# AUTHORS: <list of authors> # EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence> # KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...> # TYPE: <paper> / <poster> / <demo> # ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper> Send your submission to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions *** 22 April 2001 *** Notification of acceptance 6 May 2001 Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001 Registration deadline as ACL Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001 REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop. People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should be sent to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. MORE INFORMATION Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:12:56 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:12:56 +0200 Subject: Conf: DCAGRS 01 Message-ID: <MON.9.APR.2001.171256.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Dear Colleague, this is to remind you of the deadline (April 15) for submissions to the workshop Descriptional Complexity for Automata, Grammars and Related Structures (July 20-22, 2001, Vienna, Austria). Detailed information is available at http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs01/ Thank you very much for your attention. Yours sincerely, Bernd Reichel ************************************************************************ Dr. Bernd Reichel Fakultaet für Informatik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg Postfach 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany Tel.: +49-391-67-12851; FAX: -11250; Tel.(privat): +49-391-5051515 reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~reichel Gebaeude 18 Raum 232 ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:18:43 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:18:43 +0200 Subject: Ecole: EUROLAN 2001 REMINDER Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.191843.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *********************************************************** REMINDER SUBMISSIONS DUE APRIL 15 *********************************************************** EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources WORKSHOP ON MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS July 30 - August 1, 2001 Iasi, Romania ORGANIZERS Dan Cristea, University "A.I. Cuza", Iasi, Romania Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Daniel Marcu, ISI, University of Southern California Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh Corpora annotated for a variety of linguistic features are becoming increasingly available. Part of speech annotated corpora are commonplace; treebanks in a variety of languages are available or under development; and corpora annotated for various features of discourse, including co-reference and discourse structure, are also available (e.g., the MUC corpora). In addition, large speech corpora annotated with phonetic transcriptions and prosodic analysis and various multi-lingual aligned corpora are available from centers such as the Linguistic Data Consortium and the European Language Resources Association. This workshop will address issues of using corpora annotated for multiple layers (e.g., syntax and discourse, prosody and part of speech, etc.) or combining multiple layers of annotation in natural language analysis. We invite submissions on the following topics: o Research that exploits information on different linguistic levels; o Consideration and demonstration of the ways in which information from different layers can be used in automatic language processing; o Compatibility of corpora annotated for different linguistic layers, including means to harmonize different annotation types and levels; o Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer School on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, to be held in Iasi, Romania from 30 July - August 11, 2001. Because EUROLAN 2001 is concerned with a wide variety of types of linguistic annotation, the workshop will serve to complement the content of lectures and tutorials that are part of the School's main program. Registration for the workshop is included in the Summer School registration fee. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Papers should report on original work not previously presented elsewhere. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion and a means to receive feedback for future development; therefore, papers describing both completed work and work-in-progress are acceptable. Submissions of 3500-5000 words should be sent via email to ide at cs.vassar.edu with the subject line "EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP SUBMISSION". Submissions in Postscript, PDF, or plain ASCII text formats are acceptable. DATES: Deadline for receipt of submissions April 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance May 5, 2001 Final Paper due June 1, 2001 Workshop date July 30 - August 1, 2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbrücken Charles Fillmore - ICSI, UC Berkeley Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo Jan Hajic - Charles University, Prague Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:21:17 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:21:17 +0200 Subject: Publications: COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES vol35 issues 1 AND 2 Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192117.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> See below for issue 1 ********************************************************************* JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED ********************************************************************* COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Editors-in-chief Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2001 Table of Contents Finding Syntactic Structure in Unparsed Corpora: The Gsearch Corpus Query System Steffan Corley, Martin Corley, Frank Keller, Matthew W. Crocker, Shari Trewin pp. 81-94 The Challenge of Optical Music Recognition David Bainbridge, Tim Bell pp. 95-121 Archaeological Data Models and Web Publication Using XML J. David Schloen pp. 123-152 Sentential Count Rules for Arabic Language Fawaz S. Al-Anzi pp. 153-166 Change-Point Analysis: Elision in Euripides Orestes Jan G. De Gooijer, Nancy M. Laan pp. 167-191 Computer-Based Authorship Attribution Without Lexical Measures E. Stamatatos, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis pp. 193-214 Integrating Linguistic Resources in TC through WSD L. Alfonso Ureqa-Lspez, Manuel Buenaga, Josi M. Gsmez pp. 215-230 Spanish Word Frequency: A Historical Surprise M.J. Woods pp. 231-236 ---------------------------------------------------------------- For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult http://www.wkap.nl/ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Editors-in-chief Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2001 *********************************************************************** * Special Issue on Pattern Processing in Music Analysis and Creation * *********************************************************************** Table of Contents Preface: The AISB99 Convention and the Focus Workshop Geraint A. Wiggins pp. 1-2 Introduction: Pattern Processing in Music Analysis and Creation Pierre-Yves Rolland pp. 3-8 Pattern Processing in Melodic Sequences: Challenges, Caveats and Prospects Emilios Cambouropoulos, Tim Crawford, Costas S. Iliopoulos pp. 9-21 Perceptual Issues in Music Pattern Recognition: Complexity of Rhythm and Key Finding Ilya Shmulevich, Olli Yli-Harja, Edward Coyle, Dirk-Jan Povel, Kjell Lemstrvm pp. 23-35 Representing Melodic Patterns as Networks of Elaborations Alan Marsden pp. 37-54 Approximate Musical Evolution Tim Crawford, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Russel Winder, Haifeng Yu pp. 55-64 Investigating the Influence of Representations and Algorithms in Music Classification Karin Hvthker, Dominik Hvrnel, Christina Anagnostopoulou pp. 65-79 --------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult http://www.wkap.nl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:22:54 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:22:54 +0200 Subject: Appel: IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192254.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------- San Jose, California, USA November 29 - December 2, 2001 Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Workshop Proposals ******************************************* As an important part of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '01), the ICDM '01 workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in data mining. It will provide a venue for several topical workshops on specific data mining research and/or application problems. ICDM '01 workshops will foster the discussion of exciting research directions and works in progress through paper presentations, round table and panel discussions, and invited talks. We especially encourage workshop submissions that capitalize on the location of the conference in Silicon Valley by targeting an audience from both industry and academia. Workshop chairs define the focus and structure of each workshop. Responsibilities include (1) writing the call for papers and publicizing it, (2) selecting the workshop organizing and program committees, and (3) deciding the workshop program content. Submission Instructions ======================= June 15, 2001: Workshop proposals are due. Workshop proposals should be sent via email to the ICDM '01 Workshops Chair, Johannes Gehrke (johannes at cs.cornell.edu). A workshop proposal should include the following information: (1) Workshop title (2) Workshop organizers with full contact information (3) Description of the workshop including objectives, content, and format of the workshop (4) List of potential attendees (5) List of potential authors of workshop contributions June 29, 2001: Notification of workshop proposal acceptance. Suggested Timeline for Workshop Chairs ====================================== July 13, 2001: Workshop call for papers has been sent out. September 14, 2001: Workshop paper submissions due. October 12, 2001: Workshop paper acceptance notices. October 26, 2001: Camera-ready version of workshop papers due. November 29, 2001: Workshop takes place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:23:59 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:23:59 +0200 Subject: Jobs: Ph.D. Fellowships in Language Technology Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192359.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Ph.D. Fellowships in Language Technology The new national Swedish Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT) announces four year graduate fellowships beginning 1st Sept. 2001 (application deadline 7th May, 2001). The school is hosted by Göteborg University and is a collaboration between leading centres in language technology in Sweden including in addition to Göteborg University, Chalmers University of Technology, Högskolan i Borås, Höskolan i Skövde, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Linköping University, Uppsala University, Växjö University. Students may be placed at any of these institutions. The school aims to integrate research on speech and language and to provide a sound basis in both theoretical foundations and applications oriented research. It is committed to an international profile and welcomes applications from outside of Sweden. More information, including application materials, can be found on http://www.ling.gu.se/gslt, by sending email to gslt at ling.gu.se or by contacting the director: Professor Robin Cooper Göteborg University email cooper at ling.gu.se tel +46-31-773 2536 fax +46-31-773 4853 address GSLT Faculty of Arts Göteborg University Box 200 SE 405 30 Göteborg Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:28:36 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:28:36 +0200 Subject: Conf: TIA 2001 : DEMONSTRATIONS : extension date limite Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192836.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* DERNIER A P P E L A D E M O N S T R A T I O N S ((((((((((((((( extension date limite au 20/04/2001 ))))))))))))))))) 4ème Rencontre "Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle" 3-4 Mai 2001, Nancy TIA 2001 se situe au carrefour de différents domaines, linguistique, terminologie, informatique dont les approches se complètent. Ainsi, ces dernières années ont vu émerger des applications informatiques réalisant différentes tâches autour de la terminologie : extraction de termes,exploration active de corpus, modélisation conceptuelle de domaines, analyse de gros corpus de textes en vue d'en extraire des informations. L'existence de ces applications montre la faisabilité et l'utilité de traitements automatiques ou interactifs dans le dépouillement de textes. Nous vous invitons donc à nous proposer des démonstrations d'applications répondant aux thèmes de la conférence. LIEU ET FREQUENCE DES DEMONSTRATIONS En principe, les démonstrations auront lieu une fois pour chaque application. Un horaire spécifique leur sera réservé (voir Programme). Les auteurs pourront afficher un poster illustrant l'application présentée. INSTRUCTIONS AUX AUTEURS L'application doit être présentée en une seule page. La présentation devra indiquer : - les auteurs ; - leur laboratoire ; - une description de l'application ; - une description précise du matériel et des logiciels informatiques nécessaires. La proposition de démonstration devra également être accompagnée d'une Fiche de renseignements techniques que les auteurs peuvent télédécharger à partir du site de la conférence (http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm). IMPORTANT : La proposition de démonstration sera envoyée avant le 20 avril 2001 : - par courrier postal et en trois exemplaires au président du comité d'organisation : Jean Royauté URI-INIST-CNRS 2, allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex - par courrier électronique à l'adresse tia2001 at inist.fr 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 13 16:35:37 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:35:37 +0100 Subject: R: Lexique informatise de grec moderne Message-ID: <FRI.13.APR.2001.173537.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> 1/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:34:31 +0200 From: Elsa Sklavounou <sklavounou at systran.fr> Message-Id: <3AD41717.608C0414 at systran.fr> 2/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:43:48 +0200 From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> Message-Id: <a0500190bb6f9d7aee4bf@[129.88.32.65]> ======================================================================= 1/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:34:31 +0200 From: Elsa Sklavounou <sklavounou at systran.fr> Message-Id: <3AD41717.608C0414 at systran.fr> X-url: http://www.komvos.edu.gr Kalimera à tous Le site www.komvos.edu.gr dispose les derniers dictionnaires du grec moderne (Triantafyllidis, Dictionnaire Inverse et autres) informatisés. Vous pouvez faire plusieurs requêtes. Il y a aussi un corpus de 1.500.000 mots avec la possibilité de rechercher des mots ou des séquences des mots aussi. Elsa Sklavounou ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:43:48 +0200 From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> Message-Id: <a0500190bb6f9d7aee4bf@[129.88.32.65]> X-url: http://www.ilsp.gr Voir le site de l'ILSP ou contacter S.Piperidis Stelios Piperidis Head of Language Technology Applications Department Institute for Language and Speech Processing-ILSP 6 Artemidos & Epidavrou, 151 25 Marousi, Athens, Greece Tel : +301 6875430 Fax : +301 6852 620 email : Stelios Piperidis <spip at ilsp.gr> http://www.ilsp.gr CB -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Boitet (Pr. Universite' Joseph Fourier) Tel: +33.4-7651-4355/4817 GETA, CLIPS, IMAG-campus, BP53 Fax: +33.4-7651-4405 385, rue de la Bibliothe`que Mel: Christian.Boitet at imag.fr 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Mobile: +33-(0)6-6005-1969 http://www-clips.imag.fr/geta/christian.boitet ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Projet C-STAR (http://www.c-star.org/) et projet europe'en Nespole (http://nespole.itc.it) de traduction de parole Projet UNL de communication et recherche d'information multilingue sur le re'seau http://www.unl.ias.unu.edu ou http://www.unl.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 13 16:35:40 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:35:40 +0100 Subject: R: Corpus d'articles Scientifiques et leurs resumes Message-ID: <FRI.13.APR.2001.173540.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:42:28 +0100 From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> Message-Id: <4.1.20010411093739.00a59d90 at mail.wlv.ac.uk> X-url: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/ There are corpora with scientific abstracts only (e.g. INSPEC), but regarding a corpus containing BOTH articles and their abstracts, it may be interesting for you to know that Constantin Orasan (in6093 at wlv.ac.uk) from the University of Wolverhampton is working on such a corpus for English at the moment. Ruslan Mitkov \\\ Ruslan Mitkov, PhD /// Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering \\\ School of Humanities, Languages and Social Studies (Wolverhampton) /// University of Wolverhampton \\\ Stafford St. /// Wolverhampton WV1 1SB \\\ United Kingdom /// Telephone (44-1902) 322471 \\\ Fax (44-1902) 322739 /// Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk \\\ Website http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:07 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:07 +0100 Subject: Info: New MSc/PhD programs in NLP at King's College, London Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115107.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:28:18 +0100 From: Jonathan Ginzburg <ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> Message-Id: <3ADC9951.8215BEC1 at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> X-url: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/ginzburg New MSc and MPhil/PhD Programs in Natural Language Processing in the Computer Science Dept. at King's College, London A new Natural Language Processing research group has been created in the Computer Science Department at King's College, London. This group is offering an MSc in Natural Language Processing, which will start in September 2001, and opportunities for MPhil/PhD studies. For information on the group and these new programes please consult our web site at www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/index.html. Inquiries can also be directed to Shalom Lappin (lappin at dcs.kcl.ac.uk) or Jonathan Ginzburg (ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk). The Department of Computer Science at King's College anticipates having two EPSRC funded quota PhD studentships for September, 2001. These will be awarded on a competitive basis to PhD applicants from any area of computer science. The holder of an EPSRC quota studentship must be a permanent resident of the UK to receive a tuition scholarship and a maintenance grant. Residents of a European Union country are eligible for a tuition scholarship only. Qualified PhD applicants interested in pursuing research in natural language processing will be considered for these grants. (Apologies if you see this announcement multiply) -- Dept of Computer Science King's College, London The Strand, London WC2R 2LS UK phone: +44-20-7848-2752 fax: +44-20-7848-2841 ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/ginzburg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:32 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:32 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115132.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> 1/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:15:49 +0100 From: Fiona McGregor <fiona at cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-Id: <l03102800b7044d2fd695@[129.215.110.138]> 2/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:58:13 +0200 From: Linda Bellahsene <lbellahs at etu.info.unicaen.fr> Message-Id: <3ADEA8A5.9F26986D at etu.info.unicaen.fr> 3/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:47:12 +0200 From: "Simon de Bernard" <debernard at valigen.net> Message-Id: <007a01c0c8df$9e85b980$8901a8c0 at valigene.com> X-url: http://www.valigen.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:15:49 +0100 From: Fiona McGregor <fiona at cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-Id: <l03102800b7044d2fd695@[129.215.110.138]> University of Edinburgh Research Programmer : Spoken Dialogue Systems The Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), Division of Informatics draws on the skills and expertise of one of the largest communities of natural language processing specialists in Europe and has strong experience in human-machine interaction, natural language understanding, speech processing, and XML protocols. In this role you will join a team working on the design and implementation of a spoken dialogue system. Much of the envisaged work will be carried out within ICCS's Language Technology Group, which provides a stimulating and varied research environment. You should have experience of software engineering and distributed agent systems and a good knowledge of C, C++ or Java. Experience with CORBA and XML would be an advantage, as would knowledge of speech or language engineering. The appointment is for a fixed term of 2 years. Salary scale, 16,775 -- 25,213 p.a. Informal enquiries to steedman at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Please quote ref:316245 For further pariculars and application pack visit our web site (www.ed.ac.uk) or telephone the recruitment line on +44 (0)131 650 2511. Closing date : 11 May 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:58:13 +0200 From: Linda Bellahsene <lbellahs at etu.info.unicaen.fr> Message-Id: <3ADEA8A5.9F26986D at etu.info.unicaen.fr> L'unité de recherche et développement "Reconnaissance de parole" de Datops propose à Nîmes, France, le poste suivant: - un stage bac+5 en linguistique-informatique (6 mois) sur le traitement de la parole. Des connaissances dans les domaines de "perplexity", "Semantic Interpretation" sont nécessaires. Contact : Linda Bellahsene - lbellahsene at datops.com (Les candidatures doivent être envoyées exclusivement par email). The speech recognition team of Datops R&D in Nîmes (France) invites applications for this position : - a 6 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate student about speech recognition. The main task of the candidate will be to develop the automatic speech recognition software with acoustic and language model (Theory of perplexity and Semantic Interpetation) for extracting text elements from audio files and video soundtracks; for English first. Contact : Linda Bellahsene - lbellahsene at datops.com (send resume by email). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:47:12 +0200 From: "Simon de Bernard" <debernard at valigen.net> Message-Id: <007a01c0c8df$9e85b980$8901a8c0 at valigene.com> X-url: http://www.valigen.com IT Linguist. ValiGen is a biotechnology company intent on becoming the premier drug target validation company and a leading developer of innovative human therapeutics and plants. For the development of its pathway mapping technology, ValiGen is presently looking for an IT Linguist. Job Description: Writing of transducers for the detection of biological interactions from scientific literature and integration of these and other linguistic components in a broader information management software. Location: Paris-La-Défense, France Education & Experience: Degree in Linguistics/Language Technology Degree in Biology (preferred). Good knowledge of English grammar. Proven experience in text parsing systems (INTEX, Xelda or equivalent). Familiarity with biology related scientific literature is preferred. Availability: Immediate For details on ValiGen and its technologies, please consult our web pages at: http://www.valigen.com To apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to: drh at valigen.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:43 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: JADT 2002 Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115143.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:47:25 +0200 From: Pascale Sebillot <Pascale.Sebillot at irisa.fr> Message-Id: <3AE0762D.3DD07825 at irisa.fr> X-url: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt CALL FOR PAPERS - JADT 2002 - March 13-15, 2002 6th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 13-15, 2002 Palais du Grand Large St-Malo / France The International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data provides a workshop-style forum to all scholars, statisticians, computer scientists, linguists..., working in the vast field of textual data analysis ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of data to content analysis. Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998) and Lausanne (2000), the 6th International Conference will be held in Saint-Malo, France on march 13-15 2002. Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 1, 2001 Notification: October 30, 2001 Camera ready papers: December 15, 2001 Conference: March 13-15, 2002 Website: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt e-mail address: jadt2002 at irisa.fr Submission: Submissions should be limited to original work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous works. Participants wishing to submit a paper should send to the organization committee (via email jadt2002 at irisa.fr) a first version of their paper for review by September 1, 2001, giving the following information: - Name, affiliation and full postal address (fax and/or e-mail) of authors - Title of the proposed paper with keywords - A first version of the paper (12 pages max.) emphasizing the purpose of the paper - An abstract in the paper language - An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) - Bibliographical references Topics: Topics of interest of the conference concern the application of statistical models and tools in the following domains: - Exploratory Textual Data Analysis - Textual Statistics - Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions - Natural Language Processing - Stylometry - Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis - Textual Classification - Text Corpora and Text Encoding - Frequency Dictionaries - Lemmatization, automatic categorization - Information Retrieval - Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors on October 30, 2001. Final versions (camera-ready papers) should conform to the format that will be provided to the authors (12 pages max.) and reach the committee no later than December 15, 2001. Accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the participants at the start of the conference. Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract. As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. Program Committee: Ramon Alvarez, Univ. of Leon, Spain Harald Baayen, Univ. of Nimègue, The Netherlands Monica Bécue, Polyt. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain Sergio Bolasco, Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy Étienne Brunet, Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Annibale Elia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Dominique Labbé, Univ. of Grenoble, France Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST Paris, France (Président) Alain Lelu Univ. of Franche Comté, France Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, France Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. of Versailles SQY, France André Salem, Univ. Paris 3, France Pascale Sébillot, IRISA, France Fiona Tweedie, Univ. of Glasgow, UK Organization Committee: Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr organized by IRISA/INRIA Rennes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:47 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:47 +0100 Subject: Conf: MBR'01 Final Program Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115147.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:29:59 -0500 From: Lorenzo Magnani <lmagnani at cc.gatech.edu> Message-Id: <3AE37787.459551BD at cc.gatech.edu> X-url: http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html MBR'01 Final program (Model-Based Reasoning. Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, Values, Pavia, Italy, May 17-19, 2001 http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:39 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:39 +0100 Subject: Appel: TIA 2001, Dernier appel a participation Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115139.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:28:30 +0200 From: "Ivana ROCHE" <Roche at inist.fr> Message-Id: <sae02b83.015 at gwia> X-url: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm ************************************************************************ (((((((((((((( DERNIER APPEL A PARTICIPATION )))))))))))))) T I A 2001 Quatrième rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy Les détails concernant l'organisation de la conférence et les insciptions sont sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A T T E N T I O N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LES INSCRIPTIONS A LA SOIREE DU 03/05, QUI SUIVRA LA RECEPTION A LA MAIRIE DE NANCY, RESTENT OUVERTES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PROGRAMME : Jeudi 3 mai 2001 9 h 00 - 10 h 00 : Accueil 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Allocutions d'ouverture 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une nécessaire coopération" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN - Université Paris Nord "Lexically-suggested hyponymic relations among medical terms and their representation in the UMLS", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 - 12 h 00 : Pause 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conférence invitée : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : Déjeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation Aérienne : Mise à jour de régularités", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Repérage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects méthodologiques", Valérie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Université de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 - 16 h 30 : Pause 16 h30 - 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universités d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonnée des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et améliorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Université René Descartes. "Normalisation des échanges de données en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'évolution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Vendredi 4 mai 2001 8 h 30 - 9 h 00 : Accueil 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement intégré pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Biébow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN - Université Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barrière, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 - 12 h 00 : Pause durant laquelle les sessions de posters et de démonstrations seront organisées en parallèle POSTERS "Approche phraséologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue aligné", Frérot Cécile, Rigou Géraldine, Lacombe Annik, Université de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "Méthodes d'analyse automatique de l'évolution terminologique au travers des variations repérées dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage d'information. Vers une (ré)utilisabilité des ressources linguistiques pour la recherche d'information", Antonio BALVET, Université Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Extraction de termes à base nominale à partir d'un corpus bilingue aligné", François MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Université Lumière Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal Pérez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Université de Malaga 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conférence invitée : "Multilinguisme et ingénierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : Déjeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 30 : "Réutilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance sémantique entre termes médicaux", Cédric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-Hôtel Dieu, Santé Publique et Informatique Médicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris "Contextualisation automatisée de syntagmes nominaux pour la navigation dans une mémoire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliquées - Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricité de France, Division Recherche et Développement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la mémoire d'un projet-véhicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 - 17 h 00 : Clôture 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 ***************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:51 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:51 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL NLG WORKSHOP, submission deadline 22 Apr Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115151.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:17:27 -0400 From: "Nicolas Nicolov" <nicolas at us.ibm.com> Message-Id: <OFB49CA8FE.0440AEB4-ON85256A32.002D28D5 at pok.ibm.com> X-url: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html X-url: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 6-7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html Sponsored by IBM, Endorsed by SIGGEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media. This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The workshop will focus on the following topics: * Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization) There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG. Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue. Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale applications such as summarization and machine translation. * Differences in information organization between source and presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these) Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong similarities in building the target representations: In the overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often, this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques. Accepted papers on these and related topics will be scheduled for presentation. The majority of the time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. We are considering organizing a panel. For the focus topics above, we will contact a number of competent researchers to address the topic from a specific perspective according to their experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to prepare material / concrete examples for discussions. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman Univ. of Bremen Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi Robert Dale Macquarie University Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7 Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ. Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico Owen Rambow AT&T Research Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS SUBMISSIONS (papers, posters, demos) Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ We also invite poster and demo submissions (free format, up to 6 page, PDF). The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the following information (ASCII text): # TITLE: <title of the paper> # AUTHORS: <list of authors> # EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence> # KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...> # TYPE: <paper> / <poster> / <demo> # ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper> Send your submission to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions *** 22 April 2001 *** Notification of acceptance 6 May 2001 Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001 Registration deadline as ACL Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001 REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop. People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should be sent to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. MORE INFORMATION Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:55 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:55 +0100 Subject: Appel: RANLP, submission deadline 15 May Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115155.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:28:17 -0400 From: "Nicolas Nicolov" <nicolas at us.ibm.com> Message-Id: <OF26FC00C1.699024C2-ON85256A32.002DAEDF at pok.ibm.com> X-url: http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ X-url: http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ *********************************************************** * * * RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING * * * * Euro Conference RANLP-2001 * * 5-7 September 2001 * * Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria * * * * http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ * * * *********************************************************** Further to the successful and competitive 1st and 2nd conferences on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (selected papers from which were published by John Benjamins as CILT vol.136 and CILT vol.189), we are pleased to announce the third RANLP conference to be held this year. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. TOPICS We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing. We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text categorisation; question- answering; dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. INVITED SPEAKERS Branimir Boguraev (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Ed Hovy (Information Sciences Institute / USC) Martin Kay (Xerox Parc) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Elisabeth Andre (DFKI) Galia Angelova (LML, Sofia) Branimir Boguraev (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) Kalina Boncheva (Sheffield University) Eric Brill (Microsoft Research) Key-Sun Choi (KAIST) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) Ed Hovy (Information Sciences Institute / USC) Eugene Charniak (Brown University, Providence) Dan Cristea (University of Iasi) Fumiyo Fukumoto (Yamanashi University) Maria Gavrilidou (ILPS, Athens) Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble) Udo Hahn (Freiburg University) Nadia Hegazy (ERI) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.) Frances Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University) Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto) Alma Kharrat (Microsoft Research) Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Charles University, Prague) Lori Lamel (LIMSI, Orsay) Lillian Lee (Cornell University) Xiaoqiang Luo (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) Inderjeet Mani (MITRE) Daniel Marcu (Information Sciences Institute / USC) Wolfgang Menzel (University of Hamburg) Andrei Mikheev (University of Edinburgh) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton - Chair) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Nicolas Nicolov (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Istanbul) Jose Quesada (University of Seville) Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante) Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota Duluth) Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens) Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic) James Pustejovsky (University of Brandeis) Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan) Allan Ramsey (UMIST, Manchester) Ellen Riloff (University of Utah) Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille) Christer Samuelsson (Indigo, Montreal) Donia Scott (University of Brighton) Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corporation) Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon) Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York) Piek Vossen (Saillabs, Antwerpen) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) Michael Zock (LIMSI, Orsay) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS NOTIFICATION OF SUBMISSION Authors should email notification of submission with the completed form below to <K.Bontcheva at dcs.shef.ac.uk> with subject line: RANLP2001 notification of submission. After submitting the information below you will receive by email a paper ID code which should be used in all correspondence (including the paper submission). # NAME : Name of author for correspondence # TITLE: Title of the paper # TYPE : paper / poster / demo # KEYS : Keywords # EMAIL: Email of author for correspondence # PAGES: Number of pages (including bibliographical references) # FILE : Name of PDF file (avoid RANLP2001.pdf and the like!!!) # ABSTR: # Abstract of the paper # . . . . . . # OTHER: Under consideration for other conferences (specify)? # NOTE : Anything you'd like to add Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not exceed seven pages (poster and demo submissions should be no longer than 5 pages), including cover page, figures, tables and references. The first page should state the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract and continue with the first section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in **PDF** format. For up to three free convertions to PDF see 'http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS'. In exceptional circumstances hard copies/MS-Word/PS versions might be accepted. Send your electronic PDF submission to <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> (please quote paper identifier - see above 'notification of submission'). Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. TUTORIALS RANLP-2001 will be preceded by 2 days of tutorials. See http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ for a preliminary list of tutorial speakers. SCHEDULE Paper Pre-registration: 10 May 2001 Paper Submission Due: *** 15 May 2001 *** Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2001 Camera-ready Paper Due: 5 August 2001 Tutorials: 3-4 September 2001 Conference: 5-7 September 2001 LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains surrounding the Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information can be obtained from: Galia Angelova (OC Chair) Linguistic Modelling Laboratory Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 25A Acad. G. Bonchev Str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria galia at lml.bas.bg SPONSORS The conference is funded by the European Commission, DGXII through Human Potential Programme for High-Level Scientific Conferences (contract number HPCF-2000-00329). 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When you receive the confirmation e-mail, please make sure that you return the requested code to confirm your subscription. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:30 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:30 +0100 Subject: Cursus: Formations postgrades, Traitement info multilingue 2001-2002 Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104330.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:56:13 +0200 From: susan <susan.armstrong at issco.unige.ch> Message-Id: <3AE4266D.6CF4D8BD at issco.unige.ch> X-url: http://www.unige.ch/eti/etudes/autres/dea.html X-url: http://www.issco.unige.ch Formation post-grade en traitement informatique multilingue 2001-2002 Ecole de traduction et d'interprétation de l'Université de Genève Aujourd'hui, on constate un besoin croissant de personnel qualifié dans le secteur des industries de la langue, capable de maîtriser les logiciels spécialisés pour le traducteur, de comprendre les technologies sous-jacentes et de suivre les nouveaux développements. L'Ecole de traduction et d'interprétation de l'Université de Genève offre de nouvelles formations post-grades qui répondent à ces besoins. DEA Le DEA en traitement informatique multilingue propose, sur une année, un programme original qui s'articule autour de trois axes : les connaissances nécessaires pour traiter automatiquement les langues, la représentation formelle de ces connaissances et leur utilisation dans les différentes applications informatiques. L'étudiant suit des enseignements dans les matières suivantes : - Introduction à la description formelle des langues - Traitement informatique multilingue - Introduction à la programmation linguistique - Traitement informatique des textes - Fondements théoriques de la terminologie et réalisent un mémoire. DESS Deux DESS offrent une formation à la fois théorique et pratique qui favorise l'immersion dans le monde professionnel. Le DESS en terminologie a pour but un qualification professionelle correspondant aux besoins des administrations, des entreprises, etc. L'objectif de la formation dispensée est de maîtriser les principes et les méthodes de la terminologie, ainsi que les différents outils terminologiques disponibles, mais aussi de savoir produire de nouveaux outils. Le DESS en traduction assistée par ordinateur permet au traducteur d'apprécier et de maîtriser les outils informatiques, d'évaluer l'importance de la technologie dans le processus de la traduction et de suivre les développements. Pour perfectionner leur formation, les étudiants de DESS doivent effectuer un stage et préparer un mémoire. Ces formations s'adressent : - aux traducteurs et interprètes titulaires d'une licence ou d'un diplôme - à toutes personnes, titulaires d'un grade universitaire, intéressées par le multilinguisme et les nouvelles technologies Contacts: http://www.unige.ch/eti/etudes/autres/dea.html DEA en traitement informatique multilingue Margaret.King at issco.unige.ch DESS en traduction assistée par ordinateur Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch DESS en terminologie Bruno.Debessé@eti.unige.ch -- Susan Armstrong Email: Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch ISSCO/ETI, Univ. of Geneva Voice: +41 22 705 8764 40, Bd. du Pont-d'Arve Fax : +41 22 705 8689 CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Siwtzerland) WWW : http://www.issco.unige.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:33 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:33 +0100 Subject: Appel: IEEE Data Mining 2001: Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104333.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:28:45 +0900 (JST) From: Ning Zhong <zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp> Message-Id: <200104251128.UAA27420 at maebashi-it.ac.jp> X-url: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------- San Jose, California, USA November 29 - December 2, 2001 Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Tutorials ********************************** The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '01) will include tutorials providing in-depth background on specific subjects in data mining. The recency of the data mining field, and the variety of disciplines that are represented, lead to many possibilities for good tutorials: * Short courses on areas of machine learning, databases, or statistics that may be "old hat" to specialists in that discipline, but are new to a majority of the conference attendees. (e.g., An Introduction to Hidden Markov Models). * Surveys of new and developing research areas in data mining. (e.g., Text Mining). * End-to-end descriptions of the practical application of data mining technology (i.e., applications that may be "typical" for a paper, but provide an example of issues faced in a data mining project that would generalize to problems faced by the conference attendees). * An in-depth coverage of a past research breakthrough that is now becoming a mature technology. The topics of interest fall within those described in the conference Call for Papers (http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html). Submission Details ================== The tutorial proposal should include the following: 1. Title and abstract of the tutorial; 2. Intended audience. Include prerequisite knowledge required of the attendees, and the expected areas of interest. (For example, a tutorial on statistics for people applying data mining tools vs. a tutorial on statistics for people building data mining tools); 3. Length of time needed (e.g., half day or full day); and 4. Short biographies of the presenters. Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be included if available, but are not required for submission. However, providing such materials will show depth and maturity of the tutorial, and will be a strong factor in the selection process. Please send a soft copy (preferred) of your proposal to clifton at computer.org, or a hard copy to: Dr. Chris Clifton The MITRE Corporation M/S K308, 202 Burlington Rd, Bedford, MA 01730-1420, USA Important Dates =============== June 30, 2001: Tutorial submissions. July 31, 2001: Acceptance notices. August 31, 2001: Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts. November 29, 2001: ICDM '01 tutorials. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:36 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:36 +0100 Subject: Call: Literature Data Mining for Biology Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104336.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:00:18 -0400 From: Pamela J Davis <pjdavis at mitre.org> Message-Id: <3AE87E52.7FE7275F at mitre.org> X-url: http://psb.stanford.edu ********************************************************************************** A call for papers in Literature Data Mining for Biology A special session within the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002 January 3-7, 2002 Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club A large part of the information required for biology research can only be found in free-text form, as in MEDLINE abstracts, or in comment fields of relevant reports, as in GenBank feature table annotations. This information is important for many types of analysis, such as classification of proteins into functional groups, discovery of new functional relationships, maintenance of information on material and methods, increased precision and relevance of hits returned by BLAST, extraction of protein interaction information, and so on. However, information in free-text form or in comment fields is very difficult for automated systems to use. In addition, the extracted information may need further enrichment, for example, the inclusion of quantitative information about the interaction. This session will investigate how natural language and data mining techniques can provide and structure information relevant to biological applications. The session solicits papers on techniques and applications of natural language processing to the extraction of biological information from free text, including literature abstracts (e.g., MEDLINE), database annotations (e.g., GENBANK or PIR), and other relevant biology sources. It will emphasize the combination of natural language techniques with other biological information sources, such as database and sequence searches, to facilitate collection and organization of information about particular genes, proteins, or pathways. In particular, we are interested in: * Novel ways of combining text data mining and more conventional bioinformatics search techniques; * Use of text data mining techniques for consistency checking and error detection in annotation of existing data bases; * Biological problems where extraction of text-based information can provide quantitative performance gains; * Evaluations of the utility of text data mining techniques and components; * Extraction and organization of text-based information facilitated by ontologies and data exchange standards; * Creation of structured resources (databases) through the use of text data mining and information extraction techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session co-chairs * Lynette Hirschman, MITRE lynette at mitre.org * Jong C. Park, KAIST park at nlp.kaist.ac.kr * Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp * Limsoon Wong, KRDL limsoon at krdl.org.sg * Cathy Wu, National Biomedical Research Foundation & Georgetown University wuc at nbrf.georgetown.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission information Submissions are due 16 July 2001 Decisions are announced 31 August 2001 Camera ready copy due 24 September 2001 Poster abstracts due 5 November 2001 Further information http://psb.stanford.edu All papers must be submitted to russ.altman at stanford.edu in electronic format. The file formats we accept are: postscript (*.ps), adobe acrobat (*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.ps, altman.pdf, or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX or LATEX files will be rejected without review. Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must state the following: * The email address of the corresponding author * The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract * The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration elsewhere. * All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper. Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb. If figures can not be easily resized and placed precisely in the text, then it should be clear that with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would be within the page limit. Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors. The fee is $500 per page of color pictures, payable at the time of camera ready submission. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 30 19:31:05 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:31:05 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 offers Message-ID: <MON.30.APR.2001.203105.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> 1/Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:15:48 +0100 Subject: Market Development Analyst, Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton From: francesca carter <francesca.carter at itri.brighton.ac.uk> Message-Id: <3AE938C4.F87F6162 at itri.bton.ac.uk> 2/Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:41:18 -0400 Subject: Junior Faculty Position, Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University From: "Rachel Gawron" <gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu> Message-Id: <NDBBLGLHCMPHCHFJPBAFAEBACFAA.gawron at cogsci.jhu.edu> ======================================================================= 1/Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:15:48 +0100 Subject: Market Development Analyst, Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton From: francesca carter <francesca.carter at itri.brighton.ac.uk> Message-Id: <3AE938C4.F87F6162 at itri.bton.ac.uk> With apologies for cross-posting, please find below details of a post in the Information Technology Research Institute at the University of Brighton which is currently being advertised. Please circulate to any interested parties. ________________________________________________________________ University of Brighton Market Development Analyst up to £26,113 The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), is an internationally renowned centre for research in Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering. Our principal research areas are in multilingual natural language generation, lexicons, text corpus analysis, multimodal interfaces, diagrammatic reasoning, text mining and speech processing. In this rewarding role you will work in collaboration with partners of an international, EU-funded consortium, to promote better market awareness of Human Language Technologies (HLT). The role includes identifying marketing opportunities for HLT and good practice in HLT development; co-ordinating a Europe wide survey of public policy in HLT; organising national and international events and disseminating the results at meetings, conferences and on our website. You will need proven experience of analysing and presenting data and web publishing, familiarity with Human Language Technologies and a masters degree or equivalent. The post is fixed-term for 2 years, in the first instance, in accordance with the period of external funding. Application forms and further details, including important information about the content of your CV, are available from the Personnel Department, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN2 4AT, or from our web site at www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/, or via our 24 hour answerphone: (01273) 642849. Please quote reference number IR5004. Closing date: 11 May 2001 Ref: IR5004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:41:18 -0400 Subject: Junior Faculty Position, Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University From: "Rachel Gawron" <gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu> Message-Id: <NDBBLGLHCMPHCHFJPBAFAEBACFAA.gawron at cogsci.jhu.edu> Junior Faculty Position: Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University The Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, is inviting applications for an untenured, tenure-track position in psycholinguistics. Appointment will be either at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The search will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must have a demonstrated record of achievements in experimental work on language bearing on theoretical issues in either phonology, morphology or syntax. Teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate levels is desirable. Besides theoretical linguistics and cognitive psychology, expertise in other areas of Cognitive Science is a further asset, especially in Neuropsychology, Neuroscience or Computer Science. Please send a CV and sample publications to: Psycholinguistics Search Committee, Department of Cognitive Science, Krieger Hall, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218-2685. Please do not send letters of reference at this point. The Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. 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Evidence from English. Mar?a ?ngeles G?MEZ-GONZ?LEZ, Pragmatics & Beyond NS 71 US& Canada: 1 55619 949 X / USD 87.00 (Hardcover) Rest of World: 90 272 5086 3 / NLG 190.00 (Hardcover) The Theme-Topic Interface (TTI) gives a useful catalogue of approaches to the concept Theme in the analysis of Natural Language. The book is written with both theoretical and descriptive goals and aims to synthesize and revise current approaches to pragmatic functions. In addition, TTI explains that different thematic constructions in natural language reveal different discourse strategies related to point of view and speaker subjectivity, which shows the mutually supportive role of form and discourse function vis-?-vis each other. The book's value is enhanced by the use of natural language corpora, the Lancaster IBM Spoken English Corpus (LIBMSEC), and by running multivariate statistical tests, taking into account both segmental and suprasegmental features. The bibliography lists more than 600 publications providing ample material for further research into an integrated theory of language and its use. The indexes provide easy access to most authors mentioned and to the major concepts covered. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:07:22 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:07:22 +0200 Subject: Conf: CIAA 2001 : DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: <MON.2.APR.2001.170722.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION: PAPERS DUE ON TUESDAY 17 APRIL <http://www.cs.up.ac.za/>University of Pretoria Sixth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata CIAA 2001 ---------- 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, <http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/fsm/>FSM, Grail, INR, <http://www.brics.dk/mona/>MONA, and Turing's World. 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: * Bioinformatics and automata * Complexity of automata operations * Compilers and automata * Computer-aided verification and automata * Concurrency and automata * Data structure design for automata * Data and image compression and automata * Design and architecture of automata software * Digital libraries and automata * Document engineering and automata * Editors, environments and automata * Experimental studies and practical experiences * Industrial applications and automata * Natural language processing and automata * Networking and automata * New algorithms for manipulating automata * Object-Oriented Modeling and automata * Pattern-matching and automata * Speech and speaker recognition and automata * Structured and semi-structured documents and automata * Symbolic manipulation environments for automata * Teaching and automata * Text processing and automata * Techniques for graphical display of automata * VLSI and automata * Viruses, related phenomena and automata * 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 17, 2001. An extended abstract should start with the tit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:07:31 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:07:31 +0200 Subject: Conf: NODALIDA '01 Message-ID: <MON.2.APR.2001.170731.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> NODALIDA '01 - Uppsala, May 21-22, 2001 Call for participation - Reminder -------------------------------------------------------- NOTE! Deadline for registration: April 17, 2001! -------------------------------------------------------- March 30, 2001 NODALIDA '01, the 2001 Nordic Conference in Computational Linguistics will be held at Uppsala, May 21-22, 2001, hosted by the Department of Linguistics at Uppsala University. The conference starts on Monday, May 21, in the morning and will be finished on Tuesday, May 22, in the evening. The conference dinner will be held Monday evening, May 21, 19:30, at Gotlands Nation. Program Committee Anna S?gvall Hein Uppsala University, Sweden, UU, chair Lars Ahrenberg Link?ping University, LiU, Sweden Rolf Carlson Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden Robin Cooper G?teborg University, GU, Sweden Kimmo Koskenniemi Helsinki University, HU, Finland Bente Maegaard Centre for Language Technology, CST, Denmark Torbj?rn Nordg?rd Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Norway Invited speakers Speech technology: Merle Horne, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University Computer-assisted Language Learning: Eckhard Bick, Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark The conference is open for all branches of computational linguistics. The following topics for special sections have been selected: * computational semantics * computer-assisted language learning * machine translation * speech technology. Selected papers will be published after the conference. The deadline for registration for all participants is April 17, 2001. Register by e-mail to nodalida at ling.uu.se. The registration fee will be SEK 500, including conference proceedings, coffee, etc. Conference dinner is not included. More detailed information will be announced later. Home page: http://stp.ling.uu.se/nodalida01/ Satellite Seminar In conjunction with NODALIDA 2001, a one-day General Seminar will be arranged on May 20th, as part of the Nordic Language Technology Research Program 2000-2004- The program has been launched by the Nordic Council of Ministers, see further http://www.norfa.no/sprak. The seminar will include a session on Graduate Training in Computational Linguistics/Language Engineering, chaired by Kimmo Koskenniemi, and two panels devoted to the commercial aspects of Language Technology: * Via Prototype to Product * Language Technology in Practice. The seminar starts at 09:00 AM, on Sunday, May 20. Other practical arrangements will be co-ordinated with NODALIDA 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- How to get to Uppsala By plane to Arlanda airport, then by bus or taxi to Uppsala. Please, refer to the homepage of nodalida'01 for more information: Hotels NODALIDA participants have to take care of hotel reservations and payment themselves. Refer to the conference name NODALIDA when you contact the hotel. Reservations have been made at the following hotels: Radisson SAS Hotel Gillet, Dragarbrunnsgatan 23 (May 19-23) Price: SEK 700 single room (May 19-20) Price: SEK 1340 single room ( May 20-23) Tel: +46 18 68 18 00 Fax: +46 18 68 18 18 Scandic Hotel Uplandia, Dragarbrunnsgatan 32, (May 19-23) Price: SEK 915 single room Tel: +46 18 495 26 00 Fax: +46 18 495 26 11 Grand Hotel H?rnan, Bang?rdsgatan 1, (May 20-23) Price: SEK 1050 single room, SEK 1350 double room Tel: +46 18 13 93 80 Fax: +46 18 12 03 11 The reservations must be made before April 20, and we recommend you make the reservations as soon as possible. Please, make your reservations soon, Uppsala runs many conferences in May. Conference fee The conference fee is SEK 500 (incl. VAT SEK 100), to be paid by April 30, 2001 VAT-no SE202100293201. Payment to Postgiro Bank AB SE-105 06 Stockholm SWIFT:PGSISESS Account No: 95 77 07-3 Write message: NODALIDA, fee + name The fee covers conference proceedings, coffee, etc. The participants buy their own lunch at nearby restaurants. Conference dinner The conference dinner will be held Monday evening, May 20, 19:30, at Gotlands Nation. On registration, please notify the organizer if you have special demands on food, etc, due to medical or other reasons. Price: SEK 400 (incl. VAT SEK 80), to be paid by April 30, 2001 VAT-no SE202100293201 Payment to Postgiro Bank AB SE-105 06 Stockholm SWIFT:PGSISESS Account No: 95 77 07-3 Write message: NODALIDA, dinner + name Welcome to Uppsala! Anna-S?gvall Hein *************************************/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\********** ** Department of Linguistics http://www.ling.uu.se ** ** Uppsala University tel: (018) 471 2252 ** ** S-751 20 Uppsala/SWEDEN fax: (018) 471 1416 ** *************************************/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\********** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:07:44 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:07:44 +0200 Subject: Conf: TIA 2001 : Programme Message-ID: <MON.2.APR.2001.170744.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ************************************************************************************* DEUXIEME A P P E L A P A R T I C I P A T I O N T I A 2001 Quatri?me rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy Les d?tails concernant l'organisation de la conf?rence et les insciptions sont sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm PROGRAMME : Jeudi 3 mai 2001 9 h 00 - 10 h 00 : Accueil 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Allocutions d'ouverture 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une n?cessaire coop?ration" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN - Universit? Paris Nord "Lexically-suggested hyponymic relations among medical terms and their representation in the UMLS", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 - 12 h 00 : Pause 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conf?rence invit?e : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : D?jeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation A?rienne : Mise ? jour de r?gularit?s", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Rep?rage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects m?thodologiques", Val?rie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Universit? de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 - 16 h 30 : Pause 16 h30 - 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universit?s d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonn?e des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et am?liorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Universit? Ren? Descartes. "Normalisation des ?changes de donn?es en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'?volution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Vendredi 4 mai 2001 8 h 30 - 9 h 00 : Accueil 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement int?gr? pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Bi?bow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN - Universit? Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barri?re, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 - 12 h 00 : Pause (les posters et d?monstrations seront organis?s en parall?le) Posters "Approche phras?ologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue align?", Fr?rot C?cile, Rigou G?raldine, Lacombe Annik, Universit? de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "M?thodes d'analyse automatique de l'?volution terminologique au travers des variations rep?r?es dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage d'information. Vers une (r?)utilisabilit? des ressources linguistiques pour la recherche d'information", Antonio BALVET, Universit? Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Extraction de termes ? base nominale ? partir d'un corpus bilingue align?", Fran?ois MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal P?rez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Universit? de Malaga 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conf?rence invit?e : "Multilinguisme et ing?nierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : D?jeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 30 : "R?utilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance s?mantique entre termes m?dicaux", C?dric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-H?tel Dieu, Sant? Publique et Informatique M?dicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines de Paris "Contextualisation automatis?e de syntagmes nominaux pour la navigation dans une m?moire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliqu?es - Universit? de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricit? de France, Division Recherche et D?veloppement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la m?moire d'un projet-v?hicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 - 17 h 00 : Cl?ture 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 ***************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:08:00 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:08:00 +0200 Subject: Projet: collaboration avec la Norvege Message-ID: <MON.2.APR.2001.170800.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> "Le minist?re de la recherche (Direction de la technologie) a rencontr? une d?l?gation norv?gienne compos?e de repr?sentants des minist?res charg?s de la recherche et de l'industrie. Celle-ci nous a fait part de son souhait de renforcer la coop?ration entre les deux pays dans les domaines du traitement automatique des langues (?crit et oral), de l'ing?nierie linguistique et des applications d?riv?es. Si des centres de recherche, des offreurs de technologies ou des int?grateurs sont int?ress?s par ce type de rapprochement, vous pouvez le faire savoir ? St?phane Chaudiron (stephane.chaudiron at technologie.gouv.fr). Merci de pr?ciser les domaines de recherche et d?veloppement concern?s et la nature de la coop?ration souhait?e. Ces informations seront transmises ? nos homologues norv?giens." Merci St?phane Chaudiron ******************************************* St?phane CHAUDIRON Charg? de mission "Information scientifique et technique - Ing?nierie linguistique" t?l. : 33 (0)1 55 55 80 37 fax : 33 (0)1 55 55 83 58 Minist?re de la Recherche Direction de la technologie D?partement "Technologies de l'information et de la communication" 1, rue Descartes - 75231 PARIS cedex 05 http://www.recherche.gouv.fr ******************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Apr 3 14:59:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:59:05 +0200 Subject: Conf: CIAA extension deadline (rectificatif) Message-ID: <TUE.3.APR.2001.165905.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ************************************************************* LE MESSAGE INTITULE Conf: CIAA 2001 : DEADLINE EXTENSION DIFFUSE HIER ETAIT INCOMPLET (LA FIN ETAIT TRONQUEE) EN VOICI UNE VERSION COMPLETE ************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata CIAA 2001 <http://www.cs.up.ac.za/>University of Pretoria 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, <http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/fsm/>FSM, Grail, INR, <http://www.brics.dk/mona/>MONA, and Turing's World. 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: * Bioinformatics and automata * Complexity of automata operations * Compilers and automata * Computer-aided verification and automata * Concurrency and automata * Data structure design for automata * Data and image compression and automata * Design and architecture of automata software * Digital libraries and automata * Document engineering and automata * Editors, environments and automata * Experimental studies and practical experiences * Industrial applications and automata * Natural language processing and automata * Networking and automata * New algorithms for manipulating automata * Object-Oriented Modeling and automata * Pattern-matching and automata * Speech and speaker recognition and automata * Structured and semi-structured documents and automata * Symbolic manipulation environments for automata * Teaching and automata * Text processing and automata * Techniques for graphical display of automata * VLSI and automata * Viruses, related phenomena and automata * 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 17, 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: <mailto:ciaa2001 at cs.up.ac.za>ciaa2001 at cs.up.ac.za or 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. If appropriate, proof details omitted in the paper may be added in an appendix. 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 17, 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 17, 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 <http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000>CIAA 2000 website <http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wia99/>WIA'99 website <http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia98.html>WIA'98 website CIAA 2001 WEB SITES <http://www.cs.up.ac.za/~watson/ciaa/>Pretoria Site <http://www.fst-labs.com/ciaa/>FST-labs Site <http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dwood/ciaa2001>Hong Kong Site ---------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Apr 4 17:08:21 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:08:21 +0200 Subject: Appel: TAL special issue on SEMANTIC LEXICONS : deadline extension Message-ID: <WED.4.APR.2001.190821.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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/Natural Language Group, Redmond) Extented Submission Deadline: April 15, 2001 http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-semlex.html --------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE No one 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 - Reuse of existing lexical data FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS Authors must use the HERMES style files for LateX and Word at <http://www.editions-hermes.fr/ rubrique Auteurs>. Submissions must be sent electronically to Pierrette Bouillon (<pierrette.bouillon at issco.unige.ch>) and Evelyne Viegas (<evelynev at microsoft.com>). LANGUAGE Articles can be written in French or in English, but English will only be accepted from non-French speaking authors. PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Geneva) - Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbr?cken) - Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) - Ann Copestake (Cambridge University, Cambridge) - C?cile Fabre (Univ. Toulouse-Le-Mirail, Toulouse) - Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, Princeton) - Thierry Fontenelle (Luxembourg) - Mari Olsen (Microsoft, Natural Language Group, Redmond) - Pierre Popowich (Gavagai Technology, Vancouver) - James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston) - Pascale Sebillot (Irisa, Rennes) - Fr?d?rique Segond (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) - Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Natural Language Group, Redmond) - Piek Vossen (SailLabs, Antwerpen) - R?mi Zajac (New Mexico State University, Computing Research Laboratory) 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 Anne Abeill? (Universit? Paris 7) Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Geneva) 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 <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Apr 4 17:12:02 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:12:02 +0200 Subject: Conf: TIA 2001 : Appel a demonstration Message-ID: <WED.4.APR.2001.191202.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *************************************************************************************** *************************************************************************************** A P P E L A D E M O N S T R A T I O N S 4?me Rencontre "Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle" 3-4 Mai 2001, Nancy TIA 2001 se situe au carrefour de diff?rents domaines, linguistique, terminologie, informatique dont les approches se compl?tent. Ainsi, ces derni?res ann?es ont vu ?merger des applications informatiques r?alisant diff?rentes t?ches autour de la terminologie : extraction de termes,exploration active de corpus, mod?lisation conceptuelle de domaines, analyse de gros corpus de textes en vue d'en extraire des informations. L'existence de ces applications montre la faisabilit? et l'utilit? de traitements automatiques ou interactifs dans le d?pouillement de textes. Nous vous invitons donc ? nous proposer des d?monstrations d'applications r?pondant aux th?mes de la conf?rence. LIEU ET FREQUENCE DES DEMONSTRATIONS En principe, les d?monstrations auront lieu une fois pour chaque application. Un horaire sp?cifique leur sera r?serv? (voir Programme). Les auteurs pourront afficher un poster illustrant l'application pr?sent?e. INSTRUCTIONS AUX AUTEURS L'application doit ?tre pr?sent?e en une seule page. La pr?sentation devra indiquer : - les auteurs ; - leur laboratoire ; - une description de l'application ; - une description pr?cise du mat?riel et des logiciels informatiques n?cessaires. La proposition de d?monstration devra ?galement ?tre accompagn?e d'une Fiche de renseignements techniques que les auteurs peuvent t?l?d?charger ? partir du site de la conf?rence (http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm). IMPORTANT : La proposition de d?monstration sera envoy?e avant le 15 avril 2001 : - par courrier postal et en trois exemplaires au pr?sident du comit? d'organisation Jean Royaut? URI-INIST-CNRS 2, all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex - par courrier ?lectronique ? l'adresse tia2001 at inist.fr 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:08:16 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:08:16 +0200 Subject: Publications: ADVANCES IN PROBABILISTIC AND OTHER PARSING TECHNOLOGIES Message-ID: <MON.9.APR.2001.170816.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 16 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis ADVANCES IN PROBABILISTIC AND OTHER PARSING TECHNOLOGIES edited by Harry Bunt Tilburg University, The Netherlands Anton Nijholt University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Parsing technology is concerned with finding syntactic structure in language. In parsing we have to deal with incomplete and not necessarily accurate formal descriptions of natural languages. Robustness and efficiency are among the main issuesin parsing. Corpora can be used to obtain frequency information about language use. This allows probabilistic parsing, an approach that aims at both robustness and efficiency increase. Approximation techniques, to be applied at the level of language description, parsing strategy, and syntactic representation, have the same objective. Approximation at the level of syntactic representation is also known as underspecification, a traditional technique to deal with syntactic ambiguity. In this book new parsing technologies are collected that aim at attacking the problems of robustness and efficiency by exactly these techniques: the design of probabilistic grammars and efficient probabilistic parsing algorithms, approximation techniques applied to grammars and parsers to increase parsing efficiency, and techniques for underspecification and the integration of semantic information in the syntactic analysis to deal with massive ambiguity. The book gives a state-of-the-art overview of current research and development in parsing technologies. In its chapters we see how probabilistic methods have entered the toolbox of computational linguistics in order to be applied in both parsing theory and parsing practice. The book is both a unique reference for researchers and an introduction to the field for interested graduate students. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6616-6 October 2000, 288 pp. EUR 104.50 / USD 112.00 / GBP 71.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. 1. New Parsing Technologies; H. Bunt, A. Nijholt. 2. Encoding Frequency Information in Lexicalized Grammars; J. Carroll, D. Weir. 3. Bilexical Grammars and Their Cubic-Time Parsing Algorithms; J. Eisner. 4. Probabilistic Feature Grammars; J. Goodman. 5. Probabilistic GLR Parsing; K. Inui, et al. 6. Probabilistic Parsing Using Left Corner Language Models; C. Manning, B. Carpenter. 7. A New Parsing Method Using a Global Association Table; J. Yoon, et al. 8. Towards a Reduced Commitment, D-Theory Style TAG Parser; J. Chen, K. Vijay-Shanker. 9. Probabilistic Parse Selection Based on Semantic Co-occurrences; E. Hektoen. 10. Message-Passing Protocols for Object-Oriented Parsing; U. Hahn, et al. 11. SuperTagging for Partial Parsing. 12. Regular Approximation of CFLs: A Grammatical View; M.-J. Nederhof. 13. Parsing By Successive Approximation; H. Schmid. Index. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, Andr? Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Volume 5: Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997 Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998 Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999 Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999 Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging Hans van Halteren (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999 Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons Viegas, E. (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999 Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999 Volume 12: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing Frank van Eynde & Dafydd Gibbon (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X, April 2000. Volume 13: Parallel text processing: Alignment and use of translation corpora Jean V?ronis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1, August 2000. Volume 14: Prosody: theory and experiment Studies Presented to G?sta Bruce Merle Horne (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8, August 2000. Volume 15: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology Antonis Botinis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0, October 2000. Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5, October 2000. Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB Jean V?ronis http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:08:47 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:08:47 +0200 Subject: Conf: SEMPRO-2001 : Revised Deadline Message-ID: <MON.9.APR.2001.170847.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *************************************************************** Revised Deadline (Now: April 22nd) *************************************************************** COGNITIVELY PLAUSIBLE MODELS OF SEMANTIC PROCESSING (SEMPRO-2001) (A workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society) July 31st, University of Edinburgh http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~sempro/ The goal of this workshop is to be a forum and a meeting point for researchers developing models of semantic / pragmatic processing (computational and non-computational) motivated by psychological evidence or corpus studies, with a focus on human language processing. Topics of interest include: - incrementality and underspecification in semantic processing - lexical access and disambiguation - semantic composition (e.g., interpretation of modifiers such as adjectives, of modal expressions, of negation) - anaphora resolution - scope assignment - detection and exploitation of discourse structure - semantic interpretation in dialogues (e.g., models of grounding) We would especially like to encourage the exchange of results between psychological experimentation, computational modelling, and corpus-based work. INVITED SPEAKERS: Julie Sedivy (Brown), Anthony Sanford (Glasgow). PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Massimo Poesio (local organizer), Alan Garnham, Maria Lapata, Julie Sedivy, Rosemary Stevenson, Peter Wiemer-Hastings. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Anonymous extended abstracts of at most 5 pages (2500 words) should be submitted by e-mail to sempro at cogsci.ed.ac.uk. Accepted formats: ASCII, postscript, pdf. Include the words 'Submission for SEMPRO 2001' in the Subject line. DATES: Papers due: April 22nd. Acceptance Notification: June 15th. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:09:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:09:05 +0200 Subject: Conf: ACL-2001 Workshop on Natural Language Generation DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: <MON.9.APR.2001.170905.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ******************************************************************************** Extended submission deadline: **22 April** ******************************************************************************** ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 6-7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html Sponsored by IBM, Endorsed by SIGGEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media. This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The workshop will focus on the following topics: * Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization) There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG. Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue. Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale applications such as summarization and machine translation. * Differences in information organization between source and presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these) Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong similarities in building the target representations: In the overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often, this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques. Accepted papers on these and related topics will be scheduled for presentation. The majority of the time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. We are considering organizing a panel. For the focus topics above, we will contact a number of competent researchers to address the topic from a specific perspective according to their experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to prepare material / concrete examples for discussions. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman Univ. of Bremen Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi Robert Dale Macquarie University Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7 Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ. Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico Owen Rambow AT&T Research Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS SUBMISSIONS (papers, posters, demos) Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ We also invite poster and demo submissions (free format, up to 6 page, PDF). The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the following information (ASCII text): # TITLE: <title of the paper> # AUTHORS: <list of authors> # EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence> # KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...> # TYPE: <paper> / <poster> / <demo> # ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper> Send your submission to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions *** 22 April 2001 *** Notification of acceptance 6 May 2001 Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001 Registration deadline as ACL Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001 REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop. People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should be sent to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. MORE INFORMATION Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:12:56 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:12:56 +0200 Subject: Conf: DCAGRS 01 Message-ID: <MON.9.APR.2001.171256.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Dear Colleague, this is to remind you of the deadline (April 15) for submissions to the workshop Descriptional Complexity for Automata, Grammars and Related Structures (July 20-22, 2001, Vienna, Austria). Detailed information is available at http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs01/ Thank you very much for your attention. Yours sincerely, Bernd Reichel ************************************************************************ Dr. Bernd Reichel Fakultaet f?r Informatik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg Postfach 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany Tel.: +49-391-67-12851; FAX: -11250; Tel.(privat): +49-391-5051515 reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~reichel Gebaeude 18 Raum 232 ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:18:43 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:18:43 +0200 Subject: Ecole: EUROLAN 2001 REMINDER Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.191843.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *********************************************************** REMINDER SUBMISSIONS DUE APRIL 15 *********************************************************** EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources WORKSHOP ON MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS July 30 - August 1, 2001 Iasi, Romania ORGANIZERS Dan Cristea, University "A.I. Cuza", Iasi, Romania Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Daniel Marcu, ISI, University of Southern California Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh Corpora annotated for a variety of linguistic features are becoming increasingly available. Part of speech annotated corpora are commonplace; treebanks in a variety of languages are available or under development; and corpora annotated for various features of discourse, including co-reference and discourse structure, are also available (e.g., the MUC corpora). In addition, large speech corpora annotated with phonetic transcriptions and prosodic analysis and various multi-lingual aligned corpora are available from centers such as the Linguistic Data Consortium and the European Language Resources Association. This workshop will address issues of using corpora annotated for multiple layers (e.g., syntax and discourse, prosody and part of speech, etc.) or combining multiple layers of annotation in natural language analysis. We invite submissions on the following topics: o Research that exploits information on different linguistic levels; o Consideration and demonstration of the ways in which information from different layers can be used in automatic language processing; o Compatibility of corpora annotated for different linguistic layers, including means to harmonize different annotation types and levels; o Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer School on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, to be held in Iasi, Romania from 30 July - August 11, 2001. Because EUROLAN 2001 is concerned with a wide variety of types of linguistic annotation, the workshop will serve to complement the content of lectures and tutorials that are part of the School's main program. Registration for the workshop is included in the Summer School registration fee. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Papers should report on original work not previously presented elsewhere. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion and a means to receive feedback for future development; therefore, papers describing both completed work and work-in-progress are acceptable. Submissions of 3500-5000 words should be sent via email to ide at cs.vassar.edu with the subject line "EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP SUBMISSION". Submissions in Postscript, PDF, or plain ASCII text formats are acceptable. DATES: Deadline for receipt of submissions April 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance May 5, 2001 Final Paper due June 1, 2001 Workshop date July 30 - August 1, 2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbr?cken Charles Fillmore - ICSI, UC Berkeley Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo Jan Hajic - Charles University, Prague Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:21:17 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:21:17 +0200 Subject: Publications: COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES vol35 issues 1 AND 2 Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192117.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> See below for issue 1 ********************************************************************* JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED ********************************************************************* COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Editors-in-chief Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2001 Table of Contents Finding Syntactic Structure in Unparsed Corpora: The Gsearch Corpus Query System Steffan Corley, Martin Corley, Frank Keller, Matthew W. Crocker, Shari Trewin pp. 81-94 The Challenge of Optical Music Recognition David Bainbridge, Tim Bell pp. 95-121 Archaeological Data Models and Web Publication Using XML J. David Schloen pp. 123-152 Sentential Count Rules for Arabic Language Fawaz S. Al-Anzi pp. 153-166 Change-Point Analysis: Elision in Euripides Orestes Jan G. De Gooijer, Nancy M. Laan pp. 167-191 Computer-Based Authorship Attribution Without Lexical Measures E. Stamatatos, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis pp. 193-214 Integrating Linguistic Resources in TC through WSD L. Alfonso Ureqa-Lspez, Manuel Buenaga, Josi M. Gsmez pp. 215-230 Spanish Word Frequency: A Historical Surprise M.J. Woods pp. 231-236 ---------------------------------------------------------------- For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult http://www.wkap.nl/ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Editors-in-chief Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2001 *********************************************************************** * Special Issue on Pattern Processing in Music Analysis and Creation * *********************************************************************** Table of Contents Preface: The AISB99 Convention and the Focus Workshop Geraint A. Wiggins pp. 1-2 Introduction: Pattern Processing in Music Analysis and Creation Pierre-Yves Rolland pp. 3-8 Pattern Processing in Melodic Sequences: Challenges, Caveats and Prospects Emilios Cambouropoulos, Tim Crawford, Costas S. Iliopoulos pp. 9-21 Perceptual Issues in Music Pattern Recognition: Complexity of Rhythm and Key Finding Ilya Shmulevich, Olli Yli-Harja, Edward Coyle, Dirk-Jan Povel, Kjell Lemstrvm pp. 23-35 Representing Melodic Patterns as Networks of Elaborations Alan Marsden pp. 37-54 Approximate Musical Evolution Tim Crawford, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Russel Winder, Haifeng Yu pp. 55-64 Investigating the Influence of Representations and Algorithms in Music Classification Karin Hvthker, Dominik Hvrnel, Christina Anagnostopoulou pp. 65-79 --------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult http://www.wkap.nl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:22:54 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:22:54 +0200 Subject: Appel: IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192254.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------- San Jose, California, USA November 29 - December 2, 2001 Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Workshop Proposals ******************************************* As an important part of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '01), the ICDM '01 workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in data mining. It will provide a venue for several topical workshops on specific data mining research and/or application problems. ICDM '01 workshops will foster the discussion of exciting research directions and works in progress through paper presentations, round table and panel discussions, and invited talks. We especially encourage workshop submissions that capitalize on the location of the conference in Silicon Valley by targeting an audience from both industry and academia. Workshop chairs define the focus and structure of each workshop. Responsibilities include (1) writing the call for papers and publicizing it, (2) selecting the workshop organizing and program committees, and (3) deciding the workshop program content. Submission Instructions ======================= June 15, 2001: Workshop proposals are due. Workshop proposals should be sent via email to the ICDM '01 Workshops Chair, Johannes Gehrke (johannes at cs.cornell.edu). A workshop proposal should include the following information: (1) Workshop title (2) Workshop organizers with full contact information (3) Description of the workshop including objectives, content, and format of the workshop (4) List of potential attendees (5) List of potential authors of workshop contributions June 29, 2001: Notification of workshop proposal acceptance. Suggested Timeline for Workshop Chairs ====================================== July 13, 2001: Workshop call for papers has been sent out. September 14, 2001: Workshop paper submissions due. October 12, 2001: Workshop paper acceptance notices. October 26, 2001: Camera-ready version of workshop papers due. November 29, 2001: Workshop takes place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:23:59 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:23:59 +0200 Subject: Jobs: Ph.D. Fellowships in Language Technology Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192359.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Ph.D. Fellowships in Language Technology The new national Swedish Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT) announces four year graduate fellowships beginning 1st Sept. 2001 (application deadline 7th May, 2001). The school is hosted by G?teborg University and is a collaboration between leading centres in language technology in Sweden including in addition to G?teborg University, Chalmers University of Technology, H?gskolan i Bor?s, H?skolan i Sk?vde, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Link?ping University, Uppsala University, V?xj? University. Students may be placed at any of these institutions. The school aims to integrate research on speech and language and to provide a sound basis in both theoretical foundations and applications oriented research. It is committed to an international profile and welcomes applications from outside of Sweden. More information, including application materials, can be found on http://www.ling.gu.se/gslt, by sending email to gslt at ling.gu.se or by contacting the director: Professor Robin Cooper G?teborg University email cooper at ling.gu.se tel +46-31-773 2536 fax +46-31-773 4853 address GSLT Faculty of Arts G?teborg University Box 200 SE 405 30 G?teborg Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:28:36 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:28:36 +0200 Subject: Conf: TIA 2001 : DEMONSTRATIONS : extension date limite Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192836.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* DERNIER A P P E L A D E M O N S T R A T I O N S ((((((((((((((( extension date limite au 20/04/2001 ))))))))))))))))) 4?me Rencontre "Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle" 3-4 Mai 2001, Nancy TIA 2001 se situe au carrefour de diff?rents domaines, linguistique, terminologie, informatique dont les approches se compl?tent. Ainsi, ces derni?res ann?es ont vu ?merger des applications informatiques r?alisant diff?rentes t?ches autour de la terminologie : extraction de termes,exploration active de corpus, mod?lisation conceptuelle de domaines, analyse de gros corpus de textes en vue d'en extraire des informations. L'existence de ces applications montre la faisabilit? et l'utilit? de traitements automatiques ou interactifs dans le d?pouillement de textes. Nous vous invitons donc ? nous proposer des d?monstrations d'applications r?pondant aux th?mes de la conf?rence. LIEU ET FREQUENCE DES DEMONSTRATIONS En principe, les d?monstrations auront lieu une fois pour chaque application. Un horaire sp?cifique leur sera r?serv? (voir Programme). Les auteurs pourront afficher un poster illustrant l'application pr?sent?e. INSTRUCTIONS AUX AUTEURS L'application doit ?tre pr?sent?e en une seule page. La pr?sentation devra indiquer : - les auteurs ; - leur laboratoire ; - une description de l'application ; - une description pr?cise du mat?riel et des logiciels informatiques n?cessaires. La proposition de d?monstration devra ?galement ?tre accompagn?e d'une Fiche de renseignements techniques que les auteurs peuvent t?l?d?charger ? partir du site de la conf?rence (http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm). IMPORTANT : La proposition de d?monstration sera envoy?e avant le 20 avril 2001 : - par courrier postal et en trois exemplaires au pr?sident du comit? d'organisation : Jean Royaut? URI-INIST-CNRS 2, all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex - par courrier ?lectronique ? l'adresse tia2001 at inist.fr 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 13 16:35:37 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:35:37 +0100 Subject: R: Lexique informatise de grec moderne Message-ID: <FRI.13.APR.2001.173537.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> 1/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:34:31 +0200 From: Elsa Sklavounou <sklavounou at systran.fr> Message-Id: <3AD41717.608C0414 at systran.fr> 2/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:43:48 +0200 From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> Message-Id: <a0500190bb6f9d7aee4bf@[129.88.32.65]> ======================================================================= 1/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:34:31 +0200 From: Elsa Sklavounou <sklavounou at systran.fr> Message-Id: <3AD41717.608C0414 at systran.fr> X-url: http://www.komvos.edu.gr Kalimera ? tous Le site www.komvos.edu.gr dispose les derniers dictionnaires du grec moderne (Triantafyllidis, Dictionnaire Inverse et autres) informatis?s. Vous pouvez faire plusieurs requ?tes. Il y a aussi un corpus de 1.500.000 mots avec la possibilit? de rechercher des mots ou des s?quences des mots aussi. Elsa Sklavounou ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:43:48 +0200 From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> Message-Id: <a0500190bb6f9d7aee4bf@[129.88.32.65]> X-url: http://www.ilsp.gr Voir le site de l'ILSP ou contacter S.Piperidis Stelios Piperidis Head of Language Technology Applications Department Institute for Language and Speech Processing-ILSP 6 Artemidos & Epidavrou, 151 25 Marousi, Athens, Greece Tel : +301 6875430 Fax : +301 6852 620 email : Stelios Piperidis <spip at ilsp.gr> http://www.ilsp.gr CB -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Boitet (Pr. Universite' Joseph Fourier) Tel: +33.4-7651-4355/4817 GETA, CLIPS, IMAG-campus, BP53 Fax: +33.4-7651-4405 385, rue de la Bibliothe`que Mel: Christian.Boitet at imag.fr 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Mobile: +33-(0)6-6005-1969 http://www-clips.imag.fr/geta/christian.boitet ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Projet C-STAR (http://www.c-star.org/) et projet europe'en Nespole (http://nespole.itc.it) de traduction de parole Projet UNL de communication et recherche d'information multilingue sur le re'seau http://www.unl.ias.unu.edu ou http://www.unl.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 13 16:35:40 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:35:40 +0100 Subject: R: Corpus d'articles Scientifiques et leurs resumes Message-ID: <FRI.13.APR.2001.173540.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:42:28 +0100 From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> Message-Id: <4.1.20010411093739.00a59d90 at mail.wlv.ac.uk> X-url: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/ There are corpora with scientific abstracts only (e.g. INSPEC), but regarding a corpus containing BOTH articles and their abstracts, it may be interesting for you to know that Constantin Orasan (in6093 at wlv.ac.uk) from the University of Wolverhampton is working on such a corpus for English at the moment. Ruslan Mitkov \\\ Ruslan Mitkov, PhD /// Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering \\\ School of Humanities, Languages and Social Studies (Wolverhampton) /// University of Wolverhampton \\\ Stafford St. /// Wolverhampton WV1 1SB \\\ United Kingdom /// Telephone (44-1902) 322471 \\\ Fax (44-1902) 322739 /// Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk \\\ Website http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:07 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:07 +0100 Subject: Info: New MSc/PhD programs in NLP at King's College, London Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115107.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:28:18 +0100 From: Jonathan Ginzburg <ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> Message-Id: <3ADC9951.8215BEC1 at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> X-url: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/ginzburg New MSc and MPhil/PhD Programs in Natural Language Processing in the Computer Science Dept. at King's College, London A new Natural Language Processing research group has been created in the Computer Science Department at King's College, London. This group is offering an MSc in Natural Language Processing, which will start in September 2001, and opportunities for MPhil/PhD studies. For information on the group and these new programes please consult our web site at www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/index.html. Inquiries can also be directed to Shalom Lappin (lappin at dcs.kcl.ac.uk) or Jonathan Ginzburg (ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk). The Department of Computer Science at King's College anticipates having two EPSRC funded quota PhD studentships for September, 2001. These will be awarded on a competitive basis to PhD applicants from any area of computer science. The holder of an EPSRC quota studentship must be a permanent resident of the UK to receive a tuition scholarship and a maintenance grant. Residents of a European Union country are eligible for a tuition scholarship only. Qualified PhD applicants interested in pursuing research in natural language processing will be considered for these grants. (Apologies if you see this announcement multiply) -- Dept of Computer Science King's College, London The Strand, London WC2R 2LS UK phone: +44-20-7848-2752 fax: +44-20-7848-2841 ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/ginzburg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:32 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:32 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115132.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> 1/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:15:49 +0100 From: Fiona McGregor <fiona at cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-Id: <l03102800b7044d2fd695@[129.215.110.138]> 2/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:58:13 +0200 From: Linda Bellahsene <lbellahs at etu.info.unicaen.fr> Message-Id: <3ADEA8A5.9F26986D at etu.info.unicaen.fr> 3/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:47:12 +0200 From: "Simon de Bernard" <debernard at valigen.net> Message-Id: <007a01c0c8df$9e85b980$8901a8c0 at valigene.com> X-url: http://www.valigen.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:15:49 +0100 From: Fiona McGregor <fiona at cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-Id: <l03102800b7044d2fd695@[129.215.110.138]> University of Edinburgh Research Programmer : Spoken Dialogue Systems The Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), Division of Informatics draws on the skills and expertise of one of the largest communities of natural language processing specialists in Europe and has strong experience in human-machine interaction, natural language understanding, speech processing, and XML protocols. In this role you will join a team working on the design and implementation of a spoken dialogue system. Much of the envisaged work will be carried out within ICCS's Language Technology Group, which provides a stimulating and varied research environment. You should have experience of software engineering and distributed agent systems and a good knowledge of C, C++ or Java. Experience with CORBA and XML would be an advantage, as would knowledge of speech or language engineering. The appointment is for a fixed term of 2 years. Salary scale, 16,775 -- 25,213 p.a. Informal enquiries to steedman at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Please quote ref:316245 For further pariculars and application pack visit our web site (www.ed.ac.uk) or telephone the recruitment line on +44 (0)131 650 2511. Closing date : 11 May 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:58:13 +0200 From: Linda Bellahsene <lbellahs at etu.info.unicaen.fr> Message-Id: <3ADEA8A5.9F26986D at etu.info.unicaen.fr> L'unit? de recherche et d?veloppement "Reconnaissance de parole" de Datops propose ? N?mes, France, le poste suivant: - un stage bac+5 en linguistique-informatique (6 mois) sur le traitement de la parole. Des connaissances dans les domaines de "perplexity", "Semantic Interpretation" sont n?cessaires. Contact : Linda Bellahsene - lbellahsene at datops.com (Les candidatures doivent ?tre envoy?es exclusivement par email). The speech recognition team of Datops R&D in N?mes (France) invites applications for this position : - a 6 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate student about speech recognition. The main task of the candidate will be to develop the automatic speech recognition software with acoustic and language model (Theory of perplexity and Semantic Interpetation) for extracting text elements from audio files and video soundtracks; for English first. Contact : Linda Bellahsene - lbellahsene at datops.com (send resume by email). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:47:12 +0200 From: "Simon de Bernard" <debernard at valigen.net> Message-Id: <007a01c0c8df$9e85b980$8901a8c0 at valigene.com> X-url: http://www.valigen.com IT Linguist. ValiGen is a biotechnology company intent on becoming the premier drug target validation company and a leading developer of innovative human therapeutics and plants. For the development of its pathway mapping technology, ValiGen is presently looking for an IT Linguist. Job Description: Writing of transducers for the detection of biological interactions from scientific literature and integration of these and other linguistic components in a broader information management software. Location: Paris-La-D?fense, France Education & Experience: Degree in Linguistics/Language Technology Degree in Biology (preferred). Good knowledge of English grammar. Proven experience in text parsing systems (INTEX, Xelda or equivalent). Familiarity with biology related scientific literature is preferred. Availability: Immediate For details on ValiGen and its technologies, please consult our web pages at: http://www.valigen.com To apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to: drh at valigen.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:43 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: JADT 2002 Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115143.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:47:25 +0200 From: Pascale Sebillot <Pascale.Sebillot at irisa.fr> Message-Id: <3AE0762D.3DD07825 at irisa.fr> X-url: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt CALL FOR PAPERS - JADT 2002 - March 13-15, 2002 6th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 13-15, 2002 Palais du Grand Large St-Malo / France The International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data provides a workshop-style forum to all scholars, statisticians, computer scientists, linguists..., working in the vast field of textual data analysis ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of data to content analysis. Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998) and Lausanne (2000), the 6th International Conference will be held in Saint-Malo, France on march 13-15 2002. Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 1, 2001 Notification: October 30, 2001 Camera ready papers: December 15, 2001 Conference: March 13-15, 2002 Website: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt e-mail address: jadt2002 at irisa.fr Submission: Submissions should be limited to original work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous works. Participants wishing to submit a paper should send to the organization committee (via email jadt2002 at irisa.fr) a first version of their paper for review by September 1, 2001, giving the following information: - Name, affiliation and full postal address (fax and/or e-mail) of authors - Title of the proposed paper with keywords - A first version of the paper (12 pages max.) emphasizing the purpose of the paper - An abstract in the paper language - An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) - Bibliographical references Topics: Topics of interest of the conference concern the application of statistical models and tools in the following domains: - Exploratory Textual Data Analysis - Textual Statistics - Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions - Natural Language Processing - Stylometry - Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis - Textual Classification - Text Corpora and Text Encoding - Frequency Dictionaries - Lemmatization, automatic categorization - Information Retrieval - Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors on October 30, 2001. Final versions (camera-ready papers) should conform to the format that will be provided to the authors (12 pages max.) and reach the committee no later than December 15, 2001. Accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the participants at the start of the conference. Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract. As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. Program Committee: Ramon Alvarez, Univ. of Leon, Spain Harald Baayen, Univ. of Nim?gue, The Netherlands Monica B?cue, Polyt. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain Sergio Bolasco, Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy ?tienne Brunet, Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Annibale Elia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Dominique Labb?, Univ. of Grenoble, France Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST Paris, France (Pr?sident) Alain Lelu Univ. of Franche Comt?, France Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, France Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. of Versailles SQY, France Andr? Salem, Univ. Paris 3, France Pascale S?billot, IRISA, France Fiona Tweedie, Univ. of Glasgow, UK Organization Committee: Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr organized by IRISA/INRIA Rennes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:47 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:47 +0100 Subject: Conf: MBR'01 Final Program Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115147.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:29:59 -0500 From: Lorenzo Magnani <lmagnani at cc.gatech.edu> Message-Id: <3AE37787.459551BD at cc.gatech.edu> X-url: http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html MBR'01 Final program (Model-Based Reasoning. Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, Values, Pavia, Italy, May 17-19, 2001 http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:39 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:39 +0100 Subject: Appel: TIA 2001, Dernier appel a participation Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115139.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:28:30 +0200 From: "Ivana ROCHE" <Roche at inist.fr> Message-Id: <sae02b83.015 at gwia> X-url: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm ************************************************************************ (((((((((((((( DERNIER APPEL A PARTICIPATION )))))))))))))) T I A 2001 Quatri?me rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy Les d?tails concernant l'organisation de la conf?rence et les insciptions sont sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A T T E N T I O N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LES INSCRIPTIONS A LA SOIREE DU 03/05, QUI SUIVRA LA RECEPTION A LA MAIRIE DE NANCY, RESTENT OUVERTES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PROGRAMME : Jeudi 3 mai 2001 9 h 00 - 10 h 00 : Accueil 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Allocutions d'ouverture 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une n?cessaire coop?ration" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN - Universit? Paris Nord "Lexically-suggested hyponymic relations among medical terms and their representation in the UMLS", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 - 12 h 00 : Pause 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conf?rence invit?e : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : D?jeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation A?rienne : Mise ? jour de r?gularit?s", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Rep?rage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects m?thodologiques", Val?rie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Universit? de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 - 16 h 30 : Pause 16 h30 - 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universit?s d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonn?e des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et am?liorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Universit? Ren? Descartes. "Normalisation des ?changes de donn?es en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'?volution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Vendredi 4 mai 2001 8 h 30 - 9 h 00 : Accueil 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement int?gr? pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Bi?bow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN - Universit? Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barri?re, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 - 12 h 00 : Pause durant laquelle les sessions de posters et de d?monstrations seront organis?es en parall?le POSTERS "Approche phras?ologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue align?", Fr?rot C?cile, Rigou G?raldine, Lacombe Annik, Universit? de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "M?thodes d'analyse automatique de l'?volution terminologique au travers des variations rep?r?es dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage d'information. Vers une (r?)utilisabilit? des ressources linguistiques pour la recherche d'information", Antonio BALVET, Universit? Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Extraction de termes ? base nominale ? partir d'un corpus bilingue align?", Fran?ois MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal P?rez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Universit? de Malaga 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conf?rence invit?e : "Multilinguisme et ing?nierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : D?jeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 30 : "R?utilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance s?mantique entre termes m?dicaux", C?dric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-H?tel Dieu, Sant? Publique et Informatique M?dicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines de Paris "Contextualisation automatis?e de syntagmes nominaux pour la navigation dans une m?moire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliqu?es - Universit? de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricit? de France, Division Recherche et D?veloppement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la m?moire d'un projet-v?hicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 - 17 h 00 : Cl?ture 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 ***************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:51 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:51 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL NLG WORKSHOP, submission deadline 22 Apr Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115151.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:17:27 -0400 From: "Nicolas Nicolov" <nicolas at us.ibm.com> Message-Id: <OFB49CA8FE.0440AEB4-ON85256A32.002D28D5 at pok.ibm.com> X-url: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html X-url: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 6-7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html Sponsored by IBM, Endorsed by SIGGEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media. This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The workshop will focus on the following topics: * Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization) There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG. Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue. Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale applications such as summarization and machine translation. * Differences in information organization between source and presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these) Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong similarities in building the target representations: In the overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often, this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques. Accepted papers on these and related topics will be scheduled for presentation. The majority of the time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. We are considering organizing a panel. For the focus topics above, we will contact a number of competent researchers to address the topic from a specific perspective according to their experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to prepare material / concrete examples for discussions. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman Univ. of Bremen Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi Robert Dale Macquarie University Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7 Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ. Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico Owen Rambow AT&T Research Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS SUBMISSIONS (papers, posters, demos) Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ We also invite poster and demo submissions (free format, up to 6 page, PDF). The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the following information (ASCII text): # TITLE: <title of the paper> # AUTHORS: <list of authors> # EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence> # KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...> # TYPE: <paper> / <poster> / <demo> # ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper> Send your submission to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions *** 22 April 2001 *** Notification of acceptance 6 May 2001 Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001 Registration deadline as ACL Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001 REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop. People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should be sent to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. MORE INFORMATION Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:55 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:55 +0100 Subject: Appel: RANLP, submission deadline 15 May Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115155.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:28:17 -0400 From: "Nicolas Nicolov" <nicolas at us.ibm.com> Message-Id: <OF26FC00C1.699024C2-ON85256A32.002DAEDF at pok.ibm.com> X-url: http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/??????????????? X-url: http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS ????????? ? _/_/_/?????? _/_/?? _/????? _/? _/?????? _/_/_/ ?????????? _/??? _/?? _/??? _/ _/_/??? _/? _/?????? _/??? _/ ????????? _/_/_/???? _/_/_/_/ _/? _/? _/? _/?????? _/_/_/ ???????? _/??? _/?? _/??? _/ _/??? _/_/? _/?????? _/ ??????? _/???? _/? _/??? _/ _/????? _/? _/_/_/_/ _/ ?? *********************************************************** ?? *???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? * ?? *???? RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING????? * ?? *???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? * ?? *?????????????? Euro Conference RANLP-2001??????????????? * ?? *????????????????? 5-7 September 2001???????????????????? * ?? *???????????????? Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria????????????????? * ?? *???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? * ?? *???????????? http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/??????????????? * ?? *???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? * ?? *********************************************************** Further to the successful and competitive 1st and 2nd conferences on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (selected papers from which were published by John Benjamins as CILT? vol.136 and CILT vol.189), we are pleased to announce the third RANLP conference to be held this year. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. TOPICS We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing. We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text categorisation; question- answering; dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. INVITED SPEAKERS ? Branimir Boguraev?(IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) ? Ed Hovy?????????? (Information Sciences Institute / USC) ? Martin Kay????????(Xerox Parc) ? James Pustejovsky?(Brandeis University) ? Yorick Wilks????? (Sheffield University) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Elisabeth Andre (DFKI) ?Galia Angelova????????? (LML, Sofia) ? Branimir Boguraev?????? (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) ? Kalina Boncheva???????? (Sheffield University) Eric Brill (Microsoft Research) Key-Sun Choi (KAIST) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) ?Ed Hovy???????????????? (Information Sciences Institute / USC) ? Eugene Charniak???????? (Brown University, Providence) ?Dan Cristea???????????? (University of Iasi) ? Fumiyo Fukumoto???????? (Yamanashi University) ? Maria Gavrilidou??????? (ILPS, Athens) Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble) ? Udo Hahn??????????????? (Freiburg University) Nadia Hegazy (ERI) ? Graeme Hirst??????????? (University of Toronto) Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.) Frances Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University) ? Martin Kay????????????? (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto) Alma Kharrat (Microsoft Research) ? Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova?(Charles University, Prague) ? Lori Lamel??????????????(LIMSI, Orsay) Lillian Lee (Cornell University) Xiaoqiang Luo (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) ?Inderjeet Mani????????? (MITRE) ?Daniel Marcu??????????? (Information Sciences Institute / USC) ? Wolfgang Menzel???????? (University of Hamburg) Andrei Mikheev (University of Edinburgh) ?Ruslan Mitkov?????????? (University of Wolverhampton - Chair) ?Tony McEnery??????????? (Lancaster University) ?Nicolas Nicolov???????? (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) ? Kemal Oflazer?????????? (Sabanci University, Istanbul) ? Jose Quesada??????????? (University of Seville) ? Manuel Palomar????????? (University of Alicante) Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota Duluth) ? Stelios Piperidis?????? (ILPS, Athens) Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic) ?James Pustejovsky?????? (University of Brandeis) ? Dragomir Radev????????? (University of Michigan) ? Allan Ramsey??????????? (UMIST, Manchester) Ellen Riloff (University of Utah) ?Monique Rolbert???????? (Universite de Marseille) ? Christer Samuelsson???? (Indigo, Montreal) ? Donia Scott???????????? (University of Brighton) Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corporation) ? Isabelle Trancoso?????? (INEC, Lisbon) ? Karin Vespoor?????????? (Intelligenesis, New York) ? Piek Vossen???????????? (Saillabs, Antwerpen) ? Yorick Wilks??????????? (Sheffield University) ? Michael Zock??????????? (LIMSI, Orsay) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS NOTIFICATION OF SUBMISSION Authors should email notification of submission with the completed form below to <K.Bontcheva at dcs.shef.ac.uk> with subject line: RANLP2001 notification of submission. After submitting the information below you will receive by email a paper ID code which should be used in all correspondence (including the paper submission). ?# NAME : Name of author for correspondence ?# TITLE: Title of the paper # TYPE : paper / poster / demo ?# KEYS : Keywords ?# EMAIL: Email of author for correspondence ?# PAGES: Number of pages (including bibliographical references) ?# FILE : Name of PDF file (avoid RANLP2001.pdf and the like!!!) ?# ABSTR: ?#??????? Abstract of the paper ?#??????? . . . . . . ?# OTHER: Under consideration for other conferences (specify)? ?# NOTE : Anything you'd like to add Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not exceed seven pages (poster and demo submissions should be no longer than 5 pages), including cover page, figures, tables and references. The first page should state the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract and continue with the first section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in **PDF** format. For up to three free convertions to PDF see 'http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS'. In exceptional circumstances hard copies/MS-Word/PS versions might be accepted. Send your electronic PDF submission to <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> (please quote paper identifier - see above 'notification of submission'). Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. TUTORIALS RANLP-2001 will be preceded by 2 days of tutorials. See http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ for a preliminary list of tutorial speakers. SCHEDULE ?Paper Pre-registration:???? 10 May 2001 ? Paper Submission Due:?????? *** 15 May 2001 *** ? Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2001 ? Camera-ready Paper Due:???? 5 August 2001 Tutorials: 3-4 September 2001 ? Conference:?????????????????5-7 September 2001 LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains surrounding the Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information can be obtained from: ? Galia Angelova (OC Chair) ? Linguistic Modelling Laboratory ? Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ? 25A Acad. G. Bonchev Str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria ? galia at lml.bas.bg SPONSORS The conference is funded by the European Commission, DGXII through Human Potential Programme for High-Level Scientific Conferences (contract number HPCF-2000-00329). 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When you receive the confirmation e-mail, please make sure that you return the requested code to confirm your subscription. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:30 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:30 +0100 Subject: Cursus: Formations postgrades, Traitement info multilingue 2001-2002 Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104330.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:56:13 +0200 From: susan <susan.armstrong at issco.unige.ch> Message-Id: <3AE4266D.6CF4D8BD at issco.unige.ch> X-url: http://www.unige.ch/eti/etudes/autres/dea.html X-url: http://www.issco.unige.ch Formation post-grade en traitement informatique multilingue 2001-2002 Ecole de traduction et d'interpr?tation de l'Universit? de Gen?ve Aujourd'hui, on constate un besoin croissant de personnel qualifi? dans le secteur des industries de la langue, capable de ma?triser les logiciels sp?cialis?s pour le traducteur, de comprendre les technologies sous-jacentes et de suivre les nouveaux d?veloppements. L'Ecole de traduction et d'interpr?tation de l'Universit? de Gen?ve offre de nouvelles formations post-grades qui r?pondent ? ces besoins. DEA Le DEA en traitement informatique multilingue propose, sur une ann?e, un programme original qui s'articule autour de trois axes : les connaissances n?cessaires pour traiter automatiquement les langues, la repr?sentation formelle de ces connaissances et leur utilisation dans les diff?rentes applications informatiques. L'?tudiant suit des enseignements dans les mati?res suivantes : - Introduction ? la description formelle des langues - Traitement informatique multilingue - Introduction ? la programmation linguistique - Traitement informatique des textes - Fondements th?oriques de la terminologie et r?alisent un m?moire. DESS Deux DESS offrent une formation ? la fois th?orique et pratique qui favorise l'immersion dans le monde professionnel. Le DESS en terminologie a pour but un qualification professionelle correspondant aux besoins des administrations, des entreprises, etc. L'objectif de la formation dispens?e est de ma?triser les principes et les m?thodes de la terminologie, ainsi que les diff?rents outils terminologiques disponibles, mais aussi de savoir produire de nouveaux outils. Le DESS en traduction assist?e par ordinateur permet au traducteur d'appr?cier et de ma?triser les outils informatiques, d'?valuer l'importance de la technologie dans le processus de la traduction et de suivre les d?veloppements. Pour perfectionner leur formation, les ?tudiants de DESS doivent effectuer un stage et pr?parer un m?moire. Ces formations s'adressent : - aux traducteurs et interpr?tes titulaires d'une licence ou d'un dipl?me - ? toutes personnes, titulaires d'un grade universitaire, int?ress?es par le multilinguisme et les nouvelles technologies Contacts: http://www.unige.ch/eti/etudes/autres/dea.html DEA en traitement informatique multilingue Margaret.King at issco.unige.ch DESS en traduction assist?e par ordinateur Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch DESS en terminologie Bruno.Debess?@eti.unige.ch -- Susan Armstrong Email: Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch ISSCO/ETI, Univ. of Geneva Voice: +41 22 705 8764 40, Bd. du Pont-d'Arve Fax : +41 22 705 8689 CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Siwtzerland) WWW : http://www.issco.unige.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:33 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:33 +0100 Subject: Appel: IEEE Data Mining 2001: Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104333.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:28:45 +0900 (JST) From: Ning Zhong <zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp> Message-Id: <200104251128.UAA27420 at maebashi-it.ac.jp> X-url: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------- San Jose, California, USA November 29 - December 2, 2001 Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Tutorials ********************************** The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '01) will include tutorials providing in-depth background on specific subjects in data mining. The recency of the data mining field, and the variety of disciplines that are represented, lead to many possibilities for good tutorials: * Short courses on areas of machine learning, databases, or statistics that may be "old hat" to specialists in that discipline, but are new to a majority of the conference attendees. (e.g., An Introduction to Hidden Markov Models). * Surveys of new and developing research areas in data mining. (e.g., Text Mining). * End-to-end descriptions of the practical application of data mining technology (i.e., applications that may be "typical" for a paper, but provide an example of issues faced in a data mining project that would generalize to problems faced by the conference attendees). * An in-depth coverage of a past research breakthrough that is now becoming a mature technology. The topics of interest fall within those described in the conference Call for Papers (http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html). Submission Details ================== The tutorial proposal should include the following: 1. Title and abstract of the tutorial; 2. Intended audience. Include prerequisite knowledge required of the attendees, and the expected areas of interest. (For example, a tutorial on statistics for people applying data mining tools vs. a tutorial on statistics for people building data mining tools); 3. Length of time needed (e.g., half day or full day); and 4. Short biographies of the presenters. Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be included if available, but are not required for submission. However, providing such materials will show depth and maturity of the tutorial, and will be a strong factor in the selection process. Please send a soft copy (preferred) of your proposal to clifton at computer.org, or a hard copy to: Dr. Chris Clifton The MITRE Corporation M/S K308, 202 Burlington Rd, Bedford, MA 01730-1420, USA Important Dates =============== June 30, 2001: Tutorial submissions. July 31, 2001: Acceptance notices. August 31, 2001: Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts. November 29, 2001: ICDM '01 tutorials. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:36 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:36 +0100 Subject: Call: Literature Data Mining for Biology Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104336.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:00:18 -0400 From: Pamela J Davis <pjdavis at mitre.org> Message-Id: <3AE87E52.7FE7275F at mitre.org> X-url: http://psb.stanford.edu ********************************************************************************** A call for papers in Literature Data Mining for Biology A special session within the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002 January 3-7, 2002 Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club A large part of the information required for biology research can only be found in free-text form, as in MEDLINE abstracts, or in comment fields of relevant reports, as in GenBank feature table annotations. This information is important for many types of analysis, such as classification of proteins into functional groups, discovery of new functional relationships, maintenance of information on material and methods, increased precision and relevance of hits returned by BLAST, extraction of protein interaction information, and so on. However, information in free-text form or in comment fields is very difficult for automated systems to use. In addition, the extracted information may need further enrichment, for example, the inclusion of quantitative information about the interaction. This session will investigate how natural language and data mining techniques can provide and structure information relevant to biological applications. The session solicits papers on techniques and applications of natural language processing to the extraction of biological information from free text, including literature abstracts (e.g., MEDLINE), database annotations (e.g., GENBANK or PIR), and other relevant biology sources. It will emphasize the combination of natural language techniques with other biological information sources, such as database and sequence searches, to facilitate collection and organization of information about particular genes, proteins, or pathways. In particular, we are interested in: * Novel ways of combining text data mining and more conventional bioinformatics search techniques; * Use of text data mining techniques for consistency checking and error detection in annotation of existing data bases; * Biological problems where extraction of text-based information can provide quantitative performance gains; * Evaluations of the utility of text data mining techniques and components; * Extraction and organization of text-based information facilitated by ontologies and data exchange standards; * Creation of structured resources (databases) through the use of text data mining and information extraction techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session co-chairs * Lynette Hirschman, MITRE lynette at mitre.org * Jong C. Park, KAIST park at nlp.kaist.ac.kr * Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp * Limsoon Wong, KRDL limsoon at krdl.org.sg * Cathy Wu, National Biomedical Research Foundation & Georgetown University wuc at nbrf.georgetown.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission information Submissions are due 16 July 2001 Decisions are announced 31 August 2001 Camera ready copy due 24 September 2001 Poster abstracts due 5 November 2001 Further information http://psb.stanford.edu All papers must be submitted to russ.altman at stanford.edu in electronic format. The file formats we accept are: postscript (*.ps), adobe acrobat (*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.ps, altman.pdf, or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX or LATEX files will be rejected without review. Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must state the following: * The email address of the corresponding author * The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract * The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration elsewhere. * All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper. Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb. If figures can not be easily resized and placed precisely in the text, then it should be clear that with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would be within the page limit. Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors. 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Please circulate to any interested parties. ________________________________________________________________ University of Brighton Market Development Analyst up to ?26,113 The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), is an internationally renowned centre for research in Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering. Our principal research areas are in multilingual natural language generation, lexicons, text corpus analysis, multimodal interfaces, diagrammatic reasoning, text mining and speech processing. In this rewarding role you will work in collaboration with partners of an international, EU-funded consortium, to promote better market awareness of Human Language Technologies (HLT). The role includes identifying marketing opportunities for HLT and good practice in HLT development; co-ordinating a Europe wide survey of public policy in HLT; organising national and international events and disseminating the results at meetings, conferences and on our website. You will need proven experience of analysing and presenting data and web publishing, familiarity with Human Language Technologies and a masters degree or equivalent. The post is fixed-term for 2 years, in the first instance, in accordance with the period of external funding. Application forms and further details, including important information about the content of your CV, are available from the Personnel Department, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN2 4AT, or from our web site at www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/, or via our 24 hour answerphone: (01273) 642849. Please quote reference number IR5004. Closing date: 11 May 2001 Ref: IR5004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:41:18 -0400 Subject: Junior Faculty Position, Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University From: "Rachel Gawron" <gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu> Message-Id: <NDBBLGLHCMPHCHFJPBAFAEBACFAA.gawron at cogsci.jhu.edu> Junior Faculty Position: Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University The Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, is inviting applications for an untenured, tenure-track position in psycholinguistics. Appointment will be either at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The search will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must have a demonstrated record of achievements in experimental work on language bearing on theoretical issues in either phonology, morphology or syntax. Teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate levels is desirable. Besides theoretical linguistics and cognitive psychology, expertise in other areas of Cognitive Science is a further asset, especially in Neuropsychology, Neuroscience or Computer Science. Please send a CV and sample publications to: Psycholinguistics Search Committee, Department of Cognitive Science, Krieger Hall, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218-2685. Please do not send letters of reference at this point. The Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. 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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:06:51 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:06:51 +0200 Subject: Publications: The Theme-Topic Interface.John Benjamins Message-ID: John Benjamins Publishing announce a new book in the field of Corpus Linguistics: The Theme-Topic Interface. Evidence from English. María Ángeles GÓMEZ-GONZÁLEZ, Pragmatics & Beyond NS 71 US& Canada: 1 55619 949 X / USD 87.00 (Hardcover) Rest of World: 90 272 5086 3 / NLG 190.00 (Hardcover) The Theme-Topic Interface (TTI) gives a useful catalogue of approaches to the concept Theme in the analysis of Natural Language. The book is written with both theoretical and descriptive goals and aims to synthesize and revise current approaches to pragmatic functions. In addition, TTI explains that different thematic constructions in natural language reveal different discourse strategies related to point of view and speaker subjectivity, which shows the mutually supportive role of form and discourse function vis-á-vis each other. The book's value is enhanced by the use of natural language corpora, the Lancaster IBM Spoken English Corpus (LIBMSEC), and by running multivariate statistical tests, taking into account both segmental and suprasegmental features. The bibliography lists more than 600 publications providing ample material for further research into an integrated theory of language and its use. The indexes provide easy access to most authors mentioned and to the major concepts covered. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:07:22 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:07:22 +0200 Subject: Conf: CIAA 2001 : DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION: PAPERS DUE ON TUESDAY 17 APRIL University of Pretoria Sixth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata CIAA 2001 ---------- 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. 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: * Bioinformatics and automata * Complexity of automata operations * Compilers and automata * Computer-aided verification and automata * Concurrency and automata * Data structure design for automata * Data and image compression and automata * Design and architecture of automata software * Digital libraries and automata * Document engineering and automata * Editors, environments and automata * Experimental studies and practical experiences * Industrial applications and automata * Natural language processing and automata * Networking and automata * New algorithms for manipulating automata * Object-Oriented Modeling and automata * Pattern-matching and automata * Speech and speaker recognition and automata * Structured and semi-structured documents and automata * Symbolic manipulation environments for automata * Teaching and automata * Text processing and automata * Techniques for graphical display of automata * VLSI and automata * Viruses, related phenomena and automata * 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 17, 2001. An extended abstract should start with the tit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:07:31 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:07:31 +0200 Subject: Conf: NODALIDA '01 Message-ID: NODALIDA '01 - Uppsala, May 21-22, 2001 Call for participation - Reminder -------------------------------------------------------- NOTE! Deadline for registration: April 17, 2001! -------------------------------------------------------- March 30, 2001 NODALIDA '01, the 2001 Nordic Conference in Computational Linguistics will be held at Uppsala, May 21-22, 2001, hosted by the Department of Linguistics at Uppsala University. The conference starts on Monday, May 21, in the morning and will be finished on Tuesday, May 22, in the evening. The conference dinner will be held Monday evening, May 21, 19:30, at Gotlands Nation. Program Committee Anna Sågvall Hein Uppsala University, Sweden, UU, chair Lars Ahrenberg Linköping University, LiU, Sweden Rolf Carlson Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden Robin Cooper Göteborg University, GU, Sweden Kimmo Koskenniemi Helsinki University, HU, Finland Bente Maegaard Centre for Language Technology, CST, Denmark Torbjörn Nordgård Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Norway Invited speakers Speech technology: Merle Horne, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University Computer-assisted Language Learning: Eckhard Bick, Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark The conference is open for all branches of computational linguistics. The following topics for special sections have been selected: * computational semantics * computer-assisted language learning * machine translation * speech technology. Selected papers will be published after the conference. The deadline for registration for all participants is April 17, 2001. Register by e-mail to nodalida at ling.uu.se. The registration fee will be SEK 500, including conference proceedings, coffee, etc. Conference dinner is not included. More detailed information will be announced later. Home page: http://stp.ling.uu.se/nodalida01/ Satellite Seminar In conjunction with NODALIDA 2001, a one-day General Seminar will be arranged on May 20th, as part of the Nordic Language Technology Research Program 2000-2004- The program has been launched by the Nordic Council of Ministers, see further http://www.norfa.no/sprak. The seminar will include a session on Graduate Training in Computational Linguistics/Language Engineering, chaired by Kimmo Koskenniemi, and two panels devoted to the commercial aspects of Language Technology: * Via Prototype to Product * Language Technology in Practice. The seminar starts at 09:00 AM, on Sunday, May 20. Other practical arrangements will be co-ordinated with NODALIDA 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- How to get to Uppsala By plane to Arlanda airport, then by bus or taxi to Uppsala. Please, refer to the homepage of nodalida'01 for more information: Hotels NODALIDA participants have to take care of hotel reservations and payment themselves. Refer to the conference name NODALIDA when you contact the hotel. Reservations have been made at the following hotels: Radisson SAS Hotel Gillet, Dragarbrunnsgatan 23 (May 19-23) Price: SEK 700 single room (May 19-20) Price: SEK 1340 single room ( May 20-23) Tel: +46 18 68 18 00 Fax: +46 18 68 18 18 Scandic Hotel Uplandia, Dragarbrunnsgatan 32, (May 19-23) Price: SEK 915 single room Tel: +46 18 495 26 00 Fax: +46 18 495 26 11 Grand Hotel Hörnan, Bangårdsgatan 1, (May 20-23) Price: SEK 1050 single room, SEK 1350 double room Tel: +46 18 13 93 80 Fax: +46 18 12 03 11 The reservations must be made before April 20, and we recommend you make the reservations as soon as possible. Please, make your reservations soon, Uppsala runs many conferences in May. Conference fee The conference fee is SEK 500 (incl. VAT SEK 100), to be paid by April 30, 2001 VAT-no SE202100293201. Payment to Postgiro Bank AB SE-105 06 Stockholm SWIFT:PGSISESS Account No: 95 77 07-3 Write message: NODALIDA, fee + name The fee covers conference proceedings, coffee, etc. The participants buy their own lunch at nearby restaurants. Conference dinner The conference dinner will be held Monday evening, May 20, 19:30, at Gotlands Nation. On registration, please notify the organizer if you have special demands on food, etc, due to medical or other reasons. Price: SEK 400 (incl. VAT SEK 80), to be paid by April 30, 2001 VAT-no SE202100293201 Payment to Postgiro Bank AB SE-105 06 Stockholm SWIFT:PGSISESS Account No: 95 77 07-3 Write message: NODALIDA, dinner + name Welcome to Uppsala! Anna-Sågvall Hein *************************************/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\********** ** Department of Linguistics http://www.ling.uu.se ** ** Uppsala University tel: (018) 471 2252 ** ** S-751 20 Uppsala/SWEDEN fax: (018) 471 1416 ** *************************************/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\********** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:07:44 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:07:44 +0200 Subject: Conf: TIA 2001 : Programme Message-ID: ************************************************************************************* DEUXIEME A P P E L A P A R T I C I P A T I O N T I A 2001 Quatrième rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy Les détails concernant l'organisation de la conférence et les insciptions sont sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm PROGRAMME : Jeudi 3 mai 2001 9 h 00 - 10 h 00 : Accueil 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Allocutions d'ouverture 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une nécessaire coopération" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN - Université Paris Nord "Lexically-suggested hyponymic relations among medical terms and their representation in the UMLS", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 - 12 h 00 : Pause 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conférence invitée : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : Déjeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation Aérienne : Mise à jour de régularités", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Repérage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects méthodologiques", Valérie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Université de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 - 16 h 30 : Pause 16 h30 - 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universités d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonnée des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et améliorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Université René Descartes. "Normalisation des échanges de données en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'évolution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Vendredi 4 mai 2001 8 h 30 - 9 h 00 : Accueil 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement intégré pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Biébow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN - Université Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barrière, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 - 12 h 00 : Pause (les posters et démonstrations seront organisés en parallèle) Posters "Approche phraséologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue aligné", Frérot Cécile, Rigou Géraldine, Lacombe Annik, Université de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "Méthodes d'analyse automatique de l'évolution terminologique au travers des variations repérées dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage d'information. Vers une (ré)utilisabilité des ressources linguistiques pour la recherche d'information", Antonio BALVET, Université Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Extraction de termes à base nominale à partir d'un corpus bilingue aligné", François MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Université Lumière Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal Pérez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Université de Malaga 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conférence invitée : "Multilinguisme et ingénierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : Déjeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 30 : "Réutilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance sémantique entre termes médicaux", Cédric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-Hôtel Dieu, Santé Publique et Informatique Médicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris "Contextualisation automatisée de syntagmes nominaux pour la navigation dans une mémoire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliquées - Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricité de France, Division Recherche et Développement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la mémoire d'un projet-véhicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 - 17 h 00 : Clôture 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 ***************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:08:00 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:08:00 +0200 Subject: Projet: collaboration avec la Norvege Message-ID: "Le ministère de la recherche (Direction de la technologie) a rencontré une délégation norvégienne composée de représentants des ministères chargés de la recherche et de l'industrie. Celle-ci nous a fait part de son souhait de renforcer la coopération entre les deux pays dans les domaines du traitement automatique des langues (écrit et oral), de l'ingénierie linguistique et des applications dérivées. Si des centres de recherche, des offreurs de technologies ou des intégrateurs sont intéressés par ce type de rapprochement, vous pouvez le faire savoir à Stéphane Chaudiron (stephane.chaudiron at technologie.gouv.fr). Merci de préciser les domaines de recherche et développement concernés et la nature de la coopération souhaitée. Ces informations seront transmises à nos homologues norvégiens." Merci Stéphane Chaudiron ******************************************* Stéphane CHAUDIRON Chargé de mission "Information scientifique et technique - Ingénierie linguistique" tél. : 33 (0)1 55 55 80 37 fax : 33 (0)1 55 55 83 58 Ministère de la Recherche Direction de la technologie Département "Technologies de l'information et de la communication" 1, rue Descartes - 75231 PARIS cedex 05 http://www.recherche.gouv.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://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Apr 3 14:59:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:59:05 +0200 Subject: Conf: CIAA extension deadline (rectificatif) Message-ID: ************************************************************* LE MESSAGE INTITULE Conf: CIAA 2001 : DEADLINE EXTENSION DIFFUSE HIER ETAIT INCOMPLET (LA FIN ETAIT TRONQUEE) EN VOICI UNE VERSION COMPLETE ************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata CIAA 2001 University of Pretoria 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. 