From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Fri May  4 15:17:45 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:17:45 +0200
Subject: Jobs: University of Leeds
Message-ID: <FRI.4.MAY.2001.171745.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

The School of Computing at Leeds University wants to recruit permanent
Lecturers/Senior Lecturers and a permanent Computer Support Officer.
Further information from Head of School, Professor Tony Cohn
(tel: 0113-233-5482; fax: 0113-233-5468; email recruit at comp.leeds.ac.uk).

I personally would welcome the prospect of colleague(s) with interests in
corpus-based NLP; to find out about our corpus-based NLP research, contact
me or visit http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nlp

--
Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
TEL: 0113-2335430  MOBILE: 0775-1039104 FAX: 0113-2335468
WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric  EMAIL: eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk



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Lectureships/Senior Lectureships In Computing And Informatics
(With The Possibility Of Appointment At Reader Level)

School Of Computing, University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Closing Date: 22-05-2001

These permanent posts are available in our expanding School, with the
possibility of appointment at Senior Lecturer/Reader level. You will
be required to undertake leading-edge research and teaching of the
highest standard within our broadly based degree programmes and should
strengthen one of our existing research groups: Computer Vision and
Language, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Multi-disciplinary
Informatics, Scientific Computation and Visualization, Theoretical
Computer Science. Prior experience in teaching, preferably in higher
education, would be an advantage. Applicants should have a Ph.D. (or
equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline.  Preference may be
given to candidates who can strengthen our teaching across our four
B.Sc. and two M.Sc. degree programmes.

The School and the University have made a strategic commitment to
developing multidisciplinary research activity through the formation
of a well equipped Informatics Research Institute; applicants who can
contribute to its development are especially welcome.

Salary: Lecturer A/B (18,731 - 30,967 p.a. under review).  For
exceptionally well qualified candidates appointment at Senior Lecturer
or Reader level is possible (32,510 - 39,718 p.a. under review).

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Tony Cohn (tel:
0113-233-5482; fax: 0113-233-5468; email recruit at comp.leeds.ac.uk).

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Computer Support Officer

School Of Computing, University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Closing Date: 14-05-2001

Joining a lively and enthusiastic team dedicated to the support of the
Schools networked computing facilities, you will be involved in supporting
and developing the Schools computer systems used for teaching, research
and administration. An ability to work with a number of different
colleagues within a highly challenging and stimulating teaching and
research environment is expected, as is experience with the use of both
Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Salary: Computer Officer Grade 1/2 (16,775 to 25,213 p.a.)

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr PK Jimack (pkj at comp.leeds.ac.uk) in
the School of Computing (tel. 0113 233 5464).

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See http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/ for further information about the School
or http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts for further info about these posts.
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Fri May  4 15:19:29 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:19:29 +0200
Subject: Appel: colloque "Ethique et Nouvelles Technologies,
 l'appropriation des savoirs en question"
Message-ID: <FRI.4.MAY.2001.171929.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

Dans le cadre des journées Initiatives 2001 et du IXème Sommet de la
Francophonie, l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) organise à
Beyrouth (Liban) un colloque intitulé "Ethique et Nouvelles Technologies,
l'appropriation des savoirs en question", les 25 et 26 septembre 2001.
Il s'agira d'examiner les enjeux éducatifs, scientifiques et culturels du
développement des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la
Communication, ainsi que leur impact sur les pratiques de trasmission des
connaissances.
L'appel à communications est consultable et téléchargeable sur le site
www.lb.refer.org/initiatives2001


Cordialement
Timothée Darmon,
Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
Bureau Europe
4 place de la Sorbonne
75005 Paris
01 44 41 18 18
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Fri May  4 15:24:02 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:24:02 +0200
Subject: Appel: NLE journal special issue on Robust Methods in Analysis of
 Natural Language Data
Message-ID: <FRI.4.MAY.2001.172402.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

                     Call for Papers

             for a Special Issue of the Journal

                Natural Language Engineering

                            on

     Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data

                 Special Issue guest editors:

                         Afzal Ballim
                      Vincenzo Pallotta

                Department of Computer Science
      Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne.


The automated analysis of natural language data has become a central
issue in the design of Intelligent Information Systems. The term
"natural language" is intended to cover all the possible modalities of
human communication and it is not restricted to written or spoken
language.  Processing unrestricted natural language is still
considered as an AI-hard task. However various analysis techniques
have been proposed in order to address specific aspects of natural
language. In particular, recent interest has been on providing
approximate analysis techniques, assuming that perfect analysis is not
possible, but that partial results are still very useful.

There are many ways in which the topic of robustness may be tackled:
as a competency problem, as a problem of achieving interesting partial
results, as a shallow analysis method, etc. What they have in common
is that no simple combination of "complete" analysis modules for
different linguistic levels in a chain can give a robust system,
because they cannot adequately account for real-world data. Rather,
robustness must be considered as a system-wide concern. We consider of
central interest improving and integrating various processing methods
with respect to the following issues:

* Extending coverage

* Improving efficiency

* Disambiguation ability

* Approximate processing

* Enhancement of underlying theories

Robustness may be seen as an engineering "add-on" - something that we
add to a system to take account of the inability of our theories to
cope with real-world data - or as a basic element of our theories -
our theories are developed to admit that understanding of the domain
can be incomplete. Both approaches may be valid under certain
circumstances.

The main goal of this Special Issue of the Natural Language
Engineering journal is devoted to advances in fields like artificial
intelligence, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction,
cognitive sciences who are faced with the problem of feasible and
reliable NLP systems implementation. Theoretical aspects of robustness
in NLP are welcome as well as engineering and industrial experiences.

We invite papers on all topics related to Robustness in Natural
Language Processing and Understanding, including, but not limited to:

          Text Analysis
          Knowledge and Information Extraction
          Spoken Dialogue Systems
          Multimodal Human-Computer interfaces
          Natural Language Architectures
          Distributed NLP
          NLP and Soft Computing
          Semantics
          Underspecification
          Multimedia Document Analysis
          Robust Parsing
          Incremental Parsing
          Discourse analysis
          Summarization
          Complexity of linguistic analysis
          Hybrid methods in computational linguistics
          Text Mining
          Corpus linguistics
          Indexing and Information Retrieval

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:


We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously
unpublished research, be written in English, and not be simultaneously
submitted for publication elsewhere (previous publication of partial
results at workshops with informal proceedings is allowed).

Papers should be formatted according to the NLE journal instructions
and should be between 15 and 25 pages long. The preferred formatting
system is LaTex, which can be used for direct typesetting, and a style
file is available through anonymous ftp from the following address:
ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/nle-sty/. In case of
difficulty there is a helpline available on e-mail:
texline at cup.cam.ac.uk. If LaTex is not available, the publisher may be
able to use alternative formatting systems (please specify which was
used (e.g. WordPerfect 5.0, MSWord2000,etc.)), but reserves the right
in all cases to typeset any paper by conventional means.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Papers due: 30 June 2001
Acceptance notice: 30 October 2001
Final version due: 31 January 2002
Journal publication: (after March 2002)

REVIEWING COMMITTEE:

Jerry Hobs
Massimo Poesio
Karsten Worm
Fabio Ciravegna
John Carroll
Ted Briscoe
Michael Hess
Kay-Uwe Carstensen
Susan Armstrong
Yorik Wilks
Dan Cristea
Liviu Ciortuz
Eric Wherli
Fabio Rinaldi
Rodolfo Delmonte
Wolfgang Menzel
Salah Ait-Mokhtar
Alberto Lavelli
Rens Bod
Joachim Niehren
Roberto Basili
Maria Teresa Pazienza
Manuela Boros
Diego Mollá-Aliod
Hervé Bourlard
B. Srinivas
C.J. Rupp
Peter Asveld
Hatem Ghorbel
Giovanni Coray
Martin Rajman
Jean-Cédric Chappelier


ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed to
meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all areas
of computerised language processing, whether from the perspective of
theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology, computer science
or engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between
traditional computational linguistics research and the implementation
of practical applications with potential real-world use. As well as
publishing research articles on a broad range of topicsfrom text
analysis, machine translation and speech generation and synthesis to
integrated systems and multi modal interfaces the journal also
publishes book reviews. Its aim is to provide the essential link
between industry and the academic community.

Natural Language Engineering encourages papers reporting research with
a clear potential for practical application. Theoretical papers that
consider techniques in sufficient detail to provide for practical
implementation are also welcomed, as are shorter reports of on-going
research, conference reports, comparative discussions of NLE products,
and policy-oriented papers examining e.g. funding programmes or market
opportunities. All contributions are peer reviewed and the review
process is specifically designed to be fast, contributing to the rapid
publication of accepted papers.


Editors

B. K. Boguraev
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA

Christian Jaquemin
University of Paris (LIMSI), FR

John I. Tait
University of Sunderland, UK

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2000/nle.html

For any information related to the organization, please contact:

Vincenzo Pallotta

DI-LITH EPFL
IN F Ecublens
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

tel. +41-21-693 52 97
fax. +41-21-693 52 78
Vincenzo.Pallotta at epfl.ch
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Wed May  9 16:37:47 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:37:47 +0200
Subject: Appel: RANLP
Message-ID: <WED.9.MAY.2001.183747.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

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   *                                                         *
   *     RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING      *
   *                                                         *
   *               Euro Conference RANLP-2001                *
   *                  5-7 September 2001                     *
   *                 Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria                  *
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   *             http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/                *
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Further to the successful and competitive 1st and 2nd conferences
on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (selected papers
from which were published by John Benjamins as CILT  vol.136
and CILT vol.189), we are pleased to announce the third RANLP
conference to be held this year.

The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented
will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference.
There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions.


TOPICS

We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of
Natural Language Processing. We encourage the representation of
a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics,
discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology,
and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP;
machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and
tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging;  parsing;
electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology;
word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval;
information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text
categorisation; question- answering; dialogue systems; speech
processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources;
evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related
to NLP of every kind.


INVITED SPEAKERS

   Branimir Boguraev (IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center)
   Graeme Hirst      (University of Toronto)
   Ed Hovy           (Information Sciences Institute / USC)
   Martin Kay        (Xerox Parc)
   James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
   Yorick Wilks      (Sheffield University)


PROGRAMME CHAIR

   Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE


   Elisabeth Andre 		(University of Augsburg)
   Galia Angelova 		(BAS, Sofia)
   Lamia Belguith 		(LARIS-FSEG, University of Sfax)
   Branimir Boguraev 		(IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center)
   Kalina Bontcheva 		(Sheffield University)
   Eric Brill 			(Microsoft Research)
   Eugene Charniak 		(Brown University, Providence)
   Key-Sun Choi 		(KAIST)
   Dan Cristea 			(University of Iasi)
   Hamish Cunningham 		(Sheffield University)
   Ido Dagan 			(Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, and FocusEngine, Tel Aviv)
   Richard Evans		(University of Wolverhampton)
   Fumiyo Fukumoto 		(Yamanashi University)
   Maria Gavrilidou 		(ILSP, Athens)
   Alexander Gelbukh 		(National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)
   Gregory Grefenstette 	(Xerox Research, Grenoble)
   Udo Hahn 			(Freiburg University)
   Nadia Hegazy 		(ERI)
   Graeme Hirst 		(University of Toronto)
   Eduard Hovy 			(Information Sciences Institute / USC)
   Hitoshi Iida 		(SONY Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.)
   Frances Johnson 		(Manchester Metropolitan University)
   Martin Kay 			(Xerox Parc, Palo Alto)
   Alma Kharrat 		(Microsoft Natural Language Group)
   Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova	(Charles University, Prague)
   Lori Lamel 			(CNRS-LIMSI, Orsay)
   Lillian Lee 			(Cornell University)
   Xiaoqiang Luo 		(IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center)
   Inderjeet Mani 		(Georgetown University and MITRE)
   Daniel Marcu 		(Information Sciences Institute / USC)
   Chris Mellish 		(University of Edinburgh)
   Wolfgang Menzel 		(University of Hamburg)
   Andrei Mikheev 		(University of Edinburgh)
   Tony McEnery 		(Lancaster University)
   Nicolas Nicolov 		(IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center)
   Kemal Oflazer 		(Sabanci University, Istanbul)
   Jose Quesada 		(University of Seville)
   Manuel Palomar 		(University of Alicante)
   Ted Pedersen 		(University of Minnesota Duluth)
   Stelios Piperidis 		(ILSP, Athens)
   Gabor Proszeky 		(Morphologic)
   James Pustejovsky 		(University of Brandeis)
   Dragomir Radev 		(University of Michigan)
   Allan Ramsay 		(UMIST, Manchester)
   Ellen Riloff 		(University of Utah)
   Monique Rolbert 		(Universite de Marseille)
   Christer Samuelsson 		(Indigo, Montreal)
   Donia Scott 			(University of Brighton)
   Keh-Yih Su 			(Behavior Design Corporation)
   John Tait 			(University of Sunderland)
   Isabelle Trancoso 		(INEC, Lisbon)
   Karin Vespoor 		(Intelligenesis, New York)
   Piek Vossen 			(Saillabs, Antwerpen)
   Yorick Wilks 		(Sheffield University)
   Michael Zock 		(CNRS-LIMSI, Orsay)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:  PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS

Notification of Submission

Authors should email notification of submission with the completed
form below to <K.Bontcheva at dcs.shef.ac.uk> with subject line:
"RANLP2001 notification of submission". After submitting the
information below you will receive by email a paper ID code which
should be used in all correspondence (including the paper submission).

   # NAME : Name of author for correspondence
   # TITLE: Title of the paper
   # TYPE : paper / poster / demo
   # KEYS : Keywords
   # EMAIL: Email of author for correspondence
   # PAGES: Number of pages (including bibliographical references)
   # FILE : Name of PDF file (avoid RANLP2001.pdf and the like!!!)
   # ABSTR:
   #        Abstract of the paper
   #        . . . . . .
   # OTHER: Under consideration for other conferences (specify)?
   # NOTE : Anything you'd like to add

Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not
exceed seven pages (poster and demo submissions should be no
longer than 5 pages), including cover page, figures, tables and
references. The first page should state the title of the paper,
the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es),
followed by keywords and an abstract and continue with the first
section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically
in **PDF** format. For up to three free convertions to PDF see
'http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS'. In exceptional
circumstances hard copies/MS-Word/PS versions might be accepted.

Send your electronic PDF submission to <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
(please quote paper ID - see above 'notification of submission').

Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme
Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines
how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion
in the proceedings.


TUTORIALS

RANLP-2001 will be preceded by 2 days of tutorials. See
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ for a preliminary list of tutorial
speakers.


SCHEDULE

   Paper Pre-registration:     10 May 2001
   Paper Submission Due:       *** 15 May 2001 ***
   Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2001
   Camera-ready Paper Due:     5 August 2001
   Tutorials:                  3-4 September 2001
   Conference:                 5-7 September 2001



LOCATION

Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains
surrounding the Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from
Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will
\provide a daily shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia
airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate.


FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information can be obtained from:

   Galia Angelova (OC Chair)
   Linguistic Modelling Laboratory
   Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
   25A Acad. G. Bonchev Str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
   galia at lml.bas.bg


SPONSORS

The conference is funded by the European Commission, DGXII
through Human Potential Programme for High-Level Scientific
Conferences (contract number HPCF-2000-00329).


CONFERENCE MAILING LIST

If you would like to receive information you may subscribe
to the conference mailing list by sending an e-mail to
majordomo at dcs.shef.ac.uk with a body (no subject)
'subscribe ranlp2001'. When you receive the confirmation
e-mail, please make sure that you return the requested code
to confirm your subscription.
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Wed May  9 16:39:41 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:39:41 +0200
Subject: Conf: LACL 2001 (LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS)
Message-ID: <WED.9.MAY.2001.183941.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

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                 Call for Participation - Program

                            LACL 2001

                 4th International Conference on
LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

                        June 27 -- 29, 2001

      Le Croisic (on the ocean coast, nearby Nantes), France

             Deadline for early registration: June 1st

                    http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001

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*** Practical information, schedule, on-line registration:

http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001
http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2001/LACL2001

*** Contact:

Christele Soulas  csoulas at irisa.fr
Elisabeth Lebret  lebret at irisa.fr

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-- LACL 2001 PROGRAM --
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--- Invited speakers -----------------------------

Geoffrey K. PULLUM,  Barbara C. SCHOLZ :
On the distinction between Model-theoretic and
Generative-enumerative syntactic frameworks

Michael MOORTGAT :
Structural Reasoning in Categorial Learning

Mark STEEDMAN :
Reconciling Type-Logical and Combinatory
Extensions of Categorial Grammar


--- Contributed papers -------------------------

M. A. ALONSO, E. DE LA CLERGERIE,  M. VILARES :
A formal definition of Bottom-up Embedded Push-Down
Automata and their tabulation technique

D. BARGELLI, J. LAMBEK :
An algebraic Approach to French Sentence Structure

P. BOTTONI, B. MEYER, K. MARRIOTT, F. PARISI PRESICCE :
Deductive Parsing of Visual Languages

W. BUSZKOWSKI :
Lambek Grammars based on Pregroups

C. CASADIO, J. LAMBEK :
An Algebraic Analysis of Clitic Pronouns in Italian

C. COSTA FLORENCIO :
Consistent Identification in the Limit of any of the Classes
k-Valued is NP-hard

A.DIKOVSKY :
Polarized Non-projective Dependency Grammars

A. FORET :
Mixing Deduction and Substitution in
Lambek Categorial Grammars, some investigations

C. FOX, S. LAPPIN :
Framework for the Hyperintensional Semantics
of Natural Language with Two Implementations

H. HARKEMA :
A Characterization of Minimalist Languages

T. LAGER, J. NIVRE :
Part of Speech Tagging from a Logical Point of View

J. MICHAELIS :
Transforming Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
into Minimalist Grammars

E. STABLER :
Recognizing Head Movement

J. VILLADSEN :
Combinators for Paraconsistent Attitudes

J. VILLANEAU, J.-Y. ANTOINE, O. RIDOUX :
Combining Syntax and Semantical Knowledge
for Semantic Analysis of Spoken Language

R. ZUBER :
Atomicity of Some Categorially Polyvalent Modifiers


--- Panel discussion : Logic in Contemporary Linguistics
and Computational Linguistics


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*** Organizers:

IRISA (INRIA, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, INSA)
IRIN  (Université de Nantes)

*** Sponsors:

France Telecom  R&D
Xerox
Loire Atlantique
Pays de la Loire
Ville de Nantes
Université de Rennes 1
Université de Nantes

*** Book and journal exhibition:

Elsevier
Hermes
Kluwer
Lincom Europa
MIT Press
Springer-Verlag
World Scientific Publishing Company

*** Other events in computational linguistics in France, early July:

2-5 july, Tours, TALN & RECITAL 2001:
http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/

6-11 july, Toulouse, ACL 2001:
http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html

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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:40:30 +0200
Subject: Appel: Revue Computer Speech and Language
Message-ID: <WED.9.MAY.2001.184030.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

Computer Speech and Language

Call for Journal Papers: Special Issue on Spoken Language Generation

Aim: There are long traditions of research in both natural language
generation and speech synthesis. However, recently, as applications
have emerged requiring spoken language output, such as spoken dialog
systems, speech-to-speech translation systems, automated sports
commentators, and directions systems, there has been an increase in
research that relates these two strands of work. This research is
motivated by the goal of producing higher quality spoken output by
using knowledge that the system has about the purpose, meaning and
linguistic form of the communication. Research challenges include: the
generation of utterances in interactive dialogue that are sensitive
to listeners working memory constraints, the generation of speech acts
whose purpose is other than to describe or inform, determining the
appropriate prosody for spoken output, and incorporating corpus-based
or statistical knowledge into the generation and synthesis
processes. In the past there has not been much contact between the
generation and synthesis communities. The purpose of this special
issue is to collect papers of interest to both communities. We
encourage the submission of papers in both generation and synthesis
oriented towards use in spoken language systems, and we especially
welcome those describing work at the intersection of these two
fields.

Submissions should meet the following criteria:

* Describe completed and original work not published
  elsewhere. (Extensions of work-shop or conference publications are
  acceptable.)

* Make clear how the research described contributes to generating
  spoken language.

* Include an empirical component, in the form of a corpus-based or
  machine-learning methodology, and/or in the form of an empirical
  evaluation.

* Be no longer than 70 to 80 manuscript pages (double-spaced)


Important deadlines:

* Submissions due: July 31st, 2001.

* Notification of acceptance: September 28th, 2001.


Manuscript submission

The Computer Speech and Language home page is at:
http://www.academicpress.com/csl where you can find instructions for
authors, latex templates, electronic submission, and other information
under the information box.

Please send email with any questions to walker at research.att.com.

Editors of the Special Issue

Owen Rambow and Marilyn Walker
AT&T Labs Research
Room B233
180 Park Ave.
Florham Park, New Jersey 07932
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:42:06 +0200
Subject: Appel: 16th EUROPEAN MEETING ON CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH
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                               *          *
                       *                          *

                 *      SIXTEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING      *

               *                    ON                    *

                 *   CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH   *

                       *       (EMCSR 2002)       *

                             April 2 - 5, 2002

                            UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA


         organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
                           in cooperation with
  Dept.of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ.of Vienna
                                   and
              International Federation for Systems Research


                                * * * * *

An electronic version of this CfP (and further information whenever it
becomes available) can be found at

                        http://www.oefai.at/emcsr/

                                * * * * *

The international support of the European Meetings on Cybernetics and
Systems Research held in Austria in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982,
1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 (when 500 scientists
from more than 40 countries from all continents, except the
Antarctica, met to present, hear and discuss 134 papers) encouraged the Council
of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (ÖSGK) to organize a similar
meeting in 2002 to keep pace with continued rapid developments in related
fields.


Sessions

A  Systems Science
     G.J.Klir, USA, and P.Vysoky, Czech Republic
B  Mathematical Methods in Cybernetics and Systems Theory
     Y.Rav, France
C  System, the Quantum, and Complexity
     M.Carvallo, Netherlands
D  Systemic Aspects of Component-Based System Development
     G.Chroust, Austria, and F.Stallinger, Austria
E  Foundations of Information Science (FIS)
     G.Ossimitz, Austria, and B.A.Banathy, USA
F  Designing and Systems
     W.Gasparski, Poland
G  Biocybernetics and Mathematical Biology
     L.M.Ricciardi, Italy
H  Systems Science in Medicine
     F.Tretter, Germany, and G.Porenta, Austria
I  Simulation of Social Behaviour and Artificial Economy
     K.Hornik, Austria, and A.Taudes, Austria
J  Cultural Systems
     P.Ballonoff, USA, I.Ezhkova, Belgium, M.Fischer, UK, P.Jorion,
     France, and D.Read, USA
K  Management and Organizational Change
     S.A.Umpleby, USA
L  Soft Computing and Knowledge-Based Systems
     C.Carlsson, Finland, and K.-P.Adlaßnig, Austria
M  Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems
     S.Kollias, Greece, and G.Dorffner, Austria
N  AT2AI-3: From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation
     J.P.Müller, Germany, and P.Petta, Austria
O  ACE 2002: Agent Construction and Emotions
     C.Pinto-Ferreira, Portugal, R.Ventura, Portugal, and P.Petta,
     Austria
P  Bayesian Techniques for Mining Data and Texts, and the Discovery of
   Surprising Knowledge
     Y.Kodratoff, France
Q  Theory and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
     V.Marik, Czech Republic, and E.Buchberger, Austria
R  Communication and Computers
     A M.Tjoa, Austria
S  History of Cybernetics and Information Technology
     F.Pichler, Austria


Submission Guidelines

Acceptance of contributions will be determined on the basis of Draft
Final Papers. Each paper must explain clearly

    - what problem it is trying to address,
    - what has been tried before and why it isn't good enough,
    - WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHY IT IS BETTER,
    - some proof that your method is sound (or reference to it),
    - how it will help others/apply to other problems,
    - some results/proof it works.

Draft Final Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced A4 pages (maximum
43 lines, max. line length 160 mm, 12 point), in English. They have to
contain the final text to be submitted, including graphs and pictures.
However, these need not be of reproducible quality.

They must carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation (incl.
e-mail address, if possible) in this order, and must include an
abstract.

Please specify the symposium in which you would like to present your
paper. Each scientist shall submit only one paper. Please send four
hard copies of the Draft Final Paper to the Conference Secretariat (not to
symposia chairpersons!) Electronic or fax submissions cannot be
accepted.


Deadline for submission

                           October 19, 2001

Submissions received after the deadline cannot be considered.


Notification of Acceptance/Rejection

Authors will be notified about acceptance or rejection no later than
December 7, 2001. Successful authors will be provided by the
conference secretariat at the same time with the instructions for the
preparation of the final paper, which will also be available via ftp and
World-Wide Web.


Final Papers

The final paper will be limited to a maximum of 6 pages (10-point,
double column). Camera-ready copies of the final paper will
be due at the conference secretariat by January 18, 2002. Acceptance
of the final paper will be based on compliance with the reviewers'
comments.


Presentation

It is understood that each accepted paper is presented personally at
the Meeting by one of its authors.


Conference Fee

     ATS 2900 (Euro 210.75) if received before January 31, 2002
     Euro 255 if received later
     Euro 305 if paid at the conference desk.

The Conference Fee includes participation in the Sixteenth European
Meeting, attendance at official receptions, coffee during breaks, and
the volumes of the proceedings available at the Meeting. Please send
cheque,
or transfer the amount free of charges for beneficiary to the
account no. 0026-34400/00 of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic
Studies at Creditanstalt-Bankverein Vienna (bank routing number: 11000, SWIFT
code: CABVATWW). Please state your name clearly.


Hotel Accommodation

will be handled by

AUSTROPA INTERCONVENTION,
Friedrichstraße 7
A-1010 Vienna
phone +43-1-58800-514
fax +43-1-58800-520.
Reservation forms will be sent to all those registering for the
conference.


