From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 2 10:08:03 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:08:03 +0100 Subject: Appel: LACL 2001 Message-ID: From: "Catherine Piliere" ***************************************************************** --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate --- ***************************************************************** Third Call for Papers LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic, France Submission Deadline: January 29, 2001 http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ***************************************************************** ---------------------------- HISTORY ---------------------------- The LACL series of conferences aims at providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal and logical aspects of computational linguistics. It started as a workshop held in Nancy (France), in 1995. Due to its success, it was turned, the next year, into a international conference. LACL'96 and '97 have both been held in Nancy (France). LACL'98 has been held in Grenoble (France). Selected papers from LACL'95 appear in a special issue of Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7(4), 1998. The proceedings of LACL'96 and 97 appear as volumes 1328 and 1582 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The proceedings of LACL'98 are in press with the same series. ----------------------------- SCOPE ----------------------------- Typical topics include, but are not limited to: Categorial grammars, Categorial type logics, Compositionality, Discourse representation theory, Dynamics, Feature Logics, Formal language theory, Game-theoretical semantics, Grammatical inference, Learning theory, Linear logical frameworks, Minimalism, Modal logics, Montague semantics, Parsing as deduction, Proof- theoretic approaches, Situation semantics and situation theory, Type-theoretic approaches. ----------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------- Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 15 standard A4 or US quarto pages. The paper should allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the work. In particular, references and comparisons with related work should be included. Submission of material already published or submitted to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Electronic submission is highly recommended. A postscript version of the paper should be sent as an e-mail to: morrill at lsi.upc.es to arrive by January 29, 2001. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file In addition, a separate e-mail containing the title of the paper, authors' names and addresses, and a short abstract in plain ASCII format should be sent to the same e-mail address. If electronic submission is not possible, authors may submit four hard copies of the paper by post to the following address: LACL 2001 (Attention: G. Morrill) UPC, Departament de LSI Campus Nord - Modul C6 Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 E-08034 Barcelona - Espanya ------------------------------ URL ----------------------------- http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------- Deadline for Submissions: January 29, 2001 Notification to Authors: March 26, 2001 Final Versions due: April 20, 2001 ---------------------- CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ------------------ The accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in AI. This will be available at the time of the conference. ------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- W. Buszkowski (Poznan) R. Crouch, (Palo Alto) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) M. Dymetman (Grenoble) C. Gardent (Saarbrucken) P. de Groote (Nancy), co-chair M. Kanazawa (Tokyo) G. Morrill (Barcelona), co-chair R. Muskens (Tilburg) F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh) B. Rounds, (Ann Arbor) E. Stabler (Los Angeles) ----------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------- B. Daille (Nantes) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) A. Foret (Rennes) E. Lebret (Rennes) C. Piliere (Nancy), publicity chair C. Retore (Rennes), chair P. Sebillot (Rennes) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 2 10:08:05 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:08:05 +0100 Subject: Projet: Text Summarization/Document Understanding Conference Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen Preliminary Call for Participation Text Summarization and Document Understanding Conference Over the last five years, we have witnessed a tremendous increase in interest in summarization research from both the academia and the industry. In spite of this, we do not know yet what summarization techniques are most adequate, what systems perform the best, and what evaluation techniques are most appropriate for assessing the quality of a summary. To further progress in the field and enable researchers participate in large-scale experiments, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a new evaluation series in the area of text summarization, tentatively called the Document Understanding Conference (DUC). The basic design for the evaluation follows ideas in a recent summarization road map that was created by a committee of researchers in summarization, headed by Daniel Marcu. Plans call for the creation of reference data (documents and summaries) for training and testing. The training data will be distributed in March of 2001, test data distributed in June, and results due for evaluation the first of August 2001. A workshop will be held in September to discuss these results and to make further plans. For further details on the evaluation or on the road map, see http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/. To be added to a mailing list for further announcements, please contact donna.harman at nist.gov. To contribute to the summarization roadmap, please contact marcu at isi.edu. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 2 10:08:10 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:08:10 +0100 Subject: Conf: PACLIC 15 Message-ID: From: Olivia Kwong *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** THE 15TH PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION (PACLIC 15) 1-3 February 2001 City University of Hong Kong The Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, is hosting the 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 15) at the City University of Hong Kong on 1-3 February 2001, when the city would be blessed by the joys of the Lunar New Year. The Conference is an annual meeting of scholars in theoretical and computational linguistics from the Pacific Asia region. Keynote Speech: "Designing a lexical database with deep semantics" (TBC) Prof. Charles J. Fillmore International Computer Science Institute University of California, Berkeley Registration Fees: Early registration (on or before 22 December 2000): Regular HK$800 Student HK$400 Late or onsite registration (after 22 December 2000): Regular HK$1000 Student HK$500 All registrations include admission to all conference sessions, a hard copy of the Conference Proceedings, conference kit, refreshments, and lunches. Payments should be made by Visa or MasterCard. Simply fill out your card information (including card number, name on card, and expiry date) on the registration form when you register for the conference. The registration form can be downloaded from http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/paclic15. Completed forms should be returned to the PACLIC 15 organizers by (1) FAX to (852) 27889828, OR (2) POST to PACLIC 15, Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Accommodation: We have obtained discounted rates from some hotels for different budgets within convenient distance to the conference site for PACLIC 15 participants (starting from HK$530 per night for single/double). Reservations may be made via CityU by 22 December 2000 on a first-come-first-serve basis. Detailed information and the hotel reservation form are posted on our homepage (http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/paclic15). For enquiries, please contact: PACLIC 15 Language Information Sciences Research Centre City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (852) 27889288 Fax: (852) 27889828 E-mail: paclic.15 at cityu.edu.hk URL: http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/paclic15 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 2 10:08:12 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:08:12 +0100 Subject: Job: 1 Offer Message-ID: 1/ From: Kelly Sutherland Subject: Spoken Language Processing Senior/Principal Scientist: Various at Vision Recruitment, London UK Rank of Job: Various Areas Required: Spoken Language Processing Senior/Principal Scientist Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: Vision Recruitment Department: State or Province: London Country: UK Final Date of Application: 31 Jan 2001 Contact: Kelly Sutherland KellyS at visionrecruitment.com Address for Applications: Suite 45, Surbiton Business Centre, 46 Victoria Rd Surbiton Surrey KT6 4JL UK Spoken Language Processing Senior/Principal Scientist A scientist is sought with expertise in natural language processing or computational linguistics. You will focus on new parsing strategies to model ill formed grammatical utterances of spoken language and you will also work on better modeling techniques for mixed initiative. You will also focus on future direction for the company on semantic processing and either initiate such research or identify third party vendors to incorporate and tune into our product structure. For this position, a Ph.D. in linguistics or related area is sought. Your dissertation should be on Natural Language Processing. For the senior positions, a publication track record of 10+ years is required. Academic experience, faculty positions or industry track record is appropriate. You should have a broad knowledge of the literature in natural language processing and knowledge of the issues and problems related to spoken language is a plus. A highly competitive salary with stock options will be provided to qualified candidates. This position reports to the Chief Scientist of Spoken Language Systems Engineering. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 10 16:38:00 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:38:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN'01 Message-ID: From: Maurel Denis ********************************************************************** * * TALN 2001 * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * Universite de Tours * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ * mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL A COMMUNICATION ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- TALN 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001, organise par le LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Tours) et l'axe LTI (Langues et Technologies de l'information). La conference TALN 2001 comprendra des communications scientifiques, des conferenciers invites, des seances de demonstration et posters, ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. TALN 2001 est organisee sous l'egide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement a la conference pour jeunes chercheurs RECITAL 2001 (appel a communications a paraitre separement). ********** THEMES ********** Les communications pourront porter sur tous les themes habituels du TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative: lexique morphologie syntaxe semantique pragmatique discours analyse generation resume dialogue traduction automatique approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques TALN 2001 souhaite egalement accueillir des travaux de domaines proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, dans la mesure ou l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : traitement de la parole (prosodie, linguistique, pragmatique) traitement de l'ecrit aspects cognitifs terminologie acquisition de connaissances a partir de textes extraction d'information recherche documentaire linguistique de corpus linguistique mathematique utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modelisation linguistique enseignement assiste, enseignement des langues. Sont aussi attendus des travaux sur des applications du TALN, implementees et evaluees, faisant ressortir leurs aspects scientifiques et les enseignements tires. Des demonstrations de systemes pourront etre proposees, independamment ou en complement d'articles scientifiques. L'emploi du temps de la conference comprendra une session pour ces demonstrations. ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril 2001 Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ********** Les articles soumis seront rediges en francais (ou en anglais par les non-francophones). Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples et references compris. Les soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 fevrier 2001, sous forme electronique, a mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr. En cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission "papier" pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre envoyes a l'adresse suivante: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS ********** Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission par courrier electronique sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps ou pdf au format A4 et non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la soumission et les noms des auteurs. Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont disponibles sur le site de la conference: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** CRITERES DE SELECTION ********** Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications anterieures. Les soumissions seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. Seront considerees en particulier : L'importance et l'originalite de la contribution, La correction du contenu scientifique et technique, La discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine, La situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale, L'organisation et la clarte de la presentation, L'adequation aux themes de la conference. Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la conference. ********** DEMONSTRATIONS ET POSTERS ********** Une ou deux seances specifiques seront prevues pour des demonstrations (presentations logicielles) et des posters (85 x 120 cm). Les propositions de demonstration ou de poster suivent les memes regles que les soumissions de communication mais ne devront pas depasser 4 pages. ********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES ********** Les presentations orales dureront 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de questions. Il sera possible d'utiliser un retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur. ********** ACTES ********** Les actes de la conference seront distribues a tous les participants. Le Comite de redaction de la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.) sélectionnera deux articles pour publication. ********************************************************************** * * ENGLISH VERSION * ********************************************************************** ********** TALN 2001 : 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- TALN 2001 will be held at Tours on July, 2 - 5 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and Information Technologies). The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are French and English. TALN 2001 is organized in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2001 (a separate call for papers will follow). ********** TOPICS ********** Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): lexicon morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse parsing generation abstraction/summarisation dialogue translation logical, symbolical and statistical approaches TALN 2001 also invites contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasize their NLP dimension : speech processing text processing cognition terminology knowledge acquisition information retrieval documentary research corpus-based linguistics mathematical linguistics management and acquisition of linguistic resources computer assisted learning NLP tools for linguistic modelization TALN 2001 also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasizing the scientific aspects and conclusions drawn. Software demonstrations can be proposed, either independently or in connection with a paper proposal. Specific sessions for the demos will be scheduled in the conference. ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Notification to authors: 4/27/2001 Final version due (camera-ready): 5/11/2001 Conference : 7/2-5/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced, including figures, examples and references. Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr. If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, at the following address: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS ********** Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail(ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing the following informations: submission title and author's names. The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference web site: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ . ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria : Importance and originality of the paper Accuracy of the scientific and technical content Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work Layout and clarity of the paper Relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. ********** DEMOS AND POSTERS ********** One or two specific sessions for the demos and the posters (85 x 120 cm) will be scheduled in the conference. The demo or poster submissions accord to the same rules of paper submission, BUT they should not exceed 4 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. 10 minutes will be left for questions. It will be possible to use a overhead projector or a video-projector. ********** PROCEEDINGS ********** The conference proceedings will be given to all participants. The editorial staff of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.) will select two papers for publication. ********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME ********** ********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********** (le comite de programme sera entoure d'un large comite de lecture) (the program committee will be supervised by a broad reviewing committee) Pascal Amsili, TALaNa Frederic Bechet, LIA Philippe Blache, LPL Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO Beatrice Daille, IRIN Laurence Danlos, LORIA/TALaNa Claire Gardent, LORIA Eric Laporte, CERIL Denis Maurel, LI (president) Piet Mertens, CCL Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA Martin Rajman, EPFL Owen Rambow, ATT Labs-Research Jacques Siroux, IRISA LLI/CORDIAL Jean Veronis, LPL Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM ********** COMITE D'ORGANISATION ********** ********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********** Claire Agafonov, LTI Beatrice Bouchou, LI Alain Cambourian, LTI Alain Delplanque, LTI Nathalie Friburger, LI Nathalie Garric, LTI Paul Gaudin, LTI Manuel Gonzales de Avila, Ciremia Thierry Grass, LTI Denis Maurel, LI (president) Nathalie Rossi, LTI Mohamed Slimane, LI Nicole Vincent, LI ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 10 16:38:07 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:38:07 +0100 Subject: Appel: SIGIR 2000 Message-ID: From: Josiane MOTHE ******** CALL FOR PAPERS ******** SIGIR 2001 Twenty-Fourth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval September 9 - 13, 2001 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. For details see: http://www.sigir2001.org SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit original research contributions, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems. All contributions must be submitted electronically. See the Conference web site for further details: http://www.sigir2001.org. AREAS and AREA COORDINATORS SIGIR 2001 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, but the major areas of interest are listed below. For each general area, two area coordinators will guide the reviewing process. * Formal Models, Language Models, Search Strategies, Fusion/Combination - Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, U.K. - John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University * Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text Categorization - William Cohen, WhizBang! Labs - Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany * Cross-Lingual Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation for IR - Doug Oard, University of Maryland - David Hull, Rank Xerox Research Center, France * Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Agents - James Allan, University of Massachusetts - Michael Pazzani, UC, Irvine * Web IR, Citation and Link Analysis, XML and Metadata, Digital Libraries - David Hawking, Australian National University - Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic University * Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval - Mark Maybury, MITRE - Raghavan Manmatha, University of Massachusetts * Text Representation and Indexing, Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition, Natural Language Processing for IR - Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea - Claire Cardie, Cornell University * Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Distributed Search - Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon Univ. - Alistair Moffat, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia * Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models - Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley - Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University * Summarization, Question Answering - Amit Singhal, AT&T Labs - John Tait, University of Sunderland, U.K. * Evaluation, Building Test Collections, User Studies, Experimental Design and Metrics - Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research - Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES January 29: Paper submissions due February 28: Proposals for tutorials, workshops and posters due April 20: Notification of acceptance for all submissions May 25: Final camera-ready copy due ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit research papers, not exceeding 5000 words representing original, previously unpublished work, on or before January 29, 2001. Papers must be submitted electronically, via the submission web page. For requirements and details on submission of posters and on proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems, please see the Conference web site at http://www.sigir2001.org. MENTORING PROGRAM As part of our efforts to broaden participation, SIGIR 2001 will feature a mentoring program to assist authors with their submissions to the conference. Authors who have not previously had a full length paper accepted to SIGIR, and who are unsure about how to best prepare a paper for the SIGIR audience, will be able to request feedback on their work from an experienced SIGIR author in advance of the submission deadline. For details on this program, visit the web site at http://www.sigir2001.org or contact the Mentoring Chair, David Lewis (ddlewis2 at worldnet.att.net) . CONFERENCE VENUE The conference venue will be the Radisson Hotel at 1500 Canal Street in New Orleans (http://www.radisson.com/neworleansla), just four blocks from the French Quarter. It is a New Orleans landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE * General Chair: Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State Univ., U.S.A., kraft at bit.csc.lsu.edu * Treasurer: Andrea Houston, Louisiana State Univ., U.S.A., ahoust2 at bit.csc.lsu.edu * Program Co-Chair - Americas: W. Bruce Croft, Univ. of Massachusetts, U.S.A., croft at cs.umass.edu * Program Co-Chair - Europe: David J. Harper, The Robert Gordon Univ., U.K., djh at scms.rgu.ac.uk * Program Co-Chair - Asia/Pacific Rim: Justin Zobel, RMIT University, Australia, jz at cs.rmit.edu.au * Posters Chair: Efthimis Efthimiadis, U. of Washington, U.S.A.,efthimis at u.washington.edu * Tutorials Chair: Raya Fidel, U. of Washington, U.S.A., fidelr at u.washington.edu * Demonstrations Co-Chairs: Evangelos Triantaphyllou, Louisiana State U., U.S.A., vangelis at imse.lsu.edu Padmini Srinivasan, U. of Iowa, U.S.A., padmini at uma.info-science.iowa.edu * Exhibits and Corporate Sponsors Chair: David Grossman, Illinois Inst. of Technology, U.S.A., dagr at duvel.ir.iit.edu * Workshops Chair: Susan Gauch, University of Kansas, U.S.A., sgauch at eecs.ukans.edu * Publicity Chair: Edie Rasmussen, Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., erasmus at mail.sis.pitt.edu * Local Arrangements Chair: Carol Barry, Louisiana State Univ., U.S.A., lsbary at unix1.sncc.lsu.edu * Information Architect: David Robins, Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., drobins at mail.sis.pitt.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Helena Ahonen-Myka, University of Helsinki, Finland Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy Peter Anick, AltaVista Javed Aslam, Dartmouth College Micheline Beaulieu, University of Sheffield, U.K. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile Peter Bailey, The Australian National University, Australia Krishna Bharat, Google Inc Gloria Bordogna, National Research Council (CNR), Italy Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Eric W. Brown, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow, U.K. Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada David Cohn, Burning Glass Technologies/CMU Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, U.K. Mark D Dunlop, University of Strathclyde, U.K. John P Eakins, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, U.K. David Eichmann, University of Iowa James C. French, University of Virginia Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology Jonathan Furner, University of California, Los Angeles Ayse Goker, Robert Gordon University, U.K. Alan Gous, Stanford University Luis Gravano, Columbia University Warren R. Greiff, The MITRE Corporation Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Monika R. Henzinger, Google, Inc. William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, Netherlands Adele Howe, Colorado State University Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of LIS, Denmark Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI-CNRS Gareth Jones, University of Exeter, U.K. Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Paul B. Kantor, Rutgers University Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden Marcin Kaszkiel, AT&T Labs-Research Genichiro Kikui, NTT Cyberspace Laboratories, Japan Shmuel Tomi Klein, Bar Ilan University, Israel Matthew Koll, America Online Kui-Lam Kwok, Queens College, CUNY Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary and Westfield College, U.K. Ray R. Larson, University of California, Berkeley Mun-Kew Leong, BIGontheNet.com, Singapore Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse University Yoelle S. Maarek, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill Massimo Melucci, University of Padova, Italy David R. H. Miller, BBN Technologies Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta Vibhu Mittal, Xerox PARC Josiane Mothe, IRIT Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France Charles Nicholas, UMBC Paul Over, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Andreas Paepcke, Stanford University Gabriella Pasi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Ari Pirkola, University of Tampere, Finland Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brasil Mehran Sahami, E.piphany, Inc. Airi Salminen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, U.K. Peter Schauble, Eurospider IT AG, Switzerland Hinrich Schuetze, GroupFire Inc Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Paraic Sheridan, MNIS-TextWise Labs Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, Finland Padmini Srinivasan, The University of Iowa Ulrich Thiel, GMD-IPSI, Germany Paul Thompson, West Group Andrew Turpin, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Dr. Howard R. Turtle, Chiliad Publishing Evelyne Tzoukermann, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken and Saarland University, Germany Charles L. Viles, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ellen M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia Michael Witbrock, Lycos Incorporated Ian H. Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand Jinxi Xu, BBN Technologies Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon University Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 10 16:38:11 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:38:11 +0100 Subject: Appel: FG/MOL Message-ID: From: larry moss *************************************************************** [apologies if you receive this more than once] FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FORMAL GRAMMAR/MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE August 10--12, 2001 Helsinki, Finland FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the joint meeting of two conferences: the sixth conferene on Formal Grammar and the seventh on the Mathematics of Language. The joint meeting will be held just prior to the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. AIMS and SCOPE FGMOL'01 provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar and mathematical aspects of language, especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, * formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; * model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; * constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; * foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. * mathematical properties of linguistic frameworks * theories and models of natural language processing and generation * parsing theory * statistical and quantitative models of language INVITED SPEAKERS will be announced with the circulation of the second call for papers in early February SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). A submission should consist of two parts: - an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title; - an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI. Abstracts can be sent to fgmol at cs.indiana.edu ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 1, 2001 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE May 15, 2001 PROCEEDINGS A full version of each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due June 30, 2001. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Anne Abeill'e (Paris) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) Gosse Bouma (Groningen) Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Thilo Goetz (IBM) David Johnson (IBM) Mark Johnson (Brown) Aravind Joshi (UPenn) Gerhard J"ager (Utrecht) Ruth Kempson (London) Alain Lecomte (LORIA) Uwe Moennich (T"ubingen) Glyn Morrill (U.P. Catalunya) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Owen Rambow (Cogentex) James Rogers (Earlham) Giorgio Satta (Padova) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) FURTHER INFORMATION Web site for ESSLLI XI: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/ Web site for FGMOL'01 :http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol7.html The organizers: Geert-Jan Kruijff gj at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Larry Moss lsm at cs.indiana.edu Dick Oehrle oehrle at linc.cis.upenn.edu %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%[LaTeX2E Source File]%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tabularx} \setlength{\textwidth}{7in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-.5in} \setlength{\topmargin}{-36pt} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{center} {\em Please Post}\\[.1cm] {\large{\bf Formal Grammar / Mathematics of Language Conference --- FGMOL'01\\ CALL FOR PAPERS}}\\ {August 8--10, 2001}\qquad Helsinki\\ \end{center} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{@{}p{.27\textwidth}|p{.70\textwidth}@{}} %\small\ixpt\setlength{\baselineskip}{9pt} \footnotesize \begin{flushleft} {\bf Programme Committee} \end{flushleft} \begin{tabular}{l@{}} Anne Abeill\'{e} (Paris) \\ Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) \\ Gosse Bouma (Groningen) \\ Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) \\ Nissim Francez (Haifa)\\ Thilo Goetz (IBM)\\ David Johnson (IBM) \\ Mark Johnson (Brown)\\ Aravind Joshi (UPenn)\\ Gerhard J\"{a}ger (Utrecht)\\ Ruth Kempson (London)\\ Alain Lecomte (LORIA)\\ Uwe M\"{o}nnich (T\"{u}bingen)\\ Glyn Morrill (U.P. Catalunya) \\ Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) \\ Owen Rambow (Cogentex)\\ James Rogers (Earlham) \\ Giorgio Satta (Padova) \\ Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)\\ [12pt] {\bf Organizing Committee}\\ Geert-Jan Kruijff (Prague)\\ Larry Moss (Indiana)\\ Richard Oehrle (Ashford) \end{tabular} \medskip {\bf Important Dates} \smallskip \begin{tabular}{l@{}} Abstracts Due: March 31, 2001\\ Notification: May 15, 2001\\ Final Versions: June 30, 2001\\ Conference: August 8-10, 2001\\ \end{tabular} \medskip {\bf Addresses:\quad} \smallskip \begin{tabular}{l@{}} ESSLLI XIII: \\ \texttt{http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli}\\ FGMOL'01:\\ \texttt{http://www.cis.upenn.edu/\ldots}\\ $\quad$ \texttt{\ldots $^{\sim}$ircs/mol/mol7.html} \end{tabular} & \setlength{\parskip}{2pt} We are pleased to announce the joint meeting of two conferences: the sixth conferene on Formal Grammar and the seventh on the Mathematics of Language. The joint meeting will be held just prior to the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. \medskip {\it Aims And Scope} FGMOL'01 provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar and mathematical aspects of language, especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, \begin{itemize} \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{0pt} \item formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; \item model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; \item constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; \item foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. \item mathematical properties of linguistic frameworks \item theories and models of natural language processing and generation \item parsing theory \item statistical and quantitative models of language \end{itemize} \noindent We welcome papers from a wide variety of frameworks. \medskip {\it Invited Speakers} will be announced with the circulation of the second call for papers in early February. \medskip {\it Submission Details} We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). A submission should consist of two parts: \begin{itemize} \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{0pt} \item an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title; \item an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI. \end{itemize} \noindent Abstracts can be sent to {\tt fgmol at cs.indiana.edu} (Larry Moss). \medskip {\it Abstract Submission Deadline} March 31, 2001 {\it Notification of Acceptance} May 15, 2001 {\it Proceedings} A full version of each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due June 30, 2001. \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{document} ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 10 16:38:14 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:38:14 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN (Workshops & Tutorials) Message-ID: __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Maurel Denis Subject: TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL POUR L'ORGANISATION DE CONFERENCES ASSOCIEES (2nd CALL FOR WORKSHOPS) 2/ From: Maurel Denis Subject: TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL A TUTORIELS (2nd CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS) __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Maurel Denis Subject: TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL POUR L'ORGANISATION DE CONFERENCES ASSOCIEES (2nd CALL FOR WORKSHOPS) ********************************************************************** * * TALN 2001 * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * Universite de Tours * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ * mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ******** TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL POUR L'ORGANISATION DE CONFERENCES ASSOCIEES ******** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 12 JANVIER 2001 <---- TALN 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001, organise par le LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Tours) et l'axe LTI (Langues et Technologies de l'information). Une conference associee porte sur une thematique particuliere de TALN afin de rassembler quelques exposes plus cibles. Elle a son propre president et son propre comite de programme. Les organisateurs de TALN ne s'occuperont que de la partie matérielle (gestion des salles, pauses cafe, dejeuner et impression des actes). Les conferences associees et tutoriels auront lieu en parallele sur une a quatre plages horaires d'1 heure 30 (trois communications). ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 12 JANVIER 2001 <---- Reponse du comite de programme de TALN : vendredi 19 janvier 2001 Version finale pour les actes (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE PROPOSITION ********** Les propositions de conferences associees seront envoyees sous forme electronique a mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr avant le 12 janvier 2001. Elles comprendront la thematique de la conference, son comite de programme et le nombre de plages horaires souhaitees (1 à 4 plages). Le comite de programme de TALN choisira parmi toutes les propositions, en fonction de la place disponible dans les locaux de la conference. ********** FORMAT ********** Les conferences associees auront lieu en francais (ou en anglais pour les non-francophones). Les articles ne devront pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples et references compris. ********************************************************************** * * ENGLISH VERSION * ********************************************************************** ********** TALN 2001 : 2nd CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 1/12/2001 <---- TALN 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - 5 July 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and Information Technologies). The workshops are centred on a specific topic of the TALN conference, with a specific president and a specific programme committee. The TALN organizers will provide a room, coffee-breaks, lunches and proceedings. The workshops will run in parallel with the tutorials on one to four sessions of 1 hour 30 (three papers). ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 12/1/2001 <---- Notification of acceptance by the programme committee: 19/1/2001 Final version of proceedings due (camera-ready): 11/5/2001 Conference : 2-5/7/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** Electronic proposals must reach the organizing committee before 12/1/2001, sent to mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr with the topic of the workshop, the programme committee and the desired number of sessions (1 to 4 sessions). The TALN programme committee will choose between these proposals, according to the available room at the conference. ********** FORMAT ********** Papers should not exceed 10 pages, in Times 12, single-spaced, including figures, examples and references. __________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Maurel Denis Subject: TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL A TUTORIELS (2nd CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS) ********************************************************************** * * TALN 2001 * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * Universite de Tours * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ * mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL A TUTORIELS ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 12 JANVIER 2001 <---- TALN 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001, organise par le LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Tours) et l'axe LTI (Langues et Technologies de l'information). Les tutoriels portent sur une thematique de la conference TALN. Les tutoriels et les conferences associees auront lieu en parallele sur une a quatre plages horaires d'1 heure 30. La presentation d'un tutoriel dispensera des droits d'inscription à la conference. ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 12 JANVIER 2001 <---- Reponse du comite de programme de TALN : vendredi 19 janvier 2001 Version finale pour les supports de cours (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE PROPOSITION ********** Les propositions de tutoriels seront envoyees sous forme electronique a mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr avant le 12 janvier 2001. Elles comprendront un resume du cours et le nombre de plages horaires souhaitees (1 à 4 plages). Le comite de programme de TALN choisira parmi toutes les propositions, en fonction de la place disponible dans les locaux de la conference. ********** FORMAT ********** Les tutoriels auront lieu en francais (ou en anglais pour les non-francophones). Les supports de cours ne devront pas depasser 15 pages (pour un tutoriel d'1h30), 30 pages (pour 3h), 45 pages (pour 4h30) et 60 pages (pour 6h). Ils seront rediges en Times 12. ********************************************************************** * * * ENGLISH VERSION * * * ********************************************************************** ********** TALN 2001 : 2nd CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 12/1/2001 <---- TALN 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - 5 July 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and Information Technologies). The tutorials are centred on a topic of the TALN conference. The tutorials will run in parallel with the workshops on one to four sessions of 1 hour 30. Tutorial speakers will be exempted from conference fees. ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 12/1/2001 <---- Notification of acceptance by the programme committee: 19/1/2001 Final version of teaching aid due (camera-ready): 11/5/2001 Conference : 2-5/7/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** Electronic proposals must reach the organizing committee before 12/1/2001, sent to mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr with a course summary and the desired number of sessions (1 to 4 sessions). The TALN programme committee will choose between these proposals, according to the available room at the conference. ********** FORMAT ********** Course books, in Times 12, will not exceed 15 pages (for a tutorial of 1h30), 30 pages (for 3h), 45 pages (for 4h30) and 60 pages (for 6h). ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 10 16:38:17 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:38:17 +0100 Subject: Conf: IWTDIL 2001 Message-ID: From: "Niladri Sekhar Dash" CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ======================= INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN LANGUAGES Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India DATE ===== March 26 - 30, 2001 Advisory Committee =================== Prof. K.B. Sinha, Director, ISI, India, Chairman Prof. M.G.K. Menon, India Prof. C.R. Rao, USA Prof. K.Yamamoto, Japan Prof. N.Bhattacharya, India Prof. H.Bunke, Switzerland Prof. D. Dutta Majumder, India Prof. J.K. Ghosh, India Prof. R.M. Haralick, USA Prof. J.P.Hanton, France Prof. A. Joshi, USA Prof. R. Kasturi, USA ================== ORGANISING COMMITTEE ================== Prof. Bidyut Banran Chaudhuri, Chairman Prof. Swapan Kumar Parui, Convenor Prof. Nikhil Ranjan Pal Prof. Ashok Kumar Datta Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash Mr. Ujjwal Bhattacharya Dr. Mandar Mitra Mr. Anil Kumar Chand Ms. Madhumita Pal Dr. Lopamudra Chaudhuri Dr. Umapada Pal Dr. Sarbani Palit Mr. Utpal Garain Ms. Shamita Ghosh Dr. Sanghamitra Saha LIST OF SPEAKERS (Tentative) ============================= Prof. Barbara Fox, Univ. of Colorado, USA Prof. Harold Somers, University of Manchester, (IST), UK Dr. Michael Barlow, Rice University, USA Dr. Richard Sproat, AT&T Labs Reasearch, USA Prof. Gautam Sengupta, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, Hyderabad, India Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India Prof. B. Yegnanarayana, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Dr. Shantanu Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Dr. Soumen Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Dr. Ramesh Krishnamurthy, University of Birmingham, UK OBJECTIVE ========== For over a decade, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta has been active in research on various areas related to Language Technology, including Document Analysis,Speech Processing, and Natural Language Processing. Under an initiative of the Ministry of IT, Govt. of India, this Unit has been selected as a Resource Centre for Technology Development ofIndian Languages, with special emphasis on Bangla. As a part of this project, we are organizing a workshop consisting of a series of tutorials on Indian Language Information Technology, followed by lectures by eminent scientists on this subject. The goals of this workshop are: (i) to make scholars aware of recent research, developments, and applications of Indian language technologies (ii) to encourage research on Indian language technology, and to explore new applications of the existing technologies (iii) to establish contacts with international experts working on various aspects of language technology (iv) to consider opportunities for collaborative research and development TUTORIALS (AREAS OF SPEECH) =========================== * Machine Translation * Articulatory Phonetics * Anaphora Resolution * Acoustic Phonetics * Corpora Processing * Speech Recognition * Quantitative Linguistics * Morphological Processing * Speech Synthesis * Document Analysis * Optical Character Recognition * Information Retrieval REGISTRATION ============= Registration is necessary for all participants. Only 50 participants will be registered on first-come-first-serve basis. Last date for receiving completed registration form: 31st Jan., 2001. Registration Fees for the Participants: *Research Scholars & Teachers from Colleges/Univs. of India : Rs. 500 * People from other Institutions of India : Rs. 2,000 * Participants from abroad : US $50 (Registration fees may be waived for deserving participants) Interested people are requested to mail to: Chairman: or Convernor : cvpr at isical.ac.in> or Member: N.S.Dash ACCOMODATION ============== Registered participants will be provided accommodation. Accommodation charges will have to be borne by the participants other than the invited speakers. VENUE ======= The workshop will be held at the Seminar Room of the CVPR Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India. CONTACT ADDRESS ================ Convener, IWTDIL 2001 Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition Unit Indian Statistical Institute 203, B. T. Road, Calcutta 700 035, India. Phone: (91) (33) 577-2088 Ext. 2852 Fax: (91) (33) 577-3035/6680 E-Mail: http://www.isical.ac.in/~cvpr/events This program is partly sponsored by the Ministry of Information Technology (MIT), Government of India ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:31:18 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:31:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: LACL-01 Message-ID: From: Catherine Piliere ################################################################# --- LACL 2001 --- --- The deadline is approaching: JANUARY 29 --- ################################################################# LAST CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic, France Submission Deadline: January 29, 2001 http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ***************************************************************** --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate --- ***************************************************************** ---------------------------- HISTORY ---------------------------- The LACL series of conferences aims at providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal and logical aspects of computational linguistics. It started as a workshop held in Nancy (France), in 1995. Due to its success, it was turned, the next year, into a international conference. LACL'96 and '97 have both been held in Nancy (France). LACL'98 has been held in Grenoble (France). Selected papers from LACL'95 appear in a special issue of Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7(4), 1998. The proceedings of LACL'96 and 97 appear as volumes 1328 and 1582 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The proceedings of LACL'98 are in press with the same series. ----------------------------- SCOPE ----------------------------- Typical topics include, but are not limited to: Categorial grammars, Categorial type logics, Compositionality, Discourse representation theory, Dynamics, Feature Logics, Formal language theory, Game-theoretical semantics, Grammatical inference, Learning theory, Linear logical frameworks, Minimalism, Modal logics, Montague semantics, Parsing as deduction, Proof- theoretic approaches, Situation semantics and situation theory, Type-theoretic approaches. ----------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------- Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 15 standard A4 or US quarto pages. The paper should allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the work. In particular, references and comparisons with related work should be included. Submission of material already published or submitted to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Electronic submission is highly recommended. A postscript version of the paper should be sent as an e-mail to: morrill at lsi.upc.es to arrive by January 29, 2001. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file In addition, a separate e-mail containing the title of the paper, authors' names and addresses, and a short abstract in plain ASCII format should be sent to the same e-mail address. If electronic submission is not possible, authors may submit four hard copies of the paper by post to the following address: LACL 2001 (Attention: G. Morrill) UPC, Departament de LSI Campus Nord - Modul C6 Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 E-08034 Barcelona - Espanya ------------------------------ URL ----------------------------- http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------- Deadline for Submissions: January 29, 2001 Notification to Authors: March 26, 2001 Final Versions due: April 20, 2001 ---------------------- CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ------------------ The accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in AI. This will be available at the time of the conference. ------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- W. Buszkowski (Poznan) R. Crouch, (Palo Alto) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) M. Dymetman (Grenoble) C. Gardent (Saarbrucken) P. de Groote (Nancy), co-chair M. Kanazawa (Tokyo) G. Morrill (Barcelona), co-chair R. Muskens (Tilburg) F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh) B. Rounds, (Ann Arbor) E. Stabler (Los Angeles) ----------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------- B. Daille (Nantes) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) A. Foret (Rennes) E. Lebret (Rennes) C. Piliere (Nancy), publicity chair C. Retore (Rennes), chair P. Sebillot (Rennes) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:31:40 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:31:40 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2001 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen REMINDER - PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE COMING UP SOON! ACL-2001 Call For Papers 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 6 - 11 July, 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html General Conference Chair: Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) Program Co-Chairs: Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padua, Italy) Local Organization Chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse, France) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 39th Annual Meeting, which this year is jointly hosted with the European Chapter. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Deadlines --------- Paper registration deadline: January 26th, 2001 Paper submissions deadline: February 2nd, 2001 Notification of acceptance: April 12th, 2001 Camera ready papers due: May 12th, 2001 ACL 2001 Conference: July 6th-11th, 2001 Requirements ------------ Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.) Reviewing --------- The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by the international Conference Program Committee consisting of the following nine Area Chairs, each assisted by a team of reviewers. Jennifer Chu-Carroll (Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, USA) Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research, USA) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Adam Kilgarriff (ITRI, University of Brighton, UK) Lillian Lee (Cornell University, USA) Adwait Ratnaparkhi (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen, UK) James Rogers (Earlham College, USA) David Weir (University of Sussex, UK) Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Format ----------------- Papers must be submitted in hard copy. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. They are available from the ACL-2001 program committee Web-site at http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. As reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page will be required. The identification page should include the paper title, the paper ID code generated upon paper registration (see below), authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area, and a short summary (up to 5 lines). The identification page should also specify whether the paper is under consideration for other conferences. The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. Submission Procedure -------------------- 1) Submission notification: You must first register your submission by January 26, 2001. This can be done by filling out an electronic form directly at http://www.dfki.de/cgi-bin/acl2001/submission.cgi or via http://acl2001.dfki.de/. The form requires a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission. Please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the program committee co-chairs. Do not re-submit your paper if you have already received an ID! If you want to change any information in your submission notification, please mail the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de and include your paper ID in the subject of the mail. If you have any difficulty using the electronic registration form, please send email to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de with all of the title page information plus the authors' names and affiliations. 2) Paper submission: Submissions must be received by February 2, 2001. Late submissions (those arriving after February 2) will be returned without review. The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following address: ACL-2001 Submission Norbert Reithinger DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic version of the paper (without the identification page) to acl2001-submissions at dfki.de. Please include the paper ID in the subject line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The electronic version should also be received by February 2nd, 2001. Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version, please send mail to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de. Acknowledgment of hardcopy submission will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on or after April, 12th. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright release statement along with the final camera-ready papers. Submission Questions -------------------- Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program committee co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de sufficiently ahead of the submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:32:09 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:32:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: JNLE Message-ID: From: Beverly Nunan 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING SPECIAL ISSUE ON QUESTION ANSWERING Guest editors:=20 Lynette Hirschman (MITRE)=20 Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield) As users struggle to navigate the wealth of on-line information now available, the need for automated question answering systems becomes more urgent: specifically, for systems that would allow a user to ask a question in everyday language and get the answer quickly, with back-up material available on demand. Question answering has become, over the past several years, a major focus of research activity. This Call for Papers solicits submissions that discuss the performance, the requirements, the uses, and the challenges of question answering systems.=20 Question answering systems provide a rich research area. To answer a question, a system must analyze the question, perhaps in the context of some ongoing interaction; it must find one or more answers by consulting on-line resources; and it must present the answer to the user in some appropriate form, perhaps associated with justification or supporting materials.=20 Several conferences and workshops have focused on aspects of the question answering research area. For the past two years, the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) (http://trec.nist.gov) has sponsored a question-answering track which has evaluated systems that answer factual questions based on finding answer strings in the TREC corpus, using both information retrieval and natural language processing techniques. A focus on reading comprehension provides a different approach to question answering, evaluating systems' ability to answer questions about a specific reading passage. These kinds of tests are used to evaluate students' comprehension, providing a basis for comparing system performance to human performance. This was the subject of a Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop, http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/groups/reading/prj_desc.shtml. Both of these research areas have had to address a number of difficult questions: =B7 How can question answering systems be evaluated? Do we have to have human graders, or can we find automated ways of grading short answer tests that approximate human graders closely enough? =B7 How should questions and answers be classified? Should classifications be based on linguistic features of questions and answers? On the types and sources of knowledge used to derive answers? On the types of processing required to derive answers?=20 =B7 What makes a question hard? Can we define linguistic features that help to predict question difficulty? =B7 Can we identify different classes of users of question answering systems, and if so, what are their different requirements? =B7 What makes an answer good? Should answers be short? Long? What about sentence extracts compared to generated text? What about summaries? =B7 What is the best way to present answers to a user? How much context and justification is appropriate? How much drill down needs to be supported? =B7 Do question answering systems need to build models of users' knowledge states to generate appropriate answers? How can this process be managed? =B7 What are reasonable expectations for question answering systems: providing factual answers found literally in texts, providing factual answers inferred from texts, providing summaries of multiple sources, providing analysis? =B7 How does the performance of systems compare to the performance of people? Can such systems complement people? Teach people? Replace people? =B7 Is it possible to create domain-independent question answering systems, or is it critical to restrict the domain of such a system to a specific topic area? What are the trade-offs in terms of performance? =B7 Can a question answering system use spoken input? Can it retrieve information from spoken "documents" such as news stories or interviews? What are the performance penalties when dealing with the additional uncertainty that characterizes speech or OCR? We invite submission of papers addressing any of these questions, or other issues related to the creation, evaluation, or deployment of question answering systems. We also encourage submissions that address infrastructure issues, such as tools for building question answering systems, for collecting corpora, or for annotating collections.=20 Submission Information Submit full papers of no more than 25 pages (exclusive of references), twelve point, double-spaced, with one inch margins before the initial submission deadline. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines will not be reviewed. Email submission is preferred, and should be directed to the special issue editors at the email address: lynette at mitre.org. The subject line should read: JNLE QA Submission. Preferred email submission formats are: Word, PostScript, PDF, or plain text (for papers without complex figures, etc). If email submission is not possible, then five copies of the paper should be mailed to: Dr. Lynette Hirschman The MITRE Corporation 3K-157 202 Burlington Rd. Bedford, MA 01730 USA Phone: 781-271-7789 Fax: 781-271-2352 Mailed submissions must arrive on or before the deadline for submission. Submission Dates * Submissions are due on February 26, 2001 * Notification of acceptance will be given by April 23, 2001. * Camera-ready copy due July2, 2001 =20 * Publication: Fall-Winter 2001 --Bed_of_Clams_863_000-- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:32:36 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:32:36 +0100 Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 01 Student Session Message-ID: From: Kristina Striegnitz !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!! Please circulate and post among students !!! We apologize, if you receive this message more than once. ESSLLI 2001 STUDENT SESSION SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS August 13-24 2001, Helsinki, Finland Deadline: February 18, 2001 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~kris/esslli We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2001) organized by the University of Helsinki under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). ESSLLI 2001 will be held at the University of Helsinki in August 2001. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This sixth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates (before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates (before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. Papers may be accepted for full presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for a poster presentation. The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. KLUWER BEST PAPER AWARD: As in previous years, the best paper will be selected by the program committee and will be offered a prize by Kluwer Academic Publishers consisting in 1000 Dfl worth of books. REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. All topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic, Language, Computation, Logic & Language, Logic & Computation, Language & Computation) are of interest. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages in length exclusive of references and send a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like "Smith (1991) previously showed...". For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent separately, using the following format: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Address: address of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Address: address of the last author Short summary: abstract (5 lines) Subject area (one of): Logic | Language | Computation | Logic and Language | Logic and Computation | Language and Computation If necessary, the program committee may reassign papers to a more appropriate subject area. The submission of the extended abstract should be in one of the following formats: PostScript, PDF, RTF, or plain text. But note that, in case of acceptance, the final version of the paper has to be submitted in LaTeX format. Please, use A4 size pages, 11pt or 12pt fonts, and standard margins. Submissions outside the specified length and formatting requirements may be subject to rejection without review. The extended abstract and separate identification page must be sent by e-mail to: kris at coli.uni-sb.de by FEBRUARY 18, 2001 ESSLLI 2001 INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI 2001 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI 2001. The authors of accepted papers will be eligible for reduced registration fees. For all information concerning ESSLLI 2001, please consult the ESSLLI 2001 web site at http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 18, 2001. Authors Notifications: April 17, 2001. Final version due: May 18, 2001. ESSLLI-2001 Student Session: August 13-24, 2001. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Raffaella Bernardi, University of Utrecht (Logic & Language) Patrick Blackburn, Loria Nancy (Logic & Language) Gilles Dowek, INRIA (Computation) Ruth Kempson, King`s College London (Language) Carsten Lutz, University of Aachen (Logic & Computation) Ani Nenkova, Columbia University (Logic) Ilkka Niemel”, Helsinki University of Technology (Logic & Computation) Malvina Nissim, University of Pavia (Language) Susanne Salmon-Alt, Loria, Nancy (Language & Computation) Jan Schwinghammer, University of the Saarland (Computation) Kristina Striegnitz, University of the Saarland (Chair) Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam (Logic) Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa (Language & Computation) For any question concerning the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session, please, do not hesitate to contact me: Kristina Striegnitz Computational Linguistics, University of the Saarland, Germany phone: +49 - 681 - 302 4503 email: kris at coli.uni-sb.de ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:33:24 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:33:24 +0100 Subject: Appel: Modular Programming (Eurolan Workshop) Message-ID: From: Constantin Orasan ---- This message is posted to several lists ---- ---- We apologize if you receive multiple copies ---- CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on "Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing" Held as part of EUROLAN'01 Summer School July 30 - August 11 Iasi, Romania The call for papers and comprehensive information can be found on line at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/workshop.html The effectiveness of modular programming in designing software has long been acknowledged by the computer science community. However, the computational linguistics community preferred to develop components in isolation, without integrating existing modules into proposed systems. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, integration of different modules is not a trivial task, requiring a lot of time. Usually the major problem is the loss of information caused when the output of one module has to be converted to the input of another. Most research projects do not have the time or resources to concentrate on a real modular architecture, using trade offs (such as manually created inputs) instead. Secondly, most of the work in the research community is directed towards proposing and demonstrating new hypotheses, and not building robust and fully automatic applications. In many cases preprocessing steps, which produce the input data for the tested method, are considered trivial and accurate, and as a result replaced with hand produced data. Therefore, when a researcher needs a certain module for a method, s/he prefers to produce the output of that program manually, either because s/he is not aware of an existing implementation which performs the required task, or because the work involved in setting it up is greater than that involved in manually producing the output (usually because the implementation was developed and tested on a different platform). However, this situation has started to change rapidly. More and more researchers have appreciated the complexity of NLP tasks and the need to use modular programming. A quick look at the systems presented at the latest MUC indicated that they are complex systems which reuse previous research. Systems like GATE have been designed in order to help with the integration of different modules in a system. In addition, the research community is increasingly requiring the development of fully automatic applications. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between researchers involved in the development of automatic NLP systems and leading names in the field. We would like to invite all researchers to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - modular architectures for NLP - black/glass box evaluation measures - research on the influence of substitution and alternate combinations of modules on overall system performance - reusability - integration of resources (including conversion formats between modules) - platforms for developing modular applications - repositories Demos of the presented systems are encouraged. 2. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work in progress or completed work. The main purpose of presenting at the Workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work. The submissions should not exceed 10 pages with 12pt Times New Roman font including figures, references, and appendices. Authors will be sent details of the final format for camera-ready versions together with notification of acceptance. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Electronic submissions are encouraged but hard copies are acceptable. For electronic submission, papers should be in Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, or RTF format. For other formats, please contact the organising committee. All papers should be sent to workshop-eurolan at wlv.ac.uk 3. Contact Address Constantin Orasan HLSS University of Wolverhampton Stafford Street Wolverhampton WV1 1SB UK Email: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (please use "EUROLAN WORKSHOP" in the subject line) 4. Important Dates Submission Deadline: 1st April 2001 Notification of Acceptance: 4th May 2001 Camera-ready Papers: 1st June 2001 Workshop: To be announced 5. Registration People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered in the Eurolan'01 School. Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan'01 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. 6. Organizing committee Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton Richard Evans - University of Wolverhampton Catalina Barbu - University of Wolverhampton 7. Program committee Dan Cristea - University of Iasi Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield Le An Ha - University of Wolverhampton Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Ramesh Krishnamurty - University of Wolverhampton Daniel Marcu - University of Southern California Oliver Mason - University of Birmingham Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Maximiliano Saiz Noeda - University of Alicante Chris Paice - Lancaster University Valentin Tablan - Universities of Iasi & Sheffield Doina Tatar - Babes-Bolyai University Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:34:00 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:34:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: TIA-01 Message-ID: From: "Jean ROYAUTE" ***************************************************************** Appel à communication TIA-2001 EXTENSION DE LA DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION Quatrième rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 15 janvier 2001, reportée au 31 janvier Notification aux auteurs : 25 février 2001 Date de réception des versions définitives ; 15 mars 2001 Sous l'effet de l'information en réseau, institutions, entreprises et laboratoires se trouvent aujourd'hui confrontés aux problèmes considérables posés par la taille et la diversité des documents spécialisés. Accéder à ces corpus textuels, les filtrer, les traiter, les stocker, les implémenter sur des systèmes informatiques, telles sont, entre autres, les tâches auxquelles doit répondre la terminologie. Devant de tels enjeux, la terminologie, en tant que discipline, doit établir des relations coopératives avec un ensemble de disciplines allant de la linguistique à l'ingénierie des connaissances en passant par les sciences de l'information. La pratique terminologique fait notamment appel à des techniques linguistiques et /ou numériques pour manipuler les unités de la langue naturelle (en particulier les terminologies) et à des techniques d'intelligence artificielle pour la formalisation de ces données. Ces techniques partagent des méthodes, des objectifs et une même finalité : - même point de départ : elles partent de corpus pour l'acquisition de données linguistiques destinées à la constitution de terminologies ; - même objectif : la modélisation de domaines à partir de corpus, sans formalisation dans le cas d'une production linguistique, avec formalisation du domaine dans le cas d'une application requérant les techniques de l'I.A ; - même visée applicative : ressources terminologiques, dictionnaires électroniques pour la traduction automatique, pour l'indexation, pour le filtrage, etc., ontologies, systèmes à base de connaissances, mémoires d'entreprise (dans le cadre d'applications relevant de l'I.A). L'objectif de la conférence TIA est de faire émerger les convergences et les coopérations possibles entre ces disciplines pour élaborer et tester des méthodes de travail sur corpus, associées à des techniques de traitement automatique de la langue et d'intelligence artificielle, afin de constituer, de manière systématique, les données terminologiques pertinentes en fonction des applications. Les quatrièmes rencontres TIA serviront à explorer les nombreuses questions restées ouvertes en matière d'acquisition de connaissances terminologiques à partir de corpus, d'analyse du fonctionnement lexicologique en corpus spécialisé, de modélisation et de formalisation de ces connaissances, toujours dans le cas d'applications précises. Vous êtes invité à y participer en proposant une communication sur l'un des thèmes ci-dessous : - Théories du sens et la question des textes spécialisés - Terminologie et ontologies - Exploitation de l'extraction de termes en corpus - Terminologie et modélisation / formalisation des connaissances - Bases de connaissances terminologiques - Ressources terminologiques pour la recherche d'information - Problèmes de la terminologie multilingue - Réutilisabilité en ingénierie linguistique et ingénierie des connaissances - Outils et applications Le Groupe TIA (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/), est organisateur de cette conférence qui fait suite aux conférences TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) et TIA'99 (Nantes). Fondé sous l'égide du PRC-IA et de l'AFIA en 1994, à présent groupe AFIA/PRC-I3, ce groupe rassemble des chercheurs en linguistique, en intelligence artificielle et en traitement automatique des langues. Il a été créé pour permettre une confrontation entre les cadres théoriques et méthodologiques ainsi qu'entre les pratiques développées dans chaque discipline. Les propositions de communications (en anglais ou en français) seront soumises à un comité de programme international constitué des membres du groupe TIA et d'experts des domaines concernés. CONFERENCIERS INVITES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminologie et applications industrielles" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) " Multilinguisme et ingénierie linguistique " COMITE DE PROGRAMME Présidente : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (Université de Rome) Brigitte Biébow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Stéphane Chaudiron (Ministère de la Recherche &Université Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Benoît Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Université Paris 10) Udo Hahn (Université de Fribourg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (Université d'Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Université de Dublin) François Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) François Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royauté (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Université Louis Lumière, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) COMITE D'ORGANISATION Jean Royauté (Président), Dominique Besagni, Claire François, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Université Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) Les rencontres se dérouleront à l'INIST - Nancy (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du CNRS) et seront aussi l'occasion de mettre en évidence les convergences entre documentation et terminologie. FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS Les articles soumis, en français ou en anglais, ne devront pas dépasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ 3000 mots, figures, exemples et références compris. Les soumissions devront contenir, sur une page séparée, les éléments suivants : noms d'auteur(s) affiliation(s) adresse(s) (fax et e-mail) titre de la soumission 5 à 10 mots clés résumé (300 mots maximum) Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word seront disponibles prochainement sur le site web de la conférence http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm Les versions définitives devront être conformes à ces formats. Les articles devront parvenir au comité de programme sous forme papier l'adresse suivante : Monique SLODZIAN CRIM-INALCO Comité de Programme TIA-2001 2, rue de Lille - 75343 PARIS cedex 07 ou sous forme électronique, aux adresses électroniques : ou Les détails concernant l'organisation de la conférence seront diffusés ultérieurement sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm et http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/ et sur différentes listes. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royauté - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex Tél : +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ***************************************************************** Second call for papers TIA-2001 DEADLINE EXTENSION 4th meeting "Terminology and Artificial Intelligence" 3-4 May 2001, Nancy, France DEADLINE Submission due date: January 15, 2001, postponed to January 31, 2001 Notification date: February 25, 2001 Camera ready date: March 15, 2001 Due to the availability of ever-increasing amount of information institutions, companies and laboratories are facing new problems related in particular to scale effects and the diversity of technical texts. A full range of tasks, from accessing text corpora to processing lexical data, is now being entrusted to terminology. As a result, terminology has to enrich and strengthen its links with related disciplines, including linguistics, knowledge engineering and information sciences. Thus, terminological work makes use of linguistic and /or numeric techniques to process natural language items (especially terms) and of artificial intelligence techniques for their formalization. These techniques share a number of methods and objec tives as well as a common goal: - the same starting point: corpus-based data acquistion; - the same objectives: corpus-based domain modeling with or without formalization, depending on the type of application (artificial intelligence or not); - the same goal: production of terminological resources (machine-readable dictionaries for machine translation, indexing, filtering); ontologies, knowledge-based systems, corporate memories. The TIA Conference aims at promoting convergence and synergy among such disciplines in order to develop and evaluate corpus-processing methodologies, requiring refined natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques. The end results of those investigations should help build relevant terminological data for specific applications on a systematic basis. The 4th TIA Conference will be an opportunity to explore some of the unsolved problems raised in corpus-based acquisition of terminological data, in the analysis of lexical behavior in specialized corpora, in knowledge modeling and formalization of the resulting data. You are invited to propose a paper in the following topics: - Meaning theories and the question of specialized texts; - Terminology and ontologies; - Exploitation of corpus-based term extraction; - Terminology and knowledge modeling / formalization - Terminological knowledge bases; - Terminological resources for information retrieval; - Problems of multilingual terminology; - Reusability in linguistics and knowledge engineering - Tools and applications. This TIA Conference, which follows TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) and TIA'99 (Nantes), is organized by the TIA Working Group (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/). This group gathers researchers in linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. It was created to allow a confrontation between the theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as between the practices developed in each discipline. Submitted papers (in French or in English) will be reviewed by an international program committee composed of members of the TIA Working Group and of invited experts. INVITED LECTURES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminology and industrial applications" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) "Multi-lingualism and language engineering" PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (University of Roma) Brigitte Biébow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Stéphane Chaudiron (Ministère de la Recherche &Université Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Benoît Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Université Paris 10) Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Université of Dublin) François Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) François Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royauté (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Université Louis Lumière, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jean Royautaé (Organizing chair), Dominique Besagni, Claire François, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Université Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) The conference will take place at INIST, the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in Nancy, and will also offer the opportunity to highlight the convergence between documentation and terminology. SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers submitted, in French or English, should not exceed 10 pages of text in Times 12 with single line-spacing, i.e. approximately 3000 words, figures, examples and references included. Soumissions should include on an additional page : Author name(s) Affiliation(s) Address(es) (fax and e-mail) Title of soumission Key-words (5-10) Abstract (300 words max.) LaTeX and Word sheetstyles will be available soon on the conference website : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm Final versions must conform to this format. Papers should be sent by regular mail to: Monique SLODZIAN CRIM-INALCO Program Committee of TIA-2001 2, rue de Lille - 75343 PARIS cedex 07 E-mail submission should be sent to or Details concerning the conference organization will be given later on the conferences websites: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm and http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA and on various lists. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royauté - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex Tel.: +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ***************************************************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 31 17:58:44 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:58:44 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers Message-ID: ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" Subject: Sail Labs: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (EUROPEAN LANGUAGES); based in Barcelona (Spain) 2/ From: Alberto Lavelli Subject: TCC ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" Subject: Sail Labs: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (EUROPEAN LANGUAGES); based in Barcelona (Spain) Summary: Barcelona (Spain) Sail Labs COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE, ITALIAN, GREEK) Full message: Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY at SAIL LABS Barcelona Sail Labs is one of the world's leading R&D companies in the field of "Natural Language Understanding". With the slogan "Innovation in Understanding", the company is focusing on three core development areas: * Language technology * Translation technology * Content technology In the Munich head office and in its branches in Berlin, Barcelona, Antwerp and Vienna, 190 developers are working on solutions, products and components related to the understanding of natural languages. For the further expansion of our highly motivated team in Barcelona we are looking for qualified professionals for the area of translation technologies. Candidate tasks and profiles: ***************************************** COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ref. CL) ***************************************** Your tasks: * Design, development and maintenance of formal grammars for our several new or existing translation engines. * Design and development of the linguistic components of our new generation of translation systems. Your profile: * University degree in philosophy, linguistics, computational linguistics or equivalent, with a strong background in natural language processing. * Native or near-native proficiency in at least two of the following languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Greek. * Programming experience. * Effective communication skills in written and spoken English. * Experience in machine translation and/or developing formal grammars for natural language processing applications will be a plus. Working language: English Starting date: As soon as possible Office location: Center of Barcelona (in the charming 19th century district Eixample, within walking distance from the old part of the city and from the famous 'Las Ramblas') You will join a young, international, and highly motivated team. SAIL LABS combines research and development of market-ready products. This will thus offer a great opportunity to those people who want to apply their acquired knowledge and skills in real-world conditions. More information about SAIL LABS can be found at the web page << http://www.sail-labs.com >>. If you are interested, send CV and cover letter in English by email to: albert.llorens at sail-labs.es indicating on the envelope or in the subject of the email the job reference. ______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Alberto Lavelli Subject: TCC The Cognitive and Communication Technologies (TCC) division of ITC-Irst has openings for the following (three years, renewable) positions, starting as soon as possible. n.3 positions in the "Text Processing" area. Requirements - Significant experience in one or more of the followings: Information Extraction, Question-Answering, Word-Sense Disambiguation, Statistical Methods for NLP, Learning Techniques Applied to NLP, Text Summarisation. Programming expertise includes some of the following: JAVA, Common Lisp, Perl, XML. n.4 positions in the "Intelligent and Interactive Information Presentation" area. Requirements - Significant experience in one or more of the followings: Adaptive Hypermedia, Natural Language Generation, NLP for Dialogue Systems, Life-like Characters and Collaborative Systems, Internet Technologies for Multimedia (RTSP, SMIL, etc.). Programming expertise includes some of the following: JAVA, Common Lisp, XML, OO analysis and programming, AI technologies. For all positions, the followings are also required. Advanced university degree in: computer science, computational linguistics, linguistics, or related area. Good working knowledge of English. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability and willingness to work as part of a highly skilled, collaborative research team. Salary will be competitive and commensurate to experience. To apply, please send a CV plus list of publications to: Fabio Pianesi Vice-head of the TCC Division ITC-Irst 38050 Povo (TN) Italy email: pianesi at itc.it Applications via e-mail are welcome. About ITC-Irst Located in one of the most beautiful areas of Italy, near the Dolomites, ITC-Irst (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica) is a major Italian research centre operating in such fields as: Artificial Intelligence, Microsystems, and Surface Physics. The Artificial Intelligence area comprises the following divisions: TCC (Cognitive and Communication Technologies), SSI (Interactive Sensory Systems) and SRA (Automatic Reasoning Systems). ITC-Irst (presently directed by Oliviero Stock) has a long score of important achievements in all the areas of its activity, testifying its vocation towards excellence in basic and applied research, and in technological transfer. About the TCC division The Cognitive and Communication Technologies division at ITC-Irst is one of the leading European research groups in areas such as Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction and Dialogue Systems, Multi-modality, Natural Language Generation, and Production and Maintenance of Linguistic Resources. Committed to both basic and applied research, TCC has consolidated links and pursues joint research efforts with many of the main research centres all over the world, and has regular and fruitful relationships with primary companies, especially those operating in the Web world. TCC has a long record of EU funded projects. As part of ITC-Irst, TCC is a member of the European Network of Excellence in Natural Language and Speech (ELSNET). For more information about TCC, see http://ecate.itc.it:1024 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 31 17:59:28 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:59:28 +0100 Subject: Appel: EMNLP 2001 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen *** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EMNLP 2001 *** 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2001. The conference will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL). We are interested in papers from academia and industry on all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to: * information extraction * information retrieval * language and dialog modeling * lexical acquisition * machine translation * multilingual technologies * question answering * statistical parsing * summarization * tagging * term and named entity extraction * word sense disambiguation * word, term, and text segmentation Also, to encourage reflection on the current state of the art in corpus-based methods, the conference will have the following theme: "What Works and What Doesn't: Successes and Challenges" Successes --- We solicit papers showing the success of empirical methods in and across application settings. Examples include improvements in information retrieval performance due to employing language modeling techniques; effective use of statistical word segmentation algorithms in machine translation systems; and increased speech recognition accuracy through the incorporation of statistical parsing. Challenges --- It is clear that empirical and corpus-based methods have enjoyed many successes over the past years; but in looking to future accomplishments, the community needs to be aware of the limitations of various techniques and paradigms. We welcome papers that carefully expose and study such limitations. Examples include the identification and exploration of: classes of domains or problems in which popular techniques perform poorly; significant gaps between human and machine performance on tasks where statistical approaches have made great progress; and important practical situations where common assumptions fail to hold. *** We emphasize that we seek submissions that thoughtfully document fundamental limitations, rather than simply report on unsuccessful experiments. *** It is desired that such papers contain thorough examination, via careful experimentation, of the critical factors contributing to the "negative" result. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should take the form of full papers (3200 words or less, excluding references) describing original work. Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide this information on the title page. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: March 13, 2001 Acceptance notification: April 13, 2001 Camera-ready copy due: May 3, 2001 Conference: June 3-4, 2001 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Lillian Lee (chair), Cornell University, llee at cs.cornell.edu Donna Harman (co-chair), NIST, donna.harman at nist.gov CONFERENCE URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 31 17:59:56 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:59:56 +0100 Subject: Appel: CFP - ASE 2001 Message-ID: From: gannod at general3.asu.edu (Apologies for multiple copies) Automated Software Engineering 2001 16th IEEE International Conference November 26-29, 2001 San Diego, USA Call For Papers Abstracts due: June 22, 2001; Papers due: June 29, 2001 Latest information: http://ase.informatik.uni-essen.de The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of automated software engineering technology. Both automatic systems and systems that support and cooperate with people are within the scope of the conference, as are models of software and software engineering activities. ASE'2001 encourages contributions describing basic research, novel applications, and experience relevant to automating software engineering activities. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to: Automated reasoning techniques Automated software specification Automated software design and synthesis Category and Graph - theoretic approaches Computer-supported cooperative work Domain modeling and meta-modeling Human computer interaction Knowledge acquisition Maintenance and evolution Modeling language semantics Ontologies and methodologies Process and workflow management Program understanding Re-engineering Reflection- and Metadata approaches Requirements engineering Reuse Software architectures Testing Tutoring, help, documentation systems Verification and validation Research in these areas and other more general areas (such as Computer-Human Interaction and Artificial Intelligence) with a clear focus on software engineering will be considered within the conference scope. The ASE on-line Bibliography serves as a reference for potential contributors: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/faculty/welty/ase/ The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering was formerly known as the Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference. In conjunction with the name change, in 1997 the conference expanded to encourage worldwide participation and to reach other scientific communities concerned with formal methods, partial evaluation, process support, human-computer interface support, requirements engineering, reverse engineering, testing, and verification & validation, while still including an active AI and Knowledge Based component. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, by IEEE Computer Society Press. In addition, authors of a selection of papers from the conference will be invited to revise and re-submit their papers for consideration for a special issue of the Journal of Automated Software Engineering (Kluwer). ASE'2001 will also include invited talks, tutorials, panel discussions, a doctoral symposium, and project demonstrations, for which separate calls for participation will be issued. Papers should not exceed 6000 words, with full-page figures counting as 300 words. Papers exceeding the length restriction will not be reviewed. Papers will be reviewed by at least three programme committee members. All papers, especially application papers and experience reports, should clearly identify their novel contributions. See the conference website for detailed guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format, on or before June 29th, 2001. Information regarding electronic submission can be found at http://ase.informatik.uni-essen.de soon. In addition, a single hardcopy should be mailed to Martin Feather at the address below; it serves as a backup should printing problems occur, and it may arrive later than the electronic submission date. To expedite the review process, each paper's title, authors, abstract, keywords, and contact author's email address should be submitted by June 22nd, 2001. General Chair Debra Richardson Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3425, USA Tel: +1 949 824-7405 djr at ics.uci.edu Programme Co-Chair Martin S. Feather Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology MS 125-233 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109-8099, USA Tel: +1 818 354 1194 Martin.S.Feather@ Jpl.Nasa.Gov Programme Co-Chair Michael Goedicke Dept of Math & Computing Univ of Essen D-45117 Essen, Germany Tel: +49 201 8100330 goedicke at informatik.uni-essen.de Programme Committee Perry Alexander, USA Daniel Berry, Canada Yves Deville, Belgium Tom Ellman, USA Wolfgang Emmerich, UK Steve Fickas, USA Bernd Fischer, USA Pierre Flener, Sweden Alfonso Fuggetta, Italy Gerald Gannod, USA Joseph Goguen, USA Cordell Green, USA Ian Green, UK John Grundy, New Zealand Robert Hall, USA Mehdi Harandi, USA Mats Heimdahl, USA Scott Henninger, USA Andrew Ireland, UK Bernd Kraemer, Germany Jeff Kramer, UK Kung-Kiu Lau, UK Baudouin Le Charlier, Belgium Yves Ledru, France Mike Lowry, USA Tom Maibaum, UK Brad Martin, USA Ali Mili, USA Bashar Nuseibeh, UK Colin O'Halloran, UK Charles Pecheur, USA John Penix, USA Klaus Pohl, Germany David Redmiles, USA Arthur Reyes, USA Julian Richardson, UK Spencer Rugaber, USA Houari Sahraoui, Canada Akiyoshi Sato, Japan Andy Schuerr, Germany Frank Shipman, USA Doug Smith, USA Kurt Stirewalt, USA Gabi Taentzer, Germany Enn Tyugu, Sweden Jeff van Baalen, USA Willem Visser, USA Richard Waldinger, USA Virginie Wiels, France Chris Welty, USA David Wile, USA ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 31 18:02:48 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:02:48 +0100 Subject: Appel: 4 NAACL'01 announcements Message-ID: ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 WordNet and Other Lexical Resources Workshop 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL'01 Automatic Summarization Workshop--DEADLINE EXTENSION 3/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 Adaptation in Dialogue Systems Workshop 4/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 Machine Translation Evaluation Workshop ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 WordNet and Other Lexical Resources Workshop WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations * Please note merger and extended deadline! * NAACL 2001 Workshop Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh 3 and 4 June, 2001 Sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on the Lexicon. Previously announced as two different workshops: - WordNet: Extensions and NLP Applications - Customizing Lexical Resources Lexical resources have become important basic tools within NLP and related fields. The range of resources available to the researcher is diverse and vast - from simple word lists to complex MRDs and thesauruses. The resources contain a whole range of different types of explicit linguistic information presented in different formats and at various levels of granularity. Also, much information is left implicit in the description, e.g. the definition of lexical entries generally contains genus, encyclopaedic and usage information. The majority of resources used by NLP researchers were not intended for computational uses. For instance, MRDs are a by-product of the dictionary publishing industry, and WordNet was an experiment in modelling the mental lexicon. In particular, WordNet has become a valuable resource in the human language technology and artificial intelligence. Due to its vast coverage of English words, WordNet provides with general lexico-semantic information on which open-domain text processing is based. Furthermore, the development of WordNets in several other languages extends this capability to trans-lingual applications, enabling text mining across languages. For example, in Europe, WordNet has been used as the starting point for the development of a multilingual database for several European languages (the EuroWordNet project). Other resources such as the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and Roget's Thesaurus have also been used for various NLP tasks. The topic of this workshop is the exploitation of existing resources for particular computational tasks such as Word Sense Disambiguation, Generation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering and Summarization. We invite paper submissions that include but are not limited to the following topics: - Resource usage in NLP and AI - Resource extension in order to reflect the lexical coverage within a particular domain; - Resource augmentation by e.g. adding extra word senses, enriching the information associated with the existing entries. For instance, recently, several extensions of the WordNet lexical database have been initiated, in the United States and abroad, with the goal of providing the NLP community with additional knowledge that models pragmatic information not always present in the texts but required by document processing; - Improvement of the consistency or quality of resources by e.g. homogenizing lexical descriptions, making implicit lexical knowledge explicit and clustering word senses; - Merging resources, i.e. combining the information in more than one resource e.g. by producing a mapping between their senses. For instance, WordNet has been incorporated in several other linguistic and general knowledge bases (e.g. FrameNet and CYC); - Corpus-based acquisition of knowledge; - Mining common sense knowledge from resources; - Multilingual WordNets and applications; Paper submission Submissions must use the NAACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (6 pages or less). NAACL style file NAACL bibliography style file Latex sample file Microsoft Word Template file Submission procedure Electronic submission only. For U.S. papers please send the pdf or postscript file of your paper to: moldovan at seas.smu.edu. Please submit papers from other countries to w.peters at dcs.shef.ac.uk. Because review is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. A separate identification page must be sent by email including title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. Please address any questions to moldovan at seas.smu.edu or w.peters at dcs.shef.ac.uk Important dates Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2001 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2001 Camera ready due: March 25, 2001 Workshop date: June 3 and 4, 2001 Organizers Sanda Harabagiu, SMU, sanda at seas.smu.edu Dan Moldovan, SMU, moldovan at seas.smu.edu Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, wim at dcs.shef.ac.uk Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield, marks at dcs.shef.ac.uk Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk Programme Committee Roberto Basili (Universita di Roma Tor Vergata) Martin Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY) Christianen Fellbaum (Princeton University) Ken Haase (MIT) Sanda Harabagiu (SMU) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Robert Krovetz, NEC Claudia Leacock (ETS) Steven Maiorano (AAT) Rada Mihalcea (SMU) Dan Moldovan (SMU) Simonetta Montemagni (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania) Maria Tereza Pazienza (Universita di Roma Tor Vergata) Wim Peters (University of Sheffield) German Rigau (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield) Randee Tengi (Princeton University) Paola Velardi (University of Roma "La Sapienza") Ellen Voorhees (NIST) Piek Vossen (Sail Labs) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Workshop URL: http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/mwnw/ ______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL'01 Automatic Summarization Workshop--DEADLINE EXTENSION Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001 (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with NAACL2001) Sunday, June 3, 2001 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA sponsored by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) MITRE Corporation New submission deadline: February 23, 2001 Organizing Committee: Jade Goldstein Carnegie Mellon University jade+ at cs.cmu.edu Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl at isi.edu Program Committee: Breck Baldwin Baldwin Language Tech Hsin-Hsi Chen National Taiwan University Udo Hahn Universitaet Freiburg Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute Hongyan Jing Columbia University Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute Inderjeet Mani MITRE Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology Marie-Francine Moens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Vibhu Mittal Google Research Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam National University Akitoshi Okumura NEC Chris Paice Lancaster University Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge Tomek Strzalkowski State University of New York, Albany Simone Teufel Columbia University Workshop Website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-naacl2001 (for the latest update) I. OVERVIEW II. CALL FOR PAPERS III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION I. OVERVIEW The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL, ANLP/NAACL, ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field. Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL in 97, the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98, and ANLP/NAACL in 2000. All of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before. NAACL'2001 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem. II. CALL FOR PAPERS The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers addressing (but not limited to): Summarization Methods: use of linguistic representations, statistical models, NL generation for summarization, production of abstracts and extracts, multi-document summarization, narrative techniques in summarization, multilingual summarization, text compaction, multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio), use of information extraction, studies and modeling of human summarizers, improving summary coherence, concept fusion, use of thesauri and ontologies, trainable summarizers, applications of machine learning, knowledge-rich methods. Summarization Resources: development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers, annotation standards, shared summarization tools, document segmentation, topic detection, and clustering related to summarization. Evaluation Methods: intrinsic and extrinsic measures, on-line and off-line evaluations, standards for evaluation, task-based evaluation scenarios, user studies, inter-judge agreement. Workshop Themes: 1. Summarization Applications 2. Multidocument Summarization 3. Multilingual Text Summarization 4. Evaluation and Text/Training Corpora 5. Generation for Summarization 6. Topic Identification for Summarization 7. Integration with Web and IR Access III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). SUBMISSION QUESTIONS Please send submission questions to cyl at isi.edu SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word form of your submission to: cyl at isi.edu. The Subject line should be "NAACL2001 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line: "NAACL2001 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. DEADLINES (Tentative) Paper submission deadline: Feburary 23, 2001 Notification of acceptance for papers: March 23, 2001 Camera ready papers due: April 6, 2001 Workshop date: June 3, 2001 ______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 Adaptation in Dialogue Systems Workshop * Note deadline extension! * NAACL 2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems Webpage: www.cs.utah.edu/~cindi/AdaptDial.html Overview The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers investigating the application of learning and adaptation to dialogue systems, both speech and text based. Methods for learning and adaptation show promise for enhancing the robustness, flexibility, and overall accuracy of dialogue systems. While researchers in many parts of computational linguistics who use these methods have begun to form communities, the burgeoning set of activities within dialogue has remained relatively disparate. We are interested in adaptation that includes learning procedures as well as decision making methods aimed at dynamically reconfiguring dialogue behavior based on the context. We would also like to explore techniques that allow a dialogue system to learn with experience or from data sets gathered from empirical studies. Researchers looking at methods to automatically improve different modules of dialogue systems, or the system as a whole, have not had many opportunities to come together to share their work. We thus welcome submissions from researchers supplementing the traditional development of dialogue systems with techniques from machine learning, statistical NLP, and decision theory. Call For Papers We solicit papers from a number of research areas, including: - Use of machine learning techniques at all levels of dialogue, from speech recognition to generation; from dialogue strategy to user modeling - Adapting to the user as a dialogue progresses - Dialogue as decision making under uncertainty - User and user group modeling - Use of corpora in developing components of dialogue systems, including issues in annotation - Evaluation of adaptive dialogue systems - Comparison of different techniques in applying adaptive techniques to dialogue We also hope to include a session for the demonstration of working systems, as time permits. The demonstration sessions will be open to anyone who wishes to bring their adaptive conversational systems for demonstration to other members of the workshop. Presenters are asked to submit a paper that is specifically directed at a demonstration of their current systems. Important Dates (2001): Paper submission deadline: Feb 19 Notification of acceptance for papers: Mar 16 Camera ready papers due: Mar 30 Workshop date: Jun 4 Paper Submission Electronic submission strongly preferred. We will be setting up an email alias in the next several days for paper submission. Please check with the web page for developments. Submissions must use the NAACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (6 pages or less). The templates are available at the workshop web site. Organizers Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research horvitz at microsoft.com Tim Paek Microsoft Research timpaek at microsoft.com Cindi Thompson University of Utah cindi at cs.utah.edu Program Committee Jennifer Chu-Carroll Bell Labs Peter Heeman Oregon Graduate Institute Diane Litman AT & T Labs Candace Sidner MERL Marilyn Walker AT & T Labs ______________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 Machine Translation Evaluation Workshop CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Machine Translation Evaluation in conjunction with NAACL-2001 WORKSHOP ON MT EVALUATION: Hands-On Evaluation 3 June, 2001 Pittsburgh, PA United States MOTIVATION Evaluation of language tools, particularly tools that generate language, remains an interesting and general problem. Machine Translation (MT) is a prime example. Approaches to evaluating MT are even more plentiful than approaches to MT itself; the number of evaluations and range of variants is confusing to anyone considering an evaluation. In an effort to systematize MT evaluation, the NSF-funded ISLE project has created a taxonomy of evaluation-related features and measures. Unfortunately, however, many prior evaluations do not include an adequate specification of important aspects such as evaluation process complexity, cost, variance of score, etc. In an effort to drive MT evaluation to the next level, this workshop will focus on exercising with methods of acquiring such information for several important MT evaluation measures. The workshop thus embodies the challenge of Hands-On Evaluation, within the context of the framework being developed by the ISLE MT Evaluation effort. The workshop follows a workshop on MT Evaluation held at the AMTA Conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in October 2000, and a subsequent workshop being planned for April 2001 in Geneva. STRUCTURE OF THE WORKSHOP The first part of the workshop will introduce the ISLE MT Evaluation effort, funded by NSF and the EU, to create a general framework of characteristics in terms of which MT evaluations, past and future, can be described and classified. The framework, whose antecedents are the JEIDA and EAGLES reports, consists of taxonomies of increasingly specific features, with associated measures and pointers to systems. The discussion will review the current state of the classification effort as well as review the MT evaluation history from which it was drawn. The second, principal, part of the workshop will focus on real-world evaluation. In an effort to facilitate common ground for discussion, participants will be given specific evaluation exercises, defined by the taxonomy and recent MT evaluation trends. In addition, they will be given a set of texts generated by MT systems and human reference translations. They will be asked, during the workshop, to perform given evaluation exercises with the given data. This common framework will give insights into the evaluation process and useful metrics for driving the development process. The results of the exercises will then be presented by the participants, synthesized into a uniform description of each evaluation, and added to the ISLE taxonomy, which has been made available on the web for future analysis in MT evaluation. The results of the workshop will also be incorporated into a publicly available resource and the workbook from the workshop will be able to be used by teachers of evaluation and MT. QUESTIONS AND ISSUES Since this is a hands-on workshop, participants will be asked to submit an intent to participate. At that time, they will be able to download the relevant data for review. During the workshop, they will be given a series of exercises and split into teams for working these exercises. The result of the workshop will be at least one paper which addresses the following threads of investigation within the framework: * What is the variance inherent in an evaluation measure? * How complex is it to employ a measure? * What task(s) is the evaluation measure suited to? * What kinds of tools automate the evaluation process? * What kind of metrics are useful for users versus system developers? * How can we use the evaluation process to speed up or improve the MT development process? * What kind of impacts does real-world data have? * How can we evaluate MT when MT is a small part of the data flow? * How independent is MT of the subsequent processing? That is, cleaning up the data improves performance, but does it improve it enough? How do we quantify that? TO REGISTER Since this is a hands-on workshop, no papers are being solicited. Participants will be expected to take part in the exercises and report their conclusions. They will additionally be encouraged to contribute to a summary paper of the workshop proceedings. The data will be sent to participants in advance of the workshop, with instructions on what to do and what to prepare. The amount of work required should not exceed 4 hours (much less than paper preparation). To register an intent to participate, please send a paragraph outlining your interest in MT, experience with MT evaluation, knowledge of either Spanish or Arabic, and the following contact information to Flo Reeder (contact info below): * name * address * e-mail address * knowledge of other foreign languages * translation domain specialization Participants will need to register for the workshop as part of their NAACL registration. IMPORTANT DATES Intent to Participate: April 16, 2001 Release of Data: April 23, 2001 Workshop date: June 3, 2001 CONTACT POINTS Florence Reeder MITRE Corporation 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd. McLean, VA 22102-3481 TEL: 703-883-7156 FAX: 703-883-1379 EMAIL: freeder at mitre.org Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 TEL: 310-448-8731 FAX: 310-823-6714 EMAIL: hovy at isi.edu Workshop URL: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt-eval-naacl.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 31 18:03:25 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:03:25 +0100 Subject: Appel: Recital-2001 Message-ID: From: "friburger" *********************************************************************** * * Recital 2001 * -------------------- * Rencontre des etudiants chercheurs en informatique * pour le traitement automatique * des langues * =20 * =20 * Universite de Tours =20 * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 =20 * =20 * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ =20 * mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.fr =20 ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** Recital 2001 : DEUXIEME APPEL A COMMUNICATION ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Recital 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 en = parallele avec la conference TALN 2001 (appel a communications a = paraitre separement). La conference Recital 2001 comprendra des communications scientifiques, = des conferenciers invites, des seances de demonstration et posters, = ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. Ces deux conferences sont organisees sous l'egide de l'ATALA = (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues).=20 ********** THEMES ********** Les communications pourront porter sur tous les themes habituels du = TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative:=20 Analyse et comprehension de textes=20 Generation d'enonces en langues naturelles=20 Traduction automatique=20 Production de resumes=20 Dialogue homme-machine=20 Recital 2001 souhaite egalement accueillir des travaux de domaines = proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, dans la mesure ou = l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : Ressources linguistiques (lexiques, dictionnaires electroniques, = corpus, etc.)=20 Semantique lexicale (polysemie, categorisation, etc.)=20 Semantique du temps et de l'espace (representation et raisonnement)=20 Logique (argumentation, modelisation des intentions et des croyances, = etc.)=20 Architectures dediees au TAL (syst=E8mes multi-agents, reseaux = neuromimetiques)=20 Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de = connaissances (a partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine)=20 Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole=20 =20 ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril 2001 Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ********** Les articles soumis seront rediges en francais (ou en anglais par les = non-francophones). Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, = figures, exemples et references compris. Les soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 = fevrier 2001, sous forme electronique, a = mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.fr. En cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission = "papier" pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre = envoyes a l'adresse suivante: Recital 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS ********** Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission par courrier electronique = sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps ou pdf au format A4 et = non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la soumission et les = noms des auteurs.=20 Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont disponibles sur le site de = la conference: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** CRITERES DE SELECTION ********** Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, = n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications anterieures. Les soumissions = seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. Seront = considerees en particulier : l'importance et l'originalite de la contribution,=20 la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,=20 la discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux = autres travaux du domaine,=20 la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche = internationale,=20 l'organisation et la clarte de la presentation,=20 l'adequation aux themes de la conference.=20 =20 Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la = conference. ********** POSTERS ********** Une ou deux seances specifiques seront prevues pour des posters (85 x = 120 cm). Les propositions de poster suivent les memes regles que les soumissions = de communication mais ne devront pas depasser 4 pages.=20 ********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES ********** Les presentations orales dureront 15 minutes et seront suivies de 5 = minutes de questions. Il sera possible d'utiliser un retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur.=20 ********** ACTES ********** Les actes des conferences seront distribues a tous les participants. **************************************************************** English version=20 **************************************************************** ********** Recital 2001 : SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ************ ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE : FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Recital 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - 5 July 2001, organized by the LI = (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and = Information Technologies).=20 The official conference languages are French and English.=20 The young researcher conference Recital 2001 will be held jointly with = the conference TALN 2001.=20 TALN 2001 is organized in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le = Traitement Automatique des LAngues). ********** TOPICS ********** Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): Analysis and comprehension of texts Text generation in natural languages Automatic translation Production of summaries Human Computer Interaction Recital 2001 also invites contributions in the following fields too: Linguistic resources (lexics, electronic dictionaries, corpora, etc.) Lexical Semantics (categorisation, etc.) Time and space Semantics (representation and reasoning) Logic (argumentation, modelisation of intention, etc.)=20 NLP Dedicated architectures (multi-agents systems, neuromimetic = networks) =20 Acquisition and automatic learning of resources or knowledge (from = corpora, or human/machine interaction) Relations between NLP and talk recognition=20 =20 ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Notification to authors: 4/27/2001 Final version due (camera-ready): 5/11/2001 Conference : 7/2-5/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced, = including figures, examples and references. Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before = 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours. If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard copies of the paper = must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, at the following = address: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS ********** Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail(ps = or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing the = following information: submission title and author's names. The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference website: = http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. = Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain. = Decisions will be based on the following criteria : Importance and originality of the paper Accuracy of the scientific and technical content Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work Layout and clarity of the paper Relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. ********** POSTERS ********** One or two specific sessions for the posters (85 x 120 cm) will be = scheduled in the conference. The poster submissions accord to the same rules of paper submission, BUT = they should not exceed 4 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Papers should be of 15 minutes duration. 5 minutes will be left for = questions. 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 =20 Architectures dediees au TAL (syst=E8mes multi-agents, reseaux = neuromimetiques)=20
  Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de=20 connaissances (a partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine)=20
  Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole=20
 