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: * Bioinformatics and automata * Complexity of automata operations * Compilers and automata * Computer-aided verification and automata * Concurrency and automata * Data structure design for automata * Data and image compression and automata * Design and architecture of automata software * Digital libraries and automata * Document engineering and automata * Editors, environments and automata * Experimental studies and practical experiences * Industrial applications and automata * Natural language processing and automata * Networking and automata * New algorithms for manipulating automata * Object-Oriented Modeling and automata * Pattern-matching and automata * Speech and speaker recognition and automata * Structured and semi-structured documents and automata * Symbolic manipulation environments for automata * Teaching and automata * Text processing and automata * Techniques for graphical display of automata * VLSI and automata * Viruses, related phenomena and automata * 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 17, 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 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. If appropriate, proof details omitted in the paper may be added in an appendix. 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 17, 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 17, 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 CIAA 2000 website WIA'99 website WIA'98 website CIAA 2001 WEB SITES Pretoria Site FST-labs Site Hong Kong Site ---------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Apr 4 17:08:21 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:08:21 +0200 Subject: Appel: TAL special issue on SEMANTIC LEXICONS : deadline extension Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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/Natural Language Group, Redmond) Extented Submission Deadline: April 15, 2001 http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-semlex.html --------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE No one 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 - Reuse of existing lexical data FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS Authors must use the HERMES style files for LateX and Word at . Submissions 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Geneva) - Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrücken) - Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) - Ann Copestake (Cambridge University, Cambridge) - Cécile Fabre (Univ. Toulouse-Le-Mirail, Toulouse) - Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, Princeton) - Thierry Fontenelle (Luxembourg) - Mari Olsen (Microsoft, Natural Language Group, Redmond) - Pierre Popowich (Gavagai Technology, Vancouver) - James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston) - Pascale Sebillot (Irisa, Rennes) - Frédérique Segond (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) - Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Natural Language Group, Redmond) - Piek Vossen (SailLabs, Antwerpen) - Rémi Zajac (New Mexico State University, Computing Research Laboratory) 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 Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7) Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Geneva) 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://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Apr 4 17:12:02 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:12:02 +0200 Subject: Conf: TIA 2001 : Appel a demonstration Message-ID: *************************************************************************************** *************************************************************************************** A P P E L A D E M O N S T R A T I O N S 4ème Rencontre "Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle" 3-4 Mai 2001, Nancy TIA 2001 se situe au carrefour de différents domaines, linguistique, terminologie, informatique dont les approches se complètent. Ainsi, ces dernières années ont vu émerger des applications informatiques réalisant différentes tâches autour de la terminologie : extraction de termes,exploration active de corpus, modélisation conceptuelle de domaines, analyse de gros corpus de textes en vue d'en extraire des informations. L'existence de ces applications montre la faisabilité et l'utilité de traitements automatiques ou interactifs dans le dépouillement de textes. Nous vous invitons donc à nous proposer des démonstrations d'applications répondant aux thèmes de la conférence. LIEU ET FREQUENCE DES DEMONSTRATIONS En principe, les démonstrations auront lieu une fois pour chaque application. Un horaire spécifique leur sera réservé (voir Programme). Les auteurs pourront afficher un poster illustrant l'application présentée. INSTRUCTIONS AUX AUTEURS L'application doit être présentée en une seule page. La présentation devra indiquer : - les auteurs ; - leur laboratoire ; - une description de l'application ; - une description précise du matériel et des logiciels informatiques nécessaires. La proposition de démonstration devra également être accompagnée d'une Fiche de renseignements techniques que les auteurs peuvent télédécharger à partir du site de la conférence (http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm). IMPORTANT : La proposition de démonstration sera envoyée avant le 15 avril 2001 : - par courrier postal et en trois exemplaires au président du comité d'organisation Jean Royauté URI-INIST-CNRS 2, allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex - par courrier électronique à l'adresse tia2001 at inist.fr 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:08:16 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:08:16 +0200 Subject: Publications: ADVANCES IN PROBABILISTIC AND OTHER PARSING TECHNOLOGIES Message-ID: **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 16 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis ADVANCES IN PROBABILISTIC AND OTHER PARSING TECHNOLOGIES edited by Harry Bunt Tilburg University, The Netherlands Anton Nijholt University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Parsing technology is concerned with finding syntactic structure in language. In parsing we have to deal with incomplete and not necessarily accurate formal descriptions of natural languages. Robustness and efficiency are among the main issuesin parsing. Corpora can be used to obtain frequency information about language use. This allows probabilistic parsing, an approach that aims at both robustness and efficiency increase. Approximation techniques, to be applied at the level of language description, parsing strategy, and syntactic representation, have the same objective. Approximation at the level of syntactic representation is also known as underspecification, a traditional technique to deal with syntactic ambiguity. In this book new parsing technologies are collected that aim at attacking the problems of robustness and efficiency by exactly these techniques: the design of probabilistic grammars and efficient probabilistic parsing algorithms, approximation techniques applied to grammars and parsers to increase parsing efficiency, and techniques for underspecification and the integration of semantic information in the syntactic analysis to deal with massive ambiguity. The book gives a state-of-the-art overview of current research and development in parsing technologies. In its chapters we see how probabilistic methods have entered the toolbox of computational linguistics in order to be applied in both parsing theory and parsing practice. The book is both a unique reference for researchers and an introduction to the field for interested graduate students. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6616-6 October 2000, 288 pp. EUR 104.50 / USD 112.00 / GBP 71.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. 1. New Parsing Technologies; H. Bunt, A. Nijholt. 2. Encoding Frequency Information in Lexicalized Grammars; J. Carroll, D. Weir. 3. Bilexical Grammars and Their Cubic-Time Parsing Algorithms; J. Eisner. 4. Probabilistic Feature Grammars; J. Goodman. 5. Probabilistic GLR Parsing; K. Inui, et al. 6. Probabilistic Parsing Using Left Corner Language Models; C. Manning, B. Carpenter. 7. A New Parsing Method Using a Global Association Table; J. Yoon, et al. 8. Towards a Reduced Commitment, D-Theory Style TAG Parser; J. Chen, K. Vijay-Shanker. 9. Probabilistic Parse Selection Based on Semantic Co-occurrences; E. Hektoen. 10. Message-Passing Protocols for Object-Oriented Parsing; U. Hahn, et al. 11. SuperTagging for Partial Parsing. 12. Regular Approximation of CFLs: A Grammatical View; M.-J. Nederhof. 13. Parsing By Successive Approximation; H. Schmid. Index. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Volume 5: Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997 Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998 Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999 Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999 Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging Hans van Halteren (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999 Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons Viegas, E. (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999 Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999 Volume 12: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing Frank van Eynde & Dafydd Gibbon (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X, April 2000. Volume 13: Parallel text processing: Alignment and use of translation corpora Jean Véronis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1, August 2000. Volume 14: Prosody: theory and experiment Studies Presented to Gösta Bruce Merle Horne (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8, August 2000. Volume 15: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology Antonis Botinis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0, October 2000. Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5, October 2000. Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB Jean Véronis http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:08:47 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:08:47 +0200 Subject: Conf: SEMPRO-2001 : Revised Deadline Message-ID: *************************************************************** Revised Deadline (Now: April 22nd) *************************************************************** COGNITIVELY PLAUSIBLE MODELS OF SEMANTIC PROCESSING (SEMPRO-2001) (A workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society) July 31st, University of Edinburgh http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~sempro/ The goal of this workshop is to be a forum and a meeting point for researchers developing models of semantic / pragmatic processing (computational and non-computational) motivated by psychological evidence or corpus studies, with a focus on human language processing. Topics of interest include: - incrementality and underspecification in semantic processing - lexical access and disambiguation - semantic composition (e.g., interpretation of modifiers such as adjectives, of modal expressions, of negation) - anaphora resolution - scope assignment - detection and exploitation of discourse structure - semantic interpretation in dialogues (e.g., models of grounding) We would especially like to encourage the exchange of results between psychological experimentation, computational modelling, and corpus-based work. INVITED SPEAKERS: Julie Sedivy (Brown), Anthony Sanford (Glasgow). PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Massimo Poesio (local organizer), Alan Garnham, Maria Lapata, Julie Sedivy, Rosemary Stevenson, Peter Wiemer-Hastings. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Anonymous extended abstracts of at most 5 pages (2500 words) should be submitted by e-mail to sempro at cogsci.ed.ac.uk. Accepted formats: ASCII, postscript, pdf. Include the words 'Submission for SEMPRO 2001' in the Subject line. DATES: Papers due: April 22nd. Acceptance Notification: June 15th. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:09:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:09:05 +0200 Subject: Conf: ACL-2001 Workshop on Natural Language Generation DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: ******************************************************************************** Extended submission deadline: **22 April** ******************************************************************************** ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 6-7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html Sponsored by IBM, Endorsed by SIGGEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media. This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The workshop will focus on the following topics: * Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization) There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG. Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue. Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale applications such as summarization and machine translation. * Differences in information organization between source and presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these) Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong similarities in building the target representations: In the overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often, this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques. Accepted papers on these and related topics will be scheduled for presentation. The majority of the time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. We are considering organizing a panel. For the focus topics above, we will contact a number of competent researchers to address the topic from a specific perspective according to their experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to prepare material / concrete examples for discussions. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman Univ. of Bremen Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi Robert Dale Macquarie University Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7 Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ. Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico Owen Rambow AT&T Research Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS SUBMISSIONS (papers, posters, demos) Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ We also invite poster and demo submissions (free format, up to 6 page, PDF). The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the following information (ASCII text): # TITLE: # AUTHORS: <list of authors> # EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence> # KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...> # TYPE: <paper> / <poster> / <demo> # ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper> Send your submission to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions *** 22 April 2001 *** Notification of acceptance 6 May 2001 Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001 Registration deadline as ACL Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001 REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop. People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should be sent to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. MORE INFORMATION Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:12:56 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:12:56 +0200 Subject: Conf: DCAGRS 01 Message-ID: <MON.9.APR.2001.171256.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Dear Colleague, this is to remind you of the deadline (April 15) for submissions to the workshop Descriptional Complexity for Automata, Grammars and Related Structures (July 20-22, 2001, Vienna, Austria). Detailed information is available at http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs01/ Thank you very much for your attention. Yours sincerely, Bernd Reichel ************************************************************************ Dr. Bernd Reichel Fakultaet für Informatik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg Postfach 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany Tel.: +49-391-67-12851; FAX: -11250; Tel.(privat): +49-391-5051515 reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~reichel Gebaeude 18 Raum 232 ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:18:43 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:18:43 +0200 Subject: Ecole: EUROLAN 2001 REMINDER Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.191843.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *********************************************************** REMINDER SUBMISSIONS DUE APRIL 15 *********************************************************** EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources WORKSHOP ON MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS July 30 - August 1, 2001 Iasi, Romania ORGANIZERS Dan Cristea, University "A.I. Cuza", Iasi, Romania Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Daniel Marcu, ISI, University of Southern California Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh Corpora annotated for a variety of linguistic features are becoming increasingly available. Part of speech annotated corpora are commonplace; treebanks in a variety of languages are available or under development; and corpora annotated for various features of discourse, including co-reference and discourse structure, are also available (e.g., the MUC corpora). In addition, large speech corpora annotated with phonetic transcriptions and prosodic analysis and various multi-lingual aligned corpora are available from centers such as the Linguistic Data Consortium and the European Language Resources Association. This workshop will address issues of using corpora annotated for multiple layers (e.g., syntax and discourse, prosody and part of speech, etc.) or combining multiple layers of annotation in natural language analysis. We invite submissions on the following topics: o Research that exploits information on different linguistic levels; o Consideration and demonstration of the ways in which information from different layers can be used in automatic language processing; o Compatibility of corpora annotated for different linguistic layers, including means to harmonize different annotation types and levels; o Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer School on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, to be held in Iasi, Romania from 30 July - August 11, 2001. Because EUROLAN 2001 is concerned with a wide variety of types of linguistic annotation, the workshop will serve to complement the content of lectures and tutorials that are part of the School's main program. Registration for the workshop is included in the Summer School registration fee. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Papers should report on original work not previously presented elsewhere. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion and a means to receive feedback for future development; therefore, papers describing both completed work and work-in-progress are acceptable. Submissions of 3500-5000 words should be sent via email to ide at cs.vassar.edu with the subject line "EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP SUBMISSION". Submissions in Postscript, PDF, or plain ASCII text formats are acceptable. DATES: Deadline for receipt of submissions April 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance May 5, 2001 Final Paper due June 1, 2001 Workshop date July 30 - August 1, 2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbrücken Charles Fillmore - ICSI, UC Berkeley Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo Jan Hajic - Charles University, Prague Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:21:17 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:21:17 +0200 Subject: Publications: COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES vol35 issues 1 AND 2 Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192117.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> See below for issue 1 ********************************************************************* JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED ********************************************************************* COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Editors-in-chief Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2001 Table of Contents Finding Syntactic Structure in Unparsed Corpora: The Gsearch Corpus Query System Steffan Corley, Martin Corley, Frank Keller, Matthew W. Crocker, Shari Trewin pp. 81-94 The Challenge of Optical Music Recognition David Bainbridge, Tim Bell pp. 95-121 Archaeological Data Models and Web Publication Using XML J. David Schloen pp. 123-152 Sentential Count Rules for Arabic Language Fawaz S. Al-Anzi pp. 153-166 Change-Point Analysis: Elision in Euripides Orestes Jan G. De Gooijer, Nancy M. Laan pp. 167-191 Computer-Based Authorship Attribution Without Lexical Measures E. Stamatatos, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis pp. 193-214 Integrating Linguistic Resources in TC through WSD L. Alfonso Ureqa-Lspez, Manuel Buenaga, Josi M. Gsmez pp. 215-230 Spanish Word Frequency: A Historical Surprise M.J. Woods pp. 231-236 ---------------------------------------------------------------- For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult http://www.wkap.nl/ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Editors-in-chief Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2001 *********************************************************************** * Special Issue on Pattern Processing in Music Analysis and Creation * *********************************************************************** Table of Contents Preface: The AISB99 Convention and the Focus Workshop Geraint A. Wiggins pp. 1-2 Introduction: Pattern Processing in Music Analysis and Creation Pierre-Yves Rolland pp. 3-8 Pattern Processing in Melodic Sequences: Challenges, Caveats and Prospects Emilios Cambouropoulos, Tim Crawford, Costas S. Iliopoulos pp. 9-21 Perceptual Issues in Music Pattern Recognition: Complexity of Rhythm and Key Finding Ilya Shmulevich, Olli Yli-Harja, Edward Coyle, Dirk-Jan Povel, Kjell Lemstrvm pp. 23-35 Representing Melodic Patterns as Networks of Elaborations Alan Marsden pp. 37-54 Approximate Musical Evolution Tim Crawford, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Russel Winder, Haifeng Yu pp. 55-64 Investigating the Influence of Representations and Algorithms in Music Classification Karin Hvthker, Dominik Hvrnel, Christina Anagnostopoulou pp. 65-79 --------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult http://www.wkap.nl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:22:54 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:22:54 +0200 Subject: Appel: IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192254.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------- San Jose, California, USA November 29 - December 2, 2001 Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Workshop Proposals ******************************************* As an important part of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '01), the ICDM '01 workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in data mining. It will provide a venue for several topical workshops on specific data mining research and/or application problems. ICDM '01 workshops will foster the discussion of exciting research directions and works in progress through paper presentations, round table and panel discussions, and invited talks. We especially encourage workshop submissions that capitalize on the location of the conference in Silicon Valley by targeting an audience from both industry and academia. Workshop chairs define the focus and structure of each workshop. Responsibilities include (1) writing the call for papers and publicizing it, (2) selecting the workshop organizing and program committees, and (3) deciding the workshop program content. Submission Instructions ======================= June 15, 2001: Workshop proposals are due. Workshop proposals should be sent via email to the ICDM '01 Workshops Chair, Johannes Gehrke (johannes at cs.cornell.edu). A workshop proposal should include the following information: (1) Workshop title (2) Workshop organizers with full contact information (3) Description of the workshop including objectives, content, and format of the workshop (4) List of potential attendees (5) List of potential authors of workshop contributions June 29, 2001: Notification of workshop proposal acceptance. Suggested Timeline for Workshop Chairs ====================================== July 13, 2001: Workshop call for papers has been sent out. September 14, 2001: Workshop paper submissions due. October 12, 2001: Workshop paper acceptance notices. October 26, 2001: Camera-ready version of workshop papers due. November 29, 2001: Workshop takes place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:23:59 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:23:59 +0200 Subject: Jobs: Ph.D. Fellowships in Language Technology Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192359.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Ph.D. Fellowships in Language Technology The new national Swedish Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT) announces four year graduate fellowships beginning 1st Sept. 2001 (application deadline 7th May, 2001). The school is hosted by Göteborg University and is a collaboration between leading centres in language technology in Sweden including in addition to Göteborg University, Chalmers University of Technology, Högskolan i Borås, Höskolan i Skövde, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Linköping University, Uppsala University, Växjö University. Students may be placed at any of these institutions. The school aims to integrate research on speech and language and to provide a sound basis in both theoretical foundations and applications oriented research. It is committed to an international profile and welcomes applications from outside of Sweden. More information, including application materials, can be found on http://www.ling.gu.se/gslt, by sending email to gslt at ling.gu.se or by contacting the director: Professor Robin Cooper Göteborg University email cooper at ling.gu.se tel +46-31-773 2536 fax +46-31-773 4853 address GSLT Faculty of Arts Göteborg University Box 200 SE 405 30 Göteborg Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:28:36 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:28:36 +0200 Subject: Conf: TIA 2001 : DEMONSTRATIONS : extension date limite Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192836.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* DERNIER A P P E L A D E M O N S T R A T I O N S ((((((((((((((( extension date limite au 20/04/2001 ))))))))))))))))) 4ème Rencontre "Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle" 3-4 Mai 2001, Nancy TIA 2001 se situe au carrefour de différents domaines, linguistique, terminologie, informatique dont les approches se complètent. Ainsi, ces dernières années ont vu émerger des applications informatiques réalisant différentes tâches autour de la terminologie : extraction de termes,exploration active de corpus, modélisation conceptuelle de domaines, analyse de gros corpus de textes en vue d'en extraire des informations. L'existence de ces applications montre la faisabilité et l'utilité de traitements automatiques ou interactifs dans le dépouillement de textes. Nous vous invitons donc à nous proposer des démonstrations d'applications répondant aux thèmes de la conférence. LIEU ET FREQUENCE DES DEMONSTRATIONS En principe, les démonstrations auront lieu une fois pour chaque application. Un horaire spécifique leur sera réservé (voir Programme). Les auteurs pourront afficher un poster illustrant l'application présentée. INSTRUCTIONS AUX AUTEURS L'application doit être présentée en une seule page. La présentation devra indiquer : - les auteurs ; - leur laboratoire ; - une description de l'application ; - une description précise du matériel et des logiciels informatiques nécessaires. La proposition de démonstration devra également être accompagnée d'une Fiche de renseignements techniques que les auteurs peuvent télédécharger à partir du site de la conférence (http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm). IMPORTANT : La proposition de démonstration sera envoyée avant le 20 avril 2001 : - par courrier postal et en trois exemplaires au président du comité d'organisation : Jean Royauté URI-INIST-CNRS 2, allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex - par courrier électronique à l'adresse tia2001 at inist.fr 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 13 16:35:37 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:35:37 +0100 Subject: R: Lexique informatise de grec moderne Message-ID: <FRI.13.APR.2001.173537.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> 1/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:34:31 +0200 From: Elsa Sklavounou <sklavounou at systran.fr> Message-Id: <3AD41717.608C0414 at systran.fr> 2/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:43:48 +0200 From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> Message-Id: <a0500190bb6f9d7aee4bf@[129.88.32.65]> ======================================================================= 1/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:34:31 +0200 From: Elsa Sklavounou <sklavounou at systran.fr> Message-Id: <3AD41717.608C0414 at systran.fr> X-url: http://www.komvos.edu.gr Kalimera à tous Le site www.komvos.edu.gr dispose les derniers dictionnaires du grec moderne (Triantafyllidis, Dictionnaire Inverse et autres) informatisés. Vous pouvez faire plusieurs requêtes. Il y a aussi un corpus de 1.500.000 mots avec la possibilité de rechercher des mots ou des séquences des mots aussi. Elsa Sklavounou ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:43:48 +0200 From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> Message-Id: <a0500190bb6f9d7aee4bf@[129.88.32.65]> X-url: http://www.ilsp.gr Voir le site de l'ILSP ou contacter S.Piperidis Stelios Piperidis Head of Language Technology Applications Department Institute for Language and Speech Processing-ILSP 6 Artemidos & Epidavrou, 151 25 Marousi, Athens, Greece Tel : +301 6875430 Fax : +301 6852 620 email : Stelios Piperidis <spip at ilsp.gr> http://www.ilsp.gr CB -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Boitet (Pr. Universite' Joseph Fourier) Tel: +33.4-7651-4355/4817 GETA, CLIPS, IMAG-campus, BP53 Fax: +33.4-7651-4405 385, rue de la Bibliothe`que Mel: Christian.Boitet at imag.fr 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Mobile: +33-(0)6-6005-1969 http://www-clips.imag.fr/geta/christian.boitet ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Projet C-STAR (http://www.c-star.org/) et projet europe'en Nespole (http://nespole.itc.it) de traduction de parole Projet UNL de communication et recherche d'information multilingue sur le re'seau http://www.unl.ias.unu.edu ou http://www.unl.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 13 16:35:40 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:35:40 +0100 Subject: R: Corpus d'articles Scientifiques et leurs resumes Message-ID: <FRI.13.APR.2001.173540.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:42:28 +0100 From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> Message-Id: <4.1.20010411093739.00a59d90 at mail.wlv.ac.uk> X-url: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/ There are corpora with scientific abstracts only (e.g. INSPEC), but regarding a corpus containing BOTH articles and their abstracts, it may be interesting for you to know that Constantin Orasan (in6093 at wlv.ac.uk) from the University of Wolverhampton is working on such a corpus for English at the moment. Ruslan Mitkov \\\ Ruslan Mitkov, PhD /// Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering \\\ School of Humanities, Languages and Social Studies (Wolverhampton) /// University of Wolverhampton \\\ Stafford St. /// Wolverhampton WV1 1SB \\\ United Kingdom /// Telephone (44-1902) 322471 \\\ Fax (44-1902) 322739 /// Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk \\\ Website http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:07 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:07 +0100 Subject: Info: New MSc/PhD programs in NLP at King's College, London Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115107.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:28:18 +0100 From: Jonathan Ginzburg <ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> Message-Id: <3ADC9951.8215BEC1 at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> X-url: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/ginzburg New MSc and MPhil/PhD Programs in Natural Language Processing in the Computer Science Dept. at King's College, London A new Natural Language Processing research group has been created in the Computer Science Department at King's College, London. This group is offering an MSc in Natural Language Processing, which will start in September 2001, and opportunities for MPhil/PhD studies. For information on the group and these new programes please consult our web site at www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/index.html. Inquiries can also be directed to Shalom Lappin (lappin at dcs.kcl.ac.uk) or Jonathan Ginzburg (ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk). The Department of Computer Science at King's College anticipates having two EPSRC funded quota PhD studentships for September, 2001. These will be awarded on a competitive basis to PhD applicants from any area of computer science. The holder of an EPSRC quota studentship must be a permanent resident of the UK to receive a tuition scholarship and a maintenance grant. Residents of a European Union country are eligible for a tuition scholarship only. Qualified PhD applicants interested in pursuing research in natural language processing will be considered for these grants. (Apologies if you see this announcement multiply) -- Dept of Computer Science King's College, London The Strand, London WC2R 2LS UK phone: +44-20-7848-2752 fax: +44-20-7848-2841 ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/ginzburg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:32 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:32 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115132.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> 1/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:15:49 +0100 From: Fiona McGregor <fiona at cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-Id: <l03102800b7044d2fd695@[129.215.110.138]> 2/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:58:13 +0200 From: Linda Bellahsene <lbellahs at etu.info.unicaen.fr> Message-Id: <3ADEA8A5.9F26986D at etu.info.unicaen.fr> 3/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:47:12 +0200 From: "Simon de Bernard" <debernard at valigen.net> Message-Id: <007a01c0c8df$9e85b980$8901a8c0 at valigene.com> X-url: http://www.valigen.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:15:49 +0100 From: Fiona McGregor <fiona at cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-Id: <l03102800b7044d2fd695@[129.215.110.138]> University of Edinburgh Research Programmer : Spoken Dialogue Systems The Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), Division of Informatics draws on the skills and expertise of one of the largest communities of natural language processing specialists in Europe and has strong experience in human-machine interaction, natural language understanding, speech processing, and XML protocols. In this role you will join a team working on the design and implementation of a spoken dialogue system. Much of the envisaged work will be carried out within ICCS's Language Technology Group, which provides a stimulating and varied research environment. You should have experience of software engineering and distributed agent systems and a good knowledge of C, C++ or Java. Experience with CORBA and XML would be an advantage, as would knowledge of speech or language engineering. The appointment is for a fixed term of 2 years. Salary scale, 16,775 -- 25,213 p.a. Informal enquiries to steedman at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Please quote ref:316245 For further pariculars and application pack visit our web site (www.ed.ac.uk) or telephone the recruitment line on +44 (0)131 650 2511. Closing date : 11 May 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:58:13 +0200 From: Linda Bellahsene <lbellahs at etu.info.unicaen.fr> Message-Id: <3ADEA8A5.9F26986D at etu.info.unicaen.fr> L'unité de recherche et développement "Reconnaissance de parole" de Datops propose à Nîmes, France, le poste suivant: - un stage bac+5 en linguistique-informatique (6 mois) sur le traitement de la parole. Des connaissances dans les domaines de "perplexity", "Semantic Interpretation" sont nécessaires. Contact : Linda Bellahsene - lbellahsene at datops.com (Les candidatures doivent être envoyées exclusivement par email). The speech recognition team of Datops R&D in Nîmes (France) invites applications for this position : - a 6 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate student about speech recognition. The main task of the candidate will be to develop the automatic speech recognition software with acoustic and language model (Theory of perplexity and Semantic Interpetation) for extracting text elements from audio files and video soundtracks; for English first. Contact : Linda Bellahsene - lbellahsene at datops.com (send resume by email). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:47:12 +0200 From: "Simon de Bernard" <debernard at valigen.net> Message-Id: <007a01c0c8df$9e85b980$8901a8c0 at valigene.com> X-url: http://www.valigen.com IT Linguist. ValiGen is a biotechnology company intent on becoming the premier drug target validation company and a leading developer of innovative human therapeutics and plants. For the development of its pathway mapping technology, ValiGen is presently looking for an IT Linguist. Job Description: Writing of transducers for the detection of biological interactions from scientific literature and integration of these and other linguistic components in a broader information management software. Location: Paris-La-Défense, France Education & Experience: Degree in Linguistics/Language Technology Degree in Biology (preferred). Good knowledge of English grammar. Proven experience in text parsing systems (INTEX, Xelda or equivalent). Familiarity with biology related scientific literature is preferred. Availability: Immediate For details on ValiGen and its technologies, please consult our web pages at: http://www.valigen.com To apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to: drh at valigen.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:43 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: JADT 2002 Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115143.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:47:25 +0200 From: Pascale Sebillot <Pascale.Sebillot at irisa.fr> Message-Id: <3AE0762D.3DD07825 at irisa.fr> X-url: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt CALL FOR PAPERS - JADT 2002 - March 13-15, 2002 6th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 13-15, 2002 Palais du Grand Large St-Malo / France The International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data provides a workshop-style forum to all scholars, statisticians, computer scientists, linguists..., working in the vast field of textual data analysis ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of data to content analysis. Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998) and Lausanne (2000), the 6th International Conference will be held in Saint-Malo, France on march 13-15 2002. Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 1, 2001 Notification: October 30, 2001 Camera ready papers: December 15, 2001 Conference: March 13-15, 2002 Website: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt e-mail address: jadt2002 at irisa.fr Submission: Submissions should be limited to original work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous works. Participants wishing to submit a paper should send to the organization committee (via email jadt2002 at irisa.fr) a first version of their paper for review by September 1, 2001, giving the following information: - Name, affiliation and full postal address (fax and/or e-mail) of authors - Title of the proposed paper with keywords - A first version of the paper (12 pages max.) emphasizing the purpose of the paper - An abstract in the paper language - An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) - Bibliographical references Topics: Topics of interest of the conference concern the application of statistical models and tools in the following domains: - Exploratory Textual Data Analysis - Textual Statistics - Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions - Natural Language Processing - Stylometry - Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis - Textual Classification - Text Corpora and Text Encoding - Frequency Dictionaries - Lemmatization, automatic categorization - Information Retrieval - Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors on October 30, 2001. Final versions (camera-ready papers) should conform to the format that will be provided to the authors (12 pages max.) and reach the committee no later than December 15, 2001. Accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the participants at the start of the conference. Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract. As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. Program Committee: Ramon Alvarez, Univ. of Leon, Spain Harald Baayen, Univ. of Nimègue, The Netherlands Monica Bécue, Polyt. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain Sergio Bolasco, Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy Étienne Brunet, Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Annibale Elia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Dominique Labbé, Univ. of Grenoble, France Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST Paris, France (Président) Alain Lelu Univ. of Franche Comté, France Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, France Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. of Versailles SQY, France André Salem, Univ. Paris 3, France Pascale Sébillot, IRISA, France Fiona Tweedie, Univ. of Glasgow, UK Organization Committee: Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr organized by IRISA/INRIA Rennes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:47 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:47 +0100 Subject: Conf: MBR'01 Final Program Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115147.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:29:59 -0500 From: Lorenzo Magnani <lmagnani at cc.gatech.edu> Message-Id: <3AE37787.459551BD at cc.gatech.edu> X-url: http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html MBR'01 Final program (Model-Based Reasoning. Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, Values, Pavia, Italy, May 17-19, 2001 http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:39 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:39 +0100 Subject: Appel: TIA 2001, Dernier appel a participation Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115139.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:28:30 +0200 From: "Ivana ROCHE" <Roche at inist.fr> Message-Id: <sae02b83.015 at gwia> X-url: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm ************************************************************************ (((((((((((((( DERNIER APPEL A PARTICIPATION )))))))))))))) T I A 2001 Quatrième rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy Les détails concernant l'organisation de la conférence et les insciptions sont sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A T T E N T I O N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LES INSCRIPTIONS A LA SOIREE DU 03/05, QUI SUIVRA LA RECEPTION A LA MAIRIE DE NANCY, RESTENT OUVERTES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PROGRAMME : Jeudi 3 mai 2001 9 h 00 - 10 h 00 : Accueil 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Allocutions d'ouverture 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une nécessaire coopération" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN - Université Paris Nord "Lexically-suggested hyponymic relations among medical terms and their representation in the UMLS", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 - 12 h 00 : Pause 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conférence invitée : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : Déjeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation Aérienne : Mise à jour de régularités", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Repérage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects méthodologiques", Valérie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Université de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 - 16 h 30 : Pause 16 h30 - 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universités d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonnée des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et améliorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Université René Descartes. "Normalisation des échanges de données en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'évolution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Vendredi 4 mai 2001 8 h 30 - 9 h 00 : Accueil 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement intégré pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Biébow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN - Université Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barrière, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 - 12 h 00 : Pause durant laquelle les sessions de posters et de démonstrations seront organisées en parallèle POSTERS "Approche phraséologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue aligné", Frérot Cécile, Rigou Géraldine, Lacombe Annik, Université de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "Méthodes d'analyse automatique de l'évolution terminologique au travers des variations repérées dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage d'information. Vers une (ré)utilisabilité des ressources linguistiques pour la recherche d'information", Antonio BALVET, Université Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Extraction de termes à base nominale à partir d'un corpus bilingue aligné", François MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Université Lumière Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal Pérez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Université de Malaga 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conférence invitée : "Multilinguisme et ingénierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : Déjeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 30 : "Réutilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance sémantique entre termes médicaux", Cédric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-Hôtel Dieu, Santé Publique et Informatique Médicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris "Contextualisation automatisée de syntagmes nominaux pour la navigation dans une mémoire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliquées - Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricité de France, Division Recherche et Développement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la mémoire d'un projet-véhicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 - 17 h 00 : Clôture 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 ***************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:51 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:51 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL NLG WORKSHOP, submission deadline 22 Apr Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115151.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:17:27 -0400 From: "Nicolas Nicolov" <nicolas at us.ibm.com> Message-Id: <OFB49CA8FE.0440AEB4-ON85256A32.002D28D5 at pok.ibm.com> X-url: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html X-url: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 6-7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html Sponsored by IBM, Endorsed by SIGGEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media. This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The workshop will focus on the following topics: * Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization) There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG. Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue. Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale applications such as summarization and machine translation. * Differences in information organization between source and presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these) Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong similarities in building the target representations: In the overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often, this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques. Accepted papers on these and related topics will be scheduled for presentation. The majority of the time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. We are considering organizing a panel. For the focus topics above, we will contact a number of competent researchers to address the topic from a specific perspective according to their experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to prepare material / concrete examples for discussions. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman Univ. of Bremen Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi Robert Dale Macquarie University Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7 Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ. Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico Owen Rambow AT&T Research Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS SUBMISSIONS (papers, posters, demos) Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ We also invite poster and demo submissions (free format, up to 6 page, PDF). The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the following information (ASCII text): # TITLE: <title of the paper> # AUTHORS: <list of authors> # EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence> # KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...> # TYPE: <paper> / <poster> / <demo> # ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper> Send your submission to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions *** 22 April 2001 *** Notification of acceptance 6 May 2001 Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001 Registration deadline as ACL Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001 REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop. People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should be sent to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. MORE INFORMATION Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:55 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:55 +0100 Subject: Appel: RANLP, submission deadline 15 May Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115155.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:28:17 -0400 From: "Nicolas Nicolov" <nicolas at us.ibm.com> Message-Id: <OF26FC00C1.699024C2-ON85256A32.002DAEDF at pok.ibm.com> X-url: http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ X-url: http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ *********************************************************** * * * RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING * * * * Euro Conference RANLP-2001 * * 5-7 September 2001 * * Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria * * * * http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ * * * *********************************************************** Further to the successful and competitive 1st and 2nd conferences on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (selected papers from which were published by John Benjamins as CILT vol.136 and CILT vol.189), we are pleased to announce the third RANLP conference to be held this year. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. TOPICS We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing. We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text categorisation; question- answering; dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. INVITED SPEAKERS Branimir Boguraev (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Ed Hovy (Information Sciences Institute / USC) Martin Kay (Xerox Parc) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Elisabeth Andre (DFKI) Galia Angelova (LML, Sofia) Branimir Boguraev (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) Kalina Boncheva (Sheffield University) Eric Brill (Microsoft Research) Key-Sun Choi (KAIST) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) Ed Hovy (Information Sciences Institute / USC) Eugene Charniak (Brown University, Providence) Dan Cristea (University of Iasi) Fumiyo Fukumoto (Yamanashi University) Maria Gavrilidou (ILPS, Athens) Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble) Udo Hahn (Freiburg University) Nadia Hegazy (ERI) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.) Frances Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University) Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto) Alma Kharrat (Microsoft Research) Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Charles University, Prague) Lori Lamel (LIMSI, Orsay) Lillian Lee (Cornell University) Xiaoqiang Luo (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) Inderjeet Mani (MITRE) Daniel Marcu (Information Sciences Institute / USC) Wolfgang Menzel (University of Hamburg) Andrei Mikheev (University of Edinburgh) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton - Chair) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Nicolas Nicolov (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Istanbul) Jose Quesada (University of Seville) Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante) Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota Duluth) Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens) Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic) James Pustejovsky (University of Brandeis) Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan) Allan Ramsey (UMIST, Manchester) Ellen Riloff (University of Utah) Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille) Christer Samuelsson (Indigo, Montreal) Donia Scott (University of Brighton) Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corporation) Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon) Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York) Piek Vossen (Saillabs, Antwerpen) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) Michael Zock (LIMSI, Orsay) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS NOTIFICATION OF SUBMISSION Authors should email notification of submission with the completed form below to <K.Bontcheva at dcs.shef.ac.uk> with subject line: RANLP2001 notification of submission. After submitting the information below you will receive by email a paper ID code which should be used in all correspondence (including the paper submission). # NAME : Name of author for correspondence # TITLE: Title of the paper # TYPE : paper / poster / demo # KEYS : Keywords # EMAIL: Email of author for correspondence # PAGES: Number of pages (including bibliographical references) # FILE : Name of PDF file (avoid RANLP2001.pdf and the like!!!) # ABSTR: # Abstract of the paper # . . . . . . # OTHER: Under consideration for other conferences (specify)? # NOTE : Anything you'd like to add Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not exceed seven pages (poster and demo submissions should be no longer than 5 pages), including cover page, figures, tables and references. The first page should state the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract and continue with the first section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in **PDF** format. For up to three free convertions to PDF see 'http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS'. In exceptional circumstances hard copies/MS-Word/PS versions might be accepted. Send your electronic PDF submission to <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> (please quote paper identifier - see above 'notification of submission'). Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. TUTORIALS RANLP-2001 will be preceded by 2 days of tutorials. See http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ for a preliminary list of tutorial speakers. SCHEDULE Paper Pre-registration: 10 May 2001 Paper Submission Due: *** 15 May 2001 *** Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2001 Camera-ready Paper Due: 5 August 2001 Tutorials: 3-4 September 2001 Conference: 5-7 September 2001 LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains surrounding the Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information can be obtained from: Galia Angelova (OC Chair) Linguistic Modelling Laboratory Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 25A Acad. G. Bonchev Str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria galia at lml.bas.bg SPONSORS The conference is funded by the European Commission, DGXII through Human Potential Programme for High-Level Scientific Conferences (contract number HPCF-2000-00329). CONFERENCE MAILING LIST 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:30 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:30 +0100 Subject: Cursus: Formations postgrades, Traitement info multilingue 2001-2002 Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104330.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:56:13 +0200 From: susan <susan.armstrong at issco.unige.ch> Message-Id: <3AE4266D.6CF4D8BD at issco.unige.ch> X-url: http://www.unige.ch/eti/etudes/autres/dea.html X-url: http://www.issco.unige.ch Formation post-grade en traitement informatique multilingue 2001-2002 Ecole de traduction et d'interprétation de l'Université de Genève Aujourd'hui, on constate un besoin croissant de personnel qualifié dans le secteur des industries de la langue, capable de maîtriser les logiciels spécialisés pour le traducteur, de comprendre les technologies sous-jacentes et de suivre les nouveaux développements. L'Ecole de traduction et d'interprétation de l'Université de Genève offre de nouvelles formations post-grades qui répondent à ces besoins. DEA Le DEA en traitement informatique multilingue propose, sur une année, un programme original qui s'articule autour de trois axes : les connaissances nécessaires pour traiter automatiquement les langues, la représentation formelle de ces connaissances et leur utilisation dans les différentes applications informatiques. L'étudiant suit des enseignements dans les matières suivantes : - Introduction à la description formelle des langues - Traitement informatique multilingue - Introduction à la programmation linguistique - Traitement informatique des textes - Fondements théoriques de la terminologie et réalisent un mémoire. DESS Deux DESS offrent une formation à la fois théorique et pratique qui favorise l'immersion dans le monde professionnel. Le DESS en terminologie a pour but un qualification professionelle correspondant aux besoins des administrations, des entreprises, etc. L'objectif de la formation dispensée est de maîtriser les principes et les méthodes de la terminologie, ainsi que les différents outils terminologiques disponibles, mais aussi de savoir produire de nouveaux outils. Le DESS en traduction assistée par ordinateur permet au traducteur d'apprécier et de maîtriser les outils informatiques, d'évaluer l'importance de la technologie dans le processus de la traduction et de suivre les développements. Pour perfectionner leur formation, les étudiants de DESS doivent effectuer un stage et préparer un mémoire. Ces formations s'adressent : - aux traducteurs et interprètes titulaires d'une licence ou d'un diplôme - à toutes personnes, titulaires d'un grade universitaire, intéressées par le multilinguisme et les nouvelles technologies Contacts: http://www.unige.ch/eti/etudes/autres/dea.html DEA en traitement informatique multilingue Margaret.King at issco.unige.ch DESS en traduction assistée par ordinateur Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch DESS en terminologie Bruno.Debessé@eti.unige.ch -- Susan Armstrong Email: Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch ISSCO/ETI, Univ. of Geneva Voice: +41 22 705 8764 40, Bd. du Pont-d'Arve Fax : +41 22 705 8689 CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Siwtzerland) WWW : http://www.issco.unige.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:33 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:33 +0100 Subject: Appel: IEEE Data Mining 2001: Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104333.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:28:45 +0900 (JST) From: Ning Zhong <zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp> Message-Id: <200104251128.UAA27420 at maebashi-it.ac.jp> X-url: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------- San Jose, California, USA November 29 - December 2, 2001 Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Tutorials ********************************** The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '01) will include tutorials providing in-depth background on specific subjects in data mining. The recency of the data mining field, and the variety of disciplines that are represented, lead to many possibilities for good tutorials: * Short courses on areas of machine learning, databases, or statistics that may be "old hat" to specialists in that discipline, but are new to a majority of the conference attendees. (e.g., An Introduction to Hidden Markov Models). * Surveys of new and developing research areas in data mining. (e.g., Text Mining). * End-to-end descriptions of the practical application of data mining technology (i.e., applications that may be "typical" for a paper, but provide an example of issues faced in a data mining project that would generalize to problems faced by the conference attendees). * An in-depth coverage of a past research breakthrough that is now becoming a mature technology. The topics of interest fall within those described in the conference Call for Papers (http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html). Submission Details ================== The tutorial proposal should include the following: 1. Title and abstract of the tutorial; 2. Intended audience. Include prerequisite knowledge required of the attendees, and the expected areas of interest. (For example, a tutorial on statistics for people applying data mining tools vs. a tutorial on statistics for people building data mining tools); 3. Length of time needed (e.g., half day or full day); and 4. Short biographies of the presenters. Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be included if available, but are not required for submission. However, providing such materials will show depth and maturity of the tutorial, and will be a strong factor in the selection process. Please send a soft copy (preferred) of your proposal to clifton at computer.org, or a hard copy to: Dr. Chris Clifton The MITRE Corporation M/S K308, 202 Burlington Rd, Bedford, MA 01730-1420, USA Important Dates =============== June 30, 2001: Tutorial submissions. July 31, 2001: Acceptance notices. August 31, 2001: Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts. November 29, 2001: ICDM '01 tutorials. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:36 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:36 +0100 Subject: Call: Literature Data Mining for Biology Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104336.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:00:18 -0400 From: Pamela J Davis <pjdavis at mitre.org> Message-Id: <3AE87E52.7FE7275F at mitre.org> X-url: http://psb.stanford.edu ********************************************************************************** A call for papers in Literature Data Mining for Biology A special session within the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002 January 3-7, 2002 Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club A large part of the information required for biology research can only be found in free-text form, as in MEDLINE abstracts, or in comment fields of relevant reports, as in GenBank feature table annotations. This information is important for many types of analysis, such as classification of proteins into functional groups, discovery of new functional relationships, maintenance of information on material and methods, increased precision and relevance of hits returned by BLAST, extraction of protein interaction information, and so on. However, information in free-text form or in comment fields is very difficult for automated systems to use. In addition, the extracted information may need further enrichment, for example, the inclusion of quantitative information about the interaction. This session will investigate how natural language and data mining techniques can provide and structure information relevant to biological applications. The session solicits papers on techniques and applications of natural language processing to the extraction of biological information from free text, including literature abstracts (e.g., MEDLINE), database annotations (e.g., GENBANK or PIR), and other relevant biology sources. It will emphasize the combination of natural language techniques with other biological information sources, such as database and sequence searches, to facilitate collection and organization of information about particular genes, proteins, or pathways. In particular, we are interested in: * Novel ways of combining text data mining and more conventional bioinformatics search techniques; * Use of text data mining techniques for consistency checking and error detection in annotation of existing data bases; * Biological problems where extraction of text-based information can provide quantitative performance gains; * Evaluations of the utility of text data mining techniques and components; * Extraction and organization of text-based information facilitated by ontologies and data exchange standards; * Creation of structured resources (databases) through the use of text data mining and information extraction techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session co-chairs * Lynette Hirschman, MITRE lynette at mitre.org * Jong C. Park, KAIST park at nlp.kaist.ac.kr * Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp * Limsoon Wong, KRDL limsoon at krdl.org.sg * Cathy Wu, National Biomedical Research Foundation & Georgetown University wuc at nbrf.georgetown.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission information Submissions are due 16 July 2001 Decisions are announced 31 August 2001 Camera ready copy due 24 September 2001 Poster abstracts due 5 November 2001 Further information http://psb.stanford.edu All papers must be submitted to russ.altman at stanford.edu in electronic format. The file formats we accept are: postscript (*.ps), adobe acrobat (*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.ps, altman.pdf, or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX or LATEX files will be rejected without review. Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must state the following: * The email address of the corresponding author * The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract * The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration elsewhere. * All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper. Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb. If figures can not be easily resized and placed precisely in the text, then it should be clear that with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would be within the page limit. Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors. The fee is $500 per page of color pictures, payable at the time of camera ready submission. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 30 19:31:05 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:31:05 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 offers Message-ID: <MON.30.APR.2001.203105.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> 1/Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:15:48 +0100 Subject: Market Development Analyst, Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton From: francesca carter <francesca.carter at itri.brighton.ac.uk> Message-Id: <3AE938C4.F87F6162 at itri.bton.ac.uk> 2/Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:41:18 -0400 Subject: Junior Faculty Position, Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University From: "Rachel Gawron" <gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu> Message-Id: <NDBBLGLHCMPHCHFJPBAFAEBACFAA.gawron at cogsci.jhu.edu> ======================================================================= 1/Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:15:48 +0100 Subject: Market Development Analyst, Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton From: francesca carter <francesca.carter at itri.brighton.ac.uk> Message-Id: <3AE938C4.F87F6162 at itri.bton.ac.uk> With apologies for cross-posting, please find below details of a post in the Information Technology Research Institute at the University of Brighton which is currently being advertised. Please circulate to any interested parties. ________________________________________________________________ University of Brighton Market Development Analyst up to £26,113 The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), is an internationally renowned centre for research in Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering. Our principal research areas are in multilingual natural language generation, lexicons, text corpus analysis, multimodal interfaces, diagrammatic reasoning, text mining and speech processing. In this rewarding role you will work in collaboration with partners of an international, EU-funded consortium, to promote better market awareness of Human Language Technologies (HLT). The role includes identifying marketing opportunities for HLT and good practice in HLT development; co-ordinating a Europe wide survey of public policy in HLT; organising national and international events and disseminating the results at meetings, conferences and on our website. You will need proven experience of analysing and presenting data and web publishing, familiarity with Human Language Technologies and a masters degree or equivalent. The post is fixed-term for 2 years, in the first instance, in accordance with the period of external funding. Application forms and further details, including important information about the content of your CV, are available from the Personnel Department, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN2 4AT, or from our web site at www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/, or via our 24 hour answerphone: (01273) 642849. Please quote reference number IR5004. Closing date: 11 May 2001 Ref: IR5004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:41:18 -0400 Subject: Junior Faculty Position, Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University From: "Rachel Gawron" <gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu> Message-Id: <NDBBLGLHCMPHCHFJPBAFAEBACFAA.gawron at cogsci.jhu.edu> Junior Faculty Position: Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University The Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, is inviting applications for an untenured, tenure-track position in psycholinguistics. Appointment will be either at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The search will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must have a demonstrated record of achievements in experimental work on language bearing on theoretical issues in either phonology, morphology or syntax. Teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate levels is desirable. Besides theoretical linguistics and cognitive psychology, expertise in other areas of Cognitive Science is a further asset, especially in Neuropsychology, Neuroscience or Computer Science. Please send a CV and sample publications to: Psycholinguistics Search Committee, Department of Cognitive Science, Krieger Hall, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218-2685. Please do not send letters of reference at this point. The Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Women and members of under-represented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:06:51 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:06:51 +0200 Subject: Publications: The Theme-Topic Interface.John Benjamins Message-ID: <MON.2.APR.2001.170651.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> John Benjamins Publishing announce a new book in the field of Corpus Linguistics: The Theme-Topic Interface. Evidence from English. Mar?a ?ngeles G?MEZ-GONZ?LEZ, Pragmatics & Beyond NS 71 US& Canada: 1 55619 949 X / USD 87.00 (Hardcover) Rest of World: 90 272 5086 3 / NLG 190.00 (Hardcover) The Theme-Topic Interface (TTI) gives a useful catalogue of approaches to the concept Theme in the analysis of Natural Language. The book is written with both theoretical and descriptive goals and aims to synthesize and revise current approaches to pragmatic functions. In addition, TTI explains that different thematic constructions in natural language reveal different discourse strategies related to point of view and speaker subjectivity, which shows the mutually supportive role of form and discourse function vis-?-vis each other. The book's value is enhanced by the use of natural language corpora, the Lancaster IBM Spoken English Corpus (LIBMSEC), and by running multivariate statistical tests, taking into account both segmental and suprasegmental features. The bibliography lists more than 600 publications providing ample material for further research into an integrated theory of language and its use. The indexes provide easy access to most authors mentioned and to the major concepts covered. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:07:22 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:07:22 +0200 Subject: Conf: CIAA 2001 : DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: <MON.2.APR.2001.170722.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION: PAPERS DUE ON TUESDAY 17 APRIL <http://www.cs.up.ac.za/>University of Pretoria Sixth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata CIAA 2001 ---------- 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, <http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/fsm/>FSM, Grail, INR, <http://www.brics.dk/mona/>MONA, and Turing's World. 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: * Bioinformatics and automata * Complexity of automata operations * Compilers and automata * Computer-aided verification and automata * Concurrency and automata * Data structure design for automata * Data and image compression and automata * Design and architecture of automata software * Digital libraries and automata * Document engineering and automata * Editors, environments and automata * Experimental studies and practical experiences * Industrial applications and automata * Natural language processing and automata * Networking and automata * New algorithms for manipulating automata * Object-Oriented Modeling and automata * Pattern-matching and automata * Speech and speaker recognition and automata * Structured and semi-structured documents and automata * Symbolic manipulation environments for automata * Teaching and automata * Text processing and automata * Techniques for graphical display of automata * VLSI and automata * Viruses, related phenomena and automata * 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 17, 2001. An extended abstract should start with the tit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:07:31 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:07:31 +0200 Subject: Conf: NODALIDA '01 Message-ID: <MON.2.APR.2001.170731.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> NODALIDA '01 - Uppsala, May 21-22, 2001 Call for participation - Reminder -------------------------------------------------------- NOTE! Deadline for registration: April 17, 2001! -------------------------------------------------------- March 30, 2001 NODALIDA '01, the 2001 Nordic Conference in Computational Linguistics will be held at Uppsala, May 21-22, 2001, hosted by the Department of Linguistics at Uppsala University. The conference starts on Monday, May 21, in the morning and will be finished on Tuesday, May 22, in the evening. The conference dinner will be held Monday evening, May 21, 19:30, at Gotlands Nation. Program Committee Anna S?gvall Hein Uppsala University, Sweden, UU, chair Lars Ahrenberg Link?ping University, LiU, Sweden Rolf Carlson Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden Robin Cooper G?teborg University, GU, Sweden Kimmo Koskenniemi Helsinki University, HU, Finland Bente Maegaard Centre for Language Technology, CST, Denmark Torbj?rn Nordg?rd Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Norway Invited speakers Speech technology: Merle Horne, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University Computer-assisted Language Learning: Eckhard Bick, Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark The conference is open for all branches of computational linguistics. The following topics for special sections have been selected: * computational semantics * computer-assisted language learning * machine translation * speech technology. Selected papers will be published after the conference. The deadline for registration for all participants is April 17, 2001. Register by e-mail to nodalida at ling.uu.se. The registration fee will be SEK 500, including conference proceedings, coffee, etc. Conference dinner is not included. More detailed information will be announced later. Home page: http://stp.ling.uu.se/nodalida01/ Satellite Seminar In conjunction with NODALIDA 2001, a one-day General Seminar will be arranged on May 20th, as part of the Nordic Language Technology Research Program 2000-2004- The program has been launched by the Nordic Council of Ministers, see further http://www.norfa.no/sprak. The seminar will include a session on Graduate Training in Computational Linguistics/Language Engineering, chaired by Kimmo Koskenniemi, and two panels devoted to the commercial aspects of Language Technology: * Via Prototype to Product * Language Technology in Practice. The seminar starts at 09:00 AM, on Sunday, May 20. Other practical arrangements will be co-ordinated with NODALIDA 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- How to get to Uppsala By plane to Arlanda airport, then by bus or taxi to Uppsala. Please, refer to the homepage of nodalida'01 for more information: Hotels NODALIDA participants have to take care of hotel reservations and payment themselves. Refer to the conference name NODALIDA when you contact the hotel. Reservations have been made at the following hotels: Radisson SAS Hotel Gillet, Dragarbrunnsgatan 23 (May 19-23) Price: SEK 700 single room (May 19-20) Price: SEK 1340 single room ( May 20-23) Tel: +46 18 68 18 00 Fax: +46 18 68 18 18 Scandic Hotel Uplandia, Dragarbrunnsgatan 32, (May 19-23) Price: SEK 915 single room Tel: +46 18 495 26 00 Fax: +46 18 495 26 11 Grand Hotel H?rnan, Bang?rdsgatan 1, (May 20-23) Price: SEK 1050 single room, SEK 1350 double room Tel: +46 18 13 93 80 Fax: +46 18 12 03 11 The reservations must be made before April 20, and we recommend you make the reservations as soon as possible. Please, make your reservations soon, Uppsala runs many conferences in May. Conference fee The conference fee is SEK 500 (incl. VAT SEK 100), to be paid by April 30, 2001 VAT-no SE202100293201. Payment to Postgiro Bank AB SE-105 06 Stockholm SWIFT:PGSISESS Account No: 95 77 07-3 Write message: NODALIDA, fee + name The fee covers conference proceedings, coffee, etc. The participants buy their own lunch at nearby restaurants. Conference dinner The conference dinner will be held Monday evening, May 20, 19:30, at Gotlands Nation. On registration, please notify the organizer if you have special demands on food, etc, due to medical or other reasons. Price: SEK 400 (incl. VAT SEK 80), to be paid by April 30, 2001 VAT-no SE202100293201 Payment to Postgiro Bank AB SE-105 06 Stockholm SWIFT:PGSISESS Account No: 95 77 07-3 Write message: NODALIDA, dinner + name Welcome to Uppsala! Anna-S?gvall Hein *************************************/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\********** ** Department of Linguistics http://www.ling.uu.se ** ** Uppsala University tel: (018) 471 2252 ** ** S-751 20 Uppsala/SWEDEN fax: (018) 471 1416 ** *************************************/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\********** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:07:44 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:07:44 +0200 Subject: Conf: TIA 2001 : Programme Message-ID: <MON.2.APR.2001.170744.