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Svetlana From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Jan 5 10:38:59 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:38:59 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC Workshop on authoring aids Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:50:07 +0100 (CET) From: Aurélien Max Message-ID: <41343.82.229.104.83.1199436607.squirrel at keo.limsi.fr> X-url: http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/lrec2008-authoring-aids FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Natural Language Processing resources, algorithms and tools for authoring aids LREC 2008 Workshop Marrakech, Morocco Sunday, June 1st 2008 http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/lrec2008-authoring-aids Workshop Aims ------------- Writing is a very complex task, involving many subtasks and constraints, including goal setting, content determination, outline planning, linguistic expression, discourse flow, and emphasis control. Finally, formal output aspects (spelling, layout choices, etc.) need to be checked. In sum, writers are juggling many, possibly even contradictory constraints; without proper control, they might be overwhelmed, losing orientation. The aim of this workshop is to attract participants from both academia and industry interested in this topic and to address questions such as the following: - How can we get a clearer picture of the writers' processes, strategies and needs (for example, by looking over their shoulders, or asking them to annotate text or make their needs explicit via the use of verbal protocols)? - Which components of the overall task could be and should be supported? - What specific resources, algorithms and tools exist that could be used to improve existing authoring aids or to build new ones? - How do we evaluate such tools ? One potential outcome of the workshop would be a roadmap for future research in the field, as well as some awareness-raising with regard to the needs and potential of authoring aids. Workshop Topics --------------- The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - writing processes, and computational tools to support the writer; - resources to assist in writing; - NLP techniques that can be used or have been used for assisting in writing, including: grammar checking, document structuring, thematic segmentation, and information retrieval for the writer; - development of practical tools and resources for assisting writers and their evaluation. Submissions ----------- Submissions of papers on original work are invited on any aspect (empirical research and theoretical/methodological issues) of the topics of the workshop, and should address the relevance for the development of tools. Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages (style files will be provided later by LREC for camera-ready versions of accepted papers), and should be sent by email in PDF format to aurelien.max at limsi.fr. As reviewing will be blind, submitted papers should be anonymized. For more details, visit the following website: http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/lrec2008-authoring-aids Important dates --------------- Submission deadline February 11, 2008 Notification of acceptance March 17, 2008 Final papers due April 4, 2008 Workshop June 1st, 2008 (morning session) Organizing committee -------------------- Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) Aurélien Max (LIMSI, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France) (contact person) Michael Zock (LIF, Marseille, France) Scientific committee -------------------- Nadjet Bouayad-Agha (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain) Eric Brunelle (Druide Informatique, Montréal, Canada) Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania) Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) Marc Dymetman (XRCE, Grenoble, France) Patrice Enjalbert (GREYC, Université de Caen, France) Nicolas Hernandez (LINA, Université de Nantes, France) Eduard Hovy (ISI, University of Southern California, USA) Aurélien Max (LIMSI, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France) Thierry Olive (LMDC, Poitiers, France) Gisela Redeker (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen, UK) Michael Zock (LIF, Marseille, France) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Jan 5 10:33:41 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:33:41 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC 2008 Workshop on Comparable Corpora Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:33:40 +0100 From: Pierre Zweigenbaum Message-Id: <200712282233.40786.pz at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/lrec2008-comparable-corpora/ X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/IMG/ws/cfp-lrec2008-comparable-corpora.pdf X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/ Call for papers Building and Using Comparable Corpora LREC 2008 post-conference workshop Marrakech, Morocco 31 May 2008 http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/lrec2008-comparable-corpora/ http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/IMG/ws/cfp-lrec2008-comparable-corpora.pdf CONTEXT AND FOCUS Research in comparable corpora is motivated by the scarcity of parallel corpora. Parallel corpora are a key resource to mine translations for statistical machine translation or for building or extending bilingual lexicons and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English-French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the Web. A more fundamental limitation is that translated texts, whatever the skills of translators, are generally influenced by the very translation process and by the language of source texts, so that they may not be fully adequate for the task at hand. This has motivated research into the use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or language varieties. Comparable corpora overcome the two limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual texts are much more abundant than translated texts. However, because of their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention: while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward, building a comparable corpus requires control over the selection of source texts in both languages. TOPICS This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the constitution and use of comparable corpora. Contributions are solicited on the constitution and application of comparable corpora, including the following topics: Applications of comparable corpora: tools for translators; tools for language learning; cross-language information retrieval; cross-language document categorization; machine translation; monolingual comparable corpora for writing assistance; extraction of parallel segments in comparable corpora. Units aligned in comparable corpora: single words and multi-word expressions; proper names; alignment across different scripts. Constitution of comparable corpora: criteria of comparability; degree of comparability; methods for mining comparable corpora. IMPORTANT DATES 11 February 2008 Deadline for submission 10 March 2008 Notification 31 March 2008 Final version 31 May 2008 Workshop ORGANISERS Pierre Zweigenbaum LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay, France Éric Gaussier LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France Pascale Fung Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong SUBMISSION INFORMATION We expect short papers of max 3500 words (about 4-6 pages) describing research addressing one of the above topics, to be submitted as PDF documents by email to the following address: Pierre Zweigenbaum The final papers should not have more than 6 pages, adhering to the stylesheet that will be adopted for the LREC Proceedings (to be announced later on the Conference web site). SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa, Canada) Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France) Gregory Grefenstette (CEA/LIST, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France) Pascale Fung (University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong) Nathalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, UK) Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France) Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, USA) Carol Peters (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) Reinhard Rapp (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) Monique Slodzian (INALCO, Paris, France) Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Jan 5 10:36:43 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:36:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Multilingual and Comparative Perspectives in Specialized Language Resources Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:51:22 -0500 From: "L'Homme Marie-Claude" Message-ID: <9880C869F04BDF4787220D63CB54D6F3031CE91F at MAPIUDEM.sim.umontreal.ca> X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ Workshop on Multilingual and Comparative Perspectives in Specialized Language Resources 26 May 2008 (Afternoon session) To take place within the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008) Marrakech, Morocco http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ Organizers: Béatrice Daille LINA-CNRS, Université de Nantes Kyo Kageura, Library and Information Science, University of Tokyo Marie-Claude L'Homme, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal Background We are currently witnessing an increasing interest in multilingualism in many different fields including IR (CLEF: Cross language Evaluation Forum, annual), summarization (DUC), semantic aspects (SemEval 2007 Task 1: Evaluating WSD on Cross-Language Information Retrieval), textual corpora, etc. Although issues related to multilingualism have been debated in different workshops (as those listed above), they are often considered from a computational perspective and for specific applications. Seldom have multilingual resources and the different problems related to their development and modelling have been considered as such. Also, the importance of assessing the quality of language resources is increasingly recognized as far as monolingual resources and tasks are concerned. Regarding specialized language resources the usual emphasis put on scale is gradually shifting towards a concern about quality of corpora and language resources. Also, as we start emphasizing the need to assess the quality of multilingual resources, a set of new issues arises, such as quality criteria, more detailed classification of factors that apply to monolingual as well as multilingual resources, typologies of specialized corpora, terminological characteristics that may appear in a language but not in another. There is an acute need for addressing these issues and to explore multilingual and comparative approaches in specialized language resources. These approaches will come from different fields, including - but not limited to - linguistics, terminology, information science and computational linguistics. This workshop aims at bringing together experts from different backgrounds concerned by the acquisition and modelling of multilingual specialized information. The workshop will provide an opportunity to share experience on multilingual and comparative approaches to the processing of specialized information. It will also be a forum for discussing issues of a more fundamental nature. Topics - Equivalence in specialized resources and specialized corpora; - Multilingual and comparative approaches to the processing of specialized corpora; - Corpus-based approaches to multilingual modelling of terminological data; - Multilingual resources for terminology processing; - Linguistic evidence for multilingual NLP such as identification of cognates, transliteration, morphological evidence, etc. - Comparative approaches to terminological variation and semantic relationships; - Comparative approaches to discourse analysis; - Comparative and multilingual approaches to document characterization; - Modelling of multilingual data in ontologies or other terminological resources; - Evaluation of multilingual resources and methods for acquiring them. Submissions Abstracts should be 5 pages long and sent in PDF format to Marie-Claude L'Homme (mc.lhomme at umontreal.ca). Authors are requested to send an anonymized version of their abstract. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and should adhere to the stylesheet that will be adopted for the LREC Proceedings (to be announced later on the conference web site). Important dates Submission of abstracts: 10 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2008 Final version for the proceedings: 12 April 2008 Scientific committee Marc van Campenhoudt (Université de Bruxelles, Belgium) John Humbley (Université Paris-Diderot, Paris) Oliver Kraif (Université Stendhal Grenoble 3, Grenoble, France) Olivia Kwong (City University of Hong Kong, China) Kyung Soon Lee (Chonbuk National University, Korea) Jorge Antonio Leoni de Leon (University of Geneva) Jeanine Lilleng (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Emmanuel Morin (LINA; Université de Nantes, France) Margaret Rogers (University of Surrey, UK) Gilles Serasset (University of Grenoble, France) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) Monique Slodzian (ERTIM-INALCO, Paris) Rita Temmerman (Erasmushogeschool Brussel) Takehiro Utsuro (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Leo Wanner (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From towoldmackssyn at OLDMACKS.COM Sat Jan 5 12:45:36 2008 From: towoldmackssyn at OLDMACKS.COM (Kristina Medeiros) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:45:36 +0200 Subject: Need your help! 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The online submission system for FOMI 2008 is available from the conference webpage: http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it/submissions.html The Workshop Proceedings, including all accepted papers, will be published by IOS Press. Daniele Radicioni, on behalf of the Organizing Committee : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : FOMI 2008 - 3rd Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry 5-6 June, 2008, Torino, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS Conference web site: http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it Proceedings published by IOS Press, http://www.iospress.nl/ This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Torino - University of Verona CONFERENCE AIMS FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and industrial practitioners meet to analyze and discuss issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. There is today wide agreement that knowledge modeling and the semantic dimension of information plays an increasingly central role in networked economy: semantic-based applications are relevant in distributed systems such as networked organizations, organizational networks, and in distributed knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim to provide a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same organization. New tools and applications have been and are being developed in diverse application fields, ranging from business to medicine, from engineering to finance, from law to electronics. All these systems have exploited the theoretical results and the practical experience of previous work. In all cases, it has been shown that formal ontologies play a central role in describing in a common and understandable way the logical and practical features of the application domain. The success of the methodologies associated with knowledge modeling and ontologies led to increased need of a comparison between different approaches and results, with the aim of evaluating the interdependencies between theories and methods of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of enterprise organizations. The FOMI 08 Workshop aims to advance in this direction by bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in ontology application, paying particular attention to the topics listed below. CONFERENCE TOPICS *problems in ontology application:* - practical issues in using ontologies in the enterprise - real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business - from legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems *ontology and business:* - ontology and ontological methodologies in business; - adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations; - ontology effectiveness and evaluation in business *ontology and enterprise:* - ontology-driven enterprise modeling; - ontology development and change within organizations; - ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes; *ontology and enterprise knowledge:* - ontologies for the know-how; - ontologies for corporate knowledge; *ontology in practice:* - ontologies for electronic catalogs, e-commerce, e-government; - ontologies for marketing; - ontologies for finance; - ontologies for engineering; - ontologies for medical sciences; *ontology and linguistics:* - ontology-driven linguistic representation in organization knowledge; - linguistic problems in standards and in codification processes; - ontologies and multilingualism in business and organizations PROGRAMME The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for the workshop. In particular, we insist that papers should be written for a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and published as proceedings. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop Proceedings, published by IOS Press and distributed to participants. Following the past edition, a selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be considered for publication in the international journal "Applied Ontology". SUBMISSIONS AND DATES * Format - The maximal paper length is 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. - Papers must be submitted in PDF format - Instructions and tools about the submissions can be found at the "IOS Press author templates" page, http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html. * Deadlines: - Paper Submission: January 18, 2008 - Acceptance Notification: March 3, 2008 - Camera Ready: March 31, 2008 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, USA - Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy - Stefano Borgo, (co-chair), Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy - Peter Clark, Knowledge Systems, Boeing Maths and Computing Technology, USA - Matteo Cristani, University of Verona, Italy - Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy - Roberta Ferrario, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy - Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada - Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy - Gilles Kassel, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France - Paulo Leitao, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e de Gestao, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal - Leonardo Lesmo (co-chair), University of Torino, Italy - Riichiro Mizoguchi, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University - Jorge Posada, VICOMTech, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain - Chris Partridge, 42 Objects Limited, BORO Centre Limited, Brunel University, UK - York Sure, Institut AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany - Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK - Matthew West, Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, UK - Radboud G.F. Winkels, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:06:18 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:06:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: ELRA Workshop on Evaluation at LREC 2008 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:52:21 +0100 From: ELDA Message-ID: <478355E5.4050500 at elda.org> [Apologies for multiple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS ELRA Workshop on Evaluation Looking into the Future of Evaluation: when automatic metrics meet task-based and performance-based approaches To be held in conjunction with the 6th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008) 27 May 2008, Palais des Congrès Mansour Eddahbi, Marrakech Background Automatic methods to evaluate system performance play an important role in the development of a language technology system. They speed up research and development by allowing fast feedback, and the idea is also to make results comparable while aiming to match human evaluation in terms of output evaluation. However, after several years of study and exploitation of such metrics we still face problems like the following ones: * they only evaluate part of what should be evaluated * they produce measurements that are hard to understand/explain, and/or hard to relate to the concept of quality * they fail to match human evaluation * they require resources that are expensive to create etc. Therefore, an effort to integrate knowledge from a multitude of evaluation activities and methodologies should help us solve some of these immediate problems and avoid creating new metrics that reproduce such problems. Looking at MT as a sample case, problems to be immediately pointed out are twofold: reference translations and distance measurement. The former are difficult and expensive to produce, they do not cover the usually wide spectrum of translation possibilities and what is even more discouraging, worse results are obtained when reference translations are of higher quality (more spontaneous and natural, and thus, sometimes more lexically and syntactically distant from the source text). Regarding the latter, the measurement of the distance between the source text and the output text is carried out by means of automatic metrics that do not match human intuition as well as claimed. Furthermore, different metrics perform differently, which has already led researchers to study metric/approach combinations which integrate automatic methods into a deeper linguistically oriented evaluation. Hopefully, this should help soften the unfair treatment received by some rule-based systems, clearly punished by certain system-approach sensitive metrics. On the other hand, there is the key issue of « what needs to be measured », so as to draw the conclusion that « something is of good quality », or probably rather « something is useful for a particular purpose ». In this regard, works like those done within the FEMTI framework have shown that aspects such as usability, reliability, efficiency, portability, etc. should also be considered. However, the measuring of such quality characteristics cannot always be automated, and there may be many other aspects that could be usefully measured. This workshop follows the evolution of a series of workshops where methodological problems, not only for MT but for evaluation in general, have been approached. Along the lines of these discussions and aiming to go one step further, the current workshop, while taking into account the advantages of automatic methods and the shortcomings of current methods, should focus on task-based and performance-based approaches for evaluation of natural language applications, with key questions such as: - How can it be determined how useful a given system is for a given task? - How can focusing on such issues and combining these approaches with our already acquired experience on automatic evaluation help us develop new metrics and methodologies which do not feature the shortcomings of current automatic metrics? - Should we work on hybrid methodologies of automatic and human evaluation for certain technologies and not for others? - Can we already envisage the integration of these approaches? - Can we already plan for some immediate collaborations/experiments? - What would it mean for the FEMTI framework to be extended to other HLT applications, such as summarization, IE, or QA? Which new aspects would it need to cover? We solicit papers that address these questions and other related issues relevant to the workshop. Workshop Programme and Audience Addressed This full-day workshop is intended for researchers and developers on different evaluation technologies, with experience on the various issues concerned in the call, and interested in defining a methodology to move forward. The workshop feature invited talks, submitted papers, and will conclude with a discussion on future developments and collaboration. Workshop Chairing Team Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec Sprachtechnologien GmbH, Germany) - chair Khalid Choukri (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) - co-chair Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - co-chair Organising Committee Victoria Arranz (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) Khalid Choukri (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) Christopher Cieri (LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium, USA) Eduard Hovy (Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, USA) Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Keith J. Miller (The MITRE Corporation, USA) Satoshi Nakamura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Andrei Popescu-Belis (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland) Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec Sprachtechnologien GmbH, Germany) Important dates Deadline for abstracts: Monday 28 January 2008 Notification to Authors: Monday 3 March 2008 Submission of Final Version: Tuesday 25 March 2008 Workshop: Tuesday 27 May 2008 Submission Format Abstracts should be no longer than 1500 words and should be submitted in PDF format to Gregor Thurmair at g.thurmair at linguatec.de. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:01:49 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:01:49 +0100 Subject: Revue: CORELA, volume 5, numero 2 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:05:46 +0100 From: Gilles Col Message-Id: X-url: http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1816 X-url: http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1825 X-url: http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1818 X-url: http://revue-corela.org L'équipe éditoriale de la revue CORELA a le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication de son nouveau numéro (volume 5, numéro 2): Sommaire : Pénou-Achille SOMÉ : Polysémie, prototype et invariant : le cas du verbe « manger » en dagara http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1816 Aleksandra Dziadkiewicz : La traduction automatique de phraséologismes pragmatiques : quelles représentations à travers la diversité formelle et culturelle ? http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1825 Emmanuelle Roussel : Une propriété pragmatique du past perfect http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1818 RAPPEL : la date de soumission du prochain numéro (Vol 6, num. 1, juin 2008) est le 1 février 2008. Nous vous souhaitons une bonne lecture et une bonne année 2008. Gilles Col Directeur de publication ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:07:38 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:07:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: DL2008, Second Call for Papers Message-ID: Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:28:04 +0100 From: Carsten Lutz Message-id: X-url: http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ X-url: http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html X-url: http://www.easychair.org/DL08/ X-url: http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ X-url: http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ X-url: http://dl.kr.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 21st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'08) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Dresden, Germany May 13-16, 2008 http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 23 March 2008 Camera ready papers due: 13 April 2008 DL'07 Workshop: 13-16 May 2008 (3 or 4 days) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics. Possible subjects include: * Foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems. * Extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages. * Integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. * Use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing. * Building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. * Tools that exploit description Logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Bernhard Ganter, Dresden, Germany * Georg Gottlob, Oxford, UK * Maarten Marx, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Kent Spackman, Oregon, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of papers in Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html to arrive no later than February 15, 2008. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (if any), and list of references. Submitted papers must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, see http://www.easychair.org/DL08/ The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series, see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Franz Baader, Dresden, Germany (General chair) * Carsten Lutz, Dresden, Germany (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Carlos Areces, Nancy, France * Alessandro Artale, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Alex Borgida, Rutgers, USA * Sebastian Brandt, Machester, UK * Diego Calvanese, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Giuseppe de Giacomo, Rome, Italy * Volker Haarslev, Montreal, Canada * Ian Horrocks, Oxford, UK * Ulrich Hustadt, Liverpool, UK * Pascal Hitzler, Karlsruhe, Germany * Carsten Lutz, Dresden, Germany (Chair) * Maja Milicic, Dresden, Germany * Boris Motik, Oxford, UK * Ralf Moeller, Hamburg, Germany * Bijan Parsia, Manchester, UK, * Peter Patel-Schneider, Alcatel Lucent, USA * Riccardo Rosati, Rome, Italy * Uli Sattler, Manchester, UK * Umberto Straccia, Pisa, Italy * David Toman, Waterloo, Canada * Frank Wolter, Liverpool, UK * Misha Zakharyaschev, London, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information regarding registration, travel information, hotels, etc will be made available on the DL2008 homepage http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ * Enquiries about the DL2008 workshop can be made by mailing to lutz at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:10:20 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:10:20 +0100 Subject: Job: Stage, COGIT, IGN, Saint Mande Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:01:57 +0100 From: "Catherine Domingues" Message-ID: X-url: http://recherche.ign.fr/cogit ________________________________________________________________________ Contexte Le laboratoire COGIT travaille à un projet de conception de carte sur mesure, c'est-à-dire une carte pertinente et efficace par rapport aux objectifs du concepteur et adaptée à ses goûts. Un des axes de recherche vise à constituer des bases de connaissances qui permettront d'exploiter la description que l'utilisateur fait de son besoin pour l'aider à concevoir sa carte dans les règles de l'art. Pour cela, il est nécessaire d'établir des correspondances entre la description que des utilisateurs peuvent faire de leur carte et les paramètres de construction d'une carte tels qu'ils sont définis par des experts. Différentes actions ont été mises en place pour faire décrire une carte par des publics variés. Ces travaux ont permis d'ébaucher une description formalisée de carte. Sujet Le stage a pour objectif d'exploiter un ensemble commenté et organisé d'interviews. Ces interviews font partie d'une enquête réalisée par un service de l'IGN concernant la carte au 1/50 000 par rapport au thème de la randonnée (à pied, en vélo, en VTT, ...). Il s'agit de mettre en forme ce corpus puis de l'exploiter (manuellement, avec des outils de TALN et éventuellement des méthodes numériques) afin d'identifier en particulier les acteurs, les activités, les objectifs des acteurs par rapport aux activités. Ces éléments permettront de proposer des caractéristiques de cartes pertinentes par rapport aux souhaits des utilisateurs et cohérentes avec le modèle de description de cartes qui est en cours d'élaboration dans l'équipe de recherche. Compétences particulières et formation requise master avec compétences en informatique linguistique, éventuellement en cartographie. Une bonne maîtrise de la langue française est indispensable. Lieu du stage Institut géographique national 2 avenue Pasteur 94160 Saint-Mandé Durée et rémunération durée : 4 à 6 mois début : mars/avril 2008 rémunération : 30% du SMIC Responsable de stage Catherine DOMINGUES mel : catherine.domingues at ign.fr Tél : 01 43 98 85 44 http://recherche.ign.fr/cogit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:12:26 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:12:26 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Multimodal Corpora, LREC 2008 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:02:30 +0100 From: Jean-Claude MARTIN Message-ID: <47839086.2080202 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Call for Papers LREC 2008 Workshop on "Multimodal corpora: from Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications" Tuesday, 27 May 2008 Marrakech (Morocco) http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION A 'Multimodal Corpus' targets the recording and annotation of several communication modalities such as speech, hand gesture, facial expression, body posture, etc. Theoretical issues are also addressed, given their importance to the design of multimodal corpora. This workshop continues the successful series of similar workshops at LREC 00, 02, 04 and 06 also documented in a special issue of the Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation due to come out in spring 2008. There is an increasing interest in multimodal communication and multimodal corpora as visible by European Networks of Excellence and integrated projects such as HUMAINE, SIMILAR, CHIL, AMI, CALLAS. Furthermore, the success of recent conferences and workshops dedicated to multimodal communication (ICMI, IVA, Gesture, PIT, Nordic Symposia on Multimodal Communication, Embodied Language Processing) and the creation of the Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces also testifies to the growing interest in this area, and the general need for data on multimodal behaviours. The focus of this LREC'2008 workshop on multimodal corpora will be on models of natural interaction and their contribution to the design of multimodal systems and applications. Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to: - Multimodal corpus collection activities (e.g. direction-giving dialogues, emotional behaviour, human-avatar interaction, human-robot interaction, etc.) - Relations between modalities in natural (human) interaction and in human-computer interaction - Application of multimodal corpora to the design of multimodal and multimedia systems - Fully or semi-automatic multimodal annotation, using e.g. motion capture and image processing, and its integration with manual annotations - Corpus-based design of systems that involve human-like modalities either in input (Virtual Reality, motion capture, etc.) and output (virtual characters) - Multimodal interaction in specific scenarios, e.g. group interaction in meetings - Coding schemes for the annotation of multimodal corpora - Evaluation and validation of multimodal annotations - Methods, tools, and best practices for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, and use of multimedia and multimodal corpora - Interoperability between multimodal annotation tools (exchange formats, conversion tools, standardization) - Metadata descriptions of multimodal corpora - Automated multimodal fusion and/or generation (e.g., coordinated speech, gaze, gesture, facial expressions) - Analysis methods tailored to multimodal corpora using e.g. statistical measures or data mining We expect the output of this workshop to be: 1) deeper understanding of theoretical issues and research questions related to verbal and non-verbal communication that multimodal corpora should address, 2) larger consensus on how such corpora should be built in order to provide useful and usable answers to research questions, 3) shared knowledge of how the corpora are contributing to multimodal and multimedia system design, and 4) an updated view of state-of-the-art research on multimodal corpora. ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES - February 10th: Deadline for submission (full paper) - March 16th: Notification of acceptance - March 30th: Camera ready version of papers - May 27th: Workshop ------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS The workshop will consist primarily of paper presentations and discussion/working sessions. Submissions should be 4 pages long, must be in English, and follow the submission guidelines from http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ The .doc and .pdf file should be submitted via email to MARTIN at LIMSI.FR and PATRIZIA at CST.DK Demonstrations of multimodal corpora and related tools are encouraged as well (a demonstration outline of 2 pages can be submitted). As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send to MARTIN at LIMSI.FR and PATRIZIA at CST.DK a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submissions. Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. ------------------------------------------------------------------- TIME SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION FEE The workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoon session. There will be time for collective discussions. For this full-day Workshop, the registration fee will be specified on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANISING COMMITTEE MARTIN Jean-Claude, LIMSI-CNRS, France PAGGIO Patrizia, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark KIPP Michael, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany HEYLEN Dirk, Univ. Twente, The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:13:15 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:13:15 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL 2008, Student Research Workshop - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:50:27 +0100 From: Wolfgang Maier Message-ID: <477FED93.40305 at uni-tuebingen.de> X-url: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/srw.html ----------------------------------------------------------- ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop June 15-20, 2008, Columbus Ohio *** Final Call for Papers, Deadline: January 10, 2008! *** URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/srw.html ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. General Invitation for Submissions The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and receive feedback. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback from a general audience as well as from panelists; the panelists are experienced researchers who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Since this workshop is an excellent opportunity to ask for suggestions, to receive useful feedback and to run your ideas by an international audience of researchers, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. The research being presented can come from any topic area within computational linguistics including, but not limited to, the following topic areas: - pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon - phonetics, phonology and morphology - linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language - information retrieval, information extraction, question answering - summarization and paraphrasing - speech recognition, speech synthesis - corpus-based language modeling - multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids - spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems - multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems - message and narrative understanding systems 2. Submission Requirements The emphasis of the workshop is on original and unpublished research. The papers should describe original work in progress. Students who have settled on their thesis direction but still have significant research left to do are particularly encouraged to submit their papers. Since the main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work, papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. All authors of multi-author papers must be students. Papers submitted for this workshop are eligible only if they have not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Students who have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL Student Research Workshop may not submit to this workshop. They should submit their papers to the main conference instead. It must be indicated if a paper has been submitted to another conference or workshop. 3. Submission Procedure Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference. These files are available at ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html. A description of the format is available there in case you are unable to use these style files directly. All submissions must be electronic. Please use the submission page to submit your paper. 4. Reviewing Procedure Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, with the assistance of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance decision will be based on the results of the review. Note that reviewing of papers will be double-blind; therefore, please make sure your paper shows the title, but no author information. You should likewise not have any self identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, rather than this: ''We showed previously (Smith, 2001), ...'', use citations such as: ''Smith (2001) previously showed ...''. 5. Schedule The papers must be submitted no later than midnight, January 10th, 2008 . No papers received after January 10th, 2008 will be accepted. Acknowledgment will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on February 28th, 2008. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 10, 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2008 Camera-ready paper submission deadline: April 14, 2008 Conference date: June 15-20, 2008 (The workshop will be held during the main conference) 6. Contact Information If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use: acl08srw at ling.osu.edu. An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs. Ebru Arisoy (Speech Co-Chair) Bogazici University, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey Wolfgang Maier (NLP Co-Chair) University of Tuebingen Tuebingen, Germany Keisuke Inoue (IR Co-Chair) Syracuse University Syracuse, New York, USA Program Committee: Tanel Alumae, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Michiel Bacchiani, Google Inc., USA Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia Chris Bartels, University of Washington, USA Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany Marine Carpuat, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Gulsen Cebiroglu Eryigit, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Ozlem Cetinoglu, Sabanci University, Turkey Mathias Creutz, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Montse Cuadros, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Anne Diekema, Syracuse University, USA Markus Dreyer, Johns Hopkins University, USA Kevin Duh, University of Washington, USA Koji Eguchi, Kobe University, Japan Hakan Erdogan, Sabanci University, Turkey Katja Filippova, EML Research, Heidelberg, Germany Seeger Fisher, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Dilek Hakkani-Tur, ICSI, USA Dustin Hillard, University of Washington, USA Teemu Hirsimaki, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, USA Giridhar Kumaran, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Staffan Larsson, Göteborg University, Sweden Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan KyungSoon Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Timm Lichte, University of Tübingen, Germany Berenike Loos, European Media Laboratory GmbH, Germany Robert Luk, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Lambert Mathias, Johns Hopkins University, USA Olena Medelyan, University of Waikato, New Zealand Quiozhu Mei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Simon Mille, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Taniya Mishra, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Mathias Möhl, Saarland University, Germany Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University, Turkey Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK Yannick Parmentier, University of Tübingen, Germany Thomas Pellegrini, LIMSI, France Adam Przepiórkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Janne Pylkkonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Georg Rehm, University of Tübingen, Germany Brian Roark, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Hasim Sak, Bogazici University, Turkey Murat Saraclar, Bogazici University, Turkey Ruhi Sarikaya, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Oliver Schonefeld, University of Bielefeld, Germany Zak Shafran, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Anders Søgaard, University of Potsdam, Germany Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Yael Sygal, University of Haifa, Israel Cuneyd Tantug, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Gokhan Tur, SRI International, USA Suzan Verberne, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Christopher White, Johns Hopkins University, USA Hans Friedrich Witschel, University of Leipzig, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sorotomixcek at OTOMIX.COM Mon Jan 7 21:57:47 2008 From: sorotomixcek at OTOMIX.COM (Lynette Devine) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:57:47 +0100 Subject: Don't be the "little guy" in the club Message-ID: Ultimately the true stuff - without ripoffs! 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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 18:52:34 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:52:34 +0100 Subject: Appel: HLT & NLP within the Arabic world Workshop at LREC 2008 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:01:19 +0100 From: ELDA Message-ID: <47864F5F.90304 at elda.org> X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ [Apologies for multiple postings] * HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and **local ** languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects * Please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html for details. * Motivation and Aims* This Workshop intends to add value to the issues addressed during the main conference (Human Language Technologies (HLT) & Natural Language Processing (NLP)) and enhance the work carried out at different places to process Arabic language(s) and more generally Semitic languages and other local and foreign languages spoken in the region. It should bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic Written and Spoken language processing in a mono- or cross/multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to update the community through reports on completed and ongoing work as well as on the availability of LRs, evaluation protocols and campaigns, products and core technologies (in particular open source ones). This should enable the participants to develop a common view on where we stand with respect to these particular set of languages and to foster the discussion of the future of this research area. Particular attention will be paid to activities involving technologies such as Machine Translation, Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval/extraction, Summarization, Speech to text transcriptions, etc., and languages such as Arabic varieties, Amazigh, Amharic, Hebrew, Maltese, and other local languages. Evaluation methodologies and resources for evaluation of HLT are also a main focus. * Topics of Interest * The submissions should address some of the following issues: · Issues in the design, the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of Language Resources (Standard Arabic, Colloquial Arabic, other Semitic languages, Amazigh, Coptic, Maltese, English/French spoken locally, etc.) · Impact on LR collections/processing and NLP of the crucial issues related to "code switching" between different dialects and languages · Specific issues related to the above-mentioned languages such as role of morphology, named entities, corpus alignment, etc.) · Multilinguality issues including relationship between Colloquial and Standard Arabic · Exploitation of LR in different types of applications · Industrial LR requirements and community's response; · Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation for written and spoken language processing; · Focus on some key technologies such as MT (all approaches e.g. Statistical, Example-Based, etc.), Information Retrieval, Speech Recognition, Spoken Documents Retrieval, CLIR, Question-Answering, Summarization, · Local, regional, and international activities and projects; · Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for regional and international cooperation. * Submission Details (more on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html) * Submissions must be in English. Abstracts for workshop contributions should not exceed Four A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submission is to be sent by email, preferably in Postscript or PDF format, to: arabic at elda.org to arrive before * 15 February 2008 * . Registration to LREC2008 will be required for participation, so potential participants are invited to refer to the main conference website for all details not covered in the present call ( http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/) * Important Dates * Call for papers: 3 January 2008 Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 14 March 2008 Final version of accepted paper: 11 April 2008 Workshop full-day: Saturday 31^st May 2008 * Workshop chair * Khalid Choukri (ELRA/ELDA, France ) * Workshop Co-chairs * Mona Diab, Columbia University , USA Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen , Denmark ) Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica Valencia , Spain Abdelhadi Soudi ENIM ( Morocco ) Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA and Monterey Institute of International Studies, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 18:53:37 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:53:37 +0100 Subject: Appel: SLTU, extension de la deadline Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:16:22 +0700 From: Mathias Rossignol Message-ID: <478717C6.3090900 at mica.edu.vn> X-url: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu SLTU : Extended paper submission deadline International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced languages Paper submission deadline is extended to : January 30, 2008 !!!! ************************************************************************ The International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU) will be held at Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, May 5 - May 7, 2008. Workshop Web Site : http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu The STLU meeting is a technical conference focused on spoken language processing for under-resourced languages. This first workshop will focus on Asian languages, and the idea is to mainly (but not exclusively) target languages of the area (Vietnamese, Khmer, Lao, Chinese dialects, Thai, etc.). However, all contributions on other under-resourced languages of the world are warmly welcomed. The workshop aims at gathering researchers working on: * ASR, synthesis and speech translation for under-resourced languages * portability issues * fast resources acquisition (speech, text, lexicons, parallel corpora) * spoken language processing for languages with rich morphology * spoken language processing for languages without separators * spoken language processing for languages without writing system * ... Important dates !!!!