From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:25:51 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:25:51 +0200
Subject: Appel: revue TAL - Note de lecture (GOSSELIN)
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.212551.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:03:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: Denis Maurel <denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr>
Message-ID: <1668097262.4236213.1396278194385.JavaMail.zimbra at univ-tours.fr>


La revue TAL publie régulièrement des notes de lecture. 

Nous recherchons un collègue souhaitant lire le livre: 

"Laurent GOSSELIN, Yann MATHET, Patrice ENJALBERT, Gérard
BECHER. Aspects de l’itération. L'expression de la répétition en
français : analyse linguistique et formalisation. Peter Lang. 2013. 372
pages."

et prêt à en faire un compte-rendu pour la revue TAL (cet ouvrage sera
envoyé gracieusement en échange du service rendu).

Cette note de lecture doit être rédigée en français (trois pages 
maximum, au format de la revue) et envoyée fin juin 2014. 

D'autres compte-rendu sont possibles si vous avez lu récemment un 
ouvrage qui vous a intéressé et si vous êtes prêt à partager votre 
lecture avec la communauté... 


Denis Maurel 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:45:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:45:22 +0200
Subject: Stage: 2 Traineeship positions at the EC's 'Joint Research
 Centre' (JRC), Terminology discovery
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.214522.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:59:52 +0200
From: Guillaume Jacquet <guillaume.jacquet at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <533A63E8.8090606 at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
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The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) is looking to fill
*two traineeship positions* in the field of:

*Terminology discovery over time in the field of disaster risk
 management.*

If you are interested, please follow the instructions provided at
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR (*Code:
2014-IPR-G-000-2974 - ISPRA*).

Generic URL: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR

Job description (Updated):
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?type=T&id=2242

Traineeship rules:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/downloads/jrc_trainee_rules_en.pdf

Conditions/eligibility: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=5860

Starting date:around September 2014

Duration: 5 months each

Remuneration: Up to approximately 1000 Euro per month.

The JRC-EMM team: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=179

The EMM applications: http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html

JRC-EMM Publications: http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html

_DESSCRIPTION OF THE FORESEEN ACTIVITY:_

The /Europe Media Monitor/ (EMM) group at the European Commission’s
/Joint Research Centre/ (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, is looking for two
trainees to work on a project to automatically explore the development
of terminology in the field of ‘Disaster Risk Management’ (DRM). The
purpose is to give the international stakeholders in that field (e.g.
the /United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction/ UN-ISDR)
concrete and countable evidence of new concepts (terms) emerging in
their field, of changing concepts and of shifts in interest over time.
The study will include both scientific publications and texts produced
by national and international governmental organisations working in that
field.

This first exploratory study will exclusively concern English language
text in the field of /Disaster Risk Management/, but other languages and
subject areas will be considered in case the outcome of this exploratory
study is deemed concrete and useful. This work may lead to a scientific
publication co-authored by the project contributors.

A scenario to reach this goal of terminology discovery might consist of
the following steps:

(1) Manual or semi-automatic selection and collection of freely
    available documents covering the sub-areas of the life cycle of
    Disaster Risk Management (Prevention and mitigation; Preparedness;
    Response; Recovery and reconstruction);

(2) Conversion of the various file formats (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS-Word)
    into a structured text format (e.g. XML);

(3) Selection of suitable off-the-shelf software for the automatic
    extraction of terms (e.g. noun phrases);

(4) Usage of this software and, if needed, tuning of this software to
    extract lists of potential terms;

(5) Application of statistical methods to select the domain-specific
    terms and to weigh or rank them;

(6) Application of statistical methods that allow to observe trends such
    as the detection of terms that are more frequently or more rarely
    used compared to previous observation periods;

(7) Presentation of the results (term lists, trends) in an
    easy-to-understand manner; This may also include a
    keyword-in-context presentation of the terms, or similar.

The foreseen traineeship duration is five months, starting around 1
September 2014. The working language in the EMM team is English.

_REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:_

The task is foreseen to be carried out jointly by two trainees who, in
combination, possess the skills or satisfy the criteria listed below.
The combination of a more linguistically inclined person and a
programmer could be fruitful.

- Mature student or post-graduate in any of the following fields (or
  similar): computational linguistics, computer science, library
  sciences, machine learning;

- Knowledge of – and experience with – freely available Language
  Technology tools (e.g. for terminology extraction, term weighting,
  categorisation);

- Experience with document format conversion (PDF, HTML, MS-Word etc. to
  text);

- Sufficient programming experience to autonomously implement all
  necessary steps (Java preferred);

- Knowledge of statistical methods for term weighing (e.g. chi-square,
  TF.IDF) and for automatic categorisation;

- Linguistic sensitivity and an interest for terminology extraction
  (what is a term?; relationships between terms);

- Ability to present the project outcome in a format suitable for DRM
  specialists who may not be so knowledgeable of Information Technology
  (presentation; reporting; visualisation?).

- Ability to work autonomously;

- Team worker;

- Good working knowledge of English plus the ability to communicate in
  at least one other official EU language.

In your application, please state your interests and please provide
clear information on your skill set, by elaborating on the
above-mentioned list. Should you apply as a ready-made team, please
nevertheless clearly state your personal skills and strengths.

_THE JRC TEAM:_

The /Joint Research Centre/ (JRC; http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/) is the
scientific-technical arm of the European Commission. The approximately
2200 JRC employees working in Ispra are from all EU countries and there
are also some non-EU visitors. The working environment is multilingual,
multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary. The JRC’s /Europe Media Monitor/
(EMM) team (http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=179) carries out research
and development in the field of text mining (Language Technology;
Computational Linguistics) for the purposes of media monitoring. EMM
gathers an average of almost 200,000 online news articles per day in
over 70 languages and analyses them to help its large international user
community understand and use this enormous amount of media information.
EMM is publicly accessible via http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html.
The JRC is also known for having distributed large quantities of
parallel linguistic resources <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=61>,
including JRC-Acquis, DGT-Acquis, JRC-Names, the Translation Memories
DGT-TM, ECDC-TM and EAC-TM <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=61>, and
more.

* Ralf Steinberger (http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/RS.html)

* European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) 21027 Ispra (VA),
  Italy

URL – Applications: http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html

URL – Resources: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=61

URL – Publications: http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:29:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:29:26 +0200
Subject: Job: CDI ingenieur, Extraction d'informations marketing, Kware
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.212926.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:52:21 +0200
From: Frédéric Duvert <frederic.duvert at ismart.fr>
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Kware est une jeune entreprise innovante, spécialisée dans l'étude et
l'extraction d'informations marketing. Dans le cadre de la finalisation
de notre produit, nous recrutons un jeune docteur en informatique.

*Poste* : CDI ingénieur en recherche appliquée (H/F)

*Diplôme* : docteur en informatique (section 27)

*Domaine* : recherche d'informations, extraction d'informations,
apprentissage automatique

*Expérience* : expérience industrielle souhaitée (thèse cifre), mais non
requise, bonne expérience scientifique (publications nationales et
internationales).

*Missions* :

L'ingénieur sera intégré au sein d'une équipe de 10 personnes.

Dans ce contexte, l'ingénieur se verra attribuer les missions suivantes :
Industrialisation des algorithmes,
Tests et évaluation,
Participation à l'intégration,

*Profil* : De formation Bac + 8 (titulaire d'un doctorat en
informatique), spécialisé en traitement du langage, recherche
d'informations ou extraction d'informations.

Vous êtes motivés par la recherche appliquée, l'industrialisation des
algorithmes et la réalisation d'un produit industriel innovant.

Vous disposez dans l'idéal de connaissances complémentaires en méthodes
d'apprentissage automatique.

Vos connaissances en programmation (JAVA) ainsi que vos qualités
rédactionnelles seront vos atouts pour réussir dans vos missions.

*Lieu* : Aix en Provence

*Candidature *: adresser votre candidature par mail avec votre CV en
pièce jointe à frederic.duvert at kware.fr copie à michel.benoit at kware.fr
avec pour sujet (impératif) :
[poste doc Kware] votre nom

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:03:32 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:03:32 +0200
Subject: Ecole: SSTiC 2014, April 12, 5th registration deadline
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.210332.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:09:35 +0100
From: "GRLMC" <grlmc at urv.cat>
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*********************************************************************

2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/

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--- April 12, 5th registration deadline ---

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

AIM:

SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the
previous event, see  http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD
students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It
intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse
branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that
purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for
interaction with the audience.

SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6
keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most
lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that
outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal
pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must
hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses,
reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the
description of some of them.

SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other
branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to
listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing
nowadays.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the
whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they
will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be:

Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of
Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in
NP-Completeness

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past,
Present, & Future

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of
One Coin

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of
Style

Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable
Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics
Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing

John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory]
Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps

Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The
Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and
Distributed Simulation

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education
Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling
Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming
Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate]
Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image
Processing and Machine Learning

Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization

Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data

Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
[introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning

Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in
Computer Science

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate]
Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher
Performance Handover System Designs

Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design
for Test of Digital Logic Circuits

Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models

Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd
Analysis

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web

Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength
Detection for Twitter and the Social Web

Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms

Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus
and Life

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php 

The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template
is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will
be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each
course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will
be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period
will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is
very convenient to register prior to the event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole
(or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to
participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration
deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

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

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSTiC 2014
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:08:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:08:18 +0200
Subject: Ressource: Dictionnaire analytique de la mondialisation et du
 travail
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.210818.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:18:06 +0100
From: Fidelia Ibekwe <fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-lyon3.fr>
Message-ID: <53370E5E.6070809 at univ-lyon3.fr>
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------------------ ENGLISH VERSION BELOW--------------

Le DAMT est en ligne!

Chers amis et collègues,

Le Dictionnaire analytique de la mondialisation et du travail, réalisé à
l’Université de Montréal, est maintenant en ligne!

Voici le lien : http://www.crimt.org/damt.html ou
http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/

Le DAMT est un outil de référence pour la traduction ou les recherches
ponctuelles dans les domaines de l’économie, de la mondialisation et des
droits de l’homme. Sa structure de thésaurus permet l’exploitation des
relations sémantiques. On peut obtenir ainsi les termes associés à tout
autre terme (ex. : les termes reliés à Régulation sociale) ou la liste
de toutes les relations pour l’ensemble du dictionnaire (ex. : toutes
les relations gener-spec, part-tot, acteur-action).

Le DAMT peut être consulté en anglais, français ou espagnol, en
choisissant la langue en haut à droite.

De nombreux thèmes sont traités comme le montrent ces exemples
d’articles : Entreprise multinationale
(http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=1816), Régulation sociale
(http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=4603), Chaîne de valeur
mondiale (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=696), Travailleur
migrant (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=5906), Commerce
éthique (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=878), Main-d’œuvre
enfantine (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=3299).

N’hésitez pas à transférer ce message à vos contacts. Nous avons aussi
prévu la diffusion sur les réseaux sociaux. On peut utiliser les boutons
de partage de la page d’accueil ou d’une fiche en particulier.

Merci de votre aide et meilleures amitiés,

Jeanne Dancette

------------------------------
Our globalization and labour dictionary the DAMT is online!

Dear friends and colleagues,

The Analytical Dictionary of Globalization and Labour, created at the
University of Montreal, is online!

Here’s the link: http://www.crimt.org/damt.html or
http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/

The DAMT is a reference to be used for translation and punctual research
in the economy, globalization and human rights fields. Its thesaurus
format allows users to search by semantic relations existing among terms
(for example, users can explore terms related to SOCIAL REGULATION). It
is also possible to explore a list of all the terms grouped into a
relations category (for example, all the GENER-SPEC, PART-TOT or
ACTOR-ACTION relations).

The DAMT can be perused in English, French or Spanish. Just choose the
language in the upper right hand corner.

You will find articles covering different topics, such as: Multinational
enterprise (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=3663), Social
regulation (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=5013), Global
value chain (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=2427), Migrant
worker (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=3487), Ethical
trading (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=1895), Child labour
(http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=718).

Please feel free to share this message with any of your contacts who
might be interested in the dictionary!

You can use social media to share the site or individual articles.

Thanks for all your help!

Best regards,

Jeanne Dancette

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:23:35 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:23:35 +0200
Subject: Stage: Online semantic relations extraction from linguistic and
 statistic patterns, Idexlab
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.212335.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:06:46 +0200
From: Nouha Omrane <nouha at idexlab.com>
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*Title*: Online semantic relations extraction from linguistic and
statistic patterns

*Context*: The company ideXlab implements the process that is dedicated
to the open innovation domain in order to connect experts and companies
to easy establishing collaboration between them. The aim of such
collaboration is to bring solutions to technical challenges.

For more information please check : www.idexlab.com

*Subject*: The student will analyze the extracted data from the
scientific papers and identify the linguistic patterns that describe
semantic relationship between a given query and the suggested keywords
obtained from the expert search tool. From this study, the student will
propose a semantic relation extraction approach that fits with the kind
of the used data and takes into account the constraints related to the
expert search tool performance. More specifically, it he/she propose an
implementation of the semantic relations extraction between a query and
other terms by applying the patterns, identified in the first phase, on
the content of scientific papers.


*Profil*: The desired profile is a student in a second year of Master or
Engineering school having skills on Natural Language Processing and
Information Retrieval

*Skills*:

Languages: C#, C++

Period: 6 months from May 1 2014.

*Location*: ideXlab, Immeuble Berlier - Halle B, 15, rue Jean-Baptiste
Berlier 75013 PARIS

Send CV and motivation letter  to:

- Pierre Bonnard : pierre.bonnard at idexlab.com
- Nouha Omrane : nouha at idexlab.com

*Titre* : Extraction online des relations sémantiques à partir de
patrons linguistiques et statistiques

*Contexte* : La société ideXlab travaille dans le domaine de
l'innovation ouverte. Elle propose un service d'intermédiation entre
experts et entreprises qui permet d'initier une collaboration entre ces
partenaires dans le but d'apporter des solutions à des problématiques
identifiées.


Pour plus d'information sur l'activité : www.idexlab.com

*Mission* : Le stagiaire aura à analyser les données extraites à partir
des publications scientifiques et à identifier les patrons linguistiques
qui décrivent des relations sémantiques entre une requête donnée et des
mots clés suggérés par l'outil de recherche d'experts. A partir de cette
étude, l'étudiant aura à proposer une approche d'extraction de relations
sémantiques adaptée aux types de données manipulées et aux contraintes
liées à la performance de l'outil de recherche d'experts. Plus
précisément, il aura à proposer une implémentation pour l'extractionde
relations sémantiques entre une requête et des d'autres termes à partir
de l'application des patrons identifiés dans la première phase sur le
contenu des papiers scientifiques.

*Profil* : Le profil recherché est un étudiant en 2ème année de Master
ou d'école d'ingénieur ayant des connaissances en Traitement Automatique
de la Langue et Extraction d'Information.

*Compétences recherchées* :

Langages de programmation : C#, C++

Durée : 6 mois, à partir de 1 Mai 2014



*Adresse du stage* : ideXlab, Immeuble Berlier - Halle B, 15, rue
Jean-Baptiste Berlier 75013 PARIS


Veuillez adresser votre candidature (CV + lettre de motivation) à :

- Pierre Bonnard : pierre.bonnard at idexlab.com
- Nouha Omrane : nouha at idexlab.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:21:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:21:46 +0200
Subject: Appel: #di2014, Digital Intelligence
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.212146.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:27:39 +0200
From: Frederic Benhamou & Milad Doueihi -  #di2014 Co-Chairs <pc-chairs at di2014.org>
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============== #di2014 | CALL FOR PAPERS =============

CALL FOR PAPERS – #di2014
International Conference on Digital Intelligence
Sept. 17-19, 2014 - Nantes, France
www.di2014.org - @DIConf2014


Digital Intelligence 2014 (#di2014) is a new international scientific
and interdisciplinary conference dedicated to digital society and
cultures. The challenge is to bring together researchers from various
disciplines (ICT, humanities, biology & health...) in order to discuss
and contribute to shape a new scientific and cultural paradigm.

#di2014 will be jointly organized with Scopitone, the main French
Festival on digital arts and electronic music (Scopitone 2014,
Sept. 16-21, 2014).

The program will be built around four main components: plenary invited
talks, contributed talks in parallel sessions, artistic sessions,
performances and works shared with the Scopitone festival and finally
sessions and events related to the (real) economy of digital cultures.

Program co-chairs: Milad Doueihi (Canada) & Frédéric Benhamou (France)
Conference co-chairs: Francky Trichet, Université de Nantes (France) &
Stéphane Roche, Université Laval (Canada)

--------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------------------

- Serge Abiteboul, Académie des Sciences / INRIA / Collège de France,
  France

- Gérard Berry, Académie des Sciences / INRIA / Collège de France,
  France

- Caterina Fake, Co-Founder of Flickr, Findery & Hunch, USA

- Bruno Latour, MediaLab, Science Po, France

- Carlo Ratti, MIT Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of
  Technology, USA

- Jeffrey Schnapp, MetaLAB, Harvard University, USA


--------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------

- Submission deadline: April 30, 2014

- Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 16, 2014

- Conference: Sept. 17-19, 2014


---------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------

Papers should be submitted online using this form:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=di2014

Papers should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should be submitted
in PDF format.

The submitted papers (technical or position papers, surveys) must be
unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere.


------------------------------ TOPICS ----------------------------------

Main areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Art & Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Digital Art, IT for
  cultural, natural and scientific Heritage, In-museum Innovative
  Technology and uses

- Data: Big Data, Open Data, Linked Data, Data Journalism, Data
  Visualization

- Digital Organizations: Applications of new technologies to e-Business
  and e-Administration, e-Commerce, e-Marketing, m-Commerce,
  m-Marketing, Organizational and management issues

- Social Web: Social Network Analysis, Communities of practice /
  interest in social media and mobile devices, Collective intelligence,
  Collaborative production and Social Computing, Knowledge Ecosystems,
  Digital Ecosystems, Economics and social innovation on Digital
  Ecosystems

- Digital Identity: e-reputation (human, product, enterprise,
  government, etc.), Digital traces and memories, Privacy, Trust,
  Security and Personal Data Management Systems, Human factors (culture,
  affect, motivation, cognition) and user centered design in digital
  technology

- e-Learning: Social impact and cultural issues in e-Learning, Policy
  and organizational issues in e-Learning, e-Universities, e-Schools,
  e-Learning technologies and tools, e-Learning standards (Open Course
  Ware, Open Access), open e-Learning : OER, MOOCs, virtual mobility

- Green Digital Economy: Green computing, IT for Sustainability, Smart
  Cities and Homes

- Digital Trends and Emerging Practices: Cloud Computing, Emotional
  Computing, Serious Games, Makers, FabLabs, MediaLabs, LivingLabs,
  ArtLab, innovative Digital Solution in Health, Tourism, Internet of
  Things, Digital Addiction Studies

- Human-Robot Interaction: Ethical and social issues of HRI,
  Bio-inspired robotics, Humanoid robotics, Socially intelligent robots,
  assistive (health & personal care) robotics, Transhumanism

- Human-Computer Interaction: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality,
  Design, User Experience and Usability

- Digital humanities: Philosophy of the Web, Digital Literature, Digital
  Literacy


--------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (CURRENT LIST) -----------------

Area chairs:

- Data: Serge Abiteboul, Académie des Sciences / Collège de France /
  INRIA, France

- The Commons: Philippe Aigrain, La Quadrature du Net / Sopinspace,
  France

- Human robot interaction: Yuichiro Anzai, Department of Computer
  Science, Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences / Keio University,
  Japan

- Digital literacy: Gérard Berry, Chair in Algorithms, Machines and
  Languages, French Académie des Sciences / Collège de France / INRIA,
  France

- Digital literature: Alexandre Gefen, Centre d'Étude de la Littérature
  Française, Université Paris-Sorbonne – Paris 4, France

- Social web: Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France

- e-learning: Rory McGreal, UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in
  Open Educational Resources, Athabasca University, Canada

- Art & culturally aware information technology: Ryohei Nakatsu,
  Interactive & Digital Media Institute, National University of
  Singapore, Singapore

- Smart cities: Stéphane Roche, Department of Geomatics, Université
  Laval - Québec, Canada

- Digital humanities: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, MetaLAB, Harvard University,
  USA

- Security, privacy & digital identity: Pascal Van Hentenryck,
  Australian National University / NICTA, Australia


PC members:

- Reda S. Alhajj, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary,
  Canada
- Gérard Assayag, STMS Lab - Sciences & Technologies Musique & Son,
  IRCAM, France
- Francis Bach, Computer Science Laboratory, Ecole Normale Supérieure /
  INRIA, France
- Christine Balagué, Chair Marketing and Social Networks, Institut
  Mines-Telecom, France
- François Bancilhon, Data publica, France
- Christoph Bartneck, Human Interface Laboratory, Canterbury University,
  Australia
- David Bates, Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California -
  Berkeley, USA
- Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Computer Sciences Laboratory, Université Paris
  Sud, France
- Ben Brabon, Department of English and History, Edge Hill University,
  UK
- Patrick Y.K. Chau, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong,
  Hong Kong
- Jozef Colpaert, Director R&D of Language Institute Linguapolis,
  Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
- Colin de la Highera, LINA- Nantes Atlantic Computer Science
  laboratory, Université de Nantes, France
- Sir John Daniel, Open and Distance Learning, UK
- Manuel Fernandez, Human Scale City, Spain
- Patrick Gallinari, LIP6 - Computer Sciences Laboratory, Université
  Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Krishna Gummadi, Networked Systems Research Group, Max Planck
  Institute for Software Systems, Germany
- Lynda Hardman, Information Access research group, Centrum Wiskunde &
  Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands.
- Joaquin Huerta, Department of Computer Languages and Systems,
  Universidad Jaume I de Castellón, Spain
- Erkki Huhtamo, Department of Design Media Arts, University of
  California, Los Angeles, USA
- Michita Imai, Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Japan
- Sirkka Jarvenpaa, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas
  at Austin, USA
- Florian Kerschbaum, SAP, Germany
- Marie-Noëlle Lamy, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open
  university, UK,
- George Legrady, Experimental Visualization Lab, University of
  California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Dominique Lestel, Department of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure,
  France
- Manuel Lima, Parsons School of Design / Founder of
  VisualComplexity.com, USA
- Amélie Marian, Computer Science Department, Rotgers University, USA
- Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Research, USA
- Carlos Moreno, Groupe GDF-SUEZ, France
- Neil Morris, Digital learning team, University of Leeds, UK
- Mir Mostafavi J., Department of Geomatics, Université Laval - Québec,
  Canada
- Beniamino Murgante, School of Engineering, University of Basilicata,
  Italy
- Liam Murray, School of Languages, Literature, Culture and
  Communication, University of Limerick, Ireland
- Frank Nack, Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam
  (UvA),The Netherlands
- Enrico Nardelli, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Roma "Tor
  Vergata", Italy
- Nicola Nova, Research Institute of Art and Design, Genève / Near
  Future Laboratory, Switzerland
- François Pachet, Computer Science Laboratory, SONY, Paris, France
- John Savage, Computer Science Department, Brown University, USA
- Françoise Soulié, KXEN, France
- Bernard Stiegler, Ars Industrialis, Centre Pompidou, France
- Steve Tadelis, eBay research Lab, eBay / University of California -
  Berkeley, USA
- Naoko Tosa, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto
  University, Japan
- Tien-Tsin Wong, department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chinese
  University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK


--------------------------- PROCEEDINGS --------------------------------

The accepted papers will be included in the electronic conference
proceedings.

Authors of selected conference papers will be invited to submit an
extended version of their work to scientific journals or a compilation
volume of articles.


---------------------------- NANTES DIGITAL WEEK -----------------------

#di2014 is at the heart of the Nantes Digital Week (Sept. 13-21, 2014)
which brings together conferences, workshops, demonstrations,
performances and concerts related to Art, Science and Economy.

At once festive, innovative and hybrid, Nantes Digital Week appeal to a
wide audience and will be organized around major events: Startup
Weekend, Scopitone festival on Digital Art and Electronic Cultures,
FabLab Day, Robotic Day, etc.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:39:04 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:39:04 +0200
Subject: Appel: 14th International Symposium on Social Communication,
 Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 2015
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.213904.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:49:57 -0500
From: "Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares" <leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu>
Message-ID: <5335B645.6090806 at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu>
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Dear colleague,

Please, find enclosed the announcement of the
14th International Symposium on Social Communication.

It will be a pleasure to welcome you in Santiago de Cuba.

Yours sincerely,


Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares
President Organizing Committee
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Web site of our International Symposiums on Social Communication:

http://www.santiago.cu/hosting/linguistica/index.php?id=en (Getting
up-to-date)


Web site of the Centre for Applied Linguistics:

http://www.linguistica.santiago.cu/inicio


Web site of our Basic School Dictionary:

http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/dbe/index.html

*****

[To spread, please, thank you.
Apologies if you receive this
announcement more than once.]

FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JANUARY 19-23, 2015
(Dedicated to the 500 years of the foundation of the Santiago de Cuba's
city)

The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba’s branch of
the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to
announce the Fourteenth International Symposium on Social
Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba, January 19
through the 23, 2015 and in this occasion will be dedicated to the 500
years of the foundation of the Santiago de Cuba's city. This
interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes
from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics,
Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore.

In the context of the XIV Symposium, will be held also the Workshop
"Resources and tools of the Spanish and Portuguese languages and his
variants in Latin America" sponsored by the Centre for Applied
Linguistics and the Spanish Association on Natural Language Processing
(SEPLN). The aims of the workshop are to know the new tools on NLP
developed in the Spanish-speaking countries and Portuguese of Latin
America and to know about Linguistic studies on Latin-America where
NLP's instruments are applied.

The Symposium will be also sponsored by:

- University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

- Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

- Provincial Branch of Writers and Artists Association of Santiago de
  Cuba, Cuba

- University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands

- Basque Country University, Spain

- Semantic Technology Institute (STI), University of Innsbruck
  Innsbruck, Austria

- Centre of Lexicography Aarhus University, Denmark

- University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany

- Centre Tesnière Université de Franche-Comté Besançon, France

- Spanish Association on Natural Language Processing (SEPLN)

- Magister on Latinoamerican Studies University of La Serena La Serena,
  Chile

- Latino Education and Advocacy Days Organization California State
  University San Bernardino, USA

Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the
following disciplines:

1- Linguistics:

- Applied Linguistics

- Phonetics and Phonology

- Lexicology and Lexicography

- Quantitative Linguistics

- Morphology and Syntax

- Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics

- Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics

- Sociolinguistics

- Spanish and foreign language teaching

- Spanish as a second language

- Terminology

- Translations

- Linguistics Rights

- Linguistics Policy

2- Computational Linguistics:

- Software related to linguistics research

- Automated grammatical tagging of texts

- Electronic dictionaries

- Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign
  languages

- Information extraction and its applications

- Speech recognition and synthesis

- Related issues

3- Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social
   Communication in general:

- Logopedy and Phoniatry

- Neurology

- Otorhinolaryngology

- Stomatology

4- Mass Media:

- Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and
  radio and television announcers

- Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and
  electronic media articles

5- Art, Ethnology and Folklore:

- Research related to Social Communication

Activities that will take place within the event are:

- Pre-Symposium seminars

- Discussion of papers in commissions

- Keynote speeches

- Books presentation

- Cultural activities

PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS

The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by
prestigious specialists- The seminars will take place Monday, January
19th, 2015.

The courses are the following:

"Modelling language"
Prof- Dr- Sylviane Cardey
Centre Tesnière
Université de Franche-Comté
Besançon, France

"Automatic learning for the NLP.  Two practical cases: the resolution of
the correferencia and tagging of semantic roles"
Dr- Olatz Arregi Uriarte
IXA Group- Basque Country University
Basque Country, Spain

Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want
to take part in- An additional fee of 25.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos
(CUC) will be charged for each seminar- Participation certificates will
be available.

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

During the symposium several keynote speeches will be delivered- Until
now are confirmed:

Prof- Dr- Nancy Morejon
Director
Cuban Academy of Language
Havana, Cuba

"Before words emerge: Findings, Insights and Future Directions from
Thirty Years of Infant Research"
Prof- Dr- Kathleen Wermke
Würzburg University
Würzburg, Germany

"Incongruity Humor in Language and Beyond"
Prof- Dr- Anton Nijholt
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

"Successful on-line communication of touristic service providers"
Prof- Dr- Dieter Fensel
Semantic Technology Institute (STI)
University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria

"State of the Art on Corpus Linguistics in Europe"
Prof- Dr- Ann Bertels
University of Leuven - KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

The deadline of submission of papers is August 1st, 2014- The papers
should not exceed 5 pages- Notification of acceptance of a paper by the
Symposium’s Scientific Committee will be sent before August 31st, 2014.

PAPERS

To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of
the Symposium’s documentation -as we did since 1997-, accepted papers
must be sent before September 15, 2014 if the Scientific Committee had
done some observations.

Requirements for papers:

1- The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and
   bibliography.

2- It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent
   to the Symposium’s Executive Secretary via e-mail as attached file.

3- Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and
   bottom margin of 2.5 cm.

4- The paper must be written in one of the event’s official languages:
   Spanish, English, French or Portuguese.

5- The pages of the text should be unnumered.

Instructions for paper submission:

1- Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top
   of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word
   6.0 or 7.0)- Under the author's name(s) should appear in bold (only
   initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail
   address.

2- In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be
   written in Arial bold, italics, 10 points size letters.

3- The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9
   points size and leaving one space between lines.

4- Paragraphs will have no indentation.  Spaces between paragraphs will
   be of 1.5 points.

5- Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and
   sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size.

6- Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size
   letters.

Presentation time will be 15 minutes.

All mail or inquiries should be addressed to:

Prof- Dr- Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee
14th International Symposium on Social Communication
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Telephone: 53-22-646390
E-mail: simposio at cla.ciges.inf.cu

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese

REGISTRATION FEE

Speakers and Delegates
200.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos)

Companions
100.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos)

Payment of the fee must be sent via bank transfer to the bank account to
be announce opportunely and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where
your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event,
speaker’s certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities-
Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the
Proceedings.

ACCOMODATION

The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star
hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

- Papers submission deadline: August 1st, 2014

- Notification on paper’s approval by Scientific Committee: by August
  31, 2014

- Delivery of papers by e-mail: September 15, 2014 (in case of the
  observations done by the Scientific Committee)

- Pre-Symposium seminars: January 19, 2015

- 14th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 20
  through 23, 2015

OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST

Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 km from Havana, is Cuba's second
largest city- Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban
history is unquestionable.  Santiago is also the capital of the province
with the same name.  Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra
Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography
and beautiful landscape- Its surroundings make the city one of the most
important tourist attractions on the entire island- The Organizing
Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer
visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the
city's beauty and charm.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Pedro Beaton Soler
Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the
Environment
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Executive Secretary
14th International Symposium on Social Communication
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez
Emeritus Academic
Academy of Science of Cuba
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics
President of the Organizing Committee
14th International Symposium on Social Communication
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Celia Maria Perez Marques
Researcher
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Alex Munnoz Alvarado
Investigador
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Nancy Cristina Alamo Suarez
Researcher
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Anton Nijholt
Professor and Researcher
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

Innaki Alegría Loinaz
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Xabier Artola Zubillaga
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Xabier Arregi Iparragirre
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

L- Alfonso Urenna Lopez
President of the NLP Spanish Association (SEPLN)
Jaen University
Jaen, Spain

Dieter Fensel
Director and Researcher
Semantic Technology Institute (STI)
Innsbruck, Austria

Martha Cordies Jackson
Director and Researcher
African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz"
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Lucia Marconi
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

Paola Cutugno
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

*****

FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

REGISTRATION FORM

Mr./Ms- ___________________________

University: ________________________

Address: __________________________________

City: ______________

Phone: _______________

E-Mail:____________________

Paper title: __________________________

Date: ________________

Signature: ___________

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:30:23 +0200
Subject: Info: Avant premiere de "conversation avec Noam Chomsky"
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:07:22 +0200
From: Isabelle Tellier <isabelle.tellier at univ-paris3.fr>
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Le cinéaste Michel Gondry viendra présenter son prochain film, une «
conversation animée avec Noam Chomsky », en avant -première ce soir 1er
avril à Paris 3 :

http://www.univ-paris3.fr/projection-du-film-conversation-animee-avec-noam-chomsky-suivie-d-un-echange-avec-michel-gondry--263938.kjsp?RH=ACCUEIL

C’est gratuit et ouvert à tous !

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:25:06 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2014 Student Session Deadline Extension
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.212506.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:27:37 +0100
From: Ronald de Haan <dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at>
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Please forward to students. Apologies for multiple messages.
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*Deadline Extension*
*ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION*

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

Tübingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014

*Extended deadline for submissions: April 8th, 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 by Springer. 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.

For more information, see the Student Session website:
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/.


Kind regards,

The ESSLLI 2014 Student Session Organization Committee



Chair:
- Ronald de Haan (Technische Universität Wien)

LoCo (Logic and Computation) co-chairs:
- Zoé Christoff (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Aybüke Özgün (Université de Lorraine)

LoLa (Logic and Language) co-chairs:
- Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Thomas Brochhagen (Universität Düsseldorf)

LaCo (Language and Computation) co-chairs:
- Miriam Kaeshammer (Universität Düsseldorf)
- Ramon Ziai (Universität Tübingen)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:47:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:47:43 +0200
Subject: Journee: Journee des Anciens de Linguistique-Informatique, 5
 avril 2014
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 16:03:35 +0200
From: caroline brogniez <caroline.brogniez at gmail.com>
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Bonjour à tous,

Le samedi 5 avril prochain aura lieu la première Journée des Anciens du
cursus Linguistique-Informatique.

Les anciens étudiants du cursus viendront raconter leur parcours depuis
l'obtention de leur diplôme.

Des professionnels du milieu seront là aussi pour parler de leurs
entreprises.

De plus, M Paroubek, président actuel de l'ATALA, nous fera l'honneur
d'être présent pour une conférence le matin qui aura pour sujet : "Le
Traitement Automatique des Langues en France à l'ère du Big Data"

La journée commencera vers 10h et finira entre 17h30 et 18h30. Elle se
déroulera au bâtiment Olympe de Gouges de l'université Paris Diderot en
salle 153. Ce bâtiment se trouve au bout de la rue Albert Einstein dans
le 13ème arrondissement.

Le déjeuner sera offert par les étudiants actuels du cursus.

Toute personne intéressée par la journée peut venir. Nous vous demandons
juste de nous contacter par mail d'ici samedi pour nous prévenir.

L'adresse mail a contacter est : caroline.brogniez at gmail.com

Nous vous mettons aussi le lien vers le programme de la journée :
http://li.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/jali.html

Cordialement,

Les étudiants du cursus Linguistique-Informatique de Paris 7 Diderot

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 09:03:01 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:03:01 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, Beno=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=AEt_?=Crabbe, 11 avril 2014
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.110301.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:53:43 +0200
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 11 avril

de 11h à 12h30,

en salle 165

Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges
rue Albert Einstein
75013 Paris
(Il s'agit du dernier bâtiment de la rue Albert Einstein,
dans la récemment inaugurée "place Paul Ricoeur")

Toute personne intéressée est la bienvenue.


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

Benoît Crabbé (Alpage - Université Paris Diderot / INRIA)

Titre : Vers la construction à large couverture de la représentation du
sens de phrases de langue naturelle.

Résumé :

Dans cet exposé, je traiterai le problème d'analyse syntaxique à large
couverture de phrases de langues naturelles et de son interface avec la
sémantique.
Partant de l'hypothèse que la représentation du sens de phrases de
langue naturelle s'appuie sur leur structure, je présenterai
principalement un algorithme d'analyse syntaxique robuste lexicalisé
pour CFG inspiré de GLR et qui propose une désambiguisation des
hypothèses d'analyse sur base d'un modèle entièrement discriminant.  Une
seconde partie de l'exposé, plus succincte, présentera les grandes
lignes d'un projet de recherche destiné à augmenter l'algorithme de
représentations vectorielles encodant une sémantique distributionnelle.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:09:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:09:09 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: Desambiguisation Semantique dans le cadre de la
 Simplification Lexicale, BLRI, LIF
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.100909.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:41:11 +0200
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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*Le Labex /Brain and Language Research Institute/ (BLRI) financera à la
rentrée 2014 deux bourses de thèses dans le périmètre du Labex*

http://147.94.196.238/index.html


Dans le cadre du BLRI, l'*équipe TALEP du Laboratoire d'Informatique 
Fondamentale (LIF-**CNRS**) *propose un sujet de thèse dans le domaine 
de la lisibilité et la simplification lexicale.


/*Désambiguïsation Sémantique dans le cadre de la Simplification 
Lexicale */

Le sujet de recherche s'inscrit dans une recherche pluridisciplinaire en
traitement automatique des langues (TAL), linguistique et
psycholinguistique.

Le domaine de la lisibilité et de la simplification est en plein essor
en TAL. Dans ce domaine, l'objectif principal est d'estimer le degré de
difficulté d'un texte et d'en proposer une version simplifiée, adaptée
aux besoins d'un public particulier : apprenants d'une langue, personnes
avec peu d'instruction ou atteintes d'une pathologie qui entraîne des
difficultés de lecture (dyslexie, aphasie, etc.). Une des sous-tâches du
domaine est la simplification lexicale, c'est-à-dire, le remplacement
d'un mot par un équivalent ayant le même sens (synonyme) mais plus
accessible d'un point de vue de sa compréhension.

Le processus de simplification lexicale se heurte à un problème de
taille en TAL, celui de la désambiguïsation sémantique (indispensable à
d'autres applications comme la traduction automatique, etc.). Dans ce
contexte, il s'agit de sélectionner automatiquement le sens le plus
approprié en contexte. Pour ce faire, deux étapes doivent être
envisagées : identifier le sens et lever l'ambiguïté puis simplifier. La
difficulté ajoutée est que l'on doit choisir le mot du même sens le plus
adapté, d'un point de vue de sa facilité de compréhension, pour un
public donné. Ceci peut entraîner des difficultés supplémentaires au
niveau de la syntaxe de la phrase (transformations) qui doivent être
prises en compte au moment de l'analyse.

Ce sujet de thèse vise, ainsi, les objectifs suivants :

a) identifier les besoins liés à un public de mauvais lecteurs, enfants
   dyslexiques et enfants sourds, caractériser les particularités
   entraînant des difficultés lexicales au moment de la lecture ;

b) étudier les méthodes de désambiguïsation sémantique existantes en TAL
   afin de les adapter à la tâche de simplification lexicale (méthodes
   basées sur les connaissances -ressources existantes- ou sur corpus) ;

c) développer un modèle de désambiguïsation sémantique permettant de
   choisir le bon sens en contexte parmi une liste de candidats, puis
   choisir un équivalent le plus adapté ;

d) contribuer à l'enrichissement de ressources lexicales intégrant des
   informations sur le degré de difficulté d'un mot-sens.

La thèse sera dirigée par Núria Gala, en collaboration avec Johannes
Ziegler, directeur du Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (LPC) à
Marseille, spécialiste des troubles de l'apprentissage de la lecture.


Le dossier de candidature doit comporter :

  * la description scientifique du projet (< 5 pages, à rédiger en
    accord avec les directeurs de thèse) : titre, résumé, contexte,
    méthodologie/expériences envisagées, résultats attendus, calendrier
    prévisionnel

  * un argumentaire montrant la pertinence du projet pour le BLRI

  * un CV détaillé

  * une lettre de motivation

Date limite des candidatures : 20 Mai 2014

Pré-sélection des candidats à auditionner le 5 Juin 2014

Auditions des candidats retenus : 18 Juin 2014

Démarrage : 1^er septembre 2014

Bourse : 1 684.93EUR brut mensuel (1 368EUR net) contrat de 3 ans


Les candidats intéressés devront contacter : nuria.gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr 

Pour tout renseignement complémentaire : Johannes.Ziegler at univ-amu.fr 

Pour tout renseignement administratif : nadera.bureau at blri.fr 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 09:07:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:07:13 +0200
Subject: Appel: DEADLINE EXTENSION, SEPLN 2014
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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 16:11:08 +0200
From: "BURGA DIAZ, ALICIA" <alicia.burga at upf.edu>
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3rd CALL FOR PAPERS:

30th CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY

FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING (SEPLN 2014)
September 17-19, 2014
Universitat de Girona
http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/es/index.html

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*** INFORMATION ABOUT THE INDUSTRY TRACK BELOW ***

*** DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR PAPER SUBMISSION ***

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INTRODUCTION
-----------------------

The 30th edition of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for
Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place in Universitat de
Girona, Girona, Spain on 17-19 September 2014.  We also expect to
organize associated workshops.

The huge amount of information available in digital format and in
different languages calls for systems to enable us to access this vast
library in an increasingly more structured way.

In this same area, there is a renewed interest in improving information
accessibility and information exploitation in multilingual environments.
Many of the formal foundations for dealing appropriately with these
necessities have been, and are still being established in the area of
Natural Language Processing and its many branches: Information
extraction and retrieval, Questions answering systems, Machine
translation, Automatic analysis of textual content, Text summarization,
Text generation, and Speech recognition and synthesis.

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion and
communication where the latest research work and developments in the
field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be presented by
scientific and business communities. The conference also aims at
exposing new possibilities of real applications and R&D projects in this
field.

Moreover, as in previous editions, there is the intention of identifying
future guidelines or paths for basic research and foreseen software
applications, in order to compare them against the market
needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in
helping new professionals to become active members in this field.

TOPICS
----------

Researchers and companies are encouraged to send communications, project
abstracts or demonstrations related to any language technology topic
including but not limited to the following:

* Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language.
* Machine learning in NLP.
* Computational lexicography and terminology.
* Corpus linguistics.
* Development of linguistic resources and tools.
* Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis.
* Semantics, pragmatics and discourse.
* Lexical ambiguity resolution.
* Monolingual and multilingual text generation.
* Machine translation.
* Speech synthesis and recognition.
* Dialogue systems.
* Audio indexing.
* Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval.
* Question answering systems.
* Evaluation of NLP systems.
* Automatic textual content analysis.
* Sentiment analysis and opinion mining.
* Plagiarism detection.
* Negation and speculation processing.
* Text mining in blogosphere and social networks.
* Text summarization.
* Image retrieval.
* NLP in biomedical domain.

* NLP-based generation of teaching resources.
* NLP for languages with limited resources.
* NLP industrial applications.


CONTACT
--------------

All information related to the conference can be found in the web:


http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/index.html


STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE
---------------------------------------------

The conference will last three days, and will consist of sessions
devoted to presenting papers, posters, tutorials, ongoing research
projects and prototype or product demonstrations connected with topics
addressed in the conference. Besides, we expect to organize associated
workshops.


SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
--------------------------------------------


Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or application-oriented
proposals related to NLP. The proposals must include the following
sections:

* The title of the communication.

* An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words) and a list of
  keywords.

* The paper can be written in Spanish or English. Its overall maximum
  length will be 8 pages, including references.

* The documents must not include headers or footers.

* Papers should NOT include the names of the authors.

The papers proposed will be reviewed at least by three reviewers, and
can be accepted to be presented either as posters or as communications,
depending on the program necessities. However, no distinction will be
made between communications and posters in the printed version of the
SEPLN journal.

*** IMPORTANT NOTE ON CAMERA READY ****

The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted
together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the
reviewers were implemented in the final version.

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

Please, send your proposals using the following link::

http://www.sepln.org/myreview-sepln53/


The format of the SEPLN journal must be followed:

http://www.sepln.org/?page_id=1285&lang=en

In addition, all proposals will have to comply with the following
requirements, depending on whether they pare papers, demos or projects.


PROJECTS AND DEMOS
----------------------------------


As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give
oral presentations of R&D projects and demos of systems or tools related
to the NLP field. For oral presentations on R&D projects to be accepted,
the following information must be included:

* Project title.
* Name, affiliation, address, e-mail and phone number of the project
  director.
* Funding institutions.
* Groups participating in the project.
* Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).


For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is
mandatory:

* Demo title.
* Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.
* Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).
* Time estimation for the whole presentation.


INDUSTRY TRACK
-------------------------------

http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/cfp_industrial_en.htm

The goal of the NLP industry track is to bring together researchers,
practitioners, analysts, and consumers and to achieve knowledge transfer
across the boundaries.

In recent years interest in practical natural language processing
applications has intensified from an industrial perspective.

Among others, some examples of NLP applied to business needs are:

   - Construction and use of Language Resources (extraction and
     acquisition of knowledge, use of ontologies, etc).
   - Language Resources in systems and applications (information
     extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia
     search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided
     Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication,
     machine translation, speech translation, summarization, web
     services, semantic search, text mining, etc.)
   - Analyzing linguistic properties for Text Categorization and
     Clustering.
   - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining for smart Brand Monitoring
     and Big Data Analytics.
   - Use of Machine Translation to reduce localization time and/or cost.
   - Portal search using Natural Language.
   - Integrating NLP techniques to enhance eLearning.
   - Virtual Assistant products able to process Natural Language.
   - Assisting human interaction with Natural Language Understanding
     techniques.
   - NLP to process multimedia information and multimodal communication.
   - Online services using Open-source NLP tools.

The SEPLN Industry track aims to bring together industrial participants
to present current tools, systems, and ideas for the application of
natural language processing in real settings. We invite proposals
highlighting how natural language processing techniques have been
implemented in real systems, services, or demonstrator. We welcome
papers discussing for example the maturity of the solutions (strength
and limitations), efficiency, need for further research, business
opportunities, etc.

Contributions should have:

- a title

- should be 4 pages long (including references)

- the names and affiliations of the authors

Authors of accepted papers will give an oral presentation in a focused
session at the conference.

**** SEE NOTE ON CAMERA READY ABOVE ****



IMPORTANT DATES
----------------------------

Deadline for full papers (including those for the Industry Track),
demos, and projects: *** 15th April 2014 (EXTENDED) ***

Notifications: 26th May 2014

Camera Ready: 7th June 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:58:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:58:17 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: 2 sujets, Linguistique Computationnelle, LIRMM
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.105817.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 17:40:05 +0200
From: Jean-Philippe Prost <Jean-Philippe.Prost at lirmm.fr>
Message-ID: <CAJQEYs4q27xPXD7iGEUYpxA7qAafMSzF9czswnMBGbYO=P96bA at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.lirmm.fr/%7Eprost/sujetsTheses2014.html#sujet:modelisation%20logico-stochastique
X-url: http://www.lirmm.fr/%7Eprost/sujetsTheses2014.html#sujet:%20interface%20syntaxe-semantique
X-url: http://www.lirmm.fr/~prost/sujetsTheses2014.html

L'Ecole Doctorale I2S de l'Université Montpellier 2
(http://www.edi2s.univ-montp2.fr/) ouvre au concours des financements de
contrats doctoraux pour la rentrée de septembre 2014. Deux des sujets
proposés (voir site de l'ED) portent sur la linguistique
computationnelle (pour au plus une bourse possible) :

** Sujet 1 : Modélisation logico-stochastique pour la compréhension
   robuste du langage naturel
   (http://www.lirmm.fr/%7Eprost/sujetsTheses2014.html#sujet:modelisation%20logico-stochastique)

** Sujet 2 : Interface syntaxe-sémantique par réseau lexical et réseau
   de contraintes
   (http://www.lirmm.fr/%7Eprost/sujetsTheses2014.html#sujet:%20interface%20syntaxe-semantique)

Voir http://www.lirmm.fr/~prost/sujetsTheses2014.html pour le détail des
sujets.

Pour plus de renseignements, les candidats intéressés par l'un ou
l'autre des sujets pourront contacter les encadrants : Jean-Philippe
Prost ( Prost at lirmm.fr) et Mathieu Lafourcade (Lafourcade at lirmm.fr), en
précisant le sujet de leur choix.

Dépôt des candidatures auprès de l'ED I2S : courant mai 2014

A noter qu'une seule candidature doit être présentée par les encadrants,
pour l'un ou l'autre des sujets. Merci, donc, aux candidats de
manifester leur intérêt d'ici fin avril.

Jean-Philippe Prost et Mathieu Lafourcade
LIRMM, CNRS-Université Montpellier 2

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 09:00:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:00:37 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Second Call for EU Project Networking
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.110037.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu,  3 Apr 2014 19:11:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Second Call for EU Project Networking ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/program/eu-project-networking

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 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)
Project Networking Session Chairs:
- Mari Carmen Suarez-Figueroa (Univesidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
- Alessio Iabichella (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Sergio Consoli (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy)

The EU project networking track of the ESWC2014 will provide an
opportunity for
* Knowledge sharing among EU projects
* Presentation and discussion of project results with ESWC participants
* Networking with officials from the European Commission

The project networking track is intended to provide EU projects with the
ability to connect with each other and engage in discussions about their
respective research and development, establish opportunities for
knowledge and technology sharing, and identify complementary activities
and goals which can form the basis for future collaborations, research
proposals, researcher exchange or joint participation at events or in
initiatives. EC officials will be present for related discussions.


* SUBMISSION *

Projects willing to participate at the session must submit a 2-page
extended abstract (PDF, Springer LNCS style). The abstract should
introduce the EU funded R&D project, briefly describe its R&D activities
and goals, outline what the project would show / demonstrate in the
session and specify what the project expects to gain from networking
with other projects (what it offers, what it is looking for).

Submissions will be evaluated by a separate Program Committee. There
will be a limited number of places for EU projects in the networking
space. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to
ESWC2014, tangible innovation and uniqueness in the R&D activities and a
clear goal to benefit from networking with other projects.

Submission will be through the Easychair system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014euprojects


* IMPORTANT DATES *

Abstract submission deadline          April 9th, 2014, 23:59 Hawaii Time
Notification of acceptance/rejection  April 15th, 2014
EU Project Networking Session         May 27th, 2014 


* IMPORTANT NOTICE *

Projects accepted for participation in the project networking track must
register at least one representative for the conference and be present
with their demo and poster.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:16:15 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:16:15 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2015 - Second Call for Proposals
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101615.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:30:23 +0100 (BST)
From: Achim Jung <axj at cs.bham.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1404021528400.4376 at babydell>


(Apologies for multiple postings.)

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                 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals
                              ESSLLI 2015
     27th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
               Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
                           August 3-14, 2015
                             esslli2015.org
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IMPORTANT DATES 
===============

1 June 2014: Proposal submission deadline 
23 September 2014: Notification
June 2015: Course material due

TOPICS AND FORMAT 
=================

Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI'2015 are invited in all
areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computing Sciences.
Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged.

Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions,
offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week
courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week
courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one.  In
such cases, the ESSLLI programme committee reserves the right to accept
just one of the two proposals.

All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed
completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a
minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration
fees waved, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up
to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal
notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one
course/workshop organizer, and can not guarantee full reimbursement of
travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The
ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's
expenses by seeking complete coverage of travel and accommodation
expenses from other sources.

CATEGORIES 
==========

Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories.

* FOUNDATIONAL COURSES *
Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to
people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of
elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though
possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant
discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to
develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques
of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary
nature of our research community.

* INTRODUCTORY COURSES *
Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended
to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other
non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic
methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from
related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic
considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may
presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines.

* ADVANCED COURSES *
Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to
acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of
a field.

* WORKSHOPS *
Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest.
Workshops organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting
the workshop programme. They are also responsible for publishing
proceedings if they decide to have proceedings.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES 
===================

Course and workshop proposals should follow closely the following
guidelines to ensure full consideration.

Each course may have no more than two instructors, and each workshop no
more than two organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a
PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline.

Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course
category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the
intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and
monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify
the prerequisites in detail.

Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2015

and include all of the following:

a. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact
   address, email, homepage (optional)

b. General proposal information: Title, category

c. Contents information:
    Abstract of up to 150 words
    Motivation and description (up to two pages)
    Tentative outline
    Expected level and prerequisites
    Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings,
    surveys)

d. Practical information:
    Relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable
    Potential external funding for participants

Programme Committee
===================

Chair: Achim Jung (Birmingham)

Language and Computation:
        Aurelie Herbelot (Cambridge)
        Stefan Müller (Berlin)
Language and Logic:
        Edgar Onea (Göttingen)
        Galit Weidman-Sassoon (Bar-Ilan)
Logic and Computation:
        Hubie Chen (Donostia-San Sebastián)
        Stephan Kreutzer (Berlin)

Queries
=======

Please send any queries you may have to A.Jung at cs.bham.ac.uk

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:11:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:11:26 +0200
Subject: Appel: 4th Open Challenge on Multilingual Question Answering over
 Linked Data (QALD-4) is on!
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101126.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 12:19:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Elena Cabrio <elena.cabrio at inria.fr>
Message-ID: <867457608.2072525.1396433988454.JavaMail.zimbra at inria.fr>
X-url: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/
X-url: http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/qald/

Dear all,


The test phase for the 4th Open Challenge on Question Answering over
Linked Data (QALD-4) is now on!


In the context of the question answering lab at CLEF 2014
(http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/), it comprises three open challenges:


* Multilingual question answering over DBpedia
* Biomedical question answering over interlinked datasets
* Hybrid question answering over DBpedia


Training and test data as well as more information about the challenge
is available on the website:


http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/qald/


Results have to be submitted until May 1, via the online evaluation
tool.

The schedule is as follows:

Release of test data: April 1, 2014
Submission deadline:  May 1, 2014
Release of results:   May 8, 2014
Workshop:             September, 2014


We cordially invite everyone working on question answering over linked
data to participate, and look forward to another exciting challenge!

With best regards,

Christina Unger,
Philipp Cimiano,
Vanessa Lopez,
Elena Cabrio,
Axel Ngonga,
Sebastian Walter,
Corina Forascu


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 09:01:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:01:39 +0200
Subject: Conf: IC 2014, 12-16 mai 2014, Clermont-Ferrand
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.110139.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:58:54 +0200
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <533E582E.9000100 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014

*Appel à participation à  IC 2014*

25èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances :
/Connaissances pervasives : des utilisateurs plongés dans des SBC et des
SBC plongés dans le monde/

http://www.irit.fr/IC2014
du 12 au 16 mai 2014 à Clermont-Ferrand

*Inscriptions ouvertes *: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/11

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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.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:14:34 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:14:34 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: These Cifre sur les systemes de dialogue,
 Orange Labs
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101434.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:20:52 +0000
From: <romain.laroche at orange.com>
Message-ID: <14173_1396448453_533C1CC5_14173_4668_1_6A3EA12B995B52459CDFCEFF0835C6B113FDB04E at PEXCVZYM12.corporate.adroot.infra.ftgroup>
X-url: http://www.intelliagence.fr/Page/Offer/ShowOffer.aspx?OfferId=55930
X-url: http://www.expectlabs.com/mindmeld/


Bonjour,

L'équipe NaDia (Natural Dialogue) d'Orange Labs propose une thèse à
démarrer en Octobre 2014 sur son site d'Issy les Moulineaux.

Sujet de thèse : Dialogues intelligents basés sur l’écoute de
conversations homme/homme
Pour postuler :
http://www.intelliagence.fr/Page/Offer/ShowOffer.aspx?OfferId=55930

Vous trouverez l'intégralité du sujet de thèse en dessous de ma
signature,

Cordialement,

Romain Laroche


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

Positionnement du sujet vis-à-vis de la stratégie d’entreprise et du
programme de recherche

Orange Labs s'intéresse depuis longtemps aux systèmes de dialogues,
notamment pour tout ce qui ressort du domaine des services
vocaux. Aujourd'hui, la technologie Disserto est fortement axée sur le
dialogue en langue naturelle. Elle a déjà servi à développer des
services de qualification d'appel (Générali, Crédit Agricole Centre
Ouest, la Banque Postale), l'annuaire téléphonique interne, les services
téléphoniques automatisés d’Orange (le 3000, le 3900, le 1013), …

La solution de dialogue Disserto est une chaîne d'outils complète
destinée à la conception, au développement et à la production de
services vocaux interactifs. L'utilisateur peut interagir avec
l'application soit en pressant les touches du téléphone (DTMF), soit en
prononçant des commandes vocales. Ces commandes vocales peuvent être
soit en mots isolés, en mots connectés, ou alors en parole continue
associée à un analyseur sémantique. Cette dernière modalité permet des
applications dites en langage naturel. L'application rétroagit vers
l'utilisateur en émettant des messages sonores préenregistrés, en
synthèse de la parole ou par un autre mode de communication (texte,
graphique, …).

description de l’équipe

Le candidat sélectionné sera intégré à l’équipe NaDia (Natural
Dialogue), constituée à ce jour de 8 permanents, 3 doctorants et 1
postdoctorant. La moitié de l’effort porte sur le développement et
l’autre moitié sur l’innovation et la recherche. L’équipe est bi-site ;
le doctorant sera donc amené à faire des missions à Lannion.

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

contexte global du sujet de thèse

La reconnaissance vocale est une boîte noire permettant de transcrire de
la parole en texte. Sa robustesse, sa précision et sa généricité ont
énormément progressé ces dernières années, si bien qu’il est maintenant
possible de l’utiliser sur un modèle de langage générique, même dans un
environnement bruyant. Cette avancée technologique pousse de nombreuses
innovations dont la famille d’applications qui nous intéressera lors de
cette thèse : l’écoute active d’une conversation homme-homme pour en
extraire du sens et fournir un service contextuel à ce sens.

En interne, nous avons déjà travaillé sur un service de ce type dans le
service de contextualisation qui est intégré dans l’environnement de
travail d’un télé-conseiller de centre d’appel. Cet environnement
embarque plusieurs services métiers : le chat, le mail, la gestion
d’appel, la prise de rendez-vous, la localisation, le CRM, le scripting,
les statistiques, etc. L’outil de contextualisation consiste donc à
guider l’agent en lançant automatiquement ou semi-automatiquement des
applications en fonction de motifs conversationnels détectés dans la
communication.

De même, un assistant personnel du nom de MindMeld
(http://www.expectlabs.com/mindmeld/) est commercialisé depuis peu. Il
écoute les conversations téléphoniques et propose en temps réel des
contenus en rapport avec les sujets abordés.

Le sujet de la thèse se focalisera sur la partie dialogique (relevant du
dialogue), à savoir d’une part, de ne pas seulement reconnaitre des
mots-clefs ou même analyser des phrases, mais inscrire l’analyse dans un
modèle de dialogue homme-homme ; et d’autre part, de ne pas seulement
afficher une information, ou proposer une action, mais initier un
dialogue avec l’utilisateur, terrains qu’aucune recherche ou
application, à notre connaissance, n’ont investi à ce jour.

Le domaine scientifique de la thèse sera donc à cheval sur l’analyse
sémantique d’un dialogue homme-homme et les systèmes de dialogue
homme-machine. Ceux-ci incluent depuis plusieurs années les systèmes
vocaux interactifs, mais aussi les chatbots ou les interactions que
certains jeux vidéo proposent entre le joueur et certains
personnages. Les systèmes de dialogue vocal sont en plein essor et
traitent maintenant commercialement plusieurs milliards d’appels par an.

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

objectif scientifique de la thèse - verrous à lever

Les thématiques scientifiques de la thèse s’articulent autour de trois
sujets principaux bien disjoints :

- Comment modéliser l’analyse sémantique d’une conversation homme-homme
  et en extraire un sens utilisable par une application ?  Contrairement
  à une application de dialogue classique, le système doit être capable
  d’interpréter les questions et les réponses et de construire une
  représentation de la conversation de manière incrémentale, au fur et à
  mesure qu’elle se déroule, et ce, en temps réel.

- Comment initier, mener et conclure un dialogue avec un utilisateur qui
  est déjà engagé dans une conversation avec une autre personne ?
  Contrairement à un dialogue bipartite classique, l’utilisateur peut
  s’adresser soit au système soit à son interlocuteur. De plus, la
  gestion simultanée de deux dialogues risque de modifier les codes
  interactionnels.

- Comment rendre ce type d’application d’écoute et de dialogue
  facilement extensible, voire personnalisable ? Nous prévoyons que la
  famille d’applications de dialogue développée lors de la thèse
  regroupe pour une majeure partie des applications auxquelles on
  souhaitera rajouter incrémentalement des fonctionnalités. Il apparait
  même qu’un assistant personnel devrait être personnalisable par chaque
  utilisateur. 

Nous demanderons également au doctorant d’assurer le prototypage d’une
ou plusieurs applications et d’organiser des campagnes d’expérimentation
pour évaluer les résultats de ses travaux.

En revanche, les sujets suivants sont hors du périmètre : optimisation
de la reconnaissance vocale ou théorisation de la multimodalité.

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

Profil des candidats :
compétences (scientifiques et techniques) et qualités personnelles
souhaitées par le poste 

- Savoir :
  - informatique théorique,
  - intelligence artificielle, 
  - philosophie du langage,
  - architecture logicielle,
- Savoir être :
  - esprit critique et ouvert,
  - pragmatisme
- Savoir faire :
  - créativité,
  - organisation,
  - vulgarisation,
  - propreté du code
  - informatique pratique,
  - développement informatique,
  - rigueur de développement,
  - sûreté du code développé,
  - maîtrise de l’anglais,
  - rigueur théorique,
  - rigueur de présentation,
  - rigueur scientifique,
  - rédaction

Spécialités, 
- Dialogue naturel écrit et parlé
- Théorie des jeux, jeu algorithmique et « mechanism déesign »
- Interaction multimodale
- Traitement automatique de la langue : lemmatisation, génération

Formation demandée, 
- Master de recherche et/ou diplôme d’ingénieur de première catégorie
- Au moins une des spécialités décrites ci-dessus inscrites au cursus
  universitaire/scolaire du candidat

Expériences souhaitées, 
- Un stage dans une des spécialités mentionnées ci-dessus, ou en
  intelligence artificielle au sens large

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

Le plus de l’offre 

Cette thèse offre l’opportunité de contribuer au futur des applications
de dialogue, et de participer à démocratisation des systèmes vocaux dans
la vie tous les jours. Ces deux domaines sont en plein essor
actuellement et leur émergence semble inéluctable dans les dix années à
venir. Selon Gartner, les assistants personnels font partie du top10 des
tendances technologiques pour 2014 à travers la thématique des « smart
machines ».

