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Subject: Appel: Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'12: July
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Dear Artificial Intelligence community:
Please share the appended announcement with those who may be interested.
Thank you very much.

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                           CALL  FOR  PAPERS

                                ICAI'12
                  The 2012 International Conference on
                        Artificial Intelligence

                    July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
======================================================================

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each paper. The proceedings of the congress that ICAI is part of, enjoys
a high number of citations; over 25,000 citations so far.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 26, 2012:    Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012:  The 2012 International Conference on Artificial
                   Intelligence (ICAI'12)

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

-  Brain models / cognitive science
-  Natural language processing
-  Fuzzy logic and soft computing
-  Software tools for AI
-  Expert systems
-  Decision support systems
-  Automated problem solving
-  Knowledge discovery
-  Knowledge representation
-  Knowledge acquisition
-  Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
-  Knowledge networks and management
-  Intelligent information systems
-  Intelligent data mining and farming
-  Intelligent web-based business
-  Intelligent agents
-  Intelligent networks
-  Intelligent databases
-  Intelligent user interface
-  AI and evolutionary algorithms
-  Intelligent tutoring systems
-  Reasoning strategies
-  Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
-  Distributed AI systems and architectures
-  Neural networks and applications
-  Heuristic searching methods
-  Languages and programming techniques for AI
-  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
-  Intelligent information fusion
-  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
-  Search and meta-heuristics
-  Swarm Optimization
-  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
-  Integration of AI with other technologies
-  Evaluation of AI tools
-  Social intelligence (markets and computational societies)
-  Social impact of AI
-  Emerging technologies
-  Topics on satisfiability
-  Applications (including: computer vision, signal processing,
   military, surveillance, robotics, medicine, pattern recognition,
   face recognition, finger print recognition, finance and
   marketing, stock market, education, emerging applications, ...)

-  Workshop on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications:

   - General Machine Learning Theory
     . Statistical learning theory
     . Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
     . Multivariate analysis
     . Hierarchical learning models
     . Relational learning models
     . Bayesian methods
     . Meta learning
     . Stochastic optimization
     . Topics on satisfiability
     . Simulated annealing
     . Heuristic optimization techniques
     . Neural networks
     . Reinforcement learning
     . Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
     . General Learning models
     . Multiple hypothesis testing
     . Decision making
     . Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
     . Non-parametric methods
     . Graphical models
     . Gaussian graphical models
     . Particle filter
     . Cross-Entropy method
     . Ant colony optimization
     . Time series prediction
     . Fuzzy logic and learning
     . Inductive learning and applications
     . Grammatical inference

   - General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques
     . Graph kernel and graph distance methods
     . Graph-based semi-supervised learning
     . Graph clustering
     . Graph learning based on graph transformations
     . Graph learning based on graph grammars
     . Graph learning based on graph matching
     . General theoretical aspects of graph learning
     . Statistical modeling of graphs
     . Information-theoretical approaches to graphs
     . Motif search
     . Network inference
     . General issues in graph and tree mining

   - Machine Learning Applications
     . Aspects of knowledge structures
     . Computational Finance
     . Computational Intelligence
     . Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
     . Induction of document grammars
     . Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data
     . General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval,
       web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining
     . Latent semantic analysis
     . Aspects of natural language processing
     . Intelligent linguistic
     . Aspects of text technology
     . Computational vision
     . Bioinformatics and computational biology
     . Biostatistics
     . High-throughput data analysis
     . Biological network analysis: protein-protein networks, signaling
       networks, metabolic networks, transcriptional regulatory networks
     . Graph-based models in biostatistics
     . Computational Neuroscience
     . Computational Chemistry
     . Computational Statistics
     . Systems Biology
     . Algebraic Biology


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org Submissions must be
uploaded by March 12, 2012 and they must be in either MS doc or pdf
formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references -
single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats
are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for
publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or
currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the
paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal
address, and email address for each author. The first page should also
identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical
keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of
the conference (ie, ICAI) that the paper is being submitted for
consideration must be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a
100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final Camera-Ready papers
(if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of
contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using
a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors
include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated
using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers
will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting. At this
point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work
(ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not
suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)

Proceedings of ICAI will be published in printed conference books (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center
for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core
scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals;
only about 9% are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among
the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID,
Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others. Though, there
is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in EI
Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the track that ICAI belonged
to was included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending
the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. The
printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at
the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will
be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication
in a number of research books contracted with various publishers. These
books will be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks
will be forming journal special issues to be published after the
conference.

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same
instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS)
except for the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the
author should state that "This paper is being submitted as a
poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published if and only the
author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

The ICAI conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the
largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more
attendees from over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed of
research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials,
panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/
tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer,
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as
Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of
Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos
available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a
diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for
cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. 56223


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC co-sponsors of the last offering
of the congress (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated
with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard
University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of
Texas at Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University
of Siegen; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research,
Austria; University of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia;
University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others. CORPORATE
Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list): Intel
Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for
Nanotechnology (HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent
Biological Medicine; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and
Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; UK
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Scientific
Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without Boundaries; and
others.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

The proceedings of WORLDCOMP enjoys a high number of citations (ICAI is
an important part of WORLDCOMP). As of February 28, 2012, papers
published in each track of the proceedings have received the following
number of citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP papers; 116 to CDES
papers; 65 to CGVR papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to DMIN papers; 69 to
EEE papers; 1289 to ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers; 176 to FCS papers;
9416 to FECS papers; 157 to GCA papers; 75 to GEM papers; 2277 to ICAI
papers; 1539 to ICOMP papers; 1247 to ICWN papers; 571 to IKE papers;
255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV papers; 5239 to PDPTA papers; 496 to SAM
papers; 1390 to SERP papers; and 177 to SWWS papers. In total, over
25,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the
proceedings of WORLDCOMP conferences.


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. Web site of ICAI'12:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/icai12
2. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at:
   http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
3. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct
   as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this
   announcement supersedes earlier ones.

CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: editor at world-comp.org

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sun Mar  4 16:49:43 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:49:43 +0100
Subject: Info: Only for Computational Linguistics Enthusiasts
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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:27:33 +0100
From: Marta Ruiz <martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com>
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Dear Computational Linguistics Enthusiast,

As you already know, ACL will be celebrating this year its 50th Annual
Meeting in the beautiful island of Jeju, in Korea. Half a century
already!

For this once-in-a-lifetime celebration we are organizing a special
workshop on “Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries”. You can visit our
workshop’s website to check out for the last updates and initiatives
regarding the event: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/

At this time we would like to invite you to participate in our “Wisdom
of Crowds” challenge for reviewing the past and predicting the future of
Computational Linguistics. You just need to complete a survey (
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/accounts/login/?next=/r50/survey/)
for which you first need to complete a quick registration (
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/accounts/register/) to receive
your Survey Validation Code.

Also, we would like to remind you that there is still some time left in
case you are considering submitting a technical contribution in any of
the three available categories: Review and Discussion, Empirical Work
and Contributed Task. For more info on this, please visit
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/cfp/

Best regards

The organizing committee

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sun Mar  4 16:54:33 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:54:33 +0100
Subject: Livre: Breaking the Language Barrier: A Game-Changing (ebook)
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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:57:47 +0800
From: Ziyuan Yao <yaoziyuan at gmail.com>
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Dear All,

I'm pleased to announce my free ebook "Breaking the Language Barrier: A
Game-Changing Approach", version 0.18. The ebook has undergone
significant updates since its initial release (version 0.09 in April
2010). Almost every part has significant new developments, so I suggest
existing readers take it anew.

Perhaps nothing can explain this ebook better than its own Overview and
Table of Contents, which are attached below.

View or download it (free) from:
https://sites.google.com/site/yaoziyuan/publications/books/breaking-the-language-barrier-a-game-changing-approach

Best Regards,
Ziyuan Yao
https://sites.google.com/site/yaoziyuan/

# # # # #

Overview

In today's world, the goal of breaking the language barrier is pursued
on two fronts: language teachers teaching students a second language,
thus enabling humans to manually break the language barrier, and
computational linguists building increasingly better machine translation
systems to automatically break the language barrier.

However, I see important, unfulfilled opportunities on both fronts:

In second language teaching, amazingly efficient teaching methods have
not gone mainstream and not drawn enough attention from computational
linguists (so that these methods could be automated and truly
powerful). For example, imagine if you're browsing a Web page in your
native language, and a Web browser extension automatically detects the
topic of this page and inserts relevant foreign language micro-lessons
in it, so that you can incidentally learn a foreign language while
browsing interesting native language information :-) This AdSense-like
"L1-driven L2 teaching" will be the future of second language teaching.

In machine translation, computational linguists only pay attention to
computer capabilities to process natural language (known as natural
language processing, NLP), and totally ignore human capabilities to
share some burden from the computer in language processing, which can
lead to significantly better results. For example, theory and practice
have proven that syntax disambiguation is a much harder task than word
sense disambiguation, and therefore machine translation tends to screw
up the word order of the translation result if the language pair has
disparate word orders; but what if machine translation preserves the
source language's word order in the translation result, and teaches the
end user about the source language's word order so that he can manually
figure out the logic of the translation result? If the end user is
willing to commit some of his own natural intelligence in the
man-machine joint effort to break the language barrier, he will get the
job done better.

Therefore this ebook presents emerging ideas and implementations in
computer-assisted language learning (CALL), reading, writing and machine
translation (MT) that strive to leverage both human and machine language
processing potential and capabilities, and will redefine the way people
break the language barrier.

Approaches whose titles have an exclamation mark (!) are stirring
game-changing technologies which are the driving forces behind this
initiative.

# # # # #

Table of Contents

Overview    3
Chapter 1: Breaking the Language Barrier with Language Learning    4
1.1. Foreign Language Acquisition    4
1.1.1. L1-Driven L2 Teaching! (L1DL2T)    4
1.1.1.1. The Idea    4
1.1.1.2. Historical Developments    6
1.1.1.3. An Example System Design    8
1.1.1.3.1. Overview    8
1.1.1.3.2. ATLAS Mission Profiles    9
1.1.1.3.3. ATLAS User Profiles    15
1.1.1.3.4. Data Acquisition Strategies    16
1.1.2. Word Mnemonics    17
1.1.2.1. Essential Mnemonics    17
1.1.2.1.1. Phonetically Intuitive English! (PIE)    18
1.1.2.1.2. Etymology and Free Association    21
1.1.2.1.3. Why Are They Essential? A Proof    22
1.1.2.2. Other Mnemonics    23
1.1.2.2.1. Orthographically Intuitive English (OIE)    23
1.1.2.2.2. Progressive Word Acquisition (PWA)    24
1.1.2.3. Principles Learned    25
1.2. Foreign Language Writing Aids    26
1.2.1. Predictive vs. Corrective Writing Aids    26
1.2.2. Input-Driven Syntax Aid! (IDSA)    26
1.2.3. Input-Driven Ontology Aid! (IDOA)    27
1.3. Foreign Language Reading Aids    27
Chapter 2: Breaking the Language Barrier with Little Learning    29
2.1. Foreign Language Understanding    29
2.1.1. Syntax-Preserving Machine Translation! (SPMT)    29
2.2. Foreign Language Generation    31
2.2.1. Formal Language Machine Translation! (FLMT)    32

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sun Mar  4 17:01:51 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:01:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: CTF 2012
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:51:27 +0100
From: Timm Lichte <lichte at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de>
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Second call for papers

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International Interdisciplinary Conference
"Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science" (CTF'12)
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Düsseldorf (GER), August 22-24, 2012
http://www.sfb991.uni-duesseldorf.de/concept-types-and-frames-in-language-cognition-and-science/

Organized and financed by
DFG Collaborative Research Centre CRC 991/SFB 991
"The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science"
http://www.sfb991.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/sfb991/

Aims and scope
---------------
A sequel to CTF'07 and CTF'09, CTF'12 is the third interdisciplinary
conference to contribute to the development of a general frame theory of
human concepts. The conference explores the application of frames in
linguistics and other sciences. It discusses foundational issues for the
development of a theory of frames from the perspectives of general and
computational linguistics, mathematics, cognitive psychology, cognitive
neuroscience, ontology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

Invited speakers
-----------------
Hanne Andersen
Lawrence Barsalou
John Beavers
Walter Bisang
Jean Mandler
Ivan Sag
John Sowa
Rolf Zwaan

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Frames
-------
CTF'12 explores fundamental aspects of a formal theory of frames
understood as recursive attribute-value structures with functional
attributes. The aspects include representation and model-theoretic
interpretation, attributes and value types, and appropriate frame
structures for different types of concepts. A special focus will be on
dynamic aspects of frame theory: modeling dynamic frame components for
event and process frames; exploring operations on frames such as type
shifts and frame composition.

Cognition
----------
CTF'12 explores empirical evidence for and consequences of the frame
approach. It addresses the distinction of types of concepts, in
particular relational and functional nominal concepts. Major topics
include the grounding of concepts in the sensory-motor system and
dynamic aspects of concept formation.

Language
---------
CTF'12 explores the application of a formalized theory of frames at  
various levels of linguistic description: lexical semantics of the  
different conceptual types of nouns and verbs, deep lexical  
decomposition, semantics of word formation, the syntax-semantics  
interface, syntactic and semantic composition, and anaphora and  
coherence in discourse.

Science
--------
CTF'12 explores the applications of the frame approach in various fields
of institutional categorization: e.g., the evolution of the frame notion
in the history of philosophy; scientific frames and paradigm shifts;
frames for legal concepts; frames in applied ontology; a frame model of
the mind; and frame description of psychiatric disorders.

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Important dates
----------------
Submission of abstracts (600-800 words): March 15
Notification of acceptance: May 30

Submission site
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https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ctf12

Publication details
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The post-proceedings will be published by Düsseldorf University Press  
with open online access.

Programme committee
--------------------
Sebastian Löbner (general chair), Rainer Osswald, Gottfried Vosgerau

Organizational committee
-------------------------
Dorothea Brenner, David Hommen, Timm Lichte, Daniel Schulzek

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Topics for the CTF'12

Language
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noun types and determination
- definiteness and indefiniteness
- possession
- usage
- processing
- grammaticalization

conceptual shifts of noun meanings
- shifts and coercion
- diachronic shifts

decompositional frames for verbs and the syntax-semantics interface
- verb classes in terms of frame types
- verbal concepts and linking
- construction-based decomposition of verb meanings
- aspectual composition

decompositional frames for nouns
- frame analysis of legal terms
- affordance attributes in noun frames and qualia

syntactic and semantic composition
- nominal concept types in the theory of semantic composition
- semantic composition in terms of frames
- syntax-driven frame composition

frames in the semantics of word-formation
- nominal compounding as frame combination
- deverbal nouns as the result of frame transformation

frames in discourse
- frames and associative anaphora
- the role of frames in discourse coherence

Science
--------
concepts
- emergence of the modern frame notion of concepts
- architecture of the mind
- the role of function in object categorization

frame analysis in institutional categorization
- frames and paradigm shifts
- frame analysis of legal concepts
- frame analysis of psychiatric disorders
- frame analysis in other scientific fields

concept types and frames in ontology
- attributes in ontology
- relations and functions in ontology
- formal approaches to ontology using functional relations

Cognition
----------
embodiment of concepts
- emergence of the modern frame notion of concepts
- grounding of verb meanings in the sensory-motor system
- affordances and the grounding of noun meanings in the sensory-motor
  system
- common coding and simulation
- frames and conceptual processing

types of concepts
- empirical evidence for different kinds of concepts
- cognitive representation of dynamic concepts, in particular verb
  meanings

neurocognition
- frames and conceptual processing
- neural correlates of attributes and frames
- computational modelling of concept formation

Frames
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elements of frame theory
- modelling the dynamics of verb meanings
- modelling general operations on frames
- modelling frame composition

frame-related spaces
- mathematical properties of value spaces
- mathematical properties of attribute spaces
- mathematical properties of frame spaces

large frame systems
- design and implementation

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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:04:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: TextGraphs-7 Workshop associated to ACL 2012
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:51:30 +0100
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                        SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

    TextGraphs-7: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
                   (http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12)

                           Special Theme:
    Understanding and Mining Social Media Using Graphs: Information
                 Propagation in Blogs and Tweets

                       Workshop of ACL 2012

             July 12, 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea

               Submission dealdine: March 18, 2012
========================================================================

(1) Workshop Description
(2) Workshop Submissions
(3) Important Dates
(4) Author Instructions
(5) Invited Speaker
(6) Poster Session
(7) Workshop Organisers
(8) Program Committee
(9) Contacts

==================================================
(1) Workshop Description
==================================================

Recent years have shown an increased interest in integrating various
aspects of the field of Graph Theory (GT) into Natural Language
Processing (NLP). Many language phenomena can be naturally put into
graph-based representations and in the last 5 years a significant number
of NLP applications adopted efficient and elegant solutions from graph
theoretical frameworks. These applications range from part-of- speech
tagging, word sense disambiguation, ontology learning and parsing to
information extraction, semantic role assignment, summarization and
sentiment analysis to name but a few. The emergence of new fields of
research focusing on the social media such as Twitter and Facebook
brought the graph-based methods even more into focus. In particular,
graph-based algorithms are used to explore social network connections
and propagation of information in those networks in addition to
exploring the connections between the language entities. As a
consequence, many new applications have been emerging such as rumor
proliferation, e-reputation, multiple identity detection, language
dynamics learning and future events prediction to name but a few.
TextGraphs-7 aims to bring together researchers interested in GT applied
to NLP and provide an environment for further integration of graph-based
solutions into NLP tasks. The workshop also encourages discussions about
theoretical justifications from GT that explain empirical results
obtained in the NLP community. As a consequence, a deeper understanding
of new theories of graph-based algorithms is likely to help to create
new approaches and widen the usage of graphs for NLP applications.

=================================================
(2) Workshop Submissions
=================================================

TextGraphs-7 will invite innovative submissions on the following, but
not limited to, three main topics:

Topic I: Graph-based methods for Information Retrieval, Information
Extraction and Text Mining
- Graph-based methods for word sense disambiguation,
- Graph-based representations for ontology learning,
- Graph-based strategies for semantic relations identification,
- Encoding semantic distances in graphs,
- Graph-based techniques for document navigation and visualization,
- and more subtopics;

Topic II: New graph-based methods for NLP applications
- Random walk methods in graphs,
- Spectral graph clustering,
- Semi-supervised graph-based methods,
- Methods and analyses for statistical networks,
- Small world graphs,
- Dynamic graph representations ,
- Topological and pretopological analysis of graphs,
- and more subtopics;

Topic III: Graph-based methods for applications on social networks
- Rumor proliferation,
- E-reputation,
- Multiple identity detection,
- Language dynamics studies,
- Surveillance systems,
- and more subtopics.

======================================================
(3) Important Dates
======================================================

Submission deadline: March 18, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: April 30, 2012
Workshop: July 12, 2012

====================================================
(4) Authors Instructions
====================================================

Submissions will consist of (1) regular full papers of maximum 8 pages
(for well established research), (2) regular short papers of maximum 4
pages (for on-going research), (3) position papers of maximum 4 pages
(for prospective ideas) and (4) demo papers of maximum 4 pages (for
software and architectures). One extra page will be accepted for the
Reference section for all submissions’ types.

Textgraphs-7 will have a blind review policy. In order to facilitate
blind reviewing, the authors should omit their names and affiliations
from the paper. Furthermore, all self-references that may reveal the
author identity must be avoided. Papers that do not conform to these
requirements will be rejected without review.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must be formatted using the
ACL 2012 Style Files available a http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp.

Papers should be submitted to the START Conference Manager available at
the following url: https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/textgraphs-7/.

=======================================================
(5) Invited Speaker
=======================================================

To be announced.

==================================================
(6) Poster Session
==================================================

Authors of accepted papers and demos will be able to present their work
on a poster in addition to the oral presentation. The posters will be
displayed in the workshop room all day and there will be a short poster
session in the workshop schedule.

==================================================
(7) Workshop Organisers
==================================================

Ahmed Hassan
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, United States
Phone: +14257222849,
Email: hassanam at microsoft.com

Gaël Dias
University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
Phone: +33231567487
Email: gael.dias at unicaen.fr

Irina Matveeva
Dieselpoint Inc., Chicago, United States
Phone: +17737047852
Email: imatveeva at dieselpoint.com

==================================================
(8) Program Committee
==================================================

Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Animesh Mukherjee, ISI Foundation, Italy
Antoine Widlöcher, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Arzucan Özgür, Istanbul University, Turkey
Bruno Crémilleux, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Chris Biemann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome, Italy
Gina-Anne Levow, University of Washington, USA
Guillaume Cleuziou, University of Orléans, France
Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research, USA
Patrik Pantel, Microsoft Research, USA
Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA
Philippe Muller, Paul Sabatier University, France
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
Swapna Somasundaran, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Torsten Zesch, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Uwe Quasthoff, University of Leipzig, Germany
Zornitsa Kozareva, ISI, University of Southern California, USA

====================================================
(9) Workshop Contacts
====================================================

For any question, please email us at textgraphs2012 at gmail.com or look at
the web site http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12

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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:06:31 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC 2012 - Registration is now OPEN!
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[Apologies for multiple postings]

The online registration to LREC 2012 is now open at 
*http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Registration- 
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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:09:57 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC 2012 Workshop,
 CoCo-FLaRE: Reinforcing International Collaboration on Language
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[Apologies for cross-postings]

CoCo-FLaRE: Reinforcing International Collaboration on Language 
Resources and Evaluation
A joint COCOSDA -- FLaReNet Workshop at LREC 2012
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
CALL for PARTICIPATION

Language Resources and Evaluation are gathering more and more momentum,
with the increasing success of the LREC conference and of the LRE
journal, and with new program initiatives flourishing in Europe
(FLaReNet, META-SHARE, CLARIN, etc.), as well as in other parts of the
world (TDIL, NHN, Language GRID, ALAGIN, BOLT, SILT etc.).

COCOSDA, the Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O
Systems Assessment, paved the way with its pioneering creation in 1991
to serve the international speech processing community.

Since then, COCOSDA continues to gather the international speech
community under its informal umbrella, while the European initiatives
extend their scope to language in general, through ELRA and LREC, and
Oriental COCOSDA fosters spoken language resources with an increasing
participation of Asian countries in its annual conferences. This 2012
workshop will be the occasion to share views on ways to reinforce
international collaboration in the field of Language Resources and
Evaluation at a time when data sharing is coming to the forefront of
science, in many different areas such as biology, astrophysics,
humanities, etc.
The workshop will comprise two parts: a morning session specifically
devoted to spoken language resources and evaluation, organized by
COCOSDA, and an afternoon session enlarging the scope to speech &
language in general. A final discussion will aim at proposing new
measures to increase and improve international collaboration and
coordination, in order to foster Language Resources and Evaluation.

The workshop is open to all interested parties at no charge, but
registration is mandatory. Those wishing to contribute topics at the
workshop are invited to contact the organizers by March 15th.

Organizers:
- Nicoletta Calzolari (glottolo at ilc.cnr.it) (Co-Chair)
- Dafydd Gibbon (gibbon at uni-bielefeld.de) (Co-Chair)
- Nick Campbell (nick at tcd.ie)
- Khalid Choukri (choukri at elda.org)
- Joseph Mariani (Joseph.Mariani at limsi.fr)

Morning session

"COCOSDA: New developments in multimodal resources and assessment"
This session will consist of regional and topical reports, with
discussion, by COCOSDA members and invited presenters. A central push
forward in multimodal speech research has come from the increasing
amount of work on the languages of smaller speech communities, resulting
in large amounts of new data from typologically very different languages
with very different sound inventories, prosody, grammar, and speech
dialogue conventions.

Tentative Schedule:
Introduction (D. Gibbon)

Part 1: Topical reports with a special emphasis on resources and 
evaluation for :
· speech interaction with robotic and virtual agents,
· types of multimodal systems,
· types of mobile systems,
· under-resourced languages.

Coffee break

Part 2: Regional reports
Presentations will summarize regional developments in Africa, the 
Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania in current major topic areas.

Part 3: Information exchange and discussion

Lunch Break

Afternoon session
"International collaboration and coordination on Language Resources and
Evaluation"

This session will be devoted to the various aspects of international 
collaboration on Language Resources and Evaluation such as:
· Charting the field
· Ensuring the best possible language coverage
· Fostering language resources
· Sharing language resources
· Identifying and tracking the resources
· Recognizing the merits of LR producers and LT evaluators
· Networking the community, etc.

It will rely on the activities conducted in this area in various part of 
the world, including the recent conclusions and recommendations of the 
FLaReNet project.

Tentative Schedule:
Introduction (N. Calzolari)

Part 1: Information and Instruments
· Charting the field
  LRE Map and Language Matrices, FLaReNet International Wiki survey and
  National
  Contact Points, META-NET Language White Papers and Tables, ...

· Ensuring the best possible language coverage
  Highlights of National Programs on LR, Endangered and local languages, ...

· Sharing Resources
  META-SHARE, Language Grid, NSF policy, the Language Library, ...

Coffee break

Part 2: Actions
· Fostering language resources
  The FLaReNet Strategic Language Resource Agenda

· Identifying and tracking resources
  The new ISLRN initiative

· Recognizing the merits of LR producers and LT evaluators
  Towards a Language Resource Impact Factor?

· Networking the community
  The LRE Forum

Part 3: General discussion: The way forward

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:14:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP),
 Deadline: 13th of March
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:48:22 +0100
From: Florin Isaila <florin at piojito.arcos.inf.uc3m.es>
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Second Call for Papers: Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP)
============================================================

Held in Conjunction with ACM HPDC'12, Delft, the Netherlands, June 18/19, 2012.


Workshop Theme

User-generated social media such as blogs, podcasts, shared photos and
videos, wikis, online gaming communities and online social networks have
grown to over half a billion users today. To exploit the massive amount
of social data exposed by such systems requires not only social network
analysis, but also large-scale image processing, video encoding, generic
information retrieval and management, knowledge mining and discovery,
building and matching user profiles for web advertising, etc. Processing
information about a world-wide, loosely-connected network of social
media users poses a diverse set of challenges, ranging from traditional
high-performance distributed computing topics (e.g., scalability,
elasticity, reliability) to domain-specific processing (e.g., methods
for big data analytics and graph mining at scale.)

The First Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP'12) solicits papers
that address the data management and processing challenges raised by
running and mining large-scale social media platforms from a systems and
infrastructure-oriented perspective. The workshop will be co-located
with ACM/IEEE HPDC [ http://www.hpdc.org/2012/ ] and will take place in
June 2012 in Delft, The Netherlands. SocMP'12 will bring together
researchers and practitioners in discussing and creating new knowledge
about the social media infrastructure and methods of the future.

Topics of Interest
The topics of interest for SocMP'12 include, but are not limited to:

* Techniques for the collection of social media data;
* System architectures for social media processing;
* Methods for Social Media pre-processing and processing;
* System architectures and methods for online or near-realtime social
  media processing;
* Methods for multi-source social media processing;
* Mechanisms that support specific data consistency models across
  multiple data centers;
* Business logic and programming models for social media processing
  systems;
* Autonomic management of social media processing systems;
* Green computing and sustainability in social media processing systems;
* Economic aspects of social media processing systems, in particular for
  third-party data processing;
* Benchmarks, workload characterization and modeling, and testbeds for
  designing and analyzing social media processing systems;
* Use cases, applications of social media processing (i.e., to science,
  engineering, and business), and experience with deployed artifacts
  focusing on the infrastructure;
* Mathematical and analytical tools for designing and analyzing social
  media processing systems;
* Simulation methods and tools for designing and analyzing social media
  processing systems.

Important Dates
* Submission deadline-March 13, 2012;
* Author notification deadline-after March 26, 2012;
* Camera-ready papers due-April 16, 2012;
* The SocMP'12 Workshop: June 18 or 19.


Organizing Committee, Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, Florida, USA. 
  Contact: anda at cse.usf.edu ,  http://www.cse.usf.edu/~anda/
* Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. 
  Contact: A.Iosup at tudelft.nl ,
  http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~iosup/research.html

Program Committee
* Pablo Cesar, CWI, the Netherlands
* Tyson Condie, Yahoo! Research, USA
* Anwitaman Datta, NTU Singapore, Singapore 
* Pawel Garbacki, Google, Mountain View Campus, USA
* Florin Isaila, U. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Sameh Elnikety, Microsoft Research, USA
* Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
* Anne Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, Rennes Campus, France
* Mayank Lahiri, Facebook, USA
* Jussara Marques de Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 6 pages in PDF
format, including figures, tables, and references. Papers should be
formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style [
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates ] and
submitted via the dedicated EasyChair-based web site [
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socmp2012 ].

All papers will receive at least three reviews. Accepted workshop papers
will appear in the HPDC conference proceedings and will be incorporated
in the ACM Digital Library.

Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is
not under consideration for another conference or journal. For more
details, see the ACM Prior Publication Policy [
http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/sim_submissions ].

More Information

For more information, check the workshop web site:
[ http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~iosup/socmp2012/index.html ]

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:16:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: GIRT
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:22:25 +0100
From: Mauro Gaio <mauro.gaio at univ-pau.fr>
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We are pleased to announce the Geographic Information Retrieval Tutorial
to be held at the AGILE conference, April 24th in Avignon (France).

Geographic Information Retrieval addresses the management of geographic
information locked in unstructured textual documents (current and
historic newspapers, social media and, increasingly, official
documents). The growing amount of unstructured data will increase with
open data initiatives, making this field even more important to our
society.

Furthermore, the wider availability of structured and partially
structured data (INSPIRE, Semantic Web, etc.) suggests a further set of
opportunities and challenges for GIR since these data are useful for the
GIR process.

The tutorial will be an opportunity for junior and senior academics
interested in the field of Geographic Information Retrieval to
participate in tutorials addressing key themes in the field, hear talks
addressing the state of the art, present their own work and participate
in a discussion on upcoming challenges in the field.


The proposed three main sessions will focus on theoretical background to
and practical worked examples on:
* Toponym grounding and footprint definition, facilitated by Jochen
  Leidner (Thomson-Reuters)
* Spatial and temporal indices and their influence on document ranking,
  facilitated by Chris Jones (Cardiff University)
* Evaluation strategies in GIR and their strengths and weaknesses,
  facilitated by Ross Purves (University of Zurich)


We also invite participants to submit 2 page abstracts describing work
in progress relevant to one of the three sessions. Abstracts should
describe the work and problems encountered therein.  We are particularly
interested in a discussion of challenges, and thus discourage submission
of finished work. Abstracts will be distributed to workshop participants
at the workshop, with time for a short presentation of the work and
discussion of key challenges for GIR. Please use ACM styles in preparing
your abstract
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

The abstracts should be sent to ross (dot) purves (at) geo (dot) uzh
(dot) ch

Note however that the key aim of the tutorial is to discuss basic
concepts, and abstract submission is neither required nor expected from
participants. Besides, participants are encouraged to bring their laptop
to take part to some hands on exercises during the tutorial.
 
Important dates:
- March 23rd: deadline for short paper submission
- April 2nd: notification of acceptance
- April 24th: tutorial

Organising committee: Ross Purves, Mauro Gaio, Bénédicte Bucher, Jochen
Leidner, Chris Jones, Damien Palacio.More information :
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~rsp/girt/index.html.

We hope to see you soon in Avignon.

Ross Purves, Mauro Gaio, Bénédicte Bucher

The registration is now open on the AGILE 2012 conference web site :
http://agile2012.imag.fr/index.php/registration.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:19:15 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC Workshop on Language Resources for Public Security
 Applications, May 27, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
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Date: Fri,  2 Mar 2012 23:02:46 +0100 (CET)
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Dear Colleagues,

Please do consider your participation in the LREC 2012 workshop on
"Language Resources for Public Security Applications, May 27, 2012,
Istanbul, Turkey". See the CFP text at
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/IMG/ws/programme/LREC2012_WS_LRPS.pdf
and do visit the conference site at http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/.

We will be happy to see you in Istanbul.

On behalf of the Program Committee
Zygmunt Vetulani

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:26:31 +0100
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Chers membres de la liste LN, 

Comme vous le savez, ATALA est une association de loi 1901 qui défend et
promeut le Traitement Automatique des Langues aussi bien au niveau
national qu'international.

La publication de la revue numérique TAL, 

Les journées d'étude de l'Atala avec accès gratuit, 

Les conférences annuelles TALN et RECITAL avec réduction pour les adhérents, 

La mise au point et la maintenance d'annuaires des formations en TAL,
des équipes de recherches, des outils, etc.,

La liste de diffusion LN et de discussion LN-Forum, 

sont autant d'activités menées bénévolement par les membres de
l'association.

Ces activités de diffusion scientifique sont toutefois coûteuses et les
rares subventions publiques ne suffisent pas à tout financer. Nous
comptons donc sur l'esprit associatif des adhérents et sur leurs
cotisations pour maintenir le dynamisme et la qualité scientifique du
travail de l'association.

Nous vous rappelons le tarif des adhésions pour l'année 2012 : 

20 € : Étudiants/chômeurs (joindre un justificatif ou une copie de
       carte)

40 € : Individuels (paiement par chèque ou CB personnels) 

60 € : Professionnels (paiement par bon de commande, chèque ou CB
       professionnels)

200 € : Institutionnels (adhésion de soutien) 

Vous pouvez dès à présent adhérer ou renouveler votre adhésion
directement en ligne, et régler par Carte Bleue en vous rendant à
l'adresse : http://www.atala.org/adhesion.

Bien à vous 

Pour le Conseil d'Administration de l'ATALA

Georges Antoniadis, trésorier

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Mar  6 20:28:09 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:28:09 +0100
Subject: Job: Postes enseignent-chercheur au LORIA
Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2012.212809.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:56:43 +0100
From: Yannick Toussaint <Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr>
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Bonjour,

Le LORIA propose 3 postes de maître de conférences et 3 postes de
professeurs :

Vous pouvez consulter les profils à l'adresse : http://www.loria.fr/

N'hésitez pas à transmettre cette information aux personnes susceptibles
d'être intéressées.

Cordialement
Y. Toussaint

(Les adresses mail des contacts ci-dessous sont de la forme
<prénom>.<Nom>@loria.fr)

================
Maître de conférences

Chaque candidature doit préciser les équipes d'intégration. Il est
fortement conseillé de prendre contact d'une part avec le (ou les)
responsable(s) d'équipe visée(s) ainsi qu'avec le responsable de
département. La politique du laboratoire soutient fortement les
candidatures provenant de l'extérieur.

MCF 0392 :IUT Charlemagne (Département Informatique)
Le candidat devra s'intégrer dans une équipe du département 1
Algorithmique, calcul, image et géométrie  (Contact Bruno Lévy) ou du
le département 2 Méthodes Formelles (contact Dominique Méry). 

MCF 0626 : IUT Charlemagne (Département Informatique)
De préférence, le candidat devra s'intégrer dans une équipe du
département 4 Traitement automatique des langues et des connaissances
(Contact Yannick Toussaint) ou du  le département 5 Systèmes complexes
et intelligence artificielle (contact Bernard Girau). 

MCF : IUT de Saint-Dié des Vosges
L'objectif du LORIA est de consolider une masse critique d'activités de
recherche cohérentes, visible au meilleur niveau national et
international se déployant sur la thématique "image" dans l'un des
départements scientifiques suivants : Algorithmique, calcul, image et
géométrie  (Contact Bruno Lévy) ou Traitement automatique des langues et
des connaissances (Contact Yannick Toussaint).


=======================
Professeur
Chaque candidature doit préciser le département d'intégration et les
équipes concernées. Il est demandé de prendre contact avec le
responsable de département et les responsables d'équipe du
département. Chaque candidat doit envoyer à la direction du laboratoire
(direction at loria.fr) au moins un CV le plus rapidement possible.
Les candidatures extérieures sont encouragées.

PR 318 : UFR Mathématiques et Informatique
Le candidat recruté devra effectuer sa recherche en 27ème section de
préférence dans l'un des départements du LORIA : Traitement Automatique
des Langues et des Connaissances (Contact direction at loria.fr) ou
Systèmes Complexes et Intelligence Artificielle (contact Bernard
Girau). 

PR 0980 : ESIAL
L'objectif du LORIA, pour ce poste, est de consolider une masse critique
d'activités de recherche cohérentes, visibles au meilleur niveau
international dans le domaine de la sécurité informatique et des
systèmes distribués à large échelle. En particulier, la personne
recrutée animera des travaux de recherche sur la conception
d'applications fortement distribuées dont on puisse garantir par
construction des propriétés de sûreté et de sécurité. Le recrutement se
fera dans le département 2 Méthodes Formelles (contact Dominique Méry)
ou le département 3 Systèmes, réseaux, distribution (contact Jens
Gustedt).

PR : Université de lorraine, licence et master informatique
Evaluation de complexité de système ou d'algorithmes, évaluation
probabilistes de performances, optimisation de grands systèmes. Le
recrutement se fera le département 2 Méthodes Formelles (contact
Dominique Méry) ou le département 3 Systèmes, réseaux, distribution
(contact Jens Gustedt).

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:31:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: (Rappel) TAL 53-2,
 Traitement automatique des informations temporelles et spatiales
 en langage naturel
Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2012.213120.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:35:06 +0100
From: philippe muller <philippe.muller at irit.fr>
Message-ID: <4F547ABA.5040307 at irit.fr>
X-url: http://www.atala.org/Traitement-automatique-des
X-url: http://tal-53-2.sciencesconf.org/


pardon pour les envois multiples

Traitement automatique des informations temporelles et spatiales en
langage naturel
2012 Volume 53 Numéro 2.

http://www.atala.org/Traitement-automatique-des

Direction : Inderjeet Mani & Philippe Muller.
Date limite de soumission : 15 mars 2012

La plupart des informations exprimées en langage naturel sont situées,
temporellement ou spatialement. Au niveau d’un document, la perspective
temporelle est souvent un élément crucial de la cohérence de l’ensemble,
et c’est aussi parfois le cas de la dimension spatiale.

Au delà des applications spécifiques pour lesquelles ces informations
sont centrales (navigation, géo-localisation, visualisation de scènes,
constitution de chronologies par exemple), le temps et l’espace jouent
un rôle important dans d’autres tâches, comme l’extraction d’information
ou les systèmes de questions-réponses, pour préciser le domaine de
validité d’une information, où dans le cas du résumé automatique pour
garantir une certaine cohérence. De façon plus fondamentale, le temps et
l’espace ont une place à part dans les représentations sémantiques et
pragmatiques, et font l’objet d’un nombre croissant de travaux, incitant
à la création de ressources et de corpus spécifiques, ainsi qu’à la
spécification et la normalisation des annotations sur ces données,
notamment grâce aux groupes ISO-TimeML et ISO-Space.

Ces efforts ont permis de faire évoluer des modèles théoriques peu
évalués des années 1990 à des travaux mieux justifiés empiriquement,
jusqu’à produire les campagnes d’évaluation de certaines sous-tâches
dans le cadre des campagnes Tempeval/Semeval.

Les expressions du temps et de l’espace ont aussi des aspects
spécifiques qui donne une place à part à leur analyse automatique.
Notamment, il est impossible d’envisager de représenter le sens
d’expressions spatio-temporelles sans une sémantique explicite de ce
qu’elles dénotent, et de nombreux travaux ont souligné l’importance de
la prise en compte de propriétés inférentielles des prédicats temporels,
surtout à l’échelle d’un document. L’évaluation des représentations
produites est aussi une question non-triviale.

Ce numéro spécial de TAL a pour but de présenter les nouveaux
développements liés à l’analyse du temps et de l’espace dans la langue,
que ce soit à l’écrit ou à l’oral, et les problèmes théoriques,
pratiques ou méthodologiques qu’elle implique. L’analyse automatique
d’expressions spatiales connaît un intérêt récent et soulève des
questions spécifiques, et nous encourageons la soumission de travaux sur
ces aspects, séparément ou associés aux données temporelles. Sont
encouragées aussi les études qui montrent l’importance des dimensions
spatiale ou temporelle dans des applications.

Nous encourageons les soumissions sur tous les aspects reliés au
traitement automatique d’informations temporelles et/ou spatiales en
langage naturel, notamment sur les problématiques ou tâches suivantes :

- extraction d’information temporelle : localisation temporelle,
  repérage d’événements, datation, mise en relation d’événements à
  l’intérieur d’un texte ou d’un ensemble de textes.
- extraction d’information spatiale : repérage d’entités spatiales, 
  géolocalisation, relations entre entités
- recherche de réponses précises à des questions temporelles ou
  spatiales
- extraction jointe d’informations de temps et d’espace, de description 
  de mouvement (itinéraires).
- les questions de représentation et de raisonnement, en particulier
  l’interopérabilité entre représentations temporelles et spatiales
- génération de description de scènes/images
- veille et recherche d’information dans les domaines de spécialités,
  par exemple dans le domaine médical
- traitement conjoint temps et modalité
- schémas d’annotation d’information T/S
- création/utilisation de ressources
- procédure d’évaluation : des annotations, des ressources, des
  processus de traitement
- toute application de TAL faisant une utilisation spécifique
  d’informations temporelles et spatiales

COMITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE

- Nicholas Asher
- Jason Baldridge
- John Bateman
- Delphine Battistelli
- Nate Blaylock
- Robert J. Bobrow
- Harry Bunt
- Pascal Denis
- Christy Doran
- Patrice Enjalbert
- Michel Gagnon
- Mauro Gaio
- Robert Gaizauskas
- Laurent Gosselin
- Caroline Hagège
- Oliver Lemon
- Gérard Ligozat
- Laurent Prévot
- James Pustejovsky
- Xavier Tannier
- Marc Verhagen
- Annie Zaenen


DATES IMPORTANTES

- Date limite de soumission : 15 mars 2012
- Notification aux auteurs : Juillet 2012
- Date limite pour la version finale : Septembre 2012
- Publication en ligne : fin 2012


LE JOURNAL

Depuis 40 ans, TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) est un journal
international publié par l’ATALA (Association pour le Traitement
Automatique des Langues) avec le soutien du CNRS. Depuis quelques
années, il s’agit d’un journal en ligne, des versions papier pouvant
être obtenues sur commande. Ceci n’affecte en rien le processus de
relecture et de sélection.


INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES

Les auteurs ayant l’intention de soumettre un article sont invités à
contacter les rédacteurs en chef invités de ce numéro : Inderjeet Mani
(inderjeet.mani at gmail.com) et Philippe Muller (philippe.muller at
irit.fr)

Les articles (25 pages environ, format PDF) doivent être déposés sur la
plateforme http://tal-53-2.sciencesconf.org/

Les feuilles de style sont disponibles sur le site web du journal:
http://www.atala.org/Instructions-aux-auteurs-feuilles

Le journal ne publie que des contributions originales, en français ou en
anglais.

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Mar  6 20:35:08 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:35:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: TALN'2012 Papiers Courts - Second Appel (Pendant
 JEP-TALN-RECITAL) du 4 au 8 juin a Grenoble
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:06:33 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9_Blanchon?= <herve.blanchon at imag.fr>
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PREMIER APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

TALN'2012
19e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012

CALENDRIER

- Articles COURTs :
 - Date limite de soumission : 15 mars 2012
 - Notification aux auteurs : 15 avril 2012
 - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 20 avril 2012

PRÉSENTATION 

Organisée par l'équipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de
Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des
langues étrangères et maternelles) et le département DPC du Gipsa-lab,
la conférence TALN'2012 se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2012 à Grenoble à
l'occasion de la conférence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012.

JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29ème édition des Journées d'Étude sur
la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19ème édition de la conférence sur le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14ème
édition des Rencontres des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012).
Pour la quatrième fois, après Nancy en 2002, Fès en 2004, et Avignon en
2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parlée) et
l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues)
organisent conjointement leur principale conférence afin de réunir en un
seul lieu les deux communautés du traitement de la langue orale et
écrite.
La conférence TALN'2012 comprendra des communications orales et
affichées, des conférences invitées et des ateliers.
La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. Les
communications en anglais sont acceptées pour les participants
non-francophones.

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
Les articles courts doivent faire entre 6 et 8 pages.
Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des articles présentant des travaux
de recherche originaux sur les thèmes proposés ci-dessous.

Les articles courts seront présentés sous forme de poster.

THÈMES
Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes habituels du TAL,
incluant, de façon non limitative :

- Analyse et génération dans les domaines suivants :
     - Phonétique
     - Phonologie
     - Morphologie
     - Syntaxe
     - Sémantique
     - Discours

- Développement de ressources linguistiques pour le TAL :
     - Bases de données comportant des informations morphologiques,
       syntaxiques, sémantiques, et/ou phonologiques
     - Grammaires
     - Lexiques
     - Ontologies
     - Linguistique de corpus

- Applications du TAL :
     - Analyse de sentiments ou d'opinions
     - Catégorisation ou classification automatique
     - Désambiguïsation lexicale
     - Dialogue homme-machine en langage naturel
     - Enseignement assisté par ordinateur
     - Indexation automatique
     - Recherche et extraction d'information
     - Résumé automatique
     - Résolution d'anaphores
     - Systèmes de question-réponse
     - Traduction automatique
     - Web sémantique

- Approches:
     - Linguistiques formelles destinées à soutenir les traitements
       automatiques
     - Symboliques
     - Logiques
     - Statistiques
     - Basées sur l'apprentissage automatique


CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION 
Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du
domaine.
Pour les travaux de recherches, seront considérées en particulier :
     - l'adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence. 
     - l'importance et l'originalité de la contribution,
     - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,
     - la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux
       autres travaux du domaine,
     - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
       internationale,
     - l'organisation et la clarté de la présentation.

Les articles et démonstrations sélectionnés seront publiés dans les
actes de la conférence.

MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION 
Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français.
Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word seront disponibles sur le
site web (à venir) de la conférence.

Contact : herve.blanchon at imag.fr et Georges.Antoniadis at u-grenoble3.fr

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:38:10 +0100
Subject: Info: TOTh 2012, Formation
Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2012.213810.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:39:42 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
Message-ID: <CAFW-+pYRiox3D=27cEoKRkc2dA1ckogusX=sjz4Y7k5qDaYP_Q at mail.gmail.com>

Formation TOTh 2012
www.porphyre.org/formation-toth

Chambéry
Mardi 5 juin (14h30-17h30)
Mercredi 6 juin (9h00 – 17h00)

TITRE: Analyse des textes à des fins onomasiologiques

Responsables : Pr. Rute Costa Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Pr.
Christophe Roche Université de Savoie

Présentation générale
------------------------------------------------------------

Les terminologues jouent un rôle central dans toute activité
professionnelle où les compétences discursives, le transfert et
l’organisation des connaissances sont requis. Les terminologies sont
indispensables à une communication spécialisée rigoureuse et efficace.
Elles interviennent également dans de nombreuses applications
informatiques de gestion et de traitement de l’information. Leur
construction est un problème complexe qui doit prendre en compte les
dimensions linguistique et conceptuelle qui les composent. L’analyse des
textes à des fins onomasiologiques est particulièrement intéressante
pour l’aide à la rédaction des définitions en Terminologie.

Dans beaucoup de contextes professionnels, le texte est au cœur du
travail terminologique. Il importe donc de savoir ce que l’on peut y
trouver d’utile pour le travail terminologique de base conceptuelle*.
L’analyse linguistique des textes à des fins terminologiques requiert
des connaissances spécifiques. Le but est de proposer, en plus de
l’extraction des traditionnels candidats termes et collocations, des
méthodologies pour l’identification des marqueurs linguistiques et des
relations sémantiques.

Sont retenus les éléments qui pointent vers le concept nécessaires à la
rédaction des définitions en langue naturelle. Les résultats obtenus
nous amènent à proposer une possible organisation des données qui est
soumise à l’expert. Dans cette démarche, l’expert du domaine, au sein
d’une équipe multidisciplinaire, joue un rôle essentiel. Au moment de
valider les données il « stabilise » les connaissances sur le concept,
ce qui permettra à l’ingénieur cogniticien de modéliser le système
formel correspondant.

*L’approche conceptuelle, fondement de l’approche classique de la
terminologie, est rendue nécessaire par l’opérationnalisation des
terminologies à des fins informatiques. C’est dans ce cadre
qu’interviennent les ontologies pour la modélisation formelle du système
conceptuel.

Objectifs
------------------------------------------------------------

La formation vise à promouvoir la collaboration entre les professionnels
de la langue et de la connaissance. Elle a également pour objectif de
présenter les théories, méthodes et outils d’analyse de textes à des
fins terminologiques, dotant ainsi :

- les professionnels de la langue d’une approche méthodologique et
  systématique pour la définition ;

- les professionnels de la connaissance de compétences linguistiques
  indispensables pour l’acquisition de connaissances à partir de
  ressources linguistiques.

Publics visés
------------------------------------------------------------

Linguistes, Terminologues, Traducteurs, Documentalistes,
Informaticiens, Ingénieurs cogniticiens…

Programme
------------------------------------------------------------

1. Introduction
2. Fondements théoriques : terminologie, ontologie
3. Textes de spécialité
3.1. Typologie de textes
4. Extraction de données terminologiques
	4.1. Candidats termes
	4.2. Candidats collocations
	4.3. Relations sémantiques à base de marqueurs linguistiques
	4.4. Organisation des données terminologiques
	4.5. Validation par l’expert
5. Des textes à la définition
5.1. Définition(s) de définition
5.2. Eléments de définition à des fins de rédaction
5.3. Rôle de l’expert dans la validation des résultats
6. Médiation entre terminologue et expert
7. De la définition en langue à la définition formelle
8. Synthèse

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:40:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: JapTAL2012,
 the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing
Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2012.214014.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:54:35 +0100
From: Sylviane CARDEY <sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr>
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====First Announcement of JapTAL 2012====

JapTAL2012, the 8th International Conference on Natural Language
Processing,
Kanazawa, Japan - 22-24 October 2012
http://lang.cs.tut.ac.jp/JapTAL2012/ (will appear)

We are pleased to invite participation in JapTAL2012 organised by the
Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT).

OVERVIEW

The conference will take place in the city of Kanazawa, a leading
tourist city where 7 million tourists visit every year. It was a great
castle town ruled by an influential leader from the 17th century to the
second half of the 19th century.  Kanazawa has not suffered from any war
devastation or big natural disaster up to now. Therefore, Kanazawa
maintains rows of historical houses and inherits traditional handicrafts
and traditional performing arts.

JapTAL is the eighth in the series of the TAL conferences, following
IceTAL 2010 (Reykjavik, Iceland), GoTAL 2008 (Gothenburg, Sweden),
FinTAL 2006 (Turku, Finland), EsTAL 2004 (Alicante, Spain), PorTAL 2002
(Faro, Portugal), VexTAL 1999 (Venice, Italy) and FracTAL 1997
(Besancon, France).

The main purpose of the TAL conference series is to bring together
scientists representing linguistics, computer science and related
fields, sharing a common interest in the advancement of computational
linguistics and natural language processing.

The conference will consist of keynote talks, oral and poster
presentations, invited sessions and workshops, on the applications and
theory of natural language processing and related areas. It will provide
excellent opportunities for the presentation of interesting new research
results and discussion about them, leading to knowledge transfer and the
generation of new ideas.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished
research on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural
language and speech processing.

We welcome submissions both from academia and the industry on any topic
that is of interest to the NLP community, encouraging research
emphasizing multidisciplinary aspects of NLP and the interplay between
linguistics, computer science and application domains such as
biomedicine, communication systems, public services, and educational
technology.

Important Date
     Provisional deadlines - see website for confirmation.
     Papers due: 1 June 2012
     Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2012
     Camera ready due: 1 September 2012

Conference Chair
     Hitoshi Isahara, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Local
     Arrangements Chair
     Kyoko Kanzaki, National Institute of Japanese Language and
     Linguistics, Japan

Full committee to be announced.


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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:43:32 +0100
Subject: Appel: CIAA 2012, Final Call for Papers
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Apologies for multiple copies 

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Final Call for Papers -- CIAA 2012 

17th International Conference on Implementation and Application of
Automata

Porto, Portugal 

July 17-20, 2012 

http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/CIAA12 
------------------- 

*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 18 (23:59h, UTC) *** 


IMPORTANT DATES 

Submission Deadline (Extended) :  March 18, 2012 (strict) 
Notification: April 20, 2012 
Final Version: May 7, 2012 
Deadline for system demos: May 31, 2012 
Conference Dates: July 17-20, 2012 


AIM AND SCOPE 

CIAA is the premier annual conference for researchers, application
developers and users of automata-based systems.  The applications of the
theory of automata, a foundational area of computer science, have spread
to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines.

The CIAA series has published significant papers describing the
applications of finite automata in parsing and compilers, logic, natural
language processing, pattern matching, database management,   and
bioinformatics. The conference also accepts papers that advance the
state of the art in the theoretical study of finite automata, regular
expressions, grammars and related formal models.

Another goal of the conference is to provide additions and enhancements
to existing software systems that manipulate automata, regular
expressions, grammars, and related structures; examples of such systems
include AGL, AMoRE, ASTL, Automate, FADELA, FAdo, FinITE, FIRE Station,
FSM, Grail+, INR, Intex, JFLAP, MERLin, MONA, TESTAS, Turing's World,
Vaucanson, WFSC and Whale Calf.

Topics 

CIAA invites papers on all aspects of implementation, application, and
theory of automata and related structures, including but not limited to:

- Algorithms on automata  
- Automata and logic  
- Bioinformatics 
- Complexity of automata operations 
- Compilers 
- Computer-aided verification 
- Concurrency 
- Data structure design for automata 
- Data and image compression 
- Design and architecture of automata software 
- Digital libraries 
- DNA/molecular/membrane computing 
- Document engineering 
- Editors, environments 
- Experimental studies and practical experience 
- Implementation of verification methods and model checking 
- Industrial applications 
- Natural language and speech processing 
- Networking 
- New algorithms for manipulating automata 
- Object-oriented modeling 
- Pattern-matching 
- Pushdown automata and context-free grammars 
- Quantum computing 
- Structured and semi-structured documents 
- Symbolic manipulation environments for automata 
- Transducers and multi-tape automata  
- Techniques for graphical display of automata 
- VLSI 
- Viruses, related phenomena 
- World-wide web 


PREVIOUS EDITIONS 

Sixteen previous CIAA conferences took place in: Blois (2011), Winnipeg
(2010), Sydney (2009), San Francisco (2008), Prague (2007), Taipei
(2006), Nice (2005), Kingston (2004), Santa Barbara (2003), Tours
(2002), Pretoria (2001), London Ontario (2000), Potsdam (WIA'99), Rouen
(WIA'98), London Ontario (WIA'97), London Ontario (WIA'96). See the
conference site ( http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/ciaa/ ) for archives on
these previous editions.

This year edition of the conference is dedicated to Alan Turing on the
occasion of the Centenary Celebration of his life and work.


SUBMISSIONS 

Research papers are sought on all aspects of implementation,
application, and theory of automata and related structures. Researchers
are invited to submit unpublished original research. Simultaneous
submissions to other venues is not allowed.

Submitted papers must use the LNCS-style LaTeX2e (available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) .


Papers must be in English, should not exceed 10 pages and provide
sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their
merits. If the authors believe that more details are necessary to
substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked
appendix to be read at the discretion of the committee.

Papers will be submitted electronically in PDF, using the EasyChair
system. Use the following link for submission:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciaa2012 

Proceedings will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes of Computer
Science (LNCS) and will be available at the conference. Extended
versions of selected proceedings papers will appear in a special issue
of International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS).

DEMOS 

We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to
demonstrate their software should submit a two-page description to the
outlining the design of their system and its application area(s). The
descriptions of accepted demos will appear in a booklet available at the
conference. Deadline for submitions is May 31.


VENUE 

CIAA 2012 will take place in Porto, the second largest city in Portugal,
located by the Douro river and the Atlantic Ocean. Porto dates back to
the IV century and the city center is classified as world heritage
patrimony by UNESCO. The city is also known worldwide for the renowned
Port Wine.

The venue will be the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto
located in Campo Alegre area and very close to the conference hotels.

SPECIAL SESSION 

A special session in memoriam of Professor Sheng Yu will take place
during this edition of CIAA.


RELATED EVENT 

CIAA 2012 will be held just before DCFS 2012 which will take place in
Braga, also in Portugal and less then 50 km from Porto, on July
23--25. More information about this workshop can be found at the web
page http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/DCFS12

INVITED SPEAKERS 

Janusz Brzozowski (U. of Waterloo, Canada), "In Search of Most Complex
Regular Languages" 
Paul Gastin (ENS de Cachan, Fance), "Adding Pebbles to Weighted
Automata" 
José Nuno Oliveira (U. do Minho, Portugal) (TBA) 
Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden, The Netherlands), "A Formal Framework for
Processes Inspired by the Functioning of Living Cells " 
Kai Salomaa (Queen's U., Kingston, Canada), "In Memoriam of Sheng Yu"

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Marie-Pierre Beal - France 
Béatrice Bouchou-Markhoff - France 
Patricia Bouyer - France 
Cezar Campeanu - Canada 
Pascal Caron - France 
Jean-Marc Champarnaud - France 
Jan Daciuk - Poland 
Michael Domaratzki - Canada 
Yo-Sub Han - South Korea 
Tero Harju - Finland 
Markus Holzer - Germany 
Oscar Ibarra - USA 
Masami Ito - Japan 
Joost-Pieter Katoen - Germany 
Stavros Konstantinidis - Canada 
Andreas Maletti - Germany 
Sebastian Maneth - Australia 
Denis Maurel - France 
Ian McQuillan - Canada 
Mehryar Mohri - USA 
Nelma Moreira - Portugal (co-chair) 
Alexander Okhotin - Finland 
Giovanni Pighizzini - Italy 
Bala Ravikumar - USA 
Rogério Reis - Portugal (co-chair) 
Kai Salomaa - Canada 
Colin Stirling - United Kingdom 
Mikhail Volkov - Russian Federation 
Bruce Watson - South Africa 
Hsu-Chun Yen - Taiwan 
Sheng Yu - Canada 

STEERING COMMITTEE 

Jean-Marc Champarnaud - France 
Oscar Ibarra - USA 
Denis Maurel - France 
Kai T. Salomaa - Canada 
Sheng Yu - Canada (Chair) 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 

Sabine Broda (U. Porto) 
António Machiavelo (U. Porto) 
Nelma Moreira (U. Porto) 
Rogério Reis (U. Porto) 
Simão Sousa (U. Beira Interior) 


The conference is sponsored by the University of Porto, University of
Beira Interior, CMUP, FCT, and EATCS.

For a small poster to download and display: 
http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/CIAA12/resources/CIAA2012a3.pdf 


CONTACT 

Postal address: 

CIAA 2012 
DCC-FCUP 
Rua do Campo Alegre, 1021-1055 
4169-007 Porto, 
Portugal 

Email: ciaa12 at dcc.fc.up.pt 

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:46:43 +0100
Subject: Journee: Journee commune IA et TAL, AFIA - ATALA, 12 mars 2012,
 Auditorium INALCO, Paris
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:48:20 +0100
From: Olivier Boissier <Olivier.Boissier at emse.fr>
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Intelligence artificielle et traitement automatique des langues se
retrouvent !

Journée commune AFIA - ATALA 
Association française pour l'intelligence artificielle
Association pour le traitement automatique des langues

Date : Lundi 12 mars 2012

Organisation : Pierre Zweigenbaum et Laurence Danlos

Lieu : Paris, Auditorium de l'INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins

Renseignements pratiques :
http://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3005

Le traitement automatique des langues (TAL), visant à réaliser des
tâches relevant de la cognition humaine, a eu de longue date des liens
avec l'intelligence artificielle (IA). La force et la nature de ces
liens ont varié au cours du temps dans la communauté française et
internationale, avec des hauts dans les années 1980 lors de l'essor de
l'IA. L'objectif de cette journée est de faire le point sur les liens
qui existent actuellement entre ces deux domaines.

Conférencier invité : Jean-Paul Haton (LORIA - Université de Lorraine -
Institut Universitaire de France)

Plus de détails sur le programme :
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Journ%C3%A9e+commune+AFIA+-+ATALA#PROGRAMME

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:48:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: MALINDO 2012
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:54:32 +0800
From: Yong Soo Fong <soofong0629 at gmail.com>
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Hi,

Greetings.

*LATEST INFORMATION*

1) Paper submission due: *31st March, 2012 (Extended)*

2)
*Keynote Speaker*: Ms. Lim Lian Tze
*Title*: Low Cost Construction of Multilingual Lexicons for
Under-Resourced Languages
*Abstract*:
Multilingual translation lexicons are essential in many NLP
applications, such as machine translation, as well as being valuable
reading aids for human readers. Manually constructing multilingual
lexicons from scratch, however, is very labour-intensive. We describe a
low cost method for constructing a multilingual lexicon prototype using
very simple input data, namely lists of bilingual translation
mappings. Such bilingual resources are often freely available and easily
obtainable from the Internet or conventional paper-based
dictionaries. The low requirement of the input data also means our
method is especially suitable for under-resourced language and
language-pairs. In addition, the overall framework of our multilingual
lexicon presumes no extensive linguistic knowledge of contributors who
wish to help improve the lexicon. This allows any speaker of an
under-resourced language to contribute to the project, thus making more
language pairs possible via the multilingual lexicon. We also show how
the multilingual lexicon can be used as an “intelligent” reading aid,
using contextual information mined from untagged comparable bilingual
corpus.  Again, this will make under-resourced languages more accessible
to speakers of other languages.

--------------- APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS --------------------

*CALL FOR PAPERS *
The 6TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MALAY AND INDONESIAN LANGUAGE
ENGINEERING (MALINDO2012)
21st Jun 2012
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
http://www.malindo.org

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A considerable amount of research has been done on the processing of
South East Asian languages offering a variety of Computational
Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources, tools
and applications.  All these valuable language resources are most of the
time ignored by the public and often not known by the researchers and
students working on these languages. MALINDO, as an annual international
workshop, aims to bring together researchers and practitioners,
representing different perspectives, to share and to exchange their
ideas on the processing of South East Asian languages. Because of the
venue of the2012 Workshop, the Organisers of MALINDO will anticipate
papers related to the processing of the varieties of Borneo
languages.MALINDO’s objective is to highlight the effort and promising
works done on the processing of the South East Asian languages, thus
attracting more students to the CL and NLP fields.

The MALINDO workshops are co-organized by three South East Asian
universities: Universitas Indonesia (Depok, Indonesia), the National
University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore), and Universiti Malaysia
Sarawak (UNIMAS, Malaysia).

All accepted papers will be published in the Workshop
Proceeding. Selected papers (Enhanced version) will be published in
MASAUM Journals. Some selected papers will also be published in Book
Chapters for MASAUM E-Book.

** TOPIC OF INTEREST *

The topics of the papers are requested to be in all areas related to the
language processing - computational and theoretical point of view - of
South East Asian languages (Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, etc.):

Language resources development, acquisition, annotation, and
representation: dictionaries, thesauri, terminology, lexicons, written
and spoken corpora, grammars, ontology;

Tools and techniques: spelling/grammatical/style checkers, morphological
analyser, stemmer, lemmatiser, part of speech tagger, chunker, syntactic
parser, word sense disambiguator, discourse processing, text and speech
alignment, text and speech segmentation, term extraction and
recognition, named entity extraction;

Applications: machine translation and translation aids, information
retrieval, information extraction, text summarisation, term extraction,
natural language generation, question translation aids, information
retrieval, information extraction, text summarization, term extraction,
natural language generation, question answering, document
categorization, language identification, speech recognition, speech
synthesis, character recognition, e-learning.

** IMPORTANT DATES
*
Paper Submission Due:
- *31st March, 2012.*

Notification of Acceptance:
- 16th April, 2012.

Camera Ready:
- 7th May, 2012.

Workshop Date:
- 21st June, 2012


** SUBMISSION INFORMATION *

Upload your submission in MSWord format at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=malindo2012

submission should be at most 8000 words. We suggest to author to use
MASAUM format in preparing the manuscripts.

** VENUE*
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS),
Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia

** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *
*Workshop Advisors :*
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Alvin Yeo Wee, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
*
*
*Workshop Chair : *
Balisoamanandray Ranaivo-Malançon, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

*Programme Co-chairs: *
Mirna Adriani, University of Indonesia
Stéphane Bressan, National University of Singapore

*Programme Committees (provisional): *
Cheah Yu-N, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Chooi-Ling Goh, NICT, Japan
Dwi Hendratmo Widyantoro, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Didier Schwab, University Mendhs-France, Grenoble, France
David Gil, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Gilles Serasset, University Joseph-Fourier, France
Hendra Setiawan, University of Maryland, USA
Indra Budi, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Min Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, A-STAR, Singapore
Ng Hwee Tou, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Normaziah Binti Abdul Aziz, International Islamic University Malaysia
Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rila Mandala, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Rohana Mahmud, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Sakriani Sakti, NICT, Japan
Tan Tien Ping, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Vincent Berment, GETALP-LIG/INALCO, France
Yves Lepage, Waseda University, Japan

*Local Organiser: *
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

** INQUIRIES:*
Send your inquery to the organisers at workshop at malindo.org

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:49:54 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension - March, 15 - CFP for the LREC Workshop
 on Language Resources for Public Security Applications - reminder
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Date: Tue,  6 Mar 2012 11:36:32 +0100 (CET)
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION - MARCH, 15

Dear Colleagues,

Please do consider your participation in the LREC 2012 workshop on
"Language Resources for Public Security Applications, May 27, 2012,
Istanbul, Turkey". See the CFP text at
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/IMG/ws/programme/LREC2012_WS_LRPS.pdf
and do visit the conference site at http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/.

We will be happy to see you in Istanbul.

On behalf of the Program Committee
Zygmunt Vetulani

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:51:15 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, 9 mars 2012,
 Pierre Magistry "Segmentation non-supervisee du mandarin ecrit"
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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:32:53 +0100
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************** Séminaire Alpage *******************

Séminaire de l'école doctorale de Paris Diderot

Il s'agit du séminaire de recherche en linguistique informatique
organisé par l'équipe Alpage, équipe mixte Inria -- Paris Diderot,
spécialisée en analyse syntaxique automatique et en traitement du
discours.

Le prochain séminaire se tiendra :

* vendredi 9 mars de 11h à 12h30 *

en salle 3E91 à l'UFRL, 16, rue de Clisson, 75013 Paris (3e étage
gauche)

Toute personne intéressée est la bienvenue.

***********************************************************

Pierre Magistry (Alpage) : Segmentation non-supervisée du mandarin écrit

L'écriture chinoise est de celles qui n'utilisent pas de caractère
d'espacement.

Ceci complexifie grandement la tokenisation, première étape de presque
tout système d'analyse de textes écrits en mandarin, étape que l'on
appelle traditionnellement "segmentation".

Si les méthodes de segmentation supervisées donnent aujourd'hui de très
bons résultats "en laboratoire", la qualité de leur sortie devient
difficile à prédire si l'on doit faire face à toute forme de variation
qui nous éloignerait du corpus d’entraînement (variations en genre, en
style, dans le temps ou au contact d'autres langues sinitiques).

Pour cette raison, ainsi que pour les questions linguistiques
sous-jacentes sur lesquelles les méthodes supervisées ne disent presque
rien, la segmentation non-supervisée reste une option intéressante à
étudier.

Après avoir évoqué les difficultés d'évaluation de tels systèmes, nous
montrerons comment l'état de l'art actuel peut être atteint en
simplifiant un modèle existant inspiré d'une hypothèse de Harris.  Pour
une qualité de sortie comparable, le modèle proposé présente les
avantages d'être non paramétrique et de se baser sur une unique
hypothèse linguistique, rendant son fonctionnement plus intuitif.

***********************************************************

Prochaines dates:

23/03 : Roser Sauri (Brandeis University)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:56:38 +0100
Subject: Appel: Extended Deadline,
 ACL 2012 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity
 and Sentiment Analysis
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:23:54 +0100
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3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment
Analysis (WASSA 2012) - http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2012/

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- Satellite workshop to ACL 2012 (Jeju, Korea) 
- Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGNLL and SIGSEM
- The best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the Computer 
  Speech and Language Journal (Elsevier). 
- Subsequent to the WASSA 2012 acceptance notification, we will also
  launch an open call for papers for a Special Issue of the Information
  Sciences Journal (Elsevier).

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Mar 18, 2012:	Extended paper submission deadline
Apr 15, 2012:	Notification of acceptance
Apr 30, 2012:	Camera-ready deadline
Jul 12, 2012:	Workshop to take place at ACL 2012

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AIM OF WORKSHOP

Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, as subtasks
in Affective Computing within Natural Language Processing, has
flourished in the past years, as the Social Web made it possible for
people all over the world to express, comment or consult opinions on any
given topic. The fact that so many people express themselves on these
topics makes opinions less biased and more credible; their subjective
nature makes them easily understandable by all people and leads to their
growing influence on communities worldwide. Due to all these reasons,
opinions expressed on the Web are more and more considered as basis for
decision-making processes, for recommendation systems, business
intelligence processes, image monitoring, and marketing or for obtaining
unbiased, massive feedback.

In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years,
dealing with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex,
interdisciplinary problem that remains far from being solved. Its
challenges include the need to address the issue from different
perspectives and at different levels, depending on the characteristics
of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the final application
for which the analysis is done.

Bearing in mind the abovementioned reflections, the aim of the 3rd
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment
Analysis (WASSA 2012) is to continue the line of the previous two
editions, bringing together researchers in Computational Linguistics
working on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and, more generally, on
affect in text. Moreover, taking into account that affect- related
phenomena have also been studied by other disciplines, such as
Psychology, Philosophy or Economics, the purpose of WASSA 2012 is to
facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue on the analysis, requirements,
issues and applications of the study of subjectivity and sentiment in
the context of traditional and emerging text types. We envisage WASSA as
a forum to discuss the achievements obtained so far and to analyse the
different approaches to tackle the difficulties researchers are
confronted with in this research area.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

Inspired by the objectives we aimed at in the &#64257;rst two editions
of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity Analysis
(WASSA 2010 and WASSA 2.011) and the &#64257;nal outcome, the purpose of
the proposed 3rd edition of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to
Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2012) is to create a
framework for presenting and discussing the challenges related to
subjectivity and sentiment analysis in NLP, from an interdisciplinary
theoretical and practical perspective.

Researchers are encouraged to submit papers including, but not
restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and sentiment
analysis:

- Lexical semantic resources, corpora and annotations for subjectivity
  and sentiment analysis
- Subjectivity and opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization,
  aggregation and summarization
- Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment
  analysis
- Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models.
- Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis
- Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective language
- The computational treatment of large amounts of user-generated content
- Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task
- Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis
- Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
- Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation methodologies for subjectivity and
  sentiment analysis
- Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks 
- Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis techniques
- Classification of stance in dialogues
- Real-world applications of opinion mining systems

We will also encourage participants to provide demos of their systems,
thus giving them the opportunity to obtain feedback on their
achievements and issues.
At the same time, with the help of demos, we aim at enriching the
discussion forum with application-specific topics for debate.

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ORGANIZERS

- Alexandra Balahur – European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy –
  alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu
- Andrés Montoyo - University of Alicante, Spain – montoyo at dlsi.ua.es 
- Patricio Martínez-Barco - University of Alicante, Spain - 
  patricio at dlsi.ua.es 
- Ester Boldrini - University of Alicante, Spain - eboldrini at dlsi.ua.es 

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

- Khurshid Ahmad – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Sivaji Bandyopadhyay - Jadavpur University, India
- Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy
- Erik Cambria – University of Stirling, U.K.
- José Carlos Cortizo - European University Madrid, Spain
- Michael Gamon – Microsoft 
- Jesús M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain
- Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium
- Mijail Kabadjov – Vicomtech, Spain
- Zornitsa Kozareva - Information Sciences Institute California, U.S.A.
- Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.
- Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada
- Karo Moilanen – Oxford University, U.K.
- Rafael Muñoz - University of Alicante, Spain
- Günter Neumann - DFKI, Germany
- Alena Neviarouskaia – University of Tokyo, Japan
- Manabu Okumura – Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Manuel Palomar - University of Alicante, Spain
- Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Paolo Rosso - Technical University of Valencia, Spain
- Josef Steinberger – EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Ralf Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Veselin Stoyanov – John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
- Maite Taboada -  Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- José Antonio Troyano - University of Seville, Spain
- Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania
- Alfonso Ureña – University of Jaén, Spain
- Erik van der Goot – EC Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Marilyn Walker - University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
- Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
- Michael Wiegand – Saarland University, Germany
- Theresa Wilson – John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
- Taras Zagibalov -  Brantwatch, U.K.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

- Prof. Dr. Rada Mihalcea – University of North Texas, U.S.A. 
- Prof. Dr. Janyce Wiebe – University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

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SUBMISSIONS

At WASSA 2012, we will accept two types of submissions: long and short
papers.

- Long papers
  Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two
  (2) additional pages of references, and will be presented orally.

- Short papers
  Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two
  (2) additional pages of references. The following types of papers are
  appropriate for a short paper submission:
1.	A paper describing the demonstration of a system
2.	A small, focused contribution
3.	Work in progress
4.	A negative result
5.	An opinion piece
6.	An interesting application nugget

Short papers will be presented either orally or as a poster. The choice
of presentation will be given not based on the quality of the
submission, but on the PC’s recommendation relating to the most suitable
presentation method.
All papers submitted to WASSA should be formatted according to the
ACL-HLT 2012 Style Files, available at:
http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp

Reviewing for WASSA 2010 will be blind: reviewers will not be presented
with the identity of paper authors. Authors should avoid writing
anything that makes their identity obvious in the text.

Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously
have been formally published.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACL WASSA proceedings, with
ISBN. The best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the Computer
Speech and Language Journal (Elsevier).

Subsequent to the WASSA 2012 acceptance notification, we will also
launch an open call for papers for a Special Issue of the Information
Sciences Journal (Elsevier).

To submit a paper, please access:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/wassa-2012

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:58:24 +0100
Subject: Job: Portuguese Linguist, SYSTRAN
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 15:02:06 +0100
From: "BUSCHBECK Bianka" <buschbeck at systran.fr>
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Position Title:            Portuguese Linguist
Position ID:                LD_CLPT_BB_201203

Company:                  SYSTRAN

Department:              Linguistic Resources 
Location:                    Paris 75002, France

Website:                     www.systran.fr 

Job description:

We are currently looking for a highly qualified Portuguese linguist to
join an international team for the development of MT resources. Primary
responsibilities are:

..  Adaptation of our Portuguese language pairs to the new spelling
    conventions for Portuguese

..  Work on European Portuguese - Brazilian Portuguese localization of
    the Portuguese MT input and output

..  Corpus-based dictionary development for Portuguese language pairs

..  Improvement of Portuguese analysis and automatic dictionary coding
    resources

..  Integration and testing of linguistic resources

Required skills:

The ideal candidate should have strong interest in developing and
enhancing the capabilities of machine translation and meet the following
requirements:

..  Native competence of Portuguese and fluency in English and French

..  Profound knowledge of the Portuguese spelling reform and ability to
    specify rules converting text to the new spelling conventions

..  Good working knowledge of computational lexicography and NLP methods
    in general

..  Strong skills in Portuguese, English and French morphology and
    syntax

..  Working knowledge of Perl and scripting languages is a plus

..  Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team

Education and experience:

..  Advanced degree in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or
    Translation Studies (Master or PhD), and 2+ years experience in an
    industrial or academic NLP environment

Please send your application to Bianka Buschbeck: buschbeck at
systran.fr or submit it on our website
http://www.systran.fr/systran/carrieres

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:01:01 +0100
Subject: Revue: ANAE N116 / 2012- L'apprentissage du langage ecrit et ses
 troubles
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:11:34 +0000
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Merci d'annoncer et/ou de transmettre à vos collaborateurs, confrères,
étudiants, membres... concernés
Avez-vous déjà pensé à vous abonner à ANAE ?
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Commander le N° 116<http://www.anae-revue.com/anae-n-2012-achat-au-n/>
S'abonner à ANAE en 2012<http://www.anae-revue.com/abonnement-2012/>

Ce numéro fait partie de l'abonnement 2012, Vol 24. Comprenant également
:

- N° 116 Troubles du langage écrit et ses troubles - Approche cognitive
         - (coordonné par B. Pierart)

- N° 117 L'animal dans le soin (coordonné par le M. Maurer,
         Paris-Descartes et Univ de Sherbrook)

- N° 118 Epilepsie et troubles des Apprentissages (coordonné par le Pr
         Arzimanoglou, Lyon)

- N° 119 Troubles du langage écrit de l'enfance à l'âge adulte
         (coordonné par I. Simoës, Toulouse)


- N° 120 L'enfant précoce, forces et faiblesses (coordonné par les Pr
         J. Grégoire et T. Lubart)

- N° 121 Autisme - Pecs, ABA... pratiques d'éducation de la théorie à la
         pratique

Catherine de Gavre
Directeur de la Publication ANAE
Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez l'Enfant
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:22:37 +0100
Subject: Conf: IA et TAL se retrouvent, Journee commune AFIA - ATALA,
 Programme
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:56:25 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
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L'IA est-elle soluble dans le TAL ?
Pour le savoir, venez assister à la journée :

Intelligence artificielle et traitement automatique des langues se
retrouvent

====
  Journée commune AFIA - ATALA
  Association française pour l'intelligence artificielle
  Association pour le traitement automatique des langues

  Date : Lundi 12 mars 2012
  Organisation : Pierre Zweigenbaum et Laurence Danlos
  Lieu : Paris, Auditorium de l'INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins
  Renseignements pratiques :
      http://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3005

  Conférencier invité :
    Jean-Paul Haton
    (LORIA - Université de Lorraine - Institut Universitaire de France)

  Informations complètes sur :
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Journ%C3%A9e+commune+AFIA+-+ATALA
====

THÈME

L'objectif de cette journée est de faire le point sur les liens qui
existent actuellement entre le traitement automatique des langues (TAL),
et l'intelligence artificielle (IA).

INSCRIPTION ET PARTICIPATION

La participation à la journée est gratuite et ouverte à tous.
Néanmoins, pour faciliter son organisation matérielle, il est demandé de
s'inscrire en envoyant un message à pz (à) limsi.fr .

PROGRAMME

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9h00-9h30 : Accueil
9h10 : Présentation de l'ATALA,
    Association pour le traitement automatique des langues
9h20 : Présentation de l'AFIA,
    Association française pour l'intelligence artificielle

================================================================
9h30-11h00 : Introduction générale de la journée

Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS et ERTIM-INALCO) &
Laurence Danlos (ALPAGE, U Paris Diderot et INRIA)
    Introduction au TAL et positionnement.

Jean-Paul Haton
(LORIA et Université de Lorraine et Institut Universitaire de France)
    Intelligence artificielle : état des lieux.

================================================================
11h00-11h30 : Pause
================================================================
11h30-13h00 : Acquisition de connaissances ontologiques à partir de
textes

Amedeo Napoli
(LORIA et INRIA Lorraine)
    Tutoriel sur l'IA :
    représentation des connaissances, raisonnement, fouille de données.

Adeline Nazarenko, Nouha Omrane, Sylvie Szulman
(LIPN, CNRS et U Paris Nord)
    Indices textuels et connaissances de domaine :
    apport du TAL à l'Ingénierie des connaissances textuelles.

Yannick Toussaint
(LORIA et INRIA Lorraine)
    Extraction de connaissances complexes à partir de textes.

================================================================
13h00-14h30 : Repas libre
================================================================
14h30-16h00 :  TAL et raisonnement

Anaïs Cadilhac, Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara
(IRIT, CNRS et U Paul Sabatier)
     Extraction de préférences à partir de dialogues de négociation.

Camille Albert, Sarah Bourse, Patrick Saint-Dizier,
Leila Amgoud, Florence Bannay, Marie-Christine Lagasquié
(IRIT, CNRS et U Paul Sabatier)
     Comment le TALN et l'IA coopèrent :
     Le cas de la confrontation exigences de sécurité / procédures.

François Lévy, Adeline Nazarenko, Abdoulaye Guissé
(LIPN, CNRS et U Paris Nord)
    D'où viennent les règles des systèmes experts (d'aujourd'hui) ?
    Le rôle du texte.

Kamel Nebhi
(U Genève)
     Annotation automatique de documents pour les besoins du Web
     Sémantique : une approche linguistique.

================================================================
16h00-16h30 : Pause
================================================================
16h30-17h20 : IA et sciences cognitives pour le TAL

16h30-16h50
Andon Tchechmedjiev, Didier Schwab, Jerôme Goulian
(LIG-GETALP, CNRS)
     Méthodes de recherche stochastique pour la propagation de mesures
     sémantiques locales dans le cadre de la désambiguisation lexicale.

16h50-17h20
Michael Zock (LIF, CNRS et U de la Méditerranée)
    'Sciences' de la connaissance et 'sciences' de la communication :
    objectifs et stratégies et quelques réflexions concernant leur
    adéquation.

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17h20-18h00 Table ronde : quelles relations entre IA et TAL ?
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 22:52:41 +0100
Subject: Appel: EKAW 2012 PhD Symposium, Oct. 12th, Galway (Ireland)
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:23:44 +0100
From: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles <aussenac at irit.fr>
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*EKAW 2012 PhD Symposium*

*October 12th 2012, Galway (Ireland)*

**

http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org/node/53

**

*CALL for papers*

The Symposium is open to all PhD students. Its aim is to provide PhD
students with an opportunity to have their work -- even in its early
stages -- presented to an international audience. Moreover, their work
will be reviewed by experienced researchers one of which will play the
role of a privileged advisor (a mentor).

PhD students at the beginning of their work should have at least a
defined problem statement and some ideas about the solution that they
want to discuss. More advanced students will have to present their
research plan, their evaluation protocol and their preliminary results.

*Important Dates:*

.Paper Submission: April 25th, 2012

.Notification: June 12th, 2012

.Camera-Ready paper: July 6th , 2012

.PhD Symposium: October 12th, 2012

.Symposium :*October 12th 2012: Galway*

**

*Paper outline*

Submissions should be structured around the following items which are
the key methodological components required for a sound research
narrative:

. Problem: describe the core problem of the PhD and motivate its
  relevance for the knowledge management, knowledge acquisition and
  knowledge representation areas.

. State of the art: describe relevant related work and point out areas
  that need to be improved;

. Proposed Approach: present the approach taken and motivate how this is
  novel with respect to existing work;

. Methodology: sketch the methodology that is (or will be) adopted

. Evaluation protocol: the approach to be taken for evaluating the
  results of the work;

. Results: describe the current status of the work and any results that
  have been reached so far;

. Conclusions and future work: conclude and specify the major items of
  future work.

Submissions should be in the format of the EKAW conference (link). They
should be between 5 and 7 pages long.

Accepted papers will be published online as a CEUR workshop proceedings
volume (http://ceur-ws.org <http://ceur-ws.org/>).

*Topics :*

The symposium is intended for students doing their PhD in the same area
as the EKAW 2012 conference (knowledge management, knowledge acquisition
and knowledge representation)and in particular the following topics

1. Methodologies and tools for knowledge management

o Scalability, robustness, provenance and trust, privacy and data
  security in real-world data

o Adoption of semantic web technologies and Web 2.0 technologies

o Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration

o Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management technologies

o Corporate memories for knowledge management

o Incentives for human knowledge acquisition (e.g. games with a purpose)

2. Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition

o Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering

o Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation

o Knowledge acquisition from resources (texts, thesaurus, ...)

o Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data

o Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge

3. Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation

o Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science

o Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks

o Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation

o Knowledge ecosystems, expert finding


Symposium chairs

Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse, France) aussenac at irit.fr

Nathalie Hernandez (IRIT, Université de Toulouse, France) hernande at irit.fr

Programme committee : Currently being defined

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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:07:05 +0100
Subject: Revue: DISCOURS 9, 2011
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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:26:53 +0100
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Nous sommes très heureux d’annoncer la publication de *DISCOURS 9, 2011
http://discours.revues.org/8505 *

Au sommaire :

**

   - *Geneviève **Bordet*

« This » comme marqueur privilégié du genre : le cas des résumés de
thèses http://discours.revues.org/8506 [Texte intégral]

   - *Laetitia **Faivre*

L’ouverture d’énoncé : espace contraint, espace de liberté. Comparaison
entre l’allemand et le français dans un texte de Peter Sloterdijk et sa
traduction http://discours.revues.org/8523 [Texte intégral]

   - *Guillaume **François*

Étude comparée du fonctionnement des parenthèses et des tirets
http://discours.revues.org/8542 [Texte intégral]

   - *Christiane **Marque-Pucheu*

Entre statut phrastique et statut textuel : l’exemple des énoncés
situationnels http://discours.revues.org/8553 [Texte intégral]

   - *Marianna **Mini**, Kleopatra **Diakogiorgi** et Aggeliki
      **Fotopoulou*

What can children tell us about the fixedness of idiomatic phrases? The
psycholinguistic relevance of a linguistic model
http://discours.revues.org/8579 [Texte intégral]

   - *Catherine **Schnedecker** et Myriam **Bras*

Description sémantique de *dans un premier temps* : de la composition
syntagmatique au discours http://discours.revues.org/8563 [Texte
intégral]


Nous vous souhaitons une bonne lecture et nous vous invitons par
ailleurs à soumettre à tout moment pour les numéros à
paraître. Consultez les modalités de soumission
http://discours.revues.org/index208.html, et le dernier appel à
soumission http://discours.revues.org/8595

 Le comité de rédaction


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We are pleased to announce the publication of the 8th issue of DISCOURS :

*DISCOURS 9 |2011 http://discours.revues.org/8505 *

   - You can read the following articles:


    *Geneviève **Bordet*

« This » comme marqueur privilégié du genre : le cas des résumés de
thèses http://discours.revues.org/8506

   - *Laetitia **Faivre*

L’ouverture d’énoncé : espace contraint, espace de liberté. Comparaison
entre l’allemand et le français dans un texte de Peter Sloterdijk et sa
traduction http://discours.revues.org/8523

   - *Guillaume **François*

Étude comparée du fonctionnement des parenthèses et des tirets
http://discours.revues.org/8542

   - *Christiane **Marque-Pucheu*

Entre statut phrastique et statut textuel : l’exemple des énoncés
situationnels http://discours.revues.org/8553

   - *Marianna **Mini**, Kleopatra **Diakogiorgi** et Aggeliki
      **Fotopoulou*

What can children tell us about the fixedness of idiomatic phrases? The
psycholinguistic relevance of a linguistic model
http://discours.revues.org/8579

   - *Catherine **Schnedecker** et Myriam **Bras*

Description sémantique de *dans un premier temps* : de la composition
syntagmatique au discours <http://discours.revues.org/8563>



We hope you enjoy the issue.

For information on Call for papers http://discours.revues.org/8595 and
on submission procedures see http://discours.revues.org/index224.html.


The editorial board

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:13:08 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: PlaIR, Rouen, 3 Avril 2012
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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 16:19:23 +0100
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************************ APPEL A PARTICIPATION ************************

Séminaire du projet PlaIR (Plateforme d'Indexation Régionale)

Rouen 3 Avril 2012

LITIS EA 4108, Université de Rouen, Site du Madrillet

***********************************************************************


Le projet PlaIR ( Plateforme d'Indexation Régionale) se donne pour
objectif de mutualiser un ensemble de ressources documentaires
numériques et numérisées et les bibliothèques logicielles d’analyse
automatique ou semi-automatique de ces ressources pour constituer une
plateforme d’indexation et de recherche d’information multi-domaines et
multi-usages.

Quatre domaines d’applications sont retenus pour constituer autant de
démonstrateurs de cette plateforme : La Santé, l’Ingénierie, le Droit et
les Archives Numérisées Patrimoniales Imprimées.

===============
ORGANISATEURS
===============

Pr Stéfan Darmoni, LITIS EA 4108, Equipe Traitement de l'Information en
Biologie et Santé
Pr Thierry ¨Paquet, LITIS EA 4108, Equipe Document et Apprentissage

====================================
DESCRIPTION DU PROJET ET PARTENAIRES
====================================

http://www.chu-rouen.fr/plair/doku.php

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INSCRIPTION
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La participation à la journée est gratuite mais pour des soucis
d'organisation merci d'envoyer un mail à : stefan.darmoni at chu-rouen.fr
avec comme objet [Inscription PLAIR]

===============
COMMENT VENIR
===============

UFR Sciences, Université de Rouen, Site du Madrillet :
http://www.litislab.eu/front-page/acces

Par transport en commun : METRO-BUS de la gare SNCF direction
Technopôle, arrêt station Technopôle, l'Université est sur la droite

En voiture : Au niveau de la sortie Les Essards, Rouen Sud : Prendre
direction N138; Premier rond point : prendre direction Technopôle

===========
PROGRAMME
===========

   - 9h30-9h50 : accueil des participants

   - 9h50-10h00 : Introduction de la journée : Thierry Paquet & Stéfan
     Darmoni

   - 10h00 : Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI) : TAL et indexation

   - 10h30 : Hervé Dejean : XRCE

=========
Pause café
=========

   - 11h30-12h00 : T. Merabti (CHU Rouen) - Résultats Démos Perspectives

   - 12h00-12h30 : T. Palfray – S. Nicolas (LITIS-Rouen) - Résultats
     Démos Perspectives

   - 12h-12h30 Geneviève CRON : BnF, centre de compétences IMPACT

   - 12h30-13h00 Marie-Christine Jaulent : Ingénierie des connaissances
     et santé (INSERM)

=============
Pause déjeuner
=============

   - 14h00-14h30 IDIT-DYSOLA-LITIS

   - 14h15-14h30 UNIT (équipe MIU-LITIS)

   - 14h30-14h45 Archives de Seine Maritime

   - 14h45-15h00 E. Delamotte : Labex GIPSH / Cartographie du WEB

   - 15h00-15h15 E. Lalou : Documents anciens

   - 15h15-15h30 GREYC (Caen) : Gaël

   - 15h30-15h45 MRSH : Pascal Buleon Equipex Numnie

==================================
Clôture : Table Ronde PlaIR II : Vers Numerid
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:20:02 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier IC2012,
 Interoperabilit=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9_?=Semantique en e-Sante
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******** APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS ********

Atelier IC pour l’Interopérabilité Sémantique dans les applications en
e-Santé

Paris, Mardi 26 Juin 2012

https://sites.google.com/site/icisante2012/

en conjonction avec les 23èmes Journées francophones d’Ingénierie des
Connaissances

            http://ic2012.crc.jussieu.fr/

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L’Agence des Systèmes d'Information Partagés en Santé (ASIP) définit
l’interopérabilité sémantique entre systèmes d’information dans les
domaines santé et médico-social de la façon suivante: « La capacité
qu’ont plusieurs systèmes d’échanger de l’information entre eux et
d’utiliser l’information qui a été échangée, pour que les utilisateurs
de ces systèmes puissent en tirer parti dans leurs actes et leurs
décisions, pour le mieux-être de leurs patients. » En général, pour y
parvenir, le respect de normes et de standards partagés est
nécessaire. L’interopérabilité sémantique en santé s’appuie donc sur un
ensemble de ressources et de services permettant à un système
d’information de lier les données recueillies avec les connaissances
générales du domaine et permettant une optimisation des dossiers
patients informatisés pour un usage multiple : le soin, la santé
publique et la recherche clinique à travers plusieurs systèmes de santé
et plusieurs institutions. La question de l’interopérabilité sémantique
en santé est en pleine expansion au niveau européen comme en témoigne
les nombreux projets financés dans le programme du FP7, mais également
en France avec le déploiement du Dossier Médical Personnel mi-Janvier
2012.

L’objectif de cet atelier est de réunir les travaux traitant des
ressources et bases de connaissances pour l'interopérabilité sémantique
en santé (partage et réutilisation) sous divers aspects : leur
construction, leur évaluation, les langages et standards pour les
représenter.

Il s’agit de rassembler des chercheurs issus des mondes académique et
industriel pour débattre de la question de l’interopérabilité sémantique
en santé à travers la présentation d’activités de recherche innovantes,
de techniques, de technologies et de démonstrateurs développés dans le
cadre de la mise en œuvre de solutions d’interopérabilité sémantique
dans le domaine médical.

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THEMES
=========

Nous sollicitons des propositions de communication portant sur le thème
de la construction de ressources et de bases de connaissances pour
faciliter l'interopérabilité sémantique au sein d’applications médicales
(dossiers patients, systèmes d’information hospitaliers ...)

Les discussions pourront être organisées autour des thématiques (non
exhaustives) suivantes :

** Terminologies et Ontologies médicales :
Interopérabilité sémantique des contenus médicaux,
Méthodes d'alignement de terminologies et d'ontologies,
Indexation terminologique de dossiers médicaux de patients et de récits
cliniques,
Formalismes et langages de représentation,
Apports de la sémantique dans la pratique médicale ...

** Intégration de données multi-sources :
Entrepôts de données biomédicales
Partage et réutilisation des données …

** Extraction de l’information et de connaissances à partir de contenus
médicaux :
construction de bases de connaissances,
fouille de données
fouille de textes  …

** Utilisation de l’interopérabilité sémantique :
pour l’aide à la décision,
la recherche d’information, l'indexation…

============
SOUMISSIONS
============

Les chercheurs travaillant sur les thématiques de l'Interopérabilté
Sémantique pour les applications en e-santé sont invités à soumettre des
contributions jusqu'à *6* pages au format *** PDF** *conformes au modèle
de documents de la conférence IC :

   - Modèle LaTeX : http://ic2012.crc.jussieu.fr/style_latex_IC2012.zip
   - Modèle Word : http://ic2012.crc.jussieu.fr/style_word_IC2012.doc


Les contributions pourront être envoyées par courriel jusqu'au 30/04 à
ic.isante at gmail.com

=========
DATES
=========

Réception des articles : 30 Avril 2012
Réponse aux auteurs : 28 Mai 2012
Version finale : 4 Juin 2012
Atelier : Mardi 26 Juin 2012

=========
COMITE
=========

Florence Amerdeilh, Mondeca
Sandra Bringay, LIRMM, Université Montpellier 2
Rémy Choquet, INSERM Equ20
Olivier Dameron, INSERM U936, Université Rennes 1
Christel Daniel, INSERM Equ20
Stefan Darmoni, LITIS, Université de Rouen
Catherine Duclos, LIM&Bio, Université Paris 13
Marie-Christine Jaulent, INSERM Equ 20
Clément Jonquet, LIRMM, Université Montpellier 2
Fleur Mougin, ISPED, Université Bordeaux 2
Chantal Reynaud, LRI, Université Paris 11
Lina Soualmia, LIM&Bio, Université Paris 13
Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, Mondeca et INSERM Equ20

Organisatrices:

Marie-Christine Jaulent et Lina Soualmia

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:33:02 +0100
Subject: Appel: DEGELS 2012, report de la date limite au 4 avril
Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAR.2012.233302.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:48:42 +0100
From: Annelies Braffort <annelies.braffort at limsi.fr>
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Bonjour,

L'atelier DEGELS (DEfi Geste Langue des Signes) a pour objectif de
mutualiser les questions de recherche autour de l'annotation des corpus
de français oral (voix et gestes) et de Langue des Signes Française
(LSF). Il est associé à la conférence TALN (Traitement Automatique des
Langues Naturelles). Son objectif est de rassembler les communautés
scientifiques étudiant la gestualité co-verbale et la langue des signes
autour des problématiques communes portant sur l'annotation de corpus.

DEGELS prend la forme d'un défi d'annotation : nous fournissons aux
équipes participantes des données audio et vidéo extraites d'un corpus
comparable de français oral et de langue des signes. Les équipes doivent
les annoter, fournir leur annotation ainsi qu'un article décrivant leur
méthodologie (choix théoriques, grille d'annotation, critères
utilisés...), sur un thème donné qui change chaque année. Les
organisateurs alignent et comparent les annotations entre elles et
élabore une synthèse des différentes approches, qui est présentée en
introduction de l'atelier. L'atelier consiste quant à lui à travailler
et débattre en groupe sur des extraits du corpus commun qui sont
représentatifs des convergences et divergences observées dans les
annotations et débouchera sur la rédaction d'une rubrique correspondante
au thème choisi dans un guide d'annotation. Ce guide permettra une
meilleure accessibilité aux annotations des différents chercheurs et
sera un apport concret de l'atelier pour l'ensemble de la communauté
scientifique concernée.

L'atelier DEGELS 2012, associé à la conférence JET-TALN-RECITAL 2012,
est organisé à Grenoble le vendredi 8 juin 2012. Le thème de cette année
est la segmentation. Il s'agit d'un point de vue "bas-niveau" qui est
souvent un préalable à l'étiquetage de l'élément annoté. Les annotations
de DEGELS 2011 ont montré une diversité des méthodes employées, pour
lesquels une explicitation des critères de segmentation n'est pas
toujours proposée. Il s'agit cette année d'expliciter ces critères, qui
peuvent être multiples en fonction de l'approche théorique ou
méthodologique pratiquée.

Vous trouverez tous les détails sur le site de l'atelier : 
http://degels2012.limsi.fr/

En espérant vous voir nombreux !
Les organisatrices

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Fri Mar  9 22:35:55 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:35:55 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Webinar,
 Meaningful Metrics for Machine Translation
 =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?=96_?=A Discussion on Best Practice
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:20:09 +0100
From: Asia Online <webinars at asiaonline.net>
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Free Webinar
March 2012

Meaningful Metrics for Machine Translation – A Discussion on Best
Practice

Presenters :

Dion Wiggins

Chief Executive Officer

Asia Online

Kevin Nelson

Managing Director

Omnilingua Worldwide

12:00/12AM
Boston, New York

09:00/9AM
Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle

17:00/5PM
London, Dublin

18:00/6PM
Amsterdam, Prague

19:00/7PM
Bucharest

“What is your BLEU score?” This is the single most irrelevant question
relating to machine translation quality, yet one of the most frequently
asked. There are many ways to measure machine translation – and just as
many ways to misinterpret them. This month’s webinar discusses a variety
of metrics for machine translation and best practices that give
meaningful metrics for real-world scenarios.

Joining Dion Wiggins, Asia Online’s CEO, is Kevin Nelson, Managing
Director at Omnilingua Worldwide. Kevin will present recent SAE J2450
metrics that compare a customized Asia Online Language Studio™ engine
with a competitor Omnlingua recently upgraded from. Kevin will also
discuss productivity and how it is measured. This is one of the most
crucial measurements and can readily be compared to other machine
translation, as well as human translation output.

Key topics covered include:

* Best practices in measuring and comparing translations
* Measuring quality with Language Studio™
* Measuring quality with the SAE J2450 standard
* Measuring and comparing productivity

Did you attend one of our previous webinars?
Download the slides & videos.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:38:48 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2012 Student Session
Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAR.2012.233848.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:53:20 +0100
From: ESSLLI 2012 Student Session <esslli2012stus at loriweb.org>
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** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS**

*** PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO STUDENTS ***


Final Call for Papers
*ESSLLI 2012 STUDENT SESSION*

Held during
The 24th European Summer School
in Logic, Language and Information

Opole, Poland, August 6-17, 2012

Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2012
http://loriweb.org/ESSLLI2012StuS/

*ABOUT:*

The Student Session of the 24th European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Opole, Poland on
August 6-17, 2012. We invite submissions of original, unpublished work
from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language,
Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be
reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be
presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session
proceedings. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable
feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse
audience.

ESSLLI 2012 will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced
courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and Computation.
Consult the main ESSLLI website (link below) for further information.

*SPRINGER PRIZES FOR BEST PAPER AND BEST POSTER*

In 2012, Springer has again continued its generous support for the
Student Session by offering EUR 1000 in prizes. These include a a EUR
500 for Best Paper and EUR 500 for Best Poster. The prizes are awarded
best on the reviews of the submission as well as the oral presentation.

*INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:*

Authors must be students, i.e., may not have received the Ph.D. degree
before August 2012. All submissions must be in PDF format and be
submitted to the conference EasyChair website. Submissions may be singly
or jointly authored. No one may submit more than one singly and one
jointly authored paper.

There are two types of papers. Long papers of up to 8 pages will be
considered for both oral presentation and the poster session. Short
papers of up to 4 pages will be considered as submissions for the poster
session.