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ************************************************************************************* DEUXIEME A P P E L A P A R T I C I P A T I O N T I A 2001 Quatri?me rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy Les d?tails concernant l'organisation de la conf?rence et les insciptions sont sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm PROGRAMME : Jeudi 3 mai 2001 9 h 00 - 10 h 00 : Accueil 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Allocutions d'ouverture 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une n?cessaire coop?ration" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN - Universit? Paris Nord "Lexically-suggested hyponymic relations among medical terms and their representation in the UMLS", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 - 12 h 00 : Pause 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conf?rence invit?e : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : D?jeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation A?rienne : Mise ? jour de r?gularit?s", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Rep?rage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects m?thodologiques", Val?rie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Universit? de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 - 16 h 30 : Pause 16 h30 - 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universit?s d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonn?e des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et am?liorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Universit? Ren? Descartes. "Normalisation des ?changes de donn?es en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'?volution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Vendredi 4 mai 2001 8 h 30 - 9 h 00 : Accueil 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement int?gr? pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Bi?bow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN - Universit? Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barri?re, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 - 12 h 00 : Pause (les posters et d?monstrations seront organis?s en parall?le) Posters "Approche phras?ologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue align?", Fr?rot C?cile, Rigou G?raldine, Lacombe Annik, Universit? de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "M?thodes d'analyse automatique de l'?volution terminologique au travers des variations rep?r?es dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage d'information. Vers une (r?)utilisabilit? des ressources linguistiques pour la recherche d'information", Antonio BALVET, Universit? Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Extraction de termes ? base nominale ? partir d'un corpus bilingue align?", Fran?ois MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal P?rez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Universit? de Malaga 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conf?rence invit?e : "Multilinguisme et ing?nierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : D?jeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 30 : "R?utilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance s?mantique entre termes m?dicaux", C?dric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-H?tel Dieu, Sant? Publique et Informatique M?dicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines de Paris "Contextualisation automatis?e de syntagmes nominaux pour la navigation dans une m?moire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliqu?es - Universit? de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricit? de France, Division Recherche et D?veloppement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la m?moire d'un projet-v?hicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 - 17 h 00 : Cl?ture 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 ***************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 2 15:08:00 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:08:00 +0200 Subject: Projet: collaboration avec la Norvege Message-ID: <MON.2.APR.2001.170800.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> "Le minist?re de la recherche (Direction de la technologie) a rencontr? une d?l?gation norv?gienne compos?e de repr?sentants des minist?res charg?s de la recherche et de l'industrie. Celle-ci nous a fait part de son souhait de renforcer la coop?ration entre les deux pays dans les domaines du traitement automatique des langues (?crit et oral), de l'ing?nierie linguistique et des applications d?riv?es. Si des centres de recherche, des offreurs de technologies ou des int?grateurs sont int?ress?s par ce type de rapprochement, vous pouvez le faire savoir ? St?phane Chaudiron (stephane.chaudiron at technologie.gouv.fr). Merci de pr?ciser les domaines de recherche et d?veloppement concern?s et la nature de la coop?ration souhait?e. Ces informations seront transmises ? nos homologues norv?giens." Merci St?phane Chaudiron ******************************************* St?phane CHAUDIRON Charg? de mission "Information scientifique et technique - Ing?nierie linguistique" t?l. : 33 (0)1 55 55 80 37 fax : 33 (0)1 55 55 83 58 Minist?re de la Recherche Direction de la technologie D?partement "Technologies de l'information et de la communication" 1, rue Descartes - 75231 PARIS cedex 05 http://www.recherche.gouv.fr ******************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Apr 3 14:59:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:59:05 +0200 Subject: Conf: CIAA extension deadline (rectificatif) Message-ID: <TUE.3.APR.2001.165905.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ************************************************************* LE MESSAGE INTITULE Conf: CIAA 2001 : DEADLINE EXTENSION DIFFUSE HIER ETAIT INCOMPLET (LA FIN ETAIT TRONQUEE) EN VOICI UNE VERSION COMPLETE ************************************************************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata CIAA 2001 <http://www.cs.up.ac.za/>University of Pretoria 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, <http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/fsm/>FSM, Grail, INR, <http://www.brics.dk/mona/>MONA, and Turing's World. 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: * Bioinformatics and automata * Complexity of automata operations * Compilers and automata * Computer-aided verification and automata * Concurrency and automata * Data structure design for automata * Data and image compression and automata * Design and architecture of automata software * Digital libraries and automata * Document engineering and automata * Editors, environments and automata * Experimental studies and practical experiences * Industrial applications and automata * Natural language processing and automata * Networking and automata * New algorithms for manipulating automata * Object-Oriented Modeling and automata * Pattern-matching and automata * Speech and speaker recognition and automata * Structured and semi-structured documents and automata * Symbolic manipulation environments for automata * Teaching and automata * Text processing and automata * Techniques for graphical display of automata * VLSI and automata * Viruses, related phenomena and automata * 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 17, 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: <mailto:ciaa2001 at cs.up.ac.za>ciaa2001 at cs.up.ac.za or 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. If appropriate, proof details omitted in the paper may be added in an appendix. 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 17, 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 17, 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 <http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000>CIAA 2000 website <http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wia99/>WIA'99 website <http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia98.html>WIA'98 website CIAA 2001 WEB SITES <http://www.cs.up.ac.za/~watson/ciaa/>Pretoria Site <http://www.fst-labs.com/ciaa/>FST-labs Site <http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dwood/ciaa2001>Hong Kong Site ---------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Apr 4 17:08:21 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:08:21 +0200 Subject: Appel: TAL special issue on SEMANTIC LEXICONS : deadline extension Message-ID: <WED.4.APR.2001.190821.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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/Natural Language Group, Redmond) Extented Submission Deadline: April 15, 2001 http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-semlex.html --------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE No one 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 - Reuse of existing lexical data FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS Authors must use the HERMES style files for LateX and Word at <http://www.editions-hermes.fr/ rubrique Auteurs>. Submissions must be sent electronically to Pierrette Bouillon (<pierrette.bouillon at issco.unige.ch>) and Evelyne Viegas (<evelynev at microsoft.com>). LANGUAGE Articles can be written in French or in English, but English will only be accepted from non-French speaking authors. PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Geneva) - Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbr?cken) - Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) - Ann Copestake (Cambridge University, Cambridge) - C?cile Fabre (Univ. Toulouse-Le-Mirail, Toulouse) - Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, Princeton) - Thierry Fontenelle (Luxembourg) - Mari Olsen (Microsoft, Natural Language Group, Redmond) - Pierre Popowich (Gavagai Technology, Vancouver) - James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston) - Pascale Sebillot (Irisa, Rennes) - Fr?d?rique Segond (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) - Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Natural Language Group, Redmond) - Piek Vossen (SailLabs, Antwerpen) - R?mi Zajac (New Mexico State University, Computing Research Laboratory) 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 Anne Abeill? (Universit? Paris 7) Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Geneva) 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 <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Apr 4 17:12:02 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:12:02 +0200 Subject: Conf: TIA 2001 : Appel a demonstration Message-ID: <WED.4.APR.2001.191202.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *************************************************************************************** *************************************************************************************** A P P E L A D E M O N S T R A T I O N S 4?me Rencontre "Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle" 3-4 Mai 2001, Nancy TIA 2001 se situe au carrefour de diff?rents domaines, linguistique, terminologie, informatique dont les approches se compl?tent. Ainsi, ces derni?res ann?es ont vu ?merger des applications informatiques r?alisant diff?rentes t?ches autour de la terminologie : extraction de termes,exploration active de corpus, mod?lisation conceptuelle de domaines, analyse de gros corpus de textes en vue d'en extraire des informations. L'existence de ces applications montre la faisabilit? et l'utilit? de traitements automatiques ou interactifs dans le d?pouillement de textes. Nous vous invitons donc ? nous proposer des d?monstrations d'applications r?pondant aux th?mes de la conf?rence. LIEU ET FREQUENCE DES DEMONSTRATIONS En principe, les d?monstrations auront lieu une fois pour chaque application. Un horaire sp?cifique leur sera r?serv? (voir Programme). Les auteurs pourront afficher un poster illustrant l'application pr?sent?e. INSTRUCTIONS AUX AUTEURS L'application doit ?tre pr?sent?e en une seule page. La pr?sentation devra indiquer : - les auteurs ; - leur laboratoire ; - une description de l'application ; - une description pr?cise du mat?riel et des logiciels informatiques n?cessaires. La proposition de d?monstration devra ?galement ?tre accompagn?e d'une Fiche de renseignements techniques que les auteurs peuvent t?l?d?charger ? partir du site de la conf?rence (http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm). IMPORTANT : La proposition de d?monstration sera envoy?e avant le 15 avril 2001 : - par courrier postal et en trois exemplaires au pr?sident du comit? d'organisation Jean Royaut? URI-INIST-CNRS 2, all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex - par courrier ?lectronique ? l'adresse tia2001 at inist.fr 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:08:16 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:08:16 +0200 Subject: Publications: ADVANCES IN PROBABILISTIC AND OTHER PARSING TECHNOLOGIES Message-ID: <MON.9.APR.2001.170816.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 16 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis ADVANCES IN PROBABILISTIC AND OTHER PARSING TECHNOLOGIES edited by Harry Bunt Tilburg University, The Netherlands Anton Nijholt University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Parsing technology is concerned with finding syntactic structure in language. In parsing we have to deal with incomplete and not necessarily accurate formal descriptions of natural languages. Robustness and efficiency are among the main issuesin parsing. Corpora can be used to obtain frequency information about language use. This allows probabilistic parsing, an approach that aims at both robustness and efficiency increase. Approximation techniques, to be applied at the level of language description, parsing strategy, and syntactic representation, have the same objective. Approximation at the level of syntactic representation is also known as underspecification, a traditional technique to deal with syntactic ambiguity. In this book new parsing technologies are collected that aim at attacking the problems of robustness and efficiency by exactly these techniques: the design of probabilistic grammars and efficient probabilistic parsing algorithms, approximation techniques applied to grammars and parsers to increase parsing efficiency, and techniques for underspecification and the integration of semantic information in the syntactic analysis to deal with massive ambiguity. The book gives a state-of-the-art overview of current research and development in parsing technologies. In its chapters we see how probabilistic methods have entered the toolbox of computational linguistics in order to be applied in both parsing theory and parsing practice. The book is both a unique reference for researchers and an introduction to the field for interested graduate students. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6616-6 October 2000, 288 pp. EUR 104.50 / USD 112.00 / GBP 71.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. 1. New Parsing Technologies; H. Bunt, A. Nijholt. 2. Encoding Frequency Information in Lexicalized Grammars; J. Carroll, D. Weir. 3. Bilexical Grammars and Their Cubic-Time Parsing Algorithms; J. Eisner. 4. Probabilistic Feature Grammars; J. Goodman. 5. Probabilistic GLR Parsing; K. Inui, et al. 6. Probabilistic Parsing Using Left Corner Language Models; C. Manning, B. Carpenter. 7. A New Parsing Method Using a Global Association Table; J. Yoon, et al. 8. Towards a Reduced Commitment, D-Theory Style TAG Parser; J. Chen, K. Vijay-Shanker. 9. Probabilistic Parse Selection Based on Semantic Co-occurrences; E. Hektoen. 10. Message-Passing Protocols for Object-Oriented Parsing; U. Hahn, et al. 11. SuperTagging for Partial Parsing. 12. Regular Approximation of CFLs: A Grammatical View; M.-J. Nederhof. 13. Parsing By Successive Approximation; H. Schmid. Index. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, Andr? Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Volume 5: Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997 Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998 Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999 Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999 Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging Hans van Halteren (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999 Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons Viegas, E. (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999 Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999 Volume 12: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing Frank van Eynde & Dafydd Gibbon (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X, April 2000. Volume 13: Parallel text processing: Alignment and use of translation corpora Jean V?ronis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1, August 2000. Volume 14: Prosody: theory and experiment Studies Presented to G?sta Bruce Merle Horne (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8, August 2000. Volume 15: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology Antonis Botinis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0, October 2000. Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5, October 2000. Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB Jean V?ronis http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:08:47 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:08:47 +0200 Subject: Conf: SEMPRO-2001 : Revised Deadline Message-ID: <MON.9.APR.2001.170847.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *************************************************************** Revised Deadline (Now: April 22nd) *************************************************************** COGNITIVELY PLAUSIBLE MODELS OF SEMANTIC PROCESSING (SEMPRO-2001) (A workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society) July 31st, University of Edinburgh http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~sempro/ The goal of this workshop is to be a forum and a meeting point for researchers developing models of semantic / pragmatic processing (computational and non-computational) motivated by psychological evidence or corpus studies, with a focus on human language processing. Topics of interest include: - incrementality and underspecification in semantic processing - lexical access and disambiguation - semantic composition (e.g., interpretation of modifiers such as adjectives, of modal expressions, of negation) - anaphora resolution - scope assignment - detection and exploitation of discourse structure - semantic interpretation in dialogues (e.g., models of grounding) We would especially like to encourage the exchange of results between psychological experimentation, computational modelling, and corpus-based work. INVITED SPEAKERS: Julie Sedivy (Brown), Anthony Sanford (Glasgow). PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Massimo Poesio (local organizer), Alan Garnham, Maria Lapata, Julie Sedivy, Rosemary Stevenson, Peter Wiemer-Hastings. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Anonymous extended abstracts of at most 5 pages (2500 words) should be submitted by e-mail to sempro at cogsci.ed.ac.uk. Accepted formats: ASCII, postscript, pdf. Include the words 'Submission for SEMPRO 2001' in the Subject line. DATES: Papers due: April 22nd. Acceptance Notification: June 15th. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:09:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:09:05 +0200 Subject: Conf: ACL-2001 Workshop on Natural Language Generation DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: <MON.9.APR.2001.170905.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ******************************************************************************** Extended submission deadline: **22 April** ******************************************************************************** ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 6-7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html Sponsored by IBM, Endorsed by SIGGEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media. This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The workshop will focus on the following topics: * Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization) There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG. Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue. Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale applications such as summarization and machine translation. * Differences in information organization between source and presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these) Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong similarities in building the target representations: In the overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often, this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques. Accepted papers on these and related topics will be scheduled for presentation. The majority of the time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. We are considering organizing a panel. For the focus topics above, we will contact a number of competent researchers to address the topic from a specific perspective according to their experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to prepare material / concrete examples for discussions. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman Univ. of Bremen Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi Robert Dale Macquarie University Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7 Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ. Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico Owen Rambow AT&T Research Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS SUBMISSIONS (papers, posters, demos) Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ We also invite poster and demo submissions (free format, up to 6 page, PDF). The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the following information (ASCII text): # TITLE: <title of the paper> # AUTHORS: <list of authors> # EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence> # KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...> # TYPE: <paper> / <poster> / <demo> # ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper> Send your submission to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions *** 22 April 2001 *** Notification of acceptance 6 May 2001 Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001 Registration deadline as ACL Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001 REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop. People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should be sent to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. MORE INFORMATION Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Apr 9 15:12:56 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:12:56 +0200 Subject: Conf: DCAGRS 01 Message-ID: <MON.9.APR.2001.171256.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Dear Colleague, this is to remind you of the deadline (April 15) for submissions to the workshop Descriptional Complexity for Automata, Grammars and Related Structures (July 20-22, 2001, Vienna, Austria). Detailed information is available at http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs01/ Thank you very much for your attention. Yours sincerely, Bernd Reichel ************************************************************************ Dr. Bernd Reichel Fakultaet f?r Informatik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg Postfach 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany Tel.: +49-391-67-12851; FAX: -11250; Tel.(privat): +49-391-5051515 reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~reichel Gebaeude 18 Raum 232 ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:18:43 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:18:43 +0200 Subject: Ecole: EUROLAN 2001 REMINDER Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.191843.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *********************************************************** REMINDER SUBMISSIONS DUE APRIL 15 *********************************************************** EUROLAN 2001 Summer Institute Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources WORKSHOP ON MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS July 30 - August 1, 2001 Iasi, Romania ORGANIZERS Dan Cristea, University "A.I. Cuza", Iasi, Romania Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Daniel Marcu, ISI, University of Southern California Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh Corpora annotated for a variety of linguistic features are becoming increasingly available. Part of speech annotated corpora are commonplace; treebanks in a variety of languages are available or under development; and corpora annotated for various features of discourse, including co-reference and discourse structure, are also available (e.g., the MUC corpora). In addition, large speech corpora annotated with phonetic transcriptions and prosodic analysis and various multi-lingual aligned corpora are available from centers such as the Linguistic Data Consortium and the European Language Resources Association. This workshop will address issues of using corpora annotated for multiple layers (e.g., syntax and discourse, prosody and part of speech, etc.) or combining multiple layers of annotation in natural language analysis. We invite submissions on the following topics: o Research that exploits information on different linguistic levels; o Consideration and demonstration of the ways in which information from different layers can be used in automatic language processing; o Compatibility of corpora annotated for different linguistic layers, including means to harmonize different annotation types and levels; o Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer School on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, to be held in Iasi, Romania from 30 July - August 11, 2001. Because EUROLAN 2001 is concerned with a wide variety of types of linguistic annotation, the workshop will serve to complement the content of lectures and tutorials that are part of the School's main program. Registration for the workshop is included in the Summer School registration fee. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Papers should report on original work not previously presented elsewhere. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion and a means to receive feedback for future development; therefore, papers describing both completed work and work-in-progress are acceptable. Submissions of 3500-5000 words should be sent via email to ide at cs.vassar.edu with the subject line "EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP SUBMISSION". Submissions in Postscript, PDF, or plain ASCII text formats are acceptable. DATES: Deadline for receipt of submissions April 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance May 5, 2001 Final Paper due June 1, 2001 Workshop date July 30 - August 1, 2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbr?cken Charles Fillmore - ICSI, UC Berkeley Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo Jan Hajic - Charles University, Prague Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:21:17 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:21:17 +0200 Subject: Publications: COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES vol35 issues 1 AND 2 Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192117.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> See below for issue 1 ********************************************************************* JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED ********************************************************************* COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Editors-in-chief Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2001 Table of Contents Finding Syntactic Structure in Unparsed Corpora: The Gsearch Corpus Query System Steffan Corley, Martin Corley, Frank Keller, Matthew W. Crocker, Shari Trewin pp. 81-94 The Challenge of Optical Music Recognition David Bainbridge, Tim Bell pp. 95-121 Archaeological Data Models and Web Publication Using XML J. David Schloen pp. 123-152 Sentential Count Rules for Arabic Language Fawaz S. Al-Anzi pp. 153-166 Change-Point Analysis: Elision in Euripides Orestes Jan G. De Gooijer, Nancy M. Laan pp. 167-191 Computer-Based Authorship Attribution Without Lexical Measures E. Stamatatos, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis pp. 193-214 Integrating Linguistic Resources in TC through WSD L. Alfonso Ureqa-Lspez, Manuel Buenaga, Josi M. Gsmez pp. 215-230 Spanish Word Frequency: A Historical Surprise M.J. Woods pp. 231-236 ---------------------------------------------------------------- For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult http://www.wkap.nl/ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Editors-in-chief Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Elli Mylonas, Brown University, USA Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2001 *********************************************************************** * Special Issue on Pattern Processing in Music Analysis and Creation * *********************************************************************** Table of Contents Preface: The AISB99 Convention and the Focus Workshop Geraint A. Wiggins pp. 1-2 Introduction: Pattern Processing in Music Analysis and Creation Pierre-Yves Rolland pp. 3-8 Pattern Processing in Melodic Sequences: Challenges, Caveats and Prospects Emilios Cambouropoulos, Tim Crawford, Costas S. Iliopoulos pp. 9-21 Perceptual Issues in Music Pattern Recognition: Complexity of Rhythm and Key Finding Ilya Shmulevich, Olli Yli-Harja, Edward Coyle, Dirk-Jan Povel, Kjell Lemstrvm pp. 23-35 Representing Melodic Patterns as Networks of Elaborations Alan Marsden pp. 37-54 Approximate Musical Evolution Tim Crawford, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Russel Winder, Haifeng Yu pp. 55-64 Investigating the Influence of Representations and Algorithms in Music Classification Karin Hvthker, Dominik Hvrnel, Christina Anagnostopoulou pp. 65-79 --------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about Computers and the Humanities and article submission procedures, consult http://www.wkap.nl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:22:54 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:22:54 +0200 Subject: Appel: IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192254.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------- San Jose, California, USA November 29 - December 2, 2001 Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Workshop Proposals ******************************************* As an important part of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '01), the ICDM '01 workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in data mining. It will provide a venue for several topical workshops on specific data mining research and/or application problems. ICDM '01 workshops will foster the discussion of exciting research directions and works in progress through paper presentations, round table and panel discussions, and invited talks. We especially encourage workshop submissions that capitalize on the location of the conference in Silicon Valley by targeting an audience from both industry and academia. Workshop chairs define the focus and structure of each workshop. Responsibilities include (1) writing the call for papers and publicizing it, (2) selecting the workshop organizing and program committees, and (3) deciding the workshop program content. Submission Instructions ======================= June 15, 2001: Workshop proposals are due. Workshop proposals should be sent via email to the ICDM '01 Workshops Chair, Johannes Gehrke (johannes at cs.cornell.edu). A workshop proposal should include the following information: (1) Workshop title (2) Workshop organizers with full contact information (3) Description of the workshop including objectives, content, and format of the workshop (4) List of potential attendees (5) List of potential authors of workshop contributions June 29, 2001: Notification of workshop proposal acceptance. Suggested Timeline for Workshop Chairs ====================================== July 13, 2001: Workshop call for papers has been sent out. September 14, 2001: Workshop paper submissions due. October 12, 2001: Workshop paper acceptance notices. October 26, 2001: Camera-ready version of workshop papers due. November 29, 2001: Workshop takes place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:23:59 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:23:59 +0200 Subject: Jobs: Ph.D. Fellowships in Language Technology Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192359.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Ph.D. Fellowships in Language Technology The new national Swedish Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT) announces four year graduate fellowships beginning 1st Sept. 2001 (application deadline 7th May, 2001). The school is hosted by G?teborg University and is a collaboration between leading centres in language technology in Sweden including in addition to G?teborg University, Chalmers University of Technology, H?gskolan i Bor?s, H?skolan i Sk?vde, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Link?ping University, Uppsala University, V?xj? University. Students may be placed at any of these institutions. The school aims to integrate research on speech and language and to provide a sound basis in both theoretical foundations and applications oriented research. It is committed to an international profile and welcomes applications from outside of Sweden. More information, including application materials, can be found on http://www.ling.gu.se/gslt, by sending email to gslt at ling.gu.se or by contacting the director: Professor Robin Cooper G?teborg University email cooper at ling.gu.se tel +46-31-773 2536 fax +46-31-773 4853 address GSLT Faculty of Arts G?teborg University Box 200 SE 405 30 G?teborg Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Apr 12 17:28:36 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:28:36 +0200 Subject: Conf: TIA 2001 : DEMONSTRATIONS : extension date limite Message-ID: <THU.12.APR.2001.192836.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* DERNIER A P P E L A D E M O N S T R A T I O N S ((((((((((((((( extension date limite au 20/04/2001 ))))))))))))))))) 4?me Rencontre "Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle" 3-4 Mai 2001, Nancy TIA 2001 se situe au carrefour de diff?rents domaines, linguistique, terminologie, informatique dont les approches se compl?tent. Ainsi, ces derni?res ann?es ont vu ?merger des applications informatiques r?alisant diff?rentes t?ches autour de la terminologie : extraction de termes,exploration active de corpus, mod?lisation conceptuelle de domaines, analyse de gros corpus de textes en vue d'en extraire des informations. L'existence de ces applications montre la faisabilit? et l'utilit? de traitements automatiques ou interactifs dans le d?pouillement de textes. Nous vous invitons donc ? nous proposer des d?monstrations d'applications r?pondant aux th?mes de la conf?rence. LIEU ET FREQUENCE DES DEMONSTRATIONS En principe, les d?monstrations auront lieu une fois pour chaque application. Un horaire sp?cifique leur sera r?serv? (voir Programme). Les auteurs pourront afficher un poster illustrant l'application pr?sent?e. INSTRUCTIONS AUX AUTEURS L'application doit ?tre pr?sent?e en une seule page. La pr?sentation devra indiquer : - les auteurs ; - leur laboratoire ; - une description de l'application ; - une description pr?cise du mat?riel et des logiciels informatiques n?cessaires. La proposition de d?monstration devra ?galement ?tre accompagn?e d'une Fiche de renseignements techniques que les auteurs peuvent t?l?d?charger ? partir du site de la conf?rence (http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm). IMPORTANT : La proposition de d?monstration sera envoy?e avant le 20 avril 2001 : - par courrier postal et en trois exemplaires au pr?sident du comit? d'organisation : Jean Royaut? URI-INIST-CNRS 2, all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex - par courrier ?lectronique ? l'adresse tia2001 at inist.fr 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 13 16:35:37 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:35:37 +0100 Subject: R: Lexique informatise de grec moderne Message-ID: <FRI.13.APR.2001.173537.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> 1/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:34:31 +0200 From: Elsa Sklavounou <sklavounou at systran.fr> Message-Id: <3AD41717.608C0414 at systran.fr> 2/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:43:48 +0200 From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> Message-Id: <a0500190bb6f9d7aee4bf@[129.88.32.65]> ======================================================================= 1/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:34:31 +0200 From: Elsa Sklavounou <sklavounou at systran.fr> Message-Id: <3AD41717.608C0414 at systran.fr> X-url: http://www.komvos.edu.gr Kalimera ? tous Le site www.komvos.edu.gr dispose les derniers dictionnaires du grec moderne (Triantafyllidis, Dictionnaire Inverse et autres) informatis?s. Vous pouvez faire plusieurs requ?tes. Il y a aussi un corpus de 1.500.000 mots avec la possibilit? de rechercher des mots ou des s?quences des mots aussi. Elsa Sklavounou ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:43:48 +0200 From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> Message-Id: <a0500190bb6f9d7aee4bf@[129.88.32.65]> X-url: http://www.ilsp.gr Voir le site de l'ILSP ou contacter S.Piperidis Stelios Piperidis Head of Language Technology Applications Department Institute for Language and Speech Processing-ILSP 6 Artemidos & Epidavrou, 151 25 Marousi, Athens, Greece Tel : +301 6875430 Fax : +301 6852 620 email : Stelios Piperidis <spip at ilsp.gr> http://www.ilsp.gr CB -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Boitet (Pr. Universite' Joseph Fourier) Tel: +33.4-7651-4355/4817 GETA, CLIPS, IMAG-campus, BP53 Fax: +33.4-7651-4405 385, rue de la Bibliothe`que Mel: Christian.Boitet at imag.fr 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Mobile: +33-(0)6-6005-1969 http://www-clips.imag.fr/geta/christian.boitet ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Projet C-STAR (http://www.c-star.org/) et projet europe'en Nespole (http://nespole.itc.it) de traduction de parole Projet UNL de communication et recherche d'information multilingue sur le re'seau http://www.unl.ias.unu.edu ou http://www.unl.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 13 16:35:40 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 17:35:40 +0100 Subject: R: Corpus d'articles Scientifiques et leurs resumes Message-ID: <FRI.13.APR.2001.173540.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:42:28 +0100 From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> Message-Id: <4.1.20010411093739.00a59d90 at mail.wlv.ac.uk> X-url: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/ There are corpora with scientific abstracts only (e.g. INSPEC), but regarding a corpus containing BOTH articles and their abstracts, it may be interesting for you to know that Constantin Orasan (in6093 at wlv.ac.uk) from the University of Wolverhampton is working on such a corpus for English at the moment. Ruslan Mitkov \\\ Ruslan Mitkov, PhD /// Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering \\\ School of Humanities, Languages and Social Studies (Wolverhampton) /// University of Wolverhampton \\\ Stafford St. /// Wolverhampton WV1 1SB \\\ United Kingdom /// Telephone (44-1902) 322471 \\\ Fax (44-1902) 322739 /// Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk \\\ Website http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:07 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:07 +0100 Subject: Info: New MSc/PhD programs in NLP at King's College, London Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115107.