Le doctorant est intégré dans une petite équipe comprenant trois autres
doctorants et un post-doctorant à ce jour. Toute l’équipe travaille dans
le domaine des systèmes de dialogue. Les autres équipes d’Orange Labs
regroupent tous types de compétences dans tous les domaines de
l’intelligence artificielle et plus généralement de
l’informatique. C’est un très bon environnement pour aller au fond de
ses recherches et obtenir un retour avisé d’experts.

Orange garantit que le doctorant travaillera dans les meilleures
conditions en prenant plusieurs engagements :

- Mise à disposition d’outils industriels : l’outil historique Disserto,
  utilisé par le thésard, offre les clés idéales pour aborder toutes ces
  problématiques sans avoir à passer trop de temps sur du développement
  périphérique au sujet de thèse.

- Mise à disposition de nos précédents résultats de recherche : qu’il
  s’agisse de veille, d’étude théorique ou de code, le doctorant aura
  accès à toutes les ressources qui peuvent l’aider dans sa
  tâche. Orange Labs regroupe 3700 ingénieurs. Quel que soit la
  thématique de recherche, il est probable qu’elle ait été défrichée
  quelque part.

- Mise à disposition des équipements nécessaires : pour l’étude du
  dialogue dans l’environnement domestique, nous avons déjà investi sur
  de l’équipement pour monter une showroom.

- Mise en place d’expérimentations : nous avons l’habitude chez Orange
  de lancer des campagnes de tests de nos développements en
  interne. Chaque campagne a ses spécificités, mais pour donner une idée
  de l’ampleur, nous avons un doctorant pour lequel trois
  expérimentations de 500 testeurs sont planifiés sur la durée de la
  thèse.

- Mise à disposition de données : Orange a une grande expérience en
  matière de systèmes vocaux et dispose de grandes quantités de données
  (les systèmes basés sur la technologie Disserto reçoivent 200 millions
  d’appels par an).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:18:16 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:18:16 +0200
Subject: Appel: CICE-2014
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101816.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:51:52 +0100 (BST)
From: "CICE, cfp" <cfp at ciceducation.org>
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Apologies for cross-postings.

Kindly email this call for papers to your colleagues, faculty members
and postgraduate students.

FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, EXTENDED ABSTRACTS, PAPERS, POSTERS AND
WORKSHOPS!
============================================
Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2014)
June 16-19, 2014
Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, Canada
www.ciceducation.org <http://www.ciceducation.org>
============================================


The CICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the
advancement of the theory and practices in education. The CICE promotes
collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from
Education.

The aim of CICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and
professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary
interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the
evolution of pedagogy. The CICE-2014 invites research papers that
encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance
evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and
modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues
peer reviewed journals.

The topics in CICE-2014 include but are not confined to the following
areas:

*Art Education
  * Music Education
  * Writing Education
  * Imaginative Education
  * Language Education
  * History
*Adult Education
  * Competitive Skills
  * Continuing Education
  * Higher Education
  * Vocational Education
  * Transferring Disciplines
*Business Education
  * Educational Administration
  * Human Resource Development
  * Academic Advising and Counselling
  * Education Policy and Leadership
  * Industrial Cooperation
  * Life-long Learning Experiences
  * Workplace Learning and Collaborative Learning
  * Work Employability
  * Educational Institution Government Partnership
  * Patent Registration and Technology Transfer
  * University Spin-Off Companies

*Course Management

  * Accreditation and Quality Assurance
  * Academic Experiences and Best Practice Contributions
  * Copy-right
  * Digital Libraries and Repositories
  * Digital Rights Management
  * Evaluation and Assessment
  * E-content Management and Development
  * Open Content
  * e-Portfolios
  * Grading Methods
  * Knowledge Management
  * Quality processes at National and International level
  * Security and Data Protection
  * Student Selection Criteria in Interdisciplinary Studies
  * User-Generated Content

*Curriculum, Research and Development

  * Acoustics in Education Environment
  * APD/Listening
  * Counsellor Education
  * Courses, Tutorials and Labs
  * Curriculum Design
  * ESL/TESL

*Educational Foundations

  * Early Childhood Education
  * Elementary Education
  * Geographical Education
  * Health Education
  * Home Education
  * Rural Education
  * Science Education
  * Secondary Education
  * Second life Educators
  * Social Studies Education
  * Special Education

*Learning / Teaching Methodologies and Assessment

  * Simulated Communities and Online Mentoring
  * e-Testing and new Test Theories
  * Supervising and Managing Student Projects
  * Pedagogy Enhancement with e-Learning
  * Educating the Educators
  * Immersive Learning
  * Blended Learning
  * Computer-Aided Assessment
  * Metrics and Performance Measurement
  * Assessment Software Tools
  * Assessment Methods in Blended Learning Environments

*Global Issues In Education and Research

  * Education, Research and Globalization
  * Barriers to Learning (ethnicity, age, psychosocial factors, ...)
  * Women and Minorities in Science and Technology
  * Indigenous and Diversity Issues
  * Government Policy issues
  * Organizational, Legal and Financial Aspects
  * Digital Divide
  * Increasing Affordability and Access to the Internet
  * Ethical issues in Education
  * Intellectual Property Rights and Plagiarism

*Pedagogy

  * Teacher Education
  * Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
  * Educational Psychology
  * Education practice trends and issues
  * Indigenous Education
  * Kinesiology and Leisure Science
  * K12
  * Life-long Learning Education
  * Mathematics Education
  * Physical Education (PE)
  * Reading Education
  * Religion and Education Studies
*Research Management
  * Research Methodologies
  * Academic Research Projects
  * Joint-research programmes
  * Research on Technology in Education
  * Research Centres
  * Links between Education and Research
  * New Challenges in Education
  * ECTS experiences
  * The Bologna Process and its implementation
  * Joint-Degree Programmes
  * Erasmus and Exchange experiences in universities
  * Students and Teaching staff Exchange programmes

*Ubiquitous Learning

  * Accessibility to Disabled Users
  * Animation, 3D, and Web 3D Applications
  * Context Dependent Learning
  * Distance Education
  * E-Learning
  * E-Manufacturing
  * Educational Technology
  * Educational Games and Software
  * Human Computer Interaction
  * ICT Education
  * Internet technologies
  * Learning Management Systems (LMS)
  * Mobile Applications and Learning (M-learning)
  * Multi-Virtual Environment
  * Standards and Interoperability
  * Technology Enhanced Learning
  * Technology Support for Pervasive Learning

*Ubiquitous Computing

  * Videos for Learning and Educational Multimedia
  * Virtual and Augmented Reality
  * Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)
  * Web 2.0, Social Networking, Blogs and Wikis
  * Wireless Applications

*Research In Progress

Important dates

Research Paper, Extended Abstract, Case Study, Work in Progress and Report
Submission Deadline April 05, 2014
Notification of Paper, Extended Abstract, Case Study, Work in Progress and
Report Acceptance Date April 15, 2014
Final Paper Submission Deadline for Conference Proceedings Publication
  April 30, 2014
Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline 	March 20, 2014
Notification of Workshop Proposal Acceptance/Rejection 	March 30, 2014
Poster/Demo Proposal Submission 	March 20, 2014
Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance 	March 30, 2014
Participant(s) Registration (Open) 	December 01, 2013 to June 15, 2014
Early Bird Registration (Authors and Participants) 	January 30 to
  April 15, 2014
Late Bird Registration (Authors only) 	 April 16 to May 18, 2014
Conference Dates 	 June 16-19, 2014


For further information please visit CICE-2014 at http://www.ciceducation.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:57:01 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:57:01 +0200
Subject: Job: CDD, Ortolang
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.105701.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:43:36 +0200
From: Christophe Parisse <cparisse at u-paris10.fr>
Message-Id: <94E3DA8B-615D-4AC0-8530-E38EBDB04159 at u-paris10.fr>
X-url: http://liste.cines.fr//ticket/90986762449879
X-url: http://www.ortolang.fr


Offre d’emploi CDD d’ingénieur pour le support dans ORTOLANG
 

Informations générales

Lieu : Nanterre (94) (Laboratoire Modyco UMR 7114) dans le cadre de
l’Equipex ORTOLANG

Date de publication : lundi 5 avril 2014

Date limite de candidature : 15/04/2013

Type de contrat : CDD

Durée du contrat : 6 mois

Date d'embauche prévue : 1 mai 2014

Quotité de travail : Temps partiel à 50 %

Niveau d'études souhaité : Bac+5

Expérience souhaitée : expérience souhaitée en linguistique de corpus

Rémunération : Barème IE CNRS selon expérience

 

Missions : 6 mois à mi-temps

Dans le cadre du projet d'Equipex ORTOLANG (www.ortolang.fr) et intégré
à l’équipe du laboratoire MoDyCo, l’ingénieur sera chargé de
l'intégration des données des projets Corpus de Modyco dans ORTOLANG.

- Etat des fichiers : codages, métadonnées
- Gestion des transcriptions et des médias
- Utilisation d’outils de conversion, d’annotation automatique
- Anonymisation
- Corrections et nettoyage
 

Activités

L’ingénieur travaillera en collaboration avec les développeurs
informatiques pour la création de scripts et d’outils permettant
l’exploitation en ligne de ces ressources.

Il utilisera ces scripts pour réaliser les anonymisations de corpus et
fera le contrôle manuel nécessaire de cette opération.

Il apportera sa compétence en linguistique de corpus pour mener à bien
les missions qui lui seront confiées.

Il recevra des formations pour l’acquisition de nouvelles compétences
dans les domaines techniques liés à son activité.


Compétences

Bonne connaissance des formats de transcription et des techniques
d’annotation des corpus ;


Contexte de travail

Dans le cadre de la mise en place de l'Equipex ORTOLANG
(www.ortolang.fr), cet emploi s'insérera dans le Laboratoire MoDyCo
(http://www.modyco.fr), Unité Mixte de Recherche du CNRS et de
l’Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense et partenaire
d'ORTOLANG.


Informations complémentaires

Toute candidature (CV détaillé et lettre de motivation) devra être
adressée à :

Christophe Parisse (cparisse at u-paris10.fr)


Contact

Christophe Parisse (cparisse at u-paris10.fr)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:54:57 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:54:57 +0200
Subject: Info: ELRA, LDC,
 and AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA announce the opening of ISLRN Portal
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.105457.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:17:49 +0200
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
Message-ID: <533D354D.5000902 at elda.org>
X-url: http://www.islrn.org/

/Press Release - Immediate - Paris, France, April 3, 2014/

*Opening of the ISLRN Portal*
*ELRA, LDC, and AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA announce the opening of the ISLRN
Portal @ www.islrn.org.*

Further to the establishment of the International Standard Language
Resource Number (ISLRN) as a unique and universal identification schema
for Language Resources on November 18, 2013, ELRA, LDC and
AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA now announce the opening of the ISLRN Portal
(www.islrn.org). As a service free of charge for all Language Resource
providers and under the supervision of a steering committee composed of
representatives of participating organisations, the ISLRN Portal
provides unique identifiers using a standardised nomenclature.

_Overview_
The 13-digit ISLRN format is: XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-X. It can be allocated to
any Language Resource; its composition is neutral and does not include
any semantics in reference to the type or nature of the Language
Resource. The ISLRN is a randomly created number with a check digit that
validates a Verhoeff algorithm
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verhoeff_algorithm>.

Two types of external players may interact with the ISLRN Portal:
Visitors and Providers. Visitors may browse the web site and search for
the ISLRN of a given Language Resource by its name or by its number if
it exists. Providers are registered and own credentials. They can
request a new ISLRN for a given Language Resource. A provider has the
possibility to become certified, after moderation, in order to be able
to import metadata in XML format.

The functionalities that can be accessed by Visitors are:

- Identify a language resource according to its ISLRN 
  http://www.islrn.org/resources/identify_islrn
- Identify an ISLRN by the name of a language resource 
  http://www.islrn.org/resources/identify_name
- Get information about ISLRN http://www.islrn.org/about, FAQ
  http://www.islrn.org/faq, Basic Metadata
  http://www.islrn.org/basic_metadata, Legal Information
  http://www.islrn.org/legal_info
- View last 5 accepted resources ("What's new" block on home page
  http://www.islrn.org/)
- Sign up to become a provider

The functionalities that can be accessed by Providers, once they have
signed up, are:

- Log in http://www.islrn.org/login/?next=/login/
- Request an ISLRN according to the metadata of a given resource 
  http://www.islrn.org/login/?next=/resources/submit_resource/
- Request to become a certified provider so as to import XML files
  containing metadata
- Import one or more metadata descriptions in XML to request ISLRN(s)
  (only for certified providers)
- Edit pending requests
- Access previous requests
- Contact a Moderator or an Administrator
- Edit Providers' own profile

ISLRN request is handled by moderators within 5 working days.  

*Contact: islrn at elda.org*

_Background_
The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) is a unique
and universal identification schema for Language Resources which
provides Language Resources with unique identifier using a standardised
nomenclature. It also ensures that Language Resources are correctly
identified, and consequently, recognised with proper references for
their usage in applications in R&D projects, products evaluation and
benchmark as well as in documents and scientific papers. Moreover, it is
a major step in the interconnected world that Human Language
Technologies (HLT) has become: unique resources must be identified as
they are and meta-catalogues need a common identification format to
manage data correctly.

The ISLRN does not intend to replace local and specific identifiers, it
is not meant to be a legal deposit, not an obligation, but rather an
essential and best practice. For instance a resource that is distributed
by several data centres will still have the "local" data-centre
identifier but will have a unique ISLRN.

********************************************************************
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 www.elra.info.

About LDC
Founded in 1992, the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is an open
consortium of universities, companies and government research
laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text
databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development
purposes. The University of Pennsylvania is the LDC's host institution.
To find out more about LDC, please visit www.ldc.upenn.edu.

About AFNLP
The mission of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
(AFNLP) is to promote and enhance R&D relating to the computational
analysis and the automatic processing of all languages of importance to
the Asian region by assisting and supporting like-minded organizations
and institutions through information sharing, conference organization,
research and publication co-ordination, and other forms of support. To
find out more about AFNLP, please visit www.afnlp.org.

About Oriental-COCOSDA
The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of
Speech Databases and Assesment Techniques, Oriental-COCOSDA, has been
established to encourage and promote international interaction and
cooperation in the foundation areas of Spoken Language Processing,
especially for Speech Input/Output. To find out more about
Oriental-COCOSDA, please visit our web site: www.cocosda.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 09:08:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:08:09 +0200
Subject: Appel: EACL workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature,
 April 27 2014, Gothenburg
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.110809.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:22:14 -0400
From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak at eecs.uottawa.ca>
Message-ID: <533FF576.4030905 at eecs.uottawa.ca>

The Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, 
co-located with EACL in Gothenburg, invites all and sundry for a day of 
NLP with a difference. Join us on April 27 to witness two exciting 
invited talks and eight intriguing presentations. You will become 
acquainted with digital poetics and learn what happens when narratology 
meets machine learning. You will hear how to map a novel into a piece of 
music, how to recreate a social network in a piece of fiction, and much 
more.

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

Come one, come all!

Anna, Anna, Stan


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:59:48 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:59:48 +0200
Subject: Conf: NLDB'2014, 18-20 June 2014, Montpellier, France
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.105948.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:23:30 +0200
From: Mathieu Roche <Mathieu.Roche at lirmm.fr>
Message-ID: <e00049557b0ba51b303b996cfada4c24 at lirmm.fr>
X-url: http://www.nldb.org/


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

 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - NLDB'2014

 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to
 Information Systems

 18-20 June 2014 - Montpellier, France

 http://www.nldb.org/

 Registration (early bird registration deadline: May 15, 2014):
 http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/conf_registration.html

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

 Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher,
 industrials and potential users interested in various application of
 Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The
 integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for
 many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an
 established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and
 technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic
 dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the
 communication area, the term databases should be considered in the
 broader sense of information and communication systems. The use of
 Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both
 improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers
 (improve the process of conceptual modeling, validation, etc) and the
 usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces,
 semantic webs, etc).

 NLDB'2014 will take place in Montpellier (France). The conference
 invites researchers from academia and industry to submit papers for
 oral or poster presentations on recent, unpublished research that
 addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures
 for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other
 aspects of NLP, as well as review and discussion papers.

 Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

 - Applications of NLP in Information Systems: Multilingual Information
   Systems, NLP in Requirement Engineering, NLP in Knowledge Management,
   Semantic Data Integration and Data Cleaning

 - Social Media and Web Data: Corpus analysis, Language identification,
   Text normalization, Robust NLP for social media, Text classification,
   Information Extraction and Sentiment Analysis for social media

 - Big Data and Natural Language

 - Semantic Web Open Linked Data: Ontology Learning and Alignment,
   Populating ontologies, Querying Ontologies and linked data, Semantic
   tagging and classification, Ontology-driven NLP

 - Question Answering (QA): NL interfaces to databases, QA using web
   data, multi-lingual QA, Non-factoid QA (how/why/opinion questions,
   lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets

 - Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive Computing,
   Embedded, Robotic and Mobile Applications.

 - Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling: Analysis of Natural Language
   Descriptions, Terminological Ontologies, Consistency Checking,
   Metadata Creation and Harvesting, Ontology-driven Systems
   Integration, Ontology Management

 - NLP Applications: Business Intelligence, Subjectivity and Sentiment
   Analysis, QA systems, Event Detection, Named Entity and Event
   Detection, Information Extraction, Summarization, NLP for Data
   Mining, NLP for Data Warehouses, Plagiarism detection, Identity
   detection

 =================
 INVITED SPEAKERS
 =================

 Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK

 Topic of the talk: Applications of Biomedical Text Mining

 Brief biography: Sophia Ananiadou received her PhD in Natural Language
 Processing (NLP) from the University of Manchester. She is Professor of
 Computer Science in the School of Computer Science, University of
 Manchester and has led the National Centre for Text Mining
 (www.nactem.ac.uk) since 2007. She researches into semantic text mining
 and semantic search techniques for applications in domains such as
 systems biology, public health, chemistry and social sciences. She is
 also developing large-scale resources (terminological resources and
 annotated data), and interoperable text mining platforms. Her current
 projects include semantic search for Europe PubMedCentral, supporting
 evidence-based public health reviews in collaboration with NICE, mining
 the history of medicine and extraction of semantic metadata for the
 automated measurement of open source software. She has been a three
 times recipient (2006-2008) of the IBM UIMA innovation award for her
 work in interoperable platforms for text mining and was also awarded
 the Daiwa Adrian prize (2004). She has authored over 250 publications.

 ********

 Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

 Topic of the talk: Personal ontologies

 Brief biography: Gabriella Pasi received a PhD in Computer Science at
 the Université de Rennes, France. She has been working at the National
 Council of Research in Italy till 2005. She is actually Associate
 Professor at the Università Degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano,
 Italy, where she leads the Information Retrieval Research Laboratory.
 Her research activities mainly focus on personalised and contextual
 access to information, and on the problem of aggregation in search. She
 has served as the program chair of several international conferences
 and workshops, and she has been the chair or co-chair of several
 International events among which the IEEE / WIC / ACM International
 Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology,
 Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, 15-18 September 2009, the PhD
 School on Web Information Retrieval (WebBar 2007), the Seventh
 International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS
 2006), the European Summer school in Information Retrieval (ESSIR
 2000), and the annual track ?Information Access and Retrieval? within
 the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. She has published more than 180
 papers on International Journals and Books, and on the Proceeding of
 International Conferences, and she is member of the Editorial Board of
 the several International Journals.

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 LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS
 =========================

 http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/accepted_paper.html

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 09:04:54 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:04:54 +0200
Subject: Appel: 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
 Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2015
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.110454.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:59:24 +0100
From: "Calendar Sites" <calendarsites at insticc.org>
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CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and
Methods– ICPRAM 2015

Website: http://www.icpram.org 

January 10-12, 2015

Lisbon, Portugal

Regular Papers 

Regular Paper Submission: July 29, 2014 
Regular Paper Authors Notification: November 3, 2014 
Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 

 

Sponsored by:

INSTICC-Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control
and Communication

INSTICC is Member of:

WfMC- Workflow Management Coalition

Logistics Partner:

SCITEVENTS – Science and Technology Events

 

The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and
Methods would like to become a major point of contact between
researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Pattern
Recognition, both from theoretical and application perspectives.

Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques
to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or
theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern
Recognition methods are especially encouraged.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ICPRAM 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are
internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not
yet confirmed.

 

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings,
under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef ( <http://www.crossref.org/>
http://www.crossref.org/).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Default.aspx SCITEPRESS Digital
Library.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier
Index) and Scopus.

AWARDS

The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing
session.

Please check the website for further information:
http://www.icpram.org/PreviousAwards.aspx


ICPRAM CONFERENCE CHAIR

Ana Fred, Instituto de Telecomunicações / IST, Portugal


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Maria De Marsico, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Mário Figueiredo, Technical University of Lisbon - IST, Portugal

 

CONFERENCE AREAS:


Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is
not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics,
although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related
sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the
following main topic areas:

1. THEORY AND METHODS
2. APPLICATIONS

 

AREA 1: THEORY AND METHODS 

- Exact and Approximate Inference 

- Density Estimation 

- Bayesian Models 

- Gaussian Processes 

- Model Selection 

- Graphical and Graph-based Models 

- Missing Data 

- Ensemble Methods 

- Neural Networks 

- Kernel Methods 

- Large Margin Methods 

- Classification 

- Regression 

- Sparsity 

- Feature Selection and Extraction 

- Spectral Methods 

- Embedding and Manifold Learning 

- Similarity and Distance Learning 

- Matrix Factorization 

- Clustering 

- ICA, PCA, CCA and other Linear Models 

- Fuzzy Logic 

- Active Learning 

- Cost-sensitive Learning 

- Incremental Learning 

- On-line Learning 

- Structured Learning 

- Multi-agent Learning 

- Multi-instance Learning 

- Reinforcement Learning 

- Instance-based Learning 

- Knowledge Acquisition and Representation 

- Meta Learning 

- Multi-strategy Learning 

- Case-Based Reasoning 

- Inductive Learning 

- Computational Learning Theory 

- Cooperative Learning 

- Evolutionary Computation 

- Information Retrieval and Learning 

- Hybrid Learning Algorithms 

- Planning and Learning 

- Convex Optimization 

- Stochastic Methods 

- Combinatorial Optimization 

- Multiclassifier Fusion 

AREA 2: APPLICATIONS 

- Natural language processing 

- Information retrieval 

- Ranking 

- Web Applications 

- Economics, Business and Forecasting Applications 

- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 

- Audio and Speech Processing 

- Signal Processing 

- Image Understanding 

- Sensors and Early Vision 

- Motion and Tracking 

- Image-based Modelling 

- Shape Representation 

- Object Recognition 

- Video Analysis 

- Medical Imaging 

- Learning and Adaptive Control 

- Perception 

- Learning in Process Automation 

- Learning of Action Patterns 

- Virtual Environments 

- Robotics 

- Biometrics 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

http://www.icpram.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

 

 

Please check further details at the conference website
(http://www.icpram.org)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:12:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:12:10 +0200
Subject: Appel: 2nd CFP SIGIR Medical Information Retrieval Workshop
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101210.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:08:05 +0100
From: Lorraine Goeuriot <lorraine.goeuriot at gmail.com>
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==============================================
MEDICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (MedIR) WORKSHOP
http://medir.dcu.ie/

At SIGIR 2014, July 11 2014, Gold Coast, Australia
=======================================
Call for Papers (2 & 4 page)
--------------------------------------

**Submission deadline: April 28**

Medical information search refers to methodologies and technologies that
seek to improve access to medical information archives via a process of
information retrieval (IR). Such information is now potentially
accessible from many sources including the general web, social media,
journal articles, and hospital records.

Medical information is of interest to a wide variety of users, including
patients and their families, researchers, general practitioners and
clinicians, and practitioners with specific expertise such as
radiologists.  Despite the popularity of the medical domain for users of
search engines, and current interest in this topic within the
information retrieval research community, development of search and
access technologies remains particularly challenging. One of the central
issues in medical information search is diversity of the users of these
services. In particular, they will have varying categories of
information needs, varying levels of medical knowledge, and varying
language skills. In addition, the format, reliability, and quality of
biomedical and medical information varies greatly. A single health
record can contain clinical notes, technical pathology data, images, and
patient-contributed histories, and may be linked by a physician to
research papers. The importance of health and medical topics and their
impact on people's everyday lives makes the need for retrieval of
accurate and reliable information especially important.  Determining the
likely reliability of available information is challenging.  Finally, as
with information retrieval in general, the evaluation of medical search
tools is vital and challenging.  For example, there are no established
or standardized baselines or evaluation metrics, and limited
availability of test collections.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in medical
information search with the goal of identifying specific research
challenges that need to be addressed to advance the state-of-the-art and
to foster interdisciplinary collaborations towards the meeting of these
challenges. To enable this, we encourage participation from researchers
in all fields related to medical information search including mainstream
information retrieval, but also natural language processing,
multilingual text processing, and medical image analysis.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Users and information needs
- Semantics and NLP for medical IR
- Reliability and trust in medical IR
- Personalised search
- Evaluation of medical IR
- Multilingual issues in medical IR
- Multimedia technologies in medical IR
- The role of social media in medical IR

====================================
Paper Submissions
---------------------------
The workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Short papers (4 pages)
and short position papers (2 pages) describing approaches or ideas /
challenges on the topics of the workshop are invited. Submissions should
be in ACM SIGS format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX,
use the "Option 2" style).

Papers should be anonymised for double blind review and submitted in pdf
format through the EasyChair system
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medir2014 no later than
midnight Pacific Daylight Time on April 28, 2014. Submissions will be
reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers
will be included in the SIGIR 2014 Medical Information Search Workshop
proceedings.

====================================
Important Dates
----------------------
April 28, 2014: Deadline for paper submission (midnight Pacific Daylight
Time)
May 10, 2014: Notification to authors
May 17, 2014: Camera-ready papers due
July 11, 2014: Workshop

====================================
Further Information
--------------------------
Further information is available on the workshop website at
http://medir.dcu.ie/ or by emailing the workshop organisers.

====================================
Workshop Organisers
------------------------------
Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland
Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland
Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:10:38 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:10:38 +0200
Subject: Appel: Colloques "Frontieres Numeriques" & CIDE17 (Fes 2014)
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101038.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:05:14 +0200
From: Bernard Jacquemin <Bernard.Jacquemin at univ-lille3.fr>
Message-ID: <533BE0DA.6020301 at univ-lille3.fr>
X-url: http://numerique.paragraphe.info/
X-url: http://cide17.europia.org


Chers collègues,

Le laboratoire Paragraphe en collaboration avec les équipes Geriico
(Lille 3), Arts des images & art contemporain (Paris 8), LabEx Arts-H2M
(Paris 8), Idefi Créatic (Paris 8), ESISA (Fés Maroc) organisent deux
colloques à Fès les 18, 19 et 20 Novembre 2014. Il nous semble que ces
manifestations pourraient vous intéresser.

Ci-dessous les sites des deux colloques (Appel à contributions,
informations pratiques, etc.) :

Colloque : http://numerique.paragraphe.info/ sur les frontières
numériques, les 18 et 19 Novembre 2014.

Colloque : http://cide17.europia.org sur le livre post-numérique :
historique, mutations et perspectives, les 19 et 20 Novembre 2014.


Nous vous remercions par avance, de bien vouloir diffuser cet appel
auprès de vos collègues et vos doctorants.

Bien cordialement

Le comité "Frontières Numériques"

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:22:47 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:22:47 +0200
Subject: Appel: Reseaux Lexicaux et Traitement des Langues Naturelles
 (RLTLN)
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.212247.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:33:24 +0800
From: Michael Zock <Michael.Zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <53422A94.4020006 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: https://sites.google.com/site/rltlntaln2014/
X-url: http://www.taln2014.org/site/

We do accept papers written in English by those who are not fluent in
French

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

Réseaux Lexicaux et Traitement des Langues Naturelles (RLTLN)

Atelier TALN 2014
Faculté Saint Charles (Aix Marseille Université), 1er juillet 2014.
Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2014

Organisateurs :
Michael Zock (LIF, Marseille)
Gemma Bel-Enguix (LIF, Marseille)
Reinhard Rapp (LIF, Marseille et Université de Mainz)

1 PRÉSENTATION DU CHAMP

La façon dont nous regardons les unités lexicales, leur organisation et
utilisation a radicalement changée ces dernières décennies. Décrites
dans des dictionnaires et considérées comme des annexes de la grammaire
dans les années 80, on les considère désormais comme de la matière
première en TAL. Si à l’époque on utilisait encore des termes comme
'mots' ou 'dictionnaires', on parle aujourd’hui plutôt de 'ressources
lexicales' dont il existe un certain nombre (WordNet, FrameNet, VerbNet,
PropBank, ...). Celles-ci ont été standardisées
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBY-LMF), liées entre elles (http:/
/verbs.colorado.edu/semlink/) ou liées à des encyclopédies comme
Wikipédia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BabelNet). Il y a également des
projets comme DBnary (http://kaiko.getalp.org/about-dbnary) qui, partant
de Wiktionary, fournit des ressources lexicales dans de nombreuses
langues.

Si dans le passé on créait des dictionnaires à la main, on le fait
aujourd'hui de manière (semi-) automatique et à l'aide de corpus. Bien
entendu, cette évolution ne s'est pas faite du jour au lendemain. Les
premières tentatives de création automatique de ressources à partir de
dictionnaires imprimés (Ide Véronis,
sites.univ-provence.fr/veronis/publis.html) se sont vite heurtées à des
problèmes, en raison de la pauvreté de la source : les dictionnaires
papier ne contenaient pas les informations nécessaires permettant
ensuite un usage par la machine. Or, c’était justement le but
recherché. L’accès à de vastes corpus a alors permis de marquer un
tournant et de construire des ressources plus riches, plus explicites et
mieux structurées. Concernant ce dernier point, WordNet (WN) a joué un
rôle capital. Bien qu’il n’a pas eu le succès escompté auprès des
psycholinguistes ou auprès des utilisateurs consultant la ressource
(pour chercher des mots), WN a eu un succès considérable en TAL. Ceci
dit, il a également eu un impact incontestable sur le plan théorique. WN
a profondément modifié notre manière de voir la structure des ressources
lexicales.  Dorénavant, elles ne se résument plus à des simples listes
alphabétiques, mais elles sont réprésentées plutôt sous forme des
graphes (réseau lexical) dont les noeuds sont des unités lexicales liées
par différents types de relations.

Parallèlement à l’évolution des ressources lexicales, on a pu observer
une évolution notable concernant les travaux portant sur les
graphes. Ces derniers semblent se prêter à merveille à la modélisation
de divers domaines (Barrat, 2008, Barabási, 2003), y compris celui de la
langue. En effet, il y a eu de nombreux travaux montrant leur pertinence
pour capter le sens des mots et celui des phrases (Widdows, 2004; Sowa,
1991) ou pour modéliser divers aspects du 'monde' lexical : structures
associatives (http://www.eat.rl.ac.uk, ou http://
w3.usf.edu/FreeAssociation/), structure du dictionnaire (Gaume et
al. 2008), densité lexicale, distance moyenne entre les mots (Vitevitch,
2008), accessibilité (Ferrer i Cancho Sole, 2001), aspects dynamiques
des graphes (Dion, 2012), etc.

Nous constatons donc qu’il y a deux communautés, dont l’une s’intéresse
aux données (concrètes commes les unites lexicales), et l’autre plutôt à
leur représentation et organisation (graphes, topologie,
navigation). C’est pour encourager l’échange d’idées entre ces deux
mondes, que nous organisons cet atelier.


2 THEMES

Nous attendons des soumissions portant sur les thèmes évoqués plus haut
et en particulier :

  - Origine des données permettant la construction des ressources :
    corpus (web, blogs, courriels), êtres humains (liste
    d’associations), etc. ;
  - Méthode de construction de la ressource: automatique,
    semi-automatique, collaborative (par des jeux, etc.) ;
  - Construction automatique du réseau (repérage et caractérisation des
    relations sémantiques) ;
  - Structuration des données : alphabétique, thématique, liens
    sémantiques, liens associatifs ;
  - Propriétés mathématiques des réseaux lexicaux ;
  - Facteurs affectant le poids des noeuds ou des liens : aspects
    dynamiques des graphes (fréquence, saillance, récence, changement de
    thème, etc.) ;
  - Caractérisation topologique du graphe lexical : distribution,
    densité relative, évolution du graphe ;
  - Exploitation ou utilisation de la ressource ou d’une de ses
    transformations comme la transformation du graphe en arbre pour
    assister la navigation (accès lexical) ;
  - Accessibilité des mots grâce à des caractéristiques du réseau
    (phénomène du ‘petit monde’) ;
  - Visualisation et manipulation des graphes (traduction en arbre,
    clustering, calcul de similarité sémantique) ;
  - Modélisation des variations linguistiques et des changements de la
    langue (évolution du lexique).


3 CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION

Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du
domaine.

Pour les travaux de recherches, seront considérées en particulier :

  - l'adéquation aux thèmes de l'atelier,
  - l'importance et l'originalité de la contribution,
  - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,
  - l'organisation et la clarté de la présentation.


4 MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION

Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français. Ils devront suivre
le format de TALN 2014 et ne doivent pas dépasser 10 pages (références
comprises). Les feuilles de style (LaTeX et Word) sont disponibles sur
le site web de la conférence (
http://www.taln2014.org/site/soumission/). Les propositions doivent être
envoyées sous forme pdf à l’adresse suivante :
(https://www.easychair.org/ conferences/?conf=RLTLN2014). Les articles
retenus donneront lieu à une présentation de 30 mn, discussion comprise.

5 COMITE DE PROGRAMME

  - Bel Enguix, Gemma (LIF, Université Aix-Marseille, France)
  - Bouillon, Pierrette (tim, Faculté de Traduction et d’interprétation
    de Genève, Suisse)
  - Cristea, Dan (University A.I.Cuza, Iasi, Romania)
  - Ferrer i Cancho, Ramon (larca, université polytechnique de
    Catalogne, Barcelone, Espagne)
  - Ferret, Olivier (cea list, Gif sur Yvette, France)
  - Francopoulo, Gil (Tagmatica, Paris, France)
  - Gala, Nuria (lif-cnrs, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France)
  - Granger, Sylviane (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
  - Grefenstette, Gregory (Inria, Saclay, France)
  - Lapalme, Guy (rali, Université de Montréal, Canada)
  - Lenci, Alessandro (Université de Pise, Italie)
  - L'Homme, Marie-Claude (Université de Montréal, Canada)
  - Massip i Bonet, Àngels: (Université de Barcelone, département de
    philologie Catalane, Espagne)
  - Navigli, Roberto (Sapienzia, Université de Rome, Italie)
  - Ploux, Sabine (L2C2, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France)
  - Prévot, Laurent (lpl, Université Aix Marseille, Aix en Provence)
  - Rapp, Reinhard (lif, France) et (université de Mainz, Germany)
  - Rosso, Paolo (nlel, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
  - Schwab, Didier (lif-getalp, Grenoble, France)
  - Sérasset, Gilles (lig, Grenoble, France)
  - Zock, Michael (lif, Marseille, France) et (Université de Tainan,
    Taiwan)

6 DATES IMPORTANTES

  - Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2014
  - Notification aux auteurs : 10 mai 2014
  - Soumission de la version définitive : 30 mai 2014
  - Date de l’atelier : 1er juillet 2014

7 CONTACT

- Michael Zock michael.zock [arobas] lif.univ-mrs.fr
- Gemma Bel Enguix gemma.belenguix [arobas] gmail.com
- Reinhard Rapp reinhardrapp [arobas] gmx.de

Web :

http://www.taln2014.org/site/
https://sites.google.com/site/rltlntaln2014/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:28:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:28:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: AiML-2014, Deadline: 9 April 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.212843.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:32:32 +0100
From: Agi Kurucz <agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk>
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*** Apologies for cross-postings ****

AiML-2014:  FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

             Paper submission deadline: 9 April 2014

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

10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC,
GRONINGEN, 5-8 AUGUST, 2014

           http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/

Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state
of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative
consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the
conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at
http://www.aiml.net. AiML-2014 is the tenth conference in the series.

TOPICS
We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including:

- history of modal logic
- philosophy of modal logic
- applications of modal logic
- computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
  modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model
  checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics)
- theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
  on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
  correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
  modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of
  modal logic)

- specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics,
  modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process
  logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
  systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
  formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and
  temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural
  logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics)

Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
     Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany)
     Stephane Demri (New York University, US & CNRS, France)
     Joseph Halpern (Cornell University, US)
     Sara Negri (University of Helsinki, Finland)
     Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK)

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2014:

(1) Full papers for publication in the proceedings and presentation at
    the conference.

(2) Short presentations intended for presentation at the conference but
    not for the published proceedings.

Both types of papers should be submitted electronically using the
EasyChair submission page at

   https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aiml2014

At least one author of each accepted paper or short presentation must
register for and attend the conference.

(1) FULL PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the conference and
publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on original
research and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of AiML-2014 will
be published by College Publications

              http://www.collegepublications.co.uk

in a volume to be made available at the conference.

The submissions should be at most 15 pages, with an optional technical
appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of
100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset in LaTeX, using the style
files and template that are provided on the AiML-2014 website
http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/

We also ask authors of full papers to submit the abstract in plain text
via EasyChair by 14 March.

(2) SHORT PRESENTATIONS.
These should be at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results,
work in progress etc., and will be subject to light reviewing. The
accepted submissions will be made available at the conference, and the
authors will have the opportunity to give short presentations (of up to
15 minutes) on them.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts and full papers submission deadline: 9 April 2014
Full papers acceptance notification: 19 May 2014
Short presentations submission deadline:  21 May 2014
Short presentations acceptance notification:  2 June 2014
Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 9 June 2014
Conference: 5-8 August, 2014.

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
     Dave Gilbert
     Barteld Kooi
     Bouke Kuijer
     Paolo Maffezioli
     Allard Tamminga

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
     Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universitad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
     Alexandru Baltag (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
     Nick Bezhanishvili (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
     Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University, Denmark)
     Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, France)
     David Fernández-Duque (ITAM, Mexico)
     Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA)
     Mai Gehrke (LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot, France)
     Silvio Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
     Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
     Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark)
     Guido Governatori (NICTA Queensland, Australia)
     Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
     Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
     Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College London, UK)
     Barteld Kooi (University of Groningen)
     Marcus Kracht (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
     Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK)
     Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen, Germany)
     Jakub Michaliszyn (Imperial College London, UK)
     Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA)
     Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
     Revantha Ramanayake (Technical University of Vienna)
     Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia)
     Vladimir Rybakov (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
     Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK)
     Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
     Ilya Shapirovsky (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, 
         Moscow, Russia)
     Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia)
     Dimiter Vakarelov (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
     Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
     Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
     Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College London, UK)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
     Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia)
     Agi Kurucz (King's College London, UK)

FURTHER INFORMATION. Please see http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014

ENQUIRIES. E-mail enquiries should be directed to the PC co-chairs,
sent to aiml2014 at easychair.org

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:32:21 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Session 4, Natively digital data mapping, 10/04/2014,
 ENSCI
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Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:14:24 +0200
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*10.04.14 // Session 4: Natively digital data mapping // 14:30-18:00 @
 ENSCI
**http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/venue/*

Thirty years ago, the democratization of IT radically changed the way we
access, generate and manage information. The Internet has amplified and
accelerated this phenomenon, producing ever increasing amounts of
"natively digital data" (Rogers, 2013). This has fostered numerous
studies of online culture, where researchers have turned to
user-populated platforms such as Twitter to detect the associative
practices of novel communities, or to sites such as Wikipedia where
recent studies compare the controversality of topics on different
language sections of the online encyclopedia (Yasseri, 2012). Beyond
these specific studies of web-based-media use, there are broader
questions about what exactly are we studying when we analyze hyperlinks,
online forums, websites, etc.? Furthermore, what are we doing when we
access information through ranking systems provided by search engine
algorithms (e.g. PageRank) that constantly evolve to take into account a
user's prior searches? The session aims to develop a reflexive
understanding of using natively digital data as a resource for research.

*[14h30-16h00]* The seminar will start with a collective discussion of
the articles (and video presentation) listed below. There will be a
brief presentation and comments on the texts provided by Alexandre
Hocquet
(http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet)
and Tao Hong (http://univ-paris8.academia.edu/TaoHong) to help launch
the discussion.

- Marres, N., & Weltevrede, E. (2013). Scraping the Social? /Journal of
  Cultural Economy/, 6(3), 313--335. doi:10.1080/17530350.2013.772070
  (link (http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6768/))

- Yasseri, T., Sumi, R., Rung, A., Kornai, A., & Kertész, J. (2012).
  Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia. /PloS ONE/, 7(6), e38869.
  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038869 (link
  (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038869))

- Kelty, C. (2014). /The fog of freedom/. In Gillespie, T., Foot, K.,
  and Boczkowski, P., editors, /Media Technologies: Essays on
  Communication, Materiality, and Society/. MIT Press, Cambridge,
  MA. Video link of presentation of text:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihY0exiwkn8

**

*[16h00-16h15]* Pause

*[16h15-18h00]**Noortje Marres* 
(http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/marres/), Senior Lecturer at
Goldsmiths University of London will be the guest for this session and
present *The Ambiguity of Social Media Research:* *Re-mediating Science
and Technology Studies. *Her talk will address a distinctive problem in
social media research, namely the inherent ambiguity of its object. Of
much social media research the question can be asked of its
practitioners: are they studying society or technology? Not just the
objects, but equally the methods of social media analysis are marked by
ambivalence. They are of uncertain provenance, invoking methodological
traditions in qualitative and quantitative research at once, and leaving
it unclear whether they derive from media culture or from social
research. Drawing on work in science and technology studies, Marres will
argue that this ambiguity of social media research should /not/ be
regarded as a problem-to-be-solved. Instead, the confusion creates
opportunities for understanding and can be deployed to generate insight
in/as social media research. One could even say that social media
research fails when the ambiguity of its object and methods is solved
too quickly.

The seminar is open to all. If you are interested in participating,
however, please sign up (http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/inscription/)
on our website!

The Organizing Committee

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:33:35 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:33:35 +0200
Subject: Appel: New Deadline MAY 1, Natural Language and Computer Science,
 July 17-18 Vienna
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.213335.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 20:58:49 +0200
From: Christian RETORE <christian.retore at labri.fr>
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X-url: http://vsl2014.at/
X-url: http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/csl-lics14/
X-url: http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html

DEADLINE EXTENSION : MAY 1st, 2014
Author notification: 2 weeks after they submitted the paper. 

Vienna Summer of Logic http://vsl2014.at/
Computer Science Logic - Logic In Computer Science 2014 
http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/csl-lics14/
Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics 
Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics.

Workshop on 
NATURAL LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE  (NLCS '14)
17-18 July, 2014 Vienna, Austria
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html



AIMS AND SCOPE

Formal tools coming from logic, category theory, are important for
natural language processing and especially for computational semantics.
Moreover, work on these tools borrows heavily from all areas of
theoretical computer science.  In the other direction, applications
having to do with natural language have inspired developments on the
formal side.  The workshop invites papers on both topics and their
applications, as well as on the combination between logical and
statistical methods.

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

* linguistic, computational and logical aspects of the interface between
  syntax and semantics
* logical aspects of linguistic theories 
* logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog
* continuations in natural language semantics
* formal tools in textual inference, such as logics for natural language
  inference
* applications of category theory in semantics
* linear logic in semantics
* formal approaches to unifying data-driven (quantitative, statistical)
  and declarative (logical) approaches to semantics
* natural language processing tools using some logic 


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline:	May 1, 2014
Author notification:	Two weeks after the submission. 
Electronic versions of papers due:	May 15, 2014
Workshop: July 17, 2014


INVITED SPEAKERS 

ANNE ABEILLÉ (to be confirmed) 
Université Paris Diderot 
AARNE RANTA
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
LAURE VIEU
Cnrs-Irit and Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 


SUBMISSIONS

Please submit extended abstracts of 4-10 pages using EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlcs14

ORGANIZERS

Valeria de Paiva, Nuance
Larry Moss, Indiana University
Christian Retoré, Université de Bordeaux 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg
Valeria de Paiva, Nuance
Christophe Fouqueré, Université Paris 13
Larry Moss, Indiana University
Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester, UK
Christian Retoré, Université de Bordeaux 
Wlodek Zadrozny, UNC, Charlotte

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:44:36 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:44:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: 1st VarDial Workshop at COLING 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.214436.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 09:10:53 -0300
From: Marcos Zampieri <marcos_zampieri at hotmail.com>
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2nd Call For Papers

1st Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, Varieties and
Dialects (VarDial) at COLING 2014 in Dublin, Ireland.

VarDial Workshop: http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/

The interest in language resources and computational models for the
study of similar languages, varieties and dialects has been growing
substantially in the last few years. The VarDial workshop will discuss a
range of topics related to the study of linguistic variation.

We welcome papers dealing with one or more topics of the VarDial
workshop:

1) Language Resources and Tools for Varieties and Dialects

- Corpus compilation (comparable, parallel)
- Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages,
  varieties and dialects
- Evaluation of LR and tools applied to language varieties
- Reusability of LR in NLP applications (e.g. machine translation)
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation

2) NLP Tasks and Applications

- Identification of lexical variation and lexicon induction
- Automatic classification of language varieties
- Domain adaptation between language varieties
- Identification of false friends
- Machine translation between varieties and dialects

Along with the VarDial workshop we will also be organizing the
Discriminating between Similar Languages (DSL) shared task. More
information: http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/sharedtask.html

Instruction for Authors

Papers should contain a maximum of 8 pages + 2 additional pages for
references.

The templates are available at the COLING website. For better
presentation we strongly recommend papers to be prepared using LaTeX.

The review process will be double blind, submissions should be
anonymous.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: May 2nd, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: June 6th, 2014
Camera-Ready Version: June 27th, 2014
Workshop: August 23rd, 2014

Program Committee

Željko Agic (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Jorge Baptista (University of Algarve and INESC-ID, Portugal)
Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, United States)
Paul Cook (University of Melboune, Australia)
Liviu Dinu (University of Bucarest, Romania)
Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Sascha Diwersy (University of Cologne, Germany)
Tomaž Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Mikel L. Forcada (Universitat d'Alacant, Spain)
Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Holland)
Nitin Indurkhya (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Jeremy Jancsary (Nuance Communications, Austria)
Marco Lui (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Santanu Pal (Saarland University, Germany)
Sebastian Padó (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany and University of Aix-Marsaille, France)
Felipe Sánchez Martínez (University of Alicante, Spain)
Kevin Scanell (Saint Louis University, USA)
Yves Scherrer (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Serge Sharoff (Leeds University, United Kingdom)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Elke Teich (Saarland University, Germany)
Joel Tetreault (Yahoo! Labs, USA)
Francis Tyers (UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta, Norway)
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Torsten Zesch (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Organizers

Marcos Zampieri (Saarland University, Germany)
Liling Tan (Saarland University, Germany)
Nikola Ljubešic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Jörg Tiedemann (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Contact

Workshop: vardialworkshop at gmail.com

Shared Task: dsl.sharedtask at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:47:14 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:47:14 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: Contrat doctoral, Analyse automatique,
 DGA / Aix Marseille Universite
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.214714.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:58:28 +0200
From: Frederic Bechet <frederic.bechet at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <53441CA4.8050807 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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Dans le cadre d'un co-financement entre la DGA et l'Université d'Aix
Marseille, nous recherchons des candidats pour un contrat doctoral de 3
ans, débutant en septembre 2014, portant sur l'analyse automatique de
documents vidéo, et plus particulièrement sur des approches multimodales
de traitement de l'information visuelle, audio et texte.

Nous recherchons des candidats titulaire d'un Master Informatique (ou
équivalent), ou en cours d'obtention d'un tel Master (et qui sont
actuellement en stage).

La date limite de candidature est fixée au 25 avril 2014. Le dossier de
candidature est composé d'un CV détaillé, la copie du dernier diplôme ou
de l'attestation de réussite avec un relevé de notes et tous les
éléments que vous jugerez utiles de joindre pour conforter votre dossier
de candidature.

Le titre de la proposition de thèse est : "Compréhension Multimodale –
vers des traitements joints audio/image pour la compréhension
multimodale de documents vidéo"
Mots-clés : traitement automatique de la parole, traitement automatique 
de la langue, traitement d'image, apprentissage automatique, recherche 
d'information.
Une description du sujet est disponible à l'adresse suivante : 
http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~frederic.bechet/prop_these_court_DGA2014_LIF_TALEP.pdf

Pour toute demande de renseignement : frederic.bechet at univ-amu.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:40:54 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:40:54 +0200
Subject: Journee: Formation AnaLog,
 Fonctionnalites de base pour l'annotation et l'exploration de
 textes, Tours
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.214054.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:15:52 +0200
From: Marie-Helene Lay <marie-helene.lay at univ-poitiers.fr>
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Bonjour à tous, 

La MSH Val de Loire et l'équipe des Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes
du Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance organisent une
FORMATION GRATUITE À L'OUTIL ANALOG LE 14 AVRIL 2014, DE 09H00 À 17H30 À
LA MSH VAL DE LOIRE À TOURS.

ANALOG est un outil
logiciel permettant simultanément :  

 	* de faire des requêtes complexes sur des corpus bruts ou
          annotés
 	* d'annoter un corpus avec son propre jeu d'étiquettes ou de
          corriger un corpus déjà annoté
 	* de traiter des données indépendamment des langues

AnaLog est un outil logiciel libre écrit en java, réalisé en
collaboration entre Marie-Héléne Lay (université de Poitiers) et
l'équipe des BVH du CESR de Tours. Il est facile à installer (5 minutes)
et facile à prendre en main : on peut en avoir une utilisation autonome
au bout de deux heures, les fonctionnalités plus complexes (leur mise en
oeuvre « construite ») pouvant être maîtrisées en deux jours de
formation. La deuxième journée (Niveau 2) sera organisée après bilan et
évaluation de cette première formation.

PUBLIC : Cette formation niveau 1 s'adresse à toute personne désireuse
d'utiliser des outils d'annotation et d'extraction sur un texte de son
choix (littéraires, linguistes, sociologues, psychologues,
historiens...).

INSCRIPTIONS : par email auprès de
sandrine.breuil at univ-tours.fr [1] AVANT LE 11 AVRIL 2014 

INFORMATION
ET PROGRAMME COMPLET sur :
http://msh.univ-tours.fr/article/analog-fonctionnalites-de-base-pour-l-annotation-et-l-exploration-de-textes
[2]  


  

Links:
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mailto:sandrine.breuil at univ-tours.fr
[2]
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:46:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:46:20 +0200
Subject: Job: CDD, Annotateur en langue Arabe / Chinoise / Russe, ELDA
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.214620.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:48:52 +0200
From: Leixa jérémy <leixa at elda.org>
Message-ID: <5343F034.9050003 at elda.org>

*Postes d'Annotateur en langue Arabe / Chinoise / Russe (H/F), CDD à
plein temps *

ELDA (Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency,
www.elda.org <http://www.elda.org/>) a pour activités principales la
distribution et la production de ressources linguistiques, ainsi que
l'évaluation de technologies de la langue.

Dans le cadre de ses activités de production, ELDA offre plusieurs
postes d'annotateur (H/F) à mi-temps.

_Contexte_

Dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche, ELDA (Evaluations and Language
resources Distribution Agency) recrute plusieurs personnes pour
participer à la constitution de corpus annotés en Entités Nommées.

Les Entités Nommées (EN) sont des objets textuels (c'est-à-dire un mot,
ou un groupe de mot) catégorisables dans des classes prédéfinies
(personnes, noms d'organisation, noms de lieux, quantités, distances,
dates, etc.) La reconnaissance d'Entités Nommées est une sous-tâche
essentielle des systèmes d'extraction d'information dans des corpus
documentaires.

_Mission_

Il s'agit d'annoter les documents textuels afin d'en fournir la
description nécessaire à l'évaluation. Le travail sera effectué via un
logiciel spécifique, et selon des conventions d'annotation sur
lesquelles les candidats seront formés.

_Profil recherché_

  * Très bonne connaissance des langues écrites arabe, russe ou chinoise
  * Bonne maîtrise de l'outil informatique (et pour l'arabe, usage du
    clavier dédié)
  * Capacité à intégrer des règles (d'annotation) et à les suivre
    scrupuleusement et avec constance

_Durée_

Plein-temps, pour une durée de 1 mois.

_Salaire_

Selon profil et performances

Les candidatures (CV, lettre de motivation) doivent être adressées à
leixa at elda.org


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:10:59 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:10:59 +0200
Subject: Conf: LREC 2014 Conference Programme now online, May 28, 29 and
 30, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.221059.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:58:17 +0200
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
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[Apologies for multiple postings]

The programme for the 3 days of the Main conference, May 28, 29 and 30, 
2014, is now online at: 
http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/conference-programme/.

www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2014
Follow us on Twitter: @LREC2014 https://twitter.com/LREC2014
Contact: lrec at lrec-conf.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:09:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:09:22 +0200
Subject: Stage: Stage d'ete, Internship in Dublin City University
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.220922.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:06:55 +0100
From: Lorraine Goeuriot <lorraine.goeuriot at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CALwc3gj4zsYeGjNAFGC2djNM3ZhetE67Db1UbjYYy=dNyhncEw at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://khresmoi.eu/


=============================
CNGL Internship Programme 2014
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
------------------------------

Institution: Dublin City University

Project Title: Medical Information Retrieval

Suitable for students who are studying in the following areas:
Suitable for students doing a Master in Computer Science/Computational
Linguistics with interest in
Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.

Skills needed:
A strong interest in programming and good programming skills (Java and
Python).
Basic knowledge in computational linguistics and information retrieval
is desirable.

Project Description:
Khresmoi (http://khresmoi.eu/) is a large EU funded project spread
across 12 European universities and companies. The Khresmoi project is
exploring the development of computer systems to help the general public
and medical professionals find medical information in different
languages. For example, the project has developed a Google style
interface which allows members of the general public to enter queries
for medical information in several languages, and which returns a ranked
result list of medical web pages translated into the user's language.
The members of the Khresmoi project are involved in various steps of the
creation of that system, which includes research on information
retrieval, cross-lingual information retrieval, information extraction,
automatic summarization, evaluation, etc.

The Role of the student & benefits gained from participation in this
project:
Information retrieval (IR) is a process which aims to locate, for a
given information need (expressed as a keyword query), relevant content
(documents) from a document archive. In this project, we are focusing on
a specific domain for the information retrieval process: health and
medical textual content.
The aim of this internship is to assist our research team in performing
several information retrieval related tasks. The student will be fully
integrated into our research team and will work for Khresmoi
(khresmoi.eu), a medical information search project.
The internship will include various information retrieval experiments
(setting up IR systems, evaluating on benchmark collections, managing
relevance judgement marking, etc.). The student will also be involved in
development projects, e.g. adding new functionalities to a web
application for relevance judgements, and automatic summarization tool
components.
This is a practical, hands-on project, suitable for students who are
interested in learning more about information retrieval and evaluation
in experimental research in computing and science in general. As part of
this work the student may be required to contribute to report writing on
the results of the evaluation analysis. The student will work closely
with and have the guidance, help and support of the project organisers
in all activities.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a student to gain first-hand
experience of working within a dynamic research group. These skills will
provide the intern with a competitive advantage in the pursuit of
careers in both research and industry.
Depending on the project outcomes it is also foreseen that the project
will result in a research publication, of which the student would be a
co-author.

Who will be working with you?
The student will work closely with Dr Lorraine Goeuriot and Dr Liadh
Kelly, researchers in the group. S/he will also be supervised by Dr
Gareth Jones, the team leader of the group.

Other information:
- Funding: from 200 EURO to 300 EURO per week (to be confirmed)
- Duration of Internship: 2 to 3 months (between May and August 2014)

For further details on this project please contact:
Liadh Kelly and Lorraine Goeuriot - (liadh.kelly,
lorraine.goeuriot)@computing.dcu.ie


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:14:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:14:12 +0200
Subject: Appel: LD4KD,
 Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery Workshop at ECML/PKDD
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.221412.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:39:02 +0100
From: Mathieu d'Aquin <m.daquin at open.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <5347AA26.1080007 at open.ac.uk>
X-url: http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/
X-url: http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/


** apologies for cross-posting **

================================
LD4KD 2014
1st Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery

http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/

co-located with the European Conference on Machine Learning and
Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery 2014 (ECML/PKDD 2014)
15-19 September 2014, Nancy, France (http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/ )

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

Linked Data have attracted a lot of attention in recent years in many
research areas, as their technologies and principles provide new ways to
overcome typical data management and consumption issues such as
reliability, heterogeneity, provenance or completeness. However, the way
in which Linked Data can be applicable and beneficial to the Knowledge
Discovery (KDD) pocess is still not completely understood. Many aspects
of KDD could benefit from Linked Data, e.g. mining Linked Data sources,
using Linked Data to enrich, represent or integrate local data for data
preparation, interpretation or visualisation.

LD4KD will be an interactive hub to explore the benefits of Linked Data
principles and technologies for Knowledge Discovery, together with
addressing the new challenges that will emere from joining the two
fields. It will be an opportunity for practitioners of both fields to
create communication and collaboration channels,and bridge the gap
between their overlapping, but mostly isolated communities.

The workshop encourages the participation of researchers from the
Knowledge Discovery field to discuss and get informed about the use,
benefits and challenges of Linked Data, while th Linked Data researchers
can take advantage of and adapt Knowledge Discovery methods in their
domain.

*SCOPE*

We welcome high quality position and research papers in which (1) Linked
Data are used as support of Knowledge Discovery processes to extract
useful knowledge, or (2) Knowledge Discovery techniques are adapted to
work and possibly extend Linked Data.

Topics of either theoretical and applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

- Linked Data for data pre-processing: cleaning, sorting, filtering or
  enrichment
- Linked Data applied to Machine Learning
- Linked Data for pattern extraction and behaviour detection
- Linked Data for pattern interpretation, visualization or optimisation
- Reasoning with patterns and Linked Data
- Reasoning on and extracting knowledge from Linked Data
- Linked Data mining
- Links prediction or links discovery using KDD
- Graph mining in Linked Data
- Interacting with Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery

*IMPORTANT DATES*

Paper submission deadline: June 20th
Notification Of Acceptance: July 20th
Camera ready copies due: August 5th, 2014
Workshop date: September 15th/19th, 2014

*SUBMISSIONS*

Articles should be written following the Springer LNCS template (see
authors instructions at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and can be
up to 10 pages in lenght for research papers or 5 pages for position
papers, including figures and references.

Submissions are exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format,
through the EasyChair system. The submission site is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ld4kd

* ORGANISING COMMITTEE *

Ilaria Tiddi, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Nicolas Jay, Orpailleur, Loria, France

*CONTACTS*

mathieu.daquin at open.ac.uk
ilaria.tiddi at open.ac.uk
nicolas.jay at loria.fr

*PROGRAMME COMMITTEE*

Francesca Alessandra
Claudia D'Amato
Tommaso di Noia
Nicola Fanizzi
Johannes Fürnkranz
Nathalie Hernandez
Agnieszka Lawrynowicz
Amedeo Napoli
Andriy Nikolov
Heiko Paulheim
Sebastian Rudolph
Harald Sack
Vojtěch Svátek
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:39:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:39:43 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: fouille d'opinion en contexte multimodal, Nantes
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.223943.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:18:57 +0200
From: Beatrice Daille <beatrice.daille at univ-nantes.fr>
Message-ID: <534D3FD1.3070502 at univ-nantes.fr>


Dans le cadre du projet LIMAH dédiés à l'analyse des contenus multimédia
et selectionné par le labex COMIN Labs, nous recherchons un(e)
étudiant(e) désirant faire une thèse en informatique dans le domaine du
traitement automatique des langues et de la fouille d'opinion.

Le projet LIMAH porte, entre autre, sur l'exploration des structures
d'hypergraphes des masses de données multimédia sous différents angles :
recherche information, opinion, loi et acceptabilité de l'utilisateur.
Le sujet de thèse proposé vise à étudier l'expression de l'opinion dans
les écrits provenant de différents média. L'objectif de cette thèse
consiste à détecter les segments d'opinions, à détecter leur cible et à
relier les fragments de textes portant sur les mêmes cibles.  Le
caractère dynamique de l'opinion sera au coeur de ces travaux.


Nous recherchons un(e) étudiant(e) titulaire d'un master en
informatique.  Avoir suivi des cours en traitement automatique du
langage et/ou en apprentissage artificiel est fortement recommandé.

Le travail de thèse s'effectuera dans le cadre d'un contrat à durée
déterminée de 3 ans au LINA, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Nantes
en co-encadrement avec l'IRISA, équipe TexMex à Rennes
La thèse debutera en septembre-octobre 2014.

Les candidatures, qui devront nous parvenir par e-mail, devront
comporter un CV, un relevé des notes de master 1 (et 2 si déjà connus),
une lettre de motivation et 2 noms d'enseignants universitaires avec
leur coordonnées (téléphone, email) pouvant vous recommander.