Scholarships

The International Federation for Systems Research is willing to
provide a limited number of scholarships covering the registration fee for the
conference for colleagues from weak currency countries. Applications should
be sent to the Conference Secretariat before October 20, 2001.


Insurance

The conference organizers can accept no liability for personal
injuries, or for loss or damage to property belonging to conference
participants, either during or as a result of the conference.
Please check the validity of your personal insurance.


Chairman of the Meeting

Robert Trappl, President
Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies

Secretariat

S. Fischer and I. Ghobrial-Willmann
Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
A-1010 Vienna 1, Schottengasse 3 (Austria)
Phone: +43-1-5336112-60
Fax: +43-1-4277-9631
E-mail: sec at oefai.at

Programme Committee

 K.-P. Adlaßnig (Austria)  V. Marik (Czech Republic)
 P. Ballonoff (USA)        J.P. Müller (Germany)
 B. A.Banathy (USA)        G. Ossimitz (Austria)
 E. Buchberger (Austria)   P. Petta (Austria)
 C. Carlsson (Finland)     F. Pichler (Austria)
 M. Carvallo (Netherlands) C. Pinto-Ferreira (Portugal)
 G. Chroust (Austria)      G. Porenta (Austria)
 G. Dorffner (Austria)     Y. Rav (France)
 I. Ezhkova (Belgium)      D. Read (USA)
 M. Fischer (UK)           L. M. Ricciardi (Italy)
 W. Gasparski (Poland)     N. Rozsenich (Austria)
 G. Grössing (Austria)     F. Stallinger (Austria)
 W. Horn (Austria)         A. Taudes (Austria)
 K. Hornik (Austria)       A M. Tjoa (Austria)
 P. Jorion (France)        R. Trappl (Austria)
 G. J. Klir (USA)          F. Tretter (Germany)
 S. Kollias (Greece)       H. Trost (Austria)
 Y. Kodratoff (France)     S. A. Umpleby (USA)
 O. Ladanyi (Austria)      R. Ventura (Portugal)
                           P. Vysoky (Czech Republic)

Organizing Committee

 E. Buchberger             W. Horn
 G. Chroust                J. Matiasek
 S. Fischer                P. Petta
 I. Ghobrial-Willmann      R. Trappl
 C. Holzbaur               H. Trost

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               PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 19, 2001
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:44:35 +0200
Subject: Jobs: NLP engineer, ERSS, Toulouse, France
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Apologies for duplicates

=================
JOB ADVERTISEMENT
=================

[Version française ci-dessous]

The ERSS (Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique) is a CNRS
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) laboratory located in
Toulouse, France.

A position for a NLP engineer is now open as part of the CNRS
recruitment campaign.

The successful candidate will be involved in computational linguistics
projects, especially concerning corpus processing and terminology
databases.

Requirements are a PhD and/or a French engineer degree (details for
non-French degrees available from the CNRS).

Mission :
- conception and management of textual and/or lexical databases
- conception of user-interfaces for corpus processing
- integration of corpus processing tools developed at the ERSS

Required skills :
- Perl, Java, C++, XML
- Unix, Windows.
- DBMS and SQL
- Server-client architecture
- interest in linguistics
- Ability to interact with humanities researchers
- Fluency in French and English


Application's dead line is June, 5th, 2001.

Contact for the ERSS :
Marc Plénat : plenat at univ-tlse2.fr

ERSS' WWW Site :
http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/

CNRS' WWW Site (for practical details concerning application)
http://sg-val.dsi.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/agenda2001.htm

---

L'Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique, UMR 5610 du CNRS,
Université de Toulouse Le Mirail (http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/)
recrute un Ingénieur de Recherche CNRS en informatique .

Il s'intégrera à la composante TAL du laboratoire, et sa mission sera
de développer des applications informatiques pour la linguistique.

Activités :
- Conception, mise en place et maintenance d'une base de données
  textuelles ;
- Conception, mise en place et maintenance d'une base de données
  lexicales ;
- Conception et développement d'interfaces d'interrogation pour les
  bases de données ci-dessus et pour les outils existants (conçus ou
  achetés) afin de les rendre accessibles à des linguistes non
  informaticiens ;
- Connexion des outils présents dans le laboratoire (conçus ou
  achetés) avec d'autres outils (étiqueteurs, par exemple) :
  constitution de passerelles entre ces outils ;
- Participation à des réponses à appels d'offre régionaux, nationaux
  ou internationaux émanant d'organismes publics ou privés ;
- Participation à la gestion des projets en linguistique informatique
  du laboratoire ;
- Valorisation des ressources existantes dans le laboratoire au niveau
  national ou international.


Compétences :
- Connaissance des langages Perl, Java, C++, XML
- Connaissance des systèmes d'exploitation Unix et Windows
- Connaissance des SGBD relationnels
- Connaissance des applications client/serveur
- Sensibilité aux problématiques linguistiques
- Capacité de dialogue avec des chercheurs en sciences humaines
- Maîtrise de l'anglais à l'écrit et à l'oral


Ce poste est ouvert à toute personne titualaire d'un doctorat ou d'un
diplôme d'ingénieur grande école.

Renseignements sur la procédure :
http://sg-val.dsi.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/agenda2001.htm
Date limite de candidature : 5 Juin 2000

Contact pour le profil du poste :

Marc Plénat, directeur de l'ERSS
plenat at univ-tlse2.Fr
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From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 14:06:17 +0100
Subject: R: Polices cyrilliques, arabes, hebraiques pour Mac
Message-ID: <FRI.11.MAY.2001.140617.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:47:05 +0200
From: Michel Eytan <eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Message-Id: <p0510030bb71ef9c9ba90 at 130.79.160.99>
X-url: http://www.historian.net/downloads/


cf <http://www.historian.net/downloads/>

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From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr  Fri May 11 13:10:47 2001
From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 14:10:47 +0100
Subject: Q: OCR, antique document, old French
Message-ID: <FRI.11.MAY.2001.141047.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:43:22 +0100
From: "Dominique Dutoit" <dutoit at info.unicaen.fr>
Message-ID: <033301c0d15a$12a2e0e0$4ce4f9c1 at platon>
X-url: http://www.memodata.com


For a project, we need an OCR for antique documents (like texts
published in the 700).  It is possible that in France any special OCR
is available.  Could you try to help me? It is for a project on
special scientific editions.

Dominique Dutoit

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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Mon May 14 15:55:58 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:55:58 +0200
Subject: Appel: II  INTERNATIONAL CONTRASTIVE  LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE
 (ICLCII)
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SORRY FOR MULTIPLE COPIES

UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOLOXIA INGLESA

II  INTERNATIONAL CONTRASTIVE  LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE (ICLCII)

Contrasts across/within languages

(25 HOURS)
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA,  25th to 27th OCTOBER 2001

Second Circular. April 2001


PROGRAMME
The organisers of this symposium, which will consist of plenary
lectures, papers, seminars and round tables, seek to offer an open
forum in which recent studies and projects in the field of Contrastive
Linguistics may be presented and debated.  The Conference will be
divided into three sections:

1.)  Cross-cultural communication. We hope to cater for contributions
relating to cultural intercommunication and to processes of
sociocultural and linguistic exchange.

2.)  The second section will be devoted to topics related to
Contrastive Linguistic Description (Grammar, Lexico-Semantics,
Phonetics and Phonology).

3.)  Finally, in the third section, we shall analyse the processes of
intercommunication through Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Rhetoric,
Translation Studies, Languages for Specific Purposes, and Second
Language Acquisition.


INVITED SPEAKERS
The following have agreed to give plenary lectures:

John Sinclair (University of Birmingham)

Christopher Butler (University of Swansea)

Gregory Myers (University of Lancaster)

Pablo Dominguez (University of La Laguna)

Antonio Garnica Silva (University of Sevilla)

Felix Rodriguez Gonzalez (University of Alicante)

Maria de los Angeles Gomez Gonzalez (University of Santiago)

Eduardo Varela Bravo (University of Vigo)


PAPERS, SEMINARS AND ROUND TABLES
We accept proposals for papers, seminars and round tables that conform
to the guidelines given in the first circular
(http://www.usc.es/ia303/benvidag.htm), until 15th MAY 2001. On 20th
MAY we shall send confirmation of acceptance of the proposals
presented.

PROCEEDINGS
We plan to publish the proceedings of the conference. For this
purpose, participants should let us have an original version of their
work, before 30th December 2001 and in Word formats.

CONFERENCE FEES
The fee will be 10,000 pesetas (5,000 pesetas for students (copy of
student i.d. required)). If it should become necessary, an extra 2,000
pesetas may be charged for a copy of the Proceedings. This amount
would not be required until the Proceedings are published.

(We are trying to secure the convalidation of the 25 hours, to count
as one credit in the 1st or 2nd cycle of the philology degree
courses.)

The maximum number of participants will be 200.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE
The committee consists of the following members of the English
Department:

Luis Iglesias Rabade

Maria de los Angeles Gomez Gonzalez

Susana Doval Suarez

Andrew Rollings

Elsa Gonzalez Alvarez

Antonio Alvarez Rodriguez


ADDRESS / CONTACT DETAILS
II International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLCII)

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Departamento de Ingles
Facultade de Filoloxia. Campus Norte
O Burgo

Avda. de Castelao, s/n

E-15782 Santiago de Compostela

Tel.:    +34  981 575 340. Extensions 11897 or 11856

Fax:     +34  981 574 646

E-mail: iarabade at usc.es  or  iadimly at usc.es

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

BOLETIN DE INSCRIPCION/REGISTRATION FORM
FORMAS DE PAGO/FORMS OF PAYMENT

(a) By cheque to ICLCII sent to the address below or (b) by BANK
TRANSFER to the following bank account:

Note: Attach a copy of the transfer to this registration form or fax it
to fax N0 +34 981 574646

BANCO/BANK:

Banco Santander Central-Hispano. Caldereria 54-56. 15700 Santiago.
Cta./Cte.: 0049 2584  90 2214002210

D(na.)/Mr(s)...........................................................
....................................................................

Direccion/Address.................................

Ingresa la cantidad de (REGISTRATION FEE) ................. PTAS.
(en letra/in block letters)...

........................................

En concepto de: INSCRIPCION AL "II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE
LINGUISTICA CONTRASTIVA" (Octubre, 2001)/REGISTRATION FOR THE
"SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE (October,
2001).

                                   ......................,
................., .....................................2001




*******************************
Dr Maria de los Angeles GOMEZ-GONZALEZ
Profesora Titular de Filoloxia Inglesa
Departmento de Filoloxia Inglesa
Facultade de Filoloxia
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Avda. de Castelao, s/n
E- 15782 Santiago de Compostela. Spain
Fax.: + 00 34  981-574646
Tel:  + 00 34  981-563100   Ext. 11856
email: iadimly at usc.es
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:57:06 +0200
Subject: Jobs: MSc and PhD Studentships---Informatics,
 University of Edinburgh
Message-ID: <MON.14.MAY.2001.175706.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

EDINBURGH-STANFORD LINK STUDENTSHIPS

Human Communication Research Centre and
Division of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh

3 MSC STUDENTSHIPS and
1 PhD STUDENTSHIP
to start in October 2001

Application deadline: June 8th 2001
Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this
cannot be guaranteed.

The Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC) at the University of
Edinburgh, under the auspices of the Division of Informatics, invites
applications for three one-year MSc studenthips and one three-year PhD
studentship in the areas of Computational Linguistics and/or Human
Computer Interaction.

These studentships are funded by Scottish Enterprise, as part of a new
link between HCRC and the Centre for the Study of Language and
Information (CSLI), Stanford University.

The MSc students will be registered for the Edinburgh-based MSc,
entitled "Cognitive Science and Natural Language" (see
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/school/study/msc).  They will have an
opportunity to do their summer dissertation at CSLI Stanford, or as an
intern with a company based in the Stanford or Edinburgh areas.

The PhD student's project will be based on collaborative activities
with colleagues at CSLI and/or companies in the Bay Area.  Possible
PhD topics include (but are not limited to):

o	 statistical and symbolic models of natural language
	 processing (NLP);
o	 dialogue systems;
o	 human factors in computer-mediated communication;
o	 NLP applications to data mining

Applicants for both the MSc and PhD should have a good honours degree
or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics,
Psychology or related subject.  Programming skills, preferably in C,
C++ or java, are essential.  Familiarity with current linguistic
theory in syntax and semantics is a distinct advantage.

The MSc studentships will pay tuition fees (at home rate, i.e., 2805
pounds stirling) plus a maintenance allowance of 7,500 pounds
sterling.  If the summer dissertation is to be carried out in the Bay
Area, then travel expenses will also be paid.

The PhD studentship will pay tuition fees (at home rate, i.e., 2805
pounds stirling) plus a maintenance allowance of 7,500 pounds sterling
per annum for three years.  There is also a travel allowance to enable
collaborations with colleagues in the Bay Area.

HCRC has close research links with the Institute for Communicating and
Collaborative Systems (ICCS) within the Division of Informatics.  You
can find out more information about the relevant institutions from:

HCRC:	 http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk
ICCS:	 http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk
CSLI:	 http://www-csli.stanford.edu

Information about students, the Edinburgh PhD Programme, and how to
apply for a PhD can be found by following the various links from the
following URL:

	http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/school/study/

Please note that applicants must fill in the faculty's relevant
postgraduate application form.  Details on how to receive this form
can be found by following the relevant links from the above URL (see
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ccs/study/apply/).

Deadline for applications: June 8th, 2001.
Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this
cannot be guaranteed.

For additional advice and information on how to apply for the PhD
studentship, please contact:

   Admissions Chair
   The Graduate School
   Division of Informatics
   The University of Edinburgh
   2, Buccleuch Place,
   Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
   Scotland, UK.

email: phd-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk
tel:   +44 131 650 4439
fax:   +44 131 650 6626

For additional advice and information on how to apply for the MSc
studentships, please contact:

   Msc Admissions,
   The Graduate School,
   Division of Informatics,
   University of Edinburgh,
   5, Forrest Hill,
   Edinburgh, EH1 2QL,
   Scotland UK.

email: msc-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk
fax:   +44 131 650 6899

PLEASE MARK "STANFORD LINK" ON THE APPLICATION.

For additional information regarding the Edinburgh-Stanford Link,
please contact:

   Alex Lascarides
   ICCS,
   Division of Informatics
   The University of Edinburgh
   2 Buccleuch Place
   Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
   Scotland, UK.

   Email: alex at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
   Tel:   +44 131 650 4428
   Fax:   +44 131 650 6626
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:58:29 +0200
Subject: Publications: Revue I3 Information-Interaction-Intelligence
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	      - Annonce -
	Parution de la Revue I3
	Information-Interaction-Intelligence
	http://www.Revue-I3.org/

La revue Information - Interaction - Intelligence est une revue fondée
et animée par des chercheurs du GDR I3. Ancrée dans le champ des
Sciences du Traitement de l'Information, la revue se veut l'expression
d'une démarche à caractère transversal et multidisciplinaire; son
objectif est la publication de travaux théoriques et appliqués
apportant un éclairage nouveau et des capacités accrues de traitement
de l'information, par le rapprochement entre différents domaines de
recherche, ou par l'intégration de plusieurs types d'approches, de
modèles ou d'outils.

S'inscrivant dans le mouvement actuel de la communication multimédia,
tout en s'appuyant sur la tradition de l'imprimé, la revue intégrera
au sein d'un même réseau la publication imprimée et électronique
d'articles et d'objets multimédia à caractère scientifique. En outre,
elle servira de cadre à l'organisation d'ateliers de discussion
prolongeant et suscitant le travail de publication. La gestion des
articles soumis et la partie imprimée est gérée par l'IRIT à Toulouse
en collaboration avec Cépaduès-Editions, le site électronique est géré
par l'IMAG à Grenoble, et la partie "atelier" animée par le LIP6 à
Paris. La revue, publiée sous forme imprimée, paraîtra deux fois par
an.

Le premier numéro de la revue paraîtra en juin prochain, il sera édité
chez Cépaduès-Editions; les articles seront disponibles dès leur
parution sur le site de la revue, que nous invitons à visiter dès
maintenant à l'adresse suivante:

    http://www.Revue-I3.org/

Nous espérons que vous serez nombreux à nous aider à faire vivre cette
revue en vous abonnant et en contribuant aux prochains numéros.

Catherine Garbay, Anne Doucet et Henri Prade.
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:00:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: IEEE Data Mining 2001
Message-ID: <MON.14.MAY.2001.180036.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

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   ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
                Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

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             Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, USA
                    November 29 - December 2, 2001
       Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html

                          INVITED SPEAKERS:
             Jerome H. Friedman, Stanford University, USA
   Jim Gray (The 1999 Turing Award Winner), Microsoft Research, USA
      Pat Langley, Daimler-Benz Research & Technology Center, USA
     Benjamin W. Wah (IEEE Computer Society President), UIUC, USA

                         CORPORATE SPONSORS:
             Blue Martini Software, San Mateo, California;
             Insightful Corporation, Seattle, Washington;
                     NARAX Inc., Golden, Colorado;
                  Springer-Verlag, New York, New York;
                     StatSoft Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma

                           Call for Papers
                           ***************

The  2001  IEEE International Conference  on  Data  Mining  (ICDM '01)
provides a forum  for  the sharing  of  original research results  and
practical development experiences  among  researchers  and application
developers  from different data mining related areas  such as  machine
learning,   automated   scientific   discovery,  statistics,   pattern
recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data
warehousing,  data visualization,  and  knowledge-based  systems.  The
conference   seeks  solutions  to  challenging   problems  facing  the
development of data mining systems,  and  shapes  future directions of
research   by  promoting  high  quality,  novel  and  daring  research
findings.  As  an important part  of  the  conference,  the  workshops
program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives.

Topics of Interest
==================

Topics  related to  the design,  analysis  and  implementation of data
mining  theory,  systems  and  applications  are  of  interest.  These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:

  - Foundations and principles of data mining
  - Data mining algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as
    classification, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and
    association analysis), and in new areas
  - Data and knowledge representation for data mining
  - Modeling of structured, textual, temporal, spatial, multimedia and
    Web data to support data mining
  - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining
  - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature
    transformation
  - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining
  - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
    evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty
    management for data mining
  - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
  - Man-machine interaction in data mining and visual data mining
  - Artificial intelligence contributions to data mining
  - High performance and distributed data mining
  - Machine learning, pattern recognition and automated scientific
    discovery
  - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining
    results
  - Process centric data mining and models of data mining process
  - Security and social impact of data mining
  - Emerging data mining applications, such as electronic commerce,
    Web mining and intelligent learning database systems

Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards
==================================================

High quality papers  in all data mining areas  are  solicited.  Papers
exploring  new  directions  will  receive  a  careful  and  supportive
review.  All submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of  6,000
words (approximately 20 A4 pages),  and  will be reviewed on the basis
of   technical  quality,  relevance  to  data   mining,   originality,
significance,  and clarity.  Accepted papers  will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.  A selected
number of ICDM '01 accepted papers  will be  expanded and revised  for
possible  inclusion  in  the Knowledge and Information Systems journal
(http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/) by Springer-Verlag.

ICDM Best Paper Awards  will be conferred  on the authors  of the best
papers at the conference.

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

     June 15, 2001                    Paper submissions.
     July 31, 2001                    Acceptance notices.
     August 31, 2001                  Final camera-readies.
     Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2001             Conference.

All  paper  submissions  will  be  handled  electronically.   Detailed
instructions   are   provided  on   the   conference   home  page   at
http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html.

Conference Chair:
=================

      Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
         (xindong at computer.org)

Program Committee Chairs:
=========================

      Nick Cercone,  University of Waterloo, Canada
         (ncercone at math.uwaterloo.ca)
      T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
         (tylin at mathcs.sjsu.edu)

ICDM '01 Workshops Chair:
=========================

      Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
         (johannes at cs.cornell.edu)

ICDM '01 Tutorials Chair:
=========================

      Chris Clifton, MITRE, USA
         (clifton at mitre.org)

ICDM '01 Panels Chair:
======================

      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
         (rao at cs.mu.oz.au)

ICDM '01 Publicity Chair:
=========================

      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
         (zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp)

ICDM '01 Local Arrangements Chair:
==================================

      Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Blue Martini Software Inc., USA
         (tonyhu at bluemartini.com)

ICDM Steering Committee
=======================

      Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK
      Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
      Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
      Xindong Wu, Chair (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
      Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
      Jan M. Zytkow, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Further Information
===================

      Dr. Xindong Wu
      Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
      Colorado School of Mines,
      1500 Illinois Street,
      Golden, Colorado 80401,
      USA.

      Telephone: +1-303-273-3874
      Facsimile: +1-303-273-3875
      E-mail: xindong at computer.org
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:33:40 +0200
Subject: Soft: New Releases from the LDC
Message-ID: <WED.16.MAY.2001.183340.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
release of three resources to support research in Topic Detection and
Tracking (TDT) and information retrieval:


1. TDT2 Multilanguage Text Corpus, version 4.0
   LDC2001T57, isbn 1-58563-183-3, 1 CD-ROM
   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001T57.html
2. TDT3 Multilanguage Text Corpus, version 2.0
   LDC2001T58, isbn 1-58563-193-0, 1 CD-ROM
   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001T58.html
3. TDT3 English Audio Corpus
   LDC2001S94, isbn 1-58563-185-x, 55 CD-ROMs
   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001S94.html

You may refer to the LDC's online catalog pages for full
documentation: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/

Topic Detection and Tracking refers to automatic techniques for
finding topically related material in streams of data such as newswire
and broadcast news.  These corpora were created to support the TDT
tasks of: finding topically homogeneous sections (segmentation),
detecting the occurrence of new events  (detection), and tracking the
reoccurrence of old or new events (tracking).  Taken together the
corpora contain audio of broadcast news, news texts including
transcripts of all audio and annotation tables indicating story
boundaries and the relevance of each story to news topics selected
from the collection. The TDT corpora have also been used for
information retrieval, spoken document retrieval and information
extraction.

For further information on TDT please visit:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/TDT.  Brief descriptions of each
corpus are provided below, with information on how to order them.
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1. TDT2 Multilanguage Text Corpus, Version 4.0 contains news
data collected daily from nine news sources in two languages (American
English and Mandarin Chinese), over a period of six months (January -
June, 1998).  Both manually-created reference text and automatically-
generated text (ASR and/or machine translation) are provided for all
broadcast and all Mandarin data.

This version has been prepared to complement the first general release
of the TDT3 Multilanguage Text Corpus, providing new enhancements to
make the data content more accessible to a broader research community.

The news sources, and approximate number of stories per source (in
thousands), are as follows:


English sources                              Thousands of
stories
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 New York Times Newswire Service                  11.8
 Associated Press Worldstream Service             12.8
 Cable News Network, "Headline News"              15.8
 American Broadcasting Co., "World News Tonight"   2.1
 Public Radio International, "The World"           2.9
 Voice of America, English news programs           8.2
    Total English stories:                        53.6
thousand

Mandarin sources
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 Xinhua News Agency                               11.3
 Zaobao News Agency                                5.2
 Voice of America, Mandarin Chinese news programs  2.3
    Total Mandarin stories:                       18.8
thousand

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the
2001 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus
free of charge. The non-member cost is $2,500.

-------

2. TDT3 Multilanguage Text Corpus Version 2.0 is the first
general release of this collection (version 1 was made available only
to participants in the TDT 1999 and 2000 evaluation tests).  It
contains data from the same nine sources found in TDT2, plus two
additional English television sources.  Like TDT2, it provides both
manually- created and automatically-generated text for most sources.

For TDT3, the daily collection took place over a period of three
months (October - December, 1998).  The sources and approximate number
of stories per source are as follows:


English sources                              Thousands of
stories
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 New York Times Newswire Service                  6.9
 Associated Press Worldstream Service             7.3
 Cable News Network, "Headline News"              9.0
 American Broadcasting Co., "World News Tonight"  1.0
 Public Radio International, "The World"          1.6
 Voice of America, English news programs          3.9
 MS-NBC, "News with Brian Williams"               0.7
 National Broadcasting Co., "NBC Nightly News"    0.8
    Total English stories:                       31.2
thousand

Mandarin sources
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 Xinhua News Agency                               5.2
 Zaobao News Agency                               3.8
 Voice of America, Mandarin Chinese news programs 3.8
    Total Mandarin stories:                      12.8
thousand

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the
2001 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus
freeof charge.  The non-member cost is $2,500.

-------

3. TDT3 English Audio Corpus contains the audio (in compressed
sphere format) of news broadcasts collected daily from the 6 news
sources in American English, over the three-month collection period
(October - December 1998).  The sources and amounts are as follows:

Sources Hours  CDs
------------------------------------------------------------------
CNN_HDL Cable News Network, "Headline News" 174.6   19
ABC_WNT American Broadcasting Co., "World News Tonight" 38.6    5
NBC_NNW National Broadcasting Co., "NBC Nightly News" 44.6    6
MNB_NBW  MS-NBC, "News with Brian Williams" 51.8    6
PRI_TWD Public Radio International, "The World" 63.9   7
VOA_ENG Voice of America, English  news programs 102.2   12


Total 475.7   55

The files in this publication are complete single-channel recordings
of the (thirty or sixty minute) broadcasts listed above.  Each one has
been digitized at a sample rate of 16 KHz using 16-bit samples, and
compressed using the "shorten" algorithm.

Institutions that have commercial membership in the LDC during the
2001 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of
charge.  Institutions that have non-profit membership in the 2001
Membership Year will need to pay a media fee of $1,100 for the full
set of 55 CD-ROMS.  The non-member cost for the full set is $11,000.

(The audio CD-ROMs are grouped into subsets by broadcast source, and
the LDC will support the option of purchasing one or more subsets,
e.g. just the VOA data.  We regret that we cannot provide "customized"
subsets.)

