From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:19:48 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:19:48 +0100
Subject: Appel: revue TAL - Note de lecture (BUVET)
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.091948.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:59:15 +0100 (CET)
From: Denis Maurel <denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr>
Message-ID: <799078705.18806356.1391011155799.JavaMail.zimbra at univ-tours.fr>


La revue TAL publie régulièrement des notes de lecture. 

Nous recherchons un collègue souhaitant lire le livre: 

"Pierre-André BUVET. La Dimension lexicale de la détermination en
français. Honoré Champion. 2013. 473 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 mars 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  Sat Feb  1 08:25:24 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:25:24 +0100
Subject: Appel: 15th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning
 (NMR 2014)
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:59:24 +0900
From: Sébastien Konieczny <sebastien.konieczny at gmail.com>
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  CALL FOR PAPERS

  15th International Workshop on 
  Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2014)

  http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/nmr14/

  Vienna, Austria, July 17–19, 2014

  Co-located with 

  KR 2014 [http://kr.org/KR2014/],
  DL 2014 [http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/dl2014/], 
  FLoC 2014, and Logic Colloquium 2014.

  NMR 2014 is part of the Vienna Summer of Logic 
  [http://vsl2014.at/]

______________________________________________________________________


* Aims and Scope *

The NMR workshop series is the premier specialized forum for researchers
in non-monotonic reasoning and related areas. This will be the 15th
workshop in this series. Its aim is to bring together active researchers
in the broad area of non-monotonic reasoning, including belief revision,
reasoning about actions, argumentation, declarative programming,
preferences, non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies, uncertainty, and
other related topics.

NMR will share a joint session with the 27th International Workshop on
Description Logics (DL 2014).


* Topics *

NMR 2014 welcomes the submission of papers broadly centered on issues
and research in non-monotonic reasoning. We welcome papers of either
theoretical or practical nature. Topics of interest include (but are not
limited to):

- abductive reasoning and diagnosis,
- algorithms and complexity analysis,
- argumentation and dialog, 
- answer-set programming,
- belief revision, belief update, and belief merging,
- benchmarks for non-monotonic reasoning,
- declarative programming for non-monotonic reasoning,
- default reasoning,
- empirical studies of reasoning strategies,
- foundations of non-monotonic reasoning,
- hybrid approaches (non-monotonic reasoning combined
    with other computing paradigms),
- inconsistency handling,
- implementations and systems,
- non-monotonic logics in multi-agent interaction, including
    negotiation and dispute resolution,
- non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies,
- reasoning and decision making under uncertainty,
- reasoning with preferences,
- representing actions and planning,
- causal reasoning, and
- similarity based-reasoning.


* Tracks *

To focus the different topics of submissions, the workshop comprises the
following thematic tracks:

1. Actions, Causality, and Belief Change;
2. Declarative Programming;
3. Argumentation and Dialog;
4. Preferences, Norms, and Trust;
5. NMR and Uncertainty;
6. Commonsense and NMR for Ontologies;

as well as the following special tracks:

7. Systems and Applications;
8. Benchmarks for NMR.


* Systems and Applications Track *

Recent years witnessed the development of mature solver technology for
some NMR based formalisms and, accordingly, successful real-world
applications.  This track welcomes papers on describing implemented NMR
systems as well as papers presenting applications of NMR formalisms and
systems. Topics of interest include pure system descriptions (providing
information on the basic functionality and usability of the respective
systems), the comparison and evaluation of NMR systems, NMR applications
in industry and academia, software engineering and modeling methodology
aspects, and reports from the field.


* Benchmarks for NMR special track *

The aim of the Benchmarks for NMR special track is to discuss the
construction of benchmarks for NMR. Benchmarks proved useful in a
variety of domains in order to develop efficient algorithms and
methods. They are for the moment insufficiently developed for main NMR
areas. We want to discuss this issue in NMR 2014. Typical questions of
interested could be:

- How to obtain benchmarks from real application cases? 
- How to build sensible random benchmarks? 
- How to export existing benchmarks in some formalism into
  other domains formalisms? 
- Etc.

Papers related to these issues, description of existing systems of
benchmarks, etc., are welcome.


* Submissions *

Papers should be between 4 and 10 pages in AAAI style
(http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) including
references, figures, and appendixes if any. System descriptions can
typically be on the lower bound of the page range.

Papers submission will be handled electronically by means of the
easychair system. Papers must be submitted in PDF only. The submission
page is available at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmr2014 

Papers already published at other conferences and that can be of
interest for an NMR audience are welcomed to NMR 2014, provided that the
initial publication is mentioned in a footnote on the first page.

Submissions will have to indicate to which of the above listed tracks it
is intended to belong to, as well as whether it constitutes new research
or recently published research.


* Proceedings *

There are no formal proceedings for NMR. The accepted papers will be
published as a technical report and will be made available in the CoRR
Computing Research Repository, see

http://arxiv.org/corr/home.

The copyright of the papers lies with the authors, and as far as NMR is
concerned, they are free to submit to other conferences and workshops as
well. Similarly, papers already published can be submitted (but this has
to be indicated in the submission).


* Important Dates *

Submission deadline: February 14, 2014
Notification: April 2, 2014
Camera-ready articles due:  April 25, 2014
NMR 2014: July 17-19, 2014

* Location *

NMR 2014 will be held at the Vienna University of Technology and is part
of the Vienna Summer of Logic,

http://vsl2014.at/,

which will probably be the largest scientific logic event in known
history.


* Workshop Chairs *

Sébastien Konieczny (CNRS, Université d'Artois, France)
Hans Tompits (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

* Track Chairs *

1. Actions, Causality, and Belief Change
	Renata Wasserman (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
2. Declarative Programming
	Tomi Janhunen (Aalto University, Finland)
3. Argumentation and Dialog
	Paul E. Dunne (University of Liverpool, UK)
4. Preferences, Norms, and Trust
	Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
5. NMR and Uncertainty
	Lluis Godo (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
6. Commonsense and NMR for Ontologies
	Guilin Qi	(Southeast University, China)
7. Systems and Applications
	Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey)
8. Benchmarks for NMR
	Sébastien Konieczny (CNRS, Université d'Artois, France)

Email: nmr14 [at] kr [dot] tuwien [dot] ac [dot] at


* Homepage *

http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/nmr14/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:33:57 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:33:57 +0100
Subject: Stage: Offre de stage SNCF,
 Extraction d'informations sur les pratiques de mobilite
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:52:57 +0100
From: "REUTENAUER Coralie (SNCF / DIRECTION SI2R / DIR I&R PRODUCTION)" <coralie.reutenauer at sncf.fr>
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*******************

Intitulé : Extraction d'informations sur les pratiques de mobilité

La Direction Innovation et Recherche de la SNCF recherche un stagiaire
pour travailler sur un projet d'étude de la mobilité des voyageurs à
travers l'analyse de données textuelles.

*Activités du stage*

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

Réalisation d'une plateforme d'étiquetage sémantique de données
textuelles pour l'analyse des pratiques de mobilité.

*Thème*
------------------------------

La société connaît depuis quelques années des changements majeurs dans
les pratiques de mobilité, du fait d'autres formes d'organisation du
travail, de l'émergence de nouveaux modes de transport,... Les voyageurs
s'expriment sur le web social à propos leurs déplacements, aussi bien en
situation normale qu'en situation perturbée. Les messages contiennent
des informations sur les activités des voyageurs, leurs particularités
sociologiques ou encore leurs motivations.

Une analyse sémantique en fonction de tels critères est susceptible
d'apporter une meilleure connaissance des comportements, des besoins et
des attentes. Elle permet une compréhension nuancée et différenciée de
la mobilité.

Le stage aura pour objectif de contribuer à la mise en place d'une
plateforme d'analyse de données pour l'extraction d'informations sur les
pratiques de mobilité.

*Description *
------------------------------

Le stagiaire devra :

- prendre connaissance du contexte du stage (SNCF, Direction Innovation
  & Recherche, objectifs du stage et cadre de réalisation, situation
  actuelle et interlocuteurs sur les sujets concernés, ...)

- faire un état de l'art des outils disponibles sur le marché en
  analysant leurs possibilités, leurs avantages et leurs inconvénients.

- mettre en place une interface de gestion de la base de données
  (collecte, structuration et interface).

- Définir et implémenter des méthodes pour l'étiquetage sémantique des
  données, en fonction d'une typologie qui lui sera préalablement
  spécifiée

- Exploiter les résultats d'annotations et proposer des pistes
  d'amélioration

Présentations et rapports :

- présentation de début de stage à la SNCF (au bout d'un mois de stage) :
  contexte de stage, planning de réalisation et premiers travaux
  réalisés.

- rapport final de stage complet comprenant : méthodologie retenue,
  travaux réalisés, résultats obtenus et problèmes rencontrés...

2 soutenances de fin de stage : une à l'école et une à la SNCF.
Des présentations en interne SNCF ou externes pourront être effectuées.

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

Niveau : De formation Bac+5 en Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel
ou Informatique (ingénieur ou master 2).

Compétences souhaitées :

- Capacités d'analyse, de rédaction et de synthèse

- Autonomie, qualités relationnelles, qualité de présentation
  (orale/écrite).

- Manipulation et test des outils de TAL

- Connaissances en TAL et linguistique

- Bonnes compétences en informatique (programmation, gestion de bases de
  données)

- Des connaissances en statistiques seront appréciées.

 

Bonus :

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

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

   - Durée : 4 mois
   - Rémunération prévue: indemnités de stage + carte de circulation SNCF
   - Début : à partir de Juin 2014
   - Lieu : Paris

Merci d'adresser CV et lettre de motivation à Coralie Reutenauer à
l'adresse mail suivante : coralie.reutenauer at sncf.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:21:11 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:21:11 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Conferences Nick Riemer, Universite Paris Diderot
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.092111.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:07:32 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
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Chers collègues,

Nick Riemer, Professeur à l’Université de Sydney, chercheur invité à
l'Univ.  Paris Diderot, séjournera à l'Université du 22 janvier au 22
février 2014, à l'initiative de l’UFR de Linguistique et du laboratoire
d'Histoire des Théories Linguistiques (UMR 7597, CNRS/Paris
Diderot/Sorbonne Nouvelle).

Il donnera trois conférences:

- mardi 4 février (14h-16h): « L¹invariance, l¹expressivité et le sens :
  vers une typologie de la signification lexicale » 
  conférence organisée par HTL/ UMR7597 et le LaTTiCe/ UMR8094, ODG
  salle 209

- jeudi 6 février (12h-13h): « Six reasons not to believe in the
  descriptive /expressive distinction »
  séminaire Linglunch, UFR Linguistique, ODG salle 533
  http://www.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/linglunch.html

- vendredi 14 février (13h-15h): « La sémantique mentaliste : enjeux
  épistémologiques »
  séminaire HTL /UMR7597 et Labex EFL « Linguistique et théories de
  l’esprit avant et après l’émergence de la psychologie expérimentale »,
  ODG salle 131

lieu : Université Paris Diderot, Bât. Olympe de Gouges (ODG) , rue
Einstein 75013 Paris

Cordialement,

Thierry Poibeau et Jacqueline Léon

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:40:44 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:40:44 +0100
Subject: Appel: 4th Workshop on Controlled Languages (CNL 2014)
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.094044.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:29:44 +0100
From: Camilo Thorne <cthorne at inf.unibz.it>
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Second Call for Papers

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

Co-located with COLING 2014

20-22 August 2014
Galway, Ireland

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

Proceedings in Springer LNCS.

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

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


Topics
------

Possible topics for CNL 2014 include:

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


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

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


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

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

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


Venue
-----

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


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

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


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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:43:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:43:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: IC 2014, 2nd appel a ateliers et tutoriels
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.094319.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:51:08 +0100
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <52EBE28C.7050606 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014

*2nd Appel à Ateliers et Tutoriels des*

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

------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Dates importantes :*
Date limite de soumission des propositions d'ateliers et tutoriels : 7 
février 2014
Réponse du Comité de programme : 11 février 2014
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Les ateliers sont l'occasion de rassembler des groupes d'intérêt sur un
sujet précis, de lancer un groupe de travail sur un thème nouveau, de
confronter, discuter et débattre de différentes approches autour d'une
problématique commune.

Les tutoriels sont l'occasion de former les membres de la communauté 
d'Ingénierie des connaissances à des modèles, méthodes, techniques ou 
outils.

L'organisation de la conférence IC 2014 permet la tenue d'ateliers et de 
tutoriels le lundi 12 mai après-midi et mardi 13 mai. Plusieurs ateliers 
en parallèle peuvent être envisagés. Un atelier peut durer une 
demi-journée ou une journée complète.

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*Soumissions*

Les propositions d'ateliers ou de tutoriels seront soumises pour avis au
comité de programme d'IC2014.
Elles doivent être envoyées par courriel à (faron at i3s.unice.fr).

Les informations suivantes doivent être fournies :
- Titre de l'atelier
- Nom et prénom du responsable (contact)
- Adresse électronique du responsable (contact)
- Comité de pilotage (nom, prénom, adresse électronique, page web pour 
  chaque personne)
- Texte de l'appel à communications de l'atelier
- Moyens matériels requis
- Durée de l'atelier : 1/2 ou 1 journée complète
- Créneau(x) préféré(s) : Lundi après-midi / Mardi matin / Mardi
  après-Midi

Le responsable d'un atelier ou tutoriel sera responsable de la
communication sur celui-ci, notamment de la création d'un site web ou
d'une page du site de la conférence, de la diffusion d'un appel à
communications, de l'organisation d'un processus de revue des
soumissions, de la notification aux auteurs, de la collecte des versions
définitives des articles acceptés et de la constitution des actes de
l'atelier. Il devra s'assurer de l'inscription des organisateurs et
auteurs à l'atelier et encourager les inscriptions à la conférence.

A titre indicatif, le calendrier des ateliers pourra être :
- Diffusion de l'appel à communication : 12 février 2014
- Date limite de soumission : 10 mars 2014
- Réponse aux auteurs : 31 mars 2014
- Versions définitives des contributions : 14 avril 2014

Le respect de ce calendrier permettra de distribuer les actes des 
ateliers sur la clé USB délivrée aux participants.

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La conférence d'Ingénierie des connaissances est placée sous l'égide du 
collège IC de l'AFIA
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*
Présidente du comité de programme :*
Catherine Faron Zucker (I3S, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis)

*Présidente du comité d'organisation :*
Catherine Roussey, (IRSTEA)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:40:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:40:00 +0100
Subject: Soft: Public release of the OpenDial toolkit
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.094000.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:43:38 +0100
From: Pierre Lison <plison at ifi.uio.no>
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Dear all,

I’m pleased to announce the first public release of the OpenDial
toolkit! OpenDial is a Java-based software toolkit that can be used to
develop robust and adaptive dialogue systems for various domains.
Dialogue understanding, management and generation models are expressed
in OpenDial through probabilistic rules encoded in a simple XML format.

You can find more information about the toolkit on the project website:
		http://opendial.googlecode.com

The current release contains a completely refactored code base, a large
set of unit tests and a full-fledged graphical interface.  You can also
find on the website practical examples of dialogue domains and a
step-by-step documentation on how to use the toolkit.

Feel free to let me know if you have any comments or suggestions,

Pierre Lison (PhD Research Fellow)
Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
Mobile: +47.967.998.12
Web: http://folk.uio.no/plison

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:23:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:23:13 +0100
Subject: Appel: Final Call for SIGIR'14 Workshop Proposals (due Feb 3)
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.092313.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:15:25 +1000
From: Richi Nayak <r.nayak at qut.edu.au>
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X-url: http://sigir.org/sigir2014/

[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

This is the Final Call for SIGIR'14 Workshop Proposals:

- Deadline Monday 3 February 2014 (any time-zone)
- On any topic, in particular novel ideas and emerging areas in IR
- In a workshop format (not just presenting papers)
- Proposals in pdf, ACM style max. 4 pages
- Submit at (ttps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2014workshops)

Full details:
--
Call for Workshop Proposals

37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, SIGIR 2014 Gold Coast, Australia, 6-11
July, 2014

http://sigir.org/sigir2014/

* SIGIR 2014 Workshop Program

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new
research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques
in the broad field of information retrieval (IR).  Proposals are
solicited for workshops to be held at ACM SIGIR 2014 in Gold Coast,
Australia.  Workshops will last for one day and will be held on Friday
11 July 2014.  Workshop topics will typically match those identified in
the SIGIR 2014 general call for contributions, but proposals concerned
with other areas of IR are welcome.

SIGIR 2014 workshops will provide a platform for presenting novel ideas
and emerging areas in IR, in a less formal and possibly more focused way
than the conference itself.  The format of each workshop is to be
determined by the organizers, but it is expected that workshops will
contain ample time for general discussion and engagement by all
participants -- not just those presenting papers. Workshops that foster
collaboration, discussion, group problem-solving and community building
initiatives are particularly encouraged. Workshops that only involve the
presentation of papers in a "mini conference" format are discouraged.

Researchers and practitioners from all areas of IR are invited to submit
proposals for review.  The organizers of approved workshops will be
expected to define the workshop's focus, gather and review submissions,
and decide upon final program content. Organizers (including
co-organizers) are expected to attend their entire workshop and to
provide an article for ACM SIGIR Forum summarizing the event.

* Submission Requirements

Workshop proposals should include the following information:

     1. Title
     2. Motivation for the workshop and appropriateness to SIGIR.
     3. Theme and purpose of the workshop.
     4. Format and planned activities and a tentative schedule of
        events.
     5. Selection process for participants and/or presenters and maximum
        number of participants (if limited).
     6. List of organisers with a short biographical sketch of each
        organizer, describing relevant qualifications and experience.
     7. Names of potential program committee members.
     8. Related workshops (if applicable).

If the workshop has been held previously at SIGIR or another conference,
then the organizers should indicate this and describe briefly past
attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed.

Proposals should be submitted via the easychair workshop submission
webpage (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2014workshops)
in pdf format and should not exceed 4 pages in ACM style.

* Important Dates

     - Monday 3 February 2014: Workshop proposals due

     - Monday 10 March 2014: Notification of workshop acceptance [We try
       to notify 1-2 weeks early!]

     - Sunday 6-11 July, 2014: SIGIR Conference

     - Friday 11 July, 2014: SIGIR Workshops day

* SIGIR Workshop Co-Chairs

Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, Email:
sigir2014workshops at easychair.org Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research and
Bing, Email: sigir2014workshops at easychair.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:31:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:31:09 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, Eric de la Clergerie, 7 fevrier 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.093109.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:33:43 +0100
From: Marie Candito <marie.candito at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKCM-9EaXDzw5TYussvzKF_EFf0RTTLqPq_xLkD4d9u3E2HKpQ at mail.gmail.com>


************** 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 7 février

de 11h à 12h30,

en salle 267

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.

***********************************************************
Eric de la Clergerie (Alpage, INRIA / Université Paris Diderot)

Titre : Analyse syntaxique statistique et hybride: 2 expériences

Résumé :
Je présente 2 expériences d'analyse syntaxique qui n'ont en commun que
de s'appuyer sur le système DyALog.

La première expérience, initiée dans le cadre de la campagne
d'évaluation SPMRL 2013, concerne le développement rapide d'un analyseur
statistique de type Shift-Reduce (à la MALT) mais avec faisceau et
utilisation de techniques de programmation dynamique. Son autre
originalité réside dans la possibilité de prendre des treillis de mots
en entrée.

La seconde expérience s'inscrit dans le cadre du développement à
long-terme de FRMG, un analyseur fondé sur une grammaire TAG symbolique
à large couverture pour le français. L'utilisation de techniques
d'apprentissage faiblement supervisé sur le French TreeBank (FTB) a
permis d'améliorer fortement les performances du module de
désambiguisation de FRMG. Les résultats obtenus par cette hybridation
symbolique/statistique se situent au niveau de ceux obtenus par des
analyseurs purement statistiques entraînés et évalués sur le FTB.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:28:11 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:28:11 +0100
Subject: Revue: Journal of Language Modelling 1(2)
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.092811.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:34:49 +0100
From: Adam Przepiorkowski <adamp at ipipan.waw.pl>
Message-ID: <87zjmdhkxy.fsf at bach.ipipan.waw.pl>
X-url: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/


It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 1(2) of the
Journal of Language Modelling, a free open-access peer-reviewed journal
aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational
linguistics:

http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/  (click on “CURRENT” to see this issue).


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

"Populating a multilingual ontology of proper names from open sources"
Agata SAVARY, Leszek MANICKI, Małgorzata BARON 

"Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and
number use"
Dunstan BROWN, Greville G. CORBETT, Sebastian FEDDEN, Andrew HIPPISLEY,
Paul MARRIOTT

"Reactivation of antecedents by overt vs null pronouns: Evidence from
Persian
Niloofar KESHTIARI, Shravan VASISHTH

"Syntax-driven semantic frame composition in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining
Grammars"
Laura KALLMEYER, Rainer OSSWALD

"External reviewers 2012–2013"


The current make-up of the JLM Editorial Board is enclosed below.

Best regards,

Adam Przepiórkowski
(for JLM editors)

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

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Steven Abney, University of Michigan, USA
Ash Asudeh, Carleton University, CANADA; University of Oxford, UNITED
  KINGDOM
Chris Biemann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, GERMANY
Igor Boguslavsky, Technical University of Madrid, SPAIN; Institute for
  Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
  RUSSIA
António Branco, University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL
David Chiang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM
Dan Cristea, University of Iași, ROMANIA
Jan Daciuk, Gdańsk University of Technology, POLAND
Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
Darja Fišer, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
Anette Frank, Universität Heidelberg, GERMANY
Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, FRANCE
Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Diderot, FRANCE
Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, University of Tartu, ESTONIA
Laura Kallmeyer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KOREA
Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, FINLAND, Finland
Jonas Kuhn, Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, ITALY
Ján Mačutek, Comenius University in Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
Igor Mel’čuk, University of Montreal, CANADA
Glyn Morrill, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, SPAIN
Stefan Müller, Freie Universität Berlin, GERMANY
Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University, NETHERLANDS
Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St Andrews, UNITED KINGDOM
Petya Osenova, Sofia University, BULGARIA
David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Technology, POLAND
Christopher Potts, Stanford University, USA
Louisa Sadler, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM
Ivan A. Sag†, Stanford University, USA
Agata Savary, Université François Rabelais Tours, FRANCE, France
Sabine Schulte im Walde, Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY
Stuart M. Shieber, Harvard University, USA
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM
Stan Szpakowicz, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University
  of Ottawa, CANADA; Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of
  Sciences, Warsaw, POLAND
Shravan Vasishth, Universität Potsdam, GERMANY
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, POLAND
Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto
  Alegre, BRAZIL
Veronika Vincze, University of Szeged, HUNGARY
Yorick Wilks, Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, ISRAEL
Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Charles University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:46:21 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:46:21 +0100
Subject: Appel: Medias et bien-etre, discours et representations
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.094621.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 07:52:32 +0100
from: "Pascale Vergely" <pascale.vergely at u-bordeaux.fr>
message-id: <612-52ec9980-1-6511a680 at 8997611>


Appel à communications

Médias et bien-être : discours et représentations

A la suite du colloque international "Médias et santé publique" organisé
par le laboratoire SPH de l’Université Bordeaux en octobre 2012,
l’Université de Bologne (DIT Département d’Interprétation et de
Traduction de Forlì) en partenariat avec les Universités Bordeaux et
Rome 3, en collaboration avec le Dorif Università, souhaitent poursuivre
les réflexions entamées en se focalisant sur la notion de bien-être.

A la fois physique, psychologique et sociale, la notion de bien-être
s’avère centrale dans nos sociétés complexes. Sa définition, selon le
dictionnaire, souligne qu’il s’agit autant d’une « sensation agréable
procurée par la satisfaction de besoins physiques » et par l’« absence
de tensions psychologiques », que d’une « situation matérielle qui
permet de satisfaire les besoins de l’existence ».

Dans ce colloque nous entendons privilégier les dimensions du bien-être
centrées sur la santé, que ce soit dans le domaine de la nutrition
(régimes, produits et cuisine bio-, produits naturels…), du sport
(gymnastique de forme ou l'entraînement physique) et des thérapies
(stations thermales, médecine non conventionnelle, médecine douce,
produits paramédicaux…). L’idéal normatif ou l’injonction sociale de
rechercher un état de « bien-être » seront également interrogés.

Le colloque qui sera organisé à Forlì les 16 et 17 octobre 2014 vise à
réunir des chercheurs d’horizons différents (en Linguistique et Sciences
du Langage, en Traductologie, en Sciences de l’Information et de la
Communication, en Sociologie, en Philosophie…), ainsi que des
professionnels de la santé et du bien-être et des médias, afin de
croiser leurs réflexions sur les textes et discours liés au bien-être.

Les communications - en français ou en italien - pourront s’articuler
autour des axes suivants (liste non exhaustive) :

La traduction et la traductologie : 

- La traduction de textes centrés sur le bien-être : questions
  théoriques et stratégies de traduction.

- Traduction et genres textuels en rapport au bien-être : quelles
  stratégies pour une grande variété de genres, des textes scientifiques
  rédigés par les spécialistes aux textes à visée promotionnelle ou
  vulgarisatrice.

- La traduction de textes centrés sur le bien-être entre sciences dures
  et sciences humaines : des problématiques terminologiques aux enjeux
  stylistiques.

- La localisation de sites consacrés au bien-être dans différentes
  langues et cultures.

- Quelle formation pour le traducteur de textes d’une si grande variété
  et hétérogénéité linguistique, discursive et culturelle ?

L’analyse du discours : 

- Le(s) discours et les textes à propos du bien-être : quelles relations
  entre situation d’énonciation, interdiscours et formation
  sociodiscursive ? Quelles stratégies rhétoriques sont mises en œuvre ?

- Comment traiter l’hétérogénéité des supports des textes et des
  discours (publicités, cartels, murs, écrans, documents audio-visuels
  et de l’internet…) à propos du bien-être et quels rapports
  entretiennent-ils avec le contexte environnemental ?

- Quels liens existe-t-il entre l’axe de l’intentionnalité (axe de
  production) et l’axe de l’acceptabilité (axe de la
  réception-interprétation) pour ces discours et textes ?

- Est-ce que les discours scientifiques transforment les subjectivités ?

La vulgarisation entre analyse du discours et linguistique textuelle :

- La vulgarisation en tant que traduction intralinguistique : quelles
  marques linguistiques et sémiotiques (reformulations, désignations
  qualifiantes, infographies, encadrés et illustrations à vocation
  didactique, etc.) dans des corpus à propos du bien-être ?

- Les textes sur le bien-être à la croisée entre vulgarisation et
  promotion : ethos, polyphonie et enjeux énonciatifs.

- Enjeux terminologiques et reformulations dans les textes de
  vulgarisation.

- Vulgarisation et typologies textuelles (les différentes formes de la
  présentation du bien-être dans les médias, dans les publications
  spécialisées, dans les revues, dans les brochures d’informations de
  centres thermaux ou de médecine douce, etc.)

- Stratégies de vulgarisation et classes d’âge : quelles différences
  entre les textes pour adultes et ceux pour les enfants ?
 
Calendrier 

31 mars 2014 : Date limite de réception des propositions de
communication (300-400 mots), accompagnées d’une courte notice
bio-bibliographique. Les propositions (en français ou en italien) sont à
adresser à :

Roberta Pederzoli:  r.pederzoli at unibo.it

Licia Reggiani: licia.reggiani at unibo.it

Laura Santone: laura.santone at uniroma3.it

Fin mai 2014 : Notification d’acceptation

16 et 17 octobre 2014 : Colloque

Comité scientifique 

Josiane Boutet (Paris 7), Bruna Donatelli (Un. Roma Tre), Enrica Galazzi
(Un. Cattolica de Milan), Chiara Elefante (Un. Bologne), Danielle Londei
(Un. Bologne), Olivier Laught (Un. Bordeaux), Sophie Moirand (Un. Paris
3), Paola Paissa (Un. de Turin), Roberta Pederzoli (Un. Bologne),
Sandrine Reboul-Touré (Un. Paris 3), Laura Santone (Un. Roma Tre),
Pascale Vergely (Un. Bordeaux).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:44:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:44:46 +0100
Subject: Appel: Semantic Sentiment Analysis 2014, workshop ESWC 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.094446.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:44:41 +0100
From: Diego Reforgiato <diego.reforgiato at istc.cnr.it>
Message-ID: <52EC2759.5050501 at istc.cnr.it>
X-url: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/SemanticSentimentAnalysis2014


** apologies for cross-posting **

============================================
Call for Workshop: Semantic Sentiment Analysis 2014
Semantic Web and Sentiment Analysis
============================================

http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/SemanticSentimentAnalysis2014

Dates: May 25, 2014
Hashtag: #ssa2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Jointly with the 11th ESWC 2014 (http://2014.eswc-conferences.org)

Workshop Chairs:
- Aldo Gangemi (U. Paris Nord France/ISTC-CNR Rome Italy)
- Harith Alani (KMI-OU Milton Keynes UK)
- Malvina Nissim (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Erik Cambria (NUS Singapore)
- Diego Reforgiato Recupero (ISTC-CNR Catania Italy)


Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language is a difficult task
as opinions and sentiments are often conveyed implicitly through latent
semantics, which make approaches based on surface lexical hints less
effective in those cases. To this end, semantic sentiment analysis may
go beyond word-level analysis of text, and provide novel approaches to
opinion mining and sentiment analysis that allow a more efficient
passage from (unstructured) textual information to (structured)
machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Semantic sentiment analysis may benefit from the use of web ontologies
(e.g. linked data, multilingual linked lexica, linked vocabularies), or
graph-based quasi-ontologies (e.g. ConceptNet, SenticNet, Nell, OIE,
etc.) which enable the aggregation of conceptual and affective
information associated with natural language opinions.

This workshop focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion
of novel approaches to semantic sentiment analysis. Special focus will
be given to semantic methods, models, and tools that exploit
common-sense knowledge bases to perform multi- or open-domain sentiment
analysis.

The intended audience of the workshop includes researchers from academia
and industry as well as professionals and industrial practitioners to
discuss and exchange positions on new hybrid techniques, which use
semantics for sentiment analysis. The expected number of participants
ranges between 20 and 40.


* Topics of Interest *

Topics of Includes but not limited to:

- Ontologies and knowledge bases for sentiment analysis
- Topic and entity based sentiment analysis
- Evolution of sentiment within and across social media systems and
  topics
- Semantic processing of social media for sentiment analysis
- Contextualised sentiment analysis
- Comparison of semantic approaches for sentiment analysis
- Personalised sentiment analysis and monitoring
- Prediction of sentiment towards events, people, organisations, etc.
- Baselines and datasets for semantic sentiment analysis
- Concept-level sentiment analysis
- Biologically-inspired opinion mining


* Submission Guidelines *

Submissions must comply with the Springer LNCS style and will be made
using EasyChair at the following link
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssa14. Authors are invited
to submit full papers (up to 8 e.g. original work) pages or short papers
(up to 4 pages e.g. pilot experiments, position statement, short
communications). Accepted papers will be published by CEUR-WS. Moreover,
selected expanded versions of workshop papers will be invited for a
special issue of Springer Cognitive Computation
(http://springer.com/journal/12559).
At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for
both the main conference and the workshop to be included into the
workshop proceedings.

* Important Dates *

Submission Deadline: March 6, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper: April 15, 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Mon Feb  3 09:08:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:08:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLDB'2014, Montpellier, France (Extended deadline)
Message-ID: <MON.3.FEB.2014.100806.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 05:32:23 +0100
From: Mathieu Roche <mathieu.roche at lirmm.fr>
Message-Id: <00AB2166-CA0A-472B-9333-3F5B6CD90005 at lirmm.fr>
X-url: http://www.nldb.org/

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

CALL FOR PAPERS - NLDB'2014

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

18-20 June 2014 - Montpellier, France

http://www.nldb.org/

Submission deadline: February 10, 2014 [EXTENDED DEADLINE]

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

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 


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

Submission guidelines:
Authors should follow the LNCS format and submit their manuscripts in
pdf. Submissions can be full papers (12 pages maximum including
references), short papers (6 pages) or papers for a poster presentation
(4 pages) : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2014
The programme committee may decide to accept some full papers as short
papers or poster contributions.
The Proceedings of NLDB 2014 will be published by Springer LNCS
Series. We plan to publish extended versions of a selection of the best
papers after the conference in the 'Data and Knowledge Engineering
Journal' as a special issue.

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

Conference Chair:
- Elisabeth Métais, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris,
  France

Programme Committee Chairs:
- Mathieu Roche, Cirad, TETIS, France
- Maguelonne Teisseire, Irstea, TETIS, France

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Important dates:
- Paper submission: February 10, 2014 [extended deadline]
- Notification of acceptance: March 24, 2014
- Camera-ready papers: April 7, 2014
- Conference: 18-20 June 2014

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 23:04:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: TSD 2014
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:30:47 +0100
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       *********************************************************
                    TSD 2014 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
       *********************************************************

   Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
                               (TSD 2014)

               Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014
                     http://www.tsdconference.org/

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

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

    March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstracts
    March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers

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

TSD SERIES

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


TOPICS

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

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

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

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation,
    multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis,
    automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity
    speech synthesis, computer singing)

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction,
    information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge
    representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation,
    plagiarism detection)

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine
    translation, natural language understanding, question-answering
    strategies, assistive technologies)

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues)

    Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and
    personality modelling)

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair)
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Genevieve Baudoin, France
    Paul Cook, Australia
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, GB
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
    Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    Diana McCarthy, United Kingdom
    France Mihelic, Slovenia
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Elmar Noeth, Germany
    Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Fabio Pianesi, Italy
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Stefan Steidl, Germany
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, GB
    Marcin Wolinski, Poland
    Victor Zakharov, Russia


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA
    Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
    Salim Roukos, IBM, USA


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral
presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be
presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for
additional informal interactions.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2014 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...".  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the
papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.  Authors
using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS
template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings
Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this service a
service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with
all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters
will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and
electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format
see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample
File typeinst.zip).

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software
or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference.  The
presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding
one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference
proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date

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

The accepted conference contributions will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the
4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
    
    Ales Horak, TSD 2014
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2014 at tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2014 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population
of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair
center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the
south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of
cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City
since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of
the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, and
Eindhoven, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130
km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of
interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri
Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with
St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St.  James,
Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the
famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other
important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha
Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors
(Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz),
Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle,
Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one
of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the
UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:36:02 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:36:02 +0100
Subject: Appel: KI 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.223602.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:39:45 +1100
From: Michael Thielscher <mit at cse.unsw.edu.au>
Message-Id: <1F4275CC-271B-4C6E-82C8-B0B40944A797 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

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

		  	     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 ========

Workshop/Tutorial submission: March 15 
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  Tue Feb  4 21:39:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:39:13 +0100
Subject: Appel: RECITAL 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.223913.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:52:07 +0100
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <52EF74D7.3000409 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>


RECITAL 2014 : deuxième appel à communications
-----------------------------------------------

RECITAL 2014
16ème Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues.

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


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

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


Présentation
------------

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

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

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

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

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

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


Thèmes principaux
-----------------

Les communications pourront porter sur les thèmes habituels du TAL :

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

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


Critères de sélection
---------------------

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

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

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

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


Modalités de Soumission
-----------------------

Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français. Les articles
doivent faire de 8 à 14 pages. Une feuille de style LaTeX, un modèle
Word et un modèle LibreOffice seront disponibles sur le site web de la
conférence (www.taln2014.org).

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

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:37:17 +0100
Subject: Appel: 19th Conference on Formal Grammar, FG-2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.223717.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 11:42:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Frank Richter <fr at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402031141440.19382 at felsenburg>
X-url: http://fg.phil.hhu.de/

                         FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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


Background

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

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


Aims and Scope

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

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

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


Submission Details

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

The submission deadline is **February 23 2014**. Papers must be
submitted electronically at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fg2014

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

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


Important Dates

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


Invited Speakers

Thomas Icard (Stanford University, USA)
Christian Retoré (Université Bordeaux 1, France)


Program Committee

Alexander Clark (King's College London)
Benoit Crabbé (Université Paris 7, France)
Berthold Crysmann (CNRS - LLF, France)
Denys Duchier (Université d'Orleans, France)
Annie Foret (IRISA - IFSIC, France)
Nissim Francez (Technion, Israel)
Philippe de Groote (Inria Nancy)
Laura Kallmeyer (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Greg Kobele (University of Chicago, USA)
Valia Kordoni (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany)
Wolfgang Maier (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Stefan Müller (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)
Christian Retoré (Université Bordeaux 1, France)
Manfred Sailer (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Ed Stabler (UCLA, USA)
Jesse Tseng (CNRS - CLLE-ERSS, France)
Oriol Valentín (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)


Standing committee

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:39:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:39:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: QALD-4 training phase starts now!
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.223950.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:51:53 +0100 (CET)
From: Elena Cabrio <elena.cabrio at inria.fr>
Message-ID: <743639560.1084915.1391431913412.JavaMail.root at inria.fr>
X-url: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/
X-url: http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/qald


Dear all,

We are very happy to announce QALD-4, the fourth in a series of
evaluation campaigns on multilingual question answering over linked
data, this time with a strong emphasis on interlinked data and hybrid
question answering.

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

     Task 1: Multilingual question answering over DBpedia
     Task 2: Biomedical question answering over interlinked data
     Task 3: Hybrid question answering

All relevant information about training and test phase as well as the
lab can be found on our website:

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

The training phase starts now, and the further 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,
Vanessa Lopez,
Philipp Cimiano,
Elena Cabrio,
Axel Ngonga,
Sebastian Walter,
Corina Forascu


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:40:34 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:40:34 +0100
Subject: Conf: TOTh 2014, Opening Conference
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224034.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:08:44 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
Message-ID: <CAFW-+pbcYyPVufKSsJg4JyoAxcEk+DDVx6OQvwk5sYoMb5y9Bg at mail.gmail.com>


------------------------------------------------------
TOTh 2014 - Opening Conference
12-13 June 2014 - www.porphyre.org/toth/

"Ontology meets natural language: What can linguists learn?"

Christiane Fellbaum - Princeton University

The creation of large lexical databases for Natural Language Processing
has renewed interest in the structure of the lexicon and challenged many
linguists' theories of systemic regularities in the face of empirical
investigation. The need for mapping lexicons across languages and
research in automatic inferencing and reasoning have resulted in
fruitful collaboration between lexicology and the neighboring discipline
of ontology and have afforded new perspectives on the lexicon. My talk
will address the following questions and provide some answers based on
recent research.

* To what extent can a formal ontology be mapped onto the lexicon of a
  natural language and reflect both its surface and its hidden
  structure?

* How much lexical semantics can ontology capture, and how useful is an
  ontological perspective of the lexicon for word sense disambiguation?

* How can ontology inform the construction of lexical databases for
  automatic reasoning, e.g., by introducing categorial distinctions such
  as between types and roles?

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


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:42:59 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:42:59 +0100
Subject: Job: Research Assistant in Text Simplification, UPF/TALN/,
 Barcelona
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224259.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 18:22:51 +0100
From: Horacio Saggion <horacio.saggion at upf.edu>
Message-ID: <CABxRTCyS75nOpcbEnjqAFzRgTq2g9_YFvVYuHk1AuNBcv1P2jA at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hsaggion/

TALN Research Group, Department of Information and Communication
Technologies (DTIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

Applications are invited for a 12-months research position in the area
of text simplification. Funding for the position arises from a new
collaborative European project.

The research will be carried out at the Natural Language Processing
research group (TALN) in Barcelona under the supervision of Dr. Horacio
Saggion as PI.

*Brief Description of Work*


The work to be carried out involves the development/adaptation of a text
simplification system to the English language and improvement of
technology already developed in the Simplext project.

 *Qualifications:*


 Applicants should have:


*** a MsC or PhD in computer science, artificial intelligence, or
computational linguistics


*** Knowledge of machine-learning and rule-based approaches


*** Knowledge of Java is a plus


*Additionally:*


*** Knowledge of the GATE system will be well appreciated


*** Highly motivated individual with experience or interest in the area
of automatic text simplification and/or summarization.


*Language requirements:*


*** good knowledge of English


*Starting date:*


The position is expected to start early March/April 2014.

*Educational level required:*


Msc. or PhD.


 *Salary and duration of the contract*


We offer a gross salary of EURO 20.000 - EURO 22.000 which can be
complemented with teaching if desired.

The duration of the contract is 12 months. The position can be extended
depending on available funds.


*How to apply:*


A cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information
of at least two referees to horacio.saggion at upf.edu. Use as subject of
your message "Research Position Simplification/NLP"


 *Selection process*


The selection process will start immediately.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:41:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:41:37 +0100
Subject: Appel: FLAIRS-27,
 Call for Poster Abstracts (Submissions Due February 10, 2014)
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224137.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:49:45 +0100
From: Christophe Jouis <christophe.jouis at lip6.fr>
Message-Id: <1050D157-C8B8-43C7-9F45-F6DC9D33C4E7 at lip6.fr>
X-url: http://www.FLAIRS-27.info

 =======================================================================
The 27th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence
Research Society (FLAIRS-27)

Poster abstract submission deadline:  February 10, 2014

www.FLAIRS-27.info
May 21-23, 2014
Pensacola Beach, Florida, USA
Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front
http://hiltonpensacolabeach.com/

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

FLAIRS-27 continues a tradition of presenting and discussing state of
the art artificial intelligence and related research in a sociable
atmosphere within a beautiful setting.  Events will include invited
speakers, special tracks, and presentations of papers and posters. As
always, there will be a Best Paper award and a Best Poster award. In
addition, because FLAIRS has a rich tradition of encouraging student
authors, there will be a Best Student Paper award for the best paper
written primarily by a student.

A second submission round of poster abstracts (250 words) for
presentation at the conference is now invited.

Topics of interest are in all areas of (or related to) artificial
intelligence, including, but not limited to

Foundations:
* Cognitive modeling
* Knowledge representation
* Learning
* Perception
* Reasoning and programming
* Search

Architectures:
* Agents and distributed AI
* Information retrieval
* Intelligent user interfaces
* Natural language systems
* Robotics

Applications:
* Aviation and aerospace
* Education
* Entertainment
* Management and manufacturing
* Medicine
* World Wide Web

Implications:
* Evaluation of AI systems
* Philosophical foundations
* Social impact and ethics
* Teaching AI

Special Areas:
* AI and Cyber Security
* Culture-Aware AI Systems
* AI in Business
* Semantics, Logic and Information Extraction in AI
* Affective Computing
* Intelligent Tutoring Systems
* Games and Multimedia
* Data Mining
* Case-Based Reasoning
* Uncertain Reasoning
* Intelligent Autonomous Systems
* Robotics
* Healthcare Informatics
* Applied Natural Language Processing

=============
Location
=============
The 27th International Conference of FLAIRS takes place on the
beachfront in the center of everything on Pensacola Beach, Florida!
Enjoy captivating views of the emerald waters of the Gulf of Mexico and
52 miles of snow white sand beaches from your private Gulf Front
balcony.  Our hotel is within walking distance from restaurants, vibrant
nightlife and recreational activities such as charter fishing, paddle
boarding, sailing, kayaking, biking, and miniature golf.  We are just a
quick drive to historic downtown Pensacola and regional attractions such
as the National Naval Aviation Museum, Gulf Islands National Seashore
and Fort Pickens, Pensacola Lighthouse, Blue Wahoos Baseball Stadium,
Veterans Memorial Park, Pensacola Civic Center, and the Saenger Theater.

=============
Important Dates
=============
February 10, 2014      Second submission (Abstract only) 
February 17, 2014      Abstract only notification
February 24, 2014      Camera ready version due

=============
Submissions
=============
We are offering a second round for submission of poster abstracts (up to
250 words) to give new and developing research an outlet for peer
feedback. Each submitted poster abstract will be subject to an editorial
review to determine acceptability. Editors can make spelling,
grammatical, and formatting changes to the abstracts. All posters will
be presented according to space and time availability. An author of each
accepted poster abstract is required to register, attend, and present
the poster. It is a requirement of FLAIRS that there will be at least
one early regular author registration per submission.

Submissions must be original, and not submitted concurrently to another
conference. Abstract papers must be in AAAI format, and submitted as PDF
through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through
the main conference web site (www.FLAIRS-27.info). The proceedings of
FLAIRS-27 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will
be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution
to AAAI. An author of each accepted paper is required to register,
attend, and present the poster at FLAIRS. All submissions and
registrations must comply with FLAIRS requirements as posted on the
conference website.

=============
ORGANIZATION
=============

Conference Chair:
G. Michael Youngblood, PARC, a Xerox company

Program Chairs:
Bill Eberle, Tennessee Technological University
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Hampton University

Special Tracks Coordinator:
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford

Contact Bill Eberle: weberle at tntech.edu


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:46:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:46:39 +0100
Subject: Appel: Hackathon Participation, WASSA 2014@ACL 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224639.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:33:06 +0100
From: Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu <alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <52F0C1E2.4060806 at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
X-url: http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/


/*Apologies for cross-postings
*****************************************************************
*/

*/ 5^th Workshop on Computational Approaches to /*

*/Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)/*

*http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/*

*- Endorsed by SIGNLL and SIGSEM - ***

  Sentiment analysis systems hackathon

In the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis systems have
been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel there is a
growing need to make other researchers and users familiar with these
systems and have them employ them for building an end application.

The Hackathon word stands for "Hacking Marathon", and its purpose is to
introduce some system and make users employ it to build an application
for a real-life task.

We would like to invite researchers who have a working prototype of
their system to announce their availability to participate in the WASSA
2014 Hackathon.

The systems can be oriented to the following tasks:

./The use of semantic resources and methods (knowledge bases, semantic
  representations, inference mechanisms) for subjectivity, sentiment and
  emotion analysis/

./Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and
  summarization/

./Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis techniques/

./Data linking through social networks based on affect-related NLP
  methods/

./Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models/

./Online reputation management/

./Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks/

./Classification of stance in dialogues/

./Subjectivity and sentiment analysis in social media/

To participate with a system or as a "hacker" of one of the
participating systems, please send an e-mail to:

Alexandra.Balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu 

In order to speed up the process, we will put the "hackers" in contact
with the system authors, so that the applications can be explored prior
to the WASSA 2014 workshop.

We will also invite papers describing the results of these experiments
as part of the final workshop.

We are looking forward to your participation!

On behalf of the WASSA 2014 Organizers,
Alexandra Balahur


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:48:07 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:48:07 +0100
Subject: Job: Recherche un ingenieur d'etudes, ELDA
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224807.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:29:09 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
Message-ID: <52F10745.8010207 at elda.org>
X-url: http://www.elra.info
X-url: http://www.elda.org

ELDA (European Language Resources Distribution Agency) cherche à
pourvoir immédiatement un poste d'ingénieur d'études et de
développement.  Il/elle aura en charge des études et des développements
techniques dans le domaine de l'ingénierie linguistique, en particulier
en technologies vocales, multimédias et multimodales.

Au sein du département R&D, il/elle travaillera sur des projets de
développement d'outils pour la production, la validation et le
management de ressources linguistiques dans le cadre de projets
collaboratifs et internationaux.

Ce poste est une excellente opportunité pour des candidats créatifs et
motivés, qui souhaitent participer activement à la construction du
domaine de l'ingénierie de la langue dans l'Union européenne.

Profil :

  * De formation supérieure (Ingénieur ou Docteur) en traitement
    automatique de la parole ou du multimédia/multimodales
    (reconnaissance/synthèse de la parole, traitement d'images/vidéos,
    analyse de documents/OCR, etc.).

  * Expérience et/ou connaissance des programmes de recherche en Europe,
    aux Etats-Unis ou au Japon.

  * Expérience en gestion de projet, Implication dans la gestion de
    projets européens serait un plus significatif.

  * bonne maitrise de l'environnement de programmation Django, de
    Django-CMS, Python, PhP serait un plus.

  * Expérience et/ou connaissance des questions relatives aux ressources
    linguistiques et à l'évaluation des technologies de la langue.

  * Aptitude à travailler tant de façon indépendante qu'au sein d'une
    équipe, en particulier aptitude à superviser les membres d'une
    équipe multidisciplinaire.

  * Anglais courant exigé.

Salaire: en fonction des qualifications et expériences.

Toute candidature sera étudiée jusqu'à ce que le poste soit pourvu. Le
poste est basé à Paris. Les candidats doivent avoir la citoyenneté d'un
pays de l'Union européenne ou être en possession d'un titre de séjour.
Les candidatures doivent être adressées par courriel (lettre de
motivation et curriculum vitae) à :

Khalid CHOUKRI

ELRA / ELDA

55-57, rue Brillat Savarin

75013 Paris FRANCE

Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30

courriel : job at elda.org


ELDA, unité opérationnelle de l'association ELRA, est chargée de
promouvoir le développement de ressources linguistiques sous toutes les
formes électroniques utilisables, en particulier sous la forme de corpus
oraux et écrits, de lexiques et de bases terminologiques. Depuis sa
création en 1995, ELDA s'est affirmée comme un centre unique en Europe
pour la distribution de ressources linguistiques, capable de répondre
aux divers besoins des développeurs de technologie. Ses activités se
développent maintenant vers de nouveaux types de ressources
linguistiques (données de type multimodal/multimédia). Certaines
ressources linguistiques sont conçues au cours de projets (co-)financés
par ELDA. Celles-ci sont ensuite compilées sous la forme d'un catalogue
de ressources linguistiques. ELDA est impliquée dans un certain nombre
de projets européens et nationaux. ELDA s'intéresse également aux
problèmes juridiques en rapport avec les ressources linguistiques,
réalise régulièrement des études de marché sur les besoins des
utilisateurs, et travaille à l'amélioration des procédures de validation
des ressources.


Pour de plus amples renseignements concernant ELRA/ELDA, voir:

http://www.elra.info ou www.elda.org

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:44:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:44:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: Roadmapping Workshop on Linked Data for Language
 Technology - #LiderEU
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224450.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:24:51 +0100
From: Maud Ehrmann <ehrmann at di.uniroma1.it>
Message-ID: <CAFNSKW_HnfiEe7x_A24BRpRHU-VXcGvb89unYrSW=Q9zyWUy1Q at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://2014.data-forum.eu/
X-url: http://lider-project.eu/
X-url: http://www.multilingualweb.eu/
X-url: http://nlp2rdf.org
X-url: http://linguistics.okfn.org/
X-url: http://dbpedia.org

Dear all,

I would like to draw your attention to the Linked Data for Language
Technology
(LD4LT) workshop (http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt/wiki/LD4LT_Group_Kick-Off_and_Roadmap_Meeting)
that will be organized as part of the European Data Forum
2014 (http://2014.data-forum.eu/).

The goal of the workshop is to gather use cases and requirements as a
basis to develop a European R&D road-map and agenda for content
analytics solutions based on Linked Data. It is a free community event -
there is no admission fee for participants, but registration is
required (https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/lider-rmws-20140321/).

You are encouraged to provide a title for a position statement in your
registration form. This is a simple, short statement that summarizes
your ideas / technologies / use cases related to Linked Data and
Language Technology.

The meeting is supported by the LIDER (http://lider-project.eu/)
project, the MultilingualWeb community (http://www.multilingualweb.eu/),
the NLP2RDF project (http://nlp2rdf.org), the Working Group for Open
Data in Linguistics (http://linguistics.okfn.org/) as well as the DBpedia
Project (http://dbpedia.org).

As input to the discussion and the work of the LD4LT group, you may also
want to fill in the first LIDER survey
(https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/ld4lt-wbs1/) .

We hope to see you at the workshop.
Best Regards,
Maud Ehrmann, on behalf of the LIDER consortium.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:10:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:10:30 +0100
Subject: Stage: Development of linguistic resources to improve an
 information extraction tool
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.121030.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:28:38 +0100
From: Dhouha Bouamor <dhouha.bouamor at trooclick.com>
Message-ID: <CAAV2TU_URW9dmWGw2fWBJ0uyL_nK4Lz3km8YiisxzUWRM27H3w at mail.gmail.com>

Trooclick France is a company that specializes in the development of web
applications for the automatic processing of information. Our goal is to
create services that rebuild the user's trust in digital content. Up to
now, Web players were able to enhance the relevance of this content; we
go a step further and contribute to improve its reliability.

Trooclick was created in November 2012. Just a few months later, in
April 2013, it received financial support from the BPI (French public
investment bank) and in June 2013 the French government granted it the
Status of "Young Innovative Company" (JEI), recognizing its innovative
nature. It now counts twelve committed and passionate members in its
tight-knit team.

The company carries out R&D projects in search of technical solutions in
the Artificial Intelligence field. Due to its growth, Trooclick is now
looking for candidates for a 6 month internship for its office in Paris
(17ème).


Missions:

As a member of the technical team, you will benefit from ongoing
training and you will help us design and build our information
extraction framework based on advanced NLP technologies.

You will turn ideas into well-documented and reliable linguistic
resources (both dictionaries and extraction rules) to ensure efficiency,
quality, performance and scalability.

A great team player, you will interact with other departments to
understand and fine tune specifications.
You will carry out unitary testing, create and maintain our test
validation corpus and participate in editing technical documents. All
developments will be done in English.

Qualifications:

   - BSc/MSc
   - Experience with NLP tools such as Gate, Treetagger, NooJ, Stanford
     for linguistic annotation, named entity recognition, relationship
     and fact extraction, sentiment analysis, etc.
   - Experience in scripting languages such as Perl or Python as well as
     XML format to be autonomous in completing some technical tasks.
   - Experience with basic database management operations (SQL language)
     Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SKOS, etc.) will
     be a plus.
   - Excellent communication skills in English and French
   - We are open to new ideas that will significantly contribute to our
     success. Our friendly team will provide the opportunity for
     valuable collaboration.

   - We offer you career perspectives in a young and dynamic company
     with an interesting and diversified scope of duties at the cutting
     edge of research. We welcome applications from highly motivated
     individuals able to learn new techniques and share knowledge and
     experience with the team.


Interested? Then send your application to jobs at trooclick.com!

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:54:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:54:13 +0100
Subject: Appel: INTERSPEECH 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.115413.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:56:31 +0800
From: "Organization @ Interspeech 2014" <organization at interspeech2014.org>
Message-ID: <52F2EBCF.5070801 at interspeech2014.org>
X-url: http://www.interspeech2014.org

--- INTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE

--- September 14-18, 2014
--- http://www.interspeech2014.org



INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on
issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language
processing, both in humans and in machines.  The theme of INTERSPEECH
2014 is

--- Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages ---

INTERSPEECH 2014 emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach covering all
aspects of speech science and technology spanning basic theories to
applications.  In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, the
conference will also feature plenary talks by internationally renowned
experts, tutorials, special sessions, show & tell sessions, and
exhibits. A number of satellite events will take place immediately
before and after the conference. Please follow the details of these and
other news at the INTERSPEECH website www.interspeech2014.org
<http://www.interspeech2014.org>.


--------- SCOPE -----------

We invite you to submit original papers in any related area, including
but not limited to:

1: Speech Perception and Production
2: Prosody, Phonetics, Phonology, and Para-/Non- Linguistic Information
3: Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals
4: Speech Coding and Enhancement
5: Speaker and Language Identification
6: Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation
7: Speech Recognition - Signal Processing, Acoustic Modelling,
   Robustness, and Adaptation
8: Speech Recognition - Architecture, Search & Linguistic Components
9: LVCSR and Its Applications, Technologies and Systems for New
   Applications
10: Spoken Language Processing - Dialogue, Summarization, Understanding
11: Spoken Language Processing -Translation, Info Retrieval
12: Spoken Language Evaluation, Standardization and Resources

A detailed description of these areas is accessible at:

http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=conference_areas.html


------- SUBMISSIONS -------

Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2014 proceedings should be up to 4 pages of
text, plus one page (maximum) for references only. Paper submissions
must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines
and provided in the Authors' kit, on the INTERSPEECH 2014 website, along
with the Call for Papers.
Optionally, authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia
files, which will be included in the official conference proceedings USB
drive.  Authors must declare that their contributions are original and
are not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g. another
conference, workshop, or journal). Papers must be submitted via the
online paper submission system, which will be opened in February
2014. The conference will be conducted in English. Information on the
paper submission procedure is available at:

http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=submission_procedure.html


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

24 March, 2014 Full Paper submission deadline
10 June, 2014 Notification of acceptance
20 June, 2014 Camera-ready paper due
10 July, 2014 Early registration deadline
14-18 September, 2014 Conference dates


We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore!
- The Organizing team of INTERSPEECH 2014 -

Email: tpc at interspeech2014.org <mailto:tpc at interspeech2014.org>


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:21:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:21:37 +0100
Subject: Appel: TOTh 2014, Extension de la date limite
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.122137.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:52:33 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
Message-ID: <CAFW-+pYfLix1m=TSVZBiHc9NnfVnwfYdg8UmYLvgF2=ifZz3oA at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.porphyre.org/toth/
X-url: http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014/appel-a-communications

The deadline for abstract submissions for the TOTh 2014 Conference has
been extended to 24th February.

La date limite de soumission des résumés pour la Conférence TOTh 2014
est repoussée au lundi 24 février.

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

TOTh 2014 : APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Terminologie & Ontologie : Théories et applications
Chambéry - France

24 février 2014 : Date limite de soumission des résumés (2 à 3 pages)


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

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


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

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

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

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

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

Un prix << Jeune chercheur >> est décerné par le comité de programme
lors de la conférence

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

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


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:02:25 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:02:25 +0100
Subject: Job: CDI, Web-Miner, MarketScience
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.120225.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:40:20 +0100
From: Aude Robert <aude.robert at marketscience.fr>
Message-ID: <52F36694.8060503 at marketscience.fr>


Title : CDI, Web-Miner, MarketScience

Compagny:     MarketScience
Department:   IT Software
City :        Orléans (France, 45)
Job Type :    Full time / CDI
Languages :   English and French

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

We are looking for a candidate who will work on our Media Mining module.
The module will aggregate and store information extracted from the
Internet that will be integrated into a financial market Bloomberg
application.

REQUIREMENTS :

Autonomous and very ambitious
Good experience in Python or PHP, and HTML is necessary.
Web crawler/information retrieval knowledge
Database management(MySQL/SQL Server) knowledge
Focused on code quality
Knowledge in Natural Language Processing, Text Mining or Information
Retrieval

Very good english writing and communication skills
Planning and long term thinking

CAREER LEVEL :

3 Year Exp.

RESPONSABILITIES :

Develop and maintain a web mining system.
Develop and maintain a storage solution for the extracted information.
Process extracted information (Natural Language Processing)
Assure long term scaling of the solution.

Excellent compensation for excellent & ambitious candidate.

DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY :

MarketScience is a French/Romanian Start-up in Information 
Technology/Finance.

Salary will be defined according to profile and experience.

For more information, please contact aude.robert at marketscience.fr

To submit an application, please send your CV and cover letter to both 
nicolasboitout at hotmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:43:02 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:43:02 +0100
Subject: Appel: CBMI2014, Submission deadline 16 Feb,
 Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.114302.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:59:19 +0100
From: Bernard Merialdo <Bernard.Merialdo at eurecom.fr>
Message-ID: <52F1FD67.1080806 at eurecom.fr>
X-url: http://cbmi2014.itec.aau.at/


(our apologies for duplicate postings)

*************************************************************************
         CALL FOR PAPERS
         Paper submission deadline:    February 16, 2014

         C B M I    2014
         12th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
         18-20 June 2014, Klagenfurt, Austria

         http://cbmi2014.itec.aau.at/
         in cooperation with IEEE CSS and ACM SIGMM
*************************************************************************

The 12th International Content Based Multimedia Indexing Workshop aims
to bring together the various communities involved in all aspects of
content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation.
Following the eleven successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999,
Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania
2009, Grenoble 2010, Madrid 2011, Annecy 2012, and Veszprem 2013), CBMI
2014 will take place in Klagenfurt, in the very south of Austria from
June 18th to June 20th 2014. CBMI 2014 is organized in cooperation with
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and ACM SIG Multimedia. Topics of the
workshop include but are not limited to visual indexing, audio and
multi-modal indexing, multimedia information retrieval, and multimedia
browsing and presentation. Additional special sessions are planned in
the fields of endoscopic videos and images and multimedia metadata.


Paper submission: Authors are invited to submit full-length and special
session papers of 6 pages and short (poster) and demo papers of 4 pages
maximum. All peer-reviewed, accepted and registered papers will be
published in the CBMI 2014 workshop proceedings to be indexed and
distributed by the IEEE Xplore. The submissions are peer reviewed in
single blind process, the language of the workshop is English. Selected
papers of the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of
their contributions to a special issue of Multimedia Tools and
Applications journal (MTAP).


* Important dates:
    Paper submission deadline:    February 16, 2014
    Notification of acceptance:   March 30, 2014
    Camera-ready papers due:      April 14, 2014
    Author registration:          April 14, 2014
    Early registration:           May 25, 2014

* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
       * Visual Indexing (image, video, graphics)
       * Visual content extraction Identification and tracking of
         semantic regions
       * Identification of semantic events
       * Audio and Multi-modal Indexing
       * Audio indexing (audio, speech, music)
       * Audio content extraction
       * Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
       * Multimedia fusion
       * Metadata generation, coding and transformation
       * Multimedia Information Retrieval (image, audio, video, ...)
       * Matching and similarity search
       * Content-based search
       * Multimedia data mining
       * Multimedia recommendation
       * Large scale multimedia database management
       * Multimedia Browsing and Presentation
       * Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
       * Personalization and content adaptation
       * User interaction and relevance feedback
       * Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools

* Contact
For more information please visit http://cbmi2014.itec.aau.at/ and for
additional questions, remarks, or clarifications please contact
cbmi2014 at itec.aau.at


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:49:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:49:09 +0100
Subject: Appel: LRE-Rel2 Religious Text Analytics Workshop, LREC 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.114909.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:06:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: Eric Atwell <E.S.Atwell at leeds.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.11.1402051443430.7962 at cslin-gps.csunix.comp.leeds.ac.uk>
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2nd Workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts 
(LRE-Rel2) 31st May 2014 (afternoon session) 
Harpa Conference Center, Reykjavik, Iceland
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel2.html

Second Call for Papers, deadline: 19.02.2014

After a successful launch at LREC 2012, we are organising a second
workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts hosted
by LREC 2014 in Reykjavik, Iceland. This is an inclusive workshop title,
aimed at researchers with a generic interest in religious texts to raise
awareness of different perspectives and practices, and to identify some
common themes.  Our first workshop attracted a range of scholarship,
particularly on Arabic and Islamic Studies, and this year we are keen to
extend this range to canonical texts from other languages and religions
- Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, and other - and, given the
Icelandic venue, to iconic texts from historical religions such as The
Prose Edda of Norse mythology.  We are also keen to foster inter-faith
corpus studies, tracing similarities as well as differences in religious
texts, where this genre includes: the faith-defining religious canon;
authoritative interpretations and commentary; sermons, liturgy, prayers,
poetry, and lyrics.

Workshop Attendance:

Prospective authors should note that attendance at the workshop is
necessary for their paper to be published in the workshop proceedings,
though for papers with multiple authors, only one author will be
required to attend.  Therefore, prospective authors are strongly
encouraged to check the LREC website and other sources for information
on visa restrictions, and likely travel and hotel costs.

Workshop Topics:

Submissions are invited for (but not limited to) the following topics:

- measuring semantic relatedness between multiple religious texts and
  corpora from different religions;
- analysis of ceremonial, liturgical, and ritual speech; recitation
  styles; speech decorum; discourse analysis for religious texts;
- formulaic language and multi-word expressions in religious texts;
- suitability of modal and other logic types for knowledge
  representation and inference in religious texts;
- issues in, and evaluation of, machine translation in religious texts;
- text-mining, stylometry, and authorship attribution for religious
  texts;
- corpus query languages and tools for exploring religious corpora;
- dictionaries, thesaurai, Wordnet, and ontologies for religious texts;
- (new) corpora and rich and novel annotation schemes for religious
  texts;
- annotation and analysis of religious metaphor;
- genre analysis for religious texts;
- application in other disciplines (e.g. theology, classics, philosophy,
  literature) of computer-mediated methods for analysing religious
  texts.

Important Dates:

19.02.2014  Deadline for paper submissions
05.03.2014  Notification of acceptance
21.03.2014  Camera-ready copies due from authors
06.04.2014  LREC deadline for camera-ready copy of Workshop Proceedings
31.05.2014  LRE-Rel2 Workshop (afternoon session)

Submission of Papers:

Please submit your papers via the LRE-Rel2 submission page in LREC's
START Manager. The URL for this is:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/LRE-Rel2/ Authors should submit a full
paper, not an abstract.  They should also follow LREC guidelines for
length of papers, and are advised to use the LREC template for paper
submissions. This template will be published by LREC in due course. In
the meantime, authors can use the LREC 2012 template:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Authors-Kit

Request from LREC Organisers:

"...When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked
to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse,
replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc..."

LRE-Rel2 Organising Committee:

Eric Atwell and Claire Brierley: 
Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK
E.S.Atwell at leeds.ac.uk; C.Brierley at leeds.ac.uk
Majdi Sawalha and Bassam Hammo: 
Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, AMMAN 11942, Jordan
sawalha.majdi at leeds.ac.uk;

LRE-Rel2 Programme Committee (provisional):

Eric Atwell, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Claire Brierley, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Majdi Sawalha, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Bassam Hammo, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Sane Yagi, Department of Linguistics, University of Jordan, Jordan
Dag Haug, Department of Philosophy, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway
Moshe Koppel, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Nils Reiter: Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University, Germany
Andrew Wilson, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster, UK
Claudia Resch, Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Nadeem Obaid, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Muhammad A.M. Abushariah, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Mortaza Rezaee, Islamic College, London, UK
Janet Watson, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, and Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds, UK
John Lee, Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong, (HK)
Mohamed Menacer, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Deryle Lonsdale, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University, US
Bob MacDonald, Research and Development, Anthony Macauley Associates, Canada
Kais Dukes, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Aida Mustapha, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Putra University, Malaysia
Liviu Dinu, Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Bucharest, Romania
Behrooz Minaei, School of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
Gurpreet Singh, Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Azzeddine Mazroui, Mathematics and Computer Science, Mohammed 1st University, Morocco


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:03:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:03:30 +0100
Subject: These: Rima Harastani, Alignement lexical en corpus comparables
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.120330.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:40:10 +0100
From: Rima Harastani <rima.harastani at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CADUKFTm-HtuuyWQdR0PZj-4MFPXT4D4V5JawyqDxq55kTcn93A at mail.gmail.com>

Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à ma soutenance de thèse réalisée au
sein du Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique (LINA) et
intitulée : "Alignement lexical en corpus comparables : le cas des
composés savants et des adjectifs relationnels".

La soutenance aura lieu le lundi 10 février 2014 à 14h00 en salle 3 au
LINA (bâtiment 11, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques). Vous êtes
également convié-e-s au pot de thèse qui suivra.


Bien cordialement,
Rima Harastani

***************************
Le jury  de soutenance sera composé de :

M. Hervé BLANCHON, Maître des conférences, Université Pierre Mendès -
   Rapporteur
M. Ulrich HEID, Professeur des universités, Université de Stuttgart -
   Rapporteur
M. Vincent CLAVEAU, Chargé de recherche, CNRS-IRISA Rennes - Examinateur
M. Holger SCHWENK, Professeur des universités, Université du Maine -
   Examinateur
Mme. Béatrice DAILLE, Professeur des universités, Université de Nantes -
   co-encadrante de thèse
M. Emmanuel MORIN, Professeur des universités, Université de Nantes -
   directeur de thèse

***************************
Résumé :

Notre travail concerne l'extraction automatique d'une liste de termes
alignés avec leurs traductions (c'est-à-dire un lexique bilingue
spécialisé) à partir d'un corpus comparable dans un domaine de
spécialité.  Un corpus comparable comprend des textes écrits dans deux
langues différentes sans aucune relation de traduction entre eux mais
dont les textes appartiennent à un même domaine. Les contributions de
cette thèse portent sur l'amélioration de la qualité d'un lexique
bilingue spécialisé extrait à partir d'un corpus comparable. Nous
proposons des méthodes consacrées à la traduction de deux types de
termes, qui ont des caractéristiques en commun entre plusieurs langues
ou qui posent par leur nature des problèmes pour la traduction : les
composés savants (termes contenant au moins une racine empruntée au grec
ou latin) et les termes composés d'un nom et un adjectif
relationnel. Nous développons également une méthode, qui exploite des
contextes riches en termes spécifiques au domaine du corpus, pour
réordonner dans un lexique bilingue spécialisé des traductions
candidates fournies pour un terme. Les expériences sont réalisées en
utilisant deux corpus comparables spécialisés, le premier dans le
domaine du cancer du sein et le deuxième dans le domaine des énergies
renouvelables, sur les langues français, anglais, allemand et espagnol.

Mots clés : corpus comparables, langue de spécialité, alignement
multilingue, composés savants, adjectifs relationnels.

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

Abstract:

Our work concerns the automatic extraction of a list of aligned terms
with their translations (i.e. specialized bilingual lexicon) from
comparable corpora belonging to a specific domain. Comparable corpora
include texts written in two languages which are not translations of
each other but belong to the same domain. This thesis contributes to the
improvement of the quality of an extracted bilingual lexicon. We propose
methods dedicated to the translation of two types of terms that have
common characteristics among many languages or that cause specific
problems for translation due to their nature. These types of terms are
the neoclassical compounds (terms containing at least one root borrowed
from Greek or Latin) and the terms composed of one noun and one
relational adjective. We also propose a method, which exploits contexts
rich in domain-specific terms to re-rank some provided translations in a
bilingual lexicon for a given term. The experiments are performed using
two specialized comparable corpora, the first in the domain of breast
cancer and the second in the domain of renewable energy, on the
languages French, English, German and Spanish.

Keywords: comparable corpora, specialized language, multilingual
alignment, neoclassical compounds, relational adjectives.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:44:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:44:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: Journal of Language Modelling,
 Special issue on Grammar Engineering (deadline extension)
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.114431.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:53:22 +0100
From: Yannick Parmentier <yannick.parmentier at univ-orleans.fr>
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             *DEADLINE EXTENSION: February, 23rd*


                      CALL FOR PAPERS 

                 Journal of Language Modelling

                     SPECIAL ISSUE ON

       High-level Methodologies for Grammar Engineering

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


Special Issue Description 
-------------------------

Many grammatical frameworks have been proposed over the last decades to
describe the syntax (and semantics) of natural language. Among the most
widely used, one may cite (in chronological order) Tree-Adjoining
Grammar (TAG) [Joshi et al., 1975], Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG)
[Bresnan and Kaplan, 1982], Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG)
[Steedman, 1987], or Head- driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
[Pollard and Sag, 1994]. These frameworks present theoretical and
practical interests. From a theoretical point of view, they provide a
formal device for the linguist to experiment with her/his theories.
>From a practical point of view, they make it possible to automatically
process natural language in applications such as dialog systems, machine
translation, etc. They differ in their expressivity and complexity. Some
prove more suitable for the description of a given language than
others. Still, for many of these frameworks, large resources (e.g.,
grammars) have been designed, at first by hand, and later via dedicated
tools (e.g., integrated grammar environments such as XLE for LFG [King
et al., 2000]). In this Special Issue, we are concerned with this
complex task of grammar engineering, keeping in mind the two
above-mentioned theoretical and practical interests.


Topics of Interest 
------------------

This special issue welcomes contributions from the following topics
(without being limited to these):


1. New or updated work on the traditional topics of GEAF workshops

  The traditional topics in the series of "Grammar Engineering Accross
  Frameworks" workshops, "Formal Grammar" conferences and / or the
  "High-level Methodologies for Grammar Engineering" ESSLLI 2013
  workshop are appropriate. The submitted paper must clearly deal with
  language modelling.

  An extended version of a workshop/conference paper can be submitted,
  provided that the contribution has been substantially updated. The
  forums for any preliminary versions of the paper must be indicated.


2. Study of new fundamental and / or applied results in relation with
   grammar development, maintenance and enhancement

 - dedicated description languages for grammar engineering
 - semi-automatic acquisition of grammars
 - development of grammars for under-resourced languages
 - cross-framework grammar engineering
 - cross-language grammar engineering
 - seamless construction of grammars from dynamically changing 
   linguistic descriptions
 - designs of weighted grammars
 - efficient and dynamic construction of structures from updated rules
   or logical formulas


3. Study of new methods for grammar engineering and their applications

 - debugging environments for grammar design
 - systems based on large-scale grammars


4. In addition, the topics of interest include reports on
   implementations

 - new kinds of implementations of grammar compilers, libraries and
   on-demand operations
 - benchmarks suitable for evaluation of grammars
 - methods that construct, minimize or decompose grammars


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

- Deadline for submissions: 23 February 2014
- First decision: 12 May 2014 
- Submission of revised version: 17 July 2014 
- Final decision: 22 September 2014 
- Submission of camera-ready versions: 19 October 2014


Submission
----------

Articles submitted to this special issue must adhere to the JLM
instructions for contributors and use the JLM's style files, see:

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

Paper submissions should be made through JLM's electronic submission
system:

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

All submitted articles should be anonymous and any obvious
self-references should be avoided. The contribution of the paper must be
substantial. All articles will be evaluated by at least 3 reviewers,
including at least one member of JLM's Editorial Board, and at least one
member of the issue's Guest Editorial Board.


Editorial Board
---------------

Guest Editors

- Denys Duchier, Université d'Orléans, FRANCE
- Yannick Parmentier, Université d'Orléans, FRANCE

Guest Editorial Board

- Emily Bender, University of Washington, USA
- Philippe Blache, CNRS, Université d'Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE
- Eric De La Clergerie, INRIA Paris, FRANCE
- Benoît Crabbé, Université Diderot Paris 7, FRANCE 
- Berthold Crysmann, CNRS Paris, FRANCE
- Denys Duchier, Université d'Orléans, FRANCE
- Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, FRANCE
- Joseph Le Roux, Université Paris Nord, FRANCE
- Timm Lichte, Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANY
- Montserrat Marimon, Universitat de Barcelona, SPAIN
- Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, JAPAN
- Stefan Müller, Freie Universität Berlin, GERMANY
- Yannick Parmentier, Université d'Orléans, FRANCE


Contact
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Yannick Parmentier
Department of Computer Science, University Institute of Technology
University of Orléans
firstname (dot) lastname (at) univ-orleans (dot) fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:13:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:13:20 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Exploration textometrique des thematiques dans un
 corpus, 13 fevrier 2014, Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee
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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:12:20 +0100
From: Nicolas Turenne <nturenne.inra at yahoo.fr>
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[désolé pour les réceptions multiples]

Chers collègues,

Dans le cadre de la quinzième séance du séminaire 'traces digitales' du
groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Philippe Gambette
(MCF, Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée) et Mathieu Brugidou
(chercheur HDR, EDF) qui nous parleront d’analyse statistique de données
textuelles.
Cette matinée aura lieu le jeudi 13 février de 10h à 13h00, dans la
salle de réunion C219 du Latts (Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée -
rue Galilée, bâtiment du Bois de l’Etang - 2ème étage - aile C). Voir
http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html


10h-11h30 Philippe Gambette (maître de conférences, LIGM, Université
Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)

Exploration textométrique des thématiques dans un corpus de projets de
recherche sur la biodiversité

Résumé : À partir d’un corpus de plus de 4000 résumés de projets
financés par une quinzaine d’agences de divers pays européens, nous
dressons un panorama des tendances temporelles et géographiques de la
recherche sur la biodiversité financée en Europe entre 2004 et 2011.
Pour cela, analyses factorielles, évaluations de spécificités de
vocabulaire et visualisations en nuages arborés sont combinées dans le
cadre d’une analyse exploratoire enrichie par le regard d’un expert du
domaine. Les qualités et les limites de la visualisation en nuage arboré
seront tout particulièrement évoquées, et approfondies par d’autres cas
d’utilisation.

11h30-13h Mathieu Brugidou (chercheur HDR, EDF)

Le Grenelle de l’environnement : une approche morphologique et formelle
avec des logiciels d’analyse des données textuelles, Alceste et Tropes.

Résumé : L’hypothèse privilégiée dans ce travail est de considérer le
Grenelle de l’environnement comme un dispositif d’écriture collective.
Il ne s’agit pas seulement d’un dispositif de participation et de
concertation des parties prenantes, marqué fortement par une dimension
de négociation, comme l’indique la reprise du terme de Grenelle. Ce
processus de concertation s’avère être aussi un dispositif d’écriture
collective destiné à produire des synthèses et des mesures d’action
publique. Deux types d’approches seront privilégiés dans cette analyse.
Une première approche, morphologique, est orientée vers l’analyse de la
représentation des problèmes ; une seconde, formelle, [Lassegue, 2010]
est dédiée à l’analyse de la formulation de mesures :

  La perspective morphologique cherche à mettre en évidence les
  structures thématiques des différents corpus et leurs dynamiques. Nous
  faisons l’hypothèse que le dispositif du Grenelle – et notamment sa
  conception en phases – produit des cartographies des problèmes et que
  ceux-ci ne peuvent être représentés que de manière relationnelle. La
  définition des problèmes pour les acteurs du Grenelle implique de
  trier les questions, d’abord entre celles qui relèvent ou qui ne
  relèvent pas du Grenelle de l’environnement, ensuite entre celles
  définissant les différents problèmes identifiés au cours du
  Grenelle. Les méthodes d’analyses des données textuelles seront ici
  privilégiées – notamment celles s’inscrivant dans la filiation de
  Benzécri, à l’image de la méthode Alceste développée par M.Reinert,
  tournées vers une approche empirique des structures ;

  Une deuxième perspective peut être qualifiée de formelle dans la
  mesure où elle s’attache aux effets des dispositifs d’écritures sur la
  forme des mesures. Il s’agit de décrire la mise en forme des mesures
  en faisant l’hypothèse que celles-ci – au-delà de leurs contenus –
  présentent des caractéristiques linguistiques propres qui répondent à
  une grammaire [Lemieux, 2009] qui définit leurs propriétés
  pragmatiques.  Cette deuxième approche, plus analytique, privilégie
  des études diachroniques suivant le phasage du dispositif. Ce sont
  notamment des analyses morphosyntaxiques qui seront ici conduites avec
  l’aide du logiciel Tropes. Ces analyses seront conduites sur des
  corpus construits selon différents paramètres de temps (les phases de
  la négociation) mais aussi d’espaces de discours (les différents
  dispositifs d’écritures, lesquels renvoient aux phases du Grenelle
  mais aussi à des sous espaces des rapports, par exemple l’opposition
  entre synthèse et annexes, etc.).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:25:34 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:25:34 +0100
Subject: Stage: Master recherche,
 Annotation semantique dynamique/Dynamic semantic annotation,
 LIPN, Universite Paris 13
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.122534.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:49:22 +0100
From: Adeline Nazarenko <adeline.nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr>
Message-Id: <300A46BB-69F2-47EC-9292-B3576E7A713E at lipn.univ-paris13.fr>

(English version below)

Proposition de stage de master recherche

Annotation sémantique dynamique

Mots clefs : Traitement Automatique des Langues, annotation sémantique,
gestion de contenus, ingénierie des connaissances, web sémantique

Encadrants : Adeline Nazarenko et François Lévy (LIPN, Université Paris
13 – Sorbonne Paris Cité & CNRS)

Durée : 4 à 6 mois (printemps-été 2014)

Indemnités : 430€ /mois (Labex EFL)

Problématique

L'annotation sémantique des documents joue aujourd'hui un rôle clef pour
beaucoup d'applications de gestion de contenus textuels (navigation
textuelle, recherche d'information sémantique, restructuration de
documents, etc.). L'annotation sémantique consiste à apposer sur un
texte des informations, ou métadonnées, dont la sémantique est portée
par un modèle sémantique formel (langage d'indexation, thesaurus,
ontologie, par exemple) [13, 6, 14]. On associe ainsi au texte une
représentation sémantique formelle et les moteurs de recherche ou agents
logiciels peuvent exploiter à la fois le contenu textuel (recherche en
plain texte, calculs distributionnels) et la sémantique formelle qui lui
est associée.

