From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Mon Aug 28 09:13:34 2006
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:13:34 +0300
Subject: Sujet de These: Apport des modeles stochastiques de langage pour
 la recherche d'informations pertinentes sur le web, LORIA, Nancy
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:14:28 +0200
From: Armelle Brun <Armelle.Brun at loria.fr>
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TITRE : Apport des modèles stochastiques de langage au filtrage collaboratif


CONTEXTE :

Le principe du filtrage collaboratif [2] est de prédire dans un
ensemble de ressources disponibles celles qui sont susceptibles
d'intéresser un internaute à partir de son historique de consultation
et du comportement connu d'une population d'utilisateurs.

Actuellement, les algorithmes de filtrage collaboratif [3] n'intègrent
pas la notion de séquence d'observations et ne sont pas capables de
traiter des problèmes du type « c'est parce que j'ai lu A puis B que
je vais aimer C ».

Les modèles statistiques comme les modèles n-grams (modèles de Markov
d'ordre n) [1] utilisés en modélisation statistique du langage
constituent une approche prometteuse au vu du problème considéré. En
effet, en reconnaissance de la parole, ces modèles permettent de
prédire le mot qui va être prononcé sachant le début de la phrase
(historique des mots prononcés). Plus précisément, ils fournissent des
probabilités d'apparition de mots. Supposons par exemple que le début
de phrase « le petit chat boit du » soit prononcé. Le modèle
statistique du langage évaluera la probabilité des futurs mots pouvant
suivre ce début de phrase, par exemple le mot « lait » dont la
probabilité sera forte. La suite de mots pourra être assimilée à la
suite chronologique des documents lus (A puis B) et ainsi nous
pourrons prédire de façon plus performante l'intérêt du document C.

Cette approche est novatrice et se situe à l'intersection de deux
domaines de recherche représentés dans deux équipes du laboratoire :
Parole (Modélisation statistique du langage) et Maia (filtrage
collaboratif).

Dans le cadre de la thèse qui se déroulera au sein de l'équipe MAIA,
nous proposons d'étudier l'apport des techniques de modélisation
statistique du langage au filtrage collaboratif et de proposer de
nouveaux modèles de recommandation de ressources prenant en compte la
notion d'historique de consultation.


La thèse sera co-financée : 50% par la région - 50% sur un contrat de
recherche

BIBLIOGRAPHIE :

[1] Brun -  Détection de thème et adaptation des modèles de langage pour 
la reconnaissance automatique de la parole. 2003

[2] Castagnos  Vers un système de filtrage collaborative distribué: le 
modèle RSB

[3] Miller PocketLens : Toward a personal recommender system

CONTACTS :

·Anne Boyer, Equipe Maia - boyer at loria.fr
·Armelle Brun, Equipe Parole - brun at loria.fr


Les candidatures, qui devront nous parvenir par e-mail, avant le 15
septembre 2006, devront comporter un CV et une lettre de motivation
Elles seront adressées à : boyer at loria.fr, brun at loria.fr


--
Armelle BRUN
Maitre de conférences
Laboratoire LORIA - Equipe PAROLE
tel : 03 83 59 30 64



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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:18:37 +0300
Subject: Ecole: 2nd International PhD School in Language and Speech
 Technologies 2006-2008, Tarragona, Spain
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:22:32 GMT
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Apologies for multiple posting!

Please, forward the announcement to whom may be interested in.

Thanks.

------------------

2nd INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES 2006-2008

Rovira i Virgili University
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Tarragona, Spain

http://www.grlmc.com


Foundational courses (March - April 2007)

Foundations of Linguistics I: Morphology, Lexicon and Syntax - Gemma
     Bel-Enguix (Tarragona)
Foundations of Linguistics II: Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse -
     M. Dolores Jiménez-López (Tarragona)
Formal Languages - Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona)
Declarative Programming Languages: Prolog, Lisp - various researchers
     at the host institute
Procedural Programming Languages: C, Java, Perl, Matlab - various
     researchers at the host institute


Main courses (May - July and September - December 2007)

Anaphora Resolution - Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton)
Annotating Time: Representational and Analytical Issues - Branimir
   Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY)
Basics of Statistical Speech Recognition - Frederick Jelinek
   (Baltimore MD)
Computational Morphology - Harald Trost (Vienna)
Discriminative Learning of Sequence and Parsing Models - Fernando
   Pereira (Philadelphia PA)
Empirical Approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Role
   Labeling, Semantic Parsing, and Information Extraction - Raymond
   Mooney (Austin TX)
Foundations of Computational Semantics - Shalom Lappin (London)
Human and Machine Translation - Martin Kay (Stanford CA)
Information Extraction I - Ralph Grishman (New York NY)
Information Extraction II - Guy Lapalme (Montréal QC)
Language Processing for Human-Machine Dialogue Modelling - Yorick
   Wilks (Sheffield)
Linguistic Corpora as Resources for Language Engineering - Udo Hahn
   (Jena)
Machine Learning Approaches to Developing Language Processing Modules
   - Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen)
Multimodal Speech-Based Interfaces - Elisabeth André (Augsburg)
Natural Language Generation from a Cognitive Perspective - Michael
   Zock (Marseille)
Natural Language Processing Pragmatics: Probabilistic Methods and User
   Modeling Implications - Ingrid Zukerman (Clayton)
Ontology Engineering: From Cognitive Science to the Semantic Web -
   M. Teresa Pazienza (Roma)
POS Tagging, Chunking, and Shallow Parsing - Yuji Matsumoto (Nara)
Question Answering - Bernardo Magnini (Trento)
Search Methods in Natural Language Processing - Helmut Horacek
   (Saarbrücken)
Spoken Dialogue Systems - Diane Litman (Pittsburgh PA)
Statistical Machine Translation - Reinhard Rapp (Tarragona)
Text Mining for Knowledge Acquisition in the Biomedical Domain -
   Lynette Hirschman (Mitre, Bedford MA)
Time in Language: Formal and Computational Approaches - Inderjeet Mani
   (Mitre, Bedford MA)
Types and Semantic Roles in the Lexicon - James Pustejovsky (Waltham MA)
Words, Meanings, and Emotions - Rada Mihalcea (Dallas TX)


Optional courses (from the 6th International PhD School in Formal
Languages and Applications)

Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars - Henning Bordihn (Potsdam)
Tree Adjoining Grammars - James Rogers (Richmond IN)
Unification Grammars - Shuly Wintner (Haifa)
Context-Free Grammar Parsing - Giorgio Satta (Padua)
Probabilistic Parsing - Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen)
Categorial Grammars - Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
Grammatical Inference - Colin de la Higuera (Saint-Étienne)
Natural Language Processing with Symbolic Neural Networks - Risto
   Miikkulainen (Austin TX)



STUDENTS:

Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the
world. Most appropriate degrees include Computer Science and
Linguistics. Other students (for instance, from Psychology, Logic,
Engineering or Mathematics) could be accepted depending on the
strengths of their undergraduate education. The first two months of
classes are intended to homogenize the students' varied background in
linguistics, formal languages and programming languages.

In order to check eligibility for the programme, the student must be
certain that the highest university degree s/he got enables her/him to
be enrolled in a doctoral programme in her/his home country.


TUITION FEES:

2,120 euros in total, approximately.


DISSERTATION:

After following the courses, the students enrolled in the programme
will have to defend a research project and, later, a dissertation in
English in their own area of interest, in order to get the so-called
European PhD degree (which is a standard PhD degree with an additional
mark of quality). All the professors in the programme will be allowed
to supervise students' dissertations, as well as any other
well-reputed scientist at the discretion of the host institute.


FUNDING:

The university will cover the tuition fees and full-board
accommodation expenses of all admitted students during the first
term. For the second one, funding opportunities will be provided,
among others, by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, the
Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Becas
MAEC-AECI), and the European Commission (Alban scheme for Latin
American citizens).

Immediately after the courses and during the writing of the PhD
dissertation, some of the best students will be offered 4-year
research fellowships, which will allow them to work in the framework
of the host institute.


PRE-REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:

In order to pre-register, one should post (not fax, not e-mail) to the
programme chairman:

- a xerocopy of the main page of the passport,
- a xerocopy of the university education diplomas,
- a xerocopy of the academic transcripts,
- full CV,
- letters of recommendation (optional),
- any other document to prove background, interest and motivation
  (optional).


SCHEDULE:

Announcement of the programme: August 11, 2006
Pre-registration deadline: October 23, 2006
Selection of students: October 30, 2006
Starting of the 1st term: March 5, 2007
End of the 1st term: July 27, 2007
Starting of the 2nd term (tentative): September 3, 2007
End of the 2nd term (tentative): December 21, 2007
Defense of the research project (tentative): September 13, 2008
DEA examination (tentative): May 16, 2009


QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martín-Vide, at carlos.martin at urv.cat


POSTAL ADDRESS:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial Tàrraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543, +34-977-554391

Fax: +34-977-559597, +34-977-554391


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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Mon Aug 28 08:20:15 2006
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:20:15 +0300
Subject: Job: On Post In Text Mining -- Summarisation, Manchester
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:08:50 +0100
From: "Sophia Ananiadou" <Sophia.ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk>
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X-url: http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/email/filtering/information/
X-url: http://www.nactem.ac.uk
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ONE POST IN TEXT MINING - SUMMARISATION - University of Manchester,
School of Informatics
 
One Research Associate is required for a JISC funded project entitled,
Automatic Summarisation for Systematic Reviews using Text Mining
(ASSERT). The project forms part of the work of the National Centre
for Text Mining, within social science applications.

The Research Associate will develop methods for locating relevant
studies for input to a systematic review using a combination of text
mining techniques and will apply a suite of text mining tools that
will support novel methods of information management in the domain of
social science systematic reviews.

The successful candidate will be part of the growing team of
researchers associated with the National Centre for Text Mining
http://www.nactem.ac.uk and will be located at the Manchester
Interdisciplinary Biocentre http://www.mib.ac.uk

Applicants should have a first degree in Computer Science or a closely
related field, and a postgraduate degree in Computer Science
preferably in text mining and summarisation. Experience should include
developing algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems, summarisation,
clustering, the ability to produce experiments for text mining
applications using large data sets, and excellent knowledge of C, C++,
Java, SML, Windows and Linux.

Enquiries should be made to Dr Sophia Ananiadou, on +44 (0)161 306
3092 or email Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk

Further details are available at:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=7325
REF: HUM/60165

Starting immediately, for a period of two (2) years.

Closing date:  25th August 2006
   
==================================================      

Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Reader in Text Mining,
School of Informatics, University of Manchester
Tel: +44 161 306 3092  
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/  

Deputy director, National Centre for Text Mining http://www.nactem.ac.uk


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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Mon Aug 28 09:13:37 2006
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:13:37 +0300
Subject: Appel: Revue TAL, Discours et document, Deadline Extended
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:19:39 +0200
From: Marie-Paule PERY-WOODLEY <pery at univ-tlse2.fr>
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Discours et document : traitements automatiques
Computational Approaches to Discourse and Document Processing

NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE LA REVUE TAL

*** NOUVELLE DATE DE SOUMISSION : 22 septembre 2006 ***

[English version of CFP below]

REDACTEURS INVITES: Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley (ERSS - Université de
Toulouse 2, France) and Donia Scott (Open University, UK)

DERNIER APPEL

Ce numéro spécial de TAL est consacré à ce que nous percevons comme
une convergence croissante entre la linguistique du discours,
l'ingénierie documentaire et le TAL. Cette convergence prend des
formes diverses, ainsi l'élaboration de nouveaux modes d'accès aux
contenus des documents tend à mettre davantage l'accent sur
l'exploitation de leur structuration discursive, l'application au
discours des méthodes d'analyse de corpus implique de plus en plus
l'appel à des techniques et à des instruments du TAL. Elle se
manifeste par un nombre croissant d'études conjointes, conduisant à
une fertilisation croisée des disciplines.

* Linguistiques du texte et du discours

Construire une interprétation cohérente du discours implique de
délimiter des segments et de déterminer des relations hiérarchiques et
sémantico-pragmatiques entre ces segments. Ces processus peuvent être
abordés à travers la notion de relations de discours (cf. RST, SDRT),
de thème ou topique, d'encadrement du discours, etc. Un défi pour le
domaine est d'identifier des corrélats linguistiques de fonctions
discursives spécifiques, ce qui nécessite une approche en corpus, et
la prise en compte des possibilités de variations liées au registre et
au domaine de connaissance. D'autres travaux, encore peu nombreux mais
prometteurs, s'intéressent davantage à la structure globale du
document : rôle des titres, de la segmentation logique, de la forme
matérielle des textes...

* Ingénierie documentaire et TALN

L'accès à l'information contenue dans des documents numérisés est une
problématique majeure de la recherche actuelle, et les approches
récentes cherchent à mieux prendre en compte l'organisation des
documents traités (par exemple leur structure thématique et
rhétorique).  De plus en plus d'applications sont concernées par cette
évolution : résumé automatique, navigation documentaire, recherche
d'information (en particulier pour l'extraction de passages à
l'intérieur des documents sélectionnés). En outre, le développement de
l'hypertexte et du document composite (texte-image par exemple) pose
de nouvelles questions sur l'interaction entre différentes fonctions
sémiotiques.

