From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Apr 1 16:00:44 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:00:44 +0200 Subject: Conf: TALN2004: appel a participation Message-ID: ********************************************************************** T A L N 2 0 0 4 Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel 2004 --- Palais de Congrès Fès (Maroc) du 19 au 22 avril 2004 http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ ********************************************************************** (voir ci-dessous pour la version francaise) The TALN 2004 conference (le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles) will be held in in Fez, Morocco, from 19 to 22 April 2004, The programm can be download at: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/taln-program.pdf Registration information is accessible at : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ JEP-TALN'04 is organized by : . the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en Provence (France) . the University of Fez (Morocco) . the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Fez (Morocco) --------------------------------------------------------------------- La conférence TALN 2004 aura lieu, en conjonction avec JEP 2004, à Fès, au Maroc, du 19 au 22 avril 2004. Le programme de la conférence TALN est accessible en ligne : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/taln-program.pdf Toutes les informations relatives à l?inscription sont accessibles sur le site : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ JEP-TALN'04 est organisée par : . le Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en Provence (France) . l'Université de Fès (Maroc) . l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fès (Maroc) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 1 16:00:49 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:00:49 +0200 Subject: ATALA: workshop : MODELISER ET DECRIRE L'ORGANISATION DISCURSIVE A L'HEURE DU DOCUMENT NUMERIQUE Message-ID: ======================================================================== ATALA workshop, La Rochelle, 22 juin 2004 within the Semaine du Document Numérique http://sdn2004.univ-lr.fr/ MODELISER ET DECRIRE L'ORGANISATION DISCURSIVE A L'HEURE DU DOCUMENT NUMERIQUE MODELLING AND DESCRIBING DISCOURSE ORGANISATION IN THE AGE OF THE DIGITAL DOCUMENT Journée organisée par/workshop organised by Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley (pery at univ-tlse2.fr) PROGRAMME: 9h00 Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley (ERSS, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail) Introduction 9h20 Sandra Teston & Jean Véronis (DELIC, Université de Provence) Recherche de critères formels pour l'identification automatique des particules discursives 10h Nadine Lucas (GREYC, Université de Caen) La rhétorique des dépêches de presse à travers les marques énonciatives du temps, du lieu et de la personne 10h40-11h00 Pause 11h00 Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac & Cécile Frérot (ERSS, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail) Approche discursive et approche syntaxique des circonstants en corpus 11h40 Agata Jackiewicz (LaLICC, Université de Paris-Sorbonne) Les séries linéaires dans le discours : marques, opérations et structures sous-jacentes 12h20 - 13h40 Déjeuner 13h40 Nicolas Hernandez (LIMSI) Un indice de structuration de texte combinant finesse et disponibilité au niveau global et local 14h20 Frédérik Bihaut (GREYC, Université de Caen) Analyse automatique de la structure thématique du discours pour la navigation documentaire 15h00 Exposé invité : Liesbeth Degand & Yves Bestgen (FNRS, Université catholique de Louvain) How to determine the meaning and use of (causal) connectives in (large) corpora: from hand-based to automatic analyses 16h00 - 16h20 Pause 16h20 Bertrand Sereno, Simon Buckingham Shum & Enrico Motta (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK) Supporting the construction of networks of claims 17h00 Marie-Paule Jacques, Josette Rebeyrolle & Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac (ERSS,Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail) Quelques aspects méthodologiques d'une étude de la fonction discursive des titres en corpus 17h40 Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley (ERSS, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail) Conclusion La journée d?étude aura lieu à l?UFR Langues, Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines (FLASH) de l?Université de la Rochelle, derrière la médiathèque Michel Crépeau, à deux pas de la gare SNCF. L'entrée à la journée ATALA est libre mais la participation aux autres manifestations ou prestations de la Semaine du Document Numérique est subordonnée à une inscription (30 euros). Vous pourrez vous inscrire sur le site de la SDN à partir du 1er avril (http://sdn2004.univ-lr.fr/). Adhésion à l'association ATALA recommandée http://www.atala.org ___ Marie-Paule PERY-WOODLEY ___________________________________________________________________ ERSS / Sciences du Langage http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/ Universite de Toulouse Le Mirail Tel.: 33(0)5 61 50 46 76/-36 09 5 allees Antonio-Machado Fax: 33(0)5 61 50 42 12 F-31058 TOULOUSE CEDEX Email: pery at univ-tlse2.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 Apr 1 16:00:52 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:00:52 +0200 Subject: Jobs: poste de professeur : Ecole de traduction et d'interpretation de l'Universite d'Ottawa Message-ID: Madame, Monsieur, L'Ecole de traduction et d'interprétation de l'Université d'Ottawa sollicite des candidatures à un poste de professeur régulier dont l'entrée en fonction sera le 1er juillet 2003. Afin d'atteindre le plus large bassin de recrutement possible, nous apprécierions que l'annonce ci-jointe soit diffusée auprès de vous membres. En vous remerciant à l'avance de votre aimable collaboration, je vous prie d'agréer, Madame, Monsieur, l'expression de mes sentiments les plus distingués. Odette Thauvette Adjointe d'administration/Administrative Assistant Ecole de traduction et d'interprétation/School of Translation and Interpretation Faculté des arts/Faculty of Arts Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa 70, avenue Laurier est, Pièce 401 Ottawa (Ontario) K1N 6N5 CANADA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 1 16:00:56 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:00:56 +0200 Subject: Appel: NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Message-ID: [To spread, please, thank you.] [Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once.] NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS SANTIAGO DE CUBA JANUARY 24-28, 2005 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 Ninth International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 24 through the 28, 2005. 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, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Higher Institute for Medical Sciences Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . African Cultural Center "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Provincial Branch of Ministry of Culture, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Heredia Teather, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Melia - Santiago de Cuba Hotel . University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands . Institute for Computational Linguistics, Pisa, Italy . Knowledge Web, Ireland . Basque Country University, Spain . Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden . University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain 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 - Applied Linguistics - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Morphology and Syntax - Anthropology Linguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Terminology - Translations 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistics 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 - Otorhinolaryngology - Stomatology 5. Mass Media: - Linguistics 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 24th of 2005 and will focus on the following subjects: - Corpus Linguistics: current studies - Lexicology and Lexicography: trends and updates Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 25.00 USD will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. ROUND TABLE A round table entitled " The Mass Media: its impact in the use of language" will be held on the occasion of the IX International Symposium on Social Communication. KEYNOTE SPEECHES During the symposium two keynote speeches will be delivered by: - Prof. Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari Professor and Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy - Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov Professor and Researcher University of Wolverhampton United Kingdom The other two keynote speeches will be announced as soon as possible. ABSTRACTS The deadline of submission of paper abstracts is July 1st, 2004. They should not exceed 250 words. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 30th, 2004. 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), 7th (2001) and 8th (2003) Symposiums-, accepted papers must be sent before September 15, 2004, 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 3½-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 del Comite Organizador IX Simposio Internacional Comunicacion Social Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400 Telephones: 53-22-642760, 53-22-656141 E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 200.00 USD Companions 100.00 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, 2004 - Notification on paper's approval by Scientific Committee: by July 30, 2004 - Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail using 3½-inch diskette: September 15, 2004 - Pre-Symposium seminars: January 24th, 2005 - 9th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 25 through 28, 2005 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 Nicasio Viña Davila Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Santiago de Cuba Cuba Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary Ninth International Symposium on Social Communication Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez Emeritus Academic 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 Nicoletta Calzolari Scientific Director Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Daniela Ratti Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Lucia Marconi Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Claudia Rolando Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Paola Cutugno Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Gloria Corpas Pastor Professor and Researcher University of Malaga Malaga, Spain Nancy Cristina 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 Director and Researcher African Cultural Center "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Dieter Fensel Researcher Knowledge Web, Ireland Jens Allwood Professor and Researcher Univeristy of Goteborg Goteborg, Sweden Asa Abelin Professor and Researcher Univeristy of Goteborg Goteborg, Sweden Iñaki Alegría Loinaz Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Xabier Artola Zubillaga Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Xabier Arregi Iparragirre Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain ***** NINT 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 ___ Lexicology and Lexicography: trends and updates Paper title: __________________________ Date: ________________ Signature: ___________ -------------------------------------------- Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Calle 8 Nr. 206 entre 7 y 9 Vista Alegre. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba. C.P. 90400 Telefonos: 53-22-642760, 53-22-656141 Correo Electronico: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Amalia.Todirascu at LORIA.FR Thu Apr 1 15:38:37 2004 From: Amalia.Todirascu at LORIA.FR (Amalia.Todirascu at LORIA.FR) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:38:37 -0200 Subject: ROMAND'04 Deadline extended: April 7th Message-ID: LAST CALL FOR PAPER !!! Submission Deadline extended: April 7th !!! ROMAND 2004 3rd workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data A satellite event of COLING 2004 Geneva - August 29th 2004 http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2004/ Robustness in Computational Linguistics has been recently recognized as a central issue for the design of interactive applications based on natural language communication. If a failure of the system can be acceptable in batch applications requiring a human intervention, an on-line system should be capable of dealing with unforeseen situations in a more flexible way. When we talk about system failure we do not think at inherent program failures like infinite loops or system exception, we consider, rather, failures related to the processing of the input and its assimilation in the system's knowledge base. A failure of this kind means simply that the system does not "understand" the input. The automated analysis of natural language data has become a central issue in the design of Intelligent Information Systems. Processing unconstrained natural language data is still considered an AI-hard task. However, various analysis techniques have been proposed in order to address specific aspects of natural language. In particular, recent interest has been focused on providing approximate analysis techniques, assuming that when perfect analysis is not possible, partial results may be still very useful. ROMAND 2004 is the third of a series of workshops aimed at bringing together researchers and students that work in fields like artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, cognitive science and are interested in robust methods in natural language processing and understanding. The term "natural language" is intended as all the possible modalities of human communication and it is not restricted to written or spoken language. Theoretical aspects of robustness in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Understanding (NLU) are welcome as well as engineering and industrial experiences. We are also interested in research works that investigate different types of linguistic modules integration, in order to characterise their advantages and disadvantages with respect to different types of applications, and works that propose different types of NLP/NLU systems, ranging from sequential/pipelined architectures to more loosely-coupled multi-level distributed architectures. We invite papers on all topics related to robustness in natural language processing, including, but not limited to: * Natural Language Architectures * Robust Morpho-Syntactic Parsing * Robust Semantics * Robust Discourse Analysis * Robust Computational Pragmatics * Complexity of linguistic analysis * Spell checking and automated spell correction * NLP and Soft Computing * Hybrid methods in computational linguistics * Information Extraction * Multimedia Document Analysis * Spoken Language Understanding * Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces * Cognitive Linguistics INVITED TALKS Dr. Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh: "Gradient Grammaticality: Applications in Robust Parsing" SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors should submit an anonymous paper (avoiding, as much as possible, hints for the identification of authors) of at most 10 pages (including pictures and references), intended for talks with a duration of 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussions. The paper should follow the COLING formatting style available on the main conference web site (http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/), and the authors must also send us a wrapper e-mail message indicating: 1. the AUTHOR'S NAMES, AFFILIATION, ADDRESS, and E-MAIL address of (at least) the contacting author, 2. an ABSTRACT of the submitted paper (less than 500 words), 3. a list of KEYWORDS (no more than 5). The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF (preferred) or postscript format to: mailto:romand at epfl.ch. NEW! IMPORTANT DATES: Papers submission: April 7th Acceptance notification: May 15th Final version: June 15th Workshop: August 29th PROGRAM CHAIRS Vincenzo Pallotta (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne and International Computer Science Institute - Berkeley) Amalia Todirascu (University of Troyes and University of Iasi) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Afzal Ballim Alberto Lavelli Alexander Clark Atro Voutilainen Bangalore Srinivas C.J. Rupp Dan Cristea Diego Molla'-Aliod Eric Wherli Jose' Iria Fabio Massimo Zanzotto Fabio Rinaldi Frank Keller Giovanni Coray Guenther Goerz Hatem Ghorbel Jean-Cedric Chappelier Jean-Pierre Chanod Joachim Niehren John Carroll Kay-Uwe Carstensen Manuela Boros Maria Teresa Pazienza Martin Rajman Michael Hess Patrick Ruch Roberto Basili Rodolfo Delmonte Salah Ait-Mokhtar Susan Armstrong Wolfgang Menzel Yuji Matsumoto LOCAL ORGANIZATION Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva) Hatem Ghorbel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne) CONTACT INFORMATION: All inquiries should be sent to [romand at epfl.ch]. Please note that general organizational details (registration, accommodation, etc.) are taken care of by COLING 2004, not by the workshop organizers. More information are available the workshop's Web page at http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2004/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 7 15:28:55 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:28:55 +0200 Subject: Appel: 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in MT Message-ID: First Call for Papers TMI-2004 - The 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation Location: Baltimore, MD USA Dates: October 4-6, 2004 Detailed information will soon be available at www.his.se/tmi04 The previous conference in this series (TMI 2002) held in Keihanna, Kyoto, emphasized the synergy between empirical and knowledge-based approaches to Machine Translation. Another topic of interest was MT for new, so-called "low-density" languages.We continue to focus on these issues in the current TMI.Up to now, the papers presented at the TMI conferences were concerned with text-to-text translation. This year, we would like to extend the scope of the research presented at the TMI by including work on spoken language and sign language in Machine Translation. Papers addressing integration of speech processing and machine translation are especially welcome. This year's TMI conference takes place in connection to and in colaboration with AMTA-2004 (the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas). AMTA-2004 takes as its main theme the way "from real users to researchers". Consequently, papers addressing the issue of user needs, and the interaction between market requirements andresearch programs, should preferably be submitted to AMTA. The TMI conference welcomes research papers addressing the following main issues: - acquisition and organization of lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge for MT - innovative algorithms and system architectures for MT - combining stochasticand rule-based approaches - alignment and use of parallel corpora - discourse understanding for MT - language specific morphpological categories in translation - language typology research in relation to MT - speech-to-speech translation, sign-to-text/sign-to-speech translation - multi-lingual summarization. However, innovative papers that address other MT-related issues will be also considered. General submission guidelines: - papers should not be longer than 10 pages (in the letter format) - the minimum character font size is 11 pt - final formatting guidelines will be available at the conference website Important Dates: Submission deadline: May 31 Notification: June 28 Final copy due: July 26 General Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, UMBC, USA Program Committee Chairs: Barbara Gawronska (University of Skövde, Sweden) Steve Beale (UMBC, USA) Program Committee: Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Keihanna, Japan) Alex Fraser (ISI, USA) Maghi King (ISSCO, Switzerland) Stephan Oepen (CSLI, USA) Marge McShane (UMBC, USA) Melanie Siegel (DFKI, Germany) Bengt Sigurd (Lund University, Sweden) Harold Somers (UMIST, UK) Anna Sågvall Hein (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jean Veronis (Université de Provence, France) Taro Watanabe (ATR, Japan) Barbara Gawronska Professor of Computational Linguistics Dept. of Humanities and Information University of Skövde Box 408 541 28 Skövde, Sweden tel +46 (0)500 44 89 18 barbara.gawronska at isp.his.se ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 7 15:28:57 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:28:57 +0200 Subject: Appel: Terminology : An international journal of Theoretical and Applied issues in Specialized communication Message-ID: 2nd Call for contributions -- APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS -- A special issue of the "Terminology : An international journal of Theoretical and Applied issues in Specialized communication", Marie-Claude L'Homme & Ulrich Heid (eds.), John Benjamins Publishing, will be devoted to : "Application-driven Terminology engineering" Guest editors : Maria-Teresa Cabre, Annes Condamines, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan -- Topic of the issue -- This special issue, following a 2-day workshop held in January 2004 on "Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge Representation" in Lyon (France), wishes to address the specific issue of how terminological knowledge is used and managed within specific applications. It is thus an application-oriented terminology engineering issue. Most applications within knowledge engineering deal with terms but they define or process them differently according to the application targeted. More precisely, knowledge engineering makes use of ontologies, it means more or less formal knowledge representation using terms and relations between them. The text units considered in an ontology engineering framework may differ depending on uses to which the ontology is put and also may differ from the units considered in other application areas like information retrieval, terminology knowledge acquisition, dictionary construction or enhanced lexicons. The usefulness of terminology in applications areas like specialised lexicon construction, acquisition of semantic relations from texts, terminology knowledge base (TKB) construction have been demonstrated and many tools have been designed for such purposes. These works have adopted an empirical stance, based on corpora, thus stressing the necessary anchoring of term extraction, term definition and inter-term relation identification on the contexts of use. Researchers working in this field have reached a consensus on the fact that the meaning of a term is not always unique but depends a lot on the context, on the sub-speciality using it. In the wake of these works were also many scientific events at national and international levels: conferences (TIA, TKE), workshops within international conferences (COMPUTERM 1998 and 2002). A fair amount of literature exists on the definition and nature of terms, on term-concept relations, on term extraction methods and tools. Also, another research direction that has received much attention is terminology variation and structuring using different linguistic levels of analysis (morphology, syntax, semantic). This call concerns more specifically the links between terminology or ontology construction and an application. A particular attention will be paid to papers who justify the definition and processing of terms within an application framework, i.e., papers should make clear to what extent the application needs influence the type of text units analysed and the types of processing to which they are subjected, thus indicating how this departs from the mainstream theoretical definitions of terms and their properties. Note however that papers dealing only with the theoretical definitions of terms, concepts and their relations will fall outside the scope of this special issue as this has been widely debated and documented in the literature. The thrust should be on how the targeted application influences terminology engineering or management. Solid references should be made to works already done on similar applications in order to gauge the added-value gained from terminology processing. Another topic which this special issue will like to investigate is corpus-dependent terminology processing. Some studies have pointed out the fact that the type of corpus used in a particular study can influence the types of semantic relation markers found and the types of relations they embody. Thus papers dealing with how corpus genre affects the type of terminological knowledge acquired are also welcome. Contributions should be original and unpublished studies dealing with the use of terminology in the following application areas (non exhaustive) : - corpus-driven terminology knowledge base - corpus-driven ontology design - corpus-driven acquisition of semantic relations - computer-assisted terminology structuring (CAST) - computer-assisted language learning (CALL) - corpus-dependent terminology knowledge processing - competitive intelligence (CI), - scientific and technology watch (STW) - text mining (TM ) - question - Answering (Q-A) - information extraction (IE) Our aim in this special issue is to bring to light current research on the importance of terminology in these areas, to show that issues related to terminology processing cross several boundaries and are quite central in many non-classical application areas. As such, special attention will be given to papers describing the use of terminology in the above mentioned areas. Format for submissions --------------------------------------- Authors should conform to formatting guidelines which can be found on the publisher's website : www.benjamins.com, (click "Journals", "Terminology" and then "Guidelines") or at the end of printed issues of the journal. Papers should be written in Word and must not exceed 30 double-spaced pages with the required formatting. Submissions in English is preferred but French, Spanish and German are also acceptable. Special advisory board for this issue ----------------------------------------- Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, UK) Sophia Ananiandou (University of Salford, UK) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Paris, France) Caroline Barriere (National Research Council, Canada) Didier Bourigault( Erss, CNRS-Toulouse, France) Beatrice Daille (IRIN, Univ. of Nantes, France) Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan) Sylvie Laine-Cruzel (Ersicom, Univ. of Lyon 3, France) Genevieve Lallich (Ursidoc, Univ. of Lyon 1, France) Widad Mustafa El-Hadi (Univ. de Lille 3, France) Blaise Nkwenti-Azeh (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Jean Royaute (LIF,CNRS-Marseille, France) Monique Slodzian (CRIM/INALCO, Paris, France) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Univ. de Paris 13, France) Rita Temmerman (Erasmusshogeschool, Brussel Belgium) Philippe Thoiron (CRTT, Univ. de Lyon 2, France) lmportant dates ------------------------------------- 30 June 2004 : Deadline for paper submissions 20 September 2004 : Notification of answers to authors 30 October 2004 : camera ready copies Tentative printing schedule : first quarter of 2005. Send your contributions in Word format to both ibekwe at univ-lyon3.fr and anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr -------------------------------------- Ibekwe-SanJuan Fidelia Workshop "Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge representation" http://www.univ-lyon3.fr/ersicom/partagedessavoirs/termino2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 7 15:29:00 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:29:00 +0200 Subject: Conf: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Journ=E9es_d=27etude_de_l=27operation?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_=ABSemantique_et_Corpus=BB?