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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:58:54 +0100
Subject: Appel: DISCOURS n=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=B014?=
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:09:23 +0100
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*Call for papers for DISCOURS, Issue 14 *

Coordination: Laure SARDA & Denis VIGIER

We are inviting submissions for the next issue of DISCOURS, to appear in
June 2014.

DISCOURS is an international and interdisciplinary e-journal, which
publishes two issues a year, and occasional special issues. The journal
focuses on the following topics: discourse structure, cohesion,
co-reference, linearization, indexation, information structure, word
order, segmentation markers, integration markers, discourse relations,
cognitive processes involved in discourse comprehension and production,
and other related topics.

It is intended as a forum for exchanging and comparing data, analyses
and opinions for all linguists, psycholinguists and computer linguists
working in fields involving the description, comprehension,
formalization and processing of text organization.

Papers (in English or French) should be sent to discours at revues.org
before December 15, 2013. Full instructions can be found on the website
(http:// discours.revues.org/224)


*Appel à publication DISCOURS, numéro 14 *

Coordination : Laure SARDA & Denis VIGIER

Nous invitons des soumissions pour le prochain numéro de DISCOURS, à
paraitre en Juin 2014

DISCOURS est une revue électronique internationale et interdisciplinaire
qui publie deux numéros par an. Parallèlement, la revue accepte les
projets de numéros thématiques. La ligne éditoriale de la revue se
concentre autour des thèmes suivants : structuration du discours,
cohésion, co-référence, linéarisation, indexation, structure
informationnelle, ordre des mots, marqueurs de segmentation, marqueurs
d’intégration, relations de discours, processus cognitifs à l'œuvre lors
de la compréhension et de la production de textes et autres thèmes
reliés.

Elle est un lieu d'échange et de confrontation des données, des analyses
et des théories pour la communauté des linguistes, psycholinguistes et
informaticiens travaillant plus généralement à la description, la
compréhension, la formalisation et le traitement informatique de
l’organisation des textes.

Envoyez vos articles en anglais ou en français à
discours at revues.orgjusqu’au 15 décembre 2013 (voir les modalités de
soumission http://discours.revues.org/index208.html)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 12:56:04 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:56:04 +0100
Subject: These: Laurence Longo, Vers des moteurs de recherche intelligents
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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:51:20 +0100
From: Laurence Longo <laurence.longo at gmail.com>
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Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous convier à la soutenance de ma thèse intitulée :
 "Vers des moteurs de recherche 'intelligents' : un outil de détection
 automatique de thèmes. Méthode basée sur l'identification automatique
 des chaînes de référence."

Elle aura lieu le jeudi 12 décembre 2013 à partir de 14h30 dans la salle
des thèses du Nouveau Patio, Campus Universitaire Esplanade, 20a rue
René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg (plan :
http://www.unistra.fr/plans/centre/72/index.html).

La soutenance sera suivie du traditionnel pot de thèse (à partir de
18h30, en salle 0-01) auquel vous êtes chaleureusement invités.

Bien cordialement.

Laurence Longo


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Composition du jury :
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Mme Catherine Schnedecker - Professeur, LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg
- Directrice
Mme Amalia Todirascu - Maître de conférences, LiLPa, Université de
Strasbourg - Co-directrice
M. Yves Bestgen - Professeur, Université catholique de Louvain -
Rapporteur
M. Denis Maurel - Professeur, Université François Rabelais - Rapporteur
Mme Agnès Tutin - Professeur, Université Stendhal Grenoble -
Examinatrice
M. Frédéric Landragin - Chargé de recherche CNRS, Université Paris 3 -
Examinateur


Résumé :
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Cette thèse se situe dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique des
Langues et vise à optimiser la classification des documents dans les
moteurs de recherche. Les travaux se concentrent sur le développement
d’un outil de détection automatique des thèmes des documents
(ATDS-fr). Utilisant peu de connaissances, la méthode hybride adoptée
allie des techniques statistiques de segmentation thématique à des
méthodes linguistiques identifiant des marqueurs de cohésion. Parmi eux,
les chaînes de référence – séquence d’expressions référentielles se
rapportant à la même entité du discours (e.g. Paul…il…cet homme) – ont
fait l’objet d’une attention particulière, car elles constituent un
indice textuel important dans la détection des thèmes (i.e. ce sont des
marqueurs d’introduction, de maintien et de changement
thématique). Ainsi, à partir d’une étude des chaînes de référence menée
dans un corpus issu de genres textuels variés (articles de journaux,
rapports publics, lois européennes, éditoriaux, roman), nous avons
développé un module d’identification automatique des chaînes de
référence RefGen qui a été évalué suivant les métriques actuelles de la
coréférence.

Mots-clés :
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Détection automatique de thèmes, chaînes de référence, traitement
automatique des langues, sémantique lexicale, coréférence, genres
textuels, segmentation thématique, marqueurs linguistiques, cohésion,
linguistique de corpus


Abstract :
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This thesis in the field of Natural Language Processing aims at
optimizing documents classification in search engines. This work focuses
on the development of a tool that automatically detects documents topics
(ATDS-fr). Using poor knowledge, the hybrid method combines statistical
techniques for topic segmentation and linguistic methods that identify
cohesive markers. Among them, reference chains - sequences of
referential expressions referring to the same entity (e.g. Paul ... he
... this man) - have been given special attention as they are important
topic markers (i.e.  they are markers of topic introduction, maintenance
and change). Thus, from a study of reference chains extracted from a
corpus composed of various textual genres (newspapers, public reports,
European laws, editorials and novel) we developed RefGen, an automatic
reference chains identification module, which was evaluated according to
current coreference metrics.

Keywords:
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Topic detection, reference chains, natural language processing, lexical
semantics, coreference, textual genre, topic segmentation, linguistic
markers, cohesion, corpus linguistics

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:02:08 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:02:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for Challenge,
 Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems
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Date: Tue,  3 Dec 2013 09:24:36 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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=== Call for Challenge: Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems ===

Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/RecSys
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-RecSys

MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES
People generally need more and more advanced tools that go beyond those
implementing the canonical search paradigm for seeking relevant
information. A new search paradigm is emerging, where the user
perspective is completely reversed: from finding to being
found. Recommender systems may help to support this new perspective,
because they have the effect of pushing relevant objects, selected from
a large space of possible options, to potentially interested users. To
achieve this result, recommendation techniques generally rely on data
referring to three kinds of objects: users, items and their relations.

Recent developments in the Semantic Web community offer novel strategies
to represent data about users, items and their relations that might
improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to
move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully
understand the items they deal with.
More and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data
principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different
data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space:
the Web of Data. Today, the Web of Data includes different types of
knowledge represented in a homogeneous form: sedimentary one
(encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one
(news, data streams, ...). These data might be useful to interlink
diverse information about users, items, and their relations and
implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the
recommendation process.
The primary goal of this challenge is twofold. On the one hand, we want
to create a link between the Semantic Web and the Recommender Systems
communities. On the other hand, we aim to show how Linked Open Data and
semantic technologies can boost the creation of a new breed of
knowledge-enabled and content-based recommender systems.

TARGET AUDIENCE
The target audience is all of those communities, both academic and
industrial, which are interested in personalized information access with
a particular emphasis on Linked Open Data.
During the last ACM RecSys conference more than 60% of participants were
from industry. This is for sure a witness of the actual interest of
recommender systems for industrial applications ready to be released in
the market.

TASKS
Task 1: Rating prediction in cold-start situations
This task deals with the rating prediction problem, in which a system is
requested to estimate the value of unknown numeric scores
(a.k.a. ratings) that a target user would assign to available items,
indicating whether she likes or dislikes them.
In order to favor the proposal of content-based, LOD-enabled
recommendation approaches, and limit the use of collaborative filtering
approaches, this task aims at predicting ratings in cold-start
situations, that is, predicting ratings for users who have a few past
ratings, and predicting ratings of items that have been rated by a few
users.
The dataset to use in the task - DBbook - relates to the book domain. It
contains explicit numeric ratings assigned by users to books. For each
book we provide the corresponding DBpedia URI.
Participants will have to exploit the provided ratings as training sets,
and will have to estimate unknown ratings in a non-provided evaluation
set.
Recommendation approaches will be evaluated on the evaluation set by
means of metrics that measure the differences between real and estimated
ratings, namely the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE).

Task 2: Top-N recommendation from binary user feedback
This task deals with the top-N recommendation problem, in which a system
is requested to find and recommend a limited set of N items that best
match a user profile, instead of correctly predict the ratings for all
available items.
Similarly to Task 1, in order to favor the proposal of content-based,
LOD-enabled recommendation approaches, and limit the use of
collaborative filtering approaches, this task aims at generating ranked
lists of items for which no graded ratings are available, but only
binary ones.
Also in this case, the DBbook dataset will be provided.
In this task, the accuracy of recommendation approaches will be
evaluated on an evaluation set using the F-measure.

Task 3: Diversity
A very interesting aspect of content-based recommender systems and then
of LOD-enabled ones is giving the possibility to evaluate the diversity
of recommended items in a straight way. This is a very popular topic in
content-based recommender systems, which usually suffer from
over-specialization.
In this task, the evaluation will be made by considering a combination
of both accuracy of the recommendation list and the diversity of items
belonging to it. Also for this task, DBbook dataset will be used.
Given the domain of books, diversity with respect to the two properties
dbpedia-owl:author and skos:subject will be considered.

EVALUATION DATASET AND EVALUATION METRICS
DBbook dataset
This dataset relies on user data and preferences retrieved from the
Web. The books available in the dataset have been mapped to their
corresponding DBpedia URIs. The mapping contains 8170 DBpedia URIs.
These mappings can be used to extract semantic features from DBpedia or
other LOD repositories to be exploited by the recommendation approaches
proposed in the challenge.
The dataset is split in a training set and an evaluation set. In the
former, user ratings are provided to train a system while in the latter,
ratings have been removed, and they will be used in the eventual
evaluation step.

Participants will generate the ratings (Task 1) or the ranking (Task 2
and Task 3) for the test set, and their results will be compared and
evaluated with respect to actual users ratings (hidden evaluation data).

The two sets will be provided at the challenge's website, in the following plain text files:
* lodrecsys2014-DBbook-training-ratings.txt: Contains tuples <user,
book, rating> that may be used to build the recommendation approaches. 
* lodrecsys2014-DBbook-test-ratings.txt: Contains tuples <user, book>
that will be used to evaluate the recommendation approaches. 

Together with the two previous files, a further one will be provided
containing the mapping to DBpedia.
* lodrecsys2014-DBbook-mappings.txt: Contains tuples <book, bookURI>
associated with the books in DBbook that will be used to extract and
exploit semantic features from DBpedia and other LOD repositories.

Recommendation approaches will be evaluated with the metrics requested
in each task. We provide a number of Java classes that compute the
different metrics and a Web Service to test intermediate results. A
description of the metrics to compute and further details regarding the
evaluation will be available at the challenge website.


JUDGING AND PRIZES
After a first round of reviews, the Program Committee and the chairs
will select a number of submissions that will have to satisfy the
challenge's requirements, and will have to be presented at the
conference. Submissions accepted for presentation will receive
constructive reviews from the Program Committee, and will be included in
post-proceedings. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster
session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will
present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC'14, and
will be invited to submit a paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal
special issue.

For each task we will select:
* the best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the
  highest score in the evaluation
* the most original approach, selected by the Challenge Program
  Committee with the reviewing process

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The following information has to be provided:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
  why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
  or functions the system provides, what design choices were made, and
  what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how
  participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
  submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture
  Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.
* Result evaluation: For the three tasks previously described, a
  Web-accessible service will be provided in order to evaluate the
  produced results. All the details about the format and the service URL
  will be provided on the website.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges

MAILING LIST

We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in
order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the
challenge.

https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-recsys-challenge


IMPORTANT DATES
* March 7, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Abstract Submission
* March 14, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days


CHALLENGE CHAIRS
* Tommaso Di Noia (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT)
* Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES)

EVALUATION COORDINATOR
* Vito Claudio Ostuni (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)
* Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES)
* Marco de Gemmis (University of Bari Aldo Moro, IT)
* Frank Hopfgartner (Technische Universitat Berlin, DE)
* Andreas Hotho (Universitat Wurzburg, DE)
* Dietmar Jannach (TU Dortmund University, DE)
* Pasquale Lops (University of Bari Aldo Moro, IT)
* Valentina Maccatrozzo (Delft University of Technology, NL)
* Francesco Ricci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT)
* Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari Aldo Moro, IT)
* David Vallet (NICTA, AU)
* Manolis Wallace (University of Peloponnese, GR)
* Markus Zanker (Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, AT)
 

ESWC CHALLENGE COORDINATOR
* Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 12:57:53 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:57:53 +0100
Subject: Stage: Prediction automatique de relations d'implication entre
 verbes, IRIT
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.135753.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:48:03 +0100
From: Benamara Zitoune Farah <benamara at irit.fr>
Message-ID: <529C8183.5030300 at irit.fr>

Prédiction automatique de relations d’implication entre verbes

Encadrement : Marta Abrusan (marta.abrusan at irit.fr), Stergos Afantenos
(stergos.afantenos at irit.fr), Farah Benamara (farah.benamara at irit.fr)

Lieu : IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier
Financement : prime de stage
Durée : 5 mois

La compréhension sémantique d’un texte est l’un des enjeux majeurs du
traitement automatique du langage (TAL). Cette tâche est primordiale
pour de très nombreuses applications telles que la génération
automatique de textes et de conversations, le résumé automatique, la
paraphrase automatique d’un texte ou encore la recherche
d’information. Le but de ce stage est de contribuer à ces recherches en
se focalisant sur la prédiction de relations entre verbes.

Prédire une relation entre verbes consiste à déterminer pour un couple
de verbes (v1,v2), associé ou non à un contexte, le type de relations
sémantiques qui les relient, cf. Chklovski and Pantel (2004), Tremper
and Frank (2013). Celles ci peuvent être de différentes natures :
relations de synonymie, d’antonymie, de causalité, d’implication, etc.
Dans ce stage, nous nous focaliserons sur les relations
d’implication. Par exemple, les verbes “se balader” et “bouger” sont
reliés par une relation d’implication, ce qui permettra à un ordinateur
de répondre à une requête du type Pierre s’est-il baladé ?, sachant que
la base de connaissances indique que Pierre a bougé.

Afin d’identifier ces relations, le stagiaire devra utiliser les
méthodes d’apprentissage automatiques les plus adéquates. Le but de ces
méthodes est d’apprendre une fonction f : X --> Y où X représente un
ensemble des features (ou traits) sur les paires des verbes et Y est un
booléen représentant le fait qu’il existe ou non une relation
d’implication entre ces verbes. Différentes méthodes seront
explorées. Nous commencerons d’abord par les méthodes supervisées qui
généralisent des observations faites sur un corpus de
données. Cependant, cette approche présuppose que le nombre d’instances
d’entraînement est suffisamment grand, ce qui n’est malheureusement pas
toujours le cas pour de nombreuses tâches où le coût humain d’annotation
des instances est élevé. La seconde étape sera alors d’explorer les
méthodes d’apprentissage semi-supervisées afin de réduire ce coût.

Références

Timothy Chklovski and Patrick Pantel (2004) : VerbOcean : Mining the web
for fine-grained semantic verb relations. In Proceedings of the 2004
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages
33-40, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

Tremper, G. and A. Frank (2013) : A Discriminative Analysis of
Fine-Grained Semantic Relations including Presupposition : Annotation
and Classification. In : Dialogue and Discourse, 4 (2), Special Issue :
Beyond Semantics. The Challenge of Annotating Pragmatic and Discourse
Phenomena, edited by S. Dipper, H. Zinsmeister and B. Webber, 282-322.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:04:50 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:04:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for Challenge, Semantic Publishing
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.140450.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue,  3 Dec 2013 09:39:17 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Call for Challenge: Semantic Publishing ====

Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemPub
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemPub


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES
Scholarly publishing is increasingly enabling a new wave of applications
that better support researchers in disseminating, exploiting and
evaluating their results. The potential of publishing scientific papers
enriched with semantic information is huge and raises interesting and
challenging issues. Semantic Web technologies play a central role in
this context, as they can help publishers to make scientific results
available in an open format the whole research community can benefit
from.
The Semantic Publishing Challenge 2014 is intended to be the first in a
series of events at ESWC for producing and exploiting semantic
publishing data. The main focus this year is on extracting information
and using this information to assess the quality of scientific
productions.
Linked open datasets about scientific production exist - e.g. DBLP - but
they usually cover basic bibliographic information, which is not
sufficient to assess quality. Quality-related information, such as the
number of journal articles that cite a given publication, or the number
of times a workshop has been run by the same chairs and received many
submissions, or the actual function of a citation are often hidden and
not yet available as LOD. The main goal of the Challenge is to build
high-quality LOD that contains such information.
Moving off this year's outcomes, we plan to investigate the final
publication and exploitation side in the next editions.

TARGET AUDIENCE
The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.

TASKS
We ask challengers to automatically annotate a set of multi-format and
multi-source input documents and to produce a Linked Open Dataset that
fully describes these documents, their context, and relevant parts of
their content. The evaluation will consist of evaluating a set of
queries against the produced dataset to assess its correctness and
completeness.
The input dataset will be split in two parts: a training/testing part
and an evaluation part, which will disclosed a few days before the
submission deadline. Participants will be asked to run their tool on the
evaluation dataset and to produce the final Linked Open Dataset.
Further details about the organization of the Challenge will be
provided. The Challenge will include two tasks:

Task 1: Extraction and assessment of workshop proceedings information
Participants are required to extract information from a set of HTML
tables of contents, partly including microformat and RDFa annotations
but not necessarily being valid HTML, of selected computer science
workshop proceedings published with the CEUR-WS.org open access
service. The extracted information is expected to answer queries about
the quality of these workshops, for instance by measuring their growth,
longevity, connection with other events, distribution of papers and
authors.

Task 2: Extraction and characterization of citations
Participants are required to extract information about the citations in
scientific journals and their relevance. Input documents are in XML JATS
and TaxPub, an official extension of JATS customized for taxonomic
treatments, and selected from the PubMedCentral Open Access Subset and
the Pensoft Biodiversity Data Journal and ZooKeys archive. The extracted
information is expected to be used for assessing the value of citations,
for instance by considering their position in the paper, their
co-location with other citations or their purpose.

EVALUATION
Participants will be requested to submit the LOD that their tool
produces from the evaluation dataset, as well as a paper that describes
their approach. They will also be given a set of queries in natural
language form and will be asked to translate those queries into a SPARQL
form that works on their LOD.
The results of the queries on the produced LOD will be compared with the
expected output, and precision and recall will be measured to identify
the best performing approach. Separately, the most original approach
will be assigned by the Program Committee.
Further details about the evaluation will be provided on the challenge
wiki.

FEEDBACK AND DISCUSSION
A discussion group is open for participants to ask questions and to
receive updates about the challenge (see link at bottom). Participants
are invited to subscribe to this group as soon as possible and to
communicate their intention to participate. They are also invited to use
this channel to discuss problems in the input dataset and to suggest
changes.

JUDGING AND PRIZES
After a first round of review, the Program Committee and the chairs will
select a number of submissions conforming to the challenge requirements
that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for
presentation will receive constructive reviews from the Program
Committee, they will be included in the Springer LNCS post-proceedings
of ESWC, and they will have a presentation slot in a poster session
dedicated to the challenge. 

In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of
the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a revised and
extended paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue.

Four winners will be selected. For each of the two tasks we will select:
* best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the highest
  score in the evaluation
* most original approach, selected by the Challenge Committee with the
  reviewing process

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Participants are required to submit:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should explain the details of the automated annotation
  system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic
  Web technology, what features or functions the system provides, what
  design choices were made and what lessons were learned. The
  description should also summarize how participants have addressed the
  evaluation tasks. An outlook towards how the data could be consumed is
  appreciated but not strictly required. Papers must be submitted in PDF
  format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture Notes in
  Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.
* The Linked Open Dataset produced by their tool on the evaluation
  dataset (as a file or as a URL, in Turtle or RDF/XML). 
* A set of SPARQL queries that work on that LOD and correspond to the
  natural language queries provided as input

Participants will also be asked to submit their tool (source and/or
binaries, or a link these can be downloaded from, or a web service URL)
for verification purposes.
Further submission instructions will be published on the challenge wiki.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges

MAILING LIST
We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in
order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the
challenge. 

https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-sempub-challenge

IMPORTANT DATES
* December 3, 2013: Publication of the full description of tasks, rules
  and queries; publication of the training/testing dataset
* January 15, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Deadline for making remarks to
  the training/testing dataset
* January 20, 2014: Publication of the final training/testing dataset
* March 7, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Abstract Submission
* March 11, 2014: Publication of the evaluation dataset
* March 14, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days


CHALLENGE CHAIRS
* Angelo Di Iorio (Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  University of Bologna, IT)
* Christoph Lange (Enterprise Information Systems, University of Bonn /
  Fraunhofer IAIS, DE)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Soren Auer (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS, DE) (supervisor)
Sarven Capadisli (University of Leipzig, DE)
Alexander Constantin (University of Manchester, UK)
Alexander Garcia Castro (Florida State University, US)
Leyla Jael Garcia Castro (Bundeswehr University of Munich, DE)
Aidan Hogan (DERI Galway, IR)
Evangelos Milios (Dalhousie University, CA)
Lyubomir Penev (Pensoft Publishers, BG)
Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK)
Jun Zhao (Lancaster University, UK)

We are inviting further members.

ESWC CHALLENGE COORDINATOR
* Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:10:55 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:10:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for Challenge,
 Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.141055.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue,  3 Dec 2013 12:17:24 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20131203111744.59CD6DBB48 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA


==== Call for Challenge: Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis ====

Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemSA
					
MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES
Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language is an extremely
difficult task as it involves a deep understanding of most of the
explicit and implicit, regular and irregular, syntactical and semantic
rules proper of a language. Existing approaches mainly rely on parts of
text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as
polarity terms, affect words and their co-occurrence
frequencies. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed
implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical
approaches ineffective. To this end, concept-level sentiment analysis
aims to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of text and provide novel
approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis that allow a more
efficient passage from (unstructured) textual information to
(structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text
through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the
aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with
natural language opinions. By relying on large semantic knowledge bases,
concept-level sentiment analysis steps away from blind use of keywords
and word co-occurrence count, but rather relies on the implicit features
associated with natural language concepts.

This Challenge focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion
of novel approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis. Participants
will have to design a concept-level opinion-mining engine that exploits
common-sense knowledge bases, e.g., SenticNet, and/or Linked Data and
Semantic Web ontologies, e.g., DBPedia, to perform multi-domain
sentiment analysis. The main motivation for the Challenge, in
particular, is to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of natural
language text and provide novel concept-level tools and techniques that
allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) natural language to
(structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Systems must have a semantics flavor (e.g., by making use of Linked Data
or known semantic networks within their core functionalities) and
authors need to show how the introduction of semantics can be used to
obtain valuable information, functionality or performance. Existing
natural language processing methods or statistical approaches can be
used too as long as the semantics plays a main role within the core
approach (engines based merely on syntax/word-count will be excluded
from the competition).


TARGET AUDIENCE
The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.

TASKS
The Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge is defined in terms of
different tasks. The first task is elementary whereas the others are
more advanced. The input units of each task are sentences. Sentences are
assumed to be in grammatically correct American English and have to be
processed according to the input format specified at
http://sentic.net/challenge/sentence.

Elementary Task: Polarity Detection
The main goal of the task is polarity detection. The proposed systems
will be assessed according to precision, recall and F-measure of
detected binary polarity values (1=positive; 0=negative) for each input
sentence of the evaluation dataset, following the same format as in
http://sentic.net/challenge/task0. The problem of subjectivity detection
is not addressed within this Challenge, hence participants can assume
that there will be no neutral sentences. Participants are encouraged to
use the Sentic API or further develop and apply sentic computing tools.

Advanced Task #1: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
The output of this task will be a set of aspects of the reviewed product
and a binary polarity value associated to each of such aspects, in the
format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task1. So, for example,
while for the Elementary task an overall polarity (positive or negative)
is expected for a review about a mobile phone, this task requires a set
of aspects (such as ‘speaker', ‘touchscreen', ‘camera', etc.) and a
polarity value (positive OR negative) associated with each of such
aspects. Systems will be assessed according to both aspect extraction
and aspect polarity detection.

Advanced Task #2: Semantic Parsing
As suggested by the title, the Challenge focuses on sentiment analysis
at concept-level. This means that the proposed systems are not supposed
to work at word/syntax level but rather work with
concepts/semantics. Hence, this task will evaluate the capability of the
proposed systems to deconstruct natural language text into concepts,
following the same format as in
http://sentic.net/challenge/task2. SenticNet will be taken as a
reference to test the efficiency of the proposed parsers, but extracted
concepts won't necessary have to match SenticNet concepts. The proposed
systems, for example, are supposed to be able to extract a multi-word
expression like ‘buy christmas present' from sentences such as “Today I
bought a lot of very nice Christmas presents'. The number of extracted
concepts per sentence will be assessed through precision, recall and
F-measure against the evaluation dataset.

Advanced Task #3: Topic Spotting
Input sentences will be about four different domains, namely: books,
DVDs, electronics, and kitchen appliances. This task focuses on the
automatic classification of sentences into one of such domains, in the
format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task3. All sentences are
assumed to belong to only one of the above-mentioned domains. The
proposed systems are supposed to exploit the extracted concepts to infer
which domain each sentence belongs to. Classification accuracy will be
evaluated in terms of precision, recall and F-measure against the
evaluation dataset.

EVALUATION DATASET
Systems will be evaluated against a testing dataset which will be
revealed and released after the first-round of evaluation during the
Conference. The dataset will be made public on the challenge
website. Participants are suggested to train and/or test their own
systems using the Blitzer Dataset. The testing dataset will be
constructed in the same way and from the same sources as the Blitzer
dataset.

EVALUATION
The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program
Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters,
please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the
best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system,
reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and
details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the
following aspects:

1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics;
2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task;
3. Computational time;
4. Innovative nature of the approach.

JUDGING AND PRIZES
After a first round of review, the Program Committee and the chairs will
select a number of submissions confirming to the challenge requirements
that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for
presentation will be included in post-proceedings and will receive
constructive reviews from the Program Committee. All accepted
submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the
challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special
slot of the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a paper
to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue.

For the Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge there will be two
awards for each task:
* Quantitative: the system with the highest average score in items 1-3
  above;
* Innovative: the system with the highest score in item 4 above.

There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate
again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private
to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that
the same system runs for both the awards.



HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The following information has to be provided:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and what
lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how
participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not exceeding
5 pages in length.
* Web Access: The application can either be accessible via the web or
downloadable. If the application is not publicly accessible, password
must be provided. A short set of instructions on how to use the
application should be provided as well.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges

Please share comments and questions with the challenge mailing list. The
organizers will assist you for any potential issues that could be
raised.


MAILING LIST
We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in
order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the
challenge.

https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-semsa-challenge


IMPORTANT DATES
* March 7, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Abstract Submission 
* March 14, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission 
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days

CHALLENGE CHAIRS
* Erik Cambria (National University of Singapore, SG)
* Diego Reforgiato Recupero (CNR STLAB Laboratory, IT)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Newton Howard (MIT Media Laboratory, US)
* ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)
* Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, US)
* Ping Chen (University of Houston-Downtown, US)
* Yongzheng Zhang (LinkedIn Inc., US)
* Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio (Amazon Inc., US)
* Rui Xia (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, CN)
* Rafal Rzepka (Hokkaido University, JP)
* Amir Hussain (University of Stirling, UK)
* Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic Institute, MX)
* Bjoern Schuller, (Technical University of Munich, DE)
* Amitava Das (Samsung Research India, IN)
* Dipankar Das (National Institute of Technology, IN)
* Carlo Strapparava (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT)
* Stefano Squartini (Marche Polytechnic University, IT)
* Cristina Bosco (University of Torino, IT)
* Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES)

ESWC CHALLENGE COORDINATOR
* Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:25:22 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:25:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: RECITAL 2014
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.142522.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:37:52 +0100
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <529E08E0.4010502 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>


RECITAL 2014 : Premier appel à communications
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RECITAL 2014
16ème Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues.

Faculté Saint Charles, Aix Marseille Université (Marseille), du 1er au 4
juillet 2014.


Dates importantes
-------------------------

- Date limite de soumission : samedi 5 avril 2014
- Notification aux auteurs : samedi 3 mai 2014
- Version définitive : samedi 17 mai 2014


Présentation
-----------------

RECITAL 2014, la conférence annuelle des jeunes chercheurs associée à
TALN, se déroulera à Marseille du 1er au 4 juillet 2014. RECITAL offre
aux jeunes chercheurs en Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL)
l'occasion de présenter leurs travaux et de comparer leurs
approches. Elle est réservée aux étudiants (master et doctorat) et aux
jeunes chercheurs ayant obtenu leur doctorat depuis moins d'un an.

Fort du succès des années précédentes, nous encourageons la soumission
de travaux même préliminaires, de projets de thèse, et de travaux des
premiers mois de recherche (état de l'art, premières pistes,
etc.). L'objectif premier de RECITAL est de soutenir les travaux des
jeunes chercheurs en TAL et de faciliter leur intégration dans notre
communauté. A ce titre, nous visons :

- des relectures pédagogiques : les auteurs doivent pouvoir comprendre
  les erreurs qu'ils ont pu commettre afin de pouvoir les corriger et
  améliorer la qualité de leur travail;

- des relectures positives : il n'est jamais nécessaire de décourager un
  jeune chercheur, les maîtres-mots devront 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 ensemble lors de la conférence.

Le prix du meilleur papier RECITAL sera décerné lors de la cérémonie de
clôture.


Thèmes principaux
--------------------------

Les communications pourront porter sur les thèmes habituels du TAL :

- Analyse et génération dans les domaines suivants :
  + Phonétique
  + Phonologie
  + Morphologie
  + Syntaxe
  + Sémantique
- 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 de poster.


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 8 à 14 pages. Une feuille de style LaTeX, un modèle
Word et un modèle LibreOffice seront disponibles sur le site web de la
conférence (www.taln2014.org).

Contact : nuria.gala(arobase)lif.univ-mrs.fr et/ou 
klim.peshkov(arobase)lpl-aix.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:21:25 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:21:25 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: L'informatique : des biens communs ?,
 Centre d'Alembert, Orsay, 18 decembre 2013
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.142125.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 15:48:42 +0100
From: Centre d'Alembert <centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr>
Message-Id: <a06240806cec39fbb5aec@[129.175.108.6]>
X-url: http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr/

Séminaire 2013-2014 
du Centre d'Alembert (http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr/)
"Les sciences comme biens communs"

Séance du mercredi 18 décembre 2013
(NB : pas de séance le 4 décembre comme annoncé 
dans notre programme transmis le 5/11/13)

"L'INFORMATIQUE : DES BIENS COMMUNS  ?" (titre provisoire)

Intervenants :
Jean-Pierre ARCHAMBAULT et Gilles DOWEK
De plus amples informations sur la séance vous parviendront
ultérieurement.

-----
Programme détaillé et contact :
Web : http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr
Mél. : centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr

Les séances ont lieu à la Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay, bâtiment des
colloques (338), salle de conférences (1er étage à gauche) de 13h45 à
15h45 (entrée libre)

Accès :
http://goo.gl/maps/cXezZ

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:26:50 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:26:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: CNL 2014
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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 20:46:53 +0100
From: Camilo Thorne <cthorne at inf.unibz.it>
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Announcement and Call for Papers

*** FOURTH WORKSHOP ON CONTROLLED NATURAL LANGUAGE (CNL 2014) ***

Co-located with COLING 2014

20-22 August 2014
Galway, Ireland

http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2014/

Proceedings in Springer LNCS.

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This workshop on controlled natural language (CNL) has a broad scope and
embraces all approaches that are based on natural language and apply
restrictions on vocabulary, grammar, and/or semantics. This includes
(but is certainly not limited to) approaches that have been called
simplified language, plain language, formalized language, processable
language, fragments of language, phraseologies, conceptual authoring,
language generation, and guided natural language interfaces.

Some CNLs are designed to improve communication among humans, especially
for non-native speakers of the respective natural language. In other
cases, the restrictions on the language are supposed to make it easier
for computers to analyze such texts in order to improve computer-aided,
semi-automatic, or automatic translations into other languages. A third
group of CNL has the goal to enable reliable automated reasoning and
formal knowledge representation from seemingly natural texts. All these
types of CNL are covered by this workshop.


Topics
------

Possible topics for CNL 2014 include:

- CNL for knowledge representation
- CNL for query interfaces
- CNL for specifications
- CNL for business rules
- CNL for dialogue systems
- CNL for machine translation
- CNL for improved understandability of texts
- CNL for natural language generation
- design of CNLs
- CNL applications
- CNL evaluation
- usability and acceptance of CNL
- CNL grammars and lexica
- multilingual CNLs
- reasoning in CNL
- spoken CNL
- CNL in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data
- CNL in the government
- CNL in industry
- CNL use cases
- theoretical properties of CNL


Important Dates
---------------

Submission deadline:          14 March 2014
Notification of acceptance:   12 May 2014
Deadline for revised papers:  9 June 2014
Workshop:                     20-22 August 2014


Submissions and Proceedings
---------------------------

We invite researchers to submit papers with novel contributions in the
area of CNL. These research papers should be formatted according to the
Springer LNCS format and should not exceed 10 pages. Papers should be
submitted via the EasyChair conference system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cnl2014

Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings to be
published by Springer in their LNCS/LNAI series and indexed in all major
citation databases including ISI Web of Science and Scopus.


Venue
-----

The workshop takes place in Ireland at INSIGHT at NUI Galway (formerly
DERI).


Organization Committee
----------------------

- Brian Davis (INSIGHT at NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Tobias Kuhn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)


Program Committee
-----------------

- Krasimir Angelov (Chalmers University, Sweden)
- Johan Bos (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
- Paul Buitelaar (INSIGHT at NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Olga Caprotti (University of Helsinki, Finland)
- Rogan Creswick (Galois, USA)
- Danica Damljanovic (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Brian Davis (INSIGHT at NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Ronald Denaux (iSOCO, Spain)
- Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)
- Ramona Enache (Chalmers University, Sweden)
- Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey)
- Sébastien Ferré (University Rennes 1, France)
- Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Normunds Grūzītis (University of Latvia)
- Siegfried Handschuh (INSIGHT at NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Stefan Höfler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany)
- Tobias Kuhn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Hans Leiß (University of Munich, Germany)
- Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
- Adegboyega Ojo (INSIGHT at NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Gordon Pace (University of Malta)
- Richard Power (The Open University, UK)
- Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa)
- Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester, UK)
- Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
- Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA)
- Irina Temnikova (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
- Allan Third (The Open University, UK)
- Camilo Thorne (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
- Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT, Netherlands)
- Uta Schwertel (imc, Germany)
- Jeroen Van Grondelle (Be Informed, Netherlands)
- Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, UK)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:27:43 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:27:43 +0100
Subject: Job: Postdoc position in WSD, LIMSI-CNRS
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.142743.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 11:19:06 +0100
From: Marianna Apidianaki <marianna at limsi.fr>
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X-url: http://transread.limsi.fr
X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/tlp/mt/


[apologies for cross-posting]


******************************************************************
POSTDOC POSITION IN WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION
AT LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (Paris area), FRANCE
******************************************************************

A postdoctoral position in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is available
at the LIMSI-CNRS lab.

The position is funded by the national (ANR) project TransRead
(http://transread.limsi.fr) aimed at developing new multilingual text
processing applications and facilitating the reading of multilingual
documents for foreign language readers and learners.
The postdoctoral researcher will work on both data-driven and
knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation methods exploiting information
in parallel corpora and large-scale multilingual resources (such as
BabelNet and Wiktionary). The disambiguation output will serve to
facilitate foreign language reading by providing semantic annotations in
different languages. Research results will also be exploited in other
applications developed in the group, such as Machine Translation.

Requirements:

- Ph.D. (or completed by February 2014) in Computer Science, Natural
  Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
- Solid programming skills
- Experience with statistical approaches to semantics, cross-lingual
  methods for NLP or Statistical Machine Translation
- Strong publication record 
- Fluent English

The successful candidate will join a dynamic research team working on
various aspects of Statistical Machine Translation, Word Sense
Disambiguation and paraphrasing. For information regarding our
activities, see http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/tlp/mt/

Duration: 12 months
Application deadline: Open until filled

Interested candidates should send their CV and the names and contact
information of 2 referees to Marianna Apidianaki
(marianna at limsi.fr). Informal inquiries can be sent to the same address.


About the LIMSI-CNRS

The LIMSI-CNRS lab is situated at Orsay, a green area 25 km south of
Paris. A suburban train connects Orsay to Paris city center. Detailed
information about the LIMSI lab can be found at http://www.limsi.fr


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:23:19 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:23:19 +0100
Subject: These: Assaf Urieli,
 Analyse syntaxique robuste du fran=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E7ais?=
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.142319.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 16:34:19 +0100
From: Assaf Urieli <assaf.urieli at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <CAM62byoRQvgriXMjY6G3Jy3zVwCks+p6yE=wuEVYeqqP5YMbAg at mail.gmail.com>

Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à la soutenance de ma thèse intitulée
"Analyse syntaxique robuste du français : concilier méthodes
statistiques et connaissances linguistiques dans l'outil Talismane". La
soutenance aura lieu le mardi 17 décembre 2013 à 14h00 dans la salle D31
de la Maison de la Recherche de l'Université de Toulouse le Mirail. La
Maison de la Recherche se trouve juste à côté de la bibliothèque
universitaire. Un plan se trouve à l'adresse suivante :
http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/infos/pratique/adresses-et-acces/plan-du-campus-avec-l-index-des-ufr-services-et-salles-de-cours-6337.kjsp

Vous êtes également conviés au pot de thèse qui suivra la soutenance.

Bien cordialement,
Assaf Urieli

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Le jury de soutenance sera composé de :
M. Alexis Nasr, Professeur, LIF, Marseille - Rapporteur
M. Eric Wehrli, Professeur, LATL, Genève - Rapporteur
Mme Marie Candito, Maître de Conférences, ALPAGE, Paris Diderot -
Examinatrice
M. Nabil Hathout, Directeur de Recherche, CLLE, Toulouse - Examinateur
M. Ludovic Tanguy, Maître de Conférences HDR, CLLE, Toulouse - Directeur
de thèse

Titre en français :
Analyse syntaxique robuste du français : concilier méthodes statistiques
et connaissances linguistiques dans l'outil Talismane

Résumé de la thèse :
Dans cette thèse, nous explorons l’analyse syntaxique statistique
robuste du français. Notre principal souci est de trouver des méthodes
qui permettent au linguiste d’injecter des connaissances et/ou des
ressources linguistiques dans un moteur statistique afin d’améliorer les
résultats à la fois globalement et pour certains phénomènes
spécifiques. D’abord, nous décrivons le schéma d’annotation en
dépendances du français, et les algorithmes capables de produire cette
annotation, en particulier le parsing par transitions. Après avoir
exploré les algorithmes d’apprentissage automatique supervisé pour les
problèmes de classification en TAL, nous présentons l’analyseur
syntaxique Talismane, développé dans le cadre de cette thèse, qui
comprend quatre modules statistiques – le découpage en phrases, la
segmentation en mots, l’étiquettage morpho-syntaxique et le parsing –
ainsi que les diverses ressources linguistiques utilisées par les
modèles de base. Nos premières expériences ont permis d’identifier la
meilleure configuration d’apprentissage parmi les nombreuses
configurations possibles. Ensuite, nous explorons les améliorations
apportées par le principe de recherche par faisceau (beam search) et la
propagation du faisceau d'un module à un autre. Finalement, nous
présentons une série d’expériences dont le but est de corriger des
erreurs linguistiques spécifiques au moyen de descripteurs ciblés pour
l'apprentissage. Une de nos innovations est l’introduction des règles
qui imposent ou interdisent certaines décisions locales, permettant
ainsi de contourner le modèle statistique, et nous explorons
l’utilisation de règles pour les erreurs que les descripteurs n’ont pas
pu corriger. Finalement, nous explorons l’utilisation de ressources
linguistiques à large couverture, au travers d'une expérience
d'apprentissage semi-supervisé avec une ressource lexicale produite par
une analyse sémantique distributionnelle.

Titre en anglais :
Robust French syntax analysis: reconciling statistical methods and
linguistic knowledge in the Talismane toolkit

Résumé en anglais :
In this thesis we explore robust statistical syntax analysis for French.
Our main concern is to explore methods whereby the linguist can inject
linguistic knowledge and/or resources into the robust statistical engine
in order to improve results both globally and for specific phenomena. We
first explore the dependency annotation schema for French, concentrating
on certain phenomena. Next, we look into the various algorithms capable
of producing this annotation, and in particular on the transition-based
parsing algorithm used in the rest of this thesis. After exploring
supervised machine learning algorithms for NLP classification problems,
we present the Talismane toolkit for syntax analysis, built within the
framework of this thesis, including four statistical modules - sentence
boundary detection, tokenisation, pos-tagging and parsing - as well as
the various linguistic resources used for the baseline model, including
corpora, lexicons and feature sets. Our first experiments enabled us to
identify the best baseline among various machine learning
configurations.  We then look into improvements made possible by a beam
search and by beam propagation from one module to the next. Finally, we
present a series of experiments aimed at correcting errors related to
specific linguistic phenomena, using targeted features. One of our
innovations is the introduction of rules that can impose or prohibit
certain decisions locally, thus bypassing the statistical model. We
explore the usage of rules for errors that the features are unable to
correct. Finally, we look into the enhancement of targeted features by
large scale linguistic resources, and in particular a semi-supervised
approach using a lexical resource constructed using distributional
semantic techniques.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:17:51 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:17:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: 19th Conference on Formal Grammar
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.141751.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 15:34:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Frank Richter <fr at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de>
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                         FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

                                FG-2014:
                 The 19th Conference on Formal Grammar
                 Tuebingen, Germany, August 16-17 2014
                         http://fg.phil.hhu.de/

               Collocated with the European Summer School
                   in Logic, Language and Information


Background

FG-2014 is the 19th conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in
conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information, which takes place in 2014 in Tuebingen, Germany.

Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague
(1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999),
Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh
(2005), Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008), Bordeaux (2009),
Copenhagen (2010), Ljubljana (2011), Opole (2012) and Duesseldorf
(2013).


Aims and Scope

FG provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on
formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of formal
and mathematical methods to the study of natural language. Themes of
interest include, but are not limited to,

* formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and
  pragmatics;
* model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
* logical aspects of linguistic structure;
* constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
* learnability of formal grammar;
* integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;
* foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar and
  linguistics;
* mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic
  analysis.

Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide
variety of frameworks.


Submission Details

We invite **electronic** submissions of original, 16-page papers
(including references and possible technical appendices).  Authors are
encouraged to use the Springer-Verlag LNCS style:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

The submission deadline is **February 23 2014**. Papers must be
submitted electronically at EasyChair, https://www.easychair.org. A
submission URL for FG-2014 will be provided soon.

Papers should report original work which was not presented in other
conferences. However, simultaneous submission is allowed, provided that
the authors indicate other conferences to which the work was submitted
in a footnote. Note that accepted papers can only be presented in one of
the venues.

Submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three
reviewers. Accepted papers will be published as a volume in the Springer
LNCS series, under the FoLLI subline, either separately or jointly with
the papers from FG-2015, depending on the number of accepted papers.


Important Dates

* February 23, 2014: Deadline for paper submission
* April 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance
* June 1, 2014: Camera ready copies due
* August 16-17, 2014: Conference dates


Standing committee

* Glyn Morrill (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University , The Netherlands)
* Rainer Osswald (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany)
* Frank Richter (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:16:57 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:16:57 +0100
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.141657.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:12:06 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
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[Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.]

We are happy to announce that 2 new Pronunciation Dictionaries from the
GlobalPhone database (Chinese-Mandarin and Korean) are now available in
our catalogue.

*_The GlobalPhone Pronunciation Dictionaries:_* GlobalPhone is a
multilingual speech and text database collected at Karlsruhe University,
Germany. The GlobalPhone pronunciation dictionaries contain the
pronunciations of all word forms found in the transcription data of the
GlobalPhone speech & text database. The pronunciation dictionaries are
currently available in 17 languages: Arabic (29230 entries/27059 words),
Bulgarian (20193 entries), Croatian (23497 entries/20628 words), Czech
(33049 entries/32942 words), French (36837 entries/20710 words), German
(48979 entries/46035 words), Hausa (42662 entries/42079 words), Japanese
(18094 entries), Polish (36484 entries), Portuguese (Brazilian) (54146
entries/54130 words), Russian (28818 entries/27667 words), Spanish
(Latin American) (43264 entries/33960 words), Swedish (about 25000
entries), Turkish (31330 entries/31087 words), Vietnamese (38504
entries/29974 words), Chinese-Mandarin (73388 pronunciations), and
Korean (3500 syllables).

Special prices are offered for a combined purchase of several 
GlobalPhone languages.

Available GlobalPhone Pronuncation Dictionaries are listed below (click
on the links for further details):

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**ELRA-S0341 GlobalPhone German Pronunciation Dictionary**
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**ELRA-S0348 GlobalPhone Japanese Pronunciation Dictionary**
For more information, see: 
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**ELRA-S0350 GlobalPhone Arabic Pronunciation Dictionary **
For more information, see: 
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*ELRA-S0351 GlobalPhone Bulgarian Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
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*ELRA-S0352 GlobalPhone Czech Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
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*ELRA-S0353 GlobalPhone Hausa Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
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*ELRA-S0354 GlobalPhone Polish Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1204

*ELRA-S0355 GlobalPhone Portuguese (Brazilian) Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
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*ELRA-S0356 GlobalPhone Swedish Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
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**ELRA-S0358 GlobalPhone Croatian Pronunciation Dictionary**
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1207

*ELRA-S0359 GlobalPhone Russian Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1208

*ELRA-S0360 GlobalPhone Spanish (Latin American) Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1209

*ELRA-S0361 GlobalPhone Turkish Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1210

*ELRA-S0362 GlobalPhone Vietnamese Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1211

  *** NEW ***

*ELRA-S0363 GlobalPhone Chinese-Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1212

*ELRA-S0364 GlobalPhone Korean Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1213

For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

Visit our On-line Catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info
Visit the Universal Catalogue: http://universal.elra.info
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:13:22 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:13:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: Special issue of BMC Bioinformatics on BioNLP Shared Task
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.141322.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:03:35 +0100
From: Claire Nedellec <claire.nedellec at jouy.inra.fr>
Message-ID: <529DD6A7.9040804 at jouy.inra.fr>
X-url: http://2013.bionlp-st.org/bmc-bioinformatics-special-issue

====================================================================
			CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of BMC Bioinformatics on BioNLP Shared Task 2013

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

We are pleased to announce a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics on the
BioNLP Shared Task (BioNLP-ST) 2013.

BMC Bioinformatics is a premier open-access journal for BioNLP research
with an Impact Factor of 3.02 and indexed by PubMed, Scopus, ACM and
Thomson Reuters (ISI) among others.

We invite two kinds of submissions:

1- extended versions of BioNLP-ST 2013 workshop papers. Each extended
   submission must include a substantial amount of previously
   unpublished content. In this type of submission, the workshop paper
   should be cited and the extended contribution has to be clearly
   stated. Please refer to BMC guidelines:
   http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/duplicatepublication

2- papers on new contributions to the BioNLP-ST 2013 tasks.

The BioNLP-ST 2013 data and evaluation services are kept online at:
	http://2013.bionlp-st.org/tasks
for new participants to register and evaluate their results on these 
datasets.

For a general overview on BioNLP Shared Task 2013, please refer to the 
task homepage:
	http://2013.bionlp-st.org/

All submissions will undergo full peer review by 3 reviewers. We expect
that 7-8 papers will be selected to be included in the special issue
based on the reviews.

When preparing your manuscript, please follow the author guidelines of 
BMC Bioinformatics:
	http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/ifora/

Please note also the following:
* The submissions should NOT be made using the general BMC submissions
  site, but through a special issue submission site that will be
  available shortly.
* For accepted papers, the authors have to be prepared to pay the
  article-processing charges.
See http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/about/faq/openaccess 
for more details.

IMPORTANT DATES

Jan 27 Manuscript submission due (draft version)
Feb 3 Manuscript submission (final version)
Mar 8 Acceptance notification of first-round review

To prepare the review process, we ask all those planning to submit a
manuscript to submit an early version of the paper, including title and
abstract, prior to the primary manuscript submission. The draft version
is considered a notification of intent to submit and will only be used
to coordinate reviews; it will not be considered in review of the
manuscript. Note that the initial submissions must include sufficient
information for reviewer assignment, e.g. title and abstract.
The actual review will begin from Feb 4. So, the authors will have a
chance to update their manuscripts by Feb 3.

SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS

Claire Nédellec, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
Jin-Dong Kim, Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS)
Sampo Pyysalo, University of Turku
Pierre Zweigenbaum, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Read more: http://2013.bionlp-st.org/bmc-bioinformatics-special-issue

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:18:07 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:18:07 +0100
Subject: Stage: Stage M2 (recherche), LIRMM,
 Combining Stochastic and Knowledge-based Modeling for Natural
 Language Understanding
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.211807.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 17:15:39 +0100
From: Jean-Philippe Prost <Jean-Philippe.Prost at lirmm.fr>
Message-ID: <CAJQEYs6Jt9jumB5fQqNYmemiL8Az=HtSN77ndj3bLk4PT4YO5A at mail.gmail.com>

Bonjour,

Un stage de M2 (Recherche) est disponible au LIRMM (U. Montpellier 2),
entre le 20 janvier et mi-juin 2014.

*Candidatures souhaitées le plus rapidement possible.*

Titre : Combining Stochastic and Knowledge-based Modelling for Natural
Language Understanding

Encadrement : Jean-Philippe.Prost (Prost at lirmm.fr)
Lieu : LIRMM, Montpellier
Durée : 5 mois
Financement : selon barèmes légaux

Possibilité de poursuite en thèse, selon résultats (candidature soumise
à sélection).

Ce sujet de stage concerne le Traitement Automatique du Langage naturel
(TAL). L'objet en est de se pencher sur une voie possible d'hybridation
entre modélisation logique et modélisation probabiliste pour la
représentation de connaissances langagières.
Le sujet porte plus particulièrement sur la dimension syntaxique.

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

Les parseurs les plus performants du moment sont dits "robustes", pour
leur capacité à produire un arbre syntaxique quelle que soit la phrase
en entrée, y compris mal-formée. Ces analyseurs sont construits à base
d'algorithmes d'apprentissage automatique qui permettent de construire
l'arbre le plus probable étant donné la phrase en entrée.
Cette robustesse est acquise au détriment d'une perte d'information
conséquente. Par exemple, la question de la bonne-formation
(grammaticalité) de l'entrée est éludée, l'analyse d'une phrase
bien-formée n'ayant pas nécessairement une probabilité maximale.
Or il est possible d'apporter une réponse exacte à ce problème, en
venant simplement brancher un module à base de raisonnement logique sur
la sortie non-déterministe d'un analyseur stochastique. Mais ce qui
serait souhaitable, serait de pouvoir intégrer ce processus de
résolution exacte dans le processus d'analyse stochastique.

L'objet de ce stage est donc d'explorer différentes pistes possibles sur
cette question. On pourra, par exemple, intégrer un mécanisme de
vérification de modèle (model checking, au sens de la théorie logique
des modèles) dans le procédé de reclassement (reranking) des n
candidat-modèles les plus probables que génère un analyseur
stochastique.

Le stage comportera une partie d'état de l'art, une partie d'exploration
théorique, et une partie réalisation (programmation).

JP. Prost

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:19:41 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:19:41 +0100
Subject: Stage: Stage M2 recherche en TAL/apprentissage automatique
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.211941.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 11:07:34 +0100
From: Isabelle Tellier <isabelle.tellier at univ-paris3.fr>
Message-Id: <730D5B02-4640-4012-930A-11F49EBF2FC7 at univ-paris3.fr>
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sujet de stage M2 recherche en TAL : acquisition d'un analyseur en
dépendances du français médiéval

Dans le cadre du projet ANR Syntactic Reference Corpus of Medieval
French (SRCMF, 2008-2011), un Treebank (une collection d'arbres)
d'analyses en dépendances d'énoncés du français médiéval a été
constitué. Il comprend 260 000 mots (parmi lesquels environ 27 000 têtes
verbales) annotées en étiquettes morpho-syntaxiques et reliés par des
relations de dépendances étiquetées.

L'objectif du stage est d'exploiter ce corpus par apprentissage
automatique afin d'acquérir un analyseur en dépendances du français
médiéval, éventuellement couplé à un étiqueteur morpho-syntaxique. Ces
outils pourront être exploités sur de nouveaux textes. Ils permettront
d'étudier précisément les spécificités grammaticales du français
médiéval, en comparaison avec celles du français contemporain.

Le stage bénéficiera de l'encadrement d'une spécialiste du français
médiéval (Sophie Prévost) et de spécialistes du TAL et de
l'apprentissage automatique (Matthieu Constant et Isabelle Tellier).

Compétences requises :
- niveau M2 ou ingénieur en informatique ou en TAL
- Connaissances (ou au minimum intérêt argumenté) en TAL et en
  apprentissage automatique
- Compétences en programmation

Conditions du stage :
- Rémunération : prime de stage (1/3 du SMIC).
- Durée : 4 à 6 mois en commençant dès que possible en 2014.
- Lieu : le stage sera encadré en collaboration par le LIGM à
  Marne-la-vallée (http://ligm.u-pem.fr) et le Lattice à Montrouge
  (http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr), trajets à prévoir entre les deux lieux

envoyer CV + lettre de motivation à Matthieu Constant
(Matthieu.Constant at u-pem.fr), Sophie Prévost (sophie.prevost at ens.fr),
Isabelle Tellier (isabelle.tellier at univ-paris3.fr)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:24:50 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:24:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: 4th DICTAP2014
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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 23:00:49 -0800
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Please Accept our Apology for Multiple Posting. THANK YOU.
==============================================================

 The Fourth International Conference on Digital Information and
 Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2014)

                       May 6-8, 2014
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand

        http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dictap2014/

All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library.
==============================================================

The conference aims to enable researchers build connections between
different digital applications.