Submissions must be anonymous, without any identifying information, and
must be must be received by *March 30, 2012*.

More detailed guidelines regarding submission can be found on the 
Student Session website: http://loriweb.org/ESSLLI2012StuS/
Links to previous years' proceedings are also available there.

Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters
relating to the Student Session to esslli2012stus at loriweb.org.

For general inquiries about ESSLLI 2012, please consult the main ESSLLI
2012 page, http://esslli2012.pl/.

Kind regards,
The ESSLLI 2012 Students Session Organization Committee,

Rasmus K. Rendsvig (Roskilde University) (chair)
Anders Johannsen (University of Copenhagen)
Dominik Klein (Tilburg University)
Margot Colinet (Université de Paris 7)
Matthijs Westera (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Maxim Haddad (University of Osnabrück)
Niels Beuck (Hamburg University)

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Fri Mar  9 22:41:41 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:41:41 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF Informatique et sciences humaines et sociales,
 Sorbonne
Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAR.2012.234141.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:09:51 +0100
From: Montacié Claude
Message-ID: <4F59E4FF.2050601 at paris-sorbonne.fr>


Le poste requiert une double compétence : un haut niveau d’excellence
scientifique en Informatique et en applications de l’Informatique aux
sciences humaines et sociales (notamment le traitement paralinguistique
de la parole et du langage, la sociologie computationnelle, ...).

- filières de formation concernées
Le (la) MCF devra rejoindre le département de Mathématiques et
d’Informatique appliquées aux Sciences de l’Homme (actuellement 6 MCF et
2 Pr) de l’Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliquées (ISHA). Ce
département participe à des formations pluridisciplinaires de licence et
de master. Il est également chargé de l’enseignement de l’informatique
pour les étudiants de lettres et de sciences humaines.

- Objectifs pédagogiques et besoin d'encadrement
L’intérêt porté aux applications de la théorie informatique aux sciences
humaines et sociales constitue une des spécificités de l’enseignement de
l’Informatique à l’Université Paris-Sorbonne. Le candidat enseignera
l’Informatique dans les différentes formations de licence et de master
de l’ISHA. Il s’impliquera également dans l’encadrement de nouvelles
licences bi-cursus (licence Sciences-Sciences du langage, ...) en projet
au sein du PRES.

- Recherche
Le candidat devra être rattaché à une des équipes de recherches de
l’ISHA. Il devra présenter un programme de recherche qui s’insère
efficacement dans les perspectives d’une de ces équipes.

Contact : Claude.Montacie at paris-sorbonne.fr

Laboratoires d'accueil :
Groupe d'Étude des Méthodes de l'Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne 
(UMR 8598)
Sens Texte Informatique et HIstoire (EA 4509)

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Mar 10 09:33:58 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:33:58 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Web semantique, web social, Centre d'Alembert, 14 mars
 2012
Message-ID: <SAT.10.MAR.2012.103358.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:41:05 +0100
From: Centre d'Alembert <centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr>
Message-Id: <a06240801cb7fb8e870f7@[129.175.108.12]>
X-url: http://interstices.info/jcms/c_15918/les-nouvelles-technologies-que-nous-apportent-elles

Séminaire interdisciplinaire 2011-2012 du Centre d'Alembert

ttp://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr

Nouvelles pratiques et cultures du numérique dans les sciences et les
technologies

Séance du mercredi 14 mars 2012 :

Web sémantique, web social : quelles implications pour l'extraction
d'informations, la gestion des connaissances et le travail collaboratif
communautaire ?

Fabien GANDON, Chercheur à l'INRIA, Sophia-Antilpolis .

Web sémantique et social : nouvelles pratiques de recherche et
circulation des savoirs sur le web 3.0

Le web sémantique propose un jeu de langages (RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL,
etc.) permettant de publier et consommer des données liées et la
sémantique des schémas de ces données. Nous verrons comment cette
évolution du web ainsi que son couplage avec les approches et usages du
web 2.0 ou web social nous permettent de proposer de nouvelles
applications transversales aux systèmes d'informations existants. Nous
défendrons l'idée que les métadonnées du web sémantique sont une clef du
passage à l'échelle dans la gestion des ressources de plus en plus
variées du web et que les approches sociales sont une clef de la gestion
de ces métadonnées et de leur signification. Comme le web devient
ubiquitaire et augmente notre réalité au quotidien, cette modification
impacte toutes nos activités, y compris les pratiques et outils des
chercheurs.


LIoana MANOLESCU, Directeur de Recherche, LRI (Laboratoire de Recherche
en Informatique), Orsay.

Le web à l'heure du Linked Open Data : vers la base de donnée
universelle.

Les nouvelles technologies numériques remplacent peu à peu des fonctions
que nous aurions crues "spécifiquement humaines", telles la mémoire ou
le raisonnement [1] ; à cette liste est venue se rajouter même la
curiosité [2]...

Le Web est l'un des outils informatiques ayant remplacé le plus de
fonctions humaines. Sa fonction principale dès sa conception, est d'être
une base de données meilleure, plus flexible, et plus puissante que les
systèmes de l'époque [3].  Au delà de la base de données et du média
d'information, c'est devenu aussi un formidable outil d'échange et de
collaboration, permettant aux individus de croiser leurs connaissances
et de faire émerger de nouvelles connaissances communes.
Nous nous intéresserons à la façon dont le principe des données ouvertes
et interconnectées a été mis en place par des moyens technologiques et
de la science informatique, à travers l'histoire du Web. Nous
analyserons en particulier les possibilités offertes par les standards
du Web tels XML, RDF, et RDF-Schema, d'un côté, et les mouvements
sociétaux autour du thème Open Data, de l'autre, en particulier dans le
domaine de la science.

[1] http://interstices.info/jcms/c_15918/les-nouvelles-technologies-que-nous-apportent-elles
[2] http://www.pyoudeyer.com/developmentalRobotics.htm
[3] http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

Informations pratiques :
Les séances ont lieu à la Faculté des Sciences 
d'Orsay, bâtiment des colloques (338), 1er étage, 
de 13h30 à 15h30 (entrée libre). Accès : 
<http://g.co/maps/cq8yj>http://g.co/maps/cq8yj

Programme détaillé et contact :
Web : http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr 
Mél. : centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr
Médias sociaux : http://twitter.com/centredalembert

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:36:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: CLEF,
 Call for participation INEX Tweet Contextualization track
Message-ID: <SAT.10.MAR.2012.103606.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:54:09 +0100
From: Veronique Moriceau <moriceau at limsi.fr>
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*Call for participation*

*Tweet Contextualization *

an INEX Lab at CLEF 2012, 17--20 September in Rome, Italy

Participants are solicited for the *tweet contextualization* INEX task
at CLEF 2012. The use case of this new task is the following: given a
new tweet, the system must provide some context about the subject of the
tweet, in order to help the reader to understand it. This context should
take the form of a *readable summary, not **exceeding 500 words,
composed of passages from a provided Wikipedia corpus*. For more
information visit https://inex.mmci.uni-saarland.de/tracks/qa/.

The results of the evaluation campaign will be disseminated at the final
workshop which will be organized in conjunction with the CLEF 2012
conference, 17--20 September in Rome, Italy.

*Test data*

About 1000 tweets in English will be collected by the organizers from
Twitter®. They will be selected among informative accounts (for example,
@CNN, @TennisTweets, @PeopleMag, @science...), in order to avoid purely
personal tweets that could not be contextualized. Information such as
the user name, tags or URLs will be provided. The tweets will be made
available in a JSON format.

The document collection is a recent dump of the English Wikipedia
(November 2011). Since we target non factual answers but short
contextualizing texts, we removed all the info box and the external
references, leaving only the textual content with all its document
structure (title, abstract, sections, subtitles and paragraphs) and its
internal references (links towards other pages).

*Evaluation *

The summaries will be evaluated according to:

- the way they overlap with relevant passages (number of them,
  vocabulary and bi-grams included or missing),

- the readability assessed by evaluators and participants.

*Schedule*

*March, 1 2012 *Online Registrations to the Labs opens *
March, 26 2012 *Test set release. *
June, 1 2012 *Run submissions. *
June, 30 2012 *Release of manual evaluation of readability by
participants. *
July, 15 2012 *Results to participants. *
August 17 2012 *Submission of CLEF 2012 Working Notes papers *
August 24 2012 *Submission of CLEF 2012 Labs Overviews *
September 17-20 2012 *CLEF 2012 Conference

*Organizers (contact : contextweet at limsi.fr)*

Patrice Bellot, LSIS - Aix-Marseille University
Josiane Mothe, IRIT, University of Toulouse
Véronique Moriceau, LIMSI-CNRS, University Paris-Sud
Eric SanJuan, LIA, University of Avignon
Xavier Tannier,* *LIMSI-CNRS, University Paris-Sud


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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:05:07 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLPCS 2012 - Int'l Workshop on Natural Language Processing
 and Cognitive Science (Wroclaw/Poland)
Message-ID: <SAT.10.MAR.2012.120507.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:49:02 -0500
From: "ICEIS WS Secretariat" <postmaster13 at 303media.net>
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X-url: http://www.iceis.org/NLPCS.aspx

International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science
NLPCS website: http://www.iceis.org/NLPCS.aspx

CO-CHAIRS:
Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Michael Zock, Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II), France

This workshop will be held in Wroclaw, Poland on June 28-29, 2012, in
conjunction with ICEIS (International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems), a conference sponsored by the Institute for
Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
(INSTICC), co-organized by the Wroclaw University of Economics and held
in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI), the Institute of Electronics, Information and
Communication Engineers (IEICE) and with the IEICE Special Interest
Group on Software Interprise Modelling (SWIM). INSTICC is member of the
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and the Object Management Group
(OMG).


Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All
accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the
workshop proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM
support. BSDS

All presented papers will be also available at the SciTePress Digital
Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary). SciTePress is member
of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).


Should you have any question or suggestions please don't hesitate to
contact me.


Kind regards,
Helder Coelhas
ICEIS WS Secretariat

Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 8816 
Email: iceis.workshops.secretariat at insticc.org

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission: March 30, 2012
Authors Notification: April 20, 2012
Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 4, 2012 


SCOPE:
The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and
practitioners in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by taking a Cognitive
Science perspective. 

What characterizes this kind of approach is the fact that NLP is
considered from various viewpoints (linguistics, psychology, statistics,
computer science, artificial intelligence), and that a deliberate effort
is made to reconcile or integrate these viewpoints into a coherent
whole. 

We believe that this is necessary, as the modeling of the process is
simply too complex to be addressed by a single discipline. No matter
whether we deal with a natural system (people), an artificial system
(computers) or a combination of both (interactive NLP), systems rely on
many types of very different knowledge sources. Hence, strategies vary
considerably depending on the person (novice, expert), on the available
knowledge (internal and external), and on the nature of the information
processor : man, machine or both (man-machine communication, interactive
NLP). 

This being so, any of the following aspects are welcomed : structure,
representation and processing of information by different agents
(natural, artificial or both) and in different communication modes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

	- Ontologies
	- Text mining
	- Conceptualisation
	- Meaning construction
	- Electronic Dictionaries
	- Evolutionary NLP
	- Discourse processing
	- Social cognition of language
	- Multi-Lingual Processing
	- Speech Processing
	- Pragmatics and NLP
	- Tools and Resources in NLP
	- Evaluation of NLP Systems
	- Embodied and situated NLP
	- Computational Models of NLP
	- Emotion and language processing
	- Translation and Machine Translation
	- Multimodality in speech / text processing
	- Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP
	- Text Summarization and Information Extraction
	- Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:48:38 +0100
Subject: Ecole: SSFLA 2012, April 2-6, 2012, Tarragona, Spain
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:21:32 +0100
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2012 INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS

SSFLA 2012

(formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications)

Tarragona, Spain

April 2-6, 2012

Organized by:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2012/

*********************************************************************

AIM:

SSFLA 2012 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures at different
levels on selected topics in language and automata theory and their
applications. The students choose their preferred courses according to
their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their
respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate and
foster their research career.

The previous event in this series was FSFLA 2011
(http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/).

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate (and advanced undergraduate) students from around the
world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and
Mathematics. Other students (for instance, from Linguistics, Electrical
Engineering, Molecular Biology or Logic) are welcome too provided they
have a good background in discrete mathematics.

The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career
who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.

There is no overlap in the class schedule.

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

- Eric Allender (Rutgers), Circuit Complexity: Recent Progress in Lower
  Bounds [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]

- Amihood Amir (Bar-Ilan), Periodicity and Approximate Periodicity in
  Pattern Matching [introductory, 6 hours]

- Ahmed Bouajjani (Paris 7), Automated Verification of Concurrent
  Boolean Programs [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]

- Andrea Corradini (Pisa), Computational Models Based on Rewriting
  [introductory, 12 hours]

- Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux), Automata for Monadic Second-order Model
  Checking [intermediate, 8 hours]

- Manfred Droste (Leipzig), Weighted Automata and Weighted Logic
  [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]

- Jörg Flum (Freiburg), The Halting Problem for Turing Machines
  [introductory/advanced, 6 hours]

- Aart Middeldorp (Innsbruck), Termination of Rewrite Systems
  [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done on line at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2012/Registration.php

FEES:

They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student
takes.  
The rule is:

1 hour = 

- 10 euros (for payments until January 22, 2012), 

- 15 euros (for payments after January 22, 2012). 

PAYMENT PROCEDURE:

The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: 

Uno-e Bank

bank’s address: Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain

IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142

SWIFT/BIC code: UNOEESM1

account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC

account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain

Please mention SSFLA 2012 and your name in the subject. A receipt will
be provided on site.

Remarks:

- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.

- People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that the
  bank transfer order was carried out by the deadline.

- Students may be refunded only in the case when a course gets cancelled
  due to the unavailability of the instructor.

People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in
cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much
recommended to do it earlier.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation is available on the website of the
School.

CERTIFICATE:

Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended,
their contents, and their duration.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announcement of the programme: December 10, 2011
Starting of the registration: December 10, 2011
Early registration deadline: January 22, 2012
Starting of the School: April 2, 2012
End of the School: April 6, 2012 

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Lilica Voicu:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

WEBSITE:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2012/ 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSFLA 2012
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Diputació de Tarragona
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:52:47 +0100
Subject: Appel: ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and
 Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL
 2012)
Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2012.205247.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:53:10 +0100
From: DJamé Seddah <djame.seddah at free.fr>
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** Apologies for multiple postings **

======================================================================
3nd CALL FOR PAPERS
------------------------------------------
ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing
of Morphologically-Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL)
(http://sites.google.com/site/spsemmrl2012/)

Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGPARSE and the EU's PASCAL Network of Excellence
======================================================================

NEW!
-----------------------------
We are pleased to announce financial support in workshop registration
fees to up to five students, through the generous sponsorship of PASCAL
Network of Excellence. Priority will be given to PASCAL students, but
all students are encouraged to apply. (Details to follow closer to
beginning of registration period).  Registration Date: TBD.


IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------
Submission deadline: Mar 31, 2012
Notification to authors: Apr 21, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: Apr 30, 2012
Workshop dates: TBD, during the ACL-2012 workshop period (Jul 12-14, 2012)


WORKSHOP SCOPE
-----------------------------
Morphologically Rich Languages (MRLs) are languages in which grammatical
relations such as Subject, Predicate, Object, etc., are indicated
morphologically (e.g. through inflection) instead of positionally (as
in, e.g. English), and the position of words and phrases in the sentence
may vary substantially. The tight connection between the morphology of
words and the grammatical relations between them, and the looser
connection between the position and grouping of words to their syntactic
roles, pose serious challenges for syntactic and semantic
processing. Furthermore, since grammatical relations provide the
interface to compositional semantics, morphosyntactic phenomena may
significantly complicate processing the syntax-semantics interface. In
statistical parsing, which has been a cornerstone of research in NLP and
had seen great advances due to the widespread availability of
syntactically annotated corpora, English parsing performance has reached
a high plateau in certain genres, which is however not always indicative
of parsing performance in MRLs, dependency-based and constituency-based
alike. Semantic processing of natural language has similarly seen much
progress in recent years.  However, as in parsing, the bulk of the work
has concentrated on English, and MRLs may present processing challenges
that the community is as of yet unaware of, and which current semantic
processing technologies may have difficulty coping with. These
challenges may lurk in areas where parses may be used as input, such as
semantic role labeling, distributional semantics, paraphrasing and
textual entailment, or where inadequate pre-processing of morphological
variation hurts parsing and semantic tasks alike.

This joint workshop aims to build upon the first and second SPMRL
workshops (at NAACL-HLT 2010 and IWPT 2011, respectively) while
extending the overall scope to include semantic processing where MRLs
pose challenges for algorithms or models initially designed to process
English. In particular, we seek to explore the use of newly available
syntactically and/or semantically annotated corpora, or data sets for
semantic evaluation that can contribute to our understanding of the
difficulty that such phenomena pose. One goal of this workshop is to
encourage cross-fertilization among researchers working on different
languages and among those working on different levels of processing.  Of
particular interest is work addressing the lexical sparseness and
out-of-vocabulary issues that occur in both syntactic and semantic
processing.

The workshop will be organised around three broad themes:

- Syntactic Models: Models and architectures that explicitly integrate
  morphological analysis and parsing; Cross-language and cross-model
  comparison of strengths and weaknesses regarding particular linguistic
  phenomena.

- Semantic Models: State-of-the-art semantic analysis and generation
  methods for MRLs, including semantic similarity and entailment
  criteria and their task-specific instantiation, and suitable
  representations for semantic tasks in MRLs.

- Joint Modeling Aspects: Improving lexical coverage and handling of
  out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words by utilising lexical knowledge or
  unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques; The role of parsing
  in semantic analysis for MRLs; Preprocessing issues that jointly
  affect parsing and semantic analysis; Syntax-Semantics interfaces for
  monolingual or multilingual systems.

The areas of interest for this joint workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following topics:

--Syntactic Parsing of MRLs

* parsing models and architectures that explicitly integrate
  morphological analysis and parsing

* parsing models and architectures that focus on lexical coverage and
  the handling of OOV words either by incorporating linguistic knowledge
  or through the use of unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques

* Cross-language and cross-model comparison of models' strengths and
  weaknesses in the face of particular linguistic phenomena (e.g.
  morphosyntactic characteristics, degree of word-order freedom)

* Comprehensive analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of various
  parsing models on particular linguistic (e.g. morphosyntactic)
  phenomena with respect to variation in tagsets, annotation schemes and
  additional data transformations


--Semantic Processing of MRLs

* Semantic distance and entailment criteria in the MRL space (e.g., with
  respect to inflection, derivation, root, pattern, lemma, tense, and/or
  aspect, etc.); possibly task-specific criteria

* Lexical resources and morphological analysis tools facilitating
  semantic distance measures and semantic relation detection

* Methods and models for semantic similarity/distance calculation,
  clustering and paraphrasing relying on MRL properties, and using:
  probability, vector/graph representation, data-driven and/or
  linguistic rules, pivoting/SMT, machine-learning, etc.

* Paraphrase and textual entailment detection or generation, specific to
  MRLs (e.g., task-specific issues of inclusion or exclusion of certain
  paraphrase and textual entailment patterns differing in inflection)

* Use of morphological analysis for semantic calculation aimed at
  reducing sparsity / OOV rate, preferably without losing information
  due to mere lemmatization

* Semantic role labeling (SRL) for MRLs; verbal/nominalized selectional
  preferences


--The Syntax-Semantics Interface:

* Parsing-based semantic processing tasks, e.g., semantic role labeling
  (SRL)

* Processing of compounds and multi-morphemic words: optimal level(s) of
  tokenization, representation, and morphological analysis for
  either/both tasks

* Syntax-aware semantic distance measures, paraphrasing and textual
  entailment

* Semantic classes and/or relations as input to syntactic parsing


In addition to the standard (oral or poster) presentations in the
sessions, the SP-Sem-MRL workshop will feature a panel of commentators
for a selection of the talks, allowing for an extended discussion
period. This new feature is introduced in order to foster in-depth
discussions and to nurture interactions among researchers. It is our
hope that these interactions will help to bring ideas (and solutions) to
the fore and promote a more rapid advance of the state-of-the-art in the
field.


Shared Task
------------------

There will be no shared task on MRLs this year. However, we will take
this opportunity to disclose, during a special session of SP-Sem-MRL,
the data sets and evaluation procedures for the cross-linguistic
cross-framework shared task which was discussed at previous SPMRL
panels, and which is planned for SPMRL 2013 at IWPT 2013. Researchers
who are interested in participating in the shared task or teams that
wish to add their data sets or extrinsic evaluation procedures to the
task are encouraged to attend the session and contribute to the
discussion.


SUBMISSION
-------------------

Authors are invited to submit long papers (up to 10 pages + any number
of reference pages) and short papers (up to 5 pages + any number of
reference page). Long papers should describe unpublished, substantial
and completed research. Short papers should be position papers, papers
describing work in progress or short, focused contributions.

Papers may be submitted until 31 March 2012 in PDF format via the START
system:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/sp-sem-mrl-2012/

Submitted papers must follow the styles and the formatting guidelines
available from the current ACL recommendations
(http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp). As the reviewing will be blind,
the papers must not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be
avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith,
1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be
rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your
submissions on the web until after the review process is complete.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
--------------------------------------

General chairs:
Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yuval Marton (IBM Watson Research Center, US)
Djamé Seddah (University of Paris 4, France)
Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Shared session chairs:
Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin, US)
Ines Rehbein (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Peter Turney (National Research Council, Canada)
Yannick Versley (University of Tuebingen, Germany)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------
Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Mohammed Attia (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Bernd Bohnet  (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France)
Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, US)
Ozlem Cetinoglu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jinho Choi (University of Colorado at Boulder, US)
Grzegorz Chrupala  (Saarland University, Germany)
Benoit Crabbé (University of Paris 7, France)
Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yoav Goldberg (Google Research NY, US)
Spence Green (Stanford University, US)
Veronique Hoste (University College Ghent, Belgium)
Samar Husain (Potsdam University, Germany)
Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, US)
Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Alberto Lavelli (FBK-irst, Italy)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Joseph Le Roux (Université Paris-Nord, France)
Nitin Madnani (Educational Testing Service, NJ)
Wolfgang Maier (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Aurélien Max (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Yusuke Miyao (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Sebastian Pado (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research, US)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies, US)
Idan Szpektor (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, US)
Benoit Sagot (INRIA Rocquencourt, France)
Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Tim Van de Cruys (University of Cambridge, UK)
Stephen Wan (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney)
Deniz Yuret (Koc University Istanbul, Turkey)
Zdenek Zabokrtsky (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Shiqi Zhao (Baidu Inc., China)


REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT
---------------
We are pleased to announce financial support in workshop registration
fees to up to five students, through the generous sponsorship of PASCAL
Network of Excellence. Priority will be given to PASCAL students, but
all students are encouraged to apply. (Details to follow closer to
beginning of registration period).
Registration Date: TBD.


CONTACT
---------------
e-mail: sp.sem.mrl2012 at gmail.com
website: https://sites.google.com/site/spsemmrl2012/


SPONSORS
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This workshop is endorsed by SIGLEX & SIGPARSE ; and sponsored by the
PASCAL Network of Excellence & the INRIA's Alpage project.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:05:39 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL workshop Innovative hybrid approaches to the
 processing of textual data (HYBRID 2012), April 23, 2012,
 Avignon, France
Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2012.210539.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:30:07 +0100
From: Thierry Hamon <thierry.hamon at univ-paris13.fr>
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Call for Participation

EACL 2012 workshop on

Innovative hybrid approaches to the processing of textual data (HYBRID 2012)

April 23, 2012
Avignon, France
http://www-limbio.smbh.univ-paris13.fr/membres/hamon/hybrid/

** Early registration by March 19, 2012 **
********************************************************************

The first Workshop on Innovative hybrid approaches to the processing of
textual data will be held in conjunction with the 13th Conference of the
European Charter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL
2012) which will take place in April 23-27, 2012, in Avignon, France.

==================
About the Workshop
==================

The hybrid approach term covers a large set of situations in which
different approaches are combined in order to better process textual
data and to attempt a better achievement of the dedicated task.

Among the hybridizations the possible combinations are unlimited. The
most frequent combination, as stressed during The Balancing Act in 1994,
addressed machine learning and rule-based systems. Beyond this, the
hybridization can be augmented with distributionnal approaches,
syntactic and morphological analyses, semantic distances and
similarities, graph theory models, cooccurrences of linguistic units
(e.g., word and their dependencies, word senses and pos-tag, NEs and
semantic roles,...), knowledge-based approaches (terminologies and
ontologies), etc.

As a matter of fact, the hybridization implies to define a strategy to
efficiently combine several approaches: cooperation between approaches,
filtering, voting or ranking of the multiple system outputs, etc.

Indeed, the combination of these different methods and approaches
appears to provide more complete and performant results. The reason is
that each method is sensitive and efficient with given data and within
given contexts. Hence, their combination may improve both precision and
recall.  The coverage is indeed improved, while the exploitation of
different methods may also lead to the improvement of the precision
since their use within filtering, voting etc. modes becomes possible.

In this workshop, we favour the extended meaning of the hybridization of
methods, applied to various application areas, such as:
    automatic creation of linguistic resources
    POS tagging
    building and structuring of terminologies
    information retrieval and filtering
    information extraction
    linguistic annotation
    semantic labeling
    sign language recognition and transcription
    oral data transcription
    filtering and validation of lexical resources
    text summarization
    question/answering system
    natural language generation
    etc.



==================
Invited speaker
==================

Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
Multilingual Natural Language Processing and Graph-based Algorithms for
Natural Language Processing (TBC)

==================
Accepted papers
==================

Incorporating Linguistic Knowledge in Statistical Machine Translation:
Translating Prepositions
Reshef Shilon, Hanna Fadida and Shuly Wintner

An Unsupervised and Data-Driven Approach for Spell Checking in
Vietnamese
OCR-scanned Texts
Cong Duy Vu Hoang and Ai Ti Aw

Experiments on Hybrid Corpus-Based Sentiment Lexicon Acquisition
Goran Glavaš, Jan Šnajder and Bojana Dalbelo Baši&#263;

Hybrid Combination of Constituency and Dependency Trees into an Ensemble
Dependency Parser
Nathan Green and Zden&#283;k Žabokrtský

Describing Video Contents in Natural Language
Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan and Yoshihiko Gotoh

Combining Different Summarisation Techniques for Legal Text
Filippo Galgani, Paul Compton and Achim Hoffmann

A Study of Hybrid Similarity Measures for Semantic Relation Extraction
Alexander Panchenko and Olga Morozova

==================
Accepted posters
==================

Contrasting objective and subjective Portuguese texts from heterogeneous
sources
Michel Genereux and William Martinez

A Joint Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking System
Rosa Stern, Benoît Sagot and Frédéric Béchet

Applicability Verification of a New ISO Standard for Dialogue Act
Annotation with the Switchboard Corpus
Alex C. Fang, Harry Bunt, Jing Cao and Xiaoyue Liu

Coupling Knowledge-Based and Data-Driven Systems for Named Entity
Recognition
Damien Nouvel, Jean-Yves Antoine, Nathalie Friburger and Arnaud Soulet

A random forest system combination approach for error detection in
digital dictionaries
Michael Bloodgood, Peng Ye, Paul Rodrigues, David Doermann and David
Zajic

A Hybrid Methodology for Automatic Creation of Linguistic Resources in
Multiple Languages
Svetlana Sheremetyeva

Methods Combination and ML-based Re-ranking of Multiple Hypothesis for
Question-Answering Systems
Arnaud Grappy, Brigitte Grau and Sophie Rosset

A generalised hybrid architecture for NLP
Alistair Willis, Hui Yang and Anne De Roeck


===================
Programme Committee
===================
Anders Ardö, EIT, LTH, Lund University, Sweden
Delphine Bernhard, LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg, France
Wray Duntine, NICTA, Australia
Philipp Cimiano, CITEC, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Vincent Claveau, IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France
Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA
Marie-Claude l'Homme, OLST, Université de Montreal, Canada
Béatrice Daille, Université de Nantes, LINA, France
Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Anna Kazantseva, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mikaela Keller, CNRS LIFL UMR8022, Mostrare INRIA, Université Lille 1&3, France
Alistair Kennedy, University of Ottawa, Canada
Ben Leong, University of North Texas, USA
Pierre Nugues, CS, LTH, Lund University, Sweden
Bruno Pouliquen, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland
Sampo Pyysalo, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Mathieu Roche, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier 2, France
Patrick Ruch, Haute école de gestion de Genève, Switzerland
Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Juan-Manuel Torres Moreno, LIA, Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France
Özlem Uzuner, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA

============
Organisation
============
Natalia Grabar, CNRS UMR 8163 STL, Université Lille 1&3, France
Marie Dupuch, CNRS UMR 8163 STL, Université Lille 1&3, France
Amandine Périnet, LIM&BIO, Université Paris 13, France
Thierry Hamon, LIM&BIO, Université Paris 13, France

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:08:09 +0100
Subject: Appel: RECITAL 2012,
 report de la date limite de soumission au 25 mars 2012
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:20:43 +0100
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Appel RECITAL'2012

14e Rencontres des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues

Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012

http://www.jeptaln2012.org/

CALENDRIER

 - Date limite de soumission : 25 mars 2012 (nouvelle date)
 - Notification aux auteurs : 19 avril 2012 (nouvelle date)
 - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : fin avril 2012
   (nouvelle date)
 - Conférence : 4-8 juin 2012

PRÉSENTATION

RECITAL 2011, la conférence annuelle des jeunes chercheurs associée à
TALN, se déroulera à Grenoble (France) du 4 au 8 juin 2012. Elle est
réservée aux étudiants (master ou doctorat) ainsi qu'aux jeunes
chercheurs ayant obtenu leur doctorat depuis moins d'un an. RECITAL a
pour vocation d'offrir aux jeunes chercheurs en Traitement Automatique
des Langues l'occasion de présenter leurs travaux et de comparer leurs
approches. Cette conférence a son propre comité de programme, constitué
de chercheurs en poste et de doctorants. Les soumissions retenues par le
comité sont publiées dans les mêmes actes que ceux de TALN.

Cette année, nous encourageons la soumission de travaux même
préliminaires, projets de thèse, travaux des premiers mois de recherche
(états de l'art, premières pistes,…).

RECITAL a pour vocation de soutenir les travaux de jeunes chercheurs en
TAL afin que, d'un côté, ils puissent améliorer leur travail et, de
l'autre, ils puissent bien s'intégrer dans notre communauté. À ce titre,
nous visons :

- des relectures pédagogiques : il s'agit que les auteurs puissent
  comprendre les erreurs qu'il ont pu commettre afin de pouvoir les
  corriger et améliorer leur travail ;

- des relectures positives : il n'est jamais nécessaire de décourager un
  jeune, les maîtres-mots devront être encourager/guider ;

- l'échange direct : les relectures seront communiquées signées, donc
  non-anonymes, aux auteurs. Libre à eux (ou mieux, aux relecteurs)
  d'aller informellement discuter/boire un verre ensemble lors de la
  conférence.


Un prix du meilleur papier RECITAL d'une valeur de 500 Euros sera
décerné lors de la cérémonie de clôture.

Un programme de bourses est mis en place pour aider les auteurs des
articles acceptés. Ces bourses comprennent l'inscription aux conférences
et aux activités associées. Elles seront accordées après examen des
demandes et des papiers soumis.

THÈMES

Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes habituels du TAL :

 - Analyse et génération dans les domaines suivants :
	 - Phonétique
	 - Phonologie
	 - Morphologie
	 - Syntaxe
	 - Sémantique
	 - Discours
 - Développement de ressources linguistiques pour le TAL :
	 - Bases de données comportant des informations morphologiques,
	   syntaxiques, sémantiques, et/ou phonologiques
	 - Grammaires
	 - Lexiques
	 - Ontologies
	 - Linguistique de corpus
 - Applications du TAL :
	 - Analyse de sentiments ou d'opinions
	 - Catégorisation ou classification automatique
	 - Désambiguïsation lexicale
	 - Dialogue homme-machine en langage naturel
	 - Enseignement assisté par ordinateur
	 - Indexation automatique
	 - Recherche et extraction d'information
	 - Résumé automatique
	 - Résolution d'anaphores
	 - Systèmes de question-réponse
	 - Traduction automatique
	 - Web sémantique
 - Approches:
	 - Linguistiques formelles destinées à soutenir les traitements
	   automatiques
	 - Symboliques
	 - Logiques
	 - Statistiques
	 - Basées sur l'apprentissage automatique

Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive et l'adéquation d'une proposition de
communication à la conférence sera jugée par le comité de programme.

CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION

Les auteurs doivent être des étudiant(e)s ou bien des jeunes docteur(e)s
ayant soutenu leur thèse depuis moins d'un an. Les publications avec des
chercheurs confirmés (ce qui inclus les directeurs de thèses) doivent
être soumises à TALN et non à RECITAL.

Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux,
n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications antérieures. Les soumissions
seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine. Seront
considérées en particulier:

 - La correction du contenu scientifique et technique
 - La situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale
 - L'organisation et la clarté de la présentation
 - L'adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence

Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de la
conférence. Suivant l'avis du comité de programme, les présentations se
feront soit sous forme orale soit sous forme d'affiche.

MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION

Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français. Les articles
doivent faire de 10 à 14 pages.

Une feuille de style LaTeX, un modèle Word et un modèle LibreOffice sont
disponibles sur le site web de la conférence
(http://www.jeptaln2012.org/).  La soumission se fait en ligne (voir
instructions sur le site web de la conférence).

Contacts :

Didier.Schwab at imag.fr et Jorge-Mauricio.Molina-Mejia at e.u-grenoble3.fr

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:15:12 +0100
Subject: Job: Chef de Projet informatique editoriale
Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2012.211512.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:55:06 +0100
From: "Jimmy.Anne" <AJIMMY at sejer.fr>
Message-ID: <0B7386E44B1D594DACD8F4B4CF7AEC6B07286DE4 at SMAIL.intranet.lan>


Les services marketing partagés du Pôle Education & Référence
Editions Nathan, Bordas, Le Robert, Retz, Clé…SEJER

Recrutent 

un CHEF DE PROJET INFORMATIQUE EDITORIALE (H/F) 

Sous la responsabilité du Directeur des services partagés marketing et
développement numérique, vous prenez en charge l’analyse et le
développement informatique appliqué à la gestion, la transformation et
la publication d’un contenu éditorial et documentaire, en relation avec
les éditeurs et les différents services opérationnels.

A ce titre, vous serez, notamment chargé :

- De piloter le projet global de structuration des contenus des maisons
  d’édition ; à ce titre vous participerez à la définition des
  objectifs, du périmètre et de la trajectoire de déploiement en
  coordination avec les éditeurs et la fabrication.


- D’accompagner en particulier les projets éditoriaux des maisons, en
  termes de structuration de contenus :

  - Analyse l’existant (corpus documentaire, maquettes graphiques) et
    rédige le cahier des charges (spécifications fonctionnelles et
    techniques)

  - Structure les données, crée et maintient les Définitions Types de
    Documents (DTD)

  - Assure le suivi des projets, pilote les développeurs internes et
    externes et réalise certains développements

  - Accompagne les éditeurs pour faciliter l’intégration de ces
    nouvelles technologies et outils

  - Aide les éditeurs à concevoir et mettre en œuvre des projets
    d’enseignement à distance

- De faire évoluer et enrichir les process et outils internes :

  - Conçoit, réalise et optimise des programmes de traitement et de
    structuration de données (ouvrages, fonds documentaires,
    lexicographiques)

  - Organise les bases de données et administre le réseau informatique
    éditoriale

  - Assure le suivi de développements d'outils d’informatique éditoriale
    (gestion de contenus, workflow de production, LCMS …)


- D’assurer une veille technologique : 

  - veille permanente des nouveaux outils, pratiques et process déployés
    par la concurrence

  - Recherche de nouveaux prestataires

28/02/2012

Profil : 
Formation et expérience:
Développeur informatique - spécialisé en ingénierie documentaire (dont
multimédia)
Linguiste informaticien – spécialisé en création de ressources
documentaires
Vous disposez de très bonnes connaissances de l’Edition numérique et
avez déjà piloté des projets de développement d’outils éditoriaux
complexes et/ou innovants. 

Vous êtes rigoureux, organisé, impliqué et disposez du sens du service. 

Connaissances techniques

 Formats de documents

 XML
   utilisation d’un éditeur XML (ex : Oxygen, XMetal, XML-Spy, …)

   écriture de DTD / schéma XML (en création ex nihilo ou en évolution
   d’un modèle existant)

   analyse syntaxique / sémantique d’instances XML

   balisage d’instances XML

   tous diagnostics et corrections d’erreurs dans les instances XML

autres formats de documents appréciés : PDF, MathML

Programmation
 XSLT : conversion de formats XML, HTML, texte (entrants ou sortants)

 CSS
   écriture de CSS (version CSS2)
   CSS3 : vernis culture apprécié

 Autres langages de programmation appréciés : Perl, scripting (batch,
 shell)

 Bases de données : vernis culturel souhaité en BD relationnelle, SGBD
 Oracle

 E-learning : connaissance LOM, SCORM

Poste basé à Paris 13ème.

Si ce poste vous intéresse, merci d’adresser votre dossier de
candidature (lettre de motivation, CV) sous la référence « CDP Info
éditoriale » à :
	
DRH – Mylène Bourreau – 25, avenue Pierre de Coubertin –75013 Paris
Ou par e-mail : recrutement.sejer at sejer.fr

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Mar 13 20:16:47 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:16:47 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF Section 7,
 Linguistique de l'ecrit et enseignement du francais,
 Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense
Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2012.211647.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:05:24 +0100
From: Jean-Luc Minel <jminel at u-paris10.fr>
Message-ID: <4F5EF1B4.8090004 at u-paris10.fr>


Le poste de MCF Section 7 « Linguistique de l'écrit et enseignement du
français » à l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense a été publié.

Pour tout renseignement, s’adresser à Denis Le Pesant : 
denis.lepesant at u-paris10.fr

Profil recherche : Linguistique de l'écrit, remédiation de l’écrit, 
problématiques de la relation  oral/écrit.

Enseignement : linguistique française ; linguistique de l’écrit ; 
didactique de la langue française

Autres : Coordination pédagogique du Master « Métiers de l'Education: 
Professorat des écoles et accompagnement périscolaire » de l'Université 
Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

Remarque : Expérience professionnelle en IUFM souhaitée

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:19:52 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: John Swales, Vendredi 30 mars 2012 - 10H30-12H30 - ENS
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:48:00 +0100
From: "laure.sarda at ens.fr" <laure.sarda at gmail.com>
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Merci de diffuser largement

*UMR 8094 LATTICE*

*"Langues, Textes, Traitements Informatiques et Cognition"*

*ENS Paris – Labex TransferS*

*Université de Paris III*

* *

*Conférence *

*John Swales *

Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan

*From context to text: Investigating structures, functions and forms in
research articles *

* *

*Vendredi 30 mars 2012*

*10H30-12H30*

*ENS *

*45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris*

*Salle Dussane *

*John M. Swales is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University
of Michigan, where he was also Director of the English Language
Institute from 1985 to 2001. He was faculty advisor for both the MICASE
and MICUSP corpus projects. To date, he has written or co-written over
20 books and a hundred research articles or book chapters. His 1990
Genre Analysis (Cambridge, 1990) continues to be one of the most
frequently cited works on academic discourse, and has inspired and
empowered generations of students and researchers to** systematise**
their observations about academic texts.  Other significant works
include Academic Writing for Graduate Students(with Christine Feak)
(Michigan, 1994, 2004), Other Floors, Other Voices (Erlbaum, 1998) and
Research Genres (Cambridge, 2004).  Although officially retired, he
remains active with research projects, doctoral advising, and conference
presentations (typically plenaries). In 2011, for example, he gave talks
and lectures in England, Italy, Poland and China as well as in the
U.S. In 2004, he was awarded an honorary PhD by the University of
Uppsala.*

*UMR LATTICE 1 rue Maurice Arnoux,92120 Montrouge : 01 58 07 66 20 -
lattice at ens.fr*

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:21:31 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF en Informatique, Enssat
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:22:32 +0100
From: Damien Lolive <damien.lolive at irisa.fr>
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Un poste de Maître de Conférences en informatique (section 27) est à
pourvoir à l'Enssat/Université de Rennes 1, Lannion, pour une prise
d’activité au 1er septembre 2012.

Le candidat participera aux activités de recherche de l'équipe Cordial
de l'IRISA. Le profil attendu concerne le traitement de la parole ou le
traitement automatique des langues.

Date de clôture des candidatures : 27 mars 2012

Recherche

l’IRISA est une unité mixte de recherche, UMR 6074, dont les
établissements partenaires sont le CNRS, l’Université de Rennes 1
(établissement principal), l’Insa de Rennes et l’ENS Cachan (antenne de
Bretagne). L’IRISA déploie ses activités de recherche dans le domaine
des STIC (sciences et technologies de l’information et de la
communication) sur les sites de Rennes et Lannion.

Cordial est une équipe du Département Media et Interactions de l'Irisa
située à Lannion, Côtes d'Armor (22) au sein de l'ENSSAT, l'Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie. Les
laboratoires de recherche de l'ENSSAT sont les acteurs de recherche
publique au sein de la technopole Anticipa et participent au Pôle
Images& Réseaux.

Les principaux axes de recherche de l'équipe Cordial concernent le
traitement de la parole et plus particulièrement la synthèse de la
parole et la transformation de la voix. Les activités de recherche
menées par l'équipe couvrent des disciplines allant du traitement du
signal au traitement automatique de la langue.

Ce recrutement est l'occasion de renforcer l'équipe Cordial sur l'axe du
traitement automatique de la langue naturelle. Il s'agit notamment de
proposer des modèles prenant en compte diverses informations sémantiques
voire pragmatiques pour des modèles de synthèse de parole à partir du
texte de très haute qualité.

Sous l'angle des applications, un des objectifs fixé par l'équipe
concerne la création automatique de livres audio. Cordial participe
régulièrement à des projets ANR et est impliquée dans des partenariats
de recherche industrielle, notamment avec Orange Labs. La personne
recrutée renforcera cette dynamique par une implication dans ces
collaborations.


Enseignement

Le poste s’intègre dans le pôle informatique qui gère l’ensemble des
enseignements en informatique de l’Enssat pour ses quatre spécialités
d’ingénieur.

Le spectre s’étend du socle informatique (génie logiciel, bases de
données, réseaux, systèmes) à des aspects plus avancés (IA,
apprentissage, multimédia, interactions homme-machine, sécurité
informatique, logiciels embarqués).

Les interventions s’y effectuent sous toutes les formes (CM, TD, TP et
projets). Le profil d’enseignement est celui d’un informaticien
généraliste susceptible de se focaliser sur les compétences de ce
spectre.


Contacts

Olivier BOEFFARD :olivier.boeffard at irisa.fr / 02 96 46 90 91
(responsable de l'équipe IRISA/Cordial).

Daniel ROCACHER :daniel.rocacher at enssat.fr /02 96 46 90 48 (responsable
du pôle informatique à l'ENSSAT).

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:23:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: CTF 2012, Deadline extension
Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2012.212326.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:59:37 +0100
From: Timm Lichte <lichte at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de>
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*** DEADLINE EXTENSION ***

New submission deadline: April 10, 2012


 ========================================================================
International Interdisciplinary Conference
"Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science" (CTF'12)
 ========================================================================

Düsseldorf (GER), August 22-24, 2012
http://www.sfb991.uni-duesseldorf.de/concept-types-and-frames-in-language-cognition-and-science/

Organized and financed by
DFG Collaborative Research Centre CRC 991/SFB 991
"The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science"
http://www.sfb991.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/sfb991/

Aims and scope
---------------
A sequel to CTF'07 and CTF'09, CTF'12 is the third interdisciplinary
conference to contribute to the development of a general frame theory of
human concepts. The conference explores the application of frames in
linguistics and other sciences. It discusses foundational issues for the
development of a theory of frames from the perspectives of general and
computational linguistics, mathematics, cognitive psychology, cognitive
neuroscience, ontology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

Invited speakers
-----------------
Hanne Andersen
Lawrence Barsalou
John Beavers
Walter Bisang
Jean Mandler
Ivan Sag
John Sowa
Rolf Zwaan

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Frames
-------
CTF'12 explores fundamental aspects of a formal theory of frames
understood as recursive attribute-value structures with functional
attributes. The aspects include representation and model-theoretic
interpretation, attributes and value types, and appropriate frame
structures for different types of concepts. A special focus will be on
dynamic aspects of frame theory: modeling dynamic frame components for
event and process frames; exploring operations on frames such as type
shifts and frame composition.

Cognition
----------
CTF'12 explores empirical evidence for and consequences of the frame
approach. It addresses the distinction of types of concepts, in
particular relational and functional nominal concepts. Major topics
include the grounding of concepts in the sensory-motor system and
dynamic aspects of concept formation.

Language
---------
CTF'12 explores the application of a formalized theory of frames at
various levels of linguistic description: lexical semantics of the
different conceptual types of nouns and verbs, deep lexical
decomposition, semantics of word formation, the syntax-semantics
interface, syntactic and semantic composition, and anaphora and
coherence in discourse.

Science
--------
CTF'12 explores the applications of the frame approach in various fields
of institutional categorization: e.g., the evolution of the frame notion
in the history of philosophy; scientific frames and paradigm shifts;
frames for legal concepts; frames in applied ontology; a frame model of
the mind; and frame description of psychiatric disorders.

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Important dates
----------------
Submission of abstracts (600-800 words) => extended deadline: April 10
Notification of acceptance: May 30

Submission site
----------------
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ctf12

Publication details
---------------------
The post-proceedings will be published by Düsseldorf University Press 
with open online access.

Programme committee
--------------------
Sebastian Löbner (general chair), Rainer Osswald, Gottfried Vosgerau

Organizational committee
-------------------------
Dorothea Brenner, David Hommen, Timm Lichte, Daniel Schulzek

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Topics for the CTF'12

Language
---------
noun types and determination
- definiteness and indefiniteness
- possession
- usage
- processing
- grammaticalization

conceptual shifts of noun meanings
- shifts and coercion
- diachronic shifts

decompositional frames for verbs and the syntax-semantics interface
- verb classes in terms of frame types
- verbal concepts and linking
- construction-based decomposition of verb meanings
- aspectual composition

decompositional frames for nouns
- frame analysis of legal terms
- affordance attributes in noun frames and qualia

syntactic and semantic composition
- nominal concept types in the theory of semantic composition
- semantic composition in terms of frames
- syntax-driven frame composition

frames in the semantics of word-formation
- nominal compounding as frame combination
- deverbal nouns as the result of frame transformation

frames in discourse
- frames and associative anaphora
- the role of frames in discourse coherence

Science
--------
concepts
- emergence of the modern frame notion of concepts
- architecture of the mind
- the role of function in object categorization

frame analysis in institutional categorization
- frames and paradigm shifts
- frame analysis of legal concepts
- frame analysis of psychiatric disorders
- frame analysis in other scientific fields

concept types and frames in ontology
- attributes in ontology
- relations and functions in ontology
- formal approaches to ontology using functional relations

Cognition
----------
embodiment of concepts
- emergence of the modern frame notion of concepts
- grounding of verb meanings in the sensory-motor system
- affordances and the grounding of noun meanings in the sensory-motor
  system
- common coding and simulation
- frames and conceptual processing

types of concepts
- empirical evidence for different kinds of concepts
- cognitive representation of dynamic concepts, in particular verb
  meanings

neurocognition
- frames and conceptual processing
- neural correlates of attributes and frames
- computational modelling of concept formation

Frames
-------
elements of frame theory
- modelling the dynamics of verb meanings
- modelling general operations on frames
- modelling frame composition

frame-related spaces
- mathematical properties of value spaces
- mathematical properties of attribute spaces
- mathematical properties of frame spaces

large frame systems
- design and implementation

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:25:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: Demonstations (Pendant JEP-TALN-RECITAL), 4 au 8 juin,
 Grenoble
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SECOND APPEL À DÉMONSTRATION

JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012 (Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012)

CALENDRIER pour la soumission de propositions de démonstrations :

  - Date limite de soumission : 30 mars 2012
  - Notification aux auteurs : 15 avril 2012
  - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 20 avril 2012

PRÉSENTATION

Organisée par l'équipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de
Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des
langues étrangères et maternelles) et le département DPC du Gipsa-lab,
la conférence TALN'2012 se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2012 à Grenoble à
l'occasion de la conférence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012.

JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29ème édition des Journées d'Étude sur
la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19ème édition de la conférence sur le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14ème
édition des Rencontres des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012).

Pour la quatrième fois, après Nancy en 2002, Fès en 2004, et Avignon en
2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parlée) et
l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues)
organisent conjointement leur principale conférence afin de réunir en un
seul lieu les deux communautés du traitement de la langue orale et
écrite.

La conférence TALN'2012 comprendra des communications orales et
affichées, des conférences invitées et des ateliers.

La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. Les
communications en anglais sont acceptées pour les participants
non-francophones.

ORGANISATION

Les organisateurs de ces conférences ont le plaisir d'inviter les
participants à présenter des démonstrations de logiciels et/ou de
prototypes qui s'appuient sur des méthodes de Traitement Automatique du
Langage Naturel pour le texte ou la parole.
Dans ce cadre, les professionnels de l'industrie peuvent faire acte de
candidature pour présenter leur logiciel au cours du session
dédiée. L'objet de cette dernière est d'offrir un cadre d'interaction
entre les milieux industriel et académique.

La session DEMONSTRATIONS ET INDUSTRIELLE, accueillera des présentations
sous les formes suivantes (selon les besoins et disponibilités) :

- stand d'exposant ;
- affiche de présentation ;
- démonstration de produits logiciels ;
- présentation orale.


MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION 

Pour participer, les candidats devront envoyer
 – un résumé (2 page au format de la conférence) 
aux adresses : Herve.Blanchon at imag.fr et Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr 
le 30 mars 2011 au plus tard 
avec un titre commençant par [JEP-TALN DEMO]

Les participants seront choisis par le comité d'organisation,
indépendament du processus de sélection scientifique habituel. Les
critères de sélection s'appuieront sur la pertinence des outils au
regard des thématiques affichées par les conférences TALN, RECITAL et
JEP.

Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français.

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word seront disponibles sur le
site web (à venir) de la conférence.

Contact : herve.blanchon at imag.fr et laurent.besacier at imag.fr

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DERNIER APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

ATTENTION NOUVELLES DATES : PREMIER DEPOT ET DEPOT DEFINITIF

TALN'2012
19e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012

CALENDRIER

- Articles COURTs :
    - Date limite de soumission : 18 mars 2012 à 24h pour la première
      version ; 21 mars à 24h pour la version définitive
    - Notification aux auteurs : 20 avril 2012
    - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 27 avril 2012

PRÉSENTATION 

Organisée par l'équipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de
Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des
langues étrangères et maternelles) et le département DPC du Gipsa-lab,
la conférence TALN'2012 se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2012 à Grenoble à
l'occasion de la conférence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012.
JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29ème édition des Journées d'Étude sur
la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19ème édition de la conférence sur le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14ème
édition des Rencontres des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012).
Pour la quatrième fois, après Nancy en 2002, Fès en 2004, et Avignon en
2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parlée) et
l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues)
organisent conjointement leur principale conférence afin de réunir en un
seul lieu les deux communautés du traitement de la langue orale et
écrite.  La conférence TALN'2012 comprendra des communications orales et
affichées, des conférences invitées et des ateliers.
La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. Les
communications en anglais sont acceptées pour les participants
non-francophones.

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
Les articles courts doivent faire entre 6 et 8 pages.
Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des articles présentant des travaux
de recherche originaux sur les thèmes proposés ci-dessous.

Les articles courts seront présentés sous forme de poster.

THÈMES
Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes habituels du TAL,
incluant, de façon non limitative :

- Analyse et génération dans les domaines suivants :
     - Phonétique
     - Phonologie
     - Morphologie
     - Syntaxe
     - Sémantique
     - Discours

- Développement de ressources linguistiques pour le TAL :
     - Bases de données comportant des informations morphologiques,
       syntaxiques, sémantiques, et/ou phonologiques
     - Grammaires
     - Lexiques
     - Ontologies
     - Linguistique de corpus

- Applications du TAL :
     - Analyse de sentiments ou d'opinions
     - Catégorisation ou classification automatique
     - Désambiguïsation lexicale
     - Dialogue homme-machine en langage naturel
     - Enseignement assisté par ordinateur
     - Indexation automatique
     - Recherche et extraction d'information
     - Résumé automatique
     - Résolution d'anaphores
     - Systèmes de question-réponse
     - Traduction automatique
     - Web sémantique

- Approches:
     - Linguistiques formelles destinées à soutenir les traitements
       automatiques
     - Symboliques
     - Logiques
     - Statistiques
     - Basées sur l'apprentissage automatique


CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION 
Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du
domaine.
Pour les travaux de recherches, seront considérées en particulier :
     - l'adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence. 
     - l'importance et l'originalité de la contribution,
     - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,
     - la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport
       aux autres travaux du domaine,
     - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
       internationale,
     - l'organisation et la clarté de la présentation.

Les articles et démonstrations sélectionnés seront publiés dans les
actes de la conférence.

MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION 

Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français.
Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word seront disponibles sur le
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:50:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax,
 Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (ACL 2012)
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SSST-6: Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical
Translation
ACL 2012 / SIGMT / SIGLEX Workshop 12 July 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea

*** New submission deadline: 15 Apr 2012 ***
*** Special theme: Semantic MT Evaluation ***

The Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical
Translation (SSST-6) seeks to build on the foundations established in
the first five SSST workshops, which brought together a large number of
researchers working on diverse aspects of structure, semantics and
representation in relation to statistical machine translation. Its
program each year has comprised high-quality papers discussing current
work spanning topics including: new grammatical models of translation;
new learning methods for syntax- and semantics-based models; formal
properties of synchronous/transduction grammars (hereafter S/TGs);
discriminative training of models incorporating linguistic features;
using S/TGs for semantics and generation; and syntax- and
semantics-based evaluation of machine translation.

The need for structural mappings between languages is widely recognized
in the fields of statistical machine translation and spoken language
translation, and there is a growing consensus that these mappings are
appropriately represented using a family of formalisms that includes
synchronous/transduction grammars and their tree-transducer
equivalents. To date, flat-structured models, such as the word-based IBM
models of the early 1990s or the more recent phrase-based models, remain
widely used. But tree-structured mappings arguably offer a much greater
potential for learning valid generalizations about relationships between
languages.

Within this area of research there is a rich diversity of approaches.
There is active research ranging from formal properties of S/TGs to
large-scale end-to-end systems. There are approaches that make heavy use
of linguistic theory, and approaches that use little or none.  There is
theoretical work characterizing the expressiveness and complexity of
particular formalisms, as well as empirical work assessing their
modeling accuracy and descriptive adequacy across various language
pairs. There is work being done to invent better translation models, and
work to design better algorithms. Recent years have seen significant
progress on all these fronts. In particular, systems based on these
formalisms are now top contenders in MT evaluations.

At the same time, SMT has seen a movement toward semantics over the past
few years, which has been reflected at recent SSST workshops, including
the last edition which had semantics for SMT as a special theme.  The
issues of deep syntax and shallow semantics are closely linked and
SSST-6 encourages submissions on semantics for MT in a number of
directions, including semantic role labeling (SRL) for SMT, WSD for SMT
and in particular, semantics for MT evaluation.  In order to emphasize
the need to evaluate MT in a way that properly assesses preservation of
structure and semantics, SSST-6 is highlighting Semantic MT Evaluation
as a special workshop theme.

We invite papers on:

* syntactically- and semantically-motivated evaluation of MT
* syntax-based / semantics-based / tree-structured SMT
* machine learning techniques for inducing structured translation models
* algorithms for training, decoding, and scoring with semantic
  representation structure
* empirical studies on adequacy and efficiency of formalisms
* creation and usefulness of syntactic/semantic resources for MT
* formal properties of synchronous/transduction grammars
* learning semantic information from monolingual, parallel or comparable
  corpora
* unsupervised and semi-supervised word sense induction and
  disambiguation methods for MT
* lexical substitution, word sense induction and
  disambiguation,semantic role labeling, textual entailment, paraphrase
  and other semantic tasks for MT
* semantic features for MT models (word alignment, translation
  lexicons, language models, etc.)
* evaluation of syntactic/semantic components within MT (task-based
  evaluation)
* scalability of structured translation methods to small or large data
* applications of synchronous/transduction grammars to areas including:
  speech translation, formal semantics and semantic parsing, paraphrases
  and textual entailment, information retrieval and extraction, etc.

For more information: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dekai/ssst/

SPECIAL THEME: SEMANTIC MT  EVALUATION

Ongoing work suggests that MT evaluation is improved by generalizing
across similar word meanings (Zhou et al., 2006; Apidianaki et al, 2009;
Snover et al., 2009; Denkowski and Lavie, 2010), and explicitly modeling
preservation of meaning with textual entailment (Padó et al.  2009), or
semantic frames (Lo and Wu, 2011).  However, crucial questions such as
what frameworks are best suited to measure MT quality in general, and
the impact of semantic modeling in MT evaluation remain unanswered. With
this year's special theme, we seek to bring together researchers working
on semantics and on translation evaluation in order to encourage
cross-pollination of ideas, share insights into the needs of MT
evaluation and what current developments in semantics have to offer. We
particularly encourage the submission of papers addressing the following
issues related to semantics-driven evaluation of MT:

 * MT evaluation  metrics generalizing across similar word meanings
 * MT evaluation metrics explicitly modeling preservation of meaning via
   textual entailment, semantic frames, etc
 * New frameworks to measure MT quality using semantic information,
   including machine learning approaches
 * Evaluation of the impact of semantic modeling on MT evaluation
 * Use of semantic information for quality/confidence estimation (MT
   evaluation without reference translations)

ORGANIZERS

Marine CARPUAT, National Research Council Canada
Lucia SPECIA, University of Sheffield
Dekai WU, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:  15 Apr 2012
Notification to authors:  4 May 2012
Camera copy deadline:  11 Apr 2012


SUBMISSION

Papers will be accepted on or before 2 Apr 2012 in PDF or Postscript
formats via the START system:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/ssst-6/. Submissions should follow
the ACL 2012 length and formatting requirements for long papers of
eight (8) pages of content with two (2) additional pages of
references, found at http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp


CONTACT

Please send inquiries to ssst at cs.ust.hk.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marianna Apidianaki, LIMSI-CNRS
Wilker Aziz, University of Wolverhampton
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research
David Chiang, USC ISI
Colin Cherry, National Research Council Canada
Mona Diab, Columbia University
Alexander Fraser, University of Stuttgart
Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Yifan He, Dublin City University
Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Kevin Knight, USC ISI
Alon Lavie, CMU
Yanjun Ma, Baidu
Daniel Marcu, USC ISI and Language Weaver
Lluìs Màrquez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Sudip Kumar Naskar, Dublin City University
Hwee-Tou Ng, National University of Singapore
Daniele Pighin, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Markus Saers, HKUST
Libin Shen, IBM Research
Matthew Snover, BBN
John Tinsley, Dublin City University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Taro Watanabe, NICT
Deyi Xiong, National University of Singapore
François Yvon, Université Paris Sud 11

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:56:36 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF informatique, LIMSI / Universite Paris-Sud
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:44:30 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
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Un poste de Maître de conférences en informatique (27e section) est à
pourvoir à la faculté des Sciences de l'Université Paris-Sud avec
recherche au LIMSI-CNRS à Orsay :

Traitement automatique des langues et apprentissage
pour l'analyse de textes médicaux

== Extrait du profil enseignement :

La personne recrutée enseignera dans les filières d'informatique
classiques.

== Extrait du profil recherche :

Le candidat devra avoir des compétences dans les disciplines du
traitement automatique des langues et de l'apprentissage automatique,
avec possiblement une majeure et une mineure. Il devra être capable de
mener une recherche méthodologique dans la discipline majeure. Des
compétences supplémentaires en représentation des connaissances et une
expérience du domaine médical seront appréciées.

L'intégration se fera dans le groupe ILES du LIMSI-CNRS.

== Contacts :

Enseignement :
  Alain Denise : alain.denise at lri.fr
Recherche :
  Pierre Zweigenbaum (pz at limsi.fr)
  Anne Vilnat (anne.vilnat at limsi.fr)

Concours : MCF 26.1
La fiche de poste (MCF 1751(4045), CNU 27) est consultable à l'adresse :
http://www.u-psud.fr/_attachments/enseignants_chercheurs/27-MCF-1751_traitement%2520automatique%2520langues.pdf

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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:03:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: TSD 2012
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      *********************************************************
		   TSD 2012 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
      *********************************************************

Fifteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2012)
	      Brno, Czech Republic, 3-7 September 2012
		    http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen.  The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

    March 15 2012 ............ Submission of abstracts
    March 22 2012 ............ Submission of full papers

Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.  TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation
Index.  Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases
such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.


The TSD 2012 conference will be accompanied by a one-day satellite
workshop

    Hybrid Machine Translation

The workshop is organized in cooperation with the PRESEMT EU project
Consortium, submissions from other EU machine translation and other
projects are more than welcomed.  The MT workshop submissions will
undergo two separate review processes - the best papers which will
succeed in both review processes (by the TSD 2012 Conference PC and MT
Workshop 2012 PC) will be published in the TSD 2012 Springer
Proceedings, all other accepted MT workshop papers will be published in
a separate proceedings with ISBN.  The MT workshop will take place on
September 3 2012 in the conference venue.


TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
    text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
    specialized lexicons, dictionaries)

    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
    speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
    alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
    acoustic and language modelling)

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
    disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
    credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
    authorship attribution)

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
    fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
    extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
    knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
    disambiguation, plagiarism detection)

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
    (machine translation, natural language understanding,
    question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues)

    Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
    and personality modelling)

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair)
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Genevieve Baudoin, France
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, GB
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Patrick Hanks, GB
    Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
    Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    Diana McCarthy, UK
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Elmar Noeth, Germany
    Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic
    Fabio Pianesi, Italy
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Jan Pomikalek, Czech Republic
    Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Stefan Steidl, Germany
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
    Pascal Wiggers, the Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, GB
    Victor Zakharov, Russia


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
    Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
    Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.

The registration fee is not fixed yet, but we can anticipate that
it will be similar to that of previous years, e.g. in 2010:

    Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 9500 CZK
    Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 11000 CZK

There will also be an option to obtain "grants" for an active
attendance.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2012 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...".  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX
or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final
versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer
Lecture Notes.  Authors using a WORD compatible software for the
final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the
submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper
to LaTeX format.  For this service a service-and-license fee of
CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file
with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,
presenters will receive further information on submitting their
camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on
the final paper format see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings).

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference.  The presenters of the demonstration should provide the
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2012 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2012 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2012 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2012 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
July 26 2012 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts
July 31 2012 ............. Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 3 2012 ......... MT workshop date
September 4-7 2012 ....... TSD 2012 Conference dates

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

The accepted conference contributions will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
    
    Ales Horak, TSD 2012
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2012 at tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2012 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow,
Saint Petersburg, Eindhoven, Rome and Prague and by trains or
buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may
also be of interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called
Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the
Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian
Margraves, Church of St.  James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul,
Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat
designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important
buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with
Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of
three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz
- Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz),
Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice
Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish
cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO
heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:07:29 +0100
Subject: Appel: CUBA, 13th Symposium on Linguistics, 2013
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:16:50 +0100
From: "L. Ruiz Miyares (Linguistica)" <leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu>
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Web site of our International Symposiums on Social Communication:

http://www.santiago.cu/hosting/linguistica/index.php?id=en

Web site of the Centre for Applied Linguistics:

http://www.linguistica.santiago.cu/

Web site of our Basic School Dictionary:

http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/dbe/index.html

*****

[To spread, please, thank you.  Apologies if you receive this
announcement more than once.]

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA
JANUARY 21-25, 2013

The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba’s branch of
the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to
announce the Thirteenth International Symposium on Social
Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba, January 21
through the 25, 2013. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social
communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics,
Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and
Folklore.

The Symposium will be also sponsored by:

. University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

. Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

. African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

. Provincial Branch of Writers and Artists Association of Santiago de
  Cuba, Cuba

. Provincial Branch of Translators of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

. University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands

. Basque Country University, Spain

. Semantic Technology Institute (STI), Innsbruck, Austria

. Centre of Lexicography Aarhus University, Denmark

. University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany

. Centre Tesnière Université de Franche-Comté Besançon, France

Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the
following disciplines:

1. Linguistics:

- Applied Linguistics

- Phonetics and Phonology

- Lexicology and Lexicography

- Quantitative Linguistics

- Morphology and Syntax

- Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics

- Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics

- Sociolinguistics

- Spanish and foreign language teaching

- Spanish as a second language

- Terminology

- Translations

- Linguistics Rights

- Linguistics Policy

2. Computational Linguistics:

- Software related to linguistics research

- Automated grammatical tagging of texts

- Electronic dictionaries

- Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign
  languages

- Related issues

3. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social
   Communication in general:

- Logopedy and Phoniatry

- Neurology

- Otorhinolaryngology

- Stomatology

4. Mass Media:

- Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and
  radio and television announcers

- Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and
  electronic media articles

5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore:

- Research related to Social Communication

Activities that will take place within the event are:

- Pre-Symposium seminars

- Discussion of papers in commissions

- Keynote speeches

- Books presentation

- Cultural activities

PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS

The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by
prestigious specialists. The seminars will take place Monday, January
21st, 2013.

The courses will be given by:

Profa. Dra. Esther Forgas
University Rovira i Virgili
Tarragona, Spain

IXA Group
Basque Country University
Basque Country, Spain

Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want
to take part in. An additional fee of 25.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos
(CUC) will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will
be available.

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

During the symposium several keynote speeches will be delivered. Until
now are confirmed:

Prof. Dr. Kathleen Wermke 
Würzburg University
Würzburg, Germany

Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Sylviane Cardey
Centre Tesnière
Université de Franche-Comté
Besançon, France

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

The deadline of submission of papers is July 1st, 2012. The papers
should not exceed 5 pages. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the
Symposium’s Scientific Committee will be sent before July 31st, 2012.

PAPERS

To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of
the Symposium’s documentation -as we did in the 5th ('97), 6th ('99),
7th ('01), 8th ('03), 9th ('05), 10th ('07), 11th ('09) and 12th ('11)
Symposiums-, accepted papers must be sent before August 31, 2012 if the
Scientific Committee had done some observations.

Requirements for papers:

1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and
   bibliography.

2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent
   to the Symposium’s Executive Secretary via e-mail as attached file.

3. Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and
   bottom margin of 2.5 cm.

4. The paper must be written in one of the event’s official languages:
   Spanish, English, French or Portuguese.

5. The pages of the text should be unnumered.

Instructions for paper submission:

1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top
   of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word
   6.0 or 7.0). Under the author's name(s) should appear in bold (only
   initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail
   address.

2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be
   written in Arial bold, italics, 10 points size letters.

3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9
   points size and leaving one space between lines.

4. Paragraphs will have no indentation.  Spaces between paragraphs will
   be of 1.5 points.

5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and
   sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size.

6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size
   letters.

Presentation time will be 15 minutes.

All mail or inquiries should be addressed to:

Prof. Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee
13th International Symposium on Social Communication
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Telephone: 53-22-646390
E-mail: simposio at cla.ciges.inf.cu

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, 
French and Portuguese

REGISTRATION FEE

Speakers  and  Delegates
200.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos)

Companions
100.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos)

Payment of the fee must be sent via bank transfer to the bank account to
be announce opportunely and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where
your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event,
speaker’s certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural
activities. Companions will have access to all of the above, except
copies of the Proceedings.

ACCOMODATION

The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star
hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

- Papers submission deadline: July 1st, 2012

- Notification on paper’s approval by Scientific Committee: by July 31,
  2012

- Delivery of papers by e-mail: August 31, 2012 (in case of the
  observations done by the Scientific Committee)

- Pre-Symposium seminars: January 21, 2013

- 13th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 22
  through 25, 2013

OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST

Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 km from Havana, is Cuba's second
largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban
history is unquestionable.  Santiago is also the capital of the province
with the same name.  Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra
Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography
and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most
important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing
Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer
visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the
city's beauty and charm.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Pedro Beaton Soler
Representative of the Ministry of
Science, Technology and the Environment
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Executive Secretary
13th International Symposium on Social Communication
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez
Emeritus Academic
Academy of Science of Cuba
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics
President of the Organizing Committee
12th International Symposium on Social Communication
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Celia Maria Perez Marques
Researcher
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Nancy Cristina Alamo Suarez
Researcher
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Alex Munnoz Alvarado
Investigador
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Anton Nijholt
Professor and Researcher
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

Innaki Alegría Loinaz
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Xabier Artola Zubillaga
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Xabier Arregi Iparragirre
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Dieter Fensel
Director and Researcher
Semantic Technology Institute (STI)
Innsbruck, Austria

Mercedes Cathcart Roca
Professor and Researcher
Faculty of Humanities
University of Oriente
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Martha Cordies Jackson
Director and Researcher
African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz"
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Ercilia Estrada Estrada
Scientific Council
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Lucia Marconi
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

Paola Cutugno
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

Daniela Ratti
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

L. Alfonso Urenna Lopez
President of the NLP Spanish Association (SEPLN)
Jaen University
Jaen, Spain

*****

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

REGISTRATION FORM

Mr./Ms. ___________________________

Organization: ________________________

Title: _________________________________________

Business address: __________________________________

City: ______________ Telefax: ____________

Phone: _______________

E-Mail:____________________

Home address: _________________________

City: ___________ Telephone: __________

Paper title: __________________________

Date: ________________

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:09:18 +0100
Subject: Soft: New annotation tool, WebAnnotator
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:52:03 +0100
From: Xavier Tannier <xtannier at limsi.fr>
Message-ID: <4F604E23.5020908 at limsi.fr>
X-url: http://perso.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/en/WebAnnotator/


*WebAnnotator* is a new tool for annotating Web pages implemented at
LIMSI. Giving it a try will take you no more than 10 minutes.

WebAnnotator is implemented as a *Firefox extension*, allowing
annotation of both *offline and inline pages*. The HTML rendering is
fully preserved and all annotations consist in new HTML spans with
specific styles.

WebAnnotator provides an easy and general-purpose framework and is made
available under CeCILL free license (close to GNU GPL), so that use and
further contributions are made simple.

WebAnnotator can be downloaded on the official Mozilla web page : 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webannotator/.
A quick manual can be found here : 
http://perso.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/en/WebAnnotator/

All parts of an HTML document can be annotated: text, images, videos,
tables, menus, etc. The annotations are created by simply selecting a
part of the document and clicking on the relevant type and subtypes. The
annotated elements are then highlighted in a specific color. Annotation
schemas can be defined by the user by creating a simple DTD representing
the types and subtypes that must be highlighted. Finally, annotations
can be saved (HTML with highlighted parts of documents) or exported (in
a machine-readable format).

WebAnnotator will be presented at *LREC conference* in May 2012.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:12:02 +0100
Subject: Sujet de these: Allocation doctorale,
 Modelisation de la grammaire enfantine
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:32:29 +0100
From: Pascal Denis <pascal.denis at inria.fr>
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Allocation doctorale : Modélisation de la grammaire enfantine

Les candidats sont appelés à travailler dans le cadre d’un projet en
linguistique sur 10 ans intitulé "LabEx Empirical foundations of
linguistics" http://www.labex-efl.org/.  La/le candidat(e) travaillera
au sein de l’Axe 4 : Représentation et traitement du langage dans une
perspective lifespan.

La/le candidat(e) choisi(e) travaillera au sein du Laboratoire de
Linguistique Formelle (LLF), Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/

Les candidats devront présenter leurs diplômes en linguistique ou
informatique ou psycholinguistique du niveau Master. Les candidats
seront sélectionnés par un comité d’experts. L’accent sera mis sur
l’évaluation du potentiel de recherche du candidat à partir de son
mémoire de Master ou équivalent ou de ses travaux de recherche.

 Merci de joindre à votre CV
- deux noms de référents (avec leur adresse email)
- Adresse email et publications
- Une lettre qui explique votre motivation et expérience

La thèse comportera des recherches au sein d'un projet qui développe un
modèle de l'acquisition qui intègre l'interaction enfant/parent comme
une partie fondamentale des données primaires. La base empirique sera
des études de corpus de l'interaction multimodale enfant/parent. La
modélisation implique le développement de techniques qui intègrent la
modélisation dialogique et l'apprentissage automatique comme une base
pour une théorie de l'émergence de la grammaire aux étapes primaires de
l'acquisition. La recherche implique aussi le développement de
grammaires pour les énoncés enfantins et des algorithmes d'induction (à
partir de corpus de dialogue) qui permettent aux grammaires d’évoluer en
conséquence de l'interaction.  Le doctorant retenu travaillera au sein
d’une équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire comprenant des chercheurs
internationaux.

*Contact: *
Jonathan Ginzburg

*Adresse du responsable: *
yonatan.ginzburg_at_univ-paris-diderot.fr

*Université: *
Université Paris 7

*Niveau: *
doctorant

*Durée: *
36 mois à partir de septembre 2012

*Salaire: *
Allocation selon règlementation française en vigueur

*Spécialités: *
Sémantique, Dialogue, Acquisition de langage, apprentissage automatique

*Date limite de candidature: *
2012/04/10

*Adresse pour la candidature: *
thierry.nazzi_at_parisdescartes.fr

*Référence de candidature: *
EFL-OLA8

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:15:37 +0100
Subject: Sujet de these: Ingenierie des connaissances et TAL
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:38:42 +0100
From: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles <aussenac at irit.fr>
Message-ID: <4F606722.2070702 at irit.fr>

**

**

*Formalisation de l'architecture textuelle et du discours *

*pour la conception d’ontologies à partir de textes*

Responsable : Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles 
Tel : 0561558293 aussenac at irit.fr

Encadrement : Mouna Kamel  
Tel : 0561558338 kamel at irit.fr

*Ecole Doctorale* : Mathématique Informatique Télécommunications de
 Toulouse

*Etablissement d’inscription* : Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse –
118 Route de Narbonne – 31062Toulouse cedex 9

*Unité d'accueil*: Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
Equipe : MELODI (*ME*thodes et ingénierie des *L*angues, des
*O*ntologies et du *Di*scours)

*Domaine scientifique *: Informatique**

*Mots clé *: ontologie, architecture textuelle, théorie du discours,
analyse sémantique du langage, TAL**

Les ontologies sont des structures de représentation des connaissances
basées sur un fondement logique, qui mettent en avant les concepts d'un
domaine, les relations entre ces concepts (relations sémantiques), ainsi
que les axiomes et contraintes impliquant ces concepts et relations.
Elles contribuent grandement au développement du Web sémantique et sont
particulièrement présentes dans les domaines tels que l’extraction
d’information, l’indexation de documents, l’explicitation d’une
recherche d’information, le résumé automatique, etc.

La construction d'ontologie à partir de textes s'appuie jusqu'ici sur
des analyses statistiques et/ou des analyses linguistiques
essentiellement focalisées sur les niveaux lexicaux et syntaxiques.
Partant du constat que la mise en forme matérielle d’un texte contribue
à lui donner du sens, l’idée est d’exploiter les objets textuels
(segments de texte rendus perceptibles à la surface du texte par leur
mise en forme matérielle) porteurs de relations hiérarchiques entre
leurs différents constituants (constituants qui ne sont pas forcément
contigus dans le texte). L’objectif est donc d’élargir les méthodes de
construction d’ontologie à partir de textes en analysant les structures
discursives bénéficiant de mises en forme régulières.

La thèse a donc pour but, dans un premier temps, de formaliser certaines
structures discursives spécifiques selon une théorie du discours et un
modèle d’architecture textuelle. Il s’agira ensuite de caractériser un
ensemble d’indices syntaxico-sémantiques qui permettront tout d’abord
d’identifier automatiquement ces structures discursives, puis d’extraire
automatiquement de ces structures les connaissances ontologiques
qu’elles contiennent. Une des difficultés majeures de ce travail
consistera à identifier d’une part les concepts présents non seulement
dans les différents segments composant la structure mais aussi dans les
segments appartenant au « contexte » de la structure, et d’autre part la
nature (ontologique ou lexicale) de la ou les relations portées par la
structure. Une étude entre une approche symbolique et une approche par
apprentissage doit être envisagée. Enfin, ce travail devra permettre
d’affiner les méthodes de construction d’ontologie (DAFOE et Terminae) à
la définition desquelles contribue l’équipe MELODI.

*Financement :* Ce sujet est prioritaire pour une demande de bourse de
thèse du ministère.

*Candidatures* : Les candidats intéressés sont invités à envoyer une
lettre de motivation, un CV, un relevé de notes avec classement au
Master le plus tôt possible, avant le 20 avril 2012. Une seconde
sélection sera ensuite faite par l’école doctorale sur la base d’une
audition début mai 2012.

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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:17:31 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC 2012: Deadline Extension for Final Submission & Early
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**** EXTENDED DEADLINE 
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The deadline for *Final Submission* and *Early Registration* has been
moved to *March, 21st, 2012*.

We take the occasion for reminding you that it is strongly advisable to
complete the hotel reservation when registering to LREC. May is the high
season in Istanbul.

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LREC 2012  - May 21-27
www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012
8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
ICEC Conference Center
Istanbul, Turkey

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:26:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: TAG+11, Premier appel
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:15:45 +0100
From: Eric De la Clergerie <Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr>
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** Apologies for cross-posting **


                         CALL FOR PAPERS
               The Eleventh International Workshop
                   on Tree Adjoining Grammars
                     and Related Formalisms
                             (TAG+11)

                       26-28 September 2012
                     University Paris-Diderot
                           Paris, France

             http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php


The Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars and related formalisms (TAG+) is
a biennial workshop series that fosters exchange of ideas among
linguists, psycholinguists and computer scientists interested in
modeling natural language using formal grammars.  The workshop series,
since 1990, has demonstrated productive interactions among researchers
and practitioners interested in various aspects of the Tree-Adjoining
Grammar formalism and its relationship to other grammar formalisms, such
as combinatory categorial grammar, dependency grammars, Minimalist
grammars, HPSG, and LFG; hence the "+" in the name of the workshop.

Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG) and related lexicalized grammar formalisms
provide mathematical tools to model natural language and the scaffolding
to encode linguistic generalizations in a principled manner.  In the
past, this workshop has helped identify similarities and differences
between the above formalisms, leading 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 the
properties of different formalisms and their capacity for linguistic
explanation.  It is our expectation that this edition of the workshop
will continue enabling cross-fertilization of ideas that combine the
representational flexibility of TAG-like grammar formalisms with the
robustness afforded by machine learning techniques to produce a deeper
insight into modeling of natural language.

The first day of the meeting will be devoted to a series of tutorial
presentations, designed to introduce attendees to a range of TAG-related
topics.


Invited Speakers:

* Kevin Knight, University of Southern California (USA)
* Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)


Tutorial Speakers:

* David Chiang – USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Laura Kallmeyer – University of Düsseldorf (Germany)
* Andreas Maletti – University of Stuttgart (Germany)


Topics of Interest:

We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related grammatical
formalisms including the following topics:

* syntactic and semantic theory;
* mathematical properties;
* computational and algorithmic studies of parsing, interpretation and
  language generation;
* machine learning models using TAG-like representations;
* corpus-based research and grammar development using TAG;
* psycholinguistic modeling; and
* applications to natural language processing or biological sequence
  modeling.


Special Session:

We plan to organize a special session on formalisms based on synchronous
tree rewriting.  We especially encourage submissions on topics related
to synchronous tree rewriting, including theoretical aspects,
applications to machine translation and syntax-semantics interface.


Submission Details:

Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two types of presentations at
the workshop: oral 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).  Both one-column
or two-column abstracts are permissible. However do not use a font that
is smaller than 11pt. If you are using LaTeX for document preparation,
then any recent ACL style file can be used. The final camera ready
version of the full paper for the proceedings must be in two-column
format conforming to the most recent ACL style file.

The abstract must be submitted electronically in PDF format, using the
EasyChair electronic submission website at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag11

The submission instructions can be found at

http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php?id=submissions

Proceedings including full papers for accepted abstracts (both oral and
poster presentations) will be available on-line before the workshop
dates.


Important dates:

* Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 15, 2012.
* Notification to authors of decision: July 30, 2012.
* Deadline for camera-ready submission: September 7, 2012.
* Workshop dates: September 26 to 28, 2012.


Contact Information:

The workshop website is at http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php

Email contact: tagplus11 at gmail.com


Organization:

Program Chairs

* Chung-hye Han, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
* Giorgio Satta, University of Padova (Italy)

Program Committee

* Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research (USA)
* Rajesh Bhatt, UMass (USA)
* David Chiang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Benoit Crabbé University Paris-Diderot (France)
* Robert Frank, Yale University (USA)
* Claire Gardent, Loria (France)
* Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester (USA)
* Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
* Liang Huang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
* Laura Kallmeyer, University of Duesseldorf (Germany)
* Makoto Kanazawa, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
* Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam (Germany)
* Marco Kuhlmann, Uppsala University (Sweden)
* Andreas Maletti, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
* Yusuke Miyao, University of Tokyo (Japan)
* Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St Andrews (Scotland)
* Steve DeNeefe, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA)
* Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz (Germany)
* Tatjana Scheffler, DFKI (Germany)
* Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
* William Schuler, The Ohio State University (USA)
* Stuart Shieber, Harvard University (USA)
* Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh (UK)
* Matthew Stone, Rutgers University (USA)
* Sylvain Salvati, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest (France)
* Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK)
* Fei Xia, University of Washington (USA)

Local Arrangements Chairs

* Éric de la Clergerie – INRIA Paris Rocquencourt
* Djamé Seddah – University Paris Sorbonne Paris 4
* Laurence Danlos, University Paris-Diderot
* Chantal Girodon, INRIA Paris Rocquencourt


TAG+ 11 is endorsed by EACL (the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics).

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:27:41 +0100
Subject: Job: XRCE Internship: Optimization and Sampling Techniques for
 Statistical Machine Translation
Message-ID: <SAT.17.MAR.2012.222741.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:45:19 +0100
From: "Dymetman, Marc" <Marc.Dymetman at xrce.xerox.com>
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See:
http://www-int.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Internships/Optimization-and-Sampling-Techniques-for-Statistical-Machine-Translation


Start Date : Around June 2012
Duration : 4-5 months

The MLDAT area (Machine Learning for Document Access and Translation) at
XRCE (Xerox Research Centre Europe) is opening an internship to pursue
its current research line in Optimization and Sampling Techniques for
Statistical Machine Translation.

XRCE has developed some algorithms, which combine optimization and
sampling in novel ways in order to perform inference and training for a
number of NLP tasks, in the presence of complex feature spaces.

We are looking for a motivated intern to pursue this line of work,
further implement these techniques and perform experiments in the
context of phrase-based and/or syntax-based translation.

The successful candidate should be enrolled in a graduate program, at
the Master or (preferably) PhD level, with focus on Machine Learning,
Optimization, Statistical NLP, or (ideally) Statistical Machine
Translation.

Strong programming skills (one or several of C/C++, Python, Java...) are
a requirement.

IMPORTANT. Priority will be given to students who are members of
institutions affiliated to the PASCAL-2 network of excellence. A partial
list of such institutions is available at:
http://pascallin2.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Network/Sites .

For further details, please contact Marc Dymetman
(marc.dymetman at xrce.xerox.com).

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:33:35 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension,
 ACL 2012 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity
 and Sentiment Analysis
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:14:20 +0100
From: Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu <alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
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X-url: http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2012/

[Apologies for cross-postings. Please distribute. ]

***********************************************************************

*Due to the changes in the schedule of ACL workshops, the deadline for 
submitting contributions to the WASSA 2012 workshop has been moved to 
April 15, 2012.*

***********************************************************************

3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment 
Analysis (WASSA 2012) - http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2012/

***********************************************************************

- Satellite workshop to ACL 2012 (Jeju, Korea)
- Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGNLL and SIGSEM
- The best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the Computer
  Speech and Language Journal (Elsevier).
- Subsequent to the WASSA 2012 acceptance notification, we will also
  launch an open call for papers for a Special Issue of the Information
  Sciences Journal (Elsevier).

***********************************************************************


***********************************************************************

IMPORTANT DATES:

*April 15, 2012:  Extended paper submission deadline
May 3, 2012:     Notification of acceptance
May 17, 2012:    Camera-ready deadline*
Jul 12, 2012:     Workshop to take place at ACL 2012

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AIM OF WORKSHOP

Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, as subtasks
in Affective Computing within Natural Language Processing, has
flourished in the past years, as the Social Web made it possible for
people all over the world to express, comment or consult opinions on any
given topic. The fact that so many people express themselves on these
topics makes opinions less biased and more credible; their subjective
nature makes them easily understandable by all people and leads to their
growing influence on communities worldwide. Due to all these reasons,
opinions expressed on the Web are more and more considered as basis for
decision-making processes, for recommendation systems, business
intelligence processes, image monitoring, and marketing or for obtaining
unbiased, massive feedback.

In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years,
dealing with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex,
interdisciplinary problem that remains far from being solved. Its
challenges include the need to address the issue from different
perspectives and at different levels, depending on the characteristics
of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the final application
for which the analysis is done.

Bearing in mind the abovementioned reflections, the aim of the 3rd
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment
Analysis (WASSA 2012) is to continue the line of the previous two
editions, bringing together researchers in Computational Linguistics
working on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and, more generally, on
affect in text. Moreover, taking into account that affect-related
phenomena have also been studied by other disciplines, such as
Psychology, Philosophy or Economics, the purpose of WASSA 2012 is to
facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue on the analysis, requirements,
issues and applications of the study of subjectivity and sentiment in
the context of traditional and emerging text types. We envisage WASSA as
a forum to discuss the achievements obtained so far and to analyse the
different approaches to tackle the difficulties researchers are
confronted with in this research area.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

Inspired by the objectives we aimed at in the first two editions of the
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity Analysis (WASSA
2010 and WASSA 2.011) and the final outcome, the purpose of the proposed
3rd edition of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity
and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2012) is to create a framework for
presenting and discussing the challenges related to subjectivity and
sentiment analysis in NLP, from an interdisciplinary theoretical and
practical perspective.

Researchers are encouraged to submit papers including, but not
restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and sentiment
analysis:

. Lexical semantic resources, corpora and annotations for 
  subjectivity and sentiment analysis

. Subjectivity and opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization,
  aggregation and summarization

. Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment
  analysis

. Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models.
. Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis
. Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective language
. The computational treatment of large amounts of user-generated content
. Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task
. Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment 
  analysis
. Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
. Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation methodologies for subjectivity 
  and sentiment analysis
. Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks
. Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment 
  analysis techniques
. Classification of stance in dialogues
. Real-world applications of opinion mining systems

We will also encourage participants to provide demos of their systems,
thus giving them the opportunity to obtain feedback on their
achievements and issues. At the same time, with the help of demos, we
aim at enriching the discussion forum with application-specific topics
for debate.

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ORGANIZERS

. Alexandra Balahur -- European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy
  -- alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu

. Andrés Montoyo - University of Alicante, Spain -- montoyo at dlsi.ua.es

. Patricio Martínez-Barco - University of Alicante, Spain -
  patricio at dlsi.ua.es

. Ester Boldrini - University of Alicante, Spain - eboldrini at dlsi.ua.es

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

. Khurshid Ahmad -- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay - Jadavpur University, India
. Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy
. Erik Cambria -- University of Stirling, U.K.
. José Carlos Cortizo - European University Madrid, Spain
. Michael Gamon -- Microsoft
. Jesús M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain
. Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium
. Mijail Kabadjov -- Vicomtech, Spain
. Zornitsa Kozareva - Information Sciences Institute California, U.S.A.
. Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.
. Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada
. Karo Moilanen -- Oxford University, U.K.
. Rafael Muñoz - University of Alicante, Spain
. Günter Neumann - DFKI, Germany
. Alena Neviarouskaia -- University of Tokyo, Japan
. Manabu Okumura -- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
. Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
. Manuel Palomar - University of Alicante, Spain
. Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
. Paolo Rosso - Technical University of Valencia, Spain
. Josef Steinberger -- EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
. Ralf Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
. Veselin Stoyanov -- John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
. Maite Taboada -  Simon Fraser University, Canada
. Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
. José Antonio Troyano - University of Seville, Spain
. Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania
. Alfonso Ureña -- University of Jaén, Spain
. Erik van der Goot -- EC Joint Research Centre, Italy
. Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
. Marilyn Walker - University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
. Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
. Michael Wiegand -- Saarland University, Germany
. Theresa Wilson -- John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
. Taras Zagibalov -  Brantwatch, U.K.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

. Prof. Dr. Rada Mihalcea -- University of North Texas, U.S.A.
. Prof. Dr. Janyce Wiebe -- University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

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SUBMISSIONS

At WASSA 2012, we will accept two types of submissions: long and short
papers.

. Long papers

Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two
(2) additional pages of references, and will be presented orally.

. Short papers

Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2)
additional pages of references. The following types of papers are
appropriate for a short paper submission:

1.    A paper describing the demonstration of a system
2.    A small, focused contribution
3.    Work in progress
4.    A negative result
5.    An opinion piece
6.    An interesting application nugget

Short papers will be presented either orally or as a poster. The choice
of presentation will be given not based on the quality of the
submission, but on the PC's recommendation relating to the most suitable
presentation method.

All papers submitted to WASSA should be formatted according to the
ACL-HLT 2012 Style Files, available at:
http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp Reviewing for WASSA 2010 will be
blind: reviewers will not be presented with the identity of paper
authors. Authors should avoid writing anything that makes their identity
obvious in the text.

Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously
have been formally published.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACL WASSA proceedings, with
ISBN. The best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the Computer
Speech and Language Journal (Elsevier).

Subsequent to the WASSA 2012 acceptance notification, we will also
launch an open call for papers for a Special Issue of the Information
Sciences Journal (Elsevier).

To submit a paper, please access: 
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/wassa-2012

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:35:50 +0100
Subject: Info: Newsletter du LPL numero 3 - mars 2012
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:37:24 +0100
From: Joëlle Lavaud <joelle.lavaud at lpl-aix.fr>
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Bonjour,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous envoyer le nouveau numéro de la Newsletter
du Laboratoire Parole et Langage, consultable en ligne :

http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/fileadmin/template/NewsLetter/NL3.htm
vous souhaitons une bonne lecture.
Cordialement,

La cellule communication du LPL.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:36:56 +0100
Subject: Cursus: Master Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la
 Langue a Nantes
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:17:52 +0100
From: Emmanuel Morin <Emmanuel.Morin at univ-nantes.fr>
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Cher-e collègue,

En septembre 2012 ouvrira à Nantes la spécialité du Master informatique
ATAL : *Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la Langue*
(http://atal.univ-nantes.fr)

Il s'agit d'une formation sur deux ans, P+R, alliant l'acquisition
d'outils de génie logiciel pour les technologies de la langue à l'étude
de nombreux concepts préparant des futurs chercheurs dans les mêmes
domaines.

N'hésitez pas à en parler autour de vous, et en particulier à vos 
étudiants !

Bien entendu, nous sommes aussi intéressés dans l'établissement de 
collaborations avec les équipes motivées par ce projet, collaborations 
qui pourraient vous permettre de proposer des stages ou d'intervenir 
d'une façon ou une autre, dans la formation.

Bien cordialement,

Emmanuel Morin

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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:39:30 +0100
Subject: Q: Outil generique de gestion de contenu
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:35:13 +0100
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Bonjour,

Je désirerais savoir quel outil les lecteurs de la liste LN
conseilleraient pour gérer et visualiser un document XML, avec de
multiples liens vers des méta-données (index, etc.). Je cherche de
préférence un logiciel libre mais il faudrait qqch de stable, bien
établi avec de la documentation.

Je m'adresse à la liste LN car j'imagine qu'il s'agit d'un problème
classique quand on extrait des termes ou d'autres types d'info à partir
de textes.

Merci de m'envoyer directement vos suggestions (thierry.poibeau at ens.fr),
je posterai une synthèse des réponses.

Cordialement,

Thierry Poibeau

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:41:26 +0100
Subject: Job: Call for JSPS Postdoctoral Fellows (JSPS/CNRS programme)
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:37:40 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
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Call for JSPS Postdoctoral Fellows
Development of novel algorithms for post-disaster surveillance from
massive social network data
 
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) runs an excellent
scheme for inviting international researchers to come and work at
Japanese universities and research institutes for 12 to 24 months.  The
fellowships have offered quite generous terms that include monthly
salary, round trip air ticket, housing subsidy, settling in allowance,
accident and sickness coverage, local travel grant, and a grant in aid
for research expenses. For conditions, application deadlines and
up-to-date details please see
http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/index.html.

NII (http://www.nii.ac.jp/en) and LATTICE/CNRS
(http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/) are currently collaborating on a project
aiming at providing novel algorithms for post-disaster surveillance from
massive social network data. In this context, we would like to host
applicants willing to work in this area and to be based at the
Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI) in Tokyo for one or
two years. Note that applicants from France who apply through CNRS
should be either French nationals or French residents.
 
Please send expressions of interest on or before March, 31 by sending a
CV, a cover letter and one or two relevant publications to Nigel Collier
<collier at nii.ac.jp> and Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>.
Applications are administered by CNRS with a final deadline of 16 April
2012 (see https://dri-dae.cnrs-dir.fr/spip.php?article1242 and
http://jsps.unistra.fr/les-bourses-de-la-jsps/).
 
Background
 
Recent public health disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the
2011 Tohoku earthquake/tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear reactor leakage
have dramatically shown the human costs that societies face at times of
large-scale crisis. In a very short space of time governments must
decide on how to allocate scarce national assets to mitigate the
disaster and alleviate suffering of victims. At the same time
communities under pressure have shown great resilience and willingness
to help each other. Putting together those in need with those capable of
providing resources is a key objective in future disaster mitigation.
 
Traditional sensor networks on which planners rely such as general
practitioner networks and radiation monitors are expensive to maintain
and may offer insufficient coverage during times of peak
requirement. For this reason we propose to explore the use of
non-traditional sources of information to help governments, NPOs and
international agencies identify areas of need during large scale
disasters. Social media data in the form of Twitter messages have proven
useful for early warning in the case of earthquakes and epidemics. So
far though such studies have focused on a narrow set of linguistic
features without incorporating any knowledge of the underlying network
topology. Understanding the dynamics of how the network of users relate
to each other, finding hotspots and mapping these to real world
locations will form part of a new approach to disaster information
systems which our groups plan on collaboratively developing.
 
Twitter has been active without major disruption during the Fukushima
accident. In Tokyo, the surface lines have been down for two days but
one mobile network (out of three) has always been in working order, so
we really think this scenario is realistic. It is anyway rewarding to
monitor social media since it has been proven that the response time in
case of disaster is largely lower when compared to public authorities
reactions.
 
Position description
 
We are looking for a Post-doc whose main objective will be to develop
algorithms and knowledge resources that identify communities of need and
supply through linguistic and topological analysis as well as grounding
of those communities in locations of the real world.  Needs will
correspond to anxiety about basic resources that naturally arise after
disasters such as safety, food, water, medicine, communications and so
on. These needs and their corresponding supply chains have been the
focus of manual detection in various humanitarian projects such as
Ushahidi. The difference we hope to make in this work is to analysis the
personal reports automatically using advanced algorithms. In the first
instance LaTTiCe and the Collier Lab aim to develop a collaborative
project on the topic for two years.
 
Skills required
 
- computer science, esp. a strong experience in software development
- machine learning
- natural language processing
- fluent in English
- knowledge or interest in Japanese language
- interest in blogs and new media analysis


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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:40:08 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: INFOLINGU, Amalia Todirascu, lundi 19 mars 2012
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:20:56 +0100
From: Myriam RAKHO <rakho at univ-mlv.fr>
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INFOLINGU
Le séminaire de l'équipe Informatique Linguistique
du Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard Monge (LIGM)
Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
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Date : *Le Lundi 19 mars 2012 à 10h30*

Lieu : Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Bâtiment Copernic, 4ème étage, salle de séminaires 4B08R

Toute personne intéressée est la bienvenue.

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Intervenante :
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  *Amalia TODIRASCU* (UFR LSHA/Université de Strasbourg)

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Titre de la présentation :
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*   Un système d'extraction de collocations à partir de corpus*

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Anthony SIGOGNE, Myriam RAKHO

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:42:44 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage (23 mars), Roser Sauri,
 Are You Sure that This Happened? Assessing the Factuality Degree
 of Events in Text
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:55:20 +0100
From: Marie Candito <marie.candito at gmail.com>
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************** Séminaire Alpage *******************

Séminaire de l'école doctorale de Paris Diderot

Il s'agit du séminaire de recherche en linguistique informatique
organisé par l'équipe Alpage, équipe mixte Inria -- Paris Diderot,
spécialisée en analyse syntaxique automatique et en traitement du
discours.

Le prochain séminaire se tiendra vendredi 23 mars de 11h à 12h30 en
salle 3E91 à l'UFRL, 16, rue de Clisson, 75013 Paris (3e étage gauche)

Toute personne intéressée est la bienvenue.

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*Roser Saurí*

*Title:* Are You Sure that This Happened?  Assessing the Factuality
Degree of Events in Text

*Abstract:*

Identifying the veracity, or *factuality*, of event mentions in text is
fundamental for reasoning about eventualities in discourse. Inferences
derived from events judged as not having happened, or as being only
possible, are different from those derived from events evaluated as
factual.

Event factuality involves two separate levels of information. On the one
hand, it deals with polarity, which distinguishes between positive and
negative instantiations of events.  On the other, it has to do with
degrees of certainty (e.g., possible, probable), an information level
generally subsumed under the category of epistemic modality, and which
has been widely discussed in linguistics and philosophy.  In languages
like English, these two levels of information are expressed through a
variety of linguistic devices, from modal auxiliaries and polarity
particles to syntactic constructions of different kind, passing through
a number of lexical predicates, such as verbs and nouns conveying
epistemic evaluations (e.g., *believe, know*, *suspicion, idea*).

This talk aims at contributing to a better understanding of how event
factuality is articulated in natural language, with special focus on
English data.  For that purpose, I will present a linguistic-oriented
computational model which has at its core an algorithm articulating the
effect of factuality relations across levels of syntactic embedding.  As
a proof of concept, this model has been implemented in De Facto, a
factuality profiler for eventualities mentioned in text, and tested
against a corpus built specifically for the task, yielding an F-1
measure of 0.70 (macro-averaging) and 0.80 (micro-averaging). These two
measures mutually compensate for an over-emphasis present in the other
(either on the lesser or greater populated categories), and can
therefore be interpreted as the lower and upper bounds of the De Facto's
performance.


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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:44:10 +0100
Subject: Livre: Discourse Processing
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:55:51 -0400
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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NEW BOOK

Discourse Processing, by Manfred Stede, Potsdam University

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #15
(Morgan & Claypool Publishers), 2012, 165 pages

Abstract

Discourse Processing here is framed as marking up a text with structural
descriptions on several levels, which can serve to support many
language-processing or text-mining tasks. We first explore some ways of
assigning structure on the document level: the logical document
structure as determined by the layout of the text, its genre-specific
content structure, and its breakdown into topical segments. Then the
focus moves to phenomena of local coherence. We introduce the problem of
coreference and look at methods for building chains of coreferring
entities in the text.  Next, the notion of coherence relation is
introduced as the second important factor of local coherence. We study
the role of connectives and other means of signaling such relations in
text, and then return to the level of larger textual units, where tree
or graph structures can be ascribed by recursively assigning coherence
relations. Taken together, these descriptions can inform text
summarization, information extraction, discourse-aware sentiment
analysis, question answering, and the like.