* Paper submission: January 30, 2008 !!!! * Notification of Paper Acceptance: February 20, 2008 * Author Registration Deadline: March 1, 2008 Scientific Committee * Pr Tanja Schultz, CMU, USA * Dr Yuqing Gao, IBM, USA * Dr Lori Lamel, LIMSI, France * Dr Laurent Besacier, LIG, France * Dr Pascal Nocera, LIA, France * Pr Jean-Paul Haton, LORIA, France * Pr Luong Chi Mai, IOIT, Vietnam * Pr Dang Van Chuyet, HUT, Vietnam * Pr Pham Thi Ngoc Yen, MICA, Vietnam * Dr Eric Castelli, MICA, Vietnam * Dr Vincent Berment, LIG Laboratory, France * Dr Briony Williams, Bangor University, UK Local Organizing Committee * Pr Nguyen Trong Giang, HUT/MICA * Pr Ha Duyen Tu, HUT * Pr Pham Thi Ngoc Yen, HUT/MICA * Pr Geneviève Caelen-Haumont, MICA * Dr Trinh Van Loan, HUT * Dr Mathias Rossignol, MICA * M. Hoang Xuan Lan, HUT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 18:57:00 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:57:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: TAG+9, submission DL: March 3rd, 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:14:26 -0500 (EST) From: gardent at loria.fr (Claire Gardent) Message-Id: <20080111151426.D7051573BA at loria1.loria.fr> X-url: http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag9 The Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+9) 7-8 June 2008 Tuebingen, Germany http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ CALL FOR PAPERS An important subfield of computational linguistics and natural language processing is research on the formal machinery for describing language. This covers a wide range of interdisciplinary work in the cognitive science of language, including the mathematical and algorithmic properties of this machinery, the grammatical description of natural language, and the mechanisms of parsing and human language use. This research is also applied to empirical areas leading to novel algorithms and models for machine learning. Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) is a prominent formalism in the study of natural language because of its attractive formal properties and its extended domain of locality. TAG has been studied extensively in the last three decades with respect to mathematical properties and computational applications, as well as its role in constructing grammatical theories, new models of language processing and applications. This workshop, the latest in a series that has been running successfully since 1990, aims at bringing together researchers interested in various aspects of the TAG formalism including relations to other grammar formalisms -- this is the reason for the "+" in the workshop's name. In the past, interaction between such formalisms has been productive, leading for example to the shared development of broad-coverage grammars, transfer of parsing and machine learning algorithms from one formalism to another and to new insights into properties of different formalisms. Such related formalisms would include minimalist syntax, categorial grammar, dependency grammars, HPSG, LFG, and others which share with TAG general properties such as lexicalization of syntactic structure, a simple notion of local grammatical dependency, and a formal system strictly more powerful than context-free but not fully context-sensitive. Invited speakers: * Uwe Moennich, University of Tuebingen * Stuart Shieber, Harvard University Topics: We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related systems including the following topics: * syntactic and semantic theory; * mathematical properties; * computational and algorithmic studies of parsing, interpretation and generation; * machine learning models for TAG; * corpus-based research and grammar development using TAG; * psycholinguistic modeling; and * applications to natural language processing or biological sequence modeling. Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two sorts of presentations at the workshop: spoken presentations and poster presentations. Poster presentations are particularly appropriate for brief descriptions of specialized implementations, resources under development and work in progress. Regardless of the type of submission, abstracts may not exceed two pages in length (not including data, figures and references). Contact Information: The workshop website is at http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ The electronic submission website is at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag9 Email contact: tagplus at sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de Important dates: * Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 3, 2008. * Notification to authors of decision: April 10, 2008. * Deadline for camera-ready submission: April 28, 2008. * Workshop dates: June 7 to 8, 2008. Proceedings including full papers for accepted abstracts (including both oral presentations and poster presentations) will be available on-line and at the workshop. In addition, we will explore possibilities for subsequent publication of workshop articles, for example through a special issue of a journal. Organization: Local Arrangements Chair * Laura Kallmeyer, University of Tuebingen Program Committee * Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA Nancy, (France). Program Co-Chair * Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University, (Canada). Program Co-Chair * Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research (USA) * Tilman Becker, DKI Saarbruecken (Germany) * Pierre Boullier, INRIA Rocquencourt, Paris (France) * John Chen, Columbia University (USA) * Joan Chen-Main, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * David Chiang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA) * Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA (France) * Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins University (USA) * Chung-Hye Han, Simon Fraser University (Canada) * Karin Harbusch, University of Koblenz (Germany) * Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) * Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * Laura Kallmeyer, University of Tuebingen (Germany) * Marco Kuhlmann, University of the Saarland (Germany) * Alessandro Mazzei, University of Torino (Italy) * David McDonald, BBN Technologies (USA) * Martha Palmer, University of Colorado (USA) * Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA) * Frank Richter, University of Tuebingen (Germany) * James Rogers, Earlham College (USA) * Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz (Germany) * Tatjana Scheffler, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * Sylvain Schmitz, INRIA Nancy Grand Est (France) * Vijay K. Shanker, University of Delaware (USA) * Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh (UK) * Matthew Stone, Rutgers University (USA) * Naoki Yoshinaga, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan) * Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK) Previous TAG+ meetings have been held at: * Dagstuhl (1990) * Philadelphia (1992) * Paris (1994) * Philadelphia (1998) * Paris (2000) * Venice (2002) * Vancouver (2004) * Sydney (2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 18:58:46 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:58:46 +0100 Subject: Job: Stage en TAL, Systemes de questions-reponses, LIMSI-CNRS Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:23:48 +0100 From: Xavier Tannier Message-ID: <47879814.1030409 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/fr/Stages/sujet_M2R_expressions_figees.html X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/%7Extannier/ Bonjour, Le groupe LIR du LIMSI propose le stage de Master Recherche suivant dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique de la Langue : -------------- Titre : Détection d'expressions figées pour les systèmes de questions-réponses Date de démarrage : mars/avril 2008 Durée : 4 mois Lieu du stage : LIMSI/CNRS, groupe LIR (91403 Orsay) Voir aussi : http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/fr/Stages/sujet_M2R_expressions_figees.html Thème : Dans le cadre des systèmes de questions-réponses, de recherche d'information, mais aussi en analyse syntaxique et dans de nombreux domaines, il est intéressant de connaître les expressions figées ou semi-figées. Par exemple, les locutions comme "pomme de terre" ou "perdre la vie", mais aussi des entités nommées ou des expressions longues comme "la déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme et du citoyen". En recherche d'information et dans les systèmes questions-réponses, connaître ce type de locutions nous permet de décider si la requête doit être constituée de l'expression entière ou si les mots doivent être considérés de façon indépendante. Description du stage : De nombreux travaux ont traité le problème des locutions, mais de nombreuses imperfections subsistent. Le but du stage est d'étudier l'état de l'art en la matière et de mettre en Å“uvre une méthode adaptée au contexte des systèmes de questions-réponses. Contacts : Xavier Tannier : xavier.tannier at limsi.fr Véronique Moriceau : moriceau at limsi.fr --------------- -- Xavier Tannier LIMSI-CNRS Université Paris-Sud 11 B.P. 133 91403 ORSAY CEDEX FRANCE http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ tel: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 12 fax: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 88 ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 18:59:24 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:59:24 +0100 Subject: Cursus: Erasmus Mundus Masters Course in NLP -- Call for Applications Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:24:26 -0000 From: "Pekar, Viktor" Message-ID: <1E93EA79FECAE149808363138FAE5BE10B17A2CB at exchange03.unv.wlv.ac.uk> X-url: http://mastermundusnlp-hlt.univ-fcomte.fr/ [sent on behalf of Sylviane Cardie] Erasmus Mundus Masters Course International Masters in NLP and HLT CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We invite applications for an Erasmus Mundus MA course on NLP and HLT, organized jointly by Universite de Franche-Comte (France), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), Universidade do Algarve (Portugal), and the University of Wolverhampton (UK). The objective of this Masters Course is to provide education and training of specialists in Language Technologies and their applications and prepare them for careers in the LT industry, research and academia. The students will be able to select a combination of modules on topics in Linguistics, Translation Studies, Computer Science, and Mathematics, the languages of instruction being those of the country of each partner university. As part of the course, the students will complete a research project jointly supervised by lecturers from the partner universities. During the two-year programme, each student will spend two semesters at one university of his/her choice, and another two at either one or two other universities. After completing the programme, the students will receive a multiple Masters degree from the universities they have attended. Up to 18 best non-EU candidates will be offered a grant covering tuition fees, accommodation and subsistence during the study. For more information on the course, please visit: http://mastermundusnlp-hlt.univ-fcomte.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 19:01:14 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:01:14 +0100 Subject: Soft: Mindmentor, NLP RoboCoach Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:43:52 +0100 From: IEP Holland NLP Message-ID: <1191949413.15599 at iepdoc.nl> X-url: http://www.mindmentor.com MindMentor returns! NLP RoboCoach on line again Dear NLP-colleague, In 2006 IEP Holland launched MindMentor, the NLP coaching robot. MindMentor guides clients through a structured process, helping them to solve their problems and achieve their goals. It's a computer program that - apart from NLP - offers psychological depth with projection techniques (similar to a Rorschach test) and adds surprise with provocative elements (similar to provocative therapy). MindMentor's office is located at http://www.mindmentor.com An effective NLP robot psychologist MindMentor was on line for two months in 2006, when he did more than 1600 sessions with people from all over the world. He achieved a solution percentage of 47%: people who finished their session solved their problem for 47% on average. We admit that we went slightly euphoric! A new, improved MindMentor After this first run, we received many useful comments from the NLP-community. And we gathered a lot of data. So we had the whole system reprogrammed. We improved ecology testing (on two levels), extended the analysis of subjective experience, we added role model resourcing, we improved quote matching, we extended the Rorschach feature and we spiced things up with some provocation. Also - an improvement you may not like as much - clients now have to pay for MindMentor's work; he has to start earning a living.... He now charges 4,95 EU per session. We also noticed that, since MindMentor keeps track of both process and results, he'll be an excellent source of scientific information on NLP. Right now MindMentor is receiving a lot of attention in Dutch newspapers, radio and television programs. The response we get is quite positive. Looking for supervisors MindMentor still needs to learn a lot. So we are looking for about 25 supervisors, spread evenly over the globe. If you are interested in becoming a MindMentor supervisor, please send us an e-mail. To be a MindMentor supervisor you need to have experience as a guide in goal directed human change. A good assistant for NLP coaches MindMentor is a great NLP assistant. You can have your clients do a MindMentor session before you see them. He does a lot of ground work, so your clients come in well prepared... So go ahead and give the new MindMentor a try at http://www.mindmentor.com Solve a problem the NLP way! Best Regards, Jaap Hollander E-mail: jh at iepdoc.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 19:03:11 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:03:11 +0100 Subject: Job: Stage en TAL, Detection de paraphrases en contexte, LIMSI-CNRS Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:39:56 +0100 From: Xavier Tannier Message-ID: <47864A5C.8080505 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/fr/Stages/sujet_M2R_paraphrases.html X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ Bonjour, Le groupe LIR du LIMSI propose le stage de Master Recherche suivant dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique de la Langue : -------------- Titre : Détection et validation de paraphrases en contexte Date de démarrage : mars/avril 2008 Durée : 4 mois Mots-clés : analyse syntaxique, paraphrases, traitement automatique de la langue, système de questions-réponses Lieu du stage : LIMSI/CNRS, groupe LIR ( 91403 Orsay) Voir aussi : http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/fr/Stages/sujet_M2R_paraphrases.html Contexte : Dans le domaine de la recherche d'information, l'un des défis actuels porte sur les systèmes de questions-réponses en domaine ouvert. L'objectif de ces systèmes est de fournir une réponse à une question exprimée en langage naturel en trouvant cette réponse dans un ensemble de documents, ensemble éventuellement très large et pouvant aller jusqu'au Web. La plupart des systèmes de questions-réponses sont à même d'extraire la réponse à une question factuelle lorsqu'elle est explicitement présente dans les textes mais dans le cas contraire, ils ne sont pas capables d'agencer différents morceaux d'information dans le cadre d'un raisonnement pour produire une réponse. Par exemple un raisonnement dans lequel il faut assembler plusieurs extraits d'informations répartis dans plusieurs documents ou dans plusieurs phrases d'un même document. Par exemple, pour répondre à la question "Quel est l'âge de la femme de Tom Cruise ?", il faut tout d'abord identifier la femme de Tom Cruise puis chercher son âge. Le projet CONIQUE a pour objectif de pallier cette insuffisance et s'inscrit en cela dans un courant de recherche actuellement très actif visant à intégrer dans les systèmes de questions-réponses des mécanismes de compréhension de textes s'appuyant sur des inférences. Contrairement à la plupart des travaux allant dans ce sens, le premier axe de notre projet a pour but non pas de constituer ou d'exploiter une base de connaissances a priori permettant de répondre aux questions mais de modéliser l'extraction de ces connaissances à partir de différents textes en fonction des besoins nécessaires à la construction d'un chemin inférentiel entre les éléments trouvés dans les textes et l'information cherchée, telle qu'elle est spécifiée par une question. Thème : Les analyseurs syntaxiques sont des outils de traitement automatique de la langue permettant d'identifier les relations syntaxiques entre les constituants d'une phrase (SUJET, OBJET, etc.). Ils fournissent des sorties dans un format qui leur est propre. Dans le cadre de ce projet, on utilise un analyseur syntaxique pour déterminer si un passage pré-sélectionné par un moteur de recherche répond réellement à la question de l'utilisateur. On cherche notamment à montrer que certaines relations syntaxiques (ou éventuellement sémantiques) présentes dans des passages sont (ou ne sont pas) équivalents aux relations présentes dans la question. Par exemple, la question pourra porter sur le nombre de personnes ayant "perdu la vie" lors d'un événement, tandis que le passage précise que cet événement "a fait X morts". Cet aspect se rapproche de la problématique de la recherche de paraphrases. Travail à réaliser : Le but du stage est d'étudier l'état de l'art en la matière, de réfléchir aux avantages de se situer dans un contexte précis (les passages) plutôt que dans un cadre général (ce que fait la littérature), ainsi que de mettre en place des techniques de validation des paraphrases. Contacts : Xavier Tannier : xavier.tannier at limsi.fr Véronique Moriceau : moriceau at limsi.fr --------------- -- Xavier Tannier LIMSI-CNRS Université Paris-Sud 11 B.P. 133 91403 ORSAY CEDEX FRANCE http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ tel: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 12 fax: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 88 ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sashaartgallery.com at PALMCOASTCONDO.COM Mon Jan 14 22:33:24 2008 From: sashaartgallery.com at PALMCOASTCONDO.COM (Maximilian Nelson) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:33:24 -0800 Subject: She will love you more than any other guy Message-ID: Info on picture or here: http://www.qarflex.net/ ----- She smiled down at him. Youre She would have to bring up his She wouldnt be able to retalia He would beat her at her own g -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: img19.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 10893 bytes Desc: not available URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 15 21:38:04 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:38:04 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journee ATALA enseignement du TAL - 2nd appel a participation Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:15:32 +0100 From: Cécile Fabre Message-ID: <478B1A24.4070108 at univ-tlse2.fr> Journée Enseignement du TAL Date : samedi 26 janvier 2008 Organisation Georges Antoniadis et Thomas Lebarbé (U. Stendhal-Grenoble, LIDILEM) Cécile Fabre, Marie-Paule Péry-Woodley et Ludovic Tanguy (U. Toulouse 2 - Le Mirail, CLLE-ERSS) Lieu : ENST, 46 rue Barrault, Paris 13ème Amphi Emeraude (accès par le 49 rue Vergniaud) Programme de la journée 09h00-09h30 : Accueil 09h30 : INTRODUCTION ET PANORAMA DES FORMATIONS ----------------------------------------------- 10h00-11h15 : PRESENTATION DE FORMATIONS : BILANS ET PROJETS (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Université Paris 7, L. Danlos, P. Amsili, M. Candito et B. Crabbe - Université de Provence - Aix Marseille 1, N. Gala - Université Strasbourg 2, A. Todirascu et M.-P. Jacques - Université Stendhal Grenoble 3, T. Lebarbé et G. Antoniadis 11h : questions / discussion 11h15 : DEUX EXPERIENCES D'ENSEIGNEMENT DU TAL HORS DE FRANCE : --------------------------------------------------------------- - C. Fairon, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique - M. Zrigui, Université de Monastir, Tunisie 11h55 : questions / discussion 12h10-14h : repas 14h-15h15 : PRESENTATION DE FORMATIONS : BILANS ET PROJETS (2) -------------------------------------------------------------- - Université Paris X Nanterre, M. Cori - Université d'Orléans, I. Eshkol - Université Toulouse 2- Le Mirail, M.-P. Péry-Woodley, C. Fabre et L. Tanguy - Université Nancy 2 et Nancy Poincaré, G. 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X-url: http://www.uqo.ca/nf2008 X-url: http://www.realiter.net/ ********************************************************************** Chers collègues, Nous vous faisons parvenir ce message de M. Huard, du Bureau de la Traduction, concernant des activités langagières qui pourront être de votre intérêt. Le contenu du document "À vos calendriers", du message original, se trouve à la fin de ce message en raison de l'impossibilité d'envoyer de pièce jointe sur cette liste. Cordialement, Adriana LAU ************************************ Chers collègues, L'Année 2008, que l'Organisation des Nations Unies a proclamée Année internationale des langues, sera particulièrement bien remplie dans la région de la Capitale nationale du Canada (Ottawa-Gatineau), où cinq manifestations langagières auront lieu durant la Semaine de la terminologie, qui s'étendra du 1er au 10 octobre 2008. Pour de plus amples renseignements, je vous invite à prendre connaissance des documents ci-joints : À vos calendriers et Calendrier des manifestations. Je me réjouis de vous accueillir en grand nombre dans l'Outaouais dans 10 mois! Salutations cordiales! Gabriel Huard, trad. a. Directeur/Director Normalisation terminologique/Terminology Standardization Correspondant canadien en Aménagement linguistique Canadian Correspondent for Language Management Bureau de la traduction/Translation Bureau Tél./Phone : 819-997-7620 Courriel/e-mail:gabriel.huard at tpsgc.gc.ca 975, Boulevard Saint-Joseph, Gatineau (Québec) K1A 0S5 975, Saint-Joseph Boulevard, Gatineau (Québec) K1A 0S5 Travaux publics et Services gouvernementaux Canada Public Works and Government Services Canada Gouvernement du Canada / Government of Canada À VOS CALENDRIERS! OCTOBRE 2008 SERA UN MOIS CHAUD! Dans le cadre de l'Année internationale des langues (2008) décrétée par l'UNESCO, et avec l'appui de la Fédération internationale des traducteurs (FIT) et du Conseil des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes du Canada (CTTIC), plusieurs manifestations d'envergure seront organisées dans l'Outaouais durant la Semaine de la terminologie, qui s'étendra du 1er au 10 octobre 2008. À compter de janvier, on trouvera des renseignements sur la plupart de ces manifestations sur le site du Bureau de la traduction http://www.bureaudelatraduction.gc.ca ainsi que sur les sites des organismes concernés. Les 1er, 2 et 3 octobre, le gouvernement du Canada, en collaboration avec plusieurs organismes, dont l'Université d'Ottawa et le Conseil supérieur de la langue française du Québec, tiendra au Centre national des conférences, à Ottawa, le IVe Séminaire interaméricain sur la gestion des langues. Organisés précédemment et successivement par le Québec, le Paraguay et le Brésil, les Séminaires visent à favoriser un statut égal des quatre grandes langues d'Amérique, soit le français, l'espagnol, le portugais et l'anglais, au sein des institutions interaméricaines, ainsi qu'à faciliter les échanges linguistiques dans différents contextes de l'administration et des affaires mettant en cause les pays d'Amérique, comme les douanes, la sécurité, les transports, l'immigration, l'étiquetage et ainsi de suite. Lors du Séminaire d'Ottawa, on traitera donc des langues et des communications supranationales, des langues et des échanges économiques ainsi que du multilinguisme dans l'éducation et la formation. Des experts, tant de l'administration publique que des milieux universitaires, y seront donc attendus. Sur invitation seulement. Renseignements : http://www.ilob.uottawa.ca/sigl2008. Parallèlement, soit les 1er, 2 et 3 octobre toujours, l'Université du Québec en Outaouais, en collaboration avec l'Université de Rennes, le Bureau de la traduction, l'Office québécois de la langue française et l'Institut de technologie de l'information du Conseil national de recherche du Canada, tiendra le Colloque Formation à la communication multilingue et multimédia : Applications et transgressions des normes. Principalement destiné aux experts de la normalisation terminologique, ce colloque est annoncé à l'adresse http://www.uqo.ca/nf2008. Le 6 octobre, le Réseau panlatin de terminologie (Realiter), qui regroupe des représentants d'une quinzaine de pays où sont parlés le catalan, l'espagnol, le français, le galicien, l'italien, le portugais et le roumain, tiendra pour la première fois au Canada la Journée scientifique Realiter. Sous les auspices du Bureau de la traduction, l'événement aura lieu dans les locaux de la Escuela de Extensión en Canadá de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), à Gatineau. La Journée portera sur le droit, et les terminologues y seront tous les bienvenus. Renseignements : http://www.realiter.net. Les 7 et 8 octobre, l'Association européenne de terminologie, par l'intermédiaire du Bureau de la traduction, tiendra pour la première fois de son histoire son Sommet de terminologie en dehors du sol européen, soit plus précisément à l'Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). C'est donc une main tendue vers les terminologues de l'Amérique entière et d'ailleurs. Le thème du IVe Sommet de terminologie : S'unir pour créer. On y discutera de terminologie sous l'angle du partenariat novateur (partenariats en enseignement, partenariats multisectoriels, partenariats multilingues et collaborations diverses), ainsi que des résultats concrets qui en découlent. Tous les terminologues et les langagiers y sont invités! Renseignements : www.uqo.ca/sommetaet2008. Les 9 et 10 octobre, le Réseau international de terminologie (TermNet), en collaboration avec l'Université du Québec en Outaouais, tiendra son colloque TAMA 2008 sur la terminologie dans les applications avancées de gestion (Terminology in Advanced Management Applications). Comme son titre l'indique, ce colloque international réunit tous ceux qui s'intéressent aux outils de gestion de la terminologie et de la traduction, et tous les langagiers y seront conviés Renseignements : www.uqo.ca/tamacanada2008. Comme on peut le voir, les terminologues et les autres langagiers de l'Outaouais comme d'ailleurs auront du mal à faire leurs choix! L'Année internationale des langues sera célébrée en grande pompe dans l'Outaouais. Demeurez à l'affût pour plus d'information! Annonce des manifestations sur les sites Internet À compter de janvier, on trouvera des renseignements sur les manifestations d'octobre 2008 sur le site du Bureau de la traduction du gouvernement du Canada http://www.bureaudelatraduction.gc.ca , ainsi que sur les sites suivants : * 1-3 octobre 2008 : IVe Séminaire interaméricain sur la gestion des langues (http://www.ilob.uottawa.ca/sigl2008) * 1-3 octobre 2008 : Colloque Formation à la communication multilingue et multimédia. Applications et transgressions des normes (http://www.uqo.ca/nf2008) * 6 octobre 2008 : Journée scientifique Realiter (http://www.realiter.net) * 7-8 octobre 2008 : IVe Sommet de terminologie (www.uqo.ca/sommetaet2008) * 9-10 octobre 2008 : TAMA 2008 (www.uqo.ca/tamacanada2008) ______________________________________________________________________ Adriana Lau DTIL Unió LLatina - Unión Latina - Union latine - Unione Latina - União Latina - Uniunea Latina 131, rue du Bac - 75007 Paris T. +33 (0) 1 45 49 60 62 F. +33 (0) 1 45 49 67 39 a.lau at unilat.org http://dtil.unilat.org/ Info terminologie/a : www.terminometro.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 15 21:43:55 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:43:55 +0100 Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:06:58 +0100 From: Hélène Mazo Message-ID: <478B88A2.6070606 at elda.org> X-url: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1053 X-url: http://catalog.elra.info Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement. ******************************************************************* ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update ***************************************************************** ELRA is happy to announce that 1 new Speech Resource is now available in its catalogue. *ELRA-S0268 UPC-TALP database of isolated meeting-room acoustic events *This database has been produced within the CHIL Project (Computers in the Human Interaction Loop), in the framework of an Integrated Project (IP 506909) under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme. It contains a set of isolated acoustic events that occur in a meeting room environment and that were recorded for the CHIL Acoustic Event Detection (AED) task. The database can be used as a training material for AED technologies as well as for testing AED algorithms in quiet environments without temporal sound overlapping. Approximately 60 sounds per sound class were recorded. Ten people (5 men and 5 women) participated to three sessions. During each session a person had to produce a complete set of sounds two times. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1053 For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli mailto:mapelli at elda.org Visit our on-line catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 15 21:45:13 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:45:13 +0100 Subject: Job: Internship/job, Assistant Project Manager/ Knowledgebase author, VirtuOz, Paris Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:41:15 +0100 From: Aurélie Cousseau Message-ID: <478C8DCB.7020305 at virtuoz.com> X-url: http://www.virtuoz.com Assistant Project Manager/ Knowledgebase author - Spanish (fulltime / part time/ internship) VirtuOz is a leading European provider of Virtual Agent solutions. A virtual agent or chatterbot is a software built to chat automatically with Internet users. Based on a syntax and semantic analysis, it extracts the sense of the user's sentence then compares it to a knowledge base so as to provide a tailor-made answer. We are looking for high energy individuals to assist our Operations department facing our new International challenges. This is a great opportunity to gain first hand experience in a cutting-edge start-up in Paris. Responsibilities: - The role reports to the VP Professional Services and is responsible for working on a knowledge base application to create and update client knowledge bases. - Project management: participating in all other phases of the project including requirements gathering, test, timeline and deployment. - Communicating frequently with the client - Providing analysis of Virtual Agent activity - Assisting in processing new sales Competencies: - SPANISH Native speaker ONLY - Outstanding written and verbal communication skills - Proven ability to learn quickly - Self starter with proven organizational and problem-solving skills and attention to detail - Moderate technical ability: comfortable working with multiple desktop applications; ability to quickly learn knowledge base tracking/management system. - Comfort working in a fast-paced environment Previous customer support experience or experience in data management, knowledge management and database searching is a plus. You don't need to speak French. We will consider full time, and part time applicants, as well as internship Please contact: Aurélie Cousseau acousseau at virtuoz.com http://www.virtuoz.com VirtuOz SA - 47 Rue Chaussée d'Antin 75009 Paris, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 15 21:46:40 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:46:40 +0100 Subject: Seminaire: Alpage 21 janvier (Josef van Genabith) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:12:15 +0100 From: Benoit Crabbé Message-ID: <1200417135.478ce96fa6c1b at imp.linguist.jussieu.fr> X-url: http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~bcrabbe/seminaire.html X-url: http://li.linguist.jussieu.fr ******************* Séminaire Alpage ******************* Séminaire de l'école doctorale de Paris 7 Il s'agit du séminaire de recherche en linguistique informatique organisé par l'équipe Alpage, Alpage est une nouvelle équipe mixte Inria -- Paris 7 issue de la fusion des équipes Atoll et Talana. L'équipe centre ses intérêts scientifiques autour de l'analyse syntaxique automatique et du traitement du discours pour la langue française. Ce séminaire remplace l'ancien séminaire Talana. Il se tient le lundi de 14.30 à 16.30 tous les 15 jours. Il a lieu en salle 131 au 30 rue du Chateau des Rentiers 75013 Paris (premier étage) Toute personne intéressée est la bienvenue. ************************************************************* Lundi 21 janvier, Josef van Genabith, National Centre for Language Technology NCLT, Dublin City University, Ireland nous parlera de : Treebank-Based Wide-Coverage Probabilistic LFG Resources Abstract: Hand-crafting wide-coverage deep linguistic resources is time-consuming, expensive and hard to scale to unrestricted text. In this talk I present research on automatically acquiring wide-coverage, probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammar resources from treebanks, concentrating on English. I show how these resources can be used in a number of applications including parsing, generation, lexicon acquisition and MT evaluation. I compare the treebank-based LFG parsing systems against hand-crafted resources (XLE and RASP) and automatically acquired HPSG and CCG parsers and sketch some future work. This is joint work with Aoife Cahill, Grzegorz Chrupala, Jennifer Foster, Conor Cafferkey, Deirdre Hogan, Yvette Graham, Karolina Owczarzak, Yuqing Guo, Ines Rehbein and Natalie Schluter. ********************************************************** suite prévisionnelle du programme (2nd semestre) : 3 Mars, Alexandros Tantos (Konstanz) ----------------------- Page web du séminaire : http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~bcrabbe/seminaire.html Cursus Linguistique informatique de Paris 7 : http://li.linguist.jussieu.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:40:55 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:40:55 +0100 Subject: Appel: Atelier et tutoriel -- IC 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:21:12 +0100 From: Yannick Toussaint Message-Id: <19331F37-D094-4814-97C5-2465B88496B0 at loria.fr> X-url: http://ic2008.loria.fr/ **************************************************************** IC 2008 Ingénierie des connaissances Nancy - France du 16 au 20 juin 2008 http://ic2008.loria.fr/ **************************************************************** APPEL pour les ATELIERS et TUTORIELS **************************************************************** La prochaine édition de la conférence Ingénierie des connaissances aura lieu du 18 au 20 juin 2008 à Nancy (France). Elle se déroulera au LORIA. Les ateliers ou tutoriels de travail se tiendront pendant les un ou deux jours précédents la conférence : les 16 et 17 janvier 2008. Un atelier ou un tutoriel porte sur une thématique particulière de l'ingénierie de la Connaissance afin de rassembler quelques exposés plus ciblés. Il a son propre président et son propre comité de programme. Le responsable d'un atelier est chargé de l'appel à communication et de la coordination de son comité de programme. Les organisateurs de IC 2008 ne s'occuperont que de la partie matérielle (gestion des salles, pauses café, déjeuner et impression des actes si vous respectez les délais). Les ateliers auront lieu en parallèle sur une demi-journée, une journée ou deux jours. Les contraintes d'organisation temporelles vous seront communiquées ultérieurement et la date précise (le 16 ou le 17) de l'atelier sera fixée par les organisateurs d'IC. L'inscription à un atelier ou tutoriel sera autour de 75 euros par participant. CALENDRIER ---------------- Date limite de proposition :15 février 2008 Réponse du comité de programme de IC : 1er mars 2008 Version finale des papiers pour impression des actes : 5 mai 2008 MODALITES DE PROPOSITION ------------------------------------ Les propositions d'ateliers et tutoriels seront envoyées sous forme électronique à ic2008 at loria.fr avant le 15 février 2008. Les propositions d'ateliers comprendront la thématique de la conférence, son comité de programme et la durée souhaitée. Les propositions de tutoriel comprendront la thématique, le ou les intervenant(s) ainsi que la durée souhaitée. Le comité de programme de IC 2008 choisira parmi les propositions et donnera sa réponse au plus tard le 1er mars 2008. Pour plus d'information, contacter Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr FORMAT ---------- Les articles devront suivre le format de IC 2008 et ne pas dépasser 10 pages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:44:39 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:44:39 +0100 Subject: Job: Stage en traduction automatique, LIMSI-CNRS (Orsay) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:05:56 +0000 From: Aurélien Max Message-ID: <478F7CE4.2090205 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/sujet1-amax-M2R-2008.html Le groupe LIR du LIMSI (Orsay) propose le stage suivant en traduction automatique: "Un peu de contexte en traduction automatique : exploitation de relations grammaticales en traduction automatique statistique" Mots clés : traduction automatique, traitement automatique des langues, analyse syntaxique, désambiguïsation lexicale Niveau d'étude : Master Recherche ou fin d'école d'ingénieurs en informatique Durée du stage : 4 mois à partir de mars 2008 Lieu du stage : laboratoire LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (RER ligne B) Description : http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/sujet1-amax-M2R-2008.html Contact : aurelien.max at limsi.fr Résumé : La traduction automatique a connu un nouvel essor avec l'émergence d'approches basées sur des corpus. La traduction automatique statistique connaît toutefois des limites. Des approches récentes essaient donc d'intégrer des connaissances linguistiques dans ces systèmes afin de mieux prendre en compte les caractéristiques des textes à traduire, de leur traduction, et des relations qu'ils entretiennent. Les systèmes actuels en traduction automatique statistique se basent sur une segmentation en groupes de mots des phrases à traduire auxquels sont associées des traductions (phrase-based machine translation). Les modèles utilisés pour guider la recherche de la meilleure traduction se concentrent essentiellement sur les relations de traduction et sur une bonne formation locale de la langue cible. L'objet de ce stage est de travailler sur la prise en compte d'informations linguistiques présentes dans la langue source, afin de modéliser le contexte dans lequel apparaissent les groupes de mots à traduire. On s'intéressera notamment à l'exploitation des relations grammaticales entre les mots pour la paire de langue français-anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:43:45 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:43:45 +0100 Subject: Job: Candidatures INRIA Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:50:51 +0100 From: Laurence Danlos Message-Id: <58FD7091-5B65-4E08-8A1C-BFACFD6DB5AE at linguist.jussieu.fr> X-url: http://www-c.inria.fr/Internet/emploi-et-formation/concours-chercheurs L'INRIA a ouvert ses postes au concours 2008 : http://www-c.inria.fr/Internet/emploi-et-formation/concours-chercheurs Dans le domaine du TAL, une nouvelle équipe, ALPAGE (http:// alpage.inria.fr/), vient d'être créée dans le cadre d'une UMR-I : Inria-Rocquencourt et Paris 7 Denis Diderot. Les candidats intéressés devront s'adresser à : Prof. Laurence Danlos ALPAGE/ LATTICE Université Paris 7 30 rue du Château des Rentiers, bureau 167 75013 PARIS France TEL : 01 57 27 57 66 FAX : 01 57 27 57 81 e-mail : laurence.danlos at linguist.jussieu.fr Url: www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~danlos/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:41:58 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:41:58 +0100 Subject: Job: Linguist in English - VirtuOz Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:50:26 +0100 From: Aurélie Cousseau Message-ID: <478DC552.4080800 at virtuoz.com> X-url: http://www.virtuoz.com Linguist in English VirtuOz is a leading European provider of Virtual Agent solutions. A virtual agent or chatterbot is a software built to chat automatically with Internet users. Based on a syntax and semantic analysis, it extracts the sense of the user's sentence then compares it to a knowledge base so as to provide a tailor-made answer. We are looking for high energy individuals to assist our Linguistic department facing our new International challenges. This is a great opportunity to gain first hand experience in a cutting-edge start-up in Paris. Responsibilities: The role consists in participate in the adaptation of the syntactic analyzer and the configuration of an agent in English. The linguist will be in charge of: - establishing rules for the syntactic analyzer - Creating an English version of a pre-existing French interactive agent Competencies: - ENGLISH Native speaker ONLY - Experience (studies, etc..) as a linguist preferred but not compulsory - Outstanding written and verbal communication skills - Proven ability to learn quickly - Self starter with proven organizational and problem-solving skills and attention to detail - Moderate technical ability: comfortable working with multiple desktop applications; ability to quickly learn knowledge base tracking/management system. - Comfort working in a fast-paced environment Please contact: Aurélie Cousseau acousseau at virtuoz.com http://www.virtuoz.com VirtuOz SA - 47 Rue Chaussée d'Antin 75009 Paris, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:46:04 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:46:04 +0100 Subject: Job: Propositions de stage M2 recherche, FranceTelecom, Lannion, et Inria Lille-Nord Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:38:29 +0100 From: Isabelle Tellier Message-ID: <478F7675.5010203 at univ-lille3.fr> X-url: http://www.francetelecom.com/fr/espaces/recrutement/etudiant/offres/detail_p.html?id=PDJFK026203F3VBQBLZV4LOWW&nPostingID=50224&nPostingTargetID=60551 X-url: http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/~tellier/stageM2_07.html X-url: http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/~tellier France Telecom Lannion propose un stage pour la construction d'un "Système de prédiction d'opinions à partir de l'analyse de commentaires de films" : http://www.francetelecom.com/fr/espaces/recrutement/etudiant/offres/detail_p.html?id=PDJFK026203F3VBQBLZV4LOWW&nPostingID=50224&nPostingTargetID=60551 Le projet Mostrare de l'Inria Lille-Nord Europe propose un stage sur "L'annotation sémantique de corpus arborés", rémunéré dans le cadre d'un projet ANR : http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/~tellier/stageM2_07.html -- Isabelle Tellier Grappa et Inria Futurs UFR IDIST université Charles de Gaulle-Lille3 BP 60149 59 653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France tel : 03 20 41 61 78 fax : 03 20 41 67 70 mel : isabelle.tellier at univ-lille3.fr web : http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/~tellier ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:47:37 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:47:37 +0100 Subject: Appel: IIP2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:24:48 +0100 From: Eunika Mercier-Laurent Message-ID: <47907E70.5090604 at wanadoo.fr> X-url: http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip2008/ 5th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (IIP2008) September 10-12, 2008, Lyon, France In memoriam Prof Ryszard S. Michalski The IIP conference series provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, university and industry to present their latest research findings in any aspects of intelligent information processing. This time, we especially encourage papers on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management, intelligent agents, machine learning, autonomic reasoning etc. We also welcome papers that highlight successful modern applications of IIP, such as Biomedicine, Bioinformatics, e-Services, e-Learning, Business Intelligence. IIP2008 attempts to meet the needs of a large and diverse community. Topics of IIP2008 include, but are not limited to: Autonomic computing, Automatic reasoning, Automatic translation Bayesian networks, Belief revision, Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, Business Intelligence Cognitive Modeling, Computational intelligence,Computer vision, Constraint programming,Creativity & Innovation, Data Mining, Diagnosis, Ecology & Sustainability,E-learning, E-services, Evolutionary computation, Fuzzy and rough set, Games & Serious games,Image processing, Information retrieval, Intelligence science, Intelligent agents, Knowledge acquisition, Knowledge-based systems, Knowledge discovery,Knowledge engineering and management,Knowledge grid, Knowledge representation Logics and logic programming, Machine learning, Machine translation, Mobile agents, Natural language processing, Neural computing Ontology, Reinforcement learning, Software engineering, Speech understanding and interaction, Text analysis and text understanding, Web intelligence,Very large knowledge processing *Organization Committees* General Chairs Danielle Boulanger (France) B. Wah(USA) T. Nishida (Japan) Program Chairs Z. Shi (China) E. Mercier-Laurent (France) D. Leake (USA) PC Committee A. Aamodt (Norway) S. A. AL-Dobai (Saudi Arabia) J. Alvarez (France) E. Auriol (France) A. Bernardi (Germany) B.Braunschweig (France) I. Cohen (USA) R. Chbeir (France) H. Dai (Australia) S. Dustdar (Austria) Y. Ding (Austria) JL. Ermine (France) P. Estraillier (France) W. Fan (UK) JG Ganascia (France) Y. Gao (China) Q. He (China) Z. Huang (Netherlands) T. Ishida (Japan) G. Kayakutlu (Turkey) N. Makoto (Japan) P. Martinez (Italy) G. Osipov(Russia) M. Owoc (Poland) R. Pfeifer (Switzerland) A. Rafea (Egypt) F. Segond (France) K. Shimohara (Japan) M. Stumptner (Australia) K. Su (China) IJ. Timm (Germany) F.Torre (France) M. van Someren (NL) S. Willmott (Spain) J. Yang (Korea) Y. Yao (Canada) J. Yu (China) J. Zucker (France) Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Proposals The conference Program Committee invites proposals for workshops, tutorial and panel. Proposals should be received by one of the program chairs no later than February 1, 2008. Submission Papers should be no longer than 10 pages including all tables, figures, and references but excluding a cover page. Fonts should be in 10-12 pt. Each submission must include one cover page which should contain: Title of the paper with an abstract of no more than 500 words; A few keywords, from the list above where possible, giving a clear indication of topics; Author names with affiliations, complete postal addresses, and phone numbers; Email address of the contact author. All papers should be sent electronically (preferably in PDF) to a Web submission page to be accessible from the IIP2008 Web site (http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip2008/ ). IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline 1 February, 2008 Author Notification 1 April, 2008 Camera-ready Due 1 May, 2008 For general information, please contact: Eunika Mercier-Laurent eml at wanadoo.fr For paper submission, please contact: Dapeng Zhang Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100080, China Tel (86) 10-82610254 Fax(86) 10-82610254 E-mail: zhangdp at ics.ict.ac.cn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:50:29 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:50:29 +0100 Subject: Appel: HLT & NLP within the Arabic world Workshop Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:28:28 +0100 From: ELDA Message-ID: <4790B78C.1030105 at elda.org> X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/IMG/ws/HLTwithin%20the%20Arabic%20world-final.html X-url: http://www.hlt-evaluation.org [Apologies for multiple postings] *HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and local languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects* Workshop held in conjunction with LREC 2008 _*Saturday, May 31st 2008*_ *The submissions are now open*. Please follow the procedure to submit your abstract. Only online submissions will be considered. All abstracts should be submitted in PDF format through the online submission form https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ALLLP2008/ on START before 15 February 2008. Submissions must be in English. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format. Abstracts for workshop contributions should not exceed 4 (Four) A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers. There is no template for the pdf abstract. The template will be made available online for the for the final papers. The submissions are not anonymous. Submitted papers will be judged based on relevance to the workshop aims, as well as the novelty of the idea, technical quality, clarity of presentation, and expected impact on future research within the area of focus. Any question should be sent to _*arabic at elda.org*_. Registration to LREC'08 will be required for participation, so potential participants are invited to refer to the main conference website for all details not covered in the present call. *Important Dates* Call for papers: 3 January 2008 Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 14 March 2008 Final version of accepted paper: 11 April 2008 Workshop full-day: Saturday 31st May 2008 Full Call for Papers is available at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/IMG/ws/HLTwithin%20the%20Arabic%20world-final.html Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ALLLP2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:54:18 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:54:18 +0100 Subject: Job: Poste de developpeur a la Dtil, Paris Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:31:44 +0100 From: Adriana Lau Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.2.20080118172818.021b27c8 at 212.37.192.23> X-url: http://www.unilat.org/ X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/ Appel à candidatures pour le poste de développeur à la Dtil (à pourvoir immédiatement) Conditions d'emploi Intitulé du poste : Développeur outils Internet Lieu d'affectation : Secrétariat général de Paris Durée de l'engagement initial : Contrat de 2 ans assorti d'une période d'essai de 6 mois Durée hebdomadaire du travail : 30 heures Régime juridique applicable : Statut et règlement du personnel de l'Union latine Régime de protection sociale : Assurance médicale et régime de pension propres à l'Organisation Principales fonctions Sous l'autorité du directeur de la Direction terminologie et industries de la langue (Dtil), le développeur aura pour fonction : * Conception, réalisation et refonte de sites ; * Correction, retouche et amélioration des sites Internet existants en PHP/ASP ; * Contrôle de formulaires en WEB 2.0 ; * Dynamisation de sites en PHP ; * Révision, traduction et rédaction de documents. et sera chargé des activités suivantes : * Conception graphique des sites de la Dtil ; * Structuration des bases de données ; * Développement des sites Internet et administration des composantes PHP/MYSQL ; * Administration des serveurs web (Apache) sous Linux. Conditions et compétences requises Le (a) candidat(e) doit : * Être ressortissant(e) d'un État membre de l'Union latine (voir http://www.unilat.org) ; * Détenir une excellente maîtrise de l'italien (langue maternelle) ou du portugais (langue maternelle) et une bonne maîtrise du français. La compréhension passive d'autres langues latines, ainsi que des études ou expériences en linguistique (lexicographie, terminologie, traduction, etc..) sont des atouts supplémentaires. Connaissances indispensables : * Programmation : PHP/MYSQL, SQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS * Serveurs : Apache * Logiciels : Dreamweaver, PhpMyAdmin, Filezilla, Photoshop, Office, etc. * Système d'exploitation : Linux Sélection des candidatures Les personnes intéressées doivent faire parvenir à la DTIL un dossier complet de candidature comprenant un curriculum vitae et une lettre de motivation. La sélection se fait sur dossier Dépôt de candidatures : Union latine, Service du personnel - 131 rue du Bac, 75007 Paris Courriel : serv.pers at unilat.org ______________________________________________________________________ Adriana Lau DTIL Unió LLatina - Unión Latina - Union latine - Unione Latina - União Latina - Uniunea Latina 131, rue du Bac - 75007 Paris T. +33 (0) 1 45 49 60 62 F. +33 (0) 1 45 49 67 39 a.lau at unilat.org http://dtil.unilat.