The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to)
research topics

- Security in Information and Telecommunication System
- Network Systems and Devices
- Wireless and Optical Communications
- Algorithms, Architecture, and Infrastructures
- Information Content Security
- Cloud Computing and Computer Networks
- Sensor Networks and Embedded System
- E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Business and E-Government
- Data Exchange Issues and Supply Chain
- Information Retrieval
- Web Services, Web based Application
- Data Grids, Data and Information Quality
- Data Warehouses and Data Mining
- Image Analysis and Image Processing
- Management and Diffusion of Multimedia Applications
- Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
- Video Search and Video Mining
- Enterprise Computing
- Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0
- Knowledge Management
- Compression and Coding
- XML and other extensible languages
- Intelligent and Robust System
- ICT for Social and Humanity
- Security and Access Control
- Constraint Programming
- Ubiquitous Systems
- Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules

Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All
papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized
referees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be
considered.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Deadline       : April 6, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2014 
Camera Ready Submission   : April 26, 2014
Registration              : April 26, 2014
Conference Dates          : May 6-8, 2014

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:35:43 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:35:43 +0100
Subject: Appel: SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, June 18th-20th 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.213543.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 19:26:40 +0000
From: Helen Hastie <h.hastie at hw.ac.uk>
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SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE

Wednesday, June 18 to Friday, June 20, 2014

The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialog will be

co-located with the 8th International Conference on Natural Language
Generation (INLG 2014) in Philadelphia, PA, USA and immediately
preceding ACL 2014.

http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15 (under construction)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2014 SIGDIAL conference continues a series of fourteen conferences,
providing a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research
across the areas of discourse and dialog and attracting a diverse set of
participants from academia and industry. The conference is sponsored by
the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on
discourse and dialog for both ACL and ISCA.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome formal, corpus-based, system-building or analytical work on
discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following
themes and topics:

- Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems

- Corpora, Tools and Methodology

- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling

- Dimensions of Interaction

- Open Domain Dialog

- Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialog and Written Text

- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology

- Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialog, for a joint special
  session with INLG

IMPORTANT DATES

Special Session Proposal Deadline: Sunday, 9 February 2014 (23:59,
GMT-11)

Special Session Notification: Monday, 17 February 2014


Long, Short and Demonstration

Paper Submission Deadline: Sunday, 9 March 2014 (23:59, GMT-11)

Paper Notification: Friday, 18 April 2014

Final Paper Due

- For papers accepted subject

  to receiving mentoring Wednesday, 14 May 2014

- For accepted papers Friday, 23 May 2014


Conference Wednesday, June 18, 2014 to Friday, June 20, 2014

SUBMISSIONS

Special Session Proposals

The SIGdial organizers welcome the submission of special session
proposals.
 A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the
conference; may be organized as a poster session, a poster session with
panel discussion, or an oral presentation session; and will be held on
the last day of the conference.  Special sessions may, at the discretion
of the SIGdial organizers, be held as parallel sessions.  Those wishing
to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal
containing:
 a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and
sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate; and a
requested format (poster/panel/oral session).  These proposals should be
sent to conference[a]sigdial.org <conference at sigdial.org> by the special
session proposal deadline.  Special session proposals will be reviewed
jointly by the general and program co-chairs.

Papers

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short
papers, and demonstration descriptions. All accepted submissions will be
published in the conference proceedings.

Long papers may, at the discretion of the technical program committee,
be accepted for oral or poster presentation. They must be no longer than
8 pages, including title, content, and examples. Two additional pages
are allowed for references and appendices, which may include extended
example discourses or dialogs, algorithms, graphical representations,
etc.

Short papers will be presented as posters. They should be no longer than
4 pages, including title and content. One additional page is allowed for
references and appendices.

Demonstration papers should be no longer than 3 pages, including
references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the
program co-chairs for demonstration descriptions, specifying furniture
and equipment needed for the demo.

Authors of a submission may designate their paper to be considered for a
SIGDIAL special session.  However, in 2014 all papers will undergo
regular peer review and appear in the SIGDIAL proceedings.
Consequently, no paper is guaranteed to appear in any particular session
at SIGDIAL.

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must provide this information (see submission format). A
paper accepted for presentation at SIGDIAL 2014 must not have been
presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Any
questions regarding submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs at
program-chairs[at]sigdial.org <program-chairs at sigdial.org>.

Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as
video clips or sound clips and examples of available resources for
review purposes.

Submission is electronic using paper submission software.

FORMAT

All long, short, and demonstration submissions should follow the
two-column ACL 2014 format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX
style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for the ACL 2014
conference.  Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2014 style
guidelines ( http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm), and they
must be electronic in PDF. As in most previous years, submissions will
not be anonymous.

MENTORING SERVICE

For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring
service.  Submissions with innovative core ideas that may need language
(English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for "mentoring"
and conditionally accepted with recommendation to revise with a
mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the
SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare
their submissions for publication.  Any questions about the mentoring
service can be addressed to the mentoring chair at
mentoring[at]sigdial.org <mentoring at sigdial.org>.

STUDENT SUPPORT

SIGdial also offers a limited number of scholarships for students
presenting a paper accepted to the conference. Application materials
will be posted at the conference website.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse
science and technology, SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A
selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of
interest will select the recipients of the awards.

SPONSORSHIP

SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more
information, email the conference organizers at
sponsor-chair[at]sigdial.org.

DIALOG AND DISCOURSE

SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal
Dialog and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGdial.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Mentoring Chair
Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Research Labs, USA

Local Chair
Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA

Sponsorships Chair
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA

SIGdial President
Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA

SIGdial Vice President
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:30:10 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:30:10 +0100
Subject: Info: Newsletter du LPL, No 7 (2013)
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.213010.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:04:25 +0100
From: "Claudia Pichon-Starke" <claudia.starke at lpl-aix.fr>
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Bonjour,

La cellule communication du LPL a le plaisir de vous présenter le
nouveau numéro de sa Newsletter :
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/fileadmin/template/NewsLetter/NL7.htm

Nous vous en souhaitons une bonne lecture.

Bien cordialement,

Claudia Pichon-Starke pour la Cellule Com
communication at lpl-aix.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:33:03 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:33:03 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, Djame Seddah,
 Overview of the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task, 13 decembre 2013
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 20:00:24 +0100
From: Marie Candito <marie.candito at gmail.com>
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************** Séminaire de l'équipe Alpage *********

Il s'agit du séminaire de recherche en linguistique informatique
organisé par l'équipe Alpage, équipe mixte INRIA - Paris Diderot,
spécialisée en traitement automatique des langues.

Vendredi 13 décembre

de 11h à 12h30,

en salle 106

Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges
rue Albert Einstein
75013 Paris
(dernier bâtiment de la rue Albert Einstein, numéro non attribué...)

Toute personne intéressée est la bienvenue.

**********************************************************
Djamé Seddah (Alpage)

Title : “Overview of the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task: Cross-Framework
Evaluation of Parsing Morphologically Rich Languages“

Abstract : In this presentation, we will present the outcoumes on the
first shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich
languages.  The task features data sets from nine languages (Arabic,
Basque, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Polish and Swedish),
each available both in constituency and dependency annotation. We report
on the preparation of the data sets, on the proposed parsing scenarios,
and on the evaluation metrics for parsing MRLs given different
representation types. We present and analyze parsing results obtained by
the task participants, and then provide an analysis and comparison of
the parsers across languages and frameworks, reported for gold input as
well as more realistic parsing scenarios.  The shared task saw
submissions from seven teams, and results produced by more than 14
different systems. The parsing results were obtained in different input
scenarios (gold, predicted, and raw) and evaluated using different
protocols (cross-framework, cross-scenario, and cross-language). In
particular, this is the first time a multilingual evaluation campaign
reports on the execution of parsers in realistic, morphologically
ambiguous, settings.


Djamé Seddah, Joint Work with Reut Tsarfaty, Sandra Küebler and many
contributors[1]

[1] Marie Candito, Jinho D. Choi, Richard Farkas , Jennifer Foster,
Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, YoavGoldberg, Spence Green, Nizar Habash,
Marco Kuhlman, Wolfgang Maier, Joakim Nivre, Adam Przepiórkowski, Ryan
Roth, Wolfgang Seeker, Yannick Versley, Veronika Vincze, Marcin Wolin
́ski, Alina Wróblewskav, Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:31:15 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:31:15 +0100
Subject: These: Florent Pompigne,
 Modelisation logique de la langue et Grammaires Categorielles
 Abstraites
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.213115.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:24:14 +0100 (CET)
From: Florent Pompigne <florent.pompigne at loria.fr>
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Bonjour, 

j'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à la soutenance de ma thèse qui 
s'intitule "Modélisation logique de la langue et Grammaires
Catégorielles Abstraites". 
La soutenance aura lieu le lundi 11 décembre à 10h30 au LORIA (Campus
scientifique Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy), en salle C005 . 
Vous êtes également conviés au pot, qui aura lieu à 16h. 

Cordialement, 
Florent Pompigne 

--- 
Composition du jury : 

Rapporteurs : 
Christian Retoré, Professeur, Université de Bordeaux 1 
Annie Foret, Maître de conférences, Université de Rennes 1 

Examinateurs : 
Michael Moortgat, Professeur, Université d'Utrecht 
Laurent Vigneron, Professeur, Université de Lorraine 

Directeurs : 
Philippe de Groote, Directeur de recherches, INRIA Nancy 
Sylvain Pogodalla, Chargé de recherches, INRIA Nancy 

--- 
Résumé 

Cette thèse s'intéresse à la modélisation de la syntaxe et de
l'interface syntaxe-sémantique de la phrase, et explore la possibilité
de contrôler au niveau des structures de dérivation la surgénération que
produit le traitement des dépendances à distance par des types d'ordre
supérieur. À cet effet, nous étudions la possibilité d'étendre le
système de typage des Grammaires Catégorielles Abstraites avec les
constructions de la somme disjointe, du produit cartésien et du produit
dépendant, permettant d'étiqueter les catégories syntaxiques par des
structures de traits. Nous prouvons dans un premier temps que le calcul
résultant de cette extension bénéficie des propriétés de confluence et
de normalisation, permettant d'identifier les termes beta-équivalents
dans le formalisme grammatical. Nous réduisons de plus le même problème
pour la beta-eta-équivalence à un ensemble d'hypothèse de départ. Dans
un second temps, nous montrons comment cette introduction de structures
de traits peut être appliquée au contrôle des dépendances à distances, à
travers les exemples des contraintes de cas, des îlots d'extraction pour
les mouvements explicites et implicites, et des extractions
interrogatives multiples, et nous discutons de la pertinence de placer
ces contrôles sur les structures de dérivation.


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:23:29 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:23:29 +0100
Subject: Appel: The 37th Annual ACM SIGIR 2014 conference,
 Gold Coast Australia, July 6-11 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.212329.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 16:53:15 +1000
From: Richi Nayak <r.nayak at qut.edu.au>
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CALL FOR PAPERS, Submission Due: JAN 27, 2014

ACM SIGIR 2014: THE 37th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

6-11 July, 2014, Gold Coast, Australia

Conference website: http://sigir.org/sigir2014/

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new
research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques
in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and
Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit
original papers for review. SIGIR 2014 welcomes contributions related to
any aspect of IR theory and foundation, techniques, and
applications. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

TOPICS

- Document Representation and Content Analysis (e.g., text
  representation, document structure, linguistic analysis, NLP for IR,
  cross- and multi-lingual IR, information extraction, sentiment
  analysis, clustering, classification, topic models, facets, text
  streams)

- Queries and Query Analysis (e.g., query intent, query suggestion and
  prediction, query representation and reformulation, query log
  analysis, conversational search and dialogue, spoken queries,
  summarization, question answering)

- Retrieval Models and Ranking (e.g., IR theory, language models,
  probabilistic retrieval models, learning to rank, combining searches,
  diversity and aggregated search)

- Search Engine Architectures and Scalability (e.g., indexing,
  compression, distributed IR, P2P IR, mobile IR, cloud IR)

- Users and Interactive IR (e.g., user studies, user and task models,
  interaction analysis, session analysis, exploratory search,
  personalized search, social and collaborative search, search
  interface, whole session support)

- Filtering and Recommending (e.g., content-based filtering,
  collaborative filtering, recommender systems)

- Evaluation (e.g., test collections, experimental design, effectiveness
  measures, session-based evaluation, simulation)

- Web IR and Social Media Search (e.g., link analysis, click
  models/behavioral modeling, social tagging, social network analysis,
  blog and microblog search, forum search, community-based QA,
  adversarial IR and spam, vertical and local search)

- IR and Structured Data (e.g., XML search, ranking in databases,
  desktop search, entity search)

- Multimedia IR (e.g., image search, video search, speech/audio search,
  music search)

- Other Applications (e.g., digital libraries, enterprise search,
  genomics IR, legal IR, patent search, text reuse, new retrieval
  problems)

CONTRIBUTION TYPES

- Full papers (10 pages), Short papers (4 pages), Demos (3 pages),
  Tutorials, Workshops

INSTRUCTION

Requirements for paper format and appropriate content are described in
the content
guidelines<http://sigir.org/sigir2014/PaperContentGuidelines.php>. The
requirements will be strictly enforced. Papers which do not conform to
the requirements may be rejected without review, so please be sure to
read this page carefully.

SIGIR 2014 solicits proposals for tutorials of either half-day (3 hours
plus breaks) or full day (6 hours plus breaks) on all topics of
information retrieval and its applications. Each tutorial should cover a
single topic in detail. Submissions should include a cover sheet and an
extended abstract.

Proposals for workshops to be held at ACM SIGIR 2014 are also
solicited. Workshops will usually last for one day and will be held on
Friday 11th July 2014.

IMPORTANT DATES

- 20 January 2014: Abstracts for full research papers due

- 27 January 2014: Full research papers due

- 3 February 2014: Workshop proposals due

- 17 February 2014: Short paper, demonstration, and tutorial submission
  deadline

- 18 April 2014: Paper, short paper, tutorial, and demonstration
  acceptance notifications

- 11 May 2014: Camera ready copy due (note the short timeline due to
  early conference date)

- 16 May 2014: Early bird registration deadline

ORGANIZERS

- General Chairs: Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman

- PC Chairs: Peter Bruza, Charles L. A. Clarke, Kalervo Järvelin

@Richi Nayak – Publicity Chair

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:36:19 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:36:19 +0100
Subject: Journee: Optimisation et traitement automatique du langage,
 Universite Paris 13, 16 decembre 2013
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Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:46:13 +0100
From: Joseph Le Roux <leroux at univ-paris13.fr>
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Bonjour,

Les méthodes d'optimisation sont de plus en plus utilisées en traitement
automatique des langues pour concevoir des méthodes efficaces tant pour
l'apprentissage de modèles que pour le décodage, notamment en offrant un
cadre formel qui distingue clairement les contraintes globales des
contraintes locales, tout en permettant de les combiner.

L'équipe RCLN du Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord s'intéresse de
près à ces méthodes pour la modélisation conjointe des différents
niveaux de description linguistique. Dans le cadre du pôle math/stic de
Paris 13, avec le soutien du LABEX EFL, et en collaboration avec
l'équipe AOC du LIPN, l'équipe RCLN organise une journée de séminaires
autour des thèmes de l'optimisation et du traitement automatique des
langues.

Cette journée aura lieu le 16 décembre sur le campus de l'Université
Paris 13 à Villetaneuse, dans l'amphithéâtre Euler :

09h30-10h00 :: Accueil (Amphi Euler)

10h00-11h00 :: Exposé d'André Martins     (Amphi Euler)
11h15-12h15 :: Exposé de Sebastian Riedel (Amphi Euler)

Pause déjeuner (LIPN)

13h45-14h45 :: Exposé de Xavier Carreras (Amphi Euler)
15h00-16h00 :: Exposé de Joseph Le Roux  (Amphi Euler)

16h00 :: goûter au LIPN !

La participation à cette journée est libre.

Si vous comptez y assister, nous vous demandons, pour des raisons
pratiques (organisation du buffet notamment), de nous l'indiquer à cette
adresse [[http://doodle.com/87mnbcdbzdmytffc]] .

site web : http://mathstic.univ-paris13.fr/index.php/axes/oaatcn


Résumé des quatre exposés prévus :

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André Martins, Priberam, Lisbon
Title: AD3: A New Decoder for Structured Prediction

Abstract:
In this talk, I will present AD3 ("Alternating Directions Dual
Decomposition"), a new consensus-based decoder for problems
representable as factor graphs.  AD3 is an approximate decoder that
ignores global effects caused by the cycles of the graph, solving a
linear relaxation of the original problem. It can handle many scenarios
often encountered in NLP and IR applications, such as models with
constraints in first-order logic; models involving budget or knapsack
constraints; and combinations of structured models which are
individually tractable, but hard to decode jointly.

Like other dual decomposition algorithms, AD3 has a modular
architecture, where local subproblems are solved independently, and
their solutions are gathered to compute a global update. The key
characteristic of AD3 is that each local subproblem has a quadratic
regularizer, leading to faster convergence (both theoretically and in
practice). After providing closed-form solutions for several of these
subproblems, I will proceed to discuss a recent active set method that
works for arbitrary factors, requiring only a local maximization oracle
(the same oracle required in subgradient-based dual decomposition).

In the second part of the talk, I will discuss two recent applications
of AD3 in NLP problems: dependency parsing and compressive
summarization. I will present "Turbo Parser," an open source dependency
parser, which was recently improved with AD3 and the active set method
to permit fast decoding of non-projective third-order
models. Experiments in 14 languages yield state-of-art results, with
parsing speeds ranging between 700 and 4,000 tokens per second. For
compressive summarization, the use of AD3 leads to a system which is
modular in the three qualities that define a good summary (conciseness,
informativeness, and grammaticality), with state-of-the-art ROUGE
scores, and runtimes close to extractive summarizers.

This work was done in collaboration with Noah Smith, Mário Figueiredo,
Eric Xing, Pedro Aguiar, and Miguel Almeida.

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Sebastian Riedel, UCL, London.
Title: Predict, Price and Cut: Column and Row Generation for Structured
Prediction.

Abstract:
Many problems in NLP, and structured prediction in general, can be cast
as finding high-scoring structures based on a large set of candidate
parts. For example, In second order tagging, we have to select
high-scoring transitions between tags in a globally consistent fashion.
In second order graph-based dependency parsing we have to choose a
quadratic number of first order and a cubic number of second order edges
such that the graph is both high-scoring and a tree. What makes such
problems challenging is the large number of possible parts to consider.
This number not only affects the cost of search or optimization but also
slows down the process of scoring parts before they enter the
optimisation problem, and extracting features.

In this talk I present an approach that can solve problems with large
sets of candidate parts without considering all of these parts in either
optimization or scoring. In contrast to most pruning heuristics, our
algorithm can give certificates of optimality before having optimized
over, or even scored, all parts. It does so without the need of
auxiliary models or tuning of threshold parameters. This is achieved by
a delayed column and row generation algorithm that iteratively solves an
LP relaxation over a small subset of current candidate parts, and then
finds new candidates with high scores that can be inserted into the
current optimal solution without removing high scoring existing
structure. The latter step subtracts from the cost of a part the price
of resources the part requires, and is often referred as pricing.
Sometimes parts may score highly after pricing, but are necessary in
order to make the current solution feasible. We add such parts in a step
that roughly amounts to violated cuts to the LP.

We evaluate our approach on two applications: second order dependency
parsing and first order tagging with large domains. In both cases we
dramatically reduce the number of parts considered, and observe about an
order of magnitude speed-up. This is possible without loss of optimality
guarantees, and hence accuracy.


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Xavier Carreras, UPC, Barcelona
Title: Learning Automata and Grammars: From Spectral Algorithms to
Convex Optimizations

There is an increasing interest in spectral methods to learn
latent-variable language models in the form of weighted automata and
context-free grammars. Spectral methods provide an algebraic formulation
to the problem of inducing automata or grammars from data, and directly
exploit the recurrence relations behind the model. I will review the
spectral method from an algebraic perspective, making use of Hankel
matrices as the key object behind the method: a Hankel matrix collects
all necessary statistics of the distribution we want to learn; and
finding a low-rank factorization of this matrix results in the automata
or grammar. Under mild assumptions, it can be shown that this method
nicely approximates the target model.

From here, I will show how we can reformulate the spectral learning
algorithm as a low-rank convex optimization. This will be useful to
adapt the method to other settings, by adding linear constraints. I will
focus in "unsupervised" induction of context-free grammars, that is,
learning a grammar from plain strings. Our formulation involves
optimizing for a low-rank Hankel matrix that is linearly constrained to
satisfy inside-outside recursions. An analogous method method can be
formulated to learn finite-state transducers from unaligned parallel
strings.


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Joseph Le Roux, LIPN, Paris
Title: Combining PCFG-LA Models with Dual Decomposition: A case Study
with Function Labels and Binarization

Abstract:
It has recently been shown that different NLP models can be effectively
combined using dual decomposition. In this talk, we present how PCFG-LAs
(Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars with Latent Annotations, the
state-of-the-art model for unlexicalized constituent parsing) are
suitable for combination in this way.

We first show how the intractable problem of exact PCFG-LA decoding is
approximated with anchored PCFGs. Then we present a method for combining
anchored PCFGs based on the partial superposition of tree structures.

We experiment with the different models which result from alternative
methods of extracting a grammar from a treebank (retaining or discarding
function labels, left binarization versus right binarization) and
achieve state-of-the-art parsing performance, with a labeled Parseval
F-score of 92.4 on Wall Street Journal Section 23 – this represents an
error reduction rate of 7% over a strong PCFG-LA product-model baseline.

This work was done in collaboration with Antoine Rozenknop and Jennifer
Foster.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:43:43 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:43:43 +0100
Subject: Appel: Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.214343.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:15:37 -0500
From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak at eecs.uottawa.ca>
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Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature
April 27, 2014, Göteborg, Sweden, co-located with EACL 2014

https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2014a/

Second Call for Papers

(with apologies for multiple postings)

The purpose of the series of ACL workshops on Computational Linguistics
for Literature is to bring together researchers fascinated with
literature as a unique type of data which pose distinct challenges. We
invite papers on original unpublished work in this broad area. In
particular, we hope to see papers which explore how the state-of-the-art
NLP methods can help solve existing research problems in the humanities,
or perhaps suggest new problems.

Literary texts revolve around the human condition, emotions, social life
and inner life. Naturally, such data abound in common-sense knowledge
but are very thin on technical jargon. Can tools and methods developed
in the ACL community help process literary data? When do they work, when
do they fail and why? What new instruments do we need in order to work
with prose and poetry, on a large or small scale? Are there
computational solutions of noteworthy problems in the Humanities,
Information Science, Library Sciences and other similar disciplines?

Here are some of the topics of interest to the workshop:

- the needs of the readers and how these needs translate into meaningful
  NLP tasks;
- searching for literature;
- recommendation systems for literature;
- computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology,
  computational folkloristics;
- summarization of literature;
- differences between literature and other types of writing as relevant
  to computational linguistics;
- discourse structure in literature;
- emotion analysis for literature;
- profiling and authorship attribution;
- identification and analysis of literary genres;
- building and analyzing social networks of characters;
- generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
- modelling literary dialogue for generation.

We will consider regular papers which describe experimental methods or
theoretical work, and we will gladly welcome position papers. The NLP
community does not study literature often enough, so it is important to
discuss and formulate the problems before proposing solutions.

The submission deadline is January 23, 2014.

Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:52:54 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:52:54 +0100
Subject: Revue: CORELA, Statut et utilisation des corpus
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.215254.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:54:25 +0100
From: Gilles Col <gilles.col at univ-poitiers.fr>
Message-Id: <a06240816cecce6069a0c@[192.168.1.12]>
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2951
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2952
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2964
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2981
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2994
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3002
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3012
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Chers collègues,

L'équipe éditoriale de la revue CORELA - Cognition / Représentation /
Langages a le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication de son dernier
numéro thématique : " Statut et utilisation des corpus en linguistique",
sous la direction de Laurence Durroux-Vincent


Sommaire du numéro:

Laurence Durroux-Vincent.
"Statut et utilisation des corpus en linguistique".
http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2951

Tobias Scheer.
"The Corpus: A Tool among Others".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2952


Pius ten Hacken, Renáta Panocová
"The Use of Corpora in Word Formation Research".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2964


Najib Arbach, Saandia Ali
"Aspects théoriques et méthodologiques de la représentativité des
corpus".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2981


Charles Brasart
"Corpus et alternance codique : que peut nous apprendre une approche
comparative ?".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2994


Laurent David
"L'acquisition du Present Perfect chez un enfant anglophone :
méthodologie, codage et premiers résultats".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3002


Jérémi Sauvage, Christelle Dodane , Fabrice Hirsch , Melissa
Barkat-Defradas
"Réflexions méthodologiques sur l'analyse phonétique d'un corpus
longitudinal et transversal en acquisition du langage".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3012


Paola Artero, Adriana Serban
"The Status of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Enquiry in
Translation Research: C. S.  Lewis's Narnia in French - A Corpus-based
Approach".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3023

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:45:22 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:45:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: IC 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.214522.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 09:51:41 +0100
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
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Appel à communications pour les


25es Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances :

Connaissances pervasives: des utilisateurs plongés dans des systèmes à
base de connaissances et des systèmes à base de connaissances plongés
dans le monde


http://www.irit.fr/IC2014


du 12 au 16 mai 2014 à Clermont-Ferrand

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Dates importantes :

Date limite de soumission des communications : jeudi 19 décembre 2013

Date de notification aux auteurs : jeudi 13 février 2014

Date limite de réception des textes définitifs : lundi 17 mars 2014

Dates de la conférence : du 12 au 16 mai 2014

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La conférence d'Ingénierie des Connaissances fête cette année ses 25
ans! Elle est le rendez-vous annuel de la communauté française et
francophone qui s'intéresse aux problématiques liées à l'ingénierie des
connaissances. Académiques et industriels s'y retrouvent pour échanger
et réfléchir sur des problèmes de recherche qui se posent en
acquisition, représentation et gestion des connaissances.


L'essor des sciences et technologies de l'information et de la
communication, et notamment des technologies du web, dans l'ensemble de
la société engendre des mutations dans les pratiques individuelles et
collectives. L'ingénierie des connaissances accompagne cette évolution,
en inventant les modèles, méthodes et outils permettant l'intégration de
connaissances et de raisonnements sur ces connaissances dans des
environnements informatiques.


De fait, on constate aujourd'hui une omniprésence des connaissances, en
même temps qu'un décloisonnement des communautés de recherche en
Intelligence Artificielle pour répondre aux problèmes qui se posent.
Ainsi, la construction des systèmes à base de connaissances fait appel à
l'ingénierie des connaissances, au traitement automatique des langues, à
l'apprentissage automatique et à la fouille de données; le traitement
des connaissances associe ingénierie des connaissances avec recherche
d'information, recherche opérationnelle, analyse de données; la
modélisation des environnements informatiques, de ses acteurs humains ou
logiciels, allie ingénierie des connaissances et systèmes multi-agents;
enfin l'ingénierie des connaissances touche à des thématiques classiques
dans les communautés de l'interaction homme-machine et des
environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain.


En plaçant ainsi l'utilisateur au coeur des systèmes informatiques,
l'ingénierie des connaissances est sollicitée pour assister
l'utilisateur dans le traitement de la masse de données disponibles sur
le web, pour les visualiser, contextualiser, expliquer, recommander,
classer, prédire, approximer, sécuriser, fiabiliser, pour pallier à leur
imprécision voire incohérence.



Les thèmes d'IC 2014 sont les suivants (liste non exhaustive):


Représentation des connaissances et raisonnement

- modèles, formalismes, langages formels et informels de représentation
  de connaissances

- échange, interopérabilité et réutilisation des modèles,
  standardisation

- terminologies, thesauri, ontologies et lexiques

- types d'ontologies et rôle des ontologies de référence

- méthodes et outils pour le cycle de vie des représentations

- gestion de la dynamique des ontologies (versionnement, évolution,
  intégration et alignement)

- raisonnements logiques, inférences, raisonnements à base de règles,

- approximations, raisonnements statistiques, raisonnements par
  analogie, raisonnements à partir de cas, raisonnements dans les
  logiques non classiques


Conception et construction de modèles de connaissances et d'ontologies

- peuplement de modèles de connaissances

- acquisition de connaissances à partir de textes

- découverte interactive de connaissances dans les données, dans les
  historiques, dans les interactions, sur le web, etc.

- inférence et règles métier : acquisition, conception, réutilisation,
  évolution, évaluation, exploitations

- métrique et évaluation de la qualité des ontologies


Web de données, web sémantique

- ouverture et interconnexion des données

- impact de l'ouverture des données sur le web et de l'externalisation
  ouverte (crowdsourcing) sur l'ingénierie des connaissances

- réseaux sociaux

- gestion de flux de données

- passage à l'échelle : traitement de données massives

- traitement de données hétérogènes

- provenance et confiance dans les données

- métrique et évaluation de la qualité des données


Ingénierie des connaissances centrée utilisateurs

- visualisation de connaissances, d'ontologies

- visualisation d'interconnexions de données, de raisonnements sur les
  données

- explication des raisonnements

- profils utilisateurs, modèles de contexte et adaptation, modèles
  d'émotion

- personnalisation de l'accès aux connaissances: confiance,
  recommandation, classement (ranking), résumé

- assistance d'applications et de services: agents conversationnels

- environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain

- conception et évaluation d'interactions et d'interfaces avec des
  systèmes à base de connaissances


Interdisciplinarité de l'ingénierie des connaissances

- épistémologie de l'ingénierie des connaissances

- théorie des organisations et ingénierie des connaissances

- sciences humaines et sciences cognitives et ingénierie des
  connaissances

- ingénierie des connaissances scientifiques


Ingénierie des connaissances pervasive : IC dans...

- le traitement automatique des langues

- l'apprentissage symbolique

- la fouille de données

- la recherche d'information, l'indexation

- la recherche opérationnelle

- l'analyse de données

- les systèmes multi-agents

- les environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain

- les interfaces homme-machine


Applications

- applications dans les domaines de la santé, de l'éducation et de
  l'apprentissage, de la culture, de la recherche documentaire, des
  transports intelligents, de l'informatique décisionnelle (BI), etc.

- émergence de nouveaux domaines applicatifs

- mémoires d'entreprises

- systèmes pour la collaboration et la coopération dans les
  organisations et les collectifs


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Soumissions :

Articles longs(12 pages (nouveau format), présentation orale de 20 mn,
10 mn discussion) :

Sont concernés des travaux aboutis, présentant des résultats validés ou
des synthèses fouillées.


Articles courts(6 pages (nouveau format), présentation orale de 10 mn, 5
mn discussion) :

Sont concernés des travaux en cours ou au stade de résultats partiels de
recherche ou appliqués. Ce type de soumission correspond à des travaux
innovants de qualité, mais dont la maturité ne permet pas des
élaborations complètes et des conclusions définitives.


Les articles devront respecter les styles de documents indiqués sur le
site de la conférence: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014.


Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre leurs communications au format PDF
sur EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2014.


Les articles acceptés feront l'objet d'actes en version électronique,
publiés sur HAL, et disponibles sur une clé USB distribuée aux
participants de la conférence.


Un prix AFIA du meilleur article sera décerné par un jury composé de
membres du comité de pilotage de la conférence.


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La conférence d'Ingénierie des Connaissances est placée sous l'égide du
collège IC de l'AFIA

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Présidente du comité de programme :

Catherine Faron Zucker (I3S, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis)


Présidente du comité d'organisation :

Catherine Roussey (Irstea)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:49:11 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:49:11 +0100
Subject: These: Pierre Magistry,
 Unsupervised Word Segmentation and Wordhood Assessment
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.214911.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:46:04 +0100
From: Pierre Magistry 馬基石 <pmagistry at gmail.com>
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Chers amis, professeurs, étudiants, collègues,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à la soutenance de ma thèse, intitulée
"Unsupervised Word Segmentation and Wordhood Assessment: the case for
Mandarin Chinese".
(Segmentation en mots non-supervisée et estimation de la lexicalité : le
cas du mandarin)

Je l'ai menée au sein de l'équipe Alpage, à l'université
Paris-Diderot/INRIA
et la soutiendrai le 19 décembre 2013 à partir de 9h30, dans la salle
des thèses de Paris 7.
Salle des thèses 580F (Halle aux Farines)
10 rue Françoise Dolto
75013  Paris
(plan :
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=48.8295&mlon=2.3825#map=16/48.8295/2.3825
)
Prendre l'entrée la plus proche de la Seine.

La soutenance sera suivie d'un pot auquel vous êtes également conviés.

Bien cordialement,
Pierre Magistry
----
Le jury  de soutenance sera composé de:
PR. 謝舒凱 Hsieh Shukai (rapporteur) - National Taiwan University
PR. Sylvain Kahane (directeur) - Université Paris 10 Nanterre, MoDyCo
PR. Yves Lepage (rapporteur) - Waseda University
PR. Marie-Claude Paris (co-directrice) - Université Paris Diderot, LLF
DR. Benoit Sagot (co-directeur) - INRIA, ALPAGE
DR. Pierre Zweigenbaum (président) - CNRS, LIMSI

----
Résumé de la thèse :

Ce mémoire traite de la segmentation non-supervisée en mots et de
l'évaluation de la «lexicalité» des formes. Le chinois moderne standard
(mandarin) est choisi pour les expériences et évaluations.

La première partie porte sur les aspects linguistiques. Elle présente
les critères couramment utilisés pour définir le «mot» en linguistique
chinoise et en montre les limites au travers d'une discussion de
linguistique générale, abordant notamment la question des «expressions
multi-mots» et son lien avec les problèmes de segmentation en mots.

Nous présentons ensuite l'historique du développement de la Segmentation
en Mot du Chinois (CWS) comme une tâche typique en TAL, et défendons
l'idée qu'une part d'arbitraire dans l'annotation des corpus
d'évaluation favorise artificiellement les systèmes d'apprentissage
supervisés alors que nous considérons les systèmes non-supervisés d'un
plus grand intérêt pour la linguistique.

La première partie nous amène à fonder notre définition de la lexicalité
sur deux critères: une forte autonomie de combinaison et un haut degré
d'appartenance à une classe distributionnelle.

La seconde partie présente une méthode non-supervisée pour évaluer
l'autonomie de combinaison des formes inspirée par les hypothèses de
Harris. Avec un algorithme de segmentation simple et rapide basé
uniquement sur cette mesure, nous obtenons des résultats proches de
l'état de l'art.  Nous discutons ensuite de l'importance des
pré-traitements et présentons des expériences utilisant le principe de
la Longueur de Description Minimale (MDL) pour améliorer nos résultats.

Enfin, nous proposons une méthode et des outils pour une évaluation plus
qualitative des analyses fournies par notre système. Nous présentons
aussi quelques résultats préliminaires sur d'autres langues qui montrent
la généricité de notre méthode.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:50:08 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:50:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier SemDis 2014 (semantique distributionnelle),
 site web
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.215008.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:35:48 +0100
From: Cécile Fabre <cecile.fabre at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <52A718B4.6030600 at univ-tlse2.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/semdis2014/


Le site Web décrivant les tâches organisées dans le cadre de l'atelier
SemDis 2014 et fournissant les données associées est désormais
accessible à l'adresse suivante :

http://www.irit.fr/semdis2014/

---- Objectifs de l'atelier :

  Les équipes CLLE-ERSS et IRIT-Melodi (Toulouse), organisatrices de
l'atelier SemDis à TALN 2013, consacré aux approches fondées sur
l'analyse sémantique distributionnelle, ont l'intention d'organiser une
2ème édition de l'atelier dans le cadre de TALN 2014 (sous réserve de
l'acceptation par le comité de programme de TALN).

Cette année, l'appel à communication sera complété par l'organisation de
2 tâches :

     - une tâche compétitive de substitution lexicale, adaptation au
       français de la tâche SemEval 2007 « Lexical substitution », telle
       qu'elle est présentée dans McCarthy & Navigli (2010).
     - une tâche exploratoire permettant d'examiner plus en détail les
       résultats de méthodes distributionnelles sur un corpus
       spécialisé, le corpus TALN (2007-2013).

--- Calendrier :
Sous réserve de l'acceptation par le comité de programme de TALN. Les
dates seront précisées lorsque le calendrier des workshops TALN sera
connu.

Tâche compétitive (substitution lexicale) :
     - décembre 2013 : diffusion des données d'essai via le site web
     - 10 mars 2014 : diffusion des données de test
     - 17 mars 2014 : date limite de soumission par les participants
     - début avril 2014 : annonce des résultats
     - fin avril 2014 : date limite de soumission d'un article pour
       l'atelier
     - 26 mai 2014 : réception des versions finales
     - 1er Juillet 2014 : atelier SemDis

Tâche exploratoire et appel à communication hors tâches :
     - décembre 2013 : description de la tâche 2 et diffusion du corpus
       via le site web
     - avril 2014 : réception des articles
     - 26 mai 2014 : réception des versions finales
     - 1er Juillet 2014 : atelier SemDis

---- Contact :

Les organisateurs peuvent être contactés à l'adresse suivante : 
semdis2014 at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:46:47 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:46:47 +0100
Subject: Stage: Transcription de l'oral, Projet europeen (3 a 6 mois)
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.214647.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:20:26 +0100
From: "Catherine Bolly" <catherine.bolly at uclouvain.be>
Message-ID: <sympa.1386584339.26752.661 at cines.fr>


[Stage] Transcription, langage oral - Projet européen Marie Curie (3 à 6
mois, 2014)

TRANSCRIPTION DE L'ORAL (logiciel : Praat)
Stagiaire : contrat à temps plein (durée : 3 mois) ou temps partiel
(durée : 4 à 6 mois)
Profil : niveau Master
Début du contrat : février/mars 2014

CONTEXTE
Le projet européen CorpAGEst porte sur l’étude du langage de personnes
âgées, à partir de l’analyse d’entretiens enregistrés sur support
audiovisuel (approche multimodale : texte, son, geste). Les analyses
portent en particulier sur les marqueurs de discours et les gestes dont
la fonction communicative est (inter)subjective (par ex. : le marqueur
de discours 'tu vois' ou un regard vers l’interlocuteur). Le projet de
recherche CorpAGEst "Approche sur corpus de la compétence pragmatique
des personnes âgées" est un projet européen financé par les Actions
Marie Curie dans le cadre du 7e European Community Framework Programme
(projet N° 328282, FP7-PEOPLE-2012- IEF). Durée du projet : 2 ans
(2013-2015).

LIEU
Le stage sera coordonné au sein du laboratoire de recherche par
Catherine Bolly (UMR 7023 "Structures Formelles du Langage", CNRS Paris
8 & Centre de recherches "Valibel – Discours et variation", UCL
Louvain-la-Neuve).

MISSION
La méthode d’analyse sur corpus multimodal adoptée implique la
constitution et l’annotation d’un corpus audiovisuel : 8 sujets d’étude,
env. 13 heures. La personne recrutée aura pour tâche de transcrire, au
moyen du logiciel Praat, les données audio des entretiens effectués sur
le terrain. Les normes de transcription suivront l’orthographe standard
du français et les conventions de transcription du centre Valibel
(Université catholique de Louvain). Des discussions et échanges
dynamiques au sein de l’équipe permettront d’optimiser la procédure de
transcription sur la base de l’expérience de chacun.

PRÉREQUIS
Familiarité avec les outils informatiques de base (traitements de texte,
clavier, etc.). La connaissance du logiciel Praat est un atout.
Expérience appréciée dans l’analyse impliquant le langage oral.
Des connaissances en transcription et annotation de corpus oraux
seraient un plus.

PROFIL
Étudiant en Master, dans le domaine des sciences humaines (langues et
lettres, sciences du langage, sciences de la communication, traitement
automatique du langage, ethnologie, etc.).
Intérêt pour les sciences du langage, le français parlé et/ou le
vieillissement langagier.
Excellente maîtrise de la langue française.

DURÉE ET CONDITIONS
Stage de 3 mois à temps plein à partir de février/mars 2014 auprès d’une
chercheuse en sciences du langage. Possibilité d’effectuer le stage à
temps partiel (durée : 4 à 6 mois).
Flexibilité et adaptabilité des horaires.
Possibilité d’intégrer le travail dans le cadre d’un mémoire de Master
(à négocier).

RÉMUNÉRATION
436,05€ net par mois.

CANDIDATURE
Lettre de motivation et CV.
A envoyer pour le 20 décembre 2013 au plus tard par e-mail à :
catherine.bolly at uclouvain.be
dominique_jean.boutet at orange.fr


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:51:53 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:51:53 +0100
Subject: Ecole: International Terminology Summer School (TSS 2014),
 Vienna, 14 to 18 July 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.215153.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:01:08 +0100
From: excellence <excellence at termnet.org>
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Dear colleagues,

You can now register for the International Terminology Summer School
(TSS 2014) that will take place next year in Vienna, from 14 to 18 July
2014.

TSS is a practice-oriented 5-day training course on terminology
management. It addresses language professionals (translators,
terminologists, localization experts, etc.), students and scientists who
look for a comprehensive, state-of-the-art introduction to terminology
theory and practice.

Reserve your place at TSS 2014 today! You may register until early June
2014. However, places are limited, we advise you wait not too long.

http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2014/index.php

PROGRAM:

UNDERSTANDING TERMINOLOGY MANAGEMENT

- Introduction to Terminology Work

- Applied Principles of Terminology Work

- Retrieving and Validating Relevant Online Information for Terminology
  Work



TERMINOLOGY MANAGEMENT SKILLS

- Data Modelling: Data Categories for Terminology Management

- Creating a Terminology Database

- Terminology Tools - A closer look at Terminology Management Systems

- Terminology Workflows and Interfaces



TERMINOLOGY STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESS PROCESSES

- Three "P"s in Terminology Management: Project, Product, Process

- Case Studies: Terminology and Technical Documentation

- Case Studies: Legal Translation and Terminology



STANDARDS AND LEGAL ISSUES FOR TERMINOLOGY WORK

- Terminology Work for Literary Translation

- Terminology and other Knowledge Organization Systems

- Standards for Terminology Work

- Copyright Issues for Terminology Management



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 individual questions and problems.



ECQA CERTIFICATION FOR TERMINOLOGY MANAGERS:

The TSS2014 program is developed in cooperation with the ECQA initiative
and this makes possible for TSS2014 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.



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 all information about TSS2014 at:
http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2014/index.php

(this website will be constantly updated in the next months with more
and more information)

or contact us (events at termnet.org<mailto:events at termnet.org>). We will
be happy to answer your questions.


Please disseminate this information also among colleagues and friends
who might be interested!



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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:47:47 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:47:47 +0100
Subject: Appel: TOTh 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.214747.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:18:05 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
Message-ID: <CAFW-+pbJ0vKn5EB7t32BOxXSnRLL4ub=Uj53ZKkkHPSSAisvPQ at mail.gmail.com>
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TOTh 2014 : APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Terminologie & Ontologie : Théories et applications
Chambéry – France

Conférence : 12 & 13 juin 2014
Formation : 10 & 11  juin  2014

http://www.porphyre.org/toth/
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014/appel-a-communications
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/files/TOTh-2014-appel-a-communications.pdf

Dates importantes :
-------------------------
10 février 2014 : Date limite de soumission des résumés (2 à 3 pages)
3 mars 2014: Notification d’acceptation

Soumission par EasyChair :
-----------------------------------
Les soumissions des résumés étendus (2 à 3 pages) se font
exclusivement par EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=toth2014

Présentation :
------------------
La 8ème édition des conférences internationales TOTh se déroulera les
jeudi 12 et vendredi 13 juin 2014 à l’Université de Savoie (Chambéry,
France) avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture (DGLFLF) et de
l’Association Européenne de Terminologie.

Les conférences TOTh - Terminologie & Ontologie : Théories et
applications - ont pour objectif de rassembler chercheurs,
professionnels et, de façon plus générale, toute personne dont les
préoccupations relèvent de la langue et de l’ingénierie des
connaissances.

Le programme comportera, en plus des communications retenues, une
conférence invitée, une disputatio et une session poster.

Une formation d’un jour et demi sur l’analyse de textes à des fins
onomasiologiques précédera la conférence les mardi 10 et mercredi 11
juin.

Un prix « Jeune chercheur » est décerné par le comité de programme lors
de la conférence

Thèmes de la Conférence (liste non exhaustive) :
--------------------------------------------------------------
- Langues de spécialité et Lexicographie de spécialité,
- Traduction,
- Traitement de corpus,
- Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Terminologies,
- Aménagement linguistique et Aménagement terminologique,
- Représentation, Extraction et Gestion des connaissances,
- Systèmes conceptuels,
- Ontologies,
- Thesaurus,
- Applications : Recherche d’information, Web des données, Bibliothèques
  numériques, Environnements de développement, Banques terminologiques,
- Normes, Formats d’échange.

TOTh 2014
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014/appel-a-communications
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/files/TOTh-2014-appel-a-communications.pdf


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

TOTh 2014: CALL FOR PAPERS
Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications
Chambéry – France

Conference: 12 and 13 June 2014
Training: 10 and 11 June 2014

http://www.porphyre.org/toth/
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014-en/call-for-papers
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/files/TOTh-2014-Call-for-papers.pdf

DEADLINES:
-------------------------------
10 February 2014: Deadline for abstract submissions
3 March 2014: Notification of acceptance

Paper submission via Easychair:
-----------------------------------------
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=toth2014


Presentation:
------------------
The 8th TOTh International Conference will be held on Thursday 12th and
Friday 13th June 2014 at the University of Savoie (in Chambéry, France)
with the support of the French Ministry of Culture (DGLFLF) and of the
European Association for Terminology.

The TOTh Conferences – Terminology & Ontology: Theories and
applications – bring together researchers, professionals and, more
generally, all persons interested in issues related to language and
knowledge engineering.

The program will include accepted communications, a guest lecture, a
disputatio, and a poster session.

A one and a half day training session (in French) on text analysis for
onomasiological purposes will be held just before the conference on
Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th June.

A Young Researcher Prize will be awarded by the Program Committee during
the conference.

Conference topics (non-exhaustive list):
 --------------------------------------------------
- Language for Special Purposes, Specialized Lexicography,
- Translation,
- Corpus Analysis,
- Lexicon, Dictionary, Terminology,
- Linguistic planning and Terminology planning,
- Knowledge Representation, Extraction and Management,
- Conceptual Systems,
- Ontology,
- Thesaurus,
- Applications: Information retrieval, Web of data, Digital libraries,
  Software environments, Terminology banks,
- Standards, Interchange formats.

TOTh 2014
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014-en/call-for-papers
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/files/TOTh-2014-Call-for-papers.pdf

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 20:41:30 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:41:30 +0100
Subject: Revue: CORELA, vol. num. 2
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.214130.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:58:20 +0100
From: Gilles Col <gilles.col at univ-poitiers.fr>
Message-Id: <a06240801cecdcb1941fc@[192.168.1.12]>
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3050
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3080
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3029
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3120
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2977

Chers collègues,

L'équipe éditoriale de la revue CORELA - Cognition / Représentation /
Langages a le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication de son dernier
numéro (vol. 11, num. 2).

Les propositions de publication pour le prochain numéro de la revue
(vol. 12, num. 1) sont à envoyer à Sylvester OSU
(sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr) avant le 15 mars 2014.


Sommaire du numéro 11/2 :

Philippe MULLER: "Cet obscur objet de désir : à propos de la
construction want GN et de ses gloses".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3050

Elisabet JOHANSSON-MANOURY: "Quelques précisions sur l'anaphore
notionnelle".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3080

Pierre FOURNIER : "Accentuation des composés savants en anglais
contemporain : identification morphosémantique et enjeu phonologique".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3029

Laurence VINCENT-DURROUX : "Les représentations cognitives : pour une
mise en évidence de leur rôle dans l'appropriation des langues".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3120

Chokri RHIBI : "Adverbes de localisation temporelle et enchaînement
spatio-temporel : Le cas de dehors et autres expressions apparentées".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2977


Gilles Col
Directeur éditorial

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 20:44:36 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:44:36 +0100
Subject: Appel: EACL 2014 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational
 Language Learning
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.214436.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:18:32 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
Message-Id: <2DEB90F7-AE27-4B57-BD5C-E1082484D996 at ens.fr>

[Apologies for cross-postings]

==================================================
               Second Call for Papers
==================================================
            EACL 2014 Workshop on
Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning

                April 26, 2014
              Gothenburg, Sweden

      https://sites.google.com/site/cognitivews2014/

Deadline for Paper Submissions: January, 23rd, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12)
Endorsed by the Special Interest Group of the ACL on Natural Language
Learning (SIGNLL)
---------------------------------------------------------------

The human ability to acquire and process language has long attracted
interest and generated much debate due to the apparent ease with which
such a complex and dynamic system is learnt and used on the face of
ambiguity, noise and uncertainty.  This subject raises many questions
ranging from the nature vs. nurture debate of how much needs to be
innate and how much needs to be learned for acquisition to be
successful, to the mechanisms involved in this process (general vs
specific) and their representations in the human brain. There are also
developmental issues related to the different stages consistently found
during acquisition (e.g. one word vs. two words) and possible
organizations of this knowledge. These have been discussed in the
context of first and second language acquisition and bilingualism, with
cross linguistic studies shedding light on the influence of the language
and the environment.

The past decades have seen a massive expansion in the application of
statistical and machine learning methods to natural language processing
(NLP). This work has yielded impressive results in numerous speech and
language processing tasks, including e.g.  speech recognition,
morphological analysis, parsing, lexical acquisition, semantic
interpretation, and dialogue management. The good results have generally
been viewed as engineering achievements. Recently researchers have begun
to investigate the relevance of computational learning methods for
research on human language acquisition and change.  The use of
computational modeling is a relatively recent trend boosted by advances
in machine learning techniques, and the availability of resources like
corpora of child and child-directed sentences, and data from
psycholinguistic tasks by normal and pathological groups. Many of the
existing computational models attempt to study language tasks under
cognitively plausible criteria (such as memory and processing
limitations that humans face), and to explain the developmental stages
observed in the acquisition and evolution of the language abilities. In
doing so, computational modeling provides insight into the plausible
mechanisms involved in human language processes, and inspires the
development of better language models and techniques. These
investigations are very important since if computational techniques can
be used to improve our understanding of human language acquisition and
change, these will not only benefit cognitive sciences in general but
will reflect back to NLP and place us in a better position to develop
useful language models.

Success in this type of research requires close collaboration between
the NLP, linguistics, psychology and cognitive science communities. The
workshop is targeted at anyone interested in the relevance of
computational techniques for understanding first, second and bilingual
language acquisition and language change in normal and clinical
conditions. Long and short papers are invited on, but not limited to,
the following topics:

* Computational learning theory and analysis of language learning and
  organization

* Computational models of first, second and bilingual language
  acquisition
* Computational models of language changes in clinical conditions
* Computational models and analysis of factors that influence language
  acquisition and use in different age groups and cultures
* Computational models of various aspects of language and their
  interaction effect in acquisition, processing and change
* Computational models of the evolution of language
* Data resources and tools for investigating computational models of
  human language processes
* Empirical and theoretical comparisons of the learning environment and
  its impact on language processes
* Cognitively oriented Bayesian models of language processes
* Computational methods for acquiring various linguistic information
  (related to e.g. speech, morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, and
  discourse) and their relevance to research on human language
  acquisition
* Investigations and comparisons of supervised, unsupervised and
  weakly-supervised methods for learning (e.g. machine learning,
  statistical, symbolic, biologically-inspired, active learning, various
  hybrid models) from a cognitive perspective

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SUBMISSIONS

We invite three different submission modalities:

* Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references): Long
  papers should report on original, solid and finished research
  including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques.

* Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references): Short
  papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions,
  ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.

* System demonstration (2 pages): System demonstration papers should
  describe and document the demonstrated system or resources. We
  encourage the demonstration of both early research prototypes and
  mature systems, that will be presented in a separate demo session.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the EACL 2014
formatting requirements (available at
http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip).  We strongly advise
the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files. For long and short
papers, the reported research should be substantially original. The
papers will be presented orally or as posters. The decision as to which
paper will be presented orally and which as poster will be made by the
program committee based on the nature rather than on the quality of the
work.

Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be
included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided as well. Papers
that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without
review. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where
no distinction will be made between papers presented orally or as
posters.

Submission and reviewing will be electronic, managed by the START
system:

    https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/CogACLL/

Submissions must be uploaded onto the START system by the submission
deadline:

 January 23rd, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12 hours)

Please choose the appropriate submission type from the START submission
page, according to the category of your paper.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Jan 23, 2014    Long and Short Paper submission deadline
Feb 05, 2014    System Demonstrations submission deadline
Feb 20, 2014    Notification of acceptance
Mar 03, 2014    Camera-ready deadline
Apr 26,  2014    Workshop

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Afra Alishahi         	Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Colin J Bannard        	University of Texas at Austin (USA)
Marco Baroni         	University of Trento (Italy)
Robert Berwick         	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Philippe Blache        	LPL, CNRS (France)    
Jim Blevins            	University of Cambridge (UK)
Antal van den Bosch     Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Chris Brew            	Nuance Communications (USA)
Ted Briscoe         	University of Cambridge (UK)
Alexander Clark        	Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)
Robin Clark         	University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Stephen Clark         	University of Cambridge (UK)
Matthew W. Crocker      Saarland University (Germany)
Walter Daelemans        University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Dan Dediu            	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (The Netherlands)
Barry Devereux         	University of Cambridge (UK)
Benjamin Fagard         Lattice-CNRS (France)
Jeroen Geertzen         University of Cambridge (UK)
Ted Gibson         	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Henriette Hendriks      University of Cambridge (UK)
Marco Idiart         	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Mark Johnson         	Brown University (USA)
Aravind Joshi         	University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Gianluca Lebani        	University of Pisa (Italy)
Igor Malioutov         	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe    The Ohio State University (USA)
Maria Alice Parente     Federal University of ABC (Brazil)
Massimo Poesio          University of Trento (Italy)
Brechtje Post         	University of Cambridge (UK)
Ari Rappoport         	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Anne Reboul        	L2C2-CNRS (France)
Kenji Sagae         	University of Southern California (USA)
Sabine Schulte im Walde University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Ekaterina Shutova       University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Maity Siqueira         	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Mark Steedman         	University of Edinburgh (UK)
Suzanne Stevenson       University of Toronto (Canada)
Remi van Trijp        	Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris (France)
Shuly Wintner         	University of Haifa (Israel)
Charles Yang         	University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Beracah Yankama    	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Menno van Zaanen        Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Alessandra Zarcone      University of Stuttgart (Germany)

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT

Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Muntsa Padró (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Thierry Poibeau (LATTICE-CNRS, France)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email
to cognitive2014 at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:13:30 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:13:30 +0100
Subject: Appel: EACL 2014 Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and
 their Compositionality
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.221330.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:35:49 +0100
From: Alexandre Allauzen <allauzen at limsi.fr>
Message-ID: <52A84E15.2010007 at limsi.fr>


Second Call for Papers

(Apologies for multiple postings)

************************************************************************
Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
(2nd edition)

Co-located with EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden

April 27, 2014

Submission deadline: January 23, 2014

https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop2014

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


INVITED SPEAKERS

The workshop will showcase presentations from two invited speakers :
Geoffrey Zweig (Microsoft Research) and Ivan Titov (University of
Amsterdam).