Table of Contents: Introduction / Large Discourse Units and Topics /
Coreference Resolution / Small Discourse Units and Coherence Relations /
Summary: Text Structure on Multiple Interacting Levels

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00354ED1V01Y201111HLT015


This title is available online without charge to members of institutions
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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:46:16 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension, SSST-6: Sixth Workshop on Syntax,
 Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (ACL 2012)
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:12:49 -0400
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SSST-6: Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical
Translation
ACL 2012 / SIGMT / SIGLEX Workshop 12 July 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea

*** EXTENDED submission deadline: 27 Apr 2012 ***
*** Special theme: Semantic MT Evaluation ***

The Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical
Translation (SSST-6) seeks to build on the foundations established in
the first five SSST workshops, which brought together a large number of
researchers working on diverse aspects of structure, semantics and
representation in relation to statistical machine translation. Its
program each year has comprised high-quality papers discussing current
work spanning topics including: new grammatical models of translation;
new learning methods for syntax- and semantics-based models; formal
properties of synchronous/transduction grammars (hereafter S/TGs);
discriminative training of models incorporating linguistic features;
using S/TGs for semantics and generation; and syntax- and
semantics-based evaluation of machine translation.

The need for structural mappings between languages is widely recognized
in the fields of statistical machine translation and spoken language
translation, and there is a growing consensus that these mappings are
appropriately represented using a family of formalisms that includes
synchronous/transduction grammars and their tree-transducer
equivalents. To date, flat-structured models, such as the word-based IBM
models of the early 1990s or the more recent phrase-based models, remain
widely used. But tree-structured mappings arguably offer a much greater
potential for learning valid generalizations about relationships between
languages.

Within this area of research there is a rich diversity of approaches.
There is active research ranging from formal properties of S/TGs to
large-scale end-to-end systems. There are approaches that make heavy use
of linguistic theory, and approaches that use little or none.  There is
theoretical work characterizing the expressiveness and complexity of
particular formalisms, as well as empirical work assessing their
modeling accuracy and descriptive adequacy across various language
pairs. There is work being done to invent better translation models, and
work to design better algorithms. Recent years have seen significant
progress on all these fronts. In particular, systems based on these
formalisms are now top contenders in MT evaluations.

At the same time, SMT has seen a movement toward semantics over the past
few years, which has been reflected at recent SSST workshops, including
the last edition which had semantics for SMT as a special theme.  The
issues of deep syntax and shallow semantics are closely linked and
SSST-6 encourages submissions on semantics for MT in a number of
directions, including semantic role labeling (SRL) for SMT, WSD for SMT
and in particular, semantics for MT evaluation.  In order to emphasize
the need to evaluate MT in a way that properly assesses preservation of
structure and semantics, SSST-6 is highlighting Semantic MT Evaluation
as a special workshop theme.

We invite papers on:

* syntactically- and semantically-motivated evaluation of MT
* syntax-based / semantics-based / tree-structured SMT
* machine learning techniques for inducing structured translation models
* algorithms for training, decoding, and scoring with semantic
  representation structure
* empirical studies on adequacy and efficiency of formalisms
* creation and usefulness of syntactic/semantic resources for MT
* formal properties of synchronous/transduction grammars
* learning semantic information from monolingual, parallel or comparable
  corpora
* unsupervised and semi-supervised word sense induction and
  disambiguation methods for MT
* lexical substitution, word sense induction and
  disambiguation,semantic role labeling, textual entailment, paraphrase
  and other semantic tasks for MT
* semantic features for MT models (word alignment, translation
  lexicons, language models, etc.)
* evaluation of syntactic/semantic components within MT (task-based
  evaluation)
* scalability of structured translation methods to small or large data
* applications of synchronous/transduction grammars to areas including:
  speech translation, formal semantics and semantic parsing, paraphrases
  and textual entailment, information retrieval and extraction, etc.

For more information: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dekai/ssst/

SPECIAL THEME: SEMANTIC MT  EVALUATION

Ongoing work suggests that MT evaluation is improved by generalizing
across similar word meanings (Zhou et al., 2006; Apidianaki et al, 2009;
Snover et al., 2009; Denkowski and Lavie, 2010), and explicitly modeling
preservation of meaning with textual entailment (Padó et al.  2009), or
semantic frames (Lo and Wu, 2011).  However, crucial questions such as
what frameworks are best suited to measure MT quality in general, and
the impact of semantic modeling in MT evaluation remain unanswered. With
this year's special theme, we seek to bring together researchers working
on semantics and on translation evaluation in order to encourage
cross-pollination of ideas, share insights into the needs of MT
evaluation and what current developments in semantics have to offer. We
particularly encourage the submission of papers addressing the following
issues related to semantics-driven evaluation of MT:

 * MT evaluation  metrics generalizing across similar word meanings
 * MT evaluation  metrics explicitly modeling preservation of meaning
   via textual entailment, semantic frames, etc
 * New frameworks to measure MT quality using semantic information,
   including machine learning approaches
 * Evaluation of the impact of semantic modeling on MT evaluation
 * Use of semantic information for quality/confidence estimation (MT
   evaluation without reference translations)

ORGANIZERS

Marine CARPUAT, National Research Council Canada
Lucia SPECIA, University of Sheffield
Dekai WU, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:  27 Apr 2012
Notification to authors:  16 May 2012
Camera copy deadline:  23 May 2012


SUBMISSION

Papers will be accepted on or before 27 Apr 2012 in PDF or Postscript
formats via the START system:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/ssst-6/. Submissions should follow the
ACL 2012 length and formatting requirements for long papers of eight (8)
pages of content with two (2) additional pages of references, found at
http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp


CONTACT

Please send inquiries to ssst at cs.ust.hk.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marianna Apidianaki, LIMSI-CNRS
Wilker Aziz, University of Wolverhampton
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research
David Chiang, USC ISI
Colin Cherry, National Research Council Canada
Mona Diab, Columbia University
Alexander Fraser, University of Stuttgart
Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Yifan He, Dublin City University
Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Kevin Knight, USC ISI
Alon Lavie, CMU
Yanjun Ma, Baidu
Daniel Marcu, USC ISI and Language Weaver
Lluìs Màrquez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Sudip Kumar Naskar, Dublin City University
Hwee-Tou Ng, National University of Singapore
Daniele Pighin, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Markus Saers, HKUST
Libin Shen, IBM Research
Matthew Snover, BBN
John Tinsley, Dublin City University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Taro Watanabe, NICT
Deyi Xiong, Institute for Infocomm Research Singapore
François Yvon, Université Paris Sud 11

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:51:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: Numero special de Document Numerique sur le Resume
 Automatique de Documents
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:27:19 +0100
From: "Rim FAIZ" <Rim.Faiz at ihec.rnu.tn>
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Appel à publication - Document Numérique 

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

Numéro spécial sur le Résumé Automatique de Documents

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Dates importantes :
-------------------------

Date limite de soumission : 31 mars 2012
Réponse aux auteurs : 31 mai 2012
Version finale auteurs : 15 juillet 2012
Livraison éditeur : 1er septembre 2012
Parution du numéro spécial : fin 2012

Thématique :
-----------------

Dans ce numéro nous souhaitons particulièrement investir les thèmes
suivants (liste non exhaustive) :

-     Résumé automatique de documents simples
-     Résumé automatique de documents multiples
-     Approches statistiques pour le résumé
-     Approches linguistiques pour le résumé
-     Résumé de documents multimédia
-     Techniques de révision des résumés
-     Évaluation des systèmes de résumé
-     Résumé multilingue

Objectif :
-----------

A l'heure où les documents numériques disponibles et échangés entre les
individus prolifèrent, il devient impossible d'accéder aux contenus sans
disposer d'outils informatiques qui les résument tout en préservant les
idées qu'ils véhiculent.

Ce numéro spécial vise à regrouper des recherches qui traitent la
problématique du résumé automatique sous toutes ses facettes. Il vise à
apporter un éclairage sur les questions :

- Comment peut-on repérer les idées clés dans un document ?

- Comment peut-on synthétiser l'information répartie sur de multiples
  documents ?

- Comment peut-on préserver la cohérence et la cohésion du résumé
  produit ?

- Peut-on appliquer les mêmes approches utilisées pour résumer les
  textes aux documents multimédias (vidéo et audio) ?

- Comment évaluer la qualité d'un résumé automatique?.

Recommandations aux auteurs :
-----------------------------------------

- Les soumissions sont à envoyer à revue.ResumeAutomatique at gmail.com
  (coordonnées ci-dessous) et doivent respecter la feuille de style de
  la revue disponible sur le serveur http://www.revuesonline.com/ (ou
  sur demande à : dn at lavoisier.fr)

- Les articles ne doivent pas dépasser 25-30 pages. Ils sont acceptés en
  français (ou en anglais pour les auteurs non francophones).

- Les soumissions peuvent être envoyées sous forme de fichiers PDF (de
  préférence).

- Les versions finales seront acceptées sous format Word ou PDF. Dans ce
  dernier cas, les corrections ortho-typographiques seront faites par
  les auteurs à la demande de l'éditeur.

Comite de rédaction du numéro
------------------------------------------

Delphine Battistelli, Université Paris Sorbonne 
Lamia Belguith, FSEG-Sfax, Tunisie 
Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, ISIM, Sfax, Tunisie 
Philippe Blache, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence 
Rim Faiz, Université de Carthage, IHEC, Tunisie 
Brigitte Grau, ENSIIE, Ivry, France 
Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal 
Abderrafih Lehmam, Minng Essential, France 
Jean-Luc Minel, MoDyCo, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense - CNRS 
Thierry Poibeau - LaTTiCe-CNRS, France 
Juan-Manuel Torres Moreno - Université d'Avignon

Editeur et la revue :
-------------------------

www.dn.revuesonline.com

Contact :
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Abdelmajid BEN HAMADOU
ISIMS, Laboratoire MIRACL,
Pôle technologique, Sakiet-EZZIT
BP 242, Sfax 3021, Tunisie
Tél. : +216 98608919

Abdelmajid.benhamadou at isimsf.rnu.tn

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:00:09 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF 0910, 7eme section, STL, Universite Lille 3
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:20:08 +0100 (CET)
From: "Natalia GRABAR" <natalia.grabar at univ-lille3.fr>
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Le Laboratoire STL UMR 8163 à l'Université Lille 1 & 3 recrute :

 - Poste 7 MCF 0910


Thématique et objectifs :

La personne recrutée intégrera l’UMR 8163 STL (Savoirs, Textes,
Langage), CNRS & Universités Lille 3 et Lille 1. Ses recherches
porteront sur le lexique (que ce soit en sémantique lexicale, en
morphologie, ou à l’interface entre lexique et syntaxe), et feront état
d’une connaissance avérée du maniement des outils du Traitement
Automatique des Langues et des ressources linguistiques électroniques
existantes (lexiques électroniques, dictionnaires et grammaires locales,
etc.). Des connaissances en lexicographie multilingue, en acquisition
automatique de ressources linguistiques, en approches statistiques pour
le TAL et/ou en linguistique de corpus (constitution ou analyse) seront
également appréciées.

Elle s’engagera à travailler de façon collaborative avec les membres du
laboratoire et à contribuer à l’animation et au développement des
activités scientifiques de STL ((co-)organisation de journées d’études
ou de colloques internationaux, montage de projets, etc.).


Coordonnées des personnes à contacter pour plus d’informations :

 - Georgette DAL, responsable de l’axe Syntaxe, Interprétation, Lexique,
   Acquisition
   Email : georgette.dal at univ-lille3.fr

 - Christian BERNER, directeur
   Email : christian.berner at univ-lille3.fr


Les dossiers devront être envoyés selon les modalités habituelles et au
format papier uniquement.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:06:01 +0100
Subject: Appel: LAW VI Deadline Extension
Message-ID: <SUN.18.MAR.2012.100601.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:03:32 -0400
From: Nancy Ide <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
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=====================================================================

*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 28 MARCH 2012, 11:59pm GMT-11 ***

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS  

The 6th  Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VI)
Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN)
http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI

July 12-13, 2012
ICC Jeju
Jeju, Republic of Korea

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

Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of
supervised methods of statistical natural language processing. The Sixth
LAW will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative
research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including
creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and
manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and
frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc. As
in the past, the LAW will provide a forum for annotation researchers to
both work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability
of annotation information and software.

The special theme for LAW VI is Collaborative Annotation (both
community-based and crowd-sourced). The workshop will include a special
session on this topic, including a "challenge" exercise (see
http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI/challenge.html for details). We
invite submissions relating to this theme as well as any aspect of
linguistic annotation, including:

Collaborative annotation
- Issues, strategies, and results for community-based annotation of
  common (shared) resources
- Issues, strategies, and results for crowd-sourcing linguistic annotations

Annotation procedures:
- Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation
- Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus
  annotation
- Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation
  structures and annotated data

Annotation evaluation:
- Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies
- Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representation

Annotation access and use:
- Representation formats/structures for merged annotations of different
  phenomena, and means to explore/manipulate them
- Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct
  phenomena


Annotation guidelines and standards:
- Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and
  documentation of annotation schemes
- Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among
  different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities,
  and languages


Annotation software and frameworks:
- Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks

Annotation schemes:
- New and innovative annotation schemes
- Comparison of annotation schemes

Submission information
-----------------------------
Submissions of long and short papers (8 and 4 pages respectively, PLUS
up to two pages of references) and demonstrations (4 pages) should be
submitted electronically through the system at
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/law-6/. Submissions should conform to
the official ACL 2012 style guidelines and be submitted in
PDF. Reviewing will be blind, so submissions must not include the
authors' names and affiliations.  Please see the guidelines for
submissions to the general ACL conference at
http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp for more information.

Important dates
-------------------
Submission deadline: 28 March 2012
Acceptance Notification: 4 May, 2012
Camera ready deadline: 18 May 2012

NOTE: Paper withdrawal not allowed after May 20.

Program Committee Co-Chairs
-------------------------------------
Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
Fei Xia (University of Washington)

Program Committee 
-------------------------
Collin Baker (ICSI/UC Berkeley)
Emily Bender (University of Washington)
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC/CNR)
Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University)
Christopher Cieri (Linguistic Data Consortium/University of Pennsylvania)
Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum)
Tomaz Erjavec (Josef Stefan Institute)
Alex Chengyu Fang (City University of Hong Kong)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University)
Udo Hahn (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)
Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
Adam Meyers (New York University)
Antonio Pareja-Lora (UCM / ATLAS-UNED)
Martha Palmer (University of Colorado)
Christopher Potts (Stanford University)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
Owen Rambow (Columbia University)
Manfred Stede (Universität Potsdam)
Mihai Surdeanu (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona)
Theresa Wilson (University of Edinburgh)
Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim)

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Tue Mar 20 21:37:51 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:37:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: Extension deadline, Colloque Medias / Sante publique
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAR.2012.223751.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:13:55 +0100
From: Carine Duteil-Mougel <carine.duteil at ensil.unilim.fr>
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Bonjour,

Extension de la date de soumission : 31 mars 2012

Pour laisser davantage de temps aux contributeurs, nous avons repoussé
de 15 jours la date limite de soumission du résumé.

Colloque "Médias / Santé Publique" - Bordeaux, les 18 et 19 octobre
2012.

APPEL à communications

A côté d’un traitement plus ordinaire des questions médicales,
scientifiques ou techniques, les épisodes du SRAS en 2003, de la grippe
A (H1N1) en 2009 ou très récemment de la bactérie ECEH ont montré
comment des questions de santé publique pouvaient devenir des problèmes
politiques dont les médias s’emparaient dans leur immédiateté, comme des
scoops, contribuant ainsi à les ériger en événements.


En traitant alors ces « événements » sous différents angles
(scientifique, médical, technique, politique, économique, industriel,
social, environnemental), les médias mettent en scène des acteurs
relevant de sphères discursives distinctes : scientifiques, responsables
politiques, citoyens malades avérés ou potentiels, professionnels de la
santé. Une polyphonie de discours publics se laisse alors saisir,
pouvant parfois donner l’impression d’une cacophonie, parfois d’une
orchestration vite vue comme manipulatrice. Au delà d’une information
classiquement relayée et commentée par la presse (généraliste ou plus
spécialisée), la télévision, la radio ou internet, des campagnes de
communication sont alors mises en place pour faire connaître des moyens
de prévention, ou pour inciter à la vaccination par exemple.  On peut
aussi voir émerger des reprises ironiques, sous forme de clips sur
internet, faux journaux, créations théâtrales...

Le colloque qui sera organisé à Bordeaux les 18 et 19 octobre 2012 vise
à réunir des chercheurs d’horizons différents (en Sciences de
l’Information et de la Communication, Philosophie, Linguistique,
Sciences du Langage, Sociologie) ainsi que des professionnels de la
santé, de la politique et des médias, afin de croiser leurs réflexions
sur le mode de traitement par les médias des questions de santé
publique.


Les problématiques suivantes pourront être abordées, sans exclusive :

- En matière de santé publique, comment le discours de la science est-il
  diffusé ? Comment les paroles des experts scientifiques sont- elles
  rapportées ? Quelle texture énonciative se dessine ?

- Lorsque le journaliste endosse le rôle de médiateur, quel dialogisme
  interactionnel se met en place ? Quelles en sont les marques
  linguistiques et sémiotiques (reformulations, vulgarisation,
  désignations qualifiantes, infographies, encadrés et illustrations à
  vocation didactique, etc.) ?

- En contexte de santé publique, quelles sont les stratégies  
  rhétoriques que les médias mettent en acte ?

- Comment les médias ventilent-ils les raisons (scientifique, politique,
  économique) dans les différents discours à propos de la santé publique ?

- Plus largement, quelle importance les médias accordent-ils aux
  questions de santé publique ? Comment mettent-ils en scène les
  questions ou les problèmes de santé publique ? A partir de quand
  peut-on parler d’« événement médiatique » ? Et à quel moment passe-t-
  on de « question » à « problème politique » de santé publique ?

- Comment les médias interviennent-ils dans la mise en place d’une
  alerte sanitaire ? Observateurs, acteurs, révélateurs, amplificateurs ?

- Comment les différents publics réagissent-ils au traitement médiatique
  des problèmes de santé publique ?

- Quelles sont les stratégies rhétoriques que les médias mettent en
  œuvre en contexte de santé publique?

- Comment, dans un contexte d’abondance de l’information et de
  possibilité de bruitage, les médias permettent-ils de distinguer le
  vrai du faux ? Quelle désinformation peut se mettre en place ?

- Comment se redéfinit l’expertise en matière de santé publique et qui
  peut être considéré comme expert ?


Les propositions de communication (un titre et un résumé de 450 mots
maximum, en français ou en anglais) seront à déposer avant le 31 mars
2012 à l’adresse suivante : www.conference-universite.org/MedSante2012


Calendrier :

-       Date limite de dépôt des propositions, via le site du  
colloque : 31 mars 2012
-	Notification d’acceptation : fin mai 2012
-	Pré-inscriptions : avant le 15 juin 2012
-	Date du colloque : 18 et 19 octobre 2012


Contact : medsante2012 at conference-universite.org


Composition du comité scientifique :

BENKIMOUN Paul Journaliste en charge des questions de santé - Le Monde

BOUTET Josiane, Professeur des Universités en Sciences du Langage,  
Université Paris IV-La Sorbonne et Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot

BRUN Cédric, Maître de conférences en Philosophie, Université  
Bordeaux, SPH (EA4574)

DOURY Marianne, Chargée de recherche, Laboratoire Communication et  
politique.

DUTEIL-MOUGEL Carine, Maître de conférences en Sciences de  
l’Information et de la Communication, ENSIL-Université de Limoges,  
CeReS (EA 3648)

GONON François, Directeur de recherche, Institute of  
Neurodegenerative Diseases, CNRS, UMR 5227

KRIEG-PLANQUE Alice,  Maître de conférences en Sciences de  
l’Information et de la Communication, Université Paris-Est Créteil  
(UPEC), Céditec.

LAÜGT Olivier, Maître de conférences en Sciences de l’Information et  
de la Communication, Université Bordeaux, SPH (EA4574)

LEDEGEN Gudrun, Maître de conférences en Sciences du Langage,  
Université de Rennes 2, Préfics

LONDEI Danielle, Professore Ordinario di Lingua francese auprès de  
la Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori  
(Forli)- Università di Bologna

MOIRAND Sophie, Professeur des universités en Sciences du Langage,  
Université Sorbonne nouvelle et Paris 3, Cediscor-Syled

RASTIER François, Directeur de recherche CNRS, ERTIM

REBOUL-TOURÉ Sandrine, Maître de conférences en Sciences du Langage,  
Université Sorbonne nouvelle et Paris 3, Cediscor-Syled

SANTONE Laura, Université Roma Tre, Faculté de Lettres et  
Philosophie - Département de Langues et cultures étrangères, Rome

VENTURINI Tommaso, Maître de conférences à Sciences Po Paris

VERGELY Pascale Maître de conférences en Sciences de l’Information  
et de la Communication, Université Bordeaux, SPH (EA4574)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:38:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: Journees d'Etude Nomico "Nominalisations et Corpus",
 Nancy, 6-7 Septembre 2012
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:52:35 +0100
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Appel à Communications : Journées d'Etude Nomico "Nominalisations et
Corpus"

Nancy, 6-7 Septembre 2012

THÉMATIQUE :

Au carrefour de la morphologie, de la syntaxe et de la sémantique, les
nominalisations sont un thème de recherche fédérateur en linguistique.
Parmi les thématiques actuelles, on trouve, par exemple, la question de
l'héritage des propriétés verbales (notamment structure argumentale et
aspect), par les noms déverbaux. Les noms d'états et la détermination de
leurs caractéristiques sont également au cœur des préoccupations des
chercheurs. Le même problème de caractérisation se pose dans le cas des
noms dits résultatifs. Les autres noms déverbaux (noms d'agents, de
patients, d'instruments, etc), de même que les nominalisations
adjectivales, laissent également subsister un vaste champ d'exploration.
L'objectif des journées Nominalisations et Corpus sera de contribuer, à
partir d'études sur corpus, à une meilleure compréhension de ces
phénomènes.

Date limite de soumission : 1° mai 2012

Appel à communications complet, soumission et autres informations  :
http://www.atilf.fr/nomico2012


Pour le comité d'organisation,
Evelyne Jacquey
ATILF-CNRS-Université de Lorraine

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:40:06 +0100
Subject: Info: TOTh 2012, Formation
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAR.2012.224006.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:28:11 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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TOTh 2012 : FORMATION

http://www.porphyre.org/formation-toth/2012

Informations : formation at porphyre.org

Titre: Analyse des textes à des fins onomasiologiques

Dates : 5 & 6 juin 2012
Lieu : Institut de la Montagne, Campus Scientifique, Le Bourget du Lac

Responsables
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Pr. Rute Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Pr. Christophe Roche Université de Savoie

Présentation générale
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Les terminologues jouent un rôle central dans toute activité
professionnelle où les compétences discursives, le transfert et
l’organisation des connaissances sont requis. Les terminologies sont
indispensables à une communication spécialisée rigoureuse et efficace.
Elles interviennent également dans de nombreuses applications
informatiques de gestion et de traitement de l’information. Leur
construction est un problème complexe qui doit prendre en compte les
dimensions linguistique et conceptuelle qui les composent. L’analyse des
textes à des fins onomasiologiques est particulièrement intéressante
pour l’aide à la rédaction des définitions en Terminologie.

Dans beaucoup de contextes professionnels, le texte est au cœur du
travail terminologique. Il importe donc de savoir ce que l’on peut y
trouver d’utile pour le travail terminologique de base conceptuelle*.
L’analyse linguistique des textes à des fins terminologiques requiert
des connaissances spécifiques. Le but est de proposer, en plus de
l’extraction des traditionnels candidats termes et collocations, des
méthodologies pour l’identification des marqueurs linguistiques et des
relations sémantiques.

Sont retenus les éléments qui pointent vers le concept nécessaires à la
rédaction des définitions en langue naturelle. Les résultats obtenus
nous amènent à proposer une possible organisation des données qui est
soumise à l’expert. Dans cette démarche, l’expert du domaine, au sein
d’une équipe multidisciplinaire, joue un rôle essentiel. Au moment de
valider les données il « stabilise » les connaissances sur le concept,
ce qui permettra à l’ingénieur cogniticien de modéliser le système
formel correspondant.

* L’approche conceptuelle, fondement de l’approche classique de la
terminologie, est rendue nécessaire par l’opérationnalisation des
terminologies à des fins informatiques. C’est dans ce cadre
qu’interviennent les ontologies pour la modélisation formelle du système
conceptuel.

Objectifs
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La formation vise à promouvoir la collaboration entre les professionnels
de la langue et de la connaissance. Elle a également pour objectif de
présenter les théories, méthodes et outils d’analyse de textes à des
fins terminologiques, dotant ainsi :

les professionnels de la langue d’une approche méthodologique et
systématique pour la définition ;
les professionnels de la connaissance de compétences linguistiques
indispensables pour l’acquisition de connaissances à partir de
ressources linguistiques.

Publics visés
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Linguistes, Terminologues, Traducteurs, Documentalistes,
Informaticiens, Ingénieurs cogniticiens…

Programme
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1. Introduction
2. Fondements théoriques : terminologie, ontologie
3. Textes de spécialité
3.1. Typologie de textes
4. Extraction de données terminologiques
4.1. Candidats termes
4.2. Candidats collocations
4.3. Relations sémantiques à base de marqueurs linguistiques
4.4. Organisation des données terminologiques
4.5. Validation par l’expert
5. Des textes à la définition
5.1. Définition(s) de définition
5.2. Eléments de définitions à des fins de rédaction
5.3. Rôle de l’expert dans la validation des résultats
6. Médiation entre terminologue et expert
7. De la définition en langue à la définition formelle
8. Synthèse

Tarifs
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Etudiants	: 80 €
Institutionnels	: 100 €
Industriels	: 140 €

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:41:34 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier Ontologies et Jeux de Donnees pour evaluer le web
 semantique (OJD), IC 2012
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAR.2012.224134.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:53:11 +0100
From: Nathalie Hernandez <hernande at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <4F670207.7070607 at univ-tlse2.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/OJD/

*Appel à communication :
Atelier Ontologies et Jeux de Données pour évaluer le web sémantique
(OJD)
IC 2012 - 26 juin 2012 - Paris*

http://www.irit.fr/OJD/


L'atelier *Ontologies et Jeux de Données pour évaluer le web sémantique
*organisé par le thème 7 du GDR-I3 et le gracq se tiendra le 26 juin
dans le cadre des 23èmes journées francophones d'ingénierie des
connaissances.

Peu de ressources sont aujourd'hui disponibles pour évaluer les
applications du Web sémantique. La plupart des ontologies disponibles
(comme DBPedia, MusicBrainz, ...) ou proposées lors de campagnes
d'évaluation (QALD dans le domaine des Questions/Réponses, Billion
Triples Track pour évaluer le passage à l'échelle des applications, ...)
présentent des lacunes qui empêchent une évaluation de qualité des
applications développées.

Certaines de ces ontologies manquent d'expressivité. Lorsqu'elles sont
formées d'une simple hiérarchie de concepts ou sont issues de schémas
relationnels, elles offrent des possibilités d'inférence limitées.
D'autres sont limitées en termes d'exhaustivité, même au sein d'un
domaine. Le domaine couvert est restreint et il est fréquent que peu
d'instances soient représentées.

Pour contourner ce manque, les travaux menés actuellement sont évalués
sur des ontologies créées pour valoriser l'application. Ces ontologies
sont complétées par des jeux de données (textes bruts, documents
annotés, requêtes, ...) là aussi définis de façon ad hoc. Ces pratiques
biaisent les résultats de l'évaluation et empêchent de mettre en place
une comparaison objective des systèmes.

L'objectif de cet atelier est de décrire les besoins et de définir les
critères auxquels doivent répondre les ontologies et les jeux de données
qui pourront être mises à disposition de la communauté, permettant ainsi
des évaluations pertinentes des applications les utilisant. Cet atelier
a également pour vocation la présentation documentée et argumentée de
ressources (ontologies et jeux de données) qui pourraient prétendre
correspondre à des besoins d'évaluation ainsi que de protocoles
d'évaluation d'applications, qui serviraient par la suite de référence.

Sujet des articles
Les soumissions pourront être applicables notamment aux thématiques
suivantes :

* Construction, peuplement et évolution d'ontologie
* Alignement et fusion
* Systèmes de Question/Réponse
* Comparaison des approches de Recherche d'Information et des moteurs 
  sémantiques
* Annotation sémantique et description de contenus
* Passage à l'échelle
* Linked data
* Ressources spécifiques au français

Chaque présentation devra précisément présenter les objectifs
d'évaluation visés, les critères identifiés pour y répondre et
éventuellement une ontologie et un jeu de données permettant cette
évaluation. Les auteurs souhaitant participer à l'atelier devront
fournir un article allant de 5 à 15 pages au format demandé à la
conférence, et pourront rendre disponible sur le web leurs ressources 15
jours avant la date de l'atelier. La mise en ligne permettra une
discussion plus approfondie des ressources proposées.

Dates importante :
     Date limite de soumission : 30 avril 2012
     Notification aux auteurs : 16 mai 2012
     Réception des versions définitives des articles : 30 mai 2012
     Atelier le 26 juin 2012

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:42:59 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2012 Workshop on Formal Models of Communication ---
 new deadline
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAR.2012.224259.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:36:15 +0100
From: "A. Herzig" <esslli2012 at gmail.com>
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Call for papers -- new deadline
Workshop on Formal Models of Communication
European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 2012
06-10 August, Opole, Poland
http://www.esslli2012.pl/files/CFP/cfpJonesK_ESSLLI%202012_Workshop_on_Formal_Models_of_Communication.pdf

Workshop Co-Chairs: Andrew J I Jones (Department of Informatics, King’s
College London) and Steven O Kimbrough (Wharton Business School,
University of Pennsylvania).

Invited Speakers: to be confirmed.

The workshop is organized in conjunction with the activity in SINTELNET
Working Group No. 2, on Communicative Interaction.  (SINTELNET is the
European Network for Social Intelligence, FET Open Coordination Action:
www.sintelnet.eu)

Summary of the three principal workshop themes

1. Critical assessment of approaches to ACLs: in multi-agent systems
   research, a number of different approaches have been taken to the
   formal-logical characterisation of Agent Communication Languages
   (ACLs), including the FIPA [2002] language, the commitment-based
   models of Colombetti [2000] and Singh [1998], and the Jones & Parent
   [2007] convention-based approach. (For an overview see Chopra et al.
   [in press].)

2. Theories of signalling: philosophical analyses of communicative
   action, in the tradition of Austin, Grice and Searle, formed the
   principal background to work on ACLs. However, the prospect of
   alternative foundations is emerging from theories of signalling,
   informed by – in particular – games theory and evolutionary biology.
   (See, e.g., Skyrms [2010].)

3. Deception: there exist a number of philosophical and formal-logical
   analyses of deception - see, e.g., Adler [1997], Sakama & Caminada
   [2010]. It would be of interest to compare these with the accounts
   offered in signalling theory, and to raise the question of whether
   the phenomenon of deception has been adequately accommodated in
   models of ACLs.

We invite papers (not exceeding 15-20 pages) on topics relating
principally to one or more of those three themes.

Submission Procedure
papers (pdf) should be submitted to Andrew Jones: andrewji.jones at kcl.ac.uk
Deadline for submissions: 23 March 2012
Notification: by 01 June 2012
Publication: it is possible that the proceedings of the workshop may
be published in the FOLLI subseries of Springer’s LNCS, or in the
Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JOLLI).

REFERENCES
FIPA [2002] FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification.
http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00037/index.html
Colombetti [2000] Colombetti, M., "A commitment-based approach to
agent speech acts and conversations", Proceedings of the Workshop on
Agent Languages and Communication Policies, 4th International
Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Barcelona, Spain,
pp.21-29, 2000.
Singh [1998]  Singh, M.P., "Agent Communication Languages: Rethinking
the Principles", IEEE Computer 31, 12 (Dec.), pp.40-47, 1998.
Jones & Parent [2007] Andrew J I Jones and  Xavier Parent,  "A
Convention-based Approach to Agent Communication Languages", Group
Decision and Negotiation 16, pp. 101-14, 2007.
Chopra et al. [in press] Amit Chopra, Alexander Artikis, Jamal
Bentahar, Marco Colombetti, Frank Dignum, Nicola Fornara, Andrew J I
Jones, Munindar P. Singh, Pinar Yolum, "Research Directions in Agent
Communication", ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and
Technology, 26 pp., in press.
Skyrms [2010] Brian Skyrms, Signals – Evolution, Learning &
Information, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, 2010.
Adler [1997]  Adler, J.E., "Lying, deceiving, or falsely implicating",
Journal of Philosophy 94(9), pp.435-452, 1997.
Sakama & Caminada [2010] Chiaki Sakama and Martin Caminada, "The Many
Faces of Deception" in: Proceedings of the Thirty Years of
Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NonMon at 30), Lexington, KY, USA, October 2010.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:45:13 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste d'enseignant-chercheur associe, Universite Paris Ouest
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAR.2012.224513.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:46:07 +0100
From: Marcel Cori <mcori at u-paris10.fr>
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Le Département de Sciences du langage de l’Université Paris Ouest
Nanterre la Défense recrute un enseignant-chercheur (professeur ou
maître de conférences) associé à mi-temps en Ingénierie linguistique.
L’intéressé devra avoir une activité professionnelle principale
extérieure exercée depuis au moins 3 ans et directement en rapport avec
la spécialité enseignée. Il sera nommé pour une durée de 3 ans
éventuellement reconductible une fois. Il sera tenu d’effectuer un
service d’enseignement et de recherche d’une durée égale à la moitié de
celle qui s’applique aux personnels titulaires de même catégorie.
(Décret n° 85-733 du 17 juillet 1985).

Le profil souhaité est celui d’un professionnel travaillant dans le
domaine de l’Ingénierie linguistique, de préférence titulaire d’un
doctorat en rapport avec ce domaine et ayant maintenu des liens avec la
recherche. Plus précisément, on appréciera des connaissances en
Recherche et extraction d’information, en Web sémantique et en Gestion
électronique de documents.

Les enseignements se dérouleront essentiellement dans le cadre du master
spécialité « Ingénierie linguistique » cohabilité avec l’Université
Paris 3 et l’INALCO (www.plurital.org) et du parcours DEFI de
l’Université Paris Ouest (www.u-paris10.fr/defi).

Les candidatures sont à transmettre à Marcel Cori (mcori at u-paris10.fr) 
avant le 25 avril 2012, sous la forme d’un CV et d’une lettre de 
motivation.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:46:09 +0100
Subject: Ecole: International Terminology Summer School 2012: registration
 is open!
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAR.2012.224609.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:28:54 +0100
From: events termnet <events at termnet.org>
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Dear colleagues, 

The International Terminology Summer School (TSS 2012) will take place
at the University of Vienna, from 9 to 13 July 2012, jointly organized
by TermNet, the International Network for Terminology, and the Center
for Translation Studies.
 
TSS is a practice-oriented one-week training course on terminology
management. TSS is intended for practitioners, students, scientists who
are looking for a comprehensive, state-of-the-art introduction to
terminology theory and practice.

Reserve your place at TSS 2012 today! You may register until early
June. However, places are limited, we advise you wait not too long.
http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2012/registration.php

PROGRAMME:
You can find more information about the preliminary program and topics
at: http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2012/program.php

 
INSTRUCTORS:
International renowned experts in terminology and terminology management
will cover the TSS topics but also take time during the whole week to
help participants with the most individuals questions and problems. 

ECQA CERTIFICATION FOR TERMINOLOGY MANAGERS:
The TSS2012 program is developed in cooperation with the ECQA initiative
and this makes possible for TSS2012 participants to obtain the ECQA
Certificate for Terminology Managers by performing the official ECQA
exam for the job role Certified Terminology Manager - Basic or Certified
Terminology Manager - Advanced.
 
Read more about ECQA and the ECQA Certified Terminology Manager - Basic
at: http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2012/ecqa_tss_info.php
 
STUDENTS:
Students will also receive 6 ECTS for their participation.
 
SOCIAL NETWORKING AND SIDE EVENTS:
TSS gives the opportunity to the participants to network and discuss in
a relaxed and resourceful environment with peers and colleagues during
the side events planned for this purpose. Enjoy the Terminology
Breakfasts every morning before classes, participant in the "get to know
each other" event on Monday after the first day of classes. Meet your
colleagues in the different "after school" events during the week.

You can find more information about the program, the instructors, the
planned activities and side events in our website:

http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2012/index.php

You are welcome to contact us for questions: events at termnet.org

Please disseminate this information also among colleagues and friends
who might be interested!

Kind regards, 

------------------------------------------------------------
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International Network for Terminology - TermNet 
Mooslackengasse 17, 1190 Vienna, Austria 
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:48:34 +0100
Subject: Appel: 18th Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
 Management --EKAW 2012--
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAR.2012.224834.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:40:38 +0100
From: Annette ten Teije <annette at cs.vu.nl>
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NOTICE: deadline 18th of April  2012 (Abstract),  25th of April 2012 (Paper)


Call for Papers:

18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012)
National University of Ireland Galway Quadrangle
October 8-12, 2012.

http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org

The 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring,
modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of
knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge
management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent
information integration, etc.

The special focus of the 18th edition of EKAW will be on "Knowledge
Engineering and Knowledge Management that matters". We are explicitly
calling for papers that have a potentially high impact on a specific
community or application domain (e.g. pharmacy and life sciences), as
well as for papers which report on the development or evaluation of
publicly available data sets relevant for a large number of
applications. Moreover, we welcome contributions dealing with problems
specific to modeling and maintenance of real-world data or knowledge,
such as scalability and robustness of knowledge-based applications, or
privacy and provenance issues related to organizational knowledge
management.

In addition to the main research track, EKAW 2012 will feature a
tutorial and workshop program, as well as a poster and demo
track. Moreover, there will be a Doctoral Consortium giving new PhD
students a possibility to present their research proposals, and to get
feedback on methodological and practical aspects of their planned
dissertation.

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag
in the LNCS series. The LNCS volume will contain the contributed
research papers as well as descriptions of the demos presented at the
conference. Papers published at any of the workshops will be published
in dedicated workshop proceedings.

EKAW 2012 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological,
experimental, and application-oriented aspects of knowledge engineering
and knowledge management. In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit
papers about methods, tools and methodologies relevant with regard to
the following topics:

1) “Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering that matters”

- Real-world applications of methods for knowledge management and
  engineering in domains such as

   - e-Government and public administration
   - Life sciences, health and medicine
   - Automotive and manufacturing industry
   - Cultural heritage applications
   - Digital libraries

- Development and evaluation of publicly available knowledge
  repositories for new applications or domains

- Methods and methodologies addressing the challenges of real-world
  data, e.g.,

   - Scalability, robustness etc.
   - Maintenance costs and financial risks
   - Privacy and data security

- Lessons learned from case studies, e.g.,

   - Knowledge management in large organizations
   - Adoption of semantic web technologies
   - Maintenance of corporate knowledge repositories

2) Knowledge Management

- Methodologies and tools for knowledge management
- Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration
- Best practices and lessons learned from case studies
- Provenance and trust in knowledge management
- Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management technologies
- Corporate memories for knowledge management
- Evolution, maintenance and preservation of knowledge
- Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management
- Incentives for human knowledge acquisition (e.g. games with a purpose)

3) Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition

- Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering
- Ontology design patterns
- Ontology localization
- Ontology alignment
- Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation
- Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri,
  folksonomies etc.)
- Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology learning
- Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data
- Ontology evaluation and metrics
- Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation
- Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge

4) Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation

- Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science
- Synergies between humans and machines
- Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks
- Knowledge ecosystems
- Expert finding, e.g., by social network analysis
- Trust and privacy in knowledge representation
- Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and
  acquisition
- Crowdsourcing in knowledge management

As last EKAW conference we will accept different types of papers. The
papers will all have the same status and follow the same formatting
guidelines in the proceedings but will receive special treatment during
the reviewing phase. In particular, each paper type will be subject to
own evaluation criteria. The PC will also make sure that there is a
reasonable balance of the paper types accepted. At submission time the
paper has to be clearly identified as belonging to one of the following
categories.

- Research papers: These are “standard” papers presenting a novel
  method, technique or analysis with appropriate empirical or other
  types of evaluation as proof-of concept. The main evaluation criteria
  here will be originality, technical soundness and validation.

- In-use papers: Here we are expecting papers describing applications of
  knowledge management and engineering in real
  environments. Applications need to address a sufficiently interesting
  and challenging problem on real-world datasets, involving many users
  etc. The focus is less on the originality of the approach and more on
  presenting systems that solve a significant problem while addressing
  the particular challenges that come with the use of real-world
  data. Evaluations should involve a representative subset of the actual
  users of the system.

- Position papers: We invite researchers to also publish position papers
  which describe novel and innovative ideas. Position papers may also
  comprise an analysis of currently unsolved problems, or review theses
  problems from a new perspective, in order contribute to a better
  understanding of these problem in the research community. We expect
  that such papers will guide future research by highlighting critical
  assumptions, motivating the difficulty of a certain problem or
  explaining why current techniques are not sufficient, possibly
  corroborated by quantitative and qualitative arguments.

Submissions of research and in-use papers should comprise a maximum of
15 pages formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines and
uploaded using Easychair (
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw2012). Position papers
are required to have at most 5 pages in the same format.

We will select the best papers from EKAW and invite the authors for a
special edition of Journal of Data Semantics.

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission: 18th of April  2012
Paper Submission: 25th of April 2012
Notification: 6th of June 2012
Camera Ready: 30 of June 2012


Organizing Committee:

General chair: Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Co-chair and local organizer: Siegfried Handschuh
Program chairs: Annette ten Teije, Johanna Voelker
Workshop and tutorials chairs: Claudia d’Amato, Krysztof Janowicz
Demo and poster chairs: Mathieu d’Aquin, Andriy Nikolov
Doctoral consortium chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Nathalie Hernandez
Sponsor chair: Christian Bizer


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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 21 09:22:41 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:22:41 +0100
Subject: Sujet de These: 7 PhD positions in NLP at Fondazione Bruno
 Kessler/University of Trento - Italy
Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2012.102241.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:48:47 +0000
From: Arianna Bisazza <bisazza at fbk.eu>
Message-ID: <02CF9AC50861B54D8C17C6C56FB1FA5D21D94C at ntdagvrt1.pc.itc.it>
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The Human Language Technologies research unit of Fondazione Bruno
Kessler offers 7 project specific grants for doctoral students starting
with the A.Y. 2012-2013, in the following areas:

-    Speech Recognition and Machine translation (2 project grants)
        Speech Recognition for Multimedia Content (contact: Daniele
        Falavigna)
        Machine Translation for CAT (contact: Nicola Bertoldi)
-    Natural Language Processing (4 project grants)
        Events and presuppositions (contact: Octavian Popescu)
        Event processing (contact: Sara Tonelli)
        Component-Based Textual Entailment (contact: Bernardo Magnini)
        Automatic Information Extraction over the Tourism Domain
        (contact: Bernardo Magnini)
-    Encoding of Event Knowledge in Language Resources as a support for
        the Diagnosis and Rehabilitation of Language Disorders (contact:
        Emanuele Pianta)


More details about the projects and contact points can be found here:
http://hlt.fbk.eu/en/openpositions/phd-ict

Candidates should meet the following requirements:

    Degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics,
    Electrical Engineering, or Physics.
    Studies should have been completed efficiently, recently and with an
    above of average mark.
    Advanced knowledge in either Computational Linguistics, Machine
    Learning, Statistics, Patter Recognition, or Speech Recognition.
    Programming experience in C/C++ and/or Java, Python, Perl in the
    Unix environment.
    Good English knowledge.

Doctorate fellowships, which are sponsored by FBK, will be formally
pursued at the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of
Trento. The program starts between June and November 2012, has a minimum
length of three years and includes attendance of courses during the
first two years, while the third is fully dedicated to research
work. Detailed information about the School and the grant assigned to
students can be found in http://ict.unitn.it.

Interested candidates are invited to get in touch with the above
indicated contact points to know more about the proposed research
projects and the specific application procedure to be followed. In
particular, candidates are required to apply for a project specific
grant by Fondazione Bruno Kessler. For a limited number of applicants
there are also opportunities of attending a pre-enrollment internship at
our labs. Please put the string HLT application in the subject of your
email.

*****************************
Arianna Bisazza
FBK-irst Trento, Italy
+39 0461 314 549

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:23:41 +0100
Subject: Job: Post-doc positions in NLP at Fondazione Bruno
 Kessler/University of Trento - Italy
Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2012.102341.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:55:25 +0000
From: Arianna Bisazza <bisazza at fbk.eu>
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X-url: http://hlt.fbk.eu/en/openpositions

The three following research positions are available in the Human
Language Technologies Research Unit of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento
(Italy):

- Post-doc in textual inferences
- Post-doc in machine translation
- Post-doc in speech recognition

Please find the official call at:
http://hlt.fbk.eu/en/openpositions

Deadline for application is 9 April 2012.

*****************************
Arianna Bisazza
FBK-irst Trento, Italy
+39 0461 314 549

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:27:34 +0100
Subject: Info: LREC 2012 What=?WINDOWS-1252?Q?=92s_?=New #2 - March 2012
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:37:22 +0100
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*[Apologies for cross-postings]**

*LREC 2012 What’s New**is a short bulletin meant to give you a quick
overview of the latest information on the conference organization.

*Important Dates*

Final Submission of accepted papers: 21 March 2012
Early-bird Registration Deadline : 21 March 2012
Conference: 23 - 24 - 25 May 2012
Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: 21 and 22 May 2012
Post-conference workshops and tutorials: 26 and 27 May 2012

*Content*

1.Final Submission

2.Registration

3.MEDAR Grants for Students from Arabic countries

4.EU Village

5.List of accepted papers

6.Scientific Committee

7.Sponsors

8.Travel & Accommodation

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*1. Final Submission*

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*The deadline for submitting your final paper on START is: March 21^st 
2012, 23:59 GMT+1.
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Final-Submission*.

Don’t forget to update the LRE Map
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012 and/or to contribute
to the Language Library
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LREC-2012-Language-Library.

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*2. Registration*

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*Early-Bird Registration for LREC 2012 deadline: March 21^st 2012, 23:59 
GMT+1.
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Registration-*

The Registration fees for Conference and Workshops/Tutorials are 
available at http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Registration-Fees.

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*3. **MEDAR Grants for students from Arabic countries***

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The MEDAR Consortium (involved in MEDAR and NEMLAR Projects on
“Mediterranean Arabic Language and Speech Technology”, completed with
the support by the European Commission), is awarding grants for students
from Arabic countries to LREC 2012.

At the time of the application, applicants must be currently enrolled as
Master’s or Ph.D students at a University in an Arabic country.

Each grant will cover the registration fees and support part of the
travel and accommodation expenses. To apply for a grant, send a message
to medar-grants at elda.org.

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*4. EU-Projects Village*

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*20 booths*have already been booked by European projects at the EU 
Village, a Projects Village to be set up at LREC 2012 with the support 
of the European Commission. The main objective of this exhibition for 
on-going EC-sponsored projects is to disseminate information by 
describing the activities/objectives and showing progress, either 
through demos, or through brochures or leaflets if the project is still 
at an early stage.
The cost of participating to the EU Village is an eligible cost under 
"Information Dissemination" item.

The EU projects Village will be open from May 23 to 25, 2012 during the 
Main conference days. More 
information:http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-EU-Projects-Village- 

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*5. List of accepted Papers*

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The list of the accepted papers to the Main conference is available: 
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?List-of-accepted-papers
Acceptance rate: 68% of the submitted papers have been accepted (to 
compare to 69% for LREC 2010).

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*6. Scientific Committee*

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The list of Scientific Committee members is available at 
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Scientific-Committee

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*7. Sponsors*

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LREC 2012 gratefully acknowledges the following institutions for their 
sponsorship of this year’s conference:

*/Silver sponsors/*//

NUANCE: 
http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-solution/automotive-products-and-solutions/index.htm
CELI: http://www.celi.it/en/

*/Bronze sponsors/*

EML: http://www.eml-development.de/english
IMMI: http://www.immi-labs.org/
META-NET: http://www.meta-net.eu/
QUAERO: http://www.quaero.org/

If your institution would like to support LREC, please check the 
opportunities: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Sponsorship-

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*8. Travel & Accommodation*

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/*Special rates have been negotiated for LREC participants in a number 
of hotels by our local agency Dekon. The list can be found at 
https://www.dekon.com.tr/LREC2012/en/accommodation.asp.
May is the beginning of the high season in Istanbul, *so it is highly
recommended to book your room as soon as you can*. Don’t hesitate to
contact Dekon lrec2012 at dekon.com.tr if you need support for organizing
your trip.

*/Flying to Istanbul/**/
/*The Star Alliance™ Members Airlines have been appointed as the 
Official Airline Network for LREC 2012.
LREC Participants can obtain discounts (up to 20%) on their flights 
to/from Istanbul. More information: 
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Star-Alliance-Official-Carrier

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:41:57 +0100
Subject: Conf: Workshop sur Langage et Emotions, 29 mars 2012,
 Universite Paris Ouest
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:58:17 +0100
From: Armelle Jacquet-Andrieu <armelle.jacquet at u-paris10.fr>
Message-ID: <20120321005817.nxye56fkpw8cg4sk at webmail.u-paris10.fr>


Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense / MoDyCo, UMR 7114 du CNRS
Pôle « L’Humain en devenir »

Axe pluridisciplinaire « Émotions & Cognition »

Avec le soutien financier de/du MoDyCo, UMR 7114 du CNRS

l’ED 139 « Connaissance Langage Modélisation »

Pôle universitaire & de recherche « l’Humain en devenir »

Et le soutien scientifique de l’ARCo Association pour la recherche cognitive

Workshop

Sous-jacentes aux langages, les émotions… Jeudi 29 mars 2012
Université Paris Ouest, Bât. R, salle 09
à partir de 8 h 45

Invité d’honneur
Michel ARRIVE, professeur émérite de linguistique & écrivain 

Journée présidée par le directeur de l’école doctorale 139 (ou son
représentant)
&
le directeur du Pôle « L’humain en devenir » (ou son représentant)

Workshop proposé par Armelle Jacquet-Andrieu
Ingénieur de recherche HDR, linguiste & psychologue, membre du CA de
l’ARCo


Contacts :
Armelle Jacquet : armelle.jacquet at u-paris10.fr &
jacquet.armelle at orange.fr / Tel. : +336 85 75 68 89
Diana Balachi 	 : dianabalaci at gmail.com 
Aleksandr Sourie : aleksandr.Sourie at u-paris10.fr / +331 40 97 40 67
Sous-jacentes aux langages, les émotions…


Problématique

À propos du langage (des langages), pour évoquer le monde émotionnel
humain et la cognition, en première intention, nous pouvons dire : la
réaction inconsciente du sujet à l’impact d’un percept, complexe ou non,
est de l’ordre de l’émotion stricto sensu, une production langagière
subséquente à cet impact est de l’ordre du ressenti ou encore du
sentiment : divers niveaux de conscience y sont manifestés.  La
production elle-même suppose l’intervention de l’attention (écoute ou
regard porté au percept) qui, en aval permet la mémorisation et le
traitement – d’une part au moins – de l’information reçue : autrement
dit, il s’agit du passage d’un percept à travers le filtre du monde
émotionnel du sujet et de la réponse éventuelle qu’il apporte. Lors
d’une première journée d’étude, le 26 janvier 2011, nous avons établi
une synergie émotions/langage ; elle s’élaborait sous diverses formes,
avec la notion d’embodiment et sa traduction dans l’énaction, point
d’ancrage du verbal, conscient ou non et comportant des degrés, en
relation avec la décision de dire. La mimogestualité inconsciente a été
abordée également, laissant émerger ce que les mots ne disent pas
forcément (banque d’images étudiées par items). Image encore : le dessin
qu’un sujet a été amené à réaliser en Art-thérapie, pour livrer ses
émotions et les dire ensuite avec des mots, a permis la mise en lumière
d’une corrélation image(s)/mots, au niveau des émotions. Autant de lieux
d’expression langagière – acception élargie – où la conscience, plus ou
moins présente, pouvait émerger dans l’expression littérale ou
métaphorique d’une émotion, d’un ressenti ou d’un sentiment perceptible
ou occulté.  Le Workshop proposé aujourd’hui reste dans cette
problématique et la précise en s’ouvrant sur de nouvelles notions, plus
spécifiquement développées, du côté de la neurophysiologie de l’émotion,
stricto sensu. Le propos se recentrera aussi sur la psycholinguistique,
en corrélant émotion (James, 1884) et dimension psychologique de la
conscience (James, 1890), en relation avec « l’inconscient de la langue
» selon Ferdinand de Saussure (1891), trois aspects indissociables, dans
la problématique de la relation du langage au corps. Enfin, nous
corrèlerons le propos général à « voix & émotion », sous deux angles :
d’abord la voix parlée, sa prosodie et l’émotion qu’elle suscite par
l’expression des ressentis et sentiments lus par l’auteur, destinés à
susciter l’émotion pure chez celui qui écoute, puis la voix chantée et
l’émotion musicale pure qu’elle porte. Toute la problématique de ce
Workshop précisera donc ce continuum, établi lors de la première journée
entre émotion, ressenti et sentiment du locuteur, source d’émotion pour
le destinataire ou le spectateur.

Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense
Laboratoire MoDyCo – UMR 7114 « Modèles Dynamiques Corpus »
Pôle de recherche L'Humain en devenir

Programme

Accueil des participants autour d’un café ou d’un thé (à partir de 8 h
45) Ouverture du Workshop U. Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense

Présentation : Armelle Jacquet (5’)
Modérateurs : Didier Bottineau & Armelle Jacquet

9 h 15-9 h 45
Gil Ben Aych : « Le livre d’Étoile » (Pr. de philosophie & écrivain)

9 h 45-10 h 30
Michel Arrivé : « Les émotions aux origines du langage : coup d'œil 
sur quelques spéculations anciennes et modernes » (Pr. Emérite, MoDyCo)

Pause  (10 h 30-10 h 45)

10 h 45-11 h 30
Philippe Turchet : « Les larmes : une expression privilégiée de la 
conscience de soi » (UQAM, Montréal, Québec)

11 h 30-12 h 15
Joël Colloc (présentation par) & Armelle Jacquet (co-auteur) : «
Neurophysiologie et neuropsychologie des émotions » (J.C, Médecin &
Pr. d’informatique & A.J., IGR, HDR, linguiste & psychologue)

Discussion finale (12 h 15-12 h 45)
Michel Arrivé, Gil Ben Aych, Joël Colloc, Armelle Jacquet, Philippe
Turchet Après-midi

14 h 30
Ouverture de l’après midi par Michel Arrivé
Présentation : Armelle Jacquet (5 mn) Modérateurs : Michel Arrivé & Joël
Colloc

14 h 30-15 h 15
Anne Lacheret : « L’expression des émotions dans le langage, que 
nous dit la prosodie ? » (Pr. de linguistique, MoDyCo)

15 h 15-16 h Denis Le Pesant : « Des critères pour une classification
sémantique de quelque 3 800 mots d’affects » (Pr. de linguistique,
MoDyCo)

Pause  (16 h 00-16 h 15)

16 h 15-17 h 00
Myriam Szejer : « des mots pour naître » (titre provisoire) 

17 h 00-17 h 45
Claire Alby, Myriam Szejer & Danh Thành Do-Hurinville : « Le chant et
l’émotion » (Claire, MCF & réalisatrice) ; Myriam, Médecin psychanalyste
& soprano ; Danh Thành : enseignant-chercheur & baryton ; Dan Zuili,
pianiste, Tous quatre musiciens), avec un programme musical « surprise »
pour susciter l’émotion.  Projection (15’), montage par Avyy Moureu

Débat & Table ronde (17 h 45-18 h 30)
Présidée par Danielle Leeman
Claire Alby, Michel Arrivé, Diana Balachi, Gil Ben Aych, Didier
Bottineau, Joël Colloc, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville, Armelle Jacquet, Anne
Lacheret, Danielle Leeman, Denis Le Pesant, Myriam Szejer, Philippe
Turchet, Dan Zuili

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:15:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: TEXTGRAPH-7,
 New Deadline for Demos/Posters/Short/Position Papers
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.221551.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:34:42 +0100
From: Gaël Dias <gael.dias at unicaen.fr>
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========================================================================
    NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR DEMOS/POSTERS/SHORT/POSITION PAPERS

    TextGraphs-7: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
                   (http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12)

                           Special Theme:
    Understanding and Mining Social Media Using Graphs: Information
                 Propagation in Blogs and Tweets

                       Workshop of ACL 2012

             July 12, 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea

    NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR DEMOS/POSTERS/SHORT/POSITION PAPERS

                     March 25, 2012 (11:59 p.m. PST)
========================================================================

We are pleased to inform you that a special deadline has been affored
for Demos/Posters/Short/Positions papers. This NEW DEADLINE is March 25,
2012 (11:59 p.m. PST). However, the deadline for long papers is closed.

(1) Workshop Description
(2) Workshop Submissions
(3) NEW Important Dates
(4) NEW Author Instructions
(5) Workshop Organisers
(6) Program Committee
(7) Contacts

==================================================
(1) Workshop Description
==================================================

Recent years have shown an increased interest in integrating various
aspects of the field of Graph Theory (GT) into Natural Language
Processing (NLP). Many language phenomena can be naturally put into
graph-based representations and in the last 5 years a significant number
of NLP applications adopted efficient and elegant solutions from graph
theoretical frameworks. These applications range from part-of- speech
tagging, word sense disambiguation, ontology learning and parsing to
information extraction, semantic role assignment, summarization and
sentiment analysis to name but a few. The emergence of new fields of
research focusing on the social media such as Twitter and Facebook
brought the graph-based methods even more into focus. In particular,
graph-based algorithms are used to explore social network connections
and propagation of information in those networks in addition to
exploring the connections between the language entities. As a
consequence, many new applications have been emerging such as rumor
proliferation, e-reputation, multiple identity detection, language
dynamics learning and future events prediction to name but a few.
TextGraphs-7 aims to bring together researchers interested in GT applied
to NLP and provide an environment for further integration of graph-based
solutions into NLP tasks. The workshop also encourages discussions about
theoretical justifications from GT that explain empirical results
obtained in the NLP community. As a consequence, a deeper understanding
of new theories of graph-based algorithms is likely to help to create
new approaches and widen the usage of graphs for NLP applications.

=================================================
(2) Workshop Submissions
=================================================

TextGraphs-7 will invite innovative submissions on the following, but
not limited to, three main topics:

Topic I: Graph-based methods for Information Retrieval, Information
Extraction and Text Mining
- Graph-based methods for word sense disambiguation,
- Graph-based representations for ontology learning,
- Graph-based strategies for semantic relations identification,
- Encoding semantic distances in graphs,
- Graph-based techniques for document navigation and visualization,
- and more subtopics;

Topic II: New graph-based methods for NLP applications
- Random walk methods in graphs,
- Spectral graph clustering,
- Semi-supervised graph-based methods,
- Methods and analyses for statistical networks,
- Small world graphs,
- Dynamic graph representations ,
- Topological and pretopological analysis of graphs,
- and more subtopics;

Topic III: Graph-based methods for applications on social networks
- Rumor proliferation,
- E-reputation,
- Multiple identity detection,
- Language dynamics studies,
- Surveillance systems,
- and more subtopics.

======================================================
(3) NEW Important Dates
======================================================

Submission dealdine for Long Papers: March 18, 2012 (CLOSED)
NEW Submission deadline for Posters/Demos/Short/Positions papers: March
25, 2012 (11:59 p.m. PST)
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: April 30, 2012
Workshop: July 12, 2012

====================================================
(4) NEW Authors Instructions
====================================================

Submissions will consist of (1) short and posters of maximum 4 pages
(for on going research), (2) position papers of maximum 4 pages (for
prospective ideas) and (3) demo papers of maximum 4 pages (for software
and architectures). One extra page will be accepted for the Reference
section for all submissions’ types.

Textgraphs-7 will have a blind review policy. In order to facilitate
blind reviewing, the authors should omit their names and affiliations
from the paper. Furthermore, all self-references that may reveal the
author identity must be avoided. Papers that do not conform to these
requirements will be rejected without review.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must be formatted using the
ACL 2012 Style Files available a http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp.

Papers should be submitted to the START Conference Manager available at
the following url: https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/textgraphs-7/.

==================================================
(5) Workshop Organisers
==================================================

Ahmed Hassan
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, United States
Phone: +14257222849,
Email: hassanam at microsoft.com

Gaël Dias
University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
Phone: +33231567487
Email: gael.dias at unicaen.fr

Irina Matveeva
Dieselpoint Inc., Chicago, United States
Phone: +17737047852
Email: imatveeva at dieselpoint.com

==================================================
(6) Program Committee
==================================================

Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Animesh Mukherjee, ISI Foundation, Italy
Antoine Widlöcher, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Arzucan Özgür, Istanbul University, Turkey
Bruno Crémilleux, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Chris Biemann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome, Italy
Gina-Anne Levow, University of Washington, USA
Guillaume Cleuziou, University of Orléans, France
Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research, USA
Patrik Pantel, Microsoft Research, USA
Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA
Philippe Muller, Paul Sabatier University, France
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
Swapna Somasundaran, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Torsten Zesch, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Uwe Quasthoff, University of Leipzig, Germany
Zornitsa Kozareva, ISI, University of Southern California, USA

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(7) Workshop Contacts
====================================================

For any question, please email us at textgraphs2012 at gmail.com or look at
the web site http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12


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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:17:57 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste de PR section 27 en Technologie du Langage Humain,
 Universite de Caen Basse-Normandie
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:44:00 +0100
From: Gaël Dias <gael.dias at unicaen.fr>
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        Poste de PR section 27 en Technologie du Langage Humain

           HULTECH/GREYC - Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
========================================================================

L'Université de Caen Basse-Normandie recrute un Professeur des
Universités section 27 dans le domaine de la Technologie du Langage
Humain (Challenge 4 du "Programme Information and Communication
Technologies" de l’Union Européenne) pour la rentrée universitaire
2012/2013.

Le candidat devra démontrer une compétence renforcée de haut niveau dans
l’un ou plusieurs des domaines suivants : Recherche d’Information
("Information Retrieval"), Extraction d’Information ("Information
Extraction"), Traitement Automatique des Langues, Traduction
Automatique, Fouille de Textes, Extraction de Connaissances, Résumé de
Textes, Interface Homme-Machine entre autres.

Le candidat sera intégré à l’équipe Technologie du Langage Humain
(HULTECH -http://www.greyc.fr/hultech) au sein du laboratoire Groupe de
Recherche en Informatique, Image, Automatique et Instrumentation de Caen
(GREYC - UMR 6072 CNRS UCBN/ENSICAEN - http://www.greyc.fr) classé
niveau A.

Le candidat sera amené à dynamiser et participer à
l’internationalisation et l’excellence de l’équipe HULTECH composée de
13 Maîtres de Conférences ou Chargés de Recherche permanents et d’un
Professeur des Universités récemment recruté. HULTECH s’appuie sur un
acquis reconnu nationalement et internationalement dans le domaine du
Document Numérique, de l’Ingénierie Documentaire, du Traitement
Automatique des Langues, de l'Extraction des Connaissances Textuelles,
des Interfaces Homme-Machine et de la Recherche d'information
Multimédia.

A HULTECH, le candidat trouvera un environnement jeune et dynamique
orientant sa recherche autour de thèmes porteurs comme la
personnalisation, la collaboration, l’accessibilité, l’adaptabilité et
l’ubiquité d’applications du langage humain dans des environnements
numériques hétérogènes multilingues tels que la toile ou les réseaux
sociaux.

Ce poste vise également à renforcer la thématique des Technologies du
Langage Humain dans le dispositif d’enseignement du Département
Informatique de l’UFR Sciences de l’Université de Caen Basse-Normandie.
Dans ce cadre, le candidat sera amené à participer activement au succès
du nouveau Master IMALANG (dont la première édition commencera à la
rentrée 2012/2013) dans lequel de nombreux modules devront être assurés.
Son expérience sera également importante dans l’ensemble du Département
d’Informatique, notamment dans la prochaine direction du Master DNR2I.

Le candidat intéressé par un poste à hautes responsabilités dans le 
domaine de la Technologie du Langage Humain est invité à prendre contact 
auprès des Responsables de l’équipe HULTECH, Gaël Dias 
(gael.dias at unicaen.fr) et Nadine Lucas (nadine.lucas at unicaen.fr).

Pour toute information supplémentaire sur la partie enseignement, le
candidat devra contacter le Directeur du Département d’Informatique,
Bruno Crémilleux (bruno.cremilleux at unicaen.fr). En ce qui concerne la
partie Recherche, le candidat pourra également contacter les Directeurs
du GREYC, Mohamed M’Saad (mohammed.msaad at ensicaen.fr), Frédéric Jurie
(frederic.jurie at unicaen.fr) et Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
(abdel-illah.mouaddib at unicaen.fr).

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:44:53 +0100
Subject: Job: Stage TAL, Strasbourg
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:34:44 +0100
From: François Rousselot <francois.rousselot at insa-strasbourg.fr>
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la Société REBUZ pour laquelle je travaille comme consultant me demande
de faire cette proposition de stage
François Rousselot
Consultant en Informatique et en Ingénierie Linguistique
Strasbourg, France

Stage TAL

REBUZ est une jeune société spécialisée dans la veille qui a mis au
point une méthode d'analyse de textes pour faire de la veille
économique. Cette méthode basée sur une analyse sémantique des phrases
extraites de dépêches économiques a donné naissance à la création d'un
prototype de logiciel qui est capable de déterminer à propos de la
décision d'une action intéressante (produire un produit durable) à quel
stade de cette décision on en est (décision prise, constitution de
ressources encours , prêt, démarrage etc...)

Objectif du Stage :

Le prototype actuel doit maintenant monter en puissance, son vocabulaire
doit être étendu.

L'objectif du stage est d'analyser les problèmes qui restent à résoudre
au niveau de la langue: gestion des compléments temporels par exemple et
de contribuer à la complétion des ressources linguistiques établies
jusqu'ici.  Le stagiaire devra analyser les différents problèmes repérés
jusqu'ici lors de l'élaboration du prototype et proposer des solutions
pour compléter les ressources linguistiques développées jusqu'ici.

Le stagiaire sera encadré par un spécialiste du traitement des langues.

intérêt

L’étudiant aura l’occasion de vivre la réalité d’une situation de
création de société dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies. Il
apprendra à travailler dans un contexte de recherche développement au
sein d'une jeune entreprise innovante.

Compétences souhaitées :

Formation en traitement automatique des langues avec dominante
linguistique Bonnes connaissances des expressions régulières et de
l'outil UNITEX (ou NOOJ)
Langage informatique PERL (et éventuellement JAVA)
Facilité d'adaptation
Bonnes dispositions au travail en équipe
Logique
Rigueur

Niveau :
Bac+3 minimum dans la discipline

Durée du Stage :
De 3 à 5 mois.

Lieu du Stage :
Strasbourg
logement possible

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:47:49 +0100
Subject: Revue: TAL, parution du numero 52:1
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.224749.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:09:03 +0100
From: Beatrice Daille <beatrice.daille at univ-nantes.fr>
Message-ID: <4F6A193F.6020202 at univ-nantes.fr>
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Le numéro hors-thèmes  52:3 de la revue TAL,
coordonné par Éric Villemonte de La Clergerie, Béatrice Daille, Yves 
Lepage, François Yvon
est maintenant en ligne à l'adresse suivante :
http://www.atala.org/-Varia,81-


The regular issue 52:3 of the journal TAL,
co-edited by  Éric Villemonte de La Clergerie, Béatrice Daille, Yves 
Lepage, François Yvon
is now on line at the following address :
http://www.atala.org/-Varia,81-


Sommaire/summary :


    * Éric Villemonte de La Clergerie, Béatrice Daille, Yves Lepage,
      François Yvon
      *Préface*__
      http://www.atala.org/Preface,599


    * Franck Sajous, Emmanuel Navarro, Bruno Gaume
      *Enrichissement de lexiques sémantiques approvisionnés par les
      foules : le système WISIGOTH appliqué à Wiktionary*
      http://www.atala.org/Enrichissement-de-lexiques


    * Yannis Haralambous, Elisa Lavagnino,
      *La réduction de termes complexes dans les langues de spécialité*
      http://www.atala.org/La-reduction-de-termes-complexes


    * Denis Maurel, Nathalie Friburger, Jean-Yves Antoine, , Iris
      Eshkol-Taravella, Damien Nouvel
      *Cascades de transducteurs autour de la reconnaissance des entités
      nommées* http://www.atala.org/Cascades-de-transducteurs-autour


    * Amandine Périnet, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon
      *Identification des assertions dans les textes médicaux :
      application à la relation {patient, problème médical}*
      http://www.atala.org/article594,594


    * Pierrette Bouillon, Manny Rayner, Paula Estella, Johanna Gerlach,
      Maria Georgescul
      *Pour une interlangue utile en traduction automatique de la parole
      dans des domaines limités*
      http://www.atala.org/Pour-une-interlangue-utile-en


    * Davy Weissenbacher, Adeline Nazarenko
      *Comprendre les effets des erreurs d’annotations des plates-formes
      de TAL* http://www.atala.org/Comprendre-les-effets-des-erreurs


    * *Notes de lecture* http://www.atala.org/Notes-de-lecture,591


    * *Résumés de thèses* http://www.atala.org/Resumes-de-theses,590

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:50:43 +0100
Subject: Appel: Final Call for Contributed Task Participation ACL 2012
 Workshop on "Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries"
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.225043.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:11:20 +0800
From: "Rafael E. Banchs (I2R)" <rembanchs at i2r.a-star.edu.sg>
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FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED TASK PARTICIPATION

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

ACL 2012 Workshop on "Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries"

To be held at ACL 2012 main conference, Jeju, Republic of Korea, July
10, 2012

Website: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/

New deadline for contributed task short paper submissions: April 15, 2012

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

In addition to the technical program, the workshop will host a
contributed-task, in the spirit of a crowd-sourcing activity, for
augmenting and improving the current status of the ACL data collection.

The goal of the contributed-task is to provide a high-quality version of
the textual content of the ACL Anthology as a corpus. Its rich-text XML
markup will contain information on section headings, footnotes, table
and figure captions, bibliographic references, italics/emphasized text
portions, non-latin scripts, etc.

Eight different tasks have been proposed for automatically adding
missing or correcting wrong markup to the current rich-text
formats. These eight tasks include:

* Footnote identification
* Table reference identification
* Bibliographic reference identification
* De-hyphenation improvement
* Garbage/leftover removal
* TEI P5 markup generation.
* Sentence Splitting
* Math formula markup generation

Teams participating in the contributed task are encouraged to produce a
short paper describing their work and presenting their results. More
information can be found at
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/taskintro/

- SUBMISSIONS ----------------------------------------------------------

All submissions must be done electronically via the portal
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/R50/ and should follow the ACL 2012
format, as specified in http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp. The paper
selection will follow a standard double-blind reviewing process, so
submissions must not include author names, affiliations or
self-references. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and
published in the ACL 2012 workshop proceedings.

Important Dates

April 15, 2012: Contributed task (short) paper new submissions due
April 22, 2012: Notification of acceptance for contributed task (short)
                papers
April 30, 2012: Camera-ready submissions due
July 10, 2012:  Workshop in Jeju, Korea.

For more information visit the workshop website at
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/

- ORGANIZING COMMITTEES ------------------------------------------------

Workshop Organizer 

* Rafael E. Banchs, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 

Steering Committee

* Steven Bird, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
* Min Yen Kan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
* Ulrich Schäfer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
  (DFKI), Germany

Conbtributed Task Committee

* Jonathon Read, University of Oslo, Norway
* Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo, Norway
* Ulrich Schäfer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
  (DFKI), Germany
* Tze Yuang Chong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Confirmed Programme Committee

* Toni Badia, Barcelona Media Innovation Centre, Spain
* Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India
* Emily M. Bender, University of Washington, USA
* Kenneth Church, Johns Hopkins University, USA
* Marta R. Costa-jussa, Barcelona Media Innovation Centre, Spain
* Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
* Carlos Henriquez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
* Daniel Jurafsky, Stanford University, USA
* Min Yen Kan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Kevin Knight, Information Sciences Institute, USA 
* Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
* Yang Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
* Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University, USA
* Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
* Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo, Norway
* Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
* Jonathon Read, University of Oslo, Norway
* Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
* Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
* Ulrich Schäfer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
* Fabrizio Silvestri, Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Italy
* Eiichiro Sumita, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
* Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge, UK
* Junichi Tsujii, Microsoft Research Asia, China
* Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs, The Netherlands
* Haifeng Wang, Baidu, China
* Magdalena Wolska, Saarland University, Germany
* Min Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China 


Publicity Committee

* Marta R. Costa-jussa, Barcelona Media Innovation Centre, Spain
* Seokhwan Kim, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Technical Committee

* Ming Liu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:00:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: AiML 2012 (with deadline extension)
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.230031.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:21:10 +0100
From: Thomas Bolander <tb at imm.dtu.dk>
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AiML-2012:  FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (WITH DEADLINE EXTENSION)

9-TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC
COPENHAGEN, 22-25 AUGUST, 2012
 
          http://hylocore.ruc.dk/aiml2012.html

Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state
of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative
consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the
conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at
http://www.aiml.net. AiML-2012 is the ninth conference in the series.

TOPICS
We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including:

- history of modal logic
- philosophy of modal logic
- applications of modal logic
- computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
  modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model
  checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics)
- theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
  on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
  correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
  modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of
  modal logic)
- specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics,
  modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process
  logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
  systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
  formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and
  temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural
  logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics)

Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

CONFERENCE LOCATION
Advances in Modal Logic 2012 will be held at
the IDA conference center in downtown Copenhagen:

http://ida.dk/sites/moedecenter/english/Sider/EnglishForside.aspx

This is in easy walking distance from Copenhagen Central Station and a
number of reasonably priced hotels.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2012: (1) Full papers for
publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference. (2)
Short presentations intended for presentation at AiML but not for the
published proceedings.  All submissions should be submitted
electronically using our EasyChair page

           http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiml2012

At least one author of each accepted paper or short presentation must
register for, and attend, the conference.

(1) FULL PAPERS. Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the
conference and publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on
original research and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of
AiML'2012 will be published by College Publications
(http://www.collegepublications.co.uk) in a volume to be made available
at the conference. The submissions should be at most 15 pages, with an
optional technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text
abstract of 100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset in LaTeX,
using the style files and template provided on the AiML'2012 website
(click "Paper Submissions").

We also ask authors of full papers to submit the abstract in plain text
to the EasyChair page by 30 March.

(2) SHORT PRESENTATIONS. These should be at most 5 pages. They may
describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject
to light reviewing. The accepted submissions will be made available at
the conference, and the authors will have the opportunity to make short
presentations (of up to 15 minutes) on them.

SPECIAL SESSION ON HYBRID LOGIC. Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic 
allowing to refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of formulas. 
There will be a special session of AiML devoted to papers on hybrid logic. 
The scope of the special session is standard hybrid-logical machinery like 
nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder, but also other 
extensions of modal logic can be considered. 

SPECIAL SESSION IN HONOUR OF LARISA MAKSIMOVA. There will be a special
session of AiML devoted to papers and talks in honour of Larisa
Maksimova, in recognition of her many outstanding contributions to modal
logic.

SPECIAL SESSION ON MODALITES FOR TYPES. Recent years have witnessed
significant growth of interest in constructive type-theoretical
modalities, in particular modalities ensuring productivity and type
safety of (co-)recursive definitions in reactive programming. Some
earlier examples include the use of modalities for staged computation,
metaprogramming or in computational lambda-calculus. In order to boost
interaction between programming, type-theoretical and modal communities,
AiML 2012 will host a special session on these topics.

Papers for the special sessions should be submitted to the EasyChair
site along with others.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Lev Beklemishev (Moscow State University)
Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)
Lars Birkedal (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Patrick Blackburn  (Roskilde University)
Balder ten Cate, (UC Santa Cruz)
Larisa Maksimova (Novosibirsk State University)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE   
Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universitad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Lev Beklemishev (Moscow State University, Russia)
Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA)
Nick Bezhanishvili (Imperial College London, UK)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark)
Torben Brauner (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Giovanna Corsi (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Giovanna D'Agostino (Università di Udine, Italy)
Stephane Demri (LSV, ENS Cachan, France)
Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA)
Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark)
Rajeev Gore (Australian National University, Australia)
Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK)
Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool, UK)
Rosalie Iemhoff (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK)
Tadeusz Litak (University of Leicester, UK)
Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Martin Otto (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Alessandra Palmigiano (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK)
Lutz Schröder (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia)
Dimiter Vakarelov (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK)
Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Silvio Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Lawrence Moss (Indiana University, USA)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark)
Torben Brauner (Roskilde University, Denmark)

IMPORTANT DATES 
[Please notice that the deadline for full papers submission has moved to
April 7, 2012; authors should however submit an abstract by the old
deadline of March 30, 2012 to speed up PC paper selection.]

Abstract of Full papers submission deadline: 30 March 2012   
Full papers submission deadline: 7 April 2012   
Full papers acceptance notification: 18 May 2012
Short presentations submission deadline: 1 June, 2012
Short presentations acceptance notification: 7 June, 2012
Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 15 June 2012
Conference: 22-25 August, 2012.    

FURTHER INFORMATION. Please see http://hylocore.ruc.dk/aiml2012/

ENQUIRIES. E-mail enquiries should be directed respectively to 
the PC co-chairs, sent to aiml2012 at easychair.org

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:08:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: extension et complements,
 Journee de l'ATALA Discours et TAL,
 Des modeles linguistiques aux applications
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:13:36 +0000
From: FERRET Olivier 174579 <olivier.ferret at cea.fr>
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Discours et TAL : des modèles linguistiques aux applications 
Journée d'étude organisée sous l'égide de l'ATALA et de la revue
Discours

***** Suite à des problèmes de disponibilité de locaux, la journée est
      déplacée au 11 mai 2012 et se déroulera au Centre Universitaire
      Malesherbes, toujours à Paris.

________________

Informations pratiques
- Organisateurs : Olivier Ferret (CEA LIST) et Nicolas Hernandez (LINA)
- Date : le vendredi 11 Mai 2012
- Lieu : Centre Universitaire Malesherbes, Paris, 17ème
- Site Web : https://sites.google.com/site/jeatalarevuediscours2012
- Contact : olivier.ferret à cea.fr et nicolas.hernandez à univ-nantes.fr
________________

OBJECTIFS ET THÈMES
Comme le confirment des conférences ou des ateliers comme MAD, LPTS,
CID, DAARC ou SIGDIAL pour n'en citer que quelques-uns, l'analyse du
discours est un domaine de recherche actif, aussi bien pour les
disciplines de la linguistique et de la psycho-linguistique que du
Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL). Force est néanmoins de
constater que l'impact de ces travaux d'un point de vue applicatif reste
globalement limité et  en tout cas, moins étendu qu'il ne pourrait
l'être. Sans être exhaustif, des applications, aussi diverses que
l'extraction d'information, le résumé automatique, le question-réponse,
la navigation textuelle, l'aide à la rédaction, la détection de
citations ou l'analyse d'opinion sont confrontées à l'objet
textuel. Plus précisément, elles ont besoin de s'appuyer sur des
structures intermédiaires entre le texte et la phrase pour mettre en
œuvre leurs traitements, ces structures étant issues d’analyses
discursives. En extraction d'information par exemple,  alors que le
niveau phrastique peut souvent suffire pour extraire des relations
factuelles binaires (“Franz Kafka est né à Prague, alors …” -->
lieu_naissance(Kafka, Prague)), il est nécessaire de faire apparaître
une structuration événementielle des textes pour gérer les ambiguïtés de
rattachement des informations caractérisant un événement (date, lieu et
magnitude d'un tremblement de terre par exemple). L'analyse d'opinion
opère elle aussi à la fois à un niveau phrastique et à un niveau textuel
mais se heurte dans ce dernier cas à l'absence de prise en compte de
structures discursives intermédiaires dès lors que l'expression des
opinions est complexe (différentes opinions relatives à différentes
facettes de l'objet considéré). Le contexte du résumé automatique est
aussi un bon exemple de l'importance applicative de l'analyse du
discours : extraire les phrases représentatives d'un document ne peut se
faire avec pertinence qu'en tenant compte de leur contexte textuel et en
particulier de leur position dans la structure discursive de ce
document.


Même si l'utilisation des résultats de l'analyse du discours dans ces
différents contextes applicatifs ne constitue pas encore une tendance
dominante, il existe tout un ensemble de travaux empruntant cette
voie. Cette journée d'étude vise à encourager leur présentation. Plus
précisément, sont attendues des contributions se focalisant globalement
sur :


- l'utilisation de l'analyse discursive dans le contexte d'applications
  du TAL, en montrant en particulier en quoi cette prise en compte
  permet d'améliorer ces applications, tant sur le plan de leurs
  performances que sur celui de l'extension de leur couverture
  fonctionnelle ;

- les nouvelles questions ou les nouvelles perspectives sur le plan
  théorique que les problématiques applicatives permettent de mettre au
  jour ;

- le caractère multi-dimensionnel de l'analyse discursive (temporelle,
  aspectuelle, thématique, référentielle...) et la façon dont ces
  multiples "cohérences" peuvent être combinées d'un point de vue
  applicatif ;

- plus généralement, les travaux linguistiques et psycho-linguistiques
  sur le discours se plaçant dans la perspective de TAL et de ses
  applications. 

  
Dans cette perspective, ces contributions pourront aborder notamment :

- les solutions apportées aux différents sous-problèmes de l'analyse du
  discours tels que le découpage en unités énonciatives, la construction
  des contextes d'énonciation, l'identification des inférences que l'on
  peut tirer d'un énoncé, la recherche de points d'attache d'un énoncé
  entrant, l'identification des topiques discursifs, la modélisation de
  la structure informationnelle...

- les protocoles et les outils d'annotation ou d'évaluation des
  différents types d'information discursive ;

- l'appréhension unifiée des différents systèmes de marqueurs du
  discours à des fins de traitement automatique.


***** CONFÉRENCIER INVITÉ : Yves Bestgen, Centre for English Corpus
      Linguistics, F.R.S-FNRS et Université catholique de Louvain

Titre de la conférence : Structure du discours et marqueurs
linguistiques à la croisée de la psycholinguistique, de l'analyse
statistique de corpus et du traitement automatique du langage


________________

SOUMISSION
Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre un résumé de deux pages maximum,
références bibliographiques non inclues, en A4, Arial 12, interligne
simple, en français ou en anglais, à transmettre au format PDF
à : olivier.ferret à cea.fr et nicolas.hernandez à univ-nantes.fr

***** Pour des questions d'organisation, il est demandé aux auteurs
      potentiels d'envoyer aux mêmes adresses une intention de
      soumission pour le 25/03/2012, la soumission des résumés étant
      repoussée au 1/04/2012.

________________

DATES IMPORTANTES
- envoi d'une intention de soumission : 25/03/2012
- soumission des résumés : 1/04/2012
- notification d'acceptation : 20/04/2012
- journée : 11/05/2012
________________

Comité d'organisation
- Olivier Ferret (CEA LIST, Palaiseau)
- Nicolas Hernandez  (LINA, Université de Nantes) 
________________

Comité de lecture 
- Stergos Afantenos (IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier)
- Florian Boudin (LINA, Université de Nantes)
- Frédérik Bilhaut (Noopsis, chef de la direction)
- Pascal Denis (Mostrare, INRIA Lille Nord-Europe)
- Stéphane Ferrari (GREYC, Université de Caen)
- Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac (ERSS)
- Agata Jackiewicz (Université Paris Sorbonne)
- Frédéric Landragin (Lattice)
- Aurélien Max, (LIMSI, Université Paris 11)
- Philippe Muller (IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier)
- Christian Raymond (IRISA, Université de Rennes)
- Matthieu Vernier (Dicta Nova, chef de la direction)
- Antoine Widlöcher (GREYC, Université de Caen)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:05:39 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: TIC et pour l'enseignement et l'apprentissage des
 sciences, Orsay, 28 mars 2012
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.230539.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:05:14 +0100
From: Centre d'Alembert <centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr>
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Séminaire interdisciplinaire 2011-2012 du Centre d'Alembert

http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr

Nouvelles pratiques et cultures du numérique dans les sciences et les
technologies

Séance du mercredi 28 mars 2012 :

Quoi de neuf en matière de technologies de l'information et de la
communication pour l'enseignement et l'apprentissage des sciences ?
Quelles ressources pour l'enseignement ?

Eric BRUILLARD, Professeur en informatique, Directeur de STEF (ENS
Cachan et IFé)

TIC et apprentissage des sciences : des rapports ambigus Si les
technologies informatiques offrent des possibilités remarquables et bien
répertoriées pour l'apprentissage et l'enseignement des sciences, les
utilisations actuelles et les tendances perceptibles en paraissent
parfois assez éloignées. Des questions multiples se posent notamment
quant aux supports utilisés (par exemple tablettes, tableaux
interactifs...), aux activités proposées aux élèves, aux modes de
conception des ressources et à leur place possible dans l'enseignement,
ainsi qu'aux incidences sur la manière de considérer l'apprentissage et
l'enseignement de sciences.  Des thèses soutenues prochainement
(Harinosy Ratompomalala, Stanilas Dorey) attestent ainsi des difficultés
d'utilisation de ressources disciplinaires dans les enseignements
scientifiques scolaires. Dans la présentation, nous essayerons de faire
un panorama des tensions qu'il est possible de repérer.


Hervé LE CROSNIER, maître de conférence à l'Université de Caen
Basse-Normandie, où il enseigne les technologies de l'internet et la
culture numérique. en délégation de 2010 à 2012 auprès de l'ISCC
(Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS). Sa recherche porte
sur l'impact de l'internet sur l'organisation sociale et culturelle, et
l'extension du domaine des biens communs de la connaissance. Ses cours
de culture numérique sont accessible en ligne (vidéo)
http://herve.perso.info.unicaen.fr Hervé Le Crosnier est membre de
l'association Vecam (http://vecam.org) et du collectif d'animation du
Forum mondial Sciences& démocratie.
Il publie des remarques sur les sciences dans le blog "Les puces
savantes" (http://blog.mondediplo.net/-Puces-savantes-).  Après avoir
été dix ans conservateur de bibliothèque scientifique, et créateur de la
liste BIBLIO-FR, il est actuellement éditeur multimédia, chez C&F
éditions (http://cfeditions.com).

Construire les communs de la connaissance et de l'éducation afin
d'élargir l'éducation pour tous Nous assistons sous nos yeux à un
bouleversement radical des technologies de l'enseignement, notamment
autour des nouveaux outils de partage et de diffusion du savoir en
réseau et des méthodes de production et d'usage. Cette situation
nouvelle est comme toujours un "pharmakon", qui contient autant de
risques d'empoisonnement des relations éducatives au profit d'une vision
réductrice et opérationnelle que d'opportunités pour construire un
nouveau régime d'extension de l'éducation pour tous et tout au long de
la vie.

Les Ressources éducatives libres participent de ce type de modèles
exposés à cette nouvelle contradiction. Il appartient donc aux acteurs
de faire basculer la situation vers le poison ou le remède.

Nous nous proposons d'offrir quelques points de repères pour évaluer la
situation, mais aussi ouvrir des portes nouvelles pour l'action :

- définition des Ressource Éducatives Libres
- plus largement comment placer les REL dans la théorie des biens
  communs de la connaissance
- quels sont les enjeux autour des normes juridiques de diffusion et
  partage des documents (droit d'auteur, licences d'usage,...)
- biens communs et services publics à l'échelle du monde dans le débat
  d'orientation de l'éducation.

Informations pratiques :
Les séances ont lieu à la Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay, bâtiment des
colloques (338), 1er étage, de 13h30 à 15h30 (entrée libre). Accès :
http://g.co/maps/cq8yj

Programme détaillé et contact :
Web : http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr 
Mél. : centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr
Médias sociaux : http://twitter.com/centredalembert

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:10:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: Hybrid Machine Translation
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:31:12 +0100
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    *********************************************************
       Hybrid Machine Translation - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
    *********************************************************

Hybrid Machine Translation Workshop, satellite workshop of TSD 2012
	     Brno, Czech Republic, 3 September 2012
     http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2012/conf_workshop.html

The MT Workshop is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, in cooperation with the PRESEMT EU project
Consortium. The MT Workshop is a satellite workshop of the Text, Speech
and Dialog Conference.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

    March 25 2012 ............ Submission of full papers

The submission will be closed during the next day after the deadline.

HYBRID MACHINE TRANSLATION

Interest in flexible and adaptable MT systems, based on the
language-independent hybrid methods, whose principles ensure easy
portability to new language pairs has led us to organizing an MT
Workshop in the framework of the TSD Conference 2012. These methods
attempt to overcome well-known problems of some MT approaches,
e.g. bilingual corpora compilation or the laborious creation of the new
rules per language pair. We also want to address the issue of
effectively managing multilingual content and would welcome interesting
suggestions in the direction of a language-independent
machine-learning-based methodology.

The key aspects that should be touched at the MT Workshop involve among
others syntactic phrase-based modelling, pattern recognition approaches
(such as extended clustering) or techniques towards the development of a
language-independent analysis. These aspects are intended to be of a
hybrid nature, combining linguistic processing with the positive aspects
of the corpus-based approaches, such as SMT and EBMT.

The need for easy amenability to new language pairs and relatively
inexpensive, readily available language resources as well as bilingual
lexica should be touched too. Modelling of the translation context on
phrases can improve the translation quality so it should be considered
too. Producing phrases via a semi-automatic and language-independent
process of morphological and syntactic analysis may remove the need for
compatible NLP tools per language pair.

Another relevant aspect to which the attention has to be paid is a
parallelisation of the main translation processes since their
investigation may help to reach a fast, high-quality translation
system. Furthermore, the optimisation and personalisation of the system
parameters via automated processes (such as GAs or swarm intelligence)
is an issue which deserves to be investigated in any case.

One of the points relevant for MT systems is a user adaptability and
user feedback with appropriate integrated interactive interfaces. Such
systems can be easily customised to both new language pairs and specific
sublanguages.


TOPICS

Topics of the MT Workshop include all themes of machine
translation (with stress on hybrid aspects of MT).

The workshop is organized in cooperation with the PRESEMT EU project
Consortium, submissions from other EU machine translation and other
projects are more than welcomed.

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    George Tambouratzis, Greece (chair)
    Bjorn Gamback, Sweden
    Adam Kilgarriff, GB
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Paul Schmidt, Germany


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    George Tambouratzis
        Institute for Lnaguage and Speech Processing, Greece
        PRESEMT Machine Translation System


FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP

The MT Workshop program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster session.

As a part of the main TSD 2012 Conference, social events including a
trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal
interactions.


TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers
in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.  TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation
Index.  Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases
such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

The MT Workshop submissions will undergo two separate review processes -
the best papers which will succeed in both review processes (by the TSD
2012 Conference PC and MT Workshop 2012 PC) will be published in the TSD
2012 Springer Proceedings, all other accepted MT Workshop papers will be
published in a separate MT Workshop proceedings with ISBN.

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website, MT Workshop
submissions have to tick "MT Workshop review" check box in the form.

Papers submitted to the MT Workshop must not be under review by any
other conference or publication during the workshop review cycle, and
must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...".  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the
papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.  Authors
using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS
template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings
Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this service a
service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with
all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters
will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and
electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format
see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings).


IMPORTANT DATES

March 25 2012 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2012 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2012 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
September 3 2012 ......... MT workshop date
September 4-7 2012 ....... TSD 2012 Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

The accepted workshop contributions will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the
3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to

    Karel Pala, MT Workshop, TSD 2012
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2012 at tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2012 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population
of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair
center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the
south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of
cultural, natural, and technical sights.  South Moravia is a traditional
wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six
universities it forms a cultural center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, Saint
Petersburg, Eindhoven, Rome and Prague and by trains or buses from
Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of
interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri
Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with
St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St.  James,
Cathedral of St. Peter&Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the
famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other
important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha
Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors
(Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz),
Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle,
Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one
of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the
UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:12:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: W3C-CG Ontology Lexica - Call for use cases for the
 ontology-lexicon model
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:10:47 +0100 (CET)
From: Maxime Lefrançois <maxime.lefrancois at inria.fr>
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Call for use cases for the ontology-lexicon model 

The W3C Community Group on Ontology Lexica [1] has started its work in
December 2011.

*** Motivation *** 

Ontologies have numerous applications and they represent the conceptual
backbone of the Semantic Web. In fact, significant work has gone into
standardization efforts under the auspices of the W3C to produce
recommendations for data and knowledge representation languages,
i.e. the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology
Language (OWL). However, current web-based knowledge representation
languages such as OWL and RDF(S) lack the rich linguistic grounding that
is required for language-mediated access to ontologies. OWL and RDF(S)
rely on a property rdfs:label to capture the relation between a
vocabulary element and its (preferred) lexicalization in a given
language. This lexicalization provides some kind of lexical anchor that
makes the concept, property, individual etc. understandable to a
user. The mechanisms for linguistic grounding available in OWL and
RDF(S) are thus far from being able to capture the necessary linguistic
and lexical information that NLP applications working with a particular
ontology need. The mission of the Ontology-Lexicon community group is to
develop a model for the linguistic grounding of ontologies which allows
to represent lexical entries containing information about how ontology
elements (classes, properties, individuals etc.) are realized in
multiple languages. A more detailed overview of the scope and goal of
the working group can be found at [3].

*** Open Call for Use Cases *** 

With this call for use cases, we intend to expand the scope of our
current use cases (see [2]) by including use cases that are inspired by
more concrete and real applications.

We thus call for participation of industrial stakeholders and
application developers in the Community Group by providing a description
of a use case using the template found below.

By this, we offer interested parties the opportunity to participate in
standardization activities that are relevant and potentially beneficial
for their application development, and contribute their ideas to the
process of creating a standard for the representation of ontology
related lexicons.

We kindly ask you all to send the use case description to Philipp
Cimiano ( cimiano at cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de ) until May 3rd. Any questions
or comments can be addressed to Philipp Cimiano at the above email
address.

*** Participation in the Group *** 

People interested in the group’s activities, discussion and
teleconferences are welcome to join the group at [1].

[1] http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/ 
[2] http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Specification_of_Use_Cases 
[3] http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Goals_and_Scope_of_Ontology-Lexica_Community_Group 


<TEMPLATE> 

I. Motivation 

This should contain a short motivation of the use case, including a
description of the application context and why it is relevant to specify
the meaning of words with respect to a given ontology in the context of
the application.

II. Description of the use case 

This section should describe the use case in more detail, specifying
what the lexicon-ontology interface would need to look like from the
point of view of the application and how the lexicon-ontology interface
is exploited in the context of the given application. If available, the
ontology for the application should be briefly described.

III. Limitations of existing models 

This section should discuss existing models and their limitations with
respect to the needs of the application in question.

IV. Example

This section should provide a concrete example illustrating what kind of
knowledge should be stated in the lexicon-ontology interface from the
point of view of the application and how it would be exploited by the
application.

V. Requirements 

This section is optional and might already advance concrete requirements
on the lexicon-ontology model.

<TEMPLATE> 

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:15:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: FSMNLP 2012
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.231526.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:14:44 +0100
From: Koldo Gojenola <koldo.gojenola at ehu.es>
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X-url: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/fsmnlp2012/



                     "2nd CALL FOR PAPERS"
Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing - FSMNLP 2012
                   Tenth International Workshop
     University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebastián
                        July 23-25, 2012
                http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/fsmnlp2012/


INTRODUCTION

The International Workshop Series of Finite-State Methods and Natural
Language Processing (FSMNLP) is the premier forum of the ACL Special
Interest Group on Finite-State Methods (SIGFSM).  It serves researchers
and practitioners working on

    * natural language processing (NLP) applications or language
      resources
    * theoretical and implementation aspects, or
    * their combinations

that have obvious relevance or an explicitly discussed relation to
Finite-State Methods in NLP. This year, the Finite-State Methods and
Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP) workshop is part of the Alan Turing
Year on the occasion of the Centenary Celebration of his life and work.


TOPICS

FSMNLP invites papers related to themes including but not limited to:

    * NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods
    * Finite-state models of language
    * Practices for building morphological models for the world's
      languages using finite-state technology
    * Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language
    * Finite-state manipulation software and tools with relevance to NLP


==== SPECIAL THEME: FINITE-STATE NLP IN PRACTICE ====

FSMNLP 2012 will have a special focus on the following topics:

    * Practical implementations of linguistic descriptions with
      finite-state technology, including grammars, machine learning
      tools, language-specific challenges to finite-state NLP
    * Software tools and utilities for finite-state NLP
    * Finite-state models of linguistic theories
    * Applications of finite-state-based NLP in closely related fields
      such as comparative linguistics, text processing, field
      linguistics, applied linguistics, language teaching, and
      computer-aided translation.

The special theme does not restrict the scope of papers; rather, the
purpose is to attract, apart from other topics, a variety of submissions
relating to any practical dimension of finite-state NLP.  Especially
welcome are succinct short paper (see format below) submissions focused
on some specific practical aspect or solution of finite-state NLP. This
could be related to e.g. a grammar, a linguistic phenomenon, a
linguistic modeling problem, a machine learning problem, or a software
tool that implements or uses finite-state technology. We hope that the
theme provides us with the possibility of organizing suitable poster,
short presentation, and demo sessions related to particular practical
problems.

For example, today, a large number of languages have
morphological/phonological models based on finite-state technology.
While most such implementations follow standard design patterns, many
grammars also contain elegant non-trivial solutions to some
language-specific modeling problem (vowel harmony, reduplication,
long-distance agreement, opaque phonological alternations, free
variation, morphosyntactic restrictions, etc.).  For this year's FSMNLP,
we encourage submissions of short papers that focus on documenting such
solutions, at the same time providing context by summarizing the
development and implementation of the overall grammar.


PREVIOUS EDITIONS

Nine FSMNLP workshops have been organized in the past in: Blois (2011),
Pretoria (2009), Ispra (2008), Potsdam (2007), Helsinki (2005), Budapest
(2003), Helsinki (2001), Ankara (1998), Budapest (1996).


RELATED EVENTS

FSMNLP 2012 will be organized shortly before CIAA.  The 17th
International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata
(CIAA) will take place in Porto, Portugal on July 17-20, 2012 (800 km
from Donostia-San Sebastián).

These consecutive periods as well as the European locations facilitate
the attendance at both conferences.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: April 23, 2012
Notification: May 31, 2012
Camera-ready Version: June 18, 2012

Workshop Dates:
July 23: tutorials&   mini-workshops.
July 24-25: main session, poster and demo sessions.


SUBMISSIONS

Papers should present original, unpublished research and implementation
results. Simultaneous submission to other venues with published
proceedings is prohibited. FSMNLP accepts two kinds of submissions:

    * full papers (8 pages + references) reporting completed,
      significant research,
    * short papers (4 pages + references) reporting ongoing work and
      partial results, implementations, grammars, practical tools,
      interactive software demos, etc.

Short papers are expected to be presented as system demos in a demo
session, posters and/or short presentations, while long papers are
presented in a longer presentation session.  Both paper types are
published in the ACL anthology.

All submissions are electronic and in PDF format via a web-based
submission server.  Authors are strongly encouraged to use ACL (2012)
style (available for LaTeX and Word) in producing the PDF document.
These templates are available at:

http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp

Information about the author(s) and other identifying information such
as obvious self-references (e.g., "We showed in [12] ...") and financial
or personal acknowledgements should be omitted in the submitted papers
whenever feasible.

Papers will be submitted electronically in PDF using the EasyChair
system. The paper can contain a clearly marked appendix and data files
to support your claims.  This material will not be published.  While
reviewers are urged to consult this extra material for better
comprehension, it is at their discretion whether they do so. Such extra
material should also be anonymized to the extent feasible.

Use the following link for submission:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fsmnlp2012

The papers and abstracts will be published in FSMNLP 2012 proceedings
and archived in the ACL Anthology.  The publication of selected, revised
versions of accepted papers in a special journal issue is planned.