Les candidatures attendues en avril-mai 2014 seront adressées à :
laura.monceaux at univ-nantes.fr (équipe TALN - LINA),
beatrice.daille at univ-nantes.fr (équipe TALN - LINA),
vincent.claveau at irisa.fr (équipe TexMex - IRISA)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:00:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:00:46 +0200
Subject: Appel: Journal of Language Modelling 2(2)
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.220046.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:39:37 +0200
From: Adam Przepiorkowski <adamp at ipipan.waw.pl>
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Journal of Language Modelling (JLM) is a semi-annual peer-reviewed open
access free electronic journal aiming to bridge the gap between
theoretical linguistics and natural language processing.

Although typical articles are concerned with linguistic generalisations
– either with their application in natural language processing, or with
their discovery in language corpora – possible topics range from
linguistic analyses which are sufficiently precise to be implementable
to mathematical models of aspects of language, and further to
computational systems making non-trivial use of linguistic insights.
See http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ for more information and, in particular,
http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/about/displayMembership/4 for the Editorial
Board.

This is a call for submissions to issue 2(2), to be published at the end
of 2014. In order to maximise the chance that a manuscript is fully
processed in time to be published in this issue, it should be submitted
by the end of June 2014, at the latest. Note, however, that regardless
of the half-yearly collection of papers into issues, articles appear at
the JLM web page as soon as they are accepted and edited.

When submitting a paper, please follow the instructions at:

http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/about/submissions

The following address should be used for any editorial correspondence
(not for submissions): jlm at chopin.ipipan.waw.pl.

(With apologies for cross-posting.)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:51:57 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:51:57 +0200
Subject: Appel: Revue TAL, Numero special,
 Traitement automatique du langage parle
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.215157.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:00:23 +0200
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Deuxième appel à communications: numéro spécial sur le traitement
automatique du langage parlé pour la revue TAL (Traitement Automatique
des Langues)

--ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS CFP CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE--

Direction : Laurent Besacier, Wolfang Minker

Date limite :  30 juin 2014
 
La communication orale reste le moyen le plus naturel pour dialoguer et
interagir (avec la machine ou avec une autre personne). Le traitement
automatique du langage parlé (TALP) et le dialogue trouvent désormais de
nombreuses applications directes dans des domaines divers tels que
(liste non exhaustive) la recherche d'information, l'interaction en
langue naturelle avec des dispositifs mobiles, la robotique sociale, les
technologies d'assistance à la personne, l'apprentissage des langues,
etc.  Cependant, le TALP pose des problèmes spécifiques liés à la nature
même du matériau traité. En effet, on est amené à traiter des énoncés de
parole plus ou moins spontanée et contenant de nombreux traits
paralinguistiques.  Par exemple, la présence de disfluences orales
(répétitions, reprises, incises...) réduit la régularité syntaxique des
énoncés ; les énoncés oraux sont également riches d'informations liés
aux affects, etc. Par ailleurs, l'étape de transcription automatique,
souvent nécessaire avant l'application de traitements de plus haut
niveau (compréhension, traduction, analyse, etc.) rend des sorties
bruitées (contenant des erreurs) qui nécessitent des analyses robustes
et un couplage étroit entre étapes de traitement.
 

Nous invitons donc les contributions portant sur tout aspect (théorique,
méthodologique et pratique) relatif au traitement automatique du langage
parlé et à la communication orale, et en particulier (liste non
exclusive) :

  + Reconnaissance automatique de la parole 
  + Compréhension automatique de la parole
  + Traduction de parole
  + Synthèse de la parole
  + Dialogue oral homme - machine 
  + Analyse robuste de la langue parlée
  + Analyse des affects sociaux ou des émotions dans des énoncés oraux
  + Fouille de documents à composante orale
  + Applications à composantes orales (recherche d'information,
    interaction, robotique, etc)
  + Outils d'aide à l'apprentissage d’une langue seconde
  + Aspects multilingues du traitement automatique du langage parlé
  + Evaluation de systèmes de traitement du langage parlé
  + Corpus et ressources pour l'oral
  + Analyse du discours oral
  + Dialogue adaptatif au contexte et au profil de l'utilisateur
  + Analyse des traits paralinguistiques dans des énoncés oraux 


ÉDITEURS INVITÉS 

Laurent Besacier 
Wolfang Minker


COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE

ADDA Gilles LIMSI, Paris
ANTOINE Jean-Yves U. F. Rabelais, Tours
AUBERGE Véronique LIG, Grenoble
BELLEGARDA Jérôme APPLE, USA
BONNEAU-MEYNARD Hélène,  LIMSI, Orsay
CERISARA Christophe LORIA, Nancy
CERNOCKY Jan Univ. Brno, Tcheque Republic
DAMNATI Géraldine Orangs Labs, Lannion
DEVILLERS Laurence LIMSI, Orsay
DUTOIT Thierry TCTS, Mons
ESTEVE Yannick LIUM, Le Mans
ESKENAZI Maxine CMU, Pittsburgh
FAVRE  Benoit LIF, Marseille
FERRANE Isabelle IRIT, Toulouse
GRAVIER Guillaume IRISA, Rennes
JOUVET Denis LORIA, Nancy
KAHN  Juliette LNE, Paris
LECOUTEUX Benjamin LIG, Grenoble
LEFEVRE Fabrice LIA, Avignon
LINARES Georges LIA, Avignon
MEIGNIER Sylvain LIUM, Le Mans
PIETQUIN Olivier Univ. Lille 1
POPESCU-BELIS Andrei IDIAP, Martigny
ROSSET Sophie LIMSI, Orsay


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

FORMAT DE LA SOUMISSION

Les articles doivent être déposés sur la plateforme
http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/

La revue ne publie que des contributions originales, en français ou en
anglais.

Les papiers acceptés feront au maximum 25 pages en PDF. Le style est
disponible pour téléchargement sur le site du journal TAL


CONTACT

Laurent Besacier     (Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr)
Wolfgang Minker      (Wolfgang.Minker at uni-ulm.de)

==========CFP IN ENGLISH============

Special issue on spoken language processing

Guest editors: Laurent Besacier, Wolfgang Minker

Speech is the most natural way to communicate and interact (with the
machine or with another person) . Spoken language processing and
dialogue have now many direct applications in various areas such as (but
not limited to) information retrieval, natural language interaction with
mobile devices, social robotics, assistive technologies, technologies
for language learning, etc. . However, spoken language processing poses
specific problems related to the nature of the speech material
itself. Indeed, spontaneous speech utterances have to be processed and
they contain many paralinguistic features. For instance, disfluencies
(repetitions , false starts, etc.) reduces the syntactic regularity of
utterances. Moreover, spontaneous utterances convey rich information
related to emotions , etc. Furthermore, automatic speech recognition
(ASR) step, often required before the application of higher level
processing (understanding , translation, analysis, etc.), produces noisy
outputs (with errors ) which require robust and tight coupling between
modules.

We invite contributions on any aspect (theoretical, methodological and
practical) of spoken language processing and oral communication ; in
particular (non-exclusive list):

- Automatic speech recognition

- Spoken language understanding

- Speech translation

- Text-to-Speech synthesis

- Man-machine dialogue

- Robust analysis of spoken language

- Analysis of social affects or emotions in spontaneous speech

- Mining spoken language documents

- Spoken language applications (mobile interaction, robotics, etc. )

- Technologies for language learning

- Multilingual aspects of spoken language processing

- Evaluation for spoken language processing

- Corpora and resources for spoken language

- (Spoken) discourse analysis

- Adaptive dialogue (context, user profile)

- Analysis of paralinguistic features in spoken language


IMPORTANT DATES

- call : march 2014
- submission of contributions : 30 june 2014
- first authors notification : 15 september 2014 
- publication : end 2014 / begin 2015

Submission format

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

PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers must describe original, completed, and unpublished work.  Each
submission will be reviewed by two programme committee members.  Papers
must be submitted on Sciencesconf platform
http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/

Accepted papers will be maximum 25 pages long in PDF. Style sheets are
available for download on the Web site of the TAL journal

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:20:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:20:50 +0200
Subject: Appel: Atelier Applications Pratiques de l'intelligence
 Artificielle @ RFIA 2014 (date limite 23/4)
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.222050.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:12:19 +0200
From: Yves Demazeau <Yves.Demazeau at imag.fr>
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- Merci de diffuser cette annonce auprès de vos collègues et contacts -

Appel à Contributions

Atelier Applications Pratiques de l'Intelligence Artificielle

RFIA 2014 – Rouen – 30 juin et 1er juillet 2014

https://sites.google.com/site/rfiaapia14/

Les recherches en Intelligence Artificielle (IA) donnent lieu depuis de
nombreuses années à de belles applications qui sont maintenant déployées
surtout dans le domaine industriel mais pas uniquement. Le succès de ces
applications est tel qu’il n’étonne plus. Les modèles et technologies de
l’IA sont parfois intégrés à un tel point aux autres composants
informatiques que ces éléments fondamentaux ne sont plus visibles aux
utilisateurs et que les concepteurs les passent sous silence.

Cet atelier a pour objectif de « désenfouir » les éléments d’IA des
applications où ils sont intégrés et souhaite faire le point sur leurs
avancées. L’objectif est de proposer aux chercheurs, académiques,
industriels et autres, un lieu d’échange où ils puissent partager leurs
expériences, débattre des différents verrous qu’ils rencontrent et des
méthodes qu’ils mettent en œuvre, pour enrichir le potentiel applicatif
des modèles et outils de l’IA, en mettant en valeur l’IA de ces
applications.

Contributions

Les contributions attendues  (en français ou en anglais) peuvent être :
- des articles scientifiques (max 6 pages) ;
- des descriptions de réalisations ou d’expérimentations en cours (2
  pages);

Les formats de soumissions respecteront le format indiqué sur :
http://rfia2014.univ-rouen.fr/content/soumissions

Les articles devront être envoyés en version pdf à Yves.Demazeau at imag.fr

Dates importantes

Soumission des articles : 23 Avril 2014
Notification aux auteurs : 14 Mai 2014
Version finale : 28 Mai 2014

Organisateurs :

Karell Bertet, L3I, Université de La Rochelle, Limousin Poitou-Charentes
Yves Demazeau, LIG, CNRS, Grenoble Alpes
Sylvie Després, LIMICS, Université de Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité
Philippe Mathieu, LIFL, Université de Lille 1, Université Lille Nord de France

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:35:38 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:35:38 +0200
Subject: Job: Two research fellow/assistant professor openings,
 Bozen-Bolzano
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.223538.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:20:38 +0200
From: Enrico Franconi <franconi at inf.unibz.it>
Message-ID: <15042014122038719GGh77pfXqRRd0210 at webmail.unibz.it>
X-url: http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/


The faculty of computer science in Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) has two
openings at the level of research fellow / assistant professor (RTD-a),
associated to the KRDB research centre (http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/).

The research activity of the KRDB centre is focused on knowledge
representation and database theories and technologies for semantic-based
intelligent information system design, integration, access, and
navigation.

According to the current Italian legislation, the RTD-a position is a
necessary prerequisite to start the tenure track (RTD-b) leading to
associate professor. The contract is for 3 years, and the salary is up
to 59000 € p.a. gross including all the benefits and the bonuses. There
is some teaching duty to be performed at the BSc or MSc level.

For any question and more detailed information, please do not hesitate
to ask prof. Enrico Franconi at franconi at inf.unibz.it. The call will
close at the end of May 2014.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:13:07 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:13:07 +0200
Subject: Job: Statistical Machine Translation Expert, CDI, Luxembourg
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.221307.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:12:43 +0000
From: "Riad, Ali" <ali.riad at experis.lu>
Message-ID: <1E24E27CB46D5E4B855C260006ABAEBA054916DB at 018-TK5MPN2-043.018D.MGD.MSFT.NET>

Dear all,

Top of Form

I allow myself to use this network of experts in the field of machine
translation as part of a large project of machine translation at the
European Commission in Luxembourg that has started 3,5 years ago.

Now that the project is running well and is gaining respectability, they
would like to hire an additional computational linguist in order to
sustain the growth of their activities.

Please find below a brief description of the position:

Écouter

Lire phonétiquement

Dictionnaire

Bottom of Form
- PhD or MSc/Diploma in computational linguistics or computer science
  with excellent knowledge of machine translation (MT) and/or machine
  learning for natural language processing.

- Familiarity with recent developments in SMT and the motivation to
  apply novel approaches emanating from ongoing research to practical
  translation tasks in many languages and to systematically evaluate
  their suitability.

- Ability to write scientific papers and technical documents in English.

- Open-mindedness and the will to collaborate closely within an
  international, multidisciplinary team, motivation to work with a
  multilingual user community.

- Experience in designing and running large-scale experiments, including
  the necessary skills to manage large data sets and long-running
  experiments in a distributed computational environment would be highly
  desirable, interest in developing such skills is mandatory.

- Experience with both statistical and grammar-based approaches to MT
  would be highly desirable.

- Programming skills in languages like Perl, Python, C, or C++ would be
  a strong plus.

- Good oral and written command of English is required; familiarity with
  additional EU languages (preferably Eastern/Northern European) would
  be a strong plus.

- Job location: Luxembourg

If you are interested by this position, do not hesitate to provide me
with your resume and /or your availabilities for a first phone
conversation.

If you are not interested, it would be very helpful to forward this
opportunity to persons that might be.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards,


Ali RIAD
Business Consultant
Experis IT Luxembourg
Rue de l’industrie 20
L-8399 Windhof
T: +352 27 39 51 03 21
F: +352 27 39 51 03 24
M: +352 661 209 107
ali.riad at experis.lu
www.experis.lu

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:15:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:15:50 +0200
Subject: Appel: Atelier TALN SemDis 2014, Report de la date de soumission
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.221550.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:12:41 +0200
From: Cécile Fabre <cecile.fabre at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <5347C019.3060608 at univ-tlse2.fr>
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SECOND APPEL À PARTICIPATION
* Report de la date d'envoi des articles au 29 avril pour les 2 tâches *

************************************************************
Atelier SemDis2014 (Sémantique Distributionnelle)
Atelier organisé dans le cadre de la conférence TALN 2014
Marseille, 1er juillet 2014
************************************************************
Présidents : Cécile Fabre (CLLE-ERSS) et Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-MELODI)
Site Web : www.irit.fr/semdis2014/
Contact : semdis2014 at gmail.com.
************************************************************

SemDis 2014 est la 2e édition de l'atelier consacré aux approches de TAL
fondées sur l'analyse sémantique distributionnelle.

Cette année l'atelier s'organise autour de deux tâches portant sur le
traitement du français :

1. une tâche compétitive de substitution lexicale, adaptation au
   français de la tâche SemEval 2007 (McCarthy & Navigli 2010). Etant
   donné un mot-cible dans une phrase complète, il s'agit de proposer
   une (ou plusieurs) unités de substitution qui n'altèrent pas le sens
   global de l'énoncé. Le choix du substitut est libre et sera confronté
   aux réponses fournies par des annotateurs humains. Le jeu
   d'évaluation comprend 300 phrases issues du corpus frWaC. Cette tâche
   donnera lieu à un classement des systèmes en compétition. Les
   participants à la tâche devront soumettre leurs résultats et un
   article décrivant le système utilisé.

2. une tâche exploratoire sur un corpus spécialisé, le corpus TALN,
   sélection d'articles en français issus des conférences TALN et
   RECITAL sur la période 2007 à 2013. Nous invitons les participants à
   déployer sur ce corpus une ou plusieurs techniques d'analyse
   distributionnelle de leur choix, selon leurs objectifs propres. Pour
   faciliter les échanges à partir d'exemples communs, une sélection de
   mots est proposée (calculer, complexe, précis, fréquence, graphe,
   méthode, sémantique, trait). Cette tâche n'est pas une tâche
   compétitive ; les participants doivent soumettre un article décrivant
   le travail réalisé à partir de ce corpus.

La description complète des tâches et des données est à lire sur le site
de l'atelier : www.irit.fr/semdis2014/

Dates importantes :
*****************
Participation à la tâche 1 (1ère phase terminée)
10 mars 2014 : diffusion des données de test
17 mars : date limite de soumission des résultats par les participants
7 avril : annonce des résultats aux participants

Soumission des articles pour les 2 tâches :
29 avril 2014 : envoi des articles
16 mai : notification
30 mai : réception des versions finales

Types de communications :
***********************
Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français.  Ils devront suivre
le format de TALN 2014.
Les articles envoyés dans le cadre de la tâche 1 comprendront 6 à 12
pages.
Les articles envoyés dans le cadre de la tâche 2 comprendront 12 à 14
pages.
Une feuille de style LaTeX et des modèles LibreOffice et Word sont
disponibles sur le site web de la conférence
(http://www.taln2014.org/site/soumission/).
Nous annoncerons ultérieurement la durée des exposés, qui sera fonction
du nombre de communications acceptées.

Modalités de soumission :
**********************
Les articles, au format pdf, doivent être déposés à l'adresse :
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdis2014

Comité d’organisation :
*******************
L'atelier est organisé conjointement par les équipes CLLE-ERSS et 
IRIT-MELODI (Toulouse).
Cécile Fabre (CLLE-ERSS)
Nabil Hathout (CLLE-ERSS)
Mai Ho-Dac (CLLE-ERSS)
François Morlane-Hondère (CLLE-ERSS)
Philippe Muller (IRIT-MELODI)
Franck Sajous (CLLE-ERSS)
Ludovic Tanguy (CLLE-ERSS)
Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-MELODI)

Comité de programme :
********************
Stergos Afantenos - IRIT, Toulouse
Ann Bertels - ILT-QLVL, Leuven
Yves Bestgen - UCL/CECL, Louvain-La-Neuve
Marie Candito - ALPAGE, Paris
Eric de la Clergerie - ALPAGE, Paris
Cécile Fabre - CLLE, Toulouse
Olivier Ferret - CEA-LIST, Fontenay-aux-Roses
Nabil Hathout - CLLE, Toulouse
Olivier Kraif - LIDILEM, Grenoble
Philippe Langlais - RALI, Montréal
Emmanuel Morin - LINA, Nantes
Philippe Muller - IRIT, Toulouse
Adeline Nazarenko - LIPN, Paris
Pascale Sébillot - IRISA, Rennes
Ludovic Tanguy - CLLE, Toulouse
Tim Van de Cruys - IRIT, Toulouse

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:05:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:05:50 +0200
Subject: Journee: Journees scientifiques du labex + ceremonie prix Jean
 Kuntzmann, Grenoble, 16 et 17 juin 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.220550.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:53:26 +0200
From: Eric Gaussier <eric.gaussier at imag.fr>
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Chers collègues,

Je me permets de relayer cette invitation qui peut intéresser plusieurs 
d'entre vous.

Eric Gaussier

*******
Chers collègues,

Nous serions heureux et honorés de votre présence aux journées
scientifiques du labex PERSYVAL-lab à Grenoble le 16 et 17 juin
prochain, avec comme point d'orgue la remise du prix Jean Kuntzmann 2014
le 16 juin à partir de 18h30 au musée de Grenoble.

Cette manifestation (dont l'affiche est jointe en attachement de cet
email) est conjointement organisée par le labex Persyval-lab et
Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann.

Pour faciliter l'organisation de ces journées, merci de vous inscrire en
renseignant le formulaire d'inscription en ligne:
https://persyval-lab.org/en/news/journée-scientifiques-16-17-juin-2014
où vous trouverez aussi le programme des journées (aussi indiqué en fin
de cet email)

Amicalement

Marie-Christine Rousset (Responsable scientifique de Persyval-lab) et
Eric Bonnetier (directeur du LJK).
========================
Programme prévisionnel
========================

Lundi 16 juin :

- 13h30-17h30 (Amphi D de l'Ensimag, campus universitaire de
  Saint-Martin d'Hères) :

Ouverture des journées scientifiques de PERSYVAL-lab

Présentation générale du labex

Zooms sur des travaux de doctorants

Démonstrations de quelques plateformes pédagogiques

- 18h30-21h (Auditorium du musée de Grenoble) :

Cérémonie de remise du prix Jean Kuntzmann 2014 à Emmanuel Candès,
titulaire de la chaire Barnum-Simons de mathématiques et statistiques de
Stanford University

+ Cocktail

Mardi 17 juin :

- 9h-12h (Amphi D de l'Ensimag, campus universitaire de Saint-Martin
  d'Hères) : Présentation des 5 équipes-actions de PERSYVAL-lab

  + Security and Cryptology for Cyber-Physical Systems

  + High Performance Embedded Systems

  + Data Mining for Temporal Data

  + The Living Book of Anatomy

  + Geometrical methods in Combinatorics, Combinatorial algorithms in Geometry

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:18:04 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:18:04 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014 Students Participation Support
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.221804.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:57:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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** apologies for cross-posting **

==== ESWC 2014 Students Participation Support ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/registration#grants

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 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)

We are pleased to announce that ESWC will distribute a total budget of
4,000 Eur among full-time students for supporting their participation in
ESWC 2014. 
All full-time students are eligible to participate in the selection. 
The number of awards will be limited, and the amount of each award will
depend on the number of participants and will be provided in the form of
reduced registration fee.

In order to apply, please be sure to execute all the following actions:
- register at [1] by choosing the Student Participation Fee by *** April
  20th *** (skip the payment step) 
- send an email to eswc2014 at youvivo.com by *** April 20th ***
  acknowledging your registration and providing your details (name and
  affiliation) 
- have your advisor email by *** April 30th *** a recommendation to
  eswc2014-pc-chairs at lists.sti2.org in which he/she states support for
  your application, confirms your status as a full-time student and
  indicates your possible authorship or co-authorship of a paper
  accepted in any of the ESWC 2014 tracks

To receive full consideration, both registration and advisor letters
must be received by the indicated deadlines.

If you have already registered and payed you are still eligible to
participate in the selection. You will have to perform the last two
steps, and in case you will be selected, you will be reimbursed of the
amount of the award.

Notifications will be sent by May 9th, 2014.

[1] http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/registration


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:07:08 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:07:08 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: Contrat doctoral,
 traduction automatique des dialectes arabes, Loria
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.220708.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:22:40 +0200
From: David Langlois <david.langlois at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <53467F00.8000407 at loria.fr>
X-url: http://www.loria.fr/offre-de-these-equipe-smart
X-url: http://www.loria.fr/phd-offer-smart-team


L'équipe SMarT du Loria recherche des candidats pour un contrat doctoral
de 3 ans. Le sujet est la traduction automatique de dialectes arabes.

Titre de la thèse        : "traduction automatique de dialectes arabes"

Mots-clés                : traitement automatique des langues, traduction
                           automatique, modélisation statistique du
                           langage, dialectes arabes

Financement              : co-financement DGA
Début du contrat         : septembre 2014
Condition de candidature : être titulaire d'un master Informatique (ou
                           équivalent), ou en cours de préparation d'un
                           tel master
Description du sujet     : voir 
                            http://www.loria.fr/offre-de-these-equipe-smart
                            ou http://www.loria.fr/phd-offer-smart-team
                            (english)
Contact & renseignements : Kamel Smaïli (kamel.smaili at loria.fr)
                           David Langlois (david.langlois at loria.fr)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:36:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:36:42 +0200
Subject: Ressource: Mise en ligne Corpus de litteracie avancee
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.223642.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:13:06 +0200
From: JACQUES Marie Paule <marie-paule.jacques at ujf-grenoble.fr>
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Chères et chers collègues,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la mise en ligne du corpus
"Littéracie avancée". Ce corpus réunit des écrits d'étudiants (du L1
au M2) de type universitaire ou professionnel (fiches de lecture,
mémoires, épreuves de concours des futurs enseignants, lettres de
motivation...).

Vous êtes invités à l'utiliser pour vos recherches et pour vos cours !

Le corpus dans sa version 1 est accessible ici en téléchargement :

http://lidilem.u-grenoble3.fr/spip.php?article264

Plus de détails sur le projet ici : 
http://corpuslitteracie.wikispaces.com/home

Le corpus représente actuellement 500000 mots. Il est mis en ligne en
plusieurs formats (.doc, .pdf, .txt et un format .xml avec méta-données)
et évoluera bientôt (nouveaux textes, balisage structurel et
morpho-syntaxique).


Nous remercions tous ceux qui ont participé à la collecte de sous-corpus
auprès de leurs étudiants. La collecte continue : merci d'avance d'y
penser - et de diffuser l'info autour de vous !


Bien cordialement,

Fanny Rinck, Marie-Paule Jacques et Françoise Boch

LIDILEM (Laboratoire de Linguistique et Didactique des Langues 
Etrangères et Maternelles) - Université Grenoble-Alpes

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:21:58 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:21:58 +0200
Subject: Appel: JADT 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.222158.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:17:04 +0200
From: Mathieu Valette <mvalette at inalco.fr>
Message-Id: <320AC5B4-EC38-40E6-8276-07EB814AB4BE at inalco.fr>
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***************************************************

 JADT 2014 - Appel à participation

 12es Journées internationales d'analyse statistique des données
 textuelles

 du 3 au 6 juin 2014 à l'INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris,
 France

 http://www.jadt.org/

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

Les journées internationales d'analyse statistique des données
textuelles (JADT) réunissent tous les deux ans, depuis 1990, des
chercheurs travaillant dans les différents domaines concernés par les
traitements automatiques et statistiques de données textuelles. Elles
permettent aux participants de présenter leurs résultats, de confronter
leurs outils et leurs expériences.

Les 12es journées internationales d'analyse statistique des données
textuelles JADT 21014 réuniront à l'INALCO (France), du 3 au 6 juin
2014, statisticiens, linguistes, sociologues, spécialistes d'analyse du
discours, informaticiens, spécialistes de lexicographie et de fouille de
textes.

* Inscriptions

http://jmd.er-tim.fr/JADT2014/registration.html

* Conférenciers invités

Mercredi 4 juin 
10h00 ­ 11h00 Monique Slodzian : (titre à venir)
14h00 ­ 15h00 « Hommage à Maurice Tournier »

Jeudi 5 juin
09h00 ­ 10h00 Seth Grimes : Text Analytics Past, Present, and Future: An
              Industry View

Vendredi 6 juin
09h30 ­ 10h30 Damon Mayaffre : Plaidoyer en faveur de l’Analyse de
              Données co(n)Textuelles. Parcours cooccurrentiels dans le
              discours présidentiel français (1958-2014)

* Programme

http://www.aftal.fr/jadt2014/?page_id=23

* Comité de programme

Ramón Álvarez Esteban, Univ. de León, Esp
Simona Balbi, Univ. de Naples, It
Valérie Beaudouin, Telecom ParisTech, Fr
Mónica Bécue, Univ. Polyt. de Catalunya, Esp
Sergio Bolasco, Univ. de Rome ¹La Sapienza¹, It
Étienne Brunet, Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Fr
Lou Burnard, Univ. d¹ Oxford, RU
Isabella Chiari, Univ. de Rome ¹La Sapienza¹, It
François Daoust, UQÀM, Montreal, Ca
Anne Dister, FUSL et UCL, Bruxelles et Louvain, Be
Jules Duchastel, UQÀM, Montreal, Ca
Serge Fleury, Univ. Paris 3, Fr
Cédrick Fairon, UCL, Louvain, Be
Luca Giuliano, Univ. de Rome ¹La Sapienza¹, It
Serge Heiden, ENS de Lyon, Fr
Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, « Tor Vergata » University, It
Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST, Paris, Fr
Jean-Marc Leblanc, Univ. de Créteil, Fr
Alain Lelu, Univ. de Franche Comté, Fr
Dominique Longrée, Université de Liège, Be
Pascal Marchand, Univ. de Toulouse, Fr
William Martinez, Univ. de Lisboa, Pt
Damon Mayaffre, CNRS, Nice, Fr
Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, Fr
Denis Monière, Univ. de Montréal, Ca
Bénédicte Pincemin, CNRS, Lyon, Fr
Gérald Purnelle, Université de Liège, Be
Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. de Versailles SQY, Fr
André Salem, Univ. Paris 3, Fr
Monique Slodzian, INALCO, Fr
Arjuna Tuzzi, Univ. de Padoue, It
Mathieu Valette, INALCO, Fr
Jean-Marie Viprey, Univ. De Franche Comté, Fr

* Comité d'organisation

Jean-Michel Daube (ERTIM, INALCO)
Serge Fleury (SYLED, Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris 3)
Marion Iché (AFTAL)
Marguerite Leenhardt (AFTAL & SYLED, Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris 3)
Emilie Née (CEDITEC, Université Paris Est Créteil, Paris 12)
Mathieu Valette (ERTIM, INALCO)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:33:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:33:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: SLSP 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.223343.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:22:25 +0200
From: "GRLMC" <grlmc at urv.cat>
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************************************************************************

2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
PROCESSING

SLSP 2014

Grenoble, France

October 14-16, 2014

Organised by:

Équipe GETALP
Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/

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

AIMS:

SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying
excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are
currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims
at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large,
well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of
these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between
subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant
room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career
and particular focus will be put on methodology.

VENUE:

SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps.

SCOPE:

The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of
statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and
speech processing.  The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:

phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology
syntax, semantics
discourse, dialogue, pragmatics
statistical models for natural language processing
supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods
applied to natural language, including speech
statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods
similarity
alignment
language resources
part-of-speech tagging
parsing
semantic role labelling
natural language generation
anaphora and coreference resolution
speech recognition 
speaker identification/verification
speech transcription
speech synthesis
machine translation
translation technology
text summarisation
information retrieval
text categorisation
information extraction
term extraction
spelling correction
text and web mining
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
spoken dialogue systems
author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering

STRUCTURE:

SLSP 2014 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and
Statistical Error Mining
Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look
Outside?
Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical
Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK)
Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK)
Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH)
Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK)
Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE)
David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US)
Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US)
Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE)
Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE)
Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX)
James Glass (Cambridge, US)
Ralph Grishman (New York, US)
Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US)
Xiaodong He (Redmond, US)
Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP)
Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR)
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR)
Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG)
Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX)
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP)
Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US)
Vincent Ng (Dallas, US)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE)
Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE)
Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT)
Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US)
Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US)
Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA)
Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK)
James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US)
Gaël Richard (Paris, FR)
German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES)
Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES)
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP)
Björn W. Schuller (London, UK)
Satoshi Sekine (New York, US)
Richard Sproat (New York, US)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK)
Jian Su (Singapore, SG)
Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL)
Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN)
Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL)
Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK)
Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE)
Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI)
Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair)
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English
presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed
12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be
prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's
LNAI/LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series
will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14,
2014. The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014
Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014
Early registration: July 2, 2014
Late registration: September 30, 2014
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SLSP 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:38:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:38:12 +0200
Subject: Appel: ICML14 Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and
 Opinion Mining (WISDOM)
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.223812.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:09:40 -0500 (EST)
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Apologies for cross-posting,

Submissions are invited for the 3rd Workshop on Issues of Sentiment
Discovery and Opinion Mining (WISDOM), an ICML14 workshop exploring the
new frontiers of big data computing for opinion mining through
machine-learning techniques and sentiment learning methods. For more
information, please visit: http://sentic.net/wisdom

RATIONALE
The distillation of knowledge from social media is an extremely
difficult task as the content of today's Web, while perfectly suitable
for human consumption, remains hardly accessible to machines. The
opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public about social
events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns,
and product preferences has raised growing interest both within the
scientific community, leading to many exciting open challenges, as well
as in the business world, due to the remarkable benefits to be had from
marketing and financial market prediction.

Statistical NLP has been the mainstream NLP research direction since
late 1990s.  It relies on language models based on popular
machine-learning algorithms such as maximum-likelihood, expectation
maximization, conditional random fields, and support vector machines. By
feeding a large training corpus of annotated texts to a machine-learning
algorithm, it is possible for the system to not only learn the valence
of keywords, but also to take into account the valence of other
arbitrary keywords, punctuation, and word co-occurrence
frequencies. However, standard statistical methods are generally
semantically weak as they merely focus on lexical co-occurrence elements
with little predictive value individually.

Endogenous NLP, instead, involves the use of machine-learning techniques
to perform semantic analysis of a corpus by building structures that
approximate concepts from a large set of documents. It does not involve
prior semantic understanding of documents; instead, it relies only on
the endogenous knowledge of these (rather than on external knowledge
bases). The advantages of this approach over the knowledge engineering
approach are effectiveness, considerable savings in terms of expert
manpower, and straightforward portability to different
domains. Endogenous NLP includes methods based either on lexical
semantics, which focuses on the meanings of individual words (e.g., LSA,
LDA, and MapReduce), or compositional semantics, which looks at the
meanings of sentences and longer utterances (e.g., HMM, association rule
learning, and probabilistic generative models).

TOPICS
WISDOM aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the
field of machine learning for opinion mining and sentiment analysis to
share information on their latest investigations in social information
retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and
industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends
opinion mining, social media marketing, information retrieval, and
natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:

- Endogenous NLP for sentiment analysis
- Sentiment learning algorithms
- Semantic multi-dimensional scaling for sentiment analysis
- Big social data analysis
- Opinion retrieval, extraction, classification, tracking and
  summarization
- Domain adaptation for sentiment classification
- Time evolving sentiment analysis
- Emotion detection
- Concept-level sentiment analysis
- Topic modeling for aspect-based opinion mining
- Multimodal sentiment analysis
- Sentiment pattern mining
- Affective knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis
- Biologically-inspired opinion mining
- Content-, concept-, and context-based sentiment analysis

SPEAKER
Rui Xia is currently an assistant professor at School of Computer
Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology,
China. His research interests include machine learning, natural language
processing, text mining and sentiment analysis. He received the
Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of
Sciences in 2011. He has published several refereed conference papers in
the areas of artificial intelligence and natural language processing,
including IJCAI, AAAI, ACL, COLING, etc. He served on the program
commitee member of several international conferences and workshops
including IJCAI, COLING, WWW Workshop on MABSDA, KDD Workshop on WISDOM
and ICDM Workshop on SENTIRE. He is a member of ACM, ACL and CCF, and he
is an operating committee member of YSSNLP.

KEYNOTE
One one hand, most of the existing domain adaptation studies in the
field of NLP belong to the feature-based adaptation, while the research
of instance-based adaptation is very scarce. One the other hand, due to
the explosive growth of the Internet online reviews, we can easily
collect a large amount of labeled reviews from different domains. But
only some of them are beneficial for training a desired target-domain
sentiment classifier. Therefore, it is important for us to identify
those samples that are the most relevant to the target domain and use
them as training data. To address this problem, we propose two
instance-based domain adpatation methods for NLP applications. The first
one is called PUIS and PUIW, which conduct instance adaptation based on
instance selection and instance weighting via PU learning. The second
one is called in-target-domain logistic approximation (ILA), where we
conduct instance apdatation by a joint logistic approximation
model. Both of methods achieve sound performance in high-dimentional NLP
tasks such as cross-domain text categorization and sentiment
classification.

SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
Authors are required to follow Springer LNCS Proceedings Template and to
submit their papers through EasyChair. The paper length is limited to 12
pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices, if any. As per
ICML tradition, reviews are double-blind, and author names and
affiliations should not be listed. Each submitted paper will be
evaluated by three PC members with respect to its novelty, significance,
technical soundness, presentation, and experiments. Accepted papers will
be published in Springer LNCS Proceedings.  Selected, expanded versions
of papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a forthcoming
Special Issue of Cognitive Computation on opinion mining and sentiment
analysis.

TIMEFRAME
- May 11th, 2014: Submission deadline
- May 25th, 2014: Notification of acceptance
- June 1st, 2014: Final manuscripts due
- June 25th, 2014: Workshop date

ORGANIZERS
- Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China)
- Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
- Yongzheng Zhang, LinkedIn Inc. (USA)
- Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:23:07 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:23:07 +0200
Subject: Appel: LG-LP 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.222307.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:44:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: Denis Maurel <denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr>
Message-ID: <431821315.911141.1397544273917.JavaMail.zimbra at univ-tours.fr>
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********************************************************* 
LG-LP 2014 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 
********************************************************* 

Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing
(LG-LP 2014)
Dublin, Ireland, 24 August 2014 
http://lg-lp.info/ 
This workshop is held in conjunction with COLING 2014, co-sponsored by
ASIALEX and endorsed by SIGLEX


The workshop aims to bring together members of the language-resource
(LR) landscape, focusing on complex linguistic knowledge that requires
linguistic expertise, e.g. on dictionaries, ontologies and
grammars. Such manually-built resources are key to the development of
natural language processing (NLP) tools and applications. The workshop
intends to strengthen the cohesion of the scientific ?production chain?
spanning from the construction of LRs by linguists to their exploitation
in hybrid or symbolic NLP. It is necessary to increase mutual awareness
between researchers along this production chain, regarding their
activities, skills and needs, in view of improving the building
processes of the resources, their validation and their exploitation.

Many linguists are comfortable with descriptive tasks such as checking
lexical entries for a given feature, even if each entry requires
analysing or pondering. On the other hand, computer scientists are
familiar with formalization and, usually, with notions such as
falsifiability or reproducibility, which are fundamental to
sciences. Combining all these skills is likely to stimulate
innovation. The workshop offers an opportunity of interaction which is
required to overcome the compartmentalization between humanities and
sciences, and to intensify co-operation between the two ends of the
chain.

Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2014 (11:59 pm GMT) 

The complete call for papers is available at http://lg-lp.info/ 

Organizers 

Jorge Baptista, University of Algarve, Portugal 
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India 
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA 
Mikel Forcada, Universitat d?Alacant, Spain 
Chu-Ren Huang, Polytechnic University, Hong-Kong 
Svetla Koeva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria 
Cvetana Krstev, University of Belgrade, Serbia 
Eric Laporte, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France 

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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:03:16 +0200
Subject: Appel: Traitement automatique des langues africaines,
 TALAf 2014 : date limite de soumission : 26 avril
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:38:46 +0200
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                         Appel à communications

TALAf 2014 : Traitement automatique des langues africaines (écrit et parole)

           Atelier TALN 2014 - Marseille le 1^er juillet 2014


Date limite de soumission : 26 avril 2014

Version html : http://jibiki.univ-savoie.fr/~mangeot/TALAf/2014/

Version PDF : http://jibiki.univ-savoie.fr/~mangeot/TALAf/2014/
atelierTALAf2014v5.pdf

PRÉSENTATION

Dans la suite du premier atelier TALAf qui s'est tenu le 8 juin 2012 à
Grenoble, lors de la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012 (voir les actes :
http:// aclweb.org/anthology//W/W12/#1300), nous proposons une nouvelle
édition de cet atelier lors de la conférence TALN 2014 le premier
juillet à Marseille. Nous accueillons les travaux menés sur toutes les
langues peu dotées d'Afrique.  L'arabe dialectal de l'Afrique du nord
(maghrébin) est également bienvenu.

Les recherches en traitement automatique des langues africaines sont
actuellement à l'orée de développements majeurs. Les efforts de
reconnaissance des langues nationales et de standardisation des
différents alphabets commencent à porter leurs fruits. Au Niger, par
exemple, les alphabets des langues fulfulde, haussa, kanouri,
songhai-zarma et tamajaq ont été définis par des arrêtés du gouvernement
en 1999. Par ailleurs, un certain nombre de collègues formés dans les
pays du Nord reviennent dans leur pays avec la volonté de continuer leur
travail sur les langues locales. Il y a également des diasporas
disposant de moyens technologiques leur permettant de contribuer
directement en ligne et de manière bénévole.

Pour autant, les langues nationales de la plupart des pays d'Afrique
sont peu dotées (langues-π) : les ressources électroniques disponibles
sont rares, mal distribuées, voire inexistantes. Seules sont accessibles
les fonctions d'édition et d'impression rendant l'exploitation de ces
langues difficile. Au moment où il est question de les introduire dans
le système éducatif, de créer des normes d'écriture standardisées et
stabilisées et surtout de développer leur usage à l'écrit et à l'oral
dans l'administration et la vie quotidienne, un développement de ces
langues s’impose comme une nécessité vitale.

Développer le traitement automatique de langues africaines nécessite
l'élaboration de ressources qui seront les fondements à partir desquels
des traitements plus élaborés peuvent être construits. Il apparaît
indispensable de constituer en premier lieu des corpus écrits et oraux
annotés aussi larges que possibles. À partir de tels corpus, il est
possible d’extraire des exemples pour aider à la constitution de
dictionnaires ou de mettre au point des modèles de langage pour la
reconnaissance vocale. Toutefois, la constitution de tels corpus reste
une entreprise délicate dans le contexte de langues peu dotée car les
transcriptions souffrent du manque de standardisation de la langue et
l'enrichissement de corpus reste très onéreux.

Le développement d'applications à base de traitement de l'oral peut être
considéré comme prioritaire dans des régions de tradition orale. De
plus, l'usage de téléphones mobiles, très répandu, permet d'imaginer un
déploiement rapide de ces applications.

Les dictionnaires sont également nécessaires pour construire les outils
de base tels les correcteurs orthographiques (qui peuvent servir à leur
tour pour corriger les corpus écrits) ou encore pour l'aide à la
transcription de corpus oraux. Il existe parfois des dictionnaires
bilingues couplant la langue officielle et une langue nationale. Par
exemple, au Mali, le père Charles Bailleul est l'auteur d’un
dictionnaire bambara-français ; au Niger, le projet éducatif SOUTÉBA a
créé cinq dictionnaires bilingues destinés aux enfants de primaire. Mais
ceux-ci existent uniquement en version papier ou sous forme de fichiers
d'éditeurs de texte (format.doc). Informatiser ces dictionnaires pour
les rendre utilisables par des outils de traitement automatique
nécessite, dans un premier temps, d'ajouter des informations manquantes
: prononciation, règles de flexion morphologiques et flexionnelles,
exemples et traductions tirés de corpus, etc. Il s'agit dans un premier
temps de les informatiser (les transformer dans un format utilisable par
des outils de traitement automatique) et de les compléter avec des
informations manquantes : prononciation, exemples et traductions tirés
de corpus, etc. Des astuces peuvent parfois être inventées pour pallier
le manque de ressources. Par exemple, s'il n'existe pas de corpus oraux
avec transcriptions, il est possible de constituer un corpus oral de
textes lus.

Enfin, il y a lieu de prendre en compte les contraintes
socio-économiques s'exerçant sur la population des locuteurs : les
ressources économiques sont limitées, les ressources humaines qualifiées
sont rares, les recherches sont sporadiques et isolées, les résultats
confidentiels et parcellaires. Il est donc nécessaire de définir des
méthodologies économes en coût d'achat de logiciels et en temps de
travail qualifié visant à produire des résultats pérennes, partagés et
faciles à enrichir. La constitution de ressources linguistiques de
manière générale, et plus encore pour les langues africaines devrait
donc respecter un certain nombre de principes : utilisation d'outils en
source ouverte, définition et utilisation de standards (ISO, Unicode),
transfert de connaissances entre les collègues des pays du Nord et du
Sud, disponibilité des ressources sous licence ouverte (Creative
Commons), etc.

Cet atelier a pour but d'effectuer un état des lieux des travaux de
constitution de ressources linguistiques de base (dictionnaires, corpus
oraux et écrits), de mettre au point des méthodologies simples et
économes d'élaboration de ressource, d'échanger sur les techniques
permettant de se passer de certaines ressources inexistantes et de fixer
un certain nombre de principes pour les futurs travaux dans le domaine.

L'atelier se déroulera sur une demi-journée ou une journée entière, sous
réserve des soumissions et de la décision finale du comité de programme
de TALN.

Les ateliers TALAf sont soutenus par l'association LTT (Lexicologie
Terminologie Traduction).

TYPES DE COMMUNICATION

THÈMES

L'atelier est ouvert à la présentation de travaux de recherche portant
sur les thèmes suivants :

Ressources :

- constitution de corpus écrits (monolingues, bilingues alignés ou
  comparables)

- constitution de corpus oraux (incluant la transcription)

- élaboration de lexiques et dictionnaires (monolingues, bilingues)

- évaluation de la qualité des ressources

Outils :

- analyseurs morphologiques, correcteurs orthographiques

- analyseurs syntaxiques, correcteurs grammaticaux

- systèmes de TA (statistique ou à base de règles)

- reconnaissance de la parole

- synthèse vocale

CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION

Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du
domaine.

Pour les travaux de recherches, seront considérées en particulier :

- l'adéquation aux thèmes de l'atelier.

- l'importance et l'originalité de la contribution,

- la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,

- l'organisation et la clarté de la présentation.

MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION

Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français. Les formats précis
de soumission sont disponibles pour Word et Latex sur le site de
taln2014 : http://www.taln2014.org/site/soumission/

Les propositions de communications doivent être envoyées sous forme pdf
à l'adresse suivante :
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=talaf20140

COMITÉ DE PROGRAMME

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Philippe Bretier (Voxygen, Pleumeur-Bodou, France)

Khalid Choukri (ELDA, Paris, France)

Mame Thierno Cissé (ARCIV, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal)

Denys Duchier (Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France)

Chantal Enguehard (LINA, Nantes, France)

Gil Francopoulo (Tagmatica, Paris, France)

Mathieu Mangeot (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Chérif Mbodj, (Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar, Sénégal)

Kamal Naït-Zerrad (INALCO, Paris, France)

Pascal Nocera, (Université d'Avignon, France)

Francois Pellegrino, (DDL, Lyon, France)

Fatiha Sadat (UQAM, Montréal, Canada)

Mamadou Lamine Sanogo (INSS, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso)

Emmanuel Schang (Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France)

Gilles Sérasset (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Valentin Vydrin (LLACAN-INALCO, Paris, France)

CALENDRIER

- Date limite de soumission : 26 avril 2014

- Notification aux auteurs : 24 mai 2014

- Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 15 juin 2014

- Atelier : 1 juillet 2014

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:27:51 +0200
Subject: Job: Postes a pourvoir pour ORTOLANG
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:17:58 +0200
From: Bertrand Gaiffe <Bertrand.Gaiffe at atilf.fr>
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(a) ORTOLANG recrute, pour une mission de 12 mois, éventuellement
renouvelable, un ingénieur spécialiste en développement d'applications
informatiques.
Cet ingénieur s'insérera dans le Laboratoire ATILF, Unité Mixte de
Recherche du CNRS et de l’Université de Lorraine, partenaire d'ORTOLANG,
et aura pour mission, en collaboration avec les développeurs
informatiques, de développer des briques logicielles pour une plateforme
de diffusion de ressources numériques et de créer les APIs Web
d’utilisation de cette plateforme. (ProfilATILF3)

(b) ORTOLANG recrute, pour une mission de 12 mois, éventuellement
renouvelable, un ingénieur spécialiste en intégration d'applications
informatiques.
Cet ingénieur s'insérera dans le Laboratoire ATILF, Unité Mixte de
Recherche du CNRS et de l’Université de Lorraine, partenaire d'ORTOLANG,
et aura pour mission, en collaboration avec les développeurs
informatiques, de développer des interfaces Web pour la mise en ligne
d’outils de traitement de données (utilisation en ligne) et le packaging
de ces outils (utilisation hors ligne). (ProfilATILF4)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:27:03 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:27:03 +0200
Subject: Appel: WACAI 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.19.APR.2014.102703.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:57:57 +0200
From: Magalie Ochs <magalie.ochs at telecom-paristech.fr>
Message-ID: <534FEBF5.2080505 at telecom-paristech.fr>
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*Appel à Contributions : Workshop francophone Affect, Compagnon
Artificiel, Interaction (WACAI) 2014 – 30 juin, 1er juillet à Rouen *

http://wacai14.litislab.fr/

News : LES TITRES DES CONTRIBUTIONS AINSI QUE LA LISTE DES AUTEURS
DOIVENT ÊTRE INDIQUES AVANT LE 23 AVRIL. LES ARTICLES PEUVENT ENSUITE
ÊTRE SOUMIS JUSQU'AU 30 AVRIL.

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes !

L’objectif du workshop WACAI 2014 est de réunir les recherches et
développements en cours autour des /Agents Conversationnels Animés
(ACA)/ et des/robots sociaux/. Cette rencontre est plus particulièrement
centrée sur l’étude, la modélisation, le développement et l’évaluation
de l’interaction de systèmes interactifs avec leurs partenaires (humains
ou artefactuels). A l’interface entre sciences de l’ingénieur et
sciences humaines et sociales, l’ambition de WACAI est d’appréhender
l’interaction personne-système dans toute sa complexité (biologique,
linguistique, sociale, culturelle et émotionnelle).

Après les précédentes éditions bi-annuelles du workshop WACA, organisées
successivement à Grenoble (2005), à Toulouse (2006), à Paris (2008), à
Lille (2010) et WACAI à Grenoble (2012), cette nouvelle édition se
déroulera à Rouen le 30 Juin et 1er Juillet 2014.

Les contributions attendues (en français ou en anglais) sont de trois 
ordres :

- des articles scientifiques (max 6 pages) ;

- des revues de questions ou des états de l’art (max 8 pages), notamment
  sur les liens entre les problématiques communes et les spécificités
  des communautés ACA et robotique ;

- des descriptions de réalisations ou d’expérimentations en cours (2
  pages);

sur les domaines de l'/Informatique Affective/, le /Traitement des
//Signaux Sociaux/, les /Agents Conversationnels Animés/ et les /Robots
Sociaux/.

*Dates importantes*

***Soumission des titres et des auteurs : 23 Avril 2014****
***Soumission des articles : 30 Avril 2014****
Notification aux auteurs : 14 Mai 2014
Version finale : 28 Mai 2014


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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:25:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: Campagne d'evaluation,
 MediaEval Retrieving Diverse Social Images 2014 Task
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:42:02 +0000
From: POPESCU Adrian 211643 <adrian.popescu at cea.fr>
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[Apologies for cross-postings]

*******************************************************
Retrieving Diverse Social Images 2014 Task
@ the MediaEval 2014 Multimedia Benchmark Evaluation
http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2014/
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Call for Participation
Regular registration deadline: 1 May 2014
*******************************************************

We are happy to announce the opening of the registration for the 2014
Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task of the MediaEval Multimedia
Benchmark.


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**About the Retrieving Diverse Social Images 2014 Task**

This task is a follow-up of the 2013 edition. The task addresses the
problem of result diversification in social photo retrieval.

We use a tourist use case where a person tries to find more information
about a place she is potentially visiting. The person has only a vague
idea about the location, e.g., knowing the name of the location. She
uses the name to learn additional information about the location from
the Internet, for instance by visiting a Wikipedia page, e.g., getting a
photo, the geographical position of the place and basic
descriptions. Before deciding whether this location suits her needs, the
person is interested in getting a more complete visual description of
the place.

The participating systems are expected, given a ranked list of location
photos retrieved from Flickr using text information (up to 300 photos
per query), to refine the results. The refinement consists on providing
a set of images that are in the same time relevant, e.g., depict
partially or entirely the target location, and provide a diversified
summary, e.g., around 50 images that depict different views of the
location at different times of the day/year and under different weather
conditions, creative views, etc. Initial results are typically noisy and
redundant.

The refinement and diversification process will be based on the social
metadata associated with the images and/or on the visual characteristics
of the images.

In particular, this year we provide information about user annotation
credibility. Credibility is determined as an automatic estimation of the
quality (correctness) of a particular user's tags. Participants are
allowed to exploit this credibility estimation or to compute their own
approach, in addition to classical retrieval techniques. A specifically
designed dataset will be used to train this measure and will be provided
to the participants.


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**Task schedule**

March-May: Registration and return usage agreements.
1 May: Release of development/training data.
2 June: Release of test data.
8 September: Participants submit their completed runs.
15 September: Evaluation of submitted runs. Participants write their
2-page working notes papers.
28 September: Participants submit their camera ready working notes papers.
16-17+18 October: MediaEval 2014 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain.


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**Task organizers**

Bogdan Ionescu, LAPI, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania,
Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, France,
Mihai Lupu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria,
Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland,
(HES-SO) in Sierre, Switzerland.


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**Detailed information**

For more information about the task see:
http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2014/diverseimages2014/

For registration and general information about the 2014 MediaEval
benchmarking see:
http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2014/



We look forward to a very successful evaluation campaign!

On behalf of the task organizers,
Bogdan Ionescu
University Politehnica of Bucharest
http://imag.pub.ro/~bionescu
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:29:04 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:29:04 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Traces digitales, 24 avril 2014,
 Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:03:48 +0200
From: Nicolas Turenne <nturenne.inra at yahoo.fr>
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[désolé pour les réceptions multiples]

Chers collègues,

Dans le cadre de la dix-huitième séance du séminaire 'traces digitales'
du groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Karim Fraoua (MCF,
UPEM) et Dominique Cardon (Chercheur, Orange Lab) qui nous parleront des
relations algorithme-utilisateur.  Cette matinée aura lieu le jeudi 24
avril de 10h00 à 13h00, dans la grande salle de réunion de l'Institut
des Systemes Complexes ISC PIF (Institut des Systemes Complexes - Paris
Ile de France) 113 rue Nationale 75013, Paris. Voir
http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html


10h-11h30 Karim Fraoua ( Maître de Conférence, DICEN, Université 
Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)

Prise en compte des aspects rationnels et irrationnels d’un joueur pour 
la conception d’un système d’information .

Résumé : Mon travail est ancré dans la construction et la définition
d’un système d’information efficient au regard de l’utilisateur.
L’objectif est de maximiser cet usage en tenant compte du comportement
de l’usager de sa prise de décision. J’ai utilisé une nouvelle approche
basée sur la neuroéconomie. La Neuroéconomie est un domaine relativement
nouveau qui cherche à concilier plusieurs approches parfois
contradictoire du comportement humain. Le but de cette nouvelle approche
est de combiner les méthodes et les théories de la neuroscience
comportementale, la psychologie, l'économie et l'informatique pour
répondre à des question comme les calculs effectués par le cerveau pour
prendre différents types de décisions, prenant en comptes divers
paradoxes (Allais,…). Cette nouvelle discipline à conduit à l’émergence
à une nouvelle approche dans le domaine des systèmes d’informations, à
savoir l’approche dite NeuroIS. J'ai abordé bien sûr la notion de la
théorie des jeux et du modèle Bayésien pour expliquer ce que doit être
l'agent rationnel et les systèmes d'informations actuels quand ils
s’adressent à des usagers en asymétrie d'information.

11h30-13h00 Dominique Cardon ( Chercheur , Orange Lab.)

Le travail des données : les sciences sociales et les données du web.

Résumé : Lors de cette présentation, on se propose de mener ensemble
deux réflexions. La première porte sur le positionnement des sciences
sociales face aux nouveaux enjeux apparus avec le nouveau "gisement" des
données du web. Comment appréhender ce nouveau contexte ? De quels
instruments critiques doivent se doter les sciences sociales impliquées
dans le champ des digital studies pour produire des interprétations
originales de ces nouveaux corpus ? Parallèlement, cette interrogation
critique oblige à questionner les transformations des paradigmes
statistiques mis en œuvre pour analyser les données du web. A propos des
différentes familles de mesure de la visibilité sur Internet (Autorité,
Audience, Affinité, prédictibilité), on proposera une mise en forme des
enjeux politiques et moraux qui se cachent dans le choix des outils de
calculs destinés à traiter des données numériques.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:14:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:14:17 +0200
Subject: Appel: KI 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.19.APR.2014.101417.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:22:17 +1000
From: Michael Thielscher <mit at cse.unsw.edu.au>
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**** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call ****

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

  KI 2014 - The 37th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
               Stuttgart, September 22--26, 2014

               **** Last Call for Papers ****

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

		  	     www.ki2014.de

KI 2014 is the 37th edition of the German Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and
industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing a premier forum
for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of
intelligent system technology.  The technical program of KI 2014 will
comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and
tutorials.  KI 2014 will be co-located with Informatik 2014 (Annual
Conference of the German Informatics Society) and MATES 2014 (The 12th
German Conference on Multi- Agent System Technologies). The conference
invites original research papers from all areas of AI, its fundamentals,
its algorithms, its history and its applications.

You are invited to submit original research and application papers on
all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following:

- Agent-based and multiagent systems 
- AI applications and innovations 
- Cognitive modeling 
- Commonsense reasoning 
- Computer vision 
- Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization 
- Evolutionary computation 
- Game playing and interactive entertainment 
- Information retrieval, integration, and extraction 
- Knowledge acquisition and ontologies 
- Knowledge representation and reasoning 
- Machine learning and data mining 
- Multidisciplinary AI 
- Natural language processing 
- Planning and scheduling
- Robotics - Uncertainty in AI 
- Web and information systems

We especially welcome application papers that provide novel insights on
the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring
useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science
into AI.

======== Important Dates ========

Full/Short Paper submission:  May 1 
Acceptance notification:      June 23 
Final version due:            July 4 
KI Workshops and Conference:  September 22-26

======== Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium ========

Together with the main conference, we plan to organize a small number of
high-quality workshops and tutorials. We especially encourage workshops
organized by AI Special Interest Groups (GI-Fachgruppen), workshops that
bring together researchers from different disciplines, and workshops
that highlight emerging topics of AI research. Tutorials should target a
large percentage of conference participants, including graduate students
as well as experienced researchers, and practitioners.

The technical program of KI2014 is also complemented by a doctoral
consortium that invites participation by PhD students at any stage and
from any subject area within AI. The KI doctoral consortium is organized
as a joint event with the doctoral program of Informatik 2014, and
includes a mentoring program, a PhD workshop, and poster presentations.

For details on submitting workshop and tutorials and for applying to the
doctoral consortium, please see the KI2014 web page.

======== Submission ========

Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 12 pages
in Springer LNCS style for full technical contributions and 6 pages for
short papers. Full technical papers are expected to report on new
research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the
field. Short papers are also included in the main proceedings and can
report on new research or other issues of interest to the AI community.
Examples of work suitable for short paper submissions include: novel
ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper: important
implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short
experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet
completely solved or analyzed; position or challenge papers; etc.  Short
paper submissions are especially invited for software demonstration or
PhD work in progress.  Submission will be through the Easychair
conference management system :

	http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2014

Papers will be subject to blind peer review. All papers will be reviewed
based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results,
originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation. All
accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings,
and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each
accepted paper must register for the conference and present the
contribution.  The KI 2014 proceedings will be published by Springer as
a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series.

======== Main Organizers ========

Program Chairs
* Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen) 
* Michael Thielscher (University of New South Wales)

Workshop and Tutorial Chair 
* Frieder Stolzenburg (Hochschule Harz)

Doctoral Consortium Chair 
* Markus Krötzsch (TU Dresden)

For enquiries, please contact ki2014 at easychair.org.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:23:54 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:23:54 +0200
Subject: Appel: TALN articles courts, soumissions jusqu'au 4 mai 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.19.APR.2014.102354.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:01:19 +0200
From: Benoit Favre <benoit.favre at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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                         APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

                               TALN-2014
  21e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

                        http://www.taln2014.org
                            1-4 Juillet 2014
                               Marseille


-->     Articles courts
-->     Date limite : extension jusqu'au dimanche 4 mai
                        ---------------------


CALENDRIER
==========

1. Articles longs
    - Date limite de soumission : passée
    - Notification aux auteurs : passée
    - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 5 juin 2014

2. Articles courts
    - Date limite de soumission : 4 mai 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 28 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 5 juin 2014

3. Démonstrations
    - Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 10 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 5 juin 2014

PRÉSENTATION
============
Organisée par le LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage) et le LIF
(Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale), la conférence TALN
(Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles) aura lieu pour son 20ème
anniversaire à Marseille (Faculté Saint-Charles, Université
d'Aix-Marseille) du 1er au 4 juillet 2014

La conférence TALN’2014, qui est organisée sous l’égide de l’ATALA, se
tiendra conjointement avec la 16e édition des Rencontres des Étudiants
Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues
(RECITAL’2014).

La conférence TALN’2014 comprendra des communications orales présentant
des travaux de recherche et des prises de position, des communications
affichées, des conférences invitées et des démonstrations.

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

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
=======================
Deux formats de communications sont prévus : les articles longs (de 12
pages) et les articles courts (de 6 pages).

Les auteurs sont invités à présenter deux types de communications :

  - des articles présentant des travaux de recherche originaux
  - des prises de position présentant un point de vue sur l’état des
    recherches en TALN, fondées sur une solide expérience du domaine

Les articles doivent présenter des travaux originaux, comportant un
apport substantiel par rapport à d'autres travaux éventuellement déjà
publiés. Les traductions d'articles publiés ailleurs dans une autre
langue ne sont pas acceptées.

Les articles longs seront présentés sous forme d’une communication
orale, les articles courts sous forme d’un poster.

Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes du TAL.

CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION
=====================
Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du
domaine. Pour les travaux de recherche, seront considérées en
particulier :

  - l’adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence
  - l’importance et l’originalité de la contribution
  - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique
  - la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux
    autres travaux du domaine
  - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
    internationale
  - l’organisation et la clarté de la présentation

Pour les prises de position, seront privilégiées :

  - la largeur de vue et la prise en compte de l’état de l’art
  - l’originalité et l’impact du point de vue présenté

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

Le comité de programme sélectionnera parmi les communications acceptées
un article (prix TALN) pour recommandation à publication (dans une
version étendue) dans la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (revue
TAL).