AIMS AND SCOPE

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in algorithms that
learn and use continuous representations for words, phrases, or
documents in many natural language processing applications. Among many
others, influential proposals that illustrate this trend include latent
Dirichlet allocation, neural network based language models and spectral
methods. These approaches are motivated by improving the generalization
power of the discrete standard models, by dealing with the data sparsity
issue and by efficiently handling a wide context.  Despite the success
of single word vector space models, they are limited since they do not
capture compositionality. This prevents them from gaining a deeper
understanding of the semantics of longer phrases or sentences.

With the growing popularity of these neural and probabilistic methods of
language processing, the scope of this second workshop is extended to
theoretical and conceptual questions regarding:

* their relation to unsupervised distributional representations,

* the encompassing of the compositional aspects of formal models of
  semantics,

* the role of linguistic theory in the design and development of these
  methods.

Some such pertinent questions include: Should phrase representations and
word representations be of the same sort? Could different linguistic
levels require different modeling approaches? Is compositionality
determined by syntax, and if so, how do we learn/define it? Should word
representations be fixed and obtained distributionally, or should the
encoding be variable?  Should word representations be task-specific, or
should they be general?

In this workshop, we invite submissions of papers on continuous vector
space models for natural language processing. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

* learning algorithms for continuous vector space models,

* their compositionality,

* their use in NLP applications,

* spectral learning for NLP,

* neural networks for NLP,

* phrase, sentence, and document-level distributional representations,

* tensor models,

* distributed semantic representations,

* the role of syntax in compositional models,

* formal and distributional semantic models.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Authors should submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF
format, with up to 2 additional pages for references. The reported
research should be substantially original. The papers will be presented
orally or as posters. All submissions must be in PDF format and must
follow the EACL 2014 formatting requirements
(http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip ). Reviewing will be
double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the
papers; self-reference should be avoided as well.  Submissions must be
made through the Softconf website set up for this workshop:

https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/CVSC/

Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no
distinction will be made between papers presented orally or as posters.

IMPORTANT DATES

23 January 2014      : Submission deadline
20 February 2014     : Notification of acceptance
3 March 2014         : Camera-ready deadline
27 April 2014        : Workshop


ORGANIZERS

Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/Université Paris-Sud, France)
Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento, Italy)
Edward Grefenstette (University of Oxford, UK)
Hugo Larochelle (Université de de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Christopher Manning (Stanford University, USA)
Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nicholas Asher (IRIT-Toulouse)
Marco Baroni (University of Trento)
Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal)
Gemma Boleda (University of Texas)
Antoine Bordes (Université Technologique de Compiègne)
Johan Bos (University of Groningen)
Léon Bottou (Microsoft Research)
Xavier Carreras (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Lucas Champollion (New-York University)
Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge)
Shay Cohen (Columbia University)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University)
Ronan Collobert (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland)
Pino Di Fabbrizio (Amazon)
Georgiana Dinu (University of Trento)
Kevin Duh (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Dean Foster (University of Pennsylvania)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (Università degli Studi di Roma)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh)
Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit)
Larry Moss (Indiana University)
Diarmuid Ó Seaghdha (University of Cambridge)
Sebastian Pado (Universität Stuttgart)
Martha Palmer (University of Colorado)
John Platt (Microsoft Research)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University of London)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University)
Peter Turney (NRC)
Jason Weston (Google)
Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS/Université Paris-Sud)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:25:15 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:25:15 +0100
Subject: Stage: M2,
 Amelioration du module de desambiguisation du Moteur de Recherche
 Semantique d'inbenta
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.222515.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:59:28 +0100
From: Manon Quintana <mquintana at inbenta.com>
Message-ID: <CANqWUmQO=dzLct4H5wNyGWynnGttKOFV2V3iMvrdM0QtenZnNQ at mail.gmail.com>

*Présentation société*
------------------------------

inbenta est une société pionnière dans le *Traitement Automatique du
Langage Naturel et la recherche sémantique*. Basée sur ces concepts
novateurs, inbenta développe depuis 2005 des solutions logicielles pour
les sites internet de Grands Comptes.

*Description de l’offre*
------------------------------

Inbenta a développé un moteur de recherche intelligent appelé *Inbenta
Semantic Search Engine* (ISSE). Les deux tâches principales de ce moteur
sont d’analyser les questions des utilisateurs et de trouver la réponse
appropriée à la requête en effectuant une recherche dans une base de
connaissances.

Un *module de désambiguïsation syntaxique et sémantique* est intégré
dans notre moteur de recherche. Ce module est très important car il fait
partie intégrante du bon fonctionnement de la solution. L’objet du stage
proposé par inbenta sera d’améliorer le module de désambiguïsation.

Les missions de stage seront :

   - Gestion linguistique et éditoriale d’un projet de FAQ dynamique
     afin que le stagiaire s’approprie l’existant
   - Enrichissement du module de désambiguïsation par l’ajout de règles,
     de descriptions lexicales et de grammaires locales + évaluation du
     travail
   - Réflexion d’amélioration du module de désambiguïsation à un niveau
     algorithmique


*Profil recherché*
------------------------------

Nous recherchons une personne enthousiaste, organisée et sérieuse et
ayant l’envie d’intégrer une équipe internationale. Le stagiaire devra
également avoir les compétences suivantes :

   - Études en Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel
   - Excellente maîtrise de la langue française et bonne communication
     écrite et orale en espagnol, anglais ou catalan

Bonus :

   - Maîtrise d’au moins un langage de programmation (PHP de préférence)
   - Maitrise des expressions régulières et du SQL


*Modalités du poste*
------------------------------

   - Stage de 5 à 6 mois (avec possibilité d’embauche en CDI)
   - Rémunération prévue: 30% du SMIC (+ prime en fonction des
     résultats)
   - Début : à partir de Février / Mars 2013
   - Lieu : Toulouse


Merci d’adresser CV et lettre de motivation à Quintana Manon à l’adresse
mail suivante : *mquintana at inbenta.com*

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:57:07 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:57:07 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for Demos
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.225707.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:31:40 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20131213143200.7CF23DBB67 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos

** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Call for Demos ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos
	
The demonstrations track of the ESWC 2014 complements the overall
program of the conference with demonstrations of real-world,
applied-and-tested advances of semantic technologies. In addition to
papers and posters presenting latest theoretical achievements, the ESWC
2014 is seeking demonstrations of novel applications of semantics in
various sectors, including: eGovernment, eEnvironment, eMobility and
smart cities, eHealth, Life Sciences, Sensor networks and RDF Stream
Processing, Linked Science, Media and entertainment, Telecommunications,
Cultural heritage, Financial services, Energy and utilities,
Manufacturing, Digital libraries, Cloud applications, Personal
Information Management, Decision support, Emergency and crisis
management etc.

The demonstrations track is an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to present their innovative prototypes, practical
developments, on-going projects, lessons learned and late-breaking
results, relevant for the topics of interest of the main conference and
the research and poster tracks.

Submissions to the demonstrations track should make clear what will be
demonstrated, and in particular point out what makes the demonstration a
novel showcase. A video of the demo should be provided if a link to the
demonstrator is not available. Submission should also specify:

* What is the research background and application context of the
  demonstration, and what makes this a novel showcase for semantic
  technologies.

* What is the key technology used, and how does the demonstrated system,
  application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work.

* What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the
  demonstration learn?

* Submission Guidelines *

Submissions to the demonstrations track must be in the form of a textual
description of the demonstration to be given at the conference (which
may include screenshots and must include either a link to the online
demo or a video presenting it). The submissions must be at most 5 pages
long including reference list (Springer LNCS style) and submitted as
PDF. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the
Semantic Web area, originality, potential significance, topicality and
clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the
LNCS guidelines will be rejected without a review.

Submissions should be uploaded using the Easychair system:
	https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014pd


* Important Dates *

Submission Deadline: March 16, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014


* Important Notice *

Demonstrator papers will appear in supplementary post-conference
proceedings to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series.

Participants with an accepted demo paper must register for the
conference and present their system during the Demo Session. A space for
demonstration will be allocated for each participant. Participants
should use their own laptop for the demos. The organizers should be
contacted well in advance of the conference in case of any special
requirement.


* Poster and Demo Chairs *

Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR)
Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping
University, SE)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:15:49 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:15:49 +0100
Subject: Journee: Ateliers de formation a TXM,
 session de janvier-fevrier 2014, Lyon
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.221549.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:31:15 +0100
From: Serge Heiden <slh at ens-lyon.fr>
Message-ID: <52A86923.3040905 at ens-lyon.fr>
X-url: http://textometrie.ens-lyon.fr


Bonjour,

Les prochains ateliers TXM auront lieu aux dates suivantes (à Lyon) :
- mardi 21 janvier : TXM avancé ;
- jeudi 27 février : Initiation à TXM ;
- vendredi 28 février : Préparation de corpus et import dans TXM.
TXM est un outil libre d'analyse de corpus de textes et de
transcriptions.

Si vous êtes intéressé(e) par l'une de ces séances, il faut vous
inscrire en envoyant un mail au plus tôt (le nombre de places est
limité) à textometrie <à> ens-lyon <point> fr (l'inscription est
nécessaire même si vous aviez répondu à la consultation Doodle)

Toute l'information sur les ateliers :
https://groupes.renater.fr/wiki/txm-users/public/ateliers_txm

Au plaisir de vous retrouver peut-être à cette occasion,

Serge Heiden, pour l'équipe TXM.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 20:47:36 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:47:36 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2014 Student Session
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.214736.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:44:38 +0100
From: Ronald de Haan <dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at>
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X-url: http://www.esslli2014.info/

Please forward to students. Apologies for the multiple messages.

*1st Call for Papers*
*ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION*
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/

*Held during*
*The 26th European Summer School in*
*Logic, Language and Information*

Tübingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014

*Deadline for submissions: April 1st, 2014*
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essllistus2014


*ABOUT:*
The Student Session of the 26th European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Tübingen, Germany,
on August 11-22, 2014. 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.

*SEPARATE POSTER SESSION:*
Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for the oral
presentations and one for the posters. This means that papers can be
directly submitted as posters. Reviewing and ranking will be done
separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they
offer an excellent opportunity to present research in progress.

More detailed guidelines and policies regarding submission can be found
on the Student Session website:
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/ .

Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters
relating to the Student Session to: dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at.

For general inquiries about ESSLLI 2014, please consult the main ESSLLI
2014 page: http://www.esslli2014.info/.

Kind regards,
*the ESSLLI 2013 Student Session Organization Committee*


*Chair:*
Ronald de Haan (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)

*LoCo co-chairs:*
Zoé Christoff (Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Aybüke Özgün (Université de Lorraine, France)

*LoLa co-chairs:*
Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Thomas Brochhagen (Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)

*LaCo co-chairs:*
Miriam Kaeshammer (Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
Ramon Ziai (Universität Tübingen, Germany)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:22:54 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:22:54 +0100
Subject: Stage: Master recherche appliquee en TAL, region parisienne
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.222254.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:16:38 +0100
From: philippe.martin at stella-medica.fr
Message-ID: <sympa.1386864891.7493.672 at cines.fr>

Stella Medica est un cabinet de recrutement bien implanté dans le milieu
médical.

En partenariat avec une société de conseil informatique, nous
développons pour nos propres besoins et dans une optique de
commercialisation des outils de gestion de recrutement.

Dans le cadre de ce développement vous travaillerez sur un module de
gestion d’analyse des données candidat.

Les algorithmes à intégrer ou développer porteront sur les éléments
suivants :

- Dans le cadre de l’analyse de CV :
  o Identification de la nature et de la langue du document
  o Détection des informations dans le texte tels que (exemples simples) :
    Nom, prénom, date de naissance, adresse, métier et niveau
    d’expérience
- Détection de documents similaires
- Génération de résumé, dérivation de ce résumé en plusieurs langues
  (anglais en particulier)
- Amélioration du moteur de recherches multicritères existant
- Recherche automatique dans les réseaux sociaux et mise en lumière de
  points forts ou d’incohérences

Vous travaillerez dans une équipe à dominante informatique et serez donc
assez autonome. L’équipe sera encadrée par un chef de projet
informatique expérimenté, dans une démarche de développement logiciel
professionnel : démarche CMMI, outils de gestion de projet, de partage
des sources et de gestion des tests.

La plateforme de développement est principalement Microsoft : ASP.NET MVC en
C#, composants C# ; SQL Server.

Vous cherchez idéalement un stage de fin d’études Bac +5 en Traitement
Automatique de la Langue (TAL) ou Ingenierie Linguistique. Le résultat
de votre travail devra être « convertible en programme informatique »,
phase que vous pourrez vous-même éventuellement mettre en œuvre.

Stage de longueur modulable de 4 à 6 mois à partir de février 2014 situé
à Rueil-Malmaison.
Rémunération selon profil, tickets restaurants, remboursement de 50% du
pass Navigo.

Contactez Philippe Martin avec votre CV et en précisant votre période de
stage attendue : philippe.martin at stella-medica.fr


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:18:28 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:18:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: EACL 2014 Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014)
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:53:39 +0100
From: Agata Savary <agata.savary at univ-tours.fr>
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Second CALL FOR PAPERS

The 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014)
http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwe2014

Workshop at EACL 2014 (Gothenburg, Sweden), April 26-27, 2014

Endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX;http://www.siglex.org/); SIGLEX's
Multiword Expressions Section (SIGLEX-MWE;
http://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=MWE); and PARSEME,
European IC1207 COST Action (http://www.parseme.eu)

Submission deadline:
Long & short papers - January 23, 2014 at 11:59pm GMT -12 hours
-------------------------
Call For Papers

Under the denomination "multiword expression", one assumes a wide range
of linguistic constructions such as idioms ("storm in a teacup", "sweep
under the rug"), fixed phrases ("in vitro", "by and large", "rock'n
roll"), noun compounds ("olive oil", "laser printer"), compound verbs
("take a nap", "bring about"), etc. While easily mastered by native
speakers, their interpretation poses a major challenge for computational
systems, due to their flexible and heterogeneous nature.

For a start, MWEs are not nearly as frequent in NLP resources as they
are in real-world text, and this problem of coverage may impact the
performance of many NLP tasks. Moreover, treating MWEs also involves
problems like determining their semantics, which is not always
compositional ("to kick the bucket" meaning "to die"). In sum, MWEs are
a key issue and a current weakness for natural language parsing and
generation, as well as real-life applications depending on language
technology, such as machine translation, just to name a prominent one
among many. Thanks to the joint efforts of researchers from several
fields working on MWEs, significant progress has been made in recent
years, especially concerning the construction of large-scale language
resources. For instance, there is a large number of recent papers which
focus on acquisition of MWEs from corpora, and others that describe a
variety of techniques to find paraphrases for MWEs.  Current methods use
a plethora of tools such as association measures, machine learning,
syntactic patterns, web queries, etc. A considerable body of techniques,
resources and tools to perform these tasks are now available, and are
indicative of the growing importance of the field within the NLP
community.

Many of these advances are described as part of the annual workshop on
MWEs, which attracts the attention of an ever-growing community working
on a variety of languages and MWE types. The workshop has been held
since 2001 in conjunction with major computational linguistics
conferences (ACL, EACL, NAACL, COLING, LREC), providing an important
venue for the community to interact, share resources and tools and
collaborate on efforts for advancing the computational treatment of
MWEs. Additionally, special issues on MWEs have been published by
leading journals in computational linguistics. The latest such effort is
the special issue on "Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Practice and
Use", which has recently been published by the ACM Transactions on
Speech and Language Processing
(http://multiword.sourceforge.net/tslp2011si).

MWE 2014 will be the 10th event in the series. We will be interested in
major challenges in the overall process of MWE treatment, both from the
theoretical and the computational viewpoint, focusing on original research
related (but not limited) to the following topics:

* Manually and automatically constructed resources
* Representation of MWEs in dictionaries and ontologies
* MWEs and user interaction
* Multilingual acquisition
* Multilingualism and MWE processing
* Models of first and second language acquisition of MWEs
* Crosslinguistic studies on MWEs
* The role of MWEs in the domain adaptation of parsers
* Integration of MWEs into NLP applications
* Evaluation of MWE treatment techniques
* Lexical, syntactic or semantic aspects of MWEs

The workshop will feature a "Special Track on Parsing and MWEs" dedicated
to "deep" parsing of MWEs, inviting submissions on the following and
related challenges:

* Lexicon-grammar interface: representing, at the lexical level,
  phenomena such as agreement, discontinuity and free word order;
  construction of MWE lexicons which would be easily convertible and
  maximally reusable in different parsing frameworks.

* "Deep" parsing techniques for MWEs: optimal representation of MWEs
  within linguistic frameworks, such CCG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, minimalism,
  etc; processing MWEs before, during or after parsing; representing the
  semantics of MWEs.

* Hybrid parsing of MWEs: combining data-driven and knowledge-based
  approaches for efficient and linguistically precise parsers; using
  unannotated data for improving models based on annotated data.

* Annotating MWEs in treebanks: MWE-aware methodologies of treebank
  construction, and their increased usability in parsing.

This special track is endorsed by PARSEME, European IC1207 COST Action,
dedicated to parsing and MWEs (www.parseme.eu). PARSEME will fund travel
and stay for at least 20 participants from the Action's member countries
(the grant application procedure will be published shortly). A separate
time slot will be allocated to the special track within the workshop.
Authors may submit papers either to the special track or to the regular
workshop. They should follow common submission instructions.

Submission modalities

For MWE 2014, we will accept the following two types of submissions:

Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references): Long
papers should report on solid and finished research including new
experimental results, resources and/or techniques.
Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references): Short
papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions,
ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.

The reported research should be substantially original. The papers will
be presented orally or as posters. The decision as to which papers will
be presented orally and which as posters will be made by the program
committee based on the nature rather than on the quality of the
work. All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the EACL
2014 formatting requirements (available at
http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip). We strongly advise
the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files.

Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be
included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided as well.

Resources submitted with the papers should be anonymized for submission.
Papers and/or resources that do not conform to these requirements will
be rejected without review. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings, where no distinction will be made between papers presented
orally or as posters.

Submission and reviewing will be electronic, managed by the START
system:

     https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/MWE/

Submissions must be uploaded onto the START system by the submission
deadline: January 23rd, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12 hours)

Please choose the appropriate submission type from the starting
submission page, according to the category of your paper.

Important dates

23 January 2014: Long & short paper submission deadline 11:59pm GMT -12 hours
20 February 2014: Notification of Acceptance
03 March 2014: Camera-ready papers due
26-27 April 2014: Workshop Dates

Program Committee

Iñaki Alegria, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Dimitra Anastasiou, University of Bremen (Germany)
Doug Arnold, University of Essex (UK)
Eleftherios Avramidis, DFKI GmbH (Germany)
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Chris Biemann, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
António Branco, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Miriam Butt, Universität Konstanz (Germany)
Aoife Cahill, ETS (USA)
Ken Church, IBM Research (USA)
Matthieu Constant, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (France)
Paul Cook, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Béatrice Daille, Nantes University (France)
Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen (Norway)
Gaël Dias, University of Caen Basse-Normandie (France)
Güls,en Eryig(it, Istanbul Technical University (Turkey)
Tomaz( Erjavec, Joz(ef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva, New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Roxana Girju, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Chikara Hashimoto, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan)
Ulrich Heid, Universität Hildesheim (Germany)
Kyo Kageura, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Su Nam Kim, Monash University (VIC, Australia)
Ioannis Korkontzelos, University of Manchester (UK)
Brigitte Krenn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Austria)
Cvetana Krstev, University of Belgrade (Serbia)
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, The Ohio State University (USA)
Takuya Matsuzaki, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute (Qatar)
Malvina Nissim, University of Bologna (Italy)
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge (UK)
Jan Odijk, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Yannick Parmentier, Université d'Orléans (France)
Pavel Pecina, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
Scott Piao, Lancaster University (UK)
Adam Przepiórkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Victoria Rosén, University of Bergen (Norway)
Carlos Ramisch, Aix-Marseille University (France)
Manfred Sailer, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Magali Sanches Duran, University of São Paulo (Brazil)
Violeta Seretan, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Ekaterina Shutova, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Jan S(najder, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Pavel Stran(ák, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
Sara Stymne, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa (Canada)
Beata Trawinski, Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim (Germany)
Yulia Tsvetkov, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Yuancheng Tu, Microsoft (USA)
Ruben Urizar, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Veronika Vincze, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Martin Volk, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Tom Wasow, Stanford University (USA)
Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa (Israel)
Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Hong Kong)

Workshop Organizers

Valia Kordoni (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Markus Egg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Agata Savary (Université François Rabelais Tours, France; Special Track Organiser)
Eric Wehrli (Université de Genève, Switzerland; Special Track Organiser)
Stefan Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

Contact

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to
mweworkshop.eacl2014 at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:27:38 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:27:38 +0100
Subject: Appel: EACL 2014 Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation
 (3rd HyTra)
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.222738.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:28:00 +0100
From: "Reinhard Rapp" <reinhardrapp at gmx.de>
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Apologies for multiple postings
Please distribute to colleagues

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

2nd Call for Papers

THIRD WORKSHOP ON HYBRID APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION (HyTra 2014)

Co-located with EACL 2014 http://eacl2014.org/ 

Gothenburg, Sweden

April 27, 2014

Deadline for paper submissions: January 23, 2014

http://parles.upf.edu/llocs/plambert/hytra/hytra2014/

INVITED SPEAKERS

Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University and DFKI, Germany)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)                        

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


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The aim of the HyTra workshop series is to bring together researchers
developing and applying statistical, example-based, or rule-based
translation systems, and those enhancing MT systems by combining
elements from different approaches, to promote discussion and sharing of
ideas among them. Hereby one relevant focus is on effectively combining
linguistic and data driven approaches (rule-based and statistical
MT). Another focus is on hybridization in the context of human
translation.

The 3rd Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra-3) intends
to continue developing and empowering the research agenda in the area of
Hybrid Translation already started at its first and second editions. The
previous two editions (see http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/esirmt-hytra/
and http://hytra.barcelonamedia.org/hytra2013/) were co-located with
EACL 2012 in Avignon and with ACL 2013 in Sofia, and the proceedings
were published on the ACL Anthology.


TOPICS

We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following
topics:

- ways and techniques of hybridization
- architectures for the rapid development of hybrid MT systems
- applications of hybrid systems
- hybrid systems dealing with under-resourced languages
- hybrid systems dealing with morphologically rich languages
- using linguistic information (morphology, syntax, semantics) to
  enhance statistical MT 
  (e.g. with hierarchical or factored models)
- using contextual information to enhance statistical MT
- bootstrapping rule-based systems from corpora
- hybrid methods in spoken language translation
- extraction of dictionaries and other large-scale resources for MT from
  parallel and comparable corpora
- induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from
  corpora
- machine learning techniques for hybrid MT
- describing structural mappings between languages (e.g. tree-structures
  using synchronous/transduction grammars)
- heuristics for limiting the search space in hybrid MT
- alternative methods for the fair evaluation of the output of different
  types of MT systems (e.g. relying on linguistic criteria)
- system combination approaches such as multi-engine MT (parallel) or
  automatic post-editing (sequential)
- open source tools and free language resources for hybrid MT


SUBMISSIONS

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submissions must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding five pages of
content plus one extra page for references. Characteristics of short
papers include: a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a
negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application
nugget. Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original,
completed and unpublished work without exceeding eight pages of content
plus two extra pages for references. Submissions will be judged
according to the criteria of the main conference (EACL 2014).

Authors are invited to submit papers on original and previously
unpublished work. Formatting should be according to EACL 2014
specifications using LaTeX or MS-Word style files, see section
"submission format" at http://eacl2014.org/call-for-papers. Reviewing of
papers will be double-blind, so the submissions should not reveal the
authors' identity.

Submission is electronic in PDF format using the START submission system
at the following URL: https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/HyTra/

Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the
workshop contact person (see below). If accepted, withdrawals are only
possible within two days after notification.

For an accepted paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one author
must register for the workshop and actually present the paper. The
papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be made
available via the ACL Anthology.


BEST PAPERS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to contribute extended
versions of their papers as book chapters for an edited volume on hybrid
MT.


IMPORTANT DATES

January 23, 2014: Deadline for paper submission
February 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance
March 3, 2014: Camera ready papers due
April 27, 2014: Workshop in Gothenburg


ORGANIZERS

Rafael E. Banchs (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Marta R. Costa-jussa (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Reinhard Rapp (Universities of Aix-Marseille and Mainz)
Patrik Lambert (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
Kurt Eberle (Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg)
Bogdan Babych (University of Leeds)


CONTACT PERSON

Rafael E. Banchs: rembanchs (at) i2r (dot) a-star (dot) edu (dot) sg


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

* Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield, UK
* Bogdan Babych, University of Leeds, UK
* Rafael E. Banchs, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Alexey Baytin, Yandex, Moscow, Russia 
* Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 
* Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva, Switzerland 
* Michael Carl, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
* Marta R. Costa-jussa, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Oliver Culo, University of Mainz, Germany
* Kurt Eberle, Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
* Andreas Eisele, DGT (European Commission), Luxembourg 
* Marcello Federico, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy 
* Christian Federmann, Language Technology Lab, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany 
* José A. R. Fonollosa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 
* Maxim Khalilov, TAUS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Patrik Lambert, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
* Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK 
* Yanjun Ma, Baidu Inc., Beijing, China 
* José B. Mariño, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 
* Bart Mellebeek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Aix-Marseille, France, and Mainz, Germany
* Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 
* Nasredine Semmar, CEA LIST, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France 
* Wade Shen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA 
* Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds, UK 
* George Tambouratzis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
* Jörg Tiedemann, University of Uppsala, Sweden 
* Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:57:55 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:57:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for Posters
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.225755.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:57:01 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-posters
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** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Call for Posters ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-posters

11th ESWC Conference 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Poster and Demo Chairs:
- Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR)
- Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science,
  Linkoping University, SE)

The poster track of ESWC 2014 will provide an opportunity for presenting
late-breaking results, on-going research projects, and speculative or
innovative work in progress. Posters are intended to provide authors and
participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage
in discussions about the work.

We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web that
address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research
Track. Theoretical or technical posters, reports on semantic systems
(however, demonstrations of such systems should be submitted in the demo
track), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are equally
welcome.

Papers submitted to the research track will NOT automatically be
considered for the poster track. A separate poster submission must be
made. For example, a poster can be used to present work that was
insufficiently mature for the research track.

* Submission Guidelines *

Authors must submit a 4-page paper (PDF, Springer LNCS style) with a
short abstract for evaluation. The paper must clearly demonstrate
relevance to the Semantic Web and the topics of interest of ESWC
2014. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the
Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and
clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the
LNCS guidelines will be rejected without a review.

Submissions should be uploaded using the Easychair system:
	https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014pd


* Important Dates *

Submission Deadline: March 16, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014


* Important Notes *

Poster papers will appear in supplementary post-conference proceedings
to be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS).

Participants with an accepted poster must register for the conference
and present their work during the Poster Session. A space will be
allocated for each participant. The organizers should be contacted well
in advance of the conference in case of any special requirement.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:48:58 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:48:58 +0100
Subject: Info: Establishing the International Standard Language Resource
 Number (ISLRN)
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.224858.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:45:44 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
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/Press Release - Immediate - Paris, France, December 13, 2013/

*Establishing the International Standard Language Resource Number
 (ISLRN)*

12 major NLP organisations announce the establishment of the ISLRN, a
Persistent Unique Identifier, to be assigned to each Language Resource.

On November 18, 2013, 12 NLP organisations have agreed to announce the
establishment of the International Standard Language Resource Number
(ISLRN), a Persistent Unique Identifier, to be assigned to each Language
Resource. Experiment replicability, an essential feature of scientific
work, would be enhanced by such unique identifier. Set up by ELRA, LDC
and AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA, the ISLRN Portal will provide unique
identifiers using a standardised nomenclature, as a service free of
charge for all Language Resource providers. It will be supervised by a
steering committee composed of representatives of participating
organisations and enlarged whenever necessary.

More information on ELRA and the ISLRN, please contact: Khalid Choukri
choukri at elda.org <http://www.elra.info/Establishing-the-ISLRN.html#>

More information on ELDA, please contact: Hélène Mazo mazo at elda.org 
(http://www.elra.info/Establishing-the-ISLRN.html#)

ELRA

55-57, rue Brillat Savarin

75013 Paris (France)

Tel.: +33 1 43 13 33 33

Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30

*** About ELRA ***
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit
making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the
mission of providing a clearing house for Language Resources and
promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT).

To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: www.elra.info 

*** About NLP12***
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL), Asian Federation of Natural Language
Processing (AFNLP), COLING Committee (ICCL), European Data Forum,
European Language Resources Association (ELRA), International
Association for Machine Translation (IAMT), International Committee for
the Coordination & Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment
Techniques (COCOSDA), International Speech Communication Association
(ISCA), Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), Oriental COCOSDA, Language
Resource Management Agency (RMA)

To find out more about NLP12, please read the NLP12 Paris Declaration 
(http://www.elra.info/NLP12-Paris-Declaration.html).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:35:11 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:35:11 +0100
Subject: Appel: WIMS'14 (deadline extension)
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.223511.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:23:11 +0100
From: Plantié Michel <michel.plantie at mines-ales.fr>
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X-url: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr

*** apologies for cross-postings ***

========================================================================
        Due to a number of requests we have to decided to extend
                     the paper submission deadlines

      NEW deadline for paper submission: *** January 20th 2014 ***
========================================================================

          CALL FOR RESEARCH / APPLICATION & CASE STUDY PAPERS / POSTERS
          CALL FOR WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS / DEMONSTRATIONS
          KEYNOTES ANNOUNCEMENT

                                WIMS’14
 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
                  Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 June 2014
                       http://wims14.csd.auth.gr

About WIMS’14 Conference
--------------------------------------
WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer Science
conferences. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners to  present
their state-of-the-art results in building Intelligent Web, to  examine
performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based
intelligent information technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas
on the development of Web-based intelligent information management
solutions across different domains.

Objectives
--------------
The purpose of the WIMS series is:

- To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to
  present their contributions to the state of the art research and
  development in Web technology and applications

- To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research  to
  a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback

- To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers
  and practitioners can meet

Call for Research Papers/Posters
--------------------------------------------
WIMS’14 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art
research in the area of Web intelligence, Web mining, Web semantics  and
the fundamental interaction between them. Authors are invited to  submit
regular (12 pages) or short (6 pages) research papers or  posters (4
pages) on all related areas. Papers exploring new  directions or areas
will receive a thorough and encouraging review.

More details on the nature of the different submission types can be
found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=23

The papers in all the categories should describe original results that
have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All
submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the
international program committee.

Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open
Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS’14
Conference Management system at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims14

The submissions should be typeset using the templates of the ACM
International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The templates could
be retrieved from
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Call for Application and Case Study Track Papers
----------------------------------------------------------------
The goal of this track is to provide opportunities for researchers,
innovators, industry leaders, and practitioners to present and  exchange
ideas, results, and experiences in the applications of Web Intelligence,
Mining, and Semantics (WIMS). The Application & Case Studies Track
invites submissions describing implementations of Web Intelligence,
Mining, and Semantics in industrial or government or other ‘real world’
settings. Papers must include descriptions of how the applications have
been conceived, developed, and (probably)  deployed.

Details about the submission types and the submission procedure of this
track can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=154

Call for Tutorials/Demonstration Proposals
----------------------------------------------------------
WIMS’14 also welcomes Tutorial and/or Demonstration proposals. WIMS’14
will include tutorials and/or demonstrations (on new applications)
providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest  to
the Web Mining and Web Semantics community. The tutorials will be  part
of the main conference technical program. Proposal papers must be  no
less than 5 pages and no more than 12 pages, and must provide a  sense
of both the scope of the tutorial and depth within the scope.

Details about the submissions of the tutorial/demonstration proposals
can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=148

Call for Workshop Proposals
--------------------------------------
WIMS’14 invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with
the conference. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit,
possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of
work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, or some combination. A workshop
could be scheduled for a half a day or a full day, depending on
potential interest and organizers preference.

The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own
reviewing process, website, and to co-ordinate the collection and
delivery of camera ready material and ACM copyright transfer. Accepted
papers in workshops will be published in the WIMS’14 proceedings and
disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. Selected extended papers
will be invited to appear in a special issue of a reputed journal in the
field.

Details about the submissions of the workshop proposals can be found at:
http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=150

Conference Scope
-------------------------
WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research, discussion papers
and industry experience report papers in related fields. Papers
exploring new directions or areas are also welcome. In particular but
not exclusively the submissions within the following major areas are
relevant:

- Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures
- Web Intelligence
- Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction
- Web Semantics and Reasoning
- WIMS Applications
- Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications

More details about the conference scope and topics can be found at:
http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=146


Publications
----------------
Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and
disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International
Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).

A selection of the best WIMS'14 papers will be invited to be revised and
extended for the post-conference publication in the Special Issue of the
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT).

The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences could be checked at:
- WIMS’11:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688
- WIMS’12:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129
- WIMS’13:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787

Keynotes
-------------
WIMS’14 organizing committee is happy to announce the following
significant keynote speakers for this year’s conference:
- “Large-Scale Reasoning with (Semantic) Data”: Grigoris Antoniou,
  Professor, University of Huddersfield
- “Semantic Technology for online, broadcast and print media”: Jem
  Rayfield, Head Architect, Financial Times
- “Big Data – from Hype to Reality”: Richard Benjamins, Dr., Director of
  Business Intelligence, Telefonica

Important Dates
---------------
13.01.2014  submission of abstracts for Application and Case Study
             Track Papers ** NEW **
20.01.2014  submission of Research Track papers & Application and
             Case Study Track papers & posters ** NEW **
20.12.2013  Workshop & Tutorial Proposals submission, review and
             notification
24.03.2014  notification of acceptance for (all tracks) papers/posters
             ** NEW **
07.04.2014 camera ready versions of the accepted (all tracks) papers,
            posters, tutorial papers ** NEW **
14.04.2014 author registration deadline ** NEW **
02-04.06.2014   Conference

Organization
-----------------
WIMS'14 is organized under the auspices of the Dept. of Informatics at
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece. (http://www.csd.auth.gr/en/)

WIMS Conferences Chair
Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway

General Chairs
Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

Program Committee Chairs
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine

Advisory Committee
Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK
Harold Boley, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New  Brunswick,
   Fredericton, Canada
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing,
   Ohio, USA

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Industrial Track Chair
John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK

Publicity Chair
Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Local Organization Co-Chairs
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Athanasios Tsadiras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Web Chairs
Efstratios Kontopoulos, International Hellenic University, Greece
Fotis Kokkoras, T.E.I. of Thessaly, Greece

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:49:50 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:49:50 +0100
Subject: Livre: Ressources Lexicales
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.224950.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 19:19:24 +0100
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <52AB4FAC.30805 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lis.30/main

  Ressources Lexicales

  Contenu, construction, utilisation, évaluation

Sous la direction de Núria Gala et Michael Zock
Aix-Marseille Université & LIF-CNRS

http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lis.30/main

Les ressources lexicales (dictionnaires, bases de données, thesaurus,
etc.) rassemblent des connaissances sur les mots, leurs sens et leurs
usages. Si pendant des siècles elles ont été tributaires de l'imprimerie
et du format textuel, il existe de nos jours une grande variété d'outils
et de ressources accessibles sous des formats électroniques divers.
Ainsi, la façon de considérer les ressources lexicales a changé
considérablement ces dernières décennies. On a vu notamment apparaître
des ressources non plus conçues en tant qu'entités statiques, mais
modélisées sous forme de bases de données ou de graphes, dans lesquelles
les informations sont liées et accessibles dynamiquement. Le domaine des
ressources lexicales, au carrefour de plusieurs disciplines dont la
linguistique, la lexicologie, la lexicographie et le traitement
automatique des langues, est sans nul doute en pleine effervescence. Le
but de ce volume est d'en dresser un panorama général qui rend compte de
l'existant et des évolutions en cours.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:15:19 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:15:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: WoLLIC 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.221519.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:09:25 -0200
From: Ruy de Queiroz <ruy at cin.ufpe.br>
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[Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.]


 WoLLIC 2014
21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
September 1st to 4th, 2014
Valparaiso, Chile


SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP
Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL)
The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI)
Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL)
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL)
Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC)
Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL)

ORGANISATION
Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile, Chile
Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

HOSTED BY
Department of Informatics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María,
Chile

CALL FOR PAPERS
WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research
involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural
language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and
tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twentieth WoLLIC will be
held at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, from September 1st
to 4th, 2014.  It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic
(ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The
Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European
Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European
Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira
de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL).

PAPER SUBMISSION
Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular
interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas
of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel
computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief;
proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in
software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language
and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational
aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and
protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of
a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including
motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not
exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages
for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must
not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues,
including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that
each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its
authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2014
EasyChair website. (Please go to
http://wollic.org/wollic2014/instructions.html for instructions.) A
title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 24, 2014,
and the full paper by Mar 28, 2014 (firm date). Notifications are
expected by May 2, 2014, and final papers for the proceedings will be
due by May 15, 2014 (firm date).

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of WoLLIC 2014, including both invited and contributed
papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in
Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the
Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected
contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2014
issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed).

INVITED SPEAKERS
Verónica Becher (U Buenos Aires)
Juha Kontinen (U Helsinki)
Aarne Ranta (U Gothenburg)
Kazushige Terui (U Kyoto)
Luca Viganò (King’s College London)
Thomas Wilke (U Kiel)

STUDENT GRANTS
ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2014 will permit ASL student members to apply
for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2014). See
http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details.

IMPORTANT DATES
Mar 24, 2014: Paper title and abstract deadline
Mar 28, 2014: Full paper deadline
May 2, 2014: Author notification
May 15, 2014: Final version deadline (firm)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Natasha Alechina (U Nottingham)
Eric Allender (Rutgers U)
Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile)
Steve Awodey (CMU)
Julian Bradfield (U Edinburgh)
Xavier Caicedo (U de Los Andes)
Olivier Danvy (Aarhus U)
Ulrich Kohlenbach (Tech U Darmstadt) (CHAIR)
Marcus Kracht  (U Bielefeld)
Michiel van Lambalgen (U Amsterdam)
Klaus Meer (Tech U Cottbus)
George Metcalfe (Bern U)
Dale Miller (INRIA Saclay / LIX)
Russell Miller (CUNY)
Sara Negri (U Helsinki)
Nicole Schweikardt  (U Frankfurt)
(more to come)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid
Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints,
Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Pablo Barceló (Universidad de Chile) (Local chair)
Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco)
Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair)
Juan Reutter (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Cristián Riveros (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

FURTHER INFORMATION
Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee.

WEB PAGE
http://wollic.org/wollic2014/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:20:08 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:20:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: IC 2014,
 Extension de l'appel a soumission jusqu'au 9 janvier 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.222008.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:50:01 +0100
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <52AEE8E9.1010403 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014

Appel à communications pour les

25es Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances :

Connaissances pervasives: des utilisateurs plongés dans des systèmes à
base de connaissances et des systèmes à base de connaissances plongés
dans le monde


http://www.irit.fr/IC2014


du 12 au 16 mai 2014 à Clermont-Ferrand

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Dates importantes :

Date limite de soumission des communications : jeudi 19 décembre
2013jeudi 9 janvier 2014

Date de notification aux auteurs : jeudi 13 février 2014

Date limite de réception des textes définitifs : lundi 17 mars 2014

Dates de la conférence : du 12 au 16 mai 2014

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La conférence d'Ingénierie des Connaissances fête cette année ses 25
ans! Elle est le rendez-vous annuel de la communauté française et
francophone qui s'intéresse aux problématiques liées à l'ingénierie des
connaissances. Académiques et industriels s'y retrouvent pour échanger
et réfléchir sur des problèmes de recherche qui se posent en
acquisition, représentation et gestion des connaissances.

L'essor des sciences et technologies de l'information et de la
communication, et notamment des technologies du web, dans l'ensemble de
la société engendre des mutations dans les pratiques individuelles et
collectives. L'ingénierie des connaissances accompagne cette évolution,
en inventant les modèles, méthodes et outils permettant l'intégration de
connaissances et de raisonnements sur ces connaissances dans des
environnements informatiques.

De fait, on constate aujourd'hui une omniprésence des connaissances, en
même temps qu'un décloisonnement des communautés de recherche en
Intelligence Artificielle pour répondre aux problèmes qui se posent.
Ainsi, la construction des systèmes à base de connaissances fait appel à
l'ingénierie des connaissances, au traitement automatique des langues, à
l'apprentissage automatique et à la fouille de données; le traitement
des connaissances associe ingénierie des connaissances avec recherche
d'information, recherche opérationnelle, analyse de données; la
modélisation des environnements informatiques, de ses acteurs humains ou
logiciels, allie ingénierie des connaissances et systèmes multi-agents;
enfin l'ingénierie des connaissances touche à des thématiques classiques
dans les communautés de l'interaction homme-machine et des
environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain.

En plaçant ainsi l'utilisateur au coeur des systèmes informatiques,
l'ingénierie des connaissances est sollicitée pour assister
l'utilisateur dans le traitement de la masse de données disponibles sur
le web, pour les visualiser, contextualiser, expliquer, recommander,
classer, prédire, approximer, sécuriser, fiabiliser, pour pallier à leur
imprécision voire incohérence.

Les thèmes d'IC 2014 sont les suivants (liste non exhaustive):

Représentation des connaissances et raisonnement

- modèles, formalismes, langages formels et informels de représentation
  de connaissances

- échange, interopérabilité et réutilisation des modèles,
  standardisation

- terminologies, thesauri, ontologies et lexiques

- types d'ontologies et rôle des ontologies de référence

- méthodes et outils pour le cycle de vie des représentations

- gestion de la dynamique des ontologies (versionnement, évolution,
  intégration et alignement)

- raisonnements logiques, inférences, raisonnements à base de règles,

- approximations, raisonnements statistiques, raisonnements par
  analogie, raisonnements à partir de cas, raisonnements dans les
  logiques non classiques


Conception et construction de modèles de connaissances et d'ontologies

- peuplement de modèles de connaissances

- acquisition de connaissances à partir de textes

- découverte interactive de connaissances dans les données, dans les
  historiques, dans les interactions, sur le web, etc.

- inférence et règles métier : acquisition, conception, réutilisation,
  évolution, évaluation, exploitations

- métrique et évaluation de la qualité des ontologies


Web de données, web sémantique

- ouverture et interconnexion des données

- impact de l'ouverture des données sur le web et de l'externalisation
  ouverte (crowdsourcing) sur l'ingénierie des connaissances

- réseaux sociaux

- gestion de flux de données

- passage à l'échelle : traitement de données massives

- traitement de données hétérogènes

- provenance et confiance dans les données

- métrique et évaluation de la qualité des données


Ingénierie des connaissances centrée utilisateurs

- visualisation de connaissances, d'ontologies

- visualisation d'interconnexions de données, de raisonnements sur les
  données

- explication des raisonnements

- profils utilisateurs, modèles de contexte et adaptation, modèles
  d'émotion

- personnalisation de l'accès aux connaissances: confiance,
  recommandation, classement (ranking), résumé

- assistance d'applications et de services: agents conversationnels

- environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain

- conception et évaluation d'interactions et d'interfaces avec des
  systèmes à base de connaissances


Interdisciplinarité de l'ingénierie des connaissances

- épistémologie de l'ingénierie des connaissances

- théorie des organisations et ingénierie des connaissances

- sciences humaines et sciences cognitives et ingénierie des
  connaissances

- ingénierie des connaissances scientifiques


Ingénierie des connaissances pervasive : IC dans...

- le traitement automatique des langues

- l'apprentissage symbolique

- la fouille de données

- la recherche d'information, l'indexation

- la recherche opérationnelle

- l'analyse de données

- les systèmes multi-agents

- les environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain

- les interfaces homme-machine


Applications

- applications dans les domaines de la santé, de l'éducation et de
  l'apprentissage, de la culture, de la recherche documentaire, des
  transports intelligents, de l'informatique décisionnelle (BI), etc.

- émergence de nouveaux domaines applicatifs

- mémoires d'entreprises

- systèmes pour la collaboration et la coopération dans les
  organisations et les collectifs


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Soumissions :

Articles longs(12 pages (nouveau format), présentation orale de 20 mn,
10 mn discussion) :

Sont concernés des travaux aboutis, présentant des résultats validés ou
des synthèses fouillées.


Articles courts(6 pages (nouveau format), présentation orale de 10 mn, 5 
mn discussion) :

Sont concernés des travaux en cours ou au stade de résultats partiels de
recherche ou appliqués. Ce type de soumission correspond à des travaux
innovants de qualité, mais dont la maturité ne permet pas des
élaborations complètes et des conclusions définitives.

Les articles devront respecter les styles de documents indiqués sur le
site de la conférence: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014.

Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre leurs communications au format PDF
sur EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2014.

Les articles acceptés feront l'objet d'actes en version électronique,
publiés sur HAL, et disponibles sur une clé USB distribuée aux
participants de la conférence.

Un prix AFIA du meilleur article sera décerné par un jury composé de
membres du comité de pilotage de la conférence.


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La conférence d'Ingénierie des Connaissances est placée sous l'égide du
collège IC de l'AFIA

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Présidente du comité de programme :

Catherine Faron Zucker (I3S, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis)


Présidente du comité d'organisation :

Catherine Roussey (Irstea)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:23:28 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:23:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: 8eme colloque international du GEM&L
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.222328.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:09:24 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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8eme colloque international du GEM&L

Toulouse Business School
Toulouse, 26-28 mars 2014

Appel à communication – Call for Papers

Version française (English version below)

Langage et performance de l’entreprise

http://geml.eu/colloque/colloque-2014-toulouse-business-school/call-for-papers/

Planning

Proposition de communication :                      10 janvier 2014

Notification d’acceptation / modification :         20 février 2014

Communication définitive:                           10 mars 2014


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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:22:04 +0100
Subject: Info: EMCL Study grants
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:42:38 +0100
From: Bertram Fronhöfer
Message-ID: <52AF1F6E.40304 at tu-dresden.de>
X-url: http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html
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Dear all,

I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that fresh Erasmus Mundus
scholarships are available for Non-European AND European students who
enrol in our European Master's Program in Computational Logic in the
fall of 2014. The deadline for application is 31 January, 2014. More
details are given below. In particular, I'd like to draw your attention
to the fact that we are able to provide grants to EU-students for doing
their project at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA).

Please spread this information as wide as possible among friends and
colleagues, at your old universities and the places, where you currently
live and work.

Many thanks -- Steffen

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The European Master's Program in Computational Logic

We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European
Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly
at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische
Universität Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in
Portugal and the Technische Universität Wien in Austria. Within this
program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European
universities. In addition, you can do your project work at the National
ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer
Science and obtain a joint degree. Information on the universities and
the program including the application procedure is provided here:

http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html

Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for
non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year.

We would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship
program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships up to
48.000 EUR for non-EU students and up to 23.000 EUR for EU students of
our European Master's Program in Computational Logic.

More information on the scholarship program is available from:

http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/ma_em_grant.html

Do not hesitate to contact us  if you have any further questions.

Kind regards -- Steffen Hölldobler

Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler
International Center for Computational Logic
Technische Universität Dresden
01062 Dresden, Germany

phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40
fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42
email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:27:18 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:27:18 +0100
Subject: Soft: JRC's Europe Media Monitor (EMM) - Free APPS for mobile
 version
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.222718.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:49:14 +0100
From: Ralf Steinberger <ralf.steinberger at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <023b01cefb37$27ea4280$77bec780$@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
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Dear all, this is to let you know that the highly multilingual Europe
Media Monitor (EMM) applications are now available as free Apps for
mobile devices running iOS and Android.
 
You can download the EMM Apps via the links at the EMM-NewsBrief entry
page http://emm.newsbrief.eu/ . Apps are currently available for mobile
devices running Android and for the iPad. A version for the iPhone will
be released soon.
 
We would be delighted to receive your feedback on the newly released EMM
Apps to the email address emm AT jrc DOT it.
 
We look forward to hearing from you.
 
 
EUROPE MEDIA MONITOR  (EMM)
 
EMM gathers a daily average of 175,000 news items in over 70 languages
and it analyses the news automatically using a wide range of
JRC-developed computational linguistics tools. These include event
extraction; automatic entity recognition, classification and
disambiguation; name variant mapping; co-reference resolution; quotation
recognition; opinion mining; multi-document summarisation; document
clustering and classification; machine translation; information
aggregation, including across languages; and more.
 
 
BACKGROUND AND READING
 
EMM (http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html) is a freely available
advert-free family of news monitoring and analysis applications
developed by the OPTIMA Team (http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=178) at
the Joint Research Centre (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/) (JRC), which is
the European Commission's in-house science service.
 
You find literature (scientific publications) on the Europe Media
Monitor EMM (http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html) and
its individual text mining tools at the URL
http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html, including papers
giving an introduction and a generic overview of the Europe Media
Monitor EMM
(http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Documents/09_SIGIR-WS_Steinberger+frontmat
ter.pdf) .
 
 
FREELY AVAILABLE LINGUISTIC RESOURCES
 
The JRC has also released a large volume of freely available
multilingual linguistic resources
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=61) that can be used to
develop or test a variety of multilingual and cross-lingual Natural
Language Processing tools. These include parallel corpora in up to 26
languages; readily trained automatic document categorisation software
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=60) in 22 languages;
dictionaries of names and their variant spellings
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=42) , including across languages and
scripts; and more. See http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=61 for
details and to download the data and the tools.

 
Ralf Steinberger (http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/RS.html) and the
OPTIMA team
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
URL - Applications:  (http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html)
http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html 
URL - Resources: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=61  


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:29:33 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:29:33 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Pierre-Yves OUDEYER, 19 Decembre 2013, GIPSA-lab
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.222933.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:18:29 +0100
From: Thomas Hueber <thomas.hueber at gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr>
Message-Id: <0167C9FD-3058-4DC0-886F-30E1363406CC at gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr>
X-url: http://www.pyoudeyer.com
X-url: http://flowers.inria.fr
X-url: http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/~thomas.hueber

Bonjour à tous,
 
Cette semaine, nous accueillerons Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, de l'INRIA
Bordeaux. Il viendra nous présenter ses travaux ce Jeudi 19 décembre, à
13h30 en salle réunion du DPC-Ampère (B314).

Venez nombreux ! (et n’hésitez pas à diffuser cette annonce dans vos
laboratoires).

L’équipe séminaire du Département Parole et Cognition du GIPSA-lab

_________________________
 

Curiosity-driven learning and development: 
How robots can help us understand humans 

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Inria and Ensta ParisTech, France
 
A great mystery is how human infants develop: how they progressively
discover their bodies, how they learn to interact with objects and
social peers, and accumulate new skills all over their lives.
Constructing robots, and building mechanisms that model such
developmental processes, is key to advance our understanding of human
development, in constant dialogue with human and living sciences.
I will present examples of robotics models of curiosity-driven learning
and exploration, and show how developmental trajectories can
self-organize, starting from discovery of the body, then object
affordances, then vocal babbling and vocal interactions with others. In
particular, I will show that the onset of language spontaneously forms
out of such sensorimotor development.

Dr. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer is Research Director at Inria and head of the
Inria and Ensta-ParisTech FLOWERS team (France). Before, he has been a
permanent researcher in Sony Computer Science Laboratory for 8 years
(1999-2007). He studied theoretical computer science at Ecole Normale
Supérieure in Lyon, and received his Ph.D. degree in artificial
intelligence from the University Paris VI, France. After working on
computational models of language evolution, he is now working on
developmental and social robotics, focusing on sensorimotor development,
language acquisition and life-long learning in robots. Strongly inspired
by infant development, the mechanisms he studies include artificial
curiosity, intrinsic motivation, the role of morphology in learning
motor control, human-robot interfaces, joint attention and joint
intentional understanding, and imitation learning. He has published a
book, more than 80 papers in international journals and conferences,
holds 8 patents, gave several invited keynote lectures in international
conferences, and received several prizes for his work in developmental
robotics and on the origins of language. In particular, he is laureate
of the ERC Starting Grant EXPLORERS. He is editor of the IEEE CIS
Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development, and associate editor of
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Frontiers in
Neurorobotics, and of the International Journal of Social Robotics. He
is also working actively for the diffusion of science towards the
general public, through the writing of popular science articles and
participation to radio and TV programs as well as science
exhibitions. Web: http://www.pyoudeyer.com and http://flowers.inria.fr


Dr. Thomas Hueber
Chargé de recherche au CNRS
GIPSA-lab, Département Parole et Cognition
961 rue de la Houille Blanche - Domaine universitaire - BP 46
38402 Saint Martin d'Hères CEDEX FRANCE
Tél  :  +33 (0)4 76 57 49 40
Fax :  +33 (0)4 76 57 47 10
Courriel : thomas.hueber at gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr
Web : http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/~thomas.hueber

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:46:48 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:46:48 +0100
Subject: Appel: Ateliers TALN 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.214648.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:44:37 +0100
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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TALN 2014 - APPEL À ATELIERS

L'édition 2014 de la conférence TALN aura lieu à Marseille du 1er au 4
juillet 2014. Comme pour les éditions précédentes, une journée sera
dédiée à des ateliers.

OBJECTIFS

Un atelier porte sur une thématique particulière de TALN afin de
rassembler quelques exposés plus ciblés. Il a son propre président et
son propre comité de programme. Le responsable d’un atelier est chargé
de l’appel à communications et de la coordination de son comité de
programme. Les organisateurs de TALN s’occuperont de la partie
logistique (gestion des salles, pauses café et diffusion des articles).
Les ateliers auront lieu en parallèle (3 séances) sur une journée ou une
demi-journée (2 à 4 sessions de 1h30).

CALENDRIER

Date des ateliers : 1er juillet 2014
Date limite de soumission de la proposition : 31 janvier 2014
Réponse du comité de programme de TALN : 7 février 2014
Version finale des articles : 30 mai 2013

MODALITÉS DE PROPOSITION

Les propositions d’ateliers seront envoyées sous forme électronique à
alexis.nasr[arobas]lif.univ-mrs.fr et nuria.gala[arobas]lif.univ-mrs.fr.

Les propositions d’ateliers comprendront une description synthétique
(2-3 pages) de la thématique de la conférence ainsi que son comité de
programme et la durée souhaitée (un jour ou une demi-journée). Le comité
de programme de TALN choisira parmi toutes les propositions.