Les outils d'annotation de la première génération sont assez frustres,
se contentant souvent de lier les mentions des entités nommées
identifiées dans les textes à des instances existantes ou à de nouvelles
instances de concepts dans une ontologie [10, 4].

Le développement des applications spécialisées de gestion de contenus et
l'essor du web de données amènent aujourd'hui à revoir les méthodes
d'annotation sémantique : on a besoin de méthodes et d'outils qui
offrent une expressivité d'annotation plus riche (par ex. annoter des
instances de concepts mais aussi des concepts et des relations) tout en
étant robustes, génériques et adaptables à différents domaines et
contextes d'utilisation.

Objectif du stage

Le stage permettra de proposer une méthode d'annotation sémantique qui
intègre des mesures de qualité de l'annotation et qui permette de
réviser l'annotation dynamiquement. On supposera que le modèle
sémantique utilisé est de type ontologique.

Si l'on considère qu'un système d'annotation S=<O,T,A> est composé d'une
ontologie O, d'un texte T et d'un ensemble d'annotations ou de liens A
associant à des segments de T des entités de O, il faut réviser le
système S si l'un de ses composants est mis à jour (le texte est
modifié, l'ontologie est enrichie ou restructurée) ou lorsque des
incohérences ou défauts de couverture sont détectés.

Le stage consistera à étudier les différents cas de figures dans
lesquels un tel système d'annotation doit être révisé et à proposer une
méthode d'annotation dynamique intégrant des processus de révision. La
méthode d'annotation dynamique doit 1) intégrer des critères de
cohérence et des mesures de couverture pour identifier quand la révision
d'un système d'annotation est nécessaire, 2) proposer des procédures de
révision adaptées aux différents cas de figure et 3) contrôler la
convergence du processus global de révision.

En commençant par les types d'annotation les plus simples (par ex. un
texte annoté avec les instances et les concepts d'une ontologie), le
stagiaire devra proposer une méthode d'annotation dynamique. Il pourra
s'appuyer sur les outils d'annotation sémantique existants de l'équipe
RCLN, sur l'expertise des membres de l'équipe et sur des cas d'usage
réels pour évaluer l'apport de cette dynamique de l'annotation.

Il est souhaitable que la méthode proposée soit directement intégrée à
un outil d'annotation existant mais elle pourra aussi être testée en
simulation si l'intégration s'avère trop coûteuse.

Description du travail

Le stage comportera  différentes parties :

1) état de l'art sur l'annotation sémantique et veille sur les outils
   existants (outils de l'équipe RCLN ou autres) ;

2) description, modélisation et implémentation du processus d'annotation
   dynamique (pour les types d'annotations les plus simples ; en
   s'appuyant sur les outils existants et/ou sur des technologies
   sémantiques) ;

3) analyse, test et évaluation de l'approche proposée sur des cas
   d'usage réels simplifiés fournis par l'équipe RCLN.

En outre et en prévision d'une poursuite en thèse, le stagiaire pourra
chercher à spécifier une méthode d'annotation sémantique plus riche
prenant en compte une palette étendue de types d'annotations.

Contexte et informations pratiques

Le stage sera encadré par Adeline Nazarenko et François Lévy.

Le/la stagiaire sera intégré(e) à l'équipe RCLN et bénéficiera de
l'expertise de celle-ci en matière de traitement automatique des
langues, d'ingénierie des connaissances textuelles et de web
sémantique. En particulier, l'équipe RCLN a une solide expérience en
matière d'annotation sémantique (annotation manuelle [2, 3] ou
automatique, par apprentissage [8], formalismes et ressources pour
l'annotation [9, 12]) et de construction d'ontologies à partir de textes
[1]. Elle a aussi l’expérience de l'intégration de ces méthodes
d'annotation et d'acquisition dans les outils d'analyse de contenus [7,
5, 11].

Le/la stagiaire travaillera au LIPN (Université Paris 13 – Sorbonne
Paris Cité & CNRS) où il/elle se verra attribuer un bureau. Il/elle aura
accès à l'ensemble des moyens techniques et des données nécessaires à
son travail.

Le stage est prévu pour une durée de 6 mois. Il devrait débuter au
printemps 2014.

Le stage sera financé dans le cadre d'une opération de recherche de
l'axe « Analyse sémantique computationnelle » du Labex « Fondements
empiriques de la linguistique ».

Les candidatures doivent être adressées à François Lévy (francois.levy à
lipn.univ-paris13.fr) avant le 7 mars 2014 : envoyer une lettre de
motivation, un CV, les relevés de notes de master.

Références

[1] N. Aussenac-Gilles, S. Després, and S. Szulman. « The TERMINAE
Method and Platform for Ontology Engineering from texts ». In Paul
Buitelaar and Philipp Cimiano, editors, Bridging the Gap between Text
and Knowledge - Selected Contributions to Ontology Learning and
Population from Text, pages 199–223. IOS Press, janvier 2008.

[2] K. Fort. Les ressources annotées, un enjeu pour l’analyse de contenu
: vers une méthodologie de l’annotation manuelle de corpus. Thèse
d'informatique, Université Paris 13 – Sorbonne Paris Cité, Villetaneuse,
France, 2012.

[3] K. Fort., A. Nazarenko, S. Rosset. « Modeling the Complexity of
Manual Annotation Tasks: a Grid of Analysis ». In Proceedings of the
24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING
2012), Mumbai, India, December 2012.

[4] C. Giuliano, A. Gliozzo. « Instance-based ontology population
exploiting named-entity substitution ». In Proceedings of the 22nd
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008),
pages 265–272, Manchester, August 2008.

[5] A. Guissé, F. Lévy, A. Nazarenko. Un moteur sémantique pour explorer
des textes réglementaires. In Actes des 22èmes journées francophones
d'Ingénierie des Connaissances, Chambéry, 2011.

[6] A. Kiryakov, B. Popov, I. Terziev, D. Manov, and D. Ognyanoff.  «
Semantic annotation, indexing, and retrieval ». Journal of Web
Semantics, 2(1):49–79, 2004.

[7] F. Lévy, A. Nazarenko, A. Guissé. « Annotation, indexation et
parcours de documents numériques ». Revue des Sciences et Technologies
de l'Information, 13(3/2010):121–152, 2010.

[8] Y. Ma, F. Lévy, A. Nazarenko. Annotation sémantique pour des
domaines spécialisés et des ontologies riches. In de la 20ème conférence
du Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN 2013), pp 464-478,
17-21 Juin 2013, Les Sables d’Olonne.

[9] Y. Ma, A. Nazarenko, L. Audibert. « Formal description of resources
for ontology-based semantic annotation ». In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC
2010), Malta, May 2010. ELRA.

[10] B. Magnini, A. Pianta, O. Popescu, M. Speranza. « Ontology
population from textual mentions: Task definition and benchmark ». In
Proceedings of the OLP2 workshop on Ontology Population and Learning,
Sidney, Australia, 2006.

[11] A. Nazarenko, A. Guissé, F. Lévy, N. Omrane, S. Szulman. «
Integrating Written Policies in Business Rule Management Systems ». In
Rule-Based reasoning, Programming, and Applications, volume 6826 of
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 99–113, Barcelona, Espagne,
2011.

[12] N. Omrane, A. Nazarenko, P. Rosina, S. Szulman, C. Westphal. «
Lexicalized ontology for a business rules management platform: An
automotive use case ». In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium
on Rules, International Business Rules Forum (RuleMF at BRF), Ft
Lauderdale, Florida, USA, November 2011.

[13] B. Popov, A. Kiryakov, D. Ognyanoff, D. Manov, A. Kirilov. « Kim –
a semantic platform for information extraction and retrieval ». Natural
Language Engineering, 10(3-4):375–392, 2004.

[14] V. Uren, P. Cimiano, J. Iria, S. Handschuh, M. Vargas-Vera,
E. Motta, F. Ciravegna. « Semantic annotation for knowledge management:
Requirements and a survey of the state of the art ». Journal of Web
Semantics, 4, 2006.

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(French version above)

Proposal for a master internship 
Dynamic semantic annotation

Keywords: Natural Language Engineering, Semantic Annotation, Content
Management, Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web

Supervision: Adeline Nazarenko and François Lévy (LIPN, Université Paris
13 – Sorbonne Paris Cité & CNRS)

Duration: 4-6 months (spring-summer 2014)

Indemnités: 430€ /month (Labex EFL)

Problem

The semantic annotation of documents plays a key role for many
applications of textual content management (e.g. navigation, semantic
information retrieval, publication). Semantic Annotation consists in
enriching a text with metadata which semantics is given by a formal
semantic model (e.g. indexing language, thesaurus, ontology) [13, 6 ,
14]. A formal semantic representation is thus associated with the text
so that search engines or software agents can jointly exploit the
textual content (plain text search, distributional measures) and the
formal semantics associated with it.

The first generation annotation tools are quite simple. They often
merely bind references to named entities identified in the texts to
existing instances or new instances of concepts in an ontology [10 ,
4]. However, the development of specialized applications of content
management and linked data calls for renewed methods of semantic
annotation: we need methods and tools that provide a richer
expressiveness of annotation (e.g. annotation wrt. concepts and
relations and not only instances) while being robust, generic and
adaptable to different domains and use cases.

Goal

The goal of the internship is to design a semantic annotation method
incorporating annotation quality measures and enabling the dynamic
revision of annotations, assuming that the semantic model is
ontological.

If we consider that an annotation system S = <O,T,A> consists of an
ontology O, a text T and a set of annotations or links A associating
segments of with entities of O, one must revise the system S if one of
its components is updated (the text is modified, the ontology is
enriched or restructured ) or when inconsistencies or gaps in coverage
are detected.

The Master student will study the different scenarios requiring the
revision of such an annotation system and propose a method of dynamic
annotation integrating such a revision process. The dynamic annotation
method must 1) integrate consistency criteria and coverage metrics to
identify when the revision of an annotation system is necessary, 2)
propose revision procedures adapted to different use scenarios and 3)
control the convergence of the overall revision process.

Starting with the simplest types of annotation (e.g. a text annotated
with instances and concepts of an ontology), the student will provide a
method for dynamic annotation. It will rely on existing semantic
annotation tools, on the expertise of RCLN team members and on real use
cases to assess the contribution of this dynamic annotation.

The proposed method will be directly integrated into an existing
annotation tool or tested through simulation if integration is too
complex.

Description of work 

The work will include several parts: 
- state of the art on semantic annotation and review of existing tools; 

- description, modeling and implementation of the dynamic annotation
  process (for the simplest types of annotations and based on existing
  tools and/or semantic technologies); 

- analysis, test and evaluation of the proposed approach on simple but
  real use cases provided by the RCLN team. 

In addition, and in anticipation of a PhD followup, the student may
start to specify a richer semantic annotation method taking into account
a wider range of annotation types.

Context and Practical Information

The work will be supervised by Pr. Adeline Nazarenko and Pr. Francois
Levy.

The intern will be integrated in the RCLN team and benefit from its
expertise in natural language processing, knowledge engineering and
semantic web. In particular, RCLN has a solid experience in semantic
annotation (manual annotation [2, 3] or based on machine learning [8],
formalisms and resources for annotation [9, 12]) and text-based ontology
design [1]. It also knows how to integrate those methods of acquisition
and annotation in content analysis tools [7 , 5, 11 ].

The intern will work at LIPN (University Paris 13 - Sorbonne Paris Cité
& CNRS) where he/she will be assigned a desk. He/she will have access to
local facilities and data resources.

The internship is for a period of 6 months. It should start in spring
2014.

It will be funded by the Labex "Empirical Foundations of Language"
(research strand “computational semantic analysis”).

Applications should be addressed to François Lévy (francois.levy to
lipn.univ - paris13.fr) before March 7, 2014 : send a cover letter, a CV
and transcripts.

References

[1] N. Aussenac-Gilles, S. Després, and S. Szulman. « The TERMINAE
Method and Platform for Ontology Engineering from texts ». In Paul
Buitelaar and Philipp Cimiano, editors, Bridging the Gap between Text
and Knowledge - Selected Contributions to Ontology Learning and
Population from Text, pages 199–223. IOS Press, janvier 2008.

[2] K. Fort. Les ressources annotées, un enjeu pour l’analyse de contenu
: vers une méthodologie de l’annotation manuelle de corpus. Thèse
d'informatique, Université Paris 13 – Sorbonne Paris Cité, Villetaneuse,
France, 2012.

[3] K. Fort., A. Nazarenko, S. Rosset. « Modeling the Complexity of
Manual Annotation Tasks: a Grid of Analysis ». In Proceedings of the
24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING
2012), Mumbai, India, December 2012.

[4] C. Giuliano, A. Gliozzo. « Instance-based ontology population
exploiting named-entity substitution ». In Proceedings of the 22nd
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008),
pages 265–272, Manchester, August 2008.

[5] A. Guissé, F. Lévy, A. Nazarenko. Un moteur sémantique pour explorer
des textes réglementaires. In Actes des 22èmes journées francophones
d'Ingénierie des Connaissances, Chambéry, 2011.

[6] A. Kiryakov, B. Popov, I. Terziev, D. Manov, and D. Ognyanoff.  «
Semantic annotation, indexing, and retrieval ». Journal of Web
Semantics, 2(1):49–79, 2004.

[7] F. Lévy, A. Nazarenko, A. Guissé. « Annotation, indexation et
parcours de documents numériques ». Revue des Sciences et Technologies
de l'Information, 13(3/2010):121–152, 2010.

[8] Y. Ma, F. Lévy, A. Nazarenko. Annotation sémantique pour des
domaines spécialisés et des ontologies riches. In de la 20ème conférence
du Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN 2013), pp 464-478,
17-21 Juin 2013, Les Sables d’Olonne.

[9] Y. Ma, A. Nazarenko, L. Audibert. « Formal description of resources
for ontology-based semantic annotation ». In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC
2010), Malta, May 2010. ELRA.

[10] B. Magnini, A. Pianta, O. Popescu, M. Speranza. « Ontology
population from textual mentions: Task definition and benchmark ». In
Proceedings of the OLP2 workshop on Ontology Population and Learning,
Sidney, Australia, 2006.

[11] A. Nazarenko, A. Guissé, F. Lévy, N. Omrane, S. Szulman. «
Integrating Written Policies in Business Rule Management Systems ». In
Rule-Based reasoning, Programming, and Applications, volume 6826 of
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 99–113, Barcelona, Espagne,
2011.

[12] N. Omrane, A. Nazarenko, P. Rosina, S. Szulman, C. Westphal. «
Lexicalized ontology for a business rules management platform: An
automotive use case ». In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium
on Rules, International Business Rules Forum (RuleMF at BRF), Ft
Lauderdale, Florida, USA, November 2011.

[13] B. Popov, A. Kiryakov, D. Ognyanoff, D. Manov, A. Kirilov. « Kim –
a semantic platform for information extraction and retrieval ». Natural
Language Engineering, 10(3-4):375–392, 2004.

[14] V. Uren, P. Cimiano, J. Iria, S. Handschuh, M. Vargas-Vera,
E. Motta, F. Ciravegna. « Semantic annotation for knowledge management:
Requirements and a survey of the state of the art ». Journal of Web
Semantics, 4, 2006.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:47:33 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:47:33 +0100
Subject: Journee: Formation au logiciel TXM (textometrie),
 dates pour mars-avril 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.114733.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:53:08 +0100
From: Serge Heiden <slh at ens-lyon.fr>
Message-ID: <52F25054.2030106 at ens-lyon.fr>
X-url: http://textometrie.ens-lyon.fr


Bonjour,

Le logiciel open-source de textométrie TXM, dont le développement est
coordonné par le laboratoire ICAR à Lyon, permet l'analyse documentaire
(qualitative) et statistique (quantitative) de données textuelles (dont
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 (8h30/9h30-17h30/18h) :
- lundi 7 avril : Initiation à TXM ;
- mardi 8 avril : Préparation de corpus et import dans TXM.
(Les ateliers de février sont complets.)

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 vous
inscrire en envoyant un mail à textometrie <à> ens-lyon <point> fr
(l'inscription est nécessaire même si vous aviez répondu à la
consultation doodle.)

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

Au plaisir de vous retrouver peut-être à l'une de ces journées,

Serge Heiden, pour l'équipe TXM.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:46:34 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:46:34 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC 2014 Workshop on Building and Using Comparable
 Corpora (7th BUCC)
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.114634.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:06:23 +0100
From: "Reinhard Rapp" <reinhardrapp at gmx.de>
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We apologize for multiple postings
Please distribute to interested colleagues

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

  Final Call for Papers

  7th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA

  Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

  http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/

  May 27, 2014
  Co-located with LREC 2014
  Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland)

  DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 10, 2014
  https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/


  *** INVITED SPEAKER ***

  Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania)

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

MOTIVATION

In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in
comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language
engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use
comparable corpora as training data for statistical Natural Language
Processing applications such as statistical machine translation or
cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable
corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible
inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted
in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or
several languages that are comparable in content and form in various
degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and
observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine
such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of
great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.

The scarcity of parallel corpora has motivated research concerning the
use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected
according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or
language varieties. Non-parallel yet comparable corpora overcome the two
limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual
texts are much more abundant than translated texts.  However, because of
their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more
challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable
corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention:
while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward,
building a non-parallel corpus requires control over the selection of
source texts in both languages.

Parallel corpora are a key resource as training data for statistical
machine translation, and for building or extending bilingual lexicons
and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English-
French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary
debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the
creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the
Web. To exemplify such issues in a practical setting, this year's
special focus will be on

    Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

This special topic aims to address the need for:
(1) Machine Translation training and testing data such as spoken or
    written monolingual, comparable or parallel data collections, and
(2) methods and tools used for collecting, annotating, and verifying MT
    data such as Web crawling, crowdsourcing, tools for language experts
    and for finding MT data in comparable corpora.


TOPICS

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

Topics related to the special theme:

  * Methods and tools for collecting and processing MT data, including
    crowdsourcing
  * Methods and tools for quality control
  * Tools for efficient annotation
  * Bilingual term and named entity collections
  * Multilingual treebanks, wordnets, propbanks, etc.
  * Comparable corpora with parallel units annotated
  * Comparable corpora for under-resourced languages and specific
    domains
  * Multilingual corpora with rich annotations: POS tags, NEs,
    dependencies, semantic roles, etc.
  * Data for special applications: patent translation, movie subtitles,
    MOOCs, meetings, chat-rooms, social media, etc.
  * Legal issues with collecting and redistributing data and generating
    derivatives

Building comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Automatic and semi-automatic methods
  * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
  * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
  * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
  * Rare and minority languages, across language families
  * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Language learning
  * Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
  * Bilingual projections
  * Machine translation
  * Writing assistance

Mining from comparable corpora:
  * Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable
    corpora
  * Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single
    words and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities, etc.


IMPORTANT DATES

  February 10, 2014    Deadline for submission of full papers
  March 10, 2014       Notification of acceptance
  March 27, 2014       Camera-ready papers due
  May 27, 2014         Workshop date


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to be
announced on the conference website http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/ )
and should be submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6)
pages. Characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused
contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an
interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must describe
substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without exceeding
ten (10) pages.

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the
authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.

Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the
workshop organizers.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research.  Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse,
replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

Authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit substantially
extended versions of their manuscripts to an upcoming special issue on
‘Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora’ of the Journal of Natural
Language Engineering.


ORGANISERS

  Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France)
  Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)
  Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
  Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Aix-Marseille (France)


FURTHER INFORMATION

Pierre Zweigenbaum:  pz (at) limsi (dot) fr


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

  * Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  * Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, US)
  * Caroline Barrière (CRIM, Montréal, Canada)
  * Chris Biemann (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
  * Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
  * Kurt Eberle (Lingenio, Heidelberg, Germany)
  * Andreas Eisele (European Commission, Luxembourg)
  * Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
  * Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France)
  * Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
  * Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
  * Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  * Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
  * Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France)
  * Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada)
  * Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US)
  * Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France)
  * Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US)
  * Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  * Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
  * Reinhard Rapp (Université Aix-Marseille, France)
  * Sujith Ravi (Google, Mountain View, US)
  * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
  * Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
  * Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US)
  * Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
  * Stephan Vogel (QCRI, Qatar)
  * Guillaume Wisniewski (Université Paris Sud & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
  * Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:20:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:20:43 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Programme Seminaire Linguistique Theorique,
 Universite de Bourgogne
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.122043.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:12:55 +0100 (CET)
From: Philippe Monneret <Philippe.Monneret at u-bourgogne.fr>
Message-ID: <447312548.2154087.1391785975799.JavaMail.root at u-bourgogne.fr>



SÉMINAIRE 2014 

QUESTIONS DE LINGUISTIQUE THÉORIQUE 

Philippe Monneret 

Université de Bourgogne / GReLiSC (EA 4178 CPTC) 

Bâtiment Droit-Lettres – 10h-12h 

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Jeudi 23 janvier (salle 105 PEG) 

Présentation et introduction du séminaire 

« Analogie et similarité en sciences du langage » 

Philippe Monneret (Université de Bourgogne) 



Jeudi 6 février (salle 155) 

« Pourquoi tant de logiques modales ? » 

Guillaume Coqui (Université de Bourgogne) 



Jeudi 13 février (salle du Conseil Lettres) 

« Remarques sur la détermination en français » 

Pierre-André Buvet (Université de Paris 13) 



Jeudi 20 février 

Colloque « Vers une histoire des théories phonosymboliques » 

Organisé par Luca Nobile (Université de Bourgogne) 



Jeudi 6 mars (salle 155) 

« Sur le possible en linguistique » 

Thomas Verjans (Université de Bourgogne) 



Jeudi 13 mars (salle du Conseil Lettres) 

« Mon nom est PERSONNE : qui est JE, qui est TU, qui est IL ? » 

Georges Kleiber (Université de Strasbourg) 



Jeudi 20 mars (salle du Conseil Lettres) 

« L’expression de la finalité en français » 

Gaston Gross (Université de Paris 13) 



Vendredi 28 mars (salle du Conseil Droit) 

« Philosophie du langage, philosophie de la linguistique, philosophie
des langues »

Christian Puech (Université de Paris 3) 



Jeudi 3 avril (salle 155) 

« Sur la disparition de cuidier » 

Thierry Ponchon (Université de Reims, Champagne-Ardenne) 



Vendredi 11 avril (salle du Conseil Lettres) 

« Essai de typologie de l’iconicité linguistique » 
Luca Nobile (Université de Bourgogne) 



Jeudi 17 avril (salle 155) 

« Penser sans langage. Le cas des enfants en période pré-linguistique »
Anna Ciaunica ( Mind, Language and Action Lab - University of Porto)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:01:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:01:30 +0100
Subject: Appel: SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, June 18th-20th, Philadelphia, USA
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.120130.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 09:47:00 +0000
From: Helen Hastie <h.hastie at hw.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <CAPv1Dq7wyWKgP3NVHet90AX1vKHHpPjTaqfAf3-DLo3pu=PWhg at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15

*SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE*
*Wednesday, June 18 to Friday, June 20, 2014   *

The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialog will be co-located with the 8th International Conference on
Natural Language Generation (INLG 2014 (http://inlg2014.wordpress.com/))
in Philadelphia, PA, USA and immediately preceding ACL 2014.

     http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15


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


*KEYNOTE SPEAKERS*We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers will
be Prof. Steve Young from the University of Cambridge and Prof. Lillian
Lee from Cornell University.


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

- Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems

- Corpora, Tools and Methodology

- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling

- Dimensions of Interaction

- Open Domain Dialog

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

- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology

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


*SPECIAL SESSIONS*There will be one special session co-located with
INLG<http://inlg2014.wordpress.com/>on the morning of June 20th. There
will be a second special session on the Dialogue State Tracking
Challenge (DSTC) (http://camdial.org/~mh521/dstc/)*. *Proposals for
additional special sessions are also still welcome. Special sessions
submission will undergo regular SIGdial review process.


*IMPORTANT DATES*

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

*Special Session Notification:   *            Monday, 17 February 2014

*Long, Short and Demonstration*

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

*Paper Notification:  *                       Friday, 18 April 2014

*Final Paper Due*

- For papers accepted subject to receiving mentoring     Wednesday, 14 May  2014

- For accepted papers                         Friday, 23 May 2014

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



*SUBMISSIONS*

*Special Session Proposals*

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

*Papers*

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

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

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

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

Authors of a submission may designate their paper to be considered for a
SIGDIAL special session, which would highlight a particular area or
topic.  All papers will undergo regular peer review.

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

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

Submission is electronic using paper submission software.

*FORMAT*

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

*MENTORING SERVICE*

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

*STUDENT SUPPORT*

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

*BEST PAPER AWARDS*

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

*SPONSORSHIP*

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

*DIALOG AND DISCOURSE*

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

*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*


General Co-Chairs

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA


Technical Program Co-Chairs

Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA


Mentoring Chair

Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Research Labs, USA


Local Chair

Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA


Sponsorships Chair

Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA


SIGdial President

Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA


SIGdial Vice President

Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA


SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer

Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:16:21 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:16:21 +0100
Subject: Conf: WWW'14, Tutorial on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis,
 Seoul, Korea
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.121621.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:43:30 +0800
From: Erik Cambria <cambria at nus.edu.sg>
Message-ID: <6BBCDA75-D5AB-4402-BC54-3E4965361F62 at nus.edu.sg>


Apologies for cross-posting, 

Participants are invited to the WWW’14 tutorial on Concept-Level
Sentiment Analysis, which will be held within the World Wide Web
conference this April in Seoul, Korea. The tutorial aims to provide its
participants means to efficiently design models, techniques, tools, and
services for concept-level sentiment analysis and their commercial
realizations. The tutorial draws on insights resulting from the recent
IEEE Intelligent Systems special issues on Concept-Level Opinion and
Sentiment Analysis and the IEEE CIM special issue on Computational
Intelligence for Natural Language Processing. The tutorial includes a
hands-on session to illustrate how to build a concept-level
opinion-mining engine step-by-step, from semantic parsing to
concept-level reasoning.


BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATIONS

As the Web rapidly evolves, Web users are evolving with it. In an era of
social connectedness, people are becoming increasingly enthusiastic
about interacting, sharing, and collaborating through social networks,
online communities, blogs, Wikis, and other online collaborative
media. In recent years, this collective intelligence has spread to many
different areas, with particular focus on fields related to everyday
life such as commerce, tourism, education, and health, causing the size
of the Social Web to expand exponentially.

The distillation of knowledge from such a large amount of unstructured
information, however, is an extremely difficult task, as the contents of
today’s Web are perfectly suitable for human consumption, but remain
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.

Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language, however, is an
extremely difficult task as it involves a deep understanding of most of
the explicit and implicit, regular and irregular, syntactical and
semantic rules proper of a language. Existing approaches mainly rely on
parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed
such as polarity terms, affect words and their co-occurrence
frequencies. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed
implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical
approaches ineffective.

Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text
through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the
aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with
natural language opinions. By relying on external knowledge, such
approaches step away from blind use of keywords and word co-occurrence
count, but rather rely on the implicit features associated with natural
language concepts. Unlike purely syntactical techniques, concept-based
approaches are able to detect also sentiments that are expressed in a
subtle manner, e.g., through the analysis of concepts that do not
explicitly convey any emotion, but which are implicitly linked to other
concepts that do so. The bag-of-concepts model can represent semantics
associated with natural language much better than bags-of-words. In the
bag-of-words model, in fact, a concept such as cloud computing would be
split into two separate words, disrupting the semantics of the input
sentence (in which, for example, the word cloud could wrongly activate
concepts related to weather).

The analysis at concept-level allows for the inference of semantic and
affective information associated with natural language text and, hence,
enables comparative fine-grained feature-based sentiment
analysis. Rather than gathering isolated opinions about a whole item
(e.g., iPhone5), users are generally more interested in comparing
different products according to specific features (e.g., iPhone5’s vs
Galaxy S3’s touchscreen), or even sub-features (e.g., fragility of
iPhone5’s vs Galaxy S3’s touchscreen). In this context, the construction
of comprehensive common and common-sense knowledge bases is key for
feature-spotting and polarity detection, respectively. Common-sense, in
particular, is necessary to properly deconstruct natural language text
into sentiments – for example, to appraise the concept small room as
negative for a hotel review and small queue as positive for a post
office, or the concept go read the book as positive for a book review
but negative for a movie review.


TUTORIAL PROGRAM

- Introduction (5 mins)

- New Avenues in Sentiment Analysis Research
	- From Heuristics to Discourse Structure (5 mins)
	- From Coarse to Fine-Grained Analysis (5 mins)
	- From Keywords to Concepts (10 mins)

- Concept-Level Models
	- Knowledge acquisition models (10 mins)
	- Emotion categorization models (10 mins)
	- Vector space models (10 mins)

- Concept-Level Techniques
	- Analogical reasoning (10 mins)
	- Parallel analogy (10 mins)
	- Spreading activation (10 mins)

- Concept-Level Tools
	- Sentiment resources (15 mins)
	- Common knowledge repositories (15 mins)
	- Aspect mining and polarity detection (10 mins)

- Building a Concept-Level Opinion-Mining Engine
	- Semantic parsing (15 mins)
	- Sentic API (15 mins)
	- Application Samples (20 mins)

- Conclusion (5 mins)


IMPACT AND RELEVANCE

The World Wide Web Conference is a global event bringing together key
researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, and business
experts trying to make meaning out of Web data. Within this research and
business area, opinion mining and sentiment analysis have become
increasingly important subtasks in recent years. However, there are
still many challenges, including social information understanding and
integration, that need to be addressed. For these reasons, a tutorial on
concept-level sentiment analysis is strongly relevant to WWW’14.


TARGET AUDIENCE AND PREREQUISITES

The target audience includes researchers and professionals in the fields
of sentiment analysis, Web data mining, and related areas. The tutorial
also aims to attract researchers from industry community as it covers
research efforts for the development of applications in fields such as
commerce, tourism, education, and health. The audience is expected to
have basic computer science skills, but psychologists and sociologists
are also very welcome. The tutorial not only covers state-of-the-art
approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis, but also provides
information about techniques and tools to be used for practical opinion
mining.


ABOUT THE TUTOR

Erik Cambria received his BEng and MEng with honors in Electronic
Engineering from the University of Genova, in 2005 and 2008
respectively. In 2011, he has been awarded a PhD in Computing Science
and Mathematics, following the completion of an industrial Cooperative
Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE) research project, funded by the
UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which was
born from the collaboration between the University of Stirling and the
MIT Media Laboratory.

Today, Erik is the lead investigator of a MINDEF-funded project on
Commonsense Knowledge Representation & Reasoning at the National
University of Singapore (Temasek Laboratories) and an associate
researcher at the MIT Media Laboratory (Synthetic Intelligence
Project). His interests include AI, Semantic Web, KR, NLP, opinion
mining and sentiment analysis, affective and cognitive modeling,
intention awareness, HCI, and e-health. Erik is also chair of several
international conferences, e.g., Extreme Learning Machines (ELM), and
workshop series, e.g., ICDM SENTIRE. He is on the editorial board of
Springer Cognitive Computation and he is a guest editor of many other
leading AI journals. Erik is also a fellow of the Brain Sciences
Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Taiwan University,
Microsoft Research Asia, and HP Labs India.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:51:47 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:51:47 +0100
Subject: Stage: Stage de Master 2,
 Analyse des citations et des enumerations dans les fora de sante,
 Toulouse
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.115147.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:43:23 +0100
From: Mustapha Mojahid <Mustapha.Mojahid at irit.fr>
Message-ID: <52F25C1B.2050808 at irit.fr>
X-url: http://www.msh-m.fr/programmes/programmes-2013/parlons-de-nous

Titre : Analyse des citations et des énumérations dans les fora de
        santé.

*Lieu : *Laboratoire IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de
        Toulouse), Université Paul Sabatier, Equipe ELIPSE (Etude de
        L'Interaction Personne SystèmE).

Contexte et problématique

Ce sujet du stage se situe dans le cadre d'un projet national « Parlons
de nous »
(http://www.msh-m.fr/programmes/programmes-2013/parlons-de-nous) où l'on
étudie des fora de santé pour tenter de répondre à la question « à quoi
pensent les patients ? » et du projet interMSH qui lui fait suite.

Les forums de santé sont des lieux où les patients échangent de nombreux
points de vues, conseils, où ils s'interrogent et discutent, et ce dans
un contexte bien différent des têtes à têtes menées avec les
professionnels de santé, qui ont lieu dans une durée et un lieu
contraint. Le relatif anonymat des échanges, l'implication récurrente de
certains dans les forums, les questions débattues peuvent être
révélatrices de points de vue, de connaissances ou méconnaissances
d'informations médicales, d'alertes, en provenance du grand public. Dans
ce contexte éminemment subjectif, la caractérisation et la compréhension
des perceptions dans les fils de discussions des forums est difficile,
mais aussi particulièrement intéressante et instructive dans une
perspective d'amélioration des programmes de santé publique.


*Objectif du projet*

Un des objectifs du projet est de développer une plateforme pour aider
des chercheurs (linguistes, sociologues et psychologues) et des médecins
à observer certains comportements dans les fils de discussions dans des
fora de santé. Dans le cadre d'un travail de thèse en informatique lancé
cette année sur le sujet du contexte et des informations médicales, nous
avons initié cette plateforme.


  La plateforme vise à proposer une interface qui permet de représenter
  et visualiser schématiquement les fils discussions (ou extraits de ces
  fils de discussions) de forums au travers de traits et critères que
  les chercheurs vont choisir. On espère ainsi pouvoir associer à
  certains schémas de discussions une qualité informationnelle du fil
  étudié (exemple : une discussion qui diverge du thème initial et se
  recentre entre 2 personnes habituées devient peut être un aparté hors
  sujet). Les critères actuellement pris en compte sont de nature
  contextuelle (les profils des utilisateurs (âge, sexe), le temps,
  nombres d'interventions, la longueur des échanges, les
  micro-échanges...). Nous souhaitons travailler sur l'exploration
  d'autres critères qui prendront en considération des traitements
  linguistiques des discussions afin de disposer d'un jeu de vues sur
  les discussions. Nous souhaitons évaluer si ces informations
  permettent de répondre à notre hypothèse de caractérisation des fils
  de discussion.

*Objectif du stage*

Ce stage vise deux objectifs :


  1. Explorer des pistes linguistiques pressenties comme


  - étudier l'utilisation des citations : en effet les internautes se
    citent et se répondent beaucoup au fil des discussions et visualiser
    ces interconnections dans le fil de discussions nous permettraient
    peut être d'en avoir une compréhension élargie ;


  - connaitre les énumérations dans les fils de discussions (quels
    indices discursifs et de mise en forme matérielle peut-on repérer et
    qu'en déduire ?)


  - analyser en utilisant les terminologies médicales existantes, les
    proximités sémantiques entre les différents post de discussion dans
    un fil.

2. élaborer des stratégies pour coupler les indices de l'architecture de
   texte et ceux liés au contexte (profil de l'usager, thématique
   abordée, statut du message dans la discussion, etc.). Ce travail se
   fera en collaboration avec le doctorant.

Nous souhaitons en effet dans cette plateforme, en manipulant des jauges
constituées par ces critères, observer et pouvoir caractériser comment
se construisent les réponses ? Est-ce que les réponses sont fournies par
des habitués ou des béotiens ? Peut-on écarter certaines discussions
(vulgarité, éparpillement...), ou au contraire anticiper sur des
contenus plutôt informatifs voire cruciaux ? Quels rebondissements ?
Quels recentrages ?... Nous nous focaliserons sur un sous-ensemble de
ces besoins.

La plate-forme « configurable »envisagée doit permettre aux chercheurs /
médecins de pouvoir observer des comportements et des « histoires de
discussion » stéréotypés.

*Perspectives *

Deux thèses possibles dans la continuité de ce sujet de master (1. sur
l'étude des énumérations dans les manuels scolaires d'histoire
géographie 2.sur l'amélioration de l'accessibilité textuelle pour des
personnes non-voyantes).

*Modalités du stage *

Encadrants :

Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac, CLLE-ERSS, Université Toulouse le Mirail
Nathalie Souf, IRIT-ELIPSE, Université Paul Sabatier et ISIS Castres
Mustapha Mojahid, IRIT-ELIPSE, Université Paul Sabatier

Durée : 5-6 mois.

Rémunération : celle prévue par la règlementation à savoir 436,05 EUR
par mois.

Début : à partir de Mars-Avril 2014.

*Profil du candidat *

Le candidat devra être inscrit dans un Master 2 en traitement 
automatique des langues.

*Compétences demandées*

- compétences en traitement automatique des langues et/ou en
  linguistique de corpus.

- compétences de base en informatique et idéalement maîtrise d'outils
  pour l'analyse de corpus et/ou de langages de programmation de type
  perl et python.

*Comment candidater ?*

Envoyer un CV (avec le détail des cours et notes des deux années de
Master) et une lettre de motivation à : Mustapha.Mojahid at irit.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:27:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:27:00 +0100
Subject: These: Inga Gheorghita,
 Construction automatique de hierarchies semantiques a partir du
 TLFi
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.122700.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 23:24:56 +0100
From: Inga Gheorghita <Inga.Gheorghita at atilf.fr>
Message-ID: <assp.01151d1d13.d4ab242f18bc30d2a439bc2732d6b186 at atilf.fr>


Bonjour,

J’ai le plaisir de vous convier à ma soutenance de thèse de doctorat en
linguistique informatique intitulée :

« Construction automatique de hiérarchies sémantiques à partir du 
Trésor de la langue française informatisé (TLFi) : application à 
l'indexation et la recherche d'images ».

La thèse sera présentée et soutenue le lundi 17 février 2014 à 9h30 à
l’Université de Lorraine, Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines et
Sociales, bâtiment CNRS-ATILF, salle Imbs.

La soutenance sera suivie du traditionnel pot de thèse auquel vous êtes
tous chaleureusement invités.

=======================
   Composition du jury :
=======================

Béatrice DAILLE, Professeur à l’Université de Nantes (rapporteur)
Brigitte GRAU, Professeur à l’ENSIIE (rapporteur)
Cyril MARCH, Ingénieur, Directeur général de Xilopix (invité)
Jean-Marie PIERREL, Professeur à l’Université de Lorraine (directeur de
thèse)
Alain POLGUÈRE, Professeur à l’Université de Lorraine (examinateur)
Yannick TOUSSAINT, Chargé de Recherche HDR à l’INRIA  (examinateur)

==========
   Résumé :
==========

L’objectif principal de cette thèse est de montrer que les informations
lexicales issues d’un dictionnaire de langue, tel le Trésor de la langue
française informatisé (TLFi), peuvent améliorer les processus
d’indexation et de recherche d’images. Le problème d’utilisation d’une
telle ressource est qu’elle n’est pas suffisamment formalisée pour être
exploitée d’emblée dans un tel domaine d’application.  Pour résoudre ce
problème, nous proposons, dans un premier temps, une approche de
construction automatique de hiérarchies sémantiques à partir du TLFi.
Après avoir défini une caractéristique quantitative (mesurable) et
comparable des noms apparaissant dans les définitions lexicographiques,
à travers une formule de pondération permettant de sélectionner le nom
de poids maximal comme l’hyperonyme pour un lexème donné du TLFi, nous
proposons un algorithme de construction automatique de hiérarchies
sémantiques pour les lexèmes des vocables du TLFi.  Une fois notre
approche validée à travers des évaluations manuelles, nous montrons,
dans un second temps, que les hiérarchies sémantiques obtenues à partir
du TLFi peuvent être utilisées pour l’enrichissement d’un thésaurus
construit manuellement ainsi que pour l’indexation automatique d’images
à partir de leurs descriptions textuelles associées. Nous prouvons aussi
que l’exploitation d’une telle ressource dans le domaine de recherche
d’images améliore la précision de la recherche en structurant les
résultats selon les domaines auxquels les concepts de la requête de
recherche peuvent faire référence. La mise en place d’un prototype nous
a permis ainsi d’évaluer et de valider les approches ainsi proposées.

==========
Mots-clés :
==========

hiérarchies sémantiques, ressources lexicales, pondération, 
dictionnaire de langue, TLFi, indexation et recherche d’images, 
thésaurus


Au plaisir de vous retrouver,
Inga Gheorghita

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:53:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:53:09 +0100
Subject: Appel: ACFAS Colloque 635, Langues Naturelles,
 Informatique et Sciences Cognitives
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.115309.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:04:51 -0500
From: Fatiha Sadat <sadat.fatiha at uqam.ca>
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Appel à communications -
EXTENSION DE LA DATE DE SOUMISSION POUR LE 14 Février 2014

Le sujet de ce colloque traite de la linguistique informatique et plus
particulièrement du traitement automatique des langues naturelles
(TALN/TAL) ainsi que son interaction avec les sciences cognitives. Il
s'agit d'un domaine qui se situe au carrefour de la linguistique, de
l'intelligence artificielle et des sciences cognitives dans leurs
recherches sur le langage naturel.

Ce colloque vise les différentes applications du TALN dans un contexte
monolingue, bilingue ou multilingue, tel que le développement des
méthodologies nécessaires pour la construction et l'enrichissement des
ressources linguistiques. Tous les aspects du traitement automatique des
langues sont considérés, en particulier les travaux théoriques ayant
pour but de décrire les phénomènes linguistiques par des modèles
calculatoires, le développement de logiciels d'aide aux linguistes pour
leurs travaux de recherche, tels que des études de corpus, le
développement de logiciels et de ressources pour utiliser, traiter,
organiser et conserver des données linguistiques écrites ou orale.

Il sera demandé aux présentateurs de mettre en valeur les aspects liés
au traitement automatique des langues naturelles, quel que soit le sujet
abordé, ainsi qu'à leur pertinence au niveau des sciences cognitives.

Plus spécifiquement, nous proposons d'abord les sujets suivants :

- modèles de calcul des langues naturelles,

- réseaux sémantiques de grande taille,

- modèles cognitifs et psychologiques des langues naturelles,

- évolution des langues naturelles,

- traitement du discours,

- pragmatique, processus cognitifs et sociaux des langues,

- résumé automatique et extraction d'information,

- interfaces et systèmes de dialogue,

- traduction automatique,

- traitement des ressources multilingues,

- construction et enrichissement des outils et ressources en TALN,

- corpus linguistique,

- forage de données.

Chaque proposition soumise doit comprendre : le nom et le prénom du
conférencier, sa fonction, son affiliation et son courriel. De plus, un
résumé d'un maximum de 1500 caractères (espaces compris) et dont le
titre ne dépasse pas 180 caractères (espaces comprises) est exigé.

Les propositions doivent être acheminées sous forme de document Word ou
RTF.


*CALENDRIER*
Date limite de soumission : 14 février 2014 (extension)
Notification aux auteurs : 25 février 2014
Date du colloque : 13 mai 2014

*MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION*
Les articles seront rédigés en français et doivent être soumis à travers
le système de conférences libreEasychairet le lien suivant

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lnisc2014

Responsable(s)
Fatiha SADAT *UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal*,
Alexandre BLONDIN MASSÉ *UQAC - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi*,
Stevan HARNAD *UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal*

Cet appel se trouve à cette adresse:

http://www.acfas.ca/evenements/congres/programme_preliminaire/82/600/635/C

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:50:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:50:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: YSIP
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.215018.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:45:54 +0100
From: Bertram Fronhöfer
Message-ID: <52F65F42.8080406 at tu-dresden.de>
X-url: http://infocom.iitit.ru/
X-url: http://ysip.computational-logic.org/


The Institute for Information Processing and Telecommunication of the
North-Caucasus Federal University and the International Center for
Computational Logic of the

The Institute for Information Processing and Telecommunication of the
North-Caucasus Federal University and the International Center for
Computational Logic of the Technische Universität Dresden are jointly
organizing the

   Young Scientists' International Workshop
   on Trends in Information Processing (YSIP)

at the North-Caucasus Federal University in Stavropol from April 22
until April 25 as part of the International Conference on
Infocommunicational Technologies in Science, Production and Education
(INFOCOM-6) <http://infocom.iitit.ru/>.

We invite young scientists – typically master or PhD students – to
submit new scientific results – as, for example, obtained in their
bachelor thesis, project work, master thesis, or PhD project – in all
areas of Information Processing. In particular, papers are welcome in,
but are not limited to, the following areas:

   * Semantic Methods
   * Semantic Web
   * Languages for Semantic Information Processing
   * Applications of Semantic Information Processing
   * Formal Concept Analysis
   * Big Data
   * Information Retrieval
   * Question-Answering Systems
   * Information Security
   * Problem Solving
   * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
   * Common Sense Reasoning
   * Machine Learning
   * Pattern Recognition

Important Dates:

28 February 2014	Deadline of Submission
15 March 2014		Information about Acceptance or Rejection
20 March 2014		Registration
31 March 2014		Submission of Final Version
22-25 April 2014	Workshop


For more information see:

http://ysip.computational-logic.org/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:41:48 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:41:48 +0100
Subject: Appel: TKE 2014, extended deadline
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.214148.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:15:44 +0100
From: Laurent Romary <laurent.romary at inria.fr>
Message-Id: <CD5A53F7-6C02-494E-A49A-A2AE9DA21E2A at inria.fr>
X-url: http://tke2014.coreon.com

+++ Extended deadline +++

TKE 2014 Ontology, terminology & text mining — Call for papers and
workshop proposals

The 11th international conference on Terminology and Knowledge
Engineering, TKE 2014, is organised by GTW and DIN Deutsches Institut
für Normung e. V. in cooperation with Inria, Coreon, Cologne University
of Applied Sciences and Copenhagen Business School.

The theme of TKE 2014 will be ‘Ontology, terminology & text mining.

Venue: DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V., Am DIN-Platz,
Burggrafenstr. 6, 10787 Berlin

Dates:

- Main conference: 19th -20th June 2014

- Post-conference workshops: 21st June 2014

See more information on the conference web site:
http://tke2014.coreon.com.

Important dates:

[NEW]1st March 2014  Submission of papers and workshop proposals

31rst March 2014     Notification of acceptance of papers and workshop
                     proposals

15th May 2014        Final versions for the proceedings

Submissions should be anonymous and should be made on the web site:
http://tke2014.sciencesconf.org. See information on format for papers on
http://tke2014.coreon.com.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:54:36 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:54:36 +0100
Subject: Appel: Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel,
 Interaction (WACAI) 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.215436.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:33:10 +0100
From: Magalie Ochs <magalie.ochs 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/

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:59:29 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:59:29 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Challenge Semantic Publishing
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.215929.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:22:49 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Second Call for Challenge: Semantic Publishing ====
Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemPub
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemPub

** NEWS: 
**     an open in-use task has been added!

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)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite
Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Angelo Di Iorio (Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  University of Bologna, IT)
- Christoph Lange (Enterprise Information Systems, University of Bonn /
  Fraunhofer IAIS, DE)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

Scholarly publishing is increasingly enabling a new wave of applications
that better support researchers in disseminating, exploiting and
evaluating their results. The potential of publishing scientific papers
enriched with semantic information is huge and raises interesting and
challenging issues. Semantic Web technologies play a central role in
this context, as they can help publishers to make scientific results
available in an open format the whole research community can benefit
from.

The Semantic Publishing Challenge 2014 is intended to be the first in a
series of events at ESWC for producing and exploiting semantic
publishing data. The main focus this year is on extracting information
and using this information to assess the quality of scientific
productions.  Linked open datasets about scientific production exist -
e.g. DBLP - but they usually cover basic bibliographic information,
which is not sufficient to assess quality. Quality-related information
are often hidden and not yet available as LOD.

There is also a growing interest in alternative forms of publishing
scientific data as (semantic) datasets that can be more easily shared,
linked to each other, and reasoned on. Alternative metrics for
scientific impact are also gaining relevance.

We are seeking the most innovative and impacting applications in this
emerging contexts.


TARGET AUDIENCE

The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.


TASKS

The Challenge includes three tasks. Participants can participate in as
many tasks as they like.


= Extraction Tasks =

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


== Task 1: Extraction and assessment of workshop proceedings information ==

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


== Task 2: Extraction and characterization of citations ==

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


== In-use Task 3: Semantic technologies in improving scientific production ==

Participants are asked to submit demos that showcase the potential of
Semantic Web technology for enhancing and assessing the quality of
scientific production.

The task has a completely open structure and is, in particular,
independent from tasks 1 and 2: participants are free to decide which
tool to show and which dataset to use.

The evaluation will be different from other tasks and will consist of
two phases: after a first round of review, a number of submissions will
be invited to demo their work at ESWC. The final decision will be taken
at the Conference by a jury formed of PC members present at the event
and other invited experts.

Further details are available at:
http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/index.php/SemPub/Task3


EVALUATION

= Extraction Tasks 1 and 2 =

Participants will be requested to submit the LOD that their tool
produces from the evaluation dataset, as well as a paper that describes
their approach. They will also be given a set of queries in natural
language form and will be asked to translate those queries into a SPARQL
form that works on their LOD.

The results of the queries on the produced LOD will be compared with the
expected output, and precision and recall will be measured to identify
the best performing approach. Separately, the most original approach
will be assigned by the Program Committee.


= In-use Task 3 =

Participants are required to submit a paper description as for tasks 1
and 2 and a demo version of the tool (open source appreciated but not
mandatory).

The evaluation will consist of two phases: after a first round of
review, a number of submissions will be invited to demo their work at
ESWC. The final decision will be taken at the Conference by a jury
formed of PC members present at the event and other invited experts. The
winner will be selected according to its potential impact, originality,
breakthrough, the quality of the demo, and the appropriateness for ESWC.

Further details about the evaluation are provided on the challenge wiki.


FEEDBACK AND DISCUSSION

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


JUDGING AND PRIZES

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

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

Five winners will be selected. For each of Tasks 1 and 2 we will select:
* best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the highest
  score in the evaluation
* most original approach, selected by the Challenge Committee with the
  reviewing process

The winner of Task 3 will be selected by the jury according to its
potential impact, originality, breakthrough, the quality of the demo,
and the appropriateness for ESWC.

Winners will be selected only for tasks with at least 3 participants. In
any case all submissions will be reviewed and, if accepted, published in
ESWC post-proceedings.

An amount of 700 Euro has already been secured for the final prize. We
are currently working on securing further funding.

 
HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Participants are required to submit:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should explain the details of the automated annotation
  system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic
  Web technology, what features or functions the system provides, what
  design choices were made and what lessons were learned. The
  description should also summarize how participants have addressed the
  evaluation tasks. An outlook towards how the data could be consumed is
  appreciated but not strictly required. Papers must be submitted in PDF
  format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture Notes in
  Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.


Submissions for task 1 and task 2 also have to include:
* The Linked Open Dataset produced by the tool on the evaluation dataset
  (as a file or as a URL, in Turtle or RDF/XML). 
* A set of SPARQL queries that work on that LOD and correspond to the
  natural language queries provided as input
* Participants will also be asked to submit their tool (source and/or
  binaries, or a link these can be downloaded from, or a web service
  URL) for verification purposes.


Submissions for the in-use task 3 have to include:
* a demo version of the tool. The demo must be made available along with
  the paper submission but participants are allowed to refine it until
  the presentation at ESWC-14.


All papers submissions should be provided via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges


MAILING LIST

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

* December 3, 2013: Publication of the full description of the
  extraction tasks 1 and 2, rules and queries; publication of the
  training/testing dataset 
* January 31, 2014, 23:59 CET: Deadline for making remarks to the task 1
  and 2 training/testing datasets
* February 5, 2014: Publication of the final task 1 and 2
  training/testing datasets
* March 7, 2014, 23:59 CET: Abstract submission
* March 11, 2014: Publication of the task 1 and 2 evaluation dataset
* March 14, 2014, 23:59 CET: Submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: Demo at ESWC-14, and winner selection


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Soren Auer (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS, DE) (supervisor)
Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim, DE)
Sarven Capadisli (University of Leipzig, DE)
Alexander Constantin (University of Manchester, UK)
Jeremy Debattista (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS, DE)
Alexander Garcia Castro (Florida State University, US)
Leyla Jael Garcia Castro (Bundeswehr University of Munich, DE)
Paul Groth (VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Rinke Hoekstra (VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Aidan Hogan (DCC, Universidad de Chile)
Evangelos Milios (Dalhousie University, CA)
Lyubomir Penev (Pensoft Publishers, BG)
Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK)
Jun Zhao (Lancaster University, UK)

We are inviting further members.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:11:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:11:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: ECML PKDD 2014 (Reminder)
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.221122.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:42:19 +0100 (CET)
From: Amedeo Napoli <amedeo.napoli at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <1665645114.3459231.1392064939712.JavaMail.root at loria.fr>
X-url: http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/

Calls -- ECML PKDD 2014 (Reminder) 

Apologize for multiple receptions 

----------------------------------- 
ECML PKDD 2014 
September 15-19 2014, Nancy France 
http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/ 
----------------------------------- 

----- 
CALLS 
----- 

----------------------------------------------- 
Call For Workshops (workshops at ecmlpkdd2014.org) 
----------------------------------------------- 

Workshop proposal deadline 2 March 2014 
Workshop acceptance notification 21 March 2014 


----------------------------------------------- 
Call For Tutorials (tutorials at ecmlpkdd2014.org) 
----------------------------------------------- 

Tutorial proposal deadline 7 March 2014 
Tutorial acceptance notification 28 March 2014 


------------------------------------------- 
Call For Papers (pcchairs at ecmlpkdd2014.org) 
------------------------------------------- 

Abstract submission deadline 12 April 2014 
Paper submission deadline 16 April 2014 

--------------------------------------- 
Call For Demos (demos at ecmlpkdd2014.org) 
--------------------------------------- 

Demo submission deadline 16 May 2014 
Notification of acceptance 15 June 2014 


----------------------------------------------- 
Call For Nectar Track (nectar at ecmlpkdd2014.org) 
----------------------------------------------- 

Submission deadline 14 June 2014 
Notifications of acceptance 28 June 2014 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:16:27 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:16:27 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014 Update, Tutorials & Workshops Announced,
 Paper Submission
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.221627.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:25:34 +0000
From: John Judge <jjudge at computing.dcu.ie>
Message-ID: <52FA16BE.5000801 at computing.dcu.ie>
X-url: http://www.coling-2014.org


********** Apologies for cross-posting **********

COLING 2014

Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014

COLING 2014 (http://www.coling-2014.org), the 25th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics, will be organised by CNGL
(Centre for Global Intelligent Content) at the Helix Convention 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).

Accepted Tutorials and Workshops

We are pleased to announce that the workshops and tutorials for COLING
2014 have been finalised. In total there will be 6 tutorials and 18
workshops covering a wide range of topics. You will be able to register
for tutorials and workshops when the main conference registration opens.


Accepted Tutorials:
- Dependency Parsing: Past, Present, and Future - Wenliang Chen, 
  Zhenghua Li and Min Zhang
- Using Neural Networks for Modeling and Representing Natural Languages -
  Thomas Mikolov
- Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking - Roberto 
  Navigli and Andrea Moro
- Selection Bias, Label Bias, and Bias in Ground Truth - Anders Søgaard, 
  Barbara Plank and Dick Hovy
- Automated Grammatical Error Correction for Language Learners - Joel 
  Tetreault and Claudia Leacock
- Biomedical/clinical NLP - Ozlem Uzuner and Meliha Yetisgen


Accepted Workshops:
- Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing
- First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich 
  Languages and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Languages
  (SPMRL-SANCL)
- Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW)
- 5th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing 
  (WSSANLP)
- Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Analyzing Technical Language 
  (SADAATL)
- The 3rd Workshop on Vision and Language (VL'14)
- First Joint Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Big Social 
  Data Analysis and Social NLP (MABSDA-SocialNLP)
- First Joint Workshop on Open Infrastructures for HLT Resource 
  Processing and Development and Text Analysis Frameworks
- Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-IV)
- Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE)
- VarDial: Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, 
  Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)
- SemEval-2014: Semantic Evaluation Exercises - International Workshop 
  on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)
- The AHA!-Workshop on Information Discovery in Text (AHA!)
- CompuTerm 2014. 4th International Workshop on Computational 
  Terminology (CompuTerm)
- The First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis 
  (ComAComA)
- Automatic Text Simplification? Methods and Applications in the 
  Multilingual Society (ATS-MA)
- The 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VIII)
- The third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics 
  (*SEM-2014)


Call for Papers:

The first call for papers for the main conference is open. The paper
submission system is now open at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/main/. Papers should be prepared
using the paper templates available here
http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip.

We invite authors to submit papers in all relevant areas and encourage
authors to include analysis of the influence of theories (intuitions,
methodologies, insights), to technologies (computational algorithms,
methods, tools, data), and/or contributions of technologies to theory
development. Contributions that display and rigorously discuss future
potential, even if not (yet) attested in standard evaluation, are
welcome. For more information and instructions for authors see the
preliminary call for papers here
http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php.


Sponsorship and Promotion Opportunities

With the tremendous impact and growth of COLING over many years, we have
set out a comprehensive offering of corporate sponsorship and support
opportunities for industry participants. The COLING 2014 organising
committee is committed to working in close partnership with corporate
supporters to maximise the benefits of sponsorship and provide
opportunities for sponsors to engage appropriately with COLING
delegates. With this in mind, if you wish to explore additional options
for support or means of engagement with the COLING 2014 community please
feel free to contact sponsorship at coling-2014.org.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:57:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:57:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Challenge Linked Open Data-enabled
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.215726.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:09:59 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140210141019.5E85E119754 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/RecSys


** apologies for cross-posting **

= Second Call for Challenge: Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems =
Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/RecSys
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-RecSys 

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)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Tommaso Di Noia (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT)
- Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

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

Recent developments in the Semantic Web community offer novel strategies
to represent data about users, items and their relations that might
improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to
move towards a new generation of recommender systems that fully
understand the items they deal with.

More and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data
principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different
data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space:
the Web of Data. Today, the Web of Data includes different types of
knowledge represented in a homogeneous form: sedimentary one
(encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one
(news, data streams, ...). These data might be useful to interlink
diverse information about users, items, and their relations and
implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the
recommendation process.

The primary goal of this challenge is twofold. On the one hand, we want
to create a link between the Semantic Web and the Recommender Systems
communities. On the other hand, we aim to show how Linked Open Data
(LOD) and semantic technologies can boost the creation of a new breed of
knowledge-enabled and content-based recommender systems.


TARGET AUDIENCE

The target audience is all of the Semantic Web and the Recommender
Systems communities, both academic and industrial, which are interested
in personalized information access with a particular emphasis on Linked
Open Data.

During the last ACM RecSys conference more than 60% of participants were
from industry. This is for sure a witness of the actual interest of
recommender systems for industrial applications ready to be released in
the market.


TASKS

* Task 1: Rating prediction in cold-start situations

This task deals with the rating prediction problem, in which a system is
requested to estimate the value of unknown numeric scores
(a.k.a. ratings) that a target user would assign to available items,
indicating whether she likes or dislikes them.

In order to favor the proposal of content-based, LOD-enabled
recommendation approaches, and limit the use of collaborative filtering
approaches, this task aims at predicting ratings in cold-start
situations, that is, predicting ratings for users who have a few past
ratings, and predicting ratings of items that have been rated by a few
users.
The dataset to use in the task - DBbook - relates to the book domain. It
contains explicit numeric ratings assigned by users to books. For each
book we provide the corresponding DBpedia URI.

Participants will have to exploit the provided ratings as training sets,
and will have to estimate unknown ratings in a non-provided evaluation
set.

Recommendation approaches will be evaluated on the evaluation set by
means of metrics that measure the differences between real and estimated
ratings, namely the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE).


* Task 2: Top-N recommendation from binary user feedback

This task deals with the top-N recommendation problem, in which a system
is requested to find and recommend a limited set of N items that best
match a user profile, instead of correctly predict the ratings for all
available items.

Similarly to Task 1, in order to favor the proposal of content-based,
LOD-enabled recommendation approaches, and limit the use of
collaborative filtering approaches, this task aims to generate ranked
lists of items for which no graded ratings are available, but only
binary ones. Also in this case, the DBbook dataset is used.

In this task, the accuracy of recommendation approaches will be
evaluated on an evaluation set using the F-measure.


*  Task 3: Diversity

A very interesting aspect of content-based recommender systems, and then
of LOD-enabled ones, is giving the possibility to evaluate the diversity
of recommended items in a straight way. This is a very popular topic in
content-based recommender systems, which usually suffer from
over-specialization.

In this task, the evaluation will be made by considering a combination
of both accuracy (F-measure) of the recommendation list and the
diversity (Intra-List Diversity) of items belonging to it. Also for this
task, the DBbook dataset is used.

Given the domain of books, diversity with respect to the two properties
http://dbpedia.org/ontology/author and http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject
will be considered.


DATASET

* DBbook dataset

This dataset relies on user data and preferences retrieved from the
Web. The books available in the dataset have been mapped to their
corresponding DBpedia URIs. The mapping contains 8170 DBpedia URIs.

These mappings can be used to extract semantic features from DBpedia or
other LOD repositories to be exploited by the recommendation approaches
proposed in the challenge.
The dataset is split in a training set and an evaluation set. In the
former, user ratings are provided to train a system while in the latter,
ratings have been removed, and they will be used in the eventual
evaluation step.

The mapping file is available at:
http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_Items_DBpedia_mapping.tsv.zip

It contains a tab-separated values file where each line has the
following format: DBbook_ItemID \t name \t DBpedia_URI.

We suggest to extract a semantic descriptions for all the items present
in this mapping file by starting from the DBpedia URIs.

The training sets are available at:


* Task 1: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_train_ratings.zip 

The archive contains a tab-separated values file containing the training
data and a README describing its content. Each line in the file is
composed by: userID \t itemID \t rating. The ratings are in scale
0-5. The training set contains 75559 ratings. There are 6181 users and
6166 items which have been rated by at least one user.


* Task 2 and Task 3:  http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_train_binary.zip 

The archive contains a tab-separated values file containing the training
data and a README describing its content. Each line in the file is
composed by: userID \t itemID \t rating. The ratings are in binary
scale. 1 means that the item is relevant for the user, 0 means
irrelevant. The training set contains 72372 ratings. There are 6181
users and 6733 items which have been rated by at least one user.


ADDITIONAL DATASETS

Although not used in the challenge, two additional rating datasets
linked to DBpedia are provided, namely the well known MovieLens10M
dataset and the Last.fm dataset published at HetRec'11 workshop.

http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/datasets/ 

We encourage participants to use these datasets for testing the
developed recommendation approaches on several domains.


JUDGING AND PRIZES

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

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

An amount of 700 Euro has already been secured for the final prize. We
are currently working on securing further funding.

Winners will be selected only for tasks with at least 3 participants. In
any case, all submissions will be reviewed and, if accepted, published
at ESWC post-proceedings.


HOW TO PARTICIPATE

1.  Make your result submission
* Register your group using the registration web form available at:
  http://193.204.59.20:8181/eswc2014lodrecsys/signup.html
* Choose one or more tasks among Task 1, Task 2 and Task 3
* Build your recommender system using the provided training data.
* Evaluate your approach by submitting your results using the evaluation
  service.
* Your final score will be the one computed with respect to the last
  result submission made before March 7, 2014, 23:59 CET.

2. Submit your paper
The following information has to be provided:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
  why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
  or functions the system provides, what design choices were made, and
  what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how
  participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
  submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture
  Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair: 

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges 


MAILING LIST

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

* March 7, 2014, 23:59 CET: Result submission due
* March 14, 2014, 23:59 CET: Paper submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: The Challenge takes place at ESWC'14


EVALUATION COORDINATOR

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


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

* Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
* Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
* Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
* Andreas Hotho, Universitat Wurzburg, Germany
* Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund University, Germany
* Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* Valentina Maccatrozzo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Roberto Mirizzi, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
* Alexandre Passant, seevl.fm, Ireland
* Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* David Vallet, NICTA, Australia
* Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece
* Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
* Tao Ye, Pandora Internet Radio, USA


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:08:25 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:08:25 +0100
Subject: Job: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web
 Technologies, CNR-STLAB
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.220825.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:48:46 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140210154907.4FE7D119754 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://istc.cnr.it/vacancy/assegno-di-ricerca-n%C2%B0-2092014-tecnologie-semantiche-e-open-data-legovernment-e-la-fruizione-


TITLE: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web
Technologies at CNR-STLAB

Important notice: send by February 19th to stlab at cnr.it your CV, a
motivational statement, and the contact of at least one referee (or a
recommendation letter). 
The official procedure for being admitted to the selection is described
on the official application post (see below) and the deadline is
February 27th.


Topic: Theories and methods for knowledge extraction and representation
at a web scale and their application to cultural heritage and
eGovernment.
Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship
Employer: Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies of CNR
Salary: EUR 19.367,00 (nineteen-thousand-three-hundred-sixtyseven/00)
net of expenses in charge of CNR.
Starting from: April 2014
Duration: 12 months
Location: Rome, Italy
Official application deadline: 27 February, 2014
Link to the official application post: 
http://istc.cnr.it/vacancy/assegno-di-ricerca-n%C2%B0-2092014-tecnologie-semantiche-e-open-data-legovernment-e-la-fruizione-
Scientific responsible: Dr. Valentina Presutti 
Contact person (administrative issues): stefania.capotosti at istc.cnr.it

Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship

There will be a public selection procedure, based on qualifications and
an interview, for the assignment of n. 1 (one) - Graduate Fellowship in
order to conduct research related to the Scientific Area Information
Sciences AND Computer Sciences at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences
and Technologies, CNR, in the scope of the projects: eGovernment,
Digital Libraries and Hermes, under the scientific responsibility of
Dr. Valentina Presutti.

To the selection may apply individuals who, whatever their nationality
or age, are in possession of the following requirements at the date of
expiry of the deadline for submission of applications:

a) Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Literature and
   Philosophy in accordance with the legislation in force before DM
   509/99 or Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Linquistics or
   Science of Language (or equivalent) in accordance with the
   regulations referred to in DM 509/99 or Master's Degree in Computer
   Science, Engineering Linguistics or Science of Language (or
   equivalent) in accordance with the regulations referred to in DM
   270/04, with professional resume suitable for the conduct of research
   according to the specifications given in the following points (the
   candidate is in charge, penalty of exclusion, of demonstrating
   equiparation of graduation diplomas);
b) All qualifications obtained abroad (bechelor's degree, doctorate, and
   any other qualification) shall be previously recognized in Italy in
   accordance with current legislation (information on the website of
   the Ministry of University and Scientific Research: www.miur.it. The
   equivalence of those diplomas obtained abroad who have not already
   been recognized in Italy with the expected formal procedure above,
   will be evaluated, with the only purpose of the present selection, by
   the Examining Committee constituted according to art. 6, paragraph 1
   of the Regulations;
c) Documented experience of research, development and application of
   semantic technologies. In particular, it is required expertise in at
   least one of the following areas: ontology design and open data,
   knowledge representation, and natural lanugage processing;
d) Excellent knowledge of OWL, RDF, and SPARQL;
e) Knowledge of mobile application development platforms;
f) Knowledge and documented experience of Java development; preference
   will be given to candidates that know also other programming
   languages; 
g) English proficiency.

THE ENGLISH CALL ON THE WEB-SITE DOES NOT HAVE LEGAL VALUE IN ITSELF,
AND THUS DOES NOT SUPERSEDE THE ITALIAN VERSION OF THE CALL ANNOUNCEMENT
(BANDO).


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:39:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:39:46 +0100
Subject: Appel: INTERSPEECH 2014, Special Sessions
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.213946.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:20:47 +0800
From: "Organization @ Interspeech 2014" <organization at interspeech2014.org>
Message-ID: <52F8539F.8050905 at interspeech2014.org>
X-url: http://www.INTERSPEECH2014.org


--- INTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE
--- September 14-18, 2014
--- http://www.INTERSPEECH2014.org

INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on
issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language
processing, both in humans and in machines.
The theme of INTERSPEECH 2014 is

--- Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages ---

INTERSPEECH 2014 includes a number of special sessions covering
interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest
related to the main conference topics.
Special sessions proposed for the forthcoming edition are:

- A Re-evaluation of Robustness
- Deep Neural Networks for Speech Generation and Synthesis
- Exploring the Rich Information of Speech Across Multiple Languages
- INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE)
- Multichannel Processing for Distant Speech Recognition
- Open Domain Situated Conversational Interaction
- Phase Importance in Speech Processing Applications
- Speaker Comparison for Forensic and Investigative Applications
- Text-dependent for Short-duration Speaker Verification
- Tutorial Dialogues and Spoken Dialogue Systems
- Visual Speech Decoding

A description of each special session is given below.
For paper submission, please follow the main conference procedure and
chose the Special Session track when selecting your paper area.

Paper submission procedure is described at:
http://www.INTERSPEECH2014.org/public.php?page=submission_procedure.html

For more information, feel free to contact the Special Session Chair,
Dr. Tomi H. Kinnunen, at email tkinnu [at]cs.uef.fi

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Special Session Description
------------------------------------------------------------------------

A Re-evaluation of Robustness

The goal of the session is to facilitate a re-evaluation of robust
speech recognition in the light of recent developments. It’s a
re-evaluation at two levels:

- a re-evaluation in perspective brought by breakthroughs in performance
  obtained by Deep Neural Network which leads to a fresh questioning of
  the role and contribution of robust feature extraction.

- A literal re-evaluation on common databases to be able to present and
  compare performances of different algorithms and system approaches to
  robustness.

Paper submissions are invited on the theme of noise robust speech
recognition and required to submit results on the Aurora 4 database to
facilitate cross comparison of the performance between different
techniques.

Recent developments raise interesting research questions that the
session aims to help
Progress by bringing focus and exploration of these issues. For example

1. What role is there for signal processing to create feature
   representations to use as inputs to Deep Learning or can deep
   learning do all the work?
2. What feature representations can be automatically learnt in a deep
   learning architecture?
3. What other techniques can give great improvement in robustness?
4. What techniques don’t work and why?

The session organizers wish to encourage submissions that bring insight
and understanding to the issues highlighted above. Authors are requested
not only to present absolute performance of the whole system but also to
highlight the contribution made by various components in a complex
system.

Papers that are accepted for the session are encouraged to also evaluate
their techniques on new test data sets (available in July) and submit
their results at the end of August.

Session organization
The session will be structured as a combination of
1. Invited talks
2. Oral paper presentations
3. Poster presentations
4. Summary of contributions and results on newly released test sets
5. Discussion

Organizers:
David Pearce, Audience dpearce [at]audience.com
Hans-Guenter Hirsch, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, 
hans-guenter.hirsch [at]hs-niederrhein.de
Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, University of Paderborn, haeb [at]nt.uni-paderborn.de
Michael Seltzer, Microsoft, mseltzer [at]microsoft.com
Keikichi Hirose, The University of Tokyo, hirose [at]gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh, s.renals [at]ed.ac.uk
Sim Khe Chai, National University of Singapore, simkc [at]comp.nus.edu.sg
Niko Moritz, Fraunhofer IDMT, Oldenburg, niko.moritz [at]idmt.fraunhofer.de
K K Chin, Google, kkchin [at]google.com


Deep Neural Networks for Speech Generation and Synthesis

This special session aims to bring together researchers who work
actively on deep neural networks for speech research, particularly, in
generation and synthesis, to promote and to understand better the
state-of-art DNN research in statistical learning and compare results
with the parametric HMM-GMM model which has been well-established for
speech synthesis, generation, and conversion. DNN, with its neuron-like
structure, can simulate human speech production system in a layered,
hierarchical, nonlinear and self-organized network.  It can transform
linguistic text information into intermediate semantic, phonetic and
prosodic content and finally generate speech waveforms. Many possible
neural network architectures or typologies exist, e.g. feed-forward NN
with multiple hidden layers, stacked RBM or CRBM, Recurrent Neural Net
(RNN), which have been used to speech/image recognition and other
applications.  We would like to use this special session as a forum to
present updated results in the research frontiers, algorithm development
and application scenarios. Particular focused areas will be on
parametric TTS synthesis, voice conversion, speech compression,
de-noising and speech enhancement.

Organizers:
Yao Qian, Microsoft Research Asia, yaoqian [at]microsoft.com
Frank K. Soong, Microsoft Research Asia, frankkps [at]microsoft.com


Exploring the Rich Information of Speech Across Multiple Languages

Spoken language is the most direct means of communication between human
beings. However, speech communication often demonstrates its
language-specific characteristics because of, for instance, the
linguistic difference (e.g., tonal vs. non-tonal, monosyllabic
vs. multisyllabic) across languages. Our knowledge on the diversities of
speech science across languages is still limited, including speech
perception, linguistic and non-linguistic (e.g., emotion) information,
etc.  This knowledge is of great significance to facilitate our design
of language-specific application of speech techniques (e.g., automatic
speech recognition, assistive hearing devices) in the future.  This
special session will provide an opportunity for researchers from various
communities (including speech science, medicine, linguistics and signal
processing) to stimulate further discussion and new research in the
broad cross-language area, and present their latest research on
understanding the language-specific features of speech science and their
applications in the speech communication of machines and human
beings. This special session encourages contributions all fields on
speech science, e.g., production and perception, but with a focus on
presenting the language-specific characteristics and discussing their
implications to improve our knowledge on the diversities of speech
science across multiple languages. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to: 1. characteristics of acoustic, linguistic and language
information in speech communication across multiple languages;
2. diversity of linguistic and non-linguistic (e.g., emotion)
information among multiple spoken languages; 3. language-specific speech
intelligibility enhancement and automatic speech recognition techniques;
and 4. comparative cross-language assessment of speech perception in
challenging environments.

Organizers:
Junfeng Li, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 
junfeng.li.1979 [at]gmail.com
Fei Chen, The University of Hong Kong, feichen1 [at]hku.hk


INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE)

The INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE)
is an open Challenge dealing with speaker characteristics as manifested
in their speech signal's acoustic properties.  This year, it introduces
new tasks by the Cognitive Load Sub-Challenge, the Physical Load
Sub-Challenge, and a Multitask Sub-Challenge: For these Challenge tasks,
the COGNITIVE-LOAD WITH SPEECH AND EGG database (CLSE), the MUNICH
BIOVOICE CORPUS (MBC), and the ANXIETY-DEPRESSION-EMOTION-SLEEPINESS
audio corpus (ADES) with high diversity of speakers and different
languages covered (Australian English and German) are provided by the
organizers.  All corpora provide fully realistic data in challenging
acoustic conditions and feature rich annotation such as speaker
meta-data. They are given with distinct definitions of test,
development, and training partitions, incorporating speaker independence
as needed in most real-life settings. Benchmark results of the most
popular approaches are provided as in the years before.  Transcription
of the train and development sets will be known. All Sub-Challenges
allow contributors to find their own features with their own machine
learning algorithm.  However, a standard feature set will be provided
per corpus that may be used. Participants will have to stick to the
definition of training, development, and test sets. They may report on
results obtained on the development set, but have only five trials to
upload their results on the test sets, whose labels are unknown to them.
Each participation will be accompanied by a paper presenting the results
that undergoes peer-review and has to be accepted for the conference in
order to participate in the Challenge.
The results of the Challenge will be presented in a Special Session at
INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore.  Further, contributions using the
Challenge data or related to the Challenge but not competing within the
Challenge are also welcome.

More information is given also on the Challenge homepage:
http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is14-compare

Organizers:
Björn Schuller, Imperial College London / Technische Universität 
München,schuller [at]IEEE.org
Stefan Steidl, Friedrich-Alexander-University, stefan.steidl [at]fau.de
Anton Batliner, Technische Universität München / 
Friedrich-Alexander-University,
batliner [at]cs.fau.de
Jarek Krajweski, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, krajewsk 
[at]uni-wuppertal.de
Julien Epps, The University of New South Wales / National ICT Australia, 
j.epps [at]unsw.edu.au


Multichannel Processing for Distant Speech Recognition

Distant speech recognition in real-world environments is still a
challenging problem: reverberation and dynamic background noise
represent major sources of acoustic mismatch that heavily decrease ASR
performance, which, on the contrary, can be very good in close-talking
microphone setups.  In this context, a particularly interesting topic is
the adoption of distributed microphones for the development of
voice-enabled automated home environments based on distant-speech
interaction: microphones are installed in different rooms and the
resulting multichannel audio recordings capture multiple audio events,
including voice commands or spontaneous speech, generated in various
locations and characterized by a variable amount of reverberation as
well as possible background noise.

The focus of the proposed special session will be on multichannel
processing for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in such a
setting. Unlike other robust ASR tasks, where static adaptation or
training with noisy data sensibly ameliorates performance, the
distributed microphone scenario requires full exploitation of
multichannel information to reduce the highly variable dynamic
mismatch. To facilitate better evaluation of the proposed algorithms the
organizers will provide a set of multichannel recordings in a domestic
environment.  The recordings will include spoken commands mixed with
other acoustic events occurring in different rooms of a real apartment.
The data is being created in the frame of the EC project DIRHA (Distant
speech Interaction for Robust Home Applications) which addresses the
challenges of speech interaction for home automation.

The organizers will release the evaluation package (datasets and
scripts) on February 17; the participants are asked to submit a regular
paper reporting speech recognition results on the evaluation set and
comparing their performance with the provided reference baseline.