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:55:27 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:55:27 +0100 Subject: Job: Proposition de stage, IBISC, Evry Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:44:35 +0100 From: Brigitte Grau Message-ID: <4790E583.2060304 at ensiie.fr> X-url: http://physiome.ibisc.fr/qkdb X-url: http://www.ibisc.univ-evry.fr/ X-url: http://amisbio.ibisc.fr Proposition de stage à l'IBISC : Sujet de stage : Aide à l'annotation d'articles scientifiques Contexte QKDB (http://physiome.ibisc.fr/qkdb) est une base de données sur la physiologie du rein, qui décrit 300 articles scientifiques. Les informations contenues dans cette base donnent, pour chaque article, des détails sur les expériences et les résultats décrits dans l'article : espèce concernée, organe, différentes mesures effectuées... Ces informations ont été introduites manuellement dans la base, après lecture de chacun des articles par un expert du domaine. Sujet L'objet du stage est l'aide à l'annotation d'articles scientifiques pour l'intégration dans la base de données QKDB en repérant automatiquement les éléments du texte qui décrivent les informations à ajouter dans la base. A cette fin, il s'agit de constituer une base de référence contenant les textes dans lesquels seront annotés les éléments déjà présents dans la base QKDB. En effet, actuellement, on retrouve les articles qui répondent à une requête, mais on ne sait pas où l'information est donnée dans l'article. Il s'agira ainsi de revenir au texte à partir des informations de la BD en : - transformant les articles de pdf en texte. On partira d'outils existants qu'il faudra améliorer ; - projetant les données de la BD dans les textes, en utilisant là aussi des outils existants (reconnaissance d'entités numériques et reconnaissance de termes) afin de reconnaître la manière dont les attributs et les valeurs de la base sont formulés dans les textes. La base de référence ainsi constituée devra permettre de mettre en place un outil d'extraction automatique des données sur la physiologie du rein. Informations pratiques Lieu du stage : IBISC, Tour Evry2, Evry (http://www.ibisc.univ-evry.fr/), équipe AMISBIO (http://amisbio.ibisc.fr) Responsables : Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat Durée : 5 mois Niveau : M2 ou dernière année d'école d'ingénieur Stage rémunéré ---- ENSIIE Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise 18 allee Jean Rostand, 91025 EVRY Cedex tel. 01 69 36 73 44, fax 01 69 36 73 09 et Groupe LIR - LIMSI BP 133, 91403 ORSAY Cedex tel. 01 69 85 80 03, fax 01 69 85 80 88 et AMISBIO - IBISC Université d'Evry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:43:07 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:43:07 +0100 Subject: Appel: Constraints in Discourse 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:14:49 +0100 From: Peter Kuehnlein Message-ID: <478E0349.9010002 at rug.nl> X-url: http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org X-url: http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net Workshop on Constraints in Discourse http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org This is the third in a series of workshops entitled "Constraints in Discourse". It is a linguistic commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its sentences. But what exactly are the rules that govern its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? For a long time, the development of precise frameworks of discourse interpretation has been hampered by the lack of a deeper understanding of the dependencies between different discourse units. Recent years have seen a considerable advance in this field. A number of strong constraints have been proposed that restrict the sequencing and attaching of segments at various descriptive levels, as well as the interpretation of their interrelations. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting recent research on constraints in discourse. The target areas include the recognition of discourse structure as well as the interpretation and generation of discourse in a broad variety of domains. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from diverse formal approaches, including but not limited to: - Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) - Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) - Tree Adjoining Grammars - Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) - The QUD Modell - Plan Based Reasoning - Abductive Reasoning - Gricean Pragmatics - Speech Act Theory We invite talks that further our theoretical understanding of the role of constraints in discourse, as well as empirical studies that shed light on their empirical validity. The conference is explicitly intended for discussion and comparison of theoretical accounts that lay the ground for applications. It is not intended as a platform for system demonstrations. Specific topics might relate to - Anaphora Resolution - Co-reference - Dialogical vs. Monological Discourse - Questions and Answers - Lexicon and Discourse Relations - Cognitive Modeling - Underspecification and Nonmonotonic Inferences etc. The organisers are planning to publish a book based on the contributions to this workshop. Publication (and workshop) language is English Invited Speakers ================ Laurence Danlos, Universite Paris 7 Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University Paul Piwek, Open University Bonnie Webber, U Edinburgh, UK Paper Submission ================ Researchers interested in contributing a paper to the workshop are invited to submit an abstract that spans not more than 3 pages in PDF or PS (single column, 10pt font size, a4 paper, including a bibliography) using the form that will be provided at the workshop website (via http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org). Reviews will be done blindly; the abstracts may accordingly not include explicit hints that allow the identification of the authors (such as "in paper (...) we show that"). Important Dates =============== Conf: July 30th-August, 1st, 2008 Deadline for Submissions: April 25th, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 17th, 2008 Final Abstracts due: July 12th, 2008 Program Committee ================= Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Laurence Danlos, Universite Paris 7, France Markus Egg, RU Groningen, Netherlands Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA Peter Kuehnlein, RU Groningen, Netherlands Paul Piwek, Open Univerity, UK Gisela Redeker, RU Groningen, Netherlands David Schlangen, U Potsdam, Germany Manfred Stede, U Potsdam, Germany Bonnie Webber, U Edinburgh, UK Organisation ============ Organisation Committee: Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Markus Egg, RU Groningen, Netherlands Peter Kuehnlein, RU Groningen, Netherlands Gisela Redeker, RU Groningen, Netherlands Manfred Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany Local Organisation: Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Manfred Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany -- Communicatie- en Informatiewetenschappen Center for Language and Cognition Groningen Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Postbus 716, 9700 AS Groningen tel.: (+31|0)50-3636996) http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From zogsdwrealtyofcapecodfiv at SDWREALTYOFCAPECOD.COM Fri Jan 18 03:35:53 2008 From: zogsdwrealtyofcapecodfiv at SDWREALTYOFCAPECOD.COM (Donny Mckay) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:35:53 -0800 Subject: Have a great night with your girlfriend! 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Evgeniya From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 22 20:57:06 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:57:06 +0100 Subject: Appel: 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:14:23 +0100 From: Jørgen Villadsen Message-ID: <20080118211423218.56BB04C17AFE7C0D at nbjv> X-url: http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/ X-url: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CSLP2008 X-url: http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~hdehoop/ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008) http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/ August 11-15, 2008 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany Workshop Organizers: Philippe Blache (Provence University, France) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), co-chair henning at ruc..dk Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Jørgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), co-chair jv at imm.dtu..dk Workshop Purpose: The CSLP 2008 workshop addresses the question of constraints and language processing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: natural language processing, knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. The purpose is to pursue a paradigm, unifying the different approaches into a common framework capable of explaining how constraints play a role in representing, processing and acquiring linguistic information, and this from a formal, technical, and cognitive perspective. Workshop Topics: The topics include, but are not limited to, constraint-based linguistic theories, constraints in human language comprehension and production, context modelling and discourse interpretation, acquisition of constraints, probabilistic constraint-based reasoning, constraint satisfaction technologies and constraint logic programming. Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 12 pages in PDF format. The font size must be at least 10 pt when printed on A4 paper. It is recommended that the LaTeX "article" style is used. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. Proceedings are printed as a technical report (with ISSN no.) and made available online. Selected and extended papers will be included in a volume of Studies in Computational Intelligence published by Springer. Please use the CSLP 2008 submission page handled by the EasyChair conference system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CSLP2008 Workshop Format: The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI. Invited Speakers: * Helen de Hoop http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~hdehoop/ * Additional invited speaker to be confirmed Workshop Programme Committee: Philippe Blache (Provence University, France) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), co-chair Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Denys Duchier (University of Orléans, France) John Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark) Claire Gardent (CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France) Barbara Hemforth (Provence University, France) M. Dolores Jiménez-López (Tarragona, Spain) Lars Konieczny (Freiburg University, Germany) Shalom Lappin (King's College, UK) Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University, USA) Véronique Moriceau (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France) Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Jørgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), co-chair Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, France) Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 8, 2008 Notification: April 21, 2008 Preliminary Program: April 24, 2008 ESSLLI Early Registration: May 1, 2008 Final Papers for Proceedings: May 17, 2008 Final Program: June 21, 2008 Workshop Dates: August 11-15, 2008 Local Arrangements: All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Further Information: About the workshop: http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/ About ESSLLI: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 22 21:01:30 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:01:30 +0100 Subject: Appel: Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:44:11 +0100 From: Jakub.Piskorski at jrc.it Message-id: X-url: http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008 X-url: http://www.fastar.org X-url: http://forums.csc.fi/kitwiki/pilot/view/KitWiki/FsmReg X-url: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing - FSMNLP 2008 Seventh International Workshop F I R S T C A L L F O R P A P E R S Joint-Research Center of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy 11-12 September 2008 http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This year FSMNLP is merged with the FASTAR (Finite Automata Systems - Theoretical and Applied Research) workshop (http://www.fastar.org). AIM AND SCOPE The aim of the FSMNLP 2008 is to bring together members of the research and industrial community working on finite-state based models in language technology, computational linguistics, web mining, linguistics, and cognitive science or on related theory and methods in fields such as computer science and mathematics. The workshop will be a forum for researchers and practicioners working * on NLP applications, * on the theoretical and implementation aspects, or * on their combination. The special theme of FSMNLP 2008 centers around high performance finite-state devices in large-scale natural language text processing systems and applications. We invite in particular novel high-quality papers related to the topics including: * practices and experience in deployment of finite-state techniques in real-world applications processing massive amount of natural language data * industrial-strength finite-state pattern engines for information retrieval, information extraction and related text-mining tasks * scalability issues in FS-based large-scale text processing systems * efficient finite-state methods in search engines * implementation, construction, compression and processing techniques for huge finite-state devices and networks * novel application and efficiency-oriented finite-state paradigms (compilation and processing), e.g., finite-state devices with rich label annotatations, unification-based finite-state devices * comparative studies of time and space efficient finite-state methods (vs. other techniques) utilized in NLP applications * novel appllication areas for finite-state devices in text processing and information management systems * design patterns for implementing finite-state devices and toolkits We also invite submissions that are related to the traditional FSMNLP themes including but not limited to: 1. NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods The topic includes but is not restricted to: * speech, sign language, phonology, hyphenation, prosody, * scripts, text normalization, segmentation, tokenization, indexing, * morphology, stemming, lemmatisation, information retrieval, web mining, spelling correction, * syntax, POS tagging, partial parsing, disambiguation, information extraction, question answering * machine translation, translation memories, glossing, dialect adaptation, * annotated corpora and treebanks, semi-automatic annotation, error mining, searching 2. Finite-state models of language With this more focused topic (inside 1) we invite papers on aspects that motivate sufficiency of finite-state methods or their subsets for capturing various requirements of natural language processing. The topic includes but is not restricted to: * performance, linguistic applicability, finite-state hypotheses * Zipf's law and coverage, model checking against finite corpora * regular approximations under parameterized complexity, limitations and definitions of relevant complexities such as ambiguity, recursion, crossings, rule applications, constraint violations, reduplication, exponents, discontinuity, path-width, and induction depth * similarity inferences, dissimilation, segmental length, counter-freeness, asynchronous machines * garden-path sentences, deterministic parsing, expected parses, Markov chains * incremental parsing, uncertainty, reliability/variance in stochastic parsing, linear sequential machines 3. Practices for building lexical transducers for the world's languages. The topic accounts for usability of finite-state methods in NLP. It includes but is not restricted to: * required user training and consultation, learning curve of non-specialists * questionnaires, discovery methods, adaptive computer-aided glossing and interlinearization * example-based grammars, unsupervised learning, semi-automatic learning, user-driven learning (see topic 5 too) * low literacy level and restricted availability of training data, writing systems/phonology under development, new non-Roman scripts, endangered languages * linguist's workbenches, stealth-to-wealth parser development * experiences of using existing tools (e.g. TWOL) for computational morphology and phonology 4. Specification and implementation of sets, relations and multiplicities in NLP using finite state devices The topic includes but is not restricted to: * regular rule formalisms, grammar systems, expressions, operations, closure properties, complexities * algorithms for compilation, approximation, manipulation, optimization, and lazy evaluation of finite machines * finite string and tree automata, transducers, morphisms and bimorphisms * weights, registers, multiple tapes, alphabets, state covers and partitions, representations * locality, constraint propagation, star-free languages, data vs. query complexity * logical specification, MSO(SLR,matches), FO(Str,<), LTL, generalized restriction, local grammars * multi-tape automata, same-length relations and partition-based morphology, Semitic morphology * autosegmental phonology, shuffle, trajectories, synchronization, segmental anchoring, alignment constraints, syllable structure, partial-order reductions * varieties of regular languages and relations, descriptive complexity of finite-state based grammars * automaton-based approaches to declarative constraint grammars, constraints in optimality theory * parallel corpus annotations, register automata, acyclic timed automata 5. Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language This topic includes but is not restricted to: * learning regular rule systems, learning topologies of finite automata and transducers * parameter estimation and smoothing, lexical openness * computer-driven grammar writing, user-driven grammar learning, discovery procedures * data scarcity, realistic variations of Gold's model, learnability and cognitive science * incompletely specified finite-state networks * model-theoretic grammars, gradient well/ill-formedness 6. Finite-state manipulation software (with relevance to the above themes) This topic includes but is not restricted to * regular expression pre-compilers such as regexopt, xfst2fsa, standards and interfaces for finite-state based software components, conversion tools * tools such as LEXC, Lextools, Intex, XFST, FSM, GRM, WFSC, FIRE Engine, FADD, FSA/UTR, SRILM, FIRE Station and Grail * free or almost free software such as MIT FST, Carmel, RWTH FSA, FSA Utilities, FSM<2.0>, Unitex, OpenFIRE, OpenFST, Vaucanson, SFST, PCKIMMO, MONA, Hopskip, ASTL, UCFSM, HaLeX, SML, and WFST (see http://forums.csc.fi/kitwiki/pilot/view/KitWiki/FsmReg for more examples) * results obtainable with such exploration tools as automata, Autographe, Amore, and TESTAS * visualization tools such as Graphviz and Vaucanson-G * language-specific resources and descriptions, freely available benchmarking resources The descriptions of the topics above are not meant to be complete, and should extend to cover all traditional FSMNLP topics. Submitted papers or abstracts may fall in several categories. SUBMISSION We expect three kinds of submissions: - full papers, - short papers, and - interactive software demos. Submissions are electronic and in PDF format via a web-based submission server. Authors are encouraged to use Springer LNCS style (Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes) for LaTeX in producing the PDF document. More information on this style can be found at: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 The page limit for full papers is 12 pages, whereas short papers and software demo descriptions are limited to 6 pages. The information about the author(s) should be omitted in the submitted papers since the review process wil be blind. More detailed information will be available soon on the workshops homepage http:\\langtech.jrc.lt\FSMNLP2008 PUBLICATION The papers and abstracts will be published in FSMNLP 2008 proceedings. Publication of revised versions of the papers in a special journal issue is planned. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions due: 11 May Notification of acceptance: 11 June Camera-ready versions due: 30 June PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended) Cyril Allauzen (Google Research, New York, USA) Francisco Casacuberta (Instituto Tecnologico De Informática, Valencia, Spain) Maxime Crochemore (Department of Computer Science, King's College London, U.K.) Jan Daciuk (GdaÅ„sk University of Technology, Poland) Karin Haenelt (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and University of Heidelberg, Germany) Thomas Hanneforth (University of Potsdam, Germany) André Kempe (Yahoo Search Technologies, Paris, France) Derrick Kourie (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Andras Kornai (Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary and MetaCarta, Cambridge, USA) Hans-Ulrich Krieger (DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany) Eric Laporte (Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France) Stoyan Mihov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy) Strahil Ristov (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia) Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw University, Poland) Jacques Sakarovitch (Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France) Max Silberztein (Université de Franche-Comté, France) Wojciech Skut (Google Research, Mountain View, USA) Bruce Watson (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel) Atro Voutilainen (Connexor Oy, Finland) Anssi Yli Jyrä (University of Helsinki and CSC – Scientific Computing Ltd., Espoo, Finland) Sheng Yu (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Derrick Kourie (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy) Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy) Bruce Watson (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) STEERING COMMITTEE Lauri Karttunen (Palo Alto Research Center, USA and Stanford University, USA) Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey and Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Anssi Yli Jyrä (University of Helsinki and CSC – Scientific Computing Ltd., Espoo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 22 21:12:01 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:12:01 +0100 Subject: Appel: MLMI 2008 (5th Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:29:39 +0100 From: Andrei Popescu-Belis Message-ID: <47965233.2000605 at idiap.ch> X-url: http://barracuda.idiap.ch:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-url: http://www.mlmi.info X-url: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi08/ X-url: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 X-url: http://www.mlmi.info MLMI 2008 first call for papers (apologies for multiple postings): 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI 2008) 8-10 September 2008 Utrecht, The Netherlands http://www.mlmi.info The fifth MLMI workshop will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, following successful workshops in Martigny (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Washington (2006) and Brno (2007). MLMI brings together researchers from the different communities working on the common theme of advanced machine learning algorithms applied to multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction. The motivation for creating this joint multi-disciplinary workshop arose from the actual needs of several large collaborative projects, in Europe and the United States. * Important dates Submission of papers/posters: Monday, 31 March 2008 Acceptance notifications: Monday, 12 May 2008 Camera-ready versions of papers: Monday, 16 June 2008 Workshop: 8-10 September 2008 * Workshop topics MLMI 2008 will feature talks (including a number of invited speakers), posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit proposals in the following areas of interest, related to machine learning and multimodal interaction: - human-human communication modeling - audio-visual perception of humans - human-computer interaction modeling - speech processing - image and video processing - multimodal processing, fusion and fission - multimodal discourse and dialogue modeling - multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization - annotation and browsing of multimodal data - machine learning algorithms and their applications to the topics above * Satellite events MLMI'08 will feature special sessions and satellite events, as during the previous editions of MLMI (see www.mlmi.info for examples). To propose special sessions or satellite events, please contact the special session chair. MLMI 2008 is broadly colocated with a number of events in related domains: Mobile HCI 2008, 2-5 September, in Amsterdam; FG 2008, 17-19 September, in Amsterdam; and ECML 2008, 15-19 September, in Antwerp. * Guidelines for submission The workshop proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (pending approval). The first four editions of MLMI were published as LNCS 3361, 3869, 4299, and 4892. However, unlike previous MLMIs, the proceedings of MLMI 2008 will be printed before the workshop and will be already available onsite to MLMI 2008 participants. Submissions are invited either as long papers (12 pages) or as short papers (6 pages), and may include a demonstration proposal. Upon acceptance of a paper, the Program Committee will also assign to it a presentation format, oral or poster, taking into account: (a) the most suitable format given the content of the paper; (b) the length of the paper (long papers are more likely to be presented orally); (c) the preferences expressed by the authors. Please submit PDF files using the submission website at http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi08/, following the Springer LNCS format for proceedings and other multiauthor volumes (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, both long and short, are required to follow these guidelines and to take into account the reviewers' comments. Authors of accepted short papers are encouraged to turn them into long papers for the proceedings. * Venue Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands, with historic roots back to the Roman Empire. Utrecht hosts one of the bigger universities in the country, and with its historic centre and the many students it provides and excellent atmosphere for social activities in- or outside the workshop community. Utrecht is centrally located in the Netherlands, and has direct train connections to the major cities and Schiphol International Airport. TNO, organizer of MLMI 2008, is a not-for-profit research organization. TNO speech technological research is carried out in Soesterberg, at TNO Human Factors, and has research areas in ASR, speaker and language recognition, and word and event spotting. The workshop will be held in "Ottone", a beautiful old building near the "Singel", the canal which encircles the city center. The conference hall combines a spacious setting with a warm an friendly ambiance. * Organizing Committee David van Leeuwen, TNO (Organization Chair) Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (Special Sessions Chair) Andrei Popescu-Belis, IDIAP Research Institute (Programme Co-chair) Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe (Programme Co-chair) * Programme Committee (to be announced at http://www.mlmi.info) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 25 21:06:23 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:06:23 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journal TAL, special issue on NLP Platforms, New submission deadline Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:07:31 +0100 From: Patrice Enjalbert Message-Id: <66AD15AE-C451-459D-A40D-2BE818C0617E at info.unicaen.fr> X-url: http://www.atala.org/ X-url: http://tal.e-revues.com/ X-url: http://tal.e-revues.com/appel.jsp LAST CALL NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE : February 11th, 2008 PLATFORMS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SPECIAL ISSUE OF « TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES » (TAL) JOURNAL 2008 Volume 49 Number 2 http://www.atala.org/ Research in NLP increasingly requires sophisticated software architectures. Because there is no agreed "integrated" model of language processing, researchers often produce ad hoc and application- specific solutions, while NLP platforms help by bringing components together and making them interoperable. Due to the complex nature of NLP applications - and language itself - one needs to mix in the same process different models, resources and algorithms, leading to important problems of interoperability and data exchange. Moreover, the increasing complexity of linguistic models implies sophisticated formalisation tools, and the development of experimental studies on large corpora also brings strong constraints on the software environments. These various characteristics and requirements raise many questions which will be the focus of the present special issue on platforms for language processing. Two interrelated and complementary aspects are relevant: an architectural and a methodological one. 1) Architectural issues Bringing together different modules raises many architectural and technical questions, centered around interoperability and data exchange, such as: - interoperability between representation formats of corpora, linguistic resources, documents and annotations; possible standardisation; - technical compatibility of heterogeneous algorithms and data: portability, availability, maintainability, etc; - graphical user interfaces supporting computer scientists and/ or linguists to assemble sets of "components" and to visualise and debug the results of their application to corpora; - multimodality and multilinguism; - software execution models: pipeline, agent-based architectures, distributed web services, etc; techniques for limiting errors from propagating into subsequent modules; efficiency comparisons of the various kinds of architectures; scalability (massive data, simultaneous on-line users...); 2) Methodological issues The scientific approach which consists in projecting a certain linguistic model - or a set of models - on the same data or corpora also raises interesting questions: - formalisation: which formalisms are appropriate for the various levels of linguistic analysis? How can they be made interoperable? What should be considered first: the expressivity of a formalism or the complexity of the associated algorithms? - descriptive power: how can we ensure the declarative nature of NLP processes, from linguistic rules to the specification of process chaining? Is it possible to have a convergence of descriptive and prescriptive models? - repeatability: how to ensure that an experiment, based on complex algorithms, can be reproduced? How to share and capitalize on operational models and resources? - modularity: how to make a complex process independent of the choice of a particular component for a particular task? Reuse and adaptation of resources and components; support for multiple annotations; - evaluation of composite processes; - theoretical productivity: by bringing together different "local" models can we study new linguistic phenomena, at a higher complexity level? Presentation of concrete experiments embedding NLP platforms into application-oriented software systems (human-machine interfaces, information retrieval and extraction, terminology/ontology constitution, automated translation...) is warmly encouraged. Description of specific NLP platforms is also welcome, and authors should then clearly explain the underlying principles and hypotheses, in order to contribute to the general discussion. THE JOURNAL (see http://www.atala.org/) The journal TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) is an international journal published since 1960 by ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) with the support of the CNRS. It is now becoming available in electronic form, with print on demand. The reading and selection process remain unchanged. LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking authors are requested to submit in French. IMPORTANT DATES - as soon as possible : send an email including the title, authors and a ten lines abstract, to tal-plateformes at info.unicaen.fr (preferred but optional) - 11/02/2008 Deadline for submission - 11/04/2008 Notification to authors - 18/05/2008 Deadline for submission of revised version - 09/06/2008 Final decision - September 2008 Publication PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions (25 pages maximum, PDF format) will be sent by e-mail at the address below: tal-plateformes at info.unicaen.fr Style sheets are available for download at http://tal.e-revues.com/ appel.jsp GUEST EDITORS Kalina BONTCHEVA (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) Patrice ENJALBERT (University of Caen, France) Benoît HABERT (ENS LSH & ICAR, France) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Jason BALDRIDGE (University of Texas Austin, USA) Frédérik BILHAUT (University of Caen, France) Jean CARLETTA (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Farid CERBAH (Dassault Aviation, France) Javier COUTO (INCO, Uruguay) Robert DALE (Macquarie University, Australia) François DAOUST (UQAM, Quebec, Canada) Thierry DECLERCK (DFKI, Germany) Serge HEIDEN (ENS-LSH & ICAR, France) Nancy IDE (Vassar College, New-York, USA & LORIA/CNRS, France) Michel JACOBSON (LACITO, France) Diana MAYNARD (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) Jean-Luc MINEL (MoDyCo, CNRS, France) Sylvaine NUGIER (EDF, France) Sébastien PAUMIER (University of Marne-la-Vallée, France) Etienne PETITJEAN (ATILF, France) Thierry POIBEAU (LIPN-CNRS , France) Laurent ROMARY (INRIA, France & MPG, Germany) Vera Lucia STRUBE de LIMA (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil) Valentin TABLAN (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) John TAIT (IRF, Austria) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 25 21:11:50 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:11:50 +0100 Subject: Appel: Conference TOTh 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:25:50 +0100 From: Luc Damas Message-ID: <47976A8E.5070208 at univ-savoie.fr> X-url: http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Appel à communications ---------------------------------------------------------- TOTh : Terminologie & Ontologie : Théories et Applications Annecy - 5 & 6 juin 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Comment modéliser les connaissances métiers ? Les mutations technologiques et économiques ont modifié profondément nos structures sociétales. La notion de communauté est devenue centrale, rendant plus manifestes les besoins de communication et de partage de l'information. Information érigée au rang de connaissance qui constitue la véritable richesse de nos sociétés et qui pose les problèmes de leur capitalisation et de leur exploitation. Autant de besoins et de problèmes qui font des langues de spécialité, de la terminologie et de l'ingénierie des connaissances des disciplines incontournables. La société numérique, à travers les applications de traitement de l'information, milite pour une approche concertée de ces disciplines : importance des langues de spécialité et de la terminologie pour la communication et l'expression des connaissances, mais aussi impact de la représentation des connaissances et des modèles informatiques sur la terminologie et les langues de spécialité (parmi les principales questions abordées figure celle des ontologies). Les conférences TOTh se situent dans le prolongement des colloques annuels de la Société française de terminologie, organisés en décembre à l'Ecole normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm, afin d'approfondir et de diversifier les problématiques qui y sont abordées. Parmi les thèmes qui relèvent des conférences TOTh, citons (liste non exhaustive) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Axe linguistique : - Les langues de spécialité, la socioterminologie en particulier en direction des entreprises, l'aménagement linguistique (prescription, normalisation), - Les dictionnaires, thésaurus, lexiques et produits terminologiques, - La construction et la maintenance de ressources terminologiques : théories du sens, importance et limite de la linguistique textuelle (traitement de corpus) ... - Multilinguisme et traduction. Axe conceptuel : - Principes terminologiques pour la construction des systèmes notionnels, - La représentation et la gestion des connaissances : modélisation des concepts, construction d'ontologies, transmissibilité des ontologies ... - Apport de l'intelligence artificielle, de la linguistique, de l'épistémologie, des systèmes formels (logique des descriptions par exemple). Axe applicatif : - Les environnements logiciels : construction et maintenance des terminologies, thésaurus, dictionnaires, ontologies ... - Les applications informatiques mettant en jeu des ressources terminologiques et/ou des bases de connaissances : systèmes d'information, gestion documentaire (recherche d'information, classification), gestion des connaissances, web sémantique, ingénierie collaborative, etc. - L'évaluation des outils d'acquisition et de manipulation, l'évolution des normes et standards dans le domaine des ressources linguistiques et ontologiques. Publics & disciplines concernés: -------------------------------- Les conférences TOTh ont pour principal objectif de rassembler industriels, chercheurs, utilisateurs et formateurs dont les préoccupations relèvent des langues de spécialité, de la terminologie et de l'ingénierie des connaissances ; et de façon plus générale toutes personnes intéressées par la gestion de l'information où les dimensions liées à la langue et à la connaissance tiennent une place prépondérante. Elles se veulent un lieu d'échange et de partage où sont exposés problèmes, solutions et retours d'expériences tant sur le plan théorique qu'applicatif ; ainsi que les nouvelles tendances et perspectives des disciplines associées : terminologie, linguistique, sciences de l'information, intelligence artificielle, systèmes d'information, ingénierie collaborative, etc. Comité Scientifique : Responsable : Christophe Roche ------------------------------------------------------ * Comité de pilotage o Loïc Depecker Professeur, Université de Sorbonne nouvelle o André Manificat Directeur, GRETh o Christophe Roche Professeur, Université de Savoie o Philippe Thoiron Professeur émérite, Université de Lyon II * Comité de programme o Bruno de Bessé Professeur, Université de Genève o Pierre Blanc EDF SEPTEN o Danièle Bourcier CNRS, CERSA Paris o Marc van Campenhoudt Professeur, Institut supérieur d'interprétation et de Traduction de Bruxelles o Danielle Candel CNRS, Université Paris Diderot o Stéphane Chaudiron Professeur, Université de Lille III o Viviane Cohen Information System Enterprise Architecture & Anticipation, France Télécom o Rute Costa Professeur, Université de Lisbonne o Luc Damas MCF, Université de Savoie o Sylvie Desprès MCF, Université Paris XIII o Anne Dourgnon-Hanoune EDF R&D o François Gaudin Professeur, Université de Rouen o Jean-Yves Gresser ancien Directeur à la Banque de France o Ollivier Haemmerlé Professeur, Université de Toulouse o Jean-Paul Haton Professeur, Université de Nancy 1 o Michèle Hudon Professeur, Université de Montréal o John Humbley Professeur, Université Paris 7 o Michel IDA Directeur MINATEC, CEA o Hendrik Kockaert Professeur, Lessius Hogeschool (Anvers) o Michel Léonard Professeur, Université de Genève o Pierre Lerat Professeur honoraire, Université Paris XIII o Widad Mustafa Professeur, Université de Lille III o Jean Quirion Professeur, Université du Québec en Outaouais o Renato Reinau Suva, Lucerne o François Rousselot MCF, Université de Strasbourg o Gérard Sabah CNRS, Orsay o Michel Simonet CNRS Grenoble o Marcus Spies Professeur, Université de Munich o Dardo de Vecchi Professeur associé, Euro-Med Marseille Dates importantes : ------------------- - Date limite de soumission : 16 mars 2008 - Notification d'acceptation aux auteurs : 20 avril 2008 Soumissions : luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr Contacts : ---------- Christophe Roche : responsable scientifique christophe.roche at univ-savoie.fr - tél. : 04 79 75 87 79 Luc Damas : responsable de l'organisation luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr - tél. : 04 79 75 87 03 Joelle Pellet : secrétariat toth at porphyre.org tél. : 04 50 09 65 80 - fax : 04 50 09 65 59 Site : www.porphyre.org/toth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 25 21:13:21 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:13:21 +0100 Subject: Jobs: Two Postdoctoral positions in NLP at INRIA Paris Rocquencourt Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:46:21 +0100 From: Eric De la clergerie Message-ID: <4798424D.6050107 at inria.fr> X-url: http://alpage.inria.fr/stages.en.html X-url: http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc/postdoc.en.html X-url: http://alpage.inria.fr X-url: http://alpage.inria.fr/~clerger 2 Postdoctoral Positions at INRIA Paris Rocquencourt (France) in Project-team Alpage. Field: Computational Linguistics Topics: * Exploitation of high level syntactic models for Natural Language Processing * NLP, deep probabilistic and symbolic parsing, discourse modeling and parsing, NLP-based knowledge acquisition techniques Deadline for application: February 15, 2008. Starting Date: September 2008 Employer: INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science) Paris Rocquencourt (France) Applicants must have a ** recent doctoral degree ** (PhD viva held in may 2007 or later) or defend their PhD before the end of 2008. They must have expertise in an area relevant to the project (computational linguistics, computer science), strong hands-on experience in Natural Language Processing. Further particulars and details of how to apply are available at: http://alpage.inria.fr/stages.en.html and http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc/postdoc.en.html Information about Alpage: http://alpage.inria.fr Contact: Eric de la Clergerie Laurence Danlos -- Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr Projet Alpage - INRIA Rocquencourt WWW Home Page: http://alpage.inria.fr/~clerger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 25 21:14:27 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:14:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: DEFT'08 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:36:12 +0100 From: Martine Hurault-Plantet Message-Id: <200801251236.12840.Martine.Hurault-Plantet at limsi.fr> X-url: http://deft08.limsi.fr/ X-url: http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php ****************************************************************** DEFT'08 Appel à participation Atelier d'évaluation en fouille de textes : Classification de textes en thème et en genre http://deft08.limsi.fr/ Inscription : http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php ****************************************************************** Dates importantes : Inscription : à partir du 21 décembre 2007 Diffusion des corpus d'apprentissage : 14 janvier 2008 Test : 3 jours pris dans la dernière quinzaine de mars 2008 Atelier : 9-13 juin dans le cadre de TALN'08 ****************************************************************** Depuis 3 ans DEFT (http://deft.limsi.fr/) propose des campagnes d'évaluation dans le domaine de la Fouille de Textes en langue française. L'atelier DEFT'08 se tiendra cette année en Avignon dans le cadre de la conférence TALN. Le thème de cette édition 2008 de DEFT concerne la classification en thème et en genre de textes. La classification automatique a de multiples applications en fouille de textes. De l'orientation de courriels à la veille stratégique ou scientifique, de nombreux domaines d'application ont été explorés. Depuis quelques années une nouvelle problématique est apparue, celle de la classification en genre de textes. Au-delà de la reconnaissance du thème du document, la reconnaissance de son genre est utile pour guider l'utilisation qui sera faite du document. Mais comment reconnaître à la fois le thème et le genre d'un document ? La différence de genre influence-t-elle la reconnaissance de la catégorie thématique d'un document, et, inversement, la différence de thème influence-t-elle la reconnaissance du genre du document ? Pour évaluer des logiciels de classification dans cette perspective, nous allons confronter, sur un même ensemble de catégories pré-définies, deux corpus de genres différents, un corpus d'articles journalistiques issus du journal Le Monde, et un corpus d'articles encyclopédiques issus de l'encyclopédie libre sur Internet, Wikipédia. Ce que nous mettons ici sous le terme genre renvoie à un ensemble de textes partageant des propriétés liées au domaine d'activité, à des pratiques et au support utilisé pour ces textes. Un article de journal rend compte d'une actualité et un article encyclopédique diffuse un savoir, mais les deux ont en commun un certain nombre de catégories thématiques générales, appelées rubriques chez l'un et catégories chez l'autre. Il s'agira de tester sur ces corpus d'une part la robustesse d'un modèle de classification thématique soumis à des variations en genre de texte, et d'autre part les améliorations possibles d'une classification thématique par la reconnaissance du genre de texte. Description de la tâche *********************** Pour l'entraînement, nous fournirons 2 corpus : * un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikipédia d'un ensemble A de catégories thématiques avec un double étiquetage, l'un en genre et l'autre en catégorie thématique, * un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikipédia d'un ensemble B de catégories thématiques, différent de l'ensemble A, avec un simple étiquetage en catégorie thématique. Pour le test, nous fournirons deux corpus non étiquetés en genre ou en thème, avec une tâche différente pour chacun : * tâche 1 : reconnaissance du genre et de la catégorie thématique de chaque document d'un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikipédia appartenant à l'ensemble A de catégories thématiques, * tâche 2 : reconnaissance de la catégorie thématique de chaque document d'un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikipédia appartenant à l'ensemble B de catégories thématiques. Inscription ********** Les équipes participant à DEFT'08 devront s'inscrire à l'aide du formulaire en ligne (http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php), et signer les accords de restriction d'usage des corpus. Comités ******** Comité d'organisation : Co-responsables : Martine Hurault-Plantet (LIMSI) et Cyril Grouin (LIMSI) Membres : Sylvain Loiseau (LIMSI), Jean-Baptiste Berthelin (LIMSI), Sarra El Ayari (LIMSI) Comité de programme : Président : Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI) Membres : Catherine Berrut (CLIPS), Fabrice Clérot (France Telecom), Guillaume Cleuziou (LIFO), Matthieu Constant (IGM) Béatrice Daille (LINA), Halima Dahmani (CEA-LIST), Marc El-Bèze (LIA), Patrick Gallinari (LIP6), Éric Gaussier (Xerox Research), Thierry Hamon (LIPN), Fidélia Ibekwe-SanJuan (ELICO), Pascal Poncelet (LGI2P), Christophe Roche (LISTIC), Mathieu Roche (LIRMM), Bernard Rothenburger (IRIT - INRIA), Pascale Sébillot (IRISA), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA), François Yvon (LIMSI). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 25 21:17:35 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:17:35 +0100 Subject: Appel: Atelier Langue des signes - TALN 2008 - Avignon Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:05:15 +0100 From: Frederic Bechet Message-ID: <479A24DB.4050705 at univ-avignon.fr> X-url: http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=483 Appel à communication : TALS 08, journée d'études sur les langues des signes, Avignon, 13 juin 2008. Merci de diffuser largement Un atelier sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues des Signes (TALS) aura lieu le 13 juin 2008, dans le cadre de la Conférence TALN à Avignon (9-13 juin). Organisé par l'équipe « Langue des signes et formalisation de la modalité visuo-gestuelle » de l'UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du Langage-Université Paris 8 et CNRS (Brigitte Garcia et Dominique Boutet) et le laboratoire IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse (Patrice Dalle), cet atelier se donne comme objectif de permettre aux chercheurs de différentes disciplines sur les langues des signes (LS) de présenter et confronter leurs conceptions de ces langues et les résultats de leurs recherches. Cet atelier pluridisciplinaire est ainsi ouvert aux chercheurs travaillant sur les LS et, éventuellement, leurs liens avec la gestualité dite coverbale, dans les champs de la linguistique, de l'informatique et de l'ensemble des sciences cognitives. On s'intéressera aux propositions de modélisation des LS et de la gestualité de même qu'aux outils d'analyse et de synthèse du geste et des LS construits à partir de ces modèles. On souhaite particulièrement prendre en compte parmi ces outils : 1.Ceux dont la finalité est avant tout éducative, cette question de l'éducation des sourds étant plus que jamais d'actualité 2.Les outils d'aide à l'annotation de corpus (LS et gestualité). L'atelier se déroulera sur une journée. Il comprendra quatre sessions de 1h30 : deux sessions orales (sessions 1 et 3), une session de table ronde (session 2) et une session collective de posters et démonstrations (session 4). La session « table ronde » a pour finalité de fournir un authentique espace de discussion d'une part sur la diversité des conceptions qui structurent ce domaine de recherche et d'autre part entre deux disciplines (linguistique et informatique) qui ont peu d'occasions d'échanger. Thèmes Les thèmes proposés incluent notamment (liste non exhaustive) : analyse et compréhension de textes (phonétique/phonologie, lexique/morphologie, sémantique, énonciation...) structuration linguistique de l'espace LS et gestualité naturelle formes graphiques (systèmes de transcription, systèmes d'écriture, LS vidéo...) annotation de corpus (LS et gestualité) didacticiels (LSF ; forme écrite de la langue vocale-langue 2) analyse et reconnaissance génération architecture pour le TALS Comité de Programme Brigitte GARCIA, MCF UMR SFL Paris 8 Dominique BOUTET, MCF UMR SFL Paris 8 et U. EVE Patrice DALLE, PR IRIT, Toulouse 3 Antonio BALVET, MCF UMR STL, Lille 3 Annelies BRAFFORT, CR LIMSI, Orsay Marie-Anne SALLANDRE, MCF UMR SFL, Paris 8 Catherine PELACHAUD, PR LINC, IUT Montreuil, Paris 8 Marion BLONDEL, CR UMR SFL, Paris 8 Michel JACOBSON, IE UMR LACITO, Paris 3 et 4 Elena PIZZUTO, DR ISTC-CNR, Rome Annie RISLER, MCF UMR STL, Lille 3 Calendrier - Date limite de soumission : 14 mars 2008 - Notification aux auteurs : 3 avril 2008 - Version finale : 22 avril 2008 - Conférence TALN : du 9 au 13 juin 2008 - Atelier TALS : 13 juin 2008 Soumission des articles Les auteurs peuvent proposer un article (français ou LSF), un poster ou une démonstration sur ordinateur. La feuille de style est la même que pour la conférence TALN Articles : soumettre des articles complets (et non des résumés) (maximum, 10 pages) Posters : soumettre le poster et un texte de commentaire (2 pages) Démos : soumettre un texte décrivant la démo (2 pages) Article en LSF : la durée de la vidéo LSF doit être équivalente à un article de 10 pages (en général on estime que 3 à 4 mn de LSF = 1 page de texte) Informations pratiques (soumission des articles) Voir sur le site suivant à partir du 15 janvier : http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=483 Contact Brigitte Garcia : Brigitte.Garcia at univ-paris8.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From leztatsukixeh at TATSUKI.NET Fri Jan 25 13:09:16 2008 From: leztatsukixeh at TATSUKI.NET (Elsa Farmer) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:09:16 +0200 Subject: Customer alert! 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Thanks. ------------------ 6th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS (formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications) Tarragona, Spain, July 21 - August 2, 2008 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University http://www.grlmc.com ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Mathematics. Other graduate students (for instance, from Linguistics, Electrical Engineering, Molecular Biology or Logic) as well undergraduate students can attend too provided they have a good background in discrete mathematics. All courses will be compatible in terms of the schedule. (There will be no courses in parallel.) COURSES AND PROFESSORS JULY 21-26: Martyn Amos (Manchester), Synthetic Biology: Biological Engineering [6 hours] Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest), Language Theoretic Models of Multi-Agent Systems [14 hours] Zoltan Esik (Tarragona), An Axiomatic Theory of Automata [6 hours] Rusins Freivalds (Riga), Elliptic Curves [6 hours] Max Garzon (Memphis), Biomolecular Nanotechnology [6 hours] Masami Ito (Kyoto), Regular Grammars [6 hours] Martin Kutrib (Giessen), Cellular Automata [6 hours] Claudio Moraga (Mieres), Fuzzy Formal Languages [6 hours] Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima), Two-Dimensional Languages [6 hours] Mitsunori Ogihara (Rochester), Computational Complexity and Molecular Computation Models [6 hours] Friedrich Otto (Kassel), Restarting Automata [6 hours] COURSES AND PROFESSORS JULY 28 - AUGUST 2: Francine Blanchet-Sadri (Greensboro), Partial Words [6 hours] Henning Bordihn (Potsdam), Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars [8 hours] Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznan), Type Logics and Grammars [8 hours] Manfred Droste (Leipzig), Weighted Automata [8 hours] Joerg Flum (Freiburg, Germany), Parameterized Complexity [6 hours] Tom Head (Binghamton), Computing with Light Using Transparency and Opacity [6 hours] Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo), Grammatical Models and Algorithms for Biological Sequence Analysis [6 hours] Mark-Jan Nederhof (St.