From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 1 16:07:42 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:07:42 +0100 Subject: Conf: AMTA-2002 Conference Message-ID: --- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION --- The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas AMTA-2002 Conference Location: Tiburon, California Dates: October 8-12, 2002 The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) is pleased to announce its fifth biennial conference, planned for October 8-12, 2002, in Tiburon (near San Francisco), California. Conference theme: From Research to Real Users Ever since the showdown between Empiricists and Rationalists a decade ago at TMI-92, MT researchers have hotly pursued promising paradigms for MT, including data-driven approaches (e.g., statistical, example-based) and hybrids that integrate these with more traditional rule-based components. During the same period, commercial MT systems with standard transfer architectures have evolved along a parallel and almost unrelated track, increasing their coverage (primarily through manual update of their lexicons, we assume) and achieving much broader acceptance and usage, principally through the medium of the Internet. Web page translators have become commonplace; a number of online translation services have appeared, including in their offerings both raw and post-edited MT; and large corporations have been turning increasingly to MT to address the exigencies of global communication. Still, the output of the transfer-based systems employed in this expansion represents but a small drop in the ever-growing translation marketplace bucket. Now, 10 years later, we wonder if this mounting variety of MT users is any better off, and if the promise of the research technologies is being realized to any measurable degree. In this regard, we pose the following questions: Why aren't any current commercially available MT systems primarily data-driven? Do any commercially available systems integrate (or plan to integrate) data-driven components? Do data-driven systems have significant performance or quality issues? Can such systems really provide better quality to users, or is their main advantage one of fast, facilitated customization? If any new MT technology could provide such benefits (somewhat higher quality, or facilitated customization), would that be the key to more widespread use of MT, or are there yet other more relevant unresolved issues, such as system integration? If better quality, customization, or system integration aren't the answer, then what is it that users really need from MT in order for it to be more useful to them? We solicit participation on these and other topics related to the research, development, and use of MT in the form of original papers, demonstrations, workshops, tutorials, and panels. We invite all who are interested in MT to participate, including developers, researchers, end users, professional translators, managers, and marketing experts. We especially invite users to share their experiences, developers to describe their novel systems, managers and marketers to talk about what is happening in the marketplace, researchers to detail new capabilities or methods, and visionaries to describe the future as they see it. We also welcome and encourage participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations, AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe. Details regarding the conference may be found on the AMTA Web site: http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2002/ CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Elliott Macklovitch, General Chair Stephen D. Richardson, Program Chair Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Local Arrangements Chair Bob Frederking, Workshops and Tutorials Laurie Gerber, Exhibits Coordinator AMTA-2002: PAPER AND SYSTEM DESCRIPTION/DEMONSTRATION SUBMISSIONS. Authors/system developers are invited to submit presentations in English in any of the following three categories: 1. Theoretical papers: Unpublished papers describing original work on all aspects of Machine Translation. Preference will be given to papers that include concrete results and that address the theme of moving MT research technology (including, but not limited to, data-driven systems or components) into real use. Papers should not be longer than 10 pages, with minimum character font size of 11 pt. 2. User studies: Studies of users' experiences with implementing MT or testing its applicability to some task. Of particular interest are experiences deploying new or advanced MT technology in a production context. Users, managers, and sales/marketing professionals are especially welcome to submit. Studies should not be longer than 8 pages, with minimum character font size of 11 pt. 3. System descriptions with optional system demonstrations: Approx. 25 minutes will be allocated per system description/demo. Submissions should not be longer than 4 pages. The goal of system descriptions is to educate participants about the features and functionality of current and emerging MT systems. Sales presentations are not appropriate. The following information should be provided in each system description; - name and contact information of system builder - system category (research, pre-market prototype, or commercially available) - system characteristics (e.g., languages, domains, integration/networking features) If a system demonstration is included, please provide the following information: - hardware platform and operating system - name and contact information of system operations specialist First page: All submissions should include a separate title page with the following information: - paper title, - author(s)' name(s), address(es), telephone and fax numbers, email address(es), - one-paragraph abstract, - for theoretical papers: subject area keyword(s) - for user studies: the words "User study" - for system descriptions/demos: the words "System description/demo" DEADLINES and SCHEDULE: Submissions due at address below: April 15, 2002 (Monday) Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2002 (Friday) Final versions of papers due: July 15, 2002 (Monday) Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. They should be sent to: email address: steveri at microsoft.com subject line: AMTA-2002 submission in one of the following formats: Microsoft Word (RTF format) PostScript ASCII plain text Hardcopy submissions (please send four (4) copies): AMTA-2002: Stephen D. 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Les corpus de langue orale transcrite sont pourtant d'une importance fondamentale pour l'étude linguistique, comme pour la mise au point de nouvelles technologies vocales. Pour l'anglais, plusieurs dizaines de millions de mots transcrits sont disponibles (British National Corpus, Santa Barbara Corpus of American English, Corpus CANCODE, etc.) et plusieurs grands projets de corpus oraux viennent de voir le jour pour d'autres langues (Corpus Gesproken Nederlands, Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew, Corpus du Portugais Parlé, etc.), qui visent une taille de l'ordre de la dizaine de millions de mots. Il n'existe pas pour l'instant de grand projet national pour le français, mais uniquement des entreprises isolées, et il est difficile d'évaluer la quantité totale des données informatisées, mais elle ne dépasse certainement que de peu le million de mots. Le développement de corpus oraux transcrits est extrêmement coûteux, et demande une méthodologie stricte, appuyée sur des outils informatiques adéquats. Le but de cette journée est de réunir linguistes et informaticiens pour faire le point sur la situation concernant le français, et peut-être de tracer quelques pistes pour des recherches et collaborations futures. Le but de la journée est à la fois de dresser un état de l'art et de présenter des recherches en cours ; les thèmes abordés seront (liste non exhaustive) : - problèmes de constitution des corpus oraux : choix des locuteurs et des situations, échantillonnage éventuel, conventions de transcription, problèmes juridiques et éthiques, etc. ; - techniques et outils informatiques : étiquetage grammatical, marquage prosodique, alignement avec le son, outils de concordance et de recherche, etc. ; - analyse linguistique : quels types d'analyse sont possibles sur les corpus oraux transcrits ? quelles sont les difficultés et les limites ? quelles sont les conséquences pour l'étude grammaticale de la prise en considération des corpus oraux ? etc. - domaines d'application : quelle est la demande sociale pour les corpus oraux (étude de différentes "variations", comme les enfants, les "pathologiques" et non pathologiques, les régions, le français de France et de l'extérieur) ? quelle est la demande technologique (reconnaissance vocale) ? quelle est la demande pour l'enseignement du français (langue première et seconde) ? Les communications pourront également relater des expériences particulières de constitution et d'exploitation de corpus oraux. Conférencier invité ------------------- Michael McCarthy, Université de Nottingham "Spoken corpus design : speakers, contexts and language use" Michael McCarthy est professeur de linguistique appliquée à l'Université de Nottingham et spécialiste des corpus d'anglais parlé. Il est l'un des créateurs du corpus CANCODE (Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English), produit d'une collaboration entre l'Université de Notthingham et Cambridge University Press et comportant plusieurs millions de mots d'anglais parlé. Michael McCarthy a publié de nombreux ouvrages tels que "Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers" (Cambridge University Press, 1991), "Language as Discourse" (avec R. A Carter, Longman, 1994), "Exploring Spoken English" (avec R. A Carter, Cambridge University Press, 1997), "Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics" (Cambridge University Press, 1998), "Exploring Grammar in Context" (avec R. Hughes et R. A Carter, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000) and "Issues in Applied Linguistics" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000). Soumission (modalités) --------------------- Un résumé de deux à quatre pages doit être envoyé avant le 31 mars 2002 par courrier électronique, en format RTF ou TXT uniquement à Jean Véronis Les notifications d'acceptation seront envoyées le 30 avril 2002. 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Simultaneous submission to other conferences permissible. See below for details. Conference web site: http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/ The Second International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG2002) will be held July 1 to 3, 2002 at the Arden Conference Center in the Ramapo mountains near New York City, USA. Transportation to and from New York City will be provided. This conference continues the twenty-year tradition of ten biennial workshops and (in 2000) the First International Conference on natural language generation. The conference will precede ACL, which will be held July 7 to 12 in Philadelphia, a one hour train ride from New York City. For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished contributions to natural language generation are solicited. As always, the conference will be open to all submissions on all topics related to natural language generation. We are also encouraging submissions on two featured topics: natural language generation in speech-based systems and natural language generation in document summarization. There will be separate sessions and invited speakers on these two topics, and the program committee will include researchers from these areas who can contribute a unique perspective to research on generation. All submissions, whether on one of the featured topics or not, will be handled by the same program committee. A separate track will be offered for Student Papers. There will also be a separate demo track. The INLG2002 program committee invites papers describing original research on but not limited to the following topics: * Featured topic: Generation in speech-based systems, including: o Dialog management and utterance planning in dialog systems o Models of intonation in generation o Concept-to-speech generation o Difference between spoken and written language generation o Evaluation of generation in speech-based systems o Applications This topic does NOT include papers exclusively on speech synthesis; INLG2002 is not an appropriate venue for such papers. * Featured topic: Generation and document summarization, including: o Content selection and integration for summarization o Sentence selection and generation models of paraphrase and coherence o Evaluation o Applications * Multimodal and multimedia generation * Multilingual generation * Text planning, discourse models, argumentation strategies, content selection and organization * Sentence realization, formalisms and models of grammar, sentence aggregation, lexical choice * Architecture of generators * Knowledge acquisition and resources for generation and summarization * User-customized generation and summarization * Psychological modeling of discourse production * Learning methods for generation * Evaluation methodologies for generation * All applications of generation, including areas such as data summarization, web mining, knowledge management, and mobile computing We plan to hold all presentations in the plenary hall with no parallel tracks. There will be no separate workshops at the conference; however, there may be generation-related workshops at ACL. There will be an informal demo session, please contact Owen Rambow for details. Simultaneous submission of a paper to INLG 2002 and other conferences will be permitted, provided that it is clearly marked. However, papers presented at INLG 2002 can only appear in the INLG 2002 proceedings. Submission to the main session should describe completed work. Submission to the student session may describe work in progress. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deadlines The deadlines are coordinated with those for ACL as follows. Conference INLG ACL Paper Registration Deadline none January 25, 2002 Paper Submission Deadline February 14, 2002 February 1, 2002 Notification of Acceptance April 8, 2002 April 8, 2002 Camera ready Copies Due May 9, 2002 May 10, 2002 Conference July 2-3, 2002 July 7-12, 2002 Submission Procedure Submissions may be no more than 3,200 words in total length, exclusive of title page and references. Submissions should use the 2000 ACL latex style aclsub-style. All papers should be submitted in electronic form as PostScript, PDF or MS Word file. A secure web site for submitting papers will be available soon and there will be a link from the conference web site, http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/ . Program Committee * Owen Rambow, AT&T Labs -- Research (co-chair) * Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA (co-chair) * Inderjeet Mani, MITRE and Georgetown University (in charge of "Summarization" featured topic) * Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs -- Research (in charge of "Spoken Language Systems" featured topic) * Regina Barzilay, Columbia U., USA * Tilman Becker, DFKI, Germany * Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware, USA * Morena Danieli, Loquendo, Italy * Laurence Danlos, Universit'e Paris 7, France * Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA * Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University, Israel * Kevin Knight, ISI, USA * Emiel Krahmer, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands * Jon Oberlander, U. of Edinburgh, UK * Mick O'Donnell, U. of Edinburgh, UK * Drago Radev, U. of Michigan, USA * Ehud Reiter, U. of Aberdeen, UK * Norbert Reithinger, DFKI, Germany * Karen Sparck-Jones, U. of Cambridge, UK * Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany, USA * Nigel Ward, ATR, Japan * Ingrid Zuckerman, Monash U., Australia Student Session Program Committee * Noemie Elhadad, Columbia University (chair) Local Arrangements * Kathy McKeown For more information email Owen Rambow at rambow at research.att.com or check http://www.research.att.com/~rambow/inlg/inlg.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 1 16:08:00 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:08:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: 2emes Journees de la Linguistique de Corpus Message-ID: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS A brief summary in English follows. Our apologies for cross postings. 2emes Journees de la Linguistique de Corpus Les 2emes Journees de la linguistique de corpus auront lieu a Lorient les 12, 13 et 14 septembre 2002. Elles sont organisees par le Centre de Recherche en Litterature, Linguistique et Civilisation (CRELLIC - UBS Lorient) avec la colloboration de Valoria (UBS Vannes) et sont egalement soutenues les Departements LEA et LLCE de l'Universite de Bretagne Sud, l'Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA) et le jeune equipe Analyse Linguistique et Pratiques Langagieres (ALPL, Nantes). Comite d'Organisation Geoffrey Williams, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Jean Peeters, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Christophe Ropers, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Jean-Yves Antoine, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Vannes Comite Scientifique Pierre Arnaud, CRTT, Universite Lyon II. Claire Blanche-Benveniste, GARS, Universite d'Aix en Provence. Thierry Fontenelle. Microsoft, US et EURALEX. Syviane Granger. Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgique. Benoit Habert. Universite Paris X. Marie-Annick Morel.Universite Paris III. Francois Rastier. UMR 7114 CNRS-Paris X John Sinclair , Tuscan Word Centre, Italie. Wolfgang Teubert. Universite de Birmingham, Royaume Uni. Elena Tognini-Bonelli. Tuscan Word Centre Jean Veronis, Universite d'Aix en Provence Ces 2emes Journees de la Linguistique de Corpus visent a promouvoir le developpement de la linguistique de corpus en France en reunissant des chercheurs d'horizons divers s'interessant a l'utilisation de l'informatique pour l'analyse des faits de langues, notamment dans les domaines suivants : La lexicologie et lexicographie, mono~ et bilingues, la terminologie, la traductologie, la linguistique appliquee et la description linguistique, . Les journees prendront la forme de communications orales d'une vingtaine de minutes sur des travaux en cours. Il y aura egalement des communications affiches. Ceux desirant communiquer doivent envoyer un resume d'une page maximum accompagne d'une page de renseignements pratiques comprenant : le mode de communication souhaite, le nom, l'affiliation, le telephone, l'adresse postale et electronique, a l'adresse ci-dessous : Journee Linguistique de corpus Geoffrey Williams Departement LEA U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay BP 92116 56321 LORIENT Cedex ou par courrier electronique a Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr Les resumes doivent etre en Times 12 avec interligne simple et en format Word RTF, ASCII, ou HTML DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : 31 mai 2002 This conference aims to bring together researchers working with electronic corpora and lexical resources in France or in the French Language. It is aimed principally at those working in teaching, translating, lexicography and applied linguistics. The language of the workshop will be French. 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The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, posters, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are English and French. This conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures , including theoretical aspects. Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. In addition, there is a growing number of software systems designed to manipulate automata, regular expressions, grammars, and related structures; examples include AGL, AMORE, Automate, FADELA, FinITE, FireLite, FLAP, FSM, Grail, INR, Intex, MONA and Turing's World. The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving. ********** TOPICS ********** We solicit papers and demos on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including theoretical aspects, as but not limited to: o Bioinformatics and automata o Complexity of automata operations o Compilers and automata o Computer-aided verification and automata o Concurrency and automata o Data structure design for automata o Data and image compression and automata o Design and architecture of automata software o Digital libraries and automata o Document engineering and automata o Editors, environments and automata o Experimental studies and practical experiences o Industrial applications and automata o Natural language processing and automata o Networking and automata o New algorithms for manipulating automata o Object-Oriented Modeling and automata o Pattern-matching and automata o Speech and speaker recognition and automata o Structured and semi-structured documents and automata o Symbolic manipulation environments for automata o Teaching and automata o Text processing and automata o Techniques for graphical display of automata o VLSI and automata o Viruses, related phenomena and automata o World-wide web and automata ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL, 5, 2002 <---- Notification to authors: 5/17/2002 Pre-proceedings version due: 5/31/2002 Conference : 7/3-6/2002 Proceedings version due: 9/27/2002 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, using 11-point font, including figures, examples and references. The format that MUST be used is the LNCS one, available on the Springer web site: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before 4/5/2002. Authors should send their submission as a ps or pdf file attached to an e-mail, containing the following information: TO: ciaa2002 at univ-tours.fr FROM: one of the authors SUBJECT: CIAA submission ATTACH: ps or pdf file BODY: submission title and author's names Only in case electronic submission is not possible, 4 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee before 4/5/2002, at the following address: CIAA 2002 E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work and should provide sufficient details to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance to the conference. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists in the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria: o Importance and originality of the paper o Accuracy of the scientific and technical content o Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work o Layout and clarity of the paper o Relevance to the topics of the conference ********** DEMOS ********** We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to demonstrate their software should submit according to the same rules as of paper submission, BUT must not exceed 6 pages. ********** POSTERS ********** One specific session for posters (85 x 120 cm) will be scheduled. Poster submission follows the same rules as of paper submission, BUT must not exceed 6 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Paper presentations will be of a 20 minutes duration, followed by 10 minutes dedicated to answering questions. It will be possible to use an overhead projector or a video-projector. ********** PROCEEDINGS ********** Accepted papers will be published in the pre-proceedings and in the proceedings of the conference. We will distribute the pre-proceedings to the participants at the conference and we will send the proceedings as soon as they are printed. We expect the proceedings to appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series after the conference. Today available: LNCS 1260 (WIA'96), LNCS 1436 (WIA'97), LNCS 1660 (WIA'98) and LNCS 2088 (CIAA?2000). Extended versions of selected papers from the proceedings of the conference series are usually retained for publication in special issues of either Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) or International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), alternating each year. Today available: TCS 231 (WIA'97) and TCS 269 (WIA'98). The CIAA 2002 special issue will appear in IJFCS. ********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********** Salah Aït-Mokhtar, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France Marie-Pierre Béal, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France Bernard Boigelot, Université de Liège, Belgium Jean-Marc Champarnaud, Université de Rouen, France Maxime Crochemore, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France Gérard Duchamp, Université de Rouen, France Jacques Farré, CNRS, Université de Nice, France José Fortes Gálvez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Oscar Ibarra, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Nils Klarlund, AT&T Labs-Research, New-York, USA Tomasz Kowaltowski, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Igor Litovsky, Université de Nice, France Carlos Martín-Vide, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Denis Maurel, Université de Tours, France Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs-Research, New-York, USA Jean-Eric Pin, CNRS, Université Paris 7, France Kai Salomaa, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Helmut Seidl, Universität Trier, Germany Sheng Yu, University of Western Ontario, Canada ********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********** Béatrice Bouchou, LI Jean-Marc Champarnaud, LIFAR Michel Crucianu, LI Nathalie Friburger, LI Denis Maurel, LI ********** PREVIOUS CONFERENCES ********** o CIAA 2001 website: http://www.cs.up.ac.za/~watson/ciaa/ o CIAA 2000 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 o WIA'99 website: http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wia99/ o WIA'98 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia98.html o WIA'97 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia97.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 14 14:37:42 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:37:42 +0100 Subject: Publications: lettre d'information Euromap Technologies de la Langue Message-ID: [English version below] La lettre d'information Euromap Technologies de la Langue Paris, février 2002 Nous sommes heureux de annoncer que le numéro du mois de février de la lettre d'information Euromap TL est disponible en français. Tous les mois nous vous tiendrons au courant des derniers développements, événements, appels communautaires et autres informations relatives à l'ingénierie linguistique en Europe. Les numéros de notre lettre d'information sont envoyés aux abonnés uniquement. Pour vous abonner et recevoir notre lettre d'information contactez: euromap at elda.fr Pour vous abonner à la version anglaise cliquez sur: http://www.hltcentral.org/subscribe.html Pour accéder à la version anglaise en HTML cliquez sur : http://www.hltcentral.org/newsletter ******************************* French edition of Euromap Language Technologies newsletter Paris, February 2002 We are pleased to announce you that the latest Euromap LT French edition is now available. Euromap Language Technologies newsletter brings you all the latest developments in the field of Human Language Technologies from Europe and beyond, and keep you abreast of upcoming events, EC Research calls and other useful information. 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To subscribe to the English edition, please go to: http://www.hltcentral.org/subscribe.html A browsable HTML version of this newsletter is also available from: http://www.hltcentral.org/newsletter ************************************************************************* Mahtab Nikkhou mailto:euromap at elda.fr Ingénieur d'études en ressources linguistiques ELDA - L'Agence Européenne de Distribution de Ressources Linguistiques 55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 Paris - France Tél.:+33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax:+33 1 43 13 33 30 WWW: http://www.elda.fr/fr/proj/euromap.html Site Central Euromap : http://www.hltcentral.org/euromap ************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 14 14:38:49 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:38:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC 2002 : "Annotation Standards for Temporal Information in Natural Language" Message-ID: Workshop on "Annotation Standards for Temporal Information in Natural Language" LREC 2002 27th May 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain Second Call for papers Workshop scope and aims: ------------------------ The ability to identify and analyse temporal information is important for a variety of natural language applications, such as information extraction, question answering, and multi-document summarisation. Nevertheless, this area of research has been relatively unexplored. It became evident during an ACL 2001 workshop on temporal and spatial information processing that that some research institutions have started to work on different aspects of temporal information, but no consensus has been achieved yet on what and how temporal information should be identified in text. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers to present their work in this field and to discuss future developments such as building shared resources, e.g. temporally annotated corpora. It is timely to coordinate the effort being undertaken in the community at this stage of research into temporal information in text. Topics of interest include: --------------------------- - How are times referred to in text? - How are events temporally positioned? - How are events related to each other? - What is the relative role of tense/aspect vs. explicit time references? - What is the chronological structure of different types of text? (for example - scientific reports vs. fiction vs. newswire texts) - resolution of deictic/partial/vague/relative time expressions - graphical representations of the temporal order of events - ontologies for temporal information, e.g. times and events - reasoning with/about temporal information - proposals for annotating temporal information and identifying appropriate - corpora - evaluation of metrics for temporal annotation and evaluation of temporal annotation schemes - tools for annotation application areas include: -------------------------- - information extraction - question answering - planning - multi-document summarisation Authors whose work is directed at annotation schemes are encouraged to address (in their full paper) the example texts provided at http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~andrea/lrec2002/exampleTexts.html - this is not obligatory. Workshop agenda: ---------------- The half-day workshop will consist of paper presentations, a panel session, and an open discussion session. We hope to arrange a follow-up meeting outside the workshop format to discuss future development and plans for possible collaborations. Organisers: ----------- Bill Black, UMIST, UK Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK Graham Katz, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Andrea Setzer, University of Sheffield, UK George Wilson, the MITRE Corporation, USA Program committee: ------------------ Bill Black, UMIST, UK Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK Graham Katz, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Inderjeet Mani, the MITRE Corporation and Georgetown University, USA Allan Ramsay, UMIST, UK James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA Frank Schilder, University of Hamburg, Germany Andrea Setzer, University of Sheffield, UK Beth Sundheim, SPAWAR Systems Center, USA Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh, UK George Wilson, the MITRE Corporation, USA Important dates: ---------------- Deadline for submission of abstracts: 18/02/2002 Notification of acceptance: 11/03/2002 Camera-ready final copy for proceedings: 15/04/2002 Workshop: 27/05/2002 Submission: ----------- Abstracts for workshop contributions should not exceed two A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submission is to be sent by email, preferably in Postscript or PDF format, to Andrea Setzer (andrea at dcs.shef.ac.uk) by the 18th February 2002. Formatting instructions for the final full version of papers will be sent to authors after notification of acceptance. Workshop Registration Fees: --------------------------- The registration fees for the workshop are: If you are not attending LREC: 140 EURO If you are attending LREC: 90 Euro Registration will be handled by the LREC Secretariat. All attendees will receive a copy of the workshop proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 14 14:41:10 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:41:10 +0100 Subject: Appel: Cinquième Colloque Chronos (2e appel) Message-ID: (english version below) second appel aux communications Cinquième Colloque Chronos Conférence internationale sur le temps, l'aspect et la modalité Groningen, Pays-Bas 19 -21 juin 2002 Conférenciers invités: Andrée Borillo (Toulouse), Carlota Smith (Austin), Rolf Thieroff (Bonn), Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht) Comité d'organisation: Bram ten Cate, Bob de Jonge, Alice ter Meulen, Arie Molendijk, Co Vet. Envoyez le résumé de votre communication (demie page A4) avant le 15 mars 2002 à Co Vet (e-mail: J.P.Vet at let.rug.nl) Informations et inscription: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~deJonge/invest/chronos/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- second call for papers Fifth Chronos Colloquium International conference on tense, aspect and modality Groningen, Netherlands, June 19 -21 2002 Keynote speakers: Andrée Borillo (Toulouse), Carlota Smith (Austin), Rolf Thieroff (Bonn), Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht) Organizing committee: Bram ten Cate, Bob de Jonge, Alice ter Meulen, Arie Molendijk, Co Vet. Send your abstract (a half page A4) before March 15 2002 to Co Vet (e-mail: J.P.Vet at let.rug.nl) Informations and registration: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~deJonge/invest/chronos/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 14 14:50:14 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:50:14 +0100 Subject: Jobs: a propos de l'offre d'emploi du Message-ID: Bonjour, Il m'a semble utile de diffuser le message, que vous trouverez ci-dessous, qui concerne l'offre d'emploi diffusee sur LN le 7 février, intitulee: linguist - Asian, Mid.Eastern, Slavic languages Alexis Nasr Le message est le suivant : To all who received Mr. Marshall's e-mail regarding linguist jobs: Before you sit for a polygraph "test" for this job, you need to know that these "tests" depend on the polygrapher lying to and deceiving you about the nature of the procedure (and on your ignorance and fear). The polygraph "test" is a pseudoscientific fraud designed to elicit admissions from naive and gullible subjects, and while it has an inherent bias against the truthful, it can also be easily defeated by deceptive subjects through the use of simple countermeasures that polygraphers cannot detect (despite their unsubstantiated claims to the contrary). Download AntiPolygraph.org's free book, The Lie Behind the Lie Detector, to learn the truth about polygraphy that the agencies which rely on it don't want you to know: http://antipolygraph.org/pubs.shtml And visit the AntiPolygraph.org message board for discussion of polygraph issues: http://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl Sincerely, George W. Maschke AntiPolygraph.