Les propositions de communications pour ce numéro spécial de TAL
porteront sur ce qu'on pourrait appeler, en linguistique du discours,
en TAL ou en ingénierie documentaire, le « niveau document » :

- Le document est vu comme une unité fonctionnelle ; il est ancré dans
une situation, et inscrit sur un support (quel qu'il soit) qui lui
confère des caractéristiques matérielles qui participent de son usage
et de sa signification ;

- L'expression « niveau document » signale un intérêt marqué pour les
structures à gros grain, ou structures dites « globales » (encadrement
du discours, structuration "logique", découpage en sections, ...), ou
pour les relations entre structures locales et structures globales
(structure d'information, chaînes de référence, chaînes topicales,
relations interpropositionnelles, etc.). Elle manifeste un intérêt
particulier pour des approches « descendantes », exploitant un
ensemble d'indices et de marqueurs.

THEMES

Parmi les thèmes pertinents, on peut notamment citer :
- Analyses de structures discursives ;
- Analyses de la structure de documents composites (texte-images,
  texte-graphiques...) ;
- Impact de la structuration en hyper-texte et hyper-document sur
  notre appréhension du « fonctionnement » du document. Problèmes de
  la mise en hyper-texte et des aides informatiques par des procédures
  de TAL ;
- Modèles de lecture et organisation discursive ;
- Expérimentation informatique comme manière d'observer et
  d'expérimenter des hypothèses sur corpus ;
- Etudes de corpus en amont : identification et annotation de
  structures discursives ;
- Dispositifs informatiques pouvant aider à ces études dans une
  démarche expérimentale (formalisation des connaissances
  linguistiques, capitalisation des ressources, articulation des
  traitements, visualisation des annotations) ;
- Articulation entre des approches utilisant des marques
  linguistiques, des connaissances du domaine, des techniques
  statistiques ;
- Applications : recherche d'information intradocumentaire, aide à la
  navigation, résumé automatique ou assisté, synthèse de document...

LA REVUE

(voir http://www.atala.org/)
La revue TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) est une revue
internationale éditée depuis 1960 par l'ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues) avec le concours du CNRS.  Elle va
maintenant être publiée sous format électronique, avec impression à la
demande. Cela ne change aucunement son processus de relecture et de
sélection.

LANGUE

Les articles sont écrits en français ou en anglais. Les soumissions en
anglais ne sont acceptées que pour les auteurs non francophones.

DATES IMPORTANTES

22/09/2006 Date limite de soumission
13/11/2006 Décision du comité
18/12/2006 Version révisée

FORMAT

Les articles (25 pages maximum, format PDF) seront envoyés aux deux
rédactrices invitées aux adresses suivantes :
Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley <pery at univ-tlse2.fr>
Donia Scott <D.Scott at open.ac.uk>
Les feuilles de style sont disponibles en ligne sur le site:
http://tal.e-revues.com/appel.jsp

COMITE DE LECTURE SPECIFIQUE

N. Asher (IRIT, U. Toulouse 3, France)
J. Bateman (U. Bremen, Germany)
Y. Bestgen (U. C. Louvain, Belgium)
N. Bouayad-Agha (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
M. Charolles (U. Paris 3, France)
D. Cristea (U. Iasi, Romania)
L. Danlos (U. Paris 7, France)
L. Degand (U. C. Louvain, Belgium)
P. Enjalbert (U. Caen, France)
S. Ferrari (U. Caen, France)
B. Grau (U. Paris-Sud, France)
N. Hernandez (GREYC, U. Caen, France)
J. Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
G. Lapalme (U. Montréal, Québec, Canada)
N. Lucas (GREYC, U. Caen, France)
A. Max (U. Paris-Sud, France)
J.-L. Minel (U. Paris 4, France)
R. Power (Open University, England)
H. Saggion (U. Sheffield, England)
S. Teufel (U. Cambridge, England)

==================================================================

Computational Approaches to Discourse and Document Processing

SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL "TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES" (TAL)

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 22 September 2006 ***


GUEST EDITORS: Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley (ERSS - Université de Toulouse
2, France) and Donia Scott (Open University, UK)

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

This special issue of TAL is devoted to what we perceive as an
increasing convergence between discourse linguistics, document
engineering and NLP. Such a convergence can be observed from several
angles; for example, new modes of access to documents' contents place
greater emphasis on exploiting discourse structure; applying corpus
analysis methods to discourse calls for greater use of NLP techniques.
It is manifest in the increasing number of joint studies, and results
in cross fertilisation of the disciplines.

* Text and discourse linguistics

Constructing a coherent interpretation of discourse involves
delimiting segments, and identifying semantico-pragmatic relations and
structures that bind them. These processes may be approached via the
notions of discourse relations (cf. RST, SDRT), of theme or topic, of
discourse framing, etc. A major challenge for the field is to identify
linguistic correlates of specific discourse functions in text corpora,
taking into account potential register- and domain-linked
variation. Another promising research area focuses on the global
structure of documents: role of titles, "logical structure", or
layout, to name a few.

* Document engineering and NLP

Access to the information stored in electronic documents is a major
issue, and recent approaches seek to take better account of the
organisation of the documents being processed - such as their
thematic and rhetorical structure. A growing number of applications
are concerned by this evolution: automatic summarisation, document
browsing, information retrieval (e.g. for passage extraction from
selected documents). In addition, hypertextual and composite documents
raise new questions about the interaction between semiotic functions
(text-image for instance).

For this special issue of TAL, we invite papers from researchers
working in the fields of discourse linguistics, computational
linguistics and document engineering on what can be termed the
"document level", whereby:

- the document is envisaged as a functional unit, situated in a
specific setting, and actualised in a medium (whatever its nature)
which confers on it material characteristics which are an integral
part of the use and sense made of it;

- the expression "document level" signals a marked interest in coarse
grain structures, or "global" structures (so-called "logical"
structure, document structure, organisation in sections...), or in the
interaction between local and global structures (reference chains,
topical chains, inter-propositional relations, etc.). It indicates a
specific interest in "top down" approaches based on the exploitation
of surface cues or markers.

Specific topics include (non-exhaustive list):
- Analysis of discourse structures;
- Analysis of the structure of composite documents (text-images,
  text-graphics);
- Impact of hypertextual or hyperdocument organisation on the way
  documents are produced and understood. Hypertext formatting,
  computational tools based on NLP procedures;
- Reading models, discourse organisation models;
- Computational experimentation as a means of testing hypotheses on
  corpora;
- Preliminary corpus studies: identification and annotation of
  discourse structures;
- Computational devices for such experimental approaches (formalising
  linguistic knowledge, ensuring re-usability of resources,
  articulating levels of processing, visualising annotations);
- Articulating approaches using linguistic markers, domain knowledge,
  statistical techniques;
- Applications: intra-document information retrieval, browsing aids,
  document summarisation or synthesis, etc.

THE JOURNAL

(see http://www.atala.org/)

TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues/Natural Language Processing)
is a forty year old international journal edited by ATALA (French
Association for Natural Language Processing) with the support of CNRS
(National Centre for Scientific Research).
It is now moving over to an electronic mode of publication, with
printing on demand. This will in no way affect the reviewing and
selection process.

LANGUAGE

Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking
authors are requested to submit in French.

IMPORTANT DATES

22/09/2006 Deadline for submission
13/11/2006 Notification to authors
18/12/2006 Deadline for submission of revised version

PAPER SUBMISSION

Contributions (25 pages maximum, PDF format) will be sent by e-mail to
both editors at the addresses below:
Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley <pery at univ-tlse2.fr>
Donia Scott < D.Scott at open.ac.uk>
Style sheets are available for download at
http://tal.e-revues.com/appel.jsp

SPECIAL EDITORIAL BOARD

N. Asher (IRIT, U. Toulouse 3, France)
J. Bateman (U. Bremen, Germany)
Y. Bestgen (U. C. Louvain, Belgium)
N. Bouayad-Agha (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
M. Charolles (U. Paris 3, France)
D. Cristea (U. Iasi, Romania)
L. Danlos (U. Paris 7, France)
L. Degand (U. C. Louvain, Belgium)
P. Enjalbert (U. Caen, France)
S. Ferrari (U. Caen, France)
B. Grau (U. Paris-Sud, France)
N. Hernandez (GREYC, U. Caen, France)
J. Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
G. Lapalme (U. Montréal, Québec, Canada)
N. Lucas (GREYC, U. Caen, France)
A. Max (U. Paris-Sud, France)
J.-L. Minel (U. Paris 4, France)
R. Power (Open University, England)
H. Saggion (U. Sheffield, England)
S. Teufel (U. Cambridge, England)

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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:13:30 +0300
Subject: Appel: 4th International Conference SETIT 2007 (Deadline extended
 to September 15th, 2006)
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:48 +0300
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:10:22 +0200
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We are happy to announce that a new Speech Language Resource is now
available in our catalogue.

To view all the Language Resources available, you can visit our
on-line catalogue : http://catalog.elda.org/index.php?language=en

The Speecon manually pitch-marked reference database for Spanish is
intended for the development and the evaluation of noise robust pitch
marking (PMA) and/or pitch determination (PDA) algorithms.

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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:10:42 +0300
Subject: Job: Post-doc, LORIA, Nancy
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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:21:38 +0200
From: Yannick Toussaint <Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr>
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                      Post-Doc sur
    l'analyse Formelle des Concepts et extraction de
règles d'association appliquées à la pharmacovigilance

              Equipe Orpailleur, LORIA - INRIA

-----! Date limite de dépot : 21 août 2006 !-----


Ce projet vise à appliquer des méthodes de l'Analyse Formelle des
Concepts et de fouille de données pour la détection de signaux en
pharmacovigilance. En effet, des organismes de pharmacovigilance
construisent des bases de données répertoriant des cas, déclarés par
des médecins, d'effets indésirables liés à la prise de médicaments. Un
"signal", qui pourrait aussi s'appeler indicateur, est un message
d'alerte généré lorsqu'un certain nombre de conditions sont réunies
pour supposer qu'un produit soit à l'origine d'effets indésirables non
encore connus.  Les méthodes de génération de signal actuelles
reposent sur des approches numériques et statistiques. Nous souhaitons
appliquer l'extraction de règles d'association et la construction de
classifications par treillis de Galois à ce type de données pour
définir une méthode de génération de signal.

Ce travail s'inscrit dans le projet EI-Xplore qui implique 5
laboratoires français en médecine et en informatique. Le stage, d'une
durée de 9 à 12 mois, se déroulera au sein de l'équipe Orpailleur au
LORIA, INRIA (Nancy, France) et débutera en septembre ou octobre
2006. La rémunération est de 1840 euros net par mois.

Pour candidater :

- être titulaire d'une thèse en informatique sur l'analyse formelle de
concepts, maîtriser les méthodes d'extraction de règles d'association
et de construction de treillis

- être disponible pour 9 mois à 12 mois à compter de septembre ou
octobre 2006

- adresser un CV complet (assorti de lettres de recommandation le cas
échéant) par mail à Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr avant le 21 août 2006.

Pour tout renseignement : Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr

 ===========================================================================

                  Post-doc position on
      Formal Concept Analysis and Association Rules
             applied to Adverse Drug Effects

              Equipe Orpailleur, LORIA - INRIA

-------! Submission deadline august 21 2006 !-------


This project aims at defining a methodology to detect adverse drug
effects through databases or texts. In fact, there exist databases
where doctors record adverse effects due to drug absorption. The
problem is to generate an alert as soon as there are enough "reliable"
conditions saying that one or more drugs are responsable for these
adverse effects. Current tools use numerical and statistic
approaches. We want to apply association rule extraction and lattice
based classification to this problem.

This work is part of the EI-Xplore project involving 5 french research
teams. The Post-doc position is available for 9 to 12 months starting
september or october 2006. It takes place in LORIA - INRIA (Nancy,
France). The salary is 1840 euros per month.

To apply :

- PhD in Computer Science on Formal Concept Analysis and/or
Association Rule Extraction.

- send a curriculum vitae and provide a list of contacts by email to
Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr before august, 21 2006.

For any information : Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr



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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:55:38 +0300
Subject: Conf: NooJ_Trad 2006
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:22:57 +0200
From: Odile Piton <Odile.Piton at univ-paris1.fr>
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####################################################################

"NooJ : outil pour la traduction automatique ;
Quelles fonctionnalités développer ?"

http://www.univ-paris1.fr/article5510.html

qui aura lieu à
         l'Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

   le 29 Septembre 2006
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Aujourd'hui, les logiciels de traduction automatique industriels et
grand public offrent des performances peu satisfaisantes. Les
chercheurs en Linguistique, en TALN ainsi que les utilisateurs de
logiciels d'analyse de corpus en langue étrangère ont donc besoin d'un
outil qui leur permette de formaliser les données linguistiques
nécessaires (par ex. dictionnaires et grammaires bilingues), d'étudier
les conditions de transfert de ces données d'une langue à une autre,
ainsi que de simuler le comportement de ces logiciels.

Au delà de la traduction mot par mot, et même en prenant en compte les
mots composés (pomme de terre/potato) et expressions figées (casser sa
piper/to kick the bucket), certaines expressions semi-figées posent
des problèmes plus généraux lors de leur transfert. Par ex. la phrase
"Luc a faim", qui n'a pas d'équivalent en anglais, pourrait être
paraphrasée en "Luc est affamé" avant d'être réécrite en "Luc is
hungry".

NooJ, qui est une plateforme d'ingénierie linguistique ouverte et
multilingue, possède des mécanismes internes (en particulier
l'intégration de la morphologie et de la syntaxe) qui lui permettent
d'effectuer des opérations de transformation sur les textes. Ces
opérations génèrent des paraphrases (par ex. pour nominaliser une
expression), mais pourraient aussi être utilisées pour la traduction,
la comparaison de langues ou l'analyse de corpus multilingues.