= Message-ID: Équipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique (UMR 5610) CNRS & Université de Toulouse le Mirail Journées d'étude de l'opération «Sémantique et Corpus» LA PLACE DES MÉTHODES QUANTITATIVES DANS LE TRAVAIL DU LINGUISTE Mercredi 2 juin 2004 Maison de la Recherche. Salle D29 10h00 Mot de bienvenue 10h15 Étienne Brunet (Université de Nice). La quantification des textes: variation et convergence 11h00 Liesbeth Degand (Université catholique de Louvain). La sémantique des connecteurs : de l'analyse manuelle à l'analyse automatisée de corpus 11h45 Présentation de quelques travaux toulousains * Philippe Muller (IRIT-CNRS, UPS, INPT) et Laurent Prévot (IRIT-CNRS, UPS, INPT). Une étude des marqueurs d'acceptation du dialogue en français * Mai Hodac (ERSS-CNRS & UTM), Marie-Paule Jacques (ERSS-CNRS & UTM) et Josette Rebeyrolle (ERSS-CNRS & UTM). Titre à préciser * Cécile Fabre (ERSS-CNRS & UTM) et Nabil Hathout (ERSS-CNRS & UTM). Titre à préciser 12h30 Repas 14h30 Pascale Sébillot (IRISA & Université de Rennes 1). Acquisition de connaissances linguistiques en corpus par apprentissage symbolique ou quand l'apprentissage perd son aspect boîte noire 15h15 Didier Bourigault (ERSS-CNRS & UTM). Acquisition de probabilités de sous-catégorisation à partir de très gros corpus 16h00 Pause 16h30 Marc Plénat (ERSS - CNRS & UTM). Le linguiste comme orpailleur 17h15 Bernard Victorri (LATTICE - CNRS & ENS). L'utilisation de méthodes quantitatives dans l'étude de la polysémie lexicale Jeudi 3 juin 2004 Maison de la Recherche. Salle D31 9h30 Antoinette Renouf (University of Liverpool). Trends in Morphological Productivity in English Journalistic Texts over the last 15 years 10h15 Benoît Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Université Paris X). Battre son corpus tant qu'il est chaud 11h00 Pause 11h30 Bruno Gaume (IRIT, CNRS, UPS & INPT), Philippe Muller (IRIT, CNRS, UPS & INPT) et Nabil Hathout (ERSS - CNRS & UTM). Faire émerger le sens de la quantité et de la structure 12h15 Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/DSI/AP-HP). Exploitation de dimensions du traitement de corpus en découverte de connaissances linguistiques Inscription gratuite obligatoire Contact : Ludovic.Tanguy at univ-tlse2.fr URL : http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 7 15:28:58 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:28:58 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLING 2004 : RECENT ADVANCES IN DEPENDENCY GRAMMAR Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on RECENT ADVANCES IN DEPENDENCY GRAMMAR August 28th, 2004 To be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 [ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/dg2004/ ] ** Poster/paper submission deadline: April 21 ** Over the last years, there has been a strong revival of interest for dependency grammar, following up on, and contributing to, the recent advances in formal grammar and in computational linguistics. Dependency grammar is, however, more of a "perspective" on grammar than a singular framework, which has led to a great variety of proposals making this perspective more concrete. The last workshop dedicated purely to dependency grammar was the Dependency Grammar workshop organized in conjunction with ACL-COLING 1998 in Montreal [ http://www.olst.umontreal.ca/Eng/DGPapers.html ]. The goal of the current workshop is to offer a dedicated forum where the community can present and assess recent advances in dependency grammar, discuss issues, progress and perspectives, and to foster new collaborations. To make optimal use of the workshop format, we plan to mix paper presentations with a poster session (1.30h), and allow for enough time for discussion around paper presentations (25+10). We would like to invite submissions to the workshop on any theme relating to dependency grammars. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: The format and length requirements will be the same as for full papers for COLING 2004. See [ http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ ] or [ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/dg2004/ ] for more details. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Papers should be sent to [ dg2004 at coli.uni-sb.de ]. The paper should be an attachment in PDF format and the heading on the email should read "PAPER SUBMISSION". Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to the originating email address. LANGUAGE: All papers must be written and presented in English PROCEEDINGS AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION Accepted papers and posters will be published in a proceedings volume. For the workshop to take place, the COLING 2004 organizers require at least 20 participants to register for the workshop. Speakers and participants are therefore asked to register via the official COLING 2004 site as soon as possible. IMPORTANT DATES: Apr 21 Deadline full papers and posters May 26 Notification Jun 16 Final versions of full papers, posters/short papers due Jun 24 Submission camera ready proceedings PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Geert-Jan Kruijff Saarland University, Saarbrücken (co-chair) Denys Duchier LORIA, Nancy (co-chair) Alexander Dikovsky Universite de Nantes, Nantes Dick Hudson University College London, London Sylvain Kahane University Paris 10 - Nanterre Alexander Koller Saarland University, Saarbrücken Vladislav Kubon Charles University, Prague Wolfgang Menzel Hamburg University, Hamburg Glyn Morrill Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Joachim Niehren INRIA Futurs, Lille Joakim Nivre Vaxjo University, Vaxjo Alain Polguère University of Montreal, Montreal Owen Rambow Columbia University, New York Petr Sgall Charles University, Prague CONTACT INFORMATION: All inquiries should be sent to [ dg2004 at coli.uni-sb.de ] with the SUBJECT heading "INQUIRY". Please note that general organizational details (registration, accommodation, etc.) are taken care of by COLING 2004, not by the workshop organizers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 7 15:54:29 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:54:29 +0200 Subject: Conf: JEP-TALN 2004 : TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DE LA LANGUE ARABE ECRITE ET ORALE Message-ID: **************************************************** APPEL A PARTICIPATION J E P 2 0 0 4 - T A L N 2 0 0 4 - Sessions Spéciales - TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DE LA LANGUE ARABE ECRITE ET ORALE Palais des Congrès Fès (Maroc) du 19 au 22 avril 2004 **************************************************** Compte tenu du nombre élevé de soumissions sur le thème du "Traitement automatique de la langue arabe écrite et parlée", plusieurs sessions différentes seront organisées : * Conférence invitée plénière JEP/TALN (Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA). * Session orale plénière commune JEP/TALN. * Session orale parallèle commune JEP/TALN. * Deux sessions posters communes JEP/TALN. Le programme détaillé des sessions est disponible ici : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/JEP-TALN-ARABIC-Programme.pdf http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04//JEP-TALN-ARABIC-Programme.pdf Les informations relatives à l'inscription sont accessibles ici : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04/ **************************************************** Organisateurs : Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D, France. Noureddine Chenfour, Université S.M.Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc. ------------------------------------------------------ Malek Boualem France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 Email: malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.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 Wed Apr 7 17:41:04 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 19:41:04 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLING 2004 : Workshop on MULTILINGUAL LINGUISTIC RESSOURCES Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on MULTILINGUAL LINGUISTIC RESSOURCES MLR2004 August 28th, 2004 To be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 [ http://mlr2004.imag.fr/ ] ** Paper submission deadline: May 7th 2004 ** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION -------------------- In an ever expanding information society, most information systems are now facing the "multilingual challenge". Lexical resources play an essential role in these information systems. Such lexical resources need to provide information on many languages in a common framework and should be (re)usable in many applications (for automatic or human use). Many centers have been involved in national, european and international projects dedicated to building harmonized language resources and creating expertise in the maintenance and further development of standardized linguistic data. These resources include dictionaries, lexicons, thesauri, wordnets, and annotated corpora developed along the lines of best practices and recommendations. However, since the late 90's most efforts in scaling up these resources remain the responsibility of the local authorities, usually, with very low funding (if any) and few opportunities for academic recognition of this work. Hence, it is not surprising that many of the resource holders and developers have become reluctant to give free access to the latest resources. It is therefore currently rather unclear what the actual status is of these language resources. The goal of this workshop is to study problems involved in the development/management/reuse of lexical resources in a multilingual context. Moreover, this workshop will provide a forum for reviewing the state of language resources. The workshop is meant to bring to the international community qualitative and quantitative information about the most recent developments in the area of linguistic resources and their use in applications. As the workshop takes place in Europe, special attention will be given to submissions on resources for European languages (especially Central and Eastern European languages), but submission of innovative developments involving any language will be welcome. The intent of the workshop is not only to review academic developments but also to hear from industry, how these resources are used in new technology developments and what the current needs are in the field. Presentations, project notes and position papers are welcome. WORKSHOP TOPICS --------------- Authors of papers on multilingual linguistic ressources are encouraged to apply. Papers could be on - but not limited to - any of the following topics: - models for language/application-independent linguistic data - linguistic data acquisition and maintenance - building multilingual linguistic resources - lexical architectures to link data between languages - use of linguistic resources for applications in a multilingual context - reuse of existing lexical resources in a specific multilingual application - human use of lexical resources in a multilingual context - quality evaluation and standardization SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Papers should be original, hence report on previously unpublished work. They should emphasize completed rather than intended work. Papers submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. As the review process will not be blind, papers should contain the names and affiliations of authors. Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations). Project notes and position papers should not exceed 4 pages. Authors should follow the COLING 2004 formating guidelines, available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html. All submissions should be made through the MLR2004 workshop web site's submission form (http://mlr2004.imag.fr/). They should consist of a single PDF file. Before submitting your document, please verify that all non-standard fonts are correctly embedded in your PDF document (you can do this by disabling the "Use Local Font" option when viewing you PDF document with Adobe Reader). Formating requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Deadline for submission of Papers: May 7th 2004 Notification of Acceptance: June 2nd 2004 Deadline for final paper submission: June 16th 2004 Workshop: August 28th 2004 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Gilles Sérasset, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier- Grenoble I, France Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Suisse Christian Boitet, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier- Grenoble I, France Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Suisse Dan Tufis, RACAI, University of Bucharest, Romania PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- - Gilles Sérasset, GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France (chair) - Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland - Pushpak Battacharya, IIT, Mumbai, India - Igor Boguslavski, IITP, Moscow, Russia - Christian Boitet, GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France - Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland - Jim Breen Monash, University, Australia - Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR, Pisa, Italy - Dan Cristea, University Al.I.Cuza Iasi, Romania - Patrick Drouin, OLST, University of Montreal,Canada - Sanae Fujita, NTT, Kyoto, Japan - Ulrich Heid, IMS-CL, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Hitoshi Isahara, CRL, Nara, Japan - Kyo Kageura, NII, Tokyo, Japan - Chuah Choy Kim, USM, Penang, Malaisie - Mathieu Mangeot, NII, Tokyo, Japan - Alain Polguère, OLST, University of Montreal,Canada - Andrei Popescu-belis, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland - Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France - Mandel Shi, Xiamen University, China - Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL, Thailand - Pr. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Tokyo University, Japan - Philippe Thoiron, CRTT, Université de Lyon 2, France - Dan Tufis, RACAI, Uni Bucharest, Romania - Michael Zock, LIMSI, Orsay, France CONTACT ------- mlr2004 at imag.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 Wed Apr 7 17:43:40 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 19:43:40 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLING 2004 : workshop : ENHANCING AND USING ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES Message-ID: ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ENHANCING AND USING ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES Workshop to be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 August 29th, 2004 ** Paper submission deadline: May 1st 2004 ** ----------------------------------------------------------- Introduction A dictionary is a vital component of any natural language processing system. Its modern, digital form has considerable potential, especially if it is extended and built in a way compatible with the needs and habits of the average language user. There are many ways to make an electronic dictionary useful for people in their daily tasks of processing language. One could assist * reading and writing: adding a transliterator and a morphological generator/parser to a dictionary would put the needed information at the distance of a mouse click. Imagine someone trying to look up the meaning (or translation) of a word in a script he can't read. * language learning: combining dictionaries with a parametrizable flashcard system and a goal-driven exercice generator could help the memorization and automation of words and basic syntactic patterns. In such a system choosing a goal would trigger syntactic templates, filling the latter with words would yield (simple) sentences. * lexical access (navigation): structuring the dictionary in a similar way as the human mind, i.e. building an associative network akin to WordNet, but with many more links in particular at the syntagmatic axis, could assist the writer not only in finding new ideas (brainstorming), but also the word he is looking for. Within this framework, word access amounts to entering and navigating in a huge, associative network. To build such a tool one could extract associations from an encyclopedia, label and add them as links to a resource like WordNet. As one can see, there are numerous ways to enhance dictionaries. While the new hardware offers many, sometimes surprising opportunities for novel uses, seizing them requires some rethinking. This is the goal of this one-day workshop. In particular, we'd like to discuss interesting extensions and enhancements of electronic dictionaries. For example, one could consider merging different, thesaurus-like dictionaries and see what kind of conceptual and navigational aids might be added to support the language user: what are his needs, what information is he looking for? Actually, a focus shift might be necessary to move from the data (content and size of the dictionary) to their organisation and access. As, what is a huge dictionary good for, if one cannot find the word one is looking for? Target audience The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers involved in the building of electronic dictionaries to discuss modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs (i.e. how to capitalize on the advantages of the digital form). Given the breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many perspectives, including, but not limited, to linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics, language learning, and ergonomics. We request that each contribution addresses computational aspects. Topics We would like to invite papers addressing any of the following issues : * type of information to be stored in the dictionary * representation and structuring (indexing) of the data; * management, visualization and useability of the data; * access (aids for navigation, interface, strategies); * acquisition of lexical data (corpus); * possibilities for editing entries (annotation, updating); * integration (combination of the dictionary with other ressources, writer's workbench); * uses of dictionaries by people (learning/teaching; writing) and by machines (NLP). Submission instructions Papers should be original, hence report on previously unpublished work. Papers simultaneously submitted to other conferences should reflect this fact on the title page. As the review process will not be blind, papers should contain the names and affiliations of authors. Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations). Project notes and position papers should not exceed 4 pages. Authors should follow the COLING 2004 formating guidelines, available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html. All submissions should be made by email to the following address zocklimsi.fr. They should consist of a single PDF file. Before submitting your document, please verify that all non-standard fonts are correctly embedded in your PDF file (you can do this by disabling the "Use Local Font" option when viewing your document with Adobe's Reader). Formating requirements for the final version of the papers will be posted as soon as they become available. Important dates: * Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 1st May 2004 * Notification of workshop paper acceptance: 1st June 2004 * Deadline for camera-ready workshop papers: 15th June 2004 * Workshop Date: 29th August 2004 Organising Committee: * Michael Zock (Limsi-CNRS, Orsay, France) chair * Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France) Program Committee: * Antonietta Alonge (University of Perugia, Italy) * Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France) * Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy) * Christiane Fellbaum (University of Princeton, USA) * Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada) * Mathieu Mangeot-Nagata (NII, Tokyo) * Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, USA) * Alain Polguère (OLST, University of Montreal, Canada) * James Pustejovsky (University of Brandeis, USA) * Gilles Sérasset (GETA, Grenoble, France) * Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France) * Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan) * Dan Tufis (RACAI, Bucharest, Roumania) * Jean Véronis (University of Aix en Provence, France) * Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft, The Netherlands) * Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart, Germany) * Michael Zock (Limsi-CNRS, France) Contact For any queries please contact Michael Zock: zock at limsi.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 Wed Apr 14 15:29:02 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:29:02 +0200 Subject: Conf: SIGdial '04 Message-ID: SIGdial '04 News 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue Cambridge/MA, April 30 and May 1, 2004 (immediately preceding HLT-NAACL) ____________________________________________________________________________ DEMOS The following demos have been accepted in addition to the program published earlier: A dialogue system for language learning Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) A Flexible Mixed-Initiative Speech Interface for Restaurant Information Stephanie Seneff, Grace Chung, Chao Wang (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) PALSUMM LiveTree Discourse Processing Environment Gian Lorenzo Thione, Martin van den Berg, Chris Culy, Livia Polanyi (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Find a restaurant with the 3D embodied conversational agent Nestor Celine Ance, Bretier, Breton, Damnati, Moudenc, Le Pape, Panaget, Pele, Sadek (France Telecom R&D) Dialog Management for Conversational Applications Vidhya Ramanujam, Greg Purdy, Carl Osipov, Rajesh Balchandran, Linda Boyer (IBM) Discourse and Dialog in the START Question Answering System Boris Katz, Sue Felshin (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) Hosting Conversations with a Robot Candace Sidner, Chris Lee, Neal Lesh (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs) Descriptions of those demos are available on the SIGdial '04 homepage (http://sigdial04.eml-research.de). Follow the link to "Demonstrations". ____________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM The program for the SIGdial '04 workshop is available on the SIGdial '04 homepage (http://sigdial04.eml-research.de). Follow the link to "Program". ____________________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION Online registration for SIGdial '04 is available on the HLT/NAACL website (http://www.aclweb.org/hltnaacl04reg/hltnaacl04reg.php). Early registration deadline ends on April 9, 2004. ____________________________________________________________________________ DIRECTIONS Directions to the workshop site (the MIT faculty club) are available on the SIGdial '04 homepage (http://sigdial04.eml-research.de). Follow the link to "Registration and Other Info". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 14 15:30:16 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:30:16 +0200 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies (WORM-04) Message-ID: *apologies for cross posting* -CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: June 25, 2004- Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies (WORM-04) WWW: http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_2004.htm Part of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '04) * Proceedings published by Springer LNCS * October 25-29 2003 , Larnaca, Cyprus In many application areas (such as e-commerce, e-governments, content standardizations, legal information systems etc.), the modeling of regulatory and legal knowledge is a critical. Modeling and deploying regulatory knowledge has some specifics that differentiate it out from other kinds of knowledge modeling: reasoning methods and application scenarios, the legal weight (/order) of regulations, parsing legal texts requires special semantic patterns, the sensitivity in cross-boarder regulations, etc. This workshop aims at bringing together academics, researchers, professionals and industrial practitioners to discuss issues involved in modeling regulatory ontologies. Regulatory ontologies typically involve the description of rules and regulations within the social world. In particular, we seek original contributions on the following issues of interest, but not limited to: - Engineering of regulatory ontologies: conceptual analysis, representation, modularization and layering, reusability, evolution and dynamics, etc; - Multilingual and terminological aspects of regulatory ontologies; - Models of legal reasoning (from ontological viewpoint): regulatory compliance, case-based reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, etc. - Sensitivity on and harmonization of regulations; - Regulatory metadata and content standardization (e.g. legal-XML/LeXML, ADR/ODR-XML,...); - Regulatory ontologies of: property rights, persons and organizations, legal procedures, contracts, legal causality, etc; - Task models for socially regulated activities; - Experiences with projects and applications involving regulatory ontologies in legal knowledge based systems, legal information retrieval, e-governments, e-commerce; - Automated extraction of Information from regulatory documents. Invited Speaker ===================== Submissions ===================== We invite papers of no more than 14 pages length (Springer style format) Describing original completed work, work in progress, interesting problems or use cases, or trends in this research area. Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as on technical aspects. *****Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a part of Proceedings of the ?On The Move Federated Conferences 2004?. Please email your submission by 25-June-2003 in PDF or Postscript format to Mustafa Jarrar (mjarrar_at_vub.ac.be) AND Aldo Gangemi (a.gangemi_at_istc.cnr.it). Important dates ============================== - June 18, 2004 : Deadline for submission of Abstracts - June 25, 2004 : Deadline for submission of papers - July 25, 2004 : Notification to paper authors - August 20, 2004 : Final version of accepted papers - Oct 28, 2004 : Workshop Organizers and general chairs ============================== - Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Contact) http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa - Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome (Contact) http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html Program Committee ==================================== * Abdul Paliwala, University of Warwick, UK * Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy * André Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, USA * Andrew Stranieri, JUSTSYS, Ballarat, Australia * Bart Verheij, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands * Benjamin Grosof, MIT, USA * Carole Hafner, Northeastern University, USA * Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands * Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain * Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France * Joost Breuker, LRI-UVA, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Leonardo Lesmo, Universita' di Torino, Italy * Marc Wilikens, EU JRC, Ispra, Italy * Mariano Fernandez Lopez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain * Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy * Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain * Rita Temmerman, Erasmushogeschool Brussels, Belgium * Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Said Tabet, The RuleML Initiative, Boston, USA * Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK * Youssef Amghar, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 14 15:31:05 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:31:05 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLING Workshop Biomedicine and its Applications : new deadline Message-ID: COLING Workshop International Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications BioNLP/NLPBA 2004 http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/JNLPBA04/ Call for Papers Geneva, Switzerland August 28-29, 2004 *** Deadline for Regular Workshop Papers: 16th of April **** Workshop Description Recent years have seen a growing interest in the application of NLP techniques to texts in the domains of biology and medicine. The problem of information overload that has resulted from the massive growth in the scientific literature has clearly shown the necessity to automatically locate, organize and manage facts relating to experimental results. At the same time clinicians have experienced greatly improved access to the medical literature and clinical repositories which needs to be matched by the development of enhanced information access tools. This year NLPBA (http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/) and BioNLP (http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ACL03/bionlp.htm) merge for a joint workshop with the aim of bringing together researchers from natural language processing, bio-informatics, medicine and ontologies who are concerned with developing methods and resources for solving these problems. Over the last five years we have seen significant steps forward in the development of language technology and large-scale resources for the Bio-Medical domain such as linguistically annotated corpora (e.g. GENIA POS and NE corpora), ontologies (e.g. Gene Ontology), thesauri (e.g. UMLS Metathesaurus), lexicons and term lists (e.g. UMLS SPECIALIST) as well as information retrieval collections (e.g. TREC Genomics track). At the application level we see development of question answering systems, event recognition, zone (rhetorical region) identification, as well as term and bio-entity recognition. The demand for information access tools from domain users is increasing to support literature survey, often integrated into online 'portals' where scientists can navigate through related information resources such as genetics and disease databases. Ongoing challenges relate to the growing and ambiguous nomenclature, the need to integrate deep knowledge sources into machine learning, a need to scale up methods for processing full text articles etc. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers in this area, to establish common themes and goals between different groups. We have seen from previous experience in the natural language learning and information retrieval communities the benefits of sharing resources and developing common evaluation criteria. In this workshop we are introducing a special shared task to promote discussion of these issues as well as the objective of integrating machine learning with knowledge resources. We invite submission of papers on topics related to bio-medical NLP including, but not limited to: * Information extraction * Text mining * Named entity recognition * Coreference resolution * Term recognition * Knowledge-based information retrieval * Multi-lingual resources and applications * Ontology construction and ontology mapping * Visualization tools for viewing clustered or extracted information or meta-data * Multi-modal approaches combining text and images, etc. * Event recognition * Construction of pathways from literature and databases * Creation of data-sets of bio-medical entities, coreferences and relations * Annotation standards and quality control methodologies * Resource integration and re-engineering * Corpus/lexicon construction * Text summarization and report generation Shared Task This year we propose to have a special shared task: bio-medical named entity recognition from the GENIA corpus. The purpose of this track is essentially to investigate the integration of statistical machine learning methods with symbolic knowledge sources from the bio-medical domain such as ontologies, thesauri and lexicons : shared task description. Paper Format and Submission Workshop papers should follow the COLING 2004 templates for regular papers (i.e. at most 7 pages). Shared task papers should be formatted as per the COLING project notes style (4 pages). All papers will be submitted by email to jnlpba-submit at david.hcuge.ch. Important Dates Extended deadline for workshop papers: April 16th, 2004 Notification of accepted papers: May 14th, 2004 Deadline for camera ready copies: June 6th, 2004 Workshop Chairs Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Patrick Ruch (University Hospital of Geneva and EPFL, Switzerland) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, France) Organizing Committee Alfonso Valencia (Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain) Carol Friedman (CUNY/Columbia University, USA) Donia Scott (University of Brighton, UK) Udo Hahn (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany) Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan) Program Committee Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK) Alan Aronson (National Library of Medicine, USA) Robert Baud (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland) Christian Blaschke (CNB, Spain) Oliver Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA) Berry de Bruijn (National Research Center, Canada) Marc Craven (University of Wisconsin, USA) Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK) Eric Gaussier (Xerox, XRCE, France) Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou (Columbia University, USA) Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, USA) Dimitar Hristovski (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Jerry Hobbs (USC/ISI, USA) Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Su Jian (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Asao Fujiyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Arne Jönsson (University of Linköping, Sweden) Frédérique Lisacek (GeneBio SA, Switzerland) Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan) Claire Nédellec (INRA, France) Kousaku Okubo (Kyushu University, Japan) Jong C. Park (KAIST, Korea) Thierry Poibeau (LIPN, France) Denys Proux (Xerox, XRCE, France) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA) Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (European Bioinformatics Institute, EU) Irena Spasic (UMIST, UK) Ben Stapley (UMIST, UK) Padmini Srinivasan (University of Iowa, USA) Hirotoshi Taira (NTT Communication Science, Japan) Toshihisa Takagi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Yuka Tateishi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Anne-Lise Veuthey (SIB, Switzerland) Limsoon Wong (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, INSERM & INaLCO, France) Contact Information General organization : jnlpba-request at david.hcuge.ch Shared task organization: bio04sharedtask at nii.ac.jp Main page : http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/JNLPBA04/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 14 15:32:33 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:32:33 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLLOQUE "ROUTE DU VERBE" : nouvelle date limite Message-ID: COLLOQUE "ROUTE DU VERBE", NANCY, 30 SEPTEMBRE AU 02 OCTOBRE PROLONGATION DE L'APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS NOUVELLE DEADLINE A NOTER : 25 AVRIL 2004 Colloque des doctorants et jeunes chercheurs en linguistique de l'université Nancy 2 : "Sur la route du verbe" Du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 Université Nancy 2 ­ 23, boulevard Albert 1er - 54000 NANCY Laboratoires ATILF et CRAPEL Date limite de soumission : 25 avril 2004 ******************** PRESENTATION Un groupe de doctorants et jeunes chercheurs des laboratoires ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) et CRAPEL (Centre de Recherches et d'Applications Pédagogiques En Langues ) de l'Université Nancy 2 organise son premier colloque, intitulé "Sur la route du verbe". Celui-ci aura lieu à Nancy du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 . Il s'inscrit dans l'esprit du colloque JETOU2003, organisé par les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs de l'Université de Toulouse 2 en novembre 2003. La date limite de soumission des communications est fixée au 25 avril 2004. ******************** CONFERENCIERS INVITES Georges KLEIBER (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg) Brenda LACA (Université Paris 3) ******************** THEMATIQUE Ce colloque s'adresse principalement aux doctorants et jeunes chercheurs en linguistique, mais son ambition est aussi de faire se rencontrer la communauté des chercheurs en linguistique plus expérimentés avec leurs jeunes collègues. La langue officielle est le français. Le thème du colloque proposé est centré sur le verbe et ses dépendances. Toutes les approches disciplinaires sont les bienvenues, qu'elles soient monolingues ou multilingues, de la morpho-phonologie à la didactique, en passant par le lexique, la syntaxe, la sémantique et le discours, tant au plan synchronique que diachronique. En effet, à travers ses nombreuses spécificités : · ses marques morphologiques spécifiques (sa terminaison ­ désinence ­ varie selon le temps et la personne, le mode et l'aspect) · en tant qu'unité lexicale potentiellement infinie et perpétuellement renouvelée · en tant que constituant habituel de la phrase · en tant que constituant du groupe verbal · en tant que pivot de la proposition, le verbe est un objet d'étude qui concerne tous les domaines de la linguistique (lexicologie, sémantique, syntaxe, morphologie') et dans toutes les perspectives (cognition, analyse de discours, analyse du français parlé, grammaire générative, typologie, didactique') Il s'agit d'interroger les valeurs et potentialités du lexème verbal ainsi que son rôle dans la proposition. Les axes d'étude suivants nous intéressent particulièrement : -La sémantique lexicale du verbe monolingue et multilingue (polysémie, typologies, expressions figées, ...), -L'aspect (catégorisation de l'aspect lexical, interactions entre aspect lexical en contexte et hors-contexte, l'aspect et sa localisation, les interactions entre aspect lexical et aspect morphologique, l'aspect et l'organisation du discours,...) -La didactique (enseignement et apprentissage (français langue maternelle)) -La complémentation (rection et valence (dépendance du verbe / structure argumentale), antéposition (micro et macro-syntaxe), contenus sémantiques et rapports syntaxico-sémantiques,...) ******************** CONDITIONS DE SOUMISSION Les propositions de communications se présenteront sous la forme d'un résumé anonyme n'excédant pas deux pages (figures et références bibliographiques comprises). Les résumés seront envoyés sous format électronique. Les fichiers peuvent être envoyés en formats RTF, PS, PDF ou DOC. Ils devront comporter une marge de 2 cm sur chaque côté et utiliser du Times New Roman en 12. Le corps du message contiendra : les nom et prénom du ou des auteur(s), l'affiliation, les coordonnées postales et électroniques, le titre de la communication. Le fichier attaché contiendra : le titre et le résumé anonyme. Les propositions devront parvenir à l'adresse : route.verbe at atilf.fr au plus tard le 25 avril 2004. En cas d'impossibilité d'envoi électronique, envoyer la proposition en 3 exemplaires par courrier postal (cachet de la poste faisant foi) à l'adresse suivante : Colloque « Sur la route du verbe » Laboratoire ATILF ­ CNRS 44, avenue de la libération BP 30687 54000 NANCY Joindre un document séparé qui contiendra : les nom et prénom du ou des auteur(s), l'affiliation, les coordonnées postales, le titre de la communication. ******************** COMITE D'ORGANISATION Mounia Aouidet, Claire Becker, Julie Cyr, Karine David, Sébastien Haton, Sophie Heyd, Hilary Inwood, Evelyne Jacquey, Christelle Jengie, Hervé Lejeune, Laurent Mascherin, Cathy Pira, Laëtitia Wack. ******************** COMITE DE LECTURE Denis Apothéloz (Université Nancy 2) Claire Beyssade (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS) Claire Blanche-Benveniste (Université de Provence) Gilles Boyé (Université Nancy 2) Patricia Cabredo-Hoffer (Université Paris 8, CNRS) Emmanuelle Canut (Université Nancy 2) Bernard Combettes (Université Nancy 2) Jean-Paul Confais (Université Toulouse 2) Georgette Dal (Université Lille 3) Loïc Depecker (Université Paris 3) Céline Fabre (Université Toulouse 2) Catherine Fuchs (LaTTICe / UMR 8094 CNRS / ENS-Ulm / Paris 7) Philippe Gréa (Université Nancy 2) Claude Guimier (Université Caen Basse-Normandie) Nabil Hathout (Université Toulouse 2) Christine Jacquet-Pfau (Collège de France, Paris) Marie-Laurence Knittel (Université Nancy 2) Dominique Lagorgette (Université de Savoie) Béatrice Lamiroy (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgique) Pierre Larrivée (Aston University, Royaume-Uni) Stéphanie Lignon (Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse) François Lonchamp (Université Nancy 2) Mounira Loughraieb (Université Nancy 2) Eric Mathieu (University College London, Angleterre) Jacques Moeschler (Université de Genève, Suisse) Fiammetta Namer (Université Nancy 2) Vincent Nyckees (Université Lille 3) Sandrine Oriez (Université de Poitiers) Alain Polguère (Université de Montréal, Canada) Bernard Pottier (Université Paris 4 - Sorbonne) François Rastier (Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot) Sylvianne Rémi (Université Lyon 2) Laurent Roussarie (Université Paris 8 ' Vincennes/St-Denis) Jean-François Sablayrolles (Université Paris 7) Louis de Saussure (Université de Genève, Suisse) Catherine Schnedecker (Université Strasbourg 2) Martine Vanhove (CNRS LLCAN Villejuif Paris) Danielle Van de Velde (Université Lille 3) ******************** DUREE DES COMMUNICATIONS Les communications dureront 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de discussion. ******************** CALENDRIER Date limite de réception des communications : 25 avril 2004. Notification d'acceptation : début juillet 2004. Date du colloque : du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004. ******************** INFORMATIONS COMPLEMENTAIRES Les informations (modalités d'inscription, déroulement des journées, logement, transport, etc.) concernant le colloque seront maintenues à jour sur le site : http://routeverbe.atilf.fr Pour tout renseignement, voir le site : http://routeverbe.atilf.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 Wed Apr 21 10:08:54 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:08:54 +0200 Subject: Appel: PAPILLON-2004 Workshop Message-ID: PAPILLON-2004 Workshop on Multilingual Lexical Databases Grenoble, August 30th-September 1st, 2004 immediatly after COLING 2004 Venue: IMAG Institute, Grenoble, France Submission deadline May, 21st 2004 Overview Multilingual lexical databases are (i) databases for (ii) structured lexical data which can be used either (iii) by humans e.g. to define their own dictionaries or (iv) by natural language processing (NLP) applications. Such databases are now felt indispensable in language science with the advances of language engineering. Like databases in genomics, multilingual lexical databases need rich annotations; they are complex, and they evolve as time goes by. The Papillon project is a Web collaborative project with the aim to build an open source multilingual lexical database for several languages (French, German, English, Japanese, Lao, Malay, Thai and Vietnamese). The provided lexical information has to be rich enough for a human to be able to query and generate his/her own tailored dictionary (e.g. for language learning or for translation work) and for NLP applications to be able to extract a whole range of data or to directly exploit some particular data. The 2004 Papillon workshop, the fifth in a series of workshops organized every year by the Papillon members, will aim at identifying problems relevant to the multilingual-lexical-database community. The workshop aims to promote exchanges between practitioners from several fields and is thus open to anybody working in a domain pertaining to lexical databases such as: databases, man-machine interface for dictionaries, data annotation, XML, standardization of dictionaries or lexical data; lexicography, translation, computational linguistics, etc. This workshop is open and particularly encourages submissions by researchers from outside the Papillon project. The "Papillon 2004" workshop particularly welcomes general submissions on the following topics: (i) Aspect: databases - Macrostructures for dictionaries and general architecture - Databases and lexical databases: differences and similarities - Query languages (XML, XQL, etc.) - Fast indexes and archiving techniques - Standards for lexical databases (ii) Aspect: lexical data - Microstructures of lexical entries and linguistic specifications - Reuse or automatic production of dictionaries - Automatic feeding of lexical databases - Internationalization/localization of multilingual lexical data - Integration of multimodal information and meta-information - Interaction between lexical data and linguistic data (corpora, examples, illustrations, etc.) (iii) Aspect: human use - New ways of dictionary lookup - Interfaces for querying dictionaries, user-friendliness - Legal aspects of dictionaries (copyright, etc.) - Adequation/inadequation of existing distionnary to certain users (iv) Aspect: NLP use - NLP systems using lexical databases - Direct use of dictionaries in NLP systems - Building lexical data sets for specific applications - Interchangeability of lexical data - Neutrality of NLP systems with regard to lexical data The workshop will also accept submission on aspects more specific to the Papillon project Meaning-text theory and lexicography - Linguistic problems - Composing semantic formulae for lexies - Practical problems in indexing specifing entries/lexies - Examples of lexies or axies Proposals for collaboration with the Papillon project - Query interfaces - Automatic Indexing - Contribution to the paradise, the purgatory, or the limbo Summary/state of collaboration to the Papillon project - Contribution to the paradise, the purgatory, or the limbo - Attractiveness of the Papillon Web site Collaborative work - Methods/services for lexical collaborative work - Motivations for voluntary contributers - Recognition and traceability of contributed work Contributions should not exceed 10 pages. Program The program will have a varied format, designed to maximize cross-fertilization among the various specialties, and to allow extended open discussion. Components of the program will include: - Tutorials on relevant models from linguistics, databases or annotation, e.g. the structure of lexical entries and semi-structured query languages; - Panel sessions on annotated text and lexicons (and possibly others); - Paper presentations reporting new research; - Demonstrations of systems for creating and/or managing lexical data. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline: 21 mai 2004 - Notificationof Acceptance: 23 juin 2004 - Camera Ready Papers: 16 juillet 2004 Call for Papers Submissions will be sent after crompession with zip or gzip by electronic mailto:papillon2004 at imag.fr . They will consist in a full paper, of max. 10 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations) written in english in PDF format only. Do not forget to include fonts in your PDF document if you use non-English characters. You can check that your file is correct by disabling the "Use Local Font" option when viewing you PDF document with Adobe Reader. For conversion from proprietary format into PDF, see e.g. the CRI74 or the CERN conversion facilities. We strongly recommend you to use the Springer Verlag template available at the following address: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Local Organizing Committee President: Gilles Sérasset, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Aree Teeraparbseree, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Jean-Philippe Guilbaud, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - ... Program Committee President: Gilles Sérasset, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Mr. Christian Boitet, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Mr. Francis Bond, NTT, Keihanna, Japan - Mr. Jim Breen, Université Monash, Australia - Mr. François Brown de Colstoun, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France - Mr. Kyo Kageura, NII, Tokyo, Japan - Ms. Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand - Ms. Kyoko Kuroda, Shimane University, Japan - Mr. Mathieu Lafourcade, LIRMM, Montpellier, France - Mr. Francois Lareau, OLST, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada - Mr. Yves Lepage, ATR, Keihanna, Japan - Mr. Mathieu Mangeot, UTMK, Penang, Malaysia - Mr. Emmanuel Planas, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Mr. Alain Polguère, OLST, Université de Montréal, Montreal, France - Mr. Gilles Sérasset, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Mr. Enyakong Tang, UTMK, Penang, Malaysia - Mr. David Thevenin, NII, Tokyo, Japan - Mr. Takenobu Tokunaga, TITech, Tokyo, Japan - Ms. Mutsuko Tomokiyo, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Mr. Michael Zock, LIMSI, Orsay, France Miscellaneous Information - Papillon project Web site: http://www.papillon-dictionary.org/ - CLIPS: http://www-clips.imag.fr/ - IMAG Institute: http://www.imag.fr/ - Grenoble tourist information: http://www.grenoble-isere-tourisme.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 Wed Apr 21 10:08:52 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:08:52 +0200 Subject: Appel: FOIS-2004 International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems Message-ID: APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES Call for Papers FOIS-2004 International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems http://fois2004.di.unito.it/ November 4-6, 2004, Torino (Italy) Just as ontology developed over the centuries as part of philosophy, so in recent years ontology has become intertwined with the development of the information sciences. Researchers in such areas as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realize that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention has started to focus on the content of information rather than on just the formats and languages in terms of which information is represented. The clearest example of this development is provided by the many initiatives growing up around the project of the Semantic Web. And as the need for integrating research in these different fields arises, so does the realization that strong principles for building well-founded ontologies might provide significant advantages over ad hoc, case-based solutions. The tools of Formal Ontology address precisely these needs, but a real effort is required in order to apply such philosophical tools to the domain of Information Systems. Reciprocally, research in the information science raises specific ontological questions which call for further philosophical investigations. The purpose of FOIS is to provide a forum for genuine interdisciplinary exchange in the spirit of a unified ontological analysis effort. Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical issues, methodological proposals as well as papers dealing with concrete applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective are welcome. == Invited Speakers Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science, Sweden Amie Thomasson, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, USA == Deadlines and Further Information Abstracts due May 3, 2004 Final submissions May 7, 2004 Acceptance Notification: June 25, 2004 Submission of camera-ready paper: July 30, 2004 Proceedings will be published by IOS Press and available at the conference. Submission is a two-step procedure: first abstracts, then full papers. Submitted papers must not exceed 5000 words (including bibliography). Abstracts should be less than 300 words. Electronic submission via the website is strongly preferred; if unavailable, submission via email or postal mail is possible. For details see: http://fois2004.di.unito.it/ == Conference Chair Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) nicola.guarino at loa-cnr.it == Program Chairs Achille Varzi (Columbia University, New York, USA) achille.varzi at columbia.edu Laure Vieu (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France) laure.vieu at irit.fr == Local Chairs Maurizio Ferraris (University of Torino, Italy) ferraris at cisi.unito.it Leonardo Lesmo (University of Torino, Italy) lesmo at di.unito.it == Publicity Chair Jos Lehmann (ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy) joslehmann at www.ip.rm.cnr.it == Topics We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and to information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other of these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are: Foundational Issues . Kinds of entity: particulars vs. universals, continuants vs. occurrents, abstracta vs. concreta, dependent vs.independent, natural vs. artificial . Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, subsumption, instantiation . Vagueness and granularity . Identity and change . Formal comparison among ontologies . Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...) . Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, ...) . Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions and other mental attitudes; emotions, ...) . Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, ...) . Ontology of the information society (information, communication, meaning negotiation, ...) . Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition Methodologies and Applications . Top-level vs. application ontologies . Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies . Ontology-driven information systems design . Requirements engineering . Knowledge engineering . Knowledge management and organization . Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling . Computational lexica; Terminology . Information retrieval; Question-answering . Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing . Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Linguistics, Geography, Law, Library science, Biomedical science, Ebusiness, Enterprise integration, ... == Programme Committee - Bill Andersen, OntologyWorks, USA - Nicholas Asher, Dept of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, USA - Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Research Institute for Computer Science, CNRS, Toulouse, France - John Bateman, Dept of Applied English Linguistics, University of Bremen, Germany - Brandon Bennett, Division of Artificial Intelligence, University of Leeds, UK - Andrea Bottani, Dept of Philosophy, University of Bergamo, Italy - Joost Breuker, Dept of Computer Science & Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Roberto Casati, Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS, Paris, France - Werner Ceusters, Language & Computing, Belgium - Tony Cohn, Division of Artificial Intelligence, University of Leeds, UK - Robert Colomb, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia - Ernest Davis, Dept of Computer Science, New York University, USA - Martin Dörr, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece - Carola Eschenbach, Dept for Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany - Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, - France Christiane Fellbaum, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University, USA & Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany - Maurizio Ferraris, Dept of Philosophy, University of Torino, Italy - Antony Galton, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK - Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy - Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science, Sweden - Pierdaniele Giaretta, Dept of Philosophy, University of Padova, Italy - Michael Gruninger, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland College Park, USA & National Institute for Standards and Technology, USA - Nicola Guarino, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy - Patrick J. Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, USA - Heinrich Herre, Institute of Informatics, University of Leipzig , Germany - Jacques Jayez, ENS-Humanities, Lyon, France - Ingvar Johansson, Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, University of Leipzig, Germany - Hannu Kangassalo, Dept of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland - Fritz Lehmann, USA - Leonardo Lesmo, Dept of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy - Bernardo Magnini, Centre for Scientific and Technological Research, ITC, Trento, Italy - David Mark, Dept of Geography, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA - William E. McCarthy, Department of Accounting, Michigan State University, USA - Robert Meersman, Dept of Computer Science, Free University of Brussels, Belgium - Chris Menzel, Dept of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, USA - Friederike Moltmann, Dept of Philosophy, Stirling University, UK - Philippe Muller, Research Institute for Computer Science, University of Toulouse III, France - John Mylopoulos, Dept of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA - Massimo Poesio, Dept of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK - Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK - James Pustejovsky, Dept of Computer Science, Brandeis University, USA - Steffen Schulze-Kremer, German Resource Center for Genome Research, Berlin, Germany - Peter Simons, School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK - Barry Smith, Dept of Philosophy, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA & Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, University of Leipzig, Germany - John Sowa, USA - Veda Storey, Dept of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, USA - Mike Uschold, The Boeing Company, USA - Achille Varzi, Dept of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA - Laure Vieu, Research Institute for Computer Science, CNRS, Toulouse, France - Yair Wand, Management Information Systems Division, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada - Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA - Roel Wieringa, Computer Science Department, University of Twente, The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 21 10:08:57 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:08:57 +0200 Subject: Conf: COLDOC' 2004 : CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings!] COLDOC' 2004 -- Nanterre, France - April 29 & 30, 2004 The Setting up of Observables in Linguistics (http://infolang.u-paris10.fr/modyco/agenda-fiche.cfm?cle=12) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The mission of the conference is to foster exchange of knowledge and ideas between young researchers in the areas of the treatment of empirical data. COLDOC is organized and hosted by Modyco ("Modèle, Dynamique, Corpus" UMR 7114 CNRS ' Paris-X Nanterre University) research team, and will be held on April 29 and 30, 2004, at Paris X-Nanterre University. PROGRAMME April 29 8h30 - 9h00 : Welcoming 9h00 - 10h00 : invited speaker : Sylvain Kahane (Université Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) Title to be announced 10h00 - 10h30 Caroline David (Université d'Orléans / Université de Poitiers, EA 1226 Forell) Quand les grammaires se serviront des corpus... 