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:28:18 +0100 From: Jonathan Ginzburg <ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> Message-Id: <3ADC9951.8215BEC1 at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> X-url: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/ginzburg New MSc and MPhil/PhD Programs in Natural Language Processing in the Computer Science Dept. at King's College, London A new Natural Language Processing research group has been created in the Computer Science Department at King's College, London. This group is offering an MSc in Natural Language Processing, which will start in September 2001, and opportunities for MPhil/PhD studies. For information on the group and these new programes please consult our web site at www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/index.html. Inquiries can also be directed to Shalom Lappin (lappin at dcs.kcl.ac.uk) or Jonathan Ginzburg (ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk). The Department of Computer Science at King's College anticipates having two EPSRC funded quota PhD studentships for September, 2001. These will be awarded on a competitive basis to PhD applicants from any area of computer science. The holder of an EPSRC quota studentship must be a permanent resident of the UK to receive a tuition scholarship and a maintenance grant. Residents of a European Union country are eligible for a tuition scholarship only. Qualified PhD applicants interested in pursuing research in natural language processing will be considered for these grants. (Apologies if you see this announcement multiply) -- Dept of Computer Science King's College, London The Strand, London WC2R 2LS UK phone: +44-20-7848-2752 fax: +44-20-7848-2841 ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/ginzburg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:32 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:32 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115132.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> 1/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:15:49 +0100 From: Fiona McGregor <fiona at cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-Id: <l03102800b7044d2fd695@[129.215.110.138]> 2/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:58:13 +0200 From: Linda Bellahsene <lbellahs at etu.info.unicaen.fr> Message-Id: <3ADEA8A5.9F26986D at etu.info.unicaen.fr> 3/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:47:12 +0200 From: "Simon de Bernard" <debernard at valigen.net> Message-Id: <007a01c0c8df$9e85b980$8901a8c0 at valigene.com> X-url: http://www.valigen.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:15:49 +0100 From: Fiona McGregor <fiona at cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-Id: <l03102800b7044d2fd695@[129.215.110.138]> University of Edinburgh Research Programmer : Spoken Dialogue Systems The Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), Division of Informatics draws on the skills and expertise of one of the largest communities of natural language processing specialists in Europe and has strong experience in human-machine interaction, natural language understanding, speech processing, and XML protocols. In this role you will join a team working on the design and implementation of a spoken dialogue system. Much of the envisaged work will be carried out within ICCS's Language Technology Group, which provides a stimulating and varied research environment. You should have experience of software engineering and distributed agent systems and a good knowledge of C, C++ or Java. Experience with CORBA and XML would be an advantage, as would knowledge of speech or language engineering. The appointment is for a fixed term of 2 years. Salary scale, 16,775 -- 25,213 p.a. Informal enquiries to steedman at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Please quote ref:316245 For further pariculars and application pack visit our web site (www.ed.ac.uk) or telephone the recruitment line on +44 (0)131 650 2511. Closing date : 11 May 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:58:13 +0200 From: Linda Bellahsene <lbellahs at etu.info.unicaen.fr> Message-Id: <3ADEA8A5.9F26986D at etu.info.unicaen.fr> L'unit? de recherche et d?veloppement "Reconnaissance de parole" de Datops propose ? N?mes, France, le poste suivant: - un stage bac+5 en linguistique-informatique (6 mois) sur le traitement de la parole. Des connaissances dans les domaines de "perplexity", "Semantic Interpretation" sont n?cessaires. Contact : Linda Bellahsene - lbellahsene at datops.com (Les candidatures doivent ?tre envoy?es exclusivement par email). The speech recognition team of Datops R&D in N?mes (France) invites applications for this position : - a 6 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate student about speech recognition. The main task of the candidate will be to develop the automatic speech recognition software with acoustic and language model (Theory of perplexity and Semantic Interpetation) for extracting text elements from audio files and video soundtracks; for English first. Contact : Linda Bellahsene - lbellahsene at datops.com (send resume by email). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:47:12 +0200 From: "Simon de Bernard" <debernard at valigen.net> Message-Id: <007a01c0c8df$9e85b980$8901a8c0 at valigene.com> X-url: http://www.valigen.com IT Linguist. ValiGen is a biotechnology company intent on becoming the premier drug target validation company and a leading developer of innovative human therapeutics and plants. For the development of its pathway mapping technology, ValiGen is presently looking for an IT Linguist. Job Description: Writing of transducers for the detection of biological interactions from scientific literature and integration of these and other linguistic components in a broader information management software. Location: Paris-La-D?fense, France Education & Experience: Degree in Linguistics/Language Technology Degree in Biology (preferred). Good knowledge of English grammar. Proven experience in text parsing systems (INTEX, Xelda or equivalent). Familiarity with biology related scientific literature is preferred. Availability: Immediate For details on ValiGen and its technologies, please consult our web pages at: http://www.valigen.com To apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to: drh at valigen.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:43 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: JADT 2002 Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115143.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:47:25 +0200 From: Pascale Sebillot <Pascale.Sebillot at irisa.fr> Message-Id: <3AE0762D.3DD07825 at irisa.fr> X-url: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt CALL FOR PAPERS - JADT 2002 - March 13-15, 2002 6th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 13-15, 2002 Palais du Grand Large St-Malo / France The International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data provides a workshop-style forum to all scholars, statisticians, computer scientists, linguists..., working in the vast field of textual data analysis ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of data to content analysis. Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998) and Lausanne (2000), the 6th International Conference will be held in Saint-Malo, France on march 13-15 2002. Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 1, 2001 Notification: October 30, 2001 Camera ready papers: December 15, 2001 Conference: March 13-15, 2002 Website: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt e-mail address: jadt2002 at irisa.fr Submission: Submissions should be limited to original work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous works. Participants wishing to submit a paper should send to the organization committee (via email jadt2002 at irisa.fr) a first version of their paper for review by September 1, 2001, giving the following information: - Name, affiliation and full postal address (fax and/or e-mail) of authors - Title of the proposed paper with keywords - A first version of the paper (12 pages max.) emphasizing the purpose of the paper - An abstract in the paper language - An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) - Bibliographical references Topics: Topics of interest of the conference concern the application of statistical models and tools in the following domains: - Exploratory Textual Data Analysis - Textual Statistics - Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions - Natural Language Processing - Stylometry - Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis - Textual Classification - Text Corpora and Text Encoding - Frequency Dictionaries - Lemmatization, automatic categorization - Information Retrieval - Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors on October 30, 2001. Final versions (camera-ready papers) should conform to the format that will be provided to the authors (12 pages max.) and reach the committee no later than December 15, 2001. Accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the participants at the start of the conference. Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract. As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. Program Committee: Ramon Alvarez, Univ. of Leon, Spain Harald Baayen, Univ. of Nim?gue, The Netherlands Monica B?cue, Polyt. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain Sergio Bolasco, Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy ?tienne Brunet, Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Annibale Elia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Dominique Labb?, Univ. of Grenoble, France Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST Paris, France (Pr?sident) Alain Lelu Univ. of Franche Comt?, France Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, France Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. of Versailles SQY, France Andr? Salem, Univ. Paris 3, France Pascale S?billot, IRISA, France Fiona Tweedie, Univ. of Glasgow, UK Organization Committee: Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr organized by IRISA/INRIA Rennes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:47 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:47 +0100 Subject: Conf: MBR'01 Final Program Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115147.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:29:59 -0500 From: Lorenzo Magnani <lmagnani at cc.gatech.edu> Message-Id: <3AE37787.459551BD at cc.gatech.edu> X-url: http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html MBR'01 Final program (Model-Based Reasoning. Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, Values, Pavia, Italy, May 17-19, 2001 http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:39 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:39 +0100 Subject: Appel: TIA 2001, Dernier appel a participation Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115139.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:28:30 +0200 From: "Ivana ROCHE" <Roche at inist.fr> Message-Id: <sae02b83.015 at gwia> X-url: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm ************************************************************************ (((((((((((((( DERNIER APPEL A PARTICIPATION )))))))))))))) T I A 2001 Quatri?me rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy Les d?tails concernant l'organisation de la conf?rence et les insciptions sont sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A T T E N T I O N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LES INSCRIPTIONS A LA SOIREE DU 03/05, QUI SUIVRA LA RECEPTION A LA MAIRIE DE NANCY, RESTENT OUVERTES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PROGRAMME : Jeudi 3 mai 2001 9 h 00 - 10 h 00 : Accueil 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Allocutions d'ouverture 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une n?cessaire coop?ration" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN - Universit? Paris Nord "Lexically-suggested hyponymic relations among medical terms and their representation in the UMLS", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 - 12 h 00 : Pause 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conf?rence invit?e : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : D?jeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation A?rienne : Mise ? jour de r?gularit?s", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Rep?rage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects m?thodologiques", Val?rie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Universit? de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 - 16 h 30 : Pause 16 h30 - 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universit?s d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonn?e des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et am?liorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Universit? Ren? Descartes. "Normalisation des ?changes de donn?es en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'?volution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Vendredi 4 mai 2001 8 h 30 - 9 h 00 : Accueil 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement int?gr? pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Bi?bow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN - Universit? Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barri?re, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 - 12 h 00 : Pause durant laquelle les sessions de posters et de d?monstrations seront organis?es en parall?le POSTERS "Approche phras?ologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue align?", Fr?rot C?cile, Rigou G?raldine, Lacombe Annik, Universit? de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "M?thodes d'analyse automatique de l'?volution terminologique au travers des variations rep?r?es dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage d'information. Vers une (r?)utilisabilit? des ressources linguistiques pour la recherche d'information", Antonio BALVET, Universit? Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Extraction de termes ? base nominale ? partir d'un corpus bilingue align?", Fran?ois MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal P?rez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Universit? de Malaga 12 h 00 - 13 h 00 : Conf?rence invit?e : "Multilinguisme et ing?nierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 - 14 h 30 : D?jeuner 14 h 30 - 16 h 30 : "R?utilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance s?mantique entre termes m?dicaux", C?dric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-H?tel Dieu, Sant? Publique et Informatique M?dicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines de Paris "Contextualisation automatis?e de syntagmes nominaux pour la navigation dans une m?moire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliqu?es - Universit? de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricit? de France, Division Recherche et D?veloppement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la m?moire d'un projet-v?hicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 - 17 h 00 : Cl?ture 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 ***************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:51 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:51 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL NLG WORKSHOP, submission deadline 22 Apr Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115151.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:17:27 -0400 From: "Nicolas Nicolov" <nicolas at us.ibm.com> Message-Id: <OFB49CA8FE.0440AEB4-ON85256A32.002D28D5 at pok.ibm.com> X-url: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html X-url: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 6-7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html Sponsored by IBM, Endorsed by SIGGEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media. This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The workshop will focus on the following topics: * Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization) There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG. Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue. Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale applications such as summarization and machine translation. * Differences in information organization between source and presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these) Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong similarities in building the target representations: In the overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often, this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques. Accepted papers on these and related topics will be scheduled for presentation. The majority of the time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. We are considering organizing a panel. For the focus topics above, we will contact a number of competent researchers to address the topic from a specific perspective according to their experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to prepare material / concrete examples for discussions. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman Univ. of Bremen Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi Robert Dale Macquarie University Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7 Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ. Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico Owen Rambow AT&T Research Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS SUBMISSIONS (papers, posters, demos) Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ We also invite poster and demo submissions (free format, up to 6 page, PDF). The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the following information (ASCII text): # TITLE: <title of the paper> # AUTHORS: <list of authors> # EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence> # KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...> # TYPE: <paper> / <poster> / <demo> # ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper> Send your submission to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions *** 22 April 2001 *** Notification of acceptance 6 May 2001 Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001 Registration deadline as ACL Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001 REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop. People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should be sent to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. MORE INFORMATION Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Mon Apr 23 10:51:55 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:55 +0100 Subject: Appel: RANLP, submission deadline 15 May Message-ID: <MON.23.APR.2001.115155.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:28:17 -0400 From: "Nicolas Nicolov" <nicolas at us.ibm.com> Message-Id: <OF26FC00C1.699024C2-ON85256A32.002DAEDF at pok.ibm.com> X-url: http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/??????????????? X-url: http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS ????????? ? _/_/_/?????? _/_/?? _/????? _/? _/?????? _/_/_/ ?????????? _/??? _/?? _/??? _/ _/_/??? _/? _/?????? _/??? _/ ????????? _/_/_/???? _/_/_/_/ _/? _/? _/? _/?????? _/_/_/ ???????? _/??? _/?? _/??? _/ _/??? _/_/? _/?????? _/ ??????? _/???? _/? _/??? _/ _/????? _/? _/_/_/_/ _/ ?? *********************************************************** ?? *???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? * ?? *???? RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING????? * ?? *???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? * ?? *?????????????? Euro Conference RANLP-2001??????????????? * ?? *????????????????? 5-7 September 2001???????????????????? * ?? *???????????????? Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria????????????????? * ?? *???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? * ?? *???????????? http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/??????????????? * ?? *???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? * ?? *********************************************************** Further to the successful and competitive 1st and 2nd conferences on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (selected papers from which were published by John Benjamins as CILT? vol.136 and CILT vol.189), we are pleased to announce the third RANLP conference to be held this year. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. TOPICS We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing. We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text categorisation; question- answering; dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. INVITED SPEAKERS ? Branimir Boguraev?(IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) ? Ed Hovy?????????? (Information Sciences Institute / USC) ? Martin Kay????????(Xerox Parc) ? James Pustejovsky?(Brandeis University) ? Yorick Wilks????? (Sheffield University) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Elisabeth Andre (DFKI) ?Galia Angelova????????? (LML, Sofia) ? Branimir Boguraev?????? (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) ? Kalina Boncheva???????? (Sheffield University) Eric Brill (Microsoft Research) Key-Sun Choi (KAIST) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) ?Ed Hovy???????????????? (Information Sciences Institute / USC) ? Eugene Charniak???????? (Brown University, Providence) ?Dan Cristea???????????? (University of Iasi) ? Fumiyo Fukumoto???????? (Yamanashi University) ? Maria Gavrilidou??????? (ILPS, Athens) Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble) ? Udo Hahn??????????????? (Freiburg University) Nadia Hegazy (ERI) ? Graeme Hirst??????????? (University of Toronto) Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.) Frances Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University) ? Martin Kay????????????? (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto) Alma Kharrat (Microsoft Research) ? Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova?(Charles University, Prague) ? Lori Lamel??????????????(LIMSI, Orsay) Lillian Lee (Cornell University) Xiaoqiang Luo (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) ?Inderjeet Mani????????? (MITRE) ?Daniel Marcu??????????? (Information Sciences Institute / USC) ? Wolfgang Menzel???????? (University of Hamburg) Andrei Mikheev (University of Edinburgh) ?Ruslan Mitkov?????????? (University of Wolverhampton - Chair) ?Tony McEnery??????????? (Lancaster University) ?Nicolas Nicolov???????? (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center) ? Kemal Oflazer?????????? (Sabanci University, Istanbul) ? Jose Quesada??????????? (University of Seville) ? Manuel Palomar????????? (University of Alicante) Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota Duluth) ? Stelios Piperidis?????? (ILPS, Athens) Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic) ?James Pustejovsky?????? (University of Brandeis) ? Dragomir Radev????????? (University of Michigan) ? Allan Ramsey??????????? (UMIST, Manchester) Ellen Riloff (University of Utah) ?Monique Rolbert???????? (Universite de Marseille) ? Christer Samuelsson???? (Indigo, Montreal) ? Donia Scott???????????? (University of Brighton) Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corporation) ? Isabelle Trancoso?????? (INEC, Lisbon) ? Karin Vespoor?????????? (Intelligenesis, New York) ? Piek Vossen???????????? (Saillabs, Antwerpen) ? Yorick Wilks??????????? (Sheffield University) ? Michael Zock??????????? (LIMSI, Orsay) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS NOTIFICATION OF SUBMISSION Authors should email notification of submission with the completed form below to <K.Bontcheva at dcs.shef.ac.uk> with subject line: RANLP2001 notification of submission. After submitting the information below you will receive by email a paper ID code which should be used in all correspondence (including the paper submission). ?# NAME : Name of author for correspondence ?# TITLE: Title of the paper # TYPE : paper / poster / demo ?# KEYS : Keywords ?# EMAIL: Email of author for correspondence ?# PAGES: Number of pages (including bibliographical references) ?# FILE : Name of PDF file (avoid RANLP2001.pdf and the like!!!) ?# ABSTR: ?#??????? Abstract of the paper ?#??????? . . . . . . ?# OTHER: Under consideration for other conferences (specify)? ?# NOTE : Anything you'd like to add Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not exceed seven pages (poster and demo submissions should be no longer than 5 pages), including cover page, figures, tables and references. The first page should state the title of the paper, the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract and continue with the first section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in **PDF** format. For up to three free convertions to PDF see 'http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS'. In exceptional circumstances hard copies/MS-Word/PS versions might be accepted. Send your electronic PDF submission to <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> (please quote paper identifier - see above 'notification of submission'). Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. TUTORIALS RANLP-2001 will be preceded by 2 days of tutorials. See http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ for a preliminary list of tutorial speakers. SCHEDULE ?Paper Pre-registration:???? 10 May 2001 ? Paper Submission Due:?????? *** 15 May 2001 *** ? Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2001 ? Camera-ready Paper Due:???? 5 August 2001 Tutorials: 3-4 September 2001 ? Conference:?????????????????5-7 September 2001 LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains surrounding the Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information can be obtained from: ? Galia Angelova (OC Chair) ? Linguistic Modelling Laboratory ? Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ? 25A Acad. G. Bonchev Str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria ? galia at lml.bas.bg SPONSORS The conference is funded by the European Commission, DGXII through Human Potential Programme for High-Level Scientific Conferences (contract number HPCF-2000-00329). 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When you receive the confirmation e-mail, please make sure that you return the requested code to confirm your subscription. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:30 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:30 +0100 Subject: Cursus: Formations postgrades, Traitement info multilingue 2001-2002 Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104330.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:56:13 +0200 From: susan <susan.armstrong at issco.unige.ch> Message-Id: <3AE4266D.6CF4D8BD at issco.unige.ch> X-url: http://www.unige.ch/eti/etudes/autres/dea.html X-url: http://www.issco.unige.ch Formation post-grade en traitement informatique multilingue 2001-2002 Ecole de traduction et d'interpr?tation de l'Universit? de Gen?ve Aujourd'hui, on constate un besoin croissant de personnel qualifi? dans le secteur des industries de la langue, capable de ma?triser les logiciels sp?cialis?s pour le traducteur, de comprendre les technologies sous-jacentes et de suivre les nouveaux d?veloppements. L'Ecole de traduction et d'interpr?tation de l'Universit? de Gen?ve offre de nouvelles formations post-grades qui r?pondent ? ces besoins. DEA Le DEA en traitement informatique multilingue propose, sur une ann?e, un programme original qui s'articule autour de trois axes : les connaissances n?cessaires pour traiter automatiquement les langues, la repr?sentation formelle de ces connaissances et leur utilisation dans les diff?rentes applications informatiques. L'?tudiant suit des enseignements dans les mati?res suivantes : - Introduction ? la description formelle des langues - Traitement informatique multilingue - Introduction ? la programmation linguistique - Traitement informatique des textes - Fondements th?oriques de la terminologie et r?alisent un m?moire. DESS Deux DESS offrent une formation ? la fois th?orique et pratique qui favorise l'immersion dans le monde professionnel. Le DESS en terminologie a pour but un qualification professionelle correspondant aux besoins des administrations, des entreprises, etc. L'objectif de la formation dispens?e est de ma?triser les principes et les m?thodes de la terminologie, ainsi que les diff?rents outils terminologiques disponibles, mais aussi de savoir produire de nouveaux outils. Le DESS en traduction assist?e par ordinateur permet au traducteur d'appr?cier et de ma?triser les outils informatiques, d'?valuer l'importance de la technologie dans le processus de la traduction et de suivre les d?veloppements. Pour perfectionner leur formation, les ?tudiants de DESS doivent effectuer un stage et pr?parer un m?moire. Ces formations s'adressent : - aux traducteurs et interpr?tes titulaires d'une licence ou d'un dipl?me - ? toutes personnes, titulaires d'un grade universitaire, int?ress?es par le multilinguisme et les nouvelles technologies Contacts: http://www.unige.ch/eti/etudes/autres/dea.html DEA en traitement informatique multilingue Margaret.King at issco.unige.ch DESS en traduction assist?e par ordinateur Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch DESS en terminologie Bruno.Debess?@eti.unige.ch -- Susan Armstrong Email: Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch ISSCO/ETI, Univ. of Geneva Voice: +41 22 705 8764 40, Bd. du Pont-d'Arve Fax : +41 22 705 8689 CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Siwtzerland) WWW : http://www.issco.unige.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:33 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:33 +0100 Subject: Appel: IEEE Data Mining 2001: Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104333.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:28:45 +0900 (JST) From: Ning Zhong <zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp> Message-Id: <200104251128.UAA27420 at maebashi-it.ac.jp> X-url: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------- San Jose, California, USA November 29 - December 2, 2001 Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html IEEE ICDM 2001: Call for Tutorials ********************************** The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '01) will include tutorials providing in-depth background on specific subjects in data mining. The recency of the data mining field, and the variety of disciplines that are represented, lead to many possibilities for good tutorials: * Short courses on areas of machine learning, databases, or statistics that may be "old hat" to specialists in that discipline, but are new to a majority of the conference attendees. (e.g., An Introduction to Hidden Markov Models). * Surveys of new and developing research areas in data mining. (e.g., Text Mining). * End-to-end descriptions of the practical application of data mining technology (i.e., applications that may be "typical" for a paper, but provide an example of issues faced in a data mining project that would generalize to problems faced by the conference attendees). * An in-depth coverage of a past research breakthrough that is now becoming a mature technology. The topics of interest fall within those described in the conference Call for Papers (http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html). Submission Details ================== The tutorial proposal should include the following: 1. Title and abstract of the tutorial; 2. Intended audience. Include prerequisite knowledge required of the attendees, and the expected areas of interest. (For example, a tutorial on statistics for people applying data mining tools vs. a tutorial on statistics for people building data mining tools); 3. Length of time needed (e.g., half day or full day); and 4. Short biographies of the presenters. Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be included if available, but are not required for submission. However, providing such materials will show depth and maturity of the tutorial, and will be a strong factor in the selection process. Please send a soft copy (preferred) of your proposal to clifton at computer.org, or a hard copy to: Dr. Chris Clifton The MITRE Corporation M/S K308, 202 Burlington Rd, Bedford, MA 01730-1420, USA Important Dates =============== June 30, 2001: Tutorial submissions. July 31, 2001: Acceptance notices. August 31, 2001: Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts. November 29, 2001: ICDM '01 tutorials. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Fri Apr 27 09:43:36 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:43:36 +0100 Subject: Call: Literature Data Mining for Biology Message-ID: <FRI.27.APR.2001.104336.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:00:18 -0400 From: Pamela J Davis <pjdavis at mitre.org> Message-Id: <3AE87E52.7FE7275F at mitre.org> X-url: http://psb.stanford.edu ********************************************************************************** A call for papers in Literature Data Mining for Biology A special session within the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002 January 3-7, 2002 Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club A large part of the information required for biology research can only be found in free-text form, as in MEDLINE abstracts, or in comment fields of relevant reports, as in GenBank feature table annotations. This information is important for many types of analysis, such as classification of proteins into functional groups, discovery of new functional relationships, maintenance of information on material and methods, increased precision and relevance of hits returned by BLAST, extraction of protein interaction information, and so on. However, information in free-text form or in comment fields is very difficult for automated systems to use. In addition, the extracted information may need further enrichment, for example, the inclusion of quantitative information about the interaction. This session will investigate how natural language and data mining techniques can provide and structure information relevant to biological applications. The session solicits papers on techniques and applications of natural language processing to the extraction of biological information from free text, including literature abstracts (e.g., MEDLINE), database annotations (e.g., GENBANK or PIR), and other relevant biology sources. It will emphasize the combination of natural language techniques with other biological information sources, such as database and sequence searches, to facilitate collection and organization of information about particular genes, proteins, or pathways. In particular, we are interested in: * Novel ways of combining text data mining and more conventional bioinformatics search techniques; * Use of text data mining techniques for consistency checking and error detection in annotation of existing data bases; * Biological problems where extraction of text-based information can provide quantitative performance gains; * Evaluations of the utility of text data mining techniques and components; * Extraction and organization of text-based information facilitated by ontologies and data exchange standards; * Creation of structured resources (databases) through the use of text data mining and information extraction techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session co-chairs * Lynette Hirschman, MITRE lynette at mitre.org * Jong C. Park, KAIST park at nlp.kaist.ac.kr * Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp * Limsoon Wong, KRDL limsoon at krdl.org.sg * Cathy Wu, National Biomedical Research Foundation & Georgetown University wuc at nbrf.georgetown.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission information Submissions are due 16 July 2001 Decisions are announced 31 August 2001 Camera ready copy due 24 September 2001 Poster abstracts due 5 November 2001 Further information http://psb.stanford.edu All papers must be submitted to russ.altman at stanford.edu in electronic format. The file formats we accept are: postscript (*.ps), adobe acrobat (*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.ps, altman.pdf, or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX or LATEX files will be rejected without review. Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must state the following: * The email address of the corresponding author * The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract * The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration elsewhere. * All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper. Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb. If figures can not be easily resized and placed precisely in the text, then it should be clear that with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would be within the page limit. Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors. 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Please circulate to any interested parties. ________________________________________________________________ University of Brighton Market Development Analyst up to ?26,113 The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), is an internationally renowned centre for research in Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering. Our principal research areas are in multilingual natural language generation, lexicons, text corpus analysis, multimodal interfaces, diagrammatic reasoning, text mining and speech processing. In this rewarding role you will work in collaboration with partners of an international, EU-funded consortium, to promote better market awareness of Human Language Technologies (HLT). The role includes identifying marketing opportunities for HLT and good practice in HLT development; co-ordinating a Europe wide survey of public policy in HLT; organising national and international events and disseminating the results at meetings, conferences and on our website. You will need proven experience of analysing and presenting data and web publishing, familiarity with Human Language Technologies and a masters degree or equivalent. The post is fixed-term for 2 years, in the first instance, in accordance with the period of external funding. Application forms and further details, including important information about the content of your CV, are available from the Personnel Department, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN2 4AT, or from our web site at www.bton.ac.uk/vacancies/, or via our 24 hour answerphone: (01273) 642849. Please quote reference number IR5004. Closing date: 11 May 2001 Ref: IR5004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:41:18 -0400 Subject: Junior Faculty Position, Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University From: "Rachel Gawron" <gawron at vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu> Message-Id: <NDBBLGLHCMPHCHFJPBAFAEBACFAA.gawron at cogsci.jhu.edu> Junior Faculty Position: Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University The Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, is inviting applications for an untenured, tenure-track position in psycholinguistics. Appointment will be either at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The search will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must have a demonstrated record of achievements in experimental work on language bearing on theoretical issues in either phonology, morphology or syntax. Teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate levels is desirable. Besides theoretical linguistics and cognitive psychology, expertise in other areas of Cognitive Science is a further asset, especially in Neuropsychology, Neuroscience or Computer Science. Please send a CV and sample publications to: Psycholinguistics Search Committee, Department of Cognitive Science, Krieger Hall, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218-2685. Please do not send letters of reference at this point. The Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. 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