-Andrews), Probabilistic Parsing [6 hours] Alexander Okhotin (Turku), Language Equations [6 hours] Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt), Descriptional Complexity of Automata and Grammars [12 hours] Sheng Yu (London, Canada), Finite Automata [16 hours] REGISTRATION: It has to be done on line at: http://www.grlmc.com FEES: They are variable for each student, depending on the number of courses each one takes. The rule is: 1 hour = - 10 euros (for payments until March 24, 2008), - 12 euros (for payments after March 24, 2008). The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: IBAN code: ES13 0073 0100 5104 0350 6598 Please mention SSFLA'08 and your full name in the subject. An invoice will be provided on site. To check the eligibility for early registration, what counts is the date of the bank order for payment (not the date when the registration form was filled in). People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in cash. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be provided through the website of the School in due time. IMPORTANT DATES: Announcement of the programme: January 26, 2008 Starting of the registration: February 4, 2008 Early registration deadline: March 24, 2008 Starting of the School: July 21, 2008 End of the School: August 2, 2008 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Carlos Martin-Vide: carlos.martin at urv.cat WEBSITE: http://www.grlmc.com POSTAL ADDRESS: SSFLA'08 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Plaza Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-559597 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 29 15:45:10 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:45:10 +0100 Subject: Conf: JADT 2008 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:29:40 +0100 From: "Serge HEIDEN" Message-ID: <00b001c86144$dede4c40$6401a8c0 at intranet.enslsh.fr> X-url: http://www.jadt.org/ X-url: http://jadt2008.ens-lsh.fr/spip.php?rubrique10 [english version below] *************************************************** JADT 2008 - Appel à participation 9es Journées internationales d'analyse statistique des données textuelles du 12 au 14 mars 2008 à l'Ecole normale supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines Lyon, France http://www.jadt.org/ *************************************************** Les journées internationales d'analyse statistique des données textuelles (JADT) réunissent tous les deux ans, depuis 1990, des chercheurs travaillant dans les différents domaines concernés par les traitements automatiques et statistiques de données textuelles. Elles permettent aux participants de présenter leurs résultats, de confronter leurs outils et leurs expériences. Les 9es journées internationales d'analyse statistique des données textuelles JADT 2008 réuniront à l'Ecole normale supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines de Lyon (France), du 12 au 14 mars 2008, statisticiens, linguistes, sociologues, spécialistes d'analyse du discours, informaticiens, spécialistes de lexicographie et de fouille de textes. * Inscriptions Les formulaires d'inscription sont en ligne sur le site : http://jadt2008.ens-lsh.fr/spip.php?rubrique10 Un tarif réduit est offert jusqu'au 8 février 2008. * Conférenciers invités François Rastier, CNRS, Paris Jean-Michel Salaün, Université de Montréal * Programme MARDI 11 MARS 17h30 - 19h30 Inscriptions (Forum) MERCREDI 12 MARS 08h00 - 09h30 Inscriptions (Forum) 09h30 - 10h00 Session inaugurale (Amphithéâtre) 10h00 - 11h20 Sessions parallèles 1&2 Session 1. Séquentialité et structure textuelle (Salle F08) Habert, Benoît ; Beaudouin, Valérie " Formes " des répliques et des phrases dans trois pièces en vers Longrée, Dominique ; Luong, Xuan ; Mellet, Sylvie Les motifs : un outil pour la caractérisation topologique des textes Delpech, Estelle ; Saint-Dizier, Patrick Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts: identification of titles and instructions Kessler, Rémy ; El-Bèze, Marc E-Gen : traitement automatique des offres d'emploi Session 2. Enquêtes et entreprises (Salle F106) Smaoui, Aida Une application de la statistique textuelle à l'excès de confiance des dirigeants : cas des acquisitions Manetta, Céline ; Urdapilleta, Isabel ; Montet, Arnaud Mise au jour des représentations de parfums à l'aide d'une tâche de catégorisation et de l'analyse textuelle des verbalisations associées Balbi, Simona ; Infante, Giorgio ; Misuraca, Michelangelo Conjoint analysis with textual external information Gélinas-Chebat, Claire ; Chebat, Jean-Charles ; Therrien, Karina Contribution de SATO à des analyses statistiques SPSS pour parler d'orientation dans les centres commerciaux 11h20 - 11h45 Pause café 11h45 - 13h00 Sessions parallèles 3&4 Session 3. Cooccurrences (Salle F08) Peirsman, Yves ; Heylen, Kris ; Speelman, Dirk Putting things in Order. First and second order context models for the calculation of semantic similarity Brunet, Etienne Les séquences (suite) Mayaffre, Damon Quand " travail ", " famille ", " patrie " co-occurrent dans le discours de Nicolas Sarkozy. Etude de cas et réflexion théorique sur la co-occurrence Martinez, William Répulsions lexicales. Expériences autour de la cooccurrence négative Session 4. Enquêtes et société (Salle F106) Turchi, Gian Piero ; Maiuro, Tiziana ; Paita, Monia Il tifo Ultras come configurazione discorsiva: il contributo di una metodologia di analisi. Sensales, Gilda ; Angelastro, Angela ; Areni, Alessandra L'impatto di notizie intorno ai disordini del 2005 nelle periferie francesi sulle rappresentazioni della politica e sui processi di memoria. Analisi lessicografica dei dati di una indagine-pilota quasi sperimentale. Fadda, Sara ; Meniconcini, Rita ; Romei, Daniela Costruire una cultura della sicurezza come strategia per la riduzione dei costi sociali ed economici dei comportamenti a rischio Tomasetto, Carlo ; Matteucci, Maria Cristina ; Selleri, Patrizia ; Cavrini, Giulia ; Scalone, Luciana Analysis of open answers in the validation of a health-related quality-of-life questionnaire for children 13h00 - 15h00 Repas 15h00 - 16h20 Sessions parallèles 5&6 Session 5. Unités lexicales, segmentation (Amphithéâtre) Khokhlova, Maria Extracting Collocations in Russian: Statistics vs. Dictionary Baranov, Victor ; Mironov, A.N. ; Lapin, A.N. ; Melnikova, I.M. ; Sokolova, A.A. Development of the processing and visualization technologies for the linguistic information and text metadata in the manuscript system: lemmatization Abbès, Ramzi ; Dichy, Joseph Extraction automatique de fréquences lexicales en arabe et analyse d'un corpus journalistique avec le logiciel AraConc et la base de connaissances DIINAR.1 Mouelhi, Zoubeir AraSeg : un segmenteur semi-automatique des textes arabes Session 6. Énonciation (Salle F106) Pierre, Fabienne Liberté et énonciation : une corrélation inattendue dans les déclarations du Sommet de Johannesburg Labbé, Dominique ; Monière, Denis Je est-il un autre ? Fracchiolla, Béatrice L'attaque courtoise : de l'usage de la politesse comme stratégie d'agression dans le débat Royal-Sarkozy du 02 mai 2007 Dargnat, Mathilde Profils linguistiques et structure textuelle 16h20 - 16h50 Présentations courtes : Posters, Logiciels (Amphithéâtre) 16h50 - 17h30 Pause Café, Posters, Démonstrations de logiciels 17h30 - 18h30 Sessions parallèles 7&8 Session 7. Lemmatisation et annotation (Amphithéâtre) Lemaire, Benoît Limites de la lemmatisation pour l'extraction de significations Viprey, Jean-Marie ; Léthier, Virginie Annotation linguistique de corpus : vers l'exhaustivité par la convialité Serp, Claire ; Cazal, Emmanuel ; Laurent, Anne ; Roche, Mathieu Tervotiq : un système de vote pour l'extraction de la terminologie d'un corpus en français médiéval Session 8. Corpus politiques (Salle F106) Marchand, Pascal Analyse lexicométrique d'un genre : la déclaration de politique générale Leblanc, Jean-Marc Une approche expérimentale du rituel politique, l'analyse récursive des énoncés sous Alceste. Riva, Paolo ; Colombo, Monica ; Montali, Lorenzo Comparing Right and Left-wing discourse on immigration: a lexical correspondence analysis of Italian parliamentary debates JEUDI 13 MARS 09h00 - 10h00 Sessions parallèles 9&10 Session 9. Classification lexicale (Salle F08) Guggilla, Chinnappa ; Mohamed, Sadiq ; Vardarajan, Sridhar Extracting semantic sets from the World Wide Web using unsupervised learning Akama, Hiroyuki ; Miyake, Maki ; Jung, Jaeyoung L'élaboration d'un réseau sémantique par le raffinement du Markov Clustering à partir des données lexicales du roman de Saint-Exupéry, " Le petit prince ". Reinert, Max Mondes lexicaux stabilisés et analyse statistique de discours Session 10. Entretiens - Méthodologie (Salle F106) Bonneau, Julien Outils d'aide à l'exploitation d'entretiens semi-directifs : étude de l'interaction entre intervieweur et interviewés sur un corpus ethnoécologique. Brugidou, Mathieu ; Moine, Michèle Le public en campagne. Analyse du discours des publics de la campagne électorale présidentielle à travers une séquence de question ouverte et fermée. Lana, Maurizio ; Mannarini, Terri L'analisi testuale dei quotidiani come fonte di informazione non strutturata. Il caso del movimento no-TAV in Valsusa 10h00 - 10h30 Présentations courtes : Posters, Logiciels (Amphithéâtre) 10h30 - 11h15 Pause Café, Posters, Démonstrations de logiciels 11h15 - 12h00 Conférence invitée : François Rastier (Amphithéâtre) 12h00 - 13h00 Sessions parallèles 11&12 Session 11. Visualisation, évaluation (Salle F08) Labbé, Cyril ; Labbé, Dominique Peut-on se fier aux arbres ? Dupuis, Fernande ; Lebart, Ludovic Visualisation, validation et sériation. Application à un corpus de textes médiévaux Fernández, Silvia ; Velázquez, Patricia ; Mandin, Sonia ; SanJuan, Eric ; Torres-Moreno, Juan Manuel Les systèmes de résumé automatique sont-ils vraiment des mauvais élèves ? Session 12. Sémantique lexicale (Salle F106) Arnold, Edward Le sens des mots chez Tony Blair (people et Europe) Estève, Raphaël Une analyse quantitative de la morale chez Vladimir Jankélévitch Chartier, Jean-François ; Meunier, Jean-Guy ; Danis, Jean ; Jendoubi, Mohamed Le travail conceptuel collectif : une analyse assistée par ordinateur du concept d'ACCOMMODEMENT RAISONNABLE dans les journaux québécois 13h00 - 15h00 Repas 15h00 - 16h20 Sessions parallèles 13&14 Session 13. Modèle de données, architecture (Salle F08) Albino Pires, Natália Ulisses - un IDE (Integrated Development Environment) para la anotación y procesamiento de corpora Daoust, François ; Duchastel, Jules ; Marcoux, Yves ; Rizkallah, Élias Pour un modèle de dépôt de données adapté à la constitution de corpus de recherche Lafourcade, Mathieu ; Joubert, Alain JeuxDeMots : un prototype ludique pour l'émergence de relations entre termes Mazziotta, Nicolas Exploitation de l'Ontology Web Language pour la rédaction des notices de l'Atlas Linguistique de la Wallonie Session 14. Corpus parallèles (Salle F106) Leblois, Etienne Extraction de lexique bilingue à partir d'un corpus de traduction : une stratégie par écrémage. Duchastel, Jules ; Daoust, François ; della Faille, Dimitri Le problème de l'interprétation des données à partir d'un corpus bilingue. L'exemple du discours des trois chefs de parti sur la motion de reconnaissance du " Québec comme société distincte au sein du Canada ". Miao, Jun Analyses textométriques de corpus parallèles français-chinois : " l'Aube " de Jean-Christophe et ses trois traductions chinoises Ji, Meng Statistical Exploration of Situational Parameters for Style Variation in Translation 16h20 - 16h50 Présentations courtes : Posters, Logiciels (Amphithéâtre) 16h50 - 17h30 Pause Café, Posters, Démonstrations de logiciels 17h30 - 18h50 Sessions parallèles 15&16 Session 15. Édition critique (Salle F08) Csernel, Marc ; Patte, François Elaboration d'édition critique de textes Sanskrit Le Pouliquen, Marc ; Barthélemy, Jean-Pierre Problème de la contamination dans le cadre de l'édition critique Bestgen, Yves Une procédure de comparaison de textes basée sur les quasi-segments : application à la traduction de rééditions Fleury, Serge ; Zimina, Maria Utilisations de mkAlign pour la traduction philologique Session 16. Style, diachronie (Salle F106) Ablali, Driss ; Kastberg Sjöblom, Margareta Exploration morpho-sémantique en corpus. Les formes du genre de l'article scientifique en sciences humaines Czellar, Judith Les techniques de Q-sums et de Multidimensional Scaling appliquées à l'étude de la stabilité de l'écriture au cours de la vie : le cas de George Sand Aureli, Enrica ; Cristofori, Fabrizio ; Iezzi, Domenica Fioredistella On-Line Forums: a window on language evolution Chabot, Joceline ; Kasparian, Sylvia ; Desjardins, Philippe Les mots pour le dire. Analyse d'un corpus de presse canadienne française sur le génocide arménien (1915-1920) 20h30 - 23h00 Dîner de Gala VENDREDI 14 MARS 09h00 - 10h00 Sessions parallèles 17&18 Session 17. Fouille de données (Salle F08) Peyrat-Guillard, Dominique Analyse du discours syndical sur l'entreprise : un repérage du processus de violation du contrat psychologique grâce au text mining Chen, Chaomei ; Ibekwe-SanJuan, Fidelia ; SanJuan, Eric ; Vogeley, Michael Identifying thematic variations in SDSS research Rompré, Louis ; Biskri, Ismaïl ; Meunier, François La classification textuelle : un outil privilégié pour la classification de documents audio Session 18. Terminologie et traductologie (Salle F106) Bertels, Ann Sémantique quantitative et corpus technique : des analyses statistiques aux interprétations linguistiques Maniez, François Traduction automatique et ambiguïté syntaxique : le cas de la coordination dans les groupes nominaux complexes en anglais médical Kraif, Olivier Comment allier la puissance du TAL et la simplicité d'utilisation ? l'exemple du concordancier bilingue ConcQuest 10h00 - 10h30 Présentations courtes : Posters, Logiciels (Amphithéâtre) 10h30 - 11h15 Pause Café, Posters, Démonstrations de logiciels 11h15 - 12h00 Conférence invitée : Jean-Michel Salaün (Amphithéâtre) 12h00 - 13h00 Sessions parallèles 19&20 Session 19. Recherche d'information (Salle F08) Savoy, Jacques ; Dolamic, Ljiljana Variations autour de tf idf et du moteur Lucene Truong, Quoc Dinh ; Dkaki, Taoufiq ; Mothe, Josiane ; Charre, Pierre-Jean Information retrieval model based on graph comparison Boulaknadel, Siham ; Daille, Béatrice ; Driss, Aboutajdine Utilisation des termes complexes dans un système de recherche d'information en langue arabe Session 20. Corpus oraux (Salle F106) Rossi, Caroline ; Morgenstern, Aliyah Outils et méthodes de recherche en acquisition du langage : de la complémentarité entre statistiques et analyse linguistique Maricchiolo, Fridanna ; Giuliano, Luca ; Boniauto, Marino Parole e gesti nell'analisi automatica del testo: il caso dei faccia a faccia tra Berlusconi e Prodi (2006) Dister, Anne L'autocorrection immédiate en français parlé : le cas des déterminants 13h00 - 15h00 Repas 15h00 - 16h00 Sessions parallèles 21&22 Session 21. Alignement - Nouvelles formes de textualité (Salle F08) Gerdes, Kim L'alignement pour les pauvres : adapter la bonne métrique pour un algorithme dynamique de dilatation temporelle pour l'alignement sans ressources de corpus bilingues Beaufort, Richard ; Fairon, Cédrick ; Roekhaut, Sophie Définition d'un système d'alignement SMS/français standard à l'aide d'un filtre de composition Lavergne, Thomas Taxonomie de textes peu-naturels Session 22. Catégorisation de textes (Salle F106) Wei, Zhihua ; Chauchat, Jean-Hugues ; Miao Duoqian Comparing different text representation and feature selection methods on Chinese text classification using character n-grams Macchia, Stefania ; Murgia, Manuela ; Talucci, Valentina Coding the spoken language through the integration of different approaches of textual analysis Béchet, Nicolas ; Roche, Mathieu ; Chauché, Jacques ExpLSA et classification de textes 16h00 - 16h30 Clôture (Amphithéâtre) * Comité de programme Ramon Alvarez, Univ. de Leon, Esp. Harald Baayen, Univ. de Nimègue, PB Simona Balbi, Univ. de Naples, It Valérie Baudouin France-telecom R&D, Paris, Fr Monica Bécue, Univ. Polyt.de Catalunya, Esp Sergio Bolasco, Univ. de Roma 'La Sapienza', It Étienne Brunet, Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Fr Lou Burnard, Univ. Oxford, RU Claude Condé, Univ. de Franche Comté, Fr François Daoust, UQÀM, Ca Anne Dister, UCLouvain, Be Jules Duchastel, UQÀM, Ca Serge Fleury, Univ. Paris 3, Fr Cédrick Fairon, UCLouvain, Be Benoît Habert, ENS-LSH, Lyon, Fr Serge Heiden, ENS-LSH, Lyon, Fr Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST, Paris, Fr (président) Alain Lelu, Univ. de Franche Comté, Fr Damon Mayaffre, CNRS, Nice, Fr Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, Fr Denis Monière, Univ. de Montréal, Ca Bénédicte Pincemin, CNRS, Lyon, Fr Gérald Purnelle, Univ. de Liège, Be Martin Rajman, EPFL, Lausanne, CH Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. de Versailles SQY, Fr André Salem, Univ. Paris 3, Fr Pascale Sébillot, IRISA, Insa de Rennes, Fr Max Silberztein, Univ. de Franche Comté, Fr Jean-Marie Viprey, Univ. de Franche Comté, Fr * Comité d'organisation Serge Heiden Bénédicte Pincemin Afifa Zenati Raphaël Tournoy Alexis Lavrentiev Céline Guillot Marie-Hélène Lay Liliane Vosghanian Bruno Courbon * Informations et Contact site web : http://www.jadt.org/ adresse mail : jadt2008 at ens-lsh.fr adresse postale : Serge Heiden, JADT 2008 Laboratoire ICAR - ENS-LSH 15 parvis René Descartes - BP7000 69342 Lyon Cedex 07 FRANCE téléphone : +33 (0)4 37 37 63 12 ; fax : +33 (0)4 37 37 62 65 ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH *************************************************** JADT 2008 - Call for Participation 9th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 12 - 14 2008 at Ecole normale supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines Lyon, France http://www.jadt.org/ *************************************************** The 9th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data will be held in Lyon (France), on March 12-14, 2008. This biennial conference, which has constantly been gaining in importance since its first occurrence in Barcelone (1990), is open to all scholars and researchers working in the field of textual data analysis, ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from information retrieval to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from text mining to content analysis. After the success of the previous meetings, the three-day conference in Lyon will continue to provide a workshop-style forum through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. * Registration Registration forms are available on the site : http://jadt2008.ens-lsh.fr/spip.php?rubrique10&lang=en Early bird registration fees end February 8, 2008. * Invited Speakers François Rastier, CNRS, Paris Jean-Michel Salaün, Université de Montréal * Program TUESDAY, MARCH 11TH 17h30 - 19h30 Registration (Forum) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12TH 08h00 - 09h30 Registration (Forum) 09h30 - 10h00 Opening Session (Amphithéâtre) 10h00 - 11h20 Parallel sessions 1&2 Session 1. Sequentiality and Text Structure (Room F08) Habert, Benoît ; Beaudouin, Valérie " Formes " des répliques et des phrases dans trois pièces en vers Longrée, Dominique ; Luong, Xuan ; Mellet, Sylvie Les motifs : un outil pour la caractérisation topologique des textes Delpech, Estelle ; Saint-Dizier, Patrick Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts: identification of titles and instructions Kessler, Rémy ; El-Bèze, Marc E-Gen : traitement automatique des offres d'emploi Session 2. Statistical Surveys and Business (Room F106) Smaoui, Aida Une application de la statistique textuelle à l'excès de confiance des dirigeants : cas des acquisitions Manetta, Céline ; Urdapilleta, Isabel ; Montet, Arnaud Mise au jour des représentations de parfums à l'aide d'une tâche de catégorisation et de l'analyse textuelle des verbalisations associées Balbi, Simona ; Infante, Giorgio ; Misuraca, Michelangelo Conjoint analysis with textual external information Gélinas-Chebat, Claire ; Chebat, Jean-Charles ; Therrien, Karina Contribution de SATO à des analyses statistiques SPSS pour parler d'orientation dans les centres commerciaux 11h20 - 11h45 Coffee Break 11h45 - 13h00 Parallel sessions 3&4 Session 3. Collocations (Room F08) Peirsman, Yves ; Heylen, Kris ; Speelman, Dirk Putting things in Order. First and second order context models for the calculation of semantic similarity Brunet, Etienne Les séquences (suite) Mayaffre, Damon Quand " travail ", " famille ", " patrie " co-occurrent dans le discours de Nicolas Sarkozy. Etude de cas et réflexion théorique sur la co-occurrence Martinez, William Répulsions lexicales. Expériences autour de la cooccurrence négative Session 4. Statistical Surveys and Society (Room F106) Turchi, Gian Piero ; Maiuro, Tiziana ; Paita, Monia Il tifo Ultras come configurazione discorsiva: il contributo di una metodologia di analisi. Sensales, Gilda ; Angelastro, Angela ; Areni, Alessandra L'impatto di notizie intorno ai disordini del 2005 nelle periferie francesi sulle rappresentazioni della politica e sui processi di memoria. Analisi lessicografica dei dati di una indagine-pilota quasi sperimentale. Fadda, Sara ; Meniconcini, Rita ; Romei, Daniela Costruire una cultura della sicurezza come strategia per la riduzione dei costi sociali ed economici dei comportamenti a rischio Tomasetto, Carlo ; Matteucci, Maria Cristina ; Selleri, Patrizia ; Cavrini, Giulia ; Scalone, Luciana Analysis of open answers in the validation of a health-related quality-of-life questionnaire for children 13h00 - 15h00 Lunch 15h00 - 16h20 Parallel sessions 5&6 Session 5. Lexical Items, Tokenization (Amphithéâtre) Khokhlova, Maria Extracting Collocations in Russian: Statistics vs. Dictionary Baranov, Victor ; Mironov, A.N. ; Lapin, A.N. ; Melnikova, I.M. ; Sokolova, A.A. Development of the processing and visualization technologies for the linguistic information and text metadata in the manuscript system: lemmatization Abbès, Ramzi ; Dichy, Joseph Extraction automatique de fréquences lexicales en arabe et analyse d'un corpus journalistique avec le logiciel AraConc et la base de connaissances DIINAR.1 Mouelhi, Zoubeir AraSeg : un segmenteur semi-automatique des textes arabes Session 6. Utterance Stance (Room F106) Pierre, Fabienne Liberté et énonciation : une corrélation inattendue dans les déclarations du Sommet de Johannesburg Labbé, Dominique ; Monière, Denis Je est-il un autre ? Fracchiolla, Béatrice L'attaque courtoise : de l'usage de la politesse comme stratégie d'agression dans le débat Royal-Sarkozy du 02 mai 2007 Dargnat, Mathilde Profils linguistiques et structure textuelle 16h20 - 16h50 Short Presentations : Posters, Softwares (Amphithéâtre) 16h50 - 17h30 Coffee Break, Poster Session, Software Demonstrations 17h30 - 18h30 Parallel sessions 7&8 Session 7. Lemmatization and Tagging (Amphithéâtre) Lemaire, Benoît Limites de la lemmatisation pour l'extraction de significations Viprey, Jean-Marie ; Léthier, Virginie Annotation linguistique de corpus : vers l'exhaustivité par la convialité Serp, Claire ; Cazal, Emmanuel ; Laurent, Anne ; Roche, Mathieu Tervotiq : un système de vote pour l'extraction de la terminologie d'un corpus en français médiéval Session 8. Political Texts Corpora (Room F106) Marchand, Pascal Analyse lexicométrique d'un genre : la déclaration de politique générale Leblanc, Jean-Marc Une approche expérimentale du rituel politique, l'analyse récursive des énoncés sous Alceste. Riva, Paolo ; Colombo, Monica ; Montali, Lorenzo Comparing Right and Left-wing discourse on immigration: a lexical correspondence analysis of Italian parliamentary debates THURSDAY, MARCH 13TH 09h00 - 10h00 Parallel sessions 9&10 Session 9. Word Clustering (Room F08) Guggilla, Chinnappa ; Mohamed, Sadiq ; Vardarajan, Sridhar Extracting semantic sets from the World Wide Web using unsupervised learning Akama, Hiroyuki ; Miyake, Maki ; Jung, Jaeyoung L'élaboration d'un réseau sémantique par le raffinement du Markov Clustering à partir des données lexicales du roman de Saint-Exupéry, " Le petit prince ". Reinert, Max Mondes lexicaux stabilisés et analyse statistique de discours Session 10. Interviews - Methodology (Room F106) Bonneau, Julien Outils d'aide à l'exploitation d'entretiens semi-directifs : étude de l'interaction entre intervieweur et interviewés sur un corpus ethnoécologique. Brugidou, Mathieu ; Moine, Michèle Le public en campagne. Analyse du discours des publics de la campagne électorale présidentielle à travers une séquence de question ouverte et fermée. Lana, Maurizio ; Mannarini, Terri L'analisi testuale dei quotidiani come fonte di informazione non strutturata. Il caso del movimento no-TAV in Valsusa 10h00 - 10h30 Short Presentations : Posters, Softwares (Amphithéâtre) 10h30 - 11h15 Coffee Break, Poster Session, Software Demonstrations 11h15 - 12h00 Invited Talk : François Rastier (Amphithéâtre) 12h00 - 13h00 Parallel sessions 11&12 Session 11. Visualization, Evaluation (Room F08) Labbé, Cyril ; Labbé, Dominique Peut-on se fier aux arbres ? Dupuis, Fernande ; Lebart, Ludovic Visualisation, validation et sériation. Application à un corpus de textes médiévaux Fernández, Silvia ; Velázquez, Patricia ; Mandin, Sonia ; SanJuan, Eric ; Torres-Moreno, Juan Manuel Les systèmes de résumé automatique sont-ils vraiment des mauvais élèves ? Session 12. Lexical Semantics (Room F106) Arnold, Edward Le sens des mots chez Tony Blair (people et Europe) Estève, Raphaël Une analyse quantitative de la morale chez Vladimir Jankélévitch Chartier, Jean-François ; Meunier, Jean-Guy ; Danis, Jean ; Jendoubi, Mohamed Le travail conceptuel collectif : une analyse assistée par ordinateur du concept d'ACCOMMODEMENT RAISONNABLE dans les journaux québécois 13h00 - 15h00 Lunch 15h00 - 16h20 Parallel sessions 13&14 Session 13. Data Modeling, Architecture (Room F08) Albino Pires, Natália Ulisses - un IDE (Integrated Development Environment) para la anotación y procesamiento de corpora Daoust, François ; Duchastel, Jules ; Marcoux, Yves ; Rizkallah, Élias Pour un modèle de dépôt de données adapté à la constitution de corpus de recherche Lafourcade, Mathieu ; Joubert, Alain JeuxDeMots : un prototype ludique pour l'émergence de relations entre termes Mazziotta, Nicolas Exploitation de l'Ontology Web Language pour la rédaction des notices de l'Atlas Linguistique de la Wallonie Session 14. Parallel Corpora (Room F106) Leblois, Etienne Extraction de lexique bilingue à partir d'un corpus de traduction : une stratégie par écrémage. Duchastel, Jules ; Daoust, François ; della Faille, Dimitri Le problème de l'interprétation des données à partir d'un corpus bilingue. L'exemple du discours des trois chefs de parti sur la motion de reconnaissance du " Québec comme société distincte au sein du Canada ". Miao, Jun Analyses textométriques de corpus parallèles français-chinois : " l'Aube " de Jean-Christophe et ses trois traductions chinoises Ji, Meng Statistical Exploration of Situational Parameters for Style Variation in Translation 16h20 - 16h50 Short Presentations : Posters, Softwares (Amphithéâtre) 16h50 - 17h30 Coffee Break, Poster Session, Software Demonstrations 17h30 - 18h50 Parallel sessions 15&16 Session 15. Critical Editing (Room F08) Csernel, Marc ; Patte, François Elaboration d'édition critique de textes Sanskrit Le Pouliquen, Marc ; Barthélemy, Jean-Pierre Problème de la contamination dans le cadre de l'édition critique Bestgen, Yves Une procédure de comparaison de textes basée sur les quasi-segments : application à la traduction de rééditions Fleury, Serge ; Zimina, Maria Utilisations de mkAlign pour la traduction philologique Session 16. Style, Diachrony (Room F106) Ablali, Driss ; Kastberg Sjöblom, Margareta Exploration morpho-sémantique en corpus. Les formes du genre de l'article scientifique en sciences humaines Czellar, Judith Les techniques de Q-sums et de Multidimensional Scaling appliquées à l'étude de la stabilité de l'écriture au cours de la vie : le cas de George Sand Aureli, Enrica ; Cristofori, Fabrizio ; Iezzi, Domenica Fioredistella On-Line Forums: a window on language evolution Chabot, Joceline ; Kasparian, Sylvia ; Desjardins, Philippe Les mots pour le dire. Analyse d'un corpus de presse canadienne française sur le génocide arménien (1915-1920) 20h30 - 23h00 Conference Banquet FRIDAY, MARCH 14TH 09h00 - 10h00 Parallel sessions 17&18 Session 17. Data Mining (Room F08) Peyrat-Guillard, Dominique Analyse du discours syndical sur l'entreprise : un repérage du processus de violation du contrat psychologique grâce au text mining Chen, Chaomei ; Ibekwe-SanJuan, Fidelia ; SanJuan, Eric ; Vogeley, Michael Identifying thematic variations in SDSS research Rompré, Louis ; Biskri, Ismaïl ; Meunier, François La classification textuelle : un outil privilégié pour la classification de documents audio Session 18. Terminology and Translation (Room F106) Bertels, Ann Sémantique quantitative et corpus technique : des analyses statistiques aux interprétations linguistiques Maniez, François Traduction automatique et ambiguïté syntaxique : le cas de la coordination dans les groupes nominaux complexes en anglais médical Kraif, Olivier Comment allier la puissance du TAL et la simplicité d'utilisation ? l'exemple du concordancier bilingue ConcQuest 10h00 - 10h30 Short Presentations : Posters, Softwares (Amphithéâtre) 10h30 - 11h15 Coffee Break, Poster Session, Software Demonstrations 11h15 - 12h00 Invited Talk : Jean-Michel Salaün (Amphithéâtre) 12h00 - 13h00 Parallel sessions 19&20 Session 19. Information Retrieval (Room F08) Savoy, Jacques ; Dolamic, Ljiljana Variations autour de tf idf et du moteur Lucene Truong, Quoc Dinh ; Dkaki, Taoufiq ; Mothe, Josiane ; Charre, Pierre-Jean Information retrieval model based on graph comparison Boulaknadel, Siham ; Daille, Béatrice ; Driss, Aboutajdine Utilisation des termes complexes dans un système de recherche d'information en langue arabe Session 20. Spoken Language Corpora (Room F106) Rossi, Caroline ; Morgenstern, Aliyah Outils et méthodes de recherche en acquisition du langage : de la complémentarité entre statistiques et analyse linguistique Maricchiolo, Fridanna ; Giuliano, Luca ; Boniauto, Marino Parole e gesti nell'analisi automatica del testo: il caso dei faccia a faccia tra Berlusconi e Prodi (2006) Dister, Anne L'autocorrection immédiate en français parlé : le cas des déterminants 13h00 - 15h00 Lunch 15h00 - 16h00 Parallel sessions 21&22 Session 21. Alignment - New Forms of Textuality (Room F08) Gerdes, Kim L'alignement pour les pauvres : adapter la bonne métrique pour un algorithme dynamique de dilatation temporelle pour l'alignement sans ressources de corpus bilingues Beaufort, Richard ; Fairon, Cédrick ; Roekhaut, Sophie Définition d'un système d'alignement SMS/français standard à l'aide d'un filtre de composition Lavergne, Thomas Taxonomie de textes peu-naturels Session 22. Text Classification (Room F106) Wei, Zhihua ; Chauchat, Jean-Hugues ; Miao Duoqian Comparing different text representation and feature selection methods on Chinese text classification using character n-grams Macchia, Stefania ; Murgia, Manuela ; Talucci, Valentina Coding the spoken language through the integration of different approaches of textual analysis Béchet, Nicolas ; Roche, Mathieu ; Chauché, Jacques ExpLSA et classification de textes 16h00 - 16h30 Closure of Conference (Amphithéâtre) * Program Committee Ramon Alvarez, Univ. de Leon, Esp. Harald Baayen, Univ. de Nimègue, PB Simona Balbi, Univ. de Naples, It Valérie Baudouin France-telecom R&D, Paris, Fr Monica Bécue, Univ. Polyt.de Catalunya, Esp Sergio Bolasco, Univ. de Roma 'La Sapienza', It Étienne Brunet, Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Fr Lou Burnard, Univ. Oxford, RU Claude Condé, Univ. de Franche Comté, Fr François Daoust, UQÀM, Ca Anne Dister, UCLouvain, Be Jules Duchastel, UQÀM, Ca Serge Fleury, Univ. Paris 3, Fr Cédrick Fairon, UCLouvain, Be Benoît Habert, ENS-LSH, Lyon, Fr Serge Heiden, ENS-LSH, Lyon, Fr Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST, Paris, Fr (president) Alain Lelu, Univ. de Franche Comté, Fr Damon Mayaffre, CNRS, Nice, Fr Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, Fr Denis Monière, Univ. de Montréal, Ca Bénédicte Pincemin, CNRS, Lyon, Fr Gérald Purnelle, Univ. de Liège, Be Martin Rajman, EPFL, Lausanne, CH Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. de Versailles SQY, Fr André Salem, Univ. Paris 3, Fr Pascale Sébillot, IRISA, Insa de Rennes, Fr Max Silberztein, Univ. de Franche Comté, Fr Jean-Marie Viprey, Univ. de Franche Comté, Fr * Organisation Committee Serge Heiden Bénédicte Pincemin Afifa Zenati Raphaël Tournoy Alexis Lavrentiev Céline Guillot Marie-Hélène Lay Liliane Vosghanian Bruno Courbon * Informations and Contact web site: http://www.jadt.org/ mail: jadt2008 at ens-lsh.fr postal address: Serge Heiden, JADT 2008 Laboratoire ICAR - ENS-LSH 15 parvis René Descartes - BP7000 69342 Lyon Cedex 07 FRANCE phone: +33 (0)4 37 37 63 12 ; fax: +33 (0)4 37 37 62 65 ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 29 15:47:19 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:47:19 +0100 Subject: Journee: La synchronie dans les échanges e n ligne. 27 mars 2008 (et diffusion sur internet) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:24:42 +0100 From: "Nicolas GUICHON" Message-ID: <000001c8618f$a1cc7d90$0a01a8c0 at DH9MBR0J> X-url: http://w1.ens-lsh.fr/labo/plumme/index.htm X-url: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/nicolas.guichon X-url: http://sites.univ-lyon2.fr/cooplang/ L'équipe Plurilinguisme et Multimédia (Laboratoire ICAR - Université de Lyon 2) organise sa 6ème journée d'étude le 27 mars 2008 à l'ENS-LSH de Lyon (Amphithéâtre Kantor) et en diffusion en direct sur Internet de 9 h à 17 h. Cette journée est intitulée "La synchronie dans les échanges en ligne". Les conférenciers invités : * Julia Velkovska (Orange Labs, Laboratoire SENSe) * Charlotte Dejean-Thircuir (Université du Mans, LIUM) * Isabelle Pierozak (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, LESCLaP / DYNADIV) * Christine Develotte (INRP), Rick Kern (UC Berkeley) et Desiree Pries (UC Berkeley) Pour toute information sur la problématique de la journée, le résumé des conférences et les détails techniques pour suivre la journée en ligne, merci de visiter le site : http://w1.ens-lsh.fr/labo/plumme/index.htm Nicolas Guichon Centre de Langues de Lyon 2 -Laboratoire ICAR, UMR 5191 page perso : http://pagesperso-orange.fr/nicolas.guichon http://pagesperso-orange.fr/nicolas.guichon http://sites.univ-lyon2.fr/cooplang/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 29 15:55:15 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:55:15 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on EMOTION (LREC 2008) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:53:38 +0100 (CET) From: devil at limsi.fr Message-ID: <57362.82.226.167.38.1201596818.squirrel at keo.limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ X-url: http://emotion-research.net/ X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/devil/ X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/ X-url: http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/teaching/cowie/index.aspx X-url: http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/staff/douglas-cowie/ X-url: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Personen/batliner/ ******************************************************************** Second call for Papers Second International Workshop on EMOTION (satellite of LREC): CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT Monday, 26 May 2008 Palais des Congrès Mansour Eddahbi in Marrakech (Morocco) In Association with 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ Main Conference 28-29-30 May 2008 ********************************************************************** This decade has seen an upsurge of interest in systems that register emotion (in a broad sense) and react appropriately to it. Emotion corpora are fundamental both to developing sound conceptual analyses and to training these 'emotion-oriented systems' at all levels - to recognise user emotion, to express appropriate emotions, to anticipate how a user in one state might respond to a possible kind of reaction from the machine, etc. Corpora have only begun to grow with the area, and much work is needed before they provide a sound foundation. This workshop follows a first successful workshop on Corpora for research on Emotion and Affect at LREC 2006. The HUMAINE network of excellence (http://emotion-research.net/) has brought together several groups working on the development of emotional databases, the HUMAINE association will continue this effort and the workshop aims to broaden the interaction that has developed in that context. The HUMAINE Association portal will provide a range of services for individuals, such as a web presence, access to data, and an email news service; special interest groups will be provided with a working folder, a mailing list, and a discussion forum or a blog. Conferences, workshops and research projects in the area of emotion-oriented computing can be given a web presence on the portal. Papers are invited in the area of corpora for research on emotion and affect. They may raise one or more of the following questions. What kind of theory of emotion is needed to guide the area? What are appropriate sources? Which modalities should be considered, in which combinations? What are the realistic constraints on recording quality? How can the emotional content of episodes be described within a corpus? Which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how? How should access to corpora be provided? What level of standardisation is appropriate? How can quality be assessed? Ethical issues in database development and access. Description of the specific technical issues of the workshop: Many models of emotion are common enough to affect the way teams go about collecting and describing emotion-related data. Some which are familiar and intuitively appealing are known to be problematic, either because they are theoretically dated or because they do not transfer to practical contexts. To evaluate the resources that are already available, and to construct valid new corpora, research teams need some sense of the models that are relevant to the area. - What are appropriate sources? In the area of emotion, some of the hardest problems involve acquiring basic data. Four main types of source are commonly used. Their potential contributions and limitations need to be understood. - Acted: Many widely used emotion databases consist of acted representations of emotion (which may or may not be generated by actors). The method is extremely convenient, but it is known that systems trained on acted material may not transfer to natural emotion. It has to be established what kind of acted material is useful for what purposes. - Application-driven: A growing range of databases are derived from specific applications (eg call centres). These are ideal for some purposes, but access is often restricted for commercial reasons, and it is highly desirable to have more generic material that could underpin work on a wide range of applications.. - General naturalistic: Data that is representative of everyday life is an attractive ideal, but very difficult to collect. Making special-purpose recordings of everyday life is a massive task, with the risk that recording changes behaviour. Several teams have used material from broadcasts, radio & TV (talk shows, current affairs). That raises issues of access, signal quality, and genuineness. - Induction: A natural ideal is to induce emotion of appropriate kinds under appropriate circumstances. Satisfying induction is an elusive ideal, but new techniques are gradually emerging. - Which modalities should be considered, in which combinations? Emotion is reflected in multiple channels - linguistic content, paralinguistic expression, facial expression, eye movement, gesture, gross body movement, manner of action, visceral changes (heart rate, etc), brain states (eeg activity, etc). The obvious ideal is to cover all simultaneously, but that is impractical - and it is not clear how often all the channels are actually active. The community needs to clarify the relative usefulness of the channels, and of strategies for sampling combinations. - What are the realistic constraints on recording quality? Naturalism tends to be at odds with ease of signal processing. Understanding of the relevant tradeoffs needs to be reached. That includes awareness of different applications (high quality may not be crucial for defining the expressive behaviours a virtual agent should show) and of timescale for solving particular signal processing issues(eg recovering features from images of heads in arbitrary poses). - How can the emotional content of episodes be described within a corpus? Several broad approaches exist to transcribing the emotional content of an excerpt - using everyday emotion words; using dimensional descriptions rooted in psychological theory (intensity, evaluation, activation, power); using concepts from appraisal theory (perceived goal-conduciveness of a development, potential for coping, etc). These are being developed in specific ways driven by goals such as elegance, inter-rater reliability, and faithfulness to the subtlety of everyday emotion, relevance to agent decisions, etc. There seems to be a real prospect of achieving an agreed synthesis of the main schemes. - Which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how? Corresponding to each emotion-related channel is one or more sets of signs relevant to conveying emotion. For instance, paralinguistic signs exist at the level of basic features - F0, intensity, formant-related properties, and so on; at the level of linguistic features of prosody ; and at more global levels (tune shapes, repetitions, etc). Even for speech, inventories of relevant signs need to be developed, and for channels such as idle body movements, few descriptive systems have been proposed. Few teams have the expertise to annotate many types of sign competently, and so it is important to establish ways of allowing teams that do have the expertise to make their annotations available as part of a database. Mainly for lower level features, automatic transcription methods exist, and their role needs to be clarified. In particular, tests of their reliability are needed, and that depends on data that can serve as a reference. - How should access to corpora be provided? Practically, it is clearly important to find ways of establishing a sustainable and easily expandable multi-modal database for any sorts of emotion-related data; to develop tools for easily importing and exporting data; to develop analysis tools and application programmers - interfaces to work on the stored data and meta-data; and to provide ready access to existing data from previous projects. Approaches to those goals need to be defined. - What level of standardisation is appropriate? Standardisation is clearly desirable in the long term, but with so many basic issues unresolved, it is not clear where real consensus can be achieved and where it is better to encourage competition among different options. - How can quality be assessed? It is clear that some existing corpora should not be used for serious research. The problem is to develop quality assurance procedures that can direct potential users toward those which can. - Ethical issues in database development and access Corpora that show people behaving emotionally are very likely to raise ethical issues - not simply about signed release forms, but about the impact of appearing in a public forum talking (for instance) about topics that distress or excite them. Adequate guidelines need to be developed. All of the questions above will be studied during the workshop and will contribute to the study of practical, methodological and technical issues central to developing emotional corpora (such as the methodologies to be used for emotional database creation, the coding schemes to be defined, the technical settings to be used for the collection, the selection of appropriate coders). The organising committee: Laurence Devillers / Jean-Claude Martin Spoken Language Processing group/ Architectures and Models for Interaction, LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403 Orsay Cedex, France (+33) 1 69 85 80 62 / (+33) 1 69 85 81 04 (phone) (+33) 1 69 85 80 88 / (+33) 1 69 85 80 88 (fax) devil at limsi.fr / martin at limsi.fr http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/devil/ http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/ Roddy Cowie / School of Psychology Ellen Douglas-Cowie / Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK +44 2890 974354 / +44 2890 975348 (phone) +44 2890 664144 / +44 2890 ****** (fax) http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/teaching/cowie/index.aspx http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/staff/douglas-cowie/ r.cowie at qub.ac.uk / e.douglas-Cowie at qub.ac.uk Anton Batliner - Lehrstuhl fuer Mustererkennung (Informatik 5) Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg - Martensstrasse 3 91058 Erlangen - F.R. of Germany Tel.: +49 9131 85 27823 - Fax.: +49 9131 303811 batliner at informatik.uni-erlangen.de http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Personen/batliner/ Contact: Laurence Devillers lrec-emotion at limsi.fr ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- 1rt call for paper 21 December 2nd call for paper 29 January Deadline for 1500-2000 words abstract submission 12 February Notification of acceptance 12 March Final version of accepted paper 4 April Workshop full-day 26 May -------------- SUBMISSIONS --------------- The workshop will consist of paper and poster presentations. Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster must consist of about 1500-2000 words. Final submissions should be 4 pages long, must be in English, and follow the submission guidelines at LREC2008. The preferred format is MS word or pdf. The file should be submitted via email to lrec-emotion at limsi.fr ----------------------------- As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send to lrec-emotion at limsi..fr a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submissions. Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. Submitted papers will be blind reviewed. -------------------------------------------------- TIME SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION FEE -------------------------------------------------- The workshop will consist of a full-day session, There will be time for collective discussions. For this full-day Workshop, the registration fee will be specified on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 29 15:51:45 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:51:45 +0100 Subject: Appel: EMUS - satellite event of Speech Prosody, Campinas 2008 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:40:34 +0100 From: Greg Beller Message-ID: <479DBF32.9000608 at ircam.fr> X-url: http://www.sp2008.org/events.php X-url: http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/EMUS X-url: http://www.sp2008.org/events/EMUS-conferences.pdf ================================================================== Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. ================================================================== 2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS : NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE : February 17th, 2008 Prosody and expressivity in speech and music Satellite Event around Speech Prosody 2008 / First EMUS Conference - Expressivity in MUsic and Speech http://www.sp2008.org/events.php / http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/EMUS Campinas, Brazil, May 5th, 2008 [Abstract submission deadline: February 17th, 2008] Keywords: emotion, expressivity, prosody, music, acquisition, perception, production, interpretation, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, acoustic analysis. DESCRIPTION: Speech and music conceal a treasure of "expressive potential" for they can activate sequences of varied emotional experiences in the listener. Beyond their semiotic differences, speech and music share acoustic features such as duration, intensity, and pitch, and have their own internal organization, with their own rhythms, colors, timbres and tones. The aim of this workshop is to question the connections between various forms of expressivity, and the prosodic and gestural dimensions in the spheres of music and speech. We will first tackle the links between speech and music through enaction and embodied cognition. We will then work on computer modelling for speech and music synthesis. The third part will focus on musicological and aesthetic perspectives. We will end the workshop with a round table in order to create a dialogue between the various angles used to apprehend prosody and expressivity in both speech and music. FRAMEWORK: This workshop will be the starting point of a string of events on the relations between language and music: May 16th: Prosody, Babbling and Music (Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon) June 17-18th: Prosody of Expressivity in Music and Speech (IRCAM, Paris) September 25th and 26th: Semiotics and microgenesis of verbal and musical forms (RISC, Paris). Our aim is to make links between several fields of research and create a community interested in the relations between music and language. The project will be materialized in a final publication of the keynote papers of those four events. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: The workshop will host about ten posters. Authors should submit an extended abstract to: beller at ircam.fr in pdf format by January 30, 2008. We will send an email confirming the reception of the submission. The suggested abstract length is maximum 1 page, formatted in standard style. The authors of the accepted abstracts will be allocated as poster highlights. Time will be allocated in the programme for poster presentations and discussions. Before the workshop, the extended abstracts (maximum 4 pages) will be made available to a broader audience on the workshop web site. We also plan to maintain the web page after the workshop and encourage the authors to submit slides and posters with relevant links to their personal web pages. KEY DATES: Dec 10: Workshop announcement and Call for Abstracts Jan 30: Abstract submission deadline Feb 17: New submission deadline Mar 28: Notification of acceptance Apr 25: Final extended abstracts due May 5: Workshop SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Christophe d'Alessandro (LIMSI, Orsay); Antoine Auchlin (University of Geneva, Linguistics Department); Grégory Beller (IRCAM); Nick Campbell (ATR, Nara); Anne Lacheret (MODYCO, Nanterre University) ; Sandra Madureira (PUC-SP); Aliyah Morgenstern (ICAR, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines) ; Nicolas Obin (IRCAM) ORGANISERS: - University of Geneva, Linguistics Department (Antoine Auchlin) - IRCAM (Grégory Beller and Nicolas Obin) - MODYCO, Nanterre University (Anne Lacheret) - ICAR, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Aliyah Morgenstern) CONTACT : For questions/ suggestions about the workshop, please contact beller at ircam.fr Please refer to http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/EMUS for up-to-date information about the workshop. 