10h30 - 11h00 Sascha Gaglia (Universität Konstanz, Allemagne) Observables in the phonology of dialects BREAK 11h30 - 12h00 Géraldine Mallet (Université Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) De la méthodologie de PFC 12h00 - 12h30 Rudy Loock (Université Lille III, UMR 8528 Silex) Les relatives « atypiques » en anglais oral spontané : syntaxe innovante ou erreurs de performance ? LUNCH 14h00 - 14h30 Francois Laurent (Faculté des Lettres de Limoges, Ceres) Le traitement informatique d'un cas d'hétérogénéité textuelle à partir du Roman de Guillaume de Dole de Jean Renart 14h30 - 15h00 Elise Dutilleul-Guerroudj (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III, FRE 2425 Praxiling) L'établissement d'un protocole pour l'étude du sens lexical chez des enfants sourds et entendants : difficultés méthodologiques et apports linguistiques 15h00 - 15h30 Stéphanie Giron (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II) Le corpus Allier (français parlé), présentation et re-présentation : construction, diffusion et reconstruction BREAK 16h00 - 16h30 Sabine Lehmann (Université Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) « S'il plaisoit à Vostre Excellence . » ou les marques de la politesse déférente dans un corpus de « langue morte » 16h30 - 17h00 Fabien Liénard (Université d'Amiens, EA2092 / Université de Rouen UMR 6065 Dyalang) Analyse linguistique d'un corpus de textos issu de la psychologie cognitive April 30 9h00 - 10h00 : invited speaker : Christian Cuxac (Université Paris 8, UMR 7023) Title to be announced 10h00 - 10h30 Claudine Pagliano (Université de Nice) Elaboration d'un corpus morphonologique : l'épenthèse entre radical et suffixe. 10h30 - 11h00 Estelle Dubreil (Université de Nantes) Comment assurer la représentativité discursive d'un corpus électronique spécialisé ? L'exemple du corpus TAL(N). BREAK 11h30 - 12h00 Isabelle Rousset (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3, UMR 5009 ICP) Recherche de cooccurrences syllabiques dans la base ULSID 12h00 - 12h30 Augusta de Magalhães Carvalho de Moraes (Universidade de São Paulo, Brésil) The phenomenon of stress-clash on the child language-a case study from the perspective of acoustic phonetics LUNCH 14h00 - 15h30 : Posters session 16h00 - 16h45 : Round table FINAL BREAK Posters ------------- Lisa-Marie Babin (Université Toulouse II, UMR 5551 Travail et Cognition / France Télécom R&D) Mise en relation des critères linguistiques et comportementaux Mélanie Scalone (Université Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) Le système de filtrage dans la construction des observables lors d'une enquête en entreprise. Ivan Abarca (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales / Centre de Linguistique Theorique) El candidato : espaces réels et fictionnels dans l'image et le discours politique dans la campagne présidentielle mexicaine de l' année 2000 Virginie, , Le Bigot, Ludovic Amiel (Université Toulouse II, UMR 5551 Travail et Cognition / France Télécom R&D) Le recueil expérimental des corpus de dialogues homme-machine en psycho-ergonomie Ahmed Amrani, Yves Kodratoff, Oriane Matte-Tailliez (Ecole supérieure d'informatique, électronique et automatique) Etiquetage morpho-syntaxique des corpus de spécialité Virginie André (Université Nancy 2, CRAPEL (Centre de Recherches et d' Applications Pédagogiques en Langues)) Construction d'une méthodologie multidimensionnelle de recueil de données pour une étude sociolinguistique du langage au travail. Helene Andreassen (University of Tromsø, Norway) Schwa in a Swiss French corpus. Data selection and methods - the consequences for theoretical analysis. Nicolas Audibert, Véronique Aubergé et Albert Rilliard (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3, UMR 5009 (Institut de la Communication Parlée)) Méthodologie de recueil de corpus de parole émotionelle spontanée. Juliette Delahaie (Université Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) L'acte de langage "(se) présenter" en Fle et les présentatifs de la grammaire d'après le corpus LanCom : une association à remettre en question. Elisa Fiorio (UMR 7594 LLACAN) Méthodologie et pratiques de recueil de données orales sur le terrain et méthodologie d'exploitation du corpus en utilisant Shoebox, un logiciel de gestion de bases de données textuelles. Anne Lablanche (Université Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) Les tests syntaxiques en question à travers une étude des infinitifs Malgorzata Kodura (Jagiellonian University, Cracovie, Pologne) Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Advertising Texts in Polish and American Women's Magazines Ewa Lenart et Anna Kapral (Université Paris 8) Quelles données pour comparer le processus d'acquisition de l'enfant et de l'adulte ? Fanny Loyau (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3, UMR 5009 (Institut de la Communication Parlée)) Recueil d'un corpus de parole émotionnelle à l'aide d'un simulateur de vol réaliste Aude Noiray (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3, UMR 5009 (Institut de la Communication Parlée)) Méthodologie de recueil de parole pour l'étude de la coarticulation anticipante chez l'enfant Rebekah Rast (The American University of Paris) L'analyse de l'input au tout début de l'acquisition d'une langue non maternelle. Kristina Spranger (IMS, Universität Stuttgart, Allemagne) Multi-Parameter Extraction of Syntax and Collocations from Chunked Text Thi Mai Tran (Université Lille III) Du recueil à l'exploitation des corpus aphasiques : considérations méthodologiques Céline Vaguer (Université Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) Préposition dans et base de données linguistique : quelles possibilités ? Eva Thue Vold (Université de Bergen, Norvège, Institut des études romanes) Comment sélectionner ses observables dans l'analyse d'une catégorie sémantique? Francisca Caetano (Université de Nancy II) Quelques difficultés de recueil de données : une esquisse méthodologique, socioculturelle et politique. See the web site for the whole program. REGISTRATION No participation fee is required. TRAVEL AND HOTEL INFORMATION You may reach the university * either by RER, lign A, from the center of Paris (Stations Châtelet les Halles, Gare de Lyon, etc.), direction Saint-Germain-en-Laye, until the Nanterre-Université station. (15 minutes from the station "Les Halles"). * or by train, station Paris-Saint-Lazare, direction Nanterre-Université (terminus) or direction Maisons-Laffitte (station Nanterre-Université). The colloque will be held in the colloquium room, building B. The itinerary will be indicated since the train and RER station. For further information feel free to contact us at Sylvain Loiseau . The Setting up of Observables in Linguistics ColDoc'2004 ' Modyco (UMR 7114) young researchers' conference Paris X Nanterre, Salle des colloques, Bâtiment B 200, avenue de la République 92001 Nanterre Cedex France Web site: http://infolang.u-paris10.fr/modyco/agenda-fiche.cfm?cle=12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 21 10:08:55 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:08:55 +0200 Subject: Jobs: CNRS : Permanent position in computational biology Message-ID: [version francaise en fin de message] Permanent position in computational biology - France A permanent position for a computer scientist is open in our lab in Toulouse (South of France). We are looking for people with a good knowledge of pattern matching that would be attracted by the computational biology/bioinformatics area, in order to work in tight collaboration with biologists and other computer scientists. Even if learning french will be needed after some period of time, the only requirement is to speak french or english. Important deadlines: - from april to 24 May: application - September/October: selection See: http://www.inra.fr/drh/chercheurs/indexcruk.htm A description of the position is available (or will soon be) at: http://www.inra.fr/bia/T/profil2004/profil2004E.html You can contact us by email: tschiex at toulouse.inra.fr gaspin at toulouse.inra.fr ----------- Ouverture d'un profil de chargé de recherches (CR2) INRA, Toulouse. Thématique: algorithmique, algorithmique des textes, recherche de motifs complexes. Dates prévisionnelles importantes : - inscriptions ouvertes d'avril 2004 au 24 mai 2004. - admissibilité et admission: septembre/octobre. 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Subject: -------- Categorial grammars, type grammars and pregroups are formal structures for deciding whether a string of words is a grammatical sentence. They assign one or more types to each word in the dictionary. One solves the problem whether a sequence of words is a grammatical sentence, by performing computations on the corresponding string(s) of types. This makes it possible to characterise the syntactic properties of natural languages entirely in terms of their lexical types and prove general properties, independent of the actual language fragment. These grammars are related to other mathematical approaches like intuitionist, classical and compact bilinear logic, non-symmetric *-autonomous categories, Montague semantics and Chomsky's minimalist programme. Some of these methods have matured to highly efficient tools for syntactical analysis. Previous meetings were held in Tucson, Rome, Nancy, Nantes, Trento and Ottawa. This symposium will cover new theoretical results and applications to natural languages. Contributions covering algorithmic problems arising during syntactical analysis of language fragments are also welcome. Preliminary Programme --------------------- Monday, June 7th 10:15 - 10:30 V. Prince Opening 10:30 - 11:10 V. Prince To Be Announced --- Coffee Break --- 11:40 - 12:20 P. Blache Constraints and Model Theory: a new perspective in syntax 12:20 - 13:00 Ch. Retoré To be announced --- Lunch --- 14:30 - 15:10 Michele Abrusci To be announced 15:10 - 15:50 R. Moot Graph Algorithms for Improving Type-Logical Proof Search 15:50 - 16:30 Wojciech Buszkowski Boolean logic for natural language --- Coffee Break --- 17:00 - 17:40 Erwan Moreau >From link grammars to categorial grammars 17:40 - 18:20 Mario Fadda Non-associativity and balanced proof nets Tuesday, June 8th 09:10 - 09:50 R. Oerhle A parsing algorithm for pregroup grammars 09:50 - 10:30 M. Dekhtyar A. Dikovsky Categorial Dependency Grammars 10:30 - 11:10 M. Moortgat To be announced --- Coffee Break --- 11:40 - 12:20 R. Bernardi Categorial type logics and Italian corpora 12:20 - 13:00 G. Ben-Avi N. Francez Categorial Grammar with Ontology-refined Types --- Lunch --- 14:30 - 15:10 J. Lambek Should pregroup grammars be adorned with additional operations? 15:10 - 15:50 A. Kislak-Malinowska Free pregroups as a tool for parsing --- Coffee Break with poster session --- 16:30 - 17:10 R. Muskens Separating Syntax and Combinatorics in Categorial Grammar 17:10 - 17:50 C. Casadio Binding and Scope in Pregroup Grammar. Evidence from Italian. Wednesday, June 9th 09:10 - 09:50 M. Kandulski Tree structures associated with categorial languages 09:50 - 10:30 D. Dudau Sofronie I. Tellier A study of learnability of Lambek Grammars from Typed Examples 10:30 - 11:10 J. Besombes J.Y. Marion Learning Reversible Categorial Grammars from Structures --- Coffee Break --- 11:40 - 12:20 B. Dziemidowicz On learnability of restricted classes of categorial grammars 12:20 - 13:00 D. Béchet A. Foret On Intermediate Structures for Non-Associative Lambek Grammars and Learnability --- Lunch --- --- Social tour --- Thursday, June 10th 09:50 - 10:30 R. Kempson Japanese Word Order: Structural Underspecification and Growth of Information 10:30 - 11:10 S. Pogodalla Using and Extending ACG technology: Endowing Categorial Grammars with an Underspecified Semantic Representation --- Coffee Break --- 11:40 - 12:20 A. Preller Linear processing of Coordinate Structures in Pregroup Grammar 12:20 - 13:00 W. Vermaat Cross-linguistic variation in type-logical grammar: Multiple wh-fronting in Slavic languages --- Lunch --- 14:30 - 15:10 G. Perrier To be announced 15:10 - 15:50 J. A. Jimenez Millan Can Lambek Calculus coexists with other kind of grammars? --- Coffee Break --- 16:20 - 17:00 J. Villaneau J.Y. Antoine Categorial grammars used to partial parsing of spoken language 17:00 - 17:40 G. Morrill On Aphasic Comprehension and Working Memory Load --- Gala dinner --- Friday, June 11th 09:10 - 09:50 A. Lecomte To be announced 09:50 - 10:30 Y. Lenir >From NL grammars to AB grammars 10:30 - 11:10 S. Shaumyan Semiotic Linguistics and the Ob-System of Categorial Grammar --- Coffee Break --- 11:40 - 12:20 S. Degeilh Linear tagging of agreement in the French verb phrase by pregroups 12:20 - 13:00 D. Bargelli J. Lambek An algebraic approach to Turkish syntax and morphology --- Lunch --- 14:30 - 15:10 C. Pollard High-Order Categorial Grammars 15:10 - 15:50 M. Steedman To be Announced --- Coffee ending --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Fri Apr 23 13:50:16 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:50:16 +0200 Subject: Appel: Journal of Natural Language Engineering : PARALLEL TEXTS Message-ID: (apologies for multiple postings) F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S Journal of Natural Language Engineering Special Issue on PARALLEL TEXTS Guest Editors: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/jnle OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE Parallel texts have become a vital resources for efficiently deriving many multi-lingual text processing tools. This special issue is devoted to advances in building and using parallel corpora. We invite papers on all topics related to parallel texts, including but not limited to: The collection, organization and processing of parallel corpora: - Identifying and harvesting parallel texts from the Web and other large collections - Evaluating the quality of parallel corpora (e.g. detecting omissions and gaps, translation errors or inconsistencies, etc.) - Sentence-, phrase- and word-level alignment - Alignment evaluation metrics and methods Active uses of parallel corpora for: - Building multilingual lexical resources - Deriving language processing tools and resources for new languages - Annotating corpora (e.g. word-sense disambiguation) - Machine translation (e.g. statistical and example-based MT) - Machine-assisted translation (e.g. translation memories and interactive MT) - Cross-linguistic information retrieval and information extraction While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources. SUBMISSION FORMAT We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously unpublished research, addressing issues related to the construction and use of parallel texts. Papers should be formatted according to the NLE journal instructions, and should not exceed 15 pages. The preferred formatting system is LaTeX, which can be used for direct typesetting, and a style file is available through anonymous ftp from the following address: ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/nle-sty/. In case of difficulty there is a helpline available on e-mail: texline at cup.cam.ac.uk. Send your submission (a PostScript or PDF file), prepared for anonymous review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, rada at cs.unt.edu and Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Michel.Simard at xrce.xerox.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: May 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2004 Final versions due: November 30, 2004 Journal publication: June, 2005 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University Susan Armstrong, ISSCO Michael Barlow, Rice University Ken Church, AT&T Labs Research Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University George Foster, University of Montreal Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe Ulrich Germann, University of Toronto Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester Julio Gonzalo, UNED Cyril Goutte, Xerox Research Centre Europe Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corporation Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe Hitoshi Iida, Tokyo University of Technology Wessel Kraaij, TNO/TPD Netherlands Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Dan Melamed, New York University Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Kishore Papineni, IBM Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth Jessie Pinkham, University of Chicago Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva Florence Reeder, MITRE Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Hideki Tanaka, ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe Jean Veronis, University of Provence Clare Voss, Army Research Lab Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Kenji Yamada, Xerox Research Centre Europe ABOUT THE JOURNAL Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed to meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all areas of computerized language processing, whether from the perspective of theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology, computer science or engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between traditional computational linguistics research and the implementation of practical applications with potential real-world use. As well as publishing research articles on a broad range of topics from text analysis, machine translation and speech generation and synthesis to integrated systems and multi modal interfaces the journal also publishes book reviews. Its aim is to provide the essential link between industry and the academic community. Natural Language Engineering encourages papers reporting research with a clear potential for practical application. Theoretical papers that consider techniques in sufficient detail to provide for practical implementation are also welcomed, as are shorter reports of on-going research, conference reports, comparative discussions of NLE products, and policy-oriented papers examining e.g. funding programs or market opportunities. All contributions are peer reviewed. Edited by John I. Tait University of Sunderland, UK Branimir K. Boguraev IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA Christian Jacquemin CNRS-LIMSI, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 23 13:50:19 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:50:19 +0200 Subject: Conf: colloque Les approches lexicographiques et terminographiques sont-elles compatibles Message-ID: Le programme du colloque « Les approches lexicographiques et terminographiques sont-elles compatibles », qui se tiendra dans le cadre du 72e congrès de l'Association canadienne française pour l'avancement des sciences (ACFAS) à Montréal, est maintenant en ligne : http://www.ling.umontreal.ca/lhomme/COLLOQUE_ACFAS.htm Il est aussi possible d'y accéder par le site de l'ACFAS : http://www.acfas.ca/congres/ L'inscription au congrès est obligatoire pour toute personne assistant au colloque ou y présentant une communication. Elle donne droit à tous les documents et services offerts aux congressistes et comprend l'adhésion à l'ACFAS, y compris un abonnement d'un an à la revue Découvrir et de multiples avantages. L'inscription peut se faire en ligne jusqu'au 23 avril sur le site de l'ACFAS. Après cette date, l'inscription devra se faire à l'adresse suivante : Pavillon Judith Jasmin 405, rue Sainte-Catherine Est Salle Marie-Gérin-Lajoie (niveau métro) Horaire : de 7 h à 18 h, du lundi au jeudi et de 7 h 30 à 15 h, le vendredi. Nous espérons que le colloque saura vous intéresser et d'avance nous nous réjouissons de vous rencontrer. Sylvie Vandaele Marie-Claude L'Homme Professeures Département de linguistique et de traduction Université de Montréal (514) 343-7378 (514) 343-5915 Fax : (514) 343-2284 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Fri Apr 23 13:50:20 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:50:20 +0200 Subject: Conf: EURALEX 2004: Early Registration Message-ID: EURALEX 2004: Early Registration Please accept our apologies for cross-postings Early Registration for Congress and Accommodation We are pleased to announce that the deadline for early registration for EURALEX 2004 has been extended to the 15th May. Registration is open on the Congress website www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004, and online registration with secure payment will be available from the Ist May. Block booking of hotel rooms has been organised by the Office de Tourisme. Registration online is now available at http://lorient-hebergement.com. It is advisable to book early as we are entering the high season and block bookings cannot be guaranteed beyond 20 May 2004. The preliminary programme is now on the congress website. EURALEX 2004 : Call for participation. The 11th EURALEX International Congress will be held in Lorient, France, from the 6 to the 10th July, 2004. The Congess organizers are the Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient. Contact address : Congress Organizers EURALEX 2004 Dr. Geoffrey Williams Faculté de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay B.P. 92116 56321 Lorient cedex France Email : elx2004 at univ-ubs.fr Website : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004 Up-to-date information Information concerning accommodation, registration and travel will be kept up to date on the website. The coast of Brittany is very popular in the summer so participants are encouraged to book early. EURALEX 2004 The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers, scholars, and others interested in dictionaries of all types. The programme will include plenary lectures, parallel sessions on the topics listed below, software demonstrations, pre-congress tutorials and specialized workshops, a book and software exhibition, and social events for participants and their guests. Topics Papers, posters, and software demonstrations are invited on all topics of lexicography, including, but not limited to, the following fields, which are the main focus of the congress: 1. Computational Lexicography and Lexicology. 2. The Dictionary-Making Process. 3. Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects. 4. Bilingual Lexicography. 5. Lexicography for Specialised Languages - Terminology and Terminography. 6. Historical and Scholarly Lexicography and Etymology. 7. Dictionary Use. 8. Phraseology and Collocation. 9. Lexicological Issues of Lexicographical Relevance. 10. Other topics. A list of communications and the full preliminary is now online. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 26 15:07:42 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:07:42 +0200 Subject: Conf: Intex/Nooj workshop : registration Message-ID: Registration is now available to the Intex/Nooj workshop http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/JIntex2004/ and before May 3, please. See you at Tours Denis Maurel ____________________________________ Professeur Denis Maurel LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) Ecole Polytechnique de l'Universite de Tours Departement Informatique (E3i) 64 avenue Jean-Portalis 37200 Tours France Tel. (33) 2.47.36.14.35 Telc. 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Poster/Demo presentations present original work in progress, on-going research projects with novel ideas/applications, or late-breaking results that are best communicated in an interactive format. Interactive Poster/Demo sessions provide a forum of academic and technical exchanges. The topics of interest cover all aspects of computational linguistics, as outlined in the CFP for the Main Technical Session. Authors should submit an original paper (of no more than 4 pages in ACL format) that describes and emphasizes the problem of the research and the novelty of the methods or theories being used. Presentations with demos should outline the design of their systems and provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of their validity, quality and usefulness. They should also describe the equipments required for the demonstration. Authors are requested to send their texts in PDF format to the following address: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: 1st May 2004 Notification of acceptance: 20th May 2004 Camera ready copy due: 1st June 2004 Co-Chairs: Philippe Blache, CNRS & Université de Provence Horacio Rodríguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 26 15:07:47 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:07:47 +0200 Subject: Appel: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Journ=E9e_d=27Etude_de_l=27ATALA?= Message-ID: Journée d'Etude de l'ATALA ========================== Le traitement automatique des nouvelles formes de communication écrite (e-mails, forums, chats, SMS, etc.) Organisateurs ------------- Emilie Guimier De Neef (France Telecom R & D) Jean Véronis (Université de Provence) Conférencier invité ------------------- Jacques Anis, Université Paris X Date ---- 5 juin 2004 Lieu ---- ENST, 46, rue Barrault ou 49, rue Vergnault, 75013 Paris Métro : Corvisart Thème ----- Depuis quelques années on assiste à une véritable explosion de nouvelles formes de communication écrite (NFCE) : e-mails, forums, chats, SMS, etc. Le développement de passerelles entre les différents médias (les e-mails et les SMS s'écoutent) ainsi que la nécessité de faciliter la gestion des contenus (classification automatique des e-mails, recherche d'informations...) amènent de plus en plus de technologies du TAL à s'appliquer aux NFCE : synthèse de la parole, filtrage et classification automatique, détection automatique de mots-clés et de thèmes, traduction automatique, etc. Or, les NFCE montrent une grande déviance par rapport à l'écrit plus ou moins normé que le TAL a l'habitude de traiter. Si on laisse de côté les problèmes de composition posés par les e-mails (renvois successifs, complétion progressive des messages) pour ne conserver que les aspects proprement linguistiques posés par les NFCE, on observe d'une part des phénomènes que l'on pourrait regrouper sous le terme de "ratés" (erreurs orthographiques et typographiques, absence de séparateur entre les mots etc.) qui doivent leur origine au mode de communication souvent direct ou semi-direct, à la rapidité de composition du message ou aux contraintes de saisies imposées par le clavier utilisé (terminal mobile)... Mais on constate d'autre part une véritable émergence de nouveaux modes d'écriture (abréviations, smileys, écriture "texto", etc.), au milieu d'une très grande variabilité et d'une créativité constante. Ce qui semble caractéristique des NFCE, c'est que les utilisateurs inventent en permanence de nouveaux procédés. Enfin, des caractéristiques fortement dialogiques rendent les NFCE intermédiaires d'une certaine façon entre l'écrit "classique" et l'oral : les e-mails se citent, les chats conversent. Paradoxalement, on note peu de publications en TAL sur le sujet, qui a surtout été abordé sous l'angle de la sociologie et de la communication. Les difficultés qui se posent aux systèmes de TAL sont immenses, même pour ceux qui ont atteint une certaine maturité sur l'écrit classique (étiqueteurs morpho-syntaxiques, etc.). Elles aboutissent le plus souvent à une dégradation considérable des performances, rendant souvent leur utilisation presque impossible en pratique. Le but de la journée est de réunir des chercheurs autour des problèmes liés au traitement linguistique des nouvelles formes de communication écrite : - ponctuation absente ou exagérément utilisée - typographie déviante - erreurs orthographiques massives - mode de création des abréviations - phonétisation de l'écriture - nouvelles marques d'expressivité et d'émotion - aspects dialogiques - différences linguistiques profondes (usage des temps, etc.) Cette liste n'est pas limitative. Soumission ---------- Un résumé de deux à quatre pages doit être envoyé avant le 5 mai 2004 par courrier électronique, en format RTF ou TXT uniquement à Emilie Guimier De Neef ou Jean Véronis Les notifications d'acceptation seront envoyées le 15 mai 2004. Pour plus d'informations sur l'ATALA et sur l'organisation des journées d'études, consultez le site de l'ATALA à l'adresse : http://www.atala.