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Thu Feb 14 14:31:12 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:31:12 +0100 Subject: R: References sur la generation automatique de tests de langues Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:22:58 +0000 From: Ruslan Mitkov Message-Id: <4.1.20020116172104.0091e5b0 at mail.wlv.ac.uk> Hello, We have done work on automatic generation of multiple-choice tests (which involves automatic generation of the test stem + correct answer + distractors) in general but not language testing in particular. Please let me know if you would like me to email me additional info Ruslan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 15 09:58:20 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:58:20 +0100 Subject: Q: Recherche de modules francais pour Intex Message-ID: Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:15:24 +0100 From: "Ann Pourchot" Message-Id: Bonjour, je suis étudiante en maîtrise, je dois travailler sur Intex. J'ai téléchargé la version 4.23e d'intex et je recherche les modules français. Merci. Mlle Pourchot Ann ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:47:36 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:47:36 +0100 Subject: Conf: Semantics for Info Ret. and Filtering : Extension de la date limite Message-ID: ----- Workshop call for papers in english bellow ----- Veuillez nous excuser pour les réceptions multiples ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extension de la date limite de soumission au 6 mars 2002 Appel à contributions pour l'atelier Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering State of the Art and Future Research Las Palmas, Iles Canaries - Espagne 2 juin 2002 En conjonction avec la Troisième conférence internationale LREC (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference) (LREC 2002) Le but de cette conférence est de faire se rencontrer des chercheurs dans le domaine de la recherche d'informations et, plus particulièrement des chercheurs concernés par l'utilité d'informations sémantiques (provenant de ressources sémantiques ou de traitements linguistiques) pour affiner les requêtes. Buts et thèmes de l'atelier --------------------------- Plusieurs expériences ont été conduites depuis les 15 dernières années, en utilisant diverses ressources et techniques (thesaurus, listes de synonymes, désambiguïsation sémantique, etc.) afin d'améliorer le traitement des requêtes. Néanmoins, les conclusions tirées de ces expériences sont très différentes de l'une à l'autre. Certains résultats ont conduit à affirmer que l'utilisation de connaissances sémantiques n'apporte rien, voire dégrade les résultats tandis que d'autres amènent la conclusion que des connaissances sémantiques augmentent significativement les performances des systèmes de recherche d'information. Certaines questions se posent donc : - Pourquoi les conclusions sont-elles si différentes ? - La divergence de résultat provient-elle d'une différence de méthodologie ? - Cette divergence provient-elle d'une différence dans les ressources utilisées ? - Quelles sont les ressources les plus adéquates pour ce genre de travaux ? - Les résultats obtenus à partir de ressources créées manuellement sont-ils très différents de ceux obtenus avec des ressources extraites automatiquement ? - Quel est l'apport de ressources spécialisées dans un domaine ? - Les cadres d'évaluation actuels (par exemple TREC) sont-ils appropriés pour l'évaluation de ces résultats ? Ces questions sont fondamentales, non seulement pour les travaux en recherche documentaire mais aussi pour l'extraction d'informations, la réponse aux questions, le filtrage, etc. Leur importance est encore plus critique pour des applications multilingues où, par exemple, la question de la désambiguïsation avant traduction est fondamentale. Le but de cet atelier est de faire se rencontrer des chercheurs dans le domaine de la recherche d'information et, plus particulièrement, des chercheurs intéressés par l'utilisation de connaissances et de traitements sémantiques pour l'amélioration du traitement des requêtes. L'atelier fournira l'occasion, pour les participants, de présenter leur point de vue. Une table ronde suivra et permettra aux conférenciers de faire le point sur l'état de l'art, les résultats passés et en cours et les raisons qui peuvent expliquer les considérables différences que l'on constate dans les conclusions des différentes expériences. Enfin, ils tenteront d'identifier les directions à prendre pour les recherches futures. Étant donné le rapport qui existe entre la recherche d'information et la désambiguïsation sémantique, une partie de l'atelier sera consacrée à un panel sur Senseval et l'évaluation des systèmes de désambiguïsation sémantique (http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/). Le but de ce panel est d'ouvrir la discussion sur les objectifs et principaux de Senseval-3, le prochain exercice d'évaluation. Le panel résumera la méthodologie et les résultats de Senseval-2 et considérera l'état actuel de la désambiguïsation sémantique. Les panelistes aborderont les questions suivantes : - La méthode d'évaluation de Senseval-2 est-elle adéquate ? - Les ressources qui sont créées actuellement correspondent-elles aux systèmes de désambiguïsation réellement utilisés ? - Faut-il (et est-il possible de) commencer une tâche d'évaluation en fonction de l'application ? Dates importantes ----------------- - limite de soumission des articles : 6 mars 2002 - notification d'acceptation ou de rejet : 27 mars 2002 - limite de réception des papiers prêts à être imprimés : 8 avril 2002 - Atelier : 2 juin 2002 Sujets ------ Des papiers sont demandés sur un ou plusieurs des sujets suivants (liste non exhaustive) et feront état de l'utilisation de connaissances sémantiques appliquées à la gestion automatique de l'information : - Enrichissement de requête - Désambiguïsation sémantique - Classification thématique - Comparaison de performances selon la ressource ou les techniques utilisées - Extraction automatique de ressources à partir de corpus - Comparaison de ressources créées automatiquement ou manuellement - Méthodologies et ressources pour l'évaluation - Recherche documentaire interlingue - Structure et contrôle de la qualité des ressources - Comparaison des ressources générales et spécialisées - Utilisation de la structure des documents (XML, RDF, etc.) Détails de soumission --------------------- Les papiers ne devront pas excéder 7 pages. Les soumissions doivent être envoyées par courrier électronique à loupy at sinequa.com. Merci d'indiquer "LREC2002 workshop paper submission" en sujet. Format acceptés : Postscript (grandement préféré), PDF ou RTF. Aucune information concernant les auteurs ne devra apparaître dans la soumission. Merci de joindre un fichier séparé contenant les informations suivantes : le titre qui sera indiqué dans le programme de l'atelier ; nom et affiliation de chacun des auteurs ; adresse complète du premier auteur (ou de la personne à contacter) en incluant téléphone, fax, adresse électronique, éventuellement URL. Le format de rédaction est fourni à l'adresse http://www.langnat.com/usirf. Il s'agit d'un format provisoire qui sera probablement modifié pour la version finale. La date limite de soumission est le 15 février 2002. Inscriptions ------------ Les frais d'inscription pour l'atelier sont de : - 90 euros pour les personnes participant à la conférence LREC - 140 euros pour les personnes qui n'y participent pas Ces frais incluent deux pauses café et les actes de l'atelier. La participation à l'atelier est limitée par le nombre de personnes présentes. Les requêtes seront traitées sur la base du premier arrivé, premier servi. Les inscriptions sont gérées par le secrétariat de la conférence LREC. Venue ----- L'atelier se tiendra au Palacio de Congreso à Las Palmas aux Canaries où se déroulera la conférence principale LREC. Pour plus d'informations, merci de se référer au site de LREC : http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html Informations sur la conférence ------------------------------ Informations générales sur LREC : http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html Les informations concernant la venue, Las Palmas et les îles Canaries en général peuvent être obtenues auprès de : Octavio Grondonna Morales Viajes El Corte Inglés Avda. Juan XXIII, 9 35004 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria tél : +34 928 292402 fax : +34 928 291876 mél : commercial_lpa at viajeseci.es Comité de programme ------------------- - Marc El-Bèze, Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France - Christian Fluhr, CEA, France - Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Espagne - Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada - Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA - Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton, Royaume Uni - Claude de Loupy, Sinequa, France - Christian Marest, Mediapps, France - Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI, France - Piek Vossen, Irion Technologies, Les Pays-Bas - Phil Edmonds, Sharp Laboratories of Europe LTD, Royaume Uni Personne à contacter -------------------- Claude de Loupy Sinequa 51-59 rue Ledru-Rollin 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France tél : +33 1 49 87 06 00 / fax : +33 1 49 87 06 01 mél : loupy at sinequa.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop call for papers Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering State of the Art and Future Research Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain 2nd of June 2002 Held in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002) The goal of this full day workshop is to bring together researchers in the domain of information retrieval, and in particular, researchers concerned by the utility of enhancing queries with semantic information gleaned from languages resources and processes. Workshop scope and aims ----------------------- Several experiments have been carried out in the last 15 years investigating the use of various resources and techniques (e.g., thesauri, synonyms, word sense disambiguation, etc.) to help refine or enhance queries. However, the conclusions drawn on the basis of these experiments vary widely. Results of some studies have led to the conclusion that semantic information serves no purpose and even degrades results, while others have concluded that the use of semantic information drawn from external resources significantly increases the performance of retrieval software. At this point, several question arise: - Why do these conclusions vary so widely? - Is the divergence a result of differences in methodology? - Is the divergence a result of a difference in resources? What are the most suitable resources? Do results using manually constructed resources differ in significant ways from results using automatically extracted information? - What is the contribution of specialized resources? - Are present frameworks for evaluation (e.g., TREC) appropriate for evaluation of results?. These questions are fundamental not only to research in document retrieval, but also for information searching, question answering, filtering, etc. Their importance is even more acute for multilingual applications, where, for instance, the question of whether to disambiguate before translating is fundamental. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the domain of document retrieval, and in particular, researchers on both sides of the question of the utility of enhancing queries with semantic information gleaned from languages resources and processes. The workshop will provide a forum for presentation of the different points of view, followed by a roundtable in which the participants will assess the state of the art, consider the results of past and on-going work and the possible reasons for the considerable differences in their conclusions. Ultimately, they will attempt to identify future directions for research. In view of the relevance of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) to information retrieval, a part of the workshop will be dedicated to a panel on Senseval and WSD evaluation (http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/). The purpose of the panel is to open the discussion on the objectives and principles of Senseval-3, the next evaluation exercise for WSD systems. The panel will summarize the methodology and results of Senseval-2 and consider the current state of WSD. Panelists will speak about the following topics: Is the Senseval-2 method of evaluation adequate? Are we building the right kind of lexical resources for real sense disambiguation systems? Should we (and is it possible to) start an application-specific evaluation track? Important dates --------------- - Paper submission deadline: March, 6th 2002 - Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 27th, 2002 - Camera ready papers due: April 8th, 2002 - Workshop: June 2nd, 2002 Topics ------ Papers are requested that deal with one or more of the following topics (this is not an exhaustive list), and which make use of semantics applied to automatic information management: - Query enrichment - Semantic disambiguation - Thematic clustering - Performance comparison according to the resources or techniques used - Automatic construction of resources from corpora - Comparisons of manually and automatically created resources - Methodology and resources for evaluation - Interlingual document retrieval - Structure and quality control of resources - Comparison of general resources and specialized resources - Use of document structure (XML, RDF, etc.) Submission Details ------------------ Papers should not exceed 7 pages. Submission must be sent by ELECTRONIC mail to loupy at sinequa.com. Please write "LREC2002 workshop paper submission" in the subject line. Accepted formats: Postscript (strongly preferred), PDF or RTF. No information about author(s) should appear in the submission paper. Please send the following information in a separate file: the title to be printed in the programme of the Workshop; names and affiliations of the authors; the full address of the first author (or a contact person), including phone, fax, email, URL. Formatting guidelines are provided at http://www.langnat.com/usirf. The format described here may be modified for the final version. Submissions must be received no later than February 15th 2002. Registration ------------ The registration fee for the workshop is 90 Euro if you are attending LREC 140 Euro if you are NOT attending LREC The fee includes two coffee breaks and the workshop proceedings. Participation in the workshop is limited by the venue. Requests for participation will be processed on a first come first served basis. Registration is handled by the LREC Secretariat. Venue ----- The workshop will take place at the Palacio de Congreso de Canarias, where the main LREC Conference will be held. For more information, please refer to the LREC website : http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html Conference Information ---------------------- General information on LREC: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html Information on travel, accommodation and general information on Las Palmas and the Canary Islands can be obtained from: Octavio Grondonna Morales Viajes El Corte Inglés Avda. Juan XXIII, 9 35004 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Tel: +34 928 292402 Fax: +34 928 291876 E-mail: commercial_lpa at viajeseci.es Program Committee ----------------- - Marc El-Bèze, Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France - Christian Fluhr, CEA, France - Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain - Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada - Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA - Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton, United Kingdom - Claude de Loupy, Sinequa, France - Christian Marest, Mediapps, France - Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI, France - Piek Vossen, Irion Technologies, The Netherlands - Phil Edmonds, Sharp Laboratories of Europe LTD, United Kingdom Contact Person -------------- Claude de Loupy Sinequa 51-59 rue Ledru-Rollin 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France Tel: +33 1 49 87 06 00 / Fax: +33 1 49 87 06 01 email: loupy at sinequa.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:47:43 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:47:43 +0100 Subject: Conf: ScaNaLU 2002 *** EXTENDED DEADLINE *** Message-ID: *** EXTENDED DEADLINE *** Call for Papers First International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding ScaNaLU 2002 May 23-24 2002, Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, Germany http://www.eml.org/SCANALU Endorsed by SIGSEM (ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics) Invited Speakers: James Allen, Univ. of Rochester, USA Guenther Goerz, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany The need for systems that can understand and generate natural language is growing rapidly. Current systems for natural language understanding (NLU) are narrow, brittle, and costly. The major barrier to scalable NLU systems has been the vast amount of linguistic and world knowledge needed. But there is now significant progress in compiling the required knowledge, using manual, statistical and hybrid techniques. For this workshop, we assume that the resources for scalable NLU will become available and focus on the conceptual and computational frameworks that will form the foundation for this effort. The symposium aims at bringing together researchers involved in applying semantic analysis to NLU. The goal is to find common ground and exchange ideas in the fields of ontology, semantics, pragmatics, etc. in order to strengthen individual approaches and combine modeling efforts. The workshop will take place in the historical Villa Bosch in Heidelberg, Germany, also home of the European Media Laboratory and the Klaus Tschira Foundation. Both institutions are sponsoring ScaNaLU 2002. Scope/Audience In the ScaNaLU 2002 workshop we intend to bring together researchers working in various sub-fields of natural language understanding with an interest in building scalable systems. The scope of interest includes but is not limited to: - Integrating hybrid approaches - Enhancing natural language understanding through multi-modal input - Natural Language Generation: From sentences to extended discourse - Integration of world knowledge into NLU systems - Semantic formalisms for scalable NLU - Representation standards - Integration of extra-linguistic and pragmatic contexts - (Semi-)automatic acquisition of linguistic and world knowledge - Semantic and pragmatic phenomena (metonymy, metaphor, degree expressions, ...) - Applications requiring deep semantic analysis Workshop format/Schedule The workshop will interleave technical presentations with extensive time for discussion of the presented work. Before the workshop we will assign a commentator for each accepted presentation from the attendees, in order to kick off a lively discussion. Altogether the format will consist of four elements: - Paper presentations with commentators and discussion - Invited talk(s) - Application and device demonstrations with discussion - Panel discussion We will accept paper submissions for both technical presentations and demonstrations. We plan to be reasonably selective in order to have a high quality workshop. The papers will be published in workshop proceedings and we will forward the best ones to an appropriate scientific journal. Submissions Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files available at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/acl02/style/. Deadline for paper submissions is February 22, 2002. Papers must be submitted electronically to: scanalu at eml.villa-bosch.de. They should be submitted in PDF format. Important dates: March 01, 2002: Extended Deadline for WS submissions March 12, 2002: Notification of acceptance to authors May 2, 2002: Deadline for camera-ready workshop notes and other information May 23-24, 2002: ScaNaLU 2002 workshop in Heidelberg Organizers: Michael Strube, EML, Germany Jerome Feldman, ICSI, Berkeley Rainer Malaka, EML, Germany Tilman Becker, DFKI, Germany Program Committee (confirmed): Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Germany James Allen, Univ. of Rochester, USA Harry Bunt, Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands Jaime Carbonell, CMU, USA Claire Gardent, CNRS, Nancy, France Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands Christopher Manning, Stanford Univ., USA Katja Markert, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Srini Narayanan, SRI, USA Martha Palmer, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA Massimo Poesio, Univ. of Essex, UK Robert Porzel, EML, Germany Uwe Reyle, Univ. of Stuttgart/EML, Germany Bonnie Webber, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:47:52 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:47:52 +0100 Subject: Job: Computational Linguistist at Joint Research Centre of the EC (Italy) Message-ID: The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has an opening for a one-year position (auxiliary agent), starting approximately in May 2002. The applicant will contribute to Language Technology projects at the JRC-Ispra site near the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy. The candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary and international team of scientists and developers and will mainly contribute to two projects. The first one is concerned with the automatic assignment of keywords from a multilingual thesaurus to text, using statistical methods and a manually indexed text collection. The second project has the aim of gathering potentially user-relevant documents from the internet and to analyse, classify and store them. The ideal candidate is independent, has a practical approach and knows how to discover, use, integrate and optimise various tools. Requirements: - Citizenship of a EU country - Working knowledge of English, French or Italian - Degree in Computational Linguistics or related areas - Programming experience The candidate should have good skills in several of the following areas: - PERL programming - Programming in Java, C++, etc. - Statistics for automatic classification, clustering and similar applications - Experience of working with large corpora or data collections - Experience with applications such as indexing, search engines, etc. - Experience with multilingual and cross-lingual NLP applications - Knowledge of several EU and Eastern-European languages - Web technology, CGI, Apache, HTML, XML - Relational databases (Oracle, MySQL), SQL - Windows NT and UNIX - Technology overview and report writing Remuneration depends on age, family status, experience and current residence. The salary for a single person currently residing outside Italy is 3.000 Euro per month net or more (after taxes). We offer interesting work in an expanding team and in an attractive setting. The JRC employs altogether 2400 staff from many different countries. 1800 of these work at the Ispra site in Northern Italy, about 60 km West of the city of Milan. If you have questions, please have a look at the web site http://www.jrc.it/langtech and contact Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it). If you are interested, please send your application before Sunday 3 March 2002. Electronic applications are preferred. Dr. Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it) European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.it/langtech/) Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) Cybersecurity and New Technologies for Combating Fraud Unit (CSCF) T.P. 361 I - 21020 Ispra (VA) Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271 Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:47:59 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:47:59 +0100 Subject: Conf: TermAcq 2002 (DEADLINE EXTENDED to the 21st of Feb., 2002) Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE EXTENDED to the 21st of Feb., 2002) Acquiring, Structuring and Evaluating Terminologies (TermAcq 2002) 28th May 2002 Workshop held in conjunction with the LREC 2002 conference Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain http://www.lrec-conf.org ====================================================== Workshop motivation and aims - ------------------ Among other Language Resources, terminologies play a major role since large ranges of industrial applications in an IST context require them. Until recently, the priority was to make terminological data describing the main scientific and technological fields available in sufficient quantities in machine-readable form. Hence, the quantitative criterion used to prevail over the quality issues. Understandably, Human Language Technologies had to experience the complexity of collecting and building monolingual and multilingual LR before shifting from that earlier priority. On the other hand, HLT had to build NLP tools mature enough to be worth integrating in language and knowledge engineering methods. Research in computational terminology, first focused on term identification and extraction, is now also concerned with structuring the lists of terms into terminological networks. Experience in building LR and the availability of terminological tools makes it possible to reconsider the whole process of LR building. These tools have become mature enough to be worth integrating in language and knowledge engineering methods. Available results now call for discussion with respect to the question of evaluating resources and for comparison with results obtained with different approaches. This half-day session aims at drawing an overall picture of the results and remaining issues dealing with the whole process of terminology acquisition and its evaluation. Discussions will be favored among the participants. This workshop will provide an opportunity to meet and discuss with various other "players" in the field. Topics of interest - --------- Technical and theoretical issues to be discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Methods and tools designed to assist terminological work; * Terminology structuring; * Monolingual vs. multilingual terminology; * Corpus-driven multilingual terminology; * Methodological aspects of evaluation in computational terminology; * Evaluation of terminological tools results; * Evaluation of terminological tools as part of a co-operative process; Important dates - -------- Deadline for workshop abstract submission 15th of February 2002 Notification of acceptance 8th of March 2002 Final version of paper for workshop proceedings 5th of April 2002 Workshop 28th of May 2002 Submissions - ------ Papers should be research or position papers connected to the topics of the workshop. Accepted submissions will give rise to oral presentation at the workshop. So as to favor the discussion, each speaker will be asked to answer a set of a few but challenging questions. Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Abstracts (maximum 1,000 words, plain-text format) should be sent to: Name: Adeline Nazarenko Email: nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Those who wish to attend without offering a paper are asked to briefly motivate their interest and may send a brief position paper to contribute to the discussions. These contributions will be appended to the workshop proceedings. The final version of the accepted papers should not be longer than 4,000 words or 10 A4 pages. Instructions for formatting and presentation of the final version will be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance. Organising committee - ------------ Tony Bryant University of Leeds, United Kingdom A.Bryant at lmu.ac.uk Adeline Nazarenko LIPN, Université de Paris-Nord & CNRS, France nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Monique Slodzian CRIM, INaLCO, France Monique.Slodzian at inalco.fr Program committee - ----------- Roberto Basili (Univ. Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy) Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MAryland,USA) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS, France) Tony Bryant (Univ. of Leeds, United Kingdom Theresa Cabré (IULA-UPF, Barcelona, Spain) Farid Cerbah (Dassault, France) Béatrice Daille (IRIN, Univ. Nantes, France) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS, France) Natalia Grabar (AP-HP & INaLCO, France) Thierry Hamon (LIPN, Univ. Paris-Nord, France) John Humbley (Univ. Paris 7, France) Kyo Kageura (NII, Japan) Marie-Claude L'Homme (Univ. Montréal, Canada) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, Univ. Paris-Nord, France) Jennifer Pearson (UNESCO, Paris, France) Monique Slodzian (CRIM, INALCO, Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Univ. Paris 6, France) Workshop registration - ------------ The registration fee for the workshop is: If you are not attending LREC: 70 EURO If you are attending LREC: 45 EURO The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings of the attended workshop, coffee-breaks and refreshments. -- Adeline NAZARENKO Tel. 33 - 01 49 40 40 89 LIPN - CNRS UMR 7030 Fax. 33 - 01 48 26 07 12 Universite de Paris-Nord Email nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr 93430 Villetaneuse France http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~nazarenko/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:48:09 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:48:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: revue LEXICOMETRICA : ALIGNEMENT LEXICAL DANS LES CORPUS MULTILINGUES Message-ID: Appel a communications ALIGNEMENT LEXICAL DANS LES CORPUS MULTILINGUES Numero thematique de la revue electronique LEXICOMETRICA http://www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/lexicometrica/ coordonne par Jean Veronis (Universite de Provence) La revue LEXICOMETRICA s'adresse aux chercheurs, aux etudiants, aux professionnels de la communication et de la fouille de donnees textuelles... interesses par les travaux theoriques et pratiques menes dans les domaines suivants : lexicometrie / statistique textuelle, linguistiques de corpus, extraction d'informations a partir de corpus de texte, acquisition de connaissances... Elle est publiee sur Internet et rassemble des articles de recherche ou des comptes-rendus d'experiences. Assiste d'un reseau de correspondants, son comite de redaction selectionne les articles a paraitre. Un sommaire a double entree permet d'acceder aux articles a la fois par date de parution et par theme. THEME DU NUMERO De nombreux travaux ont montre l'utilite des corpus paralleles (composes de textes accompagnes leur traduction) pour de multiples applications: lexicographie, terminologie, traduction automatique, recherche d'informations, enseignement des langues, etc. [voir un panorama dans Veronis (2000)]. L'exploitation de ces corpus passe par leur «alignement», c'est-a-dire la mise en correspondance d'unites de differents types entre les textes et les traductions. Une recente campagne d'evaluation (ARCADE) a montre que l'alignement des phrases etait desormais une technique bien maitrisee. En revanche, l'alignement lexical, c'est-a-dire la mise en correspondance de mots et locutions entre les deux langues, reste tres largement a ameliorer. Le present numero special de la revue LEXICOMETRICA accueillera des articles sur les techniques et problemes theoriques de l'alignement lexical, aussi bien dans les corpus paralleles que dans les corpus comparables, c'est-a-dire composes de textes traitant des memes themes dans plusieurs langues sans etre des traductions. Reference Veronis, J. (Ed.). (2000). Parallel Text Processing: Alignment and use of translation corpora. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. SOUMISSION DES ARTICLES Les articles (en français) seront soumis au format Word RTF (pas de format DOC). La feuille de style est disponible sur le site de la revue a l'adresse : http://www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/lexicometrica/lexicometricaStyle.dot Ils doivent etre envoyes par voie electronique avant le 30 juin 2002 a l'adresse suivante : Jean.Veronis at up.univ-mrs.fr Les articles seront evalues par un comite de lecture constitue specifiquement pour ce numero, et compose de membres du comite de redaction de la revue LEXICOMETRICA et de personnalites exterieures. La decision du comite de lecture sera transmise aux auteurs le 31 aout 2002. La version definitive des articles acceptes sera a remettre le 30 septembre pour une mise en ligne a l'automne 2002. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:48:24 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:48:24 +0100 Subject: Job: linguiste-informaticien : societe Anglo-Institute (Lannion) Message-ID: [english version below] La société Anglo-Institute propose à Lannion, Côtes d'Armor, France, un poste de linguiste-informaticien pour un CDD de sept mois à pourvoir immédiatement. Le candidat retenu devra élaborer une grammaire de chunking et une grammaire de dépendance de l'arabe, ainsi que l'interfaçage de ces grammaires avec un système de question-réponse. Ce poste requiert - la maîtrise de l'arabe moderne standard - une formation linguistique de niveau bac+5 avec spécialisation en grammaire - des connaissances des techniques de TALN. Le travail s'effectue sur station Unix. Une réelle maîtrise de l'outil informatique est indispensable. Anglo-Institute, société fondée à Lannion il y a dix ans, exerce une double activité de traduction et de fourniture de ressources linguistiques pour le TALN. Anglo Institute has a 7-month vacancy for a linguist well qualified in computing skills. The company is based in the Lannion Anticipa Technopole, Côtes d'Armor. The suitable candidate will be requested to compile a chunking grammar and a dependance grammar in Arabic, as well as interfacing these grammars with a QA system. Required qualifications for the post include: - Mastery of standard modern Arabic - Lingusitic qualifications Bac+5 level with a specialisation in grammar - Knowledge of TALN techniques - Advanced computer skills using a UNIX workstation. Anglo Institute has been based in Lannion for the past ten years. The company's main activities involve technical translation and linguistic resources for TALN. Contact : Isabelle Métayer Anglo-Institute 1, rue de Langonaval 22300 Lannion Tél. 02 96 35 28 87 ou 06 07 02 23 20 isabelle.metayer at wanadoo.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Mon Feb 25 09:15:28 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:15:28 +0100 Subject: Q: Tools and resources for european languages Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:06:25 +0100 From: "Hugues de Mazancourt" Message-Id: <02c901c1b497$a023b2c0$660010ac at lys> X-url: http://www.lingway.com Gentlemen, With SchlumbergerSema, Lingway won a 3-year contract from Eurostat for implementing a natural-language access to European Nomenclatures in the various languages of the EU. The first phase of this project includes an inventory and qualification of available resources and parsers for the targeted languages. We would like to finalize our first evaluation for mid-March. The selected tools will then be integrated in an application managed at the EU level. Our inventory is nearly done for English, Spanish, German and French, but we would like to drill down the availability for resources in the other languages. If you know about a technology (whether resources or parsers), at an industrial or near-industrial state, can you provide us with detailed information? We will synthesize the answers back to the list. Best regards, Hugues de Mazancourt Lingway 33-35, rue Ledru-Rollin 94200 Ivry/Seine France http://www.lingway.com Tel: +33-1 56 20 28 33 - Mob: +33-6 72 78 70 33 Jean-Paul Taravella SchlumbergerSema Mob: +33-6 89 87 83 11 jptaravella at slb.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 25 18:40:14 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:40:14 +0100 Subject: ATALA/APIL: journee METIL (Les MEtiers du Tal et des Industries de la Langue) Message-ID: Bonjour, J'ai le plaisir de vous transmettre le programme d'une journee que j'organise avec Alain Couillault et Lionel Stouder pour l'ATALA (NG) et l'APIL (AC et LS). Nous avons voulu que cette journee METIL (Les MEtiers du Tal et des Industries de la Langue) permettent aux professionnels du TAL et des IDL, aux formateurs et aux etudiants de ce domaine de se rencontrer dans un lieu d'echanges riches et varies. Nous esperons que vous serez nombreux a participer a cette journee et que vous nous aiderez d'ici le 7 mars a diffuser cette annonce le plus largement possible aupres des collegues et etudiants. Nous tenons ici a remercier Gaelle Recouce et Hugues de Mazencourt pour leur aide dans l'organisation de cette journee METIL. Bien cordialement. Nathalie, Alain, Lionel. [Programme copie ci-dessous et envoye en fichier joint pour une meilleure lecture sur simple demande formulee a gasiglia at univ-lille3.fr] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Journee du Jeudi 7 mars 2002 METIL : les Metiers du Tal et des Industries de la Langue Organisee conjointement pour l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et l'APIL (Association des Professionnels des Industries de la Langue) par N. Gasiglia (Univ. Lille 3), A. Couillault (ISAdE) et L. Stouder (APIL) 8h30 Accueil 9h00 Presentation de l'APIL et del'ATALA 9h30 Gaelle Recource Les Metiers du TAL et des Industries de la Langue : tour d'horizon 10h00 Les industries de la langueen 2002 - Bernard Normier 25 ans de pratique de l'ingenierie linguistique :finalement, est-ce un metier ? - Thierry Poibeau TAL et recherche en entreprise 10h45 Pause ; espace d'echanges informels & posters 11h30 Les Clients du TAL - Emile Bruneau (resp. de seance) Client du TAL : quelle connaissance requise ? Quelle implication ? - Jean-Marc Blancherie Le KM et l'evolution vers de nouveaux metiers - Jean-Paul Taravella Le marche du TAL : la vision d'un integrateur 12h30 Dejeuner 14H Cafe ; espace d'echanges informels & posters 14h30 Les createurs et fournisseurs de technologies (R&D) - Hugues de Mazancourt (resp. de seance) Un developpement en TAL est-il un developpement informatique? - Didier Bourigault Recherche en linguistique informatique et developpement d'outils d'ingenierie linguistique - Emilie Guimier L'analyse de textes : entre donnees linguistiques et robustesse 15h15 Pause ; espace d'echanges informels& posters 15h15 Presentationde Reptil 16h Stephane Chaudiron Les actions du Ministere de la recherche pour les Industries de la Langue 16h30 LesTechnologies TAL dans la realite des industries - Claude de Loupy et Vanessa Combet (resp. de seance) LeTAL a Sinequa - Gaelle Berjonneau Terminologie et lexicographie - Marie-Christine Escalier La generation de texte a travers quelques exemples 18h30 Fin de la journee d'etude ; pot Poster 1eres experiences professionnelles - Karine Lespinas Les peritextes auservice de l'indexation de documents audiovisuels - Veronique Malaise Construction d'une ontologie differentielle pour la recherche d'information audiovisuelle - Caroline Moulart Construire une base terminologique chez et pour Decathlon (titre non definitif) Poster formations -2d cycles TAL/IDL : Formacom ; Institut National des Langues etCivilisations Orientales ; Universite d'Aix ; Universite Stendhal Grenoble ; Universite Lille 3 ; Universite Montpellier 3 ; Universite Paris 7 ; UniversiteTours ; - DESS Formateur Concepteur Multimedia en Langues -Universite Stendhal Grenoble ; - DESS SID (Strategies del'Information et de la Documentation) - Universite Lille 3 ; - DESS MSM (Mediation desSavoirs et Multilinguisme) - Universite Lille 3 ; - DESS LexicographieTerminographie et Traitement Automatique des Corpus - Universite Lille 3 ; - DESS Industries de la Langue - Mention :Traitement automatique et Techniques modernes de la Traduction - Universite de Metz ; - DESS TEXTE Traitements informatiques pour l'EXploitation de l'information dans lesTextes - Universite Nancy ; CHU Pitie - 105 bd de l'HOpital - 75013Paris Amphi E Entree libre Adhesion(s) a l'association ATALA et/ou a l'APILrecommandee(s) Site ATALA : http://www.atala.org Page Web de cette journee : http://www.atala.org/je/je-020307.html Site APIL :http://www.apil.asso.fr Nathalie GASIGLIA Univ. Lille 3 UFR Lettres Modernes & SILEX (UMR 8528 du CNRS) Domaine "Pont de Bois" B.P.149 59653 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ Cedex gasiglia at univ-lille3.fr 48, rue du Chateau Landon ; 75010 PARIS tel/rep/fax 01 42 09 50 57 mobile 06 11 44 20 33 gasiglian at aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 25 18:40:20 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:40:20 +0100 Subject: Appel: BULAG numéro 27 : Les mots, leur sens, leur forme, leur création et leur reconnaissance. Message-ID: [English version below] Appel à contribution pour le BULAG numéro 27 Le BULAG est la revue du Centre Tesnière de l'Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France (http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr). Le BULAG est une revue internationale avec comité de lecture. Intitulé du numéro 27 : Les mots, leur sens, leur forme, leur création et leur reconnaissance. Les articles pourront traiter "des mots" simples, dérives, composés, à structures figées ou collocationnelles, de leur apparition et génération dans les différentes langues, de leur reconnaissance par une machine lors d'un traitement informatisé et de leur sens et traduction. Coordonné par : Dalila LIMAME (Université de Franche-Comté) Igor SKOURATOV (Université de Moscou) Izabella THOMAS (Université de Franche-Comté) Les articles sont à envoyer à l'adresse suivante : ctesniere at univ-fcomte.fr Dates : Envoi des articles : 30 mai 2002 Acceptation des articles : 30 juin 2002 Les articles peuvent être écrits en anglais ou en français, les résumés et mots clés en anglais et en français. Les auteurs se conformeront aux directives de rédaction données sur le site du centre Tesnière (http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr). English version BULAG 27: Call for papers BULAG is the review of Centre Tesnière, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France (http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr). There is an international referee panel. Title: Words, their meaning, their form, their formation, and their recognition. Papers can deal variously with "words", whether simple or derived, compound, in the form of set expressions or collocations, their formation, their generation or recognition during machine processing in different languages, their meaning and their translation. Coordinated by: Dalila LIMAME (University of Franche-Comté) Igor SKOURATOV (University of Moscow) Izabella THOMAS (University of Franche-Comté) Please send your papers to: ctesniere at univ-fcomte.fr Deadline for paper submissions: 30th May 2002 Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2002 Papers can be written either in English or in French, abstracts and key words in both languages. For your paper, use the layout and the format of papers described on the Centre Tesnière web site(http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr). . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 25 18:40:27 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:40:27 +0100 Subject: Conf: XIV Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics Message-ID: BOUNDED LIFE RESOURCES AND EMERGENCE IN THE THEORIES OF FORMAL LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS (XIV Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics, FS&S) Jozef Kelemen Alica Kelemenova (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic) March 11-15, 2002 Organized by the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University PROGRAMME Monday 11 11-13 A. Kelemenova, Colonies and Ecogrammar Systems 14:30-16:30 J. Kelemen, Introduction to Emergence and Simple Statistical Analysis Tuesday 12 8:30-10:30 A. Kelemenova, Motivation for Bounded Resources: Life Time, Limited Activation, ... 10:30-12:30 J. Kelemen, Traditional Modularization Wednesday 13 8:30-10:30 A. Kelemenova, Influence of the Limitations to the Development of Colonies and Grammar Systems 10:30-12:30 J. Kelemen, Why to Proceed in Another Way: Formal Framework Thursday 14 8:30-10:30 A. Kelemenova, Consequences for the Properties of the Systems 10:30-12:30 J. Kelemen, Emergence Friday 15 8-10 A. Kelemenova, Bounded Life Resources as a Special Case of Regulated Rewriting 10-12 J. Kelemen, Rationality Place: Lecture Room, Department of Romance Philologies Rovira i Virgili University Pl. 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CALENDAR 1rst call for abstracts : November 20th 2001. Submission deadline : March 31rst 2002. Notification of acceptance : May 15th 2002. Preliminary programme : June 15st, 2002 Meeting : September (19)-20-21 2002. WEB SITE : http://gdr-morphologie.linguist.jussieu.fr/colloque/ THEMATIC (unabridged text on our web site) The question of the units we need to assume in order to account for morphological phenomena has to be considered in a new light since the morpheme has been given up as the single unit in morphology. First of all, it is now possible to distinguish various types of units and, second, those different units are correlated to hypotheses about the way linguistic signs work. These changes can be clearly seen in the recent literature. Consider, for instance: (i) the growing importance of the distinctions argued for by Matthews between word1 (word-form), word2 (lexeme) and word3 (syntactic word); (ii) the fact that the status of stems has become clearer; (iii) the classification of morphological rules according to the type of unit they take as their input or output (stem>stem, stem>word, word>word); (iv) the central position given to the lexeme within hierarchical representations of lexicon; (v) the way the typing of morphological units is used to block or licence morphological derivations; etc. The question of morphological units also arises within prosodic morphology (especially in its OT version), which assumes distinct units such as affix, root, word, etc. without saying anything about them except that they must exist; this makes it all the more urgent to clarify their exact status within morphological theory. In short, the moment seems favourable for undertaking a reflection on morphological units. This meeting will be both a step in this process of reflection and an opportunity to raise new questions on this topic. Among possible themes of discussion, we can list the following: I. Characterising morphological units Along what dimensions must these units be defined? Are there principles limiting the proliferation of these dimensions? Which units are indispensable and which can be given up? Besides allomorphy or suppletion, what type of variation is allowed within morphological units? What can we infer from this on the nature of the linguistic sign? II. The function of units What types of phenomena does the introduction of such and such unit allow us to account for ? Do the distinctions between various types of units play a crucial role in certain derivations? III. Representing units How should we represent the different types of units? What relationships must be assumed between them in a hierarchical representation of lexical knowledge? IV. Typology What is the possible range of interlinguistic variation exhibited by the minimal sign (word or lexeme) across languages? Do the marks which end word3 units belong to identifiable types? To what extent is it sound to speak of stem languages or root languages? Why do phenomena such as allomorphy or suppletion appear so rarely in some languages and so widely in others? V. Psycholinguistics Do speakers perceive morphological units? And if so, which ones? Are there differences between the units perceived by speakers and those hypothesized by linguists? Can such differences give hints as to how a morphological system might change in the future? What role does writing play with respect to the transmission, the stability and the perception of morphological units? VI. Natural language processing and corpus studies What do natural language processing and corpus-based studies bring to the study of morphological units? Do they shed light upon (ir)regularities which would have remained unnoticed otherwise? VII. History Does the way in which morphological units were used in historical and comparative linguistics shed light on the distinctions we need today? PROGRAMME COMMITEE Georgette Dal (University of Lille 3), Bernard Fradin (LLF, CNRS), Françoise Kerleroux (University Paris 10 Nanterre), Nabil Hathout (ERSS, CNRS), Marc Plénat (ERSS, CNRS), Michel Roché (University of Toulouse Le Mirail) The programme committee will be backed up by a broad reviewing committee. WORKING LANGUAGES The working languages will be English and French. ORGANISATION This meeting is organised by the GDR 2220 Description et modélisation en morphologie the UMR 8528 SILEX and the University of Lille 3. If you need more information on details concerning the organisation of the meeting contact monseur at univ-lille3.fr. For other types of information, contact bernard.fradin at linguist.jussieu.fr. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Your submission should consist of 1) An anonymous abstract no longer than 2 pages (A4 format) in times 12 (bibliography included). The abstract must indicate clearly the subject matter, the theoretical framework (if any) and the conclusions of your contribution. 2) A separate page on which are indicated : your name, affiliation, postal address, email address and the title of your contribution. Electronic submission is encouraged provided that the abstract and the personal details page are sent as separate attachments in either postscript, rtf or Word format. The submissions must be sent to ForumMorphol3 at linguist.jussieu.fr before March 31, 2002. If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard copies of the abstract plus the separate page with personal details must reach the organising committee at the following address before March 31, 2002 : Bernard Fradin Forum de Morphologie 3, LLF Tour centrale Case 7031 2 place Jussieu F-75251 PARIS CEDEX 05 SELECTION CRITERIA Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work. Submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two specialists of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria : Importance and originality of the paper. Empirical foundation of the account. Accuracy of the scientific content. Layout and clarity of the paper. Relevance to the topic of the meeting. TALKS The time allotted for presentation is 30 minutes. 10 more minutes will be left for discussion. Il will be possible to use an overhead projector or video-projector. PROCEEDINGS As was the case for the former Forums de Morphologie, the proceedings of the meeting will be published in the Silexicales collection (UMR SILEX University of Lille 3). The organisers will do their best to publish the proceedings soon after the meeting. REGISTRATION FEES Before June 30th. Student : 35 Euros Faculty member : 60 Euros After June 30th Student : 40 Euros Faculty member : 70 Euros Registration fees include the preproceedings of the meeting, coffe and lunches that will be taken on the campus on the 20th and 21st. To register, you must mail your payment together with your completed registration form to Danièle Monseur 3ème Forum de Morphologie UMR 8528 " SILEX " Université de Lille 3 BP 149 F-59653 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ CEDEX The registration form must be downloaded from our website. Payment will be made in euros with a cheque or money order that is made payable to Agent comptable de l'Université Lille 3. (We cannot accept credit card payment). ACCOMODATION, TRANSPORTATION/ACCESS See our web site. VENUE The meeting will be held at the Maison de la Recherche located on the Lille 3 campus. The Maison de la Recherche is at a walking distance (10 mn) from the underground station 'Pont de bois'. More information on our website. (English version above) DEUXIÈME APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS Troisième Forum de morphologie LES UNITÉS MORPHOLOGIQUES DATE : (19)-20-21 septembre 2002 LIEU : Université de Lille 3, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. CALENDRIER 1er appel à communication : 20 novembre 2001. Date limite de soumission : 31 mars 2002. Notification des acceptations : 15 mai 2002. Programme préliminaire : 15 juin 2002. Colloque : (19)-20-21 septembre 2002. SITE WEB : http://gdr-morphologie.linguist.jussieu.fr/colloque/ THÉMATIQUE (texte complet sur la toile) Depuis que le morphème a été remis en cause comme unité unique de la morphologie, la question des unités qu'on doit postuler pour décrire les phénomènes morphologiques se pose de manière nouvelle. Nouvelle parce qu'il devient possible désormais de distinguer plusieurs types d'unité. Nouvelle aussi parce que les unités qu'on distingue sont corrélées à des hypothèses sur le fonctionnement des signes linguistiques. Plusieurs indices de ce changement de point de vue sont décelables dans la littérature : prise en compte des distinctions opérées par Matthews entre mot1 (mot-forme), mot2 (lexème) et mot3 (mot syntaxique) ; place reconnue à la notion de stem (thème morphologique) ; redéfinition des règles morphologiques en fonction leur unité d'input et d'output (règles stem > stem, mot2 > mot3, stem > mot2, mot3 > stem) ; rôle central du lexème dans les représentations hiérarchisées du lexique ; utilisation du type de l'unité pour bloquer / autoriser certaines dérivations, etc. La question des unités morphologiques se trouve aussi posée de l'extérieur de la morphologie, puisque la morphologie prosodique (notamment dans la version OT) postule l'existence d'unités morphologiques distinctes (affixe, racine, mot), dont elle ne dit rien, ce qui rend plus urgente encore l'inscription de cette question à l'agenda des morphologues. Bref, la situation actuelle paraît propice pour entamer une réflexion sur les unités morphologiques. Le colloque projeté voudrait à la fois être une étape dans ce processus de réflexion et une ouverture à de nouveaux questionnements. Parmi les thèmes de discussion envisageables figurent les suivants : I. Caractérisation des unités morphologiques Selon quels axes doit-on les définir ? Comment ces axes s'articulent-ils ? Quelles sont les unités indispensables et quelles sont celles dont on peut se passer ? Quels sont les types de variations tolérables que peuvent manifester les unités morphologiques (allomorphie, supplétion, autre) ? II. Opérationalité des unités Quels arguments peut-on avancer à l'appui de l'existence de telle ou telle unité ? De quel phénomène l'introduction de telle ou telle unité permet-elle de rendre compte dont on ne pourrait rendre compte sinon ? III. Représentation des unités Comment représente-t-on ces différentes unités ? Comment représente-t-on le contenu qu'elles partagent ? IV. Typologie Quelles variations interlinguistiques possibles le signe minimal (mot ou lexème) peut-il manifester ? Les marques qui terminent le mot3 appartiennent-elles à des types identifiables ? Pourquoi les phénomènes d'allomorphie ou de supplétion radicale sont-ils peu présents dans certaines langues (agglutinantes) et beaucoup dans d'autres (flexionnelles) ? V. Psycholinguistique Les locuteurs ont-ils une perception des unités morphologiques ? Desquelles ? Existe-t-il des écarts entre leur perception et les objets que postule le linguiste ? Ces écarts peuvent-ils être le moteur de changements ? Quel rôle l'écrit joue-t-il par rapport à la transmission, à la stabilité, à la perception des unités morphologiques ? VI. Traitement automatique Qu'apporte le TAL à l'étude des unités morphologiques ? Permet-il de voir mieux des difficultés qui resteraient cachées sinon ? Permet-il d'atteindre des systématicités nouvelles ? Les études sur corpus permettent-elles de donner une autre visibilité à certains types d'unités ? VII. Histoire La manière dont les notions de racine et de stems ont été utilisées dans la linguistique historique et comparative constitue-t-elle un obstacle ou éclaire-t-elle les concepts dont on a besoin aujourd'hui ? De quoi nous fait-elle hériter et comment intégrer cet héritage ? COMITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE Georgette Dal (Université Lille 3), Bernard Fradin (LLF, CNRS), Françoise Kerleroux (Université Paris 10 Nanterre), Nabil Hathout (ERSS, CNRS), Marc Plénat (ERSS, CNRS), Michel Roché (Université Toulouse Le Mirail). Le comité scientifique fera appel à un large comité d'experts pour le choix des soumissions. LANGUES DE TRAVAIL Les langues officielles du colloque seront le français et l'anglais. ORGANISATION Le colloque est organisé par le GDR 2220 Description et modélisation en morphologie, l'UMR 8528 SILEX et l'Université de Lille 3. Des renseignements plus précis concernant l'organisation matérielle du colloque peuvent être obtenus auprès de Danièle Monseur : monseur at univ- lille3.fr. Pour les autres questions, vous pouvez contacter bernard.fradin at linguist.jussieu.fr. MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION Votre soumission devra comporter 1) Un abrégé anonyme en anglais ou en français ne dépassant pas 2 pages format A4 corps Times 12 (bibliographie incluse). L'abrégé devra indiquer clairement le sujet traité et les conclusions de votre contribution. 2) Une page séparée mentionnant vos nom et prénoms, votre appartenance administrative, votre adresse postale, votre courriel et le titre de votre contribution. Il est recommandé d'envoyer son projet de communication par courrier électronique sous réserve que l'abrégé et la page où figurent les renseignements personnels soient envoyés sous des fichiers attachés distincts en format rtf, Word ou bien postscript. Adresse d'envoi ForumMorphol3 at linguist.jussieu.fr. Délai de rigueur : 31 mars 2002. S'il vous est impossible de faire une soumission électronique, vous pouvez envoyer 2 copies papier de l'abrégé et la page comportant les renseignements personnels à l'adresse suivante avant le 31 mars 2002 : Bernard Fradin Forum de Morphologie 3, LLF Tour centrale Case 7031 2 place Jussieu F-75251 PARIS CEDEX 05 CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION Les auteurs sont invités à présenter un travail original non publié. Les soumissions seront expertisées de manière anonyme par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine. Le choix tiendra compte des critères suivants : Importance et originalité du papier. Assise empirique de l'analyse. Précision et correction du contenu scientifique. Organisation et clarté de la présentation. Pertinence par rapport aux thèmes du colloque. PRÉSENTATION Tout le colloque est en séance plénière. Le temps de parole est de 30 minutes plus 10 minutes de discussion. Un rétroprojecteur ou un vidéoprojecteur pourra être utilisé. ACTES Comme pour les précédents Forums de Morphologie, les actes du colloque seront publiés dans la collection Silexicales (UMR SILEX Lille 3). La publication devrait suivre de peu le colloque. INSCRIPTION Avant le 30 juin Etudiant : 35 Euros Enseignant/chercheur : 60 Euros Après le 30 juin Etudiant : 40 Euros Enseignant/chercheur : 70 Euros Les frais d'inscription comprennent les préactes du colloque, les pauses café et les repas sur place pour les déjeuners des 20 et 21 septembre. Pour vous inscrire, vous devez envoyer le formulaire d'inscription rempli avec votre paiement à Danièle Monseur 3ème Forum de Morphologie UMR 8528 " SILEX " Université de Lille 3 BP 149 F-59653 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ CEDEX Le formulaire d'inscription peut être téléchargé à partir de notre site web. Le paiement doit être effectué en euros, soit par chèque soit par virement à l'ordre de M. l'agent comptable de l'Université Lille 3. (Nous ne pouvons accepter le paiement par carte de crédit). LOGEMENT, TRANSPORT : voir la toile. LOCALISATION Le colloque se tiendra à la Maison de la Recherche située sur le campus de Lille 3. La Maison de la Recherche se trouve à dix minutes à pied de la station de métro 'Pont de bois'. Plus de détails sur notre site. ============================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 25 18:40:43 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:40:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: AMTA-2002 Conference : call for tutorials and workshops Message-ID: Please circulate as widely as possible: --- CALL FOR TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS --- The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas AMTA-2002 Conference Tiburon, California (near San Francisco) October 8-12, 2002 Conference theme: FROM RESEARCH TO REAL USERS Ever since the showdown between Empiricists and Rationalists a decade ago at TMI-92, MT researchers have hotly pursued promising paradigms for MT, including data-driven approaches and hybrids that integrate these with more traditional rule-based components. During the same period, commercial MT systems with standard transfer architectures have evolved along a parallel and almost unrelated track, increasing their coverage and achieving much broader acceptance and usage. This raises a number of interesting questions (see the main conference Call For Participation), primarily concerned with why this disconnect exists, and whether it is going to change. TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS Proposals for tutorials and workshops are now being solicited on these and other topics of direct interest and impact for MT researchers, developers, vendors or users of MT technologies. We welcome and encourage participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations, AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe, as well. Workshops will be held on Tuesday October 8th. Approximately 7 hours may be allocated per workshop. Tutorials will be held on Wednesday October 9th. Tutorials would typically last 3 hours, although other arrangements might be possible. Proposals should state the topic(s) to be addressed, the rationale for addressing it and the structure of the activities. Proposals should be in English and not longer than 4 pages. Please submit proposals as soon as possible to Bob Frederking at . Proposals must be submitted on or before Friday, April 12, 2002. For general conference information and further details as they become available, visit: http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2002/ CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Elliott Macklovitch, General Chair Stephen D. Richardson, Program Chair Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Local Arrangements Chair Bob Frederking, Workshops and Tutorials Laurie Gerber, Exhibits Coordinator -- Robert E. Frederking Email: ref at cs.cmu.edu Language Technologies Institute Telephone: +1-412-268-6656 Carnegie Mellon University FAX: +1-412-268-6298 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:16 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:16 +0100 Subject: Appel: revue Knowledge Organization : Evaluating Human Language Technology Message-ID: ***************************************************************** Deuxième Appel à communications ***************************************************************** Evaluating Human Language Technology: General Applications to Information Access and Management A Special Issue of Knowledge Organization on Evaluation of HLT Guest Editor: Widad Mustafa El Hadi, University of Lille 3 ***************************************************************** Call for papers The last few years have seen a growing interest in evaluating human language technology (HLT) in general and its applications to information access and management in particular. Several initiatives have been conducted in Europe and in the United States. The first initiatives on HLT evaluation can be traced back to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Japanese programs on Machine Translation Evaluation. The DARPA/NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Projects continued on a more regular basis and particularly with the Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC) and the Message Understanding Conferences (MUC). More projects are gaining momentum, be they independent or part of the famous TREC Tracks (Language Engineering Track, Question & Answering (Q & A) track), or within the context of the Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization (TIDES) Document Understanding Conference (DUC), Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), Text Summarization Systems, Filtering, or Spoken Document Retrieval. Some evaluation projects have been supported within the programs of the European Commission (EAGLES, ELSE, ISLE, SQALE, etc.) others have been conducted within national programs (the French evaluation projects: GRACE Project for evaluating part-of-speech taggers, the AUF four Projects on evaluating Text Retrieval Systems, Alignment Technology, Terminology Acquisition System Evaluations, and Message Understanding). These many endeavours show the relevance of HLT evaluations. Researchers and practitioners in the field of information are interested, by an assessment of the contribution of these technologies in order to measure the progress achieved, to compare different approaches to a given problem and to assess system usability and user satisfaction. This Special Issue of Knowledge Organization (scheduled as volume 29, number 3/4) will aim at bringing together the community of researchers in the field of HLT from the perspective of Knowledge Organization, Information Access and Management. Moreover, it will look forward to providing an overview of the state-of-the-art of HLT, discuss problems, exchange information on the use of this technology in monolingual and multilingual environments, discuss evaluation methodologies and metrics and promote initiatives for international cooperation in these areas. We invite original and unpublished submissions to the special issue covering any of, but not limited to, the following topics. Contributions previously published in a language other than English may be considered. Possible Topics General Issues on Evaluation Historical and theoretical backgrounds of HLT evaluation Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures Benchmarking of systems and products Linguistic Quality Information Access Automated Question & Answering Monolingual and Cross-Language Information Retrieval Machine Translation in IR environments Document Understanding Multimedia document and image retrieval Information Management Automatic tracking and detection of emerging topics from unstructured data (Text Mining) Evaluating methods for knowledge extraction and acquisition (e.g. terms) Information Filtering Knowledge mapping and access (lexical information, language modelling) Text Summarization Categorization Submission Information Deadline for submissions is: 31 May 2002 Submissions will be refereed by a special committee of experts in the field. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format in English only and should be accompanied by an indicative abstract of 100-200 words. Submission via e-mail are preferred; submissions will be accepted via post provided that four copies are submitted or that submissions are accompanied by a 3.5" diskette encoded in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format. For further details regarding manuscripts and publications please refer to the instructions for authors in each issue of Knowledge Organization. Please use the subject line: KO HLT Submissions should be directed to: Widad MUSTAFA EL HADI E-mail: mustafa at univ-lille3.fr Or at UFR IDIST Université Charles De Gaulle Lille 3 BP 149, 59653 Villeneuve D'Ascq, FRANCE ---------------------------------- Widad Mustafa el Hadi UFR IDIST & CERSATES (UMR 8529) Université Charles-De-Gaulle-Lille 3 BP 149 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex Tel: 33 (0) 3 20 41 68 15 Fax: 33 (0) 3 20 41 63 79 e-mail: mustafa at univ-lille3.fr ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:22 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:22 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC : workshop Customizing Knowledge in NLP Applications Message-ID: *********************************************************************** Deadline Extended: March 15 *********************************************************************** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Customizing Knowledge in NLP Applications: Strategies, Issues and Evaluation A workshop at the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/ The workshop addresses one of the key challenges in the development of NLP applications: bridging a generic framework with domain/task specific requirements. The issue reduces to the problem of customization of linguistic software and the degree to which this effort can be limited once a given component (i.e., grammar, lexicon, thesaurus, interpreter, tagger, etc.) is used across applications and across domains. As natural language products play an increasingly more prominent role in the market for knowledge management, information extraction, search and navigation, the suppliers of technologies still struggle with the ability to produce high-qualitysoftware which can be deployed to new domains and relatively similar tasks in a short time within budget. The issue of genericity versus specificity plays out in a number of areas; the key to solving the problem is that of identifying whether there is a particular locus to the dilemma: the architecture of the system, the language resources, the application components. The problem of customization directly affects the architecture, the development process as well as the evaluation benchmarks for NLP systems. Although the notion of "knowledge bottleneck" has been essentially attached to NLP systems relying on knowledge representation strategies, even statistical NLP systems suffer from a customization problem. The goal of the workshop is to emphasize the tension as well as the potential for crossfertilization between knowledge-based and corpus-based approaches to customization. While both approaches are needed, the key issue is how to reconcile potential contrasts and define the optimal balance between the two in order to maximise benefits for the content creation/management/delivery applications of focus, e.g. categorization, search, navigation, retrieval, extraction, personalization, generation etc. SUBMISSIONS The workshop aims at bringing together people from both academia and industry to address the variety of topics in the areas of customization, knowledge representation and acquisition, and metrics for measuring complexity. We invite submissions of papers in all areas of customization of NLP components, including, but not limited to, the following topics: * The locus of generic and specific information in NLP systems; * Generic and domain specific language resources; * Knowledge acquisition and knowledge development strategies; * Customization strategies in statistical NLP; * Customization strategies in knowledge-based NLP systems; * Modularization of applications for purposes of reducing customization efforts; * Criteria, strategies and metrics for assessing "degree of customization." Papers should be submitted electronically to r-knippen at attglobal.net and should be in Word or postscript format. Papers should be no longer than 3,000 words, including the abstract. Contributors should also provide their affiliation and email contact. Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion. Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be provided with the LREC stylesheet and make any necessary reformatting for the camera-ready version to be published in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for workshop submission 15th March 2002 Notification of Acceptance 1st April 2002 Final version of paper for proceedings 15th April 2002 Workshop 27th May 2002 (14:30 to 20:00) WORKSHOP REGISTRATION The registration fees for the workshop are: * If you are not attending LREC: 70 EURO * If you are attending LREC: 45 Euro These fees cover the following: a copy of the proceedings of the attended workshop, coffee-breaks and refreshments. Participation in the workshop is limited by the venue. Requests for participation will be processed on first come first served basis. Registration will be handled by the LREC Secretariat. FURTHER DETAILS For any further questions relating the workship itself, visit the conference website at http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/ or e-mail federica_busa at yahoo.com. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Federica Busa Webegg federica_busa at yahoo.com Evelyne Viegas Microsoft Corporation evelynev at microsoft.com Antonio Sanfilippo SRA International antonio_sanfilippo at sra.com Robert Knippen LingoMotors Inc. r-knippen at attglobal.net Connie Parkes Dictaphone Cornelia.Parkes at dictaphone.com Saliha Azzam Microsoft Corporation salihaa at microsoft.com Piek Vossen Irion Technologies Remi Zajac Systran Corporation ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:29 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:29 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLP techniques for speech analysis Message-ID: Call: Workshop organized during the French conference TALN'2002 (French version below) NLP techniques for speech analysis Recent advances have been made to process oral as well as written documents. Let?s mention the following fields: - information filtering and retrieval, information extraction, indexing for written text - vocal dictatation, control and command systems for speech analysis. There is clearly a need, today, to establish a link between these two separate worlds. TREC conferences have popularized applications such as information retrieval and extraction from audio corpora. This workshop is intended to explore new ways of integrating NLP techniques for speech analysis. Its objective is to gather people working in this area, coming either from the industry or the university. Three kind of communications are expected: - Statement paper on theoretical aspects of the use of NLP techniques in speech analysis (10-12 pages) - Research paper related to one of the topics addressed by the workshop (no more than 10 pages) - Project notes (2 to 4 pages). Authors are invited to use documents models defined for the TAL N conference (http://www.loria.fr/projets/TALN). PostScript, PDF and RTF format are acceptable formats for submission. Contributions should be written in French or in English and they should be send via electronic mail to the addresses below. thierry.poibeau at thalesgroup.com camal.tazine at thalesgroup.com Interested people are also invited to send an intention to contribute (or to participate) to the address above. The deadline for contribution is 22 March 2002 and notifications of acceptance will be sent about 3 weeks after. Communications will be read by two members of the program committee. The workshop will be held on 27 June 2002, in Nancy (France), during the conference JEP/TALN 2002 (http://www.loria.fr/projets/TALN). Organizing committee Camal Tazine (Thales and LIA) Thierry Poibeau (Thales and LIPN) Program committee Jean Caelen (IMAG) John Dowding (NASA) Pierre Jourlin (LIA) François-Arnould Mathieu (Télisma) Jean-Marie Pierrel (LORIA) Thierry Poibeau (Thales and LIPN) Steve Renals (Université and Sheffield) David Roussel (EADS) Célestin Sedogbo (Thales) Camal Tazine (Thales and LIA) François Yvon (ENST) ========================================= Atelier (conférence associée), TALN'2002 Thème: Couplage de l'écrit avec l'oral Des avancées ont récemment eu lieu dans différents domaines de l'analyse de documents écrits ou oraux. On citera, pour l'analyse de l'écrit, les avancées dans le domaine de l'indexation, du filtrage et de l'extraction. Pour l'oral, les systèmes de dictée ou de commande vocale et les serveurs vocaux sont des applications qui sont aujourd'hui largement répandues. Les besoins vont aujourd'hui vers un meilleur couplage de ces deux domaines encore séparés. Les applications portent en effet notamment sur le filtrage, l'indexation et l'extraction à partir de corpus parlés. Les systèmes d'analyse de l'oral à base de statistiques se révèlent alors trop limitées. L'intégration de composantes issues de systèmes écrits s'avère également difficile. Les données ne sont pas de même nature, elles sont fortement bruitées et nécessitent des techniques généralement plus robustes que celles mises en oeuvre pour l'écrit. Cet atelier propose d'explorer l'intégration de techniques issues de l'analyse de l'écrit dans des systèmes d'analyse de la parole. Il vise à présenter des travaux issus aussi bien de la recherche académique que du monde industriel. Le cas échéant, une table ronde industrielle pourrait être organisée. Trois de types de communications sont souhaités : - Des exposés théoriques de 10 à 12 pages sur la problématique de l'atelier (Quel couplage entre écrit et oral ? Existe-t-il des approches alternatives ??) - Des exposés de recherche de 8 à 10 pages, de préférence ayant abouti sur une réalisation concrète et une évaluation, le cas échéant. - Des notes de projet de 2 à 4 pages, décrivant des projets en cours sur la question. Les industriels sont particulièrement souhaités. Les thèmes abordés porteront sur (liste non exhaustive) : - correction d'erreur, mesures de distance - détection de thème, indexation de documents audios (parole) - commande vocale large vocabulaire - extraction et filtrage d'information Les auteurs devront utiliser les modèles de document définis pour la conférence TALN. Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission par courrier électronique sous la forme d'un document attaché (fichiers rtf, ps ou pdf au format A4 et non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la soumission et les noms des auteurs. Les formats à utiliser pour la rédaction sont disponibles sur le site de la conférence: http://www.loria.fr/projets/TALN. La date limite de soumission est le 22 mars 2002. Les articles doivent être envoyés aux adresses suivantes : thierry.poibeau at thalesgroup.com camal.tazine at thalesgroup.com Les communications seront relues par deux membres du comité de programme. L'atelier se déroulera le jeudi 27 juin 2002, au Palais des congrès de Nancy, durant la conférence TALN/JEP 2002. Comité d'organisation Camal Tazine (Thales et LIA) Thierry Poibeau (Thales et LIPN) Comité de programme Jean Caelen (IMAG) John Dowding (NASA) Pierre Jourlin (LIA) François-Arnould Mathieu (Télisma) Jean-Marie Pierrel (LORIA) Thierry Poibeau (Thales et LIPN) Steve Renals (Université de Sheffield) David Roussel (EADS) Célestin Sedogbo (Thales) Camal Tazine (Thales et LIA) François Yvon (ENST) -- Thierry Poibeau Thales Research and Technology Thierry.Poibeau at thalesgroup.com tel. +33 (1) 69 33 08 07 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:37 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:37 +0100 Subject: Ressources: Coopération entre ELDA et LDC Message-ID: Coopération entre ELDA et LDC - Distribution de ressources linguistiques Le projet Net-DC (Networking Data Centers, MLIS-5017), a pour but d'améliorer l'infrastructure pour les ressources linguistiques, en instaurant de nouveaux modes de coopération entre le Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) et l'Agence européenne de distribution de ressources linguistiques (ELDA). Dans le cadre de cette coopération, LDC et ELDA ont le plaisir d'annoncer une action commune de distribution de ressources linguistiques. TED (Translanguage English Database) référence ELRA: http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0031.html référence LDC: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002S04.html) La base de données TED (Translanguage English Database) est le résultat des enregistrements des exposés oraux de la conférence "EuroSpeech '93". Le nom même du corpus reflète l'important taux des exposés donnés en anglais par des conférenciers dont la langue maternelle n'est pas l'anglais. 224 présentations orales ont été enregistrées, générant environ 75 heures de parole. Ces enregistrements offrent un grand nombre de locuteurs, chacun parlant plusieurs variantes de l'anglais, sur une période de temps relativement importante (environ 15 minutes de présentation et 5 minutes de discussion), et ce sur un même thème. Cette version de TED (6 CD-ROM) comprend 188 présentations, la période de discussion n'étant pas incluse. Cette base de données a été produite avec le soutien d'ELSNET. Le texte associé à ce corpus est constitué des versions ASCII de quelques 400 articles présentés dans les actes de la conférence et préparations orales fournis par les auteurs, ainsi que 250 questionnaires adressés aux intervenants. Transcriptions de TED (Translanguage English Database) référence ELRA : http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0120.html référence LDC : http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002T03.html) Le corpus de transcriptions de TED (Translanguage English Database) comprend les transcriptions de 39 des 188 présentations du corpus TED (réf. ELRA : http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0031.html ; réf LDC : http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002S04.html) et réalisé à Eurospeech'93 à Berlin. Les 39 transcriptions de cette publication sont au format UTF (Universal Transcription Format) et ont été préparées par LDC. Chaque fichier utf de la version transcrite a été validé et est en conformité avec la DTD utf incluse. Les tables contenant les informations démographiques des locuteurs et de référence croisée des noms de fichier avec le corpus audio TED sont fournies. Pour plus d'informations, veuillez contacter ELRA/ELDA ou LDC à: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tél: +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 01 43 13 33 30 Email: mapelli at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium 3615 Market Street, Suite 200 PA 19104-2608 Philadelphia, USA Tél: (215) 898-0464 Fax: (215) 573-2175 Email: ldc at ldc.cis.upenn.edu http://www.ldc.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:45 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:45 +0100 Subject: Conf: RENCONTRES "SEMANTIQUE ET CORPUS" Message-ID: RENCONTRES "SEMANTIQUE ET CORPUS" Ce que l'analyse de corpus apporte à la réflexion sur le sens UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL 20 et 21 mars 2002 Organisées par l'Opération " Sémantique et Corpus " de l'Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique, UMR5610, CNRS Contact : anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr Site Web : http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/ (section séminaires et rencontres), en cours de construction. L'INSCRIPTION AUX JOURNEES EST OBLIGATOIRE MAIS GRATUITE.. Merci de renvoyer le bulletin d'inscription en fin de message avant le 16 mars 2002 à Anne Condamines (anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr) Les " Rencontres Sémantique et corpus " organisées par l'Opération " Sémantique et corpus " de l'ERSS ont pour ambition de faire se rencontrer différents points de vue sur la question du sens en lien avec l'analyse de corpus. Cette thématique est rarement discutée en tant que telle ; pourtant, différents courants de recherche des sciences du langage utilisent un corpus comme point de départ, voire, comme référence ; on peut citer par exemple : - la linguistique historique et comparative, - l'analyse littéraire, - la terminologie, - la sociolinguistique, - l'analyse de discours, - le traitement automatique de la langue (en tout cas une partie des travaux). Le recours à des corpus est incontournable lorsque le linguiste n'a pas de compétence sur l'usage linguistique qu'il étudie (corpus historiques ou spécialisés) ; il ne peut donc recourir à une approche introspective. En analyse littéraire, ce qui fait saillance est bien souvent plus ce qui renvoie à un fonctionnement original qu'à un fonctionnement systématique. En sociolinguistique, l'analyse d'usages réels fait partie de l'hypothèse variationiste qui soutient les recherches ; la question de la stabilité sémantique intertextuelle est ainsi minimisée, tout comme elle l'est dans l'analyse de discours, qui donne au corpus un rôle prépondérant. En TAL, la confrontation ultime avec la réalité des usages amène de plus en plus de chercheurs à prendre en compte ce réel très tôt dans la mise en place des études. Dans ces analyses, le sens apparaît nécessairement en filigrane soit parce que, considéré comme stable, il soutient l'analyse syntaxique et morphologique et permet d'étudier la variation, soit parce que, insaisissable par hypothèse, il est toujours le fruit d'une construction et que seules les modalités de cette construction sont accessibles ; on ne perçoit donc du sens que ses effets, psychologiques ou sociaux. L'objectif de ces rencontres est de mettre en lumière la place du sens dans l'élaboration des résultats d'analyse à partir de corpus. Il s'agit de savoir quelle part de connaissance sémantique est convoquée a priori par la mise en oeuvre des études sur corpus et quelle part est construite par ces études. Cette problématique peut se décliner selon divers thèmes : - sens et signification, - sens et information, - stabilité et variation, - rôle du co-texte, - rôle du contexte, - système et usages, - reproductibilité et validité des résultats... *************************************************************************** PROGRAMME Mercredi 20 mars 2002 : 9h : Accueil 10h : Sylvie Mellet, BCL, (CNRS), Nice: Les corpus informatisés améliorent-ils l'accès au sens des textes latins ? 10h45 : Bernard Combettes, ATILF, Université de Nancy : Les études sur la grammaticalisation : problèmes sémantiques et contextuels dans l'utilisation des corpus informatisés. 11h : Pause. 11h45 : Anne Condamines, ERSS, U.Toulouse Le Mirail : Ce que la constitution de terminologies à partir de corpus apprend sur la compétence linguistique. 12h30 : Hélène Miguet, ERSS, U.Toulouse le Mirail : Approche "en corpus" des relations de localisation spatiale : problèmes sémantiques et contextuels 13h : Repas 14h30 : Benoît Habert, Limsi et MoDyco, U.Parix X : Le monde bouge, les mots aussi : repérer les fluctuations de sens. 15h15 : Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN, U.Paris XIII : Acquisition de connaissances à partir de corpus : élaborer des ressources pour l'extraction d'information. 16h : Pause 16h30 : François Rastier, MoDyCo, U.Paris X : Parcours interprétatifs et structures de corpus. 17h15 : Dominique Desmarchelier, Ceditec (Paris 12) et CNRS (ENS Lyon) : Le sens du texte : entre opacité statistique et transparence énonciative. 18h : Michelle Lecolle, ERSS, U.Toulouse Le Mirail : Corpus et tropes : l'exemple des métonymies dans la presse quotidienne généraliste. 18h30 : Fin de la première journée. Jeudi 21 mars 2002 : 9h : Patrice Enjalbert, GREYC, Caen : Formes linguistiques et structure de l'information. Expériences en compréhension automatique. 9h45 : François Gaudin, Maryvonne Abraham, Thierry Wable, Dyalang, U.de Rouen. : Analyse sémantique et corpus : le cas des résumés de thèses. 10h30 : Pause 11h : Sophie Prévost, LaTTICE, Paris : Catégorisation et Elaboration d'une typologie des textes dans la Base de Français Médiéval. 11h45 : Cécile Fabre et Cécile Frérot, ERSS, Université Toulouse Le Mirail : Arguments vs circonstants : une distinction repérable par des méthodes d'analyse automatique de corpus ? 12h15 : Marie-Paule Jacques, ERSS, U.Toulouse Le Mirail : Comparaison de corpus pour l'étude de la réduction de termes complexes. 12h45 : Repas 14h15 : Jean Véronis, DELIC, U. de Provence : Vers une lexicographie distributionnelle. 15h : Jean-Luc Minel, Equipe LaLICC, Paris : Filtrage sémantique de textes. Réflexions à partir de quelques applications. 15h45 : Nabil Hathout, ERSS, U.Toulouse Le Mirail : Utilisation des corpus pour déterminer le sens des lexèmes construits. 16h15 : Didier Bourigault, ERSS, Université Toulouse Le Mirail : Analyse syntaxique automatique et analyse sémantique de corpus. 16h45 : Fin des journées. *************************************************************************** Fiche d'inscription, à renvoyer avant le 16 mars à anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr Nom et Prénom : Organisme d'appartenance : Mél : Tél : Repas à la cantine de l'Université (7,60 euros, environ 50 frs) (sinon, nombreuses possibilités de restauration à l'entrée de l'Université) : 20 mars : oui non 21 mars : oui non. *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:51 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:51 +0100 Subject: Appel: EIGHT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this more than once.] [To spread, please. Thank you.] EIGHT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS SANTIAGO DE CUBA JANUARY 20-24, 2003 The Center of Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce the Eight International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 20th through the 24th, 2003. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Voice Processing, Mass Media, and Ethnology and Folklore. The Symposium will be also sponsored by: .. University of Oriente, Cuba .. Higher Institute for Medical Sciences Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. Information for Development Agency Havana, Cuba .. African Cultural Center "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands . National Council of Scientific Research, Italy .. University of Malaga, Spain .. University of Alcala, Spain .. University of Goias, Brazil .. University of Los Lagos, Chile .. Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, Lisbon, Portugal Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Linguistics: - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Morphology and Syntax - Anthropology Linguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Terminology - Translations 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistic research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Electronic dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Related issues 3. Voice Processing: - Applications of analysis, synthesis and voice-recognition - Artificial intelligence and voice processing 4. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaringology - Stomatology 5. Mass Media: - Linguistic research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and electronic media articles 6. Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication Activities that will take place within the event are: - Pre-Symposium seminars - Discussion of papers in commissions - Master conferences - Round Table PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists to be announced. The seminars will take place Monday, January 20th of 2003 and will focus on the following subjects: - Corpus Linguistics: current studies - Construction of Electronics Dictionaries Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 20.00 USD will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. ROUND TABLE A round table entitled Current Researches in Applied Linguistics will be held on the occasion of the VIII International Symposium on Social Communication. MASTER LECTURES During the Symposium three master lectures will be delivered by prestigious specialists to be announced. ABSTRACTS The deadline of submission of paper abstracts is July 1st, 2002. They should not exceed 250 words. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 30th, 2002. PAPERS To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium's documentation -as we did in the 5th ('97), 6th ('99) and 7th (2001) Symposiums-, accepted papers must be sent before September 15, 2002, with the following requirements: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium's Executive Secretary either via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing a 31/2-inch diskette. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 (mail type) format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event's official languages: Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. Instructions for paper submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the authors' names should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address if available. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, Italics, 10 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9 points size and leaving one space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes and 5 minutes for discussion. Authors must advise in advance if they will need a tape recorder, video set, computer or other kind of equipment for presentation. All mail or inquiries should be addressed to: Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez Secretaria Ejecutiva Comite Organizador VIII Simposio Internacional Comunicacion Social Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400 Telephone: (53-226) 642760 E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 160.00 USD Companions 80.00 USD Payment must be in cash during registration and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event, speaker's certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities. Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the Proceedings. ACCOMODATION The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event. IMPORTANT REMINDERS - Abstract Submission deadline: July 1st, 2002 - Notification on paper's approval by Scientific Committee: by July 30, 2002 - Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail using 31/2-inch diskette: September 15, 2002 - Pre-Symposium seminars: January 20th, 2003 - 8th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 21st through 24th, 2003 OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 kms from Havana, is Cuba's second largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the city's beauty and charm. SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE President of Honor: Dr. Rosa Elena Simeon Negrin Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment Republic of Cuba Aida Almaguer Furnaguera Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Santiago de Cuba Cuba Gerardo Garcia Cabrera President of Information for Development Agency Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Havana Cuba Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary Eight International Symposium on Social Communication Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez Academic of the Academy of Science of Cuba Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director of Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Marcos Cortina Vega Rector University of Oriente Ministry of Higher Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Nayra Pujals Victoria Rector Higher Institute for Medical Sciences Ministry of Public Health Santiago de Cuba Cuba Ena Elsa Velazquez Cobiella Rector Pedagogical University "Frank Pais" Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher Twente University Enschede, Holland Daniela Ratti Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Lucia Marconi Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Claudia Rolando Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Gloria Corpas Pastor Professor and Researcher University of Malaga Spain Luis Beltran Vice-Rector of International Relations University of Alcala Alcala de Henares Spain Deise Nanci de Castro Mesquita Professor and Researcher University of Goias Goias, Brazil Minerva Rosas Villarroel Professor and Researcher University of Los Lagos, Chile Margarita Correia Professor and Researcher Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics Lisbon, Portugal Nancy Alamo Suarez Researcher Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Celia Maria Perez Marques Researcher Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Celia Esther Alvarez Moreno Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Mercedes Cathcart Roca Professor and Researcher Faculty of Humanities University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Ercilia Estrada Estrada Scientific Council Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Miladys Diodene Adame Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Martha Cordies Jackson Researcher African Cultural Center "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba EIGHT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION REGISTRATION FORM Mr./Ms. ___________________________ Organization: ________________________ Title: _________________________________________ Business address: __________________________________ City: ______________ Telefax: ____________ Phone: _______________ E-Mail:____________________ Home address: _________________________ City: ___________ Telephone: __________ I wish to participate in Pre-Symposium seminars (optional) ___Corpus Linguistics: current studies ___Construction of Electronics Dictionaries Paper title: __________________________ Date: ________________ Signature: ___________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 1 16:07:42 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:07:42 +0100 Subject: Conf: AMTA-2002 Conference Message-ID: --- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION --- The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas AMTA-2002 Conference Location: Tiburon, California Dates: October 8-12, 2002 The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) is pleased to announce its fifth biennial conference, planned for October 8-12, 2002, in Tiburon (near San Francisco), California. Conference theme: From Research to Real Users Ever since the showdown between Empiricists and Rationalists a decade ago at TMI-92, MT researchers have hotly pursued promising paradigms for MT, including data-driven approaches (e.g., statistical, example-based) and hybrids that integrate these with more traditional rule-based components. During the same period, commercial MT systems with standard transfer architectures have evolved along a parallel and almost unrelated track, increasing their coverage (primarily through manual update of their lexicons, we assume) and achieving much broader acceptance and usage, principally through the medium of the Internet. Web page translators have become commonplace; a number of online translation services have appeared, including in their offerings both raw and post-edited MT; and large corporations have been turning increasingly to MT to address the exigencies of global communication. Still, the output of the transfer-based systems employed in this expansion represents but a small drop in the ever-growing translation marketplace bucket. Now, 10 years later, we wonder if this mounting variety of MT users is any better off, and if the promise of the research technologies is being realized to any measurable degree. In this regard, we pose the following questions: Why aren't any current commercially available MT systems primarily data-driven? Do any commercially available systems integrate (or plan to integrate) data-driven components? Do data-driven systems have significant performance or quality issues? Can such systems really provide better quality to users, or is their main advantage one of fast, facilitated customization? If any new MT technology could provide such benefits (somewhat higher quality, or facilitated customization), would that be the key to more widespread use of MT, or are there yet other more relevant unresolved issues, such as system integration? If better quality, customization, or system integration aren't the answer, then what is it that users really need from MT in order for it to be more useful to them? We solicit participation on these and other topics related to the research, development, and use of MT in the form of original papers, demonstrations, workshops, tutorials, and panels. We invite all who are interested in MT to participate, including developers, researchers, end users, professional translators, managers, and marketing experts. We especially invite users to share their experiences, developers to describe their novel systems, managers and marketers to talk about what is happening in the marketplace, researchers to detail new capabilities or methods, and visionaries to describe the future as they see it. We also welcome and encourage participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations, AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe. Details regarding the conference may be found on the AMTA Web site: http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2002/ CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Elliott Macklovitch, General Chair Stephen D. Richardson, Program Chair Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Local Arrangements Chair Bob Frederking, Workshops and Tutorials Laurie Gerber, Exhibits Coordinator AMTA-2002: PAPER AND SYSTEM DESCRIPTION/DEMONSTRATION SUBMISSIONS. Authors/system developers are invited to submit presentations in English in any of the following three categories: 1. Theoretical papers: Unpublished papers describing original work on all aspects of Machine Translation. Preference will be given to papers that include concrete results and that address the theme of moving MT research technology (including, but not limited to, data-driven systems or components) into real use. Papers should not be longer than 10 pages, with minimum character font size of 11 pt. 2. User studies: Studies of users' experiences with implementing MT or testing its applicability to some task. Of particular interest are experiences deploying new or advanced MT technology in a production context. Users, managers, and sales/marketing professionals are especially welcome to submit. Studies should not be longer than 8 pages, with minimum character font size of 11 pt. 3. System descriptions with optional system demonstrations: Approx. 