)
Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)
Lotfi Zadeh (University of California)

* Submission Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should
be written in English and should not exceed 7 single-column
pages (preferred font: Times New Roman 12) including figures,
tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
the title of the paper, the author's name(s), the author's surface and
email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Electronic
submissions (attached postscript files, pdf, rtf or Word files) are
encouraged.

The address for e-mail paper submissions is: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk
In addition, the abstracts of the papers should be separately emailed
to Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk).

The papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines on how to produce
the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
Proceedings.


* Schedule

Paper Submission Due: 19 June 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2000
Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 2000
Conference: 20-22 November 2000


* Venue

The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the
University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon
in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the
most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport is
a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links to London,
Birmingham and other UK cities.


* Exhibitions

The conference will host exhibitions of software products and books
related to multilingual NLP. Companies/organisations interested in
exhibiting their products should contact Derek Lewis (see below).


* Call for participation

A call for participation, including the conference program and
attendance fees, will be posted in August.


* Further information

Further information can be obtained from

Derek Lewis
Queen's Building
University of Exeter
Exeter
United Kingdom
EX4 4QH
Telephone/fax: ++44 (0)1392 264296 / 264306
E-mail: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk

or from

David Wigg, NLTSG
Telephone: +44 (0) 1732 455446
E-mail: wiggjd at bcs.org.uk

Conference web site:
http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/index.htm
Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:23:18 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:23:18 +0200
Subject: Conf: PREP AN 2000
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.112318.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Kupfermann <kupferma at post.tau.ac.il>

                         COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL
                        ________________________

                              PREP AN 2000

            « La préposition française dans tous ses états »

            (Université de Tel-Aviv  -  3-9 septembre 2000)

                              Annonce n° 2



Chers Collègues,

Vous trouverez ci-dessous :
1. La liste des communications prévues pour PREP AN 2000.
2. Le schéma du calendrier de PREP AN 2000.
PREP AN 2000 aura lieu du dimanche 3 au vendredi 9 septembre, plus une
extension : excursion facultative et payante en (Haute-) Galilée le
samedi 10.

            Liste des intervenants et de leurs présentations

Adler, S. Université de Tel Aviv « Les locutions prépositives :
propriétés et éllipse de régimes »

Anscombre, J-C. CNRS-CELITH « L ‘analyse de la construction en tout N
par D. Leeman : quelques divergences, en toute amité »

Barbaud, P. Lebel M-E. Université du Québec à Montréal École normale
supérieure Fontenay/St-Cloud et Université du Québec à Montréal « Du
préverbe par en ancien français

Blanche-Benveniste, C. Université de Provence « Place de la préposition
dans les tournure restrictives en il n'y a que
.qu- »
Borillo, A. ERSS, UMR 5610 Université Toulouse-le Mirail « Il y a
prépositions et prépositions »
Cadiot, P. Université Paris VIII « La préposition comme connecteur et la
prédication seconde »
Cavalla, C. Université Lumière Lyon II «La préposition en auprès du
verbe changer »
Choi-Jonin, I. Université de Toulouse Le Mirail & ERSS, UMR 5610 Comment
définir la préposition avec ?

Coltier, D. Université de Metz « Propositions pour une classification
des valeurs de la préposition selon quand elle régit un nom, propre ou
commun, désignant un humain. »

Corblin, F. Sorbonne (Universite Paris IV) « Sur les interprétations
discursives de de »
Cortier, C. Université de Saint-Etienne « Les syntagmes prépositionnels
dans les grammaires universitaires : un observatoire de la place
accordée aux prépositions ».

Dendale, P . Université de Metz & Université d’Anvers L'emploi spatial
de  contre : propositions pour un traitement unifié
Dominicy, M.  et Martin, F. Université Libre de Bruxelles « A travers',
au travers (de) et le point de vue »
Dugas, A. L'Université du Québec à Montréal « Une analyse des
constructions transitives indirectes en français »
Evrard, I. Université Libre de Bruxelles « Diathèse et préposition :
pour une approche syntaxico-sémantique »
Feigenbaum, S. Université de Haïfa « Selon et ses synonymes: une analyse
contrastive »
Franckel, J-J. Université de Paris X-Nanterre « Les prépositions dans et
en »
Gaatone, D. Université de Tel Aviv « Les prépositions: une classe aux
contours flous »

Gross, M. LADL et Université Paris VII- Denis Diderot  « Les
prépositions de temps en français : formes et interprétations des DATES
et des DUREES »

Heinemann, A. Université de Salzburg « Les locutions prépositives et
leur traitement lexicographique »
Jayez, J. Mari, A. EHESS-CELITH « Avec comme canal d’information »
Kampers-Manhe, B. Université de Groningen « Le statut de la préposition
dans la structure des mots composés »
Kihm, A. CNRS, URA 1028, Paris « Quand de disparaît : les constructions
génitives en créole haïtien »
Kwon-Pak, S.N. Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) Par - spatial :
l'espace temporalisé ; Par - temporel : le temps spatialisé?

Lagae, V. Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis/Université
Catholique de Leuven « Le pronom en : des compléments adnominaux aux
syntagmes quantificateurs »

Leeman, D. Université de Paris X Nanterre «La préposition contre»
Lefeuvre, F. Paris III «Étude de la préposition dans le groupe
(préposition + quoi) »
Martin, F. Université libre de Bruxelles « De, par, et le contrôle des
émotions »

Martineau, F. Université d'Ottawa « La préposition à, élément
introducteur  d’un complément infinitif de l’ancien français au français
moderne »

Melis, L. KU Leuven « La préposition, le groupe prépositionnel et la
structure des constituants »
Paillard, D. Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot « Groupes
prépositionnels et rection verbale »
Péroz, P. Université de Metz « Variations sémantiques et identité
lexicale : Contre : la valeur “d’échange »
Picabia, L.  Université de Paris-VIII Il y a est-il une préposition ?

Pierrard , M. Vrije Universiteit Brussel « Comme préposition ?
Observations sur le statut catégoriel des prépositions et des
conjonctions »

Plungian, V.A. Institut de linguistique, Moscou « A TRAVERS et les
autres mots de sa famille : grammaticalisation et polysémie »

Porhiel, S. Université d’Ottawa « La dimension discursive des
expressions lexicalisées prépositionnelles dans les articles des
dictionnaires »

Riegel, M. Université de Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) « Prépositions et
constructions attributives »
Rosier, L. Université Libre de Bruxelles « Un genre de construction avec
les prépositions »

Schnedecker, C. et Bianco, M. Université de Metz  Université Pierre
Mendès-France, Grenoble « AVEC entre comitatif et conjonctif ? Étude
linguistique et psycholinguistiqu »

Shapira, C. Technion, Haifa « Préposition et conjonction ? Le cas de
AVEC»

Sleeman, P., Kester, E.-.P Université d’Amsterdam/HIL « Le caractère
propositionnel des constituants en de à l’intérieur du groupe nominal »

Stosic, D. Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail « Les prépositions spatiales
par et à travers.
Convergences et divergences. »


Tabatchnik, M. Université de Tel Aviv «Sur la structure
spatio-temporelle de certains modèles prépositionnels»
Thuillier, F. Université Paris VII « La préposition devant : invariance
et variations »
Tsirlin, M. Université de Haïfa « La  préposition de et le problème de
l’implicite dans l’article français. »

Tremblay, M.Dufresne, M.Dupuis, F. Queen’s UniversityQueen’s University
et UQAM
 « De l’évolution du statut des préverbes dans l’histoire du français »

Van Grunderbeek, L. Université d’Anvers « De sur / sus à au-dessus: la
valeur de de. »
Van Raemdonck, D. Université Libre de Bruxelles « Adverbe et préposition
: cousin, cousine ? »

Willems, D. Université de Gand « Le rôle structurant des prépositions
dans le lexique verbal. Le cas des structures à attribut de l'objet
indirect. »


                  Schéma du calendrier de PREP AN 2000

Dimanche   3.09.00   Bâtiment Webb                      Lundi
4.09.00   Bâtiment Webb

10-12.30
Accueil                                                         9-10.30
Séance
12.30-13 Allocutions de bienvenue                               10.30-11
Pause
13-14
Déjeuner
11-12.30 Séance
14-15
Plenum
12.30-14 Déjeuner
15-16.30 Séance
14-15.30 Séance
16.30-17
Pause
15.30-16 Pause
17-18-30 Séance
16-17.30 Séance
Soirée :  cocktail

Mardi  5.09.00    Bâtiment Webb                 Mercredi   6.09. 00

9-10.30  Séance
Excursion dans la région de
10.30-11
Pause
Jérusalem-Bethleem)
11-12.30 Séance
(incluse dans les droits d’inscription )
12.30-14 Déjeuner
14-15.30 Séance
15.30-16 Pause
16-17.30 Séance

Jeudi   7.09.00 Bâtiment Webb
Vendredi  8.09. 00     Bâtiment Gilman

9-10.30
Séance
9-10.30  Séance
10.30-11
Pause
10.30-11 Pause
11-12.30
Séance
11-12.30 Séance
12.30-14
Déjeuner
12.30-14 Déjeuner
14-15.30 Séance
15.30-16 Pause
16-17.30 Séance
Soirée  Banquet

Samedi  9.09.00

Excursion (facultative-payante) : (Haute-) Galilée


Hôtels : ils sont situés à proximité des plages et de la Promenade de
Tel-Aviv. Jaffa n’est pas loin non plus.
                               chambre double (une personne)
supplément pour une personne
*Center ***
41$                                                               25$
 *Metropolitan ****  53$
                                  49$ (chambre
normale)                                 34$ (petite chambre)
 [*Renaissance *****         Prière de s’adresser à l’agence ]

 Les réservations se font par carte de crédit à :
 Agence de Voyages Unitours - section Colloques (à adresser à Mme Anat
Reshef)
 POB 3190  Tel-Aviv 61031   Israël  (90/A rue Hayarkon  Tel-Aviv)
 Fax : +972 3 523 92 99     Tel. : +972 3 520 99 72



Récapitulatif des dates importantes :

 * Date-limite des inscriptions (participant(e)s et
accompagnateurs/accompagnatrices) : 30 mai 2000
* Date-limite de réservation des chambres d’hôtels : 3 juillet 2000.
* Début du colloque : lundi 3 septembre 2000.

Droits d’inscription :

*Participants et accompagnateurs/accompagnatrices : 75 $




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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:22:43 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:22:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: ASE-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.112243.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jerry Gannod <gannod at hockeytown.eas.asu.edu>



                 Automated Software Engineering - ASE'2000

                            Doctoral Symposium

                           September 11th, 2000
                             Grenoble, France

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          http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/ASE00-DocSymp.html

                           Call for Participation

The ASE'2000 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students
working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications of automated
software engineering technology, and give them the opportunity to present
and to discuss their research in a constructive and international
atmosphere. The goals of the symposium are:

   * To provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants' current
     research, and guidance on future research directions,
   * To develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of
     collaborative research,
   * To contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other
     researchers and conference events.

The Doctoral Symposium will be held one day before the main conference, on
September 11th. Selected students will present their work and receive
constructive feedback from a panel of advisors and other Doctoral Symposium
students. Besides scientific matters, the students will also have the
opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD and
performing research as a young professional in automated software
engineering.

Moreover, during the ASE conference itself, a session will be
organized where the students presenting at the symposium will also be
able to present their work to all the conference attendees.

The ASE'2000 Doctoral Symposium has the same scope as the main conference.
Topics include but are not restricted to:

   * Automated software specification
   * Automated software design and synthesis
   * Category-theoretic approaches
   * Computer-supported cooperative work
   * Domain modeling
   * Knowledge acquisition
   * Maintenance and evolution
   * Process and workflow management
   * Program understanding
   * Re-engineering
   * Requirements engineering
   * Reuse
   * Software architectures
   * Testing
   * Tutoring, help, documentation systems
   * Human computer interaction
   * Verification and validation

Submissions

To apply for participation at the symposium, you should submit an abstract
of your doctoral work to the symposium organizers (see below). Only
electronic submissions will be accepted. All submissions must be in either
PDF or PostScript form. Abstracts should be less than 3000 words, and
should:

   * clearly identify the research question you are addressing,
   * outline the significant problems in the field of research and the
     current solutions,
   * present the preliminary ideas and state the proposed approach clearly,
     and
   * present the contributions of the applicant and the results of the
     work.

In addition, you should provide a (short) letter (possibly e-mail) of
recommendation from your dissertation advisor. The letter must include an
assessment of the current status of your thesis research, and an expected
date for dissertation submission. The Doctoral Symposium is intended for
students who have not yet completed their dissertation research, and do not
expect to write up their dissertation before the conference. If you are
already writing your dissertation, or expect to be substantially done by
the time of the Symposium, we encourage you to submit your work as a full
paper to a future ASE conference. Note that advisors of student presenters
will not be allowed to attend their student's presentations.

Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium advisors panel, and
selected for inclusion in the symposium on the basis of originality,
technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance to the conference
topics.

Proceedings will be provided, that will include all accepted papers at the
Doctoral Symposium. The proceedings will also be available on-line on the
ASE web site.

Financial Support

Travel scholarships may be available for some or all students presenting
at the Doctoral Symposium, contingent on the availability of funding.
Quality of the submitted work will be a factor in allocating any
scholarships. All presenting students will receive free registration, and
will be expected to work at the registration tables during the conference
in return.

Important Dates

 Deadline for submission:    June 13th, 2000
 Notification of acceptance: July 3rd, 2000
 Camera-ready paper due:     July 16th, 2000
 Symposium presentations:    September 11th, 2000
 ASE'2000 main conference:   September 12-15th, 2000

Contact Address

Questions regarding the Doctoral Symposium should be directed to:

  Renaud Marlet                     or   John Penix
  Trusted Logic                          Automated Software Engineering
Group
  5, rue du bailliage                    NASA Ames Research Center, M/S
269-3
  78000 Versailles                       Moffett Field, CA 94035
  FRANCE                                 USA
  Phone: +33 1 30 97 25 08               Phone: +1 (650) 604-6576
  Fax: +33 1 30 97 25 19
  Renaud.Marlet at trusted-logic.fr         JPenix at ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov

For more information, see
  http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/ASE00-DocSymp.html

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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Tue May 16 14:21:11 2000
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:21:11 +0100
Subject: Q: Neologismes dans les "chats"
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.152111.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 20:06:56 +0200
From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000515200414.00b649a0 at up.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis


Nous accueillons ici un étudiant en post-graduation de l'université de Tizi
Ouzou, qui fait une étude sur la formation de néologismes dans les "chats".
Cela me paraît être un sujet intéressant, mais je n'ai strictement aucune
source à lui fournir. Quelqu'un connaît-il des études sur ce sujet (ou des
sujets apparentés, par exemple nétologismes sur les newsgroups).

Merci!


Jean Véronis
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:06:21 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:06:21 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.100621.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com>
   Subject: proposition de poste

2/ From: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk
   Subject: Job (Salford)

3/ From: Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
   Subject: Corpora: Postdocs in Linguistic Database Research

4/ From:  Jerry Hobbs <Hobbs at ai.sri.com>
   Subject:  Comp Linguist at SRI International, California U.S.A.
___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com>
   Subject: proposition de poste




SINEQUA (ex CORA-SA), start-up dynamique
développant des logiciels intégrant des techniques
d'analyses linguistiques pour le e-commerce,
Internet, la recherche d'information multilingue,
etc. recherche :
            **********************************
            un(e) informaticien(ne) linguiste
            **********************************
Intégré(e) à l'équipe de linguistes, vous
participez au développement de nos produits ainsi
qu'aux travaux de recherche menés. De formation
supérieure en informatique, vous montrez un
intérêt particulier pour le traitement automatique
du langage naturel. Vous maîtrisez l'environnement
Linux et/ou Windows NT et vos connaissances des
bases de données, des langages C et C++ vous
permettent d'accéder rapidement au cour de nos
technologies. La connaissance d'une (ou plusieurs)
langues étrangères constituerait un atout. Enfin,
vos capacités à travailler en collaboration aussi
bien avec les linguistes qu'avec les
informaticiens seront vivement appréciées.

La rémunération sera fonction de l'expérience et
des compétences des candidats.
Le lieu de travail est à Ivry sur Seine, en proche
banlieue parisienne.

Merci d'envoyer votre candidature par courrier
électronique, postal ou télécopie à :
Vanessa Combet-Meunier
SINEQUA
51, rue Ledru Rollin
F-94200 Ivry sur Seine / France
Tél. : +33 (0)1-49-87-06-00
Fax : +33 (0)1-49-87-06-01
combet at sinequa.com
http://www.sinequa.com

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk
   Subject: Job (Salford)

Dear colleagues,
The CS department will have two posts (permanent). One of the areas of
interest is NLP (Reader ot lecturer according to expertise). Please
circulate this advert to your institution.

Best regards,


Dr Sophia Ananiadou
Senior Lecturer
Computer Science, School of Sciences
University of Salford
Salford M5 4WT
Tel: +44 161 295 0480  Fax: +44 161 295 55 59
S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk
-

Copy of Advert



School of Sciences

Reader in Computer Science (Ref no. SC/4)

Lecturer A in Computer Science (ref no. SC/5)


The Computer Science courses at Salford reflect exciting advances in
internet technology, client server computing, object oriented programmi=
ng,
software engineering and natural language processing. The School's
research activities include intelligent systems, natural language
processing and formal methods,  that  were awarded a  4A in the last RA=
E.

Due to significant expansion plans, the School seeks a Reader and a
Lecturer to further develop its research and teaching activities.  We a=
re
looking for specialists in client server computing, Java, internet
technology, multimedia technology, groupware, computational linguistics=
, or
formal methods, but will consider excellent candidates from all areas o=
f
Computer Science. Applicants for the post of Reader should have a good
track record of publications, research grants, and supervision of PhDs.=


For an informal discussion please contact the Head of School Professor
Allan Boardman on 0161 295 5054, email A.D.Boardman at salford.ac.uk  or t=
he
Subject Leader Dr Sunil Vadera on 0161 295 3622,  email:
S.Vadera at salford.ac.uk.


For further details and application forms please call: 0161 295 2122
(24hrs) or email: personnel at salford.ac.uk

Closing date: 6 June 2000

___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
   Subject: Corpora: Postdocs in Linguistic Database Research



The Linguistic Data Consortium and the Database Group in the
Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of
Pennsylvania have two 2-year postdoctoral positions available in
linguistic database research, funded by the National Science Foundation.

The positions will involve research in the following
areas: data models and architectures for linguistic databases;
semi-structured query languages and indexing methods for databases of
annotated speech; and the data provenance problem in linguistic
databases.  Candidates will be expected to have completed a PhD in
language engineering, computational linguistics, databases, or a
related field, and have a demonstrated ability to test novel ideas
through prototyping.

Funding for the positions comes from two projects:

1. TalkBank (NSF/Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence)
   http://www.talkbank.org/

This is an interdisciplinary research project to foster
fundamental research in the study of human and animal communication,
by providing standards and tools for creating, searching, and
publishing primary materials via networked computers.

2. Data Provenance (NSF/Digital Libraries)
   http://db.cis.upenn.edu/Research/provenance.html

This project aims to develop new data models, query languages and
storage techniques, permitting information about the origin of a piece
of data to be stored and propagated as data items move through a
series of curated databases.

Further information about the projects is available from the websites.
Anyone who is interested in these positions is invited to contact
Steven Bird <sb at ldc.upenn.edu> and Peter Buneman <peter at cis.upenn.edu>.

--

Linguistic Data Consortium    -    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
U Penn Database Group         -    http://db.cis.upenn.edu/


___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Jerry Hobbs <Hobbs at ai.sri.com>
   Subject:  Comp Linguist at SRI International, California U.S.A.


Rank of Job: Ph.D.
Areas Required: Computational Linguist
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: SRI International
Department: Artificial Intelligence Center
State or Province: California
Country: U.S.A.
Final Date of Application: none
Contact: Jerry Hobbs Hobbs at ai.sri.com

Address for Applications:
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park
California 94025
U.S.A.

The Natural Language Group of the Artificial
Intelligence Center at SRI International, Menlo
Park, California, is seeking to hire computational
linguists at or near the Ph.D. level with
experience in one or more of the following areas:
1. Dialog Modeling
2. Information Extraction
3. Statistical Natural Language Processing
4. Encoding Commonsense Knowledge



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:08:36 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:08:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: EMNLP/VLC
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.100836.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu (David Yarowsky)





                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                (EMNLP/VLC-2000) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON
            EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND
                             VERY LARGE CORPORA

   Sponsored by SIGDAT (ACL's Special Interest Group for Linguistic Data
                    and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP)

                             October 7-8, 2000
               Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

                            In conjunction with
                  ACL-2000: The 38th Annual Meeting of the
                 Association for Computational Linguistics

   This conference aims to bring together academic researchers and
   industrial practitioners to discuss empirical and corpus-based natural
   language processing through technical paper sessions, invited talks,
   and panel discussions. Topics of interest include (but are not
   limited to):

     * statistical parsing
     * language and dialog models
     * machine translation
     * information retrieval
     * information extraction
     * comparative evaluation of empirical vs. rule- and knowledge-based
       technologies
     * lexical acquisition
     * statistical language understanding
     * phrase identification
     * noun phrase coreference
     * question answering
     * word sense disambiguation
     * word and term segmentation and extraction
     * alignment
     * bilingual lexicon extraction
     * text categorization

   This year, we are especially interested in papers discussing these
   topics in the context of web-oriented applications.

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   SUBMISSIONS

   Submissions are limited to original, unpublished and empirically
   evaluated work. Reviewing of papers will be blind. Electronic
   submissions are required; author instructions, stylesheets and
   a web-based submissions interface may be found at
   http://nlp.cs.jhu.edu/~sigdat2k. Submitted papers should conform to
   the colacl.sty style file (or the provided MSWord equivalent) for final
   2-column format, with the exception that name, affiliation and address
   should be replaced with 'XXX'. Full paper-length submissions are
   strongly encouraged, and should not exceed 9 pages in specified format.
   Submissions must be received on or before June 26, 2000.