If you would like to order a copy of any of these corpora, please
email your request to mailto://ldc at ldc.upenn.edu. If you need
additional information before placing your order, or would like to
inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call
(215)573-1275.
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:35:03 +0200
Subject: Conf: TALN 2001 : APPEL A PARTICIPATION
Message-ID: <WED.16.MAY.2001.183503.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

**********************************************************************
*
*                            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
*
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(see English version below)

********** TALN 2001  : APPEL A PARTICIPATION **********

----> INSCRIPTION PREFERENTIELLE AVANT le 15 JUIN 2001 <----
			----> SUR LE SITE <---

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 30 communications scientifiques, 2
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.

********** THEMES **********

Les communications porte 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 accueillera egalement 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
utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modelisation linguistique

********** CALENDRIER **********

----> INSCRIPTION PREFERENTIELLE AVANT le 15 JUIN 2001 <----
			----> SUR LE SITE <---
Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001

********** DEMONSTRATIONS ET POSTERS **********

Une seance specifique est prevue pour des demonstrations (presentations
logicielles) et des posters (85 x 120 cm).

********** CRITERES DE SELECTION **********

Nous avons eu 58 soumissions pour le congres TALN 2001, pour 30 plages
disponibles, ce qui nous a oblige a une grande selection, parfois difficile
entre des propositions de bonne qualite. Les 12 meilleurs papiers ecartes
ont cependant ete retenus pour une seance de posters.

Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la conference
qui seront distribues a tous les participants.

**********************************************************************
*
*                         ENGLISH VERSION
*
**********************************************************************

********** TALN 2001  : CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **********

----> PREFERENTIAL RATE BEFORE 6-15-2001 ON THE WEB <---

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 30 paper presentations, 2 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 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 has also invited 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
management and acquisition of linguistic resources
NLP tools for linguistic modelization

********** CALENDAR **********

----> PREFERENTIAL RATE BEFORE 6-15-2001 ON THE WEB <---
Conference : 7/2-5/2001

********** SELECTION CRITERIA **********

We received 58 papers for 30 accepted.

Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference
given to all participants.

********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME **********
**********  PROGRAMME COMMITTEE  **********

(le comite de programme a ete entoure d'un large comite de lecture)
(the program committee has been 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
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:35:45 +0200
Subject: Conf: NAACL-2001 Online Registration
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************* ON-LINE REGISTRATION IS NOW AVAILABLE **********************

                Language Technologies 2001:

         Second Meeting of the North American Chapter
      of the Association for Computational Linguistics

                    June 2-7, 2001
               Carnegie Mellon University
              Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

REGISTRATION SCHEDULE:
   Early--by May 7
   Late--by May 25
   On-site--after May 25

REGISTRATION FEES (for ACL Members):

                Regular           Student          Student
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2001 ACL MEMBERSHIP: Regular $80; Student $50.

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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:36:23 +0200
Subject: Conf: ACL-2001 Call for Participation
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		  ACL-2001 Toulouse, July 5-11

		    Call for participation


Online registration for ACL-2001 is now working. For more information
consult:

www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html

or send e-mail to: acl at irit.fr

-Note that early registration closes on May 24th at 12 PM and late
 registration ends on June 25th.

-Most hotels have preferential rates till May 31st; rooms in the student
 residence are also available.

-Discounted air fares are available through our official carrier, Air France.

This year, the ACL-2001 is pleased to present a large number of events,
among which are: 11 workshops, 5 tutorials, 2 panels, 2 invited speakers
and a student research workshop.  To make your visit in Toulouse as
enjoyable as possible, a number of cultural events and a big banquet are
also associated with the conference.
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Wed May 16 16:37:25 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:37:25 +0200
Subject: Conf: 4e journees INTEX : programme
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*****************************************
Programme des Quatrièmes Journées Intex
11-12 juin 2001
Université de Bordeaux 3
*****************************************

Lundi

9h30 - 10h     M. Gross, LADL: Transforming the tables of the
lexicon-grammar into local grammars
10h - 10h30    M. Silberztein, IBM: Towards 4.30
10h30 - 11h    PAUSE
11h - 11h30    P.-A. Buvet, F. Moreau, Univ.  de Franche-Comté: Mise en
place d'un moteur de recherche intégrant Intex
11h30 - 12h    H. Ulland, Univ. of Bergen: Une analyse linguistique à
l'aide d'Intex des titres du journal Le Monde
12h30 - 13h    C. Fairon, ETS: Génération automatique d'énoncés pour les
tests de raisonnement analytique du GRE

13h - 14h PAUSE MIDI

14h - 14h30    R. Dougherty, NYU: Using INTEX to Analyze the Ambiguity in
Garden Path Sentences
14h30 - 15h    A. Renouf, Univ. of Liverpool: The Development of Linguistic
Knowledge Management and Exploitation Tools
15h - 15h30    D. Vitas, C. Krstev, Univ. of Belgrade: INTEX et la
morphologie flexionnelles des langues slaves
15h30 - 16h    K. Zellagui, Univ. de Franche-Comté: De l'analyse
traditionnelle à l'analyse informatique de textes littéraires
16h - 18h M. Silberztein, IBM: Tutoriel 1 : Description d'une langue,
flexion, Intex en ligne de commande, API

Mardi

9h - 9h30 O. Piton, D. Maurel Univ. Paris 1: Les Noms Propres Géographiques
et le Dictionnaire Prolintex
9h30 - 10h     C. Mota, Technical Univ. of Lisbon: Inflection of the
Portuguese DELAS using FST
10h - 10h30    R. Kailuweit, Univ. Heidelberg: Traitement automatique des
verbes de colère
10h30 - 11h    PAUSE
11h - 11h30    A. Balvet, Thales: Ressources linguistiques pour le filtrage
d'information
11h30 - 12h    F. Ibekwe-SanJuan, Univ. Nancy 2: Extraction terminologique
avec Intex
12h30 - 12h30  S.-M. Bae, Univ. de Marne-la-Vallée: La description des noms
composés du coréen dans un dictionnaire électronique

12h30 - 14     PAUSE MIDI

14h - 14h30    M. Constant, Univ. de Marne-la-Vallée: Conception d'un
serveur de graphes d'automates finis
14h30 - 15h    N. Friburger, D. Maurel, Lab. d'Informatique de Tours:
Génération d'une cascade de transducteurs pour l'extraction d'information à
l'aide d'Intex
15h - 15h30    S. Paumier, Univ. de Marne-la-Vallée:  Solutions pour le
traitement de gros graphes
15h30 - 16h    PAUSE
16h - 18h C. Fairon, ETS: Tutoriel 2 : transducteurs en mode fusion,
Glossanet, débogage de graphes

(2) Les actes du colloque seront publiés : les intervenants qui souhaitent
contribuer aux actes devront nous contacter.

The proceedings will be published; speakers who want to contribute must
contact us.

(3) SVP veuillez vous inscrire le plus rapidement possible pour les
tutoriels (les places sont limitées).

Please let us now as soon as possible if you wish to attend the tutorial
sessions.

(4) Hotels a Bordeaux (type **)

Hotel de la Tour de l'Intendance: 14-16 rue de la Vieille Tour 33800
BORDEAUX
1personne douche+wc: 220FF / 2 pers.: 260FF
Tel.: (0)556 81 46 27
Fax.: (0)556 81 60 90

Hotel Continental: 10 rue Montesquieu
1pers, idem, 330FF/ 2pers. 370FF
Tel.: (0)556 52 66 00
Fax.: (0)556 52 77 97

Hotel Gambetta: 66 rue Porte-Dijeaux
1 pers., idem, 260FF / 2pers. 310FF
Tel.: (0)556 51 21 83
Fax.: (0)556 81 00 40

Hotel Trianon: c'est un ***; 1pers. 440FF (petit dejeuner 45FF); pour
2pers., 500FF la chambre. Adresse: 5 rue du Temple
Tel.: (O)556 48 28 35
Fax.: (0)556 51 17 81

Face à la gare principale (Bordeaux-St Jean) / near the train station:

Hotel Arcantis Le Faisan: 28 rue Charles Domercq
1pers, idem, 270FF / 2pers. 350FF
Tel.: (0)556 91 54 52
Fax.: (0)556 92 93 83 et site www.arcantis.fr

Dans tous les cas, signalez que vous venez pour une conférence à
Bordeaux-III. Il faut reserver rapidement (avant fin mars): au printemps,
tous les hotels de Bordeaux sont rapidement complets. Il y a beaucoup
d'autres hotels à Bordeaux (generalement plus chers) dont vous aurez les
coordonnees dans les agences de voyage. Il n'y a pas de possibilite de
logement sur le campus, mais si vous venez en voiture il y a des hotels
proches.

In any case, mention that you will attend a conference at the University of
Bordeaux-III. You should make a reservation before the end of March.

(5) Contacts :

Claude Muller
UFR Lettres, Université de Bordeaux-3, Domaine Universitaire,
33607 PESSAC CEDEX (FRANCE).
fax: +33(0)557 12 45 29
email: muller at montaigne.u-bordeaux.fr

Joan Busquets
UFR Lettres, Université de Bordeaux-3, Domaine Universitaire,
33607 PESSAC CEDEX (FRANCE).
fax: +33(0)557 12 45 29
email: busquets at pharaon.egid.u-bordeaux.fr

Max Silberztein
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
30 Sawmill River Road
Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA
fax: 1 (914) 784-6307
email: ms1 at us.ibm.com
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From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr  Mon May 21 15:52:51 2001
From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:52:51 +0100
Subject: Q: Liste de mots avec leur frequence
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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 18:12:56
From: "Julie Myre" <juliemyre at hotmail.com>
Message-Id: <LAW2-F17xxnSYe4nhrK0000fd4a at hotmail.com>


À qui de droit,


Je suis une étudiante québécoise au doctorat en éducation.  Je travaille sur
les troubles d'apprentissage de la lecture et je suis à la recherche de
listes de mots et de leur fréquence écrite (pour des lecteurs de 8 à 12 ans
ou pour des lecteurs adultes).

Si vous pouvez m'aider, ce serait très apprécié.

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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Tue May 22 16:32:28 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:32:28 +0200
Subject: Appel: LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-2001)
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    Please distribute; apologies for multiple copies
=======================================================

                 First  Call for Papers

        LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-2001)

         A workshop to be held at the occasion of the
    Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea

              Leuven, 29 August 2001

         http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/sle2001/

ORGANIZED BY:

Eva Hajicova (Charles University, Prague)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Eva Hajicova (chair)
Anne Abeille (Université Paris 7)
Thorsten Brants (University of the Saarland, XEROX PARC)
Leonid Iomdin (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI))
Geert-Jan Kruijff (University of the Saarland)
Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex)

TOPIC AND MOTIVATION:

Large linguistically interpreted (annotated) corpora are urgently
needed in an increasing number of projects in the field of
computational linguistics. Many groups are currently creating corpus
resources for a variety of languages. These corpora are used for a
broad range of different applications and theoretical
investigations. We aim to bring together these activities in order to
promote and facilitate first of all advanced and efficient
exploitation of annotated corpora.

The aim of the workshop is to exchange and propagate research results
in the field of corpus annotation, taking into account different types
of information. The Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora
focuses on

- exploitation of annotated corpora
- tools & techniques for syntactic annotation and browsing in corpora
- tagging and parsing methods that aim at semi-automatic annotation,
- error detection and correction,
- inter-annotator-agreement,
- representation formats and standards,


SCHEDULE:

May 30, 2001: 1 page abstracts submission deadline
June 20, 2001: notification of acceptance
June 30, 2001: publication of workshop program
Autust 29, 2001: workshop


SUBMISSIONS:

Please send submissions in English electronically in Postscript, PDF,
Word document or plain ASCII format to the address below (if
necessary, you can also submit a hard copy by mail or by fax).

<mirovsky at ufal.mff.cuni.cz>

Jiri Mirovsky
Center for Computational Linguistics
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University

Malostranske nam. 25
118 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic

Fax: 00420-2-2191 4252
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Tue May 22 16:33:21 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:33:21 +0200
Subject: Soft: ELRA News
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ELRA
European Language Resources Association
ELRA News
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We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA:

ELRA S0106      Dutch SpeechDat(II) MDB-250

A description of this database is given below.

The Dutch SpeechDat(II) MDB-250 comprises 250 Dutch speakers (125 males,
125 females) recorded over the Dutch mobile telephone network. The
recordings were made at SPEX, the Netherlands, and the recording
application was developed and run with Show 'N Tel. This database is
partitioned into 5 CDs The speech databases made within the SpeechDat(II)
project were validated by SPEX to assess their compliance with the
SpeechDat format and content specifications.
Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law. Each prompted
utterance is stored in a separate file. Each signal file is accompanied by
an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information.

The following items were recorded:

8 application words (2 optional); 2 isolated digits; 1 sequence of 10
isolated digits; 3 connected digits: 1 telephone number (1-10 digits), 1
credit card number (1-16 digits), 1 digit PIN code (6 digits); 3 dates: 1
spontaneous date, 1 date, 1 relative date expression;
1 embedded application word; 3 spelled words: 1 forename (spontaneous), 1
city name, 1 word; 1 currency money amount; 1 natural number; 6 directory
assistance names: 1 forename (spontaneous), 1 city of birth, 1 most
frequent city, 1 city name, 1 company name, 1 forename surname; 2 yes/no
questions: 1 predominantly "yes" question, 1 predominantly "no" question; 9
phonetically rich sentences; 2 time phrases: 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1
time phrase; 4 phonetically rich words.

The following age distribution has been obtained: 5 speakers are under 16,
90 are between 16 and 30,
89 between 31 and 45, 56 between 46 and 60, and 10 are over 60. The lexicon
was created following
the guidelines in SD1.3.1 v4.3.

=====================================
For further information, please contact:
ELRA/ELDA Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33
55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30
F-75013 Paris, France E-mail mapelli at elda.fr
or visit the online catalogue on our Web site:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
or http://www.elda.fr
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Tue May 22 16:36:23 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:36:23 +0200
Subject: Ecole: PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES, Tarragona, Spain
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(Apologies for multiple copies. Please, help us to spread this initiative.)


         1st INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS

                                   2001-2003

                          Rovira i Virgili University
                 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics

                               Tarragona, Spain


Courses and professors 1st year (April-June 2002):

Applications of Formal Languages                  Solomon Marcus, Bucharest
Languages                                         Victor Mitrana, Bucharest
Combinatorics on Words                            Tero Harju, Turku
Regular Grammars                                  Masami Ito, Kyoto)
Context-Free Grammars                             Manfred Kudlek, Hamburg
Context-Sensitive Grammars                        Alexandru Mateescu,
Bucharest
Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars                 Henning Bordihn, Potsdam
Derivation Trees                                  Carlos Martin-Vide,
Tarragona
Finite Automata                                   Sheng Yu, London ON
Pushdown Automata                                 Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom,
Leiden
Turing Machines                                   Maurice Margenstern, Metz
Patterns                                          Kai Salomaa, Kingston ON
Infinite Words                                    Juhani Karhumaki, Turku
Two-Dimensional Languages                         Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima
Regulated Rewriting                               Juergen Dassow, Magdeburg
Contextual Grammars                               Rodica Ceterchi, Bucharest
Parallel Grammars                                 Henning Fernau, Tuebingen

Courses and professors 2nd year (October 2002-January 2003):

Grammar Systems                                   Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju,
Budapest
Ecogrammar Systems and Colonies                   Alica Kelemenova, Opava
Tree Automata and Tree Languages                  Magnus Steinby, Turku
Formal Power Series                               Werner Kuich, Vienna
DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments             Grzegorz Rozenberg, Leiden
Membrane Computing                                Gheorghe Paun, Bucharest
Splicing Systems and Aqueous Computing            Tom Head, Binghamton
Quantum Computing                                 Cristian Calude, Auckland
Formal Languages and Natural Language Syntax      Walter Savitch, San Diego
Parsing                                           Giorgio Satta, Padua
Tree Adjoining Grammars                           James Rogers, Richmond IN
Weighted Finite-State Transducers                 Mehryar Mohri, AT&T,
Florham Park NJ
Formal Languages and Logic                        Vincenzo Manca, Pisa
Grammatical Inference and Learning                Takashi Yokomori, Tokyo
Grammar-Theoretic Models in Artificial Life       Jozef Kelemen, Opava
Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition          Rudolf Freund, Vienna
Text Searching Algorithms                         Ricardo Baeza-Yates,
Santiago de Chile
Cryptography                                      Valtteri Niemi, Nokia, Vaasa
Complexity                                        Markus Holzer, Munich

Dissertation:

After following the courses, students enrolled in the programme will have
to write a dissertation in English in their own area of interest, in order
to get the so-called European PhD degree. All the professors in the
programme will be allowed to supervise students' work.

Students:

Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the world.
Most appropriate previous degrees of students include: Computer Science,
Mathematics and Linguistics. Students are assumed either to have a certain
background in discrete mathematics or to be ready to get it by April 2002.

According to the expected programme's budget, more than half of the
accepted students will be funded, so that their accommodation and living
expenses while in Spain will be covered by the programme. These conditions
could be improved, at the programme chairman's discretion and depending on
the definite availability of resources, in the case of students from
Eastern European countries and others.

Deadlines:

Free pre-registration: September 30, 2001
Selection of students: November 15, 2001
Application for funding: December 15, 2001
Decision about funding: February 15, 2002
Registration: February 28, 2002
Starting of the courses: April 2, 2002

Questions and further information:

Please, contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martin-Vide, at
cmv at astor.urv.es

------------------------------------------------
Carlos Martin-Vide
Head, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Head, Department of Romance Philologies
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559-543
Fax: +34-977-559-597
E-mail: cmv at astor.urv.es, cmv at tinet.fut.es
Web: http://www.urv.es/centres/Grups/grlmc/grlmc.html
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Tue May 22 16:50:48 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:50:48 +0200
Subject: Publications: NLP book series - John Benjamins
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************************************************
BOOK SERIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
*************************************************

As previously announced,  John Benjamins Publishers
launched a new book series on Natural Language Processing as
a timely response to the growing demand for NLP literature.
The first book of the series which covers Computational
Pragmatics and is edited by H. Bunt and B. Black (see below),
came out several months ago; a volume on Computational
Terminology edited by D. Bourigault, C. Jacquemin and
M.C. L?Homme as well as a monograph on automatic
summarisation by I. Mani will appear soon.

The editor of the book series is Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk);
managing editor at John Benjamins is Kees Vaes  (kees.vaes at benjamins.nl).
See http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/NLP_series.htm for more details.


= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue.
Studies in computational pragmatics.

BUNT, Harry and William BLACK (eds.)

Natural Language Processing 1
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Table of contents

The ABC of Computational Pragmatics
   Harry Bunt and Bill Black

The activity-based approach to pragmatics
   Jens Allwood

Dialogue pragmatics and context specification
   Harry Bunt

Pragmatics in language understanding and cognitively motivated architectures
   Gerard Sabah

Dialogue analysis using layered protocols
   Martin Taylor and David Waugh

Coherence and structure in text and discourse
   Gisela Redeker

Discourse focus tracking
    David Carter

Speech act theory and epistemic planning
   Allan Ramsay

Context and form: declarative or interrogative, that is the question
   Robert-Jan Beun

The doxastic-epistemic force of declarative utterance
   Elias Thijsse

A conceptual modelling approach to the implementation of beliefs and intentions
   Ralph Meyer

Abduction or induction: a real distinction?
   Philip Neal

Laconic discourses and total eclipses: abduction in DICE
   Jon Oberlander and Alex Lascarides

Abductive reasoning with knowledge bases or context modelling
   Ahmed Guessoum and John Gallagher

Abductive speech act recognition, corporate agents and the COSMA system
   Elizabeth Hinkelman and Stephen Spackman;


\\\ Ruslan Mitkov, PhD
/// Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering
\\\ School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
/// University of Wolverhampton
\\\ Stafford St.
/// Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
\\\ United Kingdom
/// Telephone (44-1902) 322471
\\\ Fax (44-1902) 322739
/// Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk
\\\ Website http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/



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From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr  Wed May 23 09:41:13 2001
From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:41:13 +0100
Subject: R: Liste de mots avec leur frequence
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        1/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:07:36 +0200
        From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
        Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20010521170622.00aab4e8 at up.univ-mrs.fr>

        2/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:17:54 +0200
        From: Maurel Denis <maurel at univ-tours.fr>
        Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010521171427.00aa7638 at rabelais.univ-tours.fr>

        3/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:24:04 +0200
        From: Bénédicte Gaillard <bgaillar at club-internet.Fr>
        Message-ID: <LMBBKCNFANPJMOPJOCBNGENFCHAA.bgaillar at club-internet.Fr>

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1/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:07:36 +0200
From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
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X-url: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/


Il y a une liste téléchargeable sur mon site:
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/

(voir "Ressources utiles")

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2/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:17:54 +0200
From: Maurel Denis <maurel at univ-tours.fr>
Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010521171427.00aa7638 at rabelais.univ-tours.fr>
X-url: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr

Pour adultes:
CatachN. (1984), Les listes orthographiques de base du français, Paris, Nathan.


Denis Maurel


____________________________________
Professeur Denis Maurel
LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours)
E3i, 64 avenue Jean-Portalis
37200 Tours
France
Tel. (33) 2.47.36.14.35
Telc. (33) 2.47.36.14.22
mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr
http://www.li.univ-tours.fr

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3/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:24:04 +0200
From: Bénédicte Gaillard <bgaillar at club-internet.Fr>
Message-ID: <LMBBKCNFANPJMOPJOCBNGENFCHAA.bgaillar at club-internet.Fr>


Vous pouvez consulter "Le français fondamental" (1er et 2e degrés) établi
par une équipe de l'école normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. Ces ouvrages
datent de 1972 et 1973 (cen'est pas tout jeune), mais je ne connais pas
d'autres publications.
Vouspouvez également trouver des listes de mots dans des manuels scolaires
tels que ceux de la collection "Les couleurs du français", éditions
Hachette-Livre (ouvrages destinés aux élèves du CE1 au CM2, soit de 7/8 ans
à 10/11 ans). Ces listes ont été établies en fonction des mots que les
enfants sont censés connaître à la fin de leur primaire, mais elles prennent
également en compte les mots que les enfants trouveront dans les textes des
livres.

Bénédicte Gaillard
12 av. du Maréchal Foch
95100 Argenteuil
bgaillar at club-internet.fr

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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:02:15 +0200
Subject: Appel: SIGIR Workshop on Operational Text Classification Systems
 2001
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Call for Participation

Workshop on Operational Text Classification Systems 2001
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
September 13, 2001
http://www.DavidDLewis.com/events/otc2001
otc2001info at DavidDLewis.com

in conjunction with
ACM SIGIR 2001
September 9-13, 2001
http://www.sigir2001.org

Text classification research and practice has exploded in the past decade.
This work has been pursued under a variety of headings (text categorization,
automated indexing, text mining, topic detection and tracking, etc.).   Both
the automated assignment of textual data to classes, and the automated
discovery of such classes (by techniques such as clustering) have been of
intense interest.   A variety of practical applications have been fielded,
in areas such as indexing of documents for retrieval, hierarchical
organization of Web sites, alerting and routing of news, creation of
specialized information products, enforcement of information security,
content filtering (spam, porn, etc.), help desk automation, knowledge
discovery in textual and partially textual databases, and many others.

Experiments on text classification data sets have been widely presented in a
variety of forums.  The technical details of operational text
classification,
however, have rarely been discussed.

The goal of this workshop is to expose researchers and practitioners to the
challenges encountered in building and fielding operational text
classification systems. We hope to begin the systematizing of engineering
principles in this area, and spark new directions for research as well.

TOPICS

Workshop topics will include (but are not limited to):

* Cost effectiveness of automating text classification tasks

* Understanding what users want from classification systems

* Technical and personnel issues in using training data and prior knowledge

* Trading off space, time, and other resources in the training, adaptation,
and execution phases of classification

* Integrating automated classification systems with pre-existing software,
organizational procedures, relevant laws, and cultural expectations

* Maintaining and monitoring effectiveness as text sources and classes
change over time

* Discovering, defining, updating, and explaining classes and classifiers

* The roles of classification and related technologies (information
extraction, terminology discovery, etc.)


PARTICIPATION

To facilitate discussion, workshop attendance will be limited to a maximum
of 70 participants. Anyone interested in attending should apply in one of
these two ways:

1. Researchers, practitioners, and users with an interest in text
classification:
     **Please submit a paragraph describing your background, organizational
affiliation (if any), and interest in text classification.

2. Prospective speakers with substantial knowledge of one or more
operational text classification systems and an interest in presenting a talk
based on their experience:
     **Please submit both a paragraph of interest (as described above) and
an abstract (maximum 750 words) outlining the major points you would speak
on.  Talks whose focus is experimental results on standard test collections
are discouraged.  Conversely, operational text classification at any scale
from the tiny (e.g. an evaluation of content filtering software for a small
organization) to the huge (e.g. categorizing hundreds of newswires each day)
is of interest.  Selection of talks will be largely based on the speaker's
ability and willingness to discuss technical details of operational systems,
as reflected in their abstract.

Submissions should be sent in ASCII or PDF form to:
                      otc2001submit at DavidDLewis.com
All submissions will be reviewed by the organizers and program committee.
The interest paragraphs and talk proposals of invited participants will be
reproduced and distributed as an informal notebook at the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES

Interest paragraphs must be received: June 15, 2001
Talk abstracts must be received: June 15, 2001
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2001
Workshop: September 13, 2001

Please visit http://www.sigir2001.org for hotel and registration deadlines.