25 minutes will be allocated per system description/demo. Submissions should not be longer than 4 pages. The goal of system descriptions is to educate participants about the features and functionality of current and emerging MT systems. Sales presentations are not appropriate. The following information should be provided in each system description; - name and contact information of system builder - system category (research, pre-market prototype, or commercially available) - system characteristics (e.g., languages, domains, integration/networking features) If a system demonstration is included, please provide the following information: - hardware platform and operating system - name and contact information of system operations specialist First page: All submissions should include a separate title page with the following information: - paper title, - author(s)' name(s), address(es), telephone and fax numbers, email address(es), - one-paragraph abstract, - for theoretical papers: subject area keyword(s) - for user studies: the words "User study" - for system descriptions/demos: the words "System description/demo" DEADLINES and SCHEDULE: Submissions due at address below: April 15, 2002 (Monday) Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2002 (Friday) Final versions of papers due: July 15, 2002 (Monday) Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. They should be sent to: email address: steveri at microsoft.com subject line: AMTA-2002 submission in one of the following formats: Microsoft Word (RTF format) PostScript ASCII plain text Hardcopy submissions (please send four (4) copies): AMTA-2002: Stephen D. Richardson Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 1 16:07:47 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:07:47 +0100 Subject: Appel: journee d'etude ATALA "Constitution et exploitation de corpus du français parlé" Message-ID: Appel ? communications Journ?e d'?tude de l'ATALA "Constitution et exploitation de corpus du fran?ais parl?" Claire Blanche-Benveniste & Jean V?ronis 25 mai 2002, Paris Th?me ----- Alors qu'on dispose de plusieurs centaines de millions de mots de textes ?crits (et que le gigantesque r?servoir qu'est le World Wide Web repousse chaque jour cette limite), on dispose de tr?s peu de donn?es sur l'oral. Les corpus de langue orale transcrite sont pourtant d'une importance fondamentale pour l'?tude linguistique, comme pour la mise au point de nouvelles technologies vocales. Pour l'anglais, plusieurs dizaines de millions de mots transcrits sont disponibles (British National Corpus, Santa Barbara Corpus of American English, Corpus CANCODE, etc.) et plusieurs grands projets de corpus oraux viennent de voir le jour pour d'autres langues (Corpus Gesproken Nederlands, Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew, Corpus du Portugais Parl?, etc.), qui visent une taille de l'ordre de la dizaine de millions de mots. Il n'existe pas pour l'instant de grand projet national pour le fran?ais, mais uniquement des entreprises isol?es, et il est difficile d'?valuer la quantit? totale des donn?es informatis?es, mais elle ne d?passe certainement que de peu le million de mots. Le d?veloppement de corpus oraux transcrits est extr?mement co?teux, et demande une m?thodologie stricte, appuy?e sur des outils informatiques ad?quats. Le but de cette journ?e est de r?unir linguistes et informaticiens pour faire le point sur la situation concernant le fran?ais, et peut-?tre de tracer quelques pistes pour des recherches et collaborations futures. Le but de la journ?e est ? la fois de dresser un ?tat de l'art et de pr?senter des recherches en cours ; les th?mes abord?s seront (liste non exhaustive) : - probl?mes de constitution des corpus oraux : choix des locuteurs et des situations, ?chantillonnage ?ventuel, conventions de transcription, probl?mes juridiques et ?thiques, etc. ; - techniques et outils informatiques : ?tiquetage grammatical, marquage prosodique, alignement avec le son, outils de concordance et de recherche, etc. ; - analyse linguistique : quels types d'analyse sont possibles sur les corpus oraux transcrits ? quelles sont les difficult?s et les limites ? quelles sont les cons?quences pour l'?tude grammaticale de la prise en consid?ration des corpus oraux ? etc. - domaines d'application : quelle est la demande sociale pour les corpus oraux (?tude de diff?rentes "variations", comme les enfants, les "pathologiques" et non pathologiques, les r?gions, le fran?ais de France et de l'ext?rieur) ? quelle est la demande technologique (reconnaissance vocale) ? quelle est la demande pour l'enseignement du fran?ais (langue premi?re et seconde) ? Les communications pourront ?galement relater des exp?riences particuli?res de constitution et d'exploitation de corpus oraux. Conf?rencier invit? ------------------- Michael McCarthy, Universit? de Nottingham "Spoken corpus design : speakers, contexts and language use" Michael McCarthy est professeur de linguistique appliqu?e ? l'Universit? de Nottingham et sp?cialiste des corpus d'anglais parl?. Il est l'un des cr?ateurs du corpus CANCODE (Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English), produit d'une collaboration entre l'Universit? de Notthingham et Cambridge University Press et comportant plusieurs millions de mots d'anglais parl?. Michael McCarthy a publi? de nombreux ouvrages tels que "Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers" (Cambridge University Press, 1991), "Language as Discourse" (avec R. A Carter, Longman, 1994), "Exploring Spoken English" (avec R. A Carter, Cambridge University Press, 1997), "Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics" (Cambridge University Press, 1998), "Exploring Grammar in Context" (avec R. Hughes et R. A Carter, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000) and "Issues in Applied Linguistics" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000). Soumission (modalit?s) --------------------- Un r?sum? de deux ? quatre pages doit ?tre envoy? avant le 31 mars 2002 par courrier ?lectronique, en format RTF ou TXT uniquement ? Jean V?ronis Les notifications d'acceptation seront envoy?es le 30 avril 2002. Pour plus d'informations sur l'ATALA et sur l'organisation des journ?es d'?tudes, consultez le site de l'ATALA ? l'adresse http//www.atala.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 1 16:07:53 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:07:53 +0100 Subject: Appel: INLG02 Natural Language Generation Conference Message-ID: Final Call for Papers: Second International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG2002) PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 14, 2002. Simultaneous submission to other conferences permissible. See below for details. Conference web site: http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/ The Second International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG2002) will be held July 1 to 3, 2002 at the Arden Conference Center in the Ramapo mountains near New York City, USA. Transportation to and from New York City will be provided. This conference continues the twenty-year tradition of ten biennial workshops and (in 2000) the First International Conference on natural language generation. The conference will precede ACL, which will be held July 7 to 12 in Philadelphia, a one hour train ride from New York City. For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished contributions to natural language generation are solicited. As always, the conference will be open to all submissions on all topics related to natural language generation. We are also encouraging submissions on two featured topics: natural language generation in speech-based systems and natural language generation in document summarization. There will be separate sessions and invited speakers on these two topics, and the program committee will include researchers from these areas who can contribute a unique perspective to research on generation. All submissions, whether on one of the featured topics or not, will be handled by the same program committee. A separate track will be offered for Student Papers. There will also be a separate demo track. The INLG2002 program committee invites papers describing original research on but not limited to the following topics: * Featured topic: Generation in speech-based systems, including: o Dialog management and utterance planning in dialog systems o Models of intonation in generation o Concept-to-speech generation o Difference between spoken and written language generation o Evaluation of generation in speech-based systems o Applications This topic does NOT include papers exclusively on speech synthesis; INLG2002 is not an appropriate venue for such papers. * Featured topic: Generation and document summarization, including: o Content selection and integration for summarization o Sentence selection and generation models of paraphrase and coherence o Evaluation o Applications * Multimodal and multimedia generation * Multilingual generation * Text planning, discourse models, argumentation strategies, content selection and organization * Sentence realization, formalisms and models of grammar, sentence aggregation, lexical choice * Architecture of generators * Knowledge acquisition and resources for generation and summarization * User-customized generation and summarization * Psychological modeling of discourse production * Learning methods for generation * Evaluation methodologies for generation * All applications of generation, including areas such as data summarization, web mining, knowledge management, and mobile computing We plan to hold all presentations in the plenary hall with no parallel tracks. There will be no separate workshops at the conference; however, there may be generation-related workshops at ACL. There will be an informal demo session, please contact Owen Rambow for details. Simultaneous submission of a paper to INLG 2002 and other conferences will be permitted, provided that it is clearly marked. However, papers presented at INLG 2002 can only appear in the INLG 2002 proceedings. Submission to the main session should describe completed work. Submission to the student session may describe work in progress. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deadlines The deadlines are coordinated with those for ACL as follows. Conference INLG ACL Paper Registration Deadline none January 25, 2002 Paper Submission Deadline February 14, 2002 February 1, 2002 Notification of Acceptance April 8, 2002 April 8, 2002 Camera ready Copies Due May 9, 2002 May 10, 2002 Conference July 2-3, 2002 July 7-12, 2002 Submission Procedure Submissions may be no more than 3,200 words in total length, exclusive of title page and references. Submissions should use the 2000 ACL latex style aclsub-style. All papers should be submitted in electronic form as PostScript, PDF or MS Word file. A secure web site for submitting papers will be available soon and there will be a link from the conference web site, http://inlg02.cs.columbia.edu/ . Program Committee * Owen Rambow, AT&T Labs -- Research (co-chair) * Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA (co-chair) * Inderjeet Mani, MITRE and Georgetown University (in charge of "Summarization" featured topic) * Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs -- Research (in charge of "Spoken Language Systems" featured topic) * Regina Barzilay, Columbia U., USA * Tilman Becker, DFKI, Germany * Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware, USA * Morena Danieli, Loquendo, Italy * Laurence Danlos, Universit'e Paris 7, France * Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA * Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University, Israel * Kevin Knight, ISI, USA * Emiel Krahmer, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands * Jon Oberlander, U. of Edinburgh, UK * Mick O'Donnell, U. of Edinburgh, UK * Drago Radev, U. of Michigan, USA * Ehud Reiter, U. of Aberdeen, UK * Norbert Reithinger, DFKI, Germany * Karen Sparck-Jones, U. of Cambridge, UK * Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany, USA * Nigel Ward, ATR, Japan * Ingrid Zuckerman, Monash U., Australia Student Session Program Committee * Noemie Elhadad, Columbia University (chair) Local Arrangements * Kathy McKeown For more information email Owen Rambow at rambow at research.att.com or check http://www.research.att.com/~rambow/inlg/inlg.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 1 16:08:00 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:08:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: 2emes Journees de la Linguistique de Corpus Message-ID: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS A brief summary in English follows. Our apologies for cross postings. 2emes Journees de la Linguistique de Corpus Les 2emes Journees de la linguistique de corpus auront lieu a Lorient les 12, 13 et 14 septembre 2002. Elles sont organisees par le Centre de Recherche en Litterature, Linguistique et Civilisation (CRELLIC - UBS Lorient) avec la colloboration de Valoria (UBS Vannes) et sont egalement soutenues les Departements LEA et LLCE de l'Universite de Bretagne Sud, l'Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA) et le jeune equipe Analyse Linguistique et Pratiques Langagieres (ALPL, Nantes). Comite d'Organisation Geoffrey Williams, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Jean Peeters, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Christophe Ropers, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Jean-Yves Antoine, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Vannes Comite Scientifique Pierre Arnaud, CRTT, Universite Lyon II. Claire Blanche-Benveniste, GARS, Universite d'Aix en Provence. Thierry Fontenelle. Microsoft, US et EURALEX. Syviane Granger. Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgique. Benoit Habert. Universite Paris X. Marie-Annick Morel.Universite Paris III. Francois Rastier. UMR 7114 CNRS-Paris X John Sinclair , Tuscan Word Centre, Italie. Wolfgang Teubert. Universite de Birmingham, Royaume Uni. Elena Tognini-Bonelli. Tuscan Word Centre Jean Veronis, Universite d'Aix en Provence Ces 2emes Journees de la Linguistique de Corpus visent a promouvoir le developpement de la linguistique de corpus en France en reunissant des chercheurs d'horizons divers s'interessant a l'utilisation de l'informatique pour l'analyse des faits de langues, notamment dans les domaines suivants : La lexicologie et lexicographie, mono~ et bilingues, la terminologie, la traductologie, la linguistique appliquee et la description linguistique, . Les journees prendront la forme de communications orales d'une vingtaine de minutes sur des travaux en cours. Il y aura egalement des communications affiches. Ceux desirant communiquer doivent envoyer un resume d'une page maximum accompagne d'une page de renseignements pratiques comprenant : le mode de communication souhaite, le nom, l'affiliation, le telephone, l'adresse postale et electronique, a l'adresse ci-dessous : Journee Linguistique de corpus Geoffrey Williams Departement LEA U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay BP 92116 56321 LORIENT Cedex ou par courrier electronique a Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr Les resumes doivent etre en Times 12 avec interligne simple et en format Word RTF, ASCII, ou HTML DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : 31 mai 2002 This conference aims to bring together researchers working with electronic corpora and lexical resources in France or in the French Language. It is aimed principally at those working in teaching, translating, lexicography and applied linguistics. The language of the workshop will be French. 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The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, posters, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are English and French. This conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures , including theoretical aspects. Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. In addition, there is a growing number of software systems designed to manipulate automata, regular expressions, grammars, and related structures; examples include AGL, AMORE, Automate, FADELA, FinITE, FireLite, FLAP, FSM, Grail, INR, Intex, MONA and Turing's World. The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving. ********** TOPICS ********** We solicit papers and demos on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including theoretical aspects, as but not limited to: o Bioinformatics and automata o Complexity of automata operations o Compilers and automata o Computer-aided verification and automata o Concurrency and automata o Data structure design for automata o Data and image compression and automata o Design and architecture of automata software o Digital libraries and automata o Document engineering and automata o Editors, environments and automata o Experimental studies and practical experiences o Industrial applications and automata o Natural language processing and automata o Networking and automata o New algorithms for manipulating automata o Object-Oriented Modeling and automata o Pattern-matching and automata o Speech and speaker recognition and automata o Structured and semi-structured documents and automata o Symbolic manipulation environments for automata o Teaching and automata o Text processing and automata o Techniques for graphical display of automata o VLSI and automata o Viruses, related phenomena and automata o World-wide web and automata ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL, 5, 2002 <---- Notification to authors: 5/17/2002 Pre-proceedings version due: 5/31/2002 Conference : 7/3-6/2002 Proceedings version due: 9/27/2002 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, using 11-point font, including figures, examples and references. The format that MUST be used is the LNCS one, available on the Springer web site: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before 4/5/2002. Authors should send their submission as a ps or pdf file attached to an e-mail, containing the following information: TO: ciaa2002 at univ-tours.fr FROM: one of the authors SUBJECT: CIAA submission ATTACH: ps or pdf file BODY: submission title and author's names Only in case electronic submission is not possible, 4 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee before 4/5/2002, at the following address: CIAA 2002 E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work and should provide sufficient details to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance to the conference. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists in the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria: o Importance and originality of the paper o Accuracy of the scientific and technical content o Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work o Layout and clarity of the paper o Relevance to the topics of the conference ********** DEMOS ********** We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to demonstrate their software should submit according to the same rules as of paper submission, BUT must not exceed 6 pages. ********** POSTERS ********** One specific session for posters (85 x 120 cm) will be scheduled. Poster submission follows the same rules as of paper submission, BUT must not exceed 6 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Paper presentations will be of a 20 minutes duration, followed by 10 minutes dedicated to answering questions. It will be possible to use an overhead projector or a video-projector. ********** PROCEEDINGS ********** Accepted papers will be published in the pre-proceedings and in the proceedings of the conference. We will distribute the pre-proceedings to the participants at the conference and we will send the proceedings as soon as they are printed. We expect the proceedings to appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series after the conference. Today available: LNCS 1260 (WIA'96), LNCS 1436 (WIA'97), LNCS 1660 (WIA'98) and LNCS 2088 (CIAA?2000). Extended versions of selected papers from the proceedings of the conference series are usually retained for publication in special issues of either Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) or International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), alternating each year. Today available: TCS 231 (WIA'97) and TCS 269 (WIA'98). The CIAA 2002 special issue will appear in IJFCS. ********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********** Salah A?t-Mokhtar, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France Marie-Pierre B?al, Universit? de Marne-la-Vall?e, France Bernard Boigelot, Universit? de Li?ge, Belgium Jean-Marc Champarnaud, Universit? de Rouen, France Maxime Crochemore, Universit? de Marne-la-Vall?e, France G?rard Duchamp, Universit? de Rouen, France Jacques Farr?, CNRS, Universit? de Nice, France Jos? Fortes G?lvez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Oscar Ibarra, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Nils Klarlund, AT&T Labs-Research, New-York, USA Tomasz Kowaltowski, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Igor Litovsky, Universit? de Nice, France Carlos Mart?n-Vide, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Denis Maurel, Universit? de Tours, France Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs-Research, New-York, USA Jean-Eric Pin, CNRS, Universit? Paris 7, France Kai Salomaa, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Helmut Seidl, Universit?t Trier, Germany Sheng Yu, University of Western Ontario, Canada ********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********** B?atrice Bouchou, LI Jean-Marc Champarnaud, LIFAR Michel Crucianu, LI Nathalie Friburger, LI Denis Maurel, LI ********** PREVIOUS CONFERENCES ********** o CIAA 2001 website: http://www.cs.up.ac.za/~watson/ciaa/ o CIAA 2000 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 o WIA'99 website: http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wia99/ o WIA'98 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia98.html o WIA'97 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia97.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 14 14:37:42 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:37:42 +0100 Subject: Publications: lettre d'information Euromap Technologies de la Langue Message-ID: [English version below] La lettre d'information Euromap Technologies de la Langue Paris, f?vrier 2002 Nous sommes heureux de annoncer que le num?ro du mois de f?vrier de la lettre d'information Euromap TL est disponible en fran?ais. Tous les mois nous vous tiendrons au courant des derniers d?veloppements, ?v?nements, appels communautaires et autres informations relatives ? l'ing?nierie linguistique en Europe. Les num?ros de notre lettre d'information sont envoy?s aux abonn?s uniquement. Pour vous abonner et recevoir notre lettre d'information contactez: euromap at elda.fr Pour vous abonner ? la version anglaise cliquez sur: http://www.hltcentral.org/subscribe.html Pour acc?der ? la version anglaise en HTML cliquez sur : http://www.hltcentral.org/newsletter ******************************* French edition of Euromap Language Technologies newsletter Paris, February 2002 We are pleased to announce you that the latest Euromap LT French edition is now available. Euromap Language Technologies newsletter brings you all the latest developments in the field of Human Language Technologies from Europe and beyond, and keep you abreast of upcoming events, EC Research calls and other useful information. 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To subscribe to the English edition, please go to: http://www.hltcentral.org/subscribe.html A browsable HTML version of this newsletter is also available from: http://www.hltcentral.org/newsletter ************************************************************************* Mahtab Nikkhou mailto:euromap at elda.fr Ing?nieur d'?tudes en ressources linguistiques ELDA - L'Agence Europ?enne de Distribution de Ressources Linguistiques 55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 Paris - France T?l.:+33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax:+33 1 43 13 33 30 WWW: http://www.elda.fr/fr/proj/euromap.html Site Central Euromap : http://www.hltcentral.org/euromap ************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 14 14:38:49 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:38:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC 2002 : "Annotation Standards for Temporal Information in Natural Language" Message-ID: Workshop on "Annotation Standards for Temporal Information in Natural Language" LREC 2002 27th May 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain Second Call for papers Workshop scope and aims: ------------------------ The ability to identify and analyse temporal information is important for a variety of natural language applications, such as information extraction, question answering, and multi-document summarisation. Nevertheless, this area of research has been relatively unexplored. It became evident during an ACL 2001 workshop on temporal and spatial information processing that that some research institutions have started to work on different aspects of temporal information, but no consensus has been achieved yet on what and how temporal information should be identified in text. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers to present their work in this field and to discuss future developments such as building shared resources, e.g. temporally annotated corpora. It is timely to coordinate the effort being undertaken in the community at this stage of research into temporal information in text. Topics of interest include: --------------------------- - How are times referred to in text? - How are events temporally positioned? - How are events related to each other? - What is the relative role of tense/aspect vs. explicit time references? - What is the chronological structure of different types of text? (for example - scientific reports vs. fiction vs. newswire texts) - resolution of deictic/partial/vague/relative time expressions - graphical representations of the temporal order of events - ontologies for temporal information, e.g. times and events - reasoning with/about temporal information - proposals for annotating temporal information and identifying appropriate - corpora - evaluation of metrics for temporal annotation and evaluation of temporal annotation schemes - tools for annotation application areas include: -------------------------- - information extraction - question answering - planning - multi-document summarisation Authors whose work is directed at annotation schemes are encouraged to address (in their full paper) the example texts provided at http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~andrea/lrec2002/exampleTexts.html - this is not obligatory. Workshop agenda: ---------------- The half-day workshop will consist of paper presentations, a panel session, and an open discussion session. We hope to arrange a follow-up meeting outside the workshop format to discuss future development and plans for possible collaborations. Organisers: ----------- Bill Black, UMIST, UK Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK Graham Katz, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Andrea Setzer, University of Sheffield, UK George Wilson, the MITRE Corporation, USA Program committee: ------------------ Bill Black, UMIST, UK Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK Graham Katz, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Inderjeet Mani, the MITRE Corporation and Georgetown University, USA Allan Ramsay, UMIST, UK James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA Frank Schilder, University of Hamburg, Germany Andrea Setzer, University of Sheffield, UK Beth Sundheim, SPAWAR Systems Center, USA Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh, UK George Wilson, the MITRE Corporation, USA Important dates: ---------------- Deadline for submission of abstracts: 18/02/2002 Notification of acceptance: 11/03/2002 Camera-ready final copy for proceedings: 15/04/2002 Workshop: 27/05/2002 Submission: ----------- Abstracts for workshop contributions should not exceed two A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submission is to be sent by email, preferably in Postscript or PDF format, to Andrea Setzer (andrea at dcs.shef.ac.uk) by the 18th February 2002. Formatting instructions for the final full version of papers will be sent to authors after notification of acceptance. Workshop Registration Fees: --------------------------- The registration fees for the workshop are: If you are not attending LREC: 140 EURO If you are attending LREC: 90 Euro Registration will be handled by the LREC Secretariat. All attendees will receive a copy of the workshop proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 14 14:41:10 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:41:10 +0100 Subject: Appel: Cinquième Colloque Chronos (2e appel) Message-ID: (english version below) second appel aux communications Cinqui?me Colloque Chronos Conf?rence internationale sur le temps, l'aspect et la modalit? Groningen, Pays-Bas 19 -21 juin 2002 Conf?renciers invit?s: Andr?e Borillo (Toulouse), Carlota Smith (Austin), Rolf Thieroff (Bonn), Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht) Comit? d'organisation: Bram ten Cate, Bob de Jonge, Alice ter Meulen, Arie Molendijk, Co Vet. Envoyez le r?sum? de votre communication (demie page A4) avant le 15 mars 2002 ? Co Vet (e-mail: J.P.Vet at let.rug.nl) Informations et inscription: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~deJonge/invest/chronos/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- second call for papers Fifth Chronos Colloquium International conference on tense, aspect and modality Groningen, Netherlands, June 19 -21 2002 Keynote speakers: Andr?e Borillo (Toulouse), Carlota Smith (Austin), Rolf Thieroff (Bonn), Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht) Organizing committee: Bram ten Cate, Bob de Jonge, Alice ter Meulen, Arie Molendijk, Co Vet. Send your abstract (a half page A4) before March 15 2002 to Co Vet (e-mail: J.P.Vet at let.rug.nl) Informations and registration: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~deJonge/invest/chronos/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 14 14:50:14 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:50:14 +0100 Subject: Jobs: a propos de l'offre d'emploi du Message-ID: Bonjour, Il m'a semble utile de diffuser le message, que vous trouverez ci-dessous, qui concerne l'offre d'emploi diffusee sur LN le 7 f?vrier, intitulee: linguist - Asian, Mid.Eastern, Slavic languages Alexis Nasr Le message est le suivant : To all who received Mr. Marshall's e-mail regarding linguist jobs: Before you sit for a polygraph "test" for this job, you need to know that these "tests" depend on the polygrapher lying to and deceiving you about the nature of the procedure (and on your ignorance and fear). The polygraph "test" is a pseudoscientific fraud designed to elicit admissions from naive and gullible subjects, and while it has an inherent bias against the truthful, it can also be easily defeated by deceptive subjects through the use of simple countermeasures that polygraphers cannot detect (despite their unsubstantiated claims to the contrary). Download AntiPolygraph.org's free book, The Lie Behind the Lie Detector, to learn the truth about polygraphy that the agencies which rely on it don't want you to know: http://antipolygraph.org/pubs.shtml And visit the AntiPolygraph.org message board for discussion of polygraph issues: http://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl Sincerely, George W. Maschke AntiPolygraph.