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   Important Dates:
   June 26  Submission of full-length paper
   July 28  Acceptance notice
   August 29  Camera-ready paper due
   October 7-8  Conference date

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   Program Chair:    Hinrich Schuetze, GroupFire (hinrich at groupfire.com)
   Program Co-Chair: Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corp. (kysu at bdc.com.tw)


   http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~schuetze/emnlp-vlc2000.html






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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:09:18 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:09:18 +0200
Subject: Appel: Translating and the Computer
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.100918.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Nicole Adamides <nicole at aslib.co.uk>



Apologies if you receive more than one copy of this announcement - it
has been sent to several lists.

*************************************************************
  22nd Conference
 "Translating and the Computer"
      16-17 November 2000
    One Great George Street, London, SW1
*************************************************************
The annual conference "Translating and the Computer" has been an
important forum for Machine Translation and Translation Aids users over
the past 21 years. The conference is one of the few international events
which focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such
has been particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including
translators, business managers, researchers and language experts.

Against the background of an increasingly multilingual society and the
all-encompassing impact of information technology, this year's
conference will address the latest developments in translation (and
translation-related) software.

This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the
conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user
aspects of translation or translation-related software rather than on
research and development issues. Presentations accompanied by
demonstrations are especially welcome.

TOPICS

The range of conference topics includes (but is not limited to)
* use of Machine Translation (MT) systems
* machine-aided translation and translation aids
* memory based translation
* controlled languages and their use in MT
* speech translation
* terminology
* localisation
* translation aids for minority languages
* multilingual document management/workflow
* experience of companies using translation software
* translating and the computer: the new millennium challenges
* the Internet and translation aids

PROGRAMME CHAIRS
Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Chris Pyne, ICE, Germany
Daniel Grasmick, SAP, Germany

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract (between 500 and
1000 words) of the paper they would like to present. Extended abstracts
should be sent by post, fax or email before 22 May 2000 to:

Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser
ASLIB, The Association for Information Management
Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7903 0000      Fax: +44 (0) 20 7903 0011
Email nicole.adamides at aslib.co.uk  WWW: http://www.aslib.co.uk

The full-length versions of the accepted papers will be included in the
conference proceedings.  Electronic versions of the full papers are
expected at Aslib by 1 October 2000.




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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:09:51 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:09:51 +0200
Subject: Ecole: Tbilissi Summer School
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.100951.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Pascal Boldini <Pascal.Boldini at paris4.sorbonne.fr>



#################################################################

                     ANNOUCEMENT
                  Tbilisi Summer School
                 in Language, Logic, and Computation
                 29th August - 8 September 2000
                  Tbilisi, Georgia

The Georgian Centre for Language, Logic, and Speech, based at the Tbilisi
State University, will host Tbilisi Summer School, main purpose of which
is to make the students and young scholars acquainted with the modern state

of affairs in the mentioned fields of science, and - at the same time - to
further contacts and scientific collaboration between Western and Eastern
Scholars.


 LECTURERS
Jurij Apresjan, Moscow
Matthias Baaz, Vienna
Pascal Boldini, Paris
Marina Glavinskaja, Moscow
Michel Parigot, Paris
Carl Vogel,Dublin
Andrej Voronkov, Manchester


COURSES
- Foundations of linguistic semantics (Ju.Apresjan)
- On the generalisation of proofs and calculations (M.Baaz)
- Type theories for semantics and cognition (P.Boldini)
- Semantics of aspect (M.Glavinskaja)
- Proofs as programs (M.Parigot)
- Cognitive constraints on linguistic theory. (C.Vogel)
- Logical Foundations of deductive databases. (A.Voronkov).






SCHEDULE


Tuesday, August 29

12.00 - 13.00   Opening of the School
18.00 -    Banquet



Wednesday, August 30

10.00 - 13.00   M. Parigot. Proofs as programs
13.00 - 14.00   Lunch
14.00 - 17.00   Ju. Apresjan. Foundations of linguistic
    semantics



Thursday, August 31

10.00 - 13.00   M. Parigot. Proofs as programs.
13.00 - 14.00   Lunch
14.00 - 17.00   Ju. Apresjan. Foundations of linguistic
    semantics.



Friday, September 1

10.00 - 13.00   M. Glavinskaja. Semantics of aspect.
13.00 - 14.00   Lunch
14.00 - 17.00   C. Vogel. Cognitive Constraints on
    Linguistic Theory.


Saturday, September 2 Recreation (sight-seeing in Tbilisi and environs,
Sunday, September 3        excursion).



Monday, September 4

10.00 - 13.00   M. Glavinskaja. Semantics of aspect.
13.00 - 14.00   Lunch
14.00 - 16.00   C. Vogel. Cognitive Constraints on Linguistic
    Theory.



Tuesday, September 5

10.00 - 14.00   A. Voronkov. Logical foundations of deductive
    databases.
14.00 - 15.00   Lunch
15.00 - 17.00   C. Vogel. Cognitive Constraints on Linguistic
    Theory.

Wednesday, September 6

10.00 - 12.00   A. Voronkov. Logical foundations of deductive
    databases.
12.00 - 14.00   M. Baaz. On the generalization of proofs and
    calculations.
14.00 - 15.00   Lunch
15.00 - 17.00   P. Boldini. Type theories for semantics and
    cognition.


Thursday, September 7

10.00 - 12.00   M. Baaz. On the generalisation of proofs and
    calculations.
12.00 - 14.00   P. Boldini. Type theories for semantics and
    cognition.
14.00 - 15.00   Lunch


Friday, September 8

10.00 - 12.00   M. Baaz. On the generalization of proofs and
    calculations.
12.00 - 14.00   P. Boldini. Type theories for semantics and
    cognition.
14.00 - 15.00   Lunch
15.00 - 16.00   Closing of the School.
18.00    Banquet



STUDENTS
Besides local audience we shall be glad to see at the School foreign
students also. Participants fee for such persons will amount to $120
(excursion, banquet, reprints, etc.). They could be comfortably
accommodated at Georgian families (with two meals) - $40 per day.




LOCATION AND SIGHTSEEING TOURS

    Georgia is the ancient country situated between Black and Caspian seas,

Caucasus Mountains and Turkey. This is the country of Golden Fleece, myth
of
Argonauts, Jason and Medea, Promethee, chained to the Caucasus mountains.
Tbilisi - capital of Georgia - has more than 1 million in habitant. It is
situated some 100-150 km to the south of main Caucasus ridge, in the
beautiful valley of the river Mtkvari, surrounded by the green slopes of
the
Caucasus spurs. The city has a long (1500 year) history and abounds in
historical and cultural memorials. Georgia is famous for its high quality
wines, exquisite cuisine and cordial hospitality.

The main site of the Symposium, Tbilisi state University, is the chief
centre of education in the country, and has several outstanding scholars
in science, art and politics among its graduates.

As a route of excursion is chosen the Georgian Military Road going via
ancient
capital of Georgia - Mtskheta, with its abundant architectural and
historical
monuments, crossing the main ridge of Caucasus by the Cross Pass and
reaching
the final point of supposed trip - mountain resort Kazbegi with its Trinity
Church situated on the top of high peak facing the second (after Elbrus)
mountain - peak of Caucasus - Mkinvarcveri (Glacier - mountain).


  TRAVEL INFORMATION

The only real way of arrival in Tbilisi is by air. If direct flight from
the
point of your departure does not exist, the preferable ways are via
Istambul,
Frankfurt or Moscow.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
T.Khurodze (Clair, Pro-rector of Tbilisi State University)
R.Asatiani (Institute of Oriental Studies)
N.Chanishvili (Tbilisi State University)
G.Chikoidze (Institute of Control Systems)
K.Pkhakadze (Institute of Applied Mathematics)
Kh.Rukhaja (Institute of Aplied Mathematics).


   For additional information, please, use the following address:
George Chikoidze
Dept. of Language Modelling
Inst. of Control Systems
Georgian Academy of Sciences
34, K. Gamsakhurdia
380060 Tbilisi
Georgia
Phone: +9 9532 382136
E- mail: chiko at contsys.acnet.ge

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Pascal Boldini     Tel : 01 44 39 89 58
ISHA
96 Boulevard Raspail                     Fax : 01 44 39 89 51
75006 Paris FRANCE
http://rimbaud.paris4.sorbonne.fr/~Boldini/
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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:09:44 +0200
Subject: Conf: COLING (2 adds)
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.100944.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Hans Uszkoreit <uszkoreit at dfki.de>
   Subject: COLING 2000 --- Call for Participation

2/ From: Remi Zajac <rzajac at crl.nmsu.edu>
   Subject: Last Call: COLING-2000 Workshop on Toolsets and Architectures
_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Hans Uszkoreit <uszkoreit at dfki.de>
   Subject: COLING 2000 --- Call for Participation

COLING 2000  in  EUROPE

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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 (31 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, AT&T, New Jersey, 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.

Please take advantage of early registration at
http://www.coling.org/reg.html before May 31st.

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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2/ From: Remi Zajac <rzajac at crl.nmsu.edu>
   Subject: Last Call: COLING-2000 Workshop on Toolsets and Architectures


Call for Papers for the

COLING-2000 Workshop on Using Toolsets and Architectures To Build NLP
Systems

Centre Universitaire, Luxembourg, 5 August 2000

(see also this call at  http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/COLING00)


Background

The purpose of the workshop is to present the state-of-the-art on NLP
toolsets and workbenches that can be used to develop multilingual
and/or multi-applications NLP components and systems. Although
technical presentations of particular toolsets are of interest, we
would like to emphasize methodologies and practical experiences in
building components or full applications using an NLP
toolset. Combined demonstrations and paper presentations are strongly
encouraged.

Many toolsets have been developed to support the implementation of
single NLP components (taggers, parsers, generators, dictionaries) or
complete Natural Language Processing applications (Information
Extraction systems, Machine Translation systems).  These tools aim at
facilitating and lowering the cost of building NLP systems. Since the
tools themselves are often complex pieces of software, they require a
significant amount of effort to be developed and maintained in the
first place. Is this effort worth the trouble?  It is to be noted that
NLP toolsets have often been originally developed for implementing a
single component or application. In this case, why not build the NLP
system using a general programming language such as Lisp or Prolog?
There can be at least two answers. First, for pure efficiency issues
(speed and space), it is often preferable to build a parameterized
algorithm operating on a uniform data structure (e.g., a
phrase-structure parser). Second, it is harder, and often impossible,
to develop, debug and maintain a large NLP system directly written in
a general programming language.

It has been the experience of many users that a given toolset is quite
often unusable outside its environment: the toolset can be too
restricted in its purpose (e.g. an MT toolset that cannot be used for
building a grammar checker), too complex to use, or even too difficult
to install. There have been, in particular in the US under the Tipster
program, efforts to promote instead common architectures for a given
set of applications (primarily IR and IE in Tipster; see also the
Galaxy architecture of the DARPA Communicator project). Several
software environments have been built around this flexible concept,
which is closer to current trends in main stream software engineering.

The workshop aims at providing a picture of the current problems faced
by developers and users of toolsets, and future directions for the
development and use of NLP toolsets. We encourage reports of actual
experiences in the use of toolsets (complexity, training, learning
curve, cost, benefits, user profiles) as well as presentation of
toolsets concentrating on user issues (GUIs, methodologies, on-line
help, etc.)  and application development. Demonstrations are also
welcome.


Audience

Researchers and practitioners in Language Engineering, users and
developers of tools and toolsets.


Issues

Although individual tools (such as a POS taggers) have their use, they
typically need to be integrated in a complete application (e.g. an IR
system). Language Engineering issues in toolset and architectures
include (in no particular order):

  Practical experience in the use of a toolset;
  Methodological issues associated to the use of a toolset;
  Benefits and deficiencies of toolsets;
  User (linguist/programmer) training and support;
  Adaptation of a tool (or toolset) to a new kind of application;
  Adaptation of a tool to a new language;
  Integration of a tool in an application;
  Architectures and support software;
  Reuse of data resources vs. processing components;
  NLP algorithmic libraries.


Format of the Workshop

The one-day workshop will include twelve presentation periods which
will be divided into 20 minutes presentations followed by 10 minutes
reserved for exchanges. We encourage the authors to focus on the
salient points of their presentation and identify possible
controversial positions.  There will be ample time set aside for
informal and panel discussions and audience participation. Please note
that workshop participants are required to register at
http://www.coling.org/reg.html.


Deadlines

   21 May 2000: Submission deadline.
   11 June 2000: Notification to authors.
   24 June 2000: Final camera-ready copy.
   5 August 2000: COLING-2000 Workshop.


Submission Format

Send submissions of no more than 6 pages conforming to the COLING
format to zajac at crl.nmsu.edu. We prefer electronic submissions using
either PDF or Postscript. Final submissions can extend to 10 pages.


Organizing Committee

  Rémi Zajac (Chair), CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA:
       zajac at crl.nmsu.edu.
  Jan Amtrup, CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA:
      jamtrup at crl.nmsu.edu.
  Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Saarbrucken:
       busemann at dfki.de.
  Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield:
      hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk.
  Guenther Goerz, IMMD VIII, University of Erlangen:
      goerz at immd8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de.
  Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen:
      vannoord at let.rug.nl.
  Fabio Pianesi, IRST, Trento:
      pianesi at irst.itc.it.


Of Related Interest

  The Natural Language Software Registry at
      http://www.dfki.de/lt/registry/sections.html
  The Coling-200 Web Site at http://www.coling.org/

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:11:04 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:11:04 +0200
Subject: Ecole: ESSLLI 2001
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.101104.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Ahti-Veikko J Pietarinen <pietarin at cc.helsinki.fi>



      (Apologies for multiple copies)

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                      PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

                         ESSLLI XIII - 2001


                        August 13 - 24, 2001
                         Helsinki, Finland



This year, the twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information (ESSLLI) will be held in Birmingham, England. For more
information on how to register (early registration deadline: May 31),
please refer to

              http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/

At their website you will also be able to obtain more information on
the courses that will be taught, the time schedule, etc.

Next year, the thirteenth ESSLLI will be held in Helsinki, Finland,
from August 13 until 24.

Before the summer, a call for course proposals will be sent out by
the Chair of the ESSLLI 2001 Program Committee, Marcus Kracht at
<kracht at math.fu-berlin.de>.

Anyone interested in organizing satellite events around ESSLLI 2001
are invited to contact the ESSLLI 2001 organization at
<sandu at elo.helsinki.fi>.

The ESSLLI summer schools are organized under the auspices of FOLLI,
the European Association for Logic, Language and Information:

                   http://www.folli.uva.nl/

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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon May 22 10:16:35 2000
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:16:35 +0100
Subject: Q: Constitution de corpus
Message-ID: <MON.22.MAY.2000.111635.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:56:55 +0200
From: Nicolas Denand <denand at lim.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-Id: <392153A7.3337D7E5 at lim.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://pluto.lim.univ-mrs.fr/


Bonjour,

Je suis étudiant en thèse dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique de
la Langue Naturelle et je souhaite constituer un corpus de
questions/réponses sur les aspects spatiaux du langage. Dans ce but,
j'ai mis en ligne (URL : http://pluto.lim.univ-mrs.fr ) un questionnaire
composé de 11 images.
Je serais très heureux de recueillir le plus grand nombre possible de
réponses.
Merci d'avance.


Nicolas Denand
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Marseille
denand at lim.univ-mrs.fr


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 23 16:36:08 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:36:08 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAY.2000.183608.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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1/ From: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie <clerger at margaux.inria.fr>
   Subject: INRIA

2/ From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject : Research Studentship in Computational Linguistics

3/ From: Nicola Guarino <Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it>
   Subject: Open research positions in ontological engineering
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1/ From: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie <clerger at margaux.inria.fr>
   Subject: INRIA

Bonjour,

L'INRIA ouvre des postes d'accueil de 1 a 2 ans pour des jeunes Bac+4
ou +5 qui souhaitent une formation complementaire dans une equipe de
recherche.

Dans ce cadre, l'equipe ATOLL sur Rocquencourt propose le sujet RO-05
"Mise en oeuvre d'un système d'aide à la maintenance de traductions
par intégration modulaire de composants linguistiques".

Les dossiers sont a renvoyer avant le 9 Juin 2000.

Plus d'information est disponible sur
    http://www.inria.fr/Trav/PostesAccueil/jeunes.html
    http://www.inria.fr/Trav/PostesAccueil/RO-05.html

Pour obtenir la version longue du sujet,
     http://atoll.inria.fr/accueil.html

Les personnes interessees sont invitees a contacter
    Eric de la Clergerie <Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr>

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2/ From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject : Research Studentship in Computational Linguistics



Usual apologies for multiple postings
------------------


RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP
(Current value of bursary £ 6,500)


The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities,
Languages and Social Studies invites applications for a
research studentship in Computational Linguistics.
The successful candidate will work on term extraction and
its application in anaphora resolution and automatic
abstracting. We are looking for candidates with a good
honours degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer
Science, with excellent programming skills and some experience
in statistics and Natural Language Processing or Linguistics.
Overseas candidates must have a good command of English.

The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship
in September 2000.

For further information/queries, please contact
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471,
Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk.

Formal applications must be made to:

The Research Support Unit
University of Wolverhampton
Dudley Campus
Castle View
Dudley
DY1 3HR
Email L.Barlow at wlv.ac.u

and must include

- a completed application form,
- a CV and
- a covering letter in which the candidates explain
why they have applied for the studentship, give details of
their research interests/experience, background,
programming skills and an outline of any experience in
or knowledge of statistics and Natural Language
Processing or Linguistics.

When you apply, please quote the reference number
of the studentship  RS276.

The application form can be downloaded from
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/


Closing date for applications: 8 June 2000.

_____________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Nicola Guarino <Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it>
   Subject: Open research positions in ontological engineering


Open research positions in ontological engineering


LADSEB-CNR has recently become involved in an European industrial
project focused on ontology-driven knowledge management/knowledge
extraction in multiple domains. Within this project, we will be
committed to build a general reference ontology with lexical links to
English and Italian, and to offer methodological consultancy for
domain-specific ontology-driven conceptual modeling and information
retrieval mainly in the fields of Banking and Insurance. Other
related projects will involve ontology-based harmonization of
meta-data standards, especially in the field of e-commerce.

We are looking for motivated people to join a research team in which
the sophisticated ontology design principles we have developed in the
past few years will be challenged by very concrete engineering goals.

We are planning for two researchers with a PhD in computer science,
computational lingustics, philosophy or equivalent experience, whose
salary and formal position will depend on their qualifications.
Further research grants are planned for somebody willing to spend
some time here working on a PhD topic related to the project.

Contracts are for 1 year starting on September 2000, with the
possibility of extending them for up to 2 years.

European citizenship is preferred (although not strictly required)
for the above positions; shorter visiting positions may be negotiated
with non-European citizens.

For further information contact:

Nicola Guarino
National Research Council phone: +39 O49 8295751
LADSEB-CNR  fax:   +39 O49 8295763
Corso Stati Uniti, 4  email: Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it
I-35127 Padova, Italy

http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/ontology/ontology.html


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

Nicola Guarino
National Research Council phone: +39 O49 8295751
LADSEB-CNR  fax:   +39 O49 8295763
Corso Stati Uniti, 4  email: Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it
I-35127 Padova
Italy

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 23 16:37:41 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:37:41 +0200
Subject: Appel: Internet and Multimedia Application to French Studies
Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAY.2000.183741.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Rejean Canac-Marquis <rcanacma at sfu.ca>


Premier Appel de Communications
First Call for Papers


Multimédia, internet et francophonie;  à la recherche d'un dialogue

Internet and Multimedia Application to French Studies; in Search of a
Dialogue

March 8, 9, 10 mars 2001
Centre for Dialogue - Harbour Centre
Department of French
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby/Vancouver BC

C'est dans le but d'explorer les approches nouvelles aux études
francophones dans les domaines de la recherche et de l'enseignement de la
langue, de la linguistique et de la littérature que nous organisons ce
colloque. Le dialogue que nous souhaitons favoriser entre les nouvelles
technologies et une perception plus traditionnelle des études francophones
nous amènera, bien entendu, à considérer les derniers développements dans
la recherche en études amérindiennes, asiatiques, européennes, etc.

We will explore, in this Conference, new research and teaching trends in
French Studies (Language, Linguistics, Literature). We therefore wish to
bridge traditional approaches to French Studies and the use of new
technology, multimedia, and the internet. Papers on Asian, European, Native
studies, are welcome.


Sujets de communication, d'ateliers, de présentations
1. Le multimédia dans l'enseignement des langues, de la linguistique et de
 la littérature
2. L'internet, lieu de production du discursif
3. Canadanet; réalité virtuelle?
4. La toile francophone
5. Après les nouvelles technologies

1. Use of the Multimedia in the Teaching of Language, Linguistics and
 Literature
2. Internet as Text
3. Canadanet; virtual reality?
4. The francophone net
5. New technology: what's next?


Prière d'adresser une proposition de communication d'une page et un court
c.v. à/

Please send a one-page paper proposal and a brief resume to
rcanacma at sfu.ca

Réjean Canac Marquis, Département de français, Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby,
B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada. Tel. (604) 291-3544, fax: (604) 291-5932


Département de français/ Department of French:  www.sfu.ca/french/
Réjean Canac Marquis
Assistant professor, Department of French
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC
Canada
V5A 1S6

rcanacma at sfu.ca
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 23 16:38:39 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:38:39 +0200
Subject: Conf: Bellagio Workshop
Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAY.2000.183839.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Yorick Wilks <y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk>


Dear Colleague:
below is the draft program for the Third International Workshop on
Human Computer Conversation at Bellagio. It will be on the web along with
all
other hotel and registration information, at:

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/program.htm
l

We can still accept a few more registrations for the Workshop, but
hotel accormodation is getting short and (non-invited) speakers and
attendees should hurry. Below the program is a set of fax numbers
for Bellagio hotels, a somewhat wider selection is given than the original
set
on the website. Fax is the normal way to book hotels in Italy, and it
may be worth noting that there are always cancellations of early bookings
a month ahead of given dates, so it may well be worth faxing a repeat
request to a hotel of your choice on 1st or 2nd of June.


DRAFT PROGRAM FOR HCCW3

Monday 3rd July, 2000

Morning session

1000     Registration and Coffee.
1020     Welcome to HCCW3.
1030     Invited Talk: Some findings on the grammar of English
  Conversation.  Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster, UK).
1110     Invited Talk: Conversing with Stochastic Language Models.
         Jason Hutchens (UWA, AUS).