ORGANIZERS
        David D. Lewis, independent consultant (Chair)
        Susan Dumais, Microsoft
        Ronen Feldman, Clearforest
        Fabrizio Sebastiani, Italian National Council of Research

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
        James Allan, University of Massachusetts
        David Evans, Clairvoyance
        Sue Feldman, IDC
        Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund
        Thorsten Joachims, GMD
        Andras Kornai, Northern Light
        Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong
        Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute & Carnegie Mellon Univ.
        Isabelle Moulinier, Thomson
        Christopher Porter, Factiva
        Prabhakar Raghavan, Verity
        Mehran Sahami, E.piphany
        Robert Schapire, AT&T
        Frank Smadja, Elron Software
        Richard Tong, Tarragon Consulting
        Mark Wasson, LexisNexis
        Scott Waterman, Kanisa Inc.
        Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon University
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Mon May 28 18:03:11 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:03:11 +0200
Subject: Appel: AMLaP Conference
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                       * * * PLEASE POST * * *
      ___________________________________________________________

      AMLaP-2001            Call for Papers            AMLaP-2001

         ARCHITECTURES AND MECHANISMS FOR LANGUAGE PROCESSING

                            AMLaP-2001

      SAARBRUECKEN           GERMANY         20-22 September 2001
      ___________________________________________________________
                    http://www.amlap.org/2001/


- AMLaP-2001

This is a call for submissions to the 7th annual conference on Architectures
and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-2001), to be held in
Saarbruecken, Germany from September 20-22, 2001.

The aim of the conference is to bring together psychological, computational,
and theoretical perspectives on the cognitive mechanisms which underlie any
aspect of human language processing. Submissions which integrate
experimental psycholinguistic investigations with formal or computational
models of psychological processes are especially encouraged.

   Invited Speakers:
      Jeff Elman           Univerity of California, San Diego
      Dan Jurafsky         University of Colorado, Boulder
      Michael Tomasello    MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig


- SPECIAL SESSION

This years conference will also include a special session on the theme:

        "Experience-based Models of Language Processing"

For this session, we strongly encourage relevant submissions on topics
including (but not restricted to):
 * Models whose mechanisms are derived on the basis of experience
         (e.g. statistical, connectionist, memory-based)
 * The use of corpora as a model of linguistic experience
 * Experimental evidence addressing the role of experience/exposure
 * Combined models of language acquisition and performance

Papers for this session should be submitted via the normal submission
procedure. Assuming a sufficient number and quality of submissions for the
Conference special session, we intend to publish a special issue of the
recently established journal Cognitive Science Quarterly.

- SUBMISSIONS

The deadline for the submission of abstracts of both spoken and poster
presentations is Monday, June 11th 2001.

Abstracts should be no longer than 400 words (excluding references), and
should be in plain ASCII text.

 * At the top of the abstract, please include authors'
   names, affiliations, and email addresses

 * Please leave several blank lines before indicating
   whether the abstract is for consideration as a PAPER
   or as a POSTER, and giving the title. Abstracts rejected
   as papers will automatically be considered as posters
   unless explicit instructions to the contrary are given.

Abstracts should be submitted by email to: submissions at amlap.org
The subject of the message should be:  "abstract submission".
Notifications of acceptance will be sent before July 13th.

- LOCATION

AMLaP will be held in the Saarbruecken Castle (Schloss) located in
central Saarbruecken, overlooking the Saar river and the city. The Schloss
is a modernly renovated castle providing both a stimulating setting and
excellent conference facilities. Saarbruecken is located in south-western
Germany on the French border and about 100km from Luxemburg.

- FURTHER INFORMATION

Information about participation and registration will be available soon on
the conference web pages, and in a subsequent announcement.

Further information is available at: http://www.amlap.org/2001/

Queries should be directed to: amlap2001 at amlap.org

General information about AMLaP is available at: http://www.amlap.org/


Conference Chairs:
  Matthew W Crocker
  Frank Keller
  Christoph Scheepers

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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Mon May 28 18:04:25 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:04:25 +0200
Subject: Ressources: base de donnéeslexicale du français contemporain
Message-ID: <MON.28.MAY.2001.200425.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

Bonjour,

Vous trouverez sur le site : http://www.lexique.org/ "Une base de données
lexicale du français contemporain" constituée par Boris New, Christophe
Pallier, Ludovic Ferrand et Rafael Matos (LPE, CNRS-Paris 5 et LSCP,
CNRS-EHESS).

Le manuscript accessible sur ce site fait également référence à deux autre
listes : Brulex - Content, Mousty et Radeau in Année psychologique 1990 et
Novlex : Lambert et Chesnet in Année psychologique 2001.

Bien sincèrement,


Yves Bestgen
UCL/EXPE Place du Cardinal Mercier 10 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgique
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Mon May 28 18:06:33 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:06:33 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 2 offres
Message-ID: <MON.28.MAY.2001.200633.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

1/              Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST
                Lecturer in Computational Linguistics

2/                      European Post-Graduate College
               "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
                         Saarbruecken - Edinburgh
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1/
             Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST
                Lecturer in Computational Linguistics

The Centre for Computational Linguistics (CCL) was created
almost 25 years ago, and has an established reputation for
teaching and research in NLP, specializing in multilingual
applications of CL, notably Machine Translation and Computer-
Assisted Language Learning.

CCL now has a vacancy for a Lecturer in Computational
Linguistics. The successful candidate will conduct research in
any topic relevant to the Centre?s main research interests, CALL
and MT. The candidate will also contribute to postgraduate
teaching on MSc courses in MT and CALL and will be
expected to supervise MSc and PhD students. We are looking
for someone with a PhD, teaching experience, and plenty of
ideas for research grant applications. An active research profile
is essential, and the successful candidate will have a reasonable
publication record as well as experience of funded research, at
least as a contributor if not as principal investigator.

Salary will be within the Lecturer A scale:  £18,731-£23,256
per annum.

For an application form and further details please write to: The
Personnel Office, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD,
enclosing a self-addressed envelope.  Please quote reference:
LE/A/122.  Informal enquiries can be addressed to
Harold.Somers at umist.ac.uk. The closing date is 30 June 2001.


==============================================
Harold Somers
Professor of Language Engineering
Director, Centre for Computational Linguistics
UMIST, Manchester

preferred email address for all correspondence:
Harold.Somers at umist.ac.uk


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                      European Post-Graduate College
               "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
                         Saarbruecken - Edinburgh

Saarland University is pleased to announce the availability of four doctoral
scholarships, beginning October 1st, 2001, in the above programme.
Doctoral degrees may be obtained in computational linguistics, phonetics,
and informatics, from Saarland University. Each scholarship will be funded
for two years initially (extendable to three years).

The European Post-Graduate College has been established in cooperation
between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh (Division of
Informatics) - two leading institutions in the fields of computational
linguistics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science who are
collaborating in offering a joint post-graduate education programme. The
cooperation includes

* a six to twelve months research stay in Edinburgh
* joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from Saarbruecken and
  Edinburgh
* an intensive research exchange programme between Saarbruecken and
  Edinburgh (including, for example, an annual two-week forum attended by
  college members and lecturers from both centres)

The college focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of human
language processing, particularly emphasising the following research areas:

* language understanding (including spoken language processing and
  psycholinguistic modelling)
* inference and reasoning
* knowledge representation, lexicon, and ontology
* data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and statistical
  language modelling)
* dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models)

Lecturers in Saarbruecken are M. Pinkal, H. Uszkoreit (computational
linguistics), W. Barry (phonetics), M. Crocker (psycholinguistics), M.
Kohlhase, J. Siekmann, G. Smolka, W. Wahlster (informatics/AI). In
Edinburgh, lecturers include M. Fourman, E. Klein, A. Lascarides, C.
Mellish, J. Moore, J. Oberlander, M. Osborne, M. Pickering, M. Steedman, P.
Taylor, B. Webber, and C. Williams.

The scholarship provides up to DM 2,870 per month. Additional compensation
includes family allowance (where applicable), travel funding, and an
additional monthly allowance of approximately DM 1,410 for the stay in
Edinburgh.

Applicants should hold a strong university degree in one of the relevant
areas, and they should not be more than 28 years of age. Female scientists
and international students are particularly encouraged to apply.
Applications should include

1. a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, where possible)
2. a sample of written work (e.g. research paper, or dissertation,
   preferably in English)
3. copies of high school and university certificates
4. two references (to be sent directly to the college speaker)
5. an informal cover letter specifying interests, previous knowledge and
   activities in any of the relevant research areas. The letter should
   indicate the area in which the dissertation is to be conducted
   (computational linguistics/psycholinguistics, phonetics, or
   informatics/AI): where possible, it should include a brief outline of
   research interests to be pursued within the scholarship.

Applications should be sent to the speaker of the college (see address
below). Closing date for applications is May 31st, 2001.

   Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker (Speaker)
   Department of Computational Linguistics
   Saarland University
   P.O. Box 15 11 50
   D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany

Tel:  +49 (0)681 302-6560     E-mail:   egk-admin at coli.uni-sb.de
Fax:  +49 (0)681 302-6561     Internet: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:12:13 +0200
Subject: Conf: EUROLAN 2001 last call
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EUROLAN 2001

Summer School on
"Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources"
5th in the series of Eurolan Schools
30 July - 11 August 2001
Iasi, Romania


Once upon a time, there was a series of summer schools and its name was
Eurolan. It would happen in the far away land of Romania, during its long
hot summer days. And among the schools of this series, the most famous of
all was Eurolan 2001. Never before had the ancient city of Iasi seen such a
gathering of kings and queens, of princes and princesses with only one thing
in mind: to talk about the state-of-the art in the theory, methodology, and
technology for creating and using annotated language resources for language
engineering.

For two long weeks, they kept talking and talking. Princesses and princes
from all over the world came to meet the wise invited queens and kings and
learn from their wisdom. The kings would speak during mornings while in the
afternoons they would help princes to put into practice their teachings.
And, as if all these hadn't been enough, more meetings were organized for
the young princes (workshops on Multi-layer Corpus Based Analysis:
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html and on Modular Programming
Applied to Natural Language Processing:
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/workshop.html) and for all the
people in Iasi at that time (round tables on Linguistic Data Consortia and
on Industrial Applications in Response to Market Requirements).

What happened during those days can be briefly presented as follows:

Monday - 30 July
Annotation formalisms and standards for NLP (XML, XCES)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA)
Laurent Romary (Loria Laboratories, Nancy, France)

Tuesday - 31 July
Qualitative and quantitative methods in corpora (tokenisation, part of
speech tagging, measuring similarity and homogeneity)
 Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy - RACAI)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton, UK)

Workshop on Multi-layer Corpus Based Analysis

Wednesday - 1 August
Sub-syntactic and syntactic annotation (shallow-parsing, tree banks)
Hans Uszkoreit (University of Saarbrucken, Germany)

Round table on Linguistic Data Consortia

Thursday - 2 August
Annotation of semantics, word sense disambiguation
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton, UK)

Friday - 3 August
Annotation of semantics, meaning relationships, linguistic chains, semantic
roles of verbs
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)
Chuck Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Birds-of-a-feather meeting

Saturday - 4 August
Annotation of discourse (structure, co-reference)
Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA)
Daniel Marcu (University of Southern California, USA)

Sunday - 5 August
Trip to Bucovina Monasteries

Monday - 6 August
Exploitation of corpora for anaphora resolution
Catalina Barbu (Universities of Wolverhampton, UK and Iasi, Romania)
Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

Workshop on Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing (I)

Tuesday - 7 August
Exploitation for information extraction and information retrieval
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
Atsushi Fujii (University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo, Japan)

Workshop on Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing (II)

Wednesday - 8 August
Exploitation for summarization, discourse interpretation and data mining
Daniel Marcu (University of Southern California, USA)

Round table on Industrial Applications in Response to Market Requirements

Thursday - 9 August
Exploitation for machine translation
Ulf Hermjakob (University of Southern California, USA)

Friday - 10 August
Creation and exploitation tools in cross-lingual applications
Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield, UK)
Valentin Tablan (Universities of Sheffield, UK and Iasi, Romania)

Farewell Evening

All these chats and exciting quarrels happened in the large bright palaces
of the "Al. I. Cuza" University, in the very heart of the organisers' realm.

A huge fortress was chosen as dwelling place for most of the guests (student
hostel - double room: 10 USD/night or single room: 18 USD/night), who could
rest for few hours in its welcoming rooms. Other guests preferred special
lodging in a castle in the city (hotel ** - double room: 16 USD/night or
single room: 22 USD/night).

And tables were set for all those who came to Iasi and there was plenty of
food and drinks (for 10-15 USD per day) and parties and marry people. And,
as good hosts usually do, the Eurolan organizers arranged a trip through
their land and showed their guests the marvels of northern Romania (Bucovina
Monasteries - UNESCO Cultural Heritage).

At the end of the school everybody returned to their realms where they lived
happily ever after.

Have you enjoyed the story?
You can be part of it!!!

You can still register before 7 June at:
http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/fees.html

(by the way, the registration fee - USD 350 - shall be sent to:
.         Bank name: BCR Iasi (Romanian Commercial Bank, Iasi branch)
.         Bank address: Str. Palat 11, Iasi 6600 - ROMANIA
.         Swift code: RNCBROBUIS
.         Account number: 2511.31-418.94
.         Owner: "Al.I.Cuza" University of Iasi - please specify: "for
EUROLAN"
Bank transfer costs should be paid in addition to the tuition fee)
We'll make sure that you have a place in our story and enjoy living it with
us!!!

Organising Royalties

Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Dan CRISTEA - "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi
Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Laurent ROMARY - LORIA Laboratories, Nancy
Daniel MARCU - ISI, University of Southern California
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Wed May 30 14:39:07 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:39:07 +0200
Subject: Appel: Senseval-2
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2001.163907.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

                                --!--

       *** DO YOU HAVE A WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION SYSTEM? ***

                                --!--

                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                              SENSEVAL-2

                   Second International Workshop on
             Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems

                    www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2

                       JULY 5-6, 2001, TOULOUSE

                         An ACL SIGLEX Event
  Also supported by EURALEX, ELSNET, and EPSRC (grant GR/RO2337/01)

                                --!--


The purpose of SENSEVAL is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of
such programs with respect to different words, different varieties of
language, and different languages.

THE COMPETITION

Do you have a word sense disambiguation system?  Is it the best one?
You can find out by competing in Senseval-2.  The competition window
runs from May 18 - June 18, so there is still plenty of time to
participate. See the schedule on the website for details
(http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2).  You must register your system
first (if you haven't already).


WORKSHOP:    5-6 July 2001 -  Toulouse, France

The SENSEVAL-2 Workshop will be held on July 5-6, in conjunction with
ACL/EACL 2001 in Toulouse, France.  Its purpose is to examine the
results of the competition, to discuss the state-of-the-art in
sense-tagging, and to suggest directions for the future of SENSEVAL.

 * Register here: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html
 * Early registration: by May 24 (lower registration fee)
 * Late registration: May 25 - June 24
 * After June 24th, registration will be on site only

 =========================================================================
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM  (as of May 22)

Day 1 (July 5)  Senseval-2 Project Meeting

 - is open to only those directly involved: competitors, organizers,
   sponsors, etc. (email senseval-coord at sharp.co.uk if you're not sure.)

Day 2 (July 6)  Senseval-2 Workshop

 - open to all

 Session 1: Introduction and summary of results

 Session 2: Panel: Making sense distinctions

            Do systems have problems with the same sense distinctions
            that people do - or which examples will the systems never
            get - where will the glass ceiling be?

 Lunch

 Session 3: Panel: Using WSD in real applications

            Panelists from companies working in Machine Translation,
            Information Extraction and Information Retrieval will
            address the questions:
              - Why does your company use/not use current WSD
                technology?
              - What aspects of current/recent WSD work look
                helpful/unhelpful to the needs of your company's
                applications?

 Session 4: Panel: Standardizing and linking Wordnets

            Standardizing and linking Wordnets with particular
            attention to word sense inventory, representation, and
            distinction.

            Panelists: Christiane Fellbaum, Nicoletta Calzolari,
                       Philip Resnik, Julio Gonzalo, Karel Pala.

 Session 5: Wrap-up
 =========================================================================


CONTACTS

Website:

  www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2

Discussion list:

  For current information and discussion join senseval-discuss at sharp.co.uk
  (send mail to Phil Edmonds <phil at sharp.co.uk> to join/leave)


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Scott Cotton         University of Pennsylvania
Phil Edmonds         Sharp Laboratories of Europe
Adam Kilgarriff      ITRI, University of Brighton
Martha Palmer        University of Pennsylvania

For questions about SENSEVAL-2 please
email to senseval-coord at sharp.co.uk
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:40:04 +0200
Subject: Appel: EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2001.164004.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

                      EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE:
               Fourth International Conference, 2002.

                        Harvard University

             Wednesday March 27th --- Saturday March 30th.

This is the fourth conference in the series, continuing from
Edinburgh/1996, London/1998, and Paris/2000.

Website for this conference: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang2002/

Local Organizer: Tecumseh Fitch (Harvard University)


CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Marc Hauser (Harvard University)
Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis University)


CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are solicited on all aspects of the origin and evolution of
language, from any relevant discipline, including Anthropology,
Archaeology, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Cognitive Science,
Ethology, Genetics, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Palaeontology, and
Psychology.  It is anticipated that papers will be presented in 25
minutes, with 5 minutes for discussion.  Papers will be accepted on the
basis of submitted abstracts, refereed by independent assessors.  Some
papers not accepted as talks will be accepted as posters.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Deadline: October 31st, 2001.

Length limit: 1 single page, with reasonable margins (at least 1 inch (2.5cm)
all round, in print no smaller than 10pt, and preferably larger)

Format: A MSWord.doc file, modified from the template downloadable from
the website (see above).

Submission: Electronically --- attach your MSWord formatted abstract to
an email message sent to evolang2002 at ling.ed.ac.uk .  Do not attempt to
include your abstract in the body of your message.


FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information, about added plenary speakers, accommodation,
conference fees, etc. will be forthcoming from time to time.  If this
message was not emailed directly to you, and you would like to be
included in further emailings, please subscribe to the EvoLang2002 email
list.  You can do this by sending an email to majordomo at ling.ed.ac.uk
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Organizing Committee:
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
Jean-Louis Dessalles (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris)
Tecumseh Fitch (Harvard University)
James R Hurford (University of Edinburgh)
Chris Knight (University of East London)
Alison Wray (Cardiff University)
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:42:12 +0200
Subject: Appel: Journal issue on Resources in Stylistic and Literary
 Analysis
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2001.164212.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

The editors of Style invite contributions to its regular yearly issue on
resources in stylistic and literary analysis.   Contributions may
include such materials as reviews of texts that present state-of-the-art
theoretical approaches to literature; essays that reassess, or revisit,
classic texts in analysis; reviews of statistical or text-processing
software; reviews of texts on analytic technique (e.g., corpus studies,
statistics, prosody); translations of important non-English essays;
interviews with leading theorists, critics, and authors; reviews of
textbooks; programmatic statements from innovative graduate and
undergraduate programs in English studies; reviews of important and
useful web sites; reviews of important and useful conferences; annotated
bibliographies or bibliographic essays focused on areas in stylistics.

Submissions for the next resources issue, scheduled as volume 36, number
4, are due 15 May 2002.  Please submit three copies, accompanied by a
150-word abstract and following the Modern Language Association's
conventions for documentation.

Submissions or correspondence concerning submissions should be addressed
to Donald E. Hardy, at dhardy at niu.edu, or at Department of English,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60116-2854.
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:43:53 +0200
Subject: Soft: Tgrep2
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2001.164353.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

The readers of this list may be interested in a new tool, tgrep2, that I
have developed for searching parsed corpora such as those included in
the Penn Treebank.

As the name might suggest, tgrep2 is based on tgrep and is largely
backward compatible.  However, tgrep2 adds a number of new features,
including the following major enhancements:

 * Rather than simply having a set of required relationships and a set of
   prohibited relationships, nodes can have full boolean expressions of
   relationships to other nodes.
 * Nodes can be given unique labels and may then be referred to by those
   labels in the pattern specification or in selecting trees for printing.
 * Patterns are no longer restricted to simple tree architectures. The use
   of node labels and segmented patterns allows links in a pattern to form
   back-edges as well, permitting cycles of links.
 * Customizable output formats allow a variety of information to be
   reported in a flexible manner.
 * Multiple search patterns may be specified and one can retrieve the
   first subtree matching any pattern, the first subtree matching each
   pattern, or all subtrees matching all patterns.
 * Subtrees can be reported using a code rather than by printing the
   whole structure. The trees themselves can later be retrieved using the
   codes.
 * A variety of new links have been added and the immediately-precedes
   link now has a more conventional meaning.
 * Tgrep2 corpus files are substantially smaller than tgrep corpora.

More information and the tgrep2 software can be found at the following
site:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dr/Tgrep2/


Doug Rohde
Carnegie Mellon University
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:02:43 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 4 offres
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2001.170243.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

1/ 3 postes de recherche à MEMODATA
2/ Microsoft Job Opening
3/ ingenieur de developpement - logiciel de gestion d'information
4/ Marie Curie Fellowship Positions - UNILEVER

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1/

MEMODATA prevoit de creer les postes suivants des la rentree 2002. Ces
postes ont en commun la preparation d'une these? Les postes seront
crees en fonction de la pertinence des dossiers de candidature et des
previsions economiques (l'ensemble des postes sont des postes de
recherche).

Les postes crees seront bases a Caen. La ville accueille pres de 20
000 etudiants. Situee a dix minutes de la mer, 5 minutes d'une
campagne, elle offre de nombreux attraits pour sejourner et preparer
un doctorat.

- 1 informaticien-linguiste
        Domaine du sujet : Etude et realisation d'agents
        syntaxico-semantiques pour le filtrage de textes en
        environnement distribuee. Production automatique de ces
        agents. Aspect linguistique concerne : paraphrase.

        Competences : programmation C, java, theorie des graphes,
        interêt pour les langues...

- 1 semanticien-logicien-lexicologue
        Domaine du sujet : integration de differentes portant sur le
        lexique dans le Dictionnaire Integral. Definition des
        formalismes. Leur usage.

        Competences : Connaissance de la lexicologie, des principales
        theories linguistiques actuelles. Interêt pour la logique,
        goût affirme pour le travail sur ordinateur.

- 1 lexicologue en traduction
        Domaine du sujet : Modelisation semantique pour
        l'anglais. Partage des connaissances avec ce qui est
        disponible deja, a MEMODATA, en français et anglais.

        Competences : Bilingue anglais, ou mieux, ayant l'anglais
        pour langue maternelle, connaissance de la lexicologie, des
        principales theories linguistiques actuelles, goût affirme
        pour le travail sur ordinateur.

        Ce dernier poste pourra être cofinance par un programme
        europeen : Pierre et Marie Curie. Il pourra aboutir a la
        soutenance d'une these.

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2/Software Design Engineer.

The Microsoft Natural Language Group seeks a Software Design Engineer to
assist the team that connects linguistic and semantic components to
client applications, and that designs and constructs an authoring
environment to enable other developers to do the same for their
applications. The ideal candidate should have a strong customer focus, a
good working knowledge of C++ and COM, experience with GUI application
development, and an ability to work both independently and in teams.  A
track record in natural language processing is a plus, as is experience
in XML, HTML, STL, ATL, and MFC. Our group has solid product plans for
shipping products in 6 months, again in 18 months, and more beyond. The
Natural Language Group will have a profound impact on the future of both
Microsoft and the entire computing industry.  Interested applicants
should send resumes and any questions to softjobs at microsoft.com.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
3/

Embauche Ingenieur...

Entreprise emergente dans le secteur du traitement de l'information
d'entreprise, nous recherchons un ingenieur de developpement pour
participer au lancement d'un logiciel de gestion d'information.

Competences requises :

  - recueil et constitution d'un dictionnaire/thesaurus

  - analyse de corpus (analyse morpho-syntaxique, analyse semantique,
    analyse statistique)

  - traitement du langage naturel

  - experience en developpement ou en integration de modules de
    traitement du langage.

Merci d'adresser votre candidature (CV et lettre de motivation) a :

   brigitte.leonardi at dmailer.net

Le travail sera fait en collaboration avec le laboratoire CLIPS-IMAG
(Grenoble)



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4/

I would be most grateful if you could circulate the advert below.
The position offered concerns, by rule, researchers below 35 years old.


Shail Patel, Unilever Research.

May 2001 / currently no fixed deadline

Marie Curie Fellowship Positions - Industry Host Scheme

Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics in the UK

Totally committed to scientific exploration and discovery, Unilever
invests £550 million in pioneering new research so our products
remain the preferred choice, 150 million times a day.

An ideal opportunity for a recent PhD graduate to develop their career
whilst keeping their options open on whether to work in industry or
academia, we\rquote re looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our
2-year Marie Curie Scheme.

Delivering innovation and technology within a challenging environment,
you\rquote ll be fully integrated within the various research groups
and benefit from our comprehensive training and development
opportunities offered to all scientists.  One of these training
programmes is a 2-year scientist development programme which is
designed to develop business competencies.

Our Interactive Business Science Group is seeking an imaginative
researcher to work in one of the following areas of Language
Engineering: text analysis, message understanding, text
categorisation, topic detection / tracking, statistics for NLP,
language generation, dialogue models and dialogue management, question
answering, knowledge representation and other areas of interest.

A key member of the group, you will participate in the research and
consultation with our business users, and in the design, the
development and the implementation of Language Engineering solutions.
You will also gain valuable network opportunities with our external
academic links.

In addition to the acquisition of valuable and sought-after
transferable skills in the design and development of specialist
language engineering systems, you\rquote ll receive a subsistence and
mobility allowance. For further details visit:

http://improving-mcf.sti.jrc.it/project/

Please note that usual European Union Marie Curie eligibility criteria
apply, see CORDIS website :

http://www.cordis.lu/improving/

To apply, please send a full CV, together with the contact details of
two referees to
Shail Patel,
Unilever Research,
Quarry Road East,
Bebington, Wirral CH63 3JW.

E-mail: shail.patel at unilever.com
http://research.unilever.worldonline.nl
http://www.unilever.com
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:17:45 +0200
Subject: Jobs: University of Leeds
Message-ID: <FRI.4.MAY.2001.171745.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

The School of Computing at Leeds University wants to recruit permanent
Lecturers/Senior Lecturers and a permanent Computer Support Officer.
Further information from Head of School, Professor Tony Cohn
(tel: 0113-233-5482; fax: 0113-233-5468; email recruit at comp.leeds.ac.uk).