Nous proposons donc aux chercheurs et aux étudiants intéressés par
l'architecture et les aspects techniques soulevés par la traduction et
la construction de dictionnaires et grammaires bilingues, de venir se
rencontrer, et de voir sous quelles conditions, avec quels types
d'ajouts, NooJ pourrait répondre à leurs besoins.

Pour cette occasion, les intervenants, développeurs et utilisateurs,
présenteront les problématiques convergentes, de développement
d'application de traduction (portugais-anglais), d'utilisation
d'analyseur de textes, et de comparaison entre deux langues (latin
classique-latin médiéval).


Avec la participation de
Max Silberztein (LASELDI, Université de Franche-Comté)
Monique Goullet (Lamop CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Sylvie Auffret-Pignot (CRLV, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Xavier Blanco (Université Autonome de Barcelone)
Svetla Koeva (DCL, Institute for Bulgarian language)
Tamás Váradi (Académie des Sciences de Hongrie)
Anabela Barreiro (New-York University, Université de Porto)


La Conférence sera suivie par un Tutoriel NOOJ par Slim Mesfar
(Université de Franche-Comté)


Pour l'inscription (gratuite mais obligatoire), ou toute information
sur la journée, contacter par mail <ColloqueNooj at univ-paris1.fr>

Précisez si vous vous inscrivez pour la Conférence seulement, ou pour
la Conférence + le Tutoriel NooJ


Les informations pratiques vous seront communiquées courant septembre
par mail

L'horaire prévu est de 9h à 18h30

A bientôt à Paris

Odile Piton


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:09:34 +0300
Subject: Appel: Journal of Natural Language Engineering (Call for Special
 Issue proposals)
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:23:11 +0100
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Please post. Thank you very much

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Journal of Natural Language Engineering

*** Call for special issue proposals ***


The area of Natural Language Engineering is following the trend of
many other areas, becoming highly specialised with a number of
application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in
importance. These developments, often coincident with a lack of
related literature, necessitates and warrants the publication of
specialised volumes focusing on a specific topic of interest to the
Natural Language Processing (NLP) research community.

The Journal of Natural Language Engineering invites proposals for
special issues on a competitive basis on any topics of applied NLP
which have emerged as important developments in Natural Language
Engineering and which have attracted the attention of a number of
researchers or research groups.

Topics could cover a variety of NLP methods, tasks and resources as
well as NLP-related applications but should focus on the practical
implications of operation on the large scale. Topics covering NLP
methods, tasks and resources could include but are not limited to POS
tagging, parsing, semantic role labelling, word sense disambiguation,
anaphora and coreference resolution, named entity recognition, natural
language generation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal
processing, statistical methods in Natural Language Engineering,
machine learning, evaluation methodologies, corpora and
ontologies. Topics covering NLP applications could include but are not
limited to machine translation, translation memory, translation tools,
summarisation, information retrieval, information extraction,
alignment, term extraction, question answering and CALL.

Calls for special issue proposals may be based on a successful
workshop or a body of work associated with a particular group or
section of the community. In all cases, however, the reviewing process
of the accepted proposals will be rigorous and all submissions must be
be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Guest Editorial Board or
other suitable reviewers agreed by the NLE Editors. In the case of
papers previously submitted to workshops, the Guest Editors will not
be able to re-use previous workshop reviews.  In addition, the call
for papers of the accepted proposals must be open to all interested
parties and all authors will be given equal treatment; in the case of
proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be limited
to workshop participants only.

Interested editors have the option of preliminary feedback should by
emailing expressions of interest accompanied by a brief description of
the intended special issue to the Executive Editor
(<mailto:John.Tait at sunderland.ac.uk>John.Tait at sunderland.ac.uk). He
will give a brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate to
Natural Language Engineering.  In the case of initial positive
feedback, the prospective Guest Editors will be asked to submit a
proposal for a special issue which will be reviewed by the Editors of
the journal and where appropriate, by other members of the Journal
Editorial Board. One proposal will be selected on a competitive basis
for each call with the envisaged publication date for the successful
proposal from this call on or after June 2008.

The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the
field and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special
issue on the particular topic of interest. It should include a
relevant literature survey (related previous special issues, volumes,
workshop and conference proceedings) and should explain the added
value of the proposed special issue against the background of other
relevant publications and volumes (if applicable). The proposals
should also include a tentative Guest Editorial Board, tentative
time-scale for the production of the special issue and information
about the prospective Guest Editors (relevant experience, publications
etc.).


   Time-scale

- Deadline for submission of special issue proposals:
   15 September 2006
   (proposals to be emailed to <mailto:R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk)

- Notification of acceptance/rejection:
   15 October 2006

- Final version of the successful proposal and
   call for papers:
   31 October 2006


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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:26 +0300
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update - NEMLAR
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:34:52 +0200
From: ELDA <info at elda.org>
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We are happy to announce the following Arabic resources, produced
within the NEMLAR project (www.nemlar.org).  All 3 resources are owned
and copyrighted by the Nemlar Consortium. They are available in our
catalogue.  To view all the Language Resources available, you can
visit our on-line catalogue:
http://www.elra.info or
http://www.elda.org

*** ELRA-W0042 NEMLAR Written Corpus ***

This corpus consists of about 500,000 words of Arabic text from 13
different categories. The text is provided in 4 different versions:

·        Raw text
·        Fully vowelized text
·        Text with Arabic lexical analysis
·        Text with Arabic POS-tags

The database is distributed on 1 ISO 9660 CD-ROM volume.

For more information, see 

http://catalog.elda.org:8080/product_info.php?products_id=873&osCsid=2eb47737dba8e4365c4972784a235948 


*** ELRA-S0219 NEMLAR Broadcast News Speech Corpus ***

The data consists of about 40 hours and is provided by ELDA of Arabic
data (mainly Standard Arabic from a number of broadcast companies);
Transcriptions follow the Transcriber conventions as used by ELDA and
focus on the orthographic, named entities, speaker/turn segmentation
levels. No phonetic transcription/segmentation is planned.

The database is distributed in 1 ISO 9660 DVD-ROM volume.

For more information, see 
http://catalog.elda.org:8080/product_info.php?products_id=874&osCsid=2eb47737dba8e4365c4972784a235948

*** ELRA-S0220 NEMLAR Speech Synthesis Corpus ***
The NEMLAR Speech Synthesis Corpus contains the recordings of 2 native
Egyptian speakers (male and female, 35 years old) recorded in a studio
over 2 channel (voice + laryngograph). The data collection and
transcription were performed by RDI (Egypt).

Speech samples are stored in 96 kHz, 24 bit with the least significant
byte first ("lohi" or Intel format) as (signed) integers.

The speaker read 2,032 prompted sentences covering approx. 42,000
words in three categories: transcribed speech (20%), written text
(50%), and constructed phrases (30%).

The database is provided with orthographic, prosodic and phonetic
transcriptions in SAMPA.  All transcriptions were segmented at the
utterance (sentence/command word) level, annotated at the word level
and checked manually. A pronunciation lexicon including 3,589
headwords with phonetics in SAMPA is also available.

The database is distributed on 3 ISO 9660 DVD-ROM volumes.

For more information, see 
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:08:30 +0300
Subject: Job: postdoc, Equipe Signes LaBRI
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:56:45 +0200
From: Lionel Clément <lionel.clement at labri.fr>
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Un post-doc d'un an est à pourvoir au Labri (Bordeaux) à compter du
1er janvier 2007.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(English version follows)


Titre :
~~~~~~~
Développement d'un langage abstrait de description syntaxique et
sémantique.

Laboratoire :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Équipe-Projet Signes -  Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en  
Informatique
Directeur: Christian Retoré
http://signes.labri.fr/
Responsable: Lionel Clément

Description :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ce poste est financé dans le cadre de l'Action de Recherche
Coopérative (ARC) MOSAÏQUE qui a pour objectif la description des
spécifications d'un langage de haut niveau pour la syntaxe.  Le
candidat aura pour tâche de définir ce langage en collaboration des
partenaires du projet, mais aussi de développer les outils de
conversion vers les différents formalismes existant. Il devra
contribuer à implanter, en outre, des "compilateurs" de ce langage de
haut niveau dans des formalismes actuellement utilisés pour le
développement de grammaires du français (TAG, CG, HPSG, GUST, LFG,
etc.).

http://mosaique.labri.fr/

Profil du ou de la candidate :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Docteur en informatique et/ou en linguistique.  Le(a) candidat(e) est
un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) ayant une solide connaissance de
plusieurs modèles formels pour la linguistique et en particulier pour
la syntaxe.  Ses compétences en informatique doivent lui permettre de
travailler en étroite collaboration avec les développeurs sur
différents types de systèmes de programmation.  Une bonne connaissance
de la compilation sera appréciée.  Les réunions se faisant en langue
française et les travaux portant sur la syntaxe du français, un bon
niveau de langue française est requis.


Durée :
~~~~~~~
12 mois (à partir du 1er janvier 2007)

Salaire :
~~~~~~~~~
26.400 euros annuels brut

Date limite :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vendredi 27 octobre

Contact :
~~~~~~~~~
Envoyer un CV et une lettre de candidature à
Lionel Clément
lionel.clement at labri.fr
Labri - Domaine Universitaire
351, cours de la Libération
33405 Talence Cedex
téléphone : +33 5 40 00 35 08
télécopie : +33 5 40 00 66 69


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A one-year postdoc in computational linguistics is available at LaBRI
(Bordeaux France). The starting date of the postdoc will be the first
of January 2007.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Subject:
~~~~~~~~
Development of an abstract language for syntactic and semantic
descriptions.

Research Laboratory:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SIGNES research team - "Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en
Informatique" Team leader: Christian Retoré http://signes.labri.fr/
Contact: Lionel Clément

Description:
~~~~~~~~~~~~
This postdoc is financed by the cooperative research action (ARC)
MOSAIQUE which has as its goal to produce a high level description
language for syntax. The candidate will have as his goal to define
this language in collaboration with the different partners of the
project. In addition, the candidate is expected to produce conversion
programs from this description language to existing formalisms in
computational linguistics. The candidate will contribute to
implementing, among other things, "compilers" from the high-level
description language to formalisms which are currently being used for
parsing the French language (TAG, CG, HPSG, LFG, etc.)

http://mosaique.labri.fr/

Profile of the candidate:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PhD thesis in computer science or linguistics. The candidate is a
computational linguist with a solid knowledge of several formal models
for linguistics and especially syntax. His competences in computer
science allow him to work in collaboration with software developers
using different programming systems. A good knowledge of compilation
will be appreciated. Given that the meetings will be in French and
that the work will be on French syntax, a good knowledge of French
will be required.

Duration:
~~~~~~~~~
12 months with a starting date on January first, 2007.

Salary:
~~~~~~~
26.400 euros gross, per year

DEADLINE:
~~~~~~~~~
Friday, 27th of October.

Contact:
~~~~~~~~
Send you CV and cover letter to:
Lionel Clément
lionel.clement at labri.fr
Labri - Domaine Universitaire
351, cours de la Libération
33405 Talence Cedex
Phone: +33 5 40 00 35 08
Fax: +33 5 40 00 66 69



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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:21 +0300
Subject: Appel: Schwa(s) 5emes Journees d'Etudes Linguistiques
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:44:16 +0200
From: olivier.crouzet at univ-nantes.fr
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              ####   Apologies for cross-postings   ####
              #### Désolé pour les envois multiples ####

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[CFP] Schwa(s) : 5èmes Journées d'Études Linguistiques de Nantes (JEL'2007)

             (english CFP at the bottom of this message)

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Appel à communication

   Les 5èmes Journées d'Études Linguistiques de Nantes (JEL'2007)
   auront lieu les 27 et 28 juin 2007. Elles seront organisées par
   Olivier Crouzet et Jean-Pierre Angoujard du Laboratoire de
   Linguistique de Nantes (LLING - EA3827). Dans le cadre historique
   (et amical) des confrontations nantaises entre phonéticiens et
   phonologues, le thème et titre de ces journées sera "Schwa(s)".

   Vous êtes convié(e)s à proposer des résumés (2 pages maximum,
   bibliographie incluse, format A4) sur toute question ayant un lien
   avec l'objet "schwa" :

     * Nature(s) du schwa en français et en toute autre langue ;
     * Schwa et voyelles centrales ;
     * Schwa et "positions vides" ;
     * Quelle "substance" pour les positions vides ;
     * Diachronie : histoire(s) de schwa(s) ;
     * Dialectologie, usages du schwa ;
     * Analyses instrumentales (articulatoire ou acoustique) des
       schwas et consonnes associées ;
     * Traitement des schwas en synthèse vocale ;
     * Mécanismes perceptifs relatifs aux schwas et aux consonnes
       associées ;
     * Schwas et processus d'appariement lexical ;
     * etc.

   (cette liste n'est en aucune manière limitative).

   Les informations concernant les modalités exactes de soumission de
   vos résumés seront indiquées courant Septembre sur le site du
   colloque :

   http://www.lettres.univ-nantes.fr/lling/jel2007/

   La date limite de soumission de vos résumés est fixée au Lundi 18
   Décembre 2006.

   Calendrier :

     * Date limite de soumission : 18 Décembre 2006
     * Notification des acceptations: 30 Mars 2007
     * Réception des articles définitifs: 21 Mai 2007
     * Programme préliminaire: 4 Juin 2007
     * Colloque (JEL'2007): 27-28 juin 2007.

   [Ces deux journées seront suivies, le Vendredi 29 juin, de la
   première Journée d'Études Gallèses (JEG'2007). Pour cette première
   édition, le programme sera organisé sur invitations. Pour toute
   information sur cette journée consacrée au gallo :

   jean-pierre.angoujard at univ-nantes.fr.]