         Track I Submitted Papers:

1200     The Infant Conversational System.
         Paul Bucheit (Harold Washington College, US)
1230     Grammars with Genetic Algorithms (The Sex Life of Grammars).
         Marc Blasband (Compuleer, NL)

         Track II Submitted Papers:

1200     Verbal and nonverbal discourse planning.
         Catherine Pelachaud (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", IT)
1230     A Fundamental Architecture To Integrate Conversation Management
         Engines with Conversation Development and Evaluation Tools.
         Emmett J. Coin (ejTalk Research, US)


Evening Session

         Track I Submitted Papers:

1800     Non-problems and social obligations in human-computer
         conversation. Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, NL)
1830     In the beginning was the "END": Evaluation of Natural Dialogues
         as a step towards improving artificial ones.
         Jean-Baptiste Berthelin (CNRS-LIMSI, FR)

         Track II Submitted Papers:

1800     Rule-Based Dialogue Management Systems.
         Nick Webb (University of Sheffield, UK)
1830     The role of robust semantic analysis in spoken language
         dialogue systems.
         Vincenzo Pallotta (MEDIA Research Group-DI-LITH, CH)
1900     Animated Conversational Agents in E-Commerce Enterprises.
         Helen McBreen (University of Edinburgh, UK)


Tuesday 4th July, 2000

Morning Session

0930     Invited Talk: Dialogs: The Next Generation User Interface.
         Bruno Alabiso (Microsoft, US).
1010     Invited Talk: Experiences from the Verbmobil Project.
         Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, DE).

Coffee

         Track I Submitted Papers:

1100     Information States, Obligations and Intentional Structure in
         Dialogue Modelling.
         Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
1130     Characteristics of Acceptance Utterances in Reaction to Answers
         to Questions and their Relations to Dialog Strategies.
         Akira Shimazu (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
         Technology, JP)
1200     Question Accommodation and Information States in Dialogue.
         Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg University, SE)
1230     Context and Content in Dialogue Systems.
         Guenther Goerz, Bernd Ludwig and Martin Klarner
         (University of Erlangen-Nürenberg, DE)

         Track II Submitted Papers:

1100     What Makes Speakers Angry in Human-Computer Conversation.
         Kerstin Fischer (University of Hamburg, DE)
1130     A Flexible Spoken Dialogue Manager.
         Eli Hagen (Simon Fraser University, CAN)
1200     Taking Turns Talking About Text In A Reading Tutor That
         Listens. Gregory Aist (LTI, CMU, US)
1230     DMML: An XML Language for Interacting with Multi-modal Dialog
         Systems. Nicolas Nicolov (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US)


Evening Sessions in parallel

1800     Panel: What if any, is the role of politeness in dialogue
         implementations.
         (Chair: Yorick Wilks) Geoffrey Leech,
         other participants to be announced.

1800     Demonstration session


Wednesday 5th July, 2000

Morning Session

0930     Invited Talk: Title to be announced.
         David Traum (University of Maryland, US).
1010     Invited Talk: The Dialogue Game: designing task-oriented
         spontaneous interaction systems for automated call centers.
         Tomek Strzalkowski (General Electric Research Lab., US).

Coffee
         Track I Submitted Papers:

1130     Task-Oriented Dialogues.
         Sergei Nirenburg and Jim Cowie (New Mexico State University, US)
1200     Bayesian Selection of Conversational Responses.
         Gene Ball (Microsoft, US)
1230     Politeness as Actions of an Implicit Task.
         David Novick (University of Texas at El Paso, US)

         Track II Submitted Papers:

1130     The Virtual Presenter: a Conversational Character for
  Interactive TV.  Marc Cavazza (University of Teeside, UK)
1200     AutoTutor's Conversational Behaviors.
         Natalie Person (Rhodes College, US)
1230     "Kairai" - Software Robots Understanding Natural Language.
         Yusuke Shinyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP)


Evening Session

1700     Panel: Is there a real gulf between theoretical models of
         dialogue and implementations and, if so, is this a healthy
         state of affairs?
         (Chair: Yorick Wilks) Participants to be announced.


FAX NUMBERS OF BELLAGIO HOTELS

5* Hotels - Bellagio

Villa Serbelloni - Fax: +39 031 951529

3* Hotels - Bellagio

Belvedere - Fax +39 031 950102
Du Lac  - Fax +39 031 951624
Excelsior Splendido - Fax +39 031 951224
Florence  - Fax +39 031 951722
Nuovo Hotel Metropole - Fax +39 031 951534


2* Hotels - Bellagio

Europa - Fax. +39 031 950471
Fioroni  - Fax. +39 031 951970
Il Perlo Panorama  - Fax +39 031 951556
Nuovo Miralago -  Tel. +39 031 951355
Silvio  - Fax. +39 031 950912

1* Hotels - Bellagio

Genzianella - Fax.  +39 031 964734
Giardinetto - Fax.  +39 031 950168
La Pergola - Fax.  +39 031 950263
Roma - Fax.  +39 031 951966
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 23 16:38:37 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:38:37 +0200
Subject: Appel: ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop On  XML and Information Retrieval
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From: carmel at il.ibm.com





                        ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop On
                       XML and Information Retrieval
                       Athens, Greece, July 28, 2000
                     Call for Papers and Participation
                  http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/sigir00-xml



 XML - the eXtensible Markup Language has recently emerged as a new
standard for data representation and exchange
on the Internet. It has thus become crucial to address the question of how
can we efficiently query and search large corpora
 of XML documents. To date,  most work on storing, indexing, querying, and
searching documents in XML has
stemmed from the database community's work on semi-structured data. An
alternative approach, which has
received less attention to date, is to view XML documents as a collection
of text documents with additional tags
and relations between these tags. In this workshop, we will explore both
approaches and investigate the relationship
between IR and XML. Topics may include:

   Extending IR technologies to search XML documents and integrating XML
   structure in IR indexing structures
   Querying XML documents both on content and structure
   Leveraging the semantics inherent to XML for the search process
   Relationships between XML and other text encoding and metadata standards

   Definition of standard DTDs/Schemas for IR tools such as search results
   and clustering outputs

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
 interested in XML and IR to discuss
and define the most relevant topics in the relation between these two
technologies, present recent results,
propose future directions for research, and possibly standardization.
Activities will include invited talks,
presentation sessions (accepted submissions from candidate participants)
demo sessions on XML tools
(e.g., search engines, editors,  schema definition tools), and panel
discussions.

Organizing Committee
IBM Research in Haifa:
     David Carmel carmel at il.ibm.com
     Yoelle Maarek yoelle at il.ibm.com
     Aya Soffer ayas at il.ibm.com
Program Committee
     Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Universidad de Chile, Chile
     Norbert Fuhr, Dortmund University, Germany
     Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia
     Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Division of Mathematical and Information
Science, Australia

Further information
Information on the workshop venue and local arrangements (hotel reservation
 etc.) as well as the sponsoring conference
can be found at http://sigir2000.aueb.gr. Additional information is also
available at  http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/sigir00-xml.
Questions can be sent directly to any of the organizers above.

Submission Information:
Send by email to David Carmel-  email: carmel at il.ibm.com
For presentation: Short vita and position paper along with the intended
track (tutorial, research, demo, standards).
Length: no more than 2000 words  (HTML, Postscript, or PDF).
For participation only: Statement of interest, (no more than 500 words).

Important Dates:
Submissions: June 5, 00
Notification:  June 19, 00
Final Version: July 3, 00
SIGIR tech. program: July 24-27, 00
XML-IR Workshop: July 28, 00

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David Carmel
Information Retrieval and Organization, IBM - HRL
E-mail: carmel at il.ibm.com
Phone: 972-4-8296223, Fax: 972-4-8296114
Address: IBM, Haifa Research Lab, Matam, Haifa 31905, Israel
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From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:25:57 +0100
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Chères et chers Collègues,

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May  2 17:44:35 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:44:35 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAY.2000.194435.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Alain Couillault <Alain.Couillault at lexiquest.fr>
   Object?: Annonces de postes

2/ From: "Rachel Gawron" <gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu>
   Subject: post

3/ From:  Helge Dyvik <helge.dyvik at lili.uib.no>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: Associate prof., U of Bergen

4/ From:  Karin Verspoor <karin at intelligenesis.net>
   Subject:  Computational Linguist: Senior Natural Language Engineer at
            Intelligenesis Corporation, New York USA

5/ From:  away at compapp.dcu.ie (Andy Way CA)
   Subject:  NLP/Computational Linguistics: Senior
            Lecturer/Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer, Dublin City University
___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Alain Couillault <Alain.Couillault at lexiquest.fr>
   Object?: Annonces de postes


?
LexiQuest (anciennement Erli) , soci?t? fran?aise sp?cialis?e dans les
produits TALN pour la recherche documentaire et les applications dans le
domaine du Knowledge Management, du text mining et de l'internet, recherche
de nouveaux collaborateurs pour rejoindre son d?partement Recherche &
D?veloppement.
?
LexiQuest compte une centaine de collaborateurs en Europe et aux Etats-Unis
et d?veloppe des produits en 5 langues. Pour ces deux postes, ? pourvoir ?
Paris et ou New-York, l'anglais est indispensable. La connaissance d'au
moins une autre langue est souhait?e :
?
1. un/une responsable Produit : il/elle aura pour mission, notamment,
d'assurer le contr?le de qualit?, le packaging et le suivi de la vie des
produits en coordination avec les ?quipes de d?veloppement, de marketing, de
vente et avant-vente de la soci?t?.
?
Linguiste ou sp?cialiste GED ou internet, disposant d'une exp?rience
similaire ou de chef de projet d'au moins 5 ans. Anglais indispensable.
?
2. un/une ing?nieur qualit? : il/elle aura pour mission de d?finir les
m?thodes et d'effectuer les tests de qualit? linguistique pour les produits
d?velopp?s par la soci?t? LexiQuest.
Titulaire d'un ma?trise en TALN ou dans un domaine connexe, il/elle poss?de
des comp?tences ?l?mentaires des langages ou utilitaires tels que Perl, awk,
Grep, Java...
?
Pour ces deux postes, contactez :
Alain Couillault
alain.couillault at lexiquest.fr

??????????????????? LexiQuest S.A.
??????????????????? Le M?li?s
??????????????????? 261, rue de Paris
??????????????????? F - 93556 Montreuil cedex

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: "Rachel Gawron" <gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu>
   Subject: post


Senior Faculty Position:  Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins
University

The Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University is accepting
applications from scientists with a demonstrated commitment to the field of
cognitive science and a record of major scholarly contributions to the
cognitive science of language.  The candidate must conduct computational
research informed by generative linguistics, addressing problems in human
language processing and/or acquisition.  It is also desirable for the
candidate to hold broad interests in formal approaches to cognitive science,
and to conduct experimental research in psycholinguistics and/or
neurolinguistics.  We seek to make a tenured appointment at the rank of Full
Professor, but untenured appointments at the Associate or Assistant
Professor level will also be considered.  The position will commence on or
after January 1, 2001.  Please send a CV and representative
reprints/preprints to:  Search Committee, Department of Cognitive Science,
Krieger Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685.  Review of
applications will begin immediately, and continue until the position is
filled.  The Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative
Action employer.  Women and members of underrepresented minorities are
especially encouraged to apply.


___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Helge Dyvik <helge.dyvik at lili.uib.no>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: Associate prof., U of Bergen


   Preliminary job announcement at University of Bergen,
   ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

The University of Bergen will in May 2000 officially announce a
position in Computational Linguistics.  Since the deadline may be
short, this preliminary announcement gives candidates some more time
for preparing an application.

The vacancy concerns a newly created position as associate professor
at the Section for Linguistic Studies.  This tenure track position
offers possibilities for achieving full professorship.

Candidates for the position are expected to have an excellent record
of research and teaching in Computational Linguistics.  The successful
candidate will get important academic responsibilities in teaching,
research and research management.

The Section for Linguistic Studies currently has 7 permanent academic
staff, including 5 professors, and 7 temporary academic staff.  The
Section offers full study programmes in General Linguistics and in
Computational Linguistics and shorter programmes in Language
Technology and in Japanese.

The Section for Linguistic Studies aims at a high teaching and
research standard and cooperates with other institutions in local,
national and international projects.

Bergen is located in Western Norway and has a population of 220000.
The historical city is situated right at the sea and is surrounded by
seven mountains.

The Norwegian government has recently initiated strong support for
language technology initiatives.

The web page for announcements concerning the position is:
   http://www.hf.uib.no/i/LiLi/SLF/stilling/
An official job description and application procedures will be posted
on that URL in May.

-
Prof. Koenraad de Smedt    mailto:desmedt at uib.no
Universitetet i Bergen    tel: +47 5558-2052
http://fasting.hf.uib.no/~desmedt  fax: +47 5558-9354
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Helge J. Jakhelln Dyvik
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Section for Linguistic Studies
University of Bergen        Phone:    +47 55582261
Sydnesplass 7               Fax:      +47 55589354
N-5007 Bergen, Norway              E-mail: helge.dyvik at lili.uib.no
http://www.hf.uib.no/i/LiLi/SLF/Dyvik/Dyvik.html
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4/ From:  Karin Verspoor <karin at intelligenesis.net>
   Subject:  Computational Linguist: Senior Natural Language Engineer at
            Intelligenesis Corporation, New York USA


Rank of Job: Senior Natural Language Engineer
Areas Required: Computational Linguist
Other Desired Areas: Java, OO design
University or Organization: Intelligenesis Corporation
Department: Natural Language Engineering group
State or Province: New York
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: April 28, 2000 or until position is filled
Contact: Karin Verspoor karin at intelligenesis.net

Address for Applications:
50 Broadway
New York
NY 10004
USA

Intelligenesis, a development stage company with offices in New York
City, Silicon Valley, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, is pioneering a
new breed of business intelligence for the Internet economy that the
Wall Street Journal heralded as &#8220;a revolution in computing.&#8221;
To learn more about us, please visit our website at:
http://www.intelligenesis.net

Description:
The Natural Language group at Intelligenesis is currently seeking a
creative individual for immediate employment in our New York office.
The position will involve developing natural language processing modules
integrated with our artificial intelligence architecture, including
designing, documenting, coding, and performing intelligence evaluations
of Java language code in a team environment.


Background Requirements:
- advanced degree in Computational Linguistics or related discipline
- Experience with NL query processing and automatic recognition of the
        semantics of queries
- information retrieval and/or information extraction experience
- Java or C++ programming skills, and object oriented design experience

Additional desirable skills:
- familarity with database querying
- statistical NLP and robust processing experience
- knowledge of machine learning techniques
- text mining experience

Location Requirements: This position will be based in New York City, and
requires travel to the New York office a minimum of two days/week.

Compensation includes salary commensurate with experience and subsidized
health benefits.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume (in
Microsoft Word or text format), including salary history and
availability to karin at intelligenesis.net, or fax to 1-212-324-3001
(attention: Karin Verspoor). Please be sure to put the name of the job
you are applying for in the subject area of your email, or on the cover
page of your fax. No phone calls please.

I will be available from April 29 - May 4 at the NAACL conference in
Seattle, and am interested in conducting interviews of qualified
candidates there.  Please let me know in advance if you would like to
schedule a time to meet to speak about the company and your background,
or look for me there.

Dr. Karin Verspoor
Director, Natural Language Engineering
Intelligenesis Corp.
karin at intelligenesis.net
fax (212) 324 3001

___________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  away at compapp.dcu.ie (Andy Way CA)
   Subject:  NLP/Computational Linguistics: Senior
            Lecturer/Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer, Dublin City University


The School of Computer Applications at Dublin City University, Ireland
seeks to fill vacancies at Senior Lecturer, Lecturer and Assistant
Lecturer level in the following areas:

   - NLP / Computational Linguistics

   - Computing (Business, Architecture, Graphics, Hardware,
     Quantitative Methods, Cryptography, Information Systems,
     Multimedia, Security, Parallel Computation, Software
     Engineering and Computing and Education)

Candidates should be well qualified academically, have an active
research commitment and the ability to communicate ideas clearly.

We are seeking qualified personnel in a number of areas including
NLP/computational linguistics. In this area we are particularly
interested in candidates with expertise in

   - Speech Processing
   - Statistical Approaches to NLP
   - Information Extraction
   - Corpus Processing

Strong candidates with expertise in other areas of NLP are also
encouraged to apply.

The School of Computer Applications has excellent facilities for
teaching and research. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate
degrees in computing and computational linguistics.

Salary scales are currently set at ? 35,815 - ? 47,207 p.a. for
Senior Lecturer, ? 26,100 - ? 42,838 p.a. for Lecturer and ?
20,175 - ? 25,236 p.a. for Assistant Lecturer positions.

Application forms may be obtained from:

   The Personnel Office,
   Dublin City University,
   Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
   Tel: +353-(0)1-7045939
   Fax: +353-(0)1-7045500

Closing date for receipt of completed applications: 5th May, 2000.

Full job descriptions, facilities, information on courses and further
information on the School of Computer Applications are available at
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie , or by contacting the Head of Computer
Applications, Prof. Alan Smeaton: asmeaton at compapp.dcu.ie.  For
information on the computational linguistics programme please contact
Dr. Josef van Genabith: josef at compapp.dcu.ie



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May  2 17:48:12 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:48:12 +0200
Subject: Appel: AIMSA
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From: "ITS" <its at IRO.UMontreal.CA>

The Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
              Methodology, Systems, Applications
                       AIMSA 2000
        September 20-23, 2000     Varna,  Bulgaria
             http://www.iinf.bas.bg/AIMSA2000
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                   CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
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Important Dates
------------------------
Submission deadline:                May 6, 2000
Notification of acceptance:        June 3, 2000
Deadline for final papers:        June 19, 2000
Conference:               September 20-23, 2000
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The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the
presentation of AI research and development since 1984. The conference,
which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in
Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal
forum for international scientific exchange between Central/ Eastern
Europe and the rest   of   the world. AIMSA 2000 is sponsored by
ECCAI, European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.

Topics
----------
The Ninth Edition of AIMSA is focussed on Web processing, in particular:
Knowledge construction from the Web, Agents and communication languages,
Web-based documents and interfaces, Distance learning and electronic
commerce.

The conjectures to be debated at the AIMSA 2000 Conference are two:
* For each of the problems that Web processing poses in order to be
effective, some AI Method, System or Application may be used.
* The availability of the Web offers challenging opportunities to
developments in Artificial Intelligence.

The AIMSA'2000 topics of interest also include: Knowledge
Representation, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Based Systems, Machine
Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Reasoning Systems,
Distributed AI, Robotics, Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations, AI
Applications. This is not an exhaustive list, and papers from other AI
areas are also encouraged.

Programme Committee Chair
---------------------------------------
Stefano A. Cerri
Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de
Montpellier (LIRMM)
161, Rue Ada; 34392 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
E-mail: cerri at lirmm.fr
Voice: +33 (0) 467 41 86 62


Programme Committee
-------------------------------

Gennady Agre(Bulgaria)             Igor Kononenko(Slovenia)
Galia Angelova(Bulgaria)           Philippe Laublet(France)
Giuseppe Attardi(Italy)            Vincenzo Loia(Italy)
Ivan Bratko(Slovenia)              Stefan Trausan Matu(Romania)
Joost Breuker(The Netherlands)     Alessandro Micarelli(Italy)
John Campbell(United Kingdom)      Marc Nanard(France)
Cristina Conati(Canada)            Pavol Navrat(Slovakia)
Stefano A. Cerri(France)           Tim O'Shea(United Kingdom)
Christo Dichev(Bulgaria)           Julian Padget(United Kingdom)
Danail Dochev(Bulgaria)            Maria Teresa Pazienza(Italy)
Claude Frasson(Canada)             Rachel Pinkilton(United Kingdom)
Guy Gouarderes(France)             Allan Ramsay(United Kingdom)
Daniele Herin(France)              Jean Sallantin(France)
Philippe Jorrand(France)           Oliviero Stock(Italy)
Vladimir Khoroshevsky(Russia)      Paolo Traverso(Italy)
Alfred Kobsa(Germany)              Gerhard Weber(Germany)

Programme Committee Secretariat
-----------------------------------------------
Corine ZICLER
Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de
Montpellier (LIRMM)
161, rue Ada; 34392 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
E-mail: Corine.Zicler at lirmm.fr
Voice:  +33 (0) 467 41 85 03
Fax:    +33 (0) 467 41 85 00

Submissions
-----------------
Submissions should describe original research. Papers should be
submitted electronically to aimsa2000 at lml.bas.bg as an attached PDF or
compressed postscript file. Papers should be written in English and
should be no more than 10 pages in LNCS/LNAI format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/autors.html - which is the format
required for the final camera ready copy).  The body of message must
include: name(s) of the author(s), title of the paper, a set of
keywords, name, address, fax number and e-mail address of the contact
person. The Proceedings of AIMSA 2000 will be published by Springer in
the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series and will be
available at the conference.

Author Registration Policy
-----------------------------------
In order for an accepted paper to appear in the proceedings, at least
one of the authors must register for the conference by the deadline for
the camera-ready copy (19th June, 2000).

Selection of Papers
--------------------------
Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee.  Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of
ideas, clarity and significance of results, quality of presentation.

The program committee will select one paper of high quality among the
accepted papers.  The author(s) will receive the best paper award during
the conference.

Language
--------------
The official language of the conference is English.

Conference Location
------------------------------
AIMSA 2000 will be held at the oldest Bulgarian Black see resort - St.
Constantine. It is located in a beautiful natural park with a wonderful
combination of see coast, woods and hot mineral springs. The resort is
only 8 km from the town of Varna. Varna has an international and
domestic airport with flights to and from Sofia (the capital city of
Bulgaria). There are also direct flights connecting the major European
cities with Sofia and Varna. AIMSA'2000 will take place in the
International home of scientists "F. Joliot-Curie" standing in the
middle of the resort.


Organization
------------------
* Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association
* Institute of Information Technologies
* Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians
with the support of the Bulgarian Society for Cognitive Science and of
the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition.