INVITED SPEAKERS

Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)


TUTORIALS

We have planned a series of short tutorials (30-60 min. each) addressing
some specific application or topic in a concise manner. So far, the
following tutorials are planned:

   * Spelling and grammar correction with FSTs (Iñaki Alegria, Mans
     Hulden)
   * Probabilistic parsing with weighted FSTs (Miikka Silfverberg,
     University of Helsinki)
   * Machine learning of automata and transducers


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Iñaki Alegria (University of the Basque Country)
Kenneth R. Beesley (SAP Business Objects, USA)
Francisco Casacuberta (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Spain)
Jan Daciuk (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Frank Drewes (Umea University, Sweden)
Dale Gerdemann (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Mike Hammond (University of Arizona, USA)
Thomas Hanneforth (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Colin de la Higuera (University of Nantes, France)
Jan Holub (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Mans Hulden (Ikerbasque, Basque Country)
André Kempe (CADEGE Technologies&   Consulting, France)
Andras Kornai (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Maite Oronoz (University of the Basque Country)
Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa, South Africa)
Strahil Ristov (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia)
Frederique Segond Frederique (ObjectDirect, France)
Max Silberztein (Université de Franche-Comté, France)
Richard Sproat (Oregon Health and Science University, USA)
Trond Trosterud (University of Tromso, Norway)
Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)
Anssi Yli-Jyra (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Iñaki Alegria (University of the Basque Country)
Koldo Gojenola (University of the Basque Country)
Izaskun Etxeberria (University of the Basque Country)
Nerea Ezeiza (University of the Basque Country)
Mans Hulden (Ikerbasque)
Amaia Lorenzo (University of the Basque Country)
Esther Miranda (University of the Basque Country)
Maite Oronoz (University of the Basque Country)

Further information about the conference is available at the FSMNLP
Conference website:

http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/fsmnlp2012/
E-mail: ixa at ehu.es


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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:18:46 +0100
Subject: Appel: The Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference
 (SLTC-2012)
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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:15:37 +0100
From: Pierre Nugues <Pierre.Nugues at cs.lth.se>
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======================================================
The Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2012)
CALL FOR PAPERS
======================================================
Lund, Sweden, October (24)-25-26, 2012

The Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2012) will be
held in Lund, October 25-26, 2012, organized by Lund University, (LTH
and SOL), with support from the Swedish Graduate School of Language
Technology (GSLT).

SLTC-2012 will be collocated with a Nordic Seminar on speech recognition
organized by ASTIN (The workgroup for Language Technology in the Nordic
Countries) on October 24-25: http://www.dsn.dk/tale/.


*********************************
The SLTC program committee invites two types of contributions to the
conference:
	- Papers (Deadline: August 27, 2012)
	- Workshop proposals (Deadline: June 4, 2012)

*********************************
PAPERS:
*********************************
  CONTENT: Papers are invited on all aspects of language technology,
  including natural language processing, speech technology, and relevant
  neighboring areas. Papers can describe completed or ongoing research,
  as well as practical applications of language technology, and may be
  combined with system demonstrations.

  FORMAT: Papers will be presented at the conference either as posters
  or as oral presentations and will be published as extended abstracts.

  SUBMISSION: Papers should be submitted as extended abstracts (max. 2
  pages) using the style files available on the conference website:
  http://nlp.cs.lth.se/events/sltc_2012/.

  DEADLINE: The deadline for submission is August 27, 2012.

  REVIEW: Papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Authors will
  be notified September 14, 2012.


*********************************
WORKSHOPS:
*********************************
  CONTENT: Workshops are invited on any theme relevant to language
  technology, including applications, best practice, theoretical
  foundations, and its relation to neighboring disciplines.

  FORMAT: Workshops will be devoted up to two hours of the conference
  program, possibly in parallel with other activities. The exact format
  is decided by the workshop organizers.

  SUBMISSION: Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to
  sltc2012 at cs.lth.se. The e-mail message should contain the following
  information:

    - Name of the workshop;
    - Full list of organizers;
    - Short description of the workshop theme and intended audience;
    - Short description of the workshop organization:
        - Will there be a call for papers or only invited presentations?
        - Will there be regular talks, posters, panels, discussions, or
           what?
        - Will there be published proceedings?
    - Duration of the workshop (normally 1 or 2 hours).
Deadline: The deadline for submission is June 4, 2012.
  REVIEW: Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the program
          committee. Proposers will be notified June 14, 2012.


*********************************
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
*********************************
Pierre Nugues, Anders Ardö, Jonas Granfeldt, Marcus Uneson, Caroline
Willners, Jonas Wisbrant.

*********************************
CONTACT: sltc2012 at cs.lth.se
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:25:48 +0200
Subject: Appel: CLA 2012
Message-ID: <WED.28.MAR.2012.102548.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:23:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Amedeo Napoli <amedeo.napoli at loria.fr>
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Apologies for multiple receptions. 

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

CLA 2012 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The 9th International Conference on 
Concept Lattices and Their Applications CLA 2012 

Fuengirola (Málaga), Spain 
October 11-14, 2012 
http://www.matap.uma.es/cla2012 

**** Abstract submission deadline: June 22, 2012 **** 
**** Paper submission deadline: June 29, 2012 **** 

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

AIMS AND SCOPE 

CLA is an international conference dedicated to formal concept analysis
(FCA) and areas closely related to FCA such as data mining, information
retrieval, knowledge management, data and knowledge engineering, logic,
algebra and lattice theory. CLA provides a forum for researchers,
practitioners, and students. The program of CLA consists of invited
plenary talks, regular talks, and poster sessions. We solicit papers in
all areas relevant to the theory and applications of FCA.

TOPICS 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

* Concept Lattices and related structures 
* Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 
* Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Engineering 
* Association Rules, Itemsets and Data Dependencies 
* Attribute Implications 
* Algorithms for Concept Lattices and Complexity 
* Visualization 
* Data Preprocessing 
* Redundancy and Dimensionality Reduction 
* Information Retrieval 
* Classification and Clustering 
* Pattern Recognition 
* Applications of Concept Lattices 

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION 

Papers of up to twelve pages may be submitted in PDF or Postscript
formats. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by June 22, 2012.

The submission is done via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cla2012

Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the
Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Papers will be judged based on their technical merits, originality,
relevance to areas of interest, and presentation clarity. Papers should
describe original work that has not been published before, is not under
review elsewhere, and will not be submitted elsewhere during the CLA
2012 review period.

Accepted papers will be published in the CLA proceedings (with
ISBN). There are also plans for organizing CLA 2012 post-proceedings as
a special issue of a well-established journal.

IMPORTANT DATES 

Abstract submission: June 22, 2012 
Paper submission: June 29, 2012 
Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 27, 2012 
Camera-ready papers due: September 16, 2012 
Conference: October 11-14, 2012 

PROGRAM CHAIRS 

Uta Priss (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany) 
Laszlo Szathmary (University of Debrecen, Hungary) 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Jaume Baixeries 
Radim Belohlavek 
Sadok Ben Yahia 
Karell Bertet 
François Brucker 
Claudio Carpineto 
Pablo Cordero 
Felix Distel 
Florent Domenach 
Mireille Ducasse 
Ramon Fuentes-Gonzalez 
Cynthia Vera Glodeanu 
Marianne Huchard 
Vassilis Kaburlasos 
Mehdi Kaytoue 
Stanislav Krajci 
Marzena Kryszkiewicz 
Sergei Kuznetsov 
Jesús Medina-Moreno 
Rokia Missaoui 
Amedeo Napoli 
Lhouari Nourine 
Sergei Obiedkov 
Jan Outrata 
Pascal Poncelet 
Camille Roth 
Baris Sertkaya 
Henry Soldano 
Gerd Stumme 
Petko Valtchev 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR 

Manuel Ojeda-Aciego (Universidad de Málaga, Spain) 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 

Pablo Cordero (Universidad de Málaga, Spain) 
Inma P Cabrera (Universidad de Málaga, Spain) 

STEERING COMMITTEE 

Radim Belohlavek (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic) 
Sadok Ben Yahia (Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisia) 
Jean Diatta (Université de la Réunion, France) 
Peter Eklund (University of Wollongong, Australia) 
Sergei O. Kuznetsov (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) 
Michel Liquière (LIRMM, Montpellier, France) 
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo (LIMOS, Clermont-Ferrand, France) 

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 08:32:12 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:32:12 +0200
Subject: Job: CDI, Ingenieur TAL,
 Laboratoire national de Metrologie et d'essais
Message-ID: <WED.28.MAR.2012.103212.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:48:30 +0200
From: "Lebrault Christelle" <Christelle.Lebrault at lne.fr>
Message-ID: <10C58690E5732B47BE9AEC4BF97CA134013216DE at TMSG.intra.lne>
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Madame, Monsieur,

Le Laboratoire national de Métrologie et d'essais (LNE) recherche
actuellement un Ingénieur-Docteur dans le domaine du Traitement
Automatique des LAngues.

DIRECTION DES ESSAIS
Pôle Essais en Environnement 

INGENIEUR D’ETUDES ET RECHERCHE 
EN TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES  H/F
Réf : CL/TAL/DE

Contexte :

Le Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais propose des
prestations d’évaluation de la performance des systèmes de traitement
automatiques des langues et de la parole pour une tâche donnée
(transcription, traduction, extraction d’informations, ...). 

Au sein du Département CEM, Sécurité Electrique et Technologies de
l’information, l’équipe de traitement de l’information multimedia
travaille sur les différentes étapes qui définissent une évaluation. Ses
principales missions sont :

De définir des tâches pertinentes à évaluer en fonction des besoins
applicatifs et/ou théoriques, De déterminer des caractéristiques des
données à utiliser pour répondre à la tâche considérée, D’établir des
mesures qui permettent de rendre compte de la pertinence d’un système
pour une tâche donnée.

Missions :

Dans le cadre de programmes d’études et recherche, vous aurez pour
mission de contribuer au développement de l’activité, notamment au
travers des éléments suivants : 

Le montage et la gestion de projets de recherche et développement dans
le domaine du multimédia,

L’élaboration des protocoles pour répondre aux problématiques de
l’évaluation en Traitement  Automatique du Langage : 

Définitions des mesures

Implémentation des outils informatiques

Organisation et animation des colloques de restitution

Participation à la dissémination des connaissances (entretien site web,
publications scientifiques, ...)

Le développement des partenariats au niveau international afin de
renforcer la position du LNE dans le domaine.

Profil :

Docteur Ingénieur en Informatique, spécialisé en Traitement Automatique
des Langues (TAL). 

Vous possédez une première expérience professionnelle (3 à 5 ans en plus
de la thèse), durant laquelle vous avez travaillé sur l’évaluation des
systèmes automatiques. 

Vous maîtrisez la gestion de projet et êtes à l’aise dans l’approche
clients et l’organisation et l’animation de réunions et/ou séminaires. 

Vous avez des connaissances solides en programmation et analyse de
données (fouille de données). 

Rigoureux, dynamique, déterminé et d’un relationnel facile, vous saurez
rapidement vous intégrer au sein des équipes et démontrer le leadership
et l’expertise nécessaires à la réussite de votre mission.

Anglais courant impératif.

Déplacements à prévoir (une dizaine par an de 1 à 3 jours,
majoritairement en France).

Poste en CDI basé à Trappes (78).

Contact :

Postuler sous la référence CL/TAL/DE 
A l’attention de Mlle Christelle LEBRAULT - Par mail : recrut at lne.fr

Bien cordialement

Christelle LEBRAULT
Chargée de recrutement
Direction des Ressources Humaines
Tél. : 01 30 69 13 29

Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais
29, avenue Roger Hennequin - 78197 Trappes cedex
Tél. : 01 30 69 10 00 - Fax : 01 30 69 12 34
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:37:01 +0200
Subject: Conf: TOTh 2012, Conference d'ouverture
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:09:08 +0200
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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Conférence TOTh 2012
Terminologie & Ontologie : Théories et applications

http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2012/conference-d-ouverture

CONFERENCE D'OUVERTURE

"Sciences du langage et ontologie"

Sylvain Auroux
Directeur de recherches, CNRS, UMR 7597 "Histoire des théories
linguistiques", Université Paris Diderot.

Sylvain Auroux, né en 1947, Directeur de recherche au CNRS (Laboratoire
d’Histoire des Théories linguistiques, Université Paris 7), est
spécialiste de philosophie du langage et d’histoire des sciences. Il a
rédigé de nombreux ouvrages et articles sur le sujet.  Il a dirigé
l’Histoire des Idées linguistiques (Liège, Mardaga, 3 vols, 1989-2000)
et le Dictionnaire des Notions philosophiques (Paris, PUF, 2 vols,
1990). Dernier livre paru : La philosophie du langage, Paris PUF, 2009.

Sciences du langage et ontologie

Une ontologie est l’ensemble des hypothèses sur l’aménagement dernier du
monde, autrement dit sur ce qui existe en dernier recours. Toute science
est concernée par des hypothèses ontologiques. La linguistique l’est de
deux façons. D’abord par ce qu’impliquent ontologiquement ses
catégories. Est-ce qu’un « nom » cela existe et où ? Nous rappellerons
les faiblesses de l’hypothèse substantialiste chomskyenne qui soutient
l’identité entre la structure des échanges langagiers, leur
représentation mentale et leur théorie. Le second point concerne l’objet
lui-même, le langage, ou plutôt les langues. Dans chaque vocabulaire, il
y a quelque chose comme une nomenclature (qui n’a pas nécessairement la
même structure qu’une « nomenclature scientifique »), dans chaque
construction syntaxique il y a une façon de rendre compte de
l’organisation du monde, comme, par exemple, dans la structure
prédicative des langues indo-européennes et l’opposition nom vs
verbe. Doit-on admettre que c’est la structure du monde qui se reflète
dans les langues, mais alors pourquoi la diversité ? Peut-on distinguer
ce que notre représentation doit au monde et ce qu’elle doit à nos
langues ou doit-on admettre qu’il n’y a pas de solution de continuité
entre le monde et le langage ? La diversité des langues plaide-t-elle en
faveur du relativisme ontologique ?

http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2012/conference-d-ouverture

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 08:38:25 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:38:25 +0200
Subject: Appel: Atelier JEP-TALN 2012 langues africaines,
 date limite : 30 mars
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:26:28 +0200
From: Mathieu Mangeot <Mathieu.Mangeot at imag.fr>
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DERNIER APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

Version HTML : http://www.jeptaln2012.org/?page_id=344
Version PDF : http://www.jeptaln2012.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/
AppelAtelierLanguesAfricainesJepTaln2012.pdf

*Traitement automatique des langues africaines (écrit et parole)*

Atelier JEP-TALN 2012 Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012

CALENDRIER

- DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : 30 mars 2012 ATTENTION : IL N'Y AURA PAS
  D'EXTENSION DE DATE LIMITE !
- Notification aux auteurs : 15 avril 2012
- Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 22 avril 2012
- Atelier : 8 juin 2012

PRÉSENTATION

Les recherches en traitement automatique des langues africaines sont
actuellement à l'orée de développements majeurs. Les efforts de
reconnaissance des langues nationales et de standardisation des
différents alphabets commencent à porter leurs fruits. Au Niger, par
exemple, les alphabets des langues fulfulde, haussa, kanouri,
songhai-zarma et tamajaq ont été définis par des arrêtés du gouvernement
en 1999. Par ailleurs, un certain nombre de collègues formés dans les
pays du Nord reviennent dans leur pays avec la volonté de continuer leur
travail sur les langues locales. Il y a également des diasporas
disposant de moyens technologiques leur permettant de contribuer
directement en ligne et de manière bénévole.

Pour autant, les langues nationales de la plupart des pays d'Afrique
sont peu dotées (langues-π) : les ressources électroniques disponibles
sont rares, mal distribuées, voire inexistantes. Seules sont accessibles
les fonctions d'édition et d'impression rendant l'exploitation de ces
langues difficile. Au moment où il est question de les introduire dans
le système éducatif, de créer des normes d'écriture standardisées et
stabilisées et surtout de développer leur usage à l'écrit et à l'oral
dans l'administration et la vie quotidienne, un développement de ces
langues s’impose comme une nécessité vitale.

Développer le traitement automatique de langues africaines nécessite
l'élaboration de ressources qui seront les fondements à partir desquels
des traitements plus élaborés peuvent être construits. Il apparaît
indispensable de constituer en premier lieu des corpus écrits et oraux
annotés aussi larges que possibles. À partir de tels corpus, il est
possible d’extraire des exemples pour aider à la constitution de
dictionnaires ou de mettre au point des modèles de langage pour la
reconnaissance vocale. Toutefois, la constitution de tels corpus reste
une entreprise délicate dans le contexte de langues peu dotée car les
transcriptions souffrent du manque de standardisation de la langue et
l'enrichissement de corpus reste très onéreux.

Les dictionnaires sont également nécessaires pour construire les outils
de base tels les correcteurs orthographiques (qui peuvent servir à leur
tour pour corriger les corpus écrits) ou encore pour l'aide à la
transcription de corpus oraux. Il existe parfois des dictionnaires
bilingues couplant la langue officielle et une langue nationale. Par
exemple, au Mali, le père Charles Bailleul est l'auteur d’un
dictionnaire bambara-français ; au Niger, le projet éducatif SOUTÉBA a
créé cinq dictionnaires bilingues destinés aux enfants de primaire. Mais
ceux-ci existent uniquement en version papier ou sous forme de fichiers
d'éditeurs de texte (format.doc). Informatiser ces dictionnaires pour
les rendre utilisables par des outils de traitement automatique
nécessite, dans un premier temps, d'ajouter des informations manquantes
: prononciation, règles de flexion morphologiques et flexionnelles,
exemples et traductions tirés de corpus, etc.Il s'agit dans un premier
temps de les informatiser (les transformer dans un format utilisable par
des outils de traitement automatique) et de les compléter avec des
informations manquantes : prononciation, exemples et traductions tirés
de corpus, etc.

Des astuces peuvent parfois être inventées pour pallier le manque de
ressources. Par exemple, s'il n'existe pas de corpus oraux avec
transcriptions, il est possible de constituer un corpus oral de textes
lus.

Enfin, il y a lieu de prendre en compte les contraintes
socio-économiques s'exerçant sur la population des locuteurs : les
ressources économiques sont limitées, les ressources humaines qualifiées
sont rares, les recherches sont sporadiques et isolées, les résultats
confidentiels et parcellaires. Il est donc nécessaire de définir des
méthodologies économes en coût d'achat de logiciels et en temps de
travail qualifié visant à produire des résultats pérennes, partagés et
faciles à enrichir. La constitution de ressources linguistiques de
manière générale, et plus encore pour les langues africaines devrait
donc respecter un certain nombre de principes : utilisation d'outils en
source ouverte, définition et utilisation de standards (ISO, Unicode),
transfert de connaissances entre les collègues des pays du Nord et du
Sud, disponibilité des ressources sous licence ouverte (Creative
Commons), etc.

Cet atelier a pour but d'effectuer un état des lieux des travaux de
constitution de ressources linguistiques de base (dictionnaires, corpus
oraux et écrits), de mettre au point des méthodologies simples et
économes d'élaboration de ressource, d'échanger sur les techniques
permettant de se passer de certaines ressources inexistantes et de fixer
un certain nombre de principes pour les futurs travaux dans le domaine.

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS

Les publications devront comprendre entre 6 et 12 pages.
Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des articles présentant des travaux
de recherche originaux sur les thèmes proposés ci-dessous.

THÈMES

L'atelier est ouvert à la présentation de travaux de recherche portant
sur l'un ou plusieurs des thèmes suivants :

Ressources  : 
- constitution de corpus écrits (monolingues, bilingues alignés ou
  comparables)
- constitution de corpus oraux (incluant la transcription)
- élaboration de lexiques et dictionnaires (monolingues, bilingues)
- évaluation de la qualité des ressources

Outils  :
- analyseurs morphologiques, correcteurs orthographiques
- analyseurs syntaxiques, correcteurs grammaticaux
- systèmes de TA (statistique ou à base de règles)
- reconnaissance de la parole 
- synthèse vocale

CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION

Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du
domaine.
Pour les travaux de recherches, seront considérées en particulier :
- l'adéquation aux thèmes de l'atelier.
- l'importance et l'originalité de la contribution,
- la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,
- l'organisation et la clarté de la présentation.

MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION

Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français. Les formats précis
de soumission sont disponibles pour Word et Latex sur le site de
jeptaln2012 (http:// www.jeptaln2012.org/).

Les propositions de communications doivent être envoyées sous forme pdf
à Mathieu.Mangeot at imag.fr ET à Chantal.Enguehard at univ-nantes.fr

COMITÉ DE PROGRAMME

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble, France)
Mame Thierno Cissé (ARCIV, U. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal)
Chantal Enguehard (LINA, Nantes, France)
Gil Francopoulo (Tagmatica, Paris, France)
Hadrien Gelas, (DDL, Lyon, France)
Mathieu Mangeot (LIG, Grenoble, France) 
Chérif Mbodj, (Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar, Sénégal)
Kamal Naït-Zerrad INALCO, Paris, France
Harouna Naroua (U. Abdou Moumouny, Niamey, Niger)
Pascal Nocera, (Université d'Avignon, France)
Guy De Pauw, (Université d'Anvers, Belgique)
Francois Pellegrino, (DDL, Lyon, France)
Mamadou Lamine Sanogo (INSS, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso)
Gilles Sérasset (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Mathieu MANGEOT
GETALP, LIG-campus, BP 53  -  385 rue de la Bibliothèque
F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9  -  France
Tel : +33 4 76 63 56 54   /   +33 4 79 75 81 89

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 08:41:25 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:41:25 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Luciano Floridi, LIP6, 3 avril 2012
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:09:57 +0200
From: Jouis Christophe <Christophe.Jouis at lip6.fr>
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/Le mardi 3 avril, à 11H, /
au LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,
4 place Jussieu, salle 101, couloir 25/26

Séminaire exceptionnel de *Luciano Floridi**

/Smart Technologies and their Challenges in the Age of Hyperhistory/

/Entrée libre

Pour toute information contacter Jean-Gabriel Ganascia 
(Jean-Gabriel.Ganascia at lip6.fr)
/

/*Professeur à l'université d'Oxford, titulaire de la chaire d'éthique
de l'information de l'UNESCO
(cf. http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/)/

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 08:45:34 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:45:34 +0200
Subject: Cursus: Nouveau Master TAL, Universite d'Aix-Marseille
Message-ID: <WED.28.MAR.2012.104534.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:01:41 +0200
From: Laurent Prévot <laurent.prevot at lpl-aix.fr>
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Master Sciences du Langage, Spécialité Traitement Automatique des Langues

http://taludam.hypotheses.org/

Données linguistiques : création, gestion, exploitation informatisée

Cette spécialité du master Sciences du Langage de l’Université
d’Aix-Marseille (2012-2016)  porte une attention particulière aux
ressources et aux outils liés à l’ingénierie linguistique, en vue de
différentes applications dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique des
Langues (TAL).

Co-habilitée par deux départements (informatique et linguistique), cette
spécialité de master offre de nombreuses possibilités à des étudiants
sensibles aux données linguistiques et à leur manipulation informatique
pour le TAL.

La formation est associée à l'Erasmus Mundus "Multilingualism and
Multiculturalism" (http://www.em-multi.eu/) qui offre une opportunité
unique d'effectuer dans des conditions excellentes une partie de sa
formation au sein d'universités prestigieuses d'Asie du Sud-Est.

Enfin, la sélection des projets d'excellence BLRI (Brain and Language
Research Institute) et ORTOLANG (Open Resources and TOols for LANGuage)
dans lesquels sont fortement impliqués l'équipe enseignante du master
offre un contexte favorable à la supervision de stages sur les données
linguistiques.

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 08:49:21 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:49:21 +0200
Subject: Appel: Colloque Traitements de corpus linguistiques : outils et
 methodes (Appel a communications aux doctorants)
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:06:28 +0200
From: Romain Loth <romain.loth at gmail.com>
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Cher(e)s collègues,

Nous vous prions de trouver ci-dessous l'appel à communication du COLDOC
2012, le colloque des doctorants du labo Modyco de Nanterre.

Vous pourrez aussi trouver ces informations sur le site de Modyco 
http://www.modyco.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1772&Itemid=117

Vous en souhaitant bonne réception

Bien cordialement

Le comité d'organisation

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

COLLOQUE DES DOCTORANTS ET JEUNES CHERCHEURS DU LABORATOIRE MODYCO

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| Traitement de corpus linguistiques : outils et méthodes |
===========================================================

MoDyCo CNRS (UMR 7114)
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense / Université Paris Descartes


Appel à communications
======================

Le COLDOC est le colloque annuel organisé par les doctorants et jeunes
chercheurs du laboratoire MoDyCo (UMR 7114 – CNRS / Université Paris
Ouest Nanterre La Défense / Université Paris Descartes). Cette année
notre objectif est de nous interroger sur les outils et méthodes qui
émergent du travail de corpus. Dans les dernières décennies, la
linguistique a vécu une évolution certaine de l'objet d'étude de ses
recherches : c'est dorénavant moins souvent la langue (objet a priori
illimité et introspectif) et plus souvent le corpus (en tant
qu'échantillon attesté de réalisations de cette langue) qui devient
l'objet immédiat et central à étudier. Aujourd'hui, cette position
centrale du corpus dans la recherche concerne sans doute la majeure
partie de la communauté des chercheurs et doctorants en sciences du
langage.

Cet essor des problématiques liées aux corpus alimente un débat latent.
De façon informelle, le changement est souvent présenté sous deux
aspects opposés : soit sous un angle exagérément négatif (comme une «
mode », trop réductrice sur le fond, qui convient mal à la nature de la
langue et finira par inhiber le débat théorique), soit sous un angle
exagérément positif (comme une révolution qui rendra les sciences du
langage plus «scientifiques» parce que plus empiriques, en étant plus
proches du « réel »).

Refusant de nous arrêter à ces clivages, nous proposons aux doctorants
du laboratoire MoDyCo et à tous les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs qui
le souhaitent, de prendre le temps d'examiner l'éventail des outils et
des méthodes liés à cette « vague » d'études de corpus, pour mieux
mettre en lumière les points d'articulation entre l'observation et
l'analyse. Nous nous inscrivons pleinement dans l'esprit la
complémentarité de l'empirique et du théorique, exprimée jadis par
Francis Bacon :

L'empirique, semblable à la fourmi, se contente d'amasser et de
consommer ensuite ses provisions.
Le dogmatique, telle l'araignée, ourdit des toiles dont la matière est
extraite de sa propre substance. L'abeille garde le milieu ; elle tire
la matière première des fleurs des champs, puis, par un art qui lui est
propre, elle la travaille et la digère.  Novum Organum (1620), Livre I,
95

Le coeur de notre sujet est donc cet « art de l'abeille », ce travail
face au corpus linguistique qui, du moment de la collecte des
énoncés/textes jusqu'à l'interprétation théorique finale et à ses
applications, apparaît bien comme une étape de « digestion » des données
du corpus, autrement dit un travail de « traitement » du corpus.

Concrètement, cette évolution semble liée à un développement des outils
informatiques (navigation, collecte,outils d'aide à la transcription,
outils d'analyse) qui ont transformé l'accès aux sources et affecté la
démarche d'étude linguistique. Nous faisons l’hypothèse que les
mouvements et technologies influent non seulement sur la linguistique,
mais aussi sur les autres sciences humaines et sociales de façon
trans-disciplinaire. Les autres communautés de recherche en sciences
humaines et sociales ont apparemment, elles aussi, vu leur facette
«expérimentale » s'intensifier durant la période récente. Par ailleurs,
l'essor d'internet et des ordinateurs a entraîné une différenciation au
niveau des traitements des corpus. Une partie des linguistes a continué
à se pencher sur les corpus, en utilisant les possibilités d’un
traitement plus fin des données. D’autres linguistes ont préféré
travailler sur l'amélioration des outils de traitement en TAL. La
question de la mutualisation de ce type de travaux se pose ici comme là.
Cela s'accompagne d'une grande diversité d'approches selon les thèmes et
les écoles, et d'une tendance des instances à accompagner ce mouvement
(projets de constitutions de « grands » corpus, groupes de travail
d'annotation).

Selon la tradition COLDOC qui a fait siennes les questions 
méthodologiques larges, et qui s’attache à des problématiques ouvertes à 
l'ensemble des sciences du langage, nous appelons à toute présentation 
qui intéresse le thème du traitement de corpus linguistique, de sa 
conception à son résultat. Les problématiques associées comprennent, 
sans limitation, les points suivants :

- point de vue sur les textes ou énoncés selon le champ des sciences du
  langage

- niveau d'analyse pertinent et nature du corpus :

  . corpus oraux en phonologie, syntaxe, prosodie, études des troubles
    de la parole, etc.

  . corpus textuels en lexicographie, analyse de discours, syntaxe,
    «info-com»

  . et les corpus multimodaux en acquisition, etc.

- constitution de corpus, corpus clos vs. ouvert, représentativité,
  taille du corpus

- transcription, alignement, structuration et organisation du corpus

- définition des phénomènes ou procédés linguistiques étudiés

- annotations ou autres traitements effectués, décomptes ou mesures et
  leur pertinence

- choix des entrées dans l'analyse : occurrences, constructions,
  catégories, environnements, etc.

- choix de formalisation des résultats : tableaux statistiques,
  graphiques, typologies, schémas, etc.

- interprétation des résultats (selon hypothèses ou question posée)

- extractions opérées, modèles formels, apprentissage automatique

- mutualisation des corpus, des traitements et/ou des résultats

- exploitation des bases existantes (grands corpus consultables)

- enfin, au-delà de la publication, vers un partage des données et des
  résultats sur le travail de corpus

Nous invitons donc les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs à venir exposer
leur réflexion sur un de ces aspects à partir de leur propre pratique et
ce quel que soit le degré d‘avancement de leur recherche.


Conférenciers invités
=====================

Ouverture des deux journées du colloque par deux conférences : nos
invités sont deux chercheurs reconnus bien au-delà de leurs domaines
respectif (la grammaire textuelle et la sémantique). Ils nous
présenteront leur analyse personnelle sur ces questions de rapport du
chercheur au corpus.

Bernard COMBETTES (ATILF/CNRS, Université de Lorraine)
Anne CONDAMINES (CLLE-ERSS/CNRS, Université Toulouse Le Mirail)


Comité scientifique
===================
Jean-Michel ADAM (Université de Lausanne)
Annie BERTIN (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Caroline BOGLIOTTI (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
Bernard COMBETTES (ATILF/CNRS, Université de Lorraine)
Anne CONDAMINES (CLLE-ERSS/CNRS, Université Toulouse Le Mirail)
Marcel CORI (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Flore COULOUMA (CREA-EA 370, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Guillaume DESAGULIER (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, 
Université Paris 8)
Brigitte JUANALS (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Simon KREK (Institut Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana)
Anne LACHERET (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Bernard LAKS (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Denis LE PESANT (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Danielle LEEMAN (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Sabine LEHMANN (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Sarah LEROY (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Sylvain LOISEAU (LDI/CNRS, Université Paris 13 Nord)
Dominique MAINGUENEAU (CEDITEC/EA 3119, Université Paris Est Créteil, IUF)
Philippe MARTIN (Département d'Études Françaises, Université de Toronto)
Sylvie MELLET (BCL/CNRS, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Jean-Luc MINEL (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Colette NOYAU (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Christophe PARISSE (MoDyCo/CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Christiane PRENERON (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Sandrine REBOUL-TOURE (SYLED/CEDISCOR, Université Paris III Sorbonne 
nouvelle)
Fanny RINCK (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Clara ROMERO (MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Frédérique SITRI (SYLED, Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Ana ZWITTER VITEZ (Institut de Linguistique Slovène Appliquée Trojina, 
Ljubljana)


Modalités de soumission
=======================
Les soumissions seront envoyées à l'adresse coldoc2012 at gmail.com. Autant
pour les communications que pour les posters, il est possible pour les
non-francophones de soumettre les projets et les communications en
anglais.

Communications
--------------
Les doctorants et chercheurs intéressés par le sujet doivent soumettre
un projet de deux pages comprenant un titre, un résumé, une
bibliographie de cinq titres maximum et une liste de cinq mots clés
(police 12, marge 2,5, interligne 1,5). Les communications orales
comprendront vingt minutes de présentation suivie de dix minutes de
discussion.

Posters
-------
Le colloque organisera aussi une séance de posters de format A1 pour
présenter des recherches qui sont dans une phase initiale ou ne se
prêtant pas au format long. Pour ces posters, la soumission à envoyer
est un projet explicatif d'une page comprenant un titre, un résumé, une
bibliographie de cinq titres maximum et une liste de cinq mots clés
(police 12, marge 2,5, interligne simple).


Calendrier
==========
Déroulement du colloque les jeudi 4 et vendredi 5 octobre 2012,
Amphithéâtre Durkheim, Université Paris Descartes, 7 rue de la Sorbonne.

Date limite d’envoi des propositions : 4 Mai 2012
Notification d’acceptation : 22 Juin
Programme disponible : Mi-juillet
Remise des articles pour relecture : 3 septembre 2012


Comité d'organisation
---------------------
Marine Damiani, Kaja Dolar, Carmen Lucia Florez-Pulido, Romain Loth, 
Julien Magnier et Anne Pegaz Paquet.

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 08:56:00 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:56:00 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Etude de la reputation des individus et des
 organisations, 3 avril 2012, INALCO-Recherche
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:35:15 +0200
From: Mathieu Valette <mvalette at inalco.fr>
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L'Equipe de Recherche Textes, Informatique, Multilinguisme (ERTIM) de
l'INALCO a le plaisir de vous inviter à la prochaine séance de son
séminaire de recherche, mardi 3 avril à 16h00. Elle sera animée par :

Agata JACKIEWICZ (Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV) ; L'étude de la réputation
des individus et des organisations : une contribution linguistique

Résumé : L’exposé s’intéressera au phénomène textuel du détachement
quand celui-ci sert de support à des jugements d’évaluation. Il traitera
des régularités formelles et sémantiques qui caractérisent certaines
structures avec constituants extra-prédicatifs dédiées à l’expression
des jugements ciblant des individus ou des organisations. Il sera
notamment question des expressions binominales « homme|femme de N » et
des adverbes orientés vers le sujet, observés dans des corpus de presse
économique et généraliste. La problématique générale concerne la
construction des modèles opératoires et des ressources linguistiques qui
s'appuient sur une expertise fine de la langue et peuvent déboucher sur
des procédures automatiques d’extraction et de représentation des
données d’opinion.

INALCO-Recherche
(salle 8)
49bis Avenue de la Belle Gabrielle, 75012 Paris
(RER A, Station Nogent-sur-Marne, sortir avenue des Marronniers ; puis
direction Jardin tropical ; puis à gauche, longer le bois sur 300 m
environ)


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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 09:00:14 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:00:14 +0200
Subject: Appel: Atelier JEP-TALN 2012,
 Interactions langagieres orales dans les habitats intelligents
 pour personnes agees : defis et enjeux
Message-ID: <WED.28.MAR.2012.110014.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:41:13 +0200
From: Francois Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
Message-ID: <4F716F19.5090608 at imag.fr>
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APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS (Type de communication plus adapté)

*Interactions langagières orales dans les habitats intelligents pour
personnes âgées : défis et enjeux*

*Atelier JEP-TALN 2012*
19e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles et
29e édition des Journées d'Étude sur la Parole

Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012

CALENDRIER

- Date limite de soumission : 30 mars 2012
- Notification aux auteurs : 30 avril 2012
- Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 11 mai 2012
- Atelier : 8 juin 2012

PRÉSENTATION
Face au vieillissement croissant de la population et au manque de place
dans les institutions spécialisées pour prendre soin de nos seniors, les
politiques gouvernementales orientent les solutions vers le
développement des habitats intelligents qui permettent de mieux vieillir
chez soi grâce à la compensation des baisses d'autonomie par les
nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication (STIC).

Ces habitats constituent un nouveau champ d'application très prometteur
pour compenser la perte d'autonomie, améliorer la sécurité domestique,
gérer la consommation d'énergie et améliorer l'inclusion sociale et
l'e-inclusion des habitants. L'un des plus grands défis reste la
conception des habitats intelligents qui anticipent les besoins de leurs
habitants tout en préservant leur sécurité et leur confort. Un mode
d'interaction extrêmement intéressant dans ce cadre est l'interface
vocale. En effet, l'interaction par langage naturel permet, d'une part
une interaction sémantique de haut niveau de manière simple, rendant
inutile une configuration complexe via l'ordinateur et, d'autre part,
permet de compenser certains handicaps tels que la déficience visuelle
ou les difficultés à se déplacer. Par ailleurs, dans le cas de systèmes
évaluant la santé de la personne, l'information sonore peut permettre de
détecter un ensemble de symptômes annonciateurs d'une maladie de type
dégénérative (par exemple, trouble du langage, isolement).

Malgré tous ces avantages, l'interface orale dans les habitats
intelligents a rarement été déployée dans des environnements
réels. Notre expérience dans le cadre du projet Sweet-Home
(sweet-home.imag.fr), labellisé par le pôle de compétitivité national
MINALOGIC, nous a permis d'obtenir quelques avancées dans ce domaine et
de dresser un ensemble de défis à relever.  L'atelier "Interactions
langagières orales dans les habitats Intelligents pour personnes âgées :
défis et enjeux" doit permettre de réunir la communauté et de discuter
des travaux en cours, projets, idées...

THÈMES
L'atelier est ouvert à la présentation de travaux de recherche portant
sur l'un ou plusieurs des thèmes suivants :

- la reconnaissance de la parole en conditions distantes (rehaussement
  de la parole dans le bruit, séparation de sources, environnement
  multicapteur) ;

- la compréhension, la modélisation ou la reconnaissance de la voix âgée ;

- les applications de la parole pour le maintien à domicile
  (identification du locuteur, reconnaissance de mots-clés/ordres
  domotiques, synthèse, dialogue) ;

- la reconnaissance des signes avant coureur d'une perte de capacité
  langagière.

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des propositions d’articles de 6 à
10 pages présentant des travaux de recherche originaux relatifs aux
thèmes proposés.

CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION
Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du
domaine, seront considérés en particulier : l'adéquation aux thèmes de
l'atelier, l'importance et l'originalité de la contribution, la
correction du contenu scientifique et technique ainsi que l'organisation
et la clarté de la présentation.

MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION
Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français. Les formats précis
de soumission sont disponibles pour MS Word, LibreOffice et Latex sur le
site de jeptaln2012 (http://www.jeptaln2012.org/).

Les propositions de communications devront être envoyées exclusivement
sous forme électronique au format pdf à Michel.Vacher at imag.fr et à
Francois.Portet at imag.fr

COMITÉ DE PROGRAMME

Véronique Aubergé               GIPSA-lab, Grenoble
Melissa Barkat-Defradas         Praxiling, Montpellier
Corneliu Burileanu              Polytehnica, Bucarest
Jean Caelen                     LIG, Grenoble
Gérard Chollet                  Telecom Paris-Tech, Paris
Corinne Fredouille              LIA, Avignon
Laurent Girin                   GIPSA-lab, Grenoble
Dan Istrate                     ESIGETEL, Fontainebleau
Benjamin Lecouteux              LIG, Grenoble
Christophe Levy                 LIA, Avignon
François Portet                 LIG, Grenoble
Vincent Rialle                  AGIM, Grenoble
Solange Rossato                 LIG, Grenoble
Michel Vacher                   LIG, Grenoble
Nadine Vigouroux                IRIT, Toulouse
Pierre Zweigenbaum              LIMSI, Paris

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 09:07:18 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:07:18 +0200
Subject: Appel: Deadline extension,
 ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic
 Processing of Morphologically-Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL)
Message-ID: <WED.28.MAR.2012.110718.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:02:55 +0200
From: Djamé Seddah <djame.seddah at paris-sorbonne.fr>
Message-Id: <56012F19-3D36-4CE7-878E-8D2AF71CB0B8 at paris-sorbonne.fr>
X-url: http://sites.google.com/site/spsemmrl2012/


** Apologies for multiple postings **


===============================================================
3rd CALL FOR PAPERS
------------------------------------------
ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing
of Morphologically-Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL)
(http://sites.google.com/site/spsemmrl2012/)

Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGPARSE and the EU's PASCAL Network of Excellence
===============================================================



*** EXTENDED submission deadline: 15 Apr 2012 ***


NEW!
-----------------------------
We are pleased to announce financial support in workshop registration
fees to up to five students, through the generous sponsorship of PASCAL
Network of Excellence. Priority will be given to PASCAL students, but
all students are encouraged to apply. (Details to follow closer to
beginning of registration period).  Registration Date: TBD.


IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------
Submission deadline: Apr 15, 2012
Notification to authors: May 5, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: May 20, 2012
Workshop dates: TBD, during the ACL-2012 workshop period (Jul 12-14,
2012)


WORKSHOP SCOPE
-----------------------------
Morphologically Rich Languages (MRLs) are languages in which grammatical
relations such as Subject, Predicate, Object, etc., are indicated
morphologically (e.g. through inflection) instead of positionally (as
in, e.g. English), and the position of words and phrases in the sentence
may vary substantially. The tight connection between the morphology of
words and the grammatical relations between them, and the looser
connection between the position and grouping of words to their syntactic
roles, pose serious challenges for syntactic and semantic
processing. Furthermore, since grammatical relations provide the
interface to compositional semantics, morphosyntactic phenomena may
significantly complicate processing the syntax-semantics interface. In
statistical parsing, which has been a cornerstone of research in NLP and
had seen great advances due to the widespread availability of
syntactically annotated corpora, English parsing performance has reached
a high plateau in certain genres, which is however not always indicative
of parsing performance in MRLs, dependency-based and constituency-based
alike. Semantic processing of natural language has similarly seen much
progress in recent years.  However, as in parsing, the bulk of the work
has concentrated on English, and MRLs may present processing challenges
that the community is as of yet unaware of, and which current semantic
processing technologies may have difficulty coping with. These
challenges may lurk in areas where parses may be used as input, such as
semantic role labeling, distributional semantics, paraphrasing and
textual entailment, or where inadequate pre-processing of morphological
variation hurts parsing and semantic tasks alike.

This joint workshop aims to build upon the first and second SPMRL
workshops (at NAACL-HLT 2010 and IWPT 2011, respectively) while
extending the overall scope to include semantic processing where MRLs
pose challenges for algorithms or models initially designed to process
English. In particular, we seek to explore the use of newly available
syntactically and/or semantically annotated corpora, or data sets for
semantic evaluation that can contribute to our understanding of the
difficulty that such phenomena pose. One goal of this workshop is to
encourage cross-fertilization among researchers working on different
languages and among those working on different levels of processing.  Of
particular interest is work addressing the lexical sparseness and
out-of-vocabulary issues that occur in both syntactic and semantic
processing.

The workshop will be organised around three broad themes:

- Syntactic Models: Models and architectures that explicitly integrate
  morphological analysis and parsing; Cross-language and cross-model
  comparison of strengths and weaknesses regarding particular linguistic
  phenomena.

- Semantic Models: State-of-the-art semantic analysis and generation
  methods for MRLs, including semantic similarity and entailment
  criteria and their task-specific instantiation, and suitable
  representations for semantic tasks in MRLs.

- Joint Modeling Aspects: Improving lexical coverage and handling of
  out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words by utilising lexical knowledge or
  unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques; The role of parsing
  in semantic analysis for MRLs; Preprocessing issues that jointly
  affect parsing and semantic analysis; Syntax-Semantics interfaces for
  monolingual or multilingual systems.

The areas of interest for this joint workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following topics:

--Syntactic Parsing of MRLs

* parsing models and architectures that explicitly integrate
  orphological analysis and parsing

* parsing models and architectures that focus on lexical coverage and
  the handling of OOV words either by incorporating linguistic knowledge
  or through the use of unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques

* Cross-language and cross-model comparison of models' strengths and
  weaknesses in the face of particular linguistic phenomena (e.g.
  morphosyntactic characteristics, degree of word-order freedom)

* Comprehensive analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of various
  parsing models on particular linguistic (e.g. morphosyntactic)
  phenomena with respect to variation in tagsets, annotation schemes and
  additional data transformations


--Semantic Processing of MRLs

* Semantic distance and entailment criteria in the MRL space (e.g., with
  respect to inflection, derivation, root, pattern, lemma, tense, and/or
  aspect, etc.); possibly task-specific criteria

* Lexical resources and morphological analysis tools facilitating
  semantic distance measures and semantic relation detection

* Methods and models for semantic similarity/distance calculation,
  clustering and paraphrasing relying on MRL properties, and using:
  probability, vector/graph representation, data-driven and/or
  linguistic rules, pivoting/SMT, machine-learning, etc.

* Paraphrase and textual entailment detection or generation, specific to
  MRLs (e.g., task-specific issues of inclusion or exclusion of certain
  paraphrase and textual entailment patterns differing in inflection)

* Use of morphological analysis for semantic calculation aimed at
  reducing sparsity / OOV rate, preferably without losing information
  due to mere lemmatization

* Semantic role labeling (SRL) for MRLs; verbal/nominalized selectional
  preferences


--The Syntax-Semantics Interface:

* Parsing-based semantic processing tasks, e.g., semantic role labeling
  (SRL)

* Processing of compounds and multi-morphemic words: optimal level(s) of
  tokenization, representation, and morphological analysis for
  either/both tasks

* Syntax-aware semantic distance measures, paraphrasing and textual
  entailment

* Semantic classes and/or relations as input to syntactic parsing


In addition to the standard (oral or poster) presentations in the
sessions, the SP-Sem-MRL workshop will feature a panel of commentators
for a selection of the talks, allowing for an extended discussion
period. This new feature is introduced in order to foster in-depth
discussions and to nurture interactions among researchers. It is our
hope that these interactions will help to bring ideas (and solutions) to
the fore and promote a more rapid advance of the state-of-the-art in the
field.


Shared Task
------------------

There will be no shared task on MRLs this year. However, we will take
this opportunity to disclose, during a special session of SP-Sem-MRL,
the data sets and evaluation procedures for the cross-linguistic
cross-framework shared task which was discussed at previous SPMRL
panels, and which is planned for SPMRL 2013 at IWPT 2013. Researchers
who are interested in participating in the shared task or teams that
wish to add their data sets or extrinsic evaluation procedures to the
task are encouraged to attend the session and contribute to the
discussion.


SUBMISSION
-------------------

Authors are invited to submit long papers (up to 10 pages + any number
of reference pages) and short papers (up to 5 pages + any number of
reference page). Long papers should describe unpublished, substantial
and completed research. Short papers should be position papers, papers
describing work in progress or short, focused contributions.

Papers may be submitted until April 15, 2012 in PDF format via the START
system:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/sp-sem-mrl-2012/

Submitted papers must follow the styles and the formatting guidelines
available from the current ACL recommendations
(http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp). As the reviewing will be blind,
the papers must not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be
avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith,
1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be
rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your
submissions on the web until after the review process is complete.

DOUBLE-SUBMISSION POLICY:
PLEASE INDICATE IN YOUR SUBMISSION IF YOU SUBMITTED YOUR PAPER TO OTHER
VENUES, SUCH AS EMNLP. THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT THIS YEAR, DUE TO
THE PROXIMITY OF MULTIPLE DEADLINES .
Double submissions are permitted, but double publication is NOT. The
authors will have to notify the workshop chairs which venue they chose.
No withdrawal will be allowed after May 20.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
--------------------------------------

General chairs:
Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yuval Marton (IBM Watson Research Center, US)
Djamé Seddah (University of Paris 4, France)
Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Shared session chairs:
Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin, US)
Ines Rehbein (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Peter Turney (National Research Council, Canada)
Yannick Versley (University of Tuebingen, Germany)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------
Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Mohammed Attia (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Bernd Bohnet  (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France)
Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, US)
Ozlem Cetinoglu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jinho Choi (University of Colorado at Boulder, US)
Grzegorz Chrupala  (Saarland University, Germany)
Benoit Crabbé (University of Paris 7, France)
Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yoav Goldberg (Google Research NY, US)
Spence Green (Stanford University, US)
Veronique Hoste (University College Ghent, Belgium)
Samar Husain (Potsdam University, Germany)
Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, US)
Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Alberto Lavelli (FBK-irst, Italy)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Joseph Le Roux (Université Paris-Nord, France)
Nitin Madnani (Educational Testing Service, NJ)
Wolfgang Maier (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Aurélien Max (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Yusuke Miyao (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Sebastian Pado (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research, US)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies, US)
Idan Szpektor (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, US)
Benoit Sagot (INRIA Rocquencourt, France)
Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Tim Van de Cruys (University of Cambridge, UK)
Stephen Wan (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney)
Deniz Yuret (Koc University Istanbul, Turkey)
Zdenek Zabokrtsky (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Shiqi Zhao (Baidu Inc., China)


REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT
---------------
We are pleased to announce financial support in workshop registration
fees to up to five students, through the generous sponsorship of PASCAL
Network of Excellence. Priority will be given to PASCAL students, but
all students are encouraged to apply. (Details to follow closer to
beginning of registration period).  Registration Date: TBD.


CONTACT
---------------
e-mail: sp.sem.mrl2012 at gmail.com
website: https://sites.google.com/site/spsemmrl2012/


SPONSORS
-----------------
This workshop is endorsed by SIGLEX & SIGPARSE ; and
sponsored by the PASCAL Network of Excellence & the INRIA's Alpage
project.

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 09:11:48 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:11:48 +0200
Subject: Appel: SMS Communication - A Linguistic Approach (Special Issue
 of Lingvisticae Investigationes)
Message-ID: <WED.28.MAR.2012.111148.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:30:07 +0200
From: Cédrick Fairon <cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be>
Message-Id: <329A636F-DDA6-4DD4-98FC-DF2CA801B8BC at uclouvain.be>
X-url: http://www.uclouvain.be/409235.html

---------------CALL FOR PAPERS----------------
---------apologies for multiple postings----------

SMS Communication: A Linguistic Approach

(More info: http://www.uclouvain.be/409235.html)

We are soliciting unpublished papers in the field of SMS writing for a
Special Issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes (
http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/li/main).

Recently, communication properties have changed and evolved in many
ways. Communication today is faster (the email is certainly much faster
than ordinary ‘snail’ mail), and more practical (mobile phones compared
to landlines); it blurs certain limits (we can easily keep in touch with
friends who live on the other side of the world, thanks to networking
websites such as Facebook) and enables multilingual mixing in
discussions (chat or role-playing games using automatic
translators). However, certain linguists (Jalabert, 2006), and even the
media, often point an accusatory finger at new technologies, claiming
that communication is “deteriorating” as a result of these
innovations. They suggest that there is always a loss of information or
quality in translated speech, or even that computer mediated
communication (CMC, which includes SMS communication) is destroying
language. Others (Sapir, 1949) are firmly convinced that it is better to
consider language as an evolving and changing entity. From this point of
view, language is a social tool that has to be studied in-depth through
the prism of objectivity, as a process in motion which is influenced by
new social and technological stakes, rather than as a fading organism.

In order to rise beyond this debate, we propose to study and describe
the societal phenomenon of SMS writing in all its complexity, through a
resolutely interdisciplinary publication. We follow the impulse
initiated by "The inside text" (Harper and al., 2005), covering the
social and cultural aspects and applications linked to text messages. We
would like to encourage work into the study of specific social
sub-groups such as teenagers or deaf people (Power & Power, 2004). We
would also appreciate specialized works focusing on the linguistics of
SMS writing: spelling (Anis, 2003 & Panckhurst, 2008), lexicon (Cougnon,
2010 & 2011), syntax (Stark, 2011), discourse analysis (Tagg, in press),
etc. Studies that adopt an NLP approach (Beaufort and al., 2010, Yvon,
2010) or an empirical approach based on corpora (Fairon and al., 2006a,
Fairon and al., 2006b, Tagg, 2007, Dürscheid and Stark, 2011) will be
given special attention.

Topics

The special issue of Lingvisticae Investigationes aims to explore
innovative developments in the field of SMS writing. Papers in the
following fields are particularly welcome:

– Lexicon
– Syntax
– Phonetics
– Psycholinguistics
– Corpus linguistics
– Sociolinguistics
– Natural language processing
– Language learning 
– Statistics

Language of the special issue

English

Key dates

– Call for papers: March 2012
– Intent to Submit: before 22 May 2012
– Deadline for full paper submission: 31 July 2012 
– Notification of acceptance / rejection: 30 September 2012
– Final submission of accepted papers: 1 November 2012

Paper Format Guidelines

Your paper must conform to the following requirements to be considered:

– Body of paper no longer than 20 pages, including abstract, tables,
  figures and references
– Abstract no longer than 250 words on the first page
– Format guidelines applied from in the
  http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/li/guidelines
– Contrary to what is written in the LI guideline, as the submission is
  blind-reviewed, no identifiable author information and references
  should appear in the paper, but on a separate sheet with the
  following:

  - Author(s)
  - Title of Paper
  - Contact person's name
  - Email address

The scientific committee selects for publication the most significant
articles containing new results, ideas and approaches or articles using
original new data. All articles sent to editors are double-blind peer
reviewed. Manuscripts should be written in proper English. Authors
should pay attention to the style, grammar, and orthography of the
paper. Papers should be prepared strongly according to the pattern given
in the Guideline. Authors should pay special attention to precise
typographical and bibliographical details.

Editors

Louise-Amélie Cougnon, Centre de traitement automatique du langage,
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Email :
louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain.be

Cédrick Fairon, Centre de traitement automatique du langage, Université
catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Email : cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be

Intent to Submit

You must send an email to louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain using the
Subject Line "LI Intent to Submit " by May 22 2012 to indicate that you
intend to submit a paper for consideration. Your intent to submit does
not bind you to submit an actual paper. However, a note of withdrawal
would be appreciated. In your intent to submit email, please include the
author(s), tentative title, and brief description.

Submitting your paper

Via email: Submit your paper using the Subject Line "LI First Submission
SURNAME" as an attachment via email to louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain
by July 31, 2012. In your email, please include the following
attachments:

- Main anonymised paper
- Personal information cover sheet

Filenames should follow this pattern: “MainAuthorSurname_LI”

After receipt by our office, you will receive an email notification of
receipt within 3 working days. If you do not receive a notification of
receipt, please email us at louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain.

Scientific committee

Antoniadis Georges (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des langues étrangères et maternelles, Université Stendhal de Grenoble, France)
Bernicot Josie (Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, Université de Poitiers, France)
Cougnon Louise-Amélie (Centre de traitement automatique du Langage, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Cortelazzo Michele (Dipartimento di Studi linguistici e letterari, Università di Padova, Italy)
De Clercq Orphée (Language and translation technology team, Hogeschool Gent, Belgium)
de Marneffe Marie-Catherine (Stanford Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, United States) 
De Smedt Thierry (École de communication, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Dister Anne (Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis & Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Drouin Patrick (Oservatoire de Linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal, Canada) 
Fairon Cédrick (Centre de traitement automatique du Langage, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
François Thomas (Institue for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Kyriakopoulou Tita (School of French Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Klein Jean (CELEXROM, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Ledegen Gudrun (Département Communication, Université Rennes 2, France)
Marshman Elizabeth (School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa, Canada)
Meskill Carla (Department of Educational Theory and Practice, University at Albany, United States)
Panckurst Rachel (Praxiling UMR 5267 CNRS - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3, France)
Pekarek Doehler Simona (Institut des sciences du langage et de la communication, Université de Neuchâtel)
Renouf Antoinette (School of English, Birmingham City University, Great-Britain)
Roche Mathieu (Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique, Université Montpellier 2, France)
Stark Elisabeth (Romanisches Seminar, Universität Zürich, Switzerland)
Tagg Caroline (Centre for English Language Studies, University of Birmingham, Great-Britain)
Yvon François (Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur, Université Paris Sud, France)
 
References

Jacques  Anis (2003). "Communication électronique scripturale et formes
langagières".  In Actes des Quatrièmes Rencontres Réseaux Humains /
Réseaux Technologiques. Poitiers,  31 mai et 1er juin 2002, Documents,
Actes et Rapports pour l'Education, CNDP, pp. 57-70.
Richard Beaufort, Sophie Roekhaut, Louise-Amélie Cougnon and Cédrick
Fairon (2010). "A hybrid rule/model-based finite-state framework for
normalizing SMS messages". In Jan Hajic et al. (eds.): Proceedings of
the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-16 July 2010, pp. 770–779. 
Louise-Amélie Cougnon (2011). "'Tu te prends pour the king of the
world?'. Language contact in text messaging context". In Cornelius
Hasselblatt, Peter Houtzagers and Remco van Pareren (éds.). Language
Contact in Times of Globalization. Studies in Slavic and General
Linguistic. 38, Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, pp. 45-59.
Louise-Amélie Cougnon (2010). "La néologie dans 'l'écrit
spontané'. Etude d'un corpus de SMS en Belgique francophone". In Actes
du Congrès International de la néologie dans les langues
romanes. Barcelone. Sèrie Activitats, 22, pp. 1139-1154. 
Christa Dürscheid and Elisabeth Stark (2011). "SMS4science: An
international corpus-based texting project and the specific challenges
for multilingual Switzerland". In Crispin Thurlow and Kristine Mroczek
(éds.). Digital Discourse. Language in The New Media. Oxford, Oxford
University Press, pp. 299-320.
Cédrick Fairon, Jean René Klein et Sébastien Paumier (2006a). Le langage
SMS. Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, Cahiers du
Cental, 3.1.
Cédrick Fairon, Jean René Klein et Sébastien Paumier (2006b). Le Corpus
SMS pour la science. Base de données de 30.000 SMS et logiciels de
consultation. CD-Rom, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de
Louvain, Cahiers du Cental, 3.2. 
Richard Harper, Leysia Ann Palen and Alex Taylor (eds.) (2005). The
inside text: Social, cultural and design perspectives on SMS. Springer.
Romain Jalabert (2006). "MoliR, revi1 vit... il son 2vnu foo ! (
Molière, reviens vite ... ils sont devenus fous !) ". In Cahiers
pédagogiques, N° 440. [Online]
http://www.cahiers-pedagogiques.com/MoliR-revi1-vit-il-son-2vnu-foo.html
(March 4th 2012).
Rachel Panckhurst (2008). "Short Message Service (SMS) : typologie et
problématiques future". In Arnavielle T. (ed.), Polyphonies,
Montpellier, Éditions LU.
Mary Power and Des Power (2004). "Everyone here speaks txt : Deaf people
using sms in Australia and the rest of the world". In Journal of deaf
studies and deaf education, 9(3), pp. 333–343.
Edward Sapir (1949). Selected Writings in Language, Culture and
Personality. Berkeley, University of California Press.
Elisabeth Stark (2011). "La morphosyntaxe dans les SMS suisse
francophones : Le marquage de l'accord sujet-verbe conjugué". In Adrian
Stähli, Christa Dürscheid and Marie-José Béguelin
(eds.). SMS-Kommunikation in der Schweiz: Sprach- und Varietätengebrauch
/ … (= Linguistik online 48, 4/2011), pp. 35–48.
Caroline Tagg (in press) The Discourse of Text Messaging. London,
Continuum.
Caroline Tagg (2007). "Corpus-based analysis of SMS text messaging".  In
Teo, P. and Ho, C. (eds). Discourse in the Modern World: Perspectives
and Challenges, Singapore, McGraw Hill, pp. 267-284.
François Yvon (2010). "Rewriting the orthography of SMS messages". In
Natural Language Engineering, 16(2), pp. 133-159. 


Prof. Cédrick Fairon
cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be

Directeur du CENTAL
Centre de traitement automatique du langage
CENTAL L3.03.12
Université catholique de Louvain
Place Blaise Pascal, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgique
tel: +32 10 47 37 88
fax: +32 10 47 26 06

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:14:28 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: Traitement Automatique des Langues et
 Multilinguisme
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:45:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Nicolas HERNANDEZ" <Nicolas.Hernandez at univ-nantes.fr>
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Sujet de thèse en Traitement Automatique des Langues et Multilinguisme

L'équipe du Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN) du
Laboratoire Informatique de Nantes Atlantique (LINA UMR CNRS 6241) à
l'Université de Nantes propose un sujet de thèse en Informatique dans
les domaines du Traitement Automatique des Langues et du Multilinguisme.

*Titre:*
Analyse des structures discursives des textes et alignement de
terminologies multilingues en corpus comparables ; pour une modélisation
discursive de la notion de contexte.

*Résumé : *
La traduction automatique est l'une des activités de recherche les plus
ambitieuses de notre temps. Ce travail de thèse propose de s'attaquer à
l'un de ses enjeux, à savoir l'"alignement de terminologies
multilingues" en corpus comparables, et ce en explorant de nouvelles
méthodes de mise en correspondance des termes, à savoir à l'aide
d'"analyses des structures discursives des textes". L'approche état de
l'art consiste à établir une mise en correspondance des termes en
mesurant la similarité de leurs contextes d'apparition à l'aide de
dictionnaires bilingues préexistants. Les problèmes fondamentaux de
cette approche sont qu'elle repose sur une modélisation très pauvre du
contexte d'apparition d'un terme (un sac de mots apparaissant autour des
termes analysés) et qu'elle présuppose l'existence de ressources
lexicales bilingues pour être réalisée.  Ce travail a pour objectif
d'expérimenter des contextes de termes définis sur la base de résultats
d'analyses du discours ainsi que réfléchir à la définition d'une notion
de contexte discursif plus en adéquation avec la tâche.  Ce sujet émerge
dans la continuité du projet européen TTC et du projet ANR MeTRICC dont
l'équipe TALN assure les coordinations.

*Mots clefs :*
Traduction, Alignement de terminologies multilingues, Analyse et
modélisation des structures du discours, Corpus comparables

*Profil et compétences recherchés: *
M2 Recherche informatique ou école d'ingénieurs
Bon niveau en anglais
Bonnes notions en apprentissage automatique
Bonnes connaissances en programmation Java/Python
Affinités avec le logiciel libre et le développement collaboratif

*Procédure de candidature* :
La date butoir de réception des candidatures est le 20 Avril 2012 mais
la position restera ouverte jusqu'à ce qu'elle soit attribuée.
La thèse démarrera en Octobre 2012 et sera financée par une allocation
ministérielle.
Les candidats intéressés sont invités à prendre contact le plus tôt
possible et à envoyer les informations suivantes : une lettre de
motivation incluant votre positionnement par rapport aux compétences
attendues, un CV, un relevé de notes avec classement au Master (au moins
pour la période écoulée), un lien vers un site web présentant le
programme de votre master et des lettres de recommandations de vos
encadrants scientifiques.
Cette thèse pourra être précédée d'un stage de master recherche financé
sur le même thème. Prendre contact.

*Contact : *
Nicolas Hernandez et Emmanuel Morin (prenom.nom à univ-nantes.fr)

*Plus d'information sur le sujet de thèse :*
Suivre le lien http://e.nicolas.hernandez.free.fr/pub/rec/12

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:15:17 +0200
Subject: Appel: Bourses ATALA pour etudiants a TALN/RECITAL 2012
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:19:09 +0200
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Bourses ATALA pour étudiants

L'ATALA offre des bourses aux étudiants qui voudraient participer aux
conférences TALN et RECITAL 2012 et qui éprouveraient des difficultés
financières pour financer leur venue. Ces bourses couvriront
l'inscription aux conférences et aux activités associées. Elles seront
accordées après examen des demandes.

Les personnes intéressées doivent envoyer à TALN2012 un document d'une
page, signé par le directeur de recherche, contenant un bref CV ainsi
qu'une explication des problèmes financiers rencontrés.

La date limite pour soumettre une candidature est le 5 mai 2012.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:58:51 +0200
Subject: Job: Stage chez SYSTRAN, Traduction automatique anglais-russe
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:34:58 +0200
From: "BUSCHBECK Bianka" <buschbeck at systran.fr>
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Company:        SYSTRAN
Department:     Linguistic Resources 
Location:       Paris 75002, France
Website:        www.systran.fr 

 

Internship description:

SYSTRAN has currently an opening for an internship of 4-6 months that
aims at the development and evaluation of linguistic resources for
English to Russian Machine Translation

The internship project would include the following tasks:

..  Integration and validation of dictionary entries

..  Creation of domain dictionaries using Bilingual Terminology
    Extraction on parallel domain corpora

..  Identification of invalid or wrong translations using corpus-based
    methods

..  Work on attributive translations of nouns

..  Validation and enrichment of resources used for morphological
    analysis

Required skills: 

..  Native competence of Russian and fluency in English

..  Good working knowledge of computational lexicography and NLP methods
    in general

..  Strong skills in Russian and English morphology and syntax

..  Working knowledge of Perl and scripting languages is a plus

..  Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team

 
Please send your application and cover letter to Bianka Buschbeck:
buschbeck at systran.fr

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:03:08 +0200
Subject: Appel: VORTE 2012
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:51:11 -0400
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Apologies for cross-posting and multiple posts.

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS  ( Deadline April 15th 2012)

The 7th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for
the Enterprise (VORTE 2012)

Co-located with the 16th IEEE International EDOC Conference, Beijing,
China, 10th-11th September, 2012

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The VORTE series of workshops is devoted to the topics of vocabularies,
ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. The
complexity of enterprise systems, the increasing needs for advanced
collaboration between various systems within one institution or among
many collaborating parties and the velocity of organizational, policy,
structural and market changes strongly call for immediate mobilization
of the research community to develop more flexible and reliable
technologies for the advancement of enterprise systems.

Trying to respond to this urgent research need, the VORTE series of
workshops has been established in order to bring together researchers
and practitioners that are looking into the topics of ontologies and
rules in enterprise system development from different yet complementary
perspectives. The major objective is to provide a research forum for
exchanging ideas and results covering the use of ontologies and rules in
various stages of the lifecycle of enterprise systems.

Examples of topics covered by VORTE research contributions include the
development and adaptation of foundational, business and domain
ontologies for the enterprise, the use of ontologies and rules in all
aspects of enterprise modelling such as business process management and
services, the enhancement of rules and services with formal semantics,
and the evaluation of such systems and approaches. The workshop is also
a forum for the discussion of ontology-based knowledge management
issues, interoperability issues and ontology engineering issues, and
covers various application domains relevant for organizations (such as
e-government and e-commerce).  The workshop also welcomes contributions
on open linked data initiatives for the enterprise and empirical studies
on the use of ontologies and rules in the enterprise system development
lifecycle.

TOPICS

Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise:

- Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities,
  design, processes;

- Ontologies for the know-how;

- Ontologies for corporate knowledge;

- Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise;

Knowledge management:

- Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and
  integration;

- Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations;

- Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance within organizations;

- Ontology integration and alignment within organizations;

- Ontology effectiveness and evaluation in organizations;

Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling:

- Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling

- Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration;

- Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments

- Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling

- Ontologies and Business Process Modeling

- Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling

- Ontologies and Business Rules

Enterprise Semantic Interoperability:

- Web services, Semantic services

- Composition and Modularity

- Merging, Mapping and Alignment

- Ontology Language Interoperability

- Open linked data publishing and exploitation

Problems and case studies in ontology application:

- Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises

- Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business

- From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

We solicit two types of papers:

- Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or
  describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet
  fully developed; and

- Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results

All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer
Society conference proceedings (
http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the
author's name, affiliation, and contact details.

Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012

All papers must not have been previously published or submitted
elsewhere.

The papers accepted for the EDOC 2012 Workshops will be published after
the workshop with an ISBN in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least
one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main
conference (there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2012)
and present their papers at the workshop.

*Post-conference Journal Publication *

For previous editions of the workshop, special issues have been
published in journals such as Applied Ontology (2007), IJBPIM (2007),
Elsevier's Information Systems (2008, 2010), and Journal of Research
Practice in Information Technology (2009).

This year, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended
versions for consideration for a special issue of the Applied Ontology
Journal http://www.iospress.nl/journal/applied-ontology/.

KEYNOTE

TBA

IMPORTANT DATES

*Workshop paper submissions: April 15, 2012*

Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 28, 2012

Camera-ready papers due: June 15, 2012

Workshop: September 10 or 11, 2012



COMMITTEES



Workshop Chairs:

João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil,
jpalmeida at ieee.org

Roberta Ferrario, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology,
Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy,
roberta.ferrario at cnr.it

Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Athabasca University,
Queen’s University, Canada, amal.zouaq at rmc.ca


Steering Committee:

Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada

Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES),
Vitória, Brazil

Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of
Technology at Cottbus, Germany

Program Committee:

Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany

Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany

Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada

Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies,
CNR, Trento, Italy

Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA

Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia

Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva, BiZZDesign, The Netherlands

Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand

Sergio Espana, Polytechnic University of Valencia

Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil

Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany

Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia

Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil

Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany

Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany

Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland

Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway

Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany

Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany

Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France

Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway

Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany

Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia

Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia

Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands

LINKS

VORTE2012 web site: http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/vorte2012

EDOC2012 web site: http://edocconference.org

EasyChair submissions:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012

Formatting guidelines:
http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:05:33 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: architecture textuelle et du discours, IRIT,
 Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
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date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:12:34 +0200
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Titre : Formalisation de l'architecture textuelle et du discours pour la
conception d’ontologies à partir de textes

Directrice de thèse : Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles Tel : 0561558293
aussenac at irit.fr
Encadrement : Mouna Kamel  Tel : 0561558338 kamel at irit.fr

Ecole Doctorale : Mathématique Informatique Télécommunications de
Toulouse
Etablissement d’inscription : Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse – 118
Route de Narbonne – 31062  Toulouse cedex 9
Unité d'accueil : Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse –
http://www.irit.fr/
Equipe : MELODI (MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et
du Discours)
Domaine scientifique : Informatique
Mots clé : ontologie, architecture textuelle, théorie du discours,
analyse sémantique du langage, TAL
Financement : bourse ministère

Les ontologies sont des structures de représentation des connaissances
basées sur un fondement logique, qui mettent en avant les concepts d'un
domaine, les relations entre ces concepts (relations sémantiques), ainsi
que les axiomes et contraintes impliquant ces concepts et
relations. Elles contribuent grandement au développement du Web
sémantique et sont particulièrement présentes dans les domaines tels que
l’extraction d’information, l’indexation de documents, l’explicitation
d’une recherche d’information, le résumé automatique, etc.

La construction d'ontologie à partir de textes s'appuie jusqu'ici sur
des analyses statistiques et/ou des analyses linguistiques
essentiellement focalisées sur les niveaux lexicaux et
syntaxiques. Partant du constat que la mise en forme matérielle d’un
texte contribue à lui donner du sens, l’idée est d’exploiter les objets
textuels (segments de texte rendus perceptibles à la surface du texte
par leur mise en forme matérielle) porteurs de relations hiérarchiques
entre leurs différents constituants (constituants qui ne sont pas
forcément contigus dans le texte). L’objectif est donc d’élargir les
méthodes de construction d’ontologie à partir de textes en analysant les
structures discursives bénéficiant de mises en forme régulières.

La thèse a donc pour but, dans un premier temps, de formaliser certaines
structures discursives spécifiques selon une théorie du discours et un
modèle d’architecture textuelle. Il s’agira ensuite de caractériser un
ensemble d’indices syntaxico-sémantiques qui permettront tout d’abord
d’identifier automatiquement ces structures discursives, puis d’extraire
automatiquement de ces structures les connaissances ontologiques
qu’elles contiennent. Une des difficultés majeures de ce travail
consistera à identifier d’une part les concepts présents non seulement
dans les différents segments composant la structure mais aussi dans les
segments appartenant au « contexte » de la structure, et d’autre part la
nature (ontologique ou lexicale) de la ou les relations portées par la
structure. Une étude entre une approche symbolique et une approche par
apprentissage doit être envisagée. Enfin, ce travail devra permettre
d’affiner les méthodes de construction d’ontologie (DAFOE et Terminae) à
la définition desquelles contribue l’équipe MELODI.

Candidature : Les candidats intéressés devront être parmi les premiers
aux épreuves écrites de leur formation pour être sélectionnés par
l’école doctorale. Ils sont invités à envoyer une lettre de motivation,
un CV, un relevé de notes avec classement au Master le plus tôt
possible, avant le 27 avril 2012. Une seconde sélection sera ensuite
faite par l’école doctorale sur la base d’une audition début juin 2012.

pour plus d'informations : http://www.edmitt.ups-tlse.fr/

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:10:43 +0200
Subject: Job: Poste de chercheur avance (Maitre-assistant) Geneve -
 localisation et outils d'aide a la traduction
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:55:35 +0200
From: Aurelie Picton <aurelie.picton at unige.ch>
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Ouverture d'un poste de chercheur avancé (Maître-assistant)
Faculté de Traduction et d'Interprétation
Département de Traitement Informatique Multilingue (TIM)

TIM recrute un chercheur avancé dans les domaines de la localisation et
des outils d'aide à la traduction.

Qualification :

 Le candidat doit être titulaire d'une thèse dans le domaine du
traitement des langues, avec une spécialisation en localisation et/ou
dans les outils d'aide à la traduction.
 Il doit avoir travaillé au moins un an dans l'un dans ces domaines
(post-doc), avoir publié et attester d'un réseau international. Une
connaissance approfondie des mémoires de traduction est un atout.

Tâches :
 - Enseignement de la localisation et des mémoires de traduction, aux
   niveaux BA et MA (4 heures/semestre)
 - Recherches dans ces domaines
 - Participation aux projets du Département
   (http://www.issco.unige.ch/en/research/projects/)

Durée :
 3 ans (avec un renouvellement possible), à partir du premier septembre 2012

Langue :
 français et anglais. L'enseignement des cours de MA peut éventuellement
 se faire en anglais.

Salaire :
 Classe 17/0 à 17/22 (CHF 92'832.- à CHF 125'526 brut par an), selon
 barème dès janvier 2012.
 Le maximum est atteint en 22 étapes, sous réserve d'un blocage
 temporaire de la progression par décision du Conseil d'Etat. Les
 traitements sont indexés semestriellement, sauf décision contraire du
 Conseil d'Etat.

Déclaration de candidature avant le 31 mai 2012
 Personne à contacter :
 Pierrette Bouillon
 E-mail: Pierrette.Bouillon at unige.ch
 Tél : +41/22/379 86 79
 Université of Genève
 TIM
 40, bvd du Pont-d'Arve
 CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:13:59 +0200
Subject: Appel: EKAW 2012 PhD Symposium, Oct. 12th, Galway (Ireland)
Message-ID: <FRI.30.MAR.2012.221359.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:10:59 +0200
From: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles <aussenac at irit.fr>
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*EKAW 2012 PhD Symposium*

*October 12th 2012, Galway (Ireland)*

**

http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org/node/53

**

*CALL for papers*

The Symposium is open to all PhD students. Its aim is to provide PhD
students with an opportunity to have their work -- even in its early
stages -- presented to an international audience. Moreover, their work
will be reviewed by experienced researchers one of which will play the
role of a privileged advisor (a mentor).

PhD students at the beginning of their work should have at least a
defined problem statement and some ideas about the solution that they
want to discuss. More advanced students will have to present their
research plan, their evaluation protocol and their preliminary results.

*Important Dates:*

.***Paper Submission: April 25th, 2012*

.Notification: June 12th, 2012

.Camera-Ready paper: July 6th , 2012


**

*Paper outline*

Submissions should be structured around the following items which are
the key methodological components required for a sound research
narrative:

.Problem: describe the core problem of the PhD and motivate its
relevance for the knowledge management, knowledge acquisition and
knowledge representation areas.

.State of the art: describe relevant related work and point out areas
that need to be improved;

.Proposed Approach: present the approach taken and motivate how this is
novel with respect to existing work;

.Methodology: sketch the methodology that is (or will be) adopted

.Evaluation protocol: the approach to be taken for evaluating the
results of the work;

.Results: describe the current status of the work and any results that
have been reached so far;

.Conclusions and future work: conclude and specify the major items of
future work.

Submissions should be formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS
guidelines
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0. They
should be between 5 and 7 pages long. Accepted papers will be published
online as a CEUR http://ceur-ws.org doctoral symposium proceedings
volume.

The symposium is intended for students doing their PhD in the same area
as the EKAW 2012 conference (knowledge management, knowledge acquisition
and knowledge representation) and in particular the following topics:

 1. Knowledge Management
      * Methodologies and tools for knowledge management
      * Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration
      * Best practices and lessons learned from case studies
      * Provenance and trust in knowledge management
      * Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management
        technologies
      * Corporate memories for knowledge management
      * Evolution, maintenance and preservation of knowledge
      * Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management
      * Incentives for human knowledge acquisition (e.g. games with a
        purpose)

 2. Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition
      * Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering
      * Ontology design patterns
      * Ontology localization
      * Ontology alignment
      * Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation
      * Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri,
        folksonomies etc.)
      * Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology learning
      * Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data
      * Ontology evaluation and metrics
      * Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation
      * Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge

 3. Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation
      * Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science
      * Synergies between humans and machines
      * Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks
      * Knowledge ecosystems
      * Expert finding, e.g., by social network analysis
      * Trust and privacy in knowledge representation
      * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and
        acquisition
      * Crowdsourcing in knowledge management


*Symposium chairs*

Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse, France) aussenac at irit.fr

Nathalie Hernandez (IRIT, Université de Toulouse, France) hernande at irit.fr

*Program Committee Members
*

  * Lora Aroyo
  * Eva Blomqvist
  * Stefano Bortoli
  * Christopher Brewster
  * Jean Charlet
  * Vinay Chaudhri
  * Paolo Ciancarini
  * Paul Compton
  * Olivier Corby
  * Oscar Corcho
  * Stefan Decker
  * Dieter Fensel
  * Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis
  * Aldo Gangemi
  * Serge Garlatti
  * Dragan Gasevic
  * Ollivier Haemmerlé
  * Gilles Kassel
  * Diana Maynard
  * Enrico Motta
  * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
  * H. Sofia Pinto
  * Valentina Presutti
  * Yannick Prié
  * Chantal Reynaud
  * Marco Rospocher
  * Sebastian Rudolph
  * Stefan Schlobach
  * Guus Schreiber
  * Elena Simperl
  * Steffen Staab
  * Robert Stevens
  * Heiner Stuckenschmidt
  * Mari Carmen Suárez Figueroa
  * Vojtech Svatek
  * Robert Tolksdorf
  * Francky Trichet
  * Giovanni Tummarello
  * Iraklis Varlamis
  * Fouad Zablith

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:16:02 +0200
Subject: Info: MEDAR Grants for students from Arabic countries for LREC
 2012
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:18:07 +0200
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[Apologies for cross-postings]

The MEDAR Consortium, involved in MEDAR and NEMLAR Projects on
“Mediterranean Arabic Language and Speech Technology”, completed with
the support by the European Commission, is awarding grants for students
from Arabic countries to attend the 8th edition of the International
conference LREC taking place in Istanbul on May 21 to 27, 2012. Each
grant will cover the registration fees and support part of the travel
and accommodation expenses.

At the time of the application, applicants must be enrolled as Master’s
or Ph.D students at a University in an Arabic country.

To apply for a grant, send a message to medar-grants at elda.org no later
then April 23rd, 2012. The applications will be handled on a first-come,
first-served basis and notifications will be sent accordingly.

MEDAR: http://www.medar.info/index.php
LREC 2012: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:18:17 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: apprentissage d'ontologies,
 apports de methodes de l'ontologie formelle
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date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:44:12 +0200
from: "Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles" <Nathalie.Aussenac-Gilles at irit.fr>
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Sujet de thèse :
Apprentissage d’ontologies : apports de méthodes d'ontologie formelle
pour améliorer l'acquisition de connaissances à partir de textes

http://www.adum.fr/as/ed/voirproposition.pl?langue=&site=edmitt&matricule_prop=3439

Ecole Doctorale : EDMITT - Ecole Doctorale Mathématiques, Informatique
et Télécommunications de Toulouse
Spécialité : INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE
Co-directrices : Mme Laure VIEU - vieu at irit.fr et Mme Nathalie
AUSSENAC-GILLES - aussenac at irit.fr

Unité de recherche : IRIT - Institut de Recherche en Informatique de
Toulouse UMR 5505 – http://www.irit.fr/
Contexte : équipe MELODI, http://www.irit.fr/-Equipe-MELODI-
Financement : bourse ministère
Mots clés : Ontologies, ontologie formelle, extraction de connaissances,
traitement automatique du langage naturel, vérification de la cohérence

Résumé :
Au sein des méthodes de construction d'ontologie à partir de textes, les
outils linguistiques (comme les patrons lexico-syntaxiques) fournissent
des fragments de connaissances dont l'ontologue doit réaliser
l'intégration et vérifier la cohérence. Les principes de l'ontologie
formelle, comme la méthodologie ONTOCLEAN, constituent les bases
théoriques pour accomplir ces tâches. Or ils s'avèrent assez difficiles
à manipuler dans la pratique, et sont rarement directement appliqués par
un constructeur d'ontologie. De plus, de manière générale, les éléments
méthodologiques restent sous la forme de recommandations rédigées : ils
sont rarement implémentés de manière à suggérer comment et quand
utiliser les différentes fonctionnalités des plates-formes de
modélisation.

L'objectif de cette thèse est de rendre opératoires ces principes au
sein du processus de construction d'ontologies à partir de textes, et de
les intégrer dans les fonctionnalités des outils d’aide associés à une
plate-forme de modélisation comme DAFOE. Au delà de la construction
d'ontologie, on s'attachera également à étudier comment exploiter les
principes d'ontologie formelle pour détecter des incohérences dans les
textes annotés par cette ontologie. Quatre objectifs seront donc
envisagés successivement :

- faciliter l'extraction de relations sémantiques à partir de textes en
  améliorant la qualité des relations extraites et des patrons pour les
  trouver

- guider, selon les principes de l’ontologie formelle l’enrichissement
  de l’ontologie à construire à partir des relations extraites et
  garantir la cohérence de cette ontologie

- intégrer ces fonctionnalités dans une plate-forme d’aide à la
  modélisation d’ontologie à partir de texte et la rendre plus active
  pour guider la mise en œuvre d’une méthode

- exploiter les principes d’ontologie formelle pour détecter des
  incohérences dans des textes à partir de l’analyse de leur annotation
  sémantique.


Candidature : Les candidats intéressés devront être parmi les premiers
aux épreuves écrites de leur formation pour être sélectionnés par
l’école doctorale. Ils sont invités à envoyer une lettre de motivation,
un CV, un relevé de notes avec classement au Master le plus tôt
possible, avant le 27 avril 2012. Une seconde sélection sera ensuite
faite par l’école doctorale sur la base d’une audition début juin 2012.


Pour plus d'informations : http://www.edmitt.ups-tlse.fr/

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:19:54 +0200
Subject: Appel: MICAI-2012, Artificial Intelligence, Springer LNAI,
 Mexico, Oct-Nov 2012
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:02:56 -0600
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MICAI-2012

  11th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  October 27 - November 4, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
  Publication: Springer LNAI
  www.micai.org/2012
  Submission: June 1: abstract, June 15: PDF (see webpage)

== GENERAL INFORMATION

Topics: all areas of Artificial Intelligence, research or applications.
Keynote: 5 keynote speakers anticipated; more info to be announced.
Workshops, tutorials. Travel grants for students. Best papers awards.

== PROCEEDINGS

Springer LNAI; special issues of journals (anticipated). 
Poster session: IEEE CPS (anticipated). 

== VENUE AND TOURS

San Luis Potosi is a major tourist attraction of Mexico.
Tours to unique attractions are planned.

PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students.
We apologize if you receive multiple copies.  

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:21:59 +0200
Subject: Appel: ARCOE-12
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:50:44 +0200
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=== CALL FOR PAPERS ===

Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning with Contextualized Knowledge,
4th International Workshop (ARCOE-12)

http://www.arcoe.org/2012

held in collocation with

20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-12)
Montpellier, France

-- Important Dates --

Submission deadline: 28 May 2012
Notification: 28 June 2012
Camera ready: 15 July 2012  
Early registration: [TBA]
Late registration: [TBA]
Workshop dates: 27-28 August 2012

-- Description of the workshop --

Dealing with context is one of the most interesting and most important
problems faced in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Traditional AI
applications often require to model, store, retrieve and reason about
knowledge that holds within certain circumstances - the context. Without
considering this contextual information, reasoning can easily run to
problems such as: inconsistency, when considering knowledge in the wrong
context; inefficiency, by considering knowledge irrelevant for a certain
context; incompleteness, since an inference may depend on knowledge
assumed in the context and not explicitly stated. Contextual information
is also relevant in many tasks in knowledge representation and reasoning
such as common-sense reasoning, dealing with inconsistency, ambiguity,
and uncertainty, evolution, etc.

In recent years, research in contextual knowledge representation and
reasoning became more relevant in the areas of Semantic Web, Linked Open
Data, and Ambient Intelligence, where knowledge is not considered a
monolithic and static asset, but it is distributed in a network of
interconnected heterogeneous and evolving knowledge resources. The ARCOE
workshop aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers interested in
these topics to discuss recent developments, important open issues, and
future directions.

-- Topics --

ARCOE-12 welcomes submissions on the topics below as well as on their
intersection and other topics related to acquisition, representation,
reasoning with context and its applications.

Philosophical and theoretical foundations of context:

  1. What is context and how should it be represented.
  2. Relevant types of contextual information and their properties.
  3. Combining contextual information with object information for
     reasoning.
  4. Context and common-sense reasoning.
  5. Exploiting context in inconsistency and uncertainty handling,
     defeasible reasoning and argumentation.
  6. Contextual logic programming.
  7. Updating contextual knowledge and context-aware belief revision.
  8. Frameworks for formalizing context and context-aware knowledge
     representation.

Context modeling and contextual knowledge engineering:

  1. Modeling of user's/agent's context.
  2. Context driven organization of knowledge and modeling.
  3. Ontologies for context modeling.
  4. Context-aware modeling tools and methodology.
  5. Comparisons to context-unaware modeling techniques.

Effective reasoning with context:

  1. Effective context-aware reasoning algorithms.
  2. Distributed reasoning with context.
  3. Context-driven heuristics in classical reasoning systems.
  4. Reasoning under uncertainty and inconsitency.
  5. Defeasible reasoning.
  4. Hybrid formalisms for reasoning with context, including
     sub-symbolic contexts

Applications of context in areas such as:

  1. Agent communication and coordination.
  2. Semantic Web and Linked Open Data.
  3. Knowledge modularization.
  4. Ontology matching.
  5. Ontology fault diagnosis and repair.
  6. Ontology evolution and versioning.
  7. Information integration.
  8. Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing.
  9. Exploiting context in Web 2.0 applications, e-commerce, and
     e-learning.

-- Submission Requirements  --

Papers of two types can be submitted. Regular papers are intended for
research reports and surveys. ARCOE also welcomes reports on significant
work in progress which has already achieved some interesting partial
results, as well as papers recently submitted or published elsewhere as
long as their topic is in line with the workshop. Regular papers should
not exceed 12 pages in length including references. Position papers are
intended for presentation of interesting new open issues and challenges,
and opinions on the status of the field. Position papers are limited to
6 pages including references. All papers must be formatted using the
Springer LNCS style:

http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html

and submitted in PDF format via EasyChair using:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe12

The distinction during the selection-phase will be based on

1) Relevance, significance and quality of the submission;

2) The contribution's potential to foster cross-pollination and
discussions on ARCOE main themes during the event.

Accepted papers will be presented either as oral presentations or as
posters, depending on the choice of the program committee.  However, all
accepted papers will be included in the Working Notes in their full form
and will be accessible via the Internet.

-- Workshop Co-Chairs --

* Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology
* Martin Homola (primary contact), Comenius University, Bratislava
* Alessandra Mileo, DERI, National University of Ireland
* Ivan Jose Varzinczak, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research,
  South Africa

-- Steering Committee --

* Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh
* Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology
* Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento

-- Resources --

ARCOE-12 website: http://www.arcoe.org/2012/
EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe12
ARCOE workshop series: http://www.arcoe.org/
ECAI-12 website: http://www2.lirmm.fr/ecai2012/
Enquiries about the ARCOE workshop: arcoe [at] arcoe [dot] org

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:23:57 +0200
Subject: Appel: Demonstrations (Pendant JEP-TALN-RECITAL), Dernier appel,
 4 au 8 juin, Grenoble
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:22:40 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9_Blanchon?= <Herve.Blanchon at imag.fr>
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DERNIER APPEL À DÉMONSTRATION  (DATE LIMITE LE 7AVRIL)

JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012 (Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012)

CALENDRIER pour la soumission de propositions de démonstrations :

 - Date limite de soumission : 7 avril 2012
 - Notification aux auteurs : 15 avril 2012
 - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 20 avril 2012

PRÉSENTATION

Organisée par l'équipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de
Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des
langues étrangères et maternelles) et le département DPC du Gipsa-lab,
la conférence TALN'2012 se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2012 à Grenoble à
l'occasion de la conférence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012.

JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29ème édition des Journées d'Étude sur
la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19ème édition de la conférence sur le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14ème
édition des Rencontres des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012).

Pour la quatrième fois, après Nancy en 2002, Fès en 2004, et Avignon en
2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parlée) et
l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues)
organisent conjointement leur principale conférence afin de réunir en un
seul lieu les deux communautés du traitement de la langue orale et
écrite.

La conférence TALN'2012 comprendra des communications orales et
affichées, des conférences invitées et des ateliers.

La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. Les
communications en anglais sont acceptées pour les participants
non-francophones.

ORGANISATION

Les organisateurs de ces conférences ont le plaisir d'inviter les
participants à présenter des démonstrations de logiciels et/ou de
prototypes qui s'appuient sur des méthodes de Traitement Automatique du
Langage Naturel pour le texte ou la parole.
Dans ce cadre, les professionnels de l'industrie peuvent faire acte de
candidature pour présenter leur logiciel au cours du session
dédiée. L'objet de cette dernière est d'offrir un cadre d'interaction
entre les milieux industriel et académique.

La session DEMONSTRATIONS ET INDUSTRIELLE, accueillera des présentations
sous les formes suivantes (selon les besoins et disponibilités) :

- stand d'exposant ;
- affiche de présentation ;
- démonstration de produits logiciels ;
- présentation orale.


MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION 

Pour participer, les candidats devront envoyer
– un résumé (2 page au format de la conférence) 
aux adresses : Herve.Blanchon at imag.fr et Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr 
le 30 mars 2011 au plus tard 
avec un titre commençant par [JEP-TALN DEMO]

Les participants seront choisis par le comité d'organisation,
indépendament du processus de sélection scientifique habituel. Les
critères de sélection s'appuieront sur la pertinence des outils au
regard des thématiques affichées par les conférences TALN, RECITAL et
JEP.

Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français.

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word seront disponibles sur le
site web (à venir) de la conférence.

Contact : herve.blanchon at imag.fr et laurent.besacier at imag.fr

Amitiés, Hervé.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:25:32 +0200
Subject: Appel: LACL 2012, Call for demonstrations
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:27:40 +0200
From: Denis Bechet <Denis.Bechet at univ-nantes.fr>
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LACL 2012 : Call for System Demonstrations

Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
July 2-4, 2012
LINA, Nantes, France

http://lacl2012.sciencesconf.org/
http://lacl.gforge.inria.fr/lacl-2012

LACL'2012 is the 7th edition of the series of International Conferences
on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics.

It will take place in Nantes, France on July 2-4, 2012.  This conference
addresses the use of type theoretic, proof theoretic, model theoretic
and other logically based formal methods for describing natural language
syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as the implementation of
natural language processing software relying on such methods.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, 
but are not limited to:

    * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms
    * logics for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and
      dialog
    * applications of these models to natural language processing.

In order to stimulate the interest in applications, the conference will
for the first time propose a System demonstration session.

We are seeking for demonstrations of prototype or professional
applications/tools in the domain of computational linguistics relevant
to the LACL topics of interest.
 
Demo extended abstracts must be at most of four pages using the
 standard LNCS Springer LaTeX style (see authors instructions at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). 
Developers should outline the design of their system and provide
sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and
relevance to LACL topics. Pointers to web sites running a demo 
preview will also be helpful.	
 
Each system will be shortly presented in a special conference session
and during the Demo Session. It may also be completed by a poster.
Participants should use their own laptop for the demos. The organizers
should be contacted in case of any special requirements.

The demo extended abstracts should be submitted in PDF format by email
at the address lacl2012-demo at sciencesconf.org The submissions will be
reviewed by the Demo program committee using the standards of excellence
associated with the LACL conferences.  A single review evaluation
process will be based on novelty, relevance, and scientific
contribution. The selected submissions will be published in the Demo
Session proceedings on the conference site.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: April 30, 2012
Notification: May 11, 2012
Camera ready version due: May 21, 2012 

Local Demo Session Committee :

Denis Béchet
Florian Boudin
Alexandre Dikovsky
Nicolas Hernandez

Contact: lacl2012-demo at sciencesconf.org

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Subject: Appel: Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'12: July
 16-19, 2012, USA), Deadline: March 12, 2012
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Dear Artificial Intelligence community:
Please share the appended announcement with those who may be interested.
Thank you very much.

======================================================================
                           CALL  FOR  PAPERS

                                ICAI'12
                  The 2012 International Conference on
                        Artificial Intelligence

                    July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
======================================================================

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each paper. The proceedings of the congress that ICAI is part of, enjoys
a high number of citations; over 25,000 citations so far.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 26, 2012:    Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012:  The 2012 International Conference on Artificial
                   Intelligence (ICAI'12)

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

-  Brain models / cognitive science
-  Natural language processing
-  Fuzzy logic and soft computing
-  Software tools for AI
-  Expert systems
-  Decision support systems
-  Automated problem solving
-  Knowledge discovery
-  Knowledge representation
-  Knowledge acquisition
-  Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
-  Knowledge networks and management
-  Intelligent information systems
-  Intelligent data mining and farming
-  Intelligent web-based business
-  Intelligent agents
-  Intelligent networks
-  Intelligent databases
-  Intelligent user interface
-  AI and evolutionary algorithms
-  Intelligent tutoring systems
-  Reasoning strategies
-  Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
-  Distributed AI systems and architectures
-  Neural networks and applications
-  Heuristic searching methods
-  Languages and programming techniques for AI
-  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
-  Intelligent information fusion
-  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
-  Search and meta-heuristics
-  Swarm Optimization
-  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
-  Integration of AI with other technologies
-  Evaluation of AI tools
-  Social intelligence (markets and computational societies)
-  Social impact of AI
-  Emerging technologies
-  Topics on satisfiability
-  Applications (including: computer vision, signal processing,
   military, surveillance, robotics, medicine, pattern recognition,
   face recognition, finger print recognition, finance and
   marketing, stock market, education, emerging applications, ...)

-  Workshop on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications:

   - General Machine Learning Theory
     . Statistical learning theory
     . Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
     . Multivariate analysis
     . Hierarchical learning models
     . Relational learning models
     . Bayesian methods
     . Meta learning
     . Stochastic optimization
     . Topics on satisfiability
     . Simulated annealing
     . Heuristic optimization techniques
     . Neural networks
     . Reinforcement learning
     . Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
     . General Learning models
     . Multiple hypothesis testing
     . Decision making
     . Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
     . Non-parametric methods
     . Graphical models
     . Gaussian graphical models
     . Particle filter
     . Cross-Entropy method
     . Ant colony optimization
     . Time series prediction
     . Fuzzy logic and learning
     . Inductive learning and applications
     . Grammatical inference

   - General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques
     . Graph kernel and graph distance methods
     . Graph-based semi-supervised learning
     . Graph clustering
     . Graph learning based on graph transformations
     . Graph learning based on graph grammars
     . Graph learning based on graph matching
     . General theoretical aspects of graph learning
     . Statistical modeling of graphs
     . Information-theoretical approaches to graphs
     . Motif search
     . Network inference
     . General issues in graph and tree mining

   - Machine Learning Applications
     . Aspects of knowledge structures
     . Computational Finance
     . Computational Intelligence
     . Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
     . Induction of document grammars
     . Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data
     . General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval,
       web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining
     . Latent semantic analysis
     . Aspects of natural language processing
     . Intelligent linguistic
     . Aspects of text technology
     . Computational vision
     . Bioinformatics and computational biology
     . Biostatistics
     . High-throughput data analysis
     . Biological network analysis: protein-protein networks, signaling
       networks, metabolic networks, transcriptional regulatory networks
     . Graph-based models in biostatistics
     . Computational Neuroscience
     . Computational Chemistry
     . Computational Statistics
     . Systems Biology
     . Algebraic Biology


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org Submissions must be
uploaded by March 12, 2012 and they must be in either MS doc or pdf
formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references -
single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats
are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to
follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for
publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or
currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the
paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal
address, and email address for each author. The first page should also
identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical
keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of
the conference (ie, ICAI) that the paper is being submitted for
consideration must be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a
100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final Camera-Ready papers
(if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of
contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using
a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors
include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated
using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers
will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting. At this
point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work
(ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not
suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)

Proceedings of ICAI will be published in printed conference books (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center
for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core
scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals;
only about 9% are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among
the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID,
Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others. Though, there
is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in EI
Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the track that ICAI belonged
to was included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending
the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. The
printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at
the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will
be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication
in a number of research books contracted with various publishers. These
books will be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks
will be forming journal special issues to be published after the
conference.

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same
instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS)
except for the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the
author should state that "This paper is being submitted as a
poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published if and only the
author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

The ICAI conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the
largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more
attendees from over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed of
research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials,
panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/
tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer,
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as
Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of
Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos
available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a
diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for
cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. 56223


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC co-sponsors of the last offering
of the congress (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated
with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard
University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of
Texas at Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University
of Siegen; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research,
Austria; University of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia;
University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others. CORPORATE
Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list): Intel
Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for
Nanotechnology (HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent
Biological Medicine; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and
Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; UK
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Scientific
Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without Boundaries; and
others.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

The proceedings of WORLDCOMP enjoys a high number of citations (ICAI is
an important part of WORLDCOMP). As of February 28, 2012, papers
published in each track of the proceedings have received the following
number of citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP papers; 116 to CDES
papers; 65 to CGVR papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to DMIN papers; 69 to
EEE papers; 1289 to ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers; 176 to FCS papers;
9416 to FECS papers; 157 to GCA papers; 75 to GEM papers; 2277 to ICAI
papers; 1539 to ICOMP papers; 1247 to ICWN papers; 571 to IKE papers;
255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV papers; 5239 to PDPTA papers; 496 to SAM
papers; 1390 to SERP papers; and 177 to SWWS papers. In total, over
25,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the
proceedings of WORLDCOMP conferences.


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. Web site of ICAI'12:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/icai12
2. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at:
   http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
3. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct
   as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this
   announcement supersedes earlier ones.

CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: editor at world-comp.org

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:49:43 +0100
Subject: Info: Only for Computational Linguistics Enthusiasts
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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:27:33 +0100
From: Marta Ruiz <martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com>
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Dear Computational Linguistics Enthusiast,

As you already know, ACL will be celebrating this year its 50th Annual
Meeting in the beautiful island of Jeju, in Korea. Half a century
already!

For this once-in-a-lifetime celebration we are organizing a special
workshop on ?Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries?. You can visit our
workshop?s website to check out for the last updates and initiatives
regarding the event: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/

At this time we would like to invite you to participate in our ?Wisdom
of Crowds? challenge for reviewing the past and predicting the future of
Computational Linguistics. You just need to complete a survey (
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/accounts/login/?next=/r50/survey/)
for which you first need to complete a quick registration (
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/accounts/register/) to receive
your Survey Validation Code.

Also, we would like to remind you that there is still some time left in
case you are considering submitting a technical contribution in any of
the three available categories: Review and Discussion, Empirical Work
and Contributed Task. For more info on this, please visit
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/cfp/

Best regards

The organizing committee

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:54:33 +0100
Subject: Livre: Breaking the Language Barrier: A Game-Changing (ebook)
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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:57:47 +0800
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Dear All,

I'm pleased to announce my free ebook "Breaking the Language Barrier: A
Game-Changing Approach", version 0.18. The ebook has undergone
significant updates since its initial release (version 0.09 in April
2010). Almost every part has significant new developments, so I suggest
existing readers take it anew.