###############################################################################

Call for papers

   The 5th Journées d'Études Linguistiques de Nantes (JEL'2007) will
   take place on 27th and 28th, June 2007. They will be organized by
   Olivier Crouzet and Jean-Pierre Angoujard (Laboratoire de
   Linguistique de Nantes, LLING - EA3827). In the historical (and
   friendly) context of discussion that has taken place regularly in
   Nantes between phoneticians and phonologists, the theme and title
   of this workshop will be : `Schwa(s)'.

   You're invited to submit a summary (maximum 2 pages, including
   references, A4 paper) about any issue related to `schwa(s)' :

     * Nature of schwa in French and in any other language;
     * Schwa and central vowels;
     * Schwa and `empty positions';
     * `Substance' of empty positions ;
     * Phonological change, [hi]storie(s) of schwa(s);
     * Dialectology, usage of schwa;
     * Instrumental (articulatory or acoustic) analyses of schwas and
       associated consonants;
     * Treatment of schwa(s) in speech synthesis;
     * Perceptual mechanisms relating to schwas and associated
       consonants;
     * Recognition of words including schwas;
     * etc.

   (this list is not restrictive).

   Precise information for submitting your summary will be made
   available on the conference home page in September 2006:

   http://www.lettres.univ-nantes.fr/lling/jel2007/

   The submission deadline is Monday, December 18th 2006.

   Schedule :

     * Submission deadline: December, 18th 2006
     * Notification of acceptation: March, 30th 2007
     * Reception of final papers: May, 21st 2007
     * Preliminary programme: June, 4th 2007
     * Conference (JEL'2007): June, 27th-28th 2007.

   [This two-day conference will be followed, on Friday 29th June
   2007, by the first Journée d'Études Gallèses (JEG'2007) (Conference
   on the Gallo language). On this first edition, the scientific
   programme will be upon invitation only. For any information
   concerning this workshop on Gallo:

   jean-pierre.angoujard at univ-nantes.fr.]


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:12:44 +0300
Subject: Job: Positions in NLP, University of Wolverhampton
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:03:04 +0100
From: "Ha, L A" <L.A.Ha at wlv.ac.uk>
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Apologise for multiple postings.

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***** POSITIONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
      WOLVERHAMPTON *****

 

The research group in computational linguistics, Research Institute of
Information and Language Processing, University of Wolverhampton is
pleased to announce TWO positions in Computational Linguistics/Natural
Language Processing:

 

1) Professor (Salary £ 45,954-£ 51,855* ) or Reader (Salary £35,254 -
         £44,328*) in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language
         Processing

2) Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in
         Computer-aided Multiple-Choice Test Item Development (Salary
         £19,430 - £25,184 * pa or £29,211 - £37,521 * pa; level of
         appointment dependent on qualifications and experience)

 

POSITION 1: Professor or Reader in Computational Linguistics / Natural
Language Processing

Professor or Reader in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language
Processing

Salary in the range £35,254 - £44,328* (Reader) or £ 45,954-£ 51,855*
(Professor)

 

The Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of
Wolverhampton is inviting applications for a Professor or Reader
(depending on track record and qualifications) in Computational
Linguistics / Natural Language Processing. We are seeking candidates
with an excellent research record as evidenced by publications in
reputable journals and successful grant applications. Teaching
experience and experience in mentoring younger researchers would be an
advantage.

 

Duties include collaborative research and producing first class
research / publications, grant applications, PhD / younger researcher
supervision and some teaching.

 

Candidates should send a completed application form (downloadable from
http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/CAID/app_form_jobs.pdf), their CV
including publication list and a statement of research plans,
detailing the contribution they could make to the Research Group in
Computational Linguistics. They should also list the names, email
addresses and telephone numbers of 5 referees that could be contacted
to comment on their application. Completed applications should be sent
to Personnel Services Department, University of Wolverhampton,
Molineux Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB. Email applications
(per at wlv.ac.uk) are also acceptable. For informal inquiries, please
contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk). For more details on
the Research Group in Computational Linguistics, visit
(http://clg.wlv.ac.uk).

 

Application deadline: 25 September 2006

Ref: A4553

 

The position is initially available for 2 years but could be renewable
subject to successful external funding.

 

POSITION 2: Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Computer-aided
Multiple-Choice Test Item Development

Salary £19,430 - £25,184 * pa or £29,211 - £37,521 * pa (level of
appointment dependent on qualifications and experience)

 

As postdoctoral research fellow/senior research fellow you will work
on a project to develop a system for computer-aided item development,
focusing on the analysis of item structure and content, as well as
evaluation of the system. You will also be involved in the
implementation/fine tuning of various NLP components. The initial
contract is for two years with the possibility of extension, subject
to successful completion of this project. You should have a PhD in
linguistics/computational linguistics or equivalent experience
together with native or near native English language comprehension and
excellent knowledge of English grammar, syntax and discourse
analysis. Experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques
and programming as well as experience working on industrial projects
(or working to tight deadlines) are desirable. For appointment at
Senior Research Fellow level you will need to demonstrate a very good
publications record, grant applications experience, and potential
leadership qualities.

 

 

Closing date: 18 September, 2006

Start date: End of September/Beginning of October 2006

Ref: A4462-B

 

Applications should include a completed application form, CV, and
covering letter in which the candidates explain why they have applied
for the position and give details of their research
interests/experience and background. Candidates should also give the
names of three referees with their email addresses and telephone
numbers. The interviews are scheduled to take place in the second half
of September, and the starting date is as soon as possible after the
interviews.

 

For informal inquiries, please contact Mr. Le An Ha (L.A.Ha at wlv.ac.uk)
or Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk).

For an application form, please download it from
http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/CAID/app_form_jobs.pdf.

More information on this forthcoming project can also be obtained at
http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/CAID/

 

* In line with the University pay modernisation programme, salaries
  may be subject to review.

 

The RESEARCH GROUP IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS at the University of
Wolverhampton (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk <http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/> )

 

Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1997, the Research Group in
Computational Linguistics is a highly successful one, delivering
cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora
resolution, automatic abstracting, question answering, lexical
knowledge acquisition, text categorisation, named entity recognition,
information extraction, corpus construction and annotation, automatic
terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice
question generation. To a large extent, this research has been
undertaken in projects funded by major UK funding bodies and
commercial partners.


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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Mon Aug 28 08:15:46 2006
From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:15:46 +0300
Subject: Ecole: 6th International PhD School in Formal Languages and
 Applications 2006-2008, Tarragona, Spain
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:34:02 GMT
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Apologies for multiple posting!

Please, forward the announcement to whom may be interested in.

Thanks.

------------------

6th INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS
2006-2008

Rovira i Virgili University
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Tarragona, Spain

http://www.grlmc.com

Awarded with the Mark of Quality (Mención de Calidad) by the Spanish
Ministry for Education and Science, MCD2003-00820

With the support of Xerox Corporation


Courses and professors 1st term (March-July 2007)

Languages - Alexander Okhotin (Turku)
Combinatorics on Words - Tero Harju (Turku)
Regular Grammars - Masami Ito (Kyoto)
Context-Free Grammars - Manfred Kudlek (Hamburg)
Context-Sensitive Grammars - Victor Mitrana (Tarragona)
Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars - Henning Bordihn (Potsdam)
Finite Automata - Sheng Yu (London ON)
Pushdown Automata - Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom (Leiden)
Turing Machines - Holger Petersen (Stuttgart)
Varieties of Formal Languages - Jean-Éric Pin (Paris)
Semigroups for the Working Theoretical Computer Scientist - Stuart
  Margolis (Ramat Gan)
Computational Complexity - Markus Holzer (Munich)
Descriptional Complexity of Automata and Grammars - Detlef Wotschke
  (Frankfurt)
Communication Complexity - Carsten Damm (Göttingen)
Patterns - Kai Salomaa (Kingston ON)
Infinite Words - Juhani Karhumäki (Turku)
Partial Words - Francine Blanchet-Sadri (Greensboro NC)
Two-Dimensional Languages - Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima)
Grammars with Regulated Rewriting - Jürgen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Contextual Grammars - Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona)
Parallel Grammars - Henning Fernau (Trier)
Grammar Systems - Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Budapest)
Automata Networks - Pál Dömösi (Debrecen)
Tree Automata and Tree Languages - Magnus Steinby (Turku)
Tree Adjoining Grammars - James Rogers (Richmond IN)
Term Rewriting Systems - Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv)
Automata and Logic - Franz Baader (Dresden)
Formal Languages and Concurrent Systems - Jetty Kleijn (Leiden)
Petri Net Theory and Its Applications - Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei)
Graph Grammars and Graph Transformation - Hans-Jörg Kreowski (Bremen)
Restarting Automata - Friedrich Otto (Kassel)


Courses and professors 2nd term (September-December 2007)

Parameterized Complexity - Jörg Flum (Freiburg, Germany)
Modern Complexity Theory - Mitsunori Ogihara (Rochester NY)
Fuzzy Formal Languages - Claudio Moraga (Dortmund)
Cellular Automata - Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments - Natasha Jonoska (Tampa FL)
Splicing Systems - Paola Bonizzoni (Milan)
Aqueous Computing - Tom Head (Binghamton NY)
Biomolecular Nanotechnology - Max Garzon (Memphis TN)
Quantum Automata - Jozef Gruska (Brno)
Symbolic Dynamics and Automata - Christiane Frougny (Paris)
Unification Grammars - Shuly Wintner (Haifa)
Context-Free Grammar Parsing - Giorgio Satta (Padua)
Probabilistic Parsing - Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen)
Categorial Grammars - Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
Grammatical Inference - Colin de la Higuera (Saint-Étienne)
Mathematical Foundations of Learning Theory - Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo)
Natural Language Processing with Symbolic Neural Networks - Risto
         Miikkulainen (Austin TX)
Weighted Automata - Manfred Droste (Leipzig)
Finite Transducers - Jacques Sakarovitch (Paris)
Sequential Pattern Matching - Thierry Lecroq (Rouen)
Mathematical Evolutionary Genomics - David Sankoff (Ottawa ON)
Cryptography - Valtteri Niemi (Nokia, Helsinki)
String Complexity - Lucian Ilie (London ON)
Data Compression - Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw)
Image Compression - Jarkko Kari (Turku)
Algebraic Techniques in Language Theory - Zoltán Ésik (Tarragona)
Topics in Asynchronous Circuit Theory - John Brzozowski (Waterloo ON)
Automata for Verification - Moshe Vardi (Houston TX)


STUDENTS

Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the
world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and
Mathematics. Other students (for instance, from Linguistics, Logic or
Engineering) could be accepted provided they have a good undergraduate
background in discrete mathematics. At the beginning of the first
term, a few lessons on discrete mathematics advanced pre-requisites
will be offered, in order to homogenize the students' mathematical
background.

In order to check eligibility for the programme, the student must be
certain that the highest university degree s/he got enables her/him to
be enrolled in a doctoral programme in her/his home country.


TUITION FEES

2,120 euros in total, approximately.


DISSERTATION

After following the courses, the students enrolled in the programme
will have to defend a research project and, later, a dissertation in
English in their own area of interest, in order to get the so-called
European PhD degree (which is a standard PhD degree with an additional
mark of quality). All the professors in the programme will be allowed
to supervise students' dissertations, as well as any other
well-reputed scientist at the discretion of the host institute.


FUNDING

The university will cover the tuition fees and full-board
accommodation expenses of all admitted students during the first
term. For the second one, funding opportunities will be provided,
among others, by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, the
Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Becas
MAEC-AECI), and the European Commission (Alban scheme for Latin
American citizens).

Immediately after the courses and during the writing of the PhD
dissertation, some of the best students will be offered 4-year
research fellowships, which will allow them to work in the framework
of the host institute.


PRE-REGISTRATION PROCEDURE

In order to pre-register, one should post (not fax, not e-mail) to the
programme chairman:

- a xerocopy of the main page of the passport,
- a xerocopy of the university education diplomas,
- a xerocopy of the academic transcripts,
- full CV,
- letters of recommendation (optional),
- any other document to prove background, interest and motivation
  (optional).


SCHEDULE

Announcement of the programme: August 8, 2006
Pre-registration deadline: October 15, 2006
Selection of students: October 22, 2006
Starting of the 1st term: March 5, 2007
End of the 1st term: July 27, 2007
Starting of the 2nd term (tentative): September 3, 2007
End of the 2nd term (tentative): December 21, 2007
Defense of the research project (tentative): September 13, 2008
DEA examination (tentative): May 16, 2009


QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION

Contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martín Vide, at carlos.martin at urv.cat


POSTAL ADDRESS

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial Tàrraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543, +34-977-554391

Fax: +34-977-559597, +34-977-554391


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:13:34 +0300
Subject: Sujet de These: Apport des modeles stochastiques de langage pour
 la recherche d'informations pertinentes sur le web, LORIA, Nancy
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:14:28 +0200
From: Armelle Brun <Armelle.Brun at loria.fr>
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TITRE : Apport des mod?les stochastiques de langage au filtrage collaboratif


CONTEXTE :

Le principe du filtrage collaboratif [2] est de pr?dire dans un
ensemble de ressources disponibles celles qui sont susceptibles
d'int?resser un internaute ? partir de son historique de consultation
et du comportement connu d'une population d'utilisateurs.

Actuellement, les algorithmes de filtrage collaboratif [3] n'int?grent
pas la notion de s?quence d'observations et ne sont pas capables de
traiter des probl?mes du type ? c'est parce que j'ai lu A puis B que
je vais aimer C ?.