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Thu Feb 14 14:31:12 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:31:12 +0100 Subject: R: References sur la generation automatique de tests de langues Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:22:58 +0000 From: Ruslan Mitkov Message-Id: <4.1.20020116172104.0091e5b0 at mail.wlv.ac.uk> Hello, We have done work on automatic generation of multiple-choice tests (which involves automatic generation of the test stem + correct answer + distractors) in general but not language testing in particular. Please let me know if you would like me to email me additional info Ruslan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Feb 15 09:58:20 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:58:20 +0100 Subject: Q: Recherche de modules francais pour Intex Message-ID: Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:15:24 +0100 From: "Ann Pourchot" Message-Id: Bonjour, je suis ?tudiante en ma?trise, je dois travailler sur Intex. J'ai t?l?charg? la version 4.23e d'intex et je recherche les modules fran?ais. Merci. Mlle Pourchot Ann ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:47:36 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:47:36 +0100 Subject: Conf: Semantics for Info Ret. and Filtering : Extension de la date limite Message-ID: ----- Workshop call for papers in english bellow ----- Veuillez nous excuser pour les r?ceptions multiples ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extension de la date limite de soumission au 6 mars 2002 Appel ? contributions pour l'atelier Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering State of the Art and Future Research Las Palmas, Iles Canaries - Espagne 2 juin 2002 En conjonction avec la Troisi?me conf?rence internationale LREC (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference) (LREC 2002) Le but de cette conf?rence est de faire se rencontrer des chercheurs dans le domaine de la recherche d'informations et, plus particuli?rement des chercheurs concern?s par l'utilit? d'informations s?mantiques (provenant de ressources s?mantiques ou de traitements linguistiques) pour affiner les requ?tes. Buts et th?mes de l'atelier --------------------------- Plusieurs exp?riences ont ?t? conduites depuis les 15 derni?res ann?es, en utilisant diverses ressources et techniques (thesaurus, listes de synonymes, d?sambigu?sation s?mantique, etc.) afin d'am?liorer le traitement des requ?tes. N?anmoins, les conclusions tir?es de ces exp?riences sont tr?s diff?rentes de l'une ? l'autre. Certains r?sultats ont conduit ? affirmer que l'utilisation de connaissances s?mantiques n'apporte rien, voire d?grade les r?sultats tandis que d'autres am?nent la conclusion que des connaissances s?mantiques augmentent significativement les performances des syst?mes de recherche d'information. Certaines questions se posent donc : - Pourquoi les conclusions sont-elles si diff?rentes ? - La divergence de r?sultat provient-elle d'une diff?rence de m?thodologie ? - Cette divergence provient-elle d'une diff?rence dans les ressources utilis?es ? - Quelles sont les ressources les plus ad?quates pour ce genre de travaux ? - Les r?sultats obtenus ? partir de ressources cr??es manuellement sont-ils tr?s diff?rents de ceux obtenus avec des ressources extraites automatiquement ? - Quel est l'apport de ressources sp?cialis?es dans un domaine ? - Les cadres d'?valuation actuels (par exemple TREC) sont-ils appropri?s pour l'?valuation de ces r?sultats ? Ces questions sont fondamentales, non seulement pour les travaux en recherche documentaire mais aussi pour l'extraction d'informations, la r?ponse aux questions, le filtrage, etc. Leur importance est encore plus critique pour des applications multilingues o?, par exemple, la question de la d?sambigu?sation avant traduction est fondamentale. Le but de cet atelier est de faire se rencontrer des chercheurs dans le domaine de la recherche d'information et, plus particuli?rement, des chercheurs int?ress?s par l'utilisation de connaissances et de traitements s?mantiques pour l'am?lioration du traitement des requ?tes. L'atelier fournira l'occasion, pour les participants, de pr?senter leur point de vue. Une table ronde suivra et permettra aux conf?renciers de faire le point sur l'?tat de l'art, les r?sultats pass?s et en cours et les raisons qui peuvent expliquer les consid?rables diff?rences que l'on constate dans les conclusions des diff?rentes exp?riences. Enfin, ils tenteront d'identifier les directions ? prendre pour les recherches futures. ?tant donn? le rapport qui existe entre la recherche d'information et la d?sambigu?sation s?mantique, une partie de l'atelier sera consacr?e ? un panel sur Senseval et l'?valuation des syst?mes de d?sambigu?sation s?mantique (http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/). Le but de ce panel est d'ouvrir la discussion sur les objectifs et principaux de Senseval-3, le prochain exercice d'?valuation. Le panel r?sumera la m?thodologie et les r?sultats de Senseval-2 et consid?rera l'?tat actuel de la d?sambigu?sation s?mantique. Les panelistes aborderont les questions suivantes : - La m?thode d'?valuation de Senseval-2 est-elle ad?quate ? - Les ressources qui sont cr??es actuellement correspondent-elles aux syst?mes de d?sambigu?sation r?ellement utilis?s ? - Faut-il (et est-il possible de) commencer une t?che d'?valuation en fonction de l'application ? Dates importantes ----------------- - limite de soumission des articles : 6 mars 2002 - notification d'acceptation ou de rejet : 27 mars 2002 - limite de r?ception des papiers pr?ts ? ?tre imprim?s : 8 avril 2002 - Atelier : 2 juin 2002 Sujets ------ Des papiers sont demand?s sur un ou plusieurs des sujets suivants (liste non exhaustive) et feront ?tat de l'utilisation de connaissances s?mantiques appliqu?es ? la gestion automatique de l'information : - Enrichissement de requ?te - D?sambigu?sation s?mantique - Classification th?matique - Comparaison de performances selon la ressource ou les techniques utilis?es - Extraction automatique de ressources ? partir de corpus - Comparaison de ressources cr??es automatiquement ou manuellement - M?thodologies et ressources pour l'?valuation - Recherche documentaire interlingue - Structure et contr?le de la qualit? des ressources - Comparaison des ressources g?n?rales et sp?cialis?es - Utilisation de la structure des documents (XML, RDF, etc.) D?tails de soumission --------------------- Les papiers ne devront pas exc?der 7 pages. Les soumissions doivent ?tre envoy?es par courrier ?lectronique ? loupy at sinequa.com. Merci d'indiquer "LREC2002 workshop paper submission" en sujet. Format accept?s : Postscript (grandement pr?f?r?), PDF ou RTF. Aucune information concernant les auteurs ne devra appara?tre dans la soumission. Merci de joindre un fichier s?par? contenant les informations suivantes : le titre qui sera indiqu? dans le programme de l'atelier ; nom et affiliation de chacun des auteurs ; adresse compl?te du premier auteur (ou de la personne ? contacter) en incluant t?l?phone, fax, adresse ?lectronique, ?ventuellement URL. Le format de r?daction est fourni ? l'adresse http://www.langnat.com/usirf. Il s'agit d'un format provisoire qui sera probablement modifi? pour la version finale. La date limite de soumission est le 15 f?vrier 2002. Inscriptions ------------ Les frais d'inscription pour l'atelier sont de : - 90 euros pour les personnes participant ? la conf?rence LREC - 140 euros pour les personnes qui n'y participent pas Ces frais incluent deux pauses caf? et les actes de l'atelier. La participation ? l'atelier est limit?e par le nombre de personnes pr?sentes. Les requ?tes seront trait?es sur la base du premier arriv?, premier servi. Les inscriptions sont g?r?es par le secr?tariat de la conf?rence LREC. Venue ----- L'atelier se tiendra au Palacio de Congreso ? Las Palmas aux Canaries o? se d?roulera la conf?rence principale LREC. Pour plus d'informations, merci de se r?f?rer au site de LREC : http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html Informations sur la conf?rence ------------------------------ Informations g?n?rales sur LREC : http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html Les informations concernant la venue, Las Palmas et les ?les Canaries en g?n?ral peuvent ?tre obtenues aupr?s de : Octavio Grondonna Morales Viajes El Corte Ingl?s Avda. Juan XXIII, 9 35004 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria t?l : +34 928 292402 fax : +34 928 291876 m?l : commercial_lpa at viajeseci.es Comit? de programme ------------------- - Marc El-B?ze, Universit? d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France - Christian Fluhr, CEA, France - Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia, Espagne - Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada - Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA - Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton, Royaume Uni - Claude de Loupy, Sinequa, France - Christian Marest, Mediapps, France - Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI, France - Piek Vossen, Irion Technologies, Les Pays-Bas - Phil Edmonds, Sharp Laboratories of Europe LTD, Royaume Uni Personne ? contacter -------------------- Claude de Loupy Sinequa 51-59 rue Ledru-Rollin 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France t?l : +33 1 49 87 06 00 / fax : +33 1 49 87 06 01 m?l : loupy at sinequa.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop call for papers Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering State of the Art and Future Research Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain 2nd of June 2002 Held in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002) The goal of this full day workshop is to bring together researchers in the domain of information retrieval, and in particular, researchers concerned by the utility of enhancing queries with semantic information gleaned from languages resources and processes. Workshop scope and aims ----------------------- Several experiments have been carried out in the last 15 years investigating the use of various resources and techniques (e.g., thesauri, synonyms, word sense disambiguation, etc.) to help refine or enhance queries. However, the conclusions drawn on the basis of these experiments vary widely. Results of some studies have led to the conclusion that semantic information serves no purpose and even degrades results, while others have concluded that the use of semantic information drawn from external resources significantly increases the performance of retrieval software. At this point, several question arise: - Why do these conclusions vary so widely? - Is the divergence a result of differences in methodology? - Is the divergence a result of a difference in resources? What are the most suitable resources? Do results using manually constructed resources differ in significant ways from results using automatically extracted information? - What is the contribution of specialized resources? - Are present frameworks for evaluation (e.g., TREC) appropriate for evaluation of results?. These questions are fundamental not only to research in document retrieval, but also for information searching, question answering, filtering, etc. Their importance is even more acute for multilingual applications, where, for instance, the question of whether to disambiguate before translating is fundamental. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the domain of document retrieval, and in particular, researchers on both sides of the question of the utility of enhancing queries with semantic information gleaned from languages resources and processes. The workshop will provide a forum for presentation of the different points of view, followed by a roundtable in which the participants will assess the state of the art, consider the results of past and on-going work and the possible reasons for the considerable differences in their conclusions. Ultimately, they will attempt to identify future directions for research. In view of the relevance of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) to information retrieval, a part of the workshop will be dedicated to a panel on Senseval and WSD evaluation (http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/). The purpose of the panel is to open the discussion on the objectives and principles of Senseval-3, the next evaluation exercise for WSD systems. The panel will summarize the methodology and results of Senseval-2 and consider the current state of WSD. Panelists will speak about the following topics: Is the Senseval-2 method of evaluation adequate? Are we building the right kind of lexical resources for real sense disambiguation systems? Should we (and is it possible to) start an application-specific evaluation track? Important dates --------------- - Paper submission deadline: March, 6th 2002 - Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 27th, 2002 - Camera ready papers due: April 8th, 2002 - Workshop: June 2nd, 2002 Topics ------ Papers are requested that deal with one or more of the following topics (this is not an exhaustive list), and which make use of semantics applied to automatic information management: - Query enrichment - Semantic disambiguation - Thematic clustering - Performance comparison according to the resources or techniques used - Automatic construction of resources from corpora - Comparisons of manually and automatically created resources - Methodology and resources for evaluation - Interlingual document retrieval - Structure and quality control of resources - Comparison of general resources and specialized resources - Use of document structure (XML, RDF, etc.) Submission Details ------------------ Papers should not exceed 7 pages. Submission must be sent by ELECTRONIC mail to loupy at sinequa.com. Please write "LREC2002 workshop paper submission" in the subject line. Accepted formats: Postscript (strongly preferred), PDF or RTF. No information about author(s) should appear in the submission paper. Please send the following information in a separate file: the title to be printed in the programme of the Workshop; names and affiliations of the authors; the full address of the first author (or a contact person), including phone, fax, email, URL. Formatting guidelines are provided at http://www.langnat.com/usirf. The format described here may be modified for the final version. Submissions must be received no later than February 15th 2002. Registration ------------ The registration fee for the workshop is 90 Euro if you are attending LREC 140 Euro if you are NOT attending LREC The fee includes two coffee breaks and the workshop proceedings. Participation in the workshop is limited by the venue. Requests for participation will be processed on a first come first served basis. Registration is handled by the LREC Secretariat. Venue ----- The workshop will take place at the Palacio de Congreso de Canarias, where the main LREC Conference will be held. For more information, please refer to the LREC website : http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html Conference Information ---------------------- General information on LREC: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html Information on travel, accommodation and general information on Las Palmas and the Canary Islands can be obtained from: Octavio Grondonna Morales Viajes El Corte Ingl?s Avda. Juan XXIII, 9 35004 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Tel: +34 928 292402 Fax: +34 928 291876 E-mail: commercial_lpa at viajeseci.es Program Committee ----------------- - Marc El-B?ze, Universit? d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France - Christian Fluhr, CEA, France - Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia, Spain - Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada - Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA - Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton, United Kingdom - Claude de Loupy, Sinequa, France - Christian Marest, Mediapps, France - Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI, France - Piek Vossen, Irion Technologies, The Netherlands - Phil Edmonds, Sharp Laboratories of Europe LTD, United Kingdom Contact Person -------------- Claude de Loupy Sinequa 51-59 rue Ledru-Rollin 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France Tel: +33 1 49 87 06 00 / Fax: +33 1 49 87 06 01 email: loupy at sinequa.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:47:43 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:47:43 +0100 Subject: Conf: ScaNaLU 2002 *** EXTENDED DEADLINE *** Message-ID: *** EXTENDED DEADLINE *** Call for Papers First International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding ScaNaLU 2002 May 23-24 2002, Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, Germany http://www.eml.org/SCANALU Endorsed by SIGSEM (ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics) Invited Speakers: James Allen, Univ. of Rochester, USA Guenther Goerz, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany The need for systems that can understand and generate natural language is growing rapidly. Current systems for natural language understanding (NLU) are narrow, brittle, and costly. The major barrier to scalable NLU systems has been the vast amount of linguistic and world knowledge needed. But there is now significant progress in compiling the required knowledge, using manual, statistical and hybrid techniques. For this workshop, we assume that the resources for scalable NLU will become available and focus on the conceptual and computational frameworks that will form the foundation for this effort. The symposium aims at bringing together researchers involved in applying semantic analysis to NLU. The goal is to find common ground and exchange ideas in the fields of ontology, semantics, pragmatics, etc. in order to strengthen individual approaches and combine modeling efforts. The workshop will take place in the historical Villa Bosch in Heidelberg, Germany, also home of the European Media Laboratory and the Klaus Tschira Foundation. Both institutions are sponsoring ScaNaLU 2002. Scope/Audience In the ScaNaLU 2002 workshop we intend to bring together researchers working in various sub-fields of natural language understanding with an interest in building scalable systems. The scope of interest includes but is not limited to: - Integrating hybrid approaches - Enhancing natural language understanding through multi-modal input - Natural Language Generation: From sentences to extended discourse - Integration of world knowledge into NLU systems - Semantic formalisms for scalable NLU - Representation standards - Integration of extra-linguistic and pragmatic contexts - (Semi-)automatic acquisition of linguistic and world knowledge - Semantic and pragmatic phenomena (metonymy, metaphor, degree expressions, ...) - Applications requiring deep semantic analysis Workshop format/Schedule The workshop will interleave technical presentations with extensive time for discussion of the presented work. Before the workshop we will assign a commentator for each accepted presentation from the attendees, in order to kick off a lively discussion. Altogether the format will consist of four elements: - Paper presentations with commentators and discussion - Invited talk(s) - Application and device demonstrations with discussion - Panel discussion We will accept paper submissions for both technical presentations and demonstrations. We plan to be reasonably selective in order to have a high quality workshop. The papers will be published in workshop proceedings and we will forward the best ones to an appropriate scientific journal. Submissions Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files available at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/acl02/style/. Deadline for paper submissions is February 22, 2002. Papers must be submitted electronically to: scanalu at eml.villa-bosch.de. They should be submitted in PDF format. Important dates: March 01, 2002: Extended Deadline for WS submissions March 12, 2002: Notification of acceptance to authors May 2, 2002: Deadline for camera-ready workshop notes and other information May 23-24, 2002: ScaNaLU 2002 workshop in Heidelberg Organizers: Michael Strube, EML, Germany Jerome Feldman, ICSI, Berkeley Rainer Malaka, EML, Germany Tilman Becker, DFKI, Germany Program Committee (confirmed): Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Germany James Allen, Univ. of Rochester, USA Harry Bunt, Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands Jaime Carbonell, CMU, USA Claire Gardent, CNRS, Nancy, France Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands Christopher Manning, Stanford Univ., USA Katja Markert, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Srini Narayanan, SRI, USA Martha Palmer, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA Massimo Poesio, Univ. of Essex, UK Robert Porzel, EML, Germany Uwe Reyle, Univ. of Stuttgart/EML, Germany Bonnie Webber, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:47:52 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:47:52 +0100 Subject: Job: Computational Linguistist at Joint Research Centre of the EC (Italy) Message-ID: The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has an opening for a one-year position (auxiliary agent), starting approximately in May 2002. The applicant will contribute to Language Technology projects at the JRC-Ispra site near the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy. The candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary and international team of scientists and developers and will mainly contribute to two projects. The first one is concerned with the automatic assignment of keywords from a multilingual thesaurus to text, using statistical methods and a manually indexed text collection. The second project has the aim of gathering potentially user-relevant documents from the internet and to analyse, classify and store them. The ideal candidate is independent, has a practical approach and knows how to discover, use, integrate and optimise various tools. Requirements: - Citizenship of a EU country - Working knowledge of English, French or Italian - Degree in Computational Linguistics or related areas - Programming experience The candidate should have good skills in several of the following areas: - PERL programming - Programming in Java, C++, etc. - Statistics for automatic classification, clustering and similar applications - Experience of working with large corpora or data collections - Experience with applications such as indexing, search engines, etc. - Experience with multilingual and cross-lingual NLP applications - Knowledge of several EU and Eastern-European languages - Web technology, CGI, Apache, HTML, XML - Relational databases (Oracle, MySQL), SQL - Windows NT and UNIX - Technology overview and report writing Remuneration depends on age, family status, experience and current residence. The salary for a single person currently residing outside Italy is 3.000 Euro per month net or more (after taxes). We offer interesting work in an expanding team and in an attractive setting. The JRC employs altogether 2400 staff from many different countries. 1800 of these work at the Ispra site in Northern Italy, about 60 km West of the city of Milan. If you have questions, please have a look at the web site http://www.jrc.it/langtech and contact Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it). If you are interested, please send your application before Sunday 3 March 2002. Electronic applications are preferred. Dr. Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it) European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.it/langtech/) Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) Cybersecurity and New Technologies for Combating Fraud Unit (CSCF) T.P. 361 I - 21020 Ispra (VA) Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271 Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:47:59 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:47:59 +0100 Subject: Conf: TermAcq 2002 (DEADLINE EXTENDED to the 21st of Feb., 2002) Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE EXTENDED to the 21st of Feb., 2002) Acquiring, Structuring and Evaluating Terminologies (TermAcq 2002) 28th May 2002 Workshop held in conjunction with the LREC 2002 conference Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain http://www.lrec-conf.org ====================================================== Workshop motivation and aims - ------------------ Among other Language Resources, terminologies play a major role since large ranges of industrial applications in an IST context require them. Until recently, the priority was to make terminological data describing the main scientific and technological fields available in sufficient quantities in machine-readable form. Hence, the quantitative criterion used to prevail over the quality issues. Understandably, Human Language Technologies had to experience the complexity of collecting and building monolingual and multilingual LR before shifting from that earlier priority. On the other hand, HLT had to build NLP tools mature enough to be worth integrating in language and knowledge engineering methods. Research in computational terminology, first focused on term identification and extraction, is now also concerned with structuring the lists of terms into terminological networks. Experience in building LR and the availability of terminological tools makes it possible to reconsider the whole process of LR building. These tools have become mature enough to be worth integrating in language and knowledge engineering methods. Available results now call for discussion with respect to the question of evaluating resources and for comparison with results obtained with different approaches. This half-day session aims at drawing an overall picture of the results and remaining issues dealing with the whole process of terminology acquisition and its evaluation. Discussions will be favored among the participants. This workshop will provide an opportunity to meet and discuss with various other "players" in the field. Topics of interest - --------- Technical and theoretical issues to be discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Methods and tools designed to assist terminological work; * Terminology structuring; * Monolingual vs. multilingual terminology; * Corpus-driven multilingual terminology; * Methodological aspects of evaluation in computational terminology; * Evaluation of terminological tools results; * Evaluation of terminological tools as part of a co-operative process; Important dates - -------- Deadline for workshop abstract submission 15th of February 2002 Notification of acceptance 8th of March 2002 Final version of paper for workshop proceedings 5th of April 2002 Workshop 28th of May 2002 Submissions - ------ Papers should be research or position papers connected to the topics of the workshop. Accepted submissions will give rise to oral presentation at the workshop. So as to favor the discussion, each speaker will be asked to answer a set of a few but challenging questions. Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Abstracts (maximum 1,000 words, plain-text format) should be sent to: Name: Adeline Nazarenko Email: nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Those who wish to attend without offering a paper are asked to briefly motivate their interest and may send a brief position paper to contribute to the discussions. These contributions will be appended to the workshop proceedings. The final version of the accepted papers should not be longer than 4,000 words or 10 A4 pages. Instructions for formatting and presentation of the final version will be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance. Organising committee - ------------ Tony Bryant University of Leeds, United Kingdom A.Bryant at lmu.ac.uk Adeline Nazarenko LIPN, Universit? de Paris-Nord & CNRS, France nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Monique Slodzian CRIM, INaLCO, France Monique.Slodzian at inalco.fr Program committee - ----------- Roberto Basili (Univ. Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy) Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MAryland,USA) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS, France) Tony Bryant (Univ. of Leeds, United Kingdom Theresa Cabr? (IULA-UPF, Barcelona, Spain) Farid Cerbah (Dassault, France) B?atrice Daille (IRIN, Univ. Nantes, France) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS, France) Natalia Grabar (AP-HP & INaLCO, France) Thierry Hamon (LIPN, Univ. Paris-Nord, France) John Humbley (Univ. Paris 7, France) Kyo Kageura (NII, Japan) Marie-Claude L'Homme (Univ. Montr?al, Canada) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, Univ. Paris-Nord, France) Jennifer Pearson (UNESCO, Paris, France) Monique Slodzian (CRIM, INALCO, Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Univ. Paris 6, France) Workshop registration - ------------ The registration fee for the workshop is: If you are not attending LREC: 70 EURO If you are attending LREC: 45 EURO The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings of the attended workshop, coffee-breaks and refreshments. -- Adeline NAZARENKO Tel. 33 - 01 49 40 40 89 LIPN - CNRS UMR 7030 Fax. 33 - 01 48 26 07 12 Universite de Paris-Nord Email nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr 93430 Villetaneuse France http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~nazarenko/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:48:09 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:48:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: revue LEXICOMETRICA : ALIGNEMENT LEXICAL DANS LES CORPUS MULTILINGUES Message-ID: Appel a communications ALIGNEMENT LEXICAL DANS LES CORPUS MULTILINGUES Numero thematique de la revue electronique LEXICOMETRICA http://www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/lexicometrica/ coordonne par Jean Veronis (Universite de Provence) La revue LEXICOMETRICA s'adresse aux chercheurs, aux etudiants, aux professionnels de la communication et de la fouille de donnees textuelles... interesses par les travaux theoriques et pratiques menes dans les domaines suivants : lexicometrie / statistique textuelle, linguistiques de corpus, extraction d'informations a partir de corpus de texte, acquisition de connaissances... Elle est publiee sur Internet et rassemble des articles de recherche ou des comptes-rendus d'experiences. Assiste d'un reseau de correspondants, son comite de redaction selectionne les articles a paraitre. Un sommaire a double entree permet d'acceder aux articles a la fois par date de parution et par theme. THEME DU NUMERO De nombreux travaux ont montre l'utilite des corpus paralleles (composes de textes accompagnes leur traduction) pour de multiples applications: lexicographie, terminologie, traduction automatique, recherche d'informations, enseignement des langues, etc. [voir un panorama dans Veronis (2000)]. L'exploitation de ces corpus passe par leur ?alignement?, c'est-a-dire la mise en correspondance d'unites de differents types entre les textes et les traductions. Une recente campagne d'evaluation (ARCADE) a montre que l'alignement des phrases etait desormais une technique bien maitrisee. En revanche, l'alignement lexical, c'est-a-dire la mise en correspondance de mots et locutions entre les deux langues, reste tres largement a ameliorer. Le present numero special de la revue LEXICOMETRICA accueillera des articles sur les techniques et problemes theoriques de l'alignement lexical, aussi bien dans les corpus paralleles que dans les corpus comparables, c'est-a-dire composes de textes traitant des memes themes dans plusieurs langues sans etre des traductions. Reference Veronis, J. (Ed.). (2000). Parallel Text Processing: Alignment and use of translation corpora. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. SOUMISSION DES ARTICLES Les articles (en fran?ais) seront soumis au format Word RTF (pas de format DOC). La feuille de style est disponible sur le site de la revue a l'adresse : http://www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/lexicometrica/lexicometricaStyle.dot Ils doivent etre envoyes par voie electronique avant le 30 juin 2002 a l'adresse suivante : Jean.Veronis at up.univ-mrs.fr Les articles seront evalues par un comite de lecture constitue specifiquement pour ce numero, et compose de membres du comite de redaction de la revue LEXICOMETRICA et de personnalites exterieures. La decision du comite de lecture sera transmise aux auteurs le 31 aout 2002. La version definitive des articles acceptes sera a remettre le 30 septembre pour une mise en ligne a l'automne 2002. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 19 18:48:24 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:48:24 +0100 Subject: Job: linguiste-informaticien : societe Anglo-Institute (Lannion) Message-ID: [english version below] La soci?t? Anglo-Institute propose ? Lannion, C?tes d'Armor, France, un poste de linguiste-informaticien pour un CDD de sept mois ? pourvoir imm?diatement. Le candidat retenu devra ?laborer une grammaire de chunking et une grammaire de d?pendance de l'arabe, ainsi que l'interfa?age de ces grammaires avec un syst?me de question-r?ponse. Ce poste requiert - la ma?trise de l'arabe moderne standard - une formation linguistique de niveau bac+5 avec sp?cialisation en grammaire - des connaissances des techniques de TALN. Le travail s'effectue sur station Unix. Une r?elle ma?trise de l'outil informatique est indispensable. Anglo-Institute, soci?t? fond?e ? Lannion il y a dix ans, exerce une double activit? de traduction et de fourniture de ressources linguistiques pour le TALN. Anglo Institute has a 7-month vacancy for a linguist well qualified in computing skills. The company is based in the Lannion Anticipa Technopole, C?tes d'Armor. The suitable candidate will be requested to compile a chunking grammar and a dependance grammar in Arabic, as well as interfacing these grammars with a QA system. Required qualifications for the post include: - Mastery of standard modern Arabic - Lingusitic qualifications Bac+5 level with a specialisation in grammar - Knowledge of TALN techniques - Advanced computer skills using a UNIX workstation. Anglo Institute has been based in Lannion for the past ten years. The company's main activities involve technical translation and linguistic resources for TALN. Contact : Isabelle M?tayer Anglo-Institute 1, rue de Langonaval 22300 Lannion T?l. 02 96 35 28 87 ou 06 07 02 23 20 isabelle.metayer at wanadoo.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Mon Feb 25 09:15:28 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:15:28 +0100 Subject: Q: Tools and resources for european languages Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:06:25 +0100 From: "Hugues de Mazancourt" Message-Id: <02c901c1b497$a023b2c0$660010ac at lys> X-url: http://www.lingway.com Gentlemen, With SchlumbergerSema, Lingway won a 3-year contract from Eurostat for implementing a natural-language access to European Nomenclatures in the various languages of the EU. The first phase of this project includes an inventory and qualification of available resources and parsers for the targeted languages. We would like to finalize our first evaluation for mid-March. The selected tools will then be integrated in an application managed at the EU level. Our inventory is nearly done for English, Spanish, German and French, but we would like to drill down the availability for resources in the other languages. If you know about a technology (whether resources or parsers), at an industrial or near-industrial state, can you provide us with detailed information? We will synthesize the answers back to the list. Best regards, Hugues de Mazancourt Lingway 33-35, rue Ledru-Rollin 94200 Ivry/Seine France http://www.lingway.com Tel: +33-1 56 20 28 33 - Mob: +33-6 72 78 70 33 Jean-Paul Taravella SchlumbergerSema Mob: +33-6 89 87 83 11 jptaravella at slb.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 25 18:40:14 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:40:14 +0100 Subject: ATALA/APIL: journee METIL (Les MEtiers du Tal et des Industries de la Langue) Message-ID: Bonjour, J'ai le plaisir de vous transmettre le programme d'une journee que j'organise avec Alain Couillault et Lionel Stouder pour l'ATALA (NG) et l'APIL (AC et LS). Nous avons voulu que cette journee METIL (Les MEtiers du Tal et des Industries de la Langue) permettent aux professionnels du TAL et des IDL, aux formateurs et aux etudiants de ce domaine de se rencontrer dans un lieu d'echanges riches et varies. Nous esperons que vous serez nombreux a participer a cette journee et que vous nous aiderez d'ici le 7 mars a diffuser cette annonce le plus largement possible aupres des collegues et etudiants. Nous tenons ici a remercier Gaelle Recouce et Hugues de Mazencourt pour leur aide dans l'organisation de cette journee METIL. Bien cordialement. Nathalie, Alain, Lionel. [Programme copie ci-dessous et envoye en fichier joint pour une meilleure lecture sur simple demande formulee a gasiglia at univ-lille3.fr] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Journee du Jeudi 7 mars 2002 METIL : les Metiers du Tal et des Industries de la Langue Organisee conjointement pour l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et l'APIL (Association des Professionnels des Industries de la Langue) par N. Gasiglia (Univ. Lille 3), A. Couillault (ISAdE) et L. Stouder (APIL) 8h30 Accueil 9h00 Presentation de l'APIL et del'ATALA 9h30 Gaelle Recource Les Metiers du TAL et des Industries de la Langue : tour d'horizon 10h00 Les industries de la langueen 2002 - Bernard Normier 25 ans de pratique de l'ingenierie linguistique :finalement, est-ce un metier ? - Thierry Poibeau TAL et recherche en entreprise 10h45 Pause ; espace d'echanges informels & posters 11h30 Les Clients du TAL - Emile Bruneau (resp. de seance) Client du TAL : quelle connaissance requise ? Quelle implication ? - Jean-Marc Blancherie Le KM et l'evolution vers de nouveaux metiers - Jean-Paul Taravella Le marche du TAL : la vision d'un integrateur 12h30 Dejeuner 14H Cafe ; espace d'echanges informels & posters 14h30 Les createurs et fournisseurs de technologies (R&D) - Hugues de Mazancourt (resp. de seance) Un developpement en TAL est-il un developpement informatique? - Didier Bourigault Recherche en linguistique informatique et developpement d'outils d'ingenierie linguistique - Emilie Guimier L'analyse de textes : entre donnees linguistiques et robustesse 15h15 Pause ; espace d'echanges informels& posters 15h15 Presentationde Reptil 16h Stephane Chaudiron Les actions du Ministere de la recherche pour les Industries de la Langue 16h30 LesTechnologies TAL dans la realite des industries - Claude de Loupy et Vanessa Combet (resp. de seance) LeTAL a Sinequa - Gaelle Berjonneau Terminologie et lexicographie - Marie-Christine Escalier La generation de texte a travers quelques exemples 18h30 Fin de la journee d'etude ; pot Poster 1eres experiences professionnelles - Karine Lespinas Les peritextes auservice de l'indexation de documents audiovisuels - Veronique Malaise Construction d'une ontologie differentielle pour la recherche d'information audiovisuelle - Caroline Moulart Construire une base terminologique chez et pour Decathlon (titre non definitif) Poster formations -2d cycles TAL/IDL : Formacom ; Institut National des Langues etCivilisations Orientales ; Universite d'Aix ; Universite Stendhal Grenoble ; Universite Lille 3 ; Universite Montpellier 3 ; Universite Paris 7 ; UniversiteTours ; - DESS Formateur Concepteur Multimedia en Langues -Universite Stendhal Grenoble ; - DESS SID (Strategies del'Information et de la Documentation) - Universite Lille 3 ; - DESS MSM (Mediation desSavoirs et Multilinguisme) - Universite Lille 3 ; - DESS LexicographieTerminographie et Traitement Automatique des Corpus - Universite Lille 3 ; - DESS Industries de la Langue - Mention :Traitement automatique et Techniques modernes de la Traduction - Universite de Metz ; - DESS TEXTE Traitements informatiques pour l'EXploitation de l'information dans lesTextes - Universite Nancy ; CHU Pitie - 105 bd de l'HOpital - 75013Paris Amphi E Entree libre Adhesion(s) a l'association ATALA et/ou a l'APILrecommandee(s) Site ATALA : http://www.atala.org Page Web de cette journee : http://www.atala.org/je/je-020307.html Site APIL :http://www.apil.asso.fr Nathalie GASIGLIA Univ. Lille 3 UFR Lettres Modernes & SILEX (UMR 8528 du CNRS) Domaine "Pont de Bois" B.P.149 59653 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ Cedex gasiglia at univ-lille3.fr 48, rue du Chateau Landon ; 75010 PARIS tel/rep/fax 01 42 09 50 57 mobile 06 11 44 20 33 gasiglian at aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 25 18:40:20 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:40:20 +0100 Subject: Appel: BULAG numéro 27 : Les mots, leur sens, leur forme, leur création et leur reconnaissance. Message-ID: [English version below] Appel ? contribution pour le BULAG num?ro 27 Le BULAG est la revue du Centre Tesni?re de l'Universit? de Franche-Comt?, Besan?on, France (http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr). Le BULAG est une revue internationale avec comit? de lecture. Intitul? du num?ro 27 : Les mots, leur sens, leur forme, leur cr?ation et leur reconnaissance. Les articles pourront traiter "des mots" simples, d?rives, compos?s, ? structures fig?es ou collocationnelles, de leur apparition et g?n?ration dans les diff?rentes langues, de leur reconnaissance par une machine lors d'un traitement informatis? et de leur sens et traduction. Coordonn? par : Dalila LIMAME (Universit? de Franche-Comt?) Igor SKOURATOV (Universit? de Moscou) Izabella THOMAS (Universit? de Franche-Comt?) Les articles sont ? envoyer ? l'adresse suivante : ctesniere at univ-fcomte.fr Dates : Envoi des articles : 30 mai 2002 Acceptation des articles : 30 juin 2002 Les articles peuvent ?tre ?crits en anglais ou en fran?ais, les r?sum?s et mots cl?s en anglais et en fran?ais. Les auteurs se conformeront aux directives de r?daction donn?es sur le site du centre Tesni?re (http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr). English version BULAG 27: Call for papers BULAG is the review of Centre Tesni?re, University of Franche-Comt?, Besan?on, France (http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr). There is an international referee panel. Title: Words, their meaning, their form, their formation, and their recognition. Papers can deal variously with "words", whether simple or derived, compound, in the form of set expressions or collocations, their formation, their generation or recognition during machine processing in different languages, their meaning and their translation. Coordinated by: Dalila LIMAME (University of Franche-Comt?) Igor SKOURATOV (University of Moscow) Izabella THOMAS (University of Franche-Comt?) Please send your papers to: ctesniere at univ-fcomte.fr Deadline for paper submissions: 30th May 2002 Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2002 Papers can be written either in English or in French, abstracts and key words in both languages. For your paper, use the layout and the format of papers described on the Centre Tesni?re web site(http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr). . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 25 18:40:27 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:40:27 +0100 Subject: Conf: XIV Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics Message-ID: BOUNDED LIFE RESOURCES AND EMERGENCE IN THE THEORIES OF FORMAL LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS (XIV Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics, FS&S) Jozef Kelemen Alica Kelemenova (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic) March 11-15, 2002 Organized by the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University PROGRAMME Monday 11 11-13 A. Kelemenova, Colonies and Ecogrammar Systems 14:30-16:30 J. Kelemen, Introduction to Emergence and Simple Statistical Analysis Tuesday 12 8:30-10:30 A. Kelemenova, Motivation for Bounded Resources: Life Time, Limited Activation, ... 10:30-12:30 J. Kelemen, Traditional Modularization Wednesday 13 8:30-10:30 A. Kelemenova, Influence of the Limitations to the Development of Colonies and Grammar Systems 10:30-12:30 J. Kelemen, Why to Proceed in Another Way: Formal Framework Thursday 14 8:30-10:30 A. Kelemenova, Consequences for the Properties of the Systems 10:30-12:30 J. Kelemen, Emergence Friday 15 8-10 A. Kelemenova, Bounded Life Resources as a Special Case of Regulated Rewriting 10-12 J. Kelemen, Rationality Place: Lecture Room, Department of Romance Philologies Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 25 18:40:37 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:40:37 +0100 Subject: Appel: Troisième Forum de morphologie (2e appel) Message-ID: (French version below) CALL FOR PAPERS (SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT) Third Forum of Morphology MORPHOLOGICAL UNITS DATE?: September (19)-20-21, 2002 PLACE?: University of Lille 3, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. CALENDAR 1rst call for abstracts?: November 20th 2001. Submission deadline?: March 31rst 2002. Notification of acceptance?: May 15th 2002. Preliminary programme?: June 15st, 2002 Meeting?: September (19)-20-21 2002. WEB SITE?: http://gdr-morphologie.linguist.jussieu.fr/colloque/ THEMATIC (unabridged text on our web site) The question of the units we need to assume in order to account for morphological phenomena has to be considered in a new light since the morpheme has been given up as the single unit in morphology. First of all, it is now possible to distinguish various types of units and, second, those different units are correlated to hypotheses about the way linguistic signs work. These changes can be clearly seen in the recent literature. Consider, for instance: (i) the growing importance of the distinctions argued for by Matthews between word1 (word-form), word2 (lexeme) and word3 (syntactic word); (ii) the fact that the status of stems has become clearer; (iii) the classification of morphological rules according to the type of unit they take as their input or output (stem>stem, stem>word, word>word); (iv) the central position given to the lexeme within hierarchical representations of lexicon; (v) the way the typing of morphological units is used to block or licence morphological derivations; etc. The question of morphological units also arises within prosodic morphology (especially in its OT version), which assumes distinct units such as affix, root, word, etc. without saying anything about them except that they must exist; this makes it all the more urgent to clarify their exact status within morphological theory. In short, the moment seems favourable for undertaking a reflection on morphological units. This meeting will be both a step in this process of reflection and an opportunity to raise new questions on this topic. Among possible themes of discussion, we can list the following: I. Characterising morphological units Along what dimensions must these units be defined? Are there principles limiting the proliferation of these dimensions? Which units are indispensable and which can be given up? Besides allomorphy or suppletion, what type of variation is allowed within morphological units? What can we infer from this on the nature of the linguistic sign? II. The function of units What types of phenomena does the introduction of such and such unit allow us to account for?? Do the distinctions between various types of units play a crucial role in certain derivations? III. Representing units How should we represent the different types of units? What relationships must be assumed between them in a hierarchical representation of lexical knowledge? IV. Typology What is the possible range of interlinguistic variation exhibited by the minimal sign (word or lexeme) across languages? Do the marks which end word3 units belong to identifiable types? To what extent is it sound to speak of stem languages or root languages? Why do phenomena such as allomorphy or suppletion appear so rarely in some languages and so widely in others? V. Psycholinguistics Do speakers perceive morphological units? And if so, which ones? Are there differences between the units perceived by speakers and those hypothesized by linguists? Can such differences give hints as to how a morphological system might change in the future? What role does writing play with respect to the transmission, the stability and the perception of morphological units? VI. Natural language processing and corpus studies What do natural language processing and corpus-based studies bring to the study of morphological units? Do they shed light upon (ir)regularities which would have remained unnoticed otherwise? VII. History Does the way in which morphological units were used in historical and comparative linguistics shed light on the distinctions we need today? PROGRAMME COMMITEE Georgette Dal (University of Lille 3), Bernard Fradin (LLF, CNRS), Fran?oise Kerleroux (University Paris 10 Nanterre), Nabil Hathout (ERSS, CNRS), Marc Pl?nat (ERSS, CNRS), Michel Roch? (University of Toulouse Le Mirail) The programme committee will be backed up by a broad reviewing committee. WORKING LANGUAGES The working languages will be English and French. ORGANISATION This meeting is organised by the GDR 2220 Description et mod?lisation en morphologie the UMR 8528 SILEX and the University of Lille 3. If you need more information on details concerning the organisation of the meeting contact monseur at univ-lille3.fr. For other types of information, contact bernard.fradin at linguist.jussieu.fr. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Your submission should consist of 1) An anonymous abstract no longer than 2 pages (A4 format) in times 12 (bibliography included). The abstract must indicate clearly the subject matter, the theoretical framework (if any) and the conclusions of your contribution. 2) A separate page on which are indicated?: your name, affiliation, postal address, email address and the title of your contribution. Electronic submission is encouraged provided that the abstract and the personal details page are sent as separate attachments in either postscript, rtf or Word format. The submissions must be sent to ForumMorphol3 at linguist.jussieu.fr before March 31, 2002. If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard copies of the abstract plus the separate page with personal details must reach the organising committee at the following address before March 31, 2002?: Bernard Fradin Forum de Morphologie 3, LLF Tour centrale Case 7031 2 place Jussieu F-75251 PARIS CEDEX 05 SELECTION CRITERIA Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work. Submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two specialists of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria?: Importance and originality of the paper. Empirical foundation of the account. Accuracy of the scientific content. Layout and clarity of the paper. Relevance to the topic of the meeting. TALKS The time allotted for presentation is 30 minutes. 10 more minutes will be left for discussion. Il will be possible to use an overhead projector or video-projector. PROCEEDINGS As was the case for the former Forums de Morphologie, the proceedings of the meeting will be published in the Silexicales collection (UMR SILEX University of Lille 3). The organisers will do their best to publish the proceedings soon after the meeting. REGISTRATION FEES Before June 30th. Student?: 35 Euros Faculty member?: 60 Euros After June 30th Student?: 40 Euros Faculty member?: 70 Euros Registration fees include the preproceedings of the meeting, coffe and lunches that will be taken on the campus on the 20th and 21st. To register, you must mail your payment together with your completed registration form to Dani?le Monseur 3?me Forum de Morphologie UMR 8528 "?SILEX?" Universit? de Lille 3 BP 149 F-59653 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ CEDEX The registration form must be downloaded from our website. Payment will be made in euros with a cheque or money order that is made payable to Agent comptable de l'Universit? Lille 3. (We cannot accept credit card payment). ACCOMODATION, TRANSPORTATION/ACCESS See our web site. VENUE The meeting will be held at the Maison de la Recherche located on the Lille 3 campus. The Maison de la Recherche is at a walking distance (10 mn) from the underground station 'Pont de bois'. More information on our website. (English version above) DEUXI?ME APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS Troisi?me Forum de morphologie LES UNIT?S MORPHOLOGIQUES DATE?: (19)-20-21 septembre 2002 LIEU?: Universit? de Lille 3, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. CALENDRIER 1er appel ? communication?: 20 novembre 2001. Date limite de soumission?: 31 mars 2002. Notification des acceptations?: 15 mai 2002. Programme pr?liminaire?: 15 juin 2002. Colloque?: (19)-20-21 septembre 2002. SITE WEB?: http://gdr-morphologie.linguist.jussieu.fr/colloque/ TH?MATIQUE (texte complet sur la toile) Depuis que le morph?me a ?t? remis en cause comme unit? unique de la morphologie, la question des unit?s qu'on doit postuler pour d?crire les ph?nom?nes morphologiques se pose de mani?re nouvelle. Nouvelle parce qu'il devient possible d?sormais de distinguer plusieurs types d'unit?. Nouvelle aussi parce que les unit?s qu'on distingue sont corr?l?es ? des hypoth?ses sur le fonctionnement des signes linguistiques. Plusieurs indices de ce changement de point de vue sont d?celables dans la litt?rature?: prise en compte des distinctions op?r?es par Matthews entre mot1 (mot-forme), mot2 (lex?me) et mot3 (mot syntaxique)?; place reconnue ? la notion de stem (th?me morphologique)?; red?finition des r?gles morphologiques en fonction leur unit? d'input et d'output (r?gles stem > stem, mot2 > mot3, stem > mot2, mot3 > stem)?; r?le central du lex?me dans les repr?sentations hi?rarchis?es du lexique?; utilisation du type de l'unit? pour bloquer / autoriser certaines d?rivations, etc. La question des unit?s morphologiques se trouve aussi pos?e de l'ext?rieur de la morphologie, puisque la morphologie prosodique (notamment dans la version OT) postule l'existence d'unit?s morphologiques distinctes (affixe, racine, mot), dont elle ne dit rien, ce qui rend plus urgente encore l'inscription de cette question ? l'agenda des morphologues. Bref, la situation actuelle para?t propice pour entamer une r?flexion sur les unit?s morphologiques. Le colloque projet? voudrait ? la fois ?tre une ?tape dans ce processus de r?flexion et une ouverture ? de nouveaux questionnements. Parmi les th?mes de discussion envisageables figurent les suivants?: I. Caract?risation des unit?s morphologiques Selon quels axes doit-on les d?finir?? Comment ces axes s'articulent-ils?? Quelles sont les unit?s indispensables et quelles sont celles dont on peut se passer?? Quels sont les types de variations tol?rables que peuvent manifester les unit?s morphologiques (allomorphie, suppl?tion, autre)?? II. Op?rationalit? des unit?s Quels arguments peut-on avancer ? l'appui de l'existence de telle ou telle unit??? De quel ph?nom?ne l'introduction de telle ou telle unit? permet-elle de rendre compte dont on ne pourrait rendre compte sinon?? III. Repr?sentation des unit?s Comment repr?sente-t-on ces diff?rentes unit?s?? Comment repr?sente-t-on le contenu qu'elles partagent?? IV. Typologie Quelles variations interlinguistiques possibles le signe minimal (mot ou lex?me) peut-il manifester?? Les marques qui terminent le mot3 appartiennent-elles ? des types identifiables?? Pourquoi les ph?nom?nes d'allomorphie ou de suppl?tion radicale sont-ils peu pr?sents dans certaines langues (agglutinantes) et beaucoup dans d'autres (flexionnelles)?? V. Psycholinguistique Les locuteurs ont-ils une perception des unit?s morphologiques?? Desquelles?? Existe-t-il des ?carts entre leur perception et les objets que postule le linguiste?? Ces ?carts peuvent-ils ?tre le moteur de changements?? Quel r?le l'?crit joue-t-il par rapport ? la transmission, ? la stabilit?, ? la perception des unit?s morphologiques?? VI. Traitement automatique Qu'apporte le TAL ? l'?tude des unit?s morphologiques?? Permet-il de voir mieux des difficult?s qui resteraient cach?es sinon?? Permet-il d'atteindre des syst?maticit?s nouvelles?? Les ?tudes sur corpus permettent-elles de donner une autre visibilit? ? certains types d'unit?s?? VII. Histoire La mani?re dont les notions de racine et de stems ont ?t? utilis?es dans la linguistique historique et comparative constitue-t-elle un obstacle ou ?claire-t-elle les concepts dont on a besoin aujourd'hui?? De quoi nous fait-elle h?riter et comment int?grer cet h?ritage?? COMIT? SCIENTIFIQUE Georgette Dal (Universit? Lille 3), Bernard Fradin (LLF, CNRS), Fran?oise Kerleroux (Universit? Paris 10 Nanterre), Nabil Hathout (ERSS, CNRS), Marc Pl?nat (ERSS, CNRS), Michel Roch? (Universit? Toulouse Le Mirail). Le comit? scientifique fera appel ? un large comit? d'experts pour le choix des soumissions. LANGUES DE TRAVAIL Les langues officielles du colloque seront le fran?ais et l'anglais. ORGANISATION Le colloque est organis? par le GDR 2220 Description et mod?lisation en morphologie, l'UMR 8528 SILEX et l'Universit? de Lille 3. Des renseignements plus pr?cis concernant l'organisation mat?rielle du colloque peuvent ?tre obtenus aupr?s de Dani?le Monseur?: monseur at univ- lille3.fr. Pour les autres questions, vous pouvez contacter bernard.fradin at linguist.jussieu.fr. MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION Votre soumission devra comporter 1) Un abr?g? anonyme en anglais ou en fran?ais ne d?passant pas 2 pages format A4 corps Times 12 (bibliographie incluse). L'abr?g? devra indiquer clairement le sujet trait? et les conclusions de votre contribution. 2) Une page s?par?e mentionnant vos nom et pr?noms, votre appartenance administrative, votre adresse postale, votre courriel et le titre de votre contribution. Il est recommand? d'envoyer son projet de communication par courrier ?lectronique sous r?serve que l'abr?g? et la page o? figurent les renseignements personnels soient envoy?s sous des fichiers attach?s distincts en format rtf, Word ou bien postscript. Adresse d'envoi ForumMorphol3 at linguist.jussieu.fr. D?lai de rigueur?: 31 mars 2002. S'il vous est impossible de faire une soumission ?lectronique, vous pouvez envoyer 2 copies papier de l'abr?g? et la page comportant les renseignements personnels ? l'adresse suivante avant le 31 mars 2002?: Bernard Fradin Forum de Morphologie 3, LLF Tour centrale Case 7031 2 place Jussieu F-75251 PARIS CEDEX 05 CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION Les auteurs sont invit?s ? pr?senter un travail original non publi?. Les soumissions seront expertis?es de mani?re anonyme par au moins deux sp?cialistes du domaine. Le choix tiendra compte des crit?res suivants?: Importance et originalit? du papier. Assise empirique de l'analyse. Pr?cision et correction du contenu scientifique. Organisation et clart? de la pr?sentation. Pertinence par rapport aux th?mes du colloque. PR?SENTATION Tout le colloque est en s?ance pl?ni?re. Le temps de parole est de 30 minutes plus 10 minutes de discussion. Un r?troprojecteur ou un vid?oprojecteur pourra ?tre utilis?. ACTES Comme pour les pr?c?dents Forums de Morphologie, les actes du colloque seront publi?s dans la collection Silexicales (UMR SILEX Lille 3). La publication devrait suivre de peu le colloque. INSCRIPTION Avant le 30 juin Etudiant?: 35 Euros Enseignant/chercheur?: 60 Euros Apr?s le 30 juin Etudiant?: 40 Euros Enseignant/chercheur?: 70 Euros Les frais d'inscription comprennent les pr?actes du colloque, les pauses caf? et les repas sur place pour les d?jeuners des 20 et 21 septembre. Pour vous inscrire, vous devez envoyer le formulaire d'inscription rempli avec votre paiement ? Dani?le Monseur 3?me Forum de Morphologie UMR 8528 "?SILEX?" Universit? de Lille 3 BP 149 F-59653 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ CEDEX Le formulaire d'inscription peut ?tre t?l?charg? ? partir de notre site web. Le paiement doit ?tre effectu? en euros, soit par ch?que soit par virement ? l'ordre de M. l'agent comptable de l'Universit? Lille 3. (Nous ne pouvons accepter le paiement par carte de cr?dit). LOGEMENT, TRANSPORT?: voir la toile. LOCALISATION Le colloque se tiendra ? la Maison de la Recherche situ?e sur le campus de Lille 3. La Maison de la Recherche se trouve ? dix minutes ? pied de la station de m?tro 'Pont de bois'. Plus de d?tails sur notre site. ============================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 25 18:40:43 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:40:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: AMTA-2002 Conference : call for tutorials and workshops Message-ID: Please circulate as widely as possible: --- CALL FOR TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS --- The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas AMTA-2002 Conference Tiburon, California (near San Francisco) October 8-12, 2002 Conference theme: FROM RESEARCH TO REAL USERS Ever since the showdown between Empiricists and Rationalists a decade ago at TMI-92, MT researchers have hotly pursued promising paradigms for MT, including data-driven approaches and hybrids that integrate these with more traditional rule-based components. During the same period, commercial MT systems with standard transfer architectures have evolved along a parallel and almost unrelated track, increasing their coverage and achieving much broader acceptance and usage. This raises a number of interesting questions (see the main conference Call For Participation), primarily concerned with why this disconnect exists, and whether it is going to change. TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS Proposals for tutorials and workshops are now being solicited on these and other topics of direct interest and impact for MT researchers, developers, vendors or users of MT technologies. We welcome and encourage participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations, AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe, as well. Workshops will be held on Tuesday October 8th. Approximately 7 hours may be allocated per workshop. Tutorials will be held on Wednesday October 9th. Tutorials would typically last 3 hours, although other arrangements might be possible. Proposals should state the topic(s) to be addressed, the rationale for addressing it and the structure of the activities. Proposals should be in English and not longer than 4 pages. Please submit proposals as soon as possible to Bob Frederking at . Proposals must be submitted on or before Friday, April 12, 2002. For general conference information and further details as they become available, visit: http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2002/ CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Elliott Macklovitch, General Chair Stephen D. Richardson, Program Chair Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Local Arrangements Chair Bob Frederking, Workshops and Tutorials Laurie Gerber, Exhibits Coordinator -- Robert E. Frederking Email: ref at cs.cmu.edu Language Technologies Institute Telephone: +1-412-268-6656 Carnegie Mellon University FAX: +1-412-268-6298 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:16 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:16 +0100 Subject: Appel: revue Knowledge Organization : Evaluating Human Language Technology Message-ID: ***************************************************************** Deuxi?me Appel ? communications ***************************************************************** Evaluating Human Language Technology: General Applications to Information Access and Management A Special Issue of Knowledge Organization on Evaluation of HLT Guest Editor: Widad Mustafa El Hadi, University of Lille 3 ***************************************************************** Call for papers The last few years have seen a growing interest in evaluating human language technology (HLT) in general and its applications to information access and management in particular. Several initiatives have been conducted in Europe and in the United States. The first initiatives on HLT evaluation can be traced back to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Japanese programs on Machine Translation Evaluation. The DARPA/NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Projects continued on a more regular basis and particularly with the Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC) and the Message Understanding Conferences (MUC). More projects are gaining momentum, be they independent or part of the famous TREC Tracks (Language Engineering Track, Question & Answering (Q & A) track), or within the context of the Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization (TIDES) Document Understanding Conference (DUC), Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), Text Summarization Systems, Filtering, or Spoken Document Retrieval. Some evaluation projects have been supported within the programs of the European Commission (EAGLES, ELSE, ISLE, SQALE, etc.) others have been conducted within national programs (the French evaluation projects: GRACE Project for evaluating part-of-speech taggers, the AUF four Projects on evaluating Text Retrieval Systems, Alignment Technology, Terminology Acquisition System Evaluations, and Message Understanding). These many endeavours show the relevance of HLT evaluations. Researchers and practitioners in the field of information are interested, by an assessment of the contribution of these technologies in order to measure the progress achieved, to compare different approaches to a given problem and to assess system usability and user satisfaction. This Special Issue of Knowledge Organization (scheduled as volume 29, number 3/4) will aim at bringing together the community of researchers in the field of HLT from the perspective of Knowledge Organization, Information Access and Management. Moreover, it will look forward to providing an overview of the state-of-the-art of HLT, discuss problems, exchange information on the use of this technology in monolingual and multilingual environments, discuss evaluation methodologies and metrics and promote initiatives for international cooperation in these areas. We invite original and unpublished submissions to the special issue covering any of, but not limited to, the following topics. Contributions previously published in a language other than English may be considered. Possible Topics General Issues on Evaluation Historical and theoretical backgrounds of HLT evaluation Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures Benchmarking of systems and products Linguistic Quality Information Access Automated Question & Answering Monolingual and Cross-Language Information Retrieval Machine Translation in IR environments Document Understanding Multimedia document and image retrieval Information Management Automatic tracking and detection of emerging topics from unstructured data (Text Mining) Evaluating methods for knowledge extraction and acquisition (e.g. terms) Information Filtering Knowledge mapping and access (lexical information, language modelling) Text Summarization Categorization Submission Information Deadline for submissions is: 31 May 2002 Submissions will be refereed by a special committee of experts in the field. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format in English only and should be accompanied by an indicative abstract of 100-200 words. Submission via e-mail are preferred; submissions will be accepted via post provided that four copies are submitted or that submissions are accompanied by a 3.5" diskette encoded in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format. For further details regarding manuscripts and publications please refer to the instructions for authors in each issue of Knowledge Organization. Please use the subject line: KO HLT Submissions should be directed to: Widad MUSTAFA EL HADI E-mail: mustafa at univ-lille3.fr Or at UFR IDIST Universit? Charles De Gaulle Lille 3 BP 149, 59653 Villeneuve D'Ascq, FRANCE ---------------------------------- Widad Mustafa el Hadi UFR IDIST & CERSATES (UMR 8529) Universit? Charles-De-Gaulle-Lille 3 BP 149 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex Tel: 33 (0) 3 20 41 68 15 Fax: 33 (0) 3 20 41 63 79 e-mail: mustafa at univ-lille3.fr ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:22 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:22 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC : workshop Customizing Knowledge in NLP Applications Message-ID: *********************************************************************** Deadline Extended: March 15 *********************************************************************** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Customizing Knowledge in NLP Applications: Strategies, Issues and Evaluation A workshop at the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/ The workshop addresses one of the key challenges in the development of NLP applications: bridging a generic framework with domain/task specific requirements. The issue reduces to the problem of customization of linguistic software and the degree to which this effort can be limited once a given component (i.e., grammar, lexicon, thesaurus, interpreter, tagger, etc.) is used across applications and across domains. As natural language products play an increasingly more prominent role in the market for knowledge management, information extraction, search and navigation, the suppliers of technologies still struggle with the ability to produce high-qualitysoftware which can be deployed to new domains and relatively similar tasks in a short time within budget. The issue of genericity versus specificity plays out in a number of areas; the key to solving the problem is that of identifying whether there is a particular locus to the dilemma: the architecture of the system, the language resources, the application components. The problem of customization directly affects the architecture, the development process as well as the evaluation benchmarks for NLP systems. Although the notion of "knowledge bottleneck" has been essentially attached to NLP systems relying on knowledge representation strategies, even statistical NLP systems suffer from a customization problem. The goal of the workshop is to emphasize the tension as well as the potential for crossfertilization between knowledge-based and corpus-based approaches to customization. While both approaches are needed, the key issue is how to reconcile potential contrasts and define the optimal balance between the two in order to maximise benefits for the content creation/management/delivery applications of focus, e.g. categorization, search, navigation, retrieval, extraction, personalization, generation etc. SUBMISSIONS The workshop aims at bringing together people from both academia and industry to address the variety of topics in the areas of customization, knowledge representation and acquisition, and metrics for measuring complexity. We invite submissions of papers in all areas of customization of NLP components, including, but not limited to, the following topics: * The locus of generic and specific information in NLP systems; * Generic and domain specific language resources; * Knowledge acquisition and knowledge development strategies; * Customization strategies in statistical NLP; * Customization strategies in knowledge-based NLP systems; * Modularization of applications for purposes of reducing customization efforts; * Criteria, strategies and metrics for assessing "degree of customization." Papers should be submitted electronically to r-knippen at attglobal.net and should be in Word or postscript format. Papers should be no longer than 3,000 words, including the abstract. Contributors should also provide their affiliation and email contact. Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion. Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be provided with the LREC stylesheet and make any necessary reformatting for the camera-ready version to be published in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for workshop submission 15th March 2002 Notification of Acceptance 1st April 2002 Final version of paper for proceedings 15th April 2002 Workshop 27th May 2002 (14:30 to 20:00) WORKSHOP REGISTRATION The registration fees for the workshop are: * If you are not attending LREC: 70 EURO * If you are attending LREC: 45 Euro These fees cover the following: a copy of the proceedings of the attended workshop, coffee-breaks and refreshments. Participation in the workshop is limited by the venue. Requests for participation will be processed on first come first served basis. Registration will be handled by the LREC Secretariat. FURTHER DETAILS For any further questions relating the workship itself, visit the conference website at http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/ or e-mail federica_busa at yahoo.com. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Federica Busa Webegg federica_busa at yahoo.com Evelyne Viegas Microsoft Corporation evelynev at microsoft.com Antonio Sanfilippo SRA International antonio_sanfilippo at sra.com Robert Knippen LingoMotors Inc. r-knippen at attglobal.net Connie Parkes Dictaphone Cornelia.Parkes at dictaphone.com Saliha Azzam Microsoft Corporation salihaa at microsoft.com Piek Vossen Irion Technologies Remi Zajac Systran Corporation ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:29 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:29 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLP techniques for speech analysis Message-ID: Call: Workshop organized during the French conference TALN'2002 (French version below) NLP techniques for speech analysis Recent advances have been made to process oral as well as written documents. Let?s mention the following fields: - information filtering and retrieval, information extraction, indexing for written text - vocal dictatation, control and command systems for speech analysis. There is clearly a need, today, to establish a link between these two separate worlds. TREC conferences have popularized applications such as information retrieval and extraction from audio corpora. This workshop is intended to explore new ways of integrating NLP techniques for speech analysis. Its objective is to gather people working in this area, coming either from the industry or the university. Three kind of communications are expected: - Statement paper on theoretical aspects of the use of NLP techniques in speech analysis (10-12 pages) - Research paper related to one of the topics addressed by the workshop (no more than 10 pages) - Project notes (2 to 4 pages). Authors are invited to use documents models defined for the TAL N conference (http://www.loria.fr/projets/TALN). PostScript, PDF and RTF format are acceptable formats for submission. Contributions should be written in French or in English and they should be send via electronic mail to the addresses below. thierry.poibeau at thalesgroup.com camal.tazine at thalesgroup.com Interested people are also invited to send an intention to contribute (or to participate) to the address above. The deadline for contribution is 22 March 2002 and notifications of acceptance will be sent about 3 weeks after. Communications will be read by two members of the program committee. The workshop will be held on 27 June 2002, in Nancy (France), during the conference JEP/TALN 2002 (http://www.loria.fr/projets/TALN). Organizing committee Camal Tazine (Thales and LIA) Thierry Poibeau (Thales and LIPN) Program committee Jean Caelen (IMAG) John Dowding (NASA) Pierre Jourlin (LIA) Fran?ois-Arnould Mathieu (T?lisma) Jean-Marie Pierrel (LORIA) Thierry Poibeau (Thales and LIPN) Steve Renals (Universit? and Sheffield) David Roussel (EADS) C?lestin Sedogbo (Thales) Camal Tazine (Thales and LIA) Fran?ois Yvon (ENST) ========================================= Atelier (conf?rence associ?e), TALN'2002 Th?me: Couplage de l'?crit avec l'oral Des avanc?es ont r?cemment eu lieu dans diff?rents domaines de l'analyse de documents ?crits ou oraux. On citera, pour l'analyse de l'?crit, les avanc?es dans le domaine de l'indexation, du filtrage et de l'extraction. Pour l'oral, les syst?mes de dict?e ou de commande vocale et les serveurs vocaux sont des applications qui sont aujourd'hui largement r?pandues. Les besoins vont aujourd'hui vers un meilleur couplage de ces deux domaines encore s?par?s. Les applications portent en effet notamment sur le filtrage, l'indexation et l'extraction ? partir de corpus parl?s. Les syst?mes d'analyse de l'oral ? base de statistiques se r?v?lent alors trop limit?es. L'int?gration de composantes issues de syst?mes ?crits s'av?re ?galement difficile. Les donn?es ne sont pas de m?me nature, elles sont fortement bruit?es et n?cessitent des techniques g?n?ralement plus robustes que celles mises en oeuvre pour l'?crit. Cet atelier propose d'explorer l'int?gration de techniques issues de l'analyse de l'?crit dans des syst?mes d'analyse de la parole. Il vise ? pr?senter des travaux issus aussi bien de la recherche acad?mique que du monde industriel. Le cas ?ch?ant, une table ronde industrielle pourrait ?tre organis?e. Trois de types de communications sont souhait?s : - Des expos?s th?oriques de 10 ? 12 pages sur la probl?matique de l'atelier (Quel couplage entre ?crit et oral ? Existe-t-il des approches alternatives ??) - Des expos?s de recherche de 8 ? 10 pages, de pr?f?rence ayant abouti sur une r?alisation concr?te et une ?valuation, le cas ?ch?ant. - Des notes de projet de 2 ? 4 pages, d?crivant des projets en cours sur la question. Les industriels sont particuli?rement souhait?s. Les th?mes abord?s porteront sur (liste non exhaustive) : - correction d'erreur, mesures de distance - d?tection de th?me, indexation de documents audios (parole) - commande vocale large vocabulaire - extraction et filtrage d'information Les auteurs devront utiliser les mod?les de document d?finis pour la conf?rence TALN. Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission par courrier ?lectronique sous la forme d'un document attach? (fichiers rtf, ps ou pdf au format A4 et non Lettre US). Le message contiendra le titre de la soumission et les noms des auteurs. Les formats ? utiliser pour la r?daction sont disponibles sur le site de la conf?rence: http://www.loria.fr/projets/TALN. La date limite de soumission est le 22 mars 2002. Les articles doivent ?tre envoy?s aux adresses suivantes : thierry.poibeau at thalesgroup.com camal.tazine at thalesgroup.com Les communications seront relues par deux membres du comit? de programme. L'atelier se d?roulera le jeudi 27 juin 2002, au Palais des congr?s de Nancy, durant la conf?rence TALN/JEP 2002. Comit? d'organisation Camal Tazine (Thales et LIA) Thierry Poibeau (Thales et LIPN) Comit? de programme Jean Caelen (IMAG) John Dowding (NASA) Pierre Jourlin (LIA) Fran?ois-Arnould Mathieu (T?lisma) Jean-Marie Pierrel (LORIA) Thierry Poibeau (Thales et LIPN) Steve Renals (Universit? de Sheffield) David Roussel (EADS) C?lestin Sedogbo (Thales) Camal Tazine (Thales et LIA) Fran?ois Yvon (ENST) -- Thierry Poibeau Thales Research and Technology Thierry.Poibeau at thalesgroup.com tel. +33 (1) 69 33 08 07 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:37 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:37 +0100 Subject: Ressources: Coopération entre ELDA et LDC Message-ID: Coop?ration entre ELDA et LDC - Distribution de ressources linguistiques Le projet Net-DC (Networking Data Centers, MLIS-5017), a pour but d'am?liorer l'infrastructure pour les ressources linguistiques, en instaurant de nouveaux modes de coop?ration entre le Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) et l'Agence europ?enne de distribution de ressources linguistiques (ELDA). Dans le cadre de cette coop?ration, LDC et ELDA ont le plaisir d'annoncer une action commune de distribution de ressources linguistiques. TED (Translanguage English Database) r?f?rence ELRA: http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0031.html r?f?rence LDC: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002S04.html) La base de donn?es TED (Translanguage English Database) est le r?sultat des enregistrements des expos?s oraux de la conf?rence "EuroSpeech '93". Le nom m?me du corpus refl?te l'important taux des expos?s donn?s en anglais par des conf?renciers dont la langue maternelle n'est pas l'anglais. 224 pr?sentations orales ont ?t? enregistr?es, g?n?rant environ 75 heures de parole. Ces enregistrements offrent un grand nombre de locuteurs, chacun parlant plusieurs variantes de l'anglais, sur une p?riode de temps relativement importante (environ 15 minutes de pr?sentation et 5 minutes de discussion), et ce sur un m?me th?me. Cette version de TED (6 CD-ROM) comprend 188 pr?sentations, la p?riode de discussion n'?tant pas incluse. Cette base de donn?es a ?t? produite avec le soutien d'ELSNET. Le texte associ? ? ce corpus est constitu? des versions ASCII de quelques 400 articles pr?sent?s dans les actes de la conf?rence et pr?parations orales fournis par les auteurs, ainsi que 250 questionnaires adress?s aux intervenants. Transcriptions de TED (Translanguage English Database) r?f?rence ELRA : http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0120.html r?f?rence LDC : http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002T03.html) Le corpus de transcriptions de TED (Translanguage English Database) comprend les transcriptions de 39 des 188 pr?sentations du corpus TED (r?f. ELRA : http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0031.html ; r?f LDC : http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002S04.html) et r?alis? ? Eurospeech'93 ? Berlin. Les 39 transcriptions de cette publication sont au format UTF (Universal Transcription Format) et ont ?t? pr?par?es par LDC. Chaque fichier utf de la version transcrite a ?t? valid? et est en conformit? avec la DTD utf incluse. Les tables contenant les informations d?mographiques des locuteurs et de r?f?rence crois?e des noms de fichier avec le corpus audio TED sont fournies. Pour plus d'informations, veuillez contacter ELRA/ELDA ou LDC ?: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France T?l: +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 01 43 13 33 30 Email: mapelli at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium 3615 Market Street, Suite 200 PA 19104-2608 Philadelphia, USA T?l: (215) 898-0464 Fax: (215) 573-2175 Email: ldc at ldc.cis.upenn.edu http://www.ldc.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:45 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:45 +0100 Subject: Conf: RENCONTRES "SEMANTIQUE ET CORPUS" Message-ID: RENCONTRES "SEMANTIQUE ET CORPUS" Ce que l'analyse de corpus apporte ? la r?flexion sur le sens UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL 20 et 21 mars 2002 Organis?es par l'Op?ration " S?mantique et Corpus " de l'Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et S?mantique, UMR5610, CNRS Contact : anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr Site Web : http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/ (section s?minaires et rencontres), en cours de construction. L'INSCRIPTION AUX JOURNEES EST OBLIGATOIRE MAIS GRATUITE.. Merci de renvoyer le bulletin d'inscription en fin de message avant le 16 mars 2002 ? Anne Condamines (anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr) Les " Rencontres S?mantique et corpus " organis?es par l'Op?ration " S?mantique et corpus " de l'ERSS ont pour ambition de faire se rencontrer diff?rents points de vue sur la question du sens en lien avec l'analyse de corpus. Cette th?matique est rarement discut?e en tant que telle ; pourtant, diff?rents courants de recherche des sciences du langage utilisent un corpus comme point de d?part, voire, comme r?f?rence ; on peut citer par exemple : - la linguistique historique et comparative, - l'analyse litt?raire, - la terminologie, - la sociolinguistique, - l'analyse de discours, - le traitement automatique de la langue (en tout cas une partie des travaux). Le recours ? des corpus est incontournable lorsque le linguiste n'a pas de comp?tence sur l'usage linguistique qu'il ?tudie (corpus historiques ou sp?cialis?s) ; il ne peut donc recourir ? une approche introspective. En analyse litt?raire, ce qui fait saillance est bien souvent plus ce qui renvoie ? un fonctionnement original qu'? un fonctionnement syst?matique. En sociolinguistique, l'analyse d'usages r?els fait partie de l'hypoth?se variationiste qui soutient les recherches ; la question de la stabilit? s?mantique intertextuelle est ainsi minimis?e, tout comme elle l'est dans l'analyse de discours, qui donne au corpus un r?le pr?pond?rant. En TAL, la confrontation ultime avec la r?alit? des usages am?ne de plus en plus de chercheurs ? prendre en compte ce r?el tr?s t?t dans la mise en place des ?tudes. Dans ces analyses, le sens appara?t n?cessairement en filigrane soit parce que, consid?r? comme stable, il soutient l'analyse syntaxique et morphologique et permet d'?tudier la variation, soit parce que, insaisissable par hypoth?se, il est toujours le fruit d'une construction et que seules les modalit?s de cette construction sont accessibles ; on ne per?oit donc du sens que ses effets, psychologiques ou sociaux. L'objectif de ces rencontres est de mettre en lumi?re la place du sens dans l'?laboration des r?sultats d'analyse ? partir de corpus. Il s'agit de savoir quelle part de connaissance s?mantique est convoqu?e a priori par la mise en oeuvre des ?tudes sur corpus et quelle part est construite par ces ?tudes. Cette probl?matique peut se d?cliner selon divers th?mes : - sens et signification, - sens et information, - stabilit? et variation, - r?le du co-texte, - r?le du contexte, - syst?me et usages, - reproductibilit? et validit? des r?sultats... *************************************************************************** PROGRAMME Mercredi 20 mars 2002 : 9h : Accueil 10h : Sylvie Mellet, BCL, (CNRS), Nice: Les corpus informatis?s am?liorent-ils l'acc?s au sens des textes latins ? 10h45 : Bernard Combettes, ATILF, Universit? de Nancy : Les ?tudes sur la grammaticalisation : probl?mes s?mantiques et contextuels dans l'utilisation des corpus informatis?s. 11h : Pause. 11h45 : Anne Condamines, ERSS, U.Toulouse Le Mirail : Ce que la constitution de terminologies ? partir de corpus apprend sur la comp?tence linguistique. 12h30 : H?l?ne Miguet, ERSS, U.Toulouse le Mirail : Approche "en corpus" des relations de localisation spatiale : probl?mes s?mantiques et contextuels 13h : Repas 14h30 : Beno?t Habert, Limsi et MoDyco, U.Parix X : Le monde bouge, les mots aussi : rep?rer les fluctuations de sens. 15h15 : Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN, U.Paris XIII : Acquisition de connaissances ? partir de corpus : ?laborer des ressources pour l'extraction d'information. 16h : Pause 16h30 : Fran?ois Rastier, MoDyCo, U.Paris X : Parcours interpr?tatifs et structures de corpus. 17h15 : Dominique Desmarchelier, Ceditec (Paris 12) et CNRS (ENS Lyon) : Le sens du texte : entre opacit? statistique et transparence ?nonciative. 18h : Michelle Lecolle, ERSS, U.Toulouse Le Mirail : Corpus et tropes : l'exemple des m?tonymies dans la presse quotidienne g?n?raliste. 18h30 : Fin de la premi?re journ?e. Jeudi 21 mars 2002 : 9h : Patrice Enjalbert, GREYC, Caen : Formes linguistiques et structure de l'information. Exp?riences en compr?hension automatique. 9h45 : Fran?ois Gaudin, Maryvonne Abraham, Thierry Wable, Dyalang, U.de Rouen. : Analyse s?mantique et corpus : le cas des r?sum?s de th?ses. 10h30 : Pause 11h : Sophie Pr?vost, LaTTICE, Paris : Cat?gorisation et Elaboration d'une typologie des textes dans la Base de Fran?ais M?di?val. 11h45 : C?cile Fabre et C?cile Fr?rot, ERSS, Universit? Toulouse Le Mirail : Arguments vs circonstants : une distinction rep?rable par des m?thodes d'analyse automatique de corpus ? 12h15 : Marie-Paule Jacques, ERSS, U.Toulouse Le Mirail : Comparaison de corpus pour l'?tude de la r?duction de termes complexes. 12h45 : Repas 14h15 : Jean V?ronis, DELIC, U. de Provence : Vers une lexicographie distributionnelle. 15h : Jean-Luc Minel, Equipe LaLICC, Paris : Filtrage s?mantique de textes. R?flexions ? partir de quelques applications. 15h45 : Nabil Hathout, ERSS, U.Toulouse Le Mirail : Utilisation des corpus pour d?terminer le sens des lex?mes construits. 16h15 : Didier Bourigault, ERSS, Universit? Toulouse Le Mirail : Analyse syntaxique automatique et analyse s?mantique de corpus. 16h45 : Fin des journ?es. *************************************************************************** Fiche d'inscription, ? renvoyer avant le 16 mars ? anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr Nom et Pr?nom : Organisme d'appartenance : M?l : T?l : Repas ? la cantine de l'Universit? (7,60 euros, environ 50 frs) (sinon, nombreuses possibilit?s de restauration ? l'entr?e de l'Universit?) : 20 mars : oui non 21 mars : oui non. *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 28 12:31:51 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:31:51 +0100 Subject: Appel: EIGHT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this more than once.] [To spread, please. Thank you.] EIGHT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS SANTIAGO DE CUBA JANUARY 20-24, 2003 The Center of Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce the Eight International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 20th through the 24th, 2003. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Voice Processing, Mass Media, and Ethnology and Folklore. The Symposium will be also sponsored by: .. University of Oriente, Cuba .. Higher Institute for Medical Sciences Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. Information for Development Agency Havana, Cuba .. African Cultural Center "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba .. University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands . National Council of Scientific Research, Italy .. University of Malaga, Spain .. University of Alcala, Spain .. University of Goias, Brazil .. University of Los Lagos, Chile .. Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, Lisbon, Portugal Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Linguistics: - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Morphology and Syntax - Anthropology Linguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Terminology - Translations 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistic research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Electronic dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Related issues 3. Voice Processing: - Applications of analysis, synthesis and voice-recognition - Artificial intelligence and voice processing 4. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaringology - Stomatology 5. Mass Media: - Linguistic research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and electronic media articles 6. Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication Activities that will take place within the event are: - Pre-Symposium seminars - Discussion of papers in commissions - Master conferences - Round Table PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists to be announced. The seminars will take place Monday, January 20th of 2003 and will focus on the following subjects: - Corpus Linguistics: current studies - Construction of Electronics Dictionaries Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 20.00 USD will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. ROUND TABLE A round table entitled Current Researches in Applied Linguistics will be held on the occasion of the VIII International Symposium on Social Communication. MASTER LECTURES During the Symposium three master lectures will be delivered by prestigious specialists to be announced. ABSTRACTS The deadline of submission of paper abstracts is July 1st, 2002. They should not exceed 250 words. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 30th, 2002. PAPERS To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium's documentation -as we did in the 5th ('97), 6th ('99) and 7th (2001) Symposiums-, accepted papers must be sent before September 15, 2002, with the following requirements: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium's Executive Secretary either via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing a 31/2-inch diskette. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 (mail type) format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event's official languages: Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. Instructions for paper submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the authors' names should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address if available. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, Italics, 10 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9 points size and leaving one space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes and 5 minutes for discussion. Authors must advise in advance if they will need a tape recorder, video set, computer or other kind of equipment for presentation. All mail or inquiries should be addressed to: Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez Secretaria Ejecutiva Comite Organizador VIII Simposio Internacional Comunicacion Social Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400 Telephone: (53-226) 642760 E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 160.00 USD Companions 80.00 USD Payment must be in cash during registration and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event, speaker's certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities. Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the Proceedings. ACCOMODATION The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event. IMPORTANT REMINDERS - Abstract Submission deadline: July 1st, 2002 - Notification on paper's approval by Scientific Committee: by July 30, 2002 - Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail using 31/2-inch diskette: September 15, 2002 - Pre-Symposium seminars: January 20th, 2003 - 8th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 21st through 24th, 2003 OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 kms from Havana, is Cuba's second largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the city's beauty and charm. SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE President of Honor: Dr. Rosa Elena Simeon Negrin Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment Republic of Cuba Aida Almaguer Furnaguera Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Santiago de Cuba Cuba Gerardo Garcia Cabrera President of Information for Development Agency Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Havana Cuba Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary Eight International Symposium on Social Communication Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez Academic of the Academy of Science of Cuba Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director of Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Marcos Cortina Vega Rector University of Oriente Ministry of Higher Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Nayra Pujals Victoria Rector Higher Institute for Medical Sciences Ministry of Public Health Santiago de Cuba Cuba Ena Elsa Velazquez Cobiella Rector Pedagogical University "Frank Pais" Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher Twente University Enschede, Holland Daniela Ratti Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Lucia Marconi Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Claudia Rolando Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Gloria Corpas Pastor Professor and Researcher University of Malaga Spain Luis Beltran Vice-Rector of International Relations University of Alcala Alcala de Henares Spain Deise Nanci de Castro Mesquita Professor and Researcher University of Goias Goias, Brazil Minerva Rosas Villarroel Professor and Researcher University of Los Lagos, Chile Margarita Correia Professor and Researcher Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics Lisbon, Portugal Nancy Alamo Suarez Researcher Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Celia Maria Perez Marques Researcher Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Celia Esther Alvarez Moreno Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Mercedes Cathcart Roca Professor and Researcher Faculty of Humanities University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Ercilia Estrada Estrada Scientific Council Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Miladys Diodene Adame Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Martha Cordies Jackson Researcher African Cultural Center "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba EIGHT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION REGISTRATION FORM Mr./Ms. ___________________________ Organization: ________________________ Title: _________________________________________ Business address: __________________________________ City: ______________ Telefax: ____________ Phone: _______________ E-Mail:____________________ Home address: _________________________ City: ___________ Telephone: __________ I wish to participate in Pre-Symposium seminars (optional) ___Corpus Linguistics: current studies ___Construction of Electronics Dictionaries Paper title: __________________________ Date: ________________ Signature: ___________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------