Perhaps nothing can explain this ebook better than its own Overview and
Table of Contents, which are attached below.

View or download it (free) from:
https://sites.google.com/site/yaoziyuan/publications/books/breaking-the-language-barrier-a-game-changing-approach

Best Regards,
Ziyuan Yao
https://sites.google.com/site/yaoziyuan/

# # # # #

Overview

In today's world, the goal of breaking the language barrier is pursued
on two fronts: language teachers teaching students a second language,
thus enabling humans to manually break the language barrier, and
computational linguists building increasingly better machine translation
systems to automatically break the language barrier.

However, I see important, unfulfilled opportunities on both fronts:

In second language teaching, amazingly efficient teaching methods have
not gone mainstream and not drawn enough attention from computational
linguists (so that these methods could be automated and truly
powerful). For example, imagine if you're browsing a Web page in your
native language, and a Web browser extension automatically detects the
topic of this page and inserts relevant foreign language micro-lessons
in it, so that you can incidentally learn a foreign language while
browsing interesting native language information :-) This AdSense-like
"L1-driven L2 teaching" will be the future of second language teaching.

In machine translation, computational linguists only pay attention to
computer capabilities to process natural language (known as natural
language processing, NLP), and totally ignore human capabilities to
share some burden from the computer in language processing, which can
lead to significantly better results. For example, theory and practice
have proven that syntax disambiguation is a much harder task than word
sense disambiguation, and therefore machine translation tends to screw
up the word order of the translation result if the language pair has
disparate word orders; but what if machine translation preserves the
source language's word order in the translation result, and teaches the
end user about the source language's word order so that he can manually
figure out the logic of the translation result? If the end user is
willing to commit some of his own natural intelligence in the
man-machine joint effort to break the language barrier, he will get the
job done better.

Therefore this ebook presents emerging ideas and implementations in
computer-assisted language learning (CALL), reading, writing and machine
translation (MT) that strive to leverage both human and machine language
processing potential and capabilities, and will redefine the way people
break the language barrier.

Approaches whose titles have an exclamation mark (!) are stirring
game-changing technologies which are the driving forces behind this
initiative.

# # # # #

Table of Contents

Overview    3
Chapter 1: Breaking the Language Barrier with Language Learning    4
1.1. Foreign Language Acquisition    4
1.1.1. L1-Driven L2 Teaching! (L1DL2T)    4
1.1.1.1. The Idea    4
1.1.1.2. Historical Developments    6
1.1.1.3. An Example System Design    8
1.1.1.3.1. Overview    8
1.1.1.3.2. ATLAS Mission Profiles    9
1.1.1.3.3. ATLAS User Profiles    15
1.1.1.3.4. Data Acquisition Strategies    16
1.1.2. Word Mnemonics    17
1.1.2.1. Essential Mnemonics    17
1.1.2.1.1. Phonetically Intuitive English! (PIE)    18
1.1.2.1.2. Etymology and Free Association    21
1.1.2.1.3. Why Are They Essential? A Proof    22
1.1.2.2. Other Mnemonics    23
1.1.2.2.1. Orthographically Intuitive English (OIE)    23
1.1.2.2.2. Progressive Word Acquisition (PWA)    24
1.1.2.3. Principles Learned    25
1.2. Foreign Language Writing Aids    26
1.2.1. Predictive vs. Corrective Writing Aids    26
1.2.2. Input-Driven Syntax Aid! (IDSA)    26
1.2.3. Input-Driven Ontology Aid! (IDOA)    27
1.3. Foreign Language Reading Aids    27
Chapter 2: Breaking the Language Barrier with Little Learning    29
2.1. Foreign Language Understanding    29
2.1.1. Syntax-Preserving Machine Translation! (SPMT)    29
2.2. Foreign Language Generation    31
2.2.1. Formal Language Machine Translation! (FLMT)    32

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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:01:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: CTF 2012
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:51:27 +0100
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Second call for papers

 =======================================================================
International Interdisciplinary Conference
"Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science" (CTF'12)
 =======================================================================

D?sseldorf (GER), August 22-24, 2012
http://www.sfb991.uni-duesseldorf.de/concept-types-and-frames-in-language-cognition-and-science/

Organized and financed by
DFG Collaborative Research Centre CRC 991/SFB 991
"The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science"
http://www.sfb991.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/sfb991/

Aims and scope
---------------
A sequel to CTF'07 and CTF'09, CTF'12 is the third interdisciplinary
conference to contribute to the development of a general frame theory of
human concepts. The conference explores the application of frames in
linguistics and other sciences. It discusses foundational issues for the
development of a theory of frames from the perspectives of general and
computational linguistics, mathematics, cognitive psychology, cognitive
neuroscience, ontology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

Invited speakers
-----------------
Hanne Andersen
Lawrence Barsalou
John Beavers
Walter Bisang
Jean Mandler
Ivan Sag
John Sowa
Rolf Zwaan

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Frames
-------
CTF'12 explores fundamental aspects of a formal theory of frames
understood as recursive attribute-value structures with functional
attributes. The aspects include representation and model-theoretic
interpretation, attributes and value types, and appropriate frame
structures for different types of concepts. A special focus will be on
dynamic aspects of frame theory: modeling dynamic frame components for
event and process frames; exploring operations on frames such as type
shifts and frame composition.

Cognition
----------
CTF'12 explores empirical evidence for and consequences of the frame
approach. It addresses the distinction of types of concepts, in
particular relational and functional nominal concepts. Major topics
include the grounding of concepts in the sensory-motor system and
dynamic aspects of concept formation.

Language
---------
CTF'12 explores the application of a formalized theory of frames at  
various levels of linguistic description: lexical semantics of the  
different conceptual types of nouns and verbs, deep lexical  
decomposition, semantics of word formation, the syntax-semantics  
interface, syntactic and semantic composition, and anaphora and  
coherence in discourse.

Science
--------
CTF'12 explores the applications of the frame approach in various fields
of institutional categorization: e.g., the evolution of the frame notion
in the history of philosophy; scientific frames and paradigm shifts;
frames for legal concepts; frames in applied ontology; a frame model of
the mind; and frame description of psychiatric disorders.

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Important dates
----------------
Submission of abstracts (600-800 words): March 15
Notification of acceptance: May 30

Submission site
----------------
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ctf12

Publication details
---------------------
The post-proceedings will be published by D?sseldorf University Press  
with open online access.

Programme committee
--------------------
Sebastian L?bner (general chair), Rainer Osswald, Gottfried Vosgerau

Organizational committee
-------------------------
Dorothea Brenner, David Hommen, Timm Lichte, Daniel Schulzek

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Topics for the CTF'12

Language
---------
noun types and determination
- definiteness and indefiniteness
- possession
- usage
- processing
- grammaticalization

conceptual shifts of noun meanings
- shifts and coercion
- diachronic shifts

decompositional frames for verbs and the syntax-semantics interface
- verb classes in terms of frame types
- verbal concepts and linking
- construction-based decomposition of verb meanings
- aspectual composition

decompositional frames for nouns
- frame analysis of legal terms
- affordance attributes in noun frames and qualia

syntactic and semantic composition
- nominal concept types in the theory of semantic composition
- semantic composition in terms of frames
- syntax-driven frame composition

frames in the semantics of word-formation
- nominal compounding as frame combination
- deverbal nouns as the result of frame transformation

frames in discourse
- frames and associative anaphora
- the role of frames in discourse coherence

Science
--------
concepts
- emergence of the modern frame notion of concepts
- architecture of the mind
- the role of function in object categorization

frame analysis in institutional categorization
- frames and paradigm shifts
- frame analysis of legal concepts
- frame analysis of psychiatric disorders
- frame analysis in other scientific fields

concept types and frames in ontology
- attributes in ontology
- relations and functions in ontology
- formal approaches to ontology using functional relations

Cognition
----------
embodiment of concepts
- emergence of the modern frame notion of concepts
- grounding of verb meanings in the sensory-motor system
- affordances and the grounding of noun meanings in the sensory-motor
  system
- common coding and simulation
- frames and conceptual processing

types of concepts
- empirical evidence for different kinds of concepts
- cognitive representation of dynamic concepts, in particular verb
  meanings

neurocognition
- frames and conceptual processing
- neural correlates of attributes and frames
- computational modelling of concept formation

Frames
-------
elements of frame theory
- modelling the dynamics of verb meanings
- modelling general operations on frames
- modelling frame composition

frame-related spaces
- mathematical properties of value spaces
- mathematical properties of attribute spaces
- mathematical properties of frame spaces

large frame systems
- design and implementation

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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:04:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: TextGraphs-7 Workshop associated to ACL 2012
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:51:30 +0100
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======================================================================
                        SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

    TextGraphs-7: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
                   (http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12)

                           Special Theme:
    Understanding and Mining Social Media Using Graphs: Information
                 Propagation in Blogs and Tweets

                       Workshop of ACL 2012

             July 12, 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea

               Submission dealdine: March 18, 2012
========================================================================

(1) Workshop Description
(2) Workshop Submissions
(3) Important Dates
(4) Author Instructions
(5) Invited Speaker
(6) Poster Session
(7) Workshop Organisers
(8) Program Committee
(9) Contacts

==================================================
(1) Workshop Description
==================================================

Recent years have shown an increased interest in integrating various
aspects of the field of Graph Theory (GT) into Natural Language
Processing (NLP). Many language phenomena can be naturally put into
graph-based representations and in the last 5 years a significant number
of NLP applications adopted efficient and elegant solutions from graph
theoretical frameworks. These applications range from part-of- speech
tagging, word sense disambiguation, ontology learning and parsing to
information extraction, semantic role assignment, summarization and
sentiment analysis to name but a few. The emergence of new fields of
research focusing on the social media such as Twitter and Facebook
brought the graph-based methods even more into focus. In particular,
graph-based algorithms are used to explore social network connections
and propagation of information in those networks in addition to
exploring the connections between the language entities. As a
consequence, many new applications have been emerging such as rumor
proliferation, e-reputation, multiple identity detection, language
dynamics learning and future events prediction to name but a few.
TextGraphs-7 aims to bring together researchers interested in GT applied
to NLP and provide an environment for further integration of graph-based
solutions into NLP tasks. The workshop also encourages discussions about
theoretical justifications from GT that explain empirical results
obtained in the NLP community. As a consequence, a deeper understanding
of new theories of graph-based algorithms is likely to help to create
new approaches and widen the usage of graphs for NLP applications.

=================================================
(2) Workshop Submissions
=================================================

TextGraphs-7 will invite innovative submissions on the following, but
not limited to, three main topics:

Topic I: Graph-based methods for Information Retrieval, Information
Extraction and Text Mining
- Graph-based methods for word sense disambiguation,
- Graph-based representations for ontology learning,
- Graph-based strategies for semantic relations identification,
- Encoding semantic distances in graphs,
- Graph-based techniques for document navigation and visualization,
- and more subtopics;

Topic II: New graph-based methods for NLP applications
- Random walk methods in graphs,
- Spectral graph clustering,
- Semi-supervised graph-based methods,
- Methods and analyses for statistical networks,
- Small world graphs,
- Dynamic graph representations ,
- Topological and pretopological analysis of graphs,
- and more subtopics;

Topic III: Graph-based methods for applications on social networks
- Rumor proliferation,
- E-reputation,
- Multiple identity detection,
- Language dynamics studies,
- Surveillance systems,
- and more subtopics.

======================================================
(3) Important Dates
======================================================

Submission deadline: March 18, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: April 30, 2012
Workshop: July 12, 2012

====================================================
(4) Authors Instructions
====================================================

Submissions will consist of (1) regular full papers of maximum 8 pages
(for well established research), (2) regular short papers of maximum 4
pages (for on-going research), (3) position papers of maximum 4 pages
(for prospective ideas) and (4) demo papers of maximum 4 pages (for
software and architectures). One extra page will be accepted for the
Reference section for all submissions? types.

Textgraphs-7 will have a blind review policy. In order to facilitate
blind reviewing, the authors should omit their names and affiliations
from the paper. Furthermore, all self-references that may reveal the
author identity must be avoided. Papers that do not conform to these
requirements will be rejected without review.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must be formatted using the
ACL 2012 Style Files available a http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp.

Papers should be submitted to the START Conference Manager available at
the following url: https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/textgraphs-7/.

=======================================================
(5) Invited Speaker
=======================================================

To be announced.

==================================================
(6) Poster Session
==================================================

Authors of accepted papers and demos will be able to present their work
on a poster in addition to the oral presentation. The posters will be
displayed in the workshop room all day and there will be a short poster
session in the workshop schedule.

==================================================
(7) Workshop Organisers
==================================================

Ahmed Hassan
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, United States
Phone: +14257222849,
Email: hassanam at microsoft.com

Ga?l Dias
University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
Phone: +33231567487
Email: gael.dias at unicaen.fr

Irina Matveeva
Dieselpoint Inc., Chicago, United States
Phone: +17737047852
Email: imatveeva at dieselpoint.com

==================================================
(8) Program Committee
==================================================

Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Animesh Mukherjee, ISI Foundation, Italy
Antoine Widl?cher, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Arzucan ?zg?r, Istanbul University, Turkey
Bruno Cr?milleux, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Chris Biemann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome, Italy
Gina-Anne Levow, University of Washington, USA
Guillaume Cleuziou, University of Orl?ans, France
Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research, USA
Patrik Pantel, Microsoft Research, USA
Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA
Philippe Muller, Paul Sabatier University, France
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
Swapna Somasundaran, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Torsten Zesch, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Uwe Quasthoff, University of Leipzig, Germany
Zornitsa Kozareva, ISI, University of Southern California, USA

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(9) Workshop Contacts
====================================================

For any question, please email us at textgraphs2012 at gmail.com or look at
the web site http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12

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Subject: Conf: LREC 2012 - Registration is now OPEN!
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The online registration to LREC 2012 is now open at 
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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:09:57 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC 2012 Workshop,
 CoCo-FLaRE: Reinforcing International Collaboration on Language
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[Apologies for cross-postings]

CoCo-FLaRE: Reinforcing International Collaboration on Language 
Resources and Evaluation
A joint COCOSDA -- FLaReNet Workshop at LREC 2012
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
CALL for PARTICIPATION

Language Resources and Evaluation are gathering more and more momentum,
with the increasing success of the LREC conference and of the LRE
journal, and with new program initiatives flourishing in Europe
(FLaReNet, META-SHARE, CLARIN, etc.), as well as in other parts of the
world (TDIL, NHN, Language GRID, ALAGIN, BOLT, SILT etc.).

COCOSDA, the Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O
Systems Assessment, paved the way with its pioneering creation in 1991
to serve the international speech processing community.

Since then, COCOSDA continues to gather the international speech
community under its informal umbrella, while the European initiatives
extend their scope to language in general, through ELRA and LREC, and
Oriental COCOSDA fosters spoken language resources with an increasing
participation of Asian countries in its annual conferences. This 2012
workshop will be the occasion to share views on ways to reinforce
international collaboration in the field of Language Resources and
Evaluation at a time when data sharing is coming to the forefront of
science, in many different areas such as biology, astrophysics,
humanities, etc.
The workshop will comprise two parts: a morning session specifically
devoted to spoken language resources and evaluation, organized by
COCOSDA, and an afternoon session enlarging the scope to speech &
language in general. A final discussion will aim at proposing new
measures to increase and improve international collaboration and
coordination, in order to foster Language Resources and Evaluation.

The workshop is open to all interested parties at no charge, but
registration is mandatory. Those wishing to contribute topics at the
workshop are invited to contact the organizers by March 15th.

Organizers:
- Nicoletta Calzolari (glottolo at ilc.cnr.it) (Co-Chair)
- Dafydd Gibbon (gibbon at uni-bielefeld.de) (Co-Chair)
- Nick Campbell (nick at tcd.ie)
- Khalid Choukri (choukri at elda.org)
- Joseph Mariani (Joseph.Mariani at limsi.fr)

Morning session

"COCOSDA: New developments in multimodal resources and assessment"
This session will consist of regional and topical reports, with
discussion, by COCOSDA members and invited presenters. A central push
forward in multimodal speech research has come from the increasing
amount of work on the languages of smaller speech communities, resulting
in large amounts of new data from typologically very different languages
with very different sound inventories, prosody, grammar, and speech
dialogue conventions.

Tentative Schedule:
Introduction (D. Gibbon)

Part 1: Topical reports with a special emphasis on resources and 
evaluation for :
? speech interaction with robotic and virtual agents,
? types of multimodal systems,
? types of mobile systems,
? under-resourced languages.

Coffee break

Part 2: Regional reports
Presentations will summarize regional developments in Africa, the 
Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania in current major topic areas.

Part 3: Information exchange and discussion

Lunch Break

Afternoon session
"International collaboration and coordination on Language Resources and
Evaluation"

This session will be devoted to the various aspects of international 
collaboration on Language Resources and Evaluation such as:
? Charting the field
? Ensuring the best possible language coverage
? Fostering language resources
? Sharing language resources
? Identifying and tracking the resources
? Recognizing the merits of LR producers and LT evaluators
? Networking the community, etc.

It will rely on the activities conducted in this area in various part of 
the world, including the recent conclusions and recommendations of the 
FLaReNet project.

Tentative Schedule:
Introduction (N. Calzolari)

Part 1: Information and Instruments
? Charting the field
  LRE Map and Language Matrices, FLaReNet International Wiki survey and
  National
  Contact Points, META-NET Language White Papers and Tables, ...

? Ensuring the best possible language coverage
  Highlights of National Programs on LR, Endangered and local languages, ...

? Sharing Resources
  META-SHARE, Language Grid, NSF policy, the Language Library, ...

Coffee break

Part 2: Actions
? Fostering language resources
  The FLaReNet Strategic Language Resource Agenda

? Identifying and tracking resources
  The new ISLRN initiative

? Recognizing the merits of LR producers and LT evaluators
  Towards a Language Resource Impact Factor?

? Networking the community
  The LRE Forum

Part 3: General discussion: The way forward

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:14:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP),
 Deadline: 13th of March
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:48:22 +0100
From: Florin Isaila <florin at piojito.arcos.inf.uc3m.es>
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Second Call for Papers: Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP)
============================================================

Held in Conjunction with ACM HPDC'12, Delft, the Netherlands, June 18/19, 2012.


Workshop Theme

User-generated social media such as blogs, podcasts, shared photos and
videos, wikis, online gaming communities and online social networks have
grown to over half a billion users today. To exploit the massive amount
of social data exposed by such systems requires not only social network
analysis, but also large-scale image processing, video encoding, generic
information retrieval and management, knowledge mining and discovery,
building and matching user profiles for web advertising, etc. Processing
information about a world-wide, loosely-connected network of social
media users poses a diverse set of challenges, ranging from traditional
high-performance distributed computing topics (e.g., scalability,
elasticity, reliability) to domain-specific processing (e.g., methods
for big data analytics and graph mining at scale.)

The First Workshop on Social Media Processing (SocMP'12) solicits papers
that address the data management and processing challenges raised by
running and mining large-scale social media platforms from a systems and
infrastructure-oriented perspective. The workshop will be co-located
with ACM/IEEE HPDC [ http://www.hpdc.org/2012/ ] and will take place in
June 2012 in Delft, The Netherlands. SocMP'12 will bring together
researchers and practitioners in discussing and creating new knowledge
about the social media infrastructure and methods of the future.

Topics of Interest
The topics of interest for SocMP'12 include, but are not limited to:

* Techniques for the collection of social media data;
* System architectures for social media processing;
* Methods for Social Media pre-processing and processing;
* System architectures and methods for online or near-realtime social
  media processing;
* Methods for multi-source social media processing;
* Mechanisms that support specific data consistency models across
  multiple data centers;
* Business logic and programming models for social media processing
  systems;
* Autonomic management of social media processing systems;
* Green computing and sustainability in social media processing systems;
* Economic aspects of social media processing systems, in particular for
  third-party data processing;
* Benchmarks, workload characterization and modeling, and testbeds for
  designing and analyzing social media processing systems;
* Use cases, applications of social media processing (i.e., to science,
  engineering, and business), and experience with deployed artifacts
  focusing on the infrastructure;
* Mathematical and analytical tools for designing and analyzing social
  media processing systems;
* Simulation methods and tools for designing and analyzing social media
  processing systems.

Important Dates
* Submission deadline-March 13, 2012;
* Author notification deadline-after March 26, 2012;
* Camera-ready papers due-April 16, 2012;
* The SocMP'12 Workshop: June 18 or 19.


Organizing Committee, Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, Florida, USA. 
  Contact: anda at cse.usf.edu ,  http://www.cse.usf.edu/~anda/
* Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. 
  Contact: A.Iosup at tudelft.nl ,
  http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~iosup/research.html

Program Committee
* Pablo Cesar, CWI, the Netherlands
* Tyson Condie, Yahoo! Research, USA
* Anwitaman Datta, NTU Singapore, Singapore 
* Pawel Garbacki, Google, Mountain View Campus, USA
* Florin Isaila, U. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
* Sameh Elnikety, Microsoft Research, USA
* Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
* Anne Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, Rennes Campus, France
* Mayank Lahiri, Facebook, USA
* Jussara Marques de Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 6 pages in PDF
format, including figures, tables, and references. Papers should be
formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style [
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates ] and
submitted via the dedicated EasyChair-based web site [
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socmp2012 ].

All papers will receive at least three reviews. Accepted workshop papers
will appear in the HPDC conference proceedings and will be incorporated
in the ACM Digital Library.

Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is
not under consideration for another conference or journal. For more
details, see the ACM Prior Publication Policy [
http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/sim_submissions ].

More Information

For more information, check the workshop web site:
[ http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~iosup/socmp2012/index.html ]

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:16:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: GIRT
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:22:25 +0100
From: Mauro Gaio <mauro.gaio at univ-pau.fr>
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We are pleased to announce the Geographic Information Retrieval Tutorial
to be held at the AGILE conference, April 24th in Avignon (France).

Geographic Information Retrieval addresses the management of geographic
information locked in unstructured textual documents (current and
historic newspapers, social media and, increasingly, official
documents). The growing amount of unstructured data will increase with
open data initiatives, making this field even more important to our
society.

Furthermore, the wider availability of structured and partially
structured data (INSPIRE, Semantic Web, etc.) suggests a further set of
opportunities and challenges for GIR since these data are useful for the
GIR process.

The tutorial will be an opportunity for junior and senior academics
interested in the field of Geographic Information Retrieval to
participate in tutorials addressing key themes in the field, hear talks
addressing the state of the art, present their own work and participate
in a discussion on upcoming challenges in the field.


The proposed three main sessions will focus on theoretical background to
and practical worked examples on:
* Toponym grounding and footprint definition, facilitated by Jochen
  Leidner (Thomson-Reuters)
* Spatial and temporal indices and their influence on document ranking,
  facilitated by Chris Jones (Cardiff University)
* Evaluation strategies in GIR and their strengths and weaknesses,
  facilitated by Ross Purves (University of Zurich)


We also invite participants to submit 2 page abstracts describing work
in progress relevant to one of the three sessions. Abstracts should
describe the work and problems encountered therein.  We are particularly
interested in a discussion of challenges, and thus discourage submission
of finished work. Abstracts will be distributed to workshop participants
at the workshop, with time for a short presentation of the work and
discussion of key challenges for GIR. Please use ACM styles in preparing
your abstract
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

The abstracts should be sent to ross (dot) purves (at) geo (dot) uzh
(dot) ch

Note however that the key aim of the tutorial is to discuss basic
concepts, and abstract submission is neither required nor expected from
participants. Besides, participants are encouraged to bring their laptop
to take part to some hands on exercises during the tutorial.
 
Important dates:
- March 23rd: deadline for short paper submission
- April 2nd: notification of acceptance
- April 24th: tutorial

Organising committee: Ross Purves, Mauro Gaio, B?n?dicte Bucher, Jochen
Leidner, Chris Jones, Damien Palacio.More information :
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~rsp/girt/index.html.

We hope to see you soon in Avignon.

Ross Purves, Mauro Gaio, B?n?dicte Bucher

The registration is now open on the AGILE 2012 conference web site :
http://agile2012.imag.fr/index.php/registration.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:19:15 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC Workshop on Language Resources for Public Security
 Applications, May 27, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
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Date: Fri,  2 Mar 2012 23:02:46 +0100 (CET)
From: ltc at amu.edu.pl (Language and Technology Conference)
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Dear Colleagues,

Please do consider your participation in the LREC 2012 workshop on
"Language Resources for Public Security Applications, May 27, 2012,
Istanbul, Turkey". See the CFP text at
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/IMG/ws/programme/LREC2012_WS_LRPS.pdf
and do visit the conference site at http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/.

We will be happy to see you in Istanbul.

On behalf of the Program Committee
Zygmunt Vetulani

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:26:31 +0100
Subject: ATALA: Adhesion ATALA 2012
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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 19:27:02 +0100
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Chers membres de la liste LN, 

Comme vous le savez, ATALA est une association de loi 1901 qui d?fend et
promeut le Traitement Automatique des Langues aussi bien au niveau
national qu'international.

La publication de la revue num?rique TAL, 

Les journ?es d'?tude de l'Atala avec acc?s gratuit, 

Les conf?rences annuelles TALN et RECITAL avec r?duction pour les adh?rents, 

La mise au point et la maintenance d'annuaires des formations en TAL,
des ?quipes de recherches, des outils, etc.,

La liste de diffusion LN et de discussion LN-Forum, 

sont autant d'activit?s men?es b?n?volement par les membres de
l'association.

Ces activit?s de diffusion scientifique sont toutefois co?teuses et les
rares subventions publiques ne suffisent pas ? tout financer. Nous
comptons donc sur l'esprit associatif des adh?rents et sur leurs
cotisations pour maintenir le dynamisme et la qualit? scientifique du
travail de l'association.

Nous vous rappelons le tarif des adh?sions pour l'ann?e 2012 : 

20 ? : ?tudiants/ch?meurs (joindre un justificatif ou une copie de
       carte)

40 ? : Individuels (paiement par ch?que ou CB personnels) 

60 ? : Professionnels (paiement par bon de commande, ch?que ou CB
       professionnels)

200 ? : Institutionnels (adh?sion de soutien) 

Vous pouvez d?s ? pr?sent adh?rer ou renouveler votre adh?sion
directement en ligne, et r?gler par Carte Bleue en vous rendant ?
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Bien ? vous 

Pour le Conseil d'Administration de l'ATALA

Georges Antoniadis, tr?sorier

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:28:09 +0100
Subject: Job: Postes enseignent-chercheur au LORIA
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:56:43 +0100
From: Yannick Toussaint <Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr>
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Bonjour,

Le LORIA propose 3 postes de ma?tre de conf?rences et 3 postes de
professeurs :

Vous pouvez consulter les profils ? l'adresse : http://www.loria.fr/

N'h?sitez pas ? transmettre cette information aux personnes susceptibles
d'?tre int?ress?es.

Cordialement
Y. Toussaint

(Les adresses mail des contacts ci-dessous sont de la forme
<pr?nom>.<Nom>@loria.fr)

================
Ma?tre de conf?rences

Chaque candidature doit pr?ciser les ?quipes d'int?gration. Il est
fortement conseill? de prendre contact d'une part avec le (ou les)
responsable(s) d'?quipe vis?e(s) ainsi qu'avec le responsable de
d?partement. La politique du laboratoire soutient fortement les
candidatures provenant de l'ext?rieur.

MCF 0392 :IUT Charlemagne (D?partement Informatique)
Le candidat devra s'int?grer dans une ?quipe du d?partement 1
Algorithmique, calcul, image et g?om?trie  (Contact Bruno L?vy) ou du
le d?partement 2 M?thodes Formelles (contact Dominique M?ry). 

MCF 0626 : IUT Charlemagne (D?partement Informatique)
De pr?f?rence, le candidat devra s'int?grer dans une ?quipe du
d?partement 4 Traitement automatique des langues et des connaissances
(Contact Yannick Toussaint) ou du  le d?partement 5 Syst?mes complexes
et intelligence artificielle (contact Bernard Girau). 

MCF : IUT de Saint-Di? des Vosges
L'objectif du LORIA est de consolider une masse critique d'activit?s de
recherche coh?rentes, visible au meilleur niveau national et
international se d?ployant sur la th?matique "image" dans l'un des
d?partements scientifiques suivants : Algorithmique, calcul, image et
g?om?trie  (Contact Bruno L?vy) ou Traitement automatique des langues et
des connaissances (Contact Yannick Toussaint).


=======================
Professeur
Chaque candidature doit pr?ciser le d?partement d'int?gration et les
?quipes concern?es. Il est demand? de prendre contact avec le
responsable de d?partement et les responsables d'?quipe du
d?partement. Chaque candidat doit envoyer ? la direction du laboratoire
(direction at loria.fr) au moins un CV le plus rapidement possible.
Les candidatures ext?rieures sont encourag?es.

PR 318 : UFR Math?matiques et Informatique
Le candidat recrut? devra effectuer sa recherche en 27?me section de
pr?f?rence dans l'un des d?partements du LORIA : Traitement Automatique
des Langues et des Connaissances (Contact direction at loria.fr) ou
Syst?mes Complexes et Intelligence Artificielle (contact Bernard
Girau). 

PR 0980 : ESIAL
L'objectif du LORIA, pour ce poste, est de consolider une masse critique
d'activit?s de recherche coh?rentes, visibles au meilleur niveau
international dans le domaine de la s?curit? informatique et des
syst?mes distribu?s ? large ?chelle. En particulier, la personne
recrut?e animera des travaux de recherche sur la conception
d'applications fortement distribu?es dont on puisse garantir par
construction des propri?t?s de s?ret? et de s?curit?. Le recrutement se
fera dans le d?partement 2 M?thodes Formelles (contact Dominique M?ry)
ou le d?partement 3 Syst?mes, r?seaux, distribution (contact Jens
Gustedt).

PR : Universit? de lorraine, licence et master informatique
Evaluation de complexit? de syst?me ou d'algorithmes, ?valuation
probabilistes de performances, optimisation de grands syst?mes. Le
recrutement se fera le d?partement 2 M?thodes Formelles (contact
Dominique M?ry) ou le d?partement 3 Syst?mes, r?seaux, distribution
(contact Jens Gustedt).

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:31:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: (Rappel) TAL 53-2,
 Traitement automatique des informations temporelles et spatiales
 en langage naturel
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:35:06 +0100
From: philippe muller <philippe.muller at irit.fr>
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pardon pour les envois multiples

Traitement automatique des informations temporelles et spatiales en
langage naturel
2012 Volume 53 Num?ro 2.

http://www.atala.org/Traitement-automatique-des

Direction : Inderjeet Mani & Philippe Muller.
Date limite de soumission : 15 mars 2012

La plupart des informations exprim?es en langage naturel sont situ?es,
temporellement ou spatialement. Au niveau d?un document, la perspective
temporelle est souvent un ?l?ment crucial de la coh?rence de l?ensemble,
et c?est aussi parfois le cas de la dimension spatiale.

Au del? des applications sp?cifiques pour lesquelles ces informations
sont centrales (navigation, g?o-localisation, visualisation de sc?nes,
constitution de chronologies par exemple), le temps et l?espace jouent
un r?le important dans d?autres t?ches, comme l?extraction d?information
ou les syst?mes de questions-r?ponses, pour pr?ciser le domaine de
validit? d?une information, o? dans le cas du r?sum? automatique pour
garantir une certaine coh?rence. De fa?on plus fondamentale, le temps et
l?espace ont une place ? part dans les repr?sentations s?mantiques et
pragmatiques, et font l?objet d?un nombre croissant de travaux, incitant
? la cr?ation de ressources et de corpus sp?cifiques, ainsi qu?? la
sp?cification et la normalisation des annotations sur ces donn?es,
notamment gr?ce aux groupes ISO-TimeML et ISO-Space.

Ces efforts ont permis de faire ?voluer des mod?les th?oriques peu
?valu?s des ann?es 1990 ? des travaux mieux justifi?s empiriquement,
jusqu?? produire les campagnes d??valuation de certaines sous-t?ches
dans le cadre des campagnes Tempeval/Semeval.

Les expressions du temps et de l?espace ont aussi des aspects
sp?cifiques qui donne une place ? part ? leur analyse automatique.
Notamment, il est impossible d?envisager de repr?senter le sens
d?expressions spatio-temporelles sans une s?mantique explicite de ce
qu?elles d?notent, et de nombreux travaux ont soulign? l?importance de
la prise en compte de propri?t?s inf?rentielles des pr?dicats temporels,
surtout ? l??chelle d?un document. L??valuation des repr?sentations
produites est aussi une question non-triviale.

Ce num?ro sp?cial de TAL a pour but de pr?senter les nouveaux
d?veloppements li?s ? l?analyse du temps et de l?espace dans la langue,
que ce soit ? l??crit ou ? l?oral, et les probl?mes th?oriques,
pratiques ou m?thodologiques qu?elle implique. L?analyse automatique
d?expressions spatiales conna?t un int?r?t r?cent et soul?ve des
questions sp?cifiques, et nous encourageons la soumission de travaux sur
ces aspects, s?par?ment ou associ?s aux donn?es temporelles. Sont
encourag?es aussi les ?tudes qui montrent l?importance des dimensions
spatiale ou temporelle dans des applications.

Nous encourageons les soumissions sur tous les aspects reli?s au
traitement automatique d?informations temporelles et/ou spatiales en
langage naturel, notamment sur les probl?matiques ou t?ches suivantes :

- extraction d?information temporelle : localisation temporelle,
  rep?rage d??v?nements, datation, mise en relation d??v?nements ?
  l?int?rieur d?un texte ou d?un ensemble de textes.
- extraction d?information spatiale : rep?rage d?entit?s spatiales, 
  g?olocalisation, relations entre entit?s
- recherche de r?ponses pr?cises ? des questions temporelles ou
  spatiales
- extraction jointe d?informations de temps et d?espace, de description 
  de mouvement (itin?raires).
- les questions de repr?sentation et de raisonnement, en particulier
  l?interop?rabilit? entre repr?sentations temporelles et spatiales
- g?n?ration de description de sc?nes/images
- veille et recherche d?information dans les domaines de sp?cialit?s,
  par exemple dans le domaine m?dical
- traitement conjoint temps et modalit?
- sch?mas d?annotation d?information T/S
- cr?ation/utilisation de ressources
- proc?dure d??valuation : des annotations, des ressources, des
  processus de traitement
- toute application de TAL faisant une utilisation sp?cifique
  d?informations temporelles et spatiales

COMIT? SCIENTIFIQUE

- Nicholas Asher
- Jason Baldridge
- John Bateman
- Delphine Battistelli
- Nate Blaylock
- Robert J. Bobrow
- Harry Bunt
- Pascal Denis
- Christy Doran
- Patrice Enjalbert
- Michel Gagnon
- Mauro Gaio
- Robert Gaizauskas
- Laurent Gosselin
- Caroline Hag?ge
- Oliver Lemon
- G?rard Ligozat
- Laurent Pr?vot
- James Pustejovsky
- Xavier Tannier
- Marc Verhagen
- Annie Zaenen


DATES IMPORTANTES

- Date limite de soumission : 15 mars 2012
- Notification aux auteurs : Juillet 2012
- Date limite pour la version finale : Septembre 2012
- Publication en ligne : fin 2012


LE JOURNAL

Depuis 40 ans, TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) est un journal
international publi? par l?ATALA (Association pour le Traitement
Automatique des Langues) avec le soutien du CNRS. Depuis quelques
ann?es, il s?agit d?un journal en ligne, des versions papier pouvant
?tre obtenues sur commande. Ceci n?affecte en rien le processus de
relecture et de s?lection.


INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES

Les auteurs ayant l?intention de soumettre un article sont invit?s ?
contacter les r?dacteurs en chef invit?s de ce num?ro : Inderjeet Mani
(inderjeet.mani at gmail.com) et Philippe Muller (philippe.muller at
irit.fr)

Les articles (25 pages environ, format PDF) doivent ?tre d?pos?s sur la
plateforme http://tal-53-2.sciencesconf.org/

Les feuilles de style sont disponibles sur le site web du journal:
http://www.atala.org/Instructions-aux-auteurs-feuilles

Le journal ne publie que des contributions originales, en fran?ais ou en
anglais.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:35:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: TALN'2012 Papiers Courts - Second Appel (Pendant
 JEP-TALN-RECITAL) du 4 au 8 juin a Grenoble
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:06:33 +0100
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PREMIER APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS

TALN'2012
19e conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012

CALENDRIER

- Articles COURTs :
 - Date limite de soumission : 15 mars 2012
 - Notification aux auteurs : 15 avril 2012
 - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 20 avril 2012

PR?SENTATION 

Organis?e par l'?quipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de
Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des
langues ?trang?res et maternelles) et le d?partement DPC du Gipsa-lab,
la conf?rence TALN'2012 se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2012 ? Grenoble ?
l'occasion de la conf?rence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012.

JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29?me ?dition des Journ?es d'?tude sur
la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19?me ?dition de la conf?rence sur le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14?me
?dition des Rencontres des ?tudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012).
Pour la quatri?me fois, apr?s Nancy en 2002, F?s en 2004, et Avignon en
2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parl?e) et
l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues)
organisent conjointement leur principale conf?rence afin de r?unir en un
seul lieu les deux communaut?s du traitement de la langue orale et
?crite.
La conf?rence TALN'2012 comprendra des communications orales et
affich?es, des conf?rences invit?es et des ateliers.
La langue officielle de la conf?rence est le fran?ais. Les
communications en anglais sont accept?es pour les participants
non-francophones.

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
Les articles courts doivent faire entre 6 et 8 pages.
Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des articles pr?sentant des travaux
de recherche originaux sur les th?mes propos?s ci-dessous.

Les articles courts seront pr?sent?s sous forme de poster.

TH?MES
Les communications pourront porter sur tous les th?mes habituels du TAL,
incluant, de fa?on non limitative :

- Analyse et g?n?ration dans les domaines suivants :
     - Phon?tique
     - Phonologie
     - Morphologie
     - Syntaxe
     - S?mantique
     - Discours

- D?veloppement de ressources linguistiques pour le TAL :
     - Bases de donn?es comportant des informations morphologiques,
       syntaxiques, s?mantiques, et/ou phonologiques
     - Grammaires
     - Lexiques
     - Ontologies
     - Linguistique de corpus

- Applications du TAL :
     - Analyse de sentiments ou d'opinions
     - Cat?gorisation ou classification automatique
     - D?sambigu?sation lexicale
     - Dialogue homme-machine en langage naturel
     - Enseignement assist? par ordinateur
     - Indexation automatique
     - Recherche et extraction d'information
     - R?sum? automatique
     - R?solution d'anaphores
     - Syst?mes de question-r?ponse
     - Traduction automatique
     - Web s?mantique

- Approches:
     - Linguistiques formelles destin?es ? soutenir les traitements
       automatiques
     - Symboliques
     - Logiques
     - Statistiques
     - Bas?es sur l'apprentissage automatique


CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION 
Les soumissions seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du
domaine.
Pour les travaux de recherches, seront consid?r?es en particulier :
     - l'ad?quation aux th?mes de la conf?rence. 
     - l'importance et l'originalit? de la contribution,
     - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,
     - la discussion critique des r?sultats, en particulier par rapport aux
       autres travaux du domaine,
     - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
       internationale,
     - l'organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation.

Les articles et d?monstrations s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les
actes de la conf?rence.

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION 
Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais.
Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word seront disponibles sur le
site web (? venir) de la conf?rence.

Contact : herve.blanchon at imag.fr et Georges.Antoniadis at u-grenoble3.fr

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:38:10 +0100
Subject: Info: TOTh 2012, Formation
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:39:42 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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Formation TOTh 2012
www.porphyre.org/formation-toth

Chamb?ry
Mardi 5 juin (14h30-17h30)
Mercredi 6 juin (9h00 ? 17h00)

TITRE: Analyse des textes ? des fins onomasiologiques

Responsables : Pr. Rute Costa Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Pr.
Christophe Roche Universit? de Savoie

Pr?sentation g?n?rale
------------------------------------------------------------

Les terminologues jouent un r?le central dans toute activit?
professionnelle o? les comp?tences discursives, le transfert et
l?organisation des connaissances sont requis. Les terminologies sont
indispensables ? une communication sp?cialis?e rigoureuse et efficace.
Elles interviennent ?galement dans de nombreuses applications
informatiques de gestion et de traitement de l?information. Leur
construction est un probl?me complexe qui doit prendre en compte les
dimensions linguistique et conceptuelle qui les composent. L?analyse des
textes ? des fins onomasiologiques est particuli?rement int?ressante
pour l?aide ? la r?daction des d?finitions en Terminologie.

Dans beaucoup de contextes professionnels, le texte est au c?ur du
travail terminologique. Il importe donc de savoir ce que l?on peut y
trouver d?utile pour le travail terminologique de base conceptuelle*.
L?analyse linguistique des textes ? des fins terminologiques requiert
des connaissances sp?cifiques. Le but est de proposer, en plus de
l?extraction des traditionnels candidats termes et collocations, des
m?thodologies pour l?identification des marqueurs linguistiques et des
relations s?mantiques.

Sont retenus les ?l?ments qui pointent vers le concept n?cessaires ? la
r?daction des d?finitions en langue naturelle. Les r?sultats obtenus
nous am?nent ? proposer une possible organisation des donn?es qui est
soumise ? l?expert. Dans cette d?marche, l?expert du domaine, au sein
d?une ?quipe multidisciplinaire, joue un r?le essentiel. Au moment de
valider les donn?es il ? stabilise ? les connaissances sur le concept,
ce qui permettra ? l?ing?nieur cogniticien de mod?liser le syst?me
formel correspondant.

*L?approche conceptuelle, fondement de l?approche classique de la
terminologie, est rendue n?cessaire par l?op?rationnalisation des
terminologies ? des fins informatiques. C?est dans ce cadre
qu?interviennent les ontologies pour la mod?lisation formelle du syst?me
conceptuel.

Objectifs
------------------------------------------------------------

La formation vise ? promouvoir la collaboration entre les professionnels
de la langue et de la connaissance. Elle a ?galement pour objectif de
pr?senter les th?ories, m?thodes et outils d?analyse de textes ? des
fins terminologiques, dotant ainsi :

- les professionnels de la langue d?une approche m?thodologique et
  syst?matique pour la d?finition ;

- les professionnels de la connaissance de comp?tences linguistiques
  indispensables pour l?acquisition de connaissances ? partir de
  ressources linguistiques.

Publics vis?s
------------------------------------------------------------

Linguistes, Terminologues, Traducteurs, Documentalistes,
Informaticiens, Ing?nieurs cogniticiens?

Programme
------------------------------------------------------------

1. Introduction
2. Fondements th?oriques : terminologie, ontologie
3. Textes de sp?cialit?
3.1. Typologie de textes
4. Extraction de donn?es terminologiques
	4.1. Candidats termes
	4.2. Candidats collocations
	4.3. Relations s?mantiques ? base de marqueurs linguistiques
	4.4. Organisation des donn?es terminologiques
	4.5. Validation par l?expert
5. Des textes ? la d?finition
5.1. D?finition(s) de d?finition
5.2. El?ments de d?finition ? des fins de r?daction
5.3. R?le de l?expert dans la validation des r?sultats
6. M?diation entre terminologue et expert
7. De la d?finition en langue ? la d?finition formelle
8. Synth?se

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:40:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: JapTAL2012,
 the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:54:35 +0100
From: Sylviane CARDEY <sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr>
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====First Announcement of JapTAL 2012====

JapTAL2012, the 8th International Conference on Natural Language
Processing,
Kanazawa, Japan - 22-24 October 2012
http://lang.cs.tut.ac.jp/JapTAL2012/ (will appear)

We are pleased to invite participation in JapTAL2012 organised by the
Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT).

OVERVIEW

The conference will take place in the city of Kanazawa, a leading
tourist city where 7 million tourists visit every year. It was a great
castle town ruled by an influential leader from the 17th century to the
second half of the 19th century.  Kanazawa has not suffered from any war
devastation or big natural disaster up to now. Therefore, Kanazawa
maintains rows of historical houses and inherits traditional handicrafts
and traditional performing arts.

JapTAL is the eighth in the series of the TAL conferences, following
IceTAL 2010 (Reykjavik, Iceland), GoTAL 2008 (Gothenburg, Sweden),
FinTAL 2006 (Turku, Finland), EsTAL 2004 (Alicante, Spain), PorTAL 2002
(Faro, Portugal), VexTAL 1999 (Venice, Italy) and FracTAL 1997
(Besancon, France).

The main purpose of the TAL conference series is to bring together
scientists representing linguistics, computer science and related
fields, sharing a common interest in the advancement of computational
linguistics and natural language processing.

The conference will consist of keynote talks, oral and poster
presentations, invited sessions and workshops, on the applications and
theory of natural language processing and related areas. It will provide
excellent opportunities for the presentation of interesting new research
results and discussion about them, leading to knowledge transfer and the
generation of new ideas.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished
research on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural
language and speech processing.

We welcome submissions both from academia and the industry on any topic
that is of interest to the NLP community, encouraging research
emphasizing multidisciplinary aspects of NLP and the interplay between
linguistics, computer science and application domains such as
biomedicine, communication systems, public services, and educational
technology.

Important Date
     Provisional deadlines - see website for confirmation.
     Papers due: 1 June 2012
     Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2012
     Camera ready due: 1 September 2012

Conference Chair
     Hitoshi Isahara, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Local
     Arrangements Chair
     Kyoko Kanzaki, National Institute of Japanese Language and
     Linguistics, Japan

Full committee to be announced.


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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:43:32 +0100
Subject: Appel: CIAA 2012, Final Call for Papers
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 19:56:38 +0100 (CET)
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Apologies for multiple copies 

----------------------------- 
Final Call for Papers -- CIAA 2012 

17th International Conference on Implementation and Application of
Automata

Porto, Portugal 

July 17-20, 2012 

http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/CIAA12 
------------------- 

*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 18 (23:59h, UTC) *** 


IMPORTANT DATES 

Submission Deadline (Extended) : ?March 18, 2012 (strict) 
Notification: April 20, 2012 
Final Version: May 7, 2012 
Deadline for system demos: May 31, 2012 
Conference Dates: July 17-20, 2012 


AIM AND SCOPE 

CIAA is the premier annual conference for researchers, application
developers and users of automata-based systems. ?The applications of the
theory of automata, a foundational area of computer science, have spread
to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines.

The CIAA series has published significant papers describing the
applications of finite automata in parsing and compilers, logic, natural
language processing, pattern matching, database management, ? and
bioinformatics. The conference also accepts papers that advance the
state of the art in the theoretical study of finite automata, regular
expressions, grammars and related formal models.

Another goal of the conference is to provide additions and enhancements
to existing software systems that manipulate automata, regular
expressions, grammars, and related structures; examples of such systems
include AGL, AMoRE, ASTL, Automate, FADELA, FAdo, FinITE, FIRE Station,
FSM, Grail+, INR, Intex, JFLAP, MERLin, MONA, TESTAS, Turing's World,
Vaucanson, WFSC and Whale Calf.

Topics 

CIAA invites papers on all aspects of implementation, application, and
theory of automata and related structures, including but not limited to:

- Algorithms on automata  
- Automata and logic  
- Bioinformatics 
- Complexity of automata operations 
- Compilers 
- Computer-aided verification 
- Concurrency 
- Data structure design for automata 
- Data and image compression 
- Design and architecture of automata software 
- Digital libraries 
- DNA/molecular/membrane computing 
- Document engineering 
- Editors, environments 
- Experimental studies and practical experience 
- Implementation of verification methods and model checking 
- Industrial applications 
- Natural language and speech processing 
- Networking 
- New algorithms for manipulating automata 
- Object-oriented modeling 
- Pattern-matching 
- Pushdown automata and context-free grammars 
- Quantum computing 
- Structured and semi-structured documents 
- Symbolic manipulation environments for automata 
- Transducers and multi-tape automata  
- Techniques for graphical display of automata 
- VLSI 
- Viruses, related phenomena 
- World-wide web 


PREVIOUS EDITIONS 

Sixteen previous CIAA conferences took place in: Blois (2011), Winnipeg
(2010), Sydney (2009), San Francisco (2008), Prague (2007), Taipei
(2006), Nice (2005), Kingston (2004), Santa Barbara (2003), Tours
(2002), Pretoria (2001), London Ontario (2000), Potsdam (WIA'99), Rouen
(WIA'98), London Ontario (WIA'97), London Ontario (WIA'96). See the
conference site ( http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/ciaa/ ) for archives on
these previous editions.

This year edition of the conference is dedicated to Alan Turing on the
occasion of the Centenary Celebration of his life and work.


SUBMISSIONS 

Research papers are sought on all aspects of implementation,
application, and theory of automata and related structures. Researchers
are invited to submit unpublished original research. Simultaneous
submissions to other venues is not allowed.

Submitted papers must use the LNCS-style LaTeX2e (available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) .


Papers must be in English, should not exceed 10 pages and provide
sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their
merits. If the authors believe that more details are necessary to
substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked
appendix to be read at the discretion of the committee.

Papers will be submitted electronically in PDF, using the EasyChair
system. Use the following link for submission:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciaa2012 

Proceedings will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes of Computer
Science (LNCS) and will be available at the conference. Extended
versions of selected proceedings papers will appear in a special issue
of International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS).

DEMOS 

We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to
demonstrate their software should submit a two-page description to the
outlining the design of their system and its application area(s). The
descriptions of accepted demos will appear in a booklet available at the
conference. Deadline for submitions is May 31.


VENUE 

CIAA 2012 will take place in Porto, the second largest city in Portugal,
located by the Douro river and the Atlantic Ocean. Porto dates back to
the IV century and the city center is classified as world heritage
patrimony by UNESCO. The city is also known worldwide for the renowned
Port Wine.

The venue will be the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto
located in Campo Alegre area and very close to the conference hotels.

SPECIAL SESSION 

A special session in memoriam of Professor Sheng Yu will take place
during this edition of CIAA.


RELATED EVENT 

CIAA 2012 will be held just before DCFS 2012 which will take place in
Braga, also in Portugal and less then 50 km from Porto, on July
23--25. More information about this workshop can be found at the web
page http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/DCFS12

INVITED SPEAKERS 

Janusz Brzozowski (U. of Waterloo, Canada), "In Search of Most Complex
Regular Languages" 
Paul Gastin (ENS de Cachan, Fance), "Adding Pebbles to Weighted
Automata" 
Jos? Nuno Oliveira (U. do Minho, Portugal) (TBA) 
Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden, The Netherlands), "A Formal Framework for
Processes Inspired by the Functioning of Living Cells " 
Kai Salomaa (Queen's U., Kingston, Canada), "In Memoriam of Sheng Yu"

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Marie-Pierre Beal - France 
B?atrice Bouchou-Markhoff - France 
Patricia Bouyer - France 
Cezar Campeanu - Canada 
Pascal Caron - France 
Jean-Marc Champarnaud - France 
Jan Daciuk - Poland 
Michael Domaratzki - Canada 
Yo-Sub Han - South Korea 
Tero Harju - Finland 
Markus Holzer - Germany 
Oscar Ibarra - USA 
Masami Ito - Japan 
Joost-Pieter Katoen - Germany 
Stavros Konstantinidis - Canada 
Andreas Maletti - Germany 
Sebastian Maneth - Australia 
Denis Maurel - France 
Ian McQuillan - Canada 
Mehryar Mohri - USA 
Nelma Moreira - Portugal (co-chair) 
Alexander Okhotin - Finland 
Giovanni Pighizzini - Italy 
Bala Ravikumar - USA 
Rog?rio Reis - Portugal (co-chair) 
Kai Salomaa - Canada 
Colin Stirling - United Kingdom 
Mikhail Volkov - Russian Federation 
Bruce Watson - South Africa 
Hsu-Chun Yen - Taiwan 
Sheng Yu - Canada 

STEERING COMMITTEE 

Jean-Marc Champarnaud - France 
Oscar Ibarra - USA 
Denis Maurel - France 
Kai T. Salomaa - Canada 
Sheng Yu - Canada (Chair) 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 

Sabine Broda (U. Porto) 
Ant?nio Machiavelo (U. Porto) 
Nelma Moreira (U. Porto) 
Rog?rio Reis (U. Porto) 
Sim?o Sousa (U. Beira Interior) 


The conference is sponsored by the University of Porto, University of
Beira Interior, CMUP, FCT, and EATCS.

For a small poster to download and display: 
http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/CIAA12/resources/CIAA2012a3.pdf 


CONTACT 

Postal address: 

CIAA 2012 
DCC-FCUP 
Rua do Campo Alegre, 1021-1055 
4169-007 Porto, 
Portugal 

Email: ciaa12 at dcc.fc.up.pt 

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:46:43 +0100
Subject: Journee: Journee commune IA et TAL, AFIA - ATALA, 12 mars 2012,
 Auditorium INALCO, Paris
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:48:20 +0100
From: Olivier Boissier <Olivier.Boissier at emse.fr>
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Intelligence artificielle et traitement automatique des langues se
retrouvent !

Journ?e commune AFIA - ATALA 
Association fran?aise pour l'intelligence artificielle
Association pour le traitement automatique des langues

Date : Lundi 12 mars 2012

Organisation : Pierre Zweigenbaum et Laurence Danlos

Lieu : Paris, Auditorium de l'INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins

Renseignements pratiques :
http://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3005

Le traitement automatique des langues (TAL), visant ? r?aliser des
t?ches relevant de la cognition humaine, a eu de longue date des liens
avec l'intelligence artificielle (IA). La force et la nature de ces
liens ont vari? au cours du temps dans la communaut? fran?aise et
internationale, avec des hauts dans les ann?es 1980 lors de l'essor de
l'IA. L'objectif de cette journ?e est de faire le point sur les liens
qui existent actuellement entre ces deux domaines.

Conf?rencier invit? : Jean-Paul Haton (LORIA - Universit? de Lorraine -
Institut Universitaire de France)

Plus de d?tails sur le programme :
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Journ%C3%A9e+commune+AFIA+-+ATALA#PROGRAMME

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:48:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: MALINDO 2012
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:54:32 +0800
From: Yong Soo Fong <soofong0629 at gmail.com>
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Hi,

Greetings.

*LATEST INFORMATION*

1) Paper submission due: *31st March, 2012 (Extended)*

2)
*Keynote Speaker*: Ms. Lim Lian Tze
*Title*: Low Cost Construction of Multilingual Lexicons for
Under-Resourced Languages
*Abstract*:
Multilingual translation lexicons are essential in many NLP
applications, such as machine translation, as well as being valuable
reading aids for human readers. Manually constructing multilingual
lexicons from scratch, however, is very labour-intensive. We describe a
low cost method for constructing a multilingual lexicon prototype using
very simple input data, namely lists of bilingual translation
mappings. Such bilingual resources are often freely available and easily
obtainable from the Internet or conventional paper-based
dictionaries. The low requirement of the input data also means our
method is especially suitable for under-resourced language and
language-pairs. In addition, the overall framework of our multilingual
lexicon presumes no extensive linguistic knowledge of contributors who
wish to help improve the lexicon. This allows any speaker of an
under-resourced language to contribute to the project, thus making more
language pairs possible via the multilingual lexicon. We also show how
the multilingual lexicon can be used as an ?intelligent? reading aid,
using contextual information mined from untagged comparable bilingual
corpus.  Again, this will make under-resourced languages more accessible
to speakers of other languages.

--------------- APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS --------------------

*CALL FOR PAPERS *
The 6TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MALAY AND INDONESIAN LANGUAGE
ENGINEERING (MALINDO2012)
21st Jun 2012
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
http://www.malindo.org

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A considerable amount of research has been done on the processing of
South East Asian languages offering a variety of Computational
Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources, tools
and applications.  All these valuable language resources are most of the
time ignored by the public and often not known by the researchers and
students working on these languages. MALINDO, as an annual international
workshop, aims to bring together researchers and practitioners,
representing different perspectives, to share and to exchange their
ideas on the processing of South East Asian languages. Because of the
venue of the2012 Workshop, the Organisers of MALINDO will anticipate
papers related to the processing of the varieties of Borneo
languages.MALINDO?s objective is to highlight the effort and promising
works done on the processing of the South East Asian languages, thus
attracting more students to the CL and NLP fields.

The MALINDO workshops are co-organized by three South East Asian
universities: Universitas Indonesia (Depok, Indonesia), the National
University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore), and Universiti Malaysia
Sarawak (UNIMAS, Malaysia).

All accepted papers will be published in the Workshop
Proceeding. Selected papers (Enhanced version) will be published in
MASAUM Journals. Some selected papers will also be published in Book
Chapters for MASAUM E-Book.

** TOPIC OF INTEREST *

The topics of the papers are requested to be in all areas related to the
language processing - computational and theoretical point of view - of
South East Asian languages (Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, etc.):

Language resources development, acquisition, annotation, and
representation: dictionaries, thesauri, terminology, lexicons, written
and spoken corpora, grammars, ontology;

Tools and techniques: spelling/grammatical/style checkers, morphological
analyser, stemmer, lemmatiser, part of speech tagger, chunker, syntactic
parser, word sense disambiguator, discourse processing, text and speech
alignment, text and speech segmentation, term extraction and
recognition, named entity extraction;

Applications: machine translation and translation aids, information
retrieval, information extraction, text summarisation, term extraction,
natural language generation, question translation aids, information
retrieval, information extraction, text summarization, term extraction,
natural language generation, question answering, document
categorization, language identification, speech recognition, speech
synthesis, character recognition, e-learning.

** IMPORTANT DATES
*
Paper Submission Due:
- *31st March, 2012.*

Notification of Acceptance:
- 16th April, 2012.

Camera Ready:
- 7th May, 2012.

Workshop Date:
- 21st June, 2012


** SUBMISSION INFORMATION *

Upload your submission in MSWord format at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=malindo2012

submission should be at most 8000 words. We suggest to author to use
MASAUM format in preparing the manuscripts.

** VENUE*
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS),
Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia

** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *
*Workshop Advisors :*
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Alvin Yeo Wee, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
*
*
*Workshop Chair : *
Balisoamanandray Ranaivo-Malan?on, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

*Programme Co-chairs: *
Mirna Adriani, University of Indonesia
St?phane Bressan, National University of Singapore

*Programme Committees (provisional): *
Cheah Yu-N, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Chooi-Ling Goh, NICT, Japan
Dwi Hendratmo Widyantoro, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Didier Schwab, University Mendhs-France, Grenoble, France
David Gil, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Gilles Serasset, University Joseph-Fourier, France
Hendra Setiawan, University of Maryland, USA
Indra Budi, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Min Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, A-STAR, Singapore
Ng Hwee Tou, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Normaziah Binti Abdul Aziz, International Islamic University Malaysia
Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rila Mandala, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Rohana Mahmud, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Sakriani Sakti, NICT, Japan
Tan Tien Ping, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Vincent Berment, GETALP-LIG/INALCO, France
Yves Lepage, Waseda University, Japan

*Local Organiser: *
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

** INQUIRIES:*
Send your inquery to the organisers at workshop at malindo.org

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:49:54 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension - March, 15 - CFP for the LREC Workshop
 on Language Resources for Public Security Applications - reminder
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Date: Tue,  6 Mar 2012 11:36:32 +0100 (CET)
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION - MARCH, 15

Dear Colleagues,

Please do consider your participation in the LREC 2012 workshop on
"Language Resources for Public Security Applications, May 27, 2012,
Istanbul, Turkey". See the CFP text at
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/IMG/ws/programme/LREC2012_WS_LRPS.pdf
and do visit the conference site at http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/.

We will be happy to see you in Istanbul.

On behalf of the Program Committee
Zygmunt Vetulani

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:51:15 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, 9 mars 2012,
 Pierre Magistry "Segmentation non-supervisee du mandarin ecrit"
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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:32:53 +0100
From: Marie Candito <marie.candito at gmail.com>
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************** S?minaire Alpage *******************

S?minaire de l'?cole doctorale de Paris Diderot

Il s'agit du s?minaire de recherche en linguistique informatique
organis? par l'?quipe Alpage, ?quipe mixte Inria -- Paris Diderot,
sp?cialis?e en analyse syntaxique automatique et en traitement du
discours.

Le prochain s?minaire se tiendra :

* vendredi 9 mars de 11h ? 12h30 *

en salle 3E91 ? l'UFRL, 16, rue de Clisson, 75013 Paris (3e ?tage
gauche)

Toute personne int?ress?e est la bienvenue.

***********************************************************

Pierre Magistry (Alpage) : Segmentation non-supervis?e du mandarin ?crit

L'?criture chinoise est de celles qui n'utilisent pas de caract?re
d'espacement.

Ceci complexifie grandement la tokenisation, premi?re ?tape de presque
tout syst?me d'analyse de textes ?crits en mandarin, ?tape que l'on
appelle traditionnellement "segmentation".

Si les m?thodes de segmentation supervis?es donnent aujourd'hui de tr?s
bons r?sultats "en laboratoire", la qualit? de leur sortie devient
difficile ? pr?dire si l'on doit faire face ? toute forme de variation
qui nous ?loignerait du corpus d?entra?nement (variations en genre, en
style, dans le temps ou au contact d'autres langues sinitiques).

Pour cette raison, ainsi que pour les questions linguistiques
sous-jacentes sur lesquelles les m?thodes supervis?es ne disent presque
rien, la segmentation non-supervis?e reste une option int?ressante ?
?tudier.

Apr?s avoir ?voqu? les difficult?s d'?valuation de tels syst?mes, nous
montrerons comment l'?tat de l'art actuel peut ?tre atteint en
simplifiant un mod?le existant inspir? d'une hypoth?se de Harris.  Pour
une qualit? de sortie comparable, le mod?le propos? pr?sente les
avantages d'?tre non param?trique et de se baser sur une unique
hypoth?se linguistique, rendant son fonctionnement plus intuitif.

***********************************************************

Prochaines dates:

23/03 : Roser Sauri (Brandeis University)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:56:38 +0100
Subject: Appel: Extended Deadline,
 ACL 2012 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity
 and Sentiment Analysis
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:23:54 +0100
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3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment
Analysis (WASSA 2012) - http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2012/

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- Satellite workshop to ACL 2012 (Jeju, Korea) 
- Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGNLL and SIGSEM
- The best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the Computer 
  Speech and Language Journal (Elsevier). 
- Subsequent to the WASSA 2012 acceptance notification, we will also
  launch an open call for papers for a Special Issue of the Information
  Sciences Journal (Elsevier).

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Mar 18, 2012:	Extended paper submission deadline
Apr 15, 2012:	Notification of acceptance
Apr 30, 2012:	Camera-ready deadline
Jul 12, 2012:	Workshop to take place at ACL 2012

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AIM OF WORKSHOP

Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, as subtasks
in Affective Computing within Natural Language Processing, has
flourished in the past years, as the Social Web made it possible for
people all over the world to express, comment or consult opinions on any
given topic. The fact that so many people express themselves on these
topics makes opinions less biased and more credible; their subjective
nature makes them easily understandable by all people and leads to their
growing influence on communities worldwide. Due to all these reasons,
opinions expressed on the Web are more and more considered as basis for
decision-making processes, for recommendation systems, business
intelligence processes, image monitoring, and marketing or for obtaining
unbiased, massive feedback.

In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years,
dealing with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex,
interdisciplinary problem that remains far from being solved. Its
challenges include the need to address the issue from different
perspectives and at different levels, depending on the characteristics
of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the final application
for which the analysis is done.

Bearing in mind the abovementioned reflections, the aim of the 3rd
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment
Analysis (WASSA 2012) is to continue the line of the previous two
editions, bringing together researchers in Computational Linguistics
working on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and, more generally, on
affect in text. Moreover, taking into account that affect- related
phenomena have also been studied by other disciplines, such as
Psychology, Philosophy or Economics, the purpose of WASSA 2012 is to
facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue on the analysis, requirements,
issues and applications of the study of subjectivity and sentiment in
the context of traditional and emerging text types. We envisage WASSA as
a forum to discuss the achievements obtained so far and to analyse the
different approaches to tackle the difficulties researchers are
confronted with in this research area.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

Inspired by the objectives we aimed at in the &#64257;rst two editions
of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity Analysis
(WASSA 2010 and WASSA 2.011) and the &#64257;nal outcome, the purpose of
the proposed 3rd edition of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to
Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2012) is to create a
framework for presenting and discussing the challenges related to
subjectivity and sentiment analysis in NLP, from an interdisciplinary
theoretical and practical perspective.

Researchers are encouraged to submit papers including, but not
restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and sentiment
analysis:

- Lexical semantic resources, corpora and annotations for subjectivity
  and sentiment analysis
- Subjectivity and opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization,
  aggregation and summarization
- Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment
  analysis
- Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models.
- Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis
- Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective language
- The computational treatment of large amounts of user-generated content
- Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task
- Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis
- Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
- Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation methodologies for subjectivity and
  sentiment analysis
- Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks 
- Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis techniques
- Classification of stance in dialogues
- Real-world applications of opinion mining systems

We will also encourage participants to provide demos of their systems,
thus giving them the opportunity to obtain feedback on their
achievements and issues.
At the same time, with the help of demos, we aim at enriching the
discussion forum with application-specific topics for debate.

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ORGANIZERS

- Alexandra Balahur ? European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy ?
  alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu
- Andr?s Montoyo - University of Alicante, Spain ? montoyo at dlsi.ua.es 
- Patricio Mart?nez-Barco - University of Alicante, Spain - 
  patricio at dlsi.ua.es 
- Ester Boldrini - University of Alicante, Spain - eboldrini at dlsi.ua.es 

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

- Khurshid Ahmad ? Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Sivaji Bandyopadhyay - Jadavpur University, India
- Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy
- Erik Cambria ? University of Stirling, U.K.
- Jos? Carlos Cortizo - European University Madrid, Spain
- Michael Gamon ? Microsoft 
- Jes?s M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain
- Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium
- Mijail Kabadjov ? Vicomtech, Spain
- Zornitsa Kozareva - Information Sciences Institute California, U.S.A.
- Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.
- Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada
- Karo Moilanen ? Oxford University, U.K.
- Rafael Mu?oz - University of Alicante, Spain
- G?nter Neumann - DFKI, Germany
- Alena Neviarouskaia ? University of Tokyo, Japan
- Manabu Okumura ? Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Manuel Palomar - University of Alicante, Spain
- Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Paolo Rosso - Technical University of Valencia, Spain
- Josef Steinberger ? EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Ralf Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Veselin Stoyanov ? John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
- Maite Taboada -  Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Jos? Antonio Troyano - University of Seville, Spain
- Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania
- Alfonso Ure?a ? University of Ja?n, Spain
- Erik van der Goot ? EC Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Marilyn Walker - University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
- Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
- Michael Wiegand ? Saarland University, Germany
- Theresa Wilson ? John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
- Taras Zagibalov -  Brantwatch, U.K.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

- Prof. Dr. Rada Mihalcea ? University of North Texas, U.S.A. 
- Prof. Dr. Janyce Wiebe ? University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

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SUBMISSIONS

At WASSA 2012, we will accept two types of submissions: long and short
papers.

- Long papers
  Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two
  (2) additional pages of references, and will be presented orally.

- Short papers
  Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two
  (2) additional pages of references. The following types of papers are
  appropriate for a short paper submission:
1.	A paper describing the demonstration of a system
2.	A small, focused contribution
3.	Work in progress
4.	A negative result
5.	An opinion piece
6.	An interesting application nugget

Short papers will be presented either orally or as a poster. The choice
of presentation will be given not based on the quality of the
submission, but on the PC?s recommendation relating to the most suitable
presentation method.
All papers submitted to WASSA should be formatted according to the
ACL-HLT 2012 Style Files, available at:
http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp

Reviewing for WASSA 2010 will be blind: reviewers will not be presented
with the identity of paper authors. Authors should avoid writing
anything that makes their identity obvious in the text.

Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously
have been formally published.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACL WASSA proceedings, with
ISBN. The best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the Computer
Speech and Language Journal (Elsevier).

Subsequent to the WASSA 2012 acceptance notification, we will also
launch an open call for papers for a Special Issue of the Information
Sciences Journal (Elsevier).

To submit a paper, please access:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/wassa-2012

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:58:24 +0100
Subject: Job: Portuguese Linguist, SYSTRAN
Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2012.215824.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 15:02:06 +0100
From: "BUSCHBECK Bianka" <buschbeck at systran.fr>
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Position Title:            Portuguese Linguist
Position ID:                LD_CLPT_BB_201203

Company:                  SYSTRAN

Department:              Linguistic Resources 
Location:                    Paris 75002, France

Website:                     www.systran.fr 

Job description:

We are currently looking for a highly qualified Portuguese linguist to
join an international team for the development of MT resources. Primary
responsibilities are:

..  Adaptation of our Portuguese language pairs to the new spelling
    conventions for Portuguese

..  Work on European Portuguese - Brazilian Portuguese localization of
    the Portuguese MT input and output

..  Corpus-based dictionary development for Portuguese language pairs

..  Improvement of Portuguese analysis and automatic dictionary coding
    resources

..  Integration and testing of linguistic resources

Required skills:

The ideal candidate should have strong interest in developing and
enhancing the capabilities of machine translation and meet the following
requirements:

..  Native competence of Portuguese and fluency in English and French

..  Profound knowledge of the Portuguese spelling reform and ability to
    specify rules converting text to the new spelling conventions

..  Good working knowledge of computational lexicography and NLP methods
    in general

..  Strong skills in Portuguese, English and French morphology and
    syntax

..  Working knowledge of Perl and scripting languages is a plus

..  Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team

Education and experience:

..  Advanced degree in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or
    Translation Studies (Master or PhD), and 2+ years experience in an
    industrial or academic NLP environment

Please send your application to Bianka Buschbeck: buschbeck at
systran.fr or submit it on our website
http://www.systran.fr/systran/carrieres

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:01:01 +0100
Subject: Revue: ANAE N116 / 2012- L'apprentissage du langage ecrit et ses
 troubles
Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2012.220101.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:11:34 +0000
From: Catherine de Gavre <cdg at anae-edition.com>
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Merci d'annoncer et/ou de transmettre ? vos collaborateurs, confr?res,
?tudiants, membres... concern?s
Avez-vous d?j? pens? ? vous abonner ? ANAE ?
[Description?: Description?: cid:image001.jpg at 01CCF096.3DDD84B0]
Commander le N? 116<http://www.anae-revue.com/anae-n-2012-achat-au-n/>
S'abonner ? ANAE en 2012<http://www.anae-revue.com/abonnement-2012/>

Ce num?ro fait partie de l'abonnement 2012, Vol 24. Comprenant ?galement
:

- N? 116 Troubles du langage ?crit et ses troubles - Approche cognitive
         - (coordonn? par B. Pierart)

- N? 117 L'animal dans le soin (coordonn? par le M. Maurer,
         Paris-Descartes et Univ de Sherbrook)

- N? 118 Epilepsie et troubles des Apprentissages (coordonn? par le Pr
         Arzimanoglou, Lyon)

- N? 119 Troubles du langage ?crit de l'enfance ? l'?ge adulte
         (coordonn? par I. Simo?s, Toulouse)


- N? 120 L'enfant pr?coce, forces et faiblesses (coordonn? par les Pr
         J. Gr?goire et T. Lubart)

- N? 121 Autisme - Pecs, ABA... pratiques d'?ducation de la th?orie ? la
         pratique

Catherine de Gavre
Directeur de la Publication ANAE
Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez l'Enfant
anae at wanadoo.fr
www.anae-revue.com
www.anae-revue.over-blog.com
ANAE formations
Les Editions du Petit ANAE

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:22:37 +0100
Subject: Conf: IA et TAL se retrouvent, Journee commune AFIA - ATALA,
 Programme
Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2012.222237.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:56:25 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
Message-Id: <201203062156.25474.pz at limsi.fr>
X-url: http://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3005
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L'IA est-elle soluble dans le TAL ?
Pour le savoir, venez assister ? la journ?e :

Intelligence artificielle et traitement automatique des langues se
retrouvent

====
  Journ?e commune AFIA - ATALA
  Association fran?aise pour l'intelligence artificielle
  Association pour le traitement automatique des langues

  Date : Lundi 12 mars 2012
  Organisation : Pierre Zweigenbaum et Laurence Danlos
  Lieu : Paris, Auditorium de l'INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins
  Renseignements pratiques :
      http://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3005

  Conf?rencier invit? :
    Jean-Paul Haton
    (LORIA - Universit? de Lorraine - Institut Universitaire de France)

  Informations compl?tes sur :
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Journ%C3%A9e+commune+AFIA+-+ATALA
====

TH?ME

L'objectif de cette journ?e est de faire le point sur les liens qui
existent actuellement entre le traitement automatique des langues (TAL),
et l'intelligence artificielle (IA).

INSCRIPTION ET PARTICIPATION

La participation ? la journ?e est gratuite et ouverte ? tous.
N?anmoins, pour faciliter son organisation mat?rielle, il est demand? de
s'inscrire en envoyant un message ? pz (?) limsi.fr .

PROGRAMME

================================================================
9h00-9h30 : Accueil
9h10 : Pr?sentation de l'ATALA,
    Association pour le traitement automatique des langues
9h20 : Pr?sentation de l'AFIA,
    Association fran?aise pour l'intelligence artificielle

================================================================
9h30-11h00 : Introduction g?n?rale de la journ?e

Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS et ERTIM-INALCO) &
Laurence Danlos (ALPAGE, U Paris Diderot et INRIA)
    Introduction au TAL et positionnement.

Jean-Paul Haton
(LORIA et Universit? de Lorraine et Institut Universitaire de France)
    Intelligence artificielle : ?tat des lieux.

================================================================
11h00-11h30 : Pause
================================================================
11h30-13h00 : Acquisition de connaissances ontologiques ? partir de
textes

Amedeo Napoli
(LORIA et INRIA Lorraine)
    Tutoriel sur l'IA :
    repr?sentation des connaissances, raisonnement, fouille de donn?es.

Adeline Nazarenko, Nouha Omrane, Sylvie Szulman
(LIPN, CNRS et U Paris Nord)
    Indices textuels et connaissances de domaine :
    apport du TAL ? l'Ing?nierie des connaissances textuelles.

Yannick Toussaint
(LORIA et INRIA Lorraine)
    Extraction de connaissances complexes ? partir de textes.

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13h00-14h30 : Repas libre
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14h30-16h00 :  TAL et raisonnement

Ana?s Cadilhac, Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara
(IRIT, CNRS et U Paul Sabatier)
     Extraction de pr?f?rences ? partir de dialogues de n?gociation.

Camille Albert, Sarah Bourse, Patrick Saint-Dizier,
Leila Amgoud, Florence Bannay, Marie-Christine Lagasqui?
(IRIT, CNRS et U Paul Sabatier)
     Comment le TALN et l'IA coop?rent :
     Le cas de la confrontation exigences de s?curit? / proc?dures.

Fran?ois L?vy, Adeline Nazarenko, Abdoulaye Guiss?
(LIPN, CNRS et U Paris Nord)
    D'o? viennent les r?gles des syst?mes experts (d'aujourd'hui) ?
    Le r?le du texte.

Kamel Nebhi
(U Gen?ve)
     Annotation automatique de documents pour les besoins du Web
     S?mantique : une approche linguistique.

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16h00-16h30 : Pause
================================================================
16h30-17h20 : IA et sciences cognitives pour le TAL

16h30-16h50
Andon Tchechmedjiev, Didier Schwab, Jer?me Goulian
(LIG-GETALP, CNRS)
     M?thodes de recherche stochastique pour la propagation de mesures
     s?mantiques locales dans le cadre de la d?sambiguisation lexicale.

16h50-17h20
Michael Zock (LIF, CNRS et U de la M?diterran?e)
    'Sciences' de la connaissance et 'sciences' de la communication :
    objectifs et strat?gies et quelques r?flexions concernant leur
    ad?quation.

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17h20-18h00 Table ronde : quelles relations entre IA et TAL ?
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 22:52:41 +0100
Subject: Appel: EKAW 2012 PhD Symposium, Oct. 12th, Galway (Ireland)
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:23:44 +0100
From: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles <aussenac at irit.fr>
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*EKAW 2012 PhD Symposium*

*October 12th 2012, Galway (Ireland)*

**

http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org/node/53

**

*CALL for papers*

The Symposium is open to all PhD students. Its aim is to provide PhD
students with an opportunity to have their work -- even in its early
stages -- presented to an international audience. Moreover, their work
will be reviewed by experienced researchers one of which will play the
role of a privileged advisor (a mentor).

PhD students at the beginning of their work should have at least a
defined problem statement and some ideas about the solution that they
want to discuss. More advanced students will have to present their
research plan, their evaluation protocol and their preliminary results.

*Important Dates:*

.Paper Submission: April 25th, 2012

.Notification: June 12th, 2012

.Camera-Ready paper: July 6th , 2012

.PhD Symposium: October 12th, 2012

.Symposium :*October 12th 2012: Galway*

**

*Paper outline*

Submissions should be structured around the following items which are
the key methodological components required for a sound research
narrative:

. Problem: describe the core problem of the PhD and motivate its
  relevance for the knowledge management, knowledge acquisition and
  knowledge representation areas.

. State of the art: describe relevant related work and point out areas
  that need to be improved;

. Proposed Approach: present the approach taken and motivate how this is
  novel with respect to existing work;

. Methodology: sketch the methodology that is (or will be) adopted

. Evaluation protocol: the approach to be taken for evaluating the
  results of the work;

. Results: describe the current status of the work and any results that
  have been reached so far;

. Conclusions and future work: conclude and specify the major items of
  future work.

Submissions should be in the format of the EKAW conference (link). They
should be between 5 and 7 pages long.

Accepted papers will be published online as a CEUR workshop proceedings
volume (http://ceur-ws.org <http://ceur-ws.org/>).

*Topics :*

The symposium is intended for students doing their PhD in the same area
as the EKAW 2012 conference (knowledge management, knowledge acquisition
and knowledge representation)and in particular the following topics

1. Methodologies and tools for knowledge management

o Scalability, robustness, provenance and trust, privacy and data
  security in real-world data

o Adoption of semantic web technologies and Web 2.0 technologies

o Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration

o Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management technologies

o Corporate memories for knowledge management

o Incentives for human knowledge acquisition (e.g. games with a purpose)

2. Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition

o Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering

o Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation

o Knowledge acquisition from resources (texts, thesaurus, ...)

o Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data

o Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge

3. Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation

o Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science

o Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks

o Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation

o Knowledge ecosystems, expert finding


Symposium chairs

Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse, France) aussenac at irit.fr

Nathalie Hernandez (IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse, France) hernande at irit.fr

Programme committee : Currently being defined

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:07:05 +0100
Subject: Revue: DISCOURS 9, 2011
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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:26:53 +0100
From: "laure.sarda at ens.fr" <laure.sarda at gmail.com>
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Sorry for multiple posting
(English version below)

******************************************



Nous sommes tr?s heureux d?annoncer la publication de *DISCOURS 9, 2011
http://discours.revues.org/8505 *

Au sommaire :

**

   - *Genevi?ve **Bordet*

? This ? comme marqueur privil?gi? du genre : le cas des r?sum?s de
th?ses http://discours.revues.org/8506 [Texte int?gral]

   - *Laetitia **Faivre*

L?ouverture d??nonc? : espace contraint, espace de libert?. Comparaison
entre l?allemand et le fran?ais dans un texte de Peter Sloterdijk et sa
traduction http://discours.revues.org/8523 [Texte int?gral]

   - *Guillaume **Fran?ois*

?tude compar?e du fonctionnement des parenth?ses et des tirets
http://discours.revues.org/8542 [Texte int?gral]

   - *Christiane **Marque-Pucheu*

Entre statut phrastique et statut textuel : l?exemple des ?nonc?s
situationnels http://discours.revues.org/8553 [Texte int?gral]

   - *Marianna **Mini**, Kleopatra **Diakogiorgi** et Aggeliki
      **Fotopoulou*

What can children tell us about the fixedness of idiomatic phrases? The
psycholinguistic relevance of a linguistic model
http://discours.revues.org/8579 [Texte int?gral]

   - *Catherine **Schnedecker** et Myriam **Bras*

Description s?mantique de *dans un premier temps* : de la composition
syntagmatique au discours http://discours.revues.org/8563 [Texte
int?gral]


Nous vous souhaitons une bonne lecture et nous vous invitons par
ailleurs ? soumettre ? tout moment pour les num?ros ?
para?tre. Consultez les modalit?s de soumission
http://discours.revues.org/index208.html, et le dernier appel ?
soumission http://discours.revues.org/8595

 Le comit? de r?daction


************************************************************************

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 8th issue of DISCOURS :

*DISCOURS 9 |2011 http://discours.revues.org/8505 *

   - You can read the following articles:


    *Genevi?ve **Bordet*

? This ? comme marqueur privil?gi? du genre : le cas des r?sum?s de
th?ses http://discours.revues.org/8506

   - *Laetitia **Faivre*

L?ouverture d??nonc? : espace contraint, espace de libert?. Comparaison
entre l?allemand et le fran?ais dans un texte de Peter Sloterdijk et sa
traduction http://discours.revues.org/8523

   - *Guillaume **Fran?ois*

?tude compar?e du fonctionnement des parenth?ses et des tirets
http://discours.revues.org/8542

   - *Christiane **Marque-Pucheu*

Entre statut phrastique et statut textuel : l?exemple des ?nonc?s
situationnels http://discours.revues.org/8553

   - *Marianna **Mini**, Kleopatra **Diakogiorgi** et Aggeliki
      **Fotopoulou*

What can children tell us about the fixedness of idiomatic phrases? The
psycholinguistic relevance of a linguistic model
http://discours.revues.org/8579

   - *Catherine **Schnedecker** et Myriam **Bras*

Description s?mantique de *dans un premier temps* : de la composition
syntagmatique au discours <http://discours.revues.org/8563>



We hope you enjoy the issue.

For information on Call for papers http://discours.revues.org/8595 and
on submission procedures see http://discours.revues.org/index224.html.


The editorial board

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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:13:08 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: PlaIR, Rouen, 3 Avril 2012
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************************ APPEL A PARTICIPATION ************************

S?minaire du projet PlaIR (Plateforme d'Indexation R?gionale)

Rouen 3 Avril 2012

LITIS EA 4108, Universit? de Rouen, Site du Madrillet

***********************************************************************


Le projet PlaIR ( Plateforme d'Indexation R?gionale) se donne pour
objectif de mutualiser un ensemble de ressources documentaires
num?riques et num?ris?es et les biblioth?ques logicielles d?analyse
automatique ou semi-automatique de ces ressources pour constituer une
plateforme d?indexation et de recherche d?information multi-domaines et
multi-usages.

Quatre domaines d?applications sont retenus pour constituer autant de
d?monstrateurs de cette plateforme : La Sant?, l?Ing?nierie, le Droit et
les Archives Num?ris?es Patrimoniales Imprim?es.

===============
ORGANISATEURS
===============

Pr St?fan Darmoni, LITIS EA 4108, Equipe Traitement de l'Information en
Biologie et Sant?
Pr Thierry ?Paquet, LITIS EA 4108, Equipe Document et Apprentissage

====================================
DESCRIPTION DU PROJET ET PARTENAIRES
====================================

http://www.chu-rouen.fr/plair/doku.php

===========
INSCRIPTION
===========

La participation ? la journ?e est gratuite mais pour des soucis
d'organisation merci d'envoyer un mail ? : stefan.darmoni at chu-rouen.fr
avec comme objet [Inscription PLAIR]

===============
COMMENT VENIR
===============

UFR Sciences, Universit? de Rouen, Site du Madrillet :
http://www.litislab.eu/front-page/acces

Par transport en commun : METRO-BUS de la gare SNCF direction
Technop?le, arr?t station Technop?le, l'Universit? est sur la droite

En voiture : Au niveau de la sortie Les Essards, Rouen Sud : Prendre
direction N138; Premier rond point : prendre direction Technop?le

===========
PROGRAMME
===========

   - 9h30-9h50 : accueil des participants

   - 9h50-10h00 : Introduction de la journ?e : Thierry Paquet & St?fan
     Darmoni

   - 10h00 : Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI) : TAL et indexation

   - 10h30 : Herv? Dejean : XRCE

=========
Pause caf?
=========

   - 11h30-12h00 : T. Merabti (CHU Rouen) - R?sultats D?mos Perspectives

   - 12h00-12h30 : T. Palfray ? S. Nicolas (LITIS-Rouen) - R?sultats
     D?mos Perspectives

   - 12h-12h30 Genevi?ve CRON : BnF, centre de comp?tences IMPACT

   - 12h30-13h00 Marie-Christine Jaulent : Ing?nierie des connaissances
     et sant? (INSERM)

=============
Pause d?jeuner
=============

   - 14h00-14h30 IDIT-DYSOLA-LITIS

   - 14h15-14h30 UNIT (?quipe MIU-LITIS)

   - 14h30-14h45 Archives de Seine Maritime

   - 14h45-15h00 E. Delamotte : Labex GIPSH / Cartographie du WEB

   - 15h00-15h15 E. Lalou : Documents anciens

   - 15h15-15h30 GREYC (Caen) : Ga?l

   - 15h30-15h45 MRSH : Pascal Buleon Equipex Numnie

==================================
Cl?ture : Table Ronde PlaIR II : Vers Numerid
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Subject: Appel: Atelier IC2012,
 Interoperabilit=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9_?=Semantique en e-Sante
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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 21:33:04 +0100
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******** APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS ********

Atelier IC pour l?Interop?rabilit? S?mantique dans les applications en
e-Sant?

Paris, Mardi 26 Juin 2012

https://sites.google.com/site/icisante2012/

en conjonction avec les 23?mes Journ?es francophones d?Ing?nierie des
Connaissances

            http://ic2012.crc.jussieu.fr/

************************************************************************

L?Agence des Syst?mes d'Information Partag?s en Sant? (ASIP) d?finit
l?interop?rabilit? s?mantique entre syst?mes d?information dans les
domaines sant? et m?dico-social de la fa?on suivante: ? La capacit?
qu?ont plusieurs syst?mes d??changer de l?information entre eux et
d?utiliser l?information qui a ?t? ?chang?e, pour que les utilisateurs
de ces syst?mes puissent en tirer parti dans leurs actes et leurs
d?cisions, pour le mieux-?tre de leurs patients. ? En g?n?ral, pour y
parvenir, le respect de normes et de standards partag?s est
n?cessaire. L?interop?rabilit? s?mantique en sant? s?appuie donc sur un
ensemble de ressources et de services permettant ? un syst?me
d?information de lier les donn?es recueillies avec les connaissances
g?n?rales du domaine et permettant une optimisation des dossiers
patients informatis?s pour un usage multiple : le soin, la sant?
publique et la recherche clinique ? travers plusieurs syst?mes de sant?
et plusieurs institutions. La question de l?interop?rabilit? s?mantique
en sant? est en pleine expansion au niveau europ?en comme en t?moigne
les nombreux projets financ?s dans le programme du FP7, mais ?galement
en France avec le d?ploiement du Dossier M?dical Personnel mi-Janvier
2012.

L?objectif de cet atelier est de r?unir les travaux traitant des
ressources et bases de connaissances pour l'interop?rabilit? s?mantique
en sant? (partage et r?utilisation) sous divers aspects : leur
construction, leur ?valuation, les langages et standards pour les
repr?senter.

Il s?agit de rassembler des chercheurs issus des mondes acad?mique et
industriel pour d?battre de la question de l?interop?rabilit? s?mantique
en sant? ? travers la pr?sentation d?activit?s de recherche innovantes,
de techniques, de technologies et de d?monstrateurs d?velopp?s dans le
cadre de la mise en ?uvre de solutions d?interop?rabilit? s?mantique
dans le domaine m?dical.

=========
THEMES
=========

Nous sollicitons des propositions de communication portant sur le th?me
de la construction de ressources et de bases de connaissances pour
faciliter l'interop?rabilit? s?mantique au sein d?applications m?dicales
(dossiers patients, syst?mes d?information hospitaliers ...)

Les discussions pourront ?tre organis?es autour des th?matiques (non
exhaustives) suivantes :

** Terminologies et Ontologies m?dicales :
Interop?rabilit? s?mantique des contenus m?dicaux,
M?thodes d'alignement de terminologies et d'ontologies,
Indexation terminologique de dossiers m?dicaux de patients et de r?cits
cliniques,
Formalismes et langages de repr?sentation,
Apports de la s?mantique dans la pratique m?dicale ...

** Int?gration de donn?es multi-sources :
Entrep?ts de donn?es biom?dicales
Partage et r?utilisation des donn?es ?

** Extraction de l?information et de connaissances ? partir de contenus
m?dicaux :
construction de bases de connaissances,
fouille de donn?es
fouille de textes  ?

** Utilisation de l?interop?rabilit? s?mantique :
pour l?aide ? la d?cision,
la recherche d?information, l'indexation?

============
SOUMISSIONS
============

Les chercheurs travaillant sur les th?matiques de l'Interop?rabilt?
S?mantique pour les applications en e-sant? sont invit?s ? soumettre des
contributions jusqu'? *6* pages au format *** PDF** *conformes au mod?le
de documents de la conf?rence IC :

   - Mod?le LaTeX : http://ic2012.crc.jussieu.fr/style_latex_IC2012.zip
   - Mod?le Word : http://ic2012.crc.jussieu.fr/style_word_IC2012.doc


Les contributions pourront ?tre envoy?es par courriel jusqu'au 30/04 ?
ic.isante at gmail.com

=========
DATES
=========

R?ception des articles : 30 Avril 2012
R?ponse aux auteurs : 28 Mai 2012
Version finale : 4 Juin 2012
Atelier : Mardi 26 Juin 2012

=========
COMITE
=========

Florence Amerdeilh, Mondeca
Sandra Bringay, LIRMM, Universit? Montpellier 2
R?my Choquet, INSERM Equ20
Olivier Dameron, INSERM U936, Universit? Rennes 1
Christel Daniel, INSERM Equ20
Stefan Darmoni, LITIS, Universit? de Rouen
Catherine Duclos, LIM&Bio, Universit? Paris 13
Marie-Christine Jaulent, INSERM Equ 20
Cl?ment Jonquet, LIRMM, Universit? Montpellier 2
Fleur Mougin, ISPED, Universit? Bordeaux 2
Chantal Reynaud, LRI, Universit? Paris 11
Lina Soualmia, LIM&Bio, Universit? Paris 13
Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, Mondeca et INSERM Equ20

Organisatrices:

Marie-Christine Jaulent et Lina Soualmia

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:33:02 +0100
Subject: Appel: DEGELS 2012, report de la date limite au 4 avril
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:48:42 +0100
From: Annelies Braffort <annelies.braffort at limsi.fr>
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Bonjour,

L'atelier DEGELS (DEfi Geste Langue des Signes) a pour objectif de
mutualiser les questions de recherche autour de l'annotation des corpus
de fran?ais oral (voix et gestes) et de Langue des Signes Fran?aise
(LSF). Il est associ? ? la conf?rence TALN (Traitement Automatique des
Langues Naturelles). Son objectif est de rassembler les communaut?s
scientifiques ?tudiant la gestualit? co-verbale et la langue des signes
autour des probl?matiques communes portant sur l'annotation de corpus.

DEGELS prend la forme d'un d?fi d'annotation : nous fournissons aux
?quipes participantes des donn?es audio et vid?o extraites d'un corpus
comparable de fran?ais oral et de langue des signes. Les ?quipes doivent
les annoter, fournir leur annotation ainsi qu'un article d?crivant leur
m?thodologie (choix th?oriques, grille d'annotation, crit?res
utilis?s...), sur un th?me donn? qui change chaque ann?e. Les
organisateurs alignent et comparent les annotations entre elles et
?labore une synth?se des diff?rentes approches, qui est pr?sent?e en
introduction de l'atelier. L'atelier consiste quant ? lui ? travailler
et d?battre en groupe sur des extraits du corpus commun qui sont
repr?sentatifs des convergences et divergences observ?es dans les
annotations et d?bouchera sur la r?daction d'une rubrique correspondante
au th?me choisi dans un guide d'annotation. Ce guide permettra une
meilleure accessibilit? aux annotations des diff?rents chercheurs et
sera un apport concret de l'atelier pour l'ensemble de la communaut?
scientifique concern?e.

L'atelier DEGELS 2012, associ? ? la conf?rence JET-TALN-RECITAL 2012,
est organis? ? Grenoble le vendredi 8 juin 2012. Le th?me de cette ann?e
est la segmentation. Il s'agit d'un point de vue "bas-niveau" qui est
souvent un pr?alable ? l'?tiquetage de l'?l?ment annot?. Les annotations
de DEGELS 2011 ont montr? une diversit? des m?thodes employ?es, pour
lesquels une explicitation des crit?res de segmentation n'est pas
toujours propos?e. Il s'agit cette ann?e d'expliciter ces crit?res, qui
peuvent ?tre multiples en fonction de l'approche th?orique ou
m?thodologique pratiqu?e.

Vous trouverez tous les d?tails sur le site de l'atelier : 
http://degels2012.limsi.fr/

En esp?rant vous voir nombreux !
Les organisatrices

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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:35:55 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Webinar,
 Meaningful Metrics for Machine Translation
 =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?=96_?=A Discussion on Best Practice
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:20:09 +0100
From: Asia Online <webinars at asiaonline.net>
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Free Webinar
March 2012

Meaningful Metrics for Machine Translation ? A Discussion on Best
Practice

Presenters :

Dion Wiggins

Chief Executive Officer

Asia Online

Kevin Nelson

Managing Director

Omnilingua Worldwide

12:00/12AM
Boston, New York

09:00/9AM
Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle

17:00/5PM
London, Dublin

18:00/6PM
Amsterdam, Prague

19:00/7PM
Bucharest

?What is your BLEU score?? This is the single most irrelevant question
relating to machine translation quality, yet one of the most frequently
asked. There are many ways to measure machine translation ? and just as
many ways to misinterpret them. This month?s webinar discusses a variety
of metrics for machine translation and best practices that give
meaningful metrics for real-world scenarios.

Joining Dion Wiggins, Asia Online?s CEO, is Kevin Nelson, Managing
Director at Omnilingua Worldwide. Kevin will present recent SAE J2450
metrics that compare a customized Asia Online Language Studio? engine
with a competitor Omnlingua recently upgraded from. Kevin will also
discuss productivity and how it is measured. This is one of the most
crucial measurements and can readily be compared to other machine
translation, as well as human translation output.

Key topics covered include:

* Best practices in measuring and comparing translations
* Measuring quality with Language Studio?
* Measuring quality with the SAE J2450 standard
* Measuring and comparing productivity

Did you attend one of our previous webinars?
Download the slides & videos.

Copyright ? 2012 Asia Online Pte Ltd All Rights Reserved.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:38:48 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2012 Student Session
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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:53:20 +0100
From: ESSLLI 2012 Student Session <esslli2012stus at loriweb.org>
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** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS**

*** PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO STUDENTS ***


Final Call for Papers
*ESSLLI 2012 STUDENT SESSION*

Held during
The 24th European Summer School
in Logic, Language and Information

Opole, Poland, August 6-17, 2012

Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2012
http://loriweb.org/ESSLLI2012StuS/

*ABOUT:*

The Student Session of the 24th European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Opole, Poland on
August 6-17, 2012. We invite submissions of original, unpublished work
from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language,
Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be
reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be
presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session
proceedings. This is an excellent opportunity to receive valuable
feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a diverse
audience.

ESSLLI 2012 will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced
courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and Computation.
Consult the main ESSLLI website (link below) for further information.

*SPRINGER PRIZES FOR BEST PAPER AND BEST POSTER*

In 2012, Springer has again continued its generous support for the
Student Session by offering EUR 1000 in prizes. These include a a EUR
500 for Best Paper and EUR 500 for Best Poster. The prizes are awarded
best on the reviews of the submission as well as the oral presentation.

*INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:*

Authors must be students, i.e., may not have received the Ph.D. degree
before August 2012. All submissions must be in PDF format and be
submitted to the conference EasyChair website. Submissions may be singly
or jointly authored. No one may submit more than one singly and one
jointly authored paper.

There are two types of papers. Long papers of up to 8 pages will be
considered for both oral presentation and the poster session. Short
papers of up to 4 pages will be considered as submissions for the poster
session.

Submissions must be anonymous, without any identifying information, and
must be must be received by *March 30, 2012*.

More detailed guidelines regarding submission can be found on the 
Student Session website: http://loriweb.org/ESSLLI2012StuS/
Links to previous years' proceedings are also available there.

Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters
relating to the Student Session to esslli2012stus at loriweb.org.

For general inquiries about ESSLLI 2012, please consult the main ESSLLI
2012 page, http://esslli2012.pl/.

Kind regards,
The ESSLLI 2012 Students Session Organization Committee,

Rasmus K. Rendsvig (Roskilde University) (chair)
Anders Johannsen (University of Copenhagen)
Dominik Klein (Tilburg University)
Margot Colinet (Universit? de Paris 7)
Matthijs Westera (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Maxim Haddad (University of Osnabr?ck)
Niels Beuck (Hamburg University)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:41:41 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF Informatique et sciences humaines et sociales,
 Sorbonne
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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:09:51 +0100
From: Montaci? Claude
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Le poste requiert une double comp?tence : un haut niveau d?excellence
scientifique en Informatique et en applications de l?Informatique aux
sciences humaines et sociales (notamment le traitement paralinguistique
de la parole et du langage, la sociologie computationnelle, ...).

- fili?res de formation concern?es
Le (la) MCF devra rejoindre le d?partement de Math?matiques et
d?Informatique appliqu?es aux Sciences de l?Homme (actuellement 6 MCF et
2 Pr) de l?Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliqu?es (ISHA). Ce
d?partement participe ? des formations pluridisciplinaires de licence et
de master. Il est ?galement charg? de l?enseignement de l?informatique
pour les ?tudiants de lettres et de sciences humaines.

- Objectifs p?dagogiques et besoin d'encadrement
L?int?r?t port? aux applications de la th?orie informatique aux sciences
humaines et sociales constitue une des sp?cificit?s de l?enseignement de
l?Informatique ? l?Universit? Paris-Sorbonne. Le candidat enseignera
l?Informatique dans les diff?rentes formations de licence et de master
de l?ISHA. Il s?impliquera ?galement dans l?encadrement de nouvelles
licences bi-cursus (licence Sciences-Sciences du langage, ...) en projet
au sein du PRES.

- Recherche
Le candidat devra ?tre rattach? ? une des ?quipes de recherches de
l?ISHA. Il devra pr?senter un programme de recherche qui s?ins?re
efficacement dans les perspectives d?une de ces ?quipes.

Contact : Claude.Montacie at paris-sorbonne.fr

Laboratoires d'accueil :
Groupe d'?tude des M?thodes de l'Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne 
(UMR 8598)
Sens Texte Informatique et HIstoire (EA 4509)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:33:58 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Web semantique, web social, Centre d'Alembert, 14 mars
 2012
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:41:05 +0100
From: Centre d'Alembert <centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr>
Message-Id: <a06240801cb7fb8e870f7@[129.175.108.12]>
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S?minaire interdisciplinaire 2011-2012 du Centre d'Alembert

ttp://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr

Nouvelles pratiques et cultures du num?rique dans les sciences et les
technologies

S?ance du mercredi 14 mars 2012 :

Web s?mantique, web social : quelles implications pour l'extraction
d'informations, la gestion des connaissances et le travail collaboratif
communautaire ?

Fabien GANDON, Chercheur ? l'INRIA, Sophia-Antilpolis .

Web s?mantique et social : nouvelles pratiques de recherche et
circulation des savoirs sur le web 3.0

Le web s?mantique propose un jeu de langages (RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL,
etc.) permettant de publier et consommer des donn?es li?es et la
s?mantique des sch?mas de ces donn?es. Nous verrons comment cette
?volution du web ainsi que son couplage avec les approches et usages du
web 2.0 ou web social nous permettent de proposer de nouvelles
applications transversales aux syst?mes d'informations existants. Nous
d?fendrons l'id?e que les m?tadonn?es du web s?mantique sont une clef du
passage ? l'?chelle dans la gestion des ressources de plus en plus
vari?es du web et que les approches sociales sont une clef de la gestion
de ces m?tadonn?es et de leur signification. Comme le web devient
ubiquitaire et augmente notre r?alit? au quotidien, cette modification
impacte toutes nos activit?s, y compris les pratiques et outils des
chercheurs.