Les mod?les statistiques comme les mod?les n-grams (mod?les de Markov
d'ordre n) [1] utilis?s en mod?lisation statistique du langage
constituent une approche prometteuse au vu du probl?me consid?r?. En
effet, en reconnaissance de la parole, ces mod?les permettent de
pr?dire le mot qui va ?tre prononc? sachant le d?but de la phrase
(historique des mots prononc?s). Plus pr?cis?ment, ils fournissent des
probabilit?s d'apparition de mots. Supposons par exemple que le d?but
de phrase ? le petit chat boit du ? soit prononc?. Le mod?le
statistique du langage ?valuera la probabilit? des futurs mots pouvant
suivre ce d?but de phrase, par exemple le mot ? lait ? dont la
probabilit? sera forte. La suite de mots pourra ?tre assimil?e ? la
suite chronologique des documents lus (A puis B) et ainsi nous
pourrons pr?dire de fa?on plus performante l'int?r?t du document C.

Cette approche est novatrice et se situe ? l'intersection de deux
domaines de recherche repr?sent?s dans deux ?quipes du laboratoire :
Parole (Mod?lisation statistique du langage) et Maia (filtrage
collaboratif).

Dans le cadre de la th?se qui se d?roulera au sein de l'?quipe MAIA,
nous proposons d'?tudier l'apport des techniques de mod?lisation
statistique du langage au filtrage collaboratif et de proposer de
nouveaux mod?les de recommandation de ressources prenant en compte la
notion d'historique de consultation.


La th?se sera co-financ?e : 50% par la r?gion - 50% sur un contrat de
recherche

BIBLIOGRAPHIE :

[1] Brun -  D?tection de th?me et adaptation des mod?les de langage pour 
la reconnaissance automatique de la parole. 2003

[2] Castagnos  Vers un syst?me de filtrage collaborative distribu?: le 
mod?le RSB

[3] Miller PocketLens : Toward a personal recommender system

CONTACTS :

?Anne Boyer, Equipe Maia - boyer at loria.fr
?Armelle Brun, Equipe Parole - brun at loria.fr


Les candidatures, qui devront nous parvenir par e-mail, avant le 15
septembre 2006, devront comporter un CV et une lettre de motivation
Elles seront adress?es ? : boyer at loria.fr, brun at loria.fr


--
Armelle BRUN
Maitre de conf?rences
Laboratoire LORIA - Equipe PAROLE
tel : 03 83 59 30 64



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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:18:37 +0300
Subject: Ecole: 2nd International PhD School in Language and Speech
 Technologies 2006-2008, Tarragona, Spain
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:22:32 GMT
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Apologies for multiple posting!

Please, forward the announcement to whom may be interested in.

Thanks.

------------------

2nd INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES 2006-2008

Rovira i Virgili University
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Tarragona, Spain

http://www.grlmc.com


Foundational courses (March - April 2007)

Foundations of Linguistics I: Morphology, Lexicon and Syntax - Gemma
     Bel-Enguix (Tarragona)
Foundations of Linguistics II: Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse -
     M. Dolores Jim?nez-L?pez (Tarragona)
Formal Languages - Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona)
Declarative Programming Languages: Prolog, Lisp - various researchers
     at the host institute
Procedural Programming Languages: C, Java, Perl, Matlab - various
     researchers at the host institute


Main courses (May - July and September - December 2007)

Anaphora Resolution - Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton)
Annotating Time: Representational and Analytical Issues - Branimir
   Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights NY)
Basics of Statistical Speech Recognition - Frederick Jelinek
   (Baltimore MD)
Computational Morphology - Harald Trost (Vienna)
Discriminative Learning of Sequence and Parsing Models - Fernando
   Pereira (Philadelphia PA)
Empirical Approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Role
   Labeling, Semantic Parsing, and Information Extraction - Raymond
   Mooney (Austin TX)
Foundations of Computational Semantics - Shalom Lappin (London)
Human and Machine Translation - Martin Kay (Stanford CA)
Information Extraction I - Ralph Grishman (New York NY)
Information Extraction II - Guy Lapalme (Montr?al QC)
Language Processing for Human-Machine Dialogue Modelling - Yorick
   Wilks (Sheffield)
Linguistic Corpora as Resources for Language Engineering - Udo Hahn
   (Jena)
Machine Learning Approaches to Developing Language Processing Modules
   - Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen)
Multimodal Speech-Based Interfaces - Elisabeth Andr? (Augsburg)
Natural Language Generation from a Cognitive Perspective - Michael
   Zock (Marseille)
Natural Language Processing Pragmatics: Probabilistic Methods and User
   Modeling Implications - Ingrid Zukerman (Clayton)
Ontology Engineering: From Cognitive Science to the Semantic Web -
   M. Teresa Pazienza (Roma)
POS Tagging, Chunking, and Shallow Parsing - Yuji Matsumoto (Nara)
Question Answering - Bernardo Magnini (Trento)
Search Methods in Natural Language Processing - Helmut Horacek
   (Saarbr?cken)
Spoken Dialogue Systems - Diane Litman (Pittsburgh PA)
Statistical Machine Translation - Reinhard Rapp (Tarragona)
Text Mining for Knowledge Acquisition in the Biomedical Domain -
   Lynette Hirschman (Mitre, Bedford MA)
Time in Language: Formal and Computational Approaches - Inderjeet Mani
   (Mitre, Bedford MA)
Types and Semantic Roles in the Lexicon - James Pustejovsky (Waltham MA)
Words, Meanings, and Emotions - Rada Mihalcea (Dallas TX)


Optional courses (from the 6th International PhD School in Formal
Languages and Applications)

Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars - Henning Bordihn (Potsdam)
Tree Adjoining Grammars - James Rogers (Richmond IN)
Unification Grammars - Shuly Wintner (Haifa)
Context-Free Grammar Parsing - Giorgio Satta (Padua)
Probabilistic Parsing - Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen)
Categorial Grammars - Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
Grammatical Inference - Colin de la Higuera (Saint-?tienne)
Natural Language Processing with Symbolic Neural Networks - Risto
   Miikkulainen (Austin TX)



STUDENTS:

Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the
world. Most appropriate degrees include Computer Science and
Linguistics. Other students (for instance, from Psychology, Logic,
Engineering or Mathematics) could be accepted depending on the
strengths of their undergraduate education. The first two months of
classes are intended to homogenize the students' varied background in
linguistics, formal languages and programming languages.

In order to check eligibility for the programme, the student must be
certain that the highest university degree s/he got enables her/him to
be enrolled in a doctoral programme in her/his home country.


TUITION FEES:

2,120 euros in total, approximately.


DISSERTATION:

After following the courses, the students enrolled in the programme
will have to defend a research project and, later, a dissertation in
English in their own area of interest, in order to get the so-called
European PhD degree (which is a standard PhD degree with an additional
mark of quality). All the professors in the programme will be allowed
to supervise students' dissertations, as well as any other
well-reputed scientist at the discretion of the host institute.


FUNDING:

The university will cover the tuition fees and full-board
accommodation expenses of all admitted students during the first
term. For the second one, funding opportunities will be provided,
among others, by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, the
Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Becas
MAEC-AECI), and the European Commission (Alban scheme for Latin
American citizens).

Immediately after the courses and during the writing of the PhD
dissertation, some of the best students will be offered 4-year
research fellowships, which will allow them to work in the framework
of the host institute.


PRE-REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:

In order to pre-register, one should post (not fax, not e-mail) to the
programme chairman:

- a xerocopy of the main page of the passport,
- a xerocopy of the university education diplomas,
- a xerocopy of the academic transcripts,
- full CV,
- letters of recommendation (optional),
- any other document to prove background, interest and motivation
  (optional).


SCHEDULE:

Announcement of the programme: August 11, 2006
Pre-registration deadline: October 23, 2006
Selection of students: October 30, 2006
Starting of the 1st term: March 5, 2007
End of the 1st term: July 27, 2007
Starting of the 2nd term (tentative): September 3, 2007
End of the 2nd term (tentative): December 21, 2007
Defense of the research project (tentative): September 13, 2008
DEA examination (tentative): May 16, 2009


QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Contact the programme chairman, Carlos Mart?n-Vide, at carlos.martin at urv.cat


POSTAL ADDRESS:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial T?rraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543, +34-977-554391

Fax: +34-977-559597, +34-977-554391


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:20:15 +0300
Subject: Job: On Post In Text Mining -- Summarisation, Manchester
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:08:50 +0100
From: "Sophia Ananiadou" <Sophia.ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk>
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ONE POST IN TEXT MINING - SUMMARISATION - University of Manchester,
School of Informatics
 
One Research Associate is required for a JISC funded project entitled,
Automatic Summarisation for Systematic Reviews using Text Mining
(ASSERT). The project forms part of the work of the National Centre
for Text Mining, within social science applications.

The Research Associate will develop methods for locating relevant
studies for input to a systematic review using a combination of text
mining techniques and will apply a suite of text mining tools that
will support novel methods of information management in the domain of
social science systematic reviews.

The successful candidate will be part of the growing team of
researchers associated with the National Centre for Text Mining
http://www.nactem.ac.uk and will be located at the Manchester
Interdisciplinary Biocentre http://www.mib.ac.uk

Applicants should have a first degree in Computer Science or a closely
related field, and a postgraduate degree in Computer Science
preferably in text mining and summarisation. Experience should include
developing algorithms and software for NLP/TM systems, summarisation,
clustering, the ability to produce experiments for text mining
applications using large data sets, and excellent knowledge of C, C++,
Java, SML, Windows and Linux.

Enquiries should be made to Dr Sophia Ananiadou, on +44 (0)161 306
3092 or email Sophia.Ananiadou at manchester.ac.uk

Further details are available at:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=7325
REF: HUM/60165

Starting immediately, for a period of two (2) years.

Closing date:  25th August 2006
   
==================================================      

Dr Sophia Ananiadou, Reader in Text Mining,
School of Informatics, University of Manchester
Tel: +44 161 306 3092  
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/sophia.ananiadou/  

Deputy director, National Centre for Text Mining http://www.nactem.ac.uk


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:13:37 +0300
Subject: Appel: Revue TAL, Discours et document, Deadline Extended
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:19:39 +0200
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Discours et document : traitements automatiques
Computational Approaches to Discourse and Document Processing

NUM?RO SP?CIAL DE LA REVUE TAL

*** NOUVELLE DATE DE SOUMISSION : 22 septembre 2006 ***

[English version of CFP below]

REDACTEURS INVITES: Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley (ERSS - Universit? de
Toulouse 2, France) and Donia Scott (Open University, UK)

DERNIER APPEL

Ce num?ro sp?cial de TAL est consacr? ? ce que nous percevons comme
une convergence croissante entre la linguistique du discours,
l'ing?nierie documentaire et le TAL. Cette convergence prend des
formes diverses, ainsi l'?laboration de nouveaux modes d'acc?s aux
contenus des documents tend ? mettre davantage l'accent sur
l'exploitation de leur structuration discursive, l'application au
discours des m?thodes d'analyse de corpus implique de plus en plus
l'appel ? des techniques et ? des instruments du TAL. Elle se
manifeste par un nombre croissant d'?tudes conjointes, conduisant ?
une fertilisation crois?e des disciplines.

* Linguistiques du texte et du discours

Construire une interpr?tation coh?rente du discours implique de
d?limiter des segments et de d?terminer des relations hi?rarchiques et
s?mantico-pragmatiques entre ces segments. Ces processus peuvent ?tre
abord?s ? travers la notion de relations de discours (cf. RST, SDRT),
de th?me ou topique, d'encadrement du discours, etc. Un d?fi pour le
domaine est d'identifier des corr?lats linguistiques de fonctions
discursives sp?cifiques, ce qui n?cessite une approche en corpus, et
la prise en compte des possibilit?s de variations li?es au registre et
au domaine de connaissance. D'autres travaux, encore peu nombreux mais
prometteurs, s'int?ressent davantage ? la structure globale du
document : r?le des titres, de la segmentation logique, de la forme
mat?rielle des textes...

* Ing?nierie documentaire et TALN

L'acc?s ? l'information contenue dans des documents num?ris?s est une
probl?matique majeure de la recherche actuelle, et les approches
r?centes cherchent ? mieux prendre en compte l'organisation des
documents trait?s (par exemple leur structure th?matique et
rh?torique).  De plus en plus d'applications sont concern?es par cette
?volution : r?sum? automatique, navigation documentaire, recherche
d'information (en particulier pour l'extraction de passages ?
l'int?rieur des documents s?lectionn?s). En outre, le d?veloppement de
l'hypertexte et du document composite (texte-image par exemple) pose
de nouvelles questions sur l'interaction entre diff?rentes fonctions
s?miotiques.

Les propositions de communications pour ce num?ro sp?cial de TAL
porteront sur ce qu'on pourrait appeler, en linguistique du discours,
en TAL ou en ing?nierie documentaire, le ? niveau document ? :

- Le document est vu comme une unit? fonctionnelle ; il est ancr? dans
une situation, et inscrit sur un support (quel qu'il soit) qui lui
conf?re des caract?ristiques mat?rielles qui participent de son usage
et de sa signification ;

- L'expression ? niveau document ? signale un int?r?t marqu? pour les
structures ? gros grain, ou structures dites ? globales ? (encadrement
du discours, structuration "logique", d?coupage en sections, ...), ou
pour les relations entre structures locales et structures globales
(structure d'information, cha?nes de r?f?rence, cha?nes topicales,
relations interpropositionnelles, etc.). Elle manifeste un int?r?t
particulier pour des approches ? descendantes ?, exploitant un
ensemble d'indices et de marqueurs.