 Local Organization Chair
----------------------------------
Danail Dochev
Institute of Information Technologies
Acad. G. Bonchev 29A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail:  dochev at iinf.bas.bg
Voice: (+ 359 2) 70 75 86
Fax:    (+ 359 2) 72 04 97


Registration
---------------
Please fill in and return this form by e-mail or surface mail to:

Danail Dochev - AIMSA 2000,
Institute for Information Technologies
Bl. 29A, Acad. G. Bonchev St.
1113 SOFIA - BULGARIA
E-mail: dochev at iinf.bas.bg
Phone: (359) (2) 707 586
Fax: (+359) (2) 720 497


 AIMSA 2000 REGISTRATION FORM
-----------------------------------

Surname:                          First Name:

Title:

Affiliation:

Correspondence Address:



Phone:                            Fax:

E-mail:

Date:                             Signature:


           Registration Fee  (in EURO)
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[   ]  180   (19 June 2000) Authors of accepted papers

         Early (1 August, 2000) Onsite
-----------------------------------------
[   ]   200     [   ] 250       ECCAI member
[   ]   230     [   ] 270       non member
[   ]   100     [   ] 150       student

* ECCAI members and full time students are required to enclose a
copy of a certificate.

The registration fee for AIMSA 2000 includes admission to the technical
sessions, a copy of the AIMSA 2000 proceedings, the welcome reception
and the conference diner.

Payment may be made by bank transfer to BULBANK Ltd, Kaloyan Branch,
Sofia 1000, Bulgaria, account No 340 004 3018
Institute of Information Technologies-BAS.
Bank code: 621 75 395. SWIFT CODE: BFTBBGSF.

Please make sure that banking fees will not be deduced from the amount
sent.

All money transfers must be free of charge for the recipient.

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May  2 17:48:16 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:48:16 +0200
Subject: Appel: ECAI 2000 WS on Balancing Reactivity (Extended deadline)
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAY.2000.194816.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Markus Hannebauer <hannebau at first.gmd.de>
Organization: GMD FIRST
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  Because of several requests and temporal overlaps with other impor-
tant events like IEEE Robotics and Automation we have set a

              NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: 10th of MAY 2000


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                 Final Call for Papers/Participation

 BALANCING REACTIVITY AND SOCIAL DELIBERATION IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

                         A Workshop at the
   14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2000)

            http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html

                  Berlin, Germany, August 22nd, 2000
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Important Dates
---------------

  Deadline for submission:             May 10th, 2000
  Notification:                        June 1st, 2000
  Deadline for camera-ready papers:   June 10th, 2000
  Workshop:                         August 22nd, 2000


Scope
-----

  Today's envisioned  applications of  intelligent systems in general
  and  multi-agent  systems  in particular confront  researchers  and
  developers with the difficulty of finding the right balance between
  reactive and socially deliberative behavior.  Reactive  systems are
  capable of adapting  very quickly to  unforeseen changes in the en-
  vironment and are hence said to  be  more robust and efficient.  On
  the other hand, they usually lack the necessary overview to produce
  behavior that can  compete with the results of  in-depth  reasoning
  techniques.  In  contrary  to  that,  socially deliberative systems
  allow  for  exploiting  environmental information and  coordination
  mechanisms to build up  through-thought  individual and even  team-
  oriented  strategies.  Though  their  problem-solving  results  are
  usually much better than in reactive systems,  deliberative systems
  are much more susceptible to  dynamic  environments  and often lack
  the potential for real-time computation.

  This workshop focuses on theoretical,  technical and practical work
  on balancing between these two extremes in the context of  collabo-
  rative work in multi-agent  systems.  Contributions from Artificial
  Intelligence as well as Robotics are welcome.

  Theoretical and technical topics of  interest include,  but are not
  restricted to:

    - Extension of reactive systems by cooperation

    - Teaching deliberative systems reactivity and real-time

    - Efficient coordination, cooperation and organization approaches

    - Anytime approaches and algorithms

    - Design and evaluation of hybrid multi-level agent architectures

    - Short-term, medium-term and long-term intentionality

    - Enriching group behavior by environmental,  opponent and social
      models

    - Individual and social adaptivity

  To keep the workshop focussed, we encourage practical contributions
  to be directed at:

    - Multi-agent problem solving (planning, scheduling, control ...)

      Real-world problems  often require  distributed solving strate-
      gies,  because of  natural distribution,  social competence and
      efficiency matters. Multi-agent approaches to such problems are
      said to be more robust than monolithic systems, but usually en-
      tail worse solutions. How can this be overcome by better balan-
      cing between reactive and deliberative behavior?

    - RoboCup

      RoboCup has proven to be a  great and challenging  benchmarking
      scenario both  to  Robotics  and  Artificial  Intelligence.  In
      RoboCup reactivity and real-time are a must, but social delibe-
      ration gets more and more important to match  the world's  lea-
      ding teams.  Hence, there is much research work to be done con-
      sidering the topics of this workshop.

      IMPORTANT:  Papers that focus on RoboCup-specific topics should
      make clear how the work could be applied to  other  domains  as
      well. We encourage you to pick at least one specific domain and
      argue that such is the case.


Submissions
-----------

  Participation in the workshop will be restricted to 30 persons.  We
  encourage active participation by inviting only  people  with  sub-
  mitted papers or with a single-page statement of interest,  reflec-
  ting the authors' concrete relation to the  field  and  topic.  All
  workshop participants must register for ECAI 2000.

  Informal pre-proceedings of the workshop will be published  in time
  to be available at the workshop.  Additionally, Springer-Verlag has
  committed to publish an edited version of the workshop  proceedings
  in its well-known Lecture Notes on Artificial  Intelligence  series
  (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).  Authors of selected
  papers will be asked to extend their articles for inclusion in this
  LNAI volume.

  Papers should be formatted according to the LNAI  style  guide  for
  authors  (refer  to  http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
  and should not exceed 12 pages.

  Papers should be submitted as Postscript-files and  additionally as
  pure Tex- and Eps-files via eMail to the contact person  named  be-
  low. Alternatively, send four copies of  your  paper  via  ordinary
  mail to the address of the contact person. Electronic submission is
  strongly preferred.

  Deadline for submission:               May 10th, 2000
  Notification:                          June 1st, 2000
  Deadline for camera-ready papers:     June 10th, 2000
  Workshop:                           August 22nd, 2000


Organizing committee
--------------------

  Markus Hannebauer (contact person)
    Planning and Optimization Laboratory
    Research Institute for Computer Architecture
      and Software Technology (FIRST)
    GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology

    Kekulestrasse 7, 12489 Berlin, Germany

    Tel.:  +49-30-6392 1866
    Fax.:  +49-30-6392 1805
    eMail: hannebau at first.gmd.de
    WWW:   www.first.gmd.de/~hannebau

  Jan Wendler
    Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    Department of Computer Science
    Humboldt University Berlin

    Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489 Berlin, Germany

    Tel.:  +49-30-2093 3170
    Fax.:  +49-30-2093 3168
    eMail: wendler at informatik.hu-berlin.de
    WWW:   www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~wendler

  Enrico Pagello
    Department of Electronics and Informatics
    Faculty of Engineering
    University of Padua

    Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padova, Italy

    Tel.:  +39-049-827 7687
    Fax.:  +39-049-827 7699
    eMail: epv at dei.unipd.it
    WWW:   www.dei.unipd.it


Program committee
-----------------

  Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan
  Ansgar Bredenfeld, GMD AiS, Germany
  Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
  Silvia Coradeschi, Oerebro University, Sweden
  Klaus Dorer, Freiburg University, Germany
  Peter Jarvis, SRI International, USA
  Christoph Jung, infor AG, Germany
  Gal Kaminka, University of Southern California, USA
  Joerg P. Mueller, Siemens AG, Germany
  Itsuki Noda, Stanford University, USA
  Daniel Polani, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
  Martin Riedmiller, Karlsruhe University, Germany
  Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland
  Josep Lluis de la Rosa, University of Girona, Spain
  Peter Stone, AT&T Laboratories Research, USA
  Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA


Additional information
----------------------

  ECAI 2000 homepage
  http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de

  Workshop homepage
  http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May  2 17:48:21 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:48:21 +0200
Subject: Conf: le Japonais 2000
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAY.2000.194821.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Wlodarczyk Andre <wlod at ext.jussieu.fr>




                     < Le JAPONAIS 2000 >
                    S?minaire international
          sur la langue japonaise en th?orie et en pratique

organis? par l'UMR "Civilisation Japonaise", unit? mixte du CNRS (Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique) et de l'EPHE (Ecole Pratique des
Hautes Etudes)

Le titre de la prochaine conf?rence est:

" An Attempt of building a formal grammar of Japanese in JSPS project "
(Une Tentative de construction d'une grammaire formelle du japonais dans le
projet de la Soci?t? Japonaise pour la Promotion de la Science)

Cette conf?rence sera donn?e en anglais par le professeur:

                      Jun-ichi TSUJII
   (Universit? de Tokyo, D?partement des sciences de l'information)

                  Vendredi 5 mai 2000 ? 16h30

                  CNRS c/o College de France
                   Instituts d'Extreme-Orient
                    Hautes Etudes Japonaises
                    52, rue Cardinal Lemoine
                         75231 PARIS 05
                     Metro: Cardinal Lemoine


Apr?s la conf?rence, un pot amical sera servi.

Description g?n?rale du s?minaire:
---------------------------------
Pour r?pondre ? la demande croissante de connaissance du japonais une s?rie
de conf?rences sera donn?e par des sp?cialistes invit?s ? l'UMR
"Civilisation Japonaise" dans le cadre d'un s?minaire international durant
l'ann?e 2000.

Faisant appel aux meilleurs sp?cialistes de l'Europe et du Japon, ce
s?minaire se veut incitatif et a pour but d'encourager et de dynamiser les
potentiels de recherche en ?tablissant des bases nouvelles pour d?velopper
les m?thodes d'enseignement et les outils utilisant le japonais. Les th?mes
principaux sont aussi bien la langue japonaise elle-m?me (son histoire et
sa structure, les dictionnaires ?lectroniques, les techniques de traduction
automatique) que les probl?mes linguistiques et sociaux (le comportement
verbal, la mise en r?seau et les autres aspects de l'informatisation de la
soci?t? japonaise).

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Le s?minaire est organis? gr?ce aux subventions accord?es par la Fondation
du Japon et la Fondation Tanaka (Fondation pour l'Etude de la Langue et de
la Civilisation Japonaises).
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Andr? Wlodarczyk
CNRS - UMR "Civilisation Japonaise"
c/o College de France
Instituts d'Extreme-Orient
52, rue Cardinal Lemoine
75231 PARIS 05
01 44 27 18 24 Fax: 01 44 27 18 23
mailto:wlod at ext.jussieu.fr
http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/stendhal/people/AWlodarczyk/



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May  2 17:48:19 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:48:19 +0200
Subject: Conf: TAG+5
Message-ID: <TUE.2.MAY.2000.194819.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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

Apologies for multiple copies

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

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

Call for participation

The fifth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks
(TAG+5) will be held at the University of Paris 7 , from Thursday May
25 to Saturday May 27 2000, sponsored by ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues) and by Paris 7, IUF, Sinequa,
Lexiquest and Inria.

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

Participants are invited to register online before May 15th at
http://tagplus.linguist.jussieu.fr Precise schedule (including for
demos), directions and information regarding accommodation can be
found online as well.

REGISTRATION FEES : (including the proceedings as well as a banquet on
Friday evening)

Students (Atala members) : 500 frs
Student (non members) :    650 frs
Regular ATALA members :    700 frs
Non members :              900 frs

INVITED SPEAKERS
John Carroll : "Engineering parsers and generators
for large lexicalised grammars"

Mark Steedman : "The syntactic Process"

PRESENTATIONS
A comparision of the XTAG and CLE Grammars :
    Beth Ann Hockey, Manny Rayner,  Frankie James
A corpus-based evaluation of syntactic locality in TAGs
    Fei Xia, Tonia Bleam
A faster parsing alogorithm for lexicalized tree-adjoigning grammars
    Giorgio Satta
A logical approach of structure sharing in TAGs
    Adi Palm
A new description of extractions in TAG
    Sylvain Kahane, Marie-H?l?ne Candito, Yannick de Kercadio
A redefinition of embedded push-down automata
      Miguel A. Alonso, Eric de la Clergerie, Manuel Vilares
Adapting HPSG-to-TAG compilation to wide-coverage grammars
     Tilman Becker, Patrice Lopez
Bidirectional parsing of TAG without heads
    Victor J. Diaz, Miguel A. Alonso, Vicente Carrillo
Building a class-based verb lexicon using  TAGs
    Karin Kipper, Hoa Trang Dang, William  Schuler, Martha Palmer
CDL-TAGs : a grammar formalism for flexible and efficient syntactic
generation
    Kilger, Poller
Comparing and integrating tree adjoigning  grammars
    Fei Xia, Martha Palmer
Complexity of linear order computation in  performance grammar, TAG and
HPSG
    Karin Harbusch, Gerard Kempen
Contextual tree adjoigning grammars
      Martin Kappes
Customizing the XTAG system for efficient grammar development for
Korean
    Juntae Yoon, Chung-hye Han, Nari Kim, Meesook Kim
Derivational minimalism in two regular and  logical steps
    Jens Michaelis, Uwe M?nnich, Franz  Morawietz
Deriving polarity effects
    Raffaella Bernardie
Economy in TAG
    Robert Frank
Elementary trees for syntactic and statistical  disambiguation
    Rodolfo Delmonte, Luminita Chiran, Ciprian Bacalu
Engineering a wide-coverage lexicalized grammar
    John Carroll, Nicolas Nicolov, Olga  Shaumyan, Martine Smets, David
Weir
Even better than supertags : introducing  hypertags !
    Alexandra Kinyon
Extending linear indexed grammars
    Christian Wartena
>>From intuitionistic proof nets to iteration grammars
    Guy Perrier
How problematic are clitics for S-TAG translation
    Mark Dras, Tonia Bleam
How to solve some failure of LTAGs
    Sylvain Kahane
Lexicalized grammars and the description of motion events
    Matthew Stone, Tonia Bleam, Christine Doran, Martha Palmer
Lexik : a maintenance tool for FTAG
    Nicolas Barrier, S?bastien Barrier, Alexandra Kinyon
LFG-DOT : a probalistic, constraint-based model for machine translation
    Andy Way
LTAG Workbench : a general framework for LTAG
    Patrice Lopez
Practical aspects in compiling tabular TAG parsers
    Eric de la Clergerie
Practical Experiments in parsing using tree adjoigning grammars
    Anoop Sarkar
Predicative LTAG grammars
    Patrice Lopez, David Roussel
Punctuation in a lexicalized grammar
    Christine Doran
Relationship between strong and weak generative powers
    Aravind K. Joshi
Reliability in example based parsing
    Olivier Streiter
Reuse of plan-based knowledge sources in a uniform TAG-based generation
system
    Karin Harbush, Jens Woch
Scrambling in German and the non-locality of local TDGs
    Laura Kallmeyer
Some remarks on an extension of synchronous  TAG
     David Chiang, William Schuler, Mark Dras
The current status of FTAG
    Anne Abeill?, Marie-H?l?ne Candito, Alexandra Kinyon
The Sino-Korean light verb construction and lexical argument structure
    Chung-hye Han, Owen Ranbow
Un outil pour calculer des arbres de d?pendance ? partir d'arbres de
d?rivation
    Lionel Cl?ment
Using TAGs, a tree model, and a language model for generation
    Srinivas Bangalore, Owen Rambow

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Anne Abeille (Paris 7)
Nicolas Barrier (Paris 7)
S?bastien Barrier (Paris 7)
Marie-H?l?ne Candito (Paris 7 and Lexiquest)
Lionel Clement (Paris 7)
Kim Gerdes (Paris 7)
Alexandra Kinyon (Paris 7 and U. Penn)
Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbr?cken)

CONTACT

TAG+5
UFRL, Universit? Paris 7
TALaNa, case 7003
2, place Jussieu
F-75251 Paris cedex 05
phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70
fax:   +33 1 44 27 79 19
email: tag+ at linguist.jussieu.fr
web:   http://tagplus.linguist.jussieu.fr/

LOCATION
amphi 24 , RDC parvis jussieu
Universit? Paris 7
2, place jussieu, Paris 5e
metro jussieu (ligne 7)


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu May 11 17:30:21 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:30:21 +0200
Subject: Job: 6 Offers
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAY.2000.193021.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jose Coch <Jose.Coch at lexiquest.fr>
   Subject: proposition de poste

2/ From: "Soclangue" <soclangue at mail.ru>
   Subject: Demande de soutien

3/ From:  Amy WEINBERG <weinberg at umiacs.umd.edu>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Postdoc Researcher at U of Maryland,

4/ From: Philippe Monnier <monnier at inf.enst.fr>
   Subject: Job

5/ From: malika <yakoubi at promoselect.com>
   Subject: Offre d'emploi

6/ From:  John Nerbonne <nerbonne at let.rug.nl>
   Subject:  XML, Corpus Annotation: temp. part-time lecturer at University
___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jose Coch <Jose.Coch at lexiquest.fr>
   Subject: proposition de poste


LexiQuest, soci?t? fran?aise sp?cialis?e dans les produits TALN pour
la recherche documentaire et les applications d'ing?nierie multilingue
dans le domaine de l'internet, recherche de nouveaux collaborateurs
pour rejoindre son d?partement Recherche & D?veloppement. LexiQuest
compte une centaine de collaborateurs en Europe et aux Etats-Unis et
d?veloppe des produits en 5 langues.

R&D/EA/1. un/une linguiste informaticien/ne

Titulaire d'un DEA en TALN ou ?quivalent, disposant d'une exp?rience
similaire d'au moins 3 ans. L'anglais est indispensable.
La connaissance d'au moins une autre langue est souhait?e.
Une exp?rience en r?sum? automatique et/ou en extraction d'information
 sera particuli?rement appr?ci?e.

Ce poste est ? pourvoir ? Paris.

Pour ce poste, contactez :

_________________________________________________

Jos? Coch, LexiQuest
Le M?li?s / 261, rue de Paris
F-93556 Montreuil Cedex / FRANCE
Tel: (33)-1-49 93 39 38 / Fax: (33)-1-49 93 39 39
E-mail: jose.coch at lexiquest.fr
_________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: "Soclangue" <soclangue at mail.ru>
   Subject: Demande de soutien



Minsk, Belarus.


Bonjour,

Nous vous envoyons ce mel pour vous mettre au courant qu'une societe
pour la diffusion de la langue et de la culture francaises au Belarus
est en train d'etre creee.
Le Belarus est une des republiques de l'ex-Union Sovietique dont la
population est environ 10 millions d'habitants.

Notre decision de creer cette societe est basee sur des statistiques
alarmantes : le nombre de gens qui etudient le francais diminue tres
vite. C'est la suite directe de la diminution du nombre des
specialistes dans ce domaine. En plus, les jeunes diplomes ne sont pas
interesses a travailler comme professeurs de francais a cause des
salaires bas. Tout cela nous fait croire que cette situation va
s'aggraver encore.

Donc, ayant etudie toutes ces difficultes nous avons decide de creer
une societe dont le but essentiel est la diffusion de la langue et de
la culture francaises au Belarus. Notre activite sera dirigee vers la
motivation des gens a etudier le francais, la civilisation des pays
francophones et leurs histoires. Il existe plusieurs moyens pour
atteindre ce but : ouverture des classes specialisees francaises dans
les ecoles secondaires, contacts directs entre les etudiants et les
eleves francais et belarussiens ; organisation des seminaires et des
conferences avec la participation des specialistes francais,
distribution au Belarus des cassettes video avec des filmes et des
emissions francais, des journaux et des revues ; creation d'un site
web contenant les nouvelles de la vie culturelle, scientifique et
industrielle de la France et des autres pays francophones, etc.

Nous avons decide de nous adresser a vous pour demander votre soutient
de notre activite, car celle-ci est impossible sans l'aide de nos
partenaires francais que nous cherchons. Notre equipe est constituee
par dix jeunes diplomes ayant une experience dans le domaine de la
linguistique (et en particulier, de la langue francaise), ainsi que
dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies. Nous avons une certaine
experience dans l'interpretariat, dans l'enseignement et
l'informatique.

Il est a noter que notre societe n'est encore creee du point de vue
officiel. Et sa creation peut prendre du temps (4-5 mois), car nous
avons a parcourir un nombre enorme d'institutions et accomplir
beaucoup de formalites. Mais formellement notre societe existe deja et
maintenant notre activite est dirigee vers la recherche des
partenaires francais, car si notre travail n'est pas soutenu par des
etablissements francais, celui-la n'aura pas de sens. Un point est sur
: on ne peut pas etudier une langue etrangere sans avoir de la
pratique dans le domaine de la communication directe avec ceux pour
qui cette langue est natale. Mais la plupart des professeurs de
francais dans notre pays n'ont pas de possibilite reguliere de la
communication avec les Francais.

Nous nous attendons a votre comprehension et a votre soutient de
l'activite de notre future societe, car la possibilite de la creer
depend de vous et de votre desir de participer a la diffusion de la
langue et de la culture francaises a l'etranger.

Dans l'attente de votre reponse, recevez, s'il vous plait, l'assurance
de nos sentiments tres distingues.

Societe linguistique,
Minsk, Belarus.
soclangue at mail.ru

---------------
___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Amy WEINBERG <weinberg at umiacs.umd.edu>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Postdoc Researcher at U of Maryland,
            College Park

---------------------------------------------------------------
         Postdoctoral Researcher
   University of Maryland, College Park
    Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS)
---------------------------------------------------------------

The Computational Linguistics group at the University of Maryland
seeks an energetic, highly motivated individual for a postdoctoral
position.  We are a strongly interdisciplinary group, with faculty
members from three departments (computer science, linguistics, and
information studies) that work closely together with a team of about
15 research scientists, postdoctoral researchers and graduate
students.  We seek candidates who are comfortable with statistical and
corpus-based natural language processing, knowledge based techniques
(particularly those involving ontologies and lexicons), and/or the
design of information retrieval systems.  Of particular interest are
candidates with interest and expertise in cross-language information
retrieval, machine translation, broad-coverage parsing, use of
comparable and parallel corpora, and development of large-scale
lexicons.  Strong programming skills are essential.