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Svetlana From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Jan 5 10:38:59 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:38:59 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC Workshop on authoring aids Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:50:07 +0100 (CET) From: Aur?lien Max Message-ID: <41343.82.229.104.83.1199436607.squirrel at keo.limsi.fr> X-url: http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/lrec2008-authoring-aids FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Natural Language Processing resources, algorithms and tools for authoring aids LREC 2008 Workshop Marrakech, Morocco Sunday, June 1st 2008 http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/lrec2008-authoring-aids Workshop Aims ------------- Writing is a very complex task, involving many subtasks and constraints, including goal setting, content determination, outline planning, linguistic expression, discourse flow, and emphasis control. Finally, formal output aspects (spelling, layout choices, etc.) need to be checked. In sum, writers are juggling many, possibly even contradictory constraints; without proper control, they might be overwhelmed, losing orientation. The aim of this workshop is to attract participants from both academia and industry interested in this topic and to address questions such as the following: - How can we get a clearer picture of the writers' processes, strategies and needs (for example, by looking over their shoulders, or asking them to annotate text or make their needs explicit via the use of verbal protocols)? - Which components of the overall task could be and should be supported? - What specific resources, algorithms and tools exist that could be used to improve existing authoring aids or to build new ones? - How do we evaluate such tools ? One potential outcome of the workshop would be a roadmap for future research in the field, as well as some awareness-raising with regard to the needs and potential of authoring aids. Workshop Topics --------------- The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - writing processes, and computational tools to support the writer; - resources to assist in writing; - NLP techniques that can be used or have been used for assisting in writing, including: grammar checking, document structuring, thematic segmentation, and information retrieval for the writer; - development of practical tools and resources for assisting writers and their evaluation. Submissions ----------- Submissions of papers on original work are invited on any aspect (empirical research and theoretical/methodological issues) of the topics of the workshop, and should address the relevance for the development of tools. Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages (style files will be provided later by LREC for camera-ready versions of accepted papers), and should be sent by email in PDF format to aurelien.max at limsi.fr. As reviewing will be blind, submitted papers should be anonymized. For more details, visit the following website: http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/lrec2008-authoring-aids Important dates --------------- Submission deadline February 11, 2008 Notification of acceptance March 17, 2008 Final papers due April 4, 2008 Workshop June 1st, 2008 (morning session) Organizing committee -------------------- Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) Aur?lien Max (LIMSI, Universit? Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France) (contact person) Michael Zock (LIF, Marseille, France) Scientific committee -------------------- Nadjet Bouayad-Agha (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain) Eric Brunelle (Druide Informatique, Montr?al, Canada) Dan Cristea (University of Iasi, Romania) Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) Marc Dymetman (XRCE, Grenoble, France) Patrice Enjalbert (GREYC, Universit? de Caen, France) Nicolas Hernandez (LINA, Universit? de Nantes, France) Eduard Hovy (ISI, University of Southern California, USA) Aur?lien Max (LIMSI, Universit? Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France) Thierry Olive (LMDC, Poitiers, France) Gisela Redeker (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen, UK) Michael Zock (LIF, Marseille, France) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Jan 5 10:33:41 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:33:41 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC 2008 Workshop on Comparable Corpora Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:33:40 +0100 From: Pierre Zweigenbaum Message-Id: <200712282233.40786.pz at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/lrec2008-comparable-corpora/ X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/IMG/ws/cfp-lrec2008-comparable-corpora.pdf X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/ Call for papers Building and Using Comparable Corpora LREC 2008 post-conference workshop Marrakech, Morocco 31 May 2008 http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/lrec2008-comparable-corpora/ http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/IMG/ws/cfp-lrec2008-comparable-corpora.pdf CONTEXT AND FOCUS Research in comparable corpora is motivated by the scarcity of parallel corpora. Parallel corpora are a key resource to mine translations for statistical machine translation or for building or extending bilingual lexicons and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English-French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the Web. A more fundamental limitation is that translated texts, whatever the skills of translators, are generally influenced by the very translation process and by the language of source texts, so that they may not be fully adequate for the task at hand. This has motivated research into the use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or language varieties. Comparable corpora overcome the two limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual texts are much more abundant than translated texts. However, because of their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention: while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward, building a comparable corpus requires control over the selection of source texts in both languages. TOPICS This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the constitution and use of comparable corpora. Contributions are solicited on the constitution and application of comparable corpora, including the following topics: Applications of comparable corpora: tools for translators; tools for language learning; cross-language information retrieval; cross-language document categorization; machine translation; monolingual comparable corpora for writing assistance; extraction of parallel segments in comparable corpora. Units aligned in comparable corpora: single words and multi-word expressions; proper names; alignment across different scripts. Constitution of comparable corpora: criteria of comparability; degree of comparability; methods for mining comparable corpora. IMPORTANT DATES 11 February 2008 Deadline for submission 10 March 2008 Notification 31 March 2008 Final version 31 May 2008 Workshop ORGANISERS Pierre Zweigenbaum LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay, France ?ric Gaussier LIG, Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France Pascale Fung Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong SUBMISSION INFORMATION We expect short papers of max 3500 words (about 4-6 pages) describing research addressing one of the above topics, to be submitted as PDF documents by email to the following address: Pierre Zweigenbaum The final papers should not have more than 6 pages, adhering to the stylesheet that will be adopted for the LREC Proceedings (to be announced later on the Conference web site). SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa, Canada) Herv? D?jean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) ?ric Gaussier (Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France) Gregory Grefenstette (CEA/LIST, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France) Pascale Fung (University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong) Nathalie K?bler (Universit? Paris Diderot, France) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, UK) Emmanuel Morin (Universit? de Nantes, France) Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, USA) Carol Peters (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) Reinhard Rapp (Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, Germany) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) Monique Slodzian (INALCO, Paris, France) Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sat Jan 5 10:36:43 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:36:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Multilingual and Comparative Perspectives in Specialized Language Resources Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:51:22 -0500 From: "L'Homme Marie-Claude" Message-ID: <9880C869F04BDF4787220D63CB54D6F3031CE91F at MAPIUDEM.sim.umontreal.ca> X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ Workshop on Multilingual and Comparative Perspectives in Specialized Language Resources 26 May 2008 (Afternoon session) To take place within the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008) Marrakech, Morocco http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ Organizers: B?atrice Daille LINA-CNRS, Universit? de Nantes Kyo Kageura, Library and Information Science, University of Tokyo Marie-Claude L'Homme, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Universit? de Montr?al Background We are currently witnessing an increasing interest in multilingualism in many different fields including IR (CLEF: Cross language Evaluation Forum, annual), summarization (DUC), semantic aspects (SemEval 2007 Task 1: Evaluating WSD on Cross-Language Information Retrieval), textual corpora, etc. Although issues related to multilingualism have been debated in different workshops (as those listed above), they are often considered from a computational perspective and for specific applications. Seldom have multilingual resources and the different problems related to their development and modelling have been considered as such. Also, the importance of assessing the quality of language resources is increasingly recognized as far as monolingual resources and tasks are concerned. Regarding specialized language resources the usual emphasis put on scale is gradually shifting towards a concern about quality of corpora and language resources. Also, as we start emphasizing the need to assess the quality of multilingual resources, a set of new issues arises, such as quality criteria, more detailed classification of factors that apply to monolingual as well as multilingual resources, typologies of specialized corpora, terminological characteristics that may appear in a language but not in another. There is an acute need for addressing these issues and to explore multilingual and comparative approaches in specialized language resources. These approaches will come from different fields, including - but not limited to - linguistics, terminology, information science and computational linguistics. This workshop aims at bringing together experts from different backgrounds concerned by the acquisition and modelling of multilingual specialized information. The workshop will provide an opportunity to share experience on multilingual and comparative approaches to the processing of specialized information. It will also be a forum for discussing issues of a more fundamental nature. Topics - Equivalence in specialized resources and specialized corpora; - Multilingual and comparative approaches to the processing of specialized corpora; - Corpus-based approaches to multilingual modelling of terminological data; - Multilingual resources for terminology processing; - Linguistic evidence for multilingual NLP such as identification of cognates, transliteration, morphological evidence, etc. - Comparative approaches to terminological variation and semantic relationships; - Comparative approaches to discourse analysis; - Comparative and multilingual approaches to document characterization; - Modelling of multilingual data in ontologies or other terminological resources; - Evaluation of multilingual resources and methods for acquiring them. Submissions Abstracts should be 5 pages long and sent in PDF format to Marie-Claude L'Homme (mc.lhomme at umontreal.ca). Authors are requested to send an anonymized version of their abstract. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and should adhere to the stylesheet that will be adopted for the LREC Proceedings (to be announced later on the conference web site). Important dates Submission of abstracts: 10 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2008 Final version for the proceedings: 12 April 2008 Scientific committee Marc van Campenhoudt (Universit? de Bruxelles, Belgium) John Humbley (Universit? Paris-Diderot, Paris) Oliver Kraif (Universit? Stendhal Grenoble 3, Grenoble, France) Olivia Kwong (City University of Hong Kong, China) Kyung Soon Lee (Chonbuk National University, Korea) Jorge Antonio Leoni de Leon (University of Geneva) Jeanine Lilleng (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Emmanuel Morin (LINA; Universit? de Nantes, France) Margaret Rogers (University of Surrey, UK) Gilles Serasset (University of Grenoble, France) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) Monique Slodzian (ERTIM-INALCO, Paris) Rita Temmerman (Erasmushogeschool Brussel) Takehiro Utsuro (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Leo Wanner (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From towoldmackssyn at OLDMACKS.COM Sat Jan 5 12:45:36 2008 From: towoldmackssyn at OLDMACKS.COM (Kristina Medeiros) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:45:36 +0200 Subject: Need your help! Message-ID: Hello! My name's Mariya. I'm 26 years old & I am from Russia. Please vote for me this way: http://russiabridehome.info/?idAff=34 Thank You & Happy celebration to you!!! Mariya From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:03:45 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:03:45 +0100 Subject: Appel: FOMI 2008, extended deadline Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:19:50 +0100 From: daniele radicioni Message-Id: <73FEC1CD-992E-4585-B4B5-9A783FB274A8 at di.unito.it> X-url: http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it/submissions.html X-url: http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it X-url: http://www.iospress.nl/ X-url: http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html PLEASE PARDON CROSS POSTINGS. FOMI 2008: extended deadline. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : The deadline for submissions has been extended to January 18th, 2008. The online submission system for FOMI 2008 is available from the conference webpage: http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it/submissions.html The Workshop Proceedings, including all accepted papers, will be published by IOS Press. Daniele Radicioni, on behalf of the Organizing Committee : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : FOMI 2008 - 3rd Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry 5-6 June, 2008, Torino, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS Conference web site: http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it Proceedings published by IOS Press, http://www.iospress.nl/ This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Torino - University of Verona CONFERENCE AIMS FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and industrial practitioners meet to analyze and discuss issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. There is today wide agreement that knowledge modeling and the semantic dimension of information plays an increasingly central role in networked economy: semantic-based applications are relevant in distributed systems such as networked organizations, organizational networks, and in distributed knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim to provide a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same organization. New tools and applications have been and are being developed in diverse application fields, ranging from business to medicine, from engineering to finance, from law to electronics. All these systems have exploited the theoretical results and the practical experience of previous work. In all cases, it has been shown that formal ontologies play a central role in describing in a common and understandable way the logical and practical features of the application domain. The success of the methodologies associated with knowledge modeling and ontologies led to increased need of a comparison between different approaches and results, with the aim of evaluating the interdependencies between theories and methods of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of enterprise organizations. The FOMI 08 Workshop aims to advance in this direction by bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in ontology application, paying particular attention to the topics listed below. CONFERENCE TOPICS *problems in ontology application:* - practical issues in using ontologies in the enterprise - real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business - from legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems *ontology and business:* - ontology and ontological methodologies in business; - adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations; - ontology effectiveness and evaluation in business *ontology and enterprise:* - ontology-driven enterprise modeling; - ontology development and change within organizations; - ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes; *ontology and enterprise knowledge:* - ontologies for the know-how; - ontologies for corporate knowledge; *ontology in practice:* - ontologies for electronic catalogs, e-commerce, e-government; - ontologies for marketing; - ontologies for finance; - ontologies for engineering; - ontologies for medical sciences; *ontology and linguistics:* - ontology-driven linguistic representation in organization knowledge; - linguistic problems in standards and in codification processes; - ontologies and multilingualism in business and organizations PROGRAMME The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for the workshop. In particular, we insist that papers should be written for a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and published as proceedings. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop Proceedings, published by IOS Press and distributed to participants. Following the past edition, a selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be considered for publication in the international journal "Applied Ontology". SUBMISSIONS AND DATES * Format - The maximal paper length is 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. - Papers must be submitted in PDF format - Instructions and tools about the submissions can be found at the "IOS Press author templates" page, http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html. * Deadlines: - Paper Submission: January 18, 2008 - Acceptance Notification: March 3, 2008 - Camera Ready: March 31, 2008 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, USA - Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy - Stefano Borgo, (co-chair), Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy - Peter Clark, Knowledge Systems, Boeing Maths and Computing Technology, USA - Matteo Cristani, University of Verona, Italy - Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy - Roberta Ferrario, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy - Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada - Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy - Gilles Kassel, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France - Paulo Leitao, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e de Gestao, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal - Leonardo Lesmo (co-chair), University of Torino, Italy - Riichiro Mizoguchi, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University - Jorge Posada, VICOMTech, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain - Chris Partridge, 42 Objects Limited, BORO Centre Limited, Brunel University, UK - York Sure, Institut AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany - Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK - Matthew West, Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, UK - Radboud G.F. Winkels, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:06:18 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:06:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: ELRA Workshop on Evaluation at LREC 2008 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:52:21 +0100 From: ELDA Message-ID: <478355E5.4050500 at elda.org> [Apologies for multiple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS ELRA Workshop on Evaluation Looking into the Future of Evaluation: when automatic metrics meet task-based and performance-based approaches To be held in conjunction with the 6th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008) 27 May 2008, Palais des Congr?s Mansour Eddahbi, Marrakech Background Automatic methods to evaluate system performance play an important role in the development of a language technology system. They speed up research and development by allowing fast feedback, and the idea is also to make results comparable while aiming to match human evaluation in terms of output evaluation. However, after several years of study and exploitation of such metrics we still face problems like the following ones: * they only evaluate part of what should be evaluated * they produce measurements that are hard to understand/explain, and/or hard to relate to the concept of quality * they fail to match human evaluation * they require resources that are expensive to create etc. Therefore, an effort to integrate knowledge from a multitude of evaluation activities and methodologies should help us solve some of these immediate problems and avoid creating new metrics that reproduce such problems. Looking at MT as a sample case, problems to be immediately pointed out are twofold: reference translations and distance measurement. The former are difficult and expensive to produce, they do not cover the usually wide spectrum of translation possibilities and what is even more discouraging, worse results are obtained when reference translations are of higher quality (more spontaneous and natural, and thus, sometimes more lexically and syntactically distant from the source text). Regarding the latter, the measurement of the distance between the source text and the output text is carried out by means of automatic metrics that do not match human intuition as well as claimed. Furthermore, different metrics perform differently, which has already led researchers to study metric/approach combinations which integrate automatic methods into a deeper linguistically oriented evaluation. Hopefully, this should help soften the unfair treatment received by some rule-based systems, clearly punished by certain system-approach sensitive metrics. On the other hand, there is the key issue of ? what needs to be measured ?, so as to draw the conclusion that ? something is of good quality ?, or probably rather ? something is useful for a particular purpose ?. In this regard, works like those done within the FEMTI framework have shown that aspects such as usability, reliability, efficiency, portability, etc. should also be considered. However, the measuring of such quality characteristics cannot always be automated, and there may be many other aspects that could be usefully measured. This workshop follows the evolution of a series of workshops where methodological problems, not only for MT but for evaluation in general, have been approached. Along the lines of these discussions and aiming to go one step further, the current workshop, while taking into account the advantages of automatic methods and the shortcomings of current methods, should focus on task-based and performance-based approaches for evaluation of natural language applications, with key questions such as: - How can it be determined how useful a given system is for a given task? - How can focusing on such issues and combining these approaches with our already acquired experience on automatic evaluation help us develop new metrics and methodologies which do not feature the shortcomings of current automatic metrics? - Should we work on hybrid methodologies of automatic and human evaluation for certain technologies and not for others? - Can we already envisage the integration of these approaches? - Can we already plan for some immediate collaborations/experiments? - What would it mean for the FEMTI framework to be extended to other HLT applications, such as summarization, IE, or QA? Which new aspects would it need to cover? We solicit papers that address these questions and other related issues relevant to the workshop. Workshop Programme and Audience Addressed This full-day workshop is intended for researchers and developers on different evaluation technologies, with experience on the various issues concerned in the call, and interested in defining a methodology to move forward. The workshop feature invited talks, submitted papers, and will conclude with a discussion on future developments and collaboration. Workshop Chairing Team Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec Sprachtechnologien GmbH, Germany) - chair Khalid Choukri (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) - co-chair Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - co-chair Organising Committee Victoria Arranz (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) Khalid Choukri (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, France) Christopher Cieri (LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium, USA) Eduard Hovy (Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, USA) Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Keith J. Miller (The MITRE Corporation, USA) Satoshi Nakamura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Andrei Popescu-Belis (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland) Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec Sprachtechnologien GmbH, Germany) Important dates Deadline for abstracts: Monday 28 January 2008 Notification to Authors: Monday 3 March 2008 Submission of Final Version: Tuesday 25 March 2008 Workshop: Tuesday 27 May 2008 Submission Format Abstracts should be no longer than 1500 words and should be submitted in PDF format to Gregor Thurmair at g.thurmair at linguatec.de. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:01:49 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:01:49 +0100 Subject: Revue: CORELA, volume 5, numero 2 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:05:46 +0100 From: Gilles Col Message-Id: X-url: http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1816 X-url: http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1825 X-url: http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1818 X-url: http://revue-corela.org L'?quipe ?ditoriale de la revue CORELA a le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication de son nouveau num?ro (volume 5, num?ro 2): Sommaire : P?nou-Achille SOM? : Polys?mie, prototype et invariant : le cas du verbe ? manger ? en dagara http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1816 Aleksandra Dziadkiewicz : La traduction automatique de phras?ologismes pragmatiques : quelles repr?sentations ? travers la diversit? formelle et culturelle ? http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1825 Emmanuelle Roussel : Une propri?t? pragmatique du past perfect http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=1818 RAPPEL : la date de soumission du prochain num?ro (Vol 6, num. 1, juin 2008) est le 1 f?vrier 2008. Nous vous souhaitons une bonne lecture et une bonne ann?e 2008. Gilles Col Directeur de publication ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:07:38 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:07:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: DL2008, Second Call for Papers Message-ID: Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:28:04 +0100 From: Carsten Lutz Message-id: X-url: http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ X-url: http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html X-url: http://www.easychair.org/DL08/ X-url: http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ X-url: http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ X-url: http://dl.kr.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 21st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'08) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Dresden, Germany May 13-16, 2008 http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. The workshop is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in academia and industry, who are interested in description logics and their applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 23 March 2008 Camera ready papers due: 13 April 2008 DL'07 Workshop: 13-16 May 2008 (3 or 4 days) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics. Possible subjects include: * Foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems. * Extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages. * Integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. * Use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing. * Building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. * Tools that exploit description Logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS * Bernhard Ganter, Dresden, Germany * Georg Gottlob, Oxford, UK * Maarten Marx, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Kent Spackman, Oregon, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite submissions of papers in Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html to arrive no later than February 15, 2008. The length of submissions is limited to 11 pages, including title and abstract (if any), and list of references. Submitted papers must be in PDF format. Submission is via EasyChair, see http://www.easychair.org/DL08/ The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series, see http://www.CEUR-ws.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Franz Baader, Dresden, Germany (General chair) * Carsten Lutz, Dresden, Germany (PC Chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Carlos Areces, Nancy, France * Alessandro Artale, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Alex Borgida, Rutgers, USA * Sebastian Brandt, Machester, UK * Diego Calvanese, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Giuseppe de Giacomo, Rome, Italy * Volker Haarslev, Montreal, Canada * Ian Horrocks, Oxford, UK * Ulrich Hustadt, Liverpool, UK * Pascal Hitzler, Karlsruhe, Germany * Carsten Lutz, Dresden, Germany (Chair) * Maja Milicic, Dresden, Germany * Boris Motik, Oxford, UK * Ralf Moeller, Hamburg, Germany * Bijan Parsia, Manchester, UK, * Peter Patel-Schneider, Alcatel Lucent, USA * Riccardo Rosati, Rome, Italy * Uli Sattler, Manchester, UK * Umberto Straccia, Pisa, Italy * David Toman, Waterloo, Canada * Frank Wolter, Liverpool, UK * Misha Zakharyaschev, London, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information regarding registration, travel information, hotels, etc will be made available on the DL2008 homepage http://dl.kr.org/dl2008/ * Enquiries about the DL2008 workshop can be made by mailing to lutz at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de * The official Description Logic home page is at http://dl.kr.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:10:20 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:10:20 +0100 Subject: Job: Stage, COGIT, IGN, Saint Mande Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:01:57 +0100 From: "Catherine Domingues" Message-ID: X-url: http://recherche.ign.fr/cogit ________________________________________________________________________ Contexte Le laboratoire COGIT travaille ? un projet de conception de carte sur mesure, c'est-?-dire une carte pertinente et efficace par rapport aux objectifs du concepteur et adapt?e ? ses go?ts. Un des axes de recherche vise ? constituer des bases de connaissances qui permettront d'exploiter la description que l'utilisateur fait de son besoin pour l'aider ? concevoir sa carte dans les r?gles de l'art. Pour cela, il est n?cessaire d'?tablir des correspondances entre la description que des utilisateurs peuvent faire de leur carte et les param?tres de construction d'une carte tels qu'ils sont d?finis par des experts. Diff?rentes actions ont ?t? mises en place pour faire d?crire une carte par des publics vari?s. Ces travaux ont permis d'?baucher une description formalis?e de carte. Sujet Le stage a pour objectif d'exploiter un ensemble comment? et organis? d'interviews. Ces interviews font partie d'une enqu?te r?alis?e par un service de l'IGN concernant la carte au 1/50 000 par rapport au th?me de la randonn?e (? pied, en v?lo, en VTT, ...). Il s'agit de mettre en forme ce corpus puis de l'exploiter (manuellement, avec des outils de TALN et ?ventuellement des m?thodes num?riques) afin d'identifier en particulier les acteurs, les activit?s, les objectifs des acteurs par rapport aux activit?s. Ces ?l?ments permettront de proposer des caract?ristiques de cartes pertinentes par rapport aux souhaits des utilisateurs et coh?rentes avec le mod?le de description de cartes qui est en cours d'?laboration dans l'?quipe de recherche. Comp?tences particuli?res et formation requise master avec comp?tences en informatique linguistique, ?ventuellement en cartographie. Une bonne ma?trise de la langue fran?aise est indispensable. Lieu du stage Institut g?ographique national 2 avenue Pasteur 94160 Saint-Mand? Dur?e et r?mun?ration dur?e : 4 ? 6 mois d?but : mars/avril 2008 r?mun?ration : 30% du SMIC Responsable de stage Catherine DOMINGUES mel : catherine.domingues at ign.fr T?l : 01 43 98 85 44 http://recherche.ign.fr/cogit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 8 16:12:26 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:12:26 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Multimodal Corpora, LREC 2008 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:02:30 +0100 From: Jean-Claude MARTIN Message-ID: <47839086.2080202 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Call for Papers LREC 2008 Workshop on "Multimodal corpora: from Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications" Tuesday, 27 May 2008 Marrakech (Morocco) http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION A 'Multimodal Corpus' targets the recording and annotation of several communication modalities such as speech, hand gesture, facial expression, body posture, etc. Theoretical issues are also addressed, given their importance to the design of multimodal corpora. This workshop continues the successful series of similar workshops at LREC 00, 02, 04 and 06 also documented in a special issue of the Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation due to come out in spring 2008. There is an increasing interest in multimodal communication and multimodal corpora as visible by European Networks of Excellence and integrated projects such as HUMAINE, SIMILAR, CHIL, AMI, CALLAS. Furthermore, the success of recent conferences and workshops dedicated to multimodal communication (ICMI, IVA, Gesture, PIT, Nordic Symposia on Multimodal Communication, Embodied Language Processing) and the creation of the Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces also testifies to the growing interest in this area, and the general need for data on multimodal behaviours. The focus of this LREC'2008 workshop on multimodal corpora will be on models of natural interaction and their contribution to the design of multimodal systems and applications. Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to: - Multimodal corpus collection activities (e.g. direction-giving dialogues, emotional behaviour, human-avatar interaction, human-robot interaction, etc.) - Relations between modalities in natural (human) interaction and in human-computer interaction - Application of multimodal corpora to the design of multimodal and multimedia systems - Fully or semi-automatic multimodal annotation, using e.g. motion capture and image processing, and its integration with manual annotations - Corpus-based design of systems that involve human-like modalities either in input (Virtual Reality, motion capture, etc.) and output (virtual characters) - Multimodal interaction in specific scenarios, e.g. group interaction in meetings - Coding schemes for the annotation of multimodal corpora - Evaluation and validation of multimodal annotations - Methods, tools, and best practices for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, and use of multimedia and multimodal corpora - Interoperability between multimodal annotation tools (exchange formats, conversion tools, standardization) - Metadata descriptions of multimodal corpora - Automated multimodal fusion and/or generation (e.g., coordinated speech, gaze, gesture, facial expressions) - Analysis methods tailored to multimodal corpora using e.g. statistical measures or data mining We expect the output of this workshop to be: 1) deeper understanding of theoretical issues and research questions related to verbal and non-verbal communication that multimodal corpora should address, 2) larger consensus on how such corpora should be built in order to provide useful and usable answers to research questions, 3) shared knowledge of how the corpora are contributing to multimodal and multimedia system design, and 4) an updated view of state-of-the-art research on multimodal corpora. ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES - February 10th: Deadline for submission (full paper) - March 16th: Notification of acceptance - March 30th: Camera ready version of papers - May 27th: Workshop ------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS The workshop will consist primarily of paper presentations and discussion/working sessions. Submissions should be 4 pages long, must be in English, and follow the submission guidelines from http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ The .doc and .pdf file should be submitted via email to MARTIN at LIMSI.FR and PATRIZIA at CST.DK Demonstrations of multimodal corpora and related tools are encouraged as well (a demonstration outline of 2 pages can be submitted). As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send to MARTIN at LIMSI.FR and PATRIZIA at CST.DK a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submissions. Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. ------------------------------------------------------------------- TIME SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION FEE The workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoon session. There will be time for collective discussions. For this full-day Workshop, the registration fee will be specified on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANISING COMMITTEE MARTIN Jean-Claude, LIMSI-CNRS, France PAGGIO Patrizia, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark KIPP Michael, DFKI, Saarbr?cken, Germany HEYLEN Dirk, Univ. 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General Invitation for Submissions The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and receive feedback. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback from a general audience as well as from panelists; the panelists are experienced researchers who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Since this workshop is an excellent opportunity to ask for suggestions, to receive useful feedback and to run your ideas by an international audience of researchers, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. The research being presented can come from any topic area within computational linguistics including, but not limited to, the following topic areas: - pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon - phonetics, phonology and morphology - linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language - information retrieval, information extraction, question answering - summarization and paraphrasing - speech recognition, speech synthesis - corpus-based language modeling - multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids - spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems - multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems - message and narrative understanding systems 2. Submission Requirements The emphasis of the workshop is on original and unpublished research. The papers should describe original work in progress. Students who have settled on their thesis direction but still have significant research left to do are particularly encouraged to submit their papers. Since the main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work, papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. All authors of multi-author papers must be students. Papers submitted for this workshop are eligible only if they have not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Students who have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL Student Research Workshop may not submit to this workshop. They should submit their papers to the main conference instead. It must be indicated if a paper has been submitted to another conference or workshop. 3. Submission Procedure Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference. These files are available at ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html. A description of the format is available there in case you are unable to use these style files directly. All submissions must be electronic. Please use the submission page to submit your paper. 4. Reviewing Procedure Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, with the assistance of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance decision will be based on the results of the review. Note that reviewing of papers will be double-blind; therefore, please make sure your paper shows the title, but no author information. You should likewise not have any self identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, rather than this: ''We showed previously (Smith, 2001), ...'', use citations such as: ''Smith (2001) previously showed ...''. 5. Schedule The papers must be submitted no later than midnight, January 10th, 2008 . No papers received after January 10th, 2008 will be accepted. Acknowledgment will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on February 28th, 2008. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 10, 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2008 Camera-ready paper submission deadline: April 14, 2008 Conference date: June 15-20, 2008 (The workshop will be held during the main conference) 6. Contact Information If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use: acl08srw at ling.osu.edu. An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs. Ebru Arisoy (Speech Co-Chair) Bogazici University, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey Wolfgang Maier (NLP Co-Chair) University of Tuebingen Tuebingen, Germany Keisuke Inoue (IR Co-Chair) Syracuse University Syracuse, New York, USA Program Committee: Tanel Alumae, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Michiel Bacchiani, Google Inc., USA Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia Chris Bartels, University of Washington, USA Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbr?cken, Germany Marine Carpuat, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Gulsen Cebiroglu Eryigit, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Ozlem Cetinoglu, Sabanci University, Turkey Mathias Creutz, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Montse Cuadros, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Anne Diekema, Syracuse University, USA Markus Dreyer, Johns Hopkins University, USA Kevin Duh, University of Washington, USA Koji Eguchi, Kobe University, Japan Hakan Erdogan, Sabanci University, Turkey Katja Filippova, EML Research, Heidelberg, Germany Seeger Fisher, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Dilek Hakkani-Tur, ICSI, USA Dustin Hillard, University of Washington, USA Teemu Hirsimaki, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan Sandra K?bler, Indiana University, USA Giridhar Kumaran, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Staffan Larsson, G?teborg University, Sweden Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan KyungSoon Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Timm Lichte, University of T?bingen, Germany Berenike Loos, European Media Laboratory GmbH, Germany Robert Luk, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Lambert Mathias, Johns Hopkins University, USA Olena Medelyan, University of Waikato, New Zealand Quiozhu Mei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Simon Mille, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Taniya Mishra, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Mathias M?hl, Saarland University, Germany Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University, Turkey Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK Yannick Parmentier, University of T?bingen, Germany Thomas Pellegrini, LIMSI, France Adam Przepi?rkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Janne Pylkkonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Georg Rehm, University of T?bingen, Germany Brian Roark, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Hasim Sak, Bogazici University, Turkey Murat Saraclar, Bogazici University, Turkey Ruhi Sarikaya, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Oliver Schonefeld, University of Bielefeld, Germany Zak Shafran, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Anders S?gaard, University of Potsdam, Germany Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Yael Sygal, University of Haifa, Israel Cuneyd Tantug, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Gokhan Tur, SRI International, USA Suzan Verberne, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Christopher White, Johns Hopkins University, USA Hans Friedrich Witschel, University of Leipzig, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sorotomixcek at OTOMIX.COM Mon Jan 7 21:57:47 2008 From: sorotomixcek at OTOMIX.COM (Lynette Devine) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:57:47 +0100 Subject: Don't be the "little guy" in the club Message-ID: Ultimately the true stuff - without ripoffs! 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From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 18:52:34 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:52:34 +0100 Subject: Appel: HLT & NLP within the Arabic world Workshop at LREC 2008 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:01:19 +0100 From: ELDA Message-ID: <47864F5F.90304 at elda.org> X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ [Apologies for multiple postings] * HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and **local ** languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects * Please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html for details. * Motivation and Aims* This Workshop intends to add value to the issues addressed during the main conference (Human Language Technologies (HLT) & Natural Language Processing (NLP)) and enhance the work carried out at different places to process Arabic language(s) and more generally Semitic languages and other local and foreign languages spoken in the region. It should bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic Written and Spoken language processing in a mono- or cross/multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to update the community through reports on completed and ongoing work as well as on the availability of LRs, evaluation protocols and campaigns, products and core technologies (in particular open source ones). This should enable the participants to develop a common view on where we stand with respect to these particular set of languages and to foster the discussion of the future of this research area. Particular attention will be paid to activities involving technologies such as Machine Translation, Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval/extraction, Summarization, Speech to text transcriptions, etc., and languages such as Arabic varieties, Amazigh, Amharic, Hebrew, Maltese, and other local languages. Evaluation methodologies and resources for evaluation of HLT are also a main focus. * Topics of Interest * The submissions should address some of the following issues: ? Issues in the design, the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of Language Resources (Standard Arabic, Colloquial Arabic, other Semitic languages, Amazigh, Coptic, Maltese, English/French spoken locally, etc.) ? Impact on LR collections/processing and NLP of the crucial issues related to "code switching" between different dialects and languages ? Specific issues related to the above-mentioned languages such as role of morphology, named entities, corpus alignment, etc.) ? Multilinguality issues including relationship between Colloquial and Standard Arabic ? Exploitation of LR in different types of applications ? Industrial LR requirements and community's response; ? Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation for written and spoken language processing; ? Focus on some key technologies such as MT (all approaches e.g. Statistical, Example-Based, etc.), Information Retrieval, Speech Recognition, Spoken Documents Retrieval, CLIR, Question-Answering, Summarization, ? Local, regional, and international activities and projects; ? Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for regional and international cooperation. * Submission Details (more on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html) * Submissions must be in English. Abstracts for workshop contributions should not exceed Four A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submission is to be sent by email, preferably in Postscript or PDF format, to: arabic at elda.org to arrive before * 15 February 2008 * . Registration to LREC2008 will be required for participation, so potential participants are invited to refer to the main conference website for all details not covered in the present call ( http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/) * Important Dates * Call for papers: 3 January 2008 Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 14 March 2008 Final version of accepted paper: 11 April 2008 Workshop full-day: Saturday 31^st May 2008 * Workshop chair * Khalid Choukri (ELRA/ELDA, France ) * Workshop Co-chairs * Mona Diab, Columbia University , USA Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen , Denmark ) Paolo Rosso, Universidad Polit?cnica Valencia , Spain Abdelhadi Soudi ENIM ( Morocco ) Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA and Monterey Institute of International Studies, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 18:53:37 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:53:37 +0100 Subject: Appel: SLTU, extension de la deadline Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:16:22 +0700 From: Mathias Rossignol Message-ID: <478717C6.3090900 at mica.edu.vn> X-url: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu SLTU : Extended paper submission deadline International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced languages Paper submission deadline is extended to : January 30, 2008 !!!! ************************************************************************ The International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU) will be held at Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, May 5 - May 7, 2008. Workshop Web Site : http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu The STLU meeting is a technical conference focused on spoken language processing for under-resourced languages. This first workshop will focus on Asian languages, and the idea is to mainly (but not exclusively) target languages of the area (Vietnamese, Khmer, Lao, Chinese dialects, Thai, etc.). However, all contributions on other under-resourced languages of the world are warmly welcomed. The workshop aims at gathering researchers working on: * ASR, synthesis and speech translation for under-resourced languages * portability issues * fast resources acquisition (speech, text, lexicons, parallel corpora) * spoken language processing for languages with rich morphology * spoken language processing for languages without separators * spoken language processing for languages without writing system * ... Important dates !!!!* Paper submission: January 30, 2008 !!!! * Notification of Paper Acceptance: February 20, 2008 * Author Registration Deadline: March 1, 2008 Scientific Committee * Pr Tanja Schultz, CMU, USA * Dr Yuqing Gao, IBM, USA * Dr Lori Lamel, LIMSI, France * Dr Laurent Besacier, LIG, France * Dr Pascal Nocera, LIA, France * Pr Jean-Paul Haton, LORIA, France * Pr Luong Chi Mai, IOIT, Vietnam * Pr Dang Van Chuyet, HUT, Vietnam * Pr Pham Thi Ngoc Yen, MICA, Vietnam * Dr Eric Castelli, MICA, Vietnam * Dr Vincent Berment, LIG Laboratory, France * Dr Briony Williams, Bangor University, UK Local Organizing Committee * Pr Nguyen Trong Giang, HUT/MICA * Pr Ha Duyen Tu, HUT * Pr Pham Thi Ngoc Yen, HUT/MICA * Pr Genevi?ve Caelen-Haumont, MICA * Dr Trinh Van Loan, HUT * Dr Mathias Rossignol, MICA * M. Hoang Xuan Lan, HUT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 18:57:00 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:57:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: TAG+9, submission DL: March 3rd, 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:14:26 -0500 (EST) From: gardent at loria.fr (Claire Gardent) Message-Id: <20080111151426.D7051573BA at loria1.loria.fr> X-url: http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag9 The Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+9) 7-8 June 2008 Tuebingen, Germany http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ CALL FOR PAPERS An important subfield of computational linguistics and natural language processing is research on the formal machinery for describing language. This covers a wide range of interdisciplinary work in the cognitive science of language, including the mathematical and algorithmic properties of this machinery, the grammatical description of natural language, and the mechanisms of parsing and human language use. This research is also applied to empirical areas leading to novel algorithms and models for machine learning. Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) is a prominent formalism in the study of natural language because of its attractive formal properties and its extended domain of locality. TAG has been studied extensively in the last three decades with respect to mathematical properties and computational applications, as well as its role in constructing grammatical theories, new models of language processing and applications. This workshop, the latest in a series that has been running successfully since 1990, aims at bringing together researchers interested in various aspects of the TAG formalism including relations to other grammar formalisms -- this is the reason for the "+" in the workshop's name. In the past, interaction between such formalisms has been productive, leading for example to the shared development of broad-coverage grammars, transfer of parsing and machine learning algorithms from one formalism to another and to new insights into properties of different formalisms. Such related formalisms would include minimalist syntax, categorial grammar, dependency grammars, HPSG, LFG, and others which share with TAG general properties such as lexicalization of syntactic structure, a simple notion of local grammatical dependency, and a formal system strictly more powerful than context-free but not fully context-sensitive. Invited speakers: * Uwe Moennich, University of Tuebingen * Stuart Shieber, Harvard University Topics: We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related systems including the following topics: * syntactic and semantic theory; * mathematical properties; * computational and algorithmic studies of parsing, interpretation and generation; * machine learning models for TAG; * corpus-based research and grammar development using TAG; * psycholinguistic modeling; and * applications to natural language processing or biological sequence modeling. Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two sorts of presentations at the workshop: spoken presentations and poster presentations. Poster presentations are particularly appropriate for brief descriptions of specialized implementations, resources under development and work in progress. Regardless of the type of submission, abstracts may not exceed two pages in length (not including data, figures and references). Contact Information: The workshop website is at http://tagplus9.cs.sfu.ca/ The electronic submission website is at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag9 Email contact: tagplus at sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de Important dates: * Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 3, 2008. * Notification to authors of decision: April 10, 2008. * Deadline for camera-ready submission: April 28, 2008. * Workshop dates: June 7 to 8, 2008. Proceedings including full papers for accepted abstracts (including both oral presentations and poster presentations) will be available on-line and at the workshop. In addition, we will explore possibilities for subsequent publication of workshop articles, for example through a special issue of a journal. Organization: Local Arrangements Chair * Laura Kallmeyer, University of Tuebingen Program Committee * Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA Nancy, (France). Program Co-Chair * Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University, (Canada). Program Co-Chair * Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research (USA) * Tilman Becker, DKI Saarbruecken (Germany) * Pierre Boullier, INRIA Rocquencourt, Paris (France) * John Chen, Columbia University (USA) * Joan Chen-Main, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * David Chiang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA) * Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA (France) * Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins University (USA) * Chung-Hye Han, Simon Fraser University (Canada) * Karin Harbusch, University of Koblenz (Germany) * Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) * Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * Laura Kallmeyer, University of Tuebingen (Germany) * Marco Kuhlmann, University of the Saarland (Germany) * Alessandro Mazzei, University of Torino (Italy) * David McDonald, BBN Technologies (USA) * Martha Palmer, University of Colorado (USA) * Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA) * Frank Richter, University of Tuebingen (Germany) * James Rogers, Earlham College (USA) * Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz (Germany) * Tatjana Scheffler, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * Sylvain Schmitz, INRIA Nancy Grand Est (France) * Vijay K. Shanker, University of Delaware (USA) * Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh (UK) * Matthew Stone, Rutgers University (USA) * Naoki Yoshinaga, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan) * Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK) Previous TAG+ meetings have been held at: * Dagstuhl (1990) * Philadelphia (1992) * Paris (1994) * Philadelphia (1998) * Paris (2000) * Venice (2002) * Vancouver (2004) * Sydney (2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 18:58:46 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:58:46 +0100 Subject: Job: Stage en TAL, Systemes de questions-reponses, LIMSI-CNRS Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:23:48 +0100 From: Xavier Tannier Message-ID: <47879814.1030409 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/fr/Stages/sujet_M2R_expressions_figees.html X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/%7Extannier/ Bonjour, Le groupe LIR du LIMSI propose le stage de Master Recherche suivant dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique de la Langue : -------------- Titre : D?tection d'expressions fig?es pour les syst?mes de questions-r?ponses Date de d?marrage : mars/avril 2008 Dur?e : 4 mois Lieu du stage : LIMSI/CNRS, groupe LIR (91403 Orsay) Voir aussi : http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/fr/Stages/sujet_M2R_expressions_figees.html Th?me : Dans le cadre des syst?mes de questions-r?ponses, de recherche d'information, mais aussi en analyse syntaxique et dans de nombreux domaines, il est int?ressant de conna?tre les expressions fig?es ou semi-fig?es. Par exemple, les locutions comme "pomme de terre" ou "perdre la vie", mais aussi des entit?s nomm?es ou des expressions longues comme "la d?claration universelle des droits de l'homme et du citoyen". En recherche d'information et dans les syst?mes questions-r?ponses, conna?tre ce type de locutions nous permet de d?cider si la requ?te doit ?tre constitu?e de l'expression enti?re ou si les mots doivent ?tre consid?r?s de fa?on ind?pendante. Description du stage : De nombreux travaux ont trait? le probl?me des locutions, mais de nombreuses imperfections subsistent. Le but du stage est d'?tudier l'?tat de l'art en la mati?re et de mettre en ?uvre une m?thode adapt?e au contexte des syst?mes de questions-r?ponses. Contacts : Xavier Tannier : xavier.tannier at limsi.fr V?ronique Moriceau : moriceau at limsi.fr --------------- -- Xavier Tannier LIMSI-CNRS Universit? Paris-Sud 11 B.P. 133 91403 ORSAY CEDEX FRANCE http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ tel: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 12 fax: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 88 ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 18:59:24 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:59:24 +0100 Subject: Cursus: Erasmus Mundus Masters Course in NLP -- Call for Applications Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:24:26 -0000 From: "Pekar, Viktor" Message-ID: <1E93EA79FECAE149808363138FAE5BE10B17A2CB at exchange03.unv.wlv.ac.uk> X-url: http://mastermundusnlp-hlt.univ-fcomte.fr/ [sent on behalf of Sylviane Cardie] Erasmus Mundus Masters Course International Masters in NLP and HLT CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We invite applications for an Erasmus Mundus MA course on NLP and HLT, organized jointly by Universite de Franche-Comte (France), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), Universidade do Algarve (Portugal), and the University of Wolverhampton (UK). The objective of this Masters Course is to provide education and training of specialists in Language Technologies and their applications and prepare them for careers in the LT industry, research and academia. The students will be able to select a combination of modules on topics in Linguistics, Translation Studies, Computer Science, and Mathematics, the languages of instruction being those of the country of each partner university. As part of the course, the students will complete a research project jointly supervised by lecturers from the partner universities. During the two-year programme, each student will spend two semesters at one university of his/her choice, and another two at either one or two other universities. After completing the programme, the students will receive a multiple Masters degree from the universities they have attended. Up to 18 best non-EU candidates will be offered a grant covering tuition fees, accommodation and subsistence during the study. For more information on the course, please visit: http://mastermundusnlp-hlt.univ-fcomte.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 19:01:14 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:01:14 +0100 Subject: Soft: Mindmentor, NLP RoboCoach Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:43:52 +0100 From: IEP Holland NLP Message-ID: <1191949413.15599 at iepdoc.nl> X-url: http://www.mindmentor.com MindMentor returns! NLP RoboCoach on line again Dear NLP-colleague, In 2006 IEP Holland launched MindMentor, the NLP coaching robot. MindMentor guides clients through a structured process, helping them to solve their problems and achieve their goals. It's a computer program that - apart from NLP - offers psychological depth with projection techniques (similar to a Rorschach test) and adds surprise with provocative elements (similar to provocative therapy). MindMentor's office is located at http://www.mindmentor.com An effective NLP robot psychologist MindMentor was on line for two months in 2006, when he did more than 1600 sessions with people from all over the world. He achieved a solution percentage of 47%: people who finished their session solved their problem for 47% on average. We admit that we went slightly euphoric! A new, improved MindMentor After this first run, we received many useful comments from the NLP-community. And we gathered a lot of data. So we had the whole system reprogrammed. We improved ecology testing (on two levels), extended the analysis of subjective experience, we added role model resourcing, we improved quote matching, we extended the Rorschach feature and we spiced things up with some provocation. Also - an improvement you may not like as much - clients now have to pay for MindMentor's work; he has to start earning a living.... He now charges 4,95 EU per session. We also noticed that, since MindMentor keeps track of both process and results, he'll be an excellent source of scientific information on NLP. Right now MindMentor is receiving a lot of attention in Dutch newspapers, radio and television programs. The response we get is quite positive. Looking for supervisors MindMentor still needs to learn a lot. So we are looking for about 25 supervisors, spread evenly over the globe. If you are interested in becoming a MindMentor supervisor, please send us an e-mail. To be a MindMentor supervisor you need to have experience as a guide in goal directed human change. A good assistant for NLP coaches MindMentor is a great NLP assistant. You can have your clients do a MindMentor session before you see them. He does a lot of ground work, so your clients come in well prepared... So go ahead and give the new MindMentor a try at http://www.mindmentor.com Solve a problem the NLP way! Best Regards, Jaap Hollander E-mail: jh at iepdoc.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Sun Jan 13 19:03:11 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:03:11 +0100 Subject: Job: Stage en TAL, Detection de paraphrases en contexte, LIMSI-CNRS Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:39:56 +0100 From: Xavier Tannier Message-ID: <47864A5C.8080505 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/fr/Stages/sujet_M2R_paraphrases.html X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ Bonjour, Le groupe LIR du LIMSI propose le stage de Master Recherche suivant dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique de la Langue : -------------- Titre : D?tection et validation de paraphrases en contexte Date de d?marrage : mars/avril 2008 Dur?e : 4 mois Mots-cl?s : analyse syntaxique, paraphrases, traitement automatique de la langue, syst?me de questions-r?ponses Lieu du stage : LIMSI/CNRS, groupe LIR ( 91403 Orsay) Voir aussi : http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/fr/Stages/sujet_M2R_paraphrases.html Contexte : Dans le domaine de la recherche d'information, l'un des d?fis actuels porte sur les syst?mes de questions-r?ponses en domaine ouvert. L'objectif de ces syst?mes est de fournir une r?ponse ? une question exprim?e en langage naturel en trouvant cette r?ponse dans un ensemble de documents, ensemble ?ventuellement tr?s large et pouvant aller jusqu'au Web. La plupart des syst?mes de questions-r?ponses sont ? m?me d'extraire la r?ponse ? une question factuelle lorsqu'elle est explicitement pr?sente dans les textes mais dans le cas contraire, ils ne sont pas capables d'agencer diff?rents morceaux d'information dans le cadre d'un raisonnement pour produire une r?ponse. Par exemple un raisonnement dans lequel il faut assembler plusieurs extraits d'informations r?partis dans plusieurs documents ou dans plusieurs phrases d'un m?me document. Par exemple, pour r?pondre ? la question "Quel est l'?ge de la femme de Tom Cruise ?", il faut tout d'abord identifier la femme de Tom Cruise puis chercher son ?ge. Le projet CONIQUE a pour objectif de pallier cette insuffisance et s'inscrit en cela dans un courant de recherche actuellement tr?s actif visant ? int?grer dans les syst?mes de questions-r?ponses des m?canismes de compr?hension de textes s'appuyant sur des inf?rences. Contrairement ? la plupart des travaux allant dans ce sens, le premier axe de notre projet a pour but non pas de constituer ou d'exploiter une base de connaissances a priori permettant de r?pondre aux questions mais de mod?liser l'extraction de ces connaissances ? partir de diff?rents textes en fonction des besoins n?cessaires ? la construction d'un chemin inf?rentiel entre les ?l?ments trouv?s dans les textes et l'information cherch?e, telle qu'elle est sp?cifi?e par une question. Th?me : Les analyseurs syntaxiques sont des outils de traitement automatique de la langue permettant d'identifier les relations syntaxiques entre les constituants d'une phrase (SUJET, OBJET, etc.). Ils fournissent des sorties dans un format qui leur est propre. Dans le cadre de ce projet, on utilise un analyseur syntaxique pour d?terminer si un passage pr?-s?lectionn? par un moteur de recherche r?pond r?ellement ? la question de l'utilisateur. On cherche notamment ? montrer que certaines relations syntaxiques (ou ?ventuellement s?mantiques) pr?sentes dans des passages sont (ou ne sont pas) ?quivalents aux relations pr?sentes dans la question. Par exemple, la question pourra porter sur le nombre de personnes ayant "perdu la vie" lors d'un ?v?nement, tandis que le passage pr?cise que cet ?v?nement "a fait X morts". Cet aspect se rapproche de la probl?matique de la recherche de paraphrases. Travail ? r?aliser : Le but du stage est d'?tudier l'?tat de l'art en la mati?re, de r?fl?chir aux avantages de se situer dans un contexte pr?cis (les passages) plut?t que dans un cadre g?n?ral (ce que fait la litt?rature), ainsi que de mettre en place des techniques de validation des paraphrases. Contacts : Xavier Tannier : xavier.tannier at limsi.fr V?ronique Moriceau : moriceau at limsi.fr --------------- -- Xavier Tannier LIMSI-CNRS Universit? Paris-Sud 11 B.P. 133 91403 ORSAY CEDEX FRANCE http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ tel: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 12 fax: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 88 ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sashaartgallery.com at PALMCOASTCONDO.COM Mon Jan 14 22:33:24 2008 From: sashaartgallery.com at PALMCOASTCONDO.COM (Maximilian Nelson) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:33:24 -0800 Subject: She will love you more than any other guy Message-ID: Info on picture or here: http://www.qarflex.net/ ----- She smiled down at him. Youre She would have to bring up his She wouldnt be able to retalia He would beat her at her own g -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: img19.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 10893 bytes Desc: not available URL: From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 15 21:38:04 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:38:04 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journee ATALA enseignement du TAL - 2nd appel a participation Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:15:32 +0100 From: C?cile Fabre Message-ID: <478B1A24.4070108 at univ-tlse2.fr> Journ?e Enseignement du TAL Date : samedi 26 janvier 2008 Organisation Georges Antoniadis et Thomas Lebarb? (U. Stendhal-Grenoble, LIDILEM) C?cile Fabre, Marie-Paule P?ry-Woodley et Ludovic Tanguy (U. Toulouse 2 - Le Mirail, CLLE-ERSS) Lieu : ENST, 46 rue Barrault, Paris 13?me Amphi Emeraude (acc?s par le 49 rue Vergniaud) Programme de la journ?e 09h00-09h30 : Accueil 09h30 : INTRODUCTION ET PANORAMA DES FORMATIONS ----------------------------------------------- 10h00-11h15 : PRESENTATION DE FORMATIONS : BILANS ET PROJETS (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Universit? Paris 7, L. Danlos, P. Amsili, M. Candito et B. Crabbe - Universit? de Provence - Aix Marseille 1, N. Gala - Universit? Strasbourg 2, A. Todirascu et M.-P. Jacques - Universit? Stendhal Grenoble 3, T. Lebarb? et G. Antoniadis 11h : questions / discussion 11h15 : DEUX EXPERIENCES D'ENSEIGNEMENT DU TAL HORS DE FRANCE : --------------------------------------------------------------- - C. Fairon, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgique - M. Zrigui, Universit? de Monastir, Tunisie 11h55 : questions / discussion 12h10-14h : repas 14h-15h15 : PRESENTATION DE FORMATIONS : BILANS ET PROJETS (2) -------------------------------------------------------------- - Universit? Paris X Nanterre, M. Cori - Universit? d'Orl?ans, I. Eshkol - Universit? Toulouse 2- Le Mirail, M.-P. P?ry-Woodley, C. Fabre et L. Tanguy - Universit? Nancy 2 et Nancy Poincar?, G. Perrier 15h : questions / discussion 15h15 : DEBAT ET CONSTITUTION DE GROUPES DE TRAVAIL ---------------------------------------------------- 17h : fin de la journ?e ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 15 21:42:21 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:42:21 +0100 Subject: Appel: Semaine de la terminologie au Canada Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:24:00 +0100 From: Adriana Lau Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.2.20080114111906.0c52bbd8 at 212.37.192.23> X-url: http://www.bureaudelatraduction.gc.ca X-url: http://www.ilob.uottawa.ca/sigl2008. X-url: http://www.uqo.ca/nf2008 X-url: http://www.realiter.net/ ********************************************************************** Chers coll?gues, Nous vous faisons parvenir ce message de M. Huard, du Bureau de la Traduction, concernant des activit?s langagi?res qui pourront ?tre de votre int?r?t. Le contenu du document "? vos calendriers", du message original, se trouve ? la fin de ce message en raison de l'impossibilit? d'envoyer de pi?ce jointe sur cette liste. Cordialement, Adriana LAU ************************************ Chers coll?gues, L'Ann?e 2008, que l'Organisation des Nations Unies a proclam?e Ann?e internationale des langues, sera particuli?rement bien remplie dans la r?gion de la Capitale nationale du Canada (Ottawa-Gatineau), o? cinq manifestations langagi?res auront lieu durant la Semaine de la terminologie, qui s'?tendra du 1er au 10 octobre 2008. Pour de plus amples renseignements, je vous invite ? prendre connaissance des documents ci-joints : ? vos calendriers et Calendrier des manifestations. Je me r?jouis de vous accueillir en grand nombre dans l'Outaouais dans 10 mois! Salutations cordiales! Gabriel Huard, trad. a. Directeur/Director Normalisation terminologique/Terminology Standardization Correspondant canadien en Am?nagement linguistique Canadian Correspondent for Language Management Bureau de la traduction/Translation Bureau T?l./Phone : 819-997-7620 Courriel/e-mail:gabriel.huard at tpsgc.gc.ca 975, Boulevard Saint-Joseph, Gatineau (Qu?bec) K1A 0S5 975, Saint-Joseph Boulevard, Gatineau (Qu?bec) K1A 0S5 Travaux publics et Services gouvernementaux Canada Public Works and Government Services Canada Gouvernement du Canada / Government of Canada ? VOS CALENDRIERS! OCTOBRE 2008 SERA UN MOIS CHAUD! Dans le cadre de l'Ann?e internationale des langues (2008) d?cr?t?e par l'UNESCO, et avec l'appui de la F?d?ration internationale des traducteurs (FIT) et du Conseil des traducteurs, terminologues et interpr?tes du Canada (CTTIC), plusieurs manifestations d'envergure seront organis?es dans l'Outaouais durant la Semaine de la terminologie, qui s'?tendra du 1er au 10 octobre 2008. ? compter de janvier, on trouvera des renseignements sur la plupart de ces manifestations sur le site du Bureau de la traduction http://www.bureaudelatraduction.gc.ca ainsi que sur les sites des organismes concern?s. Les 1er, 2 et 3 octobre, le gouvernement du Canada, en collaboration avec plusieurs organismes, dont l'Universit? d'Ottawa et le Conseil sup?rieur de la langue fran?aise du Qu?bec, tiendra au Centre national des conf?rences, ? Ottawa, le IVe S?minaire interam?ricain sur la gestion des langues. Organis?s pr?c?demment et successivement par le Qu?bec, le Paraguay et le Br?sil, les S?minaires visent ? favoriser un statut ?gal des quatre grandes langues d'Am?rique, soit le fran?ais, l'espagnol, le portugais et l'anglais, au sein des institutions interam?ricaines, ainsi qu'? faciliter les ?changes linguistiques dans diff?rents contextes de l'administration et des affaires mettant en cause les pays d'Am?rique, comme les douanes, la s?curit?, les transports, l'immigration, l'?tiquetage et ainsi de suite. Lors du S?minaire d'Ottawa, on traitera donc des langues et des communications supranationales, des langues et des ?changes ?conomiques ainsi que du multilinguisme dans l'?ducation et la formation. Des experts, tant de l'administration publique que des milieux universitaires, y seront donc attendus. Sur invitation seulement. Renseignements : http://www.ilob.uottawa.ca/sigl2008. Parall?lement, soit les 1er, 2 et 3 octobre toujours, l'Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais, en collaboration avec l'Universit? de Rennes, le Bureau de la traduction, l'Office qu?b?cois de la langue fran?aise et l'Institut de technologie de l'information du Conseil national de recherche du Canada, tiendra le Colloque Formation ? la communication multilingue et multim?dia : Applications et transgressions des normes. Principalement destin? aux experts de la normalisation terminologique, ce colloque est annonc? ? l'adresse http://www.uqo.ca/nf2008. Le 6 octobre, le R?seau panlatin de terminologie (Realiter), qui regroupe des repr?sentants d'une quinzaine de pays o? sont parl?s le catalan, l'espagnol, le fran?ais, le galicien, l'italien, le portugais et le roumain, tiendra pour la premi?re fois au Canada la Journ?e scientifique Realiter. Sous les auspices du Bureau de la traduction, l'?v?nement aura lieu dans les locaux de la Escuela de Extensi?n en Canad? de la Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico (UNAM), ? Gatineau. La Journ?e portera sur le droit, et les terminologues y seront tous les bienvenus. Renseignements : http://www.realiter.net. Les 7 et 8 octobre, l'Association europ?enne de terminologie, par l'interm?diaire du Bureau de la traduction, tiendra pour la premi?re fois de son histoire son Sommet de terminologie en dehors du sol europ?en, soit plus pr?cis?ment ? l'Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais (UQO). C'est donc une main tendue vers les terminologues de l'Am?rique enti?re et d'ailleurs. Le th?me du IVe Sommet de terminologie : S'unir pour cr?er. On y discutera de terminologie sous l'angle du partenariat novateur (partenariats en enseignement, partenariats multisectoriels, partenariats multilingues et collaborations diverses), ainsi que des r?sultats concrets qui en d?coulent. Tous les terminologues et les langagiers y sont invit?s! Renseignements : www.uqo.ca/sommetaet2008. Les 9 et 10 octobre, le R?seau international de terminologie (TermNet), en collaboration avec l'Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais, tiendra son colloque TAMA 2008 sur la terminologie dans les applications avanc?es de gestion (Terminology in Advanced Management Applications). Comme son titre l'indique, ce colloque international r?unit tous ceux qui s'int?ressent aux outils de gestion de la terminologie et de la traduction, et tous les langagiers y seront convi?s Renseignements : www.uqo.ca/tamacanada2008. Comme on peut le voir, les terminologues et les autres langagiers de l'Outaouais comme d'ailleurs auront du mal ? faire leurs choix! L'Ann?e internationale des langues sera c?l?br?e en grande pompe dans l'Outaouais. Demeurez ? l'aff?t pour plus d'information! Annonce des manifestations sur les sites Internet ? compter de janvier, on trouvera des renseignements sur les manifestations d'octobre 2008 sur le site du Bureau de la traduction du gouvernement du Canada http://www.bureaudelatraduction.gc.ca , ainsi que sur les sites suivants : * 1-3 octobre 2008 : IVe S?minaire interam?ricain sur la gestion des langues (http://www.ilob.uottawa.ca/sigl2008) * 1-3 octobre 2008 : Colloque Formation ? la communication multilingue et multim?dia. Applications et transgressions des normes (http://www.uqo.ca/nf2008) * 6 octobre 2008 : Journ?e scientifique Realiter (http://www.realiter.net) * 7-8 octobre 2008 : IVe Sommet de terminologie (www.uqo.ca/sommetaet2008) * 9-10 octobre 2008 : TAMA 2008 (www.uqo.ca/tamacanada2008) ______________________________________________________________________ Adriana Lau DTIL Uni? LLatina - Uni?n Latina - Union latine - Unione Latina - Uni?o Latina - Uniunea Latina 131, rue du Bac - 75007 Paris T. +33 (0) 1 45 49 60 62 F. +33 (0) 1 45 49 67 39 a.lau at unilat.org http://dtil.unilat.org/ Info terminologie/a : www.terminometro.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 15 21:43:55 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:43:55 +0100 Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:06:58 +0100 From: H?l?ne Mazo Message-ID: <478B88A2.6070606 at elda.org> X-url: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1053 X-url: http://catalog.elra.info Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement. ******************************************************************* ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update ***************************************************************** ELRA is happy to announce that 1 new Speech Resource is now available in its catalogue. *ELRA-S0268 UPC-TALP database of isolated meeting-room acoustic events *This database has been produced within the CHIL Project (Computers in the Human Interaction Loop), in the framework of an Integrated Project (IP 506909) under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme. It contains a set of isolated acoustic events that occur in a meeting room environment and that were recorded for the CHIL Acoustic Event Detection (AED) task. The database can be used as a training material for AED technologies as well as for testing AED algorithms in quiet environments without temporal sound overlapping. Approximately 60 sounds per sound class were recorded. Ten people (5 men and 5 women) participated to three sessions. During each session a person had to produce a complete set of sounds two times. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1053 For more information on the catalogue, please contact Val?rie Mapelli mailto:mapelli at elda.org Visit our on-line catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 15 21:45:13 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:45:13 +0100 Subject: Job: Internship/job, Assistant Project Manager/ Knowledgebase author, VirtuOz, Paris Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:41:15 +0100 From: Aur?lie Cousseau Message-ID: <478C8DCB.7020305 at virtuoz.com> X-url: http://www.virtuoz.com Assistant Project Manager/ Knowledgebase author - Spanish (fulltime / part time/ internship) VirtuOz is a leading European provider of Virtual Agent solutions. A virtual agent or chatterbot is a software built to chat automatically with Internet users. Based on a syntax and semantic analysis, it extracts the sense of the user's sentence then compares it to a knowledge base so as to provide a tailor-made answer. We are looking for high energy individuals to assist our Operations department facing our new International challenges. This is a great opportunity to gain first hand experience in a cutting-edge start-up in Paris. Responsibilities: - The role reports to the VP Professional Services and is responsible for working on a knowledge base application to create and update client knowledge bases. - Project management: participating in all other phases of the project including requirements gathering, test, timeline and deployment. - Communicating frequently with the client - Providing analysis of Virtual Agent activity - Assisting in processing new sales Competencies: - SPANISH Native speaker ONLY - Outstanding written and verbal communication skills - Proven ability to learn quickly - Self starter with proven organizational and problem-solving skills and attention to detail - Moderate technical ability: comfortable working with multiple desktop applications; ability to quickly learn knowledge base tracking/management system. - Comfort working in a fast-paced environment Previous customer support experience or experience in data management, knowledge management and database searching is a plus. You don't need to speak French. We will consider full time, and part time applicants, as well as internship Please contact: Aur?lie Cousseau acousseau at virtuoz.com http://www.virtuoz.com VirtuOz SA - 47 Rue Chauss?e d'Antin 75009 Paris, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 15 21:46:40 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:46:40 +0100 Subject: Seminaire: Alpage 21 janvier (Josef van Genabith) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:12:15 +0100 From: Benoit Crabb? Message-ID: <1200417135.478ce96fa6c1b at imp.linguist.jussieu.fr> X-url: http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~bcrabbe/seminaire.html X-url: http://li.linguist.jussieu.fr ******************* S?minaire Alpage ******************* S?minaire de l'?cole doctorale de Paris 7 Il s'agit du s?minaire de recherche en linguistique informatique organis? par l'?quipe Alpage, Alpage est une nouvelle ?quipe mixte Inria -- Paris 7 issue de la fusion des ?quipes Atoll et Talana. L'?quipe centre ses int?r?ts scientifiques autour de l'analyse syntaxique automatique et du traitement du discours pour la langue fran?aise. Ce s?minaire remplace l'ancien s?minaire Talana. Il se tient le lundi de 14.30 ? 16.30 tous les 15 jours. Il a lieu en salle 131 au 30 rue du Chateau des Rentiers 75013 Paris (premier ?tage) Toute personne int?ress?e est la bienvenue. ************************************************************* Lundi 21 janvier, Josef van Genabith, National Centre for Language Technology NCLT, Dublin City University, Ireland nous parlera de : Treebank-Based Wide-Coverage Probabilistic LFG Resources Abstract: Hand-crafting wide-coverage deep linguistic resources is time-consuming, expensive and hard to scale to unrestricted text. In this talk I present research on automatically acquiring wide-coverage, probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammar resources from treebanks, concentrating on English. I show how these resources can be used in a number of applications including parsing, generation, lexicon acquisition and MT evaluation. I compare the treebank-based LFG parsing systems against hand-crafted resources (XLE and RASP) and automatically acquired HPSG and CCG parsers and sketch some future work. This is joint work with Aoife Cahill, Grzegorz Chrupala, Jennifer Foster, Conor Cafferkey, Deirdre Hogan, Yvette Graham, Karolina Owczarzak, Yuqing Guo, Ines Rehbein and Natalie Schluter. ********************************************************** suite pr?visionnelle du programme (2nd semestre) : 3 Mars, Alexandros Tantos (Konstanz) ----------------------- Page web du s?minaire : http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~bcrabbe/seminaire.html Cursus Linguistique informatique de Paris 7 : http://li.linguist.jussieu.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:40:55 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:40:55 +0100 Subject: Appel: Atelier et tutoriel -- IC 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:21:12 +0100 From: Yannick Toussaint Message-Id: <19331F37-D094-4814-97C5-2465B88496B0 at loria.fr> X-url: http://ic2008.loria.fr/ **************************************************************** IC 2008 Ing?nierie des connaissances Nancy - France du 16 au 20 juin 2008 http://ic2008.loria.fr/ **************************************************************** APPEL pour les ATELIERS et TUTORIELS **************************************************************** La prochaine ?dition de la conf?rence Ing?nierie des connaissances aura lieu du 18 au 20 juin 2008 ? Nancy (France). Elle se d?roulera au LORIA. Les ateliers ou tutoriels de travail se tiendront pendant les un ou deux jours pr?c?dents la conf?rence : les 16 et 17 janvier 2008. Un atelier ou un tutoriel porte sur une th?matique particuli?re de l'ing?nierie de la Connaissance afin de rassembler quelques expos?s plus cibl?s. Il a son propre pr?sident et son propre comit? de programme. Le responsable d'un atelier est charg? de l'appel ? communication et de la coordination de son comit? de programme. Les organisateurs de IC 2008 ne s'occuperont que de la partie mat?rielle (gestion des salles, pauses caf?, d?jeuner et impression des actes si vous respectez les d?lais). Les ateliers auront lieu en parall?le sur une demi-journ?e, une journ?e ou deux jours. Les contraintes d'organisation temporelles vous seront communiqu?es ult?rieurement et la date pr?cise (le 16 ou le 17) de l'atelier sera fix?e par les organisateurs d'IC. L'inscription ? un atelier ou tutoriel sera autour de 75 euros par participant. CALENDRIER ---------------- Date limite de proposition :15 f?vrier 2008 R?ponse du comit? de programme de IC : 1er mars 2008 Version finale des papiers pour impression des actes : 5 mai 2008 MODALITES DE PROPOSITION ------------------------------------ Les propositions d'ateliers et tutoriels seront envoy?es sous forme ?lectronique ? ic2008 at loria.fr avant le 15 f?vrier 2008. Les propositions d'ateliers comprendront la th?matique de la conf?rence, son comit? de programme et la dur?e souhait?e. Les propositions de tutoriel comprendront la th?matique, le ou les intervenant(s) ainsi que la dur?e souhait?e. Le comit? de programme de IC 2008 choisira parmi les propositions et donnera sa r?ponse au plus tard le 1er mars 2008. Pour plus d'information, contacter Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr FORMAT ---------- Les articles devront suivre le format de IC 2008 et ne pas d?passer 10 pages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:44:39 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:44:39 +0100 Subject: Job: Stage en traduction automatique, LIMSI-CNRS (Orsay) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:05:56 +0000 From: Aur?lien Max Message-ID: <478F7CE4.2090205 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/sujet1-amax-M2R-2008.html Le groupe LIR du LIMSI (Orsay) propose le stage suivant en traduction automatique: "Un peu de contexte en traduction automatique : exploitation de relations grammaticales en traduction automatique statistique" Mots cl?s : traduction automatique, traitement automatique des langues, analyse syntaxique, d?sambigu?sation lexicale Niveau d'?tude : Master Recherche ou fin d'?cole d'ing?nieurs en informatique Dur?e du stage : 4 mois ? partir de mars 2008 Lieu du stage : laboratoire LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (RER ligne B) Description : http://perso.limsi.fr/amax/recherche/sujet1-amax-M2R-2008.html Contact : aurelien.max at limsi.fr R?sum? : La traduction automatique a connu un nouvel essor avec l'?mergence d'approches bas?es sur des corpus. La traduction automatique statistique conna?t toutefois des limites. Des approches r?centes essaient donc d'int?grer des connaissances linguistiques dans ces syst?mes afin de mieux prendre en compte les caract?ristiques des textes ? traduire, de leur traduction, et des relations qu'ils entretiennent. Les syst?mes actuels en traduction automatique statistique se basent sur une segmentation en groupes de mots des phrases ? traduire auxquels sont associ?es des traductions (phrase-based machine translation). Les mod?les utilis?s pour guider la recherche de la meilleure traduction se concentrent essentiellement sur les relations de traduction et sur une bonne formation locale de la langue cible. L'objet de ce stage est de travailler sur la prise en compte d'informations linguistiques pr?sentes dans la langue source, afin de mod?liser le contexte dans lequel apparaissent les groupes de mots ? traduire. On s'int?ressera notamment ? l'exploitation des relations grammaticales entre les mots pour la paire de langue fran?ais-anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:43:45 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:43:45 +0100 Subject: Job: Candidatures INRIA Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:50:51 +0100 From: Laurence Danlos Message-Id: <58FD7091-5B65-4E08-8A1C-BFACFD6DB5AE at linguist.jussieu.fr> X-url: http://www-c.inria.fr/Internet/emploi-et-formation/concours-chercheurs L'INRIA a ouvert ses postes au concours 2008 : http://www-c.inria.fr/Internet/emploi-et-formation/concours-chercheurs Dans le domaine du TAL, une nouvelle ?quipe, ALPAGE (http:// alpage.inria.fr/), vient d'?tre cr??e dans le cadre d'une UMR-I : Inria-Rocquencourt et Paris 7 Denis Diderot. Les candidats int?ress?s devront s'adresser ? : Prof. Laurence Danlos ALPAGE/ LATTICE Universit? Paris 7 30 rue du Ch?teau des Rentiers, bureau 167 75013 PARIS France TEL : 01 57 27 57 66 FAX : 01 57 27 57 81 e-mail : laurence.danlos at linguist.jussieu.fr Url: www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~danlos/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:41:58 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:41:58 +0100 Subject: Job: Linguist in English - VirtuOz Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:50:26 +0100 From: Aur?lie Cousseau Message-ID: <478DC552.4080800 at virtuoz.com> X-url: http://www.virtuoz.com Linguist in English VirtuOz is a leading European provider of Virtual Agent solutions. A virtual agent or chatterbot is a software built to chat automatically with Internet users. Based on a syntax and semantic analysis, it extracts the sense of the user's sentence then compares it to a knowledge base so as to provide a tailor-made answer. We are looking for high energy individuals to assist our Linguistic department facing our new International challenges. This is a great opportunity to gain first hand experience in a cutting-edge start-up in Paris. Responsibilities: The role consists in participate in the adaptation of the syntactic analyzer and the configuration of an agent in English. The linguist will be in charge of: - establishing rules for the syntactic analyzer - Creating an English version of a pre-existing French interactive agent Competencies: - ENGLISH Native speaker ONLY - Experience (studies, etc..) as a linguist preferred but not compulsory - Outstanding written and verbal communication skills - Proven ability to learn quickly - Self starter with proven organizational and problem-solving skills and attention to detail - Moderate technical ability: comfortable working with multiple desktop applications; ability to quickly learn knowledge base tracking/management system. - Comfort working in a fast-paced environment Please contact: Aur?lie Cousseau acousseau at virtuoz.com http://www.virtuoz.com VirtuOz SA - 47 Rue Chauss?e d'Antin 75009 Paris, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:46:04 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:46:04 +0100 Subject: Job: Propositions de stage M2 recherche, FranceTelecom, Lannion, et Inria Lille-Nord Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:38:29 +0100 From: Isabelle Tellier Message-ID: <478F7675.5010203 at univ-lille3.fr> X-url: http://www.francetelecom.com/fr/espaces/recrutement/etudiant/offres/detail_p.html?id=PDJFK026203F3VBQBLZV4LOWW&nPostingID=50224&nPostingTargetID=60551 X-url: http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/~tellier/stageM2_07.html X-url: http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/~tellier France Telecom Lannion propose un stage pour la construction d'un "Syst?me de pr?diction d'opinions ? partir de l'analyse de commentaires de films" : http://www.francetelecom.com/fr/espaces/recrutement/etudiant/offres/detail_p.html?id=PDJFK026203F3VBQBLZV4LOWW&nPostingID=50224&nPostingTargetID=60551 Le projet Mostrare de l'Inria Lille-Nord Europe propose un stage sur "L'annotation s?mantique de corpus arbor?s", r?mun?r? dans le cadre d'un projet ANR : http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/~tellier/stageM2_07.html -- Isabelle Tellier Grappa et Inria Futurs UFR IDIST universit? Charles de Gaulle-Lille3 BP 60149 59 653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France tel : 03 20 41 61 78 fax : 03 20 41 67 70 mel : isabelle.tellier at univ-lille3.fr web : http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/~tellier ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:47:37 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:47:37 +0100 Subject: Appel: IIP2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:24:48 +0100 From: Eunika Mercier-Laurent Message-ID: <47907E70.5090604 at wanadoo.fr> X-url: http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip2008/ 5th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (IIP2008) September 10-12, 2008, Lyon, France In memoriam Prof Ryszard S. Michalski The IIP conference series provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, university and industry to present their latest research findings in any aspects of intelligent information processing. This time, we especially encourage papers on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management, intelligent agents, machine learning, autonomic reasoning etc. We also welcome papers that highlight successful modern applications of IIP, such as Biomedicine, Bioinformatics, e-Services, e-Learning, Business Intelligence. IIP2008 attempts to meet the needs of a large and diverse community. Topics of IIP2008 include, but are not limited to: Autonomic computing, Automatic reasoning, Automatic translation Bayesian networks, Belief revision, Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, Business Intelligence Cognitive Modeling, Computational intelligence,Computer vision, Constraint programming,Creativity & Innovation, Data Mining, Diagnosis, Ecology & Sustainability,E-learning, E-services, Evolutionary computation, Fuzzy and rough set, Games & Serious games,Image processing, Information retrieval, Intelligence science, Intelligent agents, Knowledge acquisition, Knowledge-based systems, Knowledge discovery,Knowledge engineering and management,Knowledge grid, Knowledge representation Logics and logic programming, Machine learning, Machine translation, Mobile agents, Natural language processing, Neural computing Ontology, Reinforcement learning, Software engineering, Speech understanding and interaction, Text analysis and text understanding, Web intelligence,Very large knowledge processing *Organization Committees* General Chairs Danielle Boulanger (France) B. Wah(USA) T. Nishida (Japan) Program Chairs Z. Shi (China) E. Mercier-Laurent (France) D. Leake (USA) PC Committee A. Aamodt (Norway) S. A. AL-Dobai (Saudi Arabia) J. Alvarez (France) E. Auriol (France) A. Bernardi (Germany) B.Braunschweig (France) I. Cohen (USA) R. Chbeir (France) H. Dai (Australia) S. Dustdar (Austria) Y. Ding (Austria) JL. Ermine (France) P. Estraillier (France) W. Fan (UK) JG Ganascia (France) Y. Gao (China) Q. He (China) Z. Huang (Netherlands) T. Ishida (Japan) G. Kayakutlu (Turkey) N. Makoto (Japan) P. Martinez (Italy) G. Osipov(Russia) M. Owoc (Poland) R. Pfeifer (Switzerland) A. Rafea (Egypt) F. Segond (France) K. Shimohara (Japan) M. Stumptner (Australia) K. Su (China) IJ. Timm (Germany) F.Torre (France) M. van Someren (NL) S. Willmott (Spain) J. Yang (Korea) Y. Yao (Canada) J. Yu (China) J. Zucker (France) Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Proposals The conference Program Committee invites proposals for workshops, tutorial and panel. Proposals should be received by one of the program chairs no later than February 1, 2008. Submission Papers should be no longer than 10 pages including all tables, figures, and references but excluding a cover page. Fonts should be in 10-12 pt. Each submission must include one cover page which should contain: Title of the paper with an abstract of no more than 500 words; A few keywords, from the list above where possible, giving a clear indication of topics; Author names with affiliations, complete postal addresses, and phone numbers; Email address of the contact author. All papers should be sent electronically (preferably in PDF) to a Web submission page to be accessible from the IIP2008 Web site (http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip2008/ ). IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline 1 February, 2008 Author Notification 1 April, 2008 Camera-ready Due 1 May, 2008 For general information, please contact: Eunika Mercier-Laurent eml at wanadoo.fr For paper submission, please contact: Dapeng Zhang Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100080, China Tel (86) 10-82610254 Fax(86) 10-82610254 E-mail: zhangdp at ics.ict.ac.cn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:50:29 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:50:29 +0100 Subject: Appel: HLT & NLP within the Arabic world Workshop Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:28:28 +0100 From: ELDA Message-ID: <4790B78C.1030105 at elda.org> X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/IMG/ws/HLTwithin%20the%20Arabic%20world-final.html X-url: http://www.hlt-evaluation.org [Apologies for multiple postings] *HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and local languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects* Workshop held in conjunction with LREC 2008 _*Saturday, May 31st 2008*_ *The submissions are now open*. Please follow the procedure to submit your abstract. Only online submissions will be considered. All abstracts should be submitted in PDF format through the online submission form https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ALLLP2008/ on START before 15 February 2008. Submissions must be in English. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format. Abstracts for workshop contributions should not exceed 4 (Four) A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers. There is no template for the pdf abstract. The template will be made available online for the for the final papers. The submissions are not anonymous. Submitted papers will be judged based on relevance to the workshop aims, as well as the novelty of the idea, technical quality, clarity of presentation, and expected impact on future research within the area of focus. Any question should be sent to _*arabic at elda.org*_. Registration to LREC'08 will be required for participation, so potential participants are invited to refer to the main conference website for all details not covered in the present call. *Important Dates* Call for papers: 3 January 2008 Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 14 March 2008 Final version of accepted paper: 11 April 2008 Workshop full-day: Saturday 31st May 2008 Full Call for Papers is available at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/IMG/ws/HLTwithin%20the%20Arabic%20world-final.html Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/LREC2008/ALLLP2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:54:18 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:54:18 +0100 Subject: Job: Poste de developpeur a la Dtil, Paris Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:31:44 +0100 From: Adriana Lau Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.2.20080118172818.021b27c8 at 212.37.192.23> X-url: http://www.unilat.org/ X-url: http://dtil.unilat.org/ Appel ? candidatures pour le poste de d?veloppeur ? la Dtil (? pourvoir imm?diatement) Conditions d'emploi Intitul? du poste : D?veloppeur outils Internet Lieu d'affectation : Secr?tariat g?n?ral de Paris Dur?e de l'engagement initial : Contrat de 2 ans assorti d'une p?riode d'essai de 6 mois Dur?e hebdomadaire du travail : 30 heures R?gime juridique applicable : Statut et r?glement du personnel de l'Union latine R?gime de protection sociale : Assurance m?dicale et r?gime de pension propres ? l'Organisation Principales fonctions Sous l'autorit? du directeur de la Direction terminologie et industries de la langue (Dtil), le d?veloppeur aura pour fonction : * Conception, r?alisation et refonte de sites ; * Correction, retouche et am?lioration des sites Internet existants en PHP/ASP ; * Contr?le de formulaires en WEB 2.0 ; * Dynamisation de sites en PHP ; * R?vision, traduction et r?daction de documents. et sera charg? des activit?s suivantes : * Conception graphique des sites de la Dtil ; * Structuration des bases de donn?es ; * D?veloppement des sites Internet et administration des composantes PHP/MYSQL ; * Administration des serveurs web (Apache) sous Linux. Conditions et comp?tences requises Le (a) candidat(e) doit : * ?tre ressortissant(e) d'un ?tat membre de l'Union latine (voir http://www.unilat.org) ; * D?tenir une excellente ma?trise de l'italien (langue maternelle) ou du portugais (langue maternelle) et une bonne ma?trise du fran?ais. La compr?hension passive d'autres langues latines, ainsi que des ?tudes ou exp?riences en linguistique (lexicographie, terminologie, traduction, etc..) sont des atouts suppl?mentaires. Connaissances indispensables : * Programmation : PHP/MYSQL, SQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS * Serveurs : Apache * Logiciels : Dreamweaver, PhpMyAdmin, Filezilla, Photoshop, Office, etc. * Syst?me d'exploitation : Linux S?lection des candidatures Les personnes int?ress?es doivent faire parvenir ? la DTIL un dossier complet de candidature comprenant un curriculum vitae et une lettre de motivation. La s?lection se fait sur dossier D?p?t de candidatures : Union latine, Service du personnel - 131 rue du Bac, 75007 Paris Courriel : serv.pers at unilat.org ______________________________________________________________________ Adriana Lau DTIL Uni? LLatina - Uni?n Latina - Union latine - Unione Latina - Uni?o Latina - Uniunea Latina 131, rue du Bac - 75007 Paris T. +33 (0) 1 45 49 60 62 F. +33 (0) 1 45 49 67 39 a.lau at unilat.org http://dtil.unilat.