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Apr 1 16:00:44 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:00:44 +0200 Subject: Conf: TALN2004: appel a participation Message-ID: ********************************************************************** T A L N 2 0 0 4 Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel 2004 --- Palais de Congr?s F?s (Maroc) du 19 au 22 avril 2004 http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ ********************************************************************** (voir ci-dessous pour la version francaise) The TALN 2004 conference (le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles) will be held in in Fez, Morocco, from 19 to 22 April 2004, The programm can be download at: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/taln-program.pdf Registration information is accessible at : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ JEP-TALN'04 is organized by : . the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en Provence (France) . the University of Fez (Morocco) . the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure of Fez (Morocco) --------------------------------------------------------------------- La conf?rence TALN 2004 aura lieu, en conjonction avec JEP 2004, ? F?s, au Maroc, du 19 au 22 avril 2004. Le programme de la conf?rence TALN est accessible en ligne : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/taln-program.pdf Toutes les informations relatives ? l?inscription sont accessibles sur le site : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ JEP-TALN'04 est organis?e par : . le Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en Provence (France) . l'Universit? de F?s (Maroc) . l'Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de F?s (Maroc) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 1 16:00:49 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:00:49 +0200 Subject: ATALA: workshop : MODELISER ET DECRIRE L'ORGANISATION DISCURSIVE A L'HEURE DU DOCUMENT NUMERIQUE Message-ID: ======================================================================== ATALA workshop, La Rochelle, 22 juin 2004 within the Semaine du Document Num?rique http://sdn2004.univ-lr.fr/ MODELISER ET DECRIRE L'ORGANISATION DISCURSIVE A L'HEURE DU DOCUMENT NUMERIQUE MODELLING AND DESCRIBING DISCOURSE ORGANISATION IN THE AGE OF THE DIGITAL DOCUMENT Journ?e organis?e par/workshop organised by Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley (pery at univ-tlse2.fr) PROGRAMME: 9h00 Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley (ERSS, Universit? de Toulouse-Le Mirail) Introduction 9h20 Sandra Teston & Jean V?ronis (DELIC, Universit? de Provence) Recherche de crit?res formels pour l'identification automatique des particules discursives 10h Nadine Lucas (GREYC, Universit? de Caen) La rh?torique des d?p?ches de presse ? travers les marques ?nonciatives du temps, du lieu et de la personne 10h40-11h00 Pause 11h00 Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac & C?cile Fr?rot (ERSS, Universit? de Toulouse-Le Mirail) Approche discursive et approche syntaxique des circonstants en corpus 11h40 Agata Jackiewicz (LaLICC, Universit? de Paris-Sorbonne) Les s?ries lin?aires dans le discours : marques, op?rations et structures sous-jacentes 12h20 - 13h40 D?jeuner 13h40 Nicolas Hernandez (LIMSI) Un indice de structuration de texte combinant finesse et disponibilit? au niveau global et local 14h20 Fr?d?rik Bihaut (GREYC, Universit? de Caen) Analyse automatique de la structure th?matique du discours pour la navigation documentaire 15h00 Expos? invit? : Liesbeth Degand & Yves Bestgen (FNRS, Universit? catholique de Louvain) How to determine the meaning and use of (causal) connectives in (large) corpora: from hand-based to automatic analyses 16h00 - 16h20 Pause 16h20 Bertrand Sereno, Simon Buckingham Shum & Enrico Motta (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK) Supporting the construction of networks of claims 17h00 Marie-Paule Jacques, Josette Rebeyrolle & Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac (ERSS,Universit? de Toulouse-Le Mirail) Quelques aspects m?thodologiques d'une ?tude de la fonction discursive des titres en corpus 17h40 Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley (ERSS, Universit? de Toulouse-Le Mirail) Conclusion La journ?e d??tude aura lieu ? l?UFR Langues, Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines (FLASH) de l?Universit? de la Rochelle, derri?re la m?diath?que Michel Cr?peau, ? deux pas de la gare SNCF. L'entr?e ? la journ?e ATALA est libre mais la participation aux autres manifestations ou prestations de la Semaine du Document Num?rique est subordonn?e ? une inscription (30 euros). Vous pourrez vous inscrire sur le site de la SDN ? partir du 1er avril (http://sdn2004.univ-lr.fr/). Adh?sion ? l'association ATALA recommand?e http://www.atala.org ___ Marie-Paule PERY-WOODLEY ___________________________________________________________________ ERSS / Sciences du Langage http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/ Universite de Toulouse Le Mirail Tel.: 33(0)5 61 50 46 76/-36 09 5 allees Antonio-Machado Fax: 33(0)5 61 50 42 12 F-31058 TOULOUSE CEDEX Email: pery at univ-tlse2.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 Apr 1 16:00:52 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:00:52 +0200 Subject: Jobs: poste de professeur : Ecole de traduction et d'interpretation de l'Universite d'Ottawa Message-ID: Madame, Monsieur, L'Ecole de traduction et d'interpr?tation de l'Universit? d'Ottawa sollicite des candidatures ? un poste de professeur r?gulier dont l'entr?e en fonction sera le 1er juillet 2003. Afin d'atteindre le plus large bassin de recrutement possible, nous appr?cierions que l'annonce ci-jointe soit diffus?e aupr?s de vous membres. En vous remerciant ? l'avance de votre aimable collaboration, je vous prie d'agr?er, Madame, Monsieur, l'expression de mes sentiments les plus distingu?s. Odette Thauvette Adjointe d'administration/Administrative Assistant Ecole de traduction et d'interpr?tation/School of Translation and Interpretation Facult? des arts/Faculty of Arts Universit? d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa 70, avenue Laurier est, Pi?ce 401 Ottawa (Ontario) K1N 6N5 CANADA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 1 16:00:56 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:00:56 +0200 Subject: Appel: NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Message-ID: [To spread, please, thank you.] [Apologies if you receive this announcement more than once.] NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS SANTIAGO DE CUBA JANUARY 24-28, 2005 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 Ninth International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 24 through the 28, 2005. 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, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Higher Institute for Medical Sciences Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . African Cultural Center "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Provincial Branch of Ministry of Culture, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Heredia Teather, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba . Melia - Santiago de Cuba Hotel . University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands . Institute for Computational Linguistics, Pisa, Italy . Knowledge Web, Ireland . Basque Country University, Spain . Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden . University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain 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 - Applied Linguistics - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Morphology and Syntax - Anthropology Linguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Terminology - Translations 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistics 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 - Otorhinolaryngology - Stomatology 5. Mass Media: - Linguistics 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 24th of 2005 and will focus on the following subjects: - Corpus Linguistics: current studies - Lexicology and Lexicography: trends and updates Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 25.00 USD will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. ROUND TABLE A round table entitled " The Mass Media: its impact in the use of language" will be held on the occasion of the IX International Symposium on Social Communication. KEYNOTE SPEECHES During the symposium two keynote speeches will be delivered by: - Prof. Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari Professor and Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy - Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov Professor and Researcher University of Wolverhampton United Kingdom The other two keynote speeches will be announced as soon as possible. ABSTRACTS The deadline of submission of paper abstracts is July 1st, 2004. They should not exceed 250 words. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 30th, 2004. 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), 7th (2001) and 8th (2003) Symposiums-, accepted papers must be sent before September 15, 2004, 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 3?-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 del Comite Organizador IX Simposio Internacional Comunicacion Social Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400 Telephones: 53-22-642760, 53-22-656141 E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 200.00 USD Companions 100.00 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, 2004 - Notification on paper's approval by Scientific Committee: by July 30, 2004 - Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail using 3?-inch diskette: September 15, 2004 - Pre-Symposium seminars: January 24th, 2005 - 9th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 25 through 28, 2005 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 Nicasio Vi?a Davila Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Santiago de Cuba Cuba Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary Ninth International Symposium on Social Communication Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez Emeritus Academic 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 Nicoletta Calzolari Scientific Director Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Daniela Ratti Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Lucia Marconi Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Claudia Rolando Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Paola Cutugno Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Gloria Corpas Pastor Professor and Researcher University of Malaga Malaga, Spain Nancy Cristina 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 Director and Researcher African Cultural Center "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Dieter Fensel Researcher Knowledge Web, Ireland Jens Allwood Professor and Researcher Univeristy of Goteborg Goteborg, Sweden Asa Abelin Professor and Researcher Univeristy of Goteborg Goteborg, Sweden I?aki Alegr?a Loinaz Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Xabier Artola Zubillaga Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain Xabier Arregi Iparragirre Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain ***** NINT 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 ___ Lexicology and Lexicography: trends and updates Paper title: __________________________ Date: ________________ Signature: ___________ -------------------------------------------- Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Calle 8 Nr. 206 entre 7 y 9 Vista Alegre. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba. C.P. 90400 Telefonos: 53-22-642760, 53-22-656141 Correo Electronico: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Amalia.Todirascu at LORIA.FR Thu Apr 1 15:38:37 2004 From: Amalia.Todirascu at LORIA.FR (Amalia.Todirascu at LORIA.FR) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:38:37 -0200 Subject: ROMAND'04 Deadline extended: April 7th Message-ID: LAST CALL FOR PAPER !!! Submission Deadline extended: April 7th !!! ROMAND 2004 3rd workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data A satellite event of COLING 2004 Geneva - August 29th 2004 http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2004/ Robustness in Computational Linguistics has been recently recognized as a central issue for the design of interactive applications based on natural language communication. If a failure of the system can be acceptable in batch applications requiring a human intervention, an on-line system should be capable of dealing with unforeseen situations in a more flexible way. When we talk about system failure we do not think at inherent program failures like infinite loops or system exception, we consider, rather, failures related to the processing of the input and its assimilation in the system's knowledge base. A failure of this kind means simply that the system does not "understand" the input. The automated analysis of natural language data has become a central issue in the design of Intelligent Information Systems. Processing unconstrained natural language data is still considered an AI-hard task. However, various analysis techniques have been proposed in order to address specific aspects of natural language. In particular, recent interest has been focused on providing approximate analysis techniques, assuming that when perfect analysis is not possible, partial results may be still very useful. ROMAND 2004 is the third of a series of workshops aimed at bringing together researchers and students that work in fields like artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, cognitive science and are interested in robust methods in natural language processing and understanding. The term "natural language" is intended as all the possible modalities of human communication and it is not restricted to written or spoken language. Theoretical aspects of robustness in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Understanding (NLU) are welcome as well as engineering and industrial experiences. We are also interested in research works that investigate different types of linguistic modules integration, in order to characterise their advantages and disadvantages with respect to different types of applications, and works that propose different types of NLP/NLU systems, ranging from sequential/pipelined architectures to more loosely-coupled multi-level distributed architectures. We invite papers on all topics related to robustness in natural language processing, including, but not limited to: * Natural Language Architectures * Robust Morpho-Syntactic Parsing * Robust Semantics * Robust Discourse Analysis * Robust Computational Pragmatics * Complexity of linguistic analysis * Spell checking and automated spell correction * NLP and Soft Computing * Hybrid methods in computational linguistics * Information Extraction * Multimedia Document Analysis * Spoken Language Understanding * Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces * Cognitive Linguistics INVITED TALKS Dr. Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh: "Gradient Grammaticality: Applications in Robust Parsing" SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors should submit an anonymous paper (avoiding, as much as possible, hints for the identification of authors) of at most 10 pages (including pictures and references), intended for talks with a duration of 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussions. The paper should follow the COLING formatting style available on the main conference web site (http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/), and the authors must also send us a wrapper e-mail message indicating: 1. the AUTHOR'S NAMES, AFFILIATION, ADDRESS, and E-MAIL address of (at least) the contacting author, 2. an ABSTRACT of the submitted paper (less than 500 words), 3. a list of KEYWORDS (no more than 5). The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF (preferred) or postscript format to: mailto:romand at epfl.ch. NEW! IMPORTANT DATES: Papers submission: April 7th Acceptance notification: May 15th Final version: June 15th Workshop: August 29th PROGRAM CHAIRS Vincenzo Pallotta (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne and International Computer Science Institute - Berkeley) Amalia Todirascu (University of Troyes and University of Iasi) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Afzal Ballim Alberto Lavelli Alexander Clark Atro Voutilainen Bangalore Srinivas C.J. Rupp Dan Cristea Diego Molla'-Aliod Eric Wherli Jose' Iria Fabio Massimo Zanzotto Fabio Rinaldi Frank Keller Giovanni Coray Guenther Goerz Hatem Ghorbel Jean-Cedric Chappelier Jean-Pierre Chanod Joachim Niehren John Carroll Kay-Uwe Carstensen Manuela Boros Maria Teresa Pazienza Martin Rajman Michael Hess Patrick Ruch Roberto Basili Rodolfo Delmonte Salah Ait-Mokhtar Susan Armstrong Wolfgang Menzel Yuji Matsumoto LOCAL ORGANIZATION Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva) Hatem Ghorbel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne) CONTACT INFORMATION: All inquiries should be sent to [romand at epfl.ch]. Please note that general organizational details (registration, accommodation, etc.) are taken care of by COLING 2004, not by the workshop organizers. More information are available the workshop's Web page at http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2004/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 7 15:28:55 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:28:55 +0200 Subject: Appel: 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in MT Message-ID: First Call for Papers TMI-2004 - The 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation Location: Baltimore, MD USA Dates: October 4-6, 2004 Detailed information will soon be available at www.his.se/tmi04 The previous conference in this series (TMI 2002) held in Keihanna, Kyoto, emphasized the synergy between empirical and knowledge-based approaches to Machine Translation. Another topic of interest was MT for new, so-called "low-density" languages.We continue to focus on these issues in the current TMI.Up to now, the papers presented at the TMI conferences were concerned with text-to-text translation. This year, we would like to extend the scope of the research presented at the TMI by including work on spoken language and sign language in Machine Translation. Papers addressing integration of speech processing and machine translation are especially welcome. This year's TMI conference takes place in connection to and in colaboration with AMTA-2004 (the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas). AMTA-2004 takes as its main theme the way "from real users to researchers". Consequently, papers addressing the issue of user needs, and the interaction between market requirements andresearch programs, should preferably be submitted to AMTA. The TMI conference welcomes research papers addressing the following main issues: - acquisition and organization of lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge for MT - innovative algorithms and system architectures for MT - combining stochasticand rule-based approaches - alignment and use of parallel corpora - discourse understanding for MT - language specific morphpological categories in translation - language typology research in relation to MT - speech-to-speech translation, sign-to-text/sign-to-speech translation - multi-lingual summarization. However, innovative papers that address other MT-related issues will be also considered. General submission guidelines: - papers should not be longer than 10 pages (in the letter format) - the minimum character font size is 11 pt - final formatting guidelines will be available at the conference website Important Dates: Submission deadline: May 31 Notification: June 28 Final copy due: July 26 General Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, UMBC, USA Program Committee Chairs: Barbara Gawronska (University of Sk?vde, Sweden) Steve Beale (UMBC, USA) Program Committee: Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Keihanna, Japan) Alex Fraser (ISI, USA) Maghi King (ISSCO, Switzerland) Stephan Oepen (CSLI, USA) Marge McShane (UMBC, USA) Melanie Siegel (DFKI, Germany) Bengt Sigurd (Lund University, Sweden) Harold Somers (UMIST, UK) Anna S?gvall Hein (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jean Veronis (Universit? de Provence, France) Taro Watanabe (ATR, Japan) Barbara Gawronska Professor of Computational Linguistics Dept. of Humanities and Information University of Sk?vde Box 408 541 28 Sk?vde, Sweden tel +46 (0)500 44 89 18 barbara.gawronska at isp.his.se ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 7 15:28:57 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:28:57 +0200 Subject: Appel: Terminology : An international journal of Theoretical and Applied issues in Specialized communication Message-ID: 2nd Call for contributions -- APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS -- A special issue of the "Terminology : An international journal of Theoretical and Applied issues in Specialized communication", Marie-Claude L'Homme & Ulrich Heid (eds.), John Benjamins Publishing, will be devoted to : "Application-driven Terminology engineering" Guest editors : Maria-Teresa Cabre, Annes Condamines, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan -- Topic of the issue -- This special issue, following a 2-day workshop held in January 2004 on "Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge Representation" in Lyon (France), wishes to address the specific issue of how terminological knowledge is used and managed within specific applications. It is thus an application-oriented terminology engineering issue. Most applications within knowledge engineering deal with terms but they define or process them differently according to the application targeted. More precisely, knowledge engineering makes use of ontologies, it means more or less formal knowledge representation using terms and relations between them. The text units considered in an ontology engineering framework may differ depending on uses to which the ontology is put and also may differ from the units considered in other application areas like information retrieval, terminology knowledge acquisition, dictionary construction or enhanced lexicons. The usefulness of terminology in applications areas like specialised lexicon construction, acquisition of semantic relations from texts, terminology knowledge base (TKB) construction have been demonstrated and many tools have been designed for such purposes. These works have adopted an empirical stance, based on corpora, thus stressing the necessary anchoring of term extraction, term definition and inter-term relation identification on the contexts of use. Researchers working in this field have reached a consensus on the fact that the meaning of a term is not always unique but depends a lot on the context, on the sub-speciality using it. In the wake of these works were also many scientific events at national and international levels: conferences (TIA, TKE), workshops within international conferences (COMPUTERM 1998 and 2002). A fair amount of literature exists on the definition and nature of terms, on term-concept relations, on term extraction methods and tools. Also, another research direction that has received much attention is terminology variation and structuring using different linguistic levels of analysis (morphology, syntax, semantic). This call concerns more specifically the links between terminology or ontology construction and an application. A particular attention will be paid to papers who justify the definition and processing of terms within an application framework, i.e., papers should make clear to what extent the application needs influence the type of text units analysed and the types of processing to which they are subjected, thus indicating how this departs from the mainstream theoretical definitions of terms and their properties. Note however that papers dealing only with the theoretical definitions of terms, concepts and their relations will fall outside the scope of this special issue as this has been widely debated and documented in the literature. The thrust should be on how the targeted application influences terminology engineering or management. Solid references should be made to works already done on similar applications in order to gauge the added-value gained from terminology processing. Another topic which this special issue will like to investigate is corpus-dependent terminology processing. Some studies have pointed out the fact that the type of corpus used in a particular study can influence the types of semantic relation markers found and the types of relations they embody. Thus papers dealing with how corpus genre affects the type of terminological knowledge acquired are also welcome. Contributions should be original and unpublished studies dealing with the use of terminology in the following application areas (non exhaustive) : - corpus-driven terminology knowledge base - corpus-driven ontology design - corpus-driven acquisition of semantic relations - computer-assisted terminology structuring (CAST) - computer-assisted language learning (CALL) - corpus-dependent terminology knowledge processing - competitive intelligence (CI), - scientific and technology watch (STW) - text mining (TM ) - question - Answering (Q-A) - information extraction (IE) Our aim in this special issue is to bring to light current research on the importance of terminology in these areas, to show that issues related to terminology processing cross several boundaries and are quite central in many non-classical application areas. As such, special attention will be given to papers describing the use of terminology in the above mentioned areas. Format for submissions --------------------------------------- Authors should conform to formatting guidelines which can be found on the publisher's website : www.benjamins.com, (click "Journals", "Terminology" and then "Guidelines") or at the end of printed issues of the journal. Papers should be written in Word and must not exceed 30 double-spaced pages with the required formatting. Submissions in English is preferred but French, Spanish and German are also acceptable. Special advisory board for this issue ----------------------------------------- Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, UK) Sophia Ananiandou (University of Salford, UK) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Paris, France) Caroline Barriere (National Research Council, Canada) Didier Bourigault( Erss, CNRS-Toulouse, France) Beatrice Daille (IRIN, Univ. of Nantes, France) Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan) Sylvie Laine-Cruzel (Ersicom, Univ. of Lyon 3, France) Genevieve Lallich (Ursidoc, Univ. of Lyon 1, France) Widad Mustafa El-Hadi (Univ. de Lille 3, France) Blaise Nkwenti-Azeh (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Jean Royaute (LIF,CNRS-Marseille, France) Monique Slodzian (CRIM/INALCO, Paris, France) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Univ. de Paris 13, France) Rita Temmerman (Erasmusshogeschool, Brussel Belgium) Philippe Thoiron (CRTT, Univ. de Lyon 2, France) lmportant dates ------------------------------------- 30 June 2004 : Deadline for paper submissions 20 September 2004 : Notification of answers to authors 30 October 2004 : camera ready copies Tentative printing schedule : first quarter of 2005. Send your contributions in Word format to both ibekwe at univ-lyon3.fr and anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr -------------------------------------- Ibekwe-SanJuan Fidelia Workshop "Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge representation" http://www.univ-lyon3.fr/ersicom/partagedessavoirs/termino2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 7 15:29:00 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:29:00 +0200 Subject: Conf: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Journ=E9es_d=27etude_de_l=27operation?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_=ABSemantique_et_Corpus=BB?