********** CALENDRIER **********
 
----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : = VENDREDI 23=20 FEVRIER 2001 <----
Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril=20 2001
Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai = 2001
Conference :=20 du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001
 
********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION=20 **********
 
Les articles soumis seront rediges en = francais (ou=20 en anglais par les non-francophones).
Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 = pages en=20 Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples et references = compris.
Les=20 soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 = fevrier 2001,=20 sous forme electronique, a mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.f= r.
En=20 cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission = "papier"=20 pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre envoyes = a=20 l'adresse suivante:
  Recital 2001
  LI (Laboratoire=20 d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours)
  E3i, 64, avenue Jean=20 Portalis
  37200 Tours
  France
 
********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS=20 **********
 
Les auteurs devront envoyer leur = soumission par=20 courrier electronique sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps = ou pdf au=20 format A4 et non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la = soumission et=20 les noms des auteurs.
Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont=20 disponibles sur le site de la conference: http://www.li.univ= -tours.fr/taln-recital-2001.
 
********** CRITERES DE SELECTION=20 **********
 
Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre = des travaux de=20 recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications = anterieures. Les=20 soumissions seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. = Seront=20 considerees en particulier :
l'importance et l'originalite de la=20 contribution,
la correction du contenu scientifique et technique, =
la=20 discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres = travaux=20 du domaine,
la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la = recherche=20 internationale,
l'organisation et la clarte de la presentation,=20
l'adequation aux themes de la conference.
 
Les articles = selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la = conference.
 
********** POSTERS = **********
 
Une ou deux seances specifiques seront = prevues pour=20 des posters (85 x 120 cm).
Les propositions de poster suivent les = memes=20 regles que les soumissions de communication mais ne devront pas depasser = 4=20 pages.
 
********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES=20 **********
 
Les presentations orales dureront 15 = minutes et=20 seront suivies de 5 minutes de questions.
Il sera possible d'utiliser = un=20 retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur.
 
********** ACTES = **********
 
Les actes des conferences seront = distribues a tous=20 les participants.
 
****************************************************************=
        =20 English version=20
****************************************************************
*= *********=20 Recital 2001  : SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS  = ************
 
---->      = SUBMISSION=20 DEADLINE : FRIDAY, 2/23/2001       =20 <----
 
Recital 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - = 5 July=20 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and = LTI=20 (Language and Information Technologies).
 
The official conference languages are = French and=20 English.
 
The young researcher conference Recital = 2001 will=20 be held jointly with the conference TALN 2001.
TALN 2001 is = organized in=20 collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des = LAngues).
 
********** TOPICS **********
Papers = are invited=20 in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to):
  Analysis = and=20 comprehension of texts
  Text generation in natural = languages
 =20 Automatic translation
  Production of summaries
  Human = Computer=20 Interaction
 
Recital 2001 also invites contributions = in the=20 following fields too:
  Linguistic resources (lexics, electronic = dictionaries, corpora, etc.)
  Lexical Semantics  = (categorisation,=20 etc.)
  Time and space Semantics (representation and=20 reasoning)
  Logic (argumentation, modelisation of intention, = etc.)=20
  NLP Dedicated architectures (multi-agents systems, = neuromimetic=20 networks)      
  Acquisition and = automatic learning of resources or knowledge (from corpora, or = human/machine=20 interaction)
  Relations between NLP and talk recognition=20
 
********** CALENDAR **********
 
----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, = 2/23/2001=20 <----
Notification to authors: 4/27/2001
Final version due=20 (camera-ready): 5/11/2001
Conference : 7/2-5/2001
 
********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE=20 **********
 
The maximum length for papers is 10 = pages, in Times=20 12, single spaced, including figures, examples and = references.
 
Electronic submissions must reach the = organizing=20 committee before 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.=
 
If electronic submission is not = possible, 3 hard=20 copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee before = 2/23/2001, at the=20 following address:
  TALN 2001
  LI (Laboratoire = d'Informatique=20 de l'Universite de Tours)
  E3i, 64, avenue Jean = Portalis
 =20 37200 Tours
  France
 
********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS=20 **********
 
Authors should send their submission as = a file=20 attached to an e-mail(ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter = format),=20 containing the following information: submission title and author's=20 names.
The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference = website:=20 http://www.li.univ= -tours.fr/taln-recital-2001.
 
********** SELECTION CRITERIA=20 **********
 
Authors are invited to submit original, = previously=20 unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists = of the=20 domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria = :
Importance and=20 originality of the paper
Accuracy of the scientific and technical=20 content
Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant = work
Layout=20 and clarity of the paper
Relevance to the topics of the=20 conference
 
Accepted papers will be published in = the=20 proceedings of the conference.
 
********** POSTERS = **********
 
One or two specific sessions for the = posters (85 x=20 120 cm) will be scheduled in the conference.
The poster submissions = accord to=20 the same rules of paper submission, BUT they should not exceed 4=20 pages.
 
********** TALKS = **********
 
Papers should be of 15 minutes = duration. 5 minutes=20 will be left for questions.
It will be possible to use a overhead = projector=20 or a video-projector.
 