Further details are available at: http://dirha.fbk.eu/INTERSPEECH2014

Organizers:
Marco Matassoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, matasso [at]fbk.eu
Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e 
Computadores, ramon.astudillo [at]inesc-id.pt
Athanasios Katsamanis, National Technical University of Athens, nkatsam
[at]cs.ntua.gr


Open Domain Situated Conversational Interaction

Robust conversational systems have the potential to revolutionize our
interactions with computers.  Building on decades of academic and
industrial research, we now talk to our computers, phones, and
entertainment systems on a daily basis. However, current technology
typically limits conversational interactions to a few narrow
domains/topics (e.g., weather, traffic, restaurants). Users increasingly
want the ability to converse with their devices over broad web-scale
content.  Finding something on your PC or the web should be as simple as
having a conversation.  A promising approach to address this problem is
situated conversational interaction. The approach leverages the
situation and/or context of the conversation to improve system accuracy
and effectiveness.  Sources of context include visual content being
displayed to the user, Geo-location, prior interactions, multi-modal
interactions (e.g., gesture, eye gaze), and the conversation itself. For
example, while a user is reading a news article on their tablet PC, they
initiate a conversation to dig deeper on a particular topic.  Or a user
is reading a map and wants to learn more about the history of events at
mile marker 121.  Or a gamer wants to interact with a game’s characters
to find the next clue in their quest.
All of these interactions are situated – rich context is available to
the system as a source of priors/constraints on what the user is likely
to say.
This special session will provide a forum to discuss research progress
in open domain situated conversational interactions.
Topics of the session will include:
- Situated context in spoken dialog systems
- Visual/dialog/personal/geo situated context
- Inferred context through interpretation and reasoning
- Open domain spoken dialog systems
- Open domain spoken/natural language understanding and generation
- Open domain semantic interpretation
- Open domain dialog management (large-scale belief state/policy)
- Conversational Interactions
- Multi-modal inputs in situated open domains (speech/text + gesture,
  touch, eye gaze)
- Multi-human situated interactions

Organizers:
Larry Heck, Microsoft Research, larry [at]ieee.org
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Microsoft Research, dilek [at]ieee.org
Gokhan Tur, Microsoft Research, gokhan [at]ieee.org
Steve Young, Cambridge University, sjy [at]eng.cam.ac.uk


Phase Importance in Speech Processing Applications

In the past decades, the amplitude of speech spectrum is considered to
be the most important feature in different speech processing
applications and phase of the speech signal has received less
attention. Recently, several findings justify the phase importance in
speech and audio processing communities.  The importance of phase
estimation along with amplitude estimation in speech enhancement,
complementary phase-based features in speech and speaker recognition and
phase-aware acoustic modeling of environment are the most prominent
reported works scattered in different communities of speech and audio
processing. These examples suggest that incorporating the phase
information can push the limits of state-of-the-art phase-independent
solutions employed for long in different aspects of audio and speech
signal processing. This Special Session aims to explore the recent
advances and methodologies to exploit the knowledge of signal phase
information in different aspects of speech processing. Without a
dedicated effort to bring researchers from different communities, a
quick advance in investigation towards the phase usefulness in speech
processing applications is difficult to achieve. Therefore, as the first
step in this direction, we aim to promote the "phase-aware speech and
audio signal processing" to form a community of researchers to organize
the next steps.  Our initiative is to unify these efforts to better
understand the pros and cons of using phase and the degree of
feasibility for phase estimation/enhancement in different areas of
speech processing including: speech enhancement, speech separation,
speech quality estimation, speech and speaker recognition, voice
transformation and speech analysis and synthesis. The goal is to promote
the importance of the phase-based signal processing and studying its
importance and sharing interesting findings from different speech
processing applications.

Organizers:
Pejman Mowlaee, Graz University of Technology, pejman.mowlaee [at]tugraz.at
Rahim Saeidi, University of Eastern Finland, rahim.saeidi [at]uef.fi
Yannis Styilianou, Toshiba Labs Cambridge UK / University of Crete, 
yannis [at]csd.uoc.gr


Speaker Comparison for Forensic and Investigative Applications

In speaker comparison, speech/voice samples are compared by humans
and/or machines for use in investigation or in court to address
questions that are of interest to the legal system.  Speaker comparison
is a high-stakes application that can change people’s lives and it
demands the best that science has to offer; however, methods, processes,
and practices vary widely.  These variations are not necessarily for the
better and though recognized, are not generally appreciated and acted
upon. Methods, processes, and practices grounded in science are critical
for the proper application (and non-application) of speaker comparison
to a variety of international investigative and forensic applications.
This special session will contribute to scientific progress through 1)
understanding speaker comparison for investigative and forensic
application (e.g., describe what is currently being done and critically
analyze performance and lessons learned); 2) improving speaker
comparison for investigative and forensic applications (e.g., propose
new approaches/techniques, understand the limitations, and identify
challenges and opportunities); 3) improving communications between
communities of researchers, legal scholars, and practitioners
internationally (e.g., directly address some central legal, policy, and
societal questions such as allowing speaker comparisons in court,
requirements for expert witnesses, and requirements for specific
automatic or human-based methods to be considered scientific); 4) using
best practices (e.g., reduction of bias and presentation of evidence);
5) developing a roadmap for progress in this session and future
sessions; and 6) producing a documented contribution to the field. Some
of these objectives will need multiple sessions to fully achieve and
some are complicated due to differing legal systems and cultures.  This
special session builds on previous successful special sessions and
tutorials in forensic applications of speaker comparison at INTERSPEECH
beginning in 2003. Wide international participation is planned,
including researchers from the ISCA SIGs for the Association Francophone
de la Communication Parlée (AFCP) and the Speaker and Language
Characterization (SpLC).

Organizers:
Joseph P. Campbell, PhD, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, jpc [at]ll.mit.edu
Jean-François Bonastre, l'Université d'Avignon, jean-francois.bonastre 
[at]univ-avignon.fr


Text-dependent for Short-duration Speaker Verification

In recent years, speaker verification engines have reached maturity and
have been deployed in commercial applications. Ergonomics of such
applications is especially demanding and imposes a drastic limitation in
terms of speech duration during authentication.  A well known tactic to
address the problem of lack of data, due to short duration, is using
text-dependency. However, recent breakthroughs achieved in the context
of text-independent speaker verification in terms of accuracy and
robustness do not benefit text-dependent applications. Indeed, large
development data required by the recent approaches is not available in
the text-dependent context. The purpose of this special session is to
gather the research efforts from both academia and industry toward a
common goal of establishing a new baseline and explore new directions
for text-dependent speaker verification.  The focus of the session is on
robustness with respect to duration and modeling of lexical information.
To support the development and evaluation of text-dependent speaker
verification technologies, the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) has
recently released the RSR2015 database, including 150 hours of data
recorded from 300 speakers. The papers submitted to the special session
are encouraged, but not limited, to provide results based on the RSR2015
database in order to enable comparison of algorithms and methods. For
this purpose, the organizers strongly encourage the participants to
report performance on the protocol delivered with the database in terms
of EER and minimum cost (in the sense of NIST 2008 Speaker Recognition
evaluation).
To get the database, please contact the organizers.

Further details are available at: 
http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~kalee/is2014/tdspk.html

Organizers:
Anthony LARCHER (alarcher [at]i2r.a-star.edu.sg) Institute for Infocomm 
Research
Hagai ARONOWITZ (hagaia [at]il.ibm.com) IBM Research – Haifa
Kong Aik LEE (kalee [at]i2r.a-star.edu.sg) Institute for Infocomm Research
Patrick KENNY (patrick.kenny [at]crim.ca) CRIM – Montréal


Tutorial Dialogues and Spoken Dialogue Systems

The growing interest in educational applications that use spoken
interaction and dialogue technology has boosted research and development
of interactive tutorial systems, and over the recent years, advances
have been achieved in both spoken dialogue community and education
research community, with sophisticated speech and multi-modal technology
which allows functionally suitable and reasonably robust applications to
be built.

The special session combines spoken dialogue research, interaction
modeling, and educational applications, and brings together the two
INTERSPEECH SIG communities: SLaTE and SIGdial. The session focuses on
methods, problems and challenges that are shared by both communities,
such as sophistication of speech processing and dialogue management for
educational interaction, integration of the models with theories of
emotion, rapport, and mutual understanding, as well as application of
the techniques to novel learning environments, robot interaction,
etc. The session aims to survey issues related to the processing of
spoken language in various learning situations, modeling of the
teacher-student interaction in MOOC-like environments, as well as
evaluating tutorial dialogue systems from the point of view of natural
interaction, technological robustness, and learning outcome.  The
session encourages interdisciplinary research and submissions related to
the special focus of the conference, "Celebrating the Diversity of
Spoken Languages".

For further information click http://junionsjlee.wix.com/INTERSPEECH

Organizers:
Maxine Eskenazi, max+ [at]cs.cmu.edu
Kristiina Jokinen, kristiina.jokinen [at]helsinki.fi
Diane Litman, litman [at]cs.pitt.edu
Martin Russel, M.J.RUSSELL [at]bham.ac.uk


--- Visual Speech Decoding

Speech perception is a bi-modal process that takes into account both the
acoustic (what we hear) and visual (what we see) speech information. It
has been widely acknowledged that visual clues play a critical role in
automatic speech recognition (ASR) especially when audio is corrupted
by, for example, background noise or voices from untargeted speakers, or
even inaccessible.  Decoding the visual speech is utterly important for
ASR technologies to be widely implemented to realize truly natural
human-computer interactions. Despite the advances in acoustic ASR,
visual speech decoding remains a challenging problem.  The special
session aims to attract more effort to tackle this important problem. In
particular, we would like to encourage researchers to focus on some
critical questions in the area.
We propose four questions as the initiative as follows:
1. How to deal with the speaker dependency in visual speech data?
2. How to cope with the head-pose variation?
3. How to encode temporal information in visual features?
4. How to automatically adapt the fusion rule when the quality of the
   two individual (audio and visual) modalities varies?

Researchers and participants are encouraged to raise more questions
related to visual speech decoding.
We expect the session to draw a wide range of attention from both the
speech recognition and machine vision communities to the problem of
visual speech decoding.

Organizers:
Ziheng Zhou, University of Oulu, ziheng.zhou [at]ee.oulu.fi
Matti Pietikäinen, University of Oulu, matti.pietikainen [at]ee.oulu.fi
Guoying Zhao, University of Oulu, gyzhao [at]ee.oulu.fi

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:12:49 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:12:49 +0100
Subject: Job: Deep neural networks for statistical machine translation,
 several positions available (Postdoc, PhD, engineers, etc), France
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.221249.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:06:10 +0100
From: Holger Schwenk <holger.schwenk at lium.univ-lemans.fr>
Message-ID: <52F93F42.7090004 at lium.univ-lemans.fr>


During the last years, there have been several breakthroughs in the use
of neural networks for natural language processing, in particular using
deep architectures.

The computer science laboratory of the University of Le Mans (LIUM) is
working since many years on statistical machine translation (SMT), and
we were among the first researchers to successfully use neural networks,
for instance continuous space language and translation models.

We want to substantially increase our research efforts in this area,
hoping to achieve a significant advances in SMT. Our goal is to build
state-of-the-art large scale SMT systems using deep neural networks.

In this major research effort, we have openings at different levels
  - postdoc positions
  - PhD positions
  - short term visits with a well focused research project
  - engineers

The candidates are expected to have demonstrated knowledge in at least 
one of the following fields:
  - neural networks (feed-forward, recurrent NN, deep learning, etc).
  - statistical machine translation
  - efficient implementation of machine learning algorithms (GPU, MPI,
    etc)

The positions are immediately available. Applications are accepted until
the positions are filled.  Initial appointment is for one year,
renewable for up to three years.  Competitive salaries are available,
including health care and other social benefits, travel support, etc.
The working language is English or French.

LIUM is participating in several international projects, financed by the
European Commission, DARPA and the French government.  We collaborate
with leading research groups in USA and Europe.

A large computer cluster is available to support the research (700 CPU
cores with a total of 6 TBytes of memory and more than 250 TBytes of
RAID disk space).  We also own a cluster with 30 Tesla K20 and K40 GPU
cards, connected by a fast Infiniband network.

Le Mans is located in between Paris and the Atlantic ocean. Both can be
reached in about 1 hour by high speed train. The Loire valley with many
wineries and other attractions is just a short drive away ...

Applications should include an CV, a list of publications and the name
of two references.  We will invite interesting candidates for further
discussions.

For more information, please contact Holger Schwenk by email:
Holger.Schwenk at lium.univ-lemans.fr


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:51:33 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:51:33 +0100
Subject: Stage: Stage M2,
 Analyse automatique de comptes-rendus de consultations medicales,
 IRIT
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.215133.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:19:07 +0100
From: philippe muller <philippe.muller at irit.fr>
Message-ID: <52F8C3BB.8060604 at irit.fr>


Proposition de stage de M2(R)

Titre : Analyse automatique de comptes-rendus de consultations médicales

Mots-clefs : traitement automatique des langues naturelles, extraction
d'information, apprentissage automatique, médecine

Résumé :

Ce stage de M2 Recherche vise l'analyse automatique de comptes-rendus de
consultations médicales pour en extraire certaines informations
nécessaires à la réalisation d’une étude épidémiologique. Les
compte-rendus sont constitués de texte libre résumant les données
sociodémographiques, le diagnostic, les symptômes, et les résultats des
tests éventuels réalisés chez ces patients.
Deux objectifs principaux sont considérés : d'une part classifier les
comptes rendus vis à vis de l’existence ou non d’une pathologie, d'autre
part extraire un certain nombre d’informations précises en lien avec ces
maladies. Le stagiaire devra évaluer et comparer les stratégies
classiques d'extraction d'information en Traitement Automatique des
Langues en domaine spécialisé, et l'application de méthodes
d'apprentissage automatique pour les deux objectifs visés. Les données
utilisées sont un corpus de compte-rendus de consultation déidentifiés,
en français.

Encadrement :
Ce stage sera effectué à l'IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique
de Toulouse), en coopération avec l'INSERM, et sera codirigé par
Philippe Muller (IRIT, équipe MELODI "MEthodes et ingénierie des
Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours") et Virginie Gardette (équipe
"Vieillissement et maladie d'Alzheimer" de l'UMR INSERM 1027
"Epidémiologie et analyses en santé publique").

http://www.irit.fr/-Equipe-MELODI-
http://www.u1027.inserm.fr/42537678/0/fiche___pagelibre/&RH=1303915788348

Compétences requises :
Le stagiaire devra avoir une formation en M2 informatique, idéalement
avec des compétences en apprentissage automatique et/ou traitement
automatique du langage naturel.

Durée : 4-6 mois à partir de mars ou avril.

Rémunération :  436,05€/mois, conformément à la réglementation.

Candidature : Envoyez un CV (avec relevés de notes récents) et une
lettre de motivation à philippe.muller at irit.fr et
virginie.gardette at univ-tlse3.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:03:16 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:03:16 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Challenge Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:55:04 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Second Call for Challenge: Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis ====
Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemSA

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)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite
Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Erik Cambria (National University of Singapore, SG)
- Diego Reforgiato (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

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

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

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

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


TARGET AUDIENCE

The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.


TASKS

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

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

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

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

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



EVALUATION DATASET

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


EVALUATION

The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program
Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters,
please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the
best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system,
reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and
details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the
following aspects:
1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics;
2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task;
3. Computational time;
4. Innovative nature of the approach.


JUDGING AND PRIZES

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

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

There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate
again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private
to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that
the same system runs for both the awards. Winners will be selected only
for tasks with at least 3 participants. In any case all submissions will
be reviewed and, if accepted, published in ESWC post-proceedings. An
amount of 700 euros has already been secured for the first task for what
the first point of the evaluation aspects is concerned. We are currently
working on securing further funding.


HOW TO PARTICIPATE

The following information has to be provided:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
  why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
  or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and
  what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how
  participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
  submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture
  Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.

* Web Access: The application can either be accessible via the web or
  downloadable. If the application is not publicly accessible, password
  must be provided. A short set of instructions on how to use the
  application should be provided as well.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges


MAILING LIST

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

* March 14, 2014, 23:59 CET: Submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: The Challenge takes place at ESWC-14


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA)
* Cheng Xiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
* Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (USA)
* Ping Chen, University of Houston-Downtown (USA)
* Yongzheng Zhang, LinkedIn Inc. (USA)
* Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon Inc. (USA)
* Rui Xia, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China)
* Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University (Japan)
* Amir Hussain, University of Stirling (UK)
* Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico)
* Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
* Amitava Das, Samsung Research India (India)
* Dipankar Das, National Institute of Technology (India)
* Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
* Stefano Squartini, Marche Polytechnic University (Italy)
* Cristina Bosco, University of Torino (Italy)
* Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia (Spain)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:23:29 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:23:29 +0100
Subject: Job: Professeur en informatique,
 UFR Mathematiques et Informatique, Universite de Lorraine
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.222329.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:07:36 +0100
From: smaili <Kamel.Smaili at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <52FA58D8.1040706 at loria.fr>


L'UFR Mathématiques et Informatique et le LORIA de l'UL proposent un
poste de professeur en informatique dont les profils enseignement et
recherche sont donnés ci-dessous.  Par ailleurs, nous organisons à l'UFR
MI le 19 mars une journée de présentation où les candidats qui le
souhaitent viendront présenter leurs dossiers devant les équipes
pédagogiques de l'UFR Mathématiques et Informatique.

Profil enseignement :

Le professeur doit s'intégrer à l'équipe pédagogique de la licence et du
master sciences cognitives. Les sciences cognitives s'intéressent à la
compréhension de la pensée artificielle, animale ou humaine. Les
compétences recherchées vont donc de l'informatique aux sciences du
langage en passant par la biologie.L'UFR recrutera un professeur qui
possède un maximum de compétences liées aux sciences cognitives et qui
pourrait intervenir dans les cours : aspects cognitifs liés à la
linguistique computationnelle, les neurosciences, la représentation des
connaissances, l'intelligence artificielle, l'intelligence collective,
etc. L'enseignant doit avoir une compétence et une expérience certaine
dans ce domaine pour être opérationnel dès la rentrée 2014-2015 où les
besoins pour nos formations sont importants. Le candidat s'intégrera à
l'équipe pédagogique et contribuera à la création de projets
innovants.Au niveau administratif, le candidat doit être en mesure très
rapidement de prendre des responsabilités lourdes : montage de nouveaux
diplômes, rédaction d'habilitation, direction de diplômes ou d'UFR.  Le
professeur recruté devra être un moteur dans les futurs projets que nous
sommes en train de mettre au point.

Composante/UFR :Mathématiques et InformatiqueRéférence UFR : K. Smaïli

Mots-clés enseignement : sciences cognitives, traitement automatique des
langues, neurosciences, intelligence artificielle

Profil recherche :

Le professeur recruté effectuera sa recherche dans le Laboratoire
Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA). Il
devra s'intégrer dans le département 4 (Traitement des langues et des
connaissances). Toutes les équipes du département sont concernées.

Ce département travaille sur les trois notions étroitement liées du
document, du langage et de la connaissance.

Au sens large, on peut parler de sémantiques computationnelles. En
effet, dans l'analyse de document, les caractères et les symboles dans
un document peuvent être considérés comme des indices de faible niveau
et combinés pour construire des entités beaucoup plus complexes.?La
reconnaissance de la parole ou l'analyse de phrase étudie les
sémantiques relatives au langage. Et, à un plus haut niveau, les
représentations du discours ou de la connaissance nécessite l'étude de
formalismes logiques, de leur pouvoir expressif, la cartographie d'un
formalisme vers un autre, le raisonnement, et la preuve...

Les équipes concernées sont avant tout Cello, Orpailleurs, Parole
(Multispeech et SMarT), Qgar, Read, Semagramme, Synalp.

Nom laboratoire 1 :LORIANuméro unité du laboratoire 1 : UMR 7503

Mots-clés recherche :

Sémantique computationnelle, traitement de la langue naturelle, logique
computationnelle, analyse de document, reconnaissance des formes,
modélisation stochastique, traitement de texte/ de données, réseaux
bayésiens, découverte de la connaissance, représentation de la
connaissance, systèmes de la connaissance, biologie des systèmes,
accueil moléculaire, logic linéaire, grammaires catégorielles, syntaxe,
reconnaissance de la parole, modélisation articulatoire, reconnaissance
de l'écriture manuelle, classificateurs incrémentaux

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:17:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:17:55 +0100
Subject: Soft: Talismane, analyseur syntaxique robuste en dependances
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:27:03 +0100
From: Assaf Urieli <assaf.urieli at gmail.com>
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Talismane : analyseur syntaxique robuste en dépendances
*******************************************************
Talismane est un outil libre et complet d'analyse syntaxique en
dépendances, prêt à l'emploi pour le français.

L'outil Talismane est disponible pour téléchargement à :
http://redac.univ-tlse2.fr/applications/talismane.html

Talismane a été développé par Assaf URIELI dans le cadre de sa thèse au
sein de l'axe TAL de CLLE-ERSS (UMR 5263), Université de Toulouse II le
Mirail.
- Thèse :
  http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr/textes/pagespersos/urieli/URIELI-thesis-2013.pdf
- Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS : http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr/

C'est un logiciel libre (open source) écrit en Java, et diffusé sous une
licence Affero GPL v3 : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

Talismane effectue, pour le français :
- la segmentation en phrases ;
- la segmentation en mots (tokenisation) + lemmatisation ;
- l'étiquetage morpho-syntaxique (pos-tagging) ;
- l'analyse syntaxique en dépendances (parsing).

Talismane a été entraîné sur le French Treebank (Abeillé et al, 2003)
pour la segmentation en phrases et en mots ainsi que pour le
pos-tagging, et sur le French Treebank converti en dépendances (Candito
et al, 2010) pour le parsing. Il utilise le LeFFF comme lexique par
défaut (Sagot 2010). Il est entièrement paramétrable (apprentissage,
traits, règles, jeu d'étiquettes, lexique...) et peut être réentraîné
pour d'autres langues.

En plus, Talismane permet de :
- analyser rapidement (2 millions de mots par heure dans la
  configuration de base) ;
- parser du XML ou du HTML facilement, par l'ajout de filtres indiquant
  quelles parties analyser ;
- ajouter des règles pour forcer ou empêcher le système de choisir une
  certaine segmentation, étiquette ou lien de dépendance, selon le
  contexte ;
- choisir entre une analyse de meilleure qualité (faisceau large) ou
  plus rapide (faisceau étroit) ;
- garder une trace de la position exacte de chaque token analysé dans le
  fichier d'origine ;
- indiquer la confiance du système dans chaque décision prise.

Un mode d'emploi est disponible sur le site.

Cordialement,
Assaf URIELI
Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS, UMR 5263
Université de Toulouse II le Mirail

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:28:45 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:28:45 +0100
Subject: Appel: 7th BUCC Workshop at LREC: Deadline extension until Feb.
 23 and Journal Special Issue
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:29:13 +0100
From: "Reinhard Rapp" <reinhardrapp at gmx.de>
Message-ID: <5441EDC688574124BDEA8066E6719EDA at ASUSPC>
X-url: http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/

We apologize for multiple postings
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             DEADLINE EXTENSION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE 
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  7th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA

  Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

  http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/

  May 27, 2014
  Co-located with LREC 2014
  Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland)

  EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 23, 2014
  https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/


  *** INVITED SPEAKER ***

  Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania)

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MOTIVATION

In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in
comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language
engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use
comparable corpora as training data for statistical Natural Language
Processing applications such as statistical machine translation or
cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable
corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible
inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted
in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or
several languages that are comparable in content and form in various
degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and
observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine
such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of
great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.

The scarcity of parallel corpora has motivated research concerning the
use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected
according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or
language varieties. Non-parallel yet comparable corpora overcome the two
limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual
texts are much more abundant than translated texts.  However, because of
their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more
challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable
corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention:
while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward,
building a non-parallel corpus requires control over the selection of
source texts in both languages.

Parallel corpora are a key resource as training data for statistical
machine translation, and for building or extending bilingual lexicons
and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English-
French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary
debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the
creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the
Web. To exemplify such issues in a practical setting, this year's
special focus will be on

    Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

This special topic aims to address the need for:
(1) Machine Translation training and testing data such as spoken or
    written monolingual, comparable or parallel data collections, and
(2) methods and tools used for collecting, annotating, and verifying MT
    data such as Web crawling, crowdsourcing, tools for language experts
    and for finding MT data in comparable corpora.

TOPICS

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

Topics related to the special theme:
  * Methods and tools for collecting and processing MT data,
        including crowdsourcing
  * Methods and tools for quality control
  * Tools for efficient annotation
  * Bilingual term and named entity collections
  * Multilingual treebanks, wordnets, propbanks, etc.
  * Comparable corpora with parallel units annotated
  * Comparable corpora for under-resourced languages and specific
    domains
  * Multilingual corpora with rich annotations:
        POS tags, NEs, dependencies, semantic roles, etc.
  * Data for special applications: patent translation, movie
        subtitles, MOOCs, meetings, chat-rooms, social media, etc.
  * Legal issues with collecting and redistributing data
        and generating derivatives

Building comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Automatic and semi-automatic methods
  * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
  * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
  * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
  * Rare and minority languages, across language families
  * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Language learning
  * Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
  * Bilingual projections
  * Machine translation
  * Writing assistance

Mining from comparable corpora:
  * Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable
    corpora
  * Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single
    words and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities, etc.


IMPORTANT DATES

   February 23, 2014    Deadline for submission of papers (extended)
      March 10, 2014    Notification of acceptance
      March 27, 2014    Camera-ready papers due
         May 27, 2014   Workshop date


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to be
announced on the conference website http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/ )
and should be submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6)
pages. Characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused
contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an
interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must describe
substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without exceeding
ten (10) pages.

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the
authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.

Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the
workshop organizers.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research.  Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse,
replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

Authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit substantially
extended versions of their manuscripts to an upcoming special issue on
‘Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora’ of the Journal of Natural
Language Engineering.


ORGANISERS

  Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France)
  Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)
  Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
  Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Aix-Marseille
  (France)


CONTACT

  Pierre Zweigenbaum:  pz (at) limsi (dot) fr


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

  * Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  * Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, US)
  * Caroline Barrière (CRIM, Montréal, Canada)
  * Chris Biemann (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
  * Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
  * Kurt Eberle (Lingenio, Heidelberg, Germany)
  * Andreas Eisele (European Commission, Luxembourg)
  * Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
  * Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France)
  * Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
  * Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
  * Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  * Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
  * Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France)
  * Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada)
  * Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US)
  * Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France)
  * Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US)
  * Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  * Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
  * Reinhard Rapp (Université Aix-Marseille, France)
  * Sujith Ravi (Google, Mountain View, US)
  * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
  * Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
  * Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US)
  * Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
  * Stephan Vogel (QCRI, Qatar)
  * Guillaume Wisniewski (Université Paris Sud & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
  * Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:10:05 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:10:05 +0100
Subject: Appel: RJCIA 2014 (15 jours avant la date-butoir)
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.221005.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:19:02 +0100
From: Grégory Bonnet <gregory.bonnet at unicaen.fr>
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-- Merci de diffuser aussi largement que possible cet appel, en
particulier au sein des associations de doctorants et des listes de
diffusion de vos écoles doctorales et laboratoires. Veuillez excuser les
réceptions multiples. --
 
**********************************************************************
 
Appel à communications RJCIA 2014 : 12èmes Rencontres des Jeunes
Chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle
 
30 juin - 1er juillet 2014, Rouen, France
 
http://rjcia2014.greyc.fr
 
**********************************************************************
 
Présentation
 
Les douzièmes rencontres des jeunes chercheurs en Intelligence
Artificielle (RJCIA 2014) se dérouleront du 30 juin au 1er juillet 2014
à Rouen. Ces rencontres sont hébergées par RFIA'14 (Reconnaissance des
Formes et l'Intelligence Artificielle), organisée par le laboratoire
LITIS et ses établissements de tutelle l'INSA de Rouen, l’Université de
Rouen et l’Université du Havre, au nom de l'Association Française
d'Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA) et de l'Association Française de
Reconnaissance et d'Interprétation des Formes (AFRIF).
 
Les RJCIA 2014 sont destinées aux jeunes chercheurs en Intelligence
Artificielle : doctorants ou titulaires d'un doctorat depuis moins d'un
an. L'objectif de cette manifestation est double : permettre aux jeunes
chercheurs préparant une thèse en Intelligence Artificielle, ou l'ayant
soutenue depuis peu, de se rencontrer et de présenter leurs travaux, et
ainsi de former des contacts avec d'autres jeunes chercheurs et
d'élargir leurs perspectives en échangeant avec des spécialistes
d'autres domaines de l'Intelligence Artificielle ; former les jeunes
chercheurs à la préparation d'un article, à sa révision pour tenir
compte des observations du comité de programme, et à sa présentation
devant un auditoire de spécialistes, leur permettant ainsi d'obtenir des
retours de chercheurs de leur domaine ou de domaines connexes.
 
Pour tout renseignement complémentaire, s'adresser à Grégory Bonnet
(gregory.bonnet[at]unicaen.fr), président du comité de programme.
 
Appel à communication
 
Les RJCIA 2014 ont pour vocation de compléter le panorama de la
recherche francophone en Intelligence Artificielle proposé par RFIA'14
en présentant des travaux de jeunes chercheurs dans ce domaine. Ainsi,
toute contribution relevant de l'Intelligence Artificielle est la
bienvenue. La liste indicative des thématiques ci-dessous n'est pas
exhaustive.
 
Apprentissage artificiel (supervisé, non supervisé, par renforcement)
Fouille de masse de données, fouille de grands graphes, fouille de texte 
Extraction et utilisation de connaissances par et pour la fouille (de
masses) de données 
Satisfaction de contraintes 
Représentation des connaissances, modèles de raisonnement, raisonnement,
planification 
Agents autonomes et systèmes multi-agents (décision individuelle,
collective, interactions)
Informatique émotionnelle, agent virtuel socio-émotionnel, interaction
humain-agent 
Robotique autonome, contrôle intelligent, aide à la décision dans les
systèmes robotiques 
Gestion des connaissances : modélisation, organisation, optimisation et
traitement
Traitement automatique des langues 
Données liées, données ouvertes, publication de données 
Masse de données, Web de données, web sémantique, ontologies. 
Extraction d'information, indexation sémantique de contenu 
Visualisation de données et de connaissances 
Validation, évaluation des systèmes d'Intelligence Artificielle 
Applications de l’Intelligence Artificielle (médecine, transport,
agronomie, droit)
 
Conditions de soumission
 
Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des propositions d'articles de 6
pages double colonne maximum selon le style proposé par RFIA'14. dans
l'une des deux catégories suivantes :
 
Communications de synthèse : Les RJCIA 2014 sont l'occasion pour les
doctorants de première année de présenter leur sujet de thèse au travers
d'une communication de synthèse. Cette dernière permet de présenter un
état de l'art, d'identifier des problématiques et/ou de proposer de
première pistes de travail. Les auteurs sont encouragés à clairement
décrire le contexte de leur travaux et de mettre en lumière les
problèmes rencontrés.
Communications de recherche : Les RJCIA 2014 invitent aussi les jeunes
chercheurs plus confirmés à présenter des travaux de recherche originaux
théoriques, expérimentaux ou à vocation opérationnelle. Une rigueur
devra être apportée à la rédaction des articles, tant sur le plan de la
forme que sur celui du contenu scientifique. Les jeunes chercheurs qui
le souhaitent sont également invités à soumettre leur communication à la
session IA de RFIA'14.
 
Les auteurs sont invités à indiquer lors de la soumission la catégorie
dans laquelle s'inscrit leur proposition.
 
Le premier auteur de la communication doit être doctorant ou docteur
depuis moins d'un an (thèse en cours, ou soutenue en 2013).
 
Aucune exclusivité n'est demandée : nous souhaitons que les articles
soumis dans les conférences ou ateliers internationaux puissent
également être proposés aux RJCIA 2014. La langue de la conférence est
le français de préférence, ou l'anglais sinon.
 
Chaque soumission sera relue par au moins trois membres du comité de
programme. Les critères de relecture incluent l'originalité des idées,
la qualité technique, l'importance des résultats et la qualité de la
présentation.
 
Dates importantes
 
    Ouverture du site de soumissions : 6 janvier 2014
    Date limite de soumission : 24 février 2014
    Notification aux auteurs : 25 avril 2014
    Réception des versions définitives : 16 mai 2014
    RJCIA 2014 : lundi 30 juin et mardi 1er juillet 2014
 
Soumission d'articles
 
Le format de soumission est disponible sur le site de la conférence :
http://rjcia2014.greyc.fr
Les soumissions se sont font via Easychair :
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rjcia2014
 
Comité de programme
 
Nicolas Béchet, IRISA, Université de Bretagne-Sud
Lamia Belouaer, IRENav, Ecole Navale
Grégory Bonnet, GREYC, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
Elise Bonzon, LIPADE, Université Paris Descartes
Gauvain Bourgne, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Sylvain Bouveret, LIG, INP Grenoble
Amélie Cordier, LIRIS, Université Lyon 1 
Alice Hermann, LORIA, Université de Lorraine
Abir Béatrice Karami, LIRIS, Université Lyon 1
Jean-Marie Lagniez, CRIL, Université d'Artois
Robin Lamarche-Perrin, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the
  Sciences
Marie Lefevre, LIRIS, Université Lyon 1
Cyrille Martin, DAI-Labor (CC NGS), Technischen Universität Berlin
Benoit Mathern, LIRIS, Université Lyon 1
Laëtitia Matignon, LIRIS, Université Lyon 1
Alexandre Niveau, GREYC, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
Antoine Nongaillard, DISP, Université Lyon 2
Alexandre Pauchet, LITIS, INSA Rouen
Cédric Pralet, Onera
Mathieu Roche, TETIS, Cirad
Julien Rossit, LIPADE, Université Paris Descartes
Stéphanie Roussel, CRIL
Karima Sedki, Lim&Bio, Université Paris 13
 
Informations pratiques
 
Consultez le site de RFIA'14 (http://rfia2014.univ-rouen.fr/) afin
d'obtenir les informations pratiques pour s'inscrire et se rendre au
LITIS.
 
Pour le comité de programme des RJCIA 2014,
 
Grégory Bonnet

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:21:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:21:26 +0100
Subject: Stage: Master 2e annee,
 Creation de la maquette numerique d'une serie de documents
 traitant d'archeologie
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.222126.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:37:08 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
Message-Id: <46F083B2-0D77-4D14-8508-E665CCD78F4A at ens.fr>


Proposition de stage de Master 2e année : 
Création de la maquette numérique d'une série de documents traitant
d'archéologie

Descriptif : 

Le stage s'inscrit dans le domaine des humanités numériques, dans le
cadre d'un projet EITAB, PEPS PSL-CNRS, mettant en œuvre une
collaboration entre le laboratoire Lattice (UMR8094, analyse
linguistique et traitement automatique des
langues,http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/) et le laboratoire AOROC (UMR 8546,
archéologie, http://www.archeo.ens.fr/). Les deux laboratoires font
partie de l'Ecole normale supérieure et collaborent au sein du
laboratoire d'excellence TransferS (http://www.transfers.ens.fr/).

Le stage vise à créer, à partir d'un document textuel traitant
d'archéologie, la maquette d'un ebook. Il s'agit de mettre en place un
accès pertinent et convivial à un texte de spécialité à partir de
données extraites du texte (termes structurés en index, etc.). On
s'intéressera donc particulièrement aux outils de structuration (base de
données, mise en place de liens entre termes, etc.) et de mise en forme
(xml, html, css) des données. Une collaboration étroite avec les
interlocuteurs côté archéologie est indispensable. Le LATTICE dispose
d'un extracteur de termes et les outils classiques de structuration de
données et de création d'ontologies pourront être utilisés.

Le stage porte essentiellement sur l'interaction entre texte et
index. En fonction des compétences du candidat retenu, on pourra aussi
s'intéresser à l'interaction entre texte et cartes géographiques (pour
permettre de visualiser les principaux sites archéologiques, créer des
liens entre objets d'étude et zones géographiques, et pouvoir répondre à
des questions comme : « sur quels sites de la région tourangelle ont été
trouvées des tuiles à rebord ? »). On pourra aussi, si le temps le
permet, s'intéresser à l'adaptation du rendu final en fonction du
support (ordinateur, tablette, etc.).

Le stage a une finalité avant tout pratique : il s'agit de mettre en
place une maquette opérationnelle montrant un exemple concret de
réalisation possible. L'archéologie se prête particulièrement bien à
l'enrichissement multimédia du texte numérique.


Mission du stage 

Créer la maquette numérique d'une série de documents traitant
d'archéologie.

– veiller à la cohérence des données (corriger et enrichir les index
  existants) 
– structurer le document texte 
– créer index et requêtes dynamiques. 


Compétences requises 

– connaissance d'outils d'édition électronique 
– connaissance des langages de structuration de document (xml, html,
  css, etc) 
– intérêt pour la mise en place de solutions applicatives, prise en
  compte des besoins utilisateurs 
– connaissance des bases de données 
– qualité de rédaction en français et en anglais 
– un intérêt pour l'archéologie serait un plus 

Informations complémentaires sur EITAB :
http://www.archeo.ens.fr/spip.php?article586


Conditions 

Le stage se déroulera au laboratoire Lattice (à Montrouge,
http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/) pendant 6 mois, à partir d'avril 2014 en
étroite collaboration avec le laboratoire AOROC (à l'ENS, 45 rue d'Ulm à
Paris). Ce stage est indemnisé suivant les règles en vigueur grâce à un
projet PEPS de site co-financé par le CNRS et PSL.


Lieu 

Laboratoire LATTICE à Montrouge. 


Encadrants 

Frédérique Mélanie Becquet et Thierry Poibeau pour le LATTICE et
Katherine Gruel pour AOROC.


Comment postuler ? 

Envoyer un CV et une lettre de motivation à Thierry Poibeau et
Frédérique Mélanie prenom suivi du nom séparé par un point arobase
ens.fr dès que possible et, dans tous les cas, avant le 20 février 2014.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:03:27 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:03:27 +0100
Subject: Appel: Arabic natural dialect processing, Workshop ICCTIM2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.220327.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:19:40 +0100
From: smaili <Kamel.Smaili at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <52FB9F1C.4020401 at loria.fr>
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We apologize for multiple postings, please distribute to interested
colleagues

DEADLINE *March 10, 2014*

* Workshop at **ICCTIM2014**, Dubai, april 10, 2014 *

http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icctim2014/workshops/

Title : Arabic natural dialect processing

Summary

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the language of more than 250 million
persons. It is used mainly in writing and in formal
speech. Unfortunately, most of Arab people, do not use MSA in their
daily conversations; the result is that different Arabic dialects are
spoken through more than twenty countries.In fact, MSA is not acquired
as a mother tongue, but rather it is learned as a second language at
school and through exposure to formal broadcast programs (such as the
daily news), religious practice, and newspaper. Spoken Arabic is often
referred to as colloquial Arabic, dialects, or vernaculars. It's a mixed
form, which has many variations, and often a dominating influence from
local languages (from before the introduction of Arabic) and from
languages of the countries which occupied the Arabic region. Differences
between the various variants of spoken Arabic can be large enough to
make them incomprehensible to Arabic people coming from different
regions.

Hence, regarding the large differences between such spoken languages, we
can consider them as disparate languages or more exactly as different
dialects depending on the geographical place in which they are
practiced: Morocco, Algeria, Egypt,... Because in general, they are not
written therefore, corpora are not available. Everyone knows the
importance of such corporawhen we would like to mine texts or to develop
some applications as speech recognition or machine translation which are
based on statistical models. The only existing corpora but not yet
explored are those used in social networks which cannot be used easily
due to the multiplicity of formats, the number of foreign words, the
mixture between dialects and French or English and so on.


This workshop is an opportunity for the NLP community to focus on this
challenging topic and encourage them to develop new resource Arabic
dialect,Arabic dialect corpora processing tools and help in highlighting
the difficulties of processing Arabic dialects especially those which
use so many foreign words adapted lexically and grammatically to
Arabic. The workshop topics include but not limited to:

1. Collecting Arabic dialect corpora

2. Diacritization of Arabic dialects

3. Mining Arabic social networks

4. Language modelling

5. Arabic dialect morphology

6. Development of mobile Arabic dialects applications: speech
   recognition, machine translation, ...

7. Tagging Arabic dialects corpora

8. Maghreb Arabic dialects versus Orient Arabic dialects: Linguistic
   study.

Format and duration: a full day workshop will held on April 10,
2014. The language of the workshop is English and submissions should be
with respect to ICCTIM2014 paper submission instructions. All papers
will be peer reviewed.Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF
format as soon as possible and before March 10, 2014.

When you submit by using the OpenConf management system, please select
others in the proposed topics and in keywords, enter Arabic dialect.

In all the cases, when you submit, please send an email to the chairman
of the workshop:smaili at loria.fr


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 20:45:15 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:45:15 +0100
Subject: Revue: Texto ! Textes & Cultures
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.214515.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:40:39 +0100
From: Carine Duteil-Mougel <carine.duteil at ensil.unilim.fr>
Message-Id: <B7F97FEA-09A6-4244-AC59-196882F1D975 at ensil.unilim.fr>
X-url: http://www.revue-texto.net

Bonjour,

Vous pourrez trouver ci-dessous le sommaire du nouveau numéro de la
revue Texto ! Textes et Cultures.  http://www.revue-texto.net


Bonne lecture !



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TEXTO ! Volume XIX - n°1 (2014). Coordonné par Régis Missire

Dits et inédits


Dénier, théoriser, éliminer : le « travail » de Duch Sur L’élimination
de Rithy Panh avec Christophe Bataille
Elise LAMY-RESTED

À la découverte du sens historique. Alfred Baeumler et la Nouvelle
vision du monde
LÉONORE BAZINEK

L'expérience de la parole : le thème du sujet parlant
ANTONINO BONDI

Le discours de Dakar - Représentations et stéréotypes dans un discours
en Afrique sur l’Afrique
MICHELLE LECOLLE


Parutions et trésors

Pour une conception intégrale de la création lexicale
CHRISTOPHE GÉRARD

Constantes et variations du rituel politique: l'exemple des vœux
présidentiels (Démonstration Lexico 3/TextObserver)
JEAN-MARC LEBLANC

Sémantique du site web de la restauration: étude thématique et
expressive d'un genre polysémiotique
ERIC TRUDEL

Outils et méthodes pour appliquer le savoir-faire des sémanticiens aux
traitements des masses documentaires
MATHIEU VALETTE, EGLE EENSOO, EVELYNE BOURION & MONIQUE SLODZIAN


Note de lecture. Gaston Gross. Manuel d’analyse linguistique : Approche
sémantico-syntaxique du lexique.
PASCAL VAILLANT

Dynamiques du changement sémantique. Détection, analyse et modélisation
du changement sémantique en corpus en diachronie courte - Présentation
de thèse
ARMELLE BOUSSIDAN


Repères pour l'étude

La sémantique interprétative - Du mot au corpus et du sème aux formes
sémantiques
ALI BELGHANEM

À la recherche du temps perdu, ou comment rendre l’espace immatériel
THIERRY MÉZAILLE

Saussurismes et sémiotique

Triple articulation de la langue et articulation herméneutique du
langage - Quand De l’essence double du langage réinterprète les textes
saussuriens
SIMON BOUQUET

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:15:38 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:15:38 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014, February 2014 Newsletter
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:07:23 +0000
From: 박성배 <sbpark at sejong.knu.ac.kr>
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We apologize if you received multiple copies.

COLING 2014

Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014

COLING 2014 (http://www.coling-2014.org), the 25th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics, will be organised by CNGL
(Centre for Global Intelligent Content) at the Helix Convention 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).

Accepted Tutorials and Workshops

We are pleased to announce that the workshops and tutorials for COLING
2014 have been finalised. In total there will be 6 tutorials and 18
workshops covering a wide range of topics. You will be able to register
for tutorials and workshops when the main conference registration opens.

Accepted Tutorials:

- Dependency Parsing: Past, Present, and Future - Wenliang Chen,
  Zhenghua Li and Min Zhang

- Using Neural Networks for Modeling and Representing Natural Languages-
  Thomas Mikolov

- Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking - Roberto
  Navigli and Andrea Moro

- Selection Bias, Label Bias, and Bias in Ground Truth - Anders Søgaard,
  Barbara Plank and Dick Hovy

- Automated Grammatical Error Correction for Language Learners - Joel
  Tetreault and Claudia Leacock

- Biomedical/clinical NLP - Ozlem Uzuner and Meliha Yetisgen

Accepted Workshops:

- Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing

- First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich
  Languages and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Languages
  (SPMRL-SANCL)

- Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW)

- 5th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing
  (WSSANLP)

- Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Analyzing Technical Language
  (SADAATL)

- The 3rd Workshop on Vision and Language (VL'14)

- Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media
  (SocialNLP 2014)

- First Joint Workshop on Open Infrastructures for HLT Resource
  Processing and Development and Text Analysis Frameworks

- Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-IV)

- Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE)

- VarDial: Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages,
  Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)

- SemEval-2014: Semantic Evaluation Exercises - International Workshop
  on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)

- The AHA!-Workshop on Information Discovery in Text (AHA!)

- CompuTerm 2014. 4th International Workshop on Computational
  Terminology (CompuTerm)

- The First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis
  (ComAComA)

- Automatic Text Simplification? Methods and Applications in the
  Multilingual Society (ATS-MA)

- The 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VIII)

- The third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
  (*SEM-2014)

Call for Papers:

The first call for papers for the main conference is open. The paper
submission system is now open at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/main/. Papers should be prepared
using the paper templates available here
http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip.

We invite authors to submit papers in all relevant areas and encourage
authors to include analysis of the influence of theories (intuitions,
methodologies, insights), to technologies (computational algorithms,
methods, tools, data), and/or contributions of technologies to theory
development. Contributions that display and rigorously discuss future
potential, even if not (yet) attested in standard evaluation, are
welcome. For more information and instructions for authors see the
preliminary call for papers here
http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php.

Sponsorship and Promotion Opportunities

With the tremendous impact and growth of COLING over many years, we have
set out a comprehensive offering of corporate sponsorship and support
opportunities for industry participants. The COLING 2014 organising
committee is committed to working in close partnership with corporate
supporters to maximise the benefits of sponsorship and provide
opportunities for sponsors to engage appropriately with COLING
delegates. With this in mind, if you wish to explore additional options
for support or means of engagement with the COLING 2014 community please
feel free to contact sponsorship at coling-2014.org.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 20:49:03 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:49:03 +0100
Subject: Stage: Parametrage et evaluation d'un systeme de classification
 automatique de rapports de securite, Toulouse
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.214903.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:03:13 +0100
From: Ludovic Tanguy <tanguy at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <52FB8D31.4090104 at univ-tlse2.fr>

Stage de Master 2 / Ecole d'ingénieur : paramétrage et évaluation d'un
système de classification automatique de rapports de sécurité.

L'entreprise :

CFH (Conseil en facteurs humains)/SafetyDATA est une PME spécialisée
dans le traitement automatique des langues dans le domaine de la
sécurité. Elle travaille en collaboration avec CLLE-ERSS, un laboratoire
de linguistique, et plus particulièrement avec l'équipe TAL (Traitement
automatique des langues). Le stage sera co-encadré par CFH et le
laboratoire CLLE.

Contexte :

CFH a conçu un système de traitement automatique des langues dont le but
est d'analyser des rapports d'incidents afin de proposer une ou
plusieurs catégorie(s) pour leur indexation dans une base de données. Le
système est actuellement déployé et analyse chaque mois plusieurs
centaines de documents (en français et en anglais) à l'aide de règles
apprises automatiquement et basées sur le repérage de certains termes
dans les rapports analysés. Voir plus de détails sur
http://www.safety-data-analysis.com/

Le stage vise l'évolution de ce système de classification, notamment en
envisageant l'utilisation d'un système d'apprentissage supervisé
statistique. L'objectif de ce stage est double :

1/ Identifier et quantifier le gain apporté par l'utilisation d'un
   modèle statistique (SVM, régression logistique, réseau bayésien,
   etc.) par rapport au système actuel ;

2/ Mesurer l'impact sur les performances du système des différents
   traitements linguistiques appliqués aux documents avant leur analyse
   (correction des erreurs, normalisation des formes de surface,
   identification d'expressions complexes, utilisation de classes
   sémantiques, etc.).

Profil recherché :

Étudiant en deuxième année de master ou dernière année d'école
d'ingénieur, en informatique ou traitement automatique des langues.

Compétences requises :

Systèmes de classification automatique par apprentissage
artificiel. L'étudiant doit connaître le fonctionnement de ces systèmes
et être autonome quant à leur utilisation et évaluation (scripts,
gestion de données volumineuses, etc.)
On attend également de l'étudiant une capacité à observer les données et
à s'intégrer dans un environnement interdisciplinaire.

Détails :

- stage conventionné et rémunéré basé à Toulouse
- durée : 4 à 6 mois à partir de mars

Contact :

Céline Raynal raynal at conseil-fh.fr
Ludovic Tanguy tanguy at univ-tlse2.fr



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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 20:55:23 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:55:23 +0100
Subject: Appel: SEPLN 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.215523.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:28:44 +0100
From: Horacio Saggion <horacio.saggion at upf.edu>
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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.

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

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

Deadline for full papers, demos, and projects: 10th April 2014

Notifications: 26th May 2014

Camera Ready: 7th June 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:01:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:01:10 +0100
Subject: Job: Professeur en informatique,
 UFR Mathematiques et Informatique, Universite de Lorraine,
 Modification du profil
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.220110.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:12:37 +0100
From: smaili <Kamel.Smaili at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <52FB9D75.9050402 at loria.fr>
X-url: http://www.loria.fr/la-recherche/departements/traitement-automatique-des-langues-et-des-connaissances


L'UFR Mathématiques et Informatique et le LORIA de l'UL proposent un
poste de professeur en informatique dont les profils enseignement et
recherche sont donnés ci-dessous.  Par ailleurs, nous organisons à l'UFR
MI le 19 mars une journée de présentation où les candidats qui le
souhaitent viendront présenter leurs dossiers devant les équipes
pédagogiques de l'UFR Mathématiques et Informatique.

Profil enseignement :

Le professeur doit s'intégrer à l'équipe pédagogique de la licence et du
master sciences cognitives. Les sciences cognitives s'intéressent à la
compréhension de la pensée artificielle, animale ou humaine. Les
compétences recherchées vont donc de l'informatique aux sciences du
langage en passant par la biologie.L'UFR recrutera un professeur qui
possède un maximum de compétences liées aux sciences cognitives et qui
pourrait intervenir dans les cours : aspects cognitifs liés à la
linguistique computationnelle, les neurosciences, la représentation des
connaissances, l'intelligence artificielle, l'intelligence collective,
etc. L'enseignant doit avoir une compétence et une expérience certaine
dans ce domaine pour être opérationnel dès la rentrée 2014-2015 où les
besoins pour nos formations sont importants. Le candidat s'intégrera à
l'équipe pédagogique et contribuera à la création de projets
innovants.Au niveau administratif, le candidat doit être en mesure très
rapidement de prendre des responsabilités lourdes : montage de nouveaux
diplômes, rédaction d'habilitation, direction de diplômes ou d'UFR.  Le
professeur recruté devra être un moteur dans les futurs projets que nous
sommes en train de mettre au point.

Composante/UFR : Mathématiques et Informatique
Référence UFR : K. Smaïli

Mots-clés enseignement : sciences cognitives, traitement automatique des
langues, neurosciences, intelligence artificielle

Profil recherche :

Le professeur recruté effectuera sa recherche dans le Laboratoire
Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA). Il
devra s'intégrer dans le département 4 (Traitement des langues et des
connaissances)
http://www.loria.fr/la-recherche/departements/traitement-automatique-des-langues-et-des-connaissances.
Toutes les équipes du département sont concernées.  Ce département
étudie les trois domaines étroitement liés que sont les langues
naturelles, les connaissances et les documents.

Les thématiques autour des langues couvrent un large spectre et
concernent notamment la parole (analyse, reconnaissance, synthèse et
perception), la syntaxe (par de méthodes symboliques ou statistiques),
la sémantique et la représentation du discours.
Dans le domaine des connaissances, les travaux concernent, entre autres,
la représentation des connaissances et la formalisation du raisonnement,
la découverte de connaissances par l'utilisation de méthodes symboliques
ou numériques de fouille de données, les méthodes d'apprentissage et la
classification.
Concernant les documents, les principales thématiques sont la
reconnaissance de formes, la reconnaissance de symboles et la
modélisation de l'écriture manuscrite.

Les équipes concernées sont Cello, Orpailleur, Parole (Multispeech et
SMarT), Qgar, Read, Sémagramme, Synalp.


Mots clés

traitement automatique des langues, linguistique computationnelle,
grammaires formelles, traduction automatique, analyse/synthèse de la
parole, reconnaissance de la parole, modélisation articulatoire de la
parole, traitement du signal audio, séparation de sources sonores,
modèles probabilistes, fouilles de données complexes, apprentissage
symbolique et numérique, représentation des connaissances et
raisonnement, classification, reconnaissance de formes, modélisation de
l'écriture manuelle

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:19:39 +0100
Subject: Appel: Traitement automatique des langues africaines, TALAf 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.221939.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:34:37 +0100
From: Mathieu Mangeot <Mathieu.Mangeot at imag.fr>
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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

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  Fri Feb 14 21:21:54 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:21:54 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier IC&Sante, associe a la conference IC 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.222154.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:49:13 +0100
From: Sandra Bringay <Sandra.Bringay at lirmm.fr>
Message-Id: <428D889D-DA62-4520-BD59-81DEE14FB069 at lirmm.fr>
X-url: https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/

Atelier Ingénierie des connaissances et Santé
https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/

En association avec les 25èmes Journées francophones d'Ingénierie des
Connaissances, Clermont Ferrand, du 12 au 16 mai 2014
(http://www.irit.fr/IC2014)

Au cours des dernières années, le nombre de données médicales n'a cessé
d'augmenter suite à l’informatisation croissante des professionnels de
santé. Ces données restent trop souvent sous-exploitées. Les méthodes
d’ingénierie des connaissances proposent des solutions pertinentes pour
traiter toute la richesse potentielle de ces bases, même si des
questions d'éthique, de mise en place de solutions, d'acquisition et de
sécurité restent posées. L’atelier sera l’occasion de débattre des
verrous liés à la modélisation, la structuration, l'extraction, la
recherche et la fouille de données de santé de tous types. L’atelier
permettra de présenter des activités de recherche innovantes, des
méthodes, des technologies et des démonstrateurs développés aussi bien
dans le monde académique, dans les laboratoires affiliés aux structures
de santé et par des industriels impliqués dans le domaine de
l'ingénierie de connaissances.

L’objectif de cet atelier est d’offrir un cadre d’échange entre les
chercheurs, les industriels et les utilisateurs intéressés par les
dernières avancées scientifiques du domaine de l’ingénierie des
connaissances en Santé. On s'intéressera par exemple aux thèmes :

* Terminologies et Ontologies médicales : Interopérabilité des systèmes
  d'information en santé, indexation terminologique de la littérature
  médicale, de dossiers médicaux de patients et de récits cliniques,
  annotations de documents, formalismes de représentation, alignement
  d'ontologies.

* Usage du Web 2.0 en santé : Réseaux collaboratifs des praticiens de
  santé, patients et famille, réseaux bibliographiques dans le domaine
  médical, annotation sociale de ressources médicale 

* Traitement d'informations multimodales : Traitement du texte, image et
  son, classification et intégration de contenus médicaux multimodaux,
  multi-sources

* Extraction de connaissances à partir de contenus médicaux :
  Anonymisation, extraction d'entités nommées, de variable et/ou
  indicateurs pathologiques, recherche de corrélations, fouille de
  données médicales

* Systèmes d'information en santé : Représentation, traitement et accès
  aux informations et des connaissances en santé, Systèmes d'information
  décisionnels de santé, Gestion des dossiers médicaux de patients,
  Personnalisation et santé.


Nous faisons appel aux chercheurs et aux experts du domaine pour qu’ils
présentent leurs travaux. Nous encourageons également les jeunes
chercheurs et les industriels intéressés par ces questions à participer
à cette manifestation et à se faire connaître. Chaque soumission fera
l’objet d’une évaluation par plusieurs re-lecteurs du comité de
programme. L’atelier est ouvert à la présentation de travaux de
différents stades d'avancement.

Site web de l'atelier : 
--------------------------
https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/

Soumissions :
--------------------------
Les textes (soumission et version finale) doivent être rédigés en
français (en anglais pour les non francophones), de façon anonyme, sur 6
pages maximum en incluant toutes les références et les figures, au
format de la conférence Ingénierie des connaissances
(http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/16). 
Les articles sont à envoyer via le site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsant2014

Dates importantes :
--------------------------
* Date limite de soumission : 10 mars 2014
* Réponse aux auteurs : 31 mars 2014
* Versions définitives des contributions : 14 avril 2014

Organisatrices :
---------------------
* Sandra Bringay, LIRMM-UM3, http://www.lirmm.fr/~bringay/
* Nathalie Souf, IRIT-UPS, http://www.irit.fr/~Nathalie.Souf
* Lynda Tamine-Lechani, IRIT-UPS, http://www.irit.fr/~Lynda.Tamine-Lechani/

Comité de programme :
-------------------------------
Jérome Azé, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Audrey Baneyx, Sciences Politiques, Paris 
Catherine Berrut, LIG, Grenoble 
Sandra Bringay, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Jean Charlet, AP-HP & INSERM U1142, Paris 
Adrien Coulet, LORIA, Nancy 
Olivier Cure, LIGM, Paris 
Cedrick Fairon, Université de Louvain 
Natalia Grabar, STL, Lille 
Brigitte Grau, LIMSI, Paris 
Marie-Christine Jaulent, INSERM U1142, Paris 
Clément Jonquet, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Vanda Luengo, LIG, Grenoble 
Fleur Mougin, ERIAS - ISPED, Université de Bordeaux 
Pascal Poncelet, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, Montpellier 
Lina Soualmia, LITIS, Rouen 
Nathalie Souf, IRIT, Toulouse 
Lynda Tamine Lechani IRIT, Toulouse 
Maguelonne Teisseire, IRSTEA, Montpellier 
Mouna Torjmen Khemakhem, Université de Sfax, Tunisie 
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, Paris 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:20:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:20:31 +0100
Subject: Job: CDI linguiste-informaticien H/F, Eptica-Lingway
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.222031.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:36:55 +0100
From: Hugues de Mazancourt <hugues.de-mazancourt at eptica.com>
Message-Id: <8111AB85-F54E-4A54-9DDB-7CF69EA3FBE0 at eptica.com>



Poste à pourvoir en CDI
Localisation: Boulogne-Billancourt
Réumnération: en fonction de l'expérience

Eptica Lingway, filiale du groupe Eptica, développe et commercialise la
gamme LEA pour l'e-recrutement. Cette gamme comprend LEA CV pour
l'analyse automatique de CV, LEA Search pour la recherche sémantique
notamment d'offres d'emploi et de CV, et LEA Matching pour le matching
offres-cv.

Ces produits mettent en oeuvre des grammaires d'analyse, des
dictionnaires et un réseau sémantique multilingue adapté pour le monde
du recrutement. Il met en œuvre des stratégies de recherche documentaire
spécifiques, notamment pour le matching offres-CV.

La gamme LEA est disponible en plusieurs langues européennes et
asiatiques.


Dans le cadre des évolutions de l'offre LEA, Eptica-Lingway recherche
un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) en CDI.


Au sein de l'équipe technique, le candidat aura les missions suivantes :
- participer à la conception, développement, maintenance des
  fonctionnalités linguistiques des produits de la gamme LEA,
- apporter une expertise aux problématiques techniques de nos clients,
- effectuer des analyses de corpus,
- effectuer le support de second niveau pour les clients ou partenaires,
- participer aux réunions de projet en cas de besoin,
- compléter et exécuter les tests de qualité des produits.

Compétences requises :
- Traitement Automatique des Langues (étude de corpus, moteur de
  recherche, grammaires locales, techniques de "machine learning"),
- Des connaissances en programmation/scripting (Java, Groovy, Perl, ...)
  et bases de données
- Maîtrise de l'anglais,
- Maîtrise d'autres langues européennes appréciée,
- Bonnes capacités d'analyse,
- Facilité à travailler en équipe.

Envoyer CV et lettre de motivation à hugues.de-mazancourt at eptica.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:04:25 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:04:25 +0100
Subject: Appel: Call for Demos, NLDB'2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.220425.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:16:32 +0100
From: Mathieu Roche <Mathieu.Roche at lirmm.fr>
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*******************************************

Call for Demos - NLDB'2014

18-20 June 2014 - Montpellier, France

http://www.nldb.org/

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

The 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to
Information Systems (NLDB?2014) invites submissions of demonstrations of
state-of-the-art research or industrial prototypes related to all
aspects of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems
field.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Applications of NLP in Information Systems
- Social Media and Web Data
- Big Data and Natural Language
- Semantic Web and Open Linked Data
- Question Answering (QA)
- Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing
- Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling
- NLP Applications (Opinion Mining, Information Extraction, ?)

Demo submissions will be handled online via the easychair conference
management system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2014demonstratio

Demonstration paper submissions should have 4 pages (LNCS format).
Developers should outline the design of their system and provide details
to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, originality, and
relevance to NLP in Information Systems.

The accepted papers for demos will be included in the conference
proceedings, to be published by Springer Verlag in the "Lecture Notes in
Computer Science" (LNCS) Series. The demos will be presented in a
special demonstration session. At least one of the demo submitters must
register for the conference, and perform the demo on site.

Important Dates:
- Demo submission deadline (firm): March 13, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2014
- Camera-ready paper due: April 7, 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:06:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:06:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier TALN SemDis 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.220620.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:42:24 +0100
From: Cécile Fabre <cecile.fabre at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <52FC8570.2090902 at univ-tlse2.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/semdis2014/


APPEL À PARTICIPATION
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'organisera 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 :
10 mars 2014 : diffusion des données de test
17 mars 2014 : date limite de soumission des résultats par les participants
7 avril 2014 : annonce des résultats

Soumission des articles pour les 2 tâches :
22 avril 2014 : envoi des articles
13 mai : notification
30 mai 2014 : 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  Fri Feb 14 21:17:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:17:19 +0100
Subject: Stage: Pretraitement de donnees textuelles pour un systeme
 d'analyse semantique, Strasbourg
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.221719.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:50:12 +0400
From: Yuliya <4arly at bk.ru>
Message-ID: <1392367811.166452886 at f389.i.mail.ru>
X-url: http://macaon.lif.univ-mrs.fr/


Sujet de stage en informatique
Prétraitement de données textuelles pour un système d’analyse sémantique

Entreprise : Rebuz SAS, Strasbourg
Durée : 2-5 mois
Niveau : M1-M2
Rémunération : 436,05 euros/mois
Contact : Mme Yuliya Goncharova,  4arly at bk.ru

Détails :

Rebuz est une société spécialisée dans l'analyse de textes pour la
veille économique. Le système original repose sur l'analyse sémantique
épaulée par des principes de la linguistique cognitive.

Le stage portera sur l'amélioration du module de prétraitement
existant. Ce sujet sera particulièrement intéressant pour les étudiants
souhaitant en apprendre plus sur le Traitement Automatique de Langues
(TAL) et sur la Recherche d'Information (RI).

Les tâches seront adaptées selon le niveau et les préférences du (de la)
candidat(e) sélectionné(e).
 
Objectifs du stage
* Révision du module actuel (écrit en Java)
* Nettoyage et optimisation du code
* Intégration de l'étiqueteur morphosyntaxique MACAON [1]
* Séries de tests et perfectionnement

Compétences recherchées :
- aisance dans la programmation en Java (un échantillon de code sera
  demandé)
- bonnes connaissances des tests unitaires (JUnit)
- bonnes capacités de travail en équipe
- rigueur
- responsabilité
- autonomie 
 
[1] http://macaon.lif.univ-mrs.fr/

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:23:35 +0100
Subject: Appel: Colloque international Langage et Analogie. Figement.
 Polysemie
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:52:51 +0100
From: Pierre-André Buvet <pabuvet at ldi.univ-paris13.fr>
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Colloque international
LANGAGE ET ANALOGIE. FIGEMENT. POLYSÉMIE
Université de Grenade, Faculté de Traduction et d'interprétariat
17-19 septembre 2014

La vitalité d'une discipline se mesure à sa capacité d'intégration des
sciences et des technologies de son époque. En linguistique, une large
part de l'innovation théorique se développe au contact de deux domaines
particulièrement productifs : les sciences cognitives et l'informatique.
Les premières découvrent un certain nombre de contraintes non
spécifiquement langagières que les modèles linguistiques ne peuvent
ignorer, sauf à renoncer à toute prétention réaliste au sens
psychologique du terme. La dimension sociale des langues elle-même ne
peut plus être pensée indépendamment du fait que les langues se
manifestent et se développent par l'activité des cerveaux singuliers des
locuteurs qui les parlent et les comprennent. Par ailleurs, au plan
technologique, les progrès de l'informatique permettent d'explorer des
quantités de données linguistiques toujours plus vastes dans des corpus
de plus en plus nombreux, et par conséquent d'espérer non seulement des
descriptions qui tendent à l'exhaustivité mais aussi un traitement
automatique du langage qui s'approche, au moins dans ses finalités, de
son traitement naturel. Les concepts d'analogie et de figement, auxquels
ce colloque est consacré, jouent un rôle essentiel dans l'articulation
des sciences du langage avec la psychologie cognitive et l'outil
informatique. Le rôle central de l'analogie dans la cognition humaine
est aujourd'hui bien documenté : l'être humain possède une capacité
beaucoup plus développée que d'autres espèces animales à percevoir, à
concevoir et à traiter une multiplicité de similarités pertinentes dans
son environnement, grâce auxquelles cet environnement lui apparaît à
chaque instant comme structuré, ou, en d'autres termes, catégorisé,
conceptualisé. Au plan linguistique, les processus analogiques sont
susceptibles d'impliquer des similarités sur au moins trois plans
fondamentaux : au plan du contenu, les similarités entre des entités
extra-linguistiques produisent des concepts qui donnent lieu ou bien à
une réification sémiotique sous la forme de dénominations, ou bien à une
unification procédurale au moyen de mots grammaticaux de sens
instructionnel ; au plan formel, les similarités entre les signifiants
produisent des régularités présentes partout où existe un paradigme ;
enfin, la similarité entre formes et contenus se traduit par le
caractère motivé des signes linguistiques, qu'il s'agisse de motivation
interne, c'est-à-dire d'iconicité au sens strict (imagic iconicity,
symbolisme phonétique, etc.), ou de motivation externe ou syntagmatique
(la motivation relative saussurienne, l'iconicité diagrammatique au sens
peircien ou encore l'iconicité des linguistiques cognitives
contemporaines, qui se manifeste dans les théories cognitives de la
métaphore et plus largement de l'embodiment). Or la plupart des concepts
mis en jeu en linguistique analogique -- dénomination, motivation,
iconicité, polysémie, etc. -- ont connu un profond renouvellement sous
l'influence des développements de la recherche en phraséologie. Et l'on
sait bien que le problème des expressions figées reste en linguistique
informatique un verrou technologique qui constitue un défi majeur de la
recherche contemporaine sur le traitement automatique du langage.
L'enjeu de ce colloque bisannuel, dont la première session s'est
déroulée en Tunisie en octobre 2012, consiste donc à croiser la
recherche en linguistique analogique et la recherche en phraséologie,
dans le but d'ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives dont le caractère
innovant soit fondé sur la pluralité des approches. La session 2014
accordera un intérêt particulier à la polysémie, dans les perspectives
de la linguistique analogique et de la linguistique du figement. Selon
la première, la polysémie constitue une situation intermédiaire entre la
configuration de l'isomorphisme (une forme -- un sens) et les
configurations disjonctives de l'homonymie (un signifiant pour deux
signifiés distincts) et du polymorphisme (un signifié pour deux
signifiants distincts). Le champ d'investigation principal porte donc
sur l'analyse qualitative de la similarité entre les acceptions des
polysèmes et sur le traitement cognitif des analogies que conditionne
cette similarité (pertinence d'un sens de base, existence d'un sentiment
métaphorique, etc.). Quant aux unités polylexicales, il est établi que
leur polysémie est restreinte par rapport à celle des unités
monolexicales, puisque les expressions figées sont constituées d'unités
saturées dans leur contexte immédiat et par conséquent que la variation
contextuelle liée à la variation polysémique ne peut jouer que pour
l'ensemble de l'expression. Il demeure que certaines expressions figées
sont polysémiques (ex. perdre pied) et par ailleurs que la question du
lien entre le sens littéral et le sens phraséologique des expressions
figées interroge les limites du concept de polysémie. Dans la
systématique générale des langues, une tension existe entre deux grands
principes d'économie cognitive : l'économie quantitative et l'économie
procédurale. Cette dernière est maximale dans les situations
d'isomorphisme (analogie diagrammatique) et d'iconicité (analogie
imaginale). Les systèmes sémiotiques sont en effet d'autant plus simples
dans leur fonctionnement qu'ils sont réguliers et d'autant plus aisés à
mémoriser qu'ils sont motivés. Cependant, à ces principes, s'opposent la
tendance à l'économie quantitative visant à réduire le nombre de signes
à mémoriser, tendance qui se traduit ou bien par la polysémie (analogie
entre signes fondée sur la similarité des signifiés), qui permet
d'augmenter le rendement cognitif d'un signe en lui donnant plusieurs
emplois, ou bien par le figement, qui permet de construire un sens
nouveau au moyen d'unités lexicales déjà disponibles, la séquence figée
étant le plus souvent motivée (analogie entre forme et contenu). L'un
des enjeux de ce colloque sera donc de chercher à mieux comprendre les
modalités de résolution de cette tension selon les langues et les
discours considérés. Plus largement, le colloque accueillera toute
contribution visant à éclairer les rapports entre au moins deux des
trois concepts interrogés : analogie, figement et polysémie.



Conférenciers invités
Xavier Blanco (Université autonome de Barcelone)
Mirella Conenna (Université Aldo Moro, Bari)
Christian Cuxac (Université de Paris VIII)
Maribel González Rey (USC, Saint Jacques de Compostelle
Jean-René Ladmiral (Université de Paris X)
Pedro Mogorron (Université d'Alicante)
Emmanuel Sander (Université de Paris VIII)
Olivier Soutet (Université de Paris IV)
Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University)
Comité d'honneur
Francisco Lodeiro González
Recteur de l'Université de Grenade
Angela Collado Ais
Doyenne de la Faculté de l'Université de Grenade
Antonio Chicharro Chamorro
Directeur du département de Linguistique Générale et Théorie de la 
Littérature de l'Université de Grenade
Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine
Directrice du Laboratoire CPTC (EA 4178), Université de Bourgogne
Eric Heilmann
Doyen de la faculté de Lettres et Philosophie de l'Université de Bourgogne
Comité scientifique
Didier Bottineau (Université de Paris X)
Samir Bajric (Université de Paris IV)
Carmen Mellado Blanco (Université de St Jacques de Compostelle)
Pierre-André Buvet (Université de Paris XIII)
Gaston Gross (Université de Paris XIII)
Georges Kleiber (Université de Strasbourg)
Juan de Dios Luque Durán (Université de Grenade)
Lucía Luque Nadal (Université de Cordoue)
Angel López García (Universidad de Valencia)
Aleksandar Mijatovic (Université de Rijeka)
Rosemeire Monteiro-Plantin (Université Fédérale du Ceará)
Julia Sevilla Muñoz (Université Complutense de Madrid)
Franck Neveu (Université de Paris IV)
Luca Nobile (Université de Bourgogne)
José Manuel Pazos Bretaña (Université de Grenade)
Thierry Ponchon (Université de Reims)
Christian Puech (Université de Paris III)
Dan Savatovsky (Université de Paris III)
Jean-Pierre Thibaud (Université de Bourgogne)
Thomas Verjans (Université de Bourgogne)

Les communications seront proposées en français

Elles doivent être envoyées à l'adresse suivante :
colloqueanalogie at gmail.com. Informations complémentaires disponibles sur
le site du colloque à l'adresse
https://sites.google.com/site/colloquelangageetanalogie/accueil-grenade-2014-1

Date limite de soumission (5000 signes + orientations bibliographiques) :
5 mai 2014 Réponse du comité scientifique : 30 juin 2014 
Remise des articles : 31 janvier 2015 au plus tard.
Publication des actes : 2015

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Mon Feb 17 14:25:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:25:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: TALN 2014, Extension de date limite
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:05:16 +0100
From: Philippe Blache <blache at lpl-aix.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


--> 	Extension de date limite de soumission
--> 	Nouvelle Date :	Jeudi 27 Février 2014
			---------------------


CALENDRIER
==========

1. Articles longs
    - Date limite de soumission : 20 février 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 14 avril 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 30 mai 2014

2. Articles courts
    - Date limite de soumission : 24 avril 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 22 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 30 mai 2014

3. Démonstrations
    - Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 10 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 30 mai 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 à
14 pages) et les articles courts (de 6 à 8 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
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  philippe.blache[arobas]lpl-aix.fr
  nadera.bureau[arobas]lpl-aix.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:50:56 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:50:56 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Data, digital methods and mapping social complexity,
 ENSCI, Paris
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.225056.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:35:45 +0100
From: Audrey Baneyx - Sciences Po <audrey.baneyx at sciencespo.fr>
Message-ID: <530399F1.6080804 at sciencespo.fr>
X-url: http://www.digitalmethods-seminar.org

Chère collègue, Cher collègue,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à participer au nouveau séminaire
de recherche conjoint du médialab (Sciences Po) et de la plateforme
CorTexT (IFRIS) "*Data, digital methods and mapping social complexity:
Visualizing social and semantic dynamics in the social sciences*". Le
séminaire sera hébergé par l'ENSCI à Paris et animé par une équipe de
chercheurs de Sciences Po et de l'IFRIS de février à juillet 2014.

Le séminaire est destiné à un public de doctorants, chercheurs,
ingénieurs et designers. Nos rencontres auront lieu huit jeudi
après-midis ainsi que deux journées complètes dans l'Espace Viénot de
l'ENSCI, située au rez-de-chaussée du 48 rue Saint Sabin, Paris. La
langue de travail sera le français, excepté lors des séances auxquelles
sont invités des chercheurs anglophones. Vous trouverez ci-dessous la
présentation du séminaire et le programme des sessions.

Nous serions heureux de vous compter parmi nous. Merci de nous faire
connaître votre participation en vous inscrivant directement sur notre
site : www.digitalmethods-seminar.org .

Bien cordialement

/Le Comité d'organisation/

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

Data, digital methods and mapping social complexity: Visualizing social
and semantic dynamics in the social sciences


*Présentation du séminaire*

Les cartes sont des représentations visuelles de l'espace. Ce sont des
images codifiées qui permettent de signaler la présence d'éléments sur
un territoire donné comme des objets, des zones ou des flux. L'art
cartographique a une histoire longue et riche. Initialement conçu pour
assister le déplacement des hommes et des biens, la carte vise à
représenter l'espace géographique en positionnant des éléments
graphiques sur une surface bidimensionnelle. En tant qu'outil figuratif,
la carte est rapidement devenu un instrument de recherche et de gestion.
De fait, la pratique cartographique a fortement marqué nos façons de
représenter, naviguer, comprendre, organiser et contester les espaces
que nous habitons.

L'avènement récent de l'informatique et des satellites a profondément
bouleversé la pratique cartographique. Les Systèmes d'Informations
Géographiques (SIG) permettent aujourd'hui de capter, stocker, manier,
analyser et gérer des données spatiales pour assister la science et la
prise de décision. Les satellites permettent de positionner et suivre
des mouvements sur l'intégralité du globe terrestre alors que des
millions d'utilisateurs accèdent à des cartes interactives via leurs
ordinateurs ou téléphones portables.

En parallèle à ces développements, un nombre croissant de chercheurs en
sciences sociales s'intéresse à la représentation de données
non-spatiales. Ces représentations sont régulièrement présentées comme
des cartes de territoires inconnus, capables de figurer l'émergence, la
stabilisation et la déstabilisation de phénomènes sociaux complexes. En
mobilisant des outils d'extraction, de traitement automatisé et de
visualisation de données provenant de sources hétérogènes (corpus de
documents, bases de données, données web), ces chercheurs espèrent
cartographier de façon dynamique des phénomènes sociaux à différents
degrés de granularité. La transition technique et épistémologique
ouverte par ces outils est parfois nommée /Humanités Digitales/. Ces
développements semblent particulièrement attractifs pour les chercheurs
intéressés par l'étude quantitative des phénomènes sociaux. Ainsi, ces
outils pourraient combler le fossé méthodologique qui sépare l'analyse
des interactions spécifiques de celles des structures globales.

Au vu de l'expansion constante de la production et de la circulation de
données numériques, il paraît essentiel pour les chercheurs en sciences
sociales de s'interroger sur ces nouvelles sources de données ainsi que
sur les outils et méthodes pour les analyser. Parmi ces dernières,
l'analyse de réseau permet de positionner les acteurs en visualisant
leurs interactions. Elle complète les analyses statistiques (régression,
analyse de correspondance etc.), offrant un nouvel angle pour étudier la
société /faite/ et /en train de se faire/. Une telle approche ouvre de
nouvelles perspectives pour de nombreux champs disciplinaires en
sciences sociales, allant de la sociologie des sciences et des
techniques aux sciences politiques.

Mais d'où viennent ces outils ? Le développement de logiciels de
traitement et de visualisation de données tels que Gephi, le CorTexT
Manager, Science Scape et Hyphe sont le fruit de travaux
interdisciplinaires, à l'intersection de la linguistique informatique,
du data mining, de l'intelligence artificielle, des systèmes dynamiques
et de la science des réseaux. Ces communautés ont travaillé sur des
problèmes variés comme l'extraction, le parsing, la désambiguïsation, le
clustering, le filtrage et la visualisation de données. De même, la
sémiologie graphique mobilisée dans ces logiciels se nourrit de travaux
en cartographie et en design. Ainsi, pour produire des visualisations
pertinentes, robustes et lisibles, les chercheurs en sciences sociales
peuvent se tourner vers des communautés de chercheurs et de praticiens
déjà structurées autour de problèmes et de méthodes spécifiques.

Notre séminaire vise à orchestrer la rencontre et favoriser l'échange
entre ces communautés (chercheurs en sciences sociales et sciences «
exactes », ingénieurs et designers) à travers la lecture, la
présentation et la discussion de textes académiques et non académiques,
de travaux d'invités et d'outils.


Vous trouverez en pièce jointe la feuille de route (en anglais) que nous
avons construite pour rendre compte des multiples questions et manières
de faire auxquelles sont confrontés les cartographes /en herbe/ de la
complexité sociale.


*Programme des sessions*

*Calendrier*

*27.02.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Viénot // 14:00-17:30*

Introduction

Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam)

*06.03.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Viénot // 14:00-17:30*

Mapping science and technology through structured data

Jean-Philippe Cointet (INRA)

*27.03.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Viénot // 14:30-18:00*

Digitized archives and distant reading

Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po)

*10.04.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Viénot // 14:30-18:00*

Natively digital data mapping

Nortje Marres (Goldsmiths University of London)

*24.04.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Viénot // 14:30-18:00*

Transformative interactions: web effects on social dynamics

/Invitations en cours/

*15.05.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Viénot // 14:30-18:00*

Visualizing complexity

Donato Ricci (Sciences Po)

*05.06.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Viénot // 14:00-17:30*

Spatializing data

Jacques Levy (EPFL)

*19.06.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Viénot // 14:30-18:00 *

Activism, journalism, decision-making : DMT's in practice

Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou (Regards Citoyens) & Data journaliste [à confirmer]

*10.07.14-11.07.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Viénot [à confirmer] // 9:30-17:30*

BarCamp

Avec la participation des équipes de la plateforme CorTexT de l'IFRIS et
du médialab Sciences Po

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:31:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:31:19 +0100
Subject: Conf: TOTh 2014, disputatio, 12-13 June 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.223119.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:32:04 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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TOTh 2014 - Disputatio
12-13 June 2014
www.porphyre.org/toth/
http://porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014/disputatio

"Harris et les immunologistes : un exemple à suivre ?"