FORMAT

Les conférences auront lieu en français (ou en anglais pour les
non-francophones). Les articles devront suivre le format de TALN et
comprendront 12 à 14 pages.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:28:37 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:28:37 +0100
Subject: Appel: 23rd IEEE Wetice, Track Web2Touch, June 23-25, Parma, Italy
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.212837.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:26:07 +0100
From: Lina Soualmia <lina.soualmia at gmail.com>
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X-url: http://cmt.dmi.unipr.it/wetice14

CALL FOR PAPERS
Web2Touch 2014: Ontology Applications and Web Semantics
http://web2touch2014.tudor.lu/
Conference Track @ 23rd IEEE WETICE
http://cmt.dmi.unipr.it/wetice14
June 23-25, 2014 - Parma - Italy
http://web2touch2014.tudor.lu

*Objectives*

The 2014 edition of the Web2Touch Track aims at presenting alternatives
to address interoperability and distributed knowledge management problem
for Web systems. Web is a living medium for collaborating where people
and computer systems can produce, share and consume information. However
several challenges for facilitating this collaboration are still open
issues, including: storage, retrieval, extraction, and visualisation of
huge quantity of information, interlinking, ontology classification and
fusion of data. New technologies and standards have been developed to
provide more efficient use of the Web, in particular for using Cloud,
Linked Open Data, and Big Data. The key of the success of the Internet
is the amount of published data available for everyone, but it also
generates problems to end-users. Researchers are continuously working to
improve Webapplications and Web contents structures. The aim is to avoid
overwhelming human beings with irrelevant data, and to increase the
capability of systems to correctly interpret Web contents, so improving
the quality of the interaction on the Web. This Track is intended as a
forum to discuss theories, models, techniques and user requirements
related to how a number of semantic interoperability problems can be
coped with to achieve commercial, scientific, and sociological success
for Web applications. Web2Touch is an open forum for studies in
multiples application domains including, for example, Web science,
eHealth, eGov, eLearning and collaborative systems in general.

*Topics*

Include but are not limited to:
- Case studies of social semantic web.
- Ontology and knowledge reuse and integration.
- Semantic web services.
- Experiences in semantic web support for collaborative work and
  business.
- Knowledge creation, management, maintenance, and validation.
- Collaborative ontology evolution and alignment.
- Web for sentiment analysis.
- Privacy issues in knowledge sharing.

*Important Dates*

- Submission deadline: Feb 4, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2014
- Camera ready papers: April 11, 2014
- Conference: June 23-25, 2014

*Paper Submission*

Papers submitted to W2T 2014 must be written in English and must be
formatted in strict accordance with the Wetice formatting instructions
(author kits and paper templates available for *Word*, *PDF*, and
*LaTeX*<http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>)
and must be submitted in PDF format. Papers can be up to 6 pages. By
submitting a paper, authors commit to have the paper presented at the
workshop by at least one of them if the paper is accepted. Papers have
to be submitted through the easychair system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=web2touch

The previous editions of Web2Touch received publication from many
countries, the accepted ones are available in the IEEE Xplore. The best
papers from 2008 to 2010 were published in special issues of the
International Journal of Web Portals (2011, vol 1 and 3) and extended
versions of selected papers from Web2Touch 2012 were published in
Concurrency and Computation (2013), Web Portals (2013) and Collaborative
Enterprise (2013) .

Contact:
Marcos Da Silveira
web2touch at easychair.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:33:54 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:33:54 +0100
Subject: Job: Postdoctoral position in MT, Idiap, Switzerland
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.223354.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:06:16 +0100
From: Andrei Popescu-Belis <andrei.popescu-belis at idiap.ch>
Message-ID: <52B47908.5040007 at idiap.ch>
X-url: http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs


Postdoctoral position in Machine Translation (OP-20131220-162727)

NLP Group, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

Description: 	

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher position in the
field of machine translation (MT), in the context of the MODERN project
(www.idiap.ch/project/modern) funded by the Swiss National Science
Foundation. The MODERN project is headed by Idiap, with partners in
Zurich, Geneva and Utrecht, and its overall goal is to model discourse
entities and relations for improving MT.

The researcher will focus on enhancing the use of text-level features
upon decoding, in a statistical MT framework. Several features are
available from our previous projects, for instance pertaining to
discourse relations or verb tenses, but also based on robust semantic
relatedness measures. In addition, work in MODERN will focus on
discourse entities (coreference and anaphora resolution) which will
offer additional text-level constraints to experiment with. We are
expecting from the postdoctoral researcher to advance the
state-of-the-art in text-level decoding with linguistically motivated
features, demonstrating improvement over existing options (such as
factored models) through quantitative evaluation.

Candidates should hold a PhD degree in statistical machine translation
or natural language processing, and demonstrate a strong publication
record at the time of application. Strong skills in programming and
statistical modeling are also expected, along with a sensitivity to MT
evaluation issues. While English is the main working language, knowledge
of French, German or Dutch (the languages targeted in MODERN) would be
an advantage. The PhD degree must be obtained before the starting date
of the position.

The position is offered for one year, with renewal for a second year
conditional on satisfactory results. Review of the applications will
start on February 1st, 2014, and will continue until the position is
filled. The appointment will start on August 1st, 2014.

How to apply:

Please fill in and submit your application through the Idiap online
recruitment system, by clicking on the position's title at
http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs.

Contact information:

Further information about this position can be requested via the Idiap
online recruitment system or by contacting Dr. Andrei Popescu-Belis,
head of the NLP group.

About Idiap: 	

Idiap is an independent, non-profit research institute recognized and
supported by the Swiss Government, and affiliated with the Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). It is located in the town of
Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland,
surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exciting
recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well
as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Geneva
and Lausanne. Although Idiap is located in the French part of
Switzerland, English is the working language. Free French lessons are
provided.

Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a
young, dynamic, and multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal
opportunity employer and is actively involved in the "Advancement of
Women in Science" European initiative. The Institute seeks to maintain a
principle of open competition (on the basis of merit) to appoint the
best candidate, provides equal opportunity for all candidates, and
equally encourage both genders to apply.

Andrei Popescu-Belis

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:14:36 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:14:36 +0100
Subject: Job: Ingenieur en Traitement Automatique des Langues, INIST-CNRS
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.221436.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 09:08:06 +0100
From: "GAUTIER, Patricia" <Patricia.GAUTIER at inist.fr>
Message-Id: <E7513ACF-E019-47AF-886F-1A7AAFE62635 at limsi.fr>

Ingénieur en Traitement Automatique des Langues
(Bac + 5)

Poste : Ingénieur en Traitement Automatique des Langues
Contrat : CDD
Employeur : CNRS
Lieu de Travail : Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy
Envoyer CV et lettre de motivation à patricia.gautier at inist.fr

Description du poste 
L'INIST-CNRS est une unité de service du CNRS qui collecte, traite et
diffuse de l'information scientifique et technique vers le monde de la
recherche. Dans le cadre des Initiatives d'Excellence, le CNRS est
porteur du projet ISTEX (www.istex.fr). L'INIST-CNRS pour sa part est en
charge d'une plateforme nationale permettant de stocker, héberger et
diffuser des archives de documents scientifiques acquises dans le cadre
de ce projet. Le volume de données à traiter, l'hétérogénéité des
sources et la taille de la communauté visée (ESR) est sans précédent.
L’objectif de cette plateforme est également de proposer aux chercheurs
des services de traitement des données (extraction de données, fouille
de texte...). La personne recrutée travaillera exclusivement sur ce
projet pendant la période de son contrat et aura pour mission d’étudier
et tester les outils existants qui permettent de réaliser des
traitements robustes de fouille et d’annotation des textes. Elle
réalisera une analyse des outils disponibles qu’ils soient commerciaux
ou issus de travaux de recherche, et donnera des préconisations pour
leur intégration dans la plateforme en cours de développement. Enfin,
elle assurera ces intégrations en collaboration avec l’équipe de
développement.

Compétences

Obligatoires : 
Connaissance approfondie des méthodologies, techniques et outils de
Traitement Automatique des Langues et des formats de description de
documents, d’annotations et de ressources terminologiques (XML et, par
exemple, TEI, SKOS, TBX, ...)
Intégration de solutions dans un environnement Linux, 
Bonne capacité d’analyse et de synthèse.

Souhaitées : Autonomie de développement dans un langage comme Java,
Python ou PHP. Expérience des gros volumes de données et des
technologies du Web sémantique

Profil
De formation Bac+5 en informatique et ingénierie des langues, vous avez
une expérience dans le domaine. Ayant déjà exercé ce type de fonction ou
pas, vous êtes disponible et opérationnel rapidement, vous êtes
autonome, organisé et rigoureux. Vous avez le sens du service, une bonne
capacité d'assimilation et d'adaptation et un bon relationnel.

Lieu : VANDOEUVRE-LES-NANCY
Contrat : CDD de 12 mois 
Rémunération : selon diplôme et expérience
Date de début : 01 février 2014

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:32:27 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:32:27 +0100
Subject: Info: AFIA, Prix de These en Intelligence Artificielle 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.223227.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:02:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Amedeo Napoli <amedeo.napoli at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <1763010084.15272569.1387555327165.JavaMail.root at loria.fr>
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bonjour à tous, 
avec toutes mes excuses pour les réceptions multiples, 
bonne fin d'année à tous, 
Amedeo Napoli 

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

AFIA : Prix de Thèse en Intelligence Artificielle 2014 

L'AFIA reconduit en 2014 le prix de thèse en Intelligence Artificielle,
pour faire connaître et reconnaître les meilleurs travaux de recherche
des jeunes chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle.

Pour cette édition 2014, le jury est composé à la fois de membres
choisis parmi les ECCAI Fellows membres de l'AFIA et par des membres
extérieurs choisis pour l'occasion. Le jury est présidé cette année
encore par Amedeo Napoli (LORIA Nancy). Le premier prix est doté d'un
montant de 1000 euros. Selon la qualité des soumissions reçues, un ou
deux autres prix ou accessits pourront être attribués.

Les jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs ayant obtenu un doctorat en France
au cours de l'année civile 2013 peuvent se porter candidat. En outre,
l'AFIA apprécierait que les jeunes docteurs candidats soient à jour de
leur cotisation AFIA 2014, ce qui montrerait par là qu'ils sont
conscients du rôle que peut jouer l'AFIA pour promouvoir l'Intelligence
Artificielle sous toutes ses formes en France mais aussi à l'étranger.

La constitution du dossier est détaillée à l'adresse :
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Prix+de+Th%C3%A8se+en+Intelligence+Artificielle

La date limite de soumission est fixée au **** lundi 27 janvier 2014 **** 

Les résultats seront connus à partir de la fin du mois d'avril. 
Le lauréat se verra remettre le prix aux cours du Congrès RFIA qui a
lieu entre les 30 juin et 4 juillet à Rouen, et il aura l'occasion de
présenter ses travaux au cours d'une session spéciale des Rencontres des
Jeunes Chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle (RJCIA 2014). 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:31:02 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:31:02 +0100
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:58:03 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
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Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.

We are happy to announce that 1 new Speech Language Resource and 1 new
Written Corpus are now available in our catalogue.

*ELRA-S0365 aGender*
aGender contains speech sample recordings over public telephone lines
with read and (semi-)spontaneous speech. Native German speakers called a
voice portal from their private phone, and read text + answered some
open questions. The corpus contains the voices of 945 German speakers
(approx. minimum of 100 speakers per class), each delivering 18 speech
items in up to six different sessions.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1214

*ELRA-W0074 Amharic-English bilingual corpus*
The Amharic-English bilingual corpus contains parallel text from legal
and news domains in Amharic script, in transliterated form and in
English. The size of the corpus is of 232,653 words in Amharic and
291,701 in English.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1215

For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

Visit our On-line Catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info
Visit the Universal Catalogue: http://universal.elra.info
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:44:28 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:44:28 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: BLRI, Pascal Belin, Aix-en-Provence, 24 janvier 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.214428.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:43:15 +0100
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Vendredi 24 janvier 2014

11h Salle de conférences B011, bât. B 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence

(Labex BLRI)

Pascal Belin 

(Institut des Neurosciences de La Timone, UMR 7289, CNRS & Aix-Marseille
Université, Marseille, France)

A Vocal Brain: Cerebral Processing of Voice Information

Résumé : The human voice carries speech but also a wealth of
socially-relevant, speaker-related information. Listeners routinely
perceive precious information on the speaker's identity (gender, age),
affective state (happy, scared), as well as more subtle cues on
perceived personality traits (attractiveness, dominance, etc.), strongly
influencing social interactions. Using voice psychoacoustics and
neuroimaging techniques, we examine the cerebral processing of
person-related information in perceptual and neural voice
representations. Results indicate a cerebral architecture of voice
cognition sharing many similarities with the cerebral organization of
face processing, with the main types of information in voices (identity,
affect, speech) processed in interacting, but partly dissociable
functional pathways.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:22:52 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:22:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: TSD 2014, Preliminary Announcement
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:39:52 +0100
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       *********************************************************
                  TSD 2014 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
       *********************************************************

   Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
                               (TSD 2014)

               Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014
                     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


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.


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
    Paul Cook, Australia
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, GB
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
    Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    Diana McCarthy, United Kingdom
    France Mihelic, Slovenia
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Elmar Noeth, Germany
    Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Fabio Pianesi, Italy
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    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
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, GB
    Marcin Wolinski, Poland
    Victor Zakharov, Russia


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA
    Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy


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.


CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The conference program will include oral presentations and
poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of
the issues raised.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstract
March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date

The contributions to the conference 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.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to
    
    Ales Horak, TSD 2014
    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: tsd2014 at tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2014 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).


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:49:06 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:49:06 +0100
Subject: Stage: Internship in NLP and MT, Idiap, Switzerland
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.224906.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:06:35 +0100
From: Andrei Popescu-Belis <andrei.popescu-belis at idiap.ch>
Message-ID: <52B4791B.40306 at idiap.ch>
X-url: http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs


Internship in Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation 
(OP-20131220-163254)

NLP Group, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

Description: 	

Applications are invited for a 6-month internship at the Master level in
the field of natural language processing and statistical machine
translation. The internship is offered in relation to the Swiss MODERN
project (www.idiap.ch/project/modern) aiming at modeling discourse
entities and relations for improving MT. The intern will work within the
NLP group at the Idiap Research Institute.

The goal of the internship is to integrate existing tools for anaphora
resolution (in-house and third party ones) with phrase-based SMT models
(mainly using the Moses open-source system). Following previous work,
the intern will examine whether statistical predictions about the
features of target pronouns (gender, number, grammatical function, and
others) can be used when training SMT and when translating (decoding)
new texts. The intern will implement methods to derive such features,
will use the features in an SMT model (e.g. a factored one), and will
measure the variation in translation quality.

The applicants should have a background in computer science or
linguistics, with previous experience in SMT and NLP being a strong
advantage. The applicants should have demonstrable programming skills in
at least one programming language such as Perl or Python, Java or C/C++.
Experience with the Moses system and/or anaphora resolution systems
would be a plus. Good command of English is mandatory and knowledge of
another European language such as French, German or Dutch would be an
advantage.

The screening of the applications will start on February 1st, 2014 and
will continue until the position is filled. The intended starting date
is in spring 2014. The appointment is for 6 months, with a gross
internship salary of 2000 CHF per month. Participation in the MODERN
project will entail interaction with project partners at the
Universities of Zurich, Geneva, and Utrecht.

How to apply:

Please fill in and submit your application through the Idiap online
recruitment system, by clicking on the position's title at
http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs.

Contact information:

Further information about this position can be requested via the Idiap
online recruitment system or by contacting Dr. Andrei Popescu-Belis,
head of the NLP group.

About Idiap: 	

Idiap is an independent, non-profit research institute recognized and
supported by the Swiss Government, and affiliated with the Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). It is located in the town of
Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland,
surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exciting
recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well
as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Geneva
and Lausanne. Although Idiap is located in the French part of
Switzerland, English is the working language. Free French lessons are
provided.

Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a
young, dynamic, and multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal
opportunity employer and is actively involved in the "Advancement of
Women in Science" European initiative. The Institute seeks to maintain a
principle of open competition (on the basis of merit) to appoint the
best candidate, provides equal opportunity for all candidates, and
equally encourage both genders to apply.

Andrei Popescu-Belis

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:23:39 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:23:39 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste d'Ingenieur d'Etude au GREYC (date limite: 16 Janvier
 2014)
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.212339.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:38:29 +0100
From: Gaël Dias <gael.dias at unicaen.fr>
Message-ID: <52B1B365.1040909 at unicaen.fr>
X-url: http://web-rh.dsi.cnrs.fr/afip/owa/consult.affiche_fonc?code_fonc=V61008&code_corps=&code_dr=19&code_bap=&code_ds=61&nbjours=


--- Désolé pour les diffusions multiples ---

==================================================
==========       POSTE IE au GREYC      ==========
========== Date Limite: 16 Janvier 2014 ==========
==================================================

Le GREYC UMR 6072 à Caen recherche un ingénieur d'étude. En
collaboration avec les équipes de recherche du laboratoire, l’ingénieur
travaillera à la conception de plateformes logicielles autour des
traitements d’images, des documents numériques et des langues, de la
résolution dans les systèmes complexes et de l’optimisation et de la
sécurité.

Le poste est à pourvoir en premier lieu par mobilité interne au CNRS
(NOEMI). Mais si aucun candidat ne convient, les candidatures de
fonctionnaires externes au CNRS seront examinées.

La campagne est ouverte jusqu'au 16 janvier 2014.

Le profil du poste peut être trouvé à l'url suivante:

http://web-rh.dsi.cnrs.fr/afip/owa/consult.affiche_fonc?code_fonc=V61008&code_corps=&code_dr=19&code_bap=&code_ds=61&nbjours=

Pour tout renseignement complémentaire, n'hésitez pas à contacter Gaël
Dias, Professeur des Universités (gael.dias at uniaen.fr) de l'Université
de Caen Basse-Normandie et responsable de l'équipe HULTECH (Human
Language Technology) au GREYC.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:20:58 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:20:58 +0100
Subject: Job: Post-doc, Labex OBVIL
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.212058.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:02:24 +0100
From: Jean-Gabriel Ganascia <Jean-Gabriel at Ganascia.name>
Message-ID: <52B15690.6080701 at Ganascia.name>

*Paris - Sorbonne Universités*

*INTITULE DU POSTE *

**

*Ingénieur attaché au Labex OBVIL (spécialité intelligence
 artificielle)*

/Catégorie : contrat post-doctoral/

/Prise de fonction : 1^er mars 2014/

/Durée : CDD renouvelable/

*Structure de référence :**Laboratoire d’excellence OBVIL*

*Localisation géographique : Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue serpente,
75006 Paris*

*Rattachements hiérarchiques au sein de la structure :**Directeur du
LABEX OBVIL, Didier Alexandre, Directeur Adjoint du LABEX OBVIL,
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia*

*N+1 de l’agent :**Jean-Gabriel Ganascia*

*Quotité de travail inhérente au poste : 100%***

*Missions du Service*

Ce poste est destiné à un jeune chercheur en intelligence artificielle
qui porte un intérêt aux *humanités numériques*.

Le Laboratoire d’excellence OBVIL s’inscrit dans le cadre du PRES
Sorbonne-Universités etréunit des chercheurs appartenant à 7 équipes
d’accueil, à 2 UMR du CNRS. Il regroupe des enseignants-chercheurs et
des chercheurs des universités Paris-Sorbonne et Pierre-et-Marie-Curie,
les uns spécialistes de littérature, les autres de sciences cognitives
et d’informatique.

Il entend développer toutes les ressources offertes par les applications
informatiques pour examiner aussi bien la littérature française du passé
que la plus contemporaine. Il s’intéresse aux questions de la valeur
littéraire, de la vie littéraire, de l’auctorialité et à l’étude des
traductions, des transpositions, des adaptations pour comprendre la
manière dont se constituent les canons.

Il développe des programmes et outils dans le cadre des programmes de
recherche du labex OBVIL.

*Fonctions de l’agent*

Les fonctions de l’agent sont la contribution de cet agent aux missions
du service.

*Développements logiciels pour les humanités numériques :*

- Des outils numériques de comparaison de textes, de recherche
  d’homologies dans les textes, de détection d’entités nommées,
  d’indexation sémantique, de cartographie de corpus, de construction et
  de visualisation d’ontologies etc. ont été réalisées ces dernières
  années dans le cadre de l’équipe ACASA du LIP6 - Université Pierre et
  Marie Curie et du labex OBVIL. Il s’agit maintenant de les mettre à
  disposition d’une communauté large composée non seulement des
  chercheurs en littérature de l’OBVIL mais aussi de l’ensemble du
  public intéressé.  L’agent contribuera à les valider sur des corpus
  conséquents et à réaliser des interfaces pour les rendre accessibles à
  tous sur le web.

  Activités de l’agent

/Les activités sont les principales opérations à effectuer pour remplir 
les fonctions./

/Elles sont la traduction concrète des fonctions./

- Un premier volet portera sur la conception d’interface d’accès aux
  outils d’alignement de texte (MEDITE), de détection d’homologies dans
  les séquences (PHOEBUS) et de repérage de structures annulaires. Il
  s’agit non seulement de visualiser les résultats, mais mettre ces
  outils en accès libre sur le web.

- Un second volet de l’activité portera sur le développement
  d’ontologies pour l’indexation de textes littéraires et sur
  l’introduction des techniques du Web sémantique dans leur traitement.

- Enfin, un troisième volet portera sur la cartographie de corpus à
  l’aide des îles de mémoire développées au sein de l’équipe ACASA.


  Compétences

Les compétences se traduisent par des savoirs, savoir-faire, savoir-être.

Etre titulaire d’une thèse d’informatique.

Maîtriser :

- les concepts fondamentaux de l’intelligence artificielle

- les techniques de base du traitement de la langue naturelle,

- la conception d’interfaces visuelles,

- les notions essentielles du web sémantique (ontologies, représentation
  des connaissances, etc.).

Avoir la capacité à s’intégrer à une équipe de recherche en informatique
et montrer un intérêt pour les humanités numériques.

*Personne(s) à contacter:*

/ALEXANDRE Didier, directeur du LABEX OBVIL/

/didier.alexandre at paris-sorbonne.fr/

/GANASCIA Jean-Gabriel, directeur de l’équipe ACASA du LIP6 - Université
Pierre et Marie Curie/

/Jean-Gabriel.Ganascia at lip6.fr/

/Le dossier consistera en un CV, une présentation du doctorat, des
activités et contrats de recherche antérieurs, et une lettre de
motivation. /

*Date limite du dépôt des candidatures : 1^er février 2014 auprès du 
Labex OBVIL, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Maison de la Recherche, 26 rue 
Serpente, 75006 Paris ou auprès de clarisse.barthelemy at gmail.com*

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:37:36 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:37:36 +0100
Subject: Sujet de These: PhD Position in NLP for MT, Idiap, Switzerland
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.223736.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:06:23 +0100
From: Andrei Popescu-Belis <andrei.popescu-belis at idiap.ch>
Message-ID: <52B4790F.6030808 at idiap.ch>
X-url: http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs


PhD Position in Natural Language Processing for Machine Translation
(OP-20131220-162332)

NLP Group, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

Description: 	

Applications are invited for a PhD position in natural language
processing applied to machine translation, in the context of the MODERN
project headed by Idiap, with partners in Zurich, Geneva and Utrecht
(www.idiap.ch/project/modern) funded by the Swiss National Science
Foundation. The overall goal of the project is to model discourse
entities and relations for improving MT.

The goal of the doctoral thesis, within MODERN, will be to design a
probabilistic model of text-level coreference and anaphora resolution,
in relation to discourse structure. The model will take advantage of
rich semi-structured resources and semantic relatedness measures, along
with insights on the interplay between referential and discursive
relations. The model will be implemented and tested both intrinsically,
on coreference tasks for English and a second language, and
extrinsically, in combination to machine translation. Work on this
latter aspect will involve collaboration with a postdoc in MT.

Candidates should have a strong background in computer science, and good
knowledge of natural language processing, in particular of statistical
methods based on machine learning. They should have strong programming
skills (e.g. in Python, Perl, Java or C/C++) as well as good knowledge
of English as a working language. Knowledge of another language such as
French, German, or Dutch is an advantage. A strong academic record and a
clear aptitude for creative research will be priority selection
criteria.

The successful candidate will be registered as a PhD student in the EPFL
EDEE doctoral program, to which he/she will have to apply with support
from Idiap. The position is funded by the Swiss National Science
Foundation, with a maximum duration of four years.

Review of the applications will start immediately and will continue
until the position is filled. The starting date is March 2014, but later
dates can be considered as well.

How to apply:

Please fill in and submit your application through the Idiap online
recruitment system, by clicking on the position's title at
http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs.

Contact information:

Further information about this position can be requested via the Idiap
online recruitment system or by contacting Dr. Andrei Popescu-Belis,
head of the NLP group.

About Idiap: 	

Idiap is an independent, non-profit research institute recognized and
supported by the Swiss Government, and affiliated with the Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). It is located in the town of
Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland,
surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exciting
recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well
as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Geneva
and Lausanne. Although Idiap is located in the French part of
Switzerland, English is the working language. Free French lessons are
provided.

Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a
young, dynamic, and multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal
opportunity employer and is actively involved in the "Advancement of
Women in Science" European initiative. The Institute seeks to maintain a
principle of open competition (on the basis of merit) to appoint the
best candidate, provides equal opportunity for all candidates, and
equally encourage both genders to apply.

Andrei Popescu-Belis

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:28:31 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:28:31 +0100
Subject: Cursus: Master Erasmus Mundus en TAL
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.222831.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:25:46 +0100
From: Sylvain Pogodalla <Sylvain.Pogodalla at inria.fr>
Message-ID: <21172.21354.208537.589923 at fanon.loria.fr>
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*Bourses de master* pour étudiants *européens et non européens.*

À diffuser auprès des étudiants qui souhaitent faire un master.

Le programme Erasmus Mundus en "Language and Communication
Technologies" (EMMLCT) http://lct-master.org

invite les étudiants *européens* et *non européens* à postuler à la
participation à ce programme.

*La date limite de candidature est le 12 janvier 2014.*

*Informations importantes*

+ enseignement en anglais
+ durée: 2 ans
+ chaque année d'étude dans un établissement partenaire différent
+ spécialisation dans les méthodes et technologies de l'informatique
  linguistique
+ bourses d'études du programme Erasmus Mundus de l'Union Européenne, *y
  compris pour les étudiants européens*

*Le programme EMMLCT est proposé par le consortium d'universités*

1. Saarland University in Saarbruecken, Germany (coordinator)
2. University of Trento, Trento, Italy
3. University of Malta, Malta
4. University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
5. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
6. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
7. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
8. The University of Melbourne, Australia

L'Université du pays Basque / Euskal Herriko University, San
Sebastian, Spain participe également comme partenaire associé.


*Le programme EMMLCT en bref*

Le programme EMMLCT est un Master international. Le programme propose
d'étudier chacune des deux années dans une université différente du
consortium. Lorsque les conditions ont été remplies, les étudiants
obtiennent deux Masters qui ont une reconnaissance nationale dans chacun
des pays d'études.

Les cours comprennent des modules fondamentaux obligatoires ainsi que
des modules avancés en technologies du langage et de la communication et
en informatique, un projet optionnel, et la rédaction d'un mémoire de
Master.

Le programme vise à donner aux étudiants des compétences et des
perspectives sur les disciplines variées qui contribuent aux méthodes
utilisées dans les technologies du langage et de la communication et à
renforcer leur connaissance des méthodes scientifiques. De plus, les
étudiants acquièrent des connaissances pratiques en choisissant une
combinaison de modules en technologie du langage, en linguistique
informatique et théorique, et en informatique. Le programme EMMLCT a été
défini pour prendre en compte les demandes de l'industrie et de la
recherche dans le domaine des technologies des langues. Il offre des
perspectives d'apprentissage et de formation

Le programme EMMLCT est approuvé et soutenu par le programme Erasmus
Mundus de l'Union Européenne. Pour plus d'information :
http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/mundus_en.htm
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus_mundus/.


*Candidatures*

Tous les candidats doivent satisfaire les conditions suivantes :

1. Avoir une Licence (ou un diplôme équivalent) en informatique,
   linguistique, informatique linguistique, sciences cognitives,
   mathématiques, intelligence artificielle ou tout autre discipline
   pertinente. Ce diplôme doit avoir été obtenu avant le début des cours
   du master EMMLCT.

2. Compétences linguistiques : pour les étudiants dont la langue
   maternelle n'est pas l'anglais, un certificat d'aptitude en anglais,
   langue d'enseignement, est requis (TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge
   certificate, etc.)


Les candidatures se font en ligne. Plus d'information et les
instructions pour la candidature se trouvent à : http://lct-master.org

Adresse pour de plus amples informations : lct-info at coli.uni-sb.de

Coordination du programme :
Prof. Hans Uszkoreit 
Dr. Ing. Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova
Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
Saarland University
Saarbruecken, Germany
http://lct-master.org

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:44:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland
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1st (Preliminary) Call for Papers - Coling 2014

The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

August 23 - 29, 2014

Dublin, Ireland

http://www.coling-2014.org

The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is
pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (Coling 2014), at Dublin City University (DCU, Dublin,
Ireland, European Union). DCU is a young, dynamic and ambitious
university with a mission to transform lives and societies through
education, research and innovation. Most of the local organizers are
from CNGL, Ireland’s Centre for Global Intelligent Content (formerly the
Centre for Next Generation Localization), which embodies the leading
position of Ireland in the global localization/internationalization
business, a strong focus on language technologies including machine
translation, computational linguistics and natural language processing,
as well as on intelligent management, search, retrieval, transformation
and adaptation of content.

Coling will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural
language and computation. The conference will include full papers
(presented as oral presentations or posters), demonstrations, tutorials,
and workshops.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Coling 2014 solicits papers and demonstrations on original and
unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited
to:

- pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon;

- cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language
  processing;

- models of communication by language;

- lexical semantics and ontologies;

- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;

- parsing, both syntactic and deep;

- generation and summarization;

- paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;

- speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;

- multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;

- information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base
  linking;

- machine learning for natural language;

- modeling of discourse and dialogue;

- sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;

- multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;

- applications, tools and language resources;

- system evaluation methodology and metrics.

In all relevant areas, we encourage authors to include analysis of the
influence of theories (intuitions, methodologies, insights, ? to
technologies (computational algorithms, methods, tools, data, ? and/or
contributions of technologies to theory development. In technologically
oriented papers, we encourage in-depth analysis and discussion of errors
made in the experiments described, if possible linking them to the
presence or absence of linguistically-motivated features. Contributions
that display and rigorously discuss future potential, even if not (yet)
attested in standard evaluation, are welcome.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS

Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed
work or well-advanced ongoing research rather than intended work, and
should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported
results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be
included.

Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical
strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to
the attendees.

Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new
material that has not been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted in parallel to
other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as
must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published
work.

REVIEWING

Reviewing will be double blind. It will be managed by an international
Conference Program Committee consisting of Program Chairs, members of
the Scientific Advisory Board and Area Chairs, who will be assisted by
invited reviewers.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

For Coling 2014, there will be one category of research papers only. All
of the papers will be included in conference proceedings, this time in
electronic form only.

The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus two extra pages for
references.  Authors of accepted papers will be given additional space
in the camera-ready version to reflect space needed for changes stemming
from reviewers?comments.  Authors can indicate their preference for
presentation mode (i.e. oral or poster presentation) in the submission
form, and the reviewers will recommend an appropriate mode of
presentation to the program committee which will then decide. There will
be no distinction in the proceedings between research papers presented
orally vs. as posters.

Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymized with regard to the
authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on
the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style
as usual. Papers must conform to official Coling 2014 style guidelines,
which will be available on the Coling 2014 website. Submission and
reviewing will be managed online by the START system. The only accepted
format for submitted papers is in Adobe’s PDF.

Submissions must be uploaded on the START system by the submission
deadlines; submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimize
network congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as
early as possible.

Important Notice

[1] In order to allow participants to be acquainted with the published
papers ahead of time which in turn should facilitate discussions at
Coling 2014, we have set the official publication date two weeks before
the conference, i.e., on August 11, 2014. On that day, the papers will
be available online for all participants to download, print and read. If
your employer is taking steps to protect intellectual property related
to your paper, please inform them about this timing.

[2] While submissions are anonymous, we strongly encourage authors to
plan for depositing language resources and other data as well as tools
used and/or developed for the experiments described in the papers, if
the paper is accepted. In this respect, we encourage authors then to
deposit resources and tools to available open-access repositories of
language resources and/or repositories of tools (such as META-SHARE,
Clarin, ELRA, LDC or AFNLP/COCOSDA for data, and github, sourceforge,
CPAN and similar for software and tools) and refer to them instead of
submitting them with the paper, even though it will also be an open
possibility (through the START system). The details will be given in the
submission site for camera-ready versions of accepted papers.

[3] There will be a separate call for demonstrations in
February. Accepted papers on demonstrations will also be included in the
proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

January, 2014: Opening of the submission website

March 21, 2014: Paper submission deadline

May 9-12, 2014: Author response period

May 23, 2014: Author notification

June 6, 2014: Camera-ready PDF due

August 11, 2014: Official paper publication date

August 25-29, 2014: Main conference


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Committee Co-chairs

Junichi Tsujii (Microsoft Research, China)

Jan Hajic (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)


Scientific Advisory Board members

Ralph Grishman (New York University, USA)

Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Michael Picheny (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Donia Scott (Unviersity of Sussex, United Kingdom)

Chengqing Zong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)


Area Chairs

1. Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP

Emily M. Bender  (University of Washington, USA)

Eva Hajicova (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Igor Boguslavsky (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)


2. Machine Learning for CL and NLP

Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (University of Tokyo, Japan)


3. Cognitive Issues in CL and NLP

Philippe Blache (CNRS & CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, France)

Ted Gibson (MIT, USA)


4.  Morphology, Word Segmentation, Tagging and Chunking

Reut Tsarfaty (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Yue Zhang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)


5. Syntax, Grammar Induction, Syntactic and Semantic Parsing

Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany)

Ryan McDonald (Google, USA)


6. Lexical Semantics and Ontologies

Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Alessandro Oltramari (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)


7. Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional
Semantics

Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)

Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)


8. Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue

Nicolas Asher (CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, France)

Marilyn Walker (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)


9. Natural Language Generation and Summarization

Albert Gatt (University of Malta, Malta)

Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen, UK)


10. Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment

Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)

Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University, Japan)


11. Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Social Media

Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan, USA)

Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)


12.  Information Retrieval and Question Answering

Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Siddharth Patwardhan (IBM Research, USA)


13. Information Extraction and Database Linking

James Curran (University of Sydney, Australia)

Seung-won Hwang (Postec, Korea)


14. Applications

Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)

Heyan Huang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Guillaume Jacquet (Joint Research Centre, Italy)


15. Multimodal and Natural Language Interfaces and Dialog Systems

Kristiina Jokinen  (University of Helsinki, Finland)

David Traum (University of Southern California, USA)


16. Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding

Nick Campbell  (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Alex Potamianos (National Technical University Crete, Greece)


17. Machine Translation

Phillip Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK / Johns Hopkins University,
USA)

Chris Quirk (Microsoft Research, USA)

Tiejun Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)


18. Resources

Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay, India)

Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, USA)


19. Languages with less resources

Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Rajeev Sangal (IIT Banaras Hindu University, India)

Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen, Norway)


20. Software and Tools

Jesús Cardeñosa (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)

Jing-Shin Chang (National Chi Nan University,Taiwan)

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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:34:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC 2014, Workshops and Tutorials
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Schedule of all the LREC 2014 Workshops and Tutorials is now online at 
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On this web page you will find a link to each Workshop Call for Papers 
and each Tutorial Outline, when available.
Don't hesitate to contact Workshop and/or Tutorial organisers if you 
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 24 17:45:38 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:45:38 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC 2014 Workshop on Building and Using Comparable
 Corpora (7th BUCC)
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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 14:42:26 +0100
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Please distribute to interested colleagues 

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

  1st Call for Papers

  7th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA

  Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

  http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/

  May 27, 2014
  Co-located with LREC 2014
  Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland) 

  DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 10, 2014
  https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/

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

MOTIVATION

In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in
comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language
engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use
comparable corpora as training data for statistical Natural Language
Processing applications such as statistical machine translation or
cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable
corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible
inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted
in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or
several languages that are comparable in content and form in various
degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and
observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine
such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of
great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.
 
The scarcity of parallel corpora has motivated research concerning the
use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected
according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or
language varieties. Non-parallel yet comparable corpora overcome the two
limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual
texts are much more abundant than translated texts.  However, because of
their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more
challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable
corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention:
while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward,
building a non-parallel corpus requires control over the selection of
source texts in both languages.

Parallel corpora are a key resource as training data for statistical
machine translation, and for building or extending bilingual lexicons
and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English-
French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary
debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the
creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the
Web. To exemplify such issues in a practical setting, this year's
special focus will be on

    Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

This special topic aims to address the need for:
(1) Machine Translation training and testing data such as spoken or
    written monolingual, comparable or parallel data collections, and
(2) methods and tools used for collecting, annotating, and verifying MT
    data such as Web crawling, crowdsourcing, tools for language experts
    and for finding MT data in comparable corpora.


TOPICS

We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following
topics:

Topics related to the special theme:
  * Methods and tools for collecting and processing MT data,
        including crowdsourcing
  * Methods and tools for quality control
  * Tools for efficient annotation
  * Bilingual term and named entity collections
  * Multilingual treebanks, wordnets, propbanks, etc.
  * Comparable corpora with parallel units annotated
  * Comparable corpora for under-resourced languages and specific
    domains
  * Multilingual corpora with rich annotations:
        POS tags, NEs, dependencies, semantic roles, etc.
  * Data for special applications: patent translation, movie
        subtitles, MOOCs, meetings, chat-rooms, social media, etc.
  * Legal issues with collecting and redistributing data
        and generating derivatives

Building comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Automatic and semi-automatic methods
  * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
  * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
  * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
  * Rare and minority languages, across language families
  * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Language learning
  * Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
  * Bilingual projections
  * Machine translation
  * Writing assistance

Mining from comparable corpora:
  * Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable
    corpora
  * Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single
        words and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities,
        etc.


IMPORTANT DATES
 
  February 10, 2014    Deadline for submission of full papers
      March 10, 2014    Notification of acceptance
      March 27, 2014    Camera-ready papers due
         May 27, 2014    Workshop date
 

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to be
announced on the conference website http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/ )
and should be submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
  https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6)
pages. Characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused
contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an
interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must describe
substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without exceeding
ten (10) pages.

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the
authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.
 
Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the
workshop organizers.
 
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research.  Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse,
replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.

For further information, please contact
    Pierre Zweigenbaum pz (at) limsi (dot) fr


ORGANISERS
 
  Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France)
  Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)
  Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
  Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Aix-Marseille (France)


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

  * Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  * Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, US)
  * Caroline Barrière (CRIM, Montréal, Canada)
  * Chris Biemann (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
  * Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
  * Kurt Eberle (Lingenio, Heidelberg, Germany)
  * Andreas Eisele (European Commission, Luxembourg)
  * Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
  * Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France)
  * Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
  * Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
  * Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  * Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
  * Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France)
  * Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada)
  * Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US)
  * Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France)
  * Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US)
  * Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  * Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
  * Reinhard Rapp (Université Aix-Marseille, France)
  * Sujith Ravi (Google, US)
  * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
  * Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
  * Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US)
  * Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
  * Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
  * Guillaume Wisniewski (Université Paris Sud & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
  * Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 24 17:39:18 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:39:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: Entity Extraction and Linking Challenge (#Microposts2014 @
 WWW2014)
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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:22:13 +0000
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              Entity Extraction and Linking Challenge
           at the 4th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop
                   (#Microposts2014) @ WWW 2014
   http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2014/challenge/index.html
            7 April 2014, Seoul, Republic of Korea
=======================================================================

Microposts are a highly popular medium to share facts, opinions or
emotions. They are an invaluable wealth of data, ready to be mined for
training predictive modelings. This year the #Microposts 2014 Workshop
will host an "Entity Extraction and Linking Challenge".
The overall task of the challenge is to automatically extract entities
from English microposts, and link them to the corresponding English
DBpedia v3.9 resources (if the linkage exists). As linking stage we aim
to to disambiguate expressions that are formed by discrete (and
typically short) sequences of words.

Existing entity linking tools are intended for use over news corpora and
similar document-based corpora with relatively long length. We organise
this challenge to foster research into novel, more accurate solutions
for the automatic entity linking in (much shorter) micropost data.
We will ask the participants to automatically extract entities (e.g.,
Obama, London, Rakuten) belonging to all entity types (e.g., Person,
Location, Organisation) from a collection of microposts. Participants
will have to automatically provide context-relevant DBpedia resources
for each entity in a micropost.

DATASET
-------
The dataset comprises of 3.5K tweets extracted from a much larger
collection of over 18 million tweets. This collection, provided by the
Redites project (http://demeter.inf.ed.ac.uk/redites/), covers
event-annotated tweets collected for the period of 15th July 2011 to
15th August 2011 (31 days). It extends over multiple noteworthy events
including the death of Amy Winhehouse, the London Riots and the Oslo
bombing. Since the task of this challenge is to automatically extract
and link entities, we have built our dataset considering both event and
non-event tweets.  While event tweets are more likely to contain
entities, non-event tweets enable us to evaluate the performance of the
system in avoiding false positives in the entity extraction phase.

The dataset has been split into a training (70%) and testing (30%) sets.
Following the Twitter TOS we will only provide tweet IDs and annotations
for the training set; and tweet IDs for the test set. We will also
provide a common framework to mine these datasets from Twitter.

The training set will be released as tsv file where each line consists
of :
- tweet_id
- entity_mention_1
- entity_uri_1
...
- entity_mention_n
- entity_uri_n
Tokens are separated by TABs. Entity mentions and uris are listed
according to their appearance order in the tweet.

We will timely advertise the release of the data sets on the workshop
mailing list. Please subscribe to https://groups.google.com/d/
forum/microposts2014. More information about dates are available in the
Challenge website.

EVALUATION
----------
The evaluation consists of two separated stages:

1.- Paper peer review : A community of experts of the domain will judge
    the quality and applicability of the approaches taken, to provide
    useful insights on your research;

2.- Precision and Recall: F1 (F-measure with beta = 1) will be computed
    on a gold standard manually created from the test set. The
    automatically extracted entities and links will be both matched
    against this ground truth.

All submissions will be only ranked according to the F1 of each best
submission.

SUBMISSIONS
-----------
Submissions should be provided as a zip file using your system name as
the file name (e.g. 'awesome.zip'), containing:

1. a TSV file with your system name (e.g. 'awesome.tsv'). We accept up
   to 3 different submissions, and we will consider *only* the best. If
   you do so you must specify clearly in your paper the modifications
   applied to each labelled submission. In this case the submission
   should contain each of up to 3 TSV files with the tool/system name
   with "_n" appended to each (e.g.  awesome_1.tsv, awesome_2.tsv,
   awesome_3 ).  In order to evaluate your submissions we require you to
   submit a tsv file following the format in which the training set is
   provided.

2. a paper of 6 pages describing your approach and how you tuned/tested
   it using the training split. All submissions must be in
   English. Submissions must be in PDF formatted in the style of the
   Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science
   (LNCS) [http://www.springer.com/
   computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0]. For details on the LNCS style,
   see Springer’s Author Instructions. All submissions are not
   anonymous. Please send us your submission before the deadline through
   Easychair [
   https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2014]. All
   accepted submissions will be invited for short presentations during
   the #Microposts2014 workshop and will be published independently from
   the workshop proceedings on the challenge page and on CEUR
   [http://ceur-ws.org/] (note that a minimum number of papers should be
   submitted in order to be able to publish them on CEUR).

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Intent to participate: 13 Jan 2014 (soft)
Release of training set: 14 Jan 2014
Release of test set: 17 Feb 2014
Challenge Submission deadline: 21 Feb 2014 (hard)
Challenge Notification: 14 Mar 2014  (hard)
Challenge camera-ready deadline: 24 Mar 2014 (hard)

Workshop program issued: 15 Mar 2014
Challenge proceedings to be published via CEUR
Workshop - 07 Apr 2014 (Registration open to all)
(All deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time)

PRIZE
-----
to be announced

CONTACT
-------
E-mail: microposts2014 at easychair.org
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910
Facebook Public Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/116134955169543
Google group : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/microposts2014
Twitter hashtag: #microposts2014challenge
Twitter account: @Microposts2014
W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts

Challenge Organizers:
------------------------------
Challenge Chair:
A. Elizabeth Cano, Aston University, UK
Giuseppe Rizzo,  Università di Torino, Italy

Dataset  Chair:
Andrea Varga, The University of Sheffield, UK

Challenge  Committee:
---------------------
Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada
Pierpaolo Basile, Dipartimento di Informatica - University of Bari, Italy
Uldis Bojars, SIOC Project
Óscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Leon Derczynski, The University of Sheffield, UK
Guillaume Erétéo, Orange Labs
Miriam Fernandez, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Andrés García-Silva, Ontology Engineering Group, Facultad de Informática,
Univesidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Anna Lisa Gentile, The University of Sheffield, UK
Robert Jäschke, L3S Research Center, Germany
Diana Maynard,  The University of Sheffield, UK
José M. Morales-Del-Castillo, El Colegio de México, Mexico
Georgios Paltoglou, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, The University of Sheffield, UK
Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France
Mischa Tuffield, PeerIndex
Victoria Uren, Aston University, UK

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 24 17:46:48 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:46:48 +0100
Subject: Stage: Extraction d'information dans la presse financiere,
 MarketScience
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:05:42 +0100
From: Aude <aude.robert at marketscience.fr>
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Titre : "Extraction d'information dans la presse financière"

MarketScience est une start-up en finance, qui développe un centre de
Data-Mining intégré à une appli. Cette appli sera commercialisée sur la
plateforme Bloomberg, à une clientèle de professionnels de la finance.

MarketScience combine modélisation des séries financières et
media-mining. L'extraction d'information financière spécifique à nos
besoins se fait en mobilisant des algos de TAL.

Ces algos permettent de

1. déterminer la nature de l'article et sa probabilité de contenir une
   information pertinente pour notre analyse

2. isoler l'information nécessaire et la relier à l'évolution sur
   certains marchés

3. catégoriser cette information au sein de facteurs économiques
   pré-identifiés

Ce travail se faisant tout d'abord en anglais (80% de la volumétrie
journalière), mais aussi en français, allemand, italien, russe et
chinois.

Vous travaillerez essentiellement avec les outils suivants : Python,
Unitex et MySQL/ SQL.

Une connaissance des techniques du TAL (Traitement Automatique des
Langues) ou des techniques d'apprentissage et de classification (SVM,
CRF, etc.)  est considérée comme fortement souhaitable.

Ce stage se déroulera au sein d'une équipe pluridisciplinaire composée
de statisticiens, économistes, programmeurs et ingénieurs TAListes.

Durée du Stage : 4 à 6 mois à partir de février 2014. Embauche à la clé.
Lieu du Stage : Orléans (45)

Rémunération : 1200 Eur net min.

Contactez-moi sur LinkedIn : Nicolas Boitout.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 27 20:22:39 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:22:39 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC 2014 Workshop on Free/Open-Source Arabic Corpora and
 Corpora Processing Tools
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 20:05:38 +0000
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We apologize for multiple postings, Please distribute to interested
colleagues

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

1st Call for Papers

WORKSHOP ON Free/Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools

http://www.kacstac.org.sa/osact/index.html

  May 27, 2014
  Co-located with LREC 2014
  Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland)

  DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 10, 2014
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/OSACT/

============================================================
Workshop description

For Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL)
communities, it was a known situation that Arabic is a resource poor
language. This situation was thought to be the reason why there is a
lack of corpus based studies in Arabic. However, the last years
witnessed the emergence of new considerably free Arabic corpora and in
lesser extent Arabic corpora processing tools.

Freely available Arabic corpora can be divided into two groups. The
first group contains large Arabic corpora, which are designed and
constructed basically for Arabic linguistics research and activities,
and maybe for Arabic NLP. These corpora are diverse in the genres they
cover and their sizes range from one million words to 700 million
words. The second group contains corpora that were designed basically
for Arabic text classification and clustering, they mainly contain
newspapers' articles. They range from less than 1 million words to 11
million words.

Some Arabic corpora are available on the web to explore using different
tools, basically large corpora, while other corpora are only available
for download. For the corpora that are available for download, the user
may need to use standalone corpus processing tools. These tools contain
many functionality such as word frequency, concordance, collocation,
etc. Therefore, with the availability of large and diverse Arabic
corpora, the situation does not change. There is still a lack of Arabic
corpus base studies. Is this because of representativeness of these
corpora? The available functions and tools associated with these
corpora? or is it because they are not well known enough for the Arabic
linguistics community?


Motivation and topics of interest

This half-day-workshop aims to encourage the researchers and developers
to foster the utilization of freely available Arabic corpora and open
source Arabic corpora processing tools and help in highlighting the
drawbacks of these resources and discuss techniques and approaches on
how to improve them. The workshop topics include but not limited to:


- Surveying and criticizing the design of freely available Arabic
  corpora, their associated tools and stand alone Arabic corpora
  processing tools.

- The applications and uses of freely available Arabic language
  resources in fields such as Arabic language education e.g. L1 and L2.
- Arabic language modeling.
- Corpus based Arabic lexigraphy.
- Lexical semantics and word sense.
- Corpus based Arabic syntactic.
- Corpus based Arabic morphology.
- Development of Arabic mobile applications based on the available
  Arabic language resources.
- Evaluation and assessment of Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing
  Tools.
- Future directions of Free/Open Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing
  Tools.

Organising Committee

- Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University, KSA
- Abdulmohsen Al-Thubaity, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and
  Technology, KSA

Program Committee

- Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK
- Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE
- Dilworth Parkinson, Brigham Young University, USA
- Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA
- Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Abdulmalik AlSalman, King Saud University, KSA
- Maha Alrabiah, King Saud University, KSA
- Saleh Alosaimi, Imam University, KSA
- Sultan almujaiwel, King Saud University, KSA
- Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK
- Amal AlSaif, Imam University, KSA
- Maha AlYahya, King Saud University, KSA
- Auhood AlFaries, King Saud University, KSA
- Salwa Hamada, Taibah University, KSA
- Mansour Algamdi, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, KSA
- Abdullah Alfaifi, University of Leeds, UK

Important Dates


- Submission deadline: 10 February 2014
- Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2013
- Final submission of manuscripts: 21 March 2014
- Workshop date: 27 May 2014 (morning session)

Submissions

The language of the workshop is English and submissions should be with
respect to LREC 2014 paper submission instructions. All papers will be
peer reviewed possibly by three independent referees. Papers must be
submitted electronically in PDF format to the START
system<https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/OSACT/>. When submitting a
paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential
information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies,
standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work
described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover,
ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data,
tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of
experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 12:58:54 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:58:54 +0100
Subject: Appel: DISCOURS n=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=B014?=
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:09:23 +0100
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********************************************

*Call for papers for DISCOURS, Issue 14 *

Coordination: Laure SARDA & Denis VIGIER

We are inviting submissions for the next issue of DISCOURS, to appear in
June 2014.

DISCOURS is an international and interdisciplinary e-journal, which
publishes two issues a year, and occasional special issues. The journal
focuses on the following topics: discourse structure, cohesion,
co-reference, linearization, indexation, information structure, word
order, segmentation markers, integration markers, discourse relations,
cognitive processes involved in discourse comprehension and production,
and other related topics.

It is intended as a forum for exchanging and comparing data, analyses
and opinions for all linguists, psycholinguists and computer linguists
working in fields involving the description, comprehension,
formalization and processing of text organization.

Papers (in English or French) should be sent to discours at revues.org
before December 15, 2013. Full instructions can be found on the website
(http:// discours.revues.org/224)


*Appel ? publication DISCOURS, num?ro 14 *

Coordination : Laure SARDA & Denis VIGIER

Nous invitons des soumissions pour le prochain num?ro de DISCOURS, ?
paraitre en Juin 2014

DISCOURS est une revue ?lectronique internationale et interdisciplinaire
qui publie deux num?ros par an. Parall?lement, la revue accepte les
projets de num?ros th?matiques. La ligne ?ditoriale de la revue se
concentre autour des th?mes suivants : structuration du discours,
coh?sion, co-r?f?rence, lin?arisation, indexation, structure
informationnelle, ordre des mots, marqueurs de segmentation, marqueurs
d?int?gration, relations de discours, processus cognitifs ? l'?uvre lors
de la compr?hension et de la production de textes et autres th?mes
reli?s.

Elle est un lieu d'?change et de confrontation des donn?es, des analyses
et des th?ories pour la communaut? des linguistes, psycholinguistes et
informaticiens travaillant plus g?n?ralement ? la description, la
compr?hension, la formalisation et le traitement informatique de
l?organisation des textes.

Envoyez vos articles en anglais ou en fran?ais ?
discours at revues.orgjusqu?au 15 d?cembre 2013 (voir les modalit?s de
soumission http://discours.revues.org/index208.html)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 12:56:04 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:56:04 +0100
Subject: These: Laurence Longo, Vers des moteurs de recherche intelligents
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.135604.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:51:20 +0100
From: Laurence Longo <laurence.longo at gmail.com>
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Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous convier ? la soutenance de ma th?se intitul?e :
 "Vers des moteurs de recherche 'intelligents' : un outil de d?tection
 automatique de th?mes. M?thode bas?e sur l'identification automatique
 des cha?nes de r?f?rence."

Elle aura lieu le jeudi 12 d?cembre 2013 ? partir de 14h30 dans la salle
des th?ses du Nouveau Patio, Campus Universitaire Esplanade, 20a rue
Ren? Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg (plan :
http://www.unistra.fr/plans/centre/72/index.html).

La soutenance sera suivie du traditionnel pot de th?se (? partir de
18h30, en salle 0-01) auquel vous ?tes chaleureusement invit?s.

Bien cordialement.

Laurence Longo


--------------------
Composition du jury :
---------
Mme Catherine Schnedecker - Professeur, LiLPa, Universit? de Strasbourg
- Directrice
Mme Amalia Todirascu - Ma?tre de conf?rences, LiLPa, Universit? de
Strasbourg - Co-directrice
M. Yves Bestgen - Professeur, Universit? catholique de Louvain -
Rapporteur
M. Denis Maurel - Professeur, Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais - Rapporteur
Mme Agn?s Tutin - Professeur, Universit? Stendhal Grenoble -
Examinatrice
M. Fr?d?ric Landragin - Charg? de recherche CNRS, Universit? Paris 3 -
Examinateur


R?sum? :
--------
Cette th?se se situe dans le domaine du Traitement Automatique des
Langues et vise ? optimiser la classification des documents dans les
moteurs de recherche. Les travaux se concentrent sur le d?veloppement
d?un outil de d?tection automatique des th?mes des documents
(ATDS-fr). Utilisant peu de connaissances, la m?thode hybride adopt?e
allie des techniques statistiques de segmentation th?matique ? des
m?thodes linguistiques identifiant des marqueurs de coh?sion. Parmi eux,
les cha?nes de r?f?rence ? s?quence d?expressions r?f?rentielles se
rapportant ? la m?me entit? du discours (e.g. Paul?il?cet homme) ? ont
fait l?objet d?une attention particuli?re, car elles constituent un
indice textuel important dans la d?tection des th?mes (i.e. ce sont des
marqueurs d?introduction, de maintien et de changement
th?matique). Ainsi, ? partir d?une ?tude des cha?nes de r?f?rence men?e
dans un corpus issu de genres textuels vari?s (articles de journaux,
rapports publics, lois europ?ennes, ?ditoriaux, roman), nous avons
d?velopp? un module d?identification automatique des cha?nes de
r?f?rence RefGen qui a ?t? ?valu? suivant les m?triques actuelles de la
cor?f?rence.