********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME=20 **********
**********  PROGRAM COMMITTEE  = **********
 
Pascal Amsili, TALaNa
Pierre Beust, = GREYC
Philippe Blache, LPL
Beatrice Bouchou, LI = (president)
Jean=20 Caelen, CLIPS
Cecile Fabre, ERSS
Cedric Fairon, NYU, Department of = Linguistics
Bertrand Gaiffe, LORIA
Damien Genthial, = CLIPS
Gabriel=20 Illouz, LIMSI
Denis Maurel, LI
Philippe Muller, IRIT
Anne = Nicolle,=20 GREYC
Martin Rajman, EPFL
Laurent Romary, LORIA
Jose Rouillard, = CLIPS
Azim Roussanaly, LORIA
Jacques Siroux, IRISA = LLI/CORDIAL
Jacques=20 Vergne, GREYC
Jean Veronis, LPL
Michael Zock, LIMSI
 

********** COMITE D'ORGANISATION=20 **********
********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE  = **********
 
Claire Agafonov, LTI
Beatrice = Bouchou, LI=20 (president)
Alain Cambourian, LTI
Alain Delplanque, = LTI
Nathalie=20 Friburger, LI (president)
Nathalie Garric, LTI
Paul Gaudin, = LTI
Manuel=20 Gonzales de Avila, Ciremia
Thierry Grass, LTI
Denis Maurel, LI=20
Nathalie Rossi, LTI
Mohamed Slimane, LI
Nicole Vincent,=20 LI
 