Pr. Pierre Lerat - Université Paris XIII

Zellig Harris a fondé principalement ses analyses de discours sur un
mécanisme logico-linguistique universel : la prédication. Il a obtenu
des résultats particulièrement significatifs dans ses derniers travaux
(1988), qui portent sur des comptes rendus d'immunologistes.  Les
contraintes réciproques entre les types d'expressions prédicatives et
les types d'expressions référentielles requis par les discours
scientifiques et techniques sont fortes. L'intérêt de cette approche
conduit à poser deux questions : à la terminologie celle de la
prévisibilité des mots spécialisés, aux ontologies celle du travail sur
les schémas prédicatifs autrement qu'en termes de << relations
associatives >> parmi d'autres.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:52:28 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:52:28 +0100
Subject: Job: Research Assistant position on OBDA at the Free Univ. of
 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.225228.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:00:09 +0100
From: Diego Calvanese <calvanese at inf.unibz.it>
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Research Assistant position at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano/Italy
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The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data at the Faculty of
Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), Italy is
looking for a talented Research Assistant to work fulltime on

***  SPARQL Query Answering for Ontology Based Data Access
     and Ontology Based Data Integration ***

The position will be financed by the Large Scale Integrating Project
(IP) "Scalable End-user Access to Big Data" (Optique) [2], within the EU
7th Framework Programme (FP7).  The position concerns the design and
implementation of techniques for optimized SPARQL query answering over
virtual RDF graphs, obtained through R2RML mappings over relational
databases.

Requirements for this position are an MSc or preferably a PhD in
Computer Science, fluency in English, and strong Java programming
skills.  Some background on SPARQL, SQL, and OWL are also required.

During this project the applicant will have the opportunity to apply the
results of their research in challenging industrial use-cases involving
reasoning on Big Data, as provided by the Optique project and by the
user base of the -ontop- [1] framework for Ontology Based Data Access.

The position is to start in 2014 as early as possible.  The position has
an initial contract duration of 1 year, and will be extended for up to 3
years in case of mutual agreement.  Candidates interested in pursuing a
PhD in Computer Science where they combine applied and foundational
research, may also apply for enrollment in the PhD program of the
Faculty of Computer Science at FUB, starting in Winter 2014.

The position comes with a great location, Bolzano [3,4].  The Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano is located right in the center of one of the
most beautiful cities in the Alps, and consistently ranks among the top
locations in Italy for its living standard.  The region, South Tyrol, is
among the top destinations for Hikers, Mountaineers, Rock climbers,
Skiers, etc.  And last, as one would expect from any Italian location,
food in Bolzano is great.

Interested applicants should get in contact immediately with
Prof. Diego Calvanese (calvanese at inf.unibz.it),
Dr. Martin Rezk (mrezk at inf.unibz.it), or
Dr. Guohui Xiao (xiao at inf.unibz.it).
Please attach a detailed CV including a statement of interest, project
experience (if any) and up to 2 references (reference letters will be
requested directly from the referees).

[1] http://ontop.inf.unibz.it/
[2] http://www.optique-project.eu/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolzano/
[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=bolzano+italy&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:47:08 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:47:08 +0100
Subject: Job: Speech Data Evaluator,
 Google Speech Research (Multiple positions)
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.224708.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:49:33 +0000
From: Hadrien Gelas <hadrieng at google.com>
Message-ID: <CAF=dzfLZhCwpEEPEWm_WLDe1Dj1O3=5z88_QRJvy5HgFfhiHbQ at mail.gmail.com>


Bonjour,

Veuillez considérer l'annonce ci-dessous et, si possible, notamment pour
les personnes impliquées dans des formations, faire circuler ce message
auprès des étudiants ou autres personnes intéressées.

Merci d'avance,
Cordialement,
Hadrien Gelas

________________________________

Speech Data Evaluator for French

Job title:

Speech Data Evaluator for French (Multiple positions)

Linguistic Field(s):

   - Phonetics/Phonology
   - Semantics
   - Discourse Analysis

Job description:

As a Speech Data Evaluator and a native-level speaker of French, you
will be part of a team based in Dublin, processing large amounts of
linguistic data and carrying out a number of tasks to improve the
quality of Google’s speech synthesis and speech recognition in your own
language.

This includes:

   - classifying and annotating linguistic data
   - transcription
   - labeling text for disambiguation, expansion, and text normalization
   - providing phonetic transcription of lexicon entries according to
     given standards and using in-house tools


Job requirements:

   - native-level speaker of French (with good command of the standard
     dialect) and fluent in English

   - passion for language with good knowledge of orthography and grammar
     in the target language

   - a degree in a language-related field such as linguistics, language
     teaching, translation, editing, writing, proofreading, or similar


   - keen interest in technology and computer-literate (should feel
     comfortable using in-house tools and should have an interest in
     current speech, mobile and online technology)


   - attention to detail and good organizational skills


Project duration: 6-11 months (with potential for extension)

**This is not a permanent position but a contract position.**

For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in
English (PDF format preferred) with "Speech Data Evaluator [French]" in
the subject line.

Email Address for applications: DataOpsMan at gmail.com

Contact information: Ara Kim
Closing date: open until filled

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:36:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:36:13 +0100
Subject: Appel: IC 2014, Posters et demonstrations
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.223613.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:06:24 +0100
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <53023380.10006 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014

*Appel à soumissions pour la session Posters et Démonstrations des*

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

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*Dates importantes :*
Date limite de soumission : vendredi 28 février 2014
Date de notification aux auteurs : lundi 17 mars 2014
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La conférence d'Ingénierie des Connaissances fête cette année ses 25 
ans! Elle est le rendez-vous annuel de la communauté française et 
francophone qui s'intéresse aux problématiques liées à l'ingénierie des 
connaissances. Académiques et industriels s'y retrouvent pour échanger 
et réfléchir sur des problèmes de recherche qui se posent en 
acquisition, représentation et gestion des connaissances.
L'essor des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la 
Communication, et notamment des technologies du Web, dans l'ensemble de 
la société engendre des mutations dans les pratiques individuelles et 
collectives. L'Ingénierie des Connaissances accompagne cette évolution, 
en inventant les modèles, méthodes et outils permettant l''intégration 
de connaissances et de raisonnements sur ces connaissances dans des 
environnements informatiques. De fait, on constate aujourd'hui une 
omniprésence des connaissances, en même temps qu'un décloisonnement des 
communautés de recherche en Intelligence Artificielle pour répondre aux 
problèmes qui se posent. Ainsi, la construction des systèmes à base de 
connaissances fait appel à l'Ingénierie des Connaissances, au traitement 
automatique des langues, à l'apprentissage automatique et à la fouille 
de données; le traitement des connaissances associe Ingénierie des 
Connaissances avec recherche d'information, recherche opérationnelle, 
analyse de données; la modélisation des environnements informatiques, de 
ses acteurs humains ou logiciels, allie Ingénierie des Connaissances et 
systèmes multi-agents; enfin l'Ingénierie des Connaissances touche à des 
thématiques classiques dans les communautés de l'interaction 
homme-machine et des environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage 
humain pour placer l'utilisateur au centre des systèmes.
En plaçant l'utilisateur au coeur des systèmes informatiques, 
l'Ingénierie des Connaissances est sollicitée pour traiter la masse de 
données disponibles sur le web tout en assistant l'utilisateur pour les 
visualiser, contextualiser, expliquer, recommander, classer, prédire, 
approximer, sécuriser, fiabiliser, pour pallier à leur imprécision voire 
incohérence.

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*Soumissions*

/*Posters :*/
Sont concernés des travaux en cours ou au stade de résultats 
préliminaires de recherche ou appliqués. Les posters sont destinés à 
provoquer la discussion au sein de la communauté pour accompagner au 
mieux le démarrage des travaux présentés. Ils seront exposés dans un 
espace de discussion.

/*Démonstrations :*/
Une ou plusieurs séances de démonstrations seront organisées pour 
permettre aux participants de présenter leurs développements dans un 
espace de discussion. Ce peuvent être des maquettes, prototypes, outils 
finalisés, mais aussi applications industrielles et opérationnelles. Les 
propositions de démonstrations peuvent venir compléter une communication.

Des résultats peuvent donner lieu à une double soumission pour poster ET 
démonstration.
La soumission d'un poster et/ou d'une démonstration peut également venir 
en complément d'un article (long ou court) accepté à la conférence ou 
d'une présentation dans la session spéciale "Logiciels, Projets,
Industrie".

Les textes associés aux démonstrations et aux posters ne devront pas 
excéder 3 pages et devront respecter les styles de documents proposés 
pour la conférence : http://www.irit.fr/IC2014.

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


Les articles des posters et démonstrations acceptés seront inclus dans 
les actes d'IC 2014.

Pour les posters acceptés, le format de présentation sera A0 vertical.

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La conférence d'Ingénierie des connaissances est placée sous l'égide du 
collège IC de l'AFIA
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*Présidente du comité de programme :*
Catherine Faron Zucker (I3S, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis)

*Présidente du comité d'organisation :*
Catherine Roussey, (IRSTEA)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:59:02 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:59:02 +0100
Subject: Appel: Computerm 2014, COLING 2014 Workshop
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.225902.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:56:44 +0100
From: Thierry Hamon <hamon at limsi.fr>
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X-url: http://perso.limsi.fr/hamon/Computerm2014/



        4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology
                             CompuTerm 2014

                          COLING 2014 Workshop
               23rd or 24th August 2014, Dublin, Ireland
               http://perso.limsi.fr/hamon/Computerm2014/

Submission deadine: 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 or 24th 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, 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, UMIST & National Centre for Text Mining, 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  Tue Feb 18 21:36:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:36:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: Organisation de la Plate-forme IA de l'AFIA 2015 (date
 limite reponse 28 mars 2014)
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.223650.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:19:35 +0100
From: Secretaire AFIA <secretaire at afia.asso.fr>
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--- Merci de relayer ce message auprès des personnes intéressées ---

L'AFIA recherche un organisateur pour sa Plate-forme 2015 (période :
entre le 29 juin et le 10 juillet, montant d'inscription max : 300 euros
pour un événement de 5 jours, hébergement maximum de 4 conférences en
parallèle, nombre de participants envisagés : 300).

Si vous êtes intéressés par l'organisation d'un tel événement, merci de
contacter le bureau de l'AFIA (bureau AT afia.asso.fr) pour plus de
spécifications sachant que la date limite pour une réponse consolidée
est fixée au 28 mars 2014.

Pour avoir plus d'information, consulter :
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=146

le CA de l'AFIA

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:47:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:47:46 +0100
Subject: Conf: Online Registration to LREC 2014 now open!
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.224746.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:11:38 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
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X-url: http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/registration/
X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2014

[Apologies for multiple postings]

The online registration to the Main conference, the workshops and
tutorials is now open @ http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/registration/.
Contact: registration at lrec-conf.org

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


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:41:53 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:41:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: Special Track Computational Intelligence (ACM-MEDES 2014)
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.224153.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:12:18 -0500
From: "Ismail Biskri" <Ismail.Biskri at uqtr.ca>
Message-ID: <009501cf2c35$b43f7460$1cbe5d20$@Biskri at uqtr.ca>
X-url: http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=24

http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=24

Description 

What we call here Computational Intelligence is the study of data
mining, information extraction, knowledge processing, language
processing, discourse processing, and any area that relates to an
intelligent processing of language, information and knowledge. Until
recently this area has been performed by experts in computer science or
experts in artificial intelligence. In fact, there were many computer
applications in Computational Intelligence without any theoretical
support. Today, people working in such areas often work as members of
pluridisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, including, of course,
computer scientists and expert of artificial intelligence but also
mathematicians, statisticians, linguists, language experts,
philosophers, logicians, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists,
psycholinguists, anthropologists, etc. Therefore, Computational
Intelligence must become more connected to areas as cognitive science,
mathematics, statistic, linguistics, philosophy, logics, neuroscience,
etc. through the development of methods, strategies and algorithms for
all aspects of language processing, discourse processing, knowledge
processing, information processing, etc. These methods and strategies
can be seen according to their theoretical or practical significance.

The aim of this track is to present original works related to
computational intelligence. These works should focus either on practical
applications, or on results of theoretical foundations of the
discipline. We, therefore, invite authors for original papers
submissions for any work related to theoretical or practical aspects of
Computational Intelligence.

Topics of Interest

Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, the following areas:


* Philosophy of language and discourse
* Cognitive science
* Non standard logics
* Natural language processing
* Computational linguistics (lexicology; morphology; syntax; semantics)
* Information extraction
* Ontologies
* Knowledge processing
* Data Mining, Text Mining, Web Mining
* Information retrieval
* Web Semantics

Paper Submission 

Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using
 EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2014).

Papers are up to 6 pages and must be formatted according to the ACM
proceedings format which can be found here:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After
the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and
arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments.
Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final
decision.

Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact,
originality, technical soundness, and quality of
presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong
or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital
Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present
the paper.

The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the
ACM Digital Library and DBLP.

Important dates

* Full Papers Submission: May 12, 2014
* Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 13, 2014
* Camera – ready papers: August 07, 2014
* Special Track days: September 15-17, 2014

Special Track chairs 

Ismaïl Biskri 
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Canada 
ismail.biskri at uqtr.ca


Adel Jebali
University of Concordia
Canada 
adel.jebali at concordia.ca

Programme Committee (to be completed)

Ismail Biskri, Universite de Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada
Jean-Pierre Desclés, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France
Al Moatasem Alrahabi, Université Paris-Sorbonne Abu-Dhabi
Rim Faiz, IHEC de Carthage, Université du 7 novembre à Carthage, Tunisia
Adel Jebali, University Concordia, Montreal, Canada
Jean-Guy Meunier, Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada
Anca Pascu, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France
Christophe Jouis, Université Paris 6, France
Malek Mouhoub, University of Regina, Canada
Juan Manuel Torres Moreno, Université d’Avignon, France
Agata Jackiewicz, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
Marc Bertin, Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada
Iana Atanassova, University Concordia, Canada
Florence Le Priol, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
Sonia El Euch, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
Maria Antonietta Pinto,  Universita di Roma, Italy
Roger Nkambou, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Daniel Vanderveken, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada,
Candida De Sousa Melo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:48:48 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:48:48 +0100
Subject: Info: Prix de la these ATALA 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.224848.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:15:57 +0100
From: pap <pap at limsi.fr>
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Prix de la thèse ATALA 2014

Depuis 2011, l'ATALA, Association pour le Traitement Automatique des
Langues, décerne un prix de thèse pour récompenser des travaux
francophones d'excellence dans le domaine du TAL. Ce prix illustre la
volonté de l'ATALA de soutenir les jeunes chercheurs francophones et de
contribuer à la diffusion de leur travaux à l'ensemble de la communauté
du TAL.

Contrairement aux années précédentes, le prix 2014 n'est pas doté.
Peuvent candidater tous les docteurs ayant soutenu leur thèse de
doctorat dans une université francophone entre le 1er septembre 2011 et
le 31 décembre 2013 et n'ayant jamais candidaté auparavant au prix de
thèse ATALA.

Un jury d'une quinzaine de chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs couvrant
l'ensemble des domaines de recherche en TAL examineront les dossiers
afin de sélectionner le (la) lauréat(e).

Le (la) lauréat(e) recevra son prix au cours du colloque TALN 2014 qui
aura lieu à la Faculté Saint-Charles de Marseille, du 1er au 4 juillet
2014. À cette occasion le (la) lauréat(e) présentera ses travaux lors
d'une session plénière.

Date limite de soumission des dossiers : 15 mars 2014. 

Le dossier à fournir est constitué d'un CV (2 pages), des rapports de
pré-soutenance et de soutenance, et de la thèse.

Étapes

- Remplir le formulaire http://www.atala.org/_Prix-de-la-these_

- Envoyer une archive contenant le CV, les rapports et la thèse (ou bien
  une URL d'où l'on puisse récupérer les documents) à : pap at limsi.fr

- Annonce des résultats début mai 2014

- Remise du prix lors de TALN 2014

Jury: (En cours de composition)

Co-présidé par : Frédérique Segond (Groupe Viseo), Patrick Paroubek
(LIMSI-CNRS) et Charles Teissèdre (Université Paris-Sorbonne).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:30:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:30:17 +0100
Subject: These: Dhouha Bouamor,
 Constitution de ressources linguistiques multilingues
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.223017.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:54:56 +0000
From: SEMMAR Nasredine 202247 <nasredine.semmar at cea.fr>
Message-ID: <50CC12289F0C854FBFF134F270030CD71C49B57B at EXDAG0-B2.intra.cea.fr>

Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à ma soutenance de thèse réalisée au
sein du Laboratoire Vision et Ingénierie des Contenus (LVIC) et le
Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de
l'Ingénieur (LIMSI) intitulée : "Constitution de ressources
linguistiques multilingues à partir de corpus de textes parallèles et
comparables".

La soutenance aura lieu le vendredi 21 février 2014 à 14h00 au
LIMSI. Vous êtes également conviés au pot de thèse qui suivra.

Bien cordialement,

Dhouha Bouamor

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Le jury de soutenance sera composé de :

M. Reinhard Rapp, Professeur à l'Université de Mainz, Rapporteur
M. Eric Gaussier, Professeur à l'Université Joseph Fourier, Rapporteur
M. Philippe Langlais, Professeur à l'Université de Montréal, Examinateur
M. François Yvon, Professeur à l'Université Paris-Sud, Examinateur
M. Pierre Zweigenbaum, Directeur de recherche au LIMSI-CNRS, Directeur de thèse
M. Nasredine Semmar, Chercheur au LVIC - CEA LIST, Encadrant

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Résumé :

Les lexiques bilingues sont des ressources particulièrement utiles pour
la Traduction Automatique et la Recherche d’Information
Interlingue. Leur construction manuelle nécessite une expertise forte
dans les deux langues concernées et est un processus coûteux. Plusieurs
méthodes automatiques ont été proposées comme une alternative, mais
elles ne sont disponibles que dans un nombre limité de langues et leurs
performances sont encore loin derrière la qualité des traductions
manuelles. Notre travail porte sur l'extraction de ces lexiques
bilingues à partir de corpus de textes parallèles et comparables.

En nous basant sur des corpus parallèles, nous présentons une approche
qui porte sur le traitement d’expressions polylexicales, allant de leur
acquisition automatique à leur intégration dans un système de traduction
automatique statistique.

Pour les corpus comparables, nous proposons deux nouvelles approches
dont le but est d’extraire des lexiques bilingues spécialisés dans les
domaines de la finance des entreprises, du cancer du sein, de l’énergie
éolienne et de la technologie mobile. La première approche étend
l’approche distributionnelle par un processus de désambiguïsation
lexicale. La deuxième approche repose sur Wikipédia et l’analyse
explicite sémantique. L’originalité de cette approche réside dans le
fait que, au lieu de considérer l’espace des mots d’un corpus pour la
représentation des mots que l’on souhaite traduire, ces derniers sont
représentés dans l’espace des titres des articles de Wikipédia. Ces deux
approches se comparent favorablement aux méthodes existantes dans la
plupart des configurations.

Mots clés : extraction de lexique bilingue, corpus parallèle, corpus
comparable, alignement, traduction automatique statistique.

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Abstract:

Bilingual lexicons are central components of machine translation and
cross-lingual information retrieval systems. Their manual construction
requires extensive expertise in both languages involved and it is a
costly process. Several automatic methods were proposed as an
alternative but they often rely of resources available in a limited
number of languages and their performances are still far behind the
quality of manual translations. Our work concerns bilingual lexicon
extraction from multilingual parallel and comparable corpora.

Based on parallel corpora, we present an approach that focuses on
processing multiword expressions, ranging from their automatic
acquisition to their integration into a statistical machine translation
system.

For comparable corpora, we propose two new approaches that aim at
extracting bilingual lexicons specialized in the corporate finance,
breast cancer, wind energy and mobile technology domains. The first
approach augments the distributional approach by proposing a word sense
disambiguation process that keeps only the words that are more likely to
give the best representation of a word to be translated. Our second
approach is based on Wikipedia and its explicit semantic analysis. The
main originality of this approach is in the way words are represented:
instead of representing the words in a corpus words space, they are
represented in Wikipedia titles’ space. The newly introduced approaches
compare favorably to existing methods in almost configurations.

Keywords: bilingual lexicon extraction, parallel corpus, comparable
corpus, alignment, statistical machine translation.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:06:14 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:06:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: 7e Atelier BUCC a LREC,
 extension au 23/2 et numero special de JNLE
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.220614.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:41:02 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
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Veuillez excuser l'envoi multiple --- merci de transmettre aux collègues
intéressés
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DEADLINE EXTENSION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
============================================================
7th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA
Building Resources for Machine Translation Research
http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/
May 27, 2014
Co-located with LREC 2014
Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland)
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 23, 2014
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/

*** INVITED SPEAKER ***
Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania)
============================================================
MOTIVATION

In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in
comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language
engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use
comparable corpora as training data for statistical Natural Language
Processing applications such as statistical machine translation or
cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable
corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible
inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted
in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or
several languages that are comparable in content and form in various
degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and
observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine
such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of
great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.

The scarcity of parallel corpora has motivated research concerning the
use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected
according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or
language varieties. Non-parallel yet comparable corpora overcome the two
limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual
texts are much more abundant than translated texts.  However, because of
their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more
challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable
corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention:
while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward,
building a non-parallel corpus requires control over the selection of
source texts in both languages.

Parallel corpora are a key resource as training data for statistical
machine translation, and for building or extending bilingual lexicons
and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English-
French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary
debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the
creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the
Web. To exemplify such issues in a practical setting, this year's
special focus will be on Building Resources for Machine Translation
Research

This special topic aims to address the need for:

(1) Machine Translation training and testing data such as spoken or
    written monolingual, comparable or parallel data collections, and

(2) methods and tools used for collecting, annotating, and verifying MT
    data such as Web crawling, crowdsourcing, tools for language experts
    and for finding MT data in comparable corpora.

TOPICS

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

Topics related to the special theme:
* Methods and tools for collecting and processing MT data, including
  crowdsourcing
* Methods and tools for quality control
* Tools for efficient annotation
* Bilingual term and named entity collections
* Multilingual treebanks, wordnets, propbanks, etc.
* Comparable corpora with parallel units annotated
* Comparable corpora for under-resourced languages and specific domains
* Multilingual corpora with rich annotations: POS tags, NEs,
  dependencies, semantic roles, etc.
* Data for special applications: patent translation, movie subtitles,
  MOOCs, meetings, chat-rooms, social media, etc.
* Legal issues with collecting and redistributing data and generating
  derivatives

Building comparable corpora:
* Human translations
* Automatic and semi-automatic methods
* Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
* Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
* Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
* Rare and minority languages, across language families
* Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:
* Human translations
* Language learning
* Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
* Bilingual projections
* Machine translation
* Writing assistance

Mining from comparable corpora:
* Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
* Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words
  and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities, etc.

IMPORTANT DATES
February 23, 2014 Deadline for submission of papers (extended)
March 10, 2014 Notification of acceptance
March 27, 2014 Camera-ready papers due
May 27, 2014 Workshop date

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to be
announced on the conference website http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/ )
and should be submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/ Contributions can be short
or long papers. Short paper submission must describe original and
unpublished work without exceeding six (6) pages. Characteristics of
short papers include: a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a
negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application
nugget. Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original,
completed and unpublished work without exceeding ten (10) pages.

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the
authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.

Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the
workshop organizers.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse,
replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
Authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit substantially
extended versions of their manuscripts to an upcoming special issue on
"Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora" of the Journal of Natural
Language Engineering.

ORGANISERS
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France)
Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)
Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Aix-Marseille (France)

CONTACT
Pierre Zweigenbaum: pz (at) limsi (dot) fr

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
* Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
* Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, US)
* Caroline Barrière (CRIM, Montréal, Canada)
* Chris Biemann (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
* Kurt Eberle (Lingenio, Heidelberg, Germany)
* Andreas Eisele (European Commission, Luxembourg)
* Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
* Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France)
* Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
* Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
* Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
* Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France)
* Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada)
* Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US)
* Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France)
* Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US)
* Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
* Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
* Reinhard Rapp (Université Aix-Marseille, France)
* Sujith Ravi (Google, Mountain View, US)
* Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
* Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
* Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US)
* Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
* Stephan Vogel (QCRI, Qatar)
* Guillaume Wisniewski (Université Paris Sud & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
* Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:11:05 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:11:05 +0100
Subject: Job: Resident Academic Post in Human Language Technology, Malta
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.221105.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:06:40 +0100
From: François Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
Message-ID: <52FF3C30.9070000 at imag.fr>
X-url: http://www.um.edu.mt/hrmd/vacancies
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The University of Malta has just announced a resident academic post in
Human Language Technology within the Institute of Linguistics. This is a
tenured position. Applications will be received until February 28th,
2014.

This call is associated with the recently developed B.Sc. and M.Sc.
programme in Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technology,
and is part of an ongoing effort to strengthen the research and teaching
in this area within the Institute. Full details are available from the
following URL: http://www.um.edu.mt/hrmd/vacancies (see: Resident
Academic Post in Human Language Technology
(http://www.um.edu.mt/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/204259/Post_in_Human_Language_Technology.pdf).

Enquiries can be directed to Albert Gatt (albert.gatt at um.edu.mt ) or the
Institute of Linguistics (linguistics at um.edu.mt).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:18:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:18:10 +0100
Subject: Conf: LATA 2014, Madrid, Spain, March 10-14, 2014
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 11:59:41 +0100
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8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS

LATA 2014

Madrid, Spain

March 10-14, 2014

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/

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PROGRAM

Monday, March 10:

9:30 - 10:30 	Registration

10:30 - 10:40 	Opening

10:40 - 11:30	Helmut Seidl: Interprocedural Information Flow Analysis
                of XML Processors - Invited Lecture

11:30 - 11:45 	Break

11:45 - 13:00 	Alberto Dennunzio, Enrico Formenti, Luca Manzoni:
                Extremal Combinatorics of Reaction Systems

                Fernando Arroyo, Sandra Gómez Canaval, Victor Mitrana,
                Ștefan Popescu: Networks of Polarized Evolutionary
                Processors are Computationally Complete

                Liang Ding, Abdul Samad, Xingran Xue, Xiuzhen Huang,
                Russell L. Malmberg, Liming Cai: Stochastic k-Tree
                Grammar and its Application in Biomolecular Structure
                Modeling

13:00 - 14:30 	Lunch

14:30 - 15:45 	Béatrice Bérard, Olivier Carton: Channel Synthesis
                Revisited

                Daniel Průša: Weight-reducing Hennie Machines and Their
                Descriptional Complexity

                Manfred Droste, Stefan Dück: Weighted Automata and
                Logics for Infinite Nested Words

15:45 - 16:00 	Break

16:00 - 17:15 	Friedrich Otto, František Mráz: Extended Two-Way Ordered
                Restarting Automata for Picture Languages

                Sang-Ki Ko, Yo-Sub Han, Kai Salomaa: Top-Down Tree
                Edit-Distance of Regular Tree Languages

                Bertram Felgenhauer, René Thiemann: Reachability
                Analysis with State-Compatible Automata

17:15 - 17:45 	Coffee Break

17:45 - 18:35 	Leslie A. Goldberg: The Complexity of Approximate
                Counting - Invited Lecture

Tuesday, March 11:

9:00 - 9:50 	Sanjeev Khanna: Matchings, Random Walks, and Sampling -
                Invited Lecture

9:50 - 10:00 	Break

10:00 - 11:15 	Niko Beerenwinkel, Stefano Beretta, Paola Bonizzoni,
                Riccardo Dondi, Yuri Pirola: Covering Pairs in Directed
                Acyclic Graphs

                Eike Best, Raymond Devillers: Characterisation of the
                State Spaces of Live and Bounded Marked Graph Petri Nets

                María Martos-Salgado, Fernando Rosa-Velardo:
                Expressiveness of Dynamic Networks of Timed Petri Nets

11:15 - 11:45 	Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:00 	Bireswar Das, Patrick Scharpfenecker, Jacobo Torán:
                Succinct Encodings of Graph Isomorphism

                Matthias Gallé, Matías Tealdi: On Context-Diverse
                Repeats and their Incremental Computation

                Marcella Anselmo, Dora Giammarresi, Maria Madonia:
                Picture Codes with Finite Deciphering Delay

13:00 - 14:30 	Lunch

14:30 - 15:45 	Paul Tarau: Computing with Catalan Families

                Joan Boyar, Shahin Kamali, Kim S. Larsen, Alejandro
                López-Ortiz: On the List Update Problem with Advice

                Rob Gysel: Minimal Triangulation Algorithms for Perfect
                Phylogeny Problems

15:45 - 16:00 	Break

16:00 - 17:15 	Grégoire Laurence, Aurélien Lemay, Joachim Niehren,
                Sławek Staworko, Marc Tommasi: Learning Sequential
                Tree-to-word Transducers

                Dariusz Kalociński: On Computability and Learnability of
                the Pumping Lemma Function

                Slimane Bellaouar, Hadda Cherroun, Djelloul Ziadi:
                Efficient List-based Computation of the String
                Subsequence Kernel

Wednesday, March 12:

9:00 - 9:50 	Oscar H. Ibarra: On the Parikh Membership Problem for
                FAs, PDAs, and CMs - Invited Lecture

9:50 - 10:00 	Break

10:00 - 11:15 	Marius Konitzer, Hans Ulrich Simon: DFA with a Bounded
                Activity Level

                Shenggen Zheng, Jozef Gruska, Daowen Qiu: On the State
                Complexity of Semi-Quantum Finite Automata

                Vojtěch Vorel: Complexity of a Problem Concerning Reset
                Words for Eulerian Binary Automata

11:15 - 11:45 	Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:00 	Pascal Caron, Marianne Flouret, Ludovic Mignot:
                (k,l)-Unambiguity and Quasi-Deterministic Structures: an
                Alternative for the Determinization

                Zuzana Bednárová, Viliam Geffert: Two Double-Exponential
                Gaps for Automata with a Limited Pushdown

                Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Jari Stenman:
                Computing Optimal Reachability Costs in Priced
                Dense-Timed Pushdown Automata

13:00 - 14:30 	Lunch

15:45 - 17:45 	Sightseeing in Madrid by Bus

Thursday, March 13:

9:00 - 9:50 	Javier Esparza: A Brief History of Strahler Numbers (I) -
                Invited Tutorial

9:50 - 10:00 	Break

10:00 - 11:15 	Zeinab Mazadi, Ziyuan Gao, Sandra Zilles: Distinguishing
                Pattern Languages with Membership Examples

                Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Andrew Lohr, Sean Simmons,
                Brent Woodhouse: Computing Depths of Patterns

                Alexandre Blondin Massé, Sébastien Gaboury, Sylvain
                Hallé, Michaël Larouche: Solving Equations on Words with
                Morphisms and Antimorphisms


11:15 - 11:45 	Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:00 	Anton Cerný: Solutions to the Multi-Dimensional Equal
                Powers Problem Constructed by Composition of Rectangular
                Morphisms

                Enrico Formenti, Markus Holzer, Martin Kutrib, Julien
                Provillard: ω-rational Languages: High Complexity
                Classes vs. Borel Hierarchy

                Thomas Weidner: Probabilistic ω-Regular Expressions

13:00 - 14:30 	Lunch

14:30 - 15:45 	Haizhou Li, François Pinet, Farouk Toumani:
                Probabilistic Simulation for Probabilistic Data-aware
                Business Processes

                Daniel Bundala, Jakub Závodný: Optimal Sorting Networks

                Etienne Dubourg, David Janin: Algebraic Tools for the
                Overlapping Tile Product

15:45 - 16:00 	Break

16:00 - 17:15 	Luca Breveglieri, Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, Angelo
                Morzenti: Shift-Reduce Parsers for Transition Networks

                Gadi Aleksandrowicz, Andrei Asinowski, Gill Barequet,
                Ronnie Barequet: Formulae for Polyominoes on Twisted
                Cylinders

                Alexandre Blondin Massé, Amadou Makhtar Tall, Hugo
                Tremblay: On the Arithmetics of Discrete Figures

Friday, March 14:

9:00 - 9:50 	Javier Esparza: A Brief History of Strahler Numbers (II) -
                Invited Tutorial

9:50 - 10:00 	Break

10:00 - 11:15 	Hanna Klaudel, Maciej Koutny, Zhenhua Duan: Interval
                Temporal Logic Semantics of Box Algebra

                Pierre Ganty, Ahmed Rezine: Ordered Counter-Abstraction:
                Refinable Subword Relations for Parameterized
                Verification

                Matthew Gwynne, Oliver Kullmann: On SAT Representations
                of XOR Constraints

11:15 - 11:45 	Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:00 	Bernd Finkbeiner, Hazem Torfah: Counting Models of
                Linear-time Temporal Logic

                Claudia Carapelle, Shiguang Feng, Oliver Fernández Gil,
                Karin Quaas: Satisfiability for MTL and TPTL over
                Non-Monotonic Data Words

                Joachim Klein, David Müller, Christel Baier, Sascha
                Klüppelholz: Are Good-for-games Automata Good for
                Probabilistic Model Checking?

13:00 		Closing

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:12:40 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:12:40 +0100
Subject: Appel: Special session Interspeech 2014,
 Speech technologies for Ambient Assisted Living
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:44:06 +0100
From: François Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
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Dear colleagues,

Please find below the announcement of the Interspeech 2014 special 
session : Speech technologies for Ambient Assisted Living.

Special session at Interspeech 2014

Submission deadline: 24th March 2014

Singapore, 14-18 September 2014

http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=special_sessions.html#speech-technologies-ambient


This special session focuses on the use of speech technologies for
ambient assisted living, the creation of smart spaces and intelligent
companions that can preserve independence and executive function, social
communication and security of people with special needs.

Currently, speech input for assistive technologies remains underutilized
despite its potential to deliver highly informative data and serve as
the primary means of interaction with the home. Speech interfaces could
replace or augment obtrusive and sometimes outright inaccessible
conventional computer interfaces. Moreover, the smart home context can
support speech communication by providing a number of concurrent
information sources (e.g., wearable sensors, home automation sensors,
etc.), enabling multimodal communication. In practice, its use remains
limited due to challenging real-world conditions, and because
conventional speech interfaces can have difficulty with the atypical
speech of many users. This, in turn, can be attributed to the lack of
abundant speech material, and the limited adaptation to the user of
these systems.

Taking up the challenges of this domain requires a multidisciplinary
approach to define the user's needs, record corpora in realistic usage
conditions, develop speech interfaces that are robust to both
environment and user's characteristics and are able to adapt to specific
users.

This special session aims at bringing together researchers in speech and
audio technologies with people from the ambient assisted living and
assistive technologies communities to meet and foster awareness between
members of either community, discuss problems, techniques and datasets,
and perhaps initiate common projects.

Topics of the session will include:

     Assistive speech technology

     Applications of speech technology (ASR, dialogue, synthesis) for
     ambient assisted living

     Understanding, modelling, or recognition of aged and atypical
     speech

     Multimodal speech recognition (context-aware ASR)

     Multimodal emotion recognition

     Audio scene and smart space context analysis

     Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of
     assistive technology

     Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive
     impairments

     Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication

     Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications

     Language modelling for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
     text entry and speech generating devices

     Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field

     Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes

     Evaluation of systems and components.

Submission instructions:

Researchers who are interested in contributing to this special session
are invited to submit a paper according to the regular submission
procedure of INTERSPEECH 2014, and to select "Speech technologies for
Ambient Assisted Living" in the special session field of the paper
submission form.

Please feel free to contact the organisers if you have any question
regarding the special session.

Organizers:

Michel Vacher michel.vacher [at] imag.fr Laboratoire d'Informatique de
Grenoble,

François Portet francois.portet [at] imag.fr Laboratoire d'Informatique
de Grenoble,

Frank Rudzicz frank [at] cs.toronto.edu University of Toronto,

Jort F. Gemmeke jgemmeke [at] amadana.nl KU Leuven,

Heidi Christensen h.christensen [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk University of
Sheffield,

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:13:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:13:09 +0100
Subject: Job: Professeur en Informatique, Universite Aix Marseille
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.221309.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:10:21 +0100
From: Alexis Nasr <Alexis.Nasr at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <52FF835D.1070901 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>


Un poste de professeur d'informatique (CNU 27) sera ouvert pour la
rentrée prochaine à l'université d'Aix Marseille, au Laboratoire
d'Informatique Fondamentale (CNRS UMR 7279).

Le candidat recruté pourra soit renforcer une des thématiques présentes
du laboratoire en intégrant une de ses sept équipes, parmi lesquelles
l'équipe Traitement Automatique du Langage Ecrit et Parlé, soit y
apporter une nouvelle thématique, pourvu que celle-ci soit compatible
avec la recherche qui est faite au LIF.

La capacité d'un candidat à enrichir la dimension technologique des
recherches menées au LIF sera considérée avec intérêt : bien que la
majorité de ces recherches relève de l'informatique fondamentale, chaque
équipe développe également des projets plus technologiques en
collaboration avec des partenaires industriels, orientation qui est
soutenue par le laboratoire.

contacts recherche :
jean-marc.tablot at lif.univ-mrs.fr (directeur du laboratoire)
alexis.nasr at lif.univ-mrs.fr (responsable de l'équipe TALEP)

contact enseignement :
denis.lugiez at lif.univ-mrs.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:15:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:15:10 +0100
Subject: Q: Modele acoustique, SRAP
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.111510.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:59:41 +0100
From: Sahar G <enasahar at gmail.com>
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Bonjour à tous,

je cherche des informations ( cours ) sur le modèle acoustique,
notamment, les étapes d'apprentissage, les données nécessaires, les
techniques..

Je sollicite votre aide.

Merci :)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:14:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:14:22 +0100
Subject: Job: Junior Linguists (German) for NLP tasks
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:44:39 +0100
From: Thomas Meyer <thomasmeyer at google.com>
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Junior Linguists [German]

Job description:

As a Junior Linguist, you will be annotating and reviewing linguistic
data in German. You will also contribute to a number of other tasks to
improve natural language processing at Google.

There are five full-time contract positions available, at 40 hours per
week for a period of 12 months. You will be mostly working from home,
but in close proximity to our office in *Munich* for training and
subsequent intermediary meetings.

The tasks include:

   - annotating and reviewing linguistic data
   - labeling text with semantic, syntactic and morphological features
   - annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines
   - deriving NLP data for new and on-going projects


Requirements:

   - native-level speaker of German and fluent in English
   - degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics or similar, with
     knowledge of semantics, syntax, morphology and/or lexicography
   - ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; learn in-house tools
   - keen interest in technology and computer-literate
   - should have an interest in natural language processing,
     linguistics, linguistic resources
   - excellent oral and written communication skills
   - attention to detail and good organizational skills
   - ability to work independently from home with reliable internet
     connectivity


Project duration: 12 months

For immediate consideration, please e-mail your CV and a cover letter in
English (in PDF format) with “Junior Linguists [German]” in the subject
line to the following address:

 E-mail address for applications: AdvancedLinguistics at gmail.com

Application deadline: open until filled

Contact information: Linne Ha

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:27:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:27:31 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Olivier Cure, Traces Digitales, 6 mars 2014,
 Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:39:19 +0100
From: Nicolas Turenne <nturenne.inra at yahoo.fr>
Message-ID: <53064BD7.6010103 at yahoo.fr>
X-url: http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html

Chers collègues,

Dans le cadre de la seizième séance du séminaire 'traces digitales' du
groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Olivier Curé
(Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée) qui nous parlera nous parlera
d’ontologie.
Cette matinée aura lieu le jeudi 06 mars de 10h à 11h30, dans la salle
de réunion C219 du Latts (Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée - rue
Galilée, bâtiment du Bois de l’Etang - 2ème étage - aile C). Voir
http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html


10h-11h30 Olivier Curé (Maître de Conférence HDR, LIGM, Université 
Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)

Exploitation d’ontologies dans le cadre d’une application médicale pour
le grand public

Résumé : Dans cet exposé, je présente des travaux récents qui ont été
menés dans le cadre du développement d’une application d’automédication.
Cette application a pour objectif d’informer le grand public sur les
médicaments de prescription facultative et les symptômes associés.
L’application comporte de nombreuses fonctionnalités développées autour
de différentes ontologies exploitant les technologies du Web Sémantique,
e.g., requêtage et raisonnement. Cette présentation mettra en évidence
nos contributions, en particulier le développement et l’enrichissement
d’ontologies par induction, le support d’une nouvelle classe de
contrainte d’intégrité participant à l’améliorer de la qualité de
données.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:32:24 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:32:24 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Cours de Ted Briscoe (Evolutionary linguistics),
 mars 2014, ENS Ulm, Paris
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.113224.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:49:00 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
Message-Id: <85397E93-8406-46B0-B830-BD838EA30343 at ens.fr>
X-url: http://transfers.ens.fr/index.php/activites/professeurs-invites/495

Chers collègues,

Le laboratoire Lattice (http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/), avec le soutien du
labex Transfers (http://transfers.ens.fr/), accueille Ted Briscoe
(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ejb1/), de l’Université de Cambridge, pour une
série de cours qui seront donnés en mars à l’Ecole normale supérieure
(45 rue d’Ulm), sur le thème de la « modélisation de l’évolution des
langues » (« evolutionary linguistics »).

Les cours auront lieu aux dates et lieux suivants :

- mardi 11 mars, de 10h30 à 12h30 : salle Celan
- jeudi 13 mars, de 10h30 à 12h30 : salle R
- mardi 18 mars, de 10h30 à 12h30 : salle IHMC
- jeudi 20 mars, de 10h30 à 12h30 : salle R

Le programme est détaillé ci-dessous et à l’adresse suivante :
http://transfers.ens.fr/index.php/activites/professeurs-invites/495

Tout le monde est le bienvenu, dans la imite des places disponibles.

Bien cordialement,

Thierry Poibeau

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:25:05 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:25:05 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Julia Hirschberg, 18 mars 2014, BLRI, Aix-en-Provence
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.112505.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:28:47 +0100
From: Nadéra Bureau <nadera.bureau at lpl-aix.fr>
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18 mars 2014

11h Salle de conférences B011, bât. B 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence

(Labex BLRI)

Julia Hirschberg

(Columbia University)

Prosodic and Social Dimensions of Entrainment in Dialogue

Résumé : When people speak together, they often adapt aspects of their
speaking style based upon the style of their conversational partner.
This phenomena goes by many names, including adaptation, alignment, and
entrainment, inter alia.  In this talk, I will describe experiments in
English and Mandarin prosodic entrainment in the Columbia Games Corpus
and in the Tongji Games Corpus, large corpora of speech recorded from
subjects playing a series of computer games.  I will discuss how
prosodic entrainment is related to turn-taking behaviors and to several
measures of task and dialogue success.  I will also discuss experiments
relating entrainment to several social dimensions, including likeability
and dominance. This is joint work with Stefan Benus, Agustín Gravano,
Ani Nenkova, Rivka Levitan, Laura Willson, and Zhihua Xia.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:29:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:29:39 +0100
Subject: Job: TEMIS, Poste Consultant en solutions
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.112939.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:11:50 +0000
From: Sylvie Guillemin-Lanne <sylvie.guillemin-lanne at temis.com>
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TEMIS, éditeur de logiciel spécialisé en Text-Mining, recherche pour son
équipe Projets Innovants un consultant en Solutions Text-Mining,

Un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne)
Poste en CDD de un an renouvelable

Vous travaillerez au sein de l’équipe Projets Innovants sur des projets
partenaires, co-financés par le gouvernement français ou la commission
européenne.
Vous consacrerez 50% de votre temps , sous la supervision de l’équipe
R&D, sur les nouvelles fonctionnalités de nos produits, que vous
testerez et customiserez pour les besoins des Projets Innovants.


Vous avez un bagage linguistique confirmé en analyse de documents,
sémantique textuelle, fouille de données textuelles
Vous avez des compétences sur python/perl ou java vous permettant de
transformer des données textuelles pour les utiliser dans différents
outils. Vous aimez découvrir et apprendre de nouvelles techniques et
outils.
Vous êtes autonome, passionné, curieux et vous allez naturellement vers
différentes personnes pour trouver comment réaliser vos projets.
Vous avez un très bon niveau d’anglais.


Nous vous remercions d’envoyer votre CV et une lettre de motivation à
Sylvie Guillemin-Lanne,
sylvie.guillemin-lanne at temis.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:30:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:30:20 +0100
Subject: Soft: L'analyseur multilingue LIMA sous licence libre
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.113020.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:31:58 +0100
From: Gaël de Chalendar <Gael.de-Chalendar at cea.fr>
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L'analyseur multilingue LIMA sous licence libre

Le CEA LIST annonce la mise sous licence libre de son analyseur
linguistique LIMA, désormais disponible sous la licence Affero GPL v3
ici: https://github.com/aymara/lima/wiki.

LIMA (Libre Multilingual Analyzer) est un analyseur linguistique
multilingue développé par le laboratoire LVIC (Laboratoire Vision et
Ingénierie des Contenus) du CEA LIST pendant plus de 10 ans, selon un
modèle propriétaire. Le logiciel est désormais disponible selon un
modèle de double licence.

LIMA supporte l'ensemble des étapes de l'analyse linguistique
(morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique, entités, coréférences) selon une
architecture modulaire et hautement configurable, avec des performances
élevées aussi bien en vitesse qu'en qualité d'analyse. LIMA présente
aussi l'avantage d'avoir été conçu dès le départ dans le but de
l'intégrer à des solutions de qualité industrielle.

La version Libre est complète avec des modules de traitement et des
ressources permettant d'analyser des textes en anglais et en
français. Conformément à la licence Affero GPL v3, il est possible
d'utiliser LIMA librement tant que les logiciels qui y sont liés, qu'ils
soient distribués ou exécutés à travers le réseau, sont eux aussi des
logiciels libres avec une licence compatible.

La version commerciale est complétée avec des modules et des ressources
permettant d'analyser des textes dans de multiples langues
supplémentaires (allemand, arabe, chinois, espagnol, hongrois, italien,
...). Elle est disponible directement auprès du CEA LIST dans le cadre
de partenariats de R&D ou auprès de son partenaire ANT'inno, qui propose
des offres incluant le support du logiciel et l'adaptation de ressources
linguistiques à des besoins spécifiques.

Avec cette publication libre de son logiciel, l'objectif du CEA LIST est
de fournir une solution d'analyse linguistique utilisable aussi bien par
des chercheurs du domaine que comme outil de prétraitement de textes
dans des applications open source. L'adoption de LIMA par une large
communauté en permettra une amélioration plus rapide et robuste, aussi
bien d'un point de vue purement logiciel que scientifique.

L'intérêt pour les utilisateurs de la version Libre est de disposer d'un
outil de qualité industrielle dont les développements open source sont
supportés par un acteur pérenne (CEA). Concernant la version
commerciale, il leur est possible de librement tester et adapter LIMA à
leur usage avant d'en acquérir une licence commerciale.

Contact: Gaël de Chalendar gael.de-chalendar at cea.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:28:52 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:28:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: VarDial Workshop, COLING 2014
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.112852.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:49:25 -0300
From: Marcos Zampieri <marcos_zampieri at hotmail.com>
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Call For Papers

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

VarDial Workshop: http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/
DSL Shared Task: http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/sharedtask.html

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 aims to
provide a forum for scholars working on 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. We will
release a specific call for participation soon. 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 or 24th, 2014

Program Committee

Željko Agić (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. Forkada (University of Alicante, 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 (Nuance Communications, USA)
Francis Tyers (University of Alicante, Spain)
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 Ljubešić (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  Sun Feb 23 10:24:01 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:24:01 +0100
Subject: Appel: #di2014 - DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE, Sept. 17-19, Nantes, France
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.112401.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:25:32 +0100
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 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, Université Laval (Canada) / Frédéric
Benhamou, Université de Nantes (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


---------------------------- 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.

Both 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  Sun Feb 23 10:18:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:18:00 +0100
Subject: Appel: CICE-14
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.111800.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:05:10 +0000 (GMT)
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.

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 March 10, 2014
Notification of Paper, Extended Abstract, Case Study, Work in Progress
and Report Acceptance Date March 25, 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 www.ciceducation.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 09:03:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:03:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: Seven SIGIR=?WINDOWS-1252?Q?=9214_?=Workshops on emerging
 areas in IR
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.100350.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:00:45 +0000
From: Richi Nayak <r.nayak at qut.edu.au>
Message-ID: <032189CFEE6B094A8CB9DB0838786ADF052740 at ex10mb1.qut.edu.au>
X-url: http://sigir.org/sigir2014/

[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

The workshop program of the

    SIGIR’14: 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference,

    Gold Coast, Australia, 6-11 July, 2014

    <http://sigir.org/sigir2014/>


will host seven attractive workshops covering novel ideas and emerging
areas in IR:

* ERD’14: Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Challenge

http://web-ngram.research.microsoft.com/ERD2014/

The Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Workshop will be organized as
a challenge, where participants submit working systems that identify the
entities mentioned in text. The challenge will have two tracks, focusing
on long and short texts. All submissions will be evaluated on shared
datasets; part of the data will be withheld, to be used for the final
evaluation of all submitted systems to determine the winners. Each
participating team will be offered a spot at the workshop to present
their system.

David Carmel, Yahoo! Research

Ming-Wei Chang, Microsoft Research

Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Google

Bo-June (Paul) Hsu, Microsoft Research

Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research


* GEAR’14: Gathering Efficient Assessments of Relevance Workshop

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

Evaluation is a fundamental part of Information Retrieval, and in the
conventional Cranfield evaluation paradigm, sets of relevance
assessments are a fundamental part of test collections. In this
workshop, we wish to revisit how relevance assessments can be
efficiently created. Potential themes include methods for generating
assessments, the process of assessment, effort involved in assessing
different materials, exploration of the concept of relevance etc. A
discussion and exploration of this issue will be facilitated through the
presentation of results based papers and position papers on the topic,
as well as a group design activity.

Martin Halvey, Glasgow Caledonian University

Robert Villa, University of Sheffield

Paul Clough, University of Sheffield


* MedIR’14: Medical Information Retrieval Workshop

http://medir.dcu.ie/

Medical information is accessible from diverse sources including the
general web, social media, journal articles, and hospital records; users
include patients and their families, researchers, practitioners and
clinicians. Challenges in medical information retrieval include:
diversity of users and user ability; variations in the format,
reliability, and quality of biomedical and medical information; the
multimedia nature of data; and the need for accuracy and reliability.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in
medical information search with the goal of identifying specific
challenges that need to be addressed to advance the state-of-the-art.


Eiji Aramaki, Kyoto University, Japan

Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland

Gareth JF 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


* PIR’14: Privacy-Preserving IR Workshop — When Information Retrieval
  Meets Privacy and Security

http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~huiyang/sigir2014-pir-workshop/

Information retrieval and information privacy/security are two
fast-growing computer science disciplines. There are many synergies and
connections between these two disciplines. However, there have been very
limited efforts to connect the two. On the other hand, due to lack of
mature techniques in privacy-preserving IR, concerns about privacy and
security have become serious obstacles that prevent valuable user data
to be used in IR research such as studies about query logs, social
media, tweets, sessions, and medical record retrieval. This
privacy-preserving IR workshop aims to spurring research brings together
the research fields of IR and privacy/security, and mitigate privacy
threats in information retrieval by exploring novel algorithms and
tools.

Luo Si (Purdue University, USA)

Grace Hui Yang (Georgetown University, USA)


* SMIR’14: Semantic Matching in Information Retrieval

http://smir2014.noahlab.com.hk

Recently, significant progress has been made in research on what we call
semantic matching (SM), in Web search, question answering, online
advertisement, cross language information retrieval, multimedia
retrieval, and other tasks. Let us take Web search as example of the
problem. When comparing the textual content of query and documents, the
simple term-based approaches can fail when searcher and author use
different terms. A more realistic approach beyond bag-of-words, referred
to as semantic matching (SM), is to conduct deeper query and document
analysis to encode text with richer representations and then perform
query-document matching with such representations. The main purpose of
the workshop is to bring together IR and NLP researchers working on or
interested in semantic matching, to share latest research results,
express opinions on the related issues, and discuss future directions.


Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain

Hang Li, Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei, Hong Kong

Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

Jun Xu, Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei, Hong Kong


* SoMeRA’14: Social Media Retrieval and Analysis Workshop

http://www.cp.jku.at/conferences/SoMeRA2014/

The SoMeRA 2014 workshop will present and discuss cutting edge research
on all topics of retrieval, recommendation, and browsing in social
media, as well as on the analysis of user's multifaceted traces in
social media. In particular, novel methods and ideas that address
challenges such as large quantity and noisiness of user-generated
multimedia data, user biases, cold-start problem, or integrating
contextual aspects into retrieval and recommendation techniques are
highly welcome. The workshop will further foster the exchange of ideas
between different communities, in particular it aims at better
connecting the multimedia and recommender systems communities with the
information retrieval community. The workshop will feature both oral
presentations (full papers) and poster/demo presentations (short
papers).


Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Peter Knees, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore


* TAIA’14: Temporal, social and spatially Aware Information Access Workshop

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/milads/taia2014.aspx

Users provide an unprecedented volume of detailed, and continuously
updated information about where they are, what they are doing, who they
are with, and what they are thinking and feeling about their activities.
The provision of this stream creates an informal contract between the
user and the information access application in which the user will
provide the information, but the application must provide results that
are contextually relevant.  In this workshop we explore spatial and
temporal context in dynamic geotagged collections, such as Wikipedia,
and traditional news sources, as well as social media sites such as
Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook and Flickr.  To ground the workshop, and
provide a locus for discussion of the two aspects of user context, we
focus on event detection and recommendation.  Events are a natural theme
around which to center discussions of spatial and temporal context
because events are defined by their time and place.


Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research

Claudia Hauff, Delft University of Technology

Vanessa Murdock, Microsoft

Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam

Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft


Please look at the individual websites for the calls, and deadlines —
and participate in the discussion on the SIGIR’14 workshop day, on
Friday 11 July 2014, in the beautiful scenery of Gold Coast, Queensland,
Australia.


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 08:40:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:40:10 +0100
Subject: Sujet de these: Humanites numeriques, a pourvoir immediatement,
 Lattice
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.094010.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:28:36 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
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Bonjour, 

Suite à un désistement tardif, le Lattice dispose d’un financement pour
une allocation de recherche de trois ans, à partir d’avril 2014.

Le thème de recherche s’inscrit dans le cadre des « humanités numériques
» et de l’analyse automatique de masses de données textuelles (thème
possible : passage de documents papier vers un support numérique dans le
domaine de l’archéologie, traitement automatique des langues pour
l’analyse de documents littéraires, apport du traitement automatique des
langues pour les sciences humaines, etc.).

La thèse prendra en compte un ou deux cas d’études précis : il s’agira,
à partir de ces cas d’étude, d’envisager l’apport du numérique pour les
sciences humaines et sociales. On s’appuiera autant que possible sur des
masses de données importantes.

Conditions pour candidater :
- avoir un Master avec mention (Master 2 déjà obtenu)
- ne pas avoir déjà été inscrit en thèse

Compétences souhaitées :
- maîtrise des outils de traitement automatique des langues
- compétences en informatique
- intérêt pour les sciences humaines et sociales
- bonne maîtrise du français et de l’anglais
- qualité de rédaction

Pour candidater, contacter Thierry Poibeau (prenom.nom at ens.fr) dès que
possible (et dans tous les cas avant le 4 mars 2014) par mail avec un
bref descriptif du projet / des motivations, un CV et un relevé des
notes de Master.

Bien cordialement,

Thierry Poibeau
http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/Thierry-Poibeau

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 08:45:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:45:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier FondamenTAL, TALN 2014
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.094519.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:37:58 +0100
From: Marie-Hélène Stéfanini
Message-ID: <530A6A36.1010502 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://talep.lif.univ-mrs.fr/FondamenTAL


 TALN 2014, 21^ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues
                               Naturelles

                         APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS

                          Atelier FondamenTAL

  Les ressources lexicales de Jean Dubois et Françoise Dubois-Charlier

      Retours d?expériences et projets, et hommage à Paul Sabatier


         1^er juillet 2014, Faculté Saint-Charles, à Marseille


Depuis 2007, le site FondamenTAL
(http://talep.lif.univ-mrs.fr/FondamenTAL) créé par Paul Sabatier permet
au public de s?informer sur l?ensemble des ressources lexicales
numérisées de Jean Dubois et Françoise Dubois-Charlier. De nombreux
chercheurs et doctorants en Sciences du Langage et en TAL ont demandé au
site http://www.modyco.fr/Dictionnaires de leur communiquer les
différents dictionnaires. Ou bien ils se sont rendus sur
http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ Dubois pour bénéficier d?une interface de
consultation du Dictionnaire des Verbes Français (LVF).

Il y a eu déjà beaucoup de références à Les Verbes Français (LVF) dans
des publications et thèses de linguistique. De plus, deux numéros de
revue (Langue Française n° 153 et Langages n° 179-180) et un chapitre
d'ouvrage (Ressources Lexicales 2013, Gala & Zock ed.) contribuent à
faire connaître les travaux de Dubois et Dubois-Charlier. Une communauté
informelle des utilisateurs de ces ressources s?est constituée, qui aura
l'occasion, nous l'espérons, d'être en partie réunie à l'occasion de cet
atelier.

La finalité de l'atelier que nous proposons est triple :

    réunir les chercheurs ayant utilisé de façon significative les
    ressources de Dubois et Dubois-Charlier jusqu?à présent disponibles,
    pour faire avec eux un état des lieux de leurs recherches ;

    informer la communauté de la diffusion de ressources lexicales
    jusqu'à présent inédites à savoir : 1) une version, révisée par Paul
    Sabatier, de Les Verbes Français (LVF, 26.000 entrées) ; 2) un
    inédit, Locutions Verbales (LVF, 3.510 entrées), révisé par Paul
    Sabatier ; 3) un autre inédit le Dictionnaire Electronique des Mots
    (DEM ;145 000 entrées).

    rendre hommage à Paul Sabatier, en évoquant ses derniers travaux
    portant sur les derniers dictionnaires électroniques de Dubois et
    Dubois-Charlier.

Le Dictionnaire Electronique des Mots (DEM,145 000 entrées) est une base
de données lexicales du français qui constitue la synthèse des
différents dictionnaires de verbes simples, de locutions verbales et
d'adjectifs déjà connus de ces auteurs, augmentée de toutes les autres
catégories de mots, tant simples que locutionnels. Les auteurs en ont
déjà présenté les grandes lignes en 2010 dans Langages n° 179-180. Son
caractère à la fois exhaustif, rigoureusement systématique et
syntactico-sémantique, devrait intéresser bien des chercheurs en TAL,
d?autant plus qu?il aura été rendu disponible dans plusieurs formats
pratiques pour le traitement automatique.

L'atelier sera donc l'occasion non seulement d'évoquer des travaux ayant
porté sur les ressources déjà publiées de Dubois et Dubois-Charlier,
mais aussi de présenter le DEM et de détailler ses propriétés et modes
d'utilisation. De plus, le rôle important que Paul Sabatier a joué dans
le travail de révision de ces ressources sera largement évoqué.

Présidents de l'atelier

Denis Le Pesant, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense & MoDyCo
(CNRS)

Marie-Hélène Stéfanini, Laboratoire d?Informatique Fondamentale (LIF),
Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS

Comité de programme

Françoise Dubois-Charlier, Université d'Aix-Marseille

Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal, Laboratoire Recherche Appliquée en
Linguistique Informatique (RALI)

Danielle Leeman, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre & ICAR

Denis Le Pesant, MoDyCo (CNRS) & Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La
Défense

Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté

Marie-Hélène Stéfanini, Laboratoire d?Informatique Fondamentale (LIF),
Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS

Agnès Tutin, LIDILEM & Université Stendhal (Grenoble).


Modalités de soumission

1^ère étape : Soumission du résumé d'une communication (une page
maximum).
Les résumés seront adressés à denis.lepesant at orange.fr et
marie-helene.stefanini at lif.univ-mrs.fr avant le 21 mars 2014. Nous
annoncerons ultérieurement la durée des exposés, qui sera fonction du
nombre de communications acceptées.

2^ème étape : Envoi d'un article par les auteurs des communications
acceptées

Dates importantes

20 mars 2014 : soumission des résumés de communication
10 avril 2014 : notification de l'acceptation ou du refus de la
                communication

1^er mai 2014 : envoi de la première version des articles à
denis.lepesant at orange.fr et marie-helene.stefanini at lif.univ-mrs.fr

13 mai 2014: résultat de l'examen des articles

30 mai 2014 : réception de la version finale des articles

Les articles en français ou en anglais devront suivre le format d'un
article court de TALN 2014 (soit 6 à 8 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/).

Site de l'atelier : 
http://www.taln2014.org/site/ressources-lexicales-et-tal-vue-densemble-sur-les-dictionnaires-electroniques-de-jean-dubois-et-francoise-dubois-charlier/

Pour information : Site TALN 2014, 21^ème conférence sur le Traitement
Automatique des Langues Naturelles : www.taln2014.org

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 08:39:57 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:39:57 +0100
Subject: Appel: Natural Language and Computer Science, July 17-18, Vienna
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.093957.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:00:06 +0100
From: retore <christian.retore at labri.fr>
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Workshop on 
NATURAL LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (NLCS '14)
17-18 July, 2014 Vienna, Austria
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html

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

Paper submission deadline:	April 1, 2014

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:              April 1, 2014
Author notification:                    May 1, 2014
Electronic versions of papers due:      May 15, 2014
Workshop:                               July 17, 2014

INVITED SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE

Anne Abeillé (to be confirmed) 
Université Paris Diderot 
Aarne Ranta
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg

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  Wed Feb 26 08:49:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:49:09 +0100
Subject: Job: Postdoctoral fellowship on computational analysis of
 parliamentary text
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.094909.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:52:58 -0500
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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The Departments of Political Science and Computer Science of the
University of Toronto seek to hire a postdoctoral researcher for a
two-year term, beginning 1 July 2014, or as soon as possible.  The
successful applicant will join an international consortium of
researchers focused on the development of computational tools for the
analysis of political ideology in the recorded histories of
parliamentary debates in Canada, the Netherlands, and the United
Kingdom.  The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in a relevant field
of specialization (e.g., political science, computational linguistics),
as well as experience with the computational analysis of large datasets,
especially large corpora of text. Fluency in French and/or Dutch is an
asset, but not a requirement. The stipend for this position is $50 000
(CDN) per year, plus an additional 10% benefits package, which is
outlined at:
http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/postdoctoralfellows/Pages/Current-Postdocs.aspx.

The University of Toronto is situated in downtown Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, a large multicultural city in the center of an urban area with a
population of more than 5.5 million people.  The University of Toronto
is within walking distance of all of the amenities that a major
metropolitan center provides.

Applicants should forward a cover letter, a one-page description of
their research interests, a curriculum vitae, and the contact
information for three referees to both Professor Christopher Cochrane
(christopher.cochrane at utoronto.ca) and Professor Graeme Hirst
(gh at cs.toronto.edu).  Consideration of applications will begin on 1
April 2014, and continue until the position is filled.
 
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its
community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority
group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities,
members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the
further diversification of ideas.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 08:48:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:48:12 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.094812.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:39:51 +0000
From: John Judge <jjudge at computing.dcu.ie>
Message-ID: <530C8107.4040402 at computing.dcu.ie>
X-url: http://www.coling-2014.org


********** Apologies for cross-posting **********

Second (Main) Call for Papers - Coling 2014

COLING 2014
Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014

The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is
pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (Coling 2014), at Dublin City University (DCU, Dublin,
Ireland). DCU is a young, dynamic and ambitious university with a
mission to transform lives and societies through education, research and
innovation. Most of the local organisers are from CNGL, Ireland's Centre
for Global Intelligent Content (formerly the Centre for Next Generation
Localisation), which embodies the leading position of Ireland in the
global localisation/internationalisation business, a strong focus on
language technologies including machine translation, computational
linguistics and natural language processing, as well as on intelligent
management, search, retrieval, transformation and adaptation of content.

Coling will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural
language and computation. The conference will include full papers
(presented as oral presentations or posters), demonstrations, tutorials,
and workshops.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Coling 2014 solicits papers and demonstrations on original and
unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited
to:

- pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon;
- cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language
  processing;
- models of communication by language;
- lexical semantics and ontologies;
- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
- parsing, both syntactic and deep;
- generation and summarisation;
- paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;
- speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;
- multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
- information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base
  linking;
- machine learning for natural language;
- modelling of discourse and dialogue;
- sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;
- multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
- applications, tools and language resources;
- system evaluation methodology and metrics.

In all relevant areas, we encourage authors to include analysis of the
influence of theories (intuitions, methodologies, insights), to
technologies (computational algorithms, methods, tools, data), and/or
contributions of technologies to theory development. In technologically
oriented papers, we encourage in-depth analysis and discussion of errors
made in the experiments described, if possible linking them to the
presence or absence of linguistically-motivated features. Contributions
that display and rigorously discuss future potential, even if not (yet)
attested in standard evaluation, are welcome.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS

Papers should describe original work; they should emphasise completed
work or well-advanced ongoing research rather than intended work, and
should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results.
Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included.

Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical
strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to
the attendees.
Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new
material that has not been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted in parallel to
other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as
must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published
work.

REVIEWING

Reviewing will be double blind. It will be managed by an international
Conference Program Committee consisting of Program Chairs, members of
the Scientific Advisory Board and Area Chairs, who will be assisted by
invited reviewers.

Important Notice

[1] In order to allow participants to be acquainted with the published
papers ahead of time which in turn should facilitate discussions at
Coling 2014, we have set the official publication date two weeks before
the conference, i.e., on August 11, 2014. On that day, the papers will
be available online for all participants to download, print and read. If
your employer is taking steps to protect intellectual property related
to your paper, please inform them about this timing.

[2] While submissions are anonymous, we strongly encourage authors to
plan for depositing language resources and other data as well as tools
used and/or developed for the experiments described in the papers, if
the paper is accepted. In this respect, we encourage authors then to
deposit resources and tools to available open-access repositories of
language resources and/or repositories of tools (such as META-SHARE,
Clarin, ELRA, LDC or AFNLP/COCOSDA for data, and github, sourceforge,
CPAN and similar for software and tools) and refer to them instead of
submitting them with the paper, even though it will also be an open
possibility (through the START system). The details will be given in the
submission site for camera-ready versions of accepted papers.

[3] There will be a separate call for demonstrations. Accepted papers on
demonstrations will also be included in the proceedings.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

For Coling 2014, there will be one category of research papers only. All
of the papers will be included in conference proceedings, this time in
electronic form only.

The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus two extra pages for
references. Authors of accepted papers will be given additional space in
the camera-ready version to reflect space needed for changes stemming
from reviewers comments. Authors can indicate their preference for
presentation mode (i.e. oral or poster presentation) in the submission
form, and the reviewers will recommend an appropriate mode of
presentation to the program committee which will then decide. There will
be no distinction in the proceedings between research papers presented
orally vs. as posters.

Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymised with regard to the
authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on
the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style
as usual. Authors should also ensure that identifying meta-information
is removed from files submitted for review. Papers must conform to
official Coling 2014 style guidelines, which are available here
http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip. Submission and reviewing
will be managed online by the START system. The only accepted format for
submitted papers is in Adobe's PDF.

Submissions must be uploaded on the START system
(https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/main/) by the submission deadlines;
submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimise network
congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as early as
possible.

IMPORTANT DATES

February 2014: Opening of the submission website 
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/main/
March 21, 2014: Paper submission deadline
May 9-12, 2014: Author response period
May 23, 2014: Author notification
June 6, 2014: Camera-ready PDF due
August 11, 2014: Official paper publication date
August 25-29, 2014: Main conference


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 08:46:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:46:30 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2014 Student Session
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.094630.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:01:40 +0100
From: Ronald de Haan <dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at>
Message-ID: <CAChfj5sybsE8y3cj3kVFCBtPbOk3G33RdHef8=ukYWxYuy7ZnQ at mail.gmail.com>
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Please forward to students. Apologies for the multiple messages.

*2nd Call for Papers*
*ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION*

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

Tübingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014

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


*ABOUT:*
The Student Session of the 26th European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Tübingen, Germany
on August 11-22, 2014. We invite submissions of original, unpublished
work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language,
Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be
reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be
presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session
proceedings 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. Reviewing and ranking will be done
separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they
offer an excellent opportunity to present research in progress.


*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:*
All authors must be students, and submissions may be singly or jointly
authored. Submissions should not be longer than 8 pages for an oral
presentation and 4 pages for a poster presentation (including examples
and references). Submissions must be anonymous, without any identifying
information. More detailed guidelines regarding submission can be found
on the Student Session website:
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/ .


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

ESSLLI 2014 will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced
courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and
Computation. For further information, including registration information
and course listings, and for general inquiries about ESSLLI 2014, please
consult the main ESSLLI 2014 page: http://www.esslli2014.info/.


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  Thu Feb 27 09:38:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:38:39 +0100
Subject: Appel: Journee commune IA et TAL, 25 mars 2014
Message-ID: <THU.27.FEB.2014.103839.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:31:47 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
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Appel à soumissions
Appel à participation

Intelligence artificielle et traitement automatique des langues
Langue, apprentissage automatique et fouille de données

   Journée commune AFIA - ATALA
   Association française pour l'intelligence artificielle
   Association pour le traitement automatique des langues
   http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Journée+commune+AFIA+-+ATALA+2014

   Paris, 25 mars 2014
   Auditorium de l'INALCO

   Conférence invitée :
   François Yvon
   Méthodes statistiques en traitement des langues: État des lieux et
   perspectives

THÈME

Le traitement automatique des langues (TAL), visant à réaliser des
tâches relevant de la cognition humaine, a de longue date des liens avec
l'intelligence artificielle (IA). L'objectif de cette journée est de
renforcer les liens qui existent entre ces deux domaines, avec un accent
sur deux thématiques particulièrement actives :

* D'une part, l'apprentissage automatique a pris une large part dans les
  travaux en TAL, comme en témoignent les articles publiés dans les
  grandes conférences du domaine ou des ouvrages de synthèse comme le
  livre de Gaussier et Yvon (2011, 2012). Il s'agit surtout
  d'apprentissage supervisé, avec un regain d'intérêt pour
  l'apprentissage non supervisé et l'exploitation de grands corpus non
  annotés.

* D'autre part, la fouille de données est souvent employée pour explorer
  les corpus et acquérir des connaissances linguistiques et autres
  ressources pour le TAL ; elle est par ailleurs utilisatrice de TAL
  dans le cadre de la fouille de textes à visée applicative.

L'une comme l'autre peuvent aider à relever le défi des données
textuelles massives qui forment une part importante des « big data » et,
de façon tout aussi pertinente, à mettre au point des méthodes qui font
avancer le domaine.

Nous sollicitons ici des interventions qui présentent un état de l'art
ou un tutoriel sur les thématiques de l'apprentissage et de la fouille
de données en relation avec le traitement automatique des langues.  Des
présentations de ce type sur d'autres thèmes à l'interface entre TAL et
IA seront également considérées.


COORDINATEURS DE LA JOURNÉE

Pierre Zweigenbaum & Brigitte Grau (LIMSI-CNRS)

MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION

Les propositions d'intervention sont attendues sous la forme d'un résumé
d'une page au format texte à envoyer à : pz at limsi.fr

Date limite de soumission : 4 mars 2014
Date de notification : 10 mars 2014

Le corps du message doit contenir les informations suivantes :

Titre de l'intervention :
Nature de l'intervention : état de l'art, tutoriel
Auteurs :
Mots-Clefs :
Résumé ou plan de l'intervention :


COMITÉ DE PROGRAMME
(en cours de complétion)

Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI)
Thierry Charnois (LIPN)
Vincent Claveau (IRISA)
Gaël Dias (GREYC)
Éric Gaussier (LIG)
Brigitte Grau (LIMSI)
Alexis Nasr (LIF)
Isabelle Tellier (LATTICE)
Yannick Toussaint (LORIA)
Mathieu Valette (INALCO)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI)

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:19:48 +0100
Subject: Appel: revue TAL - Note de lecture (BUVET)
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.091948.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:59:15 +0100 (CET)
From: Denis Maurel <denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr>
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La revue TAL publie r?guli?rement des notes de lecture. 

Nous recherchons un coll?gue souhaitant lire le livre: 

"Pierre-Andr? BUVET. La Dimension lexicale de la d?termination en
fran?ais. Honor? Champion. 2013. 473 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 mars 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  Sat Feb  1 08:25:24 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:25:24 +0100
Subject: Appel: 15th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning
 (NMR 2014)
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:59:24 +0900
From: S?bastien Konieczny <sebastien.konieczny at gmail.com>
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  CALL FOR PAPERS

  15th International Workshop on 
  Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2014)

  http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/nmr14/

  Vienna, Austria, July 17?19, 2014

  Co-located with 

  KR 2014 [http://kr.org/KR2014/],
  DL 2014 [http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/dl2014/], 
  FLoC 2014, and Logic Colloquium 2014.

  NMR 2014 is part of the Vienna Summer of Logic 
  [http://vsl2014.at/]

______________________________________________________________________


* Aims and Scope *

The NMR workshop series is the premier specialized forum for researchers
in non-monotonic reasoning and related areas. This will be the 15th
workshop in this series. Its aim is to bring together active researchers
in the broad area of non-monotonic reasoning, including belief revision,
reasoning about actions, argumentation, declarative programming,
preferences, non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies, uncertainty, and
other related topics.

NMR will share a joint session with the 27th International Workshop on
Description Logics (DL 2014).


* Topics *

NMR 2014 welcomes the submission of papers broadly centered on issues
and research in non-monotonic reasoning. We welcome papers of either
theoretical or practical nature. Topics of interest include (but are not
limited to):

- abductive reasoning and diagnosis,
- algorithms and complexity analysis,
- argumentation and dialog, 
- answer-set programming,
- belief revision, belief update, and belief merging,
- benchmarks for non-monotonic reasoning,
- declarative programming for non-monotonic reasoning,
- default reasoning,
- empirical studies of reasoning strategies,
- foundations of non-monotonic reasoning,
- hybrid approaches (non-monotonic reasoning combined
    with other computing paradigms),
- inconsistency handling,
- implementations and systems,
- non-monotonic logics in multi-agent interaction, including
    negotiation and dispute resolution,
- non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies,
- reasoning and decision making under uncertainty,
- reasoning with preferences,
- representing actions and planning,
- causal reasoning, and
- similarity based-reasoning.


* Tracks *

To focus the different topics of submissions, the workshop comprises the
following thematic tracks:

1. Actions, Causality, and Belief Change;
2. Declarative Programming;
3. Argumentation and Dialog;
4. Preferences, Norms, and Trust;
5. NMR and Uncertainty;
6. Commonsense and NMR for Ontologies;

as well as the following special tracks:

7. Systems and Applications;
8. Benchmarks for NMR.


* Systems and Applications Track *

Recent years witnessed the development of mature solver technology for
some NMR based formalisms and, accordingly, successful real-world
applications.  This track welcomes papers on describing implemented NMR
systems as well as papers presenting applications of NMR formalisms and
systems. Topics of interest include pure system descriptions (providing
information on the basic functionality and usability of the respective
systems), the comparison and evaluation of NMR systems, NMR applications
in industry and academia, software engineering and modeling methodology
aspects, and reports from the field.


* Benchmarks for NMR special track *

The aim of the Benchmarks for NMR special track is to discuss the
construction of benchmarks for NMR. Benchmarks proved useful in a
variety of domains in order to develop efficient algorithms and
methods. They are for the moment insufficiently developed for main NMR
areas. We want to discuss this issue in NMR 2014. Typical questions of
interested could be:

- How to obtain benchmarks from real application cases? 
- How to build sensible random benchmarks? 
- How to export existing benchmarks in some formalism into
  other domains formalisms? 
- Etc.

Papers related to these issues, description of existing systems of
benchmarks, etc., are welcome.


* Submissions *

Papers should be between 4 and 10 pages in AAAI style
(http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) including
references, figures, and appendixes if any. System descriptions can
typically be on the lower bound of the page range.

Papers submission will be handled electronically by means of the
easychair system. Papers must be submitted in PDF only. The submission
page is available at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmr2014 

Papers already published at other conferences and that can be of
interest for an NMR audience are welcomed to NMR 2014, provided that the
initial publication is mentioned in a footnote on the first page.

Submissions will have to indicate to which of the above listed tracks it
is intended to belong to, as well as whether it constitutes new research
or recently published research.


* Proceedings *

There are no formal proceedings for NMR. The accepted papers will be
published as a technical report and will be made available in the CoRR
Computing Research Repository, see

http://arxiv.org/corr/home.

The copyright of the papers lies with the authors, and as far as NMR is
concerned, they are free to submit to other conferences and workshops as
well. Similarly, papers already published can be submitted (but this has
to be indicated in the submission).


* Important Dates *

Submission deadline: February 14, 2014
Notification: April 2, 2014
Camera-ready articles due:  April 25, 2014
NMR 2014: July 17-19, 2014

* Location *

NMR 2014 will be held at the Vienna University of Technology and is part
of the Vienna Summer of Logic,

http://vsl2014.at/,

which will probably be the largest scientific logic event in known
history.


* Workshop Chairs *

S?bastien Konieczny (CNRS, Universit? d'Artois, France)
Hans Tompits (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

* Track Chairs *

1. Actions, Causality, and Belief Change
	Renata Wasserman (Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brasil)
2. Declarative Programming
	Tomi Janhunen (Aalto University, Finland)
3. Argumentation and Dialog
	Paul E. Dunne (University of Liverpool, UK)
4. Preferences, Norms, and Trust
	Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
5. NMR and Uncertainty
	Lluis Godo (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
6. Commonsense and NMR for Ontologies
	Guilin Qi	(Southeast University, China)
7. Systems and Applications
	Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey)
8. Benchmarks for NMR
	S?bastien Konieczny (CNRS, Universit? d'Artois, France)

Email: nmr14 [at] kr [dot] tuwien [dot] ac [dot] at


* Homepage *

http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/nmr14/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:33:57 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:33:57 +0100
Subject: Stage: Offre de stage SNCF,
 Extraction d'informations sur les pratiques de mobilite
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.093357.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:52:57 +0100
From: "REUTENAUER Coralie (SNCF / DIRECTION SI2R / DIR I&R PRODUCTION)" <coralie.reutenauer at sncf.fr>
Message-ID: <17936745830A554B9A3D9540F41B312D02DF5B26 at se3p08bm045.COMMUN.AD.SNCF.FR>

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

Intitul? : Extraction d'informations sur les pratiques de mobilit?

La Direction Innovation et Recherche de la SNCF recherche un stagiaire
pour travailler sur un projet d'?tude de la mobilit? des voyageurs ?
travers l'analyse de donn?es textuelles.

*Activit?s du stage*

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

R?alisation d'une plateforme d'?tiquetage s?mantique de donn?es
textuelles pour l'analyse des pratiques de mobilit?.

*Th?me*
------------------------------

La soci?t? conna?t depuis quelques ann?es des changements majeurs dans
les pratiques de mobilit?, du fait d'autres formes d'organisation du
travail, de l'?mergence de nouveaux modes de transport,... Les voyageurs
s'expriment sur le web social ? propos leurs d?placements, aussi bien en
situation normale qu'en situation perturb?e. Les messages contiennent
des informations sur les activit?s des voyageurs, leurs particularit?s
sociologiques ou encore leurs motivations.

Une analyse s?mantique en fonction de tels crit?res est susceptible
d'apporter une meilleure connaissance des comportements, des besoins et
des attentes. Elle permet une compr?hension nuanc?e et diff?renci?e de
la mobilit?.