Mots-cl?s :
-----------
D?tection automatique de th?mes, cha?nes de r?f?rence, traitement
automatique des langues, s?mantique lexicale, cor?f?rence, genres
textuels, segmentation th?matique, marqueurs linguistiques, coh?sion,
linguistique de corpus


Abstract :
----------
This thesis in the field of Natural Language Processing aims at
optimizing documents classification in search engines. This work focuses
on the development of a tool that automatically detects documents topics
(ATDS-fr). Using poor knowledge, the hybrid method combines statistical
techniques for topic segmentation and linguistic methods that identify
cohesive markers. Among them, reference chains - sequences of
referential expressions referring to the same entity (e.g. Paul ... he
... this man) - have been given special attention as they are important
topic markers (i.e.  they are markers of topic introduction, maintenance
and change). Thus, from a study of reference chains extracted from a
corpus composed of various textual genres (newspapers, public reports,
European laws, editorials and novel) we developed RefGen, an automatic
reference chains identification module, which was evaluated according to
current coreference metrics.

Keywords:
---------
Topic detection, reference chains, natural language processing, lexical
semantics, coreference, textual genre, topic segmentation, linguistic
markers, cohesion, corpus linguistics

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:02:08 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:02:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for Challenge,
 Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.140208.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue,  3 Dec 2013 09:24:36 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/RecSys


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=== Call for Challenge: Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems ===

Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/RecSys
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-RecSys

MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES
People generally need more and more advanced tools that go beyond those
implementing the canonical search paradigm for seeking relevant
information. A new search paradigm is emerging, where the user
perspective is completely reversed: from finding to being
found. Recommender systems may help to support this new perspective,
because they have the effect of pushing relevant objects, selected from
a large space of possible options, to potentially interested users. To
achieve this result, recommendation techniques generally rely on data
referring to three kinds of objects: users, items and their relations.

Recent developments in the Semantic Web community offer novel strategies
to represent data about users, items and their relations that might
improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to
move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully
understand the items they deal with.
More and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data
principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different
data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space:
the Web of Data. Today, the Web of Data includes different types of
knowledge represented in a homogeneous form: sedimentary one
(encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one
(news, data streams, ...). These data might be useful to interlink
diverse information about users, items, and their relations and
implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the
recommendation process.
The primary goal of this challenge is twofold. On the one hand, we want
to create a link between the Semantic Web and the Recommender Systems
communities. On the other hand, we aim to show how Linked Open Data and
semantic technologies can boost the creation of a new breed of
knowledge-enabled and content-based recommender systems.

TARGET AUDIENCE
The target audience is all of those communities, both academic and
industrial, which are interested in personalized information access with
a particular emphasis on Linked Open Data.
During the last ACM RecSys conference more than 60% of participants were
from industry. This is for sure a witness of the actual interest of
recommender systems for industrial applications ready to be released in
the market.

TASKS
Task 1: Rating prediction in cold-start situations
This task deals with the rating prediction problem, in which a system is
requested to estimate the value of unknown numeric scores
(a.k.a. ratings) that a target user would assign to available items,
indicating whether she likes or dislikes them.
In order to favor the proposal of content-based, LOD-enabled
recommendation approaches, and limit the use of collaborative filtering
approaches, this task aims at predicting ratings in cold-start
situations, that is, predicting ratings for users who have a few past
ratings, and predicting ratings of items that have been rated by a few
users.
The dataset to use in the task - DBbook - relates to the book domain. It
contains explicit numeric ratings assigned by users to books. For each
book we provide the corresponding DBpedia URI.
Participants will have to exploit the provided ratings as training sets,
and will have to estimate unknown ratings in a non-provided evaluation
set.
Recommendation approaches will be evaluated on the evaluation set by
means of metrics that measure the differences between real and estimated
ratings, namely the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE).

Task 2: Top-N recommendation from binary user feedback
This task deals with the top-N recommendation problem, in which a system
is requested to find and recommend a limited set of N items that best
match a user profile, instead of correctly predict the ratings for all
available items.
Similarly to Task 1, in order to favor the proposal of content-based,
LOD-enabled recommendation approaches, and limit the use of
collaborative filtering approaches, this task aims at generating ranked
lists of items for which no graded ratings are available, but only
binary ones.
Also in this case, the DBbook dataset will be provided.
In this task, the accuracy of recommendation approaches will be
evaluated on an evaluation set using the F-measure.

Task 3: Diversity
A very interesting aspect of content-based recommender systems and then
of LOD-enabled ones is giving the possibility to evaluate the diversity
of recommended items in a straight way. This is a very popular topic in
content-based recommender systems, which usually suffer from
over-specialization.
In this task, the evaluation will be made by considering a combination
of both accuracy of the recommendation list and the diversity of items
belonging to it. Also for this task, DBbook dataset will be used.
Given the domain of books, diversity with respect to the two properties
dbpedia-owl:author and skos:subject will be considered.

EVALUATION DATASET AND EVALUATION METRICS
DBbook dataset
This dataset relies on user data and preferences retrieved from the
Web. The books available in the dataset have been mapped to their
corresponding DBpedia URIs. The mapping contains 8170 DBpedia URIs.
These mappings can be used to extract semantic features from DBpedia or
other LOD repositories to be exploited by the recommendation approaches
proposed in the challenge.
The dataset is split in a training set and an evaluation set. In the
former, user ratings are provided to train a system while in the latter,
ratings have been removed, and they will be used in the eventual
evaluation step.

Participants will generate the ratings (Task 1) or the ranking (Task 2
and Task 3) for the test set, and their results will be compared and
evaluated with respect to actual users ratings (hidden evaluation data).

The two sets will be provided at the challenge's website, in the following plain text files:
* lodrecsys2014-DBbook-training-ratings.txt: Contains tuples <user,
book, rating> that may be used to build the recommendation approaches. 
* lodrecsys2014-DBbook-test-ratings.txt: Contains tuples <user, book>
that will be used to evaluate the recommendation approaches. 

Together with the two previous files, a further one will be provided
containing the mapping to DBpedia.
* lodrecsys2014-DBbook-mappings.txt: Contains tuples <book, bookURI>
associated with the books in DBbook that will be used to extract and
exploit semantic features from DBpedia and other LOD repositories.

Recommendation approaches will be evaluated with the metrics requested
in each task. We provide a number of Java classes that compute the
different metrics and a Web Service to test intermediate results. A
description of the metrics to compute and further details regarding the
evaluation will be available at the challenge website.


JUDGING AND PRIZES
After a first round of reviews, the Program Committee and the chairs
will select a number of submissions that will have to satisfy the
challenge's requirements, and will have to be presented at the
conference. Submissions accepted for presentation will receive
constructive reviews from the Program Committee, and will be included in
post-proceedings. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster
session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will
present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC'14, and
will be invited to submit a paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal
special issue.

For each task we will select:
* the best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the
  highest score in the evaluation
* the most original approach, selected by the Challenge Program
  Committee with the reviewing process

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The following information has to be provided:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
  why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
  or functions the system provides, what design choices were made, and
  what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how
  participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
  submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture
  Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.
* Result evaluation: For the three tasks previously described, a
  Web-accessible service will be provided in order to evaluate the
  produced results. All the details about the format and the service URL
  will be provided on the website.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges

MAILING LIST

We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in
order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the
challenge.

https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-recsys-challenge


IMPORTANT DATES
* March 7, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Abstract Submission
* March 14, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days


CHALLENGE CHAIRS
* Tommaso Di Noia (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT)
* Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES)

EVALUATION COORDINATOR
* Vito Claudio Ostuni (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)
* Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES)
* Marco de Gemmis (University of Bari Aldo Moro, IT)
* Frank Hopfgartner (Technische Universitat Berlin, DE)
* Andreas Hotho (Universitat Wurzburg, DE)
* Dietmar Jannach (TU Dortmund University, DE)
* Pasquale Lops (University of Bari Aldo Moro, IT)
* Valentina Maccatrozzo (Delft University of Technology, NL)
* Francesco Ricci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT)
* Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari Aldo Moro, IT)
* David Vallet (NICTA, AU)
* Manolis Wallace (University of Peloponnese, GR)
* Markus Zanker (Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, AT)
 

ESWC CHALLENGE COORDINATOR
* Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 12:57:53 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:57:53 +0100
Subject: Stage: Prediction automatique de relations d'implication entre
 verbes, IRIT
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.135753.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:48:03 +0100
From: Benamara Zitoune Farah <benamara at irit.fr>
Message-ID: <529C8183.5030300 at irit.fr>

Pr?diction automatique de relations d?implication entre verbes

Encadrement : Marta Abrusan (marta.abrusan at irit.fr), Stergos Afantenos
(stergos.afantenos at irit.fr), Farah Benamara (farah.benamara at irit.fr)

Lieu : IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier
Financement : prime de stage
Dur?e : 5 mois

La compr?hension s?mantique d?un texte est l?un des enjeux majeurs du
traitement automatique du langage (TAL). Cette t?che est primordiale
pour de tr?s nombreuses applications telles que la g?n?ration
automatique de textes et de conversations, le r?sum? automatique, la
paraphrase automatique d?un texte ou encore la recherche
d?information. Le but de ce stage est de contribuer ? ces recherches en
se focalisant sur la pr?diction de relations entre verbes.

Pr?dire une relation entre verbes consiste ? d?terminer pour un couple
de verbes (v1,v2), associ? ou non ? un contexte, le type de relations
s?mantiques qui les relient, cf. Chklovski and Pantel (2004), Tremper
and Frank (2013). Celles ci peuvent ?tre de diff?rentes natures :
relations de synonymie, d?antonymie, de causalit?, d?implication, etc.
Dans ce stage, nous nous focaliserons sur les relations
d?implication. Par exemple, les verbes ?se balader? et ?bouger? sont
reli?s par une relation d?implication, ce qui permettra ? un ordinateur
de r?pondre ? une requ?te du type Pierre s?est-il balad? ?, sachant que
la base de connaissances indique que Pierre a boug?.

Afin d?identifier ces relations, le stagiaire devra utiliser les
m?thodes d?apprentissage automatiques les plus ad?quates. Le but de ces
m?thodes est d?apprendre une fonction f : X --> Y o? X repr?sente un
ensemble des features (ou traits) sur les paires des verbes et Y est un
bool?en repr?sentant le fait qu?il existe ou non une relation
d?implication entre ces verbes. Diff?rentes m?thodes seront
explor?es. Nous commencerons d?abord par les m?thodes supervis?es qui
g?n?ralisent des observations faites sur un corpus de
donn?es. Cependant, cette approche pr?suppose que le nombre d?instances
d?entra?nement est suffisamment grand, ce qui n?est malheureusement pas
toujours le cas pour de nombreuses t?ches o? le co?t humain d?annotation
des instances est ?lev?. La seconde ?tape sera alors d?explorer les
m?thodes d?apprentissage semi-supervis?es afin de r?duire ce co?t.

R?f?rences

Timothy Chklovski and Patrick Pantel (2004) : VerbOcean : Mining the web
for fine-grained semantic verb relations. In Proceedings of the 2004
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages
33-40, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

Tremper, G. and A. Frank (2013) : A Discriminative Analysis of
Fine-Grained Semantic Relations including Presupposition : Annotation
and Classification. In : Dialogue and Discourse, 4 (2), Special Issue :
Beyond Semantics. The Challenge of Annotating Pragmatic and Discourse
Phenomena, edited by S. Dipper, H. Zinsmeister and B. Webber, 282-322.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:04:50 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:04:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for Challenge, Semantic Publishing
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.140450.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue,  3 Dec 2013 09:39:17 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemPub


** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Call for Challenge: Semantic Publishing ====

Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemPub
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemPub


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES
Scholarly publishing is increasingly enabling a new wave of applications
that better support researchers in disseminating, exploiting and
evaluating their results. The potential of publishing scientific papers
enriched with semantic information is huge and raises interesting and
challenging issues. Semantic Web technologies play a central role in
this context, as they can help publishers to make scientific results
available in an open format the whole research community can benefit
from.
The Semantic Publishing Challenge 2014 is intended to be the first in a
series of events at ESWC for producing and exploiting semantic
publishing data. The main focus this year is on extracting information
and using this information to assess the quality of scientific
productions.
Linked open datasets about scientific production exist - e.g. DBLP - but
they usually cover basic bibliographic information, which is not
sufficient to assess quality. Quality-related information, such as the
number of journal articles that cite a given publication, or the number
of times a workshop has been run by the same chairs and received many
submissions, or the actual function of a citation are often hidden and
not yet available as LOD. The main goal of the Challenge is to build
high-quality LOD that contains such information.
Moving off this year's outcomes, we plan to investigate the final
publication and exploitation side in the next editions.

TARGET AUDIENCE
The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.

TASKS
We ask challengers to automatically annotate a set of multi-format and
multi-source input documents and to produce a Linked Open Dataset that
fully describes these documents, their context, and relevant parts of
their content. The evaluation will consist of evaluating a set of
queries against the produced dataset to assess its correctness and
completeness.
The input dataset will be split in two parts: a training/testing part
and an evaluation part, which will disclosed a few days before the
submission deadline. Participants will be asked to run their tool on the
evaluation dataset and to produce the final Linked Open Dataset.
Further details about the organization of the Challenge will be
provided. The Challenge will include two tasks:

Task 1: Extraction and assessment of workshop proceedings information
Participants are required to extract information from a set of HTML
tables of contents, partly including microformat and RDFa annotations
but not necessarily being valid HTML, of selected computer science
workshop proceedings published with the CEUR-WS.org open access
service. The extracted information is expected to answer queries about
the quality of these workshops, for instance by measuring their growth,
longevity, connection with other events, distribution of papers and
authors.

Task 2: Extraction and characterization of citations
Participants are required to extract information about the citations in
scientific journals and their relevance. Input documents are in XML JATS
and TaxPub, an official extension of JATS customized for taxonomic
treatments, and selected from the PubMedCentral Open Access Subset and
the Pensoft Biodiversity Data Journal and ZooKeys archive. The extracted
information is expected to be used for assessing the value of citations,
for instance by considering their position in the paper, their
co-location with other citations or their purpose.

EVALUATION
Participants will be requested to submit the LOD that their tool
produces from the evaluation dataset, as well as a paper that describes
their approach. They will also be given a set of queries in natural
language form and will be asked to translate those queries into a SPARQL
form that works on their LOD.
The results of the queries on the produced LOD will be compared with the
expected output, and precision and recall will be measured to identify
the best performing approach. Separately, the most original approach
will be assigned by the Program Committee.
Further details about the evaluation will be provided on the challenge
wiki.

FEEDBACK AND DISCUSSION
A discussion group is open for participants to ask questions and to
receive updates about the challenge (see link at bottom). Participants
are invited to subscribe to this group as soon as possible and to
communicate their intention to participate. They are also invited to use
this channel to discuss problems in the input dataset and to suggest
changes.

JUDGING AND PRIZES
After a first round of review, the Program Committee and the chairs will
select a number of submissions conforming to the challenge requirements
that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for
presentation will receive constructive reviews from the Program
Committee, they will be included in the Springer LNCS post-proceedings
of ESWC, and they will have a presentation slot in a poster session
dedicated to the challenge. 

In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of
the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a revised and
extended paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue.

Four winners will be selected. For each of the two tasks we will select:
* best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the highest
  score in the evaluation
* most original approach, selected by the Challenge Committee with the
  reviewing process

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Participants are required to submit:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should explain the details of the automated annotation
  system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic
  Web technology, what features or functions the system provides, what
  design choices were made and what lessons were learned. The
  description should also summarize how participants have addressed the
  evaluation tasks. An outlook towards how the data could be consumed is
  appreciated but not strictly required. Papers must be submitted in PDF
  format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture Notes in
  Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.
* The Linked Open Dataset produced by their tool on the evaluation
  dataset (as a file or as a URL, in Turtle or RDF/XML). 
* A set of SPARQL queries that work on that LOD and correspond to the
  natural language queries provided as input

Participants will also be asked to submit their tool (source and/or
binaries, or a link these can be downloaded from, or a web service URL)
for verification purposes.
Further submission instructions will be published on the challenge wiki.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges

MAILING LIST
We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in
order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the
challenge. 

https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-sempub-challenge

IMPORTANT DATES
* December 3, 2013: Publication of the full description of tasks, rules
  and queries; publication of the training/testing dataset
* January 15, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Deadline for making remarks to
  the training/testing dataset
* January 20, 2014: Publication of the final training/testing dataset
* March 7, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Abstract Submission
* March 11, 2014: Publication of the evaluation dataset
* March 14, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days


CHALLENGE CHAIRS
* Angelo Di Iorio (Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  University of Bologna, IT)
* Christoph Lange (Enterprise Information Systems, University of Bonn /
  Fraunhofer IAIS, DE)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Soren Auer (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS, DE) (supervisor)
Sarven Capadisli (University of Leipzig, DE)
Alexander Constantin (University of Manchester, UK)
Alexander Garcia Castro (Florida State University, US)
Leyla Jael Garcia Castro (Bundeswehr University of Munich, DE)
Aidan Hogan (DERI Galway, IR)
Evangelos Milios (Dalhousie University, CA)
Lyubomir Penev (Pensoft Publishers, BG)
Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK)
Jun Zhao (Lancaster University, UK)

We are inviting further members.

ESWC CHALLENGE COORDINATOR
* Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:10:55 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:10:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for Challenge,
 Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.141055.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue,  3 Dec 2013 12:17:24 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20131203111744.59CD6DBB48 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA


==== Call for Challenge: Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis ====

Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemSA
					
MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES
Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language is an extremely
difficult task as it involves a deep understanding of most of the
explicit and implicit, regular and irregular, syntactical and semantic
rules proper of a language. Existing approaches mainly rely on parts of
text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as
polarity terms, affect words and their co-occurrence
frequencies. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed
implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical
approaches ineffective. To this end, concept-level sentiment analysis
aims to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of text and provide novel
approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis that allow a more
efficient passage from (unstructured) textual information to
(structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text
through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the
aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with
natural language opinions. By relying on large semantic knowledge bases,
concept-level sentiment analysis steps away from blind use of keywords
and word co-occurrence count, but rather relies on the implicit features
associated with natural language concepts.

This Challenge focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion
of novel approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis. Participants
will have to design a concept-level opinion-mining engine that exploits
common-sense knowledge bases, e.g., SenticNet, and/or Linked Data and
Semantic Web ontologies, e.g., DBPedia, to perform multi-domain
sentiment analysis. The main motivation for the Challenge, in
particular, is to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of natural
language text and provide novel concept-level tools and techniques that
allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) natural language to
(structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Systems must have a semantics flavor (e.g., by making use of Linked Data
or known semantic networks within their core functionalities) and
authors need to show how the introduction of semantics can be used to
obtain valuable information, functionality or performance. Existing
natural language processing methods or statistical approaches can be
used too as long as the semantics plays a main role within the core
approach (engines based merely on syntax/word-count will be excluded
from the competition).


TARGET AUDIENCE
The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.

TASKS
The Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge is defined in terms of
different tasks. The first task is elementary whereas the others are
more advanced. The input units of each task are sentences. Sentences are
assumed to be in grammatically correct American English and have to be
processed according to the input format specified at
http://sentic.net/challenge/sentence.

Elementary Task: Polarity Detection
The main goal of the task is polarity detection. The proposed systems
will be assessed according to precision, recall and F-measure of
detected binary polarity values (1=positive; 0=negative) for each input
sentence of the evaluation dataset, following the same format as in
http://sentic.net/challenge/task0. The problem of subjectivity detection
is not addressed within this Challenge, hence participants can assume
that there will be no neutral sentences. Participants are encouraged to
use the Sentic API or further develop and apply sentic computing tools.

Advanced Task #1: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
The output of this task will be a set of aspects of the reviewed product
and a binary polarity value associated to each of such aspects, in the
format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task1. So, for example,
while for the Elementary task an overall polarity (positive or negative)
is expected for a review about a mobile phone, this task requires a set
of aspects (such as ?speaker', ?touchscreen', ?camera', etc.) and a
polarity value (positive OR negative) associated with each of such
aspects. Systems will be assessed according to both aspect extraction
and aspect polarity detection.

Advanced Task #2: Semantic Parsing
As suggested by the title, the Challenge focuses on sentiment analysis
at concept-level. This means that the proposed systems are not supposed
to work at word/syntax level but rather work with
concepts/semantics. Hence, this task will evaluate the capability of the
proposed systems to deconstruct natural language text into concepts,
following the same format as in
http://sentic.net/challenge/task2. SenticNet will be taken as a
reference to test the efficiency of the proposed parsers, but extracted
concepts won't necessary have to match SenticNet concepts. The proposed
systems, for example, are supposed to be able to extract a multi-word
expression like ?buy christmas present' from sentences such as ?Today I
bought a lot of very nice Christmas presents'. The number of extracted
concepts per sentence will be assessed through precision, recall and
F-measure against the evaluation dataset.

Advanced Task #3: Topic Spotting
Input sentences will be about four different domains, namely: books,
DVDs, electronics, and kitchen appliances. This task focuses on the
automatic classification of sentences into one of such domains, in the
format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task3. All sentences are
assumed to belong to only one of the above-mentioned domains. The
proposed systems are supposed to exploit the extracted concepts to infer
which domain each sentence belongs to. Classification accuracy will be
evaluated in terms of precision, recall and F-measure against the
evaluation dataset.

EVALUATION DATASET
Systems will be evaluated against a testing dataset which will be
revealed and released after the first-round of evaluation during the
Conference. The dataset will be made public on the challenge
website. Participants are suggested to train and/or test their own
systems using the Blitzer Dataset. The testing dataset will be
constructed in the same way and from the same sources as the Blitzer
dataset.

EVALUATION
The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program
Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters,
please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the
best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system,
reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and
details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the
following aspects:

1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics;
2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task;
3. Computational time;
4. Innovative nature of the approach.

JUDGING AND PRIZES
After a first round of review, the Program Committee and the chairs will
select a number of submissions confirming to the challenge requirements
that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for
presentation will be included in post-proceedings and will receive
constructive reviews from the Program Committee. All accepted
submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the
challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special
slot of the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a paper
to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue.

For the Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge there will be two
awards for each task:
* Quantitative: the system with the highest average score in items 1-3
  above;
* Innovative: the system with the highest score in item 4 above.

There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate
again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private
to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that
the same system runs for both the awards.



HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The following information has to be provided:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and what
lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how
participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not exceeding
5 pages in length.
* Web Access: The application can either be accessible via the web or
downloadable. If the application is not publicly accessible, password
must be provided. A short set of instructions on how to use the
application should be provided as well.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges

Please share comments and questions with the challenge mailing list. The
organizers will assist you for any potential issues that could be
raised.


MAILING LIST
We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in
order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the
challenge.

https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-semsa-challenge


IMPORTANT DATES
* March 7, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Abstract Submission 
* March 14, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission 
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days

CHALLENGE CHAIRS
* Erik Cambria (National University of Singapore, SG)
* Diego Reforgiato Recupero (CNR STLAB Laboratory, IT)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Newton Howard (MIT Media Laboratory, US)
* ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)
* Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, US)
* Ping Chen (University of Houston-Downtown, US)
* Yongzheng Zhang (LinkedIn Inc., US)
* Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio (Amazon Inc., US)
* Rui Xia (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, CN)
* Rafal Rzepka (Hokkaido University, JP)
* Amir Hussain (University of Stirling, UK)
* Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic Institute, MX)
* Bjoern Schuller, (Technical University of Munich, DE)
* Amitava Das (Samsung Research India, IN)
* Dipankar Das (National Institute of Technology, IN)
* Carlo Strapparava (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT)
* Stefano Squartini (Marche Polytechnic University, IT)
* Cristina Bosco (University of Torino, IT)
* Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES)

ESWC CHALLENGE COORDINATOR
* Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:25:22 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:25:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: RECITAL 2014
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:37:52 +0100
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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RECITAL 2014 : Premier appel ? communications
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RECITAL 2014
16?me Rencontre des ?tudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues.

Facult? Saint Charles, Aix Marseille Universit? (Marseille), du 1er au 4
juillet 2014.


Dates importantes
-------------------------

- Date limite de soumission : samedi 5 avril 2014
- Notification aux auteurs : samedi 3 mai 2014
- Version d?finitive : samedi 17 mai 2014


Pr?sentation
-----------------

RECITAL 2014, la conf?rence annuelle des jeunes chercheurs associ?e ?
TALN, se d?roulera ? Marseille du 1er au 4 juillet 2014. RECITAL offre
aux jeunes chercheurs en Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL)
l'occasion de pr?senter leurs travaux et de comparer leurs
approches. Elle est r?serv?e aux ?tudiants (master et doctorat) et aux
jeunes chercheurs ayant obtenu leur doctorat depuis moins d'un an.

Fort du succ?s des ann?es pr?c?dentes, nous encourageons la soumission
de travaux m?me pr?liminaires, de projets de th?se, et de travaux des
premiers mois de recherche (?tat de l'art, premi?res pistes,
etc.). L'objectif premier de RECITAL est de soutenir les travaux des
jeunes chercheurs en TAL et de faciliter leur int?gration dans notre
communaut?. A ce titre, nous visons :

- des relectures p?dagogiques : les auteurs doivent pouvoir comprendre
  les erreurs qu'ils ont pu commettre afin de pouvoir les corriger et
  am?liorer la qualit? de leur travail;

- des relectures positives : il n'est jamais n?cessaire de d?courager un
  jeune chercheur, les ma?tres-mots devront 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 ensemble lors de la conf?rence.

Le prix du meilleur papier RECITAL sera d?cern? lors de la c?r?monie de
cl?ture.


Th?mes principaux
--------------------------

Les communications pourront porter sur les th?mes habituels du TAL :

- Analyse et g?n?ration dans les domaines suivants :
  + Phon?tique
  + Phonologie
  + Morphologie
  + Syntaxe
  + S?mantique
- 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 de poster.


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 8 ? 14 pages. Une feuille de style LaTeX, un mod?le
Word et un mod?le LibreOffice seront disponibles sur le site web de la
conf?rence (www.taln2014.org).

Contact : nuria.gala(arobase)lif.univ-mrs.fr et/ou 
klim.peshkov(arobase)lpl-aix.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:21:25 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:21:25 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: L'informatique : des biens communs ?,
 Centre d'Alembert, Orsay, 18 decembre 2013
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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 15:48:42 +0100
From: Centre d'Alembert <centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr>
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S?minaire 2013-2014 
du Centre d'Alembert (http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr/)
"Les sciences comme biens communs"

S?ance du mercredi 18 d?cembre 2013
(NB : pas de s?ance le 4 d?cembre comme annonc? 
dans notre programme transmis le 5/11/13)

"L'INFORMATIQUE : DES BIENS COMMUNS  ?" (titre provisoire)

Intervenants :
Jean-Pierre ARCHAMBAULT et Gilles DOWEK
De plus amples informations sur la s?ance vous parviendront
ult?rieurement.

-----
Programme d?taill? et contact :
Web : http://www.centre-dalembert.u-psud.fr
M?l. : centre.dalembert at u-psud.fr

Les s?ances ont lieu ? la Facult? des Sciences d'Orsay, b?timent des
colloques (338), salle de conf?rences (1er ?tage ? gauche) de 13h45 ?
15h45 (entr?e libre)

Acc?s :
http://goo.gl/maps/cXezZ

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:26:50 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:26:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: CNL 2014
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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 20:46:53 +0100
From: Camilo Thorne <cthorne at inf.unibz.it>
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Announcement and Call for Papers

*** FOURTH WORKSHOP ON CONTROLLED NATURAL LANGUAGE (CNL 2014) ***

Co-located with COLING 2014

20-22 August 2014
Galway, Ireland

http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2014/

Proceedings in Springer LNCS.

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This workshop on controlled natural language (CNL) has a broad scope and
embraces all approaches that are based on natural language and apply
restrictions on vocabulary, grammar, and/or semantics. This includes
(but is certainly not limited to) approaches that have been called
simplified language, plain language, formalized language, processable
language, fragments of language, phraseologies, conceptual authoring,
language generation, and guided natural language interfaces.

Some CNLs are designed to improve communication among humans, especially
for non-native speakers of the respective natural language. In other
cases, the restrictions on the language are supposed to make it easier
for computers to analyze such texts in order to improve computer-aided,
semi-automatic, or automatic translations into other languages. A third
group of CNL has the goal to enable reliable automated reasoning and
formal knowledge representation from seemingly natural texts. All these
types of CNL are covered by this workshop.


Topics
------

Possible topics for CNL 2014 include:

- CNL for knowledge representation
- CNL for query interfaces
- CNL for specifications
- CNL for business rules
- CNL for dialogue systems
- CNL for machine translation
- CNL for improved understandability of texts
- CNL for natural language generation
- design of CNLs
- CNL applications
- CNL evaluation
- usability and acceptance of CNL
- CNL grammars and lexica
- multilingual CNLs
- reasoning in CNL
- spoken CNL
- CNL in the context of the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data
- CNL in the government
- CNL in industry
- CNL use cases
- theoretical properties of CNL


Important Dates
---------------

Submission deadline:          14 March 2014
Notification of acceptance:   12 May 2014
Deadline for revised papers:  9 June 2014
Workshop:                     20-22 August 2014


Submissions and Proceedings
---------------------------

We invite researchers to submit papers with novel contributions in the
area of CNL. These research papers should be formatted according to the
Springer LNCS format and should not exceed 10 pages. Papers should be
submitted via the EasyChair conference system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cnl2014

Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings to be
published by Springer in their LNCS/LNAI series and indexed in all major
citation databases including ISI Web of Science and Scopus.


Venue
-----

The workshop takes place in Ireland at INSIGHT at NUI Galway (formerly
DERI).


Organization Committee
----------------------

- Brian Davis (INSIGHT at NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Tobias Kuhn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)


Program Committee
-----------------

- Krasimir Angelov (Chalmers University, Sweden)
- Johan Bos (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
- Paul Buitelaar (INSIGHT at NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Olga Caprotti (University of Helsinki, Finland)
- Rogan Creswick (Galois, USA)
- Danica Damljanovic (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Brian Davis (INSIGHT at NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Ronald Denaux (iSOCO, Spain)
- Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)
- Ramona Enache (Chalmers University, Sweden)
- Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey)
- S?bastien Ferr? (University Rennes 1, France)
- Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Normunds Gr?z?tis (University of Latvia)
- Siegfried Handschuh (INSIGHT at NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Stefan H?fler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Kaarel Kaljurand (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Peter Koepke (University of Bonn, Germany)
- Tobias Kuhn (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Hans Lei? (University of Munich, Germany)
- Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
- Adegboyega Ojo (INSIGHT at NUI Galway, formerly DERI, Ireland)
- Gordon Pace (University of Malta)
- Richard Power (The Open University, UK)
- Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa)
- Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester, UK)
- Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
- Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA)
- Irina Temnikova (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
- Allan Third (The Open University, UK)
- Camilo Thorne (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
- Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT, Netherlands)
- Uta Schwertel (imc, Germany)
- Jeroen Van Grondelle (Be Informed, Netherlands)
- Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, UK)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:27:43 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:27:43 +0100
Subject: Job: Postdoc position in WSD, LIMSI-CNRS
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.142743.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 11:19:06 +0100
From: Marianna Apidianaki <marianna at limsi.fr>
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[apologies for cross-posting]


******************************************************************
POSTDOC POSITION IN WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION
AT LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (Paris area), FRANCE
******************************************************************

A postdoctoral position in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is available
at the LIMSI-CNRS lab.

The position is funded by the national (ANR) project TransRead
(http://transread.limsi.fr) aimed at developing new multilingual text
processing applications and facilitating the reading of multilingual
documents for foreign language readers and learners.
The postdoctoral researcher will work on both data-driven and
knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation methods exploiting information
in parallel corpora and large-scale multilingual resources (such as
BabelNet and Wiktionary). The disambiguation output will serve to
facilitate foreign language reading by providing semantic annotations in
different languages. Research results will also be exploited in other
applications developed in the group, such as Machine Translation.

Requirements:

- Ph.D. (or completed by February 2014) in Computer Science, Natural
  Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
- Solid programming skills
- Experience with statistical approaches to semantics, cross-lingual
  methods for NLP or Statistical Machine Translation
- Strong publication record 
- Fluent English

The successful candidate will join a dynamic research team working on
various aspects of Statistical Machine Translation, Word Sense
Disambiguation and paraphrasing. For information regarding our
activities, see http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/tlp/mt/

Duration: 12 months
Application deadline: Open until filled

Interested candidates should send their CV and the names and contact
information of 2 referees to Marianna Apidianaki
(marianna at limsi.fr). Informal inquiries can be sent to the same address.


About the LIMSI-CNRS

The LIMSI-CNRS lab is situated at Orsay, a green area 25 km south of
Paris. A suburban train connects Orsay to Paris city center. Detailed
information about the LIMSI lab can be found at http://www.limsi.fr


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:23:19 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:23:19 +0100
Subject: These: Assaf Urieli,
 Analyse syntaxique robuste du fran=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E7ais?=
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.142319.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 16:34:19 +0100
From: Assaf Urieli <assaf.urieli at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <CAM62byoRQvgriXMjY6G3Jy3zVwCks+p6yE=wuEVYeqqP5YMbAg at mail.gmail.com>

Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? la soutenance de ma th?se intitul?e
"Analyse syntaxique robuste du fran?ais : concilier m?thodes
statistiques et connaissances linguistiques dans l'outil Talismane". La
soutenance aura lieu le mardi 17 d?cembre 2013 ? 14h00 dans la salle D31
de la Maison de la Recherche de l'Universit? de Toulouse le Mirail. La
Maison de la Recherche se trouve juste ? c?t? de la biblioth?que
universitaire. Un plan se trouve ? l'adresse suivante :
http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/infos/pratique/adresses-et-acces/plan-du-campus-avec-l-index-des-ufr-services-et-salles-de-cours-6337.kjsp

Vous ?tes ?galement convi?s au pot de th?se qui suivra la soutenance.

Bien cordialement,
Assaf Urieli

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Le jury de soutenance sera compos? de :
M. Alexis Nasr, Professeur, LIF, Marseille - Rapporteur
M. Eric Wehrli, Professeur, LATL, Gen?ve - Rapporteur
Mme Marie Candito, Ma?tre de Conf?rences, ALPAGE, Paris Diderot -
Examinatrice
M. Nabil Hathout, Directeur de Recherche, CLLE, Toulouse - Examinateur
M. Ludovic Tanguy, Ma?tre de Conf?rences HDR, CLLE, Toulouse - Directeur
de th?se

Titre en fran?ais :
Analyse syntaxique robuste du fran?ais : concilier m?thodes statistiques
et connaissances linguistiques dans l'outil Talismane

R?sum? de la th?se :
Dans cette th?se, nous explorons l?analyse syntaxique statistique
robuste du fran?ais. Notre principal souci est de trouver des m?thodes
qui permettent au linguiste d?injecter des connaissances et/ou des
ressources linguistiques dans un moteur statistique afin d?am?liorer les
r?sultats ? la fois globalement et pour certains ph?nom?nes
sp?cifiques. D?abord, nous d?crivons le sch?ma d?annotation en
d?pendances du fran?ais, et les algorithmes capables de produire cette
annotation, en particulier le parsing par transitions. Apr?s avoir
explor? les algorithmes d?apprentissage automatique supervis? pour les
probl?mes de classification en TAL, nous pr?sentons l?analyseur
syntaxique Talismane, d?velopp? dans le cadre de cette th?se, qui
comprend quatre modules statistiques ? le d?coupage en phrases, la
segmentation en mots, l??tiquettage morpho-syntaxique et le parsing ?
ainsi que les diverses ressources linguistiques utilis?es par les
mod?les de base. Nos premi?res exp?riences ont permis d?identifier la
meilleure configuration d?apprentissage parmi les nombreuses
configurations possibles. Ensuite, nous explorons les am?liorations
apport?es par le principe de recherche par faisceau (beam search) et la
propagation du faisceau d'un module ? un autre. Finalement, nous
pr?sentons une s?rie d?exp?riences dont le but est de corriger des
erreurs linguistiques sp?cifiques au moyen de descripteurs cibl?s pour
l'apprentissage. Une de nos innovations est l?introduction des r?gles
qui imposent ou interdisent certaines d?cisions locales, permettant
ainsi de contourner le mod?le statistique, et nous explorons
l?utilisation de r?gles pour les erreurs que les descripteurs n?ont pas
pu corriger. Finalement, nous explorons l?utilisation de ressources
linguistiques ? large couverture, au travers d'une exp?rience
d'apprentissage semi-supervis? avec une ressource lexicale produite par
une analyse s?mantique distributionnelle.

Titre en anglais :
Robust French syntax analysis: reconciling statistical methods and
linguistic knowledge in the Talismane toolkit

R?sum? en anglais :
In this thesis we explore robust statistical syntax analysis for French.
Our main concern is to explore methods whereby the linguist can inject
linguistic knowledge and/or resources into the robust statistical engine
in order to improve results both globally and for specific phenomena. We
first explore the dependency annotation schema for French, concentrating
on certain phenomena. Next, we look into the various algorithms capable
of producing this annotation, and in particular on the transition-based
parsing algorithm used in the rest of this thesis. After exploring
supervised machine learning algorithms for NLP classification problems,
we present the Talismane toolkit for syntax analysis, built within the
framework of this thesis, including four statistical modules - sentence
boundary detection, tokenisation, pos-tagging and parsing - as well as
the various linguistic resources used for the baseline model, including
corpora, lexicons and feature sets. Our first experiments enabled us to
identify the best baseline among various machine learning
configurations.  We then look into improvements made possible by a beam
search and by beam propagation from one module to the next. Finally, we
present a series of experiments aimed at correcting errors related to
specific linguistic phenomena, using targeted features. One of our
innovations is the introduction of rules that can impose or prohibit
certain decisions locally, thus bypassing the statistical model. We
explore the usage of rules for errors that the features are unable to
correct. Finally, we look into the enhancement of targeted features by
large scale linguistic resources, and in particular a semi-supervised
approach using a lexical resource constructed using distributional
semantic techniques.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:17:51 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:17:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: 19th Conference on Formal Grammar
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.141751.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 15:34:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Frank Richter <fr at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de>
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                         FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

                                FG-2014:
                 The 19th Conference on Formal Grammar
                 Tuebingen, Germany, August 16-17 2014
                         http://fg.phil.hhu.de/

               Collocated with the European Summer School
                   in Logic, Language and Information


Background

FG-2014 is the 19th conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in
conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information, which takes place in 2014 in Tuebingen, Germany.

Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague
(1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999),
Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh
(2005), Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008), Bordeaux (2009),
Copenhagen (2010), Ljubljana (2011), Opole (2012) and Duesseldorf
(2013).


Aims and Scope

FG provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on
formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of formal
and mathematical methods to the study of natural language. Themes of
interest include, but are not limited to,

* formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and
  pragmatics;
* model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
* logical aspects of linguistic structure;
* constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
* learnability of formal grammar;
* integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar;
* foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar and
  linguistics;
* mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic
  analysis.

Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide
variety of frameworks.


Submission Details

We invite **electronic** submissions of original, 16-page papers
(including references and possible technical appendices).  Authors are
encouraged to use the Springer-Verlag LNCS style:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

The submission deadline is **February 23 2014**. Papers must be
submitted electronically at EasyChair, https://www.easychair.org. A
submission URL for FG-2014 will be provided soon.

Papers should report original work which was not presented in other
conferences. However, simultaneous submission is allowed, provided that
the authors indicate other conferences to which the work was submitted
in a footnote. Note that accepted papers can only be presented in one of
the venues.

Submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three
reviewers. Accepted papers will be published as a volume in the Springer
LNCS series, under the FoLLI subline, either separately or jointly with
the papers from FG-2015, depending on the number of accepted papers.


Important Dates

* February 23, 2014: Deadline for paper submission
* April 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance
* June 1, 2014: Camera ready copies due
* August 16-17, 2014: Conference dates


Standing committee

* Glyn Morrill (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University , The Netherlands)
* Rainer Osswald (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany)
* Frank Richter (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:16:57 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:16:57 +0100
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.141657.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:12:06 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
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[Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.]

We are happy to announce that 2 new Pronunciation Dictionaries from the
GlobalPhone database (Chinese-Mandarin and Korean) are now available in
our catalogue.

*_The GlobalPhone Pronunciation Dictionaries:_* GlobalPhone is a
multilingual speech and text database collected at Karlsruhe University,
Germany. The GlobalPhone pronunciation dictionaries contain the
pronunciations of all word forms found in the transcription data of the
GlobalPhone speech & text database. The pronunciation dictionaries are
currently available in 17 languages: Arabic (29230 entries/27059 words),
Bulgarian (20193 entries), Croatian (23497 entries/20628 words), Czech
(33049 entries/32942 words), French (36837 entries/20710 words), German
(48979 entries/46035 words), Hausa (42662 entries/42079 words), Japanese
(18094 entries), Polish (36484 entries), Portuguese (Brazilian) (54146
entries/54130 words), Russian (28818 entries/27667 words), Spanish
(Latin American) (43264 entries/33960 words), Swedish (about 25000
entries), Turkish (31330 entries/31087 words), Vietnamese (38504
entries/29974 words), Chinese-Mandarin (73388 pronunciations), and
Korean (3500 syllables).

Special prices are offered for a combined purchase of several 
GlobalPhone languages.

Available GlobalPhone Pronuncation Dictionaries are listed below (click
on the links for further details):

***ELRA-S0340 GlobalPhone French Pronunciation Dictionary***
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1197

**ELRA-S0341 GlobalPhone German Pronunciation Dictionary**
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1198

**ELRA-S0348 GlobalPhone Japanese Pronunciation Dictionary**
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1199

**ELRA-S0350 GlobalPhone Arabic Pronunciation Dictionary **
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1200

*ELRA-S0351 GlobalPhone Bulgarian Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1201

*ELRA-S0352 GlobalPhone Czech Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1202

*ELRA-S0353 GlobalPhone Hausa Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1203

*ELRA-S0354 GlobalPhone Polish Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1204

*ELRA-S0355 GlobalPhone Portuguese (Brazilian) Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1205

*ELRA-S0356 GlobalPhone Swedish Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1206

**ELRA-S0358 GlobalPhone Croatian Pronunciation Dictionary**
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1207

*ELRA-S0359 GlobalPhone Russian Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1208

*ELRA-S0360 GlobalPhone Spanish (Latin American) Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1209

*ELRA-S0361 GlobalPhone Turkish Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1210

*ELRA-S0362 GlobalPhone Vietnamese Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1211

  *** NEW ***

*ELRA-S0363 GlobalPhone Chinese-Mandarin Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1212

*ELRA-S0364 GlobalPhone Korean Pronunciation Dictionary*
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1213

For more information on the catalogue, please contact Val?rie Mapelli
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

Visit our On-line Catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info
Visit the Universal Catalogue: http://universal.elra.info
Archives of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates: 
http://www.elra.info/LRs-Announcements.html

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Dec  4 13:13:22 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:13:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: Special issue of BMC Bioinformatics on BioNLP Shared Task
Message-ID: <WED.4.DEC.2013.141322.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:03:35 +0100
From: Claire Nedellec <claire.nedellec at jouy.inra.fr>
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====================================================================
			CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of BMC Bioinformatics on BioNLP Shared Task 2013

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

We are pleased to announce a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics on the
BioNLP Shared Task (BioNLP-ST) 2013.

BMC Bioinformatics is a premier open-access journal for BioNLP research
with an Impact Factor of 3.02 and indexed by PubMed, Scopus, ACM and
Thomson Reuters (ISI) among others.

We invite two kinds of submissions:

1- extended versions of BioNLP-ST 2013 workshop papers. Each extended
   submission must include a substantial amount of previously
   unpublished content. In this type of submission, the workshop paper
   should be cited and the extended contribution has to be clearly
   stated. Please refer to BMC guidelines:
   http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/duplicatepublication

2- papers on new contributions to the BioNLP-ST 2013 tasks.

The BioNLP-ST 2013 data and evaluation services are kept online at:
	http://2013.bionlp-st.org/tasks
for new participants to register and evaluate their results on these 
datasets.

For a general overview on BioNLP Shared Task 2013, please refer to the 
task homepage:
	http://2013.bionlp-st.org/

All submissions will undergo full peer review by 3 reviewers. We expect
that 7-8 papers will be selected to be included in the special issue
based on the reviews.

When preparing your manuscript, please follow the author guidelines of 
BMC Bioinformatics:
	http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/ifora/

Please note also the following:
* The submissions should NOT be made using the general BMC submissions
  site, but through a special issue submission site that will be
  available shortly.
* For accepted papers, the authors have to be prepared to pay the
  article-processing charges.
See http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/about/faq/openaccess 
for more details.

IMPORTANT DATES

Jan 27 Manuscript submission due (draft version)
Feb 3 Manuscript submission (final version)
Mar 8 Acceptance notification of first-round review

To prepare the review process, we ask all those planning to submit a
manuscript to submit an early version of the paper, including title and
abstract, prior to the primary manuscript submission. The draft version
is considered a notification of intent to submit and will only be used
to coordinate reviews; it will not be considered in review of the
manuscript. Note that the initial submissions must include sufficient
information for reviewer assignment, e.g. title and abstract.
The actual review will begin from Feb 4. So, the authors will have a
chance to update their manuscripts by Feb 3.

SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS

Claire N?dellec, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
Jin-Dong Kim, Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS)
Sampo Pyysalo, University of Turku
Pierre Zweigenbaum, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Read more: http://2013.bionlp-st.org/bmc-bioinformatics-special-issue

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:18:07 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:18:07 +0100
Subject: Stage: Stage M2 (recherche), LIRMM,
 Combining Stochastic and Knowledge-based Modeling for Natural
 Language Understanding
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.211807.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 17:15:39 +0100
From: Jean-Philippe Prost <Jean-Philippe.Prost at lirmm.fr>
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Bonjour,

Un stage de M2 (Recherche) est disponible au LIRMM (U. Montpellier 2),
entre le 20 janvier et mi-juin 2014.

*Candidatures souhait?es le plus rapidement possible.*

Titre : Combining Stochastic and Knowledge-based Modelling for Natural
Language Understanding

Encadrement : Jean-Philippe.Prost (Prost at lirmm.fr)
Lieu : LIRMM, Montpellier
Dur?e : 5 mois
Financement : selon bar?mes l?gaux

Possibilit? de poursuite en th?se, selon r?sultats (candidature soumise
? s?lection).

Ce sujet de stage concerne le Traitement Automatique du Langage naturel
(TAL). L'objet en est de se pencher sur une voie possible d'hybridation
entre mod?lisation logique et mod?lisation probabiliste pour la
repr?sentation de connaissances langagi?res.
Le sujet porte plus particuli?rement sur la dimension syntaxique.

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

Les parseurs les plus performants du moment sont dits "robustes", pour
leur capacit? ? produire un arbre syntaxique quelle que soit la phrase
en entr?e, y compris mal-form?e. Ces analyseurs sont construits ? base
d'algorithmes d'apprentissage automatique qui permettent de construire
l'arbre le plus probable ?tant donn? la phrase en entr?e.
Cette robustesse est acquise au d?triment d'une perte d'information
cons?quente. Par exemple, la question de la bonne-formation
(grammaticalit?) de l'entr?e est ?lud?e, l'analyse d'une phrase
bien-form?e n'ayant pas n?cessairement une probabilit? maximale.
Or il est possible d'apporter une r?ponse exacte ? ce probl?me, en
venant simplement brancher un module ? base de raisonnement logique sur
la sortie non-d?terministe d'un analyseur stochastique. Mais ce qui
serait souhaitable, serait de pouvoir int?grer ce processus de
r?solution exacte dans le processus d'analyse stochastique.

L'objet de ce stage est donc d'explorer diff?rentes pistes possibles sur
cette question. On pourra, par exemple, int?grer un m?canisme de
v?rification de mod?le (model checking, au sens de la th?orie logique
des mod?les) dans le proc?d? de reclassement (reranking) des n
candidat-mod?les les plus probables que g?n?re un analyseur
stochastique.

Le stage comportera une partie d'?tat de l'art, une partie d'exploration
th?orique, et une partie r?alisation (programmation).

JP. Prost

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:19:41 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:19:41 +0100
Subject: Stage: Stage M2 recherche en TAL/apprentissage automatique
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.211941.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 11:07:34 +0100
From: Isabelle Tellier <isabelle.tellier at univ-paris3.fr>
Message-Id: <730D5B02-4640-4012-930A-11F49EBF2FC7 at univ-paris3.fr>
X-url: http://ligm.u-pem.fr
X-url: http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr

sujet de stage M2 recherche en TAL : acquisition d'un analyseur en
d?pendances du fran?ais m?di?val

Dans le cadre du projet ANR Syntactic Reference Corpus of Medieval
French (SRCMF, 2008-2011), un Treebank (une collection d'arbres)
d'analyses en d?pendances d'?nonc?s du fran?ais m?di?val a ?t?
constitu?. Il comprend 260 000 mots (parmi lesquels environ 27 000 t?tes
verbales) annot?es en ?tiquettes morpho-syntaxiques et reli?s par des
relations de d?pendances ?tiquet?es.

L'objectif du stage est d'exploiter ce corpus par apprentissage
automatique afin d'acqu?rir un analyseur en d?pendances du fran?ais
m?di?val, ?ventuellement coupl? ? un ?tiqueteur morpho-syntaxique. Ces
outils pourront ?tre exploit?s sur de nouveaux textes. Ils permettront
d'?tudier pr?cis?ment les sp?cificit?s grammaticales du fran?ais
m?di?val, en comparaison avec celles du fran?ais contemporain.

Le stage b?n?ficiera de l'encadrement d'une sp?cialiste du fran?ais
m?di?val (Sophie Pr?vost) et de sp?cialistes du TAL et de
l'apprentissage automatique (Matthieu Constant et Isabelle Tellier).

Comp?tences requises :
- niveau M2 ou ing?nieur en informatique ou en TAL
- Connaissances (ou au minimum int?r?t argument?) en TAL et en
  apprentissage automatique
- Comp?tences en programmation

Conditions du stage :
- R?mun?ration : prime de stage (1/3 du SMIC).
- Dur?e : 4 ? 6 mois en commen?ant d?s que possible en 2014.
- Lieu : le stage sera encadr? en collaboration par le LIGM ?
  Marne-la-vall?e (http://ligm.u-pem.fr) et le Lattice ? Montrouge
  (http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr), trajets ? pr?voir entre les deux lieux

envoyer CV + lettre de motivation ? Matthieu Constant
(Matthieu.Constant at u-pem.fr), Sophie Pr?vost (sophie.prevost at ens.fr),
Isabelle Tellier (isabelle.tellier at univ-paris3.fr)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:24:50 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:24:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: 4th DICTAP2014
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.212450.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 23:00:49 -0800
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X-url: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dictap2014/

Please Accept our Apology for Multiple Posting. THANK YOU.
==============================================================

 The Fourth International Conference on Digital Information and
 Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2014)

                       May 6-8, 2014
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand

        http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dictap2014/

All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library.
==============================================================

The conference aims to enable researchers build connections between
different digital applications.

The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to)
research topics

- Security in Information and Telecommunication System
- Network Systems and Devices
- Wireless and Optical Communications
- Algorithms, Architecture, and Infrastructures
- Information Content Security
- Cloud Computing and Computer Networks
- Sensor Networks and Embedded System
- E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Business and E-Government
- Data Exchange Issues and Supply Chain
- Information Retrieval
- Web Services, Web based Application
- Data Grids, Data and Information Quality
- Data Warehouses and Data Mining
- Image Analysis and Image Processing
- Management and Diffusion of Multimedia Applications
- Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
- Video Search and Video Mining
- Enterprise Computing
- Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0
- Knowledge Management
- Compression and Coding
- XML and other extensible languages
- Intelligent and Robust System
- ICT for Social and Humanity
- Security and Access Control
- Constraint Programming
- Ubiquitous Systems
- Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules

Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All
papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized
referees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be
considered.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Deadline       : April 6, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2014 
Camera Ready Submission   : April 26, 2014
Registration              : April 26, 2014
Conference Dates          : May 6-8, 2014

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:35:43 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:35:43 +0100
Subject: Appel: SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, June 18th-20th 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.213543.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 19:26:40 +0000
From: Helen Hastie <h.hastie at hw.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <CAPv1Dq4WynxHJH77YXvgY_2_-BKd9mFrC4mxOmmuQoV=j-a-Kw at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15
X-url: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm

SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE

Wednesday, June 18 to Friday, June 20, 2014

The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialog will be

co-located with the 8th International Conference on Natural Language
Generation (INLG 2014) in Philadelphia, PA, USA and immediately
preceding ACL 2014.

http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15 (under construction)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2014 SIGDIAL conference continues a series of fourteen conferences,
providing a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research
across the areas of discourse and dialog and attracting a diverse set of
participants from academia and industry. The conference is sponsored by
the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on
discourse and dialog for both ACL and ISCA.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome formal, corpus-based, system-building or analytical work on
discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following
themes and topics:

- Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems

- Corpora, Tools and Methodology

- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling

- Dimensions of Interaction

- Open Domain Dialog

- Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialog and Written Text

- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology

- Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialog, for a joint special
  session with INLG

IMPORTANT DATES

Special Session Proposal Deadline: Sunday, 9 February 2014 (23:59,
GMT-11)

Special Session Notification: Monday, 17 February 2014


Long, Short and Demonstration

Paper Submission Deadline: Sunday, 9 March 2014 (23:59, GMT-11)

Paper Notification: Friday, 18 April 2014

Final Paper Due

- For papers accepted subject

  to receiving mentoring Wednesday, 14 May 2014

- For accepted papers Friday, 23 May 2014


Conference Wednesday, June 18, 2014 to Friday, June 20, 2014

SUBMISSIONS

Special Session Proposals

The SIGdial organizers welcome the submission of special session
proposals.
 A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the
conference; may be organized as a poster session, a poster session with
panel discussion, or an oral presentation session; and will be held on
the last day of the conference.  Special sessions may, at the discretion
of the SIGdial organizers, be held as parallel sessions.  Those wishing
to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal
containing:
 a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and
sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate; and a
requested format (poster/panel/oral session).  These proposals should be
sent to conference[a]sigdial.org <conference at sigdial.org> by the special
session proposal deadline.  Special session proposals will be reviewed
jointly by the general and program co-chairs.

Papers

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short
papers, and demonstration descriptions. All accepted submissions will be
published in the conference proceedings.

Long papers may, at the discretion of the technical program committee,
be accepted for oral or poster presentation. They must be no longer than
8 pages, including title, content, and examples. Two additional pages
are allowed for references and appendices, which may include extended
example discourses or dialogs, algorithms, graphical representations,
etc.

Short papers will be presented as posters. They should be no longer than
4 pages, including title and content. One additional page is allowed for
references and appendices.

Demonstration papers should be no longer than 3 pages, including
references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the
program co-chairs for demonstration descriptions, specifying furniture
and equipment needed for the demo.

