From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 8 14:01:58 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:01:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: BI-DIALOG 2001 Message-ID: From: root Second Call for Papers BI-DIALOG 2001 FIFTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE Bielefeld University, Germany June 14-16 2001 http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/ Bi-Dialog 2001 will be the fifth in a series of workshops that aim at bringing together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to: - common ground in communication - semantic interpretation in dialogues - modelling agents' information states and how they get updated - multi-agent models - reference in dialogues - dialogue and discourse structure - reasoning in spoken and multimodal dialogue systems SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 5 single-column pages (for talks with a duration of 30' plus 10' discussion) together with a separate page specifying the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in LaTeX, postscript, html, ascii, or pdf format) to: bidialog at uni-bielefeld.de. Submission have to be in English, which is the workshop language. For the accepted talks, a LaTeX style will be made available. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts due: February 15th Acceptance notice: April 15th Final version due: May 22 Conference: June 14-16th INVITED SPEAKERS (preliminary): Simon Garrod (HCRC), Isabel Gomez Txurruka (ILCLI), Alois Knoll (Univ. Bielefeld), Alex Lascarides (HCRC), David Sadek (CNET France Telecom), Robert van der Sandt (Univ. Nijmegen) ADVISORY BOARD: Ellen Bard (HCRC), Anton Benz (HU Berlin), Peter Bosch (Univ. Osnabrueck), Robin Cooper (Goteborg Univ.), Claire Gardent (Univ. des Saarlandes), Joris Hulstijn, Yasuhiro Katagiri (ATR MIC LR), Ian Lewin (SRI Cambridge), Massimo Poesio (HCRC), Uwe Reyle (IMS), Henk Zeevat (ILLC) ORGANIZATION: The workshop will take place at Bielefeld University. The local organizers are Peter Kuehnlein, Hannes Rieser, and Henk Zeevat. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Information about Bielefeld University: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ News about the conference will be posted on the workshop's Web page at http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/ Send emails to bidialog at uni-bielefeld.de or pkuehnle at lili.uni-bielefeld.de for questions about local arrangements. Previous workshops in this series include: MunDial'97 (Munich) (http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html) Twendial'98 (Twente) (http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html) Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam) (http://earth.let.uva.nl/~amstelog/) Gotalog'00 (Gothenburg) (http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 8 14:01:29 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:01:29 +0100 Subject: Appel: ESSLLI-01 Student Session Message-ID: From: Kristina Striegnitz !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!! Please circulate and post among students !!! We apologize, if you receive this message more than once. ESSLLI 2001 STUDENT SESSION FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS August 13-24 2001, Helsinki, Finland Deadline: February 18, 2001 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~kris/esslli We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2001) organized by the University of Helsinki under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). ESSLLI 2001 will be held at the University of Helsinki in August 2001. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This sixth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates (before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates (before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. Papers may be accepted for full presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for a poster presentation. The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. KLUWER BEST PAPER AWARD: As in previous years, the best paper will be selected by the program committee and will be offered a prize by Kluwer Academic Publishers consisting in 1000 Dfl worth of books. REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. All topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic, Language, Computation, Logic & Language, Logic & Computation, Language & Computation) are of interest. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages in length exclusive of references and send a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like "Smith (1991) previously showed...". For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent separately, using the following format: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Address: address of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Address: address of the last author Short summary: abstract (5 lines) Subject area (one of): Logic | Language | Computation | Logic and Language | Logic and Computation | Language and Computation If necessary, the program committee may reassign papers to a more appropriate subject area. The submission of the extended abstract should be in one of the following formats: PostScript, PDF, RTF, or plain text. But note that, in case of acceptance, the final version of the paper has to be submitted in LaTeX format. Please, use A4 size pages, 11pt or 12pt fonts, and standard margins. Submissions outside the specified length and formatting requirements may be subject to rejection without review. The extended abstract and separate identification page must be sent by e-mail to: kris at coli.uni-sb.de by FEBRUARY 18, 2001 ESSLLI 2001 INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI 2001 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI 2001. The authors of accepted papers will be eligible for reduced registration fees. For all information concerning ESSLLI 2001, please consult the ESSLLI 2001 web site at http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 18, 2001. Authors Notifications: April 17, 2001. Final version due: May 18, 2001. ESSLLI-2001 Student Session: August 13-24, 2001. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Raffaella Bernardi, University of Utrecht (Logic & Language) Patrick Blackburn, University of the Saarland (Logic & Language) Gilles Dowek, INRIA (Computation) Ruth Kempson, King`s College London (Language) Carsten Lutz, University of Aachen (Logic & Computation) Ani Nenkova, Columbia University (Logic) Ilkka Niemel”, Helsinki University of Technology (Logic & Computation) Malvina Nissim, University of Pavia (Language) Susanne Salmon-Alt, Loria, Nancy (Language & Computation) Jan Schwinghammer, University of the Saarland (Computation) Kristina Striegnitz, University of the Saarland (Chair) Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam (Logic) Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa (Language & Computation) For any question concerning the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session, please, do not hesitate to contact me: Kristina Striegnitz Computational Linguistics, University of the Saarland, Germany phone: +49 - 681 - 302 4503 email: kris at coli.uni-sb.de ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 8 14:02:32 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:02:32 +0100 Subject: Appel: PAKDD-2001 Message-ID: From: Graham Williams Just a reminder..... the deadline is fast approaching. Also, today is the deadline for TUTORIAL and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS. (If you would rather not be included on this email list please reply to me and I will remove you immediately. My apologies for this intrusion.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline 12 November ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-01) Hong Kong, April 16 - 18, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01 The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-01) will be an international forum for the sharing of original and innovative research results and practical applications and experiences among researchers and application developers from the many constituent areas of KDD, including artificial intelligence, databases, e-commerce, Internet computing, machine learning, high performance computing, statistics and visualization. This conference builds on the success of PAKDD-97 (Singapore), PAKDD-98 (Australia), PAKDD-99 (China) and PAKDD-00 (Japan) by bringing together participants from universities, industry and government. With the growing number of successful applications and systems development in KDD in enterprise computing and e-commerce the conference encourages submissions on practical experiences in applying KDD techniques to real-world applications. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Two keynote presentations from international leaders in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining have been confirmed: Ronny Kohavi, Director of Data Mining, Blue Martini Software Ronny Kohavi is well known for his work on the Silicon Graphics MineSet project for data mining and visualization. He joined Silicon Graphics after getting a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Stanford University, where he led the MLC++ project, the Machine Learning library in C++. Kohavi co-chaired the KDD 99 industrial track and KDD Cup 2000. He co-edited a special issue of the journal Machine Learning on Applications of Machine Learning and the special issue of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal on Applications of Data Mining to Electronic Commerce. Professor H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan Professor Jagadish obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford and spent several years as head of the database department at AT&T. Prior to Michigan he was at the University of Illinois. His research spans many aspects of database systems, particularly in the context of the internet and XML. SUBMISSION by 12 November 2000 Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). All submissions should follow the Springer-Verlag guidelines and be no more than 12 pages. (Formatting information is available from the conference web site at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01). Please include a cover page containing the title, authors (names, postal and email addresses), a 200-word abstract and up to 5 keywords. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically (as PostScript or PDF attachments) following the instructions on the conference web page at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01 or send five copies to: David Cheung (PAKDD-01) E-Business Technology Institute The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong AWARDS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATION The PAKDD Best Paper Award will be conferred on the authors of the best paper at the conference. Authors of selected papers will be invited to have their paper included in a special issue of an international journal. TOPICS We invite submissions in the areas of KDD research and application. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Foundations and principles of data mining New application challenges and requirements Web based mining Data mining applications in e-commerce Resource discovery in the Internet Internet standards for data mining Data mining and data warehousing Data mining in multidimensional databases Data mining in heterogeneous databases Data mining support for data warehouse design Integration with data warehousing/OLAP Parallel and distributed mining Statistical methods in data mining Rule induction and decision trees Clustering and classification Exploratory data analysis Visual data mining and visualization Machine learning for data mining Knowledge representation and acquisition in KDD Performance and benchmarks of KDD systems Security and social impact of data mining TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Tutorials and Workshops will form a key component of the conference. It is planned to hold them on Monday, 16 April 2001. Proposals for addressing issues in data mining, knowledge discovery and applications are invited. New applications such as temporal and spatial data mining, Asian language text mining, collaborative filtering, personalization, eCRM and e-marketplace data mining are of special interest. Tutorial and workshop proposals (preferably by email) should be submitted by 30 October 2000 to the respective Chair: Joshua Z Huang, Tutorial Chair E-Business Technology Institute The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong jhuang at eti.hku.hk Michael K Ng, Workshop Chair Department of Mathematics The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong mng at maths.hku.hk DEMONSTRATIONS Proposals for live demonstrations of research projects, prototypes, experimental systems, and/or potential commercial products are encouraged. Each proposal should include a title page containing the title, names of presenters and their postal/Email addresses, and a two-page description of the demo system. Proposals (preferably by email) should be submitted by 15 January 2001 to the Demonstration Chair at jiming at comp.hkbu.edu.hk. Jiming Liu, Demonstration Chair Department of Computer Science Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial proposals : 30 October 2000 Workshop proposals : 30 October 2000 Submissions due date : 12 November 2000 Notification date : 24 December 2000 Demonstration proposals: 15 January 2001 Camera ready date : 23 January 2001 Conference date : 16-18 April 2001 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rohan Baxter CSIRO, Australia Keith Chan Hong Kong Polytechnic University Surajit Chaudhuri Microsoft, USA Ming-Syan Chen National Taiwan University Umeshwar Dayal Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA Tharam Dillon Hong Kong Polytechnic University Guozhu Dong Wright State University, USA David Dowe Monash University, Australia Ada Fu Chinese University of Hong Kong Yike Guo Imperial College, UK Jayant Haritsa Indian Institute of Science, India Simon Hawkins CSIRO, Australia Markus Hegland Australian National University Robert Hilderman University of Regina, Canada Joshua Z Huang University of Hong Kong Moon Yul Huh SKK University, Korea Vijay Iyengar IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ben Kao University of Hong Kong Kamal Karlapalem Hong Kong UST Hiroyuki Kawano University of Kyoto, Japan Jinho Kim Kangwon National U., Korea Sang-Wook Kim Kangwon National University, Korea Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo, Japan Kevin Korb Monash University, Australia Laks V.S. Lakshmanan Concordia U. and IIT, Bombay Doheon Lee Chonnam National University, Korea T Y Lin San Jose State University, USA Bing Liu National University of Singapore Huan Liu Arizona State University, USA Jiming Liu Hong Kong Baptist University Hongjun Lu Hong Kong UST Hiroshi Motoda Osaka University, Japan Raymond Ng UBC, Canada Kyuseok Shim KAIST, Korea Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA Changjie Tang Sichuan University, China Zhaohui Tang Microsoft, USA Ah-Hwee Tan Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Takao Terano University of Tsukuba, Japan Bhavani Thurasingham MITRE, USA Kyu-Young Whang KAIST, Korea Ian Witten University of Waikato, New Zealand Xindong Wu Colorado School of Mines, USA Yiyu Yao University of Regina, Canada Clement Yu University of Illinois, USA Jeffrey Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong Philip Yu IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Osamar R. Zaiane University of Alberta, Canada Mohammed Zaki Rensselaer Poly Institute, USA Ning Zhong Maebashi Institute of Technology Aoying Zhou Fudan University, China Lizhu Zhou Tsinghua University, China ORGANIZATION Conference Chairs: Chung-Jen Tan (University of Hong Kong and IBM Watson) Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Program Committee Chairs: David Cheung (University of Hong Kong) Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong) Graham Williams (CSIRO, Australia) Tutorial Chair: Joshua Z Huang (University of Hong Kong) Workshop Chair: Michael K Ng (University of Hong Kong) Industrial Chair: Joseph Fong (City University of Hong Kong) Demonstration Chair: Jiming Liu (Baptist University of Hong Kong) Local arrangements Chairs: Ronnie Cheung (Hong Kong Poly University) Ben Kao (University of Hong Kong) Publicity Chairs: Vincent Ng (Hong Kong Poly University) Rohan Baxter (CSIRO, Australia) Hiroyuki Kawano (Kyoto University, Japan) Treasurer: Ada Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) ======================================================================= ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 8 14:02:59 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:02:59 +0100 Subject: Conf: MT 2000 Message-ID: From: "Roger Harris" British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/ MT 2000 - MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM University of Exeter, United Kingdom: 19-22 November 2000 SECOND and FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society and the University of Exeter announce an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter, UK from Sunday evening 19 November to Wednesday morning 22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful conference 'Machine Translation: Ten Years On' held in 1994 at Cranfield University, UK. Against the backdrop of an increasingly multilingual society, MT 2000 looks 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 also the latest multilingual developments in general. There are contributions from researchers, users, educationalists and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering. Further information can be obtained from our website at http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm. There will be daily keynote addresses as well as individual papers. All papers presented at the conference will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection of papers may be published in book form after the conference. There is also an exhibition area for producers of multilingual software and a bookstall. Attendees might like to know that the annual ASLIB conference on 'Translating and the Computer' takes place in London on the preceding Thursday/Friday 16-17 November. Further information can obtained from their website at http://www.aslib.co.uk. Keynote Speakers: Martin Kay (Xerox PARC) Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) Papers: Details of all 31 accepted papers are on our web-site at http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/papers.htm Location: MT 2000 is being held at 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 with London, Birmingham and other UK cities. Please see their website for further information at http://www.exeter.ac.uk. Information will be available about a number of local attractions for people accompanying attendees. Programme ****************************************************** MONDAY 20 NOVEMBER 09.15 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Martin Kay, Xerox PARC Triangulation in Translation THEMATIC GROUPING: MACHINE TRANSLATION 1 10.00 (R) Towards memory and template-based translation synthesis Christos Malavazos, Stelios Piperidis and George Carayannis National Technical University of Athens, Greece 10.30 (R) Building a lexicon for an English-Basque MT system from heterogeneous wide-coverage dictionaries Arantxa Diaz de Ilarraza, Aingeru Mayor, Kepa Sarasola University of the Basque Country 11.00 COFFEE 11.30 (R) An alignment architecture for translation memory bootstrapping Ioannis Triantafyllou, Iason Demiros, Christos Malavazos, Stelios Piperidis National Technical University of Athens, Greece 12.00 (R) Applying machine translation resources for cross-language information access from spoken documents Gareth Jones University of Exeter, UK 12.30 (R) Effectiveness of layering translation rules based on transition networks in machine translation using inductive learning with genetic algorithms Hiroshi Echizen-ya, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi and Koji Tochinai Hokkaido University, Japan 13.00 LUNCH THEMATIC GROUPING: MULTILINGUAL RESOURCES AND TOOLS 1 14.30 (R) EMILLE: building a corpus of South Asian languages Anthony McEnery, Paul Baker, Rob Gaizauskas and Hamish Cunningham Lancaster University, UK 15.00 (R) Reusability of wide-coverage linguistic resources in the construction of multilingual technical documentation Arantxa Diaz de Ilarraza, Aingeru Mayor and Kepa Sarasola University of the Basque Country 15.30 (S) A part-of-speech tagger for Esperanto oriented to MT Carlo Minnaja and Laura Paccagnella University of Padova, San Marino 16.00 TEA THEMATIC RESOURCES: MULTILINGUAL RESOURCES AND TOOLS 2 16.30 (R) >>From the UNL Hypergraph to GETA's Multilevel Tree Etienne Blanc GETA, CLIPS, EMAG, Grenoble, France 17.00 (R) Semi-automatic construction of multilingual lexicons Lynne Cahill University of Brighton, UK 17.30 (R) Evaluation of statistical tools for automatic extraction of lexical correspondences between parallel texts Olivier Kraif University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France 18.00 END 18.30-20.00 DINNER *************************************** TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 09.15 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Jun - Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo and UMIST Japanese Experience in MT and Future Perspectives THEMATIC GROUPING: MACHINE TRANSLATION 2 10.00 (R) Machine translation by semantic features Uzzi Ornan and Israel Gutter Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Israel 10.30 COFFEE 11.00 (S) Learning machine translation strategies using commercial systems: discovering word reordering rules Mikel L. Forcada University of Alicante, Spain 11.25 (S) Machine translation and multilingual communication on the internet Muhammad Abdus Salam Central Queensland University, Australia 11.50 (S) An automated system for English-Arabic translation of scientific texts (SEATS) Hoda M. O. Mokhtar, Nevin M. Darwish and Ahmed A. Rafea Cairo University, Egypt 12.15 (S) An example-based MT system in news items domain from English to Indian languages Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India 13.00 LUNCH THEMATIC GROUPING: ANAPHORA AND ELLIPSIS RESOLUTION 14.30 (R) Semantic approach to bridging reference resolution R. Muñoz, M. Saiz-Noeda, A. Suárez and M. Palomar University of Alicante, Spain 15.00 (R) Evaluation environment for anaphora resolution Catalina Barbu and Ruslan Mitkov University of Wolverhampton, UK 15.30 (R) NLP system oriented to anaphora resolution Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Manual Palomar and David Farwell New Mexico State University, USA 16.00 TEA 16.30 (R) LINGUA: a robust architecture for text processing and anaphora resolution in Bulgarian Hristo Tanev and Ruslan Mitkov University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria and University of Wolverhampton, UK 17.00 (R) Grammar specification for the recognition of temporal expressions Estela Sequete and Patricio Martinez-Barco University of Alicante, Spain 17.30 (S) VASISTH: an ellipsis resolution algorithm for Indian languages L. Sobha and B. Patnaik Mahatma Ghandi University, Kerala and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 18.00 END 19.30 CONFERENCE DINNER *************************************** WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER THEMATIC GROUPING: AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING AND GENERATION 10.00 (R) Generating personal profiles Jim Cowie, Sergei Nirenburg and Hugo Molina-Salgado New Mexico State University, USA 10.30 (R) A corpus-based English language assistant to Japanese software engineers Masumi Narita Software Research Centre, Tokyo, Japan 11.00 COFFEE 11.30 (R) Generating from a discourse model Rodolfo Delmonte, Dario Bianchi and Emanuele Pianta University 'Ca Forscar', Venice 12.00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield Multilingual Extraction and MT 12.45 CONCLUDING REMARKS 13.00 LUNCH and DEPARTURE ****************************************************** Fees and Registration: Conference fee: Standard Members* Students two and a half days GBP 250 GBP 210 GBP 140 one day GBP 120 GBP 100 GBP 70 half day (Wednesday) GBP 60 GBP 50 GBP 35 * Discounted rates for members of BCS, IAMT, EAMT and ASLIB. Accommodation and meals (including Banquet) from Sunday evening to Wednesday morning En-suite room GBP 170 Standard room (limited no.) GBP 140 Meals without accommodation GBP 70 A discount of 10% will be allowed on the Conference Fees (only) for payment before the end of September 2000. Cancellation fee after end of October 2000: Any amount paid for accommodation and/or meals etc. To register and to reserve accommodation please use this registration form Registration for MT 2000: Title: ________________________________________________ Name and initials: ____________________________________ Name for lapel label: _________________________________ Affiliation for lapel label: __________________________ Address: ______________________________________________ E-mail address: _______________________________________ Telephone no: _________________________________________ Fax no: _______________________________________________ Please specify any dietary or other requirements. Payment must be made before or on arrival. Any other arrangement must be made in advance of arrival by contacting Mr. D.R.Lewis at Exeter University (d.r.lewis at exeter.ac.uk). Methods of Payment Either ... By sterling cheque drawn on a U.K. bank made payable to Exeter University, a/c MT 2000, addressed to Mr. D.R. Lewis, The Foreign Language Centre, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QH, U.K., or, By bank transfer to National Westminster Bank, Exeter University branch (Sort Code: 600806), for the account of Exeter University, account no: 00724890. Note: Please ensure your payment includes all bank charges, or, By invoice (payment must reach us by 13 November 2000) Note: Please supply purchase order number if possible, or, By MasterCard/Visa credit card Please supply your 16 digit account number, expiry date, card holder's name and card holder's address if different from above. Thankyou. We look forward to seeing you at the Conference. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 8 14:02:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:02:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: IAT-2001 Message-ID: From: iat01 at kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ************************************************* * Second * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on * * Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001) * * ======================================= * * * * Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan * * October 23-26, 2001 * ************************************************* Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/iat01 Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IAT-2001 will be jointly held with The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001) ========================== IAT-2001 and WI-2001 Joint Keynote Speakers: Benjamin Wah (2001 IEEE Computer Society President), University of Illinois Edward A. Feigenbaum (Turing Award Winner), Stanford University IAT-2001 Invited Speakers: Toyoaki Nishida (University of Tokyo, Japan) Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North Carolina, USA) Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland) Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) The Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) is a high-quality, high-impact biennial agent conference series. The second meeting in this conference series follows the success of IAT'99 held in Hong Kong in 1999 (http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99). IAT-2001 will primarily focus on (1) the state-of-the-art in the development of intelligent agents and (2) the theoretical and computational foundations of intelligent agent technology. The aim of IAT-2001 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multiagent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and biological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT-2001 is expected to stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems. TOPICS ====== The technical issues to be addressed include, but not limited to: * Applications: - data and knowledge intensive domains (e.g., large databases, Internet, digital libraries, distributed decision making, financial modeling and engineering, business information systems and process automation) - software and interface agents (e.g., personal assistant, translator, scheduler, information filter, tutor) - computational intelligence (e.g., pattern analysis and recognition, imaging, optimization, resource allocation, constraint satisfaction, planning) - agents in e-commerce and e-business - autonomous agents in science and engineering (e.g. aerospace, survey of the seabed and space) - physically embodied systems (e.g., autonomous robots and groups) - very-large, complex, integrated intelligent systems * Computational Architecture and Infrastructure: - computational architectures - ontology models - agent-level and multi-agent-level infrastructure - communication languages - multi-modal systems and interfaces - protocols - tools and standards - heterogeneity and interoperability - scalability * Learning and Adaptation: - soft-computing in multi-agent systems - uncertainty management in multi-agent systems - integrated exploration and exploitation - long-term reliability - neural networks - artificial life - behavioral selection - coordinating perception, thought, and action - behavioral self-organization - believable lifelike quality - classifier systems - evolution and learning in dynamic environments - adaptation and self-adaptation - emergent behavior - evolutionary computation * Data and Knowledge Engineering/Communication: - information filtering - data mining - heterogeneous data integration and management - human-agent interaction - knowledge discovery - knowledge sharing - knowledge aggregation - reasoning and planning - adaptation and evolution of knowledge networks - distributed knowledge systems * Distributed Intelligence: - dynamics of groups and populations - swarms - population evolution - coevolution - collective group behavior - coordination and cooperation - distributed intelligence - social integration - market-based computing * Formal Theories of Agents: - formal/computational modeling - chaotic and fractal dynamics - computational complexity - efficiency in distributed systems - taxonomy of agent environments - classification and characterization of complex behaviors - theories of perception, rationality, intention, emotion, coordination, action, and social behaviors PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION ============================== High quality full-length papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions are most welcome and will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred. Please send LaTex (MS-Words, or PDF) and PostScript versions of your paper, and an ASCII version of the cover page (in separate email), by March 20, 2001 to: iat01 at maebashi-it.ac.jp Four (4) hardcopies of the paper by regular mail are also requested if electronic submission is not possible. Please send hardcopies of your paper by March 20, 2001 to: Prof. Ning Zhong (IAT-2001) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp The ASCII version of a cover page must include author(s) full address, email, paper title and a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords. Accepted papers are expected to be published in the conference proceedings by World Scientific, An International Publisher, as a hardcover book. A selected number of IAT-2001 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in ``Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal'' by Springer-Verlag and in "International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence" by World Scientific. IAT best paper award will be conferred on the author(s) of the best papers at the conference. All manuscripts must be formatted using the World Scientific's style files for proceedings. The style files can be found at: http://www.wspc.com/others/style_files/proceedings/proceedings_style_files.h tml -- use the style files appropriate to a page size of 8.5"x6". DEMO SESSION ============ IAT-2001 also welcomes submissions of research projects, research prototypes, experimental systems, and commercial products for demonstrations at the conference. Each submission should include a title page containing a title, a 200-300 word abstract, a list of keywords, the names, mailing addresses, and Email addresses of the presenters, and a two-page description of the demo system. Submissions should reach the IAT-2001 Demo Chair: Dr. Jianchang Mao (IAT-2001) Verity Inc. 894 Ross Drive Sunnyvale CA 94089, USA E-mail: jmao at verity.com by July 2, 2001 Authors of accepted IAT-2001 papers will be invited to demonstrate their systems at the conference. It is understood that once a submission is selected for demonstration at the conference, the presenter(s) of the demo will be responsible for bringing necessary software/hardware equipment. IMPORTANT DATES =============== March 20, 2001 Paper submission deadline May 20, 2001 Notification of paper acceptance mailed June 20, 2001 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due July 2, 2001 Demo submission deadline August 3, 2001 Notification of demo acceptance mailed October 23-26, 2001 Conference technical sessions CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ===================== IAT-2001 Conference Organizing Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General Chairs: Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan Jeffrey Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Program Chairs: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Demos and Exhibits Chair: Jianchang Mao, Verity Inc., USA Local Organizing Chair: Nobuo Otani, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan International Advisory Board: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeffrey Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Michele L. D. Gaudreault, US Asian Office of Aerospace R&D Daniel T. Ling, Microsoft Corporation, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jianchang Mao, Verity Inc., USA Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan Patrick S. P. Wang, Northeastern University, USA Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Jan Zytkow, University of North Carolina, USA Program Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kerstin Dautenhahn (U. Hertfordshire, UK) Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italian National Research Council) E.A. Edmonds (Loughborough U., UK) Tim Finin (U. Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Adam Maria Gadomski (ENEA, Italy) Scott Goodwin (U. Regina, Canada) Vladimir Gorodetsky (Russian Academy of Sciences) Mark Greaves (The Boeing Company, USA) Barbara Hayes-Roth (Stanford U., USA) Keniti Ida (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Toru Ishida (Kyoto U., Japan) Lakhmi Jain (U. South Australia) Stefan J. Johansson (U. Karlskrona, Sweden) Qun Jin (U. Aizu, Japan) Juntae Kim (Dongguk U., Korea) David Kinny (U. Melbourne, Australia) Sarit Kraus (U. Maryland, USA) Danny B. Lange (General Magic, Inc., USA) Jimmy Ho Man Lee (Chinese U. Hong Kong) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist U.) Mike Luck (U. Southampton, UK) Helen Meng (Chinese U. Hong Kong) Hideyuki Nakashima (ETL, Japan) Katsumi Nitta (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Sun Park (Rutgers University, USA) Zbigniew W. Ras (U. North Carolina, USA) Eugene Santos (U. Connecticut, USA) Zhongzhi Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Carles Sierra (Scientific Research Council, Spain) Kwang M. Sim (Chinese U. Hong Kong) Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw U., Poland) Ron Sun (U. Missouri-Columbia, USA) Takao Terano (U. Tsukuba, Japan) Demetri Terzopoulos (U. Toronto, Canada) Huaglory Tianfield (Cheltenham & Gloucester College of H. E., UK) David Wolpert (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Jinglong Wu (Kagawa university, Japan) Takahira Yamaguchi (Shizuoka U., Japan) Kazumasa Yokota (Okayama Prefectural U., Japan) Eric Yu (U. Toronto, Canada) P.C. Yuen (Hong Kong Baptist U.) Chengqi Zhang (Deakin U., Australia) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Local Organizing Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hisao Machida (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Tadaomi Miyazaki (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Nobuo Otani (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Sean M. Reedy (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Yukio Kanazawa (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan) Seiji Murai (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan) Kanehisa Sekine (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan) Midori Asaka (Information Technology Agency (IPA), Japan) Yoshitsugu Kakemoto (Japan Research Institute, Limited, Japan) CONFERENCE SITE =============== The IAT-2001 and WI-2001 will take place in Maebashi City. Maebashi, the capital of Gumma Prefecture, is called the `City of water, greenery, and poetry'. Maebashi is an `International Convention City' designated by the Ministry of Transportation. Maebashi and the neighboring areas in Gunma is a land of greenery blessed with the wonders of natural beauty and more than a hundred hot springs offering relaxation and peace of mind. IAT-2001 and WI-2001 will organize a tour during the conference to a resort hotel with hot spring in Ikaho that is one of the most famous hot springs areas in Japan. Maebashi is positioned nearly in the center of the Japan Archipelago. Only a hundred kilometers from Japan's capital city of Tokyo and reachable in an hour by bullet train or high-speed expressway, a variety of favorable land conditions lead to flourishing economic activity. Maebashi City and the neighboring areas in Gunma are expected to further develop into an IT conurbation with highly advanced information technology. FURTHER INFORMATION =================== Please send suggestions and inquiries regarding IAT-2001 to: Prof. Ning Zhong (IAT-2001) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Nov 14 13:20:58 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:20:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2001 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen ACL 2001 Preliminary Call For Papers 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 6 - 11 July, 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html General Conference Chair: Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland) Program Co-Chairs: Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padua, Italy) Local Organization Chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse, France) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 39th Annual Meeting. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Requirements ------------ Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.) Reviewing --------- The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a team of reviewers. The composition of the Conference Program Committee will be published in a later version of this call for paper. Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Format ----------------- Submissions will be hard copy. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. These will soon be available from the ACL-2001 Conference Web-site. These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. As reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page will be required. The identification page should include the paper title, the paper ID code generated upon paper registration (see below), authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, one or two general topic areas, up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area, and a short summary (up to 5 lines). The identification page should also specify whether the paper is under consideration for other conferences. The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. Submission Procedure -------------------- 1) Submission notification: You must first register your submission by January 26, 2001. This can be done by filling out an electronic form that will be accessible at http://acl2001.dfki.de/. The form requires a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission. Also, please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the program committee co-chairs. If you have any difficulty using the electronic registration form, please send email to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de with all of the title page information plus the authors' names and affiliations. 2) Paper submission: Submissions must be received by February 2, 2001. Late submissions (those arriving after February 2) will be rejected without review. The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following address: ACL-2001 Submission Norbert Reithinger DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic version of the paper (without the identification page) to acl2001-submissions at dfki.de. Please include the paper ID code in the subject line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The electronic version should also be received by February 2nd, 2001. Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version, please send mail to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de. Acknowledgment of receipt of the hardcopy submission will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on or after April, 12th. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright release statement along with the final camera-ready papers. Deadlines --------- Paper registration deadline: January, 26th, 2001 Paper submissions deadline: February, 2nd, 2001 Notification of acceptance: April, 12th, 2001 Camera ready papers due: May, 12th, 2001 ACL 2001 Conference: July, 6th-11th, 2001 Submission Questions -------------------- Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program committee co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de sufficiently ahead of the submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made. Mentoring Service ----------------- ACL 2001 is organizing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is not the language of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL meetings. They may also have some trouble with the style of the presentation of the material that is expected for ACL. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors will be identified by Aravind Joshi, who has agreed to organize this service for ACL 2001. An author who would like to take advantage of this service must send a draft of his/her paper to Aravind K. Joshi Room 555 Moore Department of Computer and Information Science 200 South 33rd Street University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6389 USA fax: +1 215 898 0587 The author must send one (1) copy of the paper (hard copy by regular mail, courier service, or fax) by no later than December 15, 2000. The author should try to make the draft as complete as possible in order to get the best advice. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to each paper and the mentor will get back to the author at least two weeks before the deadline for the submission to ACL 2001 program committee. Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to improve their papers. If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send a message to Aravind Joshi (joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu). ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Nov 14 13:27:30 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:27:30 +0100 Subject: Appel: RANLP Message-ID: From: "Nicolas Nicolov/Watson/IBM" _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING EuroConference RANLP-2001 (www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001) 5-7 Sept 2001 Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria Further to the successful and competitive 1st and 2nd confernces on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (selected papers from which were published by John Benjamins as CILT vol.136 (www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/toonboek.cgi?997) and as CILT vol.189 (www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/toonboek.cgi?1310)), we are pleased to announce the third RANLP conreference to be held in 2001. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. SPONSORS The conference is funded by the European Commission, DGXII through Human Potential Programme for High-Level Scientific Conferences (contract number HPCF-2000-00329). INVITED SPEAKERS Keynote speakers whose participation is confirmed so far include: Martin Kay Xerox Parc Yorick Wilks Univ. of Sheffield Branimir Boguraev IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute, USC TUTORIALS RANLP-2001 will be preceded by a 2-day tutorials on 3-4 Sept. LOCATION Following the RANLP 95 and RANLP 97 tradition, the conference will be held from in the picturesque Tzigov Chark resort overlooking Batak Lake in the Rhodope Mountains, Southern Bulgaria. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The first CFP, to be distributed in February, will will list all invited speakers, Programme Committee members and the submission deadlines. FURTHER INFORMATION If you would like to receive information you may subscribe to the conference mailing list by sending an e-mail to majordomo at dcs.shef.ac.uk with a body (no subject) 'subscribe ranlp2001'. When you receive the confirmation e-mail, please make sure that you return the requested code to confirm your subscription. Information about RANLP-2001 and the pre-conference tutorials will be constantly updated on the conference web site (www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001). ORGANISERS Galia Angelova Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) Kalina Bontcheva Univ of Sheffield, UK Ruslan Mitkov Univ of Wolverhampton, UK, (PC Chair) Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA (See attached file: RANLP-ANNOUNCEMENT.html) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Nov 14 13:26:06 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:26:06 +0100 Subject: Appel: Corpus Linguistics 2001 Message-ID: From: "Mcenery, Tony" SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 (Apologies if you receive this message more than once) Lancaster (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2001 Incorporating a celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Leech, with invited talks from: Prof. Douglas Biber - "Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb?" Prof. Jennifer Thomas - "Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of indirectness in political interviews" Prof. Geoffrey Sampson - "Thoughts on Twenty Years of Drawing Trees" Prof. Mick Short - "Style in Fiction and Non-fiction: A Corpus-based approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation" Corpus Linguistics 2001 will be a forum for all concerned with the computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our definition of 'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on substantial literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as more 'traditional' corpus linguists. Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilisation between work occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction, parsing) and linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware of the latest developments in language processing. We also believe that language engineers should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus linguists. The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2001 are: 1. to encourage dialogue between those working on similar issues in different languages and between areas with a (perhaps as yet untapped) potential to interact. 2. to encourage dialogue between researchers using corpora in linguistics and those using corpora in language engineering. 3. to celebrate the life and works of Geoffrey Leech. Geoffrey Leech reaches 65 in 2001, and as part of the celebrations for this event, a special series of lectures will be given during the conference by four invited speakers who have worked closely with Geoff at various stages in his career: Doug Biber, Jenny Thomas, Geoff Sampson and Mick Short. For the main conference, papers of ca. 20 minutes are invited on topics such as: - corpus-based studies of any language level in any language - contrastive corpus linguistics - computer-aided studies of style - corpus- or text-based lexicography - corpus/text building, encoding and annotation - development of corpus-based language engineering tools - applications of computer-aided text analysis in non-linguistic fields (market research, advertising, media studies, sociology, psychology, etc.) Proposals for workshops (half day or full day) are also invited. Topics broadly in line with the theme of the conference will be considered. Workshops will be held on the 29th March. The conference language will be English. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Papers: Abstracts of up to one page should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. As well as an outline of the paper, the abstract should include the authors' names, affiliations, and contact addresses (including e-mail and fax numbers). Workshops: Abstracts of two pages should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. The abstract should include the names of the organisers, their contact details, and the projected number of papers to be presented at the workshop. Workshop organisers should also indicate whether they wish to generate a set of proceedings for their workshop. Those proposing a software demonstration should additionally indicate in detail what (if any) hardware and software requirements they have. Proceedings Proceedings will be produced from the conference. Additionally, selected papers will appear in an edited collection to be published in honour of Geoffrey Leech. DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2000 Proposers notified of acceptance of workshops: 8 December 2000 Authors notified of acceptance of papers: 15 December 2001 Deadline for full papers (for proceedings): 13 February 2001 [Full details will be sent with notices of acceptance.] CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Local committee Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) General committee Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lodz University) Jock McNaught (UMIST) Charles Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton University) Wolf-Dieter Syring (Greifswald University) ADDRESS Programme Committee Corpus Linguistics 2001 Department of Linguistics and MEL Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Tel: +44 1524 843085 Fax: +44 1524 593024 E-mail: mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Nov 14 13:28:30 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:28:30 +0100 Subject: Appel: ISKO Message-ID: From: "Majid Ihadjadene" [Apologies for cross-posting. Please pass on to interested colleagues] **************************************************************************** ********* **** CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Symposium of ISKO-France Information filtering and automatic summarisation in networks 5-6 July 2001 University of Paris X http://panini.u-paris10.fr/isko Scope of the workshop The increasing pace of technological progress has a profound influence on the range and profile of information products and services. The emergence of technologies (" push ", intelligent agents, language and image processing, etc...) and protocols (XML, WAP, ADSL, etc) in the industrial sector facilitates the development of new customised services, accessible via Internet and through new communicating objects, such as mobile phones. Whether it is in the context of corporate information, for " business to business " or " business to consumer " e-commerce, for access to knowledge, or even for leisure, the customisation of information is a major challenge for the electronic information industry. New information practices on networks, such as searching for partners or products, analysing the evolution of a company's image, performing business watch or economic intelligence call for more and more sophisticated software tools, specialised in information processing. To meet these demands, the identification and access to relevant information have to face the critical problem of information overload. Moreover, information on the Internet is heterogeneous, multimodal and multilingual, properties which must be taken into account when designing an application to make it adaptable to various contexts of use. It is also necessary to analyse the factors related to the integration and to the acceptability of information filtering (retrieval, selection) and automatic summarisation techniques within information systems, in order to improve their usability. Given the increasing quantity of available information in electronic form, information filtering and automatic summarisation systems appear as interesting options. These must be analysed with respect to the user needs which raises a number of questions, from the technological, cognitive and organisational viewpoints : where do the automatic summarisation techniques stand vis-à-vis information extraction, indexing and classification techniques ? which summaries to generate, for which needs ? what is the impact of these components on the architecture and on the usage of information systems ? how far can a user trust an information filtering system or an automatic summarisation system ? what kind of collective practice may be induced by the development of information filtering ? etc... The symposium aims at analysing the scientifical, technological and industrial aspects of information filtering and automatic summarisation in networks. The main objectives are to give an overview of current research activities and development efforts in the field of information science and technology, to analyse the impact of these technologies on cognitive processes and practices for information access and to identify how they may affect the organisation of information systems. The interdisciplinarity of the symposium will highlight the various aspects of these systems in the context of knowledge management. The symposium is open to both academic and industrial sectors. Theme and Topics The following aspects are of particular interest: design and development of operational systems ; innovative technologies (in particular, agent technologies) ; use of speech processing and language engineering technologies ; multilingual aspects of information in networks ; collaboration in information processing ; analysis of user-acceptability ; ergonomics of information software systems ; evaluation and comparison of systems ; use of information systems for knowledge management and business intelligence ; analysis of the added value of information software systems. Procedures for submitting a paper proposal : Authors must send an 1500 to 2000 character abstract (english or french) , in electronic form only, as a MSWord, rtf or pdf attachment, to the following e-mail address : isko at u-paris10.fr Paper proposals must be received by December 15, 2000. The notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by January 30, 2001, at the latest. The final text will have to be received before April 20, 2001. Each proposal will be evaluated by at least 2 reviewers. Additional information will be made available on the conference Web site at : http://panini.u-paris10.fr/isko Scientific Committee : CHAUDIRON Stéphane, University of Paris 10 (co-president) FLUHR Christian, CEA-DIST (co-president) BACHIMONT Bruno, INA BOUCHÉ Richard, ENSSIB BUCKLAND Michael, University of Berkeley CHIARAMELLA Yves, University of Grenoble 1 DAVID Amos, University of Nancy 2 DESCLÈS Jean-Pierre, University of Paris 4 DUCLOY Jacques, IIST LELU Alain, University of Paris 8 LUPOVICI Catherine, French National Library MARIANI Joseph, LIMSI-CNRS METZGER Jean-Paul, University of Lyon 3 MEUNIER Jean-Guy, University of Québec (Montréal) MUSTAFA EL HADI Widad, University of Lille 3 PERRIAULT Jacques, University of Paris X POLANCO Xavier, IIST POLITY Yolla, University of Grenoble 2 ROSS Évelyne, Technological University of Compiègne TURNER Bill, LIMSI-CNRS Organising Committee : IHADJADENE Majid, University of Paris 10 DALBIN Sylvie, ATD ROLE François, University of Paris 10 PALERMITI Rosalba, University of Grenoble 2 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Nov 14 13:25:28 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:25:28 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers Message-ID: _________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: VINESSE Jerome FTRD/DMI/LAN Subject: Jobs in France Télécom R&D - emplois à France Télécom R&D 2/ From: ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Subject: Research Positions in Edinburgh: XML Technologies and Applications 3/ From: Shinya Nakagawa Subject: NLP/Comp Ling at Hewlett-Packard, Tokyo, Japan 4/ From: Tom Cornell Subject: Comp Ling: Programmer at Cymfony Inc, NY, USA 5/ From: Elisabeth Ramoser Subject: Comp Ling: Junior Researcher at European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, _________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: VINESSE Jerome FTRD/DMI/LAN Subject: Jobs in France Télécom R&D - emplois à France Télécom R&D FRENCH VERSION - ENGLISH VERSION BELOW L'unité de recherche et développement "Langues Naturelles" de France Télécom R&D propose à Lannion, Côtes d'Armor, France, les quatre postes suivants : 1. Un poste de linguiste informaticien pour un CDD de 5 mois environ à partir du 12 janvier 2001. Le candidat retenu travaillera, selon son profil, à l'élaboration d'une grammaire d'une des langues suivantes : polonais, espagnol, français, anglais ou allemand. Contact : Jérôme Vinesse - jerome.vinesse at francetelecom.fr - 02.96.05.38.92 2. Une thèse sur la traduction automatique. Contact : Malek Boualem - malek.boualem at francetelecom.fr - 02.96.05.29.83 3. Un stage bac+5 informatique (4-5 mois) sur le résumé et l'extraction d'informations d'un site Web en fonction du genre. Contact : Gilles Le Calvez - gilles.lecalvez at francetelecom.fr - 02.96.05.23.63 4. Un stage bac+5 informatique (4-5 mois) sur un système de recommandation à une communauté d'intérêts de documents accessibles sur le Web. Contact : Michel Plu - michel.plu at rd.francetelecom.fr - 02.96.05.36.98 ----- ENGLISH VERSION The Natural Language Processing team of France Telecom R&D in Lannion (Brittany, France), invites applications for several positions: 1. A fixed-period position of about 5 month, beginning January the 12th, 2001, for a computational linguist. The successful candidate will work on building a grammar for one of the following languages, according to his/her skills : Polish, Spanish, French, English or German. Contact: Jérôme Vinesse - jerome.vinesse at francetelecom.fr - +33.2.96.05.38.92 2. A 3 years PhD position on Machine Translation. Contact: Malek Boualem - malek.boualem at francetelecom.fr - +33.2.96.05.29.83 3. A 4 to 5 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate technical degree (Master of Science) student, about summarisation and information extraction from a Web site according to its type. Contact: Gilles Le Calvez - gilles.lecalvez at francetelecom.fr - +33.2.96.05.23.63 4. A 4 to 5 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate technical degree (Master of Science) student, about a system recommending Web documents to communities. Contact: Michel Plu - michel.plu at rd.francetelecom.fr - +33.2.96.05.36.98 Jérôme Vinesse France Télécom R&D/DMI/GRI/LN 2 avenue Pierre Marzin 22307 Lannion cedex tél : 02.96.05.38.92 / fax : 02.96.05.32.86 _________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Subject: Research Positions in Edinburgh: XML Technologies and Applications The HCRC Language Technology Group in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is a world leader in XML research and development. We are looking for people to join our XML team to work on a range of projects funded by both industry and government in areas such as XML Protocols, XML Schema, XSLT and markup architectures for language resources. If you have experience with SGML or XML, preferably including application development in C, Python, C++ or Java, and are interested in working in a stimulating environment where you will not only take responsibility for carrying out a part of our XML research, but also have the opportunity to contribute to other LTG projects in areas such as information retrieval, text summarisation, corpus creation and annotation and information extraction, we'd like to hear from you. Appointments are possible at both a junior (RA1B, £16,775--£18,731) and senior (RA1A £16,775--£25,213, or possibly RA2 £23,256--£30,967) level, for two years in the first instance. Please send C.V.s highlighting relevant experience and expertise to Henry S. Thompson, by e-mail if possible. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ _________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Shinya Nakagawa Subject: NLP/Comp Ling at Hewlett-Packard, Tokyo, Japan Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: Hewlett-Packard Japan Department: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Japan State or Province: Tokyo Country: Japan Final Date of Application: open Contact: Shinya Nakagawa shinya_nakagawa at hp.com Address for Applications: 3-29-21, Takaido-Higashi, Suginami-ku Tokyo 168-8585 Japan Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Japan is looking for candidates who are interested in research positions in Tokyo, Japan in the area of natural language processing. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Hewlett-Packard in areas of text processing applied to corpus data and mobile appliances. Requirements and qualifications: - Degree in computational linguistics - Experience in language engineering such as morphological analysis, knowledge extraction, information retrieval and text mining. - High-level programming skill in C and C++ on both Windows and UNIX (HP-UX and Linux) environments. - Experience with development of software packages. - Native English or Japanese For consideration, send your resume via email to Shinya Nakagawa: shinya_nakagawa at hp.com Marc McEachern: marc_mceachern at hp.com _________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Tom Cornell Subject: Comp Ling: Programmer at Cymfony Inc, NY, USA Rank of Job: programmer Areas Required: finite state methods Other Desired Areas: grammar tools University or Organization: Cymfony, Inc. Department: State or Province: New York Country: USA Final Date of Application: open Contact: Tom Cornell cornell at cymfony.com Address for Applications: 600 Essjay Road Williamsville NY 14221 USA CYMFONY is a leader in information extraction technology pertaining to intelligent search engines, including web-based question answering using natural language. This fast-growing company, which has recently received private equity investment, is located in suburban Buffalo, NY. Cymfony has immediate openings for computational linguists who will assist in the implementation and support of our grammar development tools. These are programming positions in the research department; good programming skills are essential. A Master's degree in computer science, linguistics, or related field OR equivalent work experience is required. We are seeking individuals with a background beyond basic coursework in any of the following areas: 1. Automata theory and toolkit implementation 2. Implementation of grammar formalisms 3. Programming languages and development tools 4. C++ programming All candidates must be U.S. or Canadian citizens, or be currently eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer as a green card holder or with a current H1B visa. Salary will be commensurate with education and experience. Please e-mail CV to Tom Cornell at: cornell at cymfony.com _________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: Elisabeth Ramoser Subject: Comp Ling: Junior Researcher at European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Rank of Job: junior researcher Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: European Academy Bozen/Bolzano Department: Section "Language and Law" State or Province: Bolzano Country: Italy Final Date of Application: 30 Nov 2000 Contact: Elisabeth Ramoser bluterm at eurac.edu Address for Applications: Weggesteinstr. 12/a, I-39100 Bozen Bozen BZ 39100 Italy The European Academy Bozen/Bolzano is seeking a Junior researcher in Computational Linguistics. You will be assisting in the development of knowledge resources, working within a team of linguists and legal experts. Your duties will include the following: - analysis of text corpora; - development of terminology management systems; - creation of automatic tools for terminological projects (http://www2.eurac.edu); - assessment and evaluation of knowledge resources. A university degree in Computational Linguistics, or equivalent qualification, is required. Postgraduate studies will be encouraged. Strong interpersonal and communication skills; self-motivation and the ability to work as part of a team in a multicultural environment are very important. The post is fixed term for 2(+3) years. The deadline for applications is 30th November 2000. If you are interested in joining our team, please send your application (CV, cover letter and recent photograph) electronically to: bluterm at eurac.edu or by mail to: European Academy Bozen/Bolzano Section "Language and Law" Weggensteinstr. 12/a I-39100 Bozen _________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 17 19:00:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:08 +0100 Subject: Appel: EUROLAN-2001 Message-ID: From: "Gabriela Dima" EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute on "Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources" 30 July - 11 August 2001, Romania http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/ Call for Workshop Proposals The EUROLAN 2001 Program Committee invites proposals for Workshops to be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute. We intend to accept two workshop proposals, each workshop being held during three consecutive evenings at the beginning of each week of the summer institute. For details, please consult: http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/program.html. Areas of Interest We welcome proposals on any topic of interest within the institute's main theme. Submission Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, .rtf or .doc files, as soon as possible, but no later than 8 December 2000. The subject line should be: EUROLAN WORKSHOP PROPOSAL. Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to Dan Cristea, dcristea at infoiasi.ro. Reviewing Proposals will be reviewed by the EUROLAN Program Committee: Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Dan CRISTEA - "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iasi Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest Laurent ROMARY - LORIA laboratories, Nancy Daniel MARCU - University of Southern California Proposals Proposals for workshops should contain: Scientific part: - a title and a brief (about 500 word) content description of the workshop topic. Organizational part: - any special requirements for technical needs (computer infrastructure, etc.); - the program committee. Organization details EUROLAN will support the workshops with the necessary equipment and workshop rooms. The workshops are expected to be organizationally and financially self-supported, including reviewing of received contributions, selection of papers, printing of the workshop proceedings. The workshop participants are supposed to be registered as regular EUROLAN students. It is recommended that the program committees of the workshops include some of the invited lecturers of EUROLAN 2001, so that the workshops could be better interconnected with the institute's activities. Important Dates Submission Deadline for Workshop Proposal: December 8, 2000. Notification of acceptance of Workshop Proposal: December 15, 2000. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 17 19:00:18 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: 6th Doctorate Meeting in Linguistics Message-ID: From: emmanuel.aim at linguist.jussieu.fr Après la version française, la version anglaise. After the french version, the english version. *************************************************************************** 6EMES RENCONTRES DE L'ATELIER DES DOCTORANTS EN LINGUISTIQUE 5-6 avril 2001 APPEL A COMMUNICATION *************************************************************************** L'atelier des Doctorants en Linguistique de l'Université Paris 7 organise pour la sixième fois une rencontre qui se tiendra les 5 et 6 avril 2001, avec l'aide logistique et financière de l'ED132 "Sciences du langage" et de l'Université Paris 7. L'objet de ce colloque est de favoriser les échanges et de créer des liens entre jeunes chercheurs et doctorants quel que soit leur domaine de recherche en linguistique. Aussi, le contenu des communications est libre : aucun thème n'est imposé, et tous les niveaux d'analyse linguistique sont acceptés. Les doctorants sont invités à envoyer un résumé d'une page avec, éventuellement, une page de références ou de tableaux. Nous demandons deux versions du résumé, la première indiquant le nom, l'université et l'adresse électronique du ou des auteurs, et une deuxième anonyme. Langues acceptées : français et anglais. Prévoir 20 minutes de communication (+10 minutes de discussion). Le résumé doit respecter le format suivant : - police de caractères type Time (Times, Times New Roman), pts 10 - des marges de 2,5cm de chaque côté - format RTF,.MS-doc(version Word 97 ou inférieur) ou postscript. - pour les caractères IPA, utiliser SIL DOULOS IPA (téléchargeable à l'adresse suivante http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html) Ces deux résumés sont à envoyer en fichier joint ou disquette, et éventuellement en version papier aux adresses suivantes : adl at linguist.jussieu.fr UNIVERSITE PARIS 7 - DENIS DIDEROT UFR LINGUISTIQUE ATELIER DES DOCTORANTS Case 7003 2, Place Jussieu 75 251 Paris Cedex 05 France Calendrier prévisionnel : 07.janvier 2001 Date limite de réception des résumés 05.février 2001 Notification d'acceptation des résumés 5 et 6 avril 2001 Rencontres de l'ADL Les communications seront rassemblées sous formes d'actes. Des renseignements supplémentaires concernant le format définitif des communications seront donnés ultérieurement. Par ailleurs, il existe une possibilité d'un remboursement partiel voire total des frais du transport pour les intervenants venant d'une distance supérieure à 100km de Paris. Pour plus d'informations contacter : Emmanuel Aïm : emmanuel.aim at linguist.jussieu.fr Hi-Yon Yoo: hi-yon.yoo at linguist.jussieu.fr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 6TH DOCTORATE MEETING IN LINGUISTICS (6EME RENCONTRE DE L'ATELIER DES DOCTORANTS EN LINGUISTIQUE) April, 5-6 th, 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** The Graduate School in Linguistics at the University Paris 7 is organizing the 6th Doctorate Workshop in Linguistics on April 5-6th, 2001. The purpose of this meeting is to promote exchange and communication among young researchers and doctorate students of different fields of interest in linguistics. We therefore impose no restrictions on the subject of the presentations, or on the level of linguistic analysis. Doctorate students are asked to submit an abstract of one page and possibly, an additional page with data and/or references. As reviewing will be anonymous, please send in two versions your abstract, of which only one version should include your name, university and e-mail of the author(s), and the second one anonymous. We accept presentation in French and English. Speakers will be given 20 minutes to present their paper, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions should follow the following format : - type : 10 points (Times, Times New Roman) ; - margin of 2,5 cm (0,984 inch) on all sides ; - Postscript,RTF or MS-Doc format (Word 97 version, or earlier) ; - for the IPA characters, please use SIL DOULOS IPA (you can download the font at the following URL http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html). The abstract are to be sent as an attachment or floppy disk, and eventually as a paper version, to the following addresses : adl at linguist.jussieu.fr UNIVERSITE PARIS 7 - DENIS DIDEROT UFR LINGUISTIQUE ATELIER DES DOCTORANTS Case 7003 2, Place Jussieu 75 251 Paris Cedex 05 France Projected dates : January, 7th, 2001 Deadline for abstracts February, 5th, 2001 Notification of acceptance April, 5-6th, 2001 Doctorate meeting in Linguistics Selected papers will be published in the form of proceedings. Further information concerning the definitive format of the papers will be given at a later date. Futhermore, please note that we can cover partial of full transportation cost for speakers travelling more than 100km. For additional information, please contact : Emmanuel Aïm : emmanuel.aim at linguist.jussieu.fr Hi-Yon Yoo: hi-yon.yoo at linguist.jussieu.fr ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 17 19:00:52 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:52 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACH/ALLC Message-ID: From: John Lavagnino CALL FOR PAPERS: UPDATE Digital Media and Humanities Research: ACH/ALLC Conference, New York University, June 13-17 2001 In order to give everybody a bit more breathing space, and to keep the working timetable similar to what it's been in past years, we've decided to extend the deadline for paper and panel submissions to ACH/ALLC 2001 to Monday 27 November. As always, see the conference web site at http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/ for full details on the conference and on procedures for submitting proposals. John Lavagnino Chair, ACH/ALLC 2001 Program Committee ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 17 18:57:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:57:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLE Message-ID: From: Beverly Nunan Attached and below is a "Call for Papers" for a special issue on question answsering in the Journal of Natural Language Engineering. If you have any questions, please direct them to Dr. Lynette Hirschman, 781-271-7789. Thank you. ******************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING SPECIAL ISSUE ON QUESTION ANSWERING Guest editors: Lynette Hirschman (MITRE) Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield) As users struggle to navigate the wealth of on-line information now available, the need for automated question answering systems becomes more urgent: specifically, for systems that would allow a user to ask a question in everyday language and get the answer quickly, with back-up material available on demand. Question answering has become, over the past several years, a major focus of research activity. This Call for Papers solicits submissions that discuss the performance, the requirements, the uses, and the challenges of question answering systems. Question answering systems provide a rich research area. To answer a question, a system must analyze the question, perhaps in the context of some ongoing interaction; it must find one or more answers by consulting on-line resources; and it must present the answer to the user in some appropriate form, perhaps associated with justification or supporting materials. Several conferences and workshops have focused on aspects of the question answering research area. For the past two years, the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) (http://trec.nist.gov) has sponsored a question-answering track which has evaluated systems that answer factual questions based on finding answer strings in the TREC corpus, using both information retrieval and natural language processing techniques. A focus on reading comprehension provides a different approach to question answering, evaluating systems' ability to answer questions about a specific reading passage. These kinds of tests are used to evaluate students' comprehension, providing a basis for comparing system performance to human performance. This was the subject of a Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop, http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/groups/reading/prj_desc.shtml. Both of these research areas have had to address a number of difficult questions: =B7 How can question answering systems be evaluated? Do we have to have human graders, or can we find automated ways of grading short answer tests that approximate human graders closely enough? =B7 How should questions and answers be classified? Should classification= s be based on linguistic features of questions and answers? On the types and sources of knowledge used to derive answers? On the types of processing required to derive answers? =B7 What makes a question hard? Can we define linguistic features that help to predict question difficulty? =B7 Can we identify different classes of users of question answering systems, and if so, what are their different requirements? =B7 What makes an answer good? Should answers be short? Long? What about sentence extracts compared to generated text? What about summaries? =B7 What is the best way to present answers to a user? How much context and justification is appropriate? How much drill down needs to be supported? =B7 Do question answering systems need to build models of users' knowledg= e states to generate appropriate answers? How can this process be managed? =B7 What are reasonable expectations for question answering systems: providing factual answers found literally in texts, providing factual answers inferred from texts, providing summaries of multiple sources, providing analysis? =B7 How does the performance of systems compare to the performance of people? Can such systems complement people? Teach people? Replace people? =B7 Is it possible to create domain-independent question answering systems, or is it critical to restrict the domain of such a system to a specific topic area? What are the trade-offs in terms of performance? =B7 Can a question answering system use spoken input? Can it retrieve information from spoken "documents" such as news stories or interviews? What are the performance penalties when dealing with the additional uncertainty that characterizes speech or OCR? We invite submission of papers addressing any of these questions, or other issues related to the creation, evaluation, or deployment of question answering systems. We also encourage submissions that address infrastructure issues, such as tools for building question answering systems, for collecting corpora, or for annotating collections. Submission Information Submit full papers of no more than 25 pages (exclusive of references), twelve point, double-spaced, with one inch margins before the initial submission deadline. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines will not be reviewed. Email submission is preferred, and should be directed to the special issue editors at the email address: lynette at mitre.org. The subject line should read: JNLE QA Submission. Preferred email submission formats are: Word, PostScript, PDF, or plain text (for papers without complex figures, etc). If email submission is not possible, then five copies of the paper should be mailed to: Dr. Lynette Hirschman The MITRE Corporation 3K-157 202 Burlington Rd. Bedford, MA 01730 USA Phone: 781-271-7789 Fax: 781-271-2352 Mailed submissions must arrive on or before the deadline for submission. 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--------------E47481E4E87F6333D2B6BB56-- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 17 19:00:56 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:56 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2001 Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen Call for Workshop Proposals ACL'01/EACL'01 Joint Conference The ACL/EACL'01 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at ACL/EACL'01. ACL/EACL'01 will be held in Toulouse, France, July 6-11, 2001 with workshops being held July 6-7, 2001. ACL/EACL'01 workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within computational linguistics. Often, workshops concentrate on specific topics of technical interest (e.g., parsing technologies), particular areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP applied to IR), or community-wide issues that deserve attention (e.g., standardization of resources and tools). We welcome proposals on any topic that is of interest to the ACL community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of new techniques or applications. Proposals Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain the following information: - A title and brief description of the workshop topic. - A budget proposal. - The target audience and projected number of participants along with support for the projected count. Supporting evidence could include a list of potential submitters, a list of conferences that contained papers on the proposed topic, the number of new companies focused on this topic, or recent funding initiatives that address this topic. - Resource needs such as room size and number of days. Include any special requirements for technical support (computer infrastructure, etc.). - The name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of each chair. In addition, indicate the chairs' background in the workshop area. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible but no later than JANUARY 12, 2001. (This early due date is required to support the May 7, 2001 deadline for camera-ready copies of all workshop papers, see the schedule below.) The subject line should be: "ACL/EACL'01 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL". Please e-mail proposals and any inquiries to: aclworkshops at cs.unca.edu or send mail to: Rebecca Bruce Department of Computer Science 221 Robinson Hall, CPO #2320 University of North Carolina at Asheville One University Heights Asheville, North Carolina 28804-8511 USA Important Dates Proposals due: Jan. 12, 2001 Notification of acceptance: Jan. 19, 2001 Release of workshop call for papers and other publicity material: Feb. 19, 2001 Workshop papers submission deadline: March 30, 2001 Notification of workshop paper acceptance: April 13, 2001 Camera-ready copy of workshop papers due: May 7, 2001 Workshop Date: July 6-7, 2001 Additional Information For additional information, see the web site for the conference: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html which will provide additional details as they become available. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:27:05 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:27:05 +0100 Subject: Appel: LACL 2001 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: From: Catherine Piliere ***************************************************************** --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate --- ***************************************************************** Second Call for Papers LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic, France Submission Deadline: January 29, 2001 http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ***************************************************************** ---------------------------- HISTORY ---------------------------- The LACL series of conferences aims at providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal and logical aspects of computational linguistics. It started as a workshop held in Nancy (France), in 1995. Due to its success, it was turned, the next year, into a international conference. LACL'96 and '97 have both been held in Nancy (France). LACL'98 has been held in Grenoble (France). Selected papers from LACL'95 appear in a special issue of Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7(4), 1998. The proceedings of LACL'96 and 97 appear as volumes 1328 and 1582 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The proceedings of LACL'98 are in press with the same series. ----------------------------- SCOPE ----------------------------- Typical topics include, but are not limited to: Categorial grammars, Categorial type logics, Compositionality, Discourse representation theory, Dynamics, Feature Logics, Formal language theory, Game-theoretical semantics, Grammatical inference, Learning theory, Linear logical frameworks, Minimalism, Modal logics, Montague semantics, Parsing as deduction, Proof- theoretic approaches, Situation semantics and situation theory, Type-theoretic approaches. ----------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------- Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 15 standard A4 or US quarto pages. The paper should allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the work. In particular, references and comparisons with related work should be included. Submission of material already published or submitted to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Electronic submission is highly recommended. A postscript version of the paper should be sent as an e-mail to: morrill at lsi.upc.es to arrive by January 29, 2001. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file In addition, a separate e-mail containing the title of the paper, authors' names and addresses, and a short abstract in plain ASCII format should be sent to the same e-mail address. If electronic submission is not possible, authors may submit four hard copies of the paper by post to the following address: LACL 2001 (Attention: G. Morrill) UPC, Departament de LSI Campus Nord - Modul C6 Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 E-08034 Barcelona - Espanya ------------------------------ URL ----------------------------- http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------- Deadline for Submissions: January 29, 2001 Notification to Authors: March 26, 2001 Final Versions due: April 20, 2001 ---------------------- CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ------------------ The accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in AI. This will be available at the time of the conference. ------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- W. Buszkowski (Poznan) R. Crouch, (Palo Alto) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) M. Dymetman (Grenoble) C. Gardent (Saarbrucken) P. de Groote (Nancy), co-chair M. Kanazawa (Tokyo) G. Morrill (Barcelona), co-chair R. Muskens (Tilburg) F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh) B. Rounds, (Ann Arbor) E. Stabler (Los Angeles) ----------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------- B. Daille (Nantes) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) A. Foret (Rennes) E. Lebret (Rennes) C. Piliere (Nancy), publicity chair C. Retore (Rennes), chair P. Sebillot (Rennes) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:27:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:27:08 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL'2001/EACL'2001 Workshop/Tutorials Message-ID: ___________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: ACL'2001/EACL'2001 Revised Call for Workshop Proposals 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject : ACL'2001/EACL'2001 Call for Tutorial Proposals ___________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: ACL'2001/EACL'2001 Revised Call for Workshop Proposals Modified Call for Workshop Proposals for the ACL'01/EACL'01 Joint Conference (***Updated Timetable of Important Dates***) The ACL/EACL'01 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at ACL/EACL'01. ACL/EACL'01 will be held in Toulouse, France, July 6-11, 2001 with workshops being held July 6-7, 2001. ACL/EACL'01 workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within computational linguistics. Often, workshops concentrate on specific topics of technical interest (e.g., parsing technologies), particular areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP applied to IR), or community-wide issues that deserve attention (e.g., standardization of resources and tools). We welcome proposals on any topic that is of interest to the ACL community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of new techniques or applications. Proposals Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain the following information: - A title and brief description of the workshop topic. - A budget proposal. - The target audience and projected number of participants along with support for the projected count. Supporting evidence could include a list of potential submitters, a list of conferences that contained papers on the proposed topic, the number of new companies focused on this topic, or recent funding initiatives that address this topic. - Resource needs such as room size and number of days. Include any special requirements for technical support (computer infrastructure, etc.). - The name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of each chair. In addition, indicate the chairs' background in the workshop area. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible but no later than JANUARY 12, 2001. The subject line should be: "ACL/EACL'01 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL". Please e-mail proposals and any inquiries to: aclworkshops at cs.unca.edu UPDATED Timetable of Important Dates: Proposals due: Jan. 12, 2001 Notification of acceptance: Jan. 19, 2001 Deadline for receipt of workshop call for papers and other publicity material: Feb. 19, 2001 Suggested deadline for workshop paper submissions: April 6, 2001 Suggested deadline for notification of workshop paper acceptance: April 27, 2001 Suggested deadline for camera-ready workshop papers: May 16, 2001 Deadline for receipt of camera-ready workshop proceedings: May 25, 2001 Workshop Date: July 6-7, 2001 Additional Information For additional information, see the web site for the conference: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html which will provide additional details as they become available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject : ACL'2001/EACL'2001 Call for Tutorial Proposals ACL 2001 CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS The Program Committee of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for ACL 2001, to be held in Toulouse July, 6th-11th, 2001 (see http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html). The tutorials for ACL 2001 will be held on July 8th, 2001. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its core content can be covered in a three-hour tutorial slot (including a 30 minute break). However, in exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are possible as well. There will be space and time for at most four three-hour tutorials. SUBMISSION DETAILS Proposals for tutorials should contain: * A title and brief (< 500 word) content description of the tutorial topic. * The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial speakers, with a one-paragraph statement of the speaker's(s') research interests and areas of expertise. * Any special requirements for technical needs (display projector, computer infrastructure, etc.) Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII (iso8859-1) text as soon as possible, but in any case no later than January 12th, 2001. The subject line should be: "ACL 2001 TUTORIAL PROPOSAL". PLEASE NOTE: PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY REGULAR MAIL OR FAX. Please submit your proposals and address any inquiries to acl2001-tutorials at lettres.unige.ch. This forwards to both Tutorials Co-Chairs. TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS Paola Merlo Gertjan van Noord Université de Genève Groningen University Dépt. de Linguistique Alfa-informatica 2, rue de Candolle PO Box 716 1211 Genève 4 9700 AS Groningen Switzerland Netherlands acl2001-tutorials at lettres.unige.ch PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by January 26th,2001 and must then provide descriptions of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by March 30th, 2001. The description should be in three formats: a latex version that fits onto 1/2 page; an ASCII (iso8859-1) version that can be included with the email announcement; and an HTML version that can be included on the conference home page. Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials, at least containing copies of the overhead transparencies to be used as well as a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial by May 11th, 2001. FINANCIAL INFORMATION The current ACL policy is that tutorials are reimbursed at the following rate: US$500 per session plus $25 per registrant in the range 21-50 plus $15 per registrant in excess of 50. Note that this is per tutorial, not per presenter: multiple presenters will split the proceeds, the default assumption being an even split. The ACL does not usually cover any further expenses. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline for proposal: 12th January, 2001 Notification of acceptance: 26th January, 2001 Tutorial descriptions due: 30th March, 2001 Tutorial course material due: 11th May, 2001 Tutorials date: 8th July, 2001 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:27:46 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:27:46 +0100 Subject: Appel: ATALA workshop (Terminology) Message-ID: From: Thierry Hamon [Version française en fin de message] ATALA one-day workshop Call for communications Theme : Terminology structuring : purpose, methods et evaluation Organisers : Thierry Hamon (LIPN - Université Paris-Nord) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN - Université Paris-Nord) Date : march 10th 2001 http://www.atala.org/je/appel-struct-terminologie.html SUMMARY Context : Traditionnaly, terminologies or thesauri gather the vocabulary used in the language of a domain of speciality. The aim is to have a list of the terms but also to structure this list by adding relations between terms and grouping terms in classes. These relationships bring various informations either morphological, syntactical or semantic. An entry can be associated to different terms: - generic or specific term, - synonym term, - antonym, - term variants which are prefered or must be avoid. These relations make a terminological network out of the terms list. This one-day workshop will take an interest in the terminology structuring. Natural Language Processus and computational terminology can be used to acquire several types of information useful to structure a terminology : - Relations between terms : morpho-syntactic variants (Jacquemin 1997), hyperonymy relations (Morin 1999, Séguéla 1999), synonymy relations (Hamon and Nazarenko 2000), causality relations (Garcia 1998), etc. ; - Similarity between words (Faure et Nédellec 1998, Nazarenko et al. 1997), terms classes (Assadi 1998) and semantic tagging (Basili et al. 1997, Cerbah 2000). End-user applications and texts must be taken into account in the building of a terminology. (Bourigault and Slodzian 1999) observe that these is not a single terminology in a domain of speciality but various application-dependant terminologies. To help terminologists in their task, it is more important to develop NLP tools rather than resources that would be used for corpora processing independently of any application. It follows that besides the precision of the results, the evaluation of NLP tools designed for the terminology building must take into account the application context and the human-machine collaboration process. Aims : Up to now, research leads to develop tools which focus on specific acquisition tools without taking into account the whole process of terminology building. Results of various tools are rarely re-used by others. This one-day workshop aims to confront the various approaches in terminology structuring and to identify the emerging challenge. Several questions should be considered : - Which consequences can be draw up from the experiments carried out so far? - Which relations are relevant in terminologies? - How to acquire these relations? - Which resources and which tools can be used? - How to integrate automatically acquired knowkedge in the work of the terminologist? - How to evaluate NLP tools for terminology? Communications will be available on the ATALA web site. According to the interest for this workshop, we will consider the publication of extended papers in a revue. Keywords : terminology building process, terminological relations, terms similarity, semantic classes, evaluation. Submission : A two to four pages abstract with bibliography or more important size article should be sent before december, the 15th - either by email (preferably) to : thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr AND to adeline.nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (formats PostScript, PDF, RTF exclusively), - or by post to Thierry Hamon and Adeline Nazarenko LIPN - Institut Galilée - Université Paris-Nord Avenue J-B. Clément 93430 Villetaneuse, FRANCE Communications will be selected according to their quality but also in order to deal with various aspects of the termonology structuring and problems of evaluation in application context. Notification of acceptance will be given about January, the 15th 2000. Workshoop organizers can be contacted by email for further information. ---------------------------------------------- ATALA http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/ ------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------- Journée d'étude de l'ATALA Appel à communications Thème : Structuration de terminologie : objectifs, méthodes et évaluation Responsables : Thierry Hamon (LIPN - Université Paris-Nord) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN - Université Paris-Nord) Date : 10 mars 2001 http://www.atala.org/je/appel-struct-terminologie.html PRESENTATION Contexte : Traditionnellement, une terminologie ou un thesaurus rassemble le vocabulaire utilisé dans la langue d'un domaine de spécialité. Mais une liste de termes n'est pas suffisante. Il faut aussi structurer cette liste en ajoutant des relations entre les termes et en regroupant les termes dans des classes. Ces relations apportent différentes informations : un terme peut être associé à un terme générique ou spécifique, à un terme synonyme, à des antonymes, à des variantes dont l'usage est préféré ou, au contraire, déconseillé, etc. Ces renvois d'une entrée à l'autre constituent autant de relations morphologiques, syntaxiques ou sémantiques qui forment un réseau terminologique. Cette journée portera sur la structuration de terminologie. Le Traitement Automatique des Langues et la terminologie computationnelle permettent l'acquisition de plusieurs types d'informations nécessaires à la structuration d'une terminologie : - Relations entre les termes : des variantes morpho-syntaxiques (Jacquemin 1997), des relations d'hyperonymie (Morin 1999, Séguéla 1999), des relations de synonymie (Hamon et Nazarenko 2000), des relations de causalité (Garcia 1998), etc. ; - Similarites entre mots (Faure et Nédellec 1998, Nazarenko et al. 1997), classes de termes (Assadi 1998), étiquetage sémantique (Basili et al. 1997, Cerbah 2000). L'application finale et le texte jouent un rôle important lors de la constitution d'une terminologie. (Bourigault et Slodzian 1999) ont constaté qu'il n'existe pas une terminologie unique pour un domaine de spécialité mais que les terminologies dépendent de l'application. Il apparaît donc de plus en plus important de développer des outils de TAL qui assisteront les terminologues dans leur tâche, plutôt que des ressources exploitables sur plusieurs corpus indépendemment des applications. Ce changement de point de vue sur l'apport du TAL à la constitution de terminologies amène à revoir les modalités d'évaluation. Celle-ci doit prendre en compte l'application et l'aide apportée et non simplement la précision de résultats. Objectifs : Jusqu'ici, les travaux sont restés assez dispersés et l'intégration de différents outils dans une même chaîne de traitement est rare. Leur apport reste difficile à apprécier. Cette journée d'étude permettra de faire le point sur les approches en structuration de terminologie et d'aborder les problèmes liés à l'évaluation des outils d'aide aux terminologues. Plusieurs questions pourront être abordées : - Quel bilan peut-on tirer des expériences réalisées jusqu'à présent ? - Quelles sont les relations pertinentes en terminologie ? - Comment acquérir ces relations ? - Quelles ressources et quels outils peuvent être utilisés ? - Comment intégrer des connaissances acquises automatiquement dans le travail du terminologue ? - Comment évaluer les outils terminologiques ? Les communications seront disponibles sur le site de l'ATALA. En fonction de l'intérêt suscité par cette journée, nous envisagerons de publier ces travaux dans une revue. Mots-clés : constitution de terminologie, relations terminologiques, similarité de termes, classes sémantiques, évaluation. Soumission (modalités) : Un résumé avec une bibliographie de deux à quatre pages ou un article plus important doit être envoyé avant le 15 décembre - soit par courrier électronique (de préférence) à : thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr ET à adeline.nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (formats PostScript, PDF, RTF exclusivement), - soit par courrier régulier à Thierry Hamon and Adeline Nazarenko LIPN - Institut Galilée - Université Paris-Nord Avenue J-B. Clément 93430 Villetaneuse, FRANCE Les communications seront sélectionnées en fonction de leur qualité mais aussi de manière à couvrir les différents aspects de la structuration de terminologie et des problèmes liés à l'évaluation en contexte applicatif. Les notifications d'acceptation seront données vers le 15 janvier 2001. Les organisateurs de la journée peuvent être contactés par courrier électronique, pour toute demande d'informations supplémentaires. ---------------------------------------------- ATALA http://www.atala.org ------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:28:41 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:28:41 +0100 Subject: Appel: CIAA 2001 Message-ID: From: Maurel Denis CIAA 2001: CALL FOR PAPERS CIAA 2001: Sixth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, University of Pretoria: http://www.cs.up.ac.za July 23-25, 2001 This conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures. Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. In addition, there is a growing number of software systems designed to manipulate automata, regular expressions, grammars, and related structures; examples include AGL, AMORE, Automate, FADELA, FinITE, FireLite, FLAP, FSM, Grail, INR, MONA and Turing's World. (See http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/fsm/ for FSM and http://www.brics.dk/mona/ for MONA.) The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving. SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE We solicit papers and demos on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including but not limited to: o Bioinformatics and automata o Complexity of automata operations o Compilers and automata o Computer-aided verification and automata o Concurrency and automata o Data structure design for automata o Data and image compression and automata o Design and architecture of automata software o Digital libraries and automata o Document engineering and automata o Editors, environments and automata o Experimental studies and practical experiences o Industrial applications and automata o Natural language processing and automata o Networking and automata o New algorithms for manipulating automata o Object-Oriented Modeling and automata o Pattern-matching and automata o Speech and speaker recognition and automata o Structured and semi-structured documents and automata o Symbolic manipulation environments for automata o Teaching and automata o Text processing and automata o Techniques for graphical display of automata o VLSI and automata o Viruses, related phenomena and automata o World-wide web and automata SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are requested to submit an electronic version (in PostScript or LaTeX form) or six hard copies of an extended abstract (arriving) by APRIL 2, 2001. An extended abstract should start with the title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and a one-paragraph summary of the results and ideas, and be sent to: ciaa2001 at cs.up.ac.za or to CIAA 2001, ATTENTION:OPV5-20 Department of Computer Science University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa 0002 The extended abstract should provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance to the conference. The extended abstract should be AT MOST TEN (10) PAGES LONG using 11-point font with ample margins. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by MAY 1, 2001. Final copies of accepted papers must be submitted by JUNE 18, 2001. We expect the proceedings to appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series after the conference. (See for example, LNCS 1260 and LNCS 1436 for the proceedings of two previous conferences.) We will distribute a preproceedings for participants at the conference. Extended versions of selected papers from the proceedings of the conference series will be solicited for publication in special issues of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) and International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), alternating each year with the CIAA 2001 special issue appearing in TCS. DEMOS We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to demonstrate their software should submit a TWO-PAGE description to the address given above by APRIL 2, 2001, outlining the design of their system and their computing needs (if any). INVITED SPEAKERS Gregor v. Bochmann, Ottawa, Canada, CIAA 2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE B. Boigelot (Liege) J.-M. Champarnaud (Rouen) M. Crochemore (Marne la Vallee) O. Ibarra (UCSB) L. Karttunen (Xerox Europe) N. Klarlund (AT&T) D. Maurel (Tours) M. Mohri (AT&T) J.-E. Pin (Paris) K. Salomaa (Queen's) H. Seidl (Trier) B. Watson Co-chair) (Pretoria) D. Wood (Co-Chair) (HKUST) S. Yu (Western Ontario) IMPORTANT DATES April 2, 2001 Submission deadline May 1, 2001 Acceptances and rejections sent out June 18, 2001 Submission deadline for preproceedings July 23-25, 2001 Conference dates Sept. 21, 2001 Submission deadline for SV-LNCS SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS ACM SIGACT, EATCS, University of Pretoria PREVIOUS CONFERENCES o CIAA 2000 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 o WIA'99 website: http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wia99/ o WIA'98 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia98.html CIAA 2001 WEB SITES o http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dwood/ciaa2001 o http://www.cs.up.ac.za/~watson/ciaa/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:29:27 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:29:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: WWW-10 Message-ID: From: Steffen Staab ********************************************************************* Call for Papers Semantic Web WWW-10 Workshop May 1, 2001 Hongkong ********************************************************************* Comprehensive information to be found at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Workshop Outline The "Semantic Web", a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, is used to denote the next evolution step of the Web. Associating meaning with content or establishing a layer of machine understandable data would allow automated agents, sophisticated search engines and interoperable services, will enable higher degree of automation and more intelligent applications. The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to allow machines the sharing and exploitation of knowledge in the Web way, i.e. without central authority, with few basic rules, in a scalable, adaptable, extensible manner. With RDF as the basic platform for the Semantic Web, a multitude of tools, methods and systems have just appeared on the horizon. The goal of the workshop is to share experiences about these systems, exchange ideas about improvements of existing tools and creation of new systems, principles and applications. Also an important goal is to develop a cooperation model among Semantic Web developers, and to develop a common vision about the future developments. Relevant workshop topics include (non-exhaustive list): · Language and Representation issues · Semantic Web infrastructure and architectures · Metadata and conceptual models for annotating content, resources, and portals · Automatic annotation/tagging/metadata creation and recommendation · Tools, systems and methodologies for Semantic Web · Application of semantic web technology · Migrating information to semantic formats & Information Filtering · Trust in the Semantic Web · Query languages for the Semantic Web · Information correlation, integration, mediation and brokering on the Web · Resource discovery · Distributed inference services · Semantic Web mining Important Dates Deadline for paper submission 1 Jan 2001 Notification of acceptance 1 Feb 2001 Deadline final contributions 1 Apr 2001 All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. In addition, a few selected best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the ETAI Semantic Web Journal (http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/). Submission Information We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper or a position paper addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for the semantic web. Submit by e-mail before January 1, 2001 following the format instructions at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de to staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Organizing Committee Stefan Decker, Database Group, Stanford University Database Group, Stanford University Gates Hall 4A, Room 425 Stanford, CA 94305-9040, USA email: stefan at db.stanford.edu phone: +1 650-723-1422 fax: +1 650-725-2588 http://www-db.stanford.edu/~stefan/ Dieter Fensel, VU Amsterdam Division of Mathematics & Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, NL The Netherlands Email: dieter at cs.vu.nl http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dieter Amit Sheth, Univ. of Georgia Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, Computer Sc., 415 GSRC, University of Georgia, Athens GA 30602-7404 USA Also, Taalee Inc. Email: amit at cs.uga.edu http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu, http://www.taalee.com Steffen Staab (Contact), AIFB, Karlsruhe University, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Also, Ontoprise GmbH email: staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de,staab at ontoprise.de phone: +49-721-608 4751 fax: +49-721-693 717 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst Programm Committee Dan Brickley, Univ. of Bristol (UK) Vassilis Christophides, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Peter Eklund, Griffith University (Australia) Jim Hendler, Univ. of Maryland (USA) Rick Hull, Bell Labs, Lucent Tech. (USA) Manolis Koubarakis, Techn. Univ. of Crete (Greece) Fred Lochovsky, HKUST (Hong Kong) Alain Michard, INRIA (France) John Mylopoulos, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) Claire Nedellec, LRI (France) Dimitris Plexousakis, Univ. of Crete (Greece) Louiqa Raschid, Univ. of Maryland (USA) Marie-Christine Rousset, Univ. of ORSAY (France) Guus Schreiber, VU Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tarcisio de Souza Lima, Federal Univ. of Juiz de Fora (Brazil) Katia Sycara, CMU (USA) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:29:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:29:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL/EACL 2001 - Student Research Workshop Message-ID: From: Christof Monz Call for Papers Student Research Workshop at the joint ACL/EACL 2001 Meeting July 6-11, 2001 Toulouse, France submission deadline: February 12, 2001 The information below can also be found at this URL: www.science.uva.nl/~christof/acl01-student/ Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly established yet. Tentatively, the Workshop may take place anytime between 6th and 11th of July, 2001. 1. General Invitation for Submissions The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The main purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for student researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Seeing that the main mission of the student workshop is to provide the participants with a wide audience and useful feedback, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. For the Student Workshop, original, and unpublished research is invited on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to these topic areas: - pragmatics - discourse - semantics - syntax and the lexicon - phonetics - phonology and morphology - interpreting and generating spoken and written language - linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language - language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction - corpus-based language modeling - machine translation and translation aids - natural language interfaces and dialogue systems - approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems - message and narrative understanding systems The main conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and demos. See the Main ACL/EACL 2001 page for information: www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html 2. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work in progress. The main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work. Papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. The papers can have more than one author; however, all authors MUST be students. A paper accepted for presentation at the Student Workshop cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this immediately after the title material on the first page. 3. Submission Procedure Paper Registration Registration of your submission is required. This can be done by filling out a form available at the web site of the workshop: www.science.uva.nl/~christof/acl01-student/ After you fill out and submit this form, a unique ID number will be generated and sent to you in an e-mail shortly after the paper registration. You will then be able to use this ID number instead of your name on the title page of the paper and in any subsequent correspondence with the workshop co-chairs. If you are unable to use the on-line form for paper registration or experience problems using it, please, send email to acl01-student at science.uva.nl Submission format Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. These will soon be available from the web site: www.science.uva.nl/~christof/acl01-student/ These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. Separate items to be submitted Identification page Title: Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration) Author(s) name(s) affiliation and e-mail addresses Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas) Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, please specify) Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) Title page Title: Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration) Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas) Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, please specify) Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) Paper Electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions are acceptable. Electronic Submissions If you are submitting your paper electronically, only the following formats will be acceptable: - PostScript (.ps) - Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf) - Microsoft Word ACL style(.doc) - PDF (.pdf) Electronic submissions should be sent in an attachment to the following e-mail address: acl01-student at cis.upenn.edu If you are submitting a hard copy of your paper, please send six double sided copies of your paper (two copies should have the identification page attached, four should have the title page attached) to the following address: Eleni Miltsakaki Institute of Research in Cognitive Science Suite 400A, 3401 Walnut St. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 USA 4. Reviewing Procedure Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance decision will be made based on the results of the review. Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please, make sure you do not put the author(s) name(s) on the title page. (See paper submission requirements for details). You should not have any self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, you can't have a reference like this "We showed previously (Smith, 1991), ..." Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)..." 5. Schedule Submissions must be received by February 12th, 2001. Late submissions (those arriving on or after February 13th, 2001) will be automatically disqualified. The student workshop committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. For electronic submissions, all time zones will be taken into account) Acknowledgment will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on April 20th, 2001. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. 6. Timetable Important Dates: Paper registration: February 5, 2001 Paper submission deadline: February 12, 2001 Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2001 Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 18, 2001 7. Contact Information If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use: acl01-student at science.uva.nl An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs. Eleni Miltsakaki (Co-Chair) Institute of Research in Cognitive Science Suite 400A, 3401 Walnut St. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228, USA E-mail: elenimi at linc.cis.upenn.edu Phone: +1 215 573-6283 Fax: +1 215 573-9247 Christof Monz (Co-Chair) Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-mail: christof at science.uva.nl Phone: +31 20 525-6095 Fax: +31 20 525-5101 António Ribeiro (Co-Chair) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Departamento de Informática Quinta da Torre P-2825-114 Caparica, Portugal E-mail: ambar at di.fct.unl.pt Phone: +351 21 294-8300, ext. 10743 Fax: +351 21 294-8541 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 29 14:13:28 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:13:28 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers Message-ID: _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Stein, Gees C (CRD)" Subject: NLP position at GE CR&D 2/ From: Laura Bergerol Subject: Comp linguist at YY Software Corp, CA, USA 3/ From: Alexander Koller Subject: PhD Scholarships Saarbruecken/Edinburgh 4/ From: Elaine Ivery-Mosby Subject: Senior Research Engineer/NLU Tech at VocalPoint Technologies, 5/ From: "Shu-hui Peng" Subject: (Comp) Ling, Lit: Tenure-Track Positions at NCNU, Taiwan _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Stein, Gees C (CRD)" Subject: NLP position at GE CR&D GE Corporate R&D is looking for an experienced Natural Language researcher to join their Multi- Media Systems Program. You will join a multi-disciplinary team, involving natural language, image understanding and speech recognition. As a researcher you will develop new technology and be involved in proposal writing and fund acquisition. Requirements: Experience in several of the following areas: Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Dialogue Systems, Summarization. Experience in proposal writing. A Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or equivalent qualification. GE CR&D is located at Schenectady, New York, surrounded by the Adirondacks and the Catskills. If you're interested in this position please contact: Gees Stein, Ph.D. General Electric CR&D, KW-C1305 P.O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 Phone: 518 387-6664 Fax: 518 387-4042 E-mail: steing at crd.ge.com _________________________________ Gees C. Stein, Ph.D. General Electric CR&D Center, Multimedia Systems Program. P.O. Box 8 phone: (518) 387-6664 Bldg KW-C1305 fax: (518) 387-4042 Schenectaday NY 12301 e-mail: steing at crd.ge.com _______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Laura Bergerol Subject: Comp linguist at YY Software Corp, CA, USA Rank of Job: Master's degree or equivalent Areas Required: Computational linguist Other Desired Areas: NLP University or Organization: YY Software Corporation Department: State or Province: California Country: USA Final Date of Application: April 30, 2001 Contact: Laura Bergerol Laura.Bergerol at yy.com Address for Applications: 110 Pioneer Way Mountain View CA 94110 USA YY Software Corporation, located in Mountain View, CA, seeks computational linguists to work full-time on grammar and lexicon development, NLP applications and development tools, with expertise in one or more of the following: - Syntactic analysis in a lexicalist framework such as Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar or Lexical Functional Grammar, for English, German, Japanese, or Spanish. - Semi-automated acquisition techniques for lexicon and grammar. - Robust processing of natural text found in email, including ellipsis, abbreviations, and errors. - Lexical semantics. - Knowledge representation for natural language processing Required qualifications: - Master's degree or equivalent post-graduate study in computational linguistics or related field. - Immediate availability Preferred qualifications: - Ph.D. or two years' work experience in computational linguistics or related field - Programming experience in C++, Java - U.S. citizenship or work permit Compensation: - Commensurate with experience, competitive with San Francisco Bay Area corporate standards. Send your CV via any of the following: - email: jobs at yy.com - fax: 650 623-0001 - mail: Laura Bergerol Director of Human Resources YY Software Corporation 110 Pioneer Way Mountain View, CA 94041 - web: http://www.yy.com Company profile: YY Software Corporation is the premier provider of intelligent auto-response software for eBusiness platforms. YY's breakthrough-technology products automatically read and respond to electronic inquiries with the highest levels of accuracy, functionality, and reliability across all customer touch points: Web site, email, chat, and, in the future, voice. Setting YY products apart from all others is their ability to handle language the way people actually use language. YY solutions are designed to provide a rapid return on investment by helping enterprises increase sales and enhance customer satisfaction while simultaneously reducing customer service costs. _______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Alexander Koller Subject: PhD Scholarships Saarbruecken/Edinburgh -- Please distribute! -- -- Apologies if you receive multiple copies -- Saarland University (Departments of General/Computational Linguistics and Informatics) are pleased to announce the availability of six doctoral scholarships within the newly established European Post-Graduate College "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" Saarbruecken - Edinburgh starting in April 1st, 2001. Each scholarship will be funded for two years (extendable to three years). Doctoral degrees may be obtained in computational linguistics, phonetics, and informatics. The European Post-Graduate College has been established in cooperation between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh (Division of Informatics) -- two leading institutions in the fields of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science who will collaborate in offering a joint post-graduate education programme. The cooperation includes * a six to twelve months research stay in Edinburgh * joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from Saarbruecken and Edinburgh * an intensive research exchange programme between Saarbruecken and Edinburgh (including, for example, an annual two-week research meeting attended by college members and lecturers from both locations). The college focuses on human language and speech processing and its computational, cognitive, and psychological foundations, particularly in the following research areas: * data-intensive language models (e.g. corpus-based and statistical modelling) * inference * knowledge representation, lexicon, and ontology * language and speech understanding * dialogue and language generation The participating lecturers in Saarbruecken are Patrick Blackburn, Manfred Pinkal, Hans Uszkoreit (computational linguistics), William Barry (phonetics), Matthew Crocker (psycholinguistics), Michael Kohlhase, Joerg Siekmann, Gert Smolka, and Wolfgang Wahlster (informatics/AI). In Edinburgh, lecturers are Michael Fourman, Ewan Klein, Alex Lascarides, Johanna Moore, Jon Oberlander, Martin Pickering, Mark Steedman, Paul Taylor, Bonnie Webber, and Chris Williams. Each scholarship is compensated with up to DM 2,870 per month. Additional compensation includes family allowance (where applicable), travel funding, and an additional monthly allowance of DM 1,410 for the stay in Edinburgh. Applicants should hold a strong university degree in one of the relevant areas, and they should not be more than 28 years of age. Women and international students are particularly encouraged to apply. Applications should include * a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, where possible) * copies of high school and university certificates * two references (to be sent directly to the college speaker) * an informal cover letter specifying interests, previous knowledge and activities in any of the relevant research areas. The letter should indicate the area in which the dissertation is to be conducted (computational linguistics/psycholinguistics, phonetics, or informatics/AI): where possible, it should include a brief outline of research interests to be pursued within the scholarship. Applications should be sent to the speaker of the college (see address below). Closing date for applications is December 31st, 2000. Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal Department of Computational Linguistics Saarland University P.O. Box 15 11 50 D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany Tel.: +49 (0)681 302-4344 Fax: +49 (0)681 302-4351 E-mail: pinkal at coli.uni-sb.de http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk/ _______________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Elaine Ivery-Mosby Subject: Senior Research Engineer/NLU Tech at VocalPoint Technologies, Rank of Job: Senior Areas Required: Research Engineer/NLU Technology Other Desired Areas: Linguist University or Organization: VocalPoint Technologies Department: Product Research State or Province: California Country: USA Final Date of Application: December 15, 2000 Contact: Elaine Ivery-Mosby resumes at vocalpoint.com Address for Applications: 847 Howard Street San Francisco CA 94103 USA Senior Research Engineer/NLU Technology: Position Summary: Design and implement algorithms for natural language processing. Develop and improve grammar for optimized speech recognition performance and natural language interpretation. Architect and develop algorithms for text normalization and parsing for better text-to-speech synthesis results. You should be innovative and a good team player. REQUIREMENTS 1. Education: MS in CS, EE, Linguistics or equivalent. PhD is asset 2. Experience: Solid programming experience (2 or more years) in C/C++. Experience with speech recognition, natural language processing, or text-to-speech synthesis is required. Knowledge/experience of statistical algorithms for natural language processing is highly desirable. Knowledge of Perl is a plus. VocalPoint is located in the heart of downtown San Francisco. We offer an excellent salary, competitive benefits package, and equity-based ownership. Interested party please send your resume to resumes at vocalpoint.com, position #NLUW. VocalPoint Technologies 847 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Fax: (415) 615-0600 http://www.vocalpoint.com _______________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: "Shu-hui Peng" Subject: (Comp) Ling, Lit: Tenure-Track Positions at NCNU, Taiwan Teaching Positions at National Chi Nan University Puli, Taiwan, R. O. C. The Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of National Chi Nan University announces the following open positions beginning with the 2001-2002 academic year. I. Anglo-American Literature (1 or more tenure-track positions): Applicants should have a Ph.D. in English or a related field by July of 2001. II. Linguistics (1 or more tenure-track positions): Applicants should have a Ph.D. in hand by July of 2001. First consideration will be given to applicants with a background in Computational Linguistics. In addition to conducting and publishing scholarly research, full-time faculty are required to teach undergraduate courses such as composition, conversation, reading, and listening lab. Applicants should provide: (1) letter of interest; (2) C.V.; (3) three letters of recommendation; (4) Ph.D. dissertation and representative publications; (5) official transcripts of graduate studies; (6) photocopy of graduate diploma (if already in hand); (7) proof of past and/or current employment (if available). Applications may be sent to: Dr. Chiu-Yueh Lai Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature National Chi Nan University 1 University Road Puli, Nantou 545, Taiwan, R. O. C. Email: cylai at ncnu.edu.tw or ljhuang at ncnu.edu.tw Tel: +886-49-910960 ext.2540, 2541 Fax: +886-49-914440 Requests for further information may be made by telephone, fax, email, or post. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 29 14:15:27 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:15:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: TAL Special Issue Message-ID: From: Pierrette Bouillon %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ENGLISH VERSION BELOW!! ***************************************************************** Appel à soumissions ***************************************************************** LEXIQUES SEMANTIQUES DANS LES APPLICATIONS DU TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-semlex.html Numéro spécial de la revue T.A.L. dirigé par : Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Genève) et Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Seattle) Date limite de soumission : 1er avril 2001 ***************************************************************** THEME Plus personne ne conteste l'importance des lexiques sémantiques pour les diverses applications du Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) : traduction automatique, indexation automatique, extraction d'information, génération de textes, etc. On s'accorde cependant moins sur le type d'informations nécessaires, la manière de les représenter et de les acquérir automatiquement. Ce numéro spécial essaye de faire le point sur ce sujet difficile et met en relation les thèmes de théories lexicales et applications concrètes du TAL. L'emphase sera mise sur les questions suivantes : quelle théorie pour quelle application spécifique ? Comment acquérir les informations automatiquement ? Comment les utiliser ? SUJETS (liste non limitative) - Acquisition de lexiques sémantiques - La sémantique lexicale dans les applications du Traitement Automatique des Langues - Ressources génériques ou spécifiques ? - Quelle sémantique lexicale pour quelle application ? - Nature des informations lexicales - Exploitation des données lexicales existantes FORMAT ET ENVOI DES ARTICLES Pour la soumission des articles, l'utilisation de LaTeX2e est fortement recommandée. Les feuilles de style sont disponibles chez HERMES . Les articles (30 pages au plus en double interligne, Helvetica 12) doivent être envoyés par courrier électronique à Pierrette Bouillon () et Evelyne Viegas () LANGUE Les articles peuvent être écrits en français ou en anglais, mais les soumissions en anglais ne seront acceptées que pour les auteurs non-francophones. LA REVUE T.A.L. (http://www.atala.org/tal/) L'ATALA publie depuis 1969 la revue internationale Traitement Automatique des Langues avec le concours du CNRS. Trois numéros par an sont consacrés aux différents aspects du traitement automatique du langage naturel. La revue TAL s'adresse en priorité aux chercheurs et aux étudiants de langue française. Elle est publiée par l'ATALA : (http://www.atala.org) et est diffusée par HERMES. COMITE DE REDACTION Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Genève) Philippe Blache (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) -- Chief Editor Danièle Clément (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) Christophe d'Alessandro (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay) -- Chief Editor Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail) Claire Gardent (Universität des Saarlandes) -- Chief Editor Marc El-Bèze (Université d'Avignon) Jean-Louis Lebrave (CNRS, Paris) Piet Mertens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Évelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Labs) Bernard Victorri (ENS, Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ***************************************************************** Call for papers ***************************************************************** SEMANTIC LEXICONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Special issue of the French journal TAL edited by: Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Genève) and Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Seattle) Submission deadline: April 1, 2001 **************************************************************** SCOPE None would argue about the importance of semantic lexicons for Natural Language Processing applications such as machine translation, automatic indexing, information extraction, text generation, etc. However, there is no agreement on the type of information to use, how to represent it or how to acquire it automatically. This special issue directly addresses this difficult topic by investigating how lexical semantic theories relate to applications in NLP. We will emphasize the following questions: - Which theory for which application? - How to acquire information automatically? - How to use it in applications? TOPICS (NOT LIMITATIVE) - Acquisition of semantic lexicons - Lexical semantics in NLP applications - Generic versus specific resources? - Which lexical semantic theory for which application? - Types of lexical information - Exploitation of existing lexical data FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the HERMES style files . Submissions (30 pages maximum, double spaced, Helvetica 12) must be sent electronically to Pierrette Bouillon () and Evelyne Viegas (). LANGUAGE Articles can be written in French or in English, but English will only be accepted from non-French speaking authors. JOURNAL T.A.L. (http://www.atala.org/tal/) The international journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) has been published since 1969 by the French Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA) with the support of the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The journal TAL covers all fields of computational linguistics and its aim is to provide mainly (but not only) French speaking researchers and students with publications in all domains of computational linguistics. It appears three times a year and is distributed by HERMES. T.A.L. EDITORIAL BOARD Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Genève) Philippe Blache (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) -- Chief Editor Danièle Clément (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) Christophe d'Alessandro (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay) -- Chief Editor Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail) Claire Gardent (Universität des Saarlandes) -- Chief Editor Marc El-Bèze (Université d'Avignon) Jean-Louis Lebrave (CNRS, Paris) Piet Mertens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Évelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Labs) Bernard Victorri (ENS, Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 29 14:16:03 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:16:03 +0100 Subject: Appel: IJCAI'2001 workshop on Ontology Learning Message-ID: From: Alexander Maedche ********************************************************************* *********** Call for Papers: Ontology Learning ****************** ******************** IJCAI-2001 Workshop ************************* ********************************************************************* ******************** August 4, 2001, Seattle ********************** ********************************************************************* Comprehensive information to be found at http://ol2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Workshop Summary Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. In recent years, we have seen a surge of interest that deals with the discovery and automatic creation of complex, multirelational knowledge structures. For example, the natural language community tries to acquire word semantics from natural language texts, database researchers tackle the problem of schema induction, and people building intelligent information agents research the learning of complex structures from semi-structured input (HTML, XML). All the while, efforts in the machine learning community pursue the induction of more concise and more expressive knowledge structures (e.g., relational learning) in general. For the workshop we intend to gather a diverse range of participants interested in the machine learning of ontologies. In particular, we are also interested in the maintenance (revision, incrementality) and integration (from various sources) aspects of learning ontologies. Topics of interest include, e.g.: Text mining for building ontologies Learning from machine-readable dictionaries Lexical acquisition Learning selectional restrictions Semi-automatic extending of ontologies (WordNet) Multi-relational learning / Inductive Logic Programming A-Box Mining Learning ontologies with inferences (e.g. description logics) Learning ontologies from the Web (from DTDs, XML, RDF) Cooperative learning of ontologies Learning translation rules between ontologies Reverse Engineering relational schemas to ontologies Besides of the common digital presentations, we intend that participants give live system demonstrations. An invited talk "Learning to translate between ontologies" will be given by Alon Halevy (up until recently: Alon Levy), University of Washington. Important Dates Deadline for paper submission 21 February 2001 Notification of acceptance 21 March 2001 Deadline final contributions 30 April 2001 All accepted papers will be published in the IJCAI-2001 workshop proceedings. Submission Information We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper (less than 6000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for ontology learning. Submit before February 21, 2001 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf in the final IJCAI style format to: ama at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de or send three hard copies of your submission to: "Ontology Learning OL2001" Steffen Staab and Alexander Maedche Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe University, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Organizing Committee Steffen Staab (Contact), AIFB, Karlsruhe University, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany email: sst at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone: +49-721-608 4751 fax: +49-721-693 717 Alexander Maedche, AIFB, Karlsruhe University Claire Nedellec, Inference and Machine Learning Group, LRI, Université Paris Sud Ed Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 29 14:16:36 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:16:36 +0100 Subject: Appel: Corpus Linguistics 2001 Message-ID: From: Paul Rayson CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 Lancaster University (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2001 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS Incorporating a celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Leech, with invited talks from: Prof. Douglas Biber - "Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb?" Prof. Jennifer Thomas - "Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of indirectness in political interviews" Prof. Geoffrey Sampson - "Thoughts on Twenty Years of Drawing Trees" Prof. Mick Short - "Style in Fiction and Non-fiction: A Corpus-based approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation" Corpus Linguistics 2001 will be a forum for all concerned with the computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our definition of 'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on substantial literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as more 'traditional' corpus linguists. Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilization between work occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction, parsing) and linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware of the latest developments in language processing. We also believe that language engineers should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus linguists. The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2001 are: 1. to encourage dialogue between those working on similar issues in different languages and between areas with a (perhaps as yet untapped) potential to interact. 2. to encourage dialogue between researchers using corpora in linguistics and those using corpora in language engineering. 3. to celebrate the life and works of Geoffrey Leech. Geoffrey Leech reaches 65 in 2001, and as part of the celebrations for this event, a special series of lectures will be given during the conference by four invited speakers who have worked closely with Geoff at various stages in his career: Doug Biber, Jenny Thomas, Geoff Sampson and Mick Short. For the main conference, papers of ca. 20 minutes are invited on topics such as: corpus-based studies of any language level in any language contrastive corpus linguistics computer-aided studies of style corpus- or text-based lexicography corpus/text building, encoding and annotation development of corpus-based language engineering tools applications of computer-aided text analysis in non-linguistic fields (market research, advertising, media studies, sociology, psychology, etc.) Proposals for workshops (half day or full day) are also invited. Topics broadly in line with the theme of the conference will be considered. Workshops will be held on the 29th March. The conference language will be English. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Papers: Abstracts of up to one page should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. As well as an outline of the paper, the abstract should include the authors' names, affiliations, and contact addresses (including e-mail and fax numbers). Electronic submissions are welcome. Workshops: Abstracts of two pages should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. The abstract should include the names of the organizers, their contact details, and the projected number of papers to be presented at the workshop. Workshop organizers should also indicate whether they wish to generate a set of proceedings for their workshop. Those proposing a software demonstration should additionally indicate in detail what (if any) hardware and software requirements they have. Proceedings Proceedings will be produced from the conference. Additionally, selected papers will appear in an edited collection to be published in honour of Geoffrey Leech. DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2000 Proposers notified of acceptance of workshops: 8 December 2000 Authors notified of acceptance of papers: 15 December 2001 Deadline for full papers (for proceedings): 13 February 2001 [Full details will be sent with notices of acceptance.] CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Local committee Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) General committee Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lodz University) Jock McNaught (UMIST) Charles Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton University) Wolf-Dieter Syring (Greifswald University) ADDRESS Programme Committee Corpus Linguistics 2001 Department of Linguistics and MEL Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Tel: +44 1524 593024 Fax: +44 1524 843085 E-mail: mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk WWW: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2000.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 29 14:17:50 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:17:50 +0100 Subject: Appel: TIA-2001 Message-ID: From: "Jean ROYAUTE" ***************************************************************** [English version below] Deuxième appel à communication TIA-2001 Quatrième rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy Sous l'effet de l'information en réseau, institutions, entreprises et laboratoires se trouvent aujourd'hui confrontés aux problèmes considérables posés par la taille et la diversité des documents spécialisés. Accéder à ces corpus textuels, les filtrer, les traiter, les stocker, les implémenter sur des systèmes informatiques, telles sont, entre autres, les tâches auxquelles doit répondre la terminologie. Devant de tels enjeux, la terminologie, en tant que discipline, doit établir des relations coopératives avec un ensemble de disciplines allant de la linguistique à l'ingénierie des connaissances en passant par les sciences de l'information. La pratique terminologique fait notamment appel à des techniques linguistiques et /ou numériques pour manipuler les unités de la langue naturelle (en particulier les terminologies) et à des techniques d'intelligence artificielle pour la formalisation de ces données. Ces techniques partagent des méthodes, des objectifs et une même finalité : - même point de départ : elles partent de corpus pour l'acquisition de données linguistiques destinées à la constitution de terminologies ; - même objectif : la modélisation de domaines à partir de corpus, sans formalisation dans le cas d'une production linguistique, avec formalisation du domaine dans le cas d'une application requérant les techniques de l'I.A ; - même visée applicative : ressources terminologiques, dictionnaires électroniques pour la traduction automatique, pour l'indexation, pour le filtrage, etc., ontologies, systèmes à base de connaissances, mémoires d'entreprise (dans le cadre d'applications relevant de l'I.A). L'objectif de la conférence TIA est de faire émerger les convergences et les coopérations possibles entre ces disciplines pour élaborer et tester des méthodes de travail sur corpus, associées à des techniques de traitement automatique de la langue et d'intelligence artificielle, afin de constituer, de manière systématique, les données terminologiques pertinentes en fonction des applications. Les quatrièmes rencontres TIA serviront à explorer les nombreuses questions restées ouvertes en matière d'acquisition de connaissances terminologiques à partir de corpus, d'analyse du fonctionnement lexicologique en corpus spécialisé, de modélisation et de formalisation de ces connaissances, toujours dans le cas d'applications précises. Vous êtes invité à y participer en proposant une communication sur l'un des thèmes ci-dessous : - Théories du sens et la question des textes spécialisés - Terminologie et ontologies - Exploitation de l'extraction de termes en corpus - Terminologie et modélisation / formalisation des connaissances - Bases de connaissances terminologiques - Ressources terminologiques pour la recherche d'information - Problèmes de la terminologie multilingue - Réutilisabilité en ingénierie linguistique et ingénierie des connaissances - Outils et applications Le Groupe TIA (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/), est organisateur de cette conférence qui fait suite aux conférences TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) et TIA'99 (Nantes). Fondé sous l'égide du PRC-IA et de l'AFIA en 1994, à présent groupe AFIA/PRC-I3, ce groupe rassemble des chercheurs en linguistique, en intelligence artificielle et en traitement automatique des langues. Il a été créé pour permettre une confrontation entre les cadres théoriques et méthodologiques ainsi qu'entre les pratiques développées dans chaque discipline. Les propositions de communications (en anglais ou en français) seront soumises à un comité de programme international constitué des membres du groupe TIA et d'experts des domaines concernés. CONFERENCIERS INVITES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminologie et applications industrielles" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) " Multilinguisme et ingénierie linguistique " COMITE DE PROGRAMME Présidente : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (Université de Rome) Brigitte Biébow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Stéphane Chaudiron (Ministère de la Recherche &Université Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Benoît Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Université Paris 10) Udo Hahn (Université de Fribourg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (Université d'Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Université de Dublin) François Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) François Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royauté (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Université Louis Lumière, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) COMITE D'ORGANISATION Jean Royauté (Président), Dominique Besagni, Claire François, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Université Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) Les rencontres se dérouleront à l'INIST - Nancy (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du CNRS) et seront aussi l'occasion de mettre en évidence les convergences entre documentation et terminologie. CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 15 janvier 2001 Notification aux auteurs : 25 février 2001 Date de réception des versions définitives ; 15 mars 2001 FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS Les articles soumis, en français ou en anglais, ne devront pas dépasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ 3000 mots, figures, exemples et références compris. Les soumissions devront contenir, sur une page séparée, les éléments suivants : noms d'auteur(s) affiliation(s) adresse(s) (fax et e-mail) titre de la soumission 5 à 10 mots clés résumé (300 mots maximum) Les articles devront parvenir au comité de programme sous forme papier l'adresse suivante : Monique SLODZIAN CRIM-INALCO Comité de Programme TIA-2001 2, rue de Lille - 75343 PARIS cedex 07 ou sous forme électronique, aux adresses électroniques : ou Les détails concernant l'organisation de la conférence seront diffusés ultérieurement sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm et http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/ et sur différentes listes. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royauté - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex Tél : +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ***************************************************************** Second call for papers TIA-2001 4th meeting "Terminology and Artificial Intelligence" 3-4 May 2001, Nancy, France Due to the availability of ever-increasing amount of information institutions, companies and laboratories are facing new problems related in particular to scale effects and the diversity of technical texts. A full range of tasks, from accessing text corpora to processing lexical data, is now being entrusted to terminology. As a result, terminology has to enrich and strengthen its links with related disciplines, including linguistics, knowledge engineering and information sciences. Thus, terminological work makes use of linguistic and /or numeric techniques to process natural language items (especially terms) and of artificial intelligence techniques for their formalization. These techniques share a number of methods and objec tives as well as a common goal: - the same starting point: corpus-based data acquistion; - the same objectives: corpus-based domain modeling with or without formalization, depending on the type of application (artificial intelligence or not); - the same goal: production of terminological resources (machine-readable dictionaries for machine translation, indexing, filtering); ontologies, knowledge-based systems, corporate memories. The TIA Conference aims at promoting convergence and synergy among such disciplines in order to develop and evaluate corpus-processing methodologies, requiring refined natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques. The end results of those investigations should help build relevant terminological data for specific applications on a systematic basis. The 4th TIA Conference will be an opportunity to explore some of the unsolved problems raised in corpus-based acquisition of terminological data, in the analysis of lexical behavior in specialized corpora, in knowledge modeling and formalization of the resulting data. You are invited to propose a paper in the following topics: - Meaning theories and the question of specialized texts; - Terminology and ontologies; - Exploitation of corpus-based term extraction; - Terminology and knowledge modeling / formalization - Terminological knowledge bases; - Terminological resources for information retrieval; - Problems of multilingual terminology; - Reusability in linguistics and knowledge engineering - Tools and applications. This TIA Conference, which follows TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) and TIA'99 (Nantes), is organized by the TIA Working Group (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/). This group gathers researchers in linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. It was created to allow a confrontation between the theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as between the practices developed in each discipline. Submitted papers (in French or in English) will be reviewed by an international program committee composed of members of the TIA Working Group and of invited experts. INVITED LECTURES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminology and industrial applications" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) "Multi-lingualism and language engineering" PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (University of Roma) Brigitte Biébow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Stéphane Chaudiron (Ministère de la Recherche &Université Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Benoît Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Université Paris 10) Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Université of Dublin) François Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) François Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royauté (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Université Louis Lumière, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jean Royauté (Organizing chair), Dominique Besagni, Claire François, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Université Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) The conference will take place at INIST, the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in Nancy, and will also offer the opportunity to highlight the convergence between documentation and terminology. DEADLINES Submission due date: January 15, 2001 Notification date: February 25, 2001 Camera ready date: March 15, 2001 SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers submitted, in French or English, should not exceed 10 pages of text in Times 12 with single line-spacing, i.e. approximately 3000 words, figures, examples and references included. Soumissions should include on an additional page : Author name(s) Affiliation(s) Address(es) (fax and e-mail) Title of soumission Key-words (5-10) Abstract (300 words max.) Papers should be sent by regular mail to: Monique SLODZIAN CRIM-INALCO Program Committee of TIA-2001 2, rue de Lille - 75343 PARIS cedex 07 E-mail submission should be sent to or Details concerning the conference organization will be given later on the conferences websites: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm and http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA and on various lists. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royauté - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex Tel.: +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ***************************************************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 8 14:01:58 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:01:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: BI-DIALOG 2001 Message-ID: From: root Second Call for Papers BI-DIALOG 2001 FIFTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE Bielefeld University, Germany June 14-16 2001 http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/ Bi-Dialog 2001 will be the fifth in a series of workshops that aim at bringing together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to: - common ground in communication - semantic interpretation in dialogues - modelling agents' information states and how they get updated - multi-agent models - reference in dialogues - dialogue and discourse structure - reasoning in spoken and multimodal dialogue systems SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 5 single-column pages (for talks with a duration of 30' plus 10' discussion) together with a separate page specifying the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in LaTeX, postscript, html, ascii, or pdf format) to: bidialog at uni-bielefeld.de. Submission have to be in English, which is the workshop language. For the accepted talks, a LaTeX style will be made available. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts due: February 15th Acceptance notice: April 15th Final version due: May 22 Conference: June 14-16th INVITED SPEAKERS (preliminary): Simon Garrod (HCRC), Isabel Gomez Txurruka (ILCLI), Alois Knoll (Univ. Bielefeld), Alex Lascarides (HCRC), David Sadek (CNET France Telecom), Robert van der Sandt (Univ. Nijmegen) ADVISORY BOARD: Ellen Bard (HCRC), Anton Benz (HU Berlin), Peter Bosch (Univ. Osnabrueck), Robin Cooper (Goteborg Univ.), Claire Gardent (Univ. des Saarlandes), Joris Hulstijn, Yasuhiro Katagiri (ATR MIC LR), Ian Lewin (SRI Cambridge), Massimo Poesio (HCRC), Uwe Reyle (IMS), Henk Zeevat (ILLC) ORGANIZATION: The workshop will take place at Bielefeld University. The local organizers are Peter Kuehnlein, Hannes Rieser, and Henk Zeevat. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Information about Bielefeld University: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ News about the conference will be posted on the workshop's Web page at http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/ Send emails to bidialog at uni-bielefeld.de or pkuehnle at lili.uni-bielefeld.de for questions about local arrangements. Previous workshops in this series include: MunDial'97 (Munich) (http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html) Twendial'98 (Twente) (http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html) Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam) (http://earth.let.uva.nl/~amstelog/) Gotalog'00 (Gothenburg) (http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 8 14:01:29 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:01:29 +0100 Subject: Appel: ESSLLI-01 Student Session Message-ID: From: Kristina Striegnitz !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!! Please circulate and post among students !!! We apologize, if you receive this message more than once. ESSLLI 2001 STUDENT SESSION FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS August 13-24 2001, Helsinki, Finland Deadline: February 18, 2001 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~kris/esslli We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2001) organized by the University of Helsinki under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). ESSLLI 2001 will be held at the University of Helsinki in August 2001. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This sixth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates (before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates (before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. Papers may be accepted for full presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for a poster presentation. The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. KLUWER BEST PAPER AWARD: As in previous years, the best paper will be selected by the program committee and will be offered a prize by Kluwer Academic Publishers consisting in 1000 Dfl worth of books. REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. All topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic, Language, Computation, Logic & Language, Logic & Computation, Language & Computation) are of interest. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages in length exclusive of references and send a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like "Smith (1991) previously showed...". For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent separately, using the following format: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Address: address of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Address: address of the last author Short summary: abstract (5 lines) Subject area (one of): Logic | Language | Computation | Logic and Language | Logic and Computation | Language and Computation If necessary, the program committee may reassign papers to a more appropriate subject area. The submission of the extended abstract should be in one of the following formats: PostScript, PDF, RTF, or plain text. But note that, in case of acceptance, the final version of the paper has to be submitted in LaTeX format. Please, use A4 size pages, 11pt or 12pt fonts, and standard margins. Submissions outside the specified length and formatting requirements may be subject to rejection without review. The extended abstract and separate identification page must be sent by e-mail to: kris at coli.uni-sb.de by FEBRUARY 18, 2001 ESSLLI 2001 INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI 2001 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI 2001. The authors of accepted papers will be eligible for reduced registration fees. For all information concerning ESSLLI 2001, please consult the ESSLLI 2001 web site at http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 18, 2001. Authors Notifications: April 17, 2001. Final version due: May 18, 2001. ESSLLI-2001 Student Session: August 13-24, 2001. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Raffaella Bernardi, University of Utrecht (Logic & Language) Patrick Blackburn, University of the Saarland (Logic & Language) Gilles Dowek, INRIA (Computation) Ruth Kempson, King`s College London (Language) Carsten Lutz, University of Aachen (Logic & Computation) Ani Nenkova, Columbia University (Logic) Ilkka Niemel?, Helsinki University of Technology (Logic & Computation) Malvina Nissim, University of Pavia (Language) Susanne Salmon-Alt, Loria, Nancy (Language & Computation) Jan Schwinghammer, University of the Saarland (Computation) Kristina Striegnitz, University of the Saarland (Chair) Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam (Logic) Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa (Language & Computation) For any question concerning the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session, please, do not hesitate to contact me: Kristina Striegnitz Computational Linguistics, University of the Saarland, Germany phone: +49 - 681 - 302 4503 email: kris at coli.uni-sb.de ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 8 14:02:32 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:02:32 +0100 Subject: Appel: PAKDD-2001 Message-ID: From: Graham Williams Just a reminder..... the deadline is fast approaching. Also, today is the deadline for TUTORIAL and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS. (If you would rather not be included on this email list please reply to me and I will remove you immediately. My apologies for this intrusion.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline 12 November ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-01) Hong Kong, April 16 - 18, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01 The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-01) will be an international forum for the sharing of original and innovative research results and practical applications and experiences among researchers and application developers from the many constituent areas of KDD, including artificial intelligence, databases, e-commerce, Internet computing, machine learning, high performance computing, statistics and visualization. This conference builds on the success of PAKDD-97 (Singapore), PAKDD-98 (Australia), PAKDD-99 (China) and PAKDD-00 (Japan) by bringing together participants from universities, industry and government. With the growing number of successful applications and systems development in KDD in enterprise computing and e-commerce the conference encourages submissions on practical experiences in applying KDD techniques to real-world applications. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Two keynote presentations from international leaders in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining have been confirmed: Ronny Kohavi, Director of Data Mining, Blue Martini Software Ronny Kohavi is well known for his work on the Silicon Graphics MineSet project for data mining and visualization. He joined Silicon Graphics after getting a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Stanford University, where he led the MLC++ project, the Machine Learning library in C++. Kohavi co-chaired the KDD 99 industrial track and KDD Cup 2000. He co-edited a special issue of the journal Machine Learning on Applications of Machine Learning and the special issue of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal on Applications of Data Mining to Electronic Commerce. Professor H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan Professor Jagadish obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford and spent several years as head of the database department at AT&T. Prior to Michigan he was at the University of Illinois. His research spans many aspects of database systems, particularly in the context of the internet and XML. SUBMISSION by 12 November 2000 Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). All submissions should follow the Springer-Verlag guidelines and be no more than 12 pages. (Formatting information is available from the conference web site at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01). Please include a cover page containing the title, authors (names, postal and email addresses), a 200-word abstract and up to 5 keywords. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically (as PostScript or PDF attachments) following the instructions on the conference web page at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01 or send five copies to: David Cheung (PAKDD-01) E-Business Technology Institute The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong AWARDS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATION The PAKDD Best Paper Award will be conferred on the authors of the best paper at the conference. Authors of selected papers will be invited to have their paper included in a special issue of an international journal. TOPICS We invite submissions in the areas of KDD research and application. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Foundations and principles of data mining New application challenges and requirements Web based mining Data mining applications in e-commerce Resource discovery in the Internet Internet standards for data mining Data mining and data warehousing Data mining in multidimensional databases Data mining in heterogeneous databases Data mining support for data warehouse design Integration with data warehousing/OLAP Parallel and distributed mining Statistical methods in data mining Rule induction and decision trees Clustering and classification Exploratory data analysis Visual data mining and visualization Machine learning for data mining Knowledge representation and acquisition in KDD Performance and benchmarks of KDD systems Security and social impact of data mining TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Tutorials and Workshops will form a key component of the conference. It is planned to hold them on Monday, 16 April 2001. Proposals for addressing issues in data mining, knowledge discovery and applications are invited. New applications such as temporal and spatial data mining, Asian language text mining, collaborative filtering, personalization, eCRM and e-marketplace data mining are of special interest. Tutorial and workshop proposals (preferably by email) should be submitted by 30 October 2000 to the respective Chair: Joshua Z Huang, Tutorial Chair E-Business Technology Institute The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong jhuang at eti.hku.hk Michael K Ng, Workshop Chair Department of Mathematics The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong mng at maths.hku.hk DEMONSTRATIONS Proposals for live demonstrations of research projects, prototypes, experimental systems, and/or potential commercial products are encouraged. Each proposal should include a title page containing the title, names of presenters and their postal/Email addresses, and a two-page description of the demo system. Proposals (preferably by email) should be submitted by 15 January 2001 to the Demonstration Chair at jiming at comp.hkbu.edu.hk. Jiming Liu, Demonstration Chair Department of Computer Science Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial proposals : 30 October 2000 Workshop proposals : 30 October 2000 Submissions due date : 12 November 2000 Notification date : 24 December 2000 Demonstration proposals: 15 January 2001 Camera ready date : 23 January 2001 Conference date : 16-18 April 2001 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rohan Baxter CSIRO, Australia Keith Chan Hong Kong Polytechnic University Surajit Chaudhuri Microsoft, USA Ming-Syan Chen National Taiwan University Umeshwar Dayal Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA Tharam Dillon Hong Kong Polytechnic University Guozhu Dong Wright State University, USA David Dowe Monash University, Australia Ada Fu Chinese University of Hong Kong Yike Guo Imperial College, UK Jayant Haritsa Indian Institute of Science, India Simon Hawkins CSIRO, Australia Markus Hegland Australian National University Robert Hilderman University of Regina, Canada Joshua Z Huang University of Hong Kong Moon Yul Huh SKK University, Korea Vijay Iyengar IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ben Kao University of Hong Kong Kamal Karlapalem Hong Kong UST Hiroyuki Kawano University of Kyoto, Japan Jinho Kim Kangwon National U., Korea Sang-Wook Kim Kangwon National University, Korea Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo, Japan Kevin Korb Monash University, Australia Laks V.S. Lakshmanan Concordia U. and IIT, Bombay Doheon Lee Chonnam National University, Korea T Y Lin San Jose State University, USA Bing Liu National University of Singapore Huan Liu Arizona State University, USA Jiming Liu Hong Kong Baptist University Hongjun Lu Hong Kong UST Hiroshi Motoda Osaka University, Japan Raymond Ng UBC, Canada Kyuseok Shim KAIST, Korea Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA Changjie Tang Sichuan University, China Zhaohui Tang Microsoft, USA Ah-Hwee Tan Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Takao Terano University of Tsukuba, Japan Bhavani Thurasingham MITRE, USA Kyu-Young Whang KAIST, Korea Ian Witten University of Waikato, New Zealand Xindong Wu Colorado School of Mines, USA Yiyu Yao University of Regina, Canada Clement Yu University of Illinois, USA Jeffrey Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong Philip Yu IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Osamar R. Zaiane University of Alberta, Canada Mohammed Zaki Rensselaer Poly Institute, USA Ning Zhong Maebashi Institute of Technology Aoying Zhou Fudan University, China Lizhu Zhou Tsinghua University, China ORGANIZATION Conference Chairs: Chung-Jen Tan (University of Hong Kong and IBM Watson) Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Program Committee Chairs: David Cheung (University of Hong Kong) Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong) Graham Williams (CSIRO, Australia) Tutorial Chair: Joshua Z Huang (University of Hong Kong) Workshop Chair: Michael K Ng (University of Hong Kong) Industrial Chair: Joseph Fong (City University of Hong Kong) Demonstration Chair: Jiming Liu (Baptist University of Hong Kong) Local arrangements Chairs: Ronnie Cheung (Hong Kong Poly University) Ben Kao (University of Hong Kong) Publicity Chairs: Vincent Ng (Hong Kong Poly University) Rohan Baxter (CSIRO, Australia) Hiroyuki Kawano (Kyoto University, Japan) Treasurer: Ada Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) ======================================================================= ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 8 14:02:59 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:02:59 +0100 Subject: Conf: MT 2000 Message-ID: From: "Roger Harris" British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/ MT 2000 - MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM University of Exeter, United Kingdom: 19-22 November 2000 SECOND and FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society and the University of Exeter announce an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter, UK from Sunday evening 19 November to Wednesday morning 22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful conference 'Machine Translation: Ten Years On' held in 1994 at Cranfield University, UK. Against the backdrop of an increasingly multilingual society, MT 2000 looks 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 also the latest multilingual developments in general. There are contributions from researchers, users, educationalists and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering. Further information can be obtained from our website at http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm. There will be daily keynote addresses as well as individual papers. All papers presented at the conference will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection of papers may be published in book form after the conference. There is also an exhibition area for producers of multilingual software and a bookstall. Attendees might like to know that the annual ASLIB conference on 'Translating and the Computer' takes place in London on the preceding Thursday/Friday 16-17 November. Further information can obtained from their website at http://www.aslib.co.uk. Keynote Speakers: Martin Kay (Xerox PARC) Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) Papers: Details of all 31 accepted papers are on our web-site at http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/papers.htm Location: MT 2000 is being held at 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 with London, Birmingham and other UK cities. Please see their website for further information at http://www.exeter.ac.uk. Information will be available about a number of local attractions for people accompanying attendees. Programme ****************************************************** MONDAY 20 NOVEMBER 09.15 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Martin Kay, Xerox PARC Triangulation in Translation THEMATIC GROUPING: MACHINE TRANSLATION 1 10.00 (R) Towards memory and template-based translation synthesis Christos Malavazos, Stelios Piperidis and George Carayannis National Technical University of Athens, Greece 10.30 (R) Building a lexicon for an English-Basque MT system from heterogeneous wide-coverage dictionaries Arantxa Diaz de Ilarraza, Aingeru Mayor, Kepa Sarasola University of the Basque Country 11.00 COFFEE 11.30 (R) An alignment architecture for translation memory bootstrapping Ioannis Triantafyllou, Iason Demiros, Christos Malavazos, Stelios Piperidis National Technical University of Athens, Greece 12.00 (R) Applying machine translation resources for cross-language information access from spoken documents Gareth Jones University of Exeter, UK 12.30 (R) Effectiveness of layering translation rules based on transition networks in machine translation using inductive learning with genetic algorithms Hiroshi Echizen-ya, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi and Koji Tochinai Hokkaido University, Japan 13.00 LUNCH THEMATIC GROUPING: MULTILINGUAL RESOURCES AND TOOLS 1 14.30 (R) EMILLE: building a corpus of South Asian languages Anthony McEnery, Paul Baker, Rob Gaizauskas and Hamish Cunningham Lancaster University, UK 15.00 (R) Reusability of wide-coverage linguistic resources in the construction of multilingual technical documentation Arantxa Diaz de Ilarraza, Aingeru Mayor and Kepa Sarasola University of the Basque Country 15.30 (S) A part-of-speech tagger for Esperanto oriented to MT Carlo Minnaja and Laura Paccagnella University of Padova, San Marino 16.00 TEA THEMATIC RESOURCES: MULTILINGUAL RESOURCES AND TOOLS 2 16.30 (R) >>From the UNL Hypergraph to GETA's Multilevel Tree Etienne Blanc GETA, CLIPS, EMAG, Grenoble, France 17.00 (R) Semi-automatic construction of multilingual lexicons Lynne Cahill University of Brighton, UK 17.30 (R) Evaluation of statistical tools for automatic extraction of lexical correspondences between parallel texts Olivier Kraif University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France 18.00 END 18.30-20.00 DINNER *************************************** TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 09.15 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Jun - Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo and UMIST Japanese Experience in MT and Future Perspectives THEMATIC GROUPING: MACHINE TRANSLATION 2 10.00 (R) Machine translation by semantic features Uzzi Ornan and Israel Gutter Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Israel 10.30 COFFEE 11.00 (S) Learning machine translation strategies using commercial systems: discovering word reordering rules Mikel L. Forcada University of Alicante, Spain 11.25 (S) Machine translation and multilingual communication on the internet Muhammad Abdus Salam Central Queensland University, Australia 11.50 (S) An automated system for English-Arabic translation of scientific texts (SEATS) Hoda M. O. Mokhtar, Nevin M. Darwish and Ahmed A. Rafea Cairo University, Egypt 12.15 (S) An example-based MT system in news items domain from English to Indian languages Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India 13.00 LUNCH THEMATIC GROUPING: ANAPHORA AND ELLIPSIS RESOLUTION 14.30 (R) Semantic approach to bridging reference resolution R. Mu?oz, M. Saiz-Noeda, A. Su?rez and M. Palomar University of Alicante, Spain 15.00 (R) Evaluation environment for anaphora resolution Catalina Barbu and Ruslan Mitkov University of Wolverhampton, UK 15.30 (R) NLP system oriented to anaphora resolution Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Manual Palomar and David Farwell New Mexico State University, USA 16.00 TEA 16.30 (R) LINGUA: a robust architecture for text processing and anaphora resolution in Bulgarian Hristo Tanev and Ruslan Mitkov University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria and University of Wolverhampton, UK 17.00 (R) Grammar specification for the recognition of temporal expressions Estela Sequete and Patricio Martinez-Barco University of Alicante, Spain 17.30 (S) VASISTH: an ellipsis resolution algorithm for Indian languages L. Sobha and B. Patnaik Mahatma Ghandi University, Kerala and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 18.00 END 19.30 CONFERENCE DINNER *************************************** WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER THEMATIC GROUPING: AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING AND GENERATION 10.00 (R) Generating personal profiles Jim Cowie, Sergei Nirenburg and Hugo Molina-Salgado New Mexico State University, USA 10.30 (R) A corpus-based English language assistant to Japanese software engineers Masumi Narita Software Research Centre, Tokyo, Japan 11.00 COFFEE 11.30 (R) Generating from a discourse model Rodolfo Delmonte, Dario Bianchi and Emanuele Pianta University 'Ca Forscar', Venice 12.00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield Multilingual Extraction and MT 12.45 CONCLUDING REMARKS 13.00 LUNCH and DEPARTURE ****************************************************** Fees and Registration: Conference fee: Standard Members* Students two and a half days GBP 250 GBP 210 GBP 140 one day GBP 120 GBP 100 GBP 70 half day (Wednesday) GBP 60 GBP 50 GBP 35 * Discounted rates for members of BCS, IAMT, EAMT and ASLIB. Accommodation and meals (including Banquet) from Sunday evening to Wednesday morning En-suite room GBP 170 Standard room (limited no.) GBP 140 Meals without accommodation GBP 70 A discount of 10% will be allowed on the Conference Fees (only) for payment before the end of September 2000. Cancellation fee after end of October 2000: Any amount paid for accommodation and/or meals etc. To register and to reserve accommodation please use this registration form Registration for MT 2000: Title: ________________________________________________ Name and initials: ____________________________________ Name for lapel label: _________________________________ Affiliation for lapel label: __________________________ Address: ______________________________________________ E-mail address: _______________________________________ Telephone no: _________________________________________ Fax no: _______________________________________________ Please specify any dietary or other requirements. 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We look forward to seeing you at the Conference. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 8 14:02:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:02:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: IAT-2001 Message-ID: From: iat01 at kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ************************************************* * Second * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on * * Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001) * * ======================================= * * * * Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan * * October 23-26, 2001 * ************************************************* Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/iat01 Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IAT-2001 will be jointly held with The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001) ========================== IAT-2001 and WI-2001 Joint Keynote Speakers: Benjamin Wah (2001 IEEE Computer Society President), University of Illinois Edward A. Feigenbaum (Turing Award Winner), Stanford University IAT-2001 Invited Speakers: Toyoaki Nishida (University of Tokyo, Japan) Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North Carolina, USA) Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland) Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) The Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) is a high-quality, high-impact biennial agent conference series. The second meeting in this conference series follows the success of IAT'99 held in Hong Kong in 1999 (http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99). IAT-2001 will primarily focus on (1) the state-of-the-art in the development of intelligent agents and (2) the theoretical and computational foundations of intelligent agent technology. The aim of IAT-2001 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multiagent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and biological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT-2001 is expected to stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems. TOPICS ====== The technical issues to be addressed include, but not limited to: * Applications: - data and knowledge intensive domains (e.g., large databases, Internet, digital libraries, distributed decision making, financial modeling and engineering, business information systems and process automation) - software and interface agents (e.g., personal assistant, translator, scheduler, information filter, tutor) - computational intelligence (e.g., pattern analysis and recognition, imaging, optimization, resource allocation, constraint satisfaction, planning) - agents in e-commerce and e-business - autonomous agents in science and engineering (e.g. aerospace, survey of the seabed and space) - physically embodied systems (e.g., autonomous robots and groups) - very-large, complex, integrated intelligent systems * Computational Architecture and Infrastructure: - computational architectures - ontology models - agent-level and multi-agent-level infrastructure - communication languages - multi-modal systems and interfaces - protocols - tools and standards - heterogeneity and interoperability - scalability * Learning and Adaptation: - soft-computing in multi-agent systems - uncertainty management in multi-agent systems - integrated exploration and exploitation - long-term reliability - neural networks - artificial life - behavioral selection - coordinating perception, thought, and action - behavioral self-organization - believable lifelike quality - classifier systems - evolution and learning in dynamic environments - adaptation and self-adaptation - emergent behavior - evolutionary computation * Data and Knowledge Engineering/Communication: - information filtering - data mining - heterogeneous data integration and management - human-agent interaction - knowledge discovery - knowledge sharing - knowledge aggregation - reasoning and planning - adaptation and evolution of knowledge networks - distributed knowledge systems * Distributed Intelligence: - dynamics of groups and populations - swarms - population evolution - coevolution - collective group behavior - coordination and cooperation - distributed intelligence - social integration - market-based computing * Formal Theories of Agents: - formal/computational modeling - chaotic and fractal dynamics - computational complexity - efficiency in distributed systems - taxonomy of agent environments - classification and characterization of complex behaviors - theories of perception, rationality, intention, emotion, coordination, action, and social behaviors PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION ============================== High quality full-length papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions are most welcome and will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred. Please send LaTex (MS-Words, or PDF) and PostScript versions of your paper, and an ASCII version of the cover page (in separate email), by March 20, 2001 to: iat01 at maebashi-it.ac.jp Four (4) hardcopies of the paper by regular mail are also requested if electronic submission is not possible. Please send hardcopies of your paper by March 20, 2001 to: Prof. Ning Zhong (IAT-2001) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp The ASCII version of a cover page must include author(s) full address, email, paper title and a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords. Accepted papers are expected to be published in the conference proceedings by World Scientific, An International Publisher, as a hardcover book. A selected number of IAT-2001 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in ``Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal'' by Springer-Verlag and in "International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence" by World Scientific. IAT best paper award will be conferred on the author(s) of the best papers at the conference. All manuscripts must be formatted using the World Scientific's style files for proceedings. The style files can be found at: http://www.wspc.com/others/style_files/proceedings/proceedings_style_files.h tml -- use the style files appropriate to a page size of 8.5"x6". DEMO SESSION ============ IAT-2001 also welcomes submissions of research projects, research prototypes, experimental systems, and commercial products for demonstrations at the conference. Each submission should include a title page containing a title, a 200-300 word abstract, a list of keywords, the names, mailing addresses, and Email addresses of the presenters, and a two-page description of the demo system. Submissions should reach the IAT-2001 Demo Chair: Dr. Jianchang Mao (IAT-2001) Verity Inc. 894 Ross Drive Sunnyvale CA 94089, USA E-mail: jmao at verity.com by July 2, 2001 Authors of accepted IAT-2001 papers will be invited to demonstrate their systems at the conference. It is understood that once a submission is selected for demonstration at the conference, the presenter(s) of the demo will be responsible for bringing necessary software/hardware equipment. IMPORTANT DATES =============== March 20, 2001 Paper submission deadline May 20, 2001 Notification of paper acceptance mailed June 20, 2001 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due July 2, 2001 Demo submission deadline August 3, 2001 Notification of demo acceptance mailed October 23-26, 2001 Conference technical sessions CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ===================== IAT-2001 Conference Organizing Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General Chairs: Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan Jeffrey Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Program Chairs: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Demos and Exhibits Chair: Jianchang Mao, Verity Inc., USA Local Organizing Chair: Nobuo Otani, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan International Advisory Board: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeffrey Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Michele L. D. Gaudreault, US Asian Office of Aerospace R&D Daniel T. Ling, Microsoft Corporation, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jianchang Mao, Verity Inc., USA Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan Patrick S. P. Wang, Northeastern University, USA Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Jan Zytkow, University of North Carolina, USA Program Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kerstin Dautenhahn (U. Hertfordshire, UK) Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italian National Research Council) E.A. Edmonds (Loughborough U., UK) Tim Finin (U. Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Adam Maria Gadomski (ENEA, Italy) Scott Goodwin (U. Regina, Canada) Vladimir Gorodetsky (Russian Academy of Sciences) Mark Greaves (The Boeing Company, USA) Barbara Hayes-Roth (Stanford U., USA) Keniti Ida (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Toru Ishida (Kyoto U., Japan) Lakhmi Jain (U. South Australia) Stefan J. Johansson (U. Karlskrona, Sweden) Qun Jin (U. Aizu, Japan) Juntae Kim (Dongguk U., Korea) David Kinny (U. Melbourne, Australia) Sarit Kraus (U. Maryland, USA) Danny B. Lange (General Magic, Inc., USA) Jimmy Ho Man Lee (Chinese U. Hong Kong) Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist U.) Mike Luck (U. Southampton, UK) Helen Meng (Chinese U. Hong Kong) Hideyuki Nakashima (ETL, Japan) Katsumi Nitta (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Sun Park (Rutgers University, USA) Zbigniew W. Ras (U. North Carolina, USA) Eugene Santos (U. Connecticut, USA) Zhongzhi Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Carles Sierra (Scientific Research Council, Spain) Kwang M. Sim (Chinese U. Hong Kong) Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw U., Poland) Ron Sun (U. Missouri-Columbia, USA) Takao Terano (U. Tsukuba, Japan) Demetri Terzopoulos (U. Toronto, Canada) Huaglory Tianfield (Cheltenham & Gloucester College of H. E., UK) David Wolpert (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Jinglong Wu (Kagawa university, Japan) Takahira Yamaguchi (Shizuoka U., Japan) Kazumasa Yokota (Okayama Prefectural U., Japan) Eric Yu (U. Toronto, Canada) P.C. Yuen (Hong Kong Baptist U.) Chengqi Zhang (Deakin U., Australia) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Local Organizing Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hisao Machida (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Tadaomi Miyazaki (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Nobuo Otani (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Sean M. Reedy (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Yukio Kanazawa (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan) Seiji Murai (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan) Kanehisa Sekine (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan) Midori Asaka (Information Technology Agency (IPA), Japan) Yoshitsugu Kakemoto (Japan Research Institute, Limited, Japan) CONFERENCE SITE =============== The IAT-2001 and WI-2001 will take place in Maebashi City. Maebashi, the capital of Gumma Prefecture, is called the `City of water, greenery, and poetry'. Maebashi is an `International Convention City' designated by the Ministry of Transportation. Maebashi and the neighboring areas in Gunma is a land of greenery blessed with the wonders of natural beauty and more than a hundred hot springs offering relaxation and peace of mind. IAT-2001 and WI-2001 will organize a tour during the conference to a resort hotel with hot spring in Ikaho that is one of the most famous hot springs areas in Japan. Maebashi is positioned nearly in the center of the Japan Archipelago. Only a hundred kilometers from Japan's capital city of Tokyo and reachable in an hour by bullet train or high-speed expressway, a variety of favorable land conditions lead to flourishing economic activity. Maebashi City and the neighboring areas in Gunma are expected to further develop into an IT conurbation with highly advanced information technology. FURTHER INFORMATION =================== Please send suggestions and inquiries regarding IAT-2001 to: Prof. Ning Zhong (IAT-2001) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Nov 14 13:20:58 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:20:58 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2001 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen ACL 2001 Preliminary Call For Papers 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 6 - 11 July, 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html General Conference Chair: Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland) Program Co-Chairs: Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padua, Italy) Local Organization Chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse, France) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 39th Annual Meeting. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Requirements ------------ Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.) Reviewing --------- The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a team of reviewers. The composition of the Conference Program Committee will be published in a later version of this call for paper. Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Format ----------------- Submissions will be hard copy. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. These will soon be available from the ACL-2001 Conference Web-site. These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. As reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page will be required. The identification page should include the paper title, the paper ID code generated upon paper registration (see below), authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, one or two general topic areas, up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area, and a short summary (up to 5 lines). The identification page should also specify whether the paper is under consideration for other conferences. The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. Submission Procedure -------------------- 1) Submission notification: You must first register your submission by January 26, 2001. This can be done by filling out an electronic form that will be accessible at http://acl2001.dfki.de/. The form requires a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission. Also, please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the program committee co-chairs. If you have any difficulty using the electronic registration form, please send email to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de with all of the title page information plus the authors' names and affiliations. 2) Paper submission: Submissions must be received by February 2, 2001. Late submissions (those arriving after February 2) will be rejected without review. The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following address: ACL-2001 Submission Norbert Reithinger DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic version of the paper (without the identification page) to acl2001-submissions at dfki.de. Please include the paper ID code in the subject line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The electronic version should also be received by February 2nd, 2001. Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version, please send mail to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de. Acknowledgment of receipt of the hardcopy submission will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on or after April, 12th. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright release statement along with the final camera-ready papers. Deadlines --------- Paper registration deadline: January, 26th, 2001 Paper submissions deadline: February, 2nd, 2001 Notification of acceptance: April, 12th, 2001 Camera ready papers due: May, 12th, 2001 ACL 2001 Conference: July, 6th-11th, 2001 Submission Questions -------------------- Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program committee co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de sufficiently ahead of the submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made. Mentoring Service ----------------- ACL 2001 is organizing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is not the language of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL meetings. They may also have some trouble with the style of the presentation of the material that is expected for ACL. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors will be identified by Aravind Joshi, who has agreed to organize this service for ACL 2001. An author who would like to take advantage of this service must send a draft of his/her paper to Aravind K. Joshi Room 555 Moore Department of Computer and Information Science 200 South 33rd Street University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6389 USA fax: +1 215 898 0587 The author must send one (1) copy of the paper (hard copy by regular mail, courier service, or fax) by no later than December 15, 2000. The author should try to make the draft as complete as possible in order to get the best advice. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to each paper and the mentor will get back to the author at least two weeks before the deadline for the submission to ACL 2001 program committee. Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to improve their papers. If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send a message to Aravind Joshi (joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu). ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Nov 14 13:27:30 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:27:30 +0100 Subject: Appel: RANLP Message-ID: From: "Nicolas Nicolov/Watson/IBM" _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING EuroConference RANLP-2001 (www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001) 5-7 Sept 2001 Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria Further to the successful and competitive 1st and 2nd confernces on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (selected papers from which were published by John Benjamins as CILT vol.136 (www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/toonboek.cgi?997) and as CILT vol.189 (www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/toonboek.cgi?1310)), we are pleased to announce the third RANLP conreference to be held in 2001. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. SPONSORS The conference is funded by the European Commission, DGXII through Human Potential Programme for High-Level Scientific Conferences (contract number HPCF-2000-00329). INVITED SPEAKERS Keynote speakers whose participation is confirmed so far include: Martin Kay Xerox Parc Yorick Wilks Univ. of Sheffield Branimir Boguraev IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute, USC TUTORIALS RANLP-2001 will be preceded by a 2-day tutorials on 3-4 Sept. LOCATION Following the RANLP 95 and RANLP 97 tradition, the conference will be held from in the picturesque Tzigov Chark resort overlooking Batak Lake in the Rhodope Mountains, Southern Bulgaria. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The first CFP, to be distributed in February, will will list all invited speakers, Programme Committee members and the submission deadlines. FURTHER INFORMATION If you would like to receive information you may subscribe to the conference mailing list by sending an e-mail to majordomo at dcs.shef.ac.uk with a body (no subject) 'subscribe ranlp2001'. When you receive the confirmation e-mail, please make sure that you return the requested code to confirm your subscription. Information about RANLP-2001 and the pre-conference tutorials will be constantly updated on the conference web site (www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001). ORGANISERS Galia Angelova Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) Kalina Bontcheva Univ of Sheffield, UK Ruslan Mitkov Univ of Wolverhampton, UK, (PC Chair) Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA (See attached file: RANLP-ANNOUNCEMENT.html) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Nov 14 13:26:06 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:26:06 +0100 Subject: Appel: Corpus Linguistics 2001 Message-ID: From: "Mcenery, Tony" SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 (Apologies if you receive this message more than once) Lancaster (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2001 Incorporating a celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Leech, with invited talks from: Prof. Douglas Biber - "Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb?" Prof. Jennifer Thomas - "Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of indirectness in political interviews" Prof. Geoffrey Sampson - "Thoughts on Twenty Years of Drawing Trees" Prof. Mick Short - "Style in Fiction and Non-fiction: A Corpus-based approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation" Corpus Linguistics 2001 will be a forum for all concerned with the computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our definition of 'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on substantial literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as more 'traditional' corpus linguists. Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilisation between work occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction, parsing) and linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware of the latest developments in language processing. We also believe that language engineers should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus linguists. The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2001 are: 1. to encourage dialogue between those working on similar issues in different languages and between areas with a (perhaps as yet untapped) potential to interact. 2. to encourage dialogue between researchers using corpora in linguistics and those using corpora in language engineering. 3. to celebrate the life and works of Geoffrey Leech. Geoffrey Leech reaches 65 in 2001, and as part of the celebrations for this event, a special series of lectures will be given during the conference by four invited speakers who have worked closely with Geoff at various stages in his career: Doug Biber, Jenny Thomas, Geoff Sampson and Mick Short. For the main conference, papers of ca. 20 minutes are invited on topics such as: - corpus-based studies of any language level in any language - contrastive corpus linguistics - computer-aided studies of style - corpus- or text-based lexicography - corpus/text building, encoding and annotation - development of corpus-based language engineering tools - applications of computer-aided text analysis in non-linguistic fields (market research, advertising, media studies, sociology, psychology, etc.) Proposals for workshops (half day or full day) are also invited. Topics broadly in line with the theme of the conference will be considered. Workshops will be held on the 29th March. The conference language will be English. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Papers: Abstracts of up to one page should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. As well as an outline of the paper, the abstract should include the authors' names, affiliations, and contact addresses (including e-mail and fax numbers). Workshops: Abstracts of two pages should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. The abstract should include the names of the organisers, their contact details, and the projected number of papers to be presented at the workshop. Workshop organisers should also indicate whether they wish to generate a set of proceedings for their workshop. Those proposing a software demonstration should additionally indicate in detail what (if any) hardware and software requirements they have. Proceedings Proceedings will be produced from the conference. Additionally, selected papers will appear in an edited collection to be published in honour of Geoffrey Leech. DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2000 Proposers notified of acceptance of workshops: 8 December 2000 Authors notified of acceptance of papers: 15 December 2001 Deadline for full papers (for proceedings): 13 February 2001 [Full details will be sent with notices of acceptance.] CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Local committee Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) General committee Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lodz University) Jock McNaught (UMIST) Charles Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton University) Wolf-Dieter Syring (Greifswald University) ADDRESS Programme Committee Corpus Linguistics 2001 Department of Linguistics and MEL Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Tel: +44 1524 843085 Fax: +44 1524 593024 E-mail: mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Nov 14 13:28:30 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:28:30 +0100 Subject: Appel: ISKO Message-ID: From: "Majid Ihadjadene" [Apologies for cross-posting. Please pass on to interested colleagues] **************************************************************************** ********* **** CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Symposium of ISKO-France Information filtering and automatic summarisation in networks 5-6 July 2001 University of Paris X http://panini.u-paris10.fr/isko Scope of the workshop The increasing pace of technological progress has a profound influence on the range and profile of information products and services. The emergence of technologies (" push ", intelligent agents, language and image processing, etc...) and protocols (XML, WAP, ADSL, etc) in the industrial sector facilitates the development of new customised services, accessible via Internet and through new communicating objects, such as mobile phones. Whether it is in the context of corporate information, for " business to business " or " business to consumer " e-commerce, for access to knowledge, or even for leisure, the customisation of information is a major challenge for the electronic information industry. New information practices on networks, such as searching for partners or products, analysing the evolution of a company's image, performing business watch or economic intelligence call for more and more sophisticated software tools, specialised in information processing. To meet these demands, the identification and access to relevant information have to face the critical problem of information overload. Moreover, information on the Internet is heterogeneous, multimodal and multilingual, properties which must be taken into account when designing an application to make it adaptable to various contexts of use. It is also necessary to analyse the factors related to the integration and to the acceptability of information filtering (retrieval, selection) and automatic summarisation techniques within information systems, in order to improve their usability. Given the increasing quantity of available information in electronic form, information filtering and automatic summarisation systems appear as interesting options. These must be analysed with respect to the user needs which raises a number of questions, from the technological, cognitive and organisational viewpoints : where do the automatic summarisation techniques stand vis-?-vis information extraction, indexing and classification techniques ? which summaries to generate, for which needs ? what is the impact of these components on the architecture and on the usage of information systems ? how far can a user trust an information filtering system or an automatic summarisation system ? what kind of collective practice may be induced by the development of information filtering ? etc... The symposium aims at analysing the scientifical, technological and industrial aspects of information filtering and automatic summarisation in networks. The main objectives are to give an overview of current research activities and development efforts in the field of information science and technology, to analyse the impact of these technologies on cognitive processes and practices for information access and to identify how they may affect the organisation of information systems. The interdisciplinarity of the symposium will highlight the various aspects of these systems in the context of knowledge management. The symposium is open to both academic and industrial sectors. Theme and Topics The following aspects are of particular interest: design and development of operational systems ; innovative technologies (in particular, agent technologies) ; use of speech processing and language engineering technologies ; multilingual aspects of information in networks ; collaboration in information processing ; analysis of user-acceptability ; ergonomics of information software systems ; evaluation and comparison of systems ; use of information systems for knowledge management and business intelligence ; analysis of the added value of information software systems. Procedures for submitting a paper proposal : Authors must send an 1500 to 2000 character abstract (english or french) , in electronic form only, as a MSWord, rtf or pdf attachment, to the following e-mail address : isko at u-paris10.fr Paper proposals must be received by December 15, 2000. The notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by January 30, 2001, at the latest. The final text will have to be received before April 20, 2001. Each proposal will be evaluated by at least 2 reviewers. Additional information will be made available on the conference Web site at : http://panini.u-paris10.fr/isko Scientific Committee : CHAUDIRON St?phane, University of Paris 10 (co-president) FLUHR Christian, CEA-DIST (co-president) BACHIMONT Bruno, INA BOUCH? Richard, ENSSIB BUCKLAND Michael, University of Berkeley CHIARAMELLA Yves, University of Grenoble 1 DAVID Amos, University of Nancy 2 DESCL?S Jean-Pierre, University of Paris 4 DUCLOY Jacques, IIST LELU Alain, University of Paris 8 LUPOVICI Catherine, French National Library MARIANI Joseph, LIMSI-CNRS METZGER Jean-Paul, University of Lyon 3 MEUNIER Jean-Guy, University of Qu?bec (Montr?al) MUSTAFA EL HADI Widad, University of Lille 3 PERRIAULT Jacques, University of Paris X POLANCO Xavier, IIST POLITY Yolla, University of Grenoble 2 ROSS ?velyne, Technological University of Compi?gne TURNER Bill, LIMSI-CNRS Organising Committee : IHADJADENE Majid, University of Paris 10 DALBIN Sylvie, ATD ROLE Fran?ois, University of Paris 10 PALERMITI Rosalba, University of Grenoble 2 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Nov 14 13:25:28 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:25:28 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers Message-ID: _________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: VINESSE Jerome FTRD/DMI/LAN Subject: Jobs in France T?l?com R&D - emplois ? France T?l?com R&D 2/ From: ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Subject: Research Positions in Edinburgh: XML Technologies and Applications 3/ From: Shinya Nakagawa Subject: NLP/Comp Ling at Hewlett-Packard, Tokyo, Japan 4/ From: Tom Cornell Subject: Comp Ling: Programmer at Cymfony Inc, NY, USA 5/ From: Elisabeth Ramoser Subject: Comp Ling: Junior Researcher at European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, _________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: VINESSE Jerome FTRD/DMI/LAN Subject: Jobs in France T?l?com R&D - emplois ? France T?l?com R&D FRENCH VERSION - ENGLISH VERSION BELOW L'unit? de recherche et d?veloppement "Langues Naturelles" de France T?l?com R&D propose ? Lannion, C?tes d'Armor, France, les quatre postes suivants : 1. Un poste de linguiste informaticien pour un CDD de 5 mois environ ? partir du 12 janvier 2001. Le candidat retenu travaillera, selon son profil, ? l'?laboration d'une grammaire d'une des langues suivantes : polonais, espagnol, fran?ais, anglais ou allemand. Contact : J?r?me Vinesse - jerome.vinesse at francetelecom.fr - 02.96.05.38.92 2. Une th?se sur la traduction automatique. Contact : Malek Boualem - malek.boualem at francetelecom.fr - 02.96.05.29.83 3. Un stage bac+5 informatique (4-5 mois) sur le r?sum? et l'extraction d'informations d'un site Web en fonction du genre. Contact : Gilles Le Calvez - gilles.lecalvez at francetelecom.fr - 02.96.05.23.63 4. Un stage bac+5 informatique (4-5 mois) sur un syst?me de recommandation ? une communaut? d'int?r?ts de documents accessibles sur le Web. Contact : Michel Plu - michel.plu at rd.francetelecom.fr - 02.96.05.36.98 ----- ENGLISH VERSION The Natural Language Processing team of France Telecom R&D in Lannion (Brittany, France), invites applications for several positions: 1. A fixed-period position of about 5 month, beginning January the 12th, 2001, for a computational linguist. The successful candidate will work on building a grammar for one of the following languages, according to his/her skills : Polish, Spanish, French, English or German. Contact: J?r?me Vinesse - jerome.vinesse at francetelecom.fr - +33.2.96.05.38.92 2. A 3 years PhD position on Machine Translation. Contact: Malek Boualem - malek.boualem at francetelecom.fr - +33.2.96.05.29.83 3. A 4 to 5 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate technical degree (Master of Science) student, about summarisation and information extraction from a Web site according to its type. Contact: Gilles Le Calvez - gilles.lecalvez at francetelecom.fr - +33.2.96.05.23.63 4. A 4 to 5 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate technical degree (Master of Science) student, about a system recommending Web documents to communities. Contact: Michel Plu - michel.plu at rd.francetelecom.fr - +33.2.96.05.36.98 J?r?me Vinesse France T?l?com R&D/DMI/GRI/LN 2 avenue Pierre Marzin 22307 Lannion cedex t?l : 02.96.05.38.92 / fax : 02.96.05.32.86 _________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Subject: Research Positions in Edinburgh: XML Technologies and Applications The HCRC Language Technology Group in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is a world leader in XML research and development. We are looking for people to join our XML team to work on a range of projects funded by both industry and government in areas such as XML Protocols, XML Schema, XSLT and markup architectures for language resources. If you have experience with SGML or XML, preferably including application development in C, Python, C++ or Java, and are interested in working in a stimulating environment where you will not only take responsibility for carrying out a part of our XML research, but also have the opportunity to contribute to other LTG projects in areas such as information retrieval, text summarisation, corpus creation and annotation and information extraction, we'd like to hear from you. Appointments are possible at both a junior (RA1B, ?16,775--?18,731) and senior (RA1A ?16,775--?25,213, or possibly RA2 ?23,256--?30,967) level, for two years in the first instance. Please send C.V.s highlighting relevant experience and expertise to Henry S. Thompson, by e-mail if possible. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ _________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Shinya Nakagawa Subject: NLP/Comp Ling at Hewlett-Packard, Tokyo, Japan Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: Hewlett-Packard Japan Department: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Japan State or Province: Tokyo Country: Japan Final Date of Application: open Contact: Shinya Nakagawa shinya_nakagawa at hp.com Address for Applications: 3-29-21, Takaido-Higashi, Suginami-ku Tokyo 168-8585 Japan Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Japan is looking for candidates who are interested in research positions in Tokyo, Japan in the area of natural language processing. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Hewlett-Packard in areas of text processing applied to corpus data and mobile appliances. Requirements and qualifications: - Degree in computational linguistics - Experience in language engineering such as morphological analysis, knowledge extraction, information retrieval and text mining. - High-level programming skill in C and C++ on both Windows and UNIX (HP-UX and Linux) environments. - Experience with development of software packages. - Native English or Japanese For consideration, send your resume via email to Shinya Nakagawa: shinya_nakagawa at hp.com Marc McEachern: marc_mceachern at hp.com _________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Tom Cornell Subject: Comp Ling: Programmer at Cymfony Inc, NY, USA Rank of Job: programmer Areas Required: finite state methods Other Desired Areas: grammar tools University or Organization: Cymfony, Inc. Department: State or Province: New York Country: USA Final Date of Application: open Contact: Tom Cornell cornell at cymfony.com Address for Applications: 600 Essjay Road Williamsville NY 14221 USA CYMFONY is a leader in information extraction technology pertaining to intelligent search engines, including web-based question answering using natural language. This fast-growing company, which has recently received private equity investment, is located in suburban Buffalo, NY. Cymfony has immediate openings for computational linguists who will assist in the implementation and support of our grammar development tools. These are programming positions in the research department; good programming skills are essential. A Master's degree in computer science, linguistics, or related field OR equivalent work experience is required. We are seeking individuals with a background beyond basic coursework in any of the following areas: 1. Automata theory and toolkit implementation 2. Implementation of grammar formalisms 3. Programming languages and development tools 4. C++ programming All candidates must be U.S. or Canadian citizens, or be currently eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer as a green card holder or with a current H1B visa. Salary will be commensurate with education and experience. Please e-mail CV to Tom Cornell at: cornell at cymfony.com _________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: Elisabeth Ramoser Subject: Comp Ling: Junior Researcher at European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Rank of Job: junior researcher Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: European Academy Bozen/Bolzano Department: Section "Language and Law" State or Province: Bolzano Country: Italy Final Date of Application: 30 Nov 2000 Contact: Elisabeth Ramoser bluterm at eurac.edu Address for Applications: Weggesteinstr. 12/a, I-39100 Bozen Bozen BZ 39100 Italy The European Academy Bozen/Bolzano is seeking a Junior researcher in Computational Linguistics. You will be assisting in the development of knowledge resources, working within a team of linguists and legal experts. Your duties will include the following: - analysis of text corpora; - development of terminology management systems; - creation of automatic tools for terminological projects (http://www2.eurac.edu); - assessment and evaluation of knowledge resources. A university degree in Computational Linguistics, or equivalent qualification, is required. Postgraduate studies will be encouraged. Strong interpersonal and communication skills; self-motivation and the ability to work as part of a team in a multicultural environment are very important. The post is fixed term for 2(+3) years. The deadline for applications is 30th November 2000. If you are interested in joining our team, please send your application (CV, cover letter and recent photograph) electronically to: bluterm at eurac.edu or by mail to: European Academy Bozen/Bolzano Section "Language and Law" Weggensteinstr. 12/a I-39100 Bozen _________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 17 19:00:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:08 +0100 Subject: Appel: EUROLAN-2001 Message-ID: From: "Gabriela Dima" EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute on "Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources" 30 July - 11 August 2001, Romania http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/ Call for Workshop Proposals The EUROLAN 2001 Program Committee invites proposals for Workshops to be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute. We intend to accept two workshop proposals, each workshop being held during three consecutive evenings at the beginning of each week of the summer institute. For details, please consult: http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/program.html. Areas of Interest We welcome proposals on any topic of interest within the institute's main theme. Submission Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, .rtf or .doc files, as soon as possible, but no later than 8 December 2000. The subject line should be: EUROLAN WORKSHOP PROPOSAL. Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to Dan Cristea, dcristea at infoiasi.ro. Reviewing Proposals will be reviewed by the EUROLAN Program Committee: Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Dan CRISTEA - "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iasi Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest Laurent ROMARY - LORIA laboratories, Nancy Daniel MARCU - University of Southern California Proposals Proposals for workshops should contain: Scientific part: - a title and a brief (about 500 word) content description of the workshop topic. Organizational part: - any special requirements for technical needs (computer infrastructure, etc.); - the program committee. Organization details EUROLAN will support the workshops with the necessary equipment and workshop rooms. The workshops are expected to be organizationally and financially self-supported, including reviewing of received contributions, selection of papers, printing of the workshop proceedings. The workshop participants are supposed to be registered as regular EUROLAN students. It is recommended that the program committees of the workshops include some of the invited lecturers of EUROLAN 2001, so that the workshops could be better interconnected with the institute's activities. Important Dates Submission Deadline for Workshop Proposal: December 8, 2000. Notification of acceptance of Workshop Proposal: December 15, 2000. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 17 19:00:18 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: 6th Doctorate Meeting in Linguistics Message-ID: From: emmanuel.aim at linguist.jussieu.fr Apr?s la version fran?aise, la version anglaise. After the french version, the english version. *************************************************************************** 6EMES RENCONTRES DE L'ATELIER DES DOCTORANTS EN LINGUISTIQUE 5-6 avril 2001 APPEL A COMMUNICATION *************************************************************************** L'atelier des Doctorants en Linguistique de l'Universit? Paris 7 organise pour la sixi?me fois une rencontre qui se tiendra les 5 et 6 avril 2001, avec l'aide logistique et financi?re de l'ED132 "Sciences du langage" et de l'Universit? Paris 7. L'objet de ce colloque est de favoriser les ?changes et de cr?er des liens entre jeunes chercheurs et doctorants quel que soit leur domaine de recherche en linguistique. Aussi, le contenu des communications est libre : aucun th?me n'est impos?, et tous les niveaux d'analyse linguistique sont accept?s. Les doctorants sont invit?s ? envoyer un r?sum? d'une page avec, ?ventuellement, une page de r?f?rences ou de tableaux. Nous demandons deux versions du r?sum?, la premi?re indiquant le nom, l'universit? et l'adresse ?lectronique du ou des auteurs, et une deuxi?me anonyme. Langues accept?es : fran?ais et anglais. Pr?voir 20 minutes de communication (+10 minutes de discussion). Le r?sum? doit respecter le format suivant : - police de caract?res type Time (Times, Times New Roman), pts 10 - des marges de 2,5cm de chaque c?t? - format RTF,.MS-doc(version Word 97 ou inf?rieur) ou postscript. - pour les caract?res IPA, utiliser SIL DOULOS IPA (t?l?chargeable ? l'adresse suivante http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html) Ces deux r?sum?s sont ? envoyer en fichier joint ou disquette, et ?ventuellement en version papier aux adresses suivantes : adl at linguist.jussieu.fr UNIVERSITE PARIS 7 - DENIS DIDEROT UFR LINGUISTIQUE ATELIER DES DOCTORANTS Case 7003 2, Place Jussieu 75 251 Paris Cedex 05 France Calendrier pr?visionnel : 07.janvier 2001 Date limite de r?ception des r?sum?s 05.f?vrier 2001 Notification d'acceptation des r?sum?s 5 et 6 avril 2001 Rencontres de l'ADL Les communications seront rassembl?es sous formes d'actes. Des renseignements suppl?mentaires concernant le format d?finitif des communications seront donn?s ult?rieurement. Par ailleurs, il existe une possibilit? d'un remboursement partiel voire total des frais du transport pour les intervenants venant d'une distance sup?rieure ? 100km de Paris. Pour plus d'informations contacter : Emmanuel A?m : emmanuel.aim at linguist.jussieu.fr Hi-Yon Yoo: hi-yon.yoo at linguist.jussieu.fr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 6TH DOCTORATE MEETING IN LINGUISTICS (6EME RENCONTRE DE L'ATELIER DES DOCTORANTS EN LINGUISTIQUE) April, 5-6 th, 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** The Graduate School in Linguistics at the University Paris 7 is organizing the 6th Doctorate Workshop in Linguistics on April 5-6th, 2001. The purpose of this meeting is to promote exchange and communication among young researchers and doctorate students of different fields of interest in linguistics. We therefore impose no restrictions on the subject of the presentations, or on the level of linguistic analysis. Doctorate students are asked to submit an abstract of one page and possibly, an additional page with data and/or references. As reviewing will be anonymous, please send in two versions your abstract, of which only one version should include your name, university and e-mail of the author(s), and the second one anonymous. We accept presentation in French and English. Speakers will be given 20 minutes to present their paper, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions should follow the following format : - type : 10 points (Times, Times New Roman) ; - margin of 2,5 cm (0,984 inch) on all sides ; - Postscript,RTF or MS-Doc format (Word 97 version, or earlier) ; - for the IPA characters, please use SIL DOULOS IPA (you can download the font at the following URL http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html). The abstract are to be sent as an attachment or floppy disk, and eventually as a paper version, to the following addresses : adl at linguist.jussieu.fr UNIVERSITE PARIS 7 - DENIS DIDEROT UFR LINGUISTIQUE ATELIER DES DOCTORANTS Case 7003 2, Place Jussieu 75 251 Paris Cedex 05 France Projected dates : January, 7th, 2001 Deadline for abstracts February, 5th, 2001 Notification of acceptance April, 5-6th, 2001 Doctorate meeting in Linguistics Selected papers will be published in the form of proceedings. Further information concerning the definitive format of the papers will be given at a later date. Futhermore, please note that we can cover partial of full transportation cost for speakers travelling more than 100km. For additional information, please contact : Emmanuel A?m : emmanuel.aim at linguist.jussieu.fr Hi-Yon Yoo: hi-yon.yoo at linguist.jussieu.fr ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 17 19:00:52 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:52 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACH/ALLC Message-ID: From: John Lavagnino CALL FOR PAPERS: UPDATE Digital Media and Humanities Research: ACH/ALLC Conference, New York University, June 13-17 2001 In order to give everybody a bit more breathing space, and to keep the working timetable similar to what it's been in past years, we've decided to extend the deadline for paper and panel submissions to ACH/ALLC 2001 to Monday 27 November. As always, see the conference web site at http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ach_allc2001/ for full details on the conference and on procedures for submitting proposals. John Lavagnino Chair, ACH/ALLC 2001 Program Committee ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 17 18:57:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:57:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLE Message-ID: From: Beverly Nunan Attached and below is a "Call for Papers" for a special issue on question answsering in the Journal of Natural Language Engineering. If you have any questions, please direct them to Dr. Lynette Hirschman, 781-271-7789. Thank you. ******************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING SPECIAL ISSUE ON QUESTION ANSWERING Guest editors: Lynette Hirschman (MITRE) Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield) As users struggle to navigate the wealth of on-line information now available, the need for automated question answering systems becomes more urgent: specifically, for systems that would allow a user to ask a question in everyday language and get the answer quickly, with back-up material available on demand. Question answering has become, over the past several years, a major focus of research activity. This Call for Papers solicits submissions that discuss the performance, the requirements, the uses, and the challenges of question answering systems. Question answering systems provide a rich research area. To answer a question, a system must analyze the question, perhaps in the context of some ongoing interaction; it must find one or more answers by consulting on-line resources; and it must present the answer to the user in some appropriate form, perhaps associated with justification or supporting materials. Several conferences and workshops have focused on aspects of the question answering research area. For the past two years, the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) (http://trec.nist.gov) has sponsored a question-answering track which has evaluated systems that answer factual questions based on finding answer strings in the TREC corpus, using both information retrieval and natural language processing techniques. A focus on reading comprehension provides a different approach to question answering, evaluating systems' ability to answer questions about a specific reading passage. These kinds of tests are used to evaluate students' comprehension, providing a basis for comparing system performance to human performance. This was the subject of a Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop, http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/groups/reading/prj_desc.shtml. Both of these research areas have had to address a number of difficult questions: =B7 How can question answering systems be evaluated? Do we have to have human graders, or can we find automated ways of grading short answer tests that approximate human graders closely enough? =B7 How should questions and answers be classified? Should classification= s be based on linguistic features of questions and answers? On the types and sources of knowledge used to derive answers? On the types of processing required to derive answers? =B7 What makes a question hard? Can we define linguistic features that help to predict question difficulty? =B7 Can we identify different classes of users of question answering systems, and if so, what are their different requirements? =B7 What makes an answer good? Should answers be short? Long? What about sentence extracts compared to generated text? What about summaries? =B7 What is the best way to present answers to a user? How much context and justification is appropriate? How much drill down needs to be supported? =B7 Do question answering systems need to build models of users' knowledg= e states to generate appropriate answers? How can this process be managed? =B7 What are reasonable expectations for question answering systems: providing factual answers found literally in texts, providing factual answers inferred from texts, providing summaries of multiple sources, providing analysis? =B7 How does the performance of systems compare to the performance of people? Can such systems complement people? Teach people? Replace people? =B7 Is it possible to create domain-independent question answering systems, or is it critical to restrict the domain of such a system to a specific topic area? What are the trade-offs in terms of performance? =B7 Can a question answering system use spoken input? Can it retrieve information from spoken "documents" such as news stories or interviews? What are the performance penalties when dealing with the additional uncertainty that characterizes speech or OCR? We invite submission of papers addressing any of these questions, or other issues related to the creation, evaluation, or deployment of question answering systems. We also encourage submissions that address infrastructure issues, such as tools for building question answering systems, for collecting corpora, or for annotating collections. Submission Information Submit full papers of no more than 25 pages (exclusive of references), twelve point, double-spaced, with one inch margins before the initial submission deadline. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines will not be reviewed. Email submission is preferred, and should be directed to the special issue editors at the email address: lynette at mitre.org. The subject line should read: JNLE QA Submission. Preferred email submission formats are: Word, PostScript, PDF, or plain text (for papers without complex figures, etc). If email submission is not possible, then five copies of the paper should be mailed to: Dr. Lynette Hirschman The MITRE Corporation 3K-157 202 Burlington Rd. Bedford, MA 01730 USA Phone: 781-271-7789 Fax: 781-271-2352 Mailed submissions must arrive on or before the deadline for submission. 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--------------E47481E4E87F6333D2B6BB56-- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 17 19:00:56 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:56 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2001 Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen Call for Workshop Proposals ACL'01/EACL'01 Joint Conference The ACL/EACL'01 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at ACL/EACL'01. ACL/EACL'01 will be held in Toulouse, France, July 6-11, 2001 with workshops being held July 6-7, 2001. ACL/EACL'01 workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within computational linguistics. Often, workshops concentrate on specific topics of technical interest (e.g., parsing technologies), particular areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP applied to IR), or community-wide issues that deserve attention (e.g., standardization of resources and tools). We welcome proposals on any topic that is of interest to the ACL community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of new techniques or applications. Proposals Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain the following information: - A title and brief description of the workshop topic. - A budget proposal. - The target audience and projected number of participants along with support for the projected count. Supporting evidence could include a list of potential submitters, a list of conferences that contained papers on the proposed topic, the number of new companies focused on this topic, or recent funding initiatives that address this topic. - Resource needs such as room size and number of days. Include any special requirements for technical support (computer infrastructure, etc.). - The name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of each chair. In addition, indicate the chairs' background in the workshop area. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible but no later than JANUARY 12, 2001. (This early due date is required to support the May 7, 2001 deadline for camera-ready copies of all workshop papers, see the schedule below.) The subject line should be: "ACL/EACL'01 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL". Please e-mail proposals and any inquiries to: aclworkshops at cs.unca.edu or send mail to: Rebecca Bruce Department of Computer Science 221 Robinson Hall, CPO #2320 University of North Carolina at Asheville One University Heights Asheville, North Carolina 28804-8511 USA Important Dates Proposals due: Jan. 12, 2001 Notification of acceptance: Jan. 19, 2001 Release of workshop call for papers and other publicity material: Feb. 19, 2001 Workshop papers submission deadline: March 30, 2001 Notification of workshop paper acceptance: April 13, 2001 Camera-ready copy of workshop papers due: May 7, 2001 Workshop Date: July 6-7, 2001 Additional Information For additional information, see the web site for the conference: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html which will provide additional details as they become available. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:27:05 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:27:05 +0100 Subject: Appel: LACL 2001 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: From: Catherine Piliere ***************************************************************** --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate --- ***************************************************************** Second Call for Papers LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic, France Submission Deadline: January 29, 2001 http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ***************************************************************** ---------------------------- HISTORY ---------------------------- The LACL series of conferences aims at providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal and logical aspects of computational linguistics. It started as a workshop held in Nancy (France), in 1995. Due to its success, it was turned, the next year, into a international conference. LACL'96 and '97 have both been held in Nancy (France). LACL'98 has been held in Grenoble (France). Selected papers from LACL'95 appear in a special issue of Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7(4), 1998. The proceedings of LACL'96 and 97 appear as volumes 1328 and 1582 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The proceedings of LACL'98 are in press with the same series. ----------------------------- SCOPE ----------------------------- Typical topics include, but are not limited to: Categorial grammars, Categorial type logics, Compositionality, Discourse representation theory, Dynamics, Feature Logics, Formal language theory, Game-theoretical semantics, Grammatical inference, Learning theory, Linear logical frameworks, Minimalism, Modal logics, Montague semantics, Parsing as deduction, Proof- theoretic approaches, Situation semantics and situation theory, Type-theoretic approaches. ----------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------- Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 15 standard A4 or US quarto pages. The paper should allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the work. In particular, references and comparisons with related work should be included. Submission of material already published or submitted to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Electronic submission is highly recommended. A postscript version of the paper should be sent as an e-mail to: morrill at lsi.upc.es to arrive by January 29, 2001. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file In addition, a separate e-mail containing the title of the paper, authors' names and addresses, and a short abstract in plain ASCII format should be sent to the same e-mail address. If electronic submission is not possible, authors may submit four hard copies of the paper by post to the following address: LACL 2001 (Attention: G. Morrill) UPC, Departament de LSI Campus Nord - Modul C6 Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 E-08034 Barcelona - Espanya ------------------------------ URL ----------------------------- http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------- Deadline for Submissions: January 29, 2001 Notification to Authors: March 26, 2001 Final Versions due: April 20, 2001 ---------------------- CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ------------------ The accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in AI. This will be available at the time of the conference. ------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- W. Buszkowski (Poznan) R. Crouch, (Palo Alto) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) M. Dymetman (Grenoble) C. Gardent (Saarbrucken) P. de Groote (Nancy), co-chair M. Kanazawa (Tokyo) G. Morrill (Barcelona), co-chair R. Muskens (Tilburg) F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh) B. Rounds, (Ann Arbor) E. Stabler (Los Angeles) ----------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------- B. Daille (Nantes) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) A. Foret (Rennes) E. Lebret (Rennes) C. Piliere (Nancy), publicity chair C. Retore (Rennes), chair P. Sebillot (Rennes) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:27:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:27:08 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL'2001/EACL'2001 Workshop/Tutorials Message-ID: ___________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: ACL'2001/EACL'2001 Revised Call for Workshop Proposals 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject?: ACL'2001/EACL'2001 Call for Tutorial Proposals ___________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: ACL'2001/EACL'2001 Revised Call for Workshop Proposals Modified Call for Workshop Proposals for the ACL'01/EACL'01 Joint Conference (***Updated Timetable of Important Dates***) The ACL/EACL'01 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at ACL/EACL'01. ACL/EACL'01 will be held in Toulouse, France, July 6-11, 2001 with workshops being held July 6-7, 2001. ACL/EACL'01 workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within computational linguistics. Often, workshops concentrate on specific topics of technical interest (e.g., parsing technologies), particular areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP applied to IR), or community-wide issues that deserve attention (e.g., standardization of resources and tools). We welcome proposals on any topic that is of interest to the ACL community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of new techniques or applications. Proposals Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain the following information: - A title and brief description of the workshop topic. - A budget proposal. - The target audience and projected number of participants along with support for the projected count. Supporting evidence could include a list of potential submitters, a list of conferences that contained papers on the proposed topic, the number of new companies focused on this topic, or recent funding initiatives that address this topic. - Resource needs such as room size and number of days. Include any special requirements for technical support (computer infrastructure, etc.). - The name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of each chair. In addition, indicate the chairs' background in the workshop area. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible but no later than JANUARY 12, 2001. The subject line should be: "ACL/EACL'01 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL". Please e-mail proposals and any inquiries to: aclworkshops at cs.unca.edu UPDATED Timetable of Important Dates: Proposals due: Jan. 12, 2001 Notification of acceptance: Jan. 19, 2001 Deadline for receipt of workshop call for papers and other publicity material: Feb. 19, 2001 Suggested deadline for workshop paper submissions: April 6, 2001 Suggested deadline for notification of workshop paper acceptance: April 27, 2001 Suggested deadline for camera-ready workshop papers: May 16, 2001 Deadline for receipt of camera-ready workshop proceedings: May 25, 2001 Workshop Date: July 6-7, 2001 Additional Information For additional information, see the web site for the conference: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html which will provide additional details as they become available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject?: ACL'2001/EACL'2001 Call for Tutorial Proposals ACL 2001 CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS The Program Committee of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for ACL 2001, to be held in Toulouse July, 6th-11th, 2001 (see http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html). The tutorials for ACL 2001 will be held on July 8th, 2001. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its core content can be covered in a three-hour tutorial slot (including a 30 minute break). However, in exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are possible as well. There will be space and time for at most four three-hour tutorials. SUBMISSION DETAILS Proposals for tutorials should contain: * A title and brief (< 500 word) content description of the tutorial topic. * The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial speakers, with a one-paragraph statement of the speaker's(s') research interests and areas of expertise. * Any special requirements for technical needs (display projector, computer infrastructure, etc.) Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII (iso8859-1) text as soon as possible, but in any case no later than January 12th, 2001. The subject line should be: "ACL 2001 TUTORIAL PROPOSAL". PLEASE NOTE: PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY REGULAR MAIL OR FAX. Please submit your proposals and address any inquiries to acl2001-tutorials at lettres.unige.ch. This forwards to both Tutorials Co-Chairs. TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS Paola Merlo Gertjan van Noord Universit? de Gen?ve Groningen University D?pt. de Linguistique Alfa-informatica 2, rue de Candolle PO Box 716 1211 Gen?ve 4 9700 AS Groningen Switzerland Netherlands acl2001-tutorials at lettres.unige.ch PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by January 26th,2001 and must then provide descriptions of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by March 30th, 2001. The description should be in three formats: a latex version that fits onto 1/2 page; an ASCII (iso8859-1) version that can be included with the email announcement; and an HTML version that can be included on the conference home page. Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials, at least containing copies of the overhead transparencies to be used as well as a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial by May 11th, 2001. FINANCIAL INFORMATION The current ACL policy is that tutorials are reimbursed at the following rate: US$500 per session plus $25 per registrant in the range 21-50 plus $15 per registrant in excess of 50. Note that this is per tutorial, not per presenter: multiple presenters will split the proceeds, the default assumption being an even split. The ACL does not usually cover any further expenses. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline for proposal: 12th January, 2001 Notification of acceptance: 26th January, 2001 Tutorial descriptions due: 30th March, 2001 Tutorial course material due: 11th May, 2001 Tutorials date: 8th July, 2001 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:27:46 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:27:46 +0100 Subject: Appel: ATALA workshop (Terminology) Message-ID: From: Thierry Hamon [Version fran?aise en fin de message] ATALA one-day workshop Call for communications Theme : Terminology structuring : purpose, methods et evaluation Organisers : Thierry Hamon (LIPN - Universit? Paris-Nord) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN - Universit? Paris-Nord) Date : march 10th 2001 http://www.atala.org/je/appel-struct-terminologie.html SUMMARY Context : Traditionnaly, terminologies or thesauri gather the vocabulary used in the language of a domain of speciality. The aim is to have a list of the terms but also to structure this list by adding relations between terms and grouping terms in classes. These relationships bring various informations either morphological, syntactical or semantic. An entry can be associated to different terms: - generic or specific term, - synonym term, - antonym, - term variants which are prefered or must be avoid. These relations make a terminological network out of the terms list. This one-day workshop will take an interest in the terminology structuring. Natural Language Processus and computational terminology can be used to acquire several types of information useful to structure a terminology : - Relations between terms : morpho-syntactic variants (Jacquemin 1997), hyperonymy relations (Morin 1999, S?gu?la 1999), synonymy relations (Hamon and Nazarenko 2000), causality relations (Garcia 1998), etc. ; - Similarity between words (Faure et N?dellec 1998, Nazarenko et al. 1997), terms classes (Assadi 1998) and semantic tagging (Basili et al. 1997, Cerbah 2000). End-user applications and texts must be taken into account in the building of a terminology. (Bourigault and Slodzian 1999) observe that these is not a single terminology in a domain of speciality but various application-dependant terminologies. To help terminologists in their task, it is more important to develop NLP tools rather than resources that would be used for corpora processing independently of any application. It follows that besides the precision of the results, the evaluation of NLP tools designed for the terminology building must take into account the application context and the human-machine collaboration process. Aims : Up to now, research leads to develop tools which focus on specific acquisition tools without taking into account the whole process of terminology building. Results of various tools are rarely re-used by others. This one-day workshop aims to confront the various approaches in terminology structuring and to identify the emerging challenge. Several questions should be considered : - Which consequences can be draw up from the experiments carried out so far? - Which relations are relevant in terminologies? - How to acquire these relations? - Which resources and which tools can be used? - How to integrate automatically acquired knowkedge in the work of the terminologist? - How to evaluate NLP tools for terminology? Communications will be available on the ATALA web site. According to the interest for this workshop, we will consider the publication of extended papers in a revue. Keywords : terminology building process, terminological relations, terms similarity, semantic classes, evaluation. Submission : A two to four pages abstract with bibliography or more important size article should be sent before december, the 15th - either by email (preferably) to : thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr AND to adeline.nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (formats PostScript, PDF, RTF exclusively), - or by post to Thierry Hamon and Adeline Nazarenko LIPN - Institut Galil?e - Universit? Paris-Nord Avenue J-B. Cl?ment 93430 Villetaneuse, FRANCE Communications will be selected according to their quality but also in order to deal with various aspects of the termonology structuring and problems of evaluation in application context. Notification of acceptance will be given about January, the 15th 2000. Workshoop organizers can be contacted by email for further information. ---------------------------------------------- ATALA http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/ ------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------- Journ?e d'?tude de l'ATALA Appel ? communications Th?me : Structuration de terminologie : objectifs, m?thodes et ?valuation Responsables : Thierry Hamon (LIPN - Universit? Paris-Nord) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN - Universit? Paris-Nord) Date : 10 mars 2001 http://www.atala.org/je/appel-struct-terminologie.html PRESENTATION Contexte : Traditionnellement, une terminologie ou un thesaurus rassemble le vocabulaire utilis? dans la langue d'un domaine de sp?cialit?. Mais une liste de termes n'est pas suffisante. Il faut aussi structurer cette liste en ajoutant des relations entre les termes et en regroupant les termes dans des classes. Ces relations apportent diff?rentes informations : un terme peut ?tre associ? ? un terme g?n?rique ou sp?cifique, ? un terme synonyme, ? des antonymes, ? des variantes dont l'usage est pr?f?r? ou, au contraire, d?conseill?, etc. Ces renvois d'une entr?e ? l'autre constituent autant de relations morphologiques, syntaxiques ou s?mantiques qui forment un r?seau terminologique. Cette journ?e portera sur la structuration de terminologie. Le Traitement Automatique des Langues et la terminologie computationnelle permettent l'acquisition de plusieurs types d'informations n?cessaires ? la structuration d'une terminologie : - Relations entre les termes : des variantes morpho-syntaxiques (Jacquemin 1997), des relations d'hyperonymie (Morin 1999, S?gu?la 1999), des relations de synonymie (Hamon et Nazarenko 2000), des relations de causalit? (Garcia 1998), etc. ; - Similarites entre mots (Faure et N?dellec 1998, Nazarenko et al. 1997), classes de termes (Assadi 1998), ?tiquetage s?mantique (Basili et al. 1997, Cerbah 2000). L'application finale et le texte jouent un r?le important lors de la constitution d'une terminologie. (Bourigault et Slodzian 1999) ont constat? qu'il n'existe pas une terminologie unique pour un domaine de sp?cialit? mais que les terminologies d?pendent de l'application. Il appara?t donc de plus en plus important de d?velopper des outils de TAL qui assisteront les terminologues dans leur t?che, plut?t que des ressources exploitables sur plusieurs corpus ind?pendemment des applications. Ce changement de point de vue sur l'apport du TAL ? la constitution de terminologies am?ne ? revoir les modalit?s d'?valuation. Celle-ci doit prendre en compte l'application et l'aide apport?e et non simplement la pr?cision de r?sultats. Objectifs : Jusqu'ici, les travaux sont rest?s assez dispers?s et l'int?gration de diff?rents outils dans une m?me cha?ne de traitement est rare. Leur apport reste difficile ? appr?cier. Cette journ?e d'?tude permettra de faire le point sur les approches en structuration de terminologie et d'aborder les probl?mes li?s ? l'?valuation des outils d'aide aux terminologues. Plusieurs questions pourront ?tre abord?es : - Quel bilan peut-on tirer des exp?riences r?alis?es jusqu'? pr?sent ? - Quelles sont les relations pertinentes en terminologie ? - Comment acqu?rir ces relations ? - Quelles ressources et quels outils peuvent ?tre utilis?s ? - Comment int?grer des connaissances acquises automatiquement dans le travail du terminologue ? - Comment ?valuer les outils terminologiques ? Les communications seront disponibles sur le site de l'ATALA. En fonction de l'int?r?t suscit? par cette journ?e, nous envisagerons de publier ces travaux dans une revue. Mots-cl?s : constitution de terminologie, relations terminologiques, similarit? de termes, classes s?mantiques, ?valuation. Soumission (modalit?s) : Un r?sum? avec une bibliographie de deux ? quatre pages ou un article plus important doit ?tre envoy? avant le 15 d?cembre - soit par courrier ?lectronique (de pr?f?rence) ? : thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr ET ? adeline.nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (formats PostScript, PDF, RTF exclusivement), - soit par courrier r?gulier ? Thierry Hamon and Adeline Nazarenko LIPN - Institut Galil?e - Universit? Paris-Nord Avenue J-B. Cl?ment 93430 Villetaneuse, FRANCE Les communications seront s?lectionn?es en fonction de leur qualit? mais aussi de mani?re ? couvrir les diff?rents aspects de la structuration de terminologie et des probl?mes li?s ? l'?valuation en contexte applicatif. Les notifications d'acceptation seront donn?es vers le 15 janvier 2001. Les organisateurs de la journ?e peuvent ?tre contact?s par courrier ?lectronique, pour toute demande d'informations suppl?mentaires. ---------------------------------------------- ATALA http://www.atala.org ------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:28:41 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:28:41 +0100 Subject: Appel: CIAA 2001 Message-ID: From: Maurel Denis CIAA 2001: CALL FOR PAPERS CIAA 2001: Sixth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, University of Pretoria: http://www.cs.up.ac.za July 23-25, 2001 This conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures. Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. In addition, there is a growing number of software systems designed to manipulate automata, regular expressions, grammars, and related structures; examples include AGL, AMORE, Automate, FADELA, FinITE, FireLite, FLAP, FSM, Grail, INR, MONA and Turing's World. (See http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/fsm/ for FSM and http://www.brics.dk/mona/ for MONA.) The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving. SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE We solicit papers and demos on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including but not limited to: o Bioinformatics and automata o Complexity of automata operations o Compilers and automata o Computer-aided verification and automata o Concurrency and automata o Data structure design for automata o Data and image compression and automata o Design and architecture of automata software o Digital libraries and automata o Document engineering and automata o Editors, environments and automata o Experimental studies and practical experiences o Industrial applications and automata o Natural language processing and automata o Networking and automata o New algorithms for manipulating automata o Object-Oriented Modeling and automata o Pattern-matching and automata o Speech and speaker recognition and automata o Structured and semi-structured documents and automata o Symbolic manipulation environments for automata o Teaching and automata o Text processing and automata o Techniques for graphical display of automata o VLSI and automata o Viruses, related phenomena and automata o World-wide web and automata SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are requested to submit an electronic version (in PostScript or LaTeX form) or six hard copies of an extended abstract (arriving) by APRIL 2, 2001. An extended abstract should start with the title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and a one-paragraph summary of the results and ideas, and be sent to: ciaa2001 at cs.up.ac.za or to CIAA 2001, ATTENTION:OPV5-20 Department of Computer Science University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa 0002 The extended abstract should provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance to the conference. The extended abstract should be AT MOST TEN (10) PAGES LONG using 11-point font with ample margins. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by MAY 1, 2001. Final copies of accepted papers must be submitted by JUNE 18, 2001. We expect the proceedings to appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series after the conference. (See for example, LNCS 1260 and LNCS 1436 for the proceedings of two previous conferences.) We will distribute a preproceedings for participants at the conference. Extended versions of selected papers from the proceedings of the conference series will be solicited for publication in special issues of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) and International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), alternating each year with the CIAA 2001 special issue appearing in TCS. DEMOS We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to demonstrate their software should submit a TWO-PAGE description to the address given above by APRIL 2, 2001, outlining the design of their system and their computing needs (if any). INVITED SPEAKERS Gregor v. Bochmann, Ottawa, Canada, CIAA 2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE B. Boigelot (Liege) J.-M. Champarnaud (Rouen) M. Crochemore (Marne la Vallee) O. Ibarra (UCSB) L. Karttunen (Xerox Europe) N. Klarlund (AT&T) D. Maurel (Tours) M. Mohri (AT&T) J.-E. Pin (Paris) K. Salomaa (Queen's) H. Seidl (Trier) B. Watson Co-chair) (Pretoria) D. Wood (Co-Chair) (HKUST) S. Yu (Western Ontario) IMPORTANT DATES April 2, 2001 Submission deadline May 1, 2001 Acceptances and rejections sent out June 18, 2001 Submission deadline for preproceedings July 23-25, 2001 Conference dates Sept. 21, 2001 Submission deadline for SV-LNCS SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS ACM SIGACT, EATCS, University of Pretoria PREVIOUS CONFERENCES o CIAA 2000 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 o WIA'99 website: http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wia99/ o WIA'98 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia98.html CIAA 2001 WEB SITES o http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dwood/ciaa2001 o http://www.cs.up.ac.za/~watson/ciaa/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:29:27 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:29:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: WWW-10 Message-ID: From: Steffen Staab ********************************************************************* Call for Papers Semantic Web WWW-10 Workshop May 1, 2001 Hongkong ********************************************************************* Comprehensive information to be found at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Workshop Outline The "Semantic Web", a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, is used to denote the next evolution step of the Web. Associating meaning with content or establishing a layer of machine understandable data would allow automated agents, sophisticated search engines and interoperable services, will enable higher degree of automation and more intelligent applications. The ultimate goal of the Semantic Web is to allow machines the sharing and exploitation of knowledge in the Web way, i.e. without central authority, with few basic rules, in a scalable, adaptable, extensible manner. With RDF as the basic platform for the Semantic Web, a multitude of tools, methods and systems have just appeared on the horizon. The goal of the workshop is to share experiences about these systems, exchange ideas about improvements of existing tools and creation of new systems, principles and applications. Also an important goal is to develop a cooperation model among Semantic Web developers, and to develop a common vision about the future developments. Relevant workshop topics include (non-exhaustive list): ? Language and Representation issues ? Semantic Web infrastructure and architectures ? Metadata and conceptual models for annotating content, resources, and portals ? Automatic annotation/tagging/metadata creation and recommendation ? Tools, systems and methodologies for Semantic Web ? Application of semantic web technology ? Migrating information to semantic formats & Information Filtering ? Trust in the Semantic Web ? Query languages for the Semantic Web ? Information correlation, integration, mediation and brokering on the Web ? Resource discovery ? Distributed inference services ? Semantic Web mining Important Dates Deadline for paper submission 1 Jan 2001 Notification of acceptance 1 Feb 2001 Deadline final contributions 1 Apr 2001 All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. In addition, a few selected best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the ETAI Semantic Web Journal (http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/). Submission Information We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper or a position paper addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for the semantic web. Submit by e-mail before January 1, 2001 following the format instructions at http://semanticweb2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de to staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Organizing Committee Stefan Decker, Database Group, Stanford University Database Group, Stanford University Gates Hall 4A, Room 425 Stanford, CA 94305-9040, USA email: stefan at db.stanford.edu phone: +1 650-723-1422 fax: +1 650-725-2588 http://www-db.stanford.edu/~stefan/ Dieter Fensel, VU Amsterdam Division of Mathematics & Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, NL The Netherlands Email: dieter at cs.vu.nl http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dieter Amit Sheth, Univ. of Georgia Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, Computer Sc., 415 GSRC, University of Georgia, Athens GA 30602-7404 USA Also, Taalee Inc. Email: amit at cs.uga.edu http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu, http://www.taalee.com Steffen Staab (Contact), AIFB, Karlsruhe University, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Also, Ontoprise GmbH email: staab at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de,staab at ontoprise.de phone: +49-721-608 4751 fax: +49-721-693 717 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst Programm Committee Dan Brickley, Univ. of Bristol (UK) Vassilis Christophides, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Peter Eklund, Griffith University (Australia) Jim Hendler, Univ. of Maryland (USA) Rick Hull, Bell Labs, Lucent Tech. (USA) Manolis Koubarakis, Techn. Univ. of Crete (Greece) Fred Lochovsky, HKUST (Hong Kong) Alain Michard, INRIA (France) John Mylopoulos, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) Claire Nedellec, LRI (France) Dimitris Plexousakis, Univ. of Crete (Greece) Louiqa Raschid, Univ. of Maryland (USA) Marie-Christine Rousset, Univ. of ORSAY (France) Guus Schreiber, VU Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Tarcisio de Souza Lima, Federal Univ. of Juiz de Fora (Brazil) Katia Sycara, CMU (USA) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Nov 24 18:29:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:29:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL/EACL 2001 - Student Research Workshop Message-ID: From: Christof Monz Call for Papers Student Research Workshop at the joint ACL/EACL 2001 Meeting July 6-11, 2001 Toulouse, France submission deadline: February 12, 2001 The information below can also be found at this URL: www.science.uva.nl/~christof/acl01-student/ Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly established yet. Tentatively, the Workshop may take place anytime between 6th and 11th of July, 2001. 1. General Invitation for Submissions The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The main purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for student researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Seeing that the main mission of the student workshop is to provide the participants with a wide audience and useful feedback, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. For the Student Workshop, original, and unpublished research is invited on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to these topic areas: - pragmatics - discourse - semantics - syntax and the lexicon - phonetics - phonology and morphology - interpreting and generating spoken and written language - linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language - language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction - corpus-based language modeling - machine translation and translation aids - natural language interfaces and dialogue systems - approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems - message and narrative understanding systems The main conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and demos. See the Main ACL/EACL 2001 page for information: www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html 2. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work in progress. The main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work. Papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. The papers can have more than one author; however, all authors MUST be students. A paper accepted for presentation at the Student Workshop cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this immediately after the title material on the first page. 3. Submission Procedure Paper Registration Registration of your submission is required. This can be done by filling out a form available at the web site of the workshop: www.science.uva.nl/~christof/acl01-student/ After you fill out and submit this form, a unique ID number will be generated and sent to you in an e-mail shortly after the paper registration. You will then be able to use this ID number instead of your name on the title page of the paper and in any subsequent correspondence with the workshop co-chairs. If you are unable to use the on-line form for paper registration or experience problems using it, please, send email to acl01-student at science.uva.nl Submission format Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. These will soon be available from the web site: www.science.uva.nl/~christof/acl01-student/ These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. Separate items to be submitted Identification page Title: Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration) Author(s) name(s) affiliation and e-mail addresses Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas) Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, please specify) Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) Title page Title: Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration) Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas) Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, please specify) Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) Paper Electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions are acceptable. Electronic Submissions If you are submitting your paper electronically, only the following formats will be acceptable: - PostScript (.ps) - Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf) - Microsoft Word ACL style(.doc) - PDF (.pdf) Electronic submissions should be sent in an attachment to the following e-mail address: acl01-student at cis.upenn.edu If you are submitting a hard copy of your paper, please send six double sided copies of your paper (two copies should have the identification page attached, four should have the title page attached) to the following address: Eleni Miltsakaki Institute of Research in Cognitive Science Suite 400A, 3401 Walnut St. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 USA 4. Reviewing Procedure Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance decision will be made based on the results of the review. Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please, make sure you do not put the author(s) name(s) on the title page. (See paper submission requirements for details). You should not have any self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, you can't have a reference like this "We showed previously (Smith, 1991), ..." Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)..." 5. Schedule Submissions must be received by February 12th, 2001. Late submissions (those arriving on or after February 13th, 2001) will be automatically disqualified. The student workshop committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. For electronic submissions, all time zones will be taken into account) Acknowledgment will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on April 20th, 2001. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. 6. Timetable Important Dates: Paper registration: February 5, 2001 Paper submission deadline: February 12, 2001 Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2001 Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 18, 2001 7. Contact Information If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use: acl01-student at science.uva.nl An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs. Eleni Miltsakaki (Co-Chair) Institute of Research in Cognitive Science Suite 400A, 3401 Walnut St. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228, USA E-mail: elenimi at linc.cis.upenn.edu Phone: +1 215 573-6283 Fax: +1 215 573-9247 Christof Monz (Co-Chair) Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-mail: christof at science.uva.nl Phone: +31 20 525-6095 Fax: +31 20 525-5101 Ant?nio Ribeiro (Co-Chair) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ci?ncias e Tecnologia Departamento de Inform?tica Quinta da Torre P-2825-114 Caparica, Portugal E-mail: ambar at di.fct.unl.pt Phone: +351 21 294-8300, ext. 10743 Fax: +351 21 294-8541 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 29 14:13:28 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:13:28 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers Message-ID: _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Stein, Gees C (CRD)" Subject: NLP position at GE CR&D 2/ From: Laura Bergerol Subject: Comp linguist at YY Software Corp, CA, USA 3/ From: Alexander Koller Subject: PhD Scholarships Saarbruecken/Edinburgh 4/ From: Elaine Ivery-Mosby Subject: Senior Research Engineer/NLU Tech at VocalPoint Technologies, 5/ From: "Shu-hui Peng" Subject: (Comp) Ling, Lit: Tenure-Track Positions at NCNU, Taiwan _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Stein, Gees C (CRD)" Subject: NLP position at GE CR&D GE Corporate R&D is looking for an experienced Natural Language researcher to join their Multi- Media Systems Program. You will join a multi-disciplinary team, involving natural language, image understanding and speech recognition. As a researcher you will develop new technology and be involved in proposal writing and fund acquisition. Requirements: Experience in several of the following areas: Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Dialogue Systems, Summarization. Experience in proposal writing. A Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or equivalent qualification. GE CR&D is located at Schenectady, New York, surrounded by the Adirondacks and the Catskills. If you're interested in this position please contact: Gees Stein, Ph.D. General Electric CR&D, KW-C1305 P.O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 Phone: 518 387-6664 Fax: 518 387-4042 E-mail: steing at crd.ge.com _________________________________ Gees C. Stein, Ph.D. General Electric CR&D Center, Multimedia Systems Program. P.O. Box 8 phone: (518) 387-6664 Bldg KW-C1305 fax: (518) 387-4042 Schenectaday NY 12301 e-mail: steing at crd.ge.com _______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Laura Bergerol Subject: Comp linguist at YY Software Corp, CA, USA Rank of Job: Master's degree or equivalent Areas Required: Computational linguist Other Desired Areas: NLP University or Organization: YY Software Corporation Department: State or Province: California Country: USA Final Date of Application: April 30, 2001 Contact: Laura Bergerol Laura.Bergerol at yy.com Address for Applications: 110 Pioneer Way Mountain View CA 94110 USA YY Software Corporation, located in Mountain View, CA, seeks computational linguists to work full-time on grammar and lexicon development, NLP applications and development tools, with expertise in one or more of the following: - Syntactic analysis in a lexicalist framework such as Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar or Lexical Functional Grammar, for English, German, Japanese, or Spanish. - Semi-automated acquisition techniques for lexicon and grammar. - Robust processing of natural text found in email, including ellipsis, abbreviations, and errors. - Lexical semantics. - Knowledge representation for natural language processing Required qualifications: - Master's degree or equivalent post-graduate study in computational linguistics or related field. - Immediate availability Preferred qualifications: - Ph.D. or two years' work experience in computational linguistics or related field - Programming experience in C++, Java - U.S. citizenship or work permit Compensation: - Commensurate with experience, competitive with San Francisco Bay Area corporate standards. Send your CV via any of the following: - email: jobs at yy.com - fax: 650 623-0001 - mail: Laura Bergerol Director of Human Resources YY Software Corporation 110 Pioneer Way Mountain View, CA 94041 - web: http://www.yy.com Company profile: YY Software Corporation is the premier provider of intelligent auto-response software for eBusiness platforms. YY's breakthrough-technology products automatically read and respond to electronic inquiries with the highest levels of accuracy, functionality, and reliability across all customer touch points: Web site, email, chat, and, in the future, voice. Setting YY products apart from all others is their ability to handle language the way people actually use language. YY solutions are designed to provide a rapid return on investment by helping enterprises increase sales and enhance customer satisfaction while simultaneously reducing customer service costs. _______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Alexander Koller Subject: PhD Scholarships Saarbruecken/Edinburgh -- Please distribute! -- -- Apologies if you receive multiple copies -- Saarland University (Departments of General/Computational Linguistics and Informatics) are pleased to announce the availability of six doctoral scholarships within the newly established European Post-Graduate College "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" Saarbruecken - Edinburgh starting in April 1st, 2001. Each scholarship will be funded for two years (extendable to three years). Doctoral degrees may be obtained in computational linguistics, phonetics, and informatics. The European Post-Graduate College has been established in cooperation between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh (Division of Informatics) -- two leading institutions in the fields of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science who will collaborate in offering a joint post-graduate education programme. The cooperation includes * a six to twelve months research stay in Edinburgh * joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from Saarbruecken and Edinburgh * an intensive research exchange programme between Saarbruecken and Edinburgh (including, for example, an annual two-week research meeting attended by college members and lecturers from both locations). The college focuses on human language and speech processing and its computational, cognitive, and psychological foundations, particularly in the following research areas: * data-intensive language models (e.g. corpus-based and statistical modelling) * inference * knowledge representation, lexicon, and ontology * language and speech understanding * dialogue and language generation The participating lecturers in Saarbruecken are Patrick Blackburn, Manfred Pinkal, Hans Uszkoreit (computational linguistics), William Barry (phonetics), Matthew Crocker (psycholinguistics), Michael Kohlhase, Joerg Siekmann, Gert Smolka, and Wolfgang Wahlster (informatics/AI). In Edinburgh, lecturers are Michael Fourman, Ewan Klein, Alex Lascarides, Johanna Moore, Jon Oberlander, Martin Pickering, Mark Steedman, Paul Taylor, Bonnie Webber, and Chris Williams. Each scholarship is compensated with up to DM 2,870 per month. Additional compensation includes family allowance (where applicable), travel funding, and an additional monthly allowance of DM 1,410 for the stay in Edinburgh. Applicants should hold a strong university degree in one of the relevant areas, and they should not be more than 28 years of age. Women and international students are particularly encouraged to apply. Applications should include * a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, where possible) * copies of high school and university certificates * two references (to be sent directly to the college speaker) * an informal cover letter specifying interests, previous knowledge and activities in any of the relevant research areas. The letter should indicate the area in which the dissertation is to be conducted (computational linguistics/psycholinguistics, phonetics, or informatics/AI): where possible, it should include a brief outline of research interests to be pursued within the scholarship. Applications should be sent to the speaker of the college (see address below). Closing date for applications is December 31st, 2000. Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal Department of Computational Linguistics Saarland University P.O. Box 15 11 50 D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany Tel.: +49 (0)681 302-4344 Fax: +49 (0)681 302-4351 E-mail: pinkal at coli.uni-sb.de http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk/ _______________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Elaine Ivery-Mosby Subject: Senior Research Engineer/NLU Tech at VocalPoint Technologies, Rank of Job: Senior Areas Required: Research Engineer/NLU Technology Other Desired Areas: Linguist University or Organization: VocalPoint Technologies Department: Product Research State or Province: California Country: USA Final Date of Application: December 15, 2000 Contact: Elaine Ivery-Mosby resumes at vocalpoint.com Address for Applications: 847 Howard Street San Francisco CA 94103 USA Senior Research Engineer/NLU Technology: Position Summary: Design and implement algorithms for natural language processing. Develop and improve grammar for optimized speech recognition performance and natural language interpretation. Architect and develop algorithms for text normalization and parsing for better text-to-speech synthesis results. You should be innovative and a good team player. REQUIREMENTS 1. Education: MS in CS, EE, Linguistics or equivalent. PhD is asset 2. Experience: Solid programming experience (2 or more years) in C/C++. Experience with speech recognition, natural language processing, or text-to-speech synthesis is required. Knowledge/experience of statistical algorithms for natural language processing is highly desirable. Knowledge of Perl is a plus. VocalPoint is located in the heart of downtown San Francisco. We offer an excellent salary, competitive benefits package, and equity-based ownership. Interested party please send your resume to resumes at vocalpoint.com, position #NLUW. VocalPoint Technologies 847 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Fax: (415) 615-0600 http://www.vocalpoint.com _______________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: "Shu-hui Peng" Subject: (Comp) Ling, Lit: Tenure-Track Positions at NCNU, Taiwan Teaching Positions at National Chi Nan University Puli, Taiwan, R. O. C. The Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of National Chi Nan University announces the following open positions beginning with the 2001-2002 academic year. I. Anglo-American Literature (1 or more tenure-track positions): Applicants should have a Ph.D. in English or a related field by July of 2001. II. Linguistics (1 or more tenure-track positions): Applicants should have a Ph.D. in hand by July of 2001. First consideration will be given to applicants with a background in Computational Linguistics. In addition to conducting and publishing scholarly research, full-time faculty are required to teach undergraduate courses such as composition, conversation, reading, and listening lab. Applicants should provide: (1) letter of interest; (2) C.V.; (3) three letters of recommendation; (4) Ph.D. dissertation and representative publications; (5) official transcripts of graduate studies; (6) photocopy of graduate diploma (if already in hand); (7) proof of past and/or current employment (if available). Applications may be sent to: Dr. Chiu-Yueh Lai Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature National Chi Nan University 1 University Road Puli, Nantou 545, Taiwan, R. O. C. Email: cylai at ncnu.edu.tw or ljhuang at ncnu.edu.tw Tel: +886-49-910960 ext.2540, 2541 Fax: +886-49-914440 Requests for further information may be made by telephone, fax, email, or post. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 29 14:15:27 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:15:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: TAL Special Issue Message-ID: From: Pierrette Bouillon %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ENGLISH VERSION BELOW!! ***************************************************************** Appel ? soumissions ***************************************************************** LEXIQUES SEMANTIQUES DANS LES APPLICATIONS DU TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-semlex.html Num?ro sp?cial de la revue T.A.L. dirig? par : Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Gen?ve) et Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Seattle) Date limite de soumission : 1er avril 2001 ***************************************************************** THEME Plus personne ne conteste l'importance des lexiques s?mantiques pour les diverses applications du Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) : traduction automatique, indexation automatique, extraction d'information, g?n?ration de textes, etc. On s'accorde cependant moins sur le type d'informations n?cessaires, la mani?re de les repr?senter et de les acqu?rir automatiquement. Ce num?ro sp?cial essaye de faire le point sur ce sujet difficile et met en relation les th?mes de th?ories lexicales et applications concr?tes du TAL. L'emphase sera mise sur les questions suivantes : quelle th?orie pour quelle application sp?cifique ? Comment acqu?rir les informations automatiquement ? Comment les utiliser ? SUJETS (liste non limitative) - Acquisition de lexiques s?mantiques - La s?mantique lexicale dans les applications du Traitement Automatique des Langues - Ressources g?n?riques ou sp?cifiques ? - Quelle s?mantique lexicale pour quelle application ? - Nature des informations lexicales - Exploitation des donn?es lexicales existantes FORMAT ET ENVOI DES ARTICLES Pour la soumission des articles, l'utilisation de LaTeX2e est fortement recommand?e. Les feuilles de style sont disponibles chez HERMES . Les articles (30 pages au plus en double interligne, Helvetica 12) doivent ?tre envoy?s par courrier ?lectronique ? Pierrette Bouillon () et Evelyne Viegas () LANGUE Les articles peuvent ?tre ?crits en fran?ais ou en anglais, mais les soumissions en anglais ne seront accept?es que pour les auteurs non-francophones. LA REVUE T.A.L. (http://www.atala.org/tal/) L'ATALA publie depuis 1969 la revue internationale Traitement Automatique des Langues avec le concours du CNRS. Trois num?ros par an sont consacr?s aux diff?rents aspects du traitement automatique du langage naturel. La revue TAL s'adresse en priorit? aux chercheurs et aux ?tudiants de langue fran?aise. Elle est publi?e par l'ATALA : (http://www.atala.org) et est diffus?e par HERMES. COMITE DE REDACTION Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Gen?ve) Philippe Blache (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) -- Chief Editor Dani?le Cl?ment (Bergische Universit?t Wuppertal) Christophe d'Alessandro (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay) -- Chief Editor Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail) Claire Gardent (Universit?t des Saarlandes) -- Chief Editor Marc El-B?ze (Universit? d'Avignon) Jean-Louis Lebrave (CNRS, Paris) Piet Mertens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) ?velyne Tzoukermann (Bell Labs) Bernard Victorri (ENS, Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ***************************************************************** Call for papers ***************************************************************** SEMANTIC LEXICONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Special issue of the French journal TAL edited by: Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Gen?ve) and Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Seattle) Submission deadline: April 1, 2001 **************************************************************** SCOPE None would argue about the importance of semantic lexicons for Natural Language Processing applications such as machine translation, automatic indexing, information extraction, text generation, etc. However, there is no agreement on the type of information to use, how to represent it or how to acquire it automatically. This special issue directly addresses this difficult topic by investigating how lexical semantic theories relate to applications in NLP. We will emphasize the following questions: - Which theory for which application? - How to acquire information automatically? - How to use it in applications? TOPICS (NOT LIMITATIVE) - Acquisition of semantic lexicons - Lexical semantics in NLP applications - Generic versus specific resources? - Which lexical semantic theory for which application? - Types of lexical information - Exploitation of existing lexical data FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the HERMES style files . Submissions (30 pages maximum, double spaced, Helvetica 12) must be sent electronically to Pierrette Bouillon () and Evelyne Viegas (). LANGUAGE Articles can be written in French or in English, but English will only be accepted from non-French speaking authors. JOURNAL T.A.L. (http://www.atala.org/tal/) The international journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) has been published since 1969 by the French Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA) with the support of the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The journal TAL covers all fields of computational linguistics and its aim is to provide mainly (but not only) French speaking researchers and students with publications in all domains of computational linguistics. It appears three times a year and is distributed by HERMES. T.A.L. EDITORIAL BOARD Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Gen?ve) Philippe Blache (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) -- Chief Editor Dani?le Cl?ment (Bergische Universit?t Wuppertal) Christophe d'Alessandro (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay) -- Chief Editor Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail) Claire Gardent (Universit?t des Saarlandes) -- Chief Editor Marc El-B?ze (Universit? d'Avignon) Jean-Louis Lebrave (CNRS, Paris) Piet Mertens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) ?velyne Tzoukermann (Bell Labs) Bernard Victorri (ENS, Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 29 14:16:03 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:16:03 +0100 Subject: Appel: IJCAI'2001 workshop on Ontology Learning Message-ID: From: Alexander Maedche ********************************************************************* *********** Call for Papers: Ontology Learning ****************** ******************** IJCAI-2001 Workshop ************************* ********************************************************************* ******************** August 4, 2001, Seattle ********************** ********************************************************************* Comprehensive information to be found at http://ol2001.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Workshop Summary Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. In recent years, we have seen a surge of interest that deals with the discovery and automatic creation of complex, multirelational knowledge structures. For example, the natural language community tries to acquire word semantics from natural language texts, database researchers tackle the problem of schema induction, and people building intelligent information agents research the learning of complex structures from semi-structured input (HTML, XML). All the while, efforts in the machine learning community pursue the induction of more concise and more expressive knowledge structures (e.g., relational learning) in general. For the workshop we intend to gather a diverse range of participants interested in the machine learning of ontologies. In particular, we are also interested in the maintenance (revision, incrementality) and integration (from various sources) aspects of learning ontologies. Topics of interest include, e.g.: Text mining for building ontologies Learning from machine-readable dictionaries Lexical acquisition Learning selectional restrictions Semi-automatic extending of ontologies (WordNet) Multi-relational learning / Inductive Logic Programming A-Box Mining Learning ontologies with inferences (e.g. description logics) Learning ontologies from the Web (from DTDs, XML, RDF) Cooperative learning of ontologies Learning translation rules between ontologies Reverse Engineering relational schemas to ontologies Besides of the common digital presentations, we intend that participants give live system demonstrations. An invited talk "Learning to translate between ontologies" will be given by Alon Halevy (up until recently: Alon Levy), University of Washington. Important Dates Deadline for paper submission 21 February 2001 Notification of acceptance 21 March 2001 Deadline final contributions 30 April 2001 All accepted papers will be published in the IJCAI-2001 workshop proceedings. Submission Information We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper (less than 6000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for ontology learning. Submit before February 21, 2001 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf in the final IJCAI style format to: ama at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de or send three hard copies of your submission to: "Ontology Learning OL2001" Steffen Staab and Alexander Maedche Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe University, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Organizing Committee Steffen Staab (Contact), AIFB, Karlsruhe University, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany email: sst at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone: +49-721-608 4751 fax: +49-721-693 717 Alexander Maedche, AIFB, Karlsruhe University Claire Nedellec, Inference and Machine Learning Group, LRI, Universit? Paris Sud Ed Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 29 14:16:36 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:16:36 +0100 Subject: Appel: Corpus Linguistics 2001 Message-ID: From: Paul Rayson CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001 Lancaster University (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2001 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS Incorporating a celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Leech, with invited talks from: Prof. Douglas Biber - "Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb?" Prof. Jennifer Thomas - "Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of indirectness in political interviews" Prof. Geoffrey Sampson - "Thoughts on Twenty Years of Drawing Trees" Prof. Mick Short - "Style in Fiction and Non-fiction: A Corpus-based approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation" Corpus Linguistics 2001 will be a forum for all concerned with the computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our definition of 'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on substantial literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as more 'traditional' corpus linguists. Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilization between work occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction, parsing) and linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware of the latest developments in language processing. We also believe that language engineers should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus linguists. The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2001 are: 1. to encourage dialogue between those working on similar issues in different languages and between areas with a (perhaps as yet untapped) potential to interact. 2. to encourage dialogue between researchers using corpora in linguistics and those using corpora in language engineering. 3. to celebrate the life and works of Geoffrey Leech. Geoffrey Leech reaches 65 in 2001, and as part of the celebrations for this event, a special series of lectures will be given during the conference by four invited speakers who have worked closely with Geoff at various stages in his career: Doug Biber, Jenny Thomas, Geoff Sampson and Mick Short. For the main conference, papers of ca. 20 minutes are invited on topics such as: corpus-based studies of any language level in any language contrastive corpus linguistics computer-aided studies of style corpus- or text-based lexicography corpus/text building, encoding and annotation development of corpus-based language engineering tools applications of computer-aided text analysis in non-linguistic fields (market research, advertising, media studies, sociology, psychology, etc.) Proposals for workshops (half day or full day) are also invited. Topics broadly in line with the theme of the conference will be considered. Workshops will be held on the 29th March. The conference language will be English. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Papers: Abstracts of up to one page should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. As well as an outline of the paper, the abstract should include the authors' names, affiliations, and contact addresses (including e-mail and fax numbers). Electronic submissions are welcome. Workshops: Abstracts of two pages should be submitted to the Programme Committee by 1st Dec 2000. The abstract should include the names of the organizers, their contact details, and the projected number of papers to be presented at the workshop. Workshop organizers should also indicate whether they wish to generate a set of proceedings for their workshop. Those proposing a software demonstration should additionally indicate in detail what (if any) hardware and software requirements they have. Proceedings Proceedings will be produced from the conference. Additionally, selected papers will appear in an edited collection to be published in honour of Geoffrey Leech. DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2000 Proposers notified of acceptance of workshops: 8 December 2000 Authors notified of acceptance of papers: 15 December 2001 Deadline for full papers (for proceedings): 13 February 2001 [Full details will be sent with notices of acceptance.] CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Local committee Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) General committee Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lodz University) Jock McNaught (UMIST) Charles Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton University) Wolf-Dieter Syring (Greifswald University) ADDRESS Programme Committee Corpus Linguistics 2001 Department of Linguistics and MEL Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT UK Tel: +44 1524 593024 Fax: +44 1524 843085 E-mail: mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk WWW: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2000.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Nov 29 14:17:50 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:17:50 +0100 Subject: Appel: TIA-2001 Message-ID: From: "Jean ROYAUTE" ***************************************************************** [English version below] Deuxi?me appel ? communication TIA-2001 Quatri?me rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy Sous l'effet de l'information en r?seau, institutions, entreprises et laboratoires se trouvent aujourd'hui confront?s aux probl?mes consid?rables pos?s par la taille et la diversit? des documents sp?cialis?s. Acc?der ? ces corpus textuels, les filtrer, les traiter, les stocker, les impl?menter sur des syst?mes informatiques, telles sont, entre autres, les t?ches auxquelles doit r?pondre la terminologie. Devant de tels enjeux, la terminologie, en tant que discipline, doit ?tablir des relations coop?ratives avec un ensemble de disciplines allant de la linguistique ? l'ing?nierie des connaissances en passant par les sciences de l'information. La pratique terminologique fait notamment appel ? des techniques linguistiques et /ou num?riques pour manipuler les unit?s de la langue naturelle (en particulier les terminologies) et ? des techniques d'intelligence artificielle pour la formalisation de ces donn?es. Ces techniques partagent des m?thodes, des objectifs et une m?me finalit? : - m?me point de d?part : elles partent de corpus pour l'acquisition de donn?es linguistiques destin?es ? la constitution de terminologies ; - m?me objectif : la mod?lisation de domaines ? partir de corpus, sans formalisation dans le cas d'une production linguistique, avec formalisation du domaine dans le cas d'une application requ?rant les techniques de l'I.A ; - m?me vis?e applicative : ressources terminologiques, dictionnaires ?lectroniques pour la traduction automatique, pour l'indexation, pour le filtrage, etc., ontologies, syst?mes ? base de connaissances, m?moires d'entreprise (dans le cadre d'applications relevant de l'I.A). L'objectif de la conf?rence TIA est de faire ?merger les convergences et les coop?rations possibles entre ces disciplines pour ?laborer et tester des m?thodes de travail sur corpus, associ?es ? des techniques de traitement automatique de la langue et d'intelligence artificielle, afin de constituer, de mani?re syst?matique, les donn?es terminologiques pertinentes en fonction des applications. Les quatri?mes rencontres TIA serviront ? explorer les nombreuses questions rest?es ouvertes en mati?re d'acquisition de connaissances terminologiques ? partir de corpus, d'analyse du fonctionnement lexicologique en corpus sp?cialis?, de mod?lisation et de formalisation de ces connaissances, toujours dans le cas d'applications pr?cises. Vous ?tes invit? ? y participer en proposant une communication sur l'un des th?mes ci-dessous : - Th?ories du sens et la question des textes sp?cialis?s - Terminologie et ontologies - Exploitation de l'extraction de termes en corpus - Terminologie et mod?lisation / formalisation des connaissances - Bases de connaissances terminologiques - Ressources terminologiques pour la recherche d'information - Probl?mes de la terminologie multilingue - R?utilisabilit? en ing?nierie linguistique et ing?nierie des connaissances - Outils et applications Le Groupe TIA (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/), est organisateur de cette conf?rence qui fait suite aux conf?rences TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) et TIA'99 (Nantes). Fond? sous l'?gide du PRC-IA et de l'AFIA en 1994, ? pr?sent groupe AFIA/PRC-I3, ce groupe rassemble des chercheurs en linguistique, en intelligence artificielle et en traitement automatique des langues. Il a ?t? cr?? pour permettre une confrontation entre les cadres th?oriques et m?thodologiques ainsi qu'entre les pratiques d?velopp?es dans chaque discipline. Les propositions de communications (en anglais ou en fran?ais) seront soumises ? un comit? de programme international constitu? des membres du groupe TIA et d'experts des domaines concern?s. CONFERENCIERS INVITES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminologie et applications industrielles" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) " Multilinguisme et ing?nierie linguistique " COMITE DE PROGRAMME Pr?sidente : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (Universit? de Rome) Brigitte Bi?bow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) St?phane Chaudiron (Minist?re de la Recherche &Universit? Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Beno?t Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Universit? Paris 10) Udo Hahn (Universit? de Fribourg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (Universit? d'Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Universit? de Dublin) Fran?ois Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) Fran?ois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royaut? (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Universit? Louis Lumi?re, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) COMITE D'ORGANISATION Jean Royaut? (Pr?sident), Dominique Besagni, Claire Fran?ois, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Universit? Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) Les rencontres se d?rouleront ? l'INIST - Nancy (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du CNRS) et seront aussi l'occasion de mettre en ?vidence les convergences entre documentation et terminologie. CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 15 janvier 2001 Notification aux auteurs : 25 f?vrier 2001 Date de r?ception des versions d?finitives ; 15 mars 2001 FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS Les articles soumis, en fran?ais ou en anglais, ne devront pas d?passer 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ 3000 mots, figures, exemples et r?f?rences compris. Les soumissions devront contenir, sur une page s?par?e, les ?l?ments suivants : noms d'auteur(s) affiliation(s) adresse(s) (fax et e-mail) titre de la soumission 5 ? 10 mots cl?s r?sum? (300 mots maximum) Les articles devront parvenir au comit? de programme sous forme papier l'adresse suivante : Monique SLODZIAN CRIM-INALCO Comit? de Programme TIA-2001 2, rue de Lille - 75343 PARIS cedex 07 ou sous forme ?lectronique, aux adresses ?lectroniques : ou Les d?tails concernant l'organisation de la conf?rence seront diffus?s ult?rieurement sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm et http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/ et sur diff?rentes listes. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royaut? - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex T?l : +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ***************************************************************** Second call for papers TIA-2001 4th meeting "Terminology and Artificial Intelligence" 3-4 May 2001, Nancy, France Due to the availability of ever-increasing amount of information institutions, companies and laboratories are facing new problems related in particular to scale effects and the diversity of technical texts. A full range of tasks, from accessing text corpora to processing lexical data, is now being entrusted to terminology. As a result, terminology has to enrich and strengthen its links with related disciplines, including linguistics, knowledge engineering and information sciences. Thus, terminological work makes use of linguistic and /or numeric techniques to process natural language items (especially terms) and of artificial intelligence techniques for their formalization. These techniques share a number of methods and objec tives as well as a common goal: - the same starting point: corpus-based data acquistion; - the same objectives: corpus-based domain modeling with or without formalization, depending on the type of application (artificial intelligence or not); - the same goal: production of terminological resources (machine-readable dictionaries for machine translation, indexing, filtering); ontologies, knowledge-based systems, corporate memories. The TIA Conference aims at promoting convergence and synergy among such disciplines in order to develop and evaluate corpus-processing methodologies, requiring refined natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques. The end results of those investigations should help build relevant terminological data for specific applications on a systematic basis. The 4th TIA Conference will be an opportunity to explore some of the unsolved problems raised in corpus-based acquisition of terminological data, in the analysis of lexical behavior in specialized corpora, in knowledge modeling and formalization of the resulting data. You are invited to propose a paper in the following topics: - Meaning theories and the question of specialized texts; - Terminology and ontologies; - Exploitation of corpus-based term extraction; - Terminology and knowledge modeling / formalization - Terminological knowledge bases; - Terminological resources for information retrieval; - Problems of multilingual terminology; - Reusability in linguistics and knowledge engineering - Tools and applications. This TIA Conference, which follows TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) and TIA'99 (Nantes), is organized by the TIA Working Group (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/). This group gathers researchers in linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. It was created to allow a confrontation between the theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as between the practices developed in each discipline. Submitted papers (in French or in English) will be reviewed by an international program committee composed of members of the TIA Working Group and of invited experts. INVITED LECTURES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminology and industrial applications" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) "Multi-lingualism and language engineering" PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (University of Roma) Brigitte Bi?bow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) St?phane Chaudiron (Minist?re de la Recherche &Universit? Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Beno?t Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Universit? Paris 10) Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Universit? of Dublin) Fran?ois Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) Fran?ois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royaut? (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Universit? Louis Lumi?re, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jean Royaut? (Organizing chair), Dominique Besagni, Claire Fran?ois, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Universit? Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) The conference will take place at INIST, the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in Nancy, and will also offer the opportunity to highlight the convergence between documentation and terminology. DEADLINES Submission due date: January 15, 2001 Notification date: February 25, 2001 Camera ready date: March 15, 2001 SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers submitted, in French or English, should not exceed 10 pages of text in Times 12 with single line-spacing, i.e. approximately 3000 words, figures, examples and references included. Soumissions should include on an additional page : Author name(s) Affiliation(s) Address(es) (fax and e-mail) Title of soumission Key-words (5-10) Abstract (300 words max.) Papers should be sent by regular mail to: Monique SLODZIAN CRIM-INALCO Program Committee of TIA-2001 2, rue de Lille - 75343 PARIS cedex 07 E-mail submission should be sent to or Details concerning the conference organization will be given later on the conferences websites: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm and http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA and on various lists. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royaut? - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex Tel.: +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ***************************************************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/