Le stage aura pour objectif de contribuer ? la mise en place d'une
plateforme d'analyse de donn?es pour l'extraction d'informations sur les
pratiques de mobilit?.

*Description *
------------------------------

Le stagiaire devra :

- prendre connaissance du contexte du stage (SNCF, Direction Innovation
  & Recherche, objectifs du stage et cadre de r?alisation, situation
  actuelle et interlocuteurs sur les sujets concern?s, ...)

- faire un ?tat de l'art des outils disponibles sur le march? en
  analysant leurs possibilit?s, leurs avantages et leurs inconv?nients.

- mettre en place une interface de gestion de la base de donn?es
  (collecte, structuration et interface).

- D?finir et impl?menter des m?thodes pour l'?tiquetage s?mantique des
  donn?es, en fonction d'une typologie qui lui sera pr?alablement
  sp?cifi?e

- Exploiter les r?sultats d'annotations et proposer des pistes
  d'am?lioration

Pr?sentations et rapports :

- pr?sentation de d?but de stage ? la SNCF (au bout d'un mois de stage) :
  contexte de stage, planning de r?alisation et premiers travaux
  r?alis?s.

- rapport final de stage complet comprenant : m?thodologie retenue,
  travaux r?alis?s, r?sultats obtenus et probl?mes rencontr?s...

2 soutenances de fin de stage : une ? l'?cole et une ? la SNCF.
Des pr?sentations en interne SNCF ou externes pourront ?tre effectu?es.

*Profil recherch?*
------------------------------

Niveau : De formation Bac+5 en Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel
ou Informatique (ing?nieur ou master 2).

Comp?tences souhait?es :

- Capacit?s d'analyse, de r?daction et de synth?se

- Autonomie, qualit?s relationnelles, qualit? de pr?sentation
  (orale/?crite).

- Manipulation et test des outils de TAL

- Connaissances en TAL et linguistique

- Bonnes comp?tences en informatique (programmation, gestion de bases de
  donn?es)

- Des connaissances en statistiques seront appr?ci?es.

 

Bonus :

   - Ma?trise d'au moins un langage de programmation (PHP de pr?f?rence)
   - Maitrise des expressions r?guli?res et du SQL

*Modalit?s du poste*
------------------------------

   - Dur?e : 4 mois
   - R?mun?ration pr?vue: indemnit?s de stage + carte de circulation SNCF
   - D?but : ? partir de Juin 2014
   - Lieu : Paris

Merci d'adresser CV et lettre de motivation ? Coralie Reutenauer ?
l'adresse mail suivante : coralie.reutenauer at sncf.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:21:11 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:21:11 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Conferences Nick Riemer, Universite Paris Diderot
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.092111.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:07:32 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
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Chers coll?gues,

Nick Riemer, Professeur ? l?Universit? de Sydney, chercheur invit? ?
l'Univ.  Paris Diderot, s?journera ? l'Universit? du 22 janvier au 22
f?vrier 2014, ? l'initiative de l?UFR de Linguistique et du laboratoire
d'Histoire des Th?ories Linguistiques (UMR 7597, CNRS/Paris
Diderot/Sorbonne Nouvelle).

Il donnera trois conf?rences:

- mardi 4 f?vrier (14h-16h): ? L?invariance, l?expressivit? et le sens :
  vers une typologie de la signification lexicale ? 
  conf?rence organis?e par HTL/ UMR7597 et le LaTTiCe/ UMR8094, ODG
  salle 209

- jeudi 6 f?vrier (12h-13h): ? Six reasons not to believe in the
  descriptive /expressive distinction ?
  s?minaire Linglunch, UFR Linguistique, ODG salle 533
  http://www.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/linglunch.html

- vendredi 14 f?vrier (13h-15h): ? La s?mantique mentaliste : enjeux
  ?pist?mologiques ?
  s?minaire HTL /UMR7597 et Labex EFL ? Linguistique et th?ories de
  l?esprit avant et apr?s l??mergence de la psychologie exp?rimentale ?,
  ODG salle 131

lieu : Universit? Paris Diderot, B?t. Olympe de Gouges (ODG) , rue
Einstein 75013 Paris

Cordialement,

Thierry Poibeau et Jacqueline L?on

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:40:44 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:40:44 +0100
Subject: Appel: 4th Workshop on Controlled Languages (CNL 2014)
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.094044.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:29:44 +0100
From: Camilo Thorne <cthorne at inf.unibz.it>
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Second Call for Papers

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

Co-located with COLING 2014

20-22 August 2014
Galway, Ireland

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

Proceedings in Springer LNCS.

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

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

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


Topics
------

Possible topics for CNL 2014 include:

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


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

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


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

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

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


Venue
-----

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


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

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


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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:43:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:43:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: IC 2014, 2nd appel a ateliers et tutoriels
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:51:08 +0100
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
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*2nd Appel ? Ateliers et Tutoriels des*

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

------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Dates importantes :*
Date limite de soumission des propositions d'ateliers et tutoriels : 7 
f?vrier 2014
R?ponse du Comit? de programme : 11 f?vrier 2014
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Les ateliers sont l'occasion de rassembler des groupes d'int?r?t sur un
sujet pr?cis, de lancer un groupe de travail sur un th?me nouveau, de
confronter, discuter et d?battre de diff?rentes approches autour d'une
probl?matique commune.

Les tutoriels sont l'occasion de former les membres de la communaut? 
d'Ing?nierie des connaissances ? des mod?les, m?thodes, techniques ou 
outils.

L'organisation de la conf?rence IC 2014 permet la tenue d'ateliers et de 
tutoriels le lundi 12 mai apr?s-midi et mardi 13 mai. Plusieurs ateliers 
en parall?le peuvent ?tre envisag?s. Un atelier peut durer une 
demi-journ?e ou une journ?e compl?te.

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*Soumissions*

Les propositions d'ateliers ou de tutoriels seront soumises pour avis au
comit? de programme d'IC2014.
Elles doivent ?tre envoy?es par courriel ? (faron at i3s.unice.fr).

Les informations suivantes doivent ?tre fournies :
- Titre de l'atelier
- Nom et pr?nom du responsable (contact)
- Adresse ?lectronique du responsable (contact)
- Comit? de pilotage (nom, pr?nom, adresse ?lectronique, page web pour 
  chaque personne)
- Texte de l'appel ? communications de l'atelier
- Moyens mat?riels requis
- Dur?e de l'atelier : 1/2 ou 1 journ?e compl?te
- Cr?neau(x) pr?f?r?(s) : Lundi apr?s-midi / Mardi matin / Mardi
  apr?s-Midi

Le responsable d'un atelier ou tutoriel sera responsable de la
communication sur celui-ci, notamment de la cr?ation d'un site web ou
d'une page du site de la conf?rence, de la diffusion d'un appel ?
communications, de l'organisation d'un processus de revue des
soumissions, de la notification aux auteurs, de la collecte des versions
d?finitives des articles accept?s et de la constitution des actes de
l'atelier. Il devra s'assurer de l'inscription des organisateurs et
auteurs ? l'atelier et encourager les inscriptions ? la conf?rence.

A titre indicatif, le calendrier des ateliers pourra ?tre :
- Diffusion de l'appel ? communication : 12 f?vrier 2014
- Date limite de soumission : 10 mars 2014
- R?ponse aux auteurs : 31 mars 2014
- Versions d?finitives des contributions : 14 avril 2014

Le respect de ce calendrier permettra de distribuer les actes des 
ateliers sur la cl? USB d?livr?e aux participants.

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La conf?rence d'Ing?nierie des connaissances est plac?e sous l'?gide du 
coll?ge IC de l'AFIA
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*
Pr?sidente du comit? de programme :*
Catherine Faron Zucker (I3S, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis)

*Pr?sidente du comit? d'organisation :*
Catherine Roussey, (IRSTEA)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:40:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:40:00 +0100
Subject: Soft: Public release of the OpenDial toolkit
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.094000.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:43:38 +0100
From: Pierre Lison <plison at ifi.uio.no>
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Dear all,

I?m pleased to announce the first public release of the OpenDial
toolkit! OpenDial is a Java-based software toolkit that can be used to
develop robust and adaptive dialogue systems for various domains.
Dialogue understanding, management and generation models are expressed
in OpenDial through probabilistic rules encoded in a simple XML format.

You can find more information about the toolkit on the project website:
		http://opendial.googlecode.com

The current release contains a completely refactored code base, a large
set of unit tests and a full-fledged graphical interface.  You can also
find on the website practical examples of dialogue domains and a
step-by-step documentation on how to use the toolkit.

Feel free to let me know if you have any comments or suggestions,

Pierre Lison (PhD Research Fellow)
Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
Mobile: +47.967.998.12
Web: http://folk.uio.no/plison

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:23:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:23:13 +0100
Subject: Appel: Final Call for SIGIR'14 Workshop Proposals (due Feb 3)
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.092313.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:15:25 +1000
From: Richi Nayak <r.nayak at qut.edu.au>
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X-url: http://sigir.org/sigir2014/

[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

This is the Final Call for SIGIR'14 Workshop Proposals:

- Deadline Monday 3 February 2014 (any time-zone)
- On any topic, in particular novel ideas and emerging areas in IR
- In a workshop format (not just presenting papers)
- Proposals in pdf, ACM style max. 4 pages
- Submit at (ttps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2014workshops)

Full details:
--
Call for Workshop Proposals

37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, SIGIR 2014 Gold Coast, Australia, 6-11
July, 2014

http://sigir.org/sigir2014/

* SIGIR 2014 Workshop Program

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new
research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques
in the broad field of information retrieval (IR).  Proposals are
solicited for workshops to be held at ACM SIGIR 2014 in Gold Coast,
Australia.  Workshops will last for one day and will be held on Friday
11 July 2014.  Workshop topics will typically match those identified in
the SIGIR 2014 general call for contributions, but proposals concerned
with other areas of IR are welcome.

SIGIR 2014 workshops will provide a platform for presenting novel ideas
and emerging areas in IR, in a less formal and possibly more focused way
than the conference itself.  The format of each workshop is to be
determined by the organizers, but it is expected that workshops will
contain ample time for general discussion and engagement by all
participants -- not just those presenting papers. Workshops that foster
collaboration, discussion, group problem-solving and community building
initiatives are particularly encouraged. Workshops that only involve the
presentation of papers in a "mini conference" format are discouraged.

Researchers and practitioners from all areas of IR are invited to submit
proposals for review.  The organizers of approved workshops will be
expected to define the workshop's focus, gather and review submissions,
and decide upon final program content. Organizers (including
co-organizers) are expected to attend their entire workshop and to
provide an article for ACM SIGIR Forum summarizing the event.

* Submission Requirements

Workshop proposals should include the following information:

     1. Title
     2. Motivation for the workshop and appropriateness to SIGIR.
     3. Theme and purpose of the workshop.
     4. Format and planned activities and a tentative schedule of
        events.
     5. Selection process for participants and/or presenters and maximum
        number of participants (if limited).
     6. List of organisers with a short biographical sketch of each
        organizer, describing relevant qualifications and experience.
     7. Names of potential program committee members.
     8. Related workshops (if applicable).

If the workshop has been held previously at SIGIR or another conference,
then the organizers should indicate this and describe briefly past
attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed.

Proposals should be submitted via the easychair workshop submission
webpage (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2014workshops)
in pdf format and should not exceed 4 pages in ACM style.

* Important Dates

     - Monday 3 February 2014: Workshop proposals due

     - Monday 10 March 2014: Notification of workshop acceptance [We try
       to notify 1-2 weeks early!]

     - Sunday 6-11 July, 2014: SIGIR Conference

     - Friday 11 July, 2014: SIGIR Workshops day

* SIGIR Workshop Co-Chairs

Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, Email:
sigir2014workshops at easychair.org Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research and
Bing, Email: sigir2014workshops at easychair.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:31:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:31:09 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, Eric de la Clergerie, 7 fevrier 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.093109.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:33:43 +0100
From: Marie Candito <marie.candito at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKCM-9EaXDzw5TYussvzKF_EFf0RTTLqPq_xLkD4d9u3E2HKpQ at mail.gmail.com>


************** 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 7 f?vrier

de 11h ? 12h30,

en salle 267

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.

***********************************************************
Eric de la Clergerie (Alpage, INRIA / Universit? Paris Diderot)

Titre : Analyse syntaxique statistique et hybride: 2 exp?riences

R?sum? :
Je pr?sente 2 exp?riences d'analyse syntaxique qui n'ont en commun que
de s'appuyer sur le syst?me DyALog.

La premi?re exp?rience, initi?e dans le cadre de la campagne
d'?valuation SPMRL 2013, concerne le d?veloppement rapide d'un analyseur
statistique de type Shift-Reduce (? la MALT) mais avec faisceau et
utilisation de techniques de programmation dynamique. Son autre
originalit? r?side dans la possibilit? de prendre des treillis de mots
en entr?e.

La seconde exp?rience s'inscrit dans le cadre du d?veloppement ?
long-terme de FRMG, un analyseur fond? sur une grammaire TAG symbolique
? large couverture pour le fran?ais. L'utilisation de techniques
d'apprentissage faiblement supervis? sur le French TreeBank (FTB) a
permis d'am?liorer fortement les performances du module de
d?sambiguisation de FRMG. Les r?sultats obtenus par cette hybridation
symbolique/statistique se situent au niveau de ceux obtenus par des
analyseurs purement statistiques entra?n?s et ?valu?s sur le FTB.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:28:11 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:28:11 +0100
Subject: Revue: Journal of Language Modelling 1(2)
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.092811.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:34:49 +0100
From: Adam Przepiorkowski <adamp at ipipan.waw.pl>
Message-ID: <87zjmdhkxy.fsf at bach.ipipan.waw.pl>
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It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 1(2) of the
Journal of Language Modelling, a free open-access peer-reviewed journal
aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational
linguistics:

http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/  (click on ?CURRENT? to see this issue).


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

"Populating a multilingual ontology of proper names from open sources"
Agata SAVARY, Leszek MANICKI, Ma?gorzata BARON 

"Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and
number use"
Dunstan BROWN, Greville G. CORBETT, Sebastian FEDDEN, Andrew HIPPISLEY,
Paul MARRIOTT

"Reactivation of antecedents by overt vs null pronouns: Evidence from
Persian
Niloofar KESHTIARI, Shravan VASISHTH

"Syntax-driven semantic frame composition in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining
Grammars"
Laura KALLMEYER, Rainer OSSWALD

"External reviewers 2012?2013"


The current make-up of the JLM Editorial Board is enclosed below.

Best regards,

Adam Przepi?rkowski
(for JLM editors)

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

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Steven Abney, University of Michigan, USA
Ash Asudeh, Carleton University, CANADA; University of Oxford, UNITED
  KINGDOM
Chris Biemann, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, GERMANY
Igor Boguslavsky, Technical University of Madrid, SPAIN; Institute for
  Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
  RUSSIA
Ant?nio Branco, University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL
David Chiang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM
Dan Cristea, University of Ia?i, ROMANIA
Jan Daciuk, Gda?sk University of Technology, POLAND
Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
Darja Fi?er, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
Anette Frank, Universit?t Heidelberg, GERMANY
Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, FRANCE
Jonathan Ginzburg, Universit? Paris-Diderot, FRANCE
Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, University of Tartu, ESTONIA
Laura Kallmeyer, Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf, GERMANY
Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KOREA
Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, FINLAND, Finland
Jonas Kuhn, Universit?t Stuttgart, GERMANY
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, ITALY
J?n Ma?utek, Comenius University in Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
Igor Mel??uk, University of Montreal, CANADA
Glyn Morrill, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, SPAIN
Stefan M?ller, Freie Universit?t Berlin, GERMANY
Reinhard Muskens, Tilburg University, NETHERLANDS
Mark-Jan Nederhof, University of St Andrews, UNITED KINGDOM
Petya Osenova, Sofia University, BULGARIA
David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Maciej Piasecki, Wroc?aw University of Technology, POLAND
Christopher Potts, Stanford University, USA
Louisa Sadler, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM
Ivan A. Sag?, Stanford University, USA
Agata Savary, Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais Tours, FRANCE, France
Sabine Schulte im Walde, Universit?t Stuttgart, GERMANY
Stuart M. Shieber, Harvard University, USA
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM
Stan Szpakowicz, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University
  of Ottawa, CANADA; Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of
  Sciences, Warsaw, POLAND
Shravan Vasishth, Universit?t Potsdam, GERMANY
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?, POLAND
Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto
  Alegre, BRAZIL
Veronika Vincze, University of Szeged, HUNGARY
Yorick Wilks, Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, ISRAEL
Zden?k ?abokrtsk?, Charles University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:46:21 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:46:21 +0100
Subject: Appel: Medias et bien-etre, discours et representations
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.094621.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 07:52:32 +0100
from: "Pascale Vergely" <pascale.vergely at u-bordeaux.fr>
message-id: <612-52ec9980-1-6511a680 at 8997611>


Appel ? communications

M?dias et bien-?tre : discours et repr?sentations

A la suite du colloque international "M?dias et sant? publique" organis?
par le laboratoire SPH de l?Universit? Bordeaux en octobre 2012,
l?Universit? de Bologne (DIT D?partement d?Interpr?tation et de
Traduction de Forl?) en partenariat avec les Universit?s Bordeaux et
Rome 3, en collaboration avec le Dorif Universit?, souhaitent poursuivre
les r?flexions entam?es en se focalisant sur la notion de bien-?tre.

A la fois physique, psychologique et sociale, la notion de bien-?tre
s?av?re centrale dans nos soci?t?s complexes. Sa d?finition, selon le
dictionnaire, souligne qu?il s?agit autant d?une ? sensation agr?able
procur?e par la satisfaction de besoins physiques ? et par l?? absence
de tensions psychologiques ?, que d?une ? situation mat?rielle qui
permet de satisfaire les besoins de l?existence ?.

Dans ce colloque nous entendons privil?gier les dimensions du bien-?tre
centr?es sur la sant?, que ce soit dans le domaine de la nutrition
(r?gimes, produits et cuisine bio-, produits naturels?), du sport
(gymnastique de forme ou l'entra?nement physique) et des th?rapies
(stations thermales, m?decine non conventionnelle, m?decine douce,
produits param?dicaux?). L?id?al normatif ou l?injonction sociale de
rechercher un ?tat de ? bien-?tre ? seront ?galement interrog?s.

Le colloque qui sera organis? ? Forl? les 16 et 17 octobre 2014 vise ?
r?unir des chercheurs d?horizons diff?rents (en Linguistique et Sciences
du Langage, en Traductologie, en Sciences de l?Information et de la
Communication, en Sociologie, en Philosophie?), ainsi que des
professionnels de la sant? et du bien-?tre et des m?dias, afin de
croiser leurs r?flexions sur les textes et discours li?s au bien-?tre.

Les communications - en fran?ais ou en italien - pourront s?articuler
autour des axes suivants (liste non exhaustive) :

La traduction et la traductologie : 

- La traduction de textes centr?s sur le bien-?tre : questions
  th?oriques et strat?gies de traduction.

- Traduction et genres textuels en rapport au bien-?tre : quelles
  strat?gies pour une grande vari?t? de genres, des textes scientifiques
  r?dig?s par les sp?cialistes aux textes ? vis?e promotionnelle ou
  vulgarisatrice.

- La traduction de textes centr?s sur le bien-?tre entre sciences dures
  et sciences humaines : des probl?matiques terminologiques aux enjeux
  stylistiques.

- La localisation de sites consacr?s au bien-?tre dans diff?rentes
  langues et cultures.

- Quelle formation pour le traducteur de textes d?une si grande vari?t?
  et h?t?rog?n?it? linguistique, discursive et culturelle ?

L?analyse du discours : 

- Le(s) discours et les textes ? propos du bien-?tre : quelles relations
  entre situation d??nonciation, interdiscours et formation
  sociodiscursive ? Quelles strat?gies rh?toriques sont mises en ?uvre ?

- Comment traiter l?h?t?rog?n?it? des supports des textes et des
  discours (publicit?s, cartels, murs, ?crans, documents audio-visuels
  et de l?internet?) ? propos du bien-?tre et quels rapports
  entretiennent-ils avec le contexte environnemental ?

- Quels liens existe-t-il entre l?axe de l?intentionnalit? (axe de
  production) et l?axe de l?acceptabilit? (axe de la
  r?ception-interpr?tation) pour ces discours et textes ?

- Est-ce que les discours scientifiques transforment les subjectivit?s ?

La vulgarisation entre analyse du discours et linguistique textuelle :

- La vulgarisation en tant que traduction intralinguistique : quelles
  marques linguistiques et s?miotiques (reformulations, d?signations
  qualifiantes, infographies, encadr?s et illustrations ? vocation
  didactique, etc.) dans des corpus ? propos du bien-?tre ?

- Les textes sur le bien-?tre ? la crois?e entre vulgarisation et
  promotion : ethos, polyphonie et enjeux ?nonciatifs.

- Enjeux terminologiques et reformulations dans les textes de
  vulgarisation.

- Vulgarisation et typologies textuelles (les diff?rentes formes de la
  pr?sentation du bien-?tre dans les m?dias, dans les publications
  sp?cialis?es, dans les revues, dans les brochures d?informations de
  centres thermaux ou de m?decine douce, etc.)

- Strat?gies de vulgarisation et classes d??ge : quelles diff?rences
  entre les textes pour adultes et ceux pour les enfants ?
 
Calendrier 

31 mars 2014 : Date limite de r?ception des propositions de
communication (300-400 mots), accompagn?es d?une courte notice
bio-bibliographique. Les propositions (en fran?ais ou en italien) sont ?
adresser ? :

Roberta Pederzoli:  r.pederzoli at unibo.it

Licia Reggiani: licia.reggiani at unibo.it

Laura Santone: laura.santone at uniroma3.it

Fin mai 2014 : Notification d?acceptation

16 et 17 octobre 2014 : Colloque

Comit? scientifique 

Josiane Boutet (Paris 7), Bruna Donatelli (Un. Roma Tre), Enrica Galazzi
(Un. Cattolica de Milan), Chiara Elefante (Un. Bologne), Danielle Londei
(Un. Bologne), Olivier Laught (Un. Bordeaux), Sophie Moirand (Un. Paris
3), Paola Paissa (Un. de Turin), Roberta Pederzoli (Un. Bologne),
Sandrine Reboul-Tour? (Un. Paris 3), Laura Santone (Un. Roma Tre),
Pascale Vergely (Un. Bordeaux).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  1 08:44:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 09:44:46 +0100
Subject: Appel: Semantic Sentiment Analysis 2014, workshop ESWC 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.1.FEB.2014.094446.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:44:41 +0100
From: Diego Reforgiato <diego.reforgiato at istc.cnr.it>
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** apologies for cross-posting **

============================================
Call for Workshop: Semantic Sentiment Analysis 2014
Semantic Web and Sentiment Analysis
============================================

http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/SemanticSentimentAnalysis2014

Dates: May 25, 2014
Hashtag: #ssa2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Jointly with the 11th ESWC 2014 (http://2014.eswc-conferences.org)

Workshop Chairs:
- Aldo Gangemi (U. Paris Nord France/ISTC-CNR Rome Italy)
- Harith Alani (KMI-OU Milton Keynes UK)
- Malvina Nissim (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Erik Cambria (NUS Singapore)
- Diego Reforgiato Recupero (ISTC-CNR Catania Italy)


Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language is a difficult task
as opinions and sentiments are often conveyed implicitly through latent
semantics, which make approaches based on surface lexical hints less
effective in those cases. To this end, semantic sentiment analysis may
go beyond word-level analysis of text, and provide novel approaches to
opinion mining and sentiment analysis that allow a more efficient
passage from (unstructured) textual information to (structured)
machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Semantic sentiment analysis may benefit from the use of web ontologies
(e.g. linked data, multilingual linked lexica, linked vocabularies), or
graph-based quasi-ontologies (e.g. ConceptNet, SenticNet, Nell, OIE,
etc.) which enable the aggregation of conceptual and affective
information associated with natural language opinions.

This workshop focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion
of novel approaches to semantic sentiment analysis. Special focus will
be given to semantic methods, models, and tools that exploit
common-sense knowledge bases to perform multi- or open-domain sentiment
analysis.

The intended audience of the workshop includes researchers from academia
and industry as well as professionals and industrial practitioners to
discuss and exchange positions on new hybrid techniques, which use
semantics for sentiment analysis. The expected number of participants
ranges between 20 and 40.


* Topics of Interest *

Topics of Includes but not limited to:

- Ontologies and knowledge bases for sentiment analysis
- Topic and entity based sentiment analysis
- Evolution of sentiment within and across social media systems and
  topics
- Semantic processing of social media for sentiment analysis
- Contextualised sentiment analysis
- Comparison of semantic approaches for sentiment analysis
- Personalised sentiment analysis and monitoring
- Prediction of sentiment towards events, people, organisations, etc.
- Baselines and datasets for semantic sentiment analysis
- Concept-level sentiment analysis
- Biologically-inspired opinion mining


* Submission Guidelines *

Submissions must comply with the Springer LNCS style and will be made
using EasyChair at the following link
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssa14. Authors are invited
to submit full papers (up to 8 e.g. original work) pages or short papers
(up to 4 pages e.g. pilot experiments, position statement, short
communications). Accepted papers will be published by CEUR-WS. Moreover,
selected expanded versions of workshop papers will be invited for a
special issue of Springer Cognitive Computation
(http://springer.com/journal/12559).
At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for
both the main conference and the workshop to be included into the
workshop proceedings.

* Important Dates *

Submission Deadline: March 6, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper: April 15, 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Mon Feb  3 09:08:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:08:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLDB'2014, Montpellier, France (Extended deadline)
Message-ID: <MON.3.FEB.2014.100806.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 05:32:23 +0100
From: Mathieu Roche <mathieu.roche at lirmm.fr>
Message-Id: <00AB2166-CA0A-472B-9333-3F5B6CD90005 at lirmm.fr>
X-url: http://www.nldb.org/

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

CALL FOR PAPERS - NLDB'2014

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

18-20 June 2014 - Montpellier, France

http://www.nldb.org/

Submission deadline: February 10, 2014 [EXTENDED DEADLINE]

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

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 


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

Submission guidelines:
Authors should follow the LNCS format and submit their manuscripts in
pdf. Submissions can be full papers (12 pages maximum including
references), short papers (6 pages) or papers for a poster presentation
(4 pages) : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2014
The programme committee may decide to accept some full papers as short
papers or poster contributions.
The Proceedings of NLDB 2014 will be published by Springer LNCS
Series. We plan to publish extended versions of a selection of the best
papers after the conference in the 'Data and Knowledge Engineering
Journal' as a special issue.

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

Conference Chair:
- Elisabeth M?tais, Conservatoire National des Arts et M?tiers, Paris,
  France

Programme Committee Chairs:
- Mathieu Roche, Cirad, TETIS, France
- Maguelonne Teisseire, Irstea, TETIS, France

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

Important dates:
- Paper submission: February 10, 2014 [extended deadline]
- Notification of acceptance: March 24, 2014
- Camera-ready papers: April 7, 2014
- Conference: 18-20 June 2014

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 23:04:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: TSD 2014
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:30:47 +0100
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       *********************************************************
                    TSD 2014 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
       *********************************************************

   Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
                               (TSD 2014)

               Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014
                     http://www.tsdconference.org/

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

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

    March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstracts
    March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers

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

TSD SERIES

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


TOPICS

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

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

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

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation,
    multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis,
    automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity
    speech synthesis, computer singing)

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction,
    information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge
    representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation,
    plagiarism detection)

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine
    translation, natural language understanding, question-answering
    strategies, assistive technologies)

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues)

    Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and
    personality modelling)

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair)
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Genevieve Baudoin, France
    Paul Cook, Australia
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, GB
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
    Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    Diana McCarthy, United Kingdom
    France Mihelic, Slovenia
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Elmar Noeth, Germany
    Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Fabio Pianesi, Italy
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Stefan Steidl, Germany
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, GB
    Marcin Wolinski, Poland
    Victor Zakharov, Russia


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA
    Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
    Salim Roukos, IBM, USA


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral
presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be
presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for
additional informal interactions.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2014 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...".  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the
papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.  Authors
using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS
template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings
Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this service a
service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with
all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters
will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and
electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format
see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample
File typeinst.zip).

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software
or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference.  The
presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding
one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference
proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date

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

The accepted conference contributions will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the
4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
    
    Ales Horak, TSD 2014
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2014 at tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2014 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population
of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair
center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the
south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of
cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City
since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of
the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, and
Eindhoven, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130
km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of
interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri
Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with
St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St.  James,
Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the
famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other
important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha
Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors
(Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz),
Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle,
Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one
of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the
UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:36:02 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:36:02 +0100
Subject: Appel: KI 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.223602.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:39:45 +1100
From: Michael Thielscher <mit at cse.unsw.edu.au>
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     call ****

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

  KI 2014 - The 37th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
               Stuttgart, September 22--26, 2014

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

		  	     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 ========

Workshop/Tutorial submission: March 15 
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  Tue Feb  4 21:39:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:39:13 +0100
Subject: Appel: RECITAL 2014
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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:52:07 +0100
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <52EF74D7.3000409 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>


RECITAL 2014 : deuxi?me appel ? communications
-----------------------------------------------

RECITAL 2014
16?me Rencontre des ?tudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues.

Facult? Saint Charles, Aix Marseille Universit? (Marseille), du 1er au 4
juillet 2014.


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

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


Pr?sentation
------------

RECITAL 2014, la conf?rence annuelle des jeunes chercheurs associ?e ?
TALN, se d?roulera ? Marseille du 1er au 4 juillet 2014. RECITAL offre
aux jeunes chercheurs en Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL)
l'occasion de pr?senter leurs travaux et de comparer leurs
approches. Elle est r?serv?e aux ?tudiants (master et doctorat) et aux
jeunes chercheurs ayant obtenu leur doctorat depuis moins d'un an.

Fort du succ?s des ann?es pr?c?dentes, nous encourageons la soumission
de travaux m?me pr?liminaires, de projets de th?se, et de travaux des
premiers mois de recherche (?tat de l'art, premi?res pistes,
etc.). L'objectif premier de RECITAL est de soutenir les travaux des
jeunes chercheurs en TAL et de faciliter leur int?gration dans notre
communaut?. A ce titre, nous visons :

- des relectures p?dagogiques : les auteurs doivent pouvoir comprendre
  les erreurs qu'ils ont pu commettre afin de pouvoir les corriger et
  am?liorer la qualit? de leur travail;

- des relectures positives : il n'est jamais n?cessaire de d?courager un
  jeune chercheur, les ma?tres-mots devront encourager/guider;

- l'?change direct : les relectures seront communiqu?es sign?es, donc
  non-anonymes, aux auteurs. Libre ? eux (ou mieux, aux relecteurs)
  d'aller informellement discuter ensemble lors de la conf?rence.

Le prix du meilleur papier RECITAL sera d?cern? lors de la c?r?monie de
cl?ture.


Th?mes principaux
-----------------

Les communications pourront porter sur les th?mes habituels du TAL :

- Analyse et g?n?ration dans les domaines suivants :
  + Phon?tique
  + Phonologie
  + Morphologie
  + Syntaxe
  + S?mantique
- Analyse et g?n?ration dans les domaines suivants :
  + Phon?tique
  + Phonologie
  + Morphologie
  + Syntaxe
  + S?mantique
  + Discours
- D?veloppement de ressources linguistiques pour le TAL :
  + Bases de donn?es comportant des informations morphologiques,
    syntaxiques, s?mantiques, et/ou phonologiques
  + Grammaires
  + Lexiques
  + Ontologies
  + Linguistique de corpus
- Applications du TAL :
  + Analyse de sentiments ou d'opinions
  + Cat?gorisation ou classification automatique
  + D?sambigu?sation lexicale
  + Dialogue homme-machine en langage naturel
  + Enseignement assist? par ordinateur
  + Indexation automatique
  + Recherche et extraction d'information
  + R?sum? automatique
  + R?solution d'anaphores
  + Syst?mes de question-r?ponse
  + Traduction automatique
  + Web s?mantique
- Approches :
  + Linguistiques formelles destin?es ? soutenir les traitements
    automatiques
  + Symboliques
  + Logiques
  + Statistiques
  + Bas?es sur l'apprentissage automatique

Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive et l'ad?quation d'une proposition de
communication ? la conf?rence sera jug?e par le comit? de programme.


Crit?res de s?lection
---------------------

Les auteurs doivent ?tre des ?tudiant(e)s ou bien des jeunes docteur(e)s
ayant soutenu leur th?se depuis moins d'un an. Les publications avec des
chercheurs confirm?s (ce qui inclus les directeurs de th?ses) doivent
?tre soumises ? TALN et non ? RECITAL.

Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux,
n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications ant?rieures. Les soumissions
seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du domaine. Seront
consid?r?es en particulier:

- La correction du contenu scientifique et technique
- La situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
  internationale
- L'organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation
- L'ad?quation aux th?mes de la conf?rence

Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la
conf?rence.  Suivant l'avis du comit? de programme, les pr?sentations se
feront soit sous forme orale soit sous forme de poster.


Modalit?s de Soumission
-----------------------

Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais. Les articles
doivent faire de 8 ? 14 pages. Une feuille de style LaTeX, un mod?le
Word et un mod?le LibreOffice seront disponibles sur le site web de la
conf?rence (www.taln2014.org).

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:37:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:37:17 +0100
Subject: Appel: 19th Conference on Formal Grammar, FG-2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.223717.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 11:42:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Frank Richter <fr at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de>
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402031141440.19382 at felsenburg>
X-url: http://fg.phil.hhu.de/

                         FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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


Background

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

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


Aims and Scope

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

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

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


Submission Details

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

The submission deadline is **February 23 2014**. Papers must be
submitted electronically at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fg2014

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

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


Important Dates

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


Invited Speakers

Thomas Icard (Stanford University, USA)
Christian Retor? (Universit? Bordeaux 1, France)


Program Committee

Alexander Clark (King's College London)
Benoit Crabb? (Universit? Paris 7, France)
Berthold Crysmann (CNRS - LLF, France)
Denys Duchier (Universit? d'Orleans, France)
Annie Foret (IRISA - IFSIC, France)
Nissim Francez (Technion, Israel)
Philippe de Groote (Inria Nancy)
Laura Kallmeyer (University of D?sseldorf, Germany)
Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Greg Kobele (University of Chicago, USA)
Valia Kordoni (Humboldt-Universit?t Berlin, Germany)
Wolfgang Maier (University of D?sseldorf, Germany)
Stefan M?ller (Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany)
Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)
Christian Retor? (Universit? Bordeaux 1, France)
Manfred Sailer (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Ed Stabler (UCLA, USA)
Jesse Tseng (CNRS - CLLE-ERSS, France)
Oriol Valent?n (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain)


Standing committee

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:39:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:39:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: QALD-4 training phase starts now!
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.223950.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:51:53 +0100 (CET)
From: Elena Cabrio <elena.cabrio at inria.fr>
Message-ID: <743639560.1084915.1391431913412.JavaMail.root at inria.fr>
X-url: http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/
X-url: http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/qald


Dear all,

We are very happy to announce QALD-4, the fourth in a series of
evaluation campaigns on multilingual question answering over linked
data, this time with a strong emphasis on interlinked data and hybrid
question answering.

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

     Task 1: Multilingual question answering over DBpedia
     Task 2: Biomedical question answering over interlinked data
     Task 3: Hybrid question answering

All relevant information about training and test phase as well as the
lab can be found on our website:

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

The training phase starts now, and the further 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,
Vanessa Lopez,
Philipp Cimiano,
Elena Cabrio,
Axel Ngonga,
Sebastian Walter,
Corina Forascu


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:40:34 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:40:34 +0100
Subject: Conf: TOTh 2014, Opening Conference
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224034.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:08:44 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
Message-ID: <CAFW-+pbcYyPVufKSsJg4JyoAxcEk+DDVx6OQvwk5sYoMb5y9Bg at mail.gmail.com>


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TOTh 2014 - Opening Conference
12-13 June 2014 - www.porphyre.org/toth/

"Ontology meets natural language: What can linguists learn?"

Christiane Fellbaum - Princeton University

The creation of large lexical databases for Natural Language Processing
has renewed interest in the structure of the lexicon and challenged many
linguists' theories of systemic regularities in the face of empirical
investigation. The need for mapping lexicons across languages and
research in automatic inferencing and reasoning have resulted in
fruitful collaboration between lexicology and the neighboring discipline
of ontology and have afforded new perspectives on the lexicon. My talk
will address the following questions and provide some answers based on
recent research.

* To what extent can a formal ontology be mapped onto the lexicon of a
  natural language and reflect both its surface and its hidden
  structure?

* How much lexical semantics can ontology capture, and how useful is an
  ontological perspective of the lexicon for word sense disambiguation?

* How can ontology inform the construction of lexical databases for
  automatic reasoning, e.g., by introducing categorial distinctions such
  as between types and roles?

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:42:59 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:42:59 +0100
Subject: Job: Research Assistant in Text Simplification, UPF/TALN/,
 Barcelona
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224259.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 18:22:51 +0100
From: Horacio Saggion <horacio.saggion at upf.edu>
Message-ID: <CABxRTCyS75nOpcbEnjqAFzRgTq2g9_YFvVYuHk1AuNBcv1P2jA at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hsaggion/

TALN Research Group, Department of Information and Communication
Technologies (DTIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

Applications are invited for a 12-months research position in the area
of text simplification. Funding for the position arises from a new
collaborative European project.

The research will be carried out at the Natural Language Processing
research group (TALN) in Barcelona under the supervision of Dr. Horacio
Saggion as PI.

*Brief Description of Work*


The work to be carried out involves the development/adaptation of a text
simplification system to the English language and improvement of
technology already developed in the Simplext project.

 *Qualifications:*


 Applicants should have:


*** a MsC or PhD in computer science, artificial intelligence, or
computational linguistics


*** Knowledge of machine-learning and rule-based approaches


*** Knowledge of Java is a plus


*Additionally:*


*** Knowledge of the GATE system will be well appreciated


*** Highly motivated individual with experience or interest in the area
of automatic text simplification and/or summarization.


*Language requirements:*


*** good knowledge of English


*Starting date:*


The position is expected to start early March/April 2014.

*Educational level required:*


Msc. or PhD.


 *Salary and duration of the contract*


We offer a gross salary of EURO 20.000 - EURO 22.000 which can be
complemented with teaching if desired.

The duration of the contract is 12 months. The position can be extended
depending on available funds.


*How to apply:*


A cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information
of at least two referees to horacio.saggion at upf.edu. Use as subject of
your message "Research Position Simplification/NLP"


 *Selection process*


The selection process will start immediately.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:41:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:41:37 +0100
Subject: Appel: FLAIRS-27,
 Call for Poster Abstracts (Submissions Due February 10, 2014)
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224137.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:49:45 +0100
From: Christophe Jouis <christophe.jouis at lip6.fr>
Message-Id: <1050D157-C8B8-43C7-9F45-F6DC9D33C4E7 at lip6.fr>
X-url: http://www.FLAIRS-27.info

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The 27th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence
Research Society (FLAIRS-27)

Poster abstract submission deadline:  February 10, 2014

www.FLAIRS-27.info
May 21-23, 2014
Pensacola Beach, Florida, USA
Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front
http://hiltonpensacolabeach.com/

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FLAIRS-27 continues a tradition of presenting and discussing state of
the art artificial intelligence and related research in a sociable
atmosphere within a beautiful setting.  Events will include invited
speakers, special tracks, and presentations of papers and posters. As
always, there will be a Best Paper award and a Best Poster award. In
addition, because FLAIRS has a rich tradition of encouraging student
authors, there will be a Best Student Paper award for the best paper
written primarily by a student.

A second submission round of poster abstracts (250 words) for
presentation at the conference is now invited.

Topics of interest are in all areas of (or related to) artificial
intelligence, including, but not limited to

Foundations:
* Cognitive modeling
* Knowledge representation
* Learning
* Perception
* Reasoning and programming
* Search

Architectures:
* Agents and distributed AI
* Information retrieval
* Intelligent user interfaces
* Natural language systems
* Robotics

Applications:
* Aviation and aerospace
* Education
* Entertainment
* Management and manufacturing
* Medicine
* World Wide Web

Implications:
* Evaluation of AI systems
* Philosophical foundations
* Social impact and ethics
* Teaching AI

Special Areas:
* AI and Cyber Security
* Culture-Aware AI Systems
* AI in Business
* Semantics, Logic and Information Extraction in AI
* Affective Computing
* Intelligent Tutoring Systems
* Games and Multimedia
* Data Mining
* Case-Based Reasoning
* Uncertain Reasoning
* Intelligent Autonomous Systems
* Robotics
* Healthcare Informatics
* Applied Natural Language Processing

=============
Location
=============
The 27th International Conference of FLAIRS takes place on the
beachfront in the center of everything on Pensacola Beach, Florida!
Enjoy captivating views of the emerald waters of the Gulf of Mexico and
52 miles of snow white sand beaches from your private Gulf Front
balcony.  Our hotel is within walking distance from restaurants, vibrant
nightlife and recreational activities such as charter fishing, paddle
boarding, sailing, kayaking, biking, and miniature golf.  We are just a
quick drive to historic downtown Pensacola and regional attractions such
as the National Naval Aviation Museum, Gulf Islands National Seashore
and Fort Pickens, Pensacola Lighthouse, Blue Wahoos Baseball Stadium,
Veterans Memorial Park, Pensacola Civic Center, and the Saenger Theater.

=============
Important Dates
=============
February 10, 2014      Second submission (Abstract only) 
February 17, 2014      Abstract only notification
February 24, 2014      Camera ready version due

=============
Submissions
=============
We are offering a second round for submission of poster abstracts (up to
250 words) to give new and developing research an outlet for peer
feedback. Each submitted poster abstract will be subject to an editorial
review to determine acceptability. Editors can make spelling,
grammatical, and formatting changes to the abstracts. All posters will
be presented according to space and time availability. An author of each
accepted poster abstract is required to register, attend, and present
the poster. It is a requirement of FLAIRS that there will be at least
one early regular author registration per submission.

Submissions must be original, and not submitted concurrently to another
conference. Abstract papers must be in AAAI format, and submitted as PDF
through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through
the main conference web site (www.FLAIRS-27.info). The proceedings of
FLAIRS-27 will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will
be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution
to AAAI. An author of each accepted paper is required to register,
attend, and present the poster at FLAIRS. All submissions and
registrations must comply with FLAIRS requirements as posted on the
conference website.

=============
ORGANIZATION
=============

Conference Chair:
G. Michael Youngblood, PARC, a Xerox company

Program Chairs:
Bill Eberle, Tennessee Technological University
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Hampton University

Special Tracks Coordinator:
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford

Contact Bill Eberle: weberle at tntech.edu


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:46:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:46:39 +0100
Subject: Appel: Hackathon Participation, WASSA 2014@ACL 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224639.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:33:06 +0100
From: Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu <alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <52F0C1E2.4060806 at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
X-url: http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/


/*Apologies for cross-postings
*****************************************************************
*/

*/ 5^th Workshop on Computational Approaches to /*

*/Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)/*

*http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/*

*- Endorsed by SIGNLL and SIGSEM - ***

  Sentiment analysis systems hackathon

In the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis systems have
been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel there is a
growing need to make other researchers and users familiar with these
systems and have them employ them for building an end application.

The Hackathon word stands for "Hacking Marathon", and its purpose is to
introduce some system and make users employ it to build an application
for a real-life task.

We would like to invite researchers who have a working prototype of
their system to announce their availability to participate in the WASSA
2014 Hackathon.

The systems can be oriented to the following tasks:

./The use of semantic resources and methods (knowledge bases, semantic
  representations, inference mechanisms) for subjectivity, sentiment and
  emotion analysis/

./Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and
  summarization/

./Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis techniques/

./Data linking through social networks based on affect-related NLP
  methods/

./Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models/

./Online reputation management/

./Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks/

./Classification of stance in dialogues/

./Subjectivity and sentiment analysis in social media/

To participate with a system or as a "hacker" of one of the
participating systems, please send an e-mail to:

Alexandra.Balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu 

In order to speed up the process, we will put the "hackers" in contact
with the system authors, so that the applications can be explored prior
to the WASSA 2014 workshop.

We will also invite papers describing the results of these experiments
as part of the final workshop.

We are looking forward to your participation!

On behalf of the WASSA 2014 Organizers,
Alexandra Balahur


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:48:07 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:48:07 +0100
Subject: Job: Recherche un ingenieur d'etudes, ELDA
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224807.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:29:09 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
Message-ID: <52F10745.8010207 at elda.org>
X-url: http://www.elra.info
X-url: http://www.elda.org

ELDA (European Language Resources Distribution Agency) cherche ?
pourvoir imm?diatement un poste d'ing?nieur d'?tudes et de
d?veloppement.  Il/elle aura en charge des ?tudes et des d?veloppements
techniques dans le domaine de l'ing?nierie linguistique, en particulier
en technologies vocales, multim?dias et multimodales.

Au sein du d?partement R&D, il/elle travaillera sur des projets de
d?veloppement d'outils pour la production, la validation et le
management de ressources linguistiques dans le cadre de projets
collaboratifs et internationaux.

Ce poste est une excellente opportunit? pour des candidats cr?atifs et
motiv?s, qui souhaitent participer activement ? la construction du
domaine de l'ing?nierie de la langue dans l'Union europ?enne.

Profil :

  * De formation sup?rieure (Ing?nieur ou Docteur) en traitement
    automatique de la parole ou du multim?dia/multimodales
    (reconnaissance/synth?se de la parole, traitement d'images/vid?os,
    analyse de documents/OCR, etc.).

  * Exp?rience et/ou connaissance des programmes de recherche en Europe,
    aux Etats-Unis ou au Japon.

  * Exp?rience en gestion de projet, Implication dans la gestion de
    projets europ?ens serait un plus significatif.

  * bonne maitrise de l'environnement de programmation Django, de
    Django-CMS, Python, PhP serait un plus.

  * Exp?rience et/ou connaissance des questions relatives aux ressources
    linguistiques et ? l'?valuation des technologies de la langue.

  * Aptitude ? travailler tant de fa?on ind?pendante qu'au sein d'une
    ?quipe, en particulier aptitude ? superviser les membres d'une
    ?quipe multidisciplinaire.

  * Anglais courant exig?.

Salaire: en fonction des qualifications et exp?riences.

Toute candidature sera ?tudi?e jusqu'? ce que le poste soit pourvu. Le
poste est bas? ? Paris. Les candidats doivent avoir la citoyennet? d'un
pays de l'Union europ?enne ou ?tre en possession d'un titre de s?jour.
Les candidatures doivent ?tre adress?es par courriel (lettre de
motivation et curriculum vitae) ? :

Khalid CHOUKRI

ELRA / ELDA

55-57, rue Brillat Savarin

75013 Paris FRANCE

Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30

courriel : job at elda.org


ELDA, unit? op?rationnelle de l'association ELRA, est charg?e de
promouvoir le d?veloppement de ressources linguistiques sous toutes les
formes ?lectroniques utilisables, en particulier sous la forme de corpus
oraux et ?crits, de lexiques et de bases terminologiques. Depuis sa
cr?ation en 1995, ELDA s'est affirm?e comme un centre unique en Europe
pour la distribution de ressources linguistiques, capable de r?pondre
aux divers besoins des d?veloppeurs de technologie. Ses activit?s se
d?veloppent maintenant vers de nouveaux types de ressources
linguistiques (donn?es de type multimodal/multim?dia). Certaines
ressources linguistiques sont con?ues au cours de projets (co-)financ?s
par ELDA. Celles-ci sont ensuite compil?es sous la forme d'un catalogue
de ressources linguistiques. ELDA est impliqu?e dans un certain nombre
de projets europ?ens et nationaux. ELDA s'int?resse ?galement aux
probl?mes juridiques en rapport avec les ressources linguistiques,
r?alise r?guli?rement des ?tudes de march? sur les besoins des
utilisateurs, et travaille ? l'am?lioration des proc?dures de validation
des ressources.


Pour de plus amples renseignements concernant ELRA/ELDA, voir:

http://www.elra.info ou www.elda.org

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb  4 21:44:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:44:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: Roadmapping Workshop on Linked Data for Language
 Technology - #LiderEU
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.224450.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:24:51 +0100
From: Maud Ehrmann <ehrmann at di.uniroma1.it>
Message-ID: <CAFNSKW_HnfiEe7x_A24BRpRHU-VXcGvb89unYrSW=Q9zyWUy1Q at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://2014.data-forum.eu/
X-url: http://lider-project.eu/
X-url: http://www.multilingualweb.eu/
X-url: http://nlp2rdf.org
X-url: http://linguistics.okfn.org/
X-url: http://dbpedia.org

Dear all,

I would like to draw your attention to the Linked Data for Language
Technology
(LD4LT) workshop (http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt/wiki/LD4LT_Group_Kick-Off_and_Roadmap_Meeting)
that will be organized as part of the European Data Forum
2014 (http://2014.data-forum.eu/).

The goal of the workshop is to gather use cases and requirements as a
basis to develop a European R&D road-map and agenda for content
analytics solutions based on Linked Data. It is a free community event -
there is no admission fee for participants, but registration is
required (https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/lider-rmws-20140321/).

You are encouraged to provide a title for a position statement in your
registration form. This is a simple, short statement that summarizes
your ideas / technologies / use cases related to Linked Data and
Language Technology.

The meeting is supported by the LIDER (http://lider-project.eu/)
project, the MultilingualWeb community (http://www.multilingualweb.eu/),
the NLP2RDF project (http://nlp2rdf.org), the Working Group for Open
Data in Linguistics (http://linguistics.okfn.org/) as well as the DBpedia
Project (http://dbpedia.org).

As input to the discussion and the work of the LD4LT group, you may also
want to fill in the first LIDER survey
(https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/ld4lt-wbs1/) .

We hope to see you at the workshop.
Best Regards,
Maud Ehrmann, on behalf of the LIDER consortium.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:10:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:10:30 +0100
Subject: Stage: Development of linguistic resources to improve an
 information extraction tool
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.121030.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:28:38 +0100
From: Dhouha Bouamor <dhouha.bouamor at trooclick.com>
Message-ID: <CAAV2TU_URW9dmWGw2fWBJ0uyL_nK4Lz3km8YiisxzUWRM27H3w at mail.gmail.com>

Trooclick France is a company that specializes in the development of web
applications for the automatic processing of information. Our goal is to
create services that rebuild the user's trust in digital content. Up to
now, Web players were able to enhance the relevance of this content; we
go a step further and contribute to improve its reliability.

Trooclick was created in November 2012. Just a few months later, in
April 2013, it received financial support from the BPI (French public
investment bank) and in June 2013 the French government granted it the
Status of "Young Innovative Company" (JEI), recognizing its innovative
nature. It now counts twelve committed and passionate members in its
tight-knit team.

The company carries out R&D projects in search of technical solutions in
the Artificial Intelligence field. Due to its growth, Trooclick is now
looking for candidates for a 6 month internship for its office in Paris
(17?me).


Missions:

As a member of the technical team, you will benefit from ongoing
training and you will help us design and build our information
extraction framework based on advanced NLP technologies.

You will turn ideas into well-documented and reliable linguistic
resources (both dictionaries and extraction rules) to ensure efficiency,
quality, performance and scalability.

A great team player, you will interact with other departments to
understand and fine tune specifications.
You will carry out unitary testing, create and maintain our test
validation corpus and participate in editing technical documents. All
developments will be done in English.

Qualifications:

   - BSc/MSc
   - Experience with NLP tools such as Gate, Treetagger, NooJ, Stanford
     for linguistic annotation, named entity recognition, relationship
     and fact extraction, sentiment analysis, etc.
   - Experience in scripting languages such as Perl or Python as well as
     XML format to be autonomous in completing some technical tasks.
   - Experience with basic database management operations (SQL language)
     Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SKOS, etc.) will
     be a plus.
   - Excellent communication skills in English and French
   - We are open to new ideas that will significantly contribute to our
     success. Our friendly team will provide the opportunity for
     valuable collaboration.

   - We offer you career perspectives in a young and dynamic company
     with an interesting and diversified scope of duties at the cutting
     edge of research. We welcome applications from highly motivated
     individuals able to learn new techniques and share knowledge and
     experience with the team.


Interested? Then send your application to jobs at trooclick.com!

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:54:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:54:13 +0100
Subject: Appel: INTERSPEECH 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.115413.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:56:31 +0800
From: "Organization @ Interspeech 2014" <organization at interspeech2014.org>
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--- INTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE

--- September 14-18, 2014
--- http://www.interspeech2014.org



INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on
issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language
processing, both in humans and in machines.  The theme of INTERSPEECH
2014 is

--- Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages ---

INTERSPEECH 2014 emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach covering all
aspects of speech science and technology spanning basic theories to
applications.  In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, the
conference will also feature plenary talks by internationally renowned
experts, tutorials, special sessions, show & tell sessions, and
exhibits. A number of satellite events will take place immediately
before and after the conference. Please follow the details of these and
other news at the INTERSPEECH website www.interspeech2014.org
<http://www.interspeech2014.org>.


--------- SCOPE -----------

We invite you to submit original papers in any related area, including
but not limited to:

1: Speech Perception and Production
2: Prosody, Phonetics, Phonology, and Para-/Non- Linguistic Information
3: Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals
4: Speech Coding and Enhancement
5: Speaker and Language Identification
6: Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation
7: Speech Recognition - Signal Processing, Acoustic Modelling,
   Robustness, and Adaptation
8: Speech Recognition - Architecture, Search & Linguistic Components
9: LVCSR and Its Applications, Technologies and Systems for New
   Applications
10: Spoken Language Processing - Dialogue, Summarization, Understanding
11: Spoken Language Processing -Translation, Info Retrieval
12: Spoken Language Evaluation, Standardization and Resources

A detailed description of these areas is accessible at:

http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=conference_areas.html


------- SUBMISSIONS -------

Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2014 proceedings should be up to 4 pages of
text, plus one page (maximum) for references only. Paper submissions
must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines
and provided in the Authors' kit, on the INTERSPEECH 2014 website, along
with the Call for Papers.
Optionally, authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia
files, which will be included in the official conference proceedings USB
drive.  Authors must declare that their contributions are original and
are not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g. another
conference, workshop, or journal). Papers must be submitted via the
online paper submission system, which will be opened in February
2014. The conference will be conducted in English. Information on the
paper submission procedure is available at:

http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=submission_procedure.html


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

24 March, 2014 Full Paper submission deadline
10 June, 2014 Notification of acceptance
20 June, 2014 Camera-ready paper due
10 July, 2014 Early registration deadline
14-18 September, 2014 Conference dates


We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore!
- The Organizing team of INTERSPEECH 2014 -

Email: tpc at interspeech2014.org <mailto:tpc at interspeech2014.org>


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:21:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:21:37 +0100
Subject: Appel: TOTh 2014, Extension de la date limite
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.122137.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:52:33 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
Message-ID: <CAFW-+pYfLix1m=TSVZBiHc9NnfVnwfYdg8UmYLvgF2=ifZz3oA at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.porphyre.org/toth/
X-url: http://www.porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014/appel-a-communications

The deadline for abstract submissions for the TOTh 2014 Conference has
been extended to 24th February.

La date limite de soumission des r?sum?s pour la Conf?rence TOTh 2014
est repouss?e au lundi 24 f?vrier.

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

TOTh 2014 : APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Terminologie & Ontologie : Th?ories et applications
Chamb?ry - France

24 f?vrier 2014 : Date limite de soumission des r?sum?s (2 ? 3 pages)


Conf?rence : 12 & 13 juin 2014
Formation : 10 & 11  juin  2014

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


Soumission par EasyChair :
-----------------------------------
Les soumissions des r?sum?s ?tendus (2 ? 3 pages) se font
exclusivement par EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=toth2014

Pr?sentation :
------------------
La 8?me ?dition des conf?rences internationales TOTh se d?roulera les
jeudi 12 et vendredi 13 juin 2014 ? l'Universit? de Savoie (Chamb?ry,
France) avec le soutien du Minist?re de la Culture (DGLFLF) et de
l'Association Europ?enne de Terminologie.

Les conf?rences TOTh - Terminologie & Ontologie : Th?ories et
applications - ont pour objectif de rassembler chercheurs,
professionnels et, de fa?on plus g?n?rale, toute personne dont les
pr?occupations rel?vent de la langue et de l'ing?nierie des
connaissances.

Le programme comportera, en plus des communications retenues, une
conf?rence invit?e, une disputatio et une session poster.

Une formation d'un jour et demi sur l'analyse de textes ? des fins
onomasiologiques pr?c?dera la conf?rence les mardi 10 et mercredi 11
juin.

Un prix << Jeune chercheur >> est d?cern? par le comit? de programme
lors de la conf?rence

Th?mes de la Conf?rence (liste non exhaustive) :
 --------------------------------------------------------------
- Langues de sp?cialit? et Lexicographie de sp?cialit?,
- Traduction,
- Traitement de corpus,
- Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Terminologies,
- Am?nagement linguistique et Am?nagement terminologique,
- Repr?sentation, Extraction et Gestion des connaissances,
- Syst?mes conceptuels,
- Ontologies,
- Thesaurus,
- Applications : Recherche d'information, Web des donn?es, Biblioth?ques
  num?riques, Environnements de d?veloppement, Banques terminologiques,
-  Normes, Formats d'?change.

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


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:02:25 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:02:25 +0100
Subject: Job: CDI, Web-Miner, MarketScience
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.120225.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:40:20 +0100
From: Aude Robert <aude.robert at marketscience.fr>
Message-ID: <52F36694.8060503 at marketscience.fr>


Title : CDI, Web-Miner, MarketScience

Compagny:     MarketScience
Department:   IT Software
City :        Orl?ans (France, 45)
Job Type :    Full time / CDI
Languages :   English and French

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

We are looking for a candidate who will work on our Media Mining module.
The module will aggregate and store information extracted from the
Internet that will be integrated into a financial market Bloomberg
application.

REQUIREMENTS :

Autonomous and very ambitious
Good experience in Python or PHP, and HTML is necessary.
Web crawler/information retrieval knowledge
Database management(MySQL/SQL Server) knowledge
Focused on code quality
Knowledge in Natural Language Processing, Text Mining or Information
Retrieval

Very good english writing and communication skills
Planning and long term thinking

CAREER LEVEL :

3 Year Exp.

RESPONSABILITIES :

Develop and maintain a web mining system.
Develop and maintain a storage solution for the extracted information.
Process extracted information (Natural Language Processing)
Assure long term scaling of the solution.

Excellent compensation for excellent & ambitious candidate.

DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY :

MarketScience is a French/Romanian Start-up in Information 
Technology/Finance.

Salary will be defined according to profile and experience.

For more information, please contact aude.robert at marketscience.fr

To submit an application, please send your CV and cover letter to both 
nicolasboitout at hotmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:43:02 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:43:02 +0100
Subject: Appel: CBMI2014, Submission deadline 16 Feb,
 Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.114302.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:59:19 +0100
From: Bernard Merialdo <Bernard.Merialdo at eurecom.fr>
Message-ID: <52F1FD67.1080806 at eurecom.fr>
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(our apologies for duplicate postings)

*************************************************************************
         CALL FOR PAPERS
         Paper submission deadline:    February 16, 2014

         C B M I    2014
         12th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
         18-20 June 2014, Klagenfurt, Austria

         http://cbmi2014.itec.aau.at/
         in cooperation with IEEE CSS and ACM SIGMM
*************************************************************************

The 12th International Content Based Multimedia Indexing Workshop aims
to bring together the various communities involved in all aspects of
content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation.
Following the eleven successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999,
Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania
2009, Grenoble 2010, Madrid 2011, Annecy 2012, and Veszprem 2013), CBMI
2014 will take place in Klagenfurt, in the very south of Austria from
June 18th to June 20th 2014. CBMI 2014 is organized in cooperation with
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and ACM SIG Multimedia. Topics of the
workshop include but are not limited to visual indexing, audio and
multi-modal indexing, multimedia information retrieval, and multimedia
browsing and presentation. Additional special sessions are planned in
the fields of endoscopic videos and images and multimedia metadata.


Paper submission: Authors are invited to submit full-length and special
session papers of 6 pages and short (poster) and demo papers of 4 pages
maximum. All peer-reviewed, accepted and registered papers will be
published in the CBMI 2014 workshop proceedings to be indexed and
distributed by the IEEE Xplore. The submissions are peer reviewed in
single blind process, the language of the workshop is English. Selected
papers of the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of
their contributions to a special issue of Multimedia Tools and
Applications journal (MTAP).


* Important dates:
    Paper submission deadline:    February 16, 2014
    Notification of acceptance:   March 30, 2014
    Camera-ready papers due:      April 14, 2014
    Author registration:          April 14, 2014
    Early registration:           May 25, 2014

* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
       * Visual Indexing (image, video, graphics)
       * Visual content extraction Identification and tracking of
         semantic regions
       * Identification of semantic events
       * Audio and Multi-modal Indexing
       * Audio indexing (audio, speech, music)
       * Audio content extraction
       * Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
       * Multimedia fusion
       * Metadata generation, coding and transformation
       * Multimedia Information Retrieval (image, audio, video, ...)
       * Matching and similarity search
       * Content-based search
       * Multimedia data mining
       * Multimedia recommendation
       * Large scale multimedia database management
       * Multimedia Browsing and Presentation
       * Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
       * Personalization and content adaptation
       * User interaction and relevance feedback
       * Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools

* Contact
For more information please visit http://cbmi2014.itec.aau.at/ and for
additional questions, remarks, or clarifications please contact
cbmi2014 at itec.aau.at


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:49:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:49:09 +0100
Subject: Appel: LRE-Rel2 Religious Text Analytics Workshop, LREC 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.114909.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:06:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: Eric Atwell <E.S.Atwell at leeds.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.11.1402051443430.7962 at cslin-gps.csunix.comp.leeds.ac.uk>
X-url: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel2.html


2nd Workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts 
(LRE-Rel2) 31st May 2014 (afternoon session) 
Harpa Conference Center, Reykjavik, Iceland
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel2.html

Second Call for Papers, deadline: 19.02.2014

After a successful launch at LREC 2012, we are organising a second
workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts hosted
by LREC 2014 in Reykjavik, Iceland. This is an inclusive workshop title,
aimed at researchers with a generic interest in religious texts to raise
awareness of different perspectives and practices, and to identify some
common themes.  Our first workshop attracted a range of scholarship,
particularly on Arabic and Islamic Studies, and this year we are keen to
extend this range to canonical texts from other languages and religions
- Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, and other - and, given the
Icelandic venue, to iconic texts from historical religions such as The
Prose Edda of Norse mythology.  We are also keen to foster inter-faith
corpus studies, tracing similarities as well as differences in religious
texts, where this genre includes: the faith-defining religious canon;
authoritative interpretations and commentary; sermons, liturgy, prayers,
poetry, and lyrics.

Workshop Attendance:

Prospective authors should note that attendance at the workshop is
necessary for their paper to be published in the workshop proceedings,
though for papers with multiple authors, only one author will be
required to attend.  Therefore, prospective authors are strongly
encouraged to check the LREC website and other sources for information
on visa restrictions, and likely travel and hotel costs.

Workshop Topics:

Submissions are invited for (but not limited to) the following topics:

- measuring semantic relatedness between multiple religious texts and
  corpora from different religions;
- analysis of ceremonial, liturgical, and ritual speech; recitation
  styles; speech decorum; discourse analysis for religious texts;
- formulaic language and multi-word expressions in religious texts;
- suitability of modal and other logic types for knowledge
  representation and inference in religious texts;
- issues in, and evaluation of, machine translation in religious texts;
- text-mining, stylometry, and authorship attribution for religious
  texts;
- corpus query languages and tools for exploring religious corpora;
- dictionaries, thesaurai, Wordnet, and ontologies for religious texts;
- (new) corpora and rich and novel annotation schemes for religious
  texts;
- annotation and analysis of religious metaphor;
- genre analysis for religious texts;
- application in other disciplines (e.g. theology, classics, philosophy,
  literature) of computer-mediated methods for analysing religious
  texts.

Important Dates:

19.02.2014  Deadline for paper submissions
05.03.2014  Notification of acceptance
21.03.2014  Camera-ready copies due from authors
06.04.2014  LREC deadline for camera-ready copy of Workshop Proceedings
31.05.2014  LRE-Rel2 Workshop (afternoon session)

Submission of Papers:

Please submit your papers via the LRE-Rel2 submission page in LREC's
START Manager. The URL for this is:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/LRE-Rel2/ Authors should submit a full
paper, not an abstract.  They should also follow LREC guidelines for
length of papers, and are advised to use the LREC template for paper
submissions. This template will be published by LREC in due course. In
the meantime, authors can use the LREC 2012 template:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Authors-Kit

Request from LREC Organisers:

"...When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked
to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse,
replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc..."

LRE-Rel2 Organising Committee:

Eric Atwell and Claire Brierley: 
Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK
E.S.Atwell at leeds.ac.uk; C.Brierley at leeds.ac.uk
Majdi Sawalha and Bassam Hammo: 
Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, AMMAN 11942, Jordan
sawalha.majdi at leeds.ac.uk;

LRE-Rel2 Programme Committee (provisional):

Eric Atwell, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Claire Brierley, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Majdi Sawalha, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Bassam Hammo, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Sane Yagi, Department of Linguistics, University of Jordan, Jordan
Dag Haug, Department of Philosophy, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway
Moshe Koppel, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Nils Reiter: Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University, Germany
Andrew Wilson, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster, UK
Claudia Resch, Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Nadeem Obaid, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Muhammad A.M. Abushariah, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Mortaza Rezaee, Islamic College, London, UK
Janet Watson, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, and Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds, UK
John Lee, Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong, (HK)
Mohamed Menacer, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Deryle Lonsdale, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University, US
Bob MacDonald, Research and Development, Anthony Macauley Associates, Canada
Kais Dukes, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Aida Mustapha, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Putra University, Malaysia
Liviu Dinu, Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Bucharest, Romania
Behrooz Minaei, School of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
Gurpreet Singh, Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Azzeddine Mazroui, Mathematics and Computer Science, Mohammed 1st University, Morocco


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:03:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:03:30 +0100
Subject: These: Rima Harastani, Alignement lexical en corpus comparables
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.120330.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:40:10 +0100
From: Rima Harastani <rima.harastani at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CADUKFTm-HtuuyWQdR0PZj-4MFPXT4D4V5JawyqDxq55kTcn93A at mail.gmail.com>

Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? ma soutenance de th?se r?alis?e au
sein du Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique (LINA) et
intitul?e : "Alignement lexical en corpus comparables : le cas des
compos?s savants et des adjectifs relationnels".

La soutenance aura lieu le lundi 10 f?vrier 2014 ? 14h00 en salle 3 au
LINA (b?timent 11, Facult? des Sciences et des Techniques). Vous ?tes
?galement convi?-e-s au pot de th?se qui suivra.


Bien cordialement,
Rima Harastani

***************************
Le jury  de soutenance sera compos? de :

M. Herv? BLANCHON, Ma?tre des conf?rences, Universit? Pierre Mend?s -
   Rapporteur
M. Ulrich HEID, Professeur des universit?s, Universit? de Stuttgart -
   Rapporteur
M. Vincent CLAVEAU, Charg? de recherche, CNRS-IRISA Rennes - Examinateur
M. Holger SCHWENK, Professeur des universit?s, Universit? du Maine -
   Examinateur
Mme. B?atrice DAILLE, Professeur des universit?s, Universit? de Nantes -
   co-encadrante de th?se
M. Emmanuel MORIN, Professeur des universit?s, Universit? de Nantes -
   directeur de th?se

***************************
R?sum? :

Notre travail concerne l'extraction automatique d'une liste de termes
align?s avec leurs traductions (c'est-?-dire un lexique bilingue
sp?cialis?) ? partir d'un corpus comparable dans un domaine de
sp?cialit?.  Un corpus comparable comprend des textes ?crits dans deux
langues diff?rentes sans aucune relation de traduction entre eux mais
dont les textes appartiennent ? un m?me domaine. Les contributions de
cette th?se portent sur l'am?lioration de la qualit? d'un lexique
bilingue sp?cialis? extrait ? partir d'un corpus comparable. Nous
proposons des m?thodes consacr?es ? la traduction de deux types de
termes, qui ont des caract?ristiques en commun entre plusieurs langues
ou qui posent par leur nature des probl?mes pour la traduction : les
compos?s savants (termes contenant au moins une racine emprunt?e au grec
ou latin) et les termes compos?s d'un nom et un adjectif
relationnel. Nous d?veloppons ?galement une m?thode, qui exploite des
contextes riches en termes sp?cifiques au domaine du corpus, pour
r?ordonner dans un lexique bilingue sp?cialis? des traductions
candidates fournies pour un terme. Les exp?riences sont r?alis?es en
utilisant deux corpus comparables sp?cialis?s, le premier dans le
domaine du cancer du sein et le deuxi?me dans le domaine des ?nergies
renouvelables, sur les langues fran?ais, anglais, allemand et espagnol.

Mots cl?s : corpus comparables, langue de sp?cialit?, alignement
multilingue, compos?s savants, adjectifs relationnels.

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

Abstract:

Our work concerns the automatic extraction of a list of aligned terms
with their translations (i.e. specialized bilingual lexicon) from
comparable corpora belonging to a specific domain. Comparable corpora
include texts written in two languages which are not translations of
each other but belong to the same domain. This thesis contributes to the
improvement of the quality of an extracted bilingual lexicon. We propose
methods dedicated to the translation of two types of terms that have
common characteristics among many languages or that cause specific
problems for translation due to their nature. These types of terms are
the neoclassical compounds (terms containing at least one root borrowed
from Greek or Latin) and the terms composed of one noun and one
relational adjective. We also propose a method, which exploits contexts
rich in domain-specific terms to re-rank some provided translations in a
bilingual lexicon for a given term. The experiments are performed using
two specialized comparable corpora, the first in the domain of breast
cancer and the second in the domain of renewable energy, on the
languages French, English, German and Spanish.

Keywords: comparable corpora, specialized language, multilingual
alignment, neoclassical compounds, relational adjectives.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:44:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:44:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: Journal of Language Modelling,
 Special issue on Grammar Engineering (deadline extension)
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.114431.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:53:22 +0100
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                 Journal of Language Modelling

                     SPECIAL ISSUE ON

       High-level Methodologies for Grammar Engineering

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


Special Issue Description 
-------------------------

Many grammatical frameworks have been proposed over the last decades to
describe the syntax (and semantics) of natural language. Among the most
widely used, one may cite (in chronological order) Tree-Adjoining
Grammar (TAG) [Joshi et al., 1975], Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG)
[Bresnan and Kaplan, 1982], Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG)
[Steedman, 1987], or Head- driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
[Pollard and Sag, 1994]. These frameworks present theoretical and
practical interests. From a theoretical point of view, they provide a
formal device for the linguist to experiment with her/his theories.
>From a practical point of view, they make it possible to automatically
process natural language in applications such as dialog systems, machine
translation, etc. They differ in their expressivity and complexity. Some
prove more suitable for the description of a given language than
others. Still, for many of these frameworks, large resources (e.g.,
grammars) have been designed, at first by hand, and later via dedicated
tools (e.g., integrated grammar environments such as XLE for LFG [King
et al., 2000]). In this Special Issue, we are concerned with this
complex task of grammar engineering, keeping in mind the two
above-mentioned theoretical and practical interests.


Topics of Interest 
------------------

This special issue welcomes contributions from the following topics
(without being limited to these):


1. New or updated work on the traditional topics of GEAF workshops

  The traditional topics in the series of "Grammar Engineering Accross
  Frameworks" workshops, "Formal Grammar" conferences and / or the
  "High-level Methodologies for Grammar Engineering" ESSLLI 2013
  workshop are appropriate. The submitted paper must clearly deal with
  language modelling.

  An extended version of a workshop/conference paper can be submitted,
  provided that the contribution has been substantially updated. The
  forums for any preliminary versions of the paper must be indicated.


2. Study of new fundamental and / or applied results in relation with
   grammar development, maintenance and enhancement

 - dedicated description languages for grammar engineering
 - semi-automatic acquisition of grammars
 - development of grammars for under-resourced languages
 - cross-framework grammar engineering
 - cross-language grammar engineering
 - seamless construction of grammars from dynamically changing 
   linguistic descriptions
 - designs of weighted grammars
 - efficient and dynamic construction of structures from updated rules
   or logical formulas


3. Study of new methods for grammar engineering and their applications

 - debugging environments for grammar design
 - systems based on large-scale grammars


4. In addition, the topics of interest include reports on
   implementations

 - new kinds of implementations of grammar compilers, libraries and
   on-demand operations
 - benchmarks suitable for evaluation of grammars
 - methods that construct, minimize or decompose grammars


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

- Deadline for submissions: 23 February 2014
- First decision: 12 May 2014 
- Submission of revised version: 17 July 2014 
- Final decision: 22 September 2014 
- Submission of camera-ready versions: 19 October 2014


Submission
----------

Articles submitted to this special issue must adhere to the JLM
instructions for contributors and use the JLM's style files, see:

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

Paper submissions should be made through JLM's electronic submission
system:

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

All submitted articles should be anonymous and any obvious
self-references should be avoided. The contribution of the paper must be
substantial. All articles will be evaluated by at least 3 reviewers,
including at least one member of JLM's Editorial Board, and at least one
member of the issue's Guest Editorial Board.


Editorial Board
---------------

Guest Editors

- Denys Duchier, Universit? d'Orl?ans, FRANCE
- Yannick Parmentier, Universit? d'Orl?ans, FRANCE

Guest Editorial Board

- Emily Bender, University of Washington, USA
- Philippe Blache, CNRS, Universit? d'Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE
- Eric De La Clergerie, INRIA Paris, FRANCE
- Beno?t Crabb?, Universit? Diderot Paris 7, FRANCE 
- Berthold Crysmann, CNRS Paris, FRANCE
- Denys Duchier, Universit? d'Orl?ans, FRANCE
- Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, FRANCE
- Joseph Le Roux, Universit? Paris Nord, FRANCE
- Timm Lichte, Universit?t D?sseldorf, GERMANY
- Montserrat Marimon, Universitat de Barcelona, SPAIN
- Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, JAPAN
- Stefan M?ller, Freie Universit?t Berlin, GERMANY
- Yannick Parmentier, Universit? d'Orl?ans, FRANCE


Contact
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Yannick Parmentier
Department of Computer Science, University Institute of Technology
University of Orl?ans
firstname (dot) lastname (at) univ-orleans (dot) fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:13:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:13:20 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Exploration textometrique des thematiques dans un
 corpus, 13 fevrier 2014, Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee
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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:12:20 +0100
From: Nicolas Turenne <nturenne.inra at yahoo.fr>
Message-ID: <52F3A654.3000909 at yahoo.fr>
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[d?sol? pour les r?ceptions multiples]

Chers coll?gues,

Dans le cadre de la quinzi?me s?ance du s?minaire 'traces digitales' du
groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Philippe Gambette
(MCF, Universit? Paris-Est Marne la Vall?e) et Mathieu Brugidou
(chercheur HDR, EDF) qui nous parleront d?analyse statistique de donn?es
textuelles.
Cette matin?e aura lieu le jeudi 13 f?vrier de 10h ? 13h00, dans la
salle de r?union C219 du Latts (Universit? Paris-Est Marne la Vall?e -
rue Galil?e, b?timent du Bois de l?Etang - 2?me ?tage - aile C). Voir
http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html


10h-11h30 Philippe Gambette (ma?tre de conf?rences, LIGM, Universit?
Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e)

Exploration textom?trique des th?matiques dans un corpus de projets de
recherche sur la biodiversit?

R?sum? : ? partir d?un corpus de plus de 4000 r?sum?s de projets
financ?s par une quinzaine d?agences de divers pays europ?ens, nous
dressons un panorama des tendances temporelles et g?ographiques de la
recherche sur la biodiversit? financ?e en Europe entre 2004 et 2011.
Pour cela, analyses factorielles, ?valuations de sp?cificit?s de
vocabulaire et visualisations en nuages arbor?s sont combin?es dans le
cadre d?une analyse exploratoire enrichie par le regard d?un expert du
domaine. Les qualit?s et les limites de la visualisation en nuage arbor?
seront tout particuli?rement ?voqu?es, et approfondies par d?autres cas
d?utilisation.

11h30-13h Mathieu Brugidou (chercheur HDR, EDF)

Le Grenelle de l?environnement : une approche morphologique et formelle
avec des logiciels d?analyse des donn?es textuelles, Alceste et Tropes.

R?sum? : L?hypoth?se privil?gi?e dans ce travail est de consid?rer le
Grenelle de l?environnement comme un dispositif d??criture collective.
Il ne s?agit pas seulement d?un dispositif de participation et de
concertation des parties prenantes, marqu? fortement par une dimension
de n?gociation, comme l?indique la reprise du terme de Grenelle. Ce
processus de concertation s?av?re ?tre aussi un dispositif d??criture
collective destin? ? produire des synth?ses et des mesures d?action
publique. Deux types d?approches seront privil?gi?s dans cette analyse.
Une premi?re approche, morphologique, est orient?e vers l?analyse de la
repr?sentation des probl?mes ; une seconde, formelle, [Lassegue, 2010]
est d?di?e ? l?analyse de la formulation de mesures :

  La perspective morphologique cherche ? mettre en ?vidence les
  structures th?matiques des diff?rents corpus et leurs dynamiques. Nous
  faisons l?hypoth?se que le dispositif du Grenelle ? et notamment sa
  conception en phases ? produit des cartographies des probl?mes et que
  ceux-ci ne peuvent ?tre repr?sent?s que de mani?re relationnelle. La
  d?finition des probl?mes pour les acteurs du Grenelle implique de
  trier les questions, d?abord entre celles qui rel?vent ou qui ne
  rel?vent pas du Grenelle de l?environnement, ensuite entre celles
  d?finissant les diff?rents probl?mes identifi?s au cours du
  Grenelle. Les m?thodes d?analyses des donn?es textuelles seront ici
  privil?gi?es ? notamment celles s?inscrivant dans la filiation de
  Benz?cri, ? l?image de la m?thode Alceste d?velopp?e par M.Reinert,
  tourn?es vers une approche empirique des structures ;

  Une deuxi?me perspective peut ?tre qualifi?e de formelle dans la
  mesure o? elle s?attache aux effets des dispositifs d??critures sur la
  forme des mesures. Il s?agit de d?crire la mise en forme des mesures
  en faisant l?hypoth?se que celles-ci ? au-del? de leurs contenus ?
  pr?sentent des caract?ristiques linguistiques propres qui r?pondent ?
  une grammaire [Lemieux, 2009] qui d?finit leurs propri?t?s
  pragmatiques.  Cette deuxi?me approche, plus analytique, privil?gie
  des ?tudes diachroniques suivant le phasage du dispositif. Ce sont
  notamment des analyses morphosyntaxiques qui seront ici conduites avec
  l?aide du logiciel Tropes. Ces analyses seront conduites sur des
  corpus construits selon diff?rents param?tres de temps (les phases de
  la n?gociation) mais aussi d?espaces de discours (les diff?rents
  dispositifs d??critures, lesquels renvoient aux phases du Grenelle
  mais aussi ? des sous espaces des rapports, par exemple l?opposition
  entre synth?se et annexes, etc.).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:25:34 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:25:34 +0100
Subject: Stage: Master recherche,
 Annotation semantique dynamique/Dynamic semantic annotation,
 LIPN, Universite Paris 13
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:49:22 +0100
From: Adeline Nazarenko <adeline.nazarenko at lipn.univ-paris13.fr>
Message-Id: <300A46BB-69F2-47EC-9292-B3576E7A713E at lipn.univ-paris13.fr>

(English version below)

Proposition de stage de master recherche

Annotation s?mantique dynamique

Mots clefs : Traitement Automatique des Langues, annotation s?mantique,
gestion de contenus, ing?nierie des connaissances, web s?mantique

Encadrants : Adeline Nazarenko et Fran?ois L?vy (LIPN, Universit? Paris
13 ? Sorbonne Paris Cit? & CNRS)

Dur?e : 4 ? 6 mois (printemps-?t? 2014)

Indemnit?s : 430? /mois (Labex EFL)

Probl?matique

L'annotation s?mantique des documents joue aujourd'hui un r?le clef pour
beaucoup d'applications de gestion de contenus textuels (navigation
textuelle, recherche d'information s?mantique, restructuration de
documents, etc.). L'annotation s?mantique consiste ? apposer sur un
texte des informations, ou m?tadonn?es, dont la s?mantique est port?e
par un mod?le s?mantique formel (langage d'indexation, thesaurus,
ontologie, par exemple) [13, 6, 14]. On associe ainsi au texte une
repr?sentation s?mantique formelle et les moteurs de recherche ou agents
logiciels peuvent exploiter ? la fois le contenu textuel (recherche en
plain texte, calculs distributionnels) et la s?mantique formelle qui lui
est associ?e.