Authors of a submission may designate their paper to be considered for a
SIGDIAL special session.  However, in 2014 all papers will undergo
regular peer review and appear in the SIGDIAL proceedings.
Consequently, no paper is guaranteed to appear in any particular session
at SIGDIAL.

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must provide this information (see submission format). A
paper accepted for presentation at SIGDIAL 2014 must not have been
presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Any
questions regarding submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs at
program-chairs[at]sigdial.org <program-chairs at sigdial.org>.

Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as
video clips or sound clips and examples of available resources for
review purposes.

Submission is electronic using paper submission software.

FORMAT

All long, short, and demonstration submissions should follow the
two-column ACL 2014 format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX
style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for the ACL 2014
conference.  Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2014 style
guidelines ( http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm), and they
must be electronic in PDF. As in most previous years, submissions will
not be anonymous.

MENTORING SERVICE

For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring
service.  Submissions with innovative core ideas that may need language
(English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for "mentoring"
and conditionally accepted with recommendation to revise with a
mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the
SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare
their submissions for publication.  Any questions about the mentoring
service can be addressed to the mentoring chair at
mentoring[at]sigdial.org <mentoring at sigdial.org>.

STUDENT SUPPORT

SIGdial also offers a limited number of scholarships for students
presenting a paper accepted to the conference. Application materials
will be posted at the conference website.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse
science and technology, SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A
selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of
interest will select the recipients of the awards.

SPONSORSHIP

SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more
information, email the conference organizers at
sponsor-chair[at]sigdial.org.

DIALOG AND DISCOURSE

SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal
Dialog and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGdial.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Mentoring Chair
Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Research Labs, USA

Local Chair
Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA

Sponsorships Chair
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA

SIGdial President
Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA

SIGdial Vice President
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:30:10 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:30:10 +0100
Subject: Info: Newsletter du LPL, No 7 (2013)
Message-ID: <SAT.7.DEC.2013.213010.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:04:25 +0100
From: "Claudia Pichon-Starke" <claudia.starke at lpl-aix.fr>
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Bonjour,

La cellule communication du LPL a le plaisir de vous pr?senter le
nouveau num?ro de sa Newsletter :
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/fileadmin/template/NewsLetter/NL7.htm

Nous vous en souhaitons une bonne lecture.

Bien cordialement,

Claudia Pichon-Starke pour la Cellule Com
communication at lpl-aix.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:33:03 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:33:03 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, Djame Seddah,
 Overview of the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task, 13 decembre 2013
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 20:00:24 +0100
From: Marie Candito <marie.candito at gmail.com>
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************** S?minaire de l'?quipe Alpage *********

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 traitement automatique des langues.

Vendredi 13 d?cembre

de 11h ? 12h30,

en salle 106

B?timent Olympe de Gouges
rue Albert Einstein
75013 Paris
(dernier b?timent de la rue Albert Einstein, num?ro non attribu?...)

Toute personne int?ress?e est la bienvenue.

**********************************************************
Djam? Seddah (Alpage)

Title : ?Overview of the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task: Cross-Framework
Evaluation of Parsing Morphologically Rich Languages?

Abstract : In this presentation, we will present the outcoumes on the
first shared task on statistical parsing of morphologically rich
languages.  The task features data sets from nine languages (Arabic,
Basque, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Polish and Swedish),
each available both in constituency and dependency annotation. We report
on the preparation of the data sets, on the proposed parsing scenarios,
and on the evaluation metrics for parsing MRLs given different
representation types. We present and analyze parsing results obtained by
the task participants, and then provide an analysis and comparison of
the parsers across languages and frameworks, reported for gold input as
well as more realistic parsing scenarios.  The shared task saw
submissions from seven teams, and results produced by more than 14
different systems. The parsing results were obtained in different input
scenarios (gold, predicted, and raw) and evaluated using different
protocols (cross-framework, cross-scenario, and cross-language). In
particular, this is the first time a multilingual evaluation campaign
reports on the execution of parsers in realistic, morphologically
ambiguous, settings.


Djam? Seddah, Joint Work with Reut Tsarfaty, Sandra K?ebler and many
contributors[1]

[1] Marie Candito, Jinho D. Choi, Richard Farkas , Jennifer Foster,
Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, YoavGoldberg, Spence Green, Nizar Habash,
Marco Kuhlman, Wolfgang Maier, Joakim Nivre, Adam Przepi?rkowski, Ryan
Roth, Wolfgang Seeker, Yannick Versley, Veronika Vincze, Marcin Wolin
?ski, Alina Wr?blewskav, Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:31:15 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:31:15 +0100
Subject: These: Florent Pompigne,
 Modelisation logique de la langue et Grammaires Categorielles
 Abstraites
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:24:14 +0100 (CET)
From: Florent Pompigne <florent.pompigne at loria.fr>
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Bonjour, 

j'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? la soutenance de ma th?se qui 
s'intitule "Mod?lisation logique de la langue et Grammaires
Cat?gorielles Abstraites". 
La soutenance aura lieu le lundi 11 d?cembre ? 10h30 au LORIA (Campus
scientifique Vandoeuvre-l?s-Nancy), en salle C005 . 
Vous ?tes ?galement convi?s au pot, qui aura lieu ? 16h. 

Cordialement, 
Florent Pompigne 

--- 
Composition du jury : 

Rapporteurs : 
Christian Retor?, Professeur, Universit? de Bordeaux 1 
Annie Foret, Ma?tre de conf?rences, Universit? de Rennes 1 

Examinateurs : 
Michael Moortgat, Professeur, Universit? d'Utrecht 
Laurent Vigneron, Professeur, Universit? de Lorraine 

Directeurs : 
Philippe de Groote, Directeur de recherches, INRIA Nancy 
Sylvain Pogodalla, Charg? de recherches, INRIA Nancy 

--- 
R?sum? 

Cette th?se s'int?resse ? la mod?lisation de la syntaxe et de
l'interface syntaxe-s?mantique de la phrase, et explore la possibilit?
de contr?ler au niveau des structures de d?rivation la surg?n?ration que
produit le traitement des d?pendances ? distance par des types d'ordre
sup?rieur. ? cet effet, nous ?tudions la possibilit? d'?tendre le
syst?me de typage des Grammaires Cat?gorielles Abstraites avec les
constructions de la somme disjointe, du produit cart?sien et du produit
d?pendant, permettant d'?tiqueter les cat?gories syntaxiques par des
structures de traits. Nous prouvons dans un premier temps que le calcul
r?sultant de cette extension b?n?ficie des propri?t?s de confluence et
de normalisation, permettant d'identifier les termes beta-?quivalents
dans le formalisme grammatical. Nous r?duisons de plus le m?me probl?me
pour la beta-eta-?quivalence ? un ensemble d'hypoth?se de d?part. Dans
un second temps, nous montrons comment cette introduction de structures
de traits peut ?tre appliqu?e au contr?le des d?pendances ? distances, ?
travers les exemples des contraintes de cas, des ?lots d'extraction pour
les mouvements explicites et implicites, et des extractions
interrogatives multiples, et nous discutons de la pertinence de placer
ces contr?les sur les structures de d?rivation.


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:23:29 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:23:29 +0100
Subject: Appel: The 37th Annual ACM SIGIR 2014 conference,
 Gold Coast Australia, July 6-11 2014
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 16:53:15 +1000
From: Richi Nayak <r.nayak at qut.edu.au>
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CALL FOR PAPERS, Submission Due: JAN 27, 2014

ACM SIGIR 2014: THE 37th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

6-11 July, 2014, Gold Coast, Australia

Conference website: http://sigir.org/sigir2014/

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new
research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques
in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and
Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit
original papers for review. SIGIR 2014 welcomes contributions related to
any aspect of IR theory and foundation, techniques, and
applications. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

TOPICS

- Document Representation and Content Analysis (e.g., text
  representation, document structure, linguistic analysis, NLP for IR,
  cross- and multi-lingual IR, information extraction, sentiment
  analysis, clustering, classification, topic models, facets, text
  streams)

- Queries and Query Analysis (e.g., query intent, query suggestion and
  prediction, query representation and reformulation, query log
  analysis, conversational search and dialogue, spoken queries,
  summarization, question answering)

- Retrieval Models and Ranking (e.g., IR theory, language models,
  probabilistic retrieval models, learning to rank, combining searches,
  diversity and aggregated search)

- Search Engine Architectures and Scalability (e.g., indexing,
  compression, distributed IR, P2P IR, mobile IR, cloud IR)

- Users and Interactive IR (e.g., user studies, user and task models,
  interaction analysis, session analysis, exploratory search,
  personalized search, social and collaborative search, search
  interface, whole session support)

- Filtering and Recommending (e.g., content-based filtering,
  collaborative filtering, recommender systems)

- Evaluation (e.g., test collections, experimental design, effectiveness
  measures, session-based evaluation, simulation)

- Web IR and Social Media Search (e.g., link analysis, click
  models/behavioral modeling, social tagging, social network analysis,
  blog and microblog search, forum search, community-based QA,
  adversarial IR and spam, vertical and local search)

- IR and Structured Data (e.g., XML search, ranking in databases,
  desktop search, entity search)

- Multimedia IR (e.g., image search, video search, speech/audio search,
  music search)

- Other Applications (e.g., digital libraries, enterprise search,
  genomics IR, legal IR, patent search, text reuse, new retrieval
  problems)

CONTRIBUTION TYPES

- Full papers (10 pages), Short papers (4 pages), Demos (3 pages),
  Tutorials, Workshops

INSTRUCTION

Requirements for paper format and appropriate content are described in
the content
guidelines<http://sigir.org/sigir2014/PaperContentGuidelines.php>. The
requirements will be strictly enforced. Papers which do not conform to
the requirements may be rejected without review, so please be sure to
read this page carefully.

SIGIR 2014 solicits proposals for tutorials of either half-day (3 hours
plus breaks) or full day (6 hours plus breaks) on all topics of
information retrieval and its applications. Each tutorial should cover a
single topic in detail. Submissions should include a cover sheet and an
extended abstract.

Proposals for workshops to be held at ACM SIGIR 2014 are also
solicited. Workshops will usually last for one day and will be held on
Friday 11th July 2014.

IMPORTANT DATES

- 20 January 2014: Abstracts for full research papers due

- 27 January 2014: Full research papers due

- 3 February 2014: Workshop proposals due

- 17 February 2014: Short paper, demonstration, and tutorial submission
  deadline

- 18 April 2014: Paper, short paper, tutorial, and demonstration
  acceptance notifications

- 11 May 2014: Camera ready copy due (note the short timeline due to
  early conference date)

- 16 May 2014: Early bird registration deadline

ORGANIZERS

- General Chairs: Shlomo Geva, Andrew Trotman

- PC Chairs: Peter Bruza, Charles L. A. Clarke, Kalervo J?rvelin

@Richi Nayak ? Publicity Chair

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec  7 20:36:19 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:36:19 +0100
Subject: Journee: Optimisation et traitement automatique du langage,
 Universite Paris 13, 16 decembre 2013
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Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:46:13 +0100
From: Joseph Le Roux <leroux at univ-paris13.fr>
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Bonjour,

Les m?thodes d'optimisation sont de plus en plus utilis?es en traitement
automatique des langues pour concevoir des m?thodes efficaces tant pour
l'apprentissage de mod?les que pour le d?codage, notamment en offrant un
cadre formel qui distingue clairement les contraintes globales des
contraintes locales, tout en permettant de les combiner.

L'?quipe RCLN du Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord s'int?resse de
pr?s ? ces m?thodes pour la mod?lisation conjointe des diff?rents
niveaux de description linguistique. Dans le cadre du p?le math/stic de
Paris 13, avec le soutien du LABEX EFL, et en collaboration avec
l'?quipe AOC du LIPN, l'?quipe RCLN organise une journ?e de s?minaires
autour des th?mes de l'optimisation et du traitement automatique des
langues.

Cette journ?e aura lieu le 16 d?cembre sur le campus de l'Universit?
Paris 13 ? Villetaneuse, dans l'amphith??tre Euler :

09h30-10h00 :: Accueil (Amphi Euler)

10h00-11h00 :: Expos? d'Andr? Martins     (Amphi Euler)
11h15-12h15 :: Expos? de Sebastian Riedel (Amphi Euler)

Pause d?jeuner (LIPN)

13h45-14h45 :: Expos? de Xavier Carreras (Amphi Euler)
15h00-16h00 :: Expos? de Joseph Le Roux  (Amphi Euler)

16h00 :: go?ter au LIPN !

La participation ? cette journ?e est libre.

Si vous comptez y assister, nous vous demandons, pour des raisons
pratiques (organisation du buffet notamment), de nous l'indiquer ? cette
adresse [[http://doodle.com/87mnbcdbzdmytffc]] .

site web : http://mathstic.univ-paris13.fr/index.php/axes/oaatcn


R?sum? des quatre expos?s pr?vus :

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andr? Martins, Priberam, Lisbon
Title: AD3: A New Decoder for Structured Prediction

Abstract:
In this talk, I will present AD3 ("Alternating Directions Dual
Decomposition"), a new consensus-based decoder for problems
representable as factor graphs.  AD3 is an approximate decoder that
ignores global effects caused by the cycles of the graph, solving a
linear relaxation of the original problem. It can handle many scenarios
often encountered in NLP and IR applications, such as models with
constraints in first-order logic; models involving budget or knapsack
constraints; and combinations of structured models which are
individually tractable, but hard to decode jointly.

Like other dual decomposition algorithms, AD3 has a modular
architecture, where local subproblems are solved independently, and
their solutions are gathered to compute a global update. The key
characteristic of AD3 is that each local subproblem has a quadratic
regularizer, leading to faster convergence (both theoretically and in
practice). After providing closed-form solutions for several of these
subproblems, I will proceed to discuss a recent active set method that
works for arbitrary factors, requiring only a local maximization oracle
(the same oracle required in subgradient-based dual decomposition).

In the second part of the talk, I will discuss two recent applications
of AD3 in NLP problems: dependency parsing and compressive
summarization. I will present "Turbo Parser," an open source dependency
parser, which was recently improved with AD3 and the active set method
to permit fast decoding of non-projective third-order
models. Experiments in 14 languages yield state-of-art results, with
parsing speeds ranging between 700 and 4,000 tokens per second. For
compressive summarization, the use of AD3 leads to a system which is
modular in the three qualities that define a good summary (conciseness,
informativeness, and grammaticality), with state-of-the-art ROUGE
scores, and runtimes close to extractive summarizers.

This work was done in collaboration with Noah Smith, M?rio Figueiredo,
Eric Xing, Pedro Aguiar, and Miguel Almeida.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sebastian Riedel, UCL, London.
Title: Predict, Price and Cut: Column and Row Generation for Structured
Prediction.

Abstract:
Many problems in NLP, and structured prediction in general, can be cast
as finding high-scoring structures based on a large set of candidate
parts. For example, In second order tagging, we have to select
high-scoring transitions between tags in a globally consistent fashion.
In second order graph-based dependency parsing we have to choose a
quadratic number of first order and a cubic number of second order edges
such that the graph is both high-scoring and a tree. What makes such
problems challenging is the large number of possible parts to consider.
This number not only affects the cost of search or optimization but also
slows down the process of scoring parts before they enter the
optimisation problem, and extracting features.

In this talk I present an approach that can solve problems with large
sets of candidate parts without considering all of these parts in either
optimization or scoring. In contrast to most pruning heuristics, our
algorithm can give certificates of optimality before having optimized
over, or even scored, all parts. It does so without the need of
auxiliary models or tuning of threshold parameters. This is achieved by
a delayed column and row generation algorithm that iteratively solves an
LP relaxation over a small subset of current candidate parts, and then
finds new candidates with high scores that can be inserted into the
current optimal solution without removing high scoring existing
structure. The latter step subtracts from the cost of a part the price
of resources the part requires, and is often referred as pricing.
Sometimes parts may score highly after pricing, but are necessary in
order to make the current solution feasible. We add such parts in a step
that roughly amounts to violated cuts to the LP.

We evaluate our approach on two applications: second order dependency
parsing and first order tagging with large domains. In both cases we
dramatically reduce the number of parts considered, and observe about an
order of magnitude speed-up. This is possible without loss of optimality
guarantees, and hence accuracy.


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Xavier Carreras, UPC, Barcelona
Title: Learning Automata and Grammars: From Spectral Algorithms to
Convex Optimizations

There is an increasing interest in spectral methods to learn
latent-variable language models in the form of weighted automata and
context-free grammars. Spectral methods provide an algebraic formulation
to the problem of inducing automata or grammars from data, and directly
exploit the recurrence relations behind the model. I will review the
spectral method from an algebraic perspective, making use of Hankel
matrices as the key object behind the method: a Hankel matrix collects
all necessary statistics of the distribution we want to learn; and
finding a low-rank factorization of this matrix results in the automata
or grammar. Under mild assumptions, it can be shown that this method
nicely approximates the target model.

From here, I will show how we can reformulate the spectral learning
algorithm as a low-rank convex optimization. This will be useful to
adapt the method to other settings, by adding linear constraints. I will
focus in "unsupervised" induction of context-free grammars, that is,
learning a grammar from plain strings. Our formulation involves
optimizing for a low-rank Hankel matrix that is linearly constrained to
satisfy inside-outside recursions. An analogous method method can be
formulated to learn finite-state transducers from unaligned parallel
strings.


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Joseph Le Roux, LIPN, Paris
Title: Combining PCFG-LA Models with Dual Decomposition: A case Study
with Function Labels and Binarization

Abstract:
It has recently been shown that different NLP models can be effectively
combined using dual decomposition. In this talk, we present how PCFG-LAs
(Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars with Latent Annotations, the
state-of-the-art model for unlexicalized constituent parsing) are
suitable for combination in this way.

We first show how the intractable problem of exact PCFG-LA decoding is
approximated with anchored PCFGs. Then we present a method for combining
anchored PCFGs based on the partial superposition of tree structures.

We experiment with the different models which result from alternative
methods of extracting a grammar from a treebank (retaining or discarding
function labels, left binarization versus right binarization) and
achieve state-of-the-art parsing performance, with a labeled Parseval
F-score of 92.4 on Wall Street Journal Section 23 ? this represents an
error reduction rate of 7% over a strong PCFG-LA product-model baseline.

This work was done in collaboration with Antoine Rozenknop and Jennifer
Foster.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:43:43 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:43:43 +0100
Subject: Appel: Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.214343.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:15:37 -0500
From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak at eecs.uottawa.ca>
Message-ID: <52A4EF89.2060908 at eecs.uottawa.ca>


Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature
April 27, 2014, G?teborg, Sweden, co-located with EACL 2014

https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2014a/

Second Call for Papers

(with apologies for multiple postings)

The purpose of the series of ACL workshops on Computational Linguistics
for Literature is to bring together researchers fascinated with
literature as a unique type of data which pose distinct challenges. We
invite papers on original unpublished work in this broad area. In
particular, we hope to see papers which explore how the state-of-the-art
NLP methods can help solve existing research problems in the humanities,
or perhaps suggest new problems.

Literary texts revolve around the human condition, emotions, social life
and inner life. Naturally, such data abound in common-sense knowledge
but are very thin on technical jargon. Can tools and methods developed
in the ACL community help process literary data? When do they work, when
do they fail and why? What new instruments do we need in order to work
with prose and poetry, on a large or small scale? Are there
computational solutions of noteworthy problems in the Humanities,
Information Science, Library Sciences and other similar disciplines?

Here are some of the topics of interest to the workshop:

- the needs of the readers and how these needs translate into meaningful
  NLP tasks;
- searching for literature;
- recommendation systems for literature;
- computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology,
  computational folkloristics;
- summarization of literature;
- differences between literature and other types of writing as relevant
  to computational linguistics;
- discourse structure in literature;
- emotion analysis for literature;
- profiling and authorship attribution;
- identification and analysis of literary genres;
- building and analyzing social networks of characters;
- generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
- modelling literary dialogue for generation.

We will consider regular papers which describe experimental methods or
theoretical work, and we will gladly welcome position papers. The NLP
community does not study literature often enough, so it is important to
discuss and formulate the problems before proposing solutions.

The submission deadline is January 23, 2014.

Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:52:54 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:52:54 +0100
Subject: Revue: CORELA, Statut et utilisation des corpus
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.215254.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:54:25 +0100
From: Gilles Col <gilles.col at univ-poitiers.fr>
Message-Id: <a06240816cecce6069a0c@[192.168.1.12]>
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2951
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2952
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2964
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2981
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2994
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3002
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3012
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3023

Chers coll?gues,

L'?quipe ?ditoriale de la revue CORELA - Cognition / Repr?sentation /
Langages a le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication de son dernier
num?ro th?matique : " Statut et utilisation des corpus en linguistique",
sous la direction de Laurence Durroux-Vincent


Sommaire du num?ro:

Laurence Durroux-Vincent.
"Statut et utilisation des corpus en linguistique".
http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2951

Tobias Scheer.
"The Corpus: A Tool among Others".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2952


Pius ten Hacken, Ren?ta Panocov?
"The Use of Corpora in Word Formation Research".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2964


Najib Arbach, Saandia Ali
"Aspects th?oriques et m?thodologiques de la repr?sentativit? des
corpus".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2981


Charles Brasart
"Corpus et alternance codique : que peut nous apprendre une approche
comparative ?".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2994


Laurent David
"L'acquisition du Present Perfect chez un enfant anglophone :
m?thodologie, codage et premiers r?sultats".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3002


J?r?mi Sauvage, Christelle Dodane , Fabrice Hirsch , Melissa
Barkat-Defradas
"R?flexions m?thodologiques sur l'analyse phon?tique d'un corpus
longitudinal et transversal en acquisition du langage".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3012


Paola Artero, Adriana Serban
"The Status of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Enquiry in
Translation Research: C. S.  Lewis's Narnia in French - A Corpus-based
Approach".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3023

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:45:22 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:45:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: IC 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.214522.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 09:51:41 +0100
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <52A5849D.90907 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014


Appel ? communications pour les


25es Journ?es Francophones d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances :

Connaissances pervasives: des utilisateurs plong?s dans des syst?mes ?
base de connaissances et des syst?mes ? base de connaissances plong?s
dans le monde


http://www.irit.fr/IC2014


du 12 au 16 mai 2014 ? Clermont-Ferrand

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Dates importantes :

Date limite de soumission des communications : jeudi 19 d?cembre 2013

Date de notification aux auteurs : jeudi 13 f?vrier 2014

Date limite de r?ception des textes d?finitifs : lundi 17 mars 2014

Dates de la conf?rence : du 12 au 16 mai 2014

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La conf?rence d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances f?te cette ann?e ses 25
ans! Elle est le rendez-vous annuel de la communaut? fran?aise et
francophone qui s'int?resse aux probl?matiques li?es ? l'ing?nierie des
connaissances. Acad?miques et industriels s'y retrouvent pour ?changer
et r?fl?chir sur des probl?mes de recherche qui se posent en
acquisition, repr?sentation et gestion des connaissances.


L'essor des sciences et technologies de l'information et de la
communication, et notamment des technologies du web, dans l'ensemble de
la soci?t? engendre des mutations dans les pratiques individuelles et
collectives. L'ing?nierie des connaissances accompagne cette ?volution,
en inventant les mod?les, m?thodes et outils permettant l'int?gration de
connaissances et de raisonnements sur ces connaissances dans des
environnements informatiques.


De fait, on constate aujourd'hui une omnipr?sence des connaissances, en
m?me temps qu'un d?cloisonnement des communaut?s de recherche en
Intelligence Artificielle pour r?pondre aux probl?mes qui se posent.
Ainsi, la construction des syst?mes ? base de connaissances fait appel ?
l'ing?nierie des connaissances, au traitement automatique des langues, ?
l'apprentissage automatique et ? la fouille de donn?es; le traitement
des connaissances associe ing?nierie des connaissances avec recherche
d'information, recherche op?rationnelle, analyse de donn?es; la
mod?lisation des environnements informatiques, de ses acteurs humains ou
logiciels, allie ing?nierie des connaissances et syst?mes multi-agents;
enfin l'ing?nierie des connaissances touche ? des th?matiques classiques
dans les communaut?s de l'interaction homme-machine et des
environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain.


En pla?ant ainsi l'utilisateur au coeur des syst?mes informatiques,
l'ing?nierie des connaissances est sollicit?e pour assister
l'utilisateur dans le traitement de la masse de donn?es disponibles sur
le web, pour les visualiser, contextualiser, expliquer, recommander,
classer, pr?dire, approximer, s?curiser, fiabiliser, pour pallier ? leur
impr?cision voire incoh?rence.



Les th?mes d'IC 2014 sont les suivants (liste non exhaustive):


Repr?sentation des connaissances et raisonnement

- mod?les, formalismes, langages formels et informels de repr?sentation
  de connaissances

- ?change, interop?rabilit? et r?utilisation des mod?les,
  standardisation

- terminologies, thesauri, ontologies et lexiques

- types d'ontologies et r?le des ontologies de r?f?rence

- m?thodes et outils pour le cycle de vie des repr?sentations

- gestion de la dynamique des ontologies (versionnement, ?volution,
  int?gration et alignement)

- raisonnements logiques, inf?rences, raisonnements ? base de r?gles,

- approximations, raisonnements statistiques, raisonnements par
  analogie, raisonnements ? partir de cas, raisonnements dans les
  logiques non classiques


Conception et construction de mod?les de connaissances et d'ontologies

- peuplement de mod?les de connaissances

- acquisition de connaissances ? partir de textes

- d?couverte interactive de connaissances dans les donn?es, dans les
  historiques, dans les interactions, sur le web, etc.

- inf?rence et r?gles m?tier : acquisition, conception, r?utilisation,
  ?volution, ?valuation, exploitations

- m?trique et ?valuation de la qualit? des ontologies


Web de donn?es, web s?mantique

- ouverture et interconnexion des donn?es

- impact de l'ouverture des donn?es sur le web et de l'externalisation
  ouverte (crowdsourcing) sur l'ing?nierie des connaissances

- r?seaux sociaux

- gestion de flux de donn?es

- passage ? l'?chelle : traitement de donn?es massives

- traitement de donn?es h?t?rog?nes

- provenance et confiance dans les donn?es

- m?trique et ?valuation de la qualit? des donn?es


Ing?nierie des connaissances centr?e utilisateurs

- visualisation de connaissances, d'ontologies

- visualisation d'interconnexions de donn?es, de raisonnements sur les
  donn?es

- explication des raisonnements

- profils utilisateurs, mod?les de contexte et adaptation, mod?les
  d'?motion

- personnalisation de l'acc?s aux connaissances: confiance,
  recommandation, classement (ranking), r?sum?

- assistance d'applications et de services: agents conversationnels

- environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain

- conception et ?valuation d'interactions et d'interfaces avec des
  syst?mes ? base de connaissances


Interdisciplinarit? de l'ing?nierie des connaissances

- ?pist?mologie de l'ing?nierie des connaissances

- th?orie des organisations et ing?nierie des connaissances

- sciences humaines et sciences cognitives et ing?nierie des
  connaissances

- ing?nierie des connaissances scientifiques


Ing?nierie des connaissances pervasive : IC dans...

- le traitement automatique des langues

- l'apprentissage symbolique

- la fouille de donn?es

- la recherche d'information, l'indexation

- la recherche op?rationnelle

- l'analyse de donn?es

- les syst?mes multi-agents

- les environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain

- les interfaces homme-machine


Applications

- applications dans les domaines de la sant?, de l'?ducation et de
  l'apprentissage, de la culture, de la recherche documentaire, des
  transports intelligents, de l'informatique d?cisionnelle (BI), etc.

- ?mergence de nouveaux domaines applicatifs

- m?moires d'entreprises

- syst?mes pour la collaboration et la coop?ration dans les
  organisations et les collectifs


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Soumissions :

Articles longs(12 pages (nouveau format), pr?sentation orale de 20 mn,
10 mn discussion) :

Sont concern?s des travaux aboutis, pr?sentant des r?sultats valid?s ou
des synth?ses fouill?es.


Articles courts(6 pages (nouveau format), pr?sentation orale de 10 mn, 5
mn discussion) :

Sont concern?s des travaux en cours ou au stade de r?sultats partiels de
recherche ou appliqu?s. Ce type de soumission correspond ? des travaux
innovants de qualit?, mais dont la maturit? ne permet pas des
?laborations compl?tes et des conclusions d?finitives.


Les articles devront respecter les styles de documents indiqu?s sur le
site de la conf?rence: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014.


Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre leurs communications au format PDF
sur EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2014.


Les articles accept?s feront l'objet d'actes en version ?lectronique,
publi?s sur HAL, et disponibles sur une cl? USB distribu?e aux
participants de la conf?rence.


Un prix AFIA du meilleur article sera d?cern? par un jury compos? de
membres du comit? de pilotage de la conf?rence.


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La conf?rence d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances est plac?e sous l'?gide du
coll?ge IC de l'AFIA

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Pr?sidente du comit? de programme :

Catherine Faron Zucker (I3S, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis)


Pr?sidente du comit? d'organisation :

Catherine Roussey (Irstea)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:49:11 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:49:11 +0100
Subject: These: Pierre Magistry,
 Unsupervised Word Segmentation and Wordhood Assessment
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.214911.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:46:04 +0100
From: Pierre Magistry ??? <pmagistry at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAP7jsJKEmqKvSMt9pd_KDWZxU1Ms-LrkoG9LnFTGrd9Oy+4NPA at mail.gmail.com>

Chers amis, professeurs, ?tudiants, coll?gues,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? la soutenance de ma th?se, intitul?e
"Unsupervised Word Segmentation and Wordhood Assessment: the case for
Mandarin Chinese".
(Segmentation en mots non-supervis?e et estimation de la lexicalit? : le
cas du mandarin)

Je l'ai men?e au sein de l'?quipe Alpage, ? l'universit?
Paris-Diderot/INRIA
et la soutiendrai le 19 d?cembre 2013 ? partir de 9h30, dans la salle
des th?ses de Paris 7.
Salle des th?ses 580F (Halle aux Farines)
10 rue Fran?oise Dolto
75013  Paris
(plan :
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=48.8295&mlon=2.3825#map=16/48.8295/2.3825
)
Prendre l'entr?e la plus proche de la Seine.

La soutenance sera suivie d'un pot auquel vous ?tes ?galement convi?s.

Bien cordialement,
Pierre Magistry
----
Le jury  de soutenance sera compos? de:
PR. ??? Hsieh Shukai (rapporteur) - National Taiwan University
PR. Sylvain Kahane (directeur) - Universit? Paris 10 Nanterre, MoDyCo
PR. Yves Lepage (rapporteur) - Waseda University
PR. Marie-Claude Paris (co-directrice) - Universit? Paris Diderot, LLF
DR. Benoit Sagot (co-directeur) - INRIA, ALPAGE
DR. Pierre Zweigenbaum (pr?sident) - CNRS, LIMSI

----
R?sum? de la th?se :

Ce m?moire traite de la segmentation non-supervis?e en mots et de
l'?valuation de la ?lexicalit?? des formes. Le chinois moderne standard
(mandarin) est choisi pour les exp?riences et ?valuations.

La premi?re partie porte sur les aspects linguistiques. Elle pr?sente
les crit?res couramment utilis?s pour d?finir le ?mot? en linguistique
chinoise et en montre les limites au travers d'une discussion de
linguistique g?n?rale, abordant notamment la question des ?expressions
multi-mots? et son lien avec les probl?mes de segmentation en mots.

Nous pr?sentons ensuite l'historique du d?veloppement de la Segmentation
en Mot du Chinois (CWS) comme une t?che typique en TAL, et d?fendons
l'id?e qu'une part d'arbitraire dans l'annotation des corpus
d'?valuation favorise artificiellement les syst?mes d'apprentissage
supervis?s alors que nous consid?rons les syst?mes non-supervis?s d'un
plus grand int?r?t pour la linguistique.

La premi?re partie nous am?ne ? fonder notre d?finition de la lexicalit?
sur deux crit?res: une forte autonomie de combinaison et un haut degr?
d'appartenance ? une classe distributionnelle.

La seconde partie pr?sente une m?thode non-supervis?e pour ?valuer
l'autonomie de combinaison des formes inspir?e par les hypoth?ses de
Harris. Avec un algorithme de segmentation simple et rapide bas?
uniquement sur cette mesure, nous obtenons des r?sultats proches de
l'?tat de l'art.  Nous discutons ensuite de l'importance des
pr?-traitements et pr?sentons des exp?riences utilisant le principe de
la Longueur de Description Minimale (MDL) pour am?liorer nos r?sultats.

Enfin, nous proposons une m?thode et des outils pour une ?valuation plus
qualitative des analyses fournies par notre syst?me. Nous pr?sentons
aussi quelques r?sultats pr?liminaires sur d'autres langues qui montrent
la g?n?ricit? de notre m?thode.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:50:08 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:50:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier SemDis 2014 (semantique distributionnelle),
 site web
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.215008.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:35:48 +0100
From: C?cile Fabre <cecile.fabre at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <52A718B4.6030600 at univ-tlse2.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/semdis2014/


Le site Web d?crivant les t?ches organis?es dans le cadre de l'atelier
SemDis 2014 et fournissant les donn?es associ?es est d?sormais
accessible ? l'adresse suivante :

http://www.irit.fr/semdis2014/

---- Objectifs de l'atelier :

  Les ?quipes CLLE-ERSS et IRIT-Melodi (Toulouse), organisatrices de
l'atelier SemDis ? TALN 2013, consacr? aux approches fond?es sur
l'analyse s?mantique distributionnelle, ont l'intention d'organiser une
2?me ?dition de l'atelier dans le cadre de TALN 2014 (sous r?serve de
l'acceptation par le comit? de programme de TALN).

Cette ann?e, l'appel ? communication sera compl?t? par l'organisation de
2 t?ches :

     - une t?che comp?titive de substitution lexicale, adaptation au
       fran?ais de la t?che SemEval 2007 ? Lexical substitution ?, telle
       qu'elle est pr?sent?e dans McCarthy & Navigli (2010).
     - une t?che exploratoire permettant d'examiner plus en d?tail les
       r?sultats de m?thodes distributionnelles sur un corpus
       sp?cialis?, le corpus TALN (2007-2013).

--- Calendrier :
Sous r?serve de l'acceptation par le comit? de programme de TALN. Les
dates seront pr?cis?es lorsque le calendrier des workshops TALN sera
connu.

T?che comp?titive (substitution lexicale) :
     - d?cembre 2013 : diffusion des donn?es d'essai via le site web
     - 10 mars 2014 : diffusion des donn?es de test
     - 17 mars 2014 : date limite de soumission par les participants
     - d?but avril 2014 : annonce des r?sultats
     - fin avril 2014 : date limite de soumission d'un article pour
       l'atelier
     - 26 mai 2014 : r?ception des versions finales
     - 1er Juillet 2014 : atelier SemDis

T?che exploratoire et appel ? communication hors t?ches :
     - d?cembre 2013 : description de la t?che 2 et diffusion du corpus
       via le site web
     - avril 2014 : r?ception des articles
     - 26 mai 2014 : r?ception des versions finales
     - 1er Juillet 2014 : atelier SemDis

---- Contact :

Les organisateurs peuvent ?tre contact?s ? l'adresse suivante : 
semdis2014 at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:46:47 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:46:47 +0100
Subject: Stage: Transcription de l'oral, Projet europeen (3 a 6 mois)
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.214647.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:20:26 +0100
From: "Catherine Bolly" <catherine.bolly at uclouvain.be>
Message-ID: <sympa.1386584339.26752.661 at cines.fr>


[Stage] Transcription, langage oral - Projet europ?en Marie Curie (3 ? 6
mois, 2014)

TRANSCRIPTION DE L'ORAL (logiciel : Praat)
Stagiaire : contrat ? temps plein (dur?e : 3 mois) ou temps partiel
(dur?e : 4 ? 6 mois)
Profil : niveau Master
D?but du contrat : f?vrier/mars 2014

CONTEXTE
Le projet europ?en CorpAGEst porte sur l??tude du langage de personnes
?g?es, ? partir de l?analyse d?entretiens enregistr?s sur support
audiovisuel (approche multimodale : texte, son, geste). Les analyses
portent en particulier sur les marqueurs de discours et les gestes dont
la fonction communicative est (inter)subjective (par ex. : le marqueur
de discours 'tu vois' ou un regard vers l?interlocuteur). Le projet de
recherche CorpAGEst "Approche sur corpus de la comp?tence pragmatique
des personnes ?g?es" est un projet europ?en financ? par les Actions
Marie Curie dans le cadre du 7e European Community Framework Programme
(projet N? 328282, FP7-PEOPLE-2012- IEF). Dur?e du projet : 2 ans
(2013-2015).

LIEU
Le stage sera coordonn? au sein du laboratoire de recherche par
Catherine Bolly (UMR 7023 "Structures Formelles du Langage", CNRS Paris
8 & Centre de recherches "Valibel ? Discours et variation", UCL
Louvain-la-Neuve).

MISSION
La m?thode d?analyse sur corpus multimodal adopt?e implique la
constitution et l?annotation d?un corpus audiovisuel : 8 sujets d??tude,
env. 13 heures. La personne recrut?e aura pour t?che de transcrire, au
moyen du logiciel Praat, les donn?es audio des entretiens effectu?s sur
le terrain. Les normes de transcription suivront l?orthographe standard
du fran?ais et les conventions de transcription du centre Valibel
(Universit? catholique de Louvain). Des discussions et ?changes
dynamiques au sein de l??quipe permettront d?optimiser la proc?dure de
transcription sur la base de l?exp?rience de chacun.

PR?REQUIS
Familiarit? avec les outils informatiques de base (traitements de texte,
clavier, etc.). La connaissance du logiciel Praat est un atout.
Exp?rience appr?ci?e dans l?analyse impliquant le langage oral.
Des connaissances en transcription et annotation de corpus oraux
seraient un plus.

PROFIL
?tudiant en Master, dans le domaine des sciences humaines (langues et
lettres, sciences du langage, sciences de la communication, traitement
automatique du langage, ethnologie, etc.).
Int?r?t pour les sciences du langage, le fran?ais parl? et/ou le
vieillissement langagier.
Excellente ma?trise de la langue fran?aise.

DUR?E ET CONDITIONS
Stage de 3 mois ? temps plein ? partir de f?vrier/mars 2014 aupr?s d?une
chercheuse en sciences du langage. Possibilit? d?effectuer le stage ?
temps partiel (dur?e : 4 ? 6 mois).
Flexibilit? et adaptabilit? des horaires.
Possibilit? d?int?grer le travail dans le cadre d?un m?moire de Master
(? n?gocier).

R?MUN?RATION
436,05? net par mois.

CANDIDATURE
Lettre de motivation et CV.
A envoyer pour le 20 d?cembre 2013 au plus tard par e-mail ? :
catherine.bolly at uclouvain.be
dominique_jean.boutet at orange.fr


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:51:53 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:51:53 +0100
Subject: Ecole: International Terminology Summer School (TSS 2014),
 Vienna, 14 to 18 July 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.215153.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:01:08 +0100
From: excellence <excellence at termnet.org>
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Dear colleagues,

You can now register for the International Terminology Summer School
(TSS 2014) that will take place next year in Vienna, from 14 to 18 July
2014.

TSS is a practice-oriented 5-day training course on terminology
management. It addresses language professionals (translators,
terminologists, localization experts, etc.), students and scientists who
look for a comprehensive, state-of-the-art introduction to terminology
theory and practice.

Reserve your place at TSS 2014 today! You may register until early June
2014. However, places are limited, we advise you wait not too long.

http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2014/index.php

PROGRAM:

UNDERSTANDING TERMINOLOGY MANAGEMENT

- Introduction to Terminology Work

- Applied Principles of Terminology Work

- Retrieving and Validating Relevant Online Information for Terminology
  Work



TERMINOLOGY MANAGEMENT SKILLS

- Data Modelling: Data Categories for Terminology Management

- Creating a Terminology Database

- Terminology Tools - A closer look at Terminology Management Systems

- Terminology Workflows and Interfaces



TERMINOLOGY STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESS PROCESSES

- Three "P"s in Terminology Management: Project, Product, Process

- Case Studies: Terminology and Technical Documentation

- Case Studies: Legal Translation and Terminology



STANDARDS AND LEGAL ISSUES FOR TERMINOLOGY WORK

- Terminology Work for Literary Translation

- Terminology and other Knowledge Organization Systems

- Standards for Terminology Work

- Copyright Issues for Terminology Management



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 individual questions and problems.



ECQA CERTIFICATION FOR TERMINOLOGY MANAGERS:

The TSS2014 program is developed in cooperation with the ECQA initiative
and this makes possible for TSS2014 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.



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 all information about TSS2014 at:
http://www.termnet.org/english/events/tss_2014/index.php

(this website will be constantly updated in the next months with more
and more information)

or contact us (events at termnet.org<mailto:events at termnet.org>). We will
be happy to answer your questions.


Please disseminate this information also among colleagues and friends
who might be interested!



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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 10 20:47:47 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:47:47 +0100
Subject: Appel: TOTh 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.10.DEC.2013.214747.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:18:05 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
Message-ID: <CAFW-+pbJ0vKn5EB7t32BOxXSnRLL4ub=Uj53ZKkkHPSSAisvPQ at mail.gmail.com>
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TOTh 2014 : APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Terminologie & Ontologie : Th?ories et applications
Chamb?ry ? France

Conf?rence : 12 & 13 juin 2014
Formation : 10 & 11  juin  2014

http://www.porphyre.org/toth/
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014/appel-a-communications
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/files/TOTh-2014-appel-a-communications.pdf

Dates importantes :
-------------------------
10 f?vrier 2014 : Date limite de soumission des r?sum?s (2 ? 3 pages)
3 mars 2014: Notification d?acceptation

Soumission par EasyChair :
-----------------------------------
Les soumissions des r?sum?s ?tendus (2 ? 3 pages) se font
exclusivement par EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=toth2014

Pr?sentation :
------------------
La 8?me ?dition des conf?rences internationales TOTh se d?roulera les
jeudi 12 et vendredi 13 juin 2014 ? l?Universit? de Savoie (Chamb?ry,
France) avec le soutien du Minist?re de la Culture (DGLFLF) et de
l?Association Europ?enne de Terminologie.

Les conf?rences TOTh - Terminologie & Ontologie : Th?ories et
applications - ont pour objectif de rassembler chercheurs,
professionnels et, de fa?on plus g?n?rale, toute personne dont les
pr?occupations rel?vent de la langue et de l?ing?nierie des
connaissances.

Le programme comportera, en plus des communications retenues, une
conf?rence invit?e, une disputatio et une session poster.

Une formation d?un jour et demi sur l?analyse de textes ? des fins
onomasiologiques pr?c?dera la conf?rence les mardi 10 et mercredi 11
juin.

Un prix ? Jeune chercheur ? est d?cern? par le comit? de programme lors
de la conf?rence

Th?mes de la Conf?rence (liste non exhaustive) :
--------------------------------------------------------------
- Langues de sp?cialit? et Lexicographie de sp?cialit?,
- Traduction,
- Traitement de corpus,
- Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Terminologies,
- Am?nagement linguistique et Am?nagement terminologique,
- Repr?sentation, Extraction et Gestion des connaissances,
- Syst?mes conceptuels,
- Ontologies,
- Thesaurus,
- Applications : Recherche d?information, Web des donn?es, Biblioth?ques
  num?riques, Environnements de d?veloppement, Banques terminologiques,
- Normes, Formats d??change.

TOTh 2014
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014/appel-a-communications
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/files/TOTh-2014-appel-a-communications.pdf


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

TOTh 2014: CALL FOR PAPERS
Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications
Chamb?ry ? France

Conference: 12 and 13 June 2014
Training: 10 and 11 June 2014

http://www.porphyre.org/toth/
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014-en/call-for-papers
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/files/TOTh-2014-Call-for-papers.pdf

DEADLINES:
-------------------------------
10 February 2014: Deadline for abstract submissions
3 March 2014: Notification of acceptance

Paper submission via Easychair:
-----------------------------------------
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=toth2014


Presentation:
------------------
The 8th TOTh International Conference will be held on Thursday 12th and
Friday 13th June 2014 at the University of Savoie (in Chamb?ry, France)
with the support of the French Ministry of Culture (DGLFLF) and of the
European Association for Terminology.

The TOTh Conferences ? Terminology & Ontology: Theories and
applications ? bring together researchers, professionals and, more
generally, all persons interested in issues related to language and
knowledge engineering.

The program will include accepted communications, a guest lecture, a
disputatio, and a poster session.

A one and a half day training session (in French) on text analysis for
onomasiological purposes will be held just before the conference on
Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th June.

A Young Researcher Prize will be awarded by the Program Committee during
the conference.

Conference topics (non-exhaustive list):
 --------------------------------------------------
- Language for Special Purposes, Specialized Lexicography,
- Translation,
- Corpus Analysis,
- Lexicon, Dictionary, Terminology,
- Linguistic planning and Terminology planning,
- Knowledge Representation, Extraction and Management,
- Conceptual Systems,
- Ontology,
- Thesaurus,
- Applications: Information retrieval, Web of data, Digital libraries,
  Software environments, Terminology banks,
- Standards, Interchange formats.

TOTh 2014
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014-en/call-for-papers
http://www.porphyre.org/toth/files/TOTh-2014-Call-for-papers.pdf

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 20:41:30 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:41:30 +0100
Subject: Revue: CORELA, vol. num. 2
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.214130.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:58:20 +0100
From: Gilles Col <gilles.col at univ-poitiers.fr>
Message-Id: <a06240801cecdcb1941fc@[192.168.1.12]>
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3050
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3080
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3029
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3120
X-url: http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2977

Chers coll?gues,

L'?quipe ?ditoriale de la revue CORELA - Cognition / Repr?sentation /
Langages a le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication de son dernier
num?ro (vol. 11, num. 2).

Les propositions de publication pour le prochain num?ro de la revue
(vol. 12, num. 1) sont ? envoyer ? Sylvester OSU
(sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr) avant le 15 mars 2014.


Sommaire du num?ro 11/2 :

Philippe MULLER: "Cet obscur objet de d?sir : ? propos de la
construction want GN et de ses gloses".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3050

Elisabet JOHANSSON-MANOURY: "Quelques pr?cisions sur l'anaphore
notionnelle".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3080

Pierre FOURNIER : "Accentuation des compos?s savants en anglais
contemporain : identification morphos?mantique et enjeu phonologique".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3029

Laurence VINCENT-DURROUX : "Les repr?sentations cognitives : pour une
mise en ?vidence de leur r?le dans l'appropriation des langues".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=3120

Chokri RHIBI : "Adverbes de localisation temporelle et encha?nement
spatio-temporel : Le cas de dehors et autres expressions apparent?es".
  http://corela.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=2977


Gilles Col
Directeur ?ditorial

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 20:44:36 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:44:36 +0100
Subject: Appel: EACL 2014 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational
 Language Learning
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.214436.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:18:32 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
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[Apologies for cross-postings]

==================================================
               Second Call for Papers
==================================================
            EACL 2014 Workshop on
Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning

                April 26, 2014
              Gothenburg, Sweden

      https://sites.google.com/site/cognitivews2014/

Deadline for Paper Submissions: January, 23rd, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12)
Endorsed by the Special Interest Group of the ACL on Natural Language
Learning (SIGNLL)
---------------------------------------------------------------

The human ability to acquire and process language has long attracted
interest and generated much debate due to the apparent ease with which
such a complex and dynamic system is learnt and used on the face of
ambiguity, noise and uncertainty.  This subject raises many questions
ranging from the nature vs. nurture debate of how much needs to be
innate and how much needs to be learned for acquisition to be
successful, to the mechanisms involved in this process (general vs
specific) and their representations in the human brain. There are also
developmental issues related to the different stages consistently found
during acquisition (e.g. one word vs. two words) and possible
organizations of this knowledge. These have been discussed in the
context of first and second language acquisition and bilingualism, with
cross linguistic studies shedding light on the influence of the language
and the environment.

The past decades have seen a massive expansion in the application of
statistical and machine learning methods to natural language processing
(NLP). This work has yielded impressive results in numerous speech and
language processing tasks, including e.g.  speech recognition,
morphological analysis, parsing, lexical acquisition, semantic
interpretation, and dialogue management. The good results have generally
been viewed as engineering achievements. Recently researchers have begun
to investigate the relevance of computational learning methods for
research on human language acquisition and change.  The use of
computational modeling is a relatively recent trend boosted by advances
in machine learning techniques, and the availability of resources like
corpora of child and child-directed sentences, and data from
psycholinguistic tasks by normal and pathological groups. Many of the
existing computational models attempt to study language tasks under
cognitively plausible criteria (such as memory and processing
limitations that humans face), and to explain the developmental stages
observed in the acquisition and evolution of the language abilities. In
doing so, computational modeling provides insight into the plausible
mechanisms involved in human language processes, and inspires the
development of better language models and techniques. These
investigations are very important since if computational techniques can
be used to improve our understanding of human language acquisition and
change, these will not only benefit cognitive sciences in general but
will reflect back to NLP and place us in a better position to develop
useful language models.

Success in this type of research requires close collaboration between
the NLP, linguistics, psychology and cognitive science communities. The
workshop is targeted at anyone interested in the relevance of
computational techniques for understanding first, second and bilingual
language acquisition and language change in normal and clinical
conditions. Long and short papers are invited on, but not limited to,
the following topics:

* Computational learning theory and analysis of language learning and
  organization

* Computational models of first, second and bilingual language
  acquisition
* Computational models of language changes in clinical conditions
* Computational models and analysis of factors that influence language
  acquisition and use in different age groups and cultures
* Computational models of various aspects of language and their
  interaction effect in acquisition, processing and change
* Computational models of the evolution of language
* Data resources and tools for investigating computational models of
  human language processes
* Empirical and theoretical comparisons of the learning environment and
  its impact on language processes
* Cognitively oriented Bayesian models of language processes
* Computational methods for acquiring various linguistic information
  (related to e.g. speech, morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, and
  discourse) and their relevance to research on human language
  acquisition
* Investigations and comparisons of supervised, unsupervised and
  weakly-supervised methods for learning (e.g. machine learning,
  statistical, symbolic, biologically-inspired, active learning, various
  hybrid models) from a cognitive perspective

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SUBMISSIONS

We invite three different submission modalities:

* Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references): Long
  papers should report on original, solid and finished research
  including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques.

* Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references): Short
  papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions,
  ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.

* System demonstration (2 pages): System demonstration papers should
  describe and document the demonstrated system or resources. We
  encourage the demonstration of both early research prototypes and
  mature systems, that will be presented in a separate demo session.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the EACL 2014
formatting requirements (available at
http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip).  We strongly advise
the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files. For long and short
papers, the reported research should be substantially original. The
papers will be presented orally or as posters. The decision as to which
paper will be presented orally and which as poster will be made by the
program committee based on the nature rather than on the quality of the
work.

Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be
included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided as well. Papers
that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without
review. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where
no distinction will be made between papers presented orally or as
posters.

Submission and reviewing will be electronic, managed by the START
system:

    https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/CogACLL/

Submissions must be uploaded onto the START system by the submission
deadline:

 January 23rd, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12 hours)

Please choose the appropriate submission type from the START submission
page, according to the category of your paper.

---------------------------------------------------------------
IMPORTANT DATES

Jan 23, 2014    Long and Short Paper submission deadline
Feb 05, 2014    System Demonstrations submission deadline
Feb 20, 2014    Notification of acceptance
Mar 03, 2014    Camera-ready deadline
Apr 26,  2014    Workshop

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Afra Alishahi         	Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Colin J Bannard        	University of Texas at Austin (USA)
Marco Baroni         	University of Trento (Italy)
Robert Berwick         	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Philippe Blache        	LPL, CNRS (France)    
Jim Blevins            	University of Cambridge (UK)
Antal van den Bosch     Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Chris Brew            	Nuance Communications (USA)
Ted Briscoe         	University of Cambridge (UK)
Alexander Clark        	Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)
Robin Clark         	University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Stephen Clark         	University of Cambridge (UK)
Matthew W. Crocker      Saarland University (Germany)
Walter Daelemans        University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Dan Dediu            	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (The Netherlands)
Barry Devereux         	University of Cambridge (UK)
Benjamin Fagard         Lattice-CNRS (France)
Jeroen Geertzen         University of Cambridge (UK)
Ted Gibson         	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Henriette Hendriks      University of Cambridge (UK)
Marco Idiart         	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Mark Johnson         	Brown University (USA)
Aravind Joshi         	University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Gianluca Lebani        	University of Pisa (Italy)
Igor Malioutov         	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe    The Ohio State University (USA)
Maria Alice Parente     Federal University of ABC (Brazil)
Massimo Poesio          University of Trento (Italy)
Brechtje Post         	University of Cambridge (UK)
Ari Rappoport         	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Anne Reboul        	L2C2-CNRS (France)
Kenji Sagae         	University of Southern California (USA)
Sabine Schulte im Walde University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Ekaterina Shutova       University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Maity Siqueira         	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Mark Steedman         	University of Edinburgh (UK)
Suzanne Stevenson       University of Toronto (Canada)
Remi van Trijp        	Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris (France)
Shuly Wintner         	University of Haifa (Israel)
Charles Yang         	University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Beracah Yankama    	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Menno van Zaanen        Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Alessandra Zarcone      University of Stuttgart (Germany)

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT

Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Muntsa Padr? (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Thierry Poibeau (LATTICE-CNRS, France)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email
to cognitive2014 at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:13:30 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:13:30 +0100
Subject: Appel: EACL 2014 Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and
 their Compositionality
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.221330.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:35:49 +0100
From: Alexandre Allauzen <allauzen at limsi.fr>
Message-ID: <52A84E15.2010007 at limsi.fr>


Second Call for Papers

(Apologies for multiple postings)

************************************************************************
Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
(2nd edition)

Co-located with EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden

April 27, 2014

Submission deadline: January 23, 2014

https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop2014

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


INVITED SPEAKERS

The workshop will showcase presentations from two invited speakers :
Geoffrey Zweig (Microsoft Research) and Ivan Titov (University of
Amsterdam).


AIMS AND SCOPE

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in algorithms that
learn and use continuous representations for words, phrases, or
documents in many natural language processing applications. Among many
others, influential proposals that illustrate this trend include latent
Dirichlet allocation, neural network based language models and spectral
methods. These approaches are motivated by improving the generalization
power of the discrete standard models, by dealing with the data sparsity
issue and by efficiently handling a wide context.  Despite the success
of single word vector space models, they are limited since they do not
capture compositionality. This prevents them from gaining a deeper
understanding of the semantics of longer phrases or sentences.

With the growing popularity of these neural and probabilistic methods of
language processing, the scope of this second workshop is extended to
theoretical and conceptual questions regarding:

* their relation to unsupervised distributional representations,

* the encompassing of the compositional aspects of formal models of
  semantics,

* the role of linguistic theory in the design and development of these
  methods.