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

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word sont disponibles sur le
site web de la conférence : http://www.taln2014.org

COMITE D'ORGANISATION
=====================
        Philippe Blache         Frédéric Béchet
        Carine André            Brigitte Bigi
        Sébastien Bermond       Cyril Deniaud
        Nadéra Bureau           Benoît Favre
        Stéphanie Desous        Joëlle Lavaud
        Nuria Gala              Frédéric Lefevre
        Grégoire Montcheuil     Alexis Nasr
        Catherine Perrot        Klim Peshkov
        Laurent Prévot          Carlos Ramisch
        Stéphane Rauzy          Claudia Starke

CONTACTS
========
  philippe.blache[arobas]lpl-aix.fr
  nadera.bureau[arobas]lpl-aix.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:30:36 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:30:36 +0200
Subject: Job: Postes d'ATER Informatique, CERI/LIA/Universite d'Avignon,
 DL 25/04/14
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:22:30 +0200
From: Marc El-Beze <marc.elbeze at univ-avignon.fr>
Message-ID: <53515F56.3010002 at univ-avignon.fr>
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Bonjour,

Le Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Informatique de l'Universite
d'Avignon (ceri.univ-avignon.fr) propose 5 postes d'ATER en Informatique
a temps plein pour l'annee 2014/15
(http://www.univ-avignon.fr/fr/pratique/ressources-humaines/recrutement-et-concours/campagne-de-recrutement-ater-2012.html
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ATERListesOffresPubliees/ATEROffres_publiees_TriParRegion.html).
Ils n'ont pas de profils specifiques : seule l'inscription dans une
activite de recherche en cours au LIA (lia.univ-avignon.fr) est requise.

Les details sur la campagne sont disponibles sur
http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid23097/devenir-attache-temporaire-d-enseignement-et-de-recherche-a.t.e.r.html.
Les conditions pour devenir ATER :

- soit être fonctionnaire titulaire ou stagiaire de catégorie A et
  inscrit en vue de la préparation du doctorat ou d'une habilitation à
  diriger des recherches ou s'engageant à se présenter à un concours de
  recrutement de l'enseignement supérieur ;

- soit être inscrit en vue de la préparation d'un doctorat, le directeur
  de thèse devant attester que la thèse peut être soutenue dans un délai
  d'un an ;

- soit être déjà titulaire d'un doctorat ou d'une habilitation à diriger
  des recherches et s'engager à se présenter à un concours de
  recrutement de l'enseignement supérieur ;

- soit être enseignant ou chercheur de nationalité étrangère ayant
  exercé des fonctions d'enseignement ou de recherche pendant au moins 2
  ans, titulaire d'un doctorat ;

- soit être moniteur recruté dans le cadre du monitorat d'initiation à
  l'enseignement supérieur, titulaire d'un doctorat et s'engageant à se
  présenter à un concours de recrutement de l'enseignement supérieur ;

- soit être allocataire d'enseignement et de recherche ayant cessé
  d'exercer ses fonctions depuis moins d'un an, titulaire d'un doctorat
  et s'engageant à se présenter à un concours de recrutement de
  l'enseignement supérieur.

Si vous connaissez des candidats potentiels (doctorants en fin de these,
jeunes docteurs, post-doc...), merci de leur faire passer l'information.
Vous noterez aussi la possiblite 4, donc n'hesitez pas a faire circuler
cette offre y compris aupres de jeunes collegues etrangers.

La date limite de candidature est le **vendredi 25 avril 2014**.

Cordialement,
- Fabrice Lefevre
Directeur du CERI
 
Fabrice Lefèvre, LIA-CERI-Univ. Avignon
BP 91228, 84911 Avignon Cedex 9, FRANCE
tel 33 (0)4 90 84 35 63/ fax - - - - 01

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:22:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:22:31 +0200
Subject: Appel: #di2014, DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE, Sept. 17-19 2014, France
Message-ID: <SAT.19.APR.2014.102231.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:55:31 +0200
From: Frederic Benhamou & Milad Doueihi -  #di2014 Co-Chairs <pc-chairs at di2014.org>
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=========== #di2014 | CALL FOR PAPERS ========

CALL FOR PAPERS – #di2014
International Conference on Digital Intelligence
Sept. 17-19, 2014 - Nantes, France
www.di2014.org - @DIConf2014


Digital Intelligence 2014 (#di2014) is a new international scientific
and interdisciplinary conference dedicated to digital society and
cultures. The challenge is to bring together researchers from various
disciplines (ICT, humanities, biology & health...) in order to discuss
and contribute to shape a new scientific and cultural paradigm.

#di2014 will be jointly organized with Scopitone, the main French
Festival on digital arts and electronic music (Scopitone 2014,
Sept. 16-21, 2014).

The program will be built around four main components: plenary invited
talks, contributed talks in parallel sessions, artistic sessions,
performances and works shared with the Scopitone festival and finally
sessions and events related to the (real) economy of digital cultures.

Program co-chairs: Milad Doueihi (Canada) & Frédéric Benhamou (France)
Conference co-chairs: Francky Trichet, Université de Nantes (France) &
Stéphane Roche, Université Laval (Canada)

---------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------------

- Serge Abiteboul, Académie des Sciences / INRIA / Collège de France,
  France

- Gérard Berry, Académie des Sciences / INRIA / Collège de France,
  France

- Caterina Fake, Co-Founder of Flickr, Findery & Hunch, USA

- Bruno Latour, MediaLab, Science Po, France

- Carlo Ratti, MIT Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of
  Technology, USA

- Jeffrey Schnapp, MetaLAB, Harvard University, USA

------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------

- Submission deadline: April 30, 2014

- Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 16, 2014

- Conference: Sept. 17-19, 2014

--------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------

Papers should be submitted online using this form:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=di2014

Papers should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/ lncs/authors.html) and should be submitted
in PDF format.

The submitted papers (technical or position papers, surveys) must be
unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere.


-------------------------------- TOPICS ------------------------------

Main areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Art & Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Digital Art, IT for
  cultural, natural and scientific Heritage, In-museum Innovative
  Technology and uses

- Data: Big Data, Open Data, Linked Data, Data Journalism, Data
  Visualization

- Digital Organizations: Applications of new technologies to e-Business
  and e-Administration, e-Commerce, e-Marketing, m-Commerce,
  m-Marketing, Organizational and management issues

- Social Web: Social Network Analysis, Communities of practice /
  interest in social media and mobile devices, Collective intelligence,
  Collaborative production and Social Computing, Knowledge Ecosystems,
  Digital Ecosystems, Economics and social innovation on Digital
  Ecosystems

- Digital Identity: e-reputation (human, product, enterprise,
  government, etc.), Digital traces and memories, Privacy, Trust,
  Security and Personal Data Management Systems, Human factors (culture,
  affect, motivation, cognition) and user centered design in digital
  technology

- e-Learning: Social impact and cultural issues in e-Learning, Policy
  and organizational issues in e-Learning, e-Universities, e-Schools,
  e-Learning technologies and tools, e-Learning standards (Open Course
  Ware, Open Access), open e-Learning : OER, MOOCs, virtual mobility

- Green Digital Economy: Green computing, IT for Sustainability, Smart
  Cities and Homes

- Digital Trends and Emerging Practices: Cloud Computing, Emotional
  Computing, Serious Games, Makers, FabLabs, MediaLabs, LivingLabs,
  ArtLab, innovative Digital Solution in Health, Tourism, Internet of
  Things, Digital Addiction Studies

- Human-Robot Interaction: Ethical and social issues of HRI,
  Bio-inspired robotics, Humanoid robotics, Socially intelligent robots,
  assistive (health & personal care) robotics, Transhumanism

- Human-Computer Interaction: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality,
  Design, User Experience and Usability

- Digital humanities: Philosophy of the Web, Digital Literature, Digital
  Literacy


------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (current list) -----------

Area chairs:

- Data: Serge Abiteboul, Académie des Sciences / Collège de France /
  INRIA, France

- The Commons: Philippe Aigrain, La Quadrature du Net / Sopinspace,
  France

- Human robot interaction: Yuichiro Anzai, Department of Computer
  Science, Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences / Keio University,
  Japan

- Digital literacy: Gérard Berry, Chair in Algorithms, Machines and
  Languages, French Académie des Sciences / Collège de France / INRIA,
  France

- Digital literature: Alexandre Gefen, Centre d'Étude de la Littérature
  Française, Université Paris-Sorbonne – Paris 4, France

- Social web: Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France

- e-learning: Rory McGreal, UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in
  Open Educational Resources, Athabasca University, Canada

- Art & culturally aware information technology: Ryohei Nakatsu,
  Interactive & Digital Media Institute, National University of
  Singapore, Singapore

- Smart cities: Stéphane Roche, Department of Geomatics, Université
  Laval - Québec, Canada

- Digital humanities: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, MetaLAB, Harvard University,
  USA

- Security, privacy & digital identity: Pascal Van Hentenryck,
  Australian National University / NICTA, Australia


PC members:

- Reda S. Alhajj, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary,
  Canada
- Gérard Assayag, STMS Lab - Sciences & Technologies Musique & Son,
  IRCAM, France
- Francis Bach, Computer Science Laboratory, Ecole Normale Supérieure /
  INRIA, France
- Christine Balagué, Chair Marketing and Social Networks, Institut
  Mines-Telecom, France
- François Bancilhon, Data publica, France
- Christoph Bartneck, Human Interface Laboratory, Canterbury University,
  Australia
- David Bates, Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California -
  Berkeley, USA
- Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Computer Sciences Laboratory, Université Paris
  Sud, France
- Daren C. Brabham, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism,
  University of Southern California, USA
- Ben Brabon, Department of English and History, Edge Hill University,
  UK
- Patrick Y.K. Chau, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong,
  Hong Kong
- Philippe Codognet, University Pierre & Marie Curie-Paris 6 /
  University of Tokyo, France/Japan
- Jozef Colpaert, Director R&D of Language Institute Linguapolis,
  Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
- Colin de la Higuera, LINA- Nantes Atlantic Computer Science
  laboratory, Université de Nantes, France
- Sir John Daniel, Open and Distance Learning, UK
- Manuel Fernandez, Human Scale City, Spain
- Patrick Gallinari, LIP6 - Computer Sciences Laboratory, Université
  Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Krishna Gummadi, Networked Systems Research Group, Max Planck
  Institute for Software Systems, Germany
- Lynda Hardman, Information Access research group, Centrum Wiskunde &
  Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands.
- Katja Hose, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University,
  Denmark
- Joaquin Huerta, Department of Computer Languages and Systems,
  Universidad Jaume I de Castellón, Spain
- Erkki Huhtamo, Department of Design Media Arts, University of
  California, Los Angeles, USA
- Michita Imai, Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Japan
- Sirkka Jarvenpaa, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas
  at Austin, USA
- Florian Kerschbaum, SAP, Germany
- Marie-Noëlle Lamy, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open
  university, UK,
- George Legrady, Experimental Visualization Lab, University of
  California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Dominique Lestel, Department of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure,
  France
- Manuel Lima, Parsons School of Design / Founder of
  VisualComplexity.com, USA
- Michel Lussault, French National Institute For Education, ENS of Lyon
  University of Lyon
- Amélie Marian, Computer Science Department, Rotgers University, USA
- Alessandro Marianantoni, REMAP, University of California, Los Angeles,
  USA
- Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Research, USA
- Carlos Moreno, Groupe GDF-SUEZ, France
- Neil Morris, Digital learning team, University of Leeds, UK
- Mir Mostafavi J., Department of Geomatics, Université Laval - Québec,
  Canada
- Beniamino Murgante, School of Engineering, University of Basilicata,
  Italy
- Liam Murray, School of Languages, Literature, Culture and
  Communication, University of Limerick, Ireland
- Frank Nack, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (UvA),The
  Netherlands
- Enrico Nardelli, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Roma "Tor
  Vergata", Italy
- Nicola Nova, Research Institute of Art and Design, Genève / Near
  Future Laboratory, Switzerland
- François Pachet, Computer Science Laboratory, SONY, Paris, France
- Nicolas Reeves, NXI GESTATIO Design Lab, Université du Québec à
  Montréal, École de Design, Canada
- John Savage, Computer Science Department, Brown University, USA
- Christoph Sorge, Institute of Law and Informatics, Saarland
  University, Germany
- Françoise Soulié, KXEN, France
- Bernard Stiegler, Ars Industrialis, Centre Pompidou, France
- Steve Tadelis, eBay research Lab, eBay / University of California -
  Berkeley, USA
- Naoko Tosa, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto
  University, Japan
- Lena Wiese, Institute of Computer Science, University of Goettingen,
  Germany
- Tien-Tsin Wong, department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chinese
  University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
- Christian Zimmerman Institute of Computer Science and Social Studies,
  Department of Telematics , University of Freiburg, Germany

--------------------------- PROCEEDINGS --------------------------

The accepted papers will be included in the electronic conference
proceedings.

Authors of selected conference papers will be invited to submit an
extended version of their work to scientific journals or a compilation
volume of articles.

---------------------- NANTES DIGITAL WEEK --------------------

#di2014 is at the heart of the Nantes Digital Week (Sept. 13-21, 2014)
which brings together conferences, workshops, demonstrations,
performances and concerts related to Art, Science and Economy.

At once festive, innovative and hybrid, Nantes Digital Week appeal to a
wide audience and will be organized around major events: Startup
Weekend, Scopitone festival on Digital Art and Electronic Cultures,
FabLab Day, Robotic Day, etc.

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:26:19 +0200
Subject: Livre: Cimiano etal,
 Ontology-Based Interpretation of Natural Language
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.202619.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:55:37 +1000
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Ontology-Based Interpretation of Natural Language

by Philipp Cimiano, Christina Unger, and John McCrae
(Semantic Computing Group, CITEC, Bielefeld University, Germany)


Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #24 (Morgan &
Claypool Publishers), 2014, 178 pages

ABSTRACT:

For humans, understanding a natural language sentence or discourse is so
effortless that we hardly ever think about it. For machines, however,
the task of interpreting natural language, especially grasping meaning
beyond the literal content, has proven extremely difficult and requires
a large amount of background knowledge. This book focuses on the
interpretation of natural language with respect to specific domain
knowledge captured in ontologies. The main contribution is an approach
that puts ontologies at the center of the interpretation process. This
means that ontologies not only provide a formalization of domain
knowledge necessary for interpretation but also support and guide the
construction of meaning representations.

We start with an introduction to ontologies and demonstrate how
linguistic information can be attached to them by means of the ontology
lexicon model lemon. These lexica then serve as basis for the automatic
generation of grammars, which we use to compositionally construct
meaning representations that conform with the vocabulary of an
underlying ontology. As a result, the level of representational
granularity is not driven by language but by the semantic distinctions
made in the underlying ontology and thus by distinctions that are
relevant in the context of a particular domain. We highlight some of the
challenges involved in the construction of ontology-based meaning
representations, and show how ontologies can be exploited for ambiguity
resolution and the interpretation of temporal expressions.  Finally, we
present a question answering system that combines all tools and
techniques introduced throughout the book in a real-world application,
and sketch how the presented approach can scale to larger, multi-domain
scenarios in the context of the Semantic Web.

Table of Contents: List of Figures / Preface / Acknowledgments /
Introduction / Ontologies / Linguistic Formalisms / Ontology Lexica /
Grammar Generation / Putting Everything Together / Ontological Reasoning
for Ambiguity Resolution / Temporal Interpretation / Ontology-Based
Interpretation for Question Answering / Conclusion / Bibliography /
Authors' Biographies

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00561ED1V01Y201401HLT024


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 19:28:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:28:26 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Serie de seminaires, A. Villavicencio,
 labex Transfers, Paris et Montrouge
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:53:54 +0200
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
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Bonjour, 

Veuillez trouver ci-joint le programme des conférences d’Aline
Villavicencio (http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~avillavicencio/), invitée du
labex Transfers (http://transfers.ens.fr/) en mai 2014.

L’ensemble des conférences sera consacré à l’acquisition du langage et à
la modélisation (notamment informatique) des phénomènes correspondants.

Toutes les conférences seront en anglais. 

Cordialement,

Thierry Poibeau


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


Short Bio:
Aline Villavicencio is a senior lecturer in Computer Sciences at the
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and a CNPq fellow. She
was a visiting Scholar at MIT (USA) from 2011-2012, and at Saarland
University in 2012-2013, with PhD and MPhil degrees from the University
of Cambridge, UK. Her research has included work on computational
language acquisition and grammar engineering for languages such as
English and Portuguese. She has coordinated several projects on these
topics, which include collaboration with France, US and Latin American
universities. She has organized events including the ACL-2007 and the
EACL-2009, 2012 and 2014 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational
Language Acquisition, and the ACL 2003, 2004, 2011, NAACL-2013 and
Coling 2010 workshops on Multiword Expressions among others.     


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

Topic: Language Acquisition
Title: Language Acquisition and Probabilistic Models: keeping it simple
Joint work with Bob Berwick (MIT)

Abstract: Hierarchical Bayesian Models (HBMs) have been used with some
success to capture empirically observed patterns of under- and
overgeneralization in child language acquisition. However, as is well
known, HBMs are ``ideal'' learning systems, assuming access to unlimited
computational resources that may not be available to child language
learners. Consequently, it remains crucial to carefully assess the use
of HBMs along with alternative, possibly simpler, candidate models. In
this talk I describe an evaluation for a language acquisition domain
where explicit HBMs have been proposed: the acquisition of English
dative constructions. In particular, I present a detailed,
empirically-grounded model-selection comparison of HBMs vs. a simpler
alternative based on clustering along with maximum likelihood
estimation, the linear competition learning (LCL). Results obtained
demonstrate that LCL can match HBM model performance without incurring
on the high computational costs associated with HBMs.

Mercredi 7 mai
10h30 - 12h30, ENS 45 rue d’Ulm salle Cartan

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

Topic: Language Acquisition work with psycholinguistic data
Title: Lexical and topological analysis of language acquisition and
dissolution 

Abstract: Psycholinguistic studies on language acquisition, organization
and dissolution have proposed several hypotheses to explain human
processing of language, where factors such as frequency, polysemy and
conventionality seem to influence language use. Recent studies have also
indicated the impact of gender and age, with differences in language use
between boys and girls found in longitudinal data. In this talk I will
describe lexical and topological analyses of some target groups,
including children for language acquisition, and clinical groups for
language dissolution investigations.

Mardi 20 mai
10h00 - 12h30, Laboratoire Lattice (salle 512, 1 rue Maurice Arnoux
92120 Montrouge)

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


Topic: Multi Word Expressions
* Title: Multiword expressions in language technology and language
acquisition

Abstract: Conventional ways of transmitting efficiently and concisely
complex ideas and concepts in natural language in a particular domain or
community often adopt Multiword Expressions (MWE). For example, "an old
wives' tale" as "an idea believed in the past but now known to be
wrong".  MWEs are a heterogeneous set that includes various complex
phenomena ranging from compound nouns and verb particle constructions to
idioms, and have received considerable attention from researchers from a
variety of disciplines, such as Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and
Natural Language Processing. Although their importance has long been
recognised, their heterogeneous characteristics have proved a challenge
to both linguistic and computational analysis. In this talk I examine
some of these challenges and present an approach for their automatic
identification. I then discuss some applications for their use in
language technology and child language acquisition studies.

suivi de :

------MWEs methods
* Title: A language independent framework for Multiword Expressions
Identification

Abstract: A Multiword Expression (MWE) is a sequences whose
interpretation crosses the word boundaries (Sag et al., 2002) and
include compound nouns (credit card, mountain bike), phrasal verbs
(carry on, go by [a name]), compound terms (benign tumor, nuclear
fusion), etc.  They are an integral part of language, and their
importance has long been recognized. However, their heterogeneous
characteristics have proved a challenge to both linguistic and
computational analysis. In this paper we discuss some of these
challenges along with a variety of approaches for semi-automatically
finding and handling these expressions.

Mercredi 21 mai
10h00 - 12h30, Laboratoire Lattice (salle 512, 1 rue Maurice Arnoux
92120 Montrouge)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 18:24:04 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:24:04 +0200
Subject: Livre: Schafer and Bildhauer, Web Corpus Construction
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:52:25 +1000
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Web Corpus Construction

by Roland Schäfer and Felix Bildhauer 
(Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #22 (Morgan & Claypool
Publishers), 2013, 145 pages

ABSTRACT:

The World Wide Web constitutes the largest existing source of texts
written in a great variety of languages. A feasible and sound way of
exploiting this data for linguistic research is to compile a static
corpus for a given language. There are several adavantages of this
approach: (i) Working with such corpora obviates the problems
encountered when using Internet search engines in quantitative
linguistic research (such as non-transparent ranking algorithms).  (ii)
Creating a corpus from web data is virtually free. (iii) The size of
corpora compiled from the WWW may exceed by several orders of magnitudes
the size of language resources offered elsewhere. (iv) The data is
locally available to the user, and it can be linguistically
post-processed and queried with the tools preferred by her/him. This
book addresses the main practical tasks in the creation of web corpora
up to giga-token size. Among these tasks are the sampling process (i.e.,
web crawling) and the usual cleanups including boilerplate removal and
removal of duplicated content. Linguistic processing and problems with
linguistic processing coming from the different kinds of noise in web
corpora are also covered. Finally, the authors show how web corpora can
be evaluated and compared to other corpora (such as traditionally
compiled corpora).

For additional material please visit the companion website:
sites.morganclaypool.com/wcc

Table of Contents: Preface / Acknowledgments / Web Corpora / Data
Collection / Post-Processing / Linguistic Processing / Corpus 
Evaluation and Comparison / Bibliography / Authors' Biographies


http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00508ED1V01Y201305HLT022


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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:23:21 +0200
Subject: Job: Postes ATER Informatique Marseille
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.202321.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 17:15:46 +0200
From: Patrice Bellot <patrice.bellot at lsis.org>
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bonjour

10 postes ATER complets et 2 postes ATER 50% sont mis au concours en
Informatique (section 27) au sein d'Aix-Marseille Université
(laboratoires LSIS ou LIF selon les postes).

Plus d'informations ici :
http://drh.univ-amu.fr/public_content/recrutement-ater-2014-2015-modalites-liste-postes-section

DATE LIMITE DE DEPOT DES DOSSIERS: mardi 30 avril 2014.

cordialement,
P. Bellot

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:35:21 +0200
Subject: Conf: Coling 2014, Registration NOW OPEN
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:32:17 +0000
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http://www.coling-2014.org/registration_email.html

http://www.coling-2014.org/index.php

We are proud that COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on
Computational Linguistics, will be organised by the Centre for Global
Intelligent Content (CNGL) at the Helix Conference Centre at Dublin City
University (DCU) from 23-29 August 2014. The COLING conference is
organised under the auspices of the International Committee on
Computational Linguistics (ICCL).

Registration is Now Open!
Click here to Register http://www.coling-2014.org/registration.php
Register for Main Conference http://www.coling-2014.org/schedule.php,
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Registration Fees

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:25:39 +0200
Subject: Appel: Medical IR workshop @ SIGIR (April 28th submission
 deadline)
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:47:48 +0100
From: Liadh Kelly <lkelly at computing.dcu.ie>
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Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR) Workshop

http://medir.dcu.ie/

At SIGIR 2014, July 11 2014, Gold Coast, Australia


Call for Papers (2 & 4 page)

Submission deadline: April 28

Medical information search refers to methodologies and technologies that
seek to improve access to medical information archives via a process of
information retrieval (IR). Such information is now potentially
accessible from many sources including the general web, social media,
journal articles, and hospital records.

Medical information is of interest to a wide variety of users, including
patients and their families, researchers, general practitioners and
clinicians, and practitioners with specific expertise such as
radiologists. Despite the popularity of the medical domain for users of
search engines, and current interest in this topic within the
information retrieval research community, development of search and
access technologies remains particularly challenging.  One of the
central issues in medical information search is diversity of the users
of these services. In particular, they will have varying categories of
information needs, varying levels of medical knowledge, and varying
language skills. In addition, the format, reliability, and quality of
biomedical and medical information varies greatly. A single health
record can contain clinical notes, technical pathology data, images, and
patient-contributed histories, and may be linked by a physician to
research papers. The importance of health and medical topics and their
impact on people’s everyday lives makes the need for retrieval of
accurate and reliable information especially important.  Determining the
likely reliability of available information is challenging.  Finally, as
with information retrieval in general, the evaluation of medical search
tools is vital and challenging. For example, there are no established or
standardized baselines or evaluation metrics, and limited availability
of test collections.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in medical
information search with the goal of identifying specific research
challenges that need to be addressed to advance the state-of-the-art and
to foster interdisciplinary collaborations towards the meeting of these
challenges. To enable this, we encourage participation from researchers
in all fields related to medical information search including mainstream
information retrieval, but also natural language processing,
multilingual text processing, and medical image analysis.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  - Users and information needs

  - Semantics and NLP for medical IR

  - Reliability and trust in medical IR

  - Personalised search

  - Evaluation of medical IR

  - Multilingual issues in medical IR

  - Multimedia technologies in medical IR

  - The role of social media in medical IR


Paper Submissions

The workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Short papers (4 pages)
and short position papers (2 pages) describing approaches or ideas /
challenges on the topics of the workshop are invited. Submissions should
be in ACM SIGS format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/ publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX,
use the "Option 2" style).

Papers should be anonymised for double blind review and submitted in pdf
format through the EasyChair system
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf= medir2014 no later than
midnight Pacific Daylight Time on April 28, 2014.  Submissions will be
reviewed by members of the workshop program committee.  Accepted papers
will be included in the SIGIR 2014 Medical Information Search Workshop
proceedings.

Important Dates

April 28, 2014: Deadline for paper submission (midnight Pacific Daylight
   Time)
May 10, 2014: Notification to authors
May 17, 2014: Camera-ready papers due
July 11, 2014: Workshop

Further Information

Further information is available on the workshop website at
http://medir.dcu.ie / or by emailing the workshop organisers.

Workshop Organisers


Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland

Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland

Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 19:22:53 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:22:53 +0200
Subject: Conf: IC 2014, 12 au 16 mai 2014, Clermont-Ferrand
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.212253.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:51:48 +0200
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <53569014.4040004 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014
X-url: http://kidknowledge.wp.mines-telecom.fr/tutoriel-calcul-et-analyse-de-mesures-semantiques-a-laide-de-la-semantic-measures-library/
X-url: http://weblab-project.org/workshop/SoWeDo2014/
X-url: http://81.194.42.176/html/ModulO2014/
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/24

*Appel à participation à  la conférence IC 2014*

25es Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances :
/Connaissances pervasives : des utilisateurs plongés dans des SBC et des
SBC plongés dans le monde/

http://www.irit.fr/IC2014
du 12 au 16 mai 2014 à Clermont-Ferrand

*Inscriptions *: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/11 *Clôture des 
préinscriptions le 5 mai*

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*Liste des ateliers et tutoriel :*

  * Tutoriel Calcul et analyse de mesures sémantiques à l'aide de la
    Semantic Measures Library
    http://kidknowledge.wp.mines-telecom.fr/tutoriel-calcul-et-analyse-de-mesures-semantiques-a-laide-de-la-semantic-measures-library/
  * Atelier SoWeDo http://weblab-project.org/workshop/SoWeDo2014/
  * Atelier IC & Santé https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/
  * Atelier ModulO http://81.194.42.176/html/ModulO2014/
  * Atelier IN-OVIVE https://colloque.inra.fr/in_ovive_2014
  * Atelier IC & Agri http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/24

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*Liste des articles acceptés :*

  * Céline Alec, Brigitte Safar, Chantal Reynaud, Zied Sellami and Uriel
    Berdugo. Peuplement automatique d'ontologie à partir d'un catalogue
    de produits
  * Pavel Arapov, Michel Buffa and Amel Ben Othmane. Programmer le web
    de données avec un « wiki-based IDE »
  * Jacques Bouaud, Arnaud Soulet, Jean-Philippe Spano, Jean-Pierre
    Lefranc, Isabelle Cojean-Zelek, Brigitte Blaszka-Jaulerry, Laurent
    Zelek, Axel Durieux, Christophe Tournigand, Nizar Messai, Alexandra
    Rousseau and Brigitte Seroussi. Quels sont les patients atteints
    d'un cancer du sein dont la décision de prise en charge
    thérapeutique bénéficie de l'utilisation d'un système d'aide à la
    décision ? Un exemple utilisant la fouille de données et OncoDoc2
  * Sandra Bringay, Eric Kergosien, Pierre Pompidor and Pascal Poncelet.
    Identifier la cible des émotions dans les forums de santé
  * Gaoussou Camara, Sylvie Despres and Moussa Lo. IDOSCHISTO : une
    extension de l'ontologie noyau des maladies infectieuses (IDO-Core)
    pour la schistosomiase
  * Jean Charlet, Laurent Mazuel, Gunnar Declerck, Patrick Miroux and
    Pierre Gayet. Décrire les maladies localisées et la physiopathologie
    pour une ontologie des urgences: un algorithme générique à partir de
    la FMA
  * Olivier Corby and Catherine Faron-Zucker. SPARQL Template: un
    langage de Pretty Printing pour RDF
  * Christopher Couthon, Régis Martineau and Pascal Salembier. De la
    qualité de la coopération à l'identification d'indicateurs de
    pilotage
  * Michel Crampes and Michel Plantié. Organisation de communautés et
    Equilibre de Nash
  * Sylvie Despres. Construction d'une ontologie modulaire pour
    l'univers de la cuisine numérique
  * Blandine Ginon, Stéphanie Jean-Daubias, Pierre-Antoine Champin and
    Marie Lefevre. aLDEAS : un langage de définition de systèmes
    d'assistance épiphytes
  * Mohamed Nader Jelassi, Sadok Ben Yahia and Engelbert Mephu Nguifo.
    Vers des recommandations plus personnalisées dans les folksonomies
  * Abir Beatrice Karami, Karim Sehaba and Benoît Encelle. Learn to
    Adapt based on Users' Feedback
  * Jean-Baptiste Lamy, Lina F. Soualmia, Alain Venot and Catherine
    Duclos. Validation de la sémantique d'un langage iconique médical à
    l'aide d'une ontologie: méthodes et applications
  * Camille Pradel, Ollivier Haemmerlé and Nathalie Hernandez. Swip :
    une interface Langue Naturelle à SPARQL programmée en SPARQL
  * Hélène De Ribaupierre and Gilles Falquet. Un modèle d'annotation
    sémantique centré sur les utilisateurs de documents scientifiques :
    cas d'utilisation dans les études genre
  * Oumy Seye, Catherine Faron Zucker, Olivier Corby and Alban Gaignard.
    Publication, partage et réutilisation de règles sur le web de
    données
  * Guillaume Surroca, Philippe Lemoisson, Clément Jonquet and Stefano
    A. Cerri. Construction et évolution de connaissances par
    confrontation de points de vue : prototype pour la recherche
    d'information scientifique
  * Lamine Traore, Amina Chniti, Nicolas Griffon, Stefan Darmoni, Jean
    Charlet, Eric Sadou, David Ouagne, Eric Lepage, Christel Daniel and
    Sajjad Hussain. Plateforme d'interopérabilité sémantique gérant les
    terminologies d'interface au sein d'un territoire de santé numérique
  * Antoine Vincent, Bruno Bachimont and Alain Bonardi. L'intérêt des
    patrons dans la gestion des connaissances liées à la création sonore


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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.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 19:24:21 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:24:21 +0200
Subject: Appel: CompuTerm 2014
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.212421.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:02:13 -0400
From: Patrick Drouin <patrick.drouin at umontreal.ca>
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       4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology
                            CompuTerm 2014

                         COLING 2014 Workshop
                  23rd August 2014, Dublin, Ireland
              http://perso.limsi.fr/hamon/Computerm2014/

Submission deadline: 2nd May 2014


Computational Terminology covers an increasingly important aspect in
Natural Language Processing areas such as text mining, information
retrieval, information extraction, summarisation, textual entailment,
document management systems, question-answering systems, ontology
building, etc. Terminological information is paramount for knowledge
mining from texts for scientific discovery and competitive
intelligence. Scientific needs in fast growing domains (such as
biomedicine, chemistry and ecology) and the overwhelming amount of
textual data published daily demand that terminology is acquired and
managed systematically and automatically; while in well established
domains (such as law, economy, banking and music) the demand is on
fine-grained analyses of documents for knowledge description and
acquisition. Moreover, capturing new concepts leads to the acquisition
and management of new knowledge.

The aim of this fourth CompuTerm workshop is to bring together Natural
Language Processing researchers to discuss recent advances in
computational terminology and its impact in many NLP applications. The
topics addressed in this workshop are wide ranging:

- term extraction, recognition and filtering, which is the core
  of the terminological activity that lays basis for other
  terminological topics and tasks;

- event recognition and extraction, that extends the notion of the
  terminological entity from terms meaning static units up to terms
  meaning procedural and dynamic processes;

- acquisition of semantic relations among terms, which is also an
  important research topic as the acquisition of semantic
  relationships between terms finds applications such as the
  population and update of existing knowledge bases, definition
  of domain specific templates in information extraction and
  disambiguation of terms;

- term variation management, that helps to deal with the dynamic
  nature of terms, their acquisition from heterogeneous sources, their
  integration, standardisation and representation for a large range of
  applications and resources, is also increasingly important, as one
  has to address this research problem when working with various
  controlled vocabularies, thesauri, ontologies and textual data. Term
  variation is also related to their paraphrases and reformulations,
  due to historical, regional, local or personal issues. Besides, the
  discovery of synonym terms or term clusters is equally
  beneficial to many NLP applications;

- definition acquisition, that covers important research and
  aims to provide precise and nonambiguous description of
  terminological entities.  Such definitions may contain
  elements necessary for the formal description of terms and concepts
  within ontologies;

- consideration of the user expertise, that is becoming a new issue in
  the terminological activity, takes into account the fact that
  specialized domains contain notions and terms often
  nonunderstandable to non-experts or to laymen (such as patients
  within the medical area, or bank clients within banking and economy
  areas). This aspect, although related to specialized areas, provides
  direct link between specialized languages and general language;

- systematic terminology management and updating domain specific
  dictionaries and thesauri, that are important aspects for
  maintaining the existing terminological resources. These aspects
  become crucial because the amount of the existing terminological
  resources is constantly increasing and because their perennial and
  efficient use depends on their maintenance and updating, while
  their re-acquisition is costly and often non-reproducible;

- monolingual and multilingual resources, that open the possibility
  for developing cross-lingual and multi-lingual applications,
  requires specific corpora, methods and tools which design and
  evaluation are challenging issues;

- robustness and portability of methods, which allows to apply methods
  developed in one given context to other contexts (corpora, domains,
  languages, etc.) and to share the research expertise among them;

- social netwoks and modern media processing, that attracts an
  increasing number of researchers and that provides challenging
  material to be processed;

- utilization of terminologies in various NLP applications, as they
  are a necessary component of any NLP system dealing with
  domain-specific literature, is another novel and challenging
  research direction.

The workshop submissions are open to different approaches, ranging
from term extraction in various languages (using verb co-occurrence,
information theoretic approaches, machine learning, etc.), translation
pairs extracting from bilingual corpora based on terminology, up to
semantic oriented approaches and theoretical aspects of terminology.
Besides, experiments on the evaluation of terminological methods and
tools are also encouraged since they provide interesting and useful
proof about the utility of terminological resources:

- direct evaluation may concern the efficiency of the
  terminological methods and tools to capture the terminological
  entities and relations, as well as various kinds of related
  information;

- indirect evaluation may concern the use of terminological resources
  in various NLP applications and the impact these resources have on
  the performance of the automatic systems. In this case, research and
  competition tracks (such as TREC, BioCreative, CLEF, CLEF-eHealth,
  I2B2, *SEM, and other shared tasks), provide particularly fruitful
  evaluation contexts and proved very successful in identifying key
  problems in terminology such as term variation and ambiguity.

We encourage authors to submit their research work related to various
aspects of computational terminology, such as mentioned in this
call. The workshop authors will be proposed to submit an extented
version of their work to a special issue of an international journal
or of a book collection.

Importante dates:

- 1st workshop CFP: 17th February 2014
- Paper due date: 2nd May 2014
- Notification of acceptance: 6th June 2014
- Camera-ready deadline: 27th June 2014
- Workshop: 23rd August 2014

Submission instructions:

Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished
work in the topic area of this workshop.

Submissions should follow the COLING 2014 instruction for authors
(http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php) and be formatted
using the COLING 2014 stylefiles for latex, MS Word or LibreOffice
(http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip), with blind review and
not exceeding 8 pages plus two extra pages for references.

The PDF files will be submitted electronically at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/WS-9/


Organisers:

- Patrick Drouin, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de
  Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- Natalia Grabar, CNRS UMR 8163 STL, Université Lille 1&3, Villeneuve
  d'Ascq
- Thierry Hamon, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France & Université Paris 13, Sorbonne
  Paris Cité, Villetaneuse, France
- Kyo Kageura, Library and Information Science Laboratory, University of
  Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Program Committee


- Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, National Centre for Text
  Mining, UK
- Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, USA
- Beatrice Daille, IRIN, France
- Éric Gaussier, LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, France
- Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corp, France
- Marie-Claude L'Homme, University of Montréal, Canada
- Philippe Langlais, RALI, Canada
- John McNaught, UMIST & National Centre for Text Mining, UK
- Rogelio Nazar, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester, UK
- Jorge Vivaldi Palatresi, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- Selja Seppälä, University at Buffalo, USA
- Karine Verspoor, NICTA, Australia
- Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, France
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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:45:33 +0200
Subject: Journee: Rencontre AFTAL, Journee PluriTAL/Metiers du TAL 2014,
 29 avril 2014, Paris
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:18:08 +0100
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L’AFTAL organise la "Journée PluriTAL/Métiers du TAL 2014
(http://tal.univ-paris3.fr/aftal/?p=1151)", le mardi 29 avril prochain
dans les locaux de l'INALCO (Institut National des Langues et
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Nous vous invitons à vous joindre à nous pour cette session
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L'équipe AFTAL sera heureuse de vous accueillir dès 18h45. Les tables
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:14:11 +0200
Subject: Job: CDI, Ingenieur R&D TAL, Lyon
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 18:25:45 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:25:45 +0200
Subject: Livre: Leacock et al,
 Automated Grammatical Error Detection (2nd edition)
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:54:38 +1000
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners, Second
Edition

by Claudia Leacock, Martin Chodorow, Michael Gamon, and Joel Tetreault

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #25 (Morgan & Claypool
Publishers), 2014, 170 pages

** This is an extensive revision of the 2010 edition of this book.

ABSTRACT:

It has been estimated that over a billion people are using or learning
English as a second or foreign language, and the numbers are growing not
only for English but for other languages as well. These language
learners provide a burgeoning market for tools that help identify and
correct learners' writing errors. Unfortunately, the errors targeted by
typical commercial proofreading tools do not include those aspects of a
second language that are hardest to learn.  This volume describes the
types of constructions English language learners find most difficult:
constructions containing prepositions, articles, and collocations. It
provides an overview of the automated approaches that have been
developed to identify and correct these and other classes of learner
errors in a number of languages.

Error annotation and system evaluation are particularly important topics
in grammatical error detection because there are no commonly accepted
standards. Chapters in the book describe the options available to
researchers, recommend best practices for reporting results, and present
annotation and evaluation schemes.

The final chapters explore recent innovative work that opens new
directions for research. It is the authors' hope that this volume will
continue to contribute to the growing interest in grammatical error
detection by encouraging researchers to take a closer look at the field
and its many challenging problems.

Table of Contents: Acknowledgments / Introduction / Background / Special
Problems of Language Learners / Evaluating Error Detection Systems /
Data-Driven Approaches to Articles and Prepositions / Collocation Errors
/ Different Errors and Different Approaches / Annotating Learner Errors
/ Emerging Directions / Conclusion / Bibliography / Authors' Biographies

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00562ED1V01Y201401HLT025


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US$40 or local currency equivalent.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 19:17:35 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:17:35 +0200
Subject: Appel: Extension de la date limite, Atelier RLTLN, TALN 2014
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.211735.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 05:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: lih-juang fang <fanglihjuang at yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1398169626.58962.YahooMailNeo at web161201.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
X-url: http://www.taln2014.org/site/
X-url: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/

Atelier "Réseaux Lexicaux et Traitement des Langues Naturelles" - TALN
2014, 1 - 4 juillet


Dates importantes 
* Date limite de soumission : 30 avril 2014 (Extension)

* Notification aux auteurs : 15 mai 2014
* Soumission de la version définitive : 5 juin 2014
* Date de l’atelier : 1er juillet 2014


Pour toute information supplémentaire :

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 18:24:41 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:24:41 +0200
Subject: Livre: Dagan etal, Recognizing Textual Entailment
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.202441.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:52:36 +1000
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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X-url: http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00509ED1V01Y201305HLT023


BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Recognizing Textual Entailment: Models and Applications

by Ido Dagan, Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #23 (Morgan & Claypool
Publishers), 2013, 220 pages

ABSTRACT:

In the last few years, a number of NLP researchers have developed and
participated in the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE).  This
task encapsulates Natural Language Understanding capabilities within a
very simple interface: recognizing when the meaning of a text snippet is
contained in the meaning of a second piece of text.  This simple
abstraction of an exceedingly complex problem has broad appeal partly
because it can be conceived also as a component in other NLP
applications, from Machine Translation to Semantic Search to Information
Extraction. It also avoids commitment to any specific meaning
representation and reasoning framework, broadening its appeal within the
research community. This level of abstraction also facilitates
evaluation, a crucial component of any technological advancement
program.

This book explains the RTE task formulation adopted by the NLP research
community, and gives a clear overview of research in this area. It draws
out commonalities in this research, detailing the intuitions behind
dominant approaches and their theoretical underpinnings.

This book has been written with a wide audience in mind, but is intended
to inform all readers about the state of the art in this fascinating
field, to give a clear understanding of the principles underlying RTE
research to date, and to highlight the short- and long-term research
goals that will advance this technology.

Table of Contents: List of Figures / List of Tables / Preface /
Acknowledgments / Textual Entailment / Architectures and Approaches /
Alignment, Classification, and Learning / Case Studies / Knowledge
Acquisition for Textual Entailment / Research Directions in RTE /
Bibliography / Authors' Biographies

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00509ED1V01Y201305HLT023


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:16:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:16:42 +0200
Subject: Ecole: SSTiC 2014, May 10, 6th registration deadline
Message-ID: <SUN.27.APR.2014.091642.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 21:45:53 +0200
From: "GRLMC" <grlmc at urv.cat>
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X-url: http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/


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

2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/

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

--- May 10, 6th registration deadline ---

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

AIM:

SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the
previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD
students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It
intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse
branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that
purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for
interaction with the audience.

SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6
keynote lectures and 23 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most
lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that
outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal
pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must
hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses,
reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the
description of some of them.

SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other
branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to
listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing
nowadays.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the
whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they
will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be:

Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of
Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in
NP-Completeness

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Top-N Recommender Systems:
Revisiting Item Neighborhood Methods

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of
One Coin

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of
Style

Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable
Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics
Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing

John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory]
Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps

Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The
Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and
Distributed Simulation

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education
Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling
Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming
Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate]
Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image
Processing and Machine Learning

Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization

Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data

Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
[introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning

Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in
Computer Science

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate]
Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher
Performance Handover System Designs

Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models

Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd
Analysis

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web

Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength
Detection for Twitter and the Social Web

Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms

Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus
and Life

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php 

The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template
is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will
be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each
course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will
be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period
will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is
very convenient to register prior to the event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole
(or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to
participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration
deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

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

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSTiC 2014
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:05:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:05:30 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Traces digitales, Adrien Guille, jeudi 22 mai 2014,
 Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee
Message-ID: <SUN.27.APR.2014.090530.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:45:45 +0200
From: Nicolas Turenne <nturenne.inra at yahoo.fr>
Message-ID: <535A58F9.5080700 at yahoo.fr>
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[désolé pour les réceptions multiples]

Chers collègues,

Dans le cadre de la dix-neuvième séance du séminaire 'traces digitales'
du groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Adrien Guille
(PhD, Université Lyon-2) qui nous parlera d'analyse des media sociaux.
Cette matinée aura lieu le jeudi 22 mai de 10h00 à 11h30, dans la grande
salle de réunion de l'Institut des Systemes Complexes ISC PIF (Institut
des Systemes Complexes - Paris Ile de France) 113 rue Nationale 75013,
Paris. Voir
http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html


10h-11h30 Adrien Guille ( PhD Student, Université Lyon-2)

La plateforme SONDY.

Résumé : Dans le cadre de ma thèse je m’intéresse à la fouille des
données issues des médias sociaux, avec un intérêt particulier pour le
phénomène de diffusion de l’information. L’exposé sera consacré à SoNDy
(i.e. Social Network Dynamics), un logiciel open-source que je développe
pour la fouille et l’analyse de ces données. Plus particulièrement, je
me propose de présenter en détail l’un des principaux services du
logiciel, à savoir le service de détection d’évènements/thématiques. La
présentation se déroulera en deux temps : tout d’abord je décrirai les
algorithmes implémentés dans le logiciel, puis j’illustrerai les
capacités de SoNDY à travers l’analyse de grands corpora collectés à
partir de Twitter.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:01:51 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:01:51 +0200
Subject: Appel: COLDOC 2014
Message-ID: <SUN.27.APR.2014.090151.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:31:04 +0200
From: ColDoc 2014 <coldoc2014 at gmail.com>
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COLDOC 11e édition

Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

Nanterre, 13-14 novembre 2014

 Appel à communication – Call for papers

« Les universaux linguistiques à l’épreuve des faits de langue »

« Universality and diversity in the uses of language »

 Le site du colloque : http://coldoc2014.free.fr/

 ----------

Version française (English version below)

COLDOC est le colloque annuel organisé par les doctorants et jeunes
chercheurs en Sciences du Langage du laboratoire MoDyCo (UMR 7114 –
CNRS/Université Paris Ouest Nanterre/Université Paris Descartes).

Cette année, nous nous intéressons à la diversité des langues et de
leurs usages. La variation interlangue nous oblige à constater à la fois
les spécificités des langues et de leurs usages (pragmatique,
sémantique, morpho-syntaxe, phonologie), faisant ainsi émerger la
question des universaux qui vise à décrire la faculté universelle du
langage.

Que devient la théorie de ces universaux face à la pratique des langues ?

Cet appel à contributions se veut ouvert et cherche à confronter
différents points de vue autour de problématiques fortement
pluridisciplinaires. Nous invitons masterants, doctorants et jeunes
chercheurs à venir exposer leurs réflexions sur ce thème à partir de
leur propre pratique et ce quel que soit le degré d’avancement de leur
recherche.

DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : le 25 mai 2014
=========================================================

English version

COLDOC is the annual conference organized by PhD students and junior
researchers in Linguistics from MoDyCo Laboratory (UMR 7114 – CNRS/Paris
Ouest Nanterre University/Paris Descartes University).

This year, we will be focusing on the diversity of languages and of
their uses. The observation of interlingual variations emphasizes the
specificities of both languages and their uses on various levels
(pragmatics, semantics, syntax, phonology) thus questioning linguistic
universals which ambition is to describe the universal faculty of
language.

What happens when the linguistic universals theory is confronted to the
practical use of languages?

This call for contributions is purposely open as it aims at exchanging
ideas from different points of view on issues that are highly
multidisciplinary. Master and PhD students, as well as junior
researchers, are very much welcome to participate and to present their
ideas on this topic based on their own practice, regardless of the
current state of the progress of their research.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 25th May 2014

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:06:53 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:06:53 +0200
Subject: Appel: DMNLP'14,
 Workshop on Interactions between Data Mining and Natural Language
 Processing at ECML/PKDD
Message-ID: <SUN.27.APR.2014.090653.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:04:51 +0200
From: Yannick Toussaint <Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr>
Message-Id: <ECCEDC55-E52D-4E28-B272-597FD7591207 at loria.fr>
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[Apologies for multiple postings]

********************************************************
                 CALL FOR PAPERS

     Workshop on Interactions between Data Mining
        and Natural Language Processing
                  (DMNLP'2014)

             ECML/PKDD 2014 Workshop
      September 15-19, 2014, Nancy, France
             http://dmnlp.loria.fr

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

------
SCOPE
------

On the one hand, in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP),
numerical Machine Learning methods (e.g., SVM, CRF) have been
intensively explored and applied. Despite the good results obtained by
the numerical methods, one major drawback is that they do not provide a
human readable model. A promising direction is the integration of
symbolic knowledge.

On the other hand, research in Data Mining has progressed significantly
in the last decades, through the development of advanced algorithms and
techniques to extract knowledge from data in different forms. In
particular, for two decades Pattern Mining has been one of the most
active field in Knowledge Discovery.

Recently, a new field has emerged taking benefit of both domains: Data
Mining and NLP. The objective of DMNLP is thus to provide a forum to
discuss how Data Mining can be interesting for NLP tasks, providing
symbolic knowledge, but also how NLP can enhance data mining approaches
by providing richer and/or more complex information to mine and by
integrating linguistics knowledge directly in the mining process.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from both communities
in order to stimulate discussions about the cross-fertilization of those
two research fields. The idea of this workshop is to discuss future
directions and new challenges emerging from the cross-fertilization of
Data Mining and NLP and in the same time initiate collaborations between
researchers of both communities.

---------------
CALL FOR PAPERS
---------------

The workshop promotes works where the two following dimensions are
combined in one as symbiosis. The first dimension is Data Mining, for
instance Pattern Mining (itemsets, sequences, trees, graphs, association
rules), classification (decision trees, FCA,...), inductive logic
programming. The second dimension is NLP, for example question/answering
systems, translation, information extraction, linguistic analysis
(lexical analysis, terminology, syntax, semantics, discourse,
stylistics), classification, knowledge extraction/ontology building from
texts, information retrieval, corpus annotation, social/opinion mining.

A list of non-exhaustive topics that fit the scope of the workshop is
thus:

- Pattern discovery for NLP
- Constraint-based pattern mining in text
- Data mining query languages for expressing NLP tasks
- Data representation (sequence, tree, graphs) for NLP
- Modelization of text for data mining
- Relationships between data mining and NLP
- Modeling and visualizing data mining results on text
- Integrating NLP characteristics in data mining
- Data mining approaches for linguistic knowledge building
- Knowledge discovery for linguistic analysis (e.g. stylistic,
  socio-linguistics,...)
- Linguistically-informed text representations for Data Mining


------------------
SUBMISSION FORMAT
------------------

Our main goal is to stimulate discussions, collaborations and the
sharing of experiences.
In that respect, we would have three submission types:

* unpublished works (max 16 pages, double submissions allowed)
* short papers and vision statements (max 8 pages)
* recently published works (special oral-only track, no page limits)

For more details on submission, see the DMNLP webpage at
http://dmnlp.loria.fr


-----------------
IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------

* Deadline for submissions: Friday, June 20, 2014
* Author notification: Friday, July 11, 2014
* Final version: Tuesday July 22, 2014
* Workshop date: Monday September 15 or 19, 2014


--------------
ORGANIZATION
--------------

* Peggy Cellier, INSA Rennes, IRISA, Rennes, France
* Thierry Charnois, Université de Paris 13, LIPN, France
* Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
* Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada
* Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
* Yannick Toussaint, INRIA, LORIA, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France


-------------------
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-------------------

* Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany
* Delphine Battistelli, MoDyCo-Université Paris Ouest, France
* Yves Bestgen, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
* Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Germany
* Bruno Cremilleux, Université de Caen, France
* Beatrice, Daille, LINA, France
* Yves Lepage, Waseda University, Japan
* Francois Jacquenet, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint-Etienne, France
* Jiri Klema, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
* Amedeo Napoli, LORIA Nancy, France
* Adeline Nazarenko, Université de Paris 13, LIPN, France
* Claire Nédellec, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, France
* Pascal Poncelet, LIRMM Montpellier, France
* Maria Teresa Pazienza, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
* Stephen Poteet, Boeing, USA
* Solen Quiniou, LINA-Université de Nantes, France
* Mathieu Roche, TETIS, Montpellier, France
* Arnaud Soulet, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
* Steffen, Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
* Koichi Takeuchi, Okayama University, Japan
* Isabelle Tellier, Lattice, Paris, France
* Johanna Völker, University of Mannheim, Germany
* Xifeng Yan, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
* Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:11:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:11:12 +0200
Subject: Job: Post-doctoral position, Visual Analytics,
 University of Montpellier 2, France
Message-ID: <SUN.27.APR.2014.091112.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:19:59 +0200
From: Mathieu Roche <mathieu.roche at lirmm.fr>
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============
Post-doctoral position in Visual Analytics 
============

Location: LIRMM Lab (http://www.lirmm.fr/lirmm_eng/contact-us),
Montpellier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpellier), France

Title: Visual Analytics for heterogeneous text streams.

Abstract: 
The heterogeneity of data is an important issue in Big Data area. Data
is not only large in volume and produced at a high speed (velocity), but
also holds many kinds of input (technical heterogeneity), structures
(data model heterogeneity), and meanings (semantic heterogeneity). We
would like to recruit a postdoctoral researcher for one year to address
this specific issue from a visual analytics approach.

Context:
A lot of documents (web pages, scientific publications, reports, and so
forth) contain much useful information. Mining heterogeneous data,
according to their structure and to their content, becomes a major issue
in data mining area. A key problem consists of sharing these various
data and/or information and integrating them in order to discover new
knowledge. In addition, microbloggings contain crucial information to
take into account in a global system that mines heterogeneous data. For
instance, people participating in on-line forums, microblogging or
discussing on social networks leave behind them digital traces of
information on a variety of topics. The analysis of individual messages
and their aggregation represent a considerable challenge for currently
existing methods, as user-written texts present a special type of stream
setting. In this project we plan to investigate the epidemiology issue
of farmed animals in collaboration with UMR CMAEE. The aim is to detect
weak signals concerning the beginning of epidemics (e.g., African swine
fever, foot and mouth disease, bluetongue, avian influenza).

Description: 
Visual exploration of textual data is an active area of research. Most
of the methods proposed deal with static texts like discourses, books
or, more generally, string data. Most of these methods require
well-formatted data and are not adapted to streams and/or heterogeneous
data. The candidate will be in charge of discovering efficient text
mining techniques for extracting structured data, and designing visual
interfaces to interact with these structures and explore the
data. He/She will process following the steps of the Munzner’s nested
model for visualization design. (1) Domain problem characterization: the
candidate will learn about the tasks and the data of the target domain
(2) Data/operation abstraction design: he/she will design the text
mining techniques that transform the raw data into the data types that
visualization techniques can address. (3) Encoding/interaction technique
design: he/she will design the visual encodings and interactions. (4)
Algorithm Design: he/she will create algorithms to carry out the visual
encodings and interactions designs automatically. The candidate will
also be in charge of organizing the validation process included in the
Munzner’s model.

Qualifications:
- A PhD degree in Computer Science on the domain of Information
  Visualization or Visual Analytics with interest in Text Mining.
- An excellent publication record, including papers in high-impact
  journals and conference proceedings.
- Strong experience in programming languages.
- Knowledge of visualization libraries (e.g. D3, GraphViz, ...) is an
  asset. 
- Must be proficient in English.

Supervision:
- The project will be formally jointly supervised by Dr. Arnaud
  Sallaberry at LIRMM (http://www.lirmm.fr/~sallaberry/) and Dr. Mathieu
  Roche at TETIS (http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche).

Starting date:
- September/October 2014 (some flexibility is possible)

Conditions of employment:
- Net salary: ~ 2200 euros / month
- Interested candidates are requested to send an application by e-mail
  to Dr. Arnaud Sallaberry (arnaud.sallaberry at lirmm.fr) and Dr. Mathieu
  Roche (mathieu.roche at cirad.fr) with the subject field: 'LABEX:
  Post-Doc visualization position'.
- The application should consist of a motivation letter and a curriculum
  vitae with a list of publications and description of any previous
  research. Furthermore, names and contact information for three
  references are required (with two letters of recommendation).
- Applications will be reviewed immediately and the review process will
  continue until the position is filled.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:17:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:17:10 +0200
Subject: Appel: Ateliers de formation au logiciel TXM (textometrie), 22 et
 23 mai 2014, Lyon
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:58:41 +0200
From: Serge Heiden <slh at ens-lyon.fr>
Message-ID: <5358E051.10101 at ens-lyon.fr>
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Bonjour,

Le logiciel open-source de textométrie TXM permet l'analyse documentaire
(qualitative) et statistique (quantitative) de données textuelles (dont
l'oral transcrit), pour des corpus de recherche personnels ou pour la
mise en ligne de corpus : http://textometrie.ens-lyon.fr

Les prochains ateliers de formation au logiciel TXM auront lieu à Lyon,
à l'ENS site Descartes, les journées suivantes (9h/9h30-17h30/18h) :
- jeudi 22 mai : Initiation à TXM ;
- vendredi 23 mai : Préparation de corpus et import dans TXM.

Un atelier "TXM avancé" pourra également être organisé si nous pouvons
réunir un petit groupe d'utilisateurs expérimentés (faisant déjà des
analyses avec TXM sur leurs données).

Si vous êtes intéressé(e) par l'une de ces séances, il faut nous
adresser une demande d'inscription en complétant le formulaire suivant :
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uvwnLXeaEExdrDX7gaZUAPz_wGCTGP7MN0vZcZoss8A/viewform?usp=send_form
(cette démarche est nécessaire même si vous aviez répondu à la
consultation Doodle.)

Si vous n'avez pas le temps de participer, vous pouvez toujours vous
rabattre sur les vidéos de l'atelier d'initiation :
http://txm.sourceforge.net/enregistrement_atelier_initiation_TXM_fr.html

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

Au plaisir de vous retrouver peut-être à l'une de ces journées,

Serge Heiden, pour l'équipe TXM.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:25:51 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:25:51 +0200
Subject: Appel: revue TAL - Note de lecture (GOSSELIN)
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.212551.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:03:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: Denis Maurel <denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr>
Message-ID: <1668097262.4236213.1396278194385.JavaMail.zimbra at univ-tours.fr>


La revue TAL publie r?guli?rement des notes de lecture. 

Nous recherchons un coll?gue souhaitant lire le livre: 

"Laurent GOSSELIN, Yann MATHET, Patrice ENJALBERT, G?rard
BECHER. Aspects de l?it?ration. L'expression de la r?p?tition en
fran?ais : analyse linguistique et formalisation. Peter Lang. 2013. 372
pages."

et pr?t ? en faire un compte-rendu pour la revue TAL (cet ouvrage sera
envoy? gracieusement en ?change du service rendu).

Cette note de lecture doit ?tre r?dig?e en fran?ais (trois pages 
maximum, au format de la revue) et envoy?e fin juin 2014. 

D'autres compte-rendu sont possibles si vous avez lu r?cemment un 
ouvrage qui vous a int?ress? et si vous ?tes pr?t ? partager votre 
lecture avec la communaut?... 


Denis Maurel 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:45:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:45:22 +0200
Subject: Stage: 2 Traineeship positions at the EC's 'Joint Research
 Centre' (JRC), Terminology discovery
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.214522.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:59:52 +0200
From: Guillaume Jacquet <guillaume.jacquet at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <533A63E8.8090606 at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
X-url: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR
X-url: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?type=T&id=2242


The European Commission?s Joint Research Centre (JRC) is looking to fill
*two traineeship positions* in the field of:

*Terminology discovery over time in the field of disaster risk
 management.*

If you are interested, please follow the instructions provided at
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR (*Code:
2014-IPR-G-000-2974 - ISPRA*).

Generic URL: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR

Job description (Updated):
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?type=T&id=2242

Traineeship rules:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/downloads/jrc_trainee_rules_en.pdf

Conditions/eligibility: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=5860

Starting date:around September 2014

Duration: 5 months each

Remuneration: Up to approximately 1000 Euro per month.

The JRC-EMM team: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=179

The EMM applications: http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html

JRC-EMM Publications: http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html

_DESSCRIPTION OF THE FORESEEN ACTIVITY:_

The /Europe Media Monitor/ (EMM) group at the European Commission?s
/Joint Research Centre/ (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, is looking for two
trainees to work on a project to automatically explore the development
of terminology in the field of ?Disaster Risk Management? (DRM). The
purpose is to give the international stakeholders in that field (e.g.
the /United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction/ UN-ISDR)
concrete and countable evidence of new concepts (terms) emerging in
their field, of changing concepts and of shifts in interest over time.
The study will include both scientific publications and texts produced
by national and international governmental organisations working in that
field.

This first exploratory study will exclusively concern English language
text in the field of /Disaster Risk Management/, but other languages and
subject areas will be considered in case the outcome of this exploratory
study is deemed concrete and useful. This work may lead to a scientific
publication co-authored by the project contributors.

A scenario to reach this goal of terminology discovery might consist of
the following steps:

(1) Manual or semi-automatic selection and collection of freely
    available documents covering the sub-areas of the life cycle of
    Disaster Risk Management (Prevention and mitigation; Preparedness;
    Response; Recovery and reconstruction);

(2) Conversion of the various file formats (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS-Word)
    into a structured text format (e.g. XML);

(3) Selection of suitable off-the-shelf software for the automatic
    extraction of terms (e.g. noun phrases);

(4) Usage of this software and, if needed, tuning of this software to
    extract lists of potential terms;

(5) Application of statistical methods to select the domain-specific
    terms and to weigh or rank them;

(6) Application of statistical methods that allow to observe trends such
    as the detection of terms that are more frequently or more rarely
    used compared to previous observation periods;

(7) Presentation of the results (term lists, trends) in an
    easy-to-understand manner; This may also include a
    keyword-in-context presentation of the terms, or similar.

The foreseen traineeship duration is five months, starting around 1
September 2014. The working language in the EMM team is English.

_REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:_

The task is foreseen to be carried out jointly by two trainees who, in
combination, possess the skills or satisfy the criteria listed below.
The combination of a more linguistically inclined person and a
programmer could be fruitful.