Les outils d'annotation de la premi?re g?n?ration sont assez frustres,
se contentant souvent de lier les mentions des entit?s nomm?es
identifi?es dans les textes ? des instances existantes ou ? de nouvelles
instances de concepts dans une ontologie [10, 4].

Le d?veloppement des applications sp?cialis?es de gestion de contenus et
l'essor du web de donn?es am?nent aujourd'hui ? revoir les m?thodes
d'annotation s?mantique : on a besoin de m?thodes et d'outils qui
offrent une expressivit? d'annotation plus riche (par ex. annoter des
instances de concepts mais aussi des concepts et des relations) tout en
?tant robustes, g?n?riques et adaptables ? diff?rents domaines et
contextes d'utilisation.

Objectif du stage

Le stage permettra de proposer une m?thode d'annotation s?mantique qui
int?gre des mesures de qualit? de l'annotation et qui permette de
r?viser l'annotation dynamiquement. On supposera que le mod?le
s?mantique utilis? est de type ontologique.

Si l'on consid?re qu'un syst?me d'annotation S=<O,T,A> est compos? d'une
ontologie O, d'un texte T et d'un ensemble d'annotations ou de liens A
associant ? des segments de T des entit?s de O, il faut r?viser le
syst?me S si l'un de ses composants est mis ? jour (le texte est
modifi?, l'ontologie est enrichie ou restructur?e) ou lorsque des
incoh?rences ou d?fauts de couverture sont d?tect?s.

Le stage consistera ? ?tudier les diff?rents cas de figures dans
lesquels un tel syst?me d'annotation doit ?tre r?vis? et ? proposer une
m?thode d'annotation dynamique int?grant des processus de r?vision. La
m?thode d'annotation dynamique doit 1) int?grer des crit?res de
coh?rence et des mesures de couverture pour identifier quand la r?vision
d'un syst?me d'annotation est n?cessaire, 2) proposer des proc?dures de
r?vision adapt?es aux diff?rents cas de figure et 3) contr?ler la
convergence du processus global de r?vision.

En commen?ant par les types d'annotation les plus simples (par ex. un
texte annot? avec les instances et les concepts d'une ontologie), le
stagiaire devra proposer une m?thode d'annotation dynamique. Il pourra
s'appuyer sur les outils d'annotation s?mantique existants de l'?quipe
RCLN, sur l'expertise des membres de l'?quipe et sur des cas d'usage
r?els pour ?valuer l'apport de cette dynamique de l'annotation.

Il est souhaitable que la m?thode propos?e soit directement int?gr?e ?
un outil d'annotation existant mais elle pourra aussi ?tre test?e en
simulation si l'int?gration s'av?re trop co?teuse.

Description du travail

Le stage comportera  diff?rentes parties :

1) ?tat de l'art sur l'annotation s?mantique et veille sur les outils
   existants (outils de l'?quipe RCLN ou autres) ;

2) description, mod?lisation et impl?mentation du processus d'annotation
   dynamique (pour les types d'annotations les plus simples ; en
   s'appuyant sur les outils existants et/ou sur des technologies
   s?mantiques) ;

3) analyse, test et ?valuation de l'approche propos?e sur des cas
   d'usage r?els simplifi?s fournis par l'?quipe RCLN.

En outre et en pr?vision d'une poursuite en th?se, le stagiaire pourra
chercher ? sp?cifier une m?thode d'annotation s?mantique plus riche
prenant en compte une palette ?tendue de types d'annotations.

Contexte et informations pratiques

Le stage sera encadr? par Adeline Nazarenko et Fran?ois L?vy.

Le/la stagiaire sera int?gr?(e) ? l'?quipe RCLN et b?n?ficiera de
l'expertise de celle-ci en mati?re de traitement automatique des
langues, d'ing?nierie des connaissances textuelles et de web
s?mantique. En particulier, l'?quipe RCLN a une solide exp?rience en
mati?re d'annotation s?mantique (annotation manuelle [2, 3] ou
automatique, par apprentissage [8], formalismes et ressources pour
l'annotation [9, 12]) et de construction d'ontologies ? partir de textes
[1]. Elle a aussi l?exp?rience de l'int?gration de ces m?thodes
d'annotation et d'acquisition dans les outils d'analyse de contenus [7,
5, 11].

Le/la stagiaire travaillera au LIPN (Universit? Paris 13 ? Sorbonne
Paris Cit? & CNRS) o? il/elle se verra attribuer un bureau. Il/elle aura
acc?s ? l'ensemble des moyens techniques et des donn?es n?cessaires ?
son travail.

Le stage est pr?vu pour une dur?e de 6 mois. Il devrait d?buter au
printemps 2014.

Le stage sera financ? dans le cadre d'une op?ration de recherche de
l'axe ? Analyse s?mantique computationnelle ? du Labex ? Fondements
empiriques de la linguistique ?.

Les candidatures doivent ?tre adress?es ? Fran?ois L?vy (francois.levy ?
lipn.univ-paris13.fr) avant le 7 mars 2014 : envoyer une lettre de
motivation, un CV, les relev?s de notes de master.

R?f?rences

[1] N. Aussenac-Gilles, S. Despr?s, and S. Szulman. ? The TERMINAE
Method and Platform for Ontology Engineering from texts ?. In Paul
Buitelaar and Philipp Cimiano, editors, Bridging the Gap between Text
and Knowledge - Selected Contributions to Ontology Learning and
Population from Text, pages 199?223. IOS Press, janvier 2008.

[2] K. Fort. Les ressources annot?es, un enjeu pour l?analyse de contenu
: vers une m?thodologie de l?annotation manuelle de corpus. Th?se
d'informatique, Universit? Paris 13 ? Sorbonne Paris Cit?, Villetaneuse,
France, 2012.

[3] K. Fort., A. Nazarenko, S. Rosset. ? Modeling the Complexity of
Manual Annotation Tasks: a Grid of Analysis ?. In Proceedings of the
24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING
2012), Mumbai, India, December 2012.

[4] C. Giuliano, A. Gliozzo. ? Instance-based ontology population
exploiting named-entity substitution ?. In Proceedings of the 22nd
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008),
pages 265?272, Manchester, August 2008.

[5] A. Guiss?, F. L?vy, A. Nazarenko. Un moteur s?mantique pour explorer
des textes r?glementaires. In Actes des 22?mes journ?es francophones
d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances, Chamb?ry, 2011.

[6] A. Kiryakov, B. Popov, I. Terziev, D. Manov, and D. Ognyanoff.  ?
Semantic annotation, indexing, and retrieval ?. Journal of Web
Semantics, 2(1):49?79, 2004.

[7] F. L?vy, A. Nazarenko, A. Guiss?. ? Annotation, indexation et
parcours de documents num?riques ?. Revue des Sciences et Technologies
de l'Information, 13(3/2010):121?152, 2010.

[8] Y. Ma, F. L?vy, A. Nazarenko. Annotation s?mantique pour des
domaines sp?cialis?s et des ontologies riches. In de la 20?me conf?rence
du Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN 2013), pp 464-478,
17-21 Juin 2013, Les Sables d?Olonne.

[9] Y. Ma, A. Nazarenko, L. Audibert. ? Formal description of resources
for ontology-based semantic annotation ?. In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC
2010), Malta, May 2010. ELRA.

[10] B. Magnini, A. Pianta, O. Popescu, M. Speranza. ? Ontology
population from textual mentions: Task definition and benchmark ?. In
Proceedings of the OLP2 workshop on Ontology Population and Learning,
Sidney, Australia, 2006.

[11] A. Nazarenko, A. Guiss?, F. L?vy, N. Omrane, S. Szulman. ?
Integrating Written Policies in Business Rule Management Systems ?. In
Rule-Based reasoning, Programming, and Applications, volume 6826 of
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 99?113, Barcelona, Espagne,
2011.

[12] N. Omrane, A. Nazarenko, P. Rosina, S. Szulman, C. Westphal. ?
Lexicalized ontology for a business rules management platform: An
automotive use case ?. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium
on Rules, International Business Rules Forum (RuleMF at BRF), Ft
Lauderdale, Florida, USA, November 2011.

[13] B. Popov, A. Kiryakov, D. Ognyanoff, D. Manov, A. Kirilov. ? Kim ?
a semantic platform for information extraction and retrieval ?. Natural
Language Engineering, 10(3-4):375?392, 2004.

[14] V. Uren, P. Cimiano, J. Iria, S. Handschuh, M. Vargas-Vera,
E. Motta, F. Ciravegna. ? Semantic annotation for knowledge management:
Requirements and a survey of the state of the art ?. Journal of Web
Semantics, 4, 2006.

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(French version above)

Proposal for a master internship 
Dynamic semantic annotation

Keywords: Natural Language Engineering, Semantic Annotation, Content
Management, Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web

Supervision: Adeline Nazarenko and Fran?ois L?vy (LIPN, Universit? Paris
13 ? Sorbonne Paris Cit? & CNRS)

Duration: 4-6 months (spring-summer 2014)

Indemnit?s: 430? /month (Labex EFL)

Problem

The semantic annotation of documents plays a key role for many
applications of textual content management (e.g. navigation, semantic
information retrieval, publication). Semantic Annotation consists in
enriching a text with metadata which semantics is given by a formal
semantic model (e.g. indexing language, thesaurus, ontology) [13, 6 ,
14]. A formal semantic representation is thus associated with the text
so that search engines or software agents can jointly exploit the
textual content (plain text search, distributional measures) and the
formal semantics associated with it.

The first generation annotation tools are quite simple. They often
merely bind references to named entities identified in the texts to
existing instances or new instances of concepts in an ontology [10 ,
4]. However, the development of specialized applications of content
management and linked data calls for renewed methods of semantic
annotation: we need methods and tools that provide a richer
expressiveness of annotation (e.g. annotation wrt. concepts and
relations and not only instances) while being robust, generic and
adaptable to different domains and use cases.

Goal

The goal of the internship is to design a semantic annotation method
incorporating annotation quality measures and enabling the dynamic
revision of annotations, assuming that the semantic model is
ontological.

If we consider that an annotation system S = <O,T,A> consists of an
ontology O, a text T and a set of annotations or links A associating
segments of with entities of O, one must revise the system S if one of
its components is updated (the text is modified, the ontology is
enriched or restructured ) or when inconsistencies or gaps in coverage
are detected.

The Master student will study the different scenarios requiring the
revision of such an annotation system and propose a method of dynamic
annotation integrating such a revision process. The dynamic annotation
method must 1) integrate consistency criteria and coverage metrics to
identify when the revision of an annotation system is necessary, 2)
propose revision procedures adapted to different use scenarios and 3)
control the convergence of the overall revision process.

Starting with the simplest types of annotation (e.g. a text annotated
with instances and concepts of an ontology), the student will provide a
method for dynamic annotation. It will rely on existing semantic
annotation tools, on the expertise of RCLN team members and on real use
cases to assess the contribution of this dynamic annotation.

The proposed method will be directly integrated into an existing
annotation tool or tested through simulation if integration is too
complex.

Description of work 

The work will include several parts: 
- state of the art on semantic annotation and review of existing tools; 

- description, modeling and implementation of the dynamic annotation
  process (for the simplest types of annotations and based on existing
  tools and/or semantic technologies); 

- analysis, test and evaluation of the proposed approach on simple but
  real use cases provided by the RCLN team. 

In addition, and in anticipation of a PhD followup, the student may
start to specify a richer semantic annotation method taking into account
a wider range of annotation types.

Context and Practical Information

The work will be supervised by Pr. Adeline Nazarenko and Pr. Francois
Levy.

The intern will be integrated in the RCLN team and benefit from its
expertise in natural language processing, knowledge engineering and
semantic web. In particular, RCLN has a solid experience in semantic
annotation (manual annotation [2, 3] or based on machine learning [8],
formalisms and resources for annotation [9, 12]) and text-based ontology
design [1]. It also knows how to integrate those methods of acquisition
and annotation in content analysis tools [7 , 5, 11 ].

The intern will work at LIPN (University Paris 13 - Sorbonne Paris Cit?
& CNRS) where he/she will be assigned a desk. He/she will have access to
local facilities and data resources.

The internship is for a period of 6 months. It should start in spring
2014.

It will be funded by the Labex "Empirical Foundations of Language"
(research strand ?computational semantic analysis?).

Applications should be addressed to Fran?ois L?vy (francois.levy to
lipn.univ - paris13.fr) before March 7, 2014 : send a cover letter, a CV
and transcripts.

References

[1] N. Aussenac-Gilles, S. Despr?s, and S. Szulman. ? The TERMINAE
Method and Platform for Ontology Engineering from texts ?. In Paul
Buitelaar and Philipp Cimiano, editors, Bridging the Gap between Text
and Knowledge - Selected Contributions to Ontology Learning and
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[2] K. Fort. Les ressources annot?es, un enjeu pour l?analyse de contenu
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:47:33 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:47:33 +0100
Subject: Journee: Formation au logiciel TXM (textometrie),
 dates pour mars-avril 2014
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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:53:08 +0100
From: Serge Heiden <slh at ens-lyon.fr>
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Bonjour,

Le logiciel open-source de textom?trie TXM, dont le d?veloppement est
coordonn? par le laboratoire ICAR ? Lyon, permet l'analyse documentaire
(qualitative) et statistique (quantitative) de donn?es textuelles (dont
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 (8h30/9h30-17h30/18h) :
- lundi 7 avril : Initiation ? TXM ;
- mardi 8 avril : Pr?paration de corpus et import dans TXM.
(Les ateliers de f?vrier sont complets.)

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 vous
inscrire en envoyant un mail ? textometrie <?> ens-lyon <point> fr
(l'inscription est n?cessaire m?me si vous aviez r?pondu ? la
consultation doodle.)

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

Au plaisir de vous retrouver peut-?tre ? l'une de ces journ?es,

Serge Heiden, pour l'?quipe TXM.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:46:34 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:46:34 +0100
Subject: Appel: LREC 2014 Workshop on Building and Using Comparable
 Corpora (7th BUCC)
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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:06:23 +0100
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We apologize for multiple postings
Please distribute to interested colleagues

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

  Final Call for Papers

  7th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA

  Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

  http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/

  May 27, 2014
  Co-located with LREC 2014
  Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland)

  DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 10, 2014
  https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/


  *** INVITED SPEAKER ***

  Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania)

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

MOTIVATION

In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in
comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language
engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use
comparable corpora as training data for statistical Natural Language
Processing applications such as statistical machine translation or
cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable
corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible
inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted
in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or
several languages that are comparable in content and form in various
degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and
observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine
such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of
great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.

The scarcity of parallel corpora has motivated research concerning the
use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected
according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or
language varieties. Non-parallel yet comparable corpora overcome the two
limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual
texts are much more abundant than translated texts.  However, because of
their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more
challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable
corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention:
while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward,
building a non-parallel corpus requires control over the selection of
source texts in both languages.

Parallel corpora are a key resource as training data for statistical
machine translation, and for building or extending bilingual lexicons
and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English-
French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary
debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the
creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the
Web. To exemplify such issues in a practical setting, this year's
special focus will be on

    Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

This special topic aims to address the need for:
(1) Machine Translation training and testing data such as spoken or
    written monolingual, comparable or parallel data collections, and
(2) methods and tools used for collecting, annotating, and verifying MT
    data such as Web crawling, crowdsourcing, tools for language experts
    and for finding MT data in comparable corpora.


TOPICS

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

Topics related to the special theme:

  * Methods and tools for collecting and processing MT data, including
    crowdsourcing
  * Methods and tools for quality control
  * Tools for efficient annotation
  * Bilingual term and named entity collections
  * Multilingual treebanks, wordnets, propbanks, etc.
  * Comparable corpora with parallel units annotated
  * Comparable corpora for under-resourced languages and specific
    domains
  * Multilingual corpora with rich annotations: POS tags, NEs,
    dependencies, semantic roles, etc.
  * Data for special applications: patent translation, movie subtitles,
    MOOCs, meetings, chat-rooms, social media, etc.
  * Legal issues with collecting and redistributing data and generating
    derivatives

Building comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Automatic and semi-automatic methods
  * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
  * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
  * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
  * Rare and minority languages, across language families
  * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Language learning
  * Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
  * Bilingual projections
  * Machine translation
  * Writing assistance

Mining from comparable corpora:
  * Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable
    corpora
  * Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single
    words and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities, etc.


IMPORTANT DATES

  February 10, 2014    Deadline for submission of full papers
  March 10, 2014       Notification of acceptance
  March 27, 2014       Camera-ready papers due
  May 27, 2014         Workshop date


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to be
announced on the conference website http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/ )
and should be submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6)
pages. Characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused
contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an
interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must describe
substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without exceeding
ten (10) pages.

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the
authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.

Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the
workshop organizers.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research.  Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse,
replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

Authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit substantially
extended versions of their manuscripts to an upcoming special issue on
?Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora? of the Journal of Natural
Language Engineering.


ORGANISERS

  Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France)
  Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)
  Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
  Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Aix-Marseille (France)


FURTHER INFORMATION

Pierre Zweigenbaum:  pz (at) limsi (dot) fr


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

  * Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  * Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, US)
  * Caroline Barri?re (CRIM, Montr?al, Canada)
  * Chris Biemann (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
  * Herv? D?jean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
  * Kurt Eberle (Lingenio, Heidelberg, Germany)
  * Andreas Eisele (European Commission, Luxembourg)
  * ?ric Gaussier (Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
  * Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France)
  * Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
  * Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
  * Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  * Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
  * Natalie K?bler (Universit? Paris Diderot, France)
  * Philippe Langlais (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada)
  * Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US)
  * Emmanuel Morin (Universit? de Nantes, France)
  * Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US)
  * Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  * Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
  * Reinhard Rapp (Universit? Aix-Marseille, France)
  * Sujith Ravi (Google, Mountain View, US)
  * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
  * Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
  * Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US)
  * Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
  * Stephan Vogel (QCRI, Qatar)
  * Guillaume Wisniewski (Universit? Paris Sud & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
  * Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:20:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:20:43 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Programme Seminaire Linguistique Theorique,
 Universite de Bourgogne
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:12:55 +0100 (CET)
From: Philippe Monneret <Philippe.Monneret at u-bourgogne.fr>
Message-ID: <447312548.2154087.1391785975799.JavaMail.root at u-bourgogne.fr>



S?MINAIRE 2014 

QUESTIONS DE LINGUISTIQUE TH?ORIQUE 

Philippe Monneret 

Universit? de Bourgogne / GReLiSC (EA 4178 CPTC) 

B?timent Droit-Lettres ? 10h-12h 

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

Jeudi 23 janvier (salle 105 PEG) 

Pr?sentation et introduction du s?minaire 

? Analogie et similarit? en sciences du langage ? 

Philippe Monneret (Universit? de Bourgogne) 



Jeudi 6 f?vrier (salle 155) 

? Pourquoi tant de logiques modales ? ? 

Guillaume Coqui (Universit? de Bourgogne) 



Jeudi 13 f?vrier (salle du Conseil Lettres) 

? Remarques sur la d?termination en fran?ais ? 

Pierre-Andr? Buvet (Universit? de Paris 13) 



Jeudi 20 f?vrier 

Colloque ? Vers une histoire des th?ories phonosymboliques ? 

Organis? par Luca Nobile (Universit? de Bourgogne) 



Jeudi 6 mars (salle 155) 

? Sur le possible en linguistique ? 

Thomas Verjans (Universit? de Bourgogne) 



Jeudi 13 mars (salle du Conseil Lettres) 

? Mon nom est PERSONNE : qui est JE, qui est TU, qui est IL ? ? 

Georges Kleiber (Universit? de Strasbourg) 



Jeudi 20 mars (salle du Conseil Lettres) 

? L?expression de la finalit? en fran?ais ? 

Gaston Gross (Universit? de Paris 13) 



Vendredi 28 mars (salle du Conseil Droit) 

? Philosophie du langage, philosophie de la linguistique, philosophie
des langues ?

Christian Puech (Universit? de Paris 3) 



Jeudi 3 avril (salle 155) 

? Sur la disparition de cuidier ? 

Thierry Ponchon (Universit? de Reims, Champagne-Ardenne) 



Vendredi 11 avril (salle du Conseil Lettres) 

? Essai de typologie de l?iconicit? linguistique ? 
Luca Nobile (Universit? de Bourgogne) 



Jeudi 17 avril (salle 155) 

? Penser sans langage. Le cas des enfants en p?riode pr?-linguistique ?
Anna Ciaunica ( Mind, Language and Action Lab - University of Porto)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:01:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:01:30 +0100
Subject: Appel: SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, June 18th-20th, Philadelphia, USA
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.120130.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 09:47:00 +0000
From: Helen Hastie <h.hastie at hw.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <CAPv1Dq7wyWKgP3NVHet90AX1vKHHpPjTaqfAf3-DLo3pu=PWhg at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15

*SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE*
*Wednesday, June 18 to Friday, June 20, 2014   *

The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialog will be co-located with the 8th International Conference on
Natural Language Generation (INLG 2014 (http://inlg2014.wordpress.com/))
in Philadelphia, PA, USA and immediately preceding ACL 2014.

     http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15


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


*KEYNOTE SPEAKERS*We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers will
be Prof. Steve Young from the University of Cambridge and Prof. Lillian
Lee from Cornell University.


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

- Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems

- Corpora, Tools and Methodology

- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling

- Dimensions of Interaction

- Open Domain Dialog

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

- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology

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


*SPECIAL SESSIONS*There will be one special session co-located with
INLG<http://inlg2014.wordpress.com/>on the morning of June 20th. There
will be a second special session on the Dialogue State Tracking
Challenge (DSTC) (http://camdial.org/~mh521/dstc/)*. *Proposals for
additional special sessions are also still welcome. Special sessions
submission will undergo regular SIGdial review process.


*IMPORTANT DATES*

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

*Special Session Notification:   *            Monday, 17 February 2014

*Long, Short and Demonstration*

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

*Paper Notification:  *                       Friday, 18 April 2014

*Final Paper Due*

- For papers accepted subject to receiving mentoring     Wednesday, 14 May  2014

- For accepted papers                         Friday, 23 May 2014

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



*SUBMISSIONS*

*Special Session Proposals*

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

*Papers*

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

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

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

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

Authors of a submission may designate their paper to be considered for a
SIGDIAL special session, which would highlight a particular area or
topic.  All papers will undergo regular peer review.

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

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

Submission is electronic using paper submission software.

*FORMAT*

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

*MENTORING SERVICE*

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

*STUDENT SUPPORT*

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

*BEST PAPER AWARDS*

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

*SPONSORSHIP*

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

*DIALOG AND DISCOURSE*

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

*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*


General Co-Chairs

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA


Technical Program Co-Chairs

Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA


Mentoring Chair

Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Research Labs, USA


Local Chair

Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA


Sponsorships Chair

Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA


SIGdial President

Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA


SIGdial Vice President

Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA


SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer

Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:16:21 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:16:21 +0100
Subject: Conf: WWW'14, Tutorial on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis,
 Seoul, Korea
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.121621.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 17:43:30 +0800
From: Erik Cambria <cambria at nus.edu.sg>
Message-ID: <6BBCDA75-D5AB-4402-BC54-3E4965361F62 at nus.edu.sg>


Apologies for cross-posting, 

Participants are invited to the WWW?14 tutorial on Concept-Level
Sentiment Analysis, which will be held within the World Wide Web
conference this April in Seoul, Korea. The tutorial aims to provide its
participants means to efficiently design models, techniques, tools, and
services for concept-level sentiment analysis and their commercial
realizations. The tutorial draws on insights resulting from the recent
IEEE Intelligent Systems special issues on Concept-Level Opinion and
Sentiment Analysis and the IEEE CIM special issue on Computational
Intelligence for Natural Language Processing. The tutorial includes a
hands-on session to illustrate how to build a concept-level
opinion-mining engine step-by-step, from semantic parsing to
concept-level reasoning.


BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATIONS

As the Web rapidly evolves, Web users are evolving with it. In an era of
social connectedness, people are becoming increasingly enthusiastic
about interacting, sharing, and collaborating through social networks,
online communities, blogs, Wikis, and other online collaborative
media. In recent years, this collective intelligence has spread to many
different areas, with particular focus on fields related to everyday
life such as commerce, tourism, education, and health, causing the size
of the Social Web to expand exponentially.

The distillation of knowledge from such a large amount of unstructured
information, however, is an extremely difficult task, as the contents of
today?s Web are perfectly suitable for human consumption, but remain
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.

Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language, however, is an
extremely difficult task as it involves a deep understanding of most of
the explicit and implicit, regular and irregular, syntactical and
semantic rules proper of a language. Existing approaches mainly rely on
parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed
such as polarity terms, affect words and their co-occurrence
frequencies. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed
implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical
approaches ineffective.

Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text
through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the
aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with
natural language opinions. By relying on external knowledge, such
approaches step away from blind use of keywords and word co-occurrence
count, but rather rely on the implicit features associated with natural
language concepts. Unlike purely syntactical techniques, concept-based
approaches are able to detect also sentiments that are expressed in a
subtle manner, e.g., through the analysis of concepts that do not
explicitly convey any emotion, but which are implicitly linked to other
concepts that do so. The bag-of-concepts model can represent semantics
associated with natural language much better than bags-of-words. In the
bag-of-words model, in fact, a concept such as cloud computing would be
split into two separate words, disrupting the semantics of the input
sentence (in which, for example, the word cloud could wrongly activate
concepts related to weather).

The analysis at concept-level allows for the inference of semantic and
affective information associated with natural language text and, hence,
enables comparative fine-grained feature-based sentiment
analysis. Rather than gathering isolated opinions about a whole item
(e.g., iPhone5), users are generally more interested in comparing
different products according to specific features (e.g., iPhone5?s vs
Galaxy S3?s touchscreen), or even sub-features (e.g., fragility of
iPhone5?s vs Galaxy S3?s touchscreen). In this context, the construction
of comprehensive common and common-sense knowledge bases is key for
feature-spotting and polarity detection, respectively. Common-sense, in
particular, is necessary to properly deconstruct natural language text
into sentiments ? for example, to appraise the concept small room as
negative for a hotel review and small queue as positive for a post
office, or the concept go read the book as positive for a book review
but negative for a movie review.


TUTORIAL PROGRAM

- Introduction (5 mins)

- New Avenues in Sentiment Analysis Research
	- From Heuristics to Discourse Structure (5 mins)
	- From Coarse to Fine-Grained Analysis (5 mins)
	- From Keywords to Concepts (10 mins)

- Concept-Level Models
	- Knowledge acquisition models (10 mins)
	- Emotion categorization models (10 mins)
	- Vector space models (10 mins)

- Concept-Level Techniques
	- Analogical reasoning (10 mins)
	- Parallel analogy (10 mins)
	- Spreading activation (10 mins)

- Concept-Level Tools
	- Sentiment resources (15 mins)
	- Common knowledge repositories (15 mins)
	- Aspect mining and polarity detection (10 mins)

- Building a Concept-Level Opinion-Mining Engine
	- Semantic parsing (15 mins)
	- Sentic API (15 mins)
	- Application Samples (20 mins)

- Conclusion (5 mins)


IMPACT AND RELEVANCE

The World Wide Web Conference is a global event bringing together key
researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, and business
experts trying to make meaning out of Web data. Within this research and
business area, opinion mining and sentiment analysis have become
increasingly important subtasks in recent years. However, there are
still many challenges, including social information understanding and
integration, that need to be addressed. For these reasons, a tutorial on
concept-level sentiment analysis is strongly relevant to WWW?14.


TARGET AUDIENCE AND PREREQUISITES

The target audience includes researchers and professionals in the fields
of sentiment analysis, Web data mining, and related areas. The tutorial
also aims to attract researchers from industry community as it covers
research efforts for the development of applications in fields such as
commerce, tourism, education, and health. The audience is expected to
have basic computer science skills, but psychologists and sociologists
are also very welcome. The tutorial not only covers state-of-the-art
approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis, but also provides
information about techniques and tools to be used for practical opinion
mining.


ABOUT THE TUTOR

Erik Cambria received his BEng and MEng with honors in Electronic
Engineering from the University of Genova, in 2005 and 2008
respectively. In 2011, he has been awarded a PhD in Computing Science
and Mathematics, following the completion of an industrial Cooperative
Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE) research project, funded by the
UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which was
born from the collaboration between the University of Stirling and the
MIT Media Laboratory.

Today, Erik is the lead investigator of a MINDEF-funded project on
Commonsense Knowledge Representation & Reasoning at the National
University of Singapore (Temasek Laboratories) and an associate
researcher at the MIT Media Laboratory (Synthetic Intelligence
Project). His interests include AI, Semantic Web, KR, NLP, opinion
mining and sentiment analysis, affective and cognitive modeling,
intention awareness, HCI, and e-health. Erik is also chair of several
international conferences, e.g., Extreme Learning Machines (ELM), and
workshop series, e.g., ICDM SENTIRE. He is on the editorial board of
Springer Cognitive Computation and he is a guest editor of many other
leading AI journals. Erik is also a fellow of the Brain Sciences
Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Taiwan University,
Microsoft Research Asia, and HP Labs India.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:51:47 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:51:47 +0100
Subject: Stage: Stage de Master 2,
 Analyse des citations et des enumerations dans les fora de sante,
 Toulouse
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.115147.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:43:23 +0100
From: Mustapha Mojahid <Mustapha.Mojahid at irit.fr>
Message-ID: <52F25C1B.2050808 at irit.fr>
X-url: http://www.msh-m.fr/programmes/programmes-2013/parlons-de-nous

Titre : Analyse des citations et des ?num?rations dans les fora de
        sant?.

*Lieu : *Laboratoire IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de
        Toulouse), Universit? Paul Sabatier, Equipe ELIPSE (Etude de
        L'Interaction Personne Syst?mE).

Contexte et probl?matique

Ce sujet du stage se situe dans le cadre d'un projet national ? Parlons
de nous ?
(http://www.msh-m.fr/programmes/programmes-2013/parlons-de-nous) o? l'on
?tudie des fora de sant? pour tenter de r?pondre ? la question ? ? quoi
pensent les patients ? ? et du projet interMSH qui lui fait suite.

Les forums de sant? sont des lieux o? les patients ?changent de nombreux
points de vues, conseils, o? ils s'interrogent et discutent, et ce dans
un contexte bien diff?rent des t?tes ? t?tes men?es avec les
professionnels de sant?, qui ont lieu dans une dur?e et un lieu
contraint. Le relatif anonymat des ?changes, l'implication r?currente de
certains dans les forums, les questions d?battues peuvent ?tre
r?v?latrices de points de vue, de connaissances ou m?connaissances
d'informations m?dicales, d'alertes, en provenance du grand public. Dans
ce contexte ?minemment subjectif, la caract?risation et la compr?hension
des perceptions dans les fils de discussions des forums est difficile,
mais aussi particuli?rement int?ressante et instructive dans une
perspective d'am?lioration des programmes de sant? publique.


*Objectif du projet*

Un des objectifs du projet est de d?velopper une plateforme pour aider
des chercheurs (linguistes, sociologues et psychologues) et des m?decins
? observer certains comportements dans les fils de discussions dans des
fora de sant?. Dans le cadre d'un travail de th?se en informatique lanc?
cette ann?e sur le sujet du contexte et des informations m?dicales, nous
avons initi? cette plateforme.


  La plateforme vise ? proposer une interface qui permet de repr?senter
  et visualiser sch?matiquement les fils discussions (ou extraits de ces
  fils de discussions) de forums au travers de traits et crit?res que
  les chercheurs vont choisir. On esp?re ainsi pouvoir associer ?
  certains sch?mas de discussions une qualit? informationnelle du fil
  ?tudi? (exemple : une discussion qui diverge du th?me initial et se
  recentre entre 2 personnes habitu?es devient peut ?tre un apart? hors
  sujet). Les crit?res actuellement pris en compte sont de nature
  contextuelle (les profils des utilisateurs (?ge, sexe), le temps,
  nombres d'interventions, la longueur des ?changes, les
  micro-?changes...). Nous souhaitons travailler sur l'exploration
  d'autres crit?res qui prendront en consid?ration des traitements
  linguistiques des discussions afin de disposer d'un jeu de vues sur
  les discussions. Nous souhaitons ?valuer si ces informations
  permettent de r?pondre ? notre hypoth?se de caract?risation des fils
  de discussion.

*Objectif du stage*

Ce stage vise deux objectifs :


  1. Explorer des pistes linguistiques pressenties comme


  - ?tudier l'utilisation des citations : en effet les internautes se
    citent et se r?pondent beaucoup au fil des discussions et visualiser
    ces interconnections dans le fil de discussions nous permettraient
    peut ?tre d'en avoir une compr?hension ?largie ;


  - connaitre les ?num?rations dans les fils de discussions (quels
    indices discursifs et de mise en forme mat?rielle peut-on rep?rer et
    qu'en d?duire ?)


  - analyser en utilisant les terminologies m?dicales existantes, les
    proximit?s s?mantiques entre les diff?rents post de discussion dans
    un fil.

2. ?laborer des strat?gies pour coupler les indices de l'architecture de
   texte et ceux li?s au contexte (profil de l'usager, th?matique
   abord?e, statut du message dans la discussion, etc.). Ce travail se
   fera en collaboration avec le doctorant.

Nous souhaitons en effet dans cette plateforme, en manipulant des jauges
constitu?es par ces crit?res, observer et pouvoir caract?riser comment
se construisent les r?ponses ? Est-ce que les r?ponses sont fournies par
des habitu?s ou des b?otiens ? Peut-on ?carter certaines discussions
(vulgarit?, ?parpillement...), ou au contraire anticiper sur des
contenus plut?t informatifs voire cruciaux ? Quels rebondissements ?
Quels recentrages ?... Nous nous focaliserons sur un sous-ensemble de
ces besoins.

La plate-forme ? configurable ?envisag?e doit permettre aux chercheurs /
m?decins de pouvoir observer des comportements et des ? histoires de
discussion ? st?r?otyp?s.

*Perspectives *

Deux th?ses possibles dans la continuit? de ce sujet de master (1. sur
l'?tude des ?num?rations dans les manuels scolaires d'histoire
g?ographie 2.sur l'am?lioration de l'accessibilit? textuelle pour des
personnes non-voyantes).

*Modalit?s du stage *

Encadrants :

Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac, CLLE-ERSS, Universit? Toulouse le Mirail
Nathalie Souf, IRIT-ELIPSE, Universit? Paul Sabatier et ISIS Castres
Mustapha Mojahid, IRIT-ELIPSE, Universit? Paul Sabatier

Dur?e : 5-6 mois.

R?mun?ration : celle pr?vue par la r?glementation ? savoir 436,05 EUR
par mois.

D?but : ? partir de Mars-Avril 2014.

*Profil du candidat *

Le candidat devra ?tre inscrit dans un Master 2 en traitement 
automatique des langues.

*Comp?tences demand?es*

- comp?tences en traitement automatique des langues et/ou en
  linguistique de corpus.

- comp?tences de base en informatique et id?alement ma?trise d'outils
  pour l'analyse de corpus et/ou de langages de programmation de type
  perl et python.

*Comment candidater ?*

Envoyer un CV (avec le d?tail des cours et notes des deux ann?es de
Master) et une lettre de motivation ? : Mustapha.Mojahid at irit.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 11:27:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:27:00 +0100
Subject: These: Inga Gheorghita,
 Construction automatique de hierarchies semantiques a partir du
 TLFi
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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 23:24:56 +0100
From: Inga Gheorghita <Inga.Gheorghita at atilf.fr>
Message-ID: <assp.01151d1d13.d4ab242f18bc30d2a439bc2732d6b186 at atilf.fr>


Bonjour,

J?ai le plaisir de vous convier ? ma soutenance de th?se de doctorat en
linguistique informatique intitul?e :

? Construction automatique de hi?rarchies s?mantiques ? partir du 
Tr?sor de la langue fran?aise informatis? (TLFi) : application ? 
l'indexation et la recherche d'images ?.

La th?se sera pr?sent?e et soutenue le lundi 17 f?vrier 2014 ? 9h30 ?
l?Universit? de Lorraine, Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines et
Sociales, b?timent CNRS-ATILF, salle Imbs.

La soutenance sera suivie du traditionnel pot de th?se auquel vous ?tes
tous chaleureusement invit?s.

=======================
   Composition du jury :
=======================

B?atrice DAILLE, Professeur ? l?Universit? de Nantes (rapporteur)
Brigitte GRAU, Professeur ? l?ENSIIE (rapporteur)
Cyril MARCH, Ing?nieur, Directeur g?n?ral de Xilopix (invit?)
Jean-Marie PIERREL, Professeur ? l?Universit? de Lorraine (directeur de
th?se)
Alain POLGU?RE, Professeur ? l?Universit? de Lorraine (examinateur)
Yannick TOUSSAINT, Charg? de Recherche HDR ? l?INRIA  (examinateur)

==========
   R?sum? :
==========

L?objectif principal de cette th?se est de montrer que les informations
lexicales issues d?un dictionnaire de langue, tel le Tr?sor de la langue
fran?aise informatis? (TLFi), peuvent am?liorer les processus
d?indexation et de recherche d?images. Le probl?me d?utilisation d?une
telle ressource est qu?elle n?est pas suffisamment formalis?e pour ?tre
exploit?e d?embl?e dans un tel domaine d?application.  Pour r?soudre ce
probl?me, nous proposons, dans un premier temps, une approche de
construction automatique de hi?rarchies s?mantiques ? partir du TLFi.
Apr?s avoir d?fini une caract?ristique quantitative (mesurable) et
comparable des noms apparaissant dans les d?finitions lexicographiques,
? travers une formule de pond?ration permettant de s?lectionner le nom
de poids maximal comme l?hyperonyme pour un lex?me donn? du TLFi, nous
proposons un algorithme de construction automatique de hi?rarchies
s?mantiques pour les lex?mes des vocables du TLFi.  Une fois notre
approche valid?e ? travers des ?valuations manuelles, nous montrons,
dans un second temps, que les hi?rarchies s?mantiques obtenues ? partir
du TLFi peuvent ?tre utilis?es pour l?enrichissement d?un th?saurus
construit manuellement ainsi que pour l?indexation automatique d?images
? partir de leurs descriptions textuelles associ?es. Nous prouvons aussi
que l?exploitation d?une telle ressource dans le domaine de recherche
d?images am?liore la pr?cision de la recherche en structurant les
r?sultats selon les domaines auxquels les concepts de la requ?te de
recherche peuvent faire r?f?rence. La mise en place d?un prototype nous
a permis ainsi d??valuer et de valider les approches ainsi propos?es.

==========
Mots-cl?s :
==========

hi?rarchies s?mantiques, ressources lexicales, pond?ration, 
dictionnaire de langue, TLFi, indexation et recherche d?images, 
th?saurus


Au plaisir de vous retrouver,
Inga Gheorghita

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Feb  8 10:53:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:53:09 +0100
Subject: Appel: ACFAS Colloque 635, Langues Naturelles,
 Informatique et Sciences Cognitives
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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:04:51 -0500
From: Fatiha Sadat <sadat.fatiha at uqam.ca>
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Appel ? communications -
EXTENSION DE LA DATE DE SOUMISSION POUR LE 14 F?vrier 2014

Le sujet de ce colloque traite de la linguistique informatique et plus
particuli?rement du traitement automatique des langues naturelles
(TALN/TAL) ainsi que son interaction avec les sciences cognitives. Il
s'agit d'un domaine qui se situe au carrefour de la linguistique, de
l'intelligence artificielle et des sciences cognitives dans leurs
recherches sur le langage naturel.

Ce colloque vise les diff?rentes applications du TALN dans un contexte
monolingue, bilingue ou multilingue, tel que le d?veloppement des
m?thodologies n?cessaires pour la construction et l'enrichissement des
ressources linguistiques. Tous les aspects du traitement automatique des
langues sont consid?r?s, en particulier les travaux th?oriques ayant
pour but de d?crire les ph?nom?nes linguistiques par des mod?les
calculatoires, le d?veloppement de logiciels d'aide aux linguistes pour
leurs travaux de recherche, tels que des ?tudes de corpus, le
d?veloppement de logiciels et de ressources pour utiliser, traiter,
organiser et conserver des donn?es linguistiques ?crites ou orale.

Il sera demand? aux pr?sentateurs de mettre en valeur les aspects li?s
au traitement automatique des langues naturelles, quel que soit le sujet
abord?, ainsi qu'? leur pertinence au niveau des sciences cognitives.

Plus sp?cifiquement, nous proposons d'abord les sujets suivants :

- mod?les de calcul des langues naturelles,

- r?seaux s?mantiques de grande taille,

- mod?les cognitifs et psychologiques des langues naturelles,

- ?volution des langues naturelles,

- traitement du discours,

- pragmatique, processus cognitifs et sociaux des langues,

- r?sum? automatique et extraction d'information,

- interfaces et syst?mes de dialogue,

- traduction automatique,

- traitement des ressources multilingues,

- construction et enrichissement des outils et ressources en TALN,

- corpus linguistique,

- forage de donn?es.

Chaque proposition soumise doit comprendre : le nom et le pr?nom du
conf?rencier, sa fonction, son affiliation et son courriel. De plus, un
r?sum? d'un maximum de 1500 caract?res (espaces compris) et dont le
titre ne d?passe pas 180 caract?res (espaces comprises) est exig?.

Les propositions doivent ?tre achemin?es sous forme de document Word ou
RTF.


*CALENDRIER*
Date limite de soumission : 14 f?vrier 2014 (extension)
Notification aux auteurs : 25 f?vrier 2014
Date du colloque : 13 mai 2014

*MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION*
Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais et doivent ?tre soumis ? travers
le syst?me de conf?rences libreEasychairet le lien suivant

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lnisc2014

Responsable(s)
Fatiha SADAT *UQAM - Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al*,
Alexandre BLONDIN MASS? *UQAC - Universit? du Qu?bec ? Chicoutimi*,
Stevan HARNAD *UQAM - Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al*

Cet appel se trouve ? cette adresse:

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:50:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:50:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: YSIP
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.215018.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:45:54 +0100
From: Bertram Fronh?fer
Message-ID: <52F65F42.8080406 at tu-dresden.de>
X-url: http://infocom.iitit.ru/
X-url: http://ysip.computational-logic.org/


The Institute for Information Processing and Telecommunication of the
North-Caucasus Federal University and the International Center for
Computational Logic of the

The Institute for Information Processing and Telecommunication of the
North-Caucasus Federal University and the International Center for
Computational Logic of the Technische Universit?t Dresden are jointly
organizing the

   Young Scientists' International Workshop
   on Trends in Information Processing (YSIP)

at the North-Caucasus Federal University in Stavropol from April 22
until April 25 as part of the International Conference on
Infocommunicational Technologies in Science, Production and Education
(INFOCOM-6) <http://infocom.iitit.ru/>.

We invite young scientists ? typically master or PhD students ? to
submit new scientific results ? as, for example, obtained in their
bachelor thesis, project work, master thesis, or PhD project ? in all
areas of Information Processing. In particular, papers are welcome in,
but are not limited to, the following areas:

   * Semantic Methods
   * Semantic Web
   * Languages for Semantic Information Processing
   * Applications of Semantic Information Processing
   * Formal Concept Analysis
   * Big Data
   * Information Retrieval
   * Question-Answering Systems
   * Information Security
   * Problem Solving
   * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
   * Common Sense Reasoning
   * Machine Learning
   * Pattern Recognition

Important Dates:

28 February 2014	Deadline of Submission
15 March 2014		Information about Acceptance or Rejection
20 March 2014		Registration
31 March 2014		Submission of Final Version
22-25 April 2014	Workshop


For more information see:

http://ysip.computational-logic.org/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:41:48 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:41:48 +0100
Subject: Appel: TKE 2014, extended deadline
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.214148.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:15:44 +0100
From: Laurent Romary <laurent.romary at inria.fr>
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+++ Extended deadline +++

TKE 2014 Ontology, terminology & text mining ? Call for papers and
workshop proposals

The 11th international conference on Terminology and Knowledge
Engineering, TKE 2014, is organised by GTW and DIN Deutsches Institut
f?r Normung e. V. in cooperation with Inria, Coreon, Cologne University
of Applied Sciences and Copenhagen Business School.

The theme of TKE 2014 will be ?Ontology, terminology & text mining.

Venue: DIN Deutsches Institut f?r Normung e. V., Am DIN-Platz,
Burggrafenstr. 6, 10787 Berlin

Dates:

- Main conference: 19th -20th June 2014

- Post-conference workshops: 21st June 2014

See more information on the conference web site:
http://tke2014.coreon.com.

Important dates:

[NEW]1st March 2014  Submission of papers and workshop proposals

31rst March 2014     Notification of acceptance of papers and workshop
                     proposals

15th May 2014        Final versions for the proceedings

Submissions should be anonymous and should be made on the web site:
http://tke2014.sciencesconf.org. See information on format for papers on
http://tke2014.coreon.com.

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:54:36 +0100
Subject: Appel: Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel,
 Interaction (WACAI) 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.215436.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:33:10 +0100
From: Magalie Ochs <magalie.ochs at telecom-paristech.fr>
Message-ID: <52F8D516.8050508 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/

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 articles : 23 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: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:59:29 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Challenge Semantic Publishing
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.215929.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:22:49 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Second Call for Challenge: Semantic Publishing ====
Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemPub
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemPub

** NEWS: 
**     an open in-use task has been added!

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)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite
Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Angelo Di Iorio (Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  University of Bologna, IT)
- Christoph Lange (Enterprise Information Systems, University of Bonn /
  Fraunhofer IAIS, DE)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

Scholarly publishing is increasingly enabling a new wave of applications
that better support researchers in disseminating, exploiting and
evaluating their results. The potential of publishing scientific papers
enriched with semantic information is huge and raises interesting and
challenging issues. Semantic Web technologies play a central role in
this context, as they can help publishers to make scientific results
available in an open format the whole research community can benefit
from.

The Semantic Publishing Challenge 2014 is intended to be the first in a
series of events at ESWC for producing and exploiting semantic
publishing data. The main focus this year is on extracting information
and using this information to assess the quality of scientific
productions.  Linked open datasets about scientific production exist -
e.g. DBLP - but they usually cover basic bibliographic information,
which is not sufficient to assess quality. Quality-related information
are often hidden and not yet available as LOD.

There is also a growing interest in alternative forms of publishing
scientific data as (semantic) datasets that can be more easily shared,
linked to each other, and reasoned on. Alternative metrics for
scientific impact are also gaining relevance.

We are seeking the most innovative and impacting applications in this
emerging contexts.


TARGET AUDIENCE

The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.


TASKS

The Challenge includes three tasks. Participants can participate in as
many tasks as they like.


= Extraction Tasks =

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


== Task 1: Extraction and assessment of workshop proceedings information ==

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


== Task 2: Extraction and characterization of citations ==

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


== In-use Task 3: Semantic technologies in improving scientific production ==

Participants are asked to submit demos that showcase the potential of
Semantic Web technology for enhancing and assessing the quality of
scientific production.

The task has a completely open structure and is, in particular,
independent from tasks 1 and 2: participants are free to decide which
tool to show and which dataset to use.

The evaluation will be different from other tasks and will consist of
two phases: after a first round of review, a number of submissions will
be invited to demo their work at ESWC. The final decision will be taken
at the Conference by a jury formed of PC members present at the event
and other invited experts.

Further details are available at:
http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/index.php/SemPub/Task3


EVALUATION

= Extraction Tasks 1 and 2 =

Participants will be requested to submit the LOD that their tool
produces from the evaluation dataset, as well as a paper that describes
their approach. They will also be given a set of queries in natural
language form and will be asked to translate those queries into a SPARQL
form that works on their LOD.

The results of the queries on the produced LOD will be compared with the
expected output, and precision and recall will be measured to identify
the best performing approach. Separately, the most original approach
will be assigned by the Program Committee.


= In-use Task 3 =

Participants are required to submit a paper description as for tasks 1
and 2 and a demo version of the tool (open source appreciated but not
mandatory).

The evaluation will consist of two phases: after a first round of
review, a number of submissions will be invited to demo their work at
ESWC. The final decision will be taken at the Conference by a jury
formed of PC members present at the event and other invited experts. The
winner will be selected according to its potential impact, originality,
breakthrough, the quality of the demo, and the appropriateness for ESWC.

Further details about the evaluation are provided on the challenge wiki.


FEEDBACK AND DISCUSSION

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


JUDGING AND PRIZES

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

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

Five winners will be selected. For each of Tasks 1 and 2 we will select:
* best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the highest
  score in the evaluation
* most original approach, selected by the Challenge Committee with the
  reviewing process

The winner of Task 3 will be selected by the jury according to its
potential impact, originality, breakthrough, the quality of the demo,
and the appropriateness for ESWC.

Winners will be selected only for tasks with at least 3 participants. In
any case all submissions will be reviewed and, if accepted, published in
ESWC post-proceedings.

An amount of 700 Euro has already been secured for the final prize. We
are currently working on securing further funding.

 
HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Participants are required to submit:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should explain the details of the automated annotation
  system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic
  Web technology, what features or functions the system provides, what
  design choices were made and what lessons were learned. The
  description should also summarize how participants have addressed the
  evaluation tasks. An outlook towards how the data could be consumed is
  appreciated but not strictly required. Papers must be submitted in PDF
  format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture Notes in
  Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.


Submissions for task 1 and task 2 also have to include:
* The Linked Open Dataset produced by the tool on the evaluation dataset
  (as a file or as a URL, in Turtle or RDF/XML). 
* A set of SPARQL queries that work on that LOD and correspond to the
  natural language queries provided as input
* Participants will also be asked to submit their tool (source and/or
  binaries, or a link these can be downloaded from, or a web service
  URL) for verification purposes.


Submissions for the in-use task 3 have to include:
* a demo version of the tool. The demo must be made available along with
  the paper submission but participants are allowed to refine it until
  the presentation at ESWC-14.


All papers submissions should be provided via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges


MAILING LIST

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

* December 3, 2013: Publication of the full description of the
  extraction tasks 1 and 2, rules and queries; publication of the
  training/testing dataset 
* January 31, 2014, 23:59 CET: Deadline for making remarks to the task 1
  and 2 training/testing datasets
* February 5, 2014: Publication of the final task 1 and 2
  training/testing datasets
* March 7, 2014, 23:59 CET: Abstract submission
* March 11, 2014: Publication of the task 1 and 2 evaluation dataset
* March 14, 2014, 23:59 CET: Submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: Demo at ESWC-14, and winner selection


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Soren Auer (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS, DE) (supervisor)
Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim, DE)
Sarven Capadisli (University of Leipzig, DE)
Alexander Constantin (University of Manchester, UK)
Jeremy Debattista (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS, DE)
Alexander Garcia Castro (Florida State University, US)
Leyla Jael Garcia Castro (Bundeswehr University of Munich, DE)
Paul Groth (VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Rinke Hoekstra (VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Aidan Hogan (DCC, Universidad de Chile)
Evangelos Milios (Dalhousie University, CA)
Lyubomir Penev (Pensoft Publishers, BG)
Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK)
Jun Zhao (Lancaster University, UK)

We are inviting further members.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:11:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:11:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: ECML PKDD 2014 (Reminder)
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.221122.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:42:19 +0100 (CET)
From: Amedeo Napoli <amedeo.napoli at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <1665645114.3459231.1392064939712.JavaMail.root at loria.fr>
X-url: http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/

Calls -- ECML PKDD 2014 (Reminder) 

Apologize for multiple receptions 

----------------------------------- 
ECML PKDD 2014 
September 15-19 2014, Nancy France 
http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/ 
----------------------------------- 

----- 
CALLS 
----- 

----------------------------------------------- 
Call For Workshops (workshops at ecmlpkdd2014.org) 
----------------------------------------------- 

Workshop proposal deadline 2 March 2014 
Workshop acceptance notification 21 March 2014 


----------------------------------------------- 
Call For Tutorials (tutorials at ecmlpkdd2014.org) 
----------------------------------------------- 

Tutorial proposal deadline 7 March 2014 
Tutorial acceptance notification 28 March 2014 


------------------------------------------- 
Call For Papers (pcchairs at ecmlpkdd2014.org) 
------------------------------------------- 

Abstract submission deadline 12 April 2014 
Paper submission deadline 16 April 2014 

--------------------------------------- 
Call For Demos (demos at ecmlpkdd2014.org) 
--------------------------------------- 

Demo submission deadline 16 May 2014 
Notification of acceptance 15 June 2014 


----------------------------------------------- 
Call For Nectar Track (nectar at ecmlpkdd2014.org) 
----------------------------------------------- 

Submission deadline 14 June 2014 
Notifications of acceptance 28 June 2014 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:16:27 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:16:27 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014 Update, Tutorials & Workshops Announced,
 Paper Submission
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.221627.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:25:34 +0000
From: John Judge <jjudge at computing.dcu.ie>
Message-ID: <52FA16BE.5000801 at computing.dcu.ie>
X-url: http://www.coling-2014.org


********** Apologies for cross-posting **********

COLING 2014

Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014

COLING 2014 (http://www.coling-2014.org), the 25th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics, will be organised by CNGL
(Centre for Global Intelligent Content) at the Helix Convention 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).

Accepted Tutorials and Workshops

We are pleased to announce that the workshops and tutorials for COLING
2014 have been finalised. In total there will be 6 tutorials and 18
workshops covering a wide range of topics. You will be able to register
for tutorials and workshops when the main conference registration opens.


Accepted Tutorials:
- Dependency Parsing: Past, Present, and Future - Wenliang Chen, 
  Zhenghua Li and Min Zhang
- Using Neural Networks for Modeling and Representing Natural Languages -
  Thomas Mikolov
- Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking - Roberto 
  Navigli and Andrea Moro
- Selection Bias, Label Bias, and Bias in Ground Truth - Anders S?gaard, 
  Barbara Plank and Dick Hovy
- Automated Grammatical Error Correction for Language Learners - Joel 
  Tetreault and Claudia Leacock
- Biomedical/clinical NLP - Ozlem Uzuner and Meliha Yetisgen


Accepted Workshops:
- Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing
- First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich 
  Languages and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Languages
  (SPMRL-SANCL)
- Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW)
- 5th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing 
  (WSSANLP)
- Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Analyzing Technical Language 
  (SADAATL)
- The 3rd Workshop on Vision and Language (VL'14)
- First Joint Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Big Social 
  Data Analysis and Social NLP (MABSDA-SocialNLP)
- First Joint Workshop on Open Infrastructures for HLT Resource 
  Processing and Development and Text Analysis Frameworks
- Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-IV)
- Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE)
- VarDial: Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, 
  Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)
- SemEval-2014: Semantic Evaluation Exercises - International Workshop 
  on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)
- The AHA!-Workshop on Information Discovery in Text (AHA!)
- CompuTerm 2014. 4th International Workshop on Computational 
  Terminology (CompuTerm)
- The First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis 
  (ComAComA)
- Automatic Text Simplification? Methods and Applications in the 
  Multilingual Society (ATS-MA)
- The 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VIII)
- The third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics 
  (*SEM-2014)


Call for Papers:

The first call for papers for the main conference is open. The paper
submission system is now open at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/main/. Papers should be prepared
using the paper templates available here
http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip.

We invite authors to submit papers in all relevant areas and encourage
authors to include analysis of the influence of theories (intuitions,
methodologies, insights), to technologies (computational algorithms,
methods, tools, data), and/or contributions of technologies to theory
development. Contributions that display and rigorously discuss future
potential, even if not (yet) attested in standard evaluation, are
welcome. For more information and instructions for authors see the
preliminary call for papers here
http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php.


Sponsorship and Promotion Opportunities

With the tremendous impact and growth of COLING over many years, we have
set out a comprehensive offering of corporate sponsorship and support
opportunities for industry participants. The COLING 2014 organising
committee is committed to working in close partnership with corporate
supporters to maximise the benefits of sponsorship and provide
opportunities for sponsors to engage appropriately with COLING
delegates. With this in mind, if you wish to explore additional options
for support or means of engagement with the COLING 2014 community please
feel free to contact sponsorship at coling-2014.org.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:57:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:57:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Challenge Linked Open Data-enabled
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.215726.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:09:59 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140210141019.5E85E119754 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/RecSys


** apologies for cross-posting **

= Second Call for Challenge: Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems =
Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/RecSys
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-RecSys 

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)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Tommaso Di Noia (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT)
- Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

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

Recent developments in the Semantic Web community offer novel strategies
to represent data about users, items and their relations that might
improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to
move towards a new generation of recommender systems that fully
understand the items they deal with.

More and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data
principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different
data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space:
the Web of Data. Today, the Web of Data includes different types of
knowledge represented in a homogeneous form: sedimentary one
(encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one
(news, data streams, ...). These data might be useful to interlink
diverse information about users, items, and their relations and
implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the
recommendation process.

The primary goal of this challenge is twofold. On the one hand, we want
to create a link between the Semantic Web and the Recommender Systems
communities. On the other hand, we aim to show how Linked Open Data
(LOD) and semantic technologies can boost the creation of a new breed of
knowledge-enabled and content-based recommender systems.


TARGET AUDIENCE

The target audience is all of the Semantic Web and the Recommender
Systems communities, both academic and industrial, which are interested
in personalized information access with a particular emphasis on Linked
Open Data.

During the last ACM RecSys conference more than 60% of participants were
from industry. This is for sure a witness of the actual interest of
recommender systems for industrial applications ready to be released in
the market.


TASKS

* Task 1: Rating prediction in cold-start situations

This task deals with the rating prediction problem, in which a system is
requested to estimate the value of unknown numeric scores
(a.k.a. ratings) that a target user would assign to available items,
indicating whether she likes or dislikes them.

In order to favor the proposal of content-based, LOD-enabled
recommendation approaches, and limit the use of collaborative filtering
approaches, this task aims at predicting ratings in cold-start
situations, that is, predicting ratings for users who have a few past
ratings, and predicting ratings of items that have been rated by a few
users.
The dataset to use in the task - DBbook - relates to the book domain. It
contains explicit numeric ratings assigned by users to books. For each
book we provide the corresponding DBpedia URI.

Participants will have to exploit the provided ratings as training sets,
and will have to estimate unknown ratings in a non-provided evaluation
set.

Recommendation approaches will be evaluated on the evaluation set by
means of metrics that measure the differences between real and estimated
ratings, namely the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE).


* Task 2: Top-N recommendation from binary user feedback

This task deals with the top-N recommendation problem, in which a system
is requested to find and recommend a limited set of N items that best
match a user profile, instead of correctly predict the ratings for all
available items.

Similarly to Task 1, in order to favor the proposal of content-based,
LOD-enabled recommendation approaches, and limit the use of
collaborative filtering approaches, this task aims to generate ranked
lists of items for which no graded ratings are available, but only
binary ones. Also in this case, the DBbook dataset is used.

In this task, the accuracy of recommendation approaches will be
evaluated on an evaluation set using the F-measure.


*  Task 3: Diversity

A very interesting aspect of content-based recommender systems, and then
of LOD-enabled ones, is giving the possibility to evaluate the diversity
of recommended items in a straight way. This is a very popular topic in
content-based recommender systems, which usually suffer from
over-specialization.

In this task, the evaluation will be made by considering a combination
of both accuracy (F-measure) of the recommendation list and the
diversity (Intra-List Diversity) of items belonging to it. Also for this
task, the DBbook dataset is used.

Given the domain of books, diversity with respect to the two properties
http://dbpedia.org/ontology/author and http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject
will be considered.


DATASET

* DBbook dataset

This dataset relies on user data and preferences retrieved from the
Web. The books available in the dataset have been mapped to their
corresponding DBpedia URIs. The mapping contains 8170 DBpedia URIs.

These mappings can be used to extract semantic features from DBpedia or
other LOD repositories to be exploited by the recommendation approaches
proposed in the challenge.
The dataset is split in a training set and an evaluation set. In the
former, user ratings are provided to train a system while in the latter,
ratings have been removed, and they will be used in the eventual
evaluation step.

The mapping file is available at:
http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_Items_DBpedia_mapping.tsv.zip

It contains a tab-separated values file where each line has the
following format: DBbook_ItemID \t name \t DBpedia_URI.

We suggest to extract a semantic descriptions for all the items present
in this mapping file by starting from the DBpedia URIs.

The training sets are available at:


* Task 1: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_train_ratings.zip 

The archive contains a tab-separated values file containing the training
data and a README describing its content. Each line in the file is
composed by: userID \t itemID \t rating. The ratings are in scale
0-5. The training set contains 75559 ratings. There are 6181 users and
6166 items which have been rated by at least one user.


* Task 2 and Task 3:  http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_train_binary.zip 

The archive contains a tab-separated values file containing the training
data and a README describing its content. Each line in the file is
composed by: userID \t itemID \t rating. The ratings are in binary
scale. 1 means that the item is relevant for the user, 0 means
irrelevant. The training set contains 72372 ratings. There are 6181
users and 6733 items which have been rated by at least one user.


ADDITIONAL DATASETS

Although not used in the challenge, two additional rating datasets
linked to DBpedia are provided, namely the well known MovieLens10M
dataset and the Last.fm dataset published at HetRec'11 workshop.

http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/datasets/ 

We encourage participants to use these datasets for testing the
developed recommendation approaches on several domains.


JUDGING AND PRIZES

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

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

An amount of 700 Euro has already been secured for the final prize. We
are currently working on securing further funding.

Winners will be selected only for tasks with at least 3 participants. In
any case, all submissions will be reviewed and, if accepted, published
at ESWC post-proceedings.


HOW TO PARTICIPATE

1.  Make your result submission
* Register your group using the registration web form available at:
  http://193.204.59.20:8181/eswc2014lodrecsys/signup.html
* Choose one or more tasks among Task 1, Task 2 and Task 3
* Build your recommender system using the provided training data.
* Evaluate your approach by submitting your results using the evaluation
  service.
* Your final score will be the one computed with respect to the last
  result submission made before March 7, 2014, 23:59 CET.

2. Submit your paper
The following information has to be provided:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
  why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
  or functions the system provides, what design choices were made, and
  what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how
  participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
  submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture
  Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair: 

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges 


MAILING LIST

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

* March 7, 2014, 23:59 CET: Result submission due
* March 14, 2014, 23:59 CET: Paper submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: The Challenge takes place at ESWC'14


EVALUATION COORDINATOR

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


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

* Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
* Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
* Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
* Andreas Hotho, Universitat Wurzburg, Germany
* Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund University, Germany
* Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* Valentina Maccatrozzo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Roberto Mirizzi, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
* Alexandre Passant, seevl.fm, Ireland
* Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* David Vallet, NICTA, Australia
* Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece
* Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
* Tao Ye, Pandora Internet Radio, USA


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:08:25 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:08:25 +0100
Subject: Job: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web
 Technologies, CNR-STLAB
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.220825.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:48:46 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140210154907.4FE7D119754 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://istc.cnr.it/vacancy/assegno-di-ricerca-n%C2%B0-2092014-tecnologie-semantiche-e-open-data-legovernment-e-la-fruizione-


TITLE: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web
Technologies at CNR-STLAB

Important notice: send by February 19th to stlab at cnr.it your CV, a
motivational statement, and the contact of at least one referee (or a
recommendation letter). 
The official procedure for being admitted to the selection is described
on the official application post (see below) and the deadline is
February 27th.


Topic: Theories and methods for knowledge extraction and representation
at a web scale and their application to cultural heritage and
eGovernment.
Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship
Employer: Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies of CNR
Salary: EUR 19.367,00 (nineteen-thousand-three-hundred-sixtyseven/00)
net of expenses in charge of CNR.
Starting from: April 2014
Duration: 12 months
Location: Rome, Italy
Official application deadline: 27 February, 2014
Link to the official application post: 
http://istc.cnr.it/vacancy/assegno-di-ricerca-n%C2%B0-2092014-tecnologie-semantiche-e-open-data-legovernment-e-la-fruizione-
Scientific responsible: Dr. Valentina Presutti 
Contact person (administrative issues): stefania.capotosti at istc.cnr.it

Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship

There will be a public selection procedure, based on qualifications and
an interview, for the assignment of n. 1 (one) - Graduate Fellowship in
order to conduct research related to the Scientific Area Information
Sciences AND Computer Sciences at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences
and Technologies, CNR, in the scope of the projects: eGovernment,
Digital Libraries and Hermes, under the scientific responsibility of
Dr. Valentina Presutti.

To the selection may apply individuals who, whatever their nationality
or age, are in possession of the following requirements at the date of
expiry of the deadline for submission of applications:

a) Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Literature and
   Philosophy in accordance with the legislation in force before DM
   509/99 or Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Linquistics or
   Science of Language (or equivalent) in accordance with the
   regulations referred to in DM 509/99 or Master's Degree in Computer
   Science, Engineering Linguistics or Science of Language (or
   equivalent) in accordance with the regulations referred to in DM
   270/04, with professional resume suitable for the conduct of research
   according to the specifications given in the following points (the
   candidate is in charge, penalty of exclusion, of demonstrating
   equiparation of graduation diplomas);
b) All qualifications obtained abroad (bechelor's degree, doctorate, and
   any other qualification) shall be previously recognized in Italy in
   accordance with current legislation (information on the website of
   the Ministry of University and Scientific Research: www.miur.it. The
   equivalence of those diplomas obtained abroad who have not already
   been recognized in Italy with the expected formal procedure above,
   will be evaluated, with the only purpose of the present selection, by
   the Examining Committee constituted according to art. 6, paragraph 1
   of the Regulations;
c) Documented experience of research, development and application of
   semantic technologies. In particular, it is required expertise in at
   least one of the following areas: ontology design and open data,
   knowledge representation, and natural lanugage processing;
d) Excellent knowledge of OWL, RDF, and SPARQL;
e) Knowledge of mobile application development platforms;
f) Knowledge and documented experience of Java development; preference
   will be given to candidates that know also other programming
   languages; 
g) English proficiency.

THE ENGLISH CALL ON THE WEB-SITE DOES NOT HAVE LEGAL VALUE IN ITSELF,
AND THUS DOES NOT SUPERSEDE THE ITALIAN VERSION OF THE CALL ANNOUNCEMENT
(BANDO).


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:39:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:39:46 +0100
Subject: Appel: INTERSPEECH 2014, Special Sessions
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.213946.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:20:47 +0800
From: "Organization @ Interspeech 2014" <organization at interspeech2014.org>
Message-ID: <52F8539F.8050905 at interspeech2014.org>
X-url: http://www.INTERSPEECH2014.org


--- INTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE
--- September 14-18, 2014
--- http://www.INTERSPEECH2014.org

INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on
issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language
processing, both in humans and in machines.
The theme of INTERSPEECH 2014 is

--- Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages ---

INTERSPEECH 2014 includes a number of special sessions covering
interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest
related to the main conference topics.
Special sessions proposed for the forthcoming edition are:

- A Re-evaluation of Robustness
- Deep Neural Networks for Speech Generation and Synthesis
- Exploring the Rich Information of Speech Across Multiple Languages
- INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE)
- Multichannel Processing for Distant Speech Recognition
- Open Domain Situated Conversational Interaction
- Phase Importance in Speech Processing Applications
- Speaker Comparison for Forensic and Investigative Applications
- Text-dependent for Short-duration Speaker Verification
- Tutorial Dialogues and Spoken Dialogue Systems
- Visual Speech Decoding

A description of each special session is given below.
For paper submission, please follow the main conference procedure and
chose the Special Session track when selecting your paper area.

Paper submission procedure is described at:
http://www.INTERSPEECH2014.org/public.php?page=submission_procedure.html

For more information, feel free to contact the Special Session Chair,
Dr. Tomi H. Kinnunen, at email tkinnu [at]cs.uef.fi

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Special Session Description
------------------------------------------------------------------------

A Re-evaluation of Robustness

The goal of the session is to facilitate a re-evaluation of robust
speech recognition in the light of recent developments. It?s a
re-evaluation at two levels:

- a re-evaluation in perspective brought by breakthroughs in performance
  obtained by Deep Neural Network which leads to a fresh questioning of
  the role and contribution of robust feature extraction.

- A literal re-evaluation on common databases to be able to present and
  compare performances of different algorithms and system approaches to
  robustness.

Paper submissions are invited on the theme of noise robust speech
recognition and required to submit results on the Aurora 4 database to
facilitate cross comparison of the performance between different
techniques.

Recent developments raise interesting research questions that the
session aims to help
Progress by bringing focus and exploration of these issues. For example

1. What role is there for signal processing to create feature
   representations to use as inputs to Deep Learning or can deep
   learning do all the work?
2. What feature representations can be automatically learnt in a deep
   learning architecture?
3. What other techniques can give great improvement in robustness?
4. What techniques don?t work and why?

The session organizers wish to encourage submissions that bring insight
and understanding to the issues highlighted above. Authors are requested
not only to present absolute performance of the whole system but also to
highlight the contribution made by various components in a complex
system.

Papers that are accepted for the session are encouraged to also evaluate
their techniques on new test data sets (available in July) and submit
their results at the end of August.

Session organization
The session will be structured as a combination of
1. Invited talks
2. Oral paper presentations
3. Poster presentations
4. Summary of contributions and results on newly released test sets
5. Discussion

Organizers:
David Pearce, Audience dpearce [at]audience.com
Hans-Guenter Hirsch, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, 
hans-guenter.hirsch [at]hs-niederrhein.de
Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, University of Paderborn, haeb [at]nt.uni-paderborn.de
Michael Seltzer, Microsoft, mseltzer [at]microsoft.com
Keikichi Hirose, The University of Tokyo, hirose [at]gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh, s.renals [at]ed.ac.uk
Sim Khe Chai, National University of Singapore, simkc [at]comp.nus.edu.sg
Niko Moritz, Fraunhofer IDMT, Oldenburg, niko.moritz [at]idmt.fraunhofer.de
K K Chin, Google, kkchin [at]google.com


Deep Neural Networks for Speech Generation and Synthesis

This special session aims to bring together researchers who work
actively on deep neural networks for speech research, particularly, in
generation and synthesis, to promote and to understand better the
state-of-art DNN research in statistical learning and compare results
with the parametric HMM-GMM model which has been well-established for
speech synthesis, generation, and conversion. DNN, with its neuron-like
structure, can simulate human speech production system in a layered,
hierarchical, nonlinear and self-organized network.  It can transform
linguistic text information into intermediate semantic, phonetic and
prosodic content and finally generate speech waveforms. Many possible
neural network architectures or typologies exist, e.g. feed-forward NN
with multiple hidden layers, stacked RBM or CRBM, Recurrent Neural Net
(RNN), which have been used to speech/image recognition and other
applications.  We would like to use this special session as a forum to
present updated results in the research frontiers, algorithm development
and application scenarios. Particular focused areas will be on
parametric TTS synthesis, voice conversion, speech compression,
de-noising and speech enhancement.

Organizers:
Yao Qian, Microsoft Research Asia, yaoqian [at]microsoft.com
Frank K. Soong, Microsoft Research Asia, frankkps [at]microsoft.com


Exploring the Rich Information of Speech Across Multiple Languages

Spoken language is the most direct means of communication between human
beings. However, speech communication often demonstrates its
language-specific characteristics because of, for instance, the
linguistic difference (e.g., tonal vs. non-tonal, monosyllabic
vs. multisyllabic) across languages. Our knowledge on the diversities of
speech science across languages is still limited, including speech
perception, linguistic and non-linguistic (e.g., emotion) information,
etc.  This knowledge is of great significance to facilitate our design
of language-specific application of speech techniques (e.g., automatic
speech recognition, assistive hearing devices) in the future.  This
special session will provide an opportunity for researchers from various
communities (including speech science, medicine, linguistics and signal
processing) to stimulate further discussion and new research in the
broad cross-language area, and present their latest research on
understanding the language-specific features of speech science and their
applications in the speech communication of machines and human
beings. This special session encourages contributions all fields on
speech science, e.g., production and perception, but with a focus on
presenting the language-specific characteristics and discussing their
implications to improve our knowledge on the diversities of speech
science across multiple languages. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to: 1. characteristics of acoustic, linguistic and language
information in speech communication across multiple languages;
2. diversity of linguistic and non-linguistic (e.g., emotion)
information among multiple spoken languages; 3. language-specific speech
intelligibility enhancement and automatic speech recognition techniques;
and 4. comparative cross-language assessment of speech perception in
challenging environments.

Organizers:
Junfeng Li, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 
junfeng.li.1979 [at]gmail.com
Fei Chen, The University of Hong Kong, feichen1 [at]hku.hk


INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE)

The INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE)
is an open Challenge dealing with speaker characteristics as manifested
in their speech signal's acoustic properties.  This year, it introduces
new tasks by the Cognitive Load Sub-Challenge, the Physical Load
Sub-Challenge, and a Multitask Sub-Challenge: For these Challenge tasks,
the COGNITIVE-LOAD WITH SPEECH AND EGG database (CLSE), the MUNICH
BIOVOICE CORPUS (MBC), and the ANXIETY-DEPRESSION-EMOTION-SLEEPINESS
audio corpus (ADES) with high diversity of speakers and different
languages covered (Australian English and German) are provided by the
organizers.  All corpora provide fully realistic data in challenging
acoustic conditions and feature rich annotation such as speaker
meta-data. They are given with distinct definitions of test,
development, and training partitions, incorporating speaker independence
as needed in most real-life settings. Benchmark results of the most
popular approaches are provided as in the years before.  Transcription
of the train and development sets will be known. All Sub-Challenges
allow contributors to find their own features with their own machine
learning algorithm.  However, a standard feature set will be provided
per corpus that may be used. Participants will have to stick to the
definition of training, development, and test sets. They may report on
results obtained on the development set, but have only five trials to
upload their results on the test sets, whose labels are unknown to them.
Each participation will be accompanied by a paper presenting the results
that undergoes peer-review and has to be accepted for the conference in
order to participate in the Challenge.
The results of the Challenge will be presented in a Special Session at
INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore.  Further, contributions using the
Challenge data or related to the Challenge but not competing within the
Challenge are also welcome.

More information is given also on the Challenge homepage:
http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is14-compare

Organizers:
Bj?rn Schuller, Imperial College London / Technische Universit?t 
M?nchen,schuller [at]IEEE.org
Stefan Steidl, Friedrich-Alexander-University, stefan.steidl [at]fau.de
Anton Batliner, Technische Universit?t M?nchen / 
Friedrich-Alexander-University,
batliner [at]cs.fau.de
Jarek Krajweski, Bergische Universit?t Wuppertal, krajewsk 
[at]uni-wuppertal.de
Julien Epps, The University of New South Wales / National ICT Australia, 
j.epps [at]unsw.edu.au


Multichannel Processing for Distant Speech Recognition

Distant speech recognition in real-world environments is still a
challenging problem: reverberation and dynamic background noise
represent major sources of acoustic mismatch that heavily decrease ASR
performance, which, on the contrary, can be very good in close-talking
microphone setups.  In this context, a particularly interesting topic is
the adoption of distributed microphones for the development of
voice-enabled automated home environments based on distant-speech
interaction: microphones are installed in different rooms and the
resulting multichannel audio recordings capture multiple audio events,
including voice commands or spontaneous speech, generated in various
locations and characterized by a variable amount of reverberation as
well as possible background noise.

The focus of the proposed special session will be on multichannel
processing for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in such a
setting. Unlike other robust ASR tasks, where static adaptation or
training with noisy data sensibly ameliorates performance, the
distributed microphone scenario requires full exploitation of
multichannel information to reduce the highly variable dynamic
mismatch. To facilitate better evaluation of the proposed algorithms the
organizers will provide a set of multichannel recordings in a domestic
environment.  The recordings will include spoken commands mixed with
other acoustic events occurring in different rooms of a real apartment.
The data is being created in the frame of the EC project DIRHA (Distant
speech Interaction for Robust Home Applications) which addresses the
challenges of speech interaction for home automation.

The organizers will release the evaluation package (datasets and
scripts) on February 17; the participants are asked to submit a regular
paper reporting speech recognition results on the evaluation set and
comparing their performance with the provided reference baseline.