 
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It started as a workshop held in Nancy (France), in 1995. Due to its success, it was turned, the next year, into a international conference. LACL'96 and '97 have both been held in Nancy (France). LACL'98 has been held in Grenoble (France). Selected papers from LACL'95 appear in a special issue of Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7(4), 1998. The proceedings of LACL'96 and 97 appear as volumes 1328 and 1582 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The proceedings of LACL'98 are in press with the same series. ----------------------------- SCOPE ----------------------------- Typical topics include, but are not limited to: Categorial grammars, Categorial type logics, Compositionality, Discourse representation theory, Dynamics, Feature Logics, Formal language theory, Game-theoretical semantics, Grammatical inference, Learning theory, Linear logical frameworks, Minimalism, Modal logics, Montague semantics, Parsing as deduction, Proof- theoretic approaches, Situation semantics and situation theory, Type-theoretic approaches. ----------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------- Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 15 standard A4 or US quarto pages. The paper should allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the work. In particular, references and comparisons with related work should be included. Submission of material already published or submitted to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Electronic submission is highly recommended. A postscript version of the paper should be sent as an e-mail to: morrill at lsi.upc.es to arrive by January 29, 2001. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file In addition, a separate e-mail containing the title of the paper, authors' names and addresses, and a short abstract in plain ASCII format should be sent to the same e-mail address. If electronic submission is not possible, authors may submit four hard copies of the paper by post to the following address: LACL 2001 (Attention: G. Morrill) UPC, Departament de LSI Campus Nord - Modul C6 Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 E-08034 Barcelona - Espanya ------------------------------ URL ----------------------------- http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------- Deadline for Submissions: January 29, 2001 Notification to Authors: March 26, 2001 Final Versions due: April 20, 2001 ---------------------- CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ------------------ The accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in AI. This will be available at the time of the conference. ------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- W. Buszkowski (Poznan) R. Crouch, (Palo Alto) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) M. Dymetman (Grenoble) C. Gardent (Saarbrucken) P. de Groote (Nancy), co-chair M. Kanazawa (Tokyo) G. Morrill (Barcelona), co-chair R. Muskens (Tilburg) F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh) B. Rounds, (Ann Arbor) E. Stabler (Los Angeles) ----------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------- B. Daille (Nantes) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) A. Foret (Rennes) E. Lebret (Rennes) C. Piliere (Nancy), publicity chair C. Retore (Rennes), chair P. Sebillot (Rennes) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 2 10:08:05 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:08:05 +0100 Subject: Projet: Text Summarization/Document Understanding Conference Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen Preliminary Call for Participation Text Summarization and Document Understanding Conference Over the last five years, we have witnessed a tremendous increase in interest in summarization research from both the academia and the industry. In spite of this, we do not know yet what summarization techniques are most adequate, what systems perform the best, and what evaluation techniques are most appropriate for assessing the quality of a summary. To further progress in the field and enable researchers participate in large-scale experiments, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a new evaluation series in the area of text summarization, tentatively called the Document Understanding Conference (DUC). The basic design for the evaluation follows ideas in a recent summarization road map that was created by a committee of researchers in summarization, headed by Daniel Marcu. Plans call for the creation of reference data (documents and summaries) for training and testing. The training data will be distributed in March of 2001, test data distributed in June, and results due for evaluation the first of August 2001. A workshop will be held in September to discuss these results and to make further plans. For further details on the evaluation or on the road map, see http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/. To be added to a mailing list for further announcements, please contact donna.harman at nist.gov. To contribute to the summarization roadmap, please contact marcu at isi.edu. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 2 10:08:10 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:08:10 +0100 Subject: Conf: PACLIC 15 Message-ID: From: Olivia Kwong *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** THE 15TH PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION (PACLIC 15) 1-3 February 2001 City University of Hong Kong The Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, is hosting the 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 15) at the City University of Hong Kong on 1-3 February 2001, when the city would be blessed by the joys of the Lunar New Year. The Conference is an annual meeting of scholars in theoretical and computational linguistics from the Pacific Asia region. Keynote Speech: "Designing a lexical database with deep semantics" (TBC) Prof. Charles J. Fillmore International Computer Science Institute University of California, Berkeley Registration Fees: Early registration (on or before 22 December 2000): Regular HK$800 Student HK$400 Late or onsite registration (after 22 December 2000): Regular HK$1000 Student HK$500 All registrations include admission to all conference sessions, a hard copy of the Conference Proceedings, conference kit, refreshments, and lunches. Payments should be made by Visa or MasterCard. Simply fill out your card information (including card number, name on card, and expiry date) on the registration form when you register for the conference. The registration form can be downloaded from http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/paclic15. Completed forms should be returned to the PACLIC 15 organizers by (1) FAX to (852) 27889828, OR (2) POST to PACLIC 15, Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Accommodation: We have obtained discounted rates from some hotels for different budgets within convenient distance to the conference site for PACLIC 15 participants (starting from HK$530 per night for single/double). Reservations may be made via CityU by 22 December 2000 on a first-come-first-serve basis. Detailed information and the hotel reservation form are posted on our homepage (http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/paclic15). For enquiries, please contact: PACLIC 15 Language Information Sciences Research Centre City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (852) 27889288 Fax: (852) 27889828 E-mail: paclic.15 at cityu.edu.hk URL: http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/paclic15 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 2 10:08:12 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:08:12 +0100 Subject: Job: 1 Offer Message-ID: 1/ From: Kelly Sutherland Subject: Spoken Language Processing Senior/Principal Scientist: Various at Vision Recruitment, London UK Rank of Job: Various Areas Required: Spoken Language Processing Senior/Principal Scientist Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: Vision Recruitment Department: State or Province: London Country: UK Final Date of Application: 31 Jan 2001 Contact: Kelly Sutherland KellyS at visionrecruitment.com Address for Applications: Suite 45, Surbiton Business Centre, 46 Victoria Rd Surbiton Surrey KT6 4JL UK Spoken Language Processing Senior/Principal Scientist A scientist is sought with expertise in natural language processing or computational linguistics. You will focus on new parsing strategies to model ill formed grammatical utterances of spoken language and you will also work on better modeling techniques for mixed initiative. You will also focus on future direction for the company on semantic processing and either initiate such research or identify third party vendors to incorporate and tune into our product structure. For this position, a Ph.D. in linguistics or related area is sought. Your dissertation should be on Natural Language Processing. For the senior positions, a publication track record of 10+ years is required. Academic experience, faculty positions or industry track record is appropriate. You should have a broad knowledge of the literature in natural language processing and knowledge of the issues and problems related to spoken language is a plus. A highly competitive salary with stock options will be provided to qualified candidates. This position reports to the Chief Scientist of Spoken Language Systems Engineering. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 10 16:38:00 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:38:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN'01 Message-ID: From: Maurel Denis ********************************************************************** * * TALN 2001 * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * Universite de Tours * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ * mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL A COMMUNICATION ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- TALN 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001, organise par le LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universit? de Tours) et l'axe LTI (Langues et Technologies de l'information). La conference TALN 2001 comprendra des communications scientifiques, des conferenciers invites, des seances de demonstration et posters, ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. TALN 2001 est organisee sous l'egide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement a la conference pour jeunes chercheurs RECITAL 2001 (appel a communications a paraitre separement). ********** THEMES ********** Les communications pourront porter sur tous les themes habituels du TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative: lexique morphologie syntaxe semantique pragmatique discours analyse generation resume dialogue traduction automatique approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques TALN 2001 souhaite egalement accueillir des travaux de domaines proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, dans la mesure ou l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : traitement de la parole (prosodie, linguistique, pragmatique) traitement de l'ecrit aspects cognitifs terminologie acquisition de connaissances a partir de textes extraction d'information recherche documentaire linguistique de corpus linguistique mathematique utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modelisation linguistique enseignement assiste, enseignement des langues. Sont aussi attendus des travaux sur des applications du TALN, implementees et evaluees, faisant ressortir leurs aspects scientifiques et les enseignements tires. Des demonstrations de systemes pourront etre proposees, independamment ou en complement d'articles scientifiques. L'emploi du temps de la conference comprendra une session pour ces demonstrations. ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril 2001 Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ********** Les articles soumis seront rediges en francais (ou en anglais par les non-francophones). Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples et references compris. Les soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 fevrier 2001, sous forme electronique, a mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr. En cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission "papier" pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre envoyes a l'adresse suivante: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS ********** Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission par courrier electronique sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps ou pdf au format A4 et non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la soumission et les noms des auteurs. Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont disponibles sur le site de la conference: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** CRITERES DE SELECTION ********** Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications anterieures. Les soumissions seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. Seront considerees en particulier : L'importance et l'originalite de la contribution, La correction du contenu scientifique et technique, La discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine, La situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale, L'organisation et la clarte de la presentation, L'adequation aux themes de la conference. Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la conference. ********** DEMONSTRATIONS ET POSTERS ********** Une ou deux seances specifiques seront prevues pour des demonstrations (presentations logicielles) et des posters (85 x 120 cm). Les propositions de demonstration ou de poster suivent les memes regles que les soumissions de communication mais ne devront pas depasser 4 pages. ********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES ********** Les presentations orales dureront 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de questions. Il sera possible d'utiliser un retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur. ********** ACTES ********** Les actes de la conference seront distribues a tous les participants. Le Comite de redaction de la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.) s?lectionnera deux articles pour publication. ********************************************************************** * * ENGLISH VERSION * ********************************************************************** ********** TALN 2001 : 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- TALN 2001 will be held at Tours on July, 2 - 5 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and Information Technologies). The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are French and English. TALN 2001 is organized in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2001 (a separate call for papers will follow). ********** TOPICS ********** Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): lexicon morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse parsing generation abstraction/summarisation dialogue translation logical, symbolical and statistical approaches TALN 2001 also invites contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasize their NLP dimension : speech processing text processing cognition terminology knowledge acquisition information retrieval documentary research corpus-based linguistics mathematical linguistics management and acquisition of linguistic resources computer assisted learning NLP tools for linguistic modelization TALN 2001 also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasizing the scientific aspects and conclusions drawn. Software demonstrations can be proposed, either independently or in connection with a paper proposal. Specific sessions for the demos will be scheduled in the conference. ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Notification to authors: 4/27/2001 Final version due (camera-ready): 5/11/2001 Conference : 7/2-5/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced, including figures, examples and references. Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr. If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, at the following address: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS ********** Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail(ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing the following informations: submission title and author's names. The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference web site: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ . ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria : Importance and originality of the paper Accuracy of the scientific and technical content Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work Layout and clarity of the paper Relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. ********** DEMOS AND POSTERS ********** One or two specific sessions for the demos and the posters (85 x 120 cm) will be scheduled in the conference. The demo or poster submissions accord to the same rules of paper submission, BUT they should not exceed 4 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. 10 minutes will be left for questions. It will be possible to use a overhead projector or a video-projector. ********** PROCEEDINGS ********** The conference proceedings will be given to all participants. The editorial staff of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.) will select two papers for publication. ********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME ********** ********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********** (le comite de programme sera entoure d'un large comite de lecture) (the program committee will be supervised by a broad reviewing committee) Pascal Amsili, TALaNa Frederic Bechet, LIA Philippe Blache, LPL Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO Beatrice Daille, IRIN Laurence Danlos, LORIA/TALaNa Claire Gardent, LORIA Eric Laporte, CERIL Denis Maurel, LI (president) Piet Mertens, CCL Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA Martin Rajman, EPFL Owen Rambow, ATT Labs-Research Jacques Siroux, IRISA LLI/CORDIAL Jean Veronis, LPL Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM ********** COMITE D'ORGANISATION ********** ********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********** Claire Agafonov, LTI Beatrice Bouchou, LI Alain Cambourian, LTI Alain Delplanque, LTI Nathalie Friburger, LI Nathalie Garric, LTI Paul Gaudin, LTI Manuel Gonzales de Avila, Ciremia Thierry Grass, LTI Denis Maurel, LI (president) Nathalie Rossi, LTI Mohamed Slimane, LI Nicole Vincent, LI ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 10 16:38:07 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:38:07 +0100 Subject: Appel: SIGIR 2000 Message-ID: From: Josiane MOTHE ******** CALL FOR PAPERS ******** SIGIR 2001 Twenty-Fourth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval September 9 - 13, 2001 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. For details see: http://www.sigir2001.org SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit original research contributions, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems. All contributions must be submitted electronically. See the Conference web site for further details: http://www.sigir2001.org. AREAS and AREA COORDINATORS SIGIR 2001 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, but the major areas of interest are listed below. For each general area, two area coordinators will guide the reviewing process. * Formal Models, Language Models, Search Strategies, Fusion/Combination - Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, U.K. - John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University * Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text Categorization - William Cohen, WhizBang! Labs - Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany * Cross-Lingual Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation for IR - Doug Oard, University of Maryland - David Hull, Rank Xerox Research Center, France * Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Agents - James Allan, University of Massachusetts - Michael Pazzani, UC, Irvine * Web IR, Citation and Link Analysis, XML and Metadata, Digital Libraries - David Hawking, Australian National University - Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic University * Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval - Mark Maybury, MITRE - Raghavan Manmatha, University of Massachusetts * Text Representation and Indexing, Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition, Natural Language Processing for IR - Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea - Claire Cardie, Cornell University * Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Distributed Search - Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon Univ. - Alistair Moffat, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia * Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models - Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley - Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University * Summarization, Question Answering - Amit Singhal, AT&T Labs - John Tait, University of Sunderland, U.K. * Evaluation, Building Test Collections, User Studies, Experimental Design and Metrics - Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research - Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES January 29: Paper submissions due February 28: Proposals for tutorials, workshops and posters due April 20: Notification of acceptance for all submissions May 25: Final camera-ready copy due ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit research papers, not exceeding 5000 words representing original, previously unpublished work, on or before January 29, 2001. Papers must be submitted electronically, via the submission web page. For requirements and details on submission of posters and on proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems, please see the Conference web site at http://www.sigir2001.org. MENTORING PROGRAM As part of our efforts to broaden participation, SIGIR 2001 will feature a mentoring program to assist authors with their submissions to the conference. Authors who have not previously had a full length paper accepted to SIGIR, and who are unsure about how to best prepare a paper for the SIGIR audience, will be able to request feedback on their work from an experienced SIGIR author in advance of the submission deadline. For details on this program, visit the web site at http://www.sigir2001.org or contact the Mentoring Chair, David Lewis (ddlewis2 at worldnet.att.net) . CONFERENCE VENUE The conference venue will be the Radisson Hotel at 1500 Canal Street in New Orleans (http://www.radisson.com/neworleansla), just four blocks from the French Quarter. It is a New Orleans landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE * General Chair: Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State Univ., U.S.A., kraft at bit.csc.lsu.edu * Treasurer: Andrea Houston, Louisiana State Univ., U.S.A., ahoust2 at bit.csc.lsu.edu * Program Co-Chair - Americas: W. Bruce Croft, Univ. of Massachusetts, U.S.A., croft at cs.umass.edu * Program Co-Chair - Europe: David J. Harper, The Robert Gordon Univ., U.K., djh at scms.rgu.ac.uk * Program Co-Chair - Asia/Pacific Rim: Justin Zobel, RMIT University, Australia, jz at cs.rmit.edu.au * Posters Chair: Efthimis Efthimiadis, U. of Washington, U.S.A.,efthimis at u.washington.edu * Tutorials Chair: Raya Fidel, U. of Washington, U.S.A., fidelr at u.washington.edu * Demonstrations Co-Chairs: Evangelos Triantaphyllou, Louisiana State U., U.S.A., vangelis at imse.lsu.edu Padmini Srinivasan, U. of Iowa, U.S.A., padmini at uma.info-science.iowa.edu * Exhibits and Corporate Sponsors Chair: David Grossman, Illinois Inst. of Technology, U.S.A., dagr at duvel.ir.iit.edu * Workshops Chair: Susan Gauch, University of Kansas, U.S.A., sgauch at eecs.ukans.edu * Publicity Chair: Edie Rasmussen, Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., erasmus at mail.sis.pitt.edu * Local Arrangements Chair: Carol Barry, Louisiana State Univ., U.S.A., lsbary at unix1.sncc.lsu.edu * Information Architect: David Robins, Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., drobins at mail.sis.pitt.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Helena Ahonen-Myka, University of Helsinki, Finland Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy Peter Anick, AltaVista Javed Aslam, Dartmouth College Micheline Beaulieu, University of Sheffield, U.K. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile Peter Bailey, The Australian National University, Australia Krishna Bharat, Google Inc Gloria Bordogna, National Research Council (CNR), Italy Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Eric W. Brown, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow, U.K. Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada David Cohn, Burning Glass Technologies/CMU Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, U.K. Mark D Dunlop, University of Strathclyde, U.K. John P Eakins, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, U.K. David Eichmann, University of Iowa James C. French, University of Virginia Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology Jonathan Furner, University of California, Los Angeles Ayse Goker, Robert Gordon University, U.K. Alan Gous, Stanford University Luis Gravano, Columbia University Warren R. Greiff, The MITRE Corporation Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Monika R. Henzinger, Google, Inc. William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, Netherlands Adele Howe, Colorado State University Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of LIS, Denmark Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI-CNRS Gareth Jones, University of Exeter, U.K. Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Paul B. Kantor, Rutgers University Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden Marcin Kaszkiel, AT&T Labs-Research Genichiro Kikui, NTT Cyberspace Laboratories, Japan Shmuel Tomi Klein, Bar Ilan University, Israel Matthew Koll, America Online Kui-Lam Kwok, Queens College, CUNY Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary and Westfield College, U.K. Ray R. Larson, University of California, Berkeley Mun-Kew Leong, BIGontheNet.com, Singapore Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse University Yoelle S. Maarek, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill Massimo Melucci, University of Padova, Italy David R. H. Miller, BBN Technologies Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta Vibhu Mittal, Xerox PARC Josiane Mothe, IRIT Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France Charles Nicholas, UMBC Paul Over, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Andreas Paepcke, Stanford University Gabriella Pasi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Ari Pirkola, University of Tampere, Finland Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brasil Mehran Sahami, E.piphany, Inc. Airi Salminen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, U.K. Peter Schauble, Eurospider IT AG, Switzerland Hinrich Schuetze, GroupFire Inc Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Paraic Sheridan, MNIS-TextWise Labs Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, Finland Padmini Srinivasan, The University of Iowa Ulrich Thiel, GMD-IPSI, Germany Paul Thompson, West Group Andrew Turpin, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Dr. Howard R. Turtle, Chiliad Publishing Evelyne Tzoukermann, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken and Saarland University, Germany Charles L. Viles, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ellen M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia Michael Witbrock, Lycos Incorporated Ian H. Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand Jinxi Xu, BBN Technologies Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon University Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 10 16:38:11 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:38:11 +0100 Subject: Appel: FG/MOL Message-ID: From: larry moss *************************************************************** [apologies if you receive this more than once] FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FORMAL GRAMMAR/MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE August 10--12, 2001 Helsinki, Finland FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the joint meeting of two conferences: the sixth conferene on Formal Grammar and the seventh on the Mathematics of Language. The joint meeting will be held just prior to the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. AIMS and SCOPE FGMOL'01 provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar and mathematical aspects of language, especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, * formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; * model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; * constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; * foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. * mathematical properties of linguistic frameworks * theories and models of natural language processing and generation * parsing theory * statistical and quantitative models of language INVITED SPEAKERS will be announced with the circulation of the second call for papers in early February SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). A submission should consist of two parts: - an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title; - an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI. Abstracts can be sent to fgmol at cs.indiana.edu ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 1, 2001 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE May 15, 2001 PROCEEDINGS A full version of each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due June 30, 2001. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Anne Abeill'e (Paris) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) Gosse Bouma (Groningen) Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Thilo Goetz (IBM) David Johnson (IBM) Mark Johnson (Brown) Aravind Joshi (UPenn) Gerhard J"ager (Utrecht) Ruth Kempson (London) Alain Lecomte (LORIA) Uwe Moennich (T"ubingen) Glyn Morrill (U.P. Catalunya) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Owen Rambow (Cogentex) James Rogers (Earlham) Giorgio Satta (Padova) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) FURTHER INFORMATION Web site for ESSLLI XI: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/ Web site for FGMOL'01 :http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol7.html The organizers: Geert-Jan Kruijff gj at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Larry Moss lsm at cs.indiana.edu Dick Oehrle oehrle at linc.cis.upenn.edu %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%[LaTeX2E Source File]%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tabularx} \setlength{\textwidth}{7in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-.5in} \setlength{\topmargin}{-36pt} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{center} {\em Please Post}\\[.1cm] {\large{\bf Formal Grammar / Mathematics of Language Conference --- FGMOL'01\\ CALL FOR PAPERS}}\\ {August 8--10, 2001}\qquad Helsinki\\ \end{center} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{@{}p{.27\textwidth}|p{.70\textwidth}@{}} %\small\ixpt\setlength{\baselineskip}{9pt} \footnotesize \begin{flushleft} {\bf Programme Committee} \end{flushleft} \begin{tabular}{l@{}} Anne Abeill\'{e} (Paris) \\ Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) \\ Gosse Bouma (Groningen) \\ Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) \\ Nissim Francez (Haifa)\\ Thilo Goetz (IBM)\\ David Johnson (IBM) \\ Mark Johnson (Brown)\\ Aravind Joshi (UPenn)\\ Gerhard J\"{a}ger (Utrecht)\\ Ruth Kempson (London)\\ Alain Lecomte (LORIA)\\ Uwe M\"{o}nnich (T\"{u}bingen)\\ Glyn Morrill (U.P. Catalunya) \\ Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) \\ Owen Rambow (Cogentex)\\ James Rogers (Earlham) \\ Giorgio Satta (Padova) \\ Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)\\ [12pt] {\bf Organizing Committee}\\ Geert-Jan Kruijff (Prague)\\ Larry Moss (Indiana)\\ Richard Oehrle (Ashford) \end{tabular} \medskip {\bf Important Dates} \smallskip \begin{tabular}{l@{}} Abstracts Due: March 31, 2001\\ Notification: May 15, 2001\\ Final Versions: June 30, 2001\\ Conference: August 8-10, 2001\\ \end{tabular} \medskip {\bf Addresses:\quad} \smallskip \begin{tabular}{l@{}} ESSLLI XIII: \\ \texttt{http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli}\\ FGMOL'01:\\ \texttt{http://www.cis.upenn.edu/\ldots}\\ $\quad$ \texttt{\ldots $^{\sim}$ircs/mol/mol7.html} \end{tabular} & \setlength{\parskip}{2pt} We are pleased to announce the joint meeting of two conferences: the sixth conferene on Formal Grammar and the seventh on the Mathematics of Language. The joint meeting will be held just prior to the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. \medskip {\it Aims And Scope} FGMOL'01 provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar and mathematical aspects of language, especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, \begin{itemize} \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{0pt} \item formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; \item model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; \item constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; \item foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. \item mathematical properties of linguistic frameworks \item theories and models of natural language processing and generation \item parsing theory \item statistical and quantitative models of language \end{itemize} \noindent We welcome papers from a wide variety of frameworks. \medskip {\it Invited Speakers} will be announced with the circulation of the second call for papers in early February. \medskip {\it Submission Details} We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). A submission should consist of two parts: \begin{itemize} \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{0pt} \item an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title; \item an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI. \end{itemize} \noindent Abstracts can be sent to {\tt fgmol at cs.indiana.edu} (Larry Moss). \medskip {\it Abstract Submission Deadline} March 31, 2001 {\it Notification of Acceptance} May 15, 2001 {\it Proceedings} A full version of each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due June 30, 2001. \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{document} ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 10 16:38:14 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:38:14 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN (Workshops & Tutorials) Message-ID: __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Maurel Denis Subject: TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL POUR L'ORGANISATION DE CONFERENCES ASSOCIEES (2nd CALL FOR WORKSHOPS) 2/ From: Maurel Denis Subject: TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL A TUTORIELS (2nd CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS) __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Maurel Denis Subject: TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL POUR L'ORGANISATION DE CONFERENCES ASSOCIEES (2nd CALL FOR WORKSHOPS) ********************************************************************** * * TALN 2001 * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * Universite de Tours * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ * mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ******** TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL POUR L'ORGANISATION DE CONFERENCES ASSOCIEES ******** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 12 JANVIER 2001 <---- TALN 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001, organise par le LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universit? de Tours) et l'axe LTI (Langues et Technologies de l'information). Une conference associee porte sur une thematique particuliere de TALN afin de rassembler quelques exposes plus cibles. Elle a son propre president et son propre comite de programme. Les organisateurs de TALN ne s'occuperont que de la partie mat?rielle (gestion des salles, pauses cafe, dejeuner et impression des actes). Les conferences associees et tutoriels auront lieu en parallele sur une a quatre plages horaires d'1 heure 30 (trois communications). ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 12 JANVIER 2001 <---- Reponse du comite de programme de TALN : vendredi 19 janvier 2001 Version finale pour les actes (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE PROPOSITION ********** Les propositions de conferences associees seront envoyees sous forme electronique a mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr avant le 12 janvier 2001. Elles comprendront la thematique de la conference, son comite de programme et le nombre de plages horaires souhaitees (1 ? 4 plages). Le comite de programme de TALN choisira parmi toutes les propositions, en fonction de la place disponible dans les locaux de la conference. ********** FORMAT ********** Les conferences associees auront lieu en francais (ou en anglais pour les non-francophones). Les articles ne devront pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples et references compris. ********************************************************************** * * ENGLISH VERSION * ********************************************************************** ********** TALN 2001 : 2nd CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 1/12/2001 <---- TALN 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - 5 July 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and Information Technologies). The workshops are centred on a specific topic of the TALN conference, with a specific president and a specific programme committee. The TALN organizers will provide a room, coffee-breaks, lunches and proceedings. The workshops will run in parallel with the tutorials on one to four sessions of 1 hour 30 (three papers). ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 12/1/2001 <---- Notification of acceptance by the programme committee: 19/1/2001 Final version of proceedings due (camera-ready): 11/5/2001 Conference : 2-5/7/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** Electronic proposals must reach the organizing committee before 12/1/2001, sent to mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr with the topic of the workshop, the programme committee and the desired number of sessions (1 to 4 sessions). The TALN programme committee will choose between these proposals, according to the available room at the conference. ********** FORMAT ********** Papers should not exceed 10 pages, in Times 12, single-spaced, including figures, examples and references. __________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Maurel Denis Subject: TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL A TUTORIELS (2nd CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS) ********************************************************************** * * TALN 2001 * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * Universite de Tours * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ * mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL A TUTORIELS ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 12 JANVIER 2001 <---- TALN 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001, organise par le LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universit? de Tours) et l'axe LTI (Langues et Technologies de l'information). Les tutoriels portent sur une thematique de la conference TALN. Les tutoriels et les conferences associees auront lieu en parallele sur une a quatre plages horaires d'1 heure 30. La presentation d'un tutoriel dispensera des droits d'inscription ? la conference. ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 12 JANVIER 2001 <---- Reponse du comite de programme de TALN : vendredi 19 janvier 2001 Version finale pour les supports de cours (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE PROPOSITION ********** Les propositions de tutoriels seront envoyees sous forme electronique a mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr avant le 12 janvier 2001. Elles comprendront un resume du cours et le nombre de plages horaires souhaitees (1 ? 4 plages). Le comite de programme de TALN choisira parmi toutes les propositions, en fonction de la place disponible dans les locaux de la conference. ********** FORMAT ********** Les tutoriels auront lieu en francais (ou en anglais pour les non-francophones). Les supports de cours ne devront pas depasser 15 pages (pour un tutoriel d'1h30), 30 pages (pour 3h), 45 pages (pour 4h30) et 60 pages (pour 6h). Ils seront rediges en Times 12. ********************************************************************** * * * ENGLISH VERSION * * * ********************************************************************** ********** TALN 2001 : 2nd CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 12/1/2001 <---- TALN 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - 5 July 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and Information Technologies). The tutorials are centred on a topic of the TALN conference. The tutorials will run in parallel with the workshops on one to four sessions of 1 hour 30. Tutorial speakers will be exempted from conference fees. ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 12/1/2001 <---- Notification of acceptance by the programme committee: 19/1/2001 Final version of teaching aid due (camera-ready): 11/5/2001 Conference : 2-5/7/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** Electronic proposals must reach the organizing committee before 12/1/2001, sent to mailto:taln2001 at univ-tours.fr with a course summary and the desired number of sessions (1 to 4 sessions). The TALN programme committee will choose between these proposals, according to the available room at the conference. ********** FORMAT ********** Course books, in Times 12, will not exceed 15 pages (for a tutorial of 1h30), 30 pages (for 3h), 45 pages (for 4h30) and 60 pages (for 6h). ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 10 16:38:17 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:38:17 +0100 Subject: Conf: IWTDIL 2001 Message-ID: From: "Niladri Sekhar Dash" CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ======================= INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN LANGUAGES Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India DATE ===== March 26 - 30, 2001 Advisory Committee =================== Prof. K.B. Sinha, Director, ISI, India, Chairman Prof. M.G.K. Menon, India Prof. C.R. Rao, USA Prof. K.Yamamoto, Japan Prof. N.Bhattacharya, India Prof. H.Bunke, Switzerland Prof. D. Dutta Majumder, India Prof. J.K. Ghosh, India Prof. R.M. Haralick, USA Prof. J.P.Hanton, France Prof. A. Joshi, USA Prof. R. Kasturi, USA ================== ORGANISING COMMITTEE ================== Prof. Bidyut Banran Chaudhuri, Chairman Prof. Swapan Kumar Parui, Convenor Prof. Nikhil Ranjan Pal Prof. Ashok Kumar Datta Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash Mr. Ujjwal Bhattacharya Dr. Mandar Mitra Mr. Anil Kumar Chand Ms. Madhumita Pal Dr. Lopamudra Chaudhuri Dr. Umapada Pal Dr. Sarbani Palit Mr. Utpal Garain Ms. Shamita Ghosh Dr. Sanghamitra Saha LIST OF SPEAKERS (Tentative) ============================= Prof. Barbara Fox, Univ. of Colorado, USA Prof. Harold Somers, University of Manchester, (IST), UK Dr. Michael Barlow, Rice University, USA Dr. Richard Sproat, AT&T Labs Reasearch, USA Prof. Gautam Sengupta, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, Hyderabad, India Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India Prof. B. Yegnanarayana, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Dr. Shantanu Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Dr. Soumen Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Dr. Ramesh Krishnamurthy, University of Birmingham, UK OBJECTIVE ========== For over a decade, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta has been active in research on various areas related to Language Technology, including Document Analysis,Speech Processing, and Natural Language Processing. Under an initiative of the Ministry of IT, Govt. of India, this Unit has been selected as a Resource Centre for Technology Development ofIndian Languages, with special emphasis on Bangla. As a part of this project, we are organizing a workshop consisting of a series of tutorials on Indian Language Information Technology, followed by lectures by eminent scientists on this subject. The goals of this workshop are: (i) to make scholars aware of recent research, developments, and applications of Indian language technologies (ii) to encourage research on Indian language technology, and to explore new applications of the existing technologies (iii) to establish contacts with international experts working on various aspects of language technology (iv) to consider opportunities for collaborative research and development TUTORIALS (AREAS OF SPEECH) =========================== * Machine Translation * Articulatory Phonetics * Anaphora Resolution * Acoustic Phonetics * Corpora Processing * Speech Recognition * Quantitative Linguistics * Morphological Processing * Speech Synthesis * Document Analysis * Optical Character Recognition * Information Retrieval REGISTRATION ============= Registration is necessary for all participants. Only 50 participants will be registered on first-come-first-serve basis. Last date for receiving completed registration form: 31st Jan., 2001. Registration Fees for the Participants: *Research Scholars & Teachers from Colleges/Univs. of India : Rs. 500 * People from other Institutions of India : Rs. 2,000 * Participants from abroad : US $50 (Registration fees may be waived for deserving participants) Interested people are requested to mail to: Chairman: or Convernor : cvpr at isical.ac.in> or Member: N.S.Dash ACCOMODATION ============== Registered participants will be provided accommodation. Accommodation charges will have to be borne by the participants other than the invited speakers. VENUE ======= The workshop will be held at the Seminar Room of the CVPR Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India. CONTACT ADDRESS ================ Convener, IWTDIL 2001 Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition Unit Indian Statistical Institute 203, B. T. Road, Calcutta 700 035, India. Phone: (91) (33) 577-2088 Ext. 2852 Fax: (91) (33) 577-3035/6680 E-Mail: http://www.isical.ac.in/~cvpr/events This program is partly sponsored by the Ministry of Information Technology (MIT), Government of India ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:31:18 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:31:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: LACL-01 Message-ID: From: Catherine Piliere ################################################################# --- LACL 2001 --- --- The deadline is approaching: JANUARY 29 --- ################################################################# LAST CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic, France Submission Deadline: January 29, 2001 http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ***************************************************************** --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate --- ***************************************************************** ---------------------------- HISTORY ---------------------------- The LACL series of conferences aims at providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal and logical aspects of computational linguistics. It started as a workshop held in Nancy (France), in 1995. Due to its success, it was turned, the next year, into a international conference. LACL'96 and '97 have both been held in Nancy (France). LACL'98 has been held in Grenoble (France). Selected papers from LACL'95 appear in a special issue of Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7(4), 1998. The proceedings of LACL'96 and 97 appear as volumes 1328 and 1582 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The proceedings of LACL'98 are in press with the same series. ----------------------------- SCOPE ----------------------------- Typical topics include, but are not limited to: Categorial grammars, Categorial type logics, Compositionality, Discourse representation theory, Dynamics, Feature Logics, Formal language theory, Game-theoretical semantics, Grammatical inference, Learning theory, Linear logical frameworks, Minimalism, Modal logics, Montague semantics, Parsing as deduction, Proof- theoretic approaches, Situation semantics and situation theory, Type-theoretic approaches. ----------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------- Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 15 standard A4 or US quarto pages. The paper should allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the work. In particular, references and comparisons with related work should be included. Submission of material already published or submitted to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Electronic submission is highly recommended. A postscript version of the paper should be sent as an e-mail to: morrill at lsi.upc.es to arrive by January 29, 2001. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file In addition, a separate e-mail containing the title of the paper, authors' names and addresses, and a short abstract in plain ASCII format should be sent to the same e-mail address. If electronic submission is not possible, authors may submit four hard copies of the paper by post to the following address: LACL 2001 (Attention: G. Morrill) UPC, Departament de LSI Campus Nord - Modul C6 Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 E-08034 Barcelona - Espanya ------------------------------ URL ----------------------------- http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------- Deadline for Submissions: January 29, 2001 Notification to Authors: March 26, 2001 Final Versions due: April 20, 2001 ---------------------- CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ------------------ The accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in AI. This will be available at the time of the conference. ------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- W. Buszkowski (Poznan) R. Crouch, (Palo Alto) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) M. Dymetman (Grenoble) C. Gardent (Saarbrucken) P. de Groote (Nancy), co-chair M. Kanazawa (Tokyo) G. Morrill (Barcelona), co-chair R. Muskens (Tilburg) F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh) B. Rounds, (Ann Arbor) E. Stabler (Los Angeles) ----------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------- B. Daille (Nantes) A. Dikovsky (Nantes) A. Foret (Rennes) E. Lebret (Rennes) C. Piliere (Nancy), publicity chair C. Retore (Rennes), chair P. Sebillot (Rennes) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:31:40 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:31:40 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL-2001 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen REMINDER - PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE COMING UP SOON! ACL-2001 Call For Papers 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 6 - 11 July, 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html General Conference Chair: Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) Program Co-Chairs: Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padua, Italy) Local Organization Chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse, France) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 39th Annual Meeting, which this year is jointly hosted with the European Chapter. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Deadlines --------- Paper registration deadline: January 26th, 2001 Paper submissions deadline: February 2nd, 2001 Notification of acceptance: April 12th, 2001 Camera ready papers due: May 12th, 2001 ACL 2001 Conference: July 6th-11th, 2001 Requirements ------------ Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.) Reviewing --------- The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by the international Conference Program Committee consisting of the following nine Area Chairs, each assisted by a team of reviewers. Jennifer Chu-Carroll (Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, USA) Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research, USA) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Adam Kilgarriff (ITRI, University of Brighton, UK) Lillian Lee (Cornell University, USA) Adwait Ratnaparkhi (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen, UK) James Rogers (Earlham College, USA) David Weir (University of Sussex, UK) Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Format ----------------- Papers must be submitted in hard copy. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. They are available from the ACL-2001 program committee Web-site at http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. As reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page will be required. The identification page should include the paper title, the paper ID code generated upon paper registration (see below), authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area, and a short summary (up to 5 lines). The identification page should also specify whether the paper is under consideration for other conferences. The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. Submission Procedure -------------------- 1) Submission notification: You must first register your submission by January 26, 2001. This can be done by filling out an electronic form directly at http://www.dfki.de/cgi-bin/acl2001/submission.cgi or via http://acl2001.dfki.de/. The form requires a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission. Please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the program committee co-chairs. Do not re-submit your paper if you have already received an ID! If you want to change any information in your submission notification, please mail the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de and include your paper ID in the subject of the mail. If you have any difficulty using the electronic registration form, please send email to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de with all of the title page information plus the authors' names and affiliations. 2) Paper submission: Submissions must be received by February 2, 2001. Late submissions (those arriving after February 2) will be returned without review. The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following address: ACL-2001 Submission Norbert Reithinger DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic version of the paper (without the identification page) to acl2001-submissions at dfki.de. Please include the paper ID in the subject line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The electronic version should also be received by February 2nd, 2001. Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version, please send mail to the PC co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de. Acknowledgment of hardcopy submission will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on or after April, 12th. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright release statement along with the final camera-ready papers. Submission Questions -------------------- Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program committee co-chairs at acl2001 at dfki.de sufficiently ahead of the submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:32:09 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:32:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: JNLE Message-ID: From: Beverly Nunan 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING SPECIAL ISSUE ON QUESTION ANSWERING Guest editors:=20 Lynette Hirschman (MITRE)=20 Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield) As users struggle to navigate the wealth of on-line information now available, the need for automated question answering systems becomes more urgent: specifically, for systems that would allow a user to ask a question in everyday language and get the answer quickly, with back-up material available on demand. Question answering has become, over the past several years, a major focus of research activity. This Call for Papers solicits submissions that discuss the performance, the requirements, the uses, and the challenges of question answering systems.=20 Question answering systems provide a rich research area. To answer a question, a system must analyze the question, perhaps in the context of some ongoing interaction; it must find one or more answers by consulting on-line resources; and it must present the answer to the user in some appropriate form, perhaps associated with justification or supporting materials.=20 Several conferences and workshops have focused on aspects of the question answering research area. For the past two years, the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) (http://trec.nist.gov) has sponsored a question-answering track which has evaluated systems that answer factual questions based on finding answer strings in the TREC corpus, using both information retrieval and natural language processing techniques. A focus on reading comprehension provides a different approach to question answering, evaluating systems' ability to answer questions about a specific reading passage. These kinds of tests are used to evaluate students' comprehension, providing a basis for comparing system performance to human performance. This was the subject of a Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop, http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/ws2000/groups/reading/prj_desc.shtml. Both of these research areas have had to address a number of difficult questions: =B7 How can question answering systems be evaluated? Do we have to have human graders, or can we find automated ways of grading short answer tests that approximate human graders closely enough? =B7 How should questions and answers be classified? Should classifications be based on linguistic features of questions and answers? On the types and sources of knowledge used to derive answers? On the types of processing required to derive answers?=20 =B7 What makes a question hard? Can we define linguistic features that help to predict question difficulty? =B7 Can we identify different classes of users of question answering systems, and if so, what are their different requirements? =B7 What makes an answer good? Should answers be short? Long? What about sentence extracts compared to generated text? What about summaries? =B7 What is the best way to present answers to a user? How much context and justification is appropriate? How much drill down needs to be supported? =B7 Do question answering systems need to build models of users' knowledge states to generate appropriate answers? How can this process be managed? =B7 What are reasonable expectations for question answering systems: providing factual answers found literally in texts, providing factual answers inferred from texts, providing summaries of multiple sources, providing analysis? =B7 How does the performance of systems compare to the performance of people? Can such systems complement people? Teach people? Replace people? =B7 Is it possible to create domain-independent question answering systems, or is it critical to restrict the domain of such a system to a specific topic area? What are the trade-offs in terms of performance? =B7 Can a question answering system use spoken input? Can it retrieve information from spoken "documents" such as news stories or interviews? What are the performance penalties when dealing with the additional uncertainty that characterizes speech or OCR? We invite submission of papers addressing any of these questions, or other issues related to the creation, evaluation, or deployment of question answering systems. We also encourage submissions that address infrastructure issues, such as tools for building question answering systems, for collecting corpora, or for annotating collections.=20 Submission Information Submit full papers of no more than 25 pages (exclusive of references), twelve point, double-spaced, with one inch margins before the initial submission deadline. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines will not be reviewed. Email submission is preferred, and should be directed to the special issue editors at the email address: lynette at mitre.org. The subject line should read: JNLE QA Submission. Preferred email submission formats are: Word, PostScript, PDF, or plain text (for papers without complex figures, etc). If email submission is not possible, then five copies of the paper should be mailed to: Dr. Lynette Hirschman The MITRE Corporation 3K-157 202 Burlington Rd. Bedford, MA 01730 USA Phone: 781-271-7789 Fax: 781-271-2352 Mailed submissions must arrive on or before the deadline for submission. Submission Dates * Submissions are due on February 26, 2001 * Notification of acceptance will be given by April 23, 2001. * Camera-ready copy due July2, 2001 =20 * Publication: Fall-Winter 2001 --Bed_of_Clams_863_000-- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:32:36 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:32:36 +0100 Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 01 Student Session Message-ID: From: Kristina Striegnitz !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!! Please circulate and post among students !!! We apologize, if you receive this message more than once. ESSLLI 2001 STUDENT SESSION SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS August 13-24 2001, Helsinki, Finland Deadline: February 18, 2001 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~kris/esslli We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2001) organized by the University of Helsinki under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). ESSLLI 2001 will be held at the University of Helsinki in August 2001. We invite submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. PURPOSE: This sixth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates (before completion of the Master Thesis) as well as postgraduates (before completion of the PhD degree). Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. Papers may be accepted for full presentation (30 minutes including 10 minutes of discussion) or for a poster presentation. The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during the summer school. KLUWER BEST PAPER AWARD: As in previous years, the best paper will be selected by the program committee and will be offered a prize by Kluwer Academic Publishers consisting in 1000 Dfl worth of books. REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. All topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic, Language, Computation, Logic & Language, Logic & Computation, Language & Computation) are of interest. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages in length exclusive of references and send a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like "Smith (1991) previously showed...". For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent separately, using the following format: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Address: address of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Address: address of the last author Short summary: abstract (5 lines) Subject area (one of): Logic | Language | Computation | Logic and Language | Logic and Computation | Language and Computation If necessary, the program committee may reassign papers to a more appropriate subject area. The submission of the extended abstract should be in one of the following formats: PostScript, PDF, RTF, or plain text. But note that, in case of acceptance, the final version of the paper has to be submitted in LaTeX format. Please, use A4 size pages, 11pt or 12pt fonts, and standard margins. Submissions outside the specified length and formatting requirements may be subject to rejection without review. The extended abstract and separate identification page must be sent by e-mail to: kris at coli.uni-sb.de by FEBRUARY 18, 2001 ESSLLI 2001 INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI 2001 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI 2001. The authors of accepted papers will be eligible for reduced registration fees. For all information concerning ESSLLI 2001, please consult the ESSLLI 2001 web site at http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 18, 2001. Authors Notifications: April 17, 2001. Final version due: May 18, 2001. ESSLLI-2001 Student Session: August 13-24, 2001. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Raffaella Bernardi, University of Utrecht (Logic & Language) Patrick Blackburn, Loria Nancy (Logic & Language) Gilles Dowek, INRIA (Computation) Ruth Kempson, King`s College London (Language) Carsten Lutz, University of Aachen (Logic & Computation) Ani Nenkova, Columbia University (Logic) Ilkka Niemel?, Helsinki University of Technology (Logic & Computation) Malvina Nissim, University of Pavia (Language) Susanne Salmon-Alt, Loria, Nancy (Language & Computation) Jan Schwinghammer, University of the Saarland (Computation) Kristina Striegnitz, University of the Saarland (Chair) Yde Venema, University of Amsterdam (Logic) Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa (Language & Computation) For any question concerning the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session, please, do not hesitate to contact me: Kristina Striegnitz Computational Linguistics, University of the Saarland, Germany phone: +49 - 681 - 302 4503 email: kris at coli.uni-sb.de ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:33:24 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:33:24 +0100 Subject: Appel: Modular Programming (Eurolan Workshop) Message-ID: From: Constantin Orasan ---- This message is posted to several lists ---- ---- We apologize if you receive multiple copies ---- CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on "Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing" Held as part of EUROLAN'01 Summer School July 30 - August 11 Iasi, Romania The call for papers and comprehensive information can be found on line at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/workshop.html The effectiveness of modular programming in designing software has long been acknowledged by the computer science community. However, the computational linguistics community preferred to develop components in isolation, without integrating existing modules into proposed systems. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, integration of different modules is not a trivial task, requiring a lot of time. Usually the major problem is the loss of information caused when the output of one module has to be converted to the input of another. Most research projects do not have the time or resources to concentrate on a real modular architecture, using trade offs (such as manually created inputs) instead. Secondly, most of the work in the research community is directed towards proposing and demonstrating new hypotheses, and not building robust and fully automatic applications. In many cases preprocessing steps, which produce the input data for the tested method, are considered trivial and accurate, and as a result replaced with hand produced data. Therefore, when a researcher needs a certain module for a method, s/he prefers to produce the output of that program manually, either because s/he is not aware of an existing implementation which performs the required task, or because the work involved in setting it up is greater than that involved in manually producing the output (usually because the implementation was developed and tested on a different platform). However, this situation has started to change rapidly. More and more researchers have appreciated the complexity of NLP tasks and the need to use modular programming. A quick look at the systems presented at the latest MUC indicated that they are complex systems which reuse previous research. Systems like GATE have been designed in order to help with the integration of different modules in a system. In addition, the research community is increasingly requiring the development of fully automatic applications. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between researchers involved in the development of automatic NLP systems and leading names in the field. We would like to invite all researchers to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - modular architectures for NLP - black/glass box evaluation measures - research on the influence of substitution and alternate combinations of modules on overall system performance - reusability - integration of resources (including conversion formats between modules) - platforms for developing modular applications - repositories Demos of the presented systems are encouraged. 2. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work in progress or completed work. The main purpose of presenting at the Workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work. The submissions should not exceed 10 pages with 12pt Times New Roman font including figures, references, and appendices. Authors will be sent details of the final format for camera-ready versions together with notification of acceptance. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Electronic submissions are encouraged but hard copies are acceptable. For electronic submission, papers should be in Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, or RTF format. For other formats, please contact the organising committee. All papers should be sent to workshop-eurolan at wlv.ac.uk 3. Contact Address Constantin Orasan HLSS University of Wolverhampton Stafford Street Wolverhampton WV1 1SB UK Email: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (please use "EUROLAN WORKSHOP" in the subject line) 4. Important Dates Submission Deadline: 1st April 2001 Notification of Acceptance: 4th May 2001 Camera-ready Papers: 1st June 2001 Workshop: To be announced 5. Registration People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered in the Eurolan'01 School. Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan'01 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. 6. Organizing committee Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton Richard Evans - University of Wolverhampton Catalina Barbu - University of Wolverhampton 7. Program committee Dan Cristea - University of Iasi Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield Le An Ha - University of Wolverhampton Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Ramesh Krishnamurty - University of Wolverhampton Daniel Marcu - University of Southern California Oliver Mason - University of Birmingham Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Maximiliano Saiz Noeda - University of Alicante Chris Paice - Lancaster University Valentin Tablan - Universities of Iasi & Sheffield Doina Tatar - Babes-Bolyai University Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jan 16 13:34:00 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:34:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: TIA-01 Message-ID: From: "Jean ROYAUTE" ***************************************************************** Appel ? communication TIA-2001 EXTENSION DE LA DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION Quatri?me rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 15 janvier 2001, report?e au 31 janvier Notification aux auteurs : 25 f?vrier 2001 Date de r?ception des versions d?finitives ; 15 mars 2001 Sous l'effet de l'information en r?seau, institutions, entreprises et laboratoires se trouvent aujourd'hui confront?s aux probl?mes consid?rables pos?s par la taille et la diversit? des documents sp?cialis?s. Acc?der ? ces corpus textuels, les filtrer, les traiter, les stocker, les impl?menter sur des syst?mes informatiques, telles sont, entre autres, les t?ches auxquelles doit r?pondre la terminologie. Devant de tels enjeux, la terminologie, en tant que discipline, doit ?tablir des relations coop?ratives avec un ensemble de disciplines allant de la linguistique ? l'ing?nierie des connaissances en passant par les sciences de l'information. La pratique terminologique fait notamment appel ? des techniques linguistiques et /ou num?riques pour manipuler les unit?s de la langue naturelle (en particulier les terminologies) et ? des techniques d'intelligence artificielle pour la formalisation de ces donn?es. Ces techniques partagent des m?thodes, des objectifs et une m?me finalit? : - m?me point de d?part : elles partent de corpus pour l'acquisition de donn?es linguistiques destin?es ? la constitution de terminologies ; - m?me objectif : la mod?lisation de domaines ? partir de corpus, sans formalisation dans le cas d'une production linguistique, avec formalisation du domaine dans le cas d'une application requ?rant les techniques de l'I.A ; - m?me vis?e applicative : ressources terminologiques, dictionnaires ?lectroniques pour la traduction automatique, pour l'indexation, pour le filtrage, etc., ontologies, syst?mes ? base de connaissances, m?moires d'entreprise (dans le cadre d'applications relevant de l'I.A). L'objectif de la conf?rence TIA est de faire ?merger les convergences et les coop?rations possibles entre ces disciplines pour ?laborer et tester des m?thodes de travail sur corpus, associ?es ? des techniques de traitement automatique de la langue et d'intelligence artificielle, afin de constituer, de mani?re syst?matique, les donn?es terminologiques pertinentes en fonction des applications. Les quatri?mes rencontres TIA serviront ? explorer les nombreuses questions rest?es ouvertes en mati?re d'acquisition de connaissances terminologiques ? partir de corpus, d'analyse du fonctionnement lexicologique en corpus sp?cialis?, de mod?lisation et de formalisation de ces connaissances, toujours dans le cas d'applications pr?cises. Vous ?tes invit? ? y participer en proposant une communication sur l'un des th?mes ci-dessous : - Th?ories du sens et la question des textes sp?cialis?s - Terminologie et ontologies - Exploitation de l'extraction de termes en corpus - Terminologie et mod?lisation / formalisation des connaissances - Bases de connaissances terminologiques - Ressources terminologiques pour la recherche d'information - Probl?mes de la terminologie multilingue - R?utilisabilit? en ing?nierie linguistique et ing?nierie des connaissances - Outils et applications Le Groupe TIA (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/), est organisateur de cette conf?rence qui fait suite aux conf?rences TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) et TIA'99 (Nantes). Fond? sous l'?gide du PRC-IA et de l'AFIA en 1994, ? pr?sent groupe AFIA/PRC-I3, ce groupe rassemble des chercheurs en linguistique, en intelligence artificielle et en traitement automatique des langues. Il a ?t? cr?? pour permettre une confrontation entre les cadres th?oriques et m?thodologiques ainsi qu'entre les pratiques d?velopp?es dans chaque discipline. Les propositions de communications (en anglais ou en fran?ais) seront soumises ? un comit? de programme international constitu? des membres du groupe TIA et d'experts des domaines concern?s. CONFERENCIERS INVITES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminologie et applications industrielles" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) " Multilinguisme et ing?nierie linguistique " COMITE DE PROGRAMME Pr?sidente : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (Universit? de Rome) Brigitte Bi?bow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) St?phane Chaudiron (Minist?re de la Recherche &Universit? Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Beno?t Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Universit? Paris 10) Udo Hahn (Universit? de Fribourg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (Universit? d'Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Universit? de Dublin) Fran?ois Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) Fran?ois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royaut? (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Universit? Louis Lumi?re, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) COMITE D'ORGANISATION Jean Royaut? (Pr?sident), Dominique Besagni, Claire Fran?ois, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Universit? Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) Les rencontres se d?rouleront ? l'INIST - Nancy (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du CNRS) et seront aussi l'occasion de mettre en ?vidence les convergences entre documentation et terminologie. FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS Les articles soumis, en fran?ais ou en anglais, ne devront pas d?passer 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ 3000 mots, figures, exemples et r?f?rences compris. Les soumissions devront contenir, sur une page s?par?e, les ?l?ments suivants : noms d'auteur(s) affiliation(s) adresse(s) (fax et e-mail) titre de la soumission 5 ? 10 mots cl?s r?sum? (300 mots maximum) Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word seront disponibles prochainement sur le site web de la conf?rence http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm Les versions d?finitives devront ?tre conformes ? ces formats. Les articles devront parvenir au comit? de programme sous forme papier l'adresse suivante : Monique SLODZIAN CRIM-INALCO Comit? de Programme TIA-2001 2, rue de Lille - 75343 PARIS cedex 07 ou sous forme ?lectronique, aux adresses ?lectroniques : ou Les d?tails concernant l'organisation de la conf?rence seront diffus?s ult?rieurement sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm et http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/ et sur diff?rentes listes. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royaut? - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex T?l : +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ***************************************************************** Second call for papers TIA-2001 DEADLINE EXTENSION 4th meeting "Terminology and Artificial Intelligence" 3-4 May 2001, Nancy, France DEADLINE Submission due date: January 15, 2001, postponed to January 31, 2001 Notification date: February 25, 2001 Camera ready date: March 15, 2001 Due to the availability of ever-increasing amount of information institutions, companies and laboratories are facing new problems related in particular to scale effects and the diversity of technical texts. A full range of tasks, from accessing text corpora to processing lexical data, is now being entrusted to terminology. As a result, terminology has to enrich and strengthen its links with related disciplines, including linguistics, knowledge engineering and information sciences. Thus, terminological work makes use of linguistic and /or numeric techniques to process natural language items (especially terms) and of artificial intelligence techniques for their formalization. These techniques share a number of methods and objec tives as well as a common goal: - the same starting point: corpus-based data acquistion; - the same objectives: corpus-based domain modeling with or without formalization, depending on the type of application (artificial intelligence or not); - the same goal: production of terminological resources (machine-readable dictionaries for machine translation, indexing, filtering); ontologies, knowledge-based systems, corporate memories. The TIA Conference aims at promoting convergence and synergy among such disciplines in order to develop and evaluate corpus-processing methodologies, requiring refined natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques. The end results of those investigations should help build relevant terminological data for specific applications on a systematic basis. The 4th TIA Conference will be an opportunity to explore some of the unsolved problems raised in corpus-based acquisition of terminological data, in the analysis of lexical behavior in specialized corpora, in knowledge modeling and formalization of the resulting data. You are invited to propose a paper in the following topics: - Meaning theories and the question of specialized texts; - Terminology and ontologies; - Exploitation of corpus-based term extraction; - Terminology and knowledge modeling / formalization - Terminological knowledge bases; - Terminological resources for information retrieval; - Problems of multilingual terminology; - Reusability in linguistics and knowledge engineering - Tools and applications. This TIA Conference, which follows TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) and TIA'99 (Nantes), is organized by the TIA Working Group (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/). This group gathers researchers in linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. It was created to allow a confrontation between the theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as between the practices developed in each discipline. Submitted papers (in French or in English) will be reviewed by an international program committee composed of members of the TIA Working Group and of invited experts. INVITED LECTURES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminology and industrial applications" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) "Multi-lingualism and language engineering" PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (University of Roma) Brigitte Bi?bow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) St?phane Chaudiron (Minist?re de la Recherche &Universit? Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Beno?t Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Universit? Paris 10) Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Universit? of Dublin) Fran?ois Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) Fran?ois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royaut? (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Universit? Louis Lumi?re, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jean Royauta? (Organizing chair), Dominique Besagni, Claire Fran?ois, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Universit? Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) The conference will take place at INIST, the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in Nancy, and will also offer the opportunity to highlight the convergence between documentation and terminology. SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers submitted, in French or English, should not exceed 10 pages of text in Times 12 with single line-spacing, i.e. approximately 3000 words, figures, examples and references included. Soumissions should include on an additional page : Author name(s) Affiliation(s) Address(es) (fax and e-mail) Title of soumission Key-words (5-10) Abstract (300 words max.) LaTeX and Word sheetstyles will be available soon on the conference website : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm Final versions must conform to this format. Papers should be sent by regular mail to: Monique SLODZIAN CRIM-INALCO Program Committee of TIA-2001 2, rue de Lille - 75343 PARIS cedex 07 E-mail submission should be sent to or Details concerning the conference organization will be given later on the conferences websites: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm and http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA and on various lists. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royaut? - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex Tel.: +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ***************************************************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 31 17:58:44 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:58:44 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers Message-ID: ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" Subject: Sail Labs: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (EUROPEAN LANGUAGES); based in Barcelona (Spain) 2/ From: Alberto Lavelli Subject: TCC ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" Subject: Sail Labs: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (EUROPEAN LANGUAGES); based in Barcelona (Spain) Summary: Barcelona (Spain) Sail Labs COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE, ITALIAN, GREEK) Full message: Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY at SAIL LABS Barcelona Sail Labs is one of the world's leading R&D companies in the field of "Natural Language Understanding". With the slogan "Innovation in Understanding", the company is focusing on three core development areas: * Language technology * Translation technology * Content technology In the Munich head office and in its branches in Berlin, Barcelona, Antwerp and Vienna, 190 developers are working on solutions, products and components related to the understanding of natural languages. For the further expansion of our highly motivated team in Barcelona we are looking for qualified professionals for the area of translation technologies. Candidate tasks and profiles: ***************************************** COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ref. CL) ***************************************** Your tasks: * Design, development and maintenance of formal grammars for our several new or existing translation engines. * Design and development of the linguistic components of our new generation of translation systems. Your profile: * University degree in philosophy, linguistics, computational linguistics or equivalent, with a strong background in natural language processing. * Native or near-native proficiency in at least two of the following languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Greek. * Programming experience. * Effective communication skills in written and spoken English. * Experience in machine translation and/or developing formal grammars for natural language processing applications will be a plus. Working language: English Starting date: As soon as possible Office location: Center of Barcelona (in the charming 19th century district Eixample, within walking distance from the old part of the city and from the famous 'Las Ramblas') You will join a young, international, and highly motivated team. SAIL LABS combines research and development of market-ready products. This will thus offer a great opportunity to those people who want to apply their acquired knowledge and skills in real-world conditions. More information about SAIL LABS can be found at the web page << http://www.sail-labs.com >>. If you are interested, send CV and cover letter in English by email to: albert.llorens at sail-labs.es indicating on the envelope or in the subject of the email the job reference. ______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Alberto Lavelli Subject: TCC The Cognitive and Communication Technologies (TCC) division of ITC-Irst has openings for the following (three years, renewable) positions, starting as soon as possible. n.3 positions in the "Text Processing" area. Requirements - Significant experience in one or more of the followings: Information Extraction, Question-Answering, Word-Sense Disambiguation, Statistical Methods for NLP, Learning Techniques Applied to NLP, Text Summarisation. Programming expertise includes some of the following: JAVA, Common Lisp, Perl, XML. n.4 positions in the "Intelligent and Interactive Information Presentation" area. Requirements - Significant experience in one or more of the followings: Adaptive Hypermedia, Natural Language Generation, NLP for Dialogue Systems, Life-like Characters and Collaborative Systems, Internet Technologies for Multimedia (RTSP, SMIL, etc.). Programming expertise includes some of the following: JAVA, Common Lisp, XML, OO analysis and programming, AI technologies. For all positions, the followings are also required. Advanced university degree in: computer science, computational linguistics, linguistics, or related area. Good working knowledge of English. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability and willingness to work as part of a highly skilled, collaborative research team. Salary will be competitive and commensurate to experience. To apply, please send a CV plus list of publications to: Fabio Pianesi Vice-head of the TCC Division ITC-Irst 38050 Povo (TN) Italy email: pianesi at itc.it Applications via e-mail are welcome. About ITC-Irst Located in one of the most beautiful areas of Italy, near the Dolomites, ITC-Irst (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica) is a major Italian research centre operating in such fields as: Artificial Intelligence, Microsystems, and Surface Physics. The Artificial Intelligence area comprises the following divisions: TCC (Cognitive and Communication Technologies), SSI (Interactive Sensory Systems) and SRA (Automatic Reasoning Systems). ITC-Irst (presently directed by Oliviero Stock) has a long score of important achievements in all the areas of its activity, testifying its vocation towards excellence in basic and applied research, and in technological transfer. About the TCC division The Cognitive and Communication Technologies division at ITC-Irst is one of the leading European research groups in areas such as Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction and Dialogue Systems, Multi-modality, Natural Language Generation, and Production and Maintenance of Linguistic Resources. Committed to both basic and applied research, TCC has consolidated links and pursues joint research efforts with many of the main research centres all over the world, and has regular and fruitful relationships with primary companies, especially those operating in the Web world. TCC has a long record of EU funded projects. As part of ITC-Irst, TCC is a member of the European Network of Excellence in Natural Language and Speech (ELSNET). For more information about TCC, see http://ecate.itc.it:1024 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 31 17:59:28 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:59:28 +0100 Subject: Appel: EMNLP 2001 Message-ID: From: Priscilla Rasmussen *** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EMNLP 2001 *** 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2001. The conference will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL). We are interested in papers from academia and industry on all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to: * information extraction * information retrieval * language and dialog modeling * lexical acquisition * machine translation * multilingual technologies * question answering * statistical parsing * summarization * tagging * term and named entity extraction * word sense disambiguation * word, term, and text segmentation Also, to encourage reflection on the current state of the art in corpus-based methods, the conference will have the following theme: "What Works and What Doesn't: Successes and Challenges" Successes --- We solicit papers showing the success of empirical methods in and across application settings. Examples include improvements in information retrieval performance due to employing language modeling techniques; effective use of statistical word segmentation algorithms in machine translation systems; and increased speech recognition accuracy through the incorporation of statistical parsing. Challenges --- It is clear that empirical and corpus-based methods have enjoyed many successes over the past years; but in looking to future accomplishments, the community needs to be aware of the limitations of various techniques and paradigms. We welcome papers that carefully expose and study such limitations. Examples include the identification and exploration of: classes of domains or problems in which popular techniques perform poorly; significant gaps between human and machine performance on tasks where statistical approaches have made great progress; and important practical situations where common assumptions fail to hold. *** We emphasize that we seek submissions that thoughtfully document fundamental limitations, rather than simply report on unsuccessful experiments. *** It is desired that such papers contain thorough examination, via careful experimentation, of the critical factors contributing to the "negative" result. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should take the form of full papers (3200 words or less, excluding references) describing original work. Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide this information on the title page. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: March 13, 2001 Acceptance notification: April 13, 2001 Camera-ready copy due: May 3, 2001 Conference: June 3-4, 2001 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Lillian Lee (chair), Cornell University, llee at cs.cornell.edu Donna Harman (co-chair), NIST, donna.harman at nist.gov CONFERENCE URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 31 17:59:56 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:59:56 +0100 Subject: Appel: CFP - ASE 2001 Message-ID: From: gannod at general3.asu.edu (Apologies for multiple copies) Automated Software Engineering 2001 16th IEEE International Conference November 26-29, 2001 San Diego, USA Call For Papers Abstracts due: June 22, 2001; Papers due: June 29, 2001 Latest information: http://ase.informatik.uni-essen.de The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of automated software engineering technology. Both automatic systems and systems that support and cooperate with people are within the scope of the conference, as are models of software and software engineering activities. ASE'2001 encourages contributions describing basic research, novel applications, and experience relevant to automating software engineering activities. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to: Automated reasoning techniques Automated software specification Automated software design and synthesis Category and Graph - theoretic approaches Computer-supported cooperative work Domain modeling and meta-modeling Human computer interaction Knowledge acquisition Maintenance and evolution Modeling language semantics Ontologies and methodologies Process and workflow management Program understanding Re-engineering Reflection- and Metadata approaches Requirements engineering Reuse Software architectures Testing Tutoring, help, documentation systems Verification and validation Research in these areas and other more general areas (such as Computer-Human Interaction and Artificial Intelligence) with a clear focus on software engineering will be considered within the conference scope. The ASE on-line Bibliography serves as a reference for potential contributors: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/faculty/welty/ase/ The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering was formerly known as the Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference. In conjunction with the name change, in 1997 the conference expanded to encourage worldwide participation and to reach other scientific communities concerned with formal methods, partial evaluation, process support, human-computer interface support, requirements engineering, reverse engineering, testing, and verification & validation, while still including an active AI and Knowledge Based component. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, by IEEE Computer Society Press. In addition, authors of a selection of papers from the conference will be invited to revise and re-submit their papers for consideration for a special issue of the Journal of Automated Software Engineering (Kluwer). ASE'2001 will also include invited talks, tutorials, panel discussions, a doctoral symposium, and project demonstrations, for which separate calls for participation will be issued. Papers should not exceed 6000 words, with full-page figures counting as 300 words. Papers exceeding the length restriction will not be reviewed. Papers will be reviewed by at least three programme committee members. All papers, especially application papers and experience reports, should clearly identify their novel contributions. See the conference website for detailed guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format, on or before June 29th, 2001. Information regarding electronic submission can be found at http://ase.informatik.uni-essen.de soon. In addition, a single hardcopy should be mailed to Martin Feather at the address below; it serves as a backup should printing problems occur, and it may arrive later than the electronic submission date. To expedite the review process, each paper's title, authors, abstract, keywords, and contact author's email address should be submitted by June 22nd, 2001. General Chair Debra Richardson Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3425, USA Tel: +1 949 824-7405 djr at ics.uci.edu Programme Co-Chair Martin S. Feather Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology MS 125-233 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109-8099, USA Tel: +1 818 354 1194 Martin.S.Feather@ Jpl.Nasa.Gov Programme Co-Chair Michael Goedicke Dept of Math & Computing Univ of Essen D-45117 Essen, Germany Tel: +49 201 8100330 goedicke at informatik.uni-essen.de Programme Committee Perry Alexander, USA Daniel Berry, Canada Yves Deville, Belgium Tom Ellman, USA Wolfgang Emmerich, UK Steve Fickas, USA Bernd Fischer, USA Pierre Flener, Sweden Alfonso Fuggetta, Italy Gerald Gannod, USA Joseph Goguen, USA Cordell Green, USA Ian Green, UK John Grundy, New Zealand Robert Hall, USA Mehdi Harandi, USA Mats Heimdahl, USA Scott Henninger, USA Andrew Ireland, UK Bernd Kraemer, Germany Jeff Kramer, UK Kung-Kiu Lau, UK Baudouin Le Charlier, Belgium Yves Ledru, France Mike Lowry, USA Tom Maibaum, UK Brad Martin, USA Ali Mili, USA Bashar Nuseibeh, UK Colin O'Halloran, UK Charles Pecheur, USA John Penix, USA Klaus Pohl, Germany David Redmiles, USA Arthur Reyes, USA Julian Richardson, UK Spencer Rugaber, USA Houari Sahraoui, Canada Akiyoshi Sato, Japan Andy Schuerr, Germany Frank Shipman, USA Doug Smith, USA Kurt Stirewalt, USA Gabi Taentzer, Germany Enn Tyugu, Sweden Jeff van Baalen, USA Willem Visser, USA Richard Waldinger, USA Virginie Wiels, France Chris Welty, USA David Wile, USA ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 31 18:02:48 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:02:48 +0100 Subject: Appel: 4 NAACL'01 announcements Message-ID: ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 WordNet and Other Lexical Resources Workshop 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL'01 Automatic Summarization Workshop--DEADLINE EXTENSION 3/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 Adaptation in Dialogue Systems Workshop 4/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 Machine Translation Evaluation Workshop ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 WordNet and Other Lexical Resources Workshop WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations * Please note merger and extended deadline! * NAACL 2001 Workshop Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh 3 and 4 June, 2001 Sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on the Lexicon. Previously announced as two different workshops: - WordNet: Extensions and NLP Applications - Customizing Lexical Resources Lexical resources have become important basic tools within NLP and related fields. The range of resources available to the researcher is diverse and vast - from simple word lists to complex MRDs and thesauruses. The resources contain a whole range of different types of explicit linguistic information presented in different formats and at various levels of granularity. Also, much information is left implicit in the description, e.g. the definition of lexical entries generally contains genus, encyclopaedic and usage information. The majority of resources used by NLP researchers were not intended for computational uses. For instance, MRDs are a by-product of the dictionary publishing industry, and WordNet was an experiment in modelling the mental lexicon. In particular, WordNet has become a valuable resource in the human language technology and artificial intelligence. Due to its vast coverage of English words, WordNet provides with general lexico-semantic information on which open-domain text processing is based. Furthermore, the development of WordNets in several other languages extends this capability to trans-lingual applications, enabling text mining across languages. For example, in Europe, WordNet has been used as the starting point for the development of a multilingual database for several European languages (the EuroWordNet project). Other resources such as the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and Roget's Thesaurus have also been used for various NLP tasks. The topic of this workshop is the exploitation of existing resources for particular computational tasks such as Word Sense Disambiguation, Generation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering and Summarization. We invite paper submissions that include but are not limited to the following topics: - Resource usage in NLP and AI - Resource extension in order to reflect the lexical coverage within a particular domain; - Resource augmentation by e.g. adding extra word senses, enriching the information associated with the existing entries. For instance, recently, several extensions of the WordNet lexical database have been initiated, in the United States and abroad, with the goal of providing the NLP community with additional knowledge that models pragmatic information not always present in the texts but required by document processing; - Improvement of the consistency or quality of resources by e.g. homogenizing lexical descriptions, making implicit lexical knowledge explicit and clustering word senses; - Merging resources, i.e. combining the information in more than one resource e.g. by producing a mapping between their senses. For instance, WordNet has been incorporated in several other linguistic and general knowledge bases (e.g. FrameNet and CYC); - Corpus-based acquisition of knowledge; - Mining common sense knowledge from resources; - Multilingual WordNets and applications; Paper submission Submissions must use the NAACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (6 pages or less). NAACL style file NAACL bibliography style file Latex sample file Microsoft Word Template file Submission procedure Electronic submission only. For U.S. papers please send the pdf or postscript file of your paper to: moldovan at seas.smu.edu. Please submit papers from other countries to w.peters at dcs.shef.ac.uk. Because review is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. A separate identification page must be sent by email including title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. Please address any questions to moldovan at seas.smu.edu or w.peters at dcs.shef.ac.uk Important dates Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2001 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2001 Camera ready due: March 25, 2001 Workshop date: June 3 and 4, 2001 Organizers Sanda Harabagiu, SMU, sanda at seas.smu.edu Dan Moldovan, SMU, moldovan at seas.smu.edu Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, wim at dcs.shef.ac.uk Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield, marks at dcs.shef.ac.uk Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk Programme Committee Roberto Basili (Universita di Roma Tor Vergata) Martin Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY) Christianen Fellbaum (Princeton University) Ken Haase (MIT) Sanda Harabagiu (SMU) Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto) Robert Krovetz, NEC Claudia Leacock (ETS) Steven Maiorano (AAT) Rada Mihalcea (SMU) Dan Moldovan (SMU) Simonetta Montemagni (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania) Maria Tereza Pazienza (Universita di Roma Tor Vergata) Wim Peters (University of Sheffield) German Rigau (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield) Randee Tengi (Princeton University) Paola Velardi (University of Roma "La Sapienza") Ellen Voorhees (NIST) Piek Vossen (Sail Labs) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Workshop URL: http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/mwnw/ ______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL'01 Automatic Summarization Workshop--DEADLINE EXTENSION Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001 (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with NAACL2001) Sunday, June 3, 2001 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA sponsored by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) MITRE Corporation New submission deadline: February 23, 2001 Organizing Committee: Jade Goldstein Carnegie Mellon University jade+ at cs.cmu.edu Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl at isi.edu Program Committee: Breck Baldwin Baldwin Language Tech Hsin-Hsi Chen National Taiwan University Udo Hahn Universitaet Freiburg Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute Hongyan Jing Columbia University Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute Inderjeet Mani MITRE Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology Marie-Francine Moens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Vibhu Mittal Google Research Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam National University Akitoshi Okumura NEC Chris Paice Lancaster University Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge Tomek Strzalkowski State University of New York, Albany Simone Teufel Columbia University Workshop Website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-naacl2001 (for the latest update) I. OVERVIEW II. CALL FOR PAPERS III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION I. OVERVIEW The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL, ANLP/NAACL, ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field. Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL in 97, the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98, and ANLP/NAACL in 2000. All of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before. NAACL'2001 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem. II. CALL FOR PAPERS The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers addressing (but not limited to): Summarization Methods: use of linguistic representations, statistical models, NL generation for summarization, production of abstracts and extracts, multi-document summarization, narrative techniques in summarization, multilingual summarization, text compaction, multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio), use of information extraction, studies and modeling of human summarizers, improving summary coherence, concept fusion, use of thesauri and ontologies, trainable summarizers, applications of machine learning, knowledge-rich methods. Summarization Resources: development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers, annotation standards, shared summarization tools, document segmentation, topic detection, and clustering related to summarization. Evaluation Methods: intrinsic and extrinsic measures, on-line and off-line evaluations, standards for evaluation, task-based evaluation scenarios, user studies, inter-judge agreement. Workshop Themes: 1. Summarization Applications 2. Multidocument Summarization 3. Multilingual Text Summarization 4. Evaluation and Text/Training Corpora 5. Generation for Summarization 6. Topic Identification for Summarization 7. Integration with Web and IR Access III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). SUBMISSION QUESTIONS Please send submission questions to cyl at isi.edu SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word form of your submission to: cyl at isi.edu. The Subject line should be "NAACL2001 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line: "NAACL2001 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. DEADLINES (Tentative) Paper submission deadline: Feburary 23, 2001 Notification of acceptance for papers: March 23, 2001 Camera ready papers due: April 6, 2001 Workshop date: June 3, 2001 ______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 Adaptation in Dialogue Systems Workshop * Note deadline extension! * NAACL 2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems Webpage: www.cs.utah.edu/~cindi/AdaptDial.html Overview The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers investigating the application of learning and adaptation to dialogue systems, both speech and text based. Methods for learning and adaptation show promise for enhancing the robustness, flexibility, and overall accuracy of dialogue systems. While researchers in many parts of computational linguistics who use these methods have begun to form communities, the burgeoning set of activities within dialogue has remained relatively disparate. We are interested in adaptation that includes learning procedures as well as decision making methods aimed at dynamically reconfiguring dialogue behavior based on the context. We would also like to explore techniques that allow a dialogue system to learn with experience or from data sets gathered from empirical studies. Researchers looking at methods to automatically improve different modules of dialogue systems, or the system as a whole, have not had many opportunities to come together to share their work. We thus welcome submissions from researchers supplementing the traditional development of dialogue systems with techniques from machine learning, statistical NLP, and decision theory. Call For Papers We solicit papers from a number of research areas, including: - Use of machine learning techniques at all levels of dialogue, from speech recognition to generation; from dialogue strategy to user modeling - Adapting to the user as a dialogue progresses - Dialogue as decision making under uncertainty - User and user group modeling - Use of corpora in developing components of dialogue systems, including issues in annotation - Evaluation of adaptive dialogue systems - Comparison of different techniques in applying adaptive techniques to dialogue We also hope to include a session for the demonstration of working systems, as time permits. The demonstration sessions will be open to anyone who wishes to bring their adaptive conversational systems for demonstration to other members of the workshop. Presenters are asked to submit a paper that is specifically directed at a demonstration of their current systems. Important Dates (2001): Paper submission deadline: Feb 19 Notification of acceptance for papers: Mar 16 Camera ready papers due: Mar 30 Workshop date: Jun 4 Paper Submission Electronic submission strongly preferred. We will be setting up an email alias in the next several days for paper submission. Please check with the web page for developments. Submissions must use the NAACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (6 pages or less). The templates are available at the workshop web site. Organizers Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research horvitz at microsoft.com Tim Paek Microsoft Research timpaek at microsoft.com Cindi Thompson University of Utah cindi at cs.utah.edu Program Committee Jennifer Chu-Carroll Bell Labs Peter Heeman Oregon Graduate Institute Diane Litman AT & T Labs Candace Sidner MERL Marilyn Walker AT & T Labs ______________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: NAACL-01 Machine Translation Evaluation Workshop CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Machine Translation Evaluation in conjunction with NAACL-2001 WORKSHOP ON MT EVALUATION: Hands-On Evaluation 3 June, 2001 Pittsburgh, PA United States MOTIVATION Evaluation of language tools, particularly tools that generate language, remains an interesting and general problem. Machine Translation (MT) is a prime example. Approaches to evaluating MT are even more plentiful than approaches to MT itself; the number of evaluations and range of variants is confusing to anyone considering an evaluation. In an effort to systematize MT evaluation, the NSF-funded ISLE project has created a taxonomy of evaluation-related features and measures. Unfortunately, however, many prior evaluations do not include an adequate specification of important aspects such as evaluation process complexity, cost, variance of score, etc. In an effort to drive MT evaluation to the next level, this workshop will focus on exercising with methods of acquiring such information for several important MT evaluation measures. The workshop thus embodies the challenge of Hands-On Evaluation, within the context of the framework being developed by the ISLE MT Evaluation effort. The workshop follows a workshop on MT Evaluation held at the AMTA Conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in October 2000, and a subsequent workshop being planned for April 2001 in Geneva. STRUCTURE OF THE WORKSHOP The first part of the workshop will introduce the ISLE MT Evaluation effort, funded by NSF and the EU, to create a general framework of characteristics in terms of which MT evaluations, past and future, can be described and classified. The framework, whose antecedents are the JEIDA and EAGLES reports, consists of taxonomies of increasingly specific features, with associated measures and pointers to systems. The discussion will review the current state of the classification effort as well as review the MT evaluation history from which it was drawn. The second, principal, part of the workshop will focus on real-world evaluation. In an effort to facilitate common ground for discussion, participants will be given specific evaluation exercises, defined by the taxonomy and recent MT evaluation trends. In addition, they will be given a set of texts generated by MT systems and human reference translations. They will be asked, during the workshop, to perform given evaluation exercises with the given data. This common framework will give insights into the evaluation process and useful metrics for driving the development process. The results of the exercises will then be presented by the participants, synthesized into a uniform description of each evaluation, and added to the ISLE taxonomy, which has been made available on the web for future analysis in MT evaluation. The results of the workshop will also be incorporated into a publicly available resource and the workbook from the workshop will be able to be used by teachers of evaluation and MT. QUESTIONS AND ISSUES Since this is a hands-on workshop, participants will be asked to submit an intent to participate. At that time, they will be able to download the relevant data for review. During the workshop, they will be given a series of exercises and split into teams for working these exercises. The result of the workshop will be at least one paper which addresses the following threads of investigation within the framework: * What is the variance inherent in an evaluation measure? * How complex is it to employ a measure? * What task(s) is the evaluation measure suited to? * What kinds of tools automate the evaluation process? * What kind of metrics are useful for users versus system developers? * How can we use the evaluation process to speed up or improve the MT development process? * What kind of impacts does real-world data have? * How can we evaluate MT when MT is a small part of the data flow? * How independent is MT of the subsequent processing? That is, cleaning up the data improves performance, but does it improve it enough? How do we quantify that? TO REGISTER Since this is a hands-on workshop, no papers are being solicited. Participants will be expected to take part in the exercises and report their conclusions. They will additionally be encouraged to contribute to a summary paper of the workshop proceedings. The data will be sent to participants in advance of the workshop, with instructions on what to do and what to prepare. The amount of work required should not exceed 4 hours (much less than paper preparation). To register an intent to participate, please send a paragraph outlining your interest in MT, experience with MT evaluation, knowledge of either Spanish or Arabic, and the following contact information to Flo Reeder (contact info below): * name * address * e-mail address * knowledge of other foreign languages * translation domain specialization Participants will need to register for the workshop as part of their NAACL registration. IMPORTANT DATES Intent to Participate: April 16, 2001 Release of Data: April 23, 2001 Workshop date: June 3, 2001 CONTACT POINTS Florence Reeder MITRE Corporation 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd. McLean, VA 22102-3481 TEL: 703-883-7156 FAX: 703-883-1379 EMAIL: freeder at mitre.org Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 TEL: 310-448-8731 FAX: 310-823-6714 EMAIL: hovy at isi.edu Workshop URL: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt-eval-naacl.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jan 31 18:03:25 2001 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:03:25 +0100 Subject: Appel: Recital-2001 Message-ID: From: "friburger" *********************************************************************** * * Recital 2001 * -------------------- * Rencontre des etudiants chercheurs en informatique * pour le traitement automatique * des langues * =20 * =20 * Universite de Tours =20 * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 =20 * =20 * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ =20 * mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.fr =20 ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** Recital 2001 : DEUXIEME APPEL A COMMUNICATION ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Recital 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 en = parallele avec la conference TALN 2001 (appel a communications a = paraitre separement). La conference Recital 2001 comprendra des communications scientifiques, = des conferenciers invites, des seances de demonstration et posters, = ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. Ces deux conferences sont organisees sous l'egide de l'ATALA = (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues).=20 ********** THEMES ********** Les communications pourront porter sur tous les themes habituels du = TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative:=20 Analyse et comprehension de textes=20 Generation d'enonces en langues naturelles=20 Traduction automatique=20 Production de resumes=20 Dialogue homme-machine=20 Recital 2001 souhaite egalement accueillir des travaux de domaines = proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, dans la mesure ou = l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : Ressources linguistiques (lexiques, dictionnaires electroniques, = corpus, etc.)=20 Semantique lexicale (polysemie, categorisation, etc.)=20 Semantique du temps et de l'espace (representation et raisonnement)=20 Logique (argumentation, modelisation des intentions et des croyances, = etc.)=20 Architectures dediees au TAL (syst=E8mes multi-agents, reseaux = neuromimetiques)=20 Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de = connaissances (a partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine)=20 Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole=20 =20 ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : VENDREDI 23 FEVRIER 2001 <---- Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril 2001 Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai 2001 Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ********** Les articles soumis seront rediges en francais (ou en anglais par les = non-francophones). Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, = figures, exemples et references compris. Les soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 = fevrier 2001, sous forme electronique, a = mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.fr. En cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission = "papier" pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre = envoyes a l'adresse suivante: Recital 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS ********** Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission par courrier electronique = sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps ou pdf au format A4 et = non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la soumission et les = noms des auteurs.=20 Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont disponibles sur le site de = la conference: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** CRITERES DE SELECTION ********** Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, = n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications anterieures. Les soumissions = seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. Seront = considerees en particulier : l'importance et l'originalite de la contribution,=20 la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,=20 la discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux = autres travaux du domaine,=20 la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche = internationale,=20 l'organisation et la clarte de la presentation,=20 l'adequation aux themes de la conference.=20 =20 Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la = conference. ********** POSTERS ********** Une ou deux seances specifiques seront prevues pour des posters (85 x = 120 cm). Les propositions de poster suivent les memes regles que les soumissions = de communication mais ne devront pas depasser 4 pages.=20 ********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES ********** Les presentations orales dureront 15 minutes et seront suivies de 5 = minutes de questions. Il sera possible d'utiliser un retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur.=20 ********** ACTES ********** Les actes des conferences seront distribues a tous les participants. **************************************************************** English version=20 **************************************************************** ********** Recital 2001 : SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ************ ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE : FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Recital 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - 5 July 2001, organized by the LI = (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and = Information Technologies).=20 The official conference languages are French and English.=20 The young researcher conference Recital 2001 will be held jointly with = the conference TALN 2001.=20 TALN 2001 is organized in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le = Traitement Automatique des LAngues). ********** TOPICS ********** Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): Analysis and comprehension of texts Text generation in natural languages Automatic translation Production of summaries Human Computer Interaction Recital 2001 also invites contributions in the following fields too: Linguistic resources (lexics, electronic dictionaries, corpora, etc.) Lexical Semantics (categorisation, etc.) Time and space Semantics (representation and reasoning) Logic (argumentation, modelisation of intention, etc.)=20 NLP Dedicated architectures (multi-agents systems, neuromimetic = networks) =20 Acquisition and automatic learning of resources or knowledge (from = corpora, or human/machine interaction) Relations between NLP and talk recognition=20 =20 ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 2/23/2001 <---- Notification to authors: 4/27/2001 Final version due (camera-ready): 5/11/2001 Conference : 7/2-5/2001 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced, = including figures, examples and references. Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before = 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours. If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard copies of the paper = must reach the organizing committee before 2/23/2001, at the following = address: TALN 2001 LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS ********** Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail(ps = or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing the = following information: submission title and author's names. The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference website: = http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001. ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. = Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain. = Decisions will be based on the following criteria : Importance and originality of the paper Accuracy of the scientific and technical content Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work Layout and clarity of the paper Relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. ********** POSTERS ********** One or two specific sessions for the posters (85 x 120 cm) will be = scheduled in the conference. The poster submissions accord to the same rules of paper submission, BUT = they should not exceed 4 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Papers should be of 15 minutes duration. 5 minutes will be left for = questions. 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Ces deux conferences sont organisees = sous l'egide=20 de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues).=20
 