- Mature student or post-graduate in any of the following fields (or
  similar): computational linguistics, computer science, library
  sciences, machine learning;

- Knowledge of ? and experience with ? freely available Language
  Technology tools (e.g. for terminology extraction, term weighting,
  categorisation);

- Experience with document format conversion (PDF, HTML, MS-Word etc. to
  text);

- Sufficient programming experience to autonomously implement all
  necessary steps (Java preferred);

- Knowledge of statistical methods for term weighing (e.g. chi-square,
  TF.IDF) and for automatic categorisation;

- Linguistic sensitivity and an interest for terminology extraction
  (what is a term?; relationships between terms);

- Ability to present the project outcome in a format suitable for DRM
  specialists who may not be so knowledgeable of Information Technology
  (presentation; reporting; visualisation?).

- Ability to work autonomously;

- Team worker;

- Good working knowledge of English plus the ability to communicate in
  at least one other official EU language.

In your application, please state your interests and please provide
clear information on your skill set, by elaborating on the
above-mentioned list. Should you apply as a ready-made team, please
nevertheless clearly state your personal skills and strengths.

_THE JRC TEAM:_

The /Joint Research Centre/ (JRC; http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/) is the
scientific-technical arm of the European Commission. The approximately
2200 JRC employees working in Ispra are from all EU countries and there
are also some non-EU visitors. The working environment is multilingual,
multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary. The JRC?s /Europe Media Monitor/
(EMM) team (http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=179) carries out research
and development in the field of text mining (Language Technology;
Computational Linguistics) for the purposes of media monitoring. EMM
gathers an average of almost 200,000 online news articles per day in
over 70 languages and analyses them to help its large international user
community understand and use this enormous amount of media information.
EMM is publicly accessible via http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html.
The JRC is also known for having distributed large quantities of
parallel linguistic resources <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=61>,
including JRC-Acquis, DGT-Acquis, JRC-Names, the Translation Memories
DGT-TM, ECDC-TM and EAC-TM <http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=61>, and
more.

* Ralf Steinberger (http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/RS.html)

* European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) 21027 Ispra (VA),
  Italy

URL ? Applications: http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html

URL ? Resources: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=61

URL ? Publications: http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:29:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:29:26 +0200
Subject: Job: CDI ingenieur, Extraction d'informations marketing, Kware
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:52:21 +0200
From: Fr?d?ric Duvert <frederic.duvert at ismart.fr>
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Kware est une jeune entreprise innovante, sp?cialis?e dans l'?tude et
l'extraction d'informations marketing. Dans le cadre de la finalisation
de notre produit, nous recrutons un jeune docteur en informatique.

*Poste* : CDI ing?nieur en recherche appliqu?e (H/F)

*Dipl?me* : docteur en informatique (section 27)

*Domaine* : recherche d'informations, extraction d'informations,
apprentissage automatique

*Exp?rience* : exp?rience industrielle souhait?e (th?se cifre), mais non
requise, bonne exp?rience scientifique (publications nationales et
internationales).

*Missions* :

L'ing?nieur sera int?gr? au sein d'une ?quipe de 10 personnes.

Dans ce contexte, l'ing?nieur se verra attribuer les missions suivantes :
Industrialisation des algorithmes,
Tests et ?valuation,
Participation ? l'int?gration,

*Profil* : De formation Bac + 8 (titulaire d'un doctorat en
informatique), sp?cialis? en traitement du langage, recherche
d'informations ou extraction d'informations.

Vous ?tes motiv?s par la recherche appliqu?e, l'industrialisation des
algorithmes et la r?alisation d'un produit industriel innovant.

Vous disposez dans l'id?al de connaissances compl?mentaires en m?thodes
d'apprentissage automatique.

Vos connaissances en programmation (JAVA) ainsi que vos qualit?s
r?dactionnelles seront vos atouts pour r?ussir dans vos missions.

*Lieu* : Aix en Provence

*Candidature *: adresser votre candidature par mail avec votre CV en
pi?ce jointe ? frederic.duvert at kware.fr copie ? michel.benoit at kware.fr
avec pour sujet (imp?ratif) :
[poste doc Kware] votre nom

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:03:32 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:03:32 +0200
Subject: Ecole: SSTiC 2014, April 12, 5th registration deadline
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.210332.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:09:35 +0100
From: "GRLMC" <grlmc at urv.cat>
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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/

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--- April 12, 5th registration deadline ---

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AIM:

SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the
previous event, see  http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD
students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It
intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse
branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that
purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for
interaction with the audience.

SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6
keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most
lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that
outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal
pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must
hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses,
reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the
description of some of them.

SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other
branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to
listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing
nowadays.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the
whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they
will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be:

Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of
Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in
NP-Completeness

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past,
Present, & Future

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of
One Coin

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of
Style

Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable
Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics
Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing

John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory]
Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps

Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The
Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and
Distributed Simulation

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education
Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling
Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming
Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate]
Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image
Processing and Machine Learning

Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization

Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data

Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
[introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning

Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in
Computer Science

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate]
Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher
Performance Handover System Designs

Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design
for Test of Digital Logic Circuits

Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models

Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd
Analysis

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web

Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength
Detection for Twitter and the Social Web

Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms

Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus
and Life

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php 

The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template
is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will
be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each
course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will
be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period
will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is
very convenient to register prior to the event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole
(or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to
participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration
deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

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

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSTiC 2014
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:08:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:08:18 +0200
Subject: Ressource: Dictionnaire analytique de la mondialisation et du
 travail
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.210818.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:18:06 +0100
From: Fidelia Ibekwe <fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-lyon3.fr>
Message-ID: <53370E5E.6070809 at univ-lyon3.fr>
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------------------ ENGLISH VERSION BELOW--------------

Le DAMT est en ligne!

Chers amis et coll?gues,

Le Dictionnaire analytique de la mondialisation et du travail, r?alis? ?
l?Universit? de Montr?al, est maintenant en ligne!

Voici le lien : http://www.crimt.org/damt.html ou
http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/

Le DAMT est un outil de r?f?rence pour la traduction ou les recherches
ponctuelles dans les domaines de l??conomie, de la mondialisation et des
droits de l?homme. Sa structure de th?saurus permet l?exploitation des
relations s?mantiques. On peut obtenir ainsi les termes associ?s ? tout
autre terme (ex. : les termes reli?s ? R?gulation sociale) ou la liste
de toutes les relations pour l?ensemble du dictionnaire (ex. : toutes
les relations gener-spec, part-tot, acteur-action).

Le DAMT peut ?tre consult? en anglais, fran?ais ou espagnol, en
choisissant la langue en haut ? droite.

De nombreux th?mes sont trait?s comme le montrent ces exemples
d?articles : Entreprise multinationale
(http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=1816), R?gulation sociale
(http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=4603), Cha?ne de valeur
mondiale (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=696), Travailleur
migrant (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=5906), Commerce
?thique (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=878), Main-d??uvre
enfantine (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=3299).

N?h?sitez pas ? transf?rer ce message ? vos contacts. Nous avons aussi
pr?vu la diffusion sur les r?seaux sociaux. On peut utiliser les boutons
de partage de la page d?accueil ou d?une fiche en particulier.

Merci de votre aide et meilleures amiti?s,

Jeanne Dancette

------------------------------
Our globalization and labour dictionary the DAMT is online!

Dear friends and colleagues,

The Analytical Dictionary of Globalization and Labour, created at the
University of Montreal, is online!

Here?s the link: http://www.crimt.org/damt.html or
http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/

The DAMT is a reference to be used for translation and punctual research
in the economy, globalization and human rights fields. Its thesaurus
format allows users to search by semantic relations existing among terms
(for example, users can explore terms related to SOCIAL REGULATION). It
is also possible to explore a list of all the terms grouped into a
relations category (for example, all the GENER-SPEC, PART-TOT or
ACTOR-ACTION relations).

The DAMT can be perused in English, French or Spanish. Just choose the
language in the upper right hand corner.

You will find articles covering different topics, such as: Multinational
enterprise (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=3663), Social
regulation (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=5013), Global
value chain (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=2427), Migrant
worker (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=3487), Ethical
trading (http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=1895), Child labour
(http://zedamt.herokuapp.com/recherche2/?id=718).

Please feel free to share this message with any of your contacts who
might be interested in the dictionary!

You can use social media to share the site or individual articles.

Thanks for all your help!

Best regards,

Jeanne Dancette

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:23:35 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:23:35 +0200
Subject: Stage: Online semantic relations extraction from linguistic and
 statistic patterns, Idexlab
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.212335.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:06:46 +0200
From: Nouha Omrane <nouha at idexlab.com>
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*Title*: Online semantic relations extraction from linguistic and
statistic patterns

*Context*: The company ideXlab implements the process that is dedicated
to the open innovation domain in order to connect experts and companies
to easy establishing collaboration between them. The aim of such
collaboration is to bring solutions to technical challenges.

For more information please check : www.idexlab.com

*Subject*: The student will analyze the extracted data from the
scientific papers and identify the linguistic patterns that describe
semantic relationship between a given query and the suggested keywords
obtained from the expert search tool. From this study, the student will
propose a semantic relation extraction approach that fits with the kind
of the used data and takes into account the constraints related to the
expert search tool performance. More specifically, it he/she propose an
implementation of the semantic relations extraction between a query and
other terms by applying the patterns, identified in the first phase, on
the content of scientific papers.


*Profil*: The desired profile is a student in a second year of Master or
Engineering school having skills on Natural Language Processing and
Information Retrieval

*Skills*:

Languages: C#, C++

Period: 6 months from May 1 2014.

*Location*: ideXlab, Immeuble Berlier - Halle B, 15, rue Jean-Baptiste
Berlier 75013 PARIS

Send CV and motivation letter  to:

- Pierre Bonnard : pierre.bonnard at idexlab.com
- Nouha Omrane : nouha at idexlab.com

*Titre* : Extraction online des relations s?mantiques ? partir de
patrons linguistiques et statistiques

*Contexte* : La soci?t? ideXlab travaille dans le domaine de
l'innovation ouverte. Elle propose un service d'interm?diation entre
experts et entreprises qui permet d'initier une collaboration entre ces
partenaires dans le but d'apporter des solutions ? des probl?matiques
identifi?es.


Pour plus d'information sur l'activit? : www.idexlab.com

*Mission* : Le stagiaire aura ? analyser les donn?es extraites ? partir
des publications scientifiques et ? identifier les patrons linguistiques
qui d?crivent des relations s?mantiques entre une requ?te donn?e et des
mots cl?s sugg?r?s par l'outil de recherche d'experts. A partir de cette
?tude, l'?tudiant aura ? proposer une approche d'extraction de relations
s?mantiques adapt?e aux types de donn?es manipul?es et aux contraintes
li?es ? la performance de l'outil de recherche d'experts. Plus
pr?cis?ment, il aura ? proposer une impl?mentation pour l'extractionde
relations s?mantiques entre une requ?te et des d'autres termes ? partir
de l'application des patrons identifi?s dans la premi?re phase sur le
contenu des papiers scientifiques.

*Profil* : Le profil recherch? est un ?tudiant en 2?me ann?e de Master
ou d'?cole d'ing?nieur ayant des connaissances en Traitement Automatique
de la Langue et Extraction d'Information.

*Comp?tences recherch?es* :

Langages de programmation : C#, C++

Dur?e : 6 mois, ? partir de 1 Mai 2014



*Adresse du stage* : ideXlab, Immeuble Berlier - Halle B, 15, rue
Jean-Baptiste Berlier 75013 PARIS


Veuillez adresser votre candidature (CV + lettre de motivation) ? :

- Pierre Bonnard : pierre.bonnard at idexlab.com
- Nouha Omrane : nouha at idexlab.com

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:21:46 +0200
Subject: Appel: #di2014, Digital Intelligence
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.212146.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:27:39 +0200
From: Frederic Benhamou & Milad Doueihi -  #di2014 Co-Chairs <pc-chairs at di2014.org>
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============== #di2014 | CALL FOR PAPERS =============

CALL FOR PAPERS ? #di2014
International Conference on Digital Intelligence
Sept. 17-19, 2014 - Nantes, France
www.di2014.org - @DIConf2014


Digital Intelligence 2014 (#di2014) is a new international scientific
and interdisciplinary conference dedicated to digital society and
cultures. The challenge is to bring together researchers from various
disciplines (ICT, humanities, biology & health...) in order to discuss
and contribute to shape a new scientific and cultural paradigm.

#di2014 will be jointly organized with Scopitone, the main French
Festival on digital arts and electronic music (Scopitone 2014,
Sept. 16-21, 2014).

The program will be built around four main components: plenary invited
talks, contributed talks in parallel sessions, artistic sessions,
performances and works shared with the Scopitone festival and finally
sessions and events related to the (real) economy of digital cultures.

Program co-chairs: Milad Doueihi (Canada) & Fr?d?ric Benhamou (France)
Conference co-chairs: Francky Trichet, Universit? de Nantes (France) &
St?phane Roche, Universit? Laval (Canada)

--------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------------------

- Serge Abiteboul, Acad?mie des Sciences / INRIA / Coll?ge de France,
  France

- G?rard Berry, Acad?mie des Sciences / INRIA / Coll?ge de France,
  France

- Caterina Fake, Co-Founder of Flickr, Findery & Hunch, USA

- Bruno Latour, MediaLab, Science Po, France

- Carlo Ratti, MIT Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of
  Technology, USA

- Jeffrey Schnapp, MetaLAB, Harvard University, USA


--------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------

- Submission deadline: April 30, 2014

- Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 16, 2014

- Conference: Sept. 17-19, 2014


---------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------

Papers should be submitted online using this form:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=di2014

Papers should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should be submitted
in PDF format.

The submitted papers (technical or position papers, surveys) must be
unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere.


------------------------------ TOPICS ----------------------------------

Main areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Art & Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Digital Art, IT for
  cultural, natural and scientific Heritage, In-museum Innovative
  Technology and uses

- Data: Big Data, Open Data, Linked Data, Data Journalism, Data
  Visualization

- Digital Organizations: Applications of new technologies to e-Business
  and e-Administration, e-Commerce, e-Marketing, m-Commerce,
  m-Marketing, Organizational and management issues

- Social Web: Social Network Analysis, Communities of practice /
  interest in social media and mobile devices, Collective intelligence,
  Collaborative production and Social Computing, Knowledge Ecosystems,
  Digital Ecosystems, Economics and social innovation on Digital
  Ecosystems

- Digital Identity: e-reputation (human, product, enterprise,
  government, etc.), Digital traces and memories, Privacy, Trust,
  Security and Personal Data Management Systems, Human factors (culture,
  affect, motivation, cognition) and user centered design in digital
  technology

- e-Learning: Social impact and cultural issues in e-Learning, Policy
  and organizational issues in e-Learning, e-Universities, e-Schools,
  e-Learning technologies and tools, e-Learning standards (Open Course
  Ware, Open Access), open e-Learning : OER, MOOCs, virtual mobility

- Green Digital Economy: Green computing, IT for Sustainability, Smart
  Cities and Homes

- Digital Trends and Emerging Practices: Cloud Computing, Emotional
  Computing, Serious Games, Makers, FabLabs, MediaLabs, LivingLabs,
  ArtLab, innovative Digital Solution in Health, Tourism, Internet of
  Things, Digital Addiction Studies

- Human-Robot Interaction: Ethical and social issues of HRI,
  Bio-inspired robotics, Humanoid robotics, Socially intelligent robots,
  assistive (health & personal care) robotics, Transhumanism

- Human-Computer Interaction: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality,
  Design, User Experience and Usability

- Digital humanities: Philosophy of the Web, Digital Literature, Digital
  Literacy


--------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (CURRENT LIST) -----------------

Area chairs:

- Data: Serge Abiteboul, Acad?mie des Sciences / Coll?ge de France /
  INRIA, France

- The Commons: Philippe Aigrain, La Quadrature du Net / Sopinspace,
  France

- Human robot interaction: Yuichiro Anzai, Department of Computer
  Science, Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences / Keio University,
  Japan

- Digital literacy: G?rard Berry, Chair in Algorithms, Machines and
  Languages, French Acad?mie des Sciences / Coll?ge de France / INRIA,
  France

- Digital literature: Alexandre Gefen, Centre d'?tude de la Litt?rature
  Fran?aise, Universit? Paris-Sorbonne ? Paris 4, France

- Social web: Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France

- e-learning: Rory McGreal, UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in
  Open Educational Resources, Athabasca University, Canada

- Art & culturally aware information technology: Ryohei Nakatsu,
  Interactive & Digital Media Institute, National University of
  Singapore, Singapore

- Smart cities: St?phane Roche, Department of Geomatics, Universit?
  Laval - Qu?bec, Canada

- Digital humanities: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, MetaLAB, Harvard University,
  USA

- Security, privacy & digital identity: Pascal Van Hentenryck,
  Australian National University / NICTA, Australia


PC members:

- Reda S. Alhajj, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary,
  Canada
- G?rard Assayag, STMS Lab - Sciences & Technologies Musique & Son,
  IRCAM, France
- Francis Bach, Computer Science Laboratory, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure /
  INRIA, France
- Christine Balagu?, Chair Marketing and Social Networks, Institut
  Mines-Telecom, France
- Fran?ois Bancilhon, Data publica, France
- Christoph Bartneck, Human Interface Laboratory, Canterbury University,
  Australia
- David Bates, Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California -
  Berkeley, USA
- Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Computer Sciences Laboratory, Universit? Paris
  Sud, France
- Ben Brabon, Department of English and History, Edge Hill University,
  UK
- Patrick Y.K. Chau, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong,
  Hong Kong
- Jozef Colpaert, Director R&D of Language Institute Linguapolis,
  Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
- Colin de la Highera, LINA- Nantes Atlantic Computer Science
  laboratory, Universit? de Nantes, France
- Sir John Daniel, Open and Distance Learning, UK
- Manuel Fernandez, Human Scale City, Spain
- Patrick Gallinari, LIP6 - Computer Sciences Laboratory, Universit?
  Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Krishna Gummadi, Networked Systems Research Group, Max Planck
  Institute for Software Systems, Germany
- Lynda Hardman, Information Access research group, Centrum Wiskunde &
  Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands.
- Joaquin Huerta, Department of Computer Languages and Systems,
  Universidad Jaume I de Castell?n, Spain
- Erkki Huhtamo, Department of Design Media Arts, University of
  California, Los Angeles, USA
- Michita Imai, Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Japan
- Sirkka Jarvenpaa, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas
  at Austin, USA
- Florian Kerschbaum, SAP, Germany
- Marie-No?lle Lamy, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open
  university, UK,
- George Legrady, Experimental Visualization Lab, University of
  California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Dominique Lestel, Department of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure,
  France
- Manuel Lima, Parsons School of Design / Founder of
  VisualComplexity.com, USA
- Am?lie Marian, Computer Science Department, Rotgers University, USA
- Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Research, USA
- Carlos Moreno, Groupe GDF-SUEZ, France
- Neil Morris, Digital learning team, University of Leeds, UK
- Mir Mostafavi J., Department of Geomatics, Universit? Laval - Qu?bec,
  Canada
- Beniamino Murgante, School of Engineering, University of Basilicata,
  Italy
- Liam Murray, School of Languages, Literature, Culture and
  Communication, University of Limerick, Ireland
- Frank Nack, Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam
  (UvA),The Netherlands
- Enrico Nardelli, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Roma "Tor
  Vergata", Italy
- Nicola Nova, Research Institute of Art and Design, Gen?ve / Near
  Future Laboratory, Switzerland
- Fran?ois Pachet, Computer Science Laboratory, SONY, Paris, France
- John Savage, Computer Science Department, Brown University, USA
- Fran?oise Souli?, KXEN, France
- Bernard Stiegler, Ars Industrialis, Centre Pompidou, France
- Steve Tadelis, eBay research Lab, eBay / University of California -
  Berkeley, USA
- Naoko Tosa, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto
  University, Japan
- Tien-Tsin Wong, department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chinese
  University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK


--------------------------- PROCEEDINGS --------------------------------

The accepted papers will be included in the electronic conference
proceedings.

Authors of selected conference papers will be invited to submit an
extended version of their work to scientific journals or a compilation
volume of articles.


---------------------------- NANTES DIGITAL WEEK -----------------------

#di2014 is at the heart of the Nantes Digital Week (Sept. 13-21, 2014)
which brings together conferences, workshops, demonstrations,
performances and concerts related to Art, Science and Economy.

At once festive, innovative and hybrid, Nantes Digital Week appeal to a
wide audience and will be organized around major events: Startup
Weekend, Scopitone festival on Digital Art and Electronic Cultures,
FabLab Day, Robotic Day, etc.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  1 19:39:04 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:39:04 +0200
Subject: Appel: 14th International Symposium on Social Communication,
 Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 2015
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.213904.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:49:57 -0500
From: "Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares" <leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu>
Message-ID: <5335B645.6090806 at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu>
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Dear colleague,

Please, find enclosed the announcement of the
14th International Symposium on Social Communication.

It will be a pleasure to welcome you in Santiago de Cuba.

Yours sincerely,


Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares
President Organizing Committee
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Web site of our International Symposiums on Social Communication:

http://www.santiago.cu/hosting/linguistica/index.php?id=en (Getting
up-to-date)


Web site of the Centre for Applied Linguistics:

http://www.linguistica.santiago.cu/inicio


Web site of our Basic School Dictionary:

http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/dbe/index.html

*****

[To spread, please, thank you.
Apologies if you receive this
announcement more than once.]

FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JANUARY 19-23, 2015
(Dedicated to the 500 years of the foundation of the Santiago de Cuba's
city)

The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba?s branch of
the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to
announce the Fourteenth International Symposium on Social
Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba, January 19
through the 23, 2015 and in this occasion will be dedicated to the 500
years of the foundation of the Santiago de Cuba's city. This
interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes
from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics,
Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore.

In the context of the XIV Symposium, will be held also the Workshop
"Resources and tools of the Spanish and Portuguese languages and his
variants in Latin America" sponsored by the Centre for Applied
Linguistics and the Spanish Association on Natural Language Processing
(SEPLN). The aims of the workshop are to know the new tools on NLP
developed in the Spanish-speaking countries and Portuguese of Latin
America and to know about Linguistic studies on Latin-America where
NLP's instruments are applied.

The Symposium will be also sponsored by:

- University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

- Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

- Provincial Branch of Writers and Artists Association of Santiago de
  Cuba, Cuba

- University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands

- Basque Country University, Spain

- Semantic Technology Institute (STI), University of Innsbruck
  Innsbruck, Austria

- Centre of Lexicography Aarhus University, Denmark

- University of W?rzburg W?rzburg, Germany

- Centre Tesni?re Universit? de Franche-Comt? Besan?on, France

- Spanish Association on Natural Language Processing (SEPLN)

- Magister on Latinoamerican Studies University of La Serena La Serena,
  Chile

- Latino Education and Advocacy Days Organization California State
  University San Bernardino, USA

Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the
following disciplines:

1- Linguistics:

- Applied Linguistics

- Phonetics and Phonology

- Lexicology and Lexicography

- Quantitative Linguistics

- Morphology and Syntax

- Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics

- Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics

- Sociolinguistics

- Spanish and foreign language teaching

- Spanish as a second language

- Terminology

- Translations

- Linguistics Rights

- Linguistics Policy

2- Computational Linguistics:

- Software related to linguistics research

- Automated grammatical tagging of texts

- Electronic dictionaries

- Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign
  languages

- Information extraction and its applications

- Speech recognition and synthesis

- Related issues

3- Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social
   Communication in general:

- Logopedy and Phoniatry

- Neurology

- Otorhinolaryngology

- Stomatology

4- Mass Media:

- Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and
  radio and television announcers

- Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and
  electronic media articles

5- Art, Ethnology and Folklore:

- Research related to Social Communication

Activities that will take place within the event are:

- Pre-Symposium seminars

- Discussion of papers in commissions

- Keynote speeches

- Books presentation

- Cultural activities

PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS

The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by
prestigious specialists- The seminars will take place Monday, January
19th, 2015.

The courses are the following:

"Modelling language"
Prof- Dr- Sylviane Cardey
Centre Tesni?re
Universit? de Franche-Comt?
Besan?on, France

"Automatic learning for the NLP.  Two practical cases: the resolution of
the correferencia and tagging of semantic roles"
Dr- Olatz Arregi Uriarte
IXA Group- Basque Country University
Basque Country, Spain

Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want
to take part in- An additional fee of 25.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos
(CUC) will be charged for each seminar- Participation certificates will
be available.

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

During the symposium several keynote speeches will be delivered- Until
now are confirmed:

Prof- Dr- Nancy Morejon
Director
Cuban Academy of Language
Havana, Cuba

"Before words emerge: Findings, Insights and Future Directions from
Thirty Years of Infant Research"
Prof- Dr- Kathleen Wermke
W?rzburg University
W?rzburg, Germany

"Incongruity Humor in Language and Beyond"
Prof- Dr- Anton Nijholt
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

"Successful on-line communication of touristic service providers"
Prof- Dr- Dieter Fensel
Semantic Technology Institute (STI)
University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria

"State of the Art on Corpus Linguistics in Europe"
Prof- Dr- Ann Bertels
University of Leuven - KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

The deadline of submission of papers is August 1st, 2014- The papers
should not exceed 5 pages- Notification of acceptance of a paper by the
Symposium?s Scientific Committee will be sent before August 31st, 2014.

PAPERS

To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of
the Symposium?s documentation -as we did since 1997-, accepted papers
must be sent before September 15, 2014 if the Scientific Committee had
done some observations.

Requirements for papers:

1- The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and
   bibliography.

2- It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent
   to the Symposium?s Executive Secretary via e-mail as attached file.

3- Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and
   bottom margin of 2.5 cm.

4- The paper must be written in one of the event?s official languages:
   Spanish, English, French or Portuguese.

5- The pages of the text should be unnumered.

Instructions for paper submission:

1- Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top
   of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word
   6.0 or 7.0)- Under the author's name(s) should appear in bold (only
   initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail
   address.

2- In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be
   written in Arial bold, italics, 10 points size letters.

3- The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9
   points size and leaving one space between lines.

4- Paragraphs will have no indentation.  Spaces between paragraphs will
   be of 1.5 points.

5- Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and
   sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size.

6- Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size
   letters.

Presentation time will be 15 minutes.

All mail or inquiries should be addressed to:

Prof- Dr- Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee
14th International Symposium on Social Communication
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Telephone: 53-22-646390
E-mail: simposio at cla.ciges.inf.cu

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese

REGISTRATION FEE

Speakers and Delegates
200.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos)

Companions
100.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos)

Payment of the fee must be sent via bank transfer to the bank account to
be announce opportunely and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where
your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event,
speaker?s certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities-
Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the
Proceedings.

ACCOMODATION

The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star
hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

- Papers submission deadline: August 1st, 2014

- Notification on paper?s approval by Scientific Committee: by August
  31, 2014

- Delivery of papers by e-mail: September 15, 2014 (in case of the
  observations done by the Scientific Committee)

- Pre-Symposium seminars: January 19, 2015

- 14th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 20
  through 23, 2015

OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST

Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 km from Havana, is Cuba's second
largest city- Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban
history is unquestionable.  Santiago is also the capital of the province
with the same name.  Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra
Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography
and beautiful landscape- Its surroundings make the city one of the most
important tourist attractions on the entire island- The Organizing
Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer
visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the
city's beauty and charm.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Pedro Beaton Soler
Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the
Environment
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Executive Secretary
14th International Symposium on Social Communication
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez
Emeritus Academic
Academy of Science of Cuba
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics
President of the Organizing Committee
14th International Symposium on Social Communication
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Celia Maria Perez Marques
Researcher
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Alex Munnoz Alvarado
Investigador
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Nancy Cristina Alamo Suarez
Researcher
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Anton Nijholt
Professor and Researcher
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

Innaki Alegr?a Loinaz
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Xabier Artola Zubillaga
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Xabier Arregi Iparragirre
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

L- Alfonso Urenna Lopez
President of the NLP Spanish Association (SEPLN)
Jaen University
Jaen, Spain

Dieter Fensel
Director and Researcher
Semantic Technology Institute (STI)
Innsbruck, Austria

Martha Cordies Jackson
Director and Researcher
African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz"
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Lucia Marconi
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

Paola Cutugno
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

*****

FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

REGISTRATION FORM

Mr./Ms- ___________________________

University: ________________________

Address: __________________________________

City: ______________

Phone: _______________

E-Mail:____________________

Paper title: __________________________

Date: ________________

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:30:23 +0200
Subject: Info: Avant premiere de "conversation avec Noam Chomsky"
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.213023.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:07:22 +0200
From: Isabelle Tellier <isabelle.tellier at univ-paris3.fr>
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Le cin?aste Michel Gondry viendra pr?senter son prochain film, une ?
conversation anim?e avec Noam Chomsky ?, en avant -premi?re ce soir 1er
avril ? Paris 3 :

http://www.univ-paris3.fr/projection-du-film-conversation-animee-avec-noam-chomsky-suivie-d-un-echange-avec-michel-gondry--263938.kjsp?RH=ACCUEIL

C?est gratuit et ouvert ? tous !

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:25:06 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2014 Student Session Deadline Extension
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.212506.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:27:37 +0100
From: Ronald de Haan <dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at>
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Please forward to students. Apologies for multiple messages.
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*Deadline Extension*
*ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION*

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

T?bingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014

*Extended deadline for submissions: April 8th, 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 by Springer. 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.

For more information, see the Student Session website:
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/.


Kind regards,

The ESSLLI 2014 Student Session Organization Committee



Chair:
- Ronald de Haan (Technische Universit?t Wien)

LoCo (Logic and Computation) co-chairs:
- Zo? Christoff (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Ayb?ke ?zg?n (Universit? de Lorraine)

LoLa (Logic and Language) co-chairs:
- Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Thomas Brochhagen (Universit?t D?sseldorf)

LaCo (Language and Computation) co-chairs:
- Miriam Kaeshammer (Universit?t D?sseldorf)
- Ramon Ziai (Universit?t T?bingen)

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:47:43 +0200
Subject: Journee: Journee des Anciens de Linguistique-Informatique, 5
 avril 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.1.APR.2014.214743.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 16:03:35 +0200
From: caroline brogniez <caroline.brogniez at gmail.com>
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Bonjour ? tous,

Le samedi 5 avril prochain aura lieu la premi?re Journ?e des Anciens du
cursus Linguistique-Informatique.

Les anciens ?tudiants du cursus viendront raconter leur parcours depuis
l'obtention de leur dipl?me.

Des professionnels du milieu seront l? aussi pour parler de leurs
entreprises.

De plus, M Paroubek, pr?sident actuel de l'ATALA, nous fera l'honneur
d'?tre pr?sent pour une conf?rence le matin qui aura pour sujet : "Le
Traitement Automatique des Langues en France ? l'?re du Big Data"

La journ?e commencera vers 10h et finira entre 17h30 et 18h30. Elle se
d?roulera au b?timent Olympe de Gouges de l'universit? Paris Diderot en
salle 153. Ce b?timent se trouve au bout de la rue Albert Einstein dans
le 13?me arrondissement.

Le d?jeuner sera offert par les ?tudiants actuels du cursus.

Toute personne int?ress?e par la journ?e peut venir. Nous vous demandons
juste de nous contacter par mail d'ici samedi pour nous pr?venir.

L'adresse mail a contacter est : caroline.brogniez at gmail.com

Nous vous mettons aussi le lien vers le programme de la journ?e :
http://li.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/jali.html

Cordialement,

Les ?tudiants du cursus Linguistique-Informatique de Paris 7 Diderot

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:03:01 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, Beno=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=AEt_?=Crabbe, 11 avril 2014
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.110301.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:53:43 +0200
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 11 avril

de 11h ? 12h30,

en salle 165

B?timent Olympe de Gouges
rue Albert Einstein
75013 Paris
(Il s'agit du dernier b?timent de la rue Albert Einstein,
dans la r?cemment inaugur?e "place Paul Ricoeur")

Toute personne int?ress?e est la bienvenue.


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

Beno?t Crabb? (Alpage - Universit? Paris Diderot / INRIA)

Titre : Vers la construction ? large couverture de la repr?sentation du
sens de phrases de langue naturelle.

R?sum? :

Dans cet expos?, je traiterai le probl?me d'analyse syntaxique ? large
couverture de phrases de langues naturelles et de son interface avec la
s?mantique.
Partant de l'hypoth?se que la repr?sentation du sens de phrases de
langue naturelle s'appuie sur leur structure, je pr?senterai
principalement un algorithme d'analyse syntaxique robuste lexicalis?
pour CFG inspir? de GLR et qui propose une d?sambiguisation des
hypoth?ses d'analyse sur base d'un mod?le enti?rement discriminant.  Une
seconde partie de l'expos?, plus succincte, pr?sentera les grandes
lignes d'un projet de recherche destin? ? augmenter l'algorithme de
repr?sentations vectorielles encodant une s?mantique distributionnelle.

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:09:09 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: Desambiguisation Semantique dans le cadre de la
 Simplification Lexicale, BLRI, LIF
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.100909.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:41:11 +0200
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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*Le Labex /Brain and Language Research Institute/ (BLRI) financera ? la
rentr?e 2014 deux bourses de th?ses dans le p?rim?tre du Labex*

http://147.94.196.238/index.html


Dans le cadre du BLRI, l'*?quipe TALEP du Laboratoire d'Informatique 
Fondamentale (LIF-**CNRS**) *propose un sujet de th?se dans le domaine 
de la lisibilit? et la simplification lexicale.


/*D?sambigu?sation S?mantique dans le cadre de la Simplification 
Lexicale */

Le sujet de recherche s'inscrit dans une recherche pluridisciplinaire en
traitement automatique des langues (TAL), linguistique et
psycholinguistique.

Le domaine de la lisibilit? et de la simplification est en plein essor
en TAL. Dans ce domaine, l'objectif principal est d'estimer le degr? de
difficult? d'un texte et d'en proposer une version simplifi?e, adapt?e
aux besoins d'un public particulier : apprenants d'une langue, personnes
avec peu d'instruction ou atteintes d'une pathologie qui entra?ne des
difficult?s de lecture (dyslexie, aphasie, etc.). Une des sous-t?ches du
domaine est la simplification lexicale, c'est-?-dire, le remplacement
d'un mot par un ?quivalent ayant le m?me sens (synonyme) mais plus
accessible d'un point de vue de sa compr?hension.

Le processus de simplification lexicale se heurte ? un probl?me de
taille en TAL, celui de la d?sambigu?sation s?mantique (indispensable ?
d'autres applications comme la traduction automatique, etc.). Dans ce
contexte, il s'agit de s?lectionner automatiquement le sens le plus
appropri? en contexte. Pour ce faire, deux ?tapes doivent ?tre
envisag?es : identifier le sens et lever l'ambigu?t? puis simplifier. La
difficult? ajout?e est que l'on doit choisir le mot du m?me sens le plus
adapt?, d'un point de vue de sa facilit? de compr?hension, pour un
public donn?. Ceci peut entra?ner des difficult?s suppl?mentaires au
niveau de la syntaxe de la phrase (transformations) qui doivent ?tre
prises en compte au moment de l'analyse.

Ce sujet de th?se vise, ainsi, les objectifs suivants :

a) identifier les besoins li?s ? un public de mauvais lecteurs, enfants
   dyslexiques et enfants sourds, caract?riser les particularit?s
   entra?nant des difficult?s lexicales au moment de la lecture ;

b) ?tudier les m?thodes de d?sambigu?sation s?mantique existantes en TAL
   afin de les adapter ? la t?che de simplification lexicale (m?thodes
   bas?es sur les connaissances -ressources existantes- ou sur corpus) ;

c) d?velopper un mod?le de d?sambigu?sation s?mantique permettant de
   choisir le bon sens en contexte parmi une liste de candidats, puis
   choisir un ?quivalent le plus adapt? ;

d) contribuer ? l'enrichissement de ressources lexicales int?grant des
   informations sur le degr? de difficult? d'un mot-sens.

La th?se sera dirig?e par N?ria Gala, en collaboration avec Johannes
Ziegler, directeur du Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (LPC) ?
Marseille, sp?cialiste des troubles de l'apprentissage de la lecture.


Le dossier de candidature doit comporter :

  * la description scientifique du projet (< 5 pages, ? r?diger en
    accord avec les directeurs de th?se) : titre, r?sum?, contexte,
    m?thodologie/exp?riences envisag?es, r?sultats attendus, calendrier
    pr?visionnel

  * un argumentaire montrant la pertinence du projet pour le BLRI

  * un CV d?taill?

  * une lettre de motivation

Date limite des candidatures : 20 Mai 2014

Pr?-s?lection des candidats ? auditionner le 5 Juin 2014

Auditions des candidats retenus : 18 Juin 2014

D?marrage : 1^er septembre 2014

Bourse : 1 684.93EUR brut mensuel (1 368EUR net) contrat de 3 ans


Les candidats int?ress?s devront contacter : nuria.gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr 

Pour tout renseignement compl?mentaire : Johannes.Ziegler at univ-amu.fr 

Pour tout renseignement administratif : nadera.bureau at blri.fr 

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:07:13 +0200
Subject: Appel: DEADLINE EXTENSION, SEPLN 2014
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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 16:11:08 +0200
From: "BURGA DIAZ, ALICIA" <alicia.burga at upf.edu>
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3rd CALL FOR PAPERS:

30th CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY

FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING (SEPLN 2014)
September 17-19, 2014
Universitat de Girona
http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/es/index.html

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INTRODUCTION
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The 30th edition of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for
Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place in Universitat de
Girona, Girona, Spain on 17-19 September 2014.  We also expect to
organize associated workshops.

The huge amount of information available in digital format and in
different languages calls for systems to enable us to access this vast
library in an increasingly more structured way.

In this same area, there is a renewed interest in improving information
accessibility and information exploitation in multilingual environments.
Many of the formal foundations for dealing appropriately with these
necessities have been, and are still being established in the area of
Natural Language Processing and its many branches: Information
extraction and retrieval, Questions answering systems, Machine
translation, Automatic analysis of textual content, Text summarization,
Text generation, and Speech recognition and synthesis.

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion and
communication where the latest research work and developments in the
field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be presented by
scientific and business communities. The conference also aims at
exposing new possibilities of real applications and R&D projects in this
field.

Moreover, as in previous editions, there is the intention of identifying
future guidelines or paths for basic research and foreseen software
applications, in order to compare them against the market
needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in
helping new professionals to become active members in this field.

TOPICS
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Researchers and companies are encouraged to send communications, project
abstracts or demonstrations related to any language technology topic
including but not limited to the following:

* Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language.
* Machine learning in NLP.
* Computational lexicography and terminology.
* Corpus linguistics.
* Development of linguistic resources and tools.
* Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis.
* Semantics, pragmatics and discourse.
* Lexical ambiguity resolution.
* Monolingual and multilingual text generation.
* Machine translation.
* Speech synthesis and recognition.
* Dialogue systems.
* Audio indexing.
* Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval.
* Question answering systems.
* Evaluation of NLP systems.
* Automatic textual content analysis.
* Sentiment analysis and opinion mining.
* Plagiarism detection.
* Negation and speculation processing.
* Text mining in blogosphere and social networks.
* Text summarization.
* Image retrieval.
* NLP in biomedical domain.

* NLP-based generation of teaching resources.
* NLP for languages with limited resources.
* NLP industrial applications.


CONTACT
--------------

All information related to the conference can be found in the web:


http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/index.html


STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE
---------------------------------------------

The conference will last three days, and will consist of sessions
devoted to presenting papers, posters, tutorials, ongoing research
projects and prototype or product demonstrations connected with topics
addressed in the conference. Besides, we expect to organize associated
workshops.


SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
--------------------------------------------


Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or application-oriented
proposals related to NLP. The proposals must include the following
sections:

* The title of the communication.

* An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words) and a list of
  keywords.

* The paper can be written in Spanish or English. Its overall maximum
  length will be 8 pages, including references.

* The documents must not include headers or footers.

* Papers should NOT include the names of the authors.

The papers proposed will be reviewed at least by three reviewers, and
can be accepted to be presented either as posters or as communications,
depending on the program necessities. However, no distinction will be
made between communications and posters in the printed version of the
SEPLN journal.

*** IMPORTANT NOTE ON CAMERA READY ****

The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted
together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the
reviewers were implemented in the final version.

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

Please, send your proposals using the following link::

http://www.sepln.org/myreview-sepln53/


The format of the SEPLN journal must be followed:

http://www.sepln.org/?page_id=1285&lang=en

In addition, all proposals will have to comply with the following
requirements, depending on whether they pare papers, demos or projects.


PROJECTS AND DEMOS
----------------------------------


As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give
oral presentations of R&D projects and demos of systems or tools related
to the NLP field. For oral presentations on R&D projects to be accepted,
the following information must be included:

* Project title.
* Name, affiliation, address, e-mail and phone number of the project
  director.
* Funding institutions.
* Groups participating in the project.
* Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).


For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is
mandatory:

* Demo title.
* Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.
* Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).
* Time estimation for the whole presentation.


INDUSTRY TRACK
-------------------------------

http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/cfp_industrial_en.htm

The goal of the NLP industry track is to bring together researchers,
practitioners, analysts, and consumers and to achieve knowledge transfer
across the boundaries.

In recent years interest in practical natural language processing
applications has intensified from an industrial perspective.

Among others, some examples of NLP applied to business needs are:

   - Construction and use of Language Resources (extraction and
     acquisition of knowledge, use of ontologies, etc).
   - Language Resources in systems and applications (information
     extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia
     search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided
     Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication,
     machine translation, speech translation, summarization, web
     services, semantic search, text mining, etc.)
   - Analyzing linguistic properties for Text Categorization and
     Clustering.
   - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining for smart Brand Monitoring
     and Big Data Analytics.
   - Use of Machine Translation to reduce localization time and/or cost.
   - Portal search using Natural Language.
   - Integrating NLP techniques to enhance eLearning.
   - Virtual Assistant products able to process Natural Language.
   - Assisting human interaction with Natural Language Understanding
     techniques.
   - NLP to process multimedia information and multimodal communication.
   - Online services using Open-source NLP tools.

The SEPLN Industry track aims to bring together industrial participants
to present current tools, systems, and ideas for the application of
natural language processing in real settings. We invite proposals
highlighting how natural language processing techniques have been
implemented in real systems, services, or demonstrator. We welcome
papers discussing for example the maturity of the solutions (strength
and limitations), efficiency, need for further research, business
opportunities, etc.

Contributions should have:

- a title

- should be 4 pages long (including references)

- the names and affiliations of the authors

Authors of accepted papers will give an oral presentation in a focused
session at the conference.

**** SEE NOTE ON CAMERA READY ABOVE ****



IMPORTANT DATES
----------------------------

Deadline for full papers (including those for the Industry Track),
demos, and projects: *** 15th April 2014 (EXTENDED) ***

Notifications: 26th May 2014

Camera Ready: 7th June 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:58:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:58:17 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: 2 sujets, Linguistique Computationnelle, LIRMM
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.105817.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 17:40:05 +0200
From: Jean-Philippe Prost <Jean-Philippe.Prost at lirmm.fr>
Message-ID: <CAJQEYs4q27xPXD7iGEUYpxA7qAafMSzF9czswnMBGbYO=P96bA at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.lirmm.fr/%7Eprost/sujetsTheses2014.html#sujet:modelisation%20logico-stochastique
X-url: http://www.lirmm.fr/%7Eprost/sujetsTheses2014.html#sujet:%20interface%20syntaxe-semantique
X-url: http://www.lirmm.fr/~prost/sujetsTheses2014.html

L'Ecole Doctorale I2S de l'Universit? Montpellier 2
(http://www.edi2s.univ-montp2.fr/) ouvre au concours des financements de
contrats doctoraux pour la rentr?e de septembre 2014. Deux des sujets
propos?s (voir site de l'ED) portent sur la linguistique
computationnelle (pour au plus une bourse possible) :

** Sujet 1 : Mod?lisation logico-stochastique pour la compr?hension
   robuste du langage naturel
   (http://www.lirmm.fr/%7Eprost/sujetsTheses2014.html#sujet:modelisation%20logico-stochastique)

** Sujet 2 : Interface syntaxe-s?mantique par r?seau lexical et r?seau
   de contraintes
   (http://www.lirmm.fr/%7Eprost/sujetsTheses2014.html#sujet:%20interface%20syntaxe-semantique)

Voir http://www.lirmm.fr/~prost/sujetsTheses2014.html pour le d?tail des
sujets.

Pour plus de renseignements, les candidats int?ress?s par l'un ou
l'autre des sujets pourront contacter les encadrants : Jean-Philippe
Prost ( Prost at lirmm.fr) et Mathieu Lafourcade (Lafourcade at lirmm.fr), en
pr?cisant le sujet de leur choix.

D?p?t des candidatures aupr?s de l'ED I2S : courant mai 2014

A noter qu'une seule candidature doit ?tre pr?sent?e par les encadrants,
pour l'un ou l'autre des sujets. Merci, donc, aux candidats de
manifester leur int?r?t d'ici fin avril.

Jean-Philippe Prost et Mathieu Lafourcade
LIRMM, CNRS-Universit? Montpellier 2

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 09:00:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:00:37 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Second Call for EU Project Networking
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.110037.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu,  3 Apr 2014 19:11:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/program/eu-project-networking


** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Second Call for EU Project Networking ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/program/eu-project-networking

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 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)
Project Networking Session Chairs:
- Mari Carmen Suarez-Figueroa (Univesidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
- Alessio Iabichella (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Sergio Consoli (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy)

The EU project networking track of the ESWC2014 will provide an
opportunity for
* Knowledge sharing among EU projects
* Presentation and discussion of project results with ESWC participants
* Networking with officials from the European Commission

The project networking track is intended to provide EU projects with the
ability to connect with each other and engage in discussions about their
respective research and development, establish opportunities for
knowledge and technology sharing, and identify complementary activities
and goals which can form the basis for future collaborations, research
proposals, researcher exchange or joint participation at events or in
initiatives. EC officials will be present for related discussions.


* SUBMISSION *

Projects willing to participate at the session must submit a 2-page
extended abstract (PDF, Springer LNCS style). The abstract should
introduce the EU funded R&D project, briefly describe its R&D activities
and goals, outline what the project would show / demonstrate in the
session and specify what the project expects to gain from networking
with other projects (what it offers, what it is looking for).

Submissions will be evaluated by a separate Program Committee. There
will be a limited number of places for EU projects in the networking
space. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to
ESWC2014, tangible innovation and uniqueness in the R&D activities and a
clear goal to benefit from networking with other projects.

Submission will be through the Easychair system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014euprojects


* IMPORTANT DATES *

Abstract submission deadline          April 9th, 2014, 23:59 Hawaii Time
Notification of acceptance/rejection  April 15th, 2014
EU Project Networking Session         May 27th, 2014 


* IMPORTANT NOTICE *

Projects accepted for participation in the project networking track must
register at least one representative for the conference and be present
with their demo and poster.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:16:15 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:16:15 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2015 - Second Call for Proposals
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101615.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:30:23 +0100 (BST)
From: Achim Jung <axj at cs.bham.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1404021528400.4376 at babydell>


(Apologies for multiple postings.)

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals
                              ESSLLI 2015
     27th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
               Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
                           August 3-14, 2015
                             esslli2015.org
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IMPORTANT DATES 
===============

1 June 2014: Proposal submission deadline 
23 September 2014: Notification
June 2015: Course material due

TOPICS AND FORMAT 
=================

Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI'2015 are invited in all
areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computing Sciences.
Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged.

Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions,
offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week
courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week
courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one.  In
such cases, the ESSLLI programme committee reserves the right to accept
just one of the two proposals.

All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed
completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a
minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration
fees waved, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up
to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal
notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one
course/workshop organizer, and can not guarantee full reimbursement of
travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The
ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's
expenses by seeking complete coverage of travel and accommodation
expenses from other sources.

CATEGORIES 
==========

Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories.

* FOUNDATIONAL COURSES *
Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to
people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of
elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though
possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant
discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to
develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques
of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary
nature of our research community.

* INTRODUCTORY COURSES *
Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended
to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other
non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic
methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from
related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic
considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may
presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines.

* ADVANCED COURSES *
Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to
acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of
a field.

* WORKSHOPS *
Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest.
Workshops organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting
the workshop programme. They are also responsible for publishing
proceedings if they decide to have proceedings.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES 
===================

Course and workshop proposals should follow closely the following
guidelines to ensure full consideration.

Each course may have no more than two instructors, and each workshop no
more than two organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a
PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline.

Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course
category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the
intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and
monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify
the prerequisites in detail.

Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2015

and include all of the following:

a. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact
   address, email, homepage (optional)

b. General proposal information: Title, category

c. Contents information:
    Abstract of up to 150 words
    Motivation and description (up to two pages)
    Tentative outline
    Expected level and prerequisites
    Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings,
    surveys)

d. Practical information:
    Relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable
    Potential external funding for participants

Programme Committee
===================

Chair: Achim Jung (Birmingham)

Language and Computation:
        Aurelie Herbelot (Cambridge)
        Stefan M?ller (Berlin)
Language and Logic:
        Edgar Onea (G?ttingen)
        Galit Weidman-Sassoon (Bar-Ilan)
Logic and Computation:
        Hubie Chen (Donostia-San Sebasti?n)
        Stephan Kreutzer (Berlin)

Queries
=======

Please send any queries you may have to A.Jung at cs.bham.ac.uk

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:11:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:11:26 +0200
Subject: Appel: 4th Open Challenge on Multilingual Question Answering over
 Linked Data (QALD-4) is on!
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101126.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 12:19:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Elena Cabrio <elena.cabrio at inria.fr>
Message-ID: <867457608.2072525.1396433988454.JavaMail.zimbra at inria.fr>
X-url: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/
X-url: http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/qald/

Dear all,


The test phase for the 4th Open Challenge on Question Answering over
Linked Data (QALD-4) is now on!


In the context of the question answering lab at CLEF 2014
(http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/), it comprises three open challenges:


* Multilingual question answering over DBpedia
* Biomedical question answering over interlinked datasets
* Hybrid question answering over DBpedia


Training and test data as well as more information about the challenge
is available on the website:


http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/qald/


Results have to be submitted until May 1, via the online evaluation
tool.

The schedule is as follows:

Release of test data: April 1, 2014
Submission deadline:  May 1, 2014
Release of results:   May 8, 2014
Workshop:             September, 2014


We cordially invite everyone working on question answering over linked
data to participate, and look forward to another exciting challenge!

With best regards,

Christina Unger,
Philipp Cimiano,
Vanessa Lopez,
Elena Cabrio,
Axel Ngonga,
Sebastian Walter,
Corina Forascu


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 09:01:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:01:39 +0200
Subject: Conf: IC 2014, 12-16 mai 2014, Clermont-Ferrand
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.110139.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:58:54 +0200
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <533E582E.9000100 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014

*Appel ? participation ?  IC 2014*

25?mes Journ?es Francophones d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances :
/Connaissances pervasives : des utilisateurs plong?s dans des SBC et des
SBC plong?s dans le monde/

http://www.irit.fr/IC2014
du 12 au 16 mai 2014 ? Clermont-Ferrand

*Inscriptions ouvertes *: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/11

------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:14:34 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:14:34 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: These Cifre sur les systemes de dialogue,
 Orange Labs
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101434.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:20:52 +0000
From: <romain.laroche at orange.com>
Message-ID: <14173_1396448453_533C1CC5_14173_4668_1_6A3EA12B995B52459CDFCEFF0835C6B113FDB04E at PEXCVZYM12.corporate.adroot.infra.ftgroup>
X-url: http://www.intelliagence.fr/Page/Offer/ShowOffer.aspx?OfferId=55930
X-url: http://www.expectlabs.com/mindmeld/


Bonjour,

L'?quipe NaDia (Natural Dialogue) d'Orange Labs propose une th?se ?
d?marrer en Octobre 2014 sur son site d'Issy les Moulineaux.

Sujet de th?se : Dialogues intelligents bas?s sur l??coute de
conversations homme/homme
Pour postuler :
http://www.intelliagence.fr/Page/Offer/ShowOffer.aspx?OfferId=55930

Vous trouverez l'int?gralit? du sujet de th?se en dessous de ma
signature,

Cordialement,

Romain Laroche


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

Positionnement du sujet vis-?-vis de la strat?gie d?entreprise et du
programme de recherche

Orange Labs s'int?resse depuis longtemps aux syst?mes de dialogues,
notamment pour tout ce qui ressort du domaine des services
vocaux. Aujourd'hui, la technologie Disserto est fortement ax?e sur le
dialogue en langue naturelle. Elle a d?j? servi ? d?velopper des
services de qualification d'appel (G?n?rali, Cr?dit Agricole Centre
Ouest, la Banque Postale), l'annuaire t?l?phonique interne, les services
t?l?phoniques automatis?s d?Orange (le 3000, le 3900, le 1013), ?

La solution de dialogue Disserto est une cha?ne d'outils compl?te
destin?e ? la conception, au d?veloppement et ? la production de
services vocaux interactifs. L'utilisateur peut interagir avec
l'application soit en pressant les touches du t?l?phone (DTMF), soit en
pronon?ant des commandes vocales. Ces commandes vocales peuvent ?tre
soit en mots isol?s, en mots connect?s, ou alors en parole continue
associ?e ? un analyseur s?mantique. Cette derni?re modalit? permet des
applications dites en langage naturel. L'application r?troagit vers
l'utilisateur en ?mettant des messages sonores pr?enregistr?s, en
synth?se de la parole ou par un autre mode de communication (texte,
graphique, ?).

description de l??quipe

Le candidat s?lectionn? sera int?gr? ? l??quipe NaDia (Natural
Dialogue), constitu?e ? ce jour de 8 permanents, 3 doctorants et 1
postdoctorant. La moiti? de l?effort porte sur le d?veloppement et
l?autre moiti? sur l?innovation et la recherche. L??quipe est bi-site ;
le doctorant sera donc amen? ? faire des missions ? Lannion.

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

contexte global du sujet de th?se

La reconnaissance vocale est une bo?te noire permettant de transcrire de
la parole en texte. Sa robustesse, sa pr?cision et sa g?n?ricit? ont
?norm?ment progress? ces derni?res ann?es, si bien qu?il est maintenant
possible de l?utiliser sur un mod?le de langage g?n?rique, m?me dans un
environnement bruyant. Cette avanc?e technologique pousse de nombreuses
innovations dont la famille d?applications qui nous int?ressera lors de
cette th?se : l??coute active d?une conversation homme-homme pour en
extraire du sens et fournir un service contextuel ? ce sens.

En interne, nous avons d?j? travaill? sur un service de ce type dans le
service de contextualisation qui est int?gr? dans l?environnement de
travail d?un t?l?-conseiller de centre d?appel. Cet environnement
embarque plusieurs services m?tiers : le chat, le mail, la gestion
d?appel, la prise de rendez-vous, la localisation, le CRM, le scripting,
les statistiques, etc. L?outil de contextualisation consiste donc ?
guider l?agent en lan?ant automatiquement ou semi-automatiquement des
applications en fonction de motifs conversationnels d?tect?s dans la
communication.

De m?me, un assistant personnel du nom de MindMeld
(http://www.expectlabs.com/mindmeld/) est commercialis? depuis peu. Il
?coute les conversations t?l?phoniques et propose en temps r?el des
contenus en rapport avec les sujets abord?s.

Le sujet de la th?se se focalisera sur la partie dialogique (relevant du
dialogue), ? savoir d?une part, de ne pas seulement reconnaitre des
mots-clefs ou m?me analyser des phrases, mais inscrire l?analyse dans un
mod?le de dialogue homme-homme ; et d?autre part, de ne pas seulement
afficher une information, ou proposer une action, mais initier un
dialogue avec l?utilisateur, terrains qu?aucune recherche ou
application, ? notre connaissance, n?ont investi ? ce jour.

Le domaine scientifique de la th?se sera donc ? cheval sur l?analyse
s?mantique d?un dialogue homme-homme et les syst?mes de dialogue
homme-machine. Ceux-ci incluent depuis plusieurs ann?es les syst?mes
vocaux interactifs, mais aussi les chatbots ou les interactions que
certains jeux vid?o proposent entre le joueur et certains
personnages. Les syst?mes de dialogue vocal sont en plein essor et
traitent maintenant commercialement plusieurs milliards d?appels par an.

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

objectif scientifique de la th?se - verrous ? lever

Les th?matiques scientifiques de la th?se s?articulent autour de trois
sujets principaux bien disjoints :

- Comment mod?liser l?analyse s?mantique d?une conversation homme-homme
  et en extraire un sens utilisable par une application ?  Contrairement
  ? une application de dialogue classique, le syst?me doit ?tre capable
  d?interpr?ter les questions et les r?ponses et de construire une
  repr?sentation de la conversation de mani?re incr?mentale, au fur et ?
  mesure qu?elle se d?roule, et ce, en temps r?el.

- Comment initier, mener et conclure un dialogue avec un utilisateur qui
  est d?j? engag? dans une conversation avec une autre personne ?
  Contrairement ? un dialogue bipartite classique, l?utilisateur peut
  s?adresser soit au syst?me soit ? son interlocuteur. De plus, la
  gestion simultan?e de deux dialogues risque de modifier les codes
  interactionnels.

- Comment rendre ce type d?application d??coute et de dialogue
  facilement extensible, voire personnalisable ? Nous pr?voyons que la
  famille d?applications de dialogue d?velopp?e lors de la th?se
  regroupe pour une majeure partie des applications auxquelles on
  souhaitera rajouter incr?mentalement des fonctionnalit?s. Il apparait
  m?me qu?un assistant personnel devrait ?tre personnalisable par chaque
  utilisateur. 

Nous demanderons ?galement au doctorant d?assurer le prototypage d?une
ou plusieurs applications et d?organiser des campagnes d?exp?rimentation
pour ?valuer les r?sultats de ses travaux.

En revanche, les sujets suivants sont hors du p?rim?tre : optimisation
de la reconnaissance vocale ou th?orisation de la multimodalit?.

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

Profil des candidats :
comp?tences (scientifiques et techniques) et qualit?s personnelles
souhait?es par le poste 

- Savoir :
  - informatique th?orique,
  - intelligence artificielle, 
  - philosophie du langage,
  - architecture logicielle,
- Savoir ?tre :
  - esprit critique et ouvert,
  - pragmatisme
- Savoir faire :
  - cr?ativit?,
  - organisation,
  - vulgarisation,
  - propret? du code
  - informatique pratique,
  - d?veloppement informatique,
  - rigueur de d?veloppement,
  - s?ret? du code d?velopp?,
  - ma?trise de l?anglais,
  - rigueur th?orique,
  - rigueur de pr?sentation,
  - rigueur scientifique,
  - r?daction

Sp?cialit?s, 
- Dialogue naturel ?crit et parl?
- Th?orie des jeux, jeu algorithmique et ? mechanism d?esign ?
- Interaction multimodale
- Traitement automatique de la langue : lemmatisation, g?n?ration

Formation demand?e, 
- Master de recherche et/ou dipl?me d?ing?nieur de premi?re cat?gorie
- Au moins une des sp?cialit?s d?crites ci-dessus inscrites au cursus
  universitaire/scolaire du candidat

Exp?riences souhait?es, 
- Un stage dans une des sp?cialit?s mentionn?es ci-dessus, ou en
  intelligence artificielle au sens large

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

Le plus de l?offre 

Cette th?se offre l?opportunit? de contribuer au futur des applications
de dialogue, et de participer ? d?mocratisation des syst?mes vocaux dans
la vie tous les jours. Ces deux domaines sont en plein essor
actuellement et leur ?mergence semble in?luctable dans les dix ann?es ?
venir. Selon Gartner, les assistants personnels font partie du top10 des
tendances technologiques pour 2014 ? travers la th?matique des ? smart
machines ?.

Le doctorant est int?gr? dans une petite ?quipe comprenant trois autres
doctorants et un post-doctorant ? ce jour. Toute l??quipe travaille dans
le domaine des syst?mes de dialogue. Les autres ?quipes d?Orange Labs
regroupent tous types de comp?tences dans tous les domaines de
l?intelligence artificielle et plus g?n?ralement de
l?informatique. C?est un tr?s bon environnement pour aller au fond de
ses recherches et obtenir un retour avis? d?experts.

Orange garantit que le doctorant travaillera dans les meilleures
conditions en prenant plusieurs engagements :

- Mise ? disposition d?outils industriels : l?outil historique Disserto,
  utilis? par le th?sard, offre les cl?s id?ales pour aborder toutes ces
  probl?matiques sans avoir ? passer trop de temps sur du d?veloppement
  p?riph?rique au sujet de th?se.

- Mise ? disposition de nos pr?c?dents r?sultats de recherche : qu?il
  s?agisse de veille, d??tude th?orique ou de code, le doctorant aura
  acc?s ? toutes les ressources qui peuvent l?aider dans sa
  t?che. Orange Labs regroupe 3700 ing?nieurs. Quel que soit la
  th?matique de recherche, il est probable qu?elle ait ?t? d?frich?e
  quelque part.

- Mise ? disposition des ?quipements n?cessaires : pour l??tude du
  dialogue dans l?environnement domestique, nous avons d?j? investi sur
  de l??quipement pour monter une showroom.

- Mise en place d?exp?rimentations : nous avons l?habitude chez Orange
  de lancer des campagnes de tests de nos d?veloppements en
  interne. Chaque campagne a ses sp?cificit?s, mais pour donner une id?e
  de l?ampleur, nous avons un doctorant pour lequel trois
  exp?rimentations de 500 testeurs sont planifi?s sur la dur?e de la
  th?se.