Further details are available at: http://dirha.fbk.eu/INTERSPEECH2014

Organizers:
Marco Matassoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, matasso [at]fbk.eu
Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e 
Computadores, ramon.astudillo [at]inesc-id.pt
Athanasios Katsamanis, National Technical University of Athens, nkatsam
[at]cs.ntua.gr


Open Domain Situated Conversational Interaction

Robust conversational systems have the potential to revolutionize our
interactions with computers.  Building on decades of academic and
industrial research, we now talk to our computers, phones, and
entertainment systems on a daily basis. However, current technology
typically limits conversational interactions to a few narrow
domains/topics (e.g., weather, traffic, restaurants). Users increasingly
want the ability to converse with their devices over broad web-scale
content.  Finding something on your PC or the web should be as simple as
having a conversation.  A promising approach to address this problem is
situated conversational interaction. The approach leverages the
situation and/or context of the conversation to improve system accuracy
and effectiveness.  Sources of context include visual content being
displayed to the user, Geo-location, prior interactions, multi-modal
interactions (e.g., gesture, eye gaze), and the conversation itself. For
example, while a user is reading a news article on their tablet PC, they
initiate a conversation to dig deeper on a particular topic.  Or a user
is reading a map and wants to learn more about the history of events at
mile marker 121.  Or a gamer wants to interact with a game?s characters
to find the next clue in their quest.
All of these interactions are situated ? rich context is available to
the system as a source of priors/constraints on what the user is likely
to say.
This special session will provide a forum to discuss research progress
in open domain situated conversational interactions.
Topics of the session will include:
- Situated context in spoken dialog systems
- Visual/dialog/personal/geo situated context
- Inferred context through interpretation and reasoning
- Open domain spoken dialog systems
- Open domain spoken/natural language understanding and generation
- Open domain semantic interpretation
- Open domain dialog management (large-scale belief state/policy)
- Conversational Interactions
- Multi-modal inputs in situated open domains (speech/text + gesture,
  touch, eye gaze)
- Multi-human situated interactions

Organizers:
Larry Heck, Microsoft Research, larry [at]ieee.org
Dilek Hakkani-T?r, Microsoft Research, dilek [at]ieee.org
Gokhan Tur, Microsoft Research, gokhan [at]ieee.org
Steve Young, Cambridge University, sjy [at]eng.cam.ac.uk


Phase Importance in Speech Processing Applications

In the past decades, the amplitude of speech spectrum is considered to
be the most important feature in different speech processing
applications and phase of the speech signal has received less
attention. Recently, several findings justify the phase importance in
speech and audio processing communities.  The importance of phase
estimation along with amplitude estimation in speech enhancement,
complementary phase-based features in speech and speaker recognition and
phase-aware acoustic modeling of environment are the most prominent
reported works scattered in different communities of speech and audio
processing. These examples suggest that incorporating the phase
information can push the limits of state-of-the-art phase-independent
solutions employed for long in different aspects of audio and speech
signal processing. This Special Session aims to explore the recent
advances and methodologies to exploit the knowledge of signal phase
information in different aspects of speech processing. Without a
dedicated effort to bring researchers from different communities, a
quick advance in investigation towards the phase usefulness in speech
processing applications is difficult to achieve. Therefore, as the first
step in this direction, we aim to promote the "phase-aware speech and
audio signal processing" to form a community of researchers to organize
the next steps.  Our initiative is to unify these efforts to better
understand the pros and cons of using phase and the degree of
feasibility for phase estimation/enhancement in different areas of
speech processing including: speech enhancement, speech separation,
speech quality estimation, speech and speaker recognition, voice
transformation and speech analysis and synthesis. The goal is to promote
the importance of the phase-based signal processing and studying its
importance and sharing interesting findings from different speech
processing applications.

Organizers:
Pejman Mowlaee, Graz University of Technology, pejman.mowlaee [at]tugraz.at
Rahim Saeidi, University of Eastern Finland, rahim.saeidi [at]uef.fi
Yannis Styilianou, Toshiba Labs Cambridge UK / University of Crete, 
yannis [at]csd.uoc.gr


Speaker Comparison for Forensic and Investigative Applications

In speaker comparison, speech/voice samples are compared by humans
and/or machines for use in investigation or in court to address
questions that are of interest to the legal system.  Speaker comparison
is a high-stakes application that can change people?s lives and it
demands the best that science has to offer; however, methods, processes,
and practices vary widely.  These variations are not necessarily for the
better and though recognized, are not generally appreciated and acted
upon. Methods, processes, and practices grounded in science are critical
for the proper application (and non-application) of speaker comparison
to a variety of international investigative and forensic applications.
This special session will contribute to scientific progress through 1)
understanding speaker comparison for investigative and forensic
application (e.g., describe what is currently being done and critically
analyze performance and lessons learned); 2) improving speaker
comparison for investigative and forensic applications (e.g., propose
new approaches/techniques, understand the limitations, and identify
challenges and opportunities); 3) improving communications between
communities of researchers, legal scholars, and practitioners
internationally (e.g., directly address some central legal, policy, and
societal questions such as allowing speaker comparisons in court,
requirements for expert witnesses, and requirements for specific
automatic or human-based methods to be considered scientific); 4) using
best practices (e.g., reduction of bias and presentation of evidence);
5) developing a roadmap for progress in this session and future
sessions; and 6) producing a documented contribution to the field. Some
of these objectives will need multiple sessions to fully achieve and
some are complicated due to differing legal systems and cultures.  This
special session builds on previous successful special sessions and
tutorials in forensic applications of speaker comparison at INTERSPEECH
beginning in 2003. Wide international participation is planned,
including researchers from the ISCA SIGs for the Association Francophone
de la Communication Parl?e (AFCP) and the Speaker and Language
Characterization (SpLC).

Organizers:
Joseph P. Campbell, PhD, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, jpc [at]ll.mit.edu
Jean-Fran?ois Bonastre, l'Universit? d'Avignon, jean-francois.bonastre 
[at]univ-avignon.fr


Text-dependent for Short-duration Speaker Verification

In recent years, speaker verification engines have reached maturity and
have been deployed in commercial applications. Ergonomics of such
applications is especially demanding and imposes a drastic limitation in
terms of speech duration during authentication.  A well known tactic to
address the problem of lack of data, due to short duration, is using
text-dependency. However, recent breakthroughs achieved in the context
of text-independent speaker verification in terms of accuracy and
robustness do not benefit text-dependent applications. Indeed, large
development data required by the recent approaches is not available in
the text-dependent context. The purpose of this special session is to
gather the research efforts from both academia and industry toward a
common goal of establishing a new baseline and explore new directions
for text-dependent speaker verification.  The focus of the session is on
robustness with respect to duration and modeling of lexical information.
To support the development and evaluation of text-dependent speaker
verification technologies, the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) has
recently released the RSR2015 database, including 150 hours of data
recorded from 300 speakers. The papers submitted to the special session
are encouraged, but not limited, to provide results based on the RSR2015
database in order to enable comparison of algorithms and methods. For
this purpose, the organizers strongly encourage the participants to
report performance on the protocol delivered with the database in terms
of EER and minimum cost (in the sense of NIST 2008 Speaker Recognition
evaluation).
To get the database, please contact the organizers.

Further details are available at: 
http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~kalee/is2014/tdspk.html

Organizers:
Anthony LARCHER (alarcher [at]i2r.a-star.edu.sg) Institute for Infocomm 
Research
Hagai ARONOWITZ (hagaia [at]il.ibm.com) IBM Research ? Haifa
Kong Aik LEE (kalee [at]i2r.a-star.edu.sg) Institute for Infocomm Research
Patrick KENNY (patrick.kenny [at]crim.ca) CRIM ? Montr?al


Tutorial Dialogues and Spoken Dialogue Systems

The growing interest in educational applications that use spoken
interaction and dialogue technology has boosted research and development
of interactive tutorial systems, and over the recent years, advances
have been achieved in both spoken dialogue community and education
research community, with sophisticated speech and multi-modal technology
which allows functionally suitable and reasonably robust applications to
be built.

The special session combines spoken dialogue research, interaction
modeling, and educational applications, and brings together the two
INTERSPEECH SIG communities: SLaTE and SIGdial. The session focuses on
methods, problems and challenges that are shared by both communities,
such as sophistication of speech processing and dialogue management for
educational interaction, integration of the models with theories of
emotion, rapport, and mutual understanding, as well as application of
the techniques to novel learning environments, robot interaction,
etc. The session aims to survey issues related to the processing of
spoken language in various learning situations, modeling of the
teacher-student interaction in MOOC-like environments, as well as
evaluating tutorial dialogue systems from the point of view of natural
interaction, technological robustness, and learning outcome.  The
session encourages interdisciplinary research and submissions related to
the special focus of the conference, "Celebrating the Diversity of
Spoken Languages".

For further information click http://junionsjlee.wix.com/INTERSPEECH

Organizers:
Maxine Eskenazi, max+ [at]cs.cmu.edu
Kristiina Jokinen, kristiina.jokinen [at]helsinki.fi
Diane Litman, litman [at]cs.pitt.edu
Martin Russel, M.J.RUSSELL [at]bham.ac.uk


--- Visual Speech Decoding

Speech perception is a bi-modal process that takes into account both the
acoustic (what we hear) and visual (what we see) speech information. It
has been widely acknowledged that visual clues play a critical role in
automatic speech recognition (ASR) especially when audio is corrupted
by, for example, background noise or voices from untargeted speakers, or
even inaccessible.  Decoding the visual speech is utterly important for
ASR technologies to be widely implemented to realize truly natural
human-computer interactions. Despite the advances in acoustic ASR,
visual speech decoding remains a challenging problem.  The special
session aims to attract more effort to tackle this important problem. In
particular, we would like to encourage researchers to focus on some
critical questions in the area.
We propose four questions as the initiative as follows:
1. How to deal with the speaker dependency in visual speech data?
2. How to cope with the head-pose variation?
3. How to encode temporal information in visual features?
4. How to automatically adapt the fusion rule when the quality of the
   two individual (audio and visual) modalities varies?

Researchers and participants are encouraged to raise more questions
related to visual speech decoding.
We expect the session to draw a wide range of attention from both the
speech recognition and machine vision communities to the problem of
visual speech decoding.

Organizers:
Ziheng Zhou, University of Oulu, ziheng.zhou [at]ee.oulu.fi
Matti Pietik?inen, University of Oulu, matti.pietikainen [at]ee.oulu.fi
Guoying Zhao, University of Oulu, gyzhao [at]ee.oulu.fi

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:12:49 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:12:49 +0100
Subject: Job: Deep neural networks for statistical machine translation,
 several positions available (Postdoc, PhD, engineers, etc), France
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.221249.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:06:10 +0100
From: Holger Schwenk <holger.schwenk at lium.univ-lemans.fr>
Message-ID: <52F93F42.7090004 at lium.univ-lemans.fr>


During the last years, there have been several breakthroughs in the use
of neural networks for natural language processing, in particular using
deep architectures.

The computer science laboratory of the University of Le Mans (LIUM) is
working since many years on statistical machine translation (SMT), and
we were among the first researchers to successfully use neural networks,
for instance continuous space language and translation models.

We want to substantially increase our research efforts in this area,
hoping to achieve a significant advances in SMT. Our goal is to build
state-of-the-art large scale SMT systems using deep neural networks.

In this major research effort, we have openings at different levels
  - postdoc positions
  - PhD positions
  - short term visits with a well focused research project
  - engineers

The candidates are expected to have demonstrated knowledge in at least 
one of the following fields:
  - neural networks (feed-forward, recurrent NN, deep learning, etc).
  - statistical machine translation
  - efficient implementation of machine learning algorithms (GPU, MPI,
    etc)

The positions are immediately available. Applications are accepted until
the positions are filled.  Initial appointment is for one year,
renewable for up to three years.  Competitive salaries are available,
including health care and other social benefits, travel support, etc.
The working language is English or French.

LIUM is participating in several international projects, financed by the
European Commission, DARPA and the French government.  We collaborate
with leading research groups in USA and Europe.

A large computer cluster is available to support the research (700 CPU
cores with a total of 6 TBytes of memory and more than 250 TBytes of
RAID disk space).  We also own a cluster with 30 Tesla K20 and K40 GPU
cards, connected by a fast Infiniband network.

Le Mans is located in between Paris and the Atlantic ocean. Both can be
reached in about 1 hour by high speed train. The Loire valley with many
wineries and other attractions is just a short drive away ...

Applications should include an CV, a list of publications and the name
of two references.  We will invite interesting candidates for further
discussions.

For more information, please contact Holger Schwenk by email:
Holger.Schwenk at lium.univ-lemans.fr


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 20:51:33 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:51:33 +0100
Subject: Stage: Stage M2,
 Analyse automatique de comptes-rendus de consultations medicales,
 IRIT
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.215133.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:19:07 +0100
From: philippe muller <philippe.muller at irit.fr>
Message-ID: <52F8C3BB.8060604 at irit.fr>


Proposition de stage de M2(R)

Titre : Analyse automatique de comptes-rendus de consultations m?dicales

Mots-clefs : traitement automatique des langues naturelles, extraction
d'information, apprentissage automatique, m?decine

R?sum? :

Ce stage de M2 Recherche vise l'analyse automatique de comptes-rendus de
consultations m?dicales pour en extraire certaines informations
n?cessaires ? la r?alisation d?une ?tude ?pid?miologique. Les
compte-rendus sont constitu?s de texte libre r?sumant les donn?es
sociod?mographiques, le diagnostic, les sympt?mes, et les r?sultats des
tests ?ventuels r?alis?s chez ces patients.
Deux objectifs principaux sont consid?r?s : d'une part classifier les
comptes rendus vis ? vis de l?existence ou non d?une pathologie, d'autre
part extraire un certain nombre d?informations pr?cises en lien avec ces
maladies. Le stagiaire devra ?valuer et comparer les strat?gies
classiques d'extraction d'information en Traitement Automatique des
Langues en domaine sp?cialis?, et l'application de m?thodes
d'apprentissage automatique pour les deux objectifs vis?s. Les donn?es
utilis?es sont un corpus de compte-rendus de consultation d?identifi?s,
en fran?ais.

Encadrement :
Ce stage sera effectu? ? l'IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique
de Toulouse), en coop?ration avec l'INSERM, et sera codirig? par
Philippe Muller (IRIT, ?quipe MELODI "MEthodes et ing?nierie des
Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours") et Virginie Gardette (?quipe
"Vieillissement et maladie d'Alzheimer" de l'UMR INSERM 1027
"Epid?miologie et analyses en sant? publique").

http://www.irit.fr/-Equipe-MELODI-
http://www.u1027.inserm.fr/42537678/0/fiche___pagelibre/&RH=1303915788348

Comp?tences requises :
Le stagiaire devra avoir une formation en M2 informatique, id?alement
avec des comp?tences en apprentissage automatique et/ou traitement
automatique du langage naturel.

Dur?e : 4-6 mois ? partir de mars ou avril.

R?mun?ration :  436,05?/mois, conform?ment ? la r?glementation.

Candidature : Envoyez un CV (avec relev?s de notes r?cents) et une
lettre de motivation ? philippe.muller at irit.fr et
virginie.gardette at univ-tlse3.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:03:16 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:03:16 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Challenge Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.220316.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:55:04 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140210145524.577BFDBA76 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA


** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Second Call for Challenge: Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis ====
Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemSA

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)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite
Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Erik Cambria (National University of Singapore, SG)
- Diego Reforgiato (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

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

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

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

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


TARGET AUDIENCE

The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.


TASKS

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

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

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

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

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



EVALUATION DATASET

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


EVALUATION

The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program
Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters,
please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the
best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system,
reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and
details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the
following aspects:
1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics;
2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task;
3. Computational time;
4. Innovative nature of the approach.


JUDGING AND PRIZES

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

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

There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate
again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private
to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that
the same system runs for both the awards. Winners will be selected only
for tasks with at least 3 participants. In any case all submissions will
be reviewed and, if accepted, published in ESWC post-proceedings. An
amount of 700 euros has already been secured for the first task for what
the first point of the evaluation aspects is concerned. We are currently
working on securing further funding.


HOW TO PARTICIPATE

The following information has to be provided:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
  why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
  or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and
  what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how
  participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
  submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture
  Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.

* Web Access: The application can either be accessible via the web or
  downloadable. If the application is not publicly accessible, password
  must be provided. A short set of instructions on how to use the
  application should be provided as well.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges


MAILING LIST

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

* March 14, 2014, 23:59 CET: Submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: The Challenge takes place at ESWC-14


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA)
* Cheng Xiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
* Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (USA)
* Ping Chen, University of Houston-Downtown (USA)
* Yongzheng Zhang, LinkedIn Inc. (USA)
* Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon Inc. (USA)
* Rui Xia, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China)
* Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University (Japan)
* Amir Hussain, University of Stirling (UK)
* Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico)
* Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
* Amitava Das, Samsung Research India (India)
* Dipankar Das, National Institute of Technology (India)
* Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
* Stefano Squartini, Marche Polytechnic University (Italy)
* Cristina Bosco, University of Torino (Italy)
* Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia (Spain)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:23:29 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:23:29 +0100
Subject: Job: Professeur en informatique,
 UFR Mathematiques et Informatique, Universite de Lorraine
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.222329.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:07:36 +0100
From: smaili <Kamel.Smaili at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <52FA58D8.1040706 at loria.fr>


L'UFR Math?matiques et Informatique et le LORIA de l'UL proposent un
poste de professeur en informatique dont les profils enseignement et
recherche sont donn?s ci-dessous.  Par ailleurs, nous organisons ? l'UFR
MI le 19 mars une journ?e de pr?sentation o? les candidats qui le
souhaitent viendront pr?senter leurs dossiers devant les ?quipes
p?dagogiques de l'UFR Math?matiques et Informatique.

Profil enseignement :

Le professeur doit s'int?grer ? l'?quipe p?dagogique de la licence et du
master sciences cognitives. Les sciences cognitives s'int?ressent ? la
compr?hension de la pens?e artificielle, animale ou humaine. Les
comp?tences recherch?es vont donc de l'informatique aux sciences du
langage en passant par la biologie.L'UFR recrutera un professeur qui
poss?de un maximum de comp?tences li?es aux sciences cognitives et qui
pourrait intervenir dans les cours : aspects cognitifs li?s ? la
linguistique computationnelle, les neurosciences, la repr?sentation des
connaissances, l'intelligence artificielle, l'intelligence collective,
etc. L'enseignant doit avoir une comp?tence et une exp?rience certaine
dans ce domaine pour ?tre op?rationnel d?s la rentr?e 2014-2015 o? les
besoins pour nos formations sont importants. Le candidat s'int?grera ?
l'?quipe p?dagogique et contribuera ? la cr?ation de projets
innovants.Au niveau administratif, le candidat doit ?tre en mesure tr?s
rapidement de prendre des responsabilit?s lourdes : montage de nouveaux
dipl?mes, r?daction d'habilitation, direction de dipl?mes ou d'UFR.  Le
professeur recrut? devra ?tre un moteur dans les futurs projets que nous
sommes en train de mettre au point.

Composante/UFR :Math?matiques et InformatiqueR?f?rence UFR : K. Sma?li

Mots-cl?s enseignement : sciences cognitives, traitement automatique des
langues, neurosciences, intelligence artificielle

Profil recherche :

Le professeur recrut? effectuera sa recherche dans le Laboratoire
Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA). Il
devra s'int?grer dans le d?partement 4 (Traitement des langues et des
connaissances). Toutes les ?quipes du d?partement sont concern?es.

Ce d?partement travaille sur les trois notions ?troitement li?es du
document, du langage et de la connaissance.

Au sens large, on peut parler de s?mantiques computationnelles. En
effet, dans l'analyse de document, les caract?res et les symboles dans
un document peuvent ?tre consid?r?s comme des indices de faible niveau
et combin?s pour construire des entit?s beaucoup plus complexes.?La
reconnaissance de la parole ou l'analyse de phrase ?tudie les
s?mantiques relatives au langage. Et, ? un plus haut niveau, les
repr?sentations du discours ou de la connaissance n?cessite l'?tude de
formalismes logiques, de leur pouvoir expressif, la cartographie d'un
formalisme vers un autre, le raisonnement, et la preuve...

Les ?quipes concern?es sont avant tout Cello, Orpailleurs, Parole
(Multispeech et SMarT), Qgar, Read, Semagramme, Synalp.

Nom laboratoire 1 :LORIANum?ro unit? du laboratoire 1 : UMR 7503

Mots-cl?s recherche :

S?mantique computationnelle, traitement de la langue naturelle, logique
computationnelle, analyse de document, reconnaissance des formes,
mod?lisation stochastique, traitement de texte/ de donn?es, r?seaux
bay?siens, d?couverte de la connaissance, repr?sentation de la
connaissance, syst?mes de la connaissance, biologie des syst?mes,
accueil mol?culaire, logic lin?aire, grammaires cat?gorielles, syntaxe,
reconnaissance de la parole, mod?lisation articulatoire, reconnaissance
de l'?criture manuelle, classificateurs incr?mentaux

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:17:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:17:55 +0100
Subject: Soft: Talismane, analyseur syntaxique robuste en dependances
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.221755.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:27:03 +0100
From: Assaf Urieli <assaf.urieli at gmail.com>
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Talismane : analyseur syntaxique robuste en d?pendances
*******************************************************
Talismane est un outil libre et complet d'analyse syntaxique en
d?pendances, pr?t ? l'emploi pour le fran?ais.

L'outil Talismane est disponible pour t?l?chargement ? :
http://redac.univ-tlse2.fr/applications/talismane.html

Talismane a ?t? d?velopp? par Assaf URIELI dans le cadre de sa th?se au
sein de l'axe TAL de CLLE-ERSS (UMR 5263), Universit? de Toulouse II le
Mirail.
- Th?se :
  http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr/textes/pagespersos/urieli/URIELI-thesis-2013.pdf
- Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS : http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr/

C'est un logiciel libre (open source) ?crit en Java, et diffus? sous une
licence Affero GPL v3 : http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

Talismane effectue, pour le fran?ais :
- la segmentation en phrases ;
- la segmentation en mots (tokenisation) + lemmatisation ;
- l'?tiquetage morpho-syntaxique (pos-tagging) ;
- l'analyse syntaxique en d?pendances (parsing).

Talismane a ?t? entra?n? sur le French Treebank (Abeill? et al, 2003)
pour la segmentation en phrases et en mots ainsi que pour le
pos-tagging, et sur le French Treebank converti en d?pendances (Candito
et al, 2010) pour le parsing. Il utilise le LeFFF comme lexique par
d?faut (Sagot 2010). Il est enti?rement param?trable (apprentissage,
traits, r?gles, jeu d'?tiquettes, lexique...) et peut ?tre r?entra?n?
pour d'autres langues.

En plus, Talismane permet de :
- analyser rapidement (2 millions de mots par heure dans la
  configuration de base) ;
- parser du XML ou du HTML facilement, par l'ajout de filtres indiquant
  quelles parties analyser ;
- ajouter des r?gles pour forcer ou emp?cher le syst?me de choisir une
  certaine segmentation, ?tiquette ou lien de d?pendance, selon le
  contexte ;
- choisir entre une analyse de meilleure qualit? (faisceau large) ou
  plus rapide (faisceau ?troit) ;
- garder une trace de la position exacte de chaque token analys? dans le
  fichier d'origine ;
- indiquer la confiance du syst?me dans chaque d?cision prise.

Un mode d'emploi est disponible sur le site.

Cordialement,
Assaf URIELI
Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS, UMR 5263
Universit? de Toulouse II le Mirail

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:28:45 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:28:45 +0100
Subject: Appel: 7th BUCC Workshop at LREC: Deadline extension until Feb.
 23 and Journal Special Issue
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:29:13 +0100
From: "Reinhard Rapp" <reinhardrapp at gmx.de>
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We apologize for multiple postings
Please distribute to interested colleagues

============================================================
             DEADLINE EXTENSION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE 
============================================================

  7th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA

  Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

  http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/

  May 27, 2014
  Co-located with LREC 2014
  Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland)

  EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 23, 2014
  https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/


  *** INVITED SPEAKER ***

  Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania)

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

MOTIVATION

In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in
comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language
engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use
comparable corpora as training data for statistical Natural Language
Processing applications such as statistical machine translation or
cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable
corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible
inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted
in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or
several languages that are comparable in content and form in various
degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and
observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine
such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of
great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.

The scarcity of parallel corpora has motivated research concerning the
use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected
according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or
language varieties. Non-parallel yet comparable corpora overcome the two
limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual
texts are much more abundant than translated texts.  However, because of
their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more
challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable
corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention:
while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward,
building a non-parallel corpus requires control over the selection of
source texts in both languages.

Parallel corpora are a key resource as training data for statistical
machine translation, and for building or extending bilingual lexicons
and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English-
French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary
debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the
creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the
Web. To exemplify such issues in a practical setting, this year's
special focus will be on

    Building Resources for Machine Translation Research

This special topic aims to address the need for:
(1) Machine Translation training and testing data such as spoken or
    written monolingual, comparable or parallel data collections, and
(2) methods and tools used for collecting, annotating, and verifying MT
    data such as Web crawling, crowdsourcing, tools for language experts
    and for finding MT data in comparable corpora.

TOPICS

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

Topics related to the special theme:
  * Methods and tools for collecting and processing MT data,
        including crowdsourcing
  * Methods and tools for quality control
  * Tools for efficient annotation
  * Bilingual term and named entity collections
  * Multilingual treebanks, wordnets, propbanks, etc.
  * Comparable corpora with parallel units annotated
  * Comparable corpora for under-resourced languages and specific
    domains
  * Multilingual corpora with rich annotations:
        POS tags, NEs, dependencies, semantic roles, etc.
  * Data for special applications: patent translation, movie
        subtitles, MOOCs, meetings, chat-rooms, social media, etc.
  * Legal issues with collecting and redistributing data
        and generating derivatives

Building comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Automatic and semi-automatic methods
  * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
  * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
  * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
  * Rare and minority languages, across language families
  * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:
  * Human translations
  * Language learning
  * Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
  * Bilingual projections
  * Machine translation
  * Writing assistance

Mining from comparable corpora:
  * Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable
    corpora
  * Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single
    words and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities, etc.


IMPORTANT DATES

   February 23, 2014    Deadline for submission of papers (extended)
      March 10, 2014    Notification of acceptance
      March 27, 2014    Camera-ready papers due
         May 27, 2014   Workshop date


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to be
announced on the conference website http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/ )
and should be submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6)
pages. Characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused
contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an
interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must describe
substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without exceeding
ten (10) pages.

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the
authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.

Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the
workshop organizers.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research.  Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse,
replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

Authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit substantially
extended versions of their manuscripts to an upcoming special issue on
?Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora? of the Journal of Natural
Language Engineering.


ORGANISERS

  Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France)
  Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)
  Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
  Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Aix-Marseille
  (France)


CONTACT

  Pierre Zweigenbaum:  pz (at) limsi (dot) fr


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

  * Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
  * Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, US)
  * Caroline Barri?re (CRIM, Montr?al, Canada)
  * Chris Biemann (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
  * Herv? D?jean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
  * Kurt Eberle (Lingenio, Heidelberg, Germany)
  * Andreas Eisele (European Commission, Luxembourg)
  * ?ric Gaussier (Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
  * Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France)
  * Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
  * Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
  * Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  * Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
  * Natalie K?bler (Universit? Paris Diderot, France)
  * Philippe Langlais (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada)
  * Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US)
  * Emmanuel Morin (Universit? de Nantes, France)
  * Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US)
  * Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  * Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
  * Reinhard Rapp (Universit? Aix-Marseille, France)
  * Sujith Ravi (Google, Mountain View, US)
  * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
  * Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
  * Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US)
  * Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
  * Stephan Vogel (QCRI, Qatar)
  * Guillaume Wisniewski (Universit? Paris Sud & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
  * Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:10:05 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:10:05 +0100
Subject: Appel: RJCIA 2014 (15 jours avant la date-butoir)
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.221005.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:19:02 +0100
From: Gr?gory Bonnet <gregory.bonnet at unicaen.fr>
Message-ID: <52F8FBF6.8060809 at unicaen.fr>
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-- Merci de diffuser aussi largement que possible cet appel, en
particulier au sein des associations de doctorants et des listes de
diffusion de vos ?coles doctorales et laboratoires. Veuillez excuser les
r?ceptions multiples. --
 
**********************************************************************
 
Appel ? communications RJCIA 2014 : 12?mes Rencontres des Jeunes
Chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle
 
30 juin - 1er juillet 2014, Rouen, France
 
http://rjcia2014.greyc.fr
 
**********************************************************************
 
Pr?sentation
 
Les douzi?mes rencontres des jeunes chercheurs en Intelligence
Artificielle (RJCIA 2014) se d?rouleront du 30 juin au 1er juillet 2014
? Rouen. Ces rencontres sont h?berg?es par RFIA'14 (Reconnaissance des
Formes et l'Intelligence Artificielle), organis?e par le laboratoire
LITIS et ses ?tablissements de tutelle l'INSA de Rouen, l?Universit? de
Rouen et l?Universit? du Havre, au nom de l'Association Fran?aise
d'Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA) et de l'Association Fran?aise de
Reconnaissance et d'Interpr?tation des Formes (AFRIF).
 
Les RJCIA 2014 sont destin?es aux jeunes chercheurs en Intelligence
Artificielle : doctorants ou titulaires d'un doctorat depuis moins d'un
an. L'objectif de cette manifestation est double : permettre aux jeunes
chercheurs pr?parant une th?se en Intelligence Artificielle, ou l'ayant
soutenue depuis peu, de se rencontrer et de pr?senter leurs travaux, et
ainsi de former des contacts avec d'autres jeunes chercheurs et
d'?largir leurs perspectives en ?changeant avec des sp?cialistes
d'autres domaines de l'Intelligence Artificielle ; former les jeunes
chercheurs ? la pr?paration d'un article, ? sa r?vision pour tenir
compte des observations du comit? de programme, et ? sa pr?sentation
devant un auditoire de sp?cialistes, leur permettant ainsi d'obtenir des
retours de chercheurs de leur domaine ou de domaines connexes.
 
Pour tout renseignement compl?mentaire, s'adresser ? Gr?gory Bonnet
(gregory.bonnet[at]unicaen.fr), pr?sident du comit? de programme.
 
Appel ? communication
 
Les RJCIA 2014 ont pour vocation de compl?ter le panorama de la
recherche francophone en Intelligence Artificielle propos? par RFIA'14
en pr?sentant des travaux de jeunes chercheurs dans ce domaine. Ainsi,
toute contribution relevant de l'Intelligence Artificielle est la
bienvenue. La liste indicative des th?matiques ci-dessous n'est pas
exhaustive.
 
Apprentissage artificiel (supervis?, non supervis?, par renforcement)
Fouille de masse de donn?es, fouille de grands graphes, fouille de texte 
Extraction et utilisation de connaissances par et pour la fouille (de
masses) de donn?es 
Satisfaction de contraintes 
Repr?sentation des connaissances, mod?les de raisonnement, raisonnement,
planification 
Agents autonomes et syst?mes multi-agents (d?cision individuelle,
collective, interactions)
Informatique ?motionnelle, agent virtuel socio-?motionnel, interaction
humain-agent 
Robotique autonome, contr?le intelligent, aide ? la d?cision dans les
syst?mes robotiques 
Gestion des connaissances : mod?lisation, organisation, optimisation et
traitement
Traitement automatique des langues 
Donn?es li?es, donn?es ouvertes, publication de donn?es 
Masse de donn?es, Web de donn?es, web s?mantique, ontologies. 
Extraction d'information, indexation s?mantique de contenu 
Visualisation de donn?es et de connaissances 
Validation, ?valuation des syst?mes d'Intelligence Artificielle 
Applications de l?Intelligence Artificielle (m?decine, transport,
agronomie, droit)
 
Conditions de soumission
 
Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des propositions d'articles de 6
pages double colonne maximum selon le style propos? par RFIA'14. dans
l'une des deux cat?gories suivantes :
 
Communications de synth?se : Les RJCIA 2014 sont l'occasion pour les
doctorants de premi?re ann?e de pr?senter leur sujet de th?se au travers
d'une communication de synth?se. Cette derni?re permet de pr?senter un
?tat de l'art, d'identifier des probl?matiques et/ou de proposer de
premi?re pistes de travail. Les auteurs sont encourag?s ? clairement
d?crire le contexte de leur travaux et de mettre en lumi?re les
probl?mes rencontr?s.
Communications de recherche : Les RJCIA 2014 invitent aussi les jeunes
chercheurs plus confirm?s ? pr?senter des travaux de recherche originaux
th?oriques, exp?rimentaux ou ? vocation op?rationnelle. Une rigueur
devra ?tre apport?e ? la r?daction des articles, tant sur le plan de la
forme que sur celui du contenu scientifique. Les jeunes chercheurs qui
le souhaitent sont ?galement invit?s ? soumettre leur communication ? la
session IA de RFIA'14.
 
Les auteurs sont invit?s ? indiquer lors de la soumission la cat?gorie
dans laquelle s'inscrit leur proposition.
 
Le premier auteur de la communication doit ?tre doctorant ou docteur
depuis moins d'un an (th?se en cours, ou soutenue en 2013).
 
Aucune exclusivit? n'est demand?e : nous souhaitons que les articles
soumis dans les conf?rences ou ateliers internationaux puissent
?galement ?tre propos?s aux RJCIA 2014. La langue de la conf?rence est
le fran?ais de pr?f?rence, ou l'anglais sinon.
 
Chaque soumission sera relue par au moins trois membres du comit? de
programme. Les crit?res de relecture incluent l'originalit? des id?es,
la qualit? technique, l'importance des r?sultats et la qualit? de la
pr?sentation.
 
Dates importantes
 
    Ouverture du site de soumissions : 6 janvier 2014
    Date limite de soumission : 24 f?vrier 2014
    Notification aux auteurs : 25 avril 2014
    R?ception des versions d?finitives : 16 mai 2014
    RJCIA 2014 : lundi 30 juin et mardi 1er juillet 2014
 
Soumission d'articles
 
Le format de soumission est disponible sur le site de la conf?rence :
http://rjcia2014.greyc.fr
Les soumissions se sont font via Easychair :
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rjcia2014
 
Comit? de programme
 
Nicolas B?chet, IRISA, Universit? de Bretagne-Sud
Lamia Belouaer, IRENav, Ecole Navale
Gr?gory Bonnet, GREYC, Universit? de Caen Basse-Normandie
Elise Bonzon, LIPADE, Universit? Paris Descartes
Gauvain Bourgne, LIP6, Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie
Sylvain Bouveret, LIG, INP Grenoble
Am?lie Cordier, LIRIS, Universit? Lyon 1 
Alice Hermann, LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine
Abir B?atrice Karami, LIRIS, Universit? Lyon 1
Jean-Marie Lagniez, CRIL, Universit? d'Artois
Robin Lamarche-Perrin, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the
  Sciences
Marie Lefevre, LIRIS, Universit? Lyon 1
Cyrille Martin, DAI-Labor (CC NGS), Technischen Universit?t Berlin
Benoit Mathern, LIRIS, Universit? Lyon 1
La?titia Matignon, LIRIS, Universit? Lyon 1
Alexandre Niveau, GREYC, Universit? de Caen Basse-Normandie
Antoine Nongaillard, DISP, Universit? Lyon 2
Alexandre Pauchet, LITIS, INSA Rouen
C?dric Pralet, Onera
Mathieu Roche, TETIS, Cirad
Julien Rossit, LIPADE, Universit? Paris Descartes
St?phanie Roussel, CRIL
Karima Sedki, Lim&Bio, Universit? Paris 13
 
Informations pratiques
 
Consultez le site de RFIA'14 (http://rfia2014.univ-rouen.fr/) afin
d'obtenir les informations pratiques pour s'inscrire et se rendre au
LITIS.
 
Pour le comit? de programme des RJCIA 2014,
 
Gr?gory Bonnet

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 11 21:21:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:21:26 +0100
Subject: Stage: Master 2e annee,
 Creation de la maquette numerique d'une serie de documents
 traitant d'archeologie
Message-ID: <TUE.11.FEB.2014.222126.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:37:08 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
Message-Id: <46F083B2-0D77-4D14-8508-E665CCD78F4A at ens.fr>


Proposition de stage de Master 2e ann?e : 
Cr?ation de la maquette num?rique d'une s?rie de documents traitant
d'arch?ologie

Descriptif : 

Le stage s'inscrit dans le domaine des humanit?s num?riques, dans le
cadre d'un projet EITAB, PEPS PSL-CNRS, mettant en ?uvre une
collaboration entre le laboratoire Lattice (UMR8094, analyse
linguistique et traitement automatique des
langues,http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/) et le laboratoire AOROC (UMR 8546,
arch?ologie, http://www.archeo.ens.fr/). Les deux laboratoires font
partie de l'Ecole normale sup?rieure et collaborent au sein du
laboratoire d'excellence TransferS (http://www.transfers.ens.fr/).

Le stage vise ? cr?er, ? partir d'un document textuel traitant
d'arch?ologie, la maquette d'un ebook. Il s'agit de mettre en place un
acc?s pertinent et convivial ? un texte de sp?cialit? ? partir de
donn?es extraites du texte (termes structur?s en index, etc.). On
s'int?ressera donc particuli?rement aux outils de structuration (base de
donn?es, mise en place de liens entre termes, etc.) et de mise en forme
(xml, html, css) des donn?es. Une collaboration ?troite avec les
interlocuteurs c?t? arch?ologie est indispensable. Le LATTICE dispose
d'un extracteur de termes et les outils classiques de structuration de
donn?es et de cr?ation d'ontologies pourront ?tre utilis?s.

Le stage porte essentiellement sur l'interaction entre texte et
index. En fonction des comp?tences du candidat retenu, on pourra aussi
s'int?resser ? l'interaction entre texte et cartes g?ographiques (pour
permettre de visualiser les principaux sites arch?ologiques, cr?er des
liens entre objets d'?tude et zones g?ographiques, et pouvoir r?pondre ?
des questions comme : ? sur quels sites de la r?gion tourangelle ont ?t?
trouv?es des tuiles ? rebord ? ?). On pourra aussi, si le temps le
permet, s'int?resser ? l'adaptation du rendu final en fonction du
support (ordinateur, tablette, etc.).

Le stage a une finalit? avant tout pratique : il s'agit de mettre en
place une maquette op?rationnelle montrant un exemple concret de
r?alisation possible. L'arch?ologie se pr?te particuli?rement bien ?
l'enrichissement multim?dia du texte num?rique.


Mission du stage 

Cr?er la maquette num?rique d'une s?rie de documents traitant
d'arch?ologie.

? veiller ? la coh?rence des donn?es (corriger et enrichir les index
  existants) 
? structurer le document texte 
? cr?er index et requ?tes dynamiques. 


Comp?tences requises 

? connaissance d'outils d'?dition ?lectronique 
? connaissance des langages de structuration de document (xml, html,
  css, etc) 
? int?r?t pour la mise en place de solutions applicatives, prise en
  compte des besoins utilisateurs 
? connaissance des bases de donn?es 
? qualit? de r?daction en fran?ais et en anglais 
? un int?r?t pour l'arch?ologie serait un plus 

Informations compl?mentaires sur EITAB :
http://www.archeo.ens.fr/spip.php?article586


Conditions 

Le stage se d?roulera au laboratoire Lattice (? Montrouge,
http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/) pendant 6 mois, ? partir d'avril 2014 en
?troite collaboration avec le laboratoire AOROC (? l'ENS, 45 rue d'Ulm ?
Paris). Ce stage est indemnis? suivant les r?gles en vigueur gr?ce ? un
projet PEPS de site co-financ? par le CNRS et PSL.


Lieu 

Laboratoire LATTICE ? Montrouge. 


Encadrants 

Fr?d?rique M?lanie Becquet et Thierry Poibeau pour le LATTICE et
Katherine Gruel pour AOROC.


Comment postuler ? 

Envoyer un CV et une lettre de motivation ? Thierry Poibeau et
Fr?d?rique M?lanie prenom suivi du nom s?par? par un point arobase
ens.fr d?s que possible et, dans tous les cas, avant le 20 f?vrier 2014.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:03:27 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:03:27 +0100
Subject: Appel: Arabic natural dialect processing, Workshop ICCTIM2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.220327.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:19:40 +0100
From: smaili <Kamel.Smaili at loria.fr>
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We apologize for multiple postings, please distribute to interested
colleagues

DEADLINE *March 10, 2014*

* Workshop at **ICCTIM2014**, Dubai, april 10, 2014 *

http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icctim2014/workshops/

Title : Arabic natural dialect processing

Summary

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the language of more than 250 million
persons. It is used mainly in writing and in formal
speech. Unfortunately, most of Arab people, do not use MSA in their
daily conversations; the result is that different Arabic dialects are
spoken through more than twenty countries.In fact, MSA is not acquired
as a mother tongue, but rather it is learned as a second language at
school and through exposure to formal broadcast programs (such as the
daily news), religious practice, and newspaper. Spoken Arabic is often
referred to as colloquial Arabic, dialects, or vernaculars. It's a mixed
form, which has many variations, and often a dominating influence from
local languages (from before the introduction of Arabic) and from
languages of the countries which occupied the Arabic region. Differences
between the various variants of spoken Arabic can be large enough to
make them incomprehensible to Arabic people coming from different
regions.

Hence, regarding the large differences between such spoken languages, we
can consider them as disparate languages or more exactly as different
dialects depending on the geographical place in which they are
practiced: Morocco, Algeria, Egypt,... Because in general, they are not
written therefore, corpora are not available. Everyone knows the
importance of such corporawhen we would like to mine texts or to develop
some applications as speech recognition or machine translation which are
based on statistical models. The only existing corpora but not yet
explored are those used in social networks which cannot be used easily
due to the multiplicity of formats, the number of foreign words, the
mixture between dialects and French or English and so on.


This workshop is an opportunity for the NLP community to focus on this
challenging topic and encourage them to develop new resource Arabic
dialect,Arabic dialect corpora processing tools and help in highlighting
the difficulties of processing Arabic dialects especially those which
use so many foreign words adapted lexically and grammatically to
Arabic. The workshop topics include but not limited to:

1. Collecting Arabic dialect corpora

2. Diacritization of Arabic dialects

3. Mining Arabic social networks

4. Language modelling

5. Arabic dialect morphology

6. Development of mobile Arabic dialects applications: speech
   recognition, machine translation, ...

7. Tagging Arabic dialects corpora

8. Maghreb Arabic dialects versus Orient Arabic dialects: Linguistic
   study.

Format and duration: a full day workshop will held on April 10,
2014. The language of the workshop is English and submissions should be
with respect to ICCTIM2014 paper submission instructions. All papers
will be peer reviewed.Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF
format as soon as possible and before March 10, 2014.

When you submit by using the OpenConf management system, please select
others in the proposed topics and in keywords, enter Arabic dialect.

In all the cases, when you submit, please send an email to the chairman
of the workshop:smaili at loria.fr


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 20:45:15 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:45:15 +0100
Subject: Revue: Texto ! Textes & Cultures
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.214515.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:40:39 +0100
From: Carine Duteil-Mougel <carine.duteil at ensil.unilim.fr>
Message-Id: <B7F97FEA-09A6-4244-AC59-196882F1D975 at ensil.unilim.fr>
X-url: http://www.revue-texto.net

Bonjour,

Vous pourrez trouver ci-dessous le sommaire du nouveau num?ro de la
revue Texto ! Textes et Cultures.  http://www.revue-texto.net


Bonne lecture !



/////

TEXTO ! Volume XIX - n?1 (2014). Coordonn? par R?gis Missire

Dits et in?dits


D?nier, th?oriser, ?liminer : le ? travail ? de Duch Sur L??limination
de Rithy Panh avec Christophe Bataille
Elise LAMY-RESTED

? la d?couverte du sens historique. Alfred Baeumler et la Nouvelle
vision du monde
L?ONORE BAZINEK

L'exp?rience de la parole : le th?me du sujet parlant
ANTONINO BONDI

Le discours de Dakar - Repr?sentations et st?r?otypes dans un discours
en Afrique sur l?Afrique
MICHELLE LECOLLE


Parutions et tr?sors

Pour une conception int?grale de la cr?ation lexicale
CHRISTOPHE G?RARD

Constantes et variations du rituel politique: l'exemple des v?ux
pr?sidentiels (D?monstration Lexico 3/TextObserver)
JEAN-MARC LEBLANC

S?mantique du site web de la restauration: ?tude th?matique et
expressive d'un genre polys?miotique
ERIC TRUDEL

Outils et m?thodes pour appliquer le savoir-faire des s?manticiens aux
traitements des masses documentaires
MATHIEU VALETTE, EGLE EENSOO, EVELYNE BOURION & MONIQUE SLODZIAN


Note de lecture. Gaston Gross. Manuel d?analyse linguistique : Approche
s?mantico-syntaxique du lexique.
PASCAL VAILLANT

Dynamiques du changement s?mantique. D?tection, analyse et mod?lisation
du changement s?mantique en corpus en diachronie courte - Pr?sentation
de th?se
ARMELLE BOUSSIDAN


Rep?res pour l'?tude

La s?mantique interpr?tative - Du mot au corpus et du s?me aux formes
s?mantiques
ALI BELGHANEM

? la recherche du temps perdu, ou comment rendre l?espace immat?riel
THIERRY M?ZAILLE

Saussurismes et s?miotique

Triple articulation de la langue et articulation herm?neutique du
langage - Quand De l?essence double du langage r?interpr?te les textes
saussuriens
SIMON BOUQUET

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:15:38 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:15:38 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014, February 2014 Newsletter
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.221538.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:07:23 +0000
From: ??? <sbpark at sejong.knu.ac.kr>
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We apologize if you received multiple copies.

COLING 2014

Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014

COLING 2014 (http://www.coling-2014.org), the 25th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics, will be organised by CNGL
(Centre for Global Intelligent Content) at the Helix Convention 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).

Accepted Tutorials and Workshops

We are pleased to announce that the workshops and tutorials for COLING
2014 have been finalised. In total there will be 6 tutorials and 18
workshops covering a wide range of topics. You will be able to register
for tutorials and workshops when the main conference registration opens.

Accepted Tutorials:

- Dependency Parsing: Past, Present, and Future - Wenliang Chen,
  Zhenghua Li and Min Zhang

- Using Neural Networks for Modeling and Representing Natural Languages-
  Thomas Mikolov

- Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking - Roberto
  Navigli and Andrea Moro

- Selection Bias, Label Bias, and Bias in Ground Truth - Anders S?gaard,
  Barbara Plank and Dick Hovy

- Automated Grammatical Error Correction for Language Learners - Joel
  Tetreault and Claudia Leacock

- Biomedical/clinical NLP - Ozlem Uzuner and Meliha Yetisgen

Accepted Workshops:

- Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing

- First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich
  Languages and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Languages
  (SPMRL-SANCL)

- Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW)

- 5th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing
  (WSSANLP)

- Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Analyzing Technical Language
  (SADAATL)

- The 3rd Workshop on Vision and Language (VL'14)

- Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media
  (SocialNLP 2014)

- First Joint Workshop on Open Infrastructures for HLT Resource
  Processing and Development and Text Analysis Frameworks

- Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-IV)

- Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE)

- VarDial: Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages,
  Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)

- SemEval-2014: Semantic Evaluation Exercises - International Workshop
  on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)

- The AHA!-Workshop on Information Discovery in Text (AHA!)

- CompuTerm 2014. 4th International Workshop on Computational
  Terminology (CompuTerm)

- The First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis
  (ComAComA)

- Automatic Text Simplification? Methods and Applications in the
  Multilingual Society (ATS-MA)

- The 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VIII)

- The third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
  (*SEM-2014)

Call for Papers:

The first call for papers for the main conference is open. The paper
submission system is now open at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/main/. Papers should be prepared
using the paper templates available here
http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip.

We invite authors to submit papers in all relevant areas and encourage
authors to include analysis of the influence of theories (intuitions,
methodologies, insights), to technologies (computational algorithms,
methods, tools, data), and/or contributions of technologies to theory
development. Contributions that display and rigorously discuss future
potential, even if not (yet) attested in standard evaluation, are
welcome. For more information and instructions for authors see the
preliminary call for papers here
http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php.

Sponsorship and Promotion Opportunities

With the tremendous impact and growth of COLING over many years, we have
set out a comprehensive offering of corporate sponsorship and support
opportunities for industry participants. The COLING 2014 organising
committee is committed to working in close partnership with corporate
supporters to maximise the benefits of sponsorship and provide
opportunities for sponsors to engage appropriately with COLING
delegates. With this in mind, if you wish to explore additional options
for support or means of engagement with the COLING 2014 community please
feel free to contact sponsorship at coling-2014.org.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 20:49:03 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:49:03 +0100
Subject: Stage: Parametrage et evaluation d'un systeme de classification
 automatique de rapports de securite, Toulouse
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.214903.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:03:13 +0100
From: Ludovic Tanguy <tanguy at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <52FB8D31.4090104 at univ-tlse2.fr>

Stage de Master 2 / Ecole d'ing?nieur : param?trage et ?valuation d'un
syst?me de classification automatique de rapports de s?curit?.

L'entreprise :

CFH (Conseil en facteurs humains)/SafetyDATA est une PME sp?cialis?e
dans le traitement automatique des langues dans le domaine de la
s?curit?. Elle travaille en collaboration avec CLLE-ERSS, un laboratoire
de linguistique, et plus particuli?rement avec l'?quipe TAL (Traitement
automatique des langues). Le stage sera co-encadr? par CFH et le
laboratoire CLLE.

Contexte :

CFH a con?u un syst?me de traitement automatique des langues dont le but
est d'analyser des rapports d'incidents afin de proposer une ou
plusieurs cat?gorie(s) pour leur indexation dans une base de donn?es. Le
syst?me est actuellement d?ploy? et analyse chaque mois plusieurs
centaines de documents (en fran?ais et en anglais) ? l'aide de r?gles
apprises automatiquement et bas?es sur le rep?rage de certains termes
dans les rapports analys?s. Voir plus de d?tails sur
http://www.safety-data-analysis.com/

Le stage vise l'?volution de ce syst?me de classification, notamment en
envisageant l'utilisation d'un syst?me d'apprentissage supervis?
statistique. L'objectif de ce stage est double :

1/ Identifier et quantifier le gain apport? par l'utilisation d'un
   mod?le statistique (SVM, r?gression logistique, r?seau bay?sien,
   etc.) par rapport au syst?me actuel ;

2/ Mesurer l'impact sur les performances du syst?me des diff?rents
   traitements linguistiques appliqu?s aux documents avant leur analyse
   (correction des erreurs, normalisation des formes de surface,
   identification d'expressions complexes, utilisation de classes
   s?mantiques, etc.).

Profil recherch? :

?tudiant en deuxi?me ann?e de master ou derni?re ann?e d'?cole
d'ing?nieur, en informatique ou traitement automatique des langues.

Comp?tences requises :

Syst?mes de classification automatique par apprentissage
artificiel. L'?tudiant doit conna?tre le fonctionnement de ces syst?mes
et ?tre autonome quant ? leur utilisation et ?valuation (scripts,
gestion de donn?es volumineuses, etc.)
On attend ?galement de l'?tudiant une capacit? ? observer les donn?es et
? s'int?grer dans un environnement interdisciplinaire.

D?tails :

- stage conventionn? et r?mun?r? bas? ? Toulouse
- dur?e : 4 ? 6 mois ? partir de mars

Contact :

C?line Raynal raynal at conseil-fh.fr
Ludovic Tanguy tanguy at univ-tlse2.fr



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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 20:55:23 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:55:23 +0100
Subject: Appel: SEPLN 2014
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:28:44 +0100
From: Horacio Saggion <horacio.saggion at upf.edu>
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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
-----------------------


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.

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

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

Deadline for full papers, demos, and projects: 10th April 2014

Notifications: 26th May 2014

Camera Ready: 7th June 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:01:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:01:10 +0100
Subject: Job: Professeur en informatique,
 UFR Mathematiques et Informatique, Universite de Lorraine,
 Modification du profil
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.220110.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:12:37 +0100
From: smaili <Kamel.Smaili at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <52FB9D75.9050402 at loria.fr>
X-url: http://www.loria.fr/la-recherche/departements/traitement-automatique-des-langues-et-des-connaissances


L'UFR Math?matiques et Informatique et le LORIA de l'UL proposent un
poste de professeur en informatique dont les profils enseignement et
recherche sont donn?s ci-dessous.  Par ailleurs, nous organisons ? l'UFR
MI le 19 mars une journ?e de pr?sentation o? les candidats qui le
souhaitent viendront pr?senter leurs dossiers devant les ?quipes
p?dagogiques de l'UFR Math?matiques et Informatique.

Profil enseignement :

Le professeur doit s'int?grer ? l'?quipe p?dagogique de la licence et du
master sciences cognitives. Les sciences cognitives s'int?ressent ? la
compr?hension de la pens?e artificielle, animale ou humaine. Les
comp?tences recherch?es vont donc de l'informatique aux sciences du
langage en passant par la biologie.L'UFR recrutera un professeur qui
poss?de un maximum de comp?tences li?es aux sciences cognitives et qui
pourrait intervenir dans les cours : aspects cognitifs li?s ? la
linguistique computationnelle, les neurosciences, la repr?sentation des
connaissances, l'intelligence artificielle, l'intelligence collective,
etc. L'enseignant doit avoir une comp?tence et une exp?rience certaine
dans ce domaine pour ?tre op?rationnel d?s la rentr?e 2014-2015 o? les
besoins pour nos formations sont importants. Le candidat s'int?grera ?
l'?quipe p?dagogique et contribuera ? la cr?ation de projets
innovants.Au niveau administratif, le candidat doit ?tre en mesure tr?s
rapidement de prendre des responsabilit?s lourdes : montage de nouveaux
dipl?mes, r?daction d'habilitation, direction de dipl?mes ou d'UFR.  Le
professeur recrut? devra ?tre un moteur dans les futurs projets que nous
sommes en train de mettre au point.

Composante/UFR : Math?matiques et Informatique
R?f?rence UFR : K. Sma?li

Mots-cl?s enseignement : sciences cognitives, traitement automatique des
langues, neurosciences, intelligence artificielle

Profil recherche :

Le professeur recrut? effectuera sa recherche dans le Laboratoire
Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA). Il
devra s'int?grer dans le d?partement 4 (Traitement des langues et des
connaissances)
http://www.loria.fr/la-recherche/departements/traitement-automatique-des-langues-et-des-connaissances.
Toutes les ?quipes du d?partement sont concern?es.  Ce d?partement
?tudie les trois domaines ?troitement li?s que sont les langues
naturelles, les connaissances et les documents.

Les th?matiques autour des langues couvrent un large spectre et
concernent notamment la parole (analyse, reconnaissance, synth?se et
perception), la syntaxe (par de m?thodes symboliques ou statistiques),
la s?mantique et la repr?sentation du discours.
Dans le domaine des connaissances, les travaux concernent, entre autres,
la repr?sentation des connaissances et la formalisation du raisonnement,
la d?couverte de connaissances par l'utilisation de m?thodes symboliques
ou num?riques de fouille de donn?es, les m?thodes d'apprentissage et la
classification.
Concernant les documents, les principales th?matiques sont la
reconnaissance de formes, la reconnaissance de symboles et la
mod?lisation de l'?criture manuscrite.

Les ?quipes concern?es sont Cello, Orpailleur, Parole (Multispeech et
SMarT), Qgar, Read, S?magramme, Synalp.


Mots cl?s

traitement automatique des langues, linguistique computationnelle,
grammaires formelles, traduction automatique, analyse/synth?se de la
parole, reconnaissance de la parole, mod?lisation articulatoire de la
parole, traitement du signal audio, s?paration de sources sonores,
mod?les probabilistes, fouilles de donn?es complexes, apprentissage
symbolique et num?rique, repr?sentation des connaissances et
raisonnement, classification, reconnaissance de formes, mod?lisation de
l'?criture manuelle

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:19:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:19:39 +0100
Subject: Appel: Traitement automatique des langues africaines, TALAf 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.221939.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:34:37 +0100
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

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  Fri Feb 14 21:21:54 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:21:54 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier IC&Sante, associe a la conference IC 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.222154.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:49:13 +0100
From: Sandra Bringay <Sandra.Bringay at lirmm.fr>
Message-Id: <428D889D-DA62-4520-BD59-81DEE14FB069 at lirmm.fr>
X-url: https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/

Atelier Ing?nierie des connaissances et Sant?
https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/

En association avec les 25?mes Journ?es francophones d'Ing?nierie des
Connaissances, Clermont Ferrand, du 12 au 16 mai 2014
(http://www.irit.fr/IC2014)

Au cours des derni?res ann?es, le nombre de donn?es m?dicales n'a cess?
d'augmenter suite ? l?informatisation croissante des professionnels de
sant?. Ces donn?es restent trop souvent sous-exploit?es. Les m?thodes
d?ing?nierie des connaissances proposent des solutions pertinentes pour
traiter toute la richesse potentielle de ces bases, m?me si des
questions d'?thique, de mise en place de solutions, d'acquisition et de
s?curit? restent pos?es. L?atelier sera l?occasion de d?battre des
verrous li?s ? la mod?lisation, la structuration, l'extraction, la
recherche et la fouille de donn?es de sant? de tous types. L?atelier
permettra de pr?senter des activit?s de recherche innovantes, des
m?thodes, des technologies et des d?monstrateurs d?velopp?s aussi bien
dans le monde acad?mique, dans les laboratoires affili?s aux structures
de sant? et par des industriels impliqu?s dans le domaine de
l'ing?nierie de connaissances.

L?objectif de cet atelier est d?offrir un cadre d??change entre les
chercheurs, les industriels et les utilisateurs int?ress?s par les
derni?res avanc?es scientifiques du domaine de l?ing?nierie des
connaissances en Sant?. On s'int?ressera par exemple aux th?mes :

* Terminologies et Ontologies m?dicales : Interop?rabilit? des syst?mes
  d'information en sant?, indexation terminologique de la litt?rature
  m?dicale, de dossiers m?dicaux de patients et de r?cits cliniques,
  annotations de documents, formalismes de repr?sentation, alignement
  d'ontologies.

* Usage du Web 2.0 en sant? : R?seaux collaboratifs des praticiens de
  sant?, patients et famille, r?seaux bibliographiques dans le domaine
  m?dical, annotation sociale de ressources m?dicale 

* Traitement d'informations multimodales : Traitement du texte, image et
  son, classification et int?gration de contenus m?dicaux multimodaux,
  multi-sources

* Extraction de connaissances ? partir de contenus m?dicaux :
  Anonymisation, extraction d'entit?s nomm?es, de variable et/ou
  indicateurs pathologiques, recherche de corr?lations, fouille de
  donn?es m?dicales

* Syst?mes d'information en sant? : Repr?sentation, traitement et acc?s
  aux informations et des connaissances en sant?, Syst?mes d'information
  d?cisionnels de sant?, Gestion des dossiers m?dicaux de patients,
  Personnalisation et sant?.


Nous faisons appel aux chercheurs et aux experts du domaine pour qu?ils
pr?sentent leurs travaux. Nous encourageons ?galement les jeunes
chercheurs et les industriels int?ress?s par ces questions ? participer
? cette manifestation et ? se faire conna?tre. Chaque soumission fera
l?objet d?une ?valuation par plusieurs re-lecteurs du comit? de
programme. L?atelier est ouvert ? la pr?sentation de travaux de
diff?rents stades d'avancement.

Site web de l'atelier : 
--------------------------
https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/

Soumissions :
--------------------------
Les textes (soumission et version finale) doivent ?tre r?dig?s en
fran?ais (en anglais pour les non francophones), de fa?on anonyme, sur 6
pages maximum en incluant toutes les r?f?rences et les figures, au
format de la conf?rence Ing?nierie des connaissances
(http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/16). 
Les articles sont ? envoyer via le site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsant2014

Dates importantes :
--------------------------
* Date limite de soumission : 10 mars 2014
* R?ponse aux auteurs : 31 mars 2014
* Versions d?finitives des contributions : 14 avril 2014

Organisatrices :
---------------------
* Sandra Bringay, LIRMM-UM3, http://www.lirmm.fr/~bringay/
* Nathalie Souf, IRIT-UPS, http://www.irit.fr/~Nathalie.Souf
* Lynda Tamine-Lechani, IRIT-UPS, http://www.irit.fr/~Lynda.Tamine-Lechani/

Comit? de programme :
-------------------------------
J?rome Az?, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Audrey Baneyx, Sciences Politiques, Paris 
Catherine Berrut, LIG, Grenoble 
Sandra Bringay, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Jean Charlet, AP-HP & INSERM U1142, Paris 
Adrien Coulet, LORIA, Nancy 
Olivier Cure, LIGM, Paris 
Cedrick Fairon, Universit? de Louvain 
Natalia Grabar, STL, Lille 
Brigitte Grau, LIMSI, Paris 
Marie-Christine Jaulent, INSERM U1142, Paris 
Cl?ment Jonquet, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Vanda Luengo, LIG, Grenoble 
Fleur Mougin, ERIAS - ISPED, Universit? de Bordeaux 
Pascal Poncelet, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, Montpellier 
Lina Soualmia, LITIS, Rouen 
Nathalie Souf, IRIT, Toulouse 
Lynda Tamine Lechani IRIT, Toulouse 
Maguelonne Teisseire, IRSTEA, Montpellier 
Mouna Torjmen Khemakhem, Universit? de Sfax, Tunisie 
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, Paris 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:20:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:20:31 +0100
Subject: Job: CDI linguiste-informaticien H/F, Eptica-Lingway
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.222031.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:36:55 +0100
From: Hugues de Mazancourt <hugues.de-mazancourt at eptica.com>
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Poste ? pourvoir en CDI
Localisation: Boulogne-Billancourt
R?umn?ration: en fonction de l'exp?rience

Eptica Lingway, filiale du groupe Eptica, d?veloppe et commercialise la
gamme LEA pour l'e-recrutement. Cette gamme comprend LEA CV pour
l'analyse automatique de CV, LEA Search pour la recherche s?mantique
notamment d'offres d'emploi et de CV, et LEA Matching pour le matching
offres-cv.

Ces produits mettent en oeuvre des grammaires d'analyse, des
dictionnaires et un r?seau s?mantique multilingue adapt? pour le monde
du recrutement. Il met en ?uvre des strat?gies de recherche documentaire
sp?cifiques, notamment pour le matching offres-CV.

La gamme LEA est disponible en plusieurs langues europ?ennes et
asiatiques.


Dans le cadre des ?volutions de l'offre LEA, Eptica-Lingway recherche
un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) en CDI.


Au sein de l'?quipe technique, le candidat aura les missions suivantes :
- participer ? la conception, d?veloppement, maintenance des
  fonctionnalit?s linguistiques des produits de la gamme LEA,
- apporter une expertise aux probl?matiques techniques de nos clients,
- effectuer des analyses de corpus,
- effectuer le support de second niveau pour les clients ou partenaires,
- participer aux r?unions de projet en cas de besoin,
- compl?ter et ex?cuter les tests de qualit? des produits.

Comp?tences requises :
- Traitement Automatique des Langues (?tude de corpus, moteur de
  recherche, grammaires locales, techniques de "machine learning"),
- Des connaissances en programmation/scripting (Java, Groovy, Perl, ...)
  et bases de donn?es
- Ma?trise de l'anglais,
- Ma?trise d'autres langues europ?ennes appr?ci?e,
- Bonnes capacit?s d'analyse,
- Facilit? ? travailler en ?quipe.

Envoyer CV et lettre de motivation ? hugues.de-mazancourt at eptica.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:04:25 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:04:25 +0100
Subject: Appel: Call for Demos, NLDB'2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.220425.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:16:32 +0100
From: Mathieu Roche <Mathieu.Roche at lirmm.fr>
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*******************************************

Call for Demos - NLDB'2014

18-20 June 2014 - Montpellier, France

http://www.nldb.org/

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

The 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to
Information Systems (NLDB?2014) invites submissions of demonstrations of
state-of-the-art research or industrial prototypes related to all
aspects of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems
field.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Applications of NLP in Information Systems
- Social Media and Web Data
- Big Data and Natural Language
- Semantic Web and Open Linked Data
- Question Answering (QA)
- Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing
- Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling
- NLP Applications (Opinion Mining, Information Extraction, ?)

Demo submissions will be handled online via the easychair conference
management system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2014demonstratio

Demonstration paper submissions should have 4 pages (LNCS format).
Developers should outline the design of their system and provide details
to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, originality, and
relevance to NLP in Information Systems.

The accepted papers for demos will be included in the conference
proceedings, to be published by Springer Verlag in the "Lecture Notes in
Computer Science" (LNCS) Series. The demos will be presented in a
special demonstration session. At least one of the demo submitters must
register for the conference, and perform the demo on site.

Important Dates:
- Demo submission deadline (firm): March 13, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2014
- Camera-ready paper due: April 7, 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:06:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:06:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier TALN SemDis 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.FEB.2014.220620.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:42:24 +0100
From: C?cile Fabre <cecile.fabre at univ-tlse2.fr>
Message-ID: <52FC8570.2090902 at univ-tlse2.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/semdis2014/


APPEL ? PARTICIPATION
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'organisera 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 :
10 mars 2014 : diffusion des donn?es de test
17 mars 2014 : date limite de soumission des r?sultats par les participants
7 avril 2014 : annonce des r?sultats

Soumission des articles pour les 2 t?ches :
22 avril 2014 : envoi des articles
13 mai : notification
30 mai 2014 : 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  Fri Feb 14 21:17:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:17:19 +0100
Subject: Stage: Pretraitement de donnees textuelles pour un systeme
 d'analyse semantique, Strasbourg
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:50:12 +0400
From: Yuliya <4arly at bk.ru>
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X-url: http://macaon.lif.univ-mrs.fr/


Sujet de stage en informatique
Pr?traitement de donn?es textuelles pour un syst?me d?analyse s?mantique

Entreprise : Rebuz SAS, Strasbourg
Dur?e : 2-5 mois
Niveau : M1-M2
R?mun?ration : 436,05 euros/mois
Contact : Mme Yuliya Goncharova,  4arly at bk.ru

D?tails :

Rebuz est une soci?t? sp?cialis?e dans l'analyse de textes pour la
veille ?conomique. Le syst?me original repose sur l'analyse s?mantique
?paul?e par des principes de la linguistique cognitive.

Le stage portera sur l'am?lioration du module de pr?traitement
existant. Ce sujet sera particuli?rement int?ressant pour les ?tudiants
souhaitant en apprendre plus sur le Traitement Automatique de Langues
(TAL) et sur la Recherche d'Information (RI).

Les t?ches seront adapt?es selon le niveau et les pr?f?rences du (de la)
candidat(e) s?lectionn?(e).
 
Objectifs du stage
* R?vision du module actuel (?crit en Java)
* Nettoyage et optimisation du code
* Int?gration de l'?tiqueteur morphosyntaxique MACAON [1]
* S?ries de tests et perfectionnement

Comp?tences recherch?es :
- aisance dans la programmation en Java (un ?chantillon de code sera
  demand?)
- bonnes connaissances des tests unitaires (JUnit)
- bonnes capacit?s de travail en ?quipe
- rigueur
- responsabilit?
- autonomie 
 
[1] http://macaon.lif.univ-mrs.fr/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Feb 14 21:23:35 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:23:35 +0100
Subject: Appel: Colloque international Langage et Analogie. Figement.
 Polysemie
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:52:51 +0100
From: Pierre-Andr? Buvet <pabuvet at ldi.univ-paris13.fr>
Message-ID: <52FE57F3.9070204 at ldi.univ-paris13.fr>

Colloque international
LANGAGE ET ANALOGIE. FIGEMENT. POLYS?MIE
Universit? de Grenade, Facult? de Traduction et d'interpr?tariat
17-19 septembre 2014

La vitalit? d'une discipline se mesure ? sa capacit? d'int?gration des
sciences et des technologies de son ?poque. En linguistique, une large
part de l'innovation th?orique se d?veloppe au contact de deux domaines
particuli?rement productifs : les sciences cognitives et l'informatique.
Les premi?res d?couvrent un certain nombre de contraintes non
sp?cifiquement langagi?res que les mod?les linguistiques ne peuvent
ignorer, sauf ? renoncer ? toute pr?tention r?aliste au sens
psychologique du terme. La dimension sociale des langues elle-m?me ne
peut plus ?tre pens?e ind?pendamment du fait que les langues se
manifestent et se d?veloppent par l'activit? des cerveaux singuliers des
locuteurs qui les parlent et les comprennent. Par ailleurs, au plan
technologique, les progr?s de l'informatique permettent d'explorer des
quantit?s de donn?es linguistiques toujours plus vastes dans des corpus
de plus en plus nombreux, et par cons?quent d'esp?rer non seulement des
descriptions qui tendent ? l'exhaustivit? mais aussi un traitement
automatique du langage qui s'approche, au moins dans ses finalit?s, de
son traitement naturel. Les concepts d'analogie et de figement, auxquels
ce colloque est consacr?, jouent un r?le essentiel dans l'articulation
des sciences du langage avec la psychologie cognitive et l'outil
informatique. Le r?le central de l'analogie dans la cognition humaine
est aujourd'hui bien document? : l'?tre humain poss?de une capacit?
beaucoup plus d?velopp?e que d'autres esp?ces animales ? percevoir, ?
concevoir et ? traiter une multiplicit? de similarit?s pertinentes dans
son environnement, gr?ce auxquelles cet environnement lui appara?t ?
chaque instant comme structur?, ou, en d'autres termes, cat?goris?,
conceptualis?. Au plan linguistique, les processus analogiques sont
susceptibles d'impliquer des similarit?s sur au moins trois plans
fondamentaux : au plan du contenu, les similarit?s entre des entit?s
extra-linguistiques produisent des concepts qui donnent lieu ou bien ?
une r?ification s?miotique sous la forme de d?nominations, ou bien ? une
unification proc?durale au moyen de mots grammaticaux de sens
instructionnel ; au plan formel, les similarit?s entre les signifiants
produisent des r?gularit?s pr?sentes partout o? existe un paradigme ;
enfin, la similarit? entre formes et contenus se traduit par le
caract?re motiv? des signes linguistiques, qu'il s'agisse de motivation
interne, c'est-?-dire d'iconicit? au sens strict (imagic iconicity,
symbolisme phon?tique, etc.), ou de motivation externe ou syntagmatique
(la motivation relative saussurienne, l'iconicit? diagrammatique au sens
peircien ou encore l'iconicit? des linguistiques cognitives
contemporaines, qui se manifeste dans les th?ories cognitives de la
m?taphore et plus largement de l'embodiment). Or la plupart des concepts
mis en jeu en linguistique analogique -- d?nomination, motivation,
iconicit?, polys?mie, etc. -- ont connu un profond renouvellement sous
l'influence des d?veloppements de la recherche en phras?ologie. Et l'on
sait bien que le probl?me des expressions fig?es reste en linguistique
informatique un verrou technologique qui constitue un d?fi majeur de la
recherche contemporaine sur le traitement automatique du langage.
L'enjeu de ce colloque bisannuel, dont la premi?re session s'est
d?roul?e en Tunisie en octobre 2012, consiste donc ? croiser la
recherche en linguistique analogique et la recherche en phras?ologie,
dans le but d'ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives dont le caract?re
innovant soit fond? sur la pluralit? des approches. La session 2014
accordera un int?r?t particulier ? la polys?mie, dans les perspectives
de la linguistique analogique et de la linguistique du figement. Selon
la premi?re, la polys?mie constitue une situation interm?diaire entre la
configuration de l'isomorphisme (une forme -- un sens) et les
configurations disjonctives de l'homonymie (un signifiant pour deux
signifi?s distincts) et du polymorphisme (un signifi? pour deux
signifiants distincts). Le champ d'investigation principal porte donc
sur l'analyse qualitative de la similarit? entre les acceptions des
polys?mes et sur le traitement cognitif des analogies que conditionne
cette similarit? (pertinence d'un sens de base, existence d'un sentiment
m?taphorique, etc.). Quant aux unit?s polylexicales, il est ?tabli que
leur polys?mie est restreinte par rapport ? celle des unit?s
monolexicales, puisque les expressions fig?es sont constitu?es d'unit?s
satur?es dans leur contexte imm?diat et par cons?quent que la variation
contextuelle li?e ? la variation polys?mique ne peut jouer que pour
l'ensemble de l'expression. Il demeure que certaines expressions fig?es
sont polys?miques (ex. perdre pied) et par ailleurs que la question du
lien entre le sens litt?ral et le sens phras?ologique des expressions
fig?es interroge les limites du concept de polys?mie. Dans la
syst?matique g?n?rale des langues, une tension existe entre deux grands
principes d'?conomie cognitive : l'?conomie quantitative et l'?conomie
proc?durale. Cette derni?re est maximale dans les situations
d'isomorphisme (analogie diagrammatique) et d'iconicit? (analogie
imaginale). Les syst?mes s?miotiques sont en effet d'autant plus simples
dans leur fonctionnement qu'ils sont r?guliers et d'autant plus ais?s ?
m?moriser qu'ils sont motiv?s. Cependant, ? ces principes, s'opposent la
tendance ? l'?conomie quantitative visant ? r?duire le nombre de signes
? m?moriser, tendance qui se traduit ou bien par la polys?mie (analogie
entre signes fond?e sur la similarit? des signifi?s), qui permet
d'augmenter le rendement cognitif d'un signe en lui donnant plusieurs
emplois, ou bien par le figement, qui permet de construire un sens
nouveau au moyen d'unit?s lexicales d?j? disponibles, la s?quence fig?e
?tant le plus souvent motiv?e (analogie entre forme et contenu). L'un
des enjeux de ce colloque sera donc de chercher ? mieux comprendre les
modalit?s de r?solution de cette tension selon les langues et les
discours consid?r?s. Plus largement, le colloque accueillera toute
contribution visant ? ?clairer les rapports entre au moins deux des
trois concepts interrog?s : analogie, figement et polys?mie.



Conf?renciers invit?s
Xavier Blanco (Universit? autonome de Barcelone)
Mirella Conenna (Universit? Aldo Moro, Bari)
Christian Cuxac (Universit? de Paris VIII)
Maribel Gonz?lez Rey (USC, Saint Jacques de Compostelle
Jean-Ren? Ladmiral (Universit? de Paris X)
Pedro Mogorron (Universit? d'Alicante)
Emmanuel Sander (Universit? de Paris VIII)
Olivier Soutet (Universit? de Paris IV)
Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University)
Comit? d'honneur
Francisco Lodeiro Gonz?lez
Recteur de l'Universit? de Grenade
Angela Collado Ais
Doyenne de la Facult? de l'Universit? de Grenade
Antonio Chicharro Chamorro
Directeur du d?partement de Linguistique G?n?rale et Th?orie de la 
Litt?rature de l'Universit? de Grenade
Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine
Directrice du Laboratoire CPTC (EA 4178), Universit? de Bourgogne
Eric Heilmann
Doyen de la facult? de Lettres et Philosophie de l'Universit? de Bourgogne
Comit? scientifique
Didier Bottineau (Universit? de Paris X)
Samir Bajric (Universit? de Paris IV)
Carmen Mellado Blanco (Universit? de St Jacques de Compostelle)
Pierre-Andr? Buvet (Universit? de Paris XIII)
Gaston Gross (Universit? de Paris XIII)
Georges Kleiber (Universit? de Strasbourg)
Juan de Dios Luque Dur?n (Universit? de Grenade)
Luc?a Luque Nadal (Universit? de Cordoue)
Angel L?pez Garc?a (Universidad de Valencia)
Aleksandar Mijatovic (Universit? de Rijeka)
Rosemeire Monteiro-Plantin (Universit? F?d?rale du Cear?)
Julia Sevilla Mu?oz (Universit? Complutense de Madrid)
Franck Neveu (Universit? de Paris IV)
Luca Nobile (Universit? de Bourgogne)
Jos? Manuel Pazos Breta?a (Universit? de Grenade)
Thierry Ponchon (Universit? de Reims)
Christian Puech (Universit? de Paris III)
Dan Savatovsky (Universit? de Paris III)
Jean-Pierre Thibaud (Universit? de Bourgogne)
Thomas Verjans (Universit? de Bourgogne)

Les communications seront propos?es en fran?ais

Elles doivent ?tre envoy?es ? l'adresse suivante :
colloqueanalogie at gmail.com. Informations compl?mentaires disponibles sur
le site du colloque ? l'adresse
https://sites.google.com/site/colloquelangageetanalogie/accueil-grenade-2014-1

Date limite de soumission (5000 signes + orientations bibliographiques) :
5 mai 2014 R?ponse du comit? scientifique : 30 juin 2014 
Remise des articles : 31 janvier 2015 au plus tard.
Publication des actes : 2015

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Mon Feb 17 14:25:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:25:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: TALN 2014, Extension de date limite
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:05:16 +0100
From: Philippe Blache <blache at lpl-aix.fr>
Message-Id: <0403127F-6FE2-4B9D-9767-C60B58ED1DC1 at lpl-aix.fr>
X-url: http://www.taln2014.org


                        APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS

                              TALN-2014
  21e conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

                       http://www.taln2014.org
                           1-4 Juillet 2014
                               Marseille


--> 	Extension de date limite de soumission
--> 	Nouvelle Date :	Jeudi 27 F?vrier 2014
			---------------------


CALENDRIER
==========

1. Articles longs
    - Date limite de soumission : 20 f?vrier 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 14 avril 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 30 mai 2014

2. Articles courts
    - Date limite de soumission : 24 avril 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 22 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 30 mai 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 : 30 mai 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 ?
14 pages) et les articles courts (de 6 ? 8 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  Tue Feb 18 21:50:56 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:50:56 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Data, digital methods and mapping social complexity,
 ENSCI, Paris
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.225056.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:35:45 +0100
From: Audrey Baneyx - Sciences Po <audrey.baneyx at sciencespo.fr>
Message-ID: <530399F1.6080804 at sciencespo.fr>
X-url: http://www.digitalmethods-seminar.org

Ch?re coll?gue, Cher coll?gue,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter ? participer au nouveau s?minaire
de recherche conjoint du m?dialab (Sciences Po) et de la plateforme
CorTexT (IFRIS) "*Data, digital methods and mapping social complexity:
Visualizing social and semantic dynamics in the social sciences*". Le
s?minaire sera h?berg? par l'ENSCI ? Paris et anim? par une ?quipe de
chercheurs de Sciences Po et de l'IFRIS de f?vrier ? juillet 2014.

Le s?minaire est destin? ? un public de doctorants, chercheurs,
ing?nieurs et designers. Nos rencontres auront lieu huit jeudi
apr?s-midis ainsi que deux journ?es compl?tes dans l'Espace Vi?not de
l'ENSCI, situ?e au rez-de-chauss?e du 48 rue Saint Sabin, Paris. La
langue de travail sera le fran?ais, except? lors des s?ances auxquelles
sont invit?s des chercheurs anglophones. Vous trouverez ci-dessous la
pr?sentation du s?minaire et le programme des sessions.

Nous serions heureux de vous compter parmi nous. Merci de nous faire
conna?tre votre participation en vous inscrivant directement sur notre
site : www.digitalmethods-seminar.org .

Bien cordialement

/Le Comit? d'organisation/

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Data, digital methods and mapping social complexity: Visualizing social
and semantic dynamics in the social sciences


*Pr?sentation du s?minaire*

Les cartes sont des repr?sentations visuelles de l'espace. Ce sont des
images codifi?es qui permettent de signaler la pr?sence d'?l?ments sur
un territoire donn? comme des objets, des zones ou des flux. L'art
cartographique a une histoire longue et riche. Initialement con?u pour
assister le d?placement des hommes et des biens, la carte vise ?
repr?senter l'espace g?ographique en positionnant des ?l?ments
graphiques sur une surface bidimensionnelle. En tant qu'outil figuratif,
la carte est rapidement devenu un instrument de recherche et de gestion.
De fait, la pratique cartographique a fortement marqu? nos fa?ons de
repr?senter, naviguer, comprendre, organiser et contester les espaces
que nous habitons.

L'av?nement r?cent de l'informatique et des satellites a profond?ment
boulevers? la pratique cartographique. Les Syst?mes d'Informations
G?ographiques (SIG) permettent aujourd'hui de capter, stocker, manier,
analyser et g?rer des donn?es spatiales pour assister la science et la
prise de d?cision. Les satellites permettent de positionner et suivre
des mouvements sur l'int?gralit? du globe terrestre alors que des
millions d'utilisateurs acc?dent ? des cartes interactives via leurs
ordinateurs ou t?l?phones portables.