THEMES

Parmi les th?mes pertinents, on peut notamment citer :
- Analyses de structures discursives ;
- Analyses de la structure de documents composites (texte-images,
  texte-graphiques...) ;
- Impact de la structuration en hyper-texte et hyper-document sur
  notre appr?hension du ? fonctionnement ? du document. Probl?mes de
  la mise en hyper-texte et des aides informatiques par des proc?dures
  de TAL ;
- Mod?les de lecture et organisation discursive ;
- Exp?rimentation informatique comme mani?re d'observer et
  d'exp?rimenter des hypoth?ses sur corpus ;
- Etudes de corpus en amont : identification et annotation de
  structures discursives ;
- Dispositifs informatiques pouvant aider ? ces ?tudes dans une
  d?marche exp?rimentale (formalisation des connaissances
  linguistiques, capitalisation des ressources, articulation des
  traitements, visualisation des annotations) ;
- Articulation entre des approches utilisant des marques
  linguistiques, des connaissances du domaine, des techniques
  statistiques ;
- Applications : recherche d'information intradocumentaire, aide ? la
  navigation, r?sum? automatique ou assist?, synth?se de document...

LA REVUE

(voir http://www.atala.org/)
La revue TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) est une revue
internationale ?dit?e depuis 1960 par l'ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues) avec le concours du CNRS.  Elle va
maintenant ?tre publi?e sous format ?lectronique, avec impression ? la
demande. Cela ne change aucunement son processus de relecture et de
s?lection.

LANGUE

Les articles sont ?crits en fran?ais ou en anglais. Les soumissions en
anglais ne sont accept?es que pour les auteurs non francophones.

DATES IMPORTANTES

22/09/2006 Date limite de soumission
13/11/2006 D?cision du comit?
18/12/2006 Version r?vis?e

FORMAT

Les articles (25 pages maximum, format PDF) seront envoy?s aux deux
r?dactrices invit?es aux adresses suivantes :
Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley <pery at univ-tlse2.fr>
Donia Scott <D.Scott at open.ac.uk>
Les feuilles de style sont disponibles en ligne sur le site:
http://tal.e-revues.com/appel.jsp

COMITE DE LECTURE SPECIFIQUE

N. Asher (IRIT, U. Toulouse 3, France)
J. Bateman (U. Bremen, Germany)
Y. Bestgen (U. C. Louvain, Belgium)
N. Bouayad-Agha (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
M. Charolles (U. Paris 3, France)
D. Cristea (U. Iasi, Romania)
L. Danlos (U. Paris 7, France)
L. Degand (U. C. Louvain, Belgium)
P. Enjalbert (U. Caen, France)
S. Ferrari (U. Caen, France)
B. Grau (U. Paris-Sud, France)
N. Hernandez (GREYC, U. Caen, France)
J. Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
G. Lapalme (U. Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada)
N. Lucas (GREYC, U. Caen, France)
A. Max (U. Paris-Sud, France)
J.-L. Minel (U. Paris 4, France)
R. Power (Open University, England)
H. Saggion (U. Sheffield, England)
S. Teufel (U. Cambridge, England)

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Computational Approaches to Discourse and Document Processing

SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL "TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES" (TAL)

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 22 September 2006 ***


GUEST EDITORS: Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley (ERSS - Universit? de Toulouse
2, France) and Donia Scott (Open University, UK)

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

This special issue of TAL is devoted to what we perceive as an
increasing convergence between discourse linguistics, document
engineering and NLP. Such a convergence can be observed from several
angles; for example, new modes of access to documents' contents place
greater emphasis on exploiting discourse structure; applying corpus
analysis methods to discourse calls for greater use of NLP techniques.
It is manifest in the increasing number of joint studies, and results
in cross fertilisation of the disciplines.

* Text and discourse linguistics

Constructing a coherent interpretation of discourse involves
delimiting segments, and identifying semantico-pragmatic relations and
structures that bind them. These processes may be approached via the
notions of discourse relations (cf. RST, SDRT), of theme or topic, of
discourse framing, etc. A major challenge for the field is to identify
linguistic correlates of specific discourse functions in text corpora,
taking into account potential register- and domain-linked
variation. Another promising research area focuses on the global
structure of documents: role of titles, "logical structure", or
layout, to name a few.

* Document engineering and NLP

Access to the information stored in electronic documents is a major
issue, and recent approaches seek to take better account of the
organisation of the documents being processed - such as their
thematic and rhetorical structure. A growing number of applications
are concerned by this evolution: automatic summarisation, document
browsing, information retrieval (e.g. for passage extraction from
selected documents). In addition, hypertextual and composite documents
raise new questions about the interaction between semiotic functions
(text-image for instance).

For this special issue of TAL, we invite papers from researchers
working in the fields of discourse linguistics, computational
linguistics and document engineering on what can be termed the
"document level", whereby:

- the document is envisaged as a functional unit, situated in a
specific setting, and actualised in a medium (whatever its nature)
which confers on it material characteristics which are an integral
part of the use and sense made of it;

- the expression "document level" signals a marked interest in coarse
grain structures, or "global" structures (so-called "logical"
structure, document structure, organisation in sections...), or in the
interaction between local and global structures (reference chains,
topical chains, inter-propositional relations, etc.). It indicates a
specific interest in "top down" approaches based on the exploitation
of surface cues or markers.

Specific topics include (non-exhaustive list):
- Analysis of discourse structures;
- Analysis of the structure of composite documents (text-images,
  text-graphics);
- Impact of hypertextual or hyperdocument organisation on the way
  documents are produced and understood. Hypertext formatting,
  computational tools based on NLP procedures;
- Reading models, discourse organisation models;
- Computational experimentation as a means of testing hypotheses on
  corpora;
- Preliminary corpus studies: identification and annotation of
  discourse structures;
- Computational devices for such experimental approaches (formalising
  linguistic knowledge, ensuring re-usability of resources,
  articulating levels of processing, visualising annotations);
- Articulating approaches using linguistic markers, domain knowledge,
  statistical techniques;
- Applications: intra-document information retrieval, browsing aids,
  document summarisation or synthesis, etc.

THE JOURNAL

(see http://www.atala.org/)

TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues/Natural Language Processing)
is a forty year old international journal edited by ATALA (French
Association for Natural Language Processing) with the support of CNRS
(National Centre for Scientific Research).
It is now moving over to an electronic mode of publication, with
printing on demand. This will in no way affect the reviewing and
selection process.

LANGUAGE

Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking
authors are requested to submit in French.

IMPORTANT DATES

22/09/2006 Deadline for submission
13/11/2006 Notification to authors
18/12/2006 Deadline for submission of revised version

PAPER SUBMISSION

Contributions (25 pages maximum, PDF format) will be sent by e-mail to
both editors at the addresses below:
Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley <pery at univ-tlse2.fr>
Donia Scott < D.Scott at open.ac.uk>
Style sheets are available for download at
http://tal.e-revues.com/appel.jsp

SPECIAL EDITORIAL BOARD

N. Asher (IRIT, U. Toulouse 3, France)
J. Bateman (U. Bremen, Germany)
Y. Bestgen (U. C. Louvain, Belgium)
N. Bouayad-Agha (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
M. Charolles (U. Paris 3, France)
D. Cristea (U. Iasi, Romania)
L. Danlos (U. Paris 7, France)
L. Degand (U. C. Louvain, Belgium)
P. Enjalbert (U. Caen, France)
S. Ferrari (U. Caen, France)
B. Grau (U. Paris-Sud, France)
N. Hernandez (GREYC, U. Caen, France)
J. Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
G. Lapalme (U. Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada)
N. Lucas (GREYC, U. Caen, France)
A. Max (U. Paris-Sud, France)
J.-L. Minel (U. Paris 4, France)
R. Power (Open University, England)
H. Saggion (U. Sheffield, England)
S. Teufel (U. Cambridge, England)

-- 

Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley 

ERSS (UMR 5610) CNRS & Universit? de Toulouse-Le Mirail
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:13:30 +0300
Subject: Appel: 4th International Conference SETIT 2007 (Deadline extended
 to September 15th, 2006)
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*At the request of a number of potential contributors, we have decided
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Information and Telecommunications SETIT 2007. This deadline is
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This conference will be held in Tunisia, 25-29 March 2007. It is
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*Papers are solicited in the following areas:*



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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:48 +0300
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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We are happy to announce that a new Speech Language Resource is now
available in our catalogue.

To view all the Language Resources available, you can visit our
on-line catalogue : http://catalog.elda.org/index.php?language=en

The Speecon manually pitch-marked reference database for Spanish is
intended for the development and the evaluation of noise robust pitch
marking (PMA) and/or pitch determination (PDA) algorithms.

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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:10:42 +0300
Subject: Job: Post-doc, LORIA, Nancy
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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:21:38 +0200
From: Yannick Toussaint <Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr>
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                      Post-Doc sur
    l'analyse Formelle des Concepts et extraction de
r?gles d'association appliqu?es ? la pharmacovigilance

              Equipe Orpailleur, LORIA - INRIA

-----! Date limite de d?pot : 21 ao?t 2006 !-----


Ce projet vise ? appliquer des m?thodes de l'Analyse Formelle des
Concepts et de fouille de donn?es pour la d?tection de signaux en
pharmacovigilance. En effet, des organismes de pharmacovigilance
construisent des bases de donn?es r?pertoriant des cas, d?clar?s par
des m?decins, d'effets ind?sirables li?s ? la prise de m?dicaments. Un
"signal", qui pourrait aussi s'appeler indicateur, est un message
d'alerte g?n?r? lorsqu'un certain nombre de conditions sont r?unies
pour supposer qu'un produit soit ? l'origine d'effets ind?sirables non
encore connus.  Les m?thodes de g?n?ration de signal actuelles
reposent sur des approches num?riques et statistiques. Nous souhaitons
appliquer l'extraction de r?gles d'association et la construction de
classifications par treillis de Galois ? ce type de donn?es pour
d?finir une m?thode de g?n?ration de signal.

Ce travail s'inscrit dans le projet EI-Xplore qui implique 5
laboratoires fran?ais en m?decine et en informatique. Le stage, d'une
dur?e de 9 ? 12 mois, se d?roulera au sein de l'?quipe Orpailleur au
LORIA, INRIA (Nancy, France) et d?butera en septembre ou octobre
2006. La r?mun?ration est de 1840 euros net par mois.

Pour candidater :

- ?tre titulaire d'une th?se en informatique sur l'analyse formelle de
concepts, ma?triser les m?thodes d'extraction de r?gles d'association
et de construction de treillis

- ?tre disponible pour 9 mois ? 12 mois ? compter de septembre ou
octobre 2006

- adresser un CV complet (assorti de lettres de recommandation le cas
?ch?ant) par mail ? Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr avant le 21 ao?t 2006.

Pour tout renseignement : Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr

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                  Post-doc position on
      Formal Concept Analysis and Association Rules
             applied to Adverse Drug Effects

              Equipe Orpailleur, LORIA - INRIA

-------! Submission deadline august 21 2006 !-------


This project aims at defining a methodology to detect adverse drug
effects through databases or texts. In fact, there exist databases
where doctors record adverse effects due to drug absorption. The
problem is to generate an alert as soon as there are enough "reliable"
conditions saying that one or more drugs are responsable for these
adverse effects. Current tools use numerical and statistic
approaches. We want to apply association rule extraction and lattice
based classification to this problem.

This work is part of the EI-Xplore project involving 5 french research
teams. The Post-doc position is available for 9 to 12 months starting
september or october 2006. It takes place in LORIA - INRIA (Nancy,
France). The salary is 1840 euros per month.

To apply :

- PhD in Computer Science on Formal Concept Analysis and/or
Association Rule Extraction.

- send a curriculum vitae and provide a list of contacts by email to
Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr before august, 21 2006.

For any information : Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr



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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:55:38 +0300
Subject: Conf: NooJ_Trad 2006
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:22:57 +0200
From: Odile Piton <Odile.Piton at univ-paris1.fr>
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"NooJ : outil pour la traduction automatique ;
Quelles fonctionnalit?s d?velopper ?"

http://www.univ-paris1.fr/article5510.html

qui aura lieu ?
         l'Universit? Paris1 Panth?on-Sorbonne

   le 29 Septembre 2006
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Aujourd'hui, les logiciels de traduction automatique industriels et
grand public offrent des performances peu satisfaisantes. Les
chercheurs en Linguistique, en TALN ainsi que les utilisateurs de
logiciels d'analyse de corpus en langue ?trang?re ont donc besoin d'un
outil qui leur permette de formaliser les donn?es linguistiques
n?cessaires (par ex. dictionnaires et grammaires bilingues), d'?tudier
les conditions de transfert de ces donn?es d'une langue ? une autre,
ainsi que de simuler le comportement de ces logiciels.

Au del? de la traduction mot par mot, et m?me en prenant en compte les
mots compos?s (pomme de terre/potato) et expressions fig?es (casser sa
piper/to kick the bucket), certaines expressions semi-fig?es posent
des probl?mes plus g?n?raux lors de leur transfert. Par ex. la phrase
"Luc a faim", qui n'a pas d'?quivalent en anglais, pourrait ?tre
paraphras?e en "Luc est affam?" avant d'?tre r??crite en "Luc is
hungry".