LIoana MANOLESCU, Directeur de Recherche, LRI (Laboratoire de Recherche
en Informatique), Orsay.

Le web ? l'heure du Linked Open Data : vers la base de donn?e
universelle.

Les nouvelles technologies num?riques remplacent peu ? peu des fonctions
que nous aurions crues "sp?cifiquement humaines", telles la m?moire ou
le raisonnement [1] ; ? cette liste est venue se rajouter m?me la
curiosit? [2]...

Le Web est l'un des outils informatiques ayant remplac? le plus de
fonctions humaines. Sa fonction principale d?s sa conception, est d'?tre
une base de donn?es meilleure, plus flexible, et plus puissante que les
syst?mes de l'?poque [3].  Au del? de la base de donn?es et du m?dia
d'information, c'est devenu aussi un formidable outil d'?change et de
collaboration, permettant aux individus de croiser leurs connaissances
et de faire ?merger de nouvelles connaissances communes.
Nous nous int?resserons ? la fa?on dont le principe des donn?es ouvertes
et interconnect?es a ?t? mis en place par des moyens technologiques et
de la science informatique, ? travers l'histoire du Web. Nous
analyserons en particulier les possibilit?s offertes par les standards
du Web tels XML, RDF, et RDF-Schema, d'un c?t?, et les mouvements
soci?taux autour du th?me Open Data, de l'autre, en particulier dans le
domaine de la science.

[1] http://interstices.info/jcms/c_15918/les-nouvelles-technologies-que-nous-apportent-elles
[2] http://www.pyoudeyer.com/developmentalRobotics.htm
[3] http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

Informations pratiques :
Les s?ances ont lieu ? la Facult? des Sciences 
d'Orsay, b?timent des colloques (338), 1er ?tage, 
de 13h30 ? 15h30 (entr?e libre). Acc?s : 
<http://g.co/maps/cq8yj>http://g.co/maps/cq8yj

Programme d?taill? et contact :
Web : http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr 
M?l. : centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr
M?dias sociaux : http://twitter.com/centredalembert

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Mar 10 09:36:06 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:36:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: CLEF,
 Call for participation INEX Tweet Contextualization track
Message-ID: <SAT.10.MAR.2012.103606.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:54:09 +0100
From: Veronique Moriceau <moriceau at limsi.fr>
Message-ID: <4F5A0B81.3080304 at limsi.fr>

*Call for participation*

*Tweet Contextualization *

an INEX Lab at CLEF 2012, 17--20 September in Rome, Italy

Participants are solicited for the *tweet contextualization* INEX task
at CLEF 2012. The use case of this new task is the following: given a
new tweet, the system must provide some context about the subject of the
tweet, in order to help the reader to understand it. This context should
take the form of a *readable summary, not **exceeding 500 words,
composed of passages from a provided Wikipedia corpus*. For more
information visit https://inex.mmci.uni-saarland.de/tracks/qa/.

The results of the evaluation campaign will be disseminated at the final
workshop which will be organized in conjunction with the CLEF 2012
conference, 17--20 September in Rome, Italy.

*Test data*

About 1000 tweets in English will be collected by the organizers from
Twitter?. They will be selected among informative accounts (for example,
@CNN, @TennisTweets, @PeopleMag, @science...), in order to avoid purely
personal tweets that could not be contextualized. Information such as
the user name, tags or URLs will be provided. The tweets will be made
available in a JSON format.

The document collection is a recent dump of the English Wikipedia
(November 2011). Since we target non factual answers but short
contextualizing texts, we removed all the info box and the external
references, leaving only the textual content with all its document
structure (title, abstract, sections, subtitles and paragraphs) and its
internal references (links towards other pages).

*Evaluation *

The summaries will be evaluated according to:

- the way they overlap with relevant passages (number of them,
  vocabulary and bi-grams included or missing),

- the readability assessed by evaluators and participants.

*Schedule*

*March, 1 2012 *Online Registrations to the Labs opens *
March, 26 2012 *Test set release. *
June, 1 2012 *Run submissions. *
June, 30 2012 *Release of manual evaluation of readability by
participants. *
July, 15 2012 *Results to participants. *
August 17 2012 *Submission of CLEF 2012 Working Notes papers *
August 24 2012 *Submission of CLEF 2012 Labs Overviews *
September 17-20 2012 *CLEF 2012 Conference

*Organizers (contact : contextweet at limsi.fr)*

Patrice Bellot, LSIS - Aix-Marseille University
Josiane Mothe, IRIT, University of Toulouse
V?ronique Moriceau, LIMSI-CNRS, University Paris-Sud
Eric SanJuan, LIA, University of Avignon
Xavier Tannier,* *LIMSI-CNRS, University Paris-Sud


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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:05:07 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLPCS 2012 - Int'l Workshop on Natural Language Processing
 and Cognitive Science (Wroclaw/Poland)
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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:49:02 -0500
From: "ICEIS WS Secretariat" <postmaster13 at 303media.net>
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X-url: http://www.iceis.org/NLPCS.aspx

International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science
NLPCS website: http://www.iceis.org/NLPCS.aspx

CO-CHAIRS:
Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Michael Zock, Universit? de la M?diterran?e (Aix-Marseille II), France

This workshop will be held in Wroclaw, Poland on June 28-29, 2012, in
conjunction with ICEIS (International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems), a conference sponsored by the Institute for
Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
(INSTICC), co-organized by the Wroclaw University of Economics and held
in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI), the Institute of Electronics, Information and
Communication Engineers (IEICE) and with the IEICE Special Interest
Group on Software Interprise Modelling (SWIM). INSTICC is member of the
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and the Object Management Group
(OMG).


Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All
accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the
workshop proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM
support. BSDS

All presented papers will be also available at the SciTePress Digital
Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary). SciTePress is member
of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).


Should you have any question or suggestions please don't hesitate to
contact me.


Kind regards,
Helder Coelhas
ICEIS WS Secretariat

Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 8816 
Email: iceis.workshops.secretariat at insticc.org

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

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission: March 30, 2012
Authors Notification: April 20, 2012
Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 4, 2012 


SCOPE:
The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and
practitioners in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by taking a Cognitive
Science perspective. 

What characterizes this kind of approach is the fact that NLP is
considered from various viewpoints (linguistics, psychology, statistics,
computer science, artificial intelligence), and that a deliberate effort
is made to reconcile or integrate these viewpoints into a coherent
whole. 

We believe that this is necessary, as the modeling of the process is
simply too complex to be addressed by a single discipline. No matter
whether we deal with a natural system (people), an artificial system
(computers) or a combination of both (interactive NLP), systems rely on
many types of very different knowledge sources. Hence, strategies vary
considerably depending on the person (novice, expert), on the available
knowledge (internal and external), and on the nature of the information
processor : man, machine or both (man-machine communication, interactive
NLP). 

This being so, any of the following aspects are welcomed : structure,
representation and processing of information by different agents
(natural, artificial or both) and in different communication modes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

	- Ontologies
	- Text mining
	- Conceptualisation
	- Meaning construction
	- Electronic Dictionaries
	- Evolutionary NLP
	- Discourse processing
	- Social cognition of language
	- Multi-Lingual Processing
	- Speech Processing
	- Pragmatics and NLP
	- Tools and Resources in NLP
	- Evaluation of NLP Systems
	- Embodied and situated NLP
	- Computational Models of NLP
	- Emotion and language processing
	- Translation and Machine Translation
	- Multimodality in speech / text processing
	- Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP
	- Text Summarization and Information Extraction
	- Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:48:38 +0100
Subject: Ecole: SSFLA 2012, April 2-6, 2012, Tarragona, Spain
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:21:32 +0100
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*********************************************************************

2012 INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS

SSFLA 2012

(formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications)

Tarragona, Spain

April 2-6, 2012

Organized by:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2012/

*********************************************************************

AIM:

SSFLA 2012 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures at different
levels on selected topics in language and automata theory and their
applications. The students choose their preferred courses according to
their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their
respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate and
foster their research career.

The previous event in this series was FSFLA 2011
(http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/).

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate (and advanced undergraduate) students from around the
world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and
Mathematics. Other students (for instance, from Linguistics, Electrical
Engineering, Molecular Biology or Logic) are welcome too provided they
have a good background in discrete mathematics.

The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career
who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.

There is no overlap in the class schedule.

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

- Eric Allender (Rutgers), Circuit Complexity: Recent Progress in Lower
  Bounds [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]

- Amihood Amir (Bar-Ilan), Periodicity and Approximate Periodicity in
  Pattern Matching [introductory, 6 hours]

- Ahmed Bouajjani (Paris 7), Automated Verification of Concurrent
  Boolean Programs [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]

- Andrea Corradini (Pisa), Computational Models Based on Rewriting
  [introductory, 12 hours]

- Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux), Automata for Monadic Second-order Model
  Checking [intermediate, 8 hours]

- Manfred Droste (Leipzig), Weighted Automata and Weighted Logic
  [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]

- J?rg Flum (Freiburg), The Halting Problem for Turing Machines
  [introductory/advanced, 6 hours]

- Aart Middeldorp (Innsbruck), Termination of Rewrite Systems
  [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done on line at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2012/Registration.php

FEES:

They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student
takes.  
The rule is:

1 hour = 

- 10 euros (for payments until January 22, 2012), 

- 15 euros (for payments after January 22, 2012). 

PAYMENT PROCEDURE:

The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: 

Uno-e Bank

bank?s address: Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain

IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142

SWIFT/BIC code: UNOEESM1

account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC

account holder?s address: Av. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain

Please mention SSFLA 2012 and your name in the subject. A receipt will
be provided on site.

Remarks:

- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.

- People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that the
  bank transfer order was carried out by the deadline.

- Students may be refunded only in the case when a course gets cancelled
  due to the unavailability of the instructor.

People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in
cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much
recommended to do it earlier.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation is available on the website of the
School.

CERTIFICATE:

Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended,
their contents, and their duration.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announcement of the programme: December 10, 2011
Starting of the registration: December 10, 2011
Early registration deadline: January 22, 2012
Starting of the School: April 2, 2012
End of the School: April 6, 2012 

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Lilica Voicu:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

WEBSITE:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2012/ 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSFLA 2012
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Diputaci? de Tarragona
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:52:47 +0100
Subject: Appel: ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and
 Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL
 2012)
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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:53:10 +0100
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======================================================================
3nd CALL FOR PAPERS
------------------------------------------
ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing
of Morphologically-Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL)
(http://sites.google.com/site/spsemmrl2012/)

Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGPARSE and the EU's PASCAL Network of Excellence
======================================================================

NEW!
-----------------------------
We are pleased to announce financial support in workshop registration
fees to up to five students, through the generous sponsorship of PASCAL
Network of Excellence. Priority will be given to PASCAL students, but
all students are encouraged to apply. (Details to follow closer to
beginning of registration period).  Registration Date: TBD.


IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------
Submission deadline: Mar 31, 2012
Notification to authors: Apr 21, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: Apr 30, 2012
Workshop dates: TBD, during the ACL-2012 workshop period (Jul 12-14, 2012)


WORKSHOP SCOPE
-----------------------------
Morphologically Rich Languages (MRLs) are languages in which grammatical
relations such as Subject, Predicate, Object, etc., are indicated
morphologically (e.g. through inflection) instead of positionally (as
in, e.g. English), and the position of words and phrases in the sentence
may vary substantially. The tight connection between the morphology of
words and the grammatical relations between them, and the looser
connection between the position and grouping of words to their syntactic
roles, pose serious challenges for syntactic and semantic
processing. Furthermore, since grammatical relations provide the
interface to compositional semantics, morphosyntactic phenomena may
significantly complicate processing the syntax-semantics interface. In
statistical parsing, which has been a cornerstone of research in NLP and
had seen great advances due to the widespread availability of
syntactically annotated corpora, English parsing performance has reached
a high plateau in certain genres, which is however not always indicative
of parsing performance in MRLs, dependency-based and constituency-based
alike. Semantic processing of natural language has similarly seen much
progress in recent years.  However, as in parsing, the bulk of the work
has concentrated on English, and MRLs may present processing challenges
that the community is as of yet unaware of, and which current semantic
processing technologies may have difficulty coping with. These
challenges may lurk in areas where parses may be used as input, such as
semantic role labeling, distributional semantics, paraphrasing and
textual entailment, or where inadequate pre-processing of morphological
variation hurts parsing and semantic tasks alike.

This joint workshop aims to build upon the first and second SPMRL
workshops (at NAACL-HLT 2010 and IWPT 2011, respectively) while
extending the overall scope to include semantic processing where MRLs
pose challenges for algorithms or models initially designed to process
English. In particular, we seek to explore the use of newly available
syntactically and/or semantically annotated corpora, or data sets for
semantic evaluation that can contribute to our understanding of the
difficulty that such phenomena pose. One goal of this workshop is to
encourage cross-fertilization among researchers working on different
languages and among those working on different levels of processing.  Of
particular interest is work addressing the lexical sparseness and
out-of-vocabulary issues that occur in both syntactic and semantic
processing.

The workshop will be organised around three broad themes:

- Syntactic Models: Models and architectures that explicitly integrate
  morphological analysis and parsing; Cross-language and cross-model
  comparison of strengths and weaknesses regarding particular linguistic
  phenomena.

- Semantic Models: State-of-the-art semantic analysis and generation
  methods for MRLs, including semantic similarity and entailment
  criteria and their task-specific instantiation, and suitable
  representations for semantic tasks in MRLs.

- Joint Modeling Aspects: Improving lexical coverage and handling of
  out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words by utilising lexical knowledge or
  unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques; The role of parsing
  in semantic analysis for MRLs; Preprocessing issues that jointly
  affect parsing and semantic analysis; Syntax-Semantics interfaces for
  monolingual or multilingual systems.

The areas of interest for this joint workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following topics:

--Syntactic Parsing of MRLs

* parsing models and architectures that explicitly integrate
  morphological analysis and parsing

* parsing models and architectures that focus on lexical coverage and
  the handling of OOV words either by incorporating linguistic knowledge
  or through the use of unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques

* Cross-language and cross-model comparison of models' strengths and
  weaknesses in the face of particular linguistic phenomena (e.g.
  morphosyntactic characteristics, degree of word-order freedom)

* Comprehensive analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of various
  parsing models on particular linguistic (e.g. morphosyntactic)
  phenomena with respect to variation in tagsets, annotation schemes and
  additional data transformations


--Semantic Processing of MRLs

* Semantic distance and entailment criteria in the MRL space (e.g., with
  respect to inflection, derivation, root, pattern, lemma, tense, and/or
  aspect, etc.); possibly task-specific criteria

* Lexical resources and morphological analysis tools facilitating
  semantic distance measures and semantic relation detection

* Methods and models for semantic similarity/distance calculation,
  clustering and paraphrasing relying on MRL properties, and using:
  probability, vector/graph representation, data-driven and/or
  linguistic rules, pivoting/SMT, machine-learning, etc.

* Paraphrase and textual entailment detection or generation, specific to
  MRLs (e.g., task-specific issues of inclusion or exclusion of certain
  paraphrase and textual entailment patterns differing in inflection)

* Use of morphological analysis for semantic calculation aimed at
  reducing sparsity / OOV rate, preferably without losing information
  due to mere lemmatization

* Semantic role labeling (SRL) for MRLs; verbal/nominalized selectional
  preferences


--The Syntax-Semantics Interface:

* Parsing-based semantic processing tasks, e.g., semantic role labeling
  (SRL)

* Processing of compounds and multi-morphemic words: optimal level(s) of
  tokenization, representation, and morphological analysis for
  either/both tasks

* Syntax-aware semantic distance measures, paraphrasing and textual
  entailment

* Semantic classes and/or relations as input to syntactic parsing


In addition to the standard (oral or poster) presentations in the
sessions, the SP-Sem-MRL workshop will feature a panel of commentators
for a selection of the talks, allowing for an extended discussion
period. This new feature is introduced in order to foster in-depth
discussions and to nurture interactions among researchers. It is our
hope that these interactions will help to bring ideas (and solutions) to
the fore and promote a more rapid advance of the state-of-the-art in the
field.


Shared Task
------------------

There will be no shared task on MRLs this year. However, we will take
this opportunity to disclose, during a special session of SP-Sem-MRL,
the data sets and evaluation procedures for the cross-linguistic
cross-framework shared task which was discussed at previous SPMRL
panels, and which is planned for SPMRL 2013 at IWPT 2013. Researchers
who are interested in participating in the shared task or teams that
wish to add their data sets or extrinsic evaluation procedures to the
task are encouraged to attend the session and contribute to the
discussion.


SUBMISSION
-------------------

Authors are invited to submit long papers (up to 10 pages + any number
of reference pages) and short papers (up to 5 pages + any number of
reference page). Long papers should describe unpublished, substantial
and completed research. Short papers should be position papers, papers
describing work in progress or short, focused contributions.

Papers may be submitted until 31 March 2012 in PDF format via the START
system:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/sp-sem-mrl-2012/

Submitted papers must follow the styles and the formatting guidelines
available from the current ACL recommendations
(http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp). As the reviewing will be blind,
the papers must not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be
avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith,
1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be
rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your
submissions on the web until after the review process is complete.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
--------------------------------------

General chairs:
Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yuval Marton (IBM Watson Research Center, US)
Djam? Seddah (University of Paris 4, France)
Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Shared session chairs:
Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin, US)
Ines Rehbein (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Peter Turney (National Research Council, Canada)
Yannick Versley (University of Tuebingen, Germany)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------
Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Mohammed Attia (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Bernd Bohnet  (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France)
Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, US)
Ozlem Cetinoglu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jinho Choi (University of Colorado at Boulder, US)
Grzegorz Chrupala  (Saarland University, Germany)
Benoit Crabb? (University of Paris 7, France)
G?l?en Cebiro?lu Eryi?it, (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yoav Goldberg (Google Research NY, US)
Spence Green (Stanford University, US)
Veronique Hoste (University College Ghent, Belgium)
Samar Husain (Potsdam University, Germany)
Sandra K?bler (Indiana University, US)
Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Alberto Lavelli (FBK-irst, Italy)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Joseph Le Roux (Universit? Paris-Nord, France)
Nitin Madnani (Educational Testing Service, NJ)
Wolfgang Maier (University of D?sseldorf, Germany)
Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Aur?lien Max (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Yusuke Miyao (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Sebastian Pado (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research, US)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies, US)
Idan Szpektor (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, US)
Benoit Sagot (INRIA Rocquencourt, France)
Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Tim Van de Cruys (University of Cambridge, UK)
Stephen Wan (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney)
Deniz Yuret (Koc University Istanbul, Turkey)
Zdenek Zabokrtsky (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Shiqi Zhao (Baidu Inc., China)


REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT
---------------
We are pleased to announce financial support in workshop registration
fees to up to five students, through the generous sponsorship of PASCAL
Network of Excellence. Priority will be given to PASCAL students, but
all students are encouraged to apply. (Details to follow closer to
beginning of registration period).
Registration Date: TBD.


CONTACT
---------------
e-mail: sp.sem.mrl2012 at gmail.com
website: https://sites.google.com/site/spsemmrl2012/


SPONSORS
-----------------
This workshop is endorsed by SIGLEX & SIGPARSE ; and sponsored by the
PASCAL Network of Excellence & the INRIA's Alpage project.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:05:39 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL workshop Innovative hybrid approaches to the
 processing of textual data (HYBRID 2012), April 23, 2012,
 Avignon, France
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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:30:07 +0100
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********************************************************************
Call for Participation

EACL 2012 workshop on

Innovative hybrid approaches to the processing of textual data (HYBRID 2012)

April 23, 2012
Avignon, France
http://www-limbio.smbh.univ-paris13.fr/membres/hamon/hybrid/

** Early registration by March 19, 2012 **
********************************************************************

The first Workshop on Innovative hybrid approaches to the processing of
textual data will be held in conjunction with the 13th Conference of the
European Charter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL
2012) which will take place in April 23-27, 2012, in Avignon, France.

==================
About the Workshop
==================

The hybrid approach term covers a large set of situations in which
different approaches are combined in order to better process textual
data and to attempt a better achievement of the dedicated task.

Among the hybridizations the possible combinations are unlimited. The
most frequent combination, as stressed during The Balancing Act in 1994,
addressed machine learning and rule-based systems. Beyond this, the
hybridization can be augmented with distributionnal approaches,
syntactic and morphological analyses, semantic distances and
similarities, graph theory models, cooccurrences of linguistic units
(e.g., word and their dependencies, word senses and pos-tag, NEs and
semantic roles,...), knowledge-based approaches (terminologies and
ontologies), etc.

As a matter of fact, the hybridization implies to define a strategy to
efficiently combine several approaches: cooperation between approaches,
filtering, voting or ranking of the multiple system outputs, etc.

Indeed, the combination of these different methods and approaches
appears to provide more complete and performant results. The reason is
that each method is sensitive and efficient with given data and within
given contexts. Hence, their combination may improve both precision and
recall.  The coverage is indeed improved, while the exploitation of
different methods may also lead to the improvement of the precision
since their use within filtering, voting etc. modes becomes possible.

In this workshop, we favour the extended meaning of the hybridization of
methods, applied to various application areas, such as:
    automatic creation of linguistic resources
    POS tagging
    building and structuring of terminologies
    information retrieval and filtering
    information extraction
    linguistic annotation
    semantic labeling
    sign language recognition and transcription
    oral data transcription
    filtering and validation of lexical resources
    text summarization
    question/answering system
    natural language generation
    etc.



==================
Invited speaker
==================

Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
Multilingual Natural Language Processing and Graph-based Algorithms for
Natural Language Processing (TBC)

==================
Accepted papers
==================

Incorporating Linguistic Knowledge in Statistical Machine Translation:
Translating Prepositions
Reshef Shilon, Hanna Fadida and Shuly Wintner

An Unsupervised and Data-Driven Approach for Spell Checking in
Vietnamese
OCR-scanned Texts
Cong Duy Vu Hoang and Ai Ti Aw

Experiments on Hybrid Corpus-Based Sentiment Lexicon Acquisition
Goran Glava?, Jan ?najder and Bojana Dalbelo Ba?i&#263;

Hybrid Combination of Constituency and Dependency Trees into an Ensemble
Dependency Parser
Nathan Green and Zden&#283;k ?abokrtsk?

Describing Video Contents in Natural Language
Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan and Yoshihiko Gotoh

Combining Different Summarisation Techniques for Legal Text
Filippo Galgani, Paul Compton and Achim Hoffmann

A Study of Hybrid Similarity Measures for Semantic Relation Extraction
Alexander Panchenko and Olga Morozova

==================
Accepted posters
==================

Contrasting objective and subjective Portuguese texts from heterogeneous
sources
Michel Genereux and William Martinez

A Joint Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking System
Rosa Stern, Beno?t Sagot and Fr?d?ric B?chet

Applicability Verification of a New ISO Standard for Dialogue Act
Annotation with the Switchboard Corpus
Alex C. Fang, Harry Bunt, Jing Cao and Xiaoyue Liu

Coupling Knowledge-Based and Data-Driven Systems for Named Entity
Recognition
Damien Nouvel, Jean-Yves Antoine, Nathalie Friburger and Arnaud Soulet

A random forest system combination approach for error detection in
digital dictionaries
Michael Bloodgood, Peng Ye, Paul Rodrigues, David Doermann and David
Zajic

A Hybrid Methodology for Automatic Creation of Linguistic Resources in
Multiple Languages
Svetlana Sheremetyeva

Methods Combination and ML-based Re-ranking of Multiple Hypothesis for
Question-Answering Systems
Arnaud Grappy, Brigitte Grau and Sophie Rosset

A generalised hybrid architecture for NLP
Alistair Willis, Hui Yang and Anne De Roeck


===================
Programme Committee
===================
Anders Ard?, EIT, LTH, Lund University, Sweden
Delphine Bernhard, LiLPa, Universit? de Strasbourg, France
Wray Duntine, NICTA, Australia
Philipp Cimiano, CITEC, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Vincent Claveau, IRISA-CNRS, Rennes, France
Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA
Marie-Claude l'Homme, OLST, Universit? de Montreal, Canada
B?atrice Daille, Universit? de Nantes, LINA, France
Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Anna Kazantseva, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mikaela Keller, CNRS LIFL UMR8022, Mostrare INRIA, Universit? Lille 1&3, France
Alistair Kennedy, University of Ottawa, Canada
Ben Leong, University of North Texas, USA
Pierre Nugues, CS, LTH, Lund University, Sweden
Bruno Pouliquen, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland
Sampo Pyysalo, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Mathieu Roche, LIRMM, Universit? de Montpellier 2, France
Patrick Ruch, Haute ?cole de gestion de Gen?ve, Switzerland
Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Juan-Manuel Torres Moreno, LIA, Universit? d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France
?zlem Uzuner, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA

============
Organisation
============
Natalia Grabar, CNRS UMR 8163 STL, Universit? Lille 1&3, France
Marie Dupuch, CNRS UMR 8163 STL, Universit? Lille 1&3, France
Amandine P?rinet, LIM&BIO, Universit? Paris 13, France
Thierry Hamon, LIM&BIO, Universit? Paris 13, France

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:08:09 +0100
Subject: Appel: RECITAL 2012,
 report de la date limite de soumission au 25 mars 2012
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:20:43 +0100
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Appel RECITAL'2012

14e Rencontres des ?tudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues

Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012

http://www.jeptaln2012.org/

CALENDRIER

 - Date limite de soumission : 25 mars 2012 (nouvelle date)
 - Notification aux auteurs : 19 avril 2012 (nouvelle date)
 - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : fin avril 2012
   (nouvelle date)
 - Conf?rence : 4-8 juin 2012

PR?SENTATION

RECITAL 2011, la conf?rence annuelle des jeunes chercheurs associ?e ?
TALN, se d?roulera ? Grenoble (France) du 4 au 8 juin 2012. Elle est
r?serv?e aux ?tudiants (master ou doctorat) ainsi qu'aux jeunes
chercheurs ayant obtenu leur doctorat depuis moins d'un an. RECITAL a
pour vocation d'offrir aux jeunes chercheurs en Traitement Automatique
des Langues l'occasion de pr?senter leurs travaux et de comparer leurs
approches. Cette conf?rence a son propre comit? de programme, constitu?
de chercheurs en poste et de doctorants. Les soumissions retenues par le
comit? sont publi?es dans les m?mes actes que ceux de TALN.

Cette ann?e, nous encourageons la soumission de travaux m?me
pr?liminaires, projets de th?se, travaux des premiers mois de recherche
(?tats de l'art, premi?res pistes,?).

RECITAL a pour vocation de soutenir les travaux de jeunes chercheurs en
TAL afin que, d'un c?t?, ils puissent am?liorer leur travail et, de
l'autre, ils puissent bien s'int?grer dans notre communaut?. ? ce titre,
nous visons :

- des relectures p?dagogiques : il s'agit que les auteurs puissent
  comprendre les erreurs qu'il ont pu commettre afin de pouvoir les
  corriger et am?liorer leur travail ;

- des relectures positives : il n'est jamais n?cessaire de d?courager un
  jeune, les ma?tres-mots devront ?tre encourager/guider ;

- l'?change direct : les relectures seront communiqu?es sign?es, donc
  non-anonymes, aux auteurs. Libre ? eux (ou mieux, aux relecteurs)
  d'aller informellement discuter/boire un verre ensemble lors de la
  conf?rence.


Un prix du meilleur papier RECITAL d'une valeur de 500 Euros sera
d?cern? lors de la c?r?monie de cl?ture.

Un programme de bourses est mis en place pour aider les auteurs des
articles accept?s. Ces bourses comprennent l'inscription aux conf?rences
et aux activit?s associ?es. Elles seront accord?es apr?s examen des
demandes et des papiers soumis.

TH?MES

Les communications pourront porter sur tous les th?mes habituels du TAL :

 - Analyse et g?n?ration dans les domaines suivants :
	 - Phon?tique
	 - Phonologie
	 - Morphologie
	 - Syntaxe
	 - S?mantique
	 - Discours
 - D?veloppement de ressources linguistiques pour le TAL :
	 - Bases de donn?es comportant des informations morphologiques,
	   syntaxiques, s?mantiques, et/ou phonologiques
	 - Grammaires
	 - Lexiques
	 - Ontologies
	 - Linguistique de corpus
 - Applications du TAL :
	 - Analyse de sentiments ou d'opinions
	 - Cat?gorisation ou classification automatique
	 - D?sambigu?sation lexicale
	 - Dialogue homme-machine en langage naturel
	 - Enseignement assist? par ordinateur
	 - Indexation automatique
	 - Recherche et extraction d'information
	 - R?sum? automatique
	 - R?solution d'anaphores
	 - Syst?mes de question-r?ponse
	 - Traduction automatique
	 - Web s?mantique
 - Approches:
	 - Linguistiques formelles destin?es ? soutenir les traitements
	   automatiques
	 - Symboliques
	 - Logiques
	 - Statistiques
	 - Bas?es sur l'apprentissage automatique

Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive et l'ad?quation d'une proposition de
communication ? la conf?rence sera jug?e par le comit? de programme.

CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION

Les auteurs doivent ?tre des ?tudiant(e)s ou bien des jeunes docteur(e)s
ayant soutenu leur th?se depuis moins d'un an. Les publications avec des
chercheurs confirm?s (ce qui inclus les directeurs de th?ses) doivent
?tre soumises ? TALN et non ? RECITAL.

Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux,
n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications ant?rieures. Les soumissions
seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du domaine. Seront
consid?r?es en particulier:

 - La correction du contenu scientifique et technique
 - La situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale
 - L'organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation
 - L'ad?quation aux th?mes de la conf?rence

Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la
conf?rence. Suivant l'avis du comit? de programme, les pr?sentations se
feront soit sous forme orale soit sous forme d'affiche.

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION

Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais. Les articles
doivent faire de 10 ? 14 pages.

Une feuille de style LaTeX, un mod?le Word et un mod?le LibreOffice sont
disponibles sur le site web de la conf?rence
(http://www.jeptaln2012.org/).  La soumission se fait en ligne (voir
instructions sur le site web de la conf?rence).

Contacts :

Didier.Schwab at imag.fr et Jorge-Mauricio.Molina-Mejia at e.u-grenoble3.fr

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:15:12 +0100
Subject: Job: Chef de Projet informatique editoriale
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:55:06 +0100
From: "Jimmy.Anne" <AJIMMY at sejer.fr>
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Les services marketing partag?s du P?le Education & R?f?rence
Editions Nathan, Bordas, Le Robert, Retz, Cl??SEJER

Recrutent 

un CHEF DE PROJET INFORMATIQUE EDITORIALE (H/F) 

Sous la responsabilit? du Directeur des services partag?s marketing et
d?veloppement num?rique, vous prenez en charge l?analyse et le
d?veloppement informatique appliqu? ? la gestion, la transformation et
la publication d?un contenu ?ditorial et documentaire, en relation avec
les ?diteurs et les diff?rents services op?rationnels.

A ce titre, vous serez, notamment charg? :

- De piloter le projet global de structuration des contenus des maisons
  d??dition ; ? ce titre vous participerez ? la d?finition des
  objectifs, du p?rim?tre et de la trajectoire de d?ploiement en
  coordination avec les ?diteurs et la fabrication.


- D?accompagner en particulier les projets ?ditoriaux des maisons, en
  termes de structuration de contenus :

  - Analyse l?existant (corpus documentaire, maquettes graphiques) et
    r?dige le cahier des charges (sp?cifications fonctionnelles et
    techniques)

  - Structure les donn?es, cr?e et maintient les D?finitions Types de
    Documents (DTD)

  - Assure le suivi des projets, pilote les d?veloppeurs internes et
    externes et r?alise certains d?veloppements

  - Accompagne les ?diteurs pour faciliter l?int?gration de ces
    nouvelles technologies et outils

  - Aide les ?diteurs ? concevoir et mettre en ?uvre des projets
    d?enseignement ? distance

- De faire ?voluer et enrichir les process et outils internes :

  - Con?oit, r?alise et optimise des programmes de traitement et de
    structuration de donn?es (ouvrages, fonds documentaires,
    lexicographiques)

  - Organise les bases de donn?es et administre le r?seau informatique
    ?ditoriale

  - Assure le suivi de d?veloppements d'outils d?informatique ?ditoriale
    (gestion de contenus, workflow de production, LCMS ?)


- D?assurer une veille technologique : 

  - veille permanente des nouveaux outils, pratiques et process d?ploy?s
    par la concurrence

  - Recherche de nouveaux prestataires

28/02/2012

Profil : 
Formation et exp?rience:
D?veloppeur informatique - sp?cialis? en ing?nierie documentaire (dont
multim?dia)
Linguiste informaticien ? sp?cialis? en cr?ation de ressources
documentaires
Vous disposez de tr?s bonnes connaissances de l?Edition num?rique et
avez d?j? pilot? des projets de d?veloppement d?outils ?ditoriaux
complexes et/ou innovants. 

Vous ?tes rigoureux, organis?, impliqu? et disposez du sens du service. 

Connaissances techniques

 Formats de documents

 XML
   utilisation d?un ?diteur XML (ex : Oxygen, XMetal, XML-Spy, ?)

   ?criture de DTD / sch?ma XML (en cr?ation ex nihilo ou en ?volution
   d?un mod?le existant)

   analyse syntaxique / s?mantique d?instances XML

   balisage d?instances XML

   tous diagnostics et corrections d?erreurs dans les instances XML

autres formats de documents appr?ci?s : PDF, MathML

Programmation
 XSLT : conversion de formats XML, HTML, texte (entrants ou sortants)

 CSS
   ?criture de CSS (version CSS2)
   CSS3 : vernis culture appr?ci?

 Autres langages de programmation appr?ci?s : Perl, scripting (batch,
 shell)

 Bases de donn?es : vernis culturel souhait? en BD relationnelle, SGBD
 Oracle

 E-learning : connaissance LOM, SCORM

Poste bas? ? Paris 13?me.

Si ce poste vous int?resse, merci d?adresser votre dossier de
candidature (lettre de motivation, CV) sous la r?f?rence ? CDP Info
?ditoriale ? ? :
	
DRH ? Myl?ne Bourreau ? 25, avenue Pierre de Coubertin ?75013 Paris
Ou par e-mail : recrutement.sejer at sejer.fr

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:16:47 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF Section 7,
 Linguistique de l'ecrit et enseignement du francais,
 Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:05:24 +0100
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Le poste de MCF Section 7 ? Linguistique de l'?crit et enseignement du
fran?ais ? ? l?Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre La D?fense a ?t? publi?.

Pour tout renseignement, s?adresser ? Denis Le Pesant : 
denis.lepesant at u-paris10.fr

Profil recherche : Linguistique de l'?crit, rem?diation de l??crit, 
probl?matiques de la relation  oral/?crit.

Enseignement : linguistique fran?aise ; linguistique de l??crit ; 
didactique de la langue fran?aise

Autres : Coordination p?dagogique du Master ? M?tiers de l'Education: 
Professorat des ?coles et accompagnement p?riscolaire ? de l'Universit? 
Paris Ouest Nanterre La D?fense

Remarque : Exp?rience professionnelle en IUFM souhait?e

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:19:52 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: John Swales, Vendredi 30 mars 2012 - 10H30-12H30 - ENS
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:48:00 +0100
From: "laure.sarda at ens.fr" <laure.sarda at gmail.com>
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Merci de diffuser largement

*UMR 8094 LATTICE*

*"Langues, Textes, Traitements Informatiques et Cognition"*

*ENS Paris ? Labex TransferS*

*Universit? de Paris III*

* *

*Conf?rence *

*John Swales *

Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan

*From context to text: Investigating structures, functions and forms in
research articles *

* *

*Vendredi 30 mars 2012*

*10H30-12H30*

*ENS *

*45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris*

*Salle Dussane *

*John M. Swales is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University
of Michigan, where he was also Director of the English Language
Institute from 1985 to 2001. He was faculty advisor for both the MICASE
and MICUSP corpus projects. To date, he has written or co-written over
20 books and a hundred research articles or book chapters. His 1990
Genre Analysis (Cambridge, 1990) continues to be one of the most
frequently cited works on academic discourse, and has inspired and
empowered generations of students and researchers to** systematise**
their observations about academic texts.  Other significant works
include Academic Writing for Graduate Students(with Christine Feak)
(Michigan, 1994, 2004), Other Floors, Other Voices (Erlbaum, 1998) and
Research Genres (Cambridge, 2004).  Although officially retired, he
remains active with research projects, doctoral advising, and conference
presentations (typically plenaries). In 2011, for example, he gave talks
and lectures in England, Italy, Poland and China as well as in the
U.S. In 2004, he was awarded an honorary PhD by the University of
Uppsala.*

*UMR LATTICE 1 rue Maurice Arnoux,92120 Montrouge : 01 58 07 66 20 -
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:21:31 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF en Informatique, Enssat
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:22:32 +0100
From: Damien Lolive <damien.lolive at irisa.fr>
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Un poste de Ma?tre de Conf?rences en informatique (section 27) est ?
pourvoir ? l'Enssat/Universit? de Rennes 1, Lannion, pour une prise
d?activit? au 1er septembre 2012.

Le candidat participera aux activit?s de recherche de l'?quipe Cordial
de l'IRISA. Le profil attendu concerne le traitement de la parole ou le
traitement automatique des langues.

Date de cl?ture des candidatures : 27 mars 2012

Recherche

l?IRISA est une unit? mixte de recherche, UMR 6074, dont les
?tablissements partenaires sont le CNRS, l?Universit? de Rennes 1
(?tablissement principal), l?Insa de Rennes et l?ENS Cachan (antenne de
Bretagne). L?IRISA d?ploie ses activit?s de recherche dans le domaine
des STIC (sciences et technologies de l?information et de la
communication) sur les sites de Rennes et Lannion.

Cordial est une ?quipe du D?partement Media et Interactions de l'Irisa
situ?e ? Lannion, C?tes d'Armor (22) au sein de l'ENSSAT, l'Ecole
Nationale Sup?rieure des Sciences Appliqu?es et de Technologie. Les
laboratoires de recherche de l'ENSSAT sont les acteurs de recherche
publique au sein de la technopole Anticipa et participent au P?le
Images& R?seaux.

Les principaux axes de recherche de l'?quipe Cordial concernent le
traitement de la parole et plus particuli?rement la synth?se de la
parole et la transformation de la voix. Les activit?s de recherche
men?es par l'?quipe couvrent des disciplines allant du traitement du
signal au traitement automatique de la langue.

Ce recrutement est l'occasion de renforcer l'?quipe Cordial sur l'axe du
traitement automatique de la langue naturelle. Il s'agit notamment de
proposer des mod?les prenant en compte diverses informations s?mantiques
voire pragmatiques pour des mod?les de synth?se de parole ? partir du
texte de tr?s haute qualit?.

Sous l'angle des applications, un des objectifs fix? par l'?quipe
concerne la cr?ation automatique de livres audio. Cordial participe
r?guli?rement ? des projets ANR et est impliqu?e dans des partenariats
de recherche industrielle, notamment avec Orange Labs. La personne
recrut?e renforcera cette dynamique par une implication dans ces
collaborations.


Enseignement

Le poste s?int?gre dans le p?le informatique qui g?re l?ensemble des
enseignements en informatique de l?Enssat pour ses quatre sp?cialit?s
d?ing?nieur.

Le spectre s??tend du socle informatique (g?nie logiciel, bases de
donn?es, r?seaux, syst?mes) ? des aspects plus avanc?s (IA,
apprentissage, multim?dia, interactions homme-machine, s?curit?
informatique, logiciels embarqu?s).

Les interventions s?y effectuent sous toutes les formes (CM, TD, TP et
projets). Le profil d?enseignement est celui d?un informaticien
g?n?raliste susceptible de se focaliser sur les comp?tences de ce
spectre.


Contacts

Olivier BOEFFARD :olivier.boeffard at irisa.fr / 02 96 46 90 91
(responsable de l'?quipe IRISA/Cordial).

Daniel ROCACHER :daniel.rocacher at enssat.fr /02 96 46 90 48 (responsable
du p?le informatique ? l'ENSSAT).

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:23:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: CTF 2012, Deadline extension
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:59:37 +0100
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*** DEADLINE EXTENSION ***

New submission deadline: April 10, 2012


 ========================================================================
International Interdisciplinary Conference
"Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science" (CTF'12)
 ========================================================================

D?sseldorf (GER), August 22-24, 2012
http://www.sfb991.uni-duesseldorf.de/concept-types-and-frames-in-language-cognition-and-science/

Organized and financed by
DFG Collaborative Research Centre CRC 991/SFB 991
"The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science"
http://www.sfb991.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/sfb991/

Aims and scope
---------------
A sequel to CTF'07 and CTF'09, CTF'12 is the third interdisciplinary
conference to contribute to the development of a general frame theory of
human concepts. The conference explores the application of frames in
linguistics and other sciences. It discusses foundational issues for the
development of a theory of frames from the perspectives of general and
computational linguistics, mathematics, cognitive psychology, cognitive
neuroscience, ontology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

Invited speakers
-----------------
Hanne Andersen
Lawrence Barsalou
John Beavers
Walter Bisang
Jean Mandler
Ivan Sag
John Sowa
Rolf Zwaan

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Frames
-------
CTF'12 explores fundamental aspects of a formal theory of frames
understood as recursive attribute-value structures with functional
attributes. The aspects include representation and model-theoretic
interpretation, attributes and value types, and appropriate frame
structures for different types of concepts. A special focus will be on
dynamic aspects of frame theory: modeling dynamic frame components for
event and process frames; exploring operations on frames such as type
shifts and frame composition.

Cognition
----------
CTF'12 explores empirical evidence for and consequences of the frame
approach. It addresses the distinction of types of concepts, in
particular relational and functional nominal concepts. Major topics
include the grounding of concepts in the sensory-motor system and
dynamic aspects of concept formation.

Language
---------
CTF'12 explores the application of a formalized theory of frames at
various levels of linguistic description: lexical semantics of the
different conceptual types of nouns and verbs, deep lexical
decomposition, semantics of word formation, the syntax-semantics
interface, syntactic and semantic composition, and anaphora and
coherence in discourse.

Science
--------
CTF'12 explores the applications of the frame approach in various fields
of institutional categorization: e.g., the evolution of the frame notion
in the history of philosophy; scientific frames and paradigm shifts;
frames for legal concepts; frames in applied ontology; a frame model of
the mind; and frame description of psychiatric disorders.

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

Important dates
----------------
Submission of abstracts (600-800 words) => extended deadline: April 10
Notification of acceptance: May 30

Submission site
----------------
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ctf12

Publication details
---------------------
The post-proceedings will be published by D?sseldorf University Press 
with open online access.

Programme committee
--------------------
Sebastian L?bner (general chair), Rainer Osswald, Gottfried Vosgerau

Organizational committee
-------------------------
Dorothea Brenner, David Hommen, Timm Lichte, Daniel Schulzek

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Topics for the CTF'12

Language
---------
noun types and determination
- definiteness and indefiniteness
- possession
- usage
- processing
- grammaticalization

conceptual shifts of noun meanings
- shifts and coercion
- diachronic shifts

decompositional frames for verbs and the syntax-semantics interface
- verb classes in terms of frame types
- verbal concepts and linking
- construction-based decomposition of verb meanings
- aspectual composition

decompositional frames for nouns
- frame analysis of legal terms
- affordance attributes in noun frames and qualia

syntactic and semantic composition
- nominal concept types in the theory of semantic composition
- semantic composition in terms of frames
- syntax-driven frame composition

frames in the semantics of word-formation
- nominal compounding as frame combination
- deverbal nouns as the result of frame transformation

frames in discourse
- frames and associative anaphora
- the role of frames in discourse coherence

Science
--------
concepts
- emergence of the modern frame notion of concepts
- architecture of the mind
- the role of function in object categorization

frame analysis in institutional categorization
- frames and paradigm shifts
- frame analysis of legal concepts
- frame analysis of psychiatric disorders
- frame analysis in other scientific fields

concept types and frames in ontology
- attributes in ontology
- relations and functions in ontology
- formal approaches to ontology using functional relations

Cognition
----------
embodiment of concepts
- emergence of the modern frame notion of concepts
- grounding of verb meanings in the sensory-motor system
- affordances and the grounding of noun meanings in the sensory-motor
  system
- common coding and simulation
- frames and conceptual processing

types of concepts
- empirical evidence for different kinds of concepts
- cognitive representation of dynamic concepts, in particular verb
  meanings

neurocognition
- frames and conceptual processing
- neural correlates of attributes and frames
- computational modelling of concept formation

Frames
-------
elements of frame theory
- modelling the dynamics of verb meanings
- modelling general operations on frames
- modelling frame composition

frame-related spaces
- mathematical properties of value spaces
- mathematical properties of attribute spaces
- mathematical properties of frame spaces

large frame systems
- design and implementation

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:25:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: Demonstations (Pendant JEP-TALN-RECITAL), 4 au 8 juin,
 Grenoble
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:24:30 +0100
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SECOND APPEL ? D?MONSTRATION

JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012 (Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012)

CALENDRIER pour la soumission de propositions de d?monstrations :

  - Date limite de soumission : 30 mars 2012
  - Notification aux auteurs : 15 avril 2012
  - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 20 avril 2012

PR?SENTATION

Organis?e par l'?quipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de
Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des
langues ?trang?res et maternelles) et le d?partement DPC du Gipsa-lab,
la conf?rence TALN'2012 se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2012 ? Grenoble ?
l'occasion de la conf?rence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012.

JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29?me ?dition des Journ?es d'?tude sur
la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19?me ?dition de la conf?rence sur le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14?me
?dition des Rencontres des ?tudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012).

Pour la quatri?me fois, apr?s Nancy en 2002, F?s en 2004, et Avignon en
2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parl?e) et
l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues)
organisent conjointement leur principale conf?rence afin de r?unir en un
seul lieu les deux communaut?s du traitement de la langue orale et
?crite.

La conf?rence TALN'2012 comprendra des communications orales et
affich?es, des conf?rences invit?es et des ateliers.

La langue officielle de la conf?rence est le fran?ais. Les
communications en anglais sont accept?es pour les participants
non-francophones.

ORGANISATION

Les organisateurs de ces conf?rences ont le plaisir d'inviter les
participants ? pr?senter des d?monstrations de logiciels et/ou de
prototypes qui s'appuient sur des m?thodes de Traitement Automatique du
Langage Naturel pour le texte ou la parole.
Dans ce cadre, les professionnels de l'industrie peuvent faire acte de
candidature pour pr?senter leur logiciel au cours du session
d?di?e. L'objet de cette derni?re est d'offrir un cadre d'interaction
entre les milieux industriel et acad?mique.

La session DEMONSTRATIONS ET INDUSTRIELLE, accueillera des pr?sentations
sous les formes suivantes (selon les besoins et disponibilit?s) :

- stand d'exposant ;
- affiche de pr?sentation ;
- d?monstration de produits logiciels ;
- pr?sentation orale.


MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION 

Pour participer, les candidats devront envoyer
 ? un r?sum? (2 page au format de la conf?rence) 
aux adresses : Herve.Blanchon at imag.fr et Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr 
le 30 mars 2011 au plus tard 
avec un titre commen?ant par [JEP-TALN DEMO]

Les participants seront choisis par le comit? d'organisation,
ind?pendament du processus de s?lection scientifique habituel. Les
crit?res de s?lection s'appuieront sur la pertinence des outils au
regard des th?matiques affich?es par les conf?rences TALN, RECITAL et
JEP.

Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais.

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word seront disponibles sur le
site web (? venir) de la conf?rence.

Contact : herve.blanchon at imag.fr et laurent.besacier at imag.fr

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Subject: Appel: TALN'2012 Papiers Courts - nouvelles dates (Pendant
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DERNIER APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS

ATTENTION NOUVELLES DATES : PREMIER DEPOT ET DEPOT DEFINITIF

TALN'2012
19e conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012

CALENDRIER

- Articles COURTs :
    - Date limite de soumission : 18 mars 2012 ? 24h pour la premi?re
      version ; 21 mars ? 24h pour la version d?finitive
    - Notification aux auteurs : 20 avril 2012
    - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 27 avril 2012

PR?SENTATION 

Organis?e par l'?quipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de
Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des
langues ?trang?res et maternelles) et le d?partement DPC du Gipsa-lab,
la conf?rence TALN'2012 se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2012 ? Grenoble ?
l'occasion de la conf?rence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012.
JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29?me ?dition des Journ?es d'?tude sur
la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19?me ?dition de la conf?rence sur le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14?me
?dition des Rencontres des ?tudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012).
Pour la quatri?me fois, apr?s Nancy en 2002, F?s en 2004, et Avignon en
2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parl?e) et
l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues)
organisent conjointement leur principale conf?rence afin de r?unir en un
seul lieu les deux communaut?s du traitement de la langue orale et
?crite.  La conf?rence TALN'2012 comprendra des communications orales et
affich?es, des conf?rences invit?es et des ateliers.
La langue officielle de la conf?rence est le fran?ais. Les
communications en anglais sont accept?es pour les participants
non-francophones.

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
Les articles courts doivent faire entre 6 et 8 pages.
Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des articles pr?sentant des travaux
de recherche originaux sur les th?mes propos?s ci-dessous.

Les articles courts seront pr?sent?s sous forme de poster.

TH?MES
Les communications pourront porter sur tous les th?mes habituels du TAL,
incluant, de fa?on non limitative :

- Analyse et g?n?ration dans les domaines suivants :
     - Phon?tique
     - Phonologie
     - Morphologie
     - Syntaxe
     - S?mantique
     - Discours

- D?veloppement de ressources linguistiques pour le TAL :
     - Bases de donn?es comportant des informations morphologiques,
       syntaxiques, s?mantiques, et/ou phonologiques
     - Grammaires
     - Lexiques
     - Ontologies
     - Linguistique de corpus

- Applications du TAL :
     - Analyse de sentiments ou d'opinions
     - Cat?gorisation ou classification automatique
     - D?sambigu?sation lexicale
     - Dialogue homme-machine en langage naturel
     - Enseignement assist? par ordinateur
     - Indexation automatique
     - Recherche et extraction d'information
     - R?sum? automatique
     - R?solution d'anaphores
     - Syst?mes de question-r?ponse
     - Traduction automatique
     - Web s?mantique

- Approches:
     - Linguistiques formelles destin?es ? soutenir les traitements
       automatiques
     - Symboliques
     - Logiques
     - Statistiques
     - Bas?es sur l'apprentissage automatique


CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION 
Les soumissions seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du
domaine.
Pour les travaux de recherches, seront consid?r?es en particulier :
     - l'ad?quation aux th?mes de la conf?rence. 
     - l'importance et l'originalit? de la contribution,
     - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,
     - la discussion critique des r?sultats, en particulier par rapport
       aux autres travaux du domaine,
     - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
       internationale,
     - l'organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation.

Les articles et d?monstrations s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les
actes de la conf?rence.

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION 

Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais.
Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word seront disponibles sur le
site web (? venir) de la conf?rence.

Contact : herve.blanchon at imag.fr et Georges.Antoniadis at u-grenoble3.fr

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:50:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax,
 Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (ACL 2012)
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:46:19 -0400
From: Marine Carpuat <marine.carpuat at gmail.com>
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SSST-6: Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical
Translation
ACL 2012 / SIGMT / SIGLEX Workshop 12 July 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea

*** New submission deadline: 15 Apr 2012 ***
*** Special theme: Semantic MT Evaluation ***

The Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical
Translation (SSST-6) seeks to build on the foundations established in
the first five SSST workshops, which brought together a large number of
researchers working on diverse aspects of structure, semantics and
representation in relation to statistical machine translation. Its
program each year has comprised high-quality papers discussing current
work spanning topics including: new grammatical models of translation;
new learning methods for syntax- and semantics-based models; formal
properties of synchronous/transduction grammars (hereafter S/TGs);
discriminative training of models incorporating linguistic features;
using S/TGs for semantics and generation; and syntax- and
semantics-based evaluation of machine translation.

The need for structural mappings between languages is widely recognized
in the fields of statistical machine translation and spoken language
translation, and there is a growing consensus that these mappings are
appropriately represented using a family of formalisms that includes
synchronous/transduction grammars and their tree-transducer
equivalents. To date, flat-structured models, such as the word-based IBM
models of the early 1990s or the more recent phrase-based models, remain
widely used. But tree-structured mappings arguably offer a much greater
potential for learning valid generalizations about relationships between
languages.

Within this area of research there is a rich diversity of approaches.
There is active research ranging from formal properties of S/TGs to
large-scale end-to-end systems. There are approaches that make heavy use
of linguistic theory, and approaches that use little or none.  There is
theoretical work characterizing the expressiveness and complexity of
particular formalisms, as well as empirical work assessing their
modeling accuracy and descriptive adequacy across various language
pairs. There is work being done to invent better translation models, and
work to design better algorithms. Recent years have seen significant
progress on all these fronts. In particular, systems based on these
formalisms are now top contenders in MT evaluations.

At the same time, SMT has seen a movement toward semantics over the past
few years, which has been reflected at recent SSST workshops, including
the last edition which had semantics for SMT as a special theme.  The
issues of deep syntax and shallow semantics are closely linked and
SSST-6 encourages submissions on semantics for MT in a number of
directions, including semantic role labeling (SRL) for SMT, WSD for SMT
and in particular, semantics for MT evaluation.  In order to emphasize
the need to evaluate MT in a way that properly assesses preservation of
structure and semantics, SSST-6 is highlighting Semantic MT Evaluation
as a special workshop theme.

We invite papers on:

* syntactically- and semantically-motivated evaluation of MT
* syntax-based / semantics-based / tree-structured SMT
* machine learning techniques for inducing structured translation models
* algorithms for training, decoding, and scoring with semantic
  representation structure
* empirical studies on adequacy and efficiency of formalisms
* creation and usefulness of syntactic/semantic resources for MT
* formal properties of synchronous/transduction grammars
* learning semantic information from monolingual, parallel or comparable
  corpora
* unsupervised and semi-supervised word sense induction and
  disambiguation methods for MT
* lexical substitution, word sense induction and
  disambiguation,semantic role labeling, textual entailment, paraphrase
  and other semantic tasks for MT
* semantic features for MT models (word alignment, translation
  lexicons, language models, etc.)
* evaluation of syntactic/semantic components within MT (task-based
  evaluation)
* scalability of structured translation methods to small or large data
* applications of synchronous/transduction grammars to areas including:
  speech translation, formal semantics and semantic parsing, paraphrases
  and textual entailment, information retrieval and extraction, etc.

For more information: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dekai/ssst/

SPECIAL THEME: SEMANTIC MT  EVALUATION

Ongoing work suggests that MT evaluation is improved by generalizing
across similar word meanings (Zhou et al., 2006; Apidianaki et al, 2009;
Snover et al., 2009; Denkowski and Lavie, 2010), and explicitly modeling
preservation of meaning with textual entailment (Pad? et al.  2009), or
semantic frames (Lo and Wu, 2011).  However, crucial questions such as
what frameworks are best suited to measure MT quality in general, and
the impact of semantic modeling in MT evaluation remain unanswered. With
this year's special theme, we seek to bring together researchers working
on semantics and on translation evaluation in order to encourage
cross-pollination of ideas, share insights into the needs of MT
evaluation and what current developments in semantics have to offer. We
particularly encourage the submission of papers addressing the following
issues related to semantics-driven evaluation of MT:

 * MT evaluation  metrics generalizing across similar word meanings
 * MT evaluation metrics explicitly modeling preservation of meaning via
   textual entailment, semantic frames, etc
 * New frameworks to measure MT quality using semantic information,
   including machine learning approaches
 * Evaluation of the impact of semantic modeling on MT evaluation
 * Use of semantic information for quality/confidence estimation (MT
   evaluation without reference translations)

ORGANIZERS

Marine CARPUAT, National Research Council Canada
Lucia SPECIA, University of Sheffield
Dekai WU, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:  15 Apr 2012
Notification to authors:  4 May 2012
Camera copy deadline:  11 Apr 2012


SUBMISSION

Papers will be accepted on or before 2 Apr 2012 in PDF or Postscript
formats via the START system:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/ssst-6/. Submissions should follow
the ACL 2012 length and formatting requirements for long papers of
eight (8) pages of content with two (2) additional pages of
references, found at http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp


CONTACT

Please send inquiries to ssst at cs.ust.hk.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marianna Apidianaki, LIMSI-CNRS
Wilker Aziz, University of Wolverhampton
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research
David Chiang, USC ISI
Colin Cherry, National Research Council Canada
Mona Diab, Columbia University
Alexander Fraser, University of Stuttgart
Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Yifan He, Dublin City University
Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Kevin Knight, USC ISI
Alon Lavie, CMU
Yanjun Ma, Baidu
Daniel Marcu, USC ISI and Language Weaver
Llu?s M?rquez, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya
Sudip Kumar Naskar, Dublin City University
Hwee-Tou Ng, National University of Singapore
Daniele Pighin, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya
Markus Saers, HKUST
Libin Shen, IBM Research
Matthew Snover, BBN
John Tinsley, Dublin City University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Taro Watanabe, NICT
Deyi Xiong, National University of Singapore
Fran?ois Yvon, Universit? Paris Sud 11

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:56:36 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF informatique, LIMSI / Universite Paris-Sud
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:44:30 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
Message-Id: <201203132144.31139.pz at limsi.fr>
X-url: http://www.u-psud.fr/_attachments/enseignants_chercheurs/27-MCF-1751_traitement%2520automatique%2520langues.pdf

Un poste de Ma?tre de conf?rences en informatique (27e section) est ?
pourvoir ? la facult? des Sciences de l'Universit? Paris-Sud avec
recherche au LIMSI-CNRS ? Orsay :

Traitement automatique des langues et apprentissage
pour l'analyse de textes m?dicaux

== Extrait du profil enseignement :

La personne recrut?e enseignera dans les fili?res d'informatique
classiques.

== Extrait du profil recherche :

Le candidat devra avoir des comp?tences dans les disciplines du
traitement automatique des langues et de l'apprentissage automatique,
avec possiblement une majeure et une mineure. Il devra ?tre capable de
mener une recherche m?thodologique dans la discipline majeure. Des
comp?tences suppl?mentaires en repr?sentation des connaissances et une
exp?rience du domaine m?dical seront appr?ci?es.

L'int?gration se fera dans le groupe ILES du LIMSI-CNRS.

== Contacts :

Enseignement :
  Alain Denise : alain.denise at lri.fr
Recherche :
  Pierre Zweigenbaum (pz at limsi.fr)
  Anne Vilnat (anne.vilnat at limsi.fr)

Concours : MCF 26.1
La fiche de poste (MCF 1751(4045), CNU 27) est consultable ? l'adresse :
http://www.u-psud.fr/_attachments/enseignants_chercheurs/27-MCF-1751_traitement%2520automatique%2520langues.pdf

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:03:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: TSD 2012
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:55:44 +0100
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      *********************************************************
		   TSD 2012 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
      *********************************************************

Fifteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2012)
	      Brno, Czech Republic, 3-7 September 2012
		    http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen.  The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

    March 15 2012 ............ Submission of abstracts
    March 22 2012 ............ Submission of full papers

Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.  TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation
Index.  Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases
such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.


The TSD 2012 conference will be accompanied by a one-day satellite
workshop

    Hybrid Machine Translation

The workshop is organized in cooperation with the PRESEMT EU project
Consortium, submissions from other EU machine translation and other
projects are more than welcomed.  The MT workshop submissions will
undergo two separate review processes - the best papers which will
succeed in both review processes (by the TSD 2012 Conference PC and MT
Workshop 2012 PC) will be published in the TSD 2012 Springer
Proceedings, all other accepted MT workshop papers will be published in
a separate proceedings with ISBN.  The MT workshop will take place on
September 3 2012 in the conference venue.


TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
    text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
    specialized lexicons, dictionaries)

    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
    speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
    alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
    acoustic and language modelling)

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
    disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
    credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
    authorship attribution)

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
    fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
    extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
    knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
    disambiguation, plagiarism detection)

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
    (machine translation, natural language understanding,
    question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues)

    Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
    and personality modelling)

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair)
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Genevieve Baudoin, France
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, GB
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Patrick Hanks, GB
    Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
    Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    Diana McCarthy, UK
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Elmar Noeth, Germany
    Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic
    Fabio Pianesi, Italy
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Jan Pomikalek, Czech Republic
    Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Stefan Steidl, Germany
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
    Pascal Wiggers, the Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, GB
    Victor Zakharov, Russia


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
    Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
    Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.

The registration fee is not fixed yet, but we can anticipate that
it will be similar to that of previous years, e.g. in 2010:

    Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 9500 CZK
    Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 11000 CZK

There will also be an option to obtain "grants" for an active
attendance.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2012 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...".  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX
or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final
versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer
Lecture Notes.  Authors using a WORD compatible software for the
final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the
submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper
to LaTeX format.  For this service a service-and-license fee of
CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file
with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,
presenters will receive further information on submitting their
camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on
the final paper format see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings).

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference.  The presenters of the demonstration should provide the
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2012 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2012 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2012 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2012 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
July 26 2012 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts
July 31 2012 ............. Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 3 2012 ......... MT workshop date
September 4-7 2012 ....... TSD 2012 Conference dates

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

The accepted conference contributions will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
    
    Ales Horak, TSD 2012
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2012 at tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2012 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow,
Saint Petersburg, Eindhoven, Rome and Prague and by trains or
buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may
also be of interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called
Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the
Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian
Margraves, Church of St.  James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul,
Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat
designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important
buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with
Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of
three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz
- Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz),
Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice
Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish
cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO
heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:07:29 +0100
Subject: Appel: CUBA, 13th Symposium on Linguistics, 2013
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Web site of our International Symposiums on Social Communication:

http://www.santiago.cu/hosting/linguistica/index.php?id=en

Web site of the Centre for Applied Linguistics:

http://www.linguistica.santiago.cu/

Web site of our Basic School Dictionary:

http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/dbe/index.html

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[To spread, please, thank you.  Apologies if you receive this
announcement more than once.]

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA
JANUARY 21-25, 2013

The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba?s branch of
the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to
announce the Thirteenth International Symposium on Social
Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba, January 21
through the 25, 2013. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social
communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics,
Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and
Folklore.

The Symposium will be also sponsored by:

. University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

. Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

. African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

. Provincial Branch of Writers and Artists Association of Santiago de
  Cuba, Cuba

. Provincial Branch of Translators of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

. University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands

. Basque Country University, Spain

. Semantic Technology Institute (STI), Innsbruck, Austria

. Centre of Lexicography Aarhus University, Denmark

. University of W?rzburg W?rzburg, Germany

. Centre Tesni?re Universit? de Franche-Comt? Besan?on, France

Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the
following disciplines:

1. Linguistics:

- Applied Linguistics

- Phonetics and Phonology

- Lexicology and Lexicography

- Quantitative Linguistics

- Morphology and Syntax

- Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics

- Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics

- Sociolinguistics

- Spanish and foreign language teaching

- Spanish as a second language

- Terminology

- Translations

- Linguistics Rights

- Linguistics Policy

2. Computational Linguistics:

- Software related to linguistics research

- Automated grammatical tagging of texts

- Electronic dictionaries

- Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign
  languages

- Related issues

3. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social
   Communication in general:

- Logopedy and Phoniatry

- Neurology

- Otorhinolaryngology

- Stomatology

4. Mass Media:

- Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and
  radio and television announcers

- Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and
  electronic media articles

5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore:

- Research related to Social Communication

Activities that will take place within the event are:

- Pre-Symposium seminars

- Discussion of papers in commissions

- Keynote speeches

- Books presentation

- Cultural activities

PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS

The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by
prestigious specialists. The seminars will take place Monday, January
21st, 2013.

The courses will be given by:

Profa. Dra. Esther Forgas
University Rovira i Virgili
Tarragona, Spain

IXA Group
Basque Country University
Basque Country, Spain

Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want
to take part in. An additional fee of 25.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos
(CUC) will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will
be available.

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

During the symposium several keynote speeches will be delivered. Until
now are confirmed:

Prof. Dr. Kathleen Wermke 
W?rzburg University
W?rzburg, Germany

Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Sylviane Cardey
Centre Tesni?re
Universit? de Franche-Comt?
Besan?on, France

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

The deadline of submission of papers is July 1st, 2012. The papers
should not exceed 5 pages. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the
Symposium?s Scientific Committee will be sent before July 31st, 2012.

PAPERS

To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of
the Symposium?s documentation -as we did in the 5th ('97), 6th ('99),
7th ('01), 8th ('03), 9th ('05), 10th ('07), 11th ('09) and 12th ('11)
Symposiums-, accepted papers must be sent before August 31, 2012 if the
Scientific Committee had done some observations.

Requirements for papers:

1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and
   bibliography.

2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent
   to the Symposium?s Executive Secretary via e-mail as attached file.

3. Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and
   bottom margin of 2.5 cm.

4. The paper must be written in one of the event?s official languages:
   Spanish, English, French or Portuguese.

5. The pages of the text should be unnumered.

Instructions for paper submission:

1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top
   of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word
   6.0 or 7.0). Under the author's name(s) should appear in bold (only
   initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail
   address.

2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be
   written in Arial bold, italics, 10 points size letters.

3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9
   points size and leaving one space between lines.

4. Paragraphs will have no indentation.  Spaces between paragraphs will
   be of 1.5 points.

5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and
   sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size.

6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size
   letters.

Presentation time will be 15 minutes.

All mail or inquiries should be addressed to:

Prof. Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee
13th International Symposium on Social Communication
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Telephone: 53-22-646390
E-mail: simposio at cla.ciges.inf.cu

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, 
French and Portuguese

REGISTRATION FEE

Speakers  and  Delegates
200.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos)

Companions
100.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos)

Payment of the fee must be sent via bank transfer to the bank account to
be announce opportunely and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where
your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event,
speaker?s certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural
activities. Companions will have access to all of the above, except
copies of the Proceedings.

ACCOMODATION

The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star
hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

- Papers submission deadline: July 1st, 2012

- Notification on paper?s approval by Scientific Committee: by July 31,
  2012

- Delivery of papers by e-mail: August 31, 2012 (in case of the
  observations done by the Scientific Committee)

- Pre-Symposium seminars: January 21, 2013

- 13th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 22
  through 25, 2013

OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST

Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 km from Havana, is Cuba's second
largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban
history is unquestionable.  Santiago is also the capital of the province
with the same name.  Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra
Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography
and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most
important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing
Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer
visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the
city's beauty and charm.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Pedro Beaton Soler
Representative of the Ministry of
Science, Technology and the Environment
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Executive Secretary
13th International Symposium on Social Communication
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez
Emeritus Academic
Academy of Science of Cuba
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics
President of the Organizing Committee
12th International Symposium on Social Communication
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Celia Maria Perez Marques
Researcher
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Nancy Cristina Alamo Suarez
Researcher
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Alex Munnoz Alvarado
Investigador
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Anton Nijholt
Professor and Researcher
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

Innaki Alegr?a Loinaz
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Xabier Artola Zubillaga
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Xabier Arregi Iparragirre
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Dieter Fensel
Director and Researcher
Semantic Technology Institute (STI)
Innsbruck, Austria

Mercedes Cathcart Roca
Professor and Researcher
Faculty of Humanities
University of Oriente
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Martha Cordies Jackson
Director and Researcher
African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz"
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Ercilia Estrada Estrada
Scientific Council
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Lucia Marconi
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

Paola Cutugno
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

Daniela Ratti
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

L. Alfonso Urenna Lopez
President of the NLP Spanish Association (SEPLN)
Jaen University
Jaen, Spain

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THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

REGISTRATION FORM

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Organization: ________________________

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Business address: __________________________________

City: ______________ Telefax: ____________

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:09:18 +0100
Subject: Soft: New annotation tool, WebAnnotator
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:52:03 +0100
From: Xavier Tannier <xtannier at limsi.fr>
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*WebAnnotator* is a new tool for annotating Web pages implemented at
LIMSI. Giving it a try will take you no more than 10 minutes.

WebAnnotator is implemented as a *Firefox extension*, allowing
annotation of both *offline and inline pages*. The HTML rendering is
fully preserved and all annotations consist in new HTML spans with
specific styles.

WebAnnotator provides an easy and general-purpose framework and is made
available under CeCILL free license (close to GNU GPL), so that use and
further contributions are made simple.

WebAnnotator can be downloaded on the official Mozilla web page : 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webannotator/.
A quick manual can be found here : 
http://perso.limsi.fr/Individu/xtannier/en/WebAnnotator/

All parts of an HTML document can be annotated: text, images, videos,
tables, menus, etc. The annotations are created by simply selecting a
part of the document and clicking on the relevant type and subtypes. The
annotated elements are then highlighted in a specific color. Annotation
schemas can be defined by the user by creating a simple DTD representing
the types and subtypes that must be highlighted. Finally, annotations
can be saved (HTML with highlighted parts of documents) or exported (in
a machine-readable format).

WebAnnotator will be presented at *LREC conference* in May 2012.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:12:02 +0100
Subject: Sujet de these: Allocation doctorale,
 Modelisation de la grammaire enfantine
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:32:29 +0100
From: Pascal Denis <pascal.denis at inria.fr>
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Allocation doctorale : Mod?lisation de la grammaire enfantine

Les candidats sont appel?s ? travailler dans le cadre d?un projet en
linguistique sur 10 ans intitul? "LabEx Empirical foundations of
linguistics" http://www.labex-efl.org/.  La/le candidat(e) travaillera
au sein de l?Axe 4 : Repr?sentation et traitement du langage dans une
perspective lifespan.

La/le candidat(e) choisi(e) travaillera au sein du Laboratoire de
Linguistique Formelle (LLF), Universit? Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/

Les candidats devront pr?senter leurs dipl?mes en linguistique ou
informatique ou psycholinguistique du niveau Master. Les candidats
seront s?lectionn?s par un comit? d?experts. L?accent sera mis sur
l??valuation du potentiel de recherche du candidat ? partir de son
m?moire de Master ou ?quivalent ou de ses travaux de recherche.

 Merci de joindre ? votre CV
- deux noms de r?f?rents (avec leur adresse email)
- Adresse email et publications
- Une lettre qui explique votre motivation et exp?rience

La th?se comportera des recherches au sein d'un projet qui d?veloppe un
mod?le de l'acquisition qui int?gre l'interaction enfant/parent comme
une partie fondamentale des donn?es primaires. La base empirique sera
des ?tudes de corpus de l'interaction multimodale enfant/parent. La
mod?lisation implique le d?veloppement de techniques qui int?grent la
mod?lisation dialogique et l'apprentissage automatique comme une base
pour une th?orie de l'?mergence de la grammaire aux ?tapes primaires de
l'acquisition. La recherche implique aussi le d?veloppement de
grammaires pour les ?nonc?s enfantins et des algorithmes d'induction (?
partir de corpus de dialogue) qui permettent aux grammaires d??voluer en
cons?quence de l'interaction.  Le doctorant retenu travaillera au sein
d?une ?quipe de recherche interdisciplinaire comprenant des chercheurs
internationaux.

*Contact: *
Jonathan Ginzburg

*Adresse du responsable: *
yonatan.ginzburg_at_univ-paris-diderot.fr

*Universit?: *
Universit? Paris 7

*Niveau: *
doctorant

*Dur?e: *
36 mois ? partir de septembre 2012

*Salaire: *
Allocation selon r?glementation fran?aise en vigueur

*Sp?cialit?s: *
S?mantique, Dialogue, Acquisition de langage, apprentissage automatique

*Date limite de candidature: *
2012/04/10

*Adresse pour la candidature: *
thierry.nazzi_at_parisdescartes.fr

*R?f?rence de candidature: *
EFL-OLA8

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:15:37 +0100
Subject: Sujet de these: Ingenierie des connaissances et TAL
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:38:42 +0100
From: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles <aussenac at irit.fr>
Message-ID: <4F606722.2070702 at irit.fr>

**

**

*Formalisation de l'architecture textuelle et du discours *

*pour la conception d?ontologies ? partir de textes*

Responsable : Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles 
Tel : 0561558293 aussenac at irit.fr

Encadrement : Mouna Kamel  
Tel : 0561558338 kamel at irit.fr

*Ecole Doctorale* : Math?matique Informatique T?l?communications de
 Toulouse

*Etablissement d?inscription* : Universit? Paul Sabatier de Toulouse ?
118 Route de Narbonne ? 31062Toulouse cedex 9

*Unit? d'accueil*: Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
Equipe : MELODI (*ME*thodes et ing?nierie des *L*angues, des
*O*ntologies et du *Di*scours)

*Domaine scientifique *: Informatique**

*Mots cl? *: ontologie, architecture textuelle, th?orie du discours,
analyse s?mantique du langage, TAL**

Les ontologies sont des structures de repr?sentation des connaissances
bas?es sur un fondement logique, qui mettent en avant les concepts d'un
domaine, les relations entre ces concepts (relations s?mantiques), ainsi
que les axiomes et contraintes impliquant ces concepts et relations.
Elles contribuent grandement au d?veloppement du Web s?mantique et sont
particuli?rement pr?sentes dans les domaines tels que l?extraction
d?information, l?indexation de documents, l?explicitation d?une
recherche d?information, le r?sum? automatique, etc.

La construction d'ontologie ? partir de textes s'appuie jusqu'ici sur
des analyses statistiques et/ou des analyses linguistiques
essentiellement focalis?es sur les niveaux lexicaux et syntaxiques.
Partant du constat que la mise en forme mat?rielle d?un texte contribue
? lui donner du sens, l?id?e est d?exploiter les objets textuels
(segments de texte rendus perceptibles ? la surface du texte par leur
mise en forme mat?rielle) porteurs de relations hi?rarchiques entre
leurs diff?rents constituants (constituants qui ne sont pas forc?ment
contigus dans le texte). L?objectif est donc d??largir les m?thodes de
construction d?ontologie ? partir de textes en analysant les structures
discursives b?n?ficiant de mises en forme r?guli?res.

La th?se a donc pour but, dans un premier temps, de formaliser certaines
structures discursives sp?cifiques selon une th?orie du discours et un
mod?le d?architecture textuelle. Il s?agira ensuite de caract?riser un
ensemble d?indices syntaxico-s?mantiques qui permettront tout d?abord
d?identifier automatiquement ces structures discursives, puis d?extraire
automatiquement de ces structures les connaissances ontologiques
qu?elles contiennent. Une des difficult?s majeures de ce travail
consistera ? identifier d?une part les concepts pr?sents non seulement
dans les diff?rents segments composant la structure mais aussi dans les
segments appartenant au ? contexte ? de la structure, et d?autre part la
nature (ontologique ou lexicale) de la ou les relations port?es par la
structure. Une ?tude entre une approche symbolique et une approche par
apprentissage doit ?tre envisag?e. Enfin, ce travail devra permettre
d?affiner les m?thodes de construction d?ontologie (DAFOE et Terminae) ?
la d?finition desquelles contribue l??quipe MELODI.

*Financement :* Ce sujet est prioritaire pour une demande de bourse de
th?se du minist?re.

*Candidatures* : Les candidats int?ress?s sont invit?s ? envoyer une
lettre de motivation, un CV, un relev? de notes avec classement au
Master le plus t?t possible, avant le 20 avril 2012. Une seconde
s?lection sera ensuite faite par l??cole doctorale sur la base d?une
audition d?but mai 2012.

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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:17:31 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC 2012: Deadline Extension for Final Submission & Early
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The deadline for *Final Submission* and *Early Registration* has been
moved to *March, 21st, 2012*.

We take the occasion for reminding you that it is strongly advisable to
complete the hotel reservation when registering to LREC. May is the high
season in Istanbul.

************************************************************************
LREC 2012  - May 21-27
www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012
8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
ICEC Conference Center
Istanbul, Turkey

Submit your paper: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Final-Submission
Register online: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Registration-
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:26:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: TAG+11, Premier appel
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:15:45 +0100
From: Eric De la Clergerie <Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr>
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** Apologies for cross-posting **


                         CALL FOR PAPERS
               The Eleventh International Workshop
                   on Tree Adjoining Grammars
                     and Related Formalisms
                             (TAG+11)

                       26-28 September 2012
                     University Paris-Diderot
                           Paris, France

             http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php


The Workshop on Tree-Adjoining Grammars and related formalisms (TAG+) is
a biennial workshop series that fosters exchange of ideas among
linguists, psycholinguists and computer scientists interested in
modeling natural language using formal grammars.  The workshop series,
since 1990, has demonstrated productive interactions among researchers
and practitioners interested in various aspects of the Tree-Adjoining
Grammar formalism and its relationship to other grammar formalisms, such
as combinatory categorial grammar, dependency grammars, Minimalist
grammars, HPSG, and LFG; hence the "+" in the name of the workshop.

Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG) and related lexicalized grammar formalisms
provide mathematical tools to model natural language and the scaffolding
to encode linguistic generalizations in a principled manner.  In the
past, this workshop has helped identify similarities and differences
between the above formalisms, leading 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 the
properties of different formalisms and their capacity for linguistic
explanation.  It is our expectation that this edition of the workshop
will continue enabling cross-fertilization of ideas that combine the
representational flexibility of TAG-like grammar formalisms with the
robustness afforded by machine learning techniques to produce a deeper
insight into modeling of natural language.

The first day of the meeting will be devoted to a series of tutorial
presentations, designed to introduce attendees to a range of TAG-related
topics.


Invited Speakers:

* Kevin Knight, University of Southern California (USA)
* Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)


Tutorial Speakers:

* David Chiang ? USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Laura Kallmeyer ? University of D?sseldorf (Germany)
* Andreas Maletti ? University of Stuttgart (Germany)


Topics of Interest:

We invite submissions on all aspects of TAG and related grammatical
formalisms including the following topics:

* syntactic and semantic theory;
* mathematical properties;
* computational and algorithmic studies of parsing, interpretation and
  language generation;
* machine learning models using TAG-like representations;
* corpus-based research and grammar development using TAG;
* psycholinguistic modeling; and
* applications to natural language processing or biological sequence
  modeling.


Special Session:

We plan to organize a special session on formalisms based on synchronous
tree rewriting.  We especially encourage submissions on topics related
to synchronous tree rewriting, including theoretical aspects,
applications to machine translation and syntax-semantics interface.


Submission Details:

Anonymous abstracts may be submitted for two types of presentations at
the workshop: oral 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).  Both one-column
or two-column abstracts are permissible. However do not use a font that
is smaller than 11pt. If you are using LaTeX for document preparation,
then any recent ACL style file can be used. The final camera ready
version of the full paper for the proceedings must be in two-column
format conforming to the most recent ACL style file.

The abstract must be submitted electronically in PDF format, using the
EasyChair electronic submission website at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tag11

The submission instructions can be found at

http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php?id=submissions

Proceedings including full papers for accepted abstracts (both oral and
poster presentations) will be available on-line before the workshop
dates.


Important dates:

* Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 15, 2012.
* Notification to authors of decision: July 30, 2012.
* Deadline for camera-ready submission: September 7, 2012.
* Workshop dates: September 26 to 28, 2012.


Contact Information:

The workshop website is at http://alpage.inria.fr/tagplus11/doku.php

Email contact: tagplus11 at gmail.com


Organization:

Program Chairs

* Chung-hye Han, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
* Giorgio Satta, University of Padova (Italy)

Program Committee

* Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research (USA)
* Rajesh Bhatt, UMass (USA)
* David Chiang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Benoit Crabb? University Paris-Diderot (France)
* Robert Frank, Yale University (USA)
* Claire Gardent, Loria (France)
* Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester (USA)
* Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
* Liang Huang, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
* Laura Kallmeyer, University of Duesseldorf (Germany)
* Makoto Kanazawa, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
* Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam (Germany)
* Marco Kuhlmann, Uppsala University (Sweden)
* Andreas Maletti, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
* Yusuke Miyao, University of Tokyo (Japan)
* Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St Andrews (Scotland)
* Steve DeNeefe, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
* Owen Rambow, Columbia University (USA)
* Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz (Germany)
* Tatjana Scheffler, DFKI (Germany)
* Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
* William Schuler, The Ohio State University (USA)
* Stuart Shieber, Harvard University (USA)
* Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh (UK)
* Matthew Stone, Rutgers University (USA)
* Sylvain Salvati, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest (France)
* Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK)
* Fei Xia, University of Washington (USA)

Local Arrangements Chairs

* ?ric de la Clergerie ? INRIA Paris Rocquencourt
* Djam? Seddah ? University Paris Sorbonne Paris 4
* Laurence Danlos, University Paris-Diderot
* Chantal Girodon, INRIA Paris Rocquencourt


TAG+ 11 is endorsed by EACL (the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics).

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:27:41 +0100
Subject: Job: XRCE Internship: Optimization and Sampling Techniques for
 Statistical Machine Translation
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:45:19 +0100
From: "Dymetman, Marc" <Marc.Dymetman at xrce.xerox.com>
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See:
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Start Date : Around June 2012
Duration : 4-5 months

The MLDAT area (Machine Learning for Document Access and Translation) at
XRCE (Xerox Research Centre Europe) is opening an internship to pursue
its current research line in Optimization and Sampling Techniques for
Statistical Machine Translation.

XRCE has developed some algorithms, which combine optimization and
sampling in novel ways in order to perform inference and training for a
number of NLP tasks, in the presence of complex feature spaces.

We are looking for a motivated intern to pursue this line of work,
further implement these techniques and perform experiments in the
context of phrase-based and/or syntax-based translation.

The successful candidate should be enrolled in a graduate program, at
the Master or (preferably) PhD level, with focus on Machine Learning,
Optimization, Statistical NLP, or (ideally) Statistical Machine
Translation.

Strong programming skills (one or several of C/C++, Python, Java...) are
a requirement.

IMPORTANT. Priority will be given to students who are members of
institutions affiliated to the PASCAL-2 network of excellence. A partial
list of such institutions is available at:
http://pascallin2.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Network/Sites .

For further details, please contact Marc Dymetman
(marc.dymetman at xrce.xerox.com).

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:33:35 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension,
 ACL 2012 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity
 and Sentiment Analysis
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:14:20 +0100
From: Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu <alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
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[Apologies for cross-postings. Please distribute. ]

***********************************************************************

*Due to the changes in the schedule of ACL workshops, the deadline for 
submitting contributions to the WASSA 2012 workshop has been moved to 
April 15, 2012.*

***********************************************************************

3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment 
Analysis (WASSA 2012) - http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2012/

***********************************************************************

- Satellite workshop to ACL 2012 (Jeju, Korea)
- Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGNLL and SIGSEM
- The best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the Computer
  Speech and Language Journal (Elsevier).
- Subsequent to the WASSA 2012 acceptance notification, we will also
  launch an open call for papers for a Special Issue of the Information
  Sciences Journal (Elsevier).

***********************************************************************


***********************************************************************

IMPORTANT DATES:

*April 15, 2012:  Extended paper submission deadline
May 3, 2012:     Notification of acceptance
May 17, 2012:    Camera-ready deadline*
Jul 12, 2012:     Workshop to take place at ACL 2012

************************************************************************

AIM OF WORKSHOP

Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, as subtasks
in Affective Computing within Natural Language Processing, has
flourished in the past years, as the Social Web made it possible for
people all over the world to express, comment or consult opinions on any
given topic. The fact that so many people express themselves on these
topics makes opinions less biased and more credible; their subjective
nature makes them easily understandable by all people and leads to their
growing influence on communities worldwide. Due to all these reasons,
opinions expressed on the Web are more and more considered as basis for
decision-making processes, for recommendation systems, business
intelligence processes, image monitoring, and marketing or for obtaining
unbiased, massive feedback.

In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years,
dealing with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex,
interdisciplinary problem that remains far from being solved. Its
challenges include the need to address the issue from different
perspectives and at different levels, depending on the characteristics
of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the final application
for which the analysis is done.

Bearing in mind the abovementioned reflections, the aim of the 3rd
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment
Analysis (WASSA 2012) is to continue the line of the previous two
editions, bringing together researchers in Computational Linguistics
working on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and, more generally, on
affect in text. Moreover, taking into account that affect-related
phenomena have also been studied by other disciplines, such as
Psychology, Philosophy or Economics, the purpose of WASSA 2012 is to
facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue on the analysis, requirements,
issues and applications of the study of subjectivity and sentiment in
the context of traditional and emerging text types. We envisage WASSA as
a forum to discuss the achievements obtained so far and to analyse the
different approaches to tackle the difficulties researchers are
confronted with in this research area.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

Inspired by the objectives we aimed at in the first two editions of the
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity Analysis (WASSA
2010 and WASSA 2.011) and the final outcome, the purpose of the proposed
3rd edition of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity
and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2012) is to create a framework for
presenting and discussing the challenges related to subjectivity and
sentiment analysis in NLP, from an interdisciplinary theoretical and
practical perspective.

Researchers are encouraged to submit papers including, but not
restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and sentiment
analysis:

. Lexical semantic resources, corpora and annotations for 
  subjectivity and sentiment analysis

. Subjectivity and opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization,
  aggregation and summarization

. Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment
  analysis

. Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models.
. Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis
. Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective language
. The computational treatment of large amounts of user-generated content
. Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task
. Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment 
  analysis
. Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
. Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation methodologies for subjectivity 
  and sentiment analysis
. Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks
. Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment 
  analysis techniques
. Classification of stance in dialogues
. Real-world applications of opinion mining systems

We will also encourage participants to provide demos of their systems,
thus giving them the opportunity to obtain feedback on their
achievements and issues. At the same time, with the help of demos, we
aim at enriching the discussion forum with application-specific topics
for debate.

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ORGANIZERS

. Alexandra Balahur -- European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy
  -- alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu

. Andr?s Montoyo - University of Alicante, Spain -- montoyo at dlsi.ua.es

. Patricio Mart?nez-Barco - University of Alicante, Spain -
  patricio at dlsi.ua.es

. Ester Boldrini - University of Alicante, Spain - eboldrini at dlsi.ua.es

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

. Khurshid Ahmad -- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay - Jadavpur University, India
. Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy
. Erik Cambria -- University of Stirling, U.K.
. Jos? Carlos Cortizo - European University Madrid, Spain
. Michael Gamon -- Microsoft
. Jes?s M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain
. Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium
. Mijail Kabadjov -- Vicomtech, Spain
. Zornitsa Kozareva - Information Sciences Institute California, U.S.A.
. Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.
. Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada
. Karo Moilanen -- Oxford University, U.K.
. Rafael Mu?oz - University of Alicante, Spain
. G?nter Neumann - DFKI, Germany
. Alena Neviarouskaia -- University of Tokyo, Japan
. Manabu Okumura -- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
. Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
. Manuel Palomar - University of Alicante, Spain
. Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
. Paolo Rosso - Technical University of Valencia, Spain
. Josef Steinberger -- EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
. Ralf Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
. Veselin Stoyanov -- John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
. Maite Taboada -  Simon Fraser University, Canada
. Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
. Jos? Antonio Troyano - University of Seville, Spain
. Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania
. Alfonso Ure?a -- University of Ja?n, Spain
. Erik van der Goot -- EC Joint Research Centre, Italy
. Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
. Marilyn Walker - University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
. Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
. Michael Wiegand -- Saarland University, Germany
. Theresa Wilson -- John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
. Taras Zagibalov -  Brantwatch, U.K.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

. Prof. Dr. Rada Mihalcea -- University of North Texas, U.S.A.
. Prof. Dr. Janyce Wiebe -- University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

************************************************************************

SUBMISSIONS

At WASSA 2012, we will accept two types of submissions: long and short
papers.

. Long papers

Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two
(2) additional pages of references, and will be presented orally.

. Short papers

Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2)
additional pages of references. The following types of papers are
appropriate for a short paper submission:

1.    A paper describing the demonstration of a system
2.    A small, focused contribution
3.    Work in progress
4.    A negative result
5.    An opinion piece
6.    An interesting application nugget

Short papers will be presented either orally or as a poster. The choice
of presentation will be given not based on the quality of the
submission, but on the PC's recommendation relating to the most suitable
presentation method.

All papers submitted to WASSA should be formatted according to the
ACL-HLT 2012 Style Files, available at:
http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp Reviewing for WASSA 2010 will be
blind: reviewers will not be presented with the identity of paper
authors. Authors should avoid writing anything that makes their identity
obvious in the text.

Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously
have been formally published.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACL WASSA proceedings, with
ISBN. The best papers will be chosen for a Special Issue of the Computer
Speech and Language Journal (Elsevier).

Subsequent to the WASSA 2012 acceptance notification, we will also
launch an open call for papers for a Special Issue of the Information
Sciences Journal (Elsevier).

To submit a paper, please access: 
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/wassa-2012

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:35:50 +0100
Subject: Info: Newsletter du LPL numero 3 - mars 2012
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:37:24 +0100
From: Jo?lle Lavaud <joelle.lavaud at lpl-aix.fr>
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Bonjour,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous envoyer le nouveau num?ro de la Newsletter
du Laboratoire Parole et Langage, consultable en ligne :

http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/fileadmin/template/NewsLetter/NL3.htm
vous souhaitons une bonne lecture.
Cordialement,

La cellule communication du LPL.

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Sat Mar 17 21:36:56 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:36:56 +0100
Subject: Cursus: Master Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la
 Langue a Nantes
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:17:52 +0100
From: Emmanuel Morin <Emmanuel.Morin at univ-nantes.fr>
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Cher-e coll?gue,

En septembre 2012 ouvrira ? Nantes la sp?cialit? du Master informatique
ATAL : *Apprentissage et Traitement Automatique de la Langue*
(http://atal.univ-nantes.fr)

Il s'agit d'une formation sur deux ans, P+R, alliant l'acquisition
d'outils de g?nie logiciel pour les technologies de la langue ? l'?tude
de nombreux concepts pr?parant des futurs chercheurs dans les m?mes
domaines.

N'h?sitez pas ? en parler autour de vous, et en particulier ? vos 
?tudiants !

Bien entendu, nous sommes aussi int?ress?s dans l'?tablissement de 
collaborations avec les ?quipes motiv?es par ce projet, collaborations 
qui pourraient vous permettre de proposer des stages ou d'intervenir 
d'une fa?on ou une autre, dans la formation.

Bien cordialement,

Emmanuel Morin

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:39:30 +0100
Subject: Q: Outil generique de gestion de contenu
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:35:13 +0100
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Bonjour,

Je d?sirerais savoir quel outil les lecteurs de la liste LN
conseilleraient pour g?rer et visualiser un document XML, avec de
multiples liens vers des m?ta-donn?es (index, etc.). Je cherche de
pr?f?rence un logiciel libre mais il faudrait qqch de stable, bien
?tabli avec de la documentation.

Je m'adresse ? la liste LN car j'imagine qu'il s'agit d'un probl?me
classique quand on extrait des termes ou d'autres types d'info ? partir
de textes.

Merci de m'envoyer directement vos suggestions (thierry.poibeau at ens.fr),
je posterai une synth?se des r?ponses.

Cordialement,

Thierry Poibeau

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:41:26 +0100
Subject: Job: Call for JSPS Postdoctoral Fellows (JSPS/CNRS programme)
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:37:40 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
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Call for JSPS Postdoctoral Fellows
Development of novel algorithms for post-disaster surveillance from
massive social network data
 
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) runs an excellent
scheme for inviting international researchers to come and work at
Japanese universities and research institutes for 12 to 24 months.  The
fellowships have offered quite generous terms that include monthly
salary, round trip air ticket, housing subsidy, settling in allowance,
accident and sickness coverage, local travel grant, and a grant in aid
for research expenses. For conditions, application deadlines and
up-to-date details please see
http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/index.html.

NII (http://www.nii.ac.jp/en) and LATTICE/CNRS
(http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/) are currently collaborating on a project
aiming at providing novel algorithms for post-disaster surveillance from
massive social network data. In this context, we would like to host
applicants willing to work in this area and to be based at the
Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI) in Tokyo for one or
two years. Note that applicants from France who apply through CNRS
should be either French nationals or French residents.
 
Please send expressions of interest on or before March, 31 by sending a
CV, a cover letter and one or two relevant publications to Nigel Collier
<collier at nii.ac.jp> and Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>.
Applications are administered by CNRS with a final deadline of 16 April
2012 (see https://dri-dae.cnrs-dir.fr/spip.php?article1242 and
http://jsps.unistra.fr/les-bourses-de-la-jsps/).
 
Background
 
Recent public health disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the
2011 Tohoku earthquake/tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear reactor leakage
have dramatically shown the human costs that societies face at times of
large-scale crisis. In a very short space of time governments must
decide on how to allocate scarce national assets to mitigate the
disaster and alleviate suffering of victims. At the same time
communities under pressure have shown great resilience and willingness
to help each other. Putting together those in need with those capable of
providing resources is a key objective in future disaster mitigation.
 
Traditional sensor networks on which planners rely such as general
practitioner networks and radiation monitors are expensive to maintain
and may offer insufficient coverage during times of peak
requirement. For this reason we propose to explore the use of
non-traditional sources of information to help governments, NPOs and
international agencies identify areas of need during large scale
disasters. Social media data in the form of Twitter messages have proven
useful for early warning in the case of earthquakes and epidemics. So
far though such studies have focused on a narrow set of linguistic
features without incorporating any knowledge of the underlying network
topology. Understanding the dynamics of how the network of users relate
to each other, finding hotspots and mapping these to real world
locations will form part of a new approach to disaster information
systems which our groups plan on collaboratively developing.
 
Twitter has been active without major disruption during the Fukushima
accident. In Tokyo, the surface lines have been down for two days but
one mobile network (out of three) has always been in working order, so
we really think this scenario is realistic. It is anyway rewarding to
monitor social media since it has been proven that the response time in
case of disaster is largely lower when compared to public authorities
reactions.
 
Position description
 
We are looking for a Post-doc whose main objective will be to develop
algorithms and knowledge resources that identify communities of need and
supply through linguistic and topological analysis as well as grounding
of those communities in locations of the real world.  Needs will
correspond to anxiety about basic resources that naturally arise after
disasters such as safety, food, water, medicine, communications and so
on. These needs and their corresponding supply chains have been the
focus of manual detection in various humanitarian projects such as
Ushahidi. The difference we hope to make in this work is to analysis the
personal reports automatically using advanced algorithms. In the first
instance LaTTiCe and the Collier Lab aim to develop a collaborative
project on the topic for two years.
 
Skills required
 
- computer science, esp. a strong experience in software development
- machine learning
- natural language processing
- fluent in English
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:40:08 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: INFOLINGU, Amalia Todirascu, lundi 19 mars 2012
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:20:56 +0100
From: Myriam RAKHO <rakho at univ-mlv.fr>
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INFOLINGU
Le s?minaire de l'?quipe Informatique Linguistique
du Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard Monge (LIGM)
Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e
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Date : *Le Lundi 19 mars 2012 ? 10h30*

Lieu : Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e
B?timent Copernic, 4?me ?tage, salle de s?minaires 4B08R

Toute personne int?ress?e est la bienvenue.

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Intervenante :
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  *Amalia TODIRASCU* (UFR LSHA/Universit? de Strasbourg)

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Titre de la pr?sentation :
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*   Un syst?me d'extraction de collocations ? partir de corpus*

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Anthony SIGOGNE, Myriam RAKHO

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:42:44 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage (23 mars), Roser Sauri,
 Are You Sure that This Happened? Assessing the Factuality Degree
 of Events in Text
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:55:20 +0100
From: Marie Candito <marie.candito at gmail.com>
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************** S?minaire Alpage *******************

S?minaire de l'?cole doctorale de Paris Diderot

Il s'agit du s?minaire de recherche en linguistique informatique
organis? par l'?quipe Alpage, ?quipe mixte Inria -- Paris Diderot,
sp?cialis?e en analyse syntaxique automatique et en traitement du
discours.

Le prochain s?minaire se tiendra vendredi 23 mars de 11h ? 12h30 en
salle 3E91 ? l'UFRL, 16, rue de Clisson, 75013 Paris (3e ?tage gauche)

Toute personne int?ress?e est la bienvenue.

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*Roser Saur?*

*Title:* Are You Sure that This Happened?  Assessing the Factuality
Degree of Events in Text

*Abstract:*

Identifying the veracity, or *factuality*, of event mentions in text is
fundamental for reasoning about eventualities in discourse. Inferences
derived from events judged as not having happened, or as being only
possible, are different from those derived from events evaluated as
factual.

Event factuality involves two separate levels of information. On the one
hand, it deals with polarity, which distinguishes between positive and
negative instantiations of events.  On the other, it has to do with
degrees of certainty (e.g., possible, probable), an information level
generally subsumed under the category of epistemic modality, and which
has been widely discussed in linguistics and philosophy.  In languages
like English, these two levels of information are expressed through a
variety of linguistic devices, from modal auxiliaries and polarity
particles to syntactic constructions of different kind, passing through
a number of lexical predicates, such as verbs and nouns conveying
epistemic evaluations (e.g., *believe, know*, *suspicion, idea*).

This talk aims at contributing to a better understanding of how event
factuality is articulated in natural language, with special focus on
English data.  For that purpose, I will present a linguistic-oriented
computational model which has at its core an algorithm articulating the
effect of factuality relations across levels of syntactic embedding.  As
a proof of concept, this model has been implemented in De Facto, a
factuality profiler for eventualities mentioned in text, and tested
against a corpus built specifically for the task, yielding an F-1
measure of 0.70 (macro-averaging) and 0.80 (micro-averaging). These two
measures mutually compensate for an over-emphasis present in the other
(either on the lesser or greater populated categories), and can
therefore be interpreted as the lower and upper bounds of the De Facto's
performance.


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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:44:10 +0100
Subject: Livre: Discourse Processing
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:55:51 -0400
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NEW BOOK

Discourse Processing, by Manfred Stede, Potsdam University

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #15
(Morgan & Claypool Publishers), 2012, 165 pages

Abstract

Discourse Processing here is framed as marking up a text with structural
descriptions on several levels, which can serve to support many
language-processing or text-mining tasks. We first explore some ways of
assigning structure on the document level: the logical document
structure as determined by the layout of the text, its genre-specific
content structure, and its breakdown into topical segments. Then the
focus moves to phenomena of local coherence. We introduce the problem of
coreference and look at methods for building chains of coreferring
entities in the text.  Next, the notion of coherence relation is
introduced as the second important factor of local coherence. We study
the role of connectives and other means of signaling such relations in
text, and then return to the level of larger textual units, where tree
or graph structures can be ascribed by recursively assigning coherence
relations. Taken together, these descriptions can inform text
summarization, information extraction, discourse-aware sentiment
analysis, question answering, and the like.

Table of Contents: Introduction / Large Discourse Units and Topics /
Coreference Resolution / Small Discourse Units and Coherence Relations /
Summary: Text Structure on Multiple Interacting Levels

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00354ED1V01Y201111HLT015


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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:46:16 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension, SSST-6: Sixth Workshop on Syntax,
 Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (ACL 2012)
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:12:49 -0400
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SSST-6: Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical
Translation
ACL 2012 / SIGMT / SIGLEX Workshop 12 July 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea

*** EXTENDED submission deadline: 27 Apr 2012 ***
*** Special theme: Semantic MT Evaluation ***

The Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical
Translation (SSST-6) seeks to build on the foundations established in
the first five SSST workshops, which brought together a large number of
researchers working on diverse aspects of structure, semantics and
representation in relation to statistical machine translation. Its
program each year has comprised high-quality papers discussing current
work spanning topics including: new grammatical models of translation;
new learning methods for syntax- and semantics-based models; formal
properties of synchronous/transduction grammars (hereafter S/TGs);
discriminative training of models incorporating linguistic features;
using S/TGs for semantics and generation; and syntax- and
semantics-based evaluation of machine translation.