I personally would welcome the prospect of colleague(s) with interests in
corpus-based NLP; to find out about our corpus-based NLP research, contact
me or visit http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nlp

--
Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
TEL: 0113-2335430  MOBILE: 0775-1039104 FAX: 0113-2335468
WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric  EMAIL: eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk



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Lectureships/Senior Lectureships In Computing And Informatics
(With The Possibility Of Appointment At Reader Level)

School Of Computing, University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Closing Date: 22-05-2001

These permanent posts are available in our expanding School, with the
possibility of appointment at Senior Lecturer/Reader level. You will
be required to undertake leading-edge research and teaching of the
highest standard within our broadly based degree programmes and should
strengthen one of our existing research groups: Computer Vision and
Language, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Multi-disciplinary
Informatics, Scientific Computation and Visualization, Theoretical
Computer Science. Prior experience in teaching, preferably in higher
education, would be an advantage. Applicants should have a Ph.D. (or
equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline.  Preference may be
given to candidates who can strengthen our teaching across our four
B.Sc. and two M.Sc. degree programmes.

The School and the University have made a strategic commitment to
developing multidisciplinary research activity through the formation
of a well equipped Informatics Research Institute; applicants who can
contribute to its development are especially welcome.

Salary: Lecturer A/B (18,731 - 30,967 p.a. under review).  For
exceptionally well qualified candidates appointment at Senior Lecturer
or Reader level is possible (32,510 - 39,718 p.a. under review).

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Tony Cohn (tel:
0113-233-5482; fax: 0113-233-5468; email recruit at comp.leeds.ac.uk).

----

Computer Support Officer

School Of Computing, University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Closing Date: 14-05-2001

Joining a lively and enthusiastic team dedicated to the support of the
Schools networked computing facilities, you will be involved in supporting
and developing the Schools computer systems used for teaching, research
and administration. An ability to work with a number of different
colleagues within a highly challenging and stimulating teaching and
research environment is expected, as is experience with the use of both
Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Salary: Computer Officer Grade 1/2 (16,775 to 25,213 p.a.)

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr PK Jimack (pkj at comp.leeds.ac.uk) in
the School of Computing (tel. 0113 233 5464).

----

See http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/ for further information about the School
or http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts for further info about these posts.
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:19:29 +0200
Subject: Appel: colloque "Ethique et Nouvelles Technologies,
 l'appropriation des savoirs en question"
Message-ID: <FRI.4.MAY.2001.171929.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

Dans le cadre des journ?es Initiatives 2001 et du IX?me Sommet de la
Francophonie, l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) organise ?
Beyrouth (Liban) un colloque intitul? "Ethique et Nouvelles Technologies,
l'appropriation des savoirs en question", les 25 et 26 septembre 2001.
Il s'agira d'examiner les enjeux ?ducatifs, scientifiques et culturels du
d?veloppement des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la
Communication, ainsi que leur impact sur les pratiques de trasmission des
connaissances.
L'appel ? communications est consultable et t?l?chargeable sur le site
www.lb.refer.org/initiatives2001


Cordialement
Timoth?e Darmon,
Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
Bureau Europe
4 place de la Sorbonne
75005 Paris
01 44 41 18 18
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:24:02 +0200
Subject: Appel: NLE journal special issue on Robust Methods in Analysis of
 Natural Language Data
Message-ID: <FRI.4.MAY.2001.172402.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

                     Call for Papers

             for a Special Issue of the Journal

                Natural Language Engineering

                            on

     Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data

                 Special Issue guest editors:

                         Afzal Ballim
                      Vincenzo Pallotta

                Department of Computer Science
      Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne.


The automated analysis of natural language data has become a central
issue in the design of Intelligent Information Systems. The term
"natural language" is intended to cover all the possible modalities of
human communication and it is not restricted to written or spoken
language.  Processing unrestricted natural language is still
considered as an AI-hard task. However various analysis techniques
have been proposed in order to address specific aspects of natural
language. In particular, recent interest has been on providing
approximate analysis techniques, assuming that perfect analysis is not
possible, but that partial results are still very useful.

There are many ways in which the topic of robustness may be tackled:
as a competency problem, as a problem of achieving interesting partial
results, as a shallow analysis method, etc. What they have in common
is that no simple combination of "complete" analysis modules for
different linguistic levels in a chain can give a robust system,
because they cannot adequately account for real-world data. Rather,
robustness must be considered as a system-wide concern. We consider of
central interest improving and integrating various processing methods
with respect to the following issues:

* Extending coverage

* Improving efficiency

* Disambiguation ability

* Approximate processing

* Enhancement of underlying theories

Robustness may be seen as an engineering "add-on" - something that we
add to a system to take account of the inability of our theories to
cope with real-world data - or as a basic element of our theories -
our theories are developed to admit that understanding of the domain
can be incomplete. Both approaches may be valid under certain
circumstances.

The main goal of this Special Issue of the Natural Language
Engineering journal is devoted to advances in fields like artificial
intelligence, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction,
cognitive sciences who are faced with the problem of feasible and
reliable NLP systems implementation. Theoretical aspects of robustness
in NLP are welcome as well as engineering and industrial experiences.

We invite papers on all topics related to Robustness in Natural
Language Processing and Understanding, including, but not limited to:

          Text Analysis
          Knowledge and Information Extraction
          Spoken Dialogue Systems
          Multimodal Human-Computer interfaces
          Natural Language Architectures
          Distributed NLP
          NLP and Soft Computing
          Semantics
          Underspecification
          Multimedia Document Analysis
          Robust Parsing
          Incremental Parsing
          Discourse analysis
          Summarization
          Complexity of linguistic analysis
          Hybrid methods in computational linguistics
          Text Mining
          Corpus linguistics
          Indexing and Information Retrieval

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:


We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously
unpublished research, be written in English, and not be simultaneously
submitted for publication elsewhere (previous publication of partial
results at workshops with informal proceedings is allowed).

Papers should be formatted according to the NLE journal instructions
and should be between 15 and 25 pages long. The preferred formatting
system is LaTex, which can be used for direct typesetting, and a style
file is available through anonymous ftp from the following address:
ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/nle-sty/. In case of
difficulty there is a helpline available on e-mail:
texline at cup.cam.ac.uk. If LaTex is not available, the publisher may be
able to use alternative formatting systems (please specify which was
used (e.g. WordPerfect 5.0, MSWord2000,etc.)), but reserves the right
in all cases to typeset any paper by conventional means.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Papers due: 30 June 2001
Acceptance notice: 30 October 2001
Final version due: 31 January 2002
Journal publication: (after March 2002)

REVIEWING COMMITTEE:

Jerry Hobs
Massimo Poesio
Karsten Worm
Fabio Ciravegna
John Carroll
Ted Briscoe
Michael Hess
Kay-Uwe Carstensen
Susan Armstrong
Yorik Wilks
Dan Cristea
Liviu Ciortuz
Eric Wherli
Fabio Rinaldi
Rodolfo Delmonte
Wolfgang Menzel
Salah Ait-Mokhtar
Alberto Lavelli
Rens Bod
Joachim Niehren
Roberto Basili
Maria Teresa Pazienza
Manuela Boros
Diego Moll?-Aliod
Herv? Bourlard
B. Srinivas
C.J. Rupp
Peter Asveld
Hatem Ghorbel
Giovanni Coray
Martin Rajman
Jean-C?dric Chappelier


ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed to
meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all areas
of computerised language processing, whether from the perspective of
theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology, computer science
or engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between
traditional computational linguistics research and the implementation
of practical applications with potential real-world use. As well as
publishing research articles on a broad range of topicsfrom text
analysis, machine translation and speech generation and synthesis to
integrated systems and multi modal interfaces the journal also
publishes book reviews. Its aim is to provide the essential link
between industry and the academic community.

Natural Language Engineering encourages papers reporting research with
a clear potential for practical application. Theoretical papers that
consider techniques in sufficient detail to provide for practical
implementation are also welcomed, as are shorter reports of on-going
research, conference reports, comparative discussions of NLE products,
and policy-oriented papers examining e.g. funding programmes or market
opportunities. All contributions are peer reviewed and the review
process is specifically designed to be fast, contributing to the rapid
publication of accepted papers.


Editors

B. K. Boguraev
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA

Christian Jaquemin
University of Paris (LIMSI), FR

John I. Tait
University of Sunderland, UK

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2000/nle.html

For any information related to the organization, please contact:

Vincenzo Pallotta

DI-LITH EPFL
IN F Ecublens
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

tel. +41-21-693 52 97
fax. +41-21-693 52 78
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:37:47 +0200
Subject: Appel: RANLP
Message-ID: <WED.9.MAY.2001.183747.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

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?? *???? RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING????? *
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?? *?????????????? Euro Conference RANLP-2001??????????????? *
?? *????????????????? 5-7 September 2001???????????????????? *
?? *???????????????? Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria????????????????? *
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?? *???????????? http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/??????????????? *
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Further to the successful and competitive 1st and 2nd conferences
on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (selected papers
from which were published by John Benjamins as CILT? vol.136
and CILT vol.189), we are pleased to announce the third RANLP
conference to be held this year.

The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented
will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference.
There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions.


TOPICS

We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of
Natural Language Processing. We encourage the representation of
a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics,
discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology,
and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP;
machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and
tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging;  parsing;
electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology;
word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval;
information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text
categorisation; question- answering; dialogue systems; speech
processing; computer-aided language learning; language resources;
evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related
to NLP of every kind.


INVITED SPEAKERS

 ? Branimir Boguraev?(IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center)
   Graeme Hirst      (University of Toronto)
?  Ed Hovy?????????? (Information Sciences Institute / USC)
?  Martin Kay????????(Xerox Parc)
?  James Pustejovsky?(Brandeis University)
?  Yorick Wilks????? (Sheffield University)


PROGRAMME CHAIR

   Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE


   Elisabeth Andre 		(University of Augsburg)
   Galia Angelova 		(BAS, Sofia)
   Lamia Belguith 		(LARIS-FSEG, University of Sfax)
   Branimir Boguraev 		(IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center)
   Kalina Bontcheva 		(Sheffield University)
   Eric Brill 			(Microsoft Research)
   Eugene Charniak 		(Brown University, Providence)
   Key-Sun Choi 		(KAIST)
   Dan Cristea 			(University of Iasi)
   Hamish Cunningham 		(Sheffield University)
   Ido Dagan 			(Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, and FocusEngine, Tel Aviv)
   Richard Evans		(University of Wolverhampton)
   Fumiyo Fukumoto 		(Yamanashi University)
   Maria Gavrilidou 		(ILSP, Athens)
   Alexander Gelbukh 		(National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)
   Gregory Grefenstette 	(Xerox Research, Grenoble)
   Udo Hahn 			(Freiburg University)
   Nadia Hegazy 		(ERI)
   Graeme Hirst 		(University of Toronto)
   Eduard Hovy 			(Information Sciences Institute / USC)
   Hitoshi Iida 		(SONY Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.)
   Frances Johnson 		(Manchester Metropolitan University)
   Martin Kay 			(Xerox Parc, Palo Alto)
   Alma Kharrat 		(Microsoft Natural Language Group)
   Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova	(Charles University, Prague)
   Lori Lamel 			(CNRS-LIMSI, Orsay)
   Lillian Lee 			(Cornell University)
   Xiaoqiang Luo 		(IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center)
   Inderjeet Mani 		(Georgetown University and MITRE)
   Daniel Marcu 		(Information Sciences Institute / USC)
   Chris Mellish 		(University of Edinburgh)
   Wolfgang Menzel 		(University of Hamburg)
   Andrei Mikheev 		(University of Edinburgh)
   Tony McEnery 		(Lancaster University)
   Nicolas Nicolov 		(IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center)
   Kemal Oflazer 		(Sabanci University, Istanbul)
   Jose Quesada 		(University of Seville)
   Manuel Palomar 		(University of Alicante)
   Ted Pedersen 		(University of Minnesota Duluth)
   Stelios Piperidis 		(ILSP, Athens)
   Gabor Proszeky 		(Morphologic)
   James Pustejovsky 		(University of Brandeis)
   Dragomir Radev 		(University of Michigan)
   Allan Ramsay 		(UMIST, Manchester)
   Ellen Riloff 		(University of Utah)
   Monique Rolbert 		(Universite de Marseille)
   Christer Samuelsson 		(Indigo, Montreal)
   Donia Scott 			(University of Brighton)
   Keh-Yih Su 			(Behavior Design Corporation)
   John Tait 			(University of Sunderland)
   Isabelle Trancoso 		(INEC, Lisbon)
   Karin Vespoor 		(Intelligenesis, New York)
   Piek Vossen 			(Saillabs, Antwerpen)
   Yorick Wilks 		(Sheffield University)
   Michael Zock 		(CNRS-LIMSI, Orsay)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:  PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS

Notification of Submission

Authors should email notification of submission with the completed
form below to <K.Bontcheva at dcs.shef.ac.uk> with subject line:
"RANLP2001 notification of submission". After submitting the
information below you will receive by email a paper ID code which
should be used in all correspondence (including the paper submission).

   # NAME : Name of author for correspondence
   # TITLE: Title of the paper
   # TYPE : paper / poster / demo
   # KEYS : Keywords
   # EMAIL: Email of author for correspondence
   # PAGES: Number of pages (including bibliographical references)
   # FILE : Name of PDF file (avoid RANLP2001.pdf and the like!!!)
   # ABSTR:
   #??????? Abstract of the paper
   #??????? . . . . . .
   # OTHER: Under consideration for other conferences (specify)?
   # NOTE : Anything you'd like to add

Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not
exceed seven pages (poster and demo submissions should be no
longer than 5 pages), including cover page, figures, tables and
references. The first page should state the title of the paper,
the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es),
followed by keywords and an abstract and continue with the first
section of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically
in **PDF** format. For up to three free convertions to PDF see
'http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS'. In exceptional
circumstances hard copies/MS-Word/PS versions might be accepted.

Send your electronic PDF submission to <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
(please quote paper ID - see above 'notification of submission').

Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme
Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines
how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion
in the proceedings.


TUTORIALS

RANLP-2001 will be preceded by 2 days of tutorials. See
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001/ for a preliminary list of tutorial
speakers.


SCHEDULE

  ?Paper Pre-registration:???? 10 May 2001
?  Paper Submission Due:?????? *** 15 May 2001 ***
?  Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2001
?  Camera-ready Paper Due:???? 5 August 2001
   Tutorials:                  3-4 September 2001
?  Conference:?????????????????5-7 September 2001



LOCATION

Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains
surrounding the Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from
Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will
\provide a daily shuttle bus/conference taxi from Sofia
airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate.


FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information can be obtained from:

?  Galia Angelova (OC Chair)
?  Linguistic Modelling Laboratory
?  Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
?  25A Acad. G. Bonchev Str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
?  galia at lml.bas.bg


SPONSORS

The conference is funded by the European Commission, DGXII
through Human Potential Programme for High-Level Scientific
Conferences (contract number HPCF-2000-00329).


CONFERENCE MAILING LIST

If you would like to receive information you may subscribe
to the conference mailing list by sending an e-mail to
majordomo at dcs.shef.ac.uk with a body (no subject)
'subscribe ranlp2001'. When you receive the confirmation
e-mail, please make sure that you return the requested code
to confirm your subscription.
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:39:41 +0200
Subject: Conf: LACL 2001 (LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS)
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                 Call for Participation - Program

                            LACL 2001

                 4th International Conference on
LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

                        June 27 -- 29, 2001

      Le Croisic (on the ocean coast, nearby Nantes), France

             Deadline for early registration: June 1st

                    http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001

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*** Practical information, schedule, on-line registration:

http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001
http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2001/LACL2001

*** Contact:

Christele Soulas  csoulas at irisa.fr
Elisabeth Lebret  lebret at irisa.fr

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-- LACL 2001 PROGRAM --
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--- Invited speakers -----------------------------

Geoffrey K. PULLUM,  Barbara C. SCHOLZ :
On the distinction between Model-theoretic and
Generative-enumerative syntactic frameworks

Michael MOORTGAT :
Structural Reasoning in Categorial Learning

Mark STEEDMAN :
Reconciling Type-Logical and Combinatory
Extensions of Categorial Grammar


--- Contributed papers -------------------------

M. A. ALONSO, E. DE LA CLERGERIE,  M. VILARES :
A formal definition of Bottom-up Embedded Push-Down
Automata and their tabulation technique

D. BARGELLI, J. LAMBEK :
An algebraic Approach to French Sentence Structure

P. BOTTONI, B. MEYER, K. MARRIOTT, F. PARISI PRESICCE :
Deductive Parsing of Visual Languages

W. BUSZKOWSKI :
Lambek Grammars based on Pregroups

C. CASADIO, J. LAMBEK :
An Algebraic Analysis of Clitic Pronouns in Italian

C. COSTA FLORENCIO :
Consistent Identification in the Limit of any of the Classes
k-Valued is NP-hard

A.DIKOVSKY :
Polarized Non-projective Dependency Grammars

A. FORET :
Mixing Deduction and Substitution in
Lambek Categorial Grammars, some investigations

C. FOX, S. LAPPIN :
Framework for the Hyperintensional Semantics
of Natural Language with Two Implementations

H. HARKEMA :
A Characterization of Minimalist Languages

T. LAGER, J. NIVRE :
Part of Speech Tagging from a Logical Point of View

J. MICHAELIS :
Transforming Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
into Minimalist Grammars

E. STABLER :
Recognizing Head Movement

J. VILLADSEN :
Combinators for Paraconsistent Attitudes

J. VILLANEAU, J.-Y. ANTOINE, O. RIDOUX :
Combining Syntax and Semantical Knowledge
for Semantic Analysis of Spoken Language

R. ZUBER :
Atomicity of Some Categorially Polyvalent Modifiers


--- Panel discussion : Logic in Contemporary Linguistics
and Computational Linguistics


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*** Organizers:

IRISA (INRIA, CNRS, Universit? de Rennes 1, INSA)
IRIN  (Universit? de Nantes)

*** Sponsors:

France Telecom  R&D
Xerox
Loire Atlantique
Pays de la Loire
Ville de Nantes
Universit? de Rennes 1
Universit? de Nantes

*** Book and journal exhibition:

Elsevier
Hermes
Kluwer
Lincom Europa
MIT Press
Springer-Verlag
World Scientific Publishing Company

*** Other events in computational linguistics in France, early July:

2-5 july, Tours, TALN & RECITAL 2001:
http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/

6-11 july, Toulouse, ACL 2001:
http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html

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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:40:30 +0200
Subject: Appel: Revue Computer Speech and Language
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Computer Speech and Language

Call for Journal Papers: Special Issue on Spoken Language Generation

Aim: There are long traditions of research in both natural language
generation and speech synthesis. However, recently, as applications
have emerged requiring spoken language output, such as spoken dialog
systems, speech-to-speech translation systems, automated sports
commentators, and directions systems, there has been an increase in
research that relates these two strands of work. This research is
motivated by the goal of producing higher quality spoken output by
using knowledge that the system has about the purpose, meaning and
linguistic form of the communication. Research challenges include: the
generation of utterances in interactive dialogue that are sensitive
to listeners working memory constraints, the generation of speech acts
whose purpose is other than to describe or inform, determining the
appropriate prosody for spoken output, and incorporating corpus-based
or statistical knowledge into the generation and synthesis
processes. In the past there has not been much contact between the
generation and synthesis communities. The purpose of this special
issue is to collect papers of interest to both communities. We
encourage the submission of papers in both generation and synthesis
oriented towards use in spoken language systems, and we especially
welcome those describing work at the intersection of these two
fields.

Submissions should meet the following criteria:

* Describe completed and original work not published
  elsewhere. (Extensions of work-shop or conference publications are
  acceptable.)

* Make clear how the research described contributes to generating
  spoken language.

* Include an empirical component, in the form of a corpus-based or
  machine-learning methodology, and/or in the form of an empirical
  evaluation.

* Be no longer than 70 to 80 manuscript pages (double-spaced)


Important deadlines:

* Submissions due: July 31st, 2001.

* Notification of acceptance: September 28th, 2001.


Manuscript submission

The Computer Speech and Language home page is at:
http://www.academicpress.com/csl where you can find instructions for
authors, latex templates, electronic submission, and other information
under the information box.

Please send email with any questions to walker at research.att.com.

Editors of the Special Issue

Owen Rambow and Marilyn Walker
AT&T Labs Research
Room B233
180 Park Ave.
Florham Park, New Jersey 07932
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:42:06 +0200
Subject: Appel: 16th EUROPEAN MEETING ON CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH
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                               *          *
                       *                          *

                 *      SIXTEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING      *

               *                    ON                    *

                 *   CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH   *

                       *       (EMCSR 2002)       *

                             April 2 - 5, 2002

                            UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA


         organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
                           in cooperation with
  Dept.of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ.of Vienna
                                   and
              International Federation for Systems Research


                                * * * * *

An electronic version of this CfP (and further information whenever it
becomes available) can be found at

                        http://www.oefai.at/emcsr/

                                * * * * *

The international support of the European Meetings on Cybernetics and
Systems Research held in Austria in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982,
1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 (when 500 scientists
from more than 40 countries from all continents, except the
Antarctica, met to present, hear and discuss 134 papers) encouraged the Council
of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (?SGK) to organize a similar
meeting in 2002 to keep pace with continued rapid developments in related
fields.


Sessions

A  Systems Science
     G.J.Klir, USA, and P.Vysoky, Czech Republic
B  Mathematical Methods in Cybernetics and Systems Theory
     Y.Rav, France
C  System, the Quantum, and Complexity
     M.Carvallo, Netherlands
D  Systemic Aspects of Component-Based System Development
     G.Chroust, Austria, and F.Stallinger, Austria
E  Foundations of Information Science (FIS)
     G.Ossimitz, Austria, and B.A.Banathy, USA
F  Designing and Systems
     W.Gasparski, Poland
G  Biocybernetics and Mathematical Biology
     L.M.Ricciardi, Italy
H  Systems Science in Medicine
     F.Tretter, Germany, and G.Porenta, Austria
I  Simulation of Social Behaviour and Artificial Economy
     K.Hornik, Austria, and A.Taudes, Austria
J  Cultural Systems
     P.Ballonoff, USA, I.Ezhkova, Belgium, M.Fischer, UK, P.Jorion,
     France, and D.Read, USA
K  Management and Organizational Change
     S.A.Umpleby, USA
L  Soft Computing and Knowledge-Based Systems
     C.Carlsson, Finland, and K.-P.Adla?nig, Austria
M  Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems
     S.Kollias, Greece, and G.Dorffner, Austria
N  AT2AI-3: From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation
     J.P.M?ller, Germany, and P.Petta, Austria
O  ACE 2002: Agent Construction and Emotions
     C.Pinto-Ferreira, Portugal, R.Ventura, Portugal, and P.Petta,
     Austria
P  Bayesian Techniques for Mining Data and Texts, and the Discovery of
   Surprising Knowledge
     Y.Kodratoff, France
Q  Theory and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
     V.Marik, Czech Republic, and E.Buchberger, Austria
R  Communication and Computers
     A M.Tjoa, Austria
S  History of Cybernetics and Information Technology
     F.Pichler, Austria


Submission Guidelines

Acceptance of contributions will be determined on the basis of Draft
Final Papers. Each paper must explain clearly

    - what problem it is trying to address,
    - what has been tried before and why it isn't good enough,
    - WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHY IT IS BETTER,
    - some proof that your method is sound (or reference to it),
    - how it will help others/apply to other problems,
    - some results/proof it works.

Draft Final Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced A4 pages (maximum
43 lines, max. line length 160 mm, 12 point), in English. They have to
contain the final text to be submitted, including graphs and pictures.
However, these need not be of reproducible quality.

They must carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation (incl.
e-mail address, if possible) in this order, and must include an
abstract.

Please specify the symposium in which you would like to present your
paper. Each scientist shall submit only one paper. Please send four
hard copies of the Draft Final Paper to the Conference Secretariat (not to
symposia chairpersons!) Electronic or fax submissions cannot be
accepted.


Deadline for submission

                           October 19, 2001

Submissions received after the deadline cannot be considered.


Notification of Acceptance/Rejection

Authors will be notified about acceptance or rejection no later than
December 7, 2001. Successful authors will be provided by the
conference secretariat at the same time with the instructions for the
preparation of the final paper, which will also be available via ftp and
World-Wide Web.


Final Papers

The final paper will be limited to a maximum of 6 pages (10-point,
double column). Camera-ready copies of the final paper will
be due at the conference secretariat by January 18, 2002. Acceptance
of the final paper will be based on compliance with the reviewers'
comments.


Presentation

It is understood that each accepted paper is presented personally at
the Meeting by one of its authors.


Conference Fee

     ATS 2900 (Euro 210.75) if received before January 31, 2002
     Euro 255 if received later
     Euro 305 if paid at the conference desk.

The Conference Fee includes participation in the Sixteenth European
Meeting, attendance at official receptions, coffee during breaks, and
the volumes of the proceedings available at the Meeting. Please send
cheque,
or transfer the amount free of charges for beneficiary to the
account no. 0026-34400/00 of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic
Studies at Creditanstalt-Bankverein Vienna (bank routing number: 11000, SWIFT
code: CABVATWW). Please state your name clearly.


Hotel Accommodation

will be handled by

AUSTROPA INTERCONVENTION,
Friedrichstra?e 7
A-1010 Vienna
phone +43-1-58800-514
fax +43-1-58800-520.
Reservation forms will be sent to all those registering for the
conference.


Scholarships

The International Federation for Systems Research is willing to
provide a limited number of scholarships covering the registration fee for the
conference for colleagues from weak currency countries. Applications should
be sent to the Conference Secretariat before October 20, 2001.