Our team will be well represented at the NAACL conference in Seattle
this week.  You can speak with us there, or get in touch with us after
the conference by sending mail (with a resume) to Edna Walker
<edna at cs.umd.edu>.

For more information about Computational Linguistics at Maryland, you
can take a look at the Web pages of some of our people:

  Bonnie Dorr      http://umiacs.umd.edu/~bonnie
  Tapas Kanungo    http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~kanungo
  Gina-Anne Levow  http://umiacs.umd.edu/~gina
  Douglas Oard     http://glue.umd.edu/~oard
  Philip Resnik    http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik
  Amy Weinberg     http://umiacs.umd.edu/~weinberg

See you in Seattle!


___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: Philippe Monnier <monnier at inf.enst.fr>
   Subject: Job


Dear listers,

Please find this job announce.

Philippe Monnier.

____________________________________


Job offer : Research Manager

As part of an ANVAR (French's agency for promote Innovative Technologies)
supported technological innovation project, STARTEM corporation, which is
specialised in international information processing and multimedia
management is looking for a research and development manager. The
successful applicant will have to work in a multidisciplinary environment,
dealing with information technology, linguistics and ergonomics, to design
an information processing network including NTIC (New Technology of
Information and Communication). He will work within a transversal team
whose aim is to improve the company?s productivity.

As part of the information processing network, he will :

participate in the company's technological choices and follow through the
device's implementation.
coordinate the integration of the multilingual NLP modules (text
categorisation, information extraction, automated text generation).
direct the drawing up of a list of selling points relating to technological
choices intended institutions potentially interested in the project.
coordinate the collaboration with research laboratories and supervise the
trainees or the PhDs working on the project.


Required profile :

Education background : experimented PhD or engineer (4/7 years)
 Domain of competences : Computer science, NLP, linguistics.
Substential knowledge of Information Technology is essential : Java, Perl,
C++, XML/SGML,
Working background preferable
Fluent English required,
Should be a plus : EU project experience, project management skills.

Application procedure :

Please send your r?sum? with a cover letter, explaining why you are
interested in the job, to Marion Denneulin
E-mail : mdenneulin at cmc.fr /mdenneulin at startem.net
STARTEM
60 rue de Ponthieu
75008 Paris


____________________________________________


mailto:phmonnier at cmc.fr * Philippe Monnier * mailto:monnier at inf.enst.fr
http://www.cmc.fr * STARTEM Dir. Rech. 60, rue de Ponthieu 75008 Paris
France
http://www.inf.enst.fr * ENST Infres 46 rue Barrault 75634 Paris cedex 13
* STARTEM Tel. (33)156432405 Fax ~2425 * ENST Tel. (33)145817588 Fax ~3119

___________________________________________________________________________

5/ From: malika <yakoubi at promoselect.com>
   Subject: Offre d'emploi



Guides Online, start-up occupant une position centrale dans le domaine du
commerce ?lectronique, sp?cialis?e dans la r?alisation et l'?dition de
guides de sources d'information en ligne (Internet, Minitel), recherche pour
son site www.promoselect.com


un(e) Charg?(e) de l'indexation de sites marchands ayant de l'exp?rience
dans la cr?ation de th?saurus (arborescence).
La mission : Il s'agit d'affecter ? chaque site marchand (environ 300 au
total) la liste des produits qu'il commercialise, ces produits ?tant
rattach?s au th?saurus.

Le poste est bas? ? Angers. Tous les frais seront pris en charge par la
soci?t?.

CDD de 1 mois, pouvant d?boucher sur un CDI. Poste ? pourvoir tr?s
rapidement.

Merci d'adresser un CV ? l'attention de Malika Yakoubi
par fax au 01 55 43 36 01 ou
par email : yakoubi at promoselect.com


___________________________________________________________________________

6/ From:  John Nerbonne <nerbonne at let.rug.nl>
   Subject:  XML, Corpus Annotation: temp. part-time lecturer at University
         of Groningen, Groningen  The Netherlands


Rank of Job: temp. part-time lecturer
Areas Required: XML, Corpus Annotation
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: University of Groningen
Department: Comp.Linguistics
State or Province: Groningen
Country: The Netherlands
Final Date of Application: 24 May 2000
Contact: John Nerbonne nerbonne at let.rug.nl

Address for Applications:
Personeel, Alfa-faculteiten, P.O.Box 716
Groningen
Groningen  9700 AS
The Netherlands

Groningen (The Netherlands)
University of Groningen,
Computational Linguistics Dept.
9 months, 50%

At the department of Computational Linguistics there is a teaching and
project vacancy of 0.5 fte. The department employs about 20 persons.
The lecturer will work under supervision of prof.dr.ir. J.Nerbonne.

The task
  - desigining and teaching course on XML-programming, and
  - installing networked corpus annotation tools

Your profile
  - university degree in relevant area or several years of experience
  - computational skills, esp. web-related programming (XML)
  - teaching skills
  - enthusiasm

The university of Groningen offers a gross salary of maximum
1478 Euro per month, depending on experience and education.
The appointment is for 9 months, 0.5 fte.

The faculty aims at increasing the number of women employees.


Information

More information about the appointment can be obtained by
prof.dr.ir. J. Nerbonne, phone +31 50 363 5815/ 363 5858) or
email: J.Nerbonne at let.rug.nl

Please send your application, together with a curriculum vitae
before May 24 to

Personeel en Organisatie Alfa-faculteiten
Postbus 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands

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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:35:25 +0200
Subject: Conf: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAY.2000.193525.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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



     CONFERENCE PROGRAM

         HPSG-2000
     7th International Conference on
   Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
    Berkeley, California

      22-23 July 2000

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

Invited speakers for HPSG-2000 are John Hawkins (University of
Southern California), and Donna Gerdts and Thomas Hukari (Simon Fraser
University and the University of Victoria).  The conference will also
feature an invited tutorial on Norwegian, identifying challenges that
the grammar poses for HPSG, presented by Lars Johnsen and Torbjorn
Nordgard (University of Bergen & the Norwegian University of Science
and Technology).

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Saturday, 22 July 2000
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 9:00 'Tough' complementation and the extraclausal propagation of argument
      descriptions
      Robert D. Levine, Ohio State University

 9:30 The syntax and semantics of Left-node Raising in Japanese
      Shuichi Yatabe, University of Tokyo

10:00 The Was-w construction in German: A case study in type-coercion
      Erhard W. Hinrichs & Tsuneko Nakazawa,
      Eberhard-Karls-Universititaet Tuebingen & University of Tokyo

10:30 Break

10:45 Invited talk:  Adjacency to heads in performance and grammars
      John Hawkins, University of Southern California

11:45 Experience-based HPSG
      Emily Bender and Susanne Z. Riehemann, Stanford University

12:15 Lunch

 1:45 ARG-ST on phrases headed by semantically vacuous words: Evidence from
      Polish
      Adam Przepiorkowski, Ohio State U. & Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw

 2:15 Agreement and missing NPs in Welsh
      Robert D. Borsley, University of Essex

 2:45 Arguments, grammatical relations, and diathetic paradigm
      Tania Avgustinova, Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Saarland Univ.

 3:15 Break

 3:30 The morphosyntax of Tongan 2P pronouns
      Michael Dukes, University of Canterbury & Stanford University

 4:00 On the placement and morphology of Udi subject agreement
      Berthold Crysmann, DFKI GmbH & Computational Linguistics, Saarland
Univ.

 4:30 Hebrew relative clauses in HPSG
      Nathan Vaillette, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University

 5:00 Break

 5:15 The rest of the binding theory
      Karin Golde, YY Software Corporation, Mountain View, Calif.

 5:45 Anaphors aren't exempt in German: A slightly more configurational
binding
      theory
      Tibor Kiss, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum

 6:15 Business meeting

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Sunday, 23 July 2000
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 9:00 The key to lexical semantics
      Jean-Pierre Koenig & Tony Davis, SUNY Buffalo & AnswerLogic, Inc.

 9:30 An approach to polarity sensitivity and negative concord by lexical
      underspecification
      Judith Tonhauser, Institute for Comp. Linguistics, Univ. of Stuttgart

10:00 Linking oblique complements
      Valia Kordoni, University of Tuebingen

10:30 Break

10:45 Invited talk:  Halkomelem valence morphology:  A multi-level argument
      structure analysis
      Donna Gerdts & Thomas Hukari, Simon Fraser University & Univ. of
Victoria

11:45 French reportive 'comme' clauses: A case of parenthetical adjunction
      Marianne Desmets & Laurent Roussarie,
      University Paris X - Nanterre & University Paris 7 - Jussieu

12:15 Lunch

 1:45 Rules and exceptions in the English auxiliary system
      Ivan A. Sag, Stanford University

 2:15 Directional serial verb constructions in Thai
      Nuttanart Muansuwan, SUNY Buffalo & U. of Technology, Thonburi,
Thailand

 2:45 Switch-reference in Zuni
      Dave McKercher, Stanford University

 3:15 Break

 3:30 Tutorial on Norwegian grammar: Challenges for HPSG
      Lars Johnsen & Torbjorn Nordgard
      University of Bergen & the Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology

 4:15 Varieties of ESSE in Romance languages
      Anne Abeille & Daniele Godard, University Paris 7

 4:45 The passive as a lexical rule
      Stefan Mueller, DFKI GmbH, Saarbruecken

 5:15 Break

 5:30 Minor prepositions in Dutch
      Frank Van Eynde, Center for Computational Linguistics, Univ. of Leuven

 6:00 A constraint-based and head-driven analysis of multiple nominative
      constructions
      Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul

 6:30 Conference ends

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FURTHER INFORMATION

  Web site for HPSG-2000:

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

  For further information, email

 hpsg2000 at csli.stanford.edu

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu May 11 17:35:22 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:35:22 +0200
Subject: Conf: (Preferably) non-lexical semantics
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAY.2000.193522.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Richard Zuber <rz at ccr.jussieu.fr>



                    (Preferably) non-lexical semantics

The conference will take place from 30 to 31 May at the University of Paris
7, 2 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris (Metro: Jussieu) , Conference Room
"Bernard Grossetete" of the  LPNHE at ground level of Tour 33.

Registration fee: 150 FF


                                Program

Tuesdsay, May 30

9.30-10.00:
Ph. Schlenker (Paris): Towards a Null Theory of Conditionals
10.00-10.30:
C. Condoravdi (Stanford): Tensless Modals for the Past
10.30-11.00:
O. Matushansky (MIT): When Seeming is Being: adjectival
movement in nominal quasi-copula
11.00-11.30
Break
11.30-12.00:
M. Egg (Saarbr?cken) Against punctuality
12.00-12.30:
Folli, R. (Oxford): Constructing Telicity in English and Italian
12.30-14.30:
Break
14.30-15.00:
G. Storto, G (UCLA): Indefinite possessives and (non)-specificity
15.00-15.30
E. Endrey-Walder: Specificity and Comparison Classes
15.30-16.00
M. Lujan (Texas): The Semantics of Determiners as Modified Pronouns
16.00-16.30:  Break
16.30-17.00
L. M. Tovena (Lille): Distributional restrictions on negative determiners
17.00-17.30
N. Moreno-Quiben  and I. Perez Jimenez (Madrid) Presuppositional
Interpretation of Bare Plurals in Spanish
17.30-18.00
I. Gomez Txurruka (San Sebastian) and A. Alves (Asores): Interaction of
Same in Anaphoric Temporal Adverbials with Discourse Structure

Wenesday, May 31

9.00-10.00: Invited speaker: D. Westerstahl (Gothenburg):
"The role of compositionality in semantics: some recent issues"
10.00-10.20: Break
10.20-10.50: R. Zuber (Paris):
Intercategorial entailment and semantic relations between non-declaratives
10.50-11.20:
F. Gayral, D. Kayser and F. Levy (Paris 13): Comprendre le pluriel
11.20-11.40 Break
11.40-12.10
R. Naumann and A. Latrouite (Duesseldorf): Semantic Parallels in the
Lexicon and the Dynamic Structure of Verbs
12.10-12.40
J. Jayez (Paris) and L. Tovena (Lille). Free Choiceness as Non-Locality
Specification
12.40-14.00: Break
14.00-14-30:
Mayumi, M. (Tokyo, Waseda): The Function of the Sentence-Initial Noun
Phrases and the Meaning of Intransitive Verbs
14.30-15.00:
I. Gomez Txurruka (San Sebastian): The semantics of "and" in a Formal
Theory of Discourse
15.00-15.30:
S. Kennelly (Utrecht): 'Intermediate' Readings from Extended Predicate
Domains
15.30-16:
Break
16.00-16.30:
F. Hamm (Tuebingen) and M. Lambalgen (Amsterdam):
Nominalisation, the progressive and event calculus
16.30-17.00
F. Moltmann (London): Events as Derived Objects
17.00-17.30
M. Kracht: Compositionality meets Morphology


Alternates:
Sauerland, U. (Tuebingen): Donkey Anaphora and Choice Functions

M. Damova and S. Bergler (Montreal): Semantic Representation and
Construction of the Cross-categorial Language Phenomenon Aspect



You can find  accommodation and registration information on our website:

http://www.llf.cnrs.fr

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu May 11 17:35:27 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:35:27 +0200
Subject: Conf: INLG
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAY.2000.193527.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Svetlana Sheremetyeva <lana at crl.nmsu.edu




                           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                           Analysis for Generation

                                 a Workshop

                             in conjunction with

                   The International Conference on Natural
                  Language Generation INLG'2000 (June 13-14)


                      June 12, 2000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel

1. The reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time.

The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the field of
NLG with the emphasis on the development of independent NLG
applications rather than generation modules of MT systems. While it
seems natural to consider problems of analysis and generation as two
sides of a coin in such NLP applications as MT, researchers working on
"pure" generation systems sometimes treat problems arising at every
stage of generation--content specification, sentence planning, and
surface realization--as independent. Time may be ripe for examining
the mutual utility of analysis and generation in greater detail. The
impetus is, as can be expected, the goal of minimizing system-building
efforts in language engineering.

 2.  A brief technical description of the issues the workshop will address.

 The workshop proposes to address:

*  issues connected to the needs of analysis in generation systems
   as well as

*  issues of interrelation between generation and analysis from the
standpoint
   of reusability and adaptability of analysis techniques and tools for
   generation.

*  issues of reusability of analysis knowledge and methodology of its
   acquisition for generation.

Analysis as part of generation. A wide range of complex problems which
are considered to be specific for generation--content specification,
planning, and grammaticalization--may lead one to believe that
generation is completely independent of analysis. Most generators
tacitly assume that an intermediate system module can use the output
of the preceding module as its input without any processing (that is,
analysis) of this output. This is not, however, the case in practice.

A modicum of analysis is, in fact, an essential part of every
generation system.  The input to generation systems such as raw data
in tables, lists, diagrams, elements of various databases or even text
snippets that are fed into the system directly by a user still must
first be somehow processed, that is, analyzed. The analysis is needed
to provide both the necessary content and, often, format for the
content specification (see, for example, Dale 1995, Robin 1994, Kukich
1988, McKeown et al. 1994, Bateman and Teich 1995). This problem
becomes especially important in those applications (including
multilingual ones) in which at least some input to generation is in
textual form (e.g., Sheremetyeva and Nirenburg 1996).  Many NLG
systems often use a variety of analysis techniques. The question
arises whether it is possible to develop criteria to better choose and
integrate analysis techniques which could be efficiently applied at
different stages of generation.

Reusability and adaptability of analysis techniques and tools for
generation. While it is not uncommon to believe that generation and
analysis are not reversible, a number of contributions over the years
have discussed reversibility of analysis and generation resources,
especially the grammars. Appelt 1987, Barnett and Mani 1990 and van
Noord 1993, among others, demonstrate how the use of reversible
grammars may lead to efficient and flexible natural language parsing
and generation systems. It is worth discussing constraints on
reversibility.

Reusability of analysis knowledge and methodology of its acquisition
for generation. Generation and analysis are closely related in that
both processes use many similar resources, and often it is less
expensive to reorganize an existing "analysis" resource (e.g., an
analysis lexicon) than to acquire one for generation from
scratch. (Allgayer et al. 1989, Viegas and Beale 1996, Sheremetyeva
and Nirenburg 1999a, 1999b). It is worth discussing how to establish
whether a resource built for analysis can be used for generation and
at what price.


 THE PROGRAM:
June,12, 00

13.00 - 13.15      S. Sheremetyeva. Introduction

13.15-13.50        H. Manuelian. Reusability of Mental Representation Theory
                   in Automatic Generation: Generating Expressions Referring
                   to Objects  with G-TAG and RMs

13.50-14.25        D. Lonsdale. Leveraging Analysis Operators in Incremental
                   Generation

14.25-15.00        S. Busemann. Interfacing Constraint-Based Grammars and
                   Generation Algorithms

15.00-15.20        Break

15.20-17.00        Panel :  R. Kempson, S. Nirenburg, M.Zock,
S.Sheremetyeva.


PLEASE FIND DETAILS ABOUT REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION at the main
conference homepage at http://www.cs.bgu.il/~nlg2000


 Organizing Committee

 Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Chair and contact person
 Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA
 lana at crl.nmsu.edu

 Sergei Nirenburg
 Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA
 sergei at crl.nmsu.edu

 Richard Kittredge
 Department of Linguistics and Translation, University of Montreal
 kittredge at IRO.UMontreal.CA

 Anna Sagvall Hein
 Department of linguistics, Uppsala University
 Anna at ling.uu.se

 Evelyne Viegas
 Microsoft Corporation
 evelynev at microsoft.com

 Michael Zock
 Language & Cognition LIMSI - CNRS
 zock at limsi.fr

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu May 11 17:35:30 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:35:30 +0200
Subject: Projet: Appel d'offre DRT
Message-ID: <THU.11.MAY.2000.193530.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: stephane chaudiron <stephane.chaudiron at technologie.gouv.fr>


"Le minist?re de la recherche (direction de la technologie) lance un appel
? propositions dans le domaine des outils de veille strat?gique
automatis?e. Le texte de l'appel ainsi que le formulaire de r?ponse se
trouvent sur le site du minist?re ? l'adresse suivante
http://www.recherche.gouv.fr/technologie/

La date de cl?ture de l'appel est le 20 juin 2000, 17 heures (cachet de la
poste faisant foi)."


St?phane Chaudiron


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:14:39 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:14:39 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.111439.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Hawkes, Carol" <CHawkes at ets.org>
   Subject?: Applications Systems Program

2/ From:  David Israel <israel at ai.sri.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling (Grammar Writing) at SRI International, California

3/ From: Jean-Marie PIERREL <Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr>
   Subject: Job au LORIA

4/ From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subjet?: Post-doc au CNET en TALN pour l'arabe
___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Hawkes, Carol" <CHawkes at ets.org>
   Subject?: Applications Systems Program





J O B  O P E N I N G

Applications System Programmer

ETS Technologies
(A for-profit subsidiary of Educational Testing Service)


ETS is the nation's leading educational assessment organization and a leader
in educational research.  We develop and administer achievement,
occupational and admission tests for clients in education, government and
business.  We have recently announced the creation of a new for-profit
subsidiary - ETS Technologies.  This new business venture will develop new
applications of emerging technologies to support on-line learning through
several product lines, the first of which is Natural Language Processing.


POSITION SUMMARY:
Manages the development, installation, maintenance, and documentation of
computer programs for scientific and/or business applications.  Executes
day-to-day development activities to meet user specifications, including
systems design, coding, testing, debugging, implementation, and
documentation.


CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Design, develop, and implement text analysis and statistical
applications for research and production
*
* Design, evaluate, and modify procedures to solve complex computing
problems in natural language processing (statistical and/or
knowledge-based), taking into consideration computer equipment capacity,
operating time, and format of results
*
* Maintain full technical knowledge of all phases of systems analysis
and programming
*
* Prepare detailed specifications from which programs will be written
*
* Consult with applications users to collect and analyze applications
systems software needs
*
* Write documentation, evaluate reports and operating procedures, and
maintain quality assurance
*
* Recommend and develop cost estimates and present proposals for
acquisition of new hardware/software required to support applications under
development


KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITY:
* Detail-oriented, a self-starter, and possessing strong
organizational and follow-up skills
*
* Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

* Ability to multi-task, plan and initiate action, and establish and
meet deadlines

* Ability to develop solid understanding of research and/or business
functions of the application



RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:
* Master's degree in Computer Science with a minimum of 2-5 years of
diverse programming experience
*
* Knowledge of C++, C, and PERL
*
* Concentrated experience in Natural Language Processing (especially
with very large corpora) and web-based application development is desirable


ETS Technologies offers a competitive salary and benefits package and an
ideal environment for professional growth and development.  Please send two
copies of your resume along with a cover letter stating the position title
and salary requirements to:

  C. Hawkes
  Educational Testing Service
  Rosedale Road, Mail Stop 52-D
  Princeton, NJ  08541
  Fax: 609-497-6022
  Or email to: chawkes at ets.org


We are dedicated to Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action in the Workplace.


___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  David Israel <israel at ai.sri.com>
   Subject:  Comp Ling (Grammar Writing) at SRI International, California
USA


Rank of Job: open
Areas Required: grammar writing
Other Desired Areas: computational linguistics
University or Organization: SRI International
Department: Information&Computer Sciences Div.
State or Province: CA
Country: U.S.A.
Final Date of Application: open
Contact: David Israel israel at ai.sri.com

Address for Applications:
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park
CA 94025
U.S.A.

SRI is launching a new company, focused on bringing to market a
variety of Web-targeted Natural Language applications developed or
under development at SRI.  The aim is to be the place to go for sites
that want to provide NL access.

The company, so new it doesn't have a name we can make public yet,
will be offering Silicon Valley-competitive compensation packages.
And you will be working with very very good people, with really
innovative technologies, on challenging problems.

I happen to think this is an extremely exciting opportunity (but of
course I am prejudiced.)