NooJ, qui est une plateforme d'ing?nierie linguistique ouverte et
multilingue, poss?de des m?canismes internes (en particulier
l'int?gration de la morphologie et de la syntaxe) qui lui permettent
d'effectuer des op?rations de transformation sur les textes. Ces
op?rations g?n?rent des paraphrases (par ex. pour nominaliser une
expression), mais pourraient aussi ?tre utilis?es pour la traduction,
la comparaison de langues ou l'analyse de corpus multilingues.

Nous proposons donc aux chercheurs et aux ?tudiants int?ress?s par
l'architecture et les aspects techniques soulev?s par la traduction et
la construction de dictionnaires et grammaires bilingues, de venir se
rencontrer, et de voir sous quelles conditions, avec quels types
d'ajouts, NooJ pourrait r?pondre ? leurs besoins.

Pour cette occasion, les intervenants, d?veloppeurs et utilisateurs,
pr?senteront les probl?matiques convergentes, de d?veloppement
d'application de traduction (portugais-anglais), d'utilisation
d'analyseur de textes, et de comparaison entre deux langues (latin
classique-latin m?di?val).


Avec la participation de
Max Silberztein (LASELDI, Universit? de Franche-Comt?)
Monique Goullet (Lamop CNRS, Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne)
Sylvie Auffret-Pignot (CRLV, Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne)
Xavier Blanco (Universit? Autonome de Barcelone)
Svetla Koeva (DCL, Institute for Bulgarian language)
Tam?s V?radi (Acad?mie des Sciences de Hongrie)
Anabela Barreiro (New-York University, Universit? de Porto)


La Conf?rence sera suivie par un Tutoriel NOOJ par Slim Mesfar
(Universit? de Franche-Comt?)


Pour l'inscription (gratuite mais obligatoire), ou toute information
sur la journ?e, contacter par mail <ColloqueNooj at univ-paris1.fr>

Pr?cisez si vous vous inscrivez pour la Conf?rence seulement, ou pour
la Conf?rence + le Tutoriel NooJ


Les informations pratiques vous seront communiqu?es courant septembre
par mail

L'horaire pr?vu est de 9h ? 18h30

A bient?t ? Paris

Odile Piton


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:09:34 +0300
Subject: Appel: Journal of Natural Language Engineering (Call for Special
 Issue proposals)
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:23:11 +0100
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Please post. Thank you very much

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Journal of Natural Language Engineering

*** Call for special issue proposals ***


The area of Natural Language Engineering is following the trend of
many other areas, becoming highly specialised with a number of
application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in
importance. These developments, often coincident with a lack of
related literature, necessitates and warrants the publication of
specialised volumes focusing on a specific topic of interest to the
Natural Language Processing (NLP) research community.

The Journal of Natural Language Engineering invites proposals for
special issues on a competitive basis on any topics of applied NLP
which have emerged as important developments in Natural Language
Engineering and which have attracted the attention of a number of
researchers or research groups.

Topics could cover a variety of NLP methods, tasks and resources as
well as NLP-related applications but should focus on the practical
implications of operation on the large scale. Topics covering NLP
methods, tasks and resources could include but are not limited to POS
tagging, parsing, semantic role labelling, word sense disambiguation,
anaphora and coreference resolution, named entity recognition, natural
language generation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal
processing, statistical methods in Natural Language Engineering,
machine learning, evaluation methodologies, corpora and
ontologies. Topics covering NLP applications could include but are not
limited to machine translation, translation memory, translation tools,
summarisation, information retrieval, information extraction,
alignment, term extraction, question answering and CALL.

Calls for special issue proposals may be based on a successful
workshop or a body of work associated with a particular group or
section of the community. In all cases, however, the reviewing process
of the accepted proposals will be rigorous and all submissions must be
be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Guest Editorial Board or
other suitable reviewers agreed by the NLE Editors. In the case of
papers previously submitted to workshops, the Guest Editors will not
be able to re-use previous workshop reviews.  In addition, the call
for papers of the accepted proposals must be open to all interested
parties and all authors will be given equal treatment; in the case of
proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be limited
to workshop participants only.

Interested editors have the option of preliminary feedback should by
emailing expressions of interest accompanied by a brief description of
the intended special issue to the Executive Editor
(<mailto:John.Tait at sunderland.ac.uk>John.Tait at sunderland.ac.uk). He
will give a brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate to
Natural Language Engineering.  In the case of initial positive
feedback, the prospective Guest Editors will be asked to submit a
proposal for a special issue which will be reviewed by the Editors of
the journal and where appropriate, by other members of the Journal
Editorial Board. One proposal will be selected on a competitive basis
for each call with the envisaged publication date for the successful
proposal from this call on or after June 2008.

The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the
field and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special
issue on the particular topic of interest. It should include a
relevant literature survey (related previous special issues, volumes,
workshop and conference proceedings) and should explain the added
value of the proposed special issue against the background of other
relevant publications and volumes (if applicable). The proposals
should also include a tentative Guest Editorial Board, tentative
time-scale for the production of the special issue and information
about the prospective Guest Editors (relevant experience, publications
etc.).


   Time-scale

- Deadline for submission of special issue proposals:
   15 September 2006
   (proposals to be emailed to <mailto:R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk)

- Notification of acceptance/rejection:
   15 October 2006

- Final version of the successful proposal and
   call for papers:
   31 October 2006


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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:26 +0300
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update - NEMLAR
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:34:52 +0200
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We are happy to announce the following Arabic resources, produced
within the NEMLAR project (www.nemlar.org).  All 3 resources are owned
and copyrighted by the Nemlar Consortium. They are available in our
catalogue.  To view all the Language Resources available, you can
visit our on-line catalogue:
http://www.elra.info or
http://www.elda.org

*** ELRA-W0042 NEMLAR Written Corpus ***

This corpus consists of about 500,000 words of Arabic text from 13
different categories. The text is provided in 4 different versions:

?        Raw text
?        Fully vowelized text
?        Text with Arabic lexical analysis
?        Text with Arabic POS-tags

The database is distributed on 1 ISO 9660 CD-ROM volume.

For more information, see 

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*** ELRA-S0219 NEMLAR Broadcast News Speech Corpus ***

The data consists of about 40 hours and is provided by ELDA of Arabic
data (mainly Standard Arabic from a number of broadcast companies);
Transcriptions follow the Transcriber conventions as used by ELDA and
focus on the orthographic, named entities, speaker/turn segmentation
levels. No phonetic transcription/segmentation is planned.

The database is distributed in 1 ISO 9660 DVD-ROM volume.

For more information, see 
http://catalog.elda.org:8080/product_info.php?products_id=874&osCsid=2eb47737dba8e4365c4972784a235948

*** ELRA-S0220 NEMLAR Speech Synthesis Corpus ***
The NEMLAR Speech Synthesis Corpus contains the recordings of 2 native
Egyptian speakers (male and female, 35 years old) recorded in a studio
over 2 channel (voice + laryngograph). The data collection and
transcription were performed by RDI (Egypt).

Speech samples are stored in 96 kHz, 24 bit with the least significant
byte first ("lohi" or Intel format) as (signed) integers.

The speaker read 2,032 prompted sentences covering approx. 42,000
words in three categories: transcribed speech (20%), written text
(50%), and constructed phrases (30%).

The database is provided with orthographic, prosodic and phonetic
transcriptions in SAMPA.  All transcriptions were segmented at the
utterance (sentence/command word) level, annotated at the word level
and checked manually. A pronunciation lexicon including 3,589
headwords with phonetics in SAMPA is also available.

The database is distributed on 3 ISO 9660 DVD-ROM volumes.

For more information, see 
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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:08:30 +0300
Subject: Job: postdoc, Equipe Signes LaBRI
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:56:45 +0200
From: Lionel Cl?ment <lionel.clement at labri.fr>
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Un post-doc d'un an est ? pourvoir au Labri (Bordeaux) ? compter du
1er janvier 2007.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(English version follows)


Titre :
~~~~~~~
D?veloppement d'un langage abstrait de description syntaxique et
s?mantique.

Laboratoire :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
?quipe-Projet Signes -  Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en  
Informatique
Directeur: Christian Retor?
http://signes.labri.fr/
Responsable: Lionel Cl?ment

Description :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ce poste est financ? dans le cadre de l'Action de Recherche
Coop?rative (ARC) MOSA?QUE qui a pour objectif la description des
sp?cifications d'un langage de haut niveau pour la syntaxe.  Le
candidat aura pour t?che de d?finir ce langage en collaboration des
partenaires du projet, mais aussi de d?velopper les outils de
conversion vers les diff?rents formalismes existant. Il devra
contribuer ? implanter, en outre, des "compilateurs" de ce langage de
haut niveau dans des formalismes actuellement utilis?s pour le
d?veloppement de grammaires du fran?ais (TAG, CG, HPSG, GUST, LFG,
etc.).

http://mosaique.labri.fr/

Profil du ou de la candidate :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Docteur en informatique et/ou en linguistique.  Le(a) candidat(e) est
un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) ayant une solide connaissance de
plusieurs mod?les formels pour la linguistique et en particulier pour
la syntaxe.  Ses comp?tences en informatique doivent lui permettre de
travailler en ?troite collaboration avec les d?veloppeurs sur
diff?rents types de syst?mes de programmation.  Une bonne connaissance
de la compilation sera appr?ci?e.  Les r?unions se faisant en langue
fran?aise et les travaux portant sur la syntaxe du fran?ais, un bon
niveau de langue fran?aise est requis.


Dur?e :
~~~~~~~
12 mois (? partir du 1er janvier 2007)

Salaire :
~~~~~~~~~
26.400 euros annuels brut

Date limite :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vendredi 27 octobre

Contact :
~~~~~~~~~
Envoyer un CV et une lettre de candidature ?
Lionel Cl?ment
lionel.clement at labri.fr
Labri - Domaine Universitaire
351, cours de la Lib?ration
33405 Talence Cedex
t?l?phone : +33 5 40 00 35 08
t?l?copie : +33 5 40 00 66 69


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A one-year postdoc in computational linguistics is available at LaBRI
(Bordeaux France). The starting date of the postdoc will be the first
of January 2007.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Subject:
~~~~~~~~
Development of an abstract language for syntactic and semantic
descriptions.

Research Laboratory:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SIGNES research team - "Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en
Informatique" Team leader: Christian Retor? http://signes.labri.fr/
Contact: Lionel Cl?ment

Description:
~~~~~~~~~~~~
This postdoc is financed by the cooperative research action (ARC)
MOSAIQUE which has as its goal to produce a high level description
language for syntax. The candidate will have as his goal to define
this language in collaboration with the different partners of the
project. In addition, the candidate is expected to produce conversion
programs from this description language to existing formalisms in
computational linguistics. The candidate will contribute to
implementing, among other things, "compilers" from the high-level
description language to formalisms which are currently being used for
parsing the French language (TAG, CG, HPSG, LFG, etc.)

http://mosaique.labri.fr/

Profile of the candidate:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PhD thesis in computer science or linguistics. The candidate is a
computational linguist with a solid knowledge of several formal models
for linguistics and especially syntax. His competences in computer
science allow him to work in collaboration with software developers
using different programming systems. A good knowledge of compilation
will be appreciated. Given that the meetings will be in French and
that the work will be on French syntax, a good knowledge of French
will be required.

Duration:
~~~~~~~~~
12 months with a starting date on January first, 2007.

Salary:
~~~~~~~
26.400 euros gross, per year

DEADLINE:
~~~~~~~~~
Friday, 27th of October.

Contact:
~~~~~~~~
Send you CV and cover letter to:
Lionel Cl?ment
lionel.clement at labri.fr
Labri - Domaine Universitaire
351, cours de la Lib?ration
33405 Talence Cedex
Phone: +33 5 40 00 35 08
Fax: +33 5 40 00 66 69



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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:21 +0300
Subject: Appel: Schwa(s) 5emes Journees d'Etudes Linguistiques
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:44:16 +0200
From: olivier.crouzet at univ-nantes.fr
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              ####   Apologies for cross-postings   ####
              #### D?sol? pour les envois multiples ####

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[CFP] Schwa(s) : 5?mes Journ?es d'?tudes Linguistiques de Nantes (JEL'2007)

             (english CFP at the bottom of this message)

###############################################################################

Appel ? communication

   Les 5?mes Journ?es d'?tudes Linguistiques de Nantes (JEL'2007)
   auront lieu les 27 et 28 juin 2007. Elles seront organis?es par
   Olivier Crouzet et Jean-Pierre Angoujard du Laboratoire de
   Linguistique de Nantes (LLING - EA3827). Dans le cadre historique
   (et amical) des confrontations nantaises entre phon?ticiens et
   phonologues, le th?me et titre de ces journ?es sera "Schwa(s)".

   Vous ?tes convi?(e)s ? proposer des r?sum?s (2 pages maximum,
   bibliographie incluse, format A4) sur toute question ayant un lien
   avec l'objet "schwa" :

     * Nature(s) du schwa en fran?ais et en toute autre langue ;
     * Schwa et voyelles centrales ;
     * Schwa et "positions vides" ;
     * Quelle "substance" pour les positions vides ;
     * Diachronie : histoire(s) de schwa(s) ;
     * Dialectologie, usages du schwa ;
     * Analyses instrumentales (articulatoire ou acoustique) des
       schwas et consonnes associ?es ;
     * Traitement des schwas en synth?se vocale ;
     * M?canismes perceptifs relatifs aux schwas et aux consonnes
       associ?es ;
     * Schwas et processus d'appariement lexical ;
     * etc.

   (cette liste n'est en aucune mani?re limitative).

   Les informations concernant les modalit?s exactes de soumission de
   vos r?sum?s seront indiqu?es courant Septembre sur le site du
   colloque :

   http://www.lettres.univ-nantes.fr/lling/jel2007/

   La date limite de soumission de vos r?sum?s est fix?e au Lundi 18
   D?cembre 2006.