Insurance

The conference organizers can accept no liability for personal
injuries, or for loss or damage to property belonging to conference
participants, either during or as a result of the conference.
Please check the validity of your personal insurance.


Chairman of the Meeting

Robert Trappl, President
Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies

Secretariat

S. Fischer and I. Ghobrial-Willmann
Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
A-1010 Vienna 1, Schottengasse 3 (Austria)
Phone: +43-1-5336112-60
Fax: +43-1-4277-9631
E-mail: sec at oefai.at

Programme Committee

 K.-P. Adla?nig (Austria)  V. Marik (Czech Republic)
 P. Ballonoff (USA)        J.P. M?ller (Germany)
 B. A.Banathy (USA)        G. Ossimitz (Austria)
 E. Buchberger (Austria)   P. Petta (Austria)
 C. Carlsson (Finland)     F. Pichler (Austria)
 M. Carvallo (Netherlands) C. Pinto-Ferreira (Portugal)
 G. Chroust (Austria)      G. Porenta (Austria)
 G. Dorffner (Austria)     Y. Rav (France)
 I. Ezhkova (Belgium)      D. Read (USA)
 M. Fischer (UK)           L. M. Ricciardi (Italy)
 W. Gasparski (Poland)     N. Rozsenich (Austria)
 G. Gr?ssing (Austria)     F. Stallinger (Austria)
 W. Horn (Austria)         A. Taudes (Austria)
 K. Hornik (Austria)       A M. Tjoa (Austria)
 P. Jorion (France)        R. Trappl (Austria)
 G. J. Klir (USA)          F. Tretter (Germany)
 S. Kollias (Greece)       H. Trost (Austria)
 Y. Kodratoff (France)     S. A. Umpleby (USA)
 O. Ladanyi (Austria)      R. Ventura (Portugal)
                           P. Vysoky (Czech Republic)

Organizing Committee

 E. Buchberger             W. Horn
 G. Chroust                J. Matiasek
 S. Fischer                P. Petta
 I. Ghobrial-Willmann      R. Trappl
 C. Holzbaur               H. Trost

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               PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 19, 2001
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Wed May  9 16:44:35 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:44:35 +0200
Subject: Jobs: NLP engineer, ERSS, Toulouse, France
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Apologies for duplicates

=================
JOB ADVERTISEMENT
=================

[Version fran?aise ci-dessous]

The ERSS (Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et S?mantique) is a CNRS
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) laboratory located in
Toulouse, France.

A position for a NLP engineer is now open as part of the CNRS
recruitment campaign.

The successful candidate will be involved in computational linguistics
projects, especially concerning corpus processing and terminology
databases.

Requirements are a PhD and/or a French engineer degree (details for
non-French degrees available from the CNRS).

Mission :
- conception and management of textual and/or lexical databases
- conception of user-interfaces for corpus processing
- integration of corpus processing tools developed at the ERSS

Required skills :
- Perl, Java, C++, XML
- Unix, Windows.
- DBMS and SQL
- Server-client architecture
- interest in linguistics
- Ability to interact with humanities researchers
- Fluency in French and English


Application's dead line is June, 5th, 2001.

Contact for the ERSS :
Marc Pl?nat : plenat at univ-tlse2.fr

ERSS' WWW Site :
http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/

CNRS' WWW Site (for practical details concerning application)
http://sg-val.dsi.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/agenda2001.htm

---

L'Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et S?mantique, UMR 5610 du CNRS,
Universit? de Toulouse Le Mirail (http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/)
recrute un Ing?nieur de Recherche CNRS en informatique .

Il s'int?grera ? la composante TAL du laboratoire, et sa mission sera
de d?velopper des applications informatiques pour la linguistique.

Activit?s :
- Conception, mise en place et maintenance d'une base de donn?es
  textuelles ;
- Conception, mise en place et maintenance d'une base de donn?es
  lexicales ;
- Conception et d?veloppement d'interfaces d'interrogation pour les
  bases de donn?es ci-dessus et pour les outils existants (con?us ou
  achet?s) afin de les rendre accessibles ? des linguistes non
  informaticiens ;
- Connexion des outils pr?sents dans le laboratoire (con?us ou
  achet?s) avec d'autres outils (?tiqueteurs, par exemple) :
  constitution de passerelles entre ces outils ;
- Participation ? des r?ponses ? appels d'offre r?gionaux, nationaux
  ou internationaux ?manant d'organismes publics ou priv?s ;
- Participation ? la gestion des projets en linguistique informatique
  du laboratoire ;
- Valorisation des ressources existantes dans le laboratoire au niveau
  national ou international.


Comp?tences :
- Connaissance des langages Perl, Java, C++, XML
- Connaissance des syst?mes d'exploitation Unix et Windows
- Connaissance des SGBD relationnels
- Connaissance des applications client/serveur
- Sensibilit? aux probl?matiques linguistiques
- Capacit? de dialogue avec des chercheurs en sciences humaines
- Ma?trise de l'anglais ? l'?crit et ? l'oral


Ce poste est ouvert ? toute personne titualaire d'un doctorat ou d'un
dipl?me d'ing?nieur grande ?cole.

Renseignements sur la proc?dure :
http://sg-val.dsi.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/agenda2001.htm
Date limite de candidature : 5 Juin 2000

Contact pour le profil du poste :

Marc Pl?nat, directeur de l'ERSS
plenat at univ-tlse2.Fr
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From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 14:06:17 +0100
Subject: R: Polices cyrilliques, arabes, hebraiques pour Mac
Message-ID: <FRI.11.MAY.2001.140617.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:47:05 +0200
From: Michel Eytan <eytan at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Message-Id: <p0510030bb71ef9c9ba90 at 130.79.160.99>
X-url: http://www.historian.net/downloads/


cf <http://www.historian.net/downloads/>

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From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr  Fri May 11 13:10:47 2001
From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 14:10:47 +0100
Subject: Q: OCR, antique document, old French
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:43:22 +0100
From: "Dominique Dutoit" <dutoit at info.unicaen.fr>
Message-ID: <033301c0d15a$12a2e0e0$4ce4f9c1 at platon>
X-url: http://www.memodata.com


For a project, we need an OCR for antique documents (like texts
published in the 700).  It is possible that in France any special OCR
is available.  Could you try to help me? It is for a project on
special scientific editions.

Dominique Dutoit

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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:55:58 +0200
Subject: Appel: II  INTERNATIONAL CONTRASTIVE  LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE
 (ICLCII)
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SORRY FOR MULTIPLE COPIES

UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOLOXIA INGLESA

II  INTERNATIONAL CONTRASTIVE  LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE (ICLCII)

Contrasts across/within languages

(25 HOURS)
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA,  25th to 27th OCTOBER 2001

Second Circular. April 2001


PROGRAMME
The organisers of this symposium, which will consist of plenary
lectures, papers, seminars and round tables, seek to offer an open
forum in which recent studies and projects in the field of Contrastive
Linguistics may be presented and debated.  The Conference will be
divided into three sections:

1.)  Cross-cultural communication. We hope to cater for contributions
relating to cultural intercommunication and to processes of
sociocultural and linguistic exchange.

2.)  The second section will be devoted to topics related to
Contrastive Linguistic Description (Grammar, Lexico-Semantics,
Phonetics and Phonology).

3.)  Finally, in the third section, we shall analyse the processes of
intercommunication through Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Rhetoric,
Translation Studies, Languages for Specific Purposes, and Second
Language Acquisition.


INVITED SPEAKERS
The following have agreed to give plenary lectures:

John Sinclair (University of Birmingham)

Christopher Butler (University of Swansea)

Gregory Myers (University of Lancaster)

Pablo Dominguez (University of La Laguna)

Antonio Garnica Silva (University of Sevilla)

Felix Rodriguez Gonzalez (University of Alicante)

Maria de los Angeles Gomez Gonzalez (University of Santiago)

Eduardo Varela Bravo (University of Vigo)


PAPERS, SEMINARS AND ROUND TABLES
We accept proposals for papers, seminars and round tables that conform
to the guidelines given in the first circular
(http://www.usc.es/ia303/benvidag.htm), until 15th MAY 2001. On 20th
MAY we shall send confirmation of acceptance of the proposals
presented.

PROCEEDINGS
We plan to publish the proceedings of the conference. For this
purpose, participants should let us have an original version of their
work, before 30th December 2001 and in Word formats.

CONFERENCE FEES
The fee will be 10,000 pesetas (5,000 pesetas for students (copy of
student i.d. required)). If it should become necessary, an extra 2,000
pesetas may be charged for a copy of the Proceedings. This amount
would not be required until the Proceedings are published.

(We are trying to secure the convalidation of the 25 hours, to count
as one credit in the 1st or 2nd cycle of the philology degree
courses.)

The maximum number of participants will be 200.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE
The committee consists of the following members of the English
Department:

Luis Iglesias Rabade

Maria de los Angeles Gomez Gonzalez

Susana Doval Suarez

Andrew Rollings

Elsa Gonzalez Alvarez

Antonio Alvarez Rodriguez


ADDRESS / CONTACT DETAILS
II International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLCII)

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Departamento de Ingles
Facultade de Filoloxia. Campus Norte
O Burgo

Avda. de Castelao, s/n

E-15782 Santiago de Compostela

Tel.:    +34  981 575 340. Extensions 11897 or 11856

Fax:     +34  981 574 646

E-mail: iarabade at usc.es  or  iadimly at usc.es

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BOLETIN DE INSCRIPCION/REGISTRATION FORM
FORMAS DE PAGO/FORMS OF PAYMENT

(a) By cheque to ICLCII sent to the address below or (b) by BANK
TRANSFER to the following bank account:

Note: Attach a copy of the transfer to this registration form or fax it
to fax N0 +34 981 574646

BANCO/BANK:

Banco Santander Central-Hispano. Caldereria 54-56. 15700 Santiago.
Cta./Cte.: 0049 2584  90 2214002210

D(na.)/Mr(s)...........................................................
....................................................................

Direccion/Address.................................

Ingresa la cantidad de (REGISTRATION FEE) ................. PTAS.
(en letra/in block letters)...

........................................

En concepto de: INSCRIPCION AL "II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE
LINGUISTICA CONTRASTIVA" (Octubre, 2001)/REGISTRATION FOR THE
"SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE (October,
2001).

                                   ......................,
................., .....................................2001




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Dr Maria de los Angeles GOMEZ-GONZALEZ
Profesora Titular de Filoloxia Inglesa
Departmento de Filoloxia Inglesa
Facultade de Filoloxia
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Avda. de Castelao, s/n
E- 15782 Santiago de Compostela. Spain
Fax.: + 00 34  981-574646
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:57:06 +0200
Subject: Jobs: MSc and PhD Studentships---Informatics,
 University of Edinburgh
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EDINBURGH-STANFORD LINK STUDENTSHIPS

Human Communication Research Centre and
Division of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh

3 MSC STUDENTSHIPS and
1 PhD STUDENTSHIP
to start in October 2001

Application deadline: June 8th 2001
Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this
cannot be guaranteed.

The Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC) at the University of
Edinburgh, under the auspices of the Division of Informatics, invites
applications for three one-year MSc studenthips and one three-year PhD
studentship in the areas of Computational Linguistics and/or Human
Computer Interaction.

These studentships are funded by Scottish Enterprise, as part of a new
link between HCRC and the Centre for the Study of Language and
Information (CSLI), Stanford University.

The MSc students will be registered for the Edinburgh-based MSc,
entitled "Cognitive Science and Natural Language" (see
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/school/study/msc).  They will have an
opportunity to do their summer dissertation at CSLI Stanford, or as an
intern with a company based in the Stanford or Edinburgh areas.

The PhD student's project will be based on collaborative activities
with colleagues at CSLI and/or companies in the Bay Area.  Possible
PhD topics include (but are not limited to):

o	 statistical and symbolic models of natural language
	 processing (NLP);
o	 dialogue systems;
o	 human factors in computer-mediated communication;
o	 NLP applications to data mining

Applicants for both the MSc and PhD should have a good honours degree
or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics,
Psychology or related subject.  Programming skills, preferably in C,
C++ or java, are essential.  Familiarity with current linguistic
theory in syntax and semantics is a distinct advantage.

The MSc studentships will pay tuition fees (at home rate, i.e., 2805
pounds stirling) plus a maintenance allowance of 7,500 pounds
sterling.  If the summer dissertation is to be carried out in the Bay
Area, then travel expenses will also be paid.

The PhD studentship will pay tuition fees (at home rate, i.e., 2805
pounds stirling) plus a maintenance allowance of 7,500 pounds sterling
per annum for three years.  There is also a travel allowance to enable
collaborations with colleagues in the Bay Area.

HCRC has close research links with the Institute for Communicating and
Collaborative Systems (ICCS) within the Division of Informatics.  You
can find out more information about the relevant institutions from:

HCRC:	 http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk
ICCS:	 http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk
CSLI:	 http://www-csli.stanford.edu

Information about students, the Edinburgh PhD Programme, and how to
apply for a PhD can be found by following the various links from the
following URL:

	http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/school/study/

Please note that applicants must fill in the faculty's relevant
postgraduate application form.  Details on how to receive this form
can be found by following the relevant links from the above URL (see
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ccs/study/apply/).

Deadline for applications: June 8th, 2001.
Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this
cannot be guaranteed.

For additional advice and information on how to apply for the PhD
studentship, please contact:

   Admissions Chair
   The Graduate School
   Division of Informatics
   The University of Edinburgh
   2, Buccleuch Place,
   Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
   Scotland, UK.

email: phd-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk
tel:   +44 131 650 4439
fax:   +44 131 650 6626

For additional advice and information on how to apply for the MSc
studentships, please contact:

   Msc Admissions,
   The Graduate School,
   Division of Informatics,
   University of Edinburgh,
   5, Forrest Hill,
   Edinburgh, EH1 2QL,
   Scotland UK.

email: msc-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk
fax:   +44 131 650 6899

PLEASE MARK "STANFORD LINK" ON THE APPLICATION.

For additional information regarding the Edinburgh-Stanford Link,
please contact:

   Alex Lascarides
   ICCS,
   Division of Informatics
   The University of Edinburgh
   2 Buccleuch Place
   Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
   Scotland, UK.

   Email: alex at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
   Tel:   +44 131 650 4428
   Fax:   +44 131 650 6626
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:58:29 +0200
Subject: Publications: Revue I3 Information-Interaction-Intelligence
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	      - Annonce -
	Parution de la Revue I3
	Information-Interaction-Intelligence
	http://www.Revue-I3.org/

La revue Information - Interaction - Intelligence est une revue fond?e
et anim?e par des chercheurs du GDR I3. Ancr?e dans le champ des
Sciences du Traitement de l'Information, la revue se veut l'expression
d'une d?marche ? caract?re transversal et multidisciplinaire; son
objectif est la publication de travaux th?oriques et appliqu?s
apportant un ?clairage nouveau et des capacit?s accrues de traitement
de l'information, par le rapprochement entre diff?rents domaines de
recherche, ou par l'int?gration de plusieurs types d'approches, de
mod?les ou d'outils.

S'inscrivant dans le mouvement actuel de la communication multim?dia,
tout en s'appuyant sur la tradition de l'imprim?, la revue int?grera
au sein d'un m?me r?seau la publication imprim?e et ?lectronique
d'articles et d'objets multim?dia ? caract?re scientifique. En outre,
elle servira de cadre ? l'organisation d'ateliers de discussion
prolongeant et suscitant le travail de publication. La gestion des
articles soumis et la partie imprim?e est g?r?e par l'IRIT ? Toulouse
en collaboration avec C?padu?s-Editions, le site ?lectronique est g?r?
par l'IMAG ? Grenoble, et la partie "atelier" anim?e par le LIP6 ?
Paris. La revue, publi?e sous forme imprim?e, para?tra deux fois par
an.

Le premier num?ro de la revue para?tra en juin prochain, il sera ?dit?
chez C?padu?s-Editions; les articles seront disponibles d?s leur
parution sur le site de la revue, que nous invitons ? visiter d?s
maintenant ? l'adresse suivante:

    http://www.Revue-I3.org/

Nous esp?rons que vous serez nombreux ? nous aider ? faire vivre cette
revue en vous abonnant et en contribuant aux prochains num?ros.

Catherine Garbay, Anne Doucet et Henri Prade.
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:00:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: IEEE Data Mining 2001
Message-ID: <MON.14.MAY.2001.180036.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

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   ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
                Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

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             Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, USA
                    November 29 - December 2, 2001
       Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html

                          INVITED SPEAKERS:
             Jerome H. Friedman, Stanford University, USA
   Jim Gray (The 1999 Turing Award Winner), Microsoft Research, USA
      Pat Langley, Daimler-Benz Research & Technology Center, USA
     Benjamin W. Wah (IEEE Computer Society President), UIUC, USA

                         CORPORATE SPONSORS:
             Blue Martini Software, San Mateo, California;
             Insightful Corporation, Seattle, Washington;
                     NARAX Inc., Golden, Colorado;
                  Springer-Verlag, New York, New York;
                     StatSoft Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma

                           Call for Papers
                           ***************

The  2001  IEEE International Conference  on  Data  Mining  (ICDM '01)
provides a forum  for  the sharing  of  original research results  and
practical development experiences  among  researchers  and application
developers  from different data mining related areas  such as  machine
learning,   automated   scientific   discovery,  statistics,   pattern
recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data
warehousing,  data visualization,  and  knowledge-based  systems.  The
conference   seeks  solutions  to  challenging   problems  facing  the
development of data mining systems,  and  shapes  future directions of
research   by  promoting  high  quality,  novel  and  daring  research
findings.  As  an important part  of  the  conference,  the  workshops
program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives.

Topics of Interest
==================

Topics  related to  the design,  analysis  and  implementation of data
mining  theory,  systems  and  applications  are  of  interest.  These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:

  - Foundations and principles of data mining
  - Data mining algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as
    classification, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and
    association analysis), and in new areas
  - Data and knowledge representation for data mining
  - Modeling of structured, textual, temporal, spatial, multimedia and
    Web data to support data mining
  - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining
  - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature
    transformation
  - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining
  - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
    evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty
    management for data mining
  - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
  - Man-machine interaction in data mining and visual data mining
  - Artificial intelligence contributions to data mining
  - High performance and distributed data mining
  - Machine learning, pattern recognition and automated scientific
    discovery
  - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining
    results
  - Process centric data mining and models of data mining process
  - Security and social impact of data mining
  - Emerging data mining applications, such as electronic commerce,
    Web mining and intelligent learning database systems

Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards
==================================================

High quality papers  in all data mining areas  are  solicited.  Papers
exploring  new  directions  will  receive  a  careful  and  supportive
review.  All submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of  6,000
words (approximately 20 A4 pages),  and  will be reviewed on the basis
of   technical  quality,  relevance  to  data   mining,   originality,
significance,  and clarity.  Accepted papers  will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.  A selected
number of ICDM '01 accepted papers  will be  expanded and revised  for
possible  inclusion  in  the Knowledge and Information Systems journal
(http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/) by Springer-Verlag.

ICDM Best Paper Awards  will be conferred  on the authors  of the best
papers at the conference.

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

     June 15, 2001                    Paper submissions.
     July 31, 2001                    Acceptance notices.
     August 31, 2001                  Final camera-readies.
     Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2001             Conference.

All  paper  submissions  will  be  handled  electronically.   Detailed
instructions   are   provided  on   the   conference   home  page   at
http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html.

Conference Chair:
=================

      Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
         (xindong at computer.org)

Program Committee Chairs:
=========================

      Nick Cercone,  University of Waterloo, Canada
         (ncercone at math.uwaterloo.ca)
      T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
         (tylin at mathcs.sjsu.edu)

ICDM '01 Workshops Chair:
=========================

      Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
         (johannes at cs.cornell.edu)

ICDM '01 Tutorials Chair:
=========================

      Chris Clifton, MITRE, USA
         (clifton at mitre.org)

ICDM '01 Panels Chair:
======================

      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
         (rao at cs.mu.oz.au)

ICDM '01 Publicity Chair:
=========================

      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
         (zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp)

ICDM '01 Local Arrangements Chair:
==================================

      Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Blue Martini Software Inc., USA
         (tonyhu at bluemartini.com)

ICDM Steering Committee
=======================

      Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK
      Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
      Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
      Xindong Wu, Chair (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
      Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
      Jan M. Zytkow, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Further Information
===================

      Dr. Xindong Wu
      Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
      Colorado School of Mines,
      1500 Illinois Street,
      Golden, Colorado 80401,
      USA.

      Telephone: +1-303-273-3874
      Facsimile: +1-303-273-3875
      E-mail: xindong at computer.org
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:33:40 +0200
Subject: Soft: New Releases from the LDC
Message-ID: <WED.16.MAY.2001.183340.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
release of three resources to support research in Topic Detection and
Tracking (TDT) and information retrieval:


1. TDT2 Multilanguage Text Corpus, version 4.0
   LDC2001T57, isbn 1-58563-183-3, 1 CD-ROM
   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001T57.html
2. TDT3 Multilanguage Text Corpus, version 2.0
   LDC2001T58, isbn 1-58563-193-0, 1 CD-ROM
   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001T58.html
3. TDT3 English Audio Corpus
   LDC2001S94, isbn 1-58563-185-x, 55 CD-ROMs
   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001S94.html

You may refer to the LDC's online catalog pages for full
documentation: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/

Topic Detection and Tracking refers to automatic techniques for
finding topically related material in streams of data such as newswire
and broadcast news.  These corpora were created to support the TDT
tasks of: finding topically homogeneous sections (segmentation),
detecting the occurrence of new events  (detection), and tracking the
reoccurrence of old or new events (tracking).  Taken together the
corpora contain audio of broadcast news, news texts including
transcripts of all audio and annotation tables indicating story
boundaries and the relevance of each story to news topics selected
from the collection. The TDT corpora have also been used for
information retrieval, spoken document retrieval and information
extraction.

For further information on TDT please visit:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/TDT.  Brief descriptions of each
corpus are provided below, with information on how to order them.
-------
1. TDT2 Multilanguage Text Corpus, Version 4.0 contains news
data collected daily from nine news sources in two languages (American
English and Mandarin Chinese), over a period of six months (January -
June, 1998).  Both manually-created reference text and automatically-
generated text (ASR and/or machine translation) are provided for all
broadcast and all Mandarin data.

This version has been prepared to complement the first general release
of the TDT3 Multilanguage Text Corpus, providing new enhancements to
make the data content more accessible to a broader research community.

The news sources, and approximate number of stories per source (in
thousands), are as follows:


English sources                              Thousands of
stories
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 New York Times Newswire Service                  11.8
 Associated Press Worldstream Service             12.8
 Cable News Network, "Headline News"              15.8
 American Broadcasting Co., "World News Tonight"   2.1
 Public Radio International, "The World"           2.9
 Voice of America, English news programs           8.2
    Total English stories:                        53.6
thousand

Mandarin sources
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 Xinhua News Agency                               11.3
 Zaobao News Agency                                5.2
 Voice of America, Mandarin Chinese news programs  2.3
    Total Mandarin stories:                       18.8
thousand

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the
2001 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus
free of charge. The non-member cost is $2,500.

-------

2. TDT3 Multilanguage Text Corpus Version 2.0 is the first
general release of this collection (version 1 was made available only
to participants in the TDT 1999 and 2000 evaluation tests).  It
contains data from the same nine sources found in TDT2, plus two
additional English television sources.  Like TDT2, it provides both
manually- created and automatically-generated text for most sources.

For TDT3, the daily collection took place over a period of three
months (October - December, 1998).  The sources and approximate number
of stories per source are as follows:


English sources                              Thousands of
stories
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 New York Times Newswire Service                  6.9
 Associated Press Worldstream Service             7.3
 Cable News Network, "Headline News"              9.0
 American Broadcasting Co., "World News Tonight"  1.0
 Public Radio International, "The World"          1.6
 Voice of America, English news programs          3.9
 MS-NBC, "News with Brian Williams"               0.7
 National Broadcasting Co., "NBC Nightly News"    0.8
    Total English stories:                       31.2
thousand

Mandarin sources
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 Xinhua News Agency                               5.2
 Zaobao News Agency                               3.8
 Voice of America, Mandarin Chinese news programs 3.8
    Total Mandarin stories:                      12.8
thousand

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the
2001 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus
freeof charge.  The non-member cost is $2,500.

-------

3. TDT3 English Audio Corpus contains the audio (in compressed
sphere format) of news broadcasts collected daily from the 6 news
sources in American English, over the three-month collection period
(October - December 1998).  The sources and amounts are as follows:

Sources Hours  CDs
------------------------------------------------------------------
CNN_HDL Cable News Network, "Headline News" 174.6   19
ABC_WNT American Broadcasting Co., "World News Tonight" 38.6    5
NBC_NNW National Broadcasting Co., "NBC Nightly News" 44.6    6
MNB_NBW  MS-NBC, "News with Brian Williams" 51.8    6
PRI_TWD Public Radio International, "The World" 63.9   7
VOA_ENG Voice of America, English  news programs 102.2   12


Total 475.7   55

The files in this publication are complete single-channel recordings
of the (thirty or sixty minute) broadcasts listed above.  Each one has
been digitized at a sample rate of 16 KHz using 16-bit samples, and
compressed using the "shorten" algorithm.

Institutions that have commercial membership in the LDC during the
2001 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of
charge.  Institutions that have non-profit membership in the 2001
Membership Year will need to pay a media fee of $1,100 for the full
set of 55 CD-ROMS.  The non-member cost for the full set is $11,000.

(The audio CD-ROMs are grouped into subsets by broadcast source, and
the LDC will support the option of purchasing one or more subsets,
e.g. just the VOA data.  We regret that we cannot provide "customized"
subsets.)