Some such pertinent questions include: Should phrase representations and
word representations be of the same sort? Could different linguistic
levels require different modeling approaches? Is compositionality
determined by syntax, and if so, how do we learn/define it? Should word
representations be fixed and obtained distributionally, or should the
encoding be variable?  Should word representations be task-specific, or
should they be general?

In this workshop, we invite submissions of papers on continuous vector
space models for natural language processing. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

* learning algorithms for continuous vector space models,

* their compositionality,

* their use in NLP applications,

* spectral learning for NLP,

* neural networks for NLP,

* phrase, sentence, and document-level distributional representations,

* tensor models,

* distributed semantic representations,

* the role of syntax in compositional models,

* formal and distributional semantic models.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Authors should submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF
format, with up to 2 additional pages for references. The reported
research should be substantially original. The papers will be presented
orally or as posters. All submissions must be in PDF format and must
follow the EACL 2014 formatting requirements
(http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip ). Reviewing will be
double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the
papers; self-reference should be avoided as well.  Submissions must be
made through the Softconf website set up for this workshop:

https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/CVSC/

Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no
distinction will be made between papers presented orally or as posters.

IMPORTANT DATES

23 January 2014      : Submission deadline
20 February 2014     : Notification of acceptance
3 March 2014         : Camera-ready deadline
27 April 2014        : Workshop


ORGANIZERS

Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/Universit? Paris-Sud, France)
Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento, Italy)
Edward Grefenstette (University of Oxford, UK)
Hugo Larochelle (Universit? de de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Christopher Manning (Stanford University, USA)
Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nicholas Asher (IRIT-Toulouse)
Marco Baroni (University of Trento)
Yoshua Bengio (Universit? de Montr?al)
Gemma Boleda (University of Texas)
Antoine Bordes (Universit? Technologique de Compi?gne)
Johan Bos (University of Groningen)
L?on Bottou (Microsoft Research)
Xavier Carreras (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya)
Lucas Champollion (New-York University)
Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge)
Shay Cohen (Columbia University)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University)
Ronan Collobert (IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland)
Pino Di Fabbrizio (Amazon)
Georgiana Dinu (University of Trento)
Kevin Duh (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Dean Foster (University of Pennsylvania)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (Universit? degli Studi di Roma)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh)
Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit)
Larry Moss (Indiana University)
Diarmuid ? Seaghdha (University of Cambridge)
Sebastian Pado (Universit?t Stuttgart)
Martha Palmer (University of Colorado)
John Platt (Microsoft Research)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University of London)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University)
Peter Turney (NRC)
Jason Weston (Google)
Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS/Universit? Paris-Sud)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:25:15 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:25:15 +0100
Subject: Stage: M2,
 Amelioration du module de desambiguisation du Moteur de Recherche
 Semantique d'inbenta
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:59:28 +0100
From: Manon Quintana <mquintana at inbenta.com>
Message-ID: <CANqWUmQO=dzLct4H5wNyGWynnGttKOFV2V3iMvrdM0QtenZnNQ at mail.gmail.com>

*Pr?sentation soci?t?*
------------------------------

inbenta est une soci?t? pionni?re dans le *Traitement Automatique du
Langage Naturel et la recherche s?mantique*. Bas?e sur ces concepts
novateurs, inbenta d?veloppe depuis 2005 des solutions logicielles pour
les sites internet de Grands Comptes.

*Description de l?offre*
------------------------------

Inbenta a d?velopp? un moteur de recherche intelligent appel? *Inbenta
Semantic Search Engine* (ISSE). Les deux t?ches principales de ce moteur
sont d?analyser les questions des utilisateurs et de trouver la r?ponse
appropri?e ? la requ?te en effectuant une recherche dans une base de
connaissances.

Un *module de d?sambigu?sation syntaxique et s?mantique* est int?gr?
dans notre moteur de recherche. Ce module est tr?s important car il fait
partie int?grante du bon fonctionnement de la solution. L?objet du stage
propos? par inbenta sera d?am?liorer le module de d?sambigu?sation.

Les missions de stage seront :

   - Gestion linguistique et ?ditoriale d?un projet de FAQ dynamique
     afin que le stagiaire s?approprie l?existant
   - Enrichissement du module de d?sambigu?sation par l?ajout de r?gles,
     de descriptions lexicales et de grammaires locales + ?valuation du
     travail
   - R?flexion d?am?lioration du module de d?sambigu?sation ? un niveau
     algorithmique


*Profil recherch?*
------------------------------

Nous recherchons une personne enthousiaste, organis?e et s?rieuse et
ayant l?envie d?int?grer une ?quipe internationale. Le stagiaire devra
?galement avoir les comp?tences suivantes :

   - ?tudes en Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel
   - Excellente ma?trise de la langue fran?aise et bonne communication
     ?crite et orale en espagnol, anglais ou catalan

Bonus :

   - Ma?trise d?au moins un langage de programmation (PHP de pr?f?rence)
   - Maitrise des expressions r?guli?res et du SQL


*Modalit?s du poste*
------------------------------

   - Stage de 5 ? 6 mois (avec possibilit? d?embauche en CDI)
   - R?mun?ration pr?vue: 30% du SMIC (+ prime en fonction des
     r?sultats)
   - D?but : ? partir de F?vrier / Mars 2013
   - Lieu : Toulouse


Merci d?adresser CV et lettre de motivation ? Quintana Manon ? l?adresse
mail suivante : *mquintana at inbenta.com*

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:57:07 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:57:07 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for Demos
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.225707.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:31:40 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20131213143200.7CF23DBB67 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos

** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Call for Demos ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos
	
The demonstrations track of the ESWC 2014 complements the overall
program of the conference with demonstrations of real-world,
applied-and-tested advances of semantic technologies. In addition to
papers and posters presenting latest theoretical achievements, the ESWC
2014 is seeking demonstrations of novel applications of semantics in
various sectors, including: eGovernment, eEnvironment, eMobility and
smart cities, eHealth, Life Sciences, Sensor networks and RDF Stream
Processing, Linked Science, Media and entertainment, Telecommunications,
Cultural heritage, Financial services, Energy and utilities,
Manufacturing, Digital libraries, Cloud applications, Personal
Information Management, Decision support, Emergency and crisis
management etc.

The demonstrations track is an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to present their innovative prototypes, practical
developments, on-going projects, lessons learned and late-breaking
results, relevant for the topics of interest of the main conference and
the research and poster tracks.

Submissions to the demonstrations track should make clear what will be
demonstrated, and in particular point out what makes the demonstration a
novel showcase. A video of the demo should be provided if a link to the
demonstrator is not available. Submission should also specify:

* What is the research background and application context of the
  demonstration, and what makes this a novel showcase for semantic
  technologies.

* What is the key technology used, and how does the demonstrated system,
  application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work.

* What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the
  demonstration learn?

* Submission Guidelines *

Submissions to the demonstrations track must be in the form of a textual
description of the demonstration to be given at the conference (which
may include screenshots and must include either a link to the online
demo or a video presenting it). The submissions must be at most 5 pages
long including reference list (Springer LNCS style) and submitted as
PDF. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the
Semantic Web area, originality, potential significance, topicality and
clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the
LNCS guidelines will be rejected without a review.

Submissions should be uploaded using the Easychair system:
	https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014pd


* Important Dates *

Submission Deadline: March 16, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014


* Important Notice *

Demonstrator papers will appear in supplementary post-conference
proceedings to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series.

Participants with an accepted demo paper must register for the
conference and present their system during the Demo Session. A space for
demonstration will be allocated for each participant. Participants
should use their own laptop for the demos. The organizers should be
contacted well in advance of the conference in case of any special
requirement.


* Poster and Demo Chairs *

Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR)
Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping
University, SE)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:15:49 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:15:49 +0100
Subject: Journee: Ateliers de formation a TXM,
 session de janvier-fevrier 2014, Lyon
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.221549.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:31:15 +0100
From: Serge Heiden <slh at ens-lyon.fr>
Message-ID: <52A86923.3040905 at ens-lyon.fr>
X-url: http://textometrie.ens-lyon.fr


Bonjour,

Les prochains ateliers TXM auront lieu aux dates suivantes (? Lyon) :
- mardi 21 janvier : TXM avanc? ;
- jeudi 27 f?vrier : Initiation ? TXM ;
- vendredi 28 f?vrier : Pr?paration de corpus et import dans TXM.
TXM est un outil libre d'analyse de corpus de textes et de
transcriptions.

Si vous ?tes int?ress?(e) par l'une de ces s?ances, il faut vous
inscrire en envoyant un mail au plus t?t (le nombre de places est
limit?) ? textometrie <?> ens-lyon <point> fr (l'inscription est
n?cessaire m?me si vous aviez r?pondu ? la consultation Doodle)

Toute l'information sur les ateliers :
https://groupes.renater.fr/wiki/txm-users/public/ateliers_txm

Au plaisir de vous retrouver peut-?tre ? cette occasion,

Serge Heiden, pour l'?quipe TXM.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 20:47:36 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:47:36 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2014 Student Session
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.214736.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:44:38 +0100
From: Ronald de Haan <dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at>
Message-ID: <CAChfj5sbyMZN3g5ScL-kh5qrzozDkhi+5QX54AuZxbykjevzWw at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/
X-url: http://www.esslli2014.info/

Please forward to students. Apologies for the multiple messages.

*1st Call for Papers*
*ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION*
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/

*Held during*
*The 26th European Summer School in*
*Logic, Language and Information*

T?bingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014

*Deadline for submissions: April 1st, 2014*
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essllistus2014


*ABOUT:*
The Student Session of the 26th European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in T?bingen, Germany,
on August 11-22, 2014. 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.

*SEPARATE POSTER SESSION:*
Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for the oral
presentations and one for the posters. This means that papers can be
directly submitted as posters. Reviewing and ranking will be done
separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they
offer an excellent opportunity to present research in progress.

More detailed guidelines and policies regarding submission can be found
on the Student Session website:
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/ .

Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters
relating to the Student Session to: dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at.

For general inquiries about ESSLLI 2014, please consult the main ESSLLI
2014 page: http://www.esslli2014.info/.

Kind regards,
*the ESSLLI 2013 Student Session Organization Committee*


*Chair:*
Ronald de Haan (Technische Universit?t Wien, Austria)

*LoCo co-chairs:*
Zo? Christoff (Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Ayb?ke ?zg?n (Universit? de Lorraine, France)

*LoLa co-chairs:*
Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Thomas Brochhagen (Universit?t D?sseldorf, Germany)

*LaCo co-chairs:*
Miriam Kaeshammer (Universit?t D?sseldorf, Germany)
Ramon Ziai (Universit?t T?bingen, Germany)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:22:54 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:22:54 +0100
Subject: Stage: Master recherche appliquee en TAL, region parisienne
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.222254.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:16:38 +0100
From: philippe.martin at stella-medica.fr
Message-ID: <sympa.1386864891.7493.672 at cines.fr>

Stella Medica est un cabinet de recrutement bien implant? dans le milieu
m?dical.

En partenariat avec une soci?t? de conseil informatique, nous
d?veloppons pour nos propres besoins et dans une optique de
commercialisation des outils de gestion de recrutement.

Dans le cadre de ce d?veloppement vous travaillerez sur un module de
gestion d?analyse des donn?es candidat.

Les algorithmes ? int?grer ou d?velopper porteront sur les ?l?ments
suivants :

- Dans le cadre de l?analyse de CV :
  o Identification de la nature et de la langue du document
  o D?tection des informations dans le texte tels que (exemples simples) :
    Nom, pr?nom, date de naissance, adresse, m?tier et niveau
    d?exp?rience
- D?tection de documents similaires
- G?n?ration de r?sum?, d?rivation de ce r?sum? en plusieurs langues
  (anglais en particulier)
- Am?lioration du moteur de recherches multicrit?res existant
- Recherche automatique dans les r?seaux sociaux et mise en lumi?re de
  points forts ou d?incoh?rences

Vous travaillerez dans une ?quipe ? dominante informatique et serez donc
assez autonome. L??quipe sera encadr?e par un chef de projet
informatique exp?riment?, dans une d?marche de d?veloppement logiciel
professionnel : d?marche CMMI, outils de gestion de projet, de partage
des sources et de gestion des tests.

La plateforme de d?veloppement est principalement Microsoft : ASP.NET MVC en
C#, composants C# ; SQL Server.

Vous cherchez id?alement un stage de fin d??tudes Bac +5 en Traitement
Automatique de la Langue (TAL) ou Ingenierie Linguistique. Le r?sultat
de votre travail devra ?tre ? convertible en programme informatique ?,
phase que vous pourrez vous-m?me ?ventuellement mettre en ?uvre.

Stage de longueur modulable de 4 ? 6 mois ? partir de f?vrier 2014 situ?
? Rueil-Malmaison.
R?mun?ration selon profil, tickets restaurants, remboursement de 50% du
pass Navigo.

Contactez Philippe Martin avec votre CV et en pr?cisant votre p?riode de
stage attendue : philippe.martin at stella-medica.fr


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:18:28 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:18:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: EACL 2014 Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014)
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.221828.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:53:39 +0100
From: Agata Savary <agata.savary at univ-tours.fr>
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Second CALL FOR PAPERS

The 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014)
http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwe2014

Workshop at EACL 2014 (Gothenburg, Sweden), April 26-27, 2014

Endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX;http://www.siglex.org/); SIGLEX's
Multiword Expressions Section (SIGLEX-MWE;
http://multiword.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=MWE); and PARSEME,
European IC1207 COST Action (http://www.parseme.eu)

Submission deadline:
Long & short papers - January 23, 2014 at 11:59pm GMT -12 hours
-------------------------
Call For Papers

Under the denomination "multiword expression", one assumes a wide range
of linguistic constructions such as idioms ("storm in a teacup", "sweep
under the rug"), fixed phrases ("in vitro", "by and large", "rock'n
roll"), noun compounds ("olive oil", "laser printer"), compound verbs
("take a nap", "bring about"), etc. While easily mastered by native
speakers, their interpretation poses a major challenge for computational
systems, due to their flexible and heterogeneous nature.

For a start, MWEs are not nearly as frequent in NLP resources as they
are in real-world text, and this problem of coverage may impact the
performance of many NLP tasks. Moreover, treating MWEs also involves
problems like determining their semantics, which is not always
compositional ("to kick the bucket" meaning "to die"). In sum, MWEs are
a key issue and a current weakness for natural language parsing and
generation, as well as real-life applications depending on language
technology, such as machine translation, just to name a prominent one
among many. Thanks to the joint efforts of researchers from several
fields working on MWEs, significant progress has been made in recent
years, especially concerning the construction of large-scale language
resources. For instance, there is a large number of recent papers which
focus on acquisition of MWEs from corpora, and others that describe a
variety of techniques to find paraphrases for MWEs.  Current methods use
a plethora of tools such as association measures, machine learning,
syntactic patterns, web queries, etc. A considerable body of techniques,
resources and tools to perform these tasks are now available, and are
indicative of the growing importance of the field within the NLP
community.

Many of these advances are described as part of the annual workshop on
MWEs, which attracts the attention of an ever-growing community working
on a variety of languages and MWE types. The workshop has been held
since 2001 in conjunction with major computational linguistics
conferences (ACL, EACL, NAACL, COLING, LREC), providing an important
venue for the community to interact, share resources and tools and
collaborate on efforts for advancing the computational treatment of
MWEs. Additionally, special issues on MWEs have been published by
leading journals in computational linguistics. The latest such effort is
the special issue on "Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Practice and
Use", which has recently been published by the ACM Transactions on
Speech and Language Processing
(http://multiword.sourceforge.net/tslp2011si).

MWE 2014 will be the 10th event in the series. We will be interested in
major challenges in the overall process of MWE treatment, both from the
theoretical and the computational viewpoint, focusing on original research
related (but not limited) to the following topics:

* Manually and automatically constructed resources
* Representation of MWEs in dictionaries and ontologies
* MWEs and user interaction
* Multilingual acquisition
* Multilingualism and MWE processing
* Models of first and second language acquisition of MWEs
* Crosslinguistic studies on MWEs
* The role of MWEs in the domain adaptation of parsers
* Integration of MWEs into NLP applications
* Evaluation of MWE treatment techniques
* Lexical, syntactic or semantic aspects of MWEs

The workshop will feature a "Special Track on Parsing and MWEs" dedicated
to "deep" parsing of MWEs, inviting submissions on the following and
related challenges:

* Lexicon-grammar interface: representing, at the lexical level,
  phenomena such as agreement, discontinuity and free word order;
  construction of MWE lexicons which would be easily convertible and
  maximally reusable in different parsing frameworks.

* "Deep" parsing techniques for MWEs: optimal representation of MWEs
  within linguistic frameworks, such CCG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, minimalism,
  etc; processing MWEs before, during or after parsing; representing the
  semantics of MWEs.

* Hybrid parsing of MWEs: combining data-driven and knowledge-based
  approaches for efficient and linguistically precise parsers; using
  unannotated data for improving models based on annotated data.

* Annotating MWEs in treebanks: MWE-aware methodologies of treebank
  construction, and their increased usability in parsing.

This special track is endorsed by PARSEME, European IC1207 COST Action,
dedicated to parsing and MWEs (www.parseme.eu). PARSEME will fund travel
and stay for at least 20 participants from the Action's member countries
(the grant application procedure will be published shortly). A separate
time slot will be allocated to the special track within the workshop.
Authors may submit papers either to the special track or to the regular
workshop. They should follow common submission instructions.

Submission modalities

For MWE 2014, we will accept the following two types of submissions:

Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references): Long
papers should report on solid and finished research including new
experimental results, resources and/or techniques.
Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references): Short
papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions,
ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.

The reported research should be substantially original. The papers will
be presented orally or as posters. The decision as to which papers will
be presented orally and which as posters will be made by the program
committee based on the nature rather than on the quality of the
work. All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the EACL
2014 formatting requirements (available at
http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip). We strongly advise
the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files.

Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be
included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided as well.

Resources submitted with the papers should be anonymized for submission.
Papers and/or resources that do not conform to these requirements will
be rejected without review. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings, where no distinction will be made between papers presented
orally or as posters.

Submission and reviewing will be electronic, managed by the START
system:

     https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/MWE/

Submissions must be uploaded onto the START system by the submission
deadline: January 23rd, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12 hours)

Please choose the appropriate submission type from the starting
submission page, according to the category of your paper.

Important dates

23 January 2014: Long & short paper submission deadline 11:59pm GMT -12 hours
20 February 2014: Notification of Acceptance
03 March 2014: Camera-ready papers due
26-27 April 2014: Workshop Dates

Program Committee

I?aki Alegria, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Dimitra Anastasiou, University of Bremen (Germany)
Doug Arnold, University of Essex (UK)
Eleftherios Avramidis, DFKI GmbH (Germany)
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne (Australia)
N?ria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Chris Biemann, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt (Germany)
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Ant?nio Branco, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Miriam Butt, Universit?t Konstanz (Germany)
Aoife Cahill, ETS (USA)
Ken Church, IBM Research (USA)
Matthieu Constant, Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e (France)
Paul Cook, University of Melbourne (Australia)
B?atrice Daille, Nantes University (France)
Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen (Norway)
Ga?l Dias, University of Caen Basse-Normandie (France)
G?ls,en Eryig(it, Istanbul Technical University (Turkey)
Tomaz( Erjavec, Joz(ef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva, New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Roxana Girju, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Chikara Hashimoto, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan)
Ulrich Heid, Universit?t Hildesheim (Germany)
Kyo Kageura, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Su Nam Kim, Monash University (VIC, Australia)
Ioannis Korkontzelos, University of Manchester (UK)
Brigitte Krenn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Austria)
Cvetana Krstev, University of Belgrade (Serbia)
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, The Ohio State University (USA)
Takuya Matsuzaki, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute (Qatar)
Malvina Nissim, University of Bologna (Italy)
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Diarmuid ? S?aghdha, University of Cambridge (UK)
Jan Odijk, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Yannick Parmentier, Universit? d'Orl?ans (France)
Pavel Pecina, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
Scott Piao, Lancaster University (UK)
Adam Przepi?rkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Victoria Ros?n, University of Bergen (Norway)
Carlos Ramisch, Aix-Marseille University (France)
Manfred Sailer, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Magali Sanches Duran, University of S?o Paulo (Brazil)
Violeta Seretan, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Ekaterina Shutova, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Jan S(najder, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Pavel Stran(?k, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
Sara Stymne, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa (Canada)
Beata Trawinski, Institut f?r Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim (Germany)
Yulia Tsvetkov, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Yuancheng Tu, Microsoft (USA)
Ruben Urizar, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Veronika Vincze, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Martin Volk, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Tom Wasow, Stanford University (USA)
Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa (Israel)
Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Hong Kong)

Workshop Organizers

Valia Kordoni (Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany)
Markus Egg (Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany)
Agata Savary (Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais Tours, France; Special Track Organiser)
Eric Wehrli (Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland; Special Track Organiser)
Stefan Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany)

Contact

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to
mweworkshop.eacl2014 at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:27:38 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:27:38 +0100
Subject: Appel: EACL 2014 Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation
 (3rd HyTra)
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.222738.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:28:00 +0100
From: "Reinhard Rapp" <reinhardrapp at gmx.de>
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Apologies for multiple postings
Please distribute to colleagues

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

2nd Call for Papers

THIRD WORKSHOP ON HYBRID APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION (HyTra 2014)

Co-located with EACL 2014 http://eacl2014.org/ 

Gothenburg, Sweden

April 27, 2014

Deadline for paper submissions: January 23, 2014

http://parles.upf.edu/llocs/plambert/hytra/hytra2014/

INVITED SPEAKERS

Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University and DFKI, Germany)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)                        

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


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The aim of the HyTra workshop series is to bring together researchers
developing and applying statistical, example-based, or rule-based
translation systems, and those enhancing MT systems by combining
elements from different approaches, to promote discussion and sharing of
ideas among them. Hereby one relevant focus is on effectively combining
linguistic and data driven approaches (rule-based and statistical
MT). Another focus is on hybridization in the context of human
translation.

The 3rd Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra-3) intends
to continue developing and empowering the research agenda in the area of
Hybrid Translation already started at its first and second editions. The
previous two editions (see http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/esirmt-hytra/
and http://hytra.barcelonamedia.org/hytra2013/) were co-located with
EACL 2012 in Avignon and with ACL 2013 in Sofia, and the proceedings
were published on the ACL Anthology.


TOPICS

We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following
topics:

- ways and techniques of hybridization
- architectures for the rapid development of hybrid MT systems
- applications of hybrid systems
- hybrid systems dealing with under-resourced languages
- hybrid systems dealing with morphologically rich languages
- using linguistic information (morphology, syntax, semantics) to
  enhance statistical MT 
  (e.g. with hierarchical or factored models)
- using contextual information to enhance statistical MT
- bootstrapping rule-based systems from corpora
- hybrid methods in spoken language translation
- extraction of dictionaries and other large-scale resources for MT from
  parallel and comparable corpora
- induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from
  corpora
- machine learning techniques for hybrid MT
- describing structural mappings between languages (e.g. tree-structures
  using synchronous/transduction grammars)
- heuristics for limiting the search space in hybrid MT
- alternative methods for the fair evaluation of the output of different
  types of MT systems (e.g. relying on linguistic criteria)
- system combination approaches such as multi-engine MT (parallel) or
  automatic post-editing (sequential)
- open source tools and free language resources for hybrid MT


SUBMISSIONS

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submissions must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding five pages of
content plus one extra page for references. Characteristics of short
papers include: a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a
negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application
nugget. Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original,
completed and unpublished work without exceeding eight pages of content
plus two extra pages for references. Submissions will be judged
according to the criteria of the main conference (EACL 2014).

Authors are invited to submit papers on original and previously
unpublished work. Formatting should be according to EACL 2014
specifications using LaTeX or MS-Word style files, see section
"submission format" at http://eacl2014.org/call-for-papers. Reviewing of
papers will be double-blind, so the submissions should not reveal the
authors' identity.

Submission is electronic in PDF format using the START submission system
at the following URL: https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/HyTra/

Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the
workshop contact person (see below). If accepted, withdrawals are only
possible within two days after notification.

For an accepted paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one author
must register for the workshop and actually present the paper. The
papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be made
available via the ACL Anthology.


BEST PAPERS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to contribute extended
versions of their papers as book chapters for an edited volume on hybrid
MT.


IMPORTANT DATES

January 23, 2014: Deadline for paper submission
February 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance
March 3, 2014: Camera ready papers due
April 27, 2014: Workshop in Gothenburg


ORGANIZERS

Rafael E. Banchs (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Marta R. Costa-jussa (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Reinhard Rapp (Universities of Aix-Marseille and Mainz)
Patrik Lambert (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
Kurt Eberle (Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg)
Bogdan Babych (University of Leeds)


CONTACT PERSON

Rafael E. Banchs: rembanchs (at) i2r (dot) a-star (dot) edu (dot) sg


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

* Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield, UK
* Bogdan Babych, University of Leeds, UK
* Rafael E. Banchs, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Alexey Baytin, Yandex, Moscow, Russia 
* N?ria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 
* Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva, Switzerland 
* Michael Carl, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
* Marta R. Costa-jussa, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Oliver Culo, University of Mainz, Germany
* Kurt Eberle, Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
* Andreas Eisele, DGT (European Commission), Luxembourg 
* Marcello Federico, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy 
* Christian Federmann, Language Technology Lab, DFKI, Saarbr?cken, Germany 
* Jos? A. R. Fonollosa, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 
* Maxim Khalilov, TAUS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Patrik Lambert, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
* Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK 
* Yanjun Ma, Baidu Inc., Beijing, China 
* Jos? B. Mari?o, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 
* Bart Mellebeek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Aix-Marseille, France, and Mainz, Germany
* Anders S?gaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 
* Nasredine Semmar, CEA LIST, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France 
* Wade Shen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA 
* Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds, UK 
* George Tambouratzis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
* J?rg Tiedemann, University of Uppsala, Sweden 
* Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:57:55 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:57:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for Posters
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:57:01 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Call for Posters ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-posters

11th ESWC Conference 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Poster and Demo Chairs:
- Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR)
- Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science,
  Linkoping University, SE)

The poster track of ESWC 2014 will provide an opportunity for presenting
late-breaking results, on-going research projects, and speculative or
innovative work in progress. Posters are intended to provide authors and
participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage
in discussions about the work.

We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web that
address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research
Track. Theoretical or technical posters, reports on semantic systems
(however, demonstrations of such systems should be submitted in the demo
track), descriptions of completed work, and work in progress are equally
welcome.

Papers submitted to the research track will NOT automatically be
considered for the poster track. A separate poster submission must be
made. For example, a poster can be used to present work that was
insufficiently mature for the research track.

* Submission Guidelines *

Authors must submit a 4-page paper (PDF, Springer LNCS style) with a
short abstract for evaluation. The paper must clearly demonstrate
relevance to the Semantic Web and the topics of interest of ESWC
2014. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the
Semantic Web, originality, potential significance, topicality and
clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the
LNCS guidelines will be rejected without a review.

Submissions should be uploaded using the Easychair system:
	https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014pd


* Important Dates *

Submission Deadline: March 16, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014


* Important Notes *

Poster papers will appear in supplementary post-conference proceedings
to be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS).

Participants with an accepted poster must register for the conference
and present their work during the Poster Session. A space will be
allocated for each participant. The organizers should be contacted well
in advance of the conference in case of any special requirement.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:48:58 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:48:58 +0100
Subject: Info: Establishing the International Standard Language Resource
 Number (ISLRN)
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.224858.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:45:44 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
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/Press Release - Immediate - Paris, France, December 13, 2013/

*Establishing the International Standard Language Resource Number
 (ISLRN)*

12 major NLP organisations announce the establishment of the ISLRN, a
Persistent Unique Identifier, to be assigned to each Language Resource.

On November 18, 2013, 12 NLP organisations have agreed to announce the
establishment of the International Standard Language Resource Number
(ISLRN), a Persistent Unique Identifier, to be assigned to each Language
Resource. Experiment replicability, an essential feature of scientific
work, would be enhanced by such unique identifier. Set up by ELRA, LDC
and AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA, the ISLRN Portal will provide unique
identifiers using a standardised nomenclature, as a service free of
charge for all Language Resource providers. It will be supervised by a
steering committee composed of representatives of participating
organisations and enlarged whenever necessary.

More information on ELRA and the ISLRN, please contact: Khalid Choukri
choukri at elda.org <http://www.elra.info/Establishing-the-ISLRN.html#>

More information on ELDA, please contact: H?l?ne Mazo mazo at elda.org 
(http://www.elra.info/Establishing-the-ISLRN.html#)

ELRA

55-57, rue Brillat Savarin

75013 Paris (France)

Tel.: +33 1 43 13 33 33

Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30

*** About ELRA ***
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit
making organisation founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the
mission of providing a clearing house for Language Resources and
promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT).

To find out more about ELRA, please visit our web site: www.elra.info 

*** About NLP12***
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL), Asian Federation of Natural Language
Processing (AFNLP), COLING Committee (ICCL), European Data Forum,
European Language Resources Association (ELRA), International
Association for Machine Translation (IAMT), International Committee for
the Coordination & Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment
Techniques (COCOSDA), International Speech Communication Association
(ISCA), Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), Oriental COCOSDA, Language
Resource Management Agency (RMA)

To find out more about NLP12, please read the NLP12 Paris Declaration 
(http://www.elra.info/NLP12-Paris-Declaration.html).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:35:11 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:35:11 +0100
Subject: Appel: WIMS'14 (deadline extension)
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.223511.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:23:11 +0100
From: Planti? Michel <michel.plantie at mines-ales.fr>
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X-url: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr

*** apologies for cross-postings ***

========================================================================
        Due to a number of requests we have to decided to extend
                     the paper submission deadlines

      NEW deadline for paper submission: *** January 20th 2014 ***
========================================================================

          CALL FOR RESEARCH / APPLICATION & CASE STUDY PAPERS / POSTERS
          CALL FOR WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS / DEMONSTRATIONS
          KEYNOTES ANNOUNCEMENT

                                WIMS?14
 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
                  Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 June 2014
                       http://wims14.csd.auth.gr

About WIMS?14 Conference
--------------------------------------
WIMS is a series of peer-reviewed International Computer Science
conferences. It is a forum for researchers and practitioners to  present
their state-of-the-art results in building Intelligent Web, to  examine
performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based
intelligent information technology, and to cross-fertilize their ideas
on the development of Web-based intelligent information management
solutions across different domains.

Objectives
--------------
The purpose of the WIMS series is:

- To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to
  present their contributions to the state of the art research and
  development in Web technology and applications

- To give doctoral students an opportunity to present their research  to
  a friendly and knowledgeable audience and receive valuable feedback

- To provide an informal social event where Web technology researchers
  and practitioners can meet

Call for Research Papers/Posters
--------------------------------------------
WIMS?14 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art
research in the area of Web intelligence, Web mining, Web semantics  and
the fundamental interaction between them. Authors are invited to  submit
regular (12 pages) or short (6 pages) research papers or  posters (4
pages) on all related areas. Papers exploring new  directions or areas
will receive a thorough and encouraging review.

More details on the nature of the different submission types can be
found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=23

The papers in all the categories should describe original results that
have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All
submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the
international program committee.

Submissions should be made electronically in PDF or DOC/DOCX (MS/Open
Word) format via the electronic submission system of the WIMS?14
Conference Management system at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wims14

The submissions should be typeset using the templates of the ACM
International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The templates could
be retrieved from
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Call for Application and Case Study Track Papers
----------------------------------------------------------------
The goal of this track is to provide opportunities for researchers,
innovators, industry leaders, and practitioners to present and  exchange
ideas, results, and experiences in the applications of Web Intelligence,
Mining, and Semantics (WIMS). The Application & Case Studies Track
invites submissions describing implementations of Web Intelligence,
Mining, and Semantics in industrial or government or other ?real world?
settings. Papers must include descriptions of how the applications have
been conceived, developed, and (probably)  deployed.

Details about the submission types and the submission procedure of this
track can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=154

Call for Tutorials/Demonstration Proposals
----------------------------------------------------------
WIMS?14 also welcomes Tutorial and/or Demonstration proposals. WIMS?14
will include tutorials and/or demonstrations (on new applications)
providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest  to
the Web Mining and Web Semantics community. The tutorials will be  part
of the main conference technical program. Proposal papers must be  no
less than 5 pages and no more than 12 pages, and must provide a  sense
of both the scope of the tutorial and depth within the scope.

Details about the submissions of the tutorial/demonstration proposals
can be found at: http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=148

Call for Workshop Proposals
--------------------------------------
WIMS?14 invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with
the conference. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit,
possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of
work in progress, peer-reviewed papers, or some combination. A workshop
could be scheduled for a half a day or a full day, depending on
potential interest and organizers preference.

The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own
reviewing process, website, and to co-ordinate the collection and
delivery of camera ready material and ACM copyright transfer. Accepted
papers in workshops will be published in the WIMS?14 proceedings and
disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. Selected extended papers
will be invited to appear in a special issue of a reputed journal in the
field.

Details about the submissions of the workshop proposals can be found at:
http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=150

Conference Scope
-------------------------
WIMS solicits regular and work-in-progress research, discussion papers
and industry experience report papers in related fields. Papers
exploring new directions or areas are also welcome. In particular but
not exclusively the submissions within the following major areas are
relevant:

- Scalable Web and Data Architectures and Infrastructures
- Web Intelligence
- Web Mining, Information and Knowledge Extraction
- Web Semantics and Reasoning
- WIMS Applications
- Evaluation and Validation of WIMS Technologies and Applications

More details about the conference scope and topics can be found at:
http://wims14.csd.auth.gr/?page_id=146


Publications
----------------
Accepted papers/tutorials/posters will be published by ACM and
disseminated through the ACM Digital Library through the International
Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).

A selection of the best WIMS'14 papers will be invited to be revised and
extended for the post-conference publication in the Special Issue of the
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT).

The proceedings of the previous WIMS conferences could be checked at:
- WIMS?11:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1988688
- WIMS?12:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2254129
- WIMS?13:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479787

Keynotes
-------------
WIMS?14 organizing committee is happy to announce the following
significant keynote speakers for this year?s conference:
- ?Large-Scale Reasoning with (Semantic) Data?: Grigoris Antoniou,
  Professor, University of Huddersfield
- ?Semantic Technology for online, broadcast and print media?: Jem
  Rayfield, Head Architect, Financial Times
- ?Big Data ? from Hype to Reality?: Richard Benjamins, Dr., Director of
  Business Intelligence, Telefonica

Important Dates
---------------
13.01.2014  submission of abstracts for Application and Case Study
             Track Papers ** NEW **
20.01.2014  submission of Research Track papers & Application and
             Case Study Track papers & posters ** NEW **
20.12.2013  Workshop & Tutorial Proposals submission, review and
             notification
24.03.2014  notification of acceptance for (all tracks) papers/posters
             ** NEW **
07.04.2014 camera ready versions of the accepted (all tracks) papers,
            posters, tutorial papers ** NEW **
14.04.2014 author registration deadline ** NEW **
02-04.06.2014   Conference

Organization
-----------------
WIMS'14 is organized under the auspices of the Dept. of Informatics at
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece. (http://www.csd.auth.gr/en/)

WIMS Conferences Chair
Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway

General Chairs
Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan

Program Committee Chairs
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporizhzhya National University, Ukraine

Advisory Committee
Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK
Harold Boley, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New  Brunswick,
   Fredericton, Canada
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Guus Schreiber, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Amit Sheth, Ohio Center of Excellence on Knowledge-enabled Computing,
   Ohio, USA

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Industrial Track Chair
John Davies, BT Research & Innovation, UK

Publicity Chair
Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Local Organization Co-Chairs
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Athanasios Tsadiras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Web Chairs
Efstratios Kontopoulos, International Hellenic University, Greece
Fotis Kokkoras, T.E.I. of Thessaly, Greece

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Dec 14 21:49:50 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:49:50 +0100
Subject: Livre: Ressources Lexicales
Message-ID: <SAT.14.DEC.2013.224950.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 19:19:24 +0100
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <52AB4FAC.30805 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lis.30/main

  Ressources Lexicales

  Contenu, construction, utilisation, ?valuation

Sous la direction de N?ria Gala et Michael Zock
Aix-Marseille Universit? & LIF-CNRS

http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lis.30/main

Les ressources lexicales (dictionnaires, bases de donn?es, thesaurus,
etc.) rassemblent des connaissances sur les mots, leurs sens et leurs
usages. Si pendant des si?cles elles ont ?t? tributaires de l'imprimerie
et du format textuel, il existe de nos jours une grande vari?t? d'outils
et de ressources accessibles sous des formats ?lectroniques divers.
Ainsi, la fa?on de consid?rer les ressources lexicales a chang?
consid?rablement ces derni?res d?cennies. On a vu notamment appara?tre
des ressources non plus con?ues en tant qu'entit?s statiques, mais
mod?lis?es sous forme de bases de donn?es ou de graphes, dans lesquelles
les informations sont li?es et accessibles dynamiquement. Le domaine des
ressources lexicales, au carrefour de plusieurs disciplines dont la
linguistique, la lexicologie, la lexicographie et le traitement
automatique des langues, est sans nul doute en pleine effervescence. Le
but de ce volume est d'en dresser un panorama g?n?ral qui rend compte de
l'existant et des ?volutions en cours.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:15:19 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:15:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: WoLLIC 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.221519.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:09:25 -0200
From: Ruy de Queiroz <ruy at cin.ufpe.br>
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X-url: http://wollic.org/wollic2014/

[Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.]


 WoLLIC 2014
21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
September 1st to 4th, 2014
Valparaiso, Chile


SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP
Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL)
The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI)
Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL)
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL)
Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC)
Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL)

ORGANISATION
Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de
Chile, Chile
Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

HOSTED BY
Department of Informatics, Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a,
Chile

CALL FOR PAPERS
WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research
involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural
language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and
tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twentieth WoLLIC will be
held at the Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a, from September 1st
to 4th, 2014.  It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic
(ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The
Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European
Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European
Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira
de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL).

PAPER SUBMISSION
Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular
interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas
of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel
computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief;
proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in
software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language
and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational
aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and
protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of
a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including
motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not
exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages
for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must
not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues,
including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that
each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its
authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2014
EasyChair website. (Please go to
http://wollic.org/wollic2014/instructions.html for instructions.) A
title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 24, 2014,
and the full paper by Mar 28, 2014 (firm date). Notifications are
expected by May 2, 2014, and final papers for the proceedings will be
due by May 15, 2014 (firm date).

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of WoLLIC 2014, including both invited and contributed
papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in
Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the
Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected
contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2014
issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed).

INVITED SPEAKERS
Ver?nica Becher (U Buenos Aires)
Juha Kontinen (U Helsinki)
Aarne Ranta (U Gothenburg)
Kazushige Terui (U Kyoto)
Luca Vigan? (King?s College London)
Thomas Wilke (U Kiel)

STUDENT GRANTS
ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2014 will permit ASL student members to apply
for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2014). See
http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details.

IMPORTANT DATES
Mar 24, 2014: Paper title and abstract deadline
Mar 28, 2014: Full paper deadline
May 2, 2014: Author notification
May 15, 2014: Final version deadline (firm)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Natasha Alechina (U Nottingham)
Eric Allender (Rutgers U)
Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile)
Steve Awodey (CMU)
Julian Bradfield (U Edinburgh)
Xavier Caicedo (U de Los Andes)
Olivier Danvy (Aarhus U)
Ulrich Kohlenbach (Tech U Darmstadt) (CHAIR)
Marcus Kracht  (U Bielefeld)
Michiel van Lambalgen (U Amsterdam)
Klaus Meer (Tech U Cottbus)
George Metcalfe (Bern U)
Dale Miller (INRIA Saclay / LIX)
Russell Miller (CUNY)
Sara Negri (U Helsinki)
Nicole Schweikardt  (U Frankfurt)
(more to come)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid
Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints,
Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Pablo Barcel? (Universidad de Chile) (Local chair)
Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco)
Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair)
Juan Reutter (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile)
Cristi?n Riveros (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile)

FURTHER INFORMATION
Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee.

WEB PAGE
http://wollic.org/wollic2014/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:20:08 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:20:08 +0100
Subject: Appel: IC 2014,
 Extension de l'appel a soumission jusqu'au 9 janvier 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.222008.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:50:01 +0100
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <52AEE8E9.1010403 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014

Appel ? communications pour les

25es Journ?es Francophones d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances :

Connaissances pervasives: des utilisateurs plong?s dans des syst?mes ?
base de connaissances et des syst?mes ? base de connaissances plong?s
dans le monde


http://www.irit.fr/IC2014


du 12 au 16 mai 2014 ? Clermont-Ferrand

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Dates importantes :

Date limite de soumission des communications : jeudi 19 d?cembre
2013jeudi 9 janvier 2014

Date de notification aux auteurs : jeudi 13 f?vrier 2014

Date limite de r?ception des textes d?finitifs : lundi 17 mars 2014

Dates de la conf?rence : du 12 au 16 mai 2014

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La conf?rence d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances f?te cette ann?e ses 25
ans! Elle est le rendez-vous annuel de la communaut? fran?aise et
francophone qui s'int?resse aux probl?matiques li?es ? l'ing?nierie des
connaissances. Acad?miques et industriels s'y retrouvent pour ?changer
et r?fl?chir sur des probl?mes de recherche qui se posent en
acquisition, repr?sentation et gestion des connaissances.

L'essor des sciences et technologies de l'information et de la
communication, et notamment des technologies du web, dans l'ensemble de
la soci?t? engendre des mutations dans les pratiques individuelles et
collectives. L'ing?nierie des connaissances accompagne cette ?volution,
en inventant les mod?les, m?thodes et outils permettant l'int?gration de
connaissances et de raisonnements sur ces connaissances dans des
environnements informatiques.

De fait, on constate aujourd'hui une omnipr?sence des connaissances, en
m?me temps qu'un d?cloisonnement des communaut?s de recherche en
Intelligence Artificielle pour r?pondre aux probl?mes qui se posent.
Ainsi, la construction des syst?mes ? base de connaissances fait appel ?
l'ing?nierie des connaissances, au traitement automatique des langues, ?
l'apprentissage automatique et ? la fouille de donn?es; le traitement
des connaissances associe ing?nierie des connaissances avec recherche
d'information, recherche op?rationnelle, analyse de donn?es; la
mod?lisation des environnements informatiques, de ses acteurs humains ou
logiciels, allie ing?nierie des connaissances et syst?mes multi-agents;
enfin l'ing?nierie des connaissances touche ? des th?matiques classiques
dans les communaut?s de l'interaction homme-machine et des
environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain.

En pla?ant ainsi l'utilisateur au coeur des syst?mes informatiques,
l'ing?nierie des connaissances est sollicit?e pour assister
l'utilisateur dans le traitement de la masse de donn?es disponibles sur
le web, pour les visualiser, contextualiser, expliquer, recommander,
classer, pr?dire, approximer, s?curiser, fiabiliser, pour pallier ? leur
impr?cision voire incoh?rence.

Les th?mes d'IC 2014 sont les suivants (liste non exhaustive):

Repr?sentation des connaissances et raisonnement

- mod?les, formalismes, langages formels et informels de repr?sentation
  de connaissances

- ?change, interop?rabilit? et r?utilisation des mod?les,
  standardisation

- terminologies, thesauri, ontologies et lexiques

- types d'ontologies et r?le des ontologies de r?f?rence

- m?thodes et outils pour le cycle de vie des repr?sentations

- gestion de la dynamique des ontologies (versionnement, ?volution,
  int?gration et alignement)

- raisonnements logiques, inf?rences, raisonnements ? base de r?gles,

- approximations, raisonnements statistiques, raisonnements par
  analogie, raisonnements ? partir de cas, raisonnements dans les
  logiques non classiques


Conception et construction de mod?les de connaissances et d'ontologies

- peuplement de mod?les de connaissances

- acquisition de connaissances ? partir de textes

- d?couverte interactive de connaissances dans les donn?es, dans les
  historiques, dans les interactions, sur le web, etc.

- inf?rence et r?gles m?tier : acquisition, conception, r?utilisation,
  ?volution, ?valuation, exploitations

- m?trique et ?valuation de la qualit? des ontologies


Web de donn?es, web s?mantique

- ouverture et interconnexion des donn?es

- impact de l'ouverture des donn?es sur le web et de l'externalisation
  ouverte (crowdsourcing) sur l'ing?nierie des connaissances

- r?seaux sociaux

- gestion de flux de donn?es

- passage ? l'?chelle : traitement de donn?es massives

- traitement de donn?es h?t?rog?nes

- provenance et confiance dans les donn?es

- m?trique et ?valuation de la qualit? des donn?es


Ing?nierie des connaissances centr?e utilisateurs

- visualisation de connaissances, d'ontologies

- visualisation d'interconnexions de donn?es, de raisonnements sur les
  donn?es

- explication des raisonnements

- profils utilisateurs, mod?les de contexte et adaptation, mod?les
  d'?motion

- personnalisation de l'acc?s aux connaissances: confiance,
  recommandation, classement (ranking), r?sum?

- assistance d'applications et de services: agents conversationnels

- environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain

- conception et ?valuation d'interactions et d'interfaces avec des
  syst?mes ? base de connaissances


Interdisciplinarit? de l'ing?nierie des connaissances

- ?pist?mologie de l'ing?nierie des connaissances

- th?orie des organisations et ing?nierie des connaissances

- sciences humaines et sciences cognitives et ing?nierie des
  connaissances

- ing?nierie des connaissances scientifiques


Ing?nierie des connaissances pervasive : IC dans...

- le traitement automatique des langues

- l'apprentissage symbolique

- la fouille de donn?es

- la recherche d'information, l'indexation

- la recherche op?rationnelle

- l'analyse de donn?es

- les syst?mes multi-agents

- les environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage humain

- les interfaces homme-machine


Applications

- applications dans les domaines de la sant?, de l'?ducation et de
  l'apprentissage, de la culture, de la recherche documentaire, des
  transports intelligents, de l'informatique d?cisionnelle (BI), etc.

- ?mergence de nouveaux domaines applicatifs

- m?moires d'entreprises

- syst?mes pour la collaboration et la coop?ration dans les
  organisations et les collectifs


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Soumissions :

Articles longs(12 pages (nouveau format), pr?sentation orale de 20 mn,
10 mn discussion) :

Sont concern?s des travaux aboutis, pr?sentant des r?sultats valid?s ou
des synth?ses fouill?es.


Articles courts(6 pages (nouveau format), pr?sentation orale de 10 mn, 5 
mn discussion) :

Sont concern?s des travaux en cours ou au stade de r?sultats partiels de
recherche ou appliqu?s. Ce type de soumission correspond ? des travaux
innovants de qualit?, mais dont la maturit? ne permet pas des
?laborations compl?tes et des conclusions d?finitives.

Les articles devront respecter les styles de documents indiqu?s sur le
site de la conf?rence: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014.

Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre leurs communications au format PDF
sur EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2014.

Les articles accept?s feront l'objet d'actes en version ?lectronique,
publi?s sur HAL, et disponibles sur une cl? USB distribu?e aux
participants de la conf?rence.

Un prix AFIA du meilleur article sera d?cern? par un jury compos? de
membres du comit? de pilotage de la conf?rence.


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La conf?rence d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances est plac?e sous l'?gide du
coll?ge IC de l'AFIA

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Pr?sidente du comit? de programme :

Catherine Faron Zucker (I3S, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis)


Pr?sidente du comit? d'organisation :

Catherine Roussey (Irstea)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:23:28 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:23:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: 8eme colloque international du GEM&L
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.222328.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:09:24 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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8eme colloque international du GEM&L

Toulouse Business School
Toulouse, 26-28 mars 2014

Appel ? communication ? Call for Papers

Version fran?aise (English version below)

Langage et performance de l?entreprise

http://geml.eu/colloque/colloque-2014-toulouse-business-school/call-for-papers/

Planning

Proposition de communication :                      10 janvier 2014

Notification d?acceptation / modification :         20 f?vrier 2014

Communication d?finitive:                           10 mars 2014


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:22:04 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:22:04 +0100
Subject: Info: EMCL Study grants
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.222204.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:42:38 +0100
From: Bertram Fronh?fer
Message-ID: <52AF1F6E.40304 at tu-dresden.de>
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Dear all,

I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that fresh Erasmus Mundus
scholarships are available for Non-European AND European students who
enrol in our European Master's Program in Computational Logic in the
fall of 2014. The deadline for application is 31 January, 2014. More
details are given below. In particular, I'd like to draw your attention
to the fact that we are able to provide grants to EU-students for doing
their project at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA).

Please spread this information as wide as possible among friends and
colleagues, at your old universities and the places, where you currently
live and work.

Many thanks -- Steffen

************************************************************************
The European Master's Program in Computational Logic

We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European
Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly
at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische
Universit?t Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in
Portugal and the Technische Universit?t Wien in Austria. Within this
program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European
universities. In addition, you can do your project work at the National
ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer
Science and obtain a joint degree. Information on the universities and
the program including the application procedure is provided here:

http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html

Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for
non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year.

We would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship
program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships up to
48.000 EUR for non-EU students and up to 23.000 EUR for EU students of
our European Master's Program in Computational Logic.

More information on the scholarship program is available from:

http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/ma_em_grant.html

Do not hesitate to contact us  if you have any further questions.

Kind regards -- Steffen H?lldobler

Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler
International Center for Computational Logic
Technische Universit?t Dresden
01062 Dresden, Germany

phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40
fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42
email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:27:18 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:27:18 +0100
Subject: Soft: JRC's Europe Media Monitor (EMM) - Free APPS for mobile
 version
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.222718.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:49:14 +0100
From: Ralf Steinberger <ralf.steinberger at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
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Dear all, this is to let you know that the highly multilingual Europe
Media Monitor (EMM) applications are now available as free Apps for
mobile devices running iOS and Android.
 
You can download the EMM Apps via the links at the EMM-NewsBrief entry
page http://emm.newsbrief.eu/ . Apps are currently available for mobile
devices running Android and for the iPad. A version for the iPhone will
be released soon.
 
We would be delighted to receive your feedback on the newly released EMM
Apps to the email address emm AT jrc DOT it.
 
We look forward to hearing from you.
 
 
EUROPE MEDIA MONITOR  (EMM)
 
EMM gathers a daily average of 175,000 news items in over 70 languages
and it analyses the news automatically using a wide range of
JRC-developed computational linguistics tools. These include event
extraction; automatic entity recognition, classification and
disambiguation; name variant mapping; co-reference resolution; quotation
recognition; opinion mining; multi-document summarisation; document
clustering and classification; machine translation; information
aggregation, including across languages; and more.
 
 
BACKGROUND AND READING
 
EMM (http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html) is a freely available
advert-free family of news monitoring and analysis applications
developed by the OPTIMA Team (http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=178) at
the Joint Research Centre (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/) (JRC), which is
the European Commission's in-house science service.
 
You find literature (scientific publications) on the Europe Media
Monitor EMM (http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html) and
its individual text mining tools at the URL
http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html, including papers
giving an introduction and a generic overview of the Europe Media
Monitor EMM
(http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Documents/09_SIGIR-WS_Steinberger+frontmat
ter.pdf) .
 
 
FREELY AVAILABLE LINGUISTIC RESOURCES
 
The JRC has also released a large volume of freely available
multilingual linguistic resources
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=61) that can be used to
develop or test a variety of multilingual and cross-lingual Natural
Language Processing tools. These include parallel corpora in up to 26
languages; readily trained automatic document categorisation software
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=60) in 22 languages;
dictionaries of names and their variant spellings
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=42) , including across languages and
scripts; and more. See http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=61 for
details and to download the data and the tools.

 
Ralf Steinberger (http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/RS.html) and the
OPTIMA team
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
URL - Applications:  (http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html)
http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html 
URL - Resources: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=61  


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 17 21:29:33 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:29:33 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Pierre-Yves OUDEYER, 19 Decembre 2013, GIPSA-lab
Message-ID: <TUE.17.DEC.2013.222933.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:18:29 +0100
From: Thomas Hueber <thomas.hueber at gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr>
Message-Id: <0167C9FD-3058-4DC0-886F-30E1363406CC at gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr>
X-url: http://www.pyoudeyer.com
X-url: http://flowers.inria.fr
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Bonjour ? tous,
 
Cette semaine, nous accueillerons Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, de l'INRIA
Bordeaux. Il viendra nous pr?senter ses travaux ce Jeudi 19 d?cembre, ?
13h30 en salle r?union du DPC-Amp?re (B314).

Venez nombreux ! (et n?h?sitez pas ? diffuser cette annonce dans vos
laboratoires).

L??quipe s?minaire du D?partement Parole et Cognition du GIPSA-lab

_________________________
 

Curiosity-driven learning and development: 
How robots can help us understand humans 

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Inria and Ensta ParisTech, France
 
A great mystery is how human infants develop: how they progressively
discover their bodies, how they learn to interact with objects and
social peers, and accumulate new skills all over their lives.
Constructing robots, and building mechanisms that model such
developmental processes, is key to advance our understanding of human
development, in constant dialogue with human and living sciences.
I will present examples of robotics models of curiosity-driven learning
and exploration, and show how developmental trajectories can
self-organize, starting from discovery of the body, then object
affordances, then vocal babbling and vocal interactions with others. In
particular, I will show that the onset of language spontaneously forms
out of such sensorimotor development.

Dr. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer is Research Director at Inria and head of the
Inria and Ensta-ParisTech FLOWERS team (France). Before, he has been a
permanent researcher in Sony Computer Science Laboratory for 8 years
(1999-2007). He studied theoretical computer science at Ecole Normale
Sup?rieure in Lyon, and received his Ph.D. degree in artificial
intelligence from the University Paris VI, France. After working on
computational models of language evolution, he is now working on
developmental and social robotics, focusing on sensorimotor development,
language acquisition and life-long learning in robots. Strongly inspired
by infant development, the mechanisms he studies include artificial
curiosity, intrinsic motivation, the role of morphology in learning
motor control, human-robot interfaces, joint attention and joint
intentional understanding, and imitation learning. He has published a
book, more than 80 papers in international journals and conferences,
holds 8 patents, gave several invited keynote lectures in international
conferences, and received several prizes for his work in developmental
robotics and on the origins of language. In particular, he is laureate
of the ERC Starting Grant EXPLORERS. He is editor of the IEEE CIS
Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development, and associate editor of
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Frontiers in
Neurorobotics, and of the International Journal of Social Robotics. He
is also working actively for the diffusion of science towards the
general public, through the writing of popular science articles and
participation to radio and TV programs as well as science
exhibitions. Web: http://www.pyoudeyer.com and http://flowers.inria.fr


Dr. Thomas Hueber
Charg? de recherche au CNRS
GIPSA-lab, D?partement Parole et Cognition
961 rue de la Houille Blanche - Domaine universitaire - BP 46
38402 Saint Martin d'H?res CEDEX FRANCE
T?l  :  +33 (0)4 76 57 49 40
Fax :  +33 (0)4 76 57 47 10
Courriel : thomas.hueber at gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr
Web : http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/~thomas.hueber

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:46:48 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:46:48 +0100
Subject: Appel: Ateliers TALN 2014
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:44:37 +0100
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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TALN 2014 - APPEL ? ATELIERS

L'?dition 2014 de la conf?rence TALN aura lieu ? Marseille du 1er au 4
juillet 2014. Comme pour les ?ditions pr?c?dentes, une journ?e sera
d?di?e ? des ateliers.