********** THEMES = **********
 
Les communications pourront porter sur = tous les=20 themes habituels du TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative:
Analyse = et=20 comprehension de textes
Generation d'enonces en langues naturelles=20
Traduction automatique
Production de resumes
Dialogue = homme-machine=20
 
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  = Ressources=20 linguistiques (lexiques, dictionnaires electroniques, corpus, etc.) =
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  = Semantique du=20 temps et de l'espace (representation et raisonnement)
  Logique = (argumentation, modelisation des intentions et des croyances, etc.) =
 =20 Architectures dediees au TAL (syst=E8mes multi-agents, reseaux = neuromimetiques)=20
  Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de=20 connaissances (a partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine)=20
  Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole=20
 
********** CALENDRIER **********
 
----> DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : = VENDREDI 23=20 FEVRIER 2001 <----
Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 27 avril=20 2001
Version finale (pret-a-clicher) : vendredi 11 mai = 2001
Conference :=20 du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001
 
********** MODALITES DE SOUMISSION=20 **********
 
Les articles soumis seront rediges en = francais (ou=20 en anglais par les non-francophones).
Ils ne devront pas depasser 10 = pages en=20 Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples et references = compris.
Les=20 soumissions devront parvenir au comite d'organisation avant le 23 = fevrier 2001,=20 sous forme electronique, a mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.f= r.
En=20 cas d'impossibilite d'envoi par courrier electronique, une soumission = "papier"=20 pourra etre admise. Dans ce cas, trois exemplaires devront etre envoyes = a=20 l'adresse suivante:
  Recital 2001
  LI (Laboratoire=20 d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours)
  E3i, 64, avenue Jean=20 Portalis
  37200 Tours
  France
 
********** FORMAT DES SOUMISSIONS=20 **********
 
Les auteurs devront envoyer leur = soumission par=20 courrier electronique sous la forme d'un document attache (fichiers ps = ou pdf au=20 format A4 et non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la = soumission et=20 les noms des auteurs.
Les formats a utiliser pour la redaction sont=20 disponibles sur le site de la conference: http://www.li.univ= -tours.fr/taln-recital-2001.
 
********** CRITERES DE SELECTION=20 **********
 
Les auteurs sont invites a soumettre = des travaux de=20 recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications = anterieures. Les=20 soumissions seront examinees par au moins deux specialistes du domaine. = Seront=20 considerees en particulier :
l'importance et l'originalite de la=20 contribution,
la correction du contenu scientifique et technique, =
la=20 discussion critique des resultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres = travaux=20 du domaine,
la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la = recherche=20 internationale,
l'organisation et la clarte de la presentation,=20
l'adequation aux themes de la conference.
 
Les articles = selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la = conference.
 
********** POSTERS = **********
 
Une ou deux seances specifiques seront = prevues pour=20 des posters (85 x 120 cm).
Les propositions de poster suivent les = memes=20 regles que les soumissions de communication mais ne devront pas depasser = 4=20 pages.
 
********** PRESENTATIONS ORALES=20 **********
 
Les presentations orales dureront 15 = minutes et=20 seront suivies de 5 minutes de questions.
Il sera possible d'utiliser = un=20 retro-projecteur ou un video-projecteur.
 
********** ACTES = **********
 
Les actes des conferences seront = distribues a tous=20 les participants.
 
****************************************************************=
        =20 English version=20
****************************************************************
*= *********=20 Recital 2001  : SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS  = ************
 
---->      = SUBMISSION=20 DEADLINE : FRIDAY, 2/23/2001       =20 <----
 
Recital 2001 will be held in Tours, 2 - = 5 July=20 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and = LTI=20 (Language and Information Technologies).
 
The official conference languages are = French and=20 English.
 
The young researcher conference Recital = 2001 will=20 be held jointly with the conference TALN 2001.
TALN 2001 is = organized in=20 collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des = LAngues).
 
********** TOPICS **********
Papers = are invited=20 in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to):
  Analysis = and=20 comprehension of texts
  Text generation in natural = languages
 =20 Automatic translation
  Production of summaries
  Human = Computer=20 Interaction
 
Recital 2001 also invites contributions = in the=20 following fields too:
  Linguistic resources (lexics, electronic = dictionaries, corpora, etc.)
  Lexical Semantics  = (categorisation,=20 etc.)
  Time and space Semantics (representation and=20 reasoning)
  Logic (argumentation, modelisation of intention, = etc.)=20
  NLP Dedicated architectures (multi-agents systems, = neuromimetic=20 networks)      
  Acquisition and = automatic learning of resources or knowledge (from corpora, or = human/machine=20 interaction)
  Relations between NLP and talk recognition=20
 
********** CALENDAR **********
 
----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, = 2/23/2001=20 <----
Notification to authors: 4/27/2001
Final version due=20 (camera-ready): 5/11/2001
Conference : 7/2-5/2001
 
********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE=20 **********
 
The maximum length for papers is 10 = pages, in Times=20 12, single spaced, including figures, examples and = references.
 
Electronic submissions must reach the = organizing=20 committee before 2/23/2001, sent to mailto:recital2001 at univ-tours.=
 
If electronic submission is not = possible, 3 hard=20 copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee before = 2/23/2001, at the=20 following address:
  TALN 2001
  LI (Laboratoire = d'Informatique=20 de l'Universite de Tours)
  E3i, 64, avenue Jean = Portalis
 =20 37200 Tours
  France
 
********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS=20 **********
 
Authors should send their submission as = a file=20 attached to an e-mail(ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter = format),=20 containing the following information: submission title and author's=20 names.
The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference = website:=20 http://www.li.univ= -tours.fr/taln-recital-2001.
 
********** SELECTION CRITERIA=20 **********
 
Authors are invited to submit original, = previously=20 unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists = of the=20 domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria = :
Importance and=20 originality of the paper
Accuracy of the scientific and technical=20 content
Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant = work
Layout=20 and clarity of the paper
Relevance to the topics of the=20 conference
 
Accepted papers will be published in = the=20 proceedings of the conference.
 
********** POSTERS = **********
 
One or two specific sessions for the = posters (85 x=20 120 cm) will be scheduled in the conference.
The poster submissions = accord to=20 the same rules of paper submission, BUT they should not exceed 4=20 pages.
 
********** TALKS = **********
 
Papers should be of 15 minutes = duration. 5 minutes=20 will be left for questions.
It will be possible to use a overhead = projector=20 or a video-projector.
 

********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME=20 **********
**********  PROGRAM COMMITTEE  = **********
 
Pascal Amsili, TALaNa
Pierre Beust, = GREYC
Philippe Blache, LPL
Beatrice Bouchou, LI = (president)
Jean=20 Caelen, CLIPS
Cecile Fabre, ERSS
Cedric Fairon, NYU, Department of = Linguistics
Bertrand Gaiffe, LORIA
Damien Genthial, = CLIPS
Gabriel=20 Illouz, LIMSI
Denis Maurel, LI
Philippe Muller, IRIT
Anne = Nicolle,=20 GREYC
Martin Rajman, EPFL
Laurent Romary, LORIA
Jose Rouillard, = CLIPS
Azim Roussanaly, LORIA
Jacques Siroux, IRISA = LLI/CORDIAL
Jacques=20 Vergne, GREYC
Jean Veronis, LPL
Michael Zock, LIMSI
 

********** COMITE D'ORGANISATION=20 **********
********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE  = **********
 
Claire Agafonov, LTI
Beatrice = Bouchou, LI=20 (president)
Alain Cambourian, LTI
Alain Delplanque, = LTI
Nathalie=20 Friburger, LI (president)
Nathalie Garric, LTI
Paul Gaudin, = LTI
Manuel=20 Gonzales de Avila, Ciremia
Thierry Grass, LTI
Denis Maurel, LI=20
Nathalie Rossi, LTI
Mohamed Slimane, LI
Nicole Vincent,=20 LI
 
 
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