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:55:27 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:55:27 +0100 Subject: Job: Proposition de stage, IBISC, Evry Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:44:35 +0100 From: Brigitte Grau Message-ID: <4790E583.2060304 at ensiie.fr> X-url: http://physiome.ibisc.fr/qkdb X-url: http://www.ibisc.univ-evry.fr/ X-url: http://amisbio.ibisc.fr Proposition de stage ? l'IBISC : Sujet de stage : Aide ? l'annotation d'articles scientifiques Contexte QKDB (http://physiome.ibisc.fr/qkdb) est une base de donn?es sur la physiologie du rein, qui d?crit 300 articles scientifiques. Les informations contenues dans cette base donnent, pour chaque article, des d?tails sur les exp?riences et les r?sultats d?crits dans l'article : esp?ce concern?e, organe, diff?rentes mesures effectu?es... Ces informations ont ?t? introduites manuellement dans la base, apr?s lecture de chacun des articles par un expert du domaine. Sujet L'objet du stage est l'aide ? l'annotation d'articles scientifiques pour l'int?gration dans la base de donn?es QKDB en rep?rant automatiquement les ?l?ments du texte qui d?crivent les informations ? ajouter dans la base. A cette fin, il s'agit de constituer une base de r?f?rence contenant les textes dans lesquels seront annot?s les ?l?ments d?j? pr?sents dans la base QKDB. En effet, actuellement, on retrouve les articles qui r?pondent ? une requ?te, mais on ne sait pas o? l'information est donn?e dans l'article. Il s'agira ainsi de revenir au texte ? partir des informations de la BD en : - transformant les articles de pdf en texte. On partira d'outils existants qu'il faudra am?liorer ; - projetant les donn?es de la BD dans les textes, en utilisant l? aussi des outils existants (reconnaissance d'entit?s num?riques et reconnaissance de termes) afin de reconna?tre la mani?re dont les attributs et les valeurs de la base sont formul?s dans les textes. La base de r?f?rence ainsi constitu?e devra permettre de mettre en place un outil d'extraction automatique des donn?es sur la physiologie du rein. Informations pratiques Lieu du stage : IBISC, Tour Evry2, Evry (http://www.ibisc.univ-evry.fr/), ?quipe AMISBIO (http://amisbio.ibisc.fr) Responsables : Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat Dur?e : 5 mois Niveau : M2 ou derni?re ann?e d'?cole d'ing?nieur Stage r?mun?r? ---- ENSIIE Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise 18 allee Jean Rostand, 91025 EVRY Cedex tel. 01 69 36 73 44, fax 01 69 36 73 09 et Groupe LIR - LIMSI BP 133, 91403 ORSAY Cedex tel. 01 69 85 80 03, fax 01 69 85 80 88 et AMISBIO - IBISC Universit? d'Evry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 18 20:43:07 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:43:07 +0100 Subject: Appel: Constraints in Discourse 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:14:49 +0100 From: Peter Kuehnlein Message-ID: <478E0349.9010002 at rug.nl> X-url: http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org X-url: http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net Workshop on Constraints in Discourse http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org This is the third in a series of workshops entitled "Constraints in Discourse". It is a linguistic commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its sentences. But what exactly are the rules that govern its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? For a long time, the development of precise frameworks of discourse interpretation has been hampered by the lack of a deeper understanding of the dependencies between different discourse units. Recent years have seen a considerable advance in this field. A number of strong constraints have been proposed that restrict the sequencing and attaching of segments at various descriptive levels, as well as the interpretation of their interrelations. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting recent research on constraints in discourse. The target areas include the recognition of discourse structure as well as the interpretation and generation of discourse in a broad variety of domains. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from diverse formal approaches, including but not limited to: - Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) - Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) - Tree Adjoining Grammars - Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) - The QUD Modell - Plan Based Reasoning - Abductive Reasoning - Gricean Pragmatics - Speech Act Theory We invite talks that further our theoretical understanding of the role of constraints in discourse, as well as empirical studies that shed light on their empirical validity. The conference is explicitly intended for discussion and comparison of theoretical accounts that lay the ground for applications. It is not intended as a platform for system demonstrations. Specific topics might relate to - Anaphora Resolution - Co-reference - Dialogical vs. Monological Discourse - Questions and Answers - Lexicon and Discourse Relations - Cognitive Modeling - Underspecification and Nonmonotonic Inferences etc. The organisers are planning to publish a book based on the contributions to this workshop. Publication (and workshop) language is English Invited Speakers ================ Laurence Danlos, Universite Paris 7 Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University Paul Piwek, Open University Bonnie Webber, U Edinburgh, UK Paper Submission ================ Researchers interested in contributing a paper to the workshop are invited to submit an abstract that spans not more than 3 pages in PDF or PS (single column, 10pt font size, a4 paper, including a bibliography) using the form that will be provided at the workshop website (via http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org). Reviews will be done blindly; the abstracts may accordingly not include explicit hints that allow the identification of the authors (such as "in paper (...) we show that"). Important Dates =============== Conf: July 30th-August, 1st, 2008 Deadline for Submissions: April 25th, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 17th, 2008 Final Abstracts due: July 12th, 2008 Program Committee ================= Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Laurence Danlos, Universite Paris 7, France Markus Egg, RU Groningen, Netherlands Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA Peter Kuehnlein, RU Groningen, Netherlands Paul Piwek, Open Univerity, UK Gisela Redeker, RU Groningen, Netherlands David Schlangen, U Potsdam, Germany Manfred Stede, U Potsdam, Germany Bonnie Webber, U Edinburgh, UK Organisation ============ Organisation Committee: Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Markus Egg, RU Groningen, Netherlands Peter Kuehnlein, RU Groningen, Netherlands Gisela Redeker, RU Groningen, Netherlands Manfred Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany Local Organisation: Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Manfred Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany -- Communicatie- en Informatiewetenschappen Center for Language and Cognition Groningen Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Postbus 716, 9700 AS Groningen tel.: (+31|0)50-3636996) http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From zogsdwrealtyofcapecodfiv at SDWREALTYOFCAPECOD.COM Fri Jan 18 03:35:53 2008 From: zogsdwrealtyofcapecodfiv at SDWREALTYOFCAPECOD.COM (Donny Mckay) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:35:53 -0800 Subject: Have a great night with your girlfriend! 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Evgeniya From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 22 20:57:06 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:57:06 +0100 Subject: Appel: 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:14:23 +0100 From: J?rgen Villadsen Message-ID: <20080118211423218.56BB04C17AFE7C0D at nbjv> X-url: http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/ X-url: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ X-url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CSLP2008 X-url: http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~hdehoop/ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008) http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/ August 11-15, 2008 organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany Workshop Organizers: Philippe Blache (Provence University, France) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), co-chair henning at ruc..dk Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) J?rgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), co-chair jv at imm.dtu..dk Workshop Purpose: The CSLP 2008 workshop addresses the question of constraints and language processing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: natural language processing, knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. The purpose is to pursue a paradigm, unifying the different approaches into a common framework capable of explaining how constraints play a role in representing, processing and acquiring linguistic information, and this from a formal, technical, and cognitive perspective. Workshop Topics: The topics include, but are not limited to, constraint-based linguistic theories, constraints in human language comprehension and production, context modelling and discourse interpretation, acquisition of constraints, probabilistic constraint-based reasoning, constraint satisfaction technologies and constraint logic programming. Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 12 pages in PDF format. The font size must be at least 10 pt when printed on A4 paper. It is recommended that the LaTeX "article" style is used. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. One author for each accepted paper must attend the workshop in order to present the paper. Proceedings are printed as a technical report (with ISSN no.) and made available online. Selected and extended papers will be included in a volume of Studies in Computational Intelligence published by Springer. Please use the CSLP 2008 submission page handled by the EasyChair conference system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=CSLP2008 Workshop Format: The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI. Invited Speakers: * Helen de Hoop http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~hdehoop/ * Additional invited speaker to be confirmed Workshop Programme Committee: Philippe Blache (Provence University, France) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark), co-chair Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Denys Duchier (University of Orl?ans, France) John Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark) Claire Gardent (CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France) Barbara Hemforth (Provence University, France) M. Dolores Jim?nez-L?pez (Tarragona, Spain) Lars Konieczny (Freiburg University, Germany) Shalom Lappin (King's College, UK) Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University, USA) V?ronique Moriceau (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France) Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) J?rgen Villadsen (Technical University of Denmark), co-chair Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, France) Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 8, 2008 Notification: April 21, 2008 Preliminary Program: April 24, 2008 ESSLLI Early Registration: May 1, 2008 Final Papers for Proceedings: May 17, 2008 Final Program: June 21, 2008 Workshop Dates: August 11-15, 2008 Local Arrangements: All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Further Information: About the workshop: http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2008/ About ESSLLI: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 22 21:01:30 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:01:30 +0100 Subject: Appel: Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing 2008 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:44:11 +0100 From: Jakub.Piskorski at jrc.it Message-id: X-url: http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008 X-url: http://www.fastar.org X-url: http://forums.csc.fi/kitwiki/pilot/view/KitWiki/FsmReg X-url: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing - FSMNLP 2008 Seventh International Workshop F I R S T C A L L F O R P A P E R S Joint-Research Center of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy 11-12 September 2008 http://langtech.jrc.it/FSMNLP2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This year FSMNLP is merged with the FASTAR (Finite Automata Systems - Theoretical and Applied Research) workshop (http://www.fastar.org). AIM AND SCOPE The aim of the FSMNLP 2008 is to bring together members of the research and industrial community working on finite-state based models in language technology, computational linguistics, web mining, linguistics, and cognitive science or on related theory and methods in fields such as computer science and mathematics. The workshop will be a forum for researchers and practicioners working * on NLP applications, * on the theoretical and implementation aspects, or * on their combination. The special theme of FSMNLP 2008 centers around high performance finite-state devices in large-scale natural language text processing systems and applications. We invite in particular novel high-quality papers related to the topics including: * practices and experience in deployment of finite-state techniques in real-world applications processing massive amount of natural language data * industrial-strength finite-state pattern engines for information retrieval, information extraction and related text-mining tasks * scalability issues in FS-based large-scale text processing systems * efficient finite-state methods in search engines * implementation, construction, compression and processing techniques for huge finite-state devices and networks * novel application and efficiency-oriented finite-state paradigms (compilation and processing), e.g., finite-state devices with rich label annotatations, unification-based finite-state devices * comparative studies of time and space efficient finite-state methods (vs. other techniques) utilized in NLP applications * novel appllication areas for finite-state devices in text processing and information management systems * design patterns for implementing finite-state devices and toolkits We also invite submissions that are related to the traditional FSMNLP themes including but not limited to: 1. NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods The topic includes but is not restricted to: * speech, sign language, phonology, hyphenation, prosody, * scripts, text normalization, segmentation, tokenization, indexing, * morphology, stemming, lemmatisation, information retrieval, web mining, spelling correction, * syntax, POS tagging, partial parsing, disambiguation, information extraction, question answering * machine translation, translation memories, glossing, dialect adaptation, * annotated corpora and treebanks, semi-automatic annotation, error mining, searching 2. Finite-state models of language With this more focused topic (inside 1) we invite papers on aspects that motivate sufficiency of finite-state methods or their subsets for capturing various requirements of natural language processing. The topic includes but is not restricted to: * performance, linguistic applicability, finite-state hypotheses * Zipf's law and coverage, model checking against finite corpora * regular approximations under parameterized complexity, limitations and definitions of relevant complexities such as ambiguity, recursion, crossings, rule applications, constraint violations, reduplication, exponents, discontinuity, path-width, and induction depth * similarity inferences, dissimilation, segmental length, counter-freeness, asynchronous machines * garden-path sentences, deterministic parsing, expected parses, Markov chains * incremental parsing, uncertainty, reliability/variance in stochastic parsing, linear sequential machines 3. Practices for building lexical transducers for the world's languages. The topic accounts for usability of finite-state methods in NLP. It includes but is not restricted to: * required user training and consultation, learning curve of non-specialists * questionnaires, discovery methods, adaptive computer-aided glossing and interlinearization * example-based grammars, unsupervised learning, semi-automatic learning, user-driven learning (see topic 5 too) * low literacy level and restricted availability of training data, writing systems/phonology under development, new non-Roman scripts, endangered languages * linguist's workbenches, stealth-to-wealth parser development * experiences of using existing tools (e.g. TWOL) for computational morphology and phonology 4. Specification and implementation of sets, relations and multiplicities in NLP using finite state devices The topic includes but is not restricted to: * regular rule formalisms, grammar systems, expressions, operations, closure properties, complexities * algorithms for compilation, approximation, manipulation, optimization, and lazy evaluation of finite machines * finite string and tree automata, transducers, morphisms and bimorphisms * weights, registers, multiple tapes, alphabets, state covers and partitions, representations * locality, constraint propagation, star-free languages, data vs. query complexity * logical specification, MSO(SLR,matches), FO(Str,<), LTL, generalized restriction, local grammars * multi-tape automata, same-length relations and partition-based morphology, Semitic morphology * autosegmental phonology, shuffle, trajectories, synchronization, segmental anchoring, alignment constraints, syllable structure, partial-order reductions * varieties of regular languages and relations, descriptive complexity of finite-state based grammars * automaton-based approaches to declarative constraint grammars, constraints in optimality theory * parallel corpus annotations, register automata, acyclic timed automata 5. Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language This topic includes but is not restricted to: * learning regular rule systems, learning topologies of finite automata and transducers * parameter estimation and smoothing, lexical openness * computer-driven grammar writing, user-driven grammar learning, discovery procedures * data scarcity, realistic variations of Gold's model, learnability and cognitive science * incompletely specified finite-state networks * model-theoretic grammars, gradient well/ill-formedness 6. Finite-state manipulation software (with relevance to the above themes) This topic includes but is not restricted to * regular expression pre-compilers such as regexopt, xfst2fsa, standards and interfaces for finite-state based software components, conversion tools * tools such as LEXC, Lextools, Intex, XFST, FSM, GRM, WFSC, FIRE Engine, FADD, FSA/UTR, SRILM, FIRE Station and Grail * free or almost free software such as MIT FST, Carmel, RWTH FSA, FSA Utilities, FSM<2.0>, Unitex, OpenFIRE, OpenFST, Vaucanson, SFST, PCKIMMO, MONA, Hopskip, ASTL, UCFSM, HaLeX, SML, and WFST (see http://forums.csc.fi/kitwiki/pilot/view/KitWiki/FsmReg for more examples) * results obtainable with such exploration tools as automata, Autographe, Amore, and TESTAS * visualization tools such as Graphviz and Vaucanson-G * language-specific resources and descriptions, freely available benchmarking resources The descriptions of the topics above are not meant to be complete, and should extend to cover all traditional FSMNLP topics. Submitted papers or abstracts may fall in several categories. SUBMISSION We expect three kinds of submissions: - full papers, - short papers, and - interactive software demos. Submissions are electronic and in PDF format via a web-based submission server. Authors are encouraged to use Springer LNCS style (Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes) for LaTeX in producing the PDF document. More information on this style can be found at: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 The page limit for full papers is 12 pages, whereas short papers and software demo descriptions are limited to 6 pages. The information about the author(s) should be omitted in the submitted papers since the review process wil be blind. More detailed information will be available soon on the workshops homepage http:\\langtech.jrc.lt\FSMNLP2008 PUBLICATION The papers and abstracts will be published in FSMNLP 2008 proceedings. Publication of revised versions of the papers in a special journal issue is planned. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions due: 11 May Notification of acceptance: 11 June Camera-ready versions due: 30 June PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended) Cyril Allauzen (Google Research, New York, USA) Francisco Casacuberta (Instituto Tecnologico De Inform?tica, Valencia, Spain) Maxime Crochemore (Department of Computer Science, King's College London, U.K.) Jan Daciuk (Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland) Karin Haenelt (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and University of Heidelberg, Germany) Thomas Hanneforth (University of Potsdam, Germany) Andr? Kempe (Yahoo Search Technologies, Paris, France) Derrick Kourie (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Andras Kornai (Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary and MetaCarta, Cambridge, USA) Hans-Ulrich Krieger (DFKI GmbH, Saarbr?cken, Germany) Eric Laporte (Universit? de Marne-la-Vall?e, France) Stoyan Mihov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy) Strahil Ristov (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia) Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw University, Poland) Jacques Sakarovitch (Ecole nationale sup?rieure des T?l?communications, Paris, France) Max Silberztein (Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France) Wojciech Skut (Google Research, Mountain View, USA) Bruce Watson (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel) Atro Voutilainen (Connexor Oy, Finland) Anssi Yli Jyr? (University of Helsinki and CSC ? Scientific Computing Ltd., Espoo, Finland) Sheng Yu (University of Western Ontario, Canada) Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Derrick Kourie (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) Jakub Piskorski (Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy) Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy) Bruce Watson (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa) STEERING COMMITTEE Lauri Karttunen (Palo Alto Research Center, USA and Stanford University, USA) Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey and Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Anssi Yli Jyr? (University of Helsinki and CSC ? Scientific Computing Ltd., Espoo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 22 21:12:01 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:12:01 +0100 Subject: Appel: MLMI 2008 (5th Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:29:39 +0100 From: Andrei Popescu-Belis Message-ID: <47965233.2000605 at idiap.ch> X-url: http://barracuda.idiap.ch:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-url: http://www.mlmi.info X-url: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi08/ X-url: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 X-url: http://www.mlmi.info MLMI 2008 first call for papers (apologies for multiple postings): 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI 2008) 8-10 September 2008 Utrecht, The Netherlands http://www.mlmi.info The fifth MLMI workshop will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, following successful workshops in Martigny (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Washington (2006) and Brno (2007). MLMI brings together researchers from the different communities working on the common theme of advanced machine learning algorithms applied to multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction. The motivation for creating this joint multi-disciplinary workshop arose from the actual needs of several large collaborative projects, in Europe and the United States. * Important dates Submission of papers/posters: Monday, 31 March 2008 Acceptance notifications: Monday, 12 May 2008 Camera-ready versions of papers: Monday, 16 June 2008 Workshop: 8-10 September 2008 * Workshop topics MLMI 2008 will feature talks (including a number of invited speakers), posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit proposals in the following areas of interest, related to machine learning and multimodal interaction: - human-human communication modeling - audio-visual perception of humans - human-computer interaction modeling - speech processing - image and video processing - multimodal processing, fusion and fission - multimodal discourse and dialogue modeling - multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization - annotation and browsing of multimodal data - machine learning algorithms and their applications to the topics above * Satellite events MLMI'08 will feature special sessions and satellite events, as during the previous editions of MLMI (see www.mlmi.info for examples). To propose special sessions or satellite events, please contact the special session chair. MLMI 2008 is broadly colocated with a number of events in related domains: Mobile HCI 2008, 2-5 September, in Amsterdam; FG 2008, 17-19 September, in Amsterdam; and ECML 2008, 15-19 September, in Antwerp. * Guidelines for submission The workshop proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (pending approval). The first four editions of MLMI were published as LNCS 3361, 3869, 4299, and 4892. However, unlike previous MLMIs, the proceedings of MLMI 2008 will be printed before the workshop and will be already available onsite to MLMI 2008 participants. Submissions are invited either as long papers (12 pages) or as short papers (6 pages), and may include a demonstration proposal. Upon acceptance of a paper, the Program Committee will also assign to it a presentation format, oral or poster, taking into account: (a) the most suitable format given the content of the paper; (b) the length of the paper (long papers are more likely to be presented orally); (c) the preferences expressed by the authors. Please submit PDF files using the submission website at http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi08/, following the Springer LNCS format for proceedings and other multiauthor volumes (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0). Camera-ready versions of accepted papers, both long and short, are required to follow these guidelines and to take into account the reviewers' comments. Authors of accepted short papers are encouraged to turn them into long papers for the proceedings. * Venue Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands, with historic roots back to the Roman Empire. Utrecht hosts one of the bigger universities in the country, and with its historic centre and the many students it provides and excellent atmosphere for social activities in- or outside the workshop community. Utrecht is centrally located in the Netherlands, and has direct train connections to the major cities and Schiphol International Airport. TNO, organizer of MLMI 2008, is a not-for-profit research organization. TNO speech technological research is carried out in Soesterberg, at TNO Human Factors, and has research areas in ASR, speaker and language recognition, and word and event spotting. The workshop will be held in "Ottone", a beautiful old building near the "Singel", the canal which encircles the city center. The conference hall combines a spacious setting with a warm an friendly ambiance. * Organizing Committee David van Leeuwen, TNO (Organization Chair) Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (Special Sessions Chair) Andrei Popescu-Belis, IDIAP Research Institute (Programme Co-chair) Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe (Programme Co-chair) * Programme Committee (to be announced at http://www.mlmi.info) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 25 21:06:23 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:06:23 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journal TAL, special issue on NLP Platforms, New submission deadline Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:07:31 +0100 From: Patrice Enjalbert Message-Id: <66AD15AE-C451-459D-A40D-2BE818C0617E at info.unicaen.fr> X-url: http://www.atala.org/ X-url: http://tal.e-revues.com/ X-url: http://tal.e-revues.com/appel.jsp LAST CALL NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE : February 11th, 2008 PLATFORMS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SPECIAL ISSUE OF ? TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES ? (TAL) JOURNAL 2008 Volume 49 Number 2 http://www.atala.org/ Research in NLP increasingly requires sophisticated software architectures. Because there is no agreed "integrated" model of language processing, researchers often produce ad hoc and application- specific solutions, while NLP platforms help by bringing components together and making them interoperable. Due to the complex nature of NLP applications - and language itself - one needs to mix in the same process different models, resources and algorithms, leading to important problems of interoperability and data exchange. Moreover, the increasing complexity of linguistic models implies sophisticated formalisation tools, and the development of experimental studies on large corpora also brings strong constraints on the software environments. These various characteristics and requirements raise many questions which will be the focus of the present special issue on platforms for language processing. Two interrelated and complementary aspects are relevant: an architectural and a methodological one. 1) Architectural issues Bringing together different modules raises many architectural and technical questions, centered around interoperability and data exchange, such as: - interoperability between representation formats of corpora, linguistic resources, documents and annotations; possible standardisation; - technical compatibility of heterogeneous algorithms and data: portability, availability, maintainability, etc; - graphical user interfaces supporting computer scientists and/ or linguists to assemble sets of "components" and to visualise and debug the results of their application to corpora; - multimodality and multilinguism; - software execution models: pipeline, agent-based architectures, distributed web services, etc; techniques for limiting errors from propagating into subsequent modules; efficiency comparisons of the various kinds of architectures; scalability (massive data, simultaneous on-line users...); 2) Methodological issues The scientific approach which consists in projecting a certain linguistic model - or a set of models - on the same data or corpora also raises interesting questions: - formalisation: which formalisms are appropriate for the various levels of linguistic analysis? How can they be made interoperable? What should be considered first: the expressivity of a formalism or the complexity of the associated algorithms? - descriptive power: how can we ensure the declarative nature of NLP processes, from linguistic rules to the specification of process chaining? Is it possible to have a convergence of descriptive and prescriptive models? - repeatability: how to ensure that an experiment, based on complex algorithms, can be reproduced? How to share and capitalize on operational models and resources? - modularity: how to make a complex process independent of the choice of a particular component for a particular task? Reuse and adaptation of resources and components; support for multiple annotations; - evaluation of composite processes; - theoretical productivity: by bringing together different "local" models can we study new linguistic phenomena, at a higher complexity level? Presentation of concrete experiments embedding NLP platforms into application-oriented software systems (human-machine interfaces, information retrieval and extraction, terminology/ontology constitution, automated translation...) is warmly encouraged. Description of specific NLP platforms is also welcome, and authors should then clearly explain the underlying principles and hypotheses, in order to contribute to the general discussion. THE JOURNAL (see http://www.atala.org/) The journal TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) is an international journal published since 1960 by ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) with the support of the CNRS. It is now becoming available in electronic form, with print on demand. The reading and selection process remain unchanged. LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking authors are requested to submit in French. IMPORTANT DATES - as soon as possible : send an email including the title, authors and a ten lines abstract, to tal-plateformes at info.unicaen.fr (preferred but optional) - 11/02/2008 Deadline for submission - 11/04/2008 Notification to authors - 18/05/2008 Deadline for submission of revised version - 09/06/2008 Final decision - September 2008 Publication PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions (25 pages maximum, PDF format) will be sent by e-mail at the address below: tal-plateformes at info.unicaen.fr Style sheets are available for download at http://tal.e-revues.com/ appel.jsp GUEST EDITORS Kalina BONTCHEVA (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) Patrice ENJALBERT (University of Caen, France) Beno?t HABERT (ENS LSH & ICAR, France) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Jason BALDRIDGE (University of Texas Austin, USA) Fr?d?rik BILHAUT (University of Caen, France) Jean CARLETTA (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Farid CERBAH (Dassault Aviation, France) Javier COUTO (INCO, Uruguay) Robert DALE (Macquarie University, Australia) Fran?ois DAOUST (UQAM, Quebec, Canada) Thierry DECLERCK (DFKI, Germany) Serge HEIDEN (ENS-LSH & ICAR, France) Nancy IDE (Vassar College, New-York, USA & LORIA/CNRS, France) Michel JACOBSON (LACITO, France) Diana MAYNARD (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) Jean-Luc MINEL (MoDyCo, CNRS, France) Sylvaine NUGIER (EDF, France) S?bastien PAUMIER (University of Marne-la-Vall?e, France) Etienne PETITJEAN (ATILF, France) Thierry POIBEAU (LIPN-CNRS , France) Laurent ROMARY (INRIA, France & MPG, Germany) Vera Lucia STRUBE de LIMA (Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil) Valentin TABLAN (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) John TAIT (IRF, Austria) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 25 21:11:50 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:11:50 +0100 Subject: Appel: Conference TOTh 2008 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:25:50 +0100 From: Luc Damas Message-ID: <47976A8E.5070208 at univ-savoie.fr> X-url: http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Appel ? communications ---------------------------------------------------------- TOTh : Terminologie & Ontologie : Th?ories et Applications Annecy - 5 & 6 juin 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.porphyre.org/toth/ Comment mod?liser les connaissances m?tiers ? Les mutations technologiques et ?conomiques ont modifi? profond?ment nos structures soci?tales. La notion de communaut? est devenue centrale, rendant plus manifestes les besoins de communication et de partage de l'information. Information ?rig?e au rang de connaissance qui constitue la v?ritable richesse de nos soci?t?s et qui pose les probl?mes de leur capitalisation et de leur exploitation. Autant de besoins et de probl?mes qui font des langues de sp?cialit?, de la terminologie et de l'ing?nierie des connaissances des disciplines incontournables. La soci?t? num?rique, ? travers les applications de traitement de l'information, milite pour une approche concert?e de ces disciplines : importance des langues de sp?cialit? et de la terminologie pour la communication et l'expression des connaissances, mais aussi impact de la repr?sentation des connaissances et des mod?les informatiques sur la terminologie et les langues de sp?cialit? (parmi les principales questions abord?es figure celle des ontologies). Les conf?rences TOTh se situent dans le prolongement des colloques annuels de la Soci?t? fran?aise de terminologie, organis?s en d?cembre ? l'Ecole normale sup?rieure de la rue d'Ulm, afin d'approfondir et de diversifier les probl?matiques qui y sont abord?es. Parmi les th?mes qui rel?vent des conf?rences TOTh, citons (liste non exhaustive) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Axe linguistique : - Les langues de sp?cialit?, la socioterminologie en particulier en direction des entreprises, l'am?nagement linguistique (prescription, normalisation), - Les dictionnaires, th?saurus, lexiques et produits terminologiques, - La construction et la maintenance de ressources terminologiques : th?ories du sens, importance et limite de la linguistique textuelle (traitement de corpus) ... - Multilinguisme et traduction. Axe conceptuel : - Principes terminologiques pour la construction des syst?mes notionnels, - La repr?sentation et la gestion des connaissances : mod?lisation des concepts, construction d'ontologies, transmissibilit? des ontologies ... - Apport de l'intelligence artificielle, de la linguistique, de l'?pist?mologie, des syst?mes formels (logique des descriptions par exemple). Axe applicatif : - Les environnements logiciels : construction et maintenance des terminologies, th?saurus, dictionnaires, ontologies ... - Les applications informatiques mettant en jeu des ressources terminologiques et/ou des bases de connaissances : syst?mes d'information, gestion documentaire (recherche d'information, classification), gestion des connaissances, web s?mantique, ing?nierie collaborative, etc. - L'?valuation des outils d'acquisition et de manipulation, l'?volution des normes et standards dans le domaine des ressources linguistiques et ontologiques. Publics & disciplines concern?s: -------------------------------- Les conf?rences TOTh ont pour principal objectif de rassembler industriels, chercheurs, utilisateurs et formateurs dont les pr?occupations rel?vent des langues de sp?cialit?, de la terminologie et de l'ing?nierie des connaissances ; et de fa?on plus g?n?rale toutes personnes int?ress?es par la gestion de l'information o? les dimensions li?es ? la langue et ? la connaissance tiennent une place pr?pond?rante. Elles se veulent un lieu d'?change et de partage o? sont expos?s probl?mes, solutions et retours d'exp?riences tant sur le plan th?orique qu'applicatif ; ainsi que les nouvelles tendances et perspectives des disciplines associ?es : terminologie, linguistique, sciences de l'information, intelligence artificielle, syst?mes d'information, ing?nierie collaborative, etc. Comit? Scientifique : Responsable : Christophe Roche ------------------------------------------------------ * Comit? de pilotage o Lo?c Depecker Professeur, Universit? de Sorbonne nouvelle o Andr? Manificat Directeur, GRETh o Christophe Roche Professeur, Universit? de Savoie o Philippe Thoiron Professeur ?m?rite, Universit? de Lyon II * Comit? de programme o Bruno de Bess? Professeur, Universit? de Gen?ve o Pierre Blanc EDF SEPTEN o Dani?le Bourcier CNRS, CERSA Paris o Marc van Campenhoudt Professeur, Institut sup?rieur d'interpr?tation et de Traduction de Bruxelles o Danielle Candel CNRS, Universit? Paris Diderot o St?phane Chaudiron Professeur, Universit? de Lille III o Viviane Cohen Information System Enterprise Architecture & Anticipation, France T?l?com o Rute Costa Professeur, Universit? de Lisbonne o Luc Damas MCF, Universit? de Savoie o Sylvie Despr?s MCF, Universit? Paris XIII o Anne Dourgnon-Hanoune EDF R&D o Fran?ois Gaudin Professeur, Universit? de Rouen o Jean-Yves Gresser ancien Directeur ? la Banque de France o Ollivier Haemmerl? Professeur, Universit? de Toulouse o Jean-Paul Haton Professeur, Universit? de Nancy 1 o Mich?le Hudon Professeur, Universit? de Montr?al o John Humbley Professeur, Universit? Paris 7 o Michel IDA Directeur MINATEC, CEA o Hendrik Kockaert Professeur, Lessius Hogeschool (Anvers) o Michel L?onard Professeur, Universit? de Gen?ve o Pierre Lerat Professeur honoraire, Universit? Paris XIII o Widad Mustafa Professeur, Universit? de Lille III o Jean Quirion Professeur, Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais o Renato Reinau Suva, Lucerne o Fran?ois Rousselot MCF, Universit? de Strasbourg o G?rard Sabah CNRS, Orsay o Michel Simonet CNRS Grenoble o Marcus Spies Professeur, Universit? de Munich o Dardo de Vecchi Professeur associ?, Euro-Med Marseille Dates importantes : ------------------- - Date limite de soumission : 16 mars 2008 - Notification d'acceptation aux auteurs : 20 avril 2008 Soumissions : luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr Contacts : ---------- Christophe Roche : responsable scientifique christophe.roche at univ-savoie.fr - t?l. : 04 79 75 87 79 Luc Damas : responsable de l'organisation luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr - t?l. : 04 79 75 87 03 Joelle Pellet : secr?tariat toth at porphyre.org t?l. : 04 50 09 65 80 - fax : 04 50 09 65 59 Site : www.porphyre.org/toth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 25 21:13:21 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:13:21 +0100 Subject: Jobs: Two Postdoctoral positions in NLP at INRIA Paris Rocquencourt Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:46:21 +0100 From: Eric De la clergerie Message-ID: <4798424D.6050107 at inria.fr> X-url: http://alpage.inria.fr/stages.en.html X-url: http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc/postdoc.en.html X-url: http://alpage.inria.fr X-url: http://alpage.inria.fr/~clerger 2 Postdoctoral Positions at INRIA Paris Rocquencourt (France) in Project-team Alpage. Field: Computational Linguistics Topics: * Exploitation of high level syntactic models for Natural Language Processing * NLP, deep probabilistic and symbolic parsing, discourse modeling and parsing, NLP-based knowledge acquisition techniques Deadline for application: February 15, 2008. Starting Date: September 2008 Employer: INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science) Paris Rocquencourt (France) Applicants must have a ** recent doctoral degree ** (PhD viva held in may 2007 or later) or defend their PhD before the end of 2008. They must have expertise in an area relevant to the project (computational linguistics, computer science), strong hands-on experience in Natural Language Processing. Further particulars and details of how to apply are available at: http://alpage.inria.fr/stages.en.html and http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc/postdoc.en.html Information about Alpage: http://alpage.inria.fr Contact: Eric de la Clergerie Laurence Danlos -- Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr Projet Alpage - INRIA Rocquencourt WWW Home Page: http://alpage.inria.fr/~clerger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 25 21:14:27 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:14:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: DEFT'08 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:36:12 +0100 From: Martine Hurault-Plantet Message-Id: <200801251236.12840.Martine.Hurault-Plantet at limsi.fr> X-url: http://deft08.limsi.fr/ X-url: http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php ****************************************************************** DEFT'08 Appel ? participation Atelier d'?valuation en fouille de textes : Classification de textes en th?me et en genre http://deft08.limsi.fr/ Inscription : http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php ****************************************************************** Dates importantes : Inscription : ? partir du 21 d?cembre 2007 Diffusion des corpus d'apprentissage : 14 janvier 2008 Test : 3 jours pris dans la derni?re quinzaine de mars 2008 Atelier : 9-13 juin dans le cadre de TALN'08 ****************************************************************** Depuis 3 ans DEFT (http://deft.limsi.fr/) propose des campagnes d'?valuation dans le domaine de la Fouille de Textes en langue fran?aise. L'atelier DEFT'08 se tiendra cette ann?e en Avignon dans le cadre de la conf?rence TALN. Le th?me de cette ?dition 2008 de DEFT concerne la classification en th?me et en genre de textes. La classification automatique a de multiples applications en fouille de textes. De l'orientation de courriels ? la veille strat?gique ou scientifique, de nombreux domaines d'application ont ?t? explor?s. Depuis quelques ann?es une nouvelle probl?matique est apparue, celle de la classification en genre de textes. Au-del? de la reconnaissance du th?me du document, la reconnaissance de son genre est utile pour guider l'utilisation qui sera faite du document. Mais comment reconna?tre ? la fois le th?me et le genre d'un document ? La diff?rence de genre influence-t-elle la reconnaissance de la cat?gorie th?matique d'un document, et, inversement, la diff?rence de th?me influence-t-elle la reconnaissance du genre du document ? Pour ?valuer des logiciels de classification dans cette perspective, nous allons confronter, sur un m?me ensemble de cat?gories pr?-d?finies, deux corpus de genres diff?rents, un corpus d'articles journalistiques issus du journal Le Monde, et un corpus d'articles encyclop?diques issus de l'encyclop?die libre sur Internet, Wikip?dia. Ce que nous mettons ici sous le terme genre renvoie ? un ensemble de textes partageant des propri?t?s li?es au domaine d'activit?, ? des pratiques et au support utilis? pour ces textes. Un article de journal rend compte d'une actualit? et un article encyclop?dique diffuse un savoir, mais les deux ont en commun un certain nombre de cat?gories th?matiques g?n?rales, appel?es rubriques chez l'un et cat?gories chez l'autre. Il s'agira de tester sur ces corpus d'une part la robustesse d'un mod?le de classification th?matique soumis ? des variations en genre de texte, et d'autre part les am?liorations possibles d'une classification th?matique par la reconnaissance du genre de texte. Description de la t?che *********************** Pour l'entra?nement, nous fournirons 2 corpus : * un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikip?dia d'un ensemble A de cat?gories th?matiques avec un double ?tiquetage, l'un en genre et l'autre en cat?gorie th?matique, * un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikip?dia d'un ensemble B de cat?gories th?matiques, diff?rent de l'ensemble A, avec un simple ?tiquetage en cat?gorie th?matique. Pour le test, nous fournirons deux corpus non ?tiquet?s en genre ou en th?me, avec une t?che diff?rente pour chacun : * t?che 1 : reconnaissance du genre et de la cat?gorie th?matique de chaque document d'un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikip?dia appartenant ? l'ensemble A de cat?gories th?matiques, * t?che 2 : reconnaissance de la cat?gorie th?matique de chaque document d'un corpus d'articles du journal Le Monde et d'articles de Wikip?dia appartenant ? l'ensemble B de cat?gories th?matiques. Inscription ********** Les ?quipes participant ? DEFT'08 devront s'inscrire ? l'aide du formulaire en ligne (http://deft08.limsi.fr/inscription.php), et signer les accords de restriction d'usage des corpus. Comit?s ******** Comit? d'organisation : Co-responsables : Martine Hurault-Plantet (LIMSI) et Cyril Grouin (LIMSI) Membres : Sylvain Loiseau (LIMSI), Jean-Baptiste Berthelin (LIMSI), Sarra El Ayari (LIMSI) Comit? de programme : Pr?sident : Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI) Membres : Catherine Berrut (CLIPS), Fabrice Cl?rot (France Telecom), Guillaume Cleuziou (LIFO), Matthieu Constant (IGM) B?atrice Daille (LINA), Halima Dahmani (CEA-LIST), Marc El-B?ze (LIA), Patrick Gallinari (LIP6), ?ric Gaussier (Xerox Research), Thierry Hamon (LIPN), Fid?lia Ibekwe-SanJuan (ELICO), Pascal Poncelet (LGI2P), Christophe Roche (LISTIC), Mathieu Roche (LIRMM), Bernard Rothenburger (IRIT - INRIA), Pascale S?billot (IRISA), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA), Fran?ois Yvon (LIMSI). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jan 25 21:17:35 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:17:35 +0100 Subject: Appel: Atelier Langue des signes - TALN 2008 - Avignon Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:05:15 +0100 From: Frederic Bechet Message-ID: <479A24DB.4050705 at univ-avignon.fr> X-url: http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=483 Appel ? communication : TALS 08, journ?e d'?tudes sur les langues des signes, Avignon, 13 juin 2008. Merci de diffuser largement Un atelier sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues des Signes (TALS) aura lieu le 13 juin 2008, dans le cadre de la Conf?rence TALN ? Avignon (9-13 juin). Organis? par l'?quipe ? Langue des signes et formalisation de la modalit? visuo-gestuelle ? de l'UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du Langage-Universit? Paris 8 et CNRS (Brigitte Garcia et Dominique Boutet) et le laboratoire IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier de Toulouse (Patrice Dalle), cet atelier se donne comme objectif de permettre aux chercheurs de diff?rentes disciplines sur les langues des signes (LS) de pr?senter et confronter leurs conceptions de ces langues et les r?sultats de leurs recherches. Cet atelier pluridisciplinaire est ainsi ouvert aux chercheurs travaillant sur les LS et, ?ventuellement, leurs liens avec la gestualit? dite coverbale, dans les champs de la linguistique, de l'informatique et de l'ensemble des sciences cognitives. On s'int?ressera aux propositions de mod?lisation des LS et de la gestualit? de m?me qu'aux outils d'analyse et de synth?se du geste et des LS construits ? partir de ces mod?les. On souhaite particuli?rement prendre en compte parmi ces outils : 1.Ceux dont la finalit? est avant tout ?ducative, cette question de l'?ducation des sourds ?tant plus que jamais d'actualit? 2.Les outils d'aide ? l'annotation de corpus (LS et gestualit?). L'atelier se d?roulera sur une journ?e. Il comprendra quatre sessions de 1h30 : deux sessions orales (sessions 1 et 3), une session de table ronde (session 2) et une session collective de posters et d?monstrations (session 4). La session ? table ronde ? a pour finalit? de fournir un authentique espace de discussion d'une part sur la diversit? des conceptions qui structurent ce domaine de recherche et d'autre part entre deux disciplines (linguistique et informatique) qui ont peu d'occasions d'?changer. Th?mes Les th?mes propos?s incluent notamment (liste non exhaustive) : analyse et compr?hension de textes (phon?tique/phonologie, lexique/morphologie, s?mantique, ?nonciation...) structuration linguistique de l'espace LS et gestualit? naturelle formes graphiques (syst?mes de transcription, syst?mes d'?criture, LS vid?o...) annotation de corpus (LS et gestualit?) didacticiels (LSF ; forme ?crite de la langue vocale-langue 2) analyse et reconnaissance g?n?ration architecture pour le TALS Comit? de Programme Brigitte GARCIA, MCF UMR SFL Paris 8 Dominique BOUTET, MCF UMR SFL Paris 8 et U. EVE Patrice DALLE, PR IRIT, Toulouse 3 Antonio BALVET, MCF UMR STL, Lille 3 Annelies BRAFFORT, CR LIMSI, Orsay Marie-Anne SALLANDRE, MCF UMR SFL, Paris 8 Catherine PELACHAUD, PR LINC, IUT Montreuil, Paris 8 Marion BLONDEL, CR UMR SFL, Paris 8 Michel JACOBSON, IE UMR LACITO, Paris 3 et 4 Elena PIZZUTO, DR ISTC-CNR, Rome Annie RISLER, MCF UMR STL, Lille 3 Calendrier - Date limite de soumission : 14 mars 2008 - Notification aux auteurs : 3 avril 2008 - Version finale : 22 avril 2008 - Conf?rence TALN : du 9 au 13 juin 2008 - Atelier TALS : 13 juin 2008 Soumission des articles Les auteurs peuvent proposer un article (fran?ais ou LSF), un poster ou une d?monstration sur ordinateur. La feuille de style est la m?me que pour la conf?rence TALN Articles : soumettre des articles complets (et non des r?sum?s) (maximum, 10 pages) Posters : soumettre le poster et un texte de commentaire (2 pages) D?mos : soumettre un texte d?crivant la d?mo (2 pages) Article en LSF : la dur?e de la vid?o LSF doit ?tre ?quivalente ? un article de 10 pages (en g?n?ral on estime que 3 ? 4 mn de LSF = 1 page de texte) Informations pratiques (soumission des articles) Voir sur le site suivant ? partir du 15 janvier : http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=483 Contact Brigitte Garcia : Brigitte.Garcia at univ-paris8.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From leztatsukixeh at TATSUKI.NET Fri Jan 25 13:09:16 2008 From: leztatsukixeh at TATSUKI.NET (Elsa Farmer) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:09:16 +0200 Subject: Customer alert! 