OBJECTIFS

Un atelier porte sur une th?matique particuli?re de TALN afin de
rassembler quelques expos?s plus cibl?s. Il a son propre pr?sident et
son propre comit? de programme. Le responsable d?un atelier est charg?
de l?appel ? communications et de la coordination de son comit? de
programme. Les organisateurs de TALN s?occuperont de la partie
logistique (gestion des salles, pauses caf? et diffusion des articles).
Les ateliers auront lieu en parall?le (3 s?ances) sur une journ?e ou une
demi-journ?e (2 ? 4 sessions de 1h30).

CALENDRIER

Date des ateliers : 1er juillet 2014
Date limite de soumission de la proposition : 31 janvier 2014
R?ponse du comit? de programme de TALN : 7 f?vrier 2014
Version finale des articles : 30 mai 2013

MODALIT?S DE PROPOSITION

Les propositions d?ateliers seront envoy?es sous forme ?lectronique ?
alexis.nasr[arobas]lif.univ-mrs.fr et nuria.gala[arobas]lif.univ-mrs.fr.

Les propositions d?ateliers comprendront une description synth?tique
(2-3 pages) de la th?matique de la conf?rence ainsi que son comit? de
programme et la dur?e souhait?e (un jour ou une demi-journ?e). Le comit?
de programme de TALN choisira parmi toutes les propositions.

FORMAT

Les conf?rences auront lieu en fran?ais (ou en anglais pour les
non-francophones). Les articles devront suivre le format de TALN et
comprendront 12 ? 14 pages.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:28:37 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:28:37 +0100
Subject: Appel: 23rd IEEE Wetice, Track Web2Touch, June 23-25, Parma, Italy
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:26:07 +0100
From: Lina Soualmia <lina.soualmia at gmail.com>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Web2Touch 2014: Ontology Applications and Web Semantics
http://web2touch2014.tudor.lu/
Conference Track @ 23rd IEEE WETICE
http://cmt.dmi.unipr.it/wetice14
June 23-25, 2014 - Parma - Italy
http://web2touch2014.tudor.lu

*Objectives*

The 2014 edition of the Web2Touch Track aims at presenting alternatives
to address interoperability and distributed knowledge management problem
for Web systems. Web is a living medium for collaborating where people
and computer systems can produce, share and consume information. However
several challenges for facilitating this collaboration are still open
issues, including: storage, retrieval, extraction, and visualisation of
huge quantity of information, interlinking, ontology classification and
fusion of data. New technologies and standards have been developed to
provide more efficient use of the Web, in particular for using Cloud,
Linked Open Data, and Big Data. The key of the success of the Internet
is the amount of published data available for everyone, but it also
generates problems to end-users. Researchers are continuously working to
improve Webapplications and Web contents structures. The aim is to avoid
overwhelming human beings with irrelevant data, and to increase the
capability of systems to correctly interpret Web contents, so improving
the quality of the interaction on the Web. This Track is intended as a
forum to discuss theories, models, techniques and user requirements
related to how a number of semantic interoperability problems can be
coped with to achieve commercial, scientific, and sociological success
for Web applications. Web2Touch is an open forum for studies in
multiples application domains including, for example, Web science,
eHealth, eGov, eLearning and collaborative systems in general.

*Topics*

Include but are not limited to:
- Case studies of social semantic web.
- Ontology and knowledge reuse and integration.
- Semantic web services.
- Experiences in semantic web support for collaborative work and
  business.
- Knowledge creation, management, maintenance, and validation.
- Collaborative ontology evolution and alignment.
- Web for sentiment analysis.
- Privacy issues in knowledge sharing.

*Important Dates*

- Submission deadline: Feb 4, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2014
- Camera ready papers: April 11, 2014
- Conference: June 23-25, 2014

*Paper Submission*

Papers submitted to W2T 2014 must be written in English and must be
formatted in strict accordance with the Wetice formatting instructions
(author kits and paper templates available for *Word*, *PDF*, and
*LaTeX*<http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>)
and must be submitted in PDF format. Papers can be up to 6 pages. By
submitting a paper, authors commit to have the paper presented at the
workshop by at least one of them if the paper is accepted. Papers have
to be submitted through the easychair system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=web2touch

The previous editions of Web2Touch received publication from many
countries, the accepted ones are available in the IEEE Xplore. The best
papers from 2008 to 2010 were published in special issues of the
International Journal of Web Portals (2011, vol 1 and 3) and extended
versions of selected papers from Web2Touch 2012 were published in
Concurrency and Computation (2013), Web Portals (2013) and Collaborative
Enterprise (2013) .

Contact:
Marcos Da Silveira
web2touch at easychair.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:33:54 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:33:54 +0100
Subject: Job: Postdoctoral position in MT, Idiap, Switzerland
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.223354.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:06:16 +0100
From: Andrei Popescu-Belis <andrei.popescu-belis at idiap.ch>
Message-ID: <52B47908.5040007 at idiap.ch>
X-url: http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs


Postdoctoral position in Machine Translation (OP-20131220-162727)

NLP Group, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

Description: 	

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher position in the
field of machine translation (MT), in the context of the MODERN project
(www.idiap.ch/project/modern) funded by the Swiss National Science
Foundation. The MODERN project is headed by Idiap, with partners in
Zurich, Geneva and Utrecht, and its overall goal is to model discourse
entities and relations for improving MT.

The researcher will focus on enhancing the use of text-level features
upon decoding, in a statistical MT framework. Several features are
available from our previous projects, for instance pertaining to
discourse relations or verb tenses, but also based on robust semantic
relatedness measures. In addition, work in MODERN will focus on
discourse entities (coreference and anaphora resolution) which will
offer additional text-level constraints to experiment with. We are
expecting from the postdoctoral researcher to advance the
state-of-the-art in text-level decoding with linguistically motivated
features, demonstrating improvement over existing options (such as
factored models) through quantitative evaluation.

Candidates should hold a PhD degree in statistical machine translation
or natural language processing, and demonstrate a strong publication
record at the time of application. Strong skills in programming and
statistical modeling are also expected, along with a sensitivity to MT
evaluation issues. While English is the main working language, knowledge
of French, German or Dutch (the languages targeted in MODERN) would be
an advantage. The PhD degree must be obtained before the starting date
of the position.

The position is offered for one year, with renewal for a second year
conditional on satisfactory results. Review of the applications will
start on February 1st, 2014, and will continue until the position is
filled. The appointment will start on August 1st, 2014.

How to apply:

Please fill in and submit your application through the Idiap online
recruitment system, by clicking on the position's title at
http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs.

Contact information:

Further information about this position can be requested via the Idiap
online recruitment system or by contacting Dr. Andrei Popescu-Belis,
head of the NLP group.

About Idiap: 	

Idiap is an independent, non-profit research institute recognized and
supported by the Swiss Government, and affiliated with the Ecole
Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL). It is located in the town of
Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland,
surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exciting
recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well
as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Geneva
and Lausanne. Although Idiap is located in the French part of
Switzerland, English is the working language. Free French lessons are
provided.

Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a
young, dynamic, and multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal
opportunity employer and is actively involved in the "Advancement of
Women in Science" European initiative. The Institute seeks to maintain a
principle of open competition (on the basis of merit) to appoint the
best candidate, provides equal opportunity for all candidates, and
equally encourage both genders to apply.

Andrei Popescu-Belis

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:14:36 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:14:36 +0100
Subject: Job: Ingenieur en Traitement Automatique des Langues, INIST-CNRS
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 09:08:06 +0100
From: "GAUTIER, Patricia" <Patricia.GAUTIER at inist.fr>
Message-Id: <E7513ACF-E019-47AF-886F-1A7AAFE62635 at limsi.fr>

Ing?nieur en Traitement Automatique des Langues
(Bac + 5)

Poste : Ing?nieur en Traitement Automatique des Langues
Contrat : CDD
Employeur : CNRS
Lieu de Travail : Vand?uvre-l?s-Nancy
Envoyer CV et lettre de motivation ? patricia.gautier at inist.fr

Description du poste 
L'INIST-CNRS est une unit? de service du CNRS qui collecte, traite et
diffuse de l'information scientifique et technique vers le monde de la
recherche. Dans le cadre des Initiatives d'Excellence, le CNRS est
porteur du projet ISTEX (www.istex.fr). L'INIST-CNRS pour sa part est en
charge d'une plateforme nationale permettant de stocker, h?berger et
diffuser des archives de documents scientifiques acquises dans le cadre
de ce projet. Le volume de donn?es ? traiter, l'h?t?rog?n?it? des
sources et la taille de la communaut? vis?e (ESR) est sans pr?c?dent.
L?objectif de cette plateforme est ?galement de proposer aux chercheurs
des services de traitement des donn?es (extraction de donn?es, fouille
de texte...). La personne recrut?e travaillera exclusivement sur ce
projet pendant la p?riode de son contrat et aura pour mission d??tudier
et tester les outils existants qui permettent de r?aliser des
traitements robustes de fouille et d?annotation des textes. Elle
r?alisera une analyse des outils disponibles qu?ils soient commerciaux
ou issus de travaux de recherche, et donnera des pr?conisations pour
leur int?gration dans la plateforme en cours de d?veloppement. Enfin,
elle assurera ces int?grations en collaboration avec l??quipe de
d?veloppement.

Comp?tences

Obligatoires : 
Connaissance approfondie des m?thodologies, techniques et outils de
Traitement Automatique des Langues et des formats de description de
documents, d?annotations et de ressources terminologiques (XML et, par
exemple, TEI, SKOS, TBX, ...)
Int?gration de solutions dans un environnement Linux, 
Bonne capacit? d?analyse et de synth?se.

Souhait?es : Autonomie de d?veloppement dans un langage comme Java,
Python ou PHP. Exp?rience des gros volumes de donn?es et des
technologies du Web s?mantique

Profil
De formation Bac+5 en informatique et ing?nierie des langues, vous avez
une exp?rience dans le domaine. Ayant d?j? exerc? ce type de fonction ou
pas, vous ?tes disponible et op?rationnel rapidement, vous ?tes
autonome, organis? et rigoureux. Vous avez le sens du service, une bonne
capacit? d'assimilation et d'adaptation et un bon relationnel.

Lieu : VANDOEUVRE-LES-NANCY
Contrat : CDD de 12 mois 
R?mun?ration : selon dipl?me et exp?rience
Date de d?but : 01 f?vrier 2014

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:32:27 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:32:27 +0100
Subject: Info: AFIA, Prix de These en Intelligence Artificielle 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.223227.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:02:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Amedeo Napoli <amedeo.napoli at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <1763010084.15272569.1387555327165.JavaMail.root at loria.fr>
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bonjour ? tous, 
avec toutes mes excuses pour les r?ceptions multiples, 
bonne fin d'ann?e ? tous, 
Amedeo Napoli 

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

AFIA : Prix de Th?se en Intelligence Artificielle 2014 

L'AFIA reconduit en 2014 le prix de th?se en Intelligence Artificielle,
pour faire conna?tre et reconna?tre les meilleurs travaux de recherche
des jeunes chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle.

Pour cette ?dition 2014, le jury est compos? ? la fois de membres
choisis parmi les ECCAI Fellows membres de l'AFIA et par des membres
ext?rieurs choisis pour l'occasion. Le jury est pr?sid? cette ann?e
encore par Amedeo Napoli (LORIA Nancy). Le premier prix est dot? d'un
montant de 1000 euros. Selon la qualit? des soumissions re?ues, un ou
deux autres prix ou accessits pourront ?tre attribu?s.

Les jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs ayant obtenu un doctorat en France
au cours de l'ann?e civile 2013 peuvent se porter candidat. En outre,
l'AFIA appr?cierait que les jeunes docteurs candidats soient ? jour de
leur cotisation AFIA 2014, ce qui montrerait par l? qu'ils sont
conscients du r?le que peut jouer l'AFIA pour promouvoir l'Intelligence
Artificielle sous toutes ses formes en France mais aussi ? l'?tranger.

La constitution du dossier est d?taill?e ? l'adresse :
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Prix+de+Th%C3%A8se+en+Intelligence+Artificielle

La date limite de soumission est fix?e au **** lundi 27 janvier 2014 **** 

Les r?sultats seront connus ? partir de la fin du mois d'avril. 
Le laur?at se verra remettre le prix aux cours du Congr?s RFIA qui a
lieu entre les 30 juin et 4 juillet ? Rouen, et il aura l'occasion de
pr?senter ses travaux au cours d'une session sp?ciale des Rencontres des
Jeunes Chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle (RJCIA 2014). 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:31:02 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:31:02 +0100
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.223102.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:58:03 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
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Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.

We are happy to announce that 1 new Speech Language Resource and 1 new
Written Corpus are now available in our catalogue.

*ELRA-S0365 aGender*
aGender contains speech sample recordings over public telephone lines
with read and (semi-)spontaneous speech. Native German speakers called a
voice portal from their private phone, and read text + answered some
open questions. The corpus contains the voices of 945 German speakers
(approx. minimum of 100 speakers per class), each delivering 18 speech
items in up to six different sessions.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1214

*ELRA-W0074 Amharic-English bilingual corpus*
The Amharic-English bilingual corpus contains parallel text from legal
and news domains in Amharic script, in transliterated form and in
English. The size of the corpus is of 232,653 words in Amharic and
291,701 in English.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1215

For more information on the catalogue, please contact Val?rie Mapelli
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

Visit our On-line Catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info
Visit the Universal Catalogue: http://universal.elra.info
Archives of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates: 
http://www.elra.info/LRs-Announcements.html

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:44:28 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:44:28 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: BLRI, Pascal Belin, Aix-en-Provence, 24 janvier 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.214428.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:43:15 +0100
From: Nad?ra Bureau <nadera.bureau at lpl-aix.fr>
Message-ID: <016601cefc10$3fdf5400$bf9dfc00$@bureau at lpl-aix.fr>


Vendredi 24 janvier 2014

11h Salle de conf?rences B011, b?t. B 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence

(Labex BLRI)

Pascal Belin 

(Institut des Neurosciences de La Timone, UMR 7289, CNRS & Aix-Marseille
Universit?, Marseille, France)

A Vocal Brain: Cerebral Processing of Voice Information

R?sum? : The human voice carries speech but also a wealth of
socially-relevant, speaker-related information. Listeners routinely
perceive precious information on the speaker's identity (gender, age),
affective state (happy, scared), as well as more subtle cues on
perceived personality traits (attractiveness, dominance, etc.), strongly
influencing social interactions. Using voice psychoacoustics and
neuroimaging techniques, we examine the cerebral processing of
person-related information in perceptual and neural voice
representations. Results indicate a cerebral architecture of voice
cognition sharing many similarities with the cerebral organization of
face processing, with the main types of information in voices (identity,
affect, speech) processed in interacting, but partly dissociable
functional pathways.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:22:52 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:22:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: TSD 2014, Preliminary Announcement
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.212252.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:39:52 +0100
From: TSD 2014 <xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz>
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       *********************************************************
                  TSD 2014 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
       *********************************************************

   Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
                               (TSD 2014)

               Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014
                     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


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.


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
    Paul Cook, Australia
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, GB
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
    Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    Diana McCarthy, United Kingdom
    France Mihelic, Slovenia
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Elmar Noeth, Germany
    Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Fabio Pianesi, Italy
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    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
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, GB
    Marcin Wolinski, Poland
    Victor Zakharov, Russia


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA
    Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy


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.


CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The conference program will include oral presentations and
poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of
the issues raised.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstract
March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date

The contributions to the conference 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.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to
    
    Ales Horak, TSD 2014
    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: tsd2014 at tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2014 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).


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:49:06 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:49:06 +0100
Subject: Stage: Internship in NLP and MT, Idiap, Switzerland
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.224906.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:06:35 +0100
From: Andrei Popescu-Belis <andrei.popescu-belis at idiap.ch>
Message-ID: <52B4791B.40306 at idiap.ch>
X-url: http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs


Internship in Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation 
(OP-20131220-163254)

NLP Group, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

Description: 	

Applications are invited for a 6-month internship at the Master level in
the field of natural language processing and statistical machine
translation. The internship is offered in relation to the Swiss MODERN
project (www.idiap.ch/project/modern) aiming at modeling discourse
entities and relations for improving MT. The intern will work within the
NLP group at the Idiap Research Institute.

The goal of the internship is to integrate existing tools for anaphora
resolution (in-house and third party ones) with phrase-based SMT models
(mainly using the Moses open-source system). Following previous work,
the intern will examine whether statistical predictions about the
features of target pronouns (gender, number, grammatical function, and
others) can be used when training SMT and when translating (decoding)
new texts. The intern will implement methods to derive such features,
will use the features in an SMT model (e.g. a factored one), and will
measure the variation in translation quality.

The applicants should have a background in computer science or
linguistics, with previous experience in SMT and NLP being a strong
advantage. The applicants should have demonstrable programming skills in
at least one programming language such as Perl or Python, Java or C/C++.
Experience with the Moses system and/or anaphora resolution systems
would be a plus. Good command of English is mandatory and knowledge of
another European language such as French, German or Dutch would be an
advantage.

The screening of the applications will start on February 1st, 2014 and
will continue until the position is filled. The intended starting date
is in spring 2014. The appointment is for 6 months, with a gross
internship salary of 2000 CHF per month. Participation in the MODERN
project will entail interaction with project partners at the
Universities of Zurich, Geneva, and Utrecht.

How to apply:

Please fill in and submit your application through the Idiap online
recruitment system, by clicking on the position's title at
http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs.

Contact information:

Further information about this position can be requested via the Idiap
online recruitment system or by contacting Dr. Andrei Popescu-Belis,
head of the NLP group.

About Idiap: 	

Idiap is an independent, non-profit research institute recognized and
supported by the Swiss Government, and affiliated with the Ecole
Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL). It is located in the town of
Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland,
surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exciting
recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well
as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Geneva
and Lausanne. Although Idiap is located in the French part of
Switzerland, English is the working language. Free French lessons are
provided.

Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a
young, dynamic, and multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal
opportunity employer and is actively involved in the "Advancement of
Women in Science" European initiative. The Institute seeks to maintain a
principle of open competition (on the basis of merit) to appoint the
best candidate, provides equal opportunity for all candidates, and
equally encourage both genders to apply.

Andrei Popescu-Belis

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:23:39 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:23:39 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste d'Ingenieur d'Etude au GREYC (date limite: 16 Janvier
 2014)
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.212339.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:38:29 +0100
From: Ga?l Dias <gael.dias at unicaen.fr>
Message-ID: <52B1B365.1040909 at unicaen.fr>
X-url: http://web-rh.dsi.cnrs.fr/afip/owa/consult.affiche_fonc?code_fonc=V61008&code_corps=&code_dr=19&code_bap=&code_ds=61&nbjours=


--- D?sol? pour les diffusions multiples ---

==================================================
==========       POSTE IE au GREYC      ==========
========== Date Limite: 16 Janvier 2014 ==========
==================================================

Le GREYC UMR 6072 ? Caen recherche un ing?nieur d'?tude. En
collaboration avec les ?quipes de recherche du laboratoire, l?ing?nieur
travaillera ? la conception de plateformes logicielles autour des
traitements d?images, des documents num?riques et des langues, de la
r?solution dans les syst?mes complexes et de l?optimisation et de la
s?curit?.

Le poste est ? pourvoir en premier lieu par mobilit? interne au CNRS
(NOEMI). Mais si aucun candidat ne convient, les candidatures de
fonctionnaires externes au CNRS seront examin?es.

La campagne est ouverte jusqu'au 16 janvier 2014.

Le profil du poste peut ?tre trouv? ? l'url suivante:

http://web-rh.dsi.cnrs.fr/afip/owa/consult.affiche_fonc?code_fonc=V61008&code_corps=&code_dr=19&code_bap=&code_ds=61&nbjours=

Pour tout renseignement compl?mentaire, n'h?sitez pas ? contacter Ga?l
Dias, Professeur des Universit?s (gael.dias at uniaen.fr) de l'Universit?
de Caen Basse-Normandie et responsable de l'?quipe HULTECH (Human
Language Technology) au GREYC.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 20:20:58 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:20:58 +0100
Subject: Job: Post-doc, Labex OBVIL
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.212058.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:02:24 +0100
From: Jean-Gabriel Ganascia <Jean-Gabriel at Ganascia.name>
Message-ID: <52B15690.6080701 at Ganascia.name>

*Paris - Sorbonne Universit?s*

*INTITULE DU POSTE *

**

*Ing?nieur attach? au Labex OBVIL (sp?cialit? intelligence
 artificielle)*

/Cat?gorie : contrat post-doctoral/

/Prise de fonction : 1^er mars 2014/

/Dur?e : CDD renouvelable/

*Structure de r?f?rence :**Laboratoire d?excellence OBVIL*

*Localisation g?ographique : Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue serpente,
75006 Paris*

*Rattachements hi?rarchiques au sein de la structure :**Directeur du
LABEX OBVIL, Didier Alexandre, Directeur Adjoint du LABEX OBVIL,
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia*

*N+1 de l?agent :**Jean-Gabriel Ganascia*

*Quotit? de travail inh?rente au poste : 100%***

*Missions du Service*

Ce poste est destin? ? un jeune chercheur en intelligence artificielle
qui porte un int?r?t aux *humanit?s num?riques*.

Le Laboratoire d?excellence OBVIL s?inscrit dans le cadre du PRES
Sorbonne-Universit?s etr?unit des chercheurs appartenant ? 7 ?quipes
d?accueil, ? 2 UMR du CNRS. Il regroupe des enseignants-chercheurs et
des chercheurs des universit?s Paris-Sorbonne et Pierre-et-Marie-Curie,
les uns sp?cialistes de litt?rature, les autres de sciences cognitives
et d?informatique.

Il entend d?velopper toutes les ressources offertes par les applications
informatiques pour examiner aussi bien la litt?rature fran?aise du pass?
que la plus contemporaine. Il s?int?resse aux questions de la valeur
litt?raire, de la vie litt?raire, de l?auctorialit? et ? l??tude des
traductions, des transpositions, des adaptations pour comprendre la
mani?re dont se constituent les canons.

Il d?veloppe des programmes et outils dans le cadre des programmes de
recherche du labex OBVIL.

*Fonctions de l?agent*

Les fonctions de l?agent sont la contribution de cet agent aux missions
du service.

*D?veloppements logiciels pour les humanit?s num?riques :*

- Des outils num?riques de comparaison de textes, de recherche
  d?homologies dans les textes, de d?tection d?entit?s nomm?es,
  d?indexation s?mantique, de cartographie de corpus, de construction et
  de visualisation d?ontologies etc. ont ?t? r?alis?es ces derni?res
  ann?es dans le cadre de l??quipe ACASA du LIP6 - Universit? Pierre et
  Marie Curie et du labex OBVIL. Il s?agit maintenant de les mettre ?
  disposition d?une communaut? large compos?e non seulement des
  chercheurs en litt?rature de l?OBVIL mais aussi de l?ensemble du
  public int?ress?.  L?agent contribuera ? les valider sur des corpus
  cons?quents et ? r?aliser des interfaces pour les rendre accessibles ?
  tous sur le web.

  Activit?s de l?agent

/Les activit?s sont les principales op?rations ? effectuer pour remplir 
les fonctions./

/Elles sont la traduction concr?te des fonctions./

- Un premier volet portera sur la conception d?interface d?acc?s aux
  outils d?alignement de texte (MEDITE), de d?tection d?homologies dans
  les s?quences (PHOEBUS) et de rep?rage de structures annulaires. Il
  s?agit non seulement de visualiser les r?sultats, mais mettre ces
  outils en acc?s libre sur le web.

- Un second volet de l?activit? portera sur le d?veloppement
  d?ontologies pour l?indexation de textes litt?raires et sur
  l?introduction des techniques du Web s?mantique dans leur traitement.

- Enfin, un troisi?me volet portera sur la cartographie de corpus ?
  l?aide des ?les de m?moire d?velopp?es au sein de l??quipe ACASA.


  Comp?tences

Les comp?tences se traduisent par des savoirs, savoir-faire, savoir-?tre.

Etre titulaire d?une th?se d?informatique.

Ma?triser :

- les concepts fondamentaux de l?intelligence artificielle

- les techniques de base du traitement de la langue naturelle,

- la conception d?interfaces visuelles,

- les notions essentielles du web s?mantique (ontologies, repr?sentation
  des connaissances, etc.).

Avoir la capacit? ? s?int?grer ? une ?quipe de recherche en informatique
et montrer un int?r?t pour les humanit?s num?riques.

*Personne(s) ? contacter:*

/ALEXANDRE Didier, directeur du LABEX OBVIL/

/didier.alexandre at paris-sorbonne.fr/

/GANASCIA Jean-Gabriel, directeur de l??quipe ACASA du LIP6 - Universit?
Pierre et Marie Curie/

/Jean-Gabriel.Ganascia at lip6.fr/

/Le dossier consistera en un CV, une pr?sentation du doctorat, des
activit?s et contrats de recherche ant?rieurs, et une lettre de
motivation. /

*Date limite du d?p?t des candidatures : 1^er f?vrier 2014 aupr?s du 
Labex OBVIL, Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, Maison de la Recherche, 26 rue 
Serpente, 75006 Paris ou aupr?s de clarisse.barthelemy at gmail.com*

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:37:36 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:37:36 +0100
Subject: Sujet de These: PhD Position in NLP for MT, Idiap, Switzerland
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.223736.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:06:23 +0100
From: Andrei Popescu-Belis <andrei.popescu-belis at idiap.ch>
Message-ID: <52B4790F.6030808 at idiap.ch>
X-url: http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs


PhD Position in Natural Language Processing for Machine Translation
(OP-20131220-162332)

NLP Group, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

Description: 	

Applications are invited for a PhD position in natural language
processing applied to machine translation, in the context of the MODERN
project headed by Idiap, with partners in Zurich, Geneva and Utrecht
(www.idiap.ch/project/modern) funded by the Swiss National Science
Foundation. The overall goal of the project is to model discourse
entities and relations for improving MT.

The goal of the doctoral thesis, within MODERN, will be to design a
probabilistic model of text-level coreference and anaphora resolution,
in relation to discourse structure. The model will take advantage of
rich semi-structured resources and semantic relatedness measures, along
with insights on the interplay between referential and discursive
relations. The model will be implemented and tested both intrinsically,
on coreference tasks for English and a second language, and
extrinsically, in combination to machine translation. Work on this
latter aspect will involve collaboration with a postdoc in MT.

Candidates should have a strong background in computer science, and good
knowledge of natural language processing, in particular of statistical
methods based on machine learning. They should have strong programming
skills (e.g. in Python, Perl, Java or C/C++) as well as good knowledge
of English as a working language. Knowledge of another language such as
French, German, or Dutch is an advantage. A strong academic record and a
clear aptitude for creative research will be priority selection
criteria.

The successful candidate will be registered as a PhD student in the EPFL
EDEE doctoral program, to which he/she will have to apply with support
from Idiap. The position is funded by the Swiss National Science
Foundation, with a maximum duration of four years.

Review of the applications will start immediately and will continue
until the position is filled. The starting date is March 2014, but later
dates can be considered as well.

How to apply:

Please fill in and submit your application through the Idiap online
recruitment system, by clicking on the position's title at
http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs.

Contact information:

Further information about this position can be requested via the Idiap
online recruitment system or by contacting Dr. Andrei Popescu-Belis,
head of the NLP group.

About Idiap: 	

Idiap is an independent, non-profit research institute recognized and
supported by the Swiss Government, and affiliated with the Ecole
Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL). It is located in the town of
Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland,
surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exciting
recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well
as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Geneva
and Lausanne. Although Idiap is located in the French part of
Switzerland, English is the working language. Free French lessons are
provided.

Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a
young, dynamic, and multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal
opportunity employer and is actively involved in the "Advancement of
Women in Science" European initiative. The Institute seeks to maintain a
principle of open competition (on the basis of merit) to appoint the
best candidate, provides equal opportunity for all candidates, and
equally encourage both genders to apply.

Andrei Popescu-Belis

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Dec 20 21:28:31 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:28:31 +0100
Subject: Cursus: Master Erasmus Mundus en TAL
Message-ID: <FRI.20.DEC.2013.222831.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:25:46 +0100
From: Sylvain Pogodalla <Sylvain.Pogodalla at inria.fr>
Message-ID: <21172.21354.208537.589923 at fanon.loria.fr>
X-url: http://lct-master.org
X-url: http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/mundus_en.htm
X-url: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus_mundus/


*Bourses de master* pour ?tudiants *europ?ens et non europ?ens.*

? diffuser aupr?s des ?tudiants qui souhaitent faire un master.

Le programme Erasmus Mundus en "Language and Communication
Technologies" (EMMLCT) http://lct-master.org

invite les ?tudiants *europ?ens* et *non europ?ens* ? postuler ? la
participation ? ce programme.

*La date limite de candidature est le 12 janvier 2014.*

*Informations importantes*

+ enseignement en anglais
+ dur?e: 2 ans
+ chaque ann?e d'?tude dans un ?tablissement partenaire diff?rent
+ sp?cialisation dans les m?thodes et technologies de l'informatique
  linguistique
+ bourses d'?tudes du programme Erasmus Mundus de l'Union Europ?enne, *y
  compris pour les ?tudiants europ?ens*

*Le programme EMMLCT est propos? par le consortium d'universit?s*

1. Saarland University in Saarbruecken, Germany (coordinator)
2. University of Trento, Trento, Italy
3. University of Malta, Malta
4. University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
5. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
6. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
7. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
8. The University of Melbourne, Australia

L'Universit? du pays Basque / Euskal Herriko University, San
Sebastian, Spain participe ?galement comme partenaire associ?.


*Le programme EMMLCT en bref*

Le programme EMMLCT est un Master international. Le programme propose
d'?tudier chacune des deux ann?es dans une universit? diff?rente du
consortium. Lorsque les conditions ont ?t? remplies, les ?tudiants
obtiennent deux Masters qui ont une reconnaissance nationale dans chacun
des pays d'?tudes.

Les cours comprennent des modules fondamentaux obligatoires ainsi que
des modules avanc?s en technologies du langage et de la communication et
en informatique, un projet optionnel, et la r?daction d'un m?moire de
Master.

Le programme vise ? donner aux ?tudiants des comp?tences et des
perspectives sur les disciplines vari?es qui contribuent aux m?thodes
utilis?es dans les technologies du langage et de la communication et ?
renforcer leur connaissance des m?thodes scientifiques. De plus, les
?tudiants acqui?rent des connaissances pratiques en choisissant une
combinaison de modules en technologie du langage, en linguistique
informatique et th?orique, et en informatique. Le programme EMMLCT a ?t?
d?fini pour prendre en compte les demandes de l'industrie et de la
recherche dans le domaine des technologies des langues. Il offre des
perspectives d'apprentissage et de formation

Le programme EMMLCT est approuv? et soutenu par le programme Erasmus
Mundus de l'Union Europ?enne. Pour plus d'information?:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/mundus_en.htm
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus_mundus/.


*Candidatures*

Tous les candidats doivent satisfaire les conditions suivantes :

1. Avoir une Licence (ou un dipl?me ?quivalent) en informatique,
   linguistique, informatique linguistique, sciences cognitives,
   math?matiques, intelligence artificielle ou tout autre discipline
   pertinente. Ce dipl?me doit avoir ?t? obtenu avant le d?but des cours
   du master EMMLCT.

2. Comp?tences linguistiques?: pour les ?tudiants dont la langue
   maternelle n'est pas l'anglais, un certificat d'aptitude en anglais,
   langue d'enseignement, est requis (TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge
   certificate, etc.)


Les candidatures se font en ligne. Plus d'information et les
instructions pour la candidature se trouvent ? : http://lct-master.org

Adresse pour de plus amples informations : lct-info at coli.uni-sb.de

Coordination du programme :
Prof. Hans Uszkoreit 
Dr. Ing. Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova
Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
Saarland University
Saarbruecken, Germany
http://lct-master.org

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 24 17:44:14 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:44:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland
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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 08:28:18 +0000
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1st (Preliminary) Call for Papers - Coling 2014

The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

August 23 - 29, 2014

Dublin, Ireland

http://www.coling-2014.org

The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is
pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (Coling 2014), at Dublin City University (DCU, Dublin,
Ireland, European Union). DCU is a young, dynamic and ambitious
university with a mission to transform lives and societies through
education, research and innovation. Most of the local organizers are
from CNGL, Ireland?s Centre for Global Intelligent Content (formerly the
Centre for Next Generation Localization), which embodies the leading
position of Ireland in the global localization/internationalization
business, a strong focus on language technologies including machine
translation, computational linguistics and natural language processing,
as well as on intelligent management, search, retrieval, transformation
and adaptation of content.

Coling will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural
language and computation. The conference will include full papers
(presented as oral presentations or posters), demonstrations, tutorials,
and workshops.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Coling 2014 solicits papers and demonstrations on original and
unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited
to:

- pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon;

- cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language
  processing;

- models of communication by language;

- lexical semantics and ontologies;

- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;

- parsing, both syntactic and deep;

- generation and summarization;

- paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;

- speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;

- multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;

- information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base
  linking;

- machine learning for natural language;

- modeling of discourse and dialogue;

- sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;

- multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;

- applications, tools and language resources;

- system evaluation methodology and metrics.

In all relevant areas, we encourage authors to include analysis of the
influence of theories (intuitions, methodologies, insights, ? to
technologies (computational algorithms, methods, tools, data, ? and/or
contributions of technologies to theory development. In technologically
oriented papers, we encourage in-depth analysis and discussion of errors
made in the experiments described, if possible linking them to the
presence or absence of linguistically-motivated features. Contributions
that display and rigorously discuss future potential, even if not (yet)
attested in standard evaluation, are welcome.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS

Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed
work or well-advanced ongoing research rather than intended work, and
should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported
results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be
included.

Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical
strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to
the attendees.

Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new
material that has not been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted in parallel to
other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as
must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published
work.

REVIEWING

Reviewing will be double blind. It will be managed by an international
Conference Program Committee consisting of Program Chairs, members of
the Scientific Advisory Board and Area Chairs, who will be assisted by
invited reviewers.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

For Coling 2014, there will be one category of research papers only. All
of the papers will be included in conference proceedings, this time in
electronic form only.

The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus two extra pages for
references.  Authors of accepted papers will be given additional space
in the camera-ready version to reflect space needed for changes stemming
from reviewers?comments.  Authors can indicate their preference for
presentation mode (i.e. oral or poster presentation) in the submission
form, and the reviewers will recommend an appropriate mode of
presentation to the program committee which will then decide. There will
be no distinction in the proceedings between research papers presented
orally vs. as posters.

Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymized with regard to the
authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on
the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style
as usual. Papers must conform to official Coling 2014 style guidelines,
which will be available on the Coling 2014 website. Submission and
reviewing will be managed online by the START system. The only accepted
format for submitted papers is in Adobe?s PDF.

Submissions must be uploaded on the START system by the submission
deadlines; submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimize
network congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as
early as possible.

Important Notice

[1] In order to allow participants to be acquainted with the published
papers ahead of time which in turn should facilitate discussions at
Coling 2014, we have set the official publication date two weeks before
the conference, i.e., on August 11, 2014. On that day, the papers will
be available online for all participants to download, print and read. If
your employer is taking steps to protect intellectual property related
to your paper, please inform them about this timing.

[2] While submissions are anonymous, we strongly encourage authors to
plan for depositing language resources and other data as well as tools
used and/or developed for the experiments described in the papers, if
the paper is accepted. In this respect, we encourage authors then to
deposit resources and tools to available open-access repositories of
language resources and/or repositories of tools (such as META-SHARE,
Clarin, ELRA, LDC or AFNLP/COCOSDA for data, and github, sourceforge,
CPAN and similar for software and tools) and refer to them instead of
submitting them with the paper, even though it will also be an open
possibility (through the START system). The details will be given in the
submission site for camera-ready versions of accepted papers.

[3] There will be a separate call for demonstrations in
February. Accepted papers on demonstrations will also be included in the
proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

January, 2014: Opening of the submission website

March 21, 2014: Paper submission deadline

May 9-12, 2014: Author response period

May 23, 2014: Author notification

June 6, 2014: Camera-ready PDF due

August 11, 2014: Official paper publication date

August 25-29, 2014: Main conference


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Committee Co-chairs

Junichi Tsujii (Microsoft Research, China)

Jan Hajic (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)


Scientific Advisory Board members

Ralph Grishman (New York University, USA)

Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Michael Picheny (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Donia Scott (Unviersity of Sussex, United Kingdom)

Chengqing Zong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)


Area Chairs

1. Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP

Emily M. Bender  (University of Washington, USA)

Eva Hajicova (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Igor Boguslavsky (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)


2. Machine Learning for CL and NLP

Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (University of Tokyo, Japan)


3. Cognitive Issues in CL and NLP

Philippe Blache (CNRS & CNRS & Aix-Marseille Universit?, France)

Ted Gibson (MIT, USA)


4.  Morphology, Word Segmentation, Tagging and Chunking

Reut Tsarfaty (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Yue Zhang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)


5. Syntax, Grammar Induction, Syntactic and Semantic Parsing

Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t, Germany)

Ryan McDonald (Google, USA)


6. Lexical Semantics and Ontologies

Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Alessandro Oltramari (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)


7. Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional
Semantics

Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)

Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)


8. Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue

Nicolas Asher (CNRS & Universit? Paul Sabatier, France)

Marilyn Walker (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)


9. Natural Language Generation and Summarization

Albert Gatt (University of Malta, Malta)

Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen, UK)


10. Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment

Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)

Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University, Japan)


11. Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Social Media

Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan, USA)

Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)


12.  Information Retrieval and Question Answering

Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Siddharth Patwardhan (IBM Research, USA)


13. Information Extraction and Database Linking

James Curran (University of Sydney, Australia)

Seung-won Hwang (Postec, Korea)


14. Applications

Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)

Heyan Huang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Guillaume Jacquet (Joint Research Centre, Italy)


15. Multimodal and Natural Language Interfaces and Dialog Systems

Kristiina Jokinen  (University of Helsinki, Finland)

David Traum (University of Southern California, USA)


16. Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding

Nick Campbell  (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Alex Potamianos (National Technical University Crete, Greece)


17. Machine Translation

Phillip Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK / Johns Hopkins University,
USA)

Chris Quirk (Microsoft Research, USA)

Tiejun Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)


18. Resources

Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay, India)

Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, USA)


19. Languages with less resources

Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Rajeev Sangal (IIT Banaras Hindu University, India)

Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen, Norway)


20. Software and Tools

Jes?s Carde?osa (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)

Jing-Shin Chang (National Chi Nan University,Taiwan)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 24 17:34:18 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:34:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC 2014, Workshops and Tutorials
Message-ID: <TUE.24.DEC.2013.183418.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:35:58 +0100
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[Apologies for multiple postings]

Schedule of all the LREC 2014 Workshops and Tutorials is now online at 
http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/conference-programme/workshops-and-tutorials.
On this web page you will find a link to each Workshop Call for Papers 
and each Tutorial Outline, when available.
Don't hesitate to contact Workshop and/or Tutorial organisers if you 
have specific questions on their event.

For general LREC 2014 matters, please contact us at 
http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/contact/

www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2014
Follow us on Twitter: @LREC2014 (https://twitter.com/LREC2014)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 24 17:45:38 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:45:38 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC 2014 Workshop on Building and Using Comparable
 Corpora (7th BUCC)
Message-ID: <TUE.24.DEC.2013.184538.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 14:42:26 +0100
From: "Reinhard Rapp" <reinhardrapp at gmx.de>
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We apologize for multiple postings
Please distribute to interested colleagues 

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

  1st Call for Papers

  7th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA

  Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

  http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/

  May 27, 2014
  Co-located with LREC 2014
  Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland) 

  DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 10, 2014
  https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/

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

MOTIVATION

In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in
comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language
engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use
comparable corpora as training data for statistical Natural Language
Processing applications such as statistical machine translation or
cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable
corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible
inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted
in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or
several languages that are comparable in content and form in various
degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and
observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine
such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of
great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.
 
The scarcity of parallel corpora has motivated research concerning the
use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected
according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or
language varieties. Non-parallel yet comparable corpora overcome the two
limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual
texts are much more abundant than translated texts.  However, because of
their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more
challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable
corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention:
while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward,
building a non-parallel corpus requires control over the selection of
source texts in both languages.

Parallel corpora are a key resource as training data for statistical
machine translation, and for building or extending bilingual lexicons
and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English-
French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary
debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the
creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the
Web. To exemplify such issues in a practical setting, this year's
special focus will be on

    Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

This special topic aims to address the need for:
(1) Machine Translation training and testing data such as spoken or
    written monolingual, comparable or parallel data collections, and
(2) methods and tools used for collecting, annotating, and verifying MT
    data such as Web crawling, crowdsourcing, tools for language experts
    and for finding MT data in comparable corpora.


TOPICS

We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following
topics:

Topics related to the special theme:
  * Methods and tools for collecting and processing MT data,
        including crowdsourcing
  * Methods and tools for quality control
  * Tools for efficient annotation
  * Bilingual term and named entity collections
  * Multilingual treebanks, wordnets, propbanks, etc.
  * Comparable corpora with parallel units annotated
  * Comparable corpora for under-resourced languages and specific
    domains
  * Multilingual corpora with rich annotations:
        POS tags, NEs, dependencies, semantic roles, etc.
  * Data for special applications: patent translation, movie
        subtitles, MOOCs, meetings, chat-rooms, social media, etc.
  * Legal issues with collecting and redistributing data
        and generating derivatives

Building comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Automatic and semi-automatic methods
  * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
  * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
  * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
  * Rare and minority languages, across language families
  * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Language learning
  * Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
  * Bilingual projections
  * Machine translation
  * Writing assistance

Mining from comparable corpora:
  * Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable
    corpora
  * Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single
        words and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities,
        etc.


IMPORTANT DATES
 
  February 10, 2014    Deadline for submission of full papers
      March 10, 2014    Notification of acceptance
      March 27, 2014    Camera-ready papers due
         May 27, 2014    Workshop date
 

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to be
announced on the conference website http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/ )
and should be submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
  https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6)
pages. Characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused
contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an
interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must describe
substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without exceeding
ten (10) pages.

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the
authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.
 
Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the
workshop organizers.
 
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research.  Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse,
replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.

For further information, please contact
    Pierre Zweigenbaum pz (at) limsi (dot) fr


ORGANISERS
 
  Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France)
  Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)
  Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
  Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Aix-Marseille (France)


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

  * Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  * Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, US)
  * Caroline Barri?re (CRIM, Montr?al, Canada)
  * Chris Biemann (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
  * Herv? D?jean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
  * Kurt Eberle (Lingenio, Heidelberg, Germany)
  * Andreas Eisele (European Commission, Luxembourg)
  * ?ric Gaussier (Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
  * Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France)
  * Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
  * Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
  * Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  * Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
  * Natalie K?bler (Universit? Paris Diderot, France)
  * Philippe Langlais (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada)
  * Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US)
  * Emmanuel Morin (Universit? de Nantes, France)
  * Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US)
  * Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  * Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
  * Reinhard Rapp (Universit? Aix-Marseille, France)
  * Sujith Ravi (Google, US)
  * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
  * Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
  * Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US)
  * Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
  * Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
  * Guillaume Wisniewski (Universit? Paris Sud & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
  * Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:39:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: Entity Extraction and Linking Challenge (#Microposts2014 @
 WWW2014)
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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:22:13 +0000
From: ampaeli cano <ampaeli at gmail.com>
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=======================================================================
              Entity Extraction and Linking Challenge
           at the 4th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop
                   (#Microposts2014) @ WWW 2014
   http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2014/challenge/index.html
            7 April 2014, Seoul, Republic of Korea
=======================================================================

Microposts are a highly popular medium to share facts, opinions or
emotions. They are an invaluable wealth of data, ready to be mined for
training predictive modelings. This year the #Microposts 2014 Workshop
will host an "Entity Extraction and Linking Challenge".
The overall task of the challenge is to automatically extract entities
from English microposts, and link them to the corresponding English
DBpedia v3.9 resources (if the linkage exists). As linking stage we aim
to to disambiguate expressions that are formed by discrete (and
typically short) sequences of words.

Existing entity linking tools are intended for use over news corpora and
similar document-based corpora with relatively long length. We organise
this challenge to foster research into novel, more accurate solutions
for the automatic entity linking in (much shorter) micropost data.
We will ask the participants to automatically extract entities (e.g.,
Obama, London, Rakuten) belonging to all entity types (e.g., Person,
Location, Organisation) from a collection of microposts. Participants
will have to automatically provide context-relevant DBpedia resources
for each entity in a micropost.

DATASET
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The dataset comprises of 3.5K tweets extracted from a much larger
collection of over 18 million tweets. This collection, provided by the
Redites project (http://demeter.inf.ed.ac.uk/redites/), covers
event-annotated tweets collected for the period of 15th July 2011 to
15th August 2011 (31 days). It extends over multiple noteworthy events
including the death of Amy Winhehouse, the London Riots and the Oslo
bombing. Since the task of this challenge is to automatically extract
and link entities, we have built our dataset considering both event and
non-event tweets.  While event tweets are more likely to contain
entities, non-event tweets enable us to evaluate the performance of the
system in avoiding false positives in the entity extraction phase.

The dataset has been split into a training (70%) and testing (30%) sets.
Following the Twitter TOS we will only provide tweet IDs and annotations
for the training set; and tweet IDs for the test set. We will also
provide a common framework to mine these datasets from Twitter.

The training set will be released as tsv file where each line consists
of :
- tweet_id
- entity_mention_1
- entity_uri_1
...
- entity_mention_n
- entity_uri_n
Tokens are separated by TABs. Entity mentions and uris are listed
according to their appearance order in the tweet.

We will timely advertise the release of the data sets on the workshop
mailing list. Please subscribe to https://groups.google.com/d/
forum/microposts2014. More information about dates are available in the
Challenge website.

EVALUATION
----------
The evaluation consists of two separated stages:

1.- Paper peer review : A community of experts of the domain will judge
    the quality and applicability of the approaches taken, to provide
    useful insights on your research;

2.- Precision and Recall: F1 (F-measure with beta = 1) will be computed
    on a gold standard manually created from the test set. The
    automatically extracted entities and links will be both matched
    against this ground truth.

All submissions will be only ranked according to the F1 of each best
submission.

SUBMISSIONS
-----------
Submissions should be provided as a zip file using your system name as
the file name (e.g. 'awesome.zip'), containing:

1. a TSV file with your system name (e.g. 'awesome.tsv'). We accept up
   to 3 different submissions, and we will consider *only* the best. If
   you do so you must specify clearly in your paper the modifications
   applied to each labelled submission. In this case the submission
   should contain each of up to 3 TSV files with the tool/system name
   with "_n" appended to each (e.g.  awesome_1.tsv, awesome_2.tsv,
   awesome_3 ).  In order to evaluate your submissions we require you to
   submit a tsv file following the format in which the training set is
   provided.

2. a paper of 6 pages describing your approach and how you tuned/tested
   it using the training split. All submissions must be in
   English. Submissions must be in PDF formatted in the style of the
   Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science
   (LNCS) [http://www.springer.com/
   computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0]. For details on the LNCS style,
   see Springer?s Author Instructions. All submissions are not
   anonymous. Please send us your submission before the deadline through
   Easychair [
   https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2014]. All
   accepted submissions will be invited for short presentations during
   the #Microposts2014 workshop and will be published independently from
   the workshop proceedings on the challenge page and on CEUR
   [http://ceur-ws.org/] (note that a minimum number of papers should be
   submitted in order to be able to publish them on CEUR).

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Intent to participate: 13 Jan 2014 (soft)
Release of training set: 14 Jan 2014
Release of test set: 17 Feb 2014
Challenge Submission deadline: 21 Feb 2014 (hard)
Challenge Notification: 14 Mar 2014  (hard)
Challenge camera-ready deadline: 24 Mar 2014 (hard)

Workshop program issued: 15 Mar 2014
Challenge proceedings to be published via CEUR
Workshop - 07 Apr 2014 (Registration open to all)
(All deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time)

PRIZE
-----
to be announced

CONTACT
-------
E-mail: microposts2014 at easychair.org
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910
Facebook Public Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/116134955169543
Google group : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/microposts2014
Twitter hashtag: #microposts2014challenge
Twitter account: @Microposts2014
W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts

Challenge Organizers:
------------------------------
Challenge Chair:
A. Elizabeth Cano, Aston University, UK
Giuseppe Rizzo,  Universit? di Torino, Italy

Dataset  Chair:
Andrea Varga, The University of Sheffield, UK

Challenge  Committee:
---------------------
Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada
Pierpaolo Basile, Dipartimento di Informatica - University of Bari, Italy
Uldis Bojars, SIOC Project
?scar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain
Leon Derczynski, The University of Sheffield, UK
Guillaume Er?t?o, Orange Labs
Miriam Fernandez, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Andr?s Garc?a-Silva, Ontology Engineering Group, Facultad de Inform?tica,
Univesidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain
Anna Lisa Gentile, The University of Sheffield, UK
Robert J?schke, L3S Research Center, Germany
Diana Maynard,  The University of Sheffield, UK
Jos? M. Morales-Del-Castillo, El Colegio de M?xico, Mexico
Georgios Paltoglou, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Daniel Preo?iuc-Pietro, The University of Sheffield, UK
Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, France
Mischa Tuffield, PeerIndex
Victoria Uren, Aston University, UK

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Dec 24 17:46:48 2013
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 18:46:48 +0100
Subject: Stage: Extraction d'information dans la presse financiere,
 MarketScience
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:05:42 +0100
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Titre : "Extraction d'information dans la presse financi?re"

MarketScience est une start-up en finance, qui d?veloppe un centre de
Data-Mining int?gr? ? une appli. Cette appli sera commercialis?e sur la
plateforme Bloomberg, ? une client?le de professionnels de la finance.

MarketScience combine mod?lisation des s?ries financi?res et
media-mining. L'extraction d'information financi?re sp?cifique ? nos
besoins se fait en mobilisant des algos de TAL.

Ces algos permettent de

1. d?terminer la nature de l'article et sa probabilit? de contenir une
   information pertinente pour notre analyse

2. isoler l'information n?cessaire et la relier ? l'?volution sur
   certains march?s

3. cat?goriser cette information au sein de facteurs ?conomiques
   pr?-identifi?s

Ce travail se faisant tout d'abord en anglais (80% de la volum?trie
journali?re), mais aussi en fran?ais, allemand, italien, russe et
chinois.

Vous travaillerez essentiellement avec les outils suivants : Python,
Unitex et MySQL/ SQL.

Une connaissance des techniques du TAL (Traitement Automatique des
Langues) ou des techniques d'apprentissage et de classification (SVM,
CRF, etc.)  est consid?r?e comme fortement souhaitable.

Ce stage se d?roulera au sein d'une ?quipe pluridisciplinaire compos?e
de statisticiens, ?conomistes, programmeurs et ing?nieurs TAListes.

Dur?e du Stage : 4 ? 6 mois ? partir de f?vrier 2014. Embauche ? la cl?.
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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:22:39 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC 2014 Workshop on Free/Open-Source Arabic Corpora and
 Corpora Processing Tools
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1st Call for Papers

WORKSHOP ON Free/Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools

http://www.kacstac.org.sa/osact/index.html

  May 27, 2014
  Co-located with LREC 2014
  Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland)

  DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 10, 2014
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/OSACT/

============================================================
Workshop description

For Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL)
communities, it was a known situation that Arabic is a resource poor
language. This situation was thought to be the reason why there is a
lack of corpus based studies in Arabic. However, the last years
witnessed the emergence of new considerably free Arabic corpora and in
lesser extent Arabic corpora processing tools.

Freely available Arabic corpora can be divided into two groups. The
first group contains large Arabic corpora, which are designed and
constructed basically for Arabic linguistics research and activities,
and maybe for Arabic NLP. These corpora are diverse in the genres they
cover and their sizes range from one million words to 700 million
words. The second group contains corpora that were designed basically
for Arabic text classification and clustering, they mainly contain
newspapers' articles. They range from less than 1 million words to 11
million words.

Some Arabic corpora are available on the web to explore using different
tools, basically large corpora, while other corpora are only available
for download. For the corpora that are available for download, the user
may need to use standalone corpus processing tools. These tools contain
many functionality such as word frequency, concordance, collocation,
etc. Therefore, with the availability of large and diverse Arabic
corpora, the situation does not change. There is still a lack of Arabic
corpus base studies. Is this because of representativeness of these
corpora? The available functions and tools associated with these
corpora? or is it because they are not well known enough for the Arabic
linguistics community?


Motivation and topics of interest

This half-day-workshop aims to encourage the researchers and developers
to foster the utilization of freely available Arabic corpora and open
source Arabic corpora processing tools and help in highlighting the
drawbacks of these resources and discuss techniques and approaches on
how to improve them. The workshop topics include but not limited to:


- Surveying and criticizing the design of freely available Arabic
  corpora, their associated tools and stand alone Arabic corpora
  processing tools.

- The applications and uses of freely available Arabic language
  resources in fields such as Arabic language education e.g. L1 and L2.
- Arabic language modeling.
- Corpus based Arabic lexigraphy.
- Lexical semantics and word sense.
- Corpus based Arabic syntactic.
- Corpus based Arabic morphology.
- Development of Arabic mobile applications based on the available
  Arabic language resources.
- Evaluation and assessment of Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing
  Tools.
- Future directions of Free/Open Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing
  Tools.

Organising Committee

- Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University, KSA
- Abdulmohsen Al-Thubaity, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and
  Technology, KSA

Program Committee

- Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK
- Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE
- Dilworth Parkinson, Brigham Young University, USA
- Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA
- Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Abdulmalik AlSalman, King Saud University, KSA
- Maha Alrabiah, King Saud University, KSA
- Saleh Alosaimi, Imam University, KSA
- Sultan almujaiwel, King Saud University, KSA
- Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK
- Amal AlSaif, Imam University, KSA
- Maha AlYahya, King Saud University, KSA
- Auhood AlFaries, King Saud University, KSA
- Salwa Hamada, Taibah University, KSA
- Mansour Algamdi, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, KSA
- Abdullah Alfaifi, University of Leeds, UK

Important Dates


- Submission deadline: 10 February 2014
- Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2013
- Final submission of manuscripts: 21 March 2014
- Workshop date: 27 May 2014 (morning session)

Submissions

The language of the workshop is English and submissions should be with
respect to LREC 2014 paper submission instructions. All papers will be
peer reviewed possibly by three independent referees. Papers must be
submitted electronically in PDF format to the START
system<https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/OSACT/>. When submitting a
paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential
information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies,
standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work
described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover,
ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data,
tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of
experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.