The need for structural mappings between languages is widely recognized
in the fields of statistical machine translation and spoken language
translation, and there is a growing consensus that these mappings are
appropriately represented using a family of formalisms that includes
synchronous/transduction grammars and their tree-transducer
equivalents. To date, flat-structured models, such as the word-based IBM
models of the early 1990s or the more recent phrase-based models, remain
widely used. But tree-structured mappings arguably offer a much greater
potential for learning valid generalizations about relationships between
languages.

Within this area of research there is a rich diversity of approaches.
There is active research ranging from formal properties of S/TGs to
large-scale end-to-end systems. There are approaches that make heavy use
of linguistic theory, and approaches that use little or none.  There is
theoretical work characterizing the expressiveness and complexity of
particular formalisms, as well as empirical work assessing their
modeling accuracy and descriptive adequacy across various language
pairs. There is work being done to invent better translation models, and
work to design better algorithms. Recent years have seen significant
progress on all these fronts. In particular, systems based on these
formalisms are now top contenders in MT evaluations.

At the same time, SMT has seen a movement toward semantics over the past
few years, which has been reflected at recent SSST workshops, including
the last edition which had semantics for SMT as a special theme.  The
issues of deep syntax and shallow semantics are closely linked and
SSST-6 encourages submissions on semantics for MT in a number of
directions, including semantic role labeling (SRL) for SMT, WSD for SMT
and in particular, semantics for MT evaluation.  In order to emphasize
the need to evaluate MT in a way that properly assesses preservation of
structure and semantics, SSST-6 is highlighting Semantic MT Evaluation
as a special workshop theme.

We invite papers on:

* syntactically- and semantically-motivated evaluation of MT
* syntax-based / semantics-based / tree-structured SMT
* machine learning techniques for inducing structured translation models
* algorithms for training, decoding, and scoring with semantic
  representation structure
* empirical studies on adequacy and efficiency of formalisms
* creation and usefulness of syntactic/semantic resources for MT
* formal properties of synchronous/transduction grammars
* learning semantic information from monolingual, parallel or comparable
  corpora
* unsupervised and semi-supervised word sense induction and
  disambiguation methods for MT
* lexical substitution, word sense induction and
  disambiguation,semantic role labeling, textual entailment, paraphrase
  and other semantic tasks for MT
* semantic features for MT models (word alignment, translation
  lexicons, language models, etc.)
* evaluation of syntactic/semantic components within MT (task-based
  evaluation)
* scalability of structured translation methods to small or large data
* applications of synchronous/transduction grammars to areas including:
  speech translation, formal semantics and semantic parsing, paraphrases
  and textual entailment, information retrieval and extraction, etc.

For more information: http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dekai/ssst/

SPECIAL THEME: SEMANTIC MT  EVALUATION

Ongoing work suggests that MT evaluation is improved by generalizing
across similar word meanings (Zhou et al., 2006; Apidianaki et al, 2009;
Snover et al., 2009; Denkowski and Lavie, 2010), and explicitly modeling
preservation of meaning with textual entailment (Pad? et al.  2009), or
semantic frames (Lo and Wu, 2011).  However, crucial questions such as
what frameworks are best suited to measure MT quality in general, and
the impact of semantic modeling in MT evaluation remain unanswered. With
this year's special theme, we seek to bring together researchers working
on semantics and on translation evaluation in order to encourage
cross-pollination of ideas, share insights into the needs of MT
evaluation and what current developments in semantics have to offer. We
particularly encourage the submission of papers addressing the following
issues related to semantics-driven evaluation of MT:

 * MT evaluation  metrics generalizing across similar word meanings
 * MT evaluation  metrics explicitly modeling preservation of meaning
   via textual entailment, semantic frames, etc
 * New frameworks to measure MT quality using semantic information,
   including machine learning approaches
 * Evaluation of the impact of semantic modeling on MT evaluation
 * Use of semantic information for quality/confidence estimation (MT
   evaluation without reference translations)

ORGANIZERS

Marine CARPUAT, National Research Council Canada
Lucia SPECIA, University of Sheffield
Dekai WU, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:  27 Apr 2012
Notification to authors:  16 May 2012
Camera copy deadline:  23 May 2012


SUBMISSION

Papers will be accepted on or before 27 Apr 2012 in PDF or Postscript
formats via the START system:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/ssst-6/. Submissions should follow the
ACL 2012 length and formatting requirements for long papers of eight (8)
pages of content with two (2) additional pages of references, found at
http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp


CONTACT

Please send inquiries to ssst at cs.ust.hk.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marianna Apidianaki, LIMSI-CNRS
Wilker Aziz, University of Wolverhampton
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research
David Chiang, USC ISI
Colin Cherry, National Research Council Canada
Mona Diab, Columbia University
Alexander Fraser, University of Stuttgart
Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Yifan He, Dublin City University
Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Kevin Knight, USC ISI
Alon Lavie, CMU
Yanjun Ma, Baidu
Daniel Marcu, USC ISI and Language Weaver
Llu?s M?rquez, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya
Sudip Kumar Naskar, Dublin City University
Hwee-Tou Ng, National University of Singapore
Daniele Pighin, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya
Markus Saers, HKUST
Libin Shen, IBM Research
Matthew Snover, BBN
John Tinsley, Dublin City University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Taro Watanabe, NICT
Deyi Xiong, Institute for Infocomm Research Singapore
Fran?ois Yvon, Universit? Paris Sud 11

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:51:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: Numero special de Document Numerique sur le Resume
 Automatique de Documents
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:27:19 +0100
From: "Rim FAIZ" <Rim.Faiz at ihec.rnu.tn>
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Appel ? publication - Document Num?rique 

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Num?ro sp?cial sur le R?sum? Automatique de Documents

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Dates importantes :
-------------------------

Date limite de soumission : 31 mars 2012
R?ponse aux auteurs : 31 mai 2012
Version finale auteurs : 15 juillet 2012
Livraison ?diteur : 1er septembre 2012
Parution du num?ro sp?cial : fin 2012

Th?matique :
-----------------

Dans ce num?ro nous souhaitons particuli?rement investir les th?mes
suivants (liste non exhaustive) :

-     R?sum? automatique de documents simples
-     R?sum? automatique de documents multiples
-     Approches statistiques pour le r?sum?
-     Approches linguistiques pour le r?sum?
-     R?sum? de documents multim?dia
-     Techniques de r?vision des r?sum?s
-     ?valuation des syst?mes de r?sum?
-     R?sum? multilingue

Objectif :
-----------

A l'heure o? les documents num?riques disponibles et ?chang?s entre les
individus prolif?rent, il devient impossible d'acc?der aux contenus sans
disposer d'outils informatiques qui les r?sument tout en pr?servant les
id?es qu'ils v?hiculent.

Ce num?ro sp?cial vise ? regrouper des recherches qui traitent la
probl?matique du r?sum? automatique sous toutes ses facettes. Il vise ?
apporter un ?clairage sur les questions :

- Comment peut-on rep?rer les id?es cl?s dans un document ?

- Comment peut-on synth?tiser l'information r?partie sur de multiples
  documents ?

- Comment peut-on pr?server la coh?rence et la coh?sion du r?sum?
  produit ?

- Peut-on appliquer les m?mes approches utilis?es pour r?sumer les
  textes aux documents multim?dias (vid?o et audio) ?

- Comment ?valuer la qualit? d'un r?sum? automatique?.

Recommandations aux auteurs :
-----------------------------------------

- Les soumissions sont ? envoyer ? revue.ResumeAutomatique at gmail.com
  (coordonn?es ci-dessous) et doivent respecter la feuille de style de
  la revue disponible sur le serveur http://www.revuesonline.com/ (ou
  sur demande ? : dn at lavoisier.fr)

- Les articles ne doivent pas d?passer 25-30 pages. Ils sont accept?s en
  fran?ais (ou en anglais pour les auteurs non francophones).

- Les soumissions peuvent ?tre envoy?es sous forme de fichiers PDF (de
  pr?f?rence).

- Les versions finales seront accept?es sous format Word ou PDF. Dans ce
  dernier cas, les corrections ortho-typographiques seront faites par
  les auteurs ? la demande de l'?diteur.

Comite de r?daction du num?ro
------------------------------------------

Delphine Battistelli, Universit? Paris Sorbonne 
Lamia Belguith, FSEG-Sfax, Tunisie 
Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, ISIM, Sfax, Tunisie 
Philippe Blache, Universit? de Provence, Aix-en-Provence 
Rim Faiz, Universit? de Carthage, IHEC, Tunisie 
Brigitte Grau, ENSIIE, Ivry, France 
Guy Lapalme, Universit? de Montr?al 
Abderrafih Lehmam, Minng Essential, France 
Jean-Luc Minel, MoDyCo, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre La D?fense - CNRS 
Thierry Poibeau - LaTTiCe-CNRS, France 
Juan-Manuel Torres Moreno - Universit? d'Avignon

Editeur et la revue :
-------------------------

www.dn.revuesonline.com

Contact :
-----------

Abdelmajid BEN HAMADOU
ISIMS, Laboratoire MIRACL,
P?le technologique, Sakiet-EZZIT
BP 242, Sfax 3021, Tunisie
T?l. : +216 98608919

Abdelmajid.benhamadou at isimsf.rnu.tn

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:00:09 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF 0910, 7eme section, STL, Universite Lille 3
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:20:08 +0100 (CET)
From: "Natalia GRABAR" <natalia.grabar at univ-lille3.fr>
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Le Laboratoire STL UMR 8163 ? l'Universit? Lille 1 & 3 recrute :

 - Poste 7 MCF 0910


Th?matique et objectifs :

La personne recrut?e int?grera l?UMR 8163 STL (Savoirs, Textes,
Langage), CNRS & Universit?s Lille 3 et Lille 1. Ses recherches
porteront sur le lexique (que ce soit en s?mantique lexicale, en
morphologie, ou ? l?interface entre lexique et syntaxe), et feront ?tat
d?une connaissance av?r?e du maniement des outils du Traitement
Automatique des Langues et des ressources linguistiques ?lectroniques
existantes (lexiques ?lectroniques, dictionnaires et grammaires locales,
etc.). Des connaissances en lexicographie multilingue, en acquisition
automatique de ressources linguistiques, en approches statistiques pour
le TAL et/ou en linguistique de corpus (constitution ou analyse) seront
?galement appr?ci?es.

Elle s?engagera ? travailler de fa?on collaborative avec les membres du
laboratoire et ? contribuer ? l?animation et au d?veloppement des
activit?s scientifiques de STL ((co-)organisation de journ?es d??tudes
ou de colloques internationaux, montage de projets, etc.).


Coordonn?es des personnes ? contacter pour plus d?informations :

 - Georgette DAL, responsable de l?axe Syntaxe, Interpr?tation, Lexique,
   Acquisition
   Email : georgette.dal at univ-lille3.fr

 - Christian BERNER, directeur
   Email : christian.berner at univ-lille3.fr


Les dossiers devront ?tre envoy?s selon les modalit?s habituelles et au
format papier uniquement.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:06:01 +0100
Subject: Appel: LAW VI Deadline Extension
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:03:32 -0400
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*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 28 MARCH 2012, 11:59pm GMT-11 ***

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS  

The 6th  Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VI)
Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN)
http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI

July 12-13, 2012
ICC Jeju
Jeju, Republic of Korea

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

Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of
supervised methods of statistical natural language processing. The Sixth
LAW will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative
research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including
creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and
manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and
frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc. As
in the past, the LAW will provide a forum for annotation researchers to
both work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability
of annotation information and software.

The special theme for LAW VI is Collaborative Annotation (both
community-based and crowd-sourced). The workshop will include a special
session on this topic, including a "challenge" exercise (see
http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI/challenge.html for details). We
invite submissions relating to this theme as well as any aspect of
linguistic annotation, including:

Collaborative annotation
- Issues, strategies, and results for community-based annotation of
  common (shared) resources
- Issues, strategies, and results for crowd-sourcing linguistic annotations

Annotation procedures:
- Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation
- Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus
  annotation
- Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation
  structures and annotated data

Annotation evaluation:
- Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies
- Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representation

Annotation access and use:
- Representation formats/structures for merged annotations of different
  phenomena, and means to explore/manipulate them
- Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct
  phenomena


Annotation guidelines and standards:
- Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and
  documentation of annotation schemes
- Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among
  different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities,
  and languages


Annotation software and frameworks:
- Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks

Annotation schemes:
- New and innovative annotation schemes
- Comparison of annotation schemes

Submission information
-----------------------------
Submissions of long and short papers (8 and 4 pages respectively, PLUS
up to two pages of references) and demonstrations (4 pages) should be
submitted electronically through the system at
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/law-6/. Submissions should conform to
the official ACL 2012 style guidelines and be submitted in
PDF. Reviewing will be blind, so submissions must not include the
authors' names and affiliations.  Please see the guidelines for
submissions to the general ACL conference at
http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp for more information.

Important dates
-------------------
Submission deadline: 28 March 2012
Acceptance Notification: 4 May, 2012
Camera ready deadline: 18 May 2012

NOTE: Paper withdrawal not allowed after May 20.

Program Committee Co-Chairs
-------------------------------------
Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
Fei Xia (University of Washington)

Program Committee 
-------------------------
Collin Baker (ICSI/UC Berkeley)
Emily Bender (University of Washington)
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC/CNR)
Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University)
Christopher Cieri (Linguistic Data Consortium/University of Pennsylvania)
Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum)
Tomaz Erjavec (Josef Stefan Institute)
Alex Chengyu Fang (City University of Hong Kong)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University)
Udo Hahn (Friedrich Schiller Universit?t Jena)
Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
Adam Meyers (New York University)
Antonio Pareja-Lora (UCM / ATLAS-UNED)
Martha Palmer (University of Colorado)
Christopher Potts (Stanford University)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
Owen Rambow (Columbia University)
Manfred Stede (Universit?t Potsdam)
Mihai Surdeanu (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona)
Theresa Wilson (University of Edinburgh)
Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:37:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: Extension deadline, Colloque Medias / Sante publique
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:13:55 +0100
From: Carine Duteil-Mougel <carine.duteil at ensil.unilim.fr>
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Bonjour,

Extension de la date de soumission : 31 mars 2012

Pour laisser davantage de temps aux contributeurs, nous avons repouss?
de 15 jours la date limite de soumission du r?sum?.

Colloque "M?dias / Sant? Publique" - Bordeaux, les 18 et 19 octobre
2012.

APPEL ? communications

A c?t? d?un traitement plus ordinaire des questions m?dicales,
scientifiques ou techniques, les ?pisodes du SRAS en 2003, de la grippe
A (H1N1) en 2009 ou tr?s r?cemment de la bact?rie ECEH ont montr?
comment des questions de sant? publique pouvaient devenir des probl?mes
politiques dont les m?dias s?emparaient dans leur imm?diatet?, comme des
scoops, contribuant ainsi ? les ?riger en ?v?nements.


En traitant alors ces ? ?v?nements ? sous diff?rents angles
(scientifique, m?dical, technique, politique, ?conomique, industriel,
social, environnemental), les m?dias mettent en sc?ne des acteurs
relevant de sph?res discursives distinctes : scientifiques, responsables
politiques, citoyens malades av?r?s ou potentiels, professionnels de la
sant?. Une polyphonie de discours publics se laisse alors saisir,
pouvant parfois donner l?impression d?une cacophonie, parfois d?une
orchestration vite vue comme manipulatrice. Au del? d?une information
classiquement relay?e et comment?e par la presse (g?n?raliste ou plus
sp?cialis?e), la t?l?vision, la radio ou internet, des campagnes de
communication sont alors mises en place pour faire conna?tre des moyens
de pr?vention, ou pour inciter ? la vaccination par exemple.  On peut
aussi voir ?merger des reprises ironiques, sous forme de clips sur
internet, faux journaux, cr?ations th??trales...

Le colloque qui sera organis? ? Bordeaux les 18 et 19 octobre 2012 vise
? r?unir des chercheurs d?horizons diff?rents (en Sciences de
l?Information et de la Communication, Philosophie, Linguistique,
Sciences du Langage, Sociologie) ainsi que des professionnels de la
sant?, de la politique et des m?dias, afin de croiser leurs r?flexions
sur le mode de traitement par les m?dias des questions de sant?
publique.


Les probl?matiques suivantes pourront ?tre abord?es, sans exclusive :

- En mati?re de sant? publique, comment le discours de la science est-il
  diffus? ? Comment les paroles des experts scientifiques sont- elles
  rapport?es ? Quelle texture ?nonciative se dessine ?

- Lorsque le journaliste endosse le r?le de m?diateur, quel dialogisme
  interactionnel se met en place ? Quelles en sont les marques
  linguistiques et s?miotiques (reformulations, vulgarisation,
  d?signations qualifiantes, infographies, encadr?s et illustrations ?
  vocation didactique, etc.) ?

- En contexte de sant? publique, quelles sont les strat?gies  
  rh?toriques que les m?dias mettent en acte ?

- Comment les m?dias ventilent-ils les raisons (scientifique, politique,
  ?conomique) dans les diff?rents discours ? propos de la sant? publique ?

- Plus largement, quelle importance les m?dias accordent-ils aux
  questions de sant? publique ? Comment mettent-ils en sc?ne les
  questions ou les probl?mes de sant? publique ? A partir de quand
  peut-on parler d?? ?v?nement m?diatique ? ? Et ? quel moment passe-t-
  on de ? question ? ? ? probl?me politique ? de sant? publique ?

- Comment les m?dias interviennent-ils dans la mise en place d?une
  alerte sanitaire ? Observateurs, acteurs, r?v?lateurs, amplificateurs ?

- Comment les diff?rents publics r?agissent-ils au traitement m?diatique
  des probl?mes de sant? publique ?

- Quelles sont les strat?gies rh?toriques que les m?dias mettent en
  ?uvre en contexte de sant? publique?

- Comment, dans un contexte d?abondance de l?information et de
  possibilit? de bruitage, les m?dias permettent-ils de distinguer le
  vrai du faux ? Quelle d?sinformation peut se mettre en place ?

- Comment se red?finit l?expertise en mati?re de sant? publique et qui
  peut ?tre consid?r? comme expert ?


Les propositions de communication (un titre et un r?sum? de 450 mots
maximum, en fran?ais ou en anglais) seront ? d?poser avant le 31 mars
2012 ? l?adresse suivante : www.conference-universite.org/MedSante2012


Calendrier :

-       Date limite de d?p?t des propositions, via le site du  
colloque : 31 mars 2012
-	Notification d?acceptation : fin mai 2012
-	Pr?-inscriptions : avant le 15 juin 2012
-	Date du colloque : 18 et 19 octobre 2012


Contact : medsante2012 at conference-universite.org


Composition du comit? scientifique :

BENKIMOUN Paul Journaliste en charge des questions de sant? - Le Monde

BOUTET Josiane, Professeur des Universit?s en Sciences du Langage,  
Universit? Paris IV-La Sorbonne et Universit? Paris VII-Denis Diderot

BRUN C?dric, Ma?tre de conf?rences en Philosophie, Universit?  
Bordeaux, SPH (EA4574)

DOURY Marianne, Charg?e de recherche, Laboratoire Communication et  
politique.

DUTEIL-MOUGEL Carine, Ma?tre de conf?rences en Sciences de  
l?Information et de la Communication, ENSIL-Universit? de Limoges,  
CeReS (EA 3648)

GONON Fran?ois, Directeur de recherche, Institute of  
Neurodegenerative Diseases, CNRS, UMR 5227

KRIEG-PLANQUE Alice,  Ma?tre de conf?rences en Sciences de  
l?Information et de la Communication, Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil  
(UPEC), C?ditec.

LA?GT Olivier, Ma?tre de conf?rences en Sciences de l?Information et  
de la Communication, Universit? Bordeaux, SPH (EA4574)

LEDEGEN Gudrun, Ma?tre de conf?rences en Sciences du Langage,  
Universit? de Rennes 2, Pr?fics

LONDEI Danielle, Professore Ordinario di Lingua francese aupr?s de  
la Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori  
(Forli)- Universit? di Bologna

MOIRAND Sophie, Professeur des universit?s en Sciences du Langage,  
Universit? Sorbonne nouvelle et Paris 3, Cediscor-Syled

RASTIER Fran?ois, Directeur de recherche CNRS, ERTIM

REBOUL-TOUR? Sandrine, Ma?tre de conf?rences en Sciences du Langage,  
Universit? Sorbonne nouvelle et Paris 3, Cediscor-Syled

SANTONE Laura, Universit? Roma Tre, Facult? de Lettres et  
Philosophie - D?partement de Langues et cultures ?trang?res, Rome

VENTURINI Tommaso, Ma?tre de conf?rences ? Sciences Po Paris

VERGELY Pascale Ma?tre de conf?rences en Sciences de l?Information  
et de la Communication, Universit? Bordeaux, SPH (EA4574)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:38:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: Journees d'Etude Nomico "Nominalisations et Corpus",
 Nancy, 6-7 Septembre 2012
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:52:35 +0100
From: ejacquey <Evelyne.Jacquey at atilf.fr>
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Appel ? Communications : Journ?es d'Etude Nomico "Nominalisations et
Corpus"

Nancy, 6-7 Septembre 2012

TH?MATIQUE :

Au carrefour de la morphologie, de la syntaxe et de la s?mantique, les
nominalisations sont un th?me de recherche f?d?rateur en linguistique.
Parmi les th?matiques actuelles, on trouve, par exemple, la question de
l'h?ritage des propri?t?s verbales (notamment structure argumentale et
aspect), par les noms d?verbaux. Les noms d'?tats et la d?termination de
leurs caract?ristiques sont ?galement au c?ur des pr?occupations des
chercheurs. Le m?me probl?me de caract?risation se pose dans le cas des
noms dits r?sultatifs. Les autres noms d?verbaux (noms d'agents, de
patients, d'instruments, etc), de m?me que les nominalisations
adjectivales, laissent ?galement subsister un vaste champ d'exploration.
L'objectif des journ?es Nominalisations et Corpus sera de contribuer, ?
partir d'?tudes sur corpus, ? une meilleure compr?hension de ces
ph?nom?nes.

Date limite de soumission : 1? mai 2012

Appel ? communications complet, soumission et autres informations  :
http://www.atilf.fr/nomico2012


Pour le comit? d'organisation,
Evelyne Jacquey
ATILF-CNRS-Universit? de Lorraine

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:40:06 +0100
Subject: Info: TOTh 2012, Formation
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAR.2012.224006.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:28:11 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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TOTh 2012 : FORMATION

http://www.porphyre.org/formation-toth/2012

Informations : formation at porphyre.org

Titre: Analyse des textes ? des fins onomasiologiques

Dates : 5 & 6 juin 2012
Lieu : Institut de la Montagne, Campus Scientifique, Le Bourget du Lac

Responsables
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pr. Rute Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Pr. Christophe Roche Universit? de Savoie

Pr?sentation g?n?rale
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Les terminologues jouent un r?le central dans toute activit?
professionnelle o? les comp?tences discursives, le transfert et
l?organisation des connaissances sont requis. Les terminologies sont
indispensables ? une communication sp?cialis?e rigoureuse et efficace.
Elles interviennent ?galement dans de nombreuses applications
informatiques de gestion et de traitement de l?information. Leur
construction est un probl?me complexe qui doit prendre en compte les
dimensions linguistique et conceptuelle qui les composent. L?analyse des
textes ? des fins onomasiologiques est particuli?rement int?ressante
pour l?aide ? la r?daction des d?finitions en Terminologie.

Dans beaucoup de contextes professionnels, le texte est au c?ur du
travail terminologique. Il importe donc de savoir ce que l?on peut y
trouver d?utile pour le travail terminologique de base conceptuelle*.
L?analyse linguistique des textes ? des fins terminologiques requiert
des connaissances sp?cifiques. Le but est de proposer, en plus de
l?extraction des traditionnels candidats termes et collocations, des
m?thodologies pour l?identification des marqueurs linguistiques et des
relations s?mantiques.

Sont retenus les ?l?ments qui pointent vers le concept n?cessaires ? la
r?daction des d?finitions en langue naturelle. Les r?sultats obtenus
nous am?nent ? proposer une possible organisation des donn?es qui est
soumise ? l?expert. Dans cette d?marche, l?expert du domaine, au sein
d?une ?quipe multidisciplinaire, joue un r?le essentiel. Au moment de
valider les donn?es il ? stabilise ? les connaissances sur le concept,
ce qui permettra ? l?ing?nieur cogniticien de mod?liser le syst?me
formel correspondant.

* L?approche conceptuelle, fondement de l?approche classique de la
terminologie, est rendue n?cessaire par l?op?rationnalisation des
terminologies ? des fins informatiques. C?est dans ce cadre
qu?interviennent les ontologies pour la mod?lisation formelle du syst?me
conceptuel.

Objectifs
------------------------------------------------------------------------
La formation vise ? promouvoir la collaboration entre les professionnels
de la langue et de la connaissance. Elle a ?galement pour objectif de
pr?senter les th?ories, m?thodes et outils d?analyse de textes ? des
fins terminologiques, dotant ainsi :

les professionnels de la langue d?une approche m?thodologique et
syst?matique pour la d?finition ;
les professionnels de la connaissance de comp?tences linguistiques
indispensables pour l?acquisition de connaissances ? partir de
ressources linguistiques.

Publics vis?s
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Linguistes, Terminologues, Traducteurs, Documentalistes,
Informaticiens, Ing?nieurs cogniticiens?

Programme
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Introduction
2. Fondements th?oriques : terminologie, ontologie
3. Textes de sp?cialit?
3.1. Typologie de textes
4. Extraction de donn?es terminologiques
4.1. Candidats termes
4.2. Candidats collocations
4.3. Relations s?mantiques ? base de marqueurs linguistiques
4.4. Organisation des donn?es terminologiques
4.5. Validation par l?expert
5. Des textes ? la d?finition
5.1. D?finition(s) de d?finition
5.2. El?ments de d?finitions ? des fins de r?daction
5.3. R?le de l?expert dans la validation des r?sultats
6. M?diation entre terminologue et expert
7. De la d?finition en langue ? la d?finition formelle
8. Synth?se

Tarifs
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Etudiants	: 80 ?
Institutionnels	: 100 ?
Industriels	: 140 ?

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:41:34 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier Ontologies et Jeux de Donnees pour evaluer le web
 semantique (OJD), IC 2012
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAR.2012.224134.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:53:11 +0100
From: Nathalie Hernandez <hernande at univ-tlse2.fr>
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*Appel ? communication :
Atelier Ontologies et Jeux de Donn?es pour ?valuer le web s?mantique
(OJD)
IC 2012 - 26 juin 2012 - Paris*

http://www.irit.fr/OJD/


L'atelier *Ontologies et Jeux de Donn?es pour ?valuer le web s?mantique
*organis? par le th?me 7 du GDR-I3 et le gracq se tiendra le 26 juin
dans le cadre des 23?mes journ?es francophones d'ing?nierie des
connaissances.

Peu de ressources sont aujourd'hui disponibles pour ?valuer les
applications du Web s?mantique. La plupart des ontologies disponibles
(comme DBPedia, MusicBrainz, ...) ou propos?es lors de campagnes
d'?valuation (QALD dans le domaine des Questions/R?ponses, Billion
Triples Track pour ?valuer le passage ? l'?chelle des applications, ...)
pr?sentent des lacunes qui emp?chent une ?valuation de qualit? des
applications d?velopp?es.

Certaines de ces ontologies manquent d'expressivit?. Lorsqu'elles sont
form?es d'une simple hi?rarchie de concepts ou sont issues de sch?mas
relationnels, elles offrent des possibilit?s d'inf?rence limit?es.
D'autres sont limit?es en termes d'exhaustivit?, m?me au sein d'un
domaine. Le domaine couvert est restreint et il est fr?quent que peu
d'instances soient repr?sent?es.

Pour contourner ce manque, les travaux men?s actuellement sont ?valu?s
sur des ontologies cr??es pour valoriser l'application. Ces ontologies
sont compl?t?es par des jeux de donn?es (textes bruts, documents
annot?s, requ?tes, ...) l? aussi d?finis de fa?on ad hoc. Ces pratiques
biaisent les r?sultats de l'?valuation et emp?chent de mettre en place
une comparaison objective des syst?mes.

L'objectif de cet atelier est de d?crire les besoins et de d?finir les
crit?res auxquels doivent r?pondre les ontologies et les jeux de donn?es
qui pourront ?tre mises ? disposition de la communaut?, permettant ainsi
des ?valuations pertinentes des applications les utilisant. Cet atelier
a ?galement pour vocation la pr?sentation document?e et argument?e de
ressources (ontologies et jeux de donn?es) qui pourraient pr?tendre
correspondre ? des besoins d'?valuation ainsi que de protocoles
d'?valuation d'applications, qui serviraient par la suite de r?f?rence.

Sujet des articles
Les soumissions pourront ?tre applicables notamment aux th?matiques
suivantes :

* Construction, peuplement et ?volution d'ontologie
* Alignement et fusion
* Syst?mes de Question/R?ponse
* Comparaison des approches de Recherche d'Information et des moteurs 
  s?mantiques
* Annotation s?mantique et description de contenus
* Passage ? l'?chelle
* Linked data
* Ressources sp?cifiques au fran?ais

Chaque pr?sentation devra pr?cis?ment pr?senter les objectifs
d'?valuation vis?s, les crit?res identifi?s pour y r?pondre et
?ventuellement une ontologie et un jeu de donn?es permettant cette
?valuation. Les auteurs souhaitant participer ? l'atelier devront
fournir un article allant de 5 ? 15 pages au format demand? ? la
conf?rence, et pourront rendre disponible sur le web leurs ressources 15
jours avant la date de l'atelier. La mise en ligne permettra une
discussion plus approfondie des ressources propos?es.

Dates importante :
     Date limite de soumission : 30 avril 2012
     Notification aux auteurs : 16 mai 2012
     R?ception des versions d?finitives des articles : 30 mai 2012
     Atelier le 26 juin 2012

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:42:59 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2012 Workshop on Formal Models of Communication ---
 new deadline
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:36:15 +0100
From: "A. Herzig" <esslli2012 at gmail.com>
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Call for papers -- new deadline
Workshop on Formal Models of Communication
European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 2012
06-10 August, Opole, Poland
http://www.esslli2012.pl/files/CFP/cfpJonesK_ESSLLI%202012_Workshop_on_Formal_Models_of_Communication.pdf

Workshop Co-Chairs: Andrew J I Jones (Department of Informatics, King?s
College London) and Steven O Kimbrough (Wharton Business School,
University of Pennsylvania).

Invited Speakers: to be confirmed.

The workshop is organized in conjunction with the activity in SINTELNET
Working Group No. 2, on Communicative Interaction.  (SINTELNET is the
European Network for Social Intelligence, FET Open Coordination Action:
www.sintelnet.eu)

Summary of the three principal workshop themes

1. Critical assessment of approaches to ACLs: in multi-agent systems
   research, a number of different approaches have been taken to the
   formal-logical characterisation of Agent Communication Languages
   (ACLs), including the FIPA [2002] language, the commitment-based
   models of Colombetti [2000] and Singh [1998], and the Jones & Parent
   [2007] convention-based approach. (For an overview see Chopra et al.
   [in press].)

2. Theories of signalling: philosophical analyses of communicative
   action, in the tradition of Austin, Grice and Searle, formed the
   principal background to work on ACLs. However, the prospect of
   alternative foundations is emerging from theories of signalling,
   informed by ? in particular ? games theory and evolutionary biology.
   (See, e.g., Skyrms [2010].)

3. Deception: there exist a number of philosophical and formal-logical
   analyses of deception - see, e.g., Adler [1997], Sakama & Caminada
   [2010]. It would be of interest to compare these with the accounts
   offered in signalling theory, and to raise the question of whether
   the phenomenon of deception has been adequately accommodated in
   models of ACLs.

We invite papers (not exceeding 15-20 pages) on topics relating
principally to one or more of those three themes.

Submission Procedure
papers (pdf) should be submitted to Andrew Jones: andrewji.jones at kcl.ac.uk
Deadline for submissions: 23 March 2012
Notification: by 01 June 2012
Publication: it is possible that the proceedings of the workshop may
be published in the FOLLI subseries of Springer?s LNCS, or in the
Journal of Logic, Language and Information (JOLLI).

REFERENCES
FIPA [2002] FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification.
http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00037/index.html
Colombetti [2000] Colombetti, M., "A commitment-based approach to
agent speech acts and conversations", Proceedings of the Workshop on
Agent Languages and Communication Policies, 4th International
Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000), Barcelona, Spain,
pp.21-29, 2000.
Singh [1998]  Singh, M.P., "Agent Communication Languages: Rethinking
the Principles", IEEE Computer 31, 12 (Dec.), pp.40-47, 1998.
Jones & Parent [2007] Andrew J I Jones and  Xavier Parent,  "A
Convention-based Approach to Agent Communication Languages", Group
Decision and Negotiation 16, pp. 101-14, 2007.
Chopra et al. [in press] Amit Chopra, Alexander Artikis, Jamal
Bentahar, Marco Colombetti, Frank Dignum, Nicola Fornara, Andrew J I
Jones, Munindar P. Singh, Pinar Yolum, "Research Directions in Agent
Communication", ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and
Technology, 26 pp., in press.
Skyrms [2010] Brian Skyrms, Signals ? Evolution, Learning &
Information, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, 2010.
Adler [1997]  Adler, J.E., "Lying, deceiving, or falsely implicating",
Journal of Philosophy 94(9), pp.435-452, 1997.
Sakama & Caminada [2010] Chiaki Sakama and Martin Caminada, "The Many
Faces of Deception" in: Proceedings of the Thirty Years of
Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NonMon at 30), Lexington, KY, USA, October 2010.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:45:13 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste d'enseignant-chercheur associe, Universite Paris Ouest
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:46:07 +0100
From: Marcel Cori <mcori at u-paris10.fr>
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Le D?partement de Sciences du langage de l?Universit? Paris Ouest
Nanterre la D?fense recrute un enseignant-chercheur (professeur ou
ma?tre de conf?rences) associ? ? mi-temps en Ing?nierie linguistique.
L?int?ress? devra avoir une activit? professionnelle principale
ext?rieure exerc?e depuis au moins 3 ans et directement en rapport avec
la sp?cialit? enseign?e. Il sera nomm? pour une dur?e de 3 ans
?ventuellement reconductible une fois. Il sera tenu d?effectuer un
service d?enseignement et de recherche d?une dur?e ?gale ? la moiti? de
celle qui s?applique aux personnels titulaires de m?me cat?gorie.
(D?cret n? 85-733 du 17 juillet 1985).

Le profil souhait? est celui d?un professionnel travaillant dans le
domaine de l?Ing?nierie linguistique, de pr?f?rence titulaire d?un
doctorat en rapport avec ce domaine et ayant maintenu des liens avec la
recherche. Plus pr?cis?ment, on appr?ciera des connaissances en
Recherche et extraction d?information, en Web s?mantique et en Gestion
?lectronique de documents.

Les enseignements se d?rouleront essentiellement dans le cadre du master
sp?cialit? ? Ing?nierie linguistique ? cohabilit? avec l?Universit?
Paris 3 et l?INALCO (www.plurital.org) et du parcours DEFI de
l?Universit? Paris Ouest (www.u-paris10.fr/defi).

Les candidatures sont ? transmettre ? Marcel Cori (mcori at u-paris10.fr) 
avant le 25 avril 2012, sous la forme d?un CV et d?une lettre de 
motivation.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:46:09 +0100
Subject: Ecole: International Terminology Summer School 2012: registration
 is open!
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:28:54 +0100
From: events termnet <events at termnet.org>
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Dear colleagues, 

The International Terminology Summer School (TSS 2012) will take place
at the University of Vienna, from 9 to 13 July 2012, jointly organized
by TermNet, the International Network for Terminology, and the Center
for Translation Studies.
 
TSS is a practice-oriented one-week training course on terminology
management. TSS is intended for practitioners, students, scientists who
are looking for a comprehensive, state-of-the-art introduction to
terminology theory and practice.

Reserve your place at TSS 2012 today! You may register until early
June. However, places are limited, we advise you wait not too long.
http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2012/registration.php

PROGRAMME:
You can find more information about the preliminary program and topics
at: http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2012/program.php

 
INSTRUCTORS:
International renowned experts in terminology and terminology management
will cover the TSS topics but also take time during the whole week to
help participants with the most individuals questions and problems. 

ECQA CERTIFICATION FOR TERMINOLOGY MANAGERS:
The TSS2012 program is developed in cooperation with the ECQA initiative
and this makes possible for TSS2012 participants to obtain the ECQA
Certificate for Terminology Managers by performing the official ECQA
exam for the job role Certified Terminology Manager - Basic or Certified
Terminology Manager - Advanced.
 
Read more about ECQA and the ECQA Certified Terminology Manager - Basic
at: http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2012/ecqa_tss_info.php
 
STUDENTS:
Students will also receive 6 ECTS for their participation.
 
SOCIAL NETWORKING AND SIDE EVENTS:
TSS gives the opportunity to the participants to network and discuss in
a relaxed and resourceful environment with peers and colleagues during
the side events planned for this purpose. Enjoy the Terminology
Breakfasts every morning before classes, participant in the "get to know
each other" event on Monday after the first day of classes. Meet your
colleagues in the different "after school" events during the week.

You can find more information about the program, the instructors, the
planned activities and side events in our website:

http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2012/index.php

You are welcome to contact us for questions: events at termnet.org

Please disseminate this information also among colleagues and friends
who might be interested!

Kind regards, 

------------------------------------------------------------
Your TermNet Events Team
Anja Drame and Blanca N?jera

International Network for Terminology - TermNet 
Mooslackengasse 17, 1190 Vienna, Austria 
c/o bena office center doebling GmbH? 
M:+49 174 6355439
T: +43 1 23060 3965
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:48:34 +0100
Subject: Appel: 18th Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
 Management --EKAW 2012--
Message-ID: <TUE.20.MAR.2012.224834.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:40:38 +0100
From: Annette ten Teije <annette at cs.vu.nl>
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NOTICE: deadline 18th of April  2012 (Abstract),  25th of April 2012 (Paper)


Call for Papers:

18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012)
National University of Ireland Galway Quadrangle
October 8-12, 2012.

http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org

The 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring,
modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of
knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge
management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent
information integration, etc.

The special focus of the 18th edition of EKAW will be on "Knowledge
Engineering and Knowledge Management that matters". We are explicitly
calling for papers that have a potentially high impact on a specific
community or application domain (e.g. pharmacy and life sciences), as
well as for papers which report on the development or evaluation of
publicly available data sets relevant for a large number of
applications. Moreover, we welcome contributions dealing with problems
specific to modeling and maintenance of real-world data or knowledge,
such as scalability and robustness of knowledge-based applications, or
privacy and provenance issues related to organizational knowledge
management.

In addition to the main research track, EKAW 2012 will feature a
tutorial and workshop program, as well as a poster and demo
track. Moreover, there will be a Doctoral Consortium giving new PhD
students a possibility to present their research proposals, and to get
feedback on methodological and practical aspects of their planned
dissertation.

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag
in the LNCS series. The LNCS volume will contain the contributed
research papers as well as descriptions of the demos presented at the
conference. Papers published at any of the workshops will be published
in dedicated workshop proceedings.

EKAW 2012 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological,
experimental, and application-oriented aspects of knowledge engineering
and knowledge management. In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit
papers about methods, tools and methodologies relevant with regard to
the following topics:

1) ?Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering that matters?

- Real-world applications of methods for knowledge management and
  engineering in domains such as

   - e-Government and public administration
   - Life sciences, health and medicine
   - Automotive and manufacturing industry
   - Cultural heritage applications
   - Digital libraries

- Development and evaluation of publicly available knowledge
  repositories for new applications or domains

- Methods and methodologies addressing the challenges of real-world
  data, e.g.,

   - Scalability, robustness etc.
   - Maintenance costs and financial risks
   - Privacy and data security

- Lessons learned from case studies, e.g.,

   - Knowledge management in large organizations
   - Adoption of semantic web technologies
   - Maintenance of corporate knowledge repositories

2) Knowledge Management

- Methodologies and tools for knowledge management
- Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration
- Best practices and lessons learned from case studies
- Provenance and trust in knowledge management
- Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management technologies
- Corporate memories for knowledge management
- Evolution, maintenance and preservation of knowledge
- Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management
- Incentives for human knowledge acquisition (e.g. games with a purpose)

3) Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition

- Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering
- Ontology design patterns
- Ontology localization
- Ontology alignment
- Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation
- Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri,
  folksonomies etc.)
- Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology learning
- Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data
- Ontology evaluation and metrics
- Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation
- Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge

4) Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation

- Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science
- Synergies between humans and machines
- Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks
- Knowledge ecosystems
- Expert finding, e.g., by social network analysis
- Trust and privacy in knowledge representation
- Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and
  acquisition
- Crowdsourcing in knowledge management

As last EKAW conference we will accept different types of papers. The
papers will all have the same status and follow the same formatting
guidelines in the proceedings but will receive special treatment during
the reviewing phase. In particular, each paper type will be subject to
own evaluation criteria. The PC will also make sure that there is a
reasonable balance of the paper types accepted. At submission time the
paper has to be clearly identified as belonging to one of the following
categories.

- Research papers: These are ?standard? papers presenting a novel
  method, technique or analysis with appropriate empirical or other
  types of evaluation as proof-of concept. The main evaluation criteria
  here will be originality, technical soundness and validation.

- In-use papers: Here we are expecting papers describing applications of
  knowledge management and engineering in real
  environments. Applications need to address a sufficiently interesting
  and challenging problem on real-world datasets, involving many users
  etc. The focus is less on the originality of the approach and more on
  presenting systems that solve a significant problem while addressing
  the particular challenges that come with the use of real-world
  data. Evaluations should involve a representative subset of the actual
  users of the system.

- Position papers: We invite researchers to also publish position papers
  which describe novel and innovative ideas. Position papers may also
  comprise an analysis of currently unsolved problems, or review theses
  problems from a new perspective, in order contribute to a better
  understanding of these problem in the research community. We expect
  that such papers will guide future research by highlighting critical
  assumptions, motivating the difficulty of a certain problem or
  explaining why current techniques are not sufficient, possibly
  corroborated by quantitative and qualitative arguments.

Submissions of research and in-use papers should comprise a maximum of
15 pages formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS guidelines and
uploaded using Easychair (
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw2012). Position papers
are required to have at most 5 pages in the same format.

We will select the best papers from EKAW and invite the authors for a
special edition of Journal of Data Semantics.

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission: 18th of April  2012
Paper Submission: 25th of April 2012
Notification: 6th of June 2012
Camera Ready: 30 of June 2012


Organizing Committee:

General chair: Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Co-chair and local organizer: Siegfried Handschuh
Program chairs: Annette ten Teije, Johanna Voelker
Workshop and tutorials chairs: Claudia d?Amato, Krysztof Janowicz
Demo and poster chairs: Mathieu d?Aquin, Andriy Nikolov
Doctoral consortium chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Nathalie Hernandez
Sponsor chair: Christian Bizer


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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 21 09:22:41 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:22:41 +0100
Subject: Sujet de These: 7 PhD positions in NLP at Fondazione Bruno
 Kessler/University of Trento - Italy
Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2012.102241.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:48:47 +0000
From: Arianna Bisazza <bisazza at fbk.eu>
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The Human Language Technologies research unit of Fondazione Bruno
Kessler offers 7 project specific grants for doctoral students starting
with the A.Y. 2012-2013, in the following areas:

-    Speech Recognition and Machine translation (2 project grants)
        Speech Recognition for Multimedia Content (contact: Daniele
        Falavigna)
        Machine Translation for CAT (contact: Nicola Bertoldi)
-    Natural Language Processing (4 project grants)
        Events and presuppositions (contact: Octavian Popescu)
        Event processing (contact: Sara Tonelli)
        Component-Based Textual Entailment (contact: Bernardo Magnini)
        Automatic Information Extraction over the Tourism Domain
        (contact: Bernardo Magnini)
-    Encoding of Event Knowledge in Language Resources as a support for
        the Diagnosis and Rehabilitation of Language Disorders (contact:
        Emanuele Pianta)


More details about the projects and contact points can be found here:
http://hlt.fbk.eu/en/openpositions/phd-ict

Candidates should meet the following requirements:

    Degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics,
    Electrical Engineering, or Physics.
    Studies should have been completed efficiently, recently and with an
    above of average mark.
    Advanced knowledge in either Computational Linguistics, Machine
    Learning, Statistics, Patter Recognition, or Speech Recognition.
    Programming experience in C/C++ and/or Java, Python, Perl in the
    Unix environment.
    Good English knowledge.

Doctorate fellowships, which are sponsored by FBK, will be formally
pursued at the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of
Trento. The program starts between June and November 2012, has a minimum
length of three years and includes attendance of courses during the
first two years, while the third is fully dedicated to research
work. Detailed information about the School and the grant assigned to
students can be found in http://ict.unitn.it.

Interested candidates are invited to get in touch with the above
indicated contact points to know more about the proposed research
projects and the specific application procedure to be followed. In
particular, candidates are required to apply for a project specific
grant by Fondazione Bruno Kessler. For a limited number of applicants
there are also opportunities of attending a pre-enrollment internship at
our labs. Please put the string HLT application in the subject of your
email.

*****************************
Arianna Bisazza
FBK-irst Trento, Italy
+39 0461 314 549

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 21 09:23:41 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:23:41 +0100
Subject: Job: Post-doc positions in NLP at Fondazione Bruno
 Kessler/University of Trento - Italy
Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2012.102341.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:55:25 +0000
From: Arianna Bisazza <bisazza at fbk.eu>
Message-ID: <02CF9AC50861B54D8C17C6C56FB1FA5D21D967 at ntdagvrt1.pc.itc.it>
X-url: http://hlt.fbk.eu/en/openpositions

The three following research positions are available in the Human
Language Technologies Research Unit of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento
(Italy):

- Post-doc in textual inferences
- Post-doc in machine translation
- Post-doc in speech recognition

Please find the official call at:
http://hlt.fbk.eu/en/openpositions

Deadline for application is 9 April 2012.

*****************************
Arianna Bisazza
FBK-irst Trento, Italy
+39 0461 314 549

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:27:34 +0100
Subject: Info: LREC 2012 What=?WINDOWS-1252?Q?=92s_?=New #2 - March 2012
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:37:22 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
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*[Apologies for cross-postings]**

*LREC 2012 What?s New**is a short bulletin meant to give you a quick
overview of the latest information on the conference organization.

*Important Dates*

Final Submission of accepted papers: 21 March 2012
Early-bird Registration Deadline : 21 March 2012
Conference: 23 - 24 - 25 May 2012
Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: 21 and 22 May 2012
Post-conference workshops and tutorials: 26 and 27 May 2012

*Content*

1.Final Submission

2.Registration

3.MEDAR Grants for Students from Arabic countries

4.EU Village

5.List of accepted papers

6.Scientific Committee

7.Sponsors

8.Travel & Accommodation

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*1. Final Submission*

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*The deadline for submitting your final paper on START is: March 21^st 
2012, 23:59 GMT+1.
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Final-Submission*.

Don?t forget to update the LRE Map
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012 and/or to contribute
to the Language Library
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LREC-2012-Language-Library.

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*2. Registration*

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*Early-Bird Registration for LREC 2012 deadline: March 21^st 2012, 23:59 
GMT+1.
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Registration-*

The Registration fees for Conference and Workshops/Tutorials are 
available at http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Registration-Fees.

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*3. **MEDAR Grants for students from Arabic countries***

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The MEDAR Consortium (involved in MEDAR and NEMLAR Projects on
?Mediterranean Arabic Language and Speech Technology?, completed with
the support by the European Commission), is awarding grants for students
from Arabic countries to LREC 2012.

At the time of the application, applicants must be currently enrolled as
Master?s or Ph.D students at a University in an Arabic country.

Each grant will cover the registration fees and support part of the
travel and accommodation expenses. To apply for a grant, send a message
to medar-grants at elda.org.

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*4. EU-Projects Village*

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*20 booths*have already been booked by European projects at the EU 
Village, a Projects Village to be set up at LREC 2012 with the support 
of the European Commission. The main objective of this exhibition for 
on-going EC-sponsored projects is to disseminate information by 
describing the activities/objectives and showing progress, either 
through demos, or through brochures or leaflets if the project is still 
at an early stage.
The cost of participating to the EU Village is an eligible cost under 
"Information Dissemination" item.

The EU projects Village will be open from May 23 to 25, 2012 during the 
Main conference days. More 
information:http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-EU-Projects-Village- 

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*5. List of accepted Papers*

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The list of the accepted papers to the Main conference is available: 
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?List-of-accepted-papers
Acceptance rate: 68% of the submitted papers have been accepted (to 
compare to 69% for LREC 2010).

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*6. Scientific Committee*

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The list of Scientific Committee members is available at 
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Scientific-Committee

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*7. Sponsors*

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LREC 2012 gratefully acknowledges the following institutions for their 
sponsorship of this year?s conference:

*/Silver sponsors/*//

NUANCE: 
http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-solution/automotive-products-and-solutions/index.htm
CELI: http://www.celi.it/en/

*/Bronze sponsors/*

EML: http://www.eml-development.de/english
IMMI: http://www.immi-labs.org/
META-NET: http://www.meta-net.eu/
QUAERO: http://www.quaero.org/

If your institution would like to support LREC, please check the 
opportunities: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Sponsorship-

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*8. Travel & Accommodation*

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*/Hotels /**/
/*Special rates have been negotiated for LREC participants in a number 
of hotels by our local agency Dekon. The list can be found at 
https://www.dekon.com.tr/LREC2012/en/accommodation.asp.
May is the beginning of the high season in Istanbul, *so it is highly
recommended to book your room as soon as you can*. Don?t hesitate to
contact Dekon lrec2012 at dekon.com.tr if you need support for organizing
your trip.

*/Flying to Istanbul/**/
/*The Star Alliance? Members Airlines have been appointed as the 
Official Airline Network for LREC 2012.
LREC Participants can obtain discounts (up to 20%) on their flights 
to/from Istanbul. More information: 
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Star-Alliance-Official-Carrier

___________________________________________
*LREC 2012 in Istanbul: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012
**Contact: lrec at lrec-conf.org*

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 21 09:41:57 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:41:57 +0100
Subject: Conf: Workshop sur Langage et Emotions, 29 mars 2012,
 Universite Paris Ouest
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:58:17 +0100
From: Armelle Jacquet-Andrieu <armelle.jacquet at u-paris10.fr>
Message-ID: <20120321005817.nxye56fkpw8cg4sk at webmail.u-paris10.fr>


Universit? Paris Ouest ? Nanterre La D?fense / MoDyCo, UMR 7114 du CNRS
P?le ? L?Humain en devenir ?

Axe pluridisciplinaire ? ?motions & Cognition ?

Avec le soutien financier de/du MoDyCo, UMR 7114 du CNRS

l?ED 139 ? Connaissance Langage Mod?lisation ?

P?le universitaire & de recherche ? l?Humain en devenir ?

Et le soutien scientifique de l?ARCo Association pour la recherche cognitive

Workshop

Sous-jacentes aux langages, les ?motions? Jeudi 29 mars 2012
Universit? Paris Ouest, B?t. R, salle 09
? partir de 8 h 45

Invit? d?honneur
Michel ARRIVE, professeur ?m?rite de linguistique & ?crivain 

Journ?e pr?sid?e par le directeur de l??cole doctorale 139 (ou son
repr?sentant)
&
le directeur du P?le ? L?humain en devenir ? (ou son repr?sentant)

Workshop propos? par Armelle Jacquet-Andrieu
Ing?nieur de recherche HDR, linguiste & psychologue, membre du CA de
l?ARCo


Contacts :
Armelle Jacquet : armelle.jacquet at u-paris10.fr &
jacquet.armelle at orange.fr / Tel. : +336 85 75 68 89
Diana Balachi 	 : dianabalaci at gmail.com 
Aleksandr Sourie : aleksandr.Sourie at u-paris10.fr / +331 40 97 40 67
Sous-jacentes aux langages, les ?motions?


Probl?matique

? propos du langage (des langages), pour ?voquer le monde ?motionnel
humain et la cognition, en premi?re intention, nous pouvons dire : la
r?action inconsciente du sujet ? l?impact d?un percept, complexe ou non,
est de l?ordre de l??motion stricto sensu, une production langagi?re
subs?quente ? cet impact est de l?ordre du ressenti ou encore du
sentiment : divers niveaux de conscience y sont manifest?s.  La
production elle-m?me suppose l?intervention de l?attention (?coute ou
regard port? au percept) qui, en aval permet la m?morisation et le
traitement ? d?une part au moins ? de l?information re?ue : autrement
dit, il s?agit du passage d?un percept ? travers le filtre du monde
?motionnel du sujet et de la r?ponse ?ventuelle qu?il apporte. Lors
d?une premi?re journ?e d??tude, le 26 janvier 2011, nous avons ?tabli
une synergie ?motions/langage ; elle s??laborait sous diverses formes,
avec la notion d?embodiment et sa traduction dans l??naction, point
d?ancrage du verbal, conscient ou non et comportant des degr?s, en
relation avec la d?cision de dire. La mimogestualit? inconsciente a ?t?
abord?e ?galement, laissant ?merger ce que les mots ne disent pas
forc?ment (banque d?images ?tudi?es par items). Image encore : le dessin
qu?un sujet a ?t? amen? ? r?aliser en Art-th?rapie, pour livrer ses
?motions et les dire ensuite avec des mots, a permis la mise en lumi?re
d?une corr?lation image(s)/mots, au niveau des ?motions. Autant de lieux
d?expression langagi?re ? acception ?largie ? o? la conscience, plus ou
moins pr?sente, pouvait ?merger dans l?expression litt?rale ou
m?taphorique d?une ?motion, d?un ressenti ou d?un sentiment perceptible
ou occult?.  Le Workshop propos? aujourd?hui reste dans cette
probl?matique et la pr?cise en s?ouvrant sur de nouvelles notions, plus
sp?cifiquement d?velopp?es, du c?t? de la neurophysiologie de l??motion,
stricto sensu. Le propos se recentrera aussi sur la psycholinguistique,
en corr?lant ?motion (James, 1884) et dimension psychologique de la
conscience (James, 1890), en relation avec ? l?inconscient de la langue
? selon Ferdinand de Saussure (1891), trois aspects indissociables, dans
la probl?matique de la relation du langage au corps. Enfin, nous
corr?lerons le propos g?n?ral ? ? voix & ?motion ?, sous deux angles :
d?abord la voix parl?e, sa prosodie et l??motion qu?elle suscite par
l?expression des ressentis et sentiments lus par l?auteur, destin?s ?
susciter l??motion pure chez celui qui ?coute, puis la voix chant?e et
l??motion musicale pure qu?elle porte. Toute la probl?matique de ce
Workshop pr?cisera donc ce continuum, ?tabli lors de la premi?re journ?e
entre ?motion, ressenti et sentiment du locuteur, source d??motion pour
le destinataire ou le spectateur.

Universit? Paris Ouest ? Nanterre La D?fense
Laboratoire MoDyCo ? UMR 7114 ? Mod?les Dynamiques Corpus ?
P?le de recherche L'Humain en devenir

Programme

Accueil des participants autour d?un caf? ou d?un th? (? partir de 8 h
45) Ouverture du Workshop U. Paris Ouest ? Nanterre La D?fense

Pr?sentation : Armelle Jacquet (5?)
Mod?rateurs : Didier Bottineau & Armelle Jacquet

9 h 15-9 h 45
Gil Ben Aych : ? Le livre d??toile ? (Pr. de philosophie & ?crivain)

9 h 45-10 h 30
Michel Arriv? : ? Les ?motions aux origines du langage : coup d'?il 
sur quelques sp?culations anciennes et modernes ? (Pr. Em?rite, MoDyCo)

Pause  (10 h 30-10 h 45)

10 h 45-11 h 30
Philippe Turchet : ? Les larmes : une expression privil?gi?e de la 
conscience de soi ? (UQAM, Montr?al, Qu?bec)

11 h 30-12 h 15
Jo?l Colloc (pr?sentation par) & Armelle Jacquet (co-auteur) : ?
Neurophysiologie et neuropsychologie des ?motions ? (J.C, M?decin &
Pr. d?informatique & A.J., IGR, HDR, linguiste & psychologue)

Discussion finale (12 h 15-12 h 45)
Michel Arriv?, Gil Ben Aych, Jo?l Colloc, Armelle Jacquet, Philippe
Turchet Apr?s-midi

14 h 30
Ouverture de l?apr?s midi par Michel Arriv?
Pr?sentation : Armelle Jacquet (5 mn) Mod?rateurs : Michel Arriv? & Jo?l
Colloc

14 h 30-15 h 15
Anne Lacheret : ? L?expression des ?motions dans le langage, que 
nous dit la prosodie ? ? (Pr. de linguistique, MoDyCo)

15 h 15-16 h Denis Le Pesant : ? Des crit?res pour une classification
s?mantique de quelque 3 800 mots d?affects ? (Pr. de linguistique,
MoDyCo)

Pause  (16 h 00-16 h 15)

16 h 15-17 h 00
Myriam Szejer : ? des mots pour na?tre ? (titre provisoire) 

17 h 00-17 h 45
Claire Alby, Myriam Szejer & Danh Th?nh Do-Hurinville : ? Le chant et
l??motion ? (Claire, MCF & r?alisatrice) ; Myriam, M?decin psychanalyste
& soprano ; Danh Th?nh : enseignant-chercheur & baryton ; Dan Zuili,
pianiste, Tous quatre musiciens), avec un programme musical ? surprise ?
pour susciter l??motion.  Projection (15?), montage par Avyy Moureu

D?bat & Table ronde (17 h 45-18 h 30)
Pr?sid?e par Danielle Leeman
Claire Alby, Michel Arriv?, Diana Balachi, Gil Ben Aych, Didier
Bottineau, Jo?l Colloc, Danh Th?nh Do-Hurinville, Armelle Jacquet, Anne
Lacheret, Danielle Leeman, Denis Le Pesant, Myriam Szejer, Philippe
Turchet, Dan Zuili

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Fri Mar 23 21:15:51 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:15:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: TEXTGRAPH-7,
 New Deadline for Demos/Posters/Short/Position Papers
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.221551.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:34:42 +0100
From: Ga?l Dias <gael.dias at unicaen.fr>
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========================================================================
    NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR DEMOS/POSTERS/SHORT/POSITION PAPERS

    TextGraphs-7: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
                   (http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12)

                           Special Theme:
    Understanding and Mining Social Media Using Graphs: Information
                 Propagation in Blogs and Tweets

                       Workshop of ACL 2012

             July 12, 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea

    NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR DEMOS/POSTERS/SHORT/POSITION PAPERS

                     March 25, 2012 (11:59 p.m. PST)
========================================================================

We are pleased to inform you that a special deadline has been affored
for Demos/Posters/Short/Positions papers. This NEW DEADLINE is March 25,
2012 (11:59 p.m. PST). However, the deadline for long papers is closed.

(1) Workshop Description
(2) Workshop Submissions
(3) NEW Important Dates
(4) NEW Author Instructions
(5) Workshop Organisers
(6) Program Committee
(7) Contacts

==================================================
(1) Workshop Description
==================================================

Recent years have shown an increased interest in integrating various
aspects of the field of Graph Theory (GT) into Natural Language
Processing (NLP). Many language phenomena can be naturally put into
graph-based representations and in the last 5 years a significant number
of NLP applications adopted efficient and elegant solutions from graph
theoretical frameworks. These applications range from part-of- speech
tagging, word sense disambiguation, ontology learning and parsing to
information extraction, semantic role assignment, summarization and
sentiment analysis to name but a few. The emergence of new fields of
research focusing on the social media such as Twitter and Facebook
brought the graph-based methods even more into focus. In particular,
graph-based algorithms are used to explore social network connections
and propagation of information in those networks in addition to
exploring the connections between the language entities. As a
consequence, many new applications have been emerging such as rumor
proliferation, e-reputation, multiple identity detection, language
dynamics learning and future events prediction to name but a few.
TextGraphs-7 aims to bring together researchers interested in GT applied
to NLP and provide an environment for further integration of graph-based
solutions into NLP tasks. The workshop also encourages discussions about
theoretical justifications from GT that explain empirical results
obtained in the NLP community. As a consequence, a deeper understanding
of new theories of graph-based algorithms is likely to help to create
new approaches and widen the usage of graphs for NLP applications.

=================================================
(2) Workshop Submissions
=================================================

TextGraphs-7 will invite innovative submissions on the following, but
not limited to, three main topics:

Topic I: Graph-based methods for Information Retrieval, Information
Extraction and Text Mining
- Graph-based methods for word sense disambiguation,
- Graph-based representations for ontology learning,
- Graph-based strategies for semantic relations identification,
- Encoding semantic distances in graphs,
- Graph-based techniques for document navigation and visualization,
- and more subtopics;

Topic II: New graph-based methods for NLP applications
- Random walk methods in graphs,
- Spectral graph clustering,
- Semi-supervised graph-based methods,
- Methods and analyses for statistical networks,
- Small world graphs,
- Dynamic graph representations ,
- Topological and pretopological analysis of graphs,
- and more subtopics;

Topic III: Graph-based methods for applications on social networks
- Rumor proliferation,
- E-reputation,
- Multiple identity detection,
- Language dynamics studies,
- Surveillance systems,
- and more subtopics.

======================================================
(3) NEW Important Dates
======================================================

Submission dealdine for Long Papers: March 18, 2012 (CLOSED)
NEW Submission deadline for Posters/Demos/Short/Positions papers: March
25, 2012 (11:59 p.m. PST)
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: April 30, 2012
Workshop: July 12, 2012

====================================================
(4) NEW Authors Instructions
====================================================

Submissions will consist of (1) short and posters of maximum 4 pages
(for on going research), (2) position papers of maximum 4 pages (for
prospective ideas) and (3) demo papers of maximum 4 pages (for software
and architectures). One extra page will be accepted for the Reference
section for all submissions? types.

Textgraphs-7 will have a blind review policy. In order to facilitate
blind reviewing, the authors should omit their names and affiliations
from the paper. Furthermore, all self-references that may reveal the
author identity must be avoided. Papers that do not conform to these
requirements will be rejected without review.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must be formatted using the
ACL 2012 Style Files available a http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp.

Papers should be submitted to the START Conference Manager available at
the following url: https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/textgraphs-7/.

==================================================
(5) Workshop Organisers
==================================================

Ahmed Hassan
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, United States
Phone: +14257222849,
Email: hassanam at microsoft.com

Ga?l Dias
University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
Phone: +33231567487
Email: gael.dias at unicaen.fr

Irina Matveeva
Dieselpoint Inc., Chicago, United States
Phone: +17737047852
Email: imatveeva at dieselpoint.com

==================================================
(6) Program Committee
==================================================

Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Animesh Mukherjee, ISI Foundation, Italy
Antoine Widl?cher, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Arzucan ?zg?r, Istanbul University, Turkey
Bruno Cr?milleux, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Chris Biemann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome, Italy
Gina-Anne Levow, University of Washington, USA
Guillaume Cleuziou, University of Orl?ans, France
Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research, USA
Patrik Pantel, Microsoft Research, USA
Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA
Philippe Muller, Paul Sabatier University, France
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
Swapna Somasundaran, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Torsten Zesch, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Uwe Quasthoff, University of Leipzig, Germany
Zornitsa Kozareva, ISI, University of Southern California, USA

====================================================
(7) Workshop Contacts
====================================================

For any question, please email us at textgraphs2012 at gmail.com or look at
the web site http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12


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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:17:57 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste de PR section 27 en Technologie du Langage Humain,
 Universite de Caen Basse-Normandie
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:44:00 +0100
From: Ga?l Dias <gael.dias at unicaen.fr>
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        Poste de PR section 27 en Technologie du Langage Humain

           HULTECH/GREYC - Universit? de Caen Basse-Normandie
========================================================================

L'Universit? de Caen Basse-Normandie recrute un Professeur des
Universit?s section 27 dans le domaine de la Technologie du Langage
Humain (Challenge 4 du "Programme Information and Communication
Technologies" de l?Union Europ?enne) pour la rentr?e universitaire
2012/2013.

Le candidat devra d?montrer une comp?tence renforc?e de haut niveau dans
l?un ou plusieurs des domaines suivants : Recherche d?Information
("Information Retrieval"), Extraction d?Information ("Information
Extraction"), Traitement Automatique des Langues, Traduction
Automatique, Fouille de Textes, Extraction de Connaissances, R?sum? de
Textes, Interface Homme-Machine entre autres.

Le candidat sera int?gr? ? l??quipe Technologie du Langage Humain
(HULTECH -http://www.greyc.fr/hultech) au sein du laboratoire Groupe de
Recherche en Informatique, Image, Automatique et Instrumentation de Caen
(GREYC - UMR 6072 CNRS UCBN/ENSICAEN - http://www.greyc.fr) class?
niveau A.

Le candidat sera amen? ? dynamiser et participer ?
l?internationalisation et l?excellence de l??quipe HULTECH compos?e de
13 Ma?tres de Conf?rences ou Charg?s de Recherche permanents et d?un
Professeur des Universit?s r?cemment recrut?. HULTECH s?appuie sur un
acquis reconnu nationalement et internationalement dans le domaine du
Document Num?rique, de l?Ing?nierie Documentaire, du Traitement
Automatique des Langues, de l'Extraction des Connaissances Textuelles,
des Interfaces Homme-Machine et de la Recherche d'information
Multim?dia.

A HULTECH, le candidat trouvera un environnement jeune et dynamique
orientant sa recherche autour de th?mes porteurs comme la
personnalisation, la collaboration, l?accessibilit?, l?adaptabilit? et
l?ubiquit? d?applications du langage humain dans des environnements
num?riques h?t?rog?nes multilingues tels que la toile ou les r?seaux
sociaux.

Ce poste vise ?galement ? renforcer la th?matique des Technologies du
Langage Humain dans le dispositif d?enseignement du D?partement
Informatique de l?UFR Sciences de l?Universit? de Caen Basse-Normandie.
Dans ce cadre, le candidat sera amen? ? participer activement au succ?s
du nouveau Master IMALANG (dont la premi?re ?dition commencera ? la
rentr?e 2012/2013) dans lequel de nombreux modules devront ?tre assur?s.
Son exp?rience sera ?galement importante dans l?ensemble du D?partement
d?Informatique, notamment dans la prochaine direction du Master DNR2I.

Le candidat int?ress? par un poste ? hautes responsabilit?s dans le 
domaine de la Technologie du Langage Humain est invit? ? prendre contact 
aupr?s des Responsables de l??quipe HULTECH, Ga?l Dias 
(gael.dias at unicaen.fr) et Nadine Lucas (nadine.lucas at unicaen.fr).

Pour toute information suppl?mentaire sur la partie enseignement, le
candidat devra contacter le Directeur du D?partement d?Informatique,
Bruno Cr?milleux (bruno.cremilleux at unicaen.fr). En ce qui concerne la
partie Recherche, le candidat pourra ?galement contacter les Directeurs
du GREYC, Mohamed M?Saad (mohammed.msaad at ensicaen.fr), Fr?d?ric Jurie
(frederic.jurie at unicaen.fr) et Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
(abdel-illah.mouaddib at unicaen.fr).

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:44:53 +0100
Subject: Job: Stage TAL, Strasbourg
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:34:44 +0100
From: Fran?ois Rousselot <francois.rousselot at insa-strasbourg.fr>
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la Soci?t? REBUZ pour laquelle je travaille comme consultant me demande
de faire cette proposition de stage
Fran?ois Rousselot
Consultant en Informatique et en Ing?nierie Linguistique
Strasbourg, France

Stage TAL

REBUZ est une jeune soci?t? sp?cialis?e dans la veille qui a mis au
point une m?thode d'analyse de textes pour faire de la veille
?conomique. Cette m?thode bas?e sur une analyse s?mantique des phrases
extraites de d?p?ches ?conomiques a donn? naissance ? la cr?ation d'un
prototype de logiciel qui est capable de d?terminer ? propos de la
d?cision d'une action int?ressante (produire un produit durable) ? quel
stade de cette d?cision on en est (d?cision prise, constitution de
ressources encours , pr?t, d?marrage etc...)

Objectif du Stage :

Le prototype actuel doit maintenant monter en puissance, son vocabulaire
doit ?tre ?tendu.

L'objectif du stage est d'analyser les probl?mes qui restent ? r?soudre
au niveau de la langue: gestion des compl?ments temporels par exemple et
de contribuer ? la compl?tion des ressources linguistiques ?tablies
jusqu'ici.  Le stagiaire devra analyser les diff?rents probl?mes rep?r?s
jusqu'ici lors de l'?laboration du prototype et proposer des solutions
pour compl?ter les ressources linguistiques d?velopp?es jusqu'ici.

Le stagiaire sera encadr? par un sp?cialiste du traitement des langues.

int?r?t

L??tudiant aura l?occasion de vivre la r?alit? d?une situation de
cr?ation de soci?t? dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies. Il
apprendra ? travailler dans un contexte de recherche d?veloppement au
sein d'une jeune entreprise innovante.

Comp?tences souhait?es :

Formation en traitement automatique des langues avec dominante
linguistique Bonnes connaissances des expressions r?guli?res et de
l'outil UNITEX (ou NOOJ)
Langage informatique PERL (et ?ventuellement JAVA)
Facilit? d'adaptation
Bonnes dispositions au travail en ?quipe
Logique
Rigueur

Niveau :
Bac+3 minimum dans la discipline

Dur?e du Stage :
De 3 ? 5 mois.

Lieu du Stage :
Strasbourg
logement possible

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Fri Mar 23 21:47:49 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:47:49 +0100
Subject: Revue: TAL, parution du numero 52:1
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.224749.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:09:03 +0100
From: Beatrice Daille <beatrice.daille at univ-nantes.fr>
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X-url: http://www.atala.org/-Varia,81-


Le num?ro hors-th?mes  52:3 de la revue TAL,
coordonn? par ?ric Villemonte de La Clergerie, B?atrice Daille, Yves 
Lepage, Fran?ois Yvon
est maintenant en ligne ? l'adresse suivante :
http://www.atala.org/-Varia,81-


The regular issue 52:3 of the journal TAL,
co-edited by  ?ric Villemonte de La Clergerie, B?atrice Daille, Yves 
Lepage, Fran?ois Yvon
is now on line at the following address :
http://www.atala.org/-Varia,81-


Sommaire/summary :


    * ?ric Villemonte de La Clergerie, B?atrice Daille, Yves Lepage,
      Fran?ois Yvon
      *Pr?face*__
      http://www.atala.org/Preface,599


    * Franck Sajous, Emmanuel Navarro, Bruno Gaume
      *Enrichissement de lexiques s?mantiques approvisionn?s par les
      foules : le syst?me WISIGOTH appliqu? ? Wiktionary*
      http://www.atala.org/Enrichissement-de-lexiques


    * Yannis Haralambous, Elisa Lavagnino,
      *La r?duction de termes complexes dans les langues de sp?cialit?*
      http://www.atala.org/La-reduction-de-termes-complexes


    * Denis Maurel, Nathalie Friburger, Jean-Yves Antoine, , Iris
      Eshkol-Taravella, Damien Nouvel
      *Cascades de transducteurs autour de la reconnaissance des entit?s
      nomm?es* http://www.atala.org/Cascades-de-transducteurs-autour


    * Amandine P?rinet, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon
      *Identi?cation des assertions dans les textes m?dicaux :
      application ? la relation {patient, probl?me m?dical}*
      http://www.atala.org/article594,594


    * Pierrette Bouillon, Manny Rayner, Paula Estella, Johanna Gerlach,
      Maria Georgescul
      *Pour une interlangue utile en traduction automatique de la parole
      dans des domaines limit?s*
      http://www.atala.org/Pour-une-interlangue-utile-en


    * Davy Weissenbacher, Adeline Nazarenko
      *Comprendre les effets des erreurs d?annotations des plates-formes
      de TAL* http://www.atala.org/Comprendre-les-effets-des-erreurs


    * *Notes de lecture* http://www.atala.org/Notes-de-lecture,591


    * *R?sum?s de th?ses* http://www.atala.org/Resumes-de-theses,590

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:50:43 +0100
Subject: Appel: Final Call for Contributed Task Participation ACL 2012
 Workshop on "Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries"
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.225043.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:11:20 +0800
From: "Rafael E. Banchs (I2R)" <rembanchs at i2r.a-star.edu.sg>
Message-ID: <162B8AFBFBBB2148A9A1B8F9C575342810A4377F at mailbe01.teak.local.net>
X-url: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/

FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED TASK PARTICIPATION

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

ACL 2012 Workshop on "Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries"

To be held at ACL 2012 main conference, Jeju, Republic of Korea, July
10, 2012

Website: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/

New deadline for contributed task short paper submissions: April 15, 2012

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

In addition to the technical program, the workshop will host a
contributed-task, in the spirit of a crowd-sourcing activity, for
augmenting and improving the current status of the ACL data collection.

The goal of the contributed-task is to provide a high-quality version of
the textual content of the ACL Anthology as a corpus. Its rich-text XML
markup will contain information on section headings, footnotes, table
and figure captions, bibliographic references, italics/emphasized text
portions, non-latin scripts, etc.

Eight different tasks have been proposed for automatically adding
missing or correcting wrong markup to the current rich-text
formats. These eight tasks include:

* Footnote identification
* Table reference identification
* Bibliographic reference identification
* De-hyphenation improvement
* Garbage/leftover removal
* TEI P5 markup generation.
* Sentence Splitting
* Math formula markup generation

Teams participating in the contributed task are encouraged to produce a
short paper describing their work and presenting their results. More
information can be found at
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/taskintro/

- SUBMISSIONS ----------------------------------------------------------

All submissions must be done electronically via the portal
https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/R50/ and should follow the ACL 2012
format, as specified in http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp. The paper
selection will follow a standard double-blind reviewing process, so
submissions must not include author names, affiliations or
self-references. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and
published in the ACL 2012 workshop proceedings.

Important Dates

April 15, 2012: Contributed task (short) paper new submissions due
April 22, 2012: Notification of acceptance for contributed task (short)
                papers
April 30, 2012: Camera-ready submissions due
July 10, 2012:  Workshop in Jeju, Korea.

For more information visit the workshop website at
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/r50/

- ORGANIZING COMMITTEES ------------------------------------------------

Workshop Organizer 

* Rafael E. Banchs, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 

Steering Committee

* Steven Bird, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
* Min Yen Kan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
* Ulrich Sch?fer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
  (DFKI), Germany

Conbtributed Task Committee

* Jonathon Read, University of Oslo, Norway
* Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo, Norway
* Ulrich Sch?fer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
  (DFKI), Germany
* Tze Yuang Chong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Confirmed Programme Committee

* Toni Badia, Barcelona Media Innovation Centre, Spain
* Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India
* Emily M. Bender, University of Washington, USA
* Kenneth Church, Johns Hopkins University, USA
* Marta R. Costa-jussa, Barcelona Media Innovation Centre, Spain
* Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany
* Carlos Henriquez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
* Daniel Jurafsky, Stanford University, USA
* Min Yen Kan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Kevin Knight, Information Sciences Institute, USA 
* Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
* Yang Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
* Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University, USA
* Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
* Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo, Norway
* Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
* Jonathon Read, University of Oslo, Norway
* Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
* Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
* Ulrich Sch?fer, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
* Fabrizio Silvestri, Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Italy
* Eiichiro Sumita, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
* Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge, UK
* Junichi Tsujii, Microsoft Research Asia, China
* Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs, The Netherlands
* Haifeng Wang, Baidu, China
* Magdalena Wolska, Saarland University, Germany
* Min Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China 


Publicity Committee

* Marta R. Costa-jussa, Barcelona Media Innovation Centre, Spain
* Seokhwan Kim, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Technical Committee

* Ming Liu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:00:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: AiML 2012 (with deadline extension)
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.230031.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:21:10 +0100
From: Thomas Bolander <tb at imm.dtu.dk>
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AiML-2012:  FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (WITH DEADLINE EXTENSION)

9-TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC
COPENHAGEN, 22-25 AUGUST, 2012
 
          http://hylocore.ruc.dk/aiml2012.html

Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state
of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative
consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the
conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at
http://www.aiml.net. AiML-2012 is the ninth conference in the series.

TOPICS
We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including:

- history of modal logic
- philosophy of modal logic
- applications of modal logic
- computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
  modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model
  checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics)
- theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
  on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
  correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
  modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of
  modal logic)
- specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics,
  modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process
  logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
  systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
  formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and
  temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural
  logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics)

Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

CONFERENCE LOCATION
Advances in Modal Logic 2012 will be held at
the IDA conference center in downtown Copenhagen:

http://ida.dk/sites/moedecenter/english/Sider/EnglishForside.aspx

This is in easy walking distance from Copenhagen Central Station and a
number of reasonably priced hotels.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2012: (1) Full papers for
publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference. (2)
Short presentations intended for presentation at AiML but not for the
published proceedings.  All submissions should be submitted
electronically using our EasyChair page

           http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiml2012

At least one author of each accepted paper or short presentation must
register for, and attend, the conference.

(1) FULL PAPERS. Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the
conference and publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on
original research and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of
AiML'2012 will be published by College Publications
(http://www.collegepublications.co.uk) in a volume to be made available
at the conference. The submissions should be at most 15 pages, with an
optional technical appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text
abstract of 100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset in LaTeX,
using the style files and template provided on the AiML'2012 website
(click "Paper Submissions").

We also ask authors of full papers to submit the abstract in plain text
to the EasyChair page by 30 March.

(2) SHORT PRESENTATIONS. These should be at most 5 pages. They may
describe preliminary results, work in progress etc., and will be subject
to light reviewing. The accepted submissions will be made available at
the conference, and the authors will have the opportunity to make short
presentations (of up to 15 minutes) on them.

SPECIAL SESSION ON HYBRID LOGIC. Hybrid logic is an extension of modal logic 
allowing to refer explicitly to states of the model in the syntax of formulas. 
There will be a special session of AiML devoted to papers on hybrid logic. 
The scope of the special session is standard hybrid-logical machinery like 
nominals, satisfaction operators, and the downarrow binder, but also other 
extensions of modal logic can be considered. 

SPECIAL SESSION IN HONOUR OF LARISA MAKSIMOVA. There will be a special
session of AiML devoted to papers and talks in honour of Larisa
Maksimova, in recognition of her many outstanding contributions to modal
logic.

SPECIAL SESSION ON MODALITES FOR TYPES. Recent years have witnessed
significant growth of interest in constructive type-theoretical
modalities, in particular modalities ensuring productivity and type
safety of (co-)recursive definitions in reactive programming. Some
earlier examples include the use of modalities for staged computation,
metaprogramming or in computational lambda-calculus. In order to boost
interaction between programming, type-theoretical and modal communities,
AiML 2012 will host a special session on these topics.

Papers for the special sessions should be submitted to the EasyChair
site along with others.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Lev Beklemishev (Moscow State University)
Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)
Lars Birkedal (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Patrick Blackburn  (Roskilde University)
Balder ten Cate, (UC Santa Cruz)
Larisa Maksimova (Novosibirsk State University)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE   
Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universitad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
Philippe Balbiani (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Lev Beklemishev (Moscow State University, Russia)
Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University, USA)
Nick Bezhanishvili (Imperial College London, UK)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark)
Torben Brauner (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Giovanna Corsi (Universit? di Bologna, Italy)
Giovanna D'Agostino (Universit? di Udine, Italy)
Stephane Demri (LSV, ENS Cachan, France)
Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA)
Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark)
Rajeev Gore (Australian National University, Australia)
Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Ian Hodkinson (Imperial College London, UK)
Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool, UK)
Rosalie Iemhoff (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK)
Tadeusz Litak (University of Leicester, UK)
Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Martin Otto (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Alessandra Palmigiano (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK)
Lutz Schr?der (Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg)
Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia)
Dimiter Vakarelov (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK)
Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College, London, UK)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Lawrence Moss (Indiana University, USA)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Thomas Bolander (Technical University of Denmark)
Torben Brauner (Roskilde University, Denmark)

IMPORTANT DATES 
[Please notice that the deadline for full papers submission has moved to
April 7, 2012; authors should however submit an abstract by the old
deadline of March 30, 2012 to speed up PC paper selection.]

Abstract of Full papers submission deadline: 30 March 2012   
Full papers submission deadline: 7 April 2012   
Full papers acceptance notification: 18 May 2012
Short presentations submission deadline: 1 June, 2012
Short presentations acceptance notification: 7 June, 2012
Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 15 June 2012
Conference: 22-25 August, 2012.    

FURTHER INFORMATION. Please see http://hylocore.ruc.dk/aiml2012/

ENQUIRIES. E-mail enquiries should be directed respectively to 
the PC co-chairs, sent to aiml2012 at easychair.org

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:08:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: extension et complements,
 Journee de l'ATALA Discours et TAL,
 Des modeles linguistiques aux applications
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:13:36 +0000
From: FERRET Olivier 174579 <olivier.ferret at cea.fr>
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Discours et TAL : des mod?les linguistiques aux applications 
Journ?e d'?tude organis?e sous l'?gide de l'ATALA et de la revue
Discours

***** Suite ? des probl?mes de disponibilit? de locaux, la journ?e est
      d?plac?e au 11 mai 2012 et se d?roulera au Centre Universitaire
      Malesherbes, toujours ? Paris.

________________

Informations pratiques
- Organisateurs : Olivier Ferret (CEA LIST) et Nicolas Hernandez (LINA)
- Date : le vendredi 11 Mai 2012
- Lieu : Centre Universitaire Malesherbes, Paris, 17?me
- Site Web : https://sites.google.com/site/jeatalarevuediscours2012
- Contact : olivier.ferret ? cea.fr et nicolas.hernandez ? univ-nantes.fr
________________

OBJECTIFS ET TH?MES
Comme le confirment des conf?rences ou des ateliers comme MAD, LPTS,
CID, DAARC ou SIGDIAL pour n'en citer que quelques-uns, l'analyse du
discours est un domaine de recherche actif, aussi bien pour les
disciplines de la linguistique et de la psycho-linguistique que du
Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL). Force est n?anmoins de
constater que l'impact de ces travaux d'un point de vue applicatif reste
globalement limit? et  en tout cas, moins ?tendu qu'il ne pourrait
l'?tre. Sans ?tre exhaustif, des applications, aussi diverses que
l'extraction d'information, le r?sum? automatique, le question-r?ponse,
la navigation textuelle, l'aide ? la r?daction, la d?tection de
citations ou l'analyse d'opinion sont confront?es ? l'objet
textuel. Plus pr?cis?ment, elles ont besoin de s'appuyer sur des
structures interm?diaires entre le texte et la phrase pour mettre en
?uvre leurs traitements, ces structures ?tant issues d?analyses
discursives. En extraction d'information par exemple,  alors que le
niveau phrastique peut souvent suffire pour extraire des relations
factuelles binaires (?Franz Kafka est n? ? Prague, alors ?? -->
lieu_naissance(Kafka, Prague)), il est n?cessaire de faire appara?tre
une structuration ?v?nementielle des textes pour g?rer les ambigu?t?s de
rattachement des informations caract?risant un ?v?nement (date, lieu et
magnitude d'un tremblement de terre par exemple). L'analyse d'opinion
op?re elle aussi ? la fois ? un niveau phrastique et ? un niveau textuel
mais se heurte dans ce dernier cas ? l'absence de prise en compte de
structures discursives interm?diaires d?s lors que l'expression des
opinions est complexe (diff?rentes opinions relatives ? diff?rentes
facettes de l'objet consid?r?). Le contexte du r?sum? automatique est
aussi un bon exemple de l'importance applicative de l'analyse du
discours : extraire les phrases repr?sentatives d'un document ne peut se
faire avec pertinence qu'en tenant compte de leur contexte textuel et en
particulier de leur position dans la structure discursive de ce
document.


M?me si l'utilisation des r?sultats de l'analyse du discours dans ces
diff?rents contextes applicatifs ne constitue pas encore une tendance
dominante, il existe tout un ensemble de travaux empruntant cette
voie. Cette journ?e d'?tude vise ? encourager leur pr?sentation. Plus
pr?cis?ment, sont attendues des contributions se focalisant globalement
sur :


- l'utilisation de l'analyse discursive dans le contexte d'applications
  du TAL, en montrant en particulier en quoi cette prise en compte
  permet d'am?liorer ces applications, tant sur le plan de leurs
  performances que sur celui de l'extension de leur couverture
  fonctionnelle ;

- les nouvelles questions ou les nouvelles perspectives sur le plan
  th?orique que les probl?matiques applicatives permettent de mettre au
  jour ;

- le caract?re multi-dimensionnel de l'analyse discursive (temporelle,
  aspectuelle, th?matique, r?f?rentielle...) et la fa?on dont ces
  multiples "coh?rences" peuvent ?tre combin?es d'un point de vue
  applicatif ;

- plus g?n?ralement, les travaux linguistiques et psycho-linguistiques
  sur le discours se pla?ant dans la perspective de TAL et de ses
  applications. 

  
Dans cette perspective, ces contributions pourront aborder notamment :

- les solutions apport?es aux diff?rents sous-probl?mes de l'analyse du
  discours tels que le d?coupage en unit?s ?nonciatives, la construction
  des contextes d'?nonciation, l'identification des inf?rences que l'on
  peut tirer d'un ?nonc?, la recherche de points d'attache d'un ?nonc?
  entrant, l'identification des topiques discursifs, la mod?lisation de
  la structure informationnelle...

- les protocoles et les outils d'annotation ou d'?valuation des
  diff?rents types d'information discursive ;

- l'appr?hension unifi?e des diff?rents syst?mes de marqueurs du
  discours ? des fins de traitement automatique.


***** CONF?RENCIER INVIT? : Yves Bestgen, Centre for English Corpus
      Linguistics, F.R.S-FNRS et Universit? catholique de Louvain

Titre de la conf?rence : Structure du discours et marqueurs
linguistiques ? la crois?e de la psycholinguistique, de l'analyse
statistique de corpus et du traitement automatique du langage


________________

SOUMISSION
Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre un r?sum? de deux pages maximum,
r?f?rences bibliographiques non inclues, en A4, Arial 12, interligne
simple, en fran?ais ou en anglais, ? transmettre au format PDF
? : olivier.ferret ? cea.fr et nicolas.hernandez ? univ-nantes.fr

***** Pour des questions d'organisation, il est demand? aux auteurs
      potentiels d'envoyer aux m?mes adresses une intention de
      soumission pour le 25/03/2012, la soumission des r?sum?s ?tant
      repouss?e au 1/04/2012.

________________

DATES IMPORTANTES
- envoi d'une intention de soumission : 25/03/2012
- soumission des r?sum?s : 1/04/2012
- notification d'acceptation : 20/04/2012
- journ?e : 11/05/2012
________________

Comit? d'organisation
- Olivier Ferret (CEA LIST, Palaiseau)
- Nicolas Hernandez  (LINA, Universit? de Nantes) 
________________

Comit? de lecture 
- Stergos Afantenos (IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier)
- Florian Boudin (LINA, Universit? de Nantes)
- Fr?d?rik Bilhaut (Noopsis, chef de la direction)
- Pascal Denis (Mostrare, INRIA Lille Nord-Europe)
- St?phane Ferrari (GREYC, Universit? de Caen)
- Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac (ERSS)
- Agata Jackiewicz (Universit? Paris Sorbonne)
- Fr?d?ric Landragin (Lattice)
- Aur?lien Max, (LIMSI, Universit? Paris 11)
- Philippe Muller (IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier)
- Christian Raymond (IRISA, Universit? de Rennes)
- Matthieu Vernier (Dicta Nova, chef de la direction)
- Antoine Widl?cher (GREYC, Universit? de Caen)

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:05:39 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: TIC et pour l'enseignement et l'apprentissage des
 sciences, Orsay, 28 mars 2012
Message-ID: <FRI.23.MAR.2012.230539.0100.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:05:14 +0100
From: Centre d'Alembert <centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr>
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S?minaire interdisciplinaire 2011-2012 du Centre d'Alembert

http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr

Nouvelles pratiques et cultures du num?rique dans les sciences et les
technologies

S?ance du mercredi 28 mars 2012 :

Quoi de neuf en mati?re de technologies de l'information et de la
communication pour l'enseignement et l'apprentissage des sciences ?
Quelles ressources pour l'enseignement ?

Eric BRUILLARD, Professeur en informatique, Directeur de STEF (ENS
Cachan et IF?)

TIC et apprentissage des sciences : des rapports ambigus Si les
technologies informatiques offrent des possibilit?s remarquables et bien
r?pertori?es pour l'apprentissage et l'enseignement des sciences, les
utilisations actuelles et les tendances perceptibles en paraissent
parfois assez ?loign?es. Des questions multiples se posent notamment
quant aux supports utilis?s (par exemple tablettes, tableaux
interactifs...), aux activit?s propos?es aux ?l?ves, aux modes de
conception des ressources et ? leur place possible dans l'enseignement,
ainsi qu'aux incidences sur la mani?re de consid?rer l'apprentissage et
l'enseignement de sciences.  Des th?ses soutenues prochainement
(Harinosy Ratompomalala, Stanilas Dorey) attestent ainsi des difficult?s
d'utilisation de ressources disciplinaires dans les enseignements
scientifiques scolaires. Dans la pr?sentation, nous essayerons de faire
un panorama des tensions qu'il est possible de rep?rer.


Herv? LE CROSNIER, ma?tre de conf?rence ? l'Universit? de Caen
Basse-Normandie, o? il enseigne les technologies de l'internet et la
culture num?rique. en d?l?gation de 2010 ? 2012 aupr?s de l'ISCC
(Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS). Sa recherche porte
sur l'impact de l'internet sur l'organisation sociale et culturelle, et
l'extension du domaine des biens communs de la connaissance. Ses cours
de culture num?rique sont accessible en ligne (vid?o)
http://herve.perso.info.unicaen.fr Herv? Le Crosnier est membre de
l'association Vecam (http://vecam.org) et du collectif d'animation du
Forum mondial Sciences& d?mocratie.
Il publie des remarques sur les sciences dans le blog "Les puces
savantes" (http://blog.mondediplo.net/-Puces-savantes-).  Apr?s avoir
?t? dix ans conservateur de biblioth?que scientifique, et cr?ateur de la
liste BIBLIO-FR, il est actuellement ?diteur multim?dia, chez C&F
?ditions (http://cfeditions.com).

Construire les communs de la connaissance et de l'?ducation afin
d'?largir l'?ducation pour tous Nous assistons sous nos yeux ? un
bouleversement radical des technologies de l'enseignement, notamment
autour des nouveaux outils de partage et de diffusion du savoir en
r?seau et des m?thodes de production et d'usage. Cette situation
nouvelle est comme toujours un "pharmakon", qui contient autant de
risques d'empoisonnement des relations ?ducatives au profit d'une vision
r?ductrice et op?rationnelle que d'opportunit?s pour construire un
nouveau r?gime d'extension de l'?ducation pour tous et tout au long de
la vie.

Les Ressources ?ducatives libres participent de ce type de mod?les
expos?s ? cette nouvelle contradiction. Il appartient donc aux acteurs
de faire basculer la situation vers le poison ou le rem?de.

Nous nous proposons d'offrir quelques points de rep?res pour ?valuer la
situation, mais aussi ouvrir des portes nouvelles pour l'action :

- d?finition des Ressource ?ducatives Libres
- plus largement comment placer les REL dans la th?orie des biens
  communs de la connaissance
- quels sont les enjeux autour des normes juridiques de diffusion et
  partage des documents (droit d'auteur, licences d'usage,...)
- biens communs et services publics ? l'?chelle du monde dans le d?bat
  d'orientation de l'?ducation.

Informations pratiques :
Les s?ances ont lieu ? la Facult? des Sciences d'Orsay, b?timent des
colloques (338), 1er ?tage, de 13h30 ? 15h30 (entr?e libre). Acc?s :
http://g.co/maps/cq8yj

Programme d?taill? et contact :
Web : http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr 
M?l. : centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr
M?dias sociaux : http://twitter.com/centredalembert

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:10:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: Hybrid Machine Translation
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:31:12 +0100
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       Hybrid Machine Translation - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
    *********************************************************

Hybrid Machine Translation Workshop, satellite workshop of TSD 2012
	     Brno, Czech Republic, 3 September 2012
     http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2012/conf_workshop.html

The MT Workshop is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, in cooperation with the PRESEMT EU project
Consortium. The MT Workshop is a satellite workshop of the Text, Speech
and Dialog Conference.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

    March 25 2012 ............ Submission of full papers

The submission will be closed during the next day after the deadline.

HYBRID MACHINE TRANSLATION

Interest in flexible and adaptable MT systems, based on the
language-independent hybrid methods, whose principles ensure easy
portability to new language pairs has led us to organizing an MT
Workshop in the framework of the TSD Conference 2012. These methods
attempt to overcome well-known problems of some MT approaches,
e.g. bilingual corpora compilation or the laborious creation of the new
rules per language pair. We also want to address the issue of
effectively managing multilingual content and would welcome interesting
suggestions in the direction of a language-independent
machine-learning-based methodology.

The key aspects that should be touched at the MT Workshop involve among
others syntactic phrase-based modelling, pattern recognition approaches
(such as extended clustering) or techniques towards the development of a
language-independent analysis. These aspects are intended to be of a
hybrid nature, combining linguistic processing with the positive aspects
of the corpus-based approaches, such as SMT and EBMT.

The need for easy amenability to new language pairs and relatively
inexpensive, readily available language resources as well as bilingual
lexica should be touched too. Modelling of the translation context on
phrases can improve the translation quality so it should be considered
too. Producing phrases via a semi-automatic and language-independent
process of morphological and syntactic analysis may remove the need for
compatible NLP tools per language pair.

Another relevant aspect to which the attention has to be paid is a
parallelisation of the main translation processes since their
investigation may help to reach a fast, high-quality translation
system. Furthermore, the optimisation and personalisation of the system
parameters via automated processes (such as GAs or swarm intelligence)
is an issue which deserves to be investigated in any case.

One of the points relevant for MT systems is a user adaptability and
user feedback with appropriate integrated interactive interfaces. Such
systems can be easily customised to both new language pairs and specific
sublanguages.


TOPICS

Topics of the MT Workshop include all themes of machine
translation (with stress on hybrid aspects of MT).

The workshop is organized in cooperation with the PRESEMT EU project
Consortium, submissions from other EU machine translation and other
projects are more than welcomed.

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    George Tambouratzis, Greece (chair)
    Bjorn Gamback, Sweden
    Adam Kilgarriff, GB
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Paul Schmidt, Germany


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    George Tambouratzis
        Institute for Lnaguage and Speech Processing, Greece
        PRESEMT Machine Translation System


FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP

The MT Workshop program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster session.

As a part of the main TSD 2012 Conference, social events including a
trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal
interactions.


TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers
in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.  TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation
Index.  Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases
such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

The MT Workshop submissions will undergo two separate review processes -
the best papers which will succeed in both review processes (by the TSD
2012 Conference PC and MT Workshop 2012 PC) will be published in the TSD
2012 Springer Proceedings, all other accepted MT Workshop papers will be
published in a separate MT Workshop proceedings with ISBN.

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website, MT Workshop
submissions have to tick "MT Workshop review" check box in the form.

Papers submitted to the MT Workshop must not be under review by any
other conference or publication during the workshop review cycle, and
must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...".  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the
papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.  Authors
using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS
template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings
Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this service a
service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with
all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters
will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and
electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format
see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings).


IMPORTANT DATES

March 25 2012 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2012 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2012 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
September 3 2012 ......... MT workshop date
September 4-7 2012 ....... TSD 2012 Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

The accepted workshop contributions will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the
3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to

    Karel Pala, MT Workshop, TSD 2012
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2012 at tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2012 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population
of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair
center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the
south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of
cultural, natural, and technical sights.  South Moravia is a traditional
wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six
universities it forms a cultural center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, Saint
Petersburg, Eindhoven, Rome and Prague and by trains or buses from
Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of
interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri
Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with
St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St.  James,
Cathedral of St. Peter&Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the
famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other
important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha
Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors
(Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz),
Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle,
Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one
of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the
UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:12:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: W3C-CG Ontology Lexica - Call for use cases for the
 ontology-lexicon model
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:10:47 +0100 (CET)
From: Maxime Lefran?ois <maxime.lefrancois at inria.fr>
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Call for use cases for the ontology-lexicon model 

The W3C Community Group on Ontology Lexica [1] has started its work in
December 2011.

*** Motivation *** 

Ontologies have numerous applications and they represent the conceptual
backbone of the Semantic Web. In fact, significant work has gone into
standardization efforts under the auspices of the W3C to produce
recommendations for data and knowledge representation languages,
i.e. the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology
Language (OWL). However, current web-based knowledge representation
languages such as OWL and RDF(S) lack the rich linguistic grounding that
is required for language-mediated access to ontologies. OWL and RDF(S)
rely on a property rdfs:label to capture the relation between a
vocabulary element and its (preferred) lexicalization in a given
language. This lexicalization provides some kind of lexical anchor that
makes the concept, property, individual etc. understandable to a
user. The mechanisms for linguistic grounding available in OWL and
RDF(S) are thus far from being able to capture the necessary linguistic
and lexical information that NLP applications working with a particular
ontology need. The mission of the Ontology-Lexicon community group is to
develop a model for the linguistic grounding of ontologies which allows
to represent lexical entries containing information about how ontology
elements (classes, properties, individuals etc.) are realized in
multiple languages. A more detailed overview of the scope and goal of
the working group can be found at [3].

*** Open Call for Use Cases *** 

With this call for use cases, we intend to expand the scope of our
current use cases (see [2]) by including use cases that are inspired by
more concrete and real applications.

We thus call for participation of industrial stakeholders and
application developers in the Community Group by providing a description
of a use case using the template found below.

By this, we offer interested parties the opportunity to participate in
standardization activities that are relevant and potentially beneficial
for their application development, and contribute their ideas to the
process of creating a standard for the representation of ontology
related lexicons.

We kindly ask you all to send the use case description to Philipp
Cimiano ( cimiano at cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de ) until May 3rd. Any questions
or comments can be addressed to Philipp Cimiano at the above email
address.

*** Participation in the Group *** 

People interested in the group?s activities, discussion and
teleconferences are welcome to join the group at [1].

[1] http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/ 
[2] http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Specification_of_Use_Cases 
[3] http://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Goals_and_Scope_of_Ontology-Lexica_Community_Group 


<TEMPLATE> 

I. Motivation 

This should contain a short motivation of the use case, including a
description of the application context and why it is relevant to specify
the meaning of words with respect to a given ontology in the context of
the application.

II. Description of the use case 

This section should describe the use case in more detail, specifying
what the lexicon-ontology interface would need to look like from the
point of view of the application and how the lexicon-ontology interface
is exploited in the context of the given application. If available, the
ontology for the application should be briefly described.

III. Limitations of existing models 

This section should discuss existing models and their limitations with
respect to the needs of the application in question.

IV. Example

This section should provide a concrete example illustrating what kind of
knowledge should be stated in the lexicon-ontology interface from the
point of view of the application and how it would be exploited by the
application.

V. Requirements 

This section is optional and might already advance concrete requirements
on the lexicon-ontology model.

<TEMPLATE> 

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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:15:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: FSMNLP 2012
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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:14:44 +0100
From: Koldo Gojenola <koldo.gojenola at ehu.es>
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                     "2nd CALL FOR PAPERS"
Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing - FSMNLP 2012
                   Tenth International Workshop
     University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebasti?n
                        July 23-25, 2012
                http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/fsmnlp2012/


INTRODUCTION

The International Workshop Series of Finite-State Methods and Natural
Language Processing (FSMNLP) is the premier forum of the ACL Special
Interest Group on Finite-State Methods (SIGFSM).  It serves researchers
and practitioners working on

    * natural language processing (NLP) applications or language
      resources
    * theoretical and implementation aspects, or
    * their combinations

that have obvious relevance or an explicitly discussed relation to
Finite-State Methods in NLP. This year, the Finite-State Methods and
Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP) workshop is part of the Alan Turing
Year on the occasion of the Centenary Celebration of his life and work.