If you would like to order a copy of any of these corpora, please
email your request to mailto://ldc at ldc.upenn.edu. If you need
additional information before placing your order, or would like to
inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call
(215)573-1275.
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:35:03 +0200
Subject: Conf: TALN 2001 : APPEL A PARTICIPATION
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**********************************************************************
*
*                            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
*
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(see English version below)

********** TALN 2001  : APPEL A PARTICIPATION **********

----> INSCRIPTION PREFERENTIELLE AVANT le 15 JUIN 2001 <----
			----> SUR LE SITE <---

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 30 communications scientifiques, 2
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.

********** THEMES **********

Les communications porte 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 accueillera egalement 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
utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modelisation linguistique

********** CALENDRIER **********

----> INSCRIPTION PREFERENTIELLE AVANT le 15 JUIN 2001 <----
			----> SUR LE SITE <---
Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001

********** DEMONSTRATIONS ET POSTERS **********

Une seance specifique est prevue pour des demonstrations (presentations
logicielles) et des posters (85 x 120 cm).

********** CRITERES DE SELECTION **********

Nous avons eu 58 soumissions pour le congres TALN 2001, pour 30 plages
disponibles, ce qui nous a oblige a une grande selection, parfois difficile
entre des propositions de bonne qualite. Les 12 meilleurs papiers ecartes
ont cependant ete retenus pour une seance de posters.

Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la conference
qui seront distribues a tous les participants.

**********************************************************************
*
*                         ENGLISH VERSION
*
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********** TALN 2001  : CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **********

----> PREFERENTIAL RATE BEFORE 6-15-2001 ON THE WEB <---

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 30 paper presentations, 2 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 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 has also invited 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
management and acquisition of linguistic resources
NLP tools for linguistic modelization

********** CALENDAR **********

----> PREFERENTIAL RATE BEFORE 6-15-2001 ON THE WEB <---
Conference : 7/2-5/2001

********** SELECTION CRITERIA **********

We received 58 papers for 30 accepted.

Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference
given to all participants.

********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME **********
**********  PROGRAMME COMMITTEE  **********

(le comite de programme a ete entoure d'un large comite de lecture)
(the program committee has been 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
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:35:45 +0200
Subject: Conf: NAACL-2001 Online Registration
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************* ON-LINE REGISTRATION IS NOW AVAILABLE **********************

                Language Technologies 2001:

         Second Meeting of the North American Chapter
      of the Association for Computational Linguistics

                    June 2-7, 2001
               Carnegie Mellon University
              Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

REGISTRATION SCHEDULE:
   Early--by May 7
   Late--by May 25
   On-site--after May 25

REGISTRATION FEES (for ACL Members):

                Regular           Student          Student
              (Paper and CD     (Paper and CD    (CD proceedings
               proceedings)      proceedings)     only)
Late             $325              $145             $125
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2001 ACL MEMBERSHIP: Regular $80; Student $50.

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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:36:23 +0200
Subject: Conf: ACL-2001 Call for Participation
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		  ACL-2001 Toulouse, July 5-11

		    Call for participation


Online registration for ACL-2001 is now working. For more information
consult:

www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html

or send e-mail to: acl at irit.fr

-Note that early registration closes on May 24th at 12 PM and late
 registration ends on June 25th.

-Most hotels have preferential rates till May 31st; rooms in the student
 residence are also available.

-Discounted air fares are available through our official carrier, Air France.

This year, the ACL-2001 is pleased to present a large number of events,
among which are: 11 workshops, 5 tutorials, 2 panels, 2 invited speakers
and a student research workshop.  To make your visit in Toulouse as
enjoyable as possible, a number of cultural events and a big banquet are
also associated with the conference.
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:37:25 +0200
Subject: Conf: 4e journees INTEX : programme
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*****************************************
Programme des Quatri?mes Journ?es Intex
11-12 juin 2001
Universit? de Bordeaux 3
*****************************************

Lundi

9h30 - 10h     M. Gross, LADL: Transforming the tables of the
lexicon-grammar into local grammars
10h - 10h30    M. Silberztein, IBM: Towards 4.30
10h30 - 11h    PAUSE
11h - 11h30    P.-A. Buvet, F. Moreau, Univ.  de Franche-Comt?: Mise en
place d'un moteur de recherche int?grant Intex
11h30 - 12h    H. Ulland, Univ. of Bergen: Une analyse linguistique ?
l'aide d'Intex des titres du journal Le Monde
12h30 - 13h    C. Fairon, ETS: G?n?ration automatique d'?nonc?s pour les
tests de raisonnement analytique du GRE

13h - 14h PAUSE MIDI

14h - 14h30    R. Dougherty, NYU: Using INTEX to Analyze the Ambiguity in
Garden Path Sentences
14h30 - 15h    A. Renouf, Univ. of Liverpool: The Development of Linguistic
Knowledge Management and Exploitation Tools
15h - 15h30    D. Vitas, C. Krstev, Univ. of Belgrade: INTEX et la
morphologie flexionnelles des langues slaves
15h30 - 16h    K. Zellagui, Univ. de Franche-Comt?: De l'analyse
traditionnelle ? l'analyse informatique de textes litt?raires
16h - 18h M. Silberztein, IBM: Tutoriel 1 : Description d'une langue,
flexion, Intex en ligne de commande, API

Mardi

9h - 9h30 O. Piton, D. Maurel Univ. Paris 1: Les Noms Propres G?ographiques
et le Dictionnaire Prolintex
9h30 - 10h     C. Mota, Technical Univ. of Lisbon: Inflection of the
Portuguese DELAS using FST
10h - 10h30    R. Kailuweit, Univ. Heidelberg: Traitement automatique des
verbes de col?re
10h30 - 11h    PAUSE
11h - 11h30    A. Balvet, Thales: Ressources linguistiques pour le filtrage
d'information
11h30 - 12h    F. Ibekwe-SanJuan, Univ. Nancy 2: Extraction terminologique
avec Intex
12h30 - 12h30  S.-M. Bae, Univ. de Marne-la-Vall?e: La description des noms
compos?s du cor?en dans un dictionnaire ?lectronique

12h30 - 14     PAUSE MIDI

14h - 14h30    M. Constant, Univ. de Marne-la-Vall?e: Conception d'un
serveur de graphes d'automates finis
14h30 - 15h    N. Friburger, D. Maurel, Lab. d'Informatique de Tours:
G?n?ration d'une cascade de transducteurs pour l'extraction d'information ?
l'aide d'Intex
15h - 15h30    S. Paumier, Univ. de Marne-la-Vall?e:  Solutions pour le
traitement de gros graphes
15h30 - 16h    PAUSE
16h - 18h C. Fairon, ETS: Tutoriel 2 : transducteurs en mode fusion,
Glossanet, d?bogage de graphes

(2) Les actes du colloque seront publi?s : les intervenants qui souhaitent
contribuer aux actes devront nous contacter.

The proceedings will be published; speakers who want to contribute must
contact us.

(3) SVP veuillez vous inscrire le plus rapidement possible pour les
tutoriels (les places sont limit?es).

Please let us now as soon as possible if you wish to attend the tutorial
sessions.

(4) Hotels a Bordeaux (type **)

Hotel de la Tour de l'Intendance: 14-16 rue de la Vieille Tour 33800
BORDEAUX
1personne douche+wc: 220FF / 2 pers.: 260FF
Tel.: (0)556 81 46 27
Fax.: (0)556 81 60 90

Hotel Continental: 10 rue Montesquieu
1pers, idem, 330FF/ 2pers. 370FF
Tel.: (0)556 52 66 00
Fax.: (0)556 52 77 97

Hotel Gambetta: 66 rue Porte-Dijeaux
1 pers., idem, 260FF / 2pers. 310FF
Tel.: (0)556 51 21 83
Fax.: (0)556 81 00 40

Hotel Trianon: c'est un ***; 1pers. 440FF (petit dejeuner 45FF); pour
2pers., 500FF la chambre. Adresse: 5 rue du Temple
Tel.: (O)556 48 28 35
Fax.: (0)556 51 17 81

Face ? la gare principale (Bordeaux-St Jean) / near the train station:

Hotel Arcantis Le Faisan: 28 rue Charles Domercq
1pers, idem, 270FF / 2pers. 350FF
Tel.: (0)556 91 54 52
Fax.: (0)556 92 93 83 et site www.arcantis.fr

Dans tous les cas, signalez que vous venez pour une conf?rence ?
Bordeaux-III. Il faut reserver rapidement (avant fin mars): au printemps,
tous les hotels de Bordeaux sont rapidement complets. Il y a beaucoup
d'autres hotels ? Bordeaux (generalement plus chers) dont vous aurez les
coordonnees dans les agences de voyage. Il n'y a pas de possibilite de
logement sur le campus, mais si vous venez en voiture il y a des hotels
proches.

In any case, mention that you will attend a conference at the University of
Bordeaux-III. You should make a reservation before the end of March.

(5) Contacts :

Claude Muller
UFR Lettres, Universit? de Bordeaux-3, Domaine Universitaire,
33607 PESSAC CEDEX (FRANCE).
fax: +33(0)557 12 45 29
email: muller at montaigne.u-bordeaux.fr

Joan Busquets
UFR Lettres, Universit? de Bordeaux-3, Domaine Universitaire,
33607 PESSAC CEDEX (FRANCE).
fax: +33(0)557 12 45 29
email: busquets at pharaon.egid.u-bordeaux.fr

Max Silberztein
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From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr  Mon May 21 15:52:51 2001
From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:52:51 +0100
Subject: Q: Liste de mots avec leur frequence
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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 18:12:56
From: "Julie Myre" <juliemyre at hotmail.com>
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? qui de droit,


Je suis une ?tudiante qu?b?coise au doctorat en ?ducation.  Je travaille sur
les troubles d'apprentissage de la lecture et je suis ? la recherche de
listes de mots et de leur fr?quence ?crite (pour des lecteurs de 8 ? 12 ans
ou pour des lecteurs adultes).

Si vous pouvez m'aider, ce serait tr?s appr?ci?.

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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:32:28 +0200
Subject: Appel: LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-2001)
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    Please distribute; apologies for multiple copies
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                 First  Call for Papers

        LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-2001)

         A workshop to be held at the occasion of the
    Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea

              Leuven, 29 August 2001

         http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/sle2001/

ORGANIZED BY:

Eva Hajicova (Charles University, Prague)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Eva Hajicova (chair)
Anne Abeille (Universit? Paris 7)
Thorsten Brants (University of the Saarland, XEROX PARC)
Leonid Iomdin (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (?FAI))
Geert-Jan Kruijff (University of the Saarland)
Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex)

TOPIC AND MOTIVATION:

Large linguistically interpreted (annotated) corpora are urgently
needed in an increasing number of projects in the field of
computational linguistics. Many groups are currently creating corpus
resources for a variety of languages. These corpora are used for a
broad range of different applications and theoretical
investigations. We aim to bring together these activities in order to
promote and facilitate first of all advanced and efficient
exploitation of annotated corpora.

The aim of the workshop is to exchange and propagate research results
in the field of corpus annotation, taking into account different types
of information. The Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora
focuses on

- exploitation of annotated corpora
- tools & techniques for syntactic annotation and browsing in corpora
- tagging and parsing methods that aim at semi-automatic annotation,
- error detection and correction,
- inter-annotator-agreement,
- representation formats and standards,


SCHEDULE:

May 30, 2001: 1 page abstracts submission deadline
June 20, 2001: notification of acceptance
June 30, 2001: publication of workshop program
Autust 29, 2001: workshop


SUBMISSIONS:

Please send submissions in English electronically in Postscript, PDF,
Word document or plain ASCII format to the address below (if
necessary, you can also submit a hard copy by mail or by fax).

<mirovsky at ufal.mff.cuni.cz>

Jiri Mirovsky
Center for Computational Linguistics
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University

Malostranske nam. 25
118 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic

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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Tue May 22 16:33:21 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:33:21 +0200
Subject: Soft: ELRA News
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ELRA
European Language Resources Association
ELRA News
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We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA:

ELRA S0106      Dutch SpeechDat(II) MDB-250

A description of this database is given below.

The Dutch SpeechDat(II) MDB-250 comprises 250 Dutch speakers (125 males,
125 females) recorded over the Dutch mobile telephone network. The
recordings were made at SPEX, the Netherlands, and the recording
application was developed and run with Show 'N Tel. This database is
partitioned into 5 CDs The speech databases made within the SpeechDat(II)
project were validated by SPEX to assess their compliance with the
SpeechDat format and content specifications.
Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law. Each prompted
utterance is stored in a separate file. Each signal file is accompanied by
an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information.

The following items were recorded:

8 application words (2 optional); 2 isolated digits; 1 sequence of 10
isolated digits; 3 connected digits: 1 telephone number (1-10 digits), 1
credit card number (1-16 digits), 1 digit PIN code (6 digits); 3 dates: 1
spontaneous date, 1 date, 1 relative date expression;
1 embedded application word; 3 spelled words: 1 forename (spontaneous), 1
city name, 1 word; 1 currency money amount; 1 natural number; 6 directory
assistance names: 1 forename (spontaneous), 1 city of birth, 1 most
frequent city, 1 city name, 1 company name, 1 forename surname; 2 yes/no
questions: 1 predominantly "yes" question, 1 predominantly "no" question; 9
phonetically rich sentences; 2 time phrases: 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1
time phrase; 4 phonetically rich words.

The following age distribution has been obtained: 5 speakers are under 16,
90 are between 16 and 30,
89 between 31 and 45, 56 between 46 and 60, and 10 are over 60. The lexicon
was created following
the guidelines in SD1.3.1 v4.3.

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For further information, please contact:
ELRA/ELDA Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33
55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30
F-75013 Paris, France E-mail mapelli at elda.fr
or visit the online catalogue on our Web site:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
or http://www.elda.fr
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Tue May 22 16:36:23 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:36:23 +0200
Subject: Ecole: PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES, Tarragona, Spain
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(Apologies for multiple copies. Please, help us to spread this initiative.)


         1st INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS

                                   2001-2003

                          Rovira i Virgili University
                 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics

                               Tarragona, Spain


Courses and professors 1st year (April-June 2002):

Applications of Formal Languages                  Solomon Marcus, Bucharest
Languages                                         Victor Mitrana, Bucharest
Combinatorics on Words                            Tero Harju, Turku
Regular Grammars                                  Masami Ito, Kyoto)
Context-Free Grammars                             Manfred Kudlek, Hamburg
Context-Sensitive Grammars                        Alexandru Mateescu,
Bucharest
Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars                 Henning Bordihn, Potsdam
Derivation Trees                                  Carlos Martin-Vide,
Tarragona
Finite Automata                                   Sheng Yu, London ON
Pushdown Automata                                 Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom,
Leiden
Turing Machines                                   Maurice Margenstern, Metz
Patterns                                          Kai Salomaa, Kingston ON
Infinite Words                                    Juhani Karhumaki, Turku
Two-Dimensional Languages                         Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima
Regulated Rewriting                               Juergen Dassow, Magdeburg
Contextual Grammars                               Rodica Ceterchi, Bucharest
Parallel Grammars                                 Henning Fernau, Tuebingen

Courses and professors 2nd year (October 2002-January 2003):

Grammar Systems                                   Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju,
Budapest
Ecogrammar Systems and Colonies                   Alica Kelemenova, Opava
Tree Automata and Tree Languages                  Magnus Steinby, Turku
Formal Power Series                               Werner Kuich, Vienna
DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments             Grzegorz Rozenberg, Leiden
Membrane Computing                                Gheorghe Paun, Bucharest
Splicing Systems and Aqueous Computing            Tom Head, Binghamton
Quantum Computing                                 Cristian Calude, Auckland
Formal Languages and Natural Language Syntax      Walter Savitch, San Diego
Parsing                                           Giorgio Satta, Padua
Tree Adjoining Grammars                           James Rogers, Richmond IN
Weighted Finite-State Transducers                 Mehryar Mohri, AT&T,
Florham Park NJ
Formal Languages and Logic                        Vincenzo Manca, Pisa
Grammatical Inference and Learning                Takashi Yokomori, Tokyo
Grammar-Theoretic Models in Artificial Life       Jozef Kelemen, Opava
Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition          Rudolf Freund, Vienna
Text Searching Algorithms                         Ricardo Baeza-Yates,
Santiago de Chile
Cryptography                                      Valtteri Niemi, Nokia, Vaasa
Complexity                                        Markus Holzer, Munich

Dissertation:

After following the courses, students enrolled in the programme will have
to write a dissertation in English in their own area of interest, in order
to get the so-called European PhD degree. All the professors in the
programme will be allowed to supervise students' work.

Students:

Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the world.
Most appropriate previous degrees of students include: Computer Science,
Mathematics and Linguistics. Students are assumed either to have a certain
background in discrete mathematics or to be ready to get it by April 2002.

According to the expected programme's budget, more than half of the
accepted students will be funded, so that their accommodation and living
expenses while in Spain will be covered by the programme. These conditions
could be improved, at the programme chairman's discretion and depending on
the definite availability of resources, in the case of students from
Eastern European countries and others.

Deadlines:

Free pre-registration: September 30, 2001
Selection of students: November 15, 2001
Application for funding: December 15, 2001
Decision about funding: February 15, 2002
Registration: February 28, 2002
Starting of the courses: April 2, 2002

Questions and further information:

Please, contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martin-Vide, at
cmv at astor.urv.es

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Carlos Martin-Vide
Head, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Head, Department of Romance Philologies
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559-543
Fax: +34-977-559-597
E-mail: cmv at astor.urv.es, cmv at tinet.fut.es
Web: http://www.urv.es/centres/Grups/grlmc/grlmc.html
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Tue May 22 16:50:48 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:50:48 +0200
Subject: Publications: NLP book series - John Benjamins
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************************************************
BOOK SERIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
*************************************************

As previously announced,  John Benjamins Publishers
launched a new book series on Natural Language Processing as
a timely response to the growing demand for NLP literature.
The first book of the series which covers Computational
Pragmatics and is edited by H. Bunt and B. Black (see below),
came out several months ago; a volume on Computational
Terminology edited by D. Bourigault, C. Jacquemin and
M.C. L?Homme as well as a monograph on automatic
summarisation by I. Mani will appear soon.

The editor of the book series is Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk);
managing editor at John Benjamins is Kees Vaes  (kees.vaes at benjamins.nl).
See http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/NLP_series.htm for more details.


= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue.
Studies in computational pragmatics.

BUNT, Harry and William BLACK (eds.)

Natural Language Processing 1
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Table of contents

The ABC of Computational Pragmatics
   Harry Bunt and Bill Black

The activity-based approach to pragmatics
   Jens Allwood

Dialogue pragmatics and context specification
   Harry Bunt

Pragmatics in language understanding and cognitively motivated architectures
   Gerard Sabah

Dialogue analysis using layered protocols
   Martin Taylor and David Waugh

Coherence and structure in text and discourse
   Gisela Redeker

Discourse focus tracking
    David Carter

Speech act theory and epistemic planning
   Allan Ramsay

Context and form: declarative or interrogative, that is the question
   Robert-Jan Beun

The doxastic-epistemic force of declarative utterance
   Elias Thijsse

A conceptual modelling approach to the implementation of beliefs and intentions
   Ralph Meyer

Abduction or induction: a real distinction?
   Philip Neal

Laconic discourses and total eclipses: abduction in DICE
   Jon Oberlander and Alex Lascarides

Abductive reasoning with knowledge bases or context modelling
   Ahmed Guessoum and John Gallagher

Abductive speech act recognition, corporate agents and the COSMA system
   Elizabeth Hinkelman and Stephen Spackman;


\\\ Ruslan Mitkov, PhD
/// Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering
\\\ School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
/// University of Wolverhampton
\\\ Stafford St.
/// Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
\\\ United Kingdom
/// Telephone (44-1902) 322471
\\\ Fax (44-1902) 322739
/// Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk
\\\ Website http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/



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From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr  Wed May 23 09:41:13 2001
From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:41:13 +0100
Subject: R: Liste de mots avec leur frequence
Message-ID: <WED.23.MAY.2001.104113.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@LIPN.UNIVPARIS13.FR>

        1/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:07:36 +0200
        From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
        Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20010521170622.00aab4e8 at up.univ-mrs.fr>

        2/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:17:54 +0200
        From: Maurel Denis <maurel at univ-tours.fr>
        Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010521171427.00aa7638 at rabelais.univ-tours.fr>

        3/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:24:04 +0200
        From: B?n?dicte Gaillard <bgaillar at club-internet.Fr>
        Message-ID: <LMBBKCNFANPJMOPJOCBNGENFCHAA.bgaillar at club-internet.Fr>

------------------------------------------------------------------------
1/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:07:36 +0200
From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20010521170622.00aab4e8 at up.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/


Il y a une liste t?l?chargeable sur mon site:
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/

(voir "Ressources utiles")

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2/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:17:54 +0200
From: Maurel Denis <maurel at univ-tours.fr>
Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010521171427.00aa7638 at rabelais.univ-tours.fr>
X-url: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr

Pour adultes:
CatachN. (1984), Les listes orthographiques de base du fran?ais, Paris, Nathan.


Denis Maurel


____________________________________
Professeur Denis Maurel
LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours)
E3i, 64 avenue Jean-Portalis
37200 Tours
France
Tel. (33) 2.47.36.14.35
Telc. (33) 2.47.36.14.22
mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr
http://www.li.univ-tours.fr

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3/Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:24:04 +0200
From: B?n?dicte Gaillard <bgaillar at club-internet.Fr>
Message-ID: <LMBBKCNFANPJMOPJOCBNGENFCHAA.bgaillar at club-internet.Fr>


Vous pouvez consulter "Le fran?ais fondamental" (1er et 2e degr?s) ?tabli
par une ?quipe de l'?cole normale sup?rieure de Saint-Cloud. Ces ouvrages
datent de 1972 et 1973 (cen'est pas tout jeune), mais je ne connais pas
d'autres publications.
Vouspouvez ?galement trouver des listes de mots dans des manuels scolaires
tels que ceux de la collection "Les couleurs du fran?ais", ?ditions
Hachette-Livre (ouvrages destin?s aux ?l?ves du CE1 au CM2, soit de 7/8 ans
? 10/11 ans). Ces listes ont ?t? ?tablies en fonction des mots que les
enfants sont cens?s conna?tre ? la fin de leur primaire, mais elles prennent
?galement en compte les mots que les enfants trouveront dans les textes des
livres.

B?n?dicte Gaillard
12 av. du Mar?chal Foch
95100 Argenteuil
bgaillar at club-internet.fr

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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:02:15 +0200
Subject: Appel: SIGIR Workshop on Operational Text Classification Systems
 2001
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Call for Participation

Workshop on Operational Text Classification Systems 2001
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
September 13, 2001
http://www.DavidDLewis.com/events/otc2001
otc2001info at DavidDLewis.com

in conjunction with
ACM SIGIR 2001
September 9-13, 2001
http://www.sigir2001.org

Text classification research and practice has exploded in the past decade.
This work has been pursued under a variety of headings (text categorization,
automated indexing, text mining, topic detection and tracking, etc.).   Both
the automated assignment of textual data to classes, and the automated
discovery of such classes (by techniques such as clustering) have been of
intense interest.   A variety of practical applications have been fielded,
in areas such as indexing of documents for retrieval, hierarchical
organization of Web sites, alerting and routing of news, creation of
specialized information products, enforcement of information security,
content filtering (spam, porn, etc.), help desk automation, knowledge
discovery in textual and partially textual databases, and many others.

Experiments on text classification data sets have been widely presented in a
variety of forums.  The technical details of operational text
classification,
however, have rarely been discussed.

The goal of this workshop is to expose researchers and practitioners to the
challenges encountered in building and fielding operational text
classification systems. We hope to begin the systematizing of engineering
principles in this area, and spark new directions for research as well.

TOPICS

Workshop topics will include (but are not limited to):

* Cost effectiveness of automating text classification tasks

* Understanding what users want from classification systems

* Technical and personnel issues in using training data and prior knowledge

* Trading off space, time, and other resources in the training, adaptation,
and execution phases of classification

* Integrating automated classification systems with pre-existing software,
organizational procedures, relevant laws, and cultural expectations

* Maintaining and monitoring effectiveness as text sources and classes
change over time

* Discovering, defining, updating, and explaining classes and classifiers

* The roles of classification and related technologies (information
extraction, terminology discovery, etc.)


PARTICIPATION

To facilitate discussion, workshop attendance will be limited to a maximum
of 70 participants. Anyone interested in attending should apply in one of
these two ways:

1. Researchers, practitioners, and users with an interest in text
classification:
     **Please submit a paragraph describing your background, organizational
affiliation (if any), and interest in text classification.

2. Prospective speakers with substantial knowledge of one or more
operational text classification systems and an interest in presenting a talk
based on their experience:
     **Please submit both a paragraph of interest (as described above) and
an abstract (maximum 750 words) outlining the major points you would speak
on.  Talks whose focus is experimental results on standard test collections
are discouraged.  Conversely, operational text classification at any scale
from the tiny (e.g. an evaluation of content filtering software for a small
organization) to the huge (e.g. categorizing hundreds of newswires each day)
is of interest.  Selection of talks will be largely based on the speaker's
ability and willingness to discuss technical details of operational systems,
as reflected in their abstract.

Submissions should be sent in ASCII or PDF form to:
                      otc2001submit at DavidDLewis.com
All submissions will be reviewed by the organizers and program committee.
The interest paragraphs and talk proposals of invited participants will be
reproduced and distributed as an informal notebook at the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES

Interest paragraphs must be received: June 15, 2001
Talk abstracts must be received: June 15, 2001
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2001
Workshop: September 13, 2001

Please visit http://www.sigir2001.org for hotel and registration deadlines.