   Calendrier :

     * Date limite de soumission : 18 D?cembre 2006
     * Notification des acceptations: 30 Mars 2007
     * R?ception des articles d?finitifs: 21 Mai 2007
     * Programme pr?liminaire: 4 Juin 2007
     * Colloque (JEL'2007): 27-28 juin 2007.

   [Ces deux journ?es seront suivies, le Vendredi 29 juin, de la
   premi?re Journ?e d'?tudes Gall?ses (JEG'2007). Pour cette premi?re
   ?dition, le programme sera organis? sur invitations. Pour toute
   information sur cette journ?e consacr?e au gallo :

   jean-pierre.angoujard at univ-nantes.fr.]


###############################################################################

Call for papers

   The 5th Journ?es d'?tudes Linguistiques de Nantes (JEL'2007) will
   take place on 27th and 28th, June 2007. They will be organized by
   Olivier Crouzet and Jean-Pierre Angoujard (Laboratoire de
   Linguistique de Nantes, LLING - EA3827). In the historical (and
   friendly) context of discussion that has taken place regularly in
   Nantes between phoneticians and phonologists, the theme and title
   of this workshop will be : `Schwa(s)'.

   You're invited to submit a summary (maximum 2 pages, including
   references, A4 paper) about any issue related to `schwa(s)' :

     * Nature of schwa in French and in any other language;
     * Schwa and central vowels;
     * Schwa and `empty positions';
     * `Substance' of empty positions ;
     * Phonological change, [hi]storie(s) of schwa(s);
     * Dialectology, usage of schwa;
     * Instrumental (articulatory or acoustic) analyses of schwas and
       associated consonants;
     * Treatment of schwa(s) in speech synthesis;
     * Perceptual mechanisms relating to schwas and associated
       consonants;
     * Recognition of words including schwas;
     * etc.

   (this list is not restrictive).

   Precise information for submitting your summary will be made
   available on the conference home page in September 2006:

   http://www.lettres.univ-nantes.fr/lling/jel2007/

   The submission deadline is Monday, December 18th 2006.

   Schedule :

     * Submission deadline: December, 18th 2006
     * Notification of acceptation: March, 30th 2007
     * Reception of final papers: May, 21st 2007
     * Preliminary programme: June, 4th 2007
     * Conference (JEL'2007): June, 27th-28th 2007.

   [This two-day conference will be followed, on Friday 29th June
   2007, by the first Journ?e d'?tudes Gall?ses (JEG'2007) (Conference
   on the Gallo language). On this first edition, the scientific
   programme will be upon invitation only. For any information
   concerning this workshop on Gallo:

   jean-pierre.angoujard at univ-nantes.fr.]


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:12:44 +0300
Subject: Job: Positions in NLP, University of Wolverhampton
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:03:04 +0100
From: "Ha, L A" <L.A.Ha at wlv.ac.uk>
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Apologise for multiple postings.

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***** POSITIONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
      WOLVERHAMPTON *****

 

The research group in computational linguistics, Research Institute of
Information and Language Processing, University of Wolverhampton is
pleased to announce TWO positions in Computational Linguistics/Natural
Language Processing:

 

1) Professor (Salary ? 45,954-? 51,855* ) or Reader (Salary ?35,254 -
         ?44,328*) in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language
         Processing

2) Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in
         Computer-aided Multiple-Choice Test Item Development (Salary
         ?19,430 - ?25,184 * pa or ?29,211 - ?37,521 * pa; level of
         appointment dependent on qualifications and experience)

 

POSITION 1: Professor or Reader in Computational Linguistics / Natural
Language Processing

Professor or Reader in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language
Processing

Salary in the range ?35,254 - ?44,328* (Reader) or ? 45,954-? 51,855*
(Professor)

 

The Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of
Wolverhampton is inviting applications for a Professor or Reader
(depending on track record and qualifications) in Computational
Linguistics / Natural Language Processing. We are seeking candidates
with an excellent research record as evidenced by publications in
reputable journals and successful grant applications. Teaching
experience and experience in mentoring younger researchers would be an
advantage.

 

Duties include collaborative research and producing first class
research / publications, grant applications, PhD / younger researcher
supervision and some teaching.

 

Candidates should send a completed application form (downloadable from
http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/CAID/app_form_jobs.pdf), their CV
including publication list and a statement of research plans,
detailing the contribution they could make to the Research Group in
Computational Linguistics. They should also list the names, email
addresses and telephone numbers of 5 referees that could be contacted
to comment on their application. Completed applications should be sent
to Personnel Services Department, University of Wolverhampton,
Molineux Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB. Email applications
(per at wlv.ac.uk) are also acceptable. For informal inquiries, please
contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk). For more details on
the Research Group in Computational Linguistics, visit
(http://clg.wlv.ac.uk).

 

Application deadline: 25 September 2006

Ref: A4553

 

The position is initially available for 2 years but could be renewable
subject to successful external funding.

 

POSITION 2: Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Computer-aided
Multiple-Choice Test Item Development

Salary ?19,430 - ?25,184 * pa or ?29,211 - ?37,521 * pa (level of
appointment dependent on qualifications and experience)

 

As postdoctoral research fellow/senior research fellow you will work
on a project to develop a system for computer-aided item development,
focusing on the analysis of item structure and content, as well as
evaluation of the system. You will also be involved in the
implementation/fine tuning of various NLP components. The initial
contract is for two years with the possibility of extension, subject
to successful completion of this project. You should have a PhD in
linguistics/computational linguistics or equivalent experience
together with native or near native English language comprehension and
excellent knowledge of English grammar, syntax and discourse
analysis. Experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques
and programming as well as experience working on industrial projects
(or working to tight deadlines) are desirable. For appointment at
Senior Research Fellow level you will need to demonstrate a very good
publications record, grant applications experience, and potential
leadership qualities.

 

 

Closing date: 18 September, 2006

Start date: End of September/Beginning of October 2006

Ref: A4462-B

 

Applications should include a completed application form, CV, and
covering letter in which the candidates explain why they have applied
for the position and give details of their research
interests/experience and background. Candidates should also give the
names of three referees with their email addresses and telephone
numbers. The interviews are scheduled to take place in the second half
of September, and the starting date is as soon as possible after the
interviews.

 

For informal inquiries, please contact Mr. Le An Ha (L.A.Ha at wlv.ac.uk)
or Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk).

For an application form, please download it from
http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/CAID/app_form_jobs.pdf.

More information on this forthcoming project can also be obtained at
http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/CAID/

 

* In line with the University pay modernisation programme, salaries
  may be subject to review.

 

The RESEARCH GROUP IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS at the University of
Wolverhampton (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk <http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/> )

 

Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1997, the Research Group in
Computational Linguistics is a highly successful one, delivering
cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora
resolution, automatic abstracting, question answering, lexical
knowledge acquisition, text categorisation, named entity recognition,
information extraction, corpus construction and annotation, automatic
terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice
question generation. To a large extent, this research has been
undertaken in projects funded by major UK funding bodies and
commercial partners.


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From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:15:46 +0300
Subject: Ecole: 6th International PhD School in Formal Languages and
 Applications 2006-2008, Tarragona, Spain
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:34:02 GMT
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Apologies for multiple posting!

Please, forward the announcement to whom may be interested in.

Thanks.

------------------

6th INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS
2006-2008

Rovira i Virgili University
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Tarragona, Spain

http://www.grlmc.com

Awarded with the Mark of Quality (Menci?n de Calidad) by the Spanish
Ministry for Education and Science, MCD2003-00820

With the support of Xerox Corporation


Courses and professors 1st term (March-July 2007)

Languages - Alexander Okhotin (Turku)
Combinatorics on Words - Tero Harju (Turku)
Regular Grammars - Masami Ito (Kyoto)
Context-Free Grammars - Manfred Kudlek (Hamburg)
Context-Sensitive Grammars - Victor Mitrana (Tarragona)
Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars - Henning Bordihn (Potsdam)
Finite Automata - Sheng Yu (London ON)
Pushdown Automata - Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom (Leiden)
Turing Machines - Holger Petersen (Stuttgart)
Varieties of Formal Languages - Jean-?ric Pin (Paris)
Semigroups for the Working Theoretical Computer Scientist - Stuart
  Margolis (Ramat Gan)
Computational Complexity - Markus Holzer (Munich)
Descriptional Complexity of Automata and Grammars - Detlef Wotschke
  (Frankfurt)
Communication Complexity - Carsten Damm (G?ttingen)
Patterns - Kai Salomaa (Kingston ON)
Infinite Words - Juhani Karhum?ki (Turku)
Partial Words - Francine Blanchet-Sadri (Greensboro NC)
Two-Dimensional Languages - Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima)
Grammars with Regulated Rewriting - J?rgen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Contextual Grammars - Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona)
Parallel Grammars - Henning Fernau (Trier)
Grammar Systems - Erzs?bet Csuhaj-Varj? (Budapest)
Automata Networks - P?l D?m?si (Debrecen)
Tree Automata and Tree Languages - Magnus Steinby (Turku)
Tree Adjoining Grammars - James Rogers (Richmond IN)
Term Rewriting Systems - Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv)
Automata and Logic - Franz Baader (Dresden)
Formal Languages and Concurrent Systems - Jetty Kleijn (Leiden)
Petri Net Theory and Its Applications - Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei)
Graph Grammars and Graph Transformation - Hans-J?rg Kreowski (Bremen)
Restarting Automata - Friedrich Otto (Kassel)


Courses and professors 2nd term (September-December 2007)

Parameterized Complexity - J?rg Flum (Freiburg, Germany)
Modern Complexity Theory - Mitsunori Ogihara (Rochester NY)
Fuzzy Formal Languages - Claudio Moraga (Dortmund)
Cellular Automata - Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments - Natasha Jonoska (Tampa FL)
Splicing Systems - Paola Bonizzoni (Milan)
Aqueous Computing - Tom Head (Binghamton NY)
Biomolecular Nanotechnology - Max Garzon (Memphis TN)
Quantum Automata - Jozef Gruska (Brno)
Symbolic Dynamics and Automata - Christiane Frougny (Paris)
Unification Grammars - Shuly Wintner (Haifa)
Context-Free Grammar Parsing - Giorgio Satta (Padua)
Probabilistic Parsing - Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen)
Categorial Grammars - Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
Grammatical Inference - Colin de la Higuera (Saint-?tienne)
Mathematical Foundations of Learning Theory - Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo)
Natural Language Processing with Symbolic Neural Networks - Risto
         Miikkulainen (Austin TX)
Weighted Automata - Manfred Droste (Leipzig)
Finite Transducers - Jacques Sakarovitch (Paris)
Sequential Pattern Matching - Thierry Lecroq (Rouen)
Mathematical Evolutionary Genomics - David Sankoff (Ottawa ON)
Cryptography - Valtteri Niemi (Nokia, Helsinki)
String Complexity - Lucian Ilie (London ON)
Data Compression - Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw)
Image Compression - Jarkko Kari (Turku)
Algebraic Techniques in Language Theory - Zolt?n ?sik (Tarragona)
Topics in Asynchronous Circuit Theory - John Brzozowski (Waterloo ON)
Automata for Verification - Moshe Vardi (Houston TX)


STUDENTS

Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the
world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and
Mathematics. Other students (for instance, from Linguistics, Logic or
Engineering) could be accepted provided they have a good undergraduate
background in discrete mathematics. At the beginning of the first
term, a few lessons on discrete mathematics advanced pre-requisites
will be offered, in order to homogenize the students' mathematical
background.

In order to check eligibility for the programme, the student must be
certain that the highest university degree s/he got enables her/him to
be enrolled in a doctoral programme in her/his home country.


TUITION FEES

2,120 euros in total, approximately.


DISSERTATION

After following the courses, the students enrolled in the programme
will have to defend a research project and, later, a dissertation in
English in their own area of interest, in order to get the so-called
European PhD degree (which is a standard PhD degree with an additional
mark of quality). All the professors in the programme will be allowed
to supervise students' dissertations, as well as any other
well-reputed scientist at the discretion of the host institute.


FUNDING

The university will cover the tuition fees and full-board
accommodation expenses of all admitted students during the first
term. For the second one, funding opportunities will be provided,
among others, by the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, the
Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Becas
MAEC-AECI), and the European Commission (Alban scheme for Latin
American citizens).

Immediately after the courses and during the writing of the PhD
dissertation, some of the best students will be offered 4-year
research fellowships, which will allow them to work in the framework
of the host institute.


PRE-REGISTRATION PROCEDURE

In order to pre-register, one should post (not fax, not e-mail) to the
programme chairman:

- a xerocopy of the main page of the passport,
- a xerocopy of the university education diplomas,
- a xerocopy of the academic transcripts,
- full CV,
- letters of recommendation (optional),
- any other document to prove background, interest and motivation
  (optional).


SCHEDULE

Announcement of the programme: August 8, 2006
Pre-registration deadline: October 15, 2006
Selection of students: October 22, 2006
Starting of the 1st term: March 5, 2007
End of the 1st term: July 27, 2007
Starting of the 2nd term (tentative): September 3, 2007
End of the 2nd term (tentative): December 21, 2007
Defense of the research project (tentative): September 13, 2008
DEA examination (tentative): May 16, 2009


QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION

Contact the programme chairman, Carlos Mart?n Vide, at carlos.martin at urv.cat


POSTAL ADDRESS

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial T?rraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543, +34-977-554391

Fax: +34-977-559597, +34-977-554391


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