TOPICS

FSMNLP invites papers related to themes including but not limited to:

    * NLP applications and linguistic aspects of finite-state methods
    * Finite-state models of language
    * Practices for building morphological models for the world's
      languages using finite-state technology
    * Machine learning of finite-state models of natural language
    * Finite-state manipulation software and tools with relevance to NLP


==== SPECIAL THEME: FINITE-STATE NLP IN PRACTICE ====

FSMNLP 2012 will have a special focus on the following topics:

    * Practical implementations of linguistic descriptions with
      finite-state technology, including grammars, machine learning
      tools, language-specific challenges to finite-state NLP
    * Software tools and utilities for finite-state NLP
    * Finite-state models of linguistic theories
    * Applications of finite-state-based NLP in closely related fields
      such as comparative linguistics, text processing, field
      linguistics, applied linguistics, language teaching, and
      computer-aided translation.

The special theme does not restrict the scope of papers; rather, the
purpose is to attract, apart from other topics, a variety of submissions
relating to any practical dimension of finite-state NLP.  Especially
welcome are succinct short paper (see format below) submissions focused
on some specific practical aspect or solution of finite-state NLP. This
could be related to e.g. a grammar, a linguistic phenomenon, a
linguistic modeling problem, a machine learning problem, or a software
tool that implements or uses finite-state technology. We hope that the
theme provides us with the possibility of organizing suitable poster,
short presentation, and demo sessions related to particular practical
problems.

For example, today, a large number of languages have
morphological/phonological models based on finite-state technology.
While most such implementations follow standard design patterns, many
grammars also contain elegant non-trivial solutions to some
language-specific modeling problem (vowel harmony, reduplication,
long-distance agreement, opaque phonological alternations, free
variation, morphosyntactic restrictions, etc.).  For this year's FSMNLP,
we encourage submissions of short papers that focus on documenting such
solutions, at the same time providing context by summarizing the
development and implementation of the overall grammar.


PREVIOUS EDITIONS

Nine FSMNLP workshops have been organized in the past in: Blois (2011),
Pretoria (2009), Ispra (2008), Potsdam (2007), Helsinki (2005), Budapest
(2003), Helsinki (2001), Ankara (1998), Budapest (1996).


RELATED EVENTS

FSMNLP 2012 will be organized shortly before CIAA.  The 17th
International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata
(CIAA) will take place in Porto, Portugal on July 17-20, 2012 (800 km
from Donostia-San Sebasti?n).

These consecutive periods as well as the European locations facilitate
the attendance at both conferences.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: April 23, 2012
Notification: May 31, 2012
Camera-ready Version: June 18, 2012

Workshop Dates:
July 23: tutorials&   mini-workshops.
July 24-25: main session, poster and demo sessions.


SUBMISSIONS

Papers should present original, unpublished research and implementation
results. Simultaneous submission to other venues with published
proceedings is prohibited. FSMNLP accepts two kinds of submissions:

    * full papers (8 pages + references) reporting completed,
      significant research,
    * short papers (4 pages + references) reporting ongoing work and
      partial results, implementations, grammars, practical tools,
      interactive software demos, etc.

Short papers are expected to be presented as system demos in a demo
session, posters and/or short presentations, while long papers are
presented in a longer presentation session.  Both paper types are
published in the ACL anthology.

All submissions are electronic and in PDF format via a web-based
submission server.  Authors are strongly encouraged to use ACL (2012)
style (available for LaTeX and Word) in producing the PDF document.
These templates are available at:

http://acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp

Information about the author(s) and other identifying information such
as obvious self-references (e.g., "We showed in [12] ...") and financial
or personal acknowledgements should be omitted in the submitted papers
whenever feasible.

Papers will be submitted electronically in PDF using the EasyChair
system. The paper can contain a clearly marked appendix and data files
to support your claims.  This material will not be published.  While
reviewers are urged to consult this extra material for better
comprehension, it is at their discretion whether they do so. Such extra
material should also be anonymized to the extent feasible.

Use the following link for submission:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fsmnlp2012

The papers and abstracts will be published in FSMNLP 2012 proceedings
and archived in the ACL Anthology.  The publication of selected, revised
versions of accepted papers in a special journal issue is planned.


INVITED SPEAKERS

Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)


TUTORIALS

We have planned a series of short tutorials (30-60 min. each) addressing
some specific application or topic in a concise manner. So far, the
following tutorials are planned:

   * Spelling and grammar correction with FSTs (I?aki Alegria, Mans
     Hulden)
   * Probabilistic parsing with weighted FSTs (Miikka Silfverberg,
     University of Helsinki)
   * Machine learning of automata and transducers


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

I?aki Alegria (University of the Basque Country)
Kenneth R. Beesley (SAP Business Objects, USA)
Francisco Casacuberta (Instituto Tecnol?gico de Inform?tica, Spain)
Jan Daciuk (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Frank Drewes (Umea University, Sweden)
Dale Gerdemann (University of T?bingen, Germany)
Mike Hammond (University of Arizona, USA)
Thomas Hanneforth (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Colin de la Higuera (University of Nantes, France)
Jan Holub (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Mans Hulden (Ikerbasque, Basque Country)
Andr? Kempe (CADEGE Technologies&   Consulting, France)
Andras Kornai (E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Hungary)
Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Maite Oronoz (University of the Basque Country)
Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa, South Africa)
Strahil Ristov (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia)
Frederique Segond Frederique (ObjectDirect, France)
Max Silberztein (Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France)
Richard Sproat (Oregon Health and Science University, USA)
Trond Trosterud (University of Tromso, Norway)
Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)
Anssi Yli-Jyra (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

I?aki Alegria (University of the Basque Country)
Koldo Gojenola (University of the Basque Country)
Izaskun Etxeberria (University of the Basque Country)
Nerea Ezeiza (University of the Basque Country)
Mans Hulden (Ikerbasque)
Amaia Lorenzo (University of the Basque Country)
Esther Miranda (University of the Basque Country)
Maite Oronoz (University of the Basque Country)

Further information about the conference is available at the FSMNLP
Conference website:

http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/fsmnlp2012/
E-mail: ixa at ehu.es


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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:18:46 +0100
Subject: Appel: The Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference
 (SLTC-2012)
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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:15:37 +0100
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======================================================
The Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2012)
CALL FOR PAPERS
======================================================
Lund, Sweden, October (24)-25-26, 2012

The Fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2012) will be
held in Lund, October 25-26, 2012, organized by Lund University, (LTH
and SOL), with support from the Swedish Graduate School of Language
Technology (GSLT).

SLTC-2012 will be collocated with a Nordic Seminar on speech recognition
organized by ASTIN (The workgroup for Language Technology in the Nordic
Countries) on October 24-25: http://www.dsn.dk/tale/.


*********************************
The SLTC program committee invites two types of contributions to the
conference:
	- Papers (Deadline: August 27, 2012)
	- Workshop proposals (Deadline: June 4, 2012)

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PAPERS:
*********************************
  CONTENT: Papers are invited on all aspects of language technology,
  including natural language processing, speech technology, and relevant
  neighboring areas. Papers can describe completed or ongoing research,
  as well as practical applications of language technology, and may be
  combined with system demonstrations.

  FORMAT: Papers will be presented at the conference either as posters
  or as oral presentations and will be published as extended abstracts.

  SUBMISSION: Papers should be submitted as extended abstracts (max. 2
  pages) using the style files available on the conference website:
  http://nlp.cs.lth.se/events/sltc_2012/.

  DEADLINE: The deadline for submission is August 27, 2012.

  REVIEW: Papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Authors will
  be notified September 14, 2012.


*********************************
WORKSHOPS:
*********************************
  CONTENT: Workshops are invited on any theme relevant to language
  technology, including applications, best practice, theoretical
  foundations, and its relation to neighboring disciplines.

  FORMAT: Workshops will be devoted up to two hours of the conference
  program, possibly in parallel with other activities. The exact format
  is decided by the workshop organizers.

  SUBMISSION: Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to
  sltc2012 at cs.lth.se. The e-mail message should contain the following
  information:

    - Name of the workshop;
    - Full list of organizers;
    - Short description of the workshop theme and intended audience;
    - Short description of the workshop organization:
        - Will there be a call for papers or only invited presentations?
        - Will there be regular talks, posters, panels, discussions, or
           what?
        - Will there be published proceedings?
    - Duration of the workshop (normally 1 or 2 hours).
Deadline: The deadline for submission is June 4, 2012.
  REVIEW: Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the program
          committee. Proposers will be notified June 14, 2012.


*********************************
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
*********************************
Pierre Nugues, Anders Ard?, Jonas Granfeldt, Marcus Uneson, Caroline
Willners, Jonas Wisbrant.

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CONTACT: sltc2012 at cs.lth.se
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:25:48 +0200
Subject: Appel: CLA 2012
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:23:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Amedeo Napoli <amedeo.napoli at loria.fr>
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Apologies for multiple receptions. 

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CLA 2012 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The 9th International Conference on 
Concept Lattices and Their Applications CLA 2012 

Fuengirola (M?laga), Spain 
October 11-14, 2012 
http://www.matap.uma.es/cla2012 

**** Abstract submission deadline: June 22, 2012 **** 
**** Paper submission deadline: June 29, 2012 **** 

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AIMS AND SCOPE 

CLA is an international conference dedicated to formal concept analysis
(FCA) and areas closely related to FCA such as data mining, information
retrieval, knowledge management, data and knowledge engineering, logic,
algebra and lattice theory. CLA provides a forum for researchers,
practitioners, and students. The program of CLA consists of invited
plenary talks, regular talks, and poster sessions. We solicit papers in
all areas relevant to the theory and applications of FCA.

TOPICS 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

* Concept Lattices and related structures 
* Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 
* Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Engineering 
* Association Rules, Itemsets and Data Dependencies 
* Attribute Implications 
* Algorithms for Concept Lattices and Complexity 
* Visualization 
* Data Preprocessing 
* Redundancy and Dimensionality Reduction 
* Information Retrieval 
* Classification and Clustering 
* Pattern Recognition 
* Applications of Concept Lattices 

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION 

Papers of up to twelve pages may be submitted in PDF or Postscript
formats. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by June 22, 2012.

The submission is done via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cla2012

Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the
Springer LNCS style, see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Papers will be judged based on their technical merits, originality,
relevance to areas of interest, and presentation clarity. Papers should
describe original work that has not been published before, is not under
review elsewhere, and will not be submitted elsewhere during the CLA
2012 review period.

Accepted papers will be published in the CLA proceedings (with
ISBN). There are also plans for organizing CLA 2012 post-proceedings as
a special issue of a well-established journal.

IMPORTANT DATES 

Abstract submission: June 22, 2012 
Paper submission: June 29, 2012 
Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 27, 2012 
Camera-ready papers due: September 16, 2012 
Conference: October 11-14, 2012 

PROGRAM CHAIRS 

Uta Priss (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenb?ttel, Germany) 
Laszlo Szathmary (University of Debrecen, Hungary) 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Jaume Baixeries 
Radim Belohlavek 
Sadok Ben Yahia 
Karell Bertet 
Fran?ois Brucker 
Claudio Carpineto 
Pablo Cordero 
Felix Distel 
Florent Domenach 
Mireille Ducasse 
Ramon Fuentes-Gonzalez 
Cynthia Vera Glodeanu 
Marianne Huchard 
Vassilis Kaburlasos 
Mehdi Kaytoue 
Stanislav Krajci 
Marzena Kryszkiewicz 
Sergei Kuznetsov 
Jes?s Medina-Moreno 
Rokia Missaoui 
Amedeo Napoli 
Lhouari Nourine 
Sergei Obiedkov 
Jan Outrata 
Pascal Poncelet 
Camille Roth 
Baris Sertkaya 
Henry Soldano 
Gerd Stumme 
Petko Valtchev 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR 

Manuel Ojeda-Aciego (Universidad de M?laga, Spain) 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 

Pablo Cordero (Universidad de M?laga, Spain) 
Inma P Cabrera (Universidad de M?laga, Spain) 

STEERING COMMITTEE 

Radim Belohlavek (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic) 
Sadok Ben Yahia (Facult? des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisia) 
Jean Diatta (Universit? de la R?union, France) 
Peter Eklund (University of Wollongong, Australia) 
Sergei O. Kuznetsov (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) 
Michel Liqui?re (LIRMM, Montpellier, France) 
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo (LIMOS, Clermont-Ferrand, France) 

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:32:12 +0200
Subject: Job: CDI, Ingenieur TAL,
 Laboratoire national de Metrologie et d'essais
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:48:30 +0200
From: "Lebrault Christelle" <Christelle.Lebrault at lne.fr>
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Madame, Monsieur,

Le Laboratoire national de M?trologie et d'essais (LNE) recherche
actuellement un Ing?nieur-Docteur dans le domaine du Traitement
Automatique des LAngues.

DIRECTION DES ESSAIS
P?le Essais en Environnement 

INGENIEUR D?ETUDES ET RECHERCHE 
EN TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES  H/F
R?f : CL/TAL/DE

Contexte :

Le Laboratoire National de M?trologie et d?Essais propose des
prestations d??valuation de la performance des syst?mes de traitement
automatiques des langues et de la parole pour une t?che donn?e
(transcription, traduction, extraction d?informations, ...). 

Au sein du D?partement CEM, S?curit? Electrique et Technologies de
l?information, l??quipe de traitement de l?information multimedia
travaille sur les diff?rentes ?tapes qui d?finissent une ?valuation. Ses
principales missions sont :

De d?finir des t?ches pertinentes ? ?valuer en fonction des besoins
applicatifs et/ou th?oriques, De d?terminer des caract?ristiques des
donn?es ? utiliser pour r?pondre ? la t?che consid?r?e, D??tablir des
mesures qui permettent de rendre compte de la pertinence d?un syst?me
pour une t?che donn?e.

Missions :

Dans le cadre de programmes d??tudes et recherche, vous aurez pour
mission de contribuer au d?veloppement de l?activit?, notamment au
travers des ?l?ments suivants : 

Le montage et la gestion de projets de recherche et d?veloppement dans
le domaine du multim?dia,

L??laboration des protocoles pour r?pondre aux probl?matiques de
l??valuation en Traitement  Automatique du Langage : 

D?finitions des mesures

Impl?mentation des outils informatiques

Organisation et animation des colloques de restitution

Participation ? la diss?mination des connaissances (entretien site web,
publications scientifiques, ...)

Le d?veloppement des partenariats au niveau international afin de
renforcer la position du LNE dans le domaine.

Profil :

Docteur Ing?nieur en Informatique, sp?cialis? en Traitement Automatique
des Langues (TAL). 

Vous poss?dez une premi?re exp?rience professionnelle (3 ? 5 ans en plus
de la th?se), durant laquelle vous avez travaill? sur l??valuation des
syst?mes automatiques. 

Vous ma?trisez la gestion de projet et ?tes ? l?aise dans l?approche
clients et l?organisation et l?animation de r?unions et/ou s?minaires. 

Vous avez des connaissances solides en programmation et analyse de
donn?es (fouille de donn?es). 

Rigoureux, dynamique, d?termin? et d?un relationnel facile, vous saurez
rapidement vous int?grer au sein des ?quipes et d?montrer le leadership
et l?expertise n?cessaires ? la r?ussite de votre mission.

Anglais courant imp?ratif.

D?placements ? pr?voir (une dizaine par an de 1 ? 3 jours,
majoritairement en France).

Poste en CDI bas? ? Trappes (78).

Contact :

Postuler sous la r?f?rence CL/TAL/DE 
A l?attention de Mlle Christelle LEBRAULT - Par mail : recrut at lne.fr

Bien cordialement

Christelle LEBRAULT
Charg?e de recrutement
Direction des Ressources Humaines
T?l. : 01 30 69 13 29

Laboratoire national de m?trologie et d'essais
29, avenue Roger Hennequin - 78197 Trappes cedex
T?l. : 01 30 69 10 00 - Fax : 01 30 69 12 34
Site internet : www.lne.fr

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:37:01 +0200
Subject: Conf: TOTh 2012, Conference d'ouverture
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:09:08 +0200
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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Conf?rence TOTh 2012
Terminologie & Ontologie : Th?ories et applications

http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2012/conference-d-ouverture

CONFERENCE D'OUVERTURE

"Sciences du langage et ontologie"

Sylvain Auroux
Directeur de recherches, CNRS, UMR 7597 "Histoire des th?ories
linguistiques", Universit? Paris Diderot.

Sylvain Auroux, n? en 1947, Directeur de recherche au CNRS (Laboratoire
d?Histoire des Th?ories linguistiques, Universit? Paris 7), est
sp?cialiste de philosophie du langage et d?histoire des sciences. Il a
r?dig? de nombreux ouvrages et articles sur le sujet.  Il a dirig?
l?Histoire des Id?es linguistiques (Li?ge, Mardaga, 3 vols, 1989-2000)
et le Dictionnaire des Notions philosophiques (Paris, PUF, 2 vols,
1990). Dernier livre paru : La philosophie du langage, Paris PUF, 2009.

Sciences du langage et ontologie

Une ontologie est l?ensemble des hypoth?ses sur l?am?nagement dernier du
monde, autrement dit sur ce qui existe en dernier recours. Toute science
est concern?e par des hypoth?ses ontologiques. La linguistique l?est de
deux fa?ons. D?abord par ce qu?impliquent ontologiquement ses
cat?gories. Est-ce qu?un ? nom ? cela existe et o? ? Nous rappellerons
les faiblesses de l?hypoth?se substantialiste chomskyenne qui soutient
l?identit? entre la structure des ?changes langagiers, leur
repr?sentation mentale et leur th?orie. Le second point concerne l?objet
lui-m?me, le langage, ou plut?t les langues. Dans chaque vocabulaire, il
y a quelque chose comme une nomenclature (qui n?a pas n?cessairement la
m?me structure qu?une ? nomenclature scientifique ?), dans chaque
construction syntaxique il y a une fa?on de rendre compte de
l?organisation du monde, comme, par exemple, dans la structure
pr?dicative des langues indo-europ?ennes et l?opposition nom vs
verbe. Doit-on admettre que c?est la structure du monde qui se refl?te
dans les langues, mais alors pourquoi la diversit? ? Peut-on distinguer
ce que notre repr?sentation doit au monde et ce qu?elle doit ? nos
langues ou doit-on admettre qu?il n?y a pas de solution de continuit?
entre le monde et le langage ? La diversit? des langues plaide-t-elle en
faveur du relativisme ontologique ?

http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2012/conference-d-ouverture

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:38:25 +0200
Subject: Appel: Atelier JEP-TALN 2012 langues africaines,
 date limite : 30 mars
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:26:28 +0200
From: Mathieu Mangeot <Mathieu.Mangeot at imag.fr>
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DERNIER APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS

Version HTML : http://www.jeptaln2012.org/?page_id=344
Version PDF : http://www.jeptaln2012.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/
AppelAtelierLanguesAfricainesJepTaln2012.pdf

*Traitement automatique des langues africaines (?crit et parole)*

Atelier JEP-TALN 2012 Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012

CALENDRIER

- DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : 30 mars 2012 ATTENTION : IL N'Y AURA PAS
  D'EXTENSION DE DATE LIMITE !
- Notification aux auteurs : 15 avril 2012
- Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 22 avril 2012
- Atelier : 8 juin 2012

PR?SENTATION

Les recherches en traitement automatique des langues africaines sont
actuellement ? l'or?e de d?veloppements majeurs. Les efforts de
reconnaissance des langues nationales et de standardisation des
diff?rents alphabets commencent ? porter leurs fruits. Au Niger, par
exemple, les alphabets des langues fulfulde, haussa, kanouri,
songhai-zarma et tamajaq ont ?t? d?finis par des arr?t?s du gouvernement
en 1999. Par ailleurs, un certain nombre de coll?gues form?s dans les
pays du Nord reviennent dans leur pays avec la volont? de continuer leur
travail sur les langues locales. Il y a ?galement des diasporas
disposant de moyens technologiques leur permettant de contribuer
directement en ligne et de mani?re b?n?vole.

Pour autant, les langues nationales de la plupart des pays d'Afrique
sont peu dot?es (langues-?) : les ressources ?lectroniques disponibles
sont rares, mal distribu?es, voire inexistantes. Seules sont accessibles
les fonctions d'?dition et d'impression rendant l'exploitation de ces
langues difficile. Au moment o? il est question de les introduire dans
le syst?me ?ducatif, de cr?er des normes d'?criture standardis?es et
stabilis?es et surtout de d?velopper leur usage ? l'?crit et ? l'oral
dans l'administration et la vie quotidienne, un d?veloppement de ces
langues s?impose comme une n?cessit? vitale.

D?velopper le traitement automatique de langues africaines n?cessite
l'?laboration de ressources qui seront les fondements ? partir desquels
des traitements plus ?labor?s peuvent ?tre construits. Il appara?t
indispensable de constituer en premier lieu des corpus ?crits et oraux
annot?s aussi larges que possibles. ? partir de tels corpus, il est
possible d?extraire des exemples pour aider ? la constitution de
dictionnaires ou de mettre au point des mod?les de langage pour la
reconnaissance vocale. Toutefois, la constitution de tels corpus reste
une entreprise d?licate dans le contexte de langues peu dot?e car les
transcriptions souffrent du manque de standardisation de la langue et
l'enrichissement de corpus reste tr?s on?reux.

Les dictionnaires sont ?galement n?cessaires pour construire les outils
de base tels les correcteurs orthographiques (qui peuvent servir ? leur
tour pour corriger les corpus ?crits) ou encore pour l'aide ? la
transcription de corpus oraux. Il existe parfois des dictionnaires
bilingues couplant la langue officielle et une langue nationale. Par
exemple, au Mali, le p?re Charles Bailleul est l'auteur d?un
dictionnaire bambara-fran?ais ; au Niger, le projet ?ducatif SOUT?BA a
cr?? cinq dictionnaires bilingues destin?s aux enfants de primaire. Mais
ceux-ci existent uniquement en version papier ou sous forme de fichiers
d'?diteurs de texte (format.doc). Informatiser ces dictionnaires pour
les rendre utilisables par des outils de traitement automatique
n?cessite, dans un premier temps, d'ajouter des informations manquantes
: prononciation, r?gles de flexion morphologiques et flexionnelles,
exemples et traductions tir?s de corpus, etc.Il s'agit dans un premier
temps de les informatiser (les transformer dans un format utilisable par
des outils de traitement automatique) et de les compl?ter avec des
informations manquantes : prononciation, exemples et traductions tir?s
de corpus, etc.

Des astuces peuvent parfois ?tre invent?es pour pallier le manque de
ressources. Par exemple, s'il n'existe pas de corpus oraux avec
transcriptions, il est possible de constituer un corpus oral de textes
lus.

Enfin, il y a lieu de prendre en compte les contraintes
socio-?conomiques s'exer?ant sur la population des locuteurs : les
ressources ?conomiques sont limit?es, les ressources humaines qualifi?es
sont rares, les recherches sont sporadiques et isol?es, les r?sultats
confidentiels et parcellaires. Il est donc n?cessaire de d?finir des
m?thodologies ?conomes en co?t d'achat de logiciels et en temps de
travail qualifi? visant ? produire des r?sultats p?rennes, partag?s et
faciles ? enrichir. La constitution de ressources linguistiques de
mani?re g?n?rale, et plus encore pour les langues africaines devrait
donc respecter un certain nombre de principes : utilisation d'outils en
source ouverte, d?finition et utilisation de standards (ISO, Unicode),
transfert de connaissances entre les coll?gues des pays du Nord et du
Sud, disponibilit? des ressources sous licence ouverte (Creative
Commons), etc.

Cet atelier a pour but d'effectuer un ?tat des lieux des travaux de
constitution de ressources linguistiques de base (dictionnaires, corpus
oraux et ?crits), de mettre au point des m?thodologies simples et
?conomes d'?laboration de ressource, d'?changer sur les techniques
permettant de se passer de certaines ressources inexistantes et de fixer
un certain nombre de principes pour les futurs travaux dans le domaine.

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS

Les publications devront comprendre entre 6 et 12 pages.
Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des articles pr?sentant des travaux
de recherche originaux sur les th?mes propos?s ci-dessous.

TH?MES

L'atelier est ouvert ? la pr?sentation de travaux de recherche portant
sur l'un ou plusieurs des th?mes suivants :

Ressources  : 
- constitution de corpus ?crits (monolingues, bilingues align?s ou
  comparables)
- constitution de corpus oraux (incluant la transcription)
- ?laboration de lexiques et dictionnaires (monolingues, bilingues)
- ?valuation de la qualit? des ressources

Outils  :
- analyseurs morphologiques, correcteurs orthographiques
- analyseurs syntaxiques, correcteurs grammaticaux
- syst?mes de TA (statistique ou ? base de r?gles)
- reconnaissance de la parole 
- synth?se vocale

CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION

Les soumissions seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du
domaine.
Pour les travaux de recherches, seront consid?r?es en particulier :
- l'ad?quation aux th?mes de l'atelier.
- l'importance et l'originalit? de la contribution,
- la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,
- l'organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation.

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION

Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais. Les formats pr?cis
de soumission sont disponibles pour Word et Latex sur le site de
jeptaln2012 (http:// www.jeptaln2012.org/).

Les propositions de communications doivent ?tre envoy?es sous forme pdf
? Mathieu.Mangeot at imag.fr ET ? Chantal.Enguehard at univ-nantes.fr

COMIT? DE PROGRAMME

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble, France)
Mame Thierno Ciss? (ARCIV, U. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, S?n?gal)
Chantal Enguehard (LINA, Nantes, France)
Gil Francopoulo (Tagmatica, Paris, France)
Hadrien Gelas, (DDL, Lyon, France)
Mathieu Mangeot (LIG, Grenoble, France) 
Ch?rif Mbodj, (Centre de Linguistique Appliqu?e de Dakar, S?n?gal)
Kamal Na?t-Zerrad INALCO, Paris, France
Harouna Naroua (U. Abdou Moumouny, Niamey, Niger)
Pascal Nocera, (Universit? d'Avignon, France)
Guy De Pauw, (Universit? d'Anvers, Belgique)
Francois Pellegrino, (DDL, Lyon, France)
Mamadou Lamine Sanogo (INSS, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso)
Gilles S?rasset (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Mathieu MANGEOT
GETALP, LIG-campus, BP 53  -  385 rue de la Biblioth?que
F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9  -  France
Tel : +33 4 76 63 56 54   /   +33 4 79 75 81 89

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:41:25 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Luciano Floridi, LIP6, 3 avril 2012
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:09:57 +0200
From: Jouis Christophe <Christophe.Jouis at lip6.fr>
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/Le mardi 3 avril, ? 11H, /
au LIP6, Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie,
4 place Jussieu, salle 101, couloir 25/26

S?minaire exceptionnel de *Luciano Floridi**

/Smart Technologies and their Challenges in the Age of Hyperhistory/

/Entr?e libre

Pour toute information contacter Jean-Gabriel Ganascia 
(Jean-Gabriel.Ganascia at lip6.fr)
/

/*Professeur ? l'universit? d'Oxford, titulaire de la chaire d'?thique
de l'information de l'UNESCO
(cf. http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/)/

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:45:34 +0200
Subject: Cursus: Nouveau Master TAL, Universite d'Aix-Marseille
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:01:41 +0200
From: Laurent Pr?vot <laurent.prevot at lpl-aix.fr>
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Master Sciences du Langage, Sp?cialit? Traitement Automatique des Langues

http://taludam.hypotheses.org/

Donn?es linguistiques : cr?ation, gestion, exploitation informatis?e

Cette sp?cialit? du master Sciences du Langage de l?Universit?
d?Aix-Marseille (2012-2016)? porte une attention particuli?re aux
ressources et aux outils li?s ? l?ing?nierie linguistique, en vue de
diff?rentes applications dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique des
Langues (TAL).

Co-habilit?e par deux d?partements (informatique et linguistique), cette
sp?cialit? de master offre de nombreuses possibilit?s ? des ?tudiants
sensibles aux donn?es linguistiques et ? leur manipulation informatique
pour le TAL.

La formation est associ?e ? l'Erasmus Mundus "Multilingualism and
Multiculturalism" (http://www.em-multi.eu/) qui offre une opportunit?
unique d'effectuer dans des conditions excellentes une partie de sa
formation au sein d'universit?s prestigieuses d'Asie du Sud-Est.

Enfin, la s?lection des projets d'excellence BLRI (Brain and Language
Research Institute) et ORTOLANG (Open Resources and TOols for LANGuage)
dans lesquels sont fortement impliqu?s l'?quipe enseignante du master
offre un contexte favorable ? la supervision de stages sur les donn?es
linguistiques.

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 08:49:21 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:49:21 +0200
Subject: Appel: Colloque Traitements de corpus linguistiques : outils et
 methodes (Appel a communications aux doctorants)
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:06:28 +0200
From: Romain Loth <romain.loth at gmail.com>
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Cher(e)s coll?gues,

Nous vous prions de trouver ci-dessous l'appel ? communication du COLDOC
2012, le colloque des doctorants du labo Modyco de Nanterre.

Vous pourrez aussi trouver ces informations sur le site de Modyco 
http://www.modyco.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1772&Itemid=117

Vous en souhaitant bonne r?ception

Bien cordialement

Le comit? d'organisation

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COLLOQUE DES DOCTORANTS ET JEUNES CHERCHEURS DU LABORATOIRE MODYCO

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| Traitement de corpus linguistiques : outils et m?thodes |
===========================================================

MoDyCo CNRS (UMR 7114)
Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre la D?fense / Universit? Paris Descartes


Appel ? communications
======================

Le COLDOC est le colloque annuel organis? par les doctorants et jeunes
chercheurs du laboratoire MoDyCo (UMR 7114 ? CNRS / Universit? Paris
Ouest Nanterre La D?fense / Universit? Paris Descartes). Cette ann?e
notre objectif est de nous interroger sur les outils et m?thodes qui
?mergent du travail de corpus. Dans les derni?res d?cennies, la
linguistique a v?cu une ?volution certaine de l'objet d'?tude de ses
recherches : c'est dor?navant moins souvent la langue (objet a priori
illimit? et introspectif) et plus souvent le corpus (en tant
qu'?chantillon attest? de r?alisations de cette langue) qui devient
l'objet imm?diat et central ? ?tudier. Aujourd'hui, cette position
centrale du corpus dans la recherche concerne sans doute la majeure
partie de la communaut? des chercheurs et doctorants en sciences du
langage.

Cet essor des probl?matiques li?es aux corpus alimente un d?bat latent.
De fa?on informelle, le changement est souvent pr?sent? sous deux
aspects oppos?s : soit sous un angle exag?r?ment n?gatif (comme une ?
mode ?, trop r?ductrice sur le fond, qui convient mal ? la nature de la
langue et finira par inhiber le d?bat th?orique), soit sous un angle
exag?r?ment positif (comme une r?volution qui rendra les sciences du
langage plus ?scientifiques? parce que plus empiriques, en ?tant plus
proches du ? r?el ?).

Refusant de nous arr?ter ? ces clivages, nous proposons aux doctorants
du laboratoire MoDyCo et ? tous les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs qui
le souhaitent, de prendre le temps d'examiner l'?ventail des outils et
des m?thodes li?s ? cette ? vague ? d'?tudes de corpus, pour mieux
mettre en lumi?re les points d'articulation entre l'observation et
l'analyse. Nous nous inscrivons pleinement dans l'esprit la
compl?mentarit? de l'empirique et du th?orique, exprim?e jadis par
Francis Bacon :

L'empirique, semblable ? la fourmi, se contente d'amasser et de
consommer ensuite ses provisions.
Le dogmatique, telle l'araign?e, ourdit des toiles dont la mati?re est
extraite de sa propre substance. L'abeille garde le milieu ; elle tire
la mati?re premi?re des fleurs des champs, puis, par un art qui lui est
propre, elle la travaille et la dig?re.  Novum Organum (1620), Livre I,
95

Le coeur de notre sujet est donc cet ? art de l'abeille ?, ce travail
face au corpus linguistique qui, du moment de la collecte des
?nonc?s/textes jusqu'? l'interpr?tation th?orique finale et ? ses
applications, appara?t bien comme une ?tape de ? digestion ? des donn?es
du corpus, autrement dit un travail de ? traitement ? du corpus.

Concr?tement, cette ?volution semble li?e ? un d?veloppement des outils
informatiques (navigation, collecte,outils d'aide ? la transcription,
outils d'analyse) qui ont transform? l'acc?s aux sources et affect? la
d?marche d'?tude linguistique. Nous faisons l?hypoth?se que les
mouvements et technologies influent non seulement sur la linguistique,
mais aussi sur les autres sciences humaines et sociales de fa?on
trans-disciplinaire. Les autres communaut?s de recherche en sciences
humaines et sociales ont apparemment, elles aussi, vu leur facette
?exp?rimentale ? s'intensifier durant la p?riode r?cente. Par ailleurs,
l'essor d'internet et des ordinateurs a entra?n? une diff?renciation au
niveau des traitements des corpus. Une partie des linguistes a continu?
? se pencher sur les corpus, en utilisant les possibilit?s d?un
traitement plus fin des donn?es. D?autres linguistes ont pr?f?r?
travailler sur l'am?lioration des outils de traitement en TAL. La
question de la mutualisation de ce type de travaux se pose ici comme l?.
Cela s'accompagne d'une grande diversit? d'approches selon les th?mes et
les ?coles, et d'une tendance des instances ? accompagner ce mouvement
(projets de constitutions de ? grands ? corpus, groupes de travail
d'annotation).

Selon la tradition COLDOC qui a fait siennes les questions 
m?thodologiques larges, et qui s?attache ? des probl?matiques ouvertes ? 
l'ensemble des sciences du langage, nous appelons ? toute pr?sentation 
qui int?resse le th?me du traitement de corpus linguistique, de sa 
conception ? son r?sultat. Les probl?matiques associ?es comprennent, 
sans limitation, les points suivants :

- point de vue sur les textes ou ?nonc?s selon le champ des sciences du
  langage

- niveau d'analyse pertinent et nature du corpus :

  . corpus oraux en phonologie, syntaxe, prosodie, ?tudes des troubles
    de la parole, etc.

  . corpus textuels en lexicographie, analyse de discours, syntaxe,
    ?info-com?

  . et les corpus multimodaux en acquisition, etc.

- constitution de corpus, corpus clos vs. ouvert, repr?sentativit?,
  taille du corpus

- transcription, alignement, structuration et organisation du corpus

- d?finition des ph?nom?nes ou proc?d?s linguistiques ?tudi?s

- annotations ou autres traitements effectu?s, d?comptes ou mesures et
  leur pertinence

- choix des entr?es dans l'analyse : occurrences, constructions,
  cat?gories, environnements, etc.

- choix de formalisation des r?sultats : tableaux statistiques,
  graphiques, typologies, sch?mas, etc.

- interpr?tation des r?sultats (selon hypoth?ses ou question pos?e)

- extractions op?r?es, mod?les formels, apprentissage automatique

- mutualisation des corpus, des traitements et/ou des r?sultats

- exploitation des bases existantes (grands corpus consultables)

- enfin, au-del? de la publication, vers un partage des donn?es et des
  r?sultats sur le travail de corpus

Nous invitons donc les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs ? venir exposer
leur r?flexion sur un de ces aspects ? partir de leur propre pratique et
ce quel que soit le degr? d?avancement de leur recherche.


Conf?renciers invit?s
=====================

Ouverture des deux journ?es du colloque par deux conf?rences : nos
invit?s sont deux chercheurs reconnus bien au-del? de leurs domaines
respectif (la grammaire textuelle et la s?mantique). Ils nous
pr?senteront leur analyse personnelle sur ces questions de rapport du
chercheur au corpus.

Bernard COMBETTES (ATILF/CNRS, Universit? de Lorraine)
Anne CONDAMINES (CLLE-ERSS/CNRS, Universit? Toulouse Le Mirail)


Comit? scientifique
===================
Jean-Michel ADAM (Universit? de Lausanne)
Annie BERTIN (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Caroline BOGLIOTTI (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre
Bernard COMBETTES (ATILF/CNRS, Universit? de Lorraine)
Anne CONDAMINES (CLLE-ERSS/CNRS, Universit? Toulouse Le Mirail)
Marcel CORI (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Flore COULOUMA (CREA-EA 370, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Guillaume DESAGULIER (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre, 
Universit? Paris 8)
Brigitte JUANALS (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Simon KREK (Institut Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana)
Anne LACHERET (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Bernard LAKS (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Denis LE PESANT (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Danielle LEEMAN (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Sabine LEHMANN (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Sarah LEROY (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Sylvain LOISEAU (LDI/CNRS, Universit? Paris 13 Nord)
Dominique MAINGUENEAU (CEDITEC/EA 3119, Universit? Paris Est Cr?teil, IUF)
Philippe MARTIN (D?partement d'?tudes Fran?aises, Universit? de Toronto)
Sylvie MELLET (BCL/CNRS, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Jean-Luc MINEL (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Colette NOYAU (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Christophe PARISSE (MoDyCo/CNRS, INSERM, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Christiane PRENERON (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Sandrine REBOUL-TOURE (SYLED/CEDISCOR, Universit? Paris III Sorbonne 
nouvelle)
Fanny RINCK (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Clara ROMERO (MoDyCo/CNRS, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Fr?d?rique SITRI (SYLED, Universit? Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Ana ZWITTER VITEZ (Institut de Linguistique Slov?ne Appliqu?e Trojina, 
Ljubljana)


Modalit?s de soumission
=======================
Les soumissions seront envoy?es ? l'adresse coldoc2012 at gmail.com. Autant
pour les communications que pour les posters, il est possible pour les
non-francophones de soumettre les projets et les communications en
anglais.

Communications
--------------
Les doctorants et chercheurs int?ress?s par le sujet doivent soumettre
un projet de deux pages comprenant un titre, un r?sum?, une
bibliographie de cinq titres maximum et une liste de cinq mots cl?s
(police 12, marge 2,5, interligne 1,5). Les communications orales
comprendront vingt minutes de pr?sentation suivie de dix minutes de
discussion.

Posters
-------
Le colloque organisera aussi une s?ance de posters de format A1 pour
pr?senter des recherches qui sont dans une phase initiale ou ne se
pr?tant pas au format long. Pour ces posters, la soumission ? envoyer
est un projet explicatif d'une page comprenant un titre, un r?sum?, une
bibliographie de cinq titres maximum et une liste de cinq mots cl?s
(police 12, marge 2,5, interligne simple).


Calendrier
==========
D?roulement du colloque les jeudi 4 et vendredi 5 octobre 2012,
Amphith??tre Durkheim, Universit? Paris Descartes, 7 rue de la Sorbonne.

Date limite d?envoi des propositions : 4 Mai 2012
Notification d?acceptation : 22 Juin
Programme disponible : Mi-juillet
Remise des articles pour relecture : 3 septembre 2012


Comit? d'organisation
---------------------
Marine Damiani, Kaja Dolar, Carmen Lucia Florez-Pulido, Romain Loth, 
Julien Magnier et Anne Pegaz Paquet.

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 08:56:00 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:56:00 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Etude de la reputation des individus et des
 organisations, 3 avril 2012, INALCO-Recherche
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:35:15 +0200
From: Mathieu Valette <mvalette at inalco.fr>
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L'Equipe de Recherche Textes, Informatique, Multilinguisme (ERTIM) de
l'INALCO a le plaisir de vous inviter ? la prochaine s?ance de son
s?minaire de recherche, mardi 3 avril ? 16h00. Elle sera anim?e par :

Agata JACKIEWICZ (Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV) ; L'?tude de la r?putation
des individus et des organisations : une contribution linguistique

R?sum? : L?expos? s?int?ressera au ph?nom?ne textuel du d?tachement
quand celui-ci sert de support ? des jugements d??valuation. Il traitera
des r?gularit?s formelles et s?mantiques qui caract?risent certaines
structures avec constituants extra-pr?dicatifs d?di?es ? l?expression
des jugements ciblant des individus ou des organisations. Il sera
notamment question des expressions binominales ? homme|femme de N ? et
des adverbes orient?s vers le sujet, observ?s dans des corpus de presse
?conomique et g?n?raliste. La probl?matique g?n?rale concerne la
construction des mod?les op?ratoires et des ressources linguistiques qui
s'appuient sur une expertise fine de la langue et peuvent d?boucher sur
des proc?dures automatiques d?extraction et de repr?sentation des
donn?es d?opinion.

INALCO-Recherche
(salle 8)
49bis Avenue de la Belle Gabrielle, 75012 Paris
(RER A, Station Nogent-sur-Marne, sortir avenue des Marronniers ; puis
direction Jardin tropical ; puis ? gauche, longer le bois sur 300 m
environ)


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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 09:00:14 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:00:14 +0200
Subject: Appel: Atelier JEP-TALN 2012,
 Interactions langagieres orales dans les habitats intelligents
 pour personnes agees : defis et enjeux
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:41:13 +0200
From: Francois Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
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APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS (Type de communication plus adapt?)

*Interactions langagi?res orales dans les habitats intelligents pour
personnes ?g?es : d?fis et enjeux*

*Atelier JEP-TALN 2012*
19e conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles et
29e ?dition des Journ?es d'?tude sur la Parole

Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012

CALENDRIER

- Date limite de soumission : 30 mars 2012
- Notification aux auteurs : 30 avril 2012
- Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 11 mai 2012
- Atelier : 8 juin 2012

PR?SENTATION
Face au vieillissement croissant de la population et au manque de place
dans les institutions sp?cialis?es pour prendre soin de nos seniors, les
politiques gouvernementales orientent les solutions vers le
d?veloppement des habitats intelligents qui permettent de mieux vieillir
chez soi gr?ce ? la compensation des baisses d'autonomie par les
nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication (STIC).

Ces habitats constituent un nouveau champ d'application tr?s prometteur
pour compenser la perte d'autonomie, am?liorer la s?curit? domestique,
g?rer la consommation d'?nergie et am?liorer l'inclusion sociale et
l'e-inclusion des habitants. L'un des plus grands d?fis reste la
conception des habitats intelligents qui anticipent les besoins de leurs
habitants tout en pr?servant leur s?curit? et leur confort. Un mode
d'interaction extr?mement int?ressant dans ce cadre est l'interface
vocale. En effet, l'interaction par langage naturel permet, d'une part
une interaction s?mantique de haut niveau de mani?re simple, rendant
inutile une configuration complexe via l'ordinateur et, d'autre part,
permet de compenser certains handicaps tels que la d?ficience visuelle
ou les difficult?s ? se d?placer. Par ailleurs, dans le cas de syst?mes
?valuant la sant? de la personne, l'information sonore peut permettre de
d?tecter un ensemble de sympt?mes annonciateurs d'une maladie de type
d?g?n?rative (par exemple, trouble du langage, isolement).

Malgr? tous ces avantages, l'interface orale dans les habitats
intelligents a rarement ?t? d?ploy?e dans des environnements
r?els. Notre exp?rience dans le cadre du projet Sweet-Home
(sweet-home.imag.fr), labellis? par le p?le de comp?titivit? national
MINALOGIC, nous a permis d'obtenir quelques avanc?es dans ce domaine et
de dresser un ensemble de d?fis ? relever.  L'atelier "Interactions
langagi?res orales dans les habitats Intelligents pour personnes ?g?es :
d?fis et enjeux" doit permettre de r?unir la communaut? et de discuter
des travaux en cours, projets, id?es...

TH?MES
L'atelier est ouvert ? la pr?sentation de travaux de recherche portant
sur l'un ou plusieurs des th?mes suivants :

- la reconnaissance de la parole en conditions distantes (rehaussement
  de la parole dans le bruit, s?paration de sources, environnement
  multicapteur) ;

- la compr?hension, la mod?lisation ou la reconnaissance de la voix ?g?e ;

- les applications de la parole pour le maintien ? domicile
  (identification du locuteur, reconnaissance de mots-cl?s/ordres
  domotiques, synth?se, dialogue) ;

- la reconnaissance des signes avant coureur d'une perte de capacit?
  langagi?re.

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des propositions d?articles de 6 ?
10 pages pr?sentant des travaux de recherche originaux relatifs aux
th?mes propos?s.

CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION
Les soumissions seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du
domaine, seront consid?r?s en particulier : l'ad?quation aux th?mes de
l'atelier, l'importance et l'originalit? de la contribution, la
correction du contenu scientifique et technique ainsi que l'organisation
et la clart? de la pr?sentation.

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION
Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais. Les formats pr?cis
de soumission sont disponibles pour MS Word, LibreOffice et Latex sur le
site de jeptaln2012 (http://www.jeptaln2012.org/).

Les propositions de communications devront ?tre envoy?es exclusivement
sous forme ?lectronique au format pdf ? Michel.Vacher at imag.fr et ?
Francois.Portet at imag.fr

COMIT? DE PROGRAMME

V?ronique Auberg?               GIPSA-lab, Grenoble
Melissa Barkat-Defradas         Praxiling, Montpellier
Corneliu Burileanu              Polytehnica, Bucarest
Jean Caelen                     LIG, Grenoble
G?rard Chollet                  Telecom Paris-Tech, Paris
Corinne Fredouille              LIA, Avignon
Laurent Girin                   GIPSA-lab, Grenoble
Dan Istrate                     ESIGETEL, Fontainebleau
Benjamin Lecouteux              LIG, Grenoble
Christophe Levy                 LIA, Avignon
Fran?ois Portet                 LIG, Grenoble
Vincent Rialle                  AGIM, Grenoble
Solange Rossato                 LIG, Grenoble
Michel Vacher                   LIG, Grenoble
Nadine Vigouroux                IRIT, Toulouse
Pierre Zweigenbaum              LIMSI, Paris

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 09:07:18 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:07:18 +0200
Subject: Appel: Deadline extension,
 ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic
 Processing of Morphologically-Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL)
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:02:55 +0200
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===============================================================
3rd CALL FOR PAPERS
------------------------------------------
ACL 2012 Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing
of Morphologically-Rich Languages (SP-Sem-MRL)
(http://sites.google.com/site/spsemmrl2012/)

Endorsed by SIGLEX, SIGPARSE and the EU's PASCAL Network of Excellence
===============================================================



*** EXTENDED submission deadline: 15 Apr 2012 ***


NEW!
-----------------------------
We are pleased to announce financial support in workshop registration
fees to up to five students, through the generous sponsorship of PASCAL
Network of Excellence. Priority will be given to PASCAL students, but
all students are encouraged to apply. (Details to follow closer to
beginning of registration period).  Registration Date: TBD.


IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------
Submission deadline: Apr 15, 2012
Notification to authors: May 5, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: May 20, 2012
Workshop dates: TBD, during the ACL-2012 workshop period (Jul 12-14,
2012)


WORKSHOP SCOPE
-----------------------------
Morphologically Rich Languages (MRLs) are languages in which grammatical
relations such as Subject, Predicate, Object, etc., are indicated
morphologically (e.g. through inflection) instead of positionally (as
in, e.g. English), and the position of words and phrases in the sentence
may vary substantially. The tight connection between the morphology of
words and the grammatical relations between them, and the looser
connection between the position and grouping of words to their syntactic
roles, pose serious challenges for syntactic and semantic
processing. Furthermore, since grammatical relations provide the
interface to compositional semantics, morphosyntactic phenomena may
significantly complicate processing the syntax-semantics interface. In
statistical parsing, which has been a cornerstone of research in NLP and
had seen great advances due to the widespread availability of
syntactically annotated corpora, English parsing performance has reached
a high plateau in certain genres, which is however not always indicative
of parsing performance in MRLs, dependency-based and constituency-based
alike. Semantic processing of natural language has similarly seen much
progress in recent years.  However, as in parsing, the bulk of the work
has concentrated on English, and MRLs may present processing challenges
that the community is as of yet unaware of, and which current semantic
processing technologies may have difficulty coping with. These
challenges may lurk in areas where parses may be used as input, such as
semantic role labeling, distributional semantics, paraphrasing and
textual entailment, or where inadequate pre-processing of morphological
variation hurts parsing and semantic tasks alike.

This joint workshop aims to build upon the first and second SPMRL
workshops (at NAACL-HLT 2010 and IWPT 2011, respectively) while
extending the overall scope to include semantic processing where MRLs
pose challenges for algorithms or models initially designed to process
English. In particular, we seek to explore the use of newly available
syntactically and/or semantically annotated corpora, or data sets for
semantic evaluation that can contribute to our understanding of the
difficulty that such phenomena pose. One goal of this workshop is to
encourage cross-fertilization among researchers working on different
languages and among those working on different levels of processing.  Of
particular interest is work addressing the lexical sparseness and
out-of-vocabulary issues that occur in both syntactic and semantic
processing.

The workshop will be organised around three broad themes:

- Syntactic Models: Models and architectures that explicitly integrate
  morphological analysis and parsing; Cross-language and cross-model
  comparison of strengths and weaknesses regarding particular linguistic
  phenomena.

- Semantic Models: State-of-the-art semantic analysis and generation
  methods for MRLs, including semantic similarity and entailment
  criteria and their task-specific instantiation, and suitable
  representations for semantic tasks in MRLs.

- Joint Modeling Aspects: Improving lexical coverage and handling of
  out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words by utilising lexical knowledge or
  unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques; The role of parsing
  in semantic analysis for MRLs; Preprocessing issues that jointly
  affect parsing and semantic analysis; Syntax-Semantics interfaces for
  monolingual or multilingual systems.

The areas of interest for this joint workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following topics:

--Syntactic Parsing of MRLs

* parsing models and architectures that explicitly integrate
  orphological analysis and parsing

* parsing models and architectures that focus on lexical coverage and
  the handling of OOV words either by incorporating linguistic knowledge
  or through the use of unsupervised/semi-supervised learning techniques

* Cross-language and cross-model comparison of models' strengths and
  weaknesses in the face of particular linguistic phenomena (e.g.
  morphosyntactic characteristics, degree of word-order freedom)

* Comprehensive analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of various
  parsing models on particular linguistic (e.g. morphosyntactic)
  phenomena with respect to variation in tagsets, annotation schemes and
  additional data transformations


--Semantic Processing of MRLs

* Semantic distance and entailment criteria in the MRL space (e.g., with
  respect to inflection, derivation, root, pattern, lemma, tense, and/or
  aspect, etc.); possibly task-specific criteria

* Lexical resources and morphological analysis tools facilitating
  semantic distance measures and semantic relation detection

* Methods and models for semantic similarity/distance calculation,
  clustering and paraphrasing relying on MRL properties, and using:
  probability, vector/graph representation, data-driven and/or
  linguistic rules, pivoting/SMT, machine-learning, etc.

* Paraphrase and textual entailment detection or generation, specific to
  MRLs (e.g., task-specific issues of inclusion or exclusion of certain
  paraphrase and textual entailment patterns differing in inflection)

* Use of morphological analysis for semantic calculation aimed at
  reducing sparsity / OOV rate, preferably without losing information
  due to mere lemmatization

* Semantic role labeling (SRL) for MRLs; verbal/nominalized selectional
  preferences


--The Syntax-Semantics Interface:

* Parsing-based semantic processing tasks, e.g., semantic role labeling
  (SRL)

* Processing of compounds and multi-morphemic words: optimal level(s) of
  tokenization, representation, and morphological analysis for
  either/both tasks

* Syntax-aware semantic distance measures, paraphrasing and textual
  entailment

* Semantic classes and/or relations as input to syntactic parsing


In addition to the standard (oral or poster) presentations in the
sessions, the SP-Sem-MRL workshop will feature a panel of commentators
for a selection of the talks, allowing for an extended discussion
period. This new feature is introduced in order to foster in-depth
discussions and to nurture interactions among researchers. It is our
hope that these interactions will help to bring ideas (and solutions) to
the fore and promote a more rapid advance of the state-of-the-art in the
field.


Shared Task
------------------

There will be no shared task on MRLs this year. However, we will take
this opportunity to disclose, during a special session of SP-Sem-MRL,
the data sets and evaluation procedures for the cross-linguistic
cross-framework shared task which was discussed at previous SPMRL
panels, and which is planned for SPMRL 2013 at IWPT 2013. Researchers
who are interested in participating in the shared task or teams that
wish to add their data sets or extrinsic evaluation procedures to the
task are encouraged to attend the session and contribute to the
discussion.


SUBMISSION
-------------------

Authors are invited to submit long papers (up to 10 pages + any number
of reference pages) and short papers (up to 5 pages + any number of
reference page). Long papers should describe unpublished, substantial
and completed research. Short papers should be position papers, papers
describing work in progress or short, focused contributions.

Papers may be submitted until April 15, 2012 in PDF format via the START
system:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/sp-sem-mrl-2012/

Submitted papers must follow the styles and the formatting guidelines
available from the current ACL recommendations
(http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp). As the reviewing will be blind,
the papers must not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be
avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith,
1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be
rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your
submissions on the web until after the review process is complete.

DOUBLE-SUBMISSION POLICY:
PLEASE INDICATE IN YOUR SUBMISSION IF YOU SUBMITTED YOUR PAPER TO OTHER
VENUES, SUCH AS EMNLP. THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT THIS YEAR, DUE TO
THE PROXIMITY OF MULTIPLE DEADLINES .
Double submissions are permitted, but double publication is NOT. The
authors will have to notify the workshop chairs which venue they chose.
No withdrawal will be allowed after May 20.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
--------------------------------------

General chairs:
Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yuval Marton (IBM Watson Research Center, US)
Djam? Seddah (University of Paris 4, France)
Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Shared session chairs:
Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin, US)
Ines Rehbein (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Peter Turney (National Research Council, Canada)
Yannick Versley (University of Tuebingen, Germany)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------------------------
Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Mohammed Attia (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Bernd Bohnet  (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France)
Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, US)
Ozlem Cetinoglu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jinho Choi (University of Colorado at Boulder, US)
Grzegorz Chrupala  (Saarland University, Germany)
Benoit Crabb? (University of Paris 7, France)
G?l?en Cebiro?lu Eryi?it, (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yoav Goldberg (Google Research NY, US)
Spence Green (Stanford University, US)
Veronique Hoste (University College Ghent, Belgium)
Samar Husain (Potsdam University, Germany)
Sandra K?bler (Indiana University, US)
Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Alberto Lavelli (FBK-irst, Italy)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Joseph Le Roux (Universit? Paris-Nord, France)
Nitin Madnani (Educational Testing Service, NJ)
Wolfgang Maier (University of D?sseldorf, Germany)
Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Aur?lien Max (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Yusuke Miyao (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Sebastian Pado (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research, US)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN Technologies, US)
Idan Szpektor (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, US)
Benoit Sagot (INRIA Rocquencourt, France)
Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Tim Van de Cruys (University of Cambridge, UK)
Stephen Wan (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney)
Deniz Yuret (Koc University Istanbul, Turkey)
Zdenek Zabokrtsky (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Shiqi Zhao (Baidu Inc., China)


REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT
---------------
We are pleased to announce financial support in workshop registration
fees to up to five students, through the generous sponsorship of PASCAL
Network of Excellence. Priority will be given to PASCAL students, but
all students are encouraged to apply. (Details to follow closer to
beginning of registration period).  Registration Date: TBD.


CONTACT
---------------
e-mail: sp.sem.mrl2012 at gmail.com
website: https://sites.google.com/site/spsemmrl2012/


SPONSORS
-----------------
This workshop is endorsed by SIGLEX & SIGPARSE ; and
sponsored by the PASCAL Network of Excellence & the INRIA's Alpage
project.

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 09:11:48 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:11:48 +0200
Subject: Appel: SMS Communication - A Linguistic Approach (Special Issue
 of Lingvisticae Investigationes)
Message-ID: <WED.28.MAR.2012.111148.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:30:07 +0200
From: C?drick Fairon <cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be>
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X-url: http://www.uclouvain.be/409235.html

---------------CALL FOR PAPERS----------------
---------apologies for multiple postings----------

SMS Communication: A Linguistic Approach

(More info: http://www.uclouvain.be/409235.html)

We are soliciting unpublished papers in the field of SMS writing for a
Special Issue of Lingvistic? Investigationes (
http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/li/main).

Recently, communication properties have changed and evolved in many
ways. Communication today is faster (the email is certainly much faster
than ordinary ?snail? mail), and more practical (mobile phones compared
to landlines); it blurs certain limits (we can easily keep in touch with
friends who live on the other side of the world, thanks to networking
websites such as Facebook) and enables multilingual mixing in
discussions (chat or role-playing games using automatic
translators). However, certain linguists (Jalabert, 2006), and even the
media, often point an accusatory finger at new technologies, claiming
that communication is ?deteriorating? as a result of these
innovations. They suggest that there is always a loss of information or
quality in translated speech, or even that computer mediated
communication (CMC, which includes SMS communication) is destroying
language. Others (Sapir, 1949) are firmly convinced that it is better to
consider language as an evolving and changing entity. From this point of
view, language is a social tool that has to be studied in-depth through
the prism of objectivity, as a process in motion which is influenced by
new social and technological stakes, rather than as a fading organism.

In order to rise beyond this debate, we propose to study and describe
the societal phenomenon of SMS writing in all its complexity, through a
resolutely interdisciplinary publication. We follow the impulse
initiated by "The inside text" (Harper and al., 2005), covering the
social and cultural aspects and applications linked to text messages. We
would like to encourage work into the study of specific social
sub-groups such as teenagers or deaf people (Power & Power, 2004). We
would also appreciate specialized works focusing on the linguistics of
SMS writing: spelling (Anis, 2003 & Panckhurst, 2008), lexicon (Cougnon,
2010 & 2011), syntax (Stark, 2011), discourse analysis (Tagg, in press),
etc. Studies that adopt an NLP approach (Beaufort and al., 2010, Yvon,
2010) or an empirical approach based on corpora (Fairon and al., 2006a,
Fairon and al., 2006b, Tagg, 2007, D?rscheid and Stark, 2011) will be
given special attention.

Topics

The special issue of Lingvisticae Investigationes aims to explore
innovative developments in the field of SMS writing. Papers in the
following fields are particularly welcome:

? Lexicon
? Syntax
? Phonetics
? Psycholinguistics
? Corpus linguistics
? Sociolinguistics
? Natural language processing
? Language learning 
? Statistics

Language of the special issue

English

Key dates

? Call for papers: March 2012
? Intent to Submit: before 22 May 2012
? Deadline for full paper submission: 31 July 2012 
? Notification of acceptance / rejection: 30 September 2012
? Final submission of accepted papers: 1 November 2012

Paper Format Guidelines

Your paper must conform to the following requirements to be considered:

? Body of paper no longer than 20 pages, including abstract, tables,
  figures and references
? Abstract no longer than 250 words on the first page
? Format guidelines applied from in the
  http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/li/guidelines
? Contrary to what is written in the LI guideline, as the submission is
  blind-reviewed, no identifiable author information and references
  should appear in the paper, but on a separate sheet with the
  following:

  - Author(s)
  - Title of Paper
  - Contact person's name
  - Email address

The scientific committee selects for publication the most significant
articles containing new results, ideas and approaches or articles using
original new data. All articles sent to editors are double-blind peer
reviewed. Manuscripts should be written in proper English. Authors
should pay attention to the style, grammar, and orthography of the
paper. Papers should be prepared strongly according to the pattern given
in the Guideline. Authors should pay special attention to precise
typographical and bibliographical details.

Editors

Louise-Am?lie Cougnon, Centre de traitement automatique du langage,
Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Email :
louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain.be

C?drick Fairon, Centre de traitement automatique du langage, Universit?
catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Email : cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be

Intent to Submit

You must send an email to louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain using the
Subject Line "LI Intent to Submit " by May 22 2012 to indicate that you
intend to submit a paper for consideration. Your intent to submit does
not bind you to submit an actual paper. However, a note of withdrawal
would be appreciated. In your intent to submit email, please include the
author(s), tentative title, and brief description.

Submitting your paper

Via email: Submit your paper using the Subject Line "LI First Submission
SURNAME" as an attachment via email to louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain
by July 31, 2012. In your email, please include the following
attachments:

- Main anonymised paper
- Personal information cover sheet

Filenames should follow this pattern: ?MainAuthorSurname_LI?

After receipt by our office, you will receive an email notification of
receipt within 3 working days. If you do not receive a notification of
receipt, please email us at louise-amelie.cougnon at uclouvain.

Scientific committee

Antoniadis Georges (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des langues ?trang?res et maternelles, Universit? Stendhal de Grenoble, France)
Bernicot Josie (Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage, Universit? de Poitiers, France)
Cougnon Louise-Am?lie (Centre de traitement automatique du Langage, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Cortelazzo Michele (Dipartimento di Studi linguistici e letterari, Universit? di Padova, Italy)
De Clercq Orph?e (Language and translation technology team, Hogeschool Gent, Belgium)
de Marneffe Marie-Catherine (Stanford Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, United States) 
De Smedt Thierry (?cole de communication, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Dister Anne (Facult?s universitaires Saint-Louis & Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Drouin Patrick (Oservatoire de Linguistique Sens-Texte, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada) 
Fairon C?drick (Centre de traitement automatique du Langage, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Fran?ois Thomas (Institue for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Kyriakopoulou Tita (School of French Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Klein Jean (CELEXROM, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Ledegen Gudrun (D?partement Communication, Universit? Rennes 2, France)
Marshman Elizabeth (School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa, Canada)
Meskill Carla (Department of Educational Theory and Practice, University at Albany, United States)
Panckurst Rachel (Praxiling UMR 5267 CNRS - Universit? Paul-Val?ry - Montpellier 3, France)
Pekarek Doehler Simona (Institut des sciences du langage et de la communication, Universit? de Neuch?tel)
Renouf Antoinette (School of English, Birmingham City University, Great-Britain)
Roche Mathieu (Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Micro?lectronique, Universit? Montpellier 2, France)
Stark Elisabeth (Romanisches Seminar, Universit?t Z?rich, Switzerland)
Tagg Caroline (Centre for English Language Studies, University of Birmingham, Great-Britain)
Yvon Fran?ois (Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la M?canique et les Sciences de l'Ing?nieur, Universit? Paris Sud, France)
 
References

Jacques  Anis (2003). "Communication ?lectronique scripturale et formes
langagi?res".  In Actes des Quatri?mes Rencontres R?seaux Humains /
R?seaux Technologiques. Poitiers,  31 mai et 1er juin 2002, Documents,
Actes et Rapports pour l'Education, CNDP, pp. 57-70.
Richard Beaufort, Sophie Roekhaut, Louise-Am?lie Cougnon and C?drick
Fairon (2010). "A hybrid rule/model-based finite-state framework for
normalizing SMS messages". In Jan Hajic et al. (eds.): Proceedings of
the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, Uppsala, Sweden, 11-16 July 2010, pp. 770?779. 
Louise-Am?lie Cougnon (2011). "'Tu te prends pour the king of the
world?'. Language contact in text messaging context". In Cornelius
Hasselblatt, Peter Houtzagers and Remco van Pareren (?ds.). Language
Contact in Times of Globalization. Studies in Slavic and General
Linguistic. 38, Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, pp. 45-59.
Louise-Am?lie Cougnon (2010). "La n?ologie dans 'l'?crit
spontan?'. Etude d'un corpus de SMS en Belgique francophone". In Actes
du Congr?s International de la n?ologie dans les langues
romanes. Barcelone. S?rie Activitats, 22, pp. 1139-1154. 
Christa D?rscheid and Elisabeth Stark (2011). "SMS4science: An
international corpus-based texting project and the specific challenges
for multilingual Switzerland". In Crispin Thurlow and Kristine Mroczek
(?ds.). Digital Discourse. Language in The New Media. Oxford, Oxford
University Press, pp. 299-320.
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SMS. Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, Cahiers du
Cental, 3.1.
C?drick Fairon, Jean Ren? Klein et S?bastien Paumier (2006b). Le Corpus
SMS pour la science. Base de donn?es de 30.000 SMS et logiciels de
consultation. CD-Rom, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de
Louvain, Cahiers du Cental, 3.2. 
Richard Harper, Leysia Ann Palen and Alex Taylor (eds.) (2005). The
inside text: Social, cultural and design perspectives on SMS. Springer.
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Moli?re, reviens vite ... ils sont devenus fous !) ". In Cahiers
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(March 4th 2012).
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probl?matiques future". In Arnavielle T. (ed.), Polyphonies,
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Mary Power and Des Power (2004). "Everyone here speaks txt : Deaf people
using sms in Australia and the rest of the world". In Journal of deaf
studies and deaf education, 9(3), pp. 333?343.
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Personality. Berkeley, University of California Press.
Elisabeth Stark (2011). "La morphosyntaxe dans les SMS suisse
francophones : Le marquage de l'accord sujet-verbe conjugu?". In Adrian
St?hli, Christa D?rscheid and Marie-Jos? B?guelin
(eds.). SMS-Kommunikation in der Schweiz: Sprach- und Variet?tengebrauch
/ ? (= Linguistik online 48, 4/2011), pp. 35?48.
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Continuum.
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Natural Language Engineering, 16(2), pp. 133-159. 


Prof. C?drick Fairon
cedrick.fairon at uclouvain.be

Directeur du CENTAL
Centre de traitement automatique du langage
CENTAL L3.03.12
Universit? catholique de Louvain
Place Blaise Pascal, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgique
tel: +32 10 47 37 88
fax: +32 10 47 26 06

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From thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR  Wed Mar 28 09:14:28 2012
From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:14:28 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: Traitement Automatique des Langues et
 Multilinguisme
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:45:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Nicolas HERNANDEZ" <Nicolas.Hernandez at univ-nantes.fr>
X-url: http://e.nicolas.hernandez.free.fr/pub/rec/12


Sujet de th?se en Traitement Automatique des Langues et Multilinguisme

L'?quipe du Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN) du
Laboratoire Informatique de Nantes Atlantique (LINA UMR CNRS 6241) ?
l'Universit? de Nantes propose un sujet de th?se en Informatique dans
les domaines du Traitement Automatique des Langues et du Multilinguisme.

*Titre:*
Analyse des structures discursives des textes et alignement de
terminologies multilingues en corpus comparables ; pour une mod?lisation
discursive de la notion de contexte.

*R?sum? : *
La traduction automatique est l'une des activit?s de recherche les plus
ambitieuses de notre temps. Ce travail de th?se propose de s'attaquer ?
l'un de ses enjeux, ? savoir l'"alignement de terminologies
multilingues" en corpus comparables, et ce en explorant de nouvelles
m?thodes de mise en correspondance des termes, ? savoir ? l'aide
d'"analyses des structures discursives des textes". L'approche ?tat de
l'art consiste ? ?tablir une mise en correspondance des termes en
mesurant la similarit? de leurs contextes d'apparition ? l'aide de
dictionnaires bilingues pr?existants. Les probl?mes fondamentaux de
cette approche sont qu'elle repose sur une mod?lisation tr?s pauvre du
contexte d'apparition d'un terme (un sac de mots apparaissant autour des
termes analys?s) et qu'elle pr?suppose l'existence de ressources
lexicales bilingues pour ?tre r?alis?e.  Ce travail a pour objectif
d'exp?rimenter des contextes de termes d?finis sur la base de r?sultats
d'analyses du discours ainsi que r?fl?chir ? la d?finition d'une notion
de contexte discursif plus en ad?quation avec la t?che.  Ce sujet ?merge
dans la continuit? du projet europ?en TTC et du projet ANR MeTRICC dont
l'?quipe TALN assure les coordinations.

*Mots clefs :*
Traduction, Alignement de terminologies multilingues, Analyse et
mod?lisation des structures du discours, Corpus comparables

*Profil et comp?tences recherch?s: *
M2 Recherche informatique ou ?cole d'ing?nieurs
Bon niveau en anglais
Bonnes notions en apprentissage automatique
Bonnes connaissances en programmation Java/Python
Affinit?s avec le logiciel libre et le d?veloppement collaboratif

*Proc?dure de candidature* :
La date butoir de r?ception des candidatures est le 20 Avril 2012 mais
la position restera ouverte jusqu'? ce qu'elle soit attribu?e.
La th?se d?marrera en Octobre 2012 et sera financ?e par une allocation
minist?rielle.
Les candidats int?ress?s sont invit?s ? prendre contact le plus t?t
possible et ? envoyer les informations suivantes : une lettre de
motivation incluant votre positionnement par rapport aux comp?tences
attendues, un CV, un relev? de notes avec classement au Master (au moins
pour la p?riode ?coul?e), un lien vers un site web pr?sentant le
programme de votre master et des lettres de recommandations de vos
encadrants scientifiques.
Cette th?se pourra ?tre pr?c?d?e d'un stage de master recherche financ?
sur le m?me th?me. Prendre contact.

*Contact : *
Nicolas Hernandez et Emmanuel Morin (prenom.nom ? univ-nantes.fr)

*Plus d'information sur le sujet de th?se :*
Suivre le lien http://e.nicolas.hernandez.free.fr/pub/rec/12

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:15:17 +0200
Subject: Appel: Bourses ATALA pour etudiants a TALN/RECITAL 2012
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:19:09 +0200
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Bourses ATALA pour ?tudiants

L'ATALA offre des bourses aux ?tudiants qui voudraient participer aux
conf?rences TALN et RECITAL 2012 et qui ?prouveraient des difficult?s
financi?res pour financer leur venue. Ces bourses couvriront
l'inscription aux conf?rences et aux activit?s associ?es. Elles seront
accord?es apr?s examen des demandes.

Les personnes int?ress?es doivent envoyer ? TALN2012 un document d'une
page, sign? par le directeur de recherche, contenant un bref CV ainsi
qu'une explication des probl?mes financiers rencontr?s.

La date limite pour soumettre une candidature est le 5 mai 2012.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:58:51 +0200
Subject: Job: Stage chez SYSTRAN, Traduction automatique anglais-russe
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:34:58 +0200
From: "BUSCHBECK Bianka" <buschbeck at systran.fr>
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Company:        SYSTRAN
Department:     Linguistic Resources 
Location:       Paris 75002, France
Website:        www.systran.fr 

 

Internship description:

SYSTRAN has currently an opening for an internship of 4-6 months that
aims at the development and evaluation of linguistic resources for
English to Russian Machine Translation

The internship project would include the following tasks:

..  Integration and validation of dictionary entries

..  Creation of domain dictionaries using Bilingual Terminology
    Extraction on parallel domain corpora

..  Identification of invalid or wrong translations using corpus-based
    methods

..  Work on attributive translations of nouns

..  Validation and enrichment of resources used for morphological
    analysis

Required skills: 

..  Native competence of Russian and fluency in English

..  Good working knowledge of computational lexicography and NLP methods
    in general

..  Strong skills in Russian and English morphology and syntax

..  Working knowledge of Perl and scripting languages is a plus

..  Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team

 
Please send your application and cover letter to Bianka Buschbeck:
buschbeck at systran.fr

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:03:08 +0200
Subject: Appel: VORTE 2012
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:51:11 -0400
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Apologies for cross-posting and multiple posts.

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS  ( Deadline April 15th 2012)

The 7th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for
the Enterprise (VORTE 2012)

Co-located with the 16th IEEE International EDOC Conference, Beijing,
China, 10th-11th September, 2012

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The VORTE series of workshops is devoted to the topics of vocabularies,
ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. The
complexity of enterprise systems, the increasing needs for advanced
collaboration between various systems within one institution or among
many collaborating parties and the velocity of organizational, policy,
structural and market changes strongly call for immediate mobilization
of the research community to develop more flexible and reliable
technologies for the advancement of enterprise systems.

Trying to respond to this urgent research need, the VORTE series of
workshops has been established in order to bring together researchers
and practitioners that are looking into the topics of ontologies and
rules in enterprise system development from different yet complementary
perspectives. The major objective is to provide a research forum for
exchanging ideas and results covering the use of ontologies and rules in
various stages of the lifecycle of enterprise systems.

Examples of topics covered by VORTE research contributions include the
development and adaptation of foundational, business and domain
ontologies for the enterprise, the use of ontologies and rules in all
aspects of enterprise modelling such as business process management and
services, the enhancement of rules and services with formal semantics,
and the evaluation of such systems and approaches. The workshop is also
a forum for the discussion of ontology-based knowledge management
issues, interoperability issues and ontology engineering issues, and
covers various application domains relevant for organizations (such as
e-government and e-commerce).  The workshop also welcomes contributions
on open linked data initiatives for the enterprise and empirical studies
on the use of ontologies and rules in the enterprise system development
lifecycle.

TOPICS

Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise:

- Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities,
  design, processes;

- Ontologies for the know-how;

- Ontologies for corporate knowledge;

- Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise;

Knowledge management:

- Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and
  integration;

- Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations;

- Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance within organizations;

- Ontology integration and alignment within organizations;

- Ontology effectiveness and evaluation in organizations;

Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling:

- Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling

- Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration;

- Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments

- Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling

- Ontologies and Business Process Modeling

- Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling

- Ontologies and Business Rules

Enterprise Semantic Interoperability:

- Web services, Semantic services

- Composition and Modularity

- Merging, Mapping and Alignment

- Ontology Language Interoperability

- Open linked data publishing and exploitation

Problems and case studies in ontology application:

- Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises

- Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business

- From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

We solicit two types of papers:

- Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or
  describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet
  fully developed; and

- Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results

All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer
Society conference proceedings (
http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the
author's name, affiliation, and contact details.

Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012

All papers must not have been previously published or submitted
elsewhere.

The papers accepted for the EDOC 2012 Workshops will be published after
the workshop with an ISBN in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least
one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main
conference (there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2012)
and present their papers at the workshop.

*Post-conference Journal Publication *

For previous editions of the workshop, special issues have been
published in journals such as Applied Ontology (2007), IJBPIM (2007),
Elsevier's Information Systems (2008, 2010), and Journal of Research
Practice in Information Technology (2009).

This year, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended
versions for consideration for a special issue of the Applied Ontology
Journal http://www.iospress.nl/journal/applied-ontology/.

KEYNOTE

TBA

IMPORTANT DATES

*Workshop paper submissions: April 15, 2012*

Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 28, 2012

Camera-ready papers due: June 15, 2012

Workshop: September 10 or 11, 2012



COMMITTEES



Workshop Chairs:

Jo?o Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil,
jpalmeida at ieee.org

Roberta Ferrario, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology,
Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy,
roberta.ferrario at cnr.it

Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Athabasca University,
Queen?s University, Canada, amal.zouaq at rmc.ca


Steering Committee:

Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada

Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (UFES),
Vit?ria, Brazil

Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of
Technology at Cottbus, Germany

Program Committee:

Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany

Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany

Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada

Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies,
CNR, Trento, Italy

Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA

Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia

Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain

Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva, BiZZDesign, The Netherlands

Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand

Sergio Espana, Polytechnic University of Valencia

Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil

Lu?s Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany

Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia

Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil

Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany

Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany

Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland

Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway

Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany

Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany

Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France

Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway

Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany

Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia

Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia

Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands

LINKS

VORTE2012 web site: http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/vorte2012

EDOC2012 web site: http://edocconference.org

EasyChair submissions:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012

Formatting guidelines:
http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:05:33 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: architecture textuelle et du discours, IRIT,
 Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
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date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:12:34 +0200
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Titre : Formalisation de l'architecture textuelle et du discours pour la
conception d?ontologies ? partir de textes

Directrice de th?se : Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles Tel : 0561558293
aussenac at irit.fr
Encadrement : Mouna Kamel  Tel : 0561558338 kamel at irit.fr

Ecole Doctorale : Math?matique Informatique T?l?communications de
Toulouse
Etablissement d?inscription : Universit? Paul Sabatier de Toulouse ? 118
Route de Narbonne ? 31062  Toulouse cedex 9
Unit? d'accueil : Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse ?
http://www.irit.fr/
Equipe : MELODI (MEthodes et ing?nierie des Langues, des Ontologies et
du Discours)
Domaine scientifique : Informatique
Mots cl? : ontologie, architecture textuelle, th?orie du discours,
analyse s?mantique du langage, TAL
Financement : bourse minist?re

Les ontologies sont des structures de repr?sentation des connaissances
bas?es sur un fondement logique, qui mettent en avant les concepts d'un
domaine, les relations entre ces concepts (relations s?mantiques), ainsi
que les axiomes et contraintes impliquant ces concepts et
relations. Elles contribuent grandement au d?veloppement du Web
s?mantique et sont particuli?rement pr?sentes dans les domaines tels que
l?extraction d?information, l?indexation de documents, l?explicitation
d?une recherche d?information, le r?sum? automatique, etc.

La construction d'ontologie ? partir de textes s'appuie jusqu'ici sur
des analyses statistiques et/ou des analyses linguistiques
essentiellement focalis?es sur les niveaux lexicaux et
syntaxiques. Partant du constat que la mise en forme mat?rielle d?un
texte contribue ? lui donner du sens, l?id?e est d?exploiter les objets
textuels (segments de texte rendus perceptibles ? la surface du texte
par leur mise en forme mat?rielle) porteurs de relations hi?rarchiques
entre leurs diff?rents constituants (constituants qui ne sont pas
forc?ment contigus dans le texte). L?objectif est donc d??largir les
m?thodes de construction d?ontologie ? partir de textes en analysant les
structures discursives b?n?ficiant de mises en forme r?guli?res.

La th?se a donc pour but, dans un premier temps, de formaliser certaines
structures discursives sp?cifiques selon une th?orie du discours et un
mod?le d?architecture textuelle. Il s?agira ensuite de caract?riser un
ensemble d?indices syntaxico-s?mantiques qui permettront tout d?abord
d?identifier automatiquement ces structures discursives, puis d?extraire
automatiquement de ces structures les connaissances ontologiques
qu?elles contiennent. Une des difficult?s majeures de ce travail
consistera ? identifier d?une part les concepts pr?sents non seulement
dans les diff?rents segments composant la structure mais aussi dans les
segments appartenant au ? contexte ? de la structure, et d?autre part la
nature (ontologique ou lexicale) de la ou les relations port?es par la
structure. Une ?tude entre une approche symbolique et une approche par
apprentissage doit ?tre envisag?e. Enfin, ce travail devra permettre
d?affiner les m?thodes de construction d?ontologie (DAFOE et Terminae) ?
la d?finition desquelles contribue l??quipe MELODI.

Candidature : Les candidats int?ress?s devront ?tre parmi les premiers
aux ?preuves ?crites de leur formation pour ?tre s?lectionn?s par
l??cole doctorale. Ils sont invit?s ? envoyer une lettre de motivation,
un CV, un relev? de notes avec classement au Master le plus t?t
possible, avant le 27 avril 2012. Une seconde s?lection sera ensuite
faite par l??cole doctorale sur la base d?une audition d?but juin 2012.

pour plus d'informations : http://www.edmitt.ups-tlse.fr/

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:10:43 +0200
Subject: Job: Poste de chercheur avance (Maitre-assistant) Geneve -
 localisation et outils d'aide a la traduction
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:55:35 +0200
From: Aurelie Picton <aurelie.picton at unige.ch>
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Ouverture d'un poste de chercheur avanc? (Ma?tre-assistant)
Facult? de Traduction et d'Interpr?tation
D?partement de Traitement Informatique Multilingue (TIM)

TIM recrute un chercheur avanc? dans les domaines de la localisation et
des outils d'aide ? la traduction.

Qualification :

 Le candidat doit ?tre titulaire d'une th?se dans le domaine du
traitement des langues, avec une sp?cialisation en localisation et/ou
dans les outils d'aide ? la traduction.
 Il doit avoir travaill? au moins un an dans l'un dans ces domaines
(post-doc), avoir publi? et attester d'un r?seau international. Une
connaissance approfondie des m?moires de traduction est un atout.

T?ches :
 - Enseignement de la localisation et des m?moires de traduction, aux
   niveaux BA et MA (4 heures/semestre)
 - Recherches dans ces domaines
 - Participation aux projets du D?partement
   (http://www.issco.unige.ch/en/research/projects/)

Dur?e :
 3 ans (avec un renouvellement possible), ? partir du premier septembre 2012

Langue :
 fran?ais et anglais. L'enseignement des cours de MA peut ?ventuellement
 se faire en anglais.

Salaire :
 Classe 17/0 ? 17/22 (CHF 92'832.- ? CHF 125'526 brut par an), selon
 bar?me d?s janvier 2012.
 Le maximum est atteint en 22 ?tapes, sous r?serve d'un blocage
 temporaire de la progression par d?cision du Conseil d'Etat. Les
 traitements sont index?s semestriellement, sauf d?cision contraire du
 Conseil d'Etat.

D?claration de candidature avant le 31 mai 2012
 Personne ? contacter :
 Pierrette Bouillon
 E-mail: Pierrette.Bouillon at unige.ch
 T?l : +41/22/379 86 79
 Universit? of Gen?ve
 TIM
 40, bvd du Pont-d'Arve
 CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)
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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:13:59 +0200
Subject: Appel: EKAW 2012 PhD Symposium, Oct. 12th, Galway (Ireland)
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:10:59 +0200
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*EKAW 2012 PhD Symposium*

*October 12th 2012, Galway (Ireland)*

**

http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org/node/53

**

*CALL for papers*

The Symposium is open to all PhD students. Its aim is to provide PhD
students with an opportunity to have their work -- even in its early
stages -- presented to an international audience. Moreover, their work
will be reviewed by experienced researchers one of which will play the
role of a privileged advisor (a mentor).

PhD students at the beginning of their work should have at least a
defined problem statement and some ideas about the solution that they
want to discuss. More advanced students will have to present their
research plan, their evaluation protocol and their preliminary results.

*Important Dates:*

.***Paper Submission: April 25th, 2012*

.Notification: June 12th, 2012

.Camera-Ready paper: July 6th , 2012


**

*Paper outline*

Submissions should be structured around the following items which are
the key methodological components required for a sound research
narrative:

.Problem: describe the core problem of the PhD and motivate its
relevance for the knowledge management, knowledge acquisition and
knowledge representation areas.

.State of the art: describe relevant related work and point out areas
that need to be improved;

.Proposed Approach: present the approach taken and motivate how this is
novel with respect to existing work;

.Methodology: sketch the methodology that is (or will be) adopted

.Evaluation protocol: the approach to be taken for evaluating the
results of the work;

.Results: describe the current status of the work and any results that
have been reached so far;

.Conclusions and future work: conclude and specify the major items of
future work.

Submissions should be formatted according to Springer Verlag LNCS
guidelines
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0. They
should be between 5 and 7 pages long. Accepted papers will be published
online as a CEUR http://ceur-ws.org doctoral symposium proceedings
volume.

The symposium is intended for students doing their PhD in the same area
as the EKAW 2012 conference (knowledge management, knowledge acquisition
and knowledge representation) and in particular the following topics:

 1. Knowledge Management
      * Methodologies and tools for knowledge management
      * Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration
      * Best practices and lessons learned from case studies
      * Provenance and trust in knowledge management
      * Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management
        technologies
      * Corporate memories for knowledge management
      * Evolution, maintenance and preservation of knowledge
      * Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management
      * Incentives for human knowledge acquisition (e.g. games with a
        purpose)

 2. Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition
      * Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering
      * Ontology design patterns
      * Ontology localization
      * Ontology alignment
      * Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation
      * Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri,
        folksonomies etc.)
      * Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology learning
      * Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data
      * Ontology evaluation and metrics
      * Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation
      * Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge

 3. Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation
      * Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science
      * Synergies between humans and machines
      * Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks
      * Knowledge ecosystems
      * Expert finding, e.g., by social network analysis
      * Trust and privacy in knowledge representation
      * Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and
        acquisition
      * Crowdsourcing in knowledge management


*Symposium chairs*

Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse, France) aussenac at irit.fr

Nathalie Hernandez (IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse, France) hernande at irit.fr

*Program Committee Members
*

  * Lora Aroyo
  * Eva Blomqvist
  * Stefano Bortoli
  * Christopher Brewster
  * Jean Charlet
  * Vinay Chaudhri
  * Paolo Ciancarini
  * Paul Compton
  * Olivier Corby
  * Oscar Corcho
  * Stefan Decker
  * Dieter Fensel
  * Jesualdo Tom?s Fern?ndez-Breis
  * Aldo Gangemi
  * Serge Garlatti
  * Dragan Gasevic
  * Ollivier Haemmerl?
  * Gilles Kassel
  * Diana Maynard
  * Enrico Motta
  * Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
  * H. Sofia Pinto
  * Valentina Presutti
  * Yannick Pri?
  * Chantal Reynaud
  * Marco Rospocher
  * Sebastian Rudolph
  * Stefan Schlobach
  * Guus Schreiber
  * Elena Simperl
  * Steffen Staab
  * Robert Stevens
  * Heiner Stuckenschmidt
  * Mari Carmen Su?rez Figueroa
  * Vojtech Svatek
  * Robert Tolksdorf
  * Francky Trichet
  * Giovanni Tummarello
  * Iraklis Varlamis
  * Fouad Zablith

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:16:02 +0200
Subject: Info: MEDAR Grants for students from Arabic countries for LREC
 2012
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:18:07 +0200
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[Apologies for cross-postings]

The MEDAR Consortium, involved in MEDAR and NEMLAR Projects on
?Mediterranean Arabic Language and Speech Technology?, completed with
the support by the European Commission, is awarding grants for students
from Arabic countries to attend the 8th edition of the International
conference LREC taking place in Istanbul on May 21 to 27, 2012. Each
grant will cover the registration fees and support part of the travel
and accommodation expenses.

At the time of the application, applicants must be enrolled as Master?s
or Ph.D students at a University in an Arabic country.

To apply for a grant, send a message to medar-grants at elda.org no later
then April 23rd, 2012. The applications will be handled on a first-come,
first-served basis and notifications will be sent accordingly.

MEDAR: http://www.medar.info/index.php
LREC 2012: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:18:17 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: apprentissage d'ontologies,
 apports de methodes de l'ontologie formelle
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date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:44:12 +0200
from: "Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles" <Nathalie.Aussenac-Gilles at irit.fr>
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Sujet de th?se :
Apprentissage d?ontologies : apports de m?thodes d'ontologie formelle
pour am?liorer l'acquisition de connaissances ? partir de textes

http://www.adum.fr/as/ed/voirproposition.pl?langue=&site=edmitt&matricule_prop=3439

Ecole Doctorale : EDMITT - Ecole Doctorale Math?matiques, Informatique
et T?l?communications de Toulouse
Sp?cialit? : INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE
Co-directrices : Mme Laure VIEU - vieu at irit.fr et Mme Nathalie
AUSSENAC-GILLES - aussenac at irit.fr

Unit? de recherche : IRIT - Institut de Recherche en Informatique de
Toulouse UMR 5505 ? http://www.irit.fr/
Contexte : ?quipe MELODI, http://www.irit.fr/-Equipe-MELODI-
Financement : bourse minist?re
Mots cl?s : Ontologies, ontologie formelle, extraction de connaissances,
traitement automatique du langage naturel, v?rification de la coh?rence

R?sum? :
Au sein des m?thodes de construction d'ontologie ? partir de textes, les
outils linguistiques (comme les patrons lexico-syntaxiques) fournissent
des fragments de connaissances dont l'ontologue doit r?aliser
l'int?gration et v?rifier la coh?rence. Les principes de l'ontologie
formelle, comme la m?thodologie ONTOCLEAN, constituent les bases
th?oriques pour accomplir ces t?ches. Or ils s'av?rent assez difficiles
? manipuler dans la pratique, et sont rarement directement appliqu?s par
un constructeur d'ontologie. De plus, de mani?re g?n?rale, les ?l?ments
m?thodologiques restent sous la forme de recommandations r?dig?es : ils
sont rarement impl?ment?s de mani?re ? sugg?rer comment et quand
utiliser les diff?rentes fonctionnalit?s des plates-formes de
mod?lisation.

L'objectif de cette th?se est de rendre op?ratoires ces principes au
sein du processus de construction d'ontologies ? partir de textes, et de
les int?grer dans les fonctionnalit?s des outils d?aide associ?s ? une
plate-forme de mod?lisation comme DAFOE. Au del? de la construction
d'ontologie, on s'attachera ?galement ? ?tudier comment exploiter les
principes d'ontologie formelle pour d?tecter des incoh?rences dans les
textes annot?s par cette ontologie. Quatre objectifs seront donc
envisag?s successivement :

- faciliter l'extraction de relations s?mantiques ? partir de textes en
  am?liorant la qualit? des relations extraites et des patrons pour les
  trouver

- guider, selon les principes de l?ontologie formelle l?enrichissement
  de l?ontologie ? construire ? partir des relations extraites et
  garantir la coh?rence de cette ontologie

- int?grer ces fonctionnalit?s dans une plate-forme d?aide ? la
  mod?lisation d?ontologie ? partir de texte et la rendre plus active
  pour guider la mise en ?uvre d?une m?thode

- exploiter les principes d?ontologie formelle pour d?tecter des
  incoh?rences dans des textes ? partir de l?analyse de leur annotation
  s?mantique.


Candidature : Les candidats int?ress?s devront ?tre parmi les premiers
aux ?preuves ?crites de leur formation pour ?tre s?lectionn?s par
l??cole doctorale. Ils sont invit?s ? envoyer une lettre de motivation,
un CV, un relev? de notes avec classement au Master le plus t?t
possible, avant le 27 avril 2012. Une seconde s?lection sera ensuite
faite par l??cole doctorale sur la base d?une audition d?but juin 2012.


Pour plus d'informations : http://www.edmitt.ups-tlse.fr/

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:19:54 +0200
Subject: Appel: MICAI-2012, Artificial Intelligence, Springer LNAI,
 Mexico, Oct-Nov 2012
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:02:56 -0600
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MICAI-2012

  11th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  October 27 - November 4, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
  Publication: Springer LNAI
  www.micai.org/2012
  Submission: June 1: abstract, June 15: PDF (see webpage)

== GENERAL INFORMATION

Topics: all areas of Artificial Intelligence, research or applications.
Keynote: 5 keynote speakers anticipated; more info to be announced.
Workshops, tutorials. Travel grants for students. Best papers awards.

== PROCEEDINGS

Springer LNAI; special issues of journals (anticipated). 
Poster session: IEEE CPS (anticipated). 

== VENUE AND TOURS

San Luis Potosi is a major tourist attraction of Mexico.
Tours to unique attractions are planned.

PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students.
We apologize if you receive multiple copies.  

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:21:59 +0200
Subject: Appel: ARCOE-12
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:50:44 +0200
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=== CALL FOR PAPERS ===

Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning with Contextualized Knowledge,
4th International Workshop (ARCOE-12)

http://www.arcoe.org/2012

held in collocation with

20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-12)
Montpellier, France

-- Important Dates --

Submission deadline: 28 May 2012
Notification: 28 June 2012
Camera ready: 15 July 2012  
Early registration: [TBA]
Late registration: [TBA]
Workshop dates: 27-28 August 2012

-- Description of the workshop --

Dealing with context is one of the most interesting and most important
problems faced in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Traditional AI
applications often require to model, store, retrieve and reason about
knowledge that holds within certain circumstances - the context. Without
considering this contextual information, reasoning can easily run to
problems such as: inconsistency, when considering knowledge in the wrong
context; inefficiency, by considering knowledge irrelevant for a certain
context; incompleteness, since an inference may depend on knowledge
assumed in the context and not explicitly stated. Contextual information
is also relevant in many tasks in knowledge representation and reasoning
such as common-sense reasoning, dealing with inconsistency, ambiguity,
and uncertainty, evolution, etc.

In recent years, research in contextual knowledge representation and
reasoning became more relevant in the areas of Semantic Web, Linked Open
Data, and Ambient Intelligence, where knowledge is not considered a
monolithic and static asset, but it is distributed in a network of
interconnected heterogeneous and evolving knowledge resources. The ARCOE
workshop aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers interested in
these topics to discuss recent developments, important open issues, and
future directions.

-- Topics --

ARCOE-12 welcomes submissions on the topics below as well as on their
intersection and other topics related to acquisition, representation,
reasoning with context and its applications.

Philosophical and theoretical foundations of context:

  1. What is context and how should it be represented.
  2. Relevant types of contextual information and their properties.
  3. Combining contextual information with object information for
     reasoning.
  4. Context and common-sense reasoning.
  5. Exploiting context in inconsistency and uncertainty handling,
     defeasible reasoning and argumentation.
  6. Contextual logic programming.
  7. Updating contextual knowledge and context-aware belief revision.
  8. Frameworks for formalizing context and context-aware knowledge
     representation.

Context modeling and contextual knowledge engineering:

  1. Modeling of user's/agent's context.
  2. Context driven organization of knowledge and modeling.
  3. Ontologies for context modeling.
  4. Context-aware modeling tools and methodology.
  5. Comparisons to context-unaware modeling techniques.

Effective reasoning with context:

  1. Effective context-aware reasoning algorithms.
  2. Distributed reasoning with context.
  3. Context-driven heuristics in classical reasoning systems.
  4. Reasoning under uncertainty and inconsitency.
  5. Defeasible reasoning.
  4. Hybrid formalisms for reasoning with context, including
     sub-symbolic contexts

Applications of context in areas such as:

  1. Agent communication and coordination.
  2. Semantic Web and Linked Open Data.
  3. Knowledge modularization.
  4. Ontology matching.
  5. Ontology fault diagnosis and repair.
  6. Ontology evolution and versioning.
  7. Information integration.
  8. Ambient intelligence and pervasive computing.
  9. Exploiting context in Web 2.0 applications, e-commerce, and
     e-learning.

-- Submission Requirements  --

Papers of two types can be submitted. Regular papers are intended for
research reports and surveys. ARCOE also welcomes reports on significant
work in progress which has already achieved some interesting partial
results, as well as papers recently submitted or published elsewhere as
long as their topic is in line with the workshop. Regular papers should
not exceed 12 pages in length including references. Position papers are
intended for presentation of interesting new open issues and challenges,
and opinions on the status of the field. Position papers are limited to
6 pages including references. All papers must be formatted using the
Springer LNCS style:

http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html

and submitted in PDF format via EasyChair using:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe12

The distinction during the selection-phase will be based on

1) Relevance, significance and quality of the submission;

2) The contribution's potential to foster cross-pollination and
discussions on ARCOE main themes during the event.

Accepted papers will be presented either as oral presentations or as
posters, depending on the choice of the program committee.  However, all
accepted papers will be included in the Working Notes in their full form
and will be accessible via the Internet.

-- Workshop Co-Chairs --

* Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology
* Martin Homola (primary contact), Comenius University, Bratislava
* Alessandra Mileo, DERI, National University of Ireland
* Ivan Jose Varzinczak, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research,
  South Africa

-- Steering Committee --

* Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh
* Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology
* Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento

-- Resources --

ARCOE-12 website: http://www.arcoe.org/2012/
EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe12
ARCOE workshop series: http://www.arcoe.org/
ECAI-12 website: http://www2.lirmm.fr/ecai2012/
Enquiries about the ARCOE workshop: arcoe [at] arcoe [dot] org

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:23:57 +0200
Subject: Appel: Demonstrations (Pendant JEP-TALN-RECITAL), Dernier appel,
 4 au 8 juin, Grenoble
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:22:40 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9_Blanchon?= <Herve.Blanchon at imag.fr>
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DERNIER APPEL ? D?MONSTRATION  (DATE LIMITE LE 7AVRIL)

JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012 (Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012)

CALENDRIER pour la soumission de propositions de d?monstrations :

 - Date limite de soumission : 7 avril 2012
 - Notification aux auteurs : 15 avril 2012
 - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 20 avril 2012

PR?SENTATION

Organis?e par l'?quipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de
Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des
langues ?trang?res et maternelles) et le d?partement DPC du Gipsa-lab,
la conf?rence TALN'2012 se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2012 ? Grenoble ?
l'occasion de la conf?rence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012.

JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29?me ?dition des Journ?es d'?tude sur
la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19?me ?dition de la conf?rence sur le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14?me
?dition des Rencontres des ?tudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012).

Pour la quatri?me fois, apr?s Nancy en 2002, F?s en 2004, et Avignon en
2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parl?e) et
l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues)
organisent conjointement leur principale conf?rence afin de r?unir en un
seul lieu les deux communaut?s du traitement de la langue orale et
?crite.

La conf?rence TALN'2012 comprendra des communications orales et
affich?es, des conf?rences invit?es et des ateliers.

La langue officielle de la conf?rence est le fran?ais. Les
communications en anglais sont accept?es pour les participants
non-francophones.

ORGANISATION

Les organisateurs de ces conf?rences ont le plaisir d'inviter les
participants ? pr?senter des d?monstrations de logiciels et/ou de
prototypes qui s'appuient sur des m?thodes de Traitement Automatique du
Langage Naturel pour le texte ou la parole.
Dans ce cadre, les professionnels de l'industrie peuvent faire acte de
candidature pour pr?senter leur logiciel au cours du session
d?di?e. L'objet de cette derni?re est d'offrir un cadre d'interaction
entre les milieux industriel et acad?mique.

La session DEMONSTRATIONS ET INDUSTRIELLE, accueillera des pr?sentations
sous les formes suivantes (selon les besoins et disponibilit?s) :

- stand d'exposant ;
- affiche de pr?sentation ;
- d?monstration de produits logiciels ;
- pr?sentation orale.


MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION 

Pour participer, les candidats devront envoyer
? un r?sum? (2 page au format de la conf?rence) 
aux adresses : Herve.Blanchon at imag.fr et Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr 
le 30 mars 2011 au plus tard 
avec un titre commen?ant par [JEP-TALN DEMO]

Les participants seront choisis par le comit? d'organisation,
ind?pendament du processus de s?lection scientifique habituel. Les
crit?res de s?lection s'appuieront sur la pertinence des outils au
regard des th?matiques affich?es par les conf?rences TALN, RECITAL et
JEP.

Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais.

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word seront disponibles sur le
site web (? venir) de la conf?rence.

Contact : herve.blanchon at imag.fr et laurent.besacier at imag.fr

Amiti?s, Herv?.

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From: thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:25:32 +0200
Subject: Appel: LACL 2012, Call for demonstrations
Message-ID: <FRI.30.MAR.2012.222532.0200.THIERRY.HAMON@UNIVPARIS13.FR>

Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:27:40 +0200
From: Denis Bechet <Denis.Bechet at univ-nantes.fr>
Message-Id: <201203301727.40242.Denis.Bechet at univ-nantes.fr>
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X-url: http://lacl.gforge.inria.fr/lacl-2012


LACL 2012 : Call for System Demonstrations

Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
July 2-4, 2012
LINA, Nantes, France

http://lacl2012.sciencesconf.org/
http://lacl.gforge.inria.fr/lacl-2012

LACL'2012 is the 7th edition of the series of International Conferences
on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics.

It will take place in Nantes, France on July 2-4, 2012.  This conference
addresses the use of type theoretic, proof theoretic, model theoretic
and other logically based formal methods for describing natural language
syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as the implementation of
natural language processing software relying on such methods.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, 
but are not limited to:

    * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms
    * logics for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and
      dialog
    * applications of these models to natural language processing.

In order to stimulate the interest in applications, the conference will
for the first time propose a System demonstration session.

We are seeking for demonstrations of prototype or professional
applications/tools in the domain of computational linguistics relevant
to the LACL topics of interest.
 
Demo extended abstracts must be at most of four pages using the
 standard LNCS Springer LaTeX style (see authors instructions at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). 
Developers should outline the design of their system and provide
sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and
relevance to LACL topics. Pointers to web sites running a demo 
preview will also be helpful.	
 
Each system will be shortly presented in a special conference session
and during the Demo Session. It may also be completed by a poster.
Participants should use their own laptop for the demos. The organizers
should be contacted in case of any special requirements.

The demo extended abstracts should be submitted in PDF format by email
at the address lacl2012-demo at sciencesconf.org The submissions will be
reviewed by the Demo program committee using the standards of excellence
associated with the LACL conferences.  A single review evaluation
process will be based on novelty, relevance, and scientific
contribution. The selected submissions will be published in the Demo
Session proceedings on the conference site.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: April 30, 2012
Notification: May 11, 2012
Camera ready version due: May 21, 2012 

Local Demo Session Committee :

Denis B?chet
Florian Boudin
Alexandre Dikovsky
Nicolas Hernandez

Contact: lacl2012-demo at sciencesconf.org

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