If you want to find out more, contact me at israel at ai.sri.com or James
Arnold (arnold at mt.scri.com)

___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Jean-Marie PIERREL <Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr>
   Subject: Job au LORIA


Stabilisation et extensions d'un analyseur syntaxique TAG

Equipe "Langue et Dialogue", LORIA, Nancy

Dur?e du contrat d'accueil : 12 mois
Organisme gestionnaire : INRIA

L'objectif de ce travail consiste ? d?finir et stabiliser un analyseur
syntaxique ? base de TAG (Tree Adjoint Grammar) qui permette d'effectuer
des analyses locales. En d'autres termes, la rencontre d'un ?chec local ne
devra pas entra?ner l'abandon total de l'analyse de la phrase. Le processus
d'analyse ? base de TAG lexicalis?s, s'appuyant sur un ancrage sur les
mots, permet de d?velopper de telles analyses partielles qui peuvent
correspondre ? des syntagmes pr?sents sur l'?nonc? ? analyser. Cette
propri?t? rend l'analyseur int?ressant : pour les syst?mes de dialogue
oral, o? l'analyse syntaxique coop?re avec d'autres sources de
connaissances dans le but de comprendre un ?nonc?, mais aussi pour les
syst?mes d'extraction d'information ? partir de texte en langue naturelle.

Ce travail s'int?grera dans l'?quipe "Langue et Dialogue" du LORIA et
consistera, ? partir des r?sultats de la th?se de Patrice Lopez qui a
d?velopp? un prototype d'analyseur TAG ayant d?j? de telles propri?t?s, ?
d?finir un outil robuste facile ? maintenir et utilisable dans divers
contextes d'analyse de la langue. Pour ce faire on veillera ? ce que cet
analyseur corresponde ? un serveur d'analyse syntaxique auquel se
connectent des clients divers (de visualisation, d'annotation, de calcul de
la forme logique de la phrase, etc.).

Profil recherch? :

Niveau ing?nieur avec une bonne ma?trise de la programmation et si possible
une connaissance de JAVA, Corba, XML.

Pour en savoir plus ou pour postuler : R?f?rence de l'offre : NA-09

 Bertrand Gaiffe : Bertrand.Gaiffe at loria.fr, T?l : 03 83 59 20 34
 ou Jean-Marie Pierrel : Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr, T?l : 03 83 59 20 01

envoyez une lettre de motivation par courrier ?lectronique avec pour objet,
la r?f?rence ci-dessus et votre CV en pi?ce jointe ? : Bertrand Gaiffe et
Jean-Marie Pierrel

===========================================
Jean-Marie Pierrel, Professeur UHP-Nancy 1
Equipe "Langue et Dialogue"
LORIA UMR 7503 (Universit?s, CNRS, INRIA)
Campus Scientifique
B.P. 239
F-54 506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy
Tel : (33) (0)3 83 59 20 01
Fax : (33) (0)3 83 41 30 79
email : Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr
==============================================

___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subjet?: Post-doc au CNET en TALN pour l'arabe


Post-doc au CNET en TALN pour l'arabe.
Merci de retransmettre ? des candidats ?ventuels.

Le centre de recherche France Telecom R&D (unit? Langues Naturelles)
? Lannion (France), recrute un post-doc sur le th?me de la constitution
de ressources linguistiques pour le traitement automatique de la langue
arabe.
- Profil requis:
  * Doctorat en linguistique sur le traitement de la langue arabe.
  * Connaissances: lexique, morphologie et syntaxe de l'arabe.
- Dur?e du post-doc : 1 an  (d?but d?s que possible).

Contact: (envoyer CV d?taill?):
Malek Boualem
France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI
2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France
Tel: 02.96.05.29.83
Fax: 02.96.05.32.86
Email: malek.boualem at francetelecom.fr

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:14:59 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:14:59 +0200
Subject: Appel: LLL-2000  - extended deadline
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.111459.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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De?: Claire Nedellec <Claire.Nedellec at lri.fr>
? : corpora at hd.uib.no
Objet?: Corpora: LLL-2000 CFP - extended deadline
Date?: Lun 15 mai 2000 11:46



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                           CALL FOR PAPERS


          2nd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP

                  13th - 14th September 2000, Lisbon - Portugal

                    Co-located with ICGI and CoNLL


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

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As a  result of several requests,  the deadline for  the submission of
research papers for the 2nd  workshop on Learning Language in Logic to
be  held in  Lisbon, September  13-14th,  2000 has  been  extended to
Monday, May 22, 2000.

Revised Calendar
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  Submission of papers by *** May, 22, 2000 ***
  Acceptance notices mailed by June, 19, 2000
  Final, camera-ready papers due by July, 14, 2000


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:23:14 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:23:14 +0200
Subject: Appel: ORAGE-01
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.112314.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "regina" <regina at lpl.univ-aix.fr>

(english version first -- la version francaise se trouve plus loin)

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Dear colleagues,

please find below the first call for ORAGE 2001 :


*********************
        ORAGE 2001
  ORAlity and GEstuality
*********************

Aix-en-Provence (France)
June 18 - 22, 2001
International conference
Languages : French, English


ORAGE 2001 is in straight line with the ORAGE' 98 conference - ORAlit? et
GEstualit? - Communication Multimodale, Interaction, Santi S., Gua?tella I.,
Cav? C., Konopczynski G. (eds), 1998, l'Harmattan, Paris. Its objective is
to promote the importance of a multimodal approach in the study of
communication. The major theme of this meeting is the use of voice and
gestures in the management of interactive time and space. The emergence of
this set of topics and the increasing research in gestural and vocal studies
led to the foundation of the GeVoix association which is co-organizing this
conference with the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (CNRS ESA 6057) at the
Universit? de Provence.


*** Topics ***

- ethology of human communication
- animal and cross-species communication
- communicative gestures
- voice (prosody...)
- relationship between gestures and voice, bimodality
- multimodality and mental representations
- production and perception of voice and gesture
- semiotic models for voice and gesture analysis
- universals and cultural variations
- social contexts and interaction
- pathological contexts
- developmental approaches
- expression of emotions
- methodology, instrumentation and technology in voice and gesture analysis


*** Scientific Committee ***

R. Allott
D. Autesserre
R. Bertrand
C. Cav?
C. Cuxac
B. Cyrulnik
M. Faraco
P. Feyereisen
A. Giacomi
I. Gua?tella
U. Hadar
J.M. Hombert
R. Jarvella
A. Kendon
D.R. Ladd
J. Laver
C. Maury-Rouan
M. Magnusson
D. Massaro
D. McNeill
J. Montredon
J. Ohala
I. Poggi
M. Rossi
S. Santi
T.A. Sebeok
J. Vauclair


*** Organizing Committee ***

President : I. Gua?tella
General secretary : S. Santi

D. Autesserre
O. Bagou
M. Baudoin
R. Bertrand
J. Boyer
C. Cav?
R. Cruz
M.-H. Faivre
M. Faraco
T. Kida
B. Lagrue
A. Lejeune
C. Maury-Rouan
C. Paboudjian
C. Portes


*** Deadlines ***

June 1, 2000 : Submission of the intent to participate. Please include
provisional title. Important Notice ! A provisional proposal with title is
mandatory !
September 15, 2000 : Deadline for the submission of abstracts (must not
exceed one page).
December 1, 2000 : Reception of notification of approval of abstracts
March 1, 2001 : Submission of papers (in English or French)


*** Contact ***

Colloque ORAGE 2001
Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Universit? de Provence
29, av. R. Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence  Cedex 1
France

phone : +33  (0)4 42 95 36 37
fax : +33 (0)4 42 59 50 96 (specify "colloque ORAGE 2001")
e-mail : orage2001 at lpl.univ-aix.fr
internet : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~gevoix/ORAGE2001


*** Registration Fees ***

Before December 31, 2000 :
Registration : 1000 FF (153 Euros)
Students : 500 FF (77 Euros)
Registration  (GeVoix members) : 700 FF (107 Euros)
Students (GeVoix  members) : 200 FF (31 Euros)

After December 31, 2000 :
Registration : 1300 FF (199 Euros)
Students : 600 FF (92 Euros)
Registration  (GeVoix members) : 1000 FF (153 Euros)
Students (GeVoix  members): 300 FF (46 Euros)
[1 Euro = 6,55957 FF]

Caution : Student fees do not include proceedings. A limited number of
proceedings will be available for purchase on site. They will also be found
in bookstores after the conference.


-------------------
Annonce en fran?ais
-------------------

Chers coll?gues, veuillez trouver ci-dessous le premier appel ?
participation ? ORAGE 2001 :


*******************
       ORAGE 2001
   ORAlit? et GEstualit?
*******************

Aix-en-Provence (France)
18 au 22 juin 2001
Colloque international
Langues : fran?ais, anglais


Faisant suite au colloque "Orage'98. ORAlit? et GEstualit? : communication
multimodale, interaction" (Santi S., Gua?tella I. , Cav? C., Konopczynski G.
(eds), 1998, L'Harmattan, Paris), ORAGE 2001 est organis? afin de promouvoir
les recherches sur la multimodalit? dans la communication. L'objet de cette
rencontre est l'?tude des gestes et de la voix dans l'interaction, ces
modalit?s permettant aux individus de g?rer l'espace et le temps
interactifs. L'?mergence de cette th?matique et le d?veloppement des travaux
sur le "gestuo-vocal" ont donn? lieu ? la cr?ation de l'association GeVoix
qui
est co-organisatrice de ce colloque, en compagnie du Laboratoire Parole et
Langage (CNRS ESA 6057) de l'Universit? de Provence.


*** Th?mes ***

- approche ?thologique de la communication humaine
- communication animale et inter-esp?ces
- gestes ? fonction communicative
- vocalit? (prosodie...)
- gestuo-vocal, bimodalit?, intermodalit?
- multimodalit? et repr?sentations mentales
- production et perception gestuelles et vocales
- mod?les s?miotiques pour l'analyse gestuo-vocale
- universaux et variations culturelles
- environnements sociaux et interaction
- contextes pathologiques
- approches d?veloppementales
- expression des ?motions
- m?thodologie, instrumentation et traitement automatique du geste et/ou de
la voix


*** Comit? Scientifique ***

R. Allott
D. Autesserre
R. Bertrand
C. Cav?
C. Cuxac
B. Cyrulnik
M. Faraco
P. Feyereisen
A. Giacomi
I. Gua?tella
U. Hadar
J.M. Hombert
R. Jarvella
A. Kendon
D.R. Ladd
J. Laver
C. Maury-Rouan
M. Magnusson
D. Massaro
D. McNeill
J. Montredon
J. Ohala
I. Poggi
M. Rossi
S. Santi
T.A. Sebeok
J. Vauclair


*** Comit? d'Organisation ***

I. Gua?tella : pr?sidence
S. Santi : secr?tariat g?n?ral
D. Autesserre
O. Bagou
M. Baudoin
R. Bertrand
J. Boyer
C. Cav?
R. Cruz
M.-H. Faivre
M. Faraco
T. Kida
B. Lagrue
A. Lejeune
C. Maury-Rouan
C. Paboudjian
C. Portes


*** Calendrier ***

1er juin 2000 : envoi de l'intention de participation avec le titre
provisoire. Attention ! l'envoi de cette intention de participation est
obligatoire !
15 septembre 2000 : envoi du r?sum? de la communication (1 page maximum)
1er d?cembre 2000 : r?ception de la notification d'acceptation de la
communication
1er mars 2001 : envoi du texte d?finitif (en fran?ais ou en anglais).


*** Contact ***

Colloque ORAGE 2001
Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Universit? de Provence
29, av. R. Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence  Cedex 1
France

t?l :  +33 (0)4 42 95 36 37
fax : +33 (0)4 42 59 50 96 (pr?ciser colloque ORAGE 2001)
e-mail : orage2001 at lpl.univ-aix.fr
internet : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~gevoix/ORAGE2001


*** Tarifs ***

Jusqu'au 31 d?cembre 2000 :
Inscription : 1000 FF (153 Euros)
Etudiants : 500 FF (77 Euros)
Inscription pour les adh?rents Gevoix : 700 FF (107 Euros)
Etudiants adh?rents Gevoix : 200 FF (31 Euros)

Apr?s le 31 d?cembre 2000 :
Inscription : 1300 FF (199 Euros)
Etudiants : 600 FF (92 Euros)
Inscription pour les adh?rents Gevoix : 1000 FF (153 Euros)
Etudiants adh?rents Gevoix : 300 FF (46 Euros)
[1 Euro = 6,55957 FF]

Attention : le tarif ?tudiant ne donne pas droit aux actes, ceux-ci pourront
?tre achet?s lors du colloque (dans la limite des stocks disponibles), ou en
librairie apr?s le colloque.

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:22:07 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:22:07 +0200
Subject: MT 2000 Conference
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.112207.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Roger Harris" <rwsh at dircon.co.uk>


British Computer Society
Natural Language Translation Specialist Group
URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm


****************************
EXTENDED DEADLINE 19 June 2000
*****************************


INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MT AND MULTILINGUAL NLP

MT 2000:
MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS
IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Exeter, United Kingdom
20-22 November 2000


The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG) of the
British Computer Society (BCS) and the University of Exeter announce
an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter (UK)
on 20-22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful
conference "Machine Translation: 10 Years On" held in 1994 in Cranfield.

Against the backdrop of increasingly multilingual society, MT2000 will
look at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of
the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only
recent machine translation research and products, but latest
multilingual developments in general. The organisers aim to attract a
wide range of contributions from researchers, users, educationalists
and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering.

The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will
be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection
of papers will be published in book form soon after the conference.
There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity to hold poster
sessions.


* Topics

We invite papers covering multilingual aspects of any NLP
task/application. We encourage the representation of a broad
range of areas; the following list of possible topics is not
exhaustive and is intended to indicate areas of probable interest.


Machine translation (developments, techniques, applications)
Translation aids
Controlled Languages
Computer-assisted language learning
Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation)
Evaluation
Part-of-speech tagging
Parsing
Information retrieval
Information extraction
Automatic abstracting
Word-sense disambiguation
Lexical knowledge acquisition
Anaphora resolution
Text categorisation
Dialogues systems
Web-based NLP applications
NL generation
Speech processing
Translation studies
Terminology
Lexicography
Syntax
Semantics
Discourse
Pragmatics


* Invited speakers

Martin Kay (Xerox Parc)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)


* Programme Committee

Mona Baker (UMIST, Manchester)
Christian Boitet (Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble)
Francis Bond (NTT, Kyoto)
Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice)
Laurie Gerber (Systran Software Inc.)
Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble)
Changning Huang (Microsoft, China)
John Hutchins (University of Anglia)
Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Labs)
Gareth Jones (University of Exeter)
Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton)
Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal)
Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht)
Tara O'Leary (TRADOS Ireland)
Derek Lewis (University of Exeter), Co-Chair
Gabriel Lopez (New Lisbon University)
Bente Maegard (Center of Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chris Manning (Stanford University)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Co-Chair
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)
Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante)
Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge)
Lucia Rino (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University Barcelona)
Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon)
Arturo Trujillo (Vocalis plc, Cambridge)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo)
Agnes Tutin (Stendahl University Grenoble)
Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)
Lotfi Zadeh (University of California)

* Submission Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should
be written in English and should not exceed 7 single-column
pages (preferred font: Times New Roman 12) including figures,
tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
the title of the paper, the author's name(s), the author's surface and
email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Electronic
submissions (attached postscript files, pdf, rtf or Word files) are
encouraged.

The address for e-mail paper submissions is: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk
In addition, the abstracts of the papers should be separately emailed
to Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk).

The papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines on how to produce
the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
Proceedings.


* Schedule

Paper Submission Due: 19 June 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2000
Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 2000
Conference: 20-22 November 2000


* Venue

The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the
University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon
in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the
most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport is
a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links to London,
Birmingham and other UK cities.


* Exhibitions

The conference will host exhibitions of software products and books
related to multilingual NLP. Companies/organisations interested in
exhibiting their products should contact Derek Lewis (see below).


* Call for participation

A call for participation, including the conference program and
attendance fees, will be posted in August.


* Further information

Further information can be obtained from

Derek Lewis
Queen's Building
University of Exeter
Exeter
United Kingdom
EX4 4QH
Telephone/fax: ++44 (0)1392 264296 / 264306
E-mail: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk

or from

David Wigg, NLTSG
Telephone: +44 (0) 1732 455446
E-mail: wiggjd at bcs.org.uk

Conference web site:
http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/index.htm
Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 16 09:23:18 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:23:18 +0200
Subject: Conf: PREP AN 2000
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.112318.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Kupfermann <kupferma at post.tau.ac.il>

                         COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL
                        ________________________

                              PREP AN 2000

            ? La pr?position fran?aise dans tous ses ?tats ?

            (Universit? de Tel-Aviv  -  3-9 septembre 2000)

                              Annonce n? 2



Chers Coll?gues,

Vous trouverez ci-dessous :
1. La liste des communications pr?vues pour PREP AN 2000.
2. Le sch?ma du calendrier de PREP AN 2000.
PREP AN 2000 aura lieu du dimanche 3 au vendredi 9 septembre, plus une
extension : excursion facultative et payante en (Haute-) Galil?e le
samedi 10.

            Liste des intervenants et de leurs pr?sentations

Adler, S. Universit? de Tel Aviv ? Les locutions pr?positives :
propri?t?s et ?llipse de r?gimes ?

Anscombre, J-C. CNRS-CELITH ? L ?analyse de la construction en tout N
par D. Leeman : quelques divergences, en toute amit? ?

Barbaud, P. Lebel M-E. Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al ?cole normale
sup?rieure Fontenay/St-Cloud et Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al ? Du
pr?verbe par en ancien fran?ais

Blanche-Benveniste, C. Universit? de Provence ? Place de la pr?position
dans les tournure restrictives en il n'y a que
.qu- ?
Borillo, A. ERSS, UMR 5610 Universit? Toulouse-le Mirail ? Il y a
pr?positions et pr?positions ?
Cadiot, P. Universit? Paris VIII ? La pr?position comme connecteur et la
pr?dication seconde ?
Cavalla, C. Universit? Lumi?re Lyon II ?La pr?position en aupr?s du
verbe changer ?
Choi-Jonin, I. Universit? de Toulouse Le Mirail & ERSS, UMR 5610 Comment
d?finir la pr?position avec ?

Coltier, D. Universit? de Metz ? Propositions pour une classification
des valeurs de la pr?position selon quand elle r?git un nom, propre ou
commun, d?signant un humain. ?

Corblin, F. Sorbonne (Universite Paris IV) ? Sur les interpr?tations
discursives de de ?
Cortier, C. Universit? de Saint-Etienne ? Les syntagmes pr?positionnels
dans les grammaires universitaires : un observatoire de la place
accord?e aux pr?positions ?.

Dendale, P . Universit? de Metz & Universit? d?Anvers L'emploi spatial
de  contre : propositions pour un traitement unifi?
Dominicy, M.  et Martin, F. Universit? Libre de Bruxelles ? A travers',
au travers (de) et le point de vue ?
Dugas, A. L'Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al ? Une analyse des
constructions transitives indirectes en fran?ais ?
Evrard, I. Universit? Libre de Bruxelles ? Diath?se et pr?position :
pour une approche syntaxico-s?mantique ?
Feigenbaum, S. Universit? de Ha?fa ? Selon et ses synonymes: une analyse
contrastive ?
Franckel, J-J. Universit? de Paris X-Nanterre ? Les pr?positions dans et
en ?
Gaatone, D. Universit? de Tel Aviv ? Les pr?positions: une classe aux
contours flous ?

Gross, M. LADL et Universit? Paris VII- Denis Diderot  ? Les
pr?positions de temps en fran?ais : formes et interpr?tations des DATES
et des DUREES ?

Heinemann, A. Universit? de Salzburg ? Les locutions pr?positives et
leur traitement lexicographique ?
Jayez, J. Mari, A. EHESS-CELITH ? Avec comme canal d?information ?
Kampers-Manhe, B. Universit? de Groningen ? Le statut de la pr?position
dans la structure des mots compos?s ?
Kihm, A. CNRS, URA 1028, Paris ? Quand de dispara?t : les constructions
g?nitives en cr?ole ha?tien ?
Kwon-Pak, S.N. Universit? Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) Par - spatial :
l'espace temporalis? ; Par - temporel : le temps spatialis??

Lagae, V. Universit? de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambr?sis/Universit?
Catholique de Leuven ? Le pronom en : des compl?ments adnominaux aux
syntagmes quantificateurs ?

Leeman, D. Universit? de Paris X Nanterre ?La pr?position contre?
Lefeuvre, F. Paris III ??tude de la pr?position dans le groupe
(pr?position + quoi) ?
Martin, F. Universit? libre de Bruxelles ? De, par, et le contr?le des
?motions ?

Martineau, F. Universit? d'Ottawa ? La pr?position ?, ?l?ment
introducteur  d?un compl?ment infinitif de l?ancien fran?ais au fran?ais
moderne ?

Melis, L. KU Leuven ? La pr?position, le groupe pr?positionnel et la
structure des constituants ?
Paillard, D. Universit? Paris VII-Denis Diderot ? Groupes
pr?positionnels et rection verbale ?
P?roz, P. Universit? de Metz ? Variations s?mantiques et identit?
lexicale : Contre : la valeur ?d??change ?
Picabia, L.  Universit? de Paris-VIII Il y a est-il une pr?position ?

Pierrard , M. Vrije Universiteit Brussel ? Comme pr?position ?
Observations sur le statut cat?goriel des pr?positions et des
conjonctions ?

Plungian, V.A. Institut de linguistique, Moscou ? A TRAVERS et les
autres mots de sa famille : grammaticalisation et polys?mie ?

Porhiel, S. Universit? d?Ottawa ? La dimension discursive des
expressions lexicalis?es pr?positionnelles dans les articles des
dictionnaires ?

Riegel, M. Universit? de Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) ? Pr?positions et
constructions attributives ?
Rosier, L. Universit? Libre de Bruxelles ? Un genre de construction avec
les pr?positions ?

Schnedecker, C. et Bianco, M. Universit? de Metz  Universit? Pierre
Mend?s-France, Grenoble ? AVEC entre comitatif et conjonctif ? ?tude
linguistique et psycholinguistiqu ?

Shapira, C. Technion, Haifa ? Pr?position et conjonction ? Le cas de
AVEC?

Sleeman, P., Kester, E.-.P Universit? d?Amsterdam/HIL ? Le caract?re
propositionnel des constituants en de ? l?int?rieur du groupe nominal ?