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Thanks. ------------------ 6th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS (formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications) Tarragona, Spain, July 21 - August 2, 2008 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University http://www.grlmc.com ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Mathematics. Other graduate students (for instance, from Linguistics, Electrical Engineering, Molecular Biology or Logic) as well undergraduate students can attend too provided they have a good background in discrete mathematics. All courses will be compatible in terms of the schedule. (There will be no courses in parallel.) COURSES AND PROFESSORS JULY 21-26: Martyn Amos (Manchester), Synthetic Biology: Biological Engineering [6 hours] Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest), Language Theoretic Models of Multi-Agent Systems [14 hours] Zoltan Esik (Tarragona), An Axiomatic Theory of Automata [6 hours] Rusins Freivalds (Riga), Elliptic Curves [6 hours] Max Garzon (Memphis), Biomolecular Nanotechnology [6 hours] Masami Ito (Kyoto), Regular Grammars [6 hours] Martin Kutrib (Giessen), Cellular Automata [6 hours] Claudio Moraga (Mieres), Fuzzy Formal Languages [6 hours] Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima), Two-Dimensional Languages [6 hours] Mitsunori Ogihara (Rochester), Computational Complexity and Molecular Computation Models [6 hours] Friedrich Otto (Kassel), Restarting Automata [6 hours] COURSES AND PROFESSORS JULY 28 - AUGUST 2: Francine Blanchet-Sadri (Greensboro), Partial Words [6 hours] Henning Bordihn (Potsdam), Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars [8 hours] Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznan), Type Logics and Grammars [8 hours] Manfred Droste (Leipzig), Weighted Automata [8 hours] Joerg Flum (Freiburg, Germany), Parameterized Complexity [6 hours] Tom Head (Binghamton), Computing with Light Using Transparency and Opacity [6 hours] Satoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo), Grammatical Models and Algorithms for Biological Sequence Analysis [6 hours] Mark-Jan Nederhof (St.-Andrews), Probabilistic Parsing [6 hours] Alexander Okhotin (Turku), Language Equations [6 hours] Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt), Descriptional Complexity of Automata and Grammars [12 hours] Sheng Yu (London, Canada), Finite Automata [16 hours] REGISTRATION: It has to be done on line at: http://www.grlmc.com FEES: They are variable for each student, depending on the number of courses each one takes. The rule is: 1 hour = - 10 euros (for payments until March 24, 2008), - 12 euros (for payments after March 24, 2008). The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: IBAN code: ES13 0073 0100 5104 0350 6598 Please mention SSFLA'08 and your full name in the subject. An invoice will be provided on site. To check the eligibility for early registration, what counts is the date of the bank order for payment (not the date when the registration form was filled in). People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in cash. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be provided through the website of the School in due time. IMPORTANT DATES: Announcement of the programme: January 26, 2008 Starting of the registration: February 4, 2008 Early registration deadline: March 24, 2008 Starting of the School: July 21, 2008 End of the School: August 2, 2008 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Carlos Martin-Vide: carlos.martin at urv.cat WEBSITE: http://www.grlmc.com POSTAL ADDRESS: SSFLA'08 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Plaza Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-559597 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 29 15:45:10 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:45:10 +0100 Subject: Conf: JADT 2008 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:29:40 +0100 From: "Serge HEIDEN" Message-ID: <00b001c86144$dede4c40$6401a8c0 at intranet.enslsh.fr> X-url: http://www.jadt.org/ X-url: http://jadt2008.ens-lsh.fr/spip.php?rubrique10 [english version below] *************************************************** JADT 2008 - Appel ? participation 9es Journ?es internationales d'analyse statistique des donn?es textuelles du 12 au 14 mars 2008 ? l'Ecole normale sup?rieure Lettres et sciences humaines Lyon, France http://www.jadt.org/ *************************************************** Les journ?es internationales d'analyse statistique des donn?es textuelles (JADT) r?unissent tous les deux ans, depuis 1990, des chercheurs travaillant dans les diff?rents domaines concern?s par les traitements automatiques et statistiques de donn?es textuelles. Elles permettent aux participants de pr?senter leurs r?sultats, de confronter leurs outils et leurs exp?riences. Les 9es journ?es internationales d'analyse statistique des donn?es textuelles JADT 2008 r?uniront ? l'Ecole normale sup?rieure Lettres et sciences humaines de Lyon (France), du 12 au 14 mars 2008, statisticiens, linguistes, sociologues, sp?cialistes d'analyse du discours, informaticiens, sp?cialistes de lexicographie et de fouille de textes. * Inscriptions Les formulaires d'inscription sont en ligne sur le site : http://jadt2008.ens-lsh.fr/spip.php?rubrique10 Un tarif r?duit est offert jusqu'au 8 f?vrier 2008. * Conf?renciers invit?s Fran?ois Rastier, CNRS, Paris Jean-Michel Sala?n, Universit? de Montr?al * Programme MARDI 11 MARS 17h30 - 19h30 Inscriptions (Forum) MERCREDI 12 MARS 08h00 - 09h30 Inscriptions (Forum) 09h30 - 10h00 Session inaugurale (Amphith??tre) 10h00 - 11h20 Sessions parall?les 1&2 Session 1. S?quentialit? et structure textuelle (Salle F08) Habert, Beno?t ; Beaudouin, Val?rie " Formes " des r?pliques et des phrases dans trois pi?ces en vers Longr?e, Dominique ; Luong, Xuan ; Mellet, Sylvie Les motifs : un outil pour la caract?risation topologique des textes Delpech, Estelle ; Saint-Dizier, Patrick Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts: identification of titles and instructions Kessler, R?my ; El-B?ze, Marc E-Gen : traitement automatique des offres d'emploi Session 2. Enqu?tes et entreprises (Salle F106) Smaoui, Aida Une application de la statistique textuelle ? l'exc?s de confiance des dirigeants : cas des acquisitions Manetta, C?line ; Urdapilleta, Isabel ; Montet, Arnaud Mise au jour des repr?sentations de parfums ? l'aide d'une t?che de cat?gorisation et de l'analyse textuelle des verbalisations associ?es Balbi, Simona ; Infante, Giorgio ; Misuraca, Michelangelo Conjoint analysis with textual external information G?linas-Chebat, Claire ; Chebat, Jean-Charles ; Therrien, Karina Contribution de SATO ? des analyses statistiques SPSS pour parler d'orientation dans les centres commerciaux 11h20 - 11h45 Pause caf? 11h45 - 13h00 Sessions parall?les 3&4 Session 3. Cooccurrences (Salle F08) Peirsman, Yves ; Heylen, Kris ; Speelman, Dirk Putting things in Order. First and second order context models for the calculation of semantic similarity Brunet, Etienne Les s?quences (suite) Mayaffre, Damon Quand " travail ", " famille ", " patrie " co-occurrent dans le discours de Nicolas Sarkozy. Etude de cas et r?flexion th?orique sur la co-occurrence Martinez, William R?pulsions lexicales. Exp?riences autour de la cooccurrence n?gative Session 4. Enqu?tes et soci?t? (Salle F106) Turchi, Gian Piero ; Maiuro, Tiziana ; Paita, Monia Il tifo Ultras come configurazione discorsiva: il contributo di una metodologia di analisi. Sensales, Gilda ; Angelastro, Angela ; Areni, Alessandra L'impatto di notizie intorno ai disordini del 2005 nelle periferie francesi sulle rappresentazioni della politica e sui processi di memoria. Analisi lessicografica dei dati di una indagine-pilota quasi sperimentale. Fadda, Sara ; Meniconcini, Rita ; Romei, Daniela Costruire una cultura della sicurezza come strategia per la riduzione dei costi sociali ed economici dei comportamenti a rischio Tomasetto, Carlo ; Matteucci, Maria Cristina ; Selleri, Patrizia ; Cavrini, Giulia ; Scalone, Luciana Analysis of open answers in the validation of a health-related quality-of-life questionnaire for children 13h00 - 15h00 Repas 15h00 - 16h20 Sessions parall?les 5&6 Session 5. Unit?s lexicales, segmentation (Amphith??tre) Khokhlova, Maria Extracting Collocations in Russian: Statistics vs. Dictionary Baranov, Victor ; Mironov, A.N. ; Lapin, A.N. ; Melnikova, I.M. ; Sokolova, A.A. Development of the processing and visualization technologies for the linguistic information and text metadata in the manuscript system: lemmatization Abb?s, Ramzi ; Dichy, Joseph Extraction automatique de fr?quences lexicales en arabe et analyse d'un corpus journalistique avec le logiciel AraConc et la base de connaissances DIINAR.1 Mouelhi, Zoubeir AraSeg : un segmenteur semi-automatique des textes arabes Session 6. ?nonciation (Salle F106) Pierre, Fabienne Libert? et ?nonciation : une corr?lation inattendue dans les d?clarations du Sommet de Johannesburg Labb?, Dominique ; Moni?re, Denis Je est-il un autre ? Fracchiolla, B?atrice L'attaque courtoise : de l'usage de la politesse comme strat?gie d'agression dans le d?bat Royal-Sarkozy du 02 mai 2007 Dargnat, Mathilde Profils linguistiques et structure textuelle 16h20 - 16h50 Pr?sentations courtes : Posters, Logiciels (Amphith??tre) 16h50 - 17h30 Pause Caf?, Posters, D?monstrations de logiciels 17h30 - 18h30 Sessions parall?les 7&8 Session 7. Lemmatisation et annotation (Amphith??tre) Lemaire, Beno?t Limites de la lemmatisation pour l'extraction de significations Viprey, Jean-Marie ; L?thier, Virginie Annotation linguistique de corpus : vers l'exhaustivit? par la convialit? Serp, Claire ; Cazal, Emmanuel ; Laurent, Anne ; Roche, Mathieu Tervotiq : un syst?me de vote pour l'extraction de la terminologie d'un corpus en fran?ais m?di?val Session 8. Corpus politiques (Salle F106) Marchand, Pascal Analyse lexicom?trique d'un genre : la d?claration de politique g?n?rale Leblanc, Jean-Marc Une approche exp?rimentale du rituel politique, l'analyse r?cursive des ?nonc?s sous Alceste. Riva, Paolo ; Colombo, Monica ; Montali, Lorenzo Comparing Right and Left-wing discourse on immigration: a lexical correspondence analysis of Italian parliamentary debates JEUDI 13 MARS 09h00 - 10h00 Sessions parall?les 9&10 Session 9. Classification lexicale (Salle F08) Guggilla, Chinnappa ; Mohamed, Sadiq ; Vardarajan, Sridhar Extracting semantic sets from the World Wide Web using unsupervised learning Akama, Hiroyuki ; Miyake, Maki ; Jung, Jaeyoung L'?laboration d'un r?seau s?mantique par le raffinement du Markov Clustering ? partir des donn?es lexicales du roman de Saint-Exup?ry, " Le petit prince ". Reinert, Max Mondes lexicaux stabilis?s et analyse statistique de discours Session 10. Entretiens - M?thodologie (Salle F106) Bonneau, Julien Outils d'aide ? l'exploitation d'entretiens semi-directifs : ?tude de l'interaction entre intervieweur et interview?s sur un corpus ethno?cologique. Brugidou, Mathieu ; Moine, Mich?le Le public en campagne. Analyse du discours des publics de la campagne ?lectorale pr?sidentielle ? travers une s?quence de question ouverte et ferm?e. Lana, Maurizio ; Mannarini, Terri L'analisi testuale dei quotidiani come fonte di informazione non strutturata. Il caso del movimento no-TAV in Valsusa 10h00 - 10h30 Pr?sentations courtes : Posters, Logiciels (Amphith??tre) 10h30 - 11h15 Pause Caf?, Posters, D?monstrations de logiciels 11h15 - 12h00 Conf?rence invit?e : Fran?ois Rastier (Amphith??tre) 12h00 - 13h00 Sessions parall?les 11&12 Session 11. Visualisation, ?valuation (Salle F08) Labb?, Cyril ; Labb?, Dominique Peut-on se fier aux arbres ? Dupuis, Fernande ; Lebart, Ludovic Visualisation, validation et s?riation. Application ? un corpus de textes m?di?vaux Fern?ndez, Silvia ; Vel?zquez, Patricia ; Mandin, Sonia ; SanJuan, Eric ; Torres-Moreno, Juan Manuel Les syst?mes de r?sum? automatique sont-ils vraiment des mauvais ?l?ves ? Session 12. S?mantique lexicale (Salle F106) Arnold, Edward Le sens des mots chez Tony Blair (people et Europe) Est?ve, Rapha?l Une analyse quantitative de la morale chez Vladimir Jank?l?vitch Chartier, Jean-Fran?ois ; Meunier, Jean-Guy ; Danis, Jean ; Jendoubi, Mohamed Le travail conceptuel collectif : une analyse assist?e par ordinateur du concept d'ACCOMMODEMENT RAISONNABLE dans les journaux qu?b?cois 13h00 - 15h00 Repas 15h00 - 16h20 Sessions parall?les 13&14 Session 13. Mod?le de donn?es, architecture (Salle F08) Albino Pires, Nat?lia Ulisses - un IDE (Integrated Development Environment) para la anotaci?n y procesamiento de corpora Daoust, Fran?ois ; Duchastel, Jules ; Marcoux, Yves ; Rizkallah, ?lias Pour un mod?le de d?p?t de donn?es adapt? ? la constitution de corpus de recherche Lafourcade, Mathieu ; Joubert, Alain JeuxDeMots : un prototype ludique pour l'?mergence de relations entre termes Mazziotta, Nicolas Exploitation de l'Ontology Web Language pour la r?daction des notices de l'Atlas Linguistique de la Wallonie Session 14. Corpus parall?les (Salle F106) Leblois, Etienne Extraction de lexique bilingue ? partir d'un corpus de traduction : une strat?gie par ?cr?mage. Duchastel, Jules ; Daoust, Fran?ois ; della Faille, Dimitri Le probl?me de l'interpr?tation des donn?es ? partir d'un corpus bilingue. L'exemple du discours des trois chefs de parti sur la motion de reconnaissance du " Qu?bec comme soci?t? distincte au sein du Canada ". Miao, Jun Analyses textom?triques de corpus parall?les fran?ais-chinois : " l'Aube " de Jean-Christophe et ses trois traductions chinoises Ji, Meng Statistical Exploration of Situational Parameters for Style Variation in Translation 16h20 - 16h50 Pr?sentations courtes : Posters, Logiciels (Amphith??tre) 16h50 - 17h30 Pause Caf?, Posters, D?monstrations de logiciels 17h30 - 18h50 Sessions parall?les 15&16 Session 15. ?dition critique (Salle F08) Csernel, Marc ; Patte, Fran?ois Elaboration d'?dition critique de textes Sanskrit Le Pouliquen, Marc ; Barth?lemy, Jean-Pierre Probl?me de la contamination dans le cadre de l'?dition critique Bestgen, Yves Une proc?dure de comparaison de textes bas?e sur les quasi-segments : application ? la traduction de r??ditions Fleury, Serge ; Zimina, Maria Utilisations de mkAlign pour la traduction philologique Session 16. Style, diachronie (Salle F106) Ablali, Driss ; Kastberg Sj?blom, Margareta Exploration morpho-s?mantique en corpus. Les formes du genre de l'article scientifique en sciences humaines Czellar, Judith Les techniques de Q-sums et de Multidimensional Scaling appliqu?es ? l'?tude de la stabilit? de l'?criture au cours de la vie : le cas de George Sand Aureli, Enrica ; Cristofori, Fabrizio ; Iezzi, Domenica Fioredistella On-Line Forums: a window on language evolution Chabot, Joceline ; Kasparian, Sylvia ; Desjardins, Philippe Les mots pour le dire. Analyse d'un corpus de presse canadienne fran?aise sur le g?nocide arm?nien (1915-1920) 20h30 - 23h00 D?ner de Gala VENDREDI 14 MARS 09h00 - 10h00 Sessions parall?les 17&18 Session 17. Fouille de donn?es (Salle F08) Peyrat-Guillard, Dominique Analyse du discours syndical sur l'entreprise : un rep?rage du processus de violation du contrat psychologique gr?ce au text mining Chen, Chaomei ; Ibekwe-SanJuan, Fidelia ; SanJuan, Eric ; Vogeley, Michael Identifying thematic variations in SDSS research Rompr?, Louis ; Biskri, Isma?l ; Meunier, Fran?ois La classification textuelle : un outil privil?gi? pour la classification de documents audio Session 18. Terminologie et traductologie (Salle F106) Bertels, Ann S?mantique quantitative et corpus technique : des analyses statistiques aux interpr?tations linguistiques Maniez, Fran?ois Traduction automatique et ambigu?t? syntaxique : le cas de la coordination dans les groupes nominaux complexes en anglais m?dical Kraif, Olivier Comment allier la puissance du TAL et la simplicit? d'utilisation ? l'exemple du concordancier bilingue ConcQuest 10h00 - 10h30 Pr?sentations courtes : Posters, Logiciels (Amphith??tre) 10h30 - 11h15 Pause Caf?, Posters, D?monstrations de logiciels 11h15 - 12h00 Conf?rence invit?e : Jean-Michel Sala?n (Amphith??tre) 12h00 - 13h00 Sessions parall?les 19&20 Session 19. Recherche d'information (Salle F08) Savoy, Jacques ; Dolamic, Ljiljana Variations autour de tf idf et du moteur Lucene Truong, Quoc Dinh ; Dkaki, Taoufiq ; Mothe, Josiane ; Charre, Pierre-Jean Information retrieval model based on graph comparison Boulaknadel, Siham ; Daille, B?atrice ; Driss, Aboutajdine Utilisation des termes complexes dans un syst?me de recherche d'information en langue arabe Session 20. Corpus oraux (Salle F106) Rossi, Caroline ; Morgenstern, Aliyah Outils et m?thodes de recherche en acquisition du langage : de la compl?mentarit? entre statistiques et analyse linguistique Maricchiolo, Fridanna ; Giuliano, Luca ; Boniauto, Marino Parole e gesti nell'analisi automatica del testo: il caso dei faccia a faccia tra Berlusconi e Prodi (2006) Dister, Anne L'autocorrection imm?diate en fran?ais parl? : le cas des d?terminants 13h00 - 15h00 Repas 15h00 - 16h00 Sessions parall?les 21&22 Session 21. Alignement - Nouvelles formes de textualit? (Salle F08) Gerdes, Kim L'alignement pour les pauvres : adapter la bonne m?trique pour un algorithme dynamique de dilatation temporelle pour l'alignement sans ressources de corpus bilingues Beaufort, Richard ; Fairon, C?drick ; Roekhaut, Sophie D?finition d'un syst?me d'alignement SMS/fran?ais standard ? l'aide d'un filtre de composition Lavergne, Thomas Taxonomie de textes peu-naturels Session 22. Cat?gorisation de textes (Salle F106) Wei, Zhihua ; Chauchat, Jean-Hugues ; Miao Duoqian Comparing different text representation and feature selection methods on Chinese text classification using character n-grams Macchia, Stefania ; Murgia, Manuela ; Talucci, Valentina Coding the spoken language through the integration of different approaches of textual analysis B?chet, Nicolas ; Roche, Mathieu ; Chauch?, Jacques ExpLSA et classification de textes 16h00 - 16h30 Cl?ture (Amphith??tre) * Comit? de programme Ramon Alvarez, Univ. de Leon, Esp. Harald Baayen, Univ. de Nim?gue, PB Simona Balbi, Univ. de Naples, It Val?rie Baudouin France-telecom R&D, Paris, Fr Monica B?cue, Univ. Polyt.de Catalunya, Esp Sergio Bolasco, Univ. de Roma 'La Sapienza', It ?tienne Brunet, Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Fr Lou Burnard, Univ. Oxford, RU Claude Cond?, Univ. de Franche Comt?, Fr Fran?ois Daoust, UQ?M, Ca Anne Dister, UCLouvain, Be Jules Duchastel, UQ?M, Ca Serge Fleury, Univ. Paris 3, Fr C?drick Fairon, UCLouvain, Be Beno?t Habert, ENS-LSH, Lyon, Fr Serge Heiden, ENS-LSH, Lyon, Fr Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST, Paris, Fr (pr?sident) Alain Lelu, Univ. de Franche Comt?, Fr Damon Mayaffre, CNRS, Nice, Fr Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, Fr Denis Moni?re, Univ. de Montr?al, Ca B?n?dicte Pincemin, CNRS, Lyon, Fr G?rald Purnelle, Univ. de Li?ge, Be Martin Rajman, EPFL, Lausanne, CH Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. de Versailles SQY, Fr Andr? Salem, Univ. Paris 3, Fr Pascale S?billot, IRISA, Insa de Rennes, Fr Max Silberztein, Univ. de Franche Comt?, Fr Jean-Marie Viprey, Univ. de Franche Comt?, Fr * Comit? d'organisation Serge Heiden B?n?dicte Pincemin Afifa Zenati Rapha?l Tournoy Alexis Lavrentiev C?line Guillot Marie-H?l?ne Lay Liliane Vosghanian Bruno Courbon * Informations et Contact site web : http://www.jadt.org/ adresse mail : jadt2008 at ens-lsh.fr adresse postale : Serge Heiden, JADT 2008 Laboratoire ICAR - ENS-LSH 15 parvis Ren? Descartes - BP7000 69342 Lyon Cedex 07 FRANCE t?l?phone : +33 (0)4 37 37 63 12 ; fax : +33 (0)4 37 37 62 65 ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH *************************************************** JADT 2008 - Call for Participation 9th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 12 - 14 2008 at Ecole normale sup?rieure Lettres et sciences humaines Lyon, France http://www.jadt.org/ *************************************************** The 9th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data will be held in Lyon (France), on March 12-14, 2008. This biennial conference, which has constantly been gaining in importance since its first occurrence in Barcelone (1990), is open to all scholars and researchers working in the field of textual data analysis, ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from information retrieval to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from text mining to content analysis. After the success of the previous meetings, the three-day conference in Lyon will continue to provide a workshop-style forum through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. * Registration Registration forms are available on the site : http://jadt2008.ens-lsh.fr/spip.php?rubrique10&lang=en Early bird registration fees end February 8, 2008. * Invited Speakers Fran?ois Rastier, CNRS, Paris Jean-Michel Sala?n, Universit? de Montr?al * Program TUESDAY, MARCH 11TH 17h30 - 19h30 Registration (Forum) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12TH 08h00 - 09h30 Registration (Forum) 09h30 - 10h00 Opening Session (Amphith??tre) 10h00 - 11h20 Parallel sessions 1&2 Session 1. Sequentiality and Text Structure (Room F08) Habert, Beno?t ; Beaudouin, Val?rie " Formes " des r?pliques et des phrases dans trois pi?ces en vers Longr?e, Dominique ; Luong, Xuan ; Mellet, Sylvie Les motifs : un outil pour la caract?risation topologique des textes Delpech, Estelle ; Saint-Dizier, Patrick Investigating the Structure of Procedural Texts: identification of titles and instructions Kessler, R?my ; El-B?ze, Marc E-Gen : traitement automatique des offres d'emploi Session 2. Statistical Surveys and Business (Room F106) Smaoui, Aida Une application de la statistique textuelle ? l'exc?s de confiance des dirigeants : cas des acquisitions Manetta, C?line ; Urdapilleta, Isabel ; Montet, Arnaud Mise au jour des repr?sentations de parfums ? l'aide d'une t?che de cat?gorisation et de l'analyse textuelle des verbalisations associ?es Balbi, Simona ; Infante, Giorgio ; Misuraca, Michelangelo Conjoint analysis with textual external information G?linas-Chebat, Claire ; Chebat, Jean-Charles ; Therrien, Karina Contribution de SATO ? des analyses statistiques SPSS pour parler d'orientation dans les centres commerciaux 11h20 - 11h45 Coffee Break 11h45 - 13h00 Parallel sessions 3&4 Session 3. Collocations (Room F08) Peirsman, Yves ; Heylen, Kris ; Speelman, Dirk Putting things in Order. First and second order context models for the calculation of semantic similarity Brunet, Etienne Les s?quences (suite) Mayaffre, Damon Quand " travail ", " famille ", " patrie " co-occurrent dans le discours de Nicolas Sarkozy. Etude de cas et r?flexion th?orique sur la co-occurrence Martinez, William R?pulsions lexicales. Exp?riences autour de la cooccurrence n?gative Session 4. Statistical Surveys and Society (Room F106) Turchi, Gian Piero ; Maiuro, Tiziana ; Paita, Monia Il tifo Ultras come configurazione discorsiva: il contributo di una metodologia di analisi. Sensales, Gilda ; Angelastro, Angela ; Areni, Alessandra L'impatto di notizie intorno ai disordini del 2005 nelle periferie francesi sulle rappresentazioni della politica e sui processi di memoria. Analisi lessicografica dei dati di una indagine-pilota quasi sperimentale. Fadda, Sara ; Meniconcini, Rita ; Romei, Daniela Costruire una cultura della sicurezza come strategia per la riduzione dei costi sociali ed economici dei comportamenti a rischio Tomasetto, Carlo ; Matteucci, Maria Cristina ; Selleri, Patrizia ; Cavrini, Giulia ; Scalone, Luciana Analysis of open answers in the validation of a health-related quality-of-life questionnaire for children 13h00 - 15h00 Lunch 15h00 - 16h20 Parallel sessions 5&6 Session 5. Lexical Items, Tokenization (Amphith??tre) Khokhlova, Maria Extracting Collocations in Russian: Statistics vs. Dictionary Baranov, Victor ; Mironov, A.N. ; Lapin, A.N. ; Melnikova, I.M. ; Sokolova, A.A. Development of the processing and visualization technologies for the linguistic information and text metadata in the manuscript system: lemmatization Abb?s, Ramzi ; Dichy, Joseph Extraction automatique de fr?quences lexicales en arabe et analyse d'un corpus journalistique avec le logiciel AraConc et la base de connaissances DIINAR.1 Mouelhi, Zoubeir AraSeg : un segmenteur semi-automatique des textes arabes Session 6. Utterance Stance (Room F106) Pierre, Fabienne Libert? et ?nonciation : une corr?lation inattendue dans les d?clarations du Sommet de Johannesburg Labb?, Dominique ; Moni?re, Denis Je est-il un autre ? Fracchiolla, B?atrice L'attaque courtoise : de l'usage de la politesse comme strat?gie d'agression dans le d?bat Royal-Sarkozy du 02 mai 2007 Dargnat, Mathilde Profils linguistiques et structure textuelle 16h20 - 16h50 Short Presentations : Posters, Softwares (Amphith??tre) 16h50 - 17h30 Coffee Break, Poster Session, Software Demonstrations 17h30 - 18h30 Parallel sessions 7&8 Session 7. Lemmatization and Tagging (Amphith??tre) Lemaire, Beno?t Limites de la lemmatisation pour l'extraction de significations Viprey, Jean-Marie ; L?thier, Virginie Annotation linguistique de corpus : vers l'exhaustivit? par la convialit? Serp, Claire ; Cazal, Emmanuel ; Laurent, Anne ; Roche, Mathieu Tervotiq : un syst?me de vote pour l'extraction de la terminologie d'un corpus en fran?ais m?di?val Session 8. Political Texts Corpora (Room F106) Marchand, Pascal Analyse lexicom?trique d'un genre : la d?claration de politique g?n?rale Leblanc, Jean-Marc Une approche exp?rimentale du rituel politique, l'analyse r?cursive des ?nonc?s sous Alceste. Riva, Paolo ; Colombo, Monica ; Montali, Lorenzo Comparing Right and Left-wing discourse on immigration: a lexical correspondence analysis of Italian parliamentary debates THURSDAY, MARCH 13TH 09h00 - 10h00 Parallel sessions 9&10 Session 9. Word Clustering (Room F08) Guggilla, Chinnappa ; Mohamed, Sadiq ; Vardarajan, Sridhar Extracting semantic sets from the World Wide Web using unsupervised learning Akama, Hiroyuki ; Miyake, Maki ; Jung, Jaeyoung L'?laboration d'un r?seau s?mantique par le raffinement du Markov Clustering ? partir des donn?es lexicales du roman de Saint-Exup?ry, " Le petit prince ". Reinert, Max Mondes lexicaux stabilis?s et analyse statistique de discours Session 10. Interviews - Methodology (Room F106) Bonneau, Julien Outils d'aide ? l'exploitation d'entretiens semi-directifs : ?tude de l'interaction entre intervieweur et interview?s sur un corpus ethno?cologique. Brugidou, Mathieu ; Moine, Mich?le Le public en campagne. Analyse du discours des publics de la campagne ?lectorale pr?sidentielle ? travers une s?quence de question ouverte et ferm?e. Lana, Maurizio ; Mannarini, Terri L'analisi testuale dei quotidiani come fonte di informazione non strutturata. Il caso del movimento no-TAV in Valsusa 10h00 - 10h30 Short Presentations : Posters, Softwares (Amphith??tre) 10h30 - 11h15 Coffee Break, Poster Session, Software Demonstrations 11h15 - 12h00 Invited Talk : Fran?ois Rastier (Amphith??tre) 12h00 - 13h00 Parallel sessions 11&12 Session 11. Visualization, Evaluation (Room F08) Labb?, Cyril ; Labb?, Dominique Peut-on se fier aux arbres ? Dupuis, Fernande ; Lebart, Ludovic Visualisation, validation et s?riation. Application ? un corpus de textes m?di?vaux Fern?ndez, Silvia ; Vel?zquez, Patricia ; Mandin, Sonia ; SanJuan, Eric ; Torres-Moreno, Juan Manuel Les syst?mes de r?sum? automatique sont-ils vraiment des mauvais ?l?ves ? Session 12. Lexical Semantics (Room F106) Arnold, Edward Le sens des mots chez Tony Blair (people et Europe) Est?ve, Rapha?l Une analyse quantitative de la morale chez Vladimir Jank?l?vitch Chartier, Jean-Fran?ois ; Meunier, Jean-Guy ; Danis, Jean ; Jendoubi, Mohamed Le travail conceptuel collectif : une analyse assist?e par ordinateur du concept d'ACCOMMODEMENT RAISONNABLE dans les journaux qu?b?cois 13h00 - 15h00 Lunch 15h00 - 16h20 Parallel sessions 13&14 Session 13. Data Modeling, Architecture (Room F08) Albino Pires, Nat?lia Ulisses - un IDE (Integrated Development Environment) para la anotaci?n y procesamiento de corpora Daoust, Fran?ois ; Duchastel, Jules ; Marcoux, Yves ; Rizkallah, ?lias Pour un mod?le de d?p?t de donn?es adapt? ? la constitution de corpus de recherche Lafourcade, Mathieu ; Joubert, Alain JeuxDeMots : un prototype ludique pour l'?mergence de relations entre termes Mazziotta, Nicolas Exploitation de l'Ontology Web Language pour la r?daction des notices de l'Atlas Linguistique de la Wallonie Session 14. Parallel Corpora (Room F106) Leblois, Etienne Extraction de lexique bilingue ? partir d'un corpus de traduction : une strat?gie par ?cr?mage. Duchastel, Jules ; Daoust, Fran?ois ; della Faille, Dimitri Le probl?me de l'interpr?tation des donn?es ? partir d'un corpus bilingue. L'exemple du discours des trois chefs de parti sur la motion de reconnaissance du " Qu?bec comme soci?t? distincte au sein du Canada ". Miao, Jun Analyses textom?triques de corpus parall?les fran?ais-chinois : " l'Aube " de Jean-Christophe et ses trois traductions chinoises Ji, Meng Statistical Exploration of Situational Parameters for Style Variation in Translation 16h20 - 16h50 Short Presentations : Posters, Softwares (Amphith??tre) 16h50 - 17h30 Coffee Break, Poster Session, Software Demonstrations 17h30 - 18h50 Parallel sessions 15&16 Session 15. Critical Editing (Room F08) Csernel, Marc ; Patte, Fran?ois Elaboration d'?dition critique de textes Sanskrit Le Pouliquen, Marc ; Barth?lemy, Jean-Pierre Probl?me de la contamination dans le cadre de l'?dition critique Bestgen, Yves Une proc?dure de comparaison de textes bas?e sur les quasi-segments : application ? la traduction de r??ditions Fleury, Serge ; Zimina, Maria Utilisations de mkAlign pour la traduction philologique Session 16. Style, Diachrony (Room F106) Ablali, Driss ; Kastberg Sj?blom, Margareta Exploration morpho-s?mantique en corpus. Les formes du genre de l'article scientifique en sciences humaines Czellar, Judith Les techniques de Q-sums et de Multidimensional Scaling appliqu?es ? l'?tude de la stabilit? de l'?criture au cours de la vie : le cas de George Sand Aureli, Enrica ; Cristofori, Fabrizio ; Iezzi, Domenica Fioredistella On-Line Forums: a window on language evolution Chabot, Joceline ; Kasparian, Sylvia ; Desjardins, Philippe Les mots pour le dire. Analyse d'un corpus de presse canadienne fran?aise sur le g?nocide arm?nien (1915-1920) 20h30 - 23h00 Conference Banquet FRIDAY, MARCH 14TH 09h00 - 10h00 Parallel sessions 17&18 Session 17. Data Mining (Room F08) Peyrat-Guillard, Dominique Analyse du discours syndical sur l'entreprise : un rep?rage du processus de violation du contrat psychologique gr?ce au text mining Chen, Chaomei ; Ibekwe-SanJuan, Fidelia ; SanJuan, Eric ; Vogeley, Michael Identifying thematic variations in SDSS research Rompr?, Louis ; Biskri, Isma?l ; Meunier, Fran?ois La classification textuelle : un outil privil?gi? pour la classification de documents audio Session 18. Terminology and Translation (Room F106) Bertels, Ann S?mantique quantitative et corpus technique : des analyses statistiques aux interpr?tations linguistiques Maniez, Fran?ois Traduction automatique et ambigu?t? syntaxique : le cas de la coordination dans les groupes nominaux complexes en anglais m?dical Kraif, Olivier Comment allier la puissance du TAL et la simplicit? d'utilisation ? l'exemple du concordancier bilingue ConcQuest 10h00 - 10h30 Short Presentations : Posters, Softwares (Amphith??tre) 10h30 - 11h15 Coffee Break, Poster Session, Software Demonstrations 11h15 - 12h00 Invited Talk : Jean-Michel Sala?n (Amphith??tre) 12h00 - 13h00 Parallel sessions 19&20 Session 19. Information Retrieval (Room F08) Savoy, Jacques ; Dolamic, Ljiljana Variations autour de tf idf et du moteur Lucene Truong, Quoc Dinh ; Dkaki, Taoufiq ; Mothe, Josiane ; Charre, Pierre-Jean Information retrieval model based on graph comparison Boulaknadel, Siham ; Daille, B?atrice ; Driss, Aboutajdine Utilisation des termes complexes dans un syst?me de recherche d'information en langue arabe Session 20. Spoken Language Corpora (Room F106) Rossi, Caroline ; Morgenstern, Aliyah Outils et m?thodes de recherche en acquisition du langage : de la compl?mentarit? entre statistiques et analyse linguistique Maricchiolo, Fridanna ; Giuliano, Luca ; Boniauto, Marino Parole e gesti nell'analisi automatica del testo: il caso dei faccia a faccia tra Berlusconi e Prodi (2006) Dister, Anne L'autocorrection imm?diate en fran?ais parl? : le cas des d?terminants 13h00 - 15h00 Lunch 15h00 - 16h00 Parallel sessions 21&22 Session 21. Alignment - New Forms of Textuality (Room F08) Gerdes, Kim L'alignement pour les pauvres : adapter la bonne m?trique pour un algorithme dynamique de dilatation temporelle pour l'alignement sans ressources de corpus bilingues Beaufort, Richard ; Fairon, C?drick ; Roekhaut, Sophie D?finition d'un syst?me d'alignement SMS/fran?ais standard ? l'aide d'un filtre de composition Lavergne, Thomas Taxonomie de textes peu-naturels Session 22. Text Classification (Room F106) Wei, Zhihua ; Chauchat, Jean-Hugues ; Miao Duoqian Comparing different text representation and feature selection methods on Chinese text classification using character n-grams Macchia, Stefania ; Murgia, Manuela ; Talucci, Valentina Coding the spoken language through the integration of different approaches of textual analysis B?chet, Nicolas ; Roche, Mathieu ; Chauch?, Jacques ExpLSA et classification de textes 16h00 - 16h30 Closure of Conference (Amphith??tre) * Program Committee Ramon Alvarez, Univ. de Leon, Esp. Harald Baayen, Univ. de Nim?gue, PB Simona Balbi, Univ. de Naples, It Val?rie Baudouin France-telecom R&D, Paris, Fr Monica B?cue, Univ. Polyt.de Catalunya, Esp Sergio Bolasco, Univ. de Roma 'La Sapienza', It ?tienne Brunet, Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Fr Lou Burnard, Univ. Oxford, RU Claude Cond?, Univ. de Franche Comt?, Fr Fran?ois Daoust, UQ?M, Ca Anne Dister, UCLouvain, Be Jules Duchastel, UQ?M, Ca Serge Fleury, Univ. Paris 3, Fr C?drick Fairon, UCLouvain, Be Beno?t Habert, ENS-LSH, Lyon, Fr Serge Heiden, ENS-LSH, Lyon, Fr Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST, Paris, Fr (president) Alain Lelu, Univ. de Franche Comt?, Fr Damon Mayaffre, CNRS, Nice, Fr Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, Fr Denis Moni?re, Univ. de Montr?al, Ca B?n?dicte Pincemin, CNRS, Lyon, Fr G?rald Purnelle, Univ. de Li?ge, Be Martin Rajman, EPFL, Lausanne, CH Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. de Versailles SQY, Fr Andr? Salem, Univ. Paris 3, Fr Pascale S?billot, IRISA, Insa de Rennes, Fr Max Silberztein, Univ. de Franche Comt?, Fr Jean-Marie Viprey, Univ. de Franche Comt?, Fr * Organisation Committee Serge Heiden B?n?dicte Pincemin Afifa Zenati Rapha?l Tournoy Alexis Lavrentiev C?line Guillot Marie-H?l?ne Lay Liliane Vosghanian Bruno Courbon * Informations and Contact web site: http://www.jadt.org/ mail: jadt2008 at ens-lsh.fr postal address: Serge Heiden, JADT 2008 Laboratoire ICAR - ENS-LSH 15 parvis Ren? Descartes - BP7000 69342 Lyon Cedex 07 FRANCE phone: +33 (0)4 37 37 63 12 ; fax: +33 (0)4 37 37 62 65 ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 29 15:47:19 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:47:19 +0100 Subject: Journee: La synchronie dans les échanges e n ligne. 27 mars 2008 (et diffusion sur internet) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:24:42 +0100 From: "Nicolas GUICHON" Message-ID: <000001c8618f$a1cc7d90$0a01a8c0 at DH9MBR0J> X-url: http://w1.ens-lsh.fr/labo/plumme/index.htm X-url: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/nicolas.guichon X-url: http://sites.univ-lyon2.fr/cooplang/ L'?quipe Plurilinguisme et Multim?dia (Laboratoire ICAR - Universit? de Lyon 2) organise sa 6?me journ?e d'?tude le 27 mars 2008 ? l'ENS-LSH de Lyon (Amphith??tre Kantor) et en diffusion en direct sur Internet de 9 h ? 17 h. Cette journ?e est intitul?e "La synchronie dans les ?changes en ligne". Les conf?renciers invit?s : * Julia Velkovska (Orange Labs, Laboratoire SENSe) * Charlotte Dejean-Thircuir (Universit? du Mans, LIUM) * Isabelle Pierozak (Universit? de Picardie Jules Verne, LESCLaP / DYNADIV) * Christine Develotte (INRP), Rick Kern (UC Berkeley) et Desiree Pries (UC Berkeley) Pour toute information sur la probl?matique de la journ?e, le r?sum? des conf?rences et les d?tails techniques pour suivre la journ?e en ligne, merci de visiter le site : http://w1.ens-lsh.fr/labo/plumme/index.htm Nicolas Guichon Centre de Langues de Lyon 2 -Laboratoire ICAR, UMR 5191 page perso : http://pagesperso-orange.fr/nicolas.guichon http://pagesperso-orange.fr/nicolas.guichon http://sites.univ-lyon2.fr/cooplang/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 29 15:55:15 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:55:15 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop on EMOTION (LREC 2008) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:53:38 +0100 (CET) From: devil at limsi.fr Message-ID: <57362.82.226.167.38.1201596818.squirrel at keo.limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ X-url: http://emotion-research.net/ X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/devil/ X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/ X-url: http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/teaching/cowie/index.aspx X-url: http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/staff/douglas-cowie/ X-url: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Personen/batliner/ ******************************************************************** Second call for Papers Second International Workshop on EMOTION (satellite of LREC): CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT Monday, 26 May 2008 Palais des Congr?s Mansour Eddahbi in Marrakech (Morocco) In Association with 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC2008 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ Main Conference 28-29-30 May 2008 ********************************************************************** This decade has seen an upsurge of interest in systems that register emotion (in a broad sense) and react appropriately to it. Emotion corpora are fundamental both to developing sound conceptual analyses and to training these 'emotion-oriented systems' at all levels - to recognise user emotion, to express appropriate emotions, to anticipate how a user in one state might respond to a possible kind of reaction from the machine, etc. Corpora have only begun to grow with the area, and much work is needed before they provide a sound foundation. This workshop follows a first successful workshop on Corpora for research on Emotion and Affect at LREC 2006. The HUMAINE network of excellence (http://emotion-research.net/) has brought together several groups working on the development of emotional databases, the HUMAINE association will continue this effort and the workshop aims to broaden the interaction that has developed in that context. The HUMAINE Association portal will provide a range of services for individuals, such as a web presence, access to data, and an email news service; special interest groups will be provided with a working folder, a mailing list, and a discussion forum or a blog. Conferences, workshops and research projects in the area of emotion-oriented computing can be given a web presence on the portal. Papers are invited in the area of corpora for research on emotion and affect. They may raise one or more of the following questions. What kind of theory of emotion is needed to guide the area? What are appropriate sources? Which modalities should be considered, in which combinations? What are the realistic constraints on recording quality? How can the emotional content of episodes be described within a corpus? Which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how? How should access to corpora be provided? What level of standardisation is appropriate? How can quality be assessed? Ethical issues in database development and access. Description of the specific technical issues of the workshop: Many models of emotion are common enough to affect the way teams go about collecting and describing emotion-related data. Some which are familiar and intuitively appealing are known to be problematic, either because they are theoretically dated or because they do not transfer to practical contexts. To evaluate the resources that are already available, and to construct valid new corpora, research teams need some sense of the models that are relevant to the area. - What are appropriate sources? In the area of emotion, some of the hardest problems involve acquiring basic data. Four main types of source are commonly used. Their potential contributions and limitations need to be understood. - Acted: Many widely used emotion databases consist of acted representations of emotion (which may or may not be generated by actors). The method is extremely convenient, but it is known that systems trained on acted material may not transfer to natural emotion. It has to be established what kind of acted material is useful for what purposes. - Application-driven: A growing range of databases are derived from specific applications (eg call centres). These are ideal for some purposes, but access is often restricted for commercial reasons, and it is highly desirable to have more generic material that could underpin work on a wide range of applications.. - General naturalistic: Data that is representative of everyday life is an attractive ideal, but very difficult to collect. Making special-purpose recordings of everyday life is a massive task, with the risk that recording changes behaviour. Several teams have used material from broadcasts, radio & TV (talk shows, current affairs). That raises issues of access, signal quality, and genuineness. - Induction: A natural ideal is to induce emotion of appropriate kinds under appropriate circumstances. Satisfying induction is an elusive ideal, but new techniques are gradually emerging. - Which modalities should be considered, in which combinations? Emotion is reflected in multiple channels - linguistic content, paralinguistic expression, facial expression, eye movement, gesture, gross body movement, manner of action, visceral changes (heart rate, etc), brain states (eeg activity, etc). The obvious ideal is to cover all simultaneously, but that is impractical - and it is not clear how often all the channels are actually active. The community needs to clarify the relative usefulness of the channels, and of strategies for sampling combinations. - What are the realistic constraints on recording quality? Naturalism tends to be at odds with ease of signal processing. Understanding of the relevant tradeoffs needs to be reached. That includes awareness of different applications (high quality may not be crucial for defining the expressive behaviours a virtual agent should show) and of timescale for solving particular signal processing issues(eg recovering features from images of heads in arbitrary poses). - How can the emotional content of episodes be described within a corpus? Several broad approaches exist to transcribing the emotional content of an excerpt - using everyday emotion words; using dimensional descriptions rooted in psychological theory (intensity, evaluation, activation, power); using concepts from appraisal theory (perceived goal-conduciveness of a development, potential for coping, etc). These are being developed in specific ways driven by goals such as elegance, inter-rater reliability, and faithfulness to the subtlety of everyday emotion, relevance to agent decisions, etc. There seems to be a real prospect of achieving an agreed synthesis of the main schemes. - Which emotion-related features should a corpus describe, and how? Corresponding to each emotion-related channel is one or more sets of signs relevant to conveying emotion. For instance, paralinguistic signs exist at the level of basic features - F0, intensity, formant-related properties, and so on; at the level of linguistic features of prosody ; and at more global levels (tune shapes, repetitions, etc). Even for speech, inventories of relevant signs need to be developed, and for channels such as idle body movements, few descriptive systems have been proposed. Few teams have the expertise to annotate many types of sign competently, and so it is important to establish ways of allowing teams that do have the expertise to make their annotations available as part of a database. Mainly for lower level features, automatic transcription methods exist, and their role needs to be clarified. In particular, tests of their reliability are needed, and that depends on data that can serve as a reference. - How should access to corpora be provided? Practically, it is clearly important to find ways of establishing a sustainable and easily expandable multi-modal database for any sorts of emotion-related data; to develop tools for easily importing and exporting data; to develop analysis tools and application programmers - interfaces to work on the stored data and meta-data; and to provide ready access to existing data from previous projects. Approaches to those goals need to be defined. - What level of standardisation is appropriate? Standardisation is clearly desirable in the long term, but with so many basic issues unresolved, it is not clear where real consensus can be achieved and where it is better to encourage competition among different options. - How can quality be assessed? It is clear that some existing corpora should not be used for serious research. The problem is to develop quality assurance procedures that can direct potential users toward those which can. - Ethical issues in database development and access Corpora that show people behaving emotionally are very likely to raise ethical issues - not simply about signed release forms, but about the impact of appearing in a public forum talking (for instance) about topics that distress or excite them. Adequate guidelines need to be developed. All of the questions above will be studied during the workshop and will contribute to the study of practical, methodological and technical issues central to developing emotional corpora (such as the methodologies to be used for emotional database creation, the coding schemes to be defined, the technical settings to be used for the collection, the selection of appropriate coders). The organising committee: Laurence Devillers / Jean-Claude Martin Spoken Language Processing group/ Architectures and Models for Interaction, LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403 Orsay Cedex, France (+33) 1 69 85 80 62 / (+33) 1 69 85 81 04 (phone) (+33) 1 69 85 80 88 / (+33) 1 69 85 80 88 (fax) devil at limsi.fr / martin at limsi.fr http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/devil/ http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/ Roddy Cowie / School of Psychology Ellen Douglas-Cowie / Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK +44 2890 974354 / +44 2890 975348 (phone) +44 2890 664144 / +44 2890 ****** (fax) http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk/staff/teaching/cowie/index.aspx http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/staff/douglas-cowie/ r.cowie at qub.ac.uk / e.douglas-Cowie at qub.ac.uk Anton Batliner - Lehrstuhl fuer Mustererkennung (Informatik 5) Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg - Martensstrasse 3 91058 Erlangen - F.R. of Germany Tel.: +49 9131 85 27823 - Fax.: +49 9131 303811 batliner at informatik.uni-erlangen.de http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Personen/batliner/ Contact: Laurence Devillers lrec-emotion at limsi.fr ------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- 1rt call for paper 21 December 2nd call for paper 29 January Deadline for 1500-2000 words abstract submission 12 February Notification of acceptance 12 March Final version of accepted paper 4 April Workshop full-day 26 May -------------- SUBMISSIONS --------------- The workshop will consist of paper and poster presentations. Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster must consist of about 1500-2000 words. Final submissions should be 4 pages long, must be in English, and follow the submission guidelines at LREC2008. The preferred format is MS word or pdf. The file should be submitted via email to lrec-emotion at limsi.fr ----------------------------- As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send to lrec-emotion at limsi..fr a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submissions. Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. Submitted papers will be blind reviewed. -------------------------------------------------- TIME SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION FEE -------------------------------------------------- The workshop will consist of a full-day session, There will be time for collective discussions. For this full-day Workshop, the registration fee will be specified on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jan 29 15:51:45 2008 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:51:45 +0100 Subject: Appel: EMUS - satellite event of Speech Prosody, Campinas 2008 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:40:34 +0100 From: Greg Beller Message-ID: <479DBF32.9000608 at ircam.fr> X-url: http://www.sp2008.org/events.php X-url: http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/EMUS X-url: http://www.sp2008.org/events/EMUS-conferences.pdf ================================================================== Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. ================================================================== 2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS : NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE : February 17th, 2008 Prosody and expressivity in speech and music Satellite Event around Speech Prosody 2008 / First EMUS Conference - Expressivity in MUsic and Speech http://www.sp2008.org/events.php / http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/EMUS Campinas, Brazil, May 5th, 2008 [Abstract submission deadline: February 17th, 2008] Keywords: emotion, expressivity, prosody, music, acquisition, perception, production, interpretation, cognitive sciences, neurosciences, acoustic analysis. DESCRIPTION: Speech and music conceal a treasure of "expressive potential" for they can activate sequences of varied emotional experiences in the listener. Beyond their semiotic differences, speech and music share acoustic features such as duration, intensity, and pitch, and have their own internal organization, with their own rhythms, colors, timbres and tones. The aim of this workshop is to question the connections between various forms of expressivity, and the prosodic and gestural dimensions in the spheres of music and speech. We will first tackle the links between speech and music through enaction and embodied cognition. We will then work on computer modelling for speech and music synthesis. The third part will focus on musicological and aesthetic perspectives. We will end the workshop with a round table in order to create a dialogue between the various angles used to apprehend prosody and expressivity in both speech and music. FRAMEWORK: This workshop will be the starting point of a string of events on the relations between language and music: May 16th: Prosody, Babbling and Music (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon) June 17-18th: Prosody of Expressivity in Music and Speech (IRCAM, Paris) September 25th and 26th: Semiotics and microgenesis of verbal and musical forms (RISC, Paris). Our aim is to make links between several fields of research and create a community interested in the relations between music and language. The project will be materialized in a final publication of the keynote papers of those four events. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: The workshop will host about ten posters. Authors should submit an extended abstract to: beller at ircam.fr in pdf format by January 30, 2008. We will send an email confirming the reception of the submission. The suggested abstract length is maximum 1 page, formatted in standard style. The authors of the accepted abstracts will be allocated as poster highlights. Time will be allocated in the programme for poster presentations and discussions. Before the workshop, the extended abstracts (maximum 4 pages) will be made available to a broader audience on the workshop web site. We also plan to maintain the web page after the workshop and encourage the authors to submit slides and posters with relevant links to their personal web pages. KEY DATES: Dec 10: Workshop announcement and Call for Abstracts Jan 30: Abstract submission deadline Feb 17: New submission deadline Mar 28: Notification of acceptance Apr 25: Final extended abstracts due May 5: Workshop SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Christophe d'Alessandro (LIMSI, Orsay); Antoine Auchlin (University of Geneva, Linguistics Department); Gr?gory Beller (IRCAM); Nick Campbell (ATR, Nara); Anne Lacheret (MODYCO, Nanterre University) ; Sandra Madureira (PUC-SP); Aliyah Morgenstern (ICAR, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines) ; Nicolas Obin (IRCAM) ORGANISERS: - University of Geneva, Linguistics Department (Antoine Auchlin) - IRCAM (Gr?gory Beller and Nicolas Obin) - MODYCO, Nanterre University (Anne Lacheret) - ICAR, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Aliyah Morgenstern) CONTACT : For questions/ suggestions about the workshop, please contact beller at ircam.fr Please refer to http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/EMUS for up-to-date information about the workshop. 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