- Mise ? disposition de donn?es : Orange a une grande exp?rience en
  mati?re de syst?mes vocaux et dispose de grandes quantit?s de donn?es
  (les syst?mes bas?s sur la technologie Disserto re?oivent 200 millions
  d?appels par an).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:18:16 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:18:16 +0200
Subject: Appel: CICE-2014
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101816.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:51:52 +0100 (BST)
From: "CICE, cfp" <cfp at ciceducation.org>
Message-ID: <265824651.41169.1396446712936.open-xchange at email.1and1.co.uk>
X-url: http://www.ciceducation.org


Apologies for cross-postings.

Kindly email this call for papers to your colleagues, faculty members
and postgraduate students.

FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, EXTENDED ABSTRACTS, PAPERS, POSTERS AND
WORKSHOPS!
============================================
Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2014)
June 16-19, 2014
Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, Canada
www.ciceducation.org <http://www.ciceducation.org>
============================================


The CICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the
advancement of the theory and practices in education. The CICE promotes
collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from
Education.

The aim of CICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and
professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary
interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the
evolution of pedagogy. The CICE-2014 invites research papers that
encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance
evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and
modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues
peer reviewed journals.

The topics in CICE-2014 include but are not confined to the following
areas:

*Art Education
  * Music Education
  * Writing Education
  * Imaginative Education
  * Language Education
  * History
*Adult Education
  * Competitive Skills
  * Continuing Education
  * Higher Education
  * Vocational Education
  * Transferring Disciplines
*Business Education
  * Educational Administration
  * Human Resource Development
  * Academic Advising and Counselling
  * Education Policy and Leadership
  * Industrial Cooperation
  * Life-long Learning Experiences
  * Workplace Learning and Collaborative Learning
  * Work Employability
  * Educational Institution Government Partnership
  * Patent Registration and Technology Transfer
  * University Spin-Off Companies

*Course Management

  * Accreditation and Quality Assurance
  * Academic Experiences and Best Practice Contributions
  * Copy-right
  * Digital Libraries and Repositories
  * Digital Rights Management
  * Evaluation and Assessment
  * E-content Management and Development
  * Open Content
  * e-Portfolios
  * Grading Methods
  * Knowledge Management
  * Quality processes at National and International level
  * Security and Data Protection
  * Student Selection Criteria in Interdisciplinary Studies
  * User-Generated Content

*Curriculum, Research and Development

  * Acoustics in Education Environment
  * APD/Listening
  * Counsellor Education
  * Courses, Tutorials and Labs
  * Curriculum Design
  * ESL/TESL

*Educational Foundations

  * Early Childhood Education
  * Elementary Education
  * Geographical Education
  * Health Education
  * Home Education
  * Rural Education
  * Science Education
  * Secondary Education
  * Second life Educators
  * Social Studies Education
  * Special Education

*Learning / Teaching Methodologies and Assessment

  * Simulated Communities and Online Mentoring
  * e-Testing and new Test Theories
  * Supervising and Managing Student Projects
  * Pedagogy Enhancement with e-Learning
  * Educating the Educators
  * Immersive Learning
  * Blended Learning
  * Computer-Aided Assessment
  * Metrics and Performance Measurement
  * Assessment Software Tools
  * Assessment Methods in Blended Learning Environments

*Global Issues In Education and Research

  * Education, Research and Globalization
  * Barriers to Learning (ethnicity, age, psychosocial factors, ...)
  * Women and Minorities in Science and Technology
  * Indigenous and Diversity Issues
  * Government Policy issues
  * Organizational, Legal and Financial Aspects
  * Digital Divide
  * Increasing Affordability and Access to the Internet
  * Ethical issues in Education
  * Intellectual Property Rights and Plagiarism

*Pedagogy

  * Teacher Education
  * Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
  * Educational Psychology
  * Education practice trends and issues
  * Indigenous Education
  * Kinesiology and Leisure Science
  * K12
  * Life-long Learning Education
  * Mathematics Education
  * Physical Education (PE)
  * Reading Education
  * Religion and Education Studies
*Research Management
  * Research Methodologies
  * Academic Research Projects
  * Joint-research programmes
  * Research on Technology in Education
  * Research Centres
  * Links between Education and Research
  * New Challenges in Education
  * ECTS experiences
  * The Bologna Process and its implementation
  * Joint-Degree Programmes
  * Erasmus and Exchange experiences in universities
  * Students and Teaching staff Exchange programmes

*Ubiquitous Learning

  * Accessibility to Disabled Users
  * Animation, 3D, and Web 3D Applications
  * Context Dependent Learning
  * Distance Education
  * E-Learning
  * E-Manufacturing
  * Educational Technology
  * Educational Games and Software
  * Human Computer Interaction
  * ICT Education
  * Internet technologies
  * Learning Management Systems (LMS)
  * Mobile Applications and Learning (M-learning)
  * Multi-Virtual Environment
  * Standards and Interoperability
  * Technology Enhanced Learning
  * Technology Support for Pervasive Learning

*Ubiquitous Computing

  * Videos for Learning and Educational Multimedia
  * Virtual and Augmented Reality
  * Virtual Learning Environments (VLE)
  * Web 2.0, Social Networking, Blogs and Wikis
  * Wireless Applications

*Research In Progress

Important dates

Research Paper, Extended Abstract, Case Study, Work in Progress and Report
Submission Deadline April 05, 2014
Notification of Paper, Extended Abstract, Case Study, Work in Progress and
Report Acceptance Date April 15, 2014
Final Paper Submission Deadline for Conference Proceedings Publication
  April 30, 2014
Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline 	March 20, 2014
Notification of Workshop Proposal Acceptance/Rejection 	March 30, 2014
Poster/Demo Proposal Submission 	March 20, 2014
Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance 	March 30, 2014
Participant(s) Registration (Open) 	December 01, 2013 to June 15, 2014
Early Bird Registration (Authors and Participants) 	January 30 to
  April 15, 2014
Late Bird Registration (Authors only) 	 April 16 to May 18, 2014
Conference Dates 	 June 16-19, 2014


For further information please visit CICE-2014 at http://www.ciceducation.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:57:01 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:57:01 +0200
Subject: Job: CDD, Ortolang
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.105701.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:43:36 +0200
From: Christophe Parisse <cparisse at u-paris10.fr>
Message-Id: <94E3DA8B-615D-4AC0-8530-E38EBDB04159 at u-paris10.fr>
X-url: http://liste.cines.fr//ticket/90986762449879
X-url: http://www.ortolang.fr


Offre d?emploi CDD d?ing?nieur pour le support dans ORTOLANG
 

Informations g?n?rales

Lieu : Nanterre (94) (Laboratoire Modyco UMR 7114) dans le cadre de
l?Equipex ORTOLANG

Date de publication : lundi 5 avril 2014

Date limite de candidature : 15/04/2013

Type de contrat : CDD

Dur?e du contrat : 6 mois

Date d'embauche pr?vue : 1 mai 2014

Quotit? de travail : Temps partiel ? 50 %

Niveau d'?tudes souhait? : Bac+5

Exp?rience souhait?e : exp?rience souhait?e en linguistique de corpus

R?mun?ration : Bar?me IE CNRS selon exp?rience

 

Missions : 6 mois ? mi-temps

Dans le cadre du projet d'Equipex ORTOLANG (www.ortolang.fr) et int?gr?
? l??quipe du laboratoire MoDyCo, l?ing?nieur sera charg? de
l'int?gration des donn?es des projets Corpus de Modyco dans ORTOLANG.

- Etat des fichiers : codages, m?tadonn?es
- Gestion des transcriptions et des m?dias
- Utilisation d?outils de conversion, d?annotation automatique
- Anonymisation
- Corrections et nettoyage
 

Activit?s

L?ing?nieur travaillera en collaboration avec les d?veloppeurs
informatiques pour la cr?ation de scripts et d?outils permettant
l?exploitation en ligne de ces ressources.

Il utilisera ces scripts pour r?aliser les anonymisations de corpus et
fera le contr?le manuel n?cessaire de cette op?ration.

Il apportera sa comp?tence en linguistique de corpus pour mener ? bien
les missions qui lui seront confi?es.

Il recevra des formations pour l?acquisition de nouvelles comp?tences
dans les domaines techniques li?s ? son activit?.


Comp?tences

Bonne connaissance des formats de transcription et des techniques
d?annotation des corpus ;


Contexte de travail

Dans le cadre de la mise en place de l'Equipex ORTOLANG
(www.ortolang.fr), cet emploi s'ins?rera dans le Laboratoire MoDyCo
(http://www.modyco.fr), Unit? Mixte de Recherche du CNRS et de
l?Universit? de Paris Ouest Nanterre la D?fense et partenaire
d'ORTOLANG.


Informations compl?mentaires

Toute candidature (CV d?taill? et lettre de motivation) devra ?tre
adress?e ? :

Christophe Parisse (cparisse at u-paris10.fr)


Contact

Christophe Parisse (cparisse at u-paris10.fr)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:54:57 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:54:57 +0200
Subject: Info: ELRA, LDC,
 and AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA announce the opening of ISLRN Portal
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.105457.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:17:49 +0200
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
Message-ID: <533D354D.5000902 at elda.org>
X-url: http://www.islrn.org/

/Press Release - Immediate - Paris, France, April 3, 2014/

*Opening of the ISLRN Portal*
*ELRA, LDC, and AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA announce the opening of the ISLRN
Portal @ www.islrn.org.*

Further to the establishment of the International Standard Language
Resource Number (ISLRN) as a unique and universal identification schema
for Language Resources on November 18, 2013, ELRA, LDC and
AFNLP/Oriental-COCOSDA now announce the opening of the ISLRN Portal
(www.islrn.org). As a service free of charge for all Language Resource
providers and under the supervision of a steering committee composed of
representatives of participating organisations, the ISLRN Portal
provides unique identifiers using a standardised nomenclature.

_Overview_
The 13-digit ISLRN format is: XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-X. It can be allocated to
any Language Resource; its composition is neutral and does not include
any semantics in reference to the type or nature of the Language
Resource. The ISLRN is a randomly created number with a check digit that
validates a Verhoeff algorithm
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verhoeff_algorithm>.

Two types of external players may interact with the ISLRN Portal:
Visitors and Providers. Visitors may browse the web site and search for
the ISLRN of a given Language Resource by its name or by its number if
it exists. Providers are registered and own credentials. They can
request a new ISLRN for a given Language Resource. A provider has the
possibility to become certified, after moderation, in order to be able
to import metadata in XML format.

The functionalities that can be accessed by Visitors are:

- Identify a language resource according to its ISLRN 
  http://www.islrn.org/resources/identify_islrn
- Identify an ISLRN by the name of a language resource 
  http://www.islrn.org/resources/identify_name
- Get information about ISLRN http://www.islrn.org/about, FAQ
  http://www.islrn.org/faq, Basic Metadata
  http://www.islrn.org/basic_metadata, Legal Information
  http://www.islrn.org/legal_info
- View last 5 accepted resources ("What's new" block on home page
  http://www.islrn.org/)
- Sign up to become a provider

The functionalities that can be accessed by Providers, once they have
signed up, are:

- Log in http://www.islrn.org/login/?next=/login/
- Request an ISLRN according to the metadata of a given resource 
  http://www.islrn.org/login/?next=/resources/submit_resource/
- Request to become a certified provider so as to import XML files
  containing metadata
- Import one or more metadata descriptions in XML to request ISLRN(s)
  (only for certified providers)
- Edit pending requests
- Access previous requests
- Contact a Moderator or an Administrator
- Edit Providers' own profile

ISLRN request is handled by moderators within 5 working days.  

*Contact: islrn at elda.org*

_Background_
The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) is a unique
and universal identification schema for Language Resources which
provides Language Resources with unique identifier using a standardised
nomenclature. It also ensures that Language Resources are correctly
identified, and consequently, recognised with proper references for
their usage in applications in R&D projects, products evaluation and
benchmark as well as in documents and scientific papers. Moreover, it is
a major step in the interconnected world that Human Language
Technologies (HLT) has become: unique resources must be identified as
they are and meta-catalogues need a common identification format to
manage data correctly.

The ISLRN does not intend to replace local and specific identifiers, it
is not meant to be a legal deposit, not an obligation, but rather an
essential and best practice. For instance a resource that is distributed
by several data centres will still have the "local" data-centre
identifier but will have a unique ISLRN.

********************************************************************
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 www.elra.info.

About LDC
Founded in 1992, the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is an open
consortium of universities, companies and government research
laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text
databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development
purposes. The University of Pennsylvania is the LDC's host institution.
To find out more about LDC, please visit www.ldc.upenn.edu.

About AFNLP
The mission of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
(AFNLP) is to promote and enhance R&D relating to the computational
analysis and the automatic processing of all languages of importance to
the Asian region by assisting and supporting like-minded organizations
and institutions through information sharing, conference organization,
research and publication co-ordination, and other forms of support. To
find out more about AFNLP, please visit www.afnlp.org.

About Oriental-COCOSDA
The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of
Speech Databases and Assesment Techniques, Oriental-COCOSDA, has been
established to encourage and promote international interaction and
cooperation in the foundation areas of Spoken Language Processing,
especially for Speech Input/Output. To find out more about
Oriental-COCOSDA, please visit our web site: www.cocosda.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 09:08:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:08:09 +0200
Subject: Appel: EACL workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature,
 April 27 2014, Gothenburg
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.110809.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:22:14 -0400
From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak at eecs.uottawa.ca>
Message-ID: <533FF576.4030905 at eecs.uottawa.ca>

The Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, 
co-located with EACL in Gothenburg, invites all and sundry for a day of 
NLP with a difference. Join us on April 27 to witness two exciting 
invited talks and eight intriguing presentations. You will become 
acquainted with digital poetics and learn what happens when narratology 
meets machine learning. You will hear how to map a novel into a piece of 
music, how to recreate a social network in a piece of fiction, and much 
more.

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

Come one, come all!

Anna, Anna, Stan


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 08:59:48 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:59:48 +0200
Subject: Conf: NLDB'2014, 18-20 June 2014, Montpellier, France
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.105948.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:23:30 +0200
From: Mathieu Roche <Mathieu.Roche at lirmm.fr>
Message-ID: <e00049557b0ba51b303b996cfada4c24 at lirmm.fr>
X-url: http://www.nldb.org/


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

 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - NLDB'2014

 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to
 Information Systems

 18-20 June 2014 - Montpellier, France

 http://www.nldb.org/

 Registration (early bird registration deadline: May 15, 2014):
 http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/conf_registration.html

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

 Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher,
 industrials and potential users interested in various application of
 Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The
 integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for
 many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an
 established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and
 technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic
 dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the
 communication area, the term databases should be considered in the
 broader sense of information and communication systems. The use of
 Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both
 improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers
 (improve the process of conceptual modeling, validation, etc) and the
 usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces,
 semantic webs, etc).

 NLDB'2014 will take place in Montpellier (France). The conference
 invites researchers from academia and industry to submit papers for
 oral or poster presentations on recent, unpublished research that
 addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures
 for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other
 aspects of NLP, as well as review and discussion papers.

 Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

 - Applications of NLP in Information Systems: Multilingual Information
   Systems, NLP in Requirement Engineering, NLP in Knowledge Management,
   Semantic Data Integration and Data Cleaning

 - Social Media and Web Data: Corpus analysis, Language identification,
   Text normalization, Robust NLP for social media, Text classification,
   Information Extraction and Sentiment Analysis for social media

 - Big Data and Natural Language

 - Semantic Web Open Linked Data: Ontology Learning and Alignment,
   Populating ontologies, Querying Ontologies and linked data, Semantic
   tagging and classification, Ontology-driven NLP

 - Question Answering (QA): NL interfaces to databases, QA using web
   data, multi-lingual QA, Non-factoid QA (how/why/opinion questions,
   lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets

 - Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive Computing,
   Embedded, Robotic and Mobile Applications.

 - Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling: Analysis of Natural Language
   Descriptions, Terminological Ontologies, Consistency Checking,
   Metadata Creation and Harvesting, Ontology-driven Systems
   Integration, Ontology Management

 - NLP Applications: Business Intelligence, Subjectivity and Sentiment
   Analysis, QA systems, Event Detection, Named Entity and Event
   Detection, Information Extraction, Summarization, NLP for Data
   Mining, NLP for Data Warehouses, Plagiarism detection, Identity
   detection

 =================
 INVITED SPEAKERS
 =================

 Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK

 Topic of the talk: Applications of Biomedical Text Mining

 Brief biography: Sophia Ananiadou received her PhD in Natural Language
 Processing (NLP) from the University of Manchester. She is Professor of
 Computer Science in the School of Computer Science, University of
 Manchester and has led the National Centre for Text Mining
 (www.nactem.ac.uk) since 2007. She researches into semantic text mining
 and semantic search techniques for applications in domains such as
 systems biology, public health, chemistry and social sciences. She is
 also developing large-scale resources (terminological resources and
 annotated data), and interoperable text mining platforms. Her current
 projects include semantic search for Europe PubMedCentral, supporting
 evidence-based public health reviews in collaboration with NICE, mining
 the history of medicine and extraction of semantic metadata for the
 automated measurement of open source software. She has been a three
 times recipient (2006-2008) of the IBM UIMA innovation award for her
 work in interoperable platforms for text mining and was also awarded
 the Daiwa Adrian prize (2004). She has authored over 250 publications.

 ********

 Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

 Topic of the talk: Personal ontologies

 Brief biography: Gabriella Pasi received a PhD in Computer Science at
 the Universit? de Rennes, France. She has been working at the National
 Council of Research in Italy till 2005. She is actually Associate
 Professor at the Universit? Degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano,
 Italy, where she leads the Information Retrieval Research Laboratory.
 Her research activities mainly focus on personalised and contextual
 access to information, and on the problem of aggregation in search. She
 has served as the program chair of several international conferences
 and workshops, and she has been the chair or co-chair of several
 International events among which the IEEE / WIC / ACM International
 Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology,
 Universit? degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, 15-18 September 2009, the PhD
 School on Web Information Retrieval (WebBar 2007), the Seventh
 International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS
 2006), the European Summer school in Information Retrieval (ESSIR
 2000), and the annual track ?Information Access and Retrieval? within
 the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. She has published more than 180
 papers on International Journals and Books, and on the Proceeding of
 International Conferences, and she is member of the Editorial Board of
 the several International Journals.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr  6 09:04:54 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:04:54 +0200
Subject: Appel: 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
 Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2015
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.110454.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:59:24 +0100
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CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and
Methods? ICPRAM 2015

Website: http://www.icpram.org 

January 10-12, 2015

Lisbon, Portugal

Regular Papers 

Regular Paper Submission: July 29, 2014 
Regular Paper Authors Notification: November 3, 2014 
Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 

 

Sponsored by:

INSTICC-Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control
and Communication

INSTICC is Member of:

WfMC- Workflow Management Coalition

Logistics Partner:

SCITEVENTS ? Science and Technology Events

 

The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and
Methods would like to become a major point of contact between
researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Pattern
Recognition, both from theoretical and application perspectives.

Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques
to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or
theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern
Recognition methods are especially encouraged.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ICPRAM 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are
internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not
yet confirmed.

 

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings,
under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef ( <http://www.crossref.org/>
http://www.crossref.org/).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Default.aspx SCITEPRESS Digital
Library.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier
Index) and Scopus.

AWARDS

The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing
session.

Please check the website for further information:
http://www.icpram.org/PreviousAwards.aspx


ICPRAM CONFERENCE CHAIR

Ana Fred, Instituto de Telecomunica??es / IST, Portugal


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Maria De Marsico, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy
M?rio Figueiredo, Technical University of Lisbon - IST, Portugal

 

CONFERENCE AREAS:


Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is
not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics,
although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related
sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the
following main topic areas:

1. THEORY AND METHODS
2. APPLICATIONS

 

AREA 1: THEORY AND METHODS 

- Exact and Approximate Inference 

- Density Estimation 

- Bayesian Models 

- Gaussian Processes 

- Model Selection 

- Graphical and Graph-based Models 

- Missing Data 

- Ensemble Methods 

- Neural Networks 

- Kernel Methods 

- Large Margin Methods 

- Classification 

- Regression 

- Sparsity 

- Feature Selection and Extraction 

- Spectral Methods 

- Embedding and Manifold Learning 

- Similarity and Distance Learning 

- Matrix Factorization 

- Clustering 

- ICA, PCA, CCA and other Linear Models 

- Fuzzy Logic 

- Active Learning 

- Cost-sensitive Learning 

- Incremental Learning 

- On-line Learning 

- Structured Learning 

- Multi-agent Learning 

- Multi-instance Learning 

- Reinforcement Learning 

- Instance-based Learning 

- Knowledge Acquisition and Representation 

- Meta Learning 

- Multi-strategy Learning 

- Case-Based Reasoning 

- Inductive Learning 

- Computational Learning Theory 

- Cooperative Learning 

- Evolutionary Computation 

- Information Retrieval and Learning 

- Hybrid Learning Algorithms 

- Planning and Learning 

- Convex Optimization 

- Stochastic Methods 

- Combinatorial Optimization 

- Multiclassifier Fusion 

AREA 2: APPLICATIONS 

- Natural language processing 

- Information retrieval 

- Ranking 

- Web Applications 

- Economics, Business and Forecasting Applications 

- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 

- Audio and Speech Processing 

- Signal Processing 

- Image Understanding 

- Sensors and Early Vision 

- Motion and Tracking 

- Image-based Modelling 

- Shape Representation 

- Object Recognition 

- Video Analysis 

- Medical Imaging 

- Learning and Adaptive Control 

- Perception 

- Learning in Process Automation 

- Learning of Action Patterns 

- Virtual Environments 

- Robotics 

- Biometrics 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

http://www.icpram.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

 

 

Please check further details at the conference website
(http://www.icpram.org)

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:12:10 +0200
Subject: Appel: 2nd CFP SIGIR Medical Information Retrieval Workshop
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101210.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:08:05 +0100
From: Lorraine Goeuriot <lorraine.goeuriot at gmail.com>
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==============================================
MEDICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (MedIR) WORKSHOP
http://medir.dcu.ie/

At SIGIR 2014, July 11 2014, Gold Coast, Australia
=======================================
Call for Papers (2 & 4 page)
--------------------------------------

**Submission deadline: April 28**

Medical information search refers to methodologies and technologies that
seek to improve access to medical information archives via a process of
information retrieval (IR). Such information is now potentially
accessible from many sources including the general web, social media,
journal articles, and hospital records.

Medical information is of interest to a wide variety of users, including
patients and their families, researchers, general practitioners and
clinicians, and practitioners with specific expertise such as
radiologists.  Despite the popularity of the medical domain for users of
search engines, and current interest in this topic within the
information retrieval research community, development of search and
access technologies remains particularly challenging. One of the central
issues in medical information search is diversity of the users of these
services. In particular, they will have varying categories of
information needs, varying levels of medical knowledge, and varying
language skills. In addition, the format, reliability, and quality of
biomedical and medical information varies greatly. A single health
record can contain clinical notes, technical pathology data, images, and
patient-contributed histories, and may be linked by a physician to
research papers. The importance of health and medical topics and their
impact on people's everyday lives makes the need for retrieval of
accurate and reliable information especially important.  Determining the
likely reliability of available information is challenging.  Finally, as
with information retrieval in general, the evaluation of medical search
tools is vital and challenging.  For example, there are no established
or standardized baselines or evaluation metrics, and limited
availability of test collections.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in medical
information search with the goal of identifying specific research
challenges that need to be addressed to advance the state-of-the-art and
to foster interdisciplinary collaborations towards the meeting of these
challenges. To enable this, we encourage participation from researchers
in all fields related to medical information search including mainstream
information retrieval, but also natural language processing,
multilingual text processing, and medical image analysis.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Users and information needs
- Semantics and NLP for medical IR
- Reliability and trust in medical IR
- Personalised search
- Evaluation of medical IR
- Multilingual issues in medical IR
- Multimedia technologies in medical IR
- The role of social media in medical IR

====================================
Paper Submissions
---------------------------
The workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Short papers (4 pages)
and short position papers (2 pages) describing approaches or ideas /
challenges on the topics of the workshop are invited. Submissions should
be in ACM SIGS format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX,
use the "Option 2" style).

Papers should be anonymised for double blind review and submitted in pdf
format through the EasyChair system
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medir2014 no later than
midnight Pacific Daylight Time on April 28, 2014. Submissions will be
reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers
will be included in the SIGIR 2014 Medical Information Search Workshop
proceedings.

====================================
Important Dates
----------------------
April 28, 2014: Deadline for paper submission (midnight Pacific Daylight
Time)
May 10, 2014: Notification to authors
May 17, 2014: Camera-ready papers due
July 11, 2014: Workshop

====================================
Further Information
--------------------------
Further information is available on the workshop website at
http://medir.dcu.ie/ or by emailing the workshop organisers.

====================================
Workshop Organisers
------------------------------
Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland
Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland
Henning M?ller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:10:38 +0200
Subject: Appel: Colloques "Frontieres Numeriques" & CIDE17 (Fes 2014)
Message-ID: <SUN.6.APR.2014.101038.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:05:14 +0200
From: Bernard Jacquemin <Bernard.Jacquemin at univ-lille3.fr>
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Chers coll?gues,

Le laboratoire Paragraphe en collaboration avec les ?quipes Geriico
(Lille 3), Arts des images & art contemporain (Paris 8), LabEx Arts-H2M
(Paris 8), Idefi Cr?atic (Paris 8), ESISA (F?s Maroc) organisent deux
colloques ? F?s les 18, 19 et 20 Novembre 2014. Il nous semble que ces
manifestations pourraient vous int?resser.

Ci-dessous les sites des deux colloques (Appel ? contributions,
informations pratiques, etc.) :

Colloque : http://numerique.paragraphe.info/ sur les fronti?res
num?riques, les 18 et 19 Novembre 2014.

Colloque : http://cide17.europia.org sur le livre post-num?rique :
historique, mutations et perspectives, les 19 et 20 Novembre 2014.


Nous vous remercions par avance, de bien vouloir diffuser cet appel
aupr?s de vos coll?gues et vos doctorants.

Bien cordialement

Le comit? "Fronti?res Num?riques"

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:22:47 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:22:47 +0200
Subject: Appel: Reseaux Lexicaux et Traitement des Langues Naturelles
 (RLTLN)
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.212247.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:33:24 +0800
From: Michael Zock <Michael.Zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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We do accept papers written in English by those who are not fluent in
French

Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais.
---------------------

R?seaux Lexicaux et Traitement des Langues Naturelles (RLTLN)

Atelier TALN 2014
Facult? Saint Charles (Aix Marseille Universit?), 1er juillet 2014.
Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2014

Organisateurs :
Michael Zock (LIF, Marseille)
Gemma Bel-Enguix (LIF, Marseille)
Reinhard Rapp (LIF, Marseille et Universit? de Mainz)

1 PR?SENTATION DU CHAMP

La fa?on dont nous regardons les unit?s lexicales, leur organisation et
utilisation a radicalement chang?e ces derni?res d?cennies. D?crites
dans des dictionnaires et consid?r?es comme des annexes de la grammaire
dans les ann?es 80, on les consid?re d?sormais comme de la mati?re
premi?re en TAL. Si ? l??poque on utilisait encore des termes comme
'mots' ou 'dictionnaires', on parle aujourd?hui plut?t de 'ressources
lexicales' dont il existe un certain nombre (WordNet, FrameNet, VerbNet,
PropBank, ...). Celles-ci ont ?t? standardis?es
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBY-LMF), li?es entre elles (http:/
/verbs.colorado.edu/semlink/) ou li?es ? des encyclop?dies comme
Wikip?dia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BabelNet). Il y a ?galement des
projets comme DBnary (http://kaiko.getalp.org/about-dbnary) qui, partant
de Wiktionary, fournit des ressources lexicales dans de nombreuses
langues.

Si dans le pass? on cr?ait des dictionnaires ? la main, on le fait
aujourd'hui de mani?re (semi-) automatique et ? l'aide de corpus. Bien
entendu, cette ?volution ne s'est pas faite du jour au lendemain. Les
premi?res tentatives de cr?ation automatique de ressources ? partir de
dictionnaires imprim?s (Ide V?ronis,
sites.univ-provence.fr/veronis/publis.html) se sont vite heurt?es ? des
probl?mes, en raison de la pauvret? de la source : les dictionnaires
papier ne contenaient pas les informations n?cessaires permettant
ensuite un usage par la machine. Or, c??tait justement le but
recherch?. L?acc?s ? de vastes corpus a alors permis de marquer un
tournant et de construire des ressources plus riches, plus explicites et
mieux structur?es. Concernant ce dernier point, WordNet (WN) a jou? un
r?le capital. Bien qu?il n?a pas eu le succ?s escompt? aupr?s des
psycholinguistes ou aupr?s des utilisateurs consultant la ressource
(pour chercher des mots), WN a eu un succ?s consid?rable en TAL. Ceci
dit, il a ?galement eu un impact incontestable sur le plan th?orique. WN
a profond?ment modifi? notre mani?re de voir la structure des ressources
lexicales.  Dor?navant, elles ne se r?sument plus ? des simples listes
alphab?tiques, mais elles sont r?pr?sent?es plut?t sous forme des
graphes (r?seau lexical) dont les noeuds sont des unit?s lexicales li?es
par diff?rents types de relations.

Parall?lement ? l??volution des ressources lexicales, on a pu observer
une ?volution notable concernant les travaux portant sur les
graphes. Ces derniers semblent se pr?ter ? merveille ? la mod?lisation
de divers domaines (Barrat, 2008, Barab?si, 2003), y compris celui de la
langue. En effet, il y a eu de nombreux travaux montrant leur pertinence
pour capter le sens des mots et celui des phrases (Widdows, 2004; Sowa,
1991) ou pour mod?liser divers aspects du 'monde' lexical : structures
associatives (http://www.eat.rl.ac.uk, ou http://
w3.usf.edu/FreeAssociation/), structure du dictionnaire (Gaume et
al. 2008), densit? lexicale, distance moyenne entre les mots (Vitevitch,
2008), accessibilit? (Ferrer i Cancho Sole, 2001), aspects dynamiques
des graphes (Dion, 2012), etc.

Nous constatons donc qu?il y a deux communaut?s, dont l?une s?int?resse
aux donn?es (concr?tes commes les unites lexicales), et l?autre plut?t ?
leur repr?sentation et organisation (graphes, topologie,
navigation). C?est pour encourager l??change d?id?es entre ces deux
mondes, que nous organisons cet atelier.


2 THEMES

Nous attendons des soumissions portant sur les th?mes ?voqu?s plus haut
et en particulier :

  - Origine des donn?es permettant la construction des ressources :
    corpus (web, blogs, courriels), ?tres humains (liste
    d?associations), etc. ;
  - M?thode de construction de la ressource: automatique,
    semi-automatique, collaborative (par des jeux, etc.) ;
  - Construction automatique du r?seau (rep?rage et caract?risation des
    relations s?mantiques) ;
  - Structuration des donn?es : alphab?tique, th?matique, liens
    s?mantiques, liens associatifs ;
  - Propri?t?s math?matiques des r?seaux lexicaux ;
  - Facteurs affectant le poids des noeuds ou des liens : aspects
    dynamiques des graphes (fr?quence, saillance, r?cence, changement de
    th?me, etc.) ;
  - Caract?risation topologique du graphe lexical : distribution,
    densit? relative, ?volution du graphe ;
  - Exploitation ou utilisation de la ressource ou d?une de ses
    transformations comme la transformation du graphe en arbre pour
    assister la navigation (acc?s lexical) ;
  - Accessibilit? des mots gr?ce ? des caract?ristiques du r?seau
    (ph?nom?ne du ?petit monde?) ;
  - Visualisation et manipulation des graphes (traduction en arbre,
    clustering, calcul de similarit? s?mantique) ;
  - Mod?lisation des variations linguistiques et des changements de la
    langue (?volution du lexique).


3 CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION

Les soumissions seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du
domaine.

Pour les travaux de recherches, seront consid?r?es en particulier :

  - l'ad?quation aux th?mes de l'atelier,
  - l'importance et l'originalit? de la contribution,
  - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,
  - l'organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation.


4 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. Ils devront suivre
le format de TALN 2014 et ne doivent pas d?passer 10 pages (r?f?rences
comprises). Les feuilles de style (LaTeX et Word) sont disponibles sur
le site web de la conf?rence (
http://www.taln2014.org/site/soumission/). Les propositions doivent ?tre
envoy?es sous forme pdf ? l?adresse suivante :
(https://www.easychair.org/ conferences/?conf=RLTLN2014). Les articles
retenus donneront lieu ? une pr?sentation de 30 mn, discussion comprise.

5 COMITE DE PROGRAMME

  - Bel Enguix, Gemma (LIF, Universit? Aix-Marseille, France)
  - Bouillon, Pierrette (tim, Facult? de Traduction et d?interpr?tation
    de Gen?ve, Suisse)
  - Cristea, Dan (University A.I.Cuza, Iasi, Romania)
  - Ferrer i Cancho, Ramon (larca, universit? polytechnique de
    Catalogne, Barcelone, Espagne)
  - Ferret, Olivier (cea list, Gif sur Yvette, France)
  - Francopoulo, Gil (Tagmatica, Paris, France)
  - Gala, Nuria (lif-cnrs, Aix Marseille Universit?, Marseille, France)
  - Granger, Sylviane (Universit? Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
  - Grefenstette, Gregory (Inria, Saclay, France)
  - Lapalme, Guy (rali, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada)
  - Lenci, Alessandro (Universit? de Pise, Italie)
  - L'Homme, Marie-Claude (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada)
  - Massip i Bonet, ?ngels: (Universit? de Barcelone, d?partement de
    philologie Catalane, Espagne)
  - Navigli, Roberto (Sapienzia, Universit? de Rome, Italie)
  - Ploux, Sabine (L2C2, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France)
  - Pr?vot, Laurent (lpl, Universit? Aix Marseille, Aix en Provence)
  - Rapp, Reinhard (lif, France) et (universit? de Mainz, Germany)
  - Rosso, Paolo (nlel, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain)
  - Schwab, Didier (lif-getalp, Grenoble, France)
  - S?rasset, Gilles (lig, Grenoble, France)
  - Zock, Michael (lif, Marseille, France) et (Universit? de Tainan,
    Taiwan)

6 DATES IMPORTANTES

  - Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2014
  - Notification aux auteurs : 10 mai 2014
  - Soumission de la version d?finitive : 30 mai 2014
  - Date de l?atelier : 1er juillet 2014

7 CONTACT

- Michael Zock michael.zock [arobas] lif.univ-mrs.fr
- Gemma Bel Enguix gemma.belenguix [arobas] gmail.com
- Reinhard Rapp reinhardrapp [arobas] gmx.de

Web :

http://www.taln2014.org/site/
https://sites.google.com/site/rltlntaln2014/

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:28:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: AiML-2014, Deadline: 9 April 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.212843.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:32:32 +0100
From: Agi Kurucz <agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk>
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*** Apologies for cross-postings ****

AiML-2014:  FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

             Paper submission deadline: 9 April 2014

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

10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MODAL LOGIC,
GRONINGEN, 5-8 AUGUST, 2014

           http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/

Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state
of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative
consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the
conferences. Information about the AiML series can be obtained at
http://www.aiml.net. AiML-2014 is the tenth conference in the series.

TOPICS
We invite submission on all aspects of modal logic, including:

- history of modal logic
- philosophy of modal logic
- applications of modal logic
- computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
  modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model
  checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics)
- theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
  on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
  correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
  modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of
  modal logic)

- specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics,
  modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process
  logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
  systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
  formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and
  temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural
  logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics)

Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
     Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany)
     Stephane Demri (New York University, US & CNRS, France)
     Joseph Halpern (Cornell University, US)
     Sara Negri (University of Helsinki, Finland)
     Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK)

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
There will be two types of submissions to AiML-2014:

(1) Full papers for publication in the proceedings and presentation at
    the conference.

(2) Short presentations intended for presentation at the conference but
    not for the published proceedings.

Both types of papers should be submitted electronically using the
EasyChair submission page at

   https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aiml2014

At least one author of each accepted paper or short presentation must
register for and attend the conference.

(1) FULL PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit, for presentation at the conference and
publication in the proceedings, full papers reporting on original
research and not submitted elsewhere. The proceedings of AiML-2014 will
be published by College Publications

              http://www.collegepublications.co.uk

in a volume to be made available at the conference.

The submissions should be at most 15 pages, with an optional technical
appendix of up to 5 pages, together with a plain-text abstract of
100-200 words. The submissions must be typeset in LaTeX, using the style
files and template that are provided on the AiML-2014 website
http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/

We also ask authors of full papers to submit the abstract in plain text
via EasyChair by 14 March.

(2) SHORT PRESENTATIONS.
These should be at most 5 pages. They may describe preliminary results,
work in progress etc., and will be subject to light reviewing. The
accepted submissions will be made available at the conference, and the
authors will have the opportunity to give short presentations (of up to
15 minutes) on them.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts and full papers submission deadline: 9 April 2014
Full papers acceptance notification: 19 May 2014
Short presentations submission deadline:  21 May 2014
Short presentations acceptance notification:  2 June 2014
Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 9 June 2014
Conference: 5-8 August, 2014.

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
     Dave Gilbert
     Barteld Kooi
     Bouke Kuijer
     Paolo Maffezioli
     Allard Tamminga

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
     Carlos Areces (FaMAF, Universitad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
     Alexandru Baltag (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
     Nick Bezhanishvili (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
     Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University, Denmark)
     Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, France)
     David Fern?ndez-Duque (ITAM, Mexico)
     Melvin Fitting (Lehman College, CUNY, USA)
     Mai Gehrke (LIAFA, Universit? Paris Diderot, France)
     Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
     Rob Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
     Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark)
     Guido Governatori (NICTA Queensland, Australia)
     Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
     Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
     Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College London, UK)
     Barteld Kooi (University of Groningen)
     Marcus Kracht (Universit?t Bielefeld, Germany)
     Alexander Kurz (University of Leicester, UK)
     Carsten Lutz (Universit?t Bremen, Germany)
     Jakub Michaliszyn (Imperial College London, UK)
     Larry Moss (Indiana University, USA)
     Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
     Revantha Ramanayake (Technical University of Vienna)
     Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia)
     Vladimir Rybakov (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
     Renate Schmidt (University of Manchester, UK)
     Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
     Ilya Shapirovsky (Institute for Information Transmission Problems, 
         Moscow, Russia)
     Valentin Shehtman (Moscow State University, Russia)
     Dimiter Vakarelov (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
     Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
     Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
     Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College London, UK)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
     Rajeev Gore (The Australian National University, Australia)
     Agi Kurucz (King's College London, UK)

FURTHER INFORMATION. Please see http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014

ENQUIRIES. E-mail enquiries should be directed to the PC co-chairs,
sent to aiml2014 at easychair.org

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:32:21 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:32:21 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Session 4, Natively digital data mapping, 10/04/2014,
 ENSCI
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Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:14:24 +0200
From: Audrey Baneyx - Sciences Po <audrey.baneyx at sciencespo.fr>
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*10.04.14 // Session 4: Natively digital data mapping // 14:30-18:00 @
 ENSCI
**http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/venue/*

Thirty years ago, the democratization of IT radically changed the way we
access, generate and manage information. The Internet has amplified and
accelerated this phenomenon, producing ever increasing amounts of
"natively digital data" (Rogers, 2013). This has fostered numerous
studies of online culture, where researchers have turned to
user-populated platforms such as Twitter to detect the associative
practices of novel communities, or to sites such as Wikipedia where
recent studies compare the controversality of topics on different
language sections of the online encyclopedia (Yasseri, 2012). Beyond
these specific studies of web-based-media use, there are broader
questions about what exactly are we studying when we analyze hyperlinks,
online forums, websites, etc.? Furthermore, what are we doing when we
access information through ranking systems provided by search engine
algorithms (e.g. PageRank) that constantly evolve to take into account a
user's prior searches? The session aims to develop a reflexive
understanding of using natively digital data as a resource for research.

*[14h30-16h00]* The seminar will start with a collective discussion of
the articles (and video presentation) listed below. There will be a
brief presentation and comments on the texts provided by Alexandre
Hocquet
(http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet)
and Tao Hong (http://univ-paris8.academia.edu/TaoHong) to help launch
the discussion.

- Marres, N., & Weltevrede, E. (2013). Scraping the Social? /Journal of
  Cultural Economy/, 6(3), 313--335. doi:10.1080/17530350.2013.772070
  (link (http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/6768/))

- Yasseri, T., Sumi, R., Rung, A., Kornai, A., & Kert?sz, J. (2012).
  Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia. /PloS ONE/, 7(6), e38869.
  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038869 (link
  (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038869))

- Kelty, C. (2014). /The fog of freedom/. In Gillespie, T., Foot, K.,
  and Boczkowski, P., editors, /Media Technologies: Essays on
  Communication, Materiality, and Society/. MIT Press, Cambridge,
  MA. Video link of presentation of text:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihY0exiwkn8

**

*[16h00-16h15]* Pause

*[16h15-18h00]**Noortje Marres* 
(http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/marres/), Senior Lecturer at
Goldsmiths University of London will be the guest for this session and
present *The Ambiguity of Social Media Research:* *Re-mediating Science
and Technology Studies. *Her talk will address a distinctive problem in
social media research, namely the inherent ambiguity of its object. Of
much social media research the question can be asked of its
practitioners: are they studying society or technology? Not just the
objects, but equally the methods of social media analysis are marked by
ambivalence. They are of uncertain provenance, invoking methodological
traditions in qualitative and quantitative research at once, and leaving
it unclear whether they derive from media culture or from social
research. Drawing on work in science and technology studies, Marres will
argue that this ambiguity of social media research should /not/ be
regarded as a problem-to-be-solved. Instead, the confusion creates
opportunities for understanding and can be deployed to generate insight
in/as social media research. One could even say that social media
research fails when the ambiguity of its object and methods is solved
too quickly.

The seminar is open to all. If you are interested in participating,
however, please sign up (http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/inscription/)
on our website!

The Organizing Committee

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:33:35 +0200
Subject: Appel: New Deadline MAY 1, Natural Language and Computer Science,
 July 17-18 Vienna
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.213335.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 20:58:49 +0200
From: Christian RETORE <christian.retore at labri.fr>
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X-url: http://vsl2014.at/
X-url: http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/csl-lics14/
X-url: http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html

DEADLINE EXTENSION : MAY 1st, 2014
Author notification: 2 weeks after they submitted the paper. 

Vienna Summer of Logic http://vsl2014.at/
Computer Science Logic - Logic In Computer Science 2014 
http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/csl-lics14/
Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics 
Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics.

Workshop on 
NATURAL LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE  (NLCS '14)
17-18 July, 2014 Vienna, Austria
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html



AIMS AND SCOPE

Formal tools coming from logic, category theory, are important for
natural language processing and especially for computational semantics.
Moreover, work on these tools borrows heavily from all areas of
theoretical computer science.  In the other direction, applications
having to do with natural language have inspired developments on the
formal side.  The workshop invites papers on both topics and their
applications, as well as on the combination between logical and
statistical methods.

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

* linguistic, computational and logical aspects of the interface between
  syntax and semantics
* logical aspects of linguistic theories 
* logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog
* continuations in natural language semantics
* formal tools in textual inference, such as logics for natural language
  inference
* applications of category theory in semantics
* linear logic in semantics
* formal approaches to unifying data-driven (quantitative, statistical)
  and declarative (logical) approaches to semantics
* natural language processing tools using some logic 


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline:	May 1, 2014
Author notification:	Two weeks after the submission. 
Electronic versions of papers due:	May 15, 2014
Workshop: July 17, 2014


INVITED SPEAKERS 

ANNE ABEILL? (to be confirmed) 
Universit? Paris Diderot 
AARNE RANTA
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
LAURE VIEU
Cnrs-Irit and Universit? Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 


SUBMISSIONS

Please submit extended abstracts of 4-10 pages using EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlcs14

ORGANIZERS

Valeria de Paiva, Nuance
Larry Moss, Indiana University
Christian Retor?, Universit? de Bordeaux 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg
Valeria de Paiva, Nuance
Christophe Fouquer?, Universit? Paris 13
Larry Moss, Indiana University
Ian Pratt-Hartmann, University of Manchester, UK
Christian Retor?, Universit? de Bordeaux 
Wlodek Zadrozny, UNC, Charlotte

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:44:36 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:44:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: 1st VarDial Workshop at COLING 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.214436.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 09:10:53 -0300
From: Marcos Zampieri <marcos_zampieri at hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <COL127-W23E304E42F20B5A466ECFD806B0 at phx.gbl>
X-url: http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/
X-url: http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/sharedtask.html


2nd Call For Papers

1st Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, Varieties and
Dialects (VarDial) at COLING 2014 in Dublin, Ireland.

VarDial Workshop: http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/

The interest in language resources and computational models for the
study of similar languages, varieties and dialects has been growing
substantially in the last few years. The VarDial workshop will discuss a
range of topics related to the study of linguistic variation.

We welcome papers dealing with one or more topics of the VarDial
workshop:

1) Language Resources and Tools for Varieties and Dialects

- Corpus compilation (comparable, parallel)
- Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages,
  varieties and dialects
- Evaluation of LR and tools applied to language varieties
- Reusability of LR in NLP applications (e.g. machine translation)
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation

2) NLP Tasks and Applications

- Identification of lexical variation and lexicon induction
- Automatic classification of language varieties
- Domain adaptation between language varieties
- Identification of false friends
- Machine translation between varieties and dialects

Along with the VarDial workshop we will also be organizing the
Discriminating between Similar Languages (DSL) shared task. More
information: http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/sharedtask.html

Instruction for Authors

Papers should contain a maximum of 8 pages + 2 additional pages for
references.

The templates are available at the COLING website. For better
presentation we strongly recommend papers to be prepared using LaTeX.

The review process will be double blind, submissions should be
anonymous.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: May 2nd, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: June 6th, 2014
Camera-Ready Version: June 27th, 2014
Workshop: August 23rd, 2014

Program Committee

?eljko Agic (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Jorge Baptista (University of Algarve and INESC-ID, Portugal)
Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, United States)
Paul Cook (University of Melboune, Australia)
Liviu Dinu (University of Bucarest, Romania)
Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Sascha Diwersy (University of Cologne, Germany)
Toma? Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Mikel L. Forcada (Universitat d'Alacant, Spain)
Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Holland)
Nitin Indurkhya (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Jeremy Jancsary (Nuance Communications, Austria)
Marco Lui (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Santanu Pal (Saarland University, Germany)
Sebastian Pad? (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany and University of Aix-Marsaille, France)
Felipe S?nchez Mart?nez (University of Alicante, Spain)
Kevin Scanell (Saint Louis University, USA)
Yves Scherrer (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Serge Sharoff (Leeds University, United Kingdom)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Elke Teich (Saarland University, Germany)
Joel Tetreault (Yahoo! Labs, USA)
Francis Tyers (UiT Norgga ?rktala? universitehta, Norway)
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Torsten Zesch (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Organizers

Marcos Zampieri (Saarland University, Germany)
Liling Tan (Saarland University, Germany)
Nikola Ljube?ic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
J?rg Tiedemann (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Contact

Workshop: vardialworkshop at gmail.com

Shared Task: dsl.sharedtask at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:47:14 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:47:14 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: Contrat doctoral, Analyse automatique,
 DGA / Aix Marseille Universite
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.214714.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:58:28 +0200
From: Frederic Bechet <frederic.bechet at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <53441CA4.8050807 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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Dans le cadre d'un co-financement entre la DGA et l'Universit? d'Aix
Marseille, nous recherchons des candidats pour un contrat doctoral de 3
ans, d?butant en septembre 2014, portant sur l'analyse automatique de
documents vid?o, et plus particuli?rement sur des approches multimodales
de traitement de l'information visuelle, audio et texte.

Nous recherchons des candidats titulaire d'un Master Informatique (ou
?quivalent), ou en cours d'obtention d'un tel Master (et qui sont
actuellement en stage).

La date limite de candidature est fix?e au 25 avril 2014. Le dossier de
candidature est compos? d'un CV d?taill?, la copie du dernier dipl?me ou
de l'attestation de r?ussite avec un relev? de notes et tous les
?l?ments que vous jugerez utiles de joindre pour conforter votre dossier
de candidature.

Le titre de la proposition de th?se est : "Compr?hension Multimodale ?
vers des traitements joints audio/image pour la compr?hension
multimodale de documents vid?o"
Mots-cl?s : traitement automatique de la parole, traitement automatique 
de la langue, traitement d'image, apprentissage automatique, recherche 
d'information.
Une description du sujet est disponible ? l'adresse suivante : 
http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~frederic.bechet/prop_these_court_DGA2014_LIF_TALEP.pdf

Pour toute demande de renseignement : frederic.bechet at univ-amu.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:40:54 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:40:54 +0200
Subject: Journee: Formation AnaLog,
 Fonctionnalites de base pour l'annotation et l'exploration de
 textes, Tours
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.214054.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:15:52 +0200
From: Marie-Helene Lay <marie-helene.lay at univ-poitiers.fr>
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Bonjour ? tous, 

La MSH Val de Loire et l'?quipe des Biblioth?ques Virtuelles Humanistes
du Centre d'Etudes Sup?rieures de la Renaissance organisent une
FORMATION GRATUITE ? L'OUTIL ANALOG LE 14 AVRIL 2014, DE 09H00 ? 17H30 ?
LA MSH VAL DE LOIRE ? TOURS.

ANALOG est un outil
logiciel permettant simultan?ment :  

 	* de faire des requ?tes complexes sur des corpus bruts ou
          annot?s
 	* d'annoter un corpus avec son propre jeu d'?tiquettes ou de
          corriger un corpus d?j? annot?
 	* de traiter des donn?es ind?pendamment des langues

AnaLog est un outil logiciel libre ?crit en java, r?alis? en
collaboration entre Marie-H?l?ne Lay (universit? de Poitiers) et
l'?quipe des BVH du CESR de Tours. Il est facile ? installer (5 minutes)
et facile ? prendre en main : on peut en avoir une utilisation autonome
au bout de deux heures, les fonctionnalit?s plus complexes (leur mise en
oeuvre ? construite ?) pouvant ?tre ma?tris?es en deux jours de
formation. La deuxi?me journ?e (Niveau 2) sera organis?e apr?s bilan et
?valuation de cette premi?re formation.

PUBLIC : Cette formation niveau 1 s'adresse ? toute personne d?sireuse
d'utiliser des outils d'annotation et d'extraction sur un texte de son
choix (litt?raires, linguistes, sociologues, psychologues,
historiens...).

INSCRIPTIONS : par email aupr?s de
sandrine.breuil at univ-tours.fr [1] AVANT LE 11 AVRIL 2014 

INFORMATION
ET PROGRAMME COMPLET sur :
http://msh.univ-tours.fr/article/analog-fonctionnalites-de-base-pour-l-annotation-et-l-exploration-de-textes
[2]  


  

Links:
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:46:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:46:20 +0200
Subject: Job: CDD, Annotateur en langue Arabe / Chinoise / Russe, ELDA
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.214620.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:48:52 +0200
From: Leixa j?r?my <leixa at elda.org>
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*Postes d'Annotateur en langue Arabe / Chinoise / Russe (H/F), CDD ?
plein temps *

ELDA (Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency,
www.elda.org <http://www.elda.org/>) a pour activit?s principales la
distribution et la production de ressources linguistiques, ainsi que
l'?valuation de technologies de la langue.

Dans le cadre de ses activit?s de production, ELDA offre plusieurs
postes d'annotateur (H/F) ? mi-temps.

_Contexte_

Dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche, ELDA (Evaluations and Language
resources Distribution Agency) recrute plusieurs personnes pour
participer ? la constitution de corpus annot?s en Entit?s Nomm?es.

Les Entit?s Nomm?es (EN) sont des objets textuels (c'est-?-dire un mot,
ou un groupe de mot) cat?gorisables dans des classes pr?d?finies
(personnes, noms d'organisation, noms de lieux, quantit?s, distances,
dates, etc.) La reconnaissance d'Entit?s Nomm?es est une sous-t?che
essentielle des syst?mes d'extraction d'information dans des corpus
documentaires.

_Mission_

Il s'agit d'annoter les documents textuels afin d'en fournir la
description n?cessaire ? l'?valuation. Le travail sera effectu? via un
logiciel sp?cifique, et selon des conventions d'annotation sur
lesquelles les candidats seront form?s.

_Profil recherch?_

  * Tr?s bonne connaissance des langues ?crites arabe, russe ou chinoise
  * Bonne ma?trise de l'outil informatique (et pour l'arabe, usage du
    clavier d?di?)
  * Capacit? ? int?grer des r?gles (d'annotation) et ? les suivre
    scrupuleusement et avec constance

_Dur?e_

Plein-temps, pour une dur?e de 1 mois.

_Salaire_

Selon profil et performances

Les candidatures (CV, lettre de motivation) doivent ?tre adress?es ?
leixa at elda.org


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:10:59 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:10:59 +0200
Subject: Conf: LREC 2014 Conference Programme now online, May 28, 29 and
 30, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:58:17 +0200
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[Apologies for multiple postings]

The programme for the 3 days of the Main conference, May 28, 29 and 30, 
2014, is now online at: 
http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/conference-programme/.

www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2014
Follow us on Twitter: @LREC2014 https://twitter.com/LREC2014
Contact: lrec at lrec-conf.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:09:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:09:22 +0200
Subject: Stage: Stage d'ete, Internship in Dublin City University
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.220922.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:06:55 +0100
From: Lorraine Goeuriot <lorraine.goeuriot at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CALwc3gj4zsYeGjNAFGC2djNM3ZhetE67Db1UbjYYy=dNyhncEw at mail.gmail.com>
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=============================
CNGL Internship Programme 2014
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
------------------------------

Institution: Dublin City University

Project Title: Medical Information Retrieval

Suitable for students who are studying in the following areas:
Suitable for students doing a Master in Computer Science/Computational
Linguistics with interest in
Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.

Skills needed:
A strong interest in programming and good programming skills (Java and
Python).
Basic knowledge in computational linguistics and information retrieval
is desirable.

Project Description:
Khresmoi (http://khresmoi.eu/) is a large EU funded project spread
across 12 European universities and companies. The Khresmoi project is
exploring the development of computer systems to help the general public
and medical professionals find medical information in different
languages. For example, the project has developed a Google style
interface which allows members of the general public to enter queries
for medical information in several languages, and which returns a ranked
result list of medical web pages translated into the user's language.
The members of the Khresmoi project are involved in various steps of the
creation of that system, which includes research on information
retrieval, cross-lingual information retrieval, information extraction,
automatic summarization, evaluation, etc.

The Role of the student & benefits gained from participation in this
project:
Information retrieval (IR) is a process which aims to locate, for a
given information need (expressed as a keyword query), relevant content
(documents) from a document archive. In this project, we are focusing on
a specific domain for the information retrieval process: health and
medical textual content.
The aim of this internship is to assist our research team in performing
several information retrieval related tasks. The student will be fully
integrated into our research team and will work for Khresmoi
(khresmoi.eu), a medical information search project.
The internship will include various information retrieval experiments
(setting up IR systems, evaluating on benchmark collections, managing
relevance judgement marking, etc.). The student will also be involved in
development projects, e.g. adding new functionalities to a web
application for relevance judgements, and automatic summarization tool
components.
This is a practical, hands-on project, suitable for students who are
interested in learning more about information retrieval and evaluation
in experimental research in computing and science in general. As part of
this work the student may be required to contribute to report writing on
the results of the evaluation analysis. The student will work closely
with and have the guidance, help and support of the project organisers
in all activities.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a student to gain first-hand
experience of working within a dynamic research group. These skills will
provide the intern with a competitive advantage in the pursuit of
careers in both research and industry.
Depending on the project outcomes it is also foreseen that the project
will result in a research publication, of which the student would be a
co-author.

Who will be working with you?
The student will work closely with Dr Lorraine Goeuriot and Dr Liadh
Kelly, researchers in the group. S/he will also be supervised by Dr
Gareth Jones, the team leader of the group.

Other information:
- Funding: from 200 EURO to 300 EURO per week (to be confirmed)
- Duration of Internship: 2 to 3 months (between May and August 2014)

For further details on this project please contact:
Liadh Kelly and Lorraine Goeuriot - (liadh.kelly,
lorraine.goeuriot)@computing.dcu.ie


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:14:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:14:12 +0200
Subject: Appel: LD4KD,
 Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery Workshop at ECML/PKDD
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.221412.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:39:02 +0100
From: Mathieu d'Aquin <m.daquin at open.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <5347AA26.1080007 at open.ac.uk>
X-url: http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/
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** apologies for cross-posting **

================================
LD4KD 2014
1st Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery

http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/

co-located with the European Conference on Machine Learning and
Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery 2014 (ECML/PKDD 2014)
15-19 September 2014, Nancy, France (http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/ )

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

Linked Data have attracted a lot of attention in recent years in many
research areas, as their technologies and principles provide new ways to
overcome typical data management and consumption issues such as
reliability, heterogeneity, provenance or completeness. However, the way
in which Linked Data can be applicable and beneficial to the Knowledge
Discovery (KDD) pocess is still not completely understood. Many aspects
of KDD could benefit from Linked Data, e.g. mining Linked Data sources,
using Linked Data to enrich, represent or integrate local data for data
preparation, interpretation or visualisation.

LD4KD will be an interactive hub to explore the benefits of Linked Data
principles and technologies for Knowledge Discovery, together with
addressing the new challenges that will emere from joining the two
fields. It will be an opportunity for practitioners of both fields to
create communication and collaboration channels,and bridge the gap
between their overlapping, but mostly isolated communities.

The workshop encourages the participation of researchers from the
Knowledge Discovery field to discuss and get informed about the use,
benefits and challenges of Linked Data, while th Linked Data researchers
can take advantage of and adapt Knowledge Discovery methods in their
domain.

*SCOPE*

We welcome high quality position and research papers in which (1) Linked
Data are used as support of Knowledge Discovery processes to extract
useful knowledge, or (2) Knowledge Discovery techniques are adapted to
work and possibly extend Linked Data.

Topics of either theoretical and applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

- Linked Data for data pre-processing: cleaning, sorting, filtering or
  enrichment
- Linked Data applied to Machine Learning
- Linked Data for pattern extraction and behaviour detection
- Linked Data for pattern interpretation, visualization or optimisation
- Reasoning with patterns and Linked Data
- Reasoning on and extracting knowledge from Linked Data
- Linked Data mining
- Links prediction or links discovery using KDD
- Graph mining in Linked Data
- Interacting with Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery

*IMPORTANT DATES*

Paper submission deadline: June 20th
Notification Of Acceptance: July 20th
Camera ready copies due: August 5th, 2014
Workshop date: September 15th/19th, 2014

*SUBMISSIONS*

Articles should be written following the Springer LNCS template (see
authors instructions at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and can be
up to 10 pages in lenght for research papers or 5 pages for position
papers, including figures and references.

Submissions are exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format,
through the EasyChair system. The submission site is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ld4kd

* ORGANISING COMMITTEE *

Ilaria Tiddi, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Nicolas Jay, Orpailleur, Loria, France

*CONTACTS*

mathieu.daquin at open.ac.uk
ilaria.tiddi at open.ac.uk
nicolas.jay at loria.fr

*PROGRAMME COMMITTEE*

Francesca Alessandra
Claudia D'Amato
Tommaso di Noia
Nicola Fanizzi
Johannes F?rnkranz
Nathalie Hernandez
Agnieszka Lawrynowicz
Amedeo Napoli
Andriy Nikolov
Heiko Paulheim
Sebastian Rudolph
Harald Sack
Vojt?ch Sv?tek
Isabelle Tellier
Cassia Trojahn

-- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an
   exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in
   Scotland (SC 038302).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:39:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:39:43 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: fouille d'opinion en contexte multimodal, Nantes
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.223943.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:18:57 +0200
From: Beatrice Daille <beatrice.daille at univ-nantes.fr>
Message-ID: <534D3FD1.3070502 at univ-nantes.fr>


Dans le cadre du projet LIMAH d?di?s ? l'analyse des contenus multim?dia
et selectionn? par le labex COMIN Labs, nous recherchons un(e)
?tudiant(e) d?sirant faire une th?se en informatique dans le domaine du
traitement automatique des langues et de la fouille d'opinion.

Le projet LIMAH porte, entre autre, sur l'exploration des structures
d'hypergraphes des masses de donn?es multim?dia sous diff?rents angles :
recherche information, opinion, loi et acceptabilit? de l'utilisateur.
Le sujet de th?se propos? vise ? ?tudier l'expression de l'opinion dans
les ?crits provenant de diff?rents m?dia. L'objectif de cette th?se
consiste ? d?tecter les segments d'opinions, ? d?tecter leur cible et ?
relier les fragments de textes portant sur les m?mes cibles.  Le
caract?re dynamique de l'opinion sera au coeur de ces travaux.


Nous recherchons un(e) ?tudiant(e) titulaire d'un master en
informatique.  Avoir suivi des cours en traitement automatique du
langage et/ou en apprentissage artificiel est fortement recommand?.

Le travail de th?se s'effectuera dans le cadre d'un contrat ? dur?e
d?termin?e de 3 ans au LINA, Facult? des Sciences, Universit? de Nantes
en co-encadrement avec l'IRISA, ?quipe TexMex ? Rennes
La th?se debutera en septembre-octobre 2014.

Les candidatures, qui devront nous parvenir par e-mail, devront
comporter un CV, un relev? des notes de master 1 (et 2 si d?j? connus),
une lettre de motivation et 2 noms d'enseignants universitaires avec
leur coordonn?es (t?l?phone, email) pouvant vous recommander.