Stosic, D. Universit? de Toulouse-Le Mirail ? Les pr?positions spatiales
par et ? travers.
Convergences et divergences. ?


Tabatchnik, M. Universit? de Tel Aviv ?Sur la structure
spatio-temporelle de certains mod?les pr?positionnels?
Thuillier, F. Universit? Paris VII ? La pr?position devant : invariance
et variations ?
Tsirlin, M. Universit? de Ha?fa ? La  pr?position de et le probl?me de
l?implicite dans l?article fran?ais. ?

Tremblay, M.Dufresne, M.Dupuis, F. Queen?s UniversityQueen?s University
et UQAM
 ? De l??volution du statut des pr?verbes dans l?histoire du fran?ais ?

Van Grunderbeek, L. Universit? d?Anvers ? De sur / sus ? au-dessus: la
valeur de de. ?
Van Raemdonck, D. Universit? Libre de Bruxelles ? Adverbe et pr?position
: cousin, cousine ? ?

Willems, D. Universit? de Gand ? Le r?le structurant des pr?positions
dans le lexique verbal. Le cas des structures ? attribut de l'objet
indirect. ?


                  Sch?ma du calendrier de PREP AN 2000

Dimanche   3.09.00   B?timent Webb                      Lundi
4.09.00   B?timent Webb

10-12.30
Accueil                                                         9-10.30
S?ance
12.30-13 Allocutions de bienvenue                               10.30-11
Pause
13-14
D?jeuner
11-12.30 S?ance
14-15
Plenum
12.30-14 D?jeuner
15-16.30 S?ance
14-15.30 S?ance
16.30-17
Pause
15.30-16 Pause
17-18-30 S?ance
16-17.30 S?ance
Soir?e :  cocktail

Mardi  5.09.00    B?timent Webb                 Mercredi   6.09. 00

9-10.30  S?ance
Excursion dans la r?gion de
10.30-11
Pause
J?rusalem-Bethleem)
11-12.30 S?ance
(incluse dans les droits d?inscription )
12.30-14 D?jeuner
14-15.30 S?ance
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16-17.30 S?ance

Jeudi   7.09.00 B?timent Webb
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9-10.30
S?ance
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10.30-11
Pause
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11-12.30
S?ance
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12.30-14
D?jeuner
12.30-14 D?jeuner
14-15.30 S?ance
15.30-16 Pause
16-17.30 S?ance
Soir?e  Banquet

Samedi  9.09.00

Excursion (facultative-payante) : (Haute-) Galil?e


H?tels : ils sont situ?s ? proximit? des plages et de la Promenade de
Tel-Aviv. Jaffa n?est pas loin non plus.
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accompagnateurs/accompagnatrices) : 30 mai 2000
* Date-limite de r?servation des chambres d?h?tels : 3 juillet 2000.
* D?but du colloque : lundi 3 septembre 2000.

Droits d?inscription :

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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:22:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: ASE-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.112243.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jerry Gannod <gannod at hockeytown.eas.asu.edu>



                 Automated Software Engineering - ASE'2000

                            Doctoral Symposium

                           September 11th, 2000
                             Grenoble, France

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          http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/ASE00-DocSymp.html

                           Call for Participation

The ASE'2000 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students
working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications of automated
software engineering technology, and give them the opportunity to present
and to discuss their research in a constructive and international
atmosphere. The goals of the symposium are:

   * To provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants' current
     research, and guidance on future research directions,
   * To develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of
     collaborative research,
   * To contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other
     researchers and conference events.

The Doctoral Symposium will be held one day before the main conference, on
September 11th. Selected students will present their work and receive
constructive feedback from a panel of advisors and other Doctoral Symposium
students. Besides scientific matters, the students will also have the
opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD and
performing research as a young professional in automated software
engineering.

Moreover, during the ASE conference itself, a session will be
organized where the students presenting at the symposium will also be
able to present their work to all the conference attendees.

The ASE'2000 Doctoral Symposium has the same scope as the main conference.
Topics include but are not restricted to:

   * Automated software specification
   * Automated software design and synthesis
   * Category-theoretic approaches
   * Computer-supported cooperative work
   * Domain modeling
   * Knowledge acquisition
   * Maintenance and evolution
   * Process and workflow management
   * Program understanding
   * Re-engineering
   * Requirements engineering
   * Reuse
   * Software architectures
   * Testing
   * Tutoring, help, documentation systems
   * Human computer interaction
   * Verification and validation

Submissions

To apply for participation at the symposium, you should submit an abstract
of your doctoral work to the symposium organizers (see below). Only
electronic submissions will be accepted. All submissions must be in either
PDF or PostScript form. Abstracts should be less than 3000 words, and
should:

   * clearly identify the research question you are addressing,
   * outline the significant problems in the field of research and the
     current solutions,
   * present the preliminary ideas and state the proposed approach clearly,
     and
   * present the contributions of the applicant and the results of the
     work.

In addition, you should provide a (short) letter (possibly e-mail) of
recommendation from your dissertation advisor. The letter must include an
assessment of the current status of your thesis research, and an expected
date for dissertation submission. The Doctoral Symposium is intended for
students who have not yet completed their dissertation research, and do not
expect to write up their dissertation before the conference. If you are
already writing your dissertation, or expect to be substantially done by
the time of the Symposium, we encourage you to submit your work as a full
paper to a future ASE conference. Note that advisors of student presenters
will not be allowed to attend their student's presentations.

Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium advisors panel, and
selected for inclusion in the symposium on the basis of originality,
technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance to the conference
topics.

Proceedings will be provided, that will include all accepted papers at the
Doctoral Symposium. The proceedings will also be available on-line on the
ASE web site.

Financial Support

Travel scholarships may be available for some or all students presenting
at the Doctoral Symposium, contingent on the availability of funding.
Quality of the submitted work will be a factor in allocating any
scholarships. All presenting students will receive free registration, and
will be expected to work at the registration tables during the conference
in return.

Important Dates

 Deadline for submission:    June 13th, 2000
 Notification of acceptance: July 3rd, 2000
 Camera-ready paper due:     July 16th, 2000
 Symposium presentations:    September 11th, 2000
 ASE'2000 main conference:   September 12-15th, 2000

Contact Address

Questions regarding the Doctoral Symposium should be directed to:

  Renaud Marlet                     or   John Penix
  Trusted Logic                          Automated Software Engineering
Group
  5, rue du bailliage                    NASA Ames Research Center, M/S
269-3
  78000 Versailles                       Moffett Field, CA 94035
  FRANCE                                 USA
  Phone: +33 1 30 97 25 08               Phone: +1 (650) 604-6576
  Fax: +33 1 30 97 25 19
  Renaud.Marlet at trusted-logic.fr         JPenix at ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov

For more information, see
  http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/ASE00-DocSymp.html

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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Tue May 16 14:21:11 2000
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:21:11 +0100
Subject: Q: Neologismes dans les "chats"
Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAY.2000.152111.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 20:06:56 +0200
From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000515200414.00b649a0 at up.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis


Nous accueillons ici un ?tudiant en post-graduation de l'universit? de Tizi
Ouzou, qui fait une ?tude sur la formation de n?ologismes dans les "chats".
Cela me para?t ?tre un sujet int?ressant, mais je n'ai strictement aucune
source ? lui fournir. Quelqu'un conna?t-il des ?tudes sur ce sujet (ou des
sujets apparent?s, par exemple n?tologismes sur les newsgroups).

Merci!


Jean V?ronis
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:06:21 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:06:21 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.100621.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com>
   Subject: proposition de poste

2/ From: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk
   Subject: Job (Salford)

3/ From: Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
   Subject: Corpora: Postdocs in Linguistic Database Research

4/ From:  Jerry Hobbs <Hobbs at ai.sri.com>
   Subject:  Comp Linguist at SRI International, California U.S.A.
___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com>
   Subject: proposition de poste




SINEQUA (ex CORA-SA), start-up dynamique
d?veloppant des logiciels int?grant des techniques
d'analyses linguistiques pour le e-commerce,
Internet, la recherche d'information multilingue,
etc. recherche :
            **********************************
            un(e) informaticien(ne) linguiste
            **********************************
Int?gr?(e) ? l'?quipe de linguistes, vous
participez au d?veloppement de nos produits ainsi
qu'aux travaux de recherche men?s. De formation
sup?rieure en informatique, vous montrez un
int?r?t particulier pour le traitement automatique
du langage naturel. Vous ma?trisez l'environnement
Linux et/ou Windows NT et vos connaissances des
bases de donn?es, des langages C et C++ vous
permettent d'acc?der rapidement au cour de nos
technologies. La connaissance d'une (ou plusieurs)
langues ?trang?res constituerait un atout. Enfin,
vos capacit?s ? travailler en collaboration aussi
bien avec les linguistes qu'avec les
informaticiens seront vivement appr?ci?es.

La r?mun?ration sera fonction de l'exp?rience et
des comp?tences des candidats.
Le lieu de travail est ? Ivry sur Seine, en proche
banlieue parisienne.

Merci d'envoyer votre candidature par courrier
?lectronique, postal ou t?l?copie ? :
Vanessa Combet-Meunier
SINEQUA
51, rue Ledru Rollin
F-94200 Ivry sur Seine / France
T?l. : +33 (0)1-49-87-06-00
Fax : +33 (0)1-49-87-06-01
combet at sinequa.com
http://www.sinequa.com

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk
   Subject: Job (Salford)

Dear colleagues,
The CS department will have two posts (permanent). One of the areas of
interest is NLP (Reader ot lecturer according to expertise). Please
circulate this advert to your institution.

Best regards,


Dr Sophia Ananiadou
Senior Lecturer
Computer Science, School of Sciences
University of Salford
Salford M5 4WT
Tel: +44 161 295 0480  Fax: +44 161 295 55 59
S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk
-

Copy of Advert



School of Sciences

Reader in Computer Science (Ref no. SC/4)

Lecturer A in Computer Science (ref no. SC/5)


The Computer Science courses at Salford reflect exciting advances in
internet technology, client server computing, object oriented programmi=
ng,
software engineering and natural language processing. The School's
research activities include intelligent systems, natural language
processing and formal methods,  that  were awarded a  4A in the last RA=
E.

Due to significant expansion plans, the School seeks a Reader and a
Lecturer to further develop its research and teaching activities.  We a=
re
looking for specialists in client server computing, Java, internet
technology, multimedia technology, groupware, computational linguistics=
, or
formal methods, but will consider excellent candidates from all areas o=
f
Computer Science. Applicants for the post of Reader should have a good
track record of publications, research grants, and supervision of PhDs.=


For an informal discussion please contact the Head of School Professor
Allan Boardman on 0161 295 5054, email A.D.Boardman at salford.ac.uk  or t=
he
Subject Leader Dr Sunil Vadera on 0161 295 3622,  email:
S.Vadera at salford.ac.uk.


For further details and application forms please call: 0161 295 2122
(24hrs) or email: personnel at salford.ac.uk

Closing date: 6 June 2000

___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
   Subject: Corpora: Postdocs in Linguistic Database Research



The Linguistic Data Consortium and the Database Group in the
Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of
Pennsylvania have two 2-year postdoctoral positions available in
linguistic database research, funded by the National Science Foundation.

The positions will involve research in the following
areas: data models and architectures for linguistic databases;
semi-structured query languages and indexing methods for databases of
annotated speech; and the data provenance problem in linguistic
databases.  Candidates will be expected to have completed a PhD in
language engineering, computational linguistics, databases, or a
related field, and have a demonstrated ability to test novel ideas
through prototyping.

Funding for the positions comes from two projects:

1. TalkBank (NSF/Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence)
   http://www.talkbank.org/

This is an interdisciplinary research project to foster
fundamental research in the study of human and animal communication,
by providing standards and tools for creating, searching, and
publishing primary materials via networked computers.

2. Data Provenance (NSF/Digital Libraries)
   http://db.cis.upenn.edu/Research/provenance.html

This project aims to develop new data models, query languages and
storage techniques, permitting information about the origin of a piece
of data to be stored and propagated as data items move through a
series of curated databases.

Further information about the projects is available from the websites.
Anyone who is interested in these positions is invited to contact
Steven Bird <sb at ldc.upenn.edu> and Peter Buneman <peter at cis.upenn.edu>.

--

Linguistic Data Consortium    -    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
U Penn Database Group         -    http://db.cis.upenn.edu/


___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Jerry Hobbs <Hobbs at ai.sri.com>
   Subject:  Comp Linguist at SRI International, California U.S.A.


Rank of Job: Ph.D.
Areas Required: Computational Linguist
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: SRI International
Department: Artificial Intelligence Center
State or Province: California
Country: U.S.A.
Final Date of Application: none
Contact: Jerry Hobbs Hobbs at ai.sri.com

Address for Applications:
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park
California 94025
U.S.A.

The Natural Language Group of the Artificial
Intelligence Center at SRI International, Menlo
Park, California, is seeking to hire computational
linguists at or near the Ph.D. level with
experience in one or more of the following areas:
1. Dialog Modeling
2. Information Extraction
3. Statistical Natural Language Processing
4. Encoding Commonsense Knowledge



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:08:36 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:08:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: EMNLP/VLC
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.100836.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: yarowsky at cs.jhu.edu (David Yarowsky)





                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                (EMNLP/VLC-2000) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON
            EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND
                             VERY LARGE CORPORA

   Sponsored by SIGDAT (ACL's Special Interest Group for Linguistic Data
                    and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP)

                             October 7-8, 2000
               Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

                            In conjunction with
                  ACL-2000: The 38th Annual Meeting of the
                 Association for Computational Linguistics

   This conference aims to bring together academic researchers and
   industrial practitioners to discuss empirical and corpus-based natural
   language processing through technical paper sessions, invited talks,
   and panel discussions. Topics of interest include (but are not
   limited to):

     * statistical parsing
     * language and dialog models
     * machine translation
     * information retrieval
     * information extraction
     * comparative evaluation of empirical vs. rule- and knowledge-based
       technologies
     * lexical acquisition
     * statistical language understanding
     * phrase identification
     * noun phrase coreference
     * question answering
     * word sense disambiguation
     * word and term segmentation and extraction
     * alignment
     * bilingual lexicon extraction
     * text categorization

   This year, we are especially interested in papers discussing these
   topics in the context of web-oriented applications.

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   SUBMISSIONS

   Submissions are limited to original, unpublished and empirically
   evaluated work. Reviewing of papers will be blind. Electronic
   submissions are required; author instructions, stylesheets and
   a web-based submissions interface may be found at
   http://nlp.cs.jhu.edu/~sigdat2k. Submitted papers should conform to
   the colacl.sty style file (or the provided MSWord equivalent) for final
   2-column format, with the exception that name, affiliation and address
   should be replaced with 'XXX'. Full paper-length submissions are
   strongly encouraged, and should not exceed 9 pages in specified format.
   Submissions must be received on or before June 26, 2000.

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   Important Dates:
   June 26  Submission of full-length paper
   July 28  Acceptance notice
   August 29  Camera-ready paper due
   October 7-8  Conference date

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   Program Chair:    Hinrich Schuetze, GroupFire (hinrich at groupfire.com)
   Program Co-Chair: Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corp. (kysu at bdc.com.tw)


   http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~schuetze/emnlp-vlc2000.html






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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:09:18 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:09:18 +0200
Subject: Appel: Translating and the Computer
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.100918.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Nicole Adamides <nicole at aslib.co.uk>



Apologies if you receive more than one copy of this announcement - it
has been sent to several lists.

*************************************************************
  22nd Conference
 "Translating and the Computer"
      16-17 November 2000
    One Great George Street, London, SW1
*************************************************************
The annual conference "Translating and the Computer" has been an
important forum for Machine Translation and Translation Aids users over
the past 21 years. The conference is one of the few international events
which focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such
has been particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including
translators, business managers, researchers and language experts.

Against the background of an increasingly multilingual society and the
all-encompassing impact of information technology, this year's
conference will address the latest developments in translation (and
translation-related) software.

This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the
conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user
aspects of translation or translation-related software rather than on
research and development issues. Presentations accompanied by
demonstrations are especially welcome.

TOPICS

The range of conference topics includes (but is not limited to)
* use of Machine Translation (MT) systems
* machine-aided translation and translation aids
* memory based translation
* controlled languages and their use in MT
* speech translation
* terminology
* localisation
* translation aids for minority languages
* multilingual document management/workflow
* experience of companies using translation software
* translating and the computer: the new millennium challenges
* the Internet and translation aids

PROGRAMME CHAIRS
Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Chris Pyne, ICE, Germany
Daniel Grasmick, SAP, Germany

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract (between 500 and
1000 words) of the paper they would like to present. Extended abstracts
should be sent by post, fax or email before 22 May 2000 to:

Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser
ASLIB, The Association for Information Management
Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7903 0000      Fax: +44 (0) 20 7903 0011
Email nicole.adamides at aslib.co.uk  WWW: http://www.aslib.co.uk

The full-length versions of the accepted papers will be included in the
conference proceedings.  Electronic versions of the full papers are
expected at Aslib by 1 October 2000.




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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:09:51 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:09:51 +0200
Subject: Ecole: Tbilissi Summer School
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.100951.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Pascal Boldini <Pascal.Boldini at paris4.sorbonne.fr>



#################################################################

                     ANNOUCEMENT
                  Tbilisi Summer School
                 in Language, Logic, and Computation
                 29th August - 8 September 2000
                  Tbilisi, Georgia

The Georgian Centre for Language, Logic, and Speech, based at the Tbilisi
State University, will host Tbilisi Summer School, main purpose of which
is to make the students and young scholars acquainted with the modern state

of affairs in the mentioned fields of science, and - at the same time - to
further contacts and scientific collaboration between Western and Eastern
Scholars.


 LECTURERS
Jurij Apresjan, Moscow
Matthias Baaz, Vienna
Pascal Boldini, Paris
Marina Glavinskaja, Moscow
Michel Parigot, Paris
Carl Vogel,Dublin
Andrej Voronkov, Manchester


COURSES
- Foundations of linguistic semantics (Ju.Apresjan)
- On the generalisation of proofs and calculations (M.Baaz)
- Type theories for semantics and cognition (P.Boldini)
- Semantics of aspect (M.Glavinskaja)
- Proofs as programs (M.Parigot)
- Cognitive constraints on linguistic theory. (C.Vogel)
- Logical Foundations of deductive databases. (A.Voronkov).






SCHEDULE


Tuesday, August 29

12.00 - 13.00   Opening of the School
18.00 -    Banquet



Wednesday, August 30

10.00 - 13.00   M. Parigot. Proofs as programs
13.00 - 14.00   Lunch
14.00 - 17.00   Ju. Apresjan. Foundations of linguistic
    semantics



Thursday, August 31

10.00 - 13.00   M. Parigot. Proofs as programs.
13.00 - 14.00   Lunch
14.00 - 17.00   Ju. Apresjan. Foundations of linguistic
    semantics.



Friday, September 1

10.00 - 13.00   M. Glavinskaja. Semantics of aspect.
13.00 - 14.00   Lunch
14.00 - 17.00   C. Vogel. Cognitive Constraints on
    Linguistic Theory.


Saturday, September 2 Recreation (sight-seeing in Tbilisi and environs,
Sunday, September 3        excursion).



Monday, September 4

10.00 - 13.00   M. Glavinskaja. Semantics of aspect.
13.00 - 14.00   Lunch
14.00 - 16.00   C. Vogel. Cognitive Constraints on Linguistic
    Theory.



Tuesday, September 5

10.00 - 14.00   A. Voronkov. Logical foundations of deductive
    databases.
14.00 - 15.00   Lunch
15.00 - 17.00   C. Vogel. Cognitive Constraints on Linguistic
    Theory.

Wednesday, September 6

10.00 - 12.00   A. Voronkov. Logical foundations of deductive
    databases.
12.00 - 14.00   M. Baaz. On the generalization of proofs and
    calculations.
14.00 - 15.00   Lunch
15.00 - 17.00   P. Boldini. Type theories for semantics and
    cognition.


Thursday, September 7

10.00 - 12.00   M. Baaz. On the generalisation of proofs and
    calculations.
12.00 - 14.00   P. Boldini. Type theories for semantics and
    cognition.
14.00 - 15.00   Lunch


Friday, September 8

10.00 - 12.00   M. Baaz. On the generalization of proofs and
    calculations.
12.00 - 14.00   P. Boldini. Type theories for semantics and
    cognition.
14.00 - 15.00   Lunch
15.00 - 16.00   Closing of the School.
18.00    Banquet



STUDENTS
Besides local audience we shall be glad to see at the School foreign
students also. Participants fee for such persons will amount to $120
(excursion, banquet, reprints, etc.). They could be comfortably
accommodated at Georgian families (with two meals) - $40 per day.




LOCATION AND SIGHTSEEING TOURS

    Georgia is the ancient country situated between Black and Caspian seas,

Caucasus Mountains and Turkey. This is the country of Golden Fleece, myth
of
Argonauts, Jason and Medea, Promethee, chained to the Caucasus mountains.
Tbilisi - capital of Georgia - has more than 1 million in habitant. It is
situated some 100-150 km to the south of main Caucasus ridge, in the
beautiful valley of the river Mtkvari, surrounded by the green slopes of
the
Caucasus spurs. The city has a long (1500 year) history and abounds in
historical and cultural memorials. Georgia is famous for its high quality
wines, exquisite cuisine and cordial hospitality.

The main site of the Symposium, Tbilisi state University, is the chief
centre of education in the country, and has several outstanding scholars
in science, art and politics among its graduates.

As a route of excursion is chosen the Georgian Military Road going via
ancient
capital of Georgia - Mtskheta, with its abundant architectural and
historical
monuments, crossing the main ridge of Caucasus by the Cross Pass and
reaching
the final point of supposed trip - mountain resort Kazbegi with its Trinity
Church situated on the top of high peak facing the second (after Elbrus)
mountain - peak of Caucasus - Mkinvarcveri (Glacier - mountain).