ORGANIZERS
        David D. Lewis, independent consultant (Chair)
        Susan Dumais, Microsoft
        Ronen Feldman, Clearforest
        Fabrizio Sebastiani, Italian National Council of Research

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
        James Allan, University of Massachusetts
        David Evans, Clairvoyance
        Sue Feldman, IDC
        Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund
        Thorsten Joachims, GMD
        Andras Kornai, Northern Light
        Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong
        Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute & Carnegie Mellon Univ.
        Isabelle Moulinier, Thomson
        Christopher Porter, Factiva
        Prabhakar Raghavan, Verity
        Mehran Sahami, E.piphany
        Robert Schapire, AT&T
        Frank Smadja, Elron Software
        Richard Tong, Tarragon Consulting
        Mark Wasson, LexisNexis
        Scott Waterman, Kanisa Inc.
        Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon University
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:03:11 +0200
Subject: Appel: AMLaP Conference
Message-ID: <MON.28.MAY.2001.200311.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

                       * * * PLEASE POST * * *
      ___________________________________________________________

      AMLaP-2001            Call for Papers            AMLaP-2001

         ARCHITECTURES AND MECHANISMS FOR LANGUAGE PROCESSING

                            AMLaP-2001

      SAARBRUECKEN           GERMANY         20-22 September 2001
      ___________________________________________________________
                    http://www.amlap.org/2001/


- AMLaP-2001

This is a call for submissions to the 7th annual conference on Architectures
and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-2001), to be held in
Saarbruecken, Germany from September 20-22, 2001.

The aim of the conference is to bring together psychological, computational,
and theoretical perspectives on the cognitive mechanisms which underlie any
aspect of human language processing. Submissions which integrate
experimental psycholinguistic investigations with formal or computational
models of psychological processes are especially encouraged.

   Invited Speakers:
      Jeff Elman           Univerity of California, San Diego
      Dan Jurafsky         University of Colorado, Boulder
      Michael Tomasello    MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig


- SPECIAL SESSION

This years conference will also include a special session on the theme:

        "Experience-based Models of Language Processing"

For this session, we strongly encourage relevant submissions on topics
including (but not restricted to):
 * Models whose mechanisms are derived on the basis of experience
         (e.g. statistical, connectionist, memory-based)
 * The use of corpora as a model of linguistic experience
 * Experimental evidence addressing the role of experience/exposure
 * Combined models of language acquisition and performance

Papers for this session should be submitted via the normal submission
procedure. Assuming a sufficient number and quality of submissions for the
Conference special session, we intend to publish a special issue of the
recently established journal Cognitive Science Quarterly.

- SUBMISSIONS

The deadline for the submission of abstracts of both spoken and poster
presentations is Monday, June 11th 2001.

Abstracts should be no longer than 400 words (excluding references), and
should be in plain ASCII text.

 * At the top of the abstract, please include authors'
   names, affiliations, and email addresses

 * Please leave several blank lines before indicating
   whether the abstract is for consideration as a PAPER
   or as a POSTER, and giving the title. Abstracts rejected
   as papers will automatically be considered as posters
   unless explicit instructions to the contrary are given.

Abstracts should be submitted by email to: submissions at amlap.org
The subject of the message should be:  "abstract submission".
Notifications of acceptance will be sent before July 13th.

- LOCATION

AMLaP will be held in the Saarbruecken Castle (Schloss) located in
central Saarbruecken, overlooking the Saar river and the city. The Schloss
is a modernly renovated castle providing both a stimulating setting and
excellent conference facilities. Saarbruecken is located in south-western
Germany on the French border and about 100km from Luxemburg.

- FURTHER INFORMATION

Information about participation and registration will be available soon on
the conference web pages, and in a subsequent announcement.

Further information is available at: http://www.amlap.org/2001/

Queries should be directed to: amlap2001 at amlap.org

General information about AMLaP is available at: http://www.amlap.org/


Conference Chairs:
  Matthew W Crocker
  Frank Keller
  Christoph Scheepers

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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:04:25 +0200
Subject: Ressources: base de donnéeslexicale du français contemporain
Message-ID: <MON.28.MAY.2001.200425.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

Bonjour,

Vous trouverez sur le site : http://www.lexique.org/ "Une base de donn?es
lexicale du fran?ais contemporain" constitu?e par Boris New, Christophe
Pallier, Ludovic Ferrand et Rafael Matos (LPE, CNRS-Paris 5 et LSCP,
CNRS-EHESS).

Le manuscript accessible sur ce site fait ?galement r?f?rence ? deux autre
listes : Brulex - Content, Mousty et Radeau in Ann?e psychologique 1990 et
Novlex : Lambert et Chesnet in Ann?e psychologique 2001.

Bien sinc?rement,


Yves Bestgen
UCL/EXPE Place du Cardinal Mercier 10 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgique
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:06:33 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 2 offres
Message-ID: <MON.28.MAY.2001.200633.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

1/              Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST
                Lecturer in Computational Linguistics

2/                      European Post-Graduate College
               "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
                         Saarbruecken - Edinburgh
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1/
             Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST
                Lecturer in Computational Linguistics

The Centre for Computational Linguistics (CCL) was created
almost 25 years ago, and has an established reputation for
teaching and research in NLP, specializing in multilingual
applications of CL, notably Machine Translation and Computer-
Assisted Language Learning.

CCL now has a vacancy for a Lecturer in Computational
Linguistics. The successful candidate will conduct research in
any topic relevant to the Centre?s main research interests, CALL
and MT. The candidate will also contribute to postgraduate
teaching on MSc courses in MT and CALL and will be
expected to supervise MSc and PhD students. We are looking
for someone with a PhD, teaching experience, and plenty of
ideas for research grant applications. An active research profile
is essential, and the successful candidate will have a reasonable
publication record as well as experience of funded research, at
least as a contributor if not as principal investigator.

Salary will be within the Lecturer A scale:  ?18,731-?23,256
per annum.

For an application form and further details please write to: The
Personnel Office, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD,
enclosing a self-addressed envelope.  Please quote reference:
LE/A/122.  Informal enquiries can be addressed to
Harold.Somers at umist.ac.uk. The closing date is 30 June 2001.


==============================================
Harold Somers
Professor of Language Engineering
Director, Centre for Computational Linguistics
UMIST, Manchester

preferred email address for all correspondence:
Harold.Somers at umist.ac.uk


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                      European Post-Graduate College
               "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
                         Saarbruecken - Edinburgh

Saarland University is pleased to announce the availability of four doctoral
scholarships, beginning October 1st, 2001, in the above programme.
Doctoral degrees may be obtained in computational linguistics, phonetics,
and informatics, from Saarland University. Each scholarship will be funded
for two years initially (extendable to three years).

The European Post-Graduate College has been established in cooperation
between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh (Division of
Informatics) - two leading institutions in the fields of computational
linguistics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science who are
collaborating in offering a joint post-graduate education programme. The
cooperation includes

* a six to twelve months research stay in Edinburgh
* joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from Saarbruecken and
  Edinburgh
* an intensive research exchange programme between Saarbruecken and
  Edinburgh (including, for example, an annual two-week forum attended by
  college members and lecturers from both centres)

The college focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of human
language processing, particularly emphasising the following research areas:

* language understanding (including spoken language processing and
  psycholinguistic modelling)
* inference and reasoning
* knowledge representation, lexicon, and ontology
* data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and statistical
  language modelling)
* dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models)

Lecturers in Saarbruecken are M. Pinkal, H. Uszkoreit (computational
linguistics), W. Barry (phonetics), M. Crocker (psycholinguistics), M.
Kohlhase, J. Siekmann, G. Smolka, W. Wahlster (informatics/AI). In
Edinburgh, lecturers include M. Fourman, E. Klein, A. Lascarides, C.
Mellish, J. Moore, J. Oberlander, M. Osborne, M. Pickering, M. Steedman, P.
Taylor, B. Webber, and C. Williams.

The scholarship provides up to DM 2,870 per month. Additional compensation
includes family allowance (where applicable), travel funding, and an
additional monthly allowance of approximately DM 1,410 for the stay in
Edinburgh.

Applicants should hold a strong university degree in one of the relevant
areas, and they should not be more than 28 years of age. Female scientists
and international students are particularly encouraged to apply.
Applications should include

1. a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, where possible)
2. a sample of written work (e.g. research paper, or dissertation,
   preferably in English)
3. copies of high school and university certificates
4. two references (to be sent directly to the college speaker)
5. an informal cover letter specifying interests, previous knowledge and
   activities in any of the relevant research areas. The letter should
   indicate the area in which the dissertation is to be conducted
   (computational linguistics/psycholinguistics, phonetics, or
   informatics/AI): where possible, it should include a brief outline of
   research interests to be pursued within the scholarship.

Applications should be sent to the speaker of the college (see address
below). Closing date for applications is May 31st, 2001.

   Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker (Speaker)
   Department of Computational Linguistics
   Saarland University
   P.O. Box 15 11 50
   D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany

Tel:  +49 (0)681 302-6560     E-mail:   egk-admin at coli.uni-sb.de
Fax:  +49 (0)681 302-6561     Internet: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:12:13 +0200
Subject: Conf: EUROLAN 2001 last call
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EUROLAN 2001

Summer School on
"Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources"
5th in the series of Eurolan Schools
30 July - 11 August 2001
Iasi, Romania


Once upon a time, there was a series of summer schools and its name was
Eurolan. It would happen in the far away land of Romania, during its long
hot summer days. And among the schools of this series, the most famous of
all was Eurolan 2001. Never before had the ancient city of Iasi seen such a
gathering of kings and queens, of princes and princesses with only one thing
in mind: to talk about the state-of-the art in the theory, methodology, and
technology for creating and using annotated language resources for language
engineering.

For two long weeks, they kept talking and talking. Princesses and princes
from all over the world came to meet the wise invited queens and kings and
learn from their wisdom. The kings would speak during mornings while in the
afternoons they would help princes to put into practice their teachings.
And, as if all these hadn't been enough, more meetings were organized for
the young princes (workshops on Multi-layer Corpus Based Analysis:
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html and on Modular Programming
Applied to Natural Language Processing:
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/workshop.html) and for all the
people in Iasi at that time (round tables on Linguistic Data Consortia and
on Industrial Applications in Response to Market Requirements).

What happened during those days can be briefly presented as follows:

Monday - 30 July
Annotation formalisms and standards for NLP (XML, XCES)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA)
Laurent Romary (Loria Laboratories, Nancy, France)

Tuesday - 31 July
Qualitative and quantitative methods in corpora (tokenisation, part of
speech tagging, measuring similarity and homogeneity)
 Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy - RACAI)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton, UK)

Workshop on Multi-layer Corpus Based Analysis

Wednesday - 1 August
Sub-syntactic and syntactic annotation (shallow-parsing, tree banks)
Hans Uszkoreit (University of Saarbrucken, Germany)

Round table on Linguistic Data Consortia

Thursday - 2 August
Annotation of semantics, word sense disambiguation
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton, UK)

Friday - 3 August
Annotation of semantics, meaning relationships, linguistic chains, semantic
roles of verbs
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)
Chuck Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Birds-of-a-feather meeting

Saturday - 4 August
Annotation of discourse (structure, co-reference)
Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA)
Daniel Marcu (University of Southern California, USA)

Sunday - 5 August
Trip to Bucovina Monasteries

Monday - 6 August
Exploitation of corpora for anaphora resolution
Catalina Barbu (Universities of Wolverhampton, UK and Iasi, Romania)
Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

Workshop on Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing (I)

Tuesday - 7 August
Exploitation for information extraction and information retrieval
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
Atsushi Fujii (University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo, Japan)

Workshop on Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing (II)

Wednesday - 8 August
Exploitation for summarization, discourse interpretation and data mining
Daniel Marcu (University of Southern California, USA)

Round table on Industrial Applications in Response to Market Requirements

Thursday - 9 August
Exploitation for machine translation
Ulf Hermjakob (University of Southern California, USA)

Friday - 10 August
Creation and exploitation tools in cross-lingual applications
Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield, UK)
Valentin Tablan (Universities of Sheffield, UK and Iasi, Romania)

Farewell Evening

All these chats and exciting quarrels happened in the large bright palaces
of the "Al. I. Cuza" University, in the very heart of the organisers' realm.

A huge fortress was chosen as dwelling place for most of the guests (student
hostel - double room: 10 USD/night or single room: 18 USD/night), who could
rest for few hours in its welcoming rooms. Other guests preferred special
lodging in a castle in the city (hotel ** - double room: 16 USD/night or
single room: 22 USD/night).

And tables were set for all those who came to Iasi and there was plenty of
food and drinks (for 10-15 USD per day) and parties and marry people. And,
as good hosts usually do, the Eurolan organizers arranged a trip through
their land and showed their guests the marvels of northern Romania (Bucovina
Monasteries - UNESCO Cultural Heritage).

At the end of the school everybody returned to their realms where they lived
happily ever after.

Have you enjoyed the story?
You can be part of it!!!

You can still register before 7 June at:
http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/fees.html

(by the way, the registration fee - USD 350 - shall be sent to:
.         Bank name: BCR Iasi (Romanian Commercial Bank, Iasi branch)
.         Bank address: Str. Palat 11, Iasi 6600 - ROMANIA
.         Swift code: RNCBROBUIS
.         Account number: 2511.31-418.94
.         Owner: "Al.I.Cuza" University of Iasi - please specify: "for
EUROLAN"
Bank transfer costs should be paid in addition to the tuition fee)
We'll make sure that you have a place in our story and enjoy living it with
us!!!

Organising Royalties

Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Dan CRISTEA - "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi
Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Laurent ROMARY - LORIA Laboratories, Nancy
Daniel MARCU - ISI, University of Southern California
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:39:07 +0200
Subject: Appel: Senseval-2
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2001.163907.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

                                --!--

       *** DO YOU HAVE A WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION SYSTEM? ***

                                --!--

                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                              SENSEVAL-2

                   Second International Workshop on
             Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems

                    www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2

                       JULY 5-6, 2001, TOULOUSE

                         An ACL SIGLEX Event
  Also supported by EURALEX, ELSNET, and EPSRC (grant GR/RO2337/01)

                                --!--


The purpose of SENSEVAL is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of
such programs with respect to different words, different varieties of
language, and different languages.

THE COMPETITION

Do you have a word sense disambiguation system?  Is it the best one?
You can find out by competing in Senseval-2.  The competition window
runs from May 18 - June 18, so there is still plenty of time to
participate. See the schedule on the website for details
(http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2).  You must register your system
first (if you haven't already).


WORKSHOP:    5-6 July 2001 -  Toulouse, France

The SENSEVAL-2 Workshop will be held on July 5-6, in conjunction with
ACL/EACL 2001 in Toulouse, France.  Its purpose is to examine the
results of the competition, to discuss the state-of-the-art in
sense-tagging, and to suggest directions for the future of SENSEVAL.

 * Register here: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html
 * Early registration: by May 24 (lower registration fee)
 * Late registration: May 25 - June 24
 * After June 24th, registration will be on site only

 =========================================================================
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM  (as of May 22)

Day 1 (July 5)  Senseval-2 Project Meeting

 - is open to only those directly involved: competitors, organizers,
   sponsors, etc. (email senseval-coord at sharp.co.uk if you're not sure.)

Day 2 (July 6)  Senseval-2 Workshop

 - open to all

 Session 1: Introduction and summary of results

 Session 2: Panel: Making sense distinctions

            Do systems have problems with the same sense distinctions
            that people do - or which examples will the systems never
            get - where will the glass ceiling be?

 Lunch

 Session 3: Panel: Using WSD in real applications

            Panelists from companies working in Machine Translation,
            Information Extraction and Information Retrieval will
            address the questions:
              - Why does your company use/not use current WSD
                technology?
              - What aspects of current/recent WSD work look
                helpful/unhelpful to the needs of your company's
                applications?

 Session 4: Panel: Standardizing and linking Wordnets

            Standardizing and linking Wordnets with particular
            attention to word sense inventory, representation, and
            distinction.

            Panelists: Christiane Fellbaum, Nicoletta Calzolari,
                       Philip Resnik, Julio Gonzalo, Karel Pala.

 Session 5: Wrap-up
 =========================================================================


CONTACTS

Website:

  www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2

Discussion list:

  For current information and discussion join senseval-discuss at sharp.co.uk
  (send mail to Phil Edmonds <phil at sharp.co.uk> to join/leave)


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Scott Cotton         University of Pennsylvania
Phil Edmonds         Sharp Laboratories of Europe
Adam Kilgarriff      ITRI, University of Brighton
Martha Palmer        University of Pennsylvania

For questions about SENSEVAL-2 please
email to senseval-coord at sharp.co.uk
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:40:04 +0200
Subject: Appel: EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
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                      EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE:
               Fourth International Conference, 2002.

                        Harvard University

             Wednesday March 27th --- Saturday March 30th.

This is the fourth conference in the series, continuing from
Edinburgh/1996, London/1998, and Paris/2000.

Website for this conference: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang2002/

Local Organizer: Tecumseh Fitch (Harvard University)


CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Marc Hauser (Harvard University)
Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis University)


CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are solicited on all aspects of the origin and evolution of
language, from any relevant discipline, including Anthropology,
Archaeology, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Cognitive Science,
Ethology, Genetics, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Palaeontology, and
Psychology.  It is anticipated that papers will be presented in 25
minutes, with 5 minutes for discussion.  Papers will be accepted on the
basis of submitted abstracts, refereed by independent assessors.  Some
papers not accepted as talks will be accepted as posters.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Deadline: October 31st, 2001.

Length limit: 1 single page, with reasonable margins (at least 1 inch (2.5cm)
all round, in print no smaller than 10pt, and preferably larger)

Format: A MSWord.doc file, modified from the template downloadable from
the website (see above).

Submission: Electronically --- attach your MSWord formatted abstract to
an email message sent to evolang2002 at ling.ed.ac.uk .  Do not attempt to
include your abstract in the body of your message.


FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information, about added plenary speakers, accommodation,
conference fees, etc. will be forthcoming from time to time.  If this
message was not emailed directly to you, and you would like to be
included in further emailings, please subscribe to the EvoLang2002 email
list.  You can do this by sending an email to majordomo at ling.ed.ac.uk
with the following single-line message (not in the subject header):

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Organizing Committee:
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
Jean-Louis Dessalles (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris)
Tecumseh Fitch (Harvard University)
James R Hurford (University of Edinburgh)
Chris Knight (University of East London)
Alison Wray (Cardiff University)
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:42:12 +0200
Subject: Appel: Journal issue on Resources in Stylistic and Literary
 Analysis
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2001.164212.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

The editors of Style invite contributions to its regular yearly issue on
resources in stylistic and literary analysis.   Contributions may
include such materials as reviews of texts that present state-of-the-art
theoretical approaches to literature; essays that reassess, or revisit,
classic texts in analysis; reviews of statistical or text-processing
software; reviews of texts on analytic technique (e.g., corpus studies,
statistics, prosody); translations of important non-English essays;
interviews with leading theorists, critics, and authors; reviews of
textbooks; programmatic statements from innovative graduate and
undergraduate programs in English studies; reviews of important and
useful web sites; reviews of important and useful conferences; annotated
bibliographies or bibliographic essays focused on areas in stylistics.

Submissions for the next resources issue, scheduled as volume 36, number
4, are due 15 May 2002.  Please submit three copies, accompanied by a
150-word abstract and following the Modern Language Association's
conventions for documentation.

Submissions or correspondence concerning submissions should be addressed
to Donald E. Hardy, at dhardy at niu.edu, or at Department of English,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60116-2854.
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From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:43:53 +0200
Subject: Soft: Tgrep2
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2001.164353.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

The readers of this list may be interested in a new tool, tgrep2, that I
have developed for searching parsed corpora such as those included in
the Penn Treebank.

As the name might suggest, tgrep2 is based on tgrep and is largely
backward compatible.  However, tgrep2 adds a number of new features,
including the following major enhancements:

 * Rather than simply having a set of required relationships and a set of
   prohibited relationships, nodes can have full boolean expressions of
   relationships to other nodes.
 * Nodes can be given unique labels and may then be referred to by those
   labels in the pattern specification or in selecting trees for printing.
 * Patterns are no longer restricted to simple tree architectures. The use
   of node labels and segmented patterns allows links in a pattern to form
   back-edges as well, permitting cycles of links.
 * Customizable output formats allow a variety of information to be
   reported in a flexible manner.
 * Multiple search patterns may be specified and one can retrieve the
   first subtree matching any pattern, the first subtree matching each
   pattern, or all subtrees matching all patterns.
 * Subtrees can be reported using a code rather than by printing the
   whole structure. The trees themselves can later be retrieved using the
   codes.
 * A variety of new links have been added and the immediately-precedes
   link now has a more conventional meaning.
 * Tgrep2 corpus files are substantially smaller than tgrep corpora.

More information and the tgrep2 software can be found at the following
site:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dr/Tgrep2/


Doug Rohde
Carnegie Mellon University
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From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr  Wed May 30 15:02:43 2001
From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:02:43 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 4 offres
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2001.170243.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR>

1/ 3 postes de recherche ? MEMODATA
2/ Microsoft Job Opening
3/ ingenieur de developpement - logiciel de gestion d'information
4/ Marie Curie Fellowship Positions - UNILEVER

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1/

MEMODATA prevoit de creer les postes suivants des la rentree 2002. Ces
postes ont en commun la preparation d'une these? Les postes seront
crees en fonction de la pertinence des dossiers de candidature et des
previsions economiques (l'ensemble des postes sont des postes de
recherche).

Les postes crees seront bases a Caen. La ville accueille pres de 20
000 etudiants. Situee a dix minutes de la mer, 5 minutes d'une
campagne, elle offre de nombreux attraits pour sejourner et preparer
un doctorat.

- 1 informaticien-linguiste
        Domaine du sujet : Etude et realisation d'agents
        syntaxico-semantiques pour le filtrage de textes en
        environnement distribuee. Production automatique de ces
        agents. Aspect linguistique concerne : paraphrase.

        Competences : programmation C, java, theorie des graphes,
        inter?t pour les langues...

- 1 semanticien-logicien-lexicologue
        Domaine du sujet : integration de differentes portant sur le
        lexique dans le Dictionnaire Integral. Definition des
        formalismes. Leur usage.

        Competences : Connaissance de la lexicologie, des principales
        theories linguistiques actuelles. Inter?t pour la logique,
        go?t affirme pour le travail sur ordinateur.

- 1 lexicologue en traduction
        Domaine du sujet : Modelisation semantique pour
        l'anglais. Partage des connaissances avec ce qui est
        disponible deja, a MEMODATA, en fran?ais et anglais.

        Competences : Bilingue anglais, ou mieux, ayant l'anglais
        pour langue maternelle, connaissance de la lexicologie, des
        principales theories linguistiques actuelles, go?t affirme
        pour le travail sur ordinateur.

        Ce dernier poste pourra ?tre cofinance par un programme
        europeen : Pierre et Marie Curie. Il pourra aboutir a la
        soutenance d'une these.

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2/Software Design Engineer.

The Microsoft Natural Language Group seeks a Software Design Engineer to
assist the team that connects linguistic and semantic components to
client applications, and that designs and constructs an authoring
environment to enable other developers to do the same for their
applications. The ideal candidate should have a strong customer focus, a
good working knowledge of C++ and COM, experience with GUI application
development, and an ability to work both independently and in teams.  A
track record in natural language processing is a plus, as is experience
in XML, HTML, STL, ATL, and MFC. Our group has solid product plans for
shipping products in 6 months, again in 18 months, and more beyond. The
Natural Language Group will have a profound impact on the future of both
Microsoft and the entire computing industry.  Interested applicants
should send resumes and any questions to softjobs at microsoft.com.

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3/

Embauche Ingenieur...

Entreprise emergente dans le secteur du traitement de l'information
d'entreprise, nous recherchons un ingenieur de developpement pour
participer au lancement d'un logiciel de gestion d'information.

Competences requises :

  - recueil et constitution d'un dictionnaire/thesaurus

  - analyse de corpus (analyse morpho-syntaxique, analyse semantique,
    analyse statistique)

  - traitement du langage naturel

  - experience en developpement ou en integration de modules de
    traitement du langage.

Merci d'adresser votre candidature (CV et lettre de motivation) a :

   brigitte.leonardi at dmailer.net

Le travail sera fait en collaboration avec le laboratoire CLIPS-IMAG
(Grenoble)



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4/

I would be most grateful if you could circulate the advert below.
The position offered concerns, by rule, researchers below 35 years old.


Shail Patel, Unilever Research.

May 2001 / currently no fixed deadline

Marie Curie Fellowship Positions - Industry Host Scheme

Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics in the UK

Totally committed to scientific exploration and discovery, Unilever
invests ?550 million in pioneering new research so our products
remain the preferred choice, 150 million times a day.

An ideal opportunity for a recent PhD graduate to develop their career
whilst keeping their options open on whether to work in industry or
academia, we\rquote re looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our
2-year Marie Curie Scheme.

Delivering innovation and technology within a challenging environment,
you\rquote ll be fully integrated within the various research groups
and benefit from our comprehensive training and development
opportunities offered to all scientists.  One of these training
programmes is a 2-year scientist development programme which is
designed to develop business competencies.

Our Interactive Business Science Group is seeking an imaginative
researcher to work in one of the following areas of Language
Engineering: text analysis, message understanding, text
categorisation, topic detection / tracking, statistics for NLP,
language generation, dialogue models and dialogue management, question
answering, knowledge representation and other areas of interest.

A key member of the group, you will participate in the research and
consultation with our business users, and in the design, the
development and the implementation of Language Engineering solutions.
You will also gain valuable network opportunities with our external
academic links.

In addition to the acquisition of valuable and sought-after
transferable skills in the design and development of specialist
language engineering systems, you\rquote ll receive a subsistence and
mobility allowance. For further details visit:

http://improving-mcf.sti.jrc.it/project/

Please note that usual European Union Marie Curie eligibility criteria
apply, see CORDIS website :

http://www.cordis.lu/improving/

To apply, please send a full CV, together with the contact details of
two referees to
Shail Patel,
Unilever Research,
Quarry Road East,
Bebington, Wirral CH63 3JW.

E-mail: shail.patel at unilever.com
http://research.unilever.worldonline.nl
http://www.unilever.com
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