= Message-ID: ?quipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et S?mantique (UMR 5610) CNRS & Universit? de Toulouse le Mirail Journ?es d'?tude de l'op?ration ?S?mantique et Corpus? LA PLACE DES M?THODES QUANTITATIVES DANS LE TRAVAIL DU LINGUISTE Mercredi 2 juin 2004 Maison de la Recherche. Salle D29 10h00 Mot de bienvenue 10h15 ?tienne Brunet (Universit? de Nice). La quantification des textes: variation et convergence 11h00 Liesbeth Degand (Universit? catholique de Louvain). La s?mantique des connecteurs : de l'analyse manuelle ? l'analyse automatis?e de corpus 11h45 Pr?sentation de quelques travaux toulousains * Philippe Muller (IRIT-CNRS, UPS, INPT) et Laurent Pr?vot (IRIT-CNRS, UPS, INPT). Une ?tude des marqueurs d'acceptation du dialogue en fran?ais * Mai Hodac (ERSS-CNRS & UTM), Marie-Paule Jacques (ERSS-CNRS & UTM) et Josette Rebeyrolle (ERSS-CNRS & UTM). Titre ? pr?ciser * C?cile Fabre (ERSS-CNRS & UTM) et Nabil Hathout (ERSS-CNRS & UTM). Titre ? pr?ciser 12h30 Repas 14h30 Pascale S?billot (IRISA & Universit? de Rennes 1). Acquisition de connaissances linguistiques en corpus par apprentissage symbolique ou quand l'apprentissage perd son aspect bo?te noire 15h15 Didier Bourigault (ERSS-CNRS & UTM). Acquisition de probabilit?s de sous-cat?gorisation ? partir de tr?s gros corpus 16h00 Pause 16h30 Marc Pl?nat (ERSS - CNRS & UTM). Le linguiste comme orpailleur 17h15 Bernard Victorri (LATTICE - CNRS & ENS). L'utilisation de m?thodes quantitatives dans l'?tude de la polys?mie lexicale Jeudi 3 juin 2004 Maison de la Recherche. Salle D31 9h30 Antoinette Renouf (University of Liverpool). Trends in Morphological Productivity in English Journalistic Texts over the last 15 years 10h15 Beno?t Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Universit? Paris X). Battre son corpus tant qu'il est chaud 11h00 Pause 11h30 Bruno Gaume (IRIT, CNRS, UPS & INPT), Philippe Muller (IRIT, CNRS, UPS & INPT) et Nabil Hathout (ERSS - CNRS & UTM). Faire ?merger le sens de la quantit? et de la structure 12h15 Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/DSI/AP-HP). Exploitation de dimensions du traitement de corpus en d?couverte de connaissances linguistiques Inscription gratuite obligatoire Contact : Ludovic.Tanguy at univ-tlse2.fr URL : http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 7 15:28:58 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:28:58 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLING 2004 : RECENT ADVANCES IN DEPENDENCY GRAMMAR Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on RECENT ADVANCES IN DEPENDENCY GRAMMAR August 28th, 2004 To be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 [ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/dg2004/ ] ** Poster/paper submission deadline: April 21 ** Over the last years, there has been a strong revival of interest for dependency grammar, following up on, and contributing to, the recent advances in formal grammar and in computational linguistics. Dependency grammar is, however, more of a "perspective" on grammar than a singular framework, which has led to a great variety of proposals making this perspective more concrete. The last workshop dedicated purely to dependency grammar was the Dependency Grammar workshop organized in conjunction with ACL-COLING 1998 in Montreal [ http://www.olst.umontreal.ca/Eng/DGPapers.html ]. The goal of the current workshop is to offer a dedicated forum where the community can present and assess recent advances in dependency grammar, discuss issues, progress and perspectives, and to foster new collaborations. To make optimal use of the workshop format, we plan to mix paper presentations with a poster session (1.30h), and allow for enough time for discussion around paper presentations (25+10). We would like to invite submissions to the workshop on any theme relating to dependency grammars. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: The format and length requirements will be the same as for full papers for COLING 2004. See [ http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ ] or [ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/dg2004/ ] for more details. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Papers should be sent to [ dg2004 at coli.uni-sb.de ]. The paper should be an attachment in PDF format and the heading on the email should read "PAPER SUBMISSION". Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to the originating email address. LANGUAGE: All papers must be written and presented in English PROCEEDINGS AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION Accepted papers and posters will be published in a proceedings volume. For the workshop to take place, the COLING 2004 organizers require at least 20 participants to register for the workshop. Speakers and participants are therefore asked to register via the official COLING 2004 site as soon as possible. IMPORTANT DATES: Apr 21 Deadline full papers and posters May 26 Notification Jun 16 Final versions of full papers, posters/short papers due Jun 24 Submission camera ready proceedings PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Geert-Jan Kruijff Saarland University, Saarbr?cken (co-chair) Denys Duchier LORIA, Nancy (co-chair) Alexander Dikovsky Universite de Nantes, Nantes Dick Hudson University College London, London Sylvain Kahane University Paris 10 - Nanterre Alexander Koller Saarland University, Saarbr?cken Vladislav Kubon Charles University, Prague Wolfgang Menzel Hamburg University, Hamburg Glyn Morrill Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Joachim Niehren INRIA Futurs, Lille Joakim Nivre Vaxjo University, Vaxjo Alain Polgu?re University of Montreal, Montreal Owen Rambow Columbia University, New York Petr Sgall Charles University, Prague CONTACT INFORMATION: All inquiries should be sent to [ dg2004 at coli.uni-sb.de ] with the SUBJECT heading "INQUIRY". Please note that general organizational details (registration, accommodation, etc.) are taken care of by COLING 2004, not by the workshop organizers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 7 15:54:29 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:54:29 +0200 Subject: Conf: JEP-TALN 2004 : TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DE LA LANGUE ARABE ECRITE ET ORALE Message-ID: **************************************************** APPEL A PARTICIPATION J E P 2 0 0 4 - T A L N 2 0 0 4 - Sessions Sp?ciales - TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DE LA LANGUE ARABE ECRITE ET ORALE Palais des Congr?s F?s (Maroc) du 19 au 22 avril 2004 **************************************************** Compte tenu du nombre ?lev? de soumissions sur le th?me du "Traitement automatique de la langue arabe ?crite et parl?e", plusieurs sessions diff?rentes seront organis?es : * Conf?rence invit?e pl?ni?re JEP/TALN (Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA). * Session orale pl?ni?re commune JEP/TALN. * Session orale parall?le commune JEP/TALN. * Deux sessions posters communes JEP/TALN. Le programme d?taill? des sessions est disponible ici : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/JEP-TALN-ARABIC-Programme.pdf http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04//JEP-TALN-ARABIC-Programme.pdf Les informations relatives ? l'inscription sont accessibles ici : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04/ **************************************************** Organisateurs : Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D, France. Noureddine Chenfour, Universit? S.M.Ben Abdellah, F?s, Maroc. ------------------------------------------------------ Malek Boualem France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 Email: malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.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 Wed Apr 7 17:41:04 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 19:41:04 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLING 2004 : Workshop on MULTILINGUAL LINGUISTIC RESSOURCES Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on MULTILINGUAL LINGUISTIC RESSOURCES MLR2004 August 28th, 2004 To be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 [ http://mlr2004.imag.fr/ ] ** Paper submission deadline: May 7th 2004 ** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION -------------------- In an ever expanding information society, most information systems are now facing the "multilingual challenge". Lexical resources play an essential role in these information systems. Such lexical resources need to provide information on many languages in a common framework and should be (re)usable in many applications (for automatic or human use). Many centers have been involved in national, european and international projects dedicated to building harmonized language resources and creating expertise in the maintenance and further development of standardized linguistic data. These resources include dictionaries, lexicons, thesauri, wordnets, and annotated corpora developed along the lines of best practices and recommendations. However, since the late 90's most efforts in scaling up these resources remain the responsibility of the local authorities, usually, with very low funding (if any) and few opportunities for academic recognition of this work. Hence, it is not surprising that many of the resource holders and developers have become reluctant to give free access to the latest resources. It is therefore currently rather unclear what the actual status is of these language resources. The goal of this workshop is to study problems involved in the development/management/reuse of lexical resources in a multilingual context. Moreover, this workshop will provide a forum for reviewing the state of language resources. The workshop is meant to bring to the international community qualitative and quantitative information about the most recent developments in the area of linguistic resources and their use in applications. As the workshop takes place in Europe, special attention will be given to submissions on resources for European languages (especially Central and Eastern European languages), but submission of innovative developments involving any language will be welcome. The intent of the workshop is not only to review academic developments but also to hear from industry, how these resources are used in new technology developments and what the current needs are in the field. Presentations, project notes and position papers are welcome. WORKSHOP TOPICS --------------- Authors of papers on multilingual linguistic ressources are encouraged to apply. Papers could be on - but not limited to - any of the following topics: - models for language/application-independent linguistic data - linguistic data acquisition and maintenance - building multilingual linguistic resources - lexical architectures to link data between languages - use of linguistic resources for applications in a multilingual context - reuse of existing lexical resources in a specific multilingual application - human use of lexical resources in a multilingual context - quality evaluation and standardization SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Papers should be original, hence report on previously unpublished work. They should emphasize completed rather than intended work. Papers submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. As the review process will not be blind, papers should contain the names and affiliations of authors. Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations). Project notes and position papers should not exceed 4 pages. Authors should follow the COLING 2004 formating guidelines, available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html. All submissions should be made through the MLR2004 workshop web site's submission form (http://mlr2004.imag.fr/). They should consist of a single PDF file. Before submitting your document, please verify that all non-standard fonts are correctly embedded in your PDF document (you can do this by disabling the "Use Local Font" option when viewing you PDF document with Adobe Reader). Formating requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Deadline for submission of Papers: May 7th 2004 Notification of Acceptance: June 2nd 2004 Deadline for final paper submission: June 16th 2004 Workshop: August 28th 2004 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Gilles S?rasset, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Universit? Joseph Fourier- Grenoble I, France Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Universit? de Gen?ve, Suisse Christian Boitet, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Universit? Joseph Fourier- Grenoble I, France Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO, Universit? de Gen?ve, Suisse Dan Tufis, RACAI, University of Bucharest, Romania PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- - Gilles S?rasset, GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Universit? Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France (chair) - Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland - Pushpak Battacharya, IIT, Mumbai, India - Igor Boguslavski, IITP, Moscow, Russia - Christian Boitet, GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Universit? Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France - Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland - Jim Breen Monash, University, Australia - Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR, Pisa, Italy - Dan Cristea, University Al.I.Cuza Iasi, Romania - Patrick Drouin, OLST, University of Montreal,Canada - Sanae Fujita, NTT, Kyoto, Japan - Ulrich Heid, IMS-CL, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Hitoshi Isahara, CRL, Nara, Japan - Kyo Kageura, NII, Tokyo, Japan - Chuah Choy Kim, USM, Penang, Malaisie - Mathieu Mangeot, NII, Tokyo, Japan - Alain Polgu?re, OLST, University of Montreal,Canada - Andrei Popescu-belis, ISSCO, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland - Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France - Mandel Shi, Xiamen University, China - Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL, Thailand - Pr. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Tokyo University, Japan - Philippe Thoiron, CRTT, Universit? de Lyon 2, France - Dan Tufis, RACAI, Uni Bucharest, Romania - Michael Zock, LIMSI, Orsay, France CONTACT ------- mlr2004 at imag.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 Wed Apr 7 17:43:40 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 19:43:40 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLING 2004 : workshop : ENHANCING AND USING ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES Message-ID: ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ENHANCING AND USING ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES Workshop to be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 August 29th, 2004 ** Paper submission deadline: May 1st 2004 ** ----------------------------------------------------------- Introduction A dictionary is a vital component of any natural language processing system. Its modern, digital form has considerable potential, especially if it is extended and built in a way compatible with the needs and habits of the average language user. There are many ways to make an electronic dictionary useful for people in their daily tasks of processing language. One could assist * reading and writing: adding a transliterator and a morphological generator/parser to a dictionary would put the needed information at the distance of a mouse click. Imagine someone trying to look up the meaning (or translation) of a word in a script he can't read. * language learning: combining dictionaries with a parametrizable flashcard system and a goal-driven exercice generator could help the memorization and automation of words and basic syntactic patterns. In such a system choosing a goal would trigger syntactic templates, filling the latter with words would yield (simple) sentences. * lexical access (navigation): structuring the dictionary in a similar way as the human mind, i.e. building an associative network akin to WordNet, but with many more links in particular at the syntagmatic axis, could assist the writer not only in finding new ideas (brainstorming), but also the word he is looking for. Within this framework, word access amounts to entering and navigating in a huge, associative network. To build such a tool one could extract associations from an encyclopedia, label and add them as links to a resource like WordNet. As one can see, there are numerous ways to enhance dictionaries. While the new hardware offers many, sometimes surprising opportunities for novel uses, seizing them requires some rethinking. This is the goal of this one-day workshop. In particular, we'd like to discuss interesting extensions and enhancements of electronic dictionaries. For example, one could consider merging different, thesaurus-like dictionaries and see what kind of conceptual and navigational aids might be added to support the language user: what are his needs, what information is he looking for? Actually, a focus shift might be necessary to move from the data (content and size of the dictionary) to their organisation and access. As, what is a huge dictionary good for, if one cannot find the word one is looking for? Target audience The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers involved in the building of electronic dictionaries to discuss modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs (i.e. how to capitalize on the advantages of the digital form). Given the breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many perspectives, including, but not limited, to linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics, language learning, and ergonomics. We request that each contribution addresses computational aspects. Topics We would like to invite papers addressing any of the following issues : * type of information to be stored in the dictionary * representation and structuring (indexing) of the data; * management, visualization and useability of the data; * access (aids for navigation, interface, strategies); * acquisition of lexical data (corpus); * possibilities for editing entries (annotation, updating); * integration (combination of the dictionary with other ressources, writer's workbench); * uses of dictionaries by people (learning/teaching; writing) and by machines (NLP). Submission instructions Papers should be original, hence report on previously unpublished work. Papers simultaneously submitted to other conferences should reflect this fact on the title page. As the review process will not be blind, papers should contain the names and affiliations of authors. Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations). Project notes and position papers should not exceed 4 pages. Authors should follow the COLING 2004 formating guidelines, available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html. All submissions should be made by email to the following address zocklimsi.fr. They should consist of a single PDF file. Before submitting your document, please verify that all non-standard fonts are correctly embedded in your PDF file (you can do this by disabling the "Use Local Font" option when viewing your document with Adobe's Reader). Formating requirements for the final version of the papers will be posted as soon as they become available. Important dates: * Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 1st May 2004 * Notification of workshop paper acceptance: 1st June 2004 * Deadline for camera-ready workshop papers: 15th June 2004 * Workshop Date: 29th August 2004 Organising Committee: * Michael Zock (Limsi-CNRS, Orsay, France) chair * Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France) Program Committee: * Antonietta Alonge (University of Perugia, Italy) * Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France) * Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy) * Christiane Fellbaum (University of Princeton, USA) * Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada) * Mathieu Mangeot-Nagata (NII, Tokyo) * Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, USA) * Alain Polgu?re (OLST, University of Montreal, Canada) * James Pustejovsky (University of Brandeis, USA) * Gilles S?rasset (GETA, Grenoble, France) * Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France) * Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan) * Dan Tufis (RACAI, Bucharest, Roumania) * Jean V?ronis (University of Aix en Provence, France) * Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft, The Netherlands) * Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart, Germany) * Michael Zock (Limsi-CNRS, France) Contact For any queries please contact Michael Zock: zock at limsi.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 Wed Apr 14 15:29:02 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:29:02 +0200 Subject: Conf: SIGdial '04 Message-ID: SIGdial '04 News 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue Cambridge/MA, April 30 and May 1, 2004 (immediately preceding HLT-NAACL) ____________________________________________________________________________ DEMOS The following demos have been accepted in addition to the program published earlier: A dialogue system for language learning Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) A Flexible Mixed-Initiative Speech Interface for Restaurant Information Stephanie Seneff, Grace Chung, Chao Wang (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) PALSUMM LiveTree Discourse Processing Environment Gian Lorenzo Thione, Martin van den Berg, Chris Culy, Livia Polanyi (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Find a restaurant with the 3D embodied conversational agent Nestor Celine Ance, Bretier, Breton, Damnati, Moudenc, Le Pape, Panaget, Pele, Sadek (France Telecom R&D) Dialog Management for Conversational Applications Vidhya Ramanujam, Greg Purdy, Carl Osipov, Rajesh Balchandran, Linda Boyer (IBM) Discourse and Dialog in the START Question Answering System Boris Katz, Sue Felshin (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) Hosting Conversations with a Robot Candace Sidner, Chris Lee, Neal Lesh (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs) Descriptions of those demos are available on the SIGdial '04 homepage (http://sigdial04.eml-research.de). Follow the link to "Demonstrations". ____________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM The program for the SIGdial '04 workshop is available on the SIGdial '04 homepage (http://sigdial04.eml-research.de). Follow the link to "Program". ____________________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION Online registration for SIGdial '04 is available on the HLT/NAACL website (http://www.aclweb.org/hltnaacl04reg/hltnaacl04reg.php). Early registration deadline ends on April 9, 2004. ____________________________________________________________________________ DIRECTIONS Directions to the workshop site (the MIT faculty club) are available on the SIGdial '04 homepage (http://sigdial04.eml-research.de). Follow the link to "Registration and Other Info". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 14 15:30:16 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:30:16 +0200 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies (WORM-04) Message-ID: *apologies for cross posting* -CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: June 25, 2004- Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies (WORM-04) WWW: http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_2004.htm Part of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '04) * Proceedings published by Springer LNCS * October 25-29 2003 , Larnaca, Cyprus In many application areas (such as e-commerce, e-governments, content standardizations, legal information systems etc.), the modeling of regulatory and legal knowledge is a critical. Modeling and deploying regulatory knowledge has some specifics that differentiate it out from other kinds of knowledge modeling: reasoning methods and application scenarios, the legal weight (/order) of regulations, parsing legal texts requires special semantic patterns, the sensitivity in cross-boarder regulations, etc. This workshop aims at bringing together academics, researchers, professionals and industrial practitioners to discuss issues involved in modeling regulatory ontologies. Regulatory ontologies typically involve the description of rules and regulations within the social world. In particular, we seek original contributions on the following issues of interest, but not limited to: - Engineering of regulatory ontologies: conceptual analysis, representation, modularization and layering, reusability, evolution and dynamics, etc; - Multilingual and terminological aspects of regulatory ontologies; - Models of legal reasoning (from ontological viewpoint): regulatory compliance, case-based reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, etc. - Sensitivity on and harmonization of regulations; - Regulatory metadata and content standardization (e.g. legal-XML/LeXML, ADR/ODR-XML,...); - Regulatory ontologies of: property rights, persons and organizations, legal procedures, contracts, legal causality, etc; - Task models for socially regulated activities; - Experiences with projects and applications involving regulatory ontologies in legal knowledge based systems, legal information retrieval, e-governments, e-commerce; - Automated extraction of Information from regulatory documents. Invited Speaker ===================== Submissions ===================== We invite papers of no more than 14 pages length (Springer style format) Describing original completed work, work in progress, interesting problems or use cases, or trends in this research area. Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as on technical aspects. *****Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a part of Proceedings of the ?On The Move Federated Conferences 2004?. Please email your submission by 25-June-2003 in PDF or Postscript format to Mustafa Jarrar (mjarrar_at_vub.ac.be) AND Aldo Gangemi (a.gangemi_at_istc.cnr.it). Important dates ============================== - June 18, 2004 : Deadline for submission of Abstracts - June 25, 2004 : Deadline for submission of papers - July 25, 2004 : Notification to paper authors - August 20, 2004 : Final version of accepted papers - Oct 28, 2004 : Workshop Organizers and general chairs ============================== - Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Contact) http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa - Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome (Contact) http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html Program Committee ==================================== * Abdul Paliwala, University of Warwick, UK * Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy * Andr? Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, USA * Andrew Stranieri, JUSTSYS, Ballarat, Australia * Bart Verheij, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands * Benjamin Grosof, MIT, USA * Carole Hafner, Northeastern University, USA * Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands * Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain * Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, France * Joost Breuker, LRI-UVA, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Leonardo Lesmo, Universita' di Torino, Italy * Marc Wilikens, EU JRC, Ispra, Italy * Mariano Fernandez Lopez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain * Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy * Richard Benjamins, ISOCO, Spain * Rita Temmerman, Erasmushogeschool Brussels, Belgium * Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Said Tabet, The RuleML Initiative, Boston, USA * Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK * Youssef Amghar, Laboratoire d'Ing?nierie des Syst?mes d'Information, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 14 15:31:05 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:31:05 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLING Workshop Biomedicine and its Applications : new deadline Message-ID: COLING Workshop International Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications BioNLP/NLPBA 2004 http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/JNLPBA04/ Call for Papers Geneva, Switzerland August 28-29, 2004 *** Deadline for Regular Workshop Papers: 16th of April **** Workshop Description Recent years have seen a growing interest in the application of NLP techniques to texts in the domains of biology and medicine. The problem of information overload that has resulted from the massive growth in the scientific literature has clearly shown the necessity to automatically locate, organize and manage facts relating to experimental results. At the same time clinicians have experienced greatly improved access to the medical literature and clinical repositories which needs to be matched by the development of enhanced information access tools. This year NLPBA (http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/) and BioNLP (http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ACL03/bionlp.htm) merge for a joint workshop with the aim of bringing together researchers from natural language processing, bio-informatics, medicine and ontologies who are concerned with developing methods and resources for solving these problems. Over the last five years we have seen significant steps forward in the development of language technology and large-scale resources for the Bio-Medical domain such as linguistically annotated corpora (e.g. GENIA POS and NE corpora), ontologies (e.g. Gene Ontology), thesauri (e.g. UMLS Metathesaurus), lexicons and term lists (e.g. UMLS SPECIALIST) as well as information retrieval collections (e.g. TREC Genomics track). At the application level we see development of question answering systems, event recognition, zone (rhetorical region) identification, as well as term and bio-entity recognition. The demand for information access tools from domain users is increasing to support literature survey, often integrated into online 'portals' where scientists can navigate through related information resources such as genetics and disease databases. Ongoing challenges relate to the growing and ambiguous nomenclature, the need to integrate deep knowledge sources into machine learning, a need to scale up methods for processing full text articles etc. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers in this area, to establish common themes and goals between different groups. We have seen from previous experience in the natural language learning and information retrieval communities the benefits of sharing resources and developing common evaluation criteria. In this workshop we are introducing a special shared task to promote discussion of these issues as well as the objective of integrating machine learning with knowledge resources. We invite submission of papers on topics related to bio-medical NLP including, but not limited to: * Information extraction * Text mining * Named entity recognition * Coreference resolution * Term recognition * Knowledge-based information retrieval * Multi-lingual resources and applications * Ontology construction and ontology mapping * Visualization tools for viewing clustered or extracted information or meta-data * Multi-modal approaches combining text and images, etc. * Event recognition * Construction of pathways from literature and databases * Creation of data-sets of bio-medical entities, coreferences and relations * Annotation standards and quality control methodologies * Resource integration and re-engineering * Corpus/lexicon construction * Text summarization and report generation Shared Task This year we propose to have a special shared task: bio-medical named entity recognition from the GENIA corpus. The purpose of this track is essentially to investigate the integration of statistical machine learning methods with symbolic knowledge sources from the bio-medical domain such as ontologies, thesauri and lexicons : shared task description. Paper Format and Submission Workshop papers should follow the COLING 2004 templates for regular papers (i.e. at most 7 pages). Shared task papers should be formatted as per the COLING project notes style (4 pages). All papers will be submitted by email to jnlpba-submit at david.hcuge.ch. Important Dates Extended deadline for workshop papers: April 16th, 2004 Notification of accepted papers: May 14th, 2004 Deadline for camera ready copies: June 6th, 2004 Workshop Chairs Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Patrick Ruch (University Hospital of Geneva and EPFL, Switzerland) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, France) Organizing Committee Alfonso Valencia (Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain) Carol Friedman (CUNY/Columbia University, USA) Donia Scott (University of Brighton, UK) Udo Hahn (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany) Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan) Program Committee Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK) Alan Aronson (National Library of Medicine, USA) Robert Baud (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland) Christian Blaschke (CNB, Spain) Oliver Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA) Berry de Bruijn (National Research Center, Canada) Marc Craven (University of Wisconsin, USA) Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK) Eric Gaussier (Xerox, XRCE, France) Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou (Columbia University, USA) Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, USA) Dimitar Hristovski (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Jerry Hobbs (USC/ISI, USA) Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Su Jian (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Asao Fujiyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Arne J?nsson (University of Link?ping, Sweden) Fr?d?rique Lisacek (GeneBio SA, Switzerland) Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan) Claire N?dellec (INRA, France) Kousaku Okubo (Kyushu University, Japan) Jong C. Park (KAIST, Korea) Thierry Poibeau (LIPN, France) Denys Proux (Xerox, XRCE, France) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA) Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (European Bioinformatics Institute, EU) Irena Spasic (UMIST, UK) Ben Stapley (UMIST, UK) Padmini Srinivasan (University of Iowa, USA) Hirotoshi Taira (NTT Communication Science, Japan) Toshihisa Takagi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Yuka Tateishi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Anne-Lise Veuthey (SIB, Switzerland) Limsoon Wong (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, INSERM & INaLCO, France) Contact Information General organization : jnlpba-request at david.hcuge.ch Shared task organization: bio04sharedtask at nii.ac.jp Main page : http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/JNLPBA04/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 14 15:32:33 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:32:33 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLLOQUE "ROUTE DU VERBE" : nouvelle date limite Message-ID: COLLOQUE "ROUTE DU VERBE", NANCY, 30 SEPTEMBRE AU 02 OCTOBRE PROLONGATION DE L'APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS NOUVELLE DEADLINE A NOTER : 25 AVRIL 2004 Colloque des doctorants et jeunes chercheurs en linguistique de l'universit? Nancy 2 : "Sur la route du verbe" Du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 Universit? Nancy 2 ? 23, boulevard Albert 1er - 54000 NANCY Laboratoires ATILF et CRAPEL Date limite de soumission : 25 avril 2004 ******************** PRESENTATION Un groupe de doctorants et jeunes chercheurs des laboratoires ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Fran?aise) et CRAPEL (Centre de Recherches et d'Applications P?dagogiques En Langues ) de l'Universit? Nancy 2 organise son premier colloque, intitul? "Sur la route du verbe". Celui-ci aura lieu ? Nancy du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 . Il s'inscrit dans l'esprit du colloque JETOU2003, organis? par les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs de l'Universit? de Toulouse 2 en novembre 2003. La date limite de soumission des communications est fix?e au 25 avril 2004. ******************** CONFERENCIERS INVITES Georges KLEIBER (Universit? Marc Bloch, Strasbourg) Brenda LACA (Universit? Paris 3) ******************** THEMATIQUE Ce colloque s'adresse principalement aux doctorants et jeunes chercheurs en linguistique, mais son ambition est aussi de faire se rencontrer la communaut? des chercheurs en linguistique plus exp?riment?s avec leurs jeunes coll?gues. La langue officielle est le fran?ais. Le th?me du colloque propos? est centr? sur le verbe et ses d?pendances. Toutes les approches disciplinaires sont les bienvenues, qu'elles soient monolingues ou multilingues, de la morpho-phonologie ? la didactique, en passant par le lexique, la syntaxe, la s?mantique et le discours, tant au plan synchronique que diachronique. En effet, ? travers ses nombreuses sp?cificit?s : ? ses marques morphologiques sp?cifiques (sa terminaison ? d?sinence ? varie selon le temps et la personne, le mode et l'aspect) ? en tant qu'unit? lexicale potentiellement infinie et perp?tuellement renouvel?e ? en tant que constituant habituel de la phrase ? en tant que constituant du groupe verbal ? en tant que pivot de la proposition, le verbe est un objet d'?tude qui concerne tous les domaines de la linguistique (lexicologie, s?mantique, syntaxe, morphologie') et dans toutes les perspectives (cognition, analyse de discours, analyse du fran?ais parl?, grammaire g?n?rative, typologie, didactique') Il s'agit d'interroger les valeurs et potentialit?s du lex?me verbal ainsi que son r?le dans la proposition. Les axes d'?tude suivants nous int?ressent particuli?rement : -La s?mantique lexicale du verbe monolingue et multilingue (polys?mie, typologies, expressions fig?es, ...), -L'aspect (cat?gorisation de l'aspect lexical, interactions entre aspect lexical en contexte et hors-contexte, l'aspect et sa localisation, les interactions entre aspect lexical et aspect morphologique, l'aspect et l'organisation du discours,...) -La didactique (enseignement et apprentissage (fran?ais langue maternelle)) -La compl?mentation (rection et valence (d?pendance du verbe / structure argumentale), ant?position (micro et macro-syntaxe), contenus s?mantiques et rapports syntaxico-s?mantiques,...) ******************** CONDITIONS DE SOUMISSION Les propositions de communications se pr?senteront sous la forme d'un r?sum? anonyme n'exc?dant pas deux pages (figures et r?f?rences bibliographiques comprises). Les r?sum?s seront envoy?s sous format ?lectronique. Les fichiers peuvent ?tre envoy?s en formats RTF, PS, PDF ou DOC. Ils devront comporter une marge de 2 cm sur chaque c?t? et utiliser du Times New Roman en 12. Le corps du message contiendra : les nom et pr?nom du ou des auteur(s), l'affiliation, les coordonn?es postales et ?lectroniques, le titre de la communication. Le fichier attach? contiendra : le titre et le r?sum? anonyme. Les propositions devront parvenir ? l'adresse : route.verbe at atilf.fr au plus tard le 25 avril 2004. En cas d'impossibilit? d'envoi ?lectronique, envoyer la proposition en 3 exemplaires par courrier postal (cachet de la poste faisant foi) ? l'adresse suivante : Colloque ? Sur la route du verbe ? Laboratoire ATILF ? CNRS 44, avenue de la lib?ration BP 30687 54000 NANCY Joindre un document s?par? qui contiendra : les nom et pr?nom du ou des auteur(s), l'affiliation, les coordonn?es postales, le titre de la communication. ******************** COMITE D'ORGANISATION Mounia Aouidet, Claire Becker, Julie Cyr, Karine David, S?bastien Haton, Sophie Heyd, Hilary Inwood, Evelyne Jacquey, Christelle Jengie, Herv? Lejeune, Laurent Mascherin, Cathy Pira, La?titia Wack. ******************** COMITE DE LECTURE Denis Apoth?loz (Universit? Nancy 2) Claire Beyssade (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS) Claire Blanche-Benveniste (Universit? de Provence) Gilles Boy? (Universit? Nancy 2) Patricia Cabredo-Hoffer (Universit? Paris 8, CNRS) Emmanuelle Canut (Universit? Nancy 2) Bernard Combettes (Universit? Nancy 2) Jean-Paul Confais (Universit? Toulouse 2) Georgette Dal (Universit? Lille 3) Lo?c Depecker (Universit? Paris 3) C?line Fabre (Universit? Toulouse 2) Catherine Fuchs (LaTTICe / UMR 8094 CNRS / ENS-Ulm / Paris 7) Philippe Gr?a (Universit? Nancy 2) Claude Guimier (Universit? Caen Basse-Normandie) Nabil Hathout (Universit? Toulouse 2) Christine Jacquet-Pfau (Coll?ge de France, Paris) Marie-Laurence Knittel (Universit? Nancy 2) Dominique Lagorgette (Universit? de Savoie) B?atrice Lamiroy (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgique) Pierre Larriv?e (Aston University, Royaume-Uni) St?phanie Lignon (Universit? de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse) Fran?ois Lonchamp (Universit? Nancy 2) Mounira Loughraieb (Universit? Nancy 2) Eric Mathieu (University College London, Angleterre) Jacques Moeschler (Universit? de Gen?ve, Suisse) Fiammetta Namer (Universit? Nancy 2) Vincent Nyckees (Universit? Lille 3) Sandrine Oriez (Universit? de Poitiers) Alain Polgu?re (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada) Bernard Pottier (Universit? Paris 4 - Sorbonne) Fran?ois Rastier (Universit? Paris 7 - Denis Diderot) Sylvianne R?mi (Universit? Lyon 2) Laurent Roussarie (Universit? Paris 8 ' Vincennes/St-Denis) Jean-Fran?ois Sablayrolles (Universit? Paris 7) Louis de Saussure (Universit? de Gen?ve, Suisse) Catherine Schnedecker (Universit? Strasbourg 2) Martine Vanhove (CNRS LLCAN Villejuif Paris) Danielle Van de Velde (Universit? Lille 3) ******************** DUREE DES COMMUNICATIONS Les communications dureront 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de discussion. ******************** CALENDRIER Date limite de r?ception des communications : 25 avril 2004. Notification d'acceptation : d?but juillet 2004. Date du colloque : du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004. ******************** INFORMATIONS COMPLEMENTAIRES Les informations (modalit?s d'inscription, d?roulement des journ?es, logement, transport, etc.) concernant le colloque seront maintenues ? jour sur le site : http://routeverbe.atilf.fr Pour tout renseignement, voir le site : http://routeverbe.atilf.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 Wed Apr 21 10:08:54 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:08:54 +0200 Subject: Appel: PAPILLON-2004 Workshop Message-ID: PAPILLON-2004 Workshop on Multilingual Lexical Databases Grenoble, August 30th-September 1st, 2004 immediatly after COLING 2004 Venue: IMAG Institute, Grenoble, France Submission deadline May, 21st 2004 Overview Multilingual lexical databases are (i) databases for (ii) structured lexical data which can be used either (iii) by humans e.g. to define their own dictionaries or (iv) by natural language processing (NLP) applications. Such databases are now felt indispensable in language science with the advances of language engineering. Like databases in genomics, multilingual lexical databases need rich annotations; they are complex, and they evolve as time goes by. The Papillon project is a Web collaborative project with the aim to build an open source multilingual lexical database for several languages (French, German, English, Japanese, Lao, Malay, Thai and Vietnamese). The provided lexical information has to be rich enough for a human to be able to query and generate his/her own tailored dictionary (e.g. for language learning or for translation work) and for NLP applications to be able to extract a whole range of data or to directly exploit some particular data. The 2004 Papillon workshop, the fifth in a series of workshops organized every year by the Papillon members, will aim at identifying problems relevant to the multilingual-lexical-database community. The workshop aims to promote exchanges between practitioners from several fields and is thus open to anybody working in a domain pertaining to lexical databases such as: databases, man-machine interface for dictionaries, data annotation, XML, standardization of dictionaries or lexical data; lexicography, translation, computational linguistics, etc. This workshop is open and particularly encourages submissions by researchers from outside the Papillon project. The "Papillon 2004" workshop particularly welcomes general submissions on the following topics: (i) Aspect: databases - Macrostructures for dictionaries and general architecture - Databases and lexical databases: differences and similarities - Query languages (XML, XQL, etc.) - Fast indexes and archiving techniques - Standards for lexical databases (ii) Aspect: lexical data - Microstructures of lexical entries and linguistic specifications - Reuse or automatic production of dictionaries - Automatic feeding of lexical databases - Internationalization/localization of multilingual lexical data - Integration of multimodal information and meta-information - Interaction between lexical data and linguistic data (corpora, examples, illustrations, etc.) (iii) Aspect: human use - New ways of dictionary lookup - Interfaces for querying dictionaries, user-friendliness - Legal aspects of dictionaries (copyright, etc.) - Adequation/inadequation of existing distionnary to certain users (iv) Aspect: NLP use - NLP systems using lexical databases - Direct use of dictionaries in NLP systems - Building lexical data sets for specific applications - Interchangeability of lexical data - Neutrality of NLP systems with regard to lexical data The workshop will also accept submission on aspects more specific to the Papillon project Meaning-text theory and lexicography - Linguistic problems - Composing semantic formulae for lexies - Practical problems in indexing specifing entries/lexies - Examples of lexies or axies Proposals for collaboration with the Papillon project - Query interfaces - Automatic Indexing - Contribution to the paradise, the purgatory, or the limbo Summary/state of collaboration to the Papillon project - Contribution to the paradise, the purgatory, or the limbo - Attractiveness of the Papillon Web site Collaborative work - Methods/services for lexical collaborative work - Motivations for voluntary contributers - Recognition and traceability of contributed work Contributions should not exceed 10 pages. Program The program will have a varied format, designed to maximize cross-fertilization among the various specialties, and to allow extended open discussion. Components of the program will include: - Tutorials on relevant models from linguistics, databases or annotation, e.g. the structure of lexical entries and semi-structured query languages; - Panel sessions on annotated text and lexicons (and possibly others); - Paper presentations reporting new research; - Demonstrations of systems for creating and/or managing lexical data. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline: 21 mai 2004 - Notificationof Acceptance: 23 juin 2004 - Camera Ready Papers: 16 juillet 2004 Call for Papers Submissions will be sent after crompession with zip or gzip by electronic mailto:papillon2004 at imag.fr . They will consist in a full paper, of max. 10 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations) written in english in PDF format only. Do not forget to include fonts in your PDF document if you use non-English characters. You can check that your file is correct by disabling the "Use Local Font" option when viewing you PDF document with Adobe Reader. For conversion from proprietary format into PDF, see e.g. the CRI74 or the CERN conversion facilities. We strongly recommend you to use the Springer Verlag template available at the following address: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Local Organizing Committee President: Gilles S?rasset, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Aree Teeraparbseree, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Jean-Philippe Guilbaud, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - ... Program Committee President: Gilles S?rasset, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Mr. Christian Boitet, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Mr. Francis Bond, NTT, Keihanna, Japan - Mr. Jim Breen, Universit? Monash, Australia - Mr. Fran?ois Brown de Colstoun, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France - Mr. Kyo Kageura, NII, Tokyo, Japan - Ms. Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand - Ms. Kyoko Kuroda, Shimane University, Japan - Mr. Mathieu Lafourcade, LIRMM, Montpellier, France - Mr. Francois Lareau, OLST, Universit? de Montr?al, Montreal, Canada - Mr. Yves Lepage, ATR, Keihanna, Japan - Mr. Mathieu Mangeot, UTMK, Penang, Malaysia - Mr. Emmanuel Planas, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Mr. Alain Polgu?re, OLST, Universit? de Montr?al, Montreal, France - Mr. Gilles S?rasset, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Mr. Enyakong Tang, UTMK, Penang, Malaysia - Mr. David Thevenin, NII, Tokyo, Japan - Mr. Takenobu Tokunaga, TITech, Tokyo, Japan - Ms. Mutsuko Tomokiyo, GETA-CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, France - Mr. Michael Zock, LIMSI, Orsay, France Miscellaneous Information - Papillon project Web site: http://www.papillon-dictionary.org/ - CLIPS: http://www-clips.imag.fr/ - IMAG Institute: http://www.imag.fr/ - Grenoble tourist information: http://www.grenoble-isere-tourisme.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 Wed Apr 21 10:08:52 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:08:52 +0200 Subject: Appel: FOIS-2004 International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems Message-ID: APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES Call for Papers FOIS-2004 International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems http://fois2004.di.unito.it/ November 4-6, 2004, Torino (Italy) Just as ontology developed over the centuries as part of philosophy, so in recent years ontology has become intertwined with the development of the information sciences. Researchers in such areas as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realize that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention has started to focus on the content of information rather than on just the formats and languages in terms of which information is represented. The clearest example of this development is provided by the many initiatives growing up around the project of the Semantic Web. And as the need for integrating research in these different fields arises, so does the realization that strong principles for building well-founded ontologies might provide significant advantages over ad hoc, case-based solutions. The tools of Formal Ontology address precisely these needs, but a real effort is required in order to apply such philosophical tools to the domain of Information Systems. Reciprocally, research in the information science raises specific ontological questions which call for further philosophical investigations. The purpose of FOIS is to provide a forum for genuine interdisciplinary exchange in the spirit of a unified ontological analysis effort. Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical issues, methodological proposals as well as papers dealing with concrete applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective are welcome. == Invited Speakers Peter G?rdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science, Sweden Amie Thomasson, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, USA == Deadlines and Further Information Abstracts due May 3, 2004 Final submissions May 7, 2004 Acceptance Notification: June 25, 2004 Submission of camera-ready paper: July 30, 2004 Proceedings will be published by IOS Press and available at the conference. Submission is a two-step procedure: first abstracts, then full papers. Submitted papers must not exceed 5000 words (including bibliography). Abstracts should be less than 300 words. Electronic submission via the website is strongly preferred; if unavailable, submission via email or postal mail is possible. For details see: http://fois2004.di.unito.it/ == Conference Chair Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) nicola.guarino at loa-cnr.it == Program Chairs Achille Varzi (Columbia University, New York, USA) achille.varzi at columbia.edu Laure Vieu (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France) laure.vieu at irit.fr == Local Chairs Maurizio Ferraris (University of Torino, Italy) ferraris at cisi.unito.it Leonardo Lesmo (University of Torino, Italy) lesmo at di.unito.it == Publicity Chair Jos Lehmann (ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy) joslehmann at www.ip.rm.cnr.it == Topics We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and to information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other of these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are: Foundational Issues . Kinds of entity: particulars vs. universals, continuants vs. occurrents, abstracta vs. concreta, dependent vs.independent, natural vs. artificial . Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, subsumption, instantiation . Vagueness and granularity . Identity and change . Formal comparison among ontologies . Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...) . Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, ...) . Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions and other mental attitudes; emotions, ...) . Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, ...) . Ontology of the information society (information, communication, meaning negotiation, ...) . Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition Methodologies and Applications . Top-level vs. application ontologies . Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies . Ontology-driven information systems design . Requirements engineering . Knowledge engineering . Knowledge management and organization . Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling . Computational lexica; Terminology . Information retrieval; Question-answering . Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing . Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Linguistics, Geography, Law, Library science, Biomedical science, Ebusiness, Enterprise integration, ... == Programme Committee - Bill Andersen, OntologyWorks, USA - Nicholas Asher, Dept of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, USA - Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Research Institute for Computer Science, CNRS, Toulouse, France - John Bateman, Dept of Applied English Linguistics, University of Bremen, Germany - Brandon Bennett, Division of Artificial Intelligence, University of Leeds, UK - Andrea Bottani, Dept of Philosophy, University of Bergamo, Italy - Joost Breuker, Dept of Computer Science & Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Roberto Casati, Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS, Paris, France - Werner Ceusters, Language & Computing, Belgium - Tony Cohn, Division of Artificial Intelligence, University of Leeds, UK - Robert Colomb, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia - Ernest Davis, Dept of Computer Science, New York University, USA - Martin D?rr, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece - Carola Eschenbach, Dept for Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany - J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, Grenoble, - France Christiane Fellbaum, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University, USA & Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany - Maurizio Ferraris, Dept of Philosophy, University of Torino, Italy - Antony Galton, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK - Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy - Peter G?rdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science, Sweden - Pierdaniele Giaretta, Dept of Philosophy, University of Padova, Italy - Michael Gruninger, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland College Park, USA & National Institute for Standards and Technology, USA - Nicola Guarino, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy - Patrick J. Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, USA - Heinrich Herre, Institute of Informatics, University of Leipzig , Germany - Jacques Jayez, ENS-Humanities, Lyon, France - Ingvar Johansson, Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, University of Leipzig, Germany - Hannu Kangassalo, Dept of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland - Fritz Lehmann, USA - Leonardo Lesmo, Dept of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy - Bernardo Magnini, Centre for Scientific and Technological Research, ITC, Trento, Italy - David Mark, Dept of Geography, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA - William E. McCarthy, Department of Accounting, Michigan State University, USA - Robert Meersman, Dept of Computer Science, Free University of Brussels, Belgium - Chris Menzel, Dept of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, USA - Friederike Moltmann, Dept of Philosophy, Stirling University, UK - Philippe Muller, Research Institute for Computer Science, University of Toulouse III, France - John Mylopoulos, Dept of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA - Massimo Poesio, Dept of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK - Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK - James Pustejovsky, Dept of Computer Science, Brandeis University, USA - Steffen Schulze-Kremer, German Resource Center for Genome Research, Berlin, Germany - Peter Simons, School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK - Barry Smith, Dept of Philosophy, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA & Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, University of Leipzig, Germany - John Sowa, USA - Veda Storey, Dept of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, USA - Mike Uschold, The Boeing Company, USA - Achille Varzi, Dept of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA - Laure Vieu, Research Institute for Computer Science, CNRS, Toulouse, France - Yair Wand, Management Information Systems Division, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada - Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA - Roel Wieringa, Computer Science Department, University of Twente, The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 21 10:08:57 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:08:57 +0200 Subject: Conf: COLDOC' 2004 : CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings!] COLDOC' 2004 -- Nanterre, France - April 29 & 30, 2004 The Setting up of Observables in Linguistics (http://infolang.u-paris10.fr/modyco/agenda-fiche.cfm?cle=12) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The mission of the conference is to foster exchange of knowledge and ideas between young researchers in the areas of the treatment of empirical data. COLDOC is organized and hosted by Modyco ("Mod?le, Dynamique, Corpus" UMR 7114 CNRS ' Paris-X Nanterre University) research team, and will be held on April 29 and 30, 2004, at Paris X-Nanterre University. PROGRAMME April 29 8h30 - 9h00 : Welcoming 9h00 - 10h00 : invited speaker : Sylvain Kahane (Universit? Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) Title to be announced 10h00 - 10h30 Caroline David (Universit? d'Orl?ans / Universit? de Poitiers, EA 1226 Forell) Quand les grammaires se serviront des corpus... 10h30 - 11h00 Sascha Gaglia (Universit?t Konstanz, Allemagne) Observables in the phonology of dialects BREAK 11h30 - 12h00 G?raldine Mallet (Universit? Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) De la m?thodologie de PFC 12h00 - 12h30 Rudy Loock (Universit? Lille III, UMR 8528 Silex) Les relatives ? atypiques ? en anglais oral spontan? : syntaxe innovante ou erreurs de performance ? LUNCH 14h00 - 14h30 Francois Laurent (Facult? des Lettres de Limoges, Ceres) Le traitement informatique d'un cas d'h?t?rog?n?it? textuelle ? partir du Roman de Guillaume de Dole de Jean Renart 14h30 - 15h00 Elise Dutilleul-Guerroudj (Universit? Paul-Val?ry Montpellier III, FRE 2425 Praxiling) L'?tablissement d'un protocole pour l'?tude du sens lexical chez des enfants sourds et entendants : difficult?s m?thodologiques et apports linguistiques 15h00 - 15h30 St?phanie Giron (Universit? Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II) Le corpus Allier (fran?ais parl?), pr?sentation et re-pr?sentation : construction, diffusion et reconstruction BREAK 16h00 - 16h30 Sabine Lehmann (Universit? Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) ? S'il plaisoit ? Vostre Excellence . ? ou les marques de la politesse d?f?rente dans un corpus de ? langue morte ? 16h30 - 17h00 Fabien Li?nard (Universit? d'Amiens, EA2092 / Universit? de Rouen UMR 6065 Dyalang) Analyse linguistique d'un corpus de textos issu de la psychologie cognitive April 30 9h00 - 10h00 : invited speaker : Christian Cuxac (Universit? Paris 8, UMR 7023) Title to be announced 10h00 - 10h30 Claudine Pagliano (Universit? de Nice) Elaboration d'un corpus morphonologique : l'?penth?se entre radical et suffixe. 10h30 - 11h00 Estelle Dubreil (Universit? de Nantes) Comment assurer la repr?sentativit? discursive d'un corpus ?lectronique sp?cialis? ? L'exemple du corpus TAL(N). BREAK 11h30 - 12h00 Isabelle Rousset (Universit? Stendhal - Grenoble 3, UMR 5009 ICP) Recherche de cooccurrences syllabiques dans la base ULSID 12h00 - 12h30 Augusta de Magalh?es Carvalho de Moraes (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Br?sil) The phenomenon of stress-clash on the child language-a case study from the perspective of acoustic phonetics LUNCH 14h00 - 15h30 : Posters session 16h00 - 16h45 : Round table FINAL BREAK Posters ------------- Lisa-Marie Babin (Universit? Toulouse II, UMR 5551 Travail et Cognition / France T?l?com R&D) Mise en relation des crit?res linguistiques et comportementaux M?lanie Scalone (Universit? Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) Le syst?me de filtrage dans la construction des observables lors d'une enqu?te en entreprise. Ivan Abarca (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales / Centre de Linguistique Theorique) El candidato : espaces r?els et fictionnels dans l'image et le discours politique dans la campagne pr?sidentielle mexicaine de l' ann?e 2000 Virginie, , Le Bigot, Ludovic Amiel (Universit? Toulouse II, UMR 5551 Travail et Cognition / France T?l?com R&D) Le recueil exp?rimental des corpus de dialogues homme-machine en psycho-ergonomie Ahmed Amrani, Yves Kodratoff, Oriane Matte-Tailliez (Ecole sup?rieure d'informatique, ?lectronique et automatique) Etiquetage morpho-syntaxique des corpus de sp?cialit? Virginie Andr? (Universit? Nancy 2, CRAPEL (Centre de Recherches et d' Applications P?dagogiques en Langues)) Construction d'une m?thodologie multidimensionnelle de recueil de donn?es pour une ?tude sociolinguistique du langage au travail. Helene Andreassen (University of Troms?, Norway) Schwa in a Swiss French corpus. Data selection and methods - the consequences for theoretical analysis. Nicolas Audibert, V?ronique Auberg? et Albert Rilliard (Universit? Stendhal - Grenoble 3, UMR 5009 (Institut de la Communication Parl?e)) M?thodologie de recueil de corpus de parole ?motionelle spontan?e. Juliette Delahaie (Universit? Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) L'acte de langage "(se) pr?senter" en Fle et les pr?sentatifs de la grammaire d'apr?s le corpus LanCom : une association ? remettre en question. Elisa Fiorio (UMR 7594 LLACAN) M?thodologie et pratiques de recueil de donn?es orales sur le terrain et m?thodologie d'exploitation du corpus en utilisant Shoebox, un logiciel de gestion de bases de donn?es textuelles. Anne Lablanche (Universit? Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) Les tests syntaxiques en question ? travers une ?tude des infinitifs Malgorzata Kodura (Jagiellonian University, Cracovie, Pologne) Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Advertising Texts in Polish and American Women's Magazines Ewa Lenart et Anna Kapral (Universit? Paris 8) Quelles donn?es pour comparer le processus d'acquisition de l'enfant et de l'adulte ? Fanny Loyau (Universit? Stendhal - Grenoble 3, UMR 5009 (Institut de la Communication Parl?e)) Recueil d'un corpus de parole ?motionnelle ? l'aide d'un simulateur de vol r?aliste Aude Noiray (Universit? Stendhal - Grenoble 3, UMR 5009 (Institut de la Communication Parl?e)) M?thodologie de recueil de parole pour l'?tude de la coarticulation anticipante chez l'enfant Rebekah Rast (The American University of Paris) L'analyse de l'input au tout d?but de l'acquisition d'une langue non maternelle. Kristina Spranger (IMS, Universit?t Stuttgart, Allemagne) Multi-Parameter Extraction of Syntax and Collocations from Chunked Text Thi Mai Tran (Universit? Lille III) Du recueil ? l'exploitation des corpus aphasiques : consid?rations m?thodologiques C?line Vaguer (Universit? Paris-X Nanterre, UMR 7114 Modyco) Pr?position dans et base de donn?es linguistique : quelles possibilit?s ? Eva Thue Vold (Universit? de Bergen, Norv?ge, Institut des ?tudes romanes) Comment s?lectionner ses observables dans l'analyse d'une cat?gorie s?mantique? Francisca Caetano (Universit? de Nancy II) Quelques difficult?s de recueil de donn?es : une esquisse m?thodologique, socioculturelle et politique. See the web site for the whole program. REGISTRATION No participation fee is required. TRAVEL AND HOTEL INFORMATION You may reach the university * either by RER, lign A, from the center of Paris (Stations Ch?telet les Halles, Gare de Lyon, etc.), direction Saint-Germain-en-Laye, until the Nanterre-Universit? station. (15 minutes from the station "Les Halles"). * or by train, station Paris-Saint-Lazare, direction Nanterre-Universit? (terminus) or direction Maisons-Laffitte (station Nanterre-Universit?). The colloque will be held in the colloquium room, building B. The itinerary will be indicated since the train and RER station. For further information feel free to contact us at Sylvain Loiseau . The Setting up of Observables in Linguistics ColDoc'2004 ' Modyco (UMR 7114) young researchers' conference Paris X Nanterre, Salle des colloques, B?timent B 200, avenue de la R?publique 92001 Nanterre Cedex France Web site: http://infolang.u-paris10.fr/modyco/agenda-fiche.cfm?cle=12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Apr 21 10:08:55 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:08:55 +0200 Subject: Jobs: CNRS : Permanent position in computational biology Message-ID: [version francaise en fin de message] Permanent position in computational biology - France A permanent position for a computer scientist is open in our lab in Toulouse (South of France). We are looking for people with a good knowledge of pattern matching that would be attracted by the computational biology/bioinformatics area, in order to work in tight collaboration with biologists and other computer scientists. Even if learning french will be needed after some period of time, the only requirement is to speak french or english. Important deadlines: - from april to 24 May: application - September/October: selection See: http://www.inra.fr/drh/chercheurs/indexcruk.htm A description of the position is available (or will soon be) at: http://www.inra.fr/bia/T/profil2004/profil2004E.html You can contact us by email: tschiex at toulouse.inra.fr gaspin at toulouse.inra.fr ----------- Ouverture d'un profil de charg? de recherches (CR2) INRA, Toulouse. Th?matique: algorithmique, algorithmique des textes, recherche de motifs complexes. Dates pr?visionnelles importantes : - inscriptions ouvertes d'avril 2004 au 24 mai 2004. - admissibilit? et admission: septembre/octobre. Informations suppl?mentaires, contacts : http://www.inra.fr/bia/T/profil2004 Thomas Schiex (05 61 28 54 28) Christine Gaspin (05 61 28 52 82) -------- ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 23 13:50:18 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:50:18 +0200 Subject: Conf: Categorial Grammars 2004 : Call for Participation Message-ID: Call for Participation: Categorial Grammars 2004, An Efficient Tool for NLP Montpellier, France, 7-11 June 2004 http://www.lirmm.fr/CG2004 Organised by LIRMM (http://www.lirmm.fr), supported by the Universit? Montpellier II (http://www.univ-montp2.fr), the Languedoc-Roussillon delegation of CNRS (http://www.dr13.cnrs.fr) and the Languedoc-Roussillon region (http://www.cr-languedocroussillon.fr) Inscription: ------------ The registration form is available on the website http://www.lirmm.fr/CG2004 . Subject: -------- Categorial grammars, type grammars and pregroups are formal structures for deciding whether a string of words is a grammatical sentence. They assign one or more types to each word in the dictionary. One solves the problem whether a sequence of words is a grammatical sentence, by performing computations on the corresponding string(s) of types. This makes it possible to characterise the syntactic properties of natural languages entirely in terms of their lexical types and prove general properties, independent of the actual language fragment. These grammars are related to other mathematical approaches like intuitionist, classical and compact bilinear logic, non-symmetric *-autonomous categories, Montague semantics and Chomsky's minimalist programme. Some of these methods have matured to highly efficient tools for syntactical analysis. Previous meetings were held in Tucson, Rome, Nancy, Nantes, Trento and Ottawa. This symposium will cover new theoretical results and applications to natural languages. Contributions covering algorithmic problems arising during syntactical analysis of language fragments are also welcome. Preliminary Programme --------------------- Monday, June 7th 10:15 - 10:30 V. Prince Opening 10:30 - 11:10 V. Prince To Be Announced --- Coffee Break --- 11:40 - 12:20 P. Blache Constraints and Model Theory: a new perspective in syntax 12:20 - 13:00 Ch. Retor? To be announced --- Lunch --- 14:30 - 15:10 Michele Abrusci To be announced 15:10 - 15:50 R. Moot Graph Algorithms for Improving Type-Logical Proof Search 15:50 - 16:30 Wojciech Buszkowski Boolean logic for natural language --- Coffee Break --- 17:00 - 17:40 Erwan Moreau >From link grammars to categorial grammars 17:40 - 18:20 Mario Fadda Non-associativity and balanced proof nets Tuesday, June 8th 09:10 - 09:50 R. Oerhle A parsing algorithm for pregroup grammars 09:50 - 10:30 M. Dekhtyar A. Dikovsky Categorial Dependency Grammars 10:30 - 11:10 M. Moortgat To be announced --- Coffee Break --- 11:40 - 12:20 R. Bernardi Categorial type logics and Italian corpora 12:20 - 13:00 G. Ben-Avi N. Francez Categorial Grammar with Ontology-refined Types --- Lunch --- 14:30 - 15:10 J. Lambek Should pregroup grammars be adorned with additional operations? 15:10 - 15:50 A. Kislak-Malinowska Free pregroups as a tool for parsing --- Coffee Break with poster session --- 16:30 - 17:10 R. Muskens Separating Syntax and Combinatorics in Categorial Grammar 17:10 - 17:50 C. Casadio Binding and Scope in Pregroup Grammar. Evidence from Italian. Wednesday, June 9th 09:10 - 09:50 M. Kandulski Tree structures associated with categorial languages 09:50 - 10:30 D. Dudau Sofronie I. Tellier A study of learnability of Lambek Grammars from Typed Examples 10:30 - 11:10 J. Besombes J.Y. Marion Learning Reversible Categorial Grammars from Structures --- Coffee Break --- 11:40 - 12:20 B. Dziemidowicz On learnability of restricted classes of categorial grammars 12:20 - 13:00 D. B?chet A. Foret On Intermediate Structures for Non-Associative Lambek Grammars and Learnability --- Lunch --- --- Social tour --- Thursday, June 10th 09:50 - 10:30 R. Kempson Japanese Word Order: Structural Underspecification and Growth of Information 10:30 - 11:10 S. Pogodalla Using and Extending ACG technology: Endowing Categorial Grammars with an Underspecified Semantic Representation --- Coffee Break --- 11:40 - 12:20 A. Preller Linear processing of Coordinate Structures in Pregroup Grammar 12:20 - 13:00 W. Vermaat Cross-linguistic variation in type-logical grammar: Multiple wh-fronting in Slavic languages --- Lunch --- 14:30 - 15:10 G. Perrier To be announced 15:10 - 15:50 J. A. Jimenez Millan Can Lambek Calculus coexists with other kind of grammars? --- Coffee Break --- 16:20 - 17:00 J. Villaneau J.Y. Antoine Categorial grammars used to partial parsing of spoken language 17:00 - 17:40 G. Morrill On Aphasic Comprehension and Working Memory Load --- Gala dinner --- Friday, June 11th 09:10 - 09:50 A. Lecomte To be announced 09:50 - 10:30 Y. Lenir >From NL grammars to AB grammars 10:30 - 11:10 S. Shaumyan Semiotic Linguistics and the Ob-System of Categorial Grammar --- Coffee Break --- 11:40 - 12:20 S. Degeilh Linear tagging of agreement in the French verb phrase by pregroups 12:20 - 13:00 D. Bargelli J. Lambek An algebraic approach to Turkish syntax and morphology --- Lunch --- 14:30 - 15:10 C. Pollard High-Order Categorial Grammars 15:10 - 15:50 M. Steedman To be Announced --- Coffee ending --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 23 13:50:16 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:50:16 +0200 Subject: Appel: Journal of Natural Language Engineering : PARALLEL TEXTS Message-ID: (apologies for multiple postings) F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S Journal of Natural Language Engineering Special Issue on PARALLEL TEXTS Guest Editors: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/jnle OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE Parallel texts have become a vital resources for efficiently deriving many multi-lingual text processing tools. This special issue is devoted to advances in building and using parallel corpora. We invite papers on all topics related to parallel texts, including but not limited to: The collection, organization and processing of parallel corpora: - Identifying and harvesting parallel texts from the Web and other large collections - Evaluating the quality of parallel corpora (e.g. detecting omissions and gaps, translation errors or inconsistencies, etc.) - Sentence-, phrase- and word-level alignment - Alignment evaluation metrics and methods Active uses of parallel corpora for: - Building multilingual lexical resources - Deriving language processing tools and resources for new languages - Annotating corpora (e.g. word-sense disambiguation) - Machine translation (e.g. statistical and example-based MT) - Machine-assisted translation (e.g. translation memories and interactive MT) - Cross-linguistic information retrieval and information extraction While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources. SUBMISSION FORMAT We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously unpublished research, addressing issues related to the construction and use of parallel texts. Papers should be formatted according to the NLE journal instructions, and should not exceed 15 pages. The preferred formatting system is LaTeX, which can be used for direct typesetting, and a style file is available through anonymous ftp from the following address: ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/nle-sty/. In case of difficulty there is a helpline available on e-mail: texline at cup.cam.ac.uk. Send your submission (a PostScript or PDF file), prepared for anonymous review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, rada at cs.unt.edu and Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Michel.Simard at xrce.xerox.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: May 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2004 Final versions due: November 30, 2004 Journal publication: June, 2005 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University Susan Armstrong, ISSCO Michael Barlow, Rice University Ken Church, AT&T Labs Research Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University George Foster, University of Montreal Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe Ulrich Germann, University of Toronto Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester Julio Gonzalo, UNED Cyril Goutte, Xerox Research Centre Europe Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corporation Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe Hitoshi Iida, Tokyo University of Technology Wessel Kraaij, TNO/TPD Netherlands Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Dan Melamed, New York University Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Kishore Papineni, IBM Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth Jessie Pinkham, University of Chicago Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva Florence Reeder, MITRE Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Hideki Tanaka, ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe Jean Veronis, University of Provence Clare Voss, Army Research Lab Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Kenji Yamada, Xerox Research Centre Europe ABOUT THE JOURNAL Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed to meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all areas of computerized language processing, whether from the perspective of theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology, computer science or engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between traditional computational linguistics research and the implementation of practical applications with potential real-world use. As well as publishing research articles on a broad range of topics from text analysis, machine translation and speech generation and synthesis to integrated systems and multi modal interfaces the journal also publishes book reviews. Its aim is to provide the essential link between industry and the academic community. Natural Language Engineering encourages papers reporting research with a clear potential for practical application. Theoretical papers that consider techniques in sufficient detail to provide for practical implementation are also welcomed, as are shorter reports of on-going research, conference reports, comparative discussions of NLE products, and policy-oriented papers examining e.g. funding programs or market opportunities. All contributions are peer reviewed. Edited by John I. Tait University of Sunderland, UK Branimir K. Boguraev IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA Christian Jacquemin CNRS-LIMSI, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 23 13:50:19 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:50:19 +0200 Subject: Conf: colloque Les approches lexicographiques et terminographiques sont-elles compatibles Message-ID: Le programme du colloque ? Les approches lexicographiques et terminographiques sont-elles compatibles ?, qui se tiendra dans le cadre du 72e congr?s de l'Association canadienne fran?aise pour l'avancement des sciences (ACFAS) ? Montr?al, est maintenant en ligne : http://www.ling.umontreal.ca/lhomme/COLLOQUE_ACFAS.htm Il est aussi possible d'y acc?der par le site de l'ACFAS : http://www.acfas.ca/congres/ L'inscription au congr?s est obligatoire pour toute personne assistant au colloque ou y pr?sentant une communication. Elle donne droit ? tous les documents et services offerts aux congressistes et comprend l'adh?sion ? l'ACFAS, y compris un abonnement d'un an ? la revue D?couvrir et de multiples avantages. L'inscription peut se faire en ligne jusqu'au 23 avril sur le site de l'ACFAS. 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Registration is open on the Congress website www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004, and online registration with secure payment will be available from the Ist May. Block booking of hotel rooms has been organised by the Office de Tourisme. Registration online is now available at http://lorient-hebergement.com. It is advisable to book early as we are entering the high season and block bookings cannot be guaranteed beyond 20 May 2004. The preliminary programme is now on the congress website. EURALEX 2004 : Call for participation. The 11th EURALEX International Congress will be held in Lorient, France, from the 6 to the 10th July, 2004. The Congess organizers are the Facult? de Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the Universit? de Bretagne Sud, Lorient. Contact address : Congress Organizers EURALEX 2004 Dr. Geoffrey Williams Facult? de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay B.P. 92116 56321 Lorient cedex France Email : elx2004 at univ-ubs.fr Website : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004 Up-to-date information Information concerning accommodation, registration and travel will be kept up to date on the website. The coast of Brittany is very popular in the summer so participants are encouraged to book early. EURALEX 2004 The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers, scholars, and others interested in dictionaries of all types. The programme will include plenary lectures, parallel sessions on the topics listed below, software demonstrations, pre-congress tutorials and specialized workshops, a book and software exhibition, and social events for participants and their guests. Topics Papers, posters, and software demonstrations are invited on all topics of lexicography, including, but not limited to, the following fields, which are the main focus of the congress: 1. Computational Lexicography and Lexicology. 2. The Dictionary-Making Process. 3. Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects. 4. Bilingual Lexicography. 5. Lexicography for Specialised Languages - Terminology and Terminography. 6. Historical and Scholarly Lexicography and Etymology. 7. Dictionary Use. 8. Phraseology and Collocation. 9. Lexicological Issues of Lexicographical Relevance. 10. Other topics. A list of communications and the full preliminary is now online. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 26 15:07:42 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:07:42 +0200 Subject: Conf: Intex/Nooj workshop : registration Message-ID: Registration is now available to the Intex/Nooj workshop http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/JIntex2004/ and before May 3, please. See you at Tours Denis Maurel ____________________________________ Professeur Denis Maurel LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite de Tours) Ecole Polytechnique de l'Universite de Tours Departement Informatique (E3i) 64 avenue Jean-Portalis 37200 Tours France Tel. (33) 2.47.36.14.35 Telc. (33) 2.47.36.14.22 mailto:denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr http://www.li.univ-tours.fr http://tln.li.univ-tours.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 Apr 26 15:07:51 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:07:51 +0200 Subject: Appel: ACL-04: special sessions for interactive posters and demonstrations Message-ID: ********************************************************************** A C L - 2 0 0 4 Poster & Demo session ********************************************************************** ACL-04 will include special sessions for interactive posters and demonstrations. Poster/Demo presentations present original work in progress, on-going research projects with novel ideas/applications, or late-breaking results that are best communicated in an interactive format. Interactive Poster/Demo sessions provide a forum of academic and technical exchanges. The topics of interest cover all aspects of computational linguistics, as outlined in the CFP for the Main Technical Session. Authors should submit an original paper (of no more than 4 pages in ACL format) that describes and emphasizes the problem of the research and the novelty of the methods or theories being used. Presentations with demos should outline the design of their systems and provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of their validity, quality and usefulness. They should also describe the equipments required for the demonstration. Authors are requested to send their texts in PDF format to the following address: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: 1st May 2004 Notification of acceptance: 20th May 2004 Camera ready copy due: 1st June 2004 Co-Chairs: Philippe Blache, CNRS & Universit? de Provence Horacio Rodr?guez, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 26 15:07:47 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:07:47 +0200 Subject: Appel: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Journ=E9e_d=27Etude_de_l=27ATALA?= Message-ID: Journ?e d'Etude de l'ATALA ========================== Le traitement automatique des nouvelles formes de communication ?crite (e-mails, forums, chats, SMS, etc.) Organisateurs ------------- Emilie Guimier De Neef (France Telecom R & D) Jean V?ronis (Universit? de Provence) Conf?rencier invit? ------------------- Jacques Anis, Universit? Paris X Date ---- 5 juin 2004 Lieu ---- ENST, 46, rue Barrault ou 49, rue Vergnault, 75013 Paris M?tro : Corvisart Th?me ----- Depuis quelques ann?es on assiste ? une v?ritable explosion de nouvelles formes de communication ?crite (NFCE) : e-mails, forums, chats, SMS, etc. Le d?veloppement de passerelles entre les diff?rents m?dias (les e-mails et les SMS s'?coutent) ainsi que la n?cessit? de faciliter la gestion des contenus (classification automatique des e-mails, recherche d'informations...) am?nent de plus en plus de technologies du TAL ? s'appliquer aux NFCE : synth?se de la parole, filtrage et classification automatique, d?tection automatique de mots-cl?s et de th?mes, traduction automatique, etc. Or, les NFCE montrent une grande d?viance par rapport ? l'?crit plus ou moins norm? que le TAL a l'habitude de traiter. Si on laisse de c?t? les probl?mes de composition pos?s par les e-mails (renvois successifs, compl?tion progressive des messages) pour ne conserver que les aspects proprement linguistiques pos?s par les NFCE, on observe d'une part des ph?nom?nes que l'on pourrait regrouper sous le terme de "rat?s" (erreurs orthographiques et typographiques, absence de s?parateur entre les mots etc.) qui doivent leur origine au mode de communication souvent direct ou semi-direct, ? la rapidit? de composition du message ou aux contraintes de saisies impos?es par le clavier utilis? (terminal mobile)... Mais on constate d'autre part une v?ritable ?mergence de nouveaux modes d'?criture (abr?viations, smileys, ?criture "texto", etc.), au milieu d'une tr?s grande variabilit? et d'une cr?ativit? constante. Ce qui semble caract?ristique des NFCE, c'est que les utilisateurs inventent en permanence de nouveaux proc?d?s. Enfin, des caract?ristiques fortement dialogiques rendent les NFCE interm?diaires d'une certaine fa?on entre l'?crit "classique" et l'oral : les e-mails se citent, les chats conversent. Paradoxalement, on note peu de publications en TAL sur le sujet, qui a surtout ?t? abord? sous l'angle de la sociologie et de la communication. Les difficult?s qui se posent aux syst?mes de TAL sont immenses, m?me pour ceux qui ont atteint une certaine maturit? sur l'?crit classique (?tiqueteurs morpho-syntaxiques, etc.). Elles aboutissent le plus souvent ? une d?gradation consid?rable des performances, rendant souvent leur utilisation presque impossible en pratique. Le but de la journ?e est de r?unir des chercheurs autour des probl?mes li?s au traitement linguistique des nouvelles formes de communication ?crite : - ponctuation absente ou exag?r?ment utilis?e - typographie d?viante - erreurs orthographiques massives - mode de cr?ation des abr?viations - phon?tisation de l'?criture - nouvelles marques d'expressivit? et d'?motion - aspects dialogiques - diff?rences linguistiques profondes (usage des temps, etc.) Cette liste n'est pas limitative. Soumission ---------- Un r?sum? de deux ? quatre pages doit ?tre envoy? avant le 5 mai 2004 par courrier ?lectronique, en format RTF ou TXT uniquement ? Emilie Guimier De Neef ou Jean V?ronis Les notifications d'acceptation seront envoy?es le 15 mai 2004. 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------