  TRAVEL INFORMATION

The only real way of arrival in Tbilisi is by air. If direct flight from
the
point of your departure does not exist, the preferable ways are via
Istambul,
Frankfurt or Moscow.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
T.Khurodze (Clair, Pro-rector of Tbilisi State University)
R.Asatiani (Institute of Oriental Studies)
N.Chanishvili (Tbilisi State University)
G.Chikoidze (Institute of Control Systems)
K.Pkhakadze (Institute of Applied Mathematics)
Kh.Rukhaja (Institute of Aplied Mathematics).


   For additional information, please, use the following address:
George Chikoidze
Dept. of Language Modelling
Inst. of Control Systems
Georgian Academy of Sciences
34, K. Gamsakhurdia
380060 Tbilisi
Georgia
Phone: +9 9532 382136
E- mail: chiko at contsys.acnet.ge

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:09:44 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:09:44 +0200
Subject: Conf: COLING (2 adds)
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_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Hans Uszkoreit <uszkoreit at dfki.de>
   Subject: COLING 2000 --- Call for Participation

2/ From: Remi Zajac <rzajac at crl.nmsu.edu>
   Subject: Last Call: COLING-2000 Workshop on Toolsets and Architectures
_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Hans Uszkoreit <uszkoreit at dfki.de>
   Subject: COLING 2000 --- Call for Participation

COLING 2000  in  EUROPE

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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 (31 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, AT&T, New Jersey, 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.

Please take advantage of early registration at
http://www.coling.org/reg.html before May 31st.

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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2/ From: Remi Zajac <rzajac at crl.nmsu.edu>
   Subject: Last Call: COLING-2000 Workshop on Toolsets and Architectures


Call for Papers for the

COLING-2000 Workshop on Using Toolsets and Architectures To Build NLP
Systems

Centre Universitaire, Luxembourg, 5 August 2000

(see also this call at  http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/COLING00)


Background

The purpose of the workshop is to present the state-of-the-art on NLP
toolsets and workbenches that can be used to develop multilingual
and/or multi-applications NLP components and systems. Although
technical presentations of particular toolsets are of interest, we
would like to emphasize methodologies and practical experiences in
building components or full applications using an NLP
toolset. Combined demonstrations and paper presentations are strongly
encouraged.

Many toolsets have been developed to support the implementation of
single NLP components (taggers, parsers, generators, dictionaries) or
complete Natural Language Processing applications (Information
Extraction systems, Machine Translation systems).  These tools aim at
facilitating and lowering the cost of building NLP systems. Since the
tools themselves are often complex pieces of software, they require a
significant amount of effort to be developed and maintained in the
first place. Is this effort worth the trouble?  It is to be noted that
NLP toolsets have often been originally developed for implementing a
single component or application. In this case, why not build the NLP
system using a general programming language such as Lisp or Prolog?
There can be at least two answers. First, for pure efficiency issues
(speed and space), it is often preferable to build a parameterized
algorithm operating on a uniform data structure (e.g., a
phrase-structure parser). Second, it is harder, and often impossible,
to develop, debug and maintain a large NLP system directly written in
a general programming language.

It has been the experience of many users that a given toolset is quite
often unusable outside its environment: the toolset can be too
restricted in its purpose (e.g. an MT toolset that cannot be used for
building a grammar checker), too complex to use, or even too difficult
to install. There have been, in particular in the US under the Tipster
program, efforts to promote instead common architectures for a given
set of applications (primarily IR and IE in Tipster; see also the
Galaxy architecture of the DARPA Communicator project). Several
software environments have been built around this flexible concept,
which is closer to current trends in main stream software engineering.

The workshop aims at providing a picture of the current problems faced
by developers and users of toolsets, and future directions for the
development and use of NLP toolsets. We encourage reports of actual
experiences in the use of toolsets (complexity, training, learning
curve, cost, benefits, user profiles) as well as presentation of
toolsets concentrating on user issues (GUIs, methodologies, on-line
help, etc.)  and application development. Demonstrations are also
welcome.


Audience

Researchers and practitioners in Language Engineering, users and
developers of tools and toolsets.


Issues

Although individual tools (such as a POS taggers) have their use, they
typically need to be integrated in a complete application (e.g. an IR
system). Language Engineering issues in toolset and architectures
include (in no particular order):

  Practical experience in the use of a toolset;
  Methodological issues associated to the use of a toolset;
  Benefits and deficiencies of toolsets;
  User (linguist/programmer) training and support;
  Adaptation of a tool (or toolset) to a new kind of application;
  Adaptation of a tool to a new language;
  Integration of a tool in an application;
  Architectures and support software;
  Reuse of data resources vs. processing components;
  NLP algorithmic libraries.


Format of the Workshop

The one-day workshop will include twelve presentation periods which
will be divided into 20 minutes presentations followed by 10 minutes
reserved for exchanges. We encourage the authors to focus on the
salient points of their presentation and identify possible
controversial positions.  There will be ample time set aside for
informal and panel discussions and audience participation. Please note
that workshop participants are required to register at
http://www.coling.org/reg.html.


Deadlines

   21 May 2000: Submission deadline.
   11 June 2000: Notification to authors.
   24 June 2000: Final camera-ready copy.
   5 August 2000: COLING-2000 Workshop.


Submission Format

Send submissions of no more than 6 pages conforming to the COLING
format to zajac at crl.nmsu.edu. We prefer electronic submissions using
either PDF or Postscript. Final submissions can extend to 10 pages.


Organizing Committee

  R?mi Zajac (Chair), CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA:
       zajac at crl.nmsu.edu.
  Jan Amtrup, CRL, New-Mexico State University, USA:
      jamtrup at crl.nmsu.edu.
  Stephan Busemann, DFKI, Saarbrucken:
       busemann at dfki.de.
  Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield:
      hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk.
  Guenther Goerz, IMMD VIII, University of Erlangen:
      goerz at immd8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de.
  Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen:
      vannoord at let.rug.nl.
  Fabio Pianesi, IRST, Trento:
      pianesi at irst.itc.it.


Of Related Interest

  The Natural Language Software Registry at
      http://www.dfki.de/lt/registry/sections.html
  The Coling-200 Web Site at http://www.coling.org/

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri May 19 08:11:04 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:11:04 +0200
Subject: Ecole: ESSLLI 2001
Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAY.2000.101104.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Ahti-Veikko J Pietarinen <pietarin at cc.helsinki.fi>



      (Apologies for multiple copies)

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                      PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

                         ESSLLI XIII - 2001


                        August 13 - 24, 2001
                         Helsinki, Finland



This year, the twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information (ESSLLI) will be held in Birmingham, England. For more
information on how to register (early registration deadline: May 31),
please refer to

              http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/

At their website you will also be able to obtain more information on
the courses that will be taught, the time schedule, etc.

Next year, the thirteenth ESSLLI will be held in Helsinki, Finland,
from August 13 until 24.

Before the summer, a call for course proposals will be sent out by
the Chair of the ESSLLI 2001 Program Committee, Marcus Kracht at
<kracht at math.fu-berlin.de>.

Anyone interested in organizing satellite events around ESSLLI 2001
are invited to contact the ESSLLI 2001 organization at
<sandu at elo.helsinki.fi>.

The ESSLLI summer schools are organized under the auspices of FOLLI,
the European Association for Logic, Language and Information:

                   http://www.folli.uva.nl/

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From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Mon May 22 10:16:35 2000
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:16:35 +0100
Subject: Q: Constitution de corpus
Message-ID: <MON.22.MAY.2000.111635.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:56:55 +0200
From: Nicolas Denand <denand at lim.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-Id: <392153A7.3337D7E5 at lim.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://pluto.lim.univ-mrs.fr/


Bonjour,

Je suis ?tudiant en th?se dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique de
la Langue Naturelle et je souhaite constituer un corpus de
questions/r?ponses sur les aspects spatiaux du langage. Dans ce but,
j'ai mis en ligne (URL : http://pluto.lim.univ-mrs.fr ) un questionnaire
compos? de 11 images.
Je serais tr?s heureux de recueillir le plus grand nombre possible de
r?ponses.
Merci d'avance.


Nicolas Denand
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Marseille
denand at lim.univ-mrs.fr


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 23 16:36:08 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:36:08 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAY.2000.183608.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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1/ From: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie <clerger at margaux.inria.fr>
   Subject: INRIA

2/ From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject?: Research Studentship in Computational Linguistics

3/ From: Nicola Guarino <Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it>
   Subject: Open research positions in ontological engineering
_____________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie <clerger at margaux.inria.fr>
   Subject: INRIA

Bonjour,

L'INRIA ouvre des postes d'accueil de 1 a 2 ans pour des jeunes Bac+4
ou +5 qui souhaitent une formation complementaire dans une equipe de
recherche.

Dans ce cadre, l'equipe ATOLL sur Rocquencourt propose le sujet RO-05
"Mise en oeuvre d'un syst?me d'aide ? la maintenance de traductions
par int?gration modulaire de composants linguistiques".

Les dossiers sont a renvoyer avant le 9 Juin 2000.

Plus d'information est disponible sur
    http://www.inria.fr/Trav/PostesAccueil/jeunes.html
    http://www.inria.fr/Trav/PostesAccueil/RO-05.html

Pour obtenir la version longue du sujet,
     http://atoll.inria.fr/accueil.html

Les personnes interessees sont invitees a contacter
    Eric de la Clergerie <Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr>

--
Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr  Projet Atoll - INRIA Rocquencourt
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2/ From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
   Subject?: Research Studentship in Computational Linguistics



Usual apologies for multiple postings
------------------


RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP
(Current value of bursary ? 6,500)


The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities,
Languages and Social Studies invites applications for a
research studentship in Computational Linguistics.
The successful candidate will work on term extraction and
its application in anaphora resolution and automatic
abstracting. We are looking for candidates with a good
honours degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer
Science, with excellent programming skills and some experience
in statistics and Natural Language Processing or Linguistics.
Overseas candidates must have a good command of English.

The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship
in September 2000.

For further information/queries, please contact
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471,
Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk.

Formal applications must be made to:

The Research Support Unit
University of Wolverhampton
Dudley Campus
Castle View
Dudley
DY1 3HR
Email L.Barlow at wlv.ac.u

and must include

- a completed application form,
- a CV and
- a covering letter in which the candidates explain
why they have applied for the studentship, give details of
their research interests/experience, background,
programming skills and an outline of any experience in
or knowledge of statistics and Natural Language
Processing or Linguistics.

When you apply, please quote the reference number
of the studentship  RS276.

The application form can be downloaded from
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/


Closing date for applications: 8 June 2000.

_____________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Nicola Guarino <Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it>
   Subject: Open research positions in ontological engineering


Open research positions in ontological engineering


LADSEB-CNR has recently become involved in an European industrial
project focused on ontology-driven knowledge management/knowledge
extraction in multiple domains. Within this project, we will be
committed to build a general reference ontology with lexical links to
English and Italian, and to offer methodological consultancy for
domain-specific ontology-driven conceptual modeling and information
retrieval mainly in the fields of Banking and Insurance. Other
related projects will involve ontology-based harmonization of
meta-data standards, especially in the field of e-commerce.

We are looking for motivated people to join a research team in which
the sophisticated ontology design principles we have developed in the
past few years will be challenged by very concrete engineering goals.

We are planning for two researchers with a PhD in computer science,
computational lingustics, philosophy or equivalent experience, whose
salary and formal position will depend on their qualifications.
Further research grants are planned for somebody willing to spend
some time here working on a PhD topic related to the project.

Contracts are for 1 year starting on September 2000, with the
possibility of extending them for up to 2 years.

European citizenship is preferred (although not strictly required)
for the above positions; shorter visiting positions may be negotiated
with non-European citizens.

For further information contact:

Nicola Guarino
National Research Council phone: +39 O49 8295751
LADSEB-CNR  fax:   +39 O49 8295763
Corso Stati Uniti, 4  email: Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it
I-35127 Padova, Italy

http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/ontology/ontology.html


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

Nicola Guarino
National Research Council phone: +39 O49 8295751
LADSEB-CNR  fax:   +39 O49 8295763
Corso Stati Uniti, 4  email: Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it
I-35127 Padova
Italy

http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/ontology/ontology.html
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 23 16:37:41 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:37:41 +0200
Subject: Appel: Internet and Multimedia Application to French Studies
Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAY.2000.183741.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Rejean Canac-Marquis <rcanacma at sfu.ca>


Premier Appel de Communications
First Call for Papers


Multim?dia, internet et francophonie;  ? la recherche d'un dialogue

Internet and Multimedia Application to French Studies; in Search of a
Dialogue

March 8, 9, 10 mars 2001
Centre for Dialogue - Harbour Centre
Department of French
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby/Vancouver BC

C'est dans le but d'explorer les approches nouvelles aux ?tudes
francophones dans les domaines de la recherche et de l'enseignement de la
langue, de la linguistique et de la litt?rature que nous organisons ce
colloque. Le dialogue que nous souhaitons favoriser entre les nouvelles
technologies et une perception plus traditionnelle des ?tudes francophones
nous am?nera, bien entendu, ? consid?rer les derniers d?veloppements dans
la recherche en ?tudes am?rindiennes, asiatiques, europ?ennes, etc.

We will explore, in this Conference, new research and teaching trends in
French Studies (Language, Linguistics, Literature). We therefore wish to
bridge traditional approaches to French Studies and the use of new
technology, multimedia, and the internet. Papers on Asian, European, Native
studies, are welcome.


Sujets de communication, d'ateliers, de pr?sentations
1. Le multim?dia dans l'enseignement des langues, de la linguistique et de
 la litt?rature
2. L'internet, lieu de production du discursif
3. Canadanet; r?alit? virtuelle?
4. La toile francophone
5. Apr?s les nouvelles technologies

1. Use of the Multimedia in the Teaching of Language, Linguistics and
 Literature
2. Internet as Text
3. Canadanet; virtual reality?
4. The francophone net
5. New technology: what's next?


Pri?re d'adresser une proposition de communication d'une page et un court
c.v. ?/

Please send a one-page paper proposal and a brief resume to
rcanacma at sfu.ca

R?jean Canac Marquis, D?partement de fran?ais, Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby,
B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada. Tel. (604) 291-3544, fax: (604) 291-5932


D?partement de fran?ais/ Department of French:  www.sfu.ca/french/
R?jean Canac Marquis
Assistant professor, Department of French
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC
Canada
V5A 1S6

rcanacma at sfu.ca
tel: 291-3546
fax:: 291-5932

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 23 16:38:39 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:38:39 +0200
Subject: Conf: Bellagio Workshop
Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAY.2000.183839.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Yorick Wilks <y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk>


Dear Colleague:
below is the draft program for the Third International Workshop on
Human Computer Conversation at Bellagio. It will be on the web along with
all
other hotel and registration information, at:

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/program.htm
l

We can still accept a few more registrations for the Workshop, but
hotel accormodation is getting short and (non-invited) speakers and
attendees should hurry. Below the program is a set of fax numbers
for Bellagio hotels, a somewhat wider selection is given than the original
set
on the website. Fax is the normal way to book hotels in Italy, and it
may be worth noting that there are always cancellations of early bookings
a month ahead of given dates, so it may well be worth faxing a repeat
request to a hotel of your choice on 1st or 2nd of June.


DRAFT PROGRAM FOR HCCW3

Monday 3rd July, 2000

Morning session

1000     Registration and Coffee.
1020     Welcome to HCCW3.
1030     Invited Talk: Some findings on the grammar of English
  Conversation.  Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster, UK).
1110     Invited Talk: Conversing with Stochastic Language Models.
         Jason Hutchens (UWA, AUS).

         Track I Submitted Papers:

1200     The Infant Conversational System.
         Paul Bucheit (Harold Washington College, US)
1230     Grammars with Genetic Algorithms (The Sex Life of Grammars).
         Marc Blasband (Compuleer, NL)

         Track II Submitted Papers:

1200     Verbal and nonverbal discourse planning.
         Catherine Pelachaud (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", IT)
1230     A Fundamental Architecture To Integrate Conversation Management
         Engines with Conversation Development and Evaluation Tools.
         Emmett J. Coin (ejTalk Research, US)


Evening Session

         Track I Submitted Papers:

1800     Non-problems and social obligations in human-computer
         conversation. Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, NL)
1830     In the beginning was the "END": Evaluation of Natural Dialogues
         as a step towards improving artificial ones.
         Jean-Baptiste Berthelin (CNRS-LIMSI, FR)

         Track II Submitted Papers:

1800     Rule-Based Dialogue Management Systems.
         Nick Webb (University of Sheffield, UK)
1830     The role of robust semantic analysis in spoken language
         dialogue systems.
         Vincenzo Pallotta (MEDIA Research Group-DI-LITH, CH)
1900     Animated Conversational Agents in E-Commerce Enterprises.
         Helen McBreen (University of Edinburgh, UK)


Tuesday 4th July, 2000

Morning Session

0930     Invited Talk: Dialogs: The Next Generation User Interface.
         Bruno Alabiso (Microsoft, US).
1010     Invited Talk: Experiences from the Verbmobil Project.
         Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, DE).

Coffee

         Track I Submitted Papers:

1100     Information States, Obligations and Intentional Structure in
         Dialogue Modelling.
         Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
1130     Characteristics of Acceptance Utterances in Reaction to Answers
         to Questions and their Relations to Dialog Strategies.
         Akira Shimazu (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
         Technology, JP)
1200     Question Accommodation and Information States in Dialogue.
         Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg University, SE)
1230     Context and Content in Dialogue Systems.
         Guenther Goerz, Bernd Ludwig and Martin Klarner
         (University of Erlangen-N?renberg, DE)

         Track II Submitted Papers:

1100     What Makes Speakers Angry in Human-Computer Conversation.
         Kerstin Fischer (University of Hamburg, DE)
1130     A Flexible Spoken Dialogue Manager.
         Eli Hagen (Simon Fraser University, CAN)
1200     Taking Turns Talking About Text In A Reading Tutor That
         Listens. Gregory Aist (LTI, CMU, US)
1230     DMML: An XML Language for Interacting with Multi-modal Dialog
         Systems. Nicolas Nicolov (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US)


Evening Sessions in parallel

1800     Panel: What if any, is the role of politeness in dialogue
         implementations.
         (Chair: Yorick Wilks) Geoffrey Leech,
         other participants to be announced.

1800     Demonstration session


Wednesday 5th July, 2000

Morning Session

0930     Invited Talk: Title to be announced.
         David Traum (University of Maryland, US).
1010     Invited Talk: The Dialogue Game: designing task-oriented
         spontaneous interaction systems for automated call centers.
         Tomek Strzalkowski (General Electric Research Lab., US).

Coffee
         Track I Submitted Papers:

1130     Task-Oriented Dialogues.
         Sergei Nirenburg and Jim Cowie (New Mexico State University, US)
1200     Bayesian Selection of Conversational Responses.
         Gene Ball (Microsoft, US)
1230     Politeness as Actions of an Implicit Task.
         David Novick (University of Texas at El Paso, US)

         Track II Submitted Papers:

1130     The Virtual Presenter: a Conversational Character for
  Interactive TV.  Marc Cavazza (University of Teeside, UK)
1200     AutoTutor's Conversational Behaviors.
         Natalie Person (Rhodes College, US)
1230     "Kairai" - Software Robots Understanding Natural Language.
         Yusuke Shinyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP)


Evening Session

1700     Panel: Is there a real gulf between theoretical models of
         dialogue and implementations and, if so, is this a healthy
         state of affairs?
         (Chair: Yorick Wilks) Participants to be announced.


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue May 23 16:38:37 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:38:37 +0200
Subject: Appel: ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop On  XML and Information Retrieval
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From: carmel at il.ibm.com





                        ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop On
                       XML and Information Retrieval
                       Athens, Greece, July 28, 2000
                     Call for Papers and Participation
                  http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/sigir00-xml



 XML - the eXtensible Markup Language has recently emerged as a new
standard for data representation and exchange
on the Internet. It has thus become crucial to address the question of how
can we efficiently query and search large corpora
 of XML documents. To date,  most work on storing, indexing, querying, and
searching documents in XML has
stemmed from the database community's work on semi-structured data. An
alternative approach, which has
received less attention to date, is to view XML documents as a collection
of text documents with additional tags
and relations between these tags. In this workshop, we will explore both
approaches and investigate the relationship
between IR and XML. Topics may include:

   Extending IR technologies to search XML documents and integrating XML
   structure in IR indexing structures
   Querying XML documents both on content and structure
   Leveraging the semantics inherent to XML for the search process
   Relationships between XML and other text encoding and metadata standards

   Definition of standard DTDs/Schemas for IR tools such as search results
   and clustering outputs

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
 interested in XML and IR to discuss
and define the most relevant topics in the relation between these two
technologies, present recent results,
propose future directions for research, and possibly standardization.
Activities will include invited talks,
presentation sessions (accepted submissions from candidate participants)
demo sessions on XML tools
(e.g., search engines, editors,  schema definition tools), and panel
discussions.

Organizing Committee
IBM Research in Haifa:
     David Carmel carmel at il.ibm.com
     Yoelle Maarek yoelle at il.ibm.com
     Aya Soffer ayas at il.ibm.com
Program Committee
     Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Universidad de Chile, Chile
     Norbert Fuhr, Dortmund University, Germany
     Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia
     Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Division of Mathematical and Information
Science, Australia

Further information
Information on the workshop venue and local arrangements (hotel reservation
 etc.) as well as the sponsoring conference
can be found at http://sigir2000.aueb.gr. Additional information is also
available at  http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/sigir00-xml.
Questions can be sent directly to any of the organizers above.

Submission Information:
Send by email to David Carmel-  email: carmel at il.ibm.com
For presentation: Short vita and position paper along with the intended
track (tutorial, research, demo, standards).
Length: no more than 2000 words  (HTML, Postscript, or PDF).
For participation only: Statement of interest, (no more than 500 words).

Important Dates:
Submissions: June 5, 00
Notification:  June 19, 00
Final Version: July 3, 00
SIGIR tech. program: July 24-27, 00
XML-IR Workshop: July 28, 00

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Information Retrieval and Organization, IBM - HRL
E-mail: carmel at il.ibm.com
Phone: 972-4-8296223, Fax: 972-4-8296114
Address: IBM, Haifa Research Lab, Matam, Haifa 31905, Israel
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From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:25:57 +0100
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Ch?res et chers Coll?gues,

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*** Un grand merci aussi ? Philippe qui, lui, continue vaillamment ?
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