Les candidatures attendues en avril-mai 2014 seront adress?es ? :
laura.monceaux at univ-nantes.fr (?quipe TALN - LINA),
beatrice.daille at univ-nantes.fr (?quipe TALN - LINA),
vincent.claveau at irisa.fr (?quipe TexMex - IRISA)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:00:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:00:46 +0200
Subject: Appel: Journal of Language Modelling 2(2)
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.220046.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:39:37 +0200
From: Adam Przepiorkowski <adamp at ipipan.waw.pl>
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Journal of Language Modelling (JLM) is a semi-annual peer-reviewed open
access free electronic journal aiming to bridge the gap between
theoretical linguistics and natural language processing.

Although typical articles are concerned with linguistic generalisations
? either with their application in natural language processing, or with
their discovery in language corpora ? possible topics range from
linguistic analyses which are sufficiently precise to be implementable
to mathematical models of aspects of language, and further to
computational systems making non-trivial use of linguistic insights.
See http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ for more information and, in particular,
http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/about/displayMembership/4 for the Editorial
Board.

This is a call for submissions to issue 2(2), to be published at the end
of 2014. In order to maximise the chance that a manuscript is fully
processed in time to be published in this issue, it should be submitted
by the end of June 2014, at the latest. Note, however, that regardless
of the half-yearly collection of papers into issues, articles appear at
the JLM web page as soon as they are accepted and edited.

When submitting a paper, please follow the instructions at:

http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/about/submissions

The following address should be used for any editorial correspondence
(not for submissions): jlm at chopin.ipipan.waw.pl.

(With apologies for cross-posting.)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr  8 19:51:57 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:51:57 +0200
Subject: Appel: Revue TAL, Numero special,
 Traitement automatique du langage parle
Message-ID: <TUE.8.APR.2014.215157.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:00:23 +0200
From: ln-request at cines.fr
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X-url: http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/

Deuxi?me appel ? communications: num?ro sp?cial sur le traitement
automatique du langage parl? pour la revue TAL (Traitement Automatique
des Langues)

--ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS CFP CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE--

Direction : Laurent Besacier, Wolfang Minker

Date limite :  30 juin 2014
 
La communication orale reste le moyen le plus naturel pour dialoguer et
interagir (avec la machine ou avec une autre personne). Le traitement
automatique du langage parl? (TALP) et le dialogue trouvent d?sormais de
nombreuses applications directes dans des domaines divers tels que
(liste non exhaustive) la recherche d'information, l'interaction en
langue naturelle avec des dispositifs mobiles, la robotique sociale, les
technologies d'assistance ? la personne, l'apprentissage des langues,
etc.  Cependant, le TALP pose des probl?mes sp?cifiques li?s ? la nature
m?me du mat?riau trait?. En effet, on est amen? ? traiter des ?nonc?s de
parole plus ou moins spontan?e et contenant de nombreux traits
paralinguistiques.  Par exemple, la pr?sence de disfluences orales
(r?p?titions, reprises, incises...) r?duit la r?gularit? syntaxique des
?nonc?s ; les ?nonc?s oraux sont ?galement riches d'informations li?s
aux affects, etc. Par ailleurs, l'?tape de transcription automatique,
souvent n?cessaire avant l'application de traitements de plus haut
niveau (compr?hension, traduction, analyse, etc.) rend des sorties
bruit?es (contenant des erreurs) qui n?cessitent des analyses robustes
et un couplage ?troit entre ?tapes de traitement.
 

Nous invitons donc les contributions portant sur tout aspect (th?orique,
m?thodologique et pratique) relatif au traitement automatique du langage
parl? et ? la communication orale, et en particulier (liste non
exclusive) :

  + Reconnaissance automatique de la parole 
  + Compr?hension automatique de la parole
  + Traduction de parole
  + Synth?se de la parole
  + Dialogue oral homme - machine 
  + Analyse robuste de la langue parl?e
  + Analyse des affects sociaux ou des ?motions dans des ?nonc?s oraux
  + Fouille de documents ? composante orale
  + Applications ? composantes orales (recherche d'information,
    interaction, robotique, etc)
  + Outils d'aide ? l'apprentissage d?une langue seconde
  + Aspects multilingues du traitement automatique du langage parl?
  + Evaluation de syst?mes de traitement du langage parl?
  + Corpus et ressources pour l'oral
  + Analyse du discours oral
  + Dialogue adaptatif au contexte et au profil de l'utilisateur
  + Analyse des traits paralinguistiques dans des ?nonc?s oraux 


?DITEURS INVIT?S 

Laurent Besacier 
Wolfang Minker


COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE

ADDA Gilles LIMSI, Paris
ANTOINE Jean-Yves U. F. Rabelais, Tours
AUBERGE V?ronique LIG, Grenoble
BELLEGARDA J?r?me APPLE, USA
BONNEAU-MEYNARD H?l?ne,  LIMSI, Orsay
CERISARA Christophe LORIA, Nancy
CERNOCKY Jan Univ. Brno, Tcheque Republic
DAMNATI G?raldine Orangs Labs, Lannion
DEVILLERS Laurence LIMSI, Orsay
DUTOIT Thierry TCTS, Mons
ESTEVE Yannick LIUM, Le Mans
ESKENAZI Maxine CMU, Pittsburgh
FAVRE  Benoit LIF, Marseille
FERRANE Isabelle IRIT, Toulouse
GRAVIER Guillaume IRISA, Rennes
JOUVET Denis LORIA, Nancy
KAHN  Juliette LNE, Paris
LECOUTEUX Benjamin LIG, Grenoble
LEFEVRE Fabrice LIA, Avignon
LINARES Georges LIA, Avignon
MEIGNIER Sylvain LIUM, Le Mans
PIETQUIN Olivier Univ. Lille 1
POPESCU-BELIS Andrei IDIAP, Martigny
ROSSET Sophie LIMSI, Orsay


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

FORMAT DE LA SOUMISSION

Les articles doivent ?tre d?pos?s sur la plateforme
http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/

La revue ne publie que des contributions originales, en fran?ais ou en
anglais.

Les papiers accept?s feront au maximum 25 pages en PDF. Le style est
disponible pour t?l?chargement sur le site du journal TAL


CONTACT

Laurent Besacier     (Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr)
Wolfgang Minker      (Wolfgang.Minker at uni-ulm.de)

==========CFP IN ENGLISH============

Special issue on spoken language processing

Guest editors: Laurent Besacier, Wolfgang Minker

Speech is the most natural way to communicate and interact (with the
machine or with another person) . Spoken language processing and
dialogue have now many direct applications in various areas such as (but
not limited to) information retrieval, natural language interaction with
mobile devices, social robotics, assistive technologies, technologies
for language learning, etc. . However, spoken language processing poses
specific problems related to the nature of the speech material
itself. Indeed, spontaneous speech utterances have to be processed and
they contain many paralinguistic features. For instance, disfluencies
(repetitions , false starts, etc.) reduces the syntactic regularity of
utterances. Moreover, spontaneous utterances convey rich information
related to emotions , etc. Furthermore, automatic speech recognition
(ASR) step, often required before the application of higher level
processing (understanding , translation, analysis, etc.), produces noisy
outputs (with errors ) which require robust and tight coupling between
modules.

We invite contributions on any aspect (theoretical, methodological and
practical) of spoken language processing and oral communication ; in
particular (non-exclusive list):

- Automatic speech recognition

- Spoken language understanding

- Speech translation

- Text-to-Speech synthesis

- Man-machine dialogue

- Robust analysis of spoken language

- Analysis of social affects or emotions in spontaneous speech

- Mining spoken language documents

- Spoken language applications (mobile interaction, robotics, etc. )

- Technologies for language learning

- Multilingual aspects of spoken language processing

- Evaluation for spoken language processing

- Corpora and resources for spoken language

- (Spoken) discourse analysis

- Adaptive dialogue (context, user profile)

- Analysis of paralinguistic features in spoken language


IMPORTANT DATES

- call : march 2014
- submission of contributions : 30 june 2014
- first authors notification : 15 september 2014 
- publication : end 2014 / begin 2015

Submission format

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

PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers must describe original, completed, and unpublished work.  Each
submission will be reviewed by two programme committee members.  Papers
must be submitted on Sciencesconf platform
http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/

Accepted papers will be maximum 25 pages long in PDF. Style sheets are
available for download on the Web site of the TAL journal

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:20:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:20:50 +0200
Subject: Appel: Atelier Applications Pratiques de l'intelligence
 Artificielle @ RFIA 2014 (date limite 23/4)
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.222050.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:12:19 +0200
From: Yves Demazeau <Yves.Demazeau at imag.fr>
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- Merci de diffuser cette annonce aupr?s de vos coll?gues et contacts -

Appel ? Contributions

Atelier Applications Pratiques de l'Intelligence Artificielle

RFIA 2014 ? Rouen ? 30 juin et 1er juillet 2014

https://sites.google.com/site/rfiaapia14/

Les recherches en Intelligence Artificielle (IA) donnent lieu depuis de
nombreuses ann?es ? de belles applications qui sont maintenant d?ploy?es
surtout dans le domaine industriel mais pas uniquement. Le succ?s de ces
applications est tel qu?il n??tonne plus. Les mod?les et technologies de
l?IA sont parfois int?gr?s ? un tel point aux autres composants
informatiques que ces ?l?ments fondamentaux ne sont plus visibles aux
utilisateurs et que les concepteurs les passent sous silence.

Cet atelier a pour objectif de ? d?senfouir ? les ?l?ments d?IA des
applications o? ils sont int?gr?s et souhaite faire le point sur leurs
avanc?es. L?objectif est de proposer aux chercheurs, acad?miques,
industriels et autres, un lieu d??change o? ils puissent partager leurs
exp?riences, d?battre des diff?rents verrous qu?ils rencontrent et des
m?thodes qu?ils mettent en ?uvre, pour enrichir le potentiel applicatif
des mod?les et outils de l?IA, en mettant en valeur l?IA de ces
applications.

Contributions

Les contributions attendues  (en fran?ais ou en anglais) peuvent ?tre :
- des articles scientifiques (max 6 pages) ;
- des descriptions de r?alisations ou d?exp?rimentations en cours (2
  pages);

Les formats de soumissions respecteront le format indiqu? sur :
http://rfia2014.univ-rouen.fr/content/soumissions

Les articles devront ?tre envoy?s en version pdf ? Yves.Demazeau at imag.fr

Dates importantes

Soumission des articles : 23 Avril 2014
Notification aux auteurs : 14 Mai 2014
Version finale : 28 Mai 2014

Organisateurs :

Karell Bertet, L3I, Universit? de La Rochelle, Limousin Poitou-Charentes
Yves Demazeau, LIG, CNRS, Grenoble Alpes
Sylvie Despr?s, LIMICS, Universit? de Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cit?
Philippe Mathieu, LIFL, Universit? de Lille 1, Universit? Lille Nord de France

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:35:38 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:35:38 +0200
Subject: Job: Two research fellow/assistant professor openings,
 Bozen-Bolzano
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.223538.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:20:38 +0200
From: Enrico Franconi <franconi at inf.unibz.it>
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The faculty of computer science in Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) has two
openings at the level of research fellow / assistant professor (RTD-a),
associated to the KRDB research centre (http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/).

The research activity of the KRDB centre is focused on knowledge
representation and database theories and technologies for semantic-based
intelligent information system design, integration, access, and
navigation.

According to the current Italian legislation, the RTD-a position is a
necessary prerequisite to start the tenure track (RTD-b) leading to
associate professor. The contract is for 3 years, and the salary is up
to 59000 ? p.a. gross including all the benefits and the bonuses. There
is some teaching duty to be performed at the BSc or MSc level.

For any question and more detailed information, please do not hesitate
to ask prof. Enrico Franconi at franconi at inf.unibz.it. The call will
close at the end of May 2014.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:13:07 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:13:07 +0200
Subject: Job: Statistical Machine Translation Expert, CDI, Luxembourg
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.221307.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:12:43 +0000
From: "Riad, Ali" <ali.riad at experis.lu>
Message-ID: <1E24E27CB46D5E4B855C260006ABAEBA054916DB at 018-TK5MPN2-043.018D.MGD.MSFT.NET>

Dear all,

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I allow myself to use this network of experts in the field of machine
translation as part of a large project of machine translation at the
European Commission in Luxembourg that has started 3,5 years ago.

Now that the project is running well and is gaining respectability, they
would like to hire an additional computational linguist in order to
sustain the growth of their activities.

Please find below a brief description of the position:

?couter

Lire phon?tiquement

Dictionnaire

Bottom of Form
- PhD or MSc/Diploma in computational linguistics or computer science
  with excellent knowledge of machine translation (MT) and/or machine
  learning for natural language processing.

- Familiarity with recent developments in SMT and the motivation to
  apply novel approaches emanating from ongoing research to practical
  translation tasks in many languages and to systematically evaluate
  their suitability.

- Ability to write scientific papers and technical documents in English.

- Open-mindedness and the will to collaborate closely within an
  international, multidisciplinary team, motivation to work with a
  multilingual user community.

- Experience in designing and running large-scale experiments, including
  the necessary skills to manage large data sets and long-running
  experiments in a distributed computational environment would be highly
  desirable, interest in developing such skills is mandatory.

- Experience with both statistical and grammar-based approaches to MT
  would be highly desirable.

- Programming skills in languages like Perl, Python, C, or C++ would be
  a strong plus.

- Good oral and written command of English is required; familiarity with
  additional EU languages (preferably Eastern/Northern European) would
  be a strong plus.

- Job location: Luxembourg

If you are interested by this position, do not hesitate to provide me
with your resume and /or your availabilities for a first phone
conversation.

If you are not interested, it would be very helpful to forward this
opportunity to persons that might be.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards,


Ali RIAD
Business Consultant
Experis IT Luxembourg
Rue de l?industrie 20
L-8399 Windhof
T: +352 27 39 51 03 21
F: +352 27 39 51 03 24
M: +352 661 209 107
ali.riad at experis.lu
www.experis.lu

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:15:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:15:50 +0200
Subject: Appel: Atelier TALN SemDis 2014, Report de la date de soumission
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.221550.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:12:41 +0200
From: C?cile Fabre <cecile.fabre at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <5347C019.3060608 at univ-tlse2.fr>
X-url: http://www.taln2014.org/site/soumission/



SECOND APPEL ? PARTICIPATION
* Report de la date d'envoi des articles au 29 avril pour les 2 t?ches *

************************************************************
Atelier SemDis2014 (S?mantique Distributionnelle)
Atelier organis? dans le cadre de la conf?rence TALN 2014
Marseille, 1er juillet 2014
************************************************************
Pr?sidents : C?cile Fabre (CLLE-ERSS) et Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-MELODI)
Site Web : www.irit.fr/semdis2014/
Contact : semdis2014 at gmail.com.
************************************************************

SemDis 2014 est la 2e ?dition de l'atelier consacr? aux approches de TAL
fond?es sur l'analyse s?mantique distributionnelle.

Cette ann?e l'atelier s'organise autour de deux t?ches portant sur le
traitement du fran?ais :

1. une t?che comp?titive de substitution lexicale, adaptation au
   fran?ais de la t?che SemEval 2007 (McCarthy & Navigli 2010). Etant
   donn? un mot-cible dans une phrase compl?te, il s'agit de proposer
   une (ou plusieurs) unit?s de substitution qui n'alt?rent pas le sens
   global de l'?nonc?. Le choix du substitut est libre et sera confront?
   aux r?ponses fournies par des annotateurs humains. Le jeu
   d'?valuation comprend 300 phrases issues du corpus frWaC. Cette t?che
   donnera lieu ? un classement des syst?mes en comp?tition. Les
   participants ? la t?che devront soumettre leurs r?sultats et un
   article d?crivant le syst?me utilis?.

2. une t?che exploratoire sur un corpus sp?cialis?, le corpus TALN,
   s?lection d'articles en fran?ais issus des conf?rences TALN et
   RECITAL sur la p?riode 2007 ? 2013. Nous invitons les participants ?
   d?ployer sur ce corpus une ou plusieurs techniques d'analyse
   distributionnelle de leur choix, selon leurs objectifs propres. Pour
   faciliter les ?changes ? partir d'exemples communs, une s?lection de
   mots est propos?e (calculer, complexe, pr?cis, fr?quence, graphe,
   m?thode, s?mantique, trait). Cette t?che n'est pas une t?che
   comp?titive ; les participants doivent soumettre un article d?crivant
   le travail r?alis? ? partir de ce corpus.

La description compl?te des t?ches et des donn?es est ? lire sur le site
de l'atelier : www.irit.fr/semdis2014/

Dates importantes :
*****************
Participation ? la t?che 1 (1?re phase termin?e)
10 mars 2014 : diffusion des donn?es de test
17 mars : date limite de soumission des r?sultats par les participants
7 avril : annonce des r?sultats aux participants

Soumission des articles pour les 2 t?ches :
29 avril 2014 : envoi des articles
16 mai : notification
30 mai : r?ception des versions finales

Types de communications :
***********************
Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais.  Ils devront suivre
le format de TALN 2014.
Les articles envoy?s dans le cadre de la t?che 1 comprendront 6 ? 12
pages.
Les articles envoy?s dans le cadre de la t?che 2 comprendront 12 ? 14
pages.
Une feuille de style LaTeX et des mod?les LibreOffice et Word sont
disponibles sur le site web de la conf?rence
(http://www.taln2014.org/site/soumission/).
Nous annoncerons ult?rieurement la dur?e des expos?s, qui sera fonction
du nombre de communications accept?es.

Modalit?s de soumission :
**********************
Les articles, au format pdf, doivent ?tre d?pos?s ? l'adresse :
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdis2014

Comit? d?organisation :
*******************
L'atelier est organis? conjointement par les ?quipes CLLE-ERSS et 
IRIT-MELODI (Toulouse).
C?cile Fabre (CLLE-ERSS)
Nabil Hathout (CLLE-ERSS)
Mai Ho-Dac (CLLE-ERSS)
Fran?ois Morlane-Hond?re (CLLE-ERSS)
Philippe Muller (IRIT-MELODI)
Franck Sajous (CLLE-ERSS)
Ludovic Tanguy (CLLE-ERSS)
Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-MELODI)

Comit? de programme :
********************
Stergos Afantenos - IRIT, Toulouse
Ann Bertels - ILT-QLVL, Leuven
Yves Bestgen - UCL/CECL, Louvain-La-Neuve
Marie Candito - ALPAGE, Paris
Eric de la Clergerie - ALPAGE, Paris
C?cile Fabre - CLLE, Toulouse
Olivier Ferret - CEA-LIST, Fontenay-aux-Roses
Nabil Hathout - CLLE, Toulouse
Olivier Kraif - LIDILEM, Grenoble
Philippe Langlais - RALI, Montr?al
Emmanuel Morin - LINA, Nantes
Philippe Muller - IRIT, Toulouse
Adeline Nazarenko - LIPN, Paris
Pascale S?billot - IRISA, Rennes
Ludovic Tanguy - CLLE, Toulouse
Tim Van de Cruys - IRIT, Toulouse

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:05:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:05:50 +0200
Subject: Journee: Journees scientifiques du labex + ceremonie prix Jean
 Kuntzmann, Grenoble, 16 et 17 juin 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.220550.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:53:26 +0200
From: Eric Gaussier <eric.gaussier at imag.fr>
Message-ID: <534534B6.7080005 at imag.fr>
X-url: http://ama.liglab.fr/~gaussier


Chers coll?gues,

Je me permets de relayer cette invitation qui peut int?resser plusieurs 
d'entre vous.

Eric Gaussier

*******
Chers coll?gues,

Nous serions heureux et honor?s de votre pr?sence aux journ?es
scientifiques du labex PERSYVAL-lab ? Grenoble le 16 et 17 juin
prochain, avec comme point d'orgue la remise du prix Jean Kuntzmann 2014
le 16 juin ? partir de 18h30 au mus?e de Grenoble.

Cette manifestation (dont l'affiche est jointe en attachement de cet
email) est conjointement organis?e par le labex Persyval-lab et
Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann.

Pour faciliter l'organisation de ces journ?es, merci de vous inscrire en
renseignant le formulaire d'inscription en ligne:
https://persyval-lab.org/en/news/journ?e-scientifiques-16-17-juin-2014
o? vous trouverez aussi le programme des journ?es (aussi indiqu? en fin
de cet email)

Amicalement

Marie-Christine Rousset (Responsable scientifique de Persyval-lab) et
Eric Bonnetier (directeur du LJK).
========================
Programme pr?visionnel
========================

Lundi 16 juin :

- 13h30-17h30 (Amphi D de l'Ensimag, campus universitaire de
  Saint-Martin d'H?res) :

Ouverture des journ?es scientifiques de PERSYVAL-lab

Pr?sentation g?n?rale du labex

Zooms sur des travaux de doctorants

D?monstrations de quelques plateformes p?dagogiques

- 18h30-21h (Auditorium du mus?e de Grenoble) :

C?r?monie de remise du prix Jean Kuntzmann 2014 ? Emmanuel Cand?s,
titulaire de la chaire Barnum-Simons de math?matiques et statistiques de
Stanford University

+ Cocktail

Mardi 17 juin :

- 9h-12h (Amphi D de l'Ensimag, campus universitaire de Saint-Martin
  d'H?res) : Pr?sentation des 5 ?quipes-actions de PERSYVAL-lab

  + Security and Cryptology for Cyber-Physical Systems

  + High Performance Embedded Systems

  + Data Mining for Temporal Data

  + The Living Book of Anatomy

  + Geometrical methods in Combinatorics, Combinatorial algorithms in Geometry

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:18:04 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:18:04 +0200
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014 Students Participation Support
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.221804.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:57:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org


** apologies for cross-posting **

==== ESWC 2014 Students Participation Support ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/registration#grants

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 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)

We are pleased to announce that ESWC will distribute a total budget of
4,000 Eur among full-time students for supporting their participation in
ESWC 2014. 
All full-time students are eligible to participate in the selection. 
The number of awards will be limited, and the amount of each award will
depend on the number of participants and will be provided in the form of
reduced registration fee.

In order to apply, please be sure to execute all the following actions:
- register at [1] by choosing the Student Participation Fee by *** April
  20th *** (skip the payment step) 
- send an email to eswc2014 at youvivo.com by *** April 20th ***
  acknowledging your registration and providing your details (name and
  affiliation) 
- have your advisor email by *** April 30th *** a recommendation to
  eswc2014-pc-chairs at lists.sti2.org in which he/she states support for
  your application, confirms your status as a full-time student and
  indicates your possible authorship or co-authorship of a paper
  accepted in any of the ESWC 2014 tracks

To receive full consideration, both registration and advisor letters
must be received by the indicated deadlines.

If you have already registered and payed you are still eligible to
participate in the selection. You will have to perform the last two
steps, and in case you will be selected, you will be reimbursed of the
amount of the award.

Notifications will be sent by May 9th, 2014.

[1] http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/registration


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:07:08 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:07:08 +0200
Subject: Sujet de these: Contrat doctoral,
 traduction automatique des dialectes arabes, Loria
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.220708.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:22:40 +0200
From: David Langlois <david.langlois at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <53467F00.8000407 at loria.fr>
X-url: http://www.loria.fr/offre-de-these-equipe-smart
X-url: http://www.loria.fr/phd-offer-smart-team


L'?quipe SMarT du Loria recherche des candidats pour un contrat doctoral
de 3 ans. Le sujet est la traduction automatique de dialectes arabes.

Titre de la th?se        : "traduction automatique de dialectes arabes"

Mots-cl?s                : traitement automatique des langues, traduction
                           automatique, mod?lisation statistique du
                           langage, dialectes arabes

Financement              : co-financement DGA
D?but du contrat         : septembre 2014
Condition de candidature : ?tre titulaire d'un master Informatique (ou
                           ?quivalent), ou en cours de pr?paration d'un
                           tel master
Description du sujet     : voir 
                            http://www.loria.fr/offre-de-these-equipe-smart
                            ou http://www.loria.fr/phd-offer-smart-team
                            (english)
Contact & renseignements : Kamel Sma?li (kamel.smaili at loria.fr)
                           David Langlois (david.langlois at loria.fr)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:36:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:36:42 +0200
Subject: Ressource: Mise en ligne Corpus de litteracie avancee
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.223642.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:13:06 +0200
From: JACQUES Marie Paule <marie-paule.jacques at ujf-grenoble.fr>
Message-ID: <534D1442.3060101 at ujf-grenoble.fr>
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Ch?res et chers coll?gues,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la mise en ligne du corpus
"Litt?racie avanc?e". Ce corpus r?unit des ?crits d'?tudiants (du L1
au M2) de type universitaire ou professionnel (fiches de lecture,
m?moires, ?preuves de concours des futurs enseignants, lettres de
motivation...).

Vous ?tes invit?s ? l'utiliser pour vos recherches et pour vos cours !

Le corpus dans sa version 1 est accessible ici en t?l?chargement :

http://lidilem.u-grenoble3.fr/spip.php?article264

Plus de d?tails sur le projet ici : 
http://corpuslitteracie.wikispaces.com/home

Le corpus repr?sente actuellement 500000 mots. Il est mis en ligne en
plusieurs formats (.doc, .pdf, .txt et un format .xml avec m?ta-donn?es)
et ?voluera bient?t (nouveaux textes, balisage structurel et
morpho-syntaxique).


Nous remercions tous ceux qui ont particip? ? la collecte de sous-corpus
aupr?s de leurs ?tudiants. La collecte continue : merci d'avance d'y
penser - et de diffuser l'info autour de vous !


Bien cordialement,

Fanny Rinck, Marie-Paule Jacques et Fran?oise Boch

LIDILEM (Laboratoire de Linguistique et Didactique des Langues 
Etrang?res et Maternelles) - Universit? Grenoble-Alpes

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:21:58 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:21:58 +0200
Subject: Appel: JADT 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.222158.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:17:04 +0200
From: Mathieu Valette <mvalette at inalco.fr>
Message-Id: <320AC5B4-EC38-40E6-8276-07EB814AB4BE at inalco.fr>
X-url: http://www.jadt.org/
X-url: http://www.aftal.fr/jadt2014/?page_id=23

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

 JADT 2014 - Appel ? participation

 12es Journ?es internationales d'analyse statistique des donn?es
 textuelles

 du 3 au 6 juin 2014 ? l'INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris,
 France

 http://www.jadt.org/

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

Les journ?es internationales d'analyse statistique des donn?es
textuelles (JADT) r?unissent tous les deux ans, depuis 1990, des
chercheurs travaillant dans les diff?rents domaines concern?s par les
traitements automatiques et statistiques de donn?es textuelles. Elles
permettent aux participants de pr?senter leurs r?sultats, de confronter
leurs outils et leurs exp?riences.

Les 12es journ?es internationales d'analyse statistique des donn?es
textuelles JADT 21014 r?uniront ? l'INALCO (France), du 3 au 6 juin
2014, statisticiens, linguistes, sociologues, sp?cialistes d'analyse du
discours, informaticiens, sp?cialistes de lexicographie et de fouille de
textes.

* Inscriptions

http://jmd.er-tim.fr/JADT2014/registration.html

* Conf?renciers invit?s

Mercredi 4 juin 
10h00 ? 11h00 Monique Slodzian : (titre ? venir)
14h00 ? 15h00 ? Hommage ? Maurice Tournier ?

Jeudi 5 juin
09h00 ? 10h00 Seth Grimes : Text Analytics Past, Present, and Future: An
              Industry View

Vendredi 6 juin
09h30 ? 10h30 Damon Mayaffre : Plaidoyer en faveur de l?Analyse de
              Donn?es co(n)Textuelles. Parcours cooccurrentiels dans le
              discours pr?sidentiel fran?ais (1958-2014)

* Programme

http://www.aftal.fr/jadt2014/?page_id=23

* Comit? de programme

Ram?n ?lvarez Esteban, Univ. de Le?n, Esp
Simona Balbi, Univ. de Naples, It
Val?rie Beaudouin, Telecom ParisTech, Fr
M?nica B?cue, Univ. Polyt. de Catalunya, Esp
Sergio Bolasco, Univ. de Rome ?La Sapienza?, It
?tienne Brunet, Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Fr
Lou Burnard, Univ. d? Oxford, RU
Isabella Chiari, Univ. de Rome ?La Sapienza?, It
Fran?ois Daoust, UQ?M, Montreal, Ca
Anne Dister, FUSL et UCL, Bruxelles et Louvain, Be
Jules Duchastel, UQ?M, Montreal, Ca
Serge Fleury, Univ. Paris 3, Fr
C?drick Fairon, UCL, Louvain, Be
Luca Giuliano, Univ. de Rome ?La Sapienza?, It
Serge Heiden, ENS de Lyon, Fr
Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, ? Tor Vergata ? University, It
Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST, Paris, Fr
Jean-Marc Leblanc, Univ. de Cr?teil, Fr
Alain Lelu, Univ. de Franche Comt?, Fr
Dominique Longr?e, Universit? de Li?ge, Be
Pascal Marchand, Univ. de Toulouse, Fr
William Martinez, Univ. de Lisboa, Pt
Damon Mayaffre, CNRS, Nice, Fr
Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, Fr
Denis Moni?re, Univ. de Montr?al, Ca
B?n?dicte Pincemin, CNRS, Lyon, Fr
G?rald Purnelle, Universit? de Li?ge, Be
Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. de Versailles SQY, Fr
Andr? Salem, Univ. Paris 3, Fr
Monique Slodzian, INALCO, Fr
Arjuna Tuzzi, Univ. de Padoue, It
Mathieu Valette, INALCO, Fr
Jean-Marie Viprey, Univ. De Franche Comt?, Fr

* Comit? d'organisation

Jean-Michel Daube (ERTIM, INALCO)
Serge Fleury (SYLED, Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris 3)
Marion Ich? (AFTAL)
Marguerite Leenhardt (AFTAL & SYLED, Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris 3)
Emilie N?e (CEDITEC, Universit? Paris Est Cr?teil, Paris 12)
Mathieu Valette (ERTIM, INALCO)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:33:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:33:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: SLSP 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.223343.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:22:25 +0200
From: "GRLMC" <grlmc at urv.cat>
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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
PROCESSING

SLSP 2014

Grenoble, France

October 14-16, 2014

Organised by:

?quipe GETALP
Laboratoire d?Informatique de Grenoble

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/

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AIMS:

SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying
excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are
currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims
at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large,
well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of
these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between
subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant
room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career
and particular focus will be put on methodology.

VENUE:

SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps.

SCOPE:

The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of
statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and
speech processing.  The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:

phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology
syntax, semantics
discourse, dialogue, pragmatics
statistical models for natural language processing
supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods
applied to natural language, including speech
statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods
similarity
alignment
language resources
part-of-speech tagging
parsing
semantic role labelling
natural language generation
anaphora and coreference resolution
speech recognition 
speaker identification/verification
speech transcription
speech synthesis
machine translation
translation technology
text summarisation
information retrieval
text categorisation
information extraction
term extraction
spelling correction
text and web mining
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
spoken dialogue systems
author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering

STRUCTURE:

SLSP 2014 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and
Statistical Error Mining
Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look
Outside?
Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical
Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK)
Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK)
Herv? Bourlard (Martigny, CH)
Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK)
Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE)
David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US)
Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US)
Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE)
Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE)
Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX)
James Glass (Cambridge, US)
Ralph Grishman (New York, US)
Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US)
Xiaodong He (Redmond, US)
Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP)
Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR)
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR)
Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG)
Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Manuel Montes-y-G?mez (Puebla, MX)
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP)
Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US)
Vincent Ng (Dallas, US)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE)
Elmar N?th (Erlangen, DE)
Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT)
Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US)
Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US)
Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA)
Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK)
James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US)
Ga?l Richard (Paris, FR)
German Rigau (San Sebasti?n, ES)
Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES)
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP)
Bj?rn W. Schuller (London, UK)
Satoshi Sekine (New York, US)
Richard Sproat (New York, US)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK)
Jian Su (Singapore, SG)
Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL)
Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN)
Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL)
Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK)
Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE)
Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI)
Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair)
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English
presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed
12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be
prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's
LNAI/LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series
will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14,
2014. The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014
Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014
Early registration: July 2, 2014
Late registration: September 30, 2014
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SLSP 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Laboratoire d?Informatique de Grenoble
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:38:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:38:12 +0200
Subject: Appel: ICML14 Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery and
 Opinion Mining (WISDOM)
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.223812.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:09:40 -0500 (EST)
From: feeds <feeds at sentic.net>
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X-url: http://sentic.net/wisdom

Apologies for cross-posting,

Submissions are invited for the 3rd Workshop on Issues of Sentiment
Discovery and Opinion Mining (WISDOM), an ICML14 workshop exploring the
new frontiers of big data computing for opinion mining through
machine-learning techniques and sentiment learning methods. For more
information, please visit: http://sentic.net/wisdom

RATIONALE
The distillation of knowledge from social media is an extremely
difficult task as the content of today's Web, while perfectly suitable
for human consumption, remains hardly accessible to machines. The
opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public about social
events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns,
and product preferences has raised growing interest both within the
scientific community, leading to many exciting open challenges, as well
as in the business world, due to the remarkable benefits to be had from
marketing and financial market prediction.

Statistical NLP has been the mainstream NLP research direction since
late 1990s.  It relies on language models based on popular
machine-learning algorithms such as maximum-likelihood, expectation
maximization, conditional random fields, and support vector machines. By
feeding a large training corpus of annotated texts to a machine-learning
algorithm, it is possible for the system to not only learn the valence
of keywords, but also to take into account the valence of other
arbitrary keywords, punctuation, and word co-occurrence
frequencies. However, standard statistical methods are generally
semantically weak as they merely focus on lexical co-occurrence elements
with little predictive value individually.

Endogenous NLP, instead, involves the use of machine-learning techniques
to perform semantic analysis of a corpus by building structures that
approximate concepts from a large set of documents. It does not involve
prior semantic understanding of documents; instead, it relies only on
the endogenous knowledge of these (rather than on external knowledge
bases). The advantages of this approach over the knowledge engineering
approach are effectiveness, considerable savings in terms of expert
manpower, and straightforward portability to different
domains. Endogenous NLP includes methods based either on lexical
semantics, which focuses on the meanings of individual words (e.g., LSA,
LDA, and MapReduce), or compositional semantics, which looks at the
meanings of sentences and longer utterances (e.g., HMM, association rule
learning, and probabilistic generative models).

TOPICS
WISDOM aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the
field of machine learning for opinion mining and sentiment analysis to
share information on their latest investigations in social information
retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and
industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends
opinion mining, social media marketing, information retrieval, and
natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:

- Endogenous NLP for sentiment analysis
- Sentiment learning algorithms
- Semantic multi-dimensional scaling for sentiment analysis
- Big social data analysis
- Opinion retrieval, extraction, classification, tracking and
  summarization
- Domain adaptation for sentiment classification
- Time evolving sentiment analysis
- Emotion detection
- Concept-level sentiment analysis
- Topic modeling for aspect-based opinion mining
- Multimodal sentiment analysis
- Sentiment pattern mining
- Affective knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis
- Biologically-inspired opinion mining
- Content-, concept-, and context-based sentiment analysis

SPEAKER
Rui Xia is currently an assistant professor at School of Computer
Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology,
China. His research interests include machine learning, natural language
processing, text mining and sentiment analysis. He received the
Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of
Sciences in 2011. He has published several refereed conference papers in
the areas of artificial intelligence and natural language processing,
including IJCAI, AAAI, ACL, COLING, etc. He served on the program
commitee member of several international conferences and workshops
including IJCAI, COLING, WWW Workshop on MABSDA, KDD Workshop on WISDOM
and ICDM Workshop on SENTIRE. He is a member of ACM, ACL and CCF, and he
is an operating committee member of YSSNLP.

KEYNOTE
One one hand, most of the existing domain adaptation studies in the
field of NLP belong to the feature-based adaptation, while the research
of instance-based adaptation is very scarce. One the other hand, due to
the explosive growth of the Internet online reviews, we can easily
collect a large amount of labeled reviews from different domains. But
only some of them are beneficial for training a desired target-domain
sentiment classifier. Therefore, it is important for us to identify
those samples that are the most relevant to the target domain and use
them as training data. To address this problem, we propose two
instance-based domain adpatation methods for NLP applications. The first
one is called PUIS and PUIW, which conduct instance adaptation based on
instance selection and instance weighting via PU learning. The second
one is called in-target-domain logistic approximation (ILA), where we
conduct instance apdatation by a joint logistic approximation
model. Both of methods achieve sound performance in high-dimentional NLP
tasks such as cross-domain text categorization and sentiment
classification.

SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
Authors are required to follow Springer LNCS Proceedings Template and to
submit their papers through EasyChair. The paper length is limited to 12
pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices, if any. As per
ICML tradition, reviews are double-blind, and author names and
affiliations should not be listed. Each submitted paper will be
evaluated by three PC members with respect to its novelty, significance,
technical soundness, presentation, and experiments. Accepted papers will
be published in Springer LNCS Proceedings.  Selected, expanded versions
of papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a forthcoming
Special Issue of Cognitive Computation on opinion mining and sentiment
analysis.

TIMEFRAME
- May 11th, 2014: Submission deadline
- May 25th, 2014: Notification of acceptance
- June 1st, 2014: Final manuscripts due
- June 25th, 2014: Workshop date

ORGANIZERS
- Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China)
- Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
- Yongzheng Zhang, LinkedIn Inc. (USA)
- Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:23:07 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:23:07 +0200
Subject: Appel: LG-LP 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.222307.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:44:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: Denis Maurel <denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr>
Message-ID: <431821315.911141.1397544273917.JavaMail.zimbra at univ-tours.fr>
X-url: http://lg-lp.info/


********************************************************* 
LG-LP 2014 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 
********************************************************* 

Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing
(LG-LP 2014)
Dublin, Ireland, 24 August 2014 
http://lg-lp.info/ 
This workshop is held in conjunction with COLING 2014, co-sponsored by
ASIALEX and endorsed by SIGLEX


The workshop aims to bring together members of the language-resource
(LR) landscape, focusing on complex linguistic knowledge that requires
linguistic expertise, e.g. on dictionaries, ontologies and
grammars. Such manually-built resources are key to the development of
natural language processing (NLP) tools and applications. The workshop
intends to strengthen the cohesion of the scientific ?production chain?
spanning from the construction of LRs by linguists to their exploitation
in hybrid or symbolic NLP. It is necessary to increase mutual awareness
between researchers along this production chain, regarding their
activities, skills and needs, in view of improving the building
processes of the resources, their validation and their exploitation.

Many linguists are comfortable with descriptive tasks such as checking
lexical entries for a given feature, even if each entry requires
analysing or pondering. On the other hand, computer scientists are
familiar with formalization and, usually, with notions such as
falsifiability or reproducibility, which are fundamental to
sciences. Combining all these skills is likely to stimulate
innovation. The workshop offers an opportunity of interaction which is
required to overcome the compartmentalization between humanities and
sciences, and to intensify co-operation between the two ends of the
chain.

Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2014 (11:59 pm GMT) 

The complete call for papers is available at http://lg-lp.info/ 

Organizers 

Jorge Baptista, University of Algarve, Portugal 
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India 
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA 
Mikel Forcada, Universitat d?Alacant, Spain 
Chu-Ren Huang, Polytechnic University, Hong-Kong 
Svetla Koeva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria 
Cvetana Krstev, University of Belgrade, Serbia 
Eric Laporte, Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e, France 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Apr 15 20:03:16 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:03:16 +0200
Subject: Appel: Traitement automatique des langues africaines,
 TALAf 2014 : date limite de soumission : 26 avril
Message-ID: <TUE.15.APR.2014.220316.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:38:46 +0200
From: Mathieu Mangeot <Mathieu.Mangeot at imag.fr>
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                         Appel ? communications

TALAf 2014 : Traitement automatique des langues africaines (?crit et parole)

           Atelier TALN 2014 - Marseille le 1^er juillet 2014


Date limite de soumission : 26 avril 2014

Version html : http://jibiki.univ-savoie.fr/~mangeot/TALAf/2014/

Version PDF : http://jibiki.univ-savoie.fr/~mangeot/TALAf/2014/
atelierTALAf2014v5.pdf

PR?SENTATION

Dans la suite du premier atelier TALAf qui s'est tenu le 8 juin 2012 ?
Grenoble, lors de la conf?rence JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012 (voir les actes :
http:// aclweb.org/anthology//W/W12/#1300), nous proposons une nouvelle
?dition de cet atelier lors de la conf?rence TALN 2014 le premier
juillet ? Marseille. Nous accueillons les travaux men?s sur toutes les
langues peu dot?es d'Afrique.  L'arabe dialectal de l'Afrique du nord
(maghr?bin) est ?galement bienvenu.

Les recherches en traitement automatique des langues africaines sont
actuellement ? l'or?e de d?veloppements majeurs. Les efforts de
reconnaissance des langues nationales et de standardisation des
diff?rents alphabets commencent ? porter leurs fruits. Au Niger, par
exemple, les alphabets des langues fulfulde, haussa, kanouri,
songhai-zarma et tamajaq ont ?t? d?finis par des arr?t?s du gouvernement
en 1999. Par ailleurs, un certain nombre de coll?gues form?s dans les
pays du Nord reviennent dans leur pays avec la volont? de continuer leur
travail sur les langues locales. Il y a ?galement des diasporas
disposant de moyens technologiques leur permettant de contribuer
directement en ligne et de mani?re b?n?vole.

Pour autant, les langues nationales de la plupart des pays d'Afrique
sont peu dot?es (langues-?) : les ressources ?lectroniques disponibles
sont rares, mal distribu?es, voire inexistantes. Seules sont accessibles
les fonctions d'?dition et d'impression rendant l'exploitation de ces
langues difficile. Au moment o? il est question de les introduire dans
le syst?me ?ducatif, de cr?er des normes d'?criture standardis?es et
stabilis?es et surtout de d?velopper leur usage ? l'?crit et ? l'oral
dans l'administration et la vie quotidienne, un d?veloppement de ces
langues s?impose comme une n?cessit? vitale.

D?velopper le traitement automatique de langues africaines n?cessite
l'?laboration de ressources qui seront les fondements ? partir desquels
des traitements plus ?labor?s peuvent ?tre construits. Il appara?t
indispensable de constituer en premier lieu des corpus ?crits et oraux
annot?s aussi larges que possibles. ? partir de tels corpus, il est
possible d?extraire des exemples pour aider ? la constitution de
dictionnaires ou de mettre au point des mod?les de langage pour la
reconnaissance vocale. Toutefois, la constitution de tels corpus reste
une entreprise d?licate dans le contexte de langues peu dot?e car les
transcriptions souffrent du manque de standardisation de la langue et
l'enrichissement de corpus reste tr?s on?reux.

Le d?veloppement d'applications ? base de traitement de l'oral peut ?tre
consid?r? comme prioritaire dans des r?gions de tradition orale. De
plus, l'usage de t?l?phones mobiles, tr?s r?pandu, permet d'imaginer un
d?ploiement rapide de ces applications.

Les dictionnaires sont ?galement n?cessaires pour construire les outils
de base tels les correcteurs orthographiques (qui peuvent servir ? leur
tour pour corriger les corpus ?crits) ou encore pour l'aide ? la
transcription de corpus oraux. Il existe parfois des dictionnaires
bilingues couplant la langue officielle et une langue nationale. Par
exemple, au Mali, le p?re Charles Bailleul est l'auteur d?un
dictionnaire bambara-fran?ais ; au Niger, le projet ?ducatif SOUT?BA a
cr?? cinq dictionnaires bilingues destin?s aux enfants de primaire. Mais
ceux-ci existent uniquement en version papier ou sous forme de fichiers
d'?diteurs de texte (format.doc). Informatiser ces dictionnaires pour
les rendre utilisables par des outils de traitement automatique
n?cessite, dans un premier temps, d'ajouter des informations manquantes
: prononciation, r?gles de flexion morphologiques et flexionnelles,
exemples et traductions tir?s de corpus, etc. Il s'agit dans un premier
temps de les informatiser (les transformer dans un format utilisable par
des outils de traitement automatique) et de les compl?ter avec des
informations manquantes : prononciation, exemples et traductions tir?s
de corpus, etc. Des astuces peuvent parfois ?tre invent?es pour pallier
le manque de ressources. Par exemple, s'il n'existe pas de corpus oraux
avec transcriptions, il est possible de constituer un corpus oral de
textes lus.

Enfin, il y a lieu de prendre en compte les contraintes
socio-?conomiques s'exer?ant sur la population des locuteurs : les
ressources ?conomiques sont limit?es, les ressources humaines qualifi?es
sont rares, les recherches sont sporadiques et isol?es, les r?sultats
confidentiels et parcellaires. Il est donc n?cessaire de d?finir des
m?thodologies ?conomes en co?t d'achat de logiciels et en temps de
travail qualifi? visant ? produire des r?sultats p?rennes, partag?s et
faciles ? enrichir. La constitution de ressources linguistiques de
mani?re g?n?rale, et plus encore pour les langues africaines devrait
donc respecter un certain nombre de principes : utilisation d'outils en
source ouverte, d?finition et utilisation de standards (ISO, Unicode),
transfert de connaissances entre les coll?gues des pays du Nord et du
Sud, disponibilit? des ressources sous licence ouverte (Creative
Commons), etc.

Cet atelier a pour but d'effectuer un ?tat des lieux des travaux de
constitution de ressources linguistiques de base (dictionnaires, corpus
oraux et ?crits), de mettre au point des m?thodologies simples et
?conomes d'?laboration de ressource, d'?changer sur les techniques
permettant de se passer de certaines ressources inexistantes et de fixer
un certain nombre de principes pour les futurs travaux dans le domaine.

L'atelier se d?roulera sur une demi-journ?e ou une journ?e enti?re, sous
r?serve des soumissions et de la d?cision finale du comit? de programme
de TALN.

Les ateliers TALAf sont soutenus par l'association LTT (Lexicologie
Terminologie Traduction).

TYPES DE COMMUNICATION

TH?MES

L'atelier est ouvert ? la pr?sentation de travaux de recherche portant
sur les th?mes suivants :

Ressources :

- constitution de corpus ?crits (monolingues, bilingues align?s ou
  comparables)

- constitution de corpus oraux (incluant la transcription)

- ?laboration de lexiques et dictionnaires (monolingues, bilingues)

- ?valuation de la qualit? des ressources

Outils :

- analyseurs morphologiques, correcteurs orthographiques

- analyseurs syntaxiques, correcteurs grammaticaux

- syst?mes de TA (statistique ou ? base de r?gles)

- reconnaissance de la parole

- synth?se vocale

CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION

Les soumissions seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du
domaine.

Pour les travaux de recherches, seront consid?r?es en particulier :

- l'ad?quation aux th?mes de l'atelier.

- l'importance et l'originalit? de la contribution,

- la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,

- l'organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation.

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION

Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais. Les formats pr?cis
de soumission sont disponibles pour Word et Latex sur le site de
taln2014 : http://www.taln2014.org/site/soumission/

Les propositions de communications doivent ?tre envoy?es sous forme pdf
? l'adresse suivante :
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=talaf20140

COMIT? DE PROGRAMME

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Philippe Bretier (Voxygen, Pleumeur-Bodou, France)

Khalid Choukri (ELDA, Paris, France)

Mame Thierno Ciss? (ARCIV, Universit? Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, S?n?gal)

Denys Duchier (Universit? d'Orl?ans, Orl?ans, France)

Chantal Enguehard (LINA, Nantes, France)

Gil Francopoulo (Tagmatica, Paris, France)

Mathieu Mangeot (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Ch?rif Mbodj, (Centre de Linguistique Appliqu?e de Dakar, S?n?gal)

Kamal Na?t-Zerrad (INALCO, Paris, France)

Pascal Nocera, (Universit? d'Avignon, France)

Francois Pellegrino, (DDL, Lyon, France)

Fatiha Sadat (UQAM, Montr?al, Canada)

Mamadou Lamine Sanogo (INSS, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso)

Emmanuel Schang (Universit? d'Orl?ans, Orl?ans, France)

Gilles S?rasset (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Valentin Vydrin (LLACAN-INALCO, Paris, France)

CALENDRIER

- Date limite de soumission : 26 avril 2014

- Notification aux auteurs : 24 mai 2014

- Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 15 juin 2014

- Atelier : 1 juillet 2014

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:27:51 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:27:51 +0200
Subject: Job: Postes a pourvoir pour ORTOLANG
Message-ID: <SAT.19.APR.2014.102751.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:17:58 +0200
From: Bertrand Gaiffe <Bertrand.Gaiffe at atilf.fr>
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X-url: http://www.cnrtl.fr
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X-url: http://www.istex.fr



(a) ORTOLANG recrute, pour une mission de 12 mois, ?ventuellement
renouvelable, un ing?nieur sp?cialiste en d?veloppement d'applications
informatiques.
Cet ing?nieur s'ins?rera dans le Laboratoire ATILF, Unit? Mixte de
Recherche du CNRS et de l?Universit? de Lorraine, partenaire d'ORTOLANG,
et aura pour mission, en collaboration avec les d?veloppeurs
informatiques, de d?velopper des briques logicielles pour une plateforme
de diffusion de ressources num?riques et de cr?er les APIs Web
d?utilisation de cette plateforme. (ProfilATILF3)

(b) ORTOLANG recrute, pour une mission de 12 mois, ?ventuellement
renouvelable, un ing?nieur sp?cialiste en int?gration d'applications
informatiques.
Cet ing?nieur s'ins?rera dans le Laboratoire ATILF, Unit? Mixte de
Recherche du CNRS et de l?Universit? de Lorraine, partenaire d'ORTOLANG,
et aura pour mission, en collaboration avec les d?veloppeurs
informatiques, de d?velopper des interfaces Web pour la mise en ligne
d?outils de traitement de donn?es (utilisation en ligne) et le packaging
de ces outils (utilisation hors ligne). (ProfilATILF4)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:27:03 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:27:03 +0200
Subject: Appel: WACAI 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.19.APR.2014.102703.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:57:57 +0200
From: Magalie Ochs <magalie.ochs at telecom-paristech.fr>
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*Appel ? Contributions : Workshop francophone Affect, Compagnon
Artificiel, Interaction (WACAI) 2014 ? 30 juin, 1er juillet ? Rouen *

http://wacai14.litislab.fr/

News : LES TITRES DES CONTRIBUTIONS AINSI QUE LA LISTE DES AUTEURS
DOIVENT ?TRE INDIQUES AVANT LE 23 AVRIL. LES ARTICLES PEUVENT ENSUITE
?TRE SOUMIS JUSQU'AU 30 AVRIL.

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes !

L?objectif du workshop WACAI 2014 est de r?unir les recherches et
d?veloppements en cours autour des /Agents Conversationnels Anim?s
(ACA)/ et des/robots sociaux/. Cette rencontre est plus particuli?rement
centr?e sur l??tude, la mod?lisation, le d?veloppement et l??valuation
de l?interaction de syst?mes interactifs avec leurs partenaires (humains
ou artefactuels). A l?interface entre sciences de l?ing?nieur et
sciences humaines et sociales, l?ambition de WACAI est d?appr?hender
l?interaction personne-syst?me dans toute sa complexit? (biologique,
linguistique, sociale, culturelle et ?motionnelle).

Apr?s les pr?c?dentes ?ditions bi-annuelles du workshop WACA, organis?es
successivement ? Grenoble (2005), ? Toulouse (2006), ? Paris (2008), ?
Lille (2010) et WACAI ? Grenoble (2012), cette nouvelle ?dition se
d?roulera ? Rouen le 30 Juin et 1er Juillet 2014.

Les contributions attendues (en fran?ais ou en anglais) sont de trois 
ordres :

- des articles scientifiques (max 6 pages) ;

- des revues de questions ou des ?tats de l?art (max 8 pages), notamment
  sur les liens entre les probl?matiques communes et les sp?cificit?s
  des communaut?s ACA et robotique ;

- des descriptions de r?alisations ou d?exp?rimentations en cours (2
  pages);

sur les domaines de l'/Informatique Affective/, le /Traitement des
//Signaux Sociaux/, les /Agents Conversationnels Anim?s/ et les /Robots
Sociaux/.

*Dates importantes*

***Soumission des titres et des auteurs : 23 Avril 2014****
***Soumission des articles : 30 Avril 2014****
Notification aux auteurs : 14 Mai 2014
Version finale : 28 Mai 2014


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:25:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:25:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: Campagne d'evaluation,
 MediaEval Retrieving Diverse Social Images 2014 Task
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:42:02 +0000
From: POPESCU Adrian 211643 <adrian.popescu at cea.fr>
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[Apologies for cross-postings]

*******************************************************
Retrieving Diverse Social Images 2014 Task
@ the MediaEval 2014 Multimedia Benchmark Evaluation
http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2014/
*******************************************************
Call for Participation
Regular registration deadline: 1 May 2014
*******************************************************

We are happy to announce the opening of the registration for the 2014
Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task of the MediaEval Multimedia
Benchmark.


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**About the Retrieving Diverse Social Images 2014 Task**

This task is a follow-up of the 2013 edition. The task addresses the
problem of result diversification in social photo retrieval.

We use a tourist use case where a person tries to find more information
about a place she is potentially visiting. The person has only a vague
idea about the location, e.g., knowing the name of the location. She
uses the name to learn additional information about the location from
the Internet, for instance by visiting a Wikipedia page, e.g., getting a
photo, the geographical position of the place and basic
descriptions. Before deciding whether this location suits her needs, the
person is interested in getting a more complete visual description of
the place.

The participating systems are expected, given a ranked list of location
photos retrieved from Flickr using text information (up to 300 photos
per query), to refine the results. The refinement consists on providing
a set of images that are in the same time relevant, e.g., depict
partially or entirely the target location, and provide a diversified
summary, e.g., around 50 images that depict different views of the
location at different times of the day/year and under different weather
conditions, creative views, etc. Initial results are typically noisy and
redundant.

The refinement and diversification process will be based on the social
metadata associated with the images and/or on the visual characteristics
of the images.

In particular, this year we provide information about user annotation
credibility. Credibility is determined as an automatic estimation of the
quality (correctness) of a particular user's tags. Participants are
allowed to exploit this credibility estimation or to compute their own
approach, in addition to classical retrieval techniques. A specifically
designed dataset will be used to train this measure and will be provided
to the participants.


----------
**Task schedule**

March-May: Registration and return usage agreements.
1 May: Release of development/training data.
2 June: Release of test data.
8 September: Participants submit their completed runs.
15 September: Evaluation of submitted runs. Participants write their
2-page working notes papers.
28 September: Participants submit their camera ready working notes papers.
16-17+18 October: MediaEval 2014 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain.


----------
**Task organizers**

Bogdan Ionescu, LAPI, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania,
Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, France,
Mihai Lupu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria,
Henning M?ller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland,
(HES-SO) in Sierre, Switzerland.


----------
**Detailed information**

For more information about the task see:
http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2014/diverseimages2014/

For registration and general information about the 2014 MediaEval
benchmarking see:
http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2014/



We look forward to a very successful evaluation campaign!

On behalf of the task organizers,
Bogdan Ionescu
University Politehnica of Bucharest
http://imag.pub.ro/~bionescu
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:29:04 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:29:04 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Traces digitales, 24 avril 2014,
 Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:03:48 +0200
From: Nicolas Turenne <nturenne.inra at yahoo.fr>
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[d?sol? pour les r?ceptions multiples]

Chers coll?gues,

Dans le cadre de la dix-huiti?me s?ance du s?minaire 'traces digitales'
du groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Karim Fraoua (MCF,
UPEM) et Dominique Cardon (Chercheur, Orange Lab) qui nous parleront des
relations algorithme-utilisateur.  Cette matin?e aura lieu le jeudi 24
avril de 10h00 ? 13h00, dans la grande salle de r?union de l'Institut
des Systemes Complexes ISC PIF (Institut des Systemes Complexes - Paris
Ile de France) 113 rue Nationale 75013, Paris. Voir
http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html


10h-11h30 Karim Fraoua ( Ma?tre de Conf?rence, DICEN, Universit? 
Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e)

Prise en compte des aspects rationnels et irrationnels d?un joueur pour 
la conception d?un syst?me d?information .

R?sum? : Mon travail est ancr? dans la construction et la d?finition
d?un syst?me d?information efficient au regard de l?utilisateur.
L?objectif est de maximiser cet usage en tenant compte du comportement
de l?usager de sa prise de d?cision. J?ai utilis? une nouvelle approche
bas?e sur la neuro?conomie. La Neuro?conomie est un domaine relativement
nouveau qui cherche ? concilier plusieurs approches parfois
contradictoire du comportement humain. Le but de cette nouvelle approche
est de combiner les m?thodes et les th?ories de la neuroscience
comportementale, la psychologie, l'?conomie et l'informatique pour
r?pondre ? des question comme les calculs effectu?s par le cerveau pour
prendre diff?rents types de d?cisions, prenant en comptes divers
paradoxes (Allais,?). Cette nouvelle discipline ? conduit ? l??mergence
? une nouvelle approche dans le domaine des syst?mes d?informations, ?
savoir l?approche dite NeuroIS. J'ai abord? bien s?r la notion de la
th?orie des jeux et du mod?le Bay?sien pour expliquer ce que doit ?tre
l'agent rationnel et les syst?mes d'informations actuels quand ils
s?adressent ? des usagers en asym?trie d'information.

11h30-13h00 Dominique Cardon ( Chercheur , Orange Lab.)

Le travail des donn?es : les sciences sociales et les donn?es du web.

R?sum? : Lors de cette pr?sentation, on se propose de mener ensemble
deux r?flexions. La premi?re porte sur le positionnement des sciences
sociales face aux nouveaux enjeux apparus avec le nouveau "gisement" des
donn?es du web. Comment appr?hender ce nouveau contexte ? De quels
instruments critiques doivent se doter les sciences sociales impliqu?es
dans le champ des digital studies pour produire des interpr?tations
originales de ces nouveaux corpus ? Parall?lement, cette interrogation
critique oblige ? questionner les transformations des paradigmes
statistiques mis en ?uvre pour analyser les donn?es du web. A propos des
diff?rentes familles de mesure de la visibilit? sur Internet (Autorit?,
Audience, Affinit?, pr?dictibilit?), on proposera une mise en forme des
enjeux politiques et moraux qui se cachent dans le choix des outils de
calculs destin?s ? traiter des donn?es num?riques.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:14:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:14:17 +0200
Subject: Appel: KI 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.19.APR.2014.101417.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:22:17 +1000
From: Michael Thielscher <mit at cse.unsw.edu.au>
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**** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call ****

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

  KI 2014 - The 37th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
               Stuttgart, September 22--26, 2014

               **** Last Call for Papers ****

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

		  	     www.ki2014.de

KI 2014 is the 37th edition of the German Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and
industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing a premier forum
for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of
intelligent system technology.  The technical program of KI 2014 will
comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and
tutorials.  KI 2014 will be co-located with Informatik 2014 (Annual
Conference of the German Informatics Society) and MATES 2014 (The 12th
German Conference on Multi- Agent System Technologies). The conference
invites original research papers from all areas of AI, its fundamentals,
its algorithms, its history and its applications.

You are invited to submit original research and application papers on
all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following:

- Agent-based and multiagent systems 
- AI applications and innovations 
- Cognitive modeling 
- Commonsense reasoning 
- Computer vision 
- Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization 
- Evolutionary computation 
- Game playing and interactive entertainment 
- Information retrieval, integration, and extraction 
- Knowledge acquisition and ontologies 
- Knowledge representation and reasoning 
- Machine learning and data mining 
- Multidisciplinary AI 
- Natural language processing 
- Planning and scheduling
- Robotics - Uncertainty in AI 
- Web and information systems

We especially welcome application papers that provide novel insights on
the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring
useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science
into AI.

======== Important Dates ========

Full/Short Paper submission:  May 1 
Acceptance notification:      June 23 
Final version due:            July 4 
KI Workshops and Conference:  September 22-26

======== Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium ========

Together with the main conference, we plan to organize a small number of
high-quality workshops and tutorials. We especially encourage workshops
organized by AI Special Interest Groups (GI-Fachgruppen), workshops that
bring together researchers from different disciplines, and workshops
that highlight emerging topics of AI research. Tutorials should target a
large percentage of conference participants, including graduate students
as well as experienced researchers, and practitioners.

The technical program of KI2014 is also complemented by a doctoral
consortium that invites participation by PhD students at any stage and
from any subject area within AI. The KI doctoral consortium is organized
as a joint event with the doctoral program of Informatik 2014, and
includes a mentoring program, a PhD workshop, and poster presentations.

For details on submitting workshop and tutorials and for applying to the
doctoral consortium, please see the KI2014 web page.

======== Submission ========

Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 12 pages
in Springer LNCS style for full technical contributions and 6 pages for
short papers. Full technical papers are expected to report on new
research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the
field. Short papers are also included in the main proceedings and can
report on new research or other issues of interest to the AI community.
Examples of work suitable for short paper submissions include: novel
ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper: important
implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short
experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet
completely solved or analyzed; position or challenge papers; etc.  Short
paper submissions are especially invited for software demonstration or
PhD work in progress.  Submission will be through the Easychair
conference management system :

	http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2014

Papers will be subject to blind peer review. All papers will be reviewed
based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results,
originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation. All
accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings,
and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each
accepted paper must register for the conference and present the
contribution.  The KI 2014 proceedings will be published by Springer as
a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series.

======== Main Organizers ========

Program Chairs
* Carsten Lutz (Universit?t Bremen) 
* Michael Thielscher (University of New South Wales)

Workshop and Tutorial Chair 
* Frieder Stolzenburg (Hochschule Harz)

Doctoral Consortium Chair 
* Markus Kr?tzsch (TU Dresden)

For enquiries, please contact ki2014 at easychair.org.