En parall?le ? ces d?veloppements, un nombre croissant de chercheurs en
sciences sociales s'int?resse ? la repr?sentation de donn?es
non-spatiales. Ces repr?sentations sont r?guli?rement pr?sent?es comme
des cartes de territoires inconnus, capables de figurer l'?mergence, la
stabilisation et la d?stabilisation de ph?nom?nes sociaux complexes. En
mobilisant des outils d'extraction, de traitement automatis? et de
visualisation de donn?es provenant de sources h?t?rog?nes (corpus de
documents, bases de donn?es, donn?es web), ces chercheurs esp?rent
cartographier de fa?on dynamique des ph?nom?nes sociaux ? diff?rents
degr?s de granularit?. La transition technique et ?pist?mologique
ouverte par ces outils est parfois nomm?e /Humanit?s Digitales/. Ces
d?veloppements semblent particuli?rement attractifs pour les chercheurs
int?ress?s par l'?tude quantitative des ph?nom?nes sociaux. Ainsi, ces
outils pourraient combler le foss? m?thodologique qui s?pare l'analyse
des interactions sp?cifiques de celles des structures globales.

Au vu de l'expansion constante de la production et de la circulation de
donn?es num?riques, il para?t essentiel pour les chercheurs en sciences
sociales de s'interroger sur ces nouvelles sources de donn?es ainsi que
sur les outils et m?thodes pour les analyser. Parmi ces derni?res,
l'analyse de r?seau permet de positionner les acteurs en visualisant
leurs interactions. Elle compl?te les analyses statistiques (r?gression,
analyse de correspondance etc.), offrant un nouvel angle pour ?tudier la
soci?t? /faite/ et /en train de se faire/. Une telle approche ouvre de
nouvelles perspectives pour de nombreux champs disciplinaires en
sciences sociales, allant de la sociologie des sciences et des
techniques aux sciences politiques.

Mais d'o? viennent ces outils ? Le d?veloppement de logiciels de
traitement et de visualisation de donn?es tels que Gephi, le CorTexT
Manager, Science Scape et Hyphe sont le fruit de travaux
interdisciplinaires, ? l'intersection de la linguistique informatique,
du data mining, de l'intelligence artificielle, des syst?mes dynamiques
et de la science des r?seaux. Ces communaut?s ont travaill? sur des
probl?mes vari?s comme l'extraction, le parsing, la d?sambigu?sation, le
clustering, le filtrage et la visualisation de donn?es. De m?me, la
s?miologie graphique mobilis?e dans ces logiciels se nourrit de travaux
en cartographie et en design. Ainsi, pour produire des visualisations
pertinentes, robustes et lisibles, les chercheurs en sciences sociales
peuvent se tourner vers des communaut?s de chercheurs et de praticiens
d?j? structur?es autour de probl?mes et de m?thodes sp?cifiques.

Notre s?minaire vise ? orchestrer la rencontre et favoriser l'?change
entre ces communaut?s (chercheurs en sciences sociales et sciences ?
exactes ?, ing?nieurs et designers) ? travers la lecture, la
pr?sentation et la discussion de textes acad?miques et non acad?miques,
de travaux d'invit?s et d'outils.


Vous trouverez en pi?ce jointe la feuille de route (en anglais) que nous
avons construite pour rendre compte des multiples questions et mani?res
de faire auxquelles sont confront?s les cartographes /en herbe/ de la
complexit? sociale.


*Programme des sessions*

*Calendrier*

*27.02.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Vi?not // 14:00-17:30*

Introduction

Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam)

*06.03.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Vi?not // 14:00-17:30*

Mapping science and technology through structured data

Jean-Philippe Cointet (INRA)

*27.03.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Vi?not // 14:30-18:00*

Digitized archives and distant reading

Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po)

*10.04.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Vi?not // 14:30-18:00*

Natively digital data mapping

Nortje Marres (Goldsmiths University of London)

*24.04.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Vi?not // 14:30-18:00*

Transformative interactions: web effects on social dynamics

/Invitations en cours/

*15.05.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Vi?not // 14:30-18:00*

Visualizing complexity

Donato Ricci (Sciences Po)

*05.06.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Vi?not // 14:00-17:30*

Spatializing data

Jacques Levy (EPFL)

*19.06.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Vi?not // 14:30-18:00 *

Activism, journalism, decision-making : DMT's in practice

Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou (Regards Citoyens) & Data journaliste [? confirmer]

*10.07.14-11.07.14 // ENSCI -- Espace Vi?not [? confirmer] // 9:30-17:30*

BarCamp

Avec la participation des ?quipes de la plateforme CorTexT de l'IFRIS et
du m?dialab Sciences Po

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:31:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:31:19 +0100
Subject: Conf: TOTh 2014, disputatio, 12-13 June 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.223119.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:32:04 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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TOTh 2014 - Disputatio
12-13 June 2014
www.porphyre.org/toth/
http://porphyre.org/toth/toth-2014/disputatio

"Harris et les immunologistes : un exemple ? suivre ?"

Pr. Pierre Lerat - Universit? Paris XIII

Zellig Harris a fond? principalement ses analyses de discours sur un
m?canisme logico-linguistique universel : la pr?dication. Il a obtenu
des r?sultats particuli?rement significatifs dans ses derniers travaux
(1988), qui portent sur des comptes rendus d'immunologistes.  Les
contraintes r?ciproques entre les types d'expressions pr?dicatives et
les types d'expressions r?f?rentielles requis par les discours
scientifiques et techniques sont fortes. L'int?r?t de cette approche
conduit ? poser deux questions : ? la terminologie celle de la
pr?visibilit? des mots sp?cialis?s, aux ontologies celle du travail sur
les sch?mas pr?dicatifs autrement qu'en termes de << relations
associatives >> parmi d'autres.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:52:28 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:52:28 +0100
Subject: Job: Research Assistant position on OBDA at the Free Univ. of
 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.225228.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:00:09 +0100
From: Diego Calvanese <calvanese at inf.unibz.it>
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Research Assistant position at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano/Italy
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The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data at the Faculty of
Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), Italy is
looking for a talented Research Assistant to work fulltime on

***  SPARQL Query Answering for Ontology Based Data Access
     and Ontology Based Data Integration ***

The position will be financed by the Large Scale Integrating Project
(IP) "Scalable End-user Access to Big Data" (Optique) [2], within the EU
7th Framework Programme (FP7).  The position concerns the design and
implementation of techniques for optimized SPARQL query answering over
virtual RDF graphs, obtained through R2RML mappings over relational
databases.

Requirements for this position are an MSc or preferably a PhD in
Computer Science, fluency in English, and strong Java programming
skills.  Some background on SPARQL, SQL, and OWL are also required.

During this project the applicant will have the opportunity to apply the
results of their research in challenging industrial use-cases involving
reasoning on Big Data, as provided by the Optique project and by the
user base of the -ontop- [1] framework for Ontology Based Data Access.

The position is to start in 2014 as early as possible.  The position has
an initial contract duration of 1 year, and will be extended for up to 3
years in case of mutual agreement.  Candidates interested in pursuing a
PhD in Computer Science where they combine applied and foundational
research, may also apply for enrollment in the PhD program of the
Faculty of Computer Science at FUB, starting in Winter 2014.

The position comes with a great location, Bolzano [3,4].  The Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano is located right in the center of one of the
most beautiful cities in the Alps, and consistently ranks among the top
locations in Italy for its living standard.  The region, South Tyrol, is
among the top destinations for Hikers, Mountaineers, Rock climbers,
Skiers, etc.  And last, as one would expect from any Italian location,
food in Bolzano is great.

Interested applicants should get in contact immediately with
Prof. Diego Calvanese (calvanese at inf.unibz.it),
Dr. Martin Rezk (mrezk at inf.unibz.it), or
Dr. Guohui Xiao (xiao at inf.unibz.it).
Please attach a detailed CV including a statement of interest, project
experience (if any) and up to 2 references (reference letters will be
requested directly from the referees).

[1] http://ontop.inf.unibz.it/
[2] http://www.optique-project.eu/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolzano/
[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=bolzano+italy&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:47:08 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:47:08 +0100
Subject: Job: Speech Data Evaluator,
 Google Speech Research (Multiple positions)
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.224708.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:49:33 +0000
From: Hadrien Gelas <hadrieng at google.com>
Message-ID: <CAF=dzfLZhCwpEEPEWm_WLDe1Dj1O3=5z88_QRJvy5HgFfhiHbQ at mail.gmail.com>


Bonjour,

Veuillez consid?rer l'annonce ci-dessous et, si possible, notamment pour
les personnes impliqu?es dans des formations, faire circuler ce message
aupr?s des ?tudiants ou autres personnes int?ress?es.

Merci d'avance,
Cordialement,
Hadrien Gelas

________________________________

Speech Data Evaluator for French

Job title:

Speech Data Evaluator for French (Multiple positions)

Linguistic Field(s):

   - Phonetics/Phonology
   - Semantics
   - Discourse Analysis

Job description:

As a Speech Data Evaluator and a native-level speaker of French, you
will be part of a team based in Dublin, processing large amounts of
linguistic data and carrying out a number of tasks to improve the
quality of Google?s speech synthesis and speech recognition in your own
language.

This includes:

   - classifying and annotating linguistic data
   - transcription
   - labeling text for disambiguation, expansion, and text normalization
   - providing phonetic transcription of lexicon entries according to
     given standards and using in-house tools


Job requirements:

   - native-level speaker of French (with good command of the standard
     dialect) and fluent in English

   - passion for language with good knowledge of orthography and grammar
     in the target language

   - a degree in a language-related field such as linguistics, language
     teaching, translation, editing, writing, proofreading, or similar


   - keen interest in technology and computer-literate (should feel
     comfortable using in-house tools and should have an interest in
     current speech, mobile and online technology)


   - attention to detail and good organizational skills


Project duration: 6-11 months (with potential for extension)

**This is not a permanent position but a contract position.**

For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in
English (PDF format preferred) with "Speech Data Evaluator [French]" in
the subject line.

Email Address for applications: DataOpsMan at gmail.com

Contact information: Ara Kim
Closing date: open until filled

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:36:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:36:13 +0100
Subject: Appel: IC 2014, Posters et demonstrations
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.223613.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:06:24 +0100
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <53023380.10006 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014

*Appel ? soumissions pour la session Posters et D?monstrations des*

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

------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Dates importantes :*
Date limite de soumission : vendredi 28 f?vrier 2014
Date de notification aux auteurs : lundi 17 mars 2014
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La conf?rence d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances f?te cette ann?e ses 25 
ans! Elle est le rendez-vous annuel de la communaut? fran?aise et 
francophone qui s'int?resse aux probl?matiques li?es ? l'ing?nierie des 
connaissances. Acad?miques et industriels s'y retrouvent pour ?changer 
et r?fl?chir sur des probl?mes de recherche qui se posent en 
acquisition, repr?sentation et gestion des connaissances.
L'essor des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la 
Communication, et notamment des technologies du Web, dans l'ensemble de 
la soci?t? engendre des mutations dans les pratiques individuelles et 
collectives. L'Ing?nierie des Connaissances accompagne cette ?volution, 
en inventant les mod?les, m?thodes et outils permettant l''int?gration 
de connaissances et de raisonnements sur ces connaissances dans des 
environnements informatiques. De fait, on constate aujourd'hui une 
omnipr?sence des connaissances, en m?me temps qu'un d?cloisonnement des 
communaut?s de recherche en Intelligence Artificielle pour r?pondre aux 
probl?mes qui se posent. Ainsi, la construction des syst?mes ? base de 
connaissances fait appel ? l'Ing?nierie des Connaissances, au traitement 
automatique des langues, ? l'apprentissage automatique et ? la fouille 
de donn?es; le traitement des connaissances associe Ing?nierie des 
Connaissances avec recherche d'information, recherche op?rationnelle, 
analyse de donn?es; la mod?lisation des environnements informatiques, de 
ses acteurs humains ou logiciels, allie Ing?nierie des Connaissances et 
syst?mes multi-agents; enfin l'Ing?nierie des Connaissances touche ? des 
th?matiques classiques dans les communaut?s de l'interaction 
homme-machine et des environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage 
humain pour placer l'utilisateur au centre des syst?mes.
En pla?ant l'utilisateur au coeur des syst?mes informatiques, 
l'Ing?nierie des Connaissances est sollicit?e pour traiter la masse de 
donn?es disponibles sur le web tout en assistant l'utilisateur 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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*Soumissions*

/*Posters :*/
Sont concern?s des travaux en cours ou au stade de r?sultats 
pr?liminaires de recherche ou appliqu?s. Les posters sont destin?s ? 
provoquer la discussion au sein de la communaut? pour accompagner au 
mieux le d?marrage des travaux pr?sent?s. Ils seront expos?s dans un 
espace de discussion.

/*D?monstrations :*/
Une ou plusieurs s?ances de d?monstrations seront organis?es pour 
permettre aux participants de pr?senter leurs d?veloppements dans un 
espace de discussion. Ce peuvent ?tre des maquettes, prototypes, outils 
finalis?s, mais aussi applications industrielles et op?rationnelles. Les 
propositions de d?monstrations peuvent venir compl?ter une communication.

Des r?sultats peuvent donner lieu ? une double soumission pour poster ET 
d?monstration.
La soumission d'un poster et/ou d'une d?monstration peut ?galement venir 
en compl?ment d'un article (long ou court) accept? ? la conf?rence ou 
d'une pr?sentation dans la session sp?ciale "Logiciels, Projets,
Industrie".

Les textes associ?s aux d?monstrations et aux posters ne devront pas 
exc?der 3 pages et devront respecter les styles de documents propos?s 
pour la conf?rence : http://www.irit.fr/IC2014.

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


Les articles des posters et d?monstrations accept?s seront inclus dans 
les actes d'IC 2014.

Pour les posters accept?s, le format de pr?sentation sera A0 vertical.

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La conf?rence d'Ing?nierie des connaissances est plac?e sous l'?gide du 
coll?ge IC de l'AFIA
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*Pr?sidente du comit? de programme :*
Catherine Faron Zucker (I3S, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis)

*Pr?sidente du comit? d'organisation :*
Catherine Roussey, (IRSTEA)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:59:02 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:59:02 +0100
Subject: Appel: Computerm 2014, COLING 2014 Workshop
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.225902.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:56:44 +0100
From: Thierry Hamon <hamon at limsi.fr>
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        4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology
                             CompuTerm 2014

                          COLING 2014 Workshop
               23rd or 24th August 2014, Dublin, Ireland
               http://perso.limsi.fr/hamon/Computerm2014/

Submission deadine: 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 or 24th 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, 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, UMIST & National Centre for Text Mining, 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 (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:36:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: Organisation de la Plate-forme IA de l'AFIA 2015 (date
 limite reponse 28 mars 2014)
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:19:35 +0100
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L'AFIA recherche un organisateur pour sa Plate-forme 2015 (p?riode :
entre le 29 juin et le 10 juillet, montant d'inscription max : 300 euros
pour un ?v?nement de 5 jours, h?bergement maximum de 4 conf?rences en
parall?le, nombre de participants envisag?s : 300).

Si vous ?tes int?ress?s par l'organisation d'un tel ?v?nement, merci de
contacter le bureau de l'AFIA (bureau AT afia.asso.fr) pour plus de
sp?cifications sachant que la date limite pour une r?ponse consolid?e
est fix?e au 28 mars 2014.

Pour avoir plus d'information, consulter :
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=146

le CA de l'AFIA

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:47:46 +0100
Subject: Conf: Online Registration to LREC 2014 now open!
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:11:38 +0100
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[Apologies for multiple postings]

The online registration to the Main conference, the workshops and
tutorials is now open @ http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/registration/.
Contact: registration at lrec-conf.org

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:41:53 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:41:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: Special Track Computational Intelligence (ACM-MEDES 2014)
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.224153.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:12:18 -0500
From: "Ismail Biskri" <Ismail.Biskri at uqtr.ca>
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http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=24

Description 

What we call here Computational Intelligence is the study of data
mining, information extraction, knowledge processing, language
processing, discourse processing, and any area that relates to an
intelligent processing of language, information and knowledge. Until
recently this area has been performed by experts in computer science or
experts in artificial intelligence. In fact, there were many computer
applications in Computational Intelligence without any theoretical
support. Today, people working in such areas often work as members of
pluridisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams, including, of course,
computer scientists and expert of artificial intelligence but also
mathematicians, statisticians, linguists, language experts,
philosophers, logicians, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists,
psycholinguists, anthropologists, etc. Therefore, Computational
Intelligence must become more connected to areas as cognitive science,
mathematics, statistic, linguistics, philosophy, logics, neuroscience,
etc. through the development of methods, strategies and algorithms for
all aspects of language processing, discourse processing, knowledge
processing, information processing, etc. These methods and strategies
can be seen according to their theoretical or practical significance.

The aim of this track is to present original works related to
computational intelligence. These works should focus either on practical
applications, or on results of theoretical foundations of the
discipline. We, therefore, invite authors for original papers
submissions for any work related to theoretical or practical aspects of
Computational Intelligence.

Topics of Interest

Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, the following areas:


* Philosophy of language and discourse
* Cognitive science
* Non standard logics
* Natural language processing
* Computational linguistics (lexicology; morphology; syntax; semantics)
* Information extraction
* Ontologies
* Knowledge processing
* Data Mining, Text Mining, Web Mining
* Information retrieval
* Web Semantics

Paper Submission 

Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using
 EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes2014).

Papers are up to 6 pages and must be formatted according to the ACM
proceedings format which can be found here:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After
the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and
arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments.
Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final
decision.

Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact,
originality, technical soundness, and quality of
presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong
or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital
Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present
the paper.

The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the
ACM Digital Library and DBLP.

Important dates

* Full Papers Submission: May 12, 2014
* Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 13, 2014
* Camera ? ready papers: August 07, 2014
* Special Track days: September 15-17, 2014

Special Track chairs 

Isma?l Biskri 
Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res
Canada 
ismail.biskri at uqtr.ca


Adel Jebali
University of Concordia
Canada 
adel.jebali at concordia.ca

Programme Committee (to be completed)

Ismail Biskri, Universite de Qu?bec ? Trois Rivi?res, Canada
Jean-Pierre Descl?s, Universit? de Paris-Sorbonne, France
Al Moatasem Alrahabi, Universit? Paris-Sorbonne Abu-Dhabi
Rim Faiz, IHEC de Carthage, Universit? du 7 novembre ? Carthage, Tunisia
Adel Jebali, University Concordia, Montreal, Canada
Jean-Guy Meunier, Universit? de Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada
Anca Pascu, Universit? de Bretagne Occidentale, France
Christophe Jouis, Universit? Paris 6, France
Malek Mouhoub, University of Regina, Canada
Juan Manuel Torres Moreno, Universit? d?Avignon, France
Agata Jackiewicz, Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, France
Marc Bertin, Universit? de Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada
Iana Atanassova, University Concordia, Canada
Florence Le Priol, Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, France
Sonia El Euch, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada
Maria Antonietta Pinto,  Universita di Roma, Italy
Roger Nkambou, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada
Daniel Vanderveken, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada,
Candida De Sousa Melo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:48:48 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:48:48 +0100
Subject: Info: Prix de la these ATALA 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.224848.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:15:57 +0100
From: pap <pap at limsi.fr>
Message-ID: <5303873D.9000903 at limsi.fr>
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Prix de la th?se ATALA 2014

Depuis 2011, l'ATALA, Association pour le Traitement Automatique des
Langues, d?cerne un prix de th?se pour r?compenser des travaux
francophones d'excellence dans le domaine du TAL. Ce prix illustre la
volont? de l'ATALA de soutenir les jeunes chercheurs francophones et de
contribuer ? la diffusion de leur travaux ? l'ensemble de la communaut?
du TAL.

Contrairement aux ann?es pr?c?dentes, le prix 2014 n'est pas dot?.
Peuvent candidater tous les docteurs ayant soutenu leur th?se de
doctorat dans une universit? francophone entre le 1er septembre 2011 et
le 31 d?cembre 2013 et n'ayant jamais candidat? auparavant au prix de
th?se ATALA.

Un jury d'une quinzaine de chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs couvrant
l'ensemble des domaines de recherche en TAL examineront les dossiers
afin de s?lectionner le (la) laur?at(e).

Le (la) laur?at(e) recevra son prix au cours du colloque TALN 2014 qui
aura lieu ? la Facult? Saint-Charles de Marseille, du 1er au 4 juillet
2014. ? cette occasion le (la) laur?at(e) pr?sentera ses travaux lors
d'une session pl?ni?re.

Date limite de soumission des dossiers : 15 mars 2014. 

Le dossier ? fournir est constitu? d'un CV (2 pages), des rapports de
pr?-soutenance et de soutenance, et de la th?se.

?tapes

- Remplir le formulaire http://www.atala.org/_Prix-de-la-these_

- Envoyer une archive contenant le CV, les rapports et la th?se (ou bien
  une URL d'o? l'on puisse r?cup?rer les documents) ? : pap at limsi.fr

- Annonce des r?sultats d?but mai 2014

- Remise du prix lors de TALN 2014

Jury: (En cours de composition)

Co-pr?sid? par : Fr?d?rique Segond (Groupe Viseo), Patrick Paroubek
(LIMSI-CNRS) et Charles Teiss?dre (Universit? Paris-Sorbonne).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:30:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:30:17 +0100
Subject: These: Dhouha Bouamor,
 Constitution de ressources linguistiques multilingues
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.223017.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:54:56 +0000
From: SEMMAR Nasredine 202247 <nasredine.semmar at cea.fr>
Message-ID: <50CC12289F0C854FBFF134F270030CD71C49B57B at EXDAG0-B2.intra.cea.fr>

Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? ma soutenance de th?se r?alis?e au
sein du Laboratoire Vision et Ing?nierie des Contenus (LVIC) et le
Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la M?canique et les Sciences de
l'Ing?nieur (LIMSI) intitul?e : "Constitution de ressources
linguistiques multilingues ? partir de corpus de textes parall?les et
comparables".

La soutenance aura lieu le vendredi 21 f?vrier 2014 ? 14h00 au
LIMSI. Vous ?tes ?galement convi?s au pot de th?se qui suivra.

Bien cordialement,

Dhouha Bouamor

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Le jury de soutenance sera compos? de :

M. Reinhard Rapp, Professeur ? l'Universit? de Mainz, Rapporteur
M. Eric Gaussier, Professeur ? l'Universit? Joseph Fourier, Rapporteur
M. Philippe Langlais, Professeur ? l'Universit? de Montr?al, Examinateur
M. Fran?ois Yvon, Professeur ? l'Universit? Paris-Sud, Examinateur
M. Pierre Zweigenbaum, Directeur de recherche au LIMSI-CNRS, Directeur de th?se
M. Nasredine Semmar, Chercheur au LVIC - CEA LIST, Encadrant

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

R?sum? :

Les lexiques bilingues sont des ressources particuli?rement utiles pour
la Traduction Automatique et la Recherche d?Information
Interlingue. Leur construction manuelle n?cessite une expertise forte
dans les deux langues concern?es et est un processus co?teux. Plusieurs
m?thodes automatiques ont ?t? propos?es comme une alternative, mais
elles ne sont disponibles que dans un nombre limit? de langues et leurs
performances sont encore loin derri?re la qualit? des traductions
manuelles. Notre travail porte sur l'extraction de ces lexiques
bilingues ? partir de corpus de textes parall?les et comparables.

En nous basant sur des corpus parall?les, nous pr?sentons une approche
qui porte sur le traitement d?expressions polylexicales, allant de leur
acquisition automatique ? leur int?gration dans un syst?me de traduction
automatique statistique.

Pour les corpus comparables, nous proposons deux nouvelles approches
dont le but est d?extraire des lexiques bilingues sp?cialis?s dans les
domaines de la finance des entreprises, du cancer du sein, de l??nergie
?olienne et de la technologie mobile. La premi?re approche ?tend
l?approche distributionnelle par un processus de d?sambigu?sation
lexicale. La deuxi?me approche repose sur Wikip?dia et l?analyse
explicite s?mantique. L?originalit? de cette approche r?side dans le
fait que, au lieu de consid?rer l?espace des mots d?un corpus pour la
repr?sentation des mots que l?on souhaite traduire, ces derniers sont
repr?sent?s dans l?espace des titres des articles de Wikip?dia. Ces deux
approches se comparent favorablement aux m?thodes existantes dans la
plupart des configurations.

Mots cl?s : extraction de lexique bilingue, corpus parall?le, corpus
comparable, alignement, traduction automatique statistique.

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

Abstract:

Bilingual lexicons are central components of machine translation and
cross-lingual information retrieval systems. Their manual construction
requires extensive expertise in both languages involved and it is a
costly process. Several automatic methods were proposed as an
alternative but they often rely of resources available in a limited
number of languages and their performances are still far behind the
quality of manual translations. Our work concerns bilingual lexicon
extraction from multilingual parallel and comparable corpora.

Based on parallel corpora, we present an approach that focuses on
processing multiword expressions, ranging from their automatic
acquisition to their integration into a statistical machine translation
system.

For comparable corpora, we propose two new approaches that aim at
extracting bilingual lexicons specialized in the corporate finance,
breast cancer, wind energy and mobile technology domains. The first
approach augments the distributional approach by proposing a word sense
disambiguation process that keeps only the words that are more likely to
give the best representation of a word to be translated. Our second
approach is based on Wikipedia and its explicit semantic analysis. The
main originality of this approach is in the way words are represented:
instead of representing the words in a corpus words space, they are
represented in Wikipedia titles? space. The newly introduced approaches
compare favorably to existing methods in almost configurations.

Keywords: bilingual lexicon extraction, parallel corpus, comparable
corpus, alignment, statistical machine translation.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:06:14 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:06:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: 7e Atelier BUCC a LREC,
 extension au 23/2 et numero special de JNLE
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.220614.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:41:02 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
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Veuillez excuser l'envoi multiple --- merci de transmettre aux coll?gues
int?ress?s
============================================================
DEADLINE EXTENSION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
============================================================
7th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA
Building Resources for Machine Translation Research
http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/
May 27, 2014
Co-located with LREC 2014
Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland)
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 23, 2014
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/

*** INVITED SPEAKER ***
Chris Callison-Burch (University of Pennsylvania)
============================================================
MOTIVATION

In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in
comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language
engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use
comparable corpora as training data for statistical Natural Language
Processing applications such as statistical machine translation or
cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable
corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible
inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted
in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or
several languages that are comparable in content and form in various
degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and
observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine
such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of
great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.

The scarcity of parallel corpora has motivated research concerning the
use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected
according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or
language varieties. Non-parallel yet comparable corpora overcome the two
limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual
texts are much more abundant than translated texts.  However, because of
their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more
challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable
corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention:
while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward,
building a non-parallel corpus requires control over the selection of
source texts in both languages.

Parallel corpora are a key resource as training data for statistical
machine translation, and for building or extending bilingual lexicons
and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English-
French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary
debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the
creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the
Web. To exemplify such issues in a practical setting, this year's
special focus will be on Building Resources for Machine Translation
Research

This special topic aims to address the need for:

(1) Machine Translation training and testing data such as spoken or
    written monolingual, comparable or parallel data collections, and

(2) methods and tools used for collecting, annotating, and verifying MT
    data such as Web crawling, crowdsourcing, tools for language experts
    and for finding MT data in comparable corpora.

TOPICS

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

Topics related to the special theme:
* Methods and tools for collecting and processing MT data, including
  crowdsourcing
* Methods and tools for quality control
* Tools for efficient annotation
* Bilingual term and named entity collections
* Multilingual treebanks, wordnets, propbanks, etc.
* Comparable corpora with parallel units annotated
* Comparable corpora for under-resourced languages and specific domains
* Multilingual corpora with rich annotations: POS tags, NEs,
  dependencies, semantic roles, etc.
* Data for special applications: patent translation, movie subtitles,
  MOOCs, meetings, chat-rooms, social media, etc.
* Legal issues with collecting and redistributing data and generating
  derivatives

Building comparable corpora:
* Human translations
* Automatic and semi-automatic methods
* Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
* Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
* Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
* Rare and minority languages, across language families
* Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:
* Human translations
* Language learning
* Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
* Bilingual projections
* Machine translation
* Writing assistance

Mining from comparable corpora:
* Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
* Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words
  and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities, etc.

IMPORTANT DATES
February 23, 2014 Deadline for submission of papers (extended)
March 10, 2014 Notification of acceptance
March 27, 2014 Camera-ready papers due
May 27, 2014 Workshop date

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to be
announced on the conference website http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/ )
and should be submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/ Contributions can be short
or long papers. Short paper submission must describe original and
unpublished work without exceeding six (6) pages. Characteristics of
short papers include: a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a
negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application
nugget. Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original,
completed and unpublished work without exceeding ten (10) pages.

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the
authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.

Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or
publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the
workshop organizers.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse,
replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
Authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit substantially
extended versions of their manuscripts to an upcoming special issue on
"Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora" of the Journal of Natural
Language Engineering.

ORGANISERS
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France)
Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)
Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar)
Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Aix-Marseille (France)

CONTACT
Pierre Zweigenbaum: pz (at) limsi (dot) fr

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
* Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK)
* Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, US)
* Caroline Barri?re (CRIM, Montr?al, Canada)
* Chris Biemann (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
* Herv? D?jean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
* Kurt Eberle (Lingenio, Heidelberg, Germany)
* Andreas Eisele (European Commission, Luxembourg)
* ?ric Gaussier (Universit? Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
* Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France)
* Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
* Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
* Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
* Natalie K?bler (Universit? Paris Diderot, France)
* Philippe Langlais (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada)
* Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US)
* Emmanuel Morin (Universit? de Nantes, France)
* Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US)
* Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
* Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
* Reinhard Rapp (Universit? Aix-Marseille, France)
* Sujith Ravi (Google, Mountain View, US)
* Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
* Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
* Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US)
* Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
* Stephan Vogel (QCRI, Qatar)
* Guillaume Wisniewski (Universit? Paris Sud & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
* Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:11:05 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:11:05 +0100
Subject: Job: Resident Academic Post in Human Language Technology, Malta
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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:06:40 +0100
From: Fran?ois Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
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X-url: http://www.um.edu.mt/hrmd/vacancies
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The University of Malta has just announced a resident academic post in
Human Language Technology within the Institute of Linguistics. This is a
tenured position. Applications will be received until February 28th,
2014.

This call is associated with the recently developed B.Sc. and M.Sc.
programme in Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technology,
and is part of an ongoing effort to strengthen the research and teaching
in this area within the Institute. Full details are available from the
following URL: http://www.um.edu.mt/hrmd/vacancies (see: Resident
Academic Post in Human Language Technology
(http://www.um.edu.mt/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/204259/Post_in_Human_Language_Technology.pdf).

Enquiries can be directed to Albert Gatt (albert.gatt at um.edu.mt ) or the
Institute of Linguistics (linguistics at um.edu.mt).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:18:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:18:10 +0100
Subject: Conf: LATA 2014, Madrid, Spain, March 10-14, 2014
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 11:59:41 +0100
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8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS

LATA 2014

Madrid, Spain

March 10-14, 2014

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/

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PROGRAM

Monday, March 10:

9:30 - 10:30 	Registration

10:30 - 10:40 	Opening

10:40 - 11:30	Helmut Seidl: Interprocedural Information Flow Analysis
                of XML Processors - Invited Lecture

11:30 - 11:45 	Break

11:45 - 13:00 	Alberto Dennunzio, Enrico Formenti, Luca Manzoni:
                Extremal Combinatorics of Reaction Systems

                Fernando Arroyo, Sandra G?mez Canaval, Victor Mitrana,
                ?tefan Popescu: Networks of Polarized Evolutionary
                Processors are Computationally Complete

                Liang Ding, Abdul Samad, Xingran Xue, Xiuzhen Huang,
                Russell L. Malmberg, Liming Cai: Stochastic k-Tree
                Grammar and its Application in Biomolecular Structure
                Modeling

13:00 - 14:30 	Lunch

14:30 - 15:45 	B?atrice B?rard, Olivier Carton: Channel Synthesis
                Revisited

                Daniel Pr??a: Weight-reducing Hennie Machines and Their
                Descriptional Complexity

                Manfred Droste, Stefan D?ck: Weighted Automata and
                Logics for Infinite Nested Words

15:45 - 16:00 	Break

16:00 - 17:15 	Friedrich Otto, Franti?ek Mr?z: Extended Two-Way Ordered
                Restarting Automata for Picture Languages

                Sang-Ki Ko, Yo-Sub Han, Kai Salomaa: Top-Down Tree
                Edit-Distance of Regular Tree Languages

                Bertram Felgenhauer, Ren? Thiemann: Reachability
                Analysis with State-Compatible Automata

17:15 - 17:45 	Coffee Break

17:45 - 18:35 	Leslie A. Goldberg: The Complexity of Approximate
                Counting - Invited Lecture

Tuesday, March 11:

9:00 - 9:50 	Sanjeev Khanna: Matchings, Random Walks, and Sampling -
                Invited Lecture

9:50 - 10:00 	Break

10:00 - 11:15 	Niko Beerenwinkel, Stefano Beretta, Paola Bonizzoni,
                Riccardo Dondi, Yuri Pirola: Covering Pairs in Directed
                Acyclic Graphs

                Eike Best, Raymond Devillers: Characterisation of the
                State Spaces of Live and Bounded Marked Graph Petri Nets

                Mar?a Martos-Salgado, Fernando Rosa-Velardo:
                Expressiveness of Dynamic Networks of Timed Petri Nets

11:15 - 11:45 	Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:00 	Bireswar Das, Patrick Scharpfenecker, Jacobo Tor?n:
                Succinct Encodings of Graph Isomorphism

                Matthias Gall?, Mat?as Tealdi: On Context-Diverse
                Repeats and their Incremental Computation

                Marcella Anselmo, Dora Giammarresi, Maria Madonia:
                Picture Codes with Finite Deciphering Delay

13:00 - 14:30 	Lunch

14:30 - 15:45 	Paul Tarau: Computing with Catalan Families

                Joan Boyar, Shahin Kamali, Kim S. Larsen, Alejandro
                L?pez-Ortiz: On the List Update Problem with Advice

                Rob Gysel: Minimal Triangulation Algorithms for Perfect
                Phylogeny Problems

15:45 - 16:00 	Break

16:00 - 17:15 	Gr?goire Laurence, Aur?lien Lemay, Joachim Niehren,
                S?awek Staworko, Marc Tommasi: Learning Sequential
                Tree-to-word Transducers

                Dariusz Kaloci?ski: On Computability and Learnability of
                the Pumping Lemma Function

                Slimane Bellaouar, Hadda Cherroun, Djelloul Ziadi:
                Efficient List-based Computation of the String
                Subsequence Kernel

Wednesday, March 12:

9:00 - 9:50 	Oscar H. Ibarra: On the Parikh Membership Problem for
                FAs, PDAs, and CMs - Invited Lecture

9:50 - 10:00 	Break

10:00 - 11:15 	Marius Konitzer, Hans Ulrich Simon: DFA with a Bounded
                Activity Level

                Shenggen Zheng, Jozef Gruska, Daowen Qiu: On the State
                Complexity of Semi-Quantum Finite Automata

                Vojt?ch Vorel: Complexity of a Problem Concerning Reset
                Words for Eulerian Binary Automata

11:15 - 11:45 	Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:00 	Pascal Caron, Marianne Flouret, Ludovic Mignot:
                (k,l)-Unambiguity and Quasi-Deterministic Structures: an
                Alternative for the Determinization

                Zuzana Bedn?rov?, Viliam Geffert: Two Double-Exponential
                Gaps for Automata with a Limited Pushdown

                Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Jari Stenman:
                Computing Optimal Reachability Costs in Priced
                Dense-Timed Pushdown Automata

13:00 - 14:30 	Lunch

15:45 - 17:45 	Sightseeing in Madrid by Bus

Thursday, March 13:

9:00 - 9:50 	Javier Esparza: A Brief History of Strahler Numbers (I) -
                Invited Tutorial

9:50 - 10:00 	Break

10:00 - 11:15 	Zeinab Mazadi, Ziyuan Gao, Sandra Zilles: Distinguishing
                Pattern Languages with Membership Examples

                Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Andrew Lohr, Sean Simmons,
                Brent Woodhouse: Computing Depths of Patterns

                Alexandre Blondin Mass?, S?bastien Gaboury, Sylvain
                Hall?, Micha?l Larouche: Solving Equations on Words with
                Morphisms and Antimorphisms


11:15 - 11:45 	Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:00 	Anton Cern?: Solutions to the Multi-Dimensional Equal
                Powers Problem Constructed by Composition of Rectangular
                Morphisms

                Enrico Formenti, Markus Holzer, Martin Kutrib, Julien
                Provillard: ?-rational Languages: High Complexity
                Classes vs. Borel Hierarchy

                Thomas Weidner: Probabilistic ?-Regular Expressions

13:00 - 14:30 	Lunch

14:30 - 15:45 	Haizhou Li, Fran?ois Pinet, Farouk Toumani:
                Probabilistic Simulation for Probabilistic Data-aware
                Business Processes

                Daniel Bundala, Jakub Z?vodn?: Optimal Sorting Networks

                Etienne Dubourg, David Janin: Algebraic Tools for the
                Overlapping Tile Product

15:45 - 16:00 	Break

16:00 - 17:15 	Luca Breveglieri, Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, Angelo
                Morzenti: Shift-Reduce Parsers for Transition Networks

                Gadi Aleksandrowicz, Andrei Asinowski, Gill Barequet,
                Ronnie Barequet: Formulae for Polyominoes on Twisted
                Cylinders

                Alexandre Blondin Mass?, Amadou Makhtar Tall, Hugo
                Tremblay: On the Arithmetics of Discrete Figures

Friday, March 14:

9:00 - 9:50 	Javier Esparza: A Brief History of Strahler Numbers (II) -
                Invited Tutorial

9:50 - 10:00 	Break

10:00 - 11:15 	Hanna Klaudel, Maciej Koutny, Zhenhua Duan: Interval
                Temporal Logic Semantics of Box Algebra

                Pierre Ganty, Ahmed Rezine: Ordered Counter-Abstraction:
                Refinable Subword Relations for Parameterized
                Verification

                Matthew Gwynne, Oliver Kullmann: On SAT Representations
                of XOR Constraints

11:15 - 11:45 	Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:00 	Bernd Finkbeiner, Hazem Torfah: Counting Models of
                Linear-time Temporal Logic

                Claudia Carapelle, Shiguang Feng, Oliver Fern?ndez Gil,
                Karin Quaas: Satisfiability for MTL and TPTL over
                Non-Monotonic Data Words

                Joachim Klein, David M?ller, Christel Baier, Sascha
                Kl?ppelholz: Are Good-for-games Automata Good for
                Probabilistic Model Checking?

13:00 		Closing

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:12:40 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:12:40 +0100
Subject: Appel: Special session Interspeech 2014,
 Speech technologies for Ambient Assisted Living
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.221240.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:44:06 +0100
From: Fran?ois Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
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Dear colleagues,

Please find below the announcement of the Interspeech 2014 special 
session : Speech technologies for Ambient Assisted Living.

Special session at Interspeech 2014

Submission deadline: 24th March 2014

Singapore, 14-18 September 2014

http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=special_sessions.html#speech-technologies-ambient


This special session focuses on the use of speech technologies for
ambient assisted living, the creation of smart spaces and intelligent
companions that can preserve independence and executive function, social
communication and security of people with special needs.

Currently, speech input for assistive technologies remains underutilized
despite its potential to deliver highly informative data and serve as
the primary means of interaction with the home. Speech interfaces could
replace or augment obtrusive and sometimes outright inaccessible
conventional computer interfaces. Moreover, the smart home context can
support speech communication by providing a number of concurrent
information sources (e.g., wearable sensors, home automation sensors,
etc.), enabling multimodal communication. In practice, its use remains
limited due to challenging real-world conditions, and because
conventional speech interfaces can have difficulty with the atypical
speech of many users. This, in turn, can be attributed to the lack of
abundant speech material, and the limited adaptation to the user of
these systems.

Taking up the challenges of this domain requires a multidisciplinary
approach to define the user's needs, record corpora in realistic usage
conditions, develop speech interfaces that are robust to both
environment and user's characteristics and are able to adapt to specific
users.

This special session aims at bringing together researchers in speech and
audio technologies with people from the ambient assisted living and
assistive technologies communities to meet and foster awareness between
members of either community, discuss problems, techniques and datasets,
and perhaps initiate common projects.

Topics of the session will include:

     Assistive speech technology

     Applications of speech technology (ASR, dialogue, synthesis) for
     ambient assisted living

     Understanding, modelling, or recognition of aged and atypical
     speech

     Multimodal speech recognition (context-aware ASR)

     Multimodal emotion recognition

     Audio scene and smart space context analysis

     Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of
     assistive technology

     Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive
     impairments

     Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication

     Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications

     Language modelling for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
     text entry and speech generating devices

     Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field

     Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes

     Evaluation of systems and components.

Submission instructions:

Researchers who are interested in contributing to this special session
are invited to submit a paper according to the regular submission
procedure of INTERSPEECH 2014, and to select "Speech technologies for
Ambient Assisted Living" in the special session field of the paper
submission form.

Please feel free to contact the organisers if you have any question
regarding the special session.

Organizers:

Michel Vacher michel.vacher [at] imag.fr Laboratoire d'Informatique de
Grenoble,

Fran?ois Portet francois.portet [at] imag.fr Laboratoire d'Informatique
de Grenoble,

Frank Rudzicz frank [at] cs.toronto.edu University of Toronto,

Jort F. Gemmeke jgemmeke [at] amadana.nl KU Leuven,

Heidi Christensen h.christensen [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk University of
Sheffield,

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Feb 18 21:13:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:13:09 +0100
Subject: Job: Professeur en Informatique, Universite Aix Marseille
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.221309.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:10:21 +0100
From: Alexis Nasr <Alexis.Nasr at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <52FF835D.1070901 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>


Un poste de professeur d'informatique (CNU 27) sera ouvert pour la
rentr?e prochaine ? l'universit? d'Aix Marseille, au Laboratoire
d'Informatique Fondamentale (CNRS UMR 7279).

Le candidat recrut? pourra soit renforcer une des th?matiques pr?sentes
du laboratoire en int?grant une de ses sept ?quipes, parmi lesquelles
l'?quipe Traitement Automatique du Langage Ecrit et Parl?, soit y
apporter une nouvelle th?matique, pourvu que celle-ci soit compatible
avec la recherche qui est faite au LIF.

La capacit? d'un candidat ? enrichir la dimension technologique des
recherches men?es au LIF sera consid?r?e avec int?r?t : bien que la
majorit? de ces recherches rel?ve de l'informatique fondamentale, chaque
?quipe d?veloppe ?galement des projets plus technologiques en
collaboration avec des partenaires industriels, orientation qui est
soutenue par le laboratoire.

contacts recherche :
jean-marc.tablot at lif.univ-mrs.fr (directeur du laboratoire)
alexis.nasr at lif.univ-mrs.fr (responsable de l'?quipe TALEP)

contact enseignement :
denis.lugiez at lif.univ-mrs.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:15:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:15:10 +0100
Subject: Q: Modele acoustique, SRAP
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:59:41 +0100
From: Sahar G <enasahar at gmail.com>
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Bonjour ? tous,

je cherche des informations ( cours ) sur le mod?le acoustique,
notamment, les ?tapes d'apprentissage, les donn?es n?cessaires, les
techniques..

Je sollicite votre aide.

Merci :)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:14:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:14:22 +0100
Subject: Job: Junior Linguists (German) for NLP tasks
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:44:39 +0100
From: Thomas Meyer <thomasmeyer at google.com>
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Junior Linguists [German]

Job description:

As a Junior Linguist, you will be annotating and reviewing linguistic
data in German. You will also contribute to a number of other tasks to
improve natural language processing at Google.

There are five full-time contract positions available, at 40 hours per
week for a period of 12 months. You will be mostly working from home,
but in close proximity to our office in *Munich* for training and
subsequent intermediary meetings.

The tasks include:

   - annotating and reviewing linguistic data
   - labeling text with semantic, syntactic and morphological features
   - annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines
   - deriving NLP data for new and on-going projects


Requirements:

   - native-level speaker of German and fluent in English
   - degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics or similar, with
     knowledge of semantics, syntax, morphology and/or lexicography
   - ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; learn in-house tools
   - keen interest in technology and computer-literate
   - should have an interest in natural language processing,
     linguistics, linguistic resources
   - excellent oral and written communication skills
   - attention to detail and good organizational skills
   - ability to work independently from home with reliable internet
     connectivity


Project duration: 12 months

For immediate consideration, please e-mail your CV and a cover letter in
English (in PDF format) with ?Junior Linguists [German]? in the subject
line to the following address:

 E-mail address for applications: AdvancedLinguistics at gmail.com

Application deadline: open until filled

Contact information: Linne Ha

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:27:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:27:31 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Olivier Cure, Traces Digitales, 6 mars 2014,
 Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.112731.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:39:19 +0100
From: Nicolas Turenne <nturenne.inra at yahoo.fr>
Message-ID: <53064BD7.6010103 at yahoo.fr>
X-url: http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html

Chers coll?gues,

Dans le cadre de la seizi?me s?ance du s?minaire 'traces digitales' du
groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Olivier Cur?
(Universit? Paris-Est Marne la Vall?e) qui nous parlera nous parlera
d?ontologie.
Cette matin?e aura lieu le jeudi 06 mars de 10h ? 11h30, dans la salle
de r?union C219 du Latts (Universit? Paris-Est Marne la Vall?e - rue
Galil?e, b?timent du Bois de l?Etang - 2?me ?tage - aile C). Voir
http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html


10h-11h30 Olivier Cur? (Ma?tre de Conf?rence HDR, LIGM, Universit? 
Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e)

Exploitation d?ontologies dans le cadre d?une application m?dicale pour
le grand public

R?sum? : Dans cet expos?, je pr?sente des travaux r?cents qui ont ?t?
men?s dans le cadre du d?veloppement d?une application d?autom?dication.
Cette application a pour objectif d?informer le grand public sur les
m?dicaments de prescription facultative et les sympt?mes associ?s.
L?application comporte de nombreuses fonctionnalit?s d?velopp?es autour
de diff?rentes ontologies exploitant les technologies du Web S?mantique,
e.g., requ?tage et raisonnement. Cette pr?sentation mettra en ?vidence
nos contributions, en particulier le d?veloppement et l?enrichissement
d?ontologies par induction, le support d?une nouvelle classe de
contrainte d?int?grit? participant ? l?am?liorer de la qualit? de
donn?es.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:32:24 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:32:24 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Cours de Ted Briscoe (Evolutionary linguistics),
 mars 2014, ENS Ulm, Paris
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:49:00 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
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Chers coll?gues,

Le laboratoire Lattice (http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/), avec le soutien du
labex Transfers (http://transfers.ens.fr/), accueille Ted Briscoe
(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ejb1/), de l?Universit? de Cambridge, pour une
s?rie de cours qui seront donn?s en mars ? l?Ecole normale sup?rieure
(45 rue d?Ulm), sur le th?me de la ? mod?lisation de l??volution des
langues ? (? evolutionary linguistics ?).

Les cours auront lieu aux dates et lieux suivants :

- mardi 11 mars, de 10h30 ? 12h30 : salle Celan
- jeudi 13 mars, de 10h30 ? 12h30 : salle R
- mardi 18 mars, de 10h30 ? 12h30 : salle IHMC
- jeudi 20 mars, de 10h30 ? 12h30 : salle R

Le programme est d?taill? ci-dessous et ? l?adresse suivante :
http://transfers.ens.fr/index.php/activites/professeurs-invites/495

Tout le monde est le bienvenu, dans la imite des places disponibles.

Bien cordialement,

Thierry Poibeau

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:25:05 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:25:05 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Julia Hirschberg, 18 mars 2014, BLRI, Aix-en-Provence
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.112505.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:28:47 +0100
From: Nad?ra Bureau <nadera.bureau at lpl-aix.fr>
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18 mars 2014

11h Salle de conf?rences B011, b?t. B 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence

(Labex BLRI)

Julia Hirschberg

(Columbia University)

Prosodic and Social Dimensions of Entrainment in Dialogue

R?sum? : When people speak together, they often adapt aspects of their
speaking style based upon the style of their conversational partner.
This phenomena goes by many names, including adaptation, alignment, and
entrainment, inter alia.  In this talk, I will describe experiments in
English and Mandarin prosodic entrainment in the Columbia Games Corpus
and in the Tongji Games Corpus, large corpora of speech recorded from
subjects playing a series of computer games.  I will discuss how
prosodic entrainment is related to turn-taking behaviors and to several
measures of task and dialogue success.  I will also discuss experiments
relating entrainment to several social dimensions, including likeability
and dominance. This is joint work with Stefan Benus, Agust?n Gravano,
Ani Nenkova, Rivka Levitan, Laura Willson, and Zhihua Xia.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:29:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:29:39 +0100
Subject: Job: TEMIS, Poste Consultant en solutions
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.112939.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:11:50 +0000
From: Sylvie Guillemin-Lanne <sylvie.guillemin-lanne at temis.com>
Message-ID: <0195B854C753DA4CAE5056A849136D8861119D at EXMBX01.hosting.local>


TEMIS, ?diteur de logiciel sp?cialis? en Text-Mining, recherche pour son
?quipe Projets Innovants un consultant en Solutions Text-Mining,

Un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne)
Poste en CDD de un an renouvelable

Vous travaillerez au sein de l??quipe Projets Innovants sur des projets
partenaires, co-financ?s par le gouvernement fran?ais ou la commission
europ?enne.
Vous consacrerez 50% de votre temps , sous la supervision de l??quipe
R&D, sur les nouvelles fonctionnalit?s de nos produits, que vous
testerez et customiserez pour les besoins des Projets Innovants.


Vous avez un bagage linguistique confirm? en analyse de documents,
s?mantique textuelle, fouille de donn?es textuelles
Vous avez des comp?tences sur python/perl ou java vous permettant de
transformer des donn?es textuelles pour les utiliser dans diff?rents
outils. Vous aimez d?couvrir et apprendre de nouvelles techniques et
outils.
Vous ?tes autonome, passionn?, curieux et vous allez naturellement vers
diff?rentes personnes pour trouver comment r?aliser vos projets.
Vous avez un tr?s bon niveau d?anglais.


Nous vous remercions d?envoyer votre CV et une lettre de motivation ?
Sylvie Guillemin-Lanne,
sylvie.guillemin-lanne at temis.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:30:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:30:20 +0100
Subject: Soft: L'analyseur multilingue LIMA sous licence libre
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.113020.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:31:58 +0100
From: Ga?l de Chalendar <Gael.de-Chalendar at cea.fr>
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L'analyseur multilingue LIMA sous licence libre

Le CEA LIST annonce la mise sous licence libre de son analyseur
linguistique LIMA, d?sormais disponible sous la licence Affero GPL v3
ici: https://github.com/aymara/lima/wiki.

LIMA (Libre Multilingual Analyzer) est un analyseur linguistique
multilingue d?velopp? par le laboratoire LVIC (Laboratoire Vision et
Ing?nierie des Contenus) du CEA LIST pendant plus de 10 ans, selon un
mod?le propri?taire. Le logiciel est d?sormais disponible selon un
mod?le de double licence.

LIMA supporte l'ensemble des ?tapes de l'analyse linguistique
(morphologie, syntaxe, s?mantique, entit?s, cor?f?rences) selon une
architecture modulaire et hautement configurable, avec des performances
?lev?es aussi bien en vitesse qu'en qualit? d'analyse. LIMA pr?sente
aussi l'avantage d'avoir ?t? con?u d?s le d?part dans le but de
l'int?grer ? des solutions de qualit? industrielle.

La version Libre est compl?te avec des modules de traitement et des
ressources permettant d'analyser des textes en anglais et en
fran?ais. Conform?ment ? la licence Affero GPL v3, il est possible
d'utiliser LIMA librement tant que les logiciels qui y sont li?s, qu'ils
soient distribu?s ou ex?cut?s ? travers le r?seau, sont eux aussi des
logiciels libres avec une licence compatible.

La version commerciale est compl?t?e avec des modules et des ressources
permettant d'analyser des textes dans de multiples langues
suppl?mentaires (allemand, arabe, chinois, espagnol, hongrois, italien,
...). Elle est disponible directement aupr?s du CEA LIST dans le cadre
de partenariats de R&D ou aupr?s de son partenaire ANT'inno, qui propose
des offres incluant le support du logiciel et l'adaptation de ressources
linguistiques ? des besoins sp?cifiques.

Avec cette publication libre de son logiciel, l'objectif du CEA LIST est
de fournir une solution d'analyse linguistique utilisable aussi bien par
des chercheurs du domaine que comme outil de pr?traitement de textes
dans des applications open source. L'adoption de LIMA par une large
communaut? en permettra une am?lioration plus rapide et robuste, aussi
bien d'un point de vue purement logiciel que scientifique.

L'int?r?t pour les utilisateurs de la version Libre est de disposer d'un
outil de qualit? industrielle dont les d?veloppements open source sont
support?s par un acteur p?renne (CEA). Concernant la version
commerciale, il leur est possible de librement tester et adapter LIMA ?
leur usage avant d'en acqu?rir une licence commerciale.

Contact: Ga?l de Chalendar gael.de-chalendar at cea.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sun Feb 23 10:28:52 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:28:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: VarDial Workshop, COLING 2014
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.112852.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:49:25 -0300
From: Marcos Zampieri <marcos_zampieri at hotmail.com>
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Call For Papers

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

VarDial Workshop: http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/
DSL Shared Task: http://corporavm.uni-koeln.de/vardial/sharedtask.html

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 aims to
provide a forum for scholars working on 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. We will
release a specific call for participation soon. 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 or 24th, 2014

Program Committee

?eljko Agi? (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. Forkada (University of Alicante, 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 (Nuance Communications, USA)
Francis Tyers (University of Alicante, Spain)
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?i? (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  Sun Feb 23 10:24:01 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:24:01 +0100
Subject: Appel: #di2014 - DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE, Sept. 17-19, Nantes, France
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.112401.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:25:32 +0100
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 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, Universit? Laval (Canada) / Fr?d?ric
Benhamou, Universit? de Nantes (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


---------------------------- 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.

Both 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  Sun Feb 23 10:18:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:18:00 +0100
Subject: Appel: CICE-14
Message-ID: <SUN.23.FEB.2014.111800.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:05:10 +0000 (GMT)
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.

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 March 10, 2014
Notification of Paper, Extended Abstract, Case Study, Work in Progress
and Report Acceptance Date March 25, 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 www.ciceducation.org


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 09:03:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:03:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: Seven SIGIR=?WINDOWS-1252?Q?=9214_?=Workshops on emerging
 areas in IR
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:00:45 +0000
From: Richi Nayak <r.nayak at qut.edu.au>
Message-ID: <032189CFEE6B094A8CB9DB0838786ADF052740 at ex10mb1.qut.edu.au>
X-url: http://sigir.org/sigir2014/

[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

The workshop program of the

    SIGIR?14: 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference,

    Gold Coast, Australia, 6-11 July, 2014

    <http://sigir.org/sigir2014/>


will host seven attractive workshops covering novel ideas and emerging
areas in IR:

* ERD?14: Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Challenge

http://web-ngram.research.microsoft.com/ERD2014/

The Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Workshop will be organized as
a challenge, where participants submit working systems that identify the
entities mentioned in text. The challenge will have two tracks, focusing
on long and short texts. All submissions will be evaluated on shared
datasets; part of the data will be withheld, to be used for the final
evaluation of all submitted systems to determine the winners. Each
participating team will be offered a spot at the workshop to present
their system.

David Carmel, Yahoo! Research

Ming-Wei Chang, Microsoft Research

Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Google

Bo-June (Paul) Hsu, Microsoft Research

Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research


* GEAR?14: Gathering Efficient Assessments of Relevance Workshop

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

Evaluation is a fundamental part of Information Retrieval, and in the
conventional Cranfield evaluation paradigm, sets of relevance
assessments are a fundamental part of test collections. In this
workshop, we wish to revisit how relevance assessments can be
efficiently created. Potential themes include methods for generating
assessments, the process of assessment, effort involved in assessing
different materials, exploration of the concept of relevance etc. A
discussion and exploration of this issue will be facilitated through the
presentation of results based papers and position papers on the topic,
as well as a group design activity.

Martin Halvey, Glasgow Caledonian University

Robert Villa, University of Sheffield

Paul Clough, University of Sheffield


* MedIR?14: Medical Information Retrieval Workshop

http://medir.dcu.ie/

Medical information is accessible from diverse sources including the
general web, social media, journal articles, and hospital records; users
include patients and their families, researchers, practitioners and
clinicians. Challenges in medical information retrieval include:
diversity of users and user ability; variations in the format,
reliability, and quality of biomedical and medical information; the
multimedia nature of data; and the need for accuracy and reliability.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in
medical information search with the goal of identifying specific
challenges that need to be addressed to advance the state-of-the-art.


Eiji Aramaki, Kyoto University, Japan

Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland

Gareth JF 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


* PIR?14: Privacy-Preserving IR Workshop ? When Information Retrieval
  Meets Privacy and Security

http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~huiyang/sigir2014-pir-workshop/

Information retrieval and information privacy/security are two
fast-growing computer science disciplines. There are many synergies and
connections between these two disciplines. However, there have been very
limited efforts to connect the two. On the other hand, due to lack of
mature techniques in privacy-preserving IR, concerns about privacy and
security have become serious obstacles that prevent valuable user data
to be used in IR research such as studies about query logs, social
media, tweets, sessions, and medical record retrieval. This
privacy-preserving IR workshop aims to spurring research brings together
the research fields of IR and privacy/security, and mitigate privacy
threats in information retrieval by exploring novel algorithms and
tools.

Luo Si (Purdue University, USA)

Grace Hui Yang (Georgetown University, USA)


* SMIR?14: Semantic Matching in Information Retrieval

http://smir2014.noahlab.com.hk

Recently, significant progress has been made in research on what we call
semantic matching (SM), in Web search, question answering, online
advertisement, cross language information retrieval, multimedia
retrieval, and other tasks. Let us take Web search as example of the
problem. When comparing the textual content of query and documents, the
simple term-based approaches can fail when searcher and author use
different terms. A more realistic approach beyond bag-of-words, referred
to as semantic matching (SM), is to conduct deeper query and document
analysis to encode text with richer representations and then perform
query-document matching with such representations. The main purpose of
the workshop is to bring together IR and NLP researchers working on or
interested in semantic matching, to share latest research results,
express opinions on the related issues, and discuss future directions.


Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain

Hang Li, Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei, Hong Kong

Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

Jun Xu, Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei, Hong Kong


* SoMeRA?14: Social Media Retrieval and Analysis Workshop

http://www.cp.jku.at/conferences/SoMeRA2014/

The SoMeRA 2014 workshop will present and discuss cutting edge research
on all topics of retrieval, recommendation, and browsing in social
media, as well as on the analysis of user's multifaceted traces in
social media. In particular, novel methods and ideas that address
challenges such as large quantity and noisiness of user-generated
multimedia data, user biases, cold-start problem, or integrating
contextual aspects into retrieval and recommendation techniques are
highly welcome. The workshop will further foster the exchange of ideas
between different communities, in particular it aims at better
connecting the multimedia and recommender systems communities with the
information retrieval community. The workshop will feature both oral
presentations (full papers) and poster/demo presentations (short
papers).


Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Peter Knees, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore


* TAIA?14: Temporal, social and spatially Aware Information Access Workshop

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/milads/taia2014.aspx

Users provide an unprecedented volume of detailed, and continuously
updated information about where they are, what they are doing, who they
are with, and what they are thinking and feeling about their activities.
The provision of this stream creates an informal contract between the
user and the information access application in which the user will
provide the information, but the application must provide results that
are contextually relevant.  In this workshop we explore spatial and
temporal context in dynamic geotagged collections, such as Wikipedia,
and traditional news sources, as well as social media sites such as
Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook and Flickr.  To ground the workshop, and
provide a locus for discussion of the two aspects of user context, we
focus on event detection and recommendation.  Events are a natural theme
around which to center discussions of spatial and temporal context
because events are defined by their time and place.


Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research

Claudia Hauff, Delft University of Technology

Vanessa Murdock, Microsoft

Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam

Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft


Please look at the individual websites for the calls, and deadlines ?
and participate in the discussion on the SIGIR?14 workshop day, on
Friday 11 July 2014, in the beautiful scenery of Gold Coast, Queensland,
Australia.


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 08:40:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:40:10 +0100
Subject: Sujet de these: Humanites numeriques, a pourvoir immediatement,
 Lattice
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:28:36 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
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Bonjour, 

Suite ? un d?sistement tardif, le Lattice dispose d?un financement pour
une allocation de recherche de trois ans, ? partir d?avril 2014.

Le th?me de recherche s?inscrit dans le cadre des ? humanit?s num?riques
? et de l?analyse automatique de masses de donn?es textuelles (th?me
possible : passage de documents papier vers un support num?rique dans le
domaine de l?arch?ologie, traitement automatique des langues pour
l?analyse de documents litt?raires, apport du traitement automatique des
langues pour les sciences humaines, etc.).

La th?se prendra en compte un ou deux cas d??tudes pr?cis : il s?agira,
? partir de ces cas d??tude, d?envisager l?apport du num?rique pour les
sciences humaines et sociales. On s?appuiera autant que possible sur des
masses de donn?es importantes.

Conditions pour candidater :
- avoir un Master avec mention (Master 2 d?j? obtenu)
- ne pas avoir d?j? ?t? inscrit en th?se

Comp?tences souhait?es :
- ma?trise des outils de traitement automatique des langues
- comp?tences en informatique
- int?r?t pour les sciences humaines et sociales
- bonne ma?trise du fran?ais et de l?anglais
- qualit? de r?daction

Pour candidater, contacter Thierry Poibeau (prenom.nom at ens.fr) d?s que
possible (et dans tous les cas avant le 4 mars 2014) par mail avec un
bref descriptif du projet / des motivations, un CV et un relev? des
notes de Master.

Bien cordialement,

Thierry Poibeau
http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/Thierry-Poibeau

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 08:45:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:45:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier FondamenTAL, TALN 2014
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.094519.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:37:58 +0100
From: Marie-H?l?ne St?fanini
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X-url: http://talep.lif.univ-mrs.fr/FondamenTAL


 TALN 2014, 21^?me conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues
                               Naturelles

                         APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS

                          Atelier FondamenTAL

  Les ressources lexicales de Jean Dubois et Fran?oise Dubois-Charlier

      Retours d?exp?riences et projets, et hommage ? Paul Sabatier


         1^er juillet 2014, Facult? Saint-Charles, ? Marseille


Depuis 2007, le site FondamenTAL
(http://talep.lif.univ-mrs.fr/FondamenTAL) cr?? par Paul Sabatier permet
au public de s?informer sur l?ensemble des ressources lexicales
num?ris?es de Jean Dubois et Fran?oise Dubois-Charlier. De nombreux
chercheurs et doctorants en Sciences du Langage et en TAL ont demand? au
site http://www.modyco.fr/Dictionnaires de leur communiquer les
diff?rents dictionnaires. Ou bien ils se sont rendus sur
http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/ Dubois pour b?n?ficier d?une interface de
consultation du Dictionnaire des Verbes Fran?ais (LVF).

Il y a eu d?j? beaucoup de r?f?rences ? Les Verbes Fran?ais (LVF) dans
des publications et th?ses de linguistique. De plus, deux num?ros de
revue (Langue Fran?aise n? 153 et Langages n? 179-180) et un chapitre
d'ouvrage (Ressources Lexicales 2013, Gala & Zock ed.) contribuent ?
faire conna?tre les travaux de Dubois et Dubois-Charlier. Une communaut?
informelle des utilisateurs de ces ressources s?est constitu?e, qui aura
l'occasion, nous l'esp?rons, d'?tre en partie r?unie ? l'occasion de cet
atelier.

La finalit? de l'atelier que nous proposons est triple :

    r?unir les chercheurs ayant utilis? de fa?on significative les
    ressources de Dubois et Dubois-Charlier jusqu?? pr?sent disponibles,
    pour faire avec eux un ?tat des lieux de leurs recherches ;

    informer la communaut? de la diffusion de ressources lexicales
    jusqu'? pr?sent in?dites ? savoir : 1) une version, r?vis?e par Paul
    Sabatier, de Les Verbes Fran?ais (LVF, 26.000 entr?es) ; 2) un
    in?dit, Locutions Verbales (LVF, 3.510 entr?es), r?vis? par Paul
    Sabatier ; 3) un autre in?dit le Dictionnaire Electronique des Mots
    (DEM ;145 000 entr?es).

    rendre hommage ? Paul Sabatier, en ?voquant ses derniers travaux
    portant sur les derniers dictionnaires ?lectroniques de Dubois et
    Dubois-Charlier.

Le Dictionnaire Electronique des Mots (DEM,145 000 entr?es) est une base
de donn?es lexicales du fran?ais qui constitue la synth?se des
diff?rents dictionnaires de verbes simples, de locutions verbales et
d'adjectifs d?j? connus de ces auteurs, augment?e de toutes les autres
cat?gories de mots, tant simples que locutionnels. Les auteurs en ont
d?j? pr?sent? les grandes lignes en 2010 dans Langages n? 179-180. Son
caract?re ? la fois exhaustif, rigoureusement syst?matique et
syntactico-s?mantique, devrait int?resser bien des chercheurs en TAL,
d?autant plus qu?il aura ?t? rendu disponible dans plusieurs formats
pratiques pour le traitement automatique.

L'atelier sera donc l'occasion non seulement d'?voquer des travaux ayant
port? sur les ressources d?j? publi?es de Dubois et Dubois-Charlier,
mais aussi de pr?senter le DEM et de d?tailler ses propri?t?s et modes
d'utilisation. De plus, le r?le important que Paul Sabatier a jou? dans
le travail de r?vision de ces ressources sera largement ?voqu?.

Pr?sidents de l'atelier

Denis Le Pesant, Universit? Paris-Ouest Nanterre La D?fense & MoDyCo
(CNRS)

Marie-H?l?ne St?fanini, Laboratoire d?Informatique Fondamentale (LIF),
Aix-Marseille Universit? & CNRS

Comit? de programme

Fran?oise Dubois-Charlier, Universit? d'Aix-Marseille

Guy Lapalme, Universit? de Montr?al, Laboratoire Recherche Appliqu?e en
Linguistique Informatique (RALI)

Danielle Leeman, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre & ICAR

Denis Le Pesant, MoDyCo (CNRS) & Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre La
D?fense

Max Silberztein, Universit? de Franche-Comt?

Marie-H?l?ne St?fanini, Laboratoire d?Informatique Fondamentale (LIF),
Aix-Marseille Universit? & CNRS

Agn?s Tutin, LIDILEM & Universit? Stendhal (Grenoble).


Modalit?s de soumission

1^?re ?tape : Soumission du r?sum? d'une communication (une page
maximum).
Les r?sum?s seront adress?s ? denis.lepesant at orange.fr et
marie-helene.stefanini at lif.univ-mrs.fr avant le 21 mars 2014. Nous
annoncerons ult?rieurement la dur?e des expos?s, qui sera fonction du
nombre de communications accept?es.

2^?me ?tape : Envoi d'un article par les auteurs des communications
accept?es

Dates importantes

20 mars 2014 : soumission des r?sum?s de communication
10 avril 2014 : notification de l'acceptation ou du refus de la
                communication

1^er mai 2014 : envoi de la premi?re version des articles ?
denis.lepesant at orange.fr et marie-helene.stefanini at lif.univ-mrs.fr

13 mai 2014: r?sultat de l'examen des articles

30 mai 2014 : r?ception de la version finale des articles

Les articles en fran?ais ou en anglais devront suivre le format d'un
article court de TALN 2014 (soit 6 ? 8 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/).

Site de l'atelier : 
http://www.taln2014.org/site/ressources-lexicales-et-tal-vue-densemble-sur-les-dictionnaires-electroniques-de-jean-dubois-et-francoise-dubois-charlier/

Pour information : Site TALN 2014, 21^?me conf?rence sur le Traitement
Automatique des Langues Naturelles : www.taln2014.org

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 08:39:57 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:39:57 +0100
Subject: Appel: Natural Language and Computer Science, July 17-18, Vienna
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.093957.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:00:06 +0100
From: retore <christian.retore at labri.fr>
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Workshop on 
NATURAL LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (NLCS '14)
17-18 July, 2014 Vienna, Austria
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html

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

Paper submission deadline:	April 1, 2014

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:              April 1, 2014
Author notification:                    May 1, 2014
Electronic versions of papers due:      May 15, 2014
Workshop:                               July 17, 2014

INVITED SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE

Anne Abeill? (to be confirmed) 
Universit? Paris Diderot 
Aarne Ranta
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg

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  Wed Feb 26 08:49:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:49:09 +0100
Subject: Job: Postdoctoral fellowship on computational analysis of
 parliamentary text
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.094909.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:52:58 -0500
From: Graeme Hirst <gh at cs.toronto.edu>
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The Departments of Political Science and Computer Science of the
University of Toronto seek to hire a postdoctoral researcher for a
two-year term, beginning 1 July 2014, or as soon as possible.  The
successful applicant will join an international consortium of
researchers focused on the development of computational tools for the
analysis of political ideology in the recorded histories of
parliamentary debates in Canada, the Netherlands, and the United
Kingdom.  The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in a relevant field
of specialization (e.g., political science, computational linguistics),
as well as experience with the computational analysis of large datasets,
especially large corpora of text. Fluency in French and/or Dutch is an
asset, but not a requirement. The stipend for this position is $50 000
(CDN) per year, plus an additional 10% benefits package, which is
outlined at:
http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/postdoctoralfellows/Pages/Current-Postdocs.aspx.

The University of Toronto is situated in downtown Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, a large multicultural city in the center of an urban area with a
population of more than 5.5 million people.  The University of Toronto
is within walking distance of all of the amenities that a major
metropolitan center provides.

Applicants should forward a cover letter, a one-page description of
their research interests, a curriculum vitae, and the contact
information for three referees to both Professor Christopher Cochrane
(christopher.cochrane at utoronto.ca) and Professor Graeme Hirst
(gh at cs.toronto.edu).  Consideration of applications will begin on 1
April 2014, and continue until the position is filled.
 
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its
community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority
group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities,
members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the
further diversification of ideas.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 08:48:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:48:12 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:39:51 +0000
From: John Judge <jjudge at computing.dcu.ie>
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********** Apologies for cross-posting **********

Second (Main) Call for Papers - Coling 2014

COLING 2014
Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014

The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is
pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (Coling 2014), at Dublin City University (DCU, Dublin,
Ireland). DCU is a young, dynamic and ambitious university with a
mission to transform lives and societies through education, research and
innovation. Most of the local organisers are from CNGL, Ireland's Centre
for Global Intelligent Content (formerly the Centre for Next Generation
Localisation), which embodies the leading position of Ireland in the
global localisation/internationalisation business, a strong focus on
language technologies including machine translation, computational
linguistics and natural language processing, as well as on intelligent
management, search, retrieval, transformation and adaptation of content.

Coling will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural
language and computation. The conference will include full papers
(presented as oral presentations or posters), demonstrations, tutorials,
and workshops.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Coling 2014 solicits papers and demonstrations on original and
unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited
to:

- pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon;
- cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language
  processing;
- models of communication by language;
- lexical semantics and ontologies;
- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
- parsing, both syntactic and deep;
- generation and summarisation;
- paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;
- speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;
- multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
- information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base
  linking;
- machine learning for natural language;
- modelling of discourse and dialogue;
- sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;
- multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
- applications, tools and language resources;
- system evaluation methodology and metrics.

In all relevant areas, we encourage authors to include analysis of the
influence of theories (intuitions, methodologies, insights), to
technologies (computational algorithms, methods, tools, data), and/or
contributions of technologies to theory development. In technologically
oriented papers, we encourage in-depth analysis and discussion of errors
made in the experiments described, if possible linking them to the
presence or absence of linguistically-motivated features. Contributions
that display and rigorously discuss future potential, even if not (yet)
attested in standard evaluation, are welcome.

PAPER REQUIREMENTS

Papers should describe original work; they should emphasise completed
work or well-advanced ongoing research rather than intended work, and
should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results.
Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included.

Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical
strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to
the attendees.
Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new
material that has not been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted in parallel to
other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as
must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published
work.

REVIEWING

Reviewing will be double blind. It will be managed by an international
Conference Program Committee consisting of Program Chairs, members of
the Scientific Advisory Board and Area Chairs, who will be assisted by
invited reviewers.

Important Notice

[1] In order to allow participants to be acquainted with the published
papers ahead of time which in turn should facilitate discussions at
Coling 2014, we have set the official publication date two weeks before
the conference, i.e., on August 11, 2014. On that day, the papers will
be available online for all participants to download, print and read. If
your employer is taking steps to protect intellectual property related
to your paper, please inform them about this timing.

[2] While submissions are anonymous, we strongly encourage authors to
plan for depositing language resources and other data as well as tools
used and/or developed for the experiments described in the papers, if
the paper is accepted. In this respect, we encourage authors then to
deposit resources and tools to available open-access repositories of
language resources and/or repositories of tools (such as META-SHARE,
Clarin, ELRA, LDC or AFNLP/COCOSDA for data, and github, sourceforge,
CPAN and similar for software and tools) and refer to them instead of
submitting them with the paper, even though it will also be an open
possibility (through the START system). The details will be given in the
submission site for camera-ready versions of accepted papers.

[3] There will be a separate call for demonstrations. Accepted papers on
demonstrations will also be included in the proceedings.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

For Coling 2014, there will be one category of research papers only. All
of the papers will be included in conference proceedings, this time in
electronic form only.

The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus two extra pages for
references. Authors of accepted papers will be given additional space in
the camera-ready version to reflect space needed for changes stemming
from reviewers comments. Authors can indicate their preference for
presentation mode (i.e. oral or poster presentation) in the submission
form, and the reviewers will recommend an appropriate mode of
presentation to the program committee which will then decide. There will
be no distinction in the proceedings between research papers presented
orally vs. as posters.

Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymised with regard to the
authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on
the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style
as usual. Authors should also ensure that identifying meta-information
is removed from files submitted for review. Papers must conform to
official Coling 2014 style guidelines, which are available here
http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip. Submission and reviewing
will be managed online by the START system. The only accepted format for
submitted papers is in Adobe's PDF.

Submissions must be uploaded on the START system
(https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/main/) by the submission deadlines;
submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimise network
congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as early as
possible.

IMPORTANT DATES

February 2014: Opening of the submission website 
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/main/
March 21, 2014: Paper submission deadline
May 9-12, 2014: Author response period
May 23, 2014: Author notification
June 6, 2014: Camera-ready PDF due
August 11, 2014: Official paper publication date
August 25-29, 2014: Main conference


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Feb 26 08:46:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:46:30 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2014 Student Session
Message-ID: <WED.26.FEB.2014.094630.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:01:40 +0100
From: Ronald de Haan <dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at>
Message-ID: <CAChfj5sybsE8y3cj3kVFCBtPbOk3G33RdHef8=ukYWxYuy7ZnQ at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/

Please forward to students. Apologies for the multiple messages.

*2nd Call for Papers*
*ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION*

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

T?bingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014

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


*ABOUT:*
The Student Session of the 26th European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in T?bingen, Germany
on August 11-22, 2014. We invite submissions of original, unpublished
work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language,
Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be
reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be
presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session
proceedings 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. Reviewing and ranking will be done
separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they
offer an excellent opportunity to present research in progress.


*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:*
All authors must be students, and submissions may be singly or jointly
authored. Submissions should not be longer than 8 pages for an oral
presentation and 4 pages for a poster presentation (including examples
and references). Submissions must be anonymous, without any identifying
information. More detailed guidelines regarding submission can be found
on the Student Session website:
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/ .


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

ESSLLI 2014 will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced
courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and
Computation. For further information, including registration information
and course listings, and for general inquiries about ESSLLI 2014, please
consult the main ESSLLI 2014 page: http://www.esslli2014.info/.


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  Thu Feb 27 09:38:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:38:39 +0100
Subject: Appel: Journee commune IA et TAL, 25 mars 2014
Message-ID: <THU.27.FEB.2014.103839.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:31:47 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
Message-ID: <530F0603.9050606 at limsi.fr>
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Appel ? soumissions
Appel ? participation

Intelligence artificielle et traitement automatique des langues
Langue, apprentissage automatique et fouille de donn?es

   Journ?e commune AFIA - ATALA
   Association fran?aise pour l'intelligence artificielle
   Association pour le traitement automatique des langues
   http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Journ?e+commune+AFIA+-+ATALA+2014

   Paris, 25 mars 2014
   Auditorium de l'INALCO

   Conf?rence invit?e :
   Fran?ois Yvon
   M?thodes statistiques en traitement des langues: ?tat des lieux et
   perspectives

TH?ME

Le traitement automatique des langues (TAL), visant ? r?aliser des
t?ches relevant de la cognition humaine, a de longue date des liens avec
l'intelligence artificielle (IA). L'objectif de cette journ?e est de
renforcer les liens qui existent entre ces deux domaines, avec un accent
sur deux th?matiques particuli?rement actives :

* D'une part, l'apprentissage automatique a pris une large part dans les
  travaux en TAL, comme en t?moignent les articles publi?s dans les
  grandes conf?rences du domaine ou des ouvrages de synth?se comme le
  livre de Gaussier et Yvon (2011, 2012). Il s'agit surtout
  d'apprentissage supervis?, avec un regain d'int?r?t pour
  l'apprentissage non supervis? et l'exploitation de grands corpus non
  annot?s.

* D'autre part, la fouille de donn?es est souvent employ?e pour explorer
  les corpus et acqu?rir des connaissances linguistiques et autres
  ressources pour le TAL ; elle est par ailleurs utilisatrice de TAL
  dans le cadre de la fouille de textes ? vis?e applicative.

L'une comme l'autre peuvent aider ? relever le d?fi des donn?es
textuelles massives qui forment une part importante des ? big data ? et,
de fa?on tout aussi pertinente, ? mettre au point des m?thodes qui font
avancer le domaine.

Nous sollicitons ici des interventions qui pr?sentent un ?tat de l'art
ou un tutoriel sur les th?matiques de l'apprentissage et de la fouille
de donn?es en relation avec le traitement automatique des langues.  Des
pr?sentations de ce type sur d'autres th?mes ? l'interface entre TAL et
IA seront ?galement consid?r?es.


COORDINATEURS DE LA JOURN?E

Pierre Zweigenbaum & Brigitte Grau (LIMSI-CNRS)

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION

Les propositions d'intervention sont attendues sous la forme d'un r?sum?
d'une page au format texte ? envoyer ? : pz at limsi.fr

Date limite de soumission : 4 mars 2014
Date de notification : 10 mars 2014

Le corps du message doit contenir les informations suivantes :

Titre de l'intervention :
Nature de l'intervention : ?tat de l'art, tutoriel
Auteurs :
Mots-Clefs :
R?sum? ou plan de l'intervention :


COMIT? DE PROGRAMME
(en cours de compl?tion)

Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI)
Thierry Charnois (LIPN)
Vincent Claveau (IRISA)
Ga?l Dias (GREYC)
?ric Gaussier (LIG)
Brigitte Grau (LIMSI)
Alexis Nasr (LIF)
Isabelle Tellier (LATTICE)
Yannick Toussaint (LORIA)
Mathieu Valette (INALCO)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI)

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