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:23:54 +0200
Subject: Appel: TALN articles courts, soumissions jusqu'au 4 mai 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.19.APR.2014.102354.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:01:19 +0200
From: Benoit Favre <benoit.favre at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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                         APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS

                               TALN-2014
  21e conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

                        http://www.taln2014.org
                            1-4 Juillet 2014
                               Marseille


-->     Articles courts
-->     Date limite : extension jusqu'au dimanche 4 mai
                        ---------------------


CALENDRIER
==========

1. Articles longs
    - Date limite de soumission : pass?e
    - Notification aux auteurs : pass?e
    - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 5 juin 2014

2. Articles courts
    - Date limite de soumission : 4 mai 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 28 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 5 juin 2014

3. D?monstrations
    - Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 10 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 5 juin 2014

PR?SENTATION
============
Organis?e par le LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage) et le LIF
(Laboratoire d?Informatique Fondamentale), la conf?rence TALN
(Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles) aura lieu pour son 20?me
anniversaire ? Marseille (Facult? Saint-Charles, Universit?
d'Aix-Marseille) du 1er au 4 juillet 2014

La conf?rence TALN?2014, qui est organis?e sous l??gide de l?ATALA, se
tiendra conjointement avec la 16e ?dition des Rencontres des ?tudiants
Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues
(RECITAL?2014).

La conf?rence TALN?2014 comprendra des communications orales pr?sentant
des travaux de recherche et des prises de position, des communications
affich?es, des conf?rences invit?es et des d?monstrations.

La langue officielle de la conf?rence est le fran?ais. Les
communications en anglais sont accept?es pour les participants non
francophones.

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
=======================
Deux formats de communications sont pr?vus : les articles longs (de 12
pages) et les articles courts (de 6 pages).

Les auteurs sont invit?s ? pr?senter deux types de communications :

  - des articles pr?sentant des travaux de recherche originaux
  - des prises de position pr?sentant un point de vue sur l??tat des
    recherches en TALN, fond?es sur une solide exp?rience du domaine

Les articles doivent pr?senter des travaux originaux, comportant un
apport substantiel par rapport ? d'autres travaux ?ventuellement d?j?
publi?s. Les traductions d'articles publi?s ailleurs dans une autre
langue ne sont pas accept?es.

Les articles longs seront pr?sent?s sous forme d?une communication
orale, les articles courts sous forme d?un poster.

Les communications pourront porter sur tous les th?mes du TAL.

CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION
=====================
Les soumissions seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du
domaine. Pour les travaux de recherche, seront consid?r?es en
particulier :

  - l?ad?quation aux th?mes de la conf?rence
  - l?importance et l?originalit? de la contribution
  - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique
  - la discussion critique des r?sultats, en particulier par rapport aux
    autres travaux du domaine
  - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
    internationale
  - l?organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation

Pour les prises de position, seront privil?gi?es :

  - la largeur de vue et la prise en compte de l??tat de l?art
  - l?originalit? et l?impact du point de vue pr?sent?

Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la
conf?rence.

Le comit? de programme s?lectionnera parmi les communications accept?es
un article (prix TALN) pour recommandation ? publication (dans une
version ?tendue) dans la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (revue
TAL).

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION
=======================
Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais.

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word sont disponibles sur le
site web de la conf?rence : http://www.taln2014.org

COMITE D'ORGANISATION
=====================
        Philippe Blache         Fr?d?ric B?chet
        Carine Andr?            Brigitte Bigi
        S?bastien Bermond       Cyril Deniaud
        Nad?ra Bureau           Beno?t Favre
        St?phanie Desous        Jo?lle Lavaud
        Nuria Gala              Fr?d?ric Lefevre
        Gr?goire Montcheuil     Alexis Nasr
        Catherine Perrot        Klim Peshkov
        Laurent Pr?vot          Carlos Ramisch
        St?phane Rauzy          Claudia Starke

CONTACTS
========
  philippe.blache[arobas]lpl-aix.fr
  nadera.bureau[arobas]lpl-aix.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:30:36 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:30:36 +0200
Subject: Job: Postes d'ATER Informatique, CERI/LIA/Universite d'Avignon,
 DL 25/04/14
Message-ID: <SAT.19.APR.2014.103036.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:22:30 +0200
From: Marc El-Beze <marc.elbeze at univ-avignon.fr>
Message-ID: <53515F56.3010002 at univ-avignon.fr>
X-url: http://www.univ-avignon.fr/fr/pratique/ressources-humaines/recrutement-et-concours/campagne-de-recrutement-ater-2012.html
X-url: http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid23097/devenir-attache-temporaire-d-enseignement-et-de-recherche-a.t.e.r.html


Bonjour,

Le Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Informatique de l'Universite
d'Avignon (ceri.univ-avignon.fr) propose 5 postes d'ATER en Informatique
a temps plein pour l'annee 2014/15
(http://www.univ-avignon.fr/fr/pratique/ressources-humaines/recrutement-et-concours/campagne-de-recrutement-ater-2012.html
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ATERListesOffresPubliees/ATEROffres_publiees_TriParRegion.html).
Ils n'ont pas de profils specifiques : seule l'inscription dans une
activite de recherche en cours au LIA (lia.univ-avignon.fr) est requise.

Les details sur la campagne sont disponibles sur
http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid23097/devenir-attache-temporaire-d-enseignement-et-de-recherche-a.t.e.r.html.
Les conditions pour devenir ATER :

- soit ?tre fonctionnaire titulaire ou stagiaire de cat?gorie A et
  inscrit en vue de la pr?paration du doctorat ou d'une habilitation ?
  diriger des recherches ou s'engageant ? se pr?senter ? un concours de
  recrutement de l'enseignement sup?rieur ;

- soit ?tre inscrit en vue de la pr?paration d'un doctorat, le directeur
  de th?se devant attester que la th?se peut ?tre soutenue dans un d?lai
  d'un an ;

- soit ?tre d?j? titulaire d'un doctorat ou d'une habilitation ? diriger
  des recherches et s'engager ? se pr?senter ? un concours de
  recrutement de l'enseignement sup?rieur ;

- soit ?tre enseignant ou chercheur de nationalit? ?trang?re ayant
  exerc? des fonctions d'enseignement ou de recherche pendant au moins 2
  ans, titulaire d'un doctorat ;

- soit ?tre moniteur recrut? dans le cadre du monitorat d'initiation ?
  l'enseignement sup?rieur, titulaire d'un doctorat et s'engageant ? se
  pr?senter ? un concours de recrutement de l'enseignement sup?rieur ;

- soit ?tre allocataire d'enseignement et de recherche ayant cess?
  d'exercer ses fonctions depuis moins d'un an, titulaire d'un doctorat
  et s'engageant ? se pr?senter ? un concours de recrutement de
  l'enseignement sup?rieur.

Si vous connaissez des candidats potentiels (doctorants en fin de these,
jeunes docteurs, post-doc...), merci de leur faire passer l'information.
Vous noterez aussi la possiblite 4, donc n'hesitez pas a faire circuler
cette offre y compris aupres de jeunes collegues etrangers.

La date limite de candidature est le **vendredi 25 avril 2014**.

Cordialement,
- Fabrice Lefevre
Directeur du CERI
 
Fabrice Lef?vre, LIA-CERI-Univ. Avignon
BP 91228, 84911 Avignon Cedex 9, FRANCE
tel 33 (0)4 90 84 35 63/ fax - - - - 01

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Apr 19 08:22:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:22:31 +0200
Subject: Appel: #di2014, DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE, Sept. 17-19 2014, France
Message-ID: <SAT.19.APR.2014.102231.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:55:31 +0200
From: Frederic Benhamou & Milad Doueihi -  #di2014 Co-Chairs <pc-chairs at di2014.org>
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=========== #di2014 | CALL FOR PAPERS ========

CALL FOR PAPERS ? #di2014
International Conference on Digital Intelligence
Sept. 17-19, 2014 - Nantes, France
www.di2014.org - @DIConf2014


Digital Intelligence 2014 (#di2014) is a new international scientific
and interdisciplinary conference dedicated to digital society and
cultures. The challenge is to bring together researchers from various
disciplines (ICT, humanities, biology & health...) in order to discuss
and contribute to shape a new scientific and cultural paradigm.

#di2014 will be jointly organized with Scopitone, the main French
Festival on digital arts and electronic music (Scopitone 2014,
Sept. 16-21, 2014).

The program will be built around four main components: plenary invited
talks, contributed talks in parallel sessions, artistic sessions,
performances and works shared with the Scopitone festival and finally
sessions and events related to the (real) economy of digital cultures.

Program co-chairs: Milad Doueihi (Canada) & Fr?d?ric Benhamou (France)
Conference co-chairs: Francky Trichet, Universit? de Nantes (France) &
St?phane Roche, Universit? Laval (Canada)

---------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------------

- Serge Abiteboul, Acad?mie des Sciences / INRIA / Coll?ge de France,
  France

- G?rard Berry, Acad?mie des Sciences / INRIA / Coll?ge de France,
  France

- Caterina Fake, Co-Founder of Flickr, Findery & Hunch, USA

- Bruno Latour, MediaLab, Science Po, France

- Carlo Ratti, MIT Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of
  Technology, USA

- Jeffrey Schnapp, MetaLAB, Harvard University, USA

------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------

- Submission deadline: April 30, 2014

- Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 16, 2014

- Conference: Sept. 17-19, 2014

--------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------

Papers should be submitted online using this form:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=di2014

Papers should not exceed 5 pages in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/ lncs/authors.html) and should be submitted
in PDF format.

The submitted papers (technical or position papers, surveys) must be
unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere.


-------------------------------- TOPICS ------------------------------

Main areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Art & Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Digital Art, IT for
  cultural, natural and scientific Heritage, In-museum Innovative
  Technology and uses

- Data: Big Data, Open Data, Linked Data, Data Journalism, Data
  Visualization

- Digital Organizations: Applications of new technologies to e-Business
  and e-Administration, e-Commerce, e-Marketing, m-Commerce,
  m-Marketing, Organizational and management issues

- Social Web: Social Network Analysis, Communities of practice /
  interest in social media and mobile devices, Collective intelligence,
  Collaborative production and Social Computing, Knowledge Ecosystems,
  Digital Ecosystems, Economics and social innovation on Digital
  Ecosystems

- Digital Identity: e-reputation (human, product, enterprise,
  government, etc.), Digital traces and memories, Privacy, Trust,
  Security and Personal Data Management Systems, Human factors (culture,
  affect, motivation, cognition) and user centered design in digital
  technology

- e-Learning: Social impact and cultural issues in e-Learning, Policy
  and organizational issues in e-Learning, e-Universities, e-Schools,
  e-Learning technologies and tools, e-Learning standards (Open Course
  Ware, Open Access), open e-Learning : OER, MOOCs, virtual mobility

- Green Digital Economy: Green computing, IT for Sustainability, Smart
  Cities and Homes

- Digital Trends and Emerging Practices: Cloud Computing, Emotional
  Computing, Serious Games, Makers, FabLabs, MediaLabs, LivingLabs,
  ArtLab, innovative Digital Solution in Health, Tourism, Internet of
  Things, Digital Addiction Studies

- Human-Robot Interaction: Ethical and social issues of HRI,
  Bio-inspired robotics, Humanoid robotics, Socially intelligent robots,
  assistive (health & personal care) robotics, Transhumanism

- Human-Computer Interaction: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality,
  Design, User Experience and Usability

- Digital humanities: Philosophy of the Web, Digital Literature, Digital
  Literacy


------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (current list) -----------

Area chairs:

- Data: Serge Abiteboul, Acad?mie des Sciences / Coll?ge de France /
  INRIA, France

- The Commons: Philippe Aigrain, La Quadrature du Net / Sopinspace,
  France

- Human robot interaction: Yuichiro Anzai, Department of Computer
  Science, Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences / Keio University,
  Japan

- Digital literacy: G?rard Berry, Chair in Algorithms, Machines and
  Languages, French Acad?mie des Sciences / Coll?ge de France / INRIA,
  France

- Digital literature: Alexandre Gefen, Centre d'?tude de la Litt?rature
  Fran?aise, Universit? Paris-Sorbonne ? Paris 4, France

- Social web: Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France

- e-learning: Rory McGreal, UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in
  Open Educational Resources, Athabasca University, Canada

- Art & culturally aware information technology: Ryohei Nakatsu,
  Interactive & Digital Media Institute, National University of
  Singapore, Singapore

- Smart cities: St?phane Roche, Department of Geomatics, Universit?
  Laval - Qu?bec, Canada

- Digital humanities: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, MetaLAB, Harvard University,
  USA

- Security, privacy & digital identity: Pascal Van Hentenryck,
  Australian National University / NICTA, Australia


PC members:

- Reda S. Alhajj, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary,
  Canada
- G?rard Assayag, STMS Lab - Sciences & Technologies Musique & Son,
  IRCAM, France
- Francis Bach, Computer Science Laboratory, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure /
  INRIA, France
- Christine Balagu?, Chair Marketing and Social Networks, Institut
  Mines-Telecom, France
- Fran?ois Bancilhon, Data publica, France
- Christoph Bartneck, Human Interface Laboratory, Canterbury University,
  Australia
- David Bates, Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California -
  Berkeley, USA
- Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Computer Sciences Laboratory, Universit? Paris
  Sud, France
- Daren C. Brabham, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism,
  University of Southern California, USA
- Ben Brabon, Department of English and History, Edge Hill University,
  UK
- Patrick Y.K. Chau, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong,
  Hong Kong
- Philippe Codognet, University Pierre & Marie Curie-Paris 6 /
  University of Tokyo, France/Japan
- Jozef Colpaert, Director R&D of Language Institute Linguapolis,
  Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
- Colin de la Higuera, LINA- Nantes Atlantic Computer Science
  laboratory, Universit? de Nantes, France
- Sir John Daniel, Open and Distance Learning, UK
- Manuel Fernandez, Human Scale City, Spain
- Patrick Gallinari, LIP6 - Computer Sciences Laboratory, Universit?
  Pierre et Marie Curie, France
- Krishna Gummadi, Networked Systems Research Group, Max Planck
  Institute for Software Systems, Germany
- Lynda Hardman, Information Access research group, Centrum Wiskunde &
  Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands.
- Katja Hose, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University,
  Denmark
- Joaquin Huerta, Department of Computer Languages and Systems,
  Universidad Jaume I de Castell?n, Spain
- Erkki Huhtamo, Department of Design Media Arts, University of
  California, Los Angeles, USA
- Michita Imai, Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Japan
- Sirkka Jarvenpaa, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas
  at Austin, USA
- Florian Kerschbaum, SAP, Germany
- Marie-No?lle Lamy, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open
  university, UK,
- George Legrady, Experimental Visualization Lab, University of
  California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Dominique Lestel, Department of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure,
  France
- Manuel Lima, Parsons School of Design / Founder of
  VisualComplexity.com, USA
- Michel Lussault, French National Institute For Education, ENS of Lyon
  University of Lyon
- Am?lie Marian, Computer Science Department, Rotgers University, USA
- Alessandro Marianantoni, REMAP, University of California, Los Angeles,
  USA
- Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Research, USA
- Carlos Moreno, Groupe GDF-SUEZ, France
- Neil Morris, Digital learning team, University of Leeds, UK
- Mir Mostafavi J., Department of Geomatics, Universit? Laval - Qu?bec,
  Canada
- Beniamino Murgante, School of Engineering, University of Basilicata,
  Italy
- Liam Murray, School of Languages, Literature, Culture and
  Communication, University of Limerick, Ireland
- Frank Nack, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (UvA),The
  Netherlands
- Enrico Nardelli, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Roma "Tor
  Vergata", Italy
- Nicola Nova, Research Institute of Art and Design, Gen?ve / Near
  Future Laboratory, Switzerland
- Fran?ois Pachet, Computer Science Laboratory, SONY, Paris, France
- Nicolas Reeves, NXI GESTATIO Design Lab, Universit? du Qu?bec ?
  Montr?al, ?cole de Design, Canada
- John Savage, Computer Science Department, Brown University, USA
- Christoph Sorge, Institute of Law and Informatics, Saarland
  University, Germany
- Fran?oise Souli?, KXEN, France
- Bernard Stiegler, Ars Industrialis, Centre Pompidou, France
- Steve Tadelis, eBay research Lab, eBay / University of California -
  Berkeley, USA
- Naoko Tosa, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto
  University, Japan
- Lena Wiese, Institute of Computer Science, University of Goettingen,
  Germany
- Tien-Tsin Wong, department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chinese
  University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
- Christian Zimmerman Institute of Computer Science and Social Studies,
  Department of Telematics , University of Freiburg, Germany

--------------------------- PROCEEDINGS --------------------------

The accepted papers will be included in the electronic conference
proceedings.

Authors of selected conference papers will be invited to submit an
extended version of their work to scientific journals or a compilation
volume of articles.

---------------------- NANTES DIGITAL WEEK --------------------

#di2014 is at the heart of the Nantes Digital Week (Sept. 13-21, 2014)
which brings together conferences, workshops, demonstrations,
performances and concerts related to Art, Science and Economy.

At once festive, innovative and hybrid, Nantes Digital Week appeal to a
wide audience and will be organized around major events: Startup
Weekend, Scopitone festival on Digital Art and Electronic Cultures,
FabLab Day, Robotic Day, etc.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 18:26:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:26:19 +0200
Subject: Livre: Cimiano etal,
 Ontology-Based Interpretation of Natural Language
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.202619.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:55:37 +1000
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Ontology-Based Interpretation of Natural Language

by Philipp Cimiano, Christina Unger, and John McCrae
(Semantic Computing Group, CITEC, Bielefeld University, Germany)


Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #24 (Morgan &
Claypool Publishers), 2014, 178 pages

ABSTRACT:

For humans, understanding a natural language sentence or discourse is so
effortless that we hardly ever think about it. For machines, however,
the task of interpreting natural language, especially grasping meaning
beyond the literal content, has proven extremely difficult and requires
a large amount of background knowledge. This book focuses on the
interpretation of natural language with respect to specific domain
knowledge captured in ontologies. The main contribution is an approach
that puts ontologies at the center of the interpretation process. This
means that ontologies not only provide a formalization of domain
knowledge necessary for interpretation but also support and guide the
construction of meaning representations.

We start with an introduction to ontologies and demonstrate how
linguistic information can be attached to them by means of the ontology
lexicon model lemon. These lexica then serve as basis for the automatic
generation of grammars, which we use to compositionally construct
meaning representations that conform with the vocabulary of an
underlying ontology. As a result, the level of representational
granularity is not driven by language but by the semantic distinctions
made in the underlying ontology and thus by distinctions that are
relevant in the context of a particular domain. We highlight some of the
challenges involved in the construction of ontology-based meaning
representations, and show how ontologies can be exploited for ambiguity
resolution and the interpretation of temporal expressions.  Finally, we
present a question answering system that combines all tools and
techniques introduced throughout the book in a real-world application,
and sketch how the presented approach can scale to larger, multi-domain
scenarios in the context of the Semantic Web.

Table of Contents: List of Figures / Preface / Acknowledgments /
Introduction / Ontologies / Linguistic Formalisms / Ontology Lexica /
Grammar Generation / Putting Everything Together / Ontological Reasoning
for Ambiguity Resolution / Temporal Interpretation / Ontology-Based
Interpretation for Question Answering / Conclusion / Bibliography /
Authors' Biographies

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00561ED1V01Y201401HLT024


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 19:28:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:28:26 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Serie de seminaires, A. Villavicencio,
 labex Transfers, Paris et Montrouge
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.212826.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:53:54 +0200
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
Message-Id: <99BB7B0C-1587-42DA-8CD7-156D14F2C355 at ens.fr>
X-url: http://transfers.ens.fr/

Bonjour, 

Veuillez trouver ci-joint le programme des conf?rences d?Aline
Villavicencio (http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~avillavicencio/), invit?e du
labex Transfers (http://transfers.ens.fr/) en mai 2014.

L?ensemble des conf?rences sera consacr? ? l?acquisition du langage et ?
la mod?lisation (notamment informatique) des ph?nom?nes correspondants.

Toutes les conf?rences seront en anglais. 

Cordialement,

Thierry Poibeau


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


Short Bio:
Aline Villavicencio is a senior lecturer in Computer Sciences at the
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and a CNPq fellow. She
was a visiting Scholar at MIT (USA) from 2011-2012, and at Saarland
University in 2012-2013, with PhD and MPhil degrees from the University
of Cambridge, UK. Her research has included work on computational
language acquisition and grammar engineering for languages such as
English and Portuguese. She has coordinated several projects on these
topics, which include collaboration with France, US and Latin American
universities. She has organized events including the ACL-2007 and the
EACL-2009, 2012 and 2014 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational
Language Acquisition, and the ACL 2003, 2004, 2011, NAACL-2013 and
Coling 2010 workshops on Multiword Expressions among others.     


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

Topic: Language Acquisition
Title: Language Acquisition and Probabilistic Models: keeping it simple
Joint work with Bob Berwick (MIT)

Abstract: Hierarchical Bayesian Models (HBMs) have been used with some
success to capture empirically observed patterns of under- and
overgeneralization in child language acquisition. However, as is well
known, HBMs are ``ideal'' learning systems, assuming access to unlimited
computational resources that may not be available to child language
learners. Consequently, it remains crucial to carefully assess the use
of HBMs along with alternative, possibly simpler, candidate models. In
this talk I describe an evaluation for a language acquisition domain
where explicit HBMs have been proposed: the acquisition of English
dative constructions. In particular, I present a detailed,
empirically-grounded model-selection comparison of HBMs vs. a simpler
alternative based on clustering along with maximum likelihood
estimation, the linear competition learning (LCL). Results obtained
demonstrate that LCL can match HBM model performance without incurring
on the high computational costs associated with HBMs.

Mercredi 7 mai
10h30 - 12h30, ENS 45 rue d?Ulm salle Cartan

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

Topic: Language Acquisition work with psycholinguistic data
Title: Lexical and topological analysis of language acquisition and
dissolution 

Abstract: Psycholinguistic studies on language acquisition, organization
and dissolution have proposed several hypotheses to explain human
processing of language, where factors such as frequency, polysemy and
conventionality seem to influence language use. Recent studies have also
indicated the impact of gender and age, with differences in language use
between boys and girls found in longitudinal data. In this talk I will
describe lexical and topological analyses of some target groups,
including children for language acquisition, and clinical groups for
language dissolution investigations.

Mardi 20 mai
10h00 - 12h30, Laboratoire Lattice (salle 512, 1 rue Maurice Arnoux
92120 Montrouge)

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


Topic: Multi Word Expressions
* Title: Multiword expressions in language technology and language
acquisition

Abstract: Conventional ways of transmitting efficiently and concisely
complex ideas and concepts in natural language in a particular domain or
community often adopt Multiword Expressions (MWE). For example, "an old
wives' tale" as "an idea believed in the past but now known to be
wrong".  MWEs are a heterogeneous set that includes various complex
phenomena ranging from compound nouns and verb particle constructions to
idioms, and have received considerable attention from researchers from a
variety of disciplines, such as Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and
Natural Language Processing. Although their importance has long been
recognised, their heterogeneous characteristics have proved a challenge
to both linguistic and computational analysis. In this talk I examine
some of these challenges and present an approach for their automatic
identification. I then discuss some applications for their use in
language technology and child language acquisition studies.

suivi de :

------MWEs methods
* Title: A language independent framework for Multiword Expressions
Identification

Abstract: A Multiword Expression (MWE) is a sequences whose
interpretation crosses the word boundaries (Sag et al., 2002) and
include compound nouns (credit card, mountain bike), phrasal verbs
(carry on, go by [a name]), compound terms (benign tumor, nuclear
fusion), etc.  They are an integral part of language, and their
importance has long been recognized. However, their heterogeneous
characteristics have proved a challenge to both linguistic and
computational analysis. In this paper we discuss some of these
challenges along with a variety of approaches for semi-automatically
finding and handling these expressions.

Mercredi 21 mai
10h00 - 12h30, Laboratoire Lattice (salle 512, 1 rue Maurice Arnoux
92120 Montrouge)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 18:24:04 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:24:04 +0200
Subject: Livre: Schafer and Bildhauer, Web Corpus Construction
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:52:25 +1000
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Web Corpus Construction

by Roland Sch?fer and Felix Bildhauer 
(Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany)

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #22 (Morgan & Claypool
Publishers), 2013, 145 pages

ABSTRACT:

The World Wide Web constitutes the largest existing source of texts
written in a great variety of languages. A feasible and sound way of
exploiting this data for linguistic research is to compile a static
corpus for a given language. There are several adavantages of this
approach: (i) Working with such corpora obviates the problems
encountered when using Internet search engines in quantitative
linguistic research (such as non-transparent ranking algorithms).  (ii)
Creating a corpus from web data is virtually free. (iii) The size of
corpora compiled from the WWW may exceed by several orders of magnitudes
the size of language resources offered elsewhere. (iv) The data is
locally available to the user, and it can be linguistically
post-processed and queried with the tools preferred by her/him. This
book addresses the main practical tasks in the creation of web corpora
up to giga-token size. Among these tasks are the sampling process (i.e.,
web crawling) and the usual cleanups including boilerplate removal and
removal of duplicated content. Linguistic processing and problems with
linguistic processing coming from the different kinds of noise in web
corpora are also covered. Finally, the authors show how web corpora can
be evaluated and compared to other corpora (such as traditionally
compiled corpora).

For additional material please visit the companion website:
sites.morganclaypool.com/wcc

Table of Contents: Preface / Acknowledgments / Web Corpora / Data
Collection / Post-Processing / Linguistic Processing / Corpus 
Evaluation and Comparison / Bibliography / Authors' Biographies


http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00508ED1V01Y201305HLT022


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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:23:21 +0200
Subject: Job: Postes ATER Informatique Marseille
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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 17:15:46 +0200
From: Patrice Bellot <patrice.bellot at lsis.org>
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bonjour

10 postes ATER complets et 2 postes ATER 50% sont mis au concours en
Informatique (section 27) au sein d'Aix-Marseille Universit?
(laboratoires LSIS ou LIF selon les postes).

Plus d'informations ici :
http://drh.univ-amu.fr/public_content/recrutement-ater-2014-2015-modalites-liste-postes-section

DATE LIMITE DE DEPOT DES DOSSIERS: mardi 30 avril 2014.

cordialement,
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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:35:21 +0200
Subject: Conf: Coling 2014, Registration NOW OPEN
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:32:17 +0000
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http://www.coling-2014.org/registration_email.html

http://www.coling-2014.org/index.php

We are proud that COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on
Computational Linguistics, will be organised by the Centre for Global
Intelligent Content (CNGL) at the Helix Conference Centre at Dublin City
University (DCU) from 23-29 August 2014. The COLING conference is
organised under the auspices of the International Committee on
Computational Linguistics (ICCL).

Registration is Now Open!
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 19:25:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:25:39 +0200
Subject: Appel: Medical IR workshop @ SIGIR (April 28th submission
 deadline)
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.212539.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:47:48 +0100
From: Liadh Kelly <lkelly at computing.dcu.ie>
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Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR) Workshop

http://medir.dcu.ie/

At SIGIR 2014, July 11 2014, Gold Coast, Australia


Call for Papers (2 & 4 page)

Submission deadline: April 28

Medical information search refers to methodologies and technologies that
seek to improve access to medical information archives via a process of
information retrieval (IR). Such information is now potentially
accessible from many sources including the general web, social media,
journal articles, and hospital records.

Medical information is of interest to a wide variety of users, including
patients and their families, researchers, general practitioners and
clinicians, and practitioners with specific expertise such as
radiologists. Despite the popularity of the medical domain for users of
search engines, and current interest in this topic within the
information retrieval research community, development of search and
access technologies remains particularly challenging.  One of the
central issues in medical information search is diversity of the users
of these services. In particular, they will have varying categories of
information needs, varying levels of medical knowledge, and varying
language skills. In addition, the format, reliability, and quality of
biomedical and medical information varies greatly. A single health
record can contain clinical notes, technical pathology data, images, and
patient-contributed histories, and may be linked by a physician to
research papers. The importance of health and medical topics and their
impact on people?s everyday lives makes the need for retrieval of
accurate and reliable information especially important.  Determining the
likely reliability of available information is challenging.  Finally, as
with information retrieval in general, the evaluation of medical search
tools is vital and challenging. For example, there are no established or
standardized baselines or evaluation metrics, and limited availability
of test collections.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in medical
information search with the goal of identifying specific research
challenges that need to be addressed to advance the state-of-the-art and
to foster interdisciplinary collaborations towards the meeting of these
challenges. To enable this, we encourage participation from researchers
in all fields related to medical information search including mainstream
information retrieval, but also natural language processing,
multilingual text processing, and medical image analysis.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  - Users and information needs

  - Semantics and NLP for medical IR

  - Reliability and trust in medical IR

  - Personalised search

  - Evaluation of medical IR

  - Multilingual issues in medical IR

  - Multimedia technologies in medical IR

  - The role of social media in medical IR


Paper Submissions

The workshop is now accepting paper submissions. Short papers (4 pages)
and short position papers (2 pages) describing approaches or ideas /
challenges on the topics of the workshop are invited. Submissions should
be in ACM SIGS format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/ publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX,
use the "Option 2" style).

Papers should be anonymised for double blind review and submitted in pdf
format through the EasyChair system
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf= medir2014 no later than
midnight Pacific Daylight Time on April 28, 2014.  Submissions will be
reviewed by members of the workshop program committee.  Accepted papers
will be included in the SIGIR 2014 Medical Information Search Workshop
proceedings.

Important Dates

April 28, 2014: Deadline for paper submission (midnight Pacific Daylight
   Time)
May 10, 2014: Notification to authors
May 17, 2014: Camera-ready papers due
July 11, 2014: Workshop

Further Information

Further information is available on the workshop website at
http://medir.dcu.ie / or by emailing the workshop organisers.

Workshop Organisers


Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland

Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland

Henning M?ller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 19:22:53 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:22:53 +0200
Subject: Conf: IC 2014, 12 au 16 mai 2014, Clermont-Ferrand
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.212253.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:51:48 +0200
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <53569014.4040004 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014
X-url: http://kidknowledge.wp.mines-telecom.fr/tutoriel-calcul-et-analyse-de-mesures-semantiques-a-laide-de-la-semantic-measures-library/
X-url: http://weblab-project.org/workshop/SoWeDo2014/
X-url: http://81.194.42.176/html/ModulO2014/
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/24

*Appel ? participation ?  la conf?rence IC 2014*

25es Journ?es Francophones d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances :
/Connaissances pervasives : des utilisateurs plong?s dans des SBC et des
SBC plong?s dans le monde/

http://www.irit.fr/IC2014
du 12 au 16 mai 2014 ? Clermont-Ferrand

*Inscriptions *: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/11 *Cl?ture des 
pr?inscriptions le 5 mai*

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*Liste des ateliers et tutoriel :*

  * Tutoriel Calcul et analyse de mesures s?mantiques ? l'aide de la
    Semantic Measures Library
    http://kidknowledge.wp.mines-telecom.fr/tutoriel-calcul-et-analyse-de-mesures-semantiques-a-laide-de-la-semantic-measures-library/
  * Atelier SoWeDo http://weblab-project.org/workshop/SoWeDo2014/
  * Atelier IC & Sant? https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/
  * Atelier ModulO http://81.194.42.176/html/ModulO2014/
  * Atelier IN-OVIVE https://colloque.inra.fr/in_ovive_2014
  * Atelier IC & Agri http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/24

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*Liste des articles accept?s :*

  * C?line Alec, Brigitte Safar, Chantal Reynaud, Zied Sellami and Uriel
    Berdugo. Peuplement automatique d'ontologie ? partir d'un catalogue
    de produits
  * Pavel Arapov, Michel Buffa and Amel Ben Othmane. Programmer le web
    de donn?es avec un ? wiki-based IDE ?
  * Jacques Bouaud, Arnaud Soulet, Jean-Philippe Spano, Jean-Pierre
    Lefranc, Isabelle Cojean-Zelek, Brigitte Blaszka-Jaulerry, Laurent
    Zelek, Axel Durieux, Christophe Tournigand, Nizar Messai, Alexandra
    Rousseau and Brigitte Seroussi. Quels sont les patients atteints
    d'un cancer du sein dont la d?cision de prise en charge
    th?rapeutique b?n?ficie de l'utilisation d'un syst?me d'aide ? la
    d?cision ? Un exemple utilisant la fouille de donn?es et OncoDoc2
  * Sandra Bringay, Eric Kergosien, Pierre Pompidor and Pascal Poncelet.
    Identifier la cible des ?motions dans les forums de sant?
  * Gaoussou Camara, Sylvie Despres and Moussa Lo. IDOSCHISTO : une
    extension de l'ontologie noyau des maladies infectieuses (IDO-Core)
    pour la schistosomiase
  * Jean Charlet, Laurent Mazuel, Gunnar Declerck, Patrick Miroux and
    Pierre Gayet. D?crire les maladies localis?es et la physiopathologie
    pour une ontologie des urgences: un algorithme g?n?rique ? partir de
    la FMA
  * Olivier Corby and Catherine Faron-Zucker. SPARQL Template: un
    langage de Pretty Printing pour RDF
  * Christopher Couthon, R?gis Martineau and Pascal Salembier. De la
    qualit? de la coop?ration ? l'identification d'indicateurs de
    pilotage
  * Michel Crampes and Michel Planti?. Organisation de communaut?s et
    Equilibre de Nash
  * Sylvie Despres. Construction d'une ontologie modulaire pour
    l'univers de la cuisine num?rique
  * Blandine Ginon, St?phanie Jean-Daubias, Pierre-Antoine Champin and
    Marie Lefevre. aLDEAS : un langage de d?finition de syst?mes
    d'assistance ?piphytes
  * Mohamed Nader Jelassi, Sadok Ben Yahia and Engelbert Mephu Nguifo.
    Vers des recommandations plus personnalis?es dans les folksonomies
  * Abir Beatrice Karami, Karim Sehaba and Beno?t Encelle. Learn to
    Adapt based on Users' Feedback
  * Jean-Baptiste Lamy, Lina F. Soualmia, Alain Venot and Catherine
    Duclos. Validation de la s?mantique d'un langage iconique m?dical ?
    l'aide d'une ontologie: m?thodes et applications
  * Camille Pradel, Ollivier Haemmerl? and Nathalie Hernandez. Swip :
    une interface Langue Naturelle ? SPARQL programm?e en SPARQL
  * H?l?ne De Ribaupierre and Gilles Falquet. Un mod?le d'annotation
    s?mantique centr? sur les utilisateurs de documents scientifiques :
    cas d'utilisation dans les ?tudes genre
  * Oumy Seye, Catherine Faron Zucker, Olivier Corby and Alban Gaignard.
    Publication, partage et r?utilisation de r?gles sur le web de
    donn?es
  * Guillaume Surroca, Philippe Lemoisson, Cl?ment Jonquet and Stefano
    A. Cerri. Construction et ?volution de connaissances par
    confrontation de points de vue : prototype pour la recherche
    d'information scientifique
  * Lamine Traore, Amina Chniti, Nicolas Griffon, Stefan Darmoni, Jean
    Charlet, Eric Sadou, David Ouagne, Eric Lepage, Christel Daniel and
    Sajjad Hussain. Plateforme d'interop?rabilit? s?mantique g?rant les
    terminologies d'interface au sein d'un territoire de sant? num?rique
  * Antoine Vincent, Bruno Bachimont and Alain Bonardi. L'int?r?t des
    patrons dans la gestion des connaissances li?es ? la cr?ation sonore


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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.

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:24:21 +0200
Subject: Appel: CompuTerm 2014
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.212421.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:02:13 -0400
From: Patrick Drouin <patrick.drouin at umontreal.ca>
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       4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology
                            CompuTerm 2014

                         COLING 2014 Workshop
                  23rd August 2014, Dublin, Ireland
              http://perso.limsi.fr/hamon/Computerm2014/

Submission deadline: 2nd May 2014


Computational Terminology covers an increasingly important aspect in
Natural Language Processing areas such as text mining, information
retrieval, information extraction, summarisation, textual entailment,
document management systems, question-answering systems, ontology
building, etc. Terminological information is paramount for knowledge
mining from texts for scientific discovery and competitive
intelligence. Scientific needs in fast growing domains (such as
biomedicine, chemistry and ecology) and the overwhelming amount of
textual data published daily demand that terminology is acquired and
managed systematically and automatically; while in well established
domains (such as law, economy, banking and music) the demand is on
fine-grained analyses of documents for knowledge description and
acquisition. Moreover, capturing new concepts leads to the acquisition
and management of new knowledge.

The aim of this fourth CompuTerm workshop is to bring together Natural
Language Processing researchers to discuss recent advances in
computational terminology and its impact in many NLP applications. The
topics addressed in this workshop are wide ranging:

- term extraction, recognition and filtering, which is the core
  of the terminological activity that lays basis for other
  terminological topics and tasks;

- event recognition and extraction, that extends the notion of the
  terminological entity from terms meaning static units up to terms
  meaning procedural and dynamic processes;

- acquisition of semantic relations among terms, which is also an
  important research topic as the acquisition of semantic
  relationships between terms finds applications such as the
  population and update of existing knowledge bases, definition
  of domain specific templates in information extraction and
  disambiguation of terms;

- term variation management, that helps to deal with the dynamic
  nature of terms, their acquisition from heterogeneous sources, their
  integration, standardisation and representation for a large range of
  applications and resources, is also increasingly important, as one
  has to address this research problem when working with various
  controlled vocabularies, thesauri, ontologies and textual data. Term
  variation is also related to their paraphrases and reformulations,
  due to historical, regional, local or personal issues. Besides, the
  discovery of synonym terms or term clusters is equally
  beneficial to many NLP applications;

- definition acquisition, that covers important research and
  aims to provide precise and nonambiguous description of
  terminological entities.  Such definitions may contain
  elements necessary for the formal description of terms and concepts
  within ontologies;

- consideration of the user expertise, that is becoming a new issue in
  the terminological activity, takes into account the fact that
  specialized domains contain notions and terms often
  nonunderstandable to non-experts or to laymen (such as patients
  within the medical area, or bank clients within banking and economy
  areas). This aspect, although related to specialized areas, provides
  direct link between specialized languages and general language;

- systematic terminology management and updating domain specific
  dictionaries and thesauri, that are important aspects for
  maintaining the existing terminological resources. These aspects
  become crucial because the amount of the existing terminological
  resources is constantly increasing and because their perennial and
  efficient use depends on their maintenance and updating, while
  their re-acquisition is costly and often non-reproducible;

- monolingual and multilingual resources, that open the possibility
  for developing cross-lingual and multi-lingual applications,
  requires specific corpora, methods and tools which design and
  evaluation are challenging issues;

- robustness and portability of methods, which allows to apply methods
  developed in one given context to other contexts (corpora, domains,
  languages, etc.) and to share the research expertise among them;

- social netwoks and modern media processing, that attracts an
  increasing number of researchers and that provides challenging
  material to be processed;

- utilization of terminologies in various NLP applications, as they
  are a necessary component of any NLP system dealing with
  domain-specific literature, is another novel and challenging
  research direction.

The workshop submissions are open to different approaches, ranging
from term extraction in various languages (using verb co-occurrence,
information theoretic approaches, machine learning, etc.), translation
pairs extracting from bilingual corpora based on terminology, up to
semantic oriented approaches and theoretical aspects of terminology.
Besides, experiments on the evaluation of terminological methods and
tools are also encouraged since they provide interesting and useful
proof about the utility of terminological resources:

- direct evaluation may concern the efficiency of the
  terminological methods and tools to capture the terminological
  entities and relations, as well as various kinds of related
  information;

- indirect evaluation may concern the use of terminological resources
  in various NLP applications and the impact these resources have on
  the performance of the automatic systems. In this case, research and
  competition tracks (such as TREC, BioCreative, CLEF, CLEF-eHealth,
  I2B2, *SEM, and other shared tasks), provide particularly fruitful
  evaluation contexts and proved very successful in identifying key
  problems in terminology such as term variation and ambiguity.

We encourage authors to submit their research work related to various
aspects of computational terminology, such as mentioned in this
call. The workshop authors will be proposed to submit an extented
version of their work to a special issue of an international journal
or of a book collection.

Importante dates:

- 1st workshop CFP: 17th February 2014
- Paper due date: 2nd May 2014
- Notification of acceptance: 6th June 2014
- Camera-ready deadline: 27th June 2014
- Workshop: 23rd August 2014

Submission instructions:

Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished
work in the topic area of this workshop.

Submissions should follow the COLING 2014 instruction for authors
(http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php) and be formatted
using the COLING 2014 stylefiles for latex, MS Word or LibreOffice
(http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip), with blind review and
not exceeding 8 pages plus two extra pages for references.

The PDF files will be submitted electronically at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/WS-9/


Organisers:

- Patrick Drouin, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Universit? de
  Montr?al, Montr?al, Canada
- Natalia Grabar, CNRS UMR 8163 STL, Universit? Lille 1&3, Villeneuve
  d'Ascq
- Thierry Hamon, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France & Universit? Paris 13, Sorbonne
  Paris Cit?, Villetaneuse, France
- Kyo Kageura, Library and Information Science Laboratory, University of
  Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Program Committee


- Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, National Centre for Text
  Mining, UK
- Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, USA
- Beatrice Daille, IRIN, France
- ?ric Gaussier, LIG, Universit? Joseph Fourier, France
- Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corp, France
- Marie-Claude L'Homme, University of Montr?al, Canada
- Philippe Langlais, RALI, Canada
- John McNaught, UMIST & National Centre for Text Mining, UK
- Rogelio Nazar, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester, UK
- Jorge Vivaldi Palatresi, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- Selja Sepp?l?, University at Buffalo, USA
- Karine Verspoor, NICTA, Australia
- Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, France
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 18:25:45 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:25:45 +0200
Subject: Livre: Leacock et al,
 Automated Grammatical Error Detection (2nd edition)
Message-ID: <WED.23.APR.2014.202545.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:54:38 +1000
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Automated Grammatical Error Detection for Language Learners, Second
Edition

by Claudia Leacock, Martin Chodorow, Michael Gamon, and Joel Tetreault

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #25 (Morgan & Claypool
Publishers), 2014, 170 pages

** This is an extensive revision of the 2010 edition of this book.

ABSTRACT:

It has been estimated that over a billion people are using or learning
English as a second or foreign language, and the numbers are growing not
only for English but for other languages as well. These language
learners provide a burgeoning market for tools that help identify and
correct learners' writing errors. Unfortunately, the errors targeted by
typical commercial proofreading tools do not include those aspects of a
second language that are hardest to learn.  This volume describes the
types of constructions English language learners find most difficult:
constructions containing prepositions, articles, and collocations. It
provides an overview of the automated approaches that have been
developed to identify and correct these and other classes of learner
errors in a number of languages.

Error annotation and system evaluation are particularly important topics
in grammatical error detection because there are no commonly accepted
standards. Chapters in the book describe the options available to
researchers, recommend best practices for reporting results, and present
annotation and evaluation schemes.

The final chapters explore recent innovative work that opens new
directions for research. It is the authors' hope that this volume will
continue to contribute to the growing interest in grammatical error
detection by encouraging researchers to take a closer look at the field
and its many challenging problems.

Table of Contents: Acknowledgments / Introduction / Background / Special
Problems of Language Learners / Evaluating Error Detection Systems /
Data-Driven Approaches to Articles and Prepositions / Collocation Errors
/ Different Errors and Different Approaches / Annotating Learner Errors
/ Emerging Directions / Conclusion / Bibliography / Authors' Biographies

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00562ED1V01Y201401HLT025


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US$40 or local currency equivalent.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 19:17:35 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:17:35 +0200
Subject: Appel: Extension de la date limite, Atelier RLTLN, TALN 2014
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 05:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
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Atelier "R?seaux Lexicaux et Traitement des Langues Naturelles" - TALN
2014, 1 - 4 juillet


Dates importantes 
* Date limite de soumission : 30 avril 2014 (Extension)

* Notification aux auteurs : 15 mai 2014
* Soumission de la version d?finitive : 5 juin 2014
* Date de l?atelier : 1er juillet 2014


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Apr 23 18:24:41 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:24:41 +0200
Subject: Livre: Dagan etal, Recognizing Textual Entailment
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:52:36 +1000
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Recognizing Textual Entailment: Models and Applications

by Ido Dagan, Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies #23 (Morgan & Claypool
Publishers), 2013, 220 pages

ABSTRACT:

In the last few years, a number of NLP researchers have developed and
participated in the task of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE).  This
task encapsulates Natural Language Understanding capabilities within a
very simple interface: recognizing when the meaning of a text snippet is
contained in the meaning of a second piece of text.  This simple
abstraction of an exceedingly complex problem has broad appeal partly
because it can be conceived also as a component in other NLP
applications, from Machine Translation to Semantic Search to Information
Extraction. It also avoids commitment to any specific meaning
representation and reasoning framework, broadening its appeal within the
research community. This level of abstraction also facilitates
evaluation, a crucial component of any technological advancement
program.

This book explains the RTE task formulation adopted by the NLP research
community, and gives a clear overview of research in this area. It draws
out commonalities in this research, detailing the intuitions behind
dominant approaches and their theoretical underpinnings.

This book has been written with a wide audience in mind, but is intended
to inform all readers about the state of the art in this fascinating
field, to give a clear understanding of the principles underlying RTE
research to date, and to highlight the short- and long-term research
goals that will advance this technology.

Table of Contents: List of Figures / List of Tables / Preface /
Acknowledgments / Textual Entailment / Architectures and Approaches /
Alignment, Classification, and Learning / Case Studies / Knowledge
Acquisition for Textual Entailment / Research Directions in RTE /
Bibliography / Authors' Biographies

http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00509ED1V01Y201305HLT023


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:16:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:16:42 +0200
Subject: Ecole: SSTiC 2014, May 10, 6th registration deadline
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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 21:45:53 +0200
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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/

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--- May 10, 6th registration deadline ---

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

AIM:

SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the
previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD
students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It
intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse
branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that
purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for
interaction with the audience.

SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6
keynote lectures and 23 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most
lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that
outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal
pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must
hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses,
reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the
description of some of them.

SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other
branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to
listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing
nowadays.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the
whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they
will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be:

Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of
Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in
NP-Completeness

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Top-N Recommender Systems:
Revisiting Item Neighborhood Methods

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of
One Coin

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of
Style

Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable
Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics
Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing

John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory]
Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps

Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The
Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and
Distributed Simulation

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education
Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling
Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming
Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate]
Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image
Processing and Machine Learning

Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization

Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data

Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill),
[introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning

Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in
Computer Science

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate]
Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher
Performance Handover System Designs

Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models

Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd
Analysis

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web

Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength
Detection for Twitter and the Social Web

Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms

Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus
and Life

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php 

The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template
is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will
be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each
course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will
be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period
will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is
very convenient to register prior to the event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole
(or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to
participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration
deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

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

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSTiC 2014
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:05:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:05:30 +0200
Subject: Seminaire: Traces digitales, Adrien Guille, jeudi 22 mai 2014,
 Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee
Message-ID: <SUN.27.APR.2014.090530.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:45:45 +0200
From: Nicolas Turenne <nturenne.inra at yahoo.fr>
Message-ID: <535A58F9.5080700 at yahoo.fr>
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[d?sol? pour les r?ceptions multiples]

Chers coll?gues,

Dans le cadre de la dix-neuvi?me s?ance du s?minaire 'traces digitales'
du groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Adrien Guille
(PhD, Universit? Lyon-2) qui nous parlera d'analyse des media sociaux.
Cette matin?e aura lieu le jeudi 22 mai de 10h00 ? 11h30, dans la grande
salle de r?union de l'Institut des Systemes Complexes ISC PIF (Institut
des Systemes Complexes - Paris Ile de France) 113 rue Nationale 75013,
Paris. Voir
http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html


10h-11h30 Adrien Guille ( PhD Student, Universit? Lyon-2)

La plateforme SONDY.

R?sum? : Dans le cadre de ma th?se je m?int?resse ? la fouille des
donn?es issues des m?dias sociaux, avec un int?r?t particulier pour le
ph?nom?ne de diffusion de l?information. L?expos? sera consacr? ? SoNDy
(i.e. Social Network Dynamics), un logiciel open-source que je d?veloppe
pour la fouille et l?analyse de ces donn?es. Plus particuli?rement, je
me propose de pr?senter en d?tail l?un des principaux services du
logiciel, ? savoir le service de d?tection d??v?nements/th?matiques. La
pr?sentation se d?roulera en deux temps : tout d?abord je d?crirai les
algorithmes impl?ment?s dans le logiciel, puis j?illustrerai les
capacit?s de SoNDY ? travers l?analyse de grands corpora collect?s ?
partir de Twitter.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:01:51 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:01:51 +0200
Subject: Appel: COLDOC 2014
Message-ID: <SUN.27.APR.2014.090151.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:31:04 +0200
From: ColDoc 2014 <coldoc2014 at gmail.com>
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COLDOC 11e ?dition

Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre La D?fense

Nanterre, 13-14 novembre 2014

 Appel ? communication ? Call for papers

? Les universaux linguistiques ? l??preuve des faits de langue ?

? Universality and diversity in the uses of language ?

 Le site du colloque : http://coldoc2014.free.fr/

 ----------

Version fran?aise (English version below)

COLDOC est le colloque annuel organis? par les doctorants et jeunes
chercheurs en Sciences du Langage du laboratoire MoDyCo (UMR 7114 ?
CNRS/Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre/Universit? Paris Descartes).

Cette ann?e, nous nous int?ressons ? la diversit? des langues et de
leurs usages. La variation interlangue nous oblige ? constater ? la fois
les sp?cificit?s des langues et de leurs usages (pragmatique,
s?mantique, morpho-syntaxe, phonologie), faisant ainsi ?merger la
question des universaux qui vise ? d?crire la facult? universelle du
langage.

Que devient la th?orie de ces universaux face ? la pratique des langues ?

Cet appel ? contributions se veut ouvert et cherche ? confronter
diff?rents points de vue autour de probl?matiques fortement
pluridisciplinaires. Nous invitons masterants, doctorants et jeunes
chercheurs ? venir exposer leurs r?flexions sur ce th?me ? partir de
leur propre pratique et ce quel que soit le degr? d?avancement de leur
recherche.

DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : le 25 mai 2014
=========================================================

English version

COLDOC is the annual conference organized by PhD students and junior
researchers in Linguistics from MoDyCo Laboratory (UMR 7114 ? CNRS/Paris
Ouest Nanterre University/Paris Descartes University).

This year, we will be focusing on the diversity of languages and of
their uses. The observation of interlingual variations emphasizes the
specificities of both languages and their uses on various levels
(pragmatics, semantics, syntax, phonology) thus questioning linguistic
universals which ambition is to describe the universal faculty of
language.

What happens when the linguistic universals theory is confronted to the
practical use of languages?

This call for contributions is purposely open as it aims at exchanging
ideas from different points of view on issues that are highly
multidisciplinary. Master and PhD students, as well as junior
researchers, are very much welcome to participate and to present their
ideas on this topic based on their own practice, regardless of the
current state of the progress of their research.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 25th May 2014

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:06:53 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:06:53 +0200
Subject: Appel: DMNLP'14,
 Workshop on Interactions between Data Mining and Natural Language
 Processing at ECML/PKDD
Message-ID: <SUN.27.APR.2014.090653.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:04:51 +0200
From: Yannick Toussaint <Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr>
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[Apologies for multiple postings]

********************************************************
                 CALL FOR PAPERS

     Workshop on Interactions between Data Mining
        and Natural Language Processing
                  (DMNLP'2014)

             ECML/PKDD 2014 Workshop
      September 15-19, 2014, Nancy, France
             http://dmnlp.loria.fr

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

------
SCOPE
------

On the one hand, in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP),
numerical Machine Learning methods (e.g., SVM, CRF) have been
intensively explored and applied. Despite the good results obtained by
the numerical methods, one major drawback is that they do not provide a
human readable model. A promising direction is the integration of
symbolic knowledge.

On the other hand, research in Data Mining has progressed significantly
in the last decades, through the development of advanced algorithms and
techniques to extract knowledge from data in different forms. In
particular, for two decades Pattern Mining has been one of the most
active field in Knowledge Discovery.

Recently, a new field has emerged taking benefit of both domains: Data
Mining and NLP. The objective of DMNLP is thus to provide a forum to
discuss how Data Mining can be interesting for NLP tasks, providing
symbolic knowledge, but also how NLP can enhance data mining approaches
by providing richer and/or more complex information to mine and by
integrating linguistics knowledge directly in the mining process.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from both communities
in order to stimulate discussions about the cross-fertilization of those
two research fields. The idea of this workshop is to discuss future
directions and new challenges emerging from the cross-fertilization of
Data Mining and NLP and in the same time initiate collaborations between
researchers of both communities.

---------------
CALL FOR PAPERS
---------------

The workshop promotes works where the two following dimensions are
combined in one as symbiosis. The first dimension is Data Mining, for
instance Pattern Mining (itemsets, sequences, trees, graphs, association
rules), classification (decision trees, FCA,...), inductive logic
programming. The second dimension is NLP, for example question/answering
systems, translation, information extraction, linguistic analysis
(lexical analysis, terminology, syntax, semantics, discourse,
stylistics), classification, knowledge extraction/ontology building from
texts, information retrieval, corpus annotation, social/opinion mining.

A list of non-exhaustive topics that fit the scope of the workshop is
thus:

- Pattern discovery for NLP
- Constraint-based pattern mining in text
- Data mining query languages for expressing NLP tasks
- Data representation (sequence, tree, graphs) for NLP
- Modelization of text for data mining
- Relationships between data mining and NLP
- Modeling and visualizing data mining results on text
- Integrating NLP characteristics in data mining
- Data mining approaches for linguistic knowledge building
- Knowledge discovery for linguistic analysis (e.g. stylistic,
  socio-linguistics,...)
- Linguistically-informed text representations for Data Mining


------------------
SUBMISSION FORMAT
------------------

Our main goal is to stimulate discussions, collaborations and the
sharing of experiences.
In that respect, we would have three submission types:

* unpublished works (max 16 pages, double submissions allowed)
* short papers and vision statements (max 8 pages)
* recently published works (special oral-only track, no page limits)

For more details on submission, see the DMNLP webpage at
http://dmnlp.loria.fr


-----------------
IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------

* Deadline for submissions: Friday, June 20, 2014
* Author notification: Friday, July 11, 2014
* Final version: Tuesday July 22, 2014
* Workshop date: Monday September 15 or 19, 2014


--------------
ORGANIZATION
--------------

* Peggy Cellier, INSA Rennes, IRISA, Rennes, France
* Thierry Charnois, Universit? de Paris 13, LIPN, France
* Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
* Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada
* Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
* Yannick Toussaint, INRIA, LORIA, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France


-------------------
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-------------------

* Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany
* Delphine Battistelli, MoDyCo-Universit? Paris Ouest, France
* Yves Bestgen, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium
* Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Germany
* Bruno Cremilleux, Universit? de Caen, France
* Beatrice, Daille, LINA, France
* Yves Lepage, Waseda University, Japan
* Francois Jacquenet, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint-Etienne, France
* Jiri Klema, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
* Amedeo Napoli, LORIA Nancy, France
* Adeline Nazarenko, Universit? de Paris 13, LIPN, France
* Claire N?dellec, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, France
* Pascal Poncelet, LIRMM Montpellier, France
* Maria Teresa Pazienza, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
* Stephen Poteet, Boeing, USA
* Solen Quiniou, LINA-Universit? de Nantes, France
* Mathieu Roche, TETIS, Montpellier, France
* Arnaud Soulet, Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais, Tours, France
* Steffen, Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
* Koichi Takeuchi, Okayama University, Japan
* Isabelle Tellier, Lattice, Paris, France
* Johanna V?lker, University of Mannheim, Germany
* Xifeng Yan, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
* Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:11:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:11:12 +0200
Subject: Job: Post-doctoral position, Visual Analytics,
 University of Montpellier 2, France
Message-ID: <SUN.27.APR.2014.091112.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:19:59 +0200
From: Mathieu Roche <mathieu.roche at lirmm.fr>
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============
Post-doctoral position in Visual Analytics 
============

Location: LIRMM Lab (http://www.lirmm.fr/lirmm_eng/contact-us),
Montpellier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpellier), France

Title: Visual Analytics for heterogeneous text streams.

Abstract: 
The heterogeneity of data is an important issue in Big Data area. Data
is not only large in volume and produced at a high speed (velocity), but
also holds many kinds of input (technical heterogeneity), structures
(data model heterogeneity), and meanings (semantic heterogeneity). We
would like to recruit a postdoctoral researcher for one year to address
this specific issue from a visual analytics approach.

Context:
A lot of documents (web pages, scientific publications, reports, and so
forth) contain much useful information. Mining heterogeneous data,
according to their structure and to their content, becomes a major issue
in data mining area. A key problem consists of sharing these various
data and/or information and integrating them in order to discover new
knowledge. In addition, microbloggings contain crucial information to
take into account in a global system that mines heterogeneous data. For
instance, people participating in on-line forums, microblogging or
discussing on social networks leave behind them digital traces of
information on a variety of topics. The analysis of individual messages
and their aggregation represent a considerable challenge for currently
existing methods, as user-written texts present a special type of stream
setting. In this project we plan to investigate the epidemiology issue
of farmed animals in collaboration with UMR CMAEE. The aim is to detect
weak signals concerning the beginning of epidemics (e.g., African swine
fever, foot and mouth disease, bluetongue, avian influenza).

Description: 
Visual exploration of textual data is an active area of research. Most
of the methods proposed deal with static texts like discourses, books
or, more generally, string data. Most of these methods require
well-formatted data and are not adapted to streams and/or heterogeneous
data. The candidate will be in charge of discovering efficient text
mining techniques for extracting structured data, and designing visual
interfaces to interact with these structures and explore the
data. He/She will process following the steps of the Munzner?s nested
model for visualization design. (1) Domain problem characterization: the
candidate will learn about the tasks and the data of the target domain
(2) Data/operation abstraction design: he/she will design the text
mining techniques that transform the raw data into the data types that
visualization techniques can address. (3) Encoding/interaction technique
design: he/she will design the visual encodings and interactions. (4)
Algorithm Design: he/she will create algorithms to carry out the visual
encodings and interactions designs automatically. The candidate will
also be in charge of organizing the validation process included in the
Munzner?s model.

Qualifications:
- A PhD degree in Computer Science on the domain of Information
  Visualization or Visual Analytics with interest in Text Mining.
- An excellent publication record, including papers in high-impact
  journals and conference proceedings.
- Strong experience in programming languages.
- Knowledge of visualization libraries (e.g. D3, GraphViz, ...) is an
  asset. 
- Must be proficient in English.

Supervision:
- The project will be formally jointly supervised by Dr. Arnaud
  Sallaberry at LIRMM (http://www.lirmm.fr/~sallaberry/) and Dr. Mathieu
  Roche at TETIS (http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche).

Starting date:
- September/October 2014 (some flexibility is possible)

Conditions of employment:
- Net salary: ~ 2200 euros / month
- Interested candidates are requested to send an application by e-mail
  to Dr. Arnaud Sallaberry (arnaud.sallaberry at lirmm.fr) and Dr. Mathieu
  Roche (mathieu.roche at cirad.fr) with the subject field: 'LABEX:
  Post-Doc visualization position'.
- The application should consist of a motivation letter and a curriculum
  vitae with a list of publications and description of any previous
  research. Furthermore, names and contact information for three
  references are required (with two letters of recommendation).
- Applications will be reviewed immediately and the review process will
  continue until the position is filled.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Apr 27 07:17:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:17:10 +0200
Subject: Appel: Ateliers de formation au logiciel TXM (textometrie), 22 et
 23 mai 2014, Lyon
Message-ID: <SUN.27.APR.2014.091710.0200.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:58:41 +0200
From: Serge Heiden <slh at ens-lyon.fr>
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Bonjour,

Le logiciel open-source de textom?trie TXM permet l'analyse documentaire
(qualitative) et statistique (quantitative) de donn?es textuelles (dont
l'oral transcrit), pour des corpus de recherche personnels ou pour la
mise en ligne de corpus : http://textometrie.ens-lyon.fr

Les prochains ateliers de formation au logiciel TXM auront lieu ? Lyon,
? l'ENS site Descartes, les journ?es suivantes (9h/9h30-17h30/18h) :
- jeudi 22 mai : Initiation ? TXM ;
- vendredi 23 mai : Pr?paration de corpus et import dans TXM.

Un atelier "TXM avanc?" pourra ?galement ?tre organis? si nous pouvons
r?unir un petit groupe d'utilisateurs exp?riment?s (faisant d?j? des
analyses avec TXM sur leurs donn?es).

Si vous ?tes int?ress?(e) par l'une de ces s?ances, il faut nous
adresser une demande d'inscription en compl?tant le formulaire suivant :
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uvwnLXeaEExdrDX7gaZUAPz_wGCTGP7MN0vZcZoss8A/viewform?usp=send_form
(cette d?marche est n?cessaire m?me si vous aviez r?pondu ? la
consultation Doodle.)

Si vous n'avez pas le temps de participer, vous pouvez toujours vous
rabattre sur les vid?os de l'atelier d'initiation :
http://txm.sourceforge.net/enregistrement_atelier_initiation_TXM_fr.html

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

Au plaisir de vous retrouver peut-?tre ? l'une de ces journ?es,

